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"Employés entrusted with the receipt of money
That this should have gone on for ten years longer seems to require explanation.
It would appear to the Comptroller and Auditor General that some essential alterations of system are needed.
(a) Every person entrusted with the receipt of Revenue should keep a Cash Book, in which the whole of his receipts from whatever source, should be entered daily.
In the present case Mr. Nicolle says that the Clerk was instructed to keep two Cash Books, one for Imperial Receipts and the other for Foreign and Colonial; and that his Ledger had separate headings for each Country and Colony, but none for the United Kingdom; moreover, for some receipts, he apparently had no Cash Book. There may be reasons, in some cases, for recording details of particular Cash transactions in separate Books, but the totals of the transactions.