PROVINCIAL REVENUE.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 163, 13 May 1859, Page 3

PROVINCIAL REVENUE.

Estimate of the Probable Revenue of the Province of Nelson for the Year commencing on the Ist April, 1859, and ending on 31st March, 1860. £ s. d. Balance in Treasury at commencement of Financial Year . .12,462 13 2 Customs . . . . 6,600 0 0 Land Department, after Payment on Account of New Zealand Company's Debt . . . 33,000 0 „ Registration of Deeds . . 350 0 „ Publicans' Licenses . . . 1500 0 „ Auctioneers' Licenses . . 120 0 „ Incidentals . . ■ ... . 1000 0 „ Repayment of Advance from Provincial Revenue, on Account of Debentures for Purposes specified in Debenture Act . . . 1626 10. 3 Balance of Debentures to be raised on Account of the J3350 for Public i Works, unspecified in Debenture Act . . . .2263 4 0 Total Estimated Revenue . 7 5 Estimate in Detail of the Proposed Expenditure of the Province of Nelson for the Year commencing on the Ist of January, and ending on the 31st December, 1859. £ s. dSuperintendent's Establishment. The Superintendent. Messenger . . . 50 0 0 Contingencies—* Newspapers . . . .80,, Fuel and Light . . .80,, Provincial Secretary's Department. Provincial Secretary (see Commissioner of Crown Lands). Chief Clerk . . . . 200 0 „ Assistant do. . . 40 0 „ Contingencies —- Stationery .. .<. . ■ . 20 0 „ Postages . . . 12 0 „. Fuel and Light . . . 8 0,, Solicitor's Department. Provincial Solicitor . * . 250 0 „ Treasurer's Department. Provincial Treasurer . . 150 0 „ ' Contingencies — Stationery and Books • 12 0 „ Advertising . . . . 15 0 „ Audit Department. Board, viz., Three Members, at £\5 each . . . 45 0 „ Sundries . . f .30,, Crown Land Department.' Land Office. Commissioner (also Provincial Secretary) . . . . 300 0 „ Chief Clerk . . . . 300 0 „ Assistant do. . . . <■. 200 0 „ Contingencies — Printing, Advertising and Stationery 200 0 „ Office Keeper . . . 13 0 „ Firewood . . . , . 8 0,, Postages . . . .50,, ; Survey Office. Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Public Works . . . 350 0 „ and Surveyor. . 800 0 „ Assistant Surveyor . . 200 0 „ Second Assistant . . . 40 0 „ Contingencies— Fuel . . ~.80 „ Stationery . _ . . . 100 0 „ Gaol Department. Gaoler . . . . 150 0 „ Turnkey . . . . 110 0 „ Overseer . . . . 100 0 „ Contingencies — Rations for Poor Debtors . . 25 0 „ Fuel for do 10 0 „ Rations for Prisoners . • 145 0 „ Clothing . ■ . . 25 0 „ Fuel and Light . . . 35 0 „ Stationery . . . .20,, Sundries . . . 10 0 „ Police Department. Nelson. Serjeant-Major . . . 175 0 „ Five Constables, at 6s. 6d. per diem. 593 2 6 Two do. at 7s. per diem . . 255 10 0 Contingencies — Special Constables . . . 20 0 „ Travelling Expenses. . . 12 0 „ Fuel and Light, Lockup . . 20 0 „ Sundries . . . • 15 0 „ . ■ Collingwood. Serjeant-Major, at 9s. per diem . 164 5 „ Three Constables, at 7s. per diem , 383 5 „ Contingencies — Special Constables . . . 20 0 „ Boat Passage of Prisoners . - . 30 0 „ Travelling Expenses. . . 15 0 „ Maintenance of Prisoners . . 10 0,, Fuel and Light . . . 10 0 „ Wairau. Serjeant-Major, at Bs. perdiem . 146 0 „ Two Constables, at 7s. per diem . 255 10 „ Contingencies — Allowance for Two Horses . 60 0 „ Special Constables . . . 20 0 „ Fuel and Light, Lockup . . 10 0 „ Conveyance of Prisoners . . 30 0 „ District Constables — - One at Waimea East . . 60 0 „ . „ Waimea West . . 40 0 „ „ Waimea South . . 50 0 „ „ Motueka . . . 60 0 „ „ Takaka . . 60 0 ~ '■%"■ Suburban North . , . 35 0 „ Medical Department. Medical Officers . . . 200 0 „ Attendants on Hospital . . 110 0 „ Lunatics . . . 40 0 „ Contingencies — Rations for Attendants . . 72 0 „ : Patients. . . 270 0 „ Lunatics. . . 