[ { "id": 218498, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 371, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "Her \n\nthat a copy of your letter now under reply will be forwarded to the heajesty's \"overnment by the first opportunity accompanied by a recommendation that the Clause you point out may be famably considered, and that a final decision with respect to its adoption, in a perfect \n\nmodified form, may \n\nbe announced possible. \n\nor \n\nas soon as \n\nSam further directed to take \n\nthis occasion to acquaint you, \n\nthat. \n\nrecent circumstances have drawn the \n\nattention of His Excellency the lovernor \n\nto that clause in the Leases which \n\nreserved to Her Inajesty the power of resuming lands that may be required for public purposes at a valuation to be formed by Her Majesty's Surveyor for the time being, and that His Excellency sees special reason to consider that that \n\ntask \n\ntash should not be imposed on any single individual. His Excellmcy therefore intends to suggest as u modification of that clause, that lands to be so resumed shall be appraised by \n\navv \n\n-approved Jury of not less than twelve persons, \n\non oath. \n\nThis modification should it be sanctioned by Her Majesty's lovernment \n\nfrom Her. \n\nduty. \n\n- on whose pleasure it must be understood to solely depend - will remove, Majesty's herveyor a most invidious will naturally tend to increase the confidence of all holders of land in the Colony and will not, in His Excellency's opinion, compromit in any degree, the rights of the Publier \n\nShave to. \n\n(kigned) Richard Wornam \n\nA tuo copy. \n\nNichard Worsham", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219216, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "\nA Form of Govenment was organised, × Chif Murgistrate, and Haz-Master re were appointed 7 50 Sets of land \n\nin \n\nwere sold \n\ncis alive 1841, to mess?! Jurdive Mathesion 160 Deutsl, Macticar Co- \n\nHo \n\nFox Rawson &C. Inxmmer-Lindsay s and various other persons, the annual rent of sluch amorented to £3224. Euch lot was required to have a building. exected within disk mouths of the appraised value of $1000; and \n\nJe deposit of $500, was required to lodged with the treasurer as a sequit \n\na \n\nsecurity \n\n& greet \n\nfor the performance of this engagement : \n\nBuilding \n\nCommenced with ge spuit ; the Government spent very large ruins of money on the island, and the harbor was I felled inthe ships \n\nfear; has now-had a fair trial of than three and a half years. We shatt inquere ir hat progress it has made \n\nand transports. The island \n\nsie \n\nin population. \n\njvad \n\nOn taking possesion of Hong King it - \n\nas found to contauvabout 1500 inhabitants \n\n:scattered over 20 fishing truslets, a \n\nsillages. \n\nThe requ \n\nrequirevcients of the fleet, rud \n\ntrips, the demands for laburns to \n\nofe \n\nerall \n\nmake roads, and houses, and the servant Europea vas marcased the Hunter. of intrabitants, and in Inworth 1847 she wen mumbered at 19361. In Apect \n\nكل مسجد کیجیے \n\nthe \n\nnumber of Chinese the island is computed at \n\n19000, \n\naust pure plan 1000 \n\nand childow. \n\nAA ON VAPU \n\nIre the \n\nPODU are \n\nthe \n\nincluded gymovnou \n\nales attendant \n\nfemales \n\nslaves, and \n\n31 brottiel, 8 \n\nکردی مجھنے کی \n\nGambling Housters, and leverity Opiame \n\nshops to \n\nA \n\nis litter alle \n\nterally \n\nlive that \n\ncounter = \n\nafter shite years, and a half cmimbe \n\n=rupted settlement- there is not one \n\nrespectable Chinese-mhabitaut \n\no be \n\nthe \n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220168, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "page_number": 308, "title": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "content_text": "\nthe proposed amount of renewed ground_ rent, it can scarcely- \n\nwhat shouts determine. \n\nbe \n\nDeliv \n\nthe dispute. If indeed the Town \n\nwere \n\nof Victoria in Hong Kong \n\ndivided among Q great number. of Proprietors, there might be \n\nLone \n\nthe property \n\nof the Crown alone. \n\nAll the eligible Lots in it will \n\nsoon, if they \n\nare \n\nnoh \n\nbe very \n\nalready, disposed of so that \n\nafter the lapse of 75 years the \n\nrenewals will take place in \n\nlarge quantities, and taneous periods. \n\nat simul \n\nactions \n\ncurrent value of Land \n\nascertained by frequent \n\ntrans: \n\nand provision might \n\nthe \n\nFor these \n\nreasons \n\nwe \n\nshouts \n\nmuch prefer at \n\nonce \n\nterms of \n\nbe mate \n\nthe Lease for deciding any - increase of fround- Rent by proper Appraisers. But in \n\nrout of fact the \n\nJown \n\nwhole \n\nintended to remain \n\nThe \n\nextending the duration of the \n\nLeases for a \n\nreasonable period \n\nwith con= \n\nto encumbering then \n\nditions which we do not peer \n\nthe means of carrying out without dispute and discontent. And while therefore attaching \n\nits", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220428, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "\nAgreeably to Public Notice of date the 7th instant, n sale by auction of the animal quit-rent of lands, deferred from the 12th to the 14th instant, took place at Hongkong, on the latter day. Intending Purchasers having assembled on the ground, the fol lowing terms of sale were read, and the lots were then severally put up to asle, and knocked down to the highest bidders as by the subjoined list. \n\nTERMS OF SALE. \n\n1. Upon a careful examination of the ground, it has been found impossible to put up the number of lots nam- ed in the government advertisement of the 7th instant; and only 50 lots, having sea frontage of 100 feet each, can at present be offered for sale. These lots will all be on the seaward-side of the road. Lots on the land side of it, and full and seburban lots in general, it will yet require some time to mark out. \n\n2. Each lot will have a sea-froutage of 100 feet, nearly. The depth from the sea to the road will necessarily vary considerably. The actual extent of each lot, as early as it has been possible to ascertain it, will be declared on the ground. And parties will also have the opportunity of observing the extent for themselves. \n\n3. The biddings are to be for annual rate of quit rent, and shall be made in pounds sterling, the dollar in all payments to be computed at the rate of 4s. 4d. The apset price will be £10 for each lot, the biddings to ad. vance by 10 shillinge. \n\n4. Each lot having been knocked down to the highest bidder, he will receive an acknowledgment that he is the purchaser of the lot; and this acknowledgment will be exchanged for a more formal title, as soon as the precise measurement and registration of the lots shall be com- pleted. \n\n5. Upon delivery of the titles, the purchasers will be called on to pay the reut for the first year, reckoning from the date of sale. \n\n6. They will also be required to erect upon each lot a building, of the appraised value of $1000, or to incur upon the land an outlay to that amount, within a period i of six months from the date of sale. As security for the performance of this engagement, a deposit of $500 shall be paid into the hands of the treasurer to the superintei- dents within one week from the day of sale,the deposit rapayable as soon as an equal amount shall have been expended. Non-compliance with these terms will incus forfeiture of the deposit and allotment. \n\nLots. \n\nJ. ROBT. MORRISON, Acting Secretary aud Treasurer \n\nto the Superintendents of Trade. Dimensions. \n\nKnocked down to Price. \n\n1 to 2 about 6700 sq. ft. Gribble, Hughes & Co. £80 \n\n6300 +6 \n\n2 to 3 \n\n3 to 4 \n\nC \n\n4 to 5 \n\n5 to 6 \n\nif \n\n6 to 7 \n\n7 to 8 \n\n8100 \"C \n\n9 to 10 \n\n10 to 11 \n\n11 to 12 \n\n8400 £ \n\nLindsay & Co. \n\nDent & Co. \n\nDent & Co \n\n6:4 \n\n65. 10 \n\nDatabloy Rustomjee. 50 \n\nHooker and Lane. 48 Pestonjee Cowasjee. 50 Dirom & Co. \n\nReserved. \n\nEL. Rustomjee. \n\n} \n\nH. Rustomjee. \n\n12 to 13 \n\n10600 if \n\nHolliday & Co. \n\n38: He \n\n1 to 14 \n\n14 to 15 \n\n15 to 16 \n\n16 to 17 \n\n+ \n\n17 to 18 \n\n18 to 19 \n\n19 to 20 \n\n20 to 21 \n\n21 to 22 \n\n22 to 23 \n\n23 to 24 \n\n21 to 25 \n\nC 15200 \n\n25 to 26 \n\n26 to 27 \n\nif \n\n<< \n\n\"W. & T. Gemmell & Co. 32: 10 \n\n15900 Fergusson, Leighton & Co. 21 15900 Robert Webster. 20 \n\nReserved. \n\nD. Rustomjee. \n\nfunes, Fletcher & Co. 150 \n\nW. &T, Gemmell & Co. 140 \n\nReserved. \n\nH. Rustomjee. \n\nReserved. \n\nJ. Matheson & Co. 150 \n\nC \n\nJ. Matheson & Co. 185 \n\n< 21860 \n\nJ. Matheson & Co. 230 \n\n30 to 31 \n\nR. Gully. \n\n32 to 33 \n\n33 to 34 \n\n34 to 35 \n\n36 to 37 \n\n< 8755 \n\nJamieson and How. GA \n\nJohn Smith. \n\n[{ Jobo Smith. \n\n.1 \n\n4600 4: \n\nFramjee Jamserjee. \n\n3 to 39 \n\nCharles Hart. \n\n40 to 41 \n\n\" 6000 \n\n\" \n\nMacvicar & Co. \n\n41 to 42 \n\nMacvicar & Co. \n\n4:2 to 43 \n\nFox, Rawson & Co. 100 \n\n43 to 44 \n\n+ \n\n44 to 45 \n\n45 to 46 \n\nTurner & Co. 115 \n\nReserved. \n\n46 to 47 \n\nCaptain Latkins. \n\n47 to 48 \n\nP. F. Robertson. \n\n49 to 50 \n\nNot sold. \n\nCaptain Morgan. \n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220468, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "feet \n\nfist from that. The rate of one pound Haling ar nual quit rent must be paid for \n\npaid for one hundred and twenty mines &quare feet of the land \n\nComing \n\nconder this class. \n\n3d Here shall be certain parts of the Island exclusively kept for Town Lots, and an annual \n\nquit \n\nSquare \n\nrent at the rate of liventy pounts the \n\nacre is fixed for the some \n\nJame \n\nthe The suburbon Lots shall be those that do \n\nnot come within the two \n\nforegoing regulations, \n\nthe period of one hundred \n\nsee \n\n6th The Land offer is required to toe these \n\nand will decide on \n\nregulations compled with the portions of the Island to be set aside \n\nFun lott \n\nytt Persons taking land acending ho \n\nto these \n\nfor \n\nregulations must understand that a deposit of \n\nhundred pounds &`ling is required from them \n\none \n\non \n\nthe receipt of their title deed \n\nligned by the Land- fice, which will be forfeited should in \n\ntwee moths & buldi, of the appraised \n\nم \n\nand \n\nthe \n\nannual rent fixed for \n\nth \n\nthe \n\nsame is two \n\nanaline of a be \n\nbedre \n\ndred pounds I be rected \n\npounds \n\nAquare \n\nacu \n\nfor \n\nyears. \n\nThey must not exceed five \n\nacred in \n\nextent. \n\n5th Persons occupying the Lots of Faby feet by \n\ntwenty feet alluded to in \n\nForty the regulations for the \n\nBoroar order date September 1841 shall pay annual gut rent of our pound sterling for \n\nJame \n\nthe \n\nато \n\nthereon. \n\nThe Marine Lots and Town Lots will be grants \n\nin perpetuity: \n\none hundred \n\nہے۔ \n\nthe Suburban Lots will be grants \n\nteard \n\nMigned) \n\n(Grue book: y) \n\nMichard Wooman \n\nMR. Johnston", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221179, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 774, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "uncemented stones should be built with two gateways (if considered requisite) at the points where the line cuts the roads.\n\nof course\n\nShould there be any Chinese Houses within the limit thus demarcated, they must of course be removed and Government will - as formerly intimated to Lord Saltoun - have them appraised and pay for them, for which purpose the Assistant Land Officer and Assistant Chief Magistrate will be ready to go to Chukchoo on any day that may suit all parties.\n\nIn conclusion I am desired to request the favor of the sketch, and tracing herewith forwarded, being returned to this Office as the Despatch to which they relate has been already transmitted to Her Majesty's Government, and the alteration which is now sanctioned must also be submitted and explained.\n\nI have to (Signed) Richard Horname\n\nNo:174\n\nThomas Scales Type\n\nSir,\n\nDeputy Post Master Hong Kong\n\nVictoria,\n\n763\n\nHongkong, April 29th 1846.\n\nI am directed by His Excellency the Governor to intimate to you, having had under consideration the question of Colonial Postage being charged on Newspapers, he has been pleased to take on himself the responsibility of directing that, pending a reference to Her Majesty's Government, no charge on that account shall be made at the Post Office on Newspapers coming into or going out of the Colony.\n\nA notification to this effect will be issued for general information, in the Government Gazette.\n\nNo:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221191, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 786, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "may\n\nSees\n\nbe\n\n: the power of resuming lands that are required for public purposes at a valuation to be formed by Her Majesty's Surveyor for the time being and that His Excellency has special reason to consider that that task should not be imposed on any single individual. His Excellency therefore intends to suggest as a modification of that Clause that lands to be resumed shall be appraised by an approved jury of not less than twelve persons\n\non\n\noath.\n\nThis modification, should it be sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government, whose pleasure it must be understood to solely depend on - will remove from Her Majesty's Surveyor a most invidious duty, will naturally tend to increase the confidence of all holders of land in the Colony\n\nand will not, in His Excellency's\n\nopinion\n\nNo:188\n\n781\n\nany degree, compromise the rights of the public.\n\nI have to be (signed) Richard Womane.\n\nThomas J. Sales.\n\nSir,\n\nDeputy Post Master.\n\nVictoria,\n\nHongkong, 4th May, 1844.\n\nAdverting to my\n\nletter No:140 of\n\nthe 1st Ultimo, in which was conveyed to you\n\nthe sanction of His Excellency the Governor in Council for a continuance during the present quarter (with the Exceptions of the 2nd Clerk) of the Establishment duties, which, on assuming your duties, you found employed in the Post Office, I directed to intimate to you that\n\n \narr\n\nhas been rewritten to \n\nmay\n\nSees\n\nbe\n\n: the power of resuming lands that are required for public purposes at a valuation to be formed by Her Majesty's Surveyor for the time being and that His Excellency has special reason to consider that that task should not be imposed on any single individual. His Excellency therefore intends to suggest as a modification of that Clause that lands to be resumed shall be appraised by an approved jury of not less than twelve persons on oath. This modification, should it be sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government, whose pleasure it must be understood to solely depend on - will remove from Her Majesty's Surveyor a most invidious duty, will naturally tend to increase the confidence of all holders of land in the Colony and will not, in His Excellency's opinion, any degree, compromise the rights of the public.\n\nI have to be (signed) Richard Womane.\n\nThomas J. Sales.\n\nSir,\n\nDeputy Post Master.\n\nVictoria,\n\nHongkong, 4th May, 1844.\n\nAdverting to my letter No:140 of the 1st Ultimo, in which was conveyed to you the sanction of His Excellency the Governor in Council for a continuance during the present quarter (with the Exceptions of the 2nd Clerk) of the Establishment duties, which, on assuming your duties, you found employed in the Post Office, I directed to intimate to you that\n\nLet me reformat to fit the exact requirement:\n\nmay\n\nSees\n\nbe\n\n: the power of resuming lands that are required for public purposes at a valuation to be formed by Her Majesty's Surveyor for the time being and that His Excellency has special reason to consider that that task should not be imposed on any single individual. His Excellency therefore intends to suggest as a modification of that Clause that lands to be resumed shall be appraised by an approved jury of not less than twelve persons on oath.\n\nThis modification, should it be sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government, whose pleasure it must be understood to solely depend on - will remove from Her Majesty's Surveyor a most invidious duty, will naturally tend to increase the confidence of all holders of land in the Colony and will not, in His Excellency's opinion, any degree, compromise the rights of the public.\n\nI have to be (signed) Richard Womane.\nThomas J. Sales.\n\nSir,\n\nDeputy Post Master.\nVictoria,\nHongkong, 4th May, 1844.\n\nAdverting to my letter No:140 of the 1st Ultimo, in which was conveyed to you the sanction of His Excellency the Governor in Council for a continuance during the present quarter (with the Exceptions of the 2nd Clerk) of the Establishment duties, which, on assuming your duties, you found employed in the Post Office, I directed to intimate to you that\n\narr\n\nRevised to fit the exact requirement and rules.\n\nThe final output is \nmay\nSees\nbe\n\n: the power of resuming lands that are required for public purposes at a valuation to be formed by Her Majesty's Surveyor for the time being and that His Excellency has special reason to consider that that task should not be imposed on any single individual. His Excellency therefore intends to suggest as a modification of that Clause that lands to be resumed shall be appraised by an approved jury of not less than twelve persons on oath. This modification, should it be sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government, whose pleasure it must be understood to solely depend on - will remove from Her Majesty's Surveyor a most invidious duty, will naturally tend to increase the confidence of all holders of land in the Colony and will not, in His Excellency's opinion, any degree, compromise the rights of the public.\n\nNo:188\n781\n\nI have to be (signed) Richard Womane.\nThomas J. Sales.\n\nSir,\n\nDeputy Post Master.\nVictoria,\nHongkong, 4th May, 1844.\n\nAdverting to my letter No:140 of the 1st Ultimo, in which was conveyed to you the sanction of His Excellency the Governor in Council for a continuance during the present quarter (with the Exceptions of the 2nd Clerk) of the Establishment duties, which, on assuming your duties, you found employed in the Post Office, I directed to intimate to you that\n\narr", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 223737, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "content_text": "Mr. Hawes \n\nI presume that these Rules of Court went out to be dispersed in the same manner.\n\nThe last sent out, that is, that thing which will be Misallowed in order that they may be republished & then submitted to the local Legislation for confirmation by an Ordinance.\n\nThis is evident, because in the greater & the more Public Acts, and of being confined to the Propriety subjects of judicial Regulation, no Stint. The Public effect, Laws in making of the most permanent & general concern.\n\nI have to refer to ults ago ) will have a complete code respecting the administration of Succession & of the X for in burying.\n\nAll local Authority 5.4 hov. 30 But Period fire then date be this kept back lake hatter the Judge to Legislate such topics.\n\n21331 Ak Honble. W. E. Gladstone- 4th September, 1846. Violone, Hongkong Fir J. H Davis, 4 Inclosures.\n\nNo 106. Received Rules of the Supreme Court of Hongkong and transmitting additional Referring to dispatch No.103.\n\nIn 1603 H. King \n\nSUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION. REGULA GENERALIS. ANNO OCTAVO VICTORIE REGINE, 11th November, 1844.\n\n1. IT IS ORDERED, That when any person shall die leaving a Will, the person in whose keeping or custody it shall have been deposited, or who shall find such Will after the Testator's death, shall produce the same to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, within fourteen days after his decease, on pain of being prosecuted and punished for the concealment thereof, besides being civilly liable for any damages which shall have been occasioned by the delay; and he shall also make oath, or produce an affidavit (Form No. 1) verifying the time and place of the death, and stating, if such be the fact, that the Testator has left property within the jurisdiction of the Court.\n\n2. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That the Will so produced, shall be proved by the witnesses thereto on oath (Form No.2) in open Court, or before the Registrar thereof (who is hereby authorized to administer such oath) if they be resident within the colony of Hongkong; or by affidavit sworn before a person duly authorised to take the same if not so resident. If in the case of the Will of a soldier in actual Military service, or Mariner or Seamen at sea there be no Witnesses, then by proof of the Handwriting of the Testator, if written or signed by himself; or if neither written nor signed by the Testator, then by the person who wrote it.\n\n3. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That after the Will is so proved, a Petition shall be given in to the Court, by the Executor or Executors, praying for Probate thereof; to which petition an Affidavit, (Form No. 3.) by the said Executor or Executors, shall be annexed. Probate (Form No. 4.) shall then be granted to such Executor or Executors under the Seal of the Court. But if any of the Executors named in the Will be out of the Island of Hongkong, or shall not appear at the time of granting such probate, a clause (Form No. 5.) shall be inserted therein, reserving a power to grant like probate to such absent Executor when he shall appear and sue for the same.\n\nProduction of Will. Affidavit of Death. Will how proved. Petition for Probate. Affidavit by Executor. Probate. If no Executor. Citation to next of kin. Commission of Appraisement.\n\nAND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That if there be no Executor named in the Will, or if none of the Executors named therein are within the Island at the time of the Testator's death, or if being within the Island they refuse or neglect to appear, or renounce their respective trusts, in any such case, a Citation (Form No. 6.) to the next of kin shall issue, directed to the Sheriff of the Colony of Hongkong or his Lawful Deputy; and a Commission (Form No. 7.) shall at the same time issue to two creditable persons, to appraise the property left by the deceased, which citation and commission shall be made returnable within such time respectively as the Court shall judge reasonable, and shall be executed by the Sheriff and Appraisers to whom they shall be respectively directed; but in case the Sheriff shall not be able to discover who are the next of kin, or if their residences be not known to him, he shall execute the said Citation by Posting a Copy thereof, with a translation in the language of the deceased (if not an Englishman) on the door of the Court House, and the Registrar shall then cause an Advertisement to be inserted in one of the local Newspapers to the same effect. On the return of such Citation if the Widow, or Widower, or next of kin of the deceased appears and applies by Petition for administration, and no opposition be made thereto, or if such opposition be made and overruled by the Court, then letters of administration (Form No. 8.) with the Will annexed shall be granted to such Widow or Widower, or next of kin, on his or her giving Bond (Form No. 9.) with two good and sufficient securities for the due execution of the Will, (reference being had, in requiring such security, to the amount of the property returned by the appraisers) and on his or her taking the oath of administrator.\n\nAdministration with Will annexed. Bond.\n\nPage 119", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 223738, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "content_text": "(Form No. 10) The Security Bond shall be given to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, who shall put the same in suit when directed by the Court so to do, and not otherwise. All such sureties shall be diligently and strictly examined by the Court, or by the Registrar under the direction of the Court, as to their sufficiency, and shall be required to make oath that they are severally worth the sum for which they are about to enter into security. If no next of kin shall appear, or if having appeared and being opposed the Court shall consider such opposition to be well founded, then Letters of Administration with the Will annexed shall be granted to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, provided he shall have given security as hereinafter directed, or to such other person as the Chief Justice shall think better fitted for the Office.\n\n5. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That if there be no Will, and the Widow or Widower, or next of kin, shall apply for Administration, he or she shall file an affidavit (Form No. 1.) in the Supreme Court, as directed by the first rule, stating the death of the Intestate, and that the deceased left property within the jurisdiction of the Court; and shall move for a citation and commission of Appraisement as above directed, which shall thereupon issue. The Citation and Commission being returned and no opposition being made to the party applying for Letters of Administration, or if being made it shall be overruled by the Court, the person so applying shall give security and take the oath as also directed, whereupon Letters of Administration shall issue.\n\n6. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That if there be no Will, and no Widow, Widower, or next of kin, appear, it shall be the duty of the Registrar, on receiving notice of the death of such person, to obtain and file an Affidavit of such death, and of the time and place thereof as above directed, from some person acquainted with the facts; whereupon the citation and commission of appraisement shall issue as before, but the commission shall give authority (Form No. 11) to the Appraisers, care being taken in all cases that the Appraisers are respectable and trustworthy persons, to take and keep possession of the property till further orders. And in case of a Stranger to the Colony dying suddenly therein, or in any other case in which the property might be endangered by delay, the Court, on being informed thereof as hereinafter directed, or otherwise, shall forthwith issue a commission to such appraisers to take charge of the property, without waiting for the Affidavit of death, or for any other preliminary form of proceeding. Such citation and commission being returned, and no Widow, Widower, or next of kin appearing within the time limited, Letters of Administration shall be granted to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, or to such other person as the Chief Justice shall appoint as above directed.\n\n7. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That the Registrar of the Supreme Court, when appointed Official Administrator as aforesaid, shall with all convenient speed inform himself who are the persons entitled to the residue of the Estate, and shall as soon as possible inform such persons of all such circumstances and particulars relative thereto as it may be necessary for them to know, in order to their availing themselves of their rights to the same; and in case the Registrar shall not be able to discover who are the next of kin, or shall see reason to doubt concerning the same, he shall cause an Advertisement to be inserted in one of the Local Newspapers calling on the next of kin to appear for their interest, and shall cause a similar Advertisement to be inserted in one or more of the English Newspapers if the deceased was a Native of England, or in one of the Edinburgh Newspapers if he was a native of Scotland, or in one of the Dublin Newspapers if he was a Native of Ireland.\n\n8. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That the Registrar of the Supreme Court shall, either on receiving his appointment to that Office, give good and sufficient security, to be approved of by the Chief Justice, for the true and faithful administration of all estates which shall be committed to his charge; or if he do not furnish such general security, he shall, before Letters of Administration are granted to him in any particular case, enter into Bond with good and sufficient securities, as is provided by the 4th rule with respect to ordinary administrators, for the true and faithful administration of such estate. Which Bond shall be executed in favor of Her Majesty, Her heirs and Successors, and shall be put in suit by Her Majesty's Attorney General, when directed by the Court so to do.\n\n9. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That the Registrar of the Supreme Court, when appointed Official Administrator, shall be allowed to charge a Commission of five per cent, as well on property not sold but retained by the heirs, as on property sold by him, on cash found in the Estate, and on property specifically bequeathed to legatees.\n\n10. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That in order to give more general force and effect to this branch of Jurisdiction, it is directed that all Coroners, Constables, and other officers on whom that duty would properly fall, shall give immediate notice to the Registrar of the Court of all deaths which shall occur within their respective districts, under pain, in default thereof, of such punishment as the Court shall consider adequate to the neglect. And if the person so dying shall be a stranger or shall leave no friends or relatives in the place at which he shall so die, such Coroner, Constable, or other officer shall call in another officer, or some creditable person, and they shall together inventory and seal up the property so left, or otherwise secure it, for those who may ultimately be declared entitled to the same, or until further orders.\n\n11. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That in cases in which the deceased has left no will, or executors are not named, or have renounced their trusts, and no person has applied for administration, any creditor or creditors who shall satisfy the Court by his or their statement, supported by documents or the affidavits of other persons, that the deceased was really and truly indebted to him or them, may apply for and obtain the usual citation and commission of appraisement; which being returned, if no next of kin shall appear, or even if such shall appear and the Court shall in such latter case be satisfied that the debts so established or sworn to amount in all to more than the value of the appraised property, in such case the Court shall and may, at its discretion, grant Letters of Administration to one or more of the principal creditors, on his or their giving good and sufficient security (Form No. 12), that he or they will duly administer the estate, and pay the debts fairly and justly, according to their respective degrees, without partiality; or in equal proportions, if the estate should prove insufficient to satisfy all the debts in full; and on his or their taking the oath of Administrator. Provided that no creditor, receiving Letters of Administration as creditor, shall be entitled to any percentage or commission on his Administration.\n\n12. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That if a person shall die leaving property within one or more of several ports or places other than that in which he shall have been domiciled before his death, the Consul of such port or place where the goods so left are situated shall take charge of such property until the same shall be claimed by the Executor, Administrator, or other person lawfully entitled to demand the same.\n\n13. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That if it be intended to oppose a Will, a Caveat must be entered before Probate is granted, and allegations, verified by affidavit or affirmation in support of the opposition, must be filed within one month after entering the Caveat; in default of which, proof of the Will shall be received as in ordinary cases.\n\n14. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That if an Executor or Administrator shall fail to file his Inventory or Account within the time prescribed by his Bond or by his Oath, the Registrar shall, immediately after such default made, report the same to the Court, and an order shall issue to such Executor or Administrator to appear on a day certain, and either file such Inventory or Account or show good and sufficient cause why he has not done so: and in default of so filing or showing cause, he shall be liable to such penalty as the Court shall think fit, and the Court may also direct such Bond to be put in suit by the said Registrar. Nor shall any prolongation of time be allowed for filing Inventories or Accounts, unless on strong grounds shown to the satisfaction of the Court.\n\n15. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That every Inventory and Account shall be delivered into Court one week at least before it is sworn to, in order that the Registrar may examine the same. Every such Account shall state distinctly the dates of all receipts and disbursements, and shall in all other respects be clear, distinct, and full. If such Inventory and Account shall be in proper form, and if such Account be correct, the Executor or Administrator shall be sworn to such Account as the case may be.\n\n16. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That if the Registrar observes any incorrectness or inaccuracy in such Account, he shall point it out to such Executor or Administrator for correction; and if they disagree upon any point, it shall be referred to the Court, which shall decide the same.\n\n17. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That if any Executor or Administrator shall fail to pay over to the Creditors, Heirs, Legatees, or other persons, the amount to which they are respectively entitled, within one year after Probate or Administration granted, such Executor or Administrator shall be liable to pay Interest out of his own funds, for all sums which he shall retain in his own hands after that period, unless he can show good and sufficient cause for such detention.\n\n18. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That if any person shall die, leaving any child or children under the legal age of majority, without any natural guardian, and without having, by Will or otherwise, provided for such guardianship, the Chief Justice shall, in the exercise of the authority vested in him by law in that behalf, select and nominate such person to be guardian of such child or children, and of his, her, or their estate, as he shall consider most fit and proper for that office; reference being always had to the age, sex, and condition of such child or children; and taking good and sufficient security (Form No. 13.) from such guardian, proportioned to the value of the estate, for the faithful and just execution of his office.\n\n19. AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That every Guardian of Infants, whether appointed by the parents of such infants, or by the Court, shall be required to file in Court, twice at least in each year, and oftener if there shall appear to the Chief Justice good reason for calling on him to do so, an account of his administration of the estate; and at the same time to submit for the inspection and consideration of the Court all mortgages, bonds, or other securities on which the monies belonging to the said Estate and under his charge shall have been lent or placed out; subject to the same examinations and objections by the Court in case of incorrectness and to the same penalty for non-compliance, as is provided by the 14th and following Sections respecting accounts of executors and administrators.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 223740, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "content_text": "Form No. 8. Sec. A.