made in various departments of the State and to substitute declarations in lieu thereof and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extrajudicial oaths and affidavits and to make other provision for the abolition of unnecessary oaths.
Declared by the said Wong Ho at Victoria Hong Kong the 9th day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighty seven Having first been interpreted to her in the Chinese language by Ng Fook, Chinese interpreter to Messrs Dennys & Mossop, Solicitors, Hong Kong.
Before
J. Maughan
Sub Enclosure 7 to Enclosure 1.
In the Police Court of Complaints
No 233
In the Matter of an Application for the rendition of Leung Ah Sam, Masham and Joang a blum under Ordinance No 2287850.
I, Li a Kit of Victoria in the Island of Hong Kong, Coolie House Keeper, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare, as follows:
I am in partnership with Jam Yan, and Lam Yin in a coolie lodging house situate at No 31, Queen's Road Central, Victoria aforesaid.
I have known and am well acquainted with Leung a Sam, who is charged in this case under the name of Joang a blum.
The said Leung a Sam resided from the 3rd of last year up to the date of his arrest on the top floor of No 61, East Street, Victoria aforesaid.
The said Leung a Sam was all right in the morning and evening of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th days of the said last year, and I visited him and assisted him to prepare his opium pipe as he was too ill to do it himself.
I have never heard the said prisoner called by any other name than Leung a Sam previously to his being charged in this case.
And 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 IV.