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has been highly recommended both for zeal and ability by all the Officers under whom he has served and his knowledge of the current business of this Office is most valuable. The duties of the Colonial Audit
certainly
are
onerous
and
perhaps not less important than
those
of
the senior Clerks
in the
Treasury, Surveyor General's Department,
Police Magistrates' Office
or Harbour
Master's Department yet the
incumbents
of these Offices
are
all
in receipt of the higher class of
Clerk's salaries.
Mr Da Silva has always
carried
out
his duties without
additional assistance but I attribute
this rather to hard work and good health than to want of occupation. In addition to being the
Office for auditing the accounts - this Office provides and pays for the Stationery, printed forms, bookbinding and other - similar items required by all the
Government
Departments
and the duty of attending to
this branch
causes
a
very
considerable
increase to the work of the Audit
We
of
the
In this instance I think length
of
service might also bear some
weight, for after upwards of some
years
of
valuable service;
Seven
Mr Da