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Q. 71 Do you know that of your own knowledge?

A. No; not of my own knowledge. He was
paid a salary at a certain time — I don't
know whether my answer would be a
proper answer — which, at the rate that
salary was paid afterwards, must have
commenced on the first of April, 1869

Q. 72 By whom was that payment made?

A. By the Central Pacific Railroad Company.

Q. 73 Mr. Robinson: After the consolidation?

A. After the consolidation. It covered ser=
=vices for the Western Pacific Railroad
Company — so specified — for the Western
Pacific and Central Pacific

Q. 74 Mr. Cohen: You say that in com=
=menced on the first of April, 1869?

A. It commenced on the first of April, 1869

Q. 75 You state that positively, as a fact
within your own knowledge?

A. Within my own knowledge, arriving
at the fact in that way.

Q. 76 Do you know it as a fact in any
other way?

A. I do not.

Q. 77 Have you any voucher, receipt or ac=
=quittance, signed by the defendant that
shows for what that was paid?

A. Yes.

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