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 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,

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 1st day of July, 1856, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1857, that is to say—

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 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 Registrar 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.

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 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.

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 Government of New Zealand respectively, for the year ending the 30th day 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.

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—

Out of any monies raised or to be raised by virtue of the said Act, there may be issued and applied in manner, and as hereinafter particularly mentioned, any sum not exceeding the sum of £79,205 9s. 3d., to defray the charges of the several debts, liabilities, and services following, that is to say—

The Treasurer of the Colony 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 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 the said Revenues arising from the Post Office, duties of Customs, and fees and fines, 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 Treasurer of the Colony, in pursuance of Warrants under the hand of the said Governor, directed to him in that behalf: Provided that the amount so to be paid to the Province Treasurer of each Province, shall not be less than three-eighths of the gross amount of the duties of Customs collected within such Province.

If it shall be found in the course of the current year that the sums accruing to the General Chest, after the payment hereinbefore specified shall have been made to the several Provinces, are not sufficient to satisfy all the lawful demands on the General Government in the course of the said year, it shall be lawful for the Colonial Treasury, in pursuance of an order by the Governor in Council to that effect, to issue Treasury Bills bearing interest after the rate of sixpence for every hundred pounds sterling, per diem, payable at not more than three months after the date thereof, to the amount of the excess of the charges which the Governor is by law required to pay for the public service of the current year, over and above the revenues so accruing to the General Government for the said year. And the amount of the bills outstanding and unpaid at the end of the said year, shall be brought to account in the Estimates of the following year, and shall be provided for accordingly.

The said Treasurer shall, in his accounts, from time to time, be allowed credit for any sum or sums of money paid by him in pursuance of any Warrant issued by virtue of this Act, 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.

The term “Governor” shall mean the person for the time being lawfully administering the Government of the colony.

This Act may be cited for all purposes as “The Appropriation Act, 1856.”