General Coffin previous to my arrival in May, and the unavoidable delays arising from the adoption of a new and more elaborate system of rendering the accounts of the different departments from that heretofore used; I trust however, that notwithstanding these and other my accounts will be found satisfactory and complete in all their touches. The distribution
"salaries into 'Established and supplementary for provisional allowances and the expenditure, under each head of public works is not as accurate as I could have wished
Difficulties
in consequence of the salary and disbursement Abstracts not being thus classified: This will however, be remedied in the future quarterly accounts.
The various coins in which
money has been received and disbursed, has not
been noted with sufficient accuracy by the
different
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different departments to enable me to
lay
a detailed
statement of the specie values before Your Excellency a minute and receipts for the past quarters; except under the head of dollars and sterling, but this statement will be rendered
after the first January next.
During my absence in July
on sick certificate, Mr Merew, who had the kindness to officiate transmitted
an account
as Treasurer
for the June Quarter which I think is incomplete and not sufficiently explanatory in reference to the payments made by the late Treasurer, and
by
Commissary General Office; not being distinctly separated from
the
payments made by me under the authority of Your Excellency. In the account now rendered
by me
I have