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: Council
on a
charge of misappropriating
certain monies.
2.
I enclose for Your
Lordship's information copies of the
various
papers
in the
case,
beginning
with a report from the Auditor General,
of 6th March in January, 1980
3.
When the first deficiency
in Mr. Senna's accounts was discovered
on his own confession, in January 1880,
I acted with some reluctance,
on Mr. Marsh's recommendation that Mr.
Senna should not be dismissed.
4.
Towards the end of the year 1880, however I found it necessary
to appoint a Board to report on Mr. Senna's accounts and conduct. After
the Board had reported on 20th January to 26th February 1881,
some further defalcations of Mr. Senna were detected, whereupon he was interdicted and the usual proceedings were taken with a view to his suspension.
5.
Mr. Senna did not send any reply to the charges, nor did he defend himself before the Executive Council either in writing or personally when required to do so.
6.
Your Lordship will no doubt observe that in the course of the enquiry it transpired that the Auditor General had delegated the audit of Mr. Senna's accounts to a temporary clerk, and that unfortunately, the proper steps had not been taken to get Mr. Senna's