Wollongong Tonnage Act of 1861 No 30a (NSW)

No. V.

WOLT.OVGONG

I I akbouh . All Act to provide by a Tonnage Duty for

repaying a Loan to improve AYollongong

Harbour. [3rd Decemher, 18G1.]

FreaTiible.

"^TTHEUEAS by the Act twenty-third Victoria number ten the T T Government was autliorized to raise a loan for improvt'inents

to Wollongong Hai’bour and it is (‘xpeditmt towards paying olf such loan and fully carrying oiit such improvements to impose :i Tonnage Duty upon vessels entering the said Harbour Ee it therefore onatded by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Nenv South "Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of tie; same as Ibllows :—

A Tonnage Duty

1. Every ship or vessel entering the Harbour of "Wollongong

froiii tlic sea shall be liable to pay and the master thereof shall ]>ay

ifurboiu,

° vipon demand to the Sub-Collector of Customs at M^ollongong or to such other person as shall be duly appointed to demand and receive the same on hehalf of Her Majesty the sum of Sixpence* Jbr every ton of th(̂ registered tonnage of such vessel Provided that such Tonnage Duty shall not be required to be paid on account of any sailing ship or vessel at any time within four months or of any steam ship or vessel at any time; within two months next after a previous payment thereof on account of such ship or vessel Provided also that such Tonnag< ̂Duty shall not be demanded or beconn* payabh* belbrc; the first day of -Tuly one thousand (*ight hundred and sixty-two.

How Duties to be

aiiiilieci.	2. The said Tonnage Duties shall by such Sub-Colh'ctoi* ol‘ Customs or other person appointed to demand and r(;c(!iv(! the same be paid into the hands of the Colonial Treasurer to be by him placed to the cr('dit of the Consolidated Eevenuc Eund and shall b(* applied towards the purposes of the said re(dted Act and this Act.
Shoi't title.	3. This Act shall be styled and may be cited as the “ "Wollongong Tonnage Act of 1861.”

No. VI.