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Q. What year is this?
A. 1903, 29th year of the Chinese calendar.
Q.-On the 13 th day of the sixth moon you paid the Inspectors in the 9th and 10th Districts $20 and the Inspectors in No. 5 District $15. Did you make these pay- ments youself?
A. Yes.
Q. Where were these paid?
A. The money was got from my mother.
Q-Where did you pay these Inspectors-in their houses or in your latrines?
A-At their own houses.-
The Chairman.-Do you know who the Inspector were, can you give their names?
A.-Nos. 9 and 10 Districts was the Chief Inspector.
Q. What was his name?
A.-Conolly.
Q. Do you know Mr. Conolly by sight?
A. Yes.
Q.-And you could identify him yourself?
A.-I could and can identify him.
Q. Did you give the money yourself with your hands to Mr. Conolly?
A. Yes.
Q. What was it in ?-in dollars or what?
A.-In notes.
Q. Why did you go up to his house to give him that money?
A. He first sent a boy (servant) to tell my father to go up and my father was not there.
Q. What did he want your father to go up for ?
A.--I said " What was it for " and I was told it was some business.
Q. And you went up to the house to find out what it was?
A. Yes.
Q. What happened ?
A. He said that my latrine in 29 First Street was not in a proper condition.
Q. What did you say to that?
What took place ?