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Enclosure 1.
Hon. Clonial Secretary,
I regret to state for His Excellency's information that on handing over stock of stamps in custody of Treasurer there was found deficient 5 sheets of $1 stamps nom. value $300.
The matter is to me inexplicable as I have on every occasion been exceedingly careful in serving out, counting them by myself md then re-counting in presence of the Clerk and the Shroff.
The latter re-counts them with me and again I believe the Clerk and the Shroff go over them in the Stamp Office.
I suggest that the matter be postponed till the end of the year as something may tum up in the way of amending the apparent error.
11th. April, 1917.
($4.) A. M. Thomson,
Treasurer.
Hon. Colonial Secretary,
In continuation of my minute of today's date re missing stamps, I have been puzzling over the matter
and now recollect an occasion within the last two months
when, after having by myself taken the stamps out of my safe and called in the Shroff (with the Clerk Mr. Aquino) I had to
go back to the safe and take out an additional number, pro- -bably five, of a denomination about $1.00.
As when taking from the safe I would
count