€68
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Mi? Hemplunges
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Do you think that that is businesslike ?
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I am not really a business man, but the Government is
satisfied.
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Q.
This registers the sums of money received from Chinese and others, and whether it is paid into the Bank or
not?
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Yes.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
C.O. 537
RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
36
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OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO
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That amounts to practically nothing at all. Do you 15718 mean to say that you have no record of the sums due from different persons to the Government. For instance, you make a contract with a certain person to sell him a
certain thing from the Government stores.
We dont sell stores.
We will say the scavenging account, or the licensing /5719
f 005.
In addition to these books of course we have the monthly pay sheets, both for personal emoluments and
other charges.
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going into your Supposing I was a Government auditor, accounts, and was wanting to san the amount of money
you ought to receive in your Department, where could I
find it ?
There is no money which I ought to repaive, which is not entered in that book. The only money which I collect and give receipts for are the cam tary faes, and the amount of cemetery dues is entered there, and when I pay it into the Bank it is entered on the other
side.
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Unless this book in kept by an absolutely reliable man, in point of fact uni as you keep it yourself, it seems to me the Govarmant might be robbed of a good deal of money, be06298 the Government has no records or check.
A revaipt . issued for every amount.
"upposing heat issue a receipt. Supposing he 15722