CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12] — Page 261

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the 3rd and 4th

on

the

received

previens day, to find out the amount

by

cach

and those several Payments

I tallied with the Disbursements of the

fival

whilst

instant as entered in the Cash Book.

It is well I should here state that

paying

had to receive

Lexcer.

the Salaries Shroff Ablong" Payments on the 1st instant

Jing $7.992

second instant and also on

AND

engaged endeavouring to discover

the guilty Party

and the manner in which

the # 3,255 notes could have been taken from

the Frenoury

At 8 o clock on

the 2nd instant the

Cashier, who had been

very

active in

1

إلى

was not until after

one odleck

÷

Well on the 2nd instant that I was mode

awart of the abstraction

from

the Treasury of

the sam named tit: $3,255 when I reported

it instantly in this Exciting the Cicling

Governor- verbally at first

after in writing (dec my (Scontary No 24)

and immediately

letter to Wcling Colonial

The whole of the afternoon of the

endeavouring

to unravel the mystery attending

this robbery procured, with my knowledge und approval, the Assistances of the Police, he had interviews with the first Magistrate and- with the Captain Supuri'n tendent when with the Assistance of

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Inspector of Police he had the houses of the First and second Shroffs searched that of "Ahting" at his own request, but the Cashier did not reach the house of

the Second Shroff "Allow" until 10 vclick.