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at

only be charged the date on which

they are actually made.

3.

I agree, however, that it

would be undesirable that any modification

which may he made in the present practice

should involve the danger that payments

may not be made to the proper persons.

I suggest that a partial solution of

the difficulty may possibly he found in

an arrangement under which all payments

of a routine nature, in respect of the

financial

last month of the year, are made on a

1

date a few days before the end of that

year, with the object of allowing some

days of grace during which payments,

which it has not been possible to make

on or before that date, can still he

made within the financial year to

which they relate. In this connection,

I enclose for your information a copy

of Federated Malay States Federal

Secretariat

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