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writes out an application form. That now goes to the

President and myself as a Committee: to see whether the

notice should be served on that application. The clerk

makes out the notice, and when the notice is made out,

it goes in to the principal clerk who checks it, and

after it has been checked, then it comes back to me.

And I should like to add in connection with one of my

answers (1742) that the clerk might by fraud get one of

these papers signed, that I have carefully considered

that matter since then, and I really think it is not

Fossible, for that man to do so, for if he did so, he

would have to forge an application for the notice from

the Inspector, and if he did so, these notices to a

very great extent are served by the Inspectors

themselves, and the Inspertors would naturally find out

that he never made any such application. I dont think

myself that there is any fear of fraud by a man trying to

induce me to sign a paper. Where the danger might come

in would be the fact that these forms for notices are

not locked up at all and the clerk iretead of running

all this risk of being found out might take one of

these notices, might forge my name, and get one of

these foremen to serve it, and I thought in order to

meet that difficulty I should have a stamp on all

notices, that this notice can only be served by an

Inspector, and in case of any infringement of that rule

the matter should be reported to the Secretary. I think

if that were done, - the stamping of these notices in

Chinese ,in red letters, there would not be much risk

of any fraud in connection with this.

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Is that not understood already that these notices are

o nly to be served by an Inspector ↑

I understand that the foremen of the Plague Inspectors

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