Whereas by an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the 15th and 16th year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand” it is enacted that there shall be payable to Her Majesty every year out of the Revenue arising from Taxes Duties Rates and Imposts and from the disposal of Waste Lands of the Crown in New Zealand the several items mentioned in the Schedule to the said Act annexed And Whereas it is by the said Act further enacted that it shall be lawful for the General Assembly of New Zealand by any Act or Acts to alter all or any of the said sums mentioned in the said Schedule subject nevertheless to the provisions in reference thereto in the said Act contained And whereas by “The Civil List Act 1858” it was enacted that there should be payable to Her Majesty every year out of the Revenue arising from Taxes Duties Rates and Imposts collected under any Act or Acts of the General Assembly the several Sums mentioned in the Schedule thereto instead of the several Sums mentioned in the Schedule to the said recited Act of the Imperial Parliament And whereas it is expedient that the Sums mentioned in the Schedule to the last recited Act should be altered as hereafter mentioned