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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1867.

G. GREY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
twelfth day of November, 1867.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Public Reve-
nues Act, 1867," it is enacted, amongst other things,
that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council
to make Regulations not inconsistent with the pro-
visions of the said Act, directing the manner in which
and the times at which, and the bank or banks into
which, all moneys legally payable to the Govern-
ment of New Zealand shall be paid into the Public
Account, and for the return of full and sufficient
accounts relating to all such moneys, and for the
guidance of all persons in the Public Service con-
cerned in the receipt, custody, and expenditure
thereof, and that all such Regulations shall come
into force upon a day to be named therein :

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise of the power vested in him by the said Act,
doth hereby, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand,
make the following Regulations, and doth declare
that the same shall come into force upon the first
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight, and that all existing Regulations shall
thereupon cease and determine.

I.—AS TO THE RECEIPT OF PUBLIC MONEYS.

1. Every person in the public service into whose
   possession or control any money which is payable
   into the Public Account shall come, is constituted a
   Receiver by and within the meaning of "The Public
   Revenues Act, 1867," and becomes thereby charged
   with all the duties and subject to all the liabilities
   imposed upon Receivers by the said Act.

2. All public moneys of every description whatso-
   ever, whether of the nature of Revenue, or of
   deposits on account of Revenue, or of moneys to be
   held in trust by the Government for the use of
   private persons, are to be paid to one or other of the
   four Branches of the Public Account constituted by
   the Public Revenues Act, in gross, without any
   deductions excepting for charges on the sale of
   public property and for such payments as Collectors
   of Revenue are required by special enactment to pay
   out of their collections.

3. The four Branches of the Public Account are
   severally defined in the fourth, fifth, sixth, and
   seventh clauses of the Public Revenues Act, and
   Receivers are to take particular care that moneys
   paid by them into the Public Account are paid to
   the proper Branch, according as such money shall
   have arisen. The Land Fund, the Special Fund, and
   the Public Trust Fund, are so defined in the Act,
   that Receivers will have no difficulty in determining
   what moneys are payable to those accounts respec-
   tively. All moneys not payable to one or other of
   those accounts are payable into the Consolidated Fund.

4. The Bank of New Zealand is hereby appointed
   to be the Bank in which the Public Account is to
   be kept, and into which all money payable into the
   Public Account is to be paid, and is the Bank
   referred to in the Public Revenues Act and in these
   Regulations as "the Bank."

5. Every Receiver whose office is in a place in
   which there is a branch of the Bank shall pay the
   whole of his collections into the Bank every day
   immediately before the Bank closes, and shall obtain
   from the Bank a receipt in duplicate, in the form in
   the First Schedule annexed; and should he receive
   any money after the time when it would have been
   possible to pay it into the Bank, the Receiver shall pay
   in such money with his collections of the following
   day. Every Receiver whose office is in a place where
   there is no branch of the Bank, and who shall not
   be authorized to retain fees received by him by
   way
   of salary, shall transmit his collections to the Bank
   at Wellington, by Post Office Order or by Registered
   Letter, upon the last day of each month, and the
   Bank will transmit one copy of the duplicate Bank
   receipt to the Receiver by return of post, and will
   send the other copy to the Treasury.

6. In cases in which a Receiver is authorized to
   retain fees received by him by way of salary, he
   shall, upon the last day of each month, send to the
   Bank at Wellington an order in the form in the
   Second Schedule annexed, upon the Colonial
   Treasurer, in favour of the Public Account, for
   the total amount of all fees so received and retained
   by him during such month, and shall at the same
   time transmit to the Treasury a receipt for salary to
   the amount named in such order; and the Colonial
   Treasurer receiving such receipt shall pay the order
   at the Bank; and the Bank will transmit one copy of
   the duplicate Bank receipt to the Receiver by the next
   post, and will send the other copy to the Treasury.

II.—AS TO THE RECEIPT OF DEPOSITS.

7. Where a Receiver shall receive money by way of
   deposit for Customs Duties, or for Land, or on any
   other account, he shall give to the depositor a Deposit
   Receipt in the form in the Third Schedule annexed,
   and shall pay the amount so received into the Public
   Trust Fund at the Bank to a separate account in his
   own name, to be called the Deposit Account; and as
   soon as the transaction on account of which such