COPY.
Enclosure 2.
The Honourable
Sir,
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Hongkong, 1st. July, 1905.
INE
REGT 1-4 AUC 05'
1 have the honour to acknowledge the re-
-ceipt of your letter No. 5865/1905/0.5.0. dated the 27th.
June, 1905, and the copy of certain charges referred to therein.
In answer to the 1st. charge I beg to
state as follows:-
(1).
On the 4th. April, 1905, at about 5 p.m.
when i was the only person at the Magistracy office making cut
Warrants for the conviction of the day a man came and offered
to pay a fine of $50 for the release of his master who was then
in Gaol. i refused him and said "It is over time now. Come
again tomorrow." he repeated his request and said to me "It is
rather hard for a business man to be kept over night in Gaol
and really we cannot do anything in our shop without the master"
On hearing that, l obliged him by acceding to his request. Upon
receipt of the said sum of $50 in notes I locked same up in one
of the drawers of my office desk in his presence. I then made
out and signed a necessary slip for the man's discharge from
custody. I then tore it out from the Shroff's fine receipt book
and handed it over to him who took it into the Gaol to get his
Master released. At the same time I also signed the counterfoil
in the said fine receipt book and also on the front sheet of
the deposition. As far as was concerned in the receiving the
$50 in question, I had done every thing that was to be done.
The Colonial Secretary.
This
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