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Q. Are the masters present and sometimes not present when crews are paid off?
A. Yes.
Q. And is the money that the masters bring mostly in notes?
A. Yes.
Q. Are these notes paid out in full to the crews that are being paid off?
A. Some of the amounts are in other denominations. There are silver dollars paid.
Q. Nothing else. Not half dollars paid?
A. Yes.
Q. Any subsidiary coins paid?
A. Yes.
Q. You tell the Council that in lieu of notes sometimes dollars, half dollars, and subsidiary coins are paid?
A. Yes.
Q. Have you seen this many times?
A. Yes.
Q. Are silver dollars worth as much as paper dollars?
A. No.
Q. One dollar's worth of subsidiary coins worth as much as a dollar note?
A. No. It is discounted.
Q. What is the discount now?
A. Fifty odd cents on ten dollars.
Mr. Sercombe Smith : Charge "E"
Q. Crews have owed you money, I believe?
A. Yes.
Q. They have paid you after they had received their wages?
A. Yes.
Q. I understand that wages have never been deducted in your case by the first clerk?
A. I have never asked him to deduct wages for me.