$30 of various items and the date of approval of the Requisitions by superior Authority, is unauthorized Expenditure of Public money because, to use the precise language of the third paragraph, "the approval of Requisitions and the passing of any accounts by the Auditor General mainly depends."
337 I submit with all respect that is not so. The Expenditure may be duly sanctioned and approved by the Governor and may be in progress, by his own express order, although I have not in my hand the formal sanction needed to satisfy the Auditor General when they authorize the Treasurer to pay the bills for the work done. So far as the passing of accounts are concerned, it would suffice, as was the custom in former years, to get the formal requisition signed and sent in along with the bills.
37 Again, if the details of a Requisition are looked into, it will be found that they comprise mainly works already in progress and the plans and estimates.
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