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Inclosure 8 in No. 69.

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Inclosure 9 in No. 69.

Engagement entered into by the Headmen of the Chinese, dated January 20, 1874. WHEREAS differences have existed among the Chinese employed as miners and otherwise at Laroot, in the Kingdom of Perak, which differences have been referred to the decision of his Excellency the Governor of the Straits Settlements; and whereas his Excellency the Governor has examined into the matter, and has decided thereon as follows:-

1. That both the said contending parties shall be disarmed and the stockades destroyed.

2. That both shall be at liberty to return to their work at Laroot.

3. That one or more officers of the Government of the Straits Settlements, together with two Chinese, to be chosen for that purpose by the parties bounden in this bond, shall be employed as Commissioners to settle all claims as to the mines occupied and business conducted by both the contending parties, their decision, or the decision of a majority of them, to be final.

4. That all future arrangements as to the supply of water for the several mines shall be subject to the orders and regulations of the British residents to be stationed in Perak and Laroot, and their decision shall be final.

5. That the Sultan of Perak shall be a party to this arrangement, and may exercise any function necessary in the Government of his country in Laroot by an officer to be deputed for that purpose by him; and whereas the parties hereto have accepted the said decision and agreed to be bound by it under the penalty of this bond:

Now these Presents witness that the said parties, that is to say :—

Wong Ah Chong,

Chin Ah Yam,

Tan Ah Quay,

Ob Kim Sin,

Chiang Keng Bo, Lee Chim Foey,

Ang Kang Sin,

Ang Ah Kway, Yong Ban Kyet,

Boo Ah Yen,

Wang Teng Wai,

Khoo Ah Chay,

Leng Chap Siew,

Chang Kang Quee,

Yong Ah Ken, Lee Ah Fook, Li Ah Pow, Ho Ah Chew,

Mah Yet Hin, Khoo Ah Quay, Wong Yang Po, Kok Ah Man, Lee Laye, Tan Ah Ug, Wung Sam Siew,' Wong Kim Yew, Foo Chee Hoey,

Headmen or undertakers of tin mines or otherwise at Laroot, do acknowledge themselves jointly as well as severally their and each of their executors and administrators, and any one or more of them, their executors and administrators, to be bound to Her Majesty Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland in the sum of 50,000 dollars, to be well and truly paid to Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors, at any one or more of the Treasuries of Her said Majesty, in the Colony of the Straits Settlements.

In witness whereof they have hereunto set their hands and seals, this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

Now the condition of this bond is such, that if the parties hereto, for themselves and for those employed by and dependent on them at Laroot and elsewhere, in the business of tin mining and otherwise, do conduct their said business at Laroot and else- where peaceably and in accordance with law, and do adhere to, and as far as in their power cause those employed by and dependent on them to adhere to, the terms of the arrangement above set out, and that this bond may be put in suit on behalf of Her said Majesty, Her heirs and successors, in the name of the Attorney-General of the Straits Settlements, in any of Her Majesty's Courts baving jurisdiction in the said Settlements, then this bond to be void and of no effect, otherwise to remain in full force.

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