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51/7555 ...... 2 Aug't 1851

[encircled] A. O. ... 1601. ... 11/5/51

£40. 5. 4 inward [?]

Thos. Alford

Urging payment of a/cs [accounts] for rations & Forage supplied to Assist't Surveyor Bagot

_________

Drayton

July 16th 1851

To The Honorable the

Col. Secretary

Sydney

Sir,

On the 22nd March last I forwarded to the Bank of New South Wales Brisbane two orders on the Colonial Treasury with the a/c's [accounts] annexed being for rations and forage supplied as Government Contractor to Mr Assistant Surveyor Bagot.

In Warrant.

The order for forage was ......................... £ 22. 13. 0

The other for rations am'g [amounting] to ... 40. 5. 4

.............................................................. __________

.................................. making together ... £62. 18. 4

............................................................. ___________

It is now nearly four months since I forwarded the a/c's to the Brisbane Bank, and from the letter just rec'd from

the

the Manager of the Bank, he states that they are not paid.

I shall feel much obliged by your informing me, the reason why they have not been paid, and by your expediting the payment of them, as the now payment of them has put me to serious inconvenience and loss.

I have the honour to be

Sir

your most Ob't S't

[signed] Thomas Alford

[diagonal marginalia, from bottom-left corner of page, turned sideways]

Referred for the Report of the Auditor General

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for the Colonial Secretary

[signed] W Elyard Jn'r

To be returned

[in another hand]

Inform'd

... 11 Aug't 1851

............. Noted

[in a third hand]

The Sum of £22. 13. 0 was placed in Warrant on 1st May last, and the Sum of £40. 5. 4 on 16th July.

........ Audit Office

............. 12 Aug 51.

Returned C. S. O.

15: August

... [initials] JMcL.

[in a fourth hand]

Inform

....... 15[th]

[in a fifth hand]

Mr Alford

22 August 1851

[tick through the above]

[on round franking stamp, in top fold of page, turned sideways]

SYDNEY * NEW SOUTH WALES * AU * 1 ... 1851

[illegible oval stamp, on right of the above]

[address, in middle fold of page, turned sideways]

O. H. M. S.

To the

Hon'ble the Col. Secretary

Sydney

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