REPORTS

OF

COMMITTEES

APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO

ADMIRALTY AND DOCKYARD ADMINISTRATION AND EXPENDITURE.

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.

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1886.

CONTENTS.

Page.

148

First Report of Committee upon the Financial Arrangements at the Admiralty
First Report of Committee upon Dockyard Expenditure
Second Report of Committee upon Dockyard Expenditure

Second Report of Committee upon the Financial Arrangements at the Admiralty

Copy of Order in Council defining duties of the Accountant-General of the Navy

Report of Committee upon the Re-arrangement of the Department of the Accountant-General of the

Navy

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Admiralty Instructions to Committee upon Dockyard Management

155

First Report of Committee upon Dockyard Management. Recommendations as to Instructions to

Civil Assistants to the Admiral Superintendents of Dockyards

171

Memorandum as to Establishment of independent Audit of Yard Accounts and of Instructions to

Inspector of Yard Accounts

175

FIRST REPORT

OF A

COMMITTEE

APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE

FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS AT THE

ADMIRALTY.

4th August 1885.

I HAVE appointed C. Ritchie, Esq., M.P., Sir R. Welby, K.C.B., Secretary of the Treasury, E. MacGregor, Esq., C.B.. and Sir G. FitzGerald, K.C.M.G., to form a Committee to consider what new rules and alterations in the present system of conducting business at the Admiralty are necessary to ensure an effective control over the expenditure of the different departments.

GEORGE HAMILTON.

ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL,

5th August 1885.

I AM to acquaint you that my Lords have been pleased to appoint a Departmental Committee to consider what new rules and alterations in the present system of conducting business at the Admiralty are necessary to ensure an effective control over the expenditure of the different departments, and I am to request that you will act as a member of this Committee.

Your colleagues in this matter will be

Mr. C. T. Ritchie, M.P. (Chairman), Mr. Evan MacGregor, C.B., and Sir Reginald Welby, K.C.B., Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, with Mr. Main, of your Department, who will act as Secretary.

The first meeting of the Committee will be held in the Board Room of the Admiralty on Friday next, the 7th instant, at 3 o'clock.

By Command of their Lordships,

EVAN MACGREGOR.