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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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examine the Revenue in all its branches, and to see that it has been properly collected 2. To examine the in conformity with the laws and regulations respecting the same.

Revenue accounts of the Post Offee District Courts and Savings' Bank; to post for transmission to the Commissioners for auditing the public accounts, the annual account current, cash book, abstract book, vouchers, and journal; to superintend the arrange- ment and binding up of the annual accounts of the office. 3. To examine the Revenue accounts of the Supreme Court and Registration Office in all their branches; to keep the registers of the various items of receipt and expenditure, extracted from the mouthly accounts of the Colonial Treasurer; to make up the quarterly and annual statements for publication and transmission to England; to prepare comparative statements of the estimated and of the actual receipt and expenditure of the year, according to Article VII, Form 2 1 and 2 of the new Treasury Instructions; to examine the annual statements of advances, assets, and liabilities, and to prepare the general and supplementary estimates and other statements relating thereto.

Mr. J. Holland, Second Examiner, was formerly a serjeant in the 35th Regiment. He has been many years in this office, and is a very pains-taking, hard-working man. He performs the duties intrusted to him with great exactitude. He is not qualified for promotion beyond filling permanently the situation of First Examiner in the office, which he now holds provisionally during Mr. N. Lesage's absence, who is at present attached to the Registration Office.

Mr. F. Armstrong, Third Examiner, was formerly Paymaster's Clerk in the 12th Regiment. He is intelligent and trustworthy, and has more than once rendered good service to Government, by bringing to my notice peculations and irregularities in public offices. His conduct has always been good; he is deserving of promotion either in this or in any of the Revenue offices of Government.

Mr. J. Lesage, Fourth Examiner, is a quiet, steady, and well-conducted officer. He performs his duties to my satisfaction, and merits promotion. He was formerly a notary'ı clerk, and I should think, therefore, that he would prove an acquisition in the Registra- tion Office.

W. Charlton, Fifth Clerk.-Has to examine the store accounts, &c., as rendered by the following offices of Government:-Civil Hospital, Grand River Asylum, Civil Medical Stores, Surveyor-General, Curator of Intestate Estates, Powder Mills, Hospital, District Prisons Stores, the Civil Store, accounts of provisions, implements, clothing, and sta- tionery. He has also to examine the statements of stamps supplied to the district clerks, as well as the monthly provision indents, and the several returns relating thereto; to keep a register in which the provision indents are entered, and to verify annual abstracts, statement of the cost of the provisions, under the proper heads of service; to keep the index of letters received and despatched, despatches from the Secretary of State, standing regulations; to register all returns received, bills and oppositions, and to assist in the general business of the office.

Mr. W. Charlton, Fifth Clerk. This young man is the son of a serjeant formerly of the 19th Regiment. He has been about two years in this office, and gives promise His conduct is good, and he merits promotion of becoming a very good accountant.

in this office whenever a vacancy occurs.

A. Poupard, Sith Clerk. In chiefly occupied in copying quarterly and annual accounts for transmission to England, as well as all the correspondence, reports, &c.

He assists in comparing the duplicate set of accounts, &c.. previous to their transmission to England, and superintends the arrangements of the office records, and keeps them under his custody.

Mr. A. Poupard, Sixth Clerk. This officer was promoted here from the Senior District Magistrates' Office two months since. He is very attentive to his duties, and I am satisfied with him.

(Signed)

No. 21.-Treasury and Savings' Bank.

By Felix Bedingfeld, Esq.]

W. R. KERR,

Auditor.

William Allan, Chief Clerk.~~28 years 10 months' service: 4007. per annum, Is charged with all payment of moneys under the Governor's warrant and the annual estimates; keeps cash and waste books, juurnal and ledger: makes out weekly states of the public cheat; keeps the separate accounts of all special imports, deposits, and advances, &c., and makes up statements connected therewith, and with accounts current, &c., &c.; conducts the business of the office in the absence of the Treasurer.

William Allan's father was a clerk in the Treasury in the time of Theodore Hook, and was the person who first discovered the defalcation and reported it. He was driven

to suicide by the unrelenting persecution of Ilook's friends.

W. Allan is not clever, but steady, diligent, and trustworthy. He is perfectly as fait at all the ordinary business of the office, and I have a high opinion of his integrity. I do not think him qualified for promotion into a higher sphere of action from a want of eduon-

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tion, but he fulfils all the duties of Chief Clerk, which are exclusively matters of account, married a to my entire satisfaction. He is a coloured man (very dark), born in Mauritius; Baptist of Mr. Le Brun's flock: he speaks English perfectly.

