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Estimates, 1900-1.

Appropriation Act.-1900.

One Hundred and Twenty-eight Pounds and Seven Pence, the said amount being appropriated, as follows, viz.:

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SECONDLY. For defraying the charge of the Colonial Government for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and one, there shall be paid the sum of One Million Eight Hundred and Twenty-three Thousand One Hundred and Twelve Pounds, the said amount being appropriated as follows, viz.:

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Northern Territory,

THIRDLY. For defraying the Excess of Expenditure for the Excesses on Votes, Government Establishments and Public Services of the Northern Territory beyond the Grants for the year ended the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred, there shall be paid the sum of Two Thousand Six Hundred and Ninety-seven Pounds Four Shillings and One Penny, the said amount being appropriated as follows, viz. :-

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97 17 0 109 17 6 8 8 8

182 16 2

1 13 4

15 11 6

78 7 8

3 16 8

64 11 4

7 3 3

54 12 4

1,893 7 5

179 1 3

Total Excesses on Votes, Northern Territory, 1899-1900 £2,697 4 1

FOURTHLY.

Northern Territory
Estimates, 1900-1.

Appropriation Act.-1900.

FOURTHLY.-For defraying the charge of the Northern Territory for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and one, there shall be paid out of the Northern Territory Revenues the sum of One Hundred and One Thousand Two Hundred and Eighty-four Pounds Twelve Shillings and Six Pence, the said amount being appropriated as follows, viz. :—

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Treasurer to pay the orders of Governor, and discharge by receipt of party.

Railways and Tramways (Palmerston and Pine Creek Line) 27,395 0
Public Works ..

Miscellaneous ..

Total Northern Territory Estimates, 1900-1

5,207 0 0

7,076 0 0

33,430 0 0

£101,284 12 6

2. The Treasurer shall issue and pay, from time to time, any sum or sums of money for the purposes herein before mentioned, not exceeding in the whole the sums respectively in that behalf hereinbefore specified, to such persons and in such portions as the Governor for the time being shall, by any order or orders in writing signed by him and countersigned by the Chief Secretary, from time to time direct; and the said Treasurer shall, in his accounts, be allowed credit for all sums paid by him in pursuance of such orders accordingly; 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 the same receipts shall have been respectively given, and the amounts thereof shall be passed to his credit in account accordingly.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill.

TENNYSON, Governor.

Adelaide By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government Printer, North Terrace.

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An Act to amend the "Executors Company's Act, 1885," and to confer additional powers upon the

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Executor, Trustee, and Agency Company of
South Australia, Limited."

[Assented to, December 5th, 1900.]

HEREAS it is desirable to amend the "Executors Company's Preamble. Act, 1885," and to confer upon the "Executor, Trustee, and Agency Company of South Australia, Limited," hereinafter called "the Company," additional powers and privileges to enable the Company more effectually and usefully to carry out its objects-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. This Act may for all purposes be cited as the "Executors Short title. Company's Amendment Act, 1900."

2. This Act shall be incorporated with and form part of "The Incorporation with Executors Company's Act, 1885," hereinafter called "the principal Act," except so far as the principal Act is repealed or varied by 1885."

this Act.

"Executors Company's Act,

administration may

3. Any person who shall be entitled, either solely or with any Persons entitled to other person, to apply for and obtain probate of any will or letters of probate or letters of administration, whether general, special, or limited, with a will authorise Company to annexed, and any person entitled solely to apply for and obtain letters obtain administra of administration without a will annexed, and whether general, special, or limited, may, with the approval of the Supreme Court or a Judge thereof, by writing under his hand, authorise the Company to prove any such will and to apply for and obtain letters of administration with such will annexed or to apply for and obtain any other letters of administration as aforesaid, and thereupon the

Company

Where letters of administration granted Company

entitled to administer

in place and stead of person authorising Company to obtain grant.

Court to act on

Executors Company's Amendment Act.-1900.

Company shall be entitled to prove such will (if any), and to apply for and obtain and the Supreme Court may, in pursuance of such approval, grant probate of any will or letters of administration as aforesaid to the Company in accordance with such authority: Provided that notwithstanding any grant to the Company under the provisions hereof any other person entitled to any probate in the same matter may apply for and obtain a double probate in the same manner as if the Company had been originally named in the will as executor in the place of the person firstly mentioned: Provided that the power conferred by this section shall not be exercised in regard to any will in which the testator shall have expressly provided that the Company shall not act in the execution of such will; nor shall any such power be exercised by any person in the event of there being within the said province any other person of the age of twenty-one years who shall be entitled to and desirous of obtaining probate or letters of administration with the will annexed.

4. In all cases where probate or letters of administration, with or without a will annexed, shall be granted to the Company under the provisions hereinbefore contained, the Company shall thereupon be entitled to do and perform as administrator all acts and things, and exercise all discretions which the person authorising the Company to obtain such letters of administration could have done as executor or administrator, and in the place and stead of such last-mentioned person.

5. Section 4 of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and the affidavit of manager. following section substituted in lieu thereof:-"In all cases in which the Company shall be empowered to apply for probate or letters of administration, with or without a will annexed, it shall be lawful for the Court in which or the officer before whom such application shall be made to receive and act upon an affidavit made by the manager or acting manager for the time being of the Company in place of any affidavit required by the said Court to be made by persons making application for probate or letters of administration."

Company may be appointed to act temporarily for executor, or adminis

trator, or trustee.

6. Any executor or administrator acting under probate or letters of administration, with or without a will annexed, whether granted before or after the passing of this Act, and any trustee, whether under a will, codicil, settlement, or other trust deed, made and executed either before or after the coming into operation of this Act, may at any time and from time to time, with the approval of the Supreme Court or a Judge thereof, by deed registered and deposited in the General Registry Office for the said province, appoint the Company to perform, carry out, and exercise during any absence from the said province of such executor, administrator, or trustee all or any of his duties, discretions, discretionary and other powers in as full, ample, and complete a manner and as effectually as such executor, administrator, or trustee could have performed and exercised the same if personally present; and after such registration and deposit as aforesaid, and until notice in writing of the death of the principal, or of the revocation of the authority conferred, shall

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