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Q. 163 Have you in your possession a letter
from defendant dated sometime between
March and July, 1872, excepting to those two
charges — Barge "Dick" and Barge "Yolo" —
because those vessels did not belong to
him and that transportation was not
done by him?

A. I do not know that I have any such
letter; but I am under the impression
that some such transaction occurred. I
recollect something of it.

Q. 164 When you made these charges against
the defendant and collected from him the
amounts did you understand that the
business was being done for the benefit
of the defendant, and not for the benefit —
of the company, so far as the transporta=
=tion was concerned?

A. That the defendant was doing the
transportation on his own account?

Q. 165 Yes: for his own profit.

A. Yes. I understood that he was
doing the transportation on his own account.

Q. 166 Do you recollect the time that the
schooners "Elko" and "Truckee" were sold
by your companies to the defendant?

A. I cannot fix the date.

Q. 167 Look at the document now given

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