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UNAUTHORISED EXPENDITURE.—Continued.
| Brought forward | £2,435 13 1 | £10,724 12 0 |
|---|---|---|
| District and other Courts | 909 5 8 | |
| Bank Interest and Commission | 129 15 8 | |
| Military (extra pay) | 1,401 18 5 | |
| Purchase of Runs | 1,216 0 0 | |
| Province of Southland | 9 18 9 | |
| Registrar of Deeds | 153 9 8 | |
| 6,256 0 8 | ||
| £16,980 12 8 |
Remittances to Crawford and Auld, Home Agents, for Immigration. | 7,000 0 0 |
| | £23,980 12 8 |
I certify that I have examined the above statement of the Provincial Treasurer for the Financial period commencing 1st October, 1861, and ending 31st March, 1862, and find it correct as an account and balance sheet of transactions for that period; that the vouchers have been correctly rendered, certified, and receipted, and the expenditure classified in accordance with the services provided for by the Appropriation Ordinance 1861-2, subject to the exceptions stated in the memorandum attached to the accounts for the first quarter, and in the memorandum hereto annexed, and that the expenditure without the authority of the law is separately shown.
CHARLES H. KETTLE,
Provincial Auditor.
April 14th, 1862.
MEMORANDUM.
Several of the accounts paid in the commencement of the financial period, before the Auditor entered upon his duties, were found to have been imperfectly classified in the services of some of the departments, which perhaps arose from the late publication of the Appropriation Ordinance, without which it would be difficult to assign every expenditure in strict accordance with the votes of the Provincial Council. None, however, are of serious consequence. In addition to those named in a former Memorandum are the following:—
Voucher No. 904.—£9 Police Contingencies should have been placed to the account of District Police Stations.
Voucher No. 897.—£60 Escort Wagon, charged to Contingencies instead of “Stores, &c.”
Voucher No. 1067.—£6 19s. 5d. charged to Police “Contingencies” instead of “Clothing.”
Vouchers Nos. 958 and 956 amounting to £76 14s. should have been placed to Gaol “Furniture,” &c., instead of contingencies.
Under the system of audit now in force, the accounts for payment, with the warrants prepared and attached, are, before receiving the Superintendent’s signature, daily laid before the Auditor, whose duty it is to ascertain their correctness in every particular, and to return them for correction in cases of error or wrong classification. The Auditor then certifies on the face of the warrant whether the amount directed to be paid thereby has or has not been appropriated by Act of Council, or is in excess (the amount named) of some Appropriation for the specified service.
CRAWFORD AND AULD (HOME AGENTS).—Of the amount due by the Home Agents, £7,000 has been remitted by two drafts, one for £2,000 on the 10th January, and the other for £5,000 on the 15th March for Immigration purposes, the latter for females.
It appears to have been the practice to remit Debentures to the Agents, who as occasion required, negotiated them and applied the proceeds to Immigration, the expenditure being subsequently covered by a vote of the Council. The Debentures are now exhausted, and hence the necessity of drawing funds from the Treasury for Immigration. These remittances are obviously in anticipation of a vote of the Council, and have therefore been classed as Unauthorised Expenditure.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1862, No 179
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Provincial Expenditure for Half-Year Ended March 31, 1862
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💰 Finance & Revenue14 April 1862
Expenditure, Provincial Government, Financial Report, Loans, Balance Sheet
- Charles H. Kettle, Provincial Auditor