"Fifth.--Upon testimony furnished by this commission, the commissioners of the canal fund made a requisition upon the Governor for the removal of Francis S. Thayer, late Auditor of the Canal Department, and on the twenty-eighth day of December last Mr. Thayer was suspended upon charges of unlawfully trafficking in canal certificates and violating his duty as auditor 'in respect to the public moneys in his charge and subject to his draft.' The charges preferred by the commission upon which the commissioners of the canal fund and the Governor acted, together with their proceedings thereon, respectively, are hereunto annexed.[7] The testimony by which these charges were established will be found in volume three of the accompanying testimony, at pages 1140, 2070, 2156, 2162, 2180, 2215, 2226, 2239, 2256, 2305, 2347, 2379, 2381, 2382, 2383, 2385, 2389, 2407, 2414, 2417, 2420, 2422, 2426, 2445, 2460, 2461, 2534, 2560, 2585, 2587. [7] See Exhibits D, E, F. "The following sums in cash, or evidences of indebtedness, obtained from the State through fraud, have already been reclaimed by and restored through the commission to the treasury: Canal Commissioner's certificates of indebtedness, issued on account of the second John Hand award: No. 179, dated Feb. 10, 1875 $2,500 00 No. 181, " " " 9,355 00 No. 182, " " " 4,000 00 No. 183, " " " 1,000 00 No. 185, " " " 2,000 00 [Nos. 179, 181, 182, and 185 were returned by Lewis J. Bennett; No. 183 was returned by Wm. H. Bowman, Esq.] Returned in cash by Lewis J. Bennett, on account of the first John Hand award 3,199 50 Cash returned by Ellis Webster and Son, on account of money received on false vouchers 582 68 ----------- ---------- _Forward_ $22,637 18 _Carried forward_ $22,637 18 Plenary authority conferred upon the Commission by the parties interested, to cancel the Canal Commissioner's certificates of Feb. 10th, 1875, issued on account of the second John Hand award, delivered as a gift by Lewis H. Bennett to Thad. C. Davis, then Canal Appraiser; by Davis given to ex-Canal Commissioner Alexander Barkley, who claims to have mailed it to Lewis H. Bennett, though it appears from the evidence before us that, if mailed, it never reached him 2,000 00 --------- 2,000 00 Canal Commissioner's certificate, No. 184, issued Feb. 10th, 1875, under the second John Hand award, to Lewis J. Bennett, for $16,000, by him delivered under an agreement to the agent of Geo. D. Lord, and rendered void through testimony elicited by the Commission 16,000 00