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Q.—What do you do with them? Are you in the office pretty well all day?
A.—I am always in the office.
Q.-And what do you do with them at night?
A.-Leave them on the desk.
Q.-You don't put them into any case?
A. We have book-shelves, and all the books are on the shelves.
-Who could have access to these books, do you think?
A.-No one is supposed to have access to them except myself.
Q.-When could they have access to them?
A.-It must be before ten or after four, or when my back is turned. I may be in the Surveyor General's Office.
Q.-But no one would attempt to go and look at your books while you were there. Suppose you come back?
A. I should check him.
Q.
-Then it must have been in the morning or late at night. Would the Overseers have had time to go and take these copies? It is impossible. It must have been some one who had possession of the books for sometime?
A. Yes.
Q.-Who is there in the department who would have been able so to open the letter book as to pick out specific numbers? It could not be any one but some one who
knew where to look for these books.
A.-Every one knows where to find the book.
Q.-But suppose the letter is numbered 101 or 160, they could not look carefully through all these books?
A. They could go and look at the index book.
Q.-Would they see then the character of the letter and what was in it?
A.-Only the purport of the letter.
Q.-Hon. A. LISTER.-I believe, though, the drafts are also put into a clip?
A. Yes.
Q.-And the last one would be on the top?
A. Yes.
Q. Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-Do you know Mr. FRASER-SMITH?
A.—I know him by sight.
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