Blayney Municipal Council Enabling Act of 1890 54 Vic (NSW)

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ENABLING,

Preamble.

Power to recover " rates.

Interpretation.

Short title.

of VIC. 1890.

Blayney Municipal Council Enabling.

An Act to declare valid the assessment made

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the one

by the Blayney Municipal Council for the years 1883, 1884, 1835, 1886, 1887, 1888, and 1889, and to enable the said Council to

recover rates, and for other purposes. [10th December, 1890. |

HEREAS the Blayney Municipal Council, from various causes, omitted to comply with section one hundred and sixty-four of

" Municipalities Act of 1867," by not having, between the years thousand cight hundred and eighty-three and one thousand eight

hundred and cighty-nine inclusive, within three months of the election of Mayor, made, or caused to be made, an estimate of the probable amount which would be required for the then current year to carry on

the and

various works mentioned and set forth im the said one hundred sixty-fourth section of the said Act: And whereas doubts have

arisen as to the validity of the assessments made and rates demanded in accordance with such assessments: And upon certain actions being - brought to recover such rates the said Council was nonsuited: And whereas it is considered expedicnt to validate such assessment, and to enable the said Municipal Council to successfully prosecute, in any Court now having jurisdiction to try the same, any action for the recovery of rates duc to the said Council, and to empower the said Council to retain, for the uses of the said Council, any moneys paid

for

rates in respect of the assessment for the years aforesaid: Be it

therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and

with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative

Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—