The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-10-12 00:00:00

THE WEEDON COMMISSION.

Evidence recently given before the Commimaioners,
reveals a style of book-keeping at Weedon of the most
wonderful character. Mr. George Munro, assistant
military "tore-keeper, deposed that "the mode of keep-
ing the accounts were such that, in my opinion, there
wee neither security to tie public nor to the storekeeper,
the ordnanoe regulations being, as it were, positively set
at defiance. There was neither receipt nor issue jour-
nal" from which to poet the ledgers, and those that were
posted were made op in the most irregular manner from
the contract books, and from snob loose documents as
may have found their way into the ledger room. There
was no attempt to ascertain whether all the vouchers
even leeched. In fact, there was no system of any
kind, end instead of the proper books being kept there
was an attempt at • moat ostentation' display of
regimental ledgers, with only one clerk to keep them.
In the storehouses I found what I considered • most
objectionable and a most dangerous mode of conducting
the duty—viz., the receipt, inspection, custody, and
issue of the various stores In the several branches being
in the hands of one person for each branch, without any
kind of check upon his correctness. In the contract
branch I found the meme laxity prevail, and • facility
almost incredible for any clerk in collusion with
a contractor, by merely adding or altering •
figure, to clause that contractor to be paid for articles
that never came near the storehouses." This gentle-
man, it memo, represented the state of affairs to his
superiors, and was politely put down.
The Mewl. Imams declared that payment was due to
them for 1,600 pairs of boots, 500 delivered on the 19th
of August last, and 1,000 on the 16th of January. Mr,
Watson, the inspector, for some time resisted thim claim,
declaring that no much delivery had-been made. Further
examination into what are by courtesy called the books
at Weedon, disclosed, or meemed to dieoloee, that Wat-
son was in error here. It certainly did appear by Wat-
son's memorandum-book (the only bond Ms book, ac•
cording to Mr. Munro, In the establishment) that the
1,600 pairs of boots were delivered on the days masted,
but there was no note of their having been inspected;
there was no record or day-book in the office to trace
the deliveries ; there was no document to chock the
entries by, except by a book kept by one M'lCay,
labourer, which purported to be • daily record of all
packages entering the office. This book, on examina-
tion, was found not to agree with Watson's as to the
dates or quantities of the alleged delivery of boots by the
Mesons. Imam. But this book of M'Kay's is justly ii.
Jested by the witness Munro as wholly undeserving of
credit. It was checked by no one; though purporting
to be a day-book, it wan • month in arrear and it son.
tamed no less than twelve serious omissions In the space
of three months, Under these chaotic circumstances,
the assistant military storekeeper at \Fluxion is driven
upon the following naive reconmiendation —"I: would
suggest that Messrs. Isaacs be requeatel to furnish a
statement of all the boots they have sent to the depot,
as that, in my epinion, is the only way we have of check-
ing the isoooitnta I" Ponied imbecility ran hardly eloak
mach deeper than this.

Another letter has been received from Captain
M'Cllntook, RN,, oommanding lady Franklin's yacht,
unsaying the gratifying intelligenos that he haa uhly
crossed the middle ice of Heflin Bea, and Is In • fair way
of sueausflUy bOoomplialaing the noble object of Iski en.
terpriee.

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