you any approval of the Expenditures which you have
Considered it necessary to
incur.
2. With reference to
the last paragraph of your
Despatch, the following
are
The rules which you should
observe as to the undertaking of Public Works : -
3. When the Estimated
Cost of any such work does not exceed £200, you may
Cause it to be undertaken
without previous authority
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from home, and without
sending the plans and Estimate, unless
the work be of a very
unusual character, and one
of which, in your own judgment, Her Majesty's Government ought to have notice before
it is commenced.
4. When the Estimated
Cost of the work to be undertaken Exceeds that amount,
The general rule to be followed is correctly laid down in Chap. 10. §10.6 U. of the Rules & Regulations