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any
matter connected with the accounts of the Colony and indeed it is one of the advantages of having an officer upon the spot that the Comptroller and Auditor General
look to that officer for Information
as to
appear to be not quite in accordance with the Regulations but he feels it to be important to avoid interference with the action of the
any practice which may
Government, and
as
any
unnecessary
regards the subjects
touched upon in this correspondence he considers that
any observations which might be thought necessary to the accountant should be addressed
have proceeded not from the Local Auditor to whom the Audit of the Accounts has not been committed but from the Comptroller and Auditor General himself upon the Examination of the accounts in this office
I am accordingly to request that upon the receipt of this letter you will be so good
as to inform the Treasurer that the Comptroller and Auditor General reserves any expression of Opinion upon the points in question until the accounts come before him and
until he is supplied with further information than is now in his possession
I have the honour to be
Your obedient Servant.
Signed
C. Mallet. J. Morris