CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3] — Page 153

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this, I should have done earlier has

not

my

absence at Canton in search

of the perprctrators, from which I only returned yesterday, prevented me.

On the afternoon of the oth

instant when the office

was closen

O for

the day, there was in the iron Chest belonging to the office, according to a statement furnished to me by the office Shroff the sum of $ 2011 91. being the accumulation of rents of the public - Markets for the present month, and of License fees for a detailed statement of which I beg to annex. This amount had been collected between the 5th

and the 9th instant inclusive, and

in accordance with previous custom

And in pursuance of the directions of the market Ordinance, that portion of

ib

the market rents and

forming the

,,

Amounting to # 1819 woves have been

paix into the Colonial Treasury the following day

on

The iron chest in which att public monies collected by this department are deposited pending their transmission to the Colonial Treasury is kept within my office

at the Court House, and the

two

ee

Office

Augun

Coolies allowed by Government

and Asui

sleep in the Office

for the protection of the place.

About 10.30. on the morning of

the 10th instant, the Office Shroff ~ having occasion to open the chest