CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 526

5.

520

· repairs a surcharge against the Surveyor

be

General's salary, and

you

will inform the

Auditor General accordingly.

Ishall consult also with the latter

be brought

more

Officer

ab

to the best

meano

in

future of

necesary despite of the trouble thereby

entailed on

myself

that such matters

directly under

simmediate Surveillance.

12.

(Signed) NE. G. MAD.

my

devising some adequate control over

the

procedings of the Surveyor Gennal in the matter of repairs, so that, hereafter, none shall be undertatten in any Govemment "Building without the previous sanction of

the Governor,

and a

trawledge of the

expense contemplated. I am cominced that

much

ach of

the Public

is

money

Squandend

wastefully every year, and expended funsatisfactorily under the present System: and as with other branches of busines in the Surveyor General's Department it will