CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 62

Ie the bottom of this a hole was found,

and Mrr Miller observed that such a

boy

would have been rejected, had it been offered at the time of packing.

Avan, Compradore, deposed that

d false boxes,

the

e genuine and by the

Q

I were not made

same man, and the latter not by

tby

Chinaman, who would have put his

name ove

as on the two other boxes

produced, and that as the

the gen

genuine bored

were made by common workmen in

in m

Carpenter Square, and there was. nothing particular going into

in their formation, any person into any shop in that Square might purchase one of a similar description.

The Board then remarked several

other points of difference in the boxes and concluded by addressing letter No. 3 to Mr Macknight, Navel Storekaper.

If st

N3.

N4.

30

21th July, 1846.

Dr. Dill, Colonial Surgeon, being

requested to attend, proceeded to test the Inks with which boy. 330 and bort 130

were marked. The result of his experiments in the statement (marked 4) annered.

is given.

Mr Machnight, Naval Storekeeper, states that lead has on various occasions

bon served out to Her Majesty's Ships of "War

on

this station during the years 1844 and 1845, but this has always been sheet lead, and the lead in the boy is of a description never used on board merves-war . Of the four ships in which the Treasure in question was at different times deposited, two have been served with lead during the years mentioned. The Castor had 170tts in September 1845 and the Iris 199 tbs - part in February, and part in September 1865.

James Risk, Cooper in the Naval

Storekeeper's

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