Sydney Sewerage and Water Act 1855 No 42a (NSW)

No. XLII.

An Act for applying certain Sums raised or to be raised under the Sydney Sewerage Act of 1853 and the Sydney Water Act of 1853 for the service of the Year 1856. [19th December, 1855.]

WH E R E A S by the Acts passed in the Session of 1853 for the better sewerage and cleansing of the City of Sydney and for	the supplying of the said City and portions of the suburbs thereof with
water it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor with the
advice of the Executive Council to borrow from the Savings Bank of
New South Wales or if need be from any other body or any person or persons upon the security of the General Revenues of the Colony at a rate of interest therein specified any such sum or sums of money not
exceeding in the whole the sum of two hundred thousand pounds as
shall from time to time be required for carrying into execution the said Act for sewerage and cleansing of the City and any such sum or sums
of money not exceeding in the whole the sum of two hundred thousand
pounds as shall from time to time be required for carrying into execu­ tion the said Act for supplying the City and portions of the suburbs thereof with water and that all such sums shall be paid over to the Commissioners for the City of Sydney as the same shall be required and shall be by them placed to the credit of separate funds for defraying the cost of the sewerage of the City and suburbs and for supplying the City and portions of the suburbs thereof with water
respectively which sums so borrowed shall be a charge on the Sewerage
Rates and Water Rates of the said City respectively And it is by the said Acts further enacted that the entire expenditure of moneys upon the said works and otherwise in carrying out the purposes of the said Acts

Acts (except in respect of sums awarded by competent authority as

compensation or damages for any loss or injury sustained by any person in or by the execution of the said Acts and the taxed costs of the action or issue in or under which such compensation shall have been awarded) shall be subject to the control of the Legislative Council and shall be regulated by Votes and Acts of the said Council in the same manner as the ordinary public expenditure of the Colony and accounts of all income and revenues whatsoever received by the said Commissioners in relation to the works to be executed under the said

Acts and of the expenditure thereof shall bo annually laid before and
shall be subject to examination by the said Legislative Council in the same manner as if the same were a part of the General Revenues of the said Colony Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the
Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the

Legislative Council thereof as follows :—

1. Out of any sum or sums of money borrowed or to be bor­

rowed in pursuance of the provisions of the said first recited Act

there shall and may be issued and applied any sum or sums of money not exceeding thirty-five thousand pounds to defray the probable expenditure of the City Commissioners under the said Act for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
2. Out of any sum or sums of money borrowed or to be bor­
rowed in pursuance of the provisions of the said second recited Act

there shall and may be issued and applied any sum or sums of money not exceeding twenty thousand pounds to defray the probable expen­ diture of the City Commissioners under the said Act for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

3. The Treasurer of the said Colony shall issue and pay the said
several sums to the Commissioners of the City of Sydney or to the

City Treasurer upon such clays and in such proportions as the Governor by any warrant or order in writing to be signed by him shall from

time to time order and direct.

4. The said Treasurer shall in his accounts from time to time be allowed credit for any sum or sums of money paid by him in pursuance of such warrant or order in writing as aforesaid and tbe receipt or receipts of the said Commissioners or of the City Treasurer shall be a full and valid discharge to the said Treasurer in passing his said accounts for any such sum or sums as shall be therein mentioned and he shall receive credit for the same accordingly.

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