80 0 „ Clothing for Patients . . 15 0,, Lunatics . . 30 0 „ Sundries for ditto . . . 40 0 „ Medicines ..' . 20 0 „ Medical Comforts . . . 50 0„ , Drugs, Instruments, &c, from Lon- j don. . . . . 70 0 „ Fuel and Light : . . . 40 0 „ Sundries '.' -■ . . . 30 0 „ Registrar of Deeds' Department. Chief Clerk . . . . 200 0 „ Assistant Clerk . . . 150 0 „ Contingencies— Clerical Assistance . . . SO 0 „ Stationery and Books . . 15 0., Fuel. . . . . 10 0 „ JVative Interpreter . 60 0 „ Contingencies . . ~ 20 0„. Harbour Department. Nelson. . - . Harbour Master and Pilot . . 150 0 „ Coxswain . . . . 110 0 „ Three boatmen, at ss. per diem , 273 15 „ -Signalman, at ss. 6d. per diem . 10Q 7 6

Hahboub Department— concluded. £ s. d.Attendant on Port Lamp . . 25 0 0 Contingencies — New Boat . . . . 35 0 „ Repairs to Boats . . . 15 0 „ Paint and Oil for Boats, Buoys, and. Beacons . . . , 20 0 „ Eight new Oars . . . 6 0,, New Buo^, Moorings, and Beacons, for inside Harbour. . . 20 0 „ Hire of Lighters for. raising Moorings 5 0,, Oil and Wick for Port Lamp' . 40 0 „ Four Warping Posts. . , 15 0 „ Alteration of Port Lamp and House, 20 0 „ Alteration to Boatmen' 3 House . 50 0 „ Collingwood. Deputy Harbor Master and Pilot, and occasional Boatmen . , 120 0 „ Three Oars 2 10 „ Two new Buoys and Mooring . , 20 0 „ Mast and Sail . . , . .8 0 „ Paint for Buoys and Beacons . . 10.0 „ Two Warping Posts . . , 4 0 „ Motupipi. '- ' ■ ■' ' One Buoy and Moorings . . . 40: 0 „ Motueka. ; Buoys ... . . . 10 0 „ Lamp Oil and Wick . . . 10 0 „ Provincial Council Department. : Speaker (also Member of the Waste Lands Board ... . Five Members, residing more than 20 miles from Nelson, at each i for each day's attendance . .;. . Six ditto, residing more than 10 miles ; from Nelson, at 15s. ditto ditto . . Seven ditto, residing more than 4 ; miles, at 10s. ditto ditto Clerk to Council .... [ Assistant ditto, at £ a-week Messengei*, at per diem . . Contingencies . . Provincial Engineer Contingencies . . . . ■, District Courts Department. ' Crown Prosecutor (including Tra- ' veiling Expenses) . . . 200 0 „ Witnesses . . . . . 100 0 „ Registrar Under Cattle Branding Act . . . . . 50 0 „ ' Contingencies . . . • 20 0 „ ( Miscellaneous. , Printing Electoral Roll . . . 65 0 „ , Printing Gazette and Forms . . 150 0 „ • Expenses of Returning Officers . 60 0 „ Charitable Aid . . . . ,300 0 „ i Supreme Court . . . 100 0 „ • General Contingencies . . . 300 0 „ Hire of Room for Magistrates, Rich- , mond 12 0 „ Hire of Room for Magistrates, Mo- , tueka . . ... . 12 0 „ i ■ ■ —~~—* ■ Interest on Debentures . . 1800 0 „ First Instalment under Educa--1 tion Loan Act .... 300 0 „ > «i ■ ■ __ Amount of Salaries and Contingencies voted by the Appropriation Act ot last year for the month of March, 1859, and not paid until ' April . . . . . . 1000 8 7 Existing Contracts. , Road from Beaver to Wairau River 450 0 0 , Commissioners of Compensation . 150 0 „ Court House, Wairau . . .248 10 „ , Roads, Takaka . . . . 694 0 „ PUBLIC WORKS AND PURPOSES. General. ■ Education - - - - 3000 0 „ Immigration - - - 4000 0 „ Surveys and Explorations - - 2000 0 „ Public Offices . - - . - 2000 0 „ i Improvement of Harbor Entrance, Nelson - • - - - 1000 0 „ • Lighthouse - - - 1500 0 „ Public Wharf, Nelson Harbor - 4000 0 „ Pelorus Bridle Road - - 3000 0 „ , East Coast Road, from Flags River to Hurunui - - - 1000 0 „ Road between Fox Hill ond Top House - - - - 600 0 „ , Middle Road, from Top House to , Hurunui, by Wairau Gorge - 1000 0 „ , Road to Grey River and West Coast, if practicable - - 1000 0 „ , Temporary Rooms for Lunatics - 200 „ „ i Libraries—Nelson - .