: - ; '-Tfc : ' :: is strictly enjoined that all moneys shall be paid into' the " Pro vincial Account" in the l?ank; and that moneys raised' Tor 'social' purposes SWF&ent or f uture M still forffijo' excep'tioh to the rule, but :I §hape treated asJorrning ; parfc,of tke .current annual revenue, Mew' othe>

wise provided for by an Act of the Assembly. The views given by our correspon dent, Scrutator, whose letter appeared ,in.y:pur columns yesterday, are fully borDfe.out in every particular; and we can, only hope that they. will receive that attention from the Government and the public, which they deserve. The following is the clause in the Act upon which these views are based : Erery warrant for the issue of money by any Provincial Treasurer, or such other per son; as aforesaid, shall, before the same is signed by the Superintendent, be laid before the Provincial Auditor, who shall not certify the same unless, the suras therein mentioned are then legally available for the services therein specified by virtue of an Act or Ordi nance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the province. Authority is, however, given to the Superintendent to direct by special order the Auditor to pass a certain amount of unauthorised expenditure. And the total amount of any sums passed under these special orders is limited during the course of any one financial year to the extent of one twentieth part of the ordinary Provin cial Eevenues of the preceding year. One statement made in the Auditor's letter to the speaker, we are inclined to question. The letter seems to imply that unless an Appropriation Act be passed in time,, the amounts already expended under the Audit Act of 1861 will form a ground of action against the Superintendent. So far is this from being the case, that it is much more according to our interpre tation of the Act to hold that during the six months which remain of the financial year, one twentieth of last years revenues may be expended in further anticipation of the Appropria tion Act. It is absurd to imagine that the Act is meant to have any re trospective application; for there is nothing in the wording of it to indi cate such a design. 