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The Accountant and Deputy Registrars.
6. The Accountant of the Supreme Court and the Deputy Registrars shall be responsible that the correct amounts are received or paid into their hands respectively, It will be their duty accordingly to ascertain that documents requiring to be stamped shall bear the proper stamps.
7. The Accountant will bring to account in his books all receipts or payments made by the Deputy Registrars.
8. The Accountant will see that the recommendations of the Commissioners
appointed to enquire into certain offices of the Supreme Court respecting the receipt and payment of moneys into the Supreme Court, and set forth in the 6th suggestion em- bodied in their report of 19th May last, be observed and carried out as far as practicable.
9. It will be the duty of the Registrar and Accountant to bring to the notice of the Chief Justice any circumstances that may in their opinion render it necessary to modify or make addition to the existing rules.
10. The Shroff will before leaving the Court every day pay over to the Accountant any sum of money in excess of $500 that he may have in his hands.
October 31st, 1879.
(Signed),
JOHN SMALE, Chief Justice.
These regulations should now, I think, be made permanent but should include the accounts of the Official Trustee as has practically been done. The accounts seem to me to be all carefully inspected and audited. The monthly balances appear to be signed by the Registrar and Accountant and to be examined by a Clerk in the Andit office and the Auditor General himself, the entries in the Cash hooks and Journals and the
books kept by the Shroff and the Fee Book appear to be duly audited and to be signed by the Auditor General's Clerk and by the Auditor General himself, the checks upon payments in and payments out suggested by the Commissioners in 1879, appear to be duly observed and I cannot conceive how any defalcations could occur except the Registrar, the Accountant and the Shroff or two of them at least were concerned and the Auditor General's Clerk and the Auditor General himself were careless or negligent in auditing the accounts, or unless amounts were received by officers of the Court con- trary to regulation and never brought into account at all, or unless through some care- lessness the receipt given did not tally with the counterfoil. The only remedy for this that I know of is publicity and after all it is but a partial remedy. If publicity is given, however, parties will only have themselves to blame if they pay money which is not accounted for. I would suggest that the Registrar's Cash account and Shroff's Petty cash account should be published in the Gazette every month. I would have suggested
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