4482. Would you have been bound by that, supposing you had not been bound by the terms on which you held your land, to deliver your fish to Mr. Bruce, and to deal at his store?-No, I don't believe I would, if I had been at liberty to deal elsewhere at any other time.
4483. Have you ever paid any fines or liberty money for yourself or for any of your family?-None whatever.
4484. Have you understood that you were liable to pay such fines?-I understood that I was liable to pay a fine or to receive a warning if I did not fish for my landlord.
4485. But would you have been liable to pay anything besides being afraid of being removed?-I don't know anything about that.
4486. In 1865 you had got cash advances to the amount of £10, 7s. 2d., and your account at Mr. Bruce's store that year was only about 30s?-Yes.
4487. I suppose in that state of matters, you are pretty well content with the state of things as they are?-I might be well enough content with the state of things as they are, only I am bound to fish for him alone, and for no other man.
4488. But you are not bound to deal at his store?-No; I don't believe he compels any man to be bound to his store entirely.
4489. Is there really any compulsion, either direct or indirect, to deal at his store?-No; not so far as I know.
4490. Even although you are in his debt, you are not bound to deal at his store?-No; I don't believe he would oblige me to do that.
4491. But you have as much credit to deal at another man's store as at his,-I mean you get an account opened as readily at another man's store as at Mr. Bruce's?-Yes.