53.
152.
conversation took place between Aoan I myself. I never paid a fash
and.
ad
Annshaw to
any one among
the
Government officers or their servants.
No
one ever
asked
Me
for any, either
Sovemment officers or their servants . -
The f 500 which toan asked me
for.
I considered
avr
improper charge,
and therefore gave up
creating
a
the idea
market. Once I went to
offer for a Contract at Major Aldriche
office,
and his Compradore Lum- "Choong, alias show, asked
5 per Cent upon
Receive,
the
taying
Came
the
money
vne
for
I should
that all others paid
I would not ..
(Signed) Tam_alsey [in Chinese ]
me.
Swoon, taken and acknnoledged before n
( Signed) Chas Molley Campbell.
Thursday.
A
261
Thursday, 8th July, 1847.
Leo. Avan. (Recalled examined ~- through Mr. Marques, Interpreter to
Supreme Court ) Sworn, statés : - £
the
any
did not make Deed at all. I
told Mr Tarrant what I wished to do, and he wrote it down with his
own hand. After this So Kiomy-chang Wei-Afoo, Attai, and Achuen, went to Mr. Gutzlaff's office to have the Deed written out in Chinese... I did not go Inever did tell Mr Tarrant or any
one in
his presence that Major Caine had instructed me to ask Tum Alsoy for $500 for permission to build a Market. Major
O
Caine never did
m. Alsoy
about
order me to speak to Jame
Market.. I heard Fam. Alsoy
speak about a market some time Mr. Tarrant also spoke to me
ago.
about