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 Public
 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 Consolidated
 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,