I duly received your despatch No. 22 of the
16th of March, in which
you mention that
Mr. Cooper, Chief Clerk in the Treasury, did not
previously to leaving the Colony, deliver over any accounts and Vouchers
as Treasurer of the Royal Columbia Hospital, and that he had
left left a sum of
687 Dollars unaccounted for, and you therefore suggest that until he
shall furnish an explanation, the Agents General should withhold his
salary.
I have accordingly stopped the issue of his half salary, and I
transmit to you, for your information a copy of a letter from him dated
the 16th ultimo, and a copy of the reply which I have directed that he
should receive.
I shall be very glad if
Mr. Cooper's statement should prove
satisfactory; but the subject is
one one on which it is evidently impossible
to come to any well grounded result in this Country, and I can do no
more than forward the enclosed correspondence for your report.