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Q. If the Colonial Secretary came down and wanted to know, you could not tell bim at five minutes notice how you stood ?
A.--I get this cheque, and within the first four or five days of the month, I have paid the whole lot of the money away.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak-You have vouchers ?
A. Yes.
Q.-But you have no record ?
A. You see the total amount on the bill, and it is on this total amount on the pay sheet that this money is paid. I have wages to pay and bills to pay and it comes to a certain amount. The Government through the Colonial Treasury gives me that amount, and I send down all these bills and pay sheets, and the bills are signed and receipted.
Q.-But you dont keep a record ?
A. No, that is the only book I keep, and the payments are checked by means of the monthly accounts.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Suppose I ask you if you received $31,000 from the Treasury last month?
A. Yes.
Q.-Yon paid it at once.
A. Yes.
Q-To whom ?
A. By means of the pay sheets, I can shew you to a cent, to whom I paid it away,- so much for disinfectants, so much for wages.
Q. You have the pay sheets?
A. Yes.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.—Do you have any book with the record of the pay sheets?
A. I have a book which will shew that so much is paid to each man, and so much is paid out in other charges. I have two subsidiary books to this. One also acts as a check on the pay sheets, and conveyance allowance goes under another heading. This other books shew across a line the amount paid to each particular officer, and is a check on the pay sheets, because that total must go inside the total of the pay sheets. I shall get them up here.
Q. You have got the pay sheets, but you have no record of these pay sheets in a bound book ?
A.-I keep an office copy of all these bills.
The Chairman.-You have no cashier's book, have you, so that at any moment you
Or "I have paid so much I have cash in hand so much can check your balance and say which is due to somebody else"?
A.--No. The Treasury sends me up a cheque, and within the first four of five days, -the first two days-of the month all the money is paid away.
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