ABSTRACT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE of the Province of Wellington,

for the Quarter
commencing on the first day of January and ending on the thirty-first day of March 1863.

RECEIPTS

Ordinary Revenue

• Customs, ¼ of gross revenue, Wellington | 3124 5 6 |

• " Wanganui | 563 10 6 |

• Licenses, Publicans | 10 0 0 |

• Pilotage, Wellington | 69 11 10 |

• " Wanganui | 0 16 6 |

• Assessment on Sheep | 5 11 4 |

• Hospital Subsistence Money | 20 5 0 |

• Lunatic Asylum do | 13 10 0 |

• Poundage Fees | 15 19 6 |

• Proportion of expenses of Hospital paid by the General Government | 84 18 0 |

• Proceeds of Oakum picked by prisoners in the Gaol, Wellington | 1 10 0 |

• Amount paid by Officer commanding detachment of H. M. 14th Regt., for rations to military prisoners in the Gaol at Wellington | 6 5 0 |

• Proceeds of old Boat sold | 15 0 0 |

• " road-labourers’ house sold (payment on account) | 5 0 0 |

• Proceeds of refuse Timber at the Turakina Bridge | 3 0 0 |

• Fees for Registration of Dogs | 2 14 0 |

• Refund of advance made to Natives, in anticipation of Land Purchases | 10 0 0 |

• Tolls, Kaiwarrawa | 114 3 7 |

• Contributions for Grants in Aid (for Roads, &c.) | 100 0 9 |

• Contributions for Grants in Aid for charitable purposes | 8 10 0 |

• Amount on account of Immigrants’ Promissory Notes | 490 5 6 |

• Rent of land, &c., at the Korokoro | 7 10 0 |

• Proceeds of Reclaimed Land | 1539 3 6 |

Territorial Revenue

• Rates on Land | 657 19 8 |
• Land Sales, &c. | 10,128 6 11 |

Carry forward | £21,239 5 6 |

EXPENDITURE

1. Executive

• Superintendent’s Department | 254 14 1 |
• Provincial Secretary’s | 51 7 2 |
• Provincial Treasurer’s | 184 6 6 |
• Law Officer’s | 75 0 0 |
• Chief Land Commissioner’s | 163 12 0 |

Total | 728 19 9 |

2. Legislative

• Provincial Council | 58 3 6 |

3. Judicial

• Supreme Court | 31 17 6 |
• Gaol Department, Wellington | 420 0 0 |
• Do., Wanganui | 38 19 3 |
• Police | 702 11 0 |

Total | 1194 8 3 |

4. Charitable

• Medical | 208 10 0 |
• Lunatic Asylum | 133 6 8 |

5. Special

• Harbor Department, Wellington | 304 9 2 |
• Do. Wanganui | 67 10 0 |
• Lighthouses | 205 4 2 |
• Signal Station | 20 10 0 |
• Inspectors of Sheep, &c. | 118 15 0 |
• Pounds | 4 10 0 |
• Weights and Measures, Brands, &c. | 25 0 0 |

Total | 749 18 4 |

6. Audit Department

• Auditing | 62 10 0 |

7. Miscellaneous

• Rent of Police Station, Wellington | 11 5 0 |
• Do. Harbor Master’s Office | 6 10 0 |
• Messengers to Public Offices | 43 0 0 |
• Fuel for do. | 4 15 0 |
• Printing Gazettes and Forms | 58 13 2 |
• Charitable Aid | 56 11 0 |
• Miscellaneous Contingencies | 217 13 10 |
• Expenses of Elections | 32 17 0 |

Total | 429 16 0 |

8. Land Purchase Department

• Expenses of Department | 120 11 5 |

9. Land Department

• Salaries of Clerks, &c. | 244 13 8 |

10. Public Works and Undertakings

• Survey Department | 1131 10 7 |
• Roads do. | 311 14 7 |
• Education | 192 17 4 |
• Council Library | 2 0 0 |
• Observatory | 25 0 0 |
• Geological Survey and Explorations | 196 5 9 |
• Ferries, Bells, &c. | 80 0 0 |
• Subsidy to New Zealand Steam Navigation Company | 250 0 0 |
• Repairs and Insurance | 42 18 3 |
• Medical attendance on Natives | 45 0 0 |

Total | 2273 6 6 |

Bridges

• Wanganui Bridge | 8 0 0 |

Roads

• Repairs of North Western, North Eastern, and Ngahauranga Roads | 70 13 9 |
• Featherston to Masterton | 9 4 6 |
• Featherston to Te Kopi | 112 10 0 |
• Masterton to Castle Point | 338 8 0 |
• Karori Road | 222 15 0 |

Total | £6214 4 2 |

Carry forward | £6214 4 2 |