CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12] — Page 50

conclusion that one more blerk is absolutely necessary for me; indeed I have been paying for one occasionally out of my own pocket which I cannot afford to continue to do and I

am

one, and to

: therefore reluctantly compelled respectfully to submit another application for reply to the Report of the Commissioners by showing that I have good reason for making

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The Commissioners for Audit may perhaps have overlooked the circumstance

that the Consular Accounts

which have

are

very heavy.

There are at this moment fifteen sets of Consular Accounts to be finally audited

come into my Office for exannination at irregular periods as they

- received from the Five Ports.

were

I have depended chiefly upon Mr. Elmslie's certificate of examination in i passing

these tecounts and have looked.

myself

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myself to the computations and castings and balances brought down, and in so

doing I believe that I am borne out by a letter,

by a letter from Mr. Trevelyan to H. U. Addington 6.197. dated 24th February

: 1844 which was forwarded

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by Lord Aberdeen to Your bxcellency Despatch No 10 dated 28th February 1844 + with three Enclosures. At the same time I remark that the Commissioners of Audit their Report, now under reply do not deem the checking and verifying of these Accounts

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in the Superintendent of Trade's Department"

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-efficient Audit. The Debtor side of the Consular Accounts I could only

eramine

by going through the borrespondence of Your + Excellency with the several Consulates.

are:

The three chief duties in my Office

the Record Department __ the

erfamination

of Accounts and the Correspondence.

The following

are the books which I

keep