AN ACT to provide for the Payment of a A.D. 1897. [24 December, 1897.] WHEREAS by the Act of the Parliament of Tasmania, 42 Vict. PREAMBLE. No. 37, an annual Pension of Two hundred Pounds was directed to be paid to Mr. James Smith, of Westwood, River Forth, in Tasmania, in recognition of his long continued and ultimately successful labours in search of Mineral Deposits in Tasmania: And whereas the said James Smith died on the Fifteenth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and it is desirable that an annual Pension of One hundred Pounds be paid to Mrs. Mary Jane Smith, the Widow of the said James Smith, during her life: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows: 1 There shall be payable to the said Mrs. Mary Jane Smith, Widow Pension of £100 of the late James Smith, an annual Pension of One hundred' Pounds payable to Mrs. during her life; and such Pension shall be payable and paid quarterly, Smith. commencing from the First day of July, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. A.D. 1897. Mrs. Smith's Pension. 2 The Governor shall, from time to time, issue his Warrant to the Treasurer for the payment of the said Pension, and the same shall Treasurer to pay thereupon be paid by the said Treasurer to the said Mrs. Mary Jane Smith, or to such person as she from time to time, by writing under her hand, appoints to receive the same. Pension upon Warrant of the In case of death, payment of proportionate part of Pension to personal representative. 3 It shall be lawful for the Governor, by Warrant under his hand, in case of the death of the said Mrs. Mary Jane Smith during the currency of any quarter of a year, to direct payment to be made to her personal representative of a proportionate part of such Pension up to the day of her death. WILLIAM GRAHAME, JUN., GOVERNMENT PRINTER, TASMANIA. AN ACT to further amend "The Public A.D. 1897. Debts Sinking Fund Act, 1881." [24 December, 1897.] WHEREAS under the provisions of The Superannuation Act the PREAMBLE. persons named in the Schedule hereto are or will be entitled, subject 24 Vict. No. 15. to the provisions of the said Act, to receive out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund annually, as pensions during their respective lives, the sums set opposite to their respective names in the said Schedule: And whereas it is desirable to make provision for the payment of such pensions hereinbefore mentioned by the Commissioners of The Public Debts Sinking Fund out of moneys from time to time forming part of The Public Debts Sinking Fund: And whereas in consideration of such payment being made by the said Commissioners, it is desirable that the Treasurer of the Colony should be authorised to pay annually for a term of Thirty years out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund the sums hereinafter appearing : Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows: 1 This Act may be cited as "The Public Debts Sinking Fund Act, Short title. 1897." A.D. 1897. Interpretation. 45 Vict. No. 15. Commissioners to Treasurer to pay moneys mentioned in Schedule. 24 Vict. No. 15. Treasurer to carry money Commissioners Public Debts Sinking Fund. 2 In this Act, unless the context otherwise determines- "The Commissioners mean "The Commissioners of the Public 66 Fund" means "The Public Debts Sinking Fund" formed under the said Act: "Treasurer" means the Treasurer for the time being of Tasmania. 3 The Commissioners shall, out of any moneys from time to time forming part of the Fund, pay to the Treasurer in every year such sum or sums of money as may be sufficient to provide for the payment by the said Treasurer to the persons mentioned in the Schedule hereto of the respective sums to which they are entitled under and by virtue of The Superannuation Act. Such sum or sums of money shall be paid by the Commissioners to the Treasurer in such proportions and at such times in each year as the Treasurer may appoint. 4-(1.) The Treasurer shall, out of any moneys from time to time received by him from the Commissioners under the provisions of this Act, pay annually, subject to the provisions of The Superannuation Act, the sums set opposite to the names of the several persons mentioned in Schedule hereto, by way of pension to such persons respectively for the term of their respective natural lives, in such proportions and at such times in each year as the Treasurer may appoint. (2.) Any payment made by the Treasurer under this Act to the persons mentioned in the said Schedule shall be in lieu of the amounts which they shall be respectively entitled to receive from the Consolidated Revenue Fund; and the receipts of the said persons of such payments shall be a full and sufficient discharge of the moneys which they are now respectively entitled to receive from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. 5 All sums of money received from time to time by the Treasurer from the Commissioners under the provisions of this Act shall be received from the carried by the Treasurer to a separate Account, and shall from time to time be paid by him upon the Warrant of the Governor to the several persons mentioned in the said Schedule as hereinbefore provided; and the receipt or receipts of the said several persons for such moneys shall be a sufficient and full discharge to the Treasurer for the payment of to separate Account. Appropriation of certain moneys for Thirty years. the same. 6-(1.) Out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Tasmania there shall and may be paid and payable to the Commissioners the yearly sum of One hundred and sixty-one Pounds for a period of Thirty years from the First day of January, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven; the further sum of Fifty-five Pounds for a period of Thirty years from the First day of March, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven; and the further sum of Two hundred and twentyfive Pounds for a period of Thirty years from the First day of September, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven; and such Public Debts Sinking Fund. sums shall be paid upon such days and in such proportions as the A.D. 1897. Governor, by any Warrant under his hand, orders and directs. (2.) All such sums when received by the Commissioners shall be by them paid into the Fund, and shall form part of the said Fund, and shall be moneys at the disposal of the Commissioners for the purposes of this Act or the said Act. 7 The Commissioners may invest all or any of the moneys received Commissioners by them from the Treasurer under the provisions of this Act, and the may invest interest or other profits accruing on any moneys delivered to or vested moneys. in them under or by virtue of this Act, in such securities as the Governor in Council shall, from time to time, prescribe as securities in which investments may be made by the Commissioners. 8 This Act and the said Act shall be read and construed together Acts to be as one and the same Act. together. |