f
f
A.
at Haglu
1819.
i ́ssues a fly receipt, one of his own receipts, an
ordinary receipt which he can get printed by the
thousand himself.
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In the cemetery account, the Inspector sends in a
report, and the number of grave spaces is compared.
This is entered in a book. The different sections and
numbers in this book must coincide with the numbers
sent in by the Inspector. That book and the receipt bbok also goes up to the local auditor. Therefore if any grave site has been sold, it must be shown in this
book.
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That question was gone into before the Commission,
and it seemed to me that there were no records kept at the Cemetery, and if there were no records kept in the Sanitary Department, as seems to me to be the
it case,
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seems to me you are in a hopeless maddie. You could be robbed of half your income, and you would not be any
the wiser.
A.
The records are examined by the local auditor, and the
local treasurer, and they are perfectly at one that the
are sufficient.
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Q..
A.
I put it this way: You could not run the smallest petty business in Hongkong with this book alone. We have all the cemeteries fees books and the receipt
book.
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Q..
A.
You keep nothing in the shape of a daybook or journal ? Nothing in addition to that, except what you might
le Chairman:-
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term the subsidiary books.
The total expenditure of the Department is a quarter of klil
a million dollars a year, which is a very large sum of
money. Is that the only book you keep ↑
A.
The only books I keep.
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