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one unless the writer has explained it. Or take the Daily slips of accounts the totale of which either to profit or loss each day into the books and destroyed has been struct.
Flere are 18 of these slips, all in precisely dicitar form. Ilvee are for the 17th 18th of 19th December 1896-Jual after the gambling house had been reopened after being temporarily clored as Sham Yen has the other fifteen the 14th June to the 18th June 1897. The books show that the accounts were balanced to the 3 June and the witicess Sham Yin stated that as oven as the balance was struck the old daily lists skewing details of how the balances were arrived at were burnt. No daily lists were found relating to the dates between the 19th December 1896 and the 4th June 1897.
It is bere they stew Fliese daily lists bear no year, but the mouth and day. They shew the daily receipts in cash and (pledges) and the daily expenditure under the beadings "cash, Jewellery (pledges) wages sundries (oil &C) Commission (beeks)". On the back these daily lists shew the additional beibes that were paid out of the bank house in Wa Lave and also the w or reserve money at the gambling #25 put " on one side as " Tai Ping " Kept to pay legal expenses to in the event of the house getting into trouble, there is nothing however in this s list to enable an outsider to know that the figures