Thing
in the annals of the
Treasury), and that
my
locum tenens is positive
that the fact of it's not
being
balanced was
brought to his notice
acting fxx-
not
while
though
the fact of the 1891 Rall not being balanced
I have to.
(Signed) N.G. Mitchell-Innes
Treasurer.
Copy
Secretary's Office
20th April 1893
I have the honour to
acknowledge the receipt of your
Confidential letter
of the 11th instant,
forwarding for my information
a copy of
the report by
the Commission appointed to inquire into the recently discovered defalcations in the Treasury and calling upon
me
to shew cause
why I should not be held pecuniarily responsible for
the amounts mis-appropriated during my acting tenure of
the office of
Treasurer.
I find that the Commissioners
state that they consider that I
indirectly allowed the frauds to be committed because I did not
"The Colonial Secretary