:
552
for payment by the Public Works Department Chargeable
to Public Works Extraordinary. They were divided over
20 sub-heads and represented sums due to 50 different
people.
They were accompanied by a Schedule
showing the amounts Chargeable to each sub-head and by
bills or pay sheets showing the amount due to each payee.
They reached the Treasury about 28th.
May and were entered in the cash book in the following
form:-
Date of payment.To whom paid .Descriptionof Payt. Amount.
Sundry Persons. P.W.D.store.
28th.May.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do
do.
do.
$1,149
No.7 Police station. 892.33
Disinfector station. 212.50
Public Latrines. 1033.07.
&C.
&C.
&C.
&C.
Cheques were immediately drawn for the
sums due to the various payees and the amounts of the Che-
ques entered in the Book hereinafter mentioned kept for all
lodgments in or withdrawals from the Bank.
The cheques were put away in the safe
and kept there till the payees applied for the money.
Most of them applied on the 28th.29th.
and 81st.May but in some instances they did not apply and
were not paid till 1st.2nd. and 21st.June,
The whole charge of $21,777:64 was
included in the May Accounts as sent to the Comptroller
and Auditor General. It went home as voucher with, of cour-
se, the necessary supporting sub-vouchers.
If each amount had been entered in the
cash book at time of payment it would have necessitated 30
entries