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Q.-None at all?
A.-During the last five years I don't think I have made out more than five or
six bills.
Q.-Were these long bills or short bills?
A.-I cannot remember.
Q.-Do you write the same sort of hand as Mr. PRICE? Do you copy his hand ?
A. How do I know?
Q.-Mr. CHAN FUK writes so much like him you can hardly tell one from the
other?
A.-How do I know?
Q.-I see some clerk's hand-writing in a great many of the bills; whose hand- writing is that?
A.-KAM CHU-SHEUNG'S.
Q.-Is that KAM CHU-SHEUNG'S writing? (shewing document).
A. Yes.
Q.-That also is KAM CHU-SHEUNG's writing, is it not? (Shewing another document).
A.-I cannot tell whether it is his or CHAN FUK'S.
Q.-They write alike?
A.-A little.
Q.—I would like you to be quite plain and straight-forward. When these Con- tractors asked you to write out five or six bills for them, which it was not your duty to do, did they offer you any money ?
A.-No; I only made one or two a year.
Q.-But it is not your business any more than mine. Did they not offer you any little present for your trouble?
A. Yes, sometimes in the Autumn festival two or three sent me boxes of cakes;
not all of them, only two or three.
Q-Was this for making out bills?
A.—I can't tell. I did not do much work for them. I thought it was only for keeping up the festival custom.
Q.-Well, we are told there is a custom in the Public Works Department that these bills are written by the clerks at a charge of about one per cent on the amount collected. Do you know anything about that?
A.--No.
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