Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette – 1873 – No. 42

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✨ Road Board Grant Regulations

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sum claimed is within the amount available for the district, will countersign the Treasurer’s cheque, and return it to that officer for transmission to the Chairman who made the requisition.

The Chairman of every Road or District Board will forward to the Provincial Treasurer a receipt for all monies remitted to him, undertaking in such receipt to render to the Superintendent true and satisfactory accounts, and vouchers for his expenditure of such sums.

The accounts of each Board are to be made up to the 31st of March, the 30th of June, and so long as any balance remains in hand, at the end of every subsequent quarter respectively. Such account to be signed by the Chairman and one other member of the Board, and, with proper vouchers, forwarded forthwith to the Superintendent, who will send it to the Provincial Auditor for examination and report, and on receipt of such report will forward it with the relative accounts to the Colonial Secretary.

When out of the portion of the grant allotted to any Province, a contribution is, under the proviso to section 11 of the said Act, to be expended in an outlying district in such Province in which no Road Board is constituted, the expenditure of such contribution shall be subject to the following regulations:—It shall be paid over to a body of persons residing in the district, appointed by the Superintendent with the advice of his Executive Council, to receive and disburse the same, and shall be given solely for the construction of such new roads, bridges, or other works as shall have received the approval of the Superintendent and his Executive; it shall in no case exceed twice the amount actually subscribed and paid up by the inhabitants of such district towards the cost of such roads, &c. Accounts of the expenditure of such money shall be kept, furnished, and audited, in the same manner as prescribed with regard to Road Boards.

The Colonial Government, or the Provincial Government of any Province, shall have the right, by any officer or officers appointed by such Government for the purpose, to require at any time or times, and as often as shall be deemed necessary, the production for examination of all or any books, accounts, or other documents relating to the expenditure of such grants; and of disallowing all or any part of such expenditure as shall be found not to be properly supported by vouchers, or not in accordance with the conditions on which the grant shall have been made.

J. D. ORMOND.
Superintendent.

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