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Q.-Have you got the partnership book?
A.-Yes, I have a partnership book, but when he pays me money, I take the book back to him.
Q-You dont keep any record of money you receive, in your own book?
A.-No.
Q.-Then how do you settle with your uncle, if he is your partner?
A. It is not exactly what you would call a partnership. My father was his brother, and we eat together. The old man can't work, and I go and look for things.
Q. What are those books, merely the individual payments?
A. He gives me the $60, and I have got the men's names down to whom I dis- tributed it.
Q.—Well, let us see the entries to whom you paid away that $60.
A-Well, here they are, so much to each man.
Q. Do you write those books yourself?
A. Yes, I got the $60, and I paid it to the different men.
Q.—And do you enter it in the books yourself?
A.—I do.
Q-You have got $60, and you paid it out?
A. Under all these different men's names,--the men who did work for me.
This one
has got several teus of cents, and there are about three dollars to this one, and there is another for two dollars odd,--a little to each man.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Daily work.
The Chairman.--When Tse A Kam gave you that $60, didn't he tell you that he thought you were going to pay part of that to the inspector?
Now
A. He said "Look here, you promised to give it, but you had no money to do it. you have money, have you done it ?"
Q. Did you tell Tse A Kam that you had not paid it to the inspector?
A.—I said I would not give it.
The Interpreter. And he goes on about having so many expenses, and so on.
The Chairman.-Did Tse A Kam give you the original sum you agreed upon,-90 cents
a floor,—or did he give you something more than the original price, so that you should have something to give to the Inspector?
A. As it was 90 cents for a floor, then he gave 90 cents, and if it is to be done over again, it has to be 90 cents just the same. There is no way of making good.
Q. So that if the work has to be done over again, it is your loss, and if there is any- thing to be paid to the inspector, that is also your loss?
A. Yes, and if you give to the Inspector, you need not do the work.
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