New Zealand Gazette – 1855 – No. 22

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ANALYSIS:

Title.
Preamble reciting New Zealand Constitution
Act.

The sum of £5423 9s. 6d. to be paid out of
Land and General Revenue for defraying
excess of Expenditure for the year
ending 30th June, 1855.
The sum of £33760 16s. 6d. to be paid out of
Land and General Revenue for support of
Civil Establishments, &c., of the General
Government.
The sum of 1090 to be paid out of the Land

and General Revenue for Public Works.
The sum of £4289 11s. 3d. to be paid out of
the Land and General Revenue to defray
the charges for services mentioned.
2. To be paid by Treasurer under Governor's
warrant.
3. The surplus of said Revenue to be divided
among the Provinces.
4. Treasurer to be allowed credit for all sums
so paid.
5. Short Title.

AN ACT to provide for the Appropriation of the Public Revenues Title.
of New Zealand.

(Assented to September 15th, 1855.)

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Parliament Preamble reciting New
holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Act.
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 dis-
posal 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
that the surplus of such Revenue which shall not be appro-
priated as aforesaid, shall be divided among the several Pro-
vinces in the like proportions as the gross proceeds of the said
Revenue shall have arisen therein respectively; but no specific
provision has been made by the said recited Act for the appropri-
ation of Her Majesty's Revenue levied under and by virtue of
Ordinances made and enacted by the Legislative Council of
New Zealand 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
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 provi-
sions 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 is to say
Firstly. To defray the excess of expenditure for the
salaries, allowances, and contingencies of the Civil
Establishments of the General Government of New

The sum of £5423 9s. 6d. to be paid out of Land and General Revenue for defraying excess of expenditure for the year ending 30th June 1855.

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