£SO Country Districts £250 _ 300 „ „ Museum ~ - - - 200 „ „ For Expenses of Mineralogical and ! Scientific Explorations - - 300 „ „ Local. Tasman (or Blind Bay) Districts. Town of Nelson— , Market - - - - 500 „ „ Inclosing Botanical Gardens - 60 „ „ • Laying out Trafalgar Square - 100 „ „ Road from Public Wharf to Gardiner's Rope Walk - - 500 „ „ , Suburban North—• Trunk line from Clifton School to Ellendale ■ - - 100 „ „ , Trunk Line over Martin's Hill to Happy Valley - - - 100 „ „ Happy Valley Road, to meet equivalent subscriptions - 50 „ „ ■ Road Board - - - SO „ „ Waimeas— Agricultural Association - - 200 „ „ Completion of Purchase of Cemetery, Richmond - - 35 „ „ Branch Trunk Line up 88 and Quail Valleys - - - - 2^o „ „ Purchase of Road up Eve's Valley - 122 19 „ Trunk Line from Redwood's to Bensemann's - - - - 200 0 ■„ Waimea Road Board - - 500 „ „ Road connecting Waimea West with Waimea South - 100 „ „ Establishment of Reading Room, •; Waimea South, to meet equivalent subscriptions - - - 30 „ „ Moutere— Road Board ; - - - 200,, „ Motueka— '/ . Road from Jetty to Main Trunk line 300 „ „ Forming Road through Guy's Land. 50 „ „ Road Board - - - - 100 „ „ Establishment of Reading-room, to meet equivalent subscriptions - 30 „ „ Purchase of Site for and Removal of Lockup - - - - 50 „„ Riwaka— Road Board- - - - 100 „ „ Road to Sandy Bay - - - 50 „ „ Golden (or Massacre) Bay Districts. Branch Lines to New Diggings - 1500 „ „ Aorere— Trunk line from Collingwood, by the Quartz Ranges, towards head of Valley - - - - 2000 „ „ Jetty and Streets in Collingwood - 250 „ „ TakakaDistrict Trunk Line from Motupipi Beach to Spittal's Ferry - - 350 „ „ -District Trunk Line from Waitapu to Spittal's Ferry- - - 300 „ District Trunk Line from Spittal's to Lindsay's - - - 400 „ „ . Staking out and Buoying Motupipi i Channel - - - - 50 „ „ Opening out Bridle-track between . Takaka and Collingwood - - 250 „ „ Roads at Clifton - .- .?•■ 50 » »» Staking out and Buoying Waitapu River r * - ~ 50 „ „ j

Public Works— colluded, 4 fl- At Cloudy Bay Districts, Wairau— Trunk-line from Wairau River through Beaxer to Taylor River - 2500 „ n Opawa 1?oot Bridge and Ford - SQ n n Dray Bridge over Omaka, at Beaver Town - - - - - 300 „ M Bridge at hack of Simmonds' House 60 „ „ District Trunk-line up Wairau PJain 300 „ „ „ „ Continued in Narrows and Wairau Valley 150 „ „ And over Traverses - 50 „ „ Waihopai— District Trunk-line from junction of Avon River to Falcon Point - 250 „ „ Beaver— Bridge over Creek near Lock-up - - 30 ,0 0 Oorap etion of Court House and addition for Post Office - - - - 200 „ „ District Road between Beaver and Boulder Bank (if required) - - 100 „ „ Buoys for Wairau Kiver Mouth and charge of same - r - - - 100 „ „ District Road from BouMer Bank to Ferry at Terminus of Waitohi Road- 60 „ „ Ferry Boat over Wairau at ditto - - 300 ~ „ Dray Bridge over Tua Marina . - r 200 „ „ Bridge over Spring Creek r r t 100 „ „ Fencing in Cemeteries > r. - 100 „ fl Preliminary Expenses,: <fee, of Road Board - - - - - - 200 „ „ i Awa'tere— Trunk-line through Taylor's Pass - 200 „ „ „ Froni Taylor?s Pass to the Shearing Reserve .... 300, )t l( Bridle track by Upcot to Barefell Pass - ICO „ „ Trunk-line from Taylor's Pass to the Awatere River Mouth - - .. i-H ... ,5.Q : . „- ,-, Nautical Sui-vey of Awatere River Mou'tli lOp „ ~ Debentures, Other Public Works voted last Year, but unexpended. New Roads, Bridges, and Ferries - - 485 „ ~ Site for Cemetery, Richmond - • 75 „ „ Road fom Riwaka to Takaka - - 443. „.„ Pounds -■•■_■- . _ . 30 „ „ Nelson Port Road - - -. - 100 „ '',' Ferry over Wairau River r .. - 4Qf) „ „ Lock-up, Richmond - ... 130 „„ Alteration of Boatmen's House - - 20 „- „ Road through Wairau Gorge to Amuri 500 ~ „ • . £2183 0 Q