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REPORT.
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(a) General.
The procedure as regards accounting in connection with receipts and payment has, so far as I can learn, been the same since at least 1900. The Honourable Attorney General, who was my predecessor, might be able to give information as to the procedure, in his time, in the matters referred to in the Auditor's queries os.1, 2, 5, 4, 17, 18, 19, 27, 51, 33 and 34. All the books of account in my department and the shroff's cash and safe have always been open to inspection by the Auditor, who has, previously, neither raised the present questions nor suggested any alteration in the procedure followed.
The First Bailiff, Kr. Till, has been in Government service since 1900 and has held his presen post since 1916. Many of the Auditor's questions concern his
work,
which has had the same supervision from the Registrar and Deputy Registrars as for many years past. He
has been in the past a responsible officer and has been trusted by Mr. Melbourne and myself. He has also been trusted by the Honourable Colonial Treasurer, who has been in the habit of making all cheques for possession fees payable to him, a fact which I did not know until very recently.
The Auditor refers to the fact that no receipts
are given at the time payments are made into Court. This is
on the direct instructions of the Honourable Treasurer, whose
official receipt for money paid into Court is received in
the Registry after an interval of about wo days.
b) Audit Queries.
Mir. Melbourne checks all money paid into and out of the
Treasury. A complete check on cash payments made to the
Shroff