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Q.-Taken in by you?
A.-—By me.
Q.--Do you take in the draft with it?
A.-No.
Q.--Where do you leave the draft?
A.-It is placed in a letter clip.
Q.-Lying on your table?
A. Yes.
Q.-Does Mr. PRICE sometimes send for the draft to compare
A. Yes.
Q.-And then is the draft returned to your keeping?
A. Yes, for filing.
Q.--Where do you keep it?
it?
A. In a clip which is set aside for two purposes: one, all the Colonial Secretary's letters, and the other a précis of all the letters to the Colonial Secretary.
Q.-Where do the Originals go?
A. To the Colonial Secretary with a book, and a précis only is kept.
Q.--Are these drafts from the Surveyor General kept along with, or in the same place as the Colonial Secretary's letters to the Surveyor General?
A.-Yes; one clip holds the Surveyor General's précis, and the other the Colonial Secretary's letters.
Q.-Where are these kept?
A.-On the left-hand side of my table, with a printed tablet on cartridge paper.
Q-What time did you leave the office?
A. About half-past five.
Q.-When you left the office what did you do with that file?
A.--I generally put it on a shelf beside me.
Q.-With lock and key?
A.-No lock and key.
Q.-Did you leave the office locked?
A.-I left it to be locked by the coolies.