CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 65

numbers were

wend

- painted prior to the clamping; and lastly, the bon being imperfect from a hole in the bottom, would have been rejected by the Commissariat : Officers had it been offered for the reception of the Syce. That the frand has not-

been committed.

(by

A

Chinese : because

the wood, nails, and ink are not Chinese, and because it would have been easy for the person committing the fraud, had he been

a

Chinese, to

have procured a boy similar to the

wine ones, which he would. Jenuine

.....

undoubtedly have done as the risk of detection would have been thereby evidently diminished.

And 3.

That the substitution of the false for the original boy was, up to the time of the shipment of the Freasure,

at

the

33

at Consulate wharf, totally impracticable, because in addition to the strict

precautionary measures a

adopted and enforced by the Commissariat Officers employed on the duty, it seems impossible that a box, the weight of which, when

is such as to require

filled with Sycee

Syeve is so

tive strong

q

men to lift it, could have

been removed, and another substituted in its place, in the presence, and under the close observation, of the several Officers superintending the receipt of the Freasure, and its transfer fromes the Hall of the Consulate to the adjacent wharf.

The Board are

2 further

inclined to believe that there is no

possibility of the commission of the frand during the transit of the Freasure from Canton to Her Majesty's Ship Castor

lying