Consolidated Revenue Fund (No 9) Act 1877 No 12a (NSW)

No. V.

An Act to apply certain Sums out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of New South Wales towards the Services of the Year

1877. [16th August, 1877.]

WHEREAS we Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Members of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales	in Parliament assembled have resolved to grant to Your Majesty the
sum of Three hundred and seventy-eight thousand five hundred pounds
that is to say—

The sum of Two hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred pounds being the sum required to defray the expenses of the various Departments and Services of the Colony from first to

thirty-first August one thousand eight hundred and seventy-

seven and

The sum of One hundred and thirty-six thousand pounds for

. Services of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy- seven as set forth in the Schedule hereto annexed

And whereas we desire to make good out of the Consolidated Revenue
Fund of New South Wales the sum so granted to Her Majesty Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—

1. Out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of NEW South Wales

there shall and may be issued and applied for or towards making good

the supply so resolved to be granted to Her Majesty for the said several Services the sum of Three hundred and seventy-eight thousand five hundred pounds of which the sum of Two hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred pounds is to be expended at the rates which have been sanctioned for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six subject to the rate of any reduction that may hereafter be made in the expenditure of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven and One hundred and thirty-six thousand pounds for the Services specified in the Schedule hereto annexed.

3. The Treasurer shall in his accounts from time to time be allowed credit for all sums of money paid by him in pursuance of such Warrants or Orders And the receipts of the respective persons to whom the same shall be so paid shall be full and valid discharges to the said Treasurer in passing his said accounts for such sums as shall be therein mentioned and he shall receive credit for the same accordingly. S C H E D U L E .

2. The Treasurer shall issue and pay the said sum for the Services aforesaid in such manner and in such proportions as the Governor by Warrants or Orders in writing under his hand and directed to the said Treasurer shall from time to time order and direct And the payments so to be made shall be charged upon and payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Colony.

SCHEDULE.

SERVICES OF 1 8 7 7 .

To MEET WAGES to become due to Railway Employes during the month of

September 1 8 7 7 " . . . " £ 2 4 , 0 0 0

To MEET W A G E S to become due to Employes in the Department of Harbours

and Elvers during the month of September 1 8 7 7 . . . ... ... . . . 7 , 0 0 0

To MEET CLAIMS under existing Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 0 , 0 0 0

To MEET CLAIMS in connection with the Survey and Charting of Lands	...	2 5 , 0 0 0
DEFENCES	OF THE COLONT	3 0 , 0 0 0

TOTAL . £ 1 3 6 , 0 0 0