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the misappropriations
which
have occurred during their
respective tenures of office
Trea
ANA
acting
al
Tremover.
7. There are however
several considerations which
make strongly in Alves' favour, and which I feel it to be
duty to state, though for
which I need not specify,
proper to
advan
hit ...
cerunt,
14.
thens himself.
Jeannot indeed accept his statement, though I have no doubt it is honestly made, that
the rent roll for 1891, and
it was
not that for 1890, that the local
Auditor desired him to have
balanced. The Com.
of opinion that on this point McNicollé's statement is correct;
I ...
May's recollection at fault; and indeed the circumstances
forbid any other conclusion. Nor
I admit the validity of his
technical plea that money
which reached Alves in
the Treasury
did not reach the
Treasury? But it is only fair
to him to
show that when
I offered him the Acting appointment
of Treasurer
he
had
been asked to be allowed
to decline it
and had
experiences ... knowledge of Treasury,
No other
being feasible in order to allow
Mt. Mitchell-Innes to
go on leave,