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I HEREBY certify that the foregoing is a correct statement of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Public Revenue of the Province of Hawke’s Bay for the Period from the first October to the thirty-first December, 1862; and that the following are the amounts spent up to the latter date without authority of the Appropriation Act, viz.:—

1. Sums spent in excess of Votes—
   Clive Ferry Punt ... £ 8 6 11
   Immigration ... 48 0 0
   Government Offices (furnishings, firewood, &c.) ... 11 16 0
   Harbor improvements ... 518 10 3
   Napier Gaol ... 26 4 3
   Shakespeare-road ... 18 2 1
   Waghorn-street ... 25 18 2
   Observatory ... 64 7 5
   Lock-up, Clive ... 17 10 0
   Public Wells ... 1 10 0
   Meanee Bridge ... 1 0 5
   Taupo Road ... 43 16 7
   Poraiti Road ... 23 8 0
   Engineer Steam Dredge ... 36 0 0
   Approach to Hospital from Shakespeare-road ... 9 10 0
   Clive Ferry Road ... 36 6 0

   Total ... £885 6 1

2. Sums expended on Services for which no provision was made in Appropriation Act—
   Registration Officer ... £ 2 2 6
   Stone Wall round Government Buildings ... 31 5 0
   Gaol Messenger ... 5 16 8
   New Post Office ... 215 2 3
   Furniture for Waipawa Court House ... 41 0 0
   Meteorological Contingencies ... 17 5 0
   Shed for Fire Engine ... 6 17 6
   Travelling allowance Inspector of Schools ... 9 19 3
   Kaiwoa Bridle Track ... 2 0 0
   Auckland Mail Road ... 34 5 0
   Titiokura Road ... 20 0 0
   Refunds by the Wellington Provincial Government of deposits on Runs received by the Wellington Government before separation ... 616 19 1
   Educational Reserves ... 14 0 10

   Total ... £997 16 4

   Grand Total ... £1,883 2 5

G. E. G. RICHARDSON,
Provincial Auditor.
Napier, 16th February, 1863.

Superintendent’s Office,
Napier, Jan. 27, 1863.

THE following Tenders are published for general information.

TENDERS ACCEPTED.

Forming and metalling 13½ chains Te Aute road—
Mr. J. Livingstone, at £5 9s. per chain.

Metalling 40 chains Meanee road—
Mr. C. Sutton, at £3 19s. 10d.

Forming and metalling 16 chains Te Aute road—
Mr. J. Bowles, at £5 7s. 0d. per chain.

Forming and metalling 11 chains Te Aute road—
Mr. C. Corkery, at £5 7s. 0d. per chain.

Making 63 chains Mohaka Bridle Track—
Mr. J. Wishart, at 19s. 6d. per chain.

Making Bridge over Ponui Creek—
Mr. J. Wishart, £4 15s. 0d.

Making Bridge over Kato Maho Creek—
Mr. J. Wishart, £9 10s. 0d.

Making 20 chains Mohaka Bridle Track—
Mr. J. Wishart, at £1 12s. 6d. per chain.

Painting, &c., for Provincial Government—
Mr. G. Bryan, at the following rates:
Painting & stopping nail holes, 3 coats at per yard, 1s.
Ditto 2 coats (old work) at per yard, 9d.
Ditto 2 coats (new work) at per yard, 10d.
Calico and papering complete, at per yard, 1s. 4d.

Making 2 Bridges on Puketapu road—
Mr. J. Neville, £58 0s. 0d.

Erecting a Fire Engine House—
Mr. W. Miller, £39 10s. 0d.

TENDERS REJECTED.

Metalling 40 chains Meanee road—
Mr. James Boyle, at £4 7s. per chain.
Messrs. Maney & Eckholm, at £4 19s. 0d.

Forming and metalling 16 chains Te Aute road—
Messrs. Cheer & Brown, £22 0s. 0d.

Forming and metalling 11 chains Te Aute road—
Mr. C. Sutton, at £9 3s. 0d.

Painting, &c., for Provincial Government—
Mr. N. Williams, at per square yard, 1s. 4d.

Mr. T. B. Harding, as follows:
3 coats paint, per square yard, 1s. 4d.
Lining and papering do., 1s. 11d.

Erecting Fire Engine House—
Mr. R. Holt, £43 0s. 0d.
Mr. R. Goldfinch, £54 10s. 0d.