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Hongkong.
RECEIVED
12 JUL.1909 CUL OFFICE
22347 3:0
My Lord,
Government House,
Hongkong, 9th. June,
1909.
I have the honour to inform Your
Lordship that I have recently had under consideration the
question of the audit of the Expenditure Accounts of this
Colony.
2.
My attention was drawn to the
matter by a small Committee, which I appointed in November
last to inquire into the expenditure of the various De-
-partments and to suggest what economies, without sacrifice
to efficiency, might be effected therein. I attach extract
from the Committee's Report.
3.
For the correspondence which lead
to the institution of the present system, I would refer
Your Lordship to the Despatches noted in the margin or to
hcretary of State to Governor:
Circular of 18th.September,1888.) lovernor to Secretary of State: No. 114 of 30th. March,1889. lecretary of State to Governor: No. 189 of 4th.October,1889.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CRIME,
80 - 1
) Sessional Paper No. 21 of 1889 in
which they were reproduced.
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