PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
TTIC.O. 882
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3. (i.) A tender of payment of money in Wei-Hai-Wei, if made in the standard coin or in the coin specified in the second schedule to this Ordinance, shall, if the coins have not been illegally dealt with, and have not become diminished in weight by wear or otherwise so as to be of less weight than the weight in that behalf specified in the schedules to this Enactment as the least current weight, be a legal tender for the payment of any amount.
(ii) For the purpose of this Enactment a coin shall be deemed to have been ille- gally dealt with where the coin has been impaired, diminished, or lightened otherwise than by fair wear and tear, or has been defaced by having any name, word, device, or number stamped or engraved thereon, whether the coin has or has not been thereby diminished or lightened.
1901.
4. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the
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FIRST SCHEDULE.
day of
STANDARD COIN.
Standard Weight.
Least Current Weight.
Coin.
Metal.
Millesimal Fineness.
Grains,
Grammon.
Grains,
Grammes.
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but he also erroneously states that all the buildings are occupied or used by the Naval and Military Authorities. By far the greater number of buildings are rented out to civilians-Europeans and Chinese and a revenue collected for the same of over £1,000 per annum.
3. The Chinese population is principally accommodated on the naval property. According to the late census that population amounts to 4,144.
4. In the report dated 24th March, 1899, of the Joint Admiralty and War Office Committee, held in London, to consider the question of sites, &c., at Wei-hai- wei, it is stated that the first requirement connected with the civil government is the defining and laying out of proper areas for the civil population, both European and native, and the recommendation is made that this should be done somewhat on the lines of an Indian Cantonment.
5. It is very advisable for sanitary reasons that the native town should be removed from its present position on Admiralty property, and rebuilt on some more suitable site. I have therefore assembled a Board of Officers to consider the subject of the site and the population requirements of the town. I forward a copy of their proceedings, in which I concur.
6. Considering the advantage of the town to the military population. I hope that, should my proposals meet your approval, a free grant of the site may be made by the War Office to the Civil Administration.
7. The following is an approximate estimate of the cost of the town. Solid sewage will be dealt with on the dry earth system, urine and slops being carried by pipe drainage to the sea.
Building 60 Chinese houses to accommodate 25 men each at £50 £3,000 Public latrines
British dollar
Silver ...
900-00
416-00
26-957
411-00
26-633
SECOND SCHEDULE.
ADDITIONAL COIN.
Standard Weight.
Least Ourrent Weight.
Coin.
Metal.
Millesimal Fineness.
Grains.
Grammes.
Grains.
Grammes.
50
Quarters for Police with gaol for ten persons
500
Public baths
300
Wells, for water supply
200
Adapting 30 existing houses for married people at £10
300
20 Shops with married quarters attached at £70
1,400
Market
200
Slaughter house
Hospital for 30 beds
Roads and gutters...
Sewage system
Laundry
Landing jetty
150
400
200
850
'150
300
£7,800
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
Mexican dollar
L
Silver ...
902.7
417-74
27-070
411-00
26.633
29849
SIR,
No. 46.
COMMISSIONER SIR A. DORWARD to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(No. 11.)
(Received August 26, 1901.)
[Answered by Nos. 52 and 53.]
Wei-hai-wei, June 22, 1901.
I HAVE the honour to bring to notice the question of the civil government of the Island of Luikungtao. Certain recommendations regarding that government were made in paragraph 14 of Sir Frank Swettenham's report, dated 23rd June, 1900, and the decision arrived at is given in paragraphs 7 and 8 of your letter of 11th January lastt to the Secretary of the Treasury.
2. As pointed out by Sir Frank Swettenham, all the land and all the buildings on Lujkungtao are the absolute property of either the Admiralty or the War Office,
Enclosure in No. 52 in Eastern No. 72.
† No. 79 in Eastern No. 72.
Engineering supervision Cortingencies
Total estimate
400
800
£9,000
8. When the town is built I would strongly urge that the Civil Administration should only be concerned with its care, the Admiralty and War Office being left to administer their own property. A division of authority between the Civil Adminis- tration and the Navy over any area will not work. As the War Office property here is under my care there is not the same objection as in the case of the Navy, but still it is better to entrust its care to War Office servants.
9. It has been found necessary to appoint an officer of the garrison to act as Cantonment Magistrate; there will always be very ample work to justify such an appointment. He has the general charge of the Police, with power to deal magis- terially with cases of breach of regulations. He collects and accounts for the revenue and has sanitary charge of the town, arranges for lighting, water supply, and repair of streets, and generally undertakes all the work required of a Cantonment Magistrate in India.
10. The Commissioner, as Chief Magistrate on the Island, will require the services of an interpreter, and it is absolutely necessary, in the interests of justice, that that interpreter should be a European. The latter will also be available to assist the Cantonment Magistrate as interpreter, clerk, and general assistant. It will not be possible to get a qualified European interpreter under $150 per mensem with