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to be impressed by him in his turn upon the members of his
staff.
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So far as Captain Taylor is concerned your Commit-
tee has come to the conclusion that, although he is respon-
sible as a Head of the Bepartment always is for the affairs
of his department, he cannot be regarded as having been ob-
His real fault lies viously culpably negligent or remiss.
in the fact that he knowingly permitted a departure by XT. Lenfestey from the letter of the General Order No.315 (3)
but your Co.amittee is satisfied that he thought that Kr.
Lenfestey was conducting a comparative examination of the receipts with the entries in the Shroff's Collection book in such a manner as to carry out effectively the spirit and meaning of that Order, That he did not know that r. Len-
festey was not in fact so doing seems to shew a lack of in- timate knowledge of the actual work done by his subordinates which, although a matter for regret, is also perhaps not
unintelligible, Your Committee does not think, notwith- standing what Captain Taylor now asserts, that he had the slightest realization that this Government Financial order
was framed for literal execution or that a departure from its literal carrying out was likely to be attended with any
danger.
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Although not strictly within the ambit of this report, your Committee thinks that (as its Chairman with
the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer vere members of the
two Comittees which have already been enquiring into the charges made against r. Jones, Acting Assistant Harbour Kaster, and Er. Lenfestey and that as the Honourable Geore-
tary for Chinese Affairs, as a member of the Executive Council, is fully acquainted with the evidence and reports in both the previous cases) it may not be out of place to summarize here its views on the whole of the present enquiry.