ABOLITION OF THE PROVINCES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 299, 18 August 1875, Page 2

ABOLITION OF THE PROVINCES.

1 id The following is a digest of the New Provinces Bill, now before the House of Representatives;— 1. The short title of this Act shall be “ The Abolition of Provinces Act; *875.” 2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it shall be assented to by the Governor. 4. On such day, not later than ninety days after the commencement of the Act, as the Governor shall by proclamation appoint; tho following provinces shall be abolished: —The Province of Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, Taranaki, Wellington. Nelson, Marlborough, Westland, Canterbury, and Otago. In such proclamation a day shall be fixed for the coming into operation thereof, and the day so fixed is hereafter referred to as the date of the abolition of the said Provinces. 5. Provinces abolished to be called Provincial districts’and wear the same name as the abolished Provinces. 6. All laws in force at the date of the abolition of such Provinces, 1 shall,” except in ceriain cases, continue in force until altered or repealed by the General Assembly. 7. Immediately on the abolition of any province, and without proclamation, the Superintendent of such province, shall cease to hold such office, and all laws relating to the election of Superintendents of provinces, and members of Provincial

Councils of provinces, and to legislation by Provincial Councils, shall, immediately upon the abolition of any province, cease to have any operation or effect within. 8. All powers, duties, and functions exercised or performed by the Superintendent of such abolished province, shall on the day of the date of the abolition proviqpe. yest in, be exercisOrl and perfortned by the Governor, until the end of next session Af-.the General--Assembly.- The., Governor may delegate powers either to the Superintendent or to such person or persons as he may think fit, and arany mwrrevoke- any such delegation. It is hereby declared that the Governor may notwithstanding that any such delegation is for the time being in force, himself exercise or perform 1 any power, duties of function so delegated. 9. All powers; dtaties,and functions, not expressly or implicitly repealed, formed by the Provincial TreftslitMr, vestedinpublicofficers of such abolished prqrince, shall, from and after the date of the abolition of such province, vestin and. be exercised by any person or persons from time to time appointed by the Governor. 10. All lands, tenants, goods, chattels, moneys, and things in action, and all real and personal property, whatever, end all rights and interests therein, >which immediately before the date Of the abolition hereunder of any Province, were vested in or belonging to the Superintended of any, province as - such Superintendent, and all revenues and triohieii, which on the date of the abolition of any .Province, may be the property, or invested on behalf of such Province, shall, on the date of .the abolition thereof, veqt in. her Majesty, -provided thdt if the flatef of the abolition, of, any Prqvince any moneys of sfich Province shall have been specifically.set"apart, and shall be available for the purpose of Public Works jvit-hin such Province, such mpney or revenue shall be applicable; >toi such purpose accordingly. ;; ill. All contracts existing immediately before the date of the abolition of’ any and all actions, suits'; proceedings, and things begun und not completed on the date of abolition of any pnovinep, of, by, or against the Superintendent of such abolished pro-, vihee, as such, shall belong and, attach' tol and be enforced by, and against' lier Majesty. s i 12. In the he’ services of any officer in the employment of theGovernrnent of the.colony, or of the Provincial Government of the abolished province,.arp.dispensed with ip couaeqikence- of the abolition of sachqftovinces, he shall be paid out,.of the ordiriary revenue bf the coldiny foii each year of Service one month’s salary, according to the rate payable to him at the time of such abolition* and also, a further sum equal to the said rate, if such services be dispensed with without three months notice.

;14. All rev’enues arising under any provincial enactment within any provincial district from ‘fees or other siinilar payments shall be paid over to municipality or road board within the Which the premises, in respect of which tfie license is granted, are situate. All fines and penalties that may be inflicted bn owners of sheep, or other persons, under any wool enactment, as aforesaid, providing for the introduction or spread of disease in the sheep, and fbr the cure of, or remedy thereof, shall be paid into the public account, apd the amount-shall be paid over to the municipality or road boards within Which the fine or penality Was actually incurred. aoaii a i. GOLDFIELD REVENUE. 15. Those revenues arising within apy Provincial district under the* provision Of the Goldfields Act, 1866, and the revenues arising within any provincial district under the provisions of the Goldfields Duties Act, 1872, shall be applied in defraying thq expenses incident to the management elf the goldfields within such provincial district. APPROPRIATION OF LAND FUND. 16. A separate account shall be kept of the land fund arising within each provincial district appropriated, pnd charged as hereafter provided 1. With the payment of interest and sinking of all loans, debt, and other liabilities which at the date of abolition of the province, comprised Within the provincial district were chargeable against the province, 2. With the cost of surveys and the general administration of the waste lands within the province comprised within the provincial district. 3. With the annual payments to the governing bodies of the several road districts within the provincial district by way of endowment of sums of money to be computed in manner provided in the 19th section hereof; provided that any appropriation made by the General Assembly, for the present financial year for the purposes of education, or for buildings for the purpose of education within any provincial district, shall be deemed and taken to be a liability chargeable upon the revenue of such provincial district, provided further that if at the date of the abolition of any province, any of the land revenue or such province shall be invested or deposited in any manner, such land revenue shall snbject to the provisions of this Act be dealt with as land revenue of the provincial district in which the same shall be so invested or deposited as aforesaid. 17. If in any case it shall happen that the land revenue raised within any provincial district for any one

