departments under no
less than 36
headings all separately kept without
any clue to the action taken in
each case. It would have been
easy
to have abstracted at any time 100 documents
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from the Archives which's attracting attention, whilst to find any
would have been difficult
are
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letter,
the absence of
the Head Clerk, whose long acquaintance
with the business and records
peculiar facilities which could
be
During his individual time of office
I felt that with the
increasing business growing up from year
to
year
a
system
was
fraught with inconveniences and
very
delays to business, whose increase required
improved method and additional facilities,
I therefore
at once
organized
a new
system from the day of my arrival and
in a Memo: of which I endeavoured explained the necessity of keeping
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