THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, MAY 13, 1878.
Thk Lake County Council some time aeo decided to offer ft reward for the discovery "of a new goidfjeld withm ib bouudaries but before doing so obtained the legalopiriion of ' Mr Macoaaev flfl to tW power 1 of tho pouncil to aeVote revenue to imch a purpose. 'I he opinion was' adverse" H Wo ' proposal was therefore abandoned.. As Mr Macaa* Bey's 'opinion' raky bjv wgHrf na of flbmo considerable weight, wo give the substance of ie below.— " I airi of opinion 1 that a County Council has no power to appropriate any' portion of it's funds' to the object of prospecting' for gold or offering towards for find* of flame. The revenues derived in the goldfjel'da are under the Financial' 'Arraffgera'onV Act, 187.6., and the proportion therein declared available for the purposes of County Coun-j oils" with the gbW^elds districts. Tho Council of tho can, however^ only apply tftem according to law, and aa it Mie you'ncM is i creation of defining ita powers ' must' be closely construed. Now tho pressing purposed 'to which \ the rovehucß of tho uouno'ilaro tefbe applied, afo the execution and maintenance of public tooirka and improvements within the" dialrict. Special provisions contained 'in aoctions aricUftl of tho Act enable" the' Council to maintain : ' or ' aasisfc in the main" teha'nee of' chnritablo institutions or public libraries,' and this" spofcial pro* vision'implies that, 1 but 1 for the express aanctioh given by the' legislature, the Council' could' not expend the County funds on such 'objects 'T- fyi l t0 e » upon roadihg tlvo statute; that tho Council' would be justified in promoting by the expenditure 'of the funds at i'fcfl command', the" development" of ''mining interest any more than it could endow or protect hny manufacture or'urider- : taking' within', tlio' district/ _ Such on expenditure- woufel, in' my opinion, bo for a privato purpose 'ana not a public ..work or improvement." ' '
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Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 39, 13 May 1878, Page 2
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323THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, MAY 13, 1878. Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 39, 13 May 1878, Page 2
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