CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898 — Page 30

In any further correspondence on this subject, the above number should be quoted,

C

and

the communication should be

uddressed to

The Comptroller and Auditor General.”

EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENT,“

SOMERSET HOUSE,

2988 29 IRE 9 FEC 99

8th February,189

LONDON, WRECE

which crossed the present letter

enquial &

No.

39.

Enc. in Enc. D also copy of an

I send for .

com 073

letter to A.0. L.F

Very 1,756.

[We had the Accounts & Table of Assets to direct from the flang in 12648/97]

22/2

sir,

1

I am directed by the Comptroller and Auditor General

to transmit to you, for the information of the Secretary of

State, a copy of the Annual Account of the Treasurer of

Hong Kong for the year 1896, to which the certificate of

the Comptroller and Auditor General has been appended,

together with a copy of the Statement of Assets and

Liabilities of the Colony on 31st December 1896.

I am at the same time to forward the Report of

the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Account,

together with Detailed Statements of Receipts and Expend-

iture, and to request that these Statements, being in

original, may be returned.

e Under Secretary of State,

I have the honour to be,

COLONIAL OFFICE.

Sir,

Your obedient servant

R. Janey Wool.

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