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were
personally that his instructions carried out. The responsibility attaching to
one, snore
the Auditor General is no light especially as the office of Treasurer is entrusted to a person who holds another office, the
duties of which have to be attended to, in the first instance. This officer is sometimes the Registrar General sometimes a Police Magistrate and is at the present moment the Superintendent of the Gaol. He can hardly therefore be looked upon (a as) Financial Officer. With this responsibility attaching to the post of Auditor, it does not seem to be fair to throw the burthen thereof on the Colonial Secretary who has
who has scarcely
any
time to devote to the supervision of the Establishment.
8.
It would in my opinion be quite
possible to combine the office of Auditor with
some other Head of Department who
that of
of
has less work than the Colonial Secretary--
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provided that such officer had some · practical.
acquaintance with the duties of the office, a condition that I look upon as most important under the present circumstances. Of all Government Officials in this Colony I believe that the Colonial Secretary is the
one
who
has least time at his disposal to undertake
extra duties. When the two offices
any first combined 9
that it was
Car
were
quite understand possible for him to perform both duties. A glance at the difference in buck of the monthly bundles of vouchers. for Expenditure at that and at the presint
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