Thomas O'Toole, First Clerk-11 years 7 months' service: 2001. per annum. Makes out receipts for the Treasurer's signature for moneys paid into the bank; abstracts of pensions, and giving cheques to parties on the cashier; makes out notices to be sent to parties owing interest on the Savings' Bank loans; quarterly accounts current of the East India Company of advances made on account of Her Majesty's Treasury and Navy Board; the rough monthly abstracts of the weekly returns of the Treasury and Commissioners of the Currency; the monthly account in duplicate of expenditure for the administration of justice, and keeps the abstracts of judicial awards; arranges and numbers all the debtor and creditor vouchers, original and duplicate, to accompany the cash-book to the Audit Office; occasionally copies letters and accounts; makes out the annual accounts of the Commissioners of Currency and the Honourable East India Company, and is charged with establishing the account current of the colony with the Government of

India every five years. Makes out the different financial statements (eighteen in number)

to accompany annual and supplementary estimates and annual bluc-book.

O'Toole is a first-rate accountant, and remarkably quick in every way. All the most difficult and complicated financial statements for the Treasury at home are originally framed by him. He is quite fit for promotion as Chief Clerk in this Department or in any financial department. His conduct is satisfactory in every way.

He is a married man; belongs to the Established Church; speaks French and under- stands it, but cannot write it. A native of Ireland.

C. J. de Picquenard, Second Clerk.-4 years 9 months' service: 1417. per annum. Examines the abstracts; copies and enters letters, reports, &c., dispatched from the office; copies the weekly returns and duplicate journal; assists in making up the monthly and annual accounts and in copying; makes out any special statements which the Trea- surer may require.

Picquenard was a student at the college when his father died. He abandoned his studies and supported his mother and sisters by copying lawyer's papers, and giving lessons in French. He is an excellent young man. He does his work perfectly well, and He is at my desire he is now trying to enter into the more difficult financial statements.

fit for promotion in any office, as he is a very good French and English scholar. He is

not at present fit for the duty attached to the First Clerk of the Treasury.

He is a white creole of Mauritius; a Catholic; unmarried.

widowed mother, and gives French lessons out of hours.

He supports his

T. H. Sherlock, Third Clerk.-1 year 6 months' service: 842 per annum. Occasionally copies letters, reports, &c., dispatched from the office; copies the dupli- cate cash-books, the monthly returns, the vouchers of the monthly and annual accounts, &c.; the numerous accounts and other documents required from the Department; signs, as witness, to payment of all money paid by Government.

Sherlock came to me with an excellent character, from a merchant's house, and gives

me great satisfaction. He is improving very fast in the knowledge of accounts, and is deserving of promotion. He understands French. Is an Englishman. Member of the Established Church. Unmarried.

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C. A. D. Barclay, Manager of Savings Bank.—11 years 9 months' service: 400%, per Conducts the business of the bank; keeps the books, and makes all returns connected therewith.

Barclay has received a liberal education: is thoroughly acquainted with French and English; does his duty remarkably well, and, is fit for promotion in any department of the service. A Creole born of an English father; married; member of the Established Church.

Felix Lebreton, Clerk of Savings' Bank.—3 years 6 months' service': 721. per annum. Assists the Manager.

Lebreton does his work very fairly. He is not fit for promotion, as he neither under- stands nor speaks English, and is, besides, too apathetic..

This young man has 3007, or 4001. a-year of his own, at least, besides a share in an estate. I cannot imagine why he persists in remaining a clerk, when he might go to Europe and make a man of himself. He has never been out of Mauritius.

He was thrust upon me by General Sutherland, against my wishes, to keep him out of mischief. He is a Creole; a Catholic; is going to be married.?

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Z. Nolletamby, Cash Keeper.—32 years 11 months' service: 1824, per annum.

Has charge of the current balance of the Commissioners of the Currency, required for the exchange of Government notes; makes the exchanges; receives and pays all moneys on account of the Savings Bank, and pays on account of oppositions ; distributes pensions and gratuities; receives all deposits and surplus balances from the Commercial Bank, and conducts all direct money transactions for the Treasurer and Commissioners of Currency,

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This most worthy old man is a native of Pondicherry. He is valuable from his

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