CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845 — Page 228

recording Estimates, Contracts, and sperial Couthorities, which are to scopport and ducidate particular Items in the Ceccounts, and the copying such documents in the Auditor's Office, appears from the linditer's not observation, (N°11) to have been equally overlooked.___

The Copy of authority sent with

A

the account, and which will apply to - future account when the Service is not complete, may occupy three pass, but the record of the authority will probably comist of a very few words only; and when the authoritic leur reformu to changes of a fixed nature, the insertin of the allowed charges in a Bock (under the title of Schedule Jestablishment and Fixed Allowances ) only porther requires the date of the Ceuthurity to le written opponte..

Ith Rewrd of Authorities under

637

this system cannot occupy much timme, neither. can the comparison

of the charges with the authorities be

laborious, although proundings

very

rsson

may arise out of such compart

which will expeye time and consfel

Cetention; but for this

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it would not be proper to transfer. cony part of the important duty this check to the Secretvory; the insertion by this Officer of the Dates of Gropatikes, opposite operial charges, whether in

the Consular or any would not, in our Opinion, be sufficient.

With respect to Contests;

other account

it is not mussary that they be copied ;

that they should. - the Name of Contractor,

the artide contracted for, - prin apud, period of supply, duration of Contrast, and penalty in case of failure,

core alim

necessary for record; and these particulars

le entired in ruled Columme of a

mery

this

Contrast