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15. I shall here briefly enumerate the causes which led 

 to doubt being cast upon the accounts. I believe them all 

 but one to admit of satisfactory explanation by the accounts, 

 and I therefore think it fair to Lieutenant Hodson to notice 

 them in detail. 



16. First, Lieutenant Turner, the adjutant of the regi- 

 ment, expressed a belief that a duffadar, who had taken his 

 discharge, had not been fairly treated concerning a horse 

 purchased from him by Lieutenant Hodson ; and further, 

 that the Chunda fund of the regiment had suffered by the 

 same transaction. 



17. Secondly, Moonshee Nujjuf Allee asserted that Lieu- 

 tenant Hodson had in August 1853 taken a large sum — 

 about 3000 rupees — out of the regimental chest for his own 

 purposes, when, from the fact of his pay having been 

 retrenched in the pay-office, he had no funds to draw upon. 



18. Thirdly, The same moonshee claimed a sum of (Com- 

 pany's rupees 270) Company's rupees two hundred and 

 seventy as due to him by account from the chest, and also 

 made two other claims on Lieutenant Hodson himself — one 

 for (Company's rupees 65) Company's rupees sixty - five 

 personal pay, and another for (Company's rupees 85) Com- 

 pany's rupees eighty-five on account of stationery, &c., for 

 the office. 



19. Fourthly, The same man insinuated that Lieutenant 

 Hodson had defrauded Government of the pay of deceased 

 men, deserters, dismounted sowars, fines, &c. 



20. Fifthly, Moonshee Nujjuf Allee, when called upon to 

 prove his chief allegation by his own accounts, declared 

 that alterations had been made in the book since it left his 

 hands. 



21. Sixthly, Nujjuf Alice's cash-book alluded to proved, 

 when examined before the court of inquiry, to be so full of 

 erasures and corrections that it was pronounced unfit to be 

 received as evidence. 



22. Seventhly, It was supposed that there were not funds 

 to cover certain considerable sums of money which it was 

 known should be in the chest. 



