District Road Boards Audit Act 1879 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO TERTIO

VICTORIIE REGIME.

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No. VI.

AN ACT to provide for the preservation of the

Funds of District Road Boards.

[ Assented to, 20th August, 1879. ]

HEREAS it is expedient to provide for the preservation of

Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, W the Funds of District Road Boards: Be it enacted by His Preamble.

by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council

whereof, as follows:—

1 THIS Act may be cited as "The District Road Boards Audit Short Title.

Act, 1879."

2 WHENEVER the accounts of a Local Board shall, as pro- Prii l on which ac-

aided by section thirty-one of " The District Roads Act, 1871, , be counts audited.	i	cip
examined by auditors, the said auditors, in auditing the said accounts, shall charge the board with all monies carried over as a balance from the preceding audit, and with all monies which since the preceding audit have come to the hands of the board, or any

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clerk or servant on their behalf ; and to credit them with all monies which the said auditors shall be satisfied have been lawfully expended for the purposes of the said Act; and with all monies which the said auditors shall find the said board to have on hand at the time up to which the said accounts have been made up.

Auditors to sue for balance. And the auditors shall sue, in the name of the local board, all persons who have been members of the said board since the next preceding audit, to recover from them or any of them, individually or collectively, any balance which may have been by such auditors found against the board. Provided that when any money shall have been unlawfully expended by a road board, any member present at a meeting of such board, and not being party or privy to such expenditure, may by his protest signed by him and entered on the minutes of their proceedings, signify his dissent from such expendi- ture, and be by such protest exonerated from all consequences of such expenditure.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to

this Act.

H. ST. GEORGE ORD, Governor.

By Authority: RICHARD PETRER, Government Printer, Perth.