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Appropriation Act 1844

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Preamble.

Certain sums to be applied to the service of the year 1844.

Treasurer to pay moneys on order of Governor.

Appropriation Act 1844

Public Act		1844 No 5
Date of assent		6 June 1844

	Title
	Preamble.
1	Certain sums to be applied to the service of the year 1844.
2	Treasurer to pay moneys on order of Governor.

No. V.

An Ordinance to Appropriate the Revenue for the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is expedient that such part of the general revenue of New Zealand as is subject to the disposal of the Colonial Government should be from time to time appropriated by authority of the Legislative Council:

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:—

1 Certain sums to be applied to the service of the year 1844.

Out of such part of the general revenue as aforesaid there may be issued and applied in manner hereinafter mentioned any sum or sums of money not exceeding the several sums hereinafter specified, that is to say,—

For defraying the charge of the Government of this Colony for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, the sum of thirty- five thousand nine hundred and ninety-one pounds and one shilling, as hereinafter particularly specified, that is to say,—

				£	s.	d.
For His Excellency the Governor and Establishment				1,450	13	0
For Colonial Secretary’s Department and Printing Establishment				1,915	0	0
For Attorney-General				430	0	0
For Colonial Treasurer’s Establishment				1,135	0	0
For Council Office				425	0	0
For Superintendent of Southern Division and Establishment				750	0	0
For Crown Solicitor, Southern Division				150	0	0
For Board of Audit				325	0	0
For Customs Establishment				4,000	0	0
For Judicial Establishment:—
Supreme Court	£2,620	0	0
Local Courts	1,350	0	0
				3,970	0	0
For Coroners				80	0	0
For Sheriffs and Gaols				1,615	0	0
For Ecclesiastical Establishment				200	0	0
For Medical Department				300	0	0
For Harbour Establishments, inclusive of Signal Stations and Powder Magazines				375	0	0
For Colonial Vessel				1,508	0	0
For Public Works, Fixed Establishment, Tools and Contingencies, Roads and Buildings				2,710	0	0
For Postage of Letters on Public Service				250	0	0
For Commission for Titles and Claims to Land				2,200	0	0
For Registry of Deeds				300	0	0
For Magistrates and Police				5,102	8	0
For Survey Establishment				2,400	0	0
For Aborigines				2,400	0	0
For Land Purchases				800	0	0
For General Contingencies, including Stationery and Departmental Contingencies not otherwise provided for				1,200	0	0
Amounting in the whole to the aforesaid sum of				£35,991	1	0

2 Treasurer to pay moneys on order of Governor.

And be it enacted, That the Colonial Treasurer shall issue and pay from time to time any sum or sums of money for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, not exceeding in the whole the sums respectively specified, to such persons and in such portions as the Governor for the time being shall by any order or orders in writing signed by him from time to time direct, and such Treasurer shall in his accounts be allowed credit for all sums paid by him in pursuance of such orders, and the receipts of the persons to whom such sums shall have been so paid shall be to him a full discharge for the sum or sums for which such receipts shall have been given, and the amounts thereof shall be passed to his credit in account accordingly.

Appropriation Act 1844