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office six months later
would have drawn
my
attention to the matter.
Nothing of the kind however occured. I expressly asked him if he was satisfied
with the
way
the
office had been conducted
in his absence and
stated that he was,
and
did not make a
single suggestion of alteration in
any respect.
It is significant again as corroborative of this impression that the only signatures to the balancing
of
the Rent Roll are those
of the Auditor
and
his assistant and that
the signature of the
Treasurer does not appear.
In the
years
prior to 1887
the signature of
the Treasurer appears at the
end of the Rent Roll-
undated, and in another
part of the page is the
signature of the Auditor
and his assistant
dated with the words
"Examined
The figures
are
in
the handwriting of Alves and
the inference
I should
draw from this would be
that while the Treasury
prepared the books,
it was
the Audit Office that did the balancing, and in fact
such examination was the balancing...
not distinguish the two
9.
Even the Commission do
not
when bringing their charges
of
...