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Appropriation Act 1846

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Preamble.

Certain sums to be applied to the service of the year 1847.

Treasurer to pay moneys on order of Governor.

Interpretation.

Appropriation Act 1846

Public Act		1846 No 13
Date of assent		6 November 1846

	Title
	Preamble.

No. XIII.

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

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 1847.

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-seven, the sum of thirty-four thousand three hundred and twenty-two pounds nine shillings, as hereinafter particularly specified, that is to say,—

	£	s.	d.
1. Superintendent of Southern Division and Establishment	888	0	0
2. Colonial Secretary’s Department	290	0	0
3. Colonial Treasurer’s Department	1,217	0	0
4. Audit Department	465	0	0
5. Surveyor-General’s Department	1,523	12	6
6. Public Works Department	405	2	0
7. Customs Department	2,460	0	0
8. Harbour Department	1,612	15	0
9. Police Department	9,883	19	6
10. Medical Department..	180	0	0
11. Militia	191	12	6
12. Supreme Court Department	1,499	15	0
13. Law Officers	606	5	0
14. Local Courts	260	0	0
15. Crown Prosecutions	350	0	0
16. Police Magistrates’ Department	1,680	12	6
17. Sheriffs and Gaols	1,128	15	0
18. Coroners	80	0	0
19. Miscellaneous	4,300	0	0
20. Public Works	4,800	0	0
21. Roads at Nelson	500	0	0
Amounting in the whole to the aforesaid sum of	£34,322	9	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.

3 Interpretation.

For the purposes of this Ordinance the word “Governor” shall be taken to include the Lieutenant-Governor or the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony for the time being.

Appropriation Act 1846