Sydney Police Fund Act 1845 No 18a (NSW)

No. XVIII.

An Act to transfer the surplus Police Revenue

of the Corporation of the City of Sydney from

the Police Fund to the City Fund thereof and to authorize the expenditure and appropriation

of the same. [7th November, 1845.]

year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria intituled " An	W HEREAS by an Act of the Governor of New South Wales with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof passed in the sixth
" Act to declare the Town of Sydney to be a City and to incorporate
" the Inhabitants thereof" it was 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 within the said city as might from time to time in the opinion of the Council of the said city be required the said Council was authorized and required once at least in every year to estimate as correctly as might be what amount would be sufficient for payment of the salaries allowances and rewards to be paid to such constables and special con­ stables and of all other expenses attending police purposes within the said city and in order to raise the amount so estimated the said Council was by the said Act authorized half-yearly to order a City Rate to be made and collected and for that purpose the said Council should have all and the like powers as were by the said recited Act vested in them for making and levying a City Rate for other purposes and it was thereby further enacted that the said rate should be called the " Police Ra te" and the amount when collected should be paid to the Treasurer of the Corporation who should keep a separate account thereof under the name of the " Police Fund " and from time to time pay out of the said Police Fund for the support of the police or for
police purposes such sums as he might be required or directed to pay by warrant under the hand of the Mayor of the said city countersigned by the Town Clerk thereof and whereas by a certain other Act of the Governor

Governor of New South Wales with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof passed in the eighth year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria intituled " An Act to suspend for a, limited

"period so much of an Act of the Governor and Council of New South " Wales to declare the Town of Sydney to be a City and to incorporate " the Inhabitants thereof as relates to the estimating and levying a

" Bate for the Police of the said City " it was enacted that so much

of the hereinbefore recited Act as related to the estimating by the

Council of the said city of the amount necessary to provide for the payment of constables and other police establishments within the said city and to the powers thereby vested in the Council of the said city

for making and levying the said police rate should 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-five Provided always that nothing in the said last recited Act contained should affect or be construed to affect any matter or thing theretofore done or commenced to be done in pursuance of the hereinbefore first recited Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria and whereas the Council of the City of Sydney in Council assembled did on or about the twenty-sixth day of

June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- three and on or about the tenth day of October in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-three and on or about the eighty day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four duly make Police Rates for the purposes and in pursuance of the provisions of the said hereinbefore first recited

Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen
Victoria and did proceed to levy the same and whereas divers sums
of money the proceeds thereof now remain in the hands of the

Treasurer of the Corporation of the said city to the credit of the separate account called the Police Fund and whereas it is considered expedient that all sums of money now remaining in the hands of the Treasurer of the said Corporation to the credit of the said account called the Police Fund and all sums which may come to his hands on account of such rate and levy so made by the said Council as aforesaid should be paid over by the said Treasurer and by him carried to the credit of the account called the City Fund of the said city Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof That from and after the passing of this Act the whole amount

to his hands hereafter on account of the said rate and levy shall be by	received by the Treasurer of the said Corporation or which may come
him placed to the credit of the account called the City Fund and shall be expended and appropriated in like manner and for the same pur­ poses as other sums received and paid to the credit of the City Fund are expended and appropriated in pursuance of the provisions of the said hereinbefore first recited Act passed in the sixth year of the reign
of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria.

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