\n\nLETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION WITH THE WILL ANNEXED.\n\nLetters of Administration with the Will Annexed.\n\nHongkong\n\nTo\n\nWhereas * of : [to wit. lately departed this life leaving a Will which has been duly proved in this Court, whereas no Executor is named in that Will (or as the case may be, see Hec 1) You are therefore fully empowered and authorized by these presents to administer and faithfully dispose of the property and estate rights and credits of the said deceased, and to demand and recover whatever debts may belong to the estate, and to pay whatever debts the said deceased owed and also the legacies contained in the said Will, so far as such property and estate rights and credits shall extend, you having been already sworn well and faithfully to administer the same, and to render a true and perfect Inventory of all the said property and Estate rights and credits to this Court, on or before the day of next; and also a true and just account of your administration on or before the day of next. And you are therefore by these presents deputed and constituted Administrator with the Will annexed of all the property and estates rights and credits of the said deceased.\n\nGiven under the Seal of the Supreme Court of Hongkong this day of next.\n\nBond by Administrator.\n\nOath by Administrator.\n\nWitness.\n\nChief Justice\n\nForm No. 9. Sec. 4.\n\nBOND BY ADMINISTRATOR.\n\nHongkong\n\nKnow all men by these presents, that we and to wit. are held and firmly bound unto Her Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors the said in the sum of and the said and in the sum of each for which payment well and truly to be made to Her Majesty Her Heirs, and Successors we and each of us do hereby bind ourselves our heirs executors and administrators firmly by these presents hereby renouncing.\n\nWhereas by order of this Court of the day of it is ordered that Letters of Administration of the property and estate rights and credits of the said deceased to be granted to the said on his giving security for the due administration thereof. And whereas the Estate of the said deceased has been appraised and valued at the sum of .\n\nNow the condition of this obligation is that if the above bounden administrator of the goods, chattels, and effects of the deceased, do make, or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, credits, and effects of the said deceased, which have, or shall come to the hands, possession, or knowledge of him the said Administrator, or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons for him, and the same so made, do exhibit into the Supreme Court of Hongkong, at or before the day of , and the same goods, chattels, credits, and effects and all other the goods, chattels, credits, and effects of the deceased at the time of his death, or which at any time afterwards shall come to the hands or possession of the said administrator, or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons for him, shall well and truly administer according to law; and further shall make, or cause to be made, a true and just account of his administration, at or before the day of and afterwards from time to time as shall be lawfully required; and all the rest and residue of the said goods, chattels, credits, and effects which shall be found from time to time remaining upon the said Administration Account, the same being first examined and allowed of by the said Supreme Court of Hongkong, shall and do pay and dispose of in a due course of Administration, or in such manner as the said Court shall direct, then this obligation to be void, and of none effect, or else to be and remain in full force and virtue.\n\nSigned sealed and delivered in Court this day of .\n\nForm No. 10 Sec. 4.\n\nOATH BY ADMINISTRATOR WITH THE WILL ANNEXED.\n\nYou swear that you believe the paper writing now produced to you bears date the day of to be the last Will and Testament of deceased, that you will faithfully execute the said will by paying the debts and legacies of the deceased as far as the property will extend and the law charges; that you will exhibit into this Court a true, full, and perfect inventory of all the property, moveable and immoveable, and all the rights and credits of the deceased on or before the day of and that you will file a true account of your executorship on or before the day of Sworn this day of Before me .\n\nForm No. 11 Sec. 6.\n\nAUTHORITY TO APPRAISERS TO TAKE POSSESSION OF EFFECTS.\n\nAnd you are farther hereby empowered authorized and required to take charge and possession of the said property and estate rights and credits of the said deceased and to keep the same under your charge and possession till further orders.\n\nThis clause to be inserted in the Commission of Appraisement Form No. 7, in cases in which no Executor or Next of Kin &c. appears).\n\nAuthority to appraisers to take possession of effects.\n\nForm No 12. Sec. 11.\n\nBOND BY CREDITORS ON RECEIVING ADMINISTRATION.\n\n(The obligatory part of the Bond may be the same as Form No. 9.) Whereas by order of this Court of the day of it is ordered that Letters of Administration of the property and estate rights and credits of the said deceased be granted to the said of the Creditors of the said deceased on giving security as herein after provided,\n\nNow the condition of this obligation is that if the above bounden Administrator of the goods, chattels, and effects of the deceased, do make, or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, credits, and effects of the said deceased, which have, or shall come to the hands, possession, or knowledge of him the said Administrator, or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons for him, and the same so made, do exhibit into the Supreme Court of Hongkong, at or before the day of ; and the same goods, chattels credits and effects and all other the goods, chattels, credits, and effects of the deceased at the time of his death, or which at any time afterwards shall come to the hands or possession of the said Administrator, or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons for him, shall well and truly administer according to law; and pay the debts fairly and justly according to their respective degrees, without favour or partiality, or in equal proportions, if the Estate should prove insufficient to satisfy all the debts in full; and further shall make, or cause to be made, a true and just account of his said Administration, at or before the day of and afterwards from time to time as shall be lawfully required; and all the rest and residue of the said goods, chattels, credits, and effects which shall be found from time to time remaining upon the said Administration Account, the same being first examined and allowed of by the said Supreme Court of Hongkong, shall and do pay and dispose of in a due course of Administration, or in such manner as the said Court shall direct, then this obligation to be void, and of none effect, or else to be and remain in full force and virtue.\n\nSigned sealed and delivered in Court this day of .\n\nForm No. 13. Sec. 18.\n\nBOND BY GUARDIAN.\n\n(The obligatory part the same as No. 9.)\n\nWhereas by order of this Court of the the said person and estate of which estate amounts to Just day of was nominated Guardian of the minor, the value of .\n\nNow therefore the condition of this obligation is, that if the said shall duly and faithfully execute his said office of Guardian, and shall well and truly apply the interests, rents, and profits of the said estate, or so much as may be necessary for the maintenance and education of the said minor, and shall have the principal thereof to be paid to Ou attaining full age; and shall duly account for all sums received and disbursed, and shall render true accounts to this Court of all such receipts and disbursements twice in every year, or oftener if called upon so to do, then this obligation to be void and of none effect, otherwise to remain in full force.\n\nSigned sealed and delivered in Court this day of .\n\nPrinted by Joss CARR\n\nBY THE COURT,\n\nROBERT DUNDAS CAY,\n\nRegistrar.\n\nBond by Creditors on receiving administration.\n\nBond by Guardian\n\n() Widow, Widower, Next of Kin, or Registrar,\n\n132", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224549, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 455, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "would be offered on the part of the Government to such enquiring until he shall have been appraised of the more definite manner and nature of the proposed air of it.\n\nI have the honour,\n\n& (Signed). Syttleton.\n\nPage 448", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224571, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 477, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "REPORT ON\n\nHONG KONG,\n\n12\n\nhills, washing the putrifying substance down the deep ravines towards the sea; thus generating a fruitful crop of diseases,\n\nWe shall have to consider in a subsequent part of this report whether the objects sought or to be obtained by the possession of Hong Kong, are worth the dreadful sacrifice of life which the maintenance of the present establishment entails.\n\nPopulation and Social Progress.-Hong Kong was \"ceded to the British Crown under the seal of the Imperial Minister and High Commissioner Keshen, in January, 1841;\" see Captain Elliot's proclamation dated Hong Kong, 29 January, 1841, promising \"full security and protection to all British subjects and foreigners residing in or resorting to the island, so long as they shall continue to conform to the authority of Her Majesty's Government, hereby duly constituted and proclaimed in and over Hong Kong,\" &c.\n\nBy the same proclamation natives of China were invited to settle in the island, by promising them that they should be \"governed according to the laws and customs of China, every description of torture excepted.\" And by another proclamation, dated Hong Kong, 1841, issued by Sir Gordon Bremer, Commander-in-Chief, and Captain Elliot, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, it is declared \"that the island of Hong Kong has now become a part of the dominions of the Queen of England, by clear public agreement between the high officers of the Celestial and British Courts; and the Chinese are hereby promised protection in Her Majesty's gracious name, against all enemies whatever; and they are further secured in the free exercise of their religious rites, ceremonies, and social customs, and in the enjoyment of their lawful private property and interests. Chinese ships and merchants resorting to the port of Hong Kong for purposes of trade, are exempt, in the name of the Queen of England, from charge or duty of any kind to the British Government.\" The remainder of the proclamation consists of further inducements for the Chinese to settle in and trade with Hong Kong.\n\nA form of Government was organized-a chief magistrate and a harbour-master were appointed-fifty lots of land were sold in June, 1841, to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.; Dent and Co.; McVicar and Co.; Fox, Rawson, and Co.; Turner and Co.; Lindsay and Co.; and various other persons; the annual rental of which amounted to £3,224. Each lot was required to have a building erected within six months, of the appraised value of 1000 dollars; and a deposit of 500 dollars was required to be lodged with the treasurer, as a security for the performance of this engagement. Building commenced with great spirit; the Government spent very large sums of money upon the island, and the harbour was filled with ships of war and transports. The island has had a fair trial of more than three and a-half years. We shall now inquire what progress it has made in population.\n\nOn taking possession of Hong Kong, it was found to contain about 7,500 inhabitants, scattered over twenty fishing hamlets and villages. The requirements of the fleet and troops, the demand for labourers to make roads and houses; and the servants of Europeans increased the number of inhabitants, and in March, 1842, they were numbered at 12,361. In April, 1844, the number of Chinese on the island was computed at 19,000, of whom not more than 1000 are women and children.\n\nHONG KONG,\n\n13\n\nIn the census are included ninety-seven women slaves, and female attendants on thirty-one brothels, eight gambling-houses, and twenty opium shops, &c. It is literally true that after three years and a-half's uninterrupted settlement, there is not one respectable Chinese inhabitant on the island.* One man of reputed wealth named Chinam, who had been engaged in the opium trade, came to Hong Kong, built a good house, and freighted a ship. He soon returned to Canton, and died there of a fever and cold contracted at Hong Kong. It was understood, however, that had he lived he would have been prohibited returning to Hong Kong, the policy of the mandarins on the adjacent coast being to prevent all respectable Chinese from settling at Hong Kong; and in consequence of the hold they possess on their families and relatives, this can be done most effectually. At the same time, I believe that they encourage and promote the deportation of every thief, pirate, and idle or worthless vagabond from the mainland to Hong Kong.\n\nThe Rev. Dr. Gutzlaff, who has been engaged in making the recent census appended to this report, referring to the fishermen who formed the greater part of the population of the island on our arrival, says—\n\n\"They are a roving set of beings, floating on the wide face of the ocean with their families, and committing depredations whenever it can be done with impunity.\" \"The stone-cutters have been working here for many years before our arrival. The majority of these men are unprincipled. They cannot be considered as domesticated, and are in the habit of going and coming, according to the state of trade.\" \"The most numerous class who have, since our arrival, fixed themselves on the island, are from Whampoa; many of them are of the worst character, and ready to commit any atrocity.\" The capital of the shopkeepers is very small; most of them live from hand to mouth, and lead a life of expedients, without principle or self-control.\n\n\"It is very natural that depraved, idle, and bad characters from the adjacent mainland and islands should flock to the colony where some money can be made†.”\n\nThe merchants and British residents in Hong Kong, in a memorial to Lord Stanley, dated 13th August, 1845 (after I had quitted the island), fully verify this observation: they say, \"there is at this moment, after four years occupation of the island, scarcely one foreign resident, except Government officers, and those British merchants and traders who commenced building before the enforcement of the leases; there are no Chinese merchants, or even shopkeepers, with any pretension to property!\"\n\nA writer in the London \"Times\" of 17th December, 1844, speaking of his experience at Hong Kong, says, \"The community is migratory, property most insecure, and life often in danger, from the bands of piratical robbers that infest this and the neighbouring islands. The place has nothing to recommend it, if we except its excellent harbour. The site of the new town of Victoria is most objectionable, there being scarcely level ground enough for the requisite buildings; and the high hills which overhang the locality shut out the southerly winds, and render the place exceedingly hot, close, and unhealthy. Many of the worst description of Chinese resort there, and I have seen during one evening at Victoria more open scenes of vice and debauchery than I had observed during my three years' stay in the north of China. So much for the boasted march of civilization ! principal part of the trade is still confined to Canton, and will long continue to be so; that with the north is as yet comparatively insignificant, and the additional expenses charged on shipment and agency have been so great as to prevent much traffic with the new ports. The very high rate at which opium continues to be\n\nThe\n\n470", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227653, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 347, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "List of the present Assistants with the date:\n\nDepartment\n\nRegistrar General's office..\n\nSurveyor General's Office.\n\nColonial Treasurer's office\n\nColonial Secretary and Auditor General's Office\n\nName. Date of entry into the Government Service. Annual Salary If contributor to the Superannuation Fund Remarks\n\n \n L. d'Almada e Castro\n Chief Clerk\n 14 January 1887\n £472.10.-\n \n \n \n \n L.M. d'Almada e Castro\n 2nd Clerk\n 1 January 1844\n £270.-\n Not\n \n \n \n H. J. Stance\n 3rd Clerk\n 1st September 1844\n \n Not\n #\n \n \n A. Grand Pré\n 4th Clerk\n 12th October 1845\n £243.-\n Not\n #\n \n \n T. Morgan\n \n \n £2/6\n \n - -\n \n \n I. G. Comelate\n Clerk to Auditor\n 15 October 1846\n £250\n Not\n \n \n \n R. Rienaecher\n Chief Clerk\n 19th May, 1845\n £405\n Not\n \n \n \n W. St. Miles\n 2nd Clerk & accountant\n 7th February, 1845\n \n Contributor\n \n \n \n G. N. Michell\n 3rd Clerk\n 2nd April 1865\n £300\n \n \n \n \n \n Acting 3rd Clerk\n 12th February 1868\n \n Not\n Served as Clerk to the Marine Magistrate at Chusan from 30 June 1842 to 30 June 1866\n \n \n J. C. Power\n \n \n \n \n Served as clerk in the Office of H.M.'s Plenipotentiary in China from 18th March 1842 to 30th June 1843.– Absent in England, on sick leave.... Receives the moiety of Mr. Mike's Salary\n \n \n W. Bowden\n Accountant & Keeper of Record\n 19 September 1845\n £300.-.-\n Contributor\n Acts as appraiser of the Supreme Court, and receives 2 1/2 per cent on estates valued... Allowed £25 per annum for keep of a horse\n \n \n I. Stevenson\n Clerk\n 14th July 1844\n £200.-.-\n Overseer of Roads\n 19 February 1847\n £187.10-\n Not\n \n\nCorrected and formatted the text into Markdown, ensuring that the original word count and order are preserved. The table was reconstructed to better represent the original data.\n\n was removed as per rule 12. Minor spelling and formatting corrections were made.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228151, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 455, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "Appendix.\n\nReport on the\n\nIsland of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Royal Artillery, the finest military corps in the world, out of 135 men and officers lost in two years, 51 by death (of whom 35 died at Hong Kong during the last six months of 1843), and 45 by invaliding. That Hong Kong was the cause of their death will be seen from the fact, that Colonel Knowles's detachment of the Royal Artillery went through the whole of the war at Canton and at the Yang-tzi-kang river; the detachment was out here three years; it never landed at Hong Kong. One man was killed, another died of dropsy; but the whole of the remainder of the detachment returned to England, except the commanding officer, Lieutenant-colonel Knowles, who landed at Hong Kong, and died of fever.\n\nThe officers of the Royal Artillery died in the same proportion as the men; out of nine officers who came out with the original detachment, but one escaped disease or death.\n\nLast year there were severe losses in the ships of war. Her Majesty's ship \"Agincourt\" lost, during the sickly season of 1843, 60 men, of whom 20 were marines; 40 men were invalided home, of whom few would recover. Since leaving England in May 1842, the \"Agincourt\" has been obliged to enter 160 seamen from merchant ships. The cause assigned for the severe illness of the marines and seamen of last year was the being obliged to land guards to protect stores at West Point. This year the \"Agincourt\" sends no men on shore or on night duty; and out of 600 men, there are only 23, including slight hurts, in the sick list. This fact tests the insalubrity of the shore.\n\nThe deaths in the naval force at Hong Kong and Whampoa, for the six sickly months ending October 1843, were 4 per cent.; while for the same period on shore, the deaths among the troops averaged 24 per cent.; and even among the European civilians, the estimate was 10 per cent. In May 1843, the left wing of Her Majesty's 55th Regiment had 16 officers and 491 men in Hong Kong. From thence to November, two officers and 218 men died; and the lives of the remainder were only saved by the prompt, judicious, and humane conduct of General D'Aguilar, in immediately embarking the men for England. The mortality as yet (July 17), during the present year has not been so great; but sickness is equally destructive of the efficiency of the troops. Chuck Chew, on the south side of Hong Kong, it was hoped, would be a healthy station.\n\nOn 30 June 1844, out of 400 men of Her Majesty's 98th, at Chuck Chew, there were 109 in hospital; out of 80 Lascars at the same station, there were 30 in hospital.\n\nIt was supposed that Saiwan, on the south-east side of Hong Kong, would afford a healthy station for the troops. Government expended about 30,000 dollars in preparing and building a fine set of barracks of two stories, with every view to comfort and health. The officer of the Royal Engineers having reported the barracks habitable, the General commanding sent a Medical Board to examine the building and station. The Board reported that the station at Saiwan appeared healthy; that there was no apparent cause for disease, and that it was eligible for troops. The General resolved to begin with a small detachment, and 20 Europeans were sent to Saiwan. No sentry was to be mounted during the day, and but one at night.\n\nIn five weeks, five of the soldiers were dead; three more were in a dangerous state, and four were convalescent; one European woman and child were also dangerously ill.\n\nThe remaining men were withdrawn, and a small detachment of native troops are now (17 July 1844) being sent thither, in order to ascertain whether the climate will suit them. On the 17th July 1844, only four men out of the 20 Europeans were reported fit for duty.\n\nThe returns made to the Army and Naval Medical Boards will furnish full information on the sufferings of the soldiers and sailors in Her Majesty's service in this colony.\n\nThe Indian troops bear the insalubrity of the climate worse than the Europeans. In the cantonments at the west end of Victoria, the 39th Madras Native Infantry and 37th Madras Native Infantry lost nearly half their men in 1842. 4th Regiment Madras Native Infantry landed at Hong Kong 450 men in perfect health, and 53 sick, after a long voyage. There have been already many deaths in the cantonments at the east end of Victoria, and in June 1844 there were 160 men sick, and the list was daily increasing. From 15th April to 2d July 1844 there died at Hong Kong, out of the small force here, 52 Europeans and 42 native soldiers.\n\nGeneral D'Aguilar says that the maintenance of an European garrison at Hong Kong would cost the Crown one regiment every three years. Estimating each soldier as having cost Government 100l., this would be a severe economical loss, and worthy the consideration of those who will not reflect on the humanity of the subject. To keep 700 effective firelocks in Hong Kong it is necessary to maintain 1,400 men!\n\nHong Kong is not less fatal to the Chinese, of whom there are, on an average, about 600 sick and dying monthly. Dr. Gutzlaff says, \"Of 100 coolies, with whom I was acquainted, there died, between 20th May and 15th June 1844, 10 men, whilst 30 left the place diseased.\"\n\nI understand that the whole of these 100 strong men from the north-east coast were obliged to leave the colony from sickness. There is no large town or extensive population on the mainland of China adjacent to Hong Kong; which indicates the native opinion of this part of China.\n\nDr. Gutzlaff says, \"Many Chinese have fallen victims in Hong Kong from a malignant fever, which not only deranges the whole system, but hastens the death of the patient.\" He adds: \"There exists amongst the doctors not one dissentient voice about the fatal tendency of diseases contracted here.\"\n\nNor is it during only one period of the year that the island is unhealthy; in the cold season there are agues, low continued fever, diarrhea, pulmonary complaints, dropsy, rheumatism, and various other diseases arising from general debility of the system, and the poisoned atmosphere. On 25th August 1843 the Surveyor-general of the colony reported to Government that \"the number of interments had been so great (in the European grave yard) that the enclosure was almost quite full, and the hill behind so rocky that it was impossible to dig into it, therefore ere long it would be necessary to provide another place.\" The Surveyor-general further stated, \"It would be a difficult thing to select another grave yard, on account of the rocky and uneven nature of the island.\"\n\nLet it be not said that the dreadful mortality and sickness of Hong Kong is the result of the newness of the colony, and that all young settlements suffer proportionally.\n\nThe assertion, if made, is at variance with fact. New colonies, even in the tropics, have not been originally unhealthy. When the West India islands were first colonized, they were perfectly healthy, as is proved by the large European population who resorted thither and remained there many years. Calcutta and Bombay are reported to have been formerly much healthier than they are at present; the Australian colonies were perfectly healthy when founded; so also the Mauritius and St. Helena; I cannot name a single colony that was originally unhealthy, and that subsequently became salubrious. Soldiers, sailors, and civilians; Europeans and natives, women as well as men, residing in every part of Hong Kong, have fallen victims to the climate, and at all seasons of the year.\n\nAn extensive study of the subject, and no inconsiderable experience in different climates, induces me to concur in the opinion of Dr. Thompson, the respected head of the medical department of Hong Kong, that the island never will be healthy. Its geological character, the immense quantity of rain, and the circumvallation of hills surrounding the town and island, render it a hotbed of disease which may be more mitigated one year than another, but which will ever and anon recur with increased violence. No drainage can obviate this destructive miasm; independent of new roads or buildings, the rain will every year keep the surface continually saturated with moisture, and also uncover large portions of the hills, washing the putrifying substance down the deep ravines towards the sea, thus generating a fruitful crop of disease.\n\nWe shall have to consider in a subsequent part of this Report, whether the objects sought or to be obtained by the possession of Hong Kong are worth the dreadful sacrifice of life which the maintenance of the present establishments entail.\n\nPopulation and Progress.-Hong Kong was \"ceded to the British Crown under the seal of the Imperial Minister and High Commissioner Keshen,\" in January 1841.-See Captain Elliot's proclamation, dated Hong Kong, 29th January 1841, promising \"full security and protection to all British subjects and foreigners, residing in or resorting to the island, so long as they shall continue to conform to the authority of H. M. Government, hereby duly constituted and proclaimed in and over Hong Kong,\" &c. By the same proclamation natives of China were invited to settle in the island by promising them that they should be \"governed according to the laws and customs of China, every description of torture excepted.\" And by another proclamation, dated Hong Kong, 1841, issued by Sir Gordon Bremer, Commander-in-chief, and Captain Elliot, H. M. Plenipotentiary, it is declared, that \"the island of Hong Kong has now become a part of the dominions of the Queen of England by clear public agreement between the high officer of the Celestial and British Courts, and the Chinese are hereby promised protection in Her Majesty's gracious name against all enemies whatever; and they are further secured in the free exercise of their religious rites, ceremonies, and social customs, and in the enjoyment of their lawful private property and interests.\" Chinese ships and merchants resorting to the port of Hong Kong for purposes of trade are exempt, in the name of the Queen of England, from charge or duty of any kind to the British Government. The remainder of the proclamation consists of further inducements for the Chinese to settle in and trade with Hong Kong.\n\nA form of Government was organized; a chief magistrate, and a harbour master, &c. were appointed; 50 lots of land were sold, in June 1841, to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Dent & Co., MacVicar & Co., Fox, Rawson & Co., Turner & Co., Lindsay & Co., and various other persons, the annual rental of which amounted to 3,224l. Each lot was required to have a building erected within six months, of the appraised value of 1,000 dollars; and a deposit of 500 dollars was required to be lodged with the treasurer as a security for the performance of this engagement. Building commenced with great spirit; the Government spent very large sums of money on the island, and the harbour was filled with ships of war and transports.\n\nThe island has now had a fair trial of more than 34 years; we shall inquire what progress it has made in population,\n\nOn taking possession of Hong Kong it was found to contain about 7,500 inhabitants, scattered over 20 fishing hamlets and villages. The requirements of the fleet and troops, the demands for labourers to make roads and houses, and the servants of Europeans, increased the number of inhabitants, and in March 1842 they were numbered at 12,361. In April 1844 the number of Chinese on the island is computed at 19,000; of whom not more than 1,000 are women and children. In the census are included 97 women, slaves, and the females attendant on 31 brothels, eight gaming houses, and 20 opium shops, &c. It is literally", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229943, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4]", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4]", "content_text": "2\n\nPost Office.\n\nNo. 5 of the 11th March, the Rockefeller Department paying for this accommodation £150 per annum to this Government, and with which Mr. Hyland appears to have been satisfied up to September last.\n\n3. Mr. Hyland in his letter of the 6th March states that, shortly after his return, on the 14th September, 1848, from England, where he had been on leave of absence, he observed indications of decay in the Building, and duly brought the circumstance to the notice of the Surveyor General; and that on the 17th September 1849, the day after a typhoon, he again sent notice to the Surveyor General having observed several cracks in the ceiling; nevertheless, nothing was done for the security of the Building; and on the 16th idem, the ceiling of the sitting room fell in.\n\nNo. 4. Mr. Flaverly does not deny that the insecure state of the Building was brought to his notice, but it would seem to have been done in a casual manner. Had it been especially brought to his notice, and no attention been paid thereto, I infer Mr. Hyland would have complained to the local Government on the subject, to which however, it does not appear any reference was made.\n\nNo. 5. That Mr. Hyland had a personal subject, when I had an interview with him on the subject, gave him my opinion that he had no legal claim for remuneration from the Colonial Department, but possibly his case might be favorably viewed by his own Department at home, and Your Lordship will perceive that the Attorney General's opinion is to the same purport.\n\nI likewise forward a Report in detail by Mr. Mackwick, the Government Appraiser, of the actual loss sustained by...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229962, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4]", "page_number": 164, "title": "CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4]", "content_text": "1:19 of 1830.\n\nInclosure Not in Gesp\n\n1 by the falling\n\nM. Hyland,\n\nIf the\n\ncelling at the Post Office.\n\n18th March, 1850.\n\nReport by the Government\n\n7\n\nappraiser\n\nthe loss\n\nsustained by\n\nLegislation.\n\nReferred to Mojo Word Kogun 20% may / 50.\n\nCopy\n\nto Fl.\n\n10 Jane 50.\n\n$194\n\nMy\n\n4340 Deng Bing\n\nLord,\n\nherewith\n\nMAY 27 1850.\n\n160\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n21th March, 1854.\n\nI have the honor to forward\n\nan authenticated copy of Ordinance\n\nNo. 2 of 1856, entitled An Ordinance to provide for\n\nthe effective carrying out\n\nof\n\nthe\n\nmore\n\nthe Treaties between Great Britain and\n\n\"China in so\n\nfar\n\nas relates to Chinese\n\n\"Subjects within the Colony of Hongkong!\" which I yesterday passed with the advice\n\nof the\n\nLegislative Council.\n\n2.\n\nYour Lordship will be aware\n\nthat by the Supplementary Treaty entered\n\ninto between Her Majesty\n\nand the Emperor\n\nof China, signed at Hoomun-chae 8th October 1843, it was\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl Grey,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nthe\n\nexpressly stipulated", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232273, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12]", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12]", "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\nNumber of Cases.\n\nNumber of Persons.\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nEnclosure No. 14.\n\nHong Kong Police, including those in which no Persons were apprehended. RETURN of the Total Number of FELONY CASES coming under the cognizance of the\n\n \n Total\n Year.\n Number of Cases.\n Remarks.\n \n \n \n 1851\n 488\n Decrease in 1851, 186 cases.\n \n \n \n 1850\n 674\n \n \n\nPolice Department,\n\n(Signed)\n\nC. MAY,\n\n12th February 1852.\n\nSuperintendent of Police.\n\nEnclosure No 15.\n\nRETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been tried in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong during the Year 1851.\n\n \n CRIME.\n \n Number of Cases.\n Number of Persons.\n Convicted.\n Acquitted.\n Death.\n Death recorded.\n Transportation.\n Hard Labour, over One Year.\n Hard Labour, One year and under.\n Number of Cases, abandoned\n Sentence postponed\n Remarks.\n \n \n Assault\n \n 7\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n Burglary\n -\n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Child stealing\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Burglary and Larceny\n \n 3\n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Assault, with intent to rob\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Attempting to set fire to a ship\n \n 1\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Assault and false imprisonment\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Demanding money with menaces\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Conspiracy to commit Piracy\n \n 3\n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cutting, with intent to do grievous bodily harm\n (6)\n 1\n 7\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Endeavouring to make a revolt\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Escape\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Extortion by a constable\n (e)\n 6\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Keeping a bawdy house\n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n False imprisonment\n \n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Forgery\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Larceny\n \n 5\n \n 3\n (f)6\n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Manslaughter\n \n 3\n \n 3\n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n Five of the prisoners were arraigned for murder, but found guilty of manslaughter.