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Q.-Who shares that little profit with you?
A.-A nephew and an uncle.
Q.--Have you ever heard of anyone getting bribes in the Surveyor General's De- partment, or presents?
A.--I have never heard of it.
Q.-Don't you give presents at Christmas?
A.--Yes.
Q.-Why do you give them?
A.-Because it is the custom merely as friends.
Q.--Why do you treat these people as friends?
A. After I had been here two or three years and was always brought in contact with them, then we became acquainted.
Q. What kind offices do they do for you?
A. They don't do me any favour.
Q.-You mean to say you have been friends for ten years and they have never treated you kindly in any way?
A.-I have received no favour at all,
Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-But is it not a custom between friends to give and take? You only give.
A.-I don't know what they mean by not returning the presents, but according to Chinese custom it is usual to give some small present at Christmas.
back?
Q.-But it is usual to receive them too.
A.-I never received any.
Q.-You never get presents at Christmas from anybody?
A.-My Chinese friends are in the habit of giving me presents.
Q.-Then why do you give them to these Overseers who never give you anything
A.-It is the practice every year.
Q.-What does the practice arise out of?
A. That I myself do not understand.
Q.-Is it not to make things go easy?
A.-No.
Q.--Not to make any
trouble?
A.~No such thing. That is not the case.
Q. Do you ever give any Champagne?
A.-Never.