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lectation of a special public-was written within closed doors. This brings us to the first case. No information either about the working of the Accountant-General's Office or about the period "during which Jaya Rao was engaged in submitting the accounts of the liabilities of the late Mukhtar-ul-mulk"-came out in evidence in Court. Yet an account of the working of the office is given and reference is made to the period in the judgment above referred to. Where and how did Mr. Afsul Husain get information regarding these? This question certainly does not furnish any contradiction to the ugly rumours I have alluded to it does not weaken the impression produced on the public mind by the rumours; on the other hand, it strengthens it. Just as Mr. Gya Persad was taking charge of the office of the Deputy Accountant-General, a memo was submitted to him from the Pre-audit Department. He attached thereto a memo expressing his opinions thereon and passed it on to the Accountant-General for final orders. And the Accountant-General did issue an order holding the Assistant Accountant-General of the Pre-Audit Department wholly responsible for the cor- rectness of cheques. There is no doubt that the latter part of this order by itself is rather ambiguous. But taken as a whole the order leaves not the slightest room for doubting that the Accountant General confirmed Mr. Gya Persal's memo. The Judge had it in his power to convince himself of this by referring to the order-book in which this order, which had been circulated in the Accountant General's office, finds place. Although Mr. Gyn Persad's Memo on the subject of the responsibility of issuing cheques is given in extenso in the judgment published in the Deccan Standard, all but a referrence to the Accountant General's order is studiously avoided-studiously, I saw advisedly, for the first two lines alone of this order expose the falsity of the statement in the judgment, "that the memo was not confirmed by the Nawab Mokaraub Jung Bahadur, the Accountant General when laid before him." So large was the amount and so varied the nature of the work that Mr. Gya Persad was expected to do, that shortly after he had taken
