CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9] — Page 307

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inconplete, but I think much greater

accuracy

General

acould be obtained if the Poolmaster

avere directed to

pay

his entire

receipts into the Treasury leaving it to the Treasurer to make under this Excellency's Warrant the monthly remittances to the

London Post Office.

In this

way

the Auditor's cheek

would be through the Cash boost, in achich

should be entered day by day the receipto

as

they take place.

insufficiently paid

The receipts from

letters

arriving at

are received and

Hongting, which are but small in amount, should be placed in the tash bore at the side of the window as chey : in the evening they should be entered in the book and transferred to the chest. The

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receipts from Postage Stamps sold would of course be obverted by the stamps issued

The Collector's Accounts would require then simply to show the amounts fraid. into the Treasury

in the same

may

those of other Departments and the complicatid calculations and statements of outstanding balances would not be the Auditor could satisfy

necessary

himself from the Accounts Current from the

Ports and other sources achat these amounts

really: should be and the London Post office

avoried cheer the Colonial Treasurer's remittances.

The adoption of this principle is

simply carrying out the provisions of the Treasury instructions achich state that gross Revere should always be broughtto

ï account

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