Kou
of Com
As each
years Clecounts includes 12 months
Salaries from 1 Dew to 30 Nov - paid within
the
year:
we should not consider the
Salaries for the mouth of December
: proper dedication from the cash available
for the service of the subsequent year;
• to the
of it was proper with reference
but
Balances of 1 January 1858, it should also have been shewn with reference to
the account for 1856, and the cash balance
available : for the service of the year 1857.
We cannot ascertain with certainty from the accounts of the Hong Kong Government or from the Treasurers statements what portion of the sum oft15787.
12.3
1. reacived in 1857 for the sale of Market
Houses, and assigned to the special object
of
187
of improving and enlarging the Central
and Western Markets, was
C
the
year
appropriated during
to this special expense, and what-
was the exact balance which remained on to be debited to the Stong Hong:
31 Deer
1857
Government against the cash balanses in
hand on that date.
According
to the
trong tháng
Accounts
the balance in
hand
on 31 Deer 1857
WAS
£8262.13.3. We do not know how the treasurer
arrived at the Sumes
1
tault, and K2082.
19.1
of £858.16.1 in Fenauery
balance in Treasury
Chests amounting together to only ki2ght.
ous stated in his exccount.
15.2.
Your Lordships will perosive from the
remarks which we have made that we are
not in the possession of all the information
necessary