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William Manuel Bray – Sworn upon his oath saith as follows – 
I am a miner at present. I live at Protection Island and have lived there since April 1891. I was Contractor with James Richards for sinking Protection Island Shaft for the New Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company Limited.  I employed all nationalities of labour – amongst them were Chinese – the labour was paid for through the said Company. I gave in the case of Chinese tickets – a small slip of paper with day and date and number of the Chinaman. (we had six working at that time) such as No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 No 4 and so on – We did not name the Chinese they went by numbers – In the month of May 1891 – I gave this man (pointing to Loo Yut the prisoner) either one or two tickets besides his own for labor done in the month of April 1891 – I have no recollection of the other Chinese having in that month requested me to give Loo Yut their tickets – That time I had given No 3 Chinaman his own ticket – I believe No 4 Chinaman had his own ticket – there was another Chinaman who had his ticket – I believe No 5 who worked with Loo Yut – I believe that I gave the tickets of No 1 and No 6 chinaman to Loo Jut – That’s No 1 (pointing to Jie Ham) No 1 had worked 29 days for us in the month of April 1891 at $11.25 per day.
No 6 had worked about 20 or 21 days in the same month at the same rate of wages.
No 5 (afterwards killed on the top of the shaft) worked I believe 26 days in the month at the same