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,