CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7] — Page 43

other part,

Avas

I asked Mohanq if the Master authorized to do so and he at

asserted that such

once

was the case. I thereupon

observed that, if so, he must have been

called

om m

in the

course

of his businip to

pay similar expenses, and I should like to

See a statement of them. He replied that he

had often done so, and at

for some

my request sent

No4.

of those bills. I now inclose two of Enclosure No4.

them as illustrating the system followed

in the regular

regular Course of the trade and proving

the complete neglect of the Master.

As however the fact of the latter's

diminishing the rations on the day after leaving part seemed to prove that he had

interest in

Some

Sareing the stores, I inquired to whom any surplus at the end of the

simples

vayage

Enclosure No 5.

would betong. Mohong at once replied to himself on his Agent at the vessel's Gart of

arrival- and that it

www.b

exprefly so agred- Party. I therefore insisted on

in the Charter Party. I

seeing the bharter Party. He procured it for

me and I now

now enclose a copy of it, and at

page | Your Lordship will find the stipulation.

in question most clearly set forth. This

renders the Master's conduct all the more

inexplicable for whilst he might have tatten amount of provisions from the Cargo

any

called for supplies

at

ugo ar

Port

some intervening all at the bhartirers expense, the

expense, he could not

possibly have profited by economising the stows which had bun put on board, Therefore I presume he had managed, before pailing

fraudulently to dispase of part of the provisions