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7. Expenditure supplementary to the Estimates, shown as provisionally voted in the Appropriation Account, was submitted in detail to the Finance Committee and duly adopted by the Legislature.
All items of supplementary expenditure have received the sanction of the Secretary of State with the exception of the items included in a Supplementary Schedule of Additional Provision which was submitted to the Secretary of State as an enclosure to the Governor's Despatch of the 7th June 1932 for which approval is awaited.
8. The Supplementary Appropriation Ordinance No. 25 of 1932 was passed by the Legislature on 19th August 1932, thus providing complete authority for the expenditure of the year.
ESTIMATES.
(Paras. 9-12—1930 Report.)
9. The Estimates were prepared in the same form as those of the previous year, with the exception that there was added to each head a Summary which included the cost of those officers who are paid out of the three 'omnibus' heads.
This is an improvement, but its value is somewhat discounted by the ruling that the distribution of the Clerical Staff shown in the Appendices 1 and 2 to the Estimates was not to be taken as a definite allotment to departments.
10. Instructions have since been received that future Estimates are to be prepared in accordance with Colonial Regulation 227, showing as far as possible the total estimated cost of each department.
STATEMENT OF ASSETS & LIABILITIES.
Contractors and Officers' Deposits $ 415,261.81 Suitors' Fund.... 590,712.07 Miscellaneous Deposits 2,611,171.02 Total $3,617,144.90DEPOSITS.
(Para. 32–1930 Report.)
11. It is still not possible to give a complete certificate of the correctness of these figures. The total of the three sums shown under the heading "Deposits" agrees with the balance in the main ledger, but no detailed list is available showing exactly to whom the Government is liable for the first and third items.