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divisions of the account for granted as correct which we 

 have been obliged to work through step by step ; and I do 

 not think it extraordinary that, engaged as he was in other 

 duties, he did not manage to find time for this, 



70. A natural course would have been for Lieutenant 

 Hodson to have made more use than he appears to have 

 done of his natural assistants — namely, his subordinate 

 officers ; and I can answer for one who has been present 

 with the regiment during the period of my command, having 

 had every qualification to render him an efficient assistant ; 

 but with regard to this it is fair to mention that in the 

 latter part of 1854 he was a good deal alone, Lieutenant 

 Godby being on leave for several months in the autumn, 

 and Lieutenant Turner having been attached, from July of 

 that year I believe, to another corps. 



71. Lieutenant Hodson had civil and political charge of 

 Eusufzye, and had further the building of a large fort to 

 superintend, and the two duties were calculated in a great 

 measure to distract his attention from regimental matters ; 

 still I have shown that he certainly did not neglect them, 

 and that the state of the regiment, as regarded the most 

 important item of pay, was healthy, and supported by 

 regular distribution rolls, &c., while the collateral accounts 

 of Chunda and clothing were fully kept, and had been the 

 subject of care and labour. The accounts of the regiment 

 were made over to Moonshee Goordeal in April 1854, and 

 from that time the vernacular cash-book was kept ac- 

 curately and clearly. A regular Chunda account, con- 

 taining every necessary detail, had been kept up from July 

 1853. From April 1854 regular distribution rolls, con- 

 taining full details of all deductions and the balance paid 

 to each individual, were regularly kept ; also vernacular 

 copies of the pay abstracts with details of retrenchments 

 and deductions in the pay office; also a separate debtor 

 and creditor account, showing each soldier's transactions 

 with the chest, and the sum deducted from him on account 

 of clothing, accoutrements, &c. All these books have come 



