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tinctly that the note appended was in his handwriting. 

 In the original payment of 200 rupees for the horse pur- 

 chased for Feroze Khan, where his repudiation of the note 

 attached might have been of importance, Nujjuf Allee, 

 when questioned by the court, allowed that the explanatory 

 note was his, but asserted that Lieutenant Hodson had no 

 funds of his own in the chest at the time — an assertion 

 sufficiently answered by the refutation of his chief charge. 



40. On the sixth head, if Nujjuf Alice's day-book be 

 regarded as a regimental account liable to audit, I can say 

 nothing in defence of it, as it is so cobbled and amended 

 that it is wholly unfit for evidence ; but it is an improve- 

 ment on its predecessor kept by Subadar Peer Buksh, 

 which was seen by the members of the court of inquiry 

 and impounded by them ; and further, taken as a memor- 

 andum of all his transactions (which is, I believe, the true 

 light in which it should be viewed), it is a good and well- 

 detailed one, as is evidenced by its having been feasible to 

 prepare a correct balanced account from it. 



41. Besides his day-book, Nujjuf Allee also kept up 

 nominal pay distribution rolls, written in his own hand 

 with a steel pen : these have been, at the expense of some 

 time and difficulty, compared with the scattered entries in 

 the day-book and found to correspond throughout. In fact, 

 I found no room for continuing a suspicion of the correct- 

 ness of Nujjuf Alice's book, and it appears that when it 

 suited him he himself appealed to it as unchallengeable ; 

 and further, its genuineness as a record is greatly estab- 

 lished by the transcript made by Moonshee Bachee Lall, 

 which was concluded before the period when Nujjuf Allee 

 got into disgrace, of which fact Lieutenant Godby and my- 

 self have taken copious evidence. 



42. On the seventh point has chiefly hinged the opinion 

 at one time prevalent, that Lieutenant Hodson was a de- 

 faulter in account. It was known, in the first instance, 

 that Lieutenant Lumsden had never made use of his com- 

 mand allowance, and therefore that the accumulations of 

 it, amounting to a considerable sum, ought to be in the 



