CO129-022 - Public Offices - 1847 — Page 124

Inclosure 6 in despatch 172 of 1857.

Plenipotentiary.

to Her Majestys

Petition of Leong..

Low-hop

2039 4.Kong

123

DEC 17 1447

A Petition

A petition about having innocently

met with a misfortune, and containing an entreaty for commiseration.

I, Leong

20W-

hop,

a member of

the river population, together with the old and young people of

both

lexes of

my family, in all thirteen persons,

living by navigating

Samed

out

а

vessel for transporting salt and in

this

held

a permit under the

capacity title of Zung-wei - lok.

In the so the mouth current.

4

took in a

/14

th

May

to the 12th June

18477

I

load

of Salt at

Lei- chess.

consisting

which I

in all of above goo bags.

conveyed on the 2.2d June to the western Custom's station of

the

Collector of the Salt Gabel, situated