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subsequent time taken up or paid for passages for your
children, and, as you well knew, the said children never
having travelled as contemplated by the Government, dishonestly
and dishonourably retained and applied to your own use and
purposes the said sum of $847.26, maintaining silence on the
matter until asked on the 3rd May, 1933, for particulars of
the said children's passages, and making no refund to the
Government or step to that end, and leaving the Government
to believe ( as you well knew the Government would believe
in the absence of unexpected inquiry, rendered less probable
by a statement in a letter from you to the Director of Public
Works, dated 17th December, 1932, that your dependents had recently returned from India) that the said sum of $847.26
had been properly and finally expended, whereby the accounts
of the Government have been rendered incorrect in that the
said sum of $847.26 has not been shown ( as it should have
been) as recoverable, and whereby steps for recovery have been
long delayed, and such recovery has been and is now jeopardised
Copies of the following documents mentioned in the above
charge are enclosed
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Letter. Badan Singh to the Honourable Director of
Public Works of 26.1.32.
(Enclosure) Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd's letter of
20.1.32.
Treasury Voucher No. 212 of 10.3.32 and Voucher No. 1
of March, 1932, P.W.D.
Letter. Badan Singh to the Honourable Director of
Public Works of 17.12.32.
I am to call upon you to state in writing on or before
the 29th day of May, 1933, any grounds upon which
you rely to exculpate yourself.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
W.T. Southorn.
Colonial Secretary.