Sydney and Melbourne Police Rate Act 1848 No 12a (NSW)

No. LI.

All Act to suspend for one year so inueli of tlie svdney and

Acts to incorporate tlic Cities ot Sydney and Melbonrnc respectively as relates to tlus esti­ mating and levying a Rate for the Police of the same. [15f/i June, 1848.]

'1T7IIE11EAS by certain Acts of the Governor and Lei^islative PreamWe.

V f Council of New South Wales passed in the sixth year of the

rcdgii ol' il or prescait Maj(vsty ini it ulcd respectively “ An, Act to declare '! Vic. Nu.

“ the Town o f Sijdueii to he a City and lo incorporate the Inhahitanta

“ thereof" and “ An Act to incorporate the Inhabitants o f the

c vic. Xn 7.

o f Alclbonrne ” it is amongst oilier things enacted that in ordc'rio raise the amount necessary to provide for the jiaymcnt of such number oi' constables and such other ]iolice establishments Avithin the said city and town respectively as may IVom time to time in the opinion of the Conneils of the said city and town be recpiircd the said Councils arc authoiazed and required once at least in every year to estimate as correctly as may be wbat amount Avill be suflieinit for tbe payment of the salaries allowan(!CS and rewards to be paid to siudi constables and special <“on- stables and of all other expenses attending police purposes within the said city and town and in onh'r to raise the amount so estimated tin' said Councils arc by the said Acts authorized and required half-yearly to order a City Eatc and Town Itate respectively to be made and collected and for Ibis purpose the said Councils shall have all and the like jiowers as arc by the said recited Acts vested in them for making and levying a City Hate and Town Hate respectively for other purposes and and it is ihereby further enacted that the said rates resj)ectiv('ly shall be called the “ Police Hate” and the respective amounts Avlicn collected

T— VOL. 3. shall

1800 No. 52. IP VIC. 1848,

Appropriation (1849).

shlill be paid to tbe Treasurers of the said Corporations wlio shall keep separate accounts thereof under the name of “ Police Pund” and from time to time pay out of the said Police Punds for the support of tlie 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 Avhereas the said Town of Melbourne has since the passing of the said last recited Act been declared to be a City 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 Pevenue of the said Colony receivable from taxes rates duties and imposts raised within the same

Suspension for one	Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New
Vie. Nos. 3 and 7.	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 respectively of the amount necessary to provide for the payment of constables and other police establishments within the said cities respectively and to the powers thereby vested in the Councils of the said cities respectively for making and levying tbe said Police Rates 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-nine Provided always that nothing herein contained shall affect or be con­ strued to affect any matter or thing heretofore done or commenced to be done in pursuance of the provisions of the said recited Acts or either of them.
of Act.
Commencement	2. And 1)0 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.

year of s. 70 of G