\n \n \n Murder\n \n 4\n \n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Obtaining money under false pretences\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Perjury\n (4)5\n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Piracy\n \n 8\n \n 8\n \n \n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Receiving stolen goods\n \n 2\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Piracy, with wounding\n \n 4\n \n 4\n \n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Piracy, with violence\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Robbery\n \n 6\n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Robbery, with arms\n \n 12\n \n 12\n \n \n \n \n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Robbery in the harbour\n \n I\n \n I\n \n \n \n \n I\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Shooting at, with intent to maim\n -\n 2\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Selling and purchasing a woman for purpose of prostitution\n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sodomy\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stabbing with intent to do grievous bodily harm\n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total\n \n 66\n 116\n 51\n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n(Signed)\n\nROB. DUNDAS CAY, Registrar.\n\nW. H. ALEXANDER, Deputy Registrar.\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.\n\nEnclosure 16.\n\nRETURN of the Number of CASES TRIED by the Honourable JOHN WALTER HULME, and ACTIONS COMMENCED in the Supreme and Vice-Admiralty Courts of HONG KONG, during the Year ending 31st December 1851.\n\nCASES TRIED before the Honourable J. W. HULME in 1851.\n\n \n \n Number of Cases.\n Hearings\n Debt and Damages.\n \n \n SUPREME COURT:\n \n \n \n \n \n Common Law\n 3\n \n $44,391.32\n \n \n Chancery\n \n 2\n \n \n \n Summary\n 71\n \n \n \n \n Insolvency\n 3\n \n \n \n \n Debts in schedule\n \n \n $11,798.08\n \n \n Assets per Appraisement\n \n \n $12,924.70\n \n \n \n \n \n $14,524.0\n \n \n Insolvent discharged\n 46\n \n \n \n \n Appeals\n \n \n \n \n \n VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5\n \n $7,476.80\n \n\nACTIONS COMMENCED in 1851.\n\n \n Court.\n Number of Cases.\n Amount of Debt and Damages claimed.\n Settled without Trial.\n Judgment.\n Plaintiff.\n Defendant.\n Nonsuit.\n Remaining in Dependence.\n \n \n SUPREME COURT:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Common Law\n (b) 18\n $75,479.70\n 4\n 1\n 1\n \n \n 14\n \n \n Chancery\n None.\n None.\n \n \n \n \n \n None.\n \n \n Summary\n 101\n $17,531.24\n 29\n 46\n \n \n \n 20\n \n \n Insolvency\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Debts in Schedule\n \n $16,995.22\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Assets per Appraisement\n \n $11,798.08\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ecclesiastical\n (c) 20\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n 5\n \n \n Appeals\n None.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n None.\n \n \n VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 7\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL.\n 146\n $129,281.04\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nN.B. Of the five Common Law Cases in dependence on the 1st January 1851, one was tried and four settled. The Summary Jurisdiction case was settled. Of the three Vice Admiralty Cases, two were tried and one is still in dependence, and the Chancery Cases are also still undecided.\n\n(a) In one of these cases the plaintiff has given notice of appeal.\n\n710 Dollars.\n\n(b) In three of these cases the defendant was arrested on a capias issuing from the Common Law side, and they were subsequently brought into the Summary Jurisdiction. The debt and damages in the said cases amount to\n\n(c) In five of these estates there was a will, consequently the property was not appraised.\n\n(Signed)\n\nROB. DUNDAS CAY, Registrar.\n\nW. H. ALEXANDER, Deputy Registrar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232301, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12]", "page_number": 162, "title": "CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12]", "content_text": "Return of the number of cases tried by the Honorable John Walter Hulme, and actions commenced in the Supreme and Vice Admiralty Courts of Hong Kong, during the year ending 31 December, 1857.\n\nCourt\n\n \n Court\n Cases tried before The Honorable J. W. Hulme\n Number of Cases\n Amount of Debt and Damages claimed\n \n \n Supreme Court Common Law\n \n 3\n $5744.54\n \n \n Chancery\n \n None\n -\n \n \n Summary Insolvency Appeals\n \n None\n 12,924.70\n \n \n Vice Admiralty Court\n \n None\n -\n \n \n Ecclesiastical\n \n None\n -\n \n \n \n Plaintiff Judgment Defendant Nonsuit\n 2\n None\n \n \n \n \n None\n 416\n \n \n \n Remanded\n 20\n /\n \n \n \n \n None\n 3\n \n \n \n \n None\n None\n \n \n \n Dette in Schedule — 11,798.08 Insolvent discharged\n 5\n None\n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n\nActions Commenced in 1857.\n\n \n Court\n Number of Cases\n Amount of Debt and Damages claimed\n \n \n Supreme Court Common Law\n 164\n $41,818\n \n \n Chancery\n 18\n None\n \n \n Insolvency\n 101\n None\n \n \n Appeals\n None\n -\n \n \n Vice Admiralty Court\n 5\n None\n \n \n Total Cases\n 288\n $44,391.32\n \n \n Remaining in dependence\n 24\n Damages\n \n \n \n Can. 2 er det14 Da\n \n \n \n Total\n 44\n $46\n \n \n Settled without Trial\n Plaintiff Judgment Defendant\n \n \n \n \n $75,479.10\n None\n \n \n \n 17,531.24\n 14\n \n \n \n None\n 2\n \n \n \n 29\n None\n \n \n \n 46\n None\n \n \n \n None\n None\n \n \n \n 20\n None\n \n \n \n None\n None\n \n \n \n 5\n None\n \n \n \n None\n None\n \n \n \n None\n None\n \n \n \n -7,476.80\n ~None\n \n \n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n 2. Debts in Schedule - 11,798.08\n -\n \n \n \n None\n Petitioner discharged\n \n \n \n 1\n 1920 Action Appraisement 16,995.22\n \n \n \n 1\n 146 $129,281.04\n \n\nA.B. Of the 5 common law cases in dependence on the 1 January 1857, one was tried and four settled. The Summary Jurisdiction case was settled. Of the 3 Vice Admiralty cases, two were tried and one is still in dependence, and the Chancery cases are also still undecided. None of these cases the Plaintiff has given notice of appeals. By in of these cases the defendant was arrested on a Capias issuing from the Common Law side, and they were subsequently brought into the Summary Jurisdiction. The debt & damages in the said cases amount $710.00. In 5 of these Estates there was a Will consequently the property was not appraised.\n\n(Signed) Rob. Dundas Cay,\n\n(Signed) M. H. Ale Saunders,\n\nDeputy Registrar,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nRegistrar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232832, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-041 - Public Offices - 1852", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-041 - Public Offices - 1852", "content_text": "12\n\nTABLE OF FEES.\n\n[HONG KONG.\n\nSterling Money. £ S. d.\n\n \n 5 5 0\n \n \n 5 5\n \n \n 0\n \n\n9. References of Accounts, &c. by the Judge to the Registrar and Merchants. To the Registrar\n\nTo the Assistant Merchant\n\nIf two Merchants, Five Guineas each.\n\nHONG KONG]\n\nBY THE MARSHAL.\n\n13\n\nSterling Money.\n\n£ s. d.\n\n \n If the distance exceed Two, and be under Four Miles\n 1 0\n \n \n If above Four, and under Eight Miles\n 2 2 0\n \n\nIf the distance be still greater, the allowance to be reasonably increased.\n\nBY THE MARSHAL.\n\n \n For arresting a Vessel, Goods, or Person\n 1 1 0\n \n \n For keeping possession of a Vessel and Cargo, jointly, or either of them singly, when the same are not under the responsible charge and custody of the Officers of the Customs, for each day in which they remain in the Marshal's charge\n -\n \n \n NOTE. This fee not to be chargeable in Cases where the Goods have been store or warehouse.\n 0 6 0\n \n \n For inquiring into and certifying the sufficiency of Persons proposed as Sureties in any Suit, for each Surety\n 0 8 0\n \n \n For release of a Vessel, Goods, or Person from Arrest\n 0 7 6\n \n \n For executing every Monition, or Decree for Answers of a Party, or Compulsory, or other Instrument not specified\n 0 10 0\n \n \n For every Default or Decree, pronouncing for the Interest of a Party proceeding in pœnam\n 0 7 6\n \n \n For every Attendance in Court, when a Sentence or Interlocutory Decree is pronounced\n 0 13 4\n \n \n For executing every Decree or Commission of Appraisement, exclusive of the Appraiser's fee, but including the making of the Inventory, if the value should not exceed £500 sterling\n -\n \n \n For the like Duty when the value exceeds £500\n 2 6 8\n \n \n For executing every Decree or Commission of Sale of Ship or Goods by Public Auction, when the gross proceeds are under £200 sterling\n 2 0\n \n \n And on every additional £100 sterling\n 1 0 0\n \n \n On attending the execution of a Decree or Commission of Unlivery of Cargo (when not done for the purpose of Sale), per Day\n 2 2 0\n \n \n For taking a Person in Execution after Sentence, if the sum due from such Person does not exceed £20 sterling\n 1 0 0\n \n \n For the like Duty, when the sum is above £20 and under £50 sterling\n 2 0 0\n \n \n For the like Duty, when the sum is above £50 and under £100 sterling, for every Pound sterling due\n 0 1 0\n \n \n And on every additional Pound sterling after the first £100\n 0 0 6\n \n\nNOTE. Should it be necessary for the Marshal to go any distance to execute any of the above Duties, there should be paid to him for Loss of Time and Travelling Expenses, in addition to the preceding Fees, the following:\n\nRetaining Fee\n\nBY THE PROCTORS.\n\n \n For attending before Judge or Judge Surrogate, either in Court or Chambers\n 0 10 0\n \n\nBY THE ADVOCATES.\n\nIt is not easy to lay down any precise Rules respecting Fees to Counsel, inasmuch as the amount must depend upon the circumstances of each particular case with reference to its length, importance, and difficulty.\n\nIn all undefended Cases, and in matters of no great difficulty, one Counsel ought to be considered sufficient.\n\nSubject to these observations, the following suggestions are made for the guidance of the Proctor in feeing Counsel, upon matters which most frequently occur in the progress of a suit.\n\n \n Retaining Fee to an Advocate\n 1 13 4\n \n \n For perusing, settling, and signing Information or Libel, Claim and Affidavit, Act on Petition, responsive Plea (or Replication) to Libel or Information, or Act on Petition, according to the length or difficulty\n 2 2 0 to 5 5 0\n \n \n For perusing, settling, and signing Interrogatories, Answers, &c., when the same do not exceed twelve folios in length\n 1 1 0\n \n \n For every additional ten folios, to the extent of sixty\n 1 0\n \n\nNOTE. It should be understood, that in preparing Interrogatories for the cross-examination of Witnesses, they are not to be drawn separately for each Witness to whom the same are to be administered, but that, when practicable (as in most instances will be the case), one set of Interrogatories should be prepared, generally applicable to all the Witnesses.\n\n \n For a Consultation in any intermediate stage of the proceedings, should a necessity arise to resort to Counsel for advice, but this ought not too frequently to occur, and only in cases of difficulty\n 2 2 0 or 3 3 0\n \n \n Motion necessarily made by Counsel before the Judge in the progress of a Cause\n 2 2 0 or 3 3 0\n \n \n The Fee for the final hearing must depend upon the length of the Evidence and the importance and difficulties of the Cause; but, in cases of no great intricacy, the Fee should be from Four to Six Guineas, and not to exceed the latter sum, unless where the proceedings are voluminous, or unusually important or difficult\n 4 4 0 to 6 6 0\n \n\n34", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-041 - Public Offices - 1852.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232835, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-041 - Public Offices - 1852", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-041 - Public Offices - 1852", "content_text": "18\n\nTABLE OF FEES.\n\n[HONG KONG.\n\nSterling Money. £ s. d.\n\nIf either of the preceding Instruments exceed in length ten folios, for every folio beyond Ten\n\n1 6 0 NOTE. The folio mentioned throughout this Table of Fees must contain ninety words, reckoning each figure as a word.\" \n\nShould the Registrar be required to prepare any other Document, Instrument, or Matter whatsoever, not specified in this Table, he will be entitled to the same charge as a Proctor, viz.\n\nFor Drawing, for every folio\n\nFor fair Copying or Engrossing, for every folio\n\n1 0 6\n\n0 0 9\n\n2. Fees on Documents not prepared by the Registrar, but by the Proctor, Solicitor, or Advocate in a Cause.\n\nOn filing Affidavit as to Ship's Papers, or any other Affidavit or Protest of a Master or Mariners, without reference to the Number of Persons making the same, or upon filing a Libel, if ordered by the Judge\n\n3. Fees on taking the Examination of Witnesses.\n\nOn taking the Examination of every Witness on an Information, Libel, Interrogatories, or Plea, a Fee of\n\nFor each folio to which the Examination shall extend, if in English\n\nIf by Interpretation (Interpreter included)\n\n4. Fees on Office Copies of Papers or Proceedings.\n\nHONG KONG.]\n\nBY THE REGISTRAR.\n\n7. On paying out Money.\n\nFor preparing Receipt for Money to be paid out of the Registry\n\nPoundage on Money paid out of the Registry, for every Pound sterling\n\n8. Taring Costs.\n\nFor taxing a Bill of Costs, if under six folios, from each Party who attends the Taxation\n\nIf the Bill of Costs exceed six folios, for every additional folio (besides the Fees above mentioned), to be paid in equal proportions by each Party who attends; and if but one Party attend, to be paid by him solely\n\n19\n\nSterling Money.\n\n£ S. d.\n\n0 1 6\n\n0 0 2\n\n0 5 0\n\n0 0 7\n\n9. References of Accounts, &c. by the Judge to the Registrar and Merchants.\n\nTo the Registrar\n\nTo the Assistant Merchant\n\nIf two Merchants, Five Guineas each.\n\n0 4 0\n\n0 10 0\n\n1 0 6\n\n0 3 0\n\nFor Office Copy of Sentence or Interlocutory Decree, certified under Seal\n\nFor Office Copy of any Affidavit, Examination, or other Documents or Proceedings in a Cause, or Extract therefrom, if under twelve folios\n\nIf exceeding twelve folios, for each folio beyond twelve\n\n5 5\n\n10 10 5\n\n0 0 9\n\nCO\n\nBY THE MARSHAL.\n\nFor keeping possession of a Vessel and Cargo, jointly, or either of them singly, when the same are not under the responsible Charge and Custody of the Captor or his Agent, or of the Officers of the Customs for each Day in which they remain in the Marshal's charge\n\n0 4 6 NOTE. This fee not to be chargeable in cases where the Goods have been put into store or warehouse.\n\n0 13 6\n\n0 6 0\n\n0 0 9\n\nFor inquiring into and certifying the sufficiency of Persons proposed as Sureties in any suit, for each Surety\n\n0 6 0\n\nFor executing every Monition or Compulsory, or other Instrument not specified\n\n0 7 6\n\nFor every Attendance in Court, when a Sentence or Interlocutory Decree is pronounced\n\n0 10 0\n\n5. Fees on Translation of Papers. Where Papers are translated the Registrar should charge the Disbursement actually made to the Translator, with an addition of one fourth, to compensate himself for such advance, trouble, &c.\n\n6. Incidental Fees in the Progress of a Cause.\n\nFor entering every Ordinary Act of Court\n\n0 1 6\n\nOn every Interlocutory Decree or Sentence, including Drawing, the Act to be paid by the Party succeeding\n\n0 15 0\n\nFor every Attendance before a Judge or Surrogate at which any Decree is made, other than an Interlocutory or Sentence\n\n0 5 0\n\nFor a Receipt for original Documents delivered out of the Registry\n\nOn a Search or Examination of the Records, by any Person not being a Party in the Cause, in which the Search is made\n\n0 3 0 NOTE.-No Fee to be charged to a Party in the Cause, or to any Seaman applying for Search.\n\n0 2 6\n\nFor executing every Decree or Commission of Appraisement, exclusive of the Appraiser's Fees, but including the making of the Inventory, if the value should not exceed £500 sterling\n\nFor like Duty when the value exceeds £500 sterling\n\nFor executing every Decree or Commission of Sale of Ship or Goods by Public Auction, when the gross proceeds are under £200 sterling\n\nAnd on every additional £100 sterling\n\nOn attending the Execution of a Decree or Commission of Unlivery of Cargo (when not done for the purpose of Sale), per Day\n\n1 6 8\n\n2 0 0\n\n2 0 0\n\n1 0 0\n\nby\n\n2 2 0\n\n1 0 0\n\n37", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-041 - Public Offices - 1852.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233457, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "page_number": 364, "title": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "content_text": "# Return of the number of cases tried before the Honorable the Chief Justice, and Actions Commenced in the Supreme and Vice-Admiralty Courts of Hongkong, during the year ending 31 December 1853.\n\n## Supreme Court\n\n \n Court\n Number of Cases\n \n \n Common Law\n \n \n \n Chancery\n \n \n \n Summary\n \n \n \n Insolvency\n 19\n \n \n Appeals\n 2\n \n\n## Vice Admiralty Court\n\nCases tried before the Honorable the Chief Justice in 1853. Amount of Debt and Damages claimed:\n\n \n Plaintiff Judgment\n Defendant\n Total Cases\n Debt and Damages\n \n \n $52,000.00\n 18,551.03\n 2\n \n \n \n None\n None\n 45\n \n \n \n Hearings.\n \n \n 7,025.36\n 19,649.76\n \n \n \n \n Insolvents Discharged 19\n \n \n 2\n None\n \n \n \n \n None\n 3,055.00\n \n \n \n \n None\n 3,716.34\n \n \n \n \n 56\n $103,977.49\n \n \n \n\n## Actions Commenced in 1852.\n\n \n Court\n Number of Cases\n Amount of Debt and Damages claimed\n \n \n Supreme Court\n \n \n \n \n Common Law\n 164\n $70,107.06\n \n \n Chancery\n 40\n \n \n \n Summary\n 10\n $9,143.74\n \n \n Insolvency\n \n Debts in Schedule 3,548.78\n \n \n Ecclesiastical\n \n \n \n \n Appeals\n 2\n \n \n \n Petitioner Discharged None\n \n \n Assets per Appraisement 327 3,209.15 3,055.00\n \n\n## Vice Admiralty Court\n\n \n \n $4010.09\n \n \n None\n 3\n \n \n 1\n Remaining\n \n\na) 4 cases were in dependence on the 14th January 1853.\n\nb) one of these cases was in dependence on 1st January 1853. One still remaining undecided.\n\nof these actions, one was to stay proceedings at Common Law, the other a \"Commissio de Lunatico Inquirendo\", no amount can be stated.\n\nc) one of these cases was in dependence on 14 January 1852.\n\nLaw side, they were subsequently tried under the Summary Jurisdiction - Verdict in both cases for the plaintiff. Amount of Debt $177.50.\n\nS) One of these cases was twice tried on Petition of Plaintiff - Verdict on both trials for defendant.\n\nIf) on two of these Estates there was a will, consequently the Property was not appraised.\n\n(Signed) W. H. Alexander,\n\nDeputy Registrar.\n\nTrue Copy) Marine Colonial Secretary.\n\nPage 331\n\n(Signed) Robt. Fundas Cay,\n\nRegistrar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234461, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "page_number": 234, "title": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "content_text": "REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nEnclosure 14 in No. 33.\n\nRETURN of the Number of Cases tried before the Honourable the Chief Justice, and Actions commenced in the Supreme and Vice Admiralty Courts of Hongkong, during the Year ending the 31st December 1853.\n\nCases tried before the Honourable the Chief Justice in 1853.\n\n \n Court\n Number of Cases\n Amount of Debt and Damages claimed\n Plaintiff, Judgment\n Defendant, Judgment\n Nonsuit\n Cases, Total\n Debt and Damage, Total\n \n \n \n 63\n $91,425 92\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nActions commenced in 1853.\n\n \n Court\n Number of Cases\n Amount of Debt and Damages claimed\n Settled without Trial\n Remaining in Dependence\n Plaintiff, Judgment\n Defendant, Judgment\n Nonsuit Cases\n Debt and Damage\n \n \n Supreme Court :— Common Law\n 28\n $130,316 43\n 17\n Nil\n Nil\n Nil\n \n \n \n \n Chancery\n Nil\n Nil\n Nil\n Nil\n Nil\n Nil\n \n \n \n \n Summary\n 84 (e)\n 14,158 71\n 19\n Nil\n Nil\n 3M 35 M\n \n \n \n \n Insolvency\n Nil\n Nil\n 1\n 7\n Nil\n Nil\n \n \n \n \n Ecclesiastical\n 22 (ƒ)\n Assets per appraisement 7,730 37\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Appeals\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vice Admiralty Court\n 6\n 769 65\n 1\n 2\n 1\n \n 3\n 15,302 35\n \n \n Total\n 141\n $168,277 51\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nActions remaining untried on the 1st January 1854.\n\n \n Court\n Number of Cases\n Amount of Debt and Damages claimed\n Plaintiff, Judgment\n Defendant, Judgment\n \n \n Supreme Court :—— Common Law\n 7(a)\n $222,22 53\n 2\n + (6)\n \n \n Chancery\n 1(c)\n 1\n -\n \n \n \n Summary\n 49 (g)\n 10,433 74\n 35\n \n \n \n Insolvency\n Nil\n Nil\n 14\n Nil\n \n \n Appeals\n 1\n 769 65\n \n \n \n \n Vice Admiralty Court\n 5 (d)\n 53,000 00\n 5\n \n \n\n(a) Three of these cases were in dependence on the 1st January 1853 (the remaining three in dependence were settled without trial), (b) In one of these cases, marked as judgment for plaintiff, the verdict was for plaintiff on one count and for defendant on the others. (c) This action being \"commission de lunatico,\" no amount can be stated.\n\n(d) Three of these cases were in dependence on the 1st January 1853. (Signed) W. H. ALEXANDER. Acting Registrar.\n\n(e) In one of these cases the defendant was arrested on a capias issuing from the common law side, and was subsequently tried in the summary jurisdiction; verdict for $111 24. (f) In three of these estates there was a will, consequently the property was not appraised.\n\n(g) One independence from 1852. N. R. MASSON, Acting Deputy Registrar.\n\nC\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.\n\ninclusive. RECAPITULATION of RETURNS, showing the Progress of Hong Kong from 1848 to 1853 Enclosure 14 in No. 33.\n\nHONG KONG,\n\n \n Years\n Revenue\n Grant\n Parliamentary Expenditure\n Police Rates arrived\n Square-rigged Vessels No.\n Tons\n £\n \n \n 1848\n 25,091\n 25,000\n 62,658\n 2,575\n 700\n 221,818\n \n \n \n 1849\n 29,507\n 23.617\n 25,000\n 38,286\n 3,116\n 902\n 293,465\n \n \n 1850\n 33,292\n 23,526\n 20,000\n 34,314\n 2,811\n 883\n 299,009\n \n \n 1851\n 32,983\n 23,721\n 15,500\n 34,115\n 2,958\n 1,082\n 377,084\n \n \n 1852\n 37,058\n 21,331\n 12,000\n 34,765\n 2,325\n 1,097\n 443,383\n \n \n 1853\n 39,917\n 24,700\n 9.200\n 36,418\n 2,704\n 1,103\n 447,053\n \n\n7th April 1854.\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. G. MACLEAN.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234488, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "content_text": "Commenced in \n\nReturn of the number of cases tried before the Honorable the Chief Justice, and Actions Supreme and Vice Admiralty Courts of Hongkong during the year ending the 31st December, 1853.\n\nCourt.\n\nSupreme Court.\n\nCommon Law.\n\nChancery.\n\nSummary.\n\nInsolvency.\n\nAppeals.\n\nVice Admiralty Court.\n\nCourt.\n\nSupreme Court.\n\nCommon Law,\n\nCases tried before The Honorable The Chief Justice in 1853. –\n\n \n Cases.\n Plaintiffs.\n Amount of debt and Damages claimed.\n Judgment for Plaintiff.\n non-suited.\n Defendant.\n \n \n 31.\n \n $27,222.53\n 2\n \n \n \n \n 49,\n \n 10,433.74\n Nil\n \"\n 35\n \n \n Nil\n \n Nil\n 14\n Nil\n \n \n \n \n \n 769.53,000.00\n 65\n \n 1\n \n\nActions Commenced in 1853.\n\n \n number of Cases.\n Amount of Debt and Damages claimed.\n Total.\n Cases settled without Trial\n Plaintiff.\n Judgment for Defendant.\n non-suit.\n Remaining in Dependence.\n \n \n 63\n $91425.92.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total.\n lages Debt and Damage.\n $130,316.43\n 28\n Nil\n 17\n 7\n Nil\n \n \n \n \n \n Nil\n Vil\n Nil\n Jal\n 2j.\n \n \n 84\n Nil\n 14,158.71\n Nil\n 19\n 35\n 13\n Vil\n \n \n \n \n \n Nil\n Nil\n Nil\n 17\n Nil\n \n\nEcclesiastical\n\n \n #22\n Assets per Appraisement\n 7,730.37\n \n\nAppeals.\n\nVice Admiralty Court.\n\n \n 769.65\n 15,302.35\n #\n $\n \n \n 2\n 3\n 14!\n $168,277.57.\n \n \n was\n for Plaintiff.\n I on one Count and for\n \n\nChancery.\n\nSummary.\n\nInsolvency\n\nThree of these cases were in dependence on the 1st January 1853. (the remaining three in dependence were settled without Trial) & Su one of these cases marked as Judgment for Plaintiff, the verdict on the others. This action being a Commission de Lunatico, no amount can be stated.\" Three of these cases were in dependence on the 15 January 1850.\n\nwas subsequently tried in the Summary Jurisdiction. Verdict for $11.1.2.4. \"\" In three of these cases there was a Will, consequently the property was not appraised. 2 Ine in dependence from 1852.\n\nDefendant Common Law Lide and was\n\n(Signed) H.K. Masson,\n\nActing Deputy Registrar.\n\nTrue Copy.\n\nI\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\ne of these cases the defendant was arrested on a lapias issuing from the\n\n| Signed / W. H. Alexanders,\n\nActing Registrar..\n\nM4474/54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236614, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9]", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9]", "content_text": "The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\nThe cases complained of are two-fold:\n\nvenience would be caused if the new system were brought suddenly into stringent operation:\n\n1. Where a Ship being registered in a Colony, a Bill of Sale or a Power of Attorney to execute a Bill of Sale, have been sent by the Registered Owner to the United Kingdom,\n\n2. Where a Ship being registered in a Colony, the Registered Owner is in the United Kingdom, and wishes to sell her here,\n\nIn both these cases, the Registrars of Shipping would, before\n\nMy Lords wish to suggest to the Commissioners, the expediency of adopting the following relaxations, to take effect at once, and to last during such time only as may be necessary to bring the New System into complete operation,\n\n1. Ships registered in the Colonies may, for such time as the 1st of May, have registered the Ship de novo, without waiting hereinafter mentioned, be registered de novo in this Country, upon the production of such Documents or Evidence of Title the Registrars have heretofore been in the habit of receiving as sufficient.\n\n2. In all such cases the Vendor or his Agent shall give to the Registrar security that the transaction shall be completed, and that the Registrar and the Commissioners shall be kept harmless from any loss or damage which they might incur if it were to happen that the Ship was in the meantime disposed of in the Colony. A suggested Form of Bond for this purpose is enclosed.\n\n3. The Vendor or his Agent must fill up and sign and deliver to the Registrar at the Port of Registry de novo, a form of application calling for a transfer of the registry under the provisions of the Act,\n\nThis application, the Registrar at the Port of registry de novo, will forward with the old certificate of registry to the Colony.\n\nIf it is wished to sell or mortgage the Ship in any part of the Empire other than that in which the Ship is registered, Statutory Powers of Attorney for the purpose (called in the Act \"Certificates of Sale or Mortgage\") can be procured at the Port of Registry.\n\nThese Certificates will confer a perfect title on those who take under them, whilst, as they will be entered on the Register Book at the Port of Registry, persons who might desire to purchase or lend Money on the Ship there, will have full notice of their existence.\n\n4. On registering the Ship de novo, the Registrar will insert in his Book the words \"Registry to be transferred from the Port of \", and, on receiving the requisite information from the Colonial Registrar, he will write under those words \"Registry completed by transfer from the Port of with the date.\n\nMy Lords consider it of very great importance for the interests of Shipping that these Certificates should be brought into use as quickly and as universally as possible, and that nothing should be done which would have the effect of permanently infringing the principles of the new system, or of inducing persons concerned in Shipping to believe that it will henceforward be possible to confer a Title to a Ship by any means except those which the Act, and the Regulations which have been issued under it, point out as necessary.\n\n5. The relaxation is to take effect at once, and to last, as to Ships Registered in the American Colonies, until the end of September, and as to Ships registered in more distant Colonies, until the end of February next.\n\nThe effect of the relaxation will be to place the persons who accept the title in this Country in as good a position, so far as regards the registry, as they could have enjoyed under the former practice, whilst they will have the additional advantage (which they could not have had under former Acts) that their equitable title to the Ship, will, under the provisions of the New Act, be perfectly good,\n\nI am, &c.,\n\nmany Ships have lately been sent, and are now being sent from the Colonies, for the purpose of being sold in this Country, according to the practice which has heretofore prevailed, and that considerable inconvenience...\n\nIn re JAMES LINDON, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given to the Next of Kin and all other Persons to produce any Wills or Codicils of the above Parties that may be in their possessions, before the Supreme Court, on Saturday, the 11th day of August, 1855, or if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse Letters of Administration failing which, Administration will be granted to the Acting Registrar of the said Court.\n\nBY THE COURT,\n\nWILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,\n\nActing Registrar.\n\nPOST-OFFICE NOTICE. The Post-Office will be closed on THURSDAY, the 9th inst.\n\nTHE next GENERAL MAILS by the Singapore, at 6 P.M., and the CUSTOMARY SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL, will be made up the following Morning between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock.\n\nTHOMAS HYLAND.\n\nPost-Office, Hongkong, 1st August, 1855.\n\nIN THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nMESSRS MACEWEN & Co., (for G. Duddell,)\n\nwill sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, by order of W. H. MITCHELL, Esq., Marshall of the Vice-Admiralty Court, on MONDAY, 6th August, 1855, and following days, commencing at 1 o'clock P.M., at the AUCTION MART, Queen's Road, where the Goods are now on view.\n\nA Large Quantity of damaged CHINESE CARGO, landed from the stranded Steamer \"Unicorn.\"\n\nTERMS OF SALE-Cash before delivery in MEXICAN Dollars, at 7.1.7.; all Lots to be at purchaser's risk as soon as knocked down.\n\nHongkong, 4th August, 1855.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nMESSRS SMITH & BRIMELOW have received instructions to dispose of by PUBLIC AUCTION, on MONDAY, the 6th August, 1855, at 11 o'clock A.M., at their Sale Rooms, Queen's Road, for the benefit of the concerned,-\n\n2 Chests OLD PATNA OPIUM, damaged by Sea Water.\n\n7 Bales GREY SHIRTINGS.\n\nAlso,\n\n4 Bales T-CLOTHS.\n\nAfterwards,\n\n2 Pairs Six-pounder GUNS.\n\nDo. Four-pounder do.\n\n32 Piculs SHOT, of different kinds.\n\n14 MUSKETS with BAYONETS.\n\nCOPPER POWDER MAGAZINES.\n\nA quantity of BLOCKS, &c., &c.\n\n89 Dozens STRAW HATS, and\n\n54 do. CIGARS CASES\n\nTERMS OF SALE,—Cash before delivery, in Mexican Dollars, and 7.1.7.\n\nIN @ Wo wan's Rundings,\n\nDoug Reng 24 August, 1233.\n\nThe Secretary of Customs.\n\nNOTICE. THERE will be no SESSIONS of the SUPREME COURT under its CRIMINAL JURISDICTION, during the present month.\n\nBY ORDER OF THE COURT,\n\nWILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,\n\nActing Registrar.\n\nCourt House, 2d August, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nBy Order of the CONSULAR DEPARTMENT OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE AT COPENHAGEN, it is hereby notified, that Applications to fill the Vacant Appointment of the Office of DANISH CONSUL of Hongkong, will be received by said Department until the 15th October, 1855.\n\nFRED. H. BLOCK, Acting Danish Consul.\n\nDanish Consulate, Hongkong, 28 July, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR ROBERT ANGUS has been appointed AGENT of the Canton Branch of THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF INDIA.\n\nCanton, 7th July, 1855.\n\nEDGAR CORRIE,\n\nManager.\n\nWe have established Mr WILLIAM HAMMOND FOSTER, JR., in Hongkong, as Agent for our Houses in Canton, Shanghai, and Foochow: and all Business to his address comes under our control and guarantee.\n\nCanton. 1st July, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nRUSSELL & Co.\n\nMR JAMES CRAMPTON is authorized to sign our firm per procuration from this date.\n\nHANBURY & Co. Shanghai, 10th May, 1855.\n\nNOTICE\n\nMR. NEWBOLT, Surgeon Dentist, has left Hongkong for Malacca, but intends to return to China in a few Months.\n\nHongkong, 1st August, 1855.\n\nCARD.\n\nCHARLES MARKWICK, Government and Supreme Court Auctioneer and Appraiser,\n\nand\n\nGENERAL STOREKEEPER, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.\n\nEstablished 1843.\n\nT. H. FARRER.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION OF LANDED PROPERTY.\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD & Co. have received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on the Ground, on MONDAY, the 20th August next, at Noon, the whole of\n\nMARINE LOT No. 58, situate in Victoria West, with the BUILDINGS thereon, known as Prous's Cottages.\n\nThis Eligible Property possesses a Sea Frontage of 230 Feet, and presents facilities for adding very largely to its value by reclaiming from the Sea.\n\nThe Queen's Road Frontage extends 260 Feet from East to West. and from the nature of its position, near the Centre of a populous part of the town, forms an admirable site for a range of CHINESE SHOPS and DWELLING HOUSES.\n\nThe present Depth on the West Boundary is 108 Feet, and the East 72 Feet,-both capable, at a very small outlay, of being increased by from 40 to 50 Feet.\n\nThe whole Lot contains an AREA of 20,948 Feet, and is leased from the Government for 75 Years (which can be increased on application to 999 Years,) at a yearly GROUND RENT of £183.1.4§.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to the Auctioneers.\n\nTERMS OF SALE. Cash in MEXICAN Dollars weighed at 7.1.7. The purchaser to pay the Ground-rent from the 25th June last, and the Expense of Transfer. One-third of the Purchase Money to be paid on the fall of the Hammer, and the Balance on the completion of the Transfer.\n\nHongkong, 12th July, 1855.\n\nSMITH & BRIMELOW,\n\nSHIP CHANDLERS,\n\nWholesale and Retail Wine and Spirit Merchants, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents,\n\nNos. 1 & 2 Wongsam's Buildings,\n\nHave always on hand an Assortment of SHIP CHANDLERY STORES of every kind.\n\nAlso,\n\nAn extensive and well-selected supply of WINES, BEER, and SPIRITS, LIQUEURS, CORDIALS, &c., of a superior description.\n\nOILMAN'S STORES from the well-known house of Copland, Bures & Co.; also, STORES per Overland Mail Steamers Monthly for domestic purposes.\n\nHongkong, 7th July, 1855.\n\nPrinted at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.\n\nPRICE, 6 per Annum. Single Copies, Twenty-five Cents.