The Short Title of this Act is “The Imprest Supply Act, 1889.”

Out of the Public Account 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 thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, in addition to the sums mentioned in the Civil List Act and other Acts, any sums of money not exceeding in the whole two hundred thousand pounds, that is to say, one hundred and fifty thousand pounds out of the Consolidated Fund, and fifty thousand pounds out of the Public Works Fund, 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 public revenues of the colony for the year ending the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.