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August you said that you had not had the Secretary
of State's sanction, given specifically in an official
letter, for several items of expenditure since the
26th of December, 1941, but that you have had authority
for action conveyed to you in a great many cases by
minute, semi-official letter, and otherwise.
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the form
form in
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I think agreed at our meeting the other day, that fou
a.dequately covered authority conveyed in any of these ways could be regarded
any wiat I suppose noone is liked to raise any objection as sufficient for the purposes of the Order in Couneit.
this
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If it should be found (in the course of an
audit or otherwise) that any payments have been made
by the Crown Agents without proper authority, we should
then have to consider what action ought to be taken to
regularise such payments.
on each occasion to say
whether, from strit ecgul
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standpoint, it is eufficient for
the purposes of du
Order in Council,
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as
Yours sincerely,
J. J. Pascin