S. 4,

9. If the Metropolitan Board at any time makes default in paying Power of Sinister any principal money or interest secured by any debenture under this in case of default Act, the Minister, if so authorized by the Governor in Council

, shall Comp. No. 1207 be entitled to receive from the Treasurer of Victoria, and to receive and recover from the municipalities and the insurance companies respectively, either the whole of the annual contributions which would otherwise have been payable to sueh Board or such part thereof as the Governor in Council may deterinine to be necessary for the purposes of

paying any principal money or interest in arrear, and shall apply to such purposes the moneys so received.

No, 1345 s. 7.

1.0. Nothing in tliis Act contained shall be deemed to take away Saving of rights of any right of action or procedure which any debenture-holder under debenture-holders

. any Act may at any time have in respect of the property and revenue of the Metropolitan Board.

11. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Metropolitan Fire Application of Brigades Loan Act 1893 the proceeds of the undermentioned securities spectacle de lhe se hagin may be paid over to the Board in order that the same may with the Minister. consent of the Governor in Council be applied from time to time by the Board for the purchase of land and the erection and extension of buildings for the purposes of the Board, namely:

(a) The Government stock having a nominal value of Eight £3,777 128. 9d.

thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven pounds twelve
shillings and ninepence invested in the names of the
Treasurer, the Chief Secretary, and the Metropolitan
Fire Brigades Board for the purpose of redeeming the said
debentures of the Metropolitan Board falling due on the
first day of October One thousand nine hundred and five
may from time to time be sold by the holders thereof;

and
(6) the fixed deposit receipt Number 1594 in the Commercial £2,149 79. 9d.

Bank of Australia Limited payable to the Metropolitan
Board on the thirtieth day of September One thousand
nine hundred and six but which will pursuant to notice
from the said bank dated the nineteenth day of June One
thousand nine hundred and five be paid off by the said
bank on the thirtieth day of September One thousand
nine hundred and five.

SCHEDULE.

Section 5.

SCHEDULE

Deposit Receipt issued by the Commercial Bank of Australia Limited to the

Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board as under :

An Act relating to the Surplus Revenue of the

Financial Year ended on the thirtieth day
of June One thousand nine hundred and five,
and to amend the Surplus Revenue Acts
No. 1904 and No. 1945.

[30th August, 1905.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty by and with

the advice and consent of tlie Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say) :

BE

1. This Act may be cited as the Surplus Revenue Act 1905, and short title and shall be deemed and taken to have come into operation on the thirtieth day of June One thousand nine hundred and five.

commencement.

2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Trust Funds Act Application of 1897 the excess of receipts on account of the Consolidated Revenue upplas for 1904-5.

expenditure out of the Consolidated Revenue of the year ended

over

on

Sche lule,

on the thirtietlı day of June One thousand nine hundred and five shall
be applied in the manner following (that is to say) :-
(a) the sum of Five hundred and eight thousand one hundred

and seventeen pounds shall be appropriated to or
towards the cost of the works and purposes specified
in the Schedule to this Act to the amount mentioned in

such Schedule in each case ; and (1) the balance of such excess not appropriated or used for the

purposes aforesaid shall be paid by the Treasurer into a fund to be dealt with as Parliament may hereafter direct.

£508, 117 1o be applied for pirposes in Schedule.

3. The Treasurer may without any authority other than this Act apply the said sum of Fire hundred and eight thousand one hundred and seventeen pounds towards the works and purposes specified in the Schedule to this Act.

SCHEDULE.

