Perth Drainage Rate Act 1875 (WA)

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Perth Drain Act and Bating

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO TRIGESIMO NONO

VICTORIIE REGINAE

No. 17

An Act to declare valid a certain Rate made by the Perth City Council on the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and commonly called the Drainage Rate.

[Assented to 31st December, 1875.

Preamble

HEREAS the Council and burgesses of the City of Perth,

herein called ' The Perth City Council,' did on the eleventh

day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, with

the sanction of the then Governor, with the advice of his Executive

Council, by virtue of and in pursuance of the forty-third section of

The Municipal Institutions Act, 1871,' borrow from the then

Colonial Treasurer of the Colony of Western Australia the sum of two

thousand pounds on the credit of their revenues, with interest after the

rate of six pounds per cent= per annum ; and the said Perth City

Council did in further pursuance of the said section on the twenty-

eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, under

their common seal, assess and declare from the date thereof a general

rate of sixpence in the pound for each half-year upon all rateable

property within the limits of their municipality until the said debt

should have been thereby paid, and such general rate was to be in

addition to the annual rate in the said Act mentioned and whereas

doubts have arisen as to the validity of the said rate so declared and as

to the power of the said Perth City Council to abandon the same and

assess and declare another rate in lieu thereof after a certain date, and

of a less amount, and it is expedient to remove such doubts : Be it

therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Aus-

tralia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the

Legislative Council thereof, as follows :—

Bate of the 28th 1. The said rate declared by the said Perth City Council on the

June, 87, de-clared valid for a said twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and

certain time seventy-five, is hereby declared to be a good, valid and legal rate to all

intents and purposes for the half-year ending the twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and the same may be recovered by the ways and means from the persons and in manner and form prescribed for the recovery of rates by The Municipal Institutions Act, 1871 ' : Provided always that after the expiration of the said half-year the said rate shall be and be deemed to be a nullity, except for the purpose of recovering any outstanding arrears of the same.

City Council 2. The said Perth City Council is hereby authorised and required

empowered to

declare new rate on or after the said twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand

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eight hundred and seventy-five, to declare and collect a general rate not exceeding sixpence in the pound for each half-year from its declara- tion towards the liquidation of the said recited Government mortgage debt as if the said rate declared as aforesaid on the twenty-eighth day of Juno had never been made.

3. This Act may be cited as ' The Perth Drainage Rate Act, 1875.' short title

WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON,

GOVERNOR.