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conversation took place between Aoan I myself. I never paid a fash

and.

ad

Annshaw to

any one among

the

Government officers or their servants.

No

one ever

asked

Me

for any, either

Sovemment officers or their servants . -

The f 500 which toan asked me

for.

I considered

avr

improper charge,

and therefore gave up

creating

a

the idea

market. Once I went to

offer for a Contract at Major Aldriche

office,

and his Compradore Lum- "Choong, alias show, asked

5 per Cent upon

Receive,

the

taying

Came

the

money

vne

for

I should

that all others paid

I would not ..

(Signed) Tam_alsey [in Chinese ]

me.

Swoon, taken and acknnoledged before n

( Signed) Chas Molley Campbell.

Thursday.

A

261

Thursday, 8th July, 1847.

Leo. Avan. (Recalled examined ~- through Mr. Marques, Interpreter to

Supreme Court ) Sworn, statés : - £

the

any

did not make Deed at all. I

told Mr Tarrant what I wished to do, and he wrote it down with his

own hand. After this So Kiomy-chang Wei-Afoo, Attai, and Achuen, went to Mr. Gutzlaff's office to have the Deed written out in Chinese... I did not go Inever did tell Mr Tarrant or any

one in

his presence that Major Caine had instructed me to ask Tum Alsoy for $500 for permission to build a Market. Major

O

Caine never did

m. Alsoy

about

order me to speak to Jame

Market.. I heard Fam. Alsoy

speak about a market some time Mr. Tarrant also spoke to me

ago.

about