No. 365
EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENT,
SOMERSET HOUSE,
291
In any further correspondence on this subject, ike abate number should be quoted,
and
the communication should be
addressed to
"The Comptroller and Auditor General.”
The
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In reply to
LONDON, W.C.
17 March 1871
ク
RECP
C. O.
5612
REC' 18 MAR 31
your
letter of the 7th Enst -
the subject of the examination of the Accounts of the Registrar of the Supreme
Lord Knutsford's Court Hong Kong, enquiring by
am
direction to what extent it might be necessary to increase the Auditor's Staff to enable him to undertake such examination . I
directed by the Comptroller and Auditor General to state that, while he is unable, from his present knowledge of these Accounts, to state very definitely what amount of extra labour would be thrown upon the Local Audit Department by their examination, he is of opinion that the utmost it would be likely to involve would be the services
of another Clerk at £100 per annum.
As pointed out in the letter from this Department of the 244th Ultimo should the
The Ston. R. A Meade CBB.
Secretary
1.