amount.
3. The form I is according to the instructions quoted by His Excellency to be transmitted by the Requisitionist to the treasurer who after signing it forwards it through the Colonial Secretary to the Governor. The Treasurer
the
Officer charged by these instructions with the duty of checking.
these
requisitions which are for sums that have been falready authorized in the Estimates. If this
Excellency wishes the Colonial Secretary and the Auditor to relieve the Treasurer
this duty it will be
departure from existing regulations that were sent out from
home in 1847 and have been inforced.
eversince.
a
4. The Governor has the power of refusing payment of any sums that have been passed by the Auditor but to give
to
that
Officer
directions as to what items he is to
pass and what he is to refuse as His
Excellency
seems to wish to do would.
amount to relieving that officer of
676
the
discretionary powers and responsibilities that are his special province.
5. Though the
sums which to in this correspondance.
are
referred.
are
trifling
in amount there are questions involved
of
affecting the duties and responsibilities the Auditor General which I consider
to be
of
the highest importance and I
beg therefore respectfully to request that
this
may
copies of His Excellency's minute of reply, of hot : Listers letter.
of referred to the Secretary of
Stati.
6. In conclusion I must respectfully
protest against the tone which His Excellency has been pleased to adopt towards the Auditor General in the
minute
referred
to
(Signed) WH March.
Auditor Genirii
be