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Appropriation Act 1870 (No. 2)

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Short Title.

Appropriation for Armed Constabulary and Defence.

Schedule ARMED CONSTABULARY AND DEFENCE

Appropriation Act 1870 (No. 2)

Public Act		1870 No 98
Date of assent		13 September 1870

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Appropriation for Armed Constabulary and Defence.
	Schedule ARMED CONSTABULARY AND DEFENCE

An Act to appropriate a Sum of Money out of the Moneys authorized to be raised under “The Defence and other Purposes Loan Act 1870” to the Service of the Year ending the Thirtieth day of June One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one for Colonial Defence.

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN—We Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects the House of Representatives of New Zealand in Parliament assembled towards making good the Supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament for Colonial Defence have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sums hereinafter mentioned and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty, that it may be enacted and be it enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows—

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Appropriation Act 1870” (No. 2).

2 Appropriation for Armed Constabulary and Defence.

Out of any of the moneys authorized to be raised under “The Defence and other Purposes Loan Act 1870” there shall and may be issued and applied any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole the amount of one hundred and eighty thousand pounds for or towards the costs charges and expenses of the services and purposes specified and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

Schedule ARMED CONSTABULARY AND DEFENCE

Item.		1870–71.
		£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.
	Armed Constabulary—
	Commissioner’s Office—
1	Chief Clerk and Accountant	400	0	0
2	Clerk	200	0	0
					600	0	0
	Depôt—
3	Officer in Charge	250	0	0
4	Storekeeper	250	0	0
5	2 Drill Instructors, 1 Mounted and 1 Foot, at 9s. 6d per diem	346	15	0
					846	15	0
6	11 Inspectors—8 at £350 per annum, 3 at £300	3,700	0	0
7	Extra Allowance to 6 Inspectors in charge of Districts and acting as Paymasters, at £50 per annum	300	0	0
8	21 Sub-Inspectors—13 at £250 per annum, 8 at £200 per annum	4,850	0	0
9	2 Assistant Surgeons at 13s per diem	474	10	0
10	11 Sergeants-Major at 9s per diem	1,806	15	0
11	78 Sergeants—Mounted, 10 at 8s. 6d per diem, 10 at 7s. 6d per diem; Foot, 29 at 8s per diem, 29 at 7s per diem	10,858	15	0
12	660 Constables—90 Mounted at 6s. 6d per diem, 570 Foot at 6s per diem	73,091	5	0
	Special Constables	320	0	0
					95,401	5	0
	Contingent Expenditure—				96,848	0	0
13	For purchase of Horses, Forage, Saddlery and Repairs, Arms, Ammunition and Accoutrements, Travelling Expenses, Transport, Buildings and Repairs, Fencing Paddocks, &c.				10,698	18	0
					107,546	18	0
	Amount contributed by Provincial Government, Auckland				7,546	18	0
	Total—Armed Constabulary				100,000	0	0
	Miscellaneous—
14	Prizes for rifle shooting	2,500	0	0
15	Passages, &c., for competitors	400	0	0
16	Pay of markers	200	0	0
17	Purchase of arms	3,000	0	0
18	Purchase of ammunition	1,000	0	0
19	Targets	200	0	0
20	Carriage and freight	400	0	0
21	Insurance	150	0	0
22	Repair of arms	100	0	0
23	Preparing Militia Rolls	100	0	0
24	Inspector of Militia and Volunteers	500	0	0
25	Contingencies	750	0	0
	Total—Miscellaneous				9,300	0	0
26	Steamer “Luna”—half amount of running expenses				3,500	0	0
27	Contingent Defence				67,200	0	0
	Total				£180,000	0	0

Appropriation Act 1870 (No. 2)