APPROPRIATION ACT 1855.

Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives, 1855 Session I

APPROPRIATION ACT 1855.

IS THE MIN'EroE>JTH YEAR OF THE REIGtf OF HER MAJESTY QUEF.X VICTORIA. SESSION 3, No. 4.

ANALYSIS. Title. and General Revenue for Public Works. Preamble reciting New Zealand Constitution The sum of £1289 11s. 3d. to be paid out of Act. tbe Land and General Revenue to defray 1. The sum of £5423 9s. 6d. to be paid out of the charges for services mentioned. Land and General Revenue for defraying 2. To be paid by Treasurer under Governor's excess of Expenditure for the year warrant. ending 30th June, 1855. 3. The surplus of said Revenue to be divided Tha sum of £33760 16s. 6d. to be paid out of among the Provinces. Land and General Revenue for support of 4. Treasurer to be allowed credit for all sural Civil Establishments, &c., of the General so paid. Government. 5. Short Title. The sum of 1090 to be paid out of tbe Land

Ax Act to provide for the Appropriation of the Public Revenues of New Zealand. (Assented to September 15th, 1855.) by an Act made and enacted in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted, that after and subject to the payments to be made under the provisions therein contained, all the Revenues arising from taxes, duties, rates, and imposts levied in virtue of any Act of the General Assembly, and from the disposal of Waste Lands of the Crown, shall be subjected to be appropriated to such specific purposes, as by any Act of the said General Assembly shall be prescribed in that behalf, and

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that the surplus of such Revenue which shall not be aonrnpriated as aforesaid, shall be divided among the several Pro vinces in the like proportions as the gross proceeds of the slid Revenue shall have arisen therein respectively; but no specific provision ha. been made by the said recited Act for the appropriation of Her Majesty s Revenue levied under and by virtue of Ordinances made and enacted by the Legislative Council of Ze aland before the passing of the said recited Act And "whereas it is expedient that the Revenue arising from the dis posal of the Waste Lands of the Crown, and from such Revenues meiftkmed! appropriated in manner hereinafter as follows- THEBEFORE ena "ed by the General Assembly 1. Out of Her Majesty's Revenue arising from the Post Office, duties of Customs and fees and fines of the Supreme Court now levied within the Colony, and out of the Revenue arising from the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown after and subject to the payments to be made under the provisions of the said recited Act, there may be issued and applied, in manner and as hereinafter particularly mentioned, any sum or sums of money not exceeding, in amount respectively the several sums of money hereinafter specified that if to say lirstly. To defray the excess of expenditure for the salaries, allowances, and contingencies of the Civil Lstablishments of the General Government of New Zealand, beyond the grants for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, the sum of ,£5423 9s. 6d e that is to say— £ s d. Governor's Department . . . 39 13 0 Resident Magistrate's Department, Auckland . 775 5 0 Colonial Secretary's " « g - 29 g " Treasurer's « « 168 15 0 Auditor-Generals " « 175 12 0 Deputy-Registrar, Wellington . . ' IS7 in n Post Office, Auckland . ln n « Hawke's B,y . ! ! ! % ° Native Secretary's Department . 361 5 0 Land Purchase 650 11 0 Hospital, Plymouth ... 69 17 0 " Wanganui 244 15 0 Assistant Native Secretary, New Plymouth . 50 0 0 Resident Magistrate, Nelson . . jqq q q Registrar General's Department, Auckland, towards the expenses of the department . 156 0 0 Registrar 0 f Deeds, New Plymouth . . 33 6 8 Carried forward ... £3170 19 2

The sum of £5423 6d. to be paid ©ut of Land and (ieneral Revenue for defraying excess of expenditure for the vear ending 3t)th June 1855.

