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Expenditure. Cash. 2|-per-oent. r Consols. £ s. d. £ s. d. Salaries and wages .. .. .. .. .. 10,843 11 3 Stationery and printing .. .. .. .. ■.. - 162 4 2 Bulletin .. .. .. .. .. .. 334 10 3 Postages, telegrams, and incidental expenses . . .. .. 174 16 8 Repairs and alterations .. . . . . .. . . 182 3 4 Insurance (fire and staff) .. .. .. .. .. 22 17 2 Electric light, water, and gas .. .. .. .. 233 17 5 Fellows' room, library, and lavatories .. .. .. 83 16 2 General expenses .. .. .. .. .. .. 115 11 4 Audit of accounts .. .. .. .. .. 50 0 0 Collections .. .. .. .. .. .. 156 4 9 Apparatus, materials, &c. .. .. .. .. .. 306 11 6 Sinking fund .. .. .. .. .. .. 400 0 0 Salaries and incidental expenses (cotton grant) . . .. 500 14 10 Total expenditure .. .. .. .. 13,566 18 10 Balance on 31st March, 1911 .. .. .. .. 3,988 19 0 2,222 13 5 Statement of Cash Balance on 31st March, 1911. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ a. d. Paymaster-General .. 947 3 4 Less outstanding orders 859 4 9 87 18 7 Debits and credits subsequent to 31st March, 1911— Assets .. .. 5,153 4 3 Liabilities .. 1,297 17 2 3,855 7 1 Stores on hand .. .. 228 12 0 4,171 17 8 Less sundry creditors as per Colonial Office Account for March, 1911 .. .. 182 18 8 Total .. .. .. ..3,988 19 0 17,555 17 10 2,222 13 5

In addition to the investments shown opposite, the sum of £2,222 13s. 5d., 2§-per-cent. Consols, stood to the credit of the fund at 31st March, 1911, as an investment of surplus income. Colonial Office, 27th November, 1911. G. V. Ftddes, Accounting Officer. Imperial Institute Fund. — Statement of Investments at 31st March, 1911. Endowment Fund. £ a. d. £ s. d. 43,399 15 0 2J-per-cent. Consols .. .. .. at cost 44,073 8 4 35,000 0 0 India 3|-per-cent. stock .. .. „ 35,800 0 0 36,611 6 1 India 3-pei-cent. stock .. .. „ 33,792 10 6 509 10 10 New South Wales 3|-per-cent. stock .. „ 528 15 11 North gallery, annuity of £864 for thirty-nine years 26,401 17 0 £140,596 11 9 3,942 5 8 India 3-per-cent. stock, in respect of the sinking fund to redeem the above-mentioned annuity at 31st December, 1941 .. ..at cost £3,58111 0 Gbo. S. Fey, Accountant-General. Finance Department, Board of Trade, 12th April, 1911. Exchequer and Audit Department, Victoria Embankment, London E.C. I hereby certify that the statement of the account of the Imperial Institute as rendered by Sir G. V. Fiddes, K.C.M.G., C.8., Accounting Officer to the Colonial Office, from the Ist April, 1910, to the 31st March, 1911, has been signed and passed by me under the 36th section of the Act 29 & 30 Victoria, cap. 39 ; and that the charge and discharge on the said account are as follows : Charge, £17,555 17s. 10d. ; discharge, £13,566 18s. 10d. : and that on the said account the Accounting Officer is indebted in the sum of £3,988 19s. Given under my hand, this 7th day of February, 1912. H. J. Gibson, Comptroller and Auditor-General.