year shall be insufficient to meet tho charges imposed thereon by the last proceeding section hereof, it shall be lawful for the Provincial Treasurer, in the manner provided by the Treasury Bills Regulation Act, 1867, to borrow such a sum as shall be sufficient to make up the deficiency in the land revenue of such provincial district for any such year the sums raised under such bills, and all interest and charges incurred in the preparation or circulation of such bills, shall be charged upon" the future revenue arising withiu the The amount 'to' be raised by such IriwiMiy bills ahull nat.ria any zmo year exceed the sum of . ope hundred thousand pounds. 18. The revpnu» <>f th, |*nd fund arising within such Provincial district, hftjer the deduction aforesaid; shall be considered as divided.inequal parts, and shall be charged as —l. One part thereof shall be apphdk in maintaining, pn.d promoting gration into the Provincial accordance With the provision of the Immigration aud. Public Wtwka Acts and with maintenance of such charitable institutions as shall from time to time be fixed, in accordance <iih the Act. 2. The ether part shall be subject to the appropriation '.qf the General Assembly for'the construction and maintenance of public works Within such prevjmaal district; fon- the year ending the 30th‘day dr June, TB7f>, the portion of the Land F,nd hereby devoted to the maintenance of charitable institutions shall be. subject to appropriation by the General Assembly for the purposes aforesaid*, provided, that Jintij the the session of the Geperal Assenibly held next after the date pf the" abolition of the provinces, the ezpepdituye of the 'said portions of the Land Fund arising therein shall be regulated ’by the iGovemorin Council; provided further, that not more than a.tenth .part of the said residue shall be appropriated dr set apart for shch 'purposes. 19. Any such shall be an acreage rate. The gov'erningbody of' the road distffK''4b <>which such -acreage rate shalLbe in force shall not be paid a greater Sum My)i May cf endowment than they should have’ < been entitled to if • B d rate or “rates not exceeding , ,ip tbe. J&l qn the annual value or the ratable property to let has baeu te force «ia »aeh district. If it shall at any thnewppear to the Governor that the endowment payable to any such last 1 governing body exceeds thfe . sums calculated upon a valuation’ rat, as aforesaid, the Governor may direct a vi|luatioW to be madaitt suahia saeuner as he shall think fit for the purpose of ascertaining the efidtfWmsnt to be ■paid. 'I (1 Zoi' « /1 ; 20. There shall be annually “out of the consolidated fund to the governing body df 1 every road district and municipality . within each provincial district, by way of endowment, a sUm of £1 for every £1 of general rates received within the rOPd district or municipality if such governing body shall have made and levied within year; a gObcral rate, or rates, exceeding irt’tfie whole one shilling in the £l.on thp annual

value to let of the rateable property, then only such portioirDf—tbeumn actually received by.such governing body in respect of such general rate, or rates, as shall bear to the whole sum so received, the same proportion which one shilling bears to the Whole amount in the £1 so made, as general,grates in such year, shall, for the purposes of the payment to be made to" such governing body, be deemed to have been received by the governing body. 21. Obl dr befofie the Ist‘day of June ip each year the govermng body of every road district tfoiFlUunicipality shall transmit to the 7/Colonial Treasurer a true and detailed account of all monies actually received, .such account to be verified by the chairman of the roqd board, or the mayor of the municipality as the case may be. The annual to be made by way of endowment shall be calculated upon the amount shown to have been actually received by such governing/bqdy for general rates aforesaid up'to the 30th day in April ip every year. Provided that for the current financial year, a pro rata contribution shall be made to such governing body at the -Bate aforesaid on tbe bases of the amount shown to have been received for .general rates aforesaid up to the 30th April. 22. The proceeds arising from the sales, lease, or other disposition of land taken under the New Zealand Settlement Acts, 1863; shall be — deemed to be land revenue arising! within the provincial djstrjet in such lands shall be and be subject to the provisions of this Act. 23. The costs, charges, and expenses of the police, gabls, harbour, hospitals, lunatic asylumns, charitable institutions, and of education, throughout the colony shall be borne by the consolidated funds as far as such costs, charges, and expenses are not otherwise by law provided for.

MISCELLANEOUS. 24. Nothing in this Act contained with respects to the appropriation of a division of the land fund shall be deemed to alter or affect the liability of the colony to the public creditor, or to affect any permanent appropriation of a charge upon such revenue under any law in force in the colony. 25. Whenever under an Act of the General Assembly passed or intended to be passed in the present session, the short title whereof is the Local Government Act, 1875, any shire

stall, for the purposes of this Ack be deemed to stand' fa the -phfce of the several road districts or part of road districts of which such shire shall be composed, and after the const itul tion of any shire, all monies which under this Act, would have been pay( able tojthqwad bpards of which such ahire. 26. P r ?T vision or riot sufficient provision, is id the opinion of the Governor made by this Act, it shall he lawful for the Governor until the end of the next session of the. General Assembly td make and prescribe all such Regulations and orders, as he should think fit and such regulations and orders to revoke, or alter as to the Governor shall appeal; to be requisite and all ii übl ished Th have the force of law. Hoilwm’i Pilus and OrmußUT.-f changeable ..nothing » apreduy relieves, ai' M cxrtswly cures, re thee* inestimable rewrite*. There dieorder, aid too often neglected at their commencement, or are injudiciously treated, and in either if recovery be poreible ; they will retarA the alsrreing syxnptems tiU ths biood is pari tied, when nature, gradually restoring strength and vital nervous power, will consummate the cure. By perrevering in the ure of Hollbwayi nrenßrakaonAy Aonei is'conferred first on the stomach, and through it on the system generally. Thousand, of persons have testified that by the ure of there remedies alone they have been restored to health after every other mean, had failed. —Advt.