CO129-071 - Public Offices - 1858 — Page 130

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