Sydney and Melbourne Police Rate Act 1849 No 23a (NSW)
No. XXIII.
Sydney and
| Melbourne P olice | A l l Act to suspend for one year so mucli of tlie |
| R ate. | _ | Acts to incorporate the Cities of Sydne}̂ and Mel])onrne respectively as relates to the estimating’ and levying a Hate for the Police |
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PieaiuWe. 'TV7ITETIEAS by certain Acts of the Governor and Legislative
Council of New South Wales passed in the sixth year of the reign of Her present Majesty intituled respectively “ An Act to declare the “ Toicn of Sydnen to be a, City and to incorporate the Inhabitants
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| 0 Vic. No. 7. | “ thereo f and “ An Act to incorporate the Inhabitants o f the Toicn “ of Melbourne ” it is amongst other things enacted that in order to raise the amount necessary to provide for the payimmt of such number of constables and sucli 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 tlie said Councils are authorized and required once at least in every year to estimate as correctly as may be what amount will be sullioiont for payment of the salaries allowances and rewards to be paid to sucli constaldes and special constables and of all other expeuses attending police purposes within the said city and town and in order to raise the amount so estimated the said Council ar(̂ by tlie said Acts authorized and required half-yearly to order a City llat(‘ and Town E.ate |
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respectively to he made and collected and for this pnrposc tlui said Councils shall have all and the likt' powers as are hy the said r<'cit('d Acts v('sted in tluvni for making' and levying- a City Rate and 'Town Rato respiictively for other pur])oses and it is thercl)y furtlicr enacted that th(! said rates r(!S])ectiv<dy shall he called the “ Police Rate” and tin', respective amounts Avhen collected shall he paid to tlu; Treasurers of the said Corporations avI io shall kec]) s(‘parate accounts tlun-cof under the name of “ Police h^nnd” and from time to time pay out of tlu' said Police Pniids for the su])])ort of the police or for police purposes sn(*h sums as tlusy may he required or directed to ]>ay hy warrants ninh-r the hands of the Mayors of the said city and toAvn respectivedy countt-r- signed hy the Town Clerk iVnd Avhcrcas the said Town of Melhouriie has since the passing of tlie said last recited Act keen declared to he a City And Avhereas it is expedient to retain for the present themanag('-
ment of the said ])oliee force in the hands of the ExecutiAc Governnumt
and to appropriate the amount necc'ssary for the sujiport thereof from
tin- ReA'cnue of the said Colony recei\alde from taxes duties rates and
impost s raised Avithin t he same Pc, it therefore enacted hy ll is Susiicjisiun fm one
Excellency the Governor of New South Wales Avith the advice- andxr’ ?/'’ hP^'’' ‘'''
consi-nt of the, Le-gislatiA'c Council tlicreof That so much of the said
rccitcal Acts as relates to the estimating hy the Councils of the Citii-s
of Sydney and Mclhourne respectively of the amount necessary to
provide for the payment of constahh-s and other police cstahlishments
within th(- said cities respectivt^ly and to the ])owei-s thci'c-hy vestc-d in t h(- Councils of the cities respectively for making and levying the said Police- Rates shall he snsjtcnded and inoperat ive for one Avholc year from and after the first day of .lanuary in the ye-ar of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty Provided ahvays that nothing herein contaim-d
shall affect or he constrmal to affect any matte-r or thing hen-tofoi-e- done-
01- (eonum-ncc-d to he done, in ])ursuance ol‘ tine jn-ovisions of tin- said
| recited Acts or (-ithcr of them. | • |
2. And lx; it enacted 'I’liat t his Act shall commence and take; Cojiimcucancnt of
elfee-t fre)iu anel after the- first, elay of January now ne-xt e-nsuing aiuG'̂ '̂ *-
shall Ihenccfeerth contineie in force for eene- Avhole year.
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