Sydney International Exhibition Act of 1879 No 32a (NSW)

No. VIII.

An Act to provide for the disposal of Entrance Fees and other moneys received by the International Exhibition Commissioners and for expenses connected with the Exhi­ bition Buildings and the management of the Exhibition. [22nd July, 1879.]

therewith and for the expenses of its management while the Inter­	W HEREAS it is expedient to provide for the completion of the International Exhibition Buildings and other works connected
national Exhibition to be held in Sydney during the years one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine and one thousand eight hundred and eighty remains open Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South
Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as
follows:—
1. All entrance fees and all other moneys (not being advances made to them by the Government) received by the Commissioners appointed to carry out the arrangements connected with the holding of the said International Exhibition shall be paid by them or the officer appointed by them in that behalf to the Colonial Treasurer at such
times and in such manner as he may direct and all such fees and
moneys shall be placed to the credit of the Consolidated Revenue Eund
of the Colony.

2. The said Treasurer may by virtue of warrants under the hand of the Governor or the Administrator of the Government of the Colony for the time-being pay out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund such sums of money to be specified in such Warrants as may be found necessary for the completion of the said International Exhibition Buildings and other works connected therewith and for defraying all expenses which the said Commissioners may deem necessary for the management of the said Exhibition during the period aforesaid But no such sums shall in the aggregate exceed the gross amounts paid

into the credit of the Consolidated Revenue Fund under the last
preceding section of this Act.
3. The Treasurer shall in his accounts from time to time be

allowed credit for all sums of money paid by him in pursuance of such

Warrants And the receipts of the respective persons to whom the
same shall be so paid shall be full and valid discharges to the said
Treasurer in passing his said accounts for such sums as shall be therein
mentioned and he shall receive credit for the same accordingly.

4. This Act may be cited as the " Sydney International Exhibition Act of 1879.'''