DRAFT CONSTITUTION 777
248-A. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Chapter with respect to the assignment of the whole or part of the net proceeds of certain taxes Consolidated Fund. and duties to States, all revenues or public moneys raised or received by the Government of India shall form one Consolidated Fund to be entitled “the Consolidated Fund of India”, and all revenues or public moneys raised or received by the Government of a State shall form one Consolidated Fund to be entitled “the Consolidated Fund of the State.”
(2) No moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of India or of a State shall be appropriated except in accordance with law and for the purposes and in the manner provided in this Constitution.”
These amendments are only consequential to what we have already accepted previously.
[The Article as amended by the above amendment was adopted and added to the Constitution.]
ARTICLE 249
*Mr. President : Any one else who wishes to speak ? (No Member rose.)
Dr. Ambedkar, do you wish to say anything ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bombay : General) : There is nothing to be said.
Mr. President : I shall now put the amendments to vote.
The question is :
“That in clause (2) of article 249, the words ‘in that year’ be deleted.”
The amendment was adopted.
Mr. President : The question is :
“That in clause (1) of article 249, after the words ‘such stamp duties’ the words ‘as are imposed under any law made by Parliament’ be inserted.”
The amendment was adopted.
Mr. President : The question is :
“That in clause (2) of article 249, for the words ‘revenues of India’ the words ‘Consolidated Fund of India’ be substituted.”
The amendment was adopted.
Mr. President : The question is :
“That article 249, as amended, stand part of the Constitution.”
The motion was adopted.
(Article 249 as amended, was added to the Constitution.)
ARTICLE 250
†Mr. President : The motion is :
“That article 250, form part of the Constitution.”
(Amendments Nos. 2842 to 2850 were not moved.)
Shri R. K. Sidhva (C. P. & Berar: General) : Mr. President, I move :
“That at the end of article 250, the following be added :
“The net proceeds of said distribution shall be assigned by the States to the local authorities in the jurisdiction’.”
- CAD, Vol. IX, dated 4th August 1949, p. 208.
† Ibid., p. 209.