Police Rate Sydney and Melbourne Act 1850 No 21a (NSW)

No. XXI.

An Act to suspend for one year so much of the Acts to incorporate the Inhabi tants of the Cities of Sydney and Melbourne and the Town of Geelong' respectively as relates to the estimating and levying a Hate for the

Police of the same. [19th September, 1850.]

W HEREAS by certain Acts of the Governor and Legislativer Council of NEW South Wales passed in the sixth year of the

reign of Her present Majesty intituled respectively " An Act to declare " the Town of Sydney to be a City and to incorporate the Inhabitants " thereof" and " An Act to incorporate the Inhabitants of the Town 6

" of Melbourne" it is amongst other things enacted that in order to raise the amount necessary to provide for the payment of such number of constables and such other police establishments within the said City and Town respectively as may from time to time in the opinion of the Councils of the said City and Town be required the said Councils are 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 City and Town and in order to raise the amount so esti­ mated the said Councils arc by the said Acts authorized and required hall-yearly to order a City Rate and Town Rate respectively to be made and collected and for this purpose the said Councils shall have all and the like powers as are by the said recited Acts vested in them for making and levying a City Rate and Town Rate respectively for other purposes and it is thereby further enacted that the said rates respectively shall be called the "PoliceRate" and the respective amounts when collected shall be paid to the Treasurers of the said Corporations who shall keep separate accounts thereof under the name of " Police Fund" and from time to time pay out of the said Police Funds for the support of the police or for police purposes such sums as they may be required or directed to pay by warrants under the hands of the Mayors of the said City and Town respectively countersigned by the Town Clerk And whereas the said Town of Melbourne has since tin; passing of the said last recited Act been declared to he a City And whereas by a certain other Act of the said Governor and Council passed in the thirteenth year of Her Majesty's reign intituled " An " Act to incorporate the Inhabitants of the Town of Geelong and to " extend and, apply thereto the Laws now in force for the regulation of " the Corporation of Melbourne" the provisions of the said Act incorporating the inhabitants of the Town of Melbourne as explained and amended by certain other therein recited Acts were extended and applied to the Town of Geelong and to the body corporate established by the last recited Act And whereas it is expedient to retain for the present the management 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 duties rates 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 Acts as relates to the estimating by the Councils of the Cities of Sydney and Melbourne and the Town of Geelong

Geelong respectively of t h e a m o u n t necessary to provide for t h e

p a y m e n t of constables and other police es tabl i shments wi th in t h e said Cities and Town respectively and to t he powers the reby vested in t h e Councils of t h e said Cities and Town respect ively for m a k i n g a n d

levying the said Police Rates shal l be suspended a n d inopera t ive	for
one whole year from a n d after t h e first day	of J a n u a r y in t h e year of

our Lord one t housand e ight h u n d r e d and fifty-one Provided a lways

t h a t n o t h i n g here in contained shal l affect or be const rued to affect a n y m a t t e r or t h i n g heretofore done or commenced to be done in pur suance

of the provisions of t h e said reci ted Acts or any of t h e m .

2. A n d be i t enac ted T h a t th i s Ac t shall commence and t ake

effect from and after t he first day of J a n u a r y now nex t ensu ing and

shall thencefor th cont inue in force for one whole year .