16,252. You say the agent keeps your allotment notes, even although they are in name of your wife?-Yes, if I am indebted to him.
16,253. Don't they require to be signed by your wife?-Not at first.
16,254. But afterwards?-Yes; if she has a note, then of course she has to sign it before she gets the money.
16,255. But she does not require to sign it when she gets supplies; these are set down to the account?-Yes; she does not require to sign it unless she is drawing her half-pay at the Custom House.
16,256. Has she ever drawn her half-pay, so long as you remember?-Yes.
16,257. Is that long ago?-It is perhaps a couple of years ago.
16,258. How much of it did she draw then?-She drew half a month's pay every month when I was away.
16,259. What did she do with that?-I suppose she required it.
16,260. Did she spend it at home or in Lerwick?-I cannot say.
16,261. Was the allotment note in the agent's hands at that time?-No.