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this period of (13) thirteen months that has required the 

 most careful and siftinc; examination, 



4. From the 4th of April 1854 to the close of the same 

 year the day-book was kept by the other regimental moon- 

 shee, Goordeal, and as audited bills for (9) nine months 

 1853 and January 1854 were only received in February 

 1854, and contained a large amount of retrenchments, 

 which had to be gradually adjusted in the subsequent 

 portion of the account, the examination of the records 

 of the remaining (8) eight months could hardly be con- 

 sidered less important than that of the first (13) thirteen; 

 but from the fact of the accounts having been kept in 

 better form, with more collateral books of detail to sup- 

 port and explain them, their scrutiny was more rapidly 

 accomplished. 



5. Besides the above current accounts, Lieutenant Hod- 

 son, soon after taking command of the regiment, caused a 

 transcript of the available Persian records to be made by 

 one Moonshee Bachee Lall in the Hindi character. This 

 transcript was set about with the express object of obtain- 

 ing a more correct and detailed knowledge of all previous 

 transactions than was furnished by the accounts which had 

 been kept first by Lieutenant Hawes (in English) and then 

 by his successor, Lieutenant Turner (in Persian), which, 

 though good records of the receipts and disbursements 

 which had passed through the hands of those officers, were 

 no evidence of the real financial state of the regiment, as 

 they had never been balanced periodically, and when made 

 over furnished no detail of the balance then in hand. 



6. It was, then, in the hope of thoroughly clearing the 

 account from end to end, and obtaining a detail of the 

 balance for which he was liable, that Lieutenant Hodson 

 set Moonshee Bachee Lall to work at his transcript of the 

 accounts, and he first wrote out the cash-book kept by 

 Subadar Peer Buksh, then that by Munawar Allee vnder 

 Lieutenant Turner's supervision, then Nujjuf Alice's own, 

 the transcript of which, after being brought up to date, was 

 continued from day to day as a check. 



