5965. Do you wish the prices in it to be compared with the prices at your own shop?-Yes.
5966. How are the prices at your shop to be ascertained?-Our books can show them.
5967. Are all the sales of meal entered in your books at the time they take place?-Not all; but when meal is given on credit, the price is entered in the ledger account opposite the name of the party.
5968. You have not got your books here?-No. I was not cited to attend to-day; but I wished to be examined, and I came forward.
5969. In what way do you arrange your ledger? Have you an account in it for each boat's crew?-Yes.
5970. Is there also a ledger account for each individual?-Yes.
5971. In that ledger account do you enter on the one side all his outfit and all the goods supplied to his family or to himself out of your shop, while on the other side are entered the proceeds of his fishing, and everything else that may be due to him?-Yes.
5972. In the case of the properties of which you are tacksman or proprietor, the rent, I presume, goes into the debit side of the man's account?-Yes.
5973. Is there anything else you wish to say?-No.
Brae, January 10, 1872, Rev. DUNCAN MILLER, examined.