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Q-How much?
A.-A dollar or so.
Q.-Do you live in a coolie house?
A. Yes.
Q.--Do any private coolies live there?
A. Yes.
Q-Do the private coolies pay so much a month to the lodging-house keeper?
A. Yes. They pay less.
Q-How much do they pay?
A.-If a public chair coolie pays sixty cents a month, the private coolie pays that is to say, he pays thirty cents.
half;
Q.-That is in the case of chair coolies who do not live there always. They are there only on certain nights. Is that it ?
A. Yes, they only sleep there now and then.
Q. That is a monthly subscription then to the lodging-house?
A-Yes.
Mr. Badeley. Do you know whether private chair coolies sometimes borrow public chairs and ply them for hire ?
A.No. Private chair coolies are not allowed to do that.
Q.-But do you know whether they do it as a matter of fact?
A.-No.
The Chairman-Do you know whether any private coolies, whilst they still are private coolies, are in possession of licences as public coolies and leave their master's ser- vice at a given hour of the day to make up their earnings by bearing a public chair or pulling a public ricksha?
A. I don't know of any.
[This concluded the sitting and the Commission adjourned sine die.]
LEO. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Secretary.
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