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to my satisfaction and he suggested that a separate Auditor General
should be appointed, so as to allow him (W March) to devote his whole Official hours to the rutier of Colonial Secretary.
2.
I
was unable at the
time to see the absolute necessity
for reconstituting the separate -
· Office of Auditor General. Thereupon Mis March, in the
1f
full
exercise
his rights, appeales from my opinion to the recision of Six Michael Hicks Beach.'
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3.
f1
State upheld my
The Secretary of
matter, and the Officer acting
view of the
as
flonial
falonical Secretary has continued to
be the head also of the Arsit Office.
4.
Я
am bound however, to admit that some years further,
experience induces me,
though
out Mis
with some reluctance, to recognize the experiency of carrying March's suggestion
*
The circumstances
connected with the defalcations
the fivil Hospital as reported
in
in my despatch N 48 of 295
of April, 1881, the
found in
getting
difficulty
the late
Acting flonial Secretary, Qt Stewart, to personally Audit
every