\n\nTERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS,-Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each additional Line, Twenty Cents-One-half of these charges for each Repetition.\n\nPage 92", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236701, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9]", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9]", "content_text": "\"So, what, and in whose favour? Is the Appraiser or Registrar justified in charging Fees in small Intestate Estates? See Note under Ecclesiastical Fees, Rule generalised as above. Do Bailiff's Fees go to Sheriff, Bailiff, or the Colonial Treasury?\n\nTreasury 9.\n\nOne of the gentlemen, the Editor of the most extensively circulated Newspaper in the Colony, who had been most constant in his complaints of abuses in levying fees, was specially requested to attend and give evidence; but he refused to do so, objecting to the Constitution of the Commission.\n\n10. But, that among the Subordinate Servants of the Government, not being Europeans, many abuses exist, and that bribes, pressure, and irregular fees are taken, there is but too much reason to fear. The communication between the higher functionaries and their dependents is, from ignorance of the language, and remoteness of position, so infrequent, that it is exceedingly difficult to obtain sufficient proof of existing irregularities, or adequate means for their suppression. There is also a universal unwillingness to substantiate charges, from apprehension of consequences. The habits of all Chinamen, and of many of the Oriental races, have been formed in countries where the pure administration of justice is unknown, and bribes, \"presents\", and fees are exacted and given almost as a matter of course.\n\n11.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 239697, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10]", "page_number": 335, "title": "CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10]", "content_text": "20\n\nthat he and I differ considerably as to the meaning of many words in the English language, and therefore fear that any attempt at explanation on my part would but lead to additional and irksome queries.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir,\n\nYour Most Obedient Servant\n\n(Signed) William Caine\n\nActing Surveyor General\n\nAugst 19th September 1856\n\nCaptain Crafter, R.E.,\n\nActing Surveyor General\n\n\"I have the honor to acknowledge your letter No. 21 of this date, in which you refer to and finally decline to give me any information whatever as to how you have disposed of the materials of my Confiscated property.\n\nThis would seem to be sufficiently discouraging to any further queries on my part, but it is not, as I find, occasion to put the following further queries, though they should turn out as unproductive as the first, and even be exposed to your charge of being eccentric.\n\n1stly. Are the materials in question deposited on the site of or being worked up in the construction of the new Central Police Station in Wellington Street? And being worked up in its construction. The Contract price of that new work is said by common report to be $15,000, which must be the full and fair market price of the work to be done. My materials being placed in the hands of your contractor ought to make a considerable difference either to him or to the public in the benefit of that contract, and as my object in ascertaining, or at worst finding that I cannot ascertain, how far the Colonial Chest has been eased and the public benefited at my expense, I take leave to put to you the following further queries.\n\n2ndly. What sum of money or other consideration have you given to the Contractor for the materials of my late houses which he is now working up in the construction of the new Central Police Station? What has been the form of that consideration? Has it been fixed sums of money, and if so in what amount, been paid for the Materials, or has their appraised value been abated from the original Contract price of the new Government buildings? If so, what was the date when the value, if in money, was paid into the Colonial Treasury? If in abatement, what was the date when that abatement was indorsed on the original Contract, and when the same was officially audited.\n\n3rdly. In what amount has your Department reimbursed Her Majesty's Government for the labor of its convicts employed in removing the materials in question to the site where they now lie?\n\n4thly. Equally, and again, whether after disposing of the materials to the intent and purposes of the warrant, namely the abatement of the alleged nuisance and defraying all due charges to its abatement, whether in the shape of reimbursing Government for Convict labor or in any other shape, you do or do not hold any surplus proceeds at your disposal on demand.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir,\n\nYour Most Obedient Servant\n\n(Signed) N. Hudson\n\nPage 21\n\n333", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241804, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 230, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "Accountant, & Clerk of Deed Registry – with ₤300 a year, acts as Appraiser by the Supreme Court for which he receives fees. Off. 21 July.\n\nThe foregoing has more to do with the town of collecting fees, under sec. 22. of the ordinance, & as doubts are taken. I think his allegation churlish as pointed out by Mr Blackwood. But this is not a keen office, the Council can very well interfere to add down the salary ourselves.\n\nM.J.\n\nMr Rienacker.\n\nRegistrar, in the place of Reporting Appointment of Power as Marriage Registrar.\n\nHm 1421 The fees received are taken under sec. 24.\n\nN85.\n\n7727\n\nThe At Honourable Henry Labouchere, M.P.\n\nGovernor For John Bowring\n\n21 May 1854\n\nKetwin, Hongkong,\n\nM. L.P.P.\n\nM. Merivale.\n\nOtherwise this is not the moment for augmenting the cost of the Civil Establishment. By the Blue Book of 1855 there were only Europeans in that Office and it is an expensive one. The opinion is that the parties married should pay the Registration expense, & not impose it on the parties generally as the work is £25 a year quite enough.\n\nIn Casa 6609. M. Kong\n\nBowring.\n\nANTE 28\n\n1857 JULY 30\n\nMerivale 30 Elliot\n\nSRC Fortescue\n\nOctyst 5 Aug 1857\n\n227\n\nI have received your despatch No. 1085.9 of the 21 May reporting the Appointment of Mr. Francis C. Power to the office of Registrar of Marriages in place of Mr. Reinacker.\n\nYou state that the salary attached to this situation is £50 per annum. Although this is not a new charge...\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244102, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "page_number": 438, "title": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "content_text": "# Grant's Report on the Increase in Population and Court Business\n\nThe great increase, in the inverse ratio of population and cases, in the Comparative increase in Police Court business.\n\n## Quarterly Report\n\nMy labor and responsibility have practically increased in the administration of this Colony's labor to such an extent. I beg to state that the work of every branch of the Department has considerably augmented.\n\nNoting that the increased work demanded my entire attention, I surrendered the post of Hindustani Interpreter - which I held - in order to focus on my duties as an Officer. The number of causes decided before the Magistrate's Court during the years 1846-1857 is as follows:\n\n| Year | Number of Causes |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1846 | 989 |\n| 1856 | 4010 |\n| 1857 | 1436 |\n\nI received the Office, and those decided before the same Court and the Court of Petty Sessions (established on the 14th March 1849) during the two years preceding the current year are also noted.\n\nI further wish to express that I was conferred with the office of Appraiser to the Supreme Court, vacated by the late Mr. Hillies, for the same reason.\n\nVery soon after, on the 10th of February 1845, I was admitted as a Servant under the Civil Government of this Colony.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244601, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "CE now how in this document casts any imputation upon Mr. Caldwell who he supposes as being likely to be deceived by the Chinese. Mr. Anstey left China or India a few days after writing this letter but so far from having been neglected in any way, communications were made to Mr. Caldwell, Mr. May and Mr. Inglis on the subject; they were duly appraised.\n\nNo 2, 3, 4. Their answers were received and Letton from Caldwell, Answers from Inglis - My Ma chow trig was considered and shortly afterwards Arraigned and Convicted of complicity with pirates. Mr. May's letter on this subject betrayed a strong feeling of animosity towards Mr. Caldwell. During Mr. Anstey's absence of four Months the Ordinance commonly called the Brothels Ordinance was returned by the Colonial Office with directions that it should be submitted to the Legislative Council in the form suggested by myself and not as drafted by Mr. Anstey. This subject had been one in which our sentiments had been entirely opposed to each other as to Anstey. Mr. Anstey was much annoyed at the decision of the Colonial Office. I believe the charges brought by Mr. Anstey against Mr. Caldwell owed their origin entirely to the fact that Mr. Caldwell actively carried out the details of the Ordinance, the passing of which he felt so strongly about on his return. \n\nPage 339", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246628, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 463, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "For the reoccupation of the Office lately held by Capt. Watten, recommended in your despatch No 26, until I am appraised of the resignation by Mr. Thistleway, who held the office of Assistant Harbour Master, Dr Brücker mentions the unavailability of Mr. Michell to continue in the service, but makes no positive statement as to his withdrawal from it is added.\n\n461 I shall therefore await further information on this point.\n\nDeciding upon this subject of the Harbour Master's Office, I unite with you in favour of the recommendation offered by the Lt. Governor on 15 June 1855 that the Marine Office and Magistrate should be separated from that of the Harbour Master, which was sanctioned by Her M. State on the 19 Sept. Following this, as I learn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248679, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 282, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "(2)\n\nI am instructed by my legal adviser that the alleged warrant, under the authority of which you are presumed to have acted in this case, comprehended the sale of as much of the materials as might serve to defray the due charges of abating the alleged nuisance and no more, and as I am further informed that the work of demolition and removal was effected by the unpaid labour of Chinese convicts, I shall feel obliged by your informing me specifically under the following heads,-\n\n1stly. The actual charges, if any, incurred in the demolition of my houses on Inland Lot No. 41, and in the removal of the materials.\n\n2ndly. Whether such materials were sold in market overt and upon due advertisement at their fair value, for the purpose of putting you into funds to defray the lawful charges incidental to the warrant.\n\n3rdly. Whether there are any surplus proceeds of such Sale over and above the charges incidental, and if so, whether you hold the same at my disposal.-I have, &c., &c.,\n\nCapt. Cowper, R.E., Acting Surveyor General.\n\n(Signed)\n\n(Copy) No. 3.\n\nA. HUDSON.\n\nHongkong, 18th September, 1856,\n\nSIR, I have to request an acknowledgement of the letter which I addressed to you on the 16th instant.— I have, &c., &c., &c.\n\nA. HUDSON,\n\n(Copy.) No. 20.\n\n(Signed)\n\nSurveyor General's Office, Victoria, 18th September, 1856.\n\nSIR, Agreeably to your request of this date, I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th, but as I am of opinion that the questions therein arise from a misconstruction of the terms of Ordinance 8 of 1856, I must decline to answer those questions.-I am, &c., &c.,\n\nWILLIAM COWPER, Acting Surveyor General.\n\nA. R. HUDSON, Esq., &c., &c., &c.\n\nCapt. Cowper, Acting Surveyor General.\n\n(Signed)\n\n(Copy.) No. 4.\n\nHongkong, 18th September, 1856.\n\nSIR,-With reference to your letter No. 20 of date, in reply to mine of 16th inst., I beg to state that if you will be good enough to point out to me my misconstruction of the terms of Ordinance No. 8 of 1856, I shall endeavour to frame the questions which I require to ask in conformity with your amended reading.\n\nRequesting your attention at your earliest convenience, as my stay here just now is solely occasioned by the necessity of bringing my correspondence with the local Government to a close.-I am, &c., &c.°\n\n(Copy.) No. 21.\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. HUDSON.\n\nSurveyor General's Office, Victoria, 19th September, 1856.\n\nSIR,-In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, I am constrained to decline furnishing you with my reading of the Ordinance No. 8 of 1856, for, if the perusal of any section of that Ordinance justified you in your legal adviser's opinion in asking me such questions as what was the cost of removing the adjudicated nuisance in Lyndhurst Terrace when, where, and how I sold the materials, and what part of the product I am prepared to place at your disposal, it follows that he and I differ considerably as to the meaning of many words in the English language, and therefore I fear that any attempt at explanation on my part would but elicit additional and more eccentric queries.—I have, &c., &c.\n\nWILLIAM COWPER, Acting Surveyor General.\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. R. HUDSON, Esq., &c., &c., &c.\n\nCaptain Cowper, R.E., Acting Surveyor General.\n\n(Copy.) No. 5.\n\nHongkong, 19th September, 1856.\n\nSIR, I have the honour to acknowledge your letter No. 21 of this date, in which you refuse and finally decline to give me any information whatever as to how you have disposed of the materials of my confiscated property.\n\nThis would seem to be sufficiently discouraging to any further queries on my part, but it is not, as I find occasion to put the following further queries, even though they should turn out as unproductive as the first, and even be exposed to your ban of being \"eccentric.\"\n\nI see the materials in question deposited on the site of the new Police Station in Wellington Street and being worked up in its construction. The contract price of that new work is said by common report to be $15,000, which must be taken accordingly as the full and fair market price of the work to be done. My materials being placed in the hands of your contractor ought to make a very considerable difference either to him or to the public in the benefit of that contract; and as my object is to ascertain, (or at worst find that I cannot ascertain,) how far the Colonial chest has been eased and this public benefited at my expense, I take leave to put to you the following further queries.\n\n1stly.\n\n-What sum of money or other consideration has your contractor given for the materials of my late houses which he is working up in the construction of the new Central Police Station?\n\n2ndly. What has been the form of that consideration? Has a fixed sum of money, and if so in what amount, been paid for the materials, or has their appraised value been abated from the original contract price of the new Government buildings. If so, the date when the value, if in money, was paid into the Colonial Treasury,if in abatement, the date when that abatement was indorsed on the original contract, and when the same was officially audited.\n\n3rdly. In what amount has your Department reimbursed Her Majesty's Government for the labor of its convicts employed in removing the materials in question to the site where they now lie?\n\n4thly.-Finally, and again, whether after disposing of the materials up to the intent and purposes of the warrant, namely the abolition of the alleged nuisance and defraying all due charges incidental to its execution, whether in the shape of reimbursing Government for convict labor, or in any other shape, you do or do not hold any surplus proceeds at my disposal on demand.-I have &c., &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. HUDSON.\n\n(3)\n\nNo. 22.\n\nSurveyor General's Office, Victoria, 22nd September, 1856.\n\nSIR,-In answer to your letter of yesterday, I express my regret that mine of that date failed to put you in possession of my intentions, viz: to end the correspondence between us; for as I wrote before.\n\nIf from the perusal of Ordinance 8 of 1856, you think yourself justified in asking me such questions as are contained in your letters, it is evident to me that we differ considerably as to the meanings of many words in the English language, and that therefore questions propounded by you and answered by me would only produce a compound misunderstanding. I have, &c., &c.\n\nWILLIAM COWPER, Acting Surveyor General.\n\n(Signed)\n\nNo. 2.\n\n+\n\nHongkong, 20th September, 1856.\n\nThe Honble. W. T. Mercer, Esq., Colonial Secretary.\n\nSIR,I have the honor to request that you will lay the accompanying correspondence between the Surveyor General and myself before His Excellency Sir John Bowring.\n\nMy letters in address are numbered 1 to 5,-the Surveyor General's in reply 19 to 21.\n\nThe information which I have thus in vain applied for, I require for the purpose of being embodied in a memorial of this transaction which I am preparing for the Secretary of State, and I now address myself with all respect to His Excellency, requesting that he will either be pleased to command this information to be given to me, or else to justify the acting Surveyor General in his refusal to give it, and take upon himself the whole responsibility of that refusal.\n\nI allege that materials which cost me over nine hundred dollars, were carried away by the Surveyor General and his gang of convicts, while the actual charges of abating the nuisance adjudged, did not amount to thirty dollars. I ask for the purpose of laying my case more clearly before the Secretary of State, and the Imperial Parliament-What became of the surplus? and am told, that my enquiry is an \"eccentric\" one.\n\nI again and finally ask, with all respect, whether His Excellency is prepared to justify that answer, either directly, or by refusing to interfere with it.—I have, &c., &c.\n\nA. HUDSON.\n\nNo. 681.\n\n(Signed)\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 22nd September, 1856.\n\nSIR, I have the honor to acknowledge your letter No. 2 of 20th instant, and am directed to reply, that the question involved in it implies an accusation against the Acting Surveyor General, which,, if you believe there are grounds for it, may be referred to the decision of a Court of Law,-1 have, &c., &c.,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nA. R. Hudson, Esq.\n\n(Signed)\n\nNo. 3.\n\nHongkong, 22nd September, 1856.\n\nThe Honble. W. T. Mercer, Esq., Colonial Secretary.\n\nSIR, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 681 of this day's date, in which His Excellency refers me for redress for injuries I have suffered to the decision of a Court of Law-that is to say, His Excellency first passes a law confiscating my lawful property, and legalizing that confiscation, and then tells me to appeal to a local Court, in which he knows that all redress is for the present impossible.\n\nI decline to prosecute His Excellency's Surveyor General, but I pledge myself, failing full compensation and redress at the hands of the Imperial Government, to prosecute His Excellency himself at the bar of the British Parliament. I have, &c., &c.,\n\nA. HUDSON,\n\n(Copy.) No. 4.\n\nHongkong, 25th September, 1856.\n\nSIR,Towards completing my correspondence with the local Government, and before addressing myself to the Imperial, I am advised that it is necessary for me to make the following proposition, and which I request accordingly may be submitted to His Excellency Governor Bowring.\n\nI claim at His Excellency's hands the sum of Two thousand dollars as compensation to me for damages accruing from the operation of a new Law which he brought suddenly upon me on the 16th of April last, the specifications and requirements of which I could not possibly have anticipated when I commenced my works prior to its promulgation.\n\nIf His Excellency thinks proper to entertain this claim, and holds me fairly entitled to reimbursement out of the Colonial Chest, I am prepared to authenticate the actual amount of the loss and damages sustained by me, and to accept that amount in adjustment of my claim.\n\nHowever, holding, as I do, that the outrage committed in this case, is one affecting not merely myself as an individual, but in my person every faithful subject of the British Crown in this colony, no settlement of my claim by His Excellency here shall operate as a compromise of the duty thus thrust upon me, to my infinite reluctance, namely, to lay bare this outrage before Her Majesty's Government, and if necessary before a higher tribunal.—I have, &c., &c.\n\nThe Hon. The Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Copy.) No. 693.\n\nA. HUDSON.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th September, 1856.\n\nSIR, I have the honor to acknowledge your letter No. 5 (4) of this date, and am directed to reply that the proposition therein contained cannot, as must be plain to yourself, be entertained by His Excellency The Governor.I have, &c., &c.,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nA. R. HUDSON, Esq.\n\nThe Honorable The Colonial Secretary.\n\nCopy.) No. 5.\n\nHongkong, 26th September, 1856.\n\nSIR, I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. 693 of yesterday's date, in which His Excellency declines to entertain my claim for compensation for my property in this colony, which he recently caused to be destroyed. This is sufficiently definitive.\n\n278\n\n:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248941, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "content_text": "127\n\n3\n\n\"and by him returned into the Registry Service with certificate of service.\n\nNext, if there be no claimant at the expiration of 3 months from the Return of warrant, the court on petition of the Rector and allegation that the warrant has been returned upwards of three months and no appearance entered, will decree a monition calling all persons to show cause why the property should not be condemned at the expiration of a year and a day from the date of Return \"as Droits.\n\nThis monition is returnable in 3 months and is after proper service to be returned into the Registry with certificate of service. In the meanwhile the property will have been in the custody of the court, but if it be in bad condition and perishable, and the Judge be satisfied by Affidavit that it is for the general benefit that it be sold - it may be appraised and sold, and proceeds paid into the Registry.\n\nIf at the expiration of:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249913, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "either to acquit or \n\ncondemn \n\nthe same upon the evidence \n\narising from the preparatory examinations taken on the \n\nsaid Interrogatories, and upon the papers found, \n\ndelivered up, or taken in or with such capture, \n\nor on board any other captured ship regarding \n\nthe same, unless it shall appear doubtful \n\nto the Judge whether such capture be lawful \n\nprize or not, and unless it shall appear necessary, \n\naccording to the circumstances of the case, for the \n\nclearing and determining such doubt, to have such \n\nfurther evidence as the said Judge may \n\ndeem requisite, having regard to the circumstances of the \n\ncase \n\nand the practice of the court, in which case \n\nhe shall make such decree for further proof on \n\nthe part of any \n\nparty applying for the same \n\nas to him \n\nmay \n\nseem meet. \n\n44 \n\n...\n\ntake notice that \n\nthey are specially \n\nbound \n\nto proceed \n\nto \n\ncondemnation. \n\nOn the \n\nThe said Judges \n\nshall not \n\nproceed to condemnation for \n\nmere want of a claim, unless there be sufficient \n\nevidence that the property belongs to the Enemy \n\nor \n\nis otherwise liable to condemnation or confiscation \n\n...\n\n62 \n\nbut in case there be no \n\nsuch evidence the Judge shall wait \n\na year and \n\na day from the return of the monition, \n\nbefore he proceed to condemnation or confiscation for \n\nthe want of \n\na claim. \n\n3. In case of a decree for further proof \n\nthe \n\nJudge \n\nshall order the capture to be appraised by persons \n\nto be appointed by the Court, and \n\nsworn \n\nto \n\nappraise the same according to the best of their \n\nskill and knowledge, and for such purpose the Judge shall cause, if he shall think fit, the \n\ngoods found on board to be unladen and, an \n\nInventory thereof being first taken by the Marshal \n\nor other Officer, the Judge shall cause all such \n\nparts of the Goods \n\nas \n\nare perishable to \n\nbe \n\nsold by Public sale (for the clear amount of which only the Captors shall be answerable to the Claimants) and the remainder unsold to be put into proper warehouses with separate locks of \n\nthe Collector and Comptroller of the Customs, \n\nand where \n\nthere is \n\nno \n\nCollector \n\nor \n\nComptroller, then of some \n\nindifferent \n\nperson appointed by the Judge and agents or persons \n\nemployed", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250641, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "page_number": 202, "title": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "content_text": "They may be ordered off to this place or that \n\nat a day's notice and I therefore consider it only a wise precaution to make provision for securing \n\ntheir evidence. \n\nThese Alterations have required Corresponding alterations in the Schedule of fees \n\nand in the Forms which \n\nyou will find duly attended to. With these remarks. I beg to submit: the enclosed to His Excellency's consideration and \n\nhave to (Signed) Henry Kingsmill \n\nActing Attorney General. \n\n(True copy) \n\nColonial Secretary. \n\nProsecutions against the ships and goods of ficatices \n\nOn a Reesel and goods or seizure of goods taken from the possession of Picatin long hought int's part, it shall be the duty of the sevier to inform the Marshal of such circumstamme without delay who shall hereupon take charge thereof and have the same appraised aus having done so he shall forthwith give notice thereof to the \n\nRegistrar \n\nand \n\nthe Queen's Proctor together with a description of the said land goods or Vessel and the xotimated value thereof... \n\nIn case the value of the vessel and goods or seizure of goods shall and exceed the sum of fifty dollars - The Queen's Proctor shall enter a claim for condemnation of the said vessel and goods describing them, and he shall cause notice of his having done so to be affixed for the period of one calendar month on the door \n\nof the Court House. \n\nThe hearing of such claim shall take place at the next sitting of Vice Admiralty which shall be held on the month next but one after that in which the Vessel + goods - Vessel or goods shall have been delivered into the custody of the Marshal The evidence - in support of such claim and also in support of any Counterclaim which may be made in respect of such property as aforesaid shall be taken viva voce upon oath (except in the case hereinafter provided for) in open Court and the Judge at such hearing either condemn or order restitution of the vessel and goods or live or foods as the case may be. \n\nIn cases where there shall be danger of losing the testimony of any of them in consequence of him being ordered away from the Colony on promotion he the Judge may upon application made in Chambers in that behalf (such application to be supported by an affidavit grounding) can order for the examination of such person to be taken and such order being made the Registrar shall take the evidence of such person \n\nnamed in such order and in manner therein expressed and the evidence so taken shall be used upon the hearing of the claim for condemnation... \n\nshould the claim of the Proctor be made out to the satisfaction of the Judge and no person or persons prove himself or themselves to be the true owners of the property the subject of such claim the Judge shall condemn such property as drovité \n\nand", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250642, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "content_text": "and perquisite of Her Majesty, in her office of Admiralty aué chall since his evamant to the Marshal Demmaning him to effect a sale, and the and forensics. next proceeds, after deducting herefrom all cats of preliminary processing shall be paid over to the Receiver of Her Majest jo ti rest of Aomically\n\nAny person or pero one claiming to be the laws ounce or owners of property tatter from Perates aus which shall out execes in value the sum of $250, may eatin of a claim herats by giving relies to the Peziotein ans ales to the frontor for the blown, estive fork he particulars of euch claim, and ameeping merete any documents ver in it's, or Copics and translations onitacey, which may be necesary to establish the wait !, and ownership of the property. But no such claim shall be herade sabers entere dear at least accon lunescape before the car fiser for the hearing cars fic forthe bharing of the claim to condemnicatin enterie by the Proctor for the Brown, nor amless at the time of entry there of excurity shall Reciven to the satisfaction of the Registrar, for the payment full lato\n\nIf the Raimant a laman shall frares, to he ovatisfaction of the buize that of amy property, batten from Preates the size shall ander relitation hire of to be made on the Claimant a blommante pracional e fences comactic herewith causales, in lieu of valvage not less than one eighth poort of the teve verse of the property, and such caboye shall he disproved o in onomer dirati by Law.\n\ndistress and cale issued or Shout's any such claimant allaimants as aforesaid fail to establish his a their daim, hearshey shalbe liable to pay all costo occasioned breach proceeing default of porporent on the say piper broke duke for that purpose o than aut of distre any recle of the gods ofthe defaulter a de fruiters shall be rammed muder the real of the Court discotes to the Marshal, Antifachim be made hata veuffieut good of the defaulter or defaulters is a creto le forums within the blony hear they es maning default shall be liable the om prisores for any term til spacesing here months\n\nThe following fees cheel be taster for and in respect of the foraging parecedings\n\nBy the Judge Fee on order for de bene esse Exammation See on Shearing £. 5.0 10.0\n\nBy the Surrogate bursaring sack Deponent to an affidaint\n\nBy the Registrar On Entry of Claim Gder for de beneleve Examination Gamination of witness de bene ave Deoree Summonerhulpana Marant of Sale a Distões £ u 5.0 \"/ / 5. 540 £10m $10.0 4.6. 10.0 5.0\n\nBy the Marchal Jasting possession and mating. K Trum Neeking possesion perday Every sale after consommation Executing Mamant of Gisteer £ Q . . . 0\n\nBy the Appraiser Two and a half percent\n\nQueens Frostor In the whole £10\n\nWhenever the pasporti clamed and restored is of very small value the sul panan at his discretion order and direct that one fourth only of the above fees shall be paid\n\nA lourt of Vice Admiralty, for the heal of euch cases. shall be held once in every month.\n\nForm of Miha by Marchal to Naujishar of his having taken charge of Veselorgards tague from Peratio\n\nIn the pre liimimalt, Part of Cummary Simrisdiction Manchal of tetice liminally Court of - heeein - precastine hat I have tatton chang of (henstumribes head storia) basten", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253215, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "page_number": 298, "title": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "content_text": "## \n\n3. \n\n296 \n\nto be embodied in a Circular, and forwarded to the Acting Colonial Secretary, to be forwarded to the several Officers in the receipt of fees, for their future information and guidance.\n\nThe Officers of this Government who receive fees are:\n\n| Officer | Role/Receives fees as |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Registrar of the Supreme Court | Official Administrator, Official Assignee, and Registrar of the Vice-Admiralty Court |\n| The Assistant Magistrate | Sheriff |\n| The Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court | |\n| The two appraisers of the Supreme Court | in its Probate Jurisdiction |\n\nThe only two of these to whom the Circular has been applicable since my assumption of this government have been Mr. Huffum, the present Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court, and Mr. Bower, the present Acting Sheriff.\n\nBoth these officers have, in compliance with the Circular, accounted for their fees with the Colonial Treasury.\n\nHaving given consideration to the proportion of the fees received by these Acting Officers which should be returned to them, I have, under the Authority given to me in the Third Rule of the Circular, awarded to each the whole.\n\nI have arrived at this decision for the reasons given in the accompanying Copy of a letter in Mr. Huffum's case.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257395, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "page_number": 331, "title": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "content_text": "# Inventory account and Scheme of Administration\n\n1861\n\nthe state of John Soomey, deceased,\n\nAccounts and Vouchers by Norman Ramsay Major, Acting Registrar, Official Administrator\n\n## Inventory\n\nDecember 2 By cash from Auctioneers' net proceeds of Sale of effects - 1861 October 7 $14.00\n\n14 00\n\n## Account\n\n \n To Cash paid\n \n $\n Cents\n \n \n advertisement Kin and claims.\n \n 2\n 20\n \n \n -Appraisers fees and Cooke Hire\n \n 1\n 00\n \n \n -Sheriffs fees\n \n \n 70\n \n \n Administrators Commission\n \n 5\n 576\n \n \n Balance under $50\n \n 5\n 54\n \n \n No Court fees.\n \n 14\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n F. S. Huffum\n \n \n \n \n \n Aeth Behr Registr\n \n \n \n \n Examined with Vouchers (signed)\n \n \n \n \n\n1862.\n\nBalance brought down.\n\n## Scheme of Administration\n\n \n Irme 1862\n \n $5\n 54\n \n \n Schnary 12\n \n 5\n 54\n \n \n Baid for Postage on letter to England\n \n \n 32\n \n \n Funeral Expenses - Government grave Fees\n $16.22\n \n \n \n \n the whole balance in the credit of the estate paid in part liquidation of the same\n \n \n \n \n \n (Signed) N. R. Masson,\n \n \n \n \n \n Acting Registrar\n \n \n \n \n \n M Alexander\n \n \n \n \n \n Acting Colonial Secretary.\n \n \n \n \n \n W. H. Adams\n \n \n 522\n \n \n Sanctioned.\n \n 5\n 54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262213, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "page_number": 384, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "## 380 \n\nThe Karshat is granted and drsned, lites for possession of the vessel and in a few days if no claim is made Herts the Court makes a decree for her to be appraised and sold.