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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

Transmitted to the House by His Excellency the Governor, April 25, 1856.

MESSAGE No. 5. THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Governor. The Governor transmits, for the information of the House of Representatives, Financial Statements* for the periods included between the First of January, 1853, and the Thirty-first December, 1855. These have been prepared in accordance with the resolution of the House of Representatives, which required the whole of the land deposits received in each period to be treated as revenue, and distributed among the several provinces as surplus revenues. The whole of the arrears of expenditure have been shown as charges on the revenues of the period when the expenses were actually incurred; and the moneys issued for the purchase of lands have been a charge on the land revenues of the period during which they were issued. The balances in the public chests, on the Ist of January, 1853, are shown at the head of the Financial Statement for the Nine Months ending 30th September, 1853, and they are charged with the arrears of expenditure belonging to the period prior to the Ist January, 1853. The excess of these arrears over the balances in hand is exhibited as a charge on the revenues of the period ending 30th September, 1853, and will be found included in the unappropriated balances of that period. Government House, Auckland, 25 th April, 1856. * Copies of 4 Statements.

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