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Appropriation Ordinance 1856

4. The Appropriation Ordinance 1856

Be it enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province, by and with the consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows:

1. Appropriation of Provincial Revenues for the Year ending 31st March,

1857.

Out of the Public Revenue of the said Province there may be issued and applied, in the manner hereinafter mentioned, any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding the several Sums hereinafter specified, amounting in the whole to the sum of Twenty Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty Pounds Sixteen Shillings for defraying the charge of the Government of the said Province for the Year commencing on the First day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and ending upon

the Thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, that is to say, for the service of the department of

The Superintendent Provincial Council Provincial Secretary Provincial Treasurer Provincial Auditor Provincial Solicitor Registrar

Supreme Court Resident Magistrate Sheriff and Gaol Police

Provincial Surgeon

Coroner Harbor Master Inspector of Sheep Printing and Stationery Akaroa

Miscellaneous charges, including Rent and Insurance of Government Offices, Council Chamber, Fuel &c.

Immigration Education Public Works Steam

Total

2. Provincial Treasurer, &c., shall issue and be allowed credit for the sums appropriated.

The Provincial Treasurer and Sub-Treasurers shall issue, from time to time, any Sum or Sums of Money for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, not exceeding in the whole the Sums respectively specified to such persons, and in such portions as the Superintendent shall, by an Order or Orders, in writing, under his hand, from time to time direct; and such Treasurer and Sub-Treasurers shall, in their Accounts, be allowed credit for all Sums paid by them in pursuance of such Orders; and the receipts of the persons to whom such Sums have been so paid, shall be a full discharge for the Sum or Sums for which such receipts shall be given.

3. Provincial Treasurer, &c., shall be allowed credit for certain sums expended up to 31st March, 1856.

And Whereas, in defraying the charge of the Provincial Government for the year ending the Thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five,

and on account of the several services hereinafter mentioned, certain Sums of Money, amounting in the whole to the sum of One Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty-seven Pounds Seven Shillings and Tenpence, were issued and paid by the Provincial Treasurer in pursuance of Warrants under the hand of the Superintendent, whereof certain Sums, that is to say, for the service of

The Provincial Council The Provincial Secretary The Resident Magistrate Police

The Provincial Surgeon Charitable Aid Immigration

Printing

Census

Public Records Provincial Engineer Steam

Repairs of Bridle Path

Harewood Road

Ferry over the Courtenay (Waimakariri) Sumner Bar

Miscellaneous Expenses

were so issued and paid in excess of the Sums by Law appropriated to the said several services; and certain other Sums, that is to say, for the service of

The Provincial Council Fitting up Offices, &c. North Road

Road South of Christchurch Alterations to Hospital Bridges over Avon

were so issued and paid in pursuance of Resolutions of the Provincial Council in that behalf, but were not included in any Bill for the Appropriation of the Public Revenues of the Province for the said year: Be it therefore enacted: The Provincial Treasurer shall be allowed credit in his Accounts for all Sums of Money so issued and paid by him for the said several services, and not exceeding the several amounts hereinbefore particularly specified. And the receipts of the persons to whom such Sums of Money shall have been paid under such Warrants as aforesaid, shall be a complete discharge for the Sum or Sums for which such receipts shall have been given

4. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as "The Appropriation

Ordinance, 1856-7 Session VI., No. 4."

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on 17th April

1856, and assented to by the Superintendent on 8th May 1856.

Its effect was to vote, for the year commencing 1st April 1856, the sum of

£18,311 15s. This sum in excess for 1856 year ending 31st March by £4647 7s.

5d.

The full text of this Ordinance was not included in the Volume of Ordinances published by Charles Lucas, the Official Printer of the Canterbury Provincial Government.