Melbourne Police Rate Act 1845 No 17a (NSW)

No. XVII.

An Act to suspend for a further limited period

so much of an Act of the Governor and Coun­

cil of New South Wales " To incorporate the

• " Inhabitants of the Town of Melbourne^ as re­ lates to the estimating and levying a Kate for the Police of the said Town. [7th November,

1845.]

WHEREAS by an Act of the Governor of New South Wales with year of Her Majesty's reign intituled "An Act to incorporate the the advice of the Legislative Council thereof passed in the sixth

Inhabitants 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 estab­ lishments 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 allowances 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 Rate to be made and collected and for this purpose the said Council shall have all and the like powers as are 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 the " Police Rate" 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

of the Executive Government and to appropriate the amount necessary for

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 management of the said police force in the hands

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 town of the amount necessary to provide for the payment of constables 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 Bate shall be suspended and inoperative for one whole year from and after the first clay of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six Provided always that nothing herein con­ tained 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.