Gouix perennially imperil the small
receipt
and
payment of
the numerous
and large sums of money perpetually
going
Mr.
5. In the Treasury here such payments over the Counter are reduced to a minimum by the plan, which I suggest and sketched for that purpose in my dispatch No. 105 of the 10th September, 1869. Thereby the Oriental Bank is made the principal payer as well as recipient of all public account, and consequently this system combined with that of a daily payment into the Bank every afternoon of monies received before 2.30 P.M., is the guarantee
to the Colony of the
safety and regularity of all monetary transactions at the Treasury ... Therefore although Mr Smith may be, alleged, actually in the Treasury passing most of those transactions, I submit, that the real security afforded to the Public depends on arrangements quietly understood with Mr Smith; his presence or absence in the Treasury.
6. On the whole I see no reason to suppose that any risk is incurred by the Public on that account. A trustworthy person of Mr Smith's known habits and special experience, is available to attend adequately if the...