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RECORD OFFICE

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2 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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Return G.

Mauritius Estimates, 1868.

Ditto Supplementary Estimates, 1866.

Returns Z 1; Z 2.

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Supplementary Estimates, and Blue Book Returns, a Progress Statement of Expenditure on all public works (other than ordinary repairs) in progress or completed within the year of the Return, and exceeding a cost of 1,000 dollars for the entire work. This statement to be in the annexed form, which is that in use for Ceylon and Mauritius.

8. You will, lastly, forward with the Annual Estimates and Supplementary Estimates a Report from the Auditor-General on the financial arrange- ments of the year of Estimate, comparing the Esti- mates with previous Estimates and with ascertained results, explaining any material increase or diminu- tion of revenue and expenditure under the different heads; also explaining the effect, ascertained or estimated, of taxes imposed or taken off; and report- ing on the state of the cash balances, the claims to be met out of them at short date, and the other assets and debts of the Colony.

9. The financial information hitherto furnished respecting the Colony being very defective, Her Majesty's Government wish to receive in the Auditor-General's Report on the Estimates for the year 1869, a somewhat extended review of the finances of the Settlements. It is desirable that he should compare those Estimates not only with those for 1868, and with the actual results of the nine months of Colonial Administration in 1867, but also with the Returns for the last complete financial year of the Indian Administration.

10. I annex for the further assistance of your Government in framing the Annual Estimates, Supplementary Estimates, and Reports, a copy of the printed Estimates of the Government of Mauritius for the present year, accompanied by the Auditor-General's Report; also a copy of recent printed Supplementary Estimates of that Govern- ment. Your atteution is drawn to the Summary at page 76 of the Estimates, which it will be desirable that your Government should not omit.

11. You will forward in future, in anticipation of the annual Blue Book, as soon as the accounts for each past year are closed, Returns of Revenue and Expenditure, incorporating the Crown Agents' Ac- count, for the year in the forms annexed, to which should be added a separate Summary of the Crown Agents' Account, showing their cash balances at the

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