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an account from him. I have a little account with him now but I cannot settle it on account of this trouble.
Q. Have you anything to say about the charge of receiving a present last Christmas?
A. I received no present from him last Christmas, Your Excellency ... none whatever, because I was not in the Colony.
Q. Was it Christmas 1905, the first charge?
A. No, sir. He is a man who has never been in the house as far as that I know of. The other man has been in the house to collect his bills, that is all.
The Council sat in private.
T. Petris, Shorthand Writer.