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to the arrangements at present

forse for the Audit

in

of the

Accounts of the Colony under

administration.

my

2.

been

For

This

subject has

ccupying my

attention

-

for some time, but the difficulties with which it is

biset, and perhaps also want of the nese

my

Technical

knowledge of the subject, have

prevented me from arriving

any very definite conclusion.

lat

3.

I am

informed -

that

This is

that,

to 1870, up

there

315

was an

a

Imperial Audit of HongKong - Accounts . For some time -previously, the necessity of a change had been occupying the attention of both the Imperial and the Local Authorities; and, after a full discussion of the question,.

principally directed to the

details

of the

system which was to be adopted here, the! Carl of Kimberley

of Kimberley intimated to the Governor the final

determination

į