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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1866.

TREASURY REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO PUBLIC ACCOUNTS AND THE
RECEIPT AND ISSUE OF PUBLIC MONIES.

Treasury, Wellington, 22nd May, 1866.

THE following Regulations relative to Public Accounts, and the Receipt and Issue of
Public Monies, will come into operation on and after the first of July, 1866; and
all Receivers of Public Money, and Heads of Departments, are hereby required to
act in strict conformity therewith.

E. W. STAFFORD.

1. The Sub-Treasurer in each Province or District will act under instructions Sub-Treasurers to
   from the Colonial Treasurer, and will, as the representative of the Treasury, have have control.
   direct control over all matters within his Province or District relating to the receipt
   and payment of moneys and the mode of rendering accounts.

2. Every Sub-Treasurer will be supplied with a Schedule (to be amended from Schedule of officers
   time to time as occasion may require) of all Receivers of Public Money within his accountable, and date
   Province accountable to such Sub-Treasurer for their receipts, and of the dates on appointed for
   which such Officers are respectively to account, and it will be the duty of the Sub- accounting.
   Treasurer to see that such Officers account at the appointed time, and to report any
   default in so accounting.

3. Every Receiver of Public Money will keep a Regulation Cash Book (to be Receivers to keep
   approved by the Sub-Treasurer), and will enter therein all sums received by him, in the proper books of
   order in which they are so received.
   account.

4. Every Receiver of Public Money will pay in the whole amount of his collections Collections to be paid
   except as hereinafter mentioned, (clauses 5, 6) daily, (or if such daily collections do not into Bank.
   amount to the sum of five pounds, then as soon as such collections reach that sum,
   taking care on the last day of the month to pay in the whole balance of monies in his
   hands whatever the amount) to the credit of the account of the Colonial Treasurer of
   New Zealand, in the Bank of New Zealand, or as may be otherwise directed, and will,
   at the time of such payment, obtain a receipt in the Form A. If there should be no
   branch or agency of the Bank of New Zealand in the place where the office of such
   Receiver is situate, then the amount of his collections is to be paid into some other
   bank (if there be one) to the credit of the Colonial Treasurer of New Zealand, taking
   a receipt for the same in the Form A., and if there be no bank, then the amount of his
   collections is to be remitted to the Sub-Treasurer of the District by Post Office Order,
   or in such other way as the Sub-Treasurer may direct.

5. Charges on the sale of public property; the share of penalties to seizing officers, Authorized deduc-
   informers, prosecutors, or other persons; drawbacks and refunds of customs duties; tions may be made.
   refunds of sums deposited or paid on account of land purchases; the salaries payable
   (out of fees) to District Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, in out-districts;
   and payments in respect of money orders, where any of such sums respectively are by any
   law or regulations now in force properly payable by Receivers out of their collections,
   may be paid out of such collections, but all such payments must be shown in the
   Receiver's Account; and full, true, and particular statements of such payments and
   deductions must in every case accompany such accounts.