CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12] — Page 143

4.

his License is not transferable.

The wonthly rout has, it is trive, been

received, but no

· from:

the real tenant So

Yik- him, and not from (hii Kam-fong who has never been recognized by the

Registrar General's Department

ow the tenant.

He states that So Yik-frim died in China in August 1885, leaving him sole proprietor and

of the business . Beyond his awn word there is

proof of this

owner

vo

and he contradick it, I r subruit, in his letter dated the 10th November

a fçason

why

1885 wherein he u

urges, he should be allowed to remain, that

if he is turned out,

So

Yik-himi's evife

and children will be starved.

Alud

way

he asks to be allowed to

again resume the business so that both families have something to expport their life". He has never been anything but a partner in the Lin; he knew, as himself admit, that on the death of

So

av he

Yik - him it would revert to m

-

Government

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Governavut, and when that contingency happened, instead of frankly informing Government thereof a

and applying for

the for.

con such terus de would hav

been fair and just to both parties, he sought to obtain alicouse by alleging Dec. that his license had bem lost, and by

the

00

impersonating

original holder, Mr Stewart Lockhart is prositive that he merely carried out his instructions,

the next from

which were to receive the

Kaw fong,

Chii

and made no

promise to him as to his liceuse or tenancy His Excellewy the Officer Administering the Government Aray wish to ceddress the Sovokery of State

again

Hong kong

on this matter.

S. f Edw. J. Ackroyd,

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Acting Attorney Peveral