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8.
The perfunctory way
in which the Audit of Revenue has been performed is another charge that has been preferred against the Head of the Audit. If Your Lordship will refer
to the enclosures
to Governor Hennessy's despatch marked
Confidential of 31 th May, 1879, you will see -
31th
that within a
- very
short time
of
my arrival in the Colony I reported to His Excellency that there was __ practically no audit of Revenue. and that the Chief Clerk of Audit ___ who had been 25 years Department informed
in the
Ime
that in
his experience there had never~
any other than what I found.
been any
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I then introduced a proper audit of Revenue for the first time and it is a significant fact that within two-months of my so doing two Chinese Clerks in the Registration Department who had hitherto received Licence dues without. control over their collections, resigned
any
their appointments. I deny that the audit of Revenue has been performed in a perfunctory
by me i
meina
männer.
It is now hampered by the
instructions.
given by Wis -Excellency himself as to personal audit by the Auditor General. It
seems to me to be
one of the most elementary principles of
administration
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