the presumption wide
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asked to do so by a private person, as desirous to possess himself of a forged chop.
Is It occurs to me, further, that if the Receipts for Crown Rents and their counterfoils are, as no doubt, they are, numbered, and if, when a rent is recorded as paid in the Rent Roll the number of the Receipt is entered in that record, the Auditor, in checking the counterfoils and cash book by the Rent Roll, ere before the letter is made up for comparison, ought to have no difficulty in detecting any case in which a payment there recorded as made had no tally among the counterfoils or in the Cash Book.
18. In conclusion I note that it would seem from the evidence taken by the Commissioners that Alves' dishonesty was traceable to building speculations on his part, and that these speculations were more or less matter of notoriety. I trust that the rules which were enclosed in your despatch No.292 of the 12th October last are being rigidly carried out, and it cannot be too soon understood in the Government Service that jobbing and speculation in real property will be assumed to be incompatible with honest and honourable discharge of public duties.
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