New South Wales Government. or Bill lawful un LIV. It shall not be lawful for the Legislative Assembly to No Money Vote originate or pass any Vote, Resolution, or Bill, for the Appropria- less recommendtion of any Part of the said Consolidated Revenue Fund, or of ed by Governor. any other Tax or Impost, to any Purpose which shall not have been first recommended by a Message of the Governor to the said Legislative Assembly during the Session in which such Vote, Resolution, or Bill shall be passed. LV. No Part of Her Majesty's Revenue in the said Colony, arising from any of the Sources aforesaid, shall be issued, or shall be made issuable, except in pursuance of Warrants under the Hand of the Governor of the Colony directed to the Public Treasurer thereof. LVI. This Act shall be proclaimed in New South Wales by the Governor thereof within One Calendar Month after official Information of the Royal Assent thereto shall have been received by such Governor, and shall take effect within the said Colony from the Day of the Proclamation thereof. No Part of Public issued except on Warrants from Revenue to be Governor. Proclamation and Commence ment of Act. LVII. In the Construction of this Act, the Term "Governor " Interpretation of Term" Govershall mean the Person for the Time being lawfully administering nor." the Government of the Colony of New South Wales. Provisions of this Force until so much of Act to have no 13 & 14 Vict. c. 59; of 5 & 6 Vict. c. 76.; LVIII. The foregoing Provisions of this Act shall have no Force or Effect until so much and such Parts of the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for the better Government of the Australian Colonies," and the First, Second, and Third Parts of the Schedule A. therein referred to; and of another Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for the Govern- and so much also "ment of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land ;" and of another Act passed in the said Fifth and Sixth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for regulating the Sale of 5 & 6 Vict. c. 36.; "Waste Land belonging to the Crown in the Australian Colonies;" and of another Act passed in the Eighth Year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act to clear up Doubts as to the Regulation and of 7 & 8 Vict. "and Audit of the Customs of New South Wales ;" and of another Act passed in the same Year, intituled "An Act to explain and 7 & 8 Vict. c. 74.; "amend the Act for the Government of New South Wales and "Van Diemen's Land ;" and of another Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, c. 72.; intituled "An Act to provide for the Administration of Justice in 9 Geo. 4. c. 83.; "New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and for the more "effectual Government thereof, and for other Purposes relating "thereto;" and of another Act passed in the Ninth and Tenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act to amend an and 9 & 10 Vict. "Act for regulating the Sale of Waste Land belonging to the c. 104.; "Crown in the Australian Colonies, and to make further Provision as relates to this "for the Management thereof," as severally relate to the Colony Colony, and is reof New South Wales, and as are repugnant to this Act, shall have served Bills, be been repealed; and the entire Management and Control of the repealed. Waste Lands belonging to the Crown in the said Colony of New Management of South Wales, and also the Appropriation of the gross Proceeds of all Revenues the Sales of any such Lands, and of all other Proceeds and thence arising be M 4 Revenues pugnant to re And the entire Crown Lands and vested in the Local Legislature. This Provision not to affect any previous Con tracts of Her Ma jesty respecting any such Lands, nor any vested Rights which have arisen under 9 & 10 Vict. c. 104. nor any vested Right or Interest which has accru ed under any Or der of Council issued by Her Majesty in Council in pursuance thereof. New South Wales Government. Revenues of the same, from whatever Source arising within the said Colony, including all Royalties, Mines, and Minerals, shall be vested in the Legislature of the said Colony: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall affect or be construed to affect any Contract, or to prevent the Fulfilment of any Promise or Engagement made by or on behalf of Her Majesty, with respect to any Lands situate within the said Colony, in Cases where such Contracts, Promises, or Engagements shall have been lawfully made before the Time at which this Act shall take effect within this Colony, nor to disturb or in any way interfere with or prejudice any vested or other Rights which have accrued or belong to the licensed Occupants or Lessees of any Crown Lands within or without the settled Districts, under and by virtue of the aforesaid Act of the Parliament passed in the Ninth and Tenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, or of any Order or Orders of Her Majesty in Council issued in pursuance thereof. Passed the Legislative Council, this Twenty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. CHARLES NICHOLSON, Speaker. W. MACPHERSON, Clerk of the Council. In the Name and on the Behalf of Her Majesty, I reserve this Government House, Sydney, Governor General. Pensions to Judges on their ceasing to hold Office (until demandable and claimed, this Amount, or any unclaimed Portion of it, to revert to the Consolidated Revenue Fund) Pensions to existing Officers of the Government liable on political Grounds to retire or be released from Office, upon their Retirement or Release (upon the Demise of these Officers, or until their Retirement or Release, their respective Pensions, or this Amount (as the Case may be), to revert to the Consolidated Revenue Fund) Pensions to Officers of Government not liable on political Grounds to retire or be released from Office, according to the Scales and Rates fixed by the Superannuation Act of the Imperial Parliament, 4 & 5 W. 4. c. 24. (any Portion of this Fund which may not be drawn during any Year to revert to the Consolidated Revenue Fund) £ S. d. 4,550 0 0 5,900 0 0 3,500 0 0 13,950 0 0 Public Worship SCHEDULE (C.) £ S. d. 28,000 9 0 SCHE New South Wales Government. 