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audit applied, and any special questions arising out 
of the accounts. In Colonies where the Auditor is 
responsible to the Director of Colonial Audit, he will 
furnish this report to the Director of Colonial Audit 
and to the Colonial Secretary. In other Colonies he 
will address the report to the Colonial Secretary for 
the information of the Governor and for transmission 
to the Secretarv of State. 
846. The Governor will report forthwith for the 
decision of the Secretary of State any case in which 
he has over-ruled the maintained opinion of the Auditor 
in any matter relating to the public accounts. 
K. Stores. 
347. Local purchases of stores should be confined 
to articles produced in the Colony or to articles whic, 
owing to special circumstances, can be purchased as 
advantageously in the Colony as they can be ordered 
from abroad. 
348. Any stores which may be purchased in the 
Colony should, unless the estimated cost is less than 
an amount to be laid down by local regulation, be 
obtained by contract after public tender. Tf, how- 
ever, no tenders are made or the Governor has ground 
for belief that the tenders sent in are collusive or 
unreasonable, other arrangements may be made. All 
tenders will be submitted to a Board of not less than 
three persons appointed by the Governor. 
349. All requisitions from a Colony for stores re- 
quired from the United Kingdom, or from countries 
not being adjacent to a particular Colony, will be sent 
direct in duplicate to the Crown Agents by the Colonial 
Government if the expenditure has been duly 
canctioned