CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9] — Page 262

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which were incorrect, and that you accepted and passed as receipts for sums received by the Supt of the Money Order Office for Money Orders, documents which had been altered to cover frauds which had been committed by the said Supt.

(8). That on several occasions you accepted and passed as vouchers for payments alleged to have been made by the said Superintendent of the Money Order Office receipts which did not correspond in date or amount with the entries in the Cash Book.

(C) That you failed to report either to the head of the Post Office or to the Auditor General, that the Cash Book kept by the said Superintendent of the Money Order Office was not written up after the 1st of November 1889, knowing that the said book was not written up.

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(d) That you neglected to report that no items respecting Postal Notes occurred in the Collectors Accounts for 1889.

(e). That in breach of your duty as Audit Clerk you passed the following false entry viz:- August 1889. Loan from the Govt Branch Offices $9,000; and that you passed the subsequent monthly accounts in which the said false entry was not debited.

(S) That on various occasions you passed loans from Imperial funds which were entered in the Cash Book although instructed that such loans were not to be passed; and that you passed subsequent monthly accounts in which no debit entries were made of such loans.

(§). That you failed to obey

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which were incorrect, and that you accepted and passed as receipts for sums received by the Supt of the Money Order Office for Money Orders, documents which had been altered to cover frauds which had been committed by the said Supt. (8). That on several occasions you accepted and passed as vouchers for payments alleged to have been made by the said Superintendent of the Money Order Office receipts which did not correspond in date or amount with the entries in the Cash Book. (C) That you failed to report either to the head of the Post Office or to the Auditor General, that the Cash Book kept by the said Superintendent of the Money Order Office was not written up after the 1st of November 1889, knowing that the said book was not written up. 260 (d) That you neglected to report that no items respecting Postal Notes occurred in the Collectors Accounts for 1889. (e). That in breach of your duty as Audit Clerk you passed the following false entry viz:- August 1889. Loan from the Govt Branch Offices $9,000; and that you passed the subsequent monthly accounts in which the said false entry was not debited. (S) That on various occasions you passed loans from Imperial funds which were entered in the Cash Book although instructed that such loans were not to be passed; and that you passed subsequent monthly accounts in which no debit entries were made of such loans. (§). That you failed to obey
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Collectors Accounts for 1889.

duty

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