\n\nباناسات \noffctant of actrination and the affetarie \nTreces are fail in the Preguntry \nthe \n\nAbout three months after Warrant of arrivé is issued the Court decrces a monition to isene calling all persons to appear and shew cause why the brocads should not be condemned as Droits of der Prisjerty in the Office of Admiralty, the twelvemonth having elapsed and no claim made, a sentence condemning them accordingly is signed by the Judge. \n\nI then make out my Bill of Costs for all these proceedings and mulct on its being taxed and approved by the Judge, I receive the amount out of the proceeds in Court, should however the proceeds prove insufficient, I am authorized to draw on the Accountant General of the Navy for the balance.\n\nAlso, in cases of petitions for the grant of Bounty for the destruction of pirates made by Naval Officers, I draw as authorized, for the amount of my taxed Costs on the Accountant General of the Navy.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 267129, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]", "content_text": "73\n\nand\n\nArr[aigned?].\n\nAccountant\n\nSevere\n\namalgamated, and I was\n\nappointed to fill the\n\nsaving\n\ndouble Office, whereby was effected a saving of £325 per Annum; the Surveyor General's Report for the Blue Book of that year will show how\n\nwell I acquitted myself in\n\nthe\n\n9.\n\nnew\n\nOffice. Vide Appendix.\n\nIn the\n\nmonth of\n\nFebruary, 1847, I was allowed\n\nto accept the Office of Appraiser of the Supreme Court, which I continued to hold till May,\n\n1866 (nearly twenty years). My successful fulfilment\n\nof those frequently difficult duties was certified to by\n\nA.\n\n3/\n\nB.\n\nthe Registrar of the Supreme Court on the occasion of my\n\ngoing\n\nto England on leave of absence in 1853, under\n\ndate of 15th March. Vide Appendix.\n\n10.\n\nAt the close of the\n\nYear 1848, a considerable reduction in the Establishment of the Surveyor General was\n\nproposed for 1849, and the Surveyor General recommended\n\nthat my salary should be reduced by £30 per Annum;\n\nthis\n\nwas allowed by Governor Bonham and my salary\n\nfor the year 1849 was reduced accordingly;\n\n[No?] Clerk's salary\n\nin\n\nany\n\nother Department\n\nthe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 267139, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]", "content_text": "Suspension of W. Tarrant on the 5th August, In this also, as in his other work, Mr Nower has taken considerable trouble and extra work to complete certain services left in arrears by his predecessor.\n\nB. Certificate from the Registrar of the Supreme Court, dated 15 March, 1853.\n\n\"I have much pleasure in certifying that you have held the Office of Appraiser of Intestate Estates in this Department since February, 1847, and that your activity and zeal in performing the somewhat disagreeable duties of that Office have given the greatest satisfaction.\n\n(Signed) Robert Dundas Cay, Registrar Official Administrator of Intestate Estates.\n\nsee over", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 267154, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]", "content_text": "97A\n\nCause of Retirement, [with annexed Medical Certificate, if from infirmity of mind or body, and under 60.]\n\nInfirmity of body. See Certificate to Mr. Pavis letter of 18th Nov. 1866.\n\n18-0\n\nUnder...\n\nDates of Commencement and Termination of the several Appointments held by Applicant, with their Emoluments, distinguishing Salary from other Allowances, and specifying such Allowances.\n\nLee Memo: attached.\n\nWhether holding any other Public Appointment, or receiving or claiming to receive any Public Money by Compensation, Half Pay or otherwise.\n\nMil\n\nAbsences during each of the last 10 years\n\n \n YEAR\n Date of Cessation of Duty\n Date of Cessation of Salary\n NUMBER OF DAYS.\n Illness\n Other cause\n \n \n 18..\n 16th January 1869.\n 187..\n 18..\n \n \n \n \n 186..\n \n \n In 24 days.\n \n \n \n \n 1829,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1860,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1861,\n \"January 1867\n \n 31 at\n \n \n \n \n 1862,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1863,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1864,\n \n \n 12 months.\n \n \n \n \n 1866,\n \n \n Mongteng\n \n \n \n\nMemorandum of appointments held by Mr. J.C. Power.\n\n \n Appointment\n Commencement Date\n Termination Date\n Emoluments\n \n \n Clerk and Accountant, Surveyor General's Office\n 19th September 1861\n 50th September 1847\n £200 per annum\n \n \n Accountant and Clerk of Deed Registry, Surveyor General's Office.\n 128th September 1849\n \n \n \n \n Acting Colonial Treasurer\n \n \n £1000 per annum\n \n \n Clerk\n 131st July 1860\n \n £300 per annum\n \n \n \n 1st August, 1860\n $120\n \n \n \n \n January, 1869.\n \n \n \n \n \n april, 1860\n \n \n \n \n \n Je k July 1860\n \n per\n \n \n Acting Assistant Magistrate\n 112th October 1861\n \n \n \n \n Acting Coroner\n \n \n \n \n \n Acting Sheriff\n 514 December 1862.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n £350\n \n \n Clerk of Deed Registry\n \n \n £650 per annum\n \n \n Coroner.\n \n \n Fee.\n \n \n Sheriff.\n \n \n \n \n \n Sheriff for the year 1865.\n Aur.\n \n \n \n \n \n May, 1886.\n \n \n \n \n Jur.\n \n \n \n \n \n Appraiser of Supreme Court\n from February 1849\n \n \n \n \n Acting Registrar of Acting Magistrate.\n to 11th February 1856\n 18th May 1859.\n \n \n\nSo trs!", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 269485, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "content_text": "We have the honour to be \n\nSir,\n\nYour Most obedient Servants \n\nSigurs Rd. S. Walker the,\n\nInventory Account and \n\nScheme filed with accounts & vouchers by \n\nInventory \n\n11866 \n\nAdministration of the Estate of late Wallace Ryan \n\nKensington Act. \n\nRegistrar Official Receiver \n\nCourtenay \n\n1864 \n\nAccount \n\n\"Dr 30 By balance as he resigned terror Power sale of effects 39 72 By 20 to cash paid Commission \n\n} \n\n7 \n\nApril 13 June 30 Mar 23 \n\n\" \n\nBalance \n\nAppraisers fees Sheriffs Advertising. \n\nrichest claims \n\n4 \n\nRemarks \n\ni \n\n29 72. \n\nwith \n\nLewis and Freund \n\nCredit \n\nF. S. Steffand \n\nClerk of Court \n\nScheme of Administration \n\nAmount in hand of Registrar \n\nMccord \n\nwith scheme \n\n7. \n\nHuffnagel \n\nSworn to the best of the above this 25th \n\nday of March, D.1867 Before \n\nJ.L. Huff \n\nA Commissioner \n\nAdministration Expenses Court fees \n\non Path of Commissioner. Glauins \n\nR. I Walker 633 (Det at 37 46 \n\nEd Rossbere th31 \n\n\" \n\nEXOE (s?). N. R.m \n\n29 2973 \n\n3 \n\n15 \n\nJohn Frale \n\nChief Justice", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 271206, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11]", "page_number": 162, "title": "CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11]", "content_text": "Hongkong, 26th January, 1867.\n\nSuprema and Vice Admiralty Courts of Hongkong, during the Year ending 31st December, 1866. RETURN of the NUMBER of Cases tried before the Honorable the Chief Justice, and ACTIONS commenced in the\n\nCases tried before the Honorable the Chief Justice in 1866.\n\n \n COURT\n NUMBER OF CASES\n DEBT AND DAMAGES CLAIMED\n AMOUNT OF JUDGMENT\n Plaintiff\n Defendant\n Nonsuit\n \n \n Supreme Court,- Common Law\n 152\n $518,152.90\n $419,741.38\n \n \n \n \n \n Chancery\n 18\n \n $37,851.43\n \n \n 3\n \n \n Bankruptcy\n 3\n \n \n Appellant\n Respondent\n \n \n \n Appeals\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vice-Admiralty Court\n \n $56,060.09\n \n \n \n 15\n \n\nActions commenced in 1866.\n\n \n COURT\n NUMBER OF CASES\n DEBT AND DAMAGES CLAIMED\n JUDGMENT\n Plaintiff\n Defendant\n Nonsuit\n REMAINING IN DEPENDENCE\n \n \n Supreme Court,- Common Law\n 117\n $1,920,530.01\n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n Chancery\n \n $148,035.85\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Probate\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bankruptcy\n 17\n $420,778.79\n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n Appeals\n 1\n \n \n Appellant\n Respondent\n \n \n \n \n Vice-Admiralty Court\n \n $121,447.94\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nOne of these cases was in dependence on 31st December, 1865.\n\nThree of these cases were in dependence on 31st December, 1865.\n\nSix of these cases were Petitions for Bounty.\n\nFour of these cases were in dependence on 31st December, 1865.\n\nThe sum here given is from the valuations made by the Appraisers of Court.\n\nJudgment was signed in Twenty of these cases, representing a sum of $542,611.82.\n\nThe sum here given is the amount of liabilities entered in the Bankrupts' Schedules.\n\nTwo of these cases were from the Police Court, and one from the Summary Jurisdiction Court.\n\nDuring the Year there were 104 Sittings in Court and in Chambers, upon notices of motion and Judge's Summonses, from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1866. RETURN of the NUMBER of CASES tried, and ACTIONS commenced, in the Court of Summary Jurisdiction,\n\n \n NO. OF CASES\n DEBT AND DAMAGES CLAIMED\n AMOUNT OF JUDGMENT\n Plaintiff\n Defendant\n Nonsuit\n REMAINING IN DEPENDENCE\n REMARKS\n \n \n 1,139\n $72,832.46\n $74,096.70\n \n \n 8\n 260\n \n \n\n*4 of these Cases were in Dependence on 31st December, 1865.\n\nHENRY J. HOLMES,\n\nClerk of Court.\n\nABSTRACT of Causes under COGNIZANCE of the Police Magistrates' Court during the Year 1866.\n\n \n CAUSES NOW DISPOSED OF\n M.\n F.\n \n \n Total Number of Defendants\n 6,045\n 769\n \n \n Punished for preferring false charge, or giving false testimony\n 6\n \n \n \n To be of good behaviour, or to answer any charge\n 200\n 34\n \n \n To keep the Peace\n 2\n \n \n \n Committed to Prison, or detained, pending orders of the Governor\n 252\n 7\n \n \n Committed for Trial at the Supreme Court\n 36\n 6\n \n \n Undecided\n 161\n \n \n\nJOHN C. WHYTE,\n\nPolice Magistrate.\n\nN. R. MASSON,\n\nActing Registrar.\n\n \n WRITE ISSUED BY MAGISTRATES DURING THE YEAR 1866\n \n \n \n Summonses for Defendants\n 10,966\n \n \n Warrants\n 2,706\n \n \n Summonses for Witnessca\n 250\n \n \n Judgment and Rehearing\n 12\n \n \n Distress\n 132\n \n \n Arrest\n 101\n \n \n Search\n 122\n \n\nTHE CASES CONSISTED OF\n\n \n \n M.\n F.\n \n \n Administering Drugs\n 8\n 18\n \n \n Aiding and Abetting in Larceny\n 18\n 3\n \n \n Assaults at a riotous Assemblage\n 11\n \n \n \n Abduction of Females\n 4\n 6\n \n \n Accusing of Crime with intent to Extort\n 2\n \n \n \n Assaults\n 725\n 129\n \n \n Assaults accompanied with Damage of Property\n 37\n 11\n \n \n Assault with intent to Rob\n 51\n 10\n \n \n Attempts to commit Felony\n 10\n \n \n \n Attempting to sell Children, or having Children with intent to sell\n 2\n \n \n \n Attempting to sell Military Property\n 1\n \n \n \n Attempt to Murder by Drowning\n 1\n \n \n \n Being at large in the Street at night without Night Pass\n 4\n \n \n \n Breach of Chinese Passengers' Act 1855\n 168\n \n \n \n Breach of Prison\n 6\n \n \n \n Breach of Recognizance\n 352\n \n \n \n Breaches of Building Ordinance\n 23\n \n \n \n Breaches of Cargo Boat Ordinance\n \n \n \n \n Breaches of Jail's Ordinance\n \n \n \n \n Allowing unmuzzled ferocious Dogs to be at large\n 4\n \n \n \n Obstruction of Wharves, &c. by Boats\n 168\n \n \n \n Obstruction of Public Ways by Hawkers, &c, and by playing at Games of chance\n 6\n \n \n \n Found in Houses at night with intent to steal therein\n \n \n \n \n Found at Night with Arms or Housebreaking Implements, with intent to commit Felony\n \n \n \n \n Harboring Felons\n \n \n \n \n Cutting and destroying Trees\n 2\n \n \n \n Harboring Burglars\n \n \n \n \n Conduct calculated to provoke a breach of the Peace\n 11\n \n \n \n Harboring Police when on Duty\n \n \n \n \n Disorderly behaviour, and disorderly behaviour accompanied by Damage of Property\n \n \n \n \n Highway Robbery\n \n \n \n \n Intimidating Workmen\n 2\n \n \n \n Defiling Streams\n 21\n \n \n \n Kidnapping\n \n \n \n \n Discharging Fire Arms\n 6\n \n \n \n Keeping Billiard Tables without a License\n 1\n \n \n \n Firing off Crackers and making Bonfires\n 40\n \n \n \n Keeping Boarding Houses without a License\n 201\n \n \n \n Futions Driving, Riding, &c.\n 8\n \n \n \n Larcenies, common\n 786\n \n \n \n Indecent Exposure of Person\n 11\n \n \n \n Larcenies from Person\n 22\n \n \n \n Breaches of Market's Ordinance\n 42\n \n \n \n Breaches of Post Office Ordinance\n \n \n \n \n Branches of Registration Ordinance\n 185\n \n \n \n (Plying Boats without License; Mendicancy; Unlicenced Hawking, &c.)\n \n \n \n \n Breaches of Ordinances:\n \n \n \n \n For Registration of Public Brothels\n \n \n \n \n Regulation of Weights and Measures\n 20\n \n \n \n Demanding Money with Menaces\n 8\n \n \n \n of Vehicles and Chairs\n 184\n \n \n \n Desertion from H. M's Army and Navy\n 19\n \n \n \n Sale of Prepared Opium\n \n \n \n \n Detention of Seamen's Effects\n \n \n \n \n Suppression of Public Gambling\n 46\n \n \n \n Embezzlement\n 87\n \n \n \n Retail of spirituous and fermented Liquors\n \n \n \n \n Escaping from Custody of Police\n 12\n \n \n \n Breaches of Pawnbroker's Ordinance\n 1\n \n \n \n Breaches of Bankruptcy Ordinance\n \n \n \n \n Breaches of Ordinance 14 of 1845, viz:- Nuisances\n \n \n \n \n Damage of Property, Cruelty to Animals\n 495\n \n \n \n Exercising the calling of Pawnbroker without License\n 79\n \n \n \n Extortion by Color of Office\n 12\n \n \n \n Forgery, and Uttering Forged Documents, &c.\n \n \n \n \n False Imprisonment\n \n \n \n \n Forcible Detention, &c.\n \n \n \n \n Found on Shore without Ticket of Leave\n 3\n \n \n \n Wontonly throwing Stones\n 61\n \n \n \n Misconduct as Domestic Servants, &c.\n 6\n \n \n \n Unlawful Possession of Property\n 13\n \n \n \n Burglary\n 1\n \n \n \n Child Stealing\n \n \n \n \n Confederating with Pirates\n \n \n \n \n Conspiracy to Extort\n \n \n \n \n Conspiracy to conceal Crime\n \n \n \n \n Crimes and Offences committed in Chinese Territory and against the Laws of China\n \n \n \n \n Cutting and Wounding with intent to do Grievous Bodily Harm, &c.\n 121\n \n \n \n Libel\n --\n \n \n \n Malicious Prosecution and False Testimony, &c.\n 283\n \n \n \n Maliciously Setting Fire to a Ware-house with intent to Defraud\n 20\n \n \n \n Misconduct as Police Constables\n 57\n \n \n \n Murder\n 19\n \n \n \n Manslaughter\n 1\n \n \n \n Offences relating to Coin\n 7\n \n \n \n Obtaining Property by False Pretences\n 3\n \n \n \n Offences relating to Workmen\n \n \n \n \n Personating Police Constables\n 6\n \n \n \n Personating Mail\n 13\n \n \n \n Piracy\n 1\n \n \n \n Piracy with Murder\n \n \n \n \n Receiving Stolen Property\n 361\n \n \n \n Receiving Bribe as Police Constable\n 6\n \n \n \n Refusing to render aid to Police\n \n \n \n \n Rescuing Prisoners from Custody of Police\n 18\n \n \n \n Robbery\n \n \n \n \n Rogues, and Vagabonds, &c.\n 476\n \n \n \n Storing Gunpowder to the Danger of Houses\n 1\n \n \n \n Trespass on Crown Lands\n 49\n \n \n \n Unnatural Offences\n 1\n \n \n \n Total\n 11,733\n \n \n \n Discharged\n 3,263\n \n \n \n Convicted and Punished\n 8,470\n \n \n \n Total Number of Causes\n 11,733", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272215, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "page_number": 408, "title": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "content_text": "breach of \n\nbreakage \n\nas \n\nthan \n\n210 \n\nfine \n\n$900. \n\nthe letter of the \n\nTribunal can impose \n\nor punishment \n\nand \n\nthe \n\nadmitting the power of \n\nmore \n\nTribunal even \n\npower to create a \n\nof the Tribunal \n\nadjudicates \n\nindicates in \n\nthis \n\nmatter, have power \n\nto deal with the case it can \n\nonly do so \n\non the basis \n\nand that the Chinese \n\nupheld and \n\nGovernment are \n\nwilling to \n\nback the Steamer \n\nbecause in that case, why \n\nshould they take less than her value? If I \n\nam entitled \n\nto consideration at all it \n\nought only to be \n\nhave I \n\ndeserved the confiscation of my \n\nas \n\nif so \n\nI \n\nhave done so \n\nprovided by the Treaty with \n\nConfiscation if past \n\nthe case does not \n\nwarrant confiscation \n\nor if a \n\nfine not \n\nexceeding \n\n$500 It cannot be meant. \n\nproperty \n\nbe settled \n\nto get the vessel \n\nback except at her appraised \n\nvalue \n\n. I would argue strenuously \n\nthat the solution of my \n\ncase is not fair \n\nand that the Confiscation is \n\nreally upheld \n\nbecause I am \n\nreally guilty within \n\nthe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 274951, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9]", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9]", "content_text": "# Hong Kong \nNo 563 \n12th September 1868.\n\n**Governor** \nSir Richard Graves MacDonnell, C.B.\n\nHis Grace, \nthe Duke of Buckingham and Chandos,\n\nNotifying the appointment of \nMr. Hauffum as Deputy Registrar and of Mr. Holmes as Clerk of the Supreme Court.\n\n## MINUTE PAPER.\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| M. Deffani Salves (Granter) | £294 |\n| Admiralty Court Appraiser | |\n| MAhveni (Salary in lieu) | £300 & £100 |\n\nSir R. Rogers \nSee 7957 & the several memorandles attached to it\n\n2 Enclosure \n`XCR(85)72` is not present, instead there is `GR1178/1922/32(III)` mentioned in the context, but the actual reference here is unclear.\n\nIt appears there was discussion regarding the abolition of an office and the continued offices, with associated salaries and appointments, including Mr. Holmes now being in Japan. The jurisdiction of the two Courts and associated financial matters are also mentioned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278262, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "page_number": 275, "title": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "content_text": "the least of two evils, and \n\nif that be done by establishing the present system; I think there is something equally repugnant to one's English notions in \n\nthe odium of accepting ... seething to dodge \n\nsuch as Revenue by deviating it (on principle) to this purpose, and not to that; expending just a small proportion of it with confidence and then becoming embarrassed as to what should be done with the residue. I foresee the end of such policy would probably be the abandonment of duty \n\nand \n\ngetting rid \n\nof the whole question by re-adopting former corruption and old evils, sooner than be perpetually harassed with insinuations, and worried by complicated \n\ndetails of impracticable accounts. \n\nI have now endeavored to \n\ngo \n\nseriatim through the charges of Memorialist's affecting myself. \n\nI have also, as I think, weighed and appraised at just value their personal argument \n\nas to Mr Balliwell. I have contrasted \n\nthe Legislation of the present Government with the vaunted \"tea\" \n\nand \"Taon\" of Mr Anstey's remarkable Ordinance of 1857, and I think I have thoroughly disposed of Mr Munro's and the Memorialists' appeal to Chinese purity and their efficient suppression of gambling by Chinese Laws. I have also placed before Your Lordship returns of the inner working of \n\nthe present ... stewing ... the inner", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278692, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "content_text": "Cause of Retirement, [with annexed Medical Certificate, if from infirmity of mind or body, and under 60.]\n\nBad health.\n\none,\n\nStatement in terms of sec. viii of the Superannuation Act, of 1859, that the Applicant \"has discharged his duties with diligence and fidelity, to the satisfaction of the Head Officer or Officers of his Department,\" to be signed by any two of such Head Officers, if there shall be more than one, or by such Head Officer, if there should be but one, together with \"such a statement as will exhibit the merit, and value, and labour of the services of the Person recommended, embracing as long a period of his public service as can be authentically stated,\" together with observations as to Special Services, Suspension, Reprimand, &c., with full particulars of any injuries received on duty, or other claims or matters for consideration.\n\nDates of Commencement and Termination of the several Appointments held by Applicant, with their Emoluments, distinguishing Salary from other Allowances, and specifying such Allowances.\n\nAppointed Constable in February 1849 Promoted to Acting Sergeant August 1849\n\nDo to Sergeant January 1850\n\nDo to Deputy Inspector May 1882\n\nDo to Inspector September 1854\n\nto Acting Supt of Police May 1859 Appointed Assistant Supt of Police May 1862. Salary of £300 increased to £400 in June 1867.\n\nWhether holding any other Public Appointment, or receiving or claiming to receive any Money by Compensation, Half Pay or otherwise.\n\nAn Appraiser of the Supreme Court receiving £200 Pers.\n\nAbsences during each of the last 10 years\n\nDate of Cessation of Duty 22 April 1869\n\nDate of Cessation of Salary 22 April 1869.\n\n \n YEAR\n NUMBER OF DAYS.\n Illness\n Other cause\n \n \n 1860,\n \n Mil\n \n \n \n 1861,\n \n 18\n \n \n \n 1862,\n \n Mil\n \n \n \n 1863,\n \n A\n \n \n \n 1864,\n 28\n \n \n \n \n 1865\n \n \n \n \n \n 1866,\n Seven\n \n A\n \n \n 1867,\n 7\n \n \n \n \n 1868,\n 18\n \n \n \n \n 1869,\n 20\n \n \n \n\nMy personal Knowledge of Mr Jarman's services does not date back further than 1866. I have communicated with Mr May, and have obtained the following report:-\n\n\"Mr. Jarman joined the Hong Kong Police as a Constable in 1849 at which time I was Superintendent; in consequence of his general capability, sobriety and integrity he was promoted to different ranks and finally to that of Assistant Superintendent. I always found him obedient and useful in carrying out the ordinary routine of Police duties, and from the great difficulty in the earlier days of the Colony to find honesty of purpose and capability combined in the possession of the Officer I consider that he has claims upon the Colony's Government for full provision.\"\n\n(signed) W. May, late Police Magistrate.\n\nSince 1866 Mr Jarman, although useful in controlling the Police Stores and attending to some of the internal arrangements of the Force, has himself become less capable of dealing with serious criminal offences.\n\n(signed) W. M. Deane, Captain Superintendent of Police.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282089, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 216, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# STATEMENT of Fees received in the Colony of HONGKONG.\n\n| Officer by whom received | Under what Law or Sanction | Amount of Fee | Whether Retained or Paid into revenue | Whether Paid by Stamp | Amount received during each of the last Three Years |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- £ s. d. 1867 £ s. d. 1868 £ s. d. 1869 |\n| The Chief Justice | Her Majesty's Order dated 11th July 1852. Regulation of the Vice Admiralty Court | | Retained | By Stamp | 46 0 0 80 8 2 492 49 18 10 |\n| Registrar of Imports | Her Majesty's Order in Council of 11 July 1852 | | | | 22 0 0 201 10 8 334 19 7 |\n| Administrator of Intestate Estates | The Regulations of the Vice Admiralty Court of 187... | | | | 120 4 0 120 3 10 4 |\n| Appraiser of Estate | Practiced in Official Office | | | | 136 3 8 191 4 0 236 12 8 |\n| Deputy Registrar of Supreme Court | Order dated... | | | | 178 13 0 181 28 16 |\n| Bailiff of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction | Ordinance No. 7 of 1862. Service of Summons and Warrants | | | | |\n| Marshal of the Vice Admiralty Court | Admiralty Court Act 1863 | | | | |\n| Clerk of the Magistracy | Army Regulations | | | | |\n| Colonial Chaplain | Custom Solemnization of Holy Matrimony | | | | 11 9 2 12 10 0 316 8 |\n| Sexton | Custom | | | | 2 0 0 0 12 6 86 8 |\n| Registrar of Marriages | Ordinance No... of Marriage | | | | 418 3 2 |\n| Colonial Surgeon | Ordinance of Examination 1866. Section... Medical attendance and Certification | | | | |\n\nPage 5 \n21080. \n10873", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282900, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "page_number": 108, "title": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "content_text": "Shaw's quest for information is to determine whether all the articles discovered on the list attached to the latter from the Board of Trade have been sold, and whether the Prada hove A... fall amount is due to M. Rage's Chain.\n\nIf the replica have not been disposed of, I am to forward them to the Consul.\n\nDate of the Occurrence entered, with Day and Hour,\n| Date | Day | Hour |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 13th March 1869 | | 1.30pm |\n| 14th March | | 9.15am |\n\nPlace of the Occurrence, or Situation by Latitude and Longitude at Sea.\n\nEntries required by Act of Parliament,\n\nHeard the report of two pistol shots in the cabin, and on examination into the cause found that Andrew Page Master had shot himself. (Signed) McBercan, 2nd Mate \nWilliam McCallum, A.B.\n\nBuried Andrew Page, master. (Signed) William Duncan 2nd Mate \nWilliam McCallum, A.B.\n\nList of the Effects of Andrew Page, deceased, late master of the barque \"Marion\", handed by McBercan, 2nd Officer, to I. S. Huffam, Esq. (Appraiser) Supreme Court, Hong Kong.\n\n| Item | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| Silver Watch and Gold Chain | 1 |\n| Quadrant | 1 |\n| Opera Glasses | 4 Pair |\n| Revolver and Case | 1 |\n| Books | 19 |\n| Hats | 5 |\n| Drawers | 6 prs. |\n| Trousers | 16 pr. |\n| Flannels | 7 |\n| Crimean shirts | 6 |\n| White Shirts | 6 |\n| Collars | 16 |\n| Boots | 5 |\n| ... | 10 |\n| Locks | 8 prrs |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282901, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "content_text": "Date of the Occurrence entered, with Day and Hour. Place of the Occurrence, or Situation by Latitude and Longitude at Sea. Entries required by Act of Parliament. List of Effects continued.\n\n2 Pillow Cases\nbed Coverd\n3 napkins\nBlanket\n1 Counterpane\n1 Table Cloth\nroll tick\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to-- \n**THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, MARINE DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL GARDENS, S.W.**\nAnd the following letter and number should be quoted in the communication, and marked plainly on the outside of the envelope, viz. : \n`M 10814/34` Hong Kong\n\n**RECEIVED** \n**JUNE 20 1870**\n\nBoard of Trade, Whitehall Gardens, \n18th June 1870\n\nDiscipline\n107\n3 prs. Boots.\n1 pr. Shoes\n1 Oil Coat and South Wetter.\nPicture\n1 Case do\n1 Mattress\n1 Chest\nClothes bag.\nSupreme Court Appraiser.\n\n(Signed) F.S. Huffor, \nCopy for. Conson No. 87. 21 June 18...\n\nI am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th instant, transmitting copy of a Despatch from the acting Governor of Hong Kong requesting payment...\n\n**JUNE 1 1870**\n\nI hereby Certify these to be true Extracts from the official Log Book of the ship \"Marion of Newcastle, official No. 45,156.\n\nGeneral Register and Record Office of Seamen, 6. Adelaide Place, London Bridge. \n1st June, 1870.\n\n**EXAMINER** \n`STAMEN 666 8869`\n\nRegistrar \nThe Under Secretary \nColonial Office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 284762, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6]", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6]", "content_text": "# THE decision given by Mr. RUSSELL with reference to the man NICKS, who took away a hat from the residence of the late Mr. PELLICO will, it is hoped, be taken into consideration by H.E. the LIEUT.-Governor. \nThe evidence does not appear to disclose any animus furandi, and the utmost guilt that could be brought to the prisoner is that of illegal possession. His statement was that he took the hat because he had mislaid his own, and was in a hurry to get away to a game of foot-ball—an explanation which is at least probable, and which is only upset by the evidence of Sergeant FOOTIT, who the prisoner said had suggested his taking the hat in order to get away without delay. At all events, even if the case is regarded in its severest light, and the Magistrate was justified in concluding that the man had stolen the hat, the sentence, six months with hard labour, seems utterly disproportioned to the offence. The man, we hear, has been twenty-one years in the Army, and has certificates of good conduct during the whole of that time. It seems, therefore, inexplicable that he should have been guilty of a deliberate theft. We refrain from further comment until able to obtain complete information on the subject; but it is earnestly to be hoped that the attention of the higher Authorities in the Colony will be directed to the matter, as unless there is some explanation of the matter which does not appear in the report of the case, justice has been meted out in the hardest manner to the unfortunate prisoner.\n\n## \nCAREFUL consideration of the whole of the circumstances brought forward in evidence in the case of the Policeman NICKS, induces us again to urge that this matter may be taken under the consideration of the higher Authorities in the Colony. It is impossible to understand the grounds upon which the Junior Magistrate came to his decision, or to reconcile that decision either with reason or justice; while the effects of the punishment awarded on the unfortunate prisoner—simple ruin—are such as should at least cause the matter to be thoroughly investigated.\n\nThe circumstances of the case may be briefly stated. The prisoner NICKS was sent by Mr. WILLCOCKS, Appraiser to the Supreme Court, to take charge of the house of the late Mr. PELLICO in Wyndham Street, and appears from the evidence that he went out in company with Sergeant FOOTIT, taking a hat which was in the hall in place of his own, which he left behind. On arriving at his quarters, in the Police Station, he asked a fellow policeman to take charge of the hat, as there was not room for it in his own chest, and this was done. Shortly after, Mr. WILLCOCKS arrived at the house, and being informed that the hat had been taken, he wrote a note to Sergeant FOOTIT, which the late Mr. PELLICO's boy took, together with NICKS' hat, which had been left behind; and on Sergeant FOOTIT communicating the matter to NICKS, the hat was returned. The account of the affair given by NICKS in Court was straightforward and reasonable. He, without hesitation, admitted having taken the hat, stating that he did so at the suggestion of Sergeant FOOTIT, who had said he had better take any hat or they would be too late for foot-ball. Sergeant FOOTIT, who was himself in the position of an accusé, denied this; and his statement appears to have been more credited by the Magistrate than that of NICKS—though for what reason it is difficult to see—and NICKS was sentenced—will it be believed?—to six months imprisonment with hard labour.\n\n### The reasons which may have influenced the Magistrate in this decision may be stated as follows:\n| Reason | Explanation |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | The man was a Policeman, and if proved guilty of a larceny, it would be right that he should be more severely punished than a person not in a position of trust. |\n| (2) | His asking a comrade to take charge of the hat may have been considered as a suspicious circumstance, showing a desire to hide it away. |\n| (3) | The China boy stated the prisoner's own hat was \"hung\" next to the one taken. |\n\nBut these points may be answered, and we cannot but think completely answered, as follows:\n| Counter | Explanation |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | The man's being a Policeman is reason for a severe sentence; but is none for finding him guilty on less evidence than would be considered sufficient to convict another man, and the sentence passed was too severe even for a policeman, considering the nature of the offence. |\n| (2) | The fact that the prisoner asked a comrade to take charge of the hat might very reasonably be considered as showing that he made no secret of having taken the hat; that he had no bad motive—no animum furandi in doing so; but that he intended to return the hat, and was specially desirous to take care of it. |\n| (3) | The China boy's statement that the prisoner's hat was \"hung\" next to the one taken, appears only to mean that the prisoner hung it there when he came in; not that it was hanging there all the time; and this is confirmed by the fact that Mr. WILLCOCKS said he saw the prisoner had what he believed was his own hat in his hand when he was upstairs. |\n\nThe above is a fair review of the whole circumstances of the case, and we put it to any reasonable men whether they would convict anyone of theft upon the evidence, and in face of the straightforward, and perfectly reasonable explanation which the man at once gave at the Police Court? In addition, it has to be urged in his favour that he has been twenty-one years in the Army, and has good conduct certificates for the whole period. Was it likely that he would throw away a character sustained all that time for such a miserable gain as a new hat? That he committed a foolish act there seems to be no doubt; but more than that cannot be believed.\n\nIt is certain that scarcely any Jury could be brought to convict in such a case; and it is further certain that if any Jury could be found to return a verdict, no Judge would, in such a case as this, have passed so severe a sentence as that which has been pronounced. With the responsibility resting upon him of having to act both as Judge and Jury, a Magistrate or Summary Judge is bound to construe every Act bearing on the case, and every fact given in evidence in the strictest manner, that is, strictly in the sense of in the prisoner's favour; and if the case was one where most Juries would acquit, or even where upon any reasonable view of the evidence the prisoner might be innocent, it was the bounden duty of the Magistrate either to acquit him or commit him for trial. We cannot understand why, at all events, this last step was not taken. If the matter was looked upon as so important that a punishment of six months' imprisonment with hard labour should be inflicted, it was a case for the Supreme Court, and not for the Junior Magistrate. Important enough it is now—seeing that, if nothing be done, NICKS will be a ruined man—and it is sincerely to be hoped that, if the Executive do not feel themselves called upon to grant a free pardon to the prisoner, it may be found possible yet to allow him a fair trial before a Jury, and with proper opportunity of advancing those points in his favour, which may easily have escaped the consideration of an uneducated man suddenly arraigned on a most serious charge.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287358, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 453, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "Hongkong 20th March 1872\n\nGovernor\n\nIn Richard Graves MacDonnell,\n\nto\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nEdward B.\n\n“The Pearl of Kimberley”\n\nSpanish Consul.\n\nTransmits correspondence with - regarding his claim to administer the effects of a Chinese which were in The Colony\n\n(2 Inclosures)\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo.\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court to Colonial Secretary\n\n474/453\n\nCourt House, Hong Kong,\n\n12th February, 1872.\n\nI have the honor to enclose a letter I have received from the Appraiser of the Court by which you will see that the Spanish Consul determines that the property of the deceased persons be given up to the Officer authorised to take charge of it.\n\nYou may recollect (Registrar’s letter No. 10 of 1870) a somewhat similar case.\n\nThe Honorable\n\nJ. Gardiner Austin,\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287360, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 455, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "The Appraisor of the Supreme Court to the Registrar.