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Q.-Hon. A. LISTER. You make your own bills?
A. Yes.
Q.-But some of the bills have to be written out by the clerk. Here is a long bill written by a clerk in Mr. PRICE's Office. Do you know if they have to pay any- thing for that?
A. I don't know. I always make the bill out myself and give it to the clerk of works, and he checks it.
Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-Have you anything to do with measured work?
A. Yes.
Q. Who measures it?
A.-It depends on who orders the work; the same man goes to measure.
Q. Do you pay him anything?
A.-No. I go to measure myself and make out my bill, and then I give it to the man who measures, and sometimes he will make me make it out again.
Q.-And you have never heard of any presents being given to the Officer who measures work of that kind to pass your bill without saying anything about it?
A.-Never.
Q.-Such things are not possible?
A.-No.
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Q.--Hon. A. LISTER.-Are you a partner of CHAN TAI-KI?
A. Yes.
Q.-Here is a long bill for storm damages last year. The total is only $11, but yet it is a very long bill. In whose handwriting is this?
A.-A friend of mine.
Q-What is the friend's name ?
A.-LI TAK.
Q.-Now what is the good of your saying that when I know the handwriting?
A.-I don't get any particular person to do all bills for me.
person and sometimes another.
Sometimes I get one
Q.-But you say at once it was your friend wrote that and it was not.
that bill.
Look at
A.-It was at night, and I went to get KAM CHU-SHEUNG to do it for me.
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