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Revenues to be charged with Expenses of Collection and Management; 14.

Provisions of 5 & 6 Vict. c. 76. concerning Grants for Civil and Judicial Services, repealed; 15.

Grants for Civil and Judicial Services; 16.

How the Appropriation of Sums granted may be varied; 17.
Governors to intimate intended Appropriation; 18.

5 & 6 Vict. c. 76. s. 41.-Certain Charters establishing District Councils avoided, and certain others authorized to be revoked on Petition. -Governors of New South Wales and Victoria may grant Charters on Petition, but not otherwise; 19.

Preceding Enactment extended to Van Diemen's Land, South and Western Australia, after Establishment of Legislative Councils ; 20. Provisions of 5 & 6 Vict. c. 76. concerning District Councils, &c. extended to District Councils established under this Act; 21.

5 & 6 Vict. c. 76. s. 47. requiring Half the Expense of the Police Establishment to be borne by the several Districts, repealed; 22.

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Governors and Legislative Councils may regulate Tolls and Rates in Districts, alter Constitution and Duties of District Councils, and Number and Boundaries of Districts; 23.

Existing Laws to remain in force; 24.

Removing Doubts as to certain Taxes imposed by Governor and Council of Van Diemen's Land; 25.

Customs Duties may be imposed on any Goods; 26.

A Supreme Court may be erected in the Colony of Victoria; 27. Legislatures of New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Victoria empowered to make further Provisions for the Administration of Justice; 28.

Boundaries of New South Wales and Victoria may be altered by Order in Council; 29.

Power to establish a General Assembly for the Australian Colonies;

30.

Power to General Assembly to alter Rules prescribed by Order in Council, and to vary its Constitution; 31.

General Assembly may make certain Laws; 32.

Laws

Laws of General Assembly to supersede those enacted by separate Colonies. If Questions arise as to the Power, &c. of General Assembly, Her Majesty in Council to determine the same; 33. Duties not to be levied on Supplies for Troops; nor any Duties, &c. inconsistent with Treaties; 34.

Power to Governors and Councils, with Assent of Her Majesty in Council, to alter the Constitution of the Legislative Councils; 35.

5 & 6 Vict. c. 76. s. 51. Upon Petition of Inhabitants Territories lying Northward of Thirtieth Degree of South Latitude may be detached from New South Wales; 36.

Interpretation of "Governor;" 37.

Commencement of Act; 38.

Act may be amended, &c.; 39.

SCHEDULES.

A

BILL

FOR

The better Government of Her Majesty's Australian
Colonies.

[Note. The Words and Figures printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.]

W

HEREAS by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Preamble. Reign of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act for the Govern- 5 & 6 Vict. "ment of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land," it c. 76. was enacted, that there should be within the Colony of New South 5 Wales a Legislative Council, to consist of Thirty-six Members, and that Twelve of the Members of the said Council should from Time to Time, in the Manner therein mentioned, be appointed by Her Majesty, and that Twenty-four of the Members of the said Council should from Time to Time, in the Manner therein mentioned, be 10 elected by the Inhabitants of the said Colony: And whereas an Act was passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act to clear up Doubts as to the Regulation and Audit of the 7 & 8 Vict. "Accounts of the Customs in New South Wales," and another Act was passed in the same Year, intituled "An Act to explain and amend the 7 & 8 Vict. 15 Act for the Government of New South Wales and Van Diemen's c. 74. "Land:" And whereas by an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled "An 9 G. 4. c. 83. "Act to provide for the Administration of Justice in New South Wales "and Van Diemen's Land, and for the more effectual Government 20 " thereof, and for other Purposes relating thereto," His said Majesty, His

36.

A

c. 72.

5 & 6 Vict. c. 61.

His Heirs and Successors, were empowered to appoint in Van Diemen's Land a Legislative Council, to consist of such Persons resident in the said Colony, not exceeding Fifteen nor less than Ten, as His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, should be pleased to nominate: And whereas the Provisions of the last-mentioned Act, so far as 5 respects the Council of Van Diemen's Land, have been made permanent by the said Act of the Sixth Year of Her Majesty: And whereas by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act to provide for the better Government of "South Australia," Her Majesty is empowered, in manner therein 10 mentioned, to constitute within the said Colony of South Australia a Legislative Council, consisting of the Governor and Seven other Persons at the least: And whereas by an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, 10 G. 4. c. 22. intituled "An Act to provide until the Thirty-first Day of December 15 "One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four for the Government " of His Majesty's Settlements in Western Australia on the Western "Coast of New Holland," His said Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, with the Advice of His or their Privy Council, were empowered to make, ordain, and (subject to such Conditions and 20 Restrictions as to him or them should seem meet) to authorize and empower any Three or more Persons resident and being within the said Settlements to make, ordain, and constitute, Laws, Institutions, and Ordinances for the Peace, Order, and good Government of His Majesty's Subjects and others within the said Settlements: And 25 whereas the last-mentioned Act has been from Time to Time con9 & 10 Vict. tinued, and ultimately, by an Act of the Tenth Year of Her Majesty, was continued until the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the District 30 of Port Phillip, now Part of the Colony of New South Wales, should be erected into a separate Colony, and that further Provision should be made for the Government of Her Majesty's Australian Colonies: Be it enacted, therefore, by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem- 35 poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That after such Provisions as herein-after Port Phillip mentioned shall have been made by the Governor and Council of New South Wales, and upon the issuing of the Writs for the first Election in pursuance thereof, as herein-after mentioned, the Territories 40 now comprised within the said District of Port Phillip, including the Town of Melbourne, and bounded on the North and North-east by a straight Line drawn from Cape How to the nearest Source of the River Murray, and thence by the Course of that River to the Eastern Boundary of the Colony of South Australia, shall be separated from 45

c. 35.

District of

to form a

separate Colony, to be known as the Colony

of Victoria.

the

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