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TSANG IU is examined,-
Q.-Hon. A. LISTER.---You are a Government Contractor?
A. Yes.
Q.-Were you going to join in that petition about delay in the payment of bills
and so forth?
A.—No, I did not take part in it.
'Q.-There is no harm in it.
A.-In Mr. CLEVERLEY'S time I had many contracts, but since then not many, and sometimes I stop work for two or three years.
Q.-Do
you get your bills paid promptly?
A. Sometimes promptly and sometimes not; sometimes a month after they were
sent in.
Q.-Have you any Government work going on now?
A. Yes.
Q. What are you doing?
A.-Making bridges, and repairing the landslip in the Government Gardens.
Q. Do you get your money promptly for these things now?
A. Yes.
Q.-Have you any complaint to make about the foremen taking money from him?
A.-No. I have not many contracts.
Q. Did you ever give money to any Overseer?
A.-Never.
Q.-Not even in Mr. CLEVERLY's time?
A.-No.
Q.-The CHAIRMAN.-People who have many contracts do give money, don't they?
A.-That I don't know; it is other people's business, not mine.
Q.-Whom could we ask about that?
A.-I could not say.
Q.-Have
you ever told
anyone Contractors were not fairly dealt with ?
A.-I am a business man and I don't interfere with other men's business.
Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-Are there any squeezes taken by any one in the De- partment that you know of?
A.-I don't know.
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