137

REVENUE—(Continued.)

Total amount of Revenue ... £5048 4 10

• Balance due to Treasurer ... 183 3 8

£5231 8 6

EXPENDITURE—(Continued.)

Ferries—
Clutha ... 316 10 2
Toi-Toi ... 40 0 0
Total ... 355 10 2

Local Posts—
Sum paid, being excess of Expenditure over Revenue ... 123 11 11

Education—
Paid Secretary to the Otago Board of Education to account of sums voted to the Board ... 600 0 0

Liabilities—
Immigration—Paid Jas. Macandrew and Co. one-half of passage money of Immigrants per “George Canning” ... 652 0 0
Debentures due 31st December, 1857 ... 900 0 0
Interest and bank charges thereon ... 22 0 5
General Government—Paid 2nd instalment of debt allocated on the Province of Otago ... 1000 0 0

Total ... £2574 0 5

Miscellaneous—
Printing and Advertising ... 57 0 7
Firewood ... 8 16 0
General Contingencies ... 48 12 9
Total ... 114 9 4

Total amount of Expenditure ... £2821 8 6

J. M’GLASHAN,
Provincial Treasurer.

Dunedin, 14th January, 1858.—We, two of the Auditors appointed in pursuance of the “Board of Audit Ordinance,” Session II., No. 2, having examined the Provincial Treasurer’s accounts for the Quarter ending 31st December, 1857, find that they are correctly stated, duly authorised, and properly vouched; that the Receipts amounted to the sum of £5048 4s. 10d., and the Expenditure to £2638 8s. 6d., showing a Balance due to the Treasurer of £183 3s. 8d.

JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
JAMES KILGOUR.

This Balance is provided for by a payment of a larger amount from the Treasurer of the Waste Land Board received after 31st December, and consequently falling within the current Quarter’s accounts.

J. H. H.
J. K.

At Government House, at Auckland, the 8th day of December, 1857.

Present:
His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the Harbour Regulations Ordinance, No. 15 of Session 2, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to make all such Regulations respecting the placing of Vessels in Quarantine, and the performance of such Quarantine, as may seem meet, and to appoint all such officers as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying such Regulations into effect.

Now, therefore, his Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of his Executive Council, has been pleased to approve, and doth hereby approve, of the following Quarantine Regulations for the Colony of New Zealand.

F. G. STEWARD.

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

1. The Master of every vessel arriving at any Harbour which shall be deemed by the Harbour Master to be liable to Quarantine, shall, on being directed so to do by the Harbour Master, cause the same to be anchored in the Quarantine ground appointed for the Harbour, or forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum of one hundred pounds.

2. The Master of every vessel so anchored, shall neither himself quit, nor permit any seaman, passenger, or other person to quit the same, until he shall have been duly admitted to pratique, or forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds.

3. Every seaman, passenger, or other person so quitting, shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.

4. Every vessel so anchored is to hoist a yellow flag, of not less than six breadths of bunting, at the Main, by day, and a light by night in a lanthorn, such as is