REVENUE. 



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The moneys are kept in separate accounts in the treasury, and 

 paid out on the order of the governor. The total expenditure 

 of the unions for the present year, 1856, is calculated at 22,000, 

 or 105,000 dollars. 



Taking all the wards together, we have the following items for 

 the past year, 1855. 



Expenditure and receipts of the wards during the year 1855 : 



EXPENDITUBE. 



Cholera expenses , 



Roads and Bridges 

 Road debts 



Education 



Registration 



Hospital and Charity 



Police, general 



,, wards 



Criminal justice 



Warden's salary and commis- 

 sions 



Printing and advertising 



Miscellaneous 



Dollars. 

 10,364 



38,636 



9,546 

 1,489 

 7,599 

 8,432 

 4,977 

 1,145 



15,955 

 . 1,147 

 , 3,143 



102,533 



RECEIPTS. 



Dollars. 

 Balance in Colonial Treasury on 



1st October, 1854 31,489 



Arrears of rates 8,957 



Charcoal and timber licenses > 



ttr i i 



Ward rates S 



Miscellaneous 2,888 



133,865 



Balance in favour of wards 



on 1st October, 1855 31,332 



Thus the balance in the treasury, at the end of the year 1855, 

 is very nearly equal to the amount that was there at the end of 

 1854, viz., 31,489 dollars; and that sum is nearly equal to 39 

 per cent, of the whole expenditure of the wards, viz., 102,533 

 dollars ; and it is more than that, if we deduct the extraordinary 

 expenses for cholera, amounting to the sum of 10,361 dollars, 

 leaving for current expenses the sum of 92,172 dollars. The 

 expenses for the current year, 1856, are estimated at 22,000, or 

 105,600 dollars, after defraying which there will still remain in 

 the treasury supposing the revenues to be the same a sum of 

 28,265 dollars. 



The principal sources of revenue are ward-rates, 77,000 

 dollars ; next, spirit licences, 12,070 dollars. 



The principal items of expenditure are the roads and bridges, 

 viz., 38,636 dollars ; from this sum, however, ought to be 

 deducted the interest of 4 per cent, on a loan of 25,273, equal 



