PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Declined to act as Mr. Marlet (next to Mr. Ambrose)-A quiet, respectable man, head of the branch in Mr. Ambrose's absence from nervousness and want of self-confidence. Mr. Ambrose's place is, therefore, now filled by
Mr. Barnes, Clerk (Acting Chief Inspector of Licences).-Who, so far, has not shown himself equal to the charge, being slow and idle in a branch requiring energy and
attention.
There are upwards of 6,000 licences issued every year, most of them to be renewed once a quarter.
This branch keep also the accounts for the rents of Crown lands; and those with the Vendue Master for the sales he effects for Government.
Cashier-General.
Mr. Courtois. A quiet, well-disposed man; well adapted to his duty, but not qualified for any higher post.
Small Stamp Branch.
Segabaderiadin Sandapa, Clerk.-Well adapted to the sale and management of this minute business.
Eligible for any clerkship in the office, but not for any higher appointment.
Royal College Branch.
Mr. Durney, Clerk.-Spoken of before as clerk (temporary) in Direct Tax Branch. Mr. Lampost, Collecting Clerk.-An Englishman. Carpenter by trade; has been in other departments, and well spoken of. Would probably be fit for any out-door work, but not eligible for any superior post.
I do not report upon the several bearers of warrants, inspectors of licences, and distri- butors of declarations, all out-door people, and of very superior kind.
The titles of the first two classes designate their duty. The third are people who in the month of January of each year, go round the town and country, and get in the declarations of the owners of taxable property.
Including these people, the number of persons attached to the Internal Revenue Department is about 125; the revenue in 1857 over 200,0001.
(Signed)
No. 23-Customs Department.
[By C. Wing. Esq.]
PHIP D. SOUPER,
Acting Collector.
Henry Cooper, Acting Chief Clerk.-Attends to the details of the business of the in- door Department which is divided into three branches, viz. :-That of the Collector, that of the Comptroller of Customs and Navigation Laws, and that of the Registrar of Shipping; to examine and compare accounts, documents, and correspondence connected with the business of these branches, and to see that all transactions are duly recorded in the proper books. He has the custody and issuing of printed forms and stationery; takes an account of the attend- ance of all the officers and clerks; apportions and superintends 'the work performed by the junior clerks; and being the officer next in rank to the Collector, the Chief Clerk has the sole charge and management of the Department whenever the Collector is absent.
Mr. Cooper is well acquainted with custom-house business, and has performed in a satis- factory manner the duties allotted to him: his character is very good, and he has been very diligent and attentive.
Gustave Munro, Acting Second Clerk-Collector's final cheque of the import and export duties. Examines the master's reports of vessels inwards. Assists in the compilation of detailed accounts of imports and exports, and of shipping inwards and outwards, and performs other general business.
Mr. Munro is an intelligent and useful clerk; he is well qualified to perform the duties entrusted to him, is a person of good character, and is very assiduous and attentive.
Louis Charles Malherbe, Acting Third Clerk.-Keeps the warehouse ledgers, in which are entered the accounts of all goods warehoused under bond, and of the deliveries thereof for home consumption or for exportation, and he checks bills of entry for goods to be delivered from the warehouse. He prepares documents connected with the registry of British vessels, and of thange of masters. Has the custody of agreements (Ship's Articles) and indentures of apprenticeships, which masters of vessels are required by the 279th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1884, to deposit at the custom-house, keeps a book in which are recorded the dates of receipt and delivery of the said documents, and prepares the certificates of their having been duly deposited." Assists in the compilation of the Trade Returns, and performs other general business.
Mr. Malherbe is sufficiently qualified to perform all the duties which at present devolve
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upon him his character is good; he is regular in his attendance, and is very steady and diligent.
Louis Amourdon, Acting Fourth Clerk.-Receipt of the cash, and the remitting of the same to the Mauritius Commercial Bank. Prepares the monthly accounts and abstracts, pays salaries, and other expenses of management. Recovers and pays sums due for the services of extra Tidewaiters employed for the accommodation of merchants and others, and keeps accounts of the same. He also receives money on account of seizures and penalties; money belonging to the estates of deceased seamen ; and fees charged for copies of Registry documents. He checks the amounts of rent for goods lodged in the Queen's and bonded warehouses, and the duties on boat licenses. Keeps Customs cash-book, monthly receipt- book, rent-book, boat license-book, and book for recording the quantities of gunpowder lodged in and delivered from the Government Arsenal.
