H. K. White Statement - Part 1

meeting. That was all there was of it. He ordered me to make the entry as though the directors were present.

Q You would put in the names of those directors without their being present?

A Without their being present, according to his orders.

Q In that time this note that I spoke of for $30 000 to the order of the First National Gold bank was made in October 1876, there was no meeting other than such as you have described?

A That was all of any meeting where any such matter came up.

Q Did you know during the time that you were the Secretary of this Company, that Colton kept any other bank account than the one with the London & S. F. bank?

A He kept a bank acct, with the First National Gold Bank.

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Q At what time?

A Well from some time shortly after its organization I do not know how long, several years.

Q Were you Gen Colton's private bookkeeper?

A Yes Sir.

Q From what time?

A From the 1st of January 1871 when I went into the Employ.

Q Until when?

A Until he went into the R R Co.

Q That would be the last of 1874?

A Yes Sir when he moved down to the R R office. I no longer kept his private accts[underlined].

Q Who kept them then?

A I think Mr Green did.

Q Between the 1st of January 1871 and the last of 1874, did Gen Colton keep a bank account all that time with the London & S. F. bank?

A I think yes.

Q Did you have any thing to

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do with that?

A No sir.

Q Did you make deposits there?

A Yes Sir, I made deposits there for him and also in the First National Gold bank when he had a bank account there.

Q I am speaking of the First National Gold bank.

A Yes Sir: I made all his deposits.

Q Did you deposit any of the RMC & I Co money with the First National Gold bank?

A I think not. I think it all went into the London & S. F. bank. That is my recollection now.

Q Do you know any thing of a bank account kept by Colton with the London & S. F. bank entitled "Old Indebted= ness?"

A Yes Sir.

Q Any such account kept in his books?

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A No sir, not that I know of. Not that I recollect of.

Q Was that account with the First National Gold bank opened when you became employed by Colton on the 1st of January 1871?

A My impression is that the Gold bank was organized after I went into his employ.

Q You cannot remember when that was started?

A I think it was after 1871. January 1st.

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Q The next entry on that Exhibit D in "D 1". Salaries drawn. Did Colton at any time communicate to you the salary that he was to receive as president of the R M C & I Co?

A My recollection is that all I charged the company for him under his orders, salary at the end of every month.

Q It appears not. On the 31st

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of December 1871 you charged a salary for 1871 at $1200 a year. $100 a month. By whose orders did you make that entry?

A By his.

Q Did he tell you what his arrangements with the Company were?

A No sir, he never told me anything about it.

Q He instructed you to make that entry?

A He instructed me to make that entry.

Q After that you charged every month?

A Yes sir.

Q When the salary was increased from $100 a month in 1871 to $400 in January 1872, what did he say to you about that?

A He merely ordered me, he said to enter up his salary at so much.

Q Did you ask him for any authority from the di-

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