APPENDIX A. 



From Major Eeynell G. Taylor, late Commandant of Guide 

 Corps, to Major J. D. Macpherson, Mily. Secy, to Chief 

 Commissioner, Lahore. Dated Jhelum, Feb. 13, 1856. 



Sir, — In accordance with the instructions contained in your 

 letter. No. 3369, of the 10th November, I have the honour 

 to report, for the information of the Chief Commissioner, 

 that the result of my examination of Lieutenant Hodson's 

 accounts has been quite satisfactory. 



2. The period embraced is from the 10th of March 1853 

 to the close of 1854. Lieutenant Hodson succeeded to the 

 command of the Guide Corps at an earlier period than the 

 first-named date ; but at that time the accounts were kept 

 by the adjutant, and Lieutenant Hodson first assumed 

 direct management of the regimental accounts on the above 

 date — namely, the 10th of March 1853 — on which occasion 

 he received a distinct balance in cash from Lieutenant 

 Turner, and also an open statement showing the sums 

 which he. Lieutenant Turner, believed to be claimable from 

 the chest and due to it : this open statement I shall notice 

 elsewhere. 



3. Commencing with the cash balance received from 

 Lieutenant Turner, the accounts were carried on as pre- 

 viously in a general day-book embracing all transactions, 

 written for the first (13) thirteen months by Moonshee 

 Nujjuf Allee, one of the regimental moonshees. As this 

 man subsequently became Lieutenant Hodson's accuser, 

 and strove to throw discredit on his own account, it is 



