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CONSOLIDATED FUND for the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1883. LOCAL BODIES.

ACCOUNTS.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1882-83.

EXPENDITURE. £ s. d. & a. d. £ s. d. Revenue paid over to Local Bodies, — Fees, Fines, &c. .. Revenue from Lands made over Gold Fields Revenue Gold Duty 5,836 13 1 904 8 6 25,512 14 7 25,847 13 11 58,101 10 1 Counties Separate Accounts, — Amount distributed amongst Road Boards where " The Counties Act, 1876," is not in full operation 998 12 4 Balance on 31st March, 1888,— Cash in the Public Account Advances in the hands of Officers of the Government, — Colonial 59,100 2 5 5,092 9 1 45 14 6 5,138 3 7 Total .. £64,238 6 0

Withdrawals, — Armed Constabulary Eeward Fund Canterbury Surplus Land Revenue General Assembly Library Fund Miscellaneous Nelson Rifle Prize Fund Nelson Rifle Prize Fund Investment North Otago District Public Works Loan Act Thames Gold Field, European Account Thermal Springs Districts Act, 1881 Waitara Harbour Board Sinking Fund Westland Loan Act Redemption Working Railways Deposits 238 12 6 5,742 6 3 135 0 0 61,825 4 6 195 0 0 800 0 0 5,213 3 9 863 19 2 97 10 0 41 3 1 138 2 6 943 9 8 Balance on 31st March, 1883 — Cash in the Public Account Advances in the hands of Officers of the Government, — Colonial Foreign 76,233 11 5 37,220 17 2 1,400 0 0 20,365 19 0 21,765 19 0 58,992 16 2 Total .. £135,226 7 7