CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880 — Page 70

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itter dated Hong Kong. 28'80. Dong

Chinos have been vetting advice

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and advise until they are also liable implicitly and it is

on that I am bound by one Contract and have induced you

and me Governor to it bound also

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but

Settling and bills as I do.

The section the Chief Justice takes

this

and for which he has now obtained

Governor, his past discovered an old letter written by the sanction of the Governor it Arthur Kennedy several years ago in which it is laid down that he "is the responsible head

of the Office and in that capacity he claims

to interfere in every possible way with my work and insists that all

Correspondence

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correspondence shall, pass through him and that he shall have access to

papers he chooses out of my files and official roles and he has

"gone so far as to take away

Ex "Original vouchers on which bills

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to discharge myself & monies

which have come

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my hands "will show how seriously this affects

"you as my surety. I. I am to be responsible for the

The receipt of Monies

and all monies come into my hands

I must have the sole control

"of the accounts and vouchers and

"Cannot permit of any interference 'until after the Auditor has discharged "one from responsibility.

By the Governor's action I am now

placed at ...

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