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A. He did not hand it to me. He was unwilling to hand it to me. Inspector to make the thing proper, before he would hand it.
Q-But didn't he actually give you the money in the end?
A.-No. He did not, I am telling the truth about it.
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Q-Tse A Kam came before us the other day, and he said he gave $30 to Tsang Ka. That is you?
A. He was only paying wages money to me.
There was something more to be done,
and a letter was written to the Sanitary Board, and about a week after, the answer came saying that it was proper, and he paid me my wages.
Q.-Didn't he pay $60 altogether?
A. Yes.
Q. And wasn't $50 of that to the inspector, to bribe him?
A.-No. Well, it was $60 making up the account from the commencement to the end, and there was this $60. If it had been as you say, I would say.
Q.-What was this $60 for then?
A.-It was wages to be pail to the fokis, so much, this man so much, that man so
much.
Q. Didn't you pay any of that at all to the inspector, or the interpreter ?
A.--Not a cash did I give. He was going to give me trouble. I would not do it.
Q.-Well, how is it that Tse A Kum told us he gave you $60 and $30 was to go as a bribe to the inspector?
A.-At the end of the fourth moo1, he said he wanted $30.
Q.-Who did?
A.This inspector.
Q. Which Inspector was this?
A.—The man who lived in Elgin Street. I said I had no authority. I must go back and see the master.
Q. Do you know an inspector ca.led Ward?
A. No. Papers like this (producing paper) are served on me, and I take them to the Sanitary Board, and ask about them.
Q-Have you got the entries in your books when Tse A Kam paid you that $60 ?
A. It is down in his book. We odd job workers dont have any books, excepting these. (Producing books).
Q. I know it is down in his book; he has told us that.
you enter it in your book?
didn't
But when you got $60,
A.-Well, it is put down in a partnership book.