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Q.-Did Alves bring you money every day?
A.-No, not every day. He would only do so when money was sent to him by outsiders.
Q.-Was money sent to him by outsiders every day as a rule?
A.--No, it was not an every day occurrence.
Mr. Thurburn.---Did he carry out the rule when licences were paid ?
of receipt was given then?
What sort
A.-Mr. Carvalho looked after those receipts given for fees received for kerosine licences and &c. The receipt was made out by a Chinese clerk and it was signed by Mr. Carvalho.
Q-All the licences?
A. Yes. Mr. Alves had nothing to do with that.
Q.-And the taxes, what happened to them?
A. They are also looked after by Mr. Carvalho.
Q-And who signs the receipt?
A. Mr. E. Carvalho, the son of Mr. J. A. Carvalho.
Q. He signs the receipts?
A. Yes. At least he did last year. Mr. Mitchell-Innes signs now.
The Chairman. Did you take your book to be examined, or give an account of what you had received, at the end of the day?
A. Yes, for instance we received say $1,000 on a certain day. A little before the Office closed I added up the amounts and made a total. Then I showed it to Mr. Alves and askedhim to compare. If he said it was correct I took the money to the Bank.
Q.--You took it yourself?
A. Yes.
Q.-You had not to pay out any money? You only had to receive money?
A. I have nothing to do with payments.
Q.And every day you should pay into the Bank all you have received that day?
A.-Yes.
Q-Had you any means of knowing whether Alves paid you over the right amount or not when he brought the money to you?
A. In every case I simply went by the figures that were put down in the receipt. I took no other means of ascertaining.
Q.- -But when the money was paid, not by cheque, but by bank notes or coin?
A.-I did not enquire whether the money was the proper amount or not when it was paid.
Mr. Thurburn.-Did yon check at the end of the day what money you had got and received with Mr. Carvalho in the same way as you did with Mr. Alves, and then pay the money into the Bank?
A.--Mr. Carvalho has never received any money.