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that Mr. Osmund denied all the charges preferred against him in written statement, and from the notes of evidence attached to the minutes of Council (enclosure 5) that he afterwards admitted the second charge and confessed to having received through Mr. Jp Pakshan – from certain Chinese who applied to the Registrar-General for certificates to enable them to land at San Francisco. This admission on Mr Osmund's part in the face of his previous denial added considerable weight to that portion of Mr. Jp Pakchau's evidence upon which the first and third charges were based, and which, as I have stated above, was in some particulars supported by the evidence of Sham Yin.
It was further brought out in the evidence of so man Kam