In the Police Court of Hongkong
Not In the matter of an application for the rendition of Cheong Sam U a Shap and Sang Chun under Ordinance No. 2 of 1850
I, Wong Ao, of Victoria in the Island of Hongkong, Widow, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare and say as follows.
I know the prisoner who is charged in this case under the name of Sang Chun.
The said prisoner has been my protector for more than ten years since the death of my husband, and I have always known him by the name of Sang Chun and by no other name.
The said Leung Ah Su has been living in Hongkong since his return from Annam in 1884.
The said Leung Ah Su suffers from rheumatism in his legs, and during the whole of the 9th moon last year, he was unable to walk without great pain and difficulty, and most of the time was confined to his bed on the top floor of No. 61 East Street, Victoria aforesaid.
I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled "An Act to repeal an Act of the present session of Parliament entitled 'An Act for the more effectual abolition of oaths and affirmations taken and made in various departments of the State, and to substitute declarations in lieu thereof, and for the entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial oaths and affirmations, and to make other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary oaths'."
Declared by the said Cheong Sam Houghtrie, at Victoria, Hongkong, the 9th day of March 1887. Having first been interpreted to her in the Chinese language by Choo Fook, Interpreter.
[Signature or mark of Cheong Sam Houghtrie]
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In the Police Court of Hongkong
Not In the matter of an application for the rendition of Cheong Sam U a Shap and Sang Chun under Ordinance No. 2 of 1850
I, Wong Ao, of Victoria in the Island of Hongkong, Widow, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare and say as follows.
I know the prisoner who is charged in this case under the name of Sang Chun.
The said prisoner has been my protector for more than ten years since the death of my husband, and I have always known him by the name of Sang Chun and by no other name.
The said Leung Ah Su has been living in Hongkong since his return from Annam in 1884.
The said Leung Ah Su suffers from rheumatism in his legs, and during the whole of the 9th moon last year, he was unable to walk without great pain and difficulty, and most of the time was confined to his bed on the top floor of No. 61 East Street, Victoria aforesaid.
I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled "An Act to repeal an Act of the present session of Parliament entitled 'An Act for the more effectual abolition of oaths and affirmations taken and made in various departments of the State, and to substitute declarations in lieu thereof, and for the entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial oaths and affirmations, and to make other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary oaths'."
Declared by the said Cheong Sam Houghtrie, at Victoria, Hongkong, the 9th day of March 1887. Having first been interpreted to her in the Chinese language by Choo Fook, Interpreter.
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