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: the Audit of the Accounts of this Colony, and to inform you that I laid the despatch before the members of the Executive Council, who advised that
Your Lordship's directions —
should be carried out in
regard to the transfer of the preparation of the Colonial accounts from the local Audit Office to the Treasurer as
from the 1st of January last, and I
have given the necessary orders accordingly.
2.
But the Council advised, bearing in mind
the multifarious duties that Mr Lister, the present
Treasurer and Postmaster General, has to perform, that until the arrival
of the new Local Auditor
a change in the title the present Auditor General should be made, and that the Colonial Secretary should,
as