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Department, of which neither the Secretary nor the
Board have any knowledge ?
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Well now, with regard to the leakage of information. 15645′′ In the early days of the Commission, wo very soon found that there was a very great deal of leakage of information. At one of our earliest Meetings, with the Secretary, he was unable to explain that, The systez we now understand is that practically the while corres- pondence from the public to the Department, from the Inspectors to the M. 0. H. and to the Secretary, is all in the first place opened and dealt out by native clerks. To you know that that is so
That is 50, yes. I would not admit that it ma dealt with.
They may be distribited.
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The whole of the correspondence praatically passes through the hands of Chinese or Indian clerks, before
it ever reaches the hands of the responsible Furopean officers ?
Unless it is under a sealed cover.
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And marked "confidential" ?
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Letters addressed to me, as X. 0. X, are never åpened
except by myself.
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Not a closed letter.
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A despatch is opened by the clerk. That only containm papers from the Inspectors. They dont contain letters from the public.
I know, but they contɛin very important papers. Are you aware that letters såéreased to the Secretary are opened by a Chiness olerk ?
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