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THZ PROVINCIAL accountTs. . | e Committee Find That Frauds Have Been Committed, The following are the findings of the Public ccounts Committee so far as they relate to he perpetration of frauds upon the Province. | The committee find that there is an apparent | iference between the banks and the Treasury | alances, at the end of 1887, of $14,680 20, ' f which sum $5,883 counsists of cheques in the ank books during a period extending from 875 to 1879, of which cheques the issue was uauthorised and fraudulent, The committee fimd that in the cheque books f the Province both cheques and stubs are narked with corresponding printed numbers ; | hat in numerous instances cheques and stubs | HAD BEEN ABSTRACTED h rom these cheque books, thus leaving a hiatus | r break in the numbers ; that entries of the ' onsecutive numbering of the cheques were b made in the cash--books from stubs ; that upon their return from the banks the various cheques vere assorted ; that no proper comparison was rade between the cheques so returned and the ntries in the cash books ; that in various ntries in the cash--book breaks in the number-- ny appeared, and erasures of several nuumbers l 1ave beon made; that no evidence was adduced o show that the officer making the entries in he cash--book called the attention of the hemd f the department in a single instance to-- the rregularities in the numbering, which suggest-- d, if it did not conclusively prove, TAMPERING WITH THE COHEQUE--BOOK nd cheques; that as the cheques representing he unauthorised charges in the bank--books re not to be found, while not one s missing where the charges -- are -- cor-- ectly made, there is little doubt that the arty who perpetrated the fraud, either by orgery or unauthorized issue, destroyed the lirect evidence of his guilt after the cheques rere returned to the department; and that the int of prompt detection of such gross regularities at the time of their perpetration ras partly the outcome of a faulty system of ookkeeping, but largely the result of the bsence of thorough check by the oflicials articularly charged with the oversight of this ' ranch of the Treasury department. ana mme mm nmmen mmenmen mnne mnerve mmnmane: Tir ferka.l .