CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4] — Page 725

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Shew cause why you should not be held pecuniarily responsible for the loss of Government money misappropriated in the Treasury during your tenures of office as Treasurer.

2. Dr. [You] in your letter under acknowledgment point out the difficulty of stating with precision, in the absence of certain books, the exact amounts misappropriated during each of the broken portions of the years you acted as Treasurer; you also [argue] the unfairness of the Commission in not having your books balanced.

At length [there is a] finding of [fact] in regard to [this], but for the reasons stated in the next paragraph the Governor does not think it necessary at present to enter into discussions of these points.

3. The question whether you should be held pecuniarily responsible for certain defalcations, or relieved of such responsibility, is quite distinct from the precise ascertainment of the amount; neither does it in any way depend on any finding of the Commission other than that which establishes the fact that Government money was misappropriated in the Treasury while you were acting as Treasurer.

4. The obvious and primary duty of a Treasurer, as stated...

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719 } Shew cause why you should not be held pecuniarily responsible for the loss of Government money misappropriated in the Treasury during your tenures of office as Treasurer. 2. Dr. [You] in your letter under acknowledgment point out the difficulty of stating with precision, in the absence of certain books, the exact amounts misappropriated during each of the broken portions of the years you acted as Treasurer; you also [argue] the unfairness of the Commission in not having your books balanced. At length [there is a] finding of [fact] in regard to [this], but for the reasons stated in the next paragraph the Governor does not think it necessary at present to enter into discussions of these points. 3. The question whether you should be held pecuniarily responsible for certain defalcations, or relieved of such responsibility, is quite distinct from the precise ascertainment of the amount; neither does it in any way depend on any finding of the Commission other than that which establishes the fact that Government money was misappropriated in the Treasury while you were acting as Treasurer. 4. The obvious and primary duty of a Treasurer, as stated...
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