CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6] — Page 395

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attempt was made

subject, that any by him for bringing about a more favorable

Change.

with respect to the Department which I was given to understand, more particularly attached to

me, vizh, that

Connected with the Shipping ; I begmost

humbly

and ear

earnestly

Grace

to assure your that the Conectness of the whole of those Accounts which have been under my individual charge, can be vouched for, notonly an reference to the Office Books but also the

Treasury Vouchers ?"

า

I therefore Cannot His Excellency, and Executive Conueil,

Cannot Conceive how

Could arrive at the Conclusion they have done, or why I should be deemed as responsibile in any way,

4 for either

sections, or

for

defalcations, arising

Regligence of others?

either the

out of the

The charge against me is a

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very

sirious one ; Of having received Government

monies

monies without

entering the same in the. Books, and afterwards for not paying the same direct into the Treasing ?

This charge I refute by the fact, that there were not any Books kept in the Office for the entry of such sums as "Emigration Fres "," that this must have been known to, and,

and if wrong, ought

by the Auditor General, whose duty your Prace it aware was to see to the proper organization

to have been remedied

is

of the office with regard to the records -

I did not

7 pay the money into

the chreasury, because all previous sums

of the Same nature had been paid direct to W. hewman, and I conceived it

nothing (more than ony duty to obey his Orders in this respect, and to the Amounts as

6 give

received, over into his hands = this

therefore, that I profoundly hope, that, Your Price may have cause for seeing pom my foregoing plain statement

of facts;