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officer has checked it. Where does Mr Caer keep that
imitation of your signaturs in his poolt or in his
desk ?
I cant say where he keeps i.
The greater part of the day it is lying on is desk ? 1466!
It is lying on his desk. The only other che is that
all the papers as they come in from Mr Cartels desk
are put in one special tox, and I take the fom that
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box, but still it is possible for a man during the day
to take one of those notices, and stamp them, because
they all know which box they are in.
So it is quite possible for you to sign papers wich 14661
have been put into a box or your basket for your
signature by some Chinaman, for his own ends, and you
might by fraud be induced to sign papers which shoulá
not be signed, and which are put to an improper use
afterwards. Isnt that so ?
A.
That is 80.
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Q.
I am merely putting this to you as a business man,
&nd
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
C.O. 537
J
Humphreyes:-
I want to direct your attention to points which seem to
me to show a want of busines supervision in your office,
and I can understand how the enormous leakage of
information, which you could not account for. I must
tell you that you seem to have very little business
supervision in your office. It seems to me that all
this system you have been explaining is no check at
all. The check breaks down as soon as you have a
Chinaman clever enough and rogus enough ti svude it,
and Lo Man Kai was clever enough.
You say you supply notiɑss, the office copies of which
have been checked and signed in your name by Mr Carter.
Now, when you send these checked copies, are they ever
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