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Hongkong.

RECEIVED

12 JUL.1909 CUL OFFICE

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My Lord,

Government House,

Hongkong, 9th. June,

1909.

I have the honour to inform Your

Lordship that I have recently had under consideration the

question of the audit of the Expenditure Accounts of this

Colony.

2.

My attention was drawn to the

matter by a small Committee, which I appointed in November

last to inquire into the expenditure of the various De-

-partments and to suggest what economies, without sacrifice

to efficiency, might be effected therein. I attach extract

from the Committee's Report.

3.

For the correspondence which lead

to the institution of the present system, I would refer

Your Lordship to the Despatches noted in the margin or to

hcretary of State to Governor:

Circular of 18th.September,1888.) lovernor to Secretary of State: No. 114 of 30th. March,1889. lecretary of State to Governor: No. 189 of 4th.October,1889.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF CRIME,

80 - 1

) Sessional Paper No. 21 of 1889 in

which they were reproduced.

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