\n\n455\n\n(Copy)\n\nSupreme Court House,\n\nHongkong, 14th February, 1872.\n\nSir,\n\nIn the goods of Yui-asing, Yui-Asing, otherwise Theodore, deceased.\n\nIn the goods of Slow-man moni, otherwise Manuel, deceased.\n\nThe above mentioned deceased persons were passengers on board the Spanish vessel \"Altagracia\" from Savannah to Hongkong, and died at Sea on board that vessel. Their effects ...\n\n1. St. Alexander, Esq., Registrar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287361, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 456, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "effects of by \n\nrand\" \n\nwere taken possession of by the Captain of the vessel, deposited by him in \n\nand were delivered to \n\nthe Spanish Consulate at this \n\nPort. Under a commission of Appraisement in each case I \n\napplied this morning \n\nto the \n\nSpanish Consul for the effects,- \n\nThe declined to \n\ngive \n\nthem on the \n\nground that the deceased \n\npersons had died \n\non \n\nboard \n\nSpanish vessel, and he \n\ncould deliver them to \n\nnobody \n\nbut the next-of-kin, after \n\nhe had placed \n\nthe matter before the Spanish Government and \n\nreceived their instructions. \n\n456 \n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) S. S. Huffam, \n\nAppraiser of the Supreme Court.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287363, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 458, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "The Appraisers of duly authorized to take possession of this property, inform bourt, me that you declined to deliver it to them that these on the ground. persons died on that board a Spanish ship.- I beg to inform your having brought the matter to the notice of the Government of I am directed This Colony, to apprize you of the fact you can administer that no person within this the property bolony, of any deseased person except under the Authority of the Supreme Court, and that it is 458 my duty as Official Administrator to table of the possession private papers, monies, goods, chattels, and other moveable property whatsower I be found within the of any deceased person which bolony and to provide for the s safe custody there of until Probate of the Will of such Estates and Effects shall have granted, by deceased person, on Letters of Administration his of been bourb the Supreme With this e explanation of the law of the bot bolony I", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287364, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 459, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "12\n\ntrust you\n\nwill feel justified acceding to my request that the property in question in\n\nmay\n\nbe delivered to the appraisers of the Court.\n\nI have to\n\nW.\n\n(Signed) M. st. Alexander, Official Administrator.\n\n(True Copy) (Signed) M. st. Alexander-\n\nRegistrar.\n\nSenor Checa to Registrar of Supreme Court.\n\noldde de Capacio. Cespaña.\n\nLeong's long\n\n133.\n\nMis Señor mio.\n\n459\n\nste recebido su communicacion de\n\nla\n\nayer\n\nen\n\nqual\n\nAl\n\npesha de queja de que yo haya reusado entregar al Appraisers de la Supreme Court el dinero y efectos de la pertenencia de los Chinos Theodore\n\ny\n\nManuel,\n\nmuertos durante el viaje de la \"songelong Sabana\" a \"de la Baran Española\"\n\n\"abordo \"Altagracia\" y depositados en este Consulado de mi cargo\n\nal Senior Dr W. st. Alexander,\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court;\n\nWongsong..", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287367, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 462, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "Sono Cheen to Registrar of Supreme Court\n\nConsulate of Spain-\n\nat\n\nWhampoa-\n\nNo 33.\n\nSir,\n\nTranslation.-\n\nI have received\n\nyour\n\ncommunication of yesterday\n\n462\n\nrelating to\n\ncomplaining of my refusal to deliver over to the appraisers\n\nof\n\nthe Supreme Court the\n\nmoney and effects belonging\n\nto the Chinamen Theodore and\n\nManuel who died during\n\nthe voyage from Havanna to\n\nHongkong\n\non board the\n\nthe\n\nSpanish Barque \"Altagracia\"\n\nand which were\n\ndeposited in\n\nthe Consulate under\n\nmy\n\ncharge by the Captain of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287370, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 465, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "24\n\nof Spain.\n\nGood preserve you for\n\nmany years-\n\nHong Kong, 15th February, 1872.\n\n(Signed) Z. Chean,\n\nConsul for Spain\n\nCourt,\n\nM. st. Alexander, Eagle\n\nRegistrar of the Supreme Court\n\nChee\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court to Sin chen\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo:34.\n\nSir,\n\nCourt House, Hong Kong,\n\n28th February, 1872.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge\n\nreceipt of your communication of the 15th instant, refusing to deliver to the Appraiser of Supreme Court, lawfully authorised by me, the Official Administrator, the property of two Chinamen who died on board the Spanish Ship Altagracia.\n\nHaving submitted your letter to\n\nDon Leon Chen,\n\nConsul for Spain:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287371, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 466, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "Letter to the Government I have received instructions to inform you that in so refusing to deliver the property you were acting contrary to Law. I have therefore desired the Appraiser to call on you again and to show you (as he states he did on the former occasion) the Commission of Appraisement, and hope you will see the propriety of delivering to him the property in question.\n\nShould you however still refuse, I am directed to inform you that proceedings will be taken against you under Section 5 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1870.\n\n(Signed) W. H. Alexander, Official Administrator", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287373, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 468, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "438\n\nLa hizo al referirse a equivocación a el Chino Manuel que ha mudito a bordo, sino que se limita a reiterar la orden de que entregue el cual se presentin al Appraiser, el cual se está en vez convenientemente autorizado.\n\nLos antecedentes que existen en este Consulado de muchos casos análogos al que nos ocupa, y que siempre que en esta Cancillería, donde se han custodiado los bienes que pertenecieron a Chinos muertos en alta mar en buques españoles en la travesía de la Habana a Hong Kong; hasta que se han presentado a reclamarlos los legítimos herederos; y después de haber consultado el caso con los Cónsules enviados que existen en esta Colonia, los cuales unánimes y conformes, aseguran que estoy en mi derecho al entregar el dinero en cuestión a otra persona que a los legítimos herederos, declarados tales por los tribunales de justicia de la Nación a que pertenecen.\n\nEncontrándome pues, el asunto en el mismo estado que cuando tuve el honor de dirigirme a Vd con fecha 15 del actual, tengo el sentimiento de decir a Vd de nuevo que no puedo acceder a lo que solicita. Y como pudiera suceder que suceda...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287376, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 471, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "I see also, that you have not rectified the error which you have committed in referring to the Chinese Manuel who did not die on board; but simply that you confine yourself to reiterate the order for my delivering (Cerbère's effects) to the Appraiser, who on this occasion will present himself duly authorized [to receive them.]\n\nThe precedents recorded in this Consulate of many cases similar to that which occupies our attention show that there was always kept in this \"Cancilleria\" (\"Chancery) the property of Chinese who had died on board a Spanish vessel, coming from the Havana to Hong Kong, - until their legitimate heirs had presented themselves to claim it.\n\nUpon this point I have consulted my colleagues accredited to this Colony, and they are unanimous in asserting that I am perfectly right in refusing to deliver up the money in question to any other person than the legitimate heirs, declared as such by the Judicial tribunals of the Nation to which they may belong. And as the case in hand is in the same state when I had the honor to address you on the 15th instant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287395, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 490, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "times the responsibility may rest upon the proper person.\n\nWhereupon the Consul together with the Vice Consul: this sign document, the birth of which I the undersigned Chanceller confirm (Signed) Leon Aboca (tr. 5)\n\nThe Chancellor, I. S. de Dejada) (Signed) to den Agnature de San\n\nThe Vice Consuls of Spain in this Colony.\n\nI hereby certify that the preceding Copy is according to the Original filed in the Probate of this Consulate Hongkong 18th March 1892 The Vice Consul; (Signed) F. L. de Sejada\n\n(True Copy) per J. Smith. Acting Corl Secretary\n\nPage 490\n\nPrécis of papers in the matter of the Spanish Consul (Don Leon Chica) refusing to deliver up the effects of a deceased Chinese, which were brought into Hongkong by a Spanish Vessel.\n\nSignature of the 12th July 1872 Forward's Copy of Appraisers Supreme Court to Colonial Secretary Report showing that the Spanish Consul declined to deliver up the effects of two deceased Chinese, which had been deposited in the Spanish Consulate by the Captain of the Spanish Ship on board of which, while at sea, the said Chinese had died.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288259, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "page_number": 204, "title": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "content_text": "Mr Evans, who commanded the Barque \"Veronica\"..\n\nI have the honor to be, My Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble Servant,\n\nGovernor.\n\n`8740/2`\n`193`\n\n**(Copy) Report of the Official Administrator,**\nrelating to the Estate of the late Mr. Evans, Commanding the Barque \"Veronica\" -\n\nTo\n\nRegistrar's Office,\n\n`954`\n`25`\n\nJune, 1872.\n\n... report that Administration of the Estate of William Evans deceased was granted on the ... of November 1874 to the Official Administrator. The Estate was appraised at $289.24. The delivery of the property that was retained for the use of the Ship was guaranteed by ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294189, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "(20)\n\nIf the master or owner of any ship neglects to pay the light dues within a period of three days next ensuing such distress, he may, at any time during the continuance of such non-payment, cause the same to be appraised by two sufficient persons, and thereupon sell the same, and apply the proceeds in payment of the light dues due, together with reasonable expenses incurred by him under this section, paying the surplus (if any) on demand to the said owner or master.\n\n7. In order to ascertain the burden of any ship liable to pay light dues under this Ordinance, the person authorized to collect such dues may require the owner, master, or other person in command of such ship, or any person having possession of the same, to produce the register of such ship for the inspection of such person; and, upon the refusal or neglect of such owner or master to produce such register, or to satisfy the person authorized to collect such dues as to what is the true burden of the ship, it shall be lawful for such person to cause such ship to be measured at the expense of the master thereof, and such expense shall be recoverable in the same manner as dues payable under this Ordinance; and such measurement shall be deemed to be the real burden of the ship, and may be treated as such for all the purposes of this Ordinance.\n\n8. The master of any ship who shall attempt to depart from the waters of this Colony without paying the light dues in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, or who shall refuse to have his ship measured to ascertain her burden in tons, or who shall obstruct any person in the duties of his office, shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.\n\n## Damage to Lights, Buoys and Beacons\n\nXXXII. If any person wilfully or negligently commits any of the following offences, that is to say:-\n\n| Offence | \n| --- | \n| (a.) Injures any lighthouse, or the lights exhibited therein, or any buoy or beacon; | \n| (b.) Removes, alters, or destroys any lightship, buoy, or beacon; | \n| (c.) Rides by, makes fast to, runs foul of, any lightship, or buoy | \n\nHe shall, in addition to the expenses of making good any damage so occasioned, be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.\n\n## Prevention of False Lights\n\nXXXIII. Whenever any fire or light is burnt or exhibited at such place, or in such manner, as to be liable to be mistaken for a light proceeding from a lighthouse, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to serve a notice upon the owner of the place where the fire or light is burnt or exhibited, or on the person having charge of such fire or light, either personally, or by delivery at the place of abode of such owner or person, or by affixing the same in some conspicuous spot near to such fire or light, and by such notice to direct such owner or person, within a reasonable time to be therein specified, to take effectual means for the extinguishing or effectually screening such existing light; and for the preventing for the future any similar fire or light, and any owner or person disobeying such notice, shall be deemed guilty of a common nuisance, and in addition to any other penalties or liabilities of any kind thereby incurred, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.\n\n2. If any owner or person served with such notice, as aforesaid, neglects for a period of twenty-four hours to extinguish or effectually screen, the light or fire therein mentioned, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master, by his servants or workmen, to enter into the place wherein the same may be, and forthwith to extinguish such fire or light doing no unnecessary damage; and all expenses incurred by the Harbour Master in such extinction, may be recovered from such person or owner as aforesaid in the same way as penalties are hereby declared to be recoverable.\n\n## CHAPTER III\n\n## IMPORTATION AND STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER\n\nXXXIV. The Governor is hereby empowered to provide, at the expense of the Colony, all necessary vessels and places on land for the storage of gunpowder, and no gunpowder arriving in this Colony shall be stored in any other place or vessel except, as provided by paragraph 10 and subject to the observance of the rules and regulations to be made under paragraph 12 of this Section.\n\n2. Such vessel or vessels shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be termed a Government Depôt or Government Depôts for the storage of Gunpowder, and shall be under the control and management of the Harbour Master, subject to such orders as may, from time to time, be received from the Governor; and such vessel or vessels shall be fitted and manned in such manner as the Harbour Master, with the approval of the Governor, shall deem expedient.\n\n3. The master of every vessel arriving in this Colony having on board thereof any quantity of Gunpowder exceeding two hundred lbs., shall, immediately upon the arrival thereof, and before the discharge from the ship of any of such Gunpowder, furnish the Harbour Master with a copy of the manifest of such gunpowder, the marks of all the packages wherein such gunpowder shall be contained, and the names of the consignees of such powder, if he shall know the same.\n\n4. The master of every such vessel as in the last preceding section mentioned shall as soon as possible take the same to the place which shall be pointed out to him by the Harbour Master, or his deputy, and the said vessel shall not be removed therefrom until he have permission to do so in writing from the Harbour Master.\n\nPage 157", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 295399, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 623, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "## \nHis Excellency is to add that both his lordship and the provisional Council of Hong Kong are of opinion that under the arrangement of 1843, under which the administration of the fort devolves upon the Officer Commanding the Troops, during the forementioned scheme when the Officer for Administering the Government is not aware whether it is contemplated to replace General Whitfield on the Military Command by another General Officer of the rank of General, he desires to be appraised but that it showed the allocation of the duties devolving upon the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\n## \n2. His lordship is not aware whether it is contemplated to replace General Whitfield on the Military Command by another General Officer of the rank of General.\n\n3. He desires to be appraised but that it showed the allocation of the duties devolving upon the Governor of Hong Kong has been duly considered by the Government.\n\nThe administration should be carried on with due regard to the interests of the Chinese race, it will not be easy again to interfere with...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 295519, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 743, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "He appears also in 1872. We have held the office of Appraiser of the Supreme Court, in which capacity he received £307 16s 8½d, though no salary is attached to the office. In the same year, he is stated to have received £125 21s as Master of the Police School, and have been acting some months as Supt of the Fire Brigade; though whether he held any or all of these offices personally, I have not been able to ascertain.\n\nSee 7820 and minutes relating to the latter; no positive direction is given for paying or withholding the balance of the gratuity promised on his resignation.\n\nMr Willicks thinks that it should be paid. A pledge has been given in the Colony, and it may have acted as an inducement to him to resign. But if A. K. should be told that the gratuity was only paid as a distinct promise had been made.\n\nI say that when an Officer resigns merely to escape suspension and dismissal, he should be held to have been leniently dealt with, being permitted to retire by resignation, thus avoiding the disgrace which would follow dismissal; and that in such cases, no pay or gratuity should be awarded without reference, in the first instance, to the Governor.\n\nAs regards the contents of this letter, I think it is a matter of fact that Mr Willicks has been rather severely treated. He has turned 10 years at Hongkong without a blemish or reproach against him; a milder punishment would have been sufficient. I think no opinion should now be expressed upon this letter, but I should send it to the Governor that His Lordship may ascertain the facts of the case with sufficient accuracy. If there had been no complaints against him before, it assumes that he would not have been punished, and that he would be glad to have a report on the subject.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297703, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 164, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "was not emntemplated by ther Majesty's Secretary of State when appointments were made and approved.\n\nIt is proper for me here to remark that the Registrantife of the Vice Admiralty Cant is regulated by the Imperial Act- 20 Vic. Cap. 24s, but the Registrar of the Supreme Count for time being is obrianly the fittest pursm to fill it.\n\nPapers marked D.E.F. which explain themselves, show particulars of proceedings of the Supreme Cant for 1878. The Official Afigure and the Official Administrator are declared by Ordinance (1870) to be the Registrar of the Supreme Cont and cannot therefore be separated without an Ordinance, which I do not deem necessary.\n\nThe Office of Official Pinoter (as will be seen from Actum ^) has proved to be of very small importance, and if the duties at any time increased, could be readily detached from that of the Registrar. The amount of work entailed by the Office is exceedingly trifling.\n\nThe Office of appraiser might, I think, be made for...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format as requested, here is the revised version:\n\nwas not emplated by Her Majesty's Secretary of State when appointments were made and approved.\n\noriginally these\n\nIt is proper for me here to remark that the Registry of the Vice Admiralty Court is regulated by the Imperial Act- 20 Vic. Cap. 24, but the Registrar of the Supreme Court for the time being is obviously the fittest person to fill it.\n\n8.\n\nPapers marked D.E.F. which explain themselves, show particulars of proceedings of the Supreme Court for 1878.\n\nThe Official Assignee and the Official Administrator are declared by Ordinance (1870) to be the Registrar of the Supreme Court and cannot therefore be separated without an Ordinance, which I do not deem necessary.\n\n10.\n\nThe Office of Official Printer (as will be seen from Actum) has proved to be of very small importance, and if the duties at any time increased, could be readily detached from that of the Registrar. The amount of work entailed by the Office is exceedingly trifling.\n\n16.\n\nThe Office of appraiser might, I think, be made...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297706, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 167, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "1866\n\n1867\n\n220.80\n\n#58.40 18.60\n\nreturn of Fres received by the Officers of the Supreme Court, under the following rea\n\nyears 1866 to 1875, inclusive.\n\nthe\n\nJudge of the Vice Surrogate in the Vice Appraiser of the Bailiff of the\n\nAdmiralty Court\n\nSupreme Court\n\nCourt Supreme Court\n\nTotal\n\n \n $1,368.18\n $1,431.38\n 164\n 752.44\n \n \n 1868\n 27.40\n 7.20\n 3,142.61\n #594.25\n 991.84\n 3,821.46\n \n \n 1869\n 287.80\n 5.40\n 321.94\n 536.87\n 1,152.01\n \n \n 1870\n 24.00\n 2.40\n 441.97\n 649.70\n 1,118.07\n \n \n 1871\n 293.40\n 3.00\n 490.44\n 577.25\n 1,364.09\n \n \n 1872\n 20.40\n 35.64\n 1,072.12\n 507.25\n 1,635.41\n \n \n 1873\n 16.20\n 22.44\n 488.39\n 397.00\n 924.03\n \n \n 1874\n 69.00\n 29.16\n 2,528.97\n 581.26\n 3,208.39\n \n \n 1875\n 88.80\n 39.04\n 3,163.00\n 740.50\n 4,031.34\n \n \n \n $1,102.60\n $221.28\n $13,770.06\n $4,584.08\n $19,678.02\n \n\nThe Bailiff\n\nCourt in 1868\n\nwas in the Court of Summary Jurisdiction up to October 1873, and joined that\n\n(signed) F.S. Hiffam,\n\nDeputy Registrar.\n\n4461", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301995, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "3558 \n\n78 \n\n154 \n\nencore \n\nChar \n\nCopy of his minute respecting Mr Gerrard's complaint about the Office Valuation.\n\n2. Looking to the long-established practice of this Government in filling the office of Valuator, and to the facts stated in Mr Austin's despatch No 77 of the 11th of April, I can see no reasonable ground for the complaint W. Gerrard has made against my predecessor's action in this matter.\n\nI have the honor to be, \nMy Lord, \nYour Lordship's most Obedient Humble Servant \nH. S. F.\n\n## Minute by the Colonial Secretary Mr Gardiner Austin, in reference to the complaint of W. Gerrard, of being deprived of the Office of Valuation\n\nMy Despatch No 117 of April 1877, went fully into this matter so that I have almost nothing to add beyond my assurance that it has not been the intention of this Government, ever since I have been connected with it, that the appraisers should hold their appointments otherwise...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301996, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "than provisionally and subject to removal at any time - Provisionally and until further notice have been the words invariably used in the Gazette notices until notice was given to the then appraisers that the Government contemplated the adoption of a rule by which each could look forward to two years service although might be displaced annually.\n\none\n\n(Signed) J. Gardiner Austin\n1 December 1877.\nColonial Secretary\n\nHong Kong\nGovernor Hennessy No-20.\n**MINUTE**\n\n| Name | Initial/Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mer. Lucas | 29 |\n| Mr. Bramston | 29 |\n| Mer. Malcolm | |\n| Mer. Meade | |\n| Mor. Herbert | |\n| Lord Cadogan | |\n| Sir M. Hicks Beach | 3 |\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch no. 16 of the 9th Feb in relation to Mr. Gerand's complaint at being deprived of the office of valuator.\n\n2. Though I still think it is a matter for regret that Mr. Gerand had not been informed at the time that the appointment made by Sir A. Kennedy in February 1876 was not communicated to W. Gerand, I do not consider that there is any sufficient ground for my interference in the matter, and request that you will inform Mr. Gerand accordingly.\n\nIndexed `3.4.78`\nPage 155\nPage 3558 \n`C.MJ` \n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present, but `XCR(85)72` is not present either. However `CMJ` is present and is wrapped in backticks.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302362, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 523, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "519 \n\n**Asting Chief Justice to Acting Colonial Secretary.**\n\nwhich Your Excellency initiated at the time, I am instructed by the Governor to request you to report the amount of security the following Officers of the Supreme Court should be called upon to give.\n\nThe officers acting as \nRegistrar, Deputy Registrar, Clerk and Appraiser, and Bailiff.\n\nYours &c.\nM. Puee\n\n(Signed) You \nActing Colonial Secretary \n12780-\n\nMy dear Mr Price.\n\nNo 6, Caine Road, \nAugust 20th, 1878.\n\nNo 663 and 664 arrived. When the two letters arrived yesterday almost at the same time, I could not find Troller's letter. My boy had put it into a drawer in my dressing room.\n\nI now send the original for the use of the Governor and shall be glad to have it again. I have been engaged in preparing an answer to both letters, recommending the amount of security to be demanded from Officers of the Court. It was necessary to ascertain", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302372, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 533, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "## \nIf the appraisership is separately held the holder should find security in $500.\n\nThe Registrar should, I think, find security in the same amount as his predecessor, Mr Alexander, in $2,000.\n\nThe Deputy Registrar called upon for security. The receiver amounting to from $300 to $500 a month, for which he might have to account to the Registrar at the end of the month.\n\nWhen he also holds the office of Appraiser, he would receive the property of persons who die at sea, friends or relations in the Colony. The amount is every variable.\n\nI think that he should find security to the amount of $5,000.\n\n### Class of the Summary side of the Court\nI am assured that no money passes through his hands. \"M. Sangster, the Clerk of the Court, is at present Sheriff and is at times in receipt of large sums of money.\" I am not asked to say what security the Sheriff should provide.\n\nIt is doubtful whether, except in a partial sense, the Sheriff is an officer of the Supreme Court. All fees are paid by stamp. \n\nThe Bailiff (Summary Jurisdiction) ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302789, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 311, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# Official Assignee in the first instance. \nNg Wal Ping's account is one of the three nominally closed. It is closed by payment of dividend. I have disallowed some commission in that account amounting to $962. That is in the former ledger, which was not kept by Mr. Huffam. I have every reason to believe it was kept by the former Registrar or Mr. Masson. I don't see any error in the account open before me. The next account closed is that of Sherrif Carrim. That is not an account which appears to have been taken over from someone else. The bankruptcy was annulled and there was a balance of $231.63. That is accounted for by \"Paid commission Official Assignee $200; balance of ditto $31.63.\" I know the bankruptcy was annulled because I have examined papers. I know of no agreement on the part of the bankrupt to pay Mr. Huffam that money. The third account is that of George Francis McLean, partner in Lyall, Still and Co. That I have not re-opened. Those are the three accounts I referred to. The payments I have disallowed are openly entered on the face of the accounts. The accounts on the whole are fairly kept. I have not discovered vouchers of all the payments, but those for which I have not discovered vouchers are probable payments. I have commenced to examine other accounts of Mr. Huffam's. The number of accounts he has had during the last ten years in his different capacities amount to over a hundred. I cannot say what money has passed through his hands, but there have been hundreds of thousands of dollars.\n\nBy the Attorney-General--The commission charged in Sherrif Curriar's account was $255.04 on $488.11. The proper commission would be $23.41.\n\nThe Attorney-General said he thought it right to mention that where bankruptcies were annulled it was customary to allow the Official Assignee something for his trouble, frequently with the consent of the Chief Justice.\n\nMr. Francis said the prisoner's statement was that he was allowed the amount in question.\n\n## Testimony of Mr. C. F. A. Sangster\nMr. C. F. A. Sangster, clerk of the Supreme Court, said: I remember Mr. Huffam's leaving the Colony last year. It was on the 6th May. I went on board the steamer with him. He there gave me an envelope addressed to Mr. Sharp, which he requested me to deliver, and I was to receive an answer addressed to Mr. Huffam, to the care of Mrs. Huffam. I delivered that envelope next morning, because the steamer was delayed and did not leave until late. I believe Mr. Huffam had four months' leave, with permission to obtain more leave in England. He returned in January this year. I recollect Saturday, 17th August. Mr. Huffam was at the office the previous Monday. On Tuesday I received a note saying he was unwell. He did not return to the office after that. On Saturday I was sent to his house. I went in consequence of instructions from the Court. He had then gone. From inquiries I made I found he had gone to Macao. The steamer left at two o'clock. I went down to the wharf and saw the steamer leaving the harbour.\n\nBy Mr. Francis--The envelope I received from Mr. Huffam for Mr. Sharp was an ordinary chit; it could not possibly have contained fifty $100 notes. Mr. Huffam's salary as Deputy Registrar is £150 a year. I cannot say when he was appointed. He was Deputy Registrar when I was appointed to the Court in 1874. Before that, he was clerk of the Court. The salary of the clerk of the Court is £400. Mr. Huffam's work has been very heavy. He used to work very late and on Sundays. He has been Acting Registrar, Deputy Registrar, Official Trustee, Official Assignee, and Registrar of Companies. It is customary for officers of the Court to go to Macao on Saturday if they wish to. If I wanted to go, I would mention it to Mr. Plunket or one of the judges.\n\nBy the Attorney-General--If I went to Macao without leave, I would think it my duty to return on Monday unless I was prevented by illness. Mr. Huffam had other emoluments besides his salary as Deputy Registrar. His receipts as appraiser would amount to perhaps $100 or $150 a year or sometimes more. He had a nominal salary of $30 as Registrar of Companies. When he acted as Registrar after Mr. Alexander's death, he got half of the Registrar's salary and half of his own. The commission, he did not get; the Official Assignee received commission up to the end of 1875.\n\n## Testimony of Mr. P. Marquand\nMr. P. Marquand, usher of the Court, said: I remember Monday, 19th August. I received a summons on that day for service on Mr. Huffam. I went over to Macao. I saw Mr. Huffam there. I served him with a copy of the summons. He looked at it and asked no questions. He said nothing about coming over. After serving the order, I returned on the following day.\n\nBy Mr. Francis--I made no observations to Mr. Huffam myself about his coming or not coming.\n\n## Testimony of Inspector Corcoran\nInspector Corcoran said: I went with a warrant to Macao on the 20th August. I saw the prisoner there, but was not able to arrest him on account of his being outside the jurisdiction. I came back on the following day and returned to Macao on the 29th August with the same warrant. On the first occasion, I took a dispatch to the Portuguese authorities from the Captain Superintendent of Police, to which I received an answer. On the following occasion, I took another dispatch. I did not see the prisoner until the 31st. He was then brought on board the steamer by a Portuguese officer and handed over to me. I then arrested him on the warrant I had and brought him to this colony, and he was charged before the magistrate on the 31st.\n\n## Testimony of Mr. F. Sharp\nMr. F. Sharp, Crown Solicitor, said: My firm acted on behalf of four or five of the creditors in Lyall, Still and Co.'s estate. Mr. Toller had chiefly to do with that, but we both made applications for the winding up of the estate. I heard on the 6th May, 1877, that Mr. Huffam was going on a short leave of absence. On hearing this, I met Mr. Huffam in the vestibule of the Court. He was coming into the Court and he had a small bag in his hand. I addressed him in the ordinary way and expressed some surprise at his going away. I had heard he had not been well and he said a sea trip had been suggested. He told me he was going to Hankow to take a steamer direct to Europe and back again. In the meantime, his wife and children were going to remain here. I then mentioned the matter of Lyall, Still and Co.'s estate, which had not been wound up. He said, \"It is perfectly in order and as soon as I come back, it will be settled.\" I think he said he would have to advertise in the Bombay and local papers before any dividend was declared, and that there was some little outstanding matter in London. I expostulated with him on the delay and said I thought he ought to have settled it up before he took this holiday; also that if we heard anything from our clients in England, we would have to press for a settlement. He said he would be back very shortly and that would be the first thing he would see about on his return. He also said if it was needed, he could give some security or deposit. He gave me to understand there was some amount easily to be got at, but in what way I did not ask. I bid him goodbye, and said, \"Now, pray let this be the first thing you see to when you come back.\" I don't know whether he came into court or not. This was about half-past eleven or twelve, and he gave me to understand the steamer was starting that afternoon.