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Police. If the number of chests purchased for smuggling in any given month was so large that the total of the $7 levied on each exceeded the total of the bribes then the surplus was divided pro rata among the purchasers and given back to them.
They were at liberty to inspect the list of bribes paid out so that they could not be swindled. I did not keep a list of the persons to whom I paid bribes. The persons were not many and I could remember their names and the amounts for each.
I knew that Pang On used to keep a list. Pang On was illiterate. He could recognise simple characters. He could only write simple characters. The smugglers employed a broker named Wong Yau who used to buy the opium for them for smuggling. He kept a list of the persons who were in receipt of bribes. He kept such a list with the amounts of bribes against each man's name in order that he might check the commission to be paid on each chest for bribes. He had this list before I joined the farm. It has been in existence for a long time and alterations have been made in it, as old Policemen went out and new ones came in. I have not seen the list myself. I have never seen Pang On's list. Wong Yau asked me if I kept a list such as Pang On did and I said no. Pang On was dismissed by the Farm because he cheated the smugglers. He used to give information to the customs and get back half the price of the opium realised at auction when it was seized by the Customs and sold.
The above statement is true.
(sd.)
Taken by me this 12th day of October, 1897.
(sd.) F.H.MAY.
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Police. If the number of chests purchased for smuggling in any given month was so large that the total of the $7 levied on each exceeded the total of the bribes then the surplus was
divided pro rata among the purchasers and given back to them.
They were at liberty to inspect the list of bribes paid out
sqt-hat they could not be swindled. I did not keep a list of the persons to whom I paid bribes. The persons were not many and I could remember their names and the amounts for each. I
knew that Pang On used to keep a list. Pang On was illiterate. He could recognise simple characters. He could only write sin- ple characters. The smugglers employed a broker named Wong Yau who used to buy the opium for them for smuggling. He kept a list of the persons who were in receipt of bribes. He kept such a list with the amounts of bribes against each man's name in order that he might check the commission to be paid on each chest for bribes. He had this list before I joined the farm. It has been in existence for a long time and alterations have been made in it, as old Policemen went out and new ones came in. I have not seen the list myself. I have never seen Pang On's list. Wong Yau asked me if I kept a list such as Pang On did and I said no. Pang On was dismissed by the Farm because he cheated the smugglers. He used to give information to the customs and get back half the price of the opium rea- lised at auction when it was seized by the Customs and sold The above statement is true.
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(sd.)
Taken by me this 12th.day of October, 1897.
(sd.) F.H.MAY.
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