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The Board having assembled proceeded in the first place to read the Minute marked A authorizing the
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formation of the Board; the letter marked B. being Despatch N°51, dated 23*f. 1846, from the Right Honorable W. & Gladstone, M. P. Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hongkong; and the correspondence marked C, forming the Enclosure to the Despatch above
mentioned.
The Board thewaddressed Letter N = 1 to F. C. Macgregor Eure. Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton and adjourned until the following Monday.
20%. July, 1846.
The Board being assembled,
Deputy Commissary General Miller, Assistant Commissary General Goldsmithe,
and
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and Mr Fagan, Clerk of the Commissariat
were requested to attend.
Wr. Goldsmith submitted the
No2 annered written statement, marked Nr.
2, which was then read.
Mr Fagan corroborated the above mentioned statement in every particular,
Mr Miller stated that the
course
adopted by Mr Goldsmith in the reception
of the money was in perfect arendance
with established customs. He then
produced two empty boves and one containing the boy and the lead by means of which the fraud had been committed. "The two former
o former were recognized by = Mess Goldsmith, and Pegaw, and by Roan, Government Compradore, as of those
in
which the Treasure was packed at Canten July last . With these the false box.
in
minutely compared.
numbered 130, was mis
In