An Act to provide for the raising of a sum not exceeding Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds by the issue of Treasury Bills. BE [Assented to, October 30th, 1901.] E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Parliament of South Australia, as follows: 1. The Treasurer for the time being of the State of South Australia may issue from time to time Bills, to be called "Treasury Bills," for the purpose of raising any sum or sums of money, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds. Treasurer may raise 2. All such Treasury Bills shall be prepared and made out at the Form of Bills. Treasury in Adelaide, in such method and form, and with coupons for the interest payable from time to time, as shall be prescribed by the Treasurer. be numbered. 3. All such Treasury Bills shall be numbered consecutively, Bills and coupons to beginning with a certain number and progressing arithmetically by units, and the coupons attached to every such Bill shall bear corresponding numbers. 4. Every such Treasury Bill shall be signed by the Treasurer, and Bills, how to be signed shall be registered by the Commissioner of Audit, and shall be issued and registered. for a sum of either Twenty-five Pounds, Fifty Pounds, One Hundred Sums for which Bills Pounds, Five Hundred Pounds, or One Thousand Pounds, and shall shall issue. be payable to the holder thereof on presentation at the due date 758 thereof, When payable. Rate of interest. When interest payable. Principal and interest to be paid out of General Revenue of the Northern Territory. Bills and coupons to be payable at Treasury. Bills or coupons defaced may be exchanged for new Bills with new coupons attached. Provision as to Bills lost or destroyed. Principal and interest may be paid to alleged last holder. Treasury Bills Act.-1901. thereof, being not more than three years from the date of such Bill, and shall bear interest at and after the rate of Three Pounds and Ten Shillings for every One Hundred Pounds, to be computed from the day on which such Bill shall be respectively issued and bear date, and such interest shall be paid quarterly, on presentation of the coupon by the holder of such coupon; but no interest shall become payable on any such Bill after the due date for the payment of the principal. 5. All the principal moneys mentioned in such Treasury Bills, and intended to be secured and made payable thereby, and all interest thereon, shall be a charge upon, and shall be payable out of, the General Revenue of the Northern Territory of the said State; but should the General Revenue of the said Northern Territory prove insufficient the General Revenue of South Australia is hereby appropriated for payment of all the said principal moneys and interest, and any moneys paid out of the General Revenue of South Australia under this Act shall be debited to the General Account of the said Northern Territory. 6. All the said Treasury Bills, when due, and all coupons for interest thereon, shall be payable by the said Treasurer at the Treasury of the said State in Adelaide, or at the office of the said State in London, at the discretion of the Treasurer. 7. In case any Treasury Bill, or the coupons attached thereto, shall by any accident be defaced, the said Treasurer may from time to time, on such Bill and coupons being delivered up to him, cause a new Bill with a sufficient number of coupons attached thereto to represent the unpaid coupons attached to such defaced Bill to be made out and delivered to the holder of such defaced Bill in lieu of the Bill or coupons so defaced, and the Bill or coupons so defaced shall be cancelled by the said Treasurer; and the Bill so to be made out in lieu thereof shall have a like currency, and shall, in all respects. be subject to the same rules, regulations, and provisions as by this Act are declared of and concerning the Bill hereby authorised to be issued, and in substitution for which such new Bill shall be made out as aforesaid, and shall bear the same number or numbers, dates and amounts, and bear the like interest, and have the same number of coupons as the Bill so cancelled bore respectively. 8. In case proof shall be made to the satisfaction of the said Treasurer, by affidavit or otherwise, that any Treasury Bill has by casualty or mischance been lost, burnt, or otherwise destroyed, it shall be lawful for the said Treasurer to cause the principal and interest moneys due upon such Bill so lost, burnt, or otherwise destroyed to be paid as the same respectively become due to the person or persons claiming to have been the last holder or holders of the said Bill, in like manner as if the original Bill had been brought Proviso as to security. in to be paid off: Provided that the person or persons so receiving the principal money and interest in respect of such Bill alleged to Treasury Bills Act.-1901. have been lost, burnt, or otherwise destroyed shall give security to the satisfaction of the said Treasurer against any lawful claim which may be made upon the said Treasurer, or the Government of the said State, in respect of the Bill so alleged to have been lost, burnt, or destroyed. negotiated. 9. Any such Treasury Bills may be negotiated, sold, or disposed How Bills to be of by the said Treasurer, who may fix the limit of price below which the said Bills shall not be so negotiated, sold, or disposed of. charged Bills. 10. All Treasury Bills issued under this Act, which shall be paid Cancelling of disoff and discharged, shall be cancelled; and after being so cancelled, and the accounts thereof having been audited and allowed, all such Bills shall be burnt or otherwise destroyed under the authority of the said Treasurer. to be forgery, and to 11. Whosoever shall forge, fabricate, or counterfeit, wholly or in Counterfeiting Bills part, any paper, writing, or instrument purporting to be a Treasury be punished. Bill, under or according to this Act, or who shall forge, counterfeit, alter, add to, obliterate, or wilfully mutilate or deface any word, letter, or figure in or upon any such Treasury Bill, or who shall fill up with any word, letter, or figure any blank space in or upon any such Treasury Bill, whether issued or not, and whether wholly or partly made under this Act, or who shall utter, pass, or negotiate, or attempt to utter, pass, or negotiate, any such forged, fabricated, counterfeited, altered, added to, obliterated, wilfully mutilated, or defaced or filled up Bill, as aforesaid, knowing the same to be so, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for life, or for any term not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labor or with or without solitary confinement. 12. All such sums of money as shall be raised by Treasury Bills under the authority of this Act shall be credited to the General Account of the Northern Territory of the said State. In the name and on behalf of His Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill. TENNYSON, Governor. Moneys raised to be credited to the Adelaide By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government Printer, North Terrace. An Act for bringing the Electoral Rolls into force and to amend the Law as to Absent Voters. BE [Assented to, October 30th, 1901.] E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Parliament of South Australia, as follows: 1. This Act shall be incorporated and read with "The Electoral Incorporation. Code, 1896." 2. Section 60 of "The Electoral Code, 1896," is hereby Repeal. repealed. 3. The Electoral Rolls for the various polling-places for the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly, prepared in connection with the Census for the year one thousand nine hundred and one under the provisions of "The Electoral Code, 1896," shall come into operation and be of full force and effect for the purposes to which they relate on the coming into operation of this Act. New Rolls to come into force with this Act. 4. Any person qualified to claim registration and who has been Extended period for registered on any Electoral Roll last in force for Parliamentary lodging claims. elections shall be entitled to be registered for the division or district in which such person is resident, on an electoral claim being lodged with the Registering Officer or Registrar for the polling-place at which the applicant desires to vote one month prior to the issuing of any writ, and may vote at any election for the Legislative Council or House of Assembly: Provided such person states in the claim the voting-place in the division or district in which he was last registered, and |