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plained in any part of the accounts ; and he therefore moved 
for a Committee to inquire into the accounts and report upon 
them. 
Mr. Wilkinson seconded the motion, expressing a hope that 
some explanation from the Secretary, or the gentleman 
during whose term of office the discrepancies occurred, 
would prevent the trouble of appointing a committee. 
Mr. King said he supposed Mr. Wilkinson referred to him. 
As far as he knew about the accounts, he believed they were 
looked into by the succeeding Treasurers, Messrs. Field and 
Henderson, and somebody else. They said there was a 
deficiency of £5 in the account, which he (Mr. King) could 
not understand ; but he paid it, rather than have any further 
trouble in the matter. That was all the explanation he 
could give. 
The Secretary said these discrepancies did not by any 
means constitute a new topic ; they had been brought before 
the Council repeatedly. They were fully investigated and 
accounted for at the time each discrepancy occurred. He 
could not tell, therefore, w T hy they were again referred to, 
except to throw an onus which was perfectly unjustifiable 
on the gentlemen who had so worthily filled the office of 
Treasurer to the body corporate. The sum alluded to as a 
deficiency on the part of the first Treasurer, Mr. Frank 
King, had nothing to do with the matter ; it was set straight 
before the accounts were published. The first discrepancy 
mentioned by Mr. Cherry depended entirely upon the ques- 
tion of the diplomas. At that period every student had to 
pay five guineas previous to his examination, and five guineas 
on obtaining his diploma. It was taken for granted that 
every gentleman who had won his diploma would be glad to 
obtain it, and pay the additional five guineas, — making ten 
guineas for each gentleman. Now, he (the Secretary) had 
in his possession a number of diplomas, worth, or considered 
to be worth, five guineas each, which had never been claimed 
by the gentlemen entitled to them. These would be found 
to make up the alleged deficiency. This matter had been 
mentioned in Council again and again, and had never been 
thought anything of, till now it had been resuscitated. In 
the other case, a discrepancy of some £ c 20 was occasioned by 
the Treasurer, Mr. Wm. Field, having a private account at 
the same bankers as the College account ; and it so happened 
that a cheque was passed to the one account which should 
have gone to the other. This was afterwards rectified, and 
accounted for the second discrepancy. As an amendment, 
therefore, to Mr. Cherry’s motion, which he considered a 
vote of censure on the gentlemen who had filled the office of 
