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any further correspondence on this subject,

the above number should be quoted,

and

addressed to

the communication should be

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"The Comptroller and Auditor General.”

SOMERSET HOUSE,

LONDON, W.C.

14 January 1892

C. O.

456

Ser

830

RECP

(Rec 15 JAN 32'

}

227

I am directed by the Comptroller and

& Auditor General to inform you

3th returned

that he has

: carefully considered the correspondence from Hong Kong, forwarded in a letter from Sir R. G. Herbert the 28th ultimo, together with the draft of a proposed Despatch in reply; on the subject of the duties of the treasurer

of

under the new Financial Instructions.

In October last Mr. Nicolle reported. conversation he had had with the Freasurer, which is no doubt alluded to in the Second

and the opiniond

-

letter of Mr Mitchell - Inncs expressed by the local Auditor appeared to this Department to be

one or

very reasonable.

There are

two small points in the answer which it is proposed to send on which, the Comptroller and Auditor General would venture to suggest some alteration

1. It has not been understood that the local

Auditor should "make Surprise Surveys "of the Cash in the hands of Collectors of Revenue :

The Now K. H. Meade NI.

indeed