PROVINCIAL ABOLITION FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT BILL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 73, 15 July 1876, Page 2

PROVINCIAL ABOLITION FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT BILL.

[by electric telegraph,] The Provincial Abolition Finaiiii rangement Bill was introduced at L$ morning. It provides that it aha! into ■ operation on September 23, land revenue within each district charged with expenses of surra general administration of waste! within such district. Any waste W (not being town land) at a pricti 40s. per acre, the amount reabsedi cess to be expended in the constat roads and bridges. If the amount able is not sufficient to carry ot works, the Governor may cause tk to be retained until other mone; been derived from a like source, Taranaki land revenue only i ject to the Act. After dei the percentage provided by the E Board Act, 1874, the land revenues district is to be furthei\ charged i lows :—With payment to i ft 1 intendent of two years: salary, with) imposed hereafter for (education, mi sidies to counties a]<id road boari pound to one pounu\ with subsi river district boards one pound t pound received from rates. Wit peiises of construction of railways for first three years after comis; operation of the Act, two per cent! sums expended ; the next three yei per cent. ; the next three years, 1 cent. ; the balance to be divided! lows : three-fifths in proportion to fls that each county bears to the whoi tricts ; the other two-fifths in prop to the general rates received by any & or road board boar to general rates! in the district, from the wholes counties and road boards therein. I revenue in any district should be i cient to meet the above charges, adfi are to be made out of Consolidated I such advances to be repaid to Co dated Fund as the land revenue ao Treasury Bills may be issued to meet advances. One pound to be paid J ally for five years to every pound off rates received dxuing the year. sidy to be paid on any rate if in ess the scale provided by the Act, ® one shilling in the pound. The Cs Treasurer may make advances to fan and road districts. Licensing « be paid to counties or boroughs' which the licensed premises are s> Rents from powder magazines to « to Public Account. Fines and p for scab to be paid to the count* 5 which the same are incurred. I"' and charges of administering the ment' are borne by the county f$ brsach of bye-laws, to be paid « governing body whose bye-laws ha« infringed. The gold-fields revenue* long to the county within which» arisen. The Colonial Treasurer to >i tion the revenue when the same ha»£ in more than one county, accordu^. proportion of miners' rights and Wf licenses on the respective counties* able. Institution's to be maintained* of county or borough; but if the body fail to provide-for the vernor may withhold the payment subsidy. Charitable to include lunatic asylums out of f* dated revenue. A subsidy of five for every pound raised by private so tions is to be paid for the maintop charitable institutions. The charges of providing primary pub™ tion within counties and deducting the fees and other reven • ceived by the Board of Educate consolidated revenue shall be "° j follows : —Two-thirds charged w revenue received within each district, and one-third on . revenues. All charges for ms rty schools urovided by the Education .-. Act, to* be borne by the revenue.