The income for 1878, including the surplus of Tls.11,802 brought forward from last year, is estimated at Tls. 240,067, and the expenditure at exactly the same amount. This exact equalisation is of course factitious, as it is arrived at by fixing the usual provision for contingencies at exactly the disposable balance after the necessary expenditure has been provided for; and as those contingencies very rarely occur, we may rely with tolerable safety upon a surplus of Tis, 3,383 at the end of the year, The estimates exceed those of 1877 by Tls. 9,934.
As with the accounts for the past year, s0 with the estimates for the current one, a comparative statement is given (pages 24 and 25), which shows at a glance the points of difference between the two budgets. The chief item of increase, in the present case, is in "Public Improvements, maintenance of and ropaira to existing roads and public properties,"—which are set down at Tis, 68,800, against Tls, 61,885 last year. An estimated increase of Tls. 1,996 on Police is the only other noticeable item various minor alterations on either side of the account leaving the balance of increase on the 1878 aide, and bringing up the total to the amount stated.
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