Goods, when to be removed.

Passengers' luggage

Appropriation of tolls, &c.

Annual abstract of accounts to be published.

Commissioner may

purchase property of

Railway and Pier Company (Limited), and may exercise

Kadina and Wallaroo Railway Act.-1877.

to be demanded or received for the same shall not amount to the sum of Three Shillings per ton, the sum to be paid in respect to the carriage thereof shall be Three Shillings per ton.

10. Owners or consignees of articles shall remove the same from the station or terminus of their destination on the said Railway within twelve working hours after their arrival there, unless such arrival shall be between the hours of four in the evening and seven in the morning, and in that case every such removal shall be made within six hours after such hour in the morning, and in default of such removal, shall be liable to demurrage at and after the rate of Two Shillings and Sixpence per ton; and further, if not removed after the expiration of twenty-four hours at and after the rate of One Shilling per ton for every twenty-four hours or any part thereof: Provided, nevertheless, that if such articles be not removed from such station or terminus of their destination before the end of one week after their arrival there, the sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence per ton per week shall be charged and payable in respect of such goods for the warehouse-room thereof.

11. Every passenger travelling upon the said Railway may take with him his ordinary luggage, not exceeding one hundred pounds in weight for first-class passengers, and sixty pounds in weight for other passengers, without any charge being made for carriage thereof.

12. All tolls, rents, dues, charges, and sums of money, which may at any time be received and levied under authority hereof, and all rents to arise from any lease of the said Railway, shall be, from time to time, in such manner as the Governor may prescribe, paid to the Treasurer for the public purposes of the said Province.

13. The said Commissioner shall, on or before the first day of August in every year, prepare an annual account in abstract of the total receipts and expenditure under authority hereof for the Railway by this Act authorized to be constructed, from what source soever the same may be derived, for and during the preceding year ending the thirtieth day of June, under the several distinct heads of receipt and expenditure, with a statement of the balance of the same account duly audited and certified by the Treasurer, and also by the Auditor-General, and a copy of such account shall be published in the Government Gazette.

14. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioner, if he shall think Kadina and Wallaroo fit, to purchase, and for the Kadina and Wallaroo Railway and Pier Company (Limited), if they shall think fit, with the consent of a special general meeting of the Company, to sell, for a sum not exceeding Ninety Thousand Pounds, all the lands, railways, jetty, wharf, rollingstock, plant, and other real and personal estate at the time of such sale and purchase, belonging to the said Kadina and Wallaroo Railway and Pier Company (Limited): And upon the completion

powers of this Act thereover.

of

Kadina and Wallaroo Railway Act.—1877.

of such sale and purchase, all rights, privileges, and advantages granted by virtue of "The Wallaroo Railway Act," and "The Wallaroo Railway Amendment Act," to Apollos Harrison Gouge, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, and now vested in the said Kadina and Wallaroo Railway and Pier Company (Limited), shall vest in, belong to, and be exercisable by the said Commissioner: Provided that it shall not be compulsory upon the said Commissioner to exercise such rights or privileges any further, or otherwise, than he shall think fit: And provided, also, that in the event of such sale and purchase being completed, the said Commissioner may, if he shall think fit, exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges vested in him by virtue of this Act, over and in respect of the land so purchased, as if the same were the land described in the said plans so deposited as aforesaid; and also over and in respect of the railways, jetty, wharf, rolling-stock, plant, and other real and personal estate so purchased, with full power, if he shall think fit, to alter the gauge of the railways already constructed on the land so to be purchased to the gauge of three feet six inches, or to maintain the same with the same gauge as at present: Provided, lastly, that nothing in this clause contained shall be construed to affect the powers by this Act conferred upon the Commissioner for making and maintaining the Railway by this Act authorized to be made according to the said plans.

rates.

15. The Railway by this Act authorized to be constructed, and Exemption from the Railway hereby authorized to be purchased, after such purchase, shall be, and are hereby declared to be, exempt from all rates and taxes whatsoever, whether local or general.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill.

WM F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

B

Adelaide: By authority, W. C. Cox, Government Printer, North-terrace.

An Act to provide Funds to the amount of One Million Thirty-six Thousand Six Hundred Pounds for various Public Works, and for other purposes.

[Assented to, 21st December, 1877.]

WHEREAS it is nec var
HEREAS it is necessary to provide funds by loan for various Preamble.
public purposes- -Be it Enacted by the Governor of the
Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the Province of South
Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. It shall be lawful for the Treasurer for the time being of the Form of bond. said Province, from time to time, to issue and sell bonds for a sum not exceeding in the whole One Million Thirty-six Thousand Six Hundred Pounds for such amounts as he may deem expedient, and such bonds shall be in the form following, that is to say

I, the Treasurer of the Province of South Australia,
in consideration of the sum of

Pounds, paid to me for public purposes, do hereby
bind myself to pay to the holder for the time being
of this present obligation the sum of

Pounds

Interest at four per cent.

When payable.

Application of

moneys.

Salaries to be sub

The Public Purposes Loan Act.-1877.

Pounds, and interest thereon at the rate of Four
Pounds per cent. per annum; such interest to be
payable on the first day of January and the first day of
July in every year, and the principal to be paid on
the first day of
in the year

one thousand nine hundred and
Sealed with my seal. Dated the

one thousand eight hundred and
Signed, sealed, and delivered in

the presence of

in}

(Bond transferable by delivery).

day of

And the principal and interest shall be payable at the Treasury, in Adelaide, or in London, at the office of the South Australian Government-the place of payment being declared at time of such sale and duly notified on the bonds.

2. The said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of Four Pounds per centum per annum; and the interest and principal upon such bonds shall be paid to the holder thereof at such place and at such time as may be specified or provided therein: Provided that the principal shall not be payable or paid before the expiration of thirty years, and the time appointed for payment thereof shall not extend beyond fifty years from the time of the issue of the said bonds.

3. All sums of money raised and received by the Treasurer upon the securities of the said bonds shall be carried by him to separate and distinct accounts, and shall be applied to the several purposes set forth in the Schedule hereto, and to the extent therein set forth; and shall be so applied by the Treasurer in such amounts and manner as the Governor, by any warrant under his hand, countersigned by the Chief Secretary, may from time to time authorize and direct.

4. The Treasurer shall, and he is hereby required, in each and every half-year from the first raising of any sums of money under authority hereof, until the whole amount so raised, and all interest thereon, shall have been duly paid, to set apart such sum as shall suffice to pay the amount of bonds redeemable during the ensuing half-year, together with interest upon all bonds which shall then bear interest; and shall apply such sum in payment of such bonds and interest aforesaid, in manner specified in such bonds.

5. So much of the moneys raised under this Act, as may be mitted to Parliament. required for salaries of officers for the said Public Works hereby authorized to be constructed, shall be annually submitted to Parliament.

Advances.

6. The Governor may from time to time, by warrant under his hand, countersigned by the Chief Secretary, authorize the Treasurer

to