In 1853. The actual Expenditure
1854 1865
£35,486 Estimated £31,200.
31,309
34,635
40,813
112,126..
188,290
£138,048
138,048.
1866.
Excess of actual over the Estimates Expenditure £. 15,242.
In 1852 The actual Revenue was
1854 1865
31,033
44,366.
£ 24,687 Estimated £ 92,000.
27,045. 47,973.
36,500. 185,205
101,200
23,000
24,200.
32,000.
101,900.
Excess of actual over the Estimated Revenue £ 34,005.
Revenue in up years.
5. With regard to the particular
items adverted to by the Treasury
report there is
1st The sum of £ 291, 13-14
paid to His Excellency the Governor.
salary of a Private Secretary. –
although no person
was apparently in the performance of the duties
I find in
the accounts for the
month of July
1853 a written order
from the Secretary
to the Colonial Treasurer
requiring
him to pay the salary of the
private Secretary, on his (Sir John Bowring's ) receipt . In the absence of His Excellency therefore, I am
unable to make any
remarks on this item.
2ndly "The Salary drawn by Mr.
M. Mitchell Sheriff and Acting
Magistrate from 10th May to 30th September 1856.
The observation of the Commissioner
that £800 per
Annum would be the