PZ 5179/36 'Aden: proposed memorial to Captain S. B. Haines, R.I.N.' [‎33r] (65/110)

rv
Captsiin Haines*
explanations re
garding them.
submit a statement
in elucidation
thereof.
Statement how
prepared.
what it exhibits.
but it is not
generally supported
by the rough
accounts•
The account from
which the statement
was prepared not
made over at the
commencement of
the Proceedings.
Letter to Captain
Haines No.1.dated
10th Septemoer IflSi
and Memo.No.4 f datea
14th item.
(g>)
36. Captain Haines says that the amount of the Bills
in question was made good by himself to Grovernmant from
private money of his own which he had in deposit in the
Treasury from pay accruing to him as shewn in the state
ment already adverted to as being appended to his letter
of the 19th October 1853; but whether the money was made
good as stated or not, the transaction seems to have
been wholly a private one, and should never have been mixed
with the public accounts in any way: the Parsee States
that the accommodation to him, consisted in this, that
he was paying 9 per cent at Bombay, and that he got this
for 5 per cent.
37. This statement Captain Haines says has been pre
pared from a separate Private account, and flhe purports
to shew by it that, from January 1847 to August 1852 he
has lodged in the Treasury the sum of &. 67,185, from which
he has met private advances inclusive of the Bills to
Sorabjee Cowasjee, to the extent of Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 60,462; but
it must be remarked that with the exception of the items
shewn as deposited previous to January 1848 and amounting
to Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 5,600, there is no record in the office accounts
of the payment into the Treasury of the remaining de
posits exhibited in this statement.
38. The separate accounts from which the statement
has been prepared was not made over to us when we
called upon Captain Haines on two different occasions
at the oommencement of our labours to send to us all
accounts, or, memoranda public, or private tending to
throw light upon our inquiry, which he mi^it possess,
and when subsequently brought forward we did not deem it
a document to which, produced as it was at that stage
of our Proceedings, much weight could be attached.
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