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Certainly, it would be much better to have him make a separate report on each undertaking, however small, or at all events for every work of $50 and show the present state of each. There would not be more than a few additional hours of clerical labor requisite for such a report, and it would introduce light into details now kept in the dark as much as possible.
11. Not merely, however, does he endeavour, as I have said, to elude Government surveillance of the details of his expenditure, but he actually, as a general rule, incurred that expenditure, or a great part of it, at least during my absence, before receiving authority to do so by approval of his monthly requisition for expenditure contemplated in the following month. When I returned on the 8th December, I found he had not sent in his requisition for that month - and altogether I believe that in no one instance can it be proved that he obtained the consent of the Executive for the ensuing month's expenditure before the termination of the current month. Therefore, unless a Governor be prepared to shut his eyes to such extravagant and greatly unbusinesslike...
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general rule, incurred that
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great fart of it. at least
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authority to do so
by approval of
his
monthly requisition for expenditure contemplated in the following month. When I returned on the 8th Decemkr
I found he has not sent in his requisition for that mouth - aus altogether I believe that in no one instance can it be proves that he oblained the Conscut of the bxecutive for the
ensuing month expenditure before the ŵrmination of the current month. Therefore miles a Foremo be prepared to shut si
eyes
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