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10 Knowingly uttering counterfeit coin (being also an idle and disorderly person)
11. Larceny and knowingly receiving stolen goods.
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The Appendix will shew the authorised scale of fees levied in the Chief Magistrate's Office from 1841 to 1847.
A copy of the table of fees is hung up in the waiting room at the Chief Magistrate's Court and a notice, also in Chinese, is annexed to the Table, purporting that these fees are not exacted in Criminal cases, or in civil cases when the plaintiff is too poor to pay, and requesting suitors to pay them, when demanded, into the hands of the European appointed to receive them, and not to a Chinaman, in order to prevent extortion.
By the appendix it will be observed that the first table of fees was in force only from February to July 1844.
I have never heard of such a case as this. Mr. Mathieson says it is "a matter of notoriety" (vide No. 2092) yet he does not particularize: the assertion is, to the best of my belief, erroneous.
Salt, though not landed at Hong Kong in any quantity, is frequently sold