was taken amounting to $2,011 from the Iron Safe in his office in May, 1860. The suspected thief was a Coolie in the office who disappeared at the time, and has never since been heard of. Mr. Caldwell was immediately fined/under stoppages of $100 per month for six months, though no negligence was imputed to him, and afterward was only paid half of his Salary till his subsequent resignation.

10. Again, when a robbery of Public money of a less amount recurred at the Magistrates office, the Magistrates made up the deficiency themselves. Knowing the principles that would be enforced.

11. I cannot therefore dance to Mr Manning's objection that receipts given in the Mint by one department to another only mean an acknowledgment of a certain quantity of metal received by one officer from another for working to be professionally dealt with, returning to the proper channel what remains,

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