Appropriation Act Clauses




250

Legislative Council .. 829 0 0
House of Representatives .. 4200 0 0
Printing, Stationery, and Contingencies .. 1000 0 0
Supreme Court .. 2075 0 0
Resident Magistrates .. 882 2 0
Postmasters, Clerks, and Contingencies .. 3148 0 0
Mails—Inter-Provincial and Inter-Colonial .. 8400 0 0
Native Hospitals .. 2540 0 0
Pensions to, and entertainment of Natives .. 550 0 0
Miscellaneous .. 3775 0 0
Interest on Debentures .. 294 0 0
Additional Native Expenditure .. 500 0 0
Provision for Resident Magistrates, Courts for
six Months commencing 1st July, 1856. 1837 7 6

£34,812 10 6

Salaries not exceeding
fees, may be paid to
Registrars and Deputy
Registrars.

Fees, &c., in respect of
proceedings before
Resident Magistrates
and Justices of the
Peace payable to
Treasurers of respec-
tive Provinces.

A sum equal to one-
fourth part of sums
voted for year ending
30th June, 1857, may
be applied to service
ending
30th September, 1857

£79,205 9s. 3d. may
be applied to defray
debts of Colony.

  1. To defray the charges for the service of the Departments of
    Registrars and Deputy Registrars under the "Marriage Act, 1854," and
    under an Ordinance of the Legislative Council of New Zealand Session VIII., No.
    9, intituled "An Ordinance for Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages, in
    the Colony of New Zealand," respectively, for the period commencing the 1st
    day of July, 1856, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1857, and if the next
    Session of the General Assembly shall not be held before the said 30th day of
    June, then for the further period of three calendar months it shall be lawful for
    the Governor to cause to be paid out of the fees accruing under the said
    recited Act and Ordinance to any Registrar of Marriages, and any Deputy Re-
    gistrar respectively, such salary as the Governor shall think fit not exceeding
    in amount the fees received by such Registrar or Deputy Registrar under the
    said Act and Ordinance respectively, during the aforesaid period.

  2. The fees, fines, and penalties which shall be received in any Province in
    respect of any proceedings there before any Resident Magistrate or Justice of
    the Peace (except the Resident Magistrates whose salaries are payable out of the
    Civil List) or such part of such fees, fines, and penalties, as would be payable to
    any Treasurer for the public uses of the Colony, shall, until the 30th day of
    June, 1857, and if the next session of the General Assembly shall not be held
    before that day, then until the 30th day of September, 1857, be payable and paid
    to the Treasurers of the several Provinces in which such fees, fines, and
    penalties, shall respectively arise for the public uses of such Provinces
    respectively.

  3. Provided always that if the next Session of the General Assembly of New
    Zealand shall not be held before the 30th day of June, 1857, a sum equal to
    one-fourth part of the sums hereinbefore appropriated for defraying the salaries,
    allowances, and contingencies, of the Civil Establishments of the General Go-
    vernment of New Zealand respectively, for the year ending the 30th of June,
    1857, may be issued and applied out of the Revenues aforesaid for defraying
    the charges of the like salaries, allowances, and contingencies, for the like
    services respectively, from the 30th day of June, 1857, until the 30th day of
    September, 1857.

  4. And whereas an Act was passed in the present Session of the General
    Assembly intituled "The New Zealand Debenture Act, 1856," whereby the
    Governor of the said Colony was authorized to raise upon the security and in
    manner therein mentioned, a sum not exceeding £100,000, for the purpose of
    discharging outstanding debts and liabilities of the said Colony, and for the
    service thereof.

Be it further enacted by the said General Assembly as follows, that is to
say—



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1856, No 32





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💰 AN ACT to provide for the Appropriation of the Public Revenues of New Zealand (continued from previous page)

💰 Finance & Revenue
16 August 1856
Appropriation, Expenditures, Salaries, Fees, Debts, Legislation, 1856