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Q.-That is just what the man is using it fór.
A. I have not seen it.
Q.-But you ought to have seen it.
A.-But suppose I have not seen it, because of the place it has been found in.
Q.-You don't apprehend the serious position you are in. Here is a statement that the Contractor gave you $100 not to cut off the water which he wanted for building purposes, and here is the other fact, that you have not cut it off.
A.-I have cut off one supply.
Q.-There has been a duty neglected and there is the statement you received $100 for neglecting it.
A.-I deny the statement about the $100, and say I cut off one supply and did not know there was another. The Inspector of Buildings, if he sees it, he lets me know.
Q-But there are two; there is a supply for each house.
A.-I did not know there were two supplies. There are many houses that are supplied from the same pipe. I tried to ascertain, but I did not find it. You may not know the extent of my duty; I have a great deal to do, and I have never been told to go into every house; I have not time.
Q.-Don't
A. Yes.
you know the water that is laid on in each house?
Q.-Then how was it you did not know there was water in these houses?
A.-I have the numbers of houses to which water has been laid in since I returned
to the service.
Q.-Then you don't know all the houses that have supplies?
A.-I know they have supplies, but I don't know from what source.
Q-But is it not your duty to know ?
A.-It would take me five years.
Q.-You seem to have assumed these two had one supply. Why so?
A.-Because this was the only supply I could find.
Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-It was very obvious to every one but yourself.
Q.
-Hon. A. LISTER.-Then you think if you cut off one supply that is enough? Now, I have two supplies in my house, and if the Post Office were sold to-morrow you would cut off one supply and take no trouble to find out whether there was another?
A.-Well, that is a Government building. I would know the supply.
Q.
-But on your own showing you don't seem to have taken any trouble to find out what water supply there was then.
A. Well, it may appear so to you.