numbers were
wend
- painted prior to the clamping; and lastly, the bon being imperfect from a hole in the bottom, would have been rejected by the Commissariat : Officers had it been offered for the reception of the Syce. That the frand has not-
been committed.
(by
A
Chinese : because
the wood, nails, and ink are not Chinese, and because it would have been easy for the person committing the fraud, had he been
a
Chinese, to
have procured a boy similar to the
wine ones, which he would. Jenuine
.....
undoubtedly have done as the risk of detection would have been thereby evidently diminished.
And 3.
That the substitution of the false for the original boy was, up to the time of the shipment of the Freasure,
at
the
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at Consulate wharf, totally impracticable, because in addition to the strict
precautionary measures a
adopted and enforced by the Commissariat Officers employed on the duty, it seems impossible that a box, the weight of which, when
is such as to require
filled with Sycee
Syeve is so
tive strong
q
men to lift it, could have
been removed, and another substituted in its place, in the presence, and under the close observation, of the several Officers superintending the receipt of the Freasure, and its transfer fromes the Hall of the Consulate to the adjacent wharf.
The Board are
2 further
inclined to believe that there is no
possibility of the commission of the frand during the transit of the Freasure from Canton to Her Majesty's Ship Castor
lying