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present.

It was my earnest hope that the Commission would

as to allow

have so far listened to myf former protest

protest as to. to be put to the witness then under examination

Mr. May, the questions Thad

suggested.

ted. This had hoped,

I although I certainly was too well aware of the partisan . ship of Mr. Day, so lately Comensel for Ma chow Wong, and cooperating after his

conviction in the measures Taken by Mr Caldwell toget it aside, to suppose tho

that a

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searching examination would be made by him,

or more

than my written, interrogativins exhibited or put ?

Inou

I now finds from Mr. May that all questions prepaid by me on the following subjects | are suppressed by your Examiner, acting as Soup pow, ppose), under the orders of your

were su

Commission ; Mr May not having heard a word.

word of them until after his

examination was ended,

and that only from myself- 1 As to the meaning of the words hearsay," reporte,

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