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Appropriations for Consolidated 'kind Services. CLASS IX.—MINISTER OF LANDS AN MINES — continued. Item. 18 1 9-80. MINIS— continued. VOTE No. 57 .—continued. Chief Office — continued. Maintenance and Management of Water- £ s. d. £ s. d. races— Argyle, Charleston Mount Ida (for contingent requirements of Trust) Subsidy for extending and renewing Waterrace for Supply of Lyell Township Eewards for Gold Discoveries— North Island South Island Aids to Prospecting Subsidies towards the construction of Tracks, and minor Works upon Gold Fields, upon equivalent subscriptions being contributed Purchase of a Boring Machine for testing ground for auriferous or mineral deposits Contingencies Compensation and Costs awarded to James Armstrong and Party in respect of damage to their claim by Kumara Water-race Eeward to William Costello, John Knox, and James Robinson, as discoverers of payable gold at Kumara 600 0 0 8 9 500 0 0 10 175 0 0 11 12 l:: 14 5,000 5,000 5,000 0 0 0 0 0 0 10,000 0 0 15 1,500 1,500 0 0 0 0 L6 17 189 2 0 IS 100 0 0 10 20 21 22 Local Offices— Hauraki — Inspector of Mines under " The Gold Mining Districts Act, 1873," and " The Regulation of Mines Act, 1874 " Forage Allowance Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar (also Clerk District Court £25, and Resident Magistrate's Court £225) ... Coromandel — Receiver of Gold Revenue (also Clerk to Court £180) Rent of Tokatea Block Havelock — Receiver of Gold Revenue (also Clerk and Bailiff Resident Magistrate's Court £100) Sin don — Receiver of Gold Revenue (also Clerk in Crown Lands Office Dunedin £250) Jackson's Bay — Receiver of Gold Revenue (also Resident Magistrate £50, and Land Officer £100)... 350 50 100 95 500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 21 50 0 0 25 25 0 0 26 20 0 0 Total —Vote No. 57 ... 14 2 0 TOTAL OP CLASS IX. £210,348 1 10