Melbourne Police Revenue Act 1845 No 19a (NSW)

No. XIX.

An Act to authorize the transfer of the surplus

Police Revenue of the Corporation of Mel­

bourne to the credit of the Town Fund.

[7th November, 1845.]

WHEREAS by an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales passed in the sixth year of the reign of	Her present Majesty Queen Victoria intituled " An Act to incorporate
the 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 establish- ments 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 autho-
rized 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 Hate 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 lowing a Town Rate for other purposes and it is thereby further enacted that the said rate shall be called a 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 the " 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 counter- signed by the Town Clerk and whereas the Police Fund raised by the Council of the said town in pursuance of the provisions aforesaid for the municipal year ending the first of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four has proved to be more than sufficient for the purposes for which it was intended and it is expedient that the surplus should be paid over to the credit of the
Town Fund of the said town Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency
the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof That it shall and may be lawful for the Council of the said town by warrant in writing signed by any three or more members thereof and countersigned by the Town Clerk to order the payment by the Treasurer of the Corporation of the said surplus
Police Fund to the credit of the Town Pund of the said town any­
thing in the said recited Aet to the contrary notwithstanding.

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