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It is necessary for the Commission to send for you,
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Mr Bryan, because we have certain questions to put to
you before we close our Report. Your name has come
before the Commission on several different occasions.
You have been in the Goverment Service since 1897 "
August 1897.
Have any Chinese ever offered you any presents or 24.053
money of any value ?
Yes, not latterly, not the last three or four years,
but when I first came here.
Were they of any intrinsic value ?
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I cannot say Sir.
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Was it money or kind
of that sort
Money, I believe,
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You say you believe money has been offered to you. How
were the offers made ?
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In an envelope.
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What was the procedure of offering those presents to you Were they brought to your house, or put on your
desk or what ?
Yes, the first one was soon after I arrived here in
connection with some floors that I condemned.
Which floors were these ?
I could not say, sir.
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Which buildings ?
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I am sure I could not
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Why do you say floors ?
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Because I remember these were floors and concrete.
And not draine ?
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Was the money brought to your house ?
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