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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

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