APPROPRIATION ACT 1855.

IS THE MIN'EroE>JTH YEAR OF THE REIGtf OF HER MAJESTY QUEF.X VICTORIA. SESSION 3, No. 4.

ANALYSIS. Title. and General Revenue for Public Works. Preamble reciting New Zealand Constitution The sum of £1289 11s. 3d. to be paid out of Act. tbe Land and General Revenue to defray 1. The sum of £5423 9s. 6d. to be paid out of the charges for services mentioned. Land and General Revenue for defraying 2. To be paid by Treasurer under Governor's excess of Expenditure for the year warrant. ending 30th June, 1855. 3. The surplus of said Revenue to be divided Tha sum of £33760 16s. 6d. to be paid out of among the Provinces. Land and General Revenue for support of 4. Treasurer to be allowed credit for all sural Civil Establishments, &c., of the General so paid. Government. 5. Short Title. The sum of 1090 to be paid out of tbe Land

Ax Act to provide for the Appropriation of the Public Revenues of New Zealand. (Assented to September 15th, 1855.) by an Act made and enacted in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted, that after and subject to the payments to be made under the provisions therein contained, all the Revenues arising from taxes, duties, rates, and imposts levied in virtue of any Act of the General Assembly, and from the disposal of Waste Lands of the Crown, shall be subjected to be appropriated to such specific purposes, as by any Act of the said General Assembly shall be prescribed in that behalf, and

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; Preamble recrtingNevr ? Zealand Cuuititutiou * Act.