The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Imprest Supply Act, 1872 (No. 2).”

Out of the Consolidated Fund there may be issued and applied, towards making good the Supply granted to Her Majesty by way of Imprest for the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in addition to the sums mentioned in the Civil List Act, “The Imprest Supply Act, 1872,” and other Acts, any sums of money not exceeding in the whole fifty thousand pounds (£50,000), to be charged in the manner hereafter to be expressed in any Act or Acts passed in this present Session of Parliament for appropriating the Consolidated Revenues of the Colony for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

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, towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty by way of Imprest for the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in addition to the sum of thirty thousand pounds (£30,000) granted in “The Imprest Supply Act, 1872,” any sum of money not exceeding twenty thousand pounds (£20,000), to be charged in the manner hereafter to be expressed in any Act or Acts passed in the present Session of Parliament for appropriating moneys authorized to be raised under the said Loan Act for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.