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The Chairman.-Who are the people who got them to write Petitions?
A.-I dont know now. We sometimes got our master himself to write them, and so there is no need to get them to write it.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Is your master always in Hongkong ?
A. Yes.
Q-Always?
A.-Always.
Q.--The whole year round?
A.-Yes.
Mr. Lau Chu Pak-Have you not sometimes to pay money to those who have the Marine Surveying,-measuring,--of your launches ?
A. No, there is no need. The clerks dont need to go on to the vessels.
Q.-Well, who go out then?
A.It is the chief engineer that does it.
Q. Dont you have to give him something sometimes ?
A.-No.
The Chairman.-Now we go on and leave the question about the launches. I see that during last year, there are a number of accounts amounting to $240 altogether with Sham Iu, for the hire of launches, beginning the 5th day of the 2nd moon.
A. I must look at the book to see.
(Book shewn to witness).
These are all Sham Iu's items.
Q.-
-Alright, just read them along. What does the total come to? Have you got them totalled up there?
A. $121, in the 10th moon of last year.
Q.-The 10th moon of last year, how much?
A. The 1st moon to the 9th moon rather over, $121.
Q.--I make it $162.75.
A.-Well, probably that may be the whole total.
Q.--No, the total for the whole of last year was $236.25.
A.-If I can got an abacus, I will make it up.
Q-Never mind about that. That is for last year. Now, for this year, up to and including the intercalary 4th moon, from the 1st moon, did you make that account, is that your own hand writing?
A. Yes.
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