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by the Compradore, and the item not so passed.
We are of opinion that he received the amount.
The whole sum which he has received, and has not accounted for to the Treasury, is $2.
He has given $185. We have given KF Benna money, and his actions are incomprehensible.
I would sum it up from him to suppose that he had already audited them. I was only given a minute inspection, when he wished to cover the pencil ticks with ink that he discovered that the ticks had not been made by himself. This discovery led him to go over the whole of the accounts again, and he then found that the sums specified had not been accounted for at the Treasury.
The Bills from the Civil Hospital and the Small Pox Hospital gave him an opportunity to explain in writing what he has done with the money, but there is no written explanation.
His verbal explanations were similar to Freve's explanations, that the reason why those defalcations had not been earlier brought to the notice of the Government, is that certain pencil ticks placed against the items led to a double series of numbers. We are of opinion that these should be one series for the two Hospitals, and that the Bills should be numbered differently; that there are two series of numbers.