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I have therefore to submit
that unless
you
see any
objection the appointment in question might be usefully given to Captain Home-
tion to such a course,
who is I understand
mathing his arrangements for disposing of his Commission
The Commissariat have
Weirdly supplied me in the extreme difficulty of finding appropriate functionaries with
officer from
ar
that department
Mr Downes, who will
until
a permanent
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arrangement is complete, act as Chief Clerk and bashier in the Greasury.
of
aw
The nomination Auditor General has occupied much of my thoughts, and except in the Military-
ut I could no
departiment I
where find a fit person
to help
us in our
present
perplexities, - but as Lieutenant General
Ashburnham has been
willing
to meet my view
and to lend me his aid,
an ar
rrangement has been by which I have
Made