Section XIV. Every Auditor shall have power to summon as well the Administrator General as any other person or pe

XIV. Every Auditor shall have power to summon as well the Administrator General as any other person or persons whose presence he may think necessary, to attend him from time to time; and to examine the Administrator General or other party or parties if he shall think fit on Oath or Solemn Affirmation to be by him administered; and to call for all Books, Papers and Documents which may appear to him to be necessary for the purposes of the said reference: and if the Administrator General, or other person or persons when summoned shall refuse or without reasonable cause neglect to attend, or to produce any Books, Papers or Documents required, or shall attend and refuse to be sworn or make a Solemn Affirmation when by law an Affirmation may be substituted for an Oath, or shall refuse to be examined, the Auditor or Auditors shall certify such neglect or refusal in writing to the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal; and every person so refusing or neglecting shall thereupon be punishable, in like manner as if such refusal or neglect had been in contempt of the said Supreme Court.