CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7] — Page 353

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Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hongkong,

26th March 1845. —

I have thi honer to acknowledge the

receipt of your letter of the 116t. Sustaul, yesterday

return to Office .

...

ow my

it would be murely doing the duty of the

Audit Bourd

Aly payments enamenced on the

27th May 1844, and I respectfully submit to

that my

Your Irscellency that,

Accounts be rendered

pom that date and that Ibe not required

کتنی ام

to involve myself in a responsibility correspondence with the Audit Board, payments of which I have no

Official

Cognizance and over which I had

I have the honor

Te, Jo, So.

[d] R. M. Martin.

for

no control.

True Copy.

(Syd 1

II Comelate

Chrif block.

(True copy) Maine

HyCol Leag

In reference to that portion of y

your

letter wherein it is stated that final bouchers

for $16,308.39 have been actually laying for

month's past in my Office, and were

eight

returned by me only the other day to the Surveyor

General with an intimation that I did not

to first, that I ame

want them "I beg te stati,

perfectly.

unconscious that any

Audited

Wuchers for the suid sum of $14,308-3€

-

(£. 3,973 -9.5) were finally transmitted to me,

and I have never seen,

A. E. Shelley Esq.

Auditer Several.

final Vouchers for

that