15,323. Had you seen your account at the shop before?-Yes.
15,324. Is that the way in which you have been settled with ever since?-Yes.
15,325. You see your account beforehand, and then go up to the Custom House, get payment of the cash, and then you bring down the money and settle your account?-Yes.
15,326. When you left the shop after seeing your account and went up to the Custom House, were you told to come back and pay your account the same day?-Yes.
15,327. You were always reminded of that?-Yes.
15,328. And when you came back to pay your account, were you asked if you wanted any more goods?-No. I did not buy anything unless I chose.
15,329. Do you generally get your last payment of oil-money in cash, or in goods?-In cash; but if I want them, I can get it in goods.
15,330. Do you sometimes want it in goods?-Sometimes we may take some trifling things on it if we want them, but if not we get it all in money.
15,331. Have you any reason to complain of having to go to the Custom House and then to go down to the shop and pay your money?-No.
Lerwick, January 30, 1872, JAMES COUTTS, recalled.