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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

FINANCIAL RETURNS RELATIVE TO THE ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT.

Transmitted to the House June 19, 1856, and ordered to be printed.

Sums disbursed in the Purchases of Land from the Natives, from Is/ January 1853 to the 31s£ March 1856, as far as Accounts have been received. Auckland .... .. ... ... ... 32,205 0 O New Plymouth .. .. .. .. 6,390 0 0 Wellington .. .. .. .. .. ..43,800 0 0 ff elson , •• •• .. .. .. .. 7,614 0 0 Canterbury ° ta § o •• - ... .. .. '.. 2,653 0 0 92.662 0 0

Return of Sums expended in the Purchase of Lands from the Natives in the Colony of New Zealand, and of the amounts contributed for the same out of the Territorial Revenue of each Province between the 1st of January 1853 to the present date.

A.—No. 1,

' I j Sums disbursed on account of Amount contributed out of the Terj Land Purchases, including contin- ritorial Revenue of each Province, gencies. j -£ £ Province of Auckland . 32,205 40,839 New Plymouth .. 6,390 2,109 Wellington .. 43,800 14,579 Nelson .. 7,614 16,604 Canterbury .. 15,932 Otago 2,653 2,599 *92,662 92,662 , 1 Xhe above amounts appear to have been expended in each Province as near as can be ascertained from the imperfect accounts and statements rendered to the Audit Office,