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a similar letter, being given free access to the Registry for the
purpose, but he did not do so, and on enquiry by the Committee
the Registrar could find only one letter in which the amount in
upees we not stated, and that one was drafted by Alim Khan fùbsequently to the date of the draft of this letter in question.
It is admitted that the sum of 8213.93 was paid by the Treasurer
to the Registry and that the cheque was handed by the shroff to
Alim Khan who cashed it through a messenger of the Registry. Alim
Khan states that on the 17th. April he took the money in notes to
the Money Order Office and there applied for a Money Order to a
clerk named tuhamed Akbar. He made out an application form, but
huhamed Akbar asked him to make out two forma, ong in a sum of
$100 and one in a sum of X113.93, and ne accordingly did so, alter
-ing the first form from 8213.93 to Elló.93, and making out a
fresh form for 2100. Muhammed Akbar nad on a former occasion asked
him to make out two forms, but he could not rezerwer when that
occurred. Guhamed Akbar gave him two receipts which no put with
the papers in his office.
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In a letter dated the 51st. uly, 1913, the
Deputy Commissioner wrote as follows:- "I have the nonour to
"forward herewith a receipt for Rs. 145 6 0 or 413.93"; and
on the receipt was written "Receipt of bust. genge for Rs. 145.
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) equivalent to $213.93". On receipt of tuis letter tuo
disparity between the sums in dollars ana rupees was noticed and
enquiry was set on foot. It was then discovered that on the 14th.
June a Money Order for Rs. 145 b
O representing 8100, had beer
sent to the Deputy Comissioner. An application, admittedly in Alim Khan's handwriting, bearing the Post Office Stamp of the
14th. June, was in its proper place in the file, and the counter- -foil of the receipt was in its proper place in the receipt book.
Un the 10th. Septemuer an Indian, whose
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identity is unknown to the Committee, applied at the Kowloon Post Office for a Loney Order for the sum of £113.93, payable to the Deputy Commissioner at Hoshiarpur, and the Order was duly sent. The application, a typewritten one, was in the name of
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