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In your 21 years of government service have you known any person
entrusted with the handling of public monies who was not required to
be aecured?
Yes, myself from time to time.
You have yourself handled government monies?
In enormous amounts and very frequently.
*ithout being secured?
ithout being secured.
And so you say that you did not think your out-door officers aight
to be secured, but instead another system had been introduced?
In order to safeguard against accidental loss of cash and the accidental acceptance of forged notes, and to avoid the difficulty
of handling foreign currencies.
And it was for these reasons and these reasons alone that you
introduced this moneychanger into the scheme?
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Exactly.
What happened to cheques
they were taken by your officer who was
charged with boarding the ship?
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And I understan: paid into the Treasury, but of that I am not quite
sure.
You think they went to the Treasury? They were not cashed by your officer?
I should like to have the opportunity to investigate that point.
Certainly.
And you told us your out-aoor officers were in fact the
only ones who were unsecured?
No, there was the cashier who sat a my desk,
Why was that?
Because of two factors. First of all because of the number of dis-
regarded instructions of what I should imagine to be common sense,
in sending money to me it was done even yesterday
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cash to me with orders for documents demanded.
in seming
This cash could not
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be readily brought to account and therefore it had to be either retained by me or else sent back to the applicant
method was cumbersome and troublesome and therefore after dis cussi on
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instituted a system of keeping it in my office until the permit
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