CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4] — Page 412

"Supplementary sum not exceeding

Two Stundred and Sixty-five "Thousand Dollars to defray the

"charges of

The

the

year

Original

1865.0

Estimates

for 1865 provided for on Expenditure of $779, 426 with a Revenne 7 $700, 535, leaving an excess of Expenditure amounting to nearly $79,000. The actual Revenue

of

1 has been $845, 443 - Expenditure $937,805. So that the final exces of Expenditure has been $ 15,000 more than originally contemplated.

The apparent increase

in the Revenne is however

408

almost wholly occasioned by

the new mode

of Keeping the Port Office accounts. The entire Portal Reverne under the present

the Colonial

system pases through the Treasury

the Imperial share being remitted to London by Government and not by the Port Master-as

formerly.

In miscellaneous Services

there has been a considerable

incense

of

Revenue by the

gain on

Exchange on the large

remittances made to the Crown

Agents.

In the Expenditure the

increase is die almost entirely