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and stated that her family was in very great poverty and that she had been thus compelled to send her daughter to a distant place to be married. As the girl CHEUNG LUK positively refuses to accompany CHEUNG TSING to Hankow, we have ordered an officer to take CHEUNG LUK and her mother CHEUNG LAU SUI to your office and have directed CHEUNG T'SING also to attend there. We respectfully await your decision.
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CHEUNG T'SING states:-I am 51 years of age and a native of Fa Ün. I am married to TSAU KUNG-WAN, who is aged 63 and is principal clerk in the Custom House in Hankow. I am his fourth concubine. My eldest son is CHO HANG. He is at present in the Kung Tai Hong Printing Office in Hankow. My second son keeps a druggist shop in Kwo Ló Wan in Macao; and my third son is studying English in a school in Shanghai. I returned to Canton with my husband's younger brother TSAU WAN-KUK on the 13th of the 6th moon of this year (18th July, 1891), and married (on behalf of my husband) LUK MUI the sixth daughter of CHEUNG SHAM KI, who keeps a paper-box shop in Má Tsó-pó, to be his concubine. The go-between, who negotiated this marriage, LUK SHAM, lives in Wai Un Yik in Canton. I have paid $290 for her. The marriage was contracted
Ün on the 7th of the 10th moon (8th November, 1891), and she lived with me in Pún Lung Lane at the back of No. 10 Ward. On the 1st of this moon (3rd January, 1892), I and my husband's younger brother together with CHEUNG LUK-MUI and an amah went on board the S.S. Fu Shun. After the arrival of this steamer at Hongkong it received some damage by a storm, and I had decided to move our luggage to the S.S. Meifoo to-day. The amah had asked me to find security and to increase her wages to $6 a month and. I refused. Thereupon she unexpectedly went ashore, and later on, for some reason, she brought a constable, who took me and CHEUNG LUK-MUI here. My husband first married LI SHI to be his first wife, and on her death married PAU SHI. The second concubine LAM SHI, the third LEUNG SHI, and the fourth CHEUNG SHI were all prostitutes. The fifth concubine CHAU SHI is small footed and a native of Shun Tak. The sixth concubine CH'AN SHI was a prostitute in Ló Ki Cheung in Shanghai, and the seventh concubine CH'AN SHI is also small-footed. They all live in Tong Fong in Canton. Now CHEUNG LUK-MUI of Hoi Ping has been married as fifth concubine.
CHEUNG LUK states: -I am aged 15 and a native of Hoi Ping. I lived in Má Tsó-pó. My father is named SHAM. He keeps the Cheung Sham Kei paper-box shop in Má Tó-pó. My mother is surnamed LAU. She is small-footed. The woman who took me down to Hongkong is also surnamed CHEUNG. I call her Sz Nár. She is now taking me to Hankow to be married to her husband TSAU. My mother has received $290 as my price. I am very grateful for being informed of the conduct of this woman on a previous occasion. I beg that my mother may be sent for to this Society.
Registrar General's letter No. 333 to Pó Léung Kuk, 12th December, 1891.
CHEUNG LUK positively refuses to go to Hankow. I therefore send her to you and request you to kindly take care of her for the present.
Extract from Pó Léung Kuk's letter No. 34 to Registrar General, 25th January, 1892.
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CHEUNG LUK. This girl was handed over to her mother CHEUNG LAU-SHI on the 24th December, 1891.
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