10 GEO. V.] . A.ppropriation. [1919, No. 55. 249 New Zealand. ANALYSIS. 22. Additional amounts pa.yable to Education Titlll. Boards for general purposes and for grants Address. for Sohool Committees. 1. Short Title. 23. Validation of payments by local authorities 2. Grant ",nd appropriation of £12,243,690, and to British and Foreign Mercantile Marine fees, out of Consolidated Funa. Fund. 3. Grant and appropriation of £3,040,487 out of 24. Authorizing payment to His Excellenoy the Publio Works Fund. Governor·General on vaoation of offioe. 4. Grant and appropriation of £2,247,611 out of 25. Validating certain payments out of war funds. separate aooounts. 26. Authorizing payment of £50,000 to Govern. 5. Power to make oontracts in excess of appro· ment Railways Superannuation Fund in p~iation. assistanoe thereof. 6. Indemnity as to unauthorized expenditure 27. Validation'of payment by Auokland Savings· of £80,221 16s. lld., and debts irreoover. bank to relief fund established in respeot able, £6,536 4s. of influenza epidemio. 7. Payment to 1000.1 authorities for oonstruotion 28. Validating payment to retired Civil servant of roads, &0. for services on a Commission. 8. Money appropriated for roads, &c., defined. 29; Validating expenditure by 1000.1 authorities in 9. Advanoes under the Lands Improvement respeot of visit of H.M.S. "New Zealand." and Native Lands Aoquisition Aot, 1894, 30. Repeal of provisions of oertain local Acts authorized. limiting the amount of subsidy payable 10. Power to transfer moneys from Consolidated out of the Consolidated Fund. Fund to the War Expenses Aooount. 31. Extension of borrowing· powers of Wanganui 11. Authorizing payment of travelling·expenses Fire Board. to members of General Assembly. 32. Accumulated funds under seotion 12 of 12. Authorizing additional payments in respeot Westport Harbour Board Act, 1884, may of Government Houses and grounds at be advanoed to Westport Harbour Board Wellington and Auckland. for payment of overdraft. 13. Extending operation of subseotion (1), seo· 33. Extension of authority conferred on the tion 49, Public Service Aot, 1912. Clutha River Board to borrow mOl'ley by 14. Authority for payment of moneys by way of way of bank overdra.ft. oommission to offioers of the Government 34. Validation of payments made by members Servioe. of Waitara Borough Oounoil during period 1(i. Payments for whioh no speoifio appropria. when 0. quorum of members was not in tion. offioe. 16. Authorizing payments to manufaoturers of 35. Authorizing refund of money paid by memo butter. ber of Parliament for hire of motor·oar 17. Authorizing payment in respeot of services from Wellington to New Plymouth. rendered to the Government by persons in 36. Authorizing additional payment of £500 to reoeipt of retiring.allowanoes under the New Zealand Institute. Publio Servioe Classifioation and Super· 37. InoreMe of amount of war.purposes·loan annuation Aot, 1908. securities that may be used for payment 18. Authority to borrow additional moneys for of death duties. purposes of Hauraki Plains Aot, 1908. 38. Validating expenditure by 100801 bodies in 19. Authority to borrow additional moneys for conneotion with the oelebration of peaoe. purposes of Rangitaiki Land Drainage 39. Authorizing advanoe of £15,000 to Greymouth Aots. Harbour Board in anticipation of revenues 20. Authorizing inoreased rate of interest on payable to it pursuant to section 7 of the debentures issued under Auckland and Greymouth Harbour Board Aot, 1884. Sl1burban Drainage Aot, 1908. 40. Increase of salary payable to Controller and 21. Validation of payments made for oonveyanoe Auditor·General. of His Exoellenoy the Governor·General, 41. Provision allowing speoial increments to his family and staff, on visits within New offioers of Publlo Servloe on grounds of Zealand and also to the Cook Islands. speoial merit and ability. • 250 1919, No. 55.] Appropriation. [10 GEO. V. 42. Publio Service Co=issioner may modify 44. Seotion li3 of Publio Servioe Superannuation prescribed schedules of salaries for Profes­ Amendment Aot, 1908 (relative to oontri­ sional and Clerical Divisions. butions for superannuation purposes in 43. Authorizing modification of prescribed sal­ respeot of speoial allowances paid to aries of Post and Telegraph Depart­ private seoretaries), extended. ment. Sohedules. 