13 & 14 Vict.' c. 59. Victoria Government. SCHEDULE (2.) An Act to stay Proceedings against any Governor or other Person concerned in imposing and levying Duties in New South Wales; to continue until the 1st Day of January 1821, certain Duties, and to empower the said Governor to levy a Duty on Spirits made in the said Colony. An Act to continue until the 1st Day of January 1824 an Act passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of His late Majesty relating to imposing and levying Duties in New South Wales; to authorize the imposing and levying other Duties on Goods imported into the said Colony; and to suspend for Ten Years the Payment of Duty on the Importation of certain Goods the Produce of New South Wales. An Act to provide for the Administration An Act for the Government of New South An Act to clear up Doubts as to the Regu- An Act to explain and amend the Act for An Act for the better Government of Her CA P. LV. An Act to enable Her Majesty to assent to a Bill, as amended, toria, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under 'the Authority of an Act of Parliament passed in the Fourteenth Year of Her Majesty, Chapter Fifty-nine, intituled An Act for 'the better Government of Her Majesty's Australian Colonies, did, in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, pass a Bill, intituled An Act to establish a Constitution in and for the Colony of Victoria: And whereas the said Bill was presented ' for Her Majesty's Assent to the then Lieutenant Governor of Victoria, Victoria Government. 'Victoria, and the said Lieutenant Governor did thereupon declare that he reserved the said Bill for the Signification of Her Ma'jesty's Pleasure thereon: And whereas it is by the said reserved Bill provided, that the Provisions thereof shall have no Force or 'Effect until so much and such Parts of certain Acts of Parlia'ment in the said Bill specified as severally relate to the said Colony, and are repugnant to the said reserved Bill, shall have 'been repealed, and the entire Management and Control of the Waste Lands belonging to the Crown in the said Colony, and ' of the Proceeds thereof, including all Royalties, Mines, and Minerals, shall be vested in the Legislature of the said Colony : And whereas it is not competent to Her Majesty to assent to the said reserved Bill without the Authority of Parliament for that Purpose: And whereas it is expedient that Her Majesty 'should be authorized to assent to the said reserved Bill, amended by the Omission of certain Provisions thereof, respecting the Assent of the Governor to the Bills which may be passed by the Legislative Councils and Assemblies of the said Colony, and Her Majesty's Power to disallow the same, and respecting the 'Boundaries of the Australian Colonies, and that so much and 'such Parts as aforesaid of the said specified Acts of Parliament, ' and of certain other Acts of Parliament herein-after mentioned, 'should thereupon be repealed, and that the entire Management and Control of the said Waste Lands and Proceeds should be vested in the Legislature of the said Colony: And whereas a Copy of the said Bill, as amended as aforesaid, is set forth in the Schedule (1.) to this Act:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: sent to Bills in I. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council to assent to Power to Her the said reserved Bill, so amended as aforesaid, and contained in Majesty to asthe Schedule to this Act annexed, anything in the said specified Acts of Parliament, or any other Act, Law, or Usage, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. II. From the Day of the Proclamation of this Act in the said Colony of Victoria (the said reserved Bill, amended as aforesaid, having been previously assented to by Her Majesty in Council as aforesaid,) so much and such Parts of the several Acts of Parliament mentioned in the Schedule (2.) to this Act as severally relate to the said Colony of Victoria, and are repugnant to the said reserved Bill, amended as aforesaid, shall be repealed, and the entire Management and Control of the Waste Lands belonging to the Crown in the said Colony of Victoria, and of the Proceeds thereof, including all Royalties, Mines, and Minerals, shall be vested in the Legislature of the said Colony: Provided, that so much of the Act of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of Her Majesty, mentioned in the said Schedules, as relates to the Constitution, Appointment, and Powers of the Legislative Council of the said Colony of Victoria, shall continue in force until the First Writs shall have issued for the Election of Members to Schedule. So much of the Acts in Schedule (2.) to this Act as relates to the Colony of Victoria repealed. |