THE NEW LAND RESOLUTIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 182, 24 July 1876, Page 4

THE NEW LAND RESOLUTIONS

The following are the motions of which notices have b_en given by Messrs Whitaker and Wakefield: — Mr Whitaker, when in committee on the Provincial Abolition Financial Arrangement Bill, is to move: — "That clauses 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 be omitted, and in lieu thereof that the following clauses, to come into operation on the 29th September next, be inserted: — *1. All revenue arising from Waste Lauds of the Crowu is part of her Majesty's Consolidated Revenue of the colony. 2. All sums of money and expenditure heretofore charged on revenue arising from Waste Lands of the Crown are hereby charged on and made payable out of her Majesty's Consolidated Revenue. 3. All assets and liabilities of the several provinces are assets and liabilities of the colony. Provided that cash in hand, on the 29th day of September, 1876, received frora waste lands of the Crown, shall be expended in tbe province in which it j has been received, on such public works j (not otherwise provided for) as the General Assembly shall determine.' " Mr Wakefield is to move, on the motion of going into Committee of Supply— "That this House do resolve itself in committee of the whole, to consider the following resolutions: — * 1. The gross proceeds of all land sales or leases, either for pastoral or mineral purposes (except with respect to goldfields) to be chargeable with the expenses of the Land and Survey departments. 2, After such deduction, odg half of the nett revenue from these sources to be colonial revenue, tbe other half to be paid to the local governing bodies of the district within which such revenue is raised. — 3. The cost and expenses of the following services to be defrayed from colonial revenue, viz.:— (l.) AU existing Legislative and Executive Departments of the Government, including the Civil List. (2.) The interest and sinking, fund of all loans, whether colonial or provincial. (3.) Primary Education. (4) Her Majesty's gaols throughout the colony. (5.) Police. (6.) Lunatic Asylums. (7 ) All public railways, whether constructed by the colony or the provinces. (8.) Arterial roads and bridges. (9.) Subsidies to Eoad Districts and Municipalities in the proportion of £ to £l raised by rates or tolls. 4. Ali annual surplus of colonial revenue over appropriations to be applied to reducing any unfunded debt of the colony; or, if there be no such debt, then towards the extinction of the funded debt.— s. The costs aod expenses of the following services to be defrayed by local governing bodies, viz., — (1.) Road., bridges, and other local public works, other than arterial. (2.) Hospitals aod charitable i-atitutions. (3) Penitentiaries and reformatories not being public gaols. — 6. The ordinary revenue from goldfields, iacluding the export duty to be paid to the local governing bodies, of the districts within which such revenue arises, and to be expended on local public works therein. — Harbors to be j administered by Local Boards, who I shall receive and expend all moneys levied on account of, or appropriated to the purposes of such harbors."