Provincial Financial Report




Abstract of Receipts and Expenditure of the Province of Wellington, for the quarter commencing on the first day of April, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, 1864.

RECEIPTS

To Balance in hands of Provincial Treasurer £ s. d. £ s. d.
Treasurer 16,010 9 1
Balance in hands of Provincial Sub-Treasurer, Wanganui 1,177 14 4 17,188 2 5

1. Ordinary Revenue—

| Customs J of gross receipts | 4076 13 7 |
| Do. do. Wanganui | 996 18 3 |
| Licences, Publicans’ | 1555 0 0 |
| Do. Auctioneers’ | 280 0 0 |
| Pilotage, Wellington & Wanganui | 246 11 5 |
| Hospital Subsistence Money | 18 3 0 |
| Registration of Brands | 18 0 0 |
| Do. Dogs | 117 0 0 |
| Refund of expenses of Light-house | 127 10 4 |
| Toll-bar at Kai-warrae-warra | 313 0 0 |
| Warehouse rent, Queen’s Warehouse | 87 9 0 |
| Wharfage | 195 4 3 |
| Rates on Land | 878 17 0 |
| Contributions for Grants-in-aid | 99 13 0 |
| Proportion of expenses of Hospital paid by the General Government | 81 5 9 |
| Amount paid by Officer Commanding detachment of H.M. 14th Regt., for rations supplied to Military prisoners in Gaol, Wellington | 16 18 6 |
| Subsistence money of debtors in the Gaol, Wellington | 2 2 6 |
| Contributions for Grants-in-aid of erection of School-houses, &c. | 41 10 0 |

Total Ordinary Revenue... | 9151 16 7 |

2. Special—

| Reclaimed Land | 876 0 0 |
| Proportion of Interest from Hawke’s Bay | 1250 0 0 |
| Immigrants’ promissory notes | 130 5 0 |
| Refund of cost of Light-house (amount on account) | 175 12 5 |
| Deposit account, being amounts paid on account of passage money of parties sent for by friends | 163 10 0 |
| Rent of land, &c., at the Koro-koro | 7 10 0 |

Total Special... | 2,431 17 5 |

3. Territorial Revenue—

| Pasture Licenses and Rents, and Proceeds of Land Sales | 7985 2 6 |

Carry Forward... | £26,507 18 11 |

EXPENDITURE

Executive—

| Superintendent’s department | 54 16 6 |
| Provincial Secretary’s do. | 207 0 3 |
| Provincial Treasurer’s do. | 75 0 0 |
| Law Officer’s do. | 138 16 0 |
| Chief Land Commissioner’s do. | 734 4 9 |

Total Executive... | 1247 15 3 |

1. Legislative—

| Provincial Council | 46 5 9 |

2. Judicial—

| Supreme Court | 15 3 0 |
| Gaol department, Wellington | 483 14 7 |
| Do. Wanganui | 32 1 4 |
| Police | 716 16 4 |

Total Judicial... | 1247 15 3 |

3. Charitable—

| Medical | 260 14 2 |
| Lunatic Asylum | 138 4 1 |

Total Charitable... | 398 18 4 |

4. Special—

| Harbour department, Wellington | 287 17 8 |
| Harbour department, Wanganui | 108 4 6 |
| Light-houses | 85 14 8 |
| Signal Station | 18 8 0 |
| Inspectors of Sheep, &c. | 103 10 0 |
| Pounds | 2 6 0 |
| Weights and Measures, Brands, &c. | 25 0 0 |
| Dog Nuisance Act | 21 5 5 |

Total Special... | 652 6 7 |

5. Miscellaneous—

| Rent of Survey Office, Wanganui | 15 0 0 |
| Messengers to Public Offices | 49 17 0 |
| Fuel for do. | 7 15 0 |
| Printing Gazettes and Forms | 58 6 8 |
| Charitable Aid | 75 18 2 |
| Miscellaneous contingencies | 121 12 0 |
| Expenses of Elections | 9 7 6 |

Total Miscellaneous... | 337 16 4 |

6. Land Purchase Department—

| Expenses of department | 135 7 0 |

7. Land Department—

| Salaries of Clerks, &c. | 273 2 1 |

8. Public Works and Undertakings—

| Survey Department | 1319 12 1 |
| Roads do. | 328 7 6 |
| Education | 408 14 4 |
| Council Library | 34 3 6 |
| Observatory | 25 0 0 |
| Geological Survey, &c. | 0 12 6 |
| Ferries, Bells, &c. | 25 0 0 |
| Steam Subsidy | 208 6 8 |
| Furniture, Repairs, and Insurance | 139 2 3 |
| Toll-gate | 38 16 3 |
| Queen’s Warehouse and Wharf | 232 19 1 |

Total Public Works and Undertakings... | 2755 14 2 |

Roads—

| Repairs of Roads (Great North Western, Great North Eastern and Ngahauranga) | 975 0 11 |
| Improving Porirua Road | 219 6 6 |
| Featherston to Masterton | 386 12 0 |
| Featherston to Tikokino | 18 14 0 |

Carried Forward... | £6,581 9 6 |



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Wellington Provincial Gazette 1864, No 39





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