The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 63
Accounts, 5th April 1848. — —No. 1.—
Accounts, 5th April 1848.
—No. 1.—
Receipts.
£ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cash in the House | 21 | 4 | 1 | |||
Ditto at the Bankers' | 12,434 | 7 | 8 | |||
Ditto with Messrs. Overend Gurney & Co., to cover the Guarantee given by the Company's Bankers upon Bills to be drawn from New Zealand (if necessary) by the Principal Agent | 15,000 | 0 | 0 | |||
Ditto with the Lay Association of the Free Church of Scotland, &c., to be accounted for | 530 | 12 | 0 | |||
Promissory Notes | 9,463 | 3 | 4 | |||
37,449 | 7 | 1 |
Otago,—Purchase-Money, 4,398 4/16 Acres | 8,796 | 10 | 0 | |||
Deposits | 5,181 | 10 | 0 | |||
13,978 | 0 | 0 |
Interest on Investments, Fees on Transfers, and Sundries | 847 | 12 | 6 |
Amount received from Her Majesty's Government, being the Balance of the Loan of 100,000l. authorised by the Acts of Parliament, 9 and 10 Victoria, Chap. 42 and 82 | 20,000 | 0 | 0 |
Ditto ditto, being part of the Loan of 136,000l. authorised by the Act of Parliament, 10 and 11 Victoria, Chap. 112 | 28,000 | 0 | 0 |
Total Receipt | £100,274 | 19 | 7 |
Expenditure.
£ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rent, Taxes, Insurance, Repairs, House Expenses, and Sundries | 748 | 16 | 5 | |||
Advertising and Printing, Books and Maps, Stamps, Stationery, Postage, Carriage of Parcels, and Incidental Expenses | 1,151 | 3 | 6 | |||
Furniture and Fixtures | 176 | 11 | 6 | |||
Salaries of Officers and others on the Company's Home Establishment | 2,971 | 12 | 6 | |||
Law and Parliamentary Expenses | 2,841 | 11 | 5 | |||
The Directors for Attendances at Courts and Committees, from 1st June 1842 to 31st March 1848 | 8,277 | 7 | 2 | |||
The Auditors for Auditing Accounts, from 6th April 1843 to 31st March 1848 | 262 | 10 | 0 | |||
16,429 | 12 | 1 |
Hire of Ships for the conveyance of Passengers and Emigrants, including Provisions, &c. for ditto, Salaries and Allowances for Services, and Incidental Expenses | 7,062 | 5 | 0 | |||
Less, Freight and Passage-Money per sundry Ships | 2,516 | 4 | 2 | |||
4,546 | 0 | 10 |
Bills drawn by the Principal Agent | 14,347 | 17 | 1 | |||
Expenses incidental to the Colony | 3,660 | 16 | 8 | |||
Proportion of Salaries of Colonial Officers | 17 | 5 | 6 | |||
Specie shipped to the Colony | 2,000 | 0 | 0 | |||
Stores ditto ditto | 1,523 | 6 | 9 | |||
21,549 | 5 | 11 |
Land purchased by the Company as its Private Estate, viz.:— | ||||||
Wellington, 3,436 acres | 4,465 | 12 | 10 | |||
Interest on Debentures, Commission, &c. | 2,326 | 2 | 10 | |||
Dividends not previously claimed | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
6,891 | 15 | 8 |
Debentures paid off | 21,000 | 0 | 0 | |||
Total Expenditure | £70,416 | 14 | 6page 19 | |||
Brought forward | 70,416 | 14 | 6 |
Cash in the House | 13 | 6 | 2 | |||
Ditto at the Bankers', General Account | 5,417 | 18 | 2 | |||
Ditto ditto, Otago Account | 6,371 | 0 | 1 | |||
Ditto in Scotland, Otago Account, &c. | 619 | 3 | 11 | |||
6,990 | 4 | 0 | ||||
Ditto deposited at Interest with Messrs. Overend Gurney & Co. | 8,000 | 0 | 0 | |||
Ditto, with Sundry Persons to be accounted for | 231 | 1 | 11 | |||
Promissory Notes | 9,093 | 14 | 10 | |||
Bills Receivable | 112 | 0 | 0 | |||
29,858 | 5 | 1 | ||||
Total | £100,274 | 19 | 7 |
George Pocock Irving
, Accountant.We hereby certify that we have carefully examined the foregoing Accounts, and we do declare the same to be correct.
Richard Edward Arden,
Joseph Dowson,
Russell Ellice
, Auditors. New Zealand House,25th May 1848.