SUPPLY (No. 1).

No. 1 of 1903.

An Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a sum for the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June One thousand nine hundred and four.

[Assented to 4th July, 1903.]

Preamble.

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Supply Act (No. 1) 1903–4.

Issue and application of £75,000.

2. There shall and may be issued and applied for or towards making good the supply hereby granted to His Majesty for the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June One thousand nine hundred and four the sum of Seventy-five thousand pounds out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, for the purposes and services expressed in the Schedule to this Act, and the Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and apply the moneys authorized to be issued and applied.

Sum available for the purposes set forth in Schedule.

3. The said sum shall be available to satisfy the warrants under the hand of the Governor-General in respect of any purposes and services set forth in the said Schedule.

Limit of period of expenditure.

4. No moneys shall be expended under the, authority of this Act after the thirtieth day of June One thousand nine hundred and four.

SCHEDULE.

ADVANCE TO THE TREASURER.

To enable the Treasurer to make Advances to public officers and to meet expenditure, particulars of which will afterwards be included in a parliamentary appropriation              £75,000