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NORTH SIVA QUEEN SQUARE. | Ch'vows, Dec. 18, 1889.

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DonaLp Frreuson (re-called)—I have no recollection of receiving the jetter frum | Sheriff Strong enclosing the Peter Gallant tcheck. I have searched for the letter but cannot find it. It might have been receiv- ed by me, but ] would hand it and the check to the cashier, Mr. Strong. In my absence letters addressed to me officially would be opened and dealt with by Mr. Strong. 1 produce a duplicate deposit ticket from the Bank of Nova Seotia dated 30th June, 1884, in which, as oneyof the items appears, a check for $100. There was no check or item of $100 in the cash book for the year 1884 between this deposit and the deposit previously made which was made in May. ‘There is no $100 dollar} item in the bock between the 8th May. 1884, and the 30th June, 1884. This deposit ticket is in Mr. Strong’s handwrit- ing. Ques: What is your opinion as to (i) The practicability of relinquishing «aF together the system of country collection} tours ; (2) the advisability thereof? Ans :| In wy opinion the eastern tour should be sbandoned. It is both practicable and ad- visable to do so, as the businessylone does

not warrant the expense and the places are not so remote. The Western tour has been a great advantage to the people. ‘They have; taken advantage of the collection tour. if continued at all, the staff in the office must be increased and one of the officials should be a draughtsman acquainted with the run-

ning of lines and laying out of boundaries. [wo ofticials should always go on this tour. } Most of the payments made up West are very small and in maiy cases the expense | of comimg to town would be 50 per cent more than they pay. The amounts now | due are not very large, most of them have been paying up. The collecting tours add} very much to the work and labor of the. office and the plans have to ge out and | they get very much injured. The} Commissioner cannot — safely enter into any sales while the collectors are jaway. They have the plans with them, land it would not be safe for the Commis- isioner to enter into a sale in their absence, however pressing, for fear of a donble sale taking place. Besides the actual expense ‘incurred by Mr. Strong for collecting tours, he was allowed $100 extra over his statu- | tory $800 salary for each year, for several | years. There was an objection raised in! the Council after 1886. No allowance was| made to any other official either before or) since. Mr. McKinlay’s salary, before be-, ing Assistant Commissioner, was $650. Mr. | Lovgworth, who made the collecting tour; this fall, just gets his statutory allowance” of $500. Mr. Strong, besides myself, was

the only official who gave bonds until after, Mr. Strong’s death. After that Mr. Mec-— Kinlay, Mr. McDonald, and Mr. Long- | | worth gave bonds. I produce a statement | showing the expenses of the collecting tours i of the officials of the Land Office from L877 ito 1889, inclusive; also a memorandum | showing the names of the offtcials who went and the amoynts oollected from 1879! | to 1889, inclusive. 1 may say that 1 have: | been absent on delegations on public busi- iness to Ottawa and England. The time I was away to England extended from the twenty-sixth of January, 1886, until the first or second week in April, and this was my longest absence from the office. During the times§1 would be on delegations Mr. Strong would have entire charge of the! office. (Ques,: On your assumption of the, position of Commissioner of Orown Lands, was your attention directed by the Govern- | ment .to the report of Messrs. Cundall, DesBrisay and Shanks, commissioners ap- pointed to investigate the affairs of the Land Office in the year 1876, and did you’ carry out the recommendations or any of them contained therein? Ans : My atten-

Lion was not specially referred to it by the Government or by any member of it. I

was aware of the report, as I have had

vecasion to refer to it in dealing with in-

dividual cases reported upon by them.

The report was four years old when I came

into the office, and 1 was under the impres-

sion that all the changes recommended

which were practicable had been adopted.

The cash and all books are kept in the) vanlt in connection with the office at night. | There is no safe inside, but the door of the! vault isa combination lock, and the Assist-} ant Commissioner and Mr. McKinlay had

tbe combination to my knowledge. I do| not know the combination and never did. | The following amounts were also received

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who have not attorned to the Government, No precepts were issued Jast year, but sume were in 1887.

Jas. M. Surwertanp (sworn)—I am a member of the firm of Davies & Suther- land. Onthe llth Feb., 1888, I gavea check of Davies & Sutherland to James McCloskey for $400 on the Merchants Bank of P. E. Island. This is the check now produced, I gave the check to James Mc- Closkey and it was payable to his order. | do not think Robert A. Strong was pre sent. | lave no knowledge of the check after it passed out of my hands. The trans- action took place in our own oftice. From my recoljection | never saw Patrick Mc Closkey in uy life. The loan was mae on squatter land, and had no connection with the Land Office. 1 never went near the Land Office about it, nor handed the check to the Land Office. 1 don’t believe I did 1 have no knowledge or recollection of it. (Evidence of Patrick McCloskey read to witness). I contradict Patrick McCloskey’s evidence about my going to the Land

| Office. IL would not contradict the state-

ment that I went toithe office if the old mar, James McC.oskey made it, but | never saw the young man to my know ledgd:~L.did all the business with the old man altogether,

