Accountant General
with both
Board of Audit
will best effect the purpose: - but to this plan
the objection that the Executive
Council
appears.
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would lose one
of
its
superior Offices
and not
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little, if any, saving of salary likely to result.
The Treasurer in addition to the charge
of the Treasury that is entrusted with the
Collection of Crown Rents - Licenses, and
Police
and Lighting Rates - all important items
of Revenue and the latter
especially much
difficult of collection. The Auditor in addition
to his biennial
appointment
has been
employed as
an Accountant and Auditor by the Foreign Office and has been paid half his salary from Imperial monies. If the continuation of Offices were
effectual, the Accountant General could hardly
continue
collecting
Revenue
and would not be able to
undertake the Foreign Office work which often
requires
pressing attention.
The Auditor General only gains now
a year from the Colony and the Treasurer
The Accountant General could not receive
less than the latter sum and at least
The whole of the former
would be expended in
providing for a responsible Revenue Collector and
leaving the Members off the Audit Board.
Another plan of continuing Office known
which I have always advocated is the junction
of the Auditorship with the Colonial Secretary's
Office as is now I believe doing
some
kind of work and I have done it for nearly six
months, without inconvenience. We both undertake
it
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