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It is hardly necessary to say that is
absolutely impossible to carry out the mass on new duties
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imposed on the Treasurer which now include the examination
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of accounts in auuition to the preparation referred to
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in the despatch above quoted, unless an adequate staff be
supplied. Under the old system the Treasury was concerned
simply with the receipt and uisbursement of public moneys
and the furnishing of returns of Revenue and Expenditure
the compilation, au justment and examination of accounts,
the maintenance of accuracy, &c, &c, being performed by
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the Audit Office. A reference to the New Financial Ins-
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tructions, especially to the paragrapliu 1,2,5,6,7,12,29,
04,56,57,58,öð,40,51,64,66,71,118,119,120, and 127
will
shew at a glance what the Treasurer's duties are now.
The entire work formerly performed by the Audit Office
has been transferred to the Treasurer, the Local Auditor
sccupying himself with a further examination preparatory
to sending on the account for final inspection in England.
I therefore entirely agree with the
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late Treasurer in considering the audition of the
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to the Treasury staff indispensable, if the scheme
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introquced into this Colony by the
Secretary of State is
to be properly carried out. If fewer clerks are to be sup-
plied the work will we proportionately less perfectly
performed.
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The duties of these clerks will be to
carry out the provisions of the paragraphs referred to above,not the least important of which will be the out-door
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