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leave it to His Excellency the Governor to decide whether this part of the Instruction is to be adhered to merely stating that if the auditor's office (as it is to be considered) would appear to be implied by the recording of all accounts and of schedules of establishments and changes in them, of authorities (see articles 154, 27) and certificates and vouchers, then no doubt these agreements and estimates should be there recorded also.

"In those cases where any expense is sanctioned, the original authority for the particular expense is to be found; and when the work is completed, a statement is to be given, showing the amount authorized on the estimate, the amount upon which Agreement is incurred; the Governor's Authority and other correspondence together with a copy of the estimate is to be attached to the vouchers for the first charge; and in explanation of every charge in the same account brought forward in subsequent Quarters, reference is to be made to the warrant and account with which the original estimate and the several payments which on account, with the date of each payment, and this statement is to be attached with other vouchers in support of such final payment - the authority for which will be a special warrant in the form annexed."

I have conveyed to the Surveyor General the purport of this Instruction and enclose his reply marked C. Hitherto, as before observed, the Land Office has been working without instructions of any kind, and with barely sufficient force to carry on their duties. I am not, therefore, surprised at their requiring a clerk specially to carry out this Instruction and generally for the purpose of enabling them to render their accounts in due form.

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leave it to His Excellency the Governor to decide whether this part of the Instruction is to be adhered to merely stating that if the auditor's office (as it is to be considered) would appear to be implied by the recording of all accounts and of schedules of establishments and changes in them, of authorities (see articles 154, 27) and certificates and vouchers, then no doubt these agreements and estimates should be there recorded also. "In those cases where any expense is sanctioned, the original authority for the particular expense is to be found; and when the work is completed, a statement is to be given, showing the amount authorized on the estimate, the amount upon which Agreement is incurred; the Governor's Authority and other correspondence together with a copy of the estimate is to be attached to the vouchers for the first charge; and in explanation of every charge in the same account brought forward in subsequent Quarters, reference is to be made to the warrant and account with which the original estimate and the several payments which on account, with the date of each payment, and this statement is to be attached with other vouchers in support of such final payment - the authority for which will be a special warrant in the form annexed." I have conveyed to the Surveyor General the purport of this Instruction and enclose his reply marked C. Hitherto, as before observed, the Land Office has been working without instructions of any kind, and with barely sufficient force to carry on their duties. I am not, therefore, surprised at their requiring a clerk specially to carry out this Instruction and generally for the purpose of enabling them to render their accounts in due form. Art
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of any kind, and with barely sufficient force carry on their duties I am not. therefore surprised at their requiring a flert specially to carry out this Instruction and generally for the purpose of

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