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County Council Balft&Ce Sheet. All Other Charges : Votes to Officers of Council ... ... 100 0 0 Vote, Volunteer Fire Brigade, Hokitika ... 5 0 0 Rate Collector, percentage and salary ... 184 13 0 Horse and Buggy Hire ... ... ••• 56 8 0 Survey Instruments ... ... ... 35 0 0 Salaries— Clerks of Courts ... ... 25 0 0 Dog Collars ... ... ... ... 27 0 0 Salaries— Clerks to Licensing Committees „. 22 10 0 Wellington Exhibition ... . ... 29 0 0 Compensation to Wells for loss of office ... 75 0 0 Valuation Charges ... ... ... 16 16 0 Cleaning Office ... ... ... 23 0 0 Fuel, Gas, and Office Requisites ... ... 19 18 0 Telegrams, Postage and Carriage ... ... 44 7 8 Boat Hire and Sundries ... ... ... 14 10 0 Refunded to County Fund ... ... 64 0 0 Electoral Rolls ... ... ... 12 10 0 Gazettes, Statutes, and Newspapers ... 8 10 0 Imprest Account ... ... ... 44 0 0 28,401 10 6 Less Cheques Unpresented, 31st March, 1886 ... 122 16 0 Total ... ... ... ... £28,284 14 6 Note. — The salary of the County Engineer (£420) is distributed over, and charged to, the different new works under his charge. The_ wages of the Road Overseers, Kanieri and Okarito districts, (£2OO and £220 respectively), are charged to the Kanieri and Okarito District Roads, respectively. PUBLIC DEBT. Nil. RESERVES. ; 1200 acres of Ferry Reserves are vested in the Council. STATEMENT OF LIABILITIES AND ASSETS ON THE 31st MARCH, 1886. LIABILITIES. £ S. D. Debit Balance, Bank of New Zealand, 31st March, 1886... ... 1089 1 0 Cheques Unpresented „ „ ... ... 122 16 0 March Accounts, unpaid on „ „ ... ... 1770 11 0 Due on Current Contracts „ „ ... ... 5271 14 3 Ferry Subsidies for Quarter Ended ;, „ ... ... 160 0 0 Due on Flood Damage Repairs „ „ ... ... 458 12 0 Sundry Small Liabilities, say ... ... ... ... 150 0 0 Total Liabilities ... ... ... ... £9022 14 3 Balance Assets over Liabilities ... ... ... ••• 6916 8 5 Total ... ... ... , ... ... £15,939 2 8 ASSETS.' £ s. d. Credit Balance, Rae's Imprest Account ... ... ... 72 5 7 Crown Lands Rates, 1885-1886 ... ... ... ... 6990 13 7 Subsidy on General Rate, for Half-year Ended 31st March, 1886 ... 1350 0 0 General Rates Outstanding, good, (say) ... ... ... 480 0 0 Dog Tax, 1886, Uncollected, (say) ... ... ... 70 0 0 £ for £on Prospecting done to 3rd March, 1886 ... ... 159 12 C £2 for £1, Browning's Pass Track (work done to 31st March, 1886)... 606 4 C Vote, Nelson-Hokitika Road, 31st March, 1886 ... ... 175 0 0 Vote, Cedar Creek Dray Road ... ... ... ... 2557 6 0 Vote, Gillespie's-Cook's River Flat Road ... ... ... 2920 0 0 Goldfields' Revenue and Duty, March, 1886... ... ... 500 0 0 Due by Grey County Council ... ... ,„ ... 58 1 0 Total ... „, ... „, ... £15,939 2 8 I hereby certify that I have examined the above Statement of Accounts, and having compared the same with Cash Book, Ledger, Vouchers, Bank Pass Book and Rate Collector's Books, find the same to be correct with the exception of the following payments, which I consider illegal, viz., Voucher No. 188, £1 2s paid to a Councillor for putting on a man to do his work in order to enable him to attend a meeting of the Council ; vouclier No. 237, £1 paid for use of hall re East and West Coast Railway ; Voucher No. 4^3, £3 Is paid to a Councillor for meeting Governor at Kumara ; Voucher No. 4%hi &% 3s paid to a Councillor for meeting Governor at Kumara ; Voucher No. 485, £3 Is paid to a Councillor for attending Special Meeting at Kumara on 4th February, when there was no such meeting ; Voucher No. 4^o, £3 Is paid to a Councillor for meeting Governor at Kumara. I consider that according to the Act the Council can only pay Councillors a reasonable amount to defray travelling expenses of Councillors coming from a distance to attend meetings of the Council. W. A. SPENCE, District.Auditor. Hokitika, 2Tth May, 1886. Settled and adopted at a special meeting of the Council, held this 31st day of May, JOHN M'WHIRTER, Chairman of said meeting. RICHARDSON RAE, County Treasurer.

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