200 THE DOMINION ADMINISTRATION. which is paid the ordinary expenditure. The charges on this Fund in the vear 1887—S8 were as follows — Charges for the Public Debt Ordinary Expenditure Collection of Revenue P 11,105,981 16,822,749 8,789,764 36.718.495 In addition to the above revenue and expenditure the Dominion receives and expends a large amount of moneys every year. This may be illustrated by the following table for the year 1887—8. Receipts. Expenditure. Ordinary Expendi- # ture 36,718,495 Redemption of Pub- lic Debt 3,185,726 Savings Banks 12,521,064 Railway Subsidies 1,027,041 Investments 5,200,769 Trust Funds(Indian) 276,230 Province Accounts 115,775 Railways and Canals 2,798,704 Public Works 963,778 Transfers to Con- solidated Fund 2,881,127 Miscellaneous 2,339,206 © 68.027,915 Payments When a sum of money is granted to Her Majesty by Moneys. resolution of the House of Commons or by Act of Parliament, the Governor-General from time to time under his sign manual, countersigned by a member of the Treasury Board, authorizes and requires the Minister of Finance to issue out of the moneys appropriated for defraying the expense of such services and in the hands of the Receiver-General, the sums required from time to time not exceeding the amount of the sums so voted LR, 8.C.,c 29, 5. 99,