WHEREAS the moneys raised pursuant to section eight of the Public Revenues Amendment Act, 1914, and paid into the War Expenses Account constituted by that section, have proved insufficient for the purposes for which the said account was constituted: And whereas, in order to raise further moneys for those purposes, the Minister of Finance, acting under the authority conferred by section one hundred and ten of the Public Revenues Act, 1910, pledged certain Reserve Fund securities and paid the proceeds into the War Expenses Account: And whereas there was no appropriation or other statutory authority for the expenditure of the moneys so paid into the War Expenses Account, but it was necessary in the public interest that such moneys should be expended for the purposes of the present war, and those moneys were so expended accordingly: And whereas by section fifty-four of the Public Revenues Act, 1910, authority is given for the payment out of the Unauthorized Expenditure Account of moneys in excess of or without the appropriation of Parliament: And whereas the total amount that may be so expended in any year is limited to one hundred and fifty thousand pounds for all services other than services in connection with working railways under the control of the Government Railways Department: And whereas during the financial year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifteen, the said amount of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds was not sufficient, owing to the special circumstances and the extraordinary expenditure occasioned by the present war, and it was necessary in the public interest that expenditure should be incurred in excess of the limit of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds aforesaid, and such expenditure was accordingly incurred: