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A portion of for the

the Accounts

years 1853 1854 in an incomplete state, were received

thro' the Colonial Office in Recember 1855 ; & the whole of the Documents necessary for their examination were not

the Colony

till

received from August and September 1857.

when the Accounts for the years 1856 and 1857 were also

received-

From the correspondence which has taken place, it is seen that Mr Rienaecher the

late Treasurer had been in a

bad state of health, that

many of

the books had been

orregularly kept that some of there books had been removed

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by Mr. Rienaccker when he left the

Colony

in 1856, & that, upon the

local Sxamination

of

the

H

Accounts for 1855 + 1856, it

was discovered that sumus amounting to £ 1032. 18. 11. which had been paid into the Treasury

account of

Rents and Licenses, had

not been included in the

Treasury Cash Book and also that sums amounting to £1,516.5._ had been entered in the Cash Book as issues to the superintendency & Consulates beyond the amounts which had been. actually advanced. These

Jums

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