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August you said that you had not had the Secretary

of State's sanction, given specifically in an official

letter, for several items of expenditure since the

26th of December, 1941, but that you have had authority

for action conveyed to you in a great many cases by

minute, semi-official letter, and otherwise.

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It is not prol

without excar

mining

the form

form in

which authority was

given

the

I think agreed at our meeting the other day, that fou

a.dequately covered authority conveyed in any of these ways could be regarded

any wiat I suppose noone is liked to raise any objection as sufficient for the purposes of the Order in Couneit.

this

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If it should be found (in the course of an

audit or otherwise) that any payments have been made

by the Crown Agents without proper authority, we should

then have to consider what action ought to be taken to

regularise such payments.

on each occasion to say

whether, from strit ecgul

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standpoint, it is eufficient for

the purposes of du

Order in Council,

but

as

Yours sincerely,

J. J. Pascin