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to England with the rest of the
correspondence. I therefore propose to
address you
more in detail
...
its
contents
2. His Excellency's position in regard
to its subject matter is perfectly
intelligible. It rests, he informs me,
on the assumption that, in Hongkong,
as
in other colonies over which he has
presided, the checking of receipts is
entrusted to the Treasurer,
that of
expenditure to the local Auditor.
Reference
to
my
letter
of the 21st
This may
diff...
A
f
Secretary of State in his Despatch
2nd 189 of 1889 (Par: x)" devotes his
entire time to the important duty of
checking receipts and ... dari a les no
duties whatever as
3. Your
to me to rest on
a
regards expenditure.
ision appears
por
misapprehension
of the system obtaining
in Hongkong Treasury
from that of Ceylon.
in the
distinguished
4. You state that the bringing to
sums paid to the primary
credit
of
duty of all Treasurers, an
d
you go
March 1892 will show that precisely
to say that, so far
as
can be learnt,
the result is
the
case here where the Che
lu
my
continuous
neglect of duty on
not securing that all sums received
doca? Auditor is stated by the
Secretary
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were