DEPARTMENT OF THE CHIEF SECRETARY.
1. Towards building country Mechanics’ Institutes
2. Grants to Free Libraries in country districts
3. Towards erection, re-arrangement, and repair of Lunatic Asylums and

erection of Receiving House for Supposed Lunatics and Retreat for
Inebriates

2,500 2,500

40,000

1,500

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
4. Additional grant to the Workingmen's College, to be expended on the

Mining, Engineering, Wool, and Printing departments, and in Fittings

and Plant for Sheet Metal Working and Blacksmith's Shop
5. Grants to Schools of Mines and Technical Schools towards equipment, &c.,

under conditions to be fixed by the Governor in Council
6. Towards assisting a School of Domestic Cookery
7. The condition attached to item 21 in the Schedule to the Surplus

Revenue Act No. 1945 is hereby removed.

2,000 1,000

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURER.
8. To credit the Licensing Act Fund with a sum of £20,000, representing the
amount taken from the Fund in 1898 for charitable purposes

under
Act 1553, Section 2

20,000 9. To pay the Trust Fund Trustees a portion of the Surplus on the year 1904-5

in anticipation of the procedure required by Section 4 (3) of the Trust
Funds Act 1897

147,000
10. Towards building a Hospital for Epileptics on condition that £2,000 be
raised publicly

3,000 11. Grant towards building and renovating Hospitals and Charitable Institutions

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEY.

12. Towards purchase of the Russell Estate and furnishing
13. Towards purchase and improvement of reserves for local bodies
14. Towards improvement of Crown lands

£ 6,250 2,000 10,000

15,000 15,000 10,000

14,000

10,000

20,000

7,000 4,000 1,200 2,000

500

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 15. Towards repair of main and other roads and bridges and other works,

and to make good damage caused by floods, as the Governor in

Council may direct
16. For the sanitation and repair of Metropolitan State Schools
17. For the repair of Country State Schools
18. Improvements and purchase of land, Elwood Swamp and Point Ormond

(proceeds from sale of the lands so improved, to the amount
expended under this item, to be placed to a special fund to be here-

after dealt with as Parliament may direct)
19. Purchase of Dredge and appliances and towards dredging Hopetoun

Channel (the proceeds of the sale of Crown lands and commons near
Geelong to be placed to a special fund to be hereafter dealt with as

Parliament may direct)
20. Towards forming a dock at Port Melbourne (a sum not exceeding

£2,000 to be expended on surveys and preliminary expenses, the
balance to be subject to Parliament authorizing the formation of a

dock)
21. Towards filling up West Melbourne Swamp
22. Painting Public Buildings
23. Towong Shire--Koetong-road, between Tallangatta and Corryong
24. Bairnsdale, Tambo, and Omeo Shires-Road towards Omeo
25. Bairnsdale Shire-Towards bridge over river at Bairnsdale
26. The condition attached to Item 1 in the Schedule to the Surplus

Revenue Act No. 1904, so far as it relates to the sum of £400

allocated thereunder to the Bairnsdale Shire, is hereby removed. 27. Tambo Shire-Towards bridge over River Tambo 28. Wodonga Shire—To assist in repairing bridge and road towards Albury 29. Howqua Shire_Woods Point-road 30. Upper Yarra Shire-Woods Point-road 31. For erection of brickworks and purchase of land therefor 32. Towards breakwater at Black Rock, upon condition that residents con

tribute £100 .. 33. Towards breakwater at Pienie Point, on condition that residents con

tribute £200 .. 34. Towards Mirboo and Allambee roads, conditionally upon the Shire

Council of Woorayl spending £500 thereon 35. Item 9 in the Schedule to the Surplus Revenue Act No. 1945 is hereby

amended by the insertion of the words “ Towards purchase of

land and” before the word “Improvement” 36. Towards filling quarries at the end of Ripon-street, Ballarat, and other

necessary work in connexion with such quarries 37. Towards filling in and levelling Mount Xavier reserve, off Victoria-street, 38. Creswick Reserve (on condition that 39. Allendale Reserve (on condition that rouchers be submitted, showing

that £100 has been raised locally and spent on the work).. 40. Learmonth Reserve (on condition that vouchers be submitted, show

500 1,000

600

600 9,606

300

400

500

500

Ballarat East

500

locally)

150

100