Who ought Hon.
Arv
To move directions
to
discharge
I found in 1879 that the
Revenue Accounts,
opinion
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Jets are
important
Justice,
stunt them those of Expenditure
were not audited at all in Hongkong,
and I was told that they never.
Departments
had been and itd. In some no precautions appeared to be taken
exceptly's
against embezzlement by the employees entrusted with the receipt of money; nor did the Audit Office consider itself responsible for seeing that
such precautions were
taken.
In the Registrar General's Department Livenses for Boats &c came issued by
subordinate Clerk,
Clerk, who received the applications
for Licenses & the fees paid, and kept
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the register of issues, without the supervision The whole thing! of control of any one.
was in his hands, and thus
there
nothing
to prevent his Entering
irregular
Receipts only half the Licenses in the register and pocketing
the others.
That embezzlement of this kind had
actually
taken place
I am very much inclined to believe, as the
Clerk in question,
as well
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as another in the same Department,
were dismissed from the service and from duty immediately after charges indicated by
pondered
had been made
which involved misappropriation of monies almost impossible without the connivance of several.