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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
MR. J. CHAMBERLAIN, M.P..
Hor Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Colonial Allans. Downing Street, London, S.W.
THE TUMBLE PETITION OF UTTER SINGH, OF No. 12, HOLLYWOOD ROAD, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, LATE SERGEANT-MAJOR IN THE POLICE FORCE OF THAT COLONY.
MOST RESPECTFULLY SHEVETI:—
1. Your Petitiouer enlisted in the Police Porec of the Colony of Hongkong on the 10th day of December, 1878, as a Police Coustable of the 3rd Class, and from that date obtained nine promotions, until on the 1st day of April, 1895, he was promoted to the highest post an Indian Policeman can aspire to in the Force, viz., he was promoted to the rank of Police Sergeant of the 1st Class, as also he was appointed Indian Sergeant-Major or Jemudhar of the said Police Force. A statement of the promotions of your Petitioner is entered in the Books of the sail Police Fores, and particulars of these promotions are embodied in the first paragraph of a representation addressed by your Petitioner to His Excellency the Governor, Sir WOLLAM ROBINSON, on the 12th day of March, 1897, a copy of which representation is herewith attached, marked I
2.From the suid 10th day of Docender, 1878, to the 3rd day of December, 1896, when your Petitioner was dismissed from the said Police Force as hereinafter mentioned, your Petitioner's conduct, to the best of his knowledge and belief, was during that long period uniformly good; he was never guilty of misconduct or breach of discipline, he perfonned his duties to the entire satisfaction of his superior officers, and here an exceptionally good character, as could be evidenced from the copies of contificates, inarked A to E, attached to the said representation to H. E. the Governor. Your Petitioner begs to rite here only Major Dompstor's remarks as given in his certificate dated the 16th February, 1891, that “1 consider him a man of very good character, sober and steady," and your Potitioner further cravos leave to add that during the tenure of his fall. Eighteen years' service, from December, 1875, to December, 1896, ke never applied for, and never had had, even such a short leace of absence as ocen u munth's leave in the interval.
3. On the said 3rd day of December, 1896, your Petitioner was dismissed from the said Police Force by the IIonourable the Captain Superintendent of Police, but your Petitioner honestly believes that he is aware of no such misconduct or neglect of daty on his part as to befit him for such a summary dismissal as has been given hire without due consideration, and without any recognition of his exceptionally long period of service in the Hongkong Police Forec
Your Petitioner believes that he was dismissed by the Honourable Captain Superintendent under
a representation received by him that your Petitioner was implicated in some money-lending transactions, and that being implicated in such transactions was and is against the Regulations of the said Police Force. The following are copies of certain documents signed by the said Honourable Superintendent, and given to your Petitioner shortly after his dismissal.
HONGKONG, #th December, 1896.
Utter Singh served for 15 years in the Hongkong Police, and for 4 years under my personal command, during the last two of which he filled the post of Indian Sergeant-Major.
He performed his Police duties to my entire satisfaction, and bore a very good eluaeter. Unfortunately it was found that he had been implicated in some money-leading transactions, which is against the regulations of the Force, and he was on that account dismissed.
F. IL MAY, C.S.P.
POLICE DEPARTMENT,
VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 31st December, 1896.
Certified that Ex-Sergeant Major Utter Singh joined the Pelice Borre on the 10th December 1878, and was dismissed on the 3rd December, 1896,
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