This Act shall be called “The Immigration and Public Works Appropriation Act, 1875,” and shall be deemed to have been in operation on and after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

So much of any and all of the Acts mentioned in the First and Second Schedules to this Act as appropriate or purport to appropriate any moneys raised or to be raised under the authority of the Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act, or of either of them, or of any other moneys whatsoever, is hereby repealed, and it shall not be lawful to issue or pay any of the moneys mentioned in the Fourth Schedule hereto except under the authority of this Act or of any Act or Acts hereafter to be passed in that behalf.

The several Ways and Means mentioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Act, and all moneys which may come to the credit thereof, shall be kept in one account, to be called “The Public Works Account.”

Towards defraying the expenses hereinafter mentioned, the Colonial Treasurer may issue and apply any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole the sum of three million five hundred and eighty-seven thousand six hundred and sixty-two pounds ten shillings and eightpence out of the several Ways and Means mentioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Act.

All sums so issued shall be applied, as mentioned in the several votes set forth in the Fifth Schedule to this Act, towards defraying so much of the expenses incurred or to be incurred in the several works and services in the said Schedule mentioned as shall come in the course of payment during the financial year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and to no other purposes whatsoever.

Whenever it is not possible to determine at the time of payment to which particular vote mentioned in the Fifth Schedule hereto the cost of any material or other expense should be charged, the Colonial Treasurer may notwithstanding issue and pay the same out of the several Ways and Means mentioned in the Fourth Schedule hereto: Provided that he shall from time to time carry each such payment to and charge the same against the vote on account of which such payment was made, so soon as the same can be ascertained: Provided also that all such expenditure shall be included in and shall not be in excess of the total sum hereby authorized to be issued and paid under each vote in the Fifth Schedule mentioned.

Nothing in this Act shall limit the authority of the Colonial Treasurer to issue and pay any moneys which he may be otherwise authorized to issue and pay under the authority of the thirtieth section of “The Public Revenues Act, 1867,” or of the fourteenth section of “The Public Revenues Act, 1872.”

And whereas the Colonial Treasurer has under the authority of the fourteenth section of “The Public Revenues Act, 1872,” issued from the Public Account, during the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, moneys in excess of or without the appropriation of Parliament, amounting in the whole to thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty-four pounds nine shillings and elevenpence, and has applied the said sum to the several purposes and services mentioned in the Sixth Schedule hereto annexed: Be it enacted that the application of the said sum is hereby sanctioned.

And whereas by the several Acts mentioned in the First Schedule hereto annexed it was provided that, pending the raising of the several loans thereby authorized, any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole the several sums thereby authorized to be raised might be taken up by the sale hypothecation or mortgage of short-dated debentures:

Be it enacted,—

The Colonial Treasurer may from time to time, out of moneys raised or to be raised by loan under the authority of any or all of the Acts mentioned in the said First Schedule, pay off any sum or sums of money so taken up by the sale hypothecation or mortgage of short-dated debentures under the authority of any of the said Acts.

The Colonial Treasurer may from time to time advance out of the Ways and Means mentioned in the Fourth Schedule hereto annexed any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole the balance of the moneys authorized to be raised under the authority of “The Defence Loan Act, 1870,” and not yet so raised; and all moneys so advanced shall be repaid out of moneys to be raised under the authority of the said Act so soon as the same are raised.