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Iesve. I thọnd that tenders had not been asked for in cóue

-nection >ith uniform «pi the reason given from the Guyarn-

-ment was that this man had continued applying and had always

got the contract and therefore it was really a fhate of time

and money to advertise. I pointed out that all materials

required should be put up for tender and I said this cou

-tract was wort!, something like Ten thousand dollars and

therefore it would really pay for being advertised again.

On that occasion I asked for special authority to ulvertise

more frequently in the Ohiness newspapers. The result mas

that only one tender was seul in as formerly,

Q: Oly one ?

A:- Tes, only one.

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1860

The was that man ?

A1-

▲ mal named Tung Hing in Queens Roul,

1868 28m

Does Mai. Hing supply Coal sul Iron bucksta

1861

A:

Yes, This man mag, lion 384 difforent kinds of things.

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of course you know Hr Lo Man Kai's hondeiting and the hondm 1862

writing of various oth or clerka ↑

A3-

Yes.

186ởng. And you can always tell us what Bills have been mule up hy 1863

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him?

*roux

I own tell that in a moment, Perhaps I have maid an

but one great ruanon why I «llowed this clerk to make out

Man Hing's Bill was the fact that such iten must be paid out

of a certain vote. Han Hing's tender, as I hove asid,

contalus several hundreds of different itoms and it sometimes

happened that him Bil? real”y covered (monty different vote. and therefore twenty separate Bill would have to he pede oi

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ut by thin man in order to conform tu Bovernment regulationa

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