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as a
surety of Mr. Gibbons has been injuriously affected by Mr Gibbons having been deprived of control over the accounts and original vouchers for monies which
have come into his hands.
2.
In the
accompanying
minutes and letters, Your Lordship will
see a
full report from the Chief Justice dated the 28th Ultimo in which he
in
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"The short answer to this
says:
vague complaint
is that the Auditor has passed, in fact,
all the accounts of Mr. Gibbons." And
in a subsequent paragraph Sir John Smale
says:-
I never to my Knowledge had
paper from Mr. Gibbons office without
This express consent. In illustration
of the way at " Gibbons
Mr. Gibbons Kept his papers, the
Chief Justice mentions that the Registrar
on one occasion sent for a detective to
recover a valuable paper
he had lost;
and that, whilst waiting for the
detective, the paper
was found
in a confused
mass of documents on a
table
before Mr. Gibbons.
3.
On the whole, I am
of
no
opinion that Mr. I. U. Thomson had sufficient ground for making the complaint he addressed to the Crown Agents in his letter of the 20th of September, 1880.
4.
This complaint has however done good in bringing to my
notice the terms of the Bond
by which
Mr Thomson became
one
of the Sureties