CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8] — Page 243

5.

:

4.

of which Aqui, Mai, Lo-ben- teen, and

Chun. thing, each had one. In

-

order to complete the building of ~ the Market Aqui and myself

borrowed

o from Alai

a-

money - $ 2.800 from the of 800 Alai procured from friend of the himself .. This sum has since

same surname as

been paid back to Atai with

money which I procured from

Isov - Dan.

Treasury Compradore..

allegother 3.200

We lent me altigether

3,200 Dollars,

of which 2,200 he got from a friend named Le. Kwong chaong.

of his

I also borrowed 2,800 Collars from Ing. Wing ke to complete the building of the market - I have not

settled with Wing. Re - Other

of money

ere were

sunis

borrowed to complete

the market from other parties. cannot recollect who they

are,

I

ar

*

there

are

20

many of them. 237 The

subdivision of the shares by Aqui,

I had

nothing to do with. The

threat So. Een. teen made

if I did not pay

some

The only

use

I pay him, he would complain to his master . And having ne Government contracts to perform I was afraid of getting into trouble. I don't know truly whether the

money

• paid to Major faine Lo. den-teen never told me

money

rvas

was for the use of Major

Caine, but told me

that se

my

Brother paid it, he must have

known it

was

all right... A

continued to pay

this.

monly

to

Keep on good terms with So-Contin for fear of getting

Chinamen have

into trouble,

many fears .

ad

entertained no particular fear for

myself.

On

the 2nd or 3 uffuly