APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 149, 2 January 1847, Page 4

APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE.

Ad Ordinance to Appropriate the Revenue for the Year 1847. [Passed the 6th day of November, 1846.] WHEREAS it is expedient that such part of the General Revenue of New Zealand as is subject to the disposal of the Colonial Govern ment should be from time to time appropriated by authority of the Legislative Council. Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows : 1. Out of such part of the General Revenue as aforesaid, there may be issued and applied in manner hereinafter mentioned any sum or sums of money not exceeding the several sums hereinafter specified, (that is to say), For defraying the charge of the Government of this colony for the Year 1847, the sum of Thirty-four thousand three hundred and twenty-two pounds, nine shillings, as hereinafter particularly specified, (that is to say,)

2. And be it enacted^ that the Colonial Treasurer shall issue and pay from time to time any sum or sums of Money for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, not exceeding an the whole the sains respectively specified, to such persons, and in such portions as the Governor for the time being shall by any Order or Orders \a writing signed by him from time to time direct, and such Treasurer shall in his accounts be allowed credit for all sums paid by him in pursuance of such Orders, and the receipts of the persons to whom such sums shall' have been so paid shall be to him a full discharge for the sum or sums for which such receipts shall have been given, and the amounts thereof shall be passed to his credit in account accordingly. 3. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the word " Governor " shall be taken to include the "Lieutenant- Governor," or the " Officer Administering the Government " of the Colony for the time being.

£. *. d. 1. Superintendent of Southern Division and Establishment 888 0 0 2. Colonial Secretary's Department «. 290 0 0 3. „ Treasurer's Depart. 1217 0 0 4. Audit Department .... 465 0 0 5. Suiveyor-General's Dep. 1523 12 6 6. Public Works Department.- 405 2 -0 7. Customs Department . . 2460 0 0 8. Harbour -Department .. 1612 15^J) 9. Police Department ..... 9883 19 6* 10. Medical [Department ... 180 0 0 11. Militia 191 12 6 12. Supreme Court Department - (1499 15 0 13. Law Officers -606 5 0 14. Local Cours 260 0 0 15. Crown Prosecutions.- .. 350 0 0 16. Police Magistrates Department * 1580 12 6 17. Sheriffs and Gaols .... 1128 15 0 18. Coroners...- 80 0 0 19. Miscellaneous 4300 0 0 20. Public Works 4800 0 0 21. Roads at Nelson 500 0 0 Amounting in the whole ? g22g 22 9 0 to the aforesaid sum of j '