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4. There will be no Vault or Treasury, inasmuch as all receipts at the latter will be paid daily to a Bank. All payments will be made by cheques in lieu of cash.
Instead of "Cash" at the Vault and Treasury, the Colony will receive two drafts from the Bank on its Current Account.
Greatly diminished as the work at the Treasury will be, the Staff must be proportionately reduced, but to what extent has not yet been determined on, although notices have already been given to some.
The Treasurer, if he will apply himself to some of the actual duties of the Office, should be able to meet all requirements by the aid of one good Accountant-Clerk (Mr. Cawthorne) and a copying Clerk, a Messenger, and two Shroffs. We could at all events keep his Cash book, which indeed will be the only book left for him, if my advice is taken.
12. With reference to the transfer of the Accountant of the Treasury to the Auditor General's Office, where I hope he will be useful.
Ledger and Journal will, I fear, be lost for some time.
Martin Mactavish
Colonial Secretary
1st September, 1869.