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A. I think there were several changes in the trustees. I don't remember when, or who they were.
Q. 98 Do you recollect any persons, who acted as trustees of the corporation during the term that you were secretary, other than those that you have heretofore mentioned?
A. I do not remember their names.
Q. 99 Was Mr. Charles Crocker a trustee?
A. He was president of the Company at one time.
Q. 100 Was he a trustee at the time he was president?
A. I think he was a trustee: I am not sure.
Q. 101 Was Mr. E. B. Crocker a trustee at any time while you were secretary?
A. I don't remember whether he was or not.
Q. 102 Was C. P. Huntington a trustee?
A. I don't remember that.
Q. 103 Was Mr. Mark Hopkins a trustee?
A. I don't remember that.
Q. 104 You say that the Company received moneys for the building of portions of the railroad of the Central Pacific. Will you state when the first payment was made?
A. Made to what?
Q. 105 To the Contract and Finance Company.
A. I don't remember when the first
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payment was made.
Q. 106 What was done with the moneys that came into your hands, received for the building of the railroad for the Central Pacific Railroad Company?
A. Paid out again for labor performed.
Q. 107 Was it kept in your safe, or deposited in the bank?
A. Both.
Q. 108 In what bank did you keep your accounts?
A. We kept them at several banks.
Q. 109 Will you name them?
A. A portion of the time at the Bank of California; a portion of the time at the Bank of D. O. Mills & Company.
Q. 110 — Of Sacramento?
A. Yes sir.
Q. 111 Did you have an account with any other bank at Sacramento?
A. I think we had an account, for a short time, with the Capital Savings Bank. I am not quite sure.
Q. 112 At Sacramento?
A. Yes.
Q. 113 Did you receive from the Central Pacific Railroad Company, as consideration for building their railroad, or for any other purpose, anything besides money?
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A. No: I don't remember of ever receiving anything else.
Q. 114 Did the Contract and Finance Com= =pany, during the time that you were sec= =retary, receive any payments from the Central Pacific Railroad Company in any= =thing other than money?
A. Not that I am aware of.
Q. 115 Did the Contract and Finance Com= =pany never receive from the officers of the Central Pacific Railroad Company any bonds?
A. Did I ever receive any?
Q. 116 Did the Contract and Finance Com= =pany ever receive any, during the time that you were secretary?
A. Not that I am aware of.
Q. 117 Did any bonds issued by or to the Central Pacific Railroad Company ever come into your possession, as secretary of the Contract and Finance Company, or into the possession of the Company?
A. I don't remember of any ever coming into my possession.
Q. 118 If any payments of money or bonds were made to the Contract and Finance Company would the books of that Com= =pany show it?
A. The books of the Railroad Company?
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Q. 119 The books of the Contract and Finance Company.
A. I think they would.
Q. 120 Who kept those books?
A. They were kept by different parties.
Q. 121 Were they ever kept by you?
A. I kept them for a portion of the time.
Q. 122 During what time did you keep them?
A. I don't remember the exact time. I had assistance at various times.
Q. 123 For how long a period of time did you keep them?
A. Several years.
Q. 124 Can you state between what years or between what dates you kept them?
A. A large portion of the time from the time the incorporation was made to 1873.
Q. 125 Who were your assistants in keeping those books?
A. The first assistant I had was Mr. Ralph Smith.
Q. 126 Who was the next?
A. Mr. James Moore, I think, was the next one.
Q. 127 Any others?
A. Mr. John Miller.
Q. 128 Any others?
A. I had assistants occasionally, at
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various times. I don't remember their names.
Q. 129 Did any person other than yourself, during the time that you had charge of those books, make any original entries in them?
A. What kind of entries?
Q. 130 Original entries of moneys or assets of any kind received from the Central Pacific Railroad Company, or from any person for that Company.
A. Anything that would be received in my absence would be entered by my assistants.
Q. 131 You say, then, that, during the time that you were secretary, there were other persons receiving those assets?
A. If any were received during my absence they would be received by my assistants.
Q. 132 Were any such receipts had, during the term of your secretaryship, during your absence?
A. Very likely. I was sick, or absent for other reasons, at times.
Q. 133 Will you state, from your best recollection, whether such was or was not the fact: that any such assets were received during any absence of yours?
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