B.—No. 15.

STATEMENT OF THE REVENUE COLLECTED AND AMOUNTS EXPENDED IN THE SEVERAL PROVINCES.

RETURN showing the Total Amount of CUSTOMS REVENUE and FEES and FINES paid into the Colonial Chest, from the several Provinces of the Colony and the County of Westland, for the Twelve Years preceding the 30th June last; also, the Amount expended within such Provinces and County during the same period in virtue of Votes of the House of Representatives, and the Amount returned to the Provincial Governments.

* This includes judicial fees and fines, registration fees, and fees on Crown Grants. t This is the total of the two preceding columns only. There was other revenues of the Provinces (viz , Postal Telegraph, and Miscellaneous receipts) which are not included in the terms of the order for this Return. J A sum of £4,520 17s. lid. was payable to Marlborough in respect of certain years during this period but the amounts due from the Province for other years not only absorbed this, but left a deficiency of £5,045 18s lid ' Mfeax |1 During the three last years (under the operation of the Public Revenues Act), the following sums have been deducted from the amounts that would otherwise have been returned to the Provinces, for interest and sinking fund payable by Province of Auckland £114,907 12 10 Taranaki 2^892 16 1 Wellington 17,138 16 5 Hawke's Bay 11,820 12 11 Nelson 7,858 15 10 Marlborough 18 0 6 Canterbury 67,019 8 11 County of Westland 24,988 8 9 Province of Otago 63,60112 11 Southland 42,199 2 9 Total £352,445 7 11 _ „ , „ J. WOODWAKD, Treasury, 6th September, 1870. Assistant Treasurer.

t Peovinob ob Courtly. Eeoeipts. Expenditure by virtue of Votes. Fees and Fines.* Total Receipts.f Amounts returned to Province. Customs Revenue. 'rovince of Auckland Taranaki Wellington ... Hawke's Bay (llf years) ... Nelson Marlborough (11 years) Canterbury !ounty of Westland (2| years) ... *rovince of Otago Southland (9i years) £ s. d. 1,463,001 18 7 109,238 7 3 723,887 4 10 185,399 9 6 506,465 16 7 49,605 12 11 1,229,643 19 3 227,953 9 1 1,933,863 1 7 290,835 14 6 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 87,125 17 11 1,550,128 16 6 331,239 19 1 9,116 6 4 118,354 13 7 32,936 4 2 38,125 15 2 762,013 0 0 169,286 2 2 11,209 6 0 196,608 15 6 51,995 3 5 39,872 1 10 546,337 18 5 105,659 0 2 8,544 2 2 58,149 15 1 43,421 17 2 101,472 17 10 1,331,116 17 1 296,029 4 11 13,696 7 11 241,649 17 0 43,444 18 2 117,533 4 6|2,051,396 6 1J 454,812 8 5 17,601 3 0 308,436 17 6 79,747 18 1 £ a. d. 439,556 10 11J 32,678 7 9£ 247,294 10 4 46,635 12 6 183,628 9 3 J... 380,019 9 4 67,613 9 6 662,510 16 3£ ' 81,280 7 4 Totals 6,719,895 14 1 444,297 2 8} 7,164,192 16 9| 1,608,572 15 9 12,141,217 13 3i