260
Table X.
RETURN OF PETITIONS RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR 1891.
Subject.
Number.
Kerosene Oil Licences, Spirit Licences,
Pawnbrokers' Licences, Eating-house Licences, Marine Store Licences, Distillery Licences, Grocers' Licences, Arms Licences,
Theatrical Permits,
Cracker Firing Permits,
Religious Ceremonies, &c., Processions,
Permit to worship at Tombs,
Markets,
Chinese Recreation Ground,
Domestic Disputes,
Loss of Wife, .
Loss of Daughter, Son, &c.,
165
68
53
5
18
3
19
52
96
16
5
50
15
19
31
37
Against erection of Latrines,
15
Squatters, &c.,
17
Remission of Rates, &c.,
6
Remission of Fines, Reversal of Sentence, &c.,
13
Against Coolie Regulations,
3
Against Opium Ordinance,
Regarding Jinricksha Farm,
Miscellaneous...
103
TOTAL,
Miscellaneous Petitions.
826
1. Permission to take two girls under a bond to Macao.
2. Permission to bring an adopted girl to the Office once a year instead of once a quarter. 3. The adoption of a child.
4. Permission to betroth her daughter.
5. Admission into the Home for old women at Canton.
6. Payment for nursing a girl.
7. The redemption of a daughter.
8. Water boats apply for exemption from paying licence fee.
9. Non-estreatment of bond in an unregistered brothel case.
10. Application for return of $500 deposited in the P. W. D. as security for a contractor.
11. Exemption from applying for permits to bream boats.
12. Permission to run omnibuses.
13. Establishment of a line of steamers to run between Hongkong and Honolulu.
14. Petition for the erection of a public wharf at Hunghom.
15. Permission to repair a shelter above the Bowen Road.
16. Permission to cut down some trees planted by an ancestor at Shaukiwan.
17. Permission to withdraw from being security for four Chinese Constables.
18. Sunday Cargo-Working Ordinance. Asking whether theatrical baggage is included under
the term "cargo.
19. Theatrical performances on Sunday.
20. A naturalized Chinaman asks that protection be extended to his three sons in China.
21. Complaint of a false charge brought in the Heungshan District Court.
22. Informer in the Namoa piracy case asks for protection.
23. Refusal of some Chinese to take delivery of certain goods. Request that the case be brought
to the notice of the Chinese Authorities.
24. Permission to repair a well at Aberdeen.
25. Ü YAM prays that the master of the Takwanfong be asked to remove his furnace to another
place.