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RevLTes a tlft e p ral G ° Vernment ri re out of the Genera the oth^sSi^^ss: or z r enues coiiec^ would be payable into each Provincial Treasury would be Xm-ndcnt not on the amount issued out of the General Chest in each Province but on the amount of revenue collected in each Province respectively. Reverting again to the period included between the Ist Januarv and flip '!Ol> S^knd'thTfjr^h 8 °' S6Veral accountants amounted to lbs. Jd., and the total disbursements to £155,486 Os 4tl -inpluMv. f a sum of .7,000, which had been paid in deposit into the Chelt £ Auckland on account of the New Zealand Company's « Fourths." The balance. hand ° n the of September, 1853, including the above deposit of £17 000 amounted to £39,440 ,7s ,od. ; but this, like thf balance in Zd on th 7s t 0 f January preceding mcluded large sums of money held in deposit on account of the New Zealand Company s « Fourths," Intestate Estates, &c., amounting altogether to the sum of £20.820 19s. lid. The sum, therefore, in the General 1 reasury actually available for d.stribution on the 30th of September 1853 wis only £ 8.619 17s, 11 d. This surplus, when added to the advances issued to the Provincial Ireasunes on account of the anticipated surplus Revenues make the total surplus £24,392 7s. lid. which might be distributed among the several 1 rovmces without reference to the sources from which it arose—or it might more properly be separated into two portions,-the one being the surplus arising from the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown, and the other that which remains irom the ordinary Revenues. Land Fund Surplus. Adopting the latter mode of distribution, it is found in respect of the Land 1 und that the territorial Revenue raised in New Zealand during the nine months ending 30th oi September, 1853, was as follows T . £ s. d. In the Province of Auckland.. .. 25,917 010 New Plymouth .. 847 0 0 Wellington .. .5,530 0 0 Nelson 6,520 3 0 Canterbury .. 1,251 5 2 Otago .. 1,082 13 6 Amountingaltogether to .. .. 41,148 2 6 Deducting the charges fixed by the Constitution Act, namely— £ s. d. 1. Surveys and Management of the Crown Lands 7,239 14 8 2. LanJ Purchases from the Aborigines... 10,100 12 1 3. New Zealand Company's Fourths ... 9,806 8 1 4. Amount required to defray the expenses of the services and purposes mentioned in the schedule of the Constitution Act, unprovided for by the local appropriation ordinances .. .. 3,487 10 0 There remains a surplus unappropriated of £10,513 17s. Bd. It has however, been contended with respect to the 2nd and 4th of the above charges that the Government has issued regulations by which the whole net Land Revenues of each Province, after deducting the New Zealand Company's " Fourths;" were subject to no general charge, and were payable finally into the Treasury of the Province in which the same were raised without any

Vide "Services in General." No. 1.

Vide General Cash Balance. No. 2. Vide General Cash Balance. No. 2. Vide Surplus Revenue account. No. 3.

Vide Land Fund account. No. 4.

Vide Land Fund account. No. 4.

Vide correspondence with the Superintendent of Canterbury, herewith.