DOMESTIC.

Office or Individual.

Treasury

Date.

1876

At 18

Last previous per.

eases

T0796

2017020 87-94-4-14 4h

chong trong

No. 12581

(Subject.)

129

Difficulty of supplying Treasury Chest

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Anand

28

See to Meeran 19-August-1077-

Fins. 1 | 76— IE & S 1090)|

with Subleday Comays.

Forwards letter in the onlycel from the Officer in charge of the Chest

Mr Meade.

(Minutes.)

Though in the minutes on 10796 I expressed my difficulty in understanding what had happened in this matter, I confess I have little doubt myself that in the absence of Mr Cecil Smith, the Colonial Treasurer, they have departed from the practice which he describes, and adopted another one which, as you yourself say, would be "intuitively wrong" in principle, & that they have made the further administrative mistake of treating the Treasury officer in the Colony as a sort of private individual & expecting him to tender, in conjunction with Bank merchants or others, for them.

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