correspondence with the
Comptroller and Auditor General respecting the rate at which receipts and payments by the Crown. Agents should be brought to account in the currency of Bonghong and Gibraltar.
The Local Auditor's
alternative proposal that the
average
On
rate of exchange the financial transactions _ during each quarter should be taken as the rate for bringing
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bringing them to account has received my best consideration,
I have to inform Your Lordship that the slight.
and s
objection mentioned in your
is in my opinion
despatch is in
insufficient to condemn the
proposal.
I have therefore approved of the adoption of this system
in the Colony.
I have the honour to be
My Lord,
Your Lordship's Most Bedient
Humble Servant,
Byten Barker
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