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Q. -Did you receive any other monies except Crown Rent?
A. Yes, I also received fees for spirituous liquor licences, pawnbrokers' licences, kerosine oil licences, billiard room licences, and hotel licences.
Q.-Tell us what happens when a man wants to pay his Crown Rent into the Treasury.
A.-I receive the money. Sometimes the fees or monies are paid in bank notes or cheques, or cash, in silver.
Q.-Suppose a man comes to you and says that he wants to pay his Crown Rent and brings the money, what do you first do?
A.—If a man comes with the money to pay into the Treasury, I first receive the money and I look up the old receipts, and then I take the receipt to Alves to see that the correct amount is to be paid into the Treasury.
Q. What do you mean by "look up the old receipt." Suppose a man has not got his last receipt. Do you look at anything then?
A. If there is no old receipt we have to get at the amount from remembrance.
Q. And then when you have received the money do you make an entry at once in this book? (Shroff's book in Chinese produced.)
A, No.
Q. When do you make the entry in that book?
A. As soon as I get the money. I take it to Mr. Alves to ask him to issue a receipt and when I get the receipt then I make the entry in the book.
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Q. Do you sign the receipt?
A.-Receipts are not signed but chopped by a Chinese chop. Q.--By you?
A.—Yes.
Q.--You cannot read English?
A.-No.
Q-Therefore you do not know whether the receipts were properly made out or
A. I can read figures.
(Witness was tested and correctly read several rows of figures.)
Q.-Did Alves ever receive money ?
A. Yes, there are cases in which people sent money direct to Alves and he receives the money and sends the receipt.
Q. How do you know that they send the money direct to Alves? A.-There are cheques that he put in my hands--bank cheques.
Q.--Did Alves ever give you notes or dollars ?
A.-Sometimes bank notes, but principally bank cheques.
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Q. What used you to do when Alves brought you these cheques or this money A.--When he handed me the bank cheques and the money and receipt I compared the amount stated in his receipt with the amount on the cheque to find whether the sum was proper.
Then I made an entry in the book and handed back the receipt to Alves.