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Q.-What? The exhuming of.this body?
A.-No.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Was it not your duty to inform the Sanitary Board that a body had been taken away in the night?
A.-Well, there was a new man did it and I did not know about it and A Tong said it would do.
The Chairman.-What was the fee paid?
A.-Two dollars,
Q. Who got it ?
A.-The Sanitary Board.
Q.-Who paid it to the Sanitary Board?
A-The undertakers' shop. That place was also two dollars and the old place was two
dollars.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-And Chii Ka did not pay anything for the new grave?
A.-I dont know about that.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-Anything to you?
A.-No.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Do you keep a register in English and Chinese at or near each Chinese Cemetery? Have you a register in English?
A.--No.
Q. Do you know that, under the bye-laws for Chinese cemeteries, it says a register shall be kept in the English and Chinese languages at or near each Cemetery giving the date of each burial, the name, sex, certified cause of death. (Quotes.) Do you know that is a part of the regulations?
A.-I do not know.
Q. Do you know that a plan of the Cemetery as laid out shall be at or near to the Cemetery-a plan showing the position of each grave in each section and every such grave space shall bear a number? Have you such a plan out there ?
A. No plan.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak.-How often do you see the Inspectors visit the Cemetery?
A. Every week.
Q-Every week or every Sunday evening?
A.-Maybe Friday or Wednesday or Friday; it is uncertain.
Q-You mean once a week?
A. Yes.
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