1919, No. 5Q. Title. AN Ac'!' to appropriate and apply certl'tin Sums of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, the Public Works Fund, and other Accounts to the Services of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March, Nineteen hundred and twenty, and to appro­ priate the Supplies granted in this Present Session. [5th November, 1919. Address. MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN ,-We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the House. of Representatives of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sums hereinafter mentioned, and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted: And be it enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament· assembled, and' by the authority of the same, as follows :- Short Title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act, 1919. Grant and 2. (1.) The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the appropriation of £12,243,690, and Consolidated Fund, towards making good the supplies granted to His fees, out of Majesty for the services of the year ending on the thirty-first day of Consolidated Fund. March, nineteen hundred and twenty, any sums which, together with the sums that have been issued and paid under the provisions of section forty-three of the Public Revenues Act, 1910, as amended by Part I of the F,inance Act, 1918, do not exceed the sum of twelve million two hundred and forty-three tho.usand six hundred and ninety pounds, together with the amount of fees hereafter mentioned. (2.) The sum of twelve million two hundred and forty-three thousand six hundred and ninety pounds as aforesaid, together with the fees collected by such public officers as are authorized to retain the same in lieu of salary, is hereby appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the several votes specified in the First Schedule hereto. Grant and 3. (1.) The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the appropriation of £3,040,487 out Public Works Fund, towards making good the supplies granted to of Publio Wo{ks His Majesty for the services as aforesaid, any sums which, together Fund. with the sums that have been issued and paid under the provisions of section forty-three of the Public Revenues Act, 1910, as amended by Part I of the Finance' Act, 1918, do not exceed the sum of three million and forty thousand four hundred and eighty-seven pounds. (2.) The sum of three million and forty thousand four hundred and eighty-seven pounds as aforesaid is hereby appropriated for the works and services expressed in the several votes specified in the Second Schedule hereto. (3.) Where any of the moneys appropriated by this section for the construction, maintenance, and supervision of roads, bridges, and other public works are by the estimates for the current financial year 10 GEO. V.] Appropriation. [1919, No. 55. 251 as approved by the House of Representatives allocaf.ed for the con-' struction, maintenance, or supervision of any particular road or bridge, the moneys so allocated, or any portion thereof, may be expended for the construction or maintenance of any other road or bridge (within the district of the same local authority) for which no specific provision. is made by the said estimates. 4. (1.) The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the Grant a~d. respective accounts mentioned in the Third Schedule hereto towards appropm.tlOn of ' d h I' d H' M' .i' h " £2,247,611 out mak mg goo t e supp les grante to IS aJesty lor t e servICes as of separate aforesaid, any sums which, together with the sums that have been accounts, issued and paid under the provisions of section forty-three of the, Public Revenues Act, 1910, as amended by Part I of the Finance Act, 1918, do not exceed the sum of two million two hundred and forty-seven thousand six hundred and eleven pounds. (2.) The sum of two million two hundred and forty-seven thousand six hundred and eleven pounds as aforesaid is hereby appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the several votes specified in the said Third Schedule. 5. It shall be lawful for the Governor-General, in the name and Power to make on beha.lf of His Majesty the King, to enter into any ,contracts, or c~ntracts i.n ~xceB8 , I' b'l".i' ' h d' f 0 appropriation, to mcur any la 1 Itles, lor carryIng on t e works an serVICes or which money is appropriated by this Act: Provided that in the case of the works and services specified in the Fourth Schedule hereto the amount of liability thereby incurred shall not, together with the sum appropriated therefor, exceed the sum set down in the ninth column in that Schedule opposite to each such work or service. 6. Whereas the Minist~r of Finance has, under the authority Indemnity as to unauth?rized of section, fifty-four of the Public Revenues, Act ' 1910 , issued , expenditure of durmg the twelve months ended the thIrty-first day of March, £80,221165, lld" nineteen hundred and nineteen, in excess of or without the appro- ~nd doebts ble urec vera , pnatlOn" 0 f P arI' lament, t h e respective sums mentlOne' d'm t h e F'f1 t h £6,536 48, Schedule hereto, out of the Consolidated Fund, the Public Works Fund, and the other accounts mentioned in the said Schedule, amounting in the whole to the sum of eighty thousand two hun- dred and twenty-one pounds sixteen shillings and elevenpence, and has caused the said sums to be applied to the several purposes and services mentioned in the said Fifth Schedule, and has also discharged from the Public Account the Bum of six thousand five hundred and thirty-six pounds four shillings, mentioned in the said Schedule as being moneys due to but irrecoverable by the Crown, also the value of stores written off departmental accounts: Be it enacted that the application and discharge of the said sums are hereby sanctioned.