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to my satisfaction and he suggested that a separate Auditor General

should be appointed, so as to allow him (W March) to devote his whole Official hours to the rutier of Colonial Secretary.

2.

I

was unable at the

time to see the absolute necessity

for reconstituting the separate -

· Office of Auditor General. Thereupon Mis March, in the

1f

full

exercise

his rights, appeales from my opinion to the recision of Six Michael Hicks Beach.'

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3.

f1

State upheld my

The Secretary of

matter, and the Officer acting

view of the

as

flonial

falonical Secretary has continued to

be the head also of the Arsit Office.

4.

Я

am bound however, to admit that some years further,

experience induces me,

though

out Mis

with some reluctance, to recognize the experiency of carrying March's suggestion

*

The circumstances

connected with the defalcations

the fivil Hospital as reported

in

in my despatch N 48 of 295

of April, 1881, the

found in

getting

difficulty

the late

Acting flonial Secretary, Qt Stewart, to personally Audit

every