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be adopted in future.

On the 15th April 1875 an application was received by Mr. Smith, the Acting Colonial Secretary, from W. Hebb, Control Department, for payment of the Military Contribution for March Quarter of 1875. No note was taken of this application, Mr. Smith recording on it that notice of it could not be taken, as it had not come through the Assistant Military Secretary.

On the 23rd April, Captain Molony, Assistant Commissary General, wrote privately to Mr. Smith to point out that all transactions about raising and issuing money were Treasury questions and not Military Office questions, and that consequently the Military Secretary had nothing whatever to do with them, and on the 27th April Captain Molony wrote officially to the Acting Colonial Secretary renewing the application for payment of the Military Contribution for the March Quarter.

Meanwhile, however, on the 26th April, Mr. Smith had written privately to the Assistant Military Secretary, and had asked him whether the Major General's memo was intended to apply even to purely Financial Matters, as hitherto in all matters in which the Controller was acting as the authorized Agent of the Treasury,

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58 be adopted in future. On the 15th April 1875 an application was received by Mr. Smith, the Acting Colonial Secretary, from W. Hebb, Control Department, for payment of the Military Contribution for March Quarter of 1875. No note was taken of this application, Mr. Smith recording on it that notice of it could not be taken, as it had not come through the Assistant Military Secretary. On the 23rd April, Captain Molony, Assistant Commissary General, wrote privately to Mr. Smith to point out that all transactions about raising and issuing money were Treasury questions and not Military Office questions, and that consequently the Military Secretary had nothing whatever to do with them, and on the 27th April Captain Molony wrote officially to the Acting Colonial Secretary renewing the application for payment of the Military Contribution for the March Quarter. Meanwhile, however, on the 26th April, Mr. Smith had written privately to the Assistant Military Secretary, and had asked him whether the Major General's memo was intended to apply even to purely Financial Matters, as hitherto in all matters in which the Controller was acting as the authorized Agent of the Treasury, Page 60 Page 61

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be adopted in future .

On the 15th

the

* April 1875 an application O was received by Mr Smith the Acting Colonial secretary from Ww= hebb Control Department for payment of the Military Contribution for March Quarter of 1875. Of thes Application no notée was taken, Mr muth recording on it that notice of it could not be taken, as it had not come through the Assistant Military decrctary.

On the 23rd April. Capitani Meolony Assistant Commissary General wrote privately to Mrr Smith to point out that all transactions about raising and issuing money

Treasury

were

Questions and not Mar Office questions

And that

consequently the Several had nothing whatever to do with them, and on the 27th April Captain Molony wrote officially to the Acting Colonial secretary renewing the Application for payment of the Military Contribution for the March Quarter.

Meanwhile however on the 26th April M. Smith had written

privatel to the Assistant Military Cecretary,

and had asked him whether the

Major General's memo was intended to apply wven to

6 purely Financial Matters, as hitherto in all matters in which the Controller was acting as the authorized Agrut of the

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