Store keeper's Department, being called, statis that the nails sent out in the brown paper, ( supposed to be those drawn in England from box N130) are English nails; that the whole of bor 130 is
English wood, but the lid is pine wood and of a different quality from the sides of the bors; that the stowage wood is Chinese, and of the same sort as,
though longer than, that, usually sold to the ships here for firing by the native bumboats; that the ropes of the two
to genuine
boxes are Manila: hemp, and of box 130 English rope, but not such as is ever used
in
war, as it has no thread through
ships of war,
it; that there is nothing particular in the knots of the ropes of boy 130, they being such
as might have been fastened by any one; and
in the seal
that there is a
great difference holes of the bones, those of the genuine boves having been bored with a centre-bit, while
those
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thase of bon 130 have been cut by a gouge.
Aoan, Compradore, being again
called, states that the marks on the boxes with the exception of the figures,
were made
by means of a tin plate cut for the purpose; so that all the.
e genuine boxes, were, up to the numbers, minutely similar; and that bou 130 has evidently not been marked in the the letters being larger and
same manner,
wider.
22 d. July, 1846.
The Board discussed the
and 7, and
ad adjourned till
foregoing evidence,
tomorrow
23th July, 1846
The Board received and considered.
Nr._ a letter from Assistant Commissary Incent
Goldsmith, in which further valuable
suggestions