372 MAJOR W, HODSON. 



passed, and the balance had either to be recovered in arrears 

 from the men or from the military auditor-general after cor- 

 respondence and representation, while the abstracts passed 

 for the current pay of the regiment were being refunded by 

 the paymaster direct into the civil treasury in lieu of these 

 former advances. 



55. Eeceived by the Guide chest : — 



On the 19th June the audited This whole amount paid into 



pay abstract for May 1854 was the Peshawar treasury direct by 



received. Total passed after re- the deputy paymaster on account 



trenchments, Rs. 15,637. of former advances. 



On the 25th of July the audited Of this Company's Rs. 7849.12.1 

 pay abstract for June was received, paid direct by the deputy pay- 

 Total passed after retrenchments, master into the Peshawar treasury. 

 Rs. 15,570.11.11. 



Balance available on the two months' abstract, Rs. 7720.15.10. 



56. The above refunds were not to cover advances for 

 the months for which the abstracts were passed, but on 

 account of transactions of a long prior date. The audited 

 abstract for April 1854, amounting to Company's rupees 

 20,613.15.10, had been in the same way paid direct into 

 the Peshawar treasury in lieu of advances of the former 

 year; and the regiment being left entirely without pay, 

 Lieutenant Hodson was obliged to get an advance of that 

 sum again from the treasury, and it was to repay this 

 advance for April, and an outstanding balance of former 

 advances, that the above two sums were refunded direct 

 into the Peshawar treasury from the pay of the regiment 

 for May and June, leaving Lieutenant Hodson half a 

 month's pay with which to pay the regiment for the two 

 months named. 



To continue. 



57. On the 22nd of August the audited pay abstract for 

 July was received. Total passed after retrenchments. Com- 

 pany's rupees 17,582.5.10, and the money being received in 

 full, was disbursed to the regiment — May and June still 

 remaining unadjusted. 



