MARLBOROUGH PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 207, 11 December 1869, Page 5

MARLBOROUGH PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

A statement of the Public*. Accounts of the Colony for the year ending 30th June last has just been published, from which we abstract the following (omitting fractions) with reference to Marlborough: CONSOLIDATED FOND. Receipts : Customs Duties, 4,664/; Rents, Seizures, &c., 8/; Bonded Warehouse Duties, 2 51 ; Stamp Duties, 510/; Postal, 721/; Telegraphic, 621/; Supreme Court, 71/; Sheriff’s Offices, 22/; District Courts, 4/; Resident Magistrate’s Court, 465/; Petty Sessions do., 12/; Fees on Crown Grants, 70/; Registration of Deeds, 490/; ditto Births, &c,, 64/; Fees under Arms Act, 45/; ditto Merchant Shipping ditto, 55.; ditto Marine Act, 51/; ditto Oyster Fisheries Act, 2/; ditto Distillation Act, 13/; Incidental, 7s. ; Total, 7,866/ ss. Bd. Expenditure : Provincial Audit, 50/ ; Treasury, 30/ ; District Registrar, 61/ ; Stamp Office, 25/; Electoral, 79/ ; Supreme Court and Sheriff’s Offices, 81/; Resident Magistrates and Petty Sessions Courts, 666/; Criminal Prosecution and Coroners, 45/; Registry of Lands and Deeds, 379/; Postal, 1,515/; Telegraph, 1,807/; Customs, 719/; Militia and Volunteers, 9/; Refunds of Revenue, 4/; Total, 5477/ 7s. 4d. Payment to Provincial Account, 88/ 13s. 4d. As the total Expenditure was in excess of the Provincial half of the Consolidated Fund, 1,619/ 3s, lid. was deducted from the Land Fund to make up the difference ; or for the information of the uninitiated we may explain it thus : —The General Government departments in this Province cost, notwithstanding all the efforts of our representatives in the Assembly, 5,477/; while the income, resulting mainly from Customs Duties, was only 3,933/, in consequence of the bulk of those being paid in other Provinces, consequently there was a lo s of 1,619/, which had to be made good out of our Land Fund, which is thus devoted to official purposes instead of being, as it ought to be, expended on Roads and Bridges, LAND FUND. The Land Revenue for the same period consisted of—Land Sales, 1,208/; Depasturing Licenses and Assessments, 3,320/; Miscellaneous, 1,668/; Gold Duty, 31/; Total, 6,222/ 7s. lOd. The Expenditure comprised the Salary of the Receiver, 54/; Interest and Sinking Fund, 301/; Paymaster General for credit of separate account, 19/; Refunds of Revenue, 296/; Transfer to Consolidated Fund as explained above, 1,619/; Payment to Provincial Account for the maintenance of the whole of our Provincial Departments 4,543/ only, making a total of 6,835/ Is. Bd., and leaving a credit balance hr our favor of 250/ on June 30th.