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In the Department, Lunatic Asylum, it has been found necessary, in consequence of the increased number of patients, to provide extra attendance, which has resulted in an excess of £21 3s. 2d. The special authority of the Superintendent has been obtained for this payment. The only other departure from the Vote is in the item Medical Comforts, amounting to £65 13s. 10d.; but for the June liability this Vote would have been within its limit.
Under General Miscellaneous, there is but little to comment upon. To the item Postage, Cartage, &c., has been charged the cost of Telegraphic Messages, which are now considerable, and stamps required under the new Act, showing an excess upon the vote of £97 2s. 9d. The item £63 10s. under the Diseased Cattle Act is only a cross entry—the Inspector is entitled to and receives the fees which he is required to pay into the Treasury, and they are subsequently refunded. The next items, salary paid to Chaplain to the Gaol, and the Steam Bonus, are both apparent excesses occasioned by the importation of the June liability. There is a sum of £50 paid in excess of the Vote on account of Pastoral Associations. The next item is the excess of Expenditure over Vote for the Expenses attending the Governor’s Reception; the amount voted was £800, but £1381 3s. 7d. has been expended, and there are outstanding liabilities to be provided for. These accounts are distinct from those of the West Coast. The license fee paid by a publican at the Otira Gorge has been remitted and refunded by special authority; and lastly, the sum of £387 16s. 10d. had to be paid without Vote on account of the Canterbury Bond Stamps.
The total amount of Unvoted Expenditure under Schedule A amounts to £3580 15s. 8d., and for all of which I have annexed his Honor’s special authority.
In Schedule B., the Department of Land and Works, the first item in excess of the Vote is one of £15 13s. for the service of Pre-emptive Right Notices, and £12 0s. 6d. in the Survey Department, under Contingencies. This has been caused by the payment in July of an account for £209 forwarded from England, and for which no provision had been made in the Appropriation Act. In the Geological Department, the Salary voted was for nine months from the 1st of July; the excess is therefore caused by the payment in July of the June liability. The Contingency Vote is exceeded by £173 1s. 10d. In the Telegraph Department an additional lineman was authorised, and that has occasioned the increase on the Vote to the extent of £48 1s. 2d. The Vote for the Maintenance of the Line, at the suggestion of Mr. Bird, has been divided equally between the East and West Coast—an injury to one portion of the line necessarily affecting the whole. The Vote when so divided shows an excess on each side of £28 13s. 2d.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1867, No 35
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Auditor's Report for Quarters Ending Sept. 30, Dec. 31, 1866, and March 31, 1867
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💰 Finance & Revenue11 June 1867
Financial statements, Receipts, Disbursements, Comparative statement, Provincial Council, Unvoted Expenditure, Medical Comforts, Postage, Diseased Cattle Act, Pastoral Associations, Governor’s Reception, Canterbury Bond Stamps