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M. Hanks
being correct according to my recollection, the larger note
not being then signed. Defendant asked me to make a
calculation, at the rate of 16 per cent on $450, which
sum of $450 defendant told me he had advanced to enable
the complainant to redeem a boy from the hands of an offi-
cer. I made the calculation, as requested, in the presence
of complainant and defendant, and added the amount
of 16 per cent on $450, to the note for $884.99, which
made the sum of $956.99, for which the note was
already drawn. I then told complainant that the a-
mount of 16 per cent on $450, added to $884.99, made the
sum of $956.99; and then complainant signed the note for
the last named sum. This transaction took place at
the house of Addison Ellis, aforesaid, on the same day of
the delivery of the negroes before mentioned. I know noth-
ing more about the execution or consideration of the
aboved named notes, except what appears from the face
of them.

VIII. To the Eighth Intog he says:-
Ans.- I know nothing further, material to this case -
except that the defendant told me that he had a
separate Bill of Sale for the boy, to redeem whom
from the officer he had advanced the above named sum
of $450, on which the 16 percent was calculated.
Alexander M. Hanks

Stapp
William Stapp, of Pickens County, aged
forty five years, being duly sworn, answers and deposes
as follows

I To the first Interrogatory he says:
Ans. - I am, and have been acquanted with them
for six or eight years past.