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"effects which with lens to support such an assertion.
3rdly - Answers The contradictory and · false given by Mr Gunthorpe as to the time at which some of these payments were made by him to Mr Newman. If they _ His denial of all knowledge of these brokers' licenses, until the receipt of the fees 8th. The fact that he dealt with other receipts of the office (Shipping fees) : upon which there was a second Check manner; i.e retaining in a different them in his own hands until paid into the Treasury.
6thly The circumstances connected with the Pay list for February the whole "amount of which, with the exception of a few dollars, was is for some unaccountable reason advanced by Mr. Gunthorpe out of. as he states his own. private resources.
Thus it appears that there is a defalcation in a tion in a public department » that the receipt of the funds unaccounted for is traced to an officer of that department who is known by the Government to have been until lately in circumstances and found to have very straitened yet that Officer is a considerable sum in his possession which he describes as his Fron private resources but for the possession of which he can give no satisfactory account, In the absence then of a full and satisfactory explanation as to the