The Short Title of this Act is “The Public Revenues Act, 1887,” and it shall be read as a part of “The Public Revenues Act, 1878,” and the several Acts amending the same.

The term of three months, where the same is used in the ninth section of “The Public Revenues Act, 1882,” and in the third and fourth sections of “The Public Revenues Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1883,” shall, during the present financial year, be extended to six months, and all the provisions of the said Acts in respect to the said three months shall continue in force in respect to such six months until the end of the next session of Parliament.

The words “one-fourth” occurring in section nine, subsection (a) of “The Public Revenues Act, 1882,” as amended by “The Public Revenues Act, 1884,” section two, shall, until the thirtieth day of September next, be omitted, and the words “one-half” shall be read in place thereof.

The sum of one hundred thousand pounds mentioned in the forty-fifth section of “The Public Revenues Act, 1878,” shall, until the end of the next session of Parliament, be deemed to extend to the sum of one hundred thousand pounds, exclusive of the sum of fifty thousand pounds already expended under the authority of the said section.

AND WHEREAS it is necessary to make provision until the thirtieth day of September next for certain services, expenses, and engagements, in addition to those otherwise provided for by this Act:

Be it enacted:—

There may be issued and applied out of the Public Account, on or before the thirtieth day of September, in addition to the sums appropriated in the Civil List Act, and other Acts, and this Act, any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole the sum of twenty-eight thousand pounds out of the Consolidated Fund and the sum of two hundred and eighty-five thousand pounds out of the Public Works Fund; and all sums so issued and applied shall be charged in the manner hereinafter to be expressed in any Act or Acts to be passed in the next session of Parliament for appropriating the public revenues of the colony for the current year.

The sum of seven hundred thousand pounds mentioned in the eighteenth section of “The Public Revenues Act, 1878,” and the several Acts amending the same shall, during the present financial year, be extended to seven hundred and ninety-five thousand pounds.

Except as herein provided, the provisions of the said eighteenth section shall apply to the deficiency bills herein required to be raised.

Section seventy of “The Public Revenues Act, 1878,” shall not apply to the unauthorized expenditure heretofore incurred until the end of the first session of the next Parliament.