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Court and

my

whole time would not

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audit

suffice if I had to personally

all the

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more

important departments.

of Government.

In

my

despatch N. 105 of the

20th November 1879, paragraph 6, 9 — informed die Michael Bioks Beach that

I had, as a

· temporary and provisional

measure, allowed Mr. Marsh to

appropriate the sum of $1200 (which

the Secretary of State thought would ~

have been saved)

for

the

pay of a third

Clerk in the Audit Office. For this temporary work M. Marsh selected a Portuguese Clerk, J. Freire; and I learn

· from the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Snowden that it is to this temporary

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Clerk the audit of the Accounts of the Supreme Court is practically given. M. Marsh is aware that I do not

approve of

this mode of doing the Audit Work, and

propose, with Your Lordship's sanction

instrecoting the duditor General to make a personal audit of the accounts of the Supreme Court month.

every

I have the honour to be,

My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Bedient

Humble Servant,

Dec.