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of Brigade or the Commissariate, neither trace on the subject. I also wrote to the house of Dadabhey Rustomjee & Co., one of the principal Parsee firms in China, with whom in 1844 and 1845 I had money accounts; but they do not know of any Bill having reference to the subject of this letter.

5. There appears to have been paid through the office of the Chief Magistrate a sum of $2989 to the Treasury in the year 1844, more than the Fines and Fees traceable in that Office for that year, and considering the confusion consequent upon the changes then in the Treasury, reforming of the Departments, and first establishment of the Supreme Court, it is possible that the Bill may have been made payable by the person cashing it, and the proceeds sent to the Treasury, but of this, as I have said before, I have no recollection, nor data to go upon.

6. The office of Sheriff was added to my duties of Chief Magistrate in 1844, and Mr. Holdforth (the new Sheriff) was Deputy Sheriff. All fines, forfeitures, and fees went through that officer's hands, and he states that he has no remembrance of the Bill in question having been received in either the office of the Sheriff or Chief Magistrate.

Mr. McSwyney, the head clerk of the Chief Magistrate's Office, at the period in question, whose duty it was to make up all papers connected with Fees and Fines of that Court, has left the Colony. The second clerk, Mr. Miles, is dead; and Mr. Hillier, the present Chief Magistrate, was then Assistant Magistrate at Stanley, so that there is no person at the Magistracy able

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of Brigade or the Commissariate, neither trace on the subject. I also wrote to the house of Dadabhey Rustomjee & Co., one of the principal Parsee firms in China, with whom in 1844 and 1845 I had money accounts; but they do not know of any Bill having reference to the subject of this letter. 5. There appears to have been paid through the office of the Chief Magistrate a sum of $2989 to the Treasury in the year 1844, more than the Fines and Fees traceable in that Office for that year, and considering the confusion consequent upon the changes then in the Treasury, reforming of the Departments, and first establishment of the Supreme Court, it is possible that the Bill may have been made payable by the person cashing it, and the proceeds sent to the Treasury, but of this, as I have said before, I have no recollection, nor data to go upon. 6. The office of Sheriff was added to my duties of Chief Magistrate in 1844, and Mr. Holdforth (the new Sheriff) was Deputy Sheriff. All fines, forfeitures, and fees went through that officer's hands, and he states that he has no remembrance of the Bill in question having been received in either the office of the Sheriff or Chief Magistrate. Mr. McSwyney, the head clerk of the Chief Magistrate's Office, at the period in question, whose duty it was to make up all papers connected with Fees and Fines of that Court, has left the Colony. The second clerk, Mr. Miles, is dead; and Mr. Hillier, the present Chief Magistrate, was then Assistant Magistrate at Stanley, so that there is no person at the Magistracy able
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of Brigade or the Commissariate, neither

trace on

of

the

whom have been able to give any subject . I also wrote to the house of Dadabhey

8th Rustomjee &b one of the principal Parxe

firms

in China, with whom in 1844 and 1845 I had

money

accounts; but they do not know of any Bill having reference to the subject of this letter:

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a sum

of $2989 to the Treasury in the

1844, more.

year

than the Fines and Fees traceable

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and considering

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was

then Afeistant. Magistrate. at Stanley, that there is no person at the Magistracy able

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