Mr PYKE concurred in this opinion, adding that it was a fact within his knowledge that county coanc Is had paid away moneys they had no authority to <:!<>. When th« accounts came before the auditors they added a note to the effect that while the accounts were correct, the sum or sums had been disbursed in violation of the Act under which the body was consti tuted. There was nothiag then for it but to pass tbe accounts aa brought down, urileas a ratepayer to <k upon himself the duty of suing the council for recovering the amount illegally disbursed.
Mr TURNBULL thought aa lecal bodies raised their own revenues, they were quite sharp enough to look after their proper dis bursement. He objected to hamper the«e bodies with too much outside interference.
