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CONSOLIDATED FUND for the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1884. LOCAL BODIES.

ACCOUNTS.

JAMES 0. GAVIN, Secretary to the Treasury. JAMES B. HEYWOOD, Accountant to the Treasury, Examined and found correct: JAMES EDWARD FITZGEBALD, Controller and Auditor-General.

EXPENDITURE. Eevenue paid over to Local Bodies, — Fees, Fines, &c. Gold Fields Eevenue Gold Duty .. Counties Separate Accounts,^ — Amount distributed amongst Road Boards where "The Counties Act, 1876," is not in full operation Advance Account, — Net amount paid on behalf of Local Bodies £ s. d. 3,582 7 2 28,938 11 7 23,601 14 0 £ s. d. 56,122 12 9 £ s. d. 541 18 5 156 4 0 Balance on 31st March, 1884, — Cash in the Public Account 56,820 15 2 4,604 9 11 Total £61,425 5 1

Withdrawals, —■ Armed Constabulary Reward Fund Canterbury Surplus Land Revenue Hawke's Bay Surplus Land Revenue General Assembly Library Fund Miscellaneous Native Lands Act, 1878 (No. 2) New Zealand University Endowment, Westland Nelson Rifle Prize Fund Railway Servants' Fund To Aroha Gold Fields, European Thames Gold Fields, European Thermal-Springs Districts Act., 1881 Waiau Sheep-dip Waikato Crown Lands Sales Act, 1878 .. ... Waitara Bridge Endowment Westland Loan Act Redemption Working Railways Deposits 247 18 7 6,239 0 7 85 12 3 85 0 0 71,517 1 4 150 0 0 3 7 6 138 0 0 585 19 10 14 19 0 572 2 6 1,726 17 6 144 4 8 363 6 3 11 10 0 218 0 4 2,415 9 10 Balance on 31st March, 1884, — Cash in the Public Account Advances in the hands of Officers of the Government, — In the Colony In London 84,518 10 2 54,575 4 9 500 0 0 19,095 8 0 19,595 8 0 74,170 12 9 Total £158,689 2 11