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Title. AN ACT to provide for the Appropriation of the Public Revenue of
New Zealand.
(Assented to 16th September, 1854.)
Preamble reciting
New Zealand Consti-
tution Act.
WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Parliament
holden in the 15th and 16th years of the reign of Her Ma-
jesty 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 subject to be appropriated to such specific purposes
as by any Act of the said General Assembly shall be prescribed in
that behalf, and that the surplus of such Revenue which shall not
be appropriated as aforesaid, shall be divided among the several
Provinces in the like proportions, as the gross proceeds of the said
Revenue shall have arisen therein respectively, but no specific pro-
vision has 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 New Zealand, be-
fore the passing of the said recited Act. AND WHEREAS it is ex-
pedient that the Revenue arising from the disposal of the Waste
Lands of the Crown, and from such Revenues as aforesaid, should
be appropriated in manner hereinafter mentioned.
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly as
follows-
- 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 par-
ticularly mentioned, any sum or sums of money, not exceeding
thirty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-seven pounds and seven
shillings, to defray the salaries, allowances, and contingencies, of the
Civil Establishments of the General Government of New Zealand,
unprovided for by the said recited Act, for the period commmencing
on the 1st day of July 1854, and ending on the 30th day of June
1855, (that is to say),
The sum of £36,497
7s. to be paid out of
Land and General
Revenue for support
of Civil Establish-
ments, &c. of the Ge-
neral Government.
LandPurchase Department .. .. .. 2373 15 0
Post-office .. .. .. 4076 0 0
Interest on Debentures .. .. .. 2225 17 0
Pensions .. .. .. 250 0 0
Governor's Establishment .. .. .. 643 16 0
General Assembly, building &c. .. .. 8995 0 0
Carried forward .. £18,564 8 0
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NZ Gazette 1854, No 32
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration16 September 1854
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