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of

excuse the Votitioner's violation

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grunds

laws

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alleged as

an

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6.

by

of Norary

a Chinese Awenne Anisor":

There is, however, evidence,

admine of his

Pu

ain

admission, quite

fficient to have convicted him, had

he remained to take his trial.

I have the hover late,

My Lord!

then Podchichur mat audient.

humble envant.

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Governor

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Copy Translation of Chendes petition addressed

to the Registrar General .

The petition of Chan - a You aged 22, a native of Ko Chan Kong in the province of Tukin praying your Honour, in order to protect the life of a friendless stranger, to arrest and try the guilty parties who_ conspired to rob and oppress

Humbly showeth :-

him,

That your petitioner has a junk of 270 piculs capacity

is called "Shun Kat. That

which

on the

6th day of the 3rd month (April 194 1877) she sailed from Ko Chan Hong

for Hongkong

with a

cargo

of 150 pieuls of sugar on board, and that she arrived in the afternoon of the

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