Sydney Corporation Act 1846 No 8a (NSW)

No. IV.

An Act to suspend for one year so nmcli of an Act to declare the Town of Sydney to he a City and to incorporate the Inhabitants thereof as relates to the estimating* and levy-- ing* a, Hate for the Police of the said City. [30/// October, 1840.] Rydxev

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T^/THEREAS by un Act of tlie G ovcvnor and Legislative Council of Preamijic.

¥ T New South Wales passed in tlio sixtli year of tlie reign of Her

present Majesty intituled “ An Act to declare the Town o f Sydney to 6Vic. No. s.

be a City and to incorporate the Inhabitants thereof” it is amongst other tilings enacted that in order to raise the amount necessary to provide for the payment of such a number of constables and such other police establishments rvithin the said city as may from time to time in the opinion of the Council of the said city be required the said Council is authorized and required once at least in every year to estimate as com^ctly 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 jiolice puiqioses within the said city and in order to raise the amount so estimated the said Council is by the said Act authorized and required half-yearly to order a City Hate to be made and collected and for this purpose the said Council shall have all and the like powers as are by the said recited Act vested in them for making and levying a City Hate for other purposes and it is thereby further enacted that the said rate shall be called the “ Police Hate ” and the amount when collected shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Corporation who shall keep a separate account thereof under the name of “ Police Eund ” and from time to time pay out of the said Police Eund for the support of the police or for police purposes such sums as he may be required or directed to pay by warrant under the hand of the Mayor of the said city countersigned by the Town Cler’k 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 tin' r(W(miie of tlie said Colony receivable from taxes rates duties and imposts raised within the same Be it therefore enacted by H is Suspension ibr of s. 70 of t>

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Excellency the Governor of New South IVales ndth the advice andviaNo.V

consent of tlie Legislative Council thereof That so much of the said

recited Act as relates to the estimating by the Council of the said city

of the amount necessary to provide lor the payment of constables and

other

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Melhonrne Corporation.

otlier police estahlisliments within the said city and to the poAvei'S thereby vested in the Council of the said city for making and levying the said Police Pate shall be suspended and inoperative for one whoJ(; year from and after the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven Provided always that nothing herein contained shall alfect or he construed to affect any matter or thing heretofore done or commenced to he done in pursuance of the provisions of the said recited Act.

Commencement of 2. And he it enacted That this Act shall commence and take

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effect from and after the first day of January now next ensuing and

sliall thenceforth continue in force for one whole year.