Careless performance of a demiplé duty preceeded from a careless action.
In my Case No evidence of Carelessness can be shown. I have honestly striven to protect the public from loss.
Therefore, I cannot see the justness of Censure in the view of His Excellency that I should be made responsible, in the absence of all Culpability or inefficiency, for a loss practically beyond Control and which, in common fairness, I maintain should fall to the public purse.
I do not admit (nor will anyone, I think, who understands the duties and working of a Mint) that the receipts given from one department to another mean more than an acknowledgement that a certain quantity of metal...