recupation of Chinese, have been built. hereon at an large outlay, owing to the necessity of driving piles for foundations, draining the Land, to.
The rents of thee shops have hitherto been paid to the Muntgages for interests on his Lowe, and they have reverted to me. they are barely eufficient to cover the heavy annual brown Rent on this Lot, and I pray the Committe, well knowing the proverbial penury of Chinese Semantry, to urge a reduction on this Lot, as all Profits to accrue hercout must be wreated from such tenantry, whose misery may be thews depicted. The shop P23 on this Lote of Fifteen feet by thirty feet, the yard Rines, and outhouses thereto belonging area of fifteen feet by twenty feet. Fifteen foot by Fifty feet, and there is one Roome, over the shop, within the precincts whereof pozitivoly Covers an area—dwell and carry on their calling the following meredible mare of human beings, viz Master Tailor, Wife and Children and 18 Workmen.
Master Miniature painter, Wife and child and an Assistant. Book Binder and an Assistant. Three Barbers, Lodgers, and innumerable Cooks, Water Carriers and Visitors. The Shep 12, a Cabinet dunker's, adjoining is similarly inhabited; in fact, this remarkable heading together of people is univereal; in the Chinese part of the Town the houses are much crowded; it has repeatedly fallen to my Lot, as sheriff's Auctioneer, to sell up apparently respectable Shop keepers for Areav of Rent; I have invariably found a number of chinaman connected: it is most rare to find ory Bucinese without a number of Partners in these shops—the dowest menials feed from the same Book as their Masters. The result of these sales is generally, First, the Respected head of the Department, absconded, the Shop found crammed with fietitions packages, labelled Boxes, false bottoned Jars superficially filled: in reality gutted of any artiele it ever contained of value), though it is most cases, baskets, and
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