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PERMANENT CHARGES— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

1881-82. £ 8. d. Interest and Sinking Fund— continued. . Treasury Bills —continued. Treasury Bills Act, 1879— £ Interest @ 3fd. per cent, per diem on £800,000 442,000 1,242,000 56,000 0 0Treasury Bills Act, 1880— Interest @ 3fd. per cent, per diem on ... 326,100 *16,943 2 3 1,832,000 Deficiency Bills — — Interest at 5 per cent, (say) 5,000 0 0 Total Intebest and Sinking Fund 1,499,318 2 1 Under Special Acts of the Legislature. Pensions Act, 1856— "W". Swainson 400 0 0 Militia Act Amendment Act, 1860— Pensions and Allowances 700 0 0 Nixon Pension Act, 1865— Sisters of the late Colonel Nixon ... 150 0 0 Civil Service Act, 1866— Pensions and Gratuities 19,000 0 0 Military Pensions Act, 1866 — Pensions and Allowances 3,300 0 0 Legislative Officers' Salaries Act, 1867— Legislative Council — Speaker Chairman of Committees (also in Class I. £1) Clerk (also in Class I. £97 10s.) ... House of Representatives — Speaker (also in Class I. £200) ... Chairman of Committees (also in Class I. £100) Clerk (also in Class I. £100) Clerk-Assistant (also in Class I. £100) 600 0 0 300 0 0 400 0 0 600 0 0 400 0 0 600 0 0 400 0 0 * Includes interest from 1st November to 31st December, 1881, on Bill: ■ j.ued under " The Financial Arrangements ii et, 1876," maturing 1st Novembi " The Treasury Bills Act, 1880." i amounting to £23,900, ;r, 1881, renewable under