CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935 — Page 15

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In this connection

We might send

for information

a

Cory I. F.S. Circular

No 18 34 which is

at (9)

on

3332234 Str. Bader

2012.

year, but that he is unable to authorise any

important

relaxation of the ad rule that payments can

only be charged to the date on which they are

made:

(2) that he agrees that it would be

undesirable that any modification, which may be

made in the present practice, should involve the

danger that payments may not be made to the

proper persons:

and suggesting

(3) that a partial solution of the difficulty

may possibly lie in the direction of an arrangement,

under which all payments of a routine nature, in

respect of the last month of the year, are made on

a date a few days before the end of the year, with

the object of allowing some days of grace during

which payments, which it has not been possible to

Still

ake on or before that date, can be made within the

financial year to which they relate:

and adding

(4) that, if a solution cannot be found

along these or similar lines, it would appear that

the only alternative will be to adopt the

suggestion of the Auditor that the cheques and

cash remaining in the Treasury at the close of the

year should be refunded to the appropriate Votes

and redrawn in the following year. We should

point out that this procedure would not conflict with

the direction in Col. Reg. 288 that "expenditure

properly chargeable to the account of a given year

must, as far as possible, be met within the year

because