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"Employés entrusted with the receipt of money

That this should have gone on for ten years longer seems to require explanation.

It would appear to the Comptroller and Auditor General that some essential alterations of system are needed.

(a) Every person entrusted with the receipt of Revenue should keep a Cash Book, in which the whole of his receipts from whatever source, should be entered daily.

In the present case Mr. Nicolle says that the Clerk was instructed to keep two Cash Books, one for Imperial Receipts and the other for Foreign and Colonial; and that his Ledger had separate headings for each Country and Colony, but none for the United Kingdom; moreover, for some receipts, he apparently had no Cash Book. There may be reasons, in some cases, for recording details of particular Cash transactions in separate Books, but the totals of the transactions.

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664 "Employés entrusted with the receipt of money That this should have gone on for ten years longer seems to require explanation. It would appear to the Comptroller and Auditor General that some essential alterations of system are needed. (a) Every person entrusted with the receipt of Revenue should keep a Cash Book, in which the whole of his receipts from whatever source, should be entered daily. In the present case Mr. Nicolle says that the Clerk was instructed to keep two Cash Books, one for Imperial Receipts and the other for Foreign and Colonial; and that his Ledger had separate headings for each Country and Colony, but none for the United Kingdom; moreover, for some receipts, he apparently had no Cash Book. There may be reasons, in some cases, for recording details of particular Cash transactions in separate Books, but the totals of the transactions.
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664 " Employés entrusted with the receipt of That this should have gone on " money 7 for ten years longer seems to require explanation. an It would appear to the Comptroller and Auditor General that some essential alterations of system are needed. (a) Every person entrusted with the receipt of Revenue should keep a leash Book, in which the whole of his receipts from whatever source, should be entered daily. says In the present case Mr. Nicolle that the Clerk was instructed to keep two Cash Books, one for Imperial Receipts and the other for Foreign and Colonial; and that his Ledger separate " headings for each Country and Colony, "but none for for the United Kingdom; moreover, for "had " some receipts, he apparently no Cash Book. There may be kept reasons, in some cases, for recording details of particular Cash transactions in separate Books, but the totals of the transactions.
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664

" Employés entrusted with the receipt of

That this should have gone on

" money

7

for ten years longer seems to require

explanation.

an

It would appear to the Comptroller and Auditor General that some essential alterations of system are needed.

(a) Every person entrusted with the receipt of Revenue should keep a leash Book, in which the whole of his receipts from whatever source, should be entered daily.

says

In the present case Mr. Nicolle that the Clerk was instructed to keep two Cash Books, one

for Imperial Receipts and the other for Foreign and Colonial; and that his Ledger separate " headings for each Country and Colony, "but none for

for the United Kingdom;

moreover, for

"had

"

some receipts, he apparently

no Cash Book. There

may

be

kept reasons, in some cases, for recording details of particular Cash transactions in separate Books, but the totals of the

transactions.

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