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13 July 1808 + 6
Query 5. Item 4

Workmen's receipts
not necessary

1. As to the necessity.
1. Upon enquiry I am assured, by persons in both situations who have
had ample experience that in private service it is not unnec
uncustomary and for aught they know without example,
for workmen at weekly wages handicraft workmen and as these in question were, to give, or for their
employers to require, rec their signature to written receipts for such
their wages.

2. Upon enquiry I am assured, that it is equally
without example, in public service: and in particular,
and for example, in his Majesty's Dockyards.

3. T On turning to the dates, the upon the face of the
Books in question themselves, it will appear that the mode
of entry there employed, was employed long before I had received
the sum of public money in question: In this anterior part of the Books, no
traces appear of any receipt or acknowledgment on the
part of the Workmen: and the persons by whom the books
were kept are ready to declare that they never took or
required any. After the receipt of the public money
in question, the Accounts continue to be kept exactly
in the same way as before. No need of any difference being suspect by any person
whatever so much as
suspected, no difference
was made.
For my own part,
I never saw the
Books not any
of them, till for
the purpose of rendering this
Account it became
necessary for me to
enquire what accounts
had been
kept and were to be
found.

4. But, says Mr Chief Inspector perhaps, when you
the public money in question had been received by you,
then was the time for you to prepare for the giving account
of it, in a proper manner suitable mode, and to that mode
to accommodate the shape of this part of Your evidence: with the and thereupon
furn it was that it became your duty to require, and obtain and keep these receipts.

My answer is — doubtless if, Mr Chief Inspector
being at my elbow, he had favoured me with any such
intimation, adding do this, or I your disbursements
will not, any of them, be allowed and it had depended & if [+][+] having received such
intimation it had been understood by me
to to depend upon the pleasure of Mr Chief Inspector to establish this
regulation in the character of a law or rule of evidence, I should then I in
either
in

Identifier: | JB/122/197/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1808-07-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	197	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	D6
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
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