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Q. 35 How long after you commenced to
pay rent was it before one of your Companies
purchased the property?

A. Well, of my own knowledge I cannot
now remember. I do not remember, but
I think within a year.

Q.36 It was within a year?

A. I think so.

Q.37 Was that conversation which you
had with the directors about the time
the purchase was made, or about the time
you commenced to pay rent?

A. I do not remember, only that is must
have been after we commenced to pay rent.
This is all the time I can fix.

Q.38 Did Governor Stanford tell you that
the property was purchased by the defend=
=ant for the Company?

A. I do not think it was stated in that
way: I do not think it was a positive
statement of that kind. It wa a gen=
=eral talk. I so understood it.

Q.39 Well, as nearly as you can recollect,
what did he say about it?

A. I cannot remember anything that he
said.

Q.40 Did you ever have any talk with
C. P. Huntington concerning it?

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