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Appendix 43.
REPORT ON THE BOOKS KEPT BY THE PÓ LÉUNG KUK.
After having waited in vain for a fortnight for the notes and suggestions which one Member of the General Committee promised to send in to us, we the undersigned. on the 21st instant examined the books of the Society which had been brought to the Registrar General's Office for inspection by Mr. Lo MAN-SANG, Clerk to the Society.
The records were found to consist of the following:-
A Book, marked by the undersigned A, containing Minutes of Proceedings at various Meetings of the promoters of the Society, the discussions at the Meetings, the Regulations proposed and adopted, and the names of the persons present. Also the records of some important cases brought before the Meetings from 1880 to 1886, and copies of letters received from the Government.
A Book, marked B, containing the names of the original Members of the Society
in 1881. They were 122 in number and subscribed $10 each.
Fourteen Books containing copies of official correspondence with the Govern- ment from 1878 (before the Society became a distinct institution from the Tung Wa Hospital) to 1886, together with records of cases dealt with from 1885 to 1886.
Seven Books 1887-1888, (from 6th Moon of Ting Hoi year to the end of the
5th moon of the following year).
In 1887, a regular set of books was instituted which have been kept up ever
since. The seven books comprised :-
(1) Correspondence with outports.
(2) & (3) Records of election of Directors, employment of Detec-
tives, cases enquired into i.e. transactions of the Society.
(4) & (5) Correspondence between the Registrar General and the
Society.
(6) Records of cases sent from the Police and from the Registrar
General's Office.
(7) Records of cases sent to the Society from elsewhere.
Six Books 1888-1889, (from 6th Moon Mo Tsz year to end of 5th moon of the
following year), comprise :-
(1) & (4) Correspondence with outports.
(2) Cases sent to the Society by different Government Departments. (3) Cases sent to the Society from elsewhere.
(5) & (6). Correspondence between the Registrar General's Office
and the Society.
Nine Books 1889-1890, (from 6th Moon of Kichau year to end of 5th moon
of following year) :-
(1) (2) (3) & (4) Correspondence with the Registrar General's
Office.
(5) Record of cases sent to the Society by the Registrar General's
Office.
(6) Record of the Society's transactions.
(7) & (8) Record of correspondence with outports. (9) Cases sent to the Society from outports.