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Audit Office Victoria Hongkong
11th April 1885.
No 9.
Gentlemen,
observations contained in
A.B.b.
The
Mr Martin in consequence of some
Report to
upon of the
5th March to which I gave him access has requested
1
His Excellency the Governor to transmit the accompanying
enclosures (marked A. with 5 enclosures and B with 1 enclosure) as his justification either to your Honorable Board, to the Lords Commissioners of HM Treasury, to the Right Honorable The Secretary of State for the Colonies. I transmit copy of the Letter containing
this request with the Colonial Secretary's endorsement (marked
AB 6).
The Governor has directed me to forward them to you and in obedience to his Instructions that I should make such remarks on them as I thought called for I have the honor to transmit the following
the statements contained in Mr. Martin's
observations on Letters.
The
In the first paragraph of Mr. Martin's letter (marked A) he observes that his advice or opinion was never asked respecting the incorporation of Accounts of Mr. Stewart and Mr. Coffin with his own for the June Quarter whereas the fact is that that measure was recommended by me after consultation with himself and in consequence of Mr. Commissary General Commissioners for Auditing
Public Accounts
letter
London