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as it then your idea that they should in turn each account to Er.
Tsui each day.
No, it was my wish that each shroff should keep a cash book as
kept by mr. Tsui in the Fassport Office.
And was a cash look in fact instituted by each one of them?
I cannot say. I have asked Er. A.J.G. Taylor to make a statement of
what books he found on 1st February when he was transferred to my
office from Taipo.
And you did not instituted any general cash book.
No.
who was generally responsible for the Cach, Did the responsibility of
each one of those shroffa continue until such time so he had accounted
for the money to the Treasury:
A. Yes.
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There never was any general cash book and never any system of
reconciliation of each day's worki
No.
That I think you will agree was one of the points Mr. A.J.C. Taylor
was naturally very emphatic on, that there should be an abstract
which he`incorporated in the form of the cash book.
Yes. That abstract form 1 have traced; I am sorry I did not bring it
with me this morning. It was in the hands of ar. Tsui. It was
abandoned after a certain like. It will be shown in a loose minute
which I have in my office.
Do you mean that when you got Mr. Taylor's minuse of oist Cctober you
did not have books prepared?
I recognized that it was not likely that thees books would be printed
in time I set a clerk, tr. Leung, who was lent to me by the Colonial
Secretary's Office I succeeded in tracing him – I did not know his
name till two days ago - I set him to make copies of it. Topies were
supplied, but Mr. Tsui, after one week's experience in use, reported to
me that that form was quite unworkable because permits were not and
could not be issued in numerical order. Applications were received and
if they were granted in due course a pernit was prepared, taken in
order from the book of audit-numbered planks, but it did not follow
that the applicante came in the same uruar to pay. No. 2 perit
for instance might be delivered against cash today but wo.l might not
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