Hong Kong
No. 157.
15th November 1866
lewemo
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell
to
Right Honorable
The Earl of Carnarvon
Chinese
2.6.
Residents
2nd Memorial of, pointing out defects in the current Ordinances.
Reply of Governor
No. 21.
REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 3rd November, 1866.
SIR,
I have the honor to enclose a petition which was presented to me to-day by the Chinese Merchants of Hongkong with a request that I would forward it to His Excellency the GOVERNOR.
The English translation was presented at the same time as the petition. I have the honor to be Sir, Your most obedient Servant,
The Honorable The Colonial Secretary.
M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Registrar General,
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To HIS EXCELLENCY
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, KT., C.B., Governor of Hongkong.
HUMBLY SHEWETH :
A respectful Petition presented by the Chinese Merchants, Traders and Lessees of Land, residing in the Colony—
That your Petitioners being so much struck with the unanswerable reasoning contained in Your Excellency's reply to the Petition presented by them on the 5th of September last, have considered it their duty to make further enquiries as to the contents of the Ordinances lately passed by the Government, and they are bound to admit to Your Excellency that that Petition was drawn up under a misapprehension of the meaning and intent of the Ordinances, arising from imperfect interpretation and the incomplete version of them which appeared in one of the local Chinese Newspapers.
Your Petitioners have since sought the aid of a Gentleman whose thorough acquaintance with the Colloquial Dialect leaves them no room to doubt the accuracy of his interpretation of their contents, the published translation of the Ordinances being likewise in great part unintelligible to them.
Your Petitioners are now free to admit, that, with some few exceptions which Your Petitioners will presently take the liberty to bring under Your Excellency's notice, that so far from the Ordinances being as Your Petitioners previously stated, "obstructive and inconvenient," they are fully satisfied, that, if properly and judiciously carried out, the Colony must be benefited by them, and the position of Chinese residents rendered safer and healthier.
Taking the Ordinances as they are numbered, Your Petitioners would beg to draw Your Excellency's attention first to Ordinance Number 6, and called "The Harbor and Coasts Ordinance, Hongkong, 1866.”
Your Petitioners find by this Ordinance that no distinction is made in favor of Passenger or Provision Junks either as to the Licensing, or to their subsequent treatment when arriving at or departure from the Harbor.
Confirmed
Heong Kong
Nr 157.
15th November 1866
lewemo
Sir Richard Graves Moon. Donnell
to
Right Hemorable
The Earl of Carnarvon
Chinese
2.6.
Residents
2nd Memorial of. pointing out defects in thecent
Ordinances.
Reply of Governor
No. 21.
REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 3rd November, 1866.
SIR,I have the honor to enclose a petition which was presented me to-day by the Chinese Merchants of Hongkong with a request that I would forward it to His Excellency the GOVERNOR.
The English translation was presented at the same time as the petition.-I have the honor to be Sir, Your most obedient Servant,
The Honorable The Colonial Secretary.
M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Registrar General,
/ Inclosurez
8134/14
57
To HIS EXCELLENCY
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, KT., C.B., Governor of Hongkong.
HUMBLY SHEWETH :
A respectful Petition presented by the Chinese Merchants, Traders and Lessees of Land, residing in the Colony--
That your Petitioners being so much struck with the unanswerable reasoning contained in Your Excellency's reply to the Petition presented by them on the 5th of September last, have considered it their duty to make further enquiries as to the contents of the Ordinances lately passed by the Government, and they are bound to admit to Your Excellency that that Petition was drawn up under a misapprehension of the meaning and intent of the Ordinances, arising from imperfect interpretation and the incomplete version of them which appeared in one of the local Chinese Newspapers.
Your Petitioners have since sought the aid of a Gentleman whose thorough acquaintance with the Colloquial Dialect leaves them no room to doubt the accuracy of his interpretation of their contents, the published translation of the Ordinances being likewise in great part unintelligible to them.
Your Petitioners are now free to admit, that, with some few excep- tions which Your Petitioners will presently take the liberty to bring under Your Excellency's notice, that so far from the Ordinances being as Your Petitioners previously stated, "obstructive and inconvenient," they are fully satisfied, that, if properly and judiciously carried out, the Colony must be benefited by them, and the position of Chinese residents rendered safer and healthier.
Taking the Ordinances as they are numbered, Your Petitioners would beg to draw Your Excellency's attention first to Ordinance Number 6, and called "The Harbor and Coasts Ordinance, Hongkong, 1866.”
Your Petitioners find by this Ordinance that no distinction is made in favor of Passenger or Provision Junks either as to the Licensing, or to their subsequent treatment when arriving at or departure from the Harbor.
Confirmed
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