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advice I gave if any: and I don't know
if I gave any.

Q 55 Did you make a contract, or make any
promises to any of the parties that approached
you on the part of Mrs. Brannan, that if
she took the transfer of that stock in the
settlement of her affairs with her husband's
estate, that you would become the purchaser
of it?

A. No sir; I don't remember that,

Q 56 Did you become the purchaser of it?

A. No sir.

Q 57 Did Mr. Charles Crocker become the pur-
chaser of it to you knowledge?

A. Not to my knowledge.

Q 58 Did Mark Hopkins?

A. Not to my knowledge.

Q 59 Did C. P. Huntington?

A. Not to [scribble] my knowledge.

Q 60 Do you know who did become the purchaser
of that stock?

A. I am not able to say.

Q 61 Will you look at the books of the Corporation
and ascertain to whom that stock was
transferred from Samuel Brannan?

A. Well I don't know whether I will or not.

Q 62 Do you decline to do so?

A. No sir I probably will consult my own

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