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that it was
any
no part of his duty to check receipts, or to take steps to secure the placing to the credit of the Government of all Government moneys
that reached
his Office, it is any duty to make
a few observations.
15. It is so obviously
part of
the duty of every [official] to take some steps to prevent Government moneys being stolen in his Office that I should not have thought it possible for any Officer appointed to
it to imagine that
he
was free
from all responsibility
in that respect. The raison d'être of the
establishment of the post of
a separate and substantive appointment
and of strengthening
the subordinate staff of the Treasury
as described above is that
the lax systems,
which had previously obtained when the post of Treasurer was held
in conjunction with
another appointment, might be superseded,
and
that the
Government
might have the security of its interests being safeguarded by
an Officer whose whole time would be available for the purpose.
That Mr. Antebellum Fan,
who was inexperienced in Treasury work,
should have failed to introduce
all the reforms
**required