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has been arranged that the respective accounts should be compared, and;

if possible, adjusted by

atv

officer

of the sindit Department the Colonial

Of

Government, and an

Lent, and an officer appointed

by

12.

the Major General Commanding.

His Rxcellency has

had an interview with the Auditor General, and it appears that there are two or three ponits on which it

necessary fagreed to by superior Authority before

the accounts can be satis fo

can be satisfactorily

that a basis should be

adjusted by the above officers.

3.

The first is as to

whether the rate of exchange from

sterling in the case of

dollars into sterling

rocal payment

and he calculateu

at the market rate on

the

day

021-

which the requisition was sent by

master or on the a

the Paymaster

which the

payment

Who

day

on L

made. The

Cajor General Commanding

does not

consider

consider this point of very serious nichortance, and as the previous

calculations which have been made

have been calculated from the date of payment, and it is doubtful.

whether the date.

of

the requisition

has in all cases been preserved.

thinks it will in ordinary cases be

day

better to take the rate on the da of payment as the basis of the - calculation. In the case, however, of the requisition for $15,000 sent on the 24th of Karch 1890 but not honoured he thinks that the date of the requisition

should be adopted.

4.

The second point is as

to the rate at which payments made subsequent 10 the 31t of March 1890. should be calculana. The shapor General Commanding

a full

is of

corsideration of the quistion is

opinion that any

balance due -

·

after the 31st of March should be

calculated