✨ Provincial Financial Returns
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, February 16, 1861.
His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased to direct the publication of the following Returns for general information.
By His Excellency's command,
Andrew Sinclair,
Colonial Secretary.
ABSTRACT OF THE REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE OF WELLINGTON, PROVINCE OF NEW MUNSTER, FOR THE QUARTER ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1860.
REVENUE.
Customs—
Spirits ..................... 1,284 0 4
Wine ....................... 18 10 0
Cigars and Snuff ........... 78 0 0
Tobacco, manufactured ...... 18 19 0
unmanufactured ............. 17 0 4
Ad Valorem Duty ............ 2,061 17 10
Total Customs .............. 3,479 18 4
Post Office—
Wellington ................. 110 0 2
Wanganui .................... 13 7 10
Total Post Office .......... 123 8 0
Fees—
Supreme Court .............. 31 0 0
Registration Fees ........... 18 0 0
Births, &c. ................. 2 17 6
Resident Magistrate's Court, Wellington .. 43 7 6
Resident Magistrate's Court, Wanganui .. 4 0 0
Pilots ...................... 39 12 10
Ferry on the Hutt .......... 2 18 9
Medical Practitioners ...... 0 5 0
Poundage .................... 1 0 2
Total Fees ................. 194 9 3
Fines—
Supreme Court .............. 0 5 0
Resident Magistrate's Court, Wellington .. 6 0 0
Resident Magistrate's Court, Wanganui .. 0 0 0
Total Fines ................ 6 5 0
Licenses—
Publicans' Bush ............. 10 0 0
Total Licenses ............. 10 0 0
Miscellaneous—
Incidental Receipts ......... 30 10 6
Miscellaneous in Aid ........ 7,200 0 0
Total Miscellaneous ........ 7,230 10 6
Total Revenue .......... £11,070 16 5
EXPENDITURE.
Civil List—Governor and Establishment .. £ 448 4 6
Contingent .................. 537 3 9
Official Secretary .......... 201 3 4
Departments—
Colonial Secretary .......... 222 10 2
Colonial Treasurer .......... 428 2 10
Audit Office ................ 107 5 0
Bank of Issue ............... 34 6 0
Survey ...................... 75 0 0
Customs ..................... 815 13 3
Harbor ...................... 164 10 2
Post Office, Wellington .... 84 5 5
Wanganui .................... 18 0 6
Medical ..................... 314 8 2
Native ...................... 410 14 10
Total Departments ........... £2,685 13 0
Ecclesiastical—
Colonial Chaplain .......... 50 0 0
Judicial—
Supreme Court ............... 297 4 10
Attorney General's Department .. 200 0 0
Registrar General ........... 114 0 0
Sheriff and Gaol ............ 86 0 4
Resident Magistrate, Wellington .. 185 3 0
Wanganui .................... 50 8 9
Waikanae .................... 69 18 0
Total Judicial .............. £1,003 14 1
Miscellaneous—
Public Works, Relief ........ 813 16 6
Charitable Aid .............. 40 17 11
Abolitionists ............... 18 18 0
Printing .................... 49 6 0
Fencing, West Coast Roads ... 8 0 0
Incidental .................. 62 7 6
Wanganui .................... 24 0 4
Cemetery Association ........ 6 0 0
Loans for Immigration ...... 2,400 0 0
Land Purposes ............... 247 8 0
Total Miscellaneous ......... £3,683 1 11
General Charges—
Debentures, Interest ........ 186 18 4
Government Brig ............. 98 2 7
Total General Charges ...... £285 1 11
Total Expenditure ...... £6,593 6 2
- The balances £489 0 3, being amount of arrears of committee allowances for Forage; Gardener, &c., surrendered by the Under Colonial Secretary of the Military Treasury.
Godfrey J. Thomas,
Auditor-General.
Audit-Office, Wellington, 21st January, 1861.
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Revenue, Expenditure, Wellington, New Munster
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
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- Godfrey J. Thomas, Auditor-General