Melbourne Police Rate Act 1844 No 17a (NSW)

No. XT.

An Act to suspend for a limited period so much of an Act of the Governor and Council of New South Wales " To incorporate the Inliabi-

" tants of the Town of Melbourne" as relates

to the estimating* and levying a Kate for the Police of the said Town. [18th December, 1844.]

year of Her Majesty's reign intituled "An Act to incorporate the Inhabi­	WHEREAS by an Act of the Governor of New South Wales with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof passed in the sixth
tants of the Town of Melbourne " it is amongst other things enacted that in order to raise the amount necessary to provide for the payment of such a number of constables and such other police establishments within the said town as may from time to time in the opinion of the Council of the said town be required the said Council is authorized and required once at least in every year to estimate as correctly as may be what amount will be sufficient for payment of the salaries allow­ ances and rewards to be paid to such constables and special constables and of all other expenses attending police purposes within the said town and in order to raise the amount so estimated the said Council is by the said Act authorized and required half-yearly to order a Town Hate to be made and collected and for this purpose the said Council shall have all and the like powers as arc by the said recited Act vested in them for making and levying a Town Rate for other purposes and it is thereby further enacted that the said rate shall be called a " Pol ice Rate1" and the amount when collected shall be paid to the Treasurer of
the Corporation who shall keep a separate account thereof under the name of " Police Fund " and from time to time pay out of the said Police Fund for the support of the police or for police purposes such sums as he may be required or directed to pay by warrant under the hand of the Mayor of the said town countersigned by the Town Clerk and whereas it is expedient to retain for the present the manage­ ment of the said police force in the hands of the Executive Government and to appropriate the amount necessary for the support thereof from the Revenue of the said Colony receivable from taxes rates duties and imposts raised within the same Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof That so much of the said recited Act as relates to the estimating by the Council of the said

said town of the amount necessary to provide for the payment of con­ stables and other police establishments within the said town and to the powers thereby vested in the Council of the said town for making and levying the said police rate shall be suspended and inoperative for one whole year from and after the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five Provided always that nothing herein contained shall affect or be construed to affect any matter or thing heretofore done or commenced to be done in pursuance of the provisions of the said recited Act.

2. And be it enacted That this Act shall commence and take effect from and after the first day of January now next ensuing and shall thenceforth continue in force for one whole year.