Mr. Amourdon is an intelligent and useful clerk, and performs his duties in a very creditable manner. His character is good, and he is very steady, assiduous, and attentive.
Henry Marin, Acting Fifth Clerk-Was principally employed in compiling the detailed account of imports, which is a very tedious and troublesome duty; he also prepared special statements when required, and performed general business.
Mr. Marin discharged these duties most satisfactorily. His character is good, and he has always been very steady, diligent, and attentive. He has recently been promoted to the office of Fifth Landing Waiter.
Charles William Patterson Montgomery, Acting Sixth Clerk.-Collector's first check of the import and export duties. Custody and arrangement of inwards manifests. Prepara- tion and recording of special sufferances. Assists in clearing vessels outwards, and performs other general business.
Mr. Montgomery's qualifications are not of a very high order, nor is he so careful in the execution of his duty as I could wish. In other respects, his conduct, during his temporary employment in this office, has been pretty correct.
Charles A. Dalais, Acting Seventh Clerk; George Tuckwell, Extra Clerk; James Lavers, Extra Clerk-Copying Masters' reports inwards, clearing vessels outwards, issuing and recording bills of sight, baggage, sufferances and stiffening orders, entering coast suffer- ances, copying and entering letters, &c.
Mr. Dalais is very steady, diligent, and careful, and appears anxious to qualify himself for a higher office.
Mr. Tuckwell's qualifications are not of a superior kind, but he is a steady young man, and is useful in his present situation.
Mr. Lavers has only been a short time in the service. He is very steady and useful, and seems desirous of obtaining a knowledge of business.
Arekiosamy Ragapa Nalletamby, Cash Counter-Reckoning and arrangement of cash, and takes charge of money to be transferred to the Mauritius Commercial Bank.
Is trustworthy and useful.
John W. Nicholson, Acting Landing Surveyor.—Checks and compare the Collector's receipts of Customs duties, and the payments thereof, to the Colonial Treasurer, for which purpose he keeps a check cash-book; to exercise an efficient superintendence and control over the proceedings of the Landing Waiters and other subordinate officers of the Landing Depart- ment, in order that no customable goods entered for home consumption be passed without payment of the proper amount of duty; to compare the accounts of goods landed with the Masters' reports inwards; to visit the several places appointed for the landing and shipment of goods, and also the bonding warehouses, for the purpose of ascertaining that the officers under his survey are at their posts, and that they duly execute their respective duties, and that the warehouses are in a secure state, and the goods properly secured therein. In short, the Landing Surveyor has, in conjunction with the Collector, the general superintendence of the waterside and warehousing departments.
Capacity and character very good; is very diligent and very attentive to his duties. James W. Ferguson, First Landing Waiter; W. H. Macfarlane, Second Ditto; Albert Charles Marc, Third Ditto; Vacant, Fourth Ditto; John Ferris Seymour, Fifth Ditto. To attend at the places appointed for the landing of goods, and to examine and take accounts of the articles landed, to see that the proper duties have been paid upon goods landed for home consumption before such goods are delivered; and that goods entered to be warehoused under bond are duly handed over to the charge of the proper officer. One of the Landing Waiters also performs the duties of searcher, viz., takes an account of sugar and other goods shipped for exportation.
These gentlemen are competent to discharge the duties required of them. They are all persons of good character, and have conducted themselves in a proper manner.
Robert Femster, First Locker; William Foster, Second Ditto. To receive and secure in the warehouses under the Crown's locks all goods entered to be warehoused under bond, and on receipt of proper warrants to deliver from the warehouses goods upon which duties have been paid for home consumption, or which have been entered and security given for their exportation. The Lockers are also charged with the receipt into and delivery from the warehouses of goods landed from vessels arriving in distress or for repairs; and the senior Locker is required to keep a proper account of the receipts and deliveries of all goods ware-
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