6 April
$4
*B*
4 May
6
31
do
5
(
9 June
1.75
15 do
3.50
upon the other side of the paper is written
1st.
$59
2nd.
72
3
67.50
4.
72
1st, June
79
28
do
63
"A"
528
Referring to the figures on A
1st.means
1st.of January 1897. The money represents the payment for
the month of December 1896. The $59 was handed to me by
young Quincey, the clerk in the Registrar General's Office.
Quincey said that Wan Shing had handed the money to him.
The money was paid in respect of two houses one in Wa Lane
and one in Cheung Hing Lane. The gambling houses paid $1.20
each day. Quincey told me that at first they refused to pay
$1.20. Mr. Osmund said a friend had told him the houses were
willing to pay $1.50 how was it they only offered $1 a day?
I told him that they would not pay more than $1.20 for the
first week or so. $1 was paid by each house. The amount was
afterwards raised to $1.20 for each house. Payments were
made weekly but if gambling stopped payments stopped. The
payments on paper A are for 6 months and amount to $412.50.