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=ing of the road?

A. I do not think the Contract and Finance
Company, as I remember it, charged any
price for the rails. I think the contract
did not read so much per ton for so
many tons of iron. I think the contract
for laying the iron on the road was so
much a mile, perhaps: for furnishing
ties and iron, and laying it, so much.

Q. 278 Why do you think it read that way?

A. I think I would remember, possibly,
the details if it was different from that.
That is my impression.

Q. 279 How much a month was it?

A. I have no recollection of that.

Q. 280 Why do you think the contract read
that way, when you do not recollect that
the contract was in writing?

A. That is my impression. I recollect
some of the contracts were that way.

Q. 281 Mr. Sake: Are there any contracts,
documents or entries in the books of the
Railroad Company, of which you are sec=
=retary, which will show?

A. There are.

Q. 282 Mr. Cohen: Was there any other ma=
=terial used by the Contract and Finance
Company in the construction of that part

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