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VI. For every such special order or requisition, the Chairman of the County Council shall be liable to a penalty of £20 (twenty pounds), unless the expenditure incurred under such special order shall be authorized by a vote of the Council, within one month after the commencement of the session of the Council, next ensuing after the issue of such special order or requisition.

VII. All sums of money, which by any vote of the County Council are, or shall be, appropriated to the Public Service of the County in any financial period, and which shall not be expended during such period, shall be carried to the credit of the Revenue of the following period, and shall not be applied in any future period to the particular service for which the appropriation shall have been made, (unless a contract or engagement shall have been made, or entered into, by which a liability so to issue, or apply the same, shall have been incurred), but such sums shall be subject to the appropriation of the County Council as Revenue of the period ensuing.

VIII. All moneys which shall come into the possession of any collector of any branch of the County Revenue, or of any other person in the service of the County Council, which are payable to the County Treasurer’s Account, shall be paid day by day by such Receiver, or other person, into the Bank of New Zealand, to the credit of the proper branch in such account, according as the same may have arisen, and the Bank shall give receipts in duplicate for such moneys. Provided that if it shall be inconvenient for such Receiver, or other person, by reason of distance from the Bank, or other cause, to take such daily payments, then such Receiver, or other person, shall pay such moneys into the Bank at the earliest convenient opportunity; such payment to be made within seven days, unless by express permission of the Chairman to the contrary.

IX. Every Receiver shall, by the first opportunity after the end of every month, transmit to the County Treasurer a return shewing the several amounts which he shall have paid into the Bank day by day, and shall accompany such return with one of the duplicate Bank Receipts in support of such payment. Any Receiver, or other person in the employ of the County Council, neglecting, or failing, to comply with the conditions of these Bye-Laws, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £20, at the discretion of the Chairman of the County Council, for every such offence.

X. No payments of any kind shall be made by the County Treasurer for any work or service, except on a voucher, duly certified by the Head of the Department, and signed by the Chairman of the County Council. And for every payment made contrary to the foregoing provision, the County Treasurer shall be liable to a penalty of twenty pounds.

XI. For the greater convenience of the public service there shall, in addition to the County Treasurer’s Account, be a Treasurer’s Disbursement Account, into which shall be paid such sums as the County Chairman may think fit, drawn by cheques, signed and countersigned, as hereinbefore provided, from the County Treasurer’s Account.

XII. The County Treasurer may, from time to time, draw cheques upon the Treasurer’s Disbursement Account, without requiring the countersignature of the Chairman, but such cheques must only be issued upon vouchers, duly authorized, as hereinbefore provided.

XIII. Every officer in the employ of the County Council who, by virtue of his office, is a receiver of moneys on behalf of the Council, shall find security for a sum of not less than £300, by himself and two sureties, or by the guarantee of some Guarantee Society approved of by the Council.

Sealed with the Common Seal of the Corporation of the County Council and Inhabitants of the County of Westland, by me, Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the County Council, this twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

C. Hoos.

In the presence of
James Hcawood,
Secretary of the Council.

Hokitika,
9th March, 1869.

THE following “Bye-Laws for Testing the Validity of Disputed Elections,” framed under the 67th Section of the County of Westland Act, 1868, have been made by the County Council, and are published for general information.

J. Hcawood,
Chief Clerk.

BYE-LAWS FOR TESTING THE VALIDITY OF DISPUTED ELECTIONS FRAMED UNDER THE 67TH SECTION OF THE COUNTY OF WESTLAND ACT, 1868.

I. No protest against any election shall be received by the Council except in the form of a petition.