§ (1) All receipts of the council of a rural district, whether in respect of general or special expenses, shall be carried to the general rate fund of the district, and all liabilities falling to be discharged by the council, whether in respect of general or special expenses, shall be discharged out of that fund.
§ (2) Separate accounts shall he kept of receipts carried to, and payments made out of, the general rate fund of the district—
§ (a) in respect of general expenses;
§ (b) in respect of each class of special expenses, except that where, as respects 815 any two or more classes of special expenses, the part of the district chargeable is the same, one separate account may be kept as respects all expenses of both or all those classes;
§ and the account kept in respect of general expenses shall be called the general district account and an account kept in respect of any class of special expenses shall be called a special district account.—[Sir H. Young.]
§ Brought up, and read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.