Sydney City Act 1844 No 20a (NSW)

1478	No. 14.	8° YIO.	1844.
Sydney City.

No. XIV.

Sydney City. An Act to amend an Act intituled “ An Act to

declare the Town of Sydney to be a City and

“ to incorporate the Inhabitants thereof" and for

other purposes. [23rd Deeemher, 1844.]

Preamble. \ \ I HE REAS by an Act of tlic Governor and Legislative Cou2icil of

̂ Vic, No. 3 sec. V T New South Wales passed in the sixth year of the reign of Her

12 partly recited.	present Majesty intituled “ An Act to declare the Town, o f Sydney to be a City and to incorporate the Inhabitants thereof” it is amongst other things enacted that every male person of the full age of twenty- one years who on the last day of August in any year after the incorpo­ ration of the said City shall have occupied any house Avarehouse count­ ing-house or shop Avithin the said City of the annual value of tAventy- tive pounds clear of all charges thereupon during the Avhole of one year preceding such date and shall be otherAvise qualified as tlierein mentioned shall if duly enrolled in that year according to the pro­ visions thereinafter contained be a citizen of the said City and mem­ ber of the body corporate of the Mayor Aldermen Councillors and Citizens of the same and Avhereas it is necessary to reduce the said household qualification from the sum of twenty-five pounds to twenty pounds Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of NeAV South "Wales Avith the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof That after the passing of this Act every male person of the full age of tAventy-one years avI io on the last day of August in any year shall have occupied any house Avarehouse counting-house or shop
Qualification of
citizens reduced to	Avithin the said City of the annual value of twenty pounds clear of all
£ 20 .	charges thereupon during the Avhole of any one year preceding such date shall if othenvise qualified as by the said Act is directed and if duly enrolled in that year according to the provisions of the said Act and subject to the proA'isoes therein contained be a citizen of the said City and incmher of the body corporate of the Mayor Aldermen Coun­ cillors and Citizens of the same and be entitled to all the privileges conferred on eA'ery such citizen by the said Act.
Power to assess

buildings wliicli 2. And be it enacted That assessments or rates may be raised

qualify persons to	according to the provisions of the said Act on all houses counting-houses
vote for tlic election
of Councillors.	shops or other buildings Avhatcver within the said City (except as in the scA'enty-fifth clause of the said Act are excepted) according to the annual Anlue thereof clear of all charges thereupon provided that in any case in Avhich such clear annual value shall be under tAventy pounds such assessments or rates shall be paid by the respective OAvners or pro])rictors thereof and not by the tenant or tenants.

No tenant entitled	3. Provided ahvays and be it enacted That no tenant shall he
to be enrolled on

Citizen Poll unless	entitled to be enrolled in the Citizen Boll for that year unless he shall
receipts for City
fie shall produce	produce to the Collector of his Avard at the time of making out the
Kates.	Citizens’ List or to the Alderman and Assessors appointed by laAv to revise the Citizens’ List of his AAnrd a receipt or receipts from the proper officer of the Corporation for the time being (Avhich receipt or receipts the said officer is hereby required to give) for tire payment by such tenant of the six months City Bates last payable under the provisions of the said Act or in case of the loss or destruction of such receipt or receipts shall prove to the satisfaction of the said Alderman and Asses­
Offic(U's ]*equircd to
give sucli receipts.	sors at the time of such revision of the Citizens’ List of his Avard that such receipt or receipts Avere duly given and that the same have been lost or destroyed.

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Sydney City.

4. And be it enacted That it shall be the duty of the Collector Collector to peram-

of each ward between the last day of August and the fifth day of Sep- ascertain whether

tember in each year to perambulate the ward for which he shall have tenants have receipts

been appointed and to call at every house or tenement therein of the

annual value of twenty pounds and upivards to ascertain whether the

tenant or tenants thereof have or have not the receipt or receipts for

the last six months City Hates payable under the provisions of the said

Act.

5. And be it enacted That so much of the said Act as provides So much of o vic. that a citizen rated upon the annual value of not less than fifty pounds ritiz lrraT od ifpon' ̂ shall be qualified to be elected or to be a Councillor Alderman Auditor the anmmi value of or Assessor under that Act shall be and the same is hereby rejiealed f'councillor ^ ' and that from and after tlie passing of this Act no citizen rated upon icpcaied and rioo less than the annual value of one hundred pounds shall be so qualified ttaaUnTie'ii'thereof

as last aforesaid.

6. And whereas the office of Treasurer of the said City is an office of tiie Trea-

ofiice of groat trust and an annual appointment to such office as | ^

required by the said recited Act is unnecessary Be it therefore enacted tion but to be during

That so much of the said hereinbefore recited Act as provides that the c o u n d r '" '" Treasurer of sucli City shall be and the same is hereby repealed and that the Council of the said City shall on the ninth day of November next after the passing of this Act appoint a fit person not being a member of the Council to be the Treasurer of the said City who shall thenceforth hold his office during the pleasure of the Council for the time being and on the happening of any vacancy thereafter by death resignation amotion or otherwise the Council shall proceed to the appointment of a successor either at any General Quarterly Meeting of the Council or at a Special Meeting to be convened for that purpose so that in no case such appointment be delayed twenty-one days from the happening of the vacancy.

7. And whereas douhts have arisen as to the legality of filling Council to be filled

up on the first day of November in every year all the then e x i s t i n g ' City a sufficient number of persons duly qualified as by the said Act is (lirected to fill up the ordinary vacancies caused by the retiring of such Councillors as go out by rotation as well as any extraordinary vacancy then existing so that on the first day of November in every year the whole number of the Council may lie always completed and every such election shall lie conducted as in and by the said Act is directed.

vacancies in the office of Councillor and it is expedient to remove tlic

same Be it therefore enacted and declared That on the first day of

8 . Provided also and be it enacted That nothing herein con-Not to ffifeet tuc

tained shall be deemed to alter or affect the provisions of an Actlo°P^°“®i ‘

passed in the seventh year of Her Majesty’s reign intituled “ An Act

fo r the more easy and effectual recovery of Hates in the City ( f

“ Sydney ” except in so far as any such provisions are repugnant to	■
this Act.

No. XV.