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defendant for the hire of those schooners?

A. That I do not know.

Q. 141 Did you ever have any correspondence
or conversation with the defendant at
any time about the hire of those schooners?

A. I think not.

Q. 142 Did you, as secretary of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company, receive any pay=
=ment from him for the hire of those
schooners, other than the sum you have
stated as being an offset to the voucher
Exhibit "A"?

A. I do not remember any other.

Q. 143 At the time you speak of who was
the owner of those schooners?

A. Which time? The time I speak of, when
the defendant was paying rent for them?

Q. 144 We will go back to that time: to
Exhibit "A." Who was at that time the
owner of those schooners?

A. The Central Pacific.

Q. 145 The defendant paid charter money
or hire for those schooners to the Central
Pacific Railroad Company?

A. Yes sir.

Q. 146 What was the nature of that con=
=tract for transportation between the
plaintiff in the Western Pacific Railroad

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