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three hours. I may add that the proper Journals were supplied

them by me and every other assistance given them.

The question therefore comer to be:

if it took

these two gentlemen, working conjointly, three hours to check

one book :- how long would it take one man to check 125 books

for that is what the total amount to i.e. from 1st May up to

27th. September. I may also mention that nearly one third of

these Counter-foil books necessitase the using (at one time )

of fully twenty Journals. One foil is to be found in one

Journal the next foil in another and so on :- renging right

through the whole twenty Journals. Judging by the time taken

by the P.M.G. ari A.P.M.G. it would take one man a little over

two days to do one of these books. I may here mention that

when the P.M.G. found out, that the May Counter-foil books were

not checked. He gave me orders to get them all out as he along

with Mr.Lewis (the A.P.M.G.) would check them. I informed him

that it would take them months to do it, but he thought dif-

ferently. The result was they checked one book out of Hand

then gave it up. By a careful study of the above you will see

how impossible it would have been for me to have checked all

these books and still have carried on all my other work.

My calculations as regards the number of books used

monthly