8.-l.

LAND FUND for the FINANCIAL YEAR 1876-77— continued.

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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1876-77.

DISBURSEMENTS. s. d. £ s. d. s. d. Brought forward ... £35,821 7 6 168,825 8 8 161,754 13 0 NEW ACCOVST—continued. Beovincial Districts Accounts— continued. Miscellaneous — continued. Wellington Batent Slip Guarantee ... £2,450 0 0 Bensions ... ... ... ... 271 13 4 Grants in aid of Higher Educational Institutions 2,656 0 0 Native Claims and Awards ... ... 92 2 10 Compensation for destruction of Scabby Sheep 524 10 3 41,815 13 11 Under "Financial Arrangements Act, 1876," section 35 Services not provided for ... Refunds of Revenue Batea Harbour Board Canterbury College Reserves Trust Account ... Ellesmere and Forsyth Reclamation and Akaroa Railway Trust Account 210,641 2 7 932 4 8 88 II 5 4 15 0 1,583" 8 9 380 0 0 Temporary Advances from Consolidated Fund repaid ... Transfers to Surplus Land Revcnuo Account ... 1,312 0 0 3,275 8 9 74,239 16 8 254,757 0 0 Native Land Court Account, — Salaries and Contingencies... Temporary Advances from Consolidated Fund repaid ... 705,693 12 1 4,212 0 7 4,500 0 0 8,712 0 7 Surveyor-General's Office,— Salaries and Contingencies... In part repayment of Temporary Advance from Consolidated Fund 2,940 7 2 3,794 0 3 6,734 7 5 Surplus Land Revenue Account, — Canterbury, — Bayments to County Fund Accounts Transfers, — To Consolidated Fund in repayment of expenses incurred under section 53, " Counties Act, 1876 " To Counties Separate Account for distribution amongst Road Districts, under section 31, "Financial Arrangements Act, 1876" 375 2 11 32,961 0 0 221,420 17 1 221,796 0 0 Total Disbursements ... 254,757 0 0 975,897 0 1 ... Balance on 30th June, 1877, — Cash in the Bublic Account Advances to be accounted for, — Colonial Foreign 5,810 6 4 1,177 4 0 108,658 17 5 6,987 10 4 Total New Account 115,646 7 9 * 1,091,543 7 10