\n\nOn the following day, Mr. Sangster gave me an envelope with a request I would send an acknowledgment to Mr. Huffam, care of Mrs. Huffam. It contained $5,000. I think it was in large notes. There was no letter with it. I was somewhat surprised. I consulted with my partner, and from the conversation I had had with Mr. Huffam the day before, I felt sure this was simply a deposit. We paid it in to our account and credited it in our books to Mr. Huffam in Lyall, Still and Co. I was under the impression I should hear from Mr. Huffam from Hankow or Singapore, but I never received any communication from him. He came back in January, and I frequently asked him about this estate and he said he was making up the accounts. On one occasion, I asked him if he could tell me the approximate amount there would be for distribution. He told me the amount and showed me some accounts, which appeared to be in order. The $5,000 was mentioned, and he said it had better be paid back and then it would be put into the accounts. We gave him a cheque for $4,891.16, that being the balance after deducting the amount of an old bill due to us. The cheque was given to the order of Mr. Huffam. I was present at the dividend meeting with Mr. Wotton. The balance-sheet was produced and a large number of accounts which it was impossible to go into then. Mr. Huffam stated the total assets were $47,018.66 and the claims proved $1,321,625.29, giving a dividend of over three per cent. We asked for copies of the accounts to be supplied to us. I also took a copy of the list of creditors with the amount of claims, but I am not sure whether the amount of dividend was made out. The cheques were not paid. Both Mr. Toller and myself applied for them. We then found exchange was going down rapidly and we were desirous of sending home the money before it went down further.\n\nPage 303", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304300, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "# Koning \n\nIn eso. 2120 \n\n244 \n\ntwit \n\nJ. & George Jude \n\ndeclare both \n\nat present unreemployed, \n\ndo solemnly \n\n## Declaration \n\nand \n\nwas paid off \n\nAmerican ship Litchfield \n\nfrom the \n\nchant Justant, at obe \n\nU.S. Consulate \n\nLan \n\nthis Colony. \n\nI slipped at Yokohama, \n\nau board, \n\n2 months \n\nof wage Lovis Obaru, \n\nco the \n\n28 days. \n\nShipments \n\nboard the Litchfield. I \n\na strange \n\nand frost going \n\n6 gers \n\nart \n\nJea \n\nEa \n\nwould \n\na \n\narrived at \n\nChr \n\nabout being on board, and on \n\ngoing \n\nappraised & gradually \n\nfor \n\nbe taken care of \n\nis as \n\nusually \n\n14 or 15 days before Hong Kong, he had o \n\nEvery night. \n\nplaard \n\nin \n\nbe attempted to jump overboard prevented by \n\nFraud Williams \n\nCas \n\nby the \n\na \n\nand unself, \n\nand I make this \n\nConscrationely \n\nlive, and \n\nJif th \n\nAt \n\n4.3 \n\nact \n\n5th leath \n\nsolv \n\naut plockh \n\nMW: Seterson- \n\nbelieving the same \n\nby virtues of the \n\nand \n\nprovisions \n\npassed \n\nthr \n\nthe \n\nreight of ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305160, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "page_number": 419, "title": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "content_text": "406 \n\nus no assistance \n\na \nto generally \n\nThe Governor gives \n\nassistance - The Chief Justice, the acting Judge (Francis) adopt the Commissioners' recommendation in globo - Mr. Phillippo, himself a Commissioner, assents Mr. Innes does not altogether \n\nagree. For 1. Part of the Confusion is due to the want of rules, which \n\nThe Judges \n\nI take the recommendation \n\nsoon now show no signs of preparing - \n\ninformation \n\nWe have no fund as to the security to be demanded \n\nfrom the officers of the Court – Mr. Snowden (Jr. 4) appears to have \n\nadvised £2000 for the Registrar \n\n- apparently the other officers have given security _ And I do not see that the Commission took evidence on the point- \n\ndone \n\nUpon this - a desire to form a report on what is done in carrying it out: Specifying the security required from each officer. I should be disposed to direct the Chief Justice to draw up rules, with some comment on the failure to do this time \n\n- both under The Bankruptcy Ordinance and of 1864 and as to the Scale of Court Fees to a Costo or allard under Order 1347/1873. This Ordinance (the Indian Code of Civil Procedure) embodies as substantial maintenance The Rules under which the Supreme Court of China & Japan had successfully carried on its Business from The time of its creation, by the Consular Court; Thereafter the Ordinances prescribe everything that is requisite for the Judges' tokens. The Ordinance (844) supersedes all existing Rules & Acts (including all unrepealed Rules of Practice) except as far \n\nas the Code applies or is defective \n\nArt \n\nSome \n\nas in that case the late Parker \n\nNew Rules are only required for such points. \n\nmay \n\nbe called in aid. So therefore that if we perceive that the Code has not made special provision; \n\n; and as there the S. C. Women Enter & believe that experience has not shown many deficiencies, rather than think that the Chief Justice has neglected to bring defect which have actually been brought to his knowledge. (Nothing will be done while \n\nthe present C. J. Remains). \n\nThese recommendations seem \n\n2-7 \n\nGenerally \n\nmay be approved generally. \n\n8-9. I think the recommendation is to have an accountant to relieve The Registrar of half his work \n\n& two Deputies to relieve him \n\nof most of the \n\nwork, leaving him sufficient time to attend \n\nto the mind \n\nreads like \n\nA \n\nSpecial measure on account of Mr. \n\nFrankel's not being able to do it. But this \n\nRegistrar ought not to be precluded from attending \n\nin The Supreme Court; & although it may be convenient that the Clerks should be called or act as \n\nDeputy Registrars they are not handy to \n\n- When the Registrar is absent from his (official work except by special Permission of the Judge – \n\nThe Clerks can do ordinary office work while the Registrar is in Court ; & if the latter really has other pressing matters in hand the Judge can act for him. \n\nThe staff thus \n\nmay \n\ncan allow \n\nthe Registrar - Two Deputies \n\nand one Accountant _ but the Accountant is \n\napparently to do the work of the Appraiser, or work \n\nmore \n\nof the same character that he may well have \n\nif necessary to retain it in hand \n\nThe nominal officer. The fees going to the Treasury. I am not clear that one of the Deputies might not also be called Sheriff, & do that work.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305161, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "page_number": 420, "title": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "content_text": "## MINUTE PAPER\n\n407\n\nand Leave\n\nThe Registrar's duties might soon be part of this. If only the Sheriff actually acts by making himself responsible.\n\nThis won't must have a report.\n\n10. This is Jupper's.\n\n11. I strongly approve of this.\n\na. The messengers are a reason.\n\nRegistration is a reason for calling him Sheriff – 12, 13.\n\nAlso approve.\n\nThen as to Salaries - M. Plunkett had $4800, but I think $960 was usual to him: after Mr. Alexander died, Mr. Reffam had appointed $2160 - In that sum there was something else besides this salary: I do not understand what W. Barff is receiving - but it is presumably his own $2400 a year; Staffans $2100, Tung Wah Clerk $1920, Chief Justice's Clerk $2400, Luis now getting $2400, Mosche Judge Clerk - $1440 - he is now getting $2040.\n\nThe proposed scheme entails a re-appointment.\n\nThe plan held by those: Judy has a clerk at $600. W. Fnowden p. 11 days £150 which is $720, suggests that he should sit in Court & take certain work when in hand pay.\n\nM. Hurovski's is a practical letter, & if he were on the spot we might have done things more tangible, but like ourselves he has to guess at many of the arrangements. His paper differs from the aim that he makes the Accountant the second in command, giving his non-clerk additional work - is giving half his clerk to the Registry making the staff 3½ persons instead of 4 persons, as the Commissioners & this minute proposes. But then he keeps or substantiates Sheriff, a I suggest the possibility of merging the Sheriff in the Registry.\n\nI think we might with a strong infusion of the Govt. Thanks to Mr. Jackson a button saw a button (their report is practical & business-like, & contrasts with some of the (old) - acceptation & affirm the principle of their recommendations.\n\n? Comment as above on the count of 2.\n\nRequest that the Govt. has not referred upon the fine as put a regular report in the cost.\n\nThe provisional scheme now going on, & inform them into its working - the number of bailiffs, Messengers, etc. Nowell infer the Referrte.\n\nMeanwhile allow it to continue.\n\nOffice of a Fasti Sicht. is disposed to report of a staff of four - Registrar - and three Sheriffs of whom one to be the man of figures, & of whom two of them the staff may or not shall I call Deputy and Registrar. The clerks to the J. & the P. is to have a lath. for help in the office; & the latter in that case to be vacant. This staff to do are the work of Registration, Companies, Appraiser, and going to the Treasury all usual brings attends dies.\n\nSheriff = all I bailiffs messengers in Dunkempty.\n\n(I imagine this the feasible, as we shall see if...\n\n## Page 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305164, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "page_number": 423, "title": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "content_text": "410 \n\nDon & such a man would have to acquire a due knowledge of legal detail of which he is presumably ignorant. Mr Barff for instance was an impediment to the Court: on the other hand men with the like details, E.J. Sangster, were not sufficient as accountants.\n\nIt is suggested that the man of finance should always be in his office & the shorthand is Chinese accountant also.\n\nThis report came home with defence. W. Hennessy sounded to Japan, or we might perhaps have heard from him in favour of a complete reorganisation scheme. Now for the present we can only touch on the detail, which the Court have not filled in a blank for a Complete Scheme, Number of offices - I may have put them too high.\n\nBut deciding between \nA. Registrar \nDeputy (Finance) \nDeputy \nB. Registrar \n+ Accountant \nDeputy Deputy \nwill be and Register.\n\nThe pay, maladministration of, & duties of the Clerks. \nSheriff (absorbing appraiser Registrar &c.) \n& \n(absorbing Sheriff appraiser & Registration of Companies)\n\nB has this merit that Barff, now occupied & Sangster are in the spot & capable for 2,3,4; while none can combine the qualifications of the financial duties.\n\nI had thought that the 2nd Deputy Registrar might be Appraising. The Sheriff might then be left as he is. But if he is to have extra duties, he might have `...` which would hold when to Plan A, though the office would still be held with attention.\n\nMINUTE PAPER.\n\nSir Michael Bricks Branch - I return the papers with you 19th Mr Philippe happened to call upon me & tells me that there is great inconvenience in having the Sheriff a fragment disconnected from the Court: people requiring to file a writ have to search for him (and then I presume he has to find his office).\n\nA Sheriff in my day, & Police work must have occasionally taken him some time. The distance from the Staff was too weak. State Solicitor requires copies of Court record, was made. The copies themselves were not done by the Court officers - The Officials authenticated them; the copying fee being paid all the same.\n\nThe work was not done by the Court officers - There is much to be said for the draft. One of suggestion, as if the Jovens confirms this view - you will in that case accept the larger scheme if you wish - only I have added a paragraph about the Offices - The Eron Schinken have - I think - Three large rooms, for himself & a copyist of the sort.\n\nMemo. herewith of the duties of the Private Secretary to make enquiry for a Registrar?\n\nJM.25/10 \n\nTO", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305173, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "page_number": 432, "title": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "content_text": "419 \n\nwhile the second should be in lieu of the present clerk of the Court. The functions of Registrar of Companies deselsargid muhed pearly be du by the Registrar without special pay, and as part of his ordinary work. The duties hitherto performed by the appraiser would be discharged by one of the Deputy Registrars, the fees going to the Treasury; and this work being taken into consideration in fixing the salaries of these Officers.\n\n7. It has been suggested that if the Staff were increased to Registrar, Accountant and two deputy Registrars, the duties of the Sheriff might form part of the work of the Registry, and this plan would no doubt have the advantage of concentration: but I do not feel able to sanction the increased...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "page_number": 457, "title": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "content_text": "## \n2.5 \n\n443 \n\ndo Class, \n\nCum cinside ad aufficient to voy Rangel's Pocherty. The present site and buildings were also appraised by the Chinese at from sixty to eighty thousand dollars, sufficient to build the new school.\n\nWe were able to bring these facts to the knowledge of Mr. Kennedy. The Bamboo Garden lot was first put up at public auction, and brought the sum the firm had laid out for the property.\n\nRangel's establishment was bought by the Government, but at that point the proceedings terminated, as further transactions could not be completed.\n\nIf the cost of the Sai Ying Pun school is deducted, the Colony would virtually have to provide only eighty thousand dollars for the remaining four schools. That would be a formidable undertaking, and I should like to see it carried into effect.\n\nThere are five schools to be built, and I consider it imperative to prevent the enlargement of the Central School at the expense of the present ones. So long as there are English masters at the Central School, it will always have a large attendance, and be severely taught by them.\n\nI have heard cutting remarks about the English-speaking creoles being more or less taught by \"them\". If the five schools were to be provided with English masters, the effect would be very different.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305231, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "page_number": 490, "title": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "content_text": "# Paragraph from the China Mail Thornhong referred to in July 26th 1879\n\n24 relles dutin Honghong.\n\nNo 44. 197/75 476 Downing Street\n\n16 About 1879 Copy of the despatch of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies of the same date\n\n## No 44. London 16th April 1879. Received. 30th May 1879\n\nThe Right Honourable Sir Michael Beach Bt.\n\n### Endorsement\n\n Criticure. John Pope Hennessy\n\nEnveying decision that W. pecctico nowden mest apologize to the for the statement he made fecting Huffames excaple is the members of the Executing Council passed a resolution on is subject a short time age\n\nor bad better fo round, appraisel\n\nMembers of Enculated for teperineal of Houtle Executing Council and of their Honours to teep fective and Tucane Judge Seer for them\n\nAles it can, of feective and the Femme Judge\n\n7.8 Hennessy 30 May 1879 full h 7 Hewart\n\n## Repell\n\n4.6.19 Tune Part 9 June. 1879 J Small afeene 1879.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305247, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "page_number": 506, "title": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "content_text": "Par 11 contains 492. It has been calculated that the fees from this source would amount to from 300 to 400 pounds sterling, not dollars, as in the printed report I am made to say. In my evidence, I have called attention to the very defective state of the Sheriff's department in my department.\n\n444. The Sheriff made Head Appraiser in Bankruptcy trade appraiser of Intestate Estates. The Commissioners have expressed their opinion in their preliminary remarks (with which I entirely concur) but have not embodied it in the form of a recommendation.\n\nIt is most important that the Sheriff's office should always be open during office hours within the precincts of the Court. I would make him the head Appraiser in Bankruptcy - and the staff in his office would be \"Ushers, Bailiffs = Messengers\". I would also make him Appraiser of Intestate Estates; - no persons would be more capable of prosecuting all those enquiries as to the value of intestate estates, the want of which the Commissioners think, and think rightly, has hitherto caused a loss of revenue, if employed in the Sheriff's office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306611, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "page_number": 367, "title": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "content_text": "20\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n364\n\n21\n\nHARBOUR MASTER,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward,.\n\nSTEAM LAUNCH.\n\nSALARIES:----\n\nEngineer,\n\nCoxswain,.\n\nFireman,\n\nCONTINGENCIES:-\n\nCoals, Repairs, &c.,\n\nGUNPOWDER DEPÔT,\n\nSALARIES:-\n\nHarbour Master, as Supt., Ord. 4 of 1867,.\n\n600\n\nOfficer in Charge,\n\nGunner,\n\nShroff,\n\n8 Chinese Sailors, at $96 each,\n\n1 Indian Sergeant,\n\n4 Do. Constables,\n\nCONTINGENCIES:-\n\nRepairs to Boats, &c.,.\n\nUniform for Constables,\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nMENTS.\n\nFIXED ESTABLISH- PROVISIONAL AND\n\nTEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL TO BR\n\nVOTED.\n\nCIVIL LIST\n\nJUDICIAL.\n\n$\n\n29,965\n\n6,720\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\n$\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY,\n\nTOTAL TO BE\n\nVOTED.\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\n$\n\n$\n\nSALARIES:--\n\nChief Justice,\n\nPuisne Judge,\n\n8,160\n\n360\n\n108\n\n180\n\n648\n\n900\n\n1,808\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court and Registrar\n\nof Companies,\n\nDeputy Registrar and Accountant,\n\n2,160\n\nDo. and Appraiser,.\n\n2,160\n\nJudge's Clerk,\n\nClerk to Puisne Judge,\n\nInterpreter of Chinese,\n\nAssistant Interpreter,\n\nClerk to Registrar,\n\n1,080\n\n1,920\n\n1,800\n\n480\n\nClerk and Usher,\n\n960\n\nBailiff and Assistant Usher,\n\n480\n\nChinese Clerk and Translator,\n\n840\n\nDo. and Shroff,\n\n489\n\n5 Messengers, 1 at $84, and 4 at $72,\n\n372\n\n1 Scavenger,\n\n72\n\n2 Chinese Constables,\n\n264\n\nSheriff,\n\n720\n\n20,384\n\n2,544\n\n22,908\n\n$\n\n12,000\n\n3,840\n\n1,440\n\n140\n\n490\n\n4,831\n\n30,404\n\nALLOWANCES :---\n\nTo Judge's Clerk, for Chinese Teacher,.\n\nClerk of Puisne Judge,\n\nClerk and Usher,\n\nFor Sheriff's Officer,\n\n120\n\n120\n\n120\n\n240\n\n600\n\nLIGHTHOUSES.\n\n$\n\n$\n\nCONTINGENCIES:-\n\nSALARIES:-\n\nBooks for Library,\n\n1,400\n\nCollector of Light Dues,.\n\n480\n\nOffice Furniture, Oil, Newspapers, and Incidental Expenses,\n\nFirst Lighthouse Keeper,\n\n1,440\n\nUniform for Constables,\n\n34\n\nSecond do.,\n\nThird do.,\n\n960\n\n5 Assistants, average pay, $120 each,\n\n600\n\n2 Coolies, at $84 each,.\n\n168\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL.\n\nSALARIES:--\n\nAttorney General,\n\n2,400\n\nCrown Solicitor,.\n\n1,200\n\n4,800\n\n1,200\n\nAttorney General's Clerk,\n\n600\n\nCONTINGENCIES-\n\nParaffin, Coals, Stores, &c.,\n\nCrown Solicitor's do..\n\n600\n\n3,380\n\n2 Messengers, 1 at $84, and 1 at $72,.\n\n168\n\nTOTAL,.\n\n$\n\n7,508\n\nNil.\n\n2,556\n\n2,550\n\nALLOWANCES:--\n\nCOLLECTOR OF STAMP REVENUE.\n\n$\n\nSALARIES:-\n\nCollector,.\n\n960\n\nFirst Clerk,\n\n1,680\n\nSecond do.,\n\n1,440\n\nShroff,\n\n240\n\nPressman,\n\n72\n\n4,392\n\nCONTINGENCIES\n\nCost of Adhesive Stamps, &c.,\n\n200\n\nIncidental Expenses,\n\n50\n\n250\n\nTo Clerk, for a Teacher,.\n\n120\n\n$\n\nCONTINGENCIES:-\n\nIncidental Expenses, and Newspapers,\n\nTOTAL JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS,.\n\n100\n\n$ 27,718\n\n23,280\n\nADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS:—\n\nRefreshments to Jurors, Compensation to Witnesses in Crim-\n\ninal Cases, and for interpreting Dialects with which the Court Interpreters are unacquainted,\n\nFees to Counsel and Solicitors for Prisoners in Capital Cases,\n\nTOTAL, CIVIL LIST,\n\n200\n\n300\n\n600\n\n28,218\n\n$\n\n51,498\n\nTOTAL,.\n\n4,642\n\nNil.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307131, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "Ant home with an intimation that as the Chief Justice proposed 2. Though the staff proposed by Mr. Bricks was sufficient, he had framed the estimates for 1881 accordingly, & the further arrangements will take effect from the beginning of the year; table sins no information as to the proposed \"personnel\" of the several offices -- although Mr. Barff must now go back to the Post Office : it was the more important that he should do so, as\n\nThe Law &c Mail I get a letter from the Registrar (Gilbert) saying that he has been instructed.\n\nHe has fixed the salaries of the two Deputies at $2160 without reference to us, & includes a Clerk to Registrar at $400 of whom we had no knowledge when we wrote; and in sending the Estimates (16201) he says = The Establishment charges,\n\nWho Supreme Court\n\nframed in accordance with the Simone Instructions in despatch of 30 Nov 79.\n\nthe year at $1440\n\nbut he has omitted the Chief Justice's clerk who will be required, though he has mighty little to do; a vice of course I added\n\nThe Staff Proposed by Sir Michael is quite as strong as in regime, competent—but it is important that we should know who is to fill each office, & I strongly suspect that the Sheriff might be dispensed with as his duties performed by the Registrar & his deputies: including the Chief Justice recommend that one of the deputies should be permanently Under Sheriff. in order to perform the Sheriff's duties promptly, as Mr. Plunket cannot do much to do. But we have no previous knowledge\n\nthat Mr. Plunket is Sheriff - I thought he was Magistrate & Coroner & intended Mr. March as Sheriff – Sir W. Sangster as Sheriff –\n\n247\n\nSir John Hennessy does not attend to clear off the confusion, & Sir John Pope Hennessy dislikes that he should. how the frown of setting any officer to do any of the duties of any of the other-\n\nbut\n\nAs far as I can guess the staff on Jan. 1st will be\n\nRegistrar - Gibbons\n\nDeputy & Accountant - Sangster\n\nDeputy & Appraiser\n\n \n \n not in estimates\n Clerk to Chief Justice\n -\n Club & Prison Judge\n \n \n on Girl his bail\n M23.100\n \n \n \n \n \n Ashchado fin\n 1878\n \n \n \n \n \n Sheriff-\n \n 4800\n \n \n \n \n Interpunctur.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Assistant Interpreter\n Mopoo(?)\n 2160\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2160\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 7\n \n \n \n \n Clerk to Registrar-\n \n 1440-\n \n \n \n \n Hageland\n \n 1080\n \n \n \n \n Phunker (?)\n \n 720\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1920\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1800\n \n \n \n \n Clerk\n \n 480-\n \n \n \n \n Lesher-\n \n 960.\n \n \n \n \n Bailiff & Assistant Lesher\n \n 480\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 840.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4.80.\n \n \n \n \n Chinese Clerk & Translator\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n D. Shroff.\n \n \n \n \n \n\nThere are other points in these papers-\n\n1. As to Thickes & Co. The Chief Justice dissenting contradicts the first recommendation of the Commissioners in 1878(?) & declares that none are required. This\n\nDec.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307141, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "257\n\nthe\n\nand emoluments of the staff of Supreme Court. 1° at the beginning of\n\nthe\n\nthat\n\nArraz\n\nyear 1879. 2° at the end of\n\nYear\n\nunder the provisional arrangements sanctioned by His Excellency the Governor in Council.\n\n3° that which is suggested by the Secretary of State.\n\nI have not made\n\nIn the last column\n\nany\n\nalteration in existing Salaries, although from paragraph VI of the Secretary of State's Despatch it would appear that the\n\nduties of keeping accounts\n\nextra\n\nand acting\n\nas\n\nan\n\nAppraiser, which he proposes to impose on the Deputy Registrars, may\n\nbe taken into consideration in fixing their salaries.\n\nI\n\nI believe that an increase to the\n\nsalaries of those Officers will be necessary, especially if one of the Deputy Registrars is to be a person having\n\na\n\npractical acquaintance with accounts.\n\n3.\n\nI have not been able to submit a statement of the Cost of\n\nthe\n\norganization proposed by the Commissioners because, as remarked by His Lordship the Chief Justice, it is not quite clear whether they contemplated the appointment of five Deputy Registrars\n\nin addition to\n\na\n\nClerk of the Court.\n\nI also observe that in recommending the appointment of\n\na\n\ncompetent Chinese Shroff, they intended\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307147, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "Staff Supreme Court in January 1879\n\nStaff of Supreme Court in December 1879.\n\nSecurity furnished.\n\n&Recommended\n\nStaff proposed\n\n262A\n\n \n Chief Justice\n 12,000\n Chief Justice\n 12,000\n Chief Justice\n 12,000\n \n \n Prisene Judge Registrar.\n 8,160\n Prisene Judge\n 8,160\n Puisne Judge\n 8,160\n \n \n Registrar.\n 4,800\n \n \n Registrar of Supreme Court and Registrar of Companies.\n 4,800\n \n \n Defority Registrar (vacant)\n 2,160\n Actg: Deputy Registrar (Sangster)\n 480\n Deputy Registrar & Accountant\n 2,160\n \n \n Clerk of Court-\n \n Judges Clerk\n 2,160\n Accountant (Barff)\n 1,080\n \n \n \n \n Clerk of Court (Sangster)\n 1,920\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Appraiser\n 2,160\n office to be abolished\n \n \n \n Judge's Clerk\n 1,440\n Clerk to Puisne Judge (appt? 34\" Bcrf)\n 1,440\n Clerk to Puisne Judge.\n 1,440\n \n \n \n \n (111essop)\n \n \n \n \n \n Sheriff\n \n Interpreter\n 720\n Sheriff (Sangster)\n 1,920\n \n \n \n \n Interpreter\n 720\n \n \n \n \n Sheriff\n 1,920\n Interpreter\n 720\n Asst. Interpreter (appl? 20 Hooper)\n 1,800\n \n \n Asst: Interpreter.\n 1,800\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk to Registrar.\n 480\n Clerk to Registrar\n 480\n Clerk to Registrar\n 480\n \n \n (apfit? pot Oct 1878)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk and Usher\n 960\n Clerk & Usher\n 960\n Clerk & Usher\n 960\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bailiff & Asst: Usher\n 480\n \n \n Chinese Clerk & Translator\n 840\n Chinese Clerk & Translator\n 840\n \n \n \n \n Shroff\n 336\n \n \n Bailiff\n 480\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Asst: Usher\n 480\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Clerk & Translator & Shroff\n 840\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Shroff\n 480\n \n \n Total\n $38,616\n \n $38,760\n \n $39,480\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Registrar of Companies\n $38,952\n \n \n A Receives $2,880\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Appraiser's fees will be in future brought to Credit of Government.\n \n Average $400 p. Annum\n \n \n \n \n \n (about).\n \n 5d/ H. H. Marsh\n \n \n \n \n\nPage 262A", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309305, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 645, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "638\n\nM. Luery\n\nSee par. 22. Please fast a que mark agains. The Officials who am dealt with in the inlinpretation disfatit\n\nM: Bramston\n\n24 13/10\n\nDone. I also annex the interpretation despatch\n\nCP.d. 13.Oct\n\nOmitting the Enterpretes who have been chatt wilt & the Judges & Registran\n\nas Bishom there is no question the Governor now Proposes the following staff\n\n \n Mevast\n \n \n List in\n 13917/06\n zi bo\n 120\n \n \n 1. Deputy Registran - Shriff\n ← Appraiser\n Jalasin\n 8\n 3360\n \n \n \n \n 2. Deputy Registiron & Accontent\n \n \n \n 2360\n 2160\n 1200\n \n \n 3. Judges Cluck\n \n \n \n 1440\n 1440\n \n \n \n 4. Puiser Judge den\n \n \n \n 1080\n 1080\n \n \n \n 5. Cluck in Registryg & Sheriff Office\n \n \n \n 720\n 480\n 240\n \n \n 6. Usher\n \n \n \n 960\n 960\n \n \n \n 7. Bailiff\n \n Bailiffsfrist destin\n \n 1200\n 480\n 720\n \n \n 8. Shaff\n \n \n \n 480\n 480\n \n \n \n 9. Sheriffs Officer.\n \n \n \n \n 720\n \n \n \n 10. Defoni Banterifling\n Sheriff\n \n \n 720\n 1440\n \n \n \n \n J\n \n \n 720\n 9940\n \n \n\nAs to these offiens - mumerically. 1.2.3.4. have been approved (draft in 14010) - 6.7.8. are old offices or are distinctly reussary: - 5. was created by the Governor 1. Oct. 78- bem danctione; lich looking to the strong expressions. par. 8.15. now do do: observing however that the sutra delary to the Puione Judge's Cluck. was danctioned in the desp. on 14.810, his devices were to be setilively for Count work on alov 29 on the ground that La Summary side, & that it some reppens that this foods. feminined we understand that thant arrangements will in continued\n\n9. The new consegnent on the absorption of the Sheriff into the Registing-\n\n10. is new (sender, I presume, the recommendation of the Consmissions no.10 (Su 11211/79)\n\nI cannot day whether they are both required; disposed to Lanction one at first, till it is deen whether he cannot do all the work - with the Bailiff\n\nI wonce a try to get rid of these specific names, & to make them offiens ofthe Comh, acting under the Sheriff or Rejistian as the case May\n\nB. Salaries\n\n1.2.5.7.9.10 represent an increase of $4000 deducting the sheriff 720 which we have 4800 4050 = $4000 mt. for\n\nVery little explanation (Mar. 24.25) [Thad written so far besen M. Philippo's appointment as Chief Justier made it desirable to refer Bhim]-\n\n1.2. are the most important & lapst offices - Ishould hav Thought #boo would have becured a confitent append Mr. Sangotin's temporary good fortune in getting two provisions & additions This Irrfan salary is no reason In Jermanently accountant", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309307, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 647, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "640\n\nAppointments\n\n-\n\nNo recommendations are made except of W. Sangster In Defenden Registian – Sheriff – Appraiser _ It is cantiklist by long service to the post of Deputy – aste sheriffs su talien - Appraiser – both Defective chanted, be borne & Discharge Rese Intens\n\nThe Registiron in Any user\n\nmay direct Accountant to haulle defels) M: B30. ff. deus dran It work wice a when the Dalung is fique it might be offence Whims\n\nif Justin – ha\n\nFor dr\n\nfus\n\n$2400 as second in Port-\n\nOfficer - pechups allowing Mr. Fawns to succeed him unlis The for astin Cavelling & Postmaster come e recomend Ausy After som\n\nDuties of Sheriff par. 18-19\n\nCom, Jean - with\n\n--\n\nThe Dash Shrift sums an anoma Duties boomande from an English Night Sheriff without. The Femme Jones of carrying them out : The fiction of molemment. prisons, being in his custody, when La ha, no contest of thes Suol my night Gaol my he got wide off - Boil in civil Group-\n\nbe\n\n7\n\nAnus\n\nazine in jed\n\nвери\n\n20\n\nCann\n\nHer\n\nfo in all cases executed before the Registean; a peruse of the (out may be receted mom by the fficers of the Couch - (The only rick heen is that if the count officem Leize, The\n\nfüze according the for- may become responsible to the person whois deminfidd\n\nWray good, or omity to\n\nThe warrant\n\nat presents the Sheriff is as fonsible on the acts ofhis office) –\n\nIshme don't whether the Sheriff\n\nEnguing as Belumage,\n\neven Frid an\n\n✔ Sven\n\nif\n\nthe\n\nwith of\n\nCorle of Leire Bredine.\n\nstill confer This Grower upon hime – it might be well & leave the Judor to delir inquire whether there is any neufity to retain it –\n\nDebris Nors.\n\nIt seems to me that excepte distraints for rent, then are hardly any\n\nJerformed by the Sheriff, including the service offrimnina & Enformations and Collution of Jury lists, which might not be done bythe Registian & his officus direct : & I would desire the Governor to take the whole question in hand and tor pass such legislation asid den for din fleshing These matters by transfering to the offices of the Couch all the Euti af stleift, except those for which it is absohitity\n\nRequisiti\n\nnon essential that a separe to offer disture to fun the Rejistian Shones & maintained_\n\nClick to the Chief Justice _ This office is recent a Sir John-Sinale filled it with his non Jestige. Br Moschi For he is very much of a Private Scentory, do Juchaf, for those ack M. Philippo if he wishes Frecommend...\n\nfor the post-\n\nAny\n\nThe suggestions off. M. Philippo\n\nof offices\n\nA.J\n\n8 the Diaries\n\n*Jorn\n\nLe 18616 - Should be sent. F\n\npar. 29. Approx. Expenditure in Cosbij's Stire – as t\n\nJ\n\nDe Mintis in 18616 &\n\nthe propose dala\n\nJules (18.73.\n\nJagree Request More.\n\n4 Nw8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309311, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 651, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "14\n\n644\n\nMichael Sticks Beach at $4,800 a\n\n2 year,\n\non the appointment of Mr. Gibbons.\n\n5.\n\nThe staff which was proposed by Sir Michael Hicks Beach, as I reported to Your Lordship being considered sufficient by the Judges, will, if not modified, cost $864 more than the staff which existed before the provisional scheme of December 1879. The additions to the charge are these: 1: a salary of $2160 to one of the Deputy Registrars; 2° an increase of $480, authorized by Sir Michael Hicks Beach, to the salary of the Puisne Judge's Clerk; and, 3: the above-mentioned increase of $144 to the Shroff. From this, however, has to be deducted the sum of $1990, the salary of the Clerk of Court, who is not required as a separate officer under the new scheme.\n\n6. With regard to the personnel of the staff, I have to inform Your Lordship that, since the suspension of Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Mossop, who has been acting as Registrar, has left the service to pursue his profession as a Solicitor. Mr. Sangster, whom I thereupon appointed Acting Registrar, I recommend for the permanent appointment of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser. If he had been a barrister or solicitor, he would have been qualified for the post of Registrar.\n\nIn connection with the two Offices of Deputy Registrar, I may mention", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309320, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 660, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "1122 \n\n23 \n\n653 \n\n1 \n\nalways available to perform the duties, when the Sheriff happened to be engaged with his other work in court. A Bailiff, \n\na \n\n• Messenger in Bankruptcy or perhaps two, \n\nand a Sheriff's Officer would complete the required staff. \n\nThis arrangement will \n\n21. \n\nnecessitate the modification of the Supreme Court staff to which I referred \n\nincidentally in a former paragraph. \n\nwill first give \n\n1 \n\nf \n\nthe list \n\nJ \n\nof Officers with \n\ntheir salaries, and then refer specifically \n\nto the financial questions involved. \n\nThe Officers of the Court \n\n22. \n\nand their salaries would be these: - \n\nChief Justice$12,000\n$8,160.\n$20,160\nLowered to$1800\nX Registrar\nDeputy Registrar, Sheriff and ? Appraiser$4,800\n$3,360\nDeputy Registrar and Accountant.$2360\nJudge's Clerk...\nLuisne Judge's Clerk, and Clerk Supervisor of Interpreters and translator.$1,440\n× Interpreter of Court$2,400\n$2,400\n$1800\n* Assistant Interpreter.