(as it does here) upon a single supply ordinance, but (as it does at Hongkong) upon a variety of ordinances, this I should be shown by an analytical statement exhibiting the proportions of

the various

services which are in

by the various ordinances.

are imported

I notice that the contingencies of the Auditor General's Department are saddled with expenditure to the amount of $10,000 for printing the Government Gazette

and for the Coal and Stationery

of all the Departments. This

obviously

an

error,

and

any person who had before him only The Abstracts Pages 8 and 9 would be completely misled.

With a single exception the Estimates for "Works" and "Roads"

only the

amount to be expended during

No particulars

are given of

the total proposed cost of the Works

as required by the Treasury instructions

Audit Office.

(signed) C. I. Trevelyan, Auditor General

Straits Settlements.

Singapore, 13 October 1869.

(True Copy)

I. Gardiner Martin

Colonial Secretary

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