Frepv. W. HynpMan (sworn)—In audit- ing the receipt book, if 1 would come across a receipt that was destroyed | would satisfy myself what came of the receipt. 1 would take the best means of satisfying myself of what became of it. I remember there were some old receipts in the oflice when the new system of receipts came in. 1 do not kaow what I did about them. It was the understanding that none but the new forms should be used. (No. 40 B receipt book shown) I must have satisfied myself of the loss of this receipt, No 54,144. What I would do now would be to take the bes? means of ascertaining what became of it. If the commissioner would tell me it was all! right I would likely pass it. If I would write *‘cancelled” Lg would be satisfied 1 would refer to the Commissioner, and if he was satisfied I would pass it. (No, 392, 398, void F. W. 48.) { must have seen this one. When |

'was Auditor my attention was not drawn

by the Government to the report made in the year of 1876 by Messrs. Cundal), and DesBrisay. i remember

Office at that time, but I do not rem- ember of my attention having been called toit. I got a Semmunication from the Government in reply to my suggestion to open a capital account in the Land Office, refusing to open jit. J think one of the reasons given was that the officials were al- ways changing. dm all cases where there are no marks in the township ledgers show- ing an audit, it would be because Scott would hold the ledger «nd call from it. I swear positively that although thereare no marks in the ledgers showing an audit, they were all audited for the complete years of 1877, and up to 3lst December, 1878. Mr. Scott held the ledger and I held the cash book, and I never went through the ledgers to

/see if audit marks were made, or omissions

er insertions of other amounts after the audit. It would be too much work; once would be enough. if a man wants to be dishonest he can deceive any auditor. There ought to be two men at the audit, as in the case of these township ledgers any ‘uditor can be deceived if the official wants to be dishonest. | do not think that an audit would be suflicient unless the town- ship ledgers were gone over and a thorough

‘examination of the ledgers made after

the comparison. The immense amount of work in the Land Office in my time would be sutticient to keep au Auditor at work all

‘the time between the ist October and 3Lst

December, especially as he has to embody

ithe Land Office accounts in his printed

report of the accounts for the Legislature, which mects in February. (Cash book and ledgers with pencil marks produced.) | cannot say whose marks these are. When- ever I held a book I would make a mark. In cases when Lheld both books I would make marks in both of them, but when I held only one I won't swear 1 made any marks. I was not looking for frauds, | never discovered any. 1 considered when Il saw that what aman psid went to hie credit and to the Treasury it wae all J had to do. If a man paid money which did not appear in the cash book it might not go to the Treasu y, and under my system o! auditing it might not be discovered.

Slanghter Sales.

Siz,—Several letters directing the atten- tion of our people to the unfairness of this illegitimate competition have appeared in,

by Mr. Strong, and were entered by him in your paper. Iam strictly in accord with the county ledgers but not in thegcash book every statement. It is too serious a matter or township ledgers: Lemuel D. Chaisson,!t 9 pe hurriedly passed over. If we wish Lot 43, $8; Alex. Miller, Lot 12, $20.37; our business men to serve us rightly, we Philip McKinnon, Lot 13, $15.16; David) must show that we are determined that Sullivan, Lot 12, $10.03; Thomas Kennedy, ‘their rights will not be abused. How are $438. [ wish to correct the statement they to guage their orders for the coming made in my evidence, given in the earlier) gegzon unless assurance is given them that part of my examination, that Mr. DeBlois,) the ‘Cheap Johns” who have drifted this the Auditor, had been in the habit of quite) way recently aay not appear again with frequently making an examination at differ-| other fakirs. A by-law should be framed ent times than his official visit once a at once which would compel such adven- month. I made this statement in conse-' turers to pay not only the ordinary taxes quence of a conversation I had with the! but a specific charge as well. Let us “do Auditor, and under » misapprehension of unto others as we would have others do what he told me. Ques.: In the event of unto us.” Ido not think our people will the collecting tours being discontinued, is gubmit to the repetition of these snide your present staff sufficient for the work} shows.

of the ottice? Ans.: Certainly not. Ques : | What assistants do you consider necessary in the office ? Ans. There should be an ac- |

SORTA: OF b ok -keeper, a ty 4 and | One of the reasons why Scott’s Emulsion draughtsman, and two clerks, ‘The deputy! nas such a large sale is because it is the best. head might be either surveyor or draughts-; p, W.H. Cameron, Halifax, N. S., says : “7 man, and one of the clerks be beok-keeper have prescribed Scott’s Emulsion of Cod and cashier. I think it doubtful if a com- Liver Oil, with Hy pophosphites, for the past petent men could be obtained for the salary! two years, and found it more agreeable te the paid the late Assistant Commissioner. A | stomach and have better resulta from its use pr perly qualified draughtsman could, [| than and other oe ation of the kind I have think, be obtained for $600, A clerk, if; ever used.” Sold hy ali druggists, 50 cents acting as cashier, if daily deposits were | and $1.

made, could be obtained for 8500. The een

arrears of work in the office consist of not} Achoice bot of ladies’ kid and patent & great many deeds to be issued, and in the leather evening slippers —-suitable for New procealings against defaulters gud those Year yiits—just arrived qt Gut Bros,

JUSTICE. December 3, 1889.

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