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and not eventually allowed ; two were for sums retrenched 

 in the pay-office ; one case had been adjusted previously ; 

 in another the money was in deposit in the hands of a 

 native officer ; and the ninth was due, and had to be paid, 

 but the claimant failed to prove that he had applied to 

 Lieutenant Hodson for the money. 



51. It must be remembered, at the same time, that 

 Lieutenant Godby, who had, I believe, been called upon to 

 ascertain all claims that existed against Lieutenant Hodson 

 with the regiment, gave public notice that all who had 

 them to make must speak then or be silent afterwards. It 

 is certain, therefore, that every one who thought he had a 

 chance of gaining by coming forward did so ; and it is a 

 very important point in the case, that it should be seen that 

 there were no real complaints to be made on the score of 

 pay. 



52. With reference to this I must mention that Lieutenant 

 Hodson had, under circumstances of really great difficulty, 

 paid up the whole regiment to the end of October 1854, and 

 cleared accounts with every man in it for all the advances 

 that each had received while audit was pending. In doing 

 this the following anomalous occurrence (when judged by 

 ordinary rules) took place — namely, that he paid the regi- 

 ment for the three months of May, June, and August with 

 August's pay and half June's, aided by a large sum received 

 as reaudits on former abstracts, and completed by a sum 

 advanced from the chest. 



53. I must put this in figures, for it will be hardly com- 

 prehensible or credible without them. 



54. I must first mention that the deputy paymaster in 

 several instances refunded the whole or a part of an abstract 

 into the Peshawar treasury on account of previous advances 

 received for the corps, merely transmitting to the com- 

 manding officer the statement and retrenchment paper, by 

 which he learned that whereas, in some former month, he 

 had obtained a loan of Company's Es. 17,000 from the civil 

 treasury on his own idea of what what was due to the 

 regiment, only Company's Es. 15,000 had eventually been 



