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No. 1—continued. CONSOLIDATED FUND for the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1886. ACCOUNT.

LOCAL BODIES.

ACCOUNTS.

JAMES C. GAVIN, Secretary to the Treasury. JAMES B. HEYWOOD, Accountant to the Treasury. Examined and found correct, except as regards the Railway Receipts, which are not audited by the Audit Office : JAMES EDWARD FITZGERALD, Controller and Auditor-General.

EXPENDITURE. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Annual Appropriations,— Class XV. —Minister of Lands 1,012 7 4. Balance on 31st March, 1836,— Cash in the Public Account Advances in the hands of Officers of the Government, — In the Colony 379 6 1 487 12 8 108 6 7 Total £1,500 0 0

Eevenue paid over to Local Bodies, — Fees, Fines, &c. Goldfields Eevenuo Gold Duty Endowments of Land, &c. 2,376 17 0 17,840 17 1 21,976 9 8 6,543 12 G Counties Separate Accounts, — Amount distributed amongst Eoad Boards where " Tho Counties Act, 1876," is not in full operation 48,737 16 3 188 11 7 Balance on 31st March, 1SSG,— Cash in the Public Account Advances in the hands of Officers of tho Government, — In the Colony 48,92(3 7 10 7,357 18 2 9 4 3 7,367 2 5 Total £56,293 10 3

Withdrawals, — Armed Constabulary Reward Fund Auckland Museum Endowment Consolidated Stock Act, 1884, Conversion General Assembly Library Fund Miscellaneous Native Land Act, 1878 (No. 2) .. Nelson Eifle Prize Fund New Zealand University Endowment, Auckland Thames Goldfields, European Thames Goldfields, Suspense Thermal-Springs Districts Act, 1881 Trustee Act, 1883 Westland Loan Act, 1873, Redemption 168 17 3 104 18 9 3,000 0 0 130 0 0 49,688 2 6 135 0 0 136 0 0 605 0 0 2 18 0 254 0 8 1,478 4 4 548 16 8 6 0 0 Balance on 31st March, 1880,— Cash in the Public Account Advances in the hands of Officers of the Government, — In the Colony In London 41,965 6 2 56,257 18 2 100 0 0 16,022 15 5 16,122 15 5 58,088 1 7 Total £114,345 19 9 .'