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vessels belonging to the Contract and Finance
Company.

Q. 410 Now I will ask you how you paid the
proprietors of those works for the iron shipped
by them?

A. I don't remember how it was paid:
whether in cash, or "otherwise"[scribbled out] notes.

Q. 411 During the term of your secretaryship
you had charge of the assets of the Con=
=tract, and Finance Company, I understand
you to say, and you made all its payments.

A. I made them, with the aid of my
assistants in the office.

Q. 412 Did you have any personal communi=
=cation with any of the persons who shipped
iron to your Company?

A. Never, personally.

Q. 413 Did you ever make payment to any
person who sold iron to the Contract and
Finance Company? If so, to whom?

A. I don't remember that I have ever
made any payments, personally, to anyone.

Q. 414 Can you not state, as to any partic=
=ular parcel of iron used by your Compa=
=ny in the construction of that railroad,
from whom it was purchased?

A. I think some of it was bought from
you. A. A. Cohen.

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