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administration that if a Head of a Department is to be held responsible for the work of his department he ___ should be left to direct its working himself unless he is unfit for the ___ post. And if he is ordered to attend personally, it's "to details ordinarily performed by a subordinate he cannot devote so much time to the far more important duty of general supervision of his 174.2 department.
9.
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charge made
presume that the against the audit of
passing improper allowances such as " horse allowance for certain officers ___
horses were used refers the Surveyor General and Assistant
when no
to
General for whom for many years past
there have appeared in the Estimates allowances for keep of horse and chair coolies. If Your Lordship will refer to the Estimates for the last 10 years ending 1882 it will be seen that ___ precisely the same amounts have been provided each
the only
-year-
difference being that during the last
the word "horse" has been
two
years omitted. The allowances were in
fact intended to provide the
necessary
meand
of locomotion for those officers, and this is recognized by the Governor's allowing the same
amounts to remain in the
Estimates
after the word "horse had
been
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Surveyor