I have therefore ample time left
to attend to the audit work with
which Considerable progress has lately been
made.
At the time that I mote the report in the Audit office,
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performing and believed that I moved have to Continue the performance of the Colonial Secretary's duties, in the manner that is Customary in other Colonies, and I found that they occupied my whole official time and left- little leisure for Audit work.
D. Stewart's experience during the three on in this that he was in Charge of the Colonial Secretary's Office; led him to form the same
Andusim.
But the orders that I have since
received from His Excellency have so limited the duties of the Colonial Secretary,
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Secretary, that, I now recupy tearcely.
any higher position than that of a bleak authorized to sign letters in which the Governor's orders are
Conveyet.
As to having any share in the " general work of administration which it appears from thi's Ballways
minute that Sir Michael Hicks Bench Emse
Insiders might
might be divided between the Fovernor and the Colonial. Secretary,
I have
ume whatever
own
at present . In fact I have less diveretionary powers in my. department, than is left to other Heads of Departments-
I beg to call this Excellency's,
attention to an annexure in which the duties of the Colonial Secretary of this Colony were clearly laid down in 1859 and these instrations forwarded to the Secretary of State by desparch at 1 of 25th January
Were
1859-