Editted by this Department to the Comptroller and Auditor General, for his guidance in connection with the Audit of the Colonial Accounts.
2. I have been in communications with the Comptroller on the subject of your despatch: and we have come to the conclusion that it will be better for the Colonial Treasurer to state in the case of each retiring allowance, on its first appearance in the monthly statement submitted to him for Audit, whether the grant of such allowance has been approved by the Secretary of State, and, if not, to state that the payment has been made in anticipation of such approval, and that the Comptroller will be informed as soon as approval is received.