COUNTY FUNDS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1413, 11 May 1886, Page 2

COUNTY FUNDS.

The Counties Act Amendment Aot of last session makes the following provisions for the allocation of county funds : In counties wherein the Act is not suspended, the Council shall, in each year, apportion the gross income of the county from all sources, in the manner following that is to say—(l) In payment, in the first instance, of the general debts and liabilities of the county, as’a whole,twhioh are not included in the special appropriations hereinafter mentioned, and of the general espouses incident to the administration of the said Act and the several Acts amending the same ; (2) In payment of contributions required to be made out of the County Fund by virtue of any Aot of the General Assembly ; (3) In payment of the cost of constructing and of maintaining all main roads and county roads within the county, and of bridges on such roads respectively and of ferries, as well as of constructing, maintaining, or contributing to oonetruet or,

maintain such bridges, oxcundinf' thirty foot span, on district roads within the county, as the Council shall think should be so constructed or maintained;

(4) The remainder of such annual income shall, subject to the provisions of the next following section, be apportioned among the ridings in the county in proportion to the amount of general rates received from such ridings respectively in such year.