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and

if

his judgment be deemed insufficient I can have no hesitation in submitting the whole ease to the Commissary General

Ad

I shall lay before His Excellency the à September and December Quarterly Account surrent shewing the payments made to each Department

complete as the Vouchers rendered will permit & if those accants be deemed insufficient by the Auditor let that Officer require from each stead of a Department a distinct quarterly abstract shewing the amount of money received from the Colonial Treasury, between the first and last days of each quarter, classified as to its disbursement under the distinct heads of

1st Established Salaries

2. Paovisional & Allowances

3. Ordinary Contingencies

4th Special Disbursements

and lastly how much still remains under advance to be hereafter finally vouched -

this statement if rendered with proper &

vouchers would enable me to render the authorized form of

account within one

week.

I have se

(Sd) P.M. Martin.

Jane bopy

Auditor.

Para. 5.

91953.

Colonial Office Victoria

Hongkong 3 February 1845

I am directed by this Excellency the

you

any

Governor to Convey to his instructions not to snake further payments out of the monies under your change until the Accounts of the December Quarter are rendered with the exception of the special Warrant of this date for the sum of £1264.9.3/1⁄2 which you are to pay to the Surveyor General

on his receipt as it comprizes the Wages due to Chinese Workmen who cannot pass the period of their new year without payment However inconvenient this enspension of payment must prove to the Public Service the serious state of arrear, into which the Accounts have fallen compels His Excellency to adopt it

I have de,

[d] GRABmee

Colonial Secretary

(Irne Copy)

black of Cormeils .