Gort Warr Ay Act to enable the Borough of Goulburn to reeover certain rates and charges due in respect of Water supplied to Ratepayers within the Municipality of Goulburn. [3Ls¢ Sepeny CLARO ES. Preamble. Short title, July, 1880. | \ JIEREAS in consequence of the by-laws which regulate the charges for water supply in the" Municipal having heen 'Tramed partly under section one hundred and sixty-six of the " Municipalities Act of 1877" (now repealed) and partly under the provisions of the ' Country 'Towns Water and Sewerage Acts of 1880, doubts have been expressed as to the power of the said Borough to yable under the said by-laws. And whereas the construction and completion of the works in conneetion with the said water supply for the city of Goulburn recover certain rates and charges which are due and pa entailed a large expenditure of money advanced by t of New South W. ales, and the said Borough is liable to pay to the ty of "Goulbur n " ie Government, Crown certain annual sums of money for interest upon the moneys so advanced as aforesaid. And whereas it is desirable that such doubts should be removed and that the said Borough should rave full power to recover all rates and charges made payable by the said by-laws. 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 assemb authority of the same, as follows :— 1. This Act may be cited as the "Goulburn Charces Act of 1890." ed, and by the Water Supply 1890. od? VIC, Toronto Tramoas y Act Amendment. 2. "From and after the passing of this Act, notwithstanding ¢ any alleged defect or informality in by-law number one hundred and forty - three of the Borough of Goulburn or any of the subsections of such by-law, it shall be lawful for the said Borough i in respect of the period intervening between the first January, one thousand cight hundred and cighty- cight, and thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, to procced for the recovery of all such rates and charges as are made payable by the said recited by-law in the manner provided in sections sixty and sixty-one in the « Country Towns Water and Sewerage Act of 1880," or otherwise as directed by the said Act, and the said Borough shall, as regards the rates as aforesaid, have all the rights and remedies in respect of rates and charges for water supply given by the said Act in the same manner that they would have had if the said recited by-law were in entire accordance with the provisions of the said Act. Provided always that the said Borough shall in no case be entitled to recover more than a sum that would equal live per centim per annum on the assessed value of the premises in respect of which such water rate is payable or sought to be recovered. Torough of Goulburn may recover water rates.