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Q.-Do other people pay this as well as you?
A.-I don't know.
Q.-Does the payment include the services of the clerk to get the bill put through as well?
A.-No.
Q.-Only the writing?
A. Yes.
Q.-Is anything else paid for getting the bill quickly attended to?
A.-I need not give any money afterward.
Q.-Well, you have told us very frankly about this payment of one per cent. Can you tell us anything about some payments which are made sometimes to the foremen?
A.-I never pay the foremen anything.
Q.-Did
you ever hear of anyone paying anything to the foremen?
A.-I have not heard of it.
Q.-I am told some of the Overseers have shares in some of the Contractors' shops. Is that so?
A.-I have not heard that.
Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON. -You have told us you pay a small fee for having your bill made out. Do you ever do any work that requires measuring by Overseers?
A. Sometimes I do work which requires measuring.
Q.--Do you ever employ the Overseer to make out the account for you?
A.-No, he does not do that for me. If there was any mistake he would alter it
and ask me to make another bill.
it?
Q.-That is to say, if he found any mistake in what you made out he would alter
A.--Yes, and ask me to make another bill.
Q-But you never had a bill made out by an Overseer?
A.-Never. I send in bills and they look over them, and if they find any mistake
they scratch it out.
Q.-Who makes out the bills?
A-Sometimes Mr. KAM CHU-SHEUNG.
Q. Did you ever hear of Overseers receiving money in order that they may pass the bill easily?
A.-I have never paid them anything, nor have I heard of its being done. All the bills I send in I have to do over again two or three times.