Extract from the Minute Executive Council held the 18th March 1972
Enclosure No. 6 in Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's Despatch No. 98 of 10 April 1872
230 Extract from Report of Committee of Inquiry
Monthly
1. According to the rule and practice established by His Excellency Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, the Surveyor General is bound to transmit, for the approval of the Governor at the end of each month, a Requisition stating the items of expenditure proposed for the next month. Except in rare instances, we find that the Surveyor General did not comply with this important regulation during the 18 or 20 months over which our enquiry has extended. He generally forwarded...