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CONSOLIDATED FUND for the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1886. ACCOUNT.

LOCAL BODIES.

ACCOUNTS.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1885-86.

EXPENDITURE. £ s. a. £ s. a. £ s. a. Annual Appropriations, — Class XV. —Minister of Lands 1,012 7 4 Balance on 31st March, 1886,— Cash in the Public Account Advances in the hands of Officers of the Government, — In the Colony 379 0 1 487 12 8 108 6 7 Total £1,500 0 0

Revenue paid over to Local Bodies, — Fees, Fines, &c. Endowments of Land, &c. Goldfields Revenue Gold Duty .. 2,376 17 0 6,543 12 6 17,840 17 1 21,976 9 8 Counties Separate Accounts, —■ Amount distributed amongst Road Boards where " The Counties Act, 1876," is not in full operation 48,737 16 3 188 11 7 Balance on 31st March, 1886, — Cash in the Public Account Advances in the hands of Officers of the Government, — In the Colony 48,926 7 10 7,357 18 2 9 4 3 7,307 2 5 Total £56,293 10 3

Withdrawals, — Armed Constabulary Reward Fund Auckland Museum Endowment Consolidated Stock Act, 1884, Conversion General Assembly Library Fund Miscellaneous Native Land Act, 1878 (No. 2) .. Nelson Rifle Prize Fund New Zealand University Endowment, Auckland Thames Goldfields, European Thames Goldfields, Suspense Thermal-Springs Districts Act, 1881 Trustee Act, 1883 Westland Loan Act, 1873, Redemption 168 17 3 104 18 9 3,000 0 0 130 0 0 49,688 2 6 135 0 0 136 0 0 605 0 0 2 18 0 254 0 8 1,478 4 4 548 16 8 6 0 0 Balance on 31st March, 1886, — Cash in the Public Account Advances in the hands of Officers of the Government, — In the Colony In London 56,257 18 2 41,965 6 2 100 0 0 10,022 15 5 16,122 15 5 58,088 1 7 Total £114,345 19 9