Public Works Loans (Ireland). Accounts before Parliament. to lay annual at their Disposal under the said recited Acts and this Act, the Amounts advanced, and the Amounts remaining unissued, also an Account of the Amount of the Loans advanced by the said Commissioners under the said recited Acts and this Act, the Monies received on account thereof, and paid into the Exchequer, and the Balance of Principal and Interest outstanding, distinguishing each Class of Loans, and also showing the Amounts advanced and repaid in respect of each such Class during the Year ending the Thirtyfirst Day of March immediately preceding the Date of such Account; and the said Commissioners shall on or before the First Day of June in each Year cause such Accounts and Statements to be transmitted to the Public Works Loan Commissioners at their Office in London; and such Accounts and Statements shall by the said last-mentioned Commissioners be laid before both Houses of Parliament on or before the Thirtieth Day of the same Month of June, if Parliament be sitting, or if Parliament be not sitting then within Fourteen Days after the next Meeting of Parliament. Powers of to Advances to have the same 10. All the Enactments contained in the said recited Act recited Acts as relating to Public Works in Ireland, or any of them, shall, except as is herein otherwise provided, extend to this Act, and to all Things done or directed to be done by the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or the said Commissioners of Public Works, or their Secretary for the Time being, or any other Persons or Bodies Corporate under the Authority of the said recited Acts or this Act, or any of them, in such or the like Manner as if they had been particularly and severally re-enacted in the Body of this Act, or as near thereto as the Difference of the Circumstances will admit, except so far only as the same are amended or altered by any of the said Acts or by this Act. CAP. LXXIV. New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Government. CA P. LXXIV. An Act to repeal Part of an Act intituled An ̄ Act W HEREAS by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the c. 76. Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the 5 & 6 Vict. Government of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, it was enacted that, except as therein mentioned, all Bills passed by the Legislative Council of New South Wales which should alter or affect the Duties of Customs upon any Goods, Wares, or Merchandise imported to or exported from the said Colony, should in every Case be reserved for the Signification of Her Majesty's Pleasure thereon: c. 59. And whereas by an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for the better Government of Her 13 & 14 Vict. Majesty's Australian Colonies, the above-recited Enactments were in part repealed, and in part extended to the Colonies of Victoria, Van Diemen's Land, South Australia, and Western Australia: And whereas by Two Acts passed in the Fifteenth Year of Her Majesty, intituled respectively An Act to enable Her Majesty to 18 & 19 Vict. assent to a Bill as amended of the Legislature of New South cc. 54. and 55. Wales, "to confer a Constitution on New South Wales, and to "grant a Civil List to Her Majesty," and An Act to enable Her Majesty to assent to a Bill as amended of the Legislature of Victoria, to establish a Constitution in and for the Colony of Victoria, the Provisions of the first-mentioned Act respecting the Reservation of Bills for the Signification of Her Majesty's Pleasure thereon are declared applicable to the Colonies of New South Wales and Victoria respectively; and Doubts are entertained how far the above-recited Enactments remain still in force in Her Majesty's Australian Colonies, and it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed, and that the said Provisions should be repealed: Be it hereby enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, Repeal of Part New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Government. Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: 1. The above-recited Enactments of the aforesaid Act of the of 5 & 6 Vict. Sixth Year of Her Majesty shall be and they are hereby repealed. c. 76. Laws not to be invalid because not reserved in accordance with repealed Enactment. 2. No Law heretofore passed in any of the afore-mentioned Colonies shall be or be deemed to have been invalid on the Ground that such Law being a Law altering or affecting the Duties of Customs aforesaid has not been reserved for the Signification of Her Majesty's Pleasure thereon. CAP. LXXV. Parochial Buildings (Scotland) Act Amendment. CA P. LXXV. An Act to amend and explain the Act of the Twenty- W c. 58. HEREAS by the Act Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Victoria, Chapter Fifty-eight, intituled An Act to 25 & 26 Vict. make further Provision with respect to the raising of c. Money for erecting and improving Parochial Buildings in Scotland, (in this Act hereafter referred to as the recited Act,) it is enacted, by Section First, "that the Expression Parochial "Buildings,' in the said Act, shall mean and include Church, Manse, Churchyard, Walls, Schoolhouse, and Schoolmaster's "House respectively;" and it is further enacted by Section Second, "that the Heritors of any Parish in Scotland in which any new or "additional Parochial Building is to be erected, or any existing "Parochial Building is to be improved or to be enlarged, may, at any Meeting of such Heritors, resolve that the Money required to defray the Expense of Erection, Improvement, or Enlargement "of such Parochial Building shall be raised by annual Assessments "extending over a Period of Ten Years;" and on the Adoption of such Resolution, such annual Assessments for the Period specified therein shall be imposed, levied, and recovered from the Heritors of such Parish, and with the Liabilities and Rights of Relief as therein provided; and by the Third Section it is enacted, that on the Adoption of such Resolution it shall be lawful for the Heritors of such Parish to borrow the Money required to defray the Expense of the Erection, Improvement, or Enlargement of such Parochial Buildings, and in Security of the Repayment of the Money so borrowed, and the Interest thereof, to charge and assign the said annual Assessments by a Bond and Assignation, to be signed in manner therein mentioned: And whereas Doubts have arisen as to whether the Powers to borrow Money and grant Bond therefor under said recited Act apply to the Purchase or Acquisition of Parochial Buildings as defined in the Act, and it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed, and the recited Act amended as herein-after provided: Be sionsErec ment, and Enlargement" Parochial Buildings (Scotland) Act Amendment. 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 the present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: viz., Interpretation 1. The Expressions "Erection, Improvement, and Enlargement," of the Expres- contained in the recited Act, shall extend and apply to the Purchase tion, Improve- or Acquisition of Parochial Buildings for the Purposes of the said Act, and the Improvement and Enlargement thereof, and the Power in recited Act. to borrow Money required to defray the Expense of the Erection, Improvement, or Enlargement of such Parochial Buildings, and to grant Bond therefor, and the Interest thereof, repayable in Ten Years; and the Power to charge and assign the said annual Assessments, as contained in the recited Act, shall extend to and include the Price of Parochial Buildings already erected, purchased, or to be purchased for the Purposes of the Act, and the Ground attached thereto, and the Expense of improving and enlarging the same, including the Purchase of any Feu or Ground Annual payable for such Ground or Buildings; and the Creditors in or Persons having Right to such Bond and Assignation shall have the same Rights and Remedies for Recovery of the Sums, Principal and Interest, due under such Bond and Assignation, as are conferred by the said recited Act. This and recited Act incorporated. 2. This Act shall be deemed to be incorporated with the recited Act, and the recited Act shall be read and have Effect accordingly. CAP. LXXVI. |