400
state that the sum overpaid by the
Lieutenant Governor Sir Garnet (Wolseley)
has been
a venture to submit for
the Secretary of State's consideration the following explanation on the subject of the remarks made by Sir Robert Herbert with respect to the Acting Auditor General, Mr Chevenix
did not personally examine the vouchers before payment, but the over payments were discovered shortly afterwards and duly reported. Sir Garnet (Wolseley) when at Mauritius commented on the pre-audit and post-audit, and considered it as giving unnecessary trouble. In Cyprus there was, except partially in Nicosia, no pre-audit and post-audit,
and a
sufficient
apprehend that the Audit of accounts by the Controller and Auditor General's Department at Somerset House is only.
Audit supposing that Mr Sawant had discovered the
before payment, would he have been justified in stopping payments which had been duly authorized by the Officer who had been Administering the Government? It was to me that he would and that all he could do, and all that is required by the instructions conveyed by Sir Michael Hicks Beach's Despatch No. 145 of 1878,
by reporting the matter in order that it might be referred for the decision of the Secretary of State.