646
netsing
as Treasur
A
written
off.
8. There
questions of
Mt. Mitchell-Junes.
peenary responsibility for the
amount misappropriated awhile
he was in che
charge of the
and
of
the gridg
of the
Treasury
ment to be formed
manner in which he
discharged what I conceive to
be his duties as Treasurer. The
two questions
or less
a.re
of Corree
rected, but they
are
distinct questions and require to be separately decided. For t
when Government money
been tolew vir a
ray
mmay
bas
Treasury, it
be the case that the
Treasures deserve to be held pecuniarily
Golourres AND 12 and 9.
responsible, and
that he has
not, either so generally,
i do ta
culpably
neglected his duties as to rendes heie unfit to be continued in his office. I therefore directed the Colonial Secretary to keep the two points distinct, and be accordingly wrote love letters to the Treasures, the one requesting huir to shew cause why he should held pecuniarily responsible, and the other inviting his
t of
love
explanations of the fact of
/
either
his
by checking his barks, or in any way, having
othes
yst
taken any steps to fulfil his primary duty of ensuring that
e which reached his
Office was all placed to the credit
responsible