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Lyttleton and Christchurch Railway Loan Appropriation Ordinance 1861

9. The Lyttelton and Christchurch Railway Loan Appropriation Ordinance

1862

Whereas by an Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, entituled “The Lyttelton and Christchurch Railway Loan Ordinance, Session XIII., No. 1,” the Superintendent of the said Province is empowered to raise, by way of loan, a sum not exceeding Three Hundred Thousand Pounds for the purpose of defraying the cost of constructing a railway between the towns of Lyttelton and Christchurch, in the said Province: And Whereas by the “Lyttelton and Christchurch Railway Act, 1860,” the Superintendent of the said Province is empowered to construct and maintain the said Railway:

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

1. Salary of Provincial Auditor to be Three Hundred Pounds per annum.

Out of the revenues raised under the provisions of the said Ordinance there may be issued and applied for the purchase of site and the construction of the said railway works connected therewith, erection of stations and purchase of rolling stock for the year ending on the Thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, any sum or sums of money not exceeding the sums particularly set forth in the Schedule A to this Ordinance, amounting in the whole to the sum of Sixty Thousand Eight Hundred Pounds.

2. Salary of Deputy Auditor to be One Pound One Shilling per diem. The Provisional Treasurer shall issue from time to time any sum or sums of money not exceeding the sums in such Schedule severally specified to such persons, and such portions as the Superintendent shall, by any Warrants under his hand, from time to time direct, and shall be allowed credit in his own Accounts for all sums so paid by him in pursuance of such Warrants, and the Receipts of the persons to whom such sums shall have been paid shall be a full discharge for the sum or sums for which such Receipts shall be given.

3. Salaries, how to be paid.

And Whereas in defraying the charge of the cost of the said railway for the year ending Thirtieth September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, certain sums of money, amounting in the whole to the sum of Sixteen thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty Pounds, were issued and paid by the Provincial Treasurer, in pursuance of Warrants under the hand of the Superintendent, and such sums were paid in the manner and on account of the services particularly set forth in the Schedule B to this Ordinance, but were not included in any Bill for the appropriation of the proceeds of the said loan for the said year: Be it therefore enacted that the Provincial Treasurer shall be allowed credit in his Accounts for all sums of money so issued and paid by him on the several accounts set forth in the Schedule B hereunto annexed, and the receipts of he persons to whom such sums of money shall have been paid under such Warrants, shall be a complete discharge for the sum or sums of money for which such receipts shall have been gven.

4. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled, and may be cited as "The Lyttelton and

Christchurch Railway Loan Appropriation Ordinance 1862, Session XVII., No. 9."

Schedule A

Estimated Expenditure during Financial Year ending September 30th, 1862. Resident Engineer

Two Tunnel Inspectors

Surveys, and occasional assistance in office

Consulting Engineer, and inspection of permanent way material

Payments to Contractors, estimated to average £4,000 per month

Land and Compensation

Erection of telegraph, and purchase of instruments from Melbourne

Schedule B.

Lyttelton and Christchurch Railway.

Expenditure from October 1st, 1860 to September 30th 1861. I.—Payments on account of Land Purchases.

I.T. Cookson, 25 acres, including residential damages

W. Morgan, 5a. 0r. 15p., rural land

J.B. Lee, 8a. 2r. 14p., rural land, 8 p. town land. George Burrell, 0a. 1r. 39p.

W. Wilson, 1a. 2r. 32p.

W. Charlesworth, 2a. 2r. 34p. I. Luck, 3a. 1r. 2p.

Trustees of Mrs Bridge, 2a. 2r. 16p., incluing residential damages.

II.—Payments on account of Surveys, Plans, &c. J. Haast, geological survey of hills

Assistance to Mr Haast from Public Works Department

J. Marshman, surveys

E. Dobson, Plans for Bill

Assistance from Public Works Department, setting out line, and surveying land,

&c.

Office assistance from ditto

III.—Resident Engineer.

Salary from 1st January to 30th September 1861.

IV.—Payments on account of Contracts. Smith and Knight

Holmes and Co.

V.—Payment for Works not under Contract. Miners' gang, &c.

VI.—Miscellaneous Payments, &c.

W.S. Moorhouse, expenses at Auckland and Melbourne

Ditto, refund of fees paid by him

Express to Pigeon Bay for Engineer

Christchurch Band, attendance at opening of line. Freight, on case of Debentures

Printing account for Land Clauses Act

Dale, gratuity for ferry on opening line

VII.—Stores from Government Stock. Total expenditure, 1860 and 1861

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council and assented to by the Superintendent on 22nd January 1862. Assent had been withheld from the original “Lyttelton and Christchurch Railway Ordinance 1859”, ( AW. NZG

1860 p29), but the “Lyttelton and Christchurch Railway Loan Ordinance 1860”

was passed during Session XIII of the Council..