General recommended that each Clerk junior to Mr. Rodrigues should receive a step in promotion, and that the vacancy thus caused at the bottom of the list should be filled up by appointment.
3. I had, however, to take other matters into consideration in dealing with the appointments in question. The charges which I stated in the 4th paragraph of my despatch No. 262 of the 30th ultimo were about to be brought in Executive Council against Mr. F. Freire, Audit Examiner, in connection with the defalcations by Barradas, have been dealt with, and the Council were of opinion that Mr. Freire, having been guilty of considerable carelessness, should ...