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each Bank receipt, such details being posted in the cash

book daily or by the Treasurer giving credit each day in

his cash book to the various Heads of Departments for

the totals paid to the bank, the totals being transferred

to the respective items of revenue at the close of each month. The subsidiary book before mentioned, however,

however, gives

the exact state of the Bank account at any moment.

Rule 145 lays down that every sub-accountant shall send

his cash book or a certified ecount correct transcript

or summary of the same to the Treasurer accompanied by

the necessary supporting vouchers. A summary of the cash

book or daily abstract book is sent to the Treasurer

monthly from each department in the form of a collector's

account, showing the total amount received for each head

of service, the dates and the amounts of payments to the

bank and the grand totals but it is not seen how it can

be accompanied by the necessary supporting vouchers which

mainly consist of numbered counterfoils taken from books

in daily and hourly use.

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In rule 151 it is laid down that the accounts of the

Crown Agents shall be abstracted at the end of each month

as soon as they are received and entered in the daily ab-

stract book.

At present they are abstracted monthly

and incorporated quarterly with the Colonial accounts a5

far as returns to the Comptroller and Auditor General

are concerned but as regards the main ledger only yearly.

To abstract them and incorporate them

with the Colonial accounts monthly can easily be done;

it would only give a little more work and at this dis-

tance from home entail about a month's delay in rendering

the accounts for audit, but it is not seen what advantage

is