Itrophes that he understand from these Financial instructions that the Local Auditor has only to audit Revenue (and the Expenditure being audited at home) and that, as Treasurer, he has no responsibility for Revenue.
What was said was that upon this suggestion only refined 45 distasteful The with blame the "loss of Audit responsibility for Revenue.
The Treasurer is responsible for Revenue and Expenditure, and Audit by the local Auditor and by Somerset House, is designed to enforce their responsibility – the Sanction being the enforcement of the bond entered into with the firm of Officers.
But there are Governors and Treasurers who are muddled and confused as to the position and responsibilities of the Audit office.
In talking of the question of expressing such responsibility, it naturally arises.
MINUTE PAPER.
By proceedings for recovery under a bond, or I require them to make good any losses.
In minuting this, I took the line that if a person is appointed to the honourable and lucrative Colonial Treasurer, he accepts the responsibilities of that office, and that if he neglects the normal and proper duties, it would appear normal and obvious to a competent experienced public officer that he is ignorant and incompetent.
The defence to his being called upon to make good defalcations occurring through his shortcomings is not admissible theory; it seems to me an admission that...
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