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{d) SCHEDULE OF SUMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDIT OFFICE AS PAID, UNDER PROVISIONS OF SECTION 73, PUBLIC REVENUES ACT, 1926 Section 73, which, requires the Audit Office to disallow any sum as paid where the voucher for the actual receipt or payment has not been produced, empowers the Minister, on satisfactory evidence being produced that the requisite papers have been lost or destroyed or that it is not possible to obtain or replace them, to order that the relative sum be allowed. The powers of the Minister under section 73 have been delegated, to the Secretary to the Treasury in terms of section 15 of the Finance Act, 1937, and the following payments have been passed by the Audit Office pursuant to orders made under the delegated powers:—

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Department and Particulars. Reason. 1 Amount. Total Amount. Agriculture Purchase of publications Receipt unobtainable £ 0 s. 9 d. 0 £ s. 0 9 1,491 11 482 17 4 7 d, 0 O 5 6 Air Allotment Cost of tropical kit Goods and services Medical expenses Messing-expenses Pay and allowances Post Office schedules Repatriation expenses of servicemen's wives Travelling-expenses Voucher lost Receipt not obtained Vouchers lost Receipt not obtained Receipts not obtained.. Vouchers lost Vouchers lost Receipts not obtained Receipts not obtained 85 5 3 6 139 16 1 12 159 12 173 12 285 9 334 16 307 19 5 9 9 0 9 3 0 11 2 Army Allotments Freight charges Messing expenses : personnel returning from overseas Overtime .. - Post and Telegraph services Repatriation expenses of serviceman's wife Salaries Travelling-expenses Warrants destroyed by fire Receipt not obtained Receipts not obtained Vouchers lost Vouchers lost.. Receipts not obtained Voucher lost Receipts unobtainable 93 2 148 6 3 14 50 163 2 18 6 12 3 5 18 10 0 7 3 6 6 0 8 11 Customs Travelling-expenses of official representative travelling in North America Receipts unobtainable 4 7 6 Education Purchase of publications Purchase of publications Tolls Travelling-expenses Vouchers lost Receipts unobtainable Receipts not obtained Receipts not obtained 38 3 0 54 15 7 8 5 10 3 6 4 96 16 20 8 11 11 Electoral Expenses of Returning Officer, India Overtime Receipts unobtainable Voucher lost 11 9 1 7 3 8