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period of time you were a trustee?

A. I do not remember the exact dates.

Q. 311 I will ask you, Mr. Brown, if you do
not recollect — take one note first — if you
do not recollect sometime in 1871 executing
a promissory note, as director of the Contract
and Finance Company, to Charles Crocker?

A. I do not.

Q. 312 Did you ever execute any note to Mr.
Crocker on behalf of the Contract and Finance
Company?

A. I do not remember whether I did or not.

Q. 313 Will you swear that you never did?

A. No.

Q. 314 By way of recalling the matter to your
recollection I will ask you whether you did
not, about the time I have mentioned,
execute a note to Charles Crocker for the
sum of $1,500,000, in the name of the Contract
and Finance Company?

A. I have no recollection of any such note.

Q. 315 If such a note had been executed, don't
you think you would recollect the circum=
=stance?

A. I think I would recollect a note of
that sort — something of it. I have no recol=
=lection of any such transaction.

Q. 316 During the time that you were a

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