✨ Provincial Financial Statements
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Statements of Receipts and Expenditure for each quarter of the financial year, ending 30th June, 1866.
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Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for the twelve months ending 30th June, 1866.
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Comparative Statement, showing the sums voted for the service of the Provincial Government for the twelve months ending 30th June, 1866, the Expenditure on each Vote for the same period, the Balance (if any) unexpended of each Vote, and the sums paid on Accounts not specially provided for, or in excess of Specific Vote.
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Statement of the Funded Debt of the Province on 30th June, 1866.
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Tabular Statement shewing the amount passed Audit and forwarded to the Provincial Treasury, from 1st July to 30th September, 1866.
I purpose to particularise and comment upon such items of these Accounts as may appear of marked importance.
In the first place I have to draw your attention to the Unvoted Expenditure for the financial year, amounting, as per Comparative Statement (Appendix A), to £21,207 9 5
Next to the Expenditure in excess of the Appropriation Ordinance, 1866, shown in the Comparative Statement as follows :-
Ordinary Account ... ... ... £5943 10 6
Land and Works, General Account ... 9233 16 4
Railway and Harbour Works ... 5354 17 11
West Coast Gold-fields Account ... 94,928 1 1
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Lastly to the Accounts passed Audit from 1st July to 30th September, 1866, amounting, as per Tabular Statement, to 97,903 18 5
I have to report that the above amounts, making a total of £234,571 13 8 are Unauthorised Expenditure made without legal warrant, and require the express sanction of the Council.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1866, No 75
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