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to examine Mr Davies' books, and
dicide the point.
b.
I may
add that there is
no
are in the Polary more competent to settle such a question than Mr. Silva,
and indeed the matter
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plain
chat Mr Davies did not day it,
I said if thise
Mas a.
he had not the
but
deficiency and if
to meet it in
the Bullion office, it must be paid by
Mr Kinder or the Gonner, and not him a conclusions obviously oppord to that which his
ly
books established.
If they shaved, as thing did), the receipt of certain; sums, and did not also account for etiam, I presume that like adier Public Accountants he should
be held liable, unbes he could obtain
a
release
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av
application to Gorunment,
and fuc of of a strong probability that
the deficiency
Was
only apparent and
from a defective and)
had arisen fran
complicated system of accounts
minor point like that of the Pyx pieces.
A budamenez Mr Silva's report on the subject, which
I inclose, is sufficiently explanatory, and
usefully anggration for the Future.
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I therefore,
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no excuse)
whatever for Mr Davies' refusal to
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his accounts and abide by the decision of the Audit Cluse. Such a
refusal
was a direct not of insulordivating
and when
a ccava
panied by
insolent
and disrespectful conduct, of the