198 ‘THE DOMINION ADMINISTRATION. 
thereto, and of the officers and persons employed in that 
service®. 
By the 50 and 51 Vic. c. 11 this department is to be 
transferred to the Minister of Trade and Commerce or to the 
Minister of Finance? 
6. DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. 
This department was constituted by the 32 and 33 Vic. 
c. 4, and has the supervision, control and direction of all 
matters relating to such financial affairs, public accounts, 
revenue and expenditure of the Dominion, as are not or in 
so far as they are not by law or by order of the Governor in 
Council assigned to any other department of the Civil Service, 
as well as such other duties as may be from time to time 
assigned to it by the Governor in Council. 
By a subsequent Act® the office of Receiver-General was 
abolished and the duties of that official were transferred to 
she Minister of Finance. 
Two important branches of the department are the 
Treasury Board and the Audit Office. 
joe y The Treasury Board, formed of the Minister of Finance, 
Board. and five Ministers nominated by the Governor in Council? 
acts as a committee of the Privy Council in all matters of 
finance which are referred to it by the Council or to which 
it thinks it necessary to call the attention of the Council. 
It is empowered to direct that books and accounts be kept 
by any officer engaged in the revenue department, and to 
prescribe how accounts are to be kept by the various branches 
of the public service”. 
It directs how each department is to prepare its appro- 
priation account. 
ad The Audit Office is under the charge of the Auditor- 
General, who is appointed by the Governor-General under the 
lL R. 8. C. 1886, c. 82, 5. 5. 2 See ante, p. 193. 3 42 Vie. c. 7. 
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