411
Expenditure charged within the year
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while the Estimate for 190
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only
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$11.481.61
10.000.
an Excess of 1.481 . 61
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This Excess has been provided for by Supplementary Vote, and included in the Supplementary Appropuation Ordinances for 1890-
It is, however, to be observed that, as the Secretary of State is aware, the old Audit Staff of the late Auditor General.
existence for.
shll
some months of the year
1890, and theat the present Local Auditor. did not arrive at Hong Kong until the Aff
Aprel .
Had the present Staff only been in existence during the whole
the total Expenditure would have been, well within the $10,000
year,
originally provided.
Moreover the amount charged for Home Audit, based on the Comptroller and Auditor General's requisitions on the Crown Agents,