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MINUTE BY THE ACTING TREASURER.
Seen by Acting Treasurer who regrets that the matter escaped his recollection. It will now be promptly attended to.
Forwarded to the Captain Superintendent of Police.
30th October, 1872.
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MINUTE BY THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.
Forwarded to the Honourable Treasurer, who is requested to explain under what circumstances the security required by Lord KIMBERLEY was not given.
(Signed)
C. May, Acting Treasurer.
6th September, 1878.
By Command,
J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary,
MINUTE BY THE CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.
I should be obliged by a copy of the bond required to be entered into, or by details as to the duties to be guaranteed.
W. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police.
30th October, 1872.
(Signed)
MINUTE BY THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.
Bond forwarded, to be returned.
(Signed)
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary,
30th October, 1872.
MINUTE BY THE COLONIAL TREASURER.
In reply to His Excellency the Governor's Minute, I beg to state that I made no explanation, because I considered that letter No. 705, of the 26th August, was an expression of the Governor's opinion on the subject referred to, regarding which it might have been disrespectful to offer remarks.
any I would now report that I never gave any security as Colonial Treasurer because I was never called upon to do so until the month of June last, when without delay I submitted the names of two gentlemen who were prepared to take on themselves the requisite responsibility. To that letter no reply has been received up to this date.
may
add that I was not holding the post of Treasurer in 1872, when the Secretary of State's despatch was received, and that subsequently the question of finding security, of which there has been no difficulty on my part, never occurred to me.
MINUTE BY THE CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.
Bond forwarded, and will be signed and delivered at any time appointed.
31st October, 1872.
6th September, 1878.
(Signed)
W. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police,
MINUTE BY THE SURVEYOR GENERAL.
CECIL C. SMITH,
Colonial Treasurer,
ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY TO THE COLONIAL TREASURER.
(C.S.O. No. 1948 of 1878.)
No. 705.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
HONGKONG, 26th August, 1878. SIR,-With reference to my letter No. 704 of this date about Mr. CARVALHO's proposed new bond, I am to state that the Governor thinks you ought as Treasurer to have given security in addition to the $3,000, which you gave as Registrar General. The Governor finds that Lord KIMBERLEY instructed Governor KENNEDY to obtain this additional security from the Treasurer in 1872, and His Excellency cannot discover why it was never done.
I have, &c.,
J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary,
To the best of my recollection I never heard of Lord KIMBERLEY'S despatch till the other day, when the Governor mentioned it during the course of a conversation. If it is necessary I should give security, of course I will do so at once, but as with the exception of fees paid at the Land Office for searches, which are of very small amount, mine not a Revenue Collecting Department, it may per- haps be possible to reconsider this decision in respect of the Surveyor General. I apprehend security is only asked of an Officer in whose Department moneys are received, and the only moneys received by me (search fees) can as easily and with equal convenience to the public be paid direct into the Treasury.
6th September, 1878.
J. M. PRICE,
Surveyor General.
Honourable C. C. SMITH,
Colonial Treasurer.
MINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.
Has Mr. SMITH explained why he never gave any security as Colonial Treasurer, though Lord KIMBERLEY had given instructions that he should do so?
Is there anything to show why the Surveyor General and the Superintendent of Victoria Gao! have not given security in accordance with C.S.O. No. 2032A. of 4th July, 1872?
6th September, 1878.
J. POPE HENNESSY.
MINUTE BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF VICTORIA GAOL.
There is no evidence in this Office of the Superintendent of the Gaol having been called upon to give security, nor is there any record of Lord KIMBERLEY'S despatch on the subject, nor of C.S.O. No. 2032a. of 4th July, 1872. The only trace of anything on the subject which I can find is the enclosed copy of a circular from C.S.O. and the Acting Superintendent's Return to it. But no further steps seem to have been taken in the matter. The only money collected by this department is for Prison labour and for Debtors' subsistence, the two together amounting to about a hundred dollars a month.
11th September, 1878.
M. S. TONNOCHY, Superintendent of Victoria Gaol.