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348 Acts to be levied in like manner as the assessment for the relief of the poor, and all classifications other than certified classifications and all established usages under the provisions of section thirty-five of the, shall have no force or effect.

Provided that, notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, a parish council shall have power (1) to alter any classification so far as necessary to enable it to become a certified classification, or (2) to abandon any certified classification.

6. In the case of any holding in a crofting parish, the Crofters Commission in fixing a fair rent for such holding shall not be entitled to take into account the relief effected by this Act from a proportion of the consolidated rate, poor rate, and other rates before mentioned.

7. This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Rates, Congested Districts, and Burgh Land Tax Belief (Scotland) Act, 1896.

8. This Act shall continue in force for five years after the thirty-first day of March next after the passing thereof, and no longer, unless continued by Parliament.

 

An Act to make provision for the Construction of a Railway in Africa, from Mombasa to the Victoria Nyanza, through the Protectorates of Zanzibar, British East Africa, and Uganda. {{right|{{larger|[14th August 1896.]}}

{{di|W}}HEREAS it is expedient to provide for the construction of a railway (in this Act called the Uganda Railway) from Mombasa on the east coast of Africa to the Victoria Nyanza through the protectorates of Zanzibar, British East Africa, and Uganda, at an estimated cost, exclusive of the expenditure authorised by the {{Short-title|s=Appropriation Act|y=1895 (s. 2)|c=Appropriation Act, 1895, session two,}} of three million pounds:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

{{L sidenote|Issue of money out of Consolidated Fond for purposes of Act}}1.—(1.) The Treasury shall issue out of the Consolidated Fund or the growing produce thereof such sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of three million pounds as may be required by a Secretary of State for defraying the costs of the construction of the Uganda Railway, whether incurred before or after the passings of this Act. (2.) Before any money is issued under this section, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Treasury an estimate, with such details as may be required by them, of the expenditure and period for and within which it is proposed to expend that money.

{{L sidenote|Borrowing for purposes of Act and accounts and audit }} 2.—(1.) The Treasury may, if they think fit, at any time for the purpose of providing money for the issue of sums out of the  {{sidenotes end}}