To the Legislative Council I am to desire you to consider the report, which is strictly confidential.
Signed G.D. O'Brien, Col. Secy.
Copy
Treasury, 22nd April, 1898
700
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter Confidential of "..." instant - transmitting a copy of the report of the Commission and calling upon me to shew cause why I should not be held pecuniarily responsible for the amounts shewn to have been misappropriated during my tenure of office of Treasurer.
I find that the Commission appointed, inter alia, for the purpose of reporting to what extent, if any, I was to blame with regard to the Treasury defalcations, consider that I