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Brought forward .... £3170 19 2 Resident Magistrate's Department, Russell . 145 10 0 ti " " Wanganui 345 17 0 Tensions ....... 80 0 0 Interest on Debentures .... HO 5 6 Miscellaneous ...... 1070 17 10 Sum voted for H.M.S. "Pandora" . . 500 0 0 £5423 9 6 Secondly. To defray the salaries, allowances, and con- r tingencies of the Civil Establishments of the General ] Government of New Zealand unprovided for by the said < recited Act, for the period commencing on the first day of July, 1855, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1856, the sum of JE33760 16s. 6d. that is to say-- £ s. d. Land Purchase Department .... 2190 0 0 Post Office . . . . . • • 3511 0 0 Postal Interprovincial 6500 0 0 Interest on Debentures 2225 17 0 Pensions ....•• 225 0 0 Governor's Establishment .... 653 16 0 General Assembly .... 3185 0 0 Colonial Secretary's Department, Colonial Treasury, Auditor-General's Department, and Bank of Issue . . • 1165 0 0 Supreme Court 1845 0 0 llegistrar-General's Department . • • 212 0 0 Native Secretary's Department, and Native Assessors and Policemen at New Plymouth 1799 15 0 Resident Magistrate's Department . . 1829 12 6 Hospitals 2294 4 0 Miscellaneous , . * . . 4530 12 0 Interest on Debentures 294 0 0 Schools 1300 0 0 £33760 16 6 Thirdly. To defray the charges of the several works and services hereinafter named, £1090 os. od., that is to say— Auckland—Post Office— £ s. d. Building New Post Office, to be repaid from the proceeds of the sale of the site of the present Post Office Buildings, &c., as far as the same will extend 1090 0 C Fourthly. To defray the charges of the several services hereinafter named, the sum of e £'42B9 lis 3d, that is to say—'

The sum of £3576® 16s. 6d. to be paid out of Land and General Revenue for support of Civil Establishments, &c of the General Government.

The sum of £to9l to be paid out of Land and General Revenue for Public Works.

) The sum of £4'2&9 lis. 3d. to be paid out S of Land and General g Revenue to defray charges for services mentioned.

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£ s. d. Grant to H.M.S. "Pandora" . . . . 500 0 0 Colonial Secretary's Office=3 clerks at 7s 6d per day from July last . . . gO-5 6 3 Pensions 105 0 0 Kesident Magistrates Department— Wellington 819 5 0 Canterbury 375 0 0 Nelson 150 0 0 Auckland (additional to Civil List) . 100 0 0 Russell ..... 150 0 0 Hovvick 7-5 0 0 Onehunga 75 0 0 Mongonui 75 0 0 Vaccination of Natives .... 200 0 0 New Plymouth Moorings . . . 500 0 0 Scrutiny of Electoral Roll . , SCO 0 0 Colonial Treasurer's Extra Salary . , 60 0 0 Repairs of Government House, Wellington . 300 0 0 House of Assembly— Housekeeper and Messenger , 100 0 0 £4289 11 3 2. The Public Treasurer of New Zealand shall issue and pay the said several sums to such persons for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, upon such days and in such proportions as the Governor or the Officer administering the Government, for the time being, by any Warrant to be signed by him, shall from time to time order and direct, and the payment so to be made shall be charged upon and payable out of such Revenues as aforesaid. [ 3. The surplus of the said Revenues shall be divided among ■ the several Provinces established in New Zealand, in the like proportions as the gross proceeds of the said Revenues shall have arisen therein respectively, and shall be paid over to the respective Treasurers of such Provinces by the Public Treasurer of the Colony, in pursuance of Warrants under the hand of the said Governor or Officer administering the Government, directed to him in that behalf. 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 any such Warrant as aforesaid, and the receipt or receipts of the respective persons to whom the same shall be so paid 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. 5. This Act shall be called, and may be cited as " The Appropriation Act, 1855."

To be paid fey Treasurer under Governor's warrant.

The surplus of said Revenues to be divided among the Provinces.

Treasurer to be allowed credit for all sums so paid.

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In the name of Her Majesty I assent to this Act. Thomas Gore Browne, Governor. Auckland, 15th September, 1855.