ABSTRACT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE

OF THE PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON, FOR THE QUARTER COMMENCING THE 1st DAY OF JANUARY, 1858, AND ENDING THE 31st DAY OF MARCH, 1858.

RECEIPTS.

Ordinary Revenue -

| Customs, Wellington, 3-8ths of gross receipts (including Wanganui) | 3038 13 6 |
| Do. Napier | 360 9 0 |
| Do., being balance repaid by the General Government for year ending June 30, 1857 | 2803 10 8 |
| Licenses, Publicans | 5 0 0 |
| Resident Magistrates' Fees and Fines | 175 7 6 |
| Pilotage, Wellington | 25 7 0 |
| Registration of Deeds | 35 4 1 |
| Assessment on Sheep | 1 0 8 |
| Hospital subsistence money | 32 9 3 |
| Registration of Brands | 33 0 0 |
| Hospital proportion of expense refunded by the General Government | 73 7 1 |
| Post Office, refund of moiety of cost of Mail, Wellington to Waimate | 54 13 6 |
| Surveys, refund of moiety of one Surveyor’s salary at Ahuriri | 62 10 0 |
| Poundage Fees | 10 6 0 |
| | Total | 6713 9 1 |

Territorial Revenue -

| Rates on Land | 12 17 6 |
| Pasture Licenses and Rents | 789 13 11 |
| Land Sales | 14909 15 0 |
| | Total | 15712 6 5 |

| Refund of Passage money of labourers sent to Napier for the Road Parties, but engaged by Settlers | 44 4 0 |
| Refund of man’s wages charged in error to Road, Rangitikei to Waitotara | 6 5 0 |
| Contributions for Grants in aid | 205 15 5 |
| Cash on account of Immigrants | 310 6 4 |
| Promissory Notes | 26 10 0 |
| | Carried forward | 29320 4 2 |

EXPENDITURE.

1. Executive -

| Superintendent’s Department | 200 0 0 |
| Provincial Secretary’s do | 155 1 9 |
| Provincial Treasurer’s do | 241 19 4 |
| Law Officer’s do | 75 5 2 |
| Chief Land Commissioner’s do | 100 0 0 |
| | Total | 772 6 3 |

2. Legislative -

| Provincial Council | 72 10 0 |

3. Judicial -

| Supreme Court | 24 17 0 |
| Sheriff’s Department, Wellington | 271 2 10 |
| Do. Wanganui | 44 10 6 |
| Do. Napier | 9 4 0 |
| Sessions of the Peace | 103 0 0 |
| Resident Magistrate’s Court | 245 0 4 |
| Coroner’s Department | 23 15 0 |
| Police | 441 19 9 |
| Registrar of Deeds | 56 13 10 |
| | Total | 1218 3 2 |

4. Charitable -

| Medical Department | 276 3 7 |
| Lunatic Asylum | 127 2 1 |
| | Total | 403 5 8 |

5. Special -

| Harbor Department, Wellington | 287 6 2 |
| Do. Wanganui | 89 7 8 |
| Do. being pilotage repaid to Pilot at Wanganui | 36 3 0 |
| Harbor Department, Napier | 89 8 8 |
| Lighthouse | 83 12 9 |
| Signal Station | 18 14 0 |
| Inspectors of Sheep | 119 7 9 |
| Pounds | 4 10 0 |
| Weights, Measures, Brands, &c. | 31 5 0 |
| | Total | 739 15 0 |

6. Audit Department -

| Auditing | 50 0 0 |

7. Miscellaneous -

| Rent of Public Offices | 76 5 0 |
| Messengers to do | 29 5 0 |
| Printing Gazette and Forms | 24 17 9 |
| Charitable aid | 90 10 8 |
| Special Constables | 17 17 0 |
| Miscellaneous Contingencies | 58 3 4 |
| | Total | 296 18 9 |

8. Land Department -

| Salaries of Clerks, &c. | 249 9 8 |

Public Works and Undertakings -

| Surveys | 1631 13 8 |
| Road Department | 373 9 3 |
| Immigration Department | 478 2 7 |
| Education | 209 6 5 |
| Council Library | 15 0 0 |
| Mail, Wellington to Waimate | 85 3 0 |
| Do., Napier to Waipukurau | 26 13 4 |
| Do., from Rangitikei Ferry | 20 18 0 |
| Ferries | 56 10 8 |
| Medical attendance on Natives | 43 0 0 |
| | Total | 2942 11 11 |

Public Buildings, &c. -

| Provincial Government Offices, &c | 1149 17 0 |
| Furniture for do | 338 18 8 |
| Additions to Gaol | 400 0 0 |
| Do. to Police Court, Wanganui | 122 0 1 |
| Repairs and insurance | 62 13 6 |
| Lock-up, Hutt | 40 0 0 |
| Survey Office, Featherston | 31 5 0 |
| | Total | 2143 5 1 |

| Carried forward | 8660 5 1 |