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-Have any of these men come to you and offered you money?
?
A.—I never had but one offer, and that was on the Praya works. That was by a sub-contractor, and I refused it and told him I would bring him before the Surveyor General, and no one ever did it again.
Q.-What did he offer you?
A. I never looked at it. He said "Here is something for you," and I said "Be off."
Q.-Was it bank notes, or a bag, or what?
A.-I don't know. I had had some trouble with him before and stopped some of his men, and in the evening he followed me on the road and said "Here is something for you." I said, “Look here my man, if you ever offer me anything like that again I will take you before the Surveyor General."
Q.-You did not report him then?
A.-No.
Q.-Was he a foreman or a sub-contractor?
A.-I don't think I would know the man again. It was when I first came.
Q. I wish you would tell us exactly what was the difficulty. What was it you wanted them to do that they would not do?
A.-Mixing the quantities for the concrete.
Q.-I suppose really they wanted to keep lime out?
A. Yes, and also to give a deficiency in the measurement. We have to be very careful with our surface concrete or it all goes to pieces.
Q.-So you knocked all these men off?
A.--All the men who were mixing, and had a fresh lot.
Q.-And that is your only experience ?
A. Yes.
Q.-Have you ever known
A.-No.
money
offered to any one else?
Q.-You know there has been a great deal of talk?
A.-Oh, there has been a great deal of talk, and I have a great deal myself, but you cannot believe all you hear.
Q.-No, but I wish you would tell us something you did hear.
A.-Well, that would not do, because I hear so many things from one person and
another.
Q.-But who are the man who say these things?
A.-Mostly men outside the department.