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time for them to obtain your written sanction, but as it will be for their interest to obtain your sanction with the least possible delay, I do not anticipate that any temporary disallowances of this sort will be attended with inconvenience, and none will be expected as now to submit to the final approval of the Secretary of State any miscellaneous expenditure of an unusual character which you may on occasion sanction.
I wish indeed the existing system, which has been found most satisfactory, to be closely adhered to as possible; and I see no reason why, in all such cases, a period should not elapse during which such unauthorised items should be considered "in suspense". At all events, the Consuls must not, any more than they do at present, incur any extraordinary expense without your previous sanction;
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Nevertheless, if after a certain experience you should be of opinion that, consistently with the same efficiency