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In this connection
We might send
for information
a
Cory I. F.S. Circular
No 18 34 which is
at (9)
on
3332234 Str. Bader
2012.
year, but that he is unable to authorise any
important
relaxation of the ad rule that payments can
only be charged to the date on which they are
made:
(2) that he agrees that it would be
undesirable that any modification, which may be
made in the present practice, should involve the
danger that payments may not be made to the
proper persons:
and suggesting
(3) that a partial solution of the difficulty
may possibly lie in the direction of an arrangement,
under which all payments of a routine nature, in
respect of the last month of the year, are made on
a date a few days before the end of the year, with
the object of allowing some days of grace during
which payments, which it has not been possible to
Still
ake on or before that date, can be made within the
financial year to which they relate:
and adding
(4) that, if a solution cannot be found
along these or similar lines, it would appear that
the only alternative will be to adopt the
suggestion of the Auditor that the cheques and
cash remaining in the Treasury at the close of the
year should be refunded to the appropriate Votes
and redrawn in the following year. We should
point out that this procedure would not conflict with
the direction in Col. Reg. 288 that "expenditure
properly chargeable to the account of a given year
must, as far as possible, be met within the year
because