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Secretary. In fact he received the
Keys of the Linen Presses
as
being the
proper Officer to take charge of the premises and their contents. Considering, however, that the Orderly (an Indian Police Constable) would report to him anything that required attention he took
No
steps for
The maintenance of
the building and its furniture in
proper order. Nor did he send
any
Officer of this Department to look after
it at periodical or exceptional occasions.
47. This entire absence of
precautionary Measures must be
considered as shewing a great neglect
of duty, and to it must be attributed
a portion of the damage
which resulted.
38. Having
now concluded our
Report on the special points referred to
in Mr. ...'s Memo? and other papers laid before
us,
we have
beg leave to add a
few words
on matters
which incidentally
came under our
notice
during
the
course
of our enquiry
of late
years
(work under contracts) has been performed
according to a Schedule
of
Prices.
This Schedule was drawn up by the
Royal Engineers, and have
Government works have their bills
made out
in accordance with the Schedule
though with a deduction
of
the
deduction of 20%
on the
prices given.
No matter what