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as you do and knowing the system as we must assume the Immigration
Officer designate knew when he was designated for that office early
in October?
The system should start with records of blank permits, the serial
numbers of all permits should be recorded and the issue of blank
permits for completion in approved cases should be recorded on the
issue side of the stock book and receipts on the receipt side. There
must be corresponding debits and credits. When completed they
should be handed over to the officer who signs them and entered
them on the issue side of the stock book. The officer signing them
should acknowledge receipt in his own book; and when returned after
signature they should be recorded on the issue side of his book
and on the receipt side of the book kept by the s torekeeper) When
finally the applicant comes along with the fee to collect his
permit and hands the fee to the shroff, he should receive the
permit from the store-keeper who records the issue on the issue side
of his book, and the shroff should note in his cash book the serial
numbers of permits issued in respect of which he has received
certain fees. The shroff's cash book should be totalled daily.
And then he issues a receipt?
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No, the permit is a receipt in itself. There is no need for a
receipt. The daily collections of the shroffs should be entered into
a general departmental cash book showing the amounts received in
respect of each class of permit and the numbers of permits issued
not necessarily the serial numbers but the quantities say 150 permits
available for six months and so on. That cash book should show on
the payment side the payment of those sums into the Treasury and
quote the Accountant General's receipt number each day. The money
received is paid direct into the Treasury or into the Accountant
General's Account in the Hong Kong Bank. Each officer entrusted
with the duty of receiving deposits should keep a cash book in
which he records the amounts as received, or copies them at the