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D.0.0.
1.
I have recently alerted you as to the necessity of taking your accounting duties very seriously, as a result of the recent disappearance of Mr. Chung Tse Chuen with a large sum of money.
2.
Finance
Again I draw your attention to General
Orders, Chapter XI -
F.0.0. 233 to 249. As far as I remember, owing to the fact that the Dept. has only one copy of General Orders, Taipo made a copy of Chapter XI, or the most important parts of it.
3.
I attach for your guidance an index I have made for easy reference to the Orders which most closely concern you.
4.
You should draw my attention as soon as possible to General Orders which you consider it, under present circumstances
a) impossible, or
b) very difficult
to carry out, with recommendations for meeting these difficulties.
5.
There is an inevitable conflict between your duties as Sub- Accountants and your other important duties, especially in so far as the latter require you to be sometimes out of your offices for long periods. Please understand however that you must be at great pains to arrange your absences from your offices so as to prejudice as little as possible the proper performance of your sub-accounting duties.
6.
I enclose for Yuen Long's most rapid possible use a copy of General Orders which I have been able to borrow from the Secretariat only till the end of this month. Yuen Long should pass to Taipo as soon as his Typist has made a copy of whatever he meeds. Typist has no time for this.
Regret my
sgd: J. Barrow,
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