that the Amber Matter endeavours to excuse the Petitioner's violation of the laws, which have especially laid emphasis on the fact that "a sanction should only be appropriated by his own admissions when seeking redress alleged as committed for by a Notary a Chinese Attorney".
There is, however, evidence, quite sufficient to have convicted him, had he remained to take his trial.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord!
Your obedient humble servant,
The Governor
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Copy Translation of Chinese petition addressed to the Registrar General.
The petition of Chan-a-Yau, aged 22, a native of Ko Chan Kong in the province of Tukin, praying your Honour, in order to protect the life of a friendless stranger, to arrest and try the guilty parties who conspired to rob and oppress him.
Humbly showeth :-
That your petitioner has a junk of 270 piculs capacity, which is called "Shun Kat". That on the 6th day of the 3rd month (April 19th, 1877) she sailed from Ko Chan Hong for Hongkong with a cargo of 150 piculs of sugar on board, and that she arrived in the afternoon of the...
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