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On the 22nd of September audited 



abstract for August received in full Es. 17,285 8 3 

 Also sums allowed in reaudit to the 



amount of 13,028 13 7 



Es. 30,314 5 10 



58. These reaudits were the property of the chest, having 

 been recovered after correspondence on account of sums 

 which had been paid from the chest, but audit withheld for 

 a time, while the whole of Lieutenant Hodson's debt to the 

 Peshawar civil treasury had been refunded indiscriminately 

 from his passed abstracts. 



59. This sum, therefore, was available to make good 

 the deficiency in the months of May and June, from 

 the abstracts of which only the balance before-mentioned 

 remained available — namely, Company's 



rupees 7,720 15 10 



Add August's pay and amount received 



60. This above loan from the chest was chiefly composed 

 of the pay of the European officers, and the whole was 

 subsequently refunded by repayments on the fort account. 

 Lieutenant Hodson had advanced about (Company's rupees 

 11,000) Company's rupees eleven thousand in all to the 

 fort works, and eventually repaid it on receipt of assign- 

 ments from the chief engineer ; but a portion of the above 

 sum, due as officers' pay, having been suddenly called for, 

 he was obliged to obtain a loan from the banker of Major 

 Chamberlain's corps for the immediate want, — a slight 



