VPRS 10718 Expenditure Ledgers

The Chief Secretarys Department was divided into branches or divisions, each responsible for a particular function allocated to the Chief Secretarys portfolio. One of these divisions was the Chief Secretarys Office, which centrally administered the budget of the Department.The Chief Secretarys Office was responsible for maintaining ledgers of expenditure for each division within the Department. This series consists of those ledgers maintained by the Office. They contain details of day to day expenditure from each division.Unit 5 of this series consists of the ledger used to document the expenditure of the Dredging Board of Inquiry, established in 1913 to investigate and report upon the pollution of waterways through dredging and sluicing activities.