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Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hongkong,
26th March 1845. —
I have thi honer to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 116t. Sustaul, yesterday
return to Office .
...
ow my
it would be murely doing the duty of the
Audit Bourd
Aly payments enamenced on the
27th May 1844, and I respectfully submit to
that my
Your Irscellency that,
Accounts be rendered
pom that date and that Ibe not required
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to involve myself in a responsibility correspondence with the Audit Board, payments of which I have no
Official
Cognizance and over which I had
I have the honor
Te, Jo, So.
[d] R. M. Martin.
for
no control.
True Copy.
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Chrif block.
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HyCol Leag
In reference to that portion of y
your
letter wherein it is stated that final bouchers
for $16,308.39 have been actually laying for
month's past in my Office, and were
eight
returned by me only the other day to the Surveyor
General with an intimation that I did not
to first, that I ame
want them "I beg te stati,
perfectly.
unconscious that any
Audited
Wuchers for the suid sum of $14,308-3€
-
(£. 3,973 -9.5) were finally transmitted to me,
and I have never seen,
A. E. Shelley Esq.
Auditer Several.
final Vouchers for
that