afford monthly, delays
26.
elapsed
d between the
completions
of a
a work and the final payment for it that the delay was unavoidable. I say unhesitatingly
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accounts, great
and small, that
have
often
to be
passed through
the
necessary
stages to avoidable. These
that the delays
are
nearly all
cases attributable to the Chinese
by
themselves to their
quarrels
with
work as
sub Contractors, and sureties with
their principals, and to the way
in which they
put, and
way furnish their claims especially for extra work, and to the difficulties arising from questions about the inflation or re
remission, of penalties
for
48.-
NAV
fulfilment of Contract
to time...
Owing to the
numerous
accounts have first to be checked, the Overseer superintending the
the offices
to
then passed by
quantities, then in
prices, and
me
to the
different items to which they
relate
on
the Estimates. Even
then duplicates have to be made in the office, and payments compiled, and examined before
forward them to the
Audit Office..
49.
(suming that a Contractér