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I see the item on page 4 of "No. 3 $1.90/100". This means that I paid Tang Chung $1.90/100 a day for European Sergeant No. 3. He used to search houses at the time of the Plague. I have seen him at the time of the Great Plague. I have not seen him since. Two or three months after the Plague, I began to pay this money and I paid it up to the time that he left Hongkong to go home. It was this year that he went home. I know that I stopped paying this money because he left the Colony. It was Yeung Tat who came and made the arrangement with me. Yeung Fat said No. 3 also wants money. He said "if you do not pay him it will be very inconvenient for you as he is continually inspecting houses!" So I agreed to pay $1.20/100 a day. The $1.20/100 a day was paid into the hands of Yeung Fat. I continued paying Yeung Fat till a little over a year ago. After the payment began to Yeung Fat, he did not inspect the house in which the gambling was going on. He would skip it out. About a year ago, Tang Chung came and said that No. 3 said that Yeung Fat was cheating him. He said No. 3 wanted $32. I said that Yeung Fat was not cheating No. 3, that he really paid the proper amount, viz:- $1.20/100. Then I said "I suppose he wants some more money" and I arranged to pay $1.90/100. I continued to pay that amount to A Ting.