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Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 151, 26 November 1853, Page 5

Treasurer to obtain the approval of the Superintendent to all bills coming to his Office, and then to pay them on demand. Fixed days and hours shall be notified in the Government Gazettes, and in all the newspapers in the Province, upon which demands on the Government will be paid at the Treasury. Payments to all persons residing at Christchurch, or in the neighbourhood, will be made at the Superintendent's Office, Government Officers are hereby required to give every possible facility to all persons dealing with the Government, in the settlement of their accounts, and on no excuse shall such persons be required to perform journeys from one Office to another, in order to expedite what is properly the business of the officers of the Government. Payment of Salaries. It shall be the duty of every Head of a Department to send in the Salary Account for his Department to the Audit-Office, on the first day of every month, in duplicate. If it is not received at the Audit-Office on that day, the Salaries will not be paid till the following month. All Salaries for each month will be paid at the Treasury on or before the fourth day of the following month. All Salary Accounts shall be in the printed form, " Provincial Form, No. I." Every Salary Account shall contain on the face of it a reference to the authority for the expenditure specified therein. Ditties of the Provincial Auditor. The Auditor will receive all bills from the several Departments of Government for audit. It will be the duty of the Auditor to examine all such bills ; to see upon what authority they are demanded to be paid; whether the account and summing be correct ; Avhether the charge in the bill corresponds with the printed contract appended to it; whether the demand be within the sum voted by the Legislature for the service ; whether the whole account be in due form. If the Auditor be satisfied of the entire correctness of the demand, he shall certify the bill, and shall immediately return it into the Treasury for payment; but shall file the contract and the duplicate of Salary account. It shall be the duty of the Auditor to examine all the vouchers in the Treasury once in every month, and to see that all receipts are in due order, and that the signature of the Superintendent has in all cases, where required, been affixed. It shall be the duty of the Auditor to receive the monthly statements of Eevenue received, and the monthly abstract of account of Expenditure made by each Department; and having made such remarks thereon as he may think fit, to forward the same to the Superintendent. It shall be the duty of the Auditor to examine fully all the accounts and estimates to be laid before the Provincial Council, and to witness the correctness of the same. If any bills sent into the Audit Office shall not be in proper form, or if the Auditor shall not be satisfied with the coirectness of the same, he shall imnieatclv return them for correction to the Department whence they have been sent. If any hi.ls shall be left outstanding beyond the vw\ of the current month, or if any returns whk-h are required from any ofticer shall not he received at the time required, the Auditor shall make a Special Report to the Superintendent, and shall not pass Vac Salary account until the omission has been supplied.