THE PROVINCIAL ACCOUNT.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 224, 20 June 1873, Page 3

THE PROVINCIAL ACCOUNT.

The general balance-sheet for the financial year ended March 31 has been published. At the end of the last financial year there was a balance against the Province of £44,658 10s ; this year there is a credit balance of £13,149 7s 2d. The Provincial revenue for the year . was £308,067 17s Id; and there was received from the General Government during that period, £5,000 ; under the North Otago District Loan Apt, £6,611 14s 6d; under the Public Works Act, and on account of Road Boards, £21,874 13s 9d, making a total revenue from all sources of £341,554 5s 4d. The overdraft of £44,658 was liquidated ; the general expenditure amounted to £269,300 13s lOd, £4,225 being under the North Otago Loan Act, thus leaving a balance of £27,595 Is 6d, of which £744 lis Id is voted for expenditure under, the North Otago Loan Act, £l6O under the Public Works Act, and £13,54012s 5d on account of the Road Boards, so that the actual balance in favor of the Province is £13,149 7s 2d, as before stated. The receipts, actual and estimated, are stated as follows —shillings and pence being omitted : Actual. Estimated £ £ £ Crown Lands - 151,932 Assessment on Stock - 43,462 Eent of Endowni ent Reserves (Benevolent Institutions) - 1,802 Rent of Endowment Beserves (Hospitals) - - 3,133 Rent of Endowin e n't Reserves (Clutha RiverTrust) - , - 518 Assessment on Stock; Southland - - 7,670 Hundreds As- .. sessment - 1,202 Crown LandsDeposit Ac- . count - . 328 — 210,050 127,000 Gold ExportDuty - - 20,431 22,000 Gold Fields Revenue - . - 18,716 21,000 Harbor Pilotage- 2,751 2,500 Jetty Dues • 3,420 3,000 Dog and GoatTax - - 2,712 2,00 C Sale of Government Buildings & Land - 2,929 10,000 ; General Government—<Under Payment- . to Provinces Actlß7l-2- 6,070 Refund Road Boards - - 2,263 Public Works - 6,451 North Otago District Loan Act, 1872 - 5,000 Governor's Residence, Fern Hill - - 2,000 Under Public Works Account- - 160 Under Road Boards Account - - 13,540 ' —— 35,486 23,060 Repayments - 2,046 '2,300 Education- - 12,668 12,500 Licenses - - 7,575 16,000 Tolls on Roads - 12,895 12,500 Miscellaneous - 1,283 6 000 Railways', Southland' - - 8,585 8,000 £341,554 £267,800 —'Star.'