CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848 — Page 564

Boat

of

Trad

355

intestate and leaving no Children nor other relatives (so far as can be ascertained after due enquiry) and in the mouth of March 1846 a Letter from Robert Dundas, Esquire Court House, Victoria, Hongkong was sent to the above named Mary Hume informing her of the death of her husband, and requesting her to send

a Letter of Attorney to some resident at Hongkong to receive the portion of the residue of his Estate which might fall to her share, and stating that a similar Power should be sent by the next of kin to her husband &c; and which Letter I have the honor now

to transmit to your

Lordship, being numbered 1 among the accompanying

Documents.

-

the Widow

In pursuance of the Letter above referred to, the Widow in October 1847, transmitted a

Power of Attorney to Mr May Superintendent of Police at Victoria Hongkong, accompanied by a Statutory Declaration, copy of which is herewith laid before your Lordship, made by herself and three other parties to evidence amongst other points the fact of the late David Hume having left no issue of his marriage with her, and in particular that he left no other relatives him surviving. On the 28th February last received from Mr May

a letter, covering

a Bill of Exchange for £117.15.

and stating

that the whole amount of the Estate was £235.17.5, but that according to the Statute of Distribution, only one half could be granted to her; and adding, that there was no doubt (as he had been informed by the Registrar) that the other moiety could be obtained by application to the Secretary of State.

Under the above circumstances I now therefore venture to submit the matter to Lordship's Official consideration, and to solicit on behalf of the Widow, the sanction and order of Lordship for the payment to her by the Court at Victoria, Hongkong, of which Robert Dundas Esquire is or was the Registrar:

yo

ver

ow

your.

Registrar, of the residue of the Property of her late husband David Hume deceased; in value amounting to about £117.15.- or that such other directions may be given by your Lordship to that end, as to

your

Lordship may seem meet and proper under the circumstances; and I beg most respectfully to invite your Lordship's perusal of Nos 4 and 5 of the accompanying Papers for more detailed information of the circumstances which have led to my now troubling your Lordship in this matter, and to the other Papers numbered respectively 1.2.3 in connection therewith, particularly so much of the Paper numbered 2, being a Copy of the Statutory Declaration above referred to as I have taken the liberty to underline in red ink, trusting your Lordship's forgiveness for any trouble I may unwittingly give your Lordship, and to

Lordship's courtesy for notice of His letter, the case being

demands the charitable consideration of the Government: the Widow Woman having

former marriage, part of which is maintained out of the slender means derived from her servitude, and by

the Kindness

of

her friends.

My Lord

your

one

α

family by

to

which

Your Lordship's Most Obedient humble Servant

Lewis W. Williams