ORDERS IN COUNCIL AUTHORIZING THE RAISING OF MONEY BY OVERDRAFTS OR DEFICIENCY BILLS.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1869 Session I, B-08

B.—No. 8.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL AUTHORIZING THE RAISING OF MONEY BY OVERDRAFTS OR DEFICIENCY BILLS.

PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-NINE "PUBLIC REVENUES ACT, 1867."

WELLINGTON. 1869.

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Memoeandtjm by the Compteollee. Comptroller's Office, 13th July, 1869. The Comptroller of the Public Account has the honor to transmit to the House of Representatives a copy of an Order in Council, and two Requisitions made upon him therein, for the issue of the sum of forty thousand pounds in excess of the votes of Parliament. The Comptroller begs to express his regret that he should have neglected to lay these papers before Parliament within ten days after the commencement of the Session, as required by law; but he was under the impression that they were to be presented by the G-overnment, and had overlooked the fact that the duty of doing so was imposed on the Comptroller. To the Hon. the Speaker of the James Edwaed PitzG-ebald, House of Eepresentatives. Comptroller of Public Account.

G. P. Bowen, Governor. OEDEE IN COUNCIL. At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of January, 1869. Present:—His Excellency the Goveenoe in Council. Wheeeas by "The Public Eevenues Act, 1867," it is enacted that if the current income of the Consolidated Fund shall be at any time insufficient to provide the sums which may have been appropriated to the public service by the General Assembly, or which may be required for the public service under the provisions of the twenty-seventh clause of the said Act, it shall be lawful for the Colonial Treasurer, under the authority of an Order in Council to be issued on that behalf from time to time during the recess of Parliament, but not otherwise, to borrow from any Bank or other person any sums of money: Provided that the total amount so borrowed shall not at any one time exceed sixty thousand pounds: And whereas the current income of the Consolidated Pund is, to the extent of thirty thousand pounds, insufficient to provide the sums appropriated to the public service for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine : Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred on him in this behalf by the said Act, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby order that for the purposes aforesaid the sum of thirty thousand pounds shall be borrowed by way of overdraft, or on the security of Deficiency Bills, in the manner provided by the fifteenth section of the said Act, and the Colonial Treasurer shall be and is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow the said sum of thirty thousand pounds in the manner aforesaid. POESTEE GoEING, Clerk of Executive Council.

G. P. Bowen, Governor. OEDEE IN COUNCIL. At the Government House, at "Wellington, this sixth day of March, 1869. Present: —His Excellency, the Goveenoe in Cotjncil. Wheeeas by " The Public Eevenues Act, 1867," it is enacted that if the current income of the Consolidated Pund shall be at any time insufficient to provide the sums which may have been appropriated to the public service by the General Assembly, or which may be required for the public service under the provisions of the twenty-seventh clause of the said Act, it shall be lawful for the Colonial Treasurer, under the authority of an Order in Council to be issued on that behalf from time to time during the recess of Parliament, but not otherwise, to borrow from any Bank or other person any sums of money : Provided that the total amount so borrowed shall not at any one time exceed sixty thousand pounds: And whereas the current income of the Consolidated Pund is, to the extent of thirty thousand pound, insufficient to provide the sums appropriated to the public service for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine : Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred on him in this behalf by the said Act, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby order that for the purposes aforesaid the sum of thirty thousand pounds shall be borrowed by way of overdraft, or on the security of Deficiency Bills, in the manner provided by the fifteenth section of the said Act, and the Colonial Treasurer shall be and is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow the said sum of thirty thousand pounds in the manner aforesaid. POESTEE GOEING, Clerk of Executive Council.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL AUTHORIZING THE RAISING OF MONEY BY OVERDRAFTS OR DEFICIENCY BILLS.

8.--No. 8.

G. P. Bowen, Governor. Wheeeas by the twenty-seventh section of " The Public Eevenues Act, 1867," it is enacted that if and so often as it shall appear necessary for the public service that money shall be expended during the recess of Parliament in excess of or without the appropriation of the General Assembly, the Minister for the service of whose Department such supplementary expenditure is required shall make a statement, in writing, setting forth the reasons rendering such expenditure necessary, and shall lay such statement before the Governor in Council; and it is thereby enacted that if the Governor in Council shall approve thereof, the Treasurer shall prepare a supplementary requisition in the form set forth in the Schedule D. to the said Act, and shall transmit the same to the Comptroller, accompanied by an Order in Council directing the Comptroller to countersign such requisition : And it is enacted that in that case it shall be the duty of the Comptroller to countersign the same, and to transmit to the Colonial Treasurer the Order as hereinbefore provided, for the transfer of the amount named therein from the Public Account: And whereas the Honorable Theodore Minet Haultain, the Minister for Defence in New Zealand, being the Minister for the service of whose Department the supplementary expenditure hereinafter mentioned is required, did on the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, make a statement in writing setting forth reasons rendering necessary an expenditure of forty thousand pounds in excess of and without the appropriation of the General Assembly, for maintaining a force for the suppression of rebellion in the North Island, and did lay the same before His Excellency the Governor in Council: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authority'vested in him by the said recited Act, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby approve of the expenditure of the said sum of forty thousand pounds, specified in the said statement of the Honorable the Minister for Defence, and doth order and direct the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the Colony of New Zealand to countersign any supplementary requisition for the said expenditure, in the form hereinbefore mentioned, which may be transmitted to him by the Honorable the Colonial Treasurer of New Zealand, or such Member of the said Executive Council as may be acting for the said Treasurer in his absence. Approved in Council, 16th April, 1869. POESTEE GOEING, Clerk of the Executive Council.

To the Comptroller of the Public Account. Eequisition No. 44. Consolidated Pund. (Comptroller's Order, No. 51.) (Votes.) v * Colonial Treasury, 22nd April, 1869. In accordance with the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly, entitled " The Public Eevenues Act, 1867," I hereby require that the several sums as hereinafter classified and arranged under the Heads of Service that have been employed in the appropriation thereof, amounting in the whole to the sum of twenty thousand pounds sterling, and which are likely to become due and payable by law during a period not exceeding one month from the date hereof, shall be transferred from the Consolidated Pund Branch of the Public Account to the Account of the Paymaster-General.

E. W. Stafford, Colonial Treasurer. James Edward EitzGerald, Comptroller.

To the Comptroller of the Public Account. Eequisition No. 49. Consolidated Pund. (Comptroller's Order, No. 61.) (Votes.) Colonial Treasury, 27th May, 1869. In accordance with the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly, entitled " The Public Eevenues Act, 1867," I hereby require that the several sums as hereinafter classified and arranged under the Heads of Service that have been employed in the appropriation thereof, amounting in the whole to the sum of twenty thousand pounds sterling, and which are likely to become due and payable by law during a period not exceeding one month from the date hereof, shall be transferred from the Consolidated Pund Branch of the Public Account to the Account of the Paymaster-General.

Wm. Eitzherbert, Colonial Treasurer. James Edward EitzGerald, Comptroller.

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RAISING OE MONET BY OVERDRAFTS, ETC.

Service for which required. Act Appropriating the same. Sums required. ote 51—Contingent Defence Appropriation Act, 1868, and Order in Council of the 16th April £ 8. d. 20,000 0 0

Service for which required. Act Appropriating the same. Sums required. "ote 51—Contingent Defence Appropriation Act, 1868, and Order in Council of the 16th April £ 20,000 s. d. 0 0