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Appropriation Act 1855

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

To be paid by Treasurer under Governor’s warrant

The surplus of said Revenue to be divided among the Provinces

Treasurer to be allowed credit for all sums so paid

Short Title

Appropriation Act 1855

Public Act		1855 No 4
Date of assent		15 September 1855

	Title
	Preamble
	The sum of £5423 9s. 6. to be paid out of Land and General Revenue for defraying excess of expenditure for the year ending 30th June 1855
	To be paid by Treasurer under Governor’s warrant
	The surplus of said Revenue to be divided among the Provinces
	Treasurer to be allowed credit for all sums so paid
	Short Title

An Act to provide for the Appropriation of the Public Revenues of New Zealand.

Preamble

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of 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 disposal 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 appropriated as aforesaid, shall be divided among the several Provinces 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 appropriation 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 disposal 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:

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

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 provisions 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 Zealand, beyond the grants for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, the sum of £5423 9s. 6d. that is to say—

	£	s.	d.
Governor’s Department	39	13	0
Resident Magistrate’s Department, Auckland	775	5	0
Colonial Secretary’s Department, Auckland	85	19	6
Colonial Treasurer’s Department, Auckland	168	15	0
Auditor-General’s Department, Auckland	175	12	0
Deputy-Registrar, Wellington	187	10	0
Post Office, Auckland	67	10	0
Post Office, Hawke’s Bay	5	0	0
Native Secretary’s Department	361	5	0
Land Purchase	650	11	0
Hospital, New Plymouth	69	17	0
Hospital Wanganui	244	15	0
Assistant Native Secretary, New Plymouth	50	0	0
Resident Magistrate, Nelson	100	0	0
Registrar, General’s Department, Auckland, towards the expenses of the department	156	0	0
Registrar of Deeds, New Plymouth	33	6	8
Resident Magistrate’s Department, Russell	145	10	0
Resident Magistrate’s Department, Wanganui	345	17	0
Pensions	80	0	0
Interest on Debentures	110	5	6
Miscellaneous	1070	17	10
Sum voted for H.M.S. “Pandora”	500	0	0
	£5423	9	6

Secondly. To defray the salaries, allowances, and contingencies of the Civil Establishments of the General Government of New Zealand unprovided for by the said recited Act, for the period commencing on the first day of July, 1855, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1856, the sum of £33760 16s. 6d. that is to say—

	£	s.	d.
Land Purchase Department	2190	0	0
Post Office	3511	0	0
Postal Interprovincial	6500	0	0
Interest on Debentures	2225	17	0
Pensions	225	0	0
Governor’s Establishment	653	16	0
General Assembly	3185	0	0
Colonial Secretary’s Department, Colonial Treasury, Auditor-General’s Department, and Bank of Issue	1165	0	0
Supreme Court	1845	0	0
Registrar-General’s Department	212	0	0
Native Secretary’s Department, and Native Assessors and Policemen at New Plymouth	1799	15	0
Resident Magistrate’s Department	1829	12	6
Hospitals	2294	4	0
Miscellaneous	4530	12	0
Interest on Debentures	294	0	0
Schools	1300	0	0
	£33760	16	6

Thirdly. To defray the charges of the several works and services hereinafter named, £1090 0s. 0d., that is to say—

Auckland—Post Office—

		£		s.		d.
Building New Post Office, to be repaid from the proceeds of the sale of the site of the present Post Office Buildings, &c., as far as the same will extend		1090		0		0

Fourthly. To defray the charges of the several services hereinafter named, the sum of £4289 11s. 3d., that is to say—

		£	s.	d.
Grant to H.M.S. “Pandora”		500	0	0
Colonial Secretary’s Office—3 clerks at 7s. 6d. per day from July last		205	6	3
Pensions		105	0	0
Resident Magistrates Department—
	Wellington	819	5	0
	Canterbury	375	0	0
	Nelson	150	0	0
	Auckland (additional to Civil List)	100	0	0
	Russell	150	0	0
	Howick	75	0	0
	Onehunga	75	0	0
	Mongonui	75	0	0
Vaccination of Natives		200	0	0
New Plymouth Moorings		500	0	0
Scrutiny of Electoral Roll		500	0	0
Colonial Treasurer’s Extra Salary		60	0	0
Repairs of Government House, Wellington		300	0	0
House of Assembly—
	Housekeeper and Messenger	100	0	0
		£4289	11	3

To be paid by Treasurer under Governor’s warrant

The Public Treasurer of New Zealand shall issue and pay the said several sums to such persons for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, upon such days and in such proportions as the Governor or the Officer administering the Government, for the time being, by any Warrant to be signed by him, shall from time to time order and direct, and the payment so to be made shall be charged upon and payable out of such Revenues as aforesaid.

The surplus of said Revenue to be divided among the Provinces

The surplus of the said Revenues shall be divided among the several Provinces established in New Zealand, in the like proportions as the gross proceeds of the said Revenues shall have arisen therein respectively, and shall be paid over to the respective Treasurers of such Provinces by the Public Treasurer of the Colony, in pursuance of Warrants under the hand of the said Governor or Officer administering the Government, directed to him in that behalf.

Treasurer to be allowed credit for all sums so paid

The said Treasurer shall, in his accounts from time to time, be allowed credit for any sums or sums of money paid by him in pursuance of any such Warrant as aforesaid, and the receipt or receipts of the respective persons to whom the same shall be so paid shall be a full and valid discharge to the said Treasurer in passing his said accounts for any such sum or sums as shall be therein mentioned.

Short Title

This Act shall be called, and may be cited as “The Appropriation Act, 1855.”


In the name of Her Majesty I assent to this Act.
	Thomas Gore Browne,
	Governor.
Auckland, 15th September, 1855

Appropriation Act 1855