CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 424

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Roll for transmission home without having audited I discovered the

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it, and

fast from the Land

office. On my asking why he had not ausiter, and sooner sent homes, the last June quarterly Accounts, after he has received them from the

Teasurer, the excuse was that "the Audit Office in London was so much in arreas that it was

useless. ." My Bespotah to 102 informed your Lorship that the larges

portion

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portion of Mn Shelley 1601

duties (the

intended

auditing of the Consulars Recounts) was performed in the Superintendent's Office, and this was the gradual consequence of his evasive negligence,

the well

Known principle, that it

is better the do

a

thing

oneaself, than trust to such character, for it's pers

the

a

=formance. Allowing un Shelley the cresit of signing

Atese documents was, in

art of injustice

reality,

☆ the real Auditors. X

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