16 July 1808

+ Charge 1

Charge 1

2

4 2. Application used by Accountant in his Account to

have the most of proof requested

It not being in the power of

this Accountant, my

them of any other Accountant, to know without

usual information, in which design it would be the pleasure of the

Commissioners to receive such evidence as received they

might, according to their rules of practice, be deemed sufficient

to control the several articles contained

in those Books into so many reciveth

and

Vouchers, he accordingly made application for

the missing information viz. in and by a Query subjoined to the article in question and submitted to the

Board for that purpose; in and by which Queries the normal

Items in the said Books were to be though submitted in

the character of compleat Vouchers, were

explicitly recognised as not being any thing more,

but as requiring for their completion in that character

some mode of authentication, such as it might please

the Board to prescribe: the persons by whom such authentication could

so to be performed being at the same time

to the Board as ready to be

undergo examination, by or by order of the Board, for the

purpose of satisfying all such doubts if any, as might happen

to those respecting the

import or

propriety

of the several articles.

5 Conduct of the Ch. Inspector He misrepresents the

Books as of sent or as compleat

Vouchers. Passing by unnoticed the Queries thus

submitted, instead of the reasonable and necessary information

sought by it,

Mr

Chief Inspector, took upon him to go out of his way

for the purpose of speaking of the article

to which has given him reference in terms of censure:

censure altogether unasserted and groundless

: representing the Books as having been given in by the Accountant in

the character of compleat Vouchers, wanting nothing to invest

them with that character, whereas on the these

where it

face of the as it lay before him, the contrary stood

expressly recognised.