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Q. What is the largest number now?
A.—It is nominally fourteen, but I have not got that number.
Q.-How much a month did these 24 coolies pay you for rent each?
A. From thirty to forty cents five years ago.
Q-Now, how much?
A. About a dollar or a little more than a dollar.
Q.-I want the exact sum please?
A.-Say $1.20 to $1.30 each.
Q-I want the exact amount every coolie pays you a month for rent. given us 30 to 40 cents five years ago, what is it now?
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A. If I have the limited number coolies living there, then each pays about 80 cents and, if there are less than fourteen, each has to pay a dollar.
Q.-You have no fixed price per month?
A.There is an arrangement between the coolies, that they have to pay more in the event of my not getting a sufficient number to live there.
Q-What class of coolies inhabit your ground floor?
A.-Private ricksha and street coolies.
Q. Are there private chair and ricksha coolies who sleep on your ground floor?
A. The majority of thein are street coolies, but a few of them are private ricksha
coolies.
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How much do these private ricksha coolies pay you a month?
A. They have to pay a uniforın rate.
Q. How much does a private chair or ricksha coolie, whose master provides him with house accommodation, pay you?
A. Some of their masters have no accommodation for them and so it is that they live outside.
Q.-Then those private coolies who are with you, are coolies whose masters don't lodge them?
A. Yes.
Q. Have you ever had private coolies on your ground floor whose masters did lodge them?
A. They don't live in my place, but simply visit it.
Q.-Yes, but if they have the privilege of visiting your place, do you charge them so much a month ?
A.-No, if they have got lodging at their master's place, then they do not pay any rent for visiting my place.
Q.-Supposing a private coolie, who has lodging furnished him by his master, comes to your place to sleep, do you allow hima?
A.-Well, I allow him to stop half a night or one night.
Q. Does he pay for that ?
A. No, I don't charge anything, but sometimes they like to pay me something for passing a night there.