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recorded, having perused the Orders of the Guard and the denties and carefully inspected the room in the Treasury Buildings where the robbery is stated to have taken, as also the immediate vicinity of the Posts of the two Sentries furnished by the Guard is of opinion –

place,

First - That the robbery, if committed at all, (which fact has not been es- - tablished by sufficiently satisfactory evidence) may be attributed to the neglect of the Comprodore, in failing to secure the Windows of the room with the means at his command_ as

if the Styphoon bars which

were avail- - able had been fixed inside the Veric - - tians, it may justly be presumed sufficient.

noise would have been created

an

had

to cause alarm if an attempt been made to force

entrance, and nothing it appears could have been easier accomplished than the opening of the Window by passing the hand between the Venetians and with. - drawing two botts which could be

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effected without the slightest diffi= - culty or occasioning noise, there being

other obstacle to impede Second. ___ That no blame or neglect

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an entrance.

la-

e

of duty

can be attributed to the Guard or Sentries without whose knowledge the robbery might = sily have been effected.

W.J. Layard

Major C. R. Regiment,

President

Signed C.J Holworthy,

Captain C. R. Rigt Walter H6 Long.

5. Liat C. R. Regte

Approved

(Signed) Wm Servois,

Major General

A true Copy

Com2 in China.

Cafton Brigade Magi.