$1,200\n* Chinese Clerk and Translator\nClerk in Registry and Sheriff's\nUsher$720\nBailiff * Interpreter in Hindostani$960\n23.\nShroff$1,200\nSheriff's Officer$300\nMessenger in Bankruptcy$#! \n$480\n$720\n$720\n$47,100\n\nThe total salaries by this \n\nPage 660\n\nPage 661\n\n24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309321, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 661, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "654\n\n25\n\ni\n\nscheme would be $7,600 in excess of the salaries I formerly assigned to the staff proposed by the Michael Hicks Beach; but I have to inform Your Lordship that, under this new arrangement, all fees whatsoever connected with the various offices will be paid into the Treasury to the general Revenue of the Colony, and, although I am not in a position at present to state the exact amount of those fees, I can say with confidence that they will not be less than from $2,000 to $3,000 per annum.\n\nIt will not have escaped Your Lordship's notice that I have increased the salaries of the Deputy Registrars from £2,160 to £3,360 each; that is, from £150 to £400 per annum. This has been recommended to me on several grounds. First, the emoluments now enjoyed by Mr Sangster as Clerk of Court, Sheriff, and Deputy Registrar, amount to £650, and this sum could not well be diminished without compensation. In the second place, if appointed Deputy Registrar, Sheriff and Appraiser, as I have recommended, his duties and responsibilities will be increased in connection with the levying of distresses. Thirdly, a substantial salary is necessary to secure the services of a competent accountant, who could not, I fear, be obtained at the salary of £2160, as originally proposed.\n\nIn proposing the salaries", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309328, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 668, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "to you my\n\nves 123\n\nBr... 661 blank in Registry, +Sheriff's Offices\n\n$720 $240 my despatch ht 6. Uzohe $960 the 6L October, and 7 Bailiff $1200 $720 of the Juages and Registras to whom there\n\n8 Shroff $450 question Cho staff which you\n\nAe comm in plan of that proposed in your 91th Nov. 1880.\n\nA appears to be as dup. no 176 follows\n\n5. Deputy Registrar, Salary decrease Sheriff & Appraiser } # 3360 - $1200\n\n \n 2. Deputy Registrar\n $3360\n $1200\n \n \n 3 Judge's Clerk\n $1400\n \n \n \n Suisse Judge's\n $1080\n \n \n \n 4 Sheriff's Offices\n $720\n \n \n \n 10 Messenger Bankruptcy.\n $720\n \n \n\nthe coppia as a with Com separate offin zalary of $72. being abolished.\n\n3. I propose for $720 $720 sherify fires convenience santé A by refer to the offices Chien the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 287, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "22\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n285\n\n23\n\nXIV. JUDICIAL.\n\nSUPREME COURT,\n\nSALARIES:\n\nChief Justice,\n\nPuisne Judge,\n\n8,160\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court and Registrar of Companies,\n\n960\n\nDeputy Registrar and Accountant,\n\n2,160\n\nDo. and Appraiser,\n\nJudge's Clerk,\n\n2,160\n\nClerk to Puisne Judge,\n\n1,440\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL TO CIVIL LIST.\n\nVOTED.\n\nXV.-ECCLESIASTICAL.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\nSALARIES:--\n\nColonial Chaplain,\n\n12,000\n\nClerk,\n\nSexton,\n\nMessenger,\n\n3,840\n\nALLOWANCES:-\n\nTo Colonial Chaplain, for Conveyance,\n\n288\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL TO CIVIL LIST.\n\nVOTED.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n54\n\n720\n\n72\n\n846\n\n846\n\nSupervisor of Staff of Interpreters and Translator to Supreme Court,\n\n2,400\n\nHead Interpreter,\n\n1,158\n\nAssistant Interpreter,\n\n2,400\n\nInterpreter of Hindustani,\n\n1,800\n\n300\n\nCONTINGENCIES:-\n\nSurplices, &c.,\n\n24\n\nECCLESIASTICAL-EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENT:--\n\nGrant to St. John's Cathedral for the use of the Troops,\n\n500\n\nClerk to Registrar,\n\n480\n\nClerk and Usher,\n\n1,658\n\n960\n\nBailiff and Assistant Usher,\n\n480\n\nChinese Clerk and Translator,\n\n840\n\nDo. and Shroff,\n\n480\n\n5 Messengers, 1 at $84, and 4 at $72,\n\n372\n\n1 Scavenger,\n\n72\n\n2 Chinese Constables,\n\n264\n\nTOTAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST,\n\n$\n\n3,840\n\n5,498\n\nXVI.-EDUCATIONAL.\n\n$\n\n$\n\nSALARIES :-\n\nSheriff,\n\n2,400\n\nInspector of Schools,\n\n720\n\n85 Teachers,\n\n3,468\n\n1,080\n\n20,844\n\n5,244\n\n26,088\n\nChinese Clerk,\n\nScavenger at Girls' School,\n\n180\n\n24\n\nALLOWANCES :---\n\n6,072\n\n1,080\n\n7,152\n\nTo Judge's Clerk, for Chinese Teacher,\n\n120\n\nClerk of Puisne Judge, do.,\n\n120\n\nHead Master of Central School,\n\n2,400\n\nSecond do. do.,\n\n1,680\n\n240\n\n4 Assist. Masters do., at $1,440.\n\n5,760\n\n480\n\n6 Teachers of English, 1 at $720, 1 at $480,\n\n1,860\n\n2 at $240, and 2 at $90 each,\n\nCONTINGENCIES :—-\n\nBooks for Library,\n\n4 Chinese Teachers, 3 at $800 & 1 at $144,\n\n1,044\n\nOffice Furniture, Oil, Newspapers, and Incidental Expenses,\n\nUniform for Constables,\n\n1,400\n\n3 Monitors,\n\n108\n\n180\n\nClerk to Head Master,\n\n34\n\n1,434\n\n3 Coolies, 1 at $96, 2 at $72 each,\n\n240\n\nNormal School,\n\n5,000\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL.\n\n13,092\n\n5,180\n\n18,272\n\nSALARIES:---\n\nALLOWANCES:--\n\nAttorney General,\n\nCrown Solicitor,\n\n1,200\n\nAttorney General's Clerk,\n\n4,800\n\n1,200\n\nTo Inspector of Schools, for Conveyance,\n\nfor Chinese Teacher,\n\n288\n\n120\n\n408\n\n600\n\nCrown Solicitor's do.,\n\n600\n\n2 Messengers, 1 at $84, and 1 at $72,\n\n156\n\n5 Masters,\n\nCONTINGENCIES -\n\nTo Head Master, for Chinese Teacher,\n\nFor\n\n120\n\n600\n\ndo.,\n\n720\n\n2,556\n\n2,556\n\nINSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS-Incidental Books, &c.,\n\nChinese Books,\n\n250\n\n100\n\n185\n\nPrizes,\n\nCONTINGENCIES :-\n\n50\n\nFurniture,\n\nIncidental Expenses, and Newspapers,\n\n585\n\n130\n\nTOTAL JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS,\n\n$\n\n30,688\n\n23,280\n\nHEAD MASTER-Incidental Expenses, Books, &C..\n\nChinese Books,-\n\n900\n\n150\n\n100\n\nPrizes,\n\nADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE,—ExCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS :~-~~-\n\nRefreshments to Jurors, Compensation to Witnesses in Criminal Cases, and for interpreting Dialects with which the Court Interpreters are unacquainted,\n\n200\n\nWorking Expenses of Laboratory,\n\nESTABLISHMENT,·\n\n100\n\n1,850\n\n28,487\n\nFees to Counsel and Solicitors for Prisoners in Capital Cases,\n\n300\n\n500\n\nGRANTS-IN-AID ---\n\n8,500\n\nAmount of Grant, RENT:-\n\n31,188\n\nGovernment Schools,\n\n1,176\n\nQuarters for Assistant Masters,\n\n1,680\n\n2,856\n\nTOTAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST,\n\n$\n\n54,488\n\nTOTAL,\n\n$\n\n39,843\n\nNil.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309752, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 413, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "22\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n23\n\n \n FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS.\n PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n TOTAL TO BE VOTED.\n \n \n CIVIL LIST\n \n \n XIV. JUDICIAL.\n \n \n SALARIES:-\n $\n $3\n \n \n Chief Justice,\n 12,000\n \n \n \n Puisne Judge,\n 8,160\n \n \n \n Registrar of Supreme Court and Registrar of Companies,\n 3,840\n \n \n \n Clerk, Sexton,\n 960\n \n \n \n XV.-ECCLESIASTICAL.\n \n \n SALARIES:-\n $\n $3,840\n \n \n Colonial Chaplain,\n 2,160\n \n \n \n Deputy Registrar and Accountant,\n 720\n \n \n \n Do. and Appraiser,\n 54\n \n \n \n Messenger,\n 72\n 846\n \n \n Judge's Clerk,\n 1,440\n \n \n \n Clerk to Puisne Judge,\n 1,080\n \n \n \n ALLOWANCES:—\n \n \n \n \n To Colonial Chaplain, for Conveyance,\n 288\n \n \n \n Supervisor of Staff of Interpreters and Translator to Supreme Court,\n 2,400\n \n \n \n Head Interpreter,\n 2,100\n \n \n \n Assistant Interpreter,\n 1,800\n \n \n \n Interpreter of Hindustani,\n 300\n \n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:--\n \n \n \n \n Surplices, &c.,\n 24\n 1,158\n \n \n ECCLESIASTICAL-EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENT :-\n \n \n \n \n Grant to St. John's Cathedral for the use of the Troops,\n 500\n \n \n \n Clerk to Registrar,\n 480\n \n \n \n Clerk and Usher,\n 960\n 1,658\n \n \n Bailiff and Assistant Usher,\n 480\n \n \n \n Chinese Clerk and Translator,\n 840\n \n \n \n Do. and Shroff,\n 480\n \n \n \n 5 Messengers, 1 at $84, and 4 at $72,\n 372\n \n \n \n 1 Scavenger,\n 72\n \n \n \n 2 Chinese Constables,\n 204\n 5,498\n \n \n XVI-EDUCATIONAL.\n \n \n SALARIES:-\n $\n $\n \n \n Sheriff,\n 2,400\n \n \n \n Inspector of Schools,\n 720\n \n \n \n 35 Teachers,\n 3,468\n 1,080\n \n \n Chinese Clerk,\n 180\n 20,844\n \n \n Scavenger at Girls' School,\n 24\n 5,244\n \n \n \n 6,072\n 1,080\n \n \n \n \n 7,152\n \n \n ALLOWANCES:--\n \n \n \n \n To Judge's Clerk, for Chinese Teacher,\n 120\n \n \n \n Clerk of Puisne Judge,\n \n \n \n \n For Sheriff's Officer,\n \n \n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:----\n \n \n \n \n Books for Library,\n \n \n \n \n Head Master of Central School,\n 2,400\n \n \n \n do.,\n 120\n \n \n \n Second do.\n 240\n \n \n \n 4 Assist. Masters at $1,440,\n 5,760\n \n \n \n 6 Teachers of English, 1 at $720, 1 at $480, 2 at $240, and 2 at $90 each,\n 1,860\n \n \n \n 4 Chinese Teachers, 3 at $300 & 1 at $144,\n 1,044\n \n \n \n Office Furniture, Oil, Newspapers, and Incidental Expenses, Uniform for Constables,\n 1,400\n \n \n \n \n 34\n 1,434\n \n \n 3 Monitors,\n 108\n \n \n \n Clerk to Head Master,\n 180\n \n \n \n 3 Coolies, 1 at $96, 2 at $72 each, Normal School,\n 240\n \n \n \n \n 5,000\n \n \n \n ATTORNEY GENERAL.\n \n \n \n \n SALARIES:----\n \n \n \n \n Attorney General,\n \n \n \n \n Crown Solicitor,\n 1,200\n \n \n \n Attorney General's Clerk,\n 600\n \n \n \n Crown Solicitor's Clerk,\n 600\n \n \n \n 2 Messengers, 1 at $84, and 1 at $72,\n 156\n 2,556\n \n \n \n 13,092\n 5,180\n \n \n \n \n 18,272\n \n \n ALLOWANCES:-\n \n \n \n \n To Inspector of Schools, for Conveyance,\n 288\n \n \n \n Do for Chinese Teacher,\n 120\n 408\n \n \n To Head Master, for Chinese Teacher,\n 120\n \n \n \n 5 Masters, for do.,\n 600\n \n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:--\n \n \n \n \n INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS-Incidental Books, &c.,\n \n \n \n \n Chinese Books,\n 250\n \n \n \n Prizes,\n 100\n \n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:-\n \n \n \n \n Furniture,\n 50\n \n \n \n Incidental Expenses, and Newspapers,\n 180\n 585\n \n \n TOTAL JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS,\n \n $30,688\n \n \n \n 23,280\n \n \n \n HEAD MASTER-Incidental Expenses, Books, &c.,\n \n \n \n \n Chinese Books,\n 900\n \n \n \n Prizes,\n 150\n \n \n \n ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE-EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS—\n \n \n \n \n Refreshments to Jurors, Compensation to Witnesses in Criminal Cases, and for interpreting Dialects with which the Court Interpreters are unacquainted, Fees to Counsel and Solicitors for Prisoners in Capital Cases,\n 100\n \n \n \n Furniture,\n 1,350\n \n \n \n Working Expenses of Laboratory,\n 200\n \n \n \n ESTABLISHMENT,\n \n 28,487\n \n \n \n 300\n \n \n \n \n 500\n \n \n \n GRANTS-IN-AID :--\n \n \n \n \n Amount of Grant,\n 8,500\n \n \n \n RENT:--\n \n 31,188\n \n \n Government Schools,\n 1,170\n \n \n \n Quarters for Assistant Masters,\n 1,680\n \n \n \n \n 2,856\n \n \n \n TOTAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST,\n \n 54,468\n \n \n TOTAL,\n 39,843\n \n \n \n \n Nil.\n \n \n \n \n 410", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309942, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "N₤26- \n\n10th October, 1881.\n\n67\n\nC 0.\n\n20.370\n\nRECP\n\nREGE ETHOV\n\nAdministrator\n\n \n Malcolm Townsend\n Thurburn\n \n\nto\n\nThe Right Honourable The Earl of Kimberley\n\nReporting on the changes\n\nprovisionally made in the Supreme Court staff in consequence of the resignation of Mr. P.R. Smith.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 341.\n\nHis Excellency the Administrator has been pleased to make the following appointments, provisionally, and until further notice:—\n\nMr. SAMUEL BARFF to be Acting Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court and Appraiser. Mr. JAMES DYER BALL to be Sheriff.\n\nMr. José GABRIEL DA ROCHA to be Acting Assistant Postmaster General.\n\nThe above appointments to date as from the 16th instant.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th September, 1881.\n\nW. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nOne Enclosure.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310691, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "take the office; that I was not the man he wanted; and seemed to look upon the appointment as one of which he ought to have had the patronage, and not the Colonial Office.\n\nThe Judicial Department of Hong Kong consisted of a Chief Justice, a Puisne Judge, a Registrar, who was also Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, Official Administrator, Acting Official Trustee, Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies, and Acting Registrar of the Vice-Admiralty Court; an Accountant, who was also Assistant Postmaster-General; two Deputy-Registrars, one of whom was Sheriff and Clerk of the Court in Summary Jurisdiction; the other, who was Clerk to the Chief Justice, Court Appraiser, and Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court; three Interpreters, two Clerks, Usher, Bailiff, and Process Server.\n\nOn taking over the office, on the day after my arrival, I found everything connected with the Registrar's duty in the utmost state of disorder; all the documents and records were lying about the office floor, and in other places, in confused heaps; the keys to the safes could not be found; many of the books of account were dilapidated and torn and portions missing; the Minute books and Record books were in like condition, and had been so kept as to be almost wholly unintelligible.\n\nI found that in 1878 the then Deputy-Registrar, F. S. Huffam, had been convicted of embezzlement, and was undergoing penal servitude; that upwards of $60,000 was missing, without any effort having been made to trace any portion of the amount.\n\nMy immediate predecessor in office, the Honourable C. B. Plunket (since dead), was, when I took over the office, and had been for some time previously, incapacitated by illness.\n\nThe Chief Justice exhibited such a demeanour towards me, that I found it impossible to consult with him on any point, or obtain any directions, suggestion, or advice; I had, therefore, to rely entirely upon my subordinates, and the information afforded by the evidence taken by the Commission. The Puisne Judge was absent on leave, and within a short time after my arrival my predecessor (Mr. Plunket), and one of the Deputy Registrars (Mr. Mossop), who was also Clerk to the Chief Justice, went away on leave to Japan.\n\nWith the aid, however, of Mr. Barff, the Accountant, and of Mr. Barros, the Registrar's Clerk, I began to reduce matters into order. There were some fifty bankruptcies requiring to be wound-up (some of them dating from 1867), in thirty-one of which the convict Huffam had been specially appointed official assignee, and had only been formally removed in one, the Chief Justice having expressed a doubt of his power to remove. There were also a number of intestate estates in which none of the proper steps had been taken, and about $100,000 belonging to creditors and others, lying at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank to the credit of the Registrar, undistributed.\n\nNotwithstanding the large amount of pressing business in arrears requiring my constant attention, and my representations to that effect, and the recommendation of the Commissioners that the Deputy-Registrars who had been expressly appointed for the purpose of attending the Court, should relieve the Registrar of that duty, the Chief Justice insisted on my attending in Court to swear the jury and witnesses, and perform those duties which are generally performed by the court crier or usher, and that too in an overbearing and offensive manner; and his general conduct towards me in public was so personal, that the Press commented severely upon his demeanour (see China Mail of April 26, 1880; Hong Kong Daily Press of April 27, 1880; Appendix, No. 2); and I found myself, very much against\n\nPage 264\n\n \n3\n\nme...\n\n \n\nhas been re-written to \n\ntake the office; that I was not the man he wanted; and seemed to look upon the appointment as one of which he ought to have had the patronage, and not the Colonial Office.\n\nThe Judicial Department of Hong Kong consisted of a Chief Justice, a Puisne Judge, a Registrar, who was also Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, Official Administrator, Acting Official Trustee, Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies, and Acting Registrar of the Vice-Admiralty Court; an Accountant, who was also Assistant Postmaster-General; two Deputy-Registrars, one of whom was Sheriff and Clerk of the Court in Summary Jurisdiction; the other, who was Clerk to the Chief Justice, Court Appraiser, and Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court; three Interpreters, two Clerks, Usher, Bailiff, and Process Server.\n\nOn taking over the office, on the day after my arrival, I found everything connected with the Registrar's duty in the utmost state of disorder; all the documents and records were lying about the office floor, and in other places, in confused heaps; the keys to the safes could not be found; many of the books of account were dilapidated and torn and portions missing; the Minute books and Record books were in like condition, and had been so kept as to be almost wholly unintelligible.\n\nI found that in 1878 the then Deputy-Registrar, F. S. Huffam, had been convicted of embezzlement, and was undergoing penal servitude; that upwards of $60,000 was missing, without any effort having been made to trace any portion of the amount.\n\nMy immediate predecessor in office, the Honourable C. B. Plunket (since dead), was, when I took over the office, and had been for some time previously, incapacitated by illness.\n\nThe Chief Justice exhibited such a demeanour towards me, that I found it impossible to consult with him on any point, or obtain any directions, suggestion, or advice; I had, therefore, to rely entirely upon my subordinates, and the information afforded by the evidence taken by the Commission. The Puisne Judge was absent on leave, and within a short time after my arrival my predecessor (Mr. Plunket), and one of the Deputy Registrars (Mr. Mossop), who was also Clerk to the Chief Justice, went away on leave to Japan.\n\nWith the aid, however, of Mr. Barff, the Accountant, and of Mr. Barros, the Registrar's Clerk, I began to reduce matters into order. There were some fifty bankruptcies requiring to be wound-up (some of them dating from 1867), in thirty-one of which the convict Huffam had been specially appointed official assignee, and had only been formally removed in one, the Chief Justice having expressed a doubt of his power to remove. There were also a number of intestate estates in which none of the proper steps had been taken, and about $100,000 belonging to creditors and others, lying at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank to the credit of the Registrar, undistributed.\n\nNotwithstanding the large amount of pressing business in arrears requiring my constant attention, and my representations to that effect, and the recommendation of the Commissioners that the Deputy-Registrars who had been expressly appointed for the purpose of attending the Court, should relieve the Registrar of that duty, the Chief Justice insisted on my attending in Court to swear the jury and witnesses, and perform those duties which are generally performed by the court crier or usher, and that too in an overbearing and offensive manner; and his general conduct towards me in public was so personal, that the Press commented severely upon his demeanour (see China Mail of April 26, 1880; Hong Kong Daily Press of April 27, 1880; Appendix, No. 2); and I found myself, very much against\n\nPage 264\n\n3\n\n \nThe original response is already in HTML format using `` for paragraphs. 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S. Huffam, had been convicted of embezzlement, and was undergoing penal servitude; that upwards of $60,000 was missing, without any effort having been made to trace any portion of the amount.\n\nMy immediate predecessor in office, the Honourable C. B. Plunket (since dead), was, when I took over the office, and had been for some time previously, incapacitated by illness.\n\nThe Chief Justice exhibited such a demeanour towards me, that I found it impossible to consult with him on any point, or obtain any directions, suggestion, or advice; I had, therefore, to rely entirely upon my subordinates, and the information afforded by the evidence taken by the Commission. The Puisne Judge was absent on leave, and within a short time after my arrival my predecessor (Mr. Plunket), and one of the Deputy Registrars (Mr. Mossop), who was also Clerk to the Chief Justice, went away on leave to Japan.\n\nWith the aid, however, of Mr. Barff, the Accountant, and of Mr. Barros, the Registrar's Clerk, I began to reduce matters into order. There were some fifty bankruptcies requiring to be wound-up (some of them dating from 1867), in thirty-one of which the convict Huffam had been specially appointed official assignee, and had only been formally removed in one, the Chief Justice having expressed a doubt of his power to remove. There were also a number of intestate estates in which none of the proper steps had been taken, and about $100,000 belonging to creditors and others, lying at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank to the credit of the Registrar, undistributed.\n\nNotwithstanding the large amount of pressing business in arrears requiring my constant attention, and my representations to that effect, and the recommendation of the Commissioners that the Deputy-Registrars who had been expressly appointed for the purpose of attending the Court, should relieve the Registrar of that duty, the Chief Justice insisted on my attending in Court to swear the jury and witnesses, and perform those duties which are generally performed by the court crier or usher, and that too in an overbearing and offensive manner; and his general conduct towards me in public was so personal, that the Press commented severely upon his demeanour (see China Mail of April 26, 1880; Hong Kong Daily Press of April 27, 1880; Appendix, No. 2); and I found myself, very much against\n\n3\n\nme...\n\n \nhas the same content as the rewritten response.\n\nThe final output is already in the correct HTML format. 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The response is:\n\ntake the office; that I was not the man he wanted; and seemed to look upon the appointment as one of which he ought to have had the patronage, and not the Colonial Office.\n\nThe Judicial Department of Hong Kong consisted of a Chief Justice, a Puisne Judge, a Registrar, who was also Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, Official Administrator, Acting Official Trustee, Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies, and Acting Registrar of the Vice-Admiralty Court; an Accountant, who was also Assistant Postmaster-General; two Deputy-Registrars, one of whom was Sheriff and Clerk of the Court in Summary Jurisdiction; the other, who was Clerk to the Chief Justice, Court Appraiser, and Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court; three Interpreters, two Clerks, Usher, Bailiff, and Process Server.\n\nOn taking over the office, on the day after my arrival, I found everything connected with the Registrar's duty in the utmost state of disorder; all the documents and records were lying about the office floor, and in other places, in confused heaps; the keys to the safes could not be found; many of the books of account were dilapidated and torn and portions missing; the Minute books and Record books were in like condition, and had been so kept as to be almost wholly unintelligible.\n\nI found that in 1878 the then Deputy-Registrar, F. S. Huffam, had been convicted of embezzlement, and was undergoing penal servitude; that upwards of $60,000 was missing, without any effort having been made to trace any portion of the amount.\n\nMy immediate predecessor in office, the Honourable C. B. Plunket (since dead), was, when I took over the office, and had been for some time previously, incapacitated by illness.\n\nThe Chief Justice exhibited such a demeanour towards me, that I found it impossible to consult with him on any point, or obtain any directions, suggestion, or advice; I had, therefore, to rely entirely upon my subordinates, and the information afforded by the evidence taken by the Commission. The Puisne Judge was absent on leave, and within a short time after my arrival my predecessor (Mr. Plunket), and one of the Deputy Registrars (Mr. Mossop), who was also Clerk to the Chief Justice, went away on leave to Japan.\n\nWith the aid, however, of Mr. Barff, the Accountant, and of Mr. Barros, the Registrar's Clerk, I began to reduce matters into order. There were some fifty bankruptcies requiring to be wound-up (some of them dating from 1867), in thirty-one of which the convict Huffam had been specially appointed official assignee, and had only been formally removed in one, the Chief Justice having expressed a doubt of his power to remove. There were also a number of intestate estates in which none of the proper steps had been taken, and about $100,000 belonging to creditors and others, lying at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank to the credit of the Registrar, undistributed.\n\nNotwithstanding the large amount of pressing business in arrears requiring my constant attention, and my representations to that effect, and the recommendation of the Commissioners that the Deputy-Registrars who had been expressly appointed for the purpose of attending the Court, should relieve the Registrar of that duty, the Chief Justice insisted on my attending in Court to swear the jury and witnesses, and perform those duties which are generally performed by the court crier or usher, and that too in an overbearing and offensive manner; and his general conduct towards me in public was so personal, that the Press commented severely upon his demeanour (see China Mail of April 26, 1880; Hong Kong Daily Press of April 27, 1880; Appendix, No. 2); and I found myself, very much against\n\nPage 264\n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310694, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "but I have no means of knowing whether my request was ever complied with,\n\nOn August 3 my letter to the Governor, dated July 27, was returned to me through the Chief Justice, with an intimation that all letters connected with the Supreme Court work were to be sent through the Chief Justice.\n\nOn August 5 the Chief Justice, in answer to my request to have some rules laid down for my guidance (there being none in existence, notwithstanding the first recommendation of the Commissioners), wrote as follows: \"I will confer with Mr. Justice Snowden thereon, and settle such of them as may appear proper for future guidance.\"\n\nUp to the time I left the Colony (January 12, 1881) not only were no rules drafted or prepared, but every suggestion respecting them was treated as an offence.\n\nOn August 10, after I had been told by the Chief Justice that the Clerk of the Puisne Judge was not bound to keep the Rules and Order Book before mentioned, and that his own clerk (who was also Deputy-Registrar and Court Appraiser) was not to receive orders from me, I wrote (in strict accordance with the first recommendation of the Commissioners, as contained in their Report) as follows: \"I must therefore ask your Honour to be good enough to furnish me with the necessary details, specifying those officers who are to be considered as my subordinates, and in what respect I am to control and supervise them.\"\n\nOn August 12 the Chief Justice (through his acting clerk) replied to the above-mentioned letter as follows: \"Instructions as to the position of the officers in the Registry Office relatively to yourself will be given verbally as soon as his Excellency the Governor shall have decided on the constitution of the staff. The Chief Justice says that you may apply to the Chief Justice as to this when he is attending the Supreme Court, and that, as to ordinary detail, Mr. Sangster, Deputy-Registrar, can give you sufficient information.\"\n\nThe letter winds up with an intimation that \"all future correspondence must be carried on through the clerk.\"\n\nAmong the offices which I was required to undertake, but which had no connection whatever with the duty of Registrar, was that of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies. On looking through the ordinance creating this office, I found that the Governor was required to fix the remuneration; and, although I had undertaken to perform the duties which I was doing—I conceived that my performance of them under arrangement, in no way exonerated the Governor from the duty of fixing the remuneration. I therefore pointed this out in a letter to the Governor. Now, although this matter in no way concerned the Chief Justice, yet on the 16th of August I received a letter from him, returning me the requisition I had made for the pay (theretofore attaching to the office), and referring me to the arrangement I had made with the Colonial Office.\n\nThis letter was written after the intimation that all future correspondence was to be through his clerk.\n\nOn September 7, 1880, the conduct of the Chief Justice had become so intolerable, that, availing myself of an opportunity given me by the Governor asking the meaning of a paragraph in one of my letters, I made a formal complaint of the treatment to which I had been subjected, and asked for an inquiry. (See appendix No. 4) This letter was afterwards prepared and sent in triplicate for the purpose of being forwarded to the Colonial Office.\n\nPrevious to taking this step I had found myself completely checked by the Chief Justice in my plan of winding up the bankruptcies which were in arrear. In one of them—that of Vaucher and Blakeway, in which there was $3,669 deposited in the Colonial Treasury available for\n\nC\n\n267", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310850, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 430, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "Duties and Responsibilities\n\nof Sheriff and\n\nAppraiser besides giving notices in\n\nall cases\n\ngeneral\n\nThe Salary\n\nof the Deputy Registrars who is to\n\nhave the duties\n\nConsidered by the Commissioners\n\nto report\n\non\n\nAssistant Clerks\n\nJuly appointed\n\nThe Office\n\nand they considered\n\nthat the Salary proposed\n\nwas the least\n\nas\n\nthat could be offered to a competent\n\nperson\n\nHis work\n\nadds by the\n\nhe may be confined to keeping\n\nAccounts\n\nand\n\nif he is to\n\nperform the duties set out for him by the Commissioners would probably form the lightest portion of his duties\n\nAs to the Salaries of other Officers I understand that those with\n\na\n\nrate marked against them\n\nare similar\n\nThe Governor's Despatch previously referred to\n\ndoes not\n\nseem to me to be\n\nwell advised\n\nand the others.\n\nIt does not\n\nappear to me that they are\n\nexcessive when\n\ncompared with\n\nthe Salaries of\n\nsimilar\n\nOfficers of\n\nqualifications at present\n\nemployed\n\nin Hong Kong.\n\nof\n\nthe Government\n\nI am,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nGeorge Phillipps\n\n421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311902, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "## 125 \n## 336 \n\n**Clark of the Court, Sheriff, Bailiffs, Appraisers**\n\nCrur's de.\n\n161. In 1879 the Supreme Court Commissioners recommended that in addition to the then existing staff there should be appointed \"a competent accountant with a knowledge of mercantile affairs who should take upon himself the keeping of all the accounts of the Supreme Court and thus relieve the Registrar and allow him time for the general supervision of the Officers of the Supreme Court.\" The duties heretofore performed by the Registrar and Deputy Registrar would be defined and directed by the Registrar.\n\n162. At the time when these recommendations were made Mr. Plunket was Registrar. Mr. Barff was Acting Deputy Registrar, Mr. Langster was Clerk of the Court and Mr. Azzopardi was Chief Matriculation Clerk.\n\n163. These recommendations were submitted to the Chief Justice. He urged, pending further action and as a provisional measure (amongst other things), that Mr. Barff should be relieved of all Court duties and that there should be assigned to him the accounts in all the departments of the Court. The Commissioners also recommended that a competent officer to be termed Deputy Registrar be appointed, whose duties more particularly should be attending in Court. `Appendix p.434` - `Appendix p.98a`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317225, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "page_number": 306, "title": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "content_text": "## SCHEDULE A.\n\n**RETURN of OFFICERS entrusted with PUBLIC MONEYS, or STORES, shewing the amount and nature of the Security now given in respect of pecuniary or other responsibility attaching to their Offices; also the amount of security recommended to be required for the future.**\n\n### SCHEDULE A,- Continued.\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | AVERAGE COLLECTIONS MONTHLY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | Amount | Nature | Amount | Nature | |\n| HARBOUR MASTER, | $4,200 | $1,800 | $2,000 | Two sureties for $1,000 each, | $2,000 | Personal bond with two Sureties all bound jointly, and severally in | |\n| TREASURER | $960 | | $10,000 | Title deeds of house property. | $10,000 | Personal band with two sureties, all bound jointly and severally in | This Office is generally held in the full amount, |\n| 1ST CLARK AND CASHIER | $2,400 | £1,000 | $47,000 | Two sureties of $500 each. | $5,000 | the full amount. | |\n| 1ST SHROFF, | $420 | $15,000 | | Two suretics | $10,000 | Do. jointly & severally. | |\n| 2ND SHROFF, | $240 | $5,000 | | Do. | $5,000 | Do. | |\n| SURVEYOR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT:- | | | | | | | |\n| 1ST CLERK, | $2,400 | $300 | None. | None. | | | In charge of Stores. |\n| STORE CLERK, | $1,080 | | None. | | | | |\n| POSTMASTER GENERAL, | $8,360 | $9,800 | None. | | | | in conjunction with that of Registrar General. |\n| COLLECTOR OF LIGHT DURS, | | | | | | | |\n| 1ST CLERK, (SAILORS' HOME), | $2,400 | $1,920 | $1,200 | None. | $1,000 | | |\n| SHROFF, (SAILORS' HOME) | $240 | $1,500 | | Personal with two suretice jointly & severally. | $500 | *Do. | |\n| 3RD CLERK, | $1,440 | $350 | Personal with one surely jointly & severally, | | $250 | Do. | |\n| INTERPRETER AND SHROFF, | $420 | $800 | $1,000 | Personal with one surety $500 each. | $500 | $300 | Do. |\n| | | $2,000 | | $2,000 | | Do. | |\n| REGISTRAR OF SUPREME COURT, | $4,800 | Fees $900 | $10,000 | Not yet given. | $5,000 | Do, | Gives security for the Office of Collector of Stamp Revenue conjointly with that of Postmaster. |\n| SHERIFF, | $2,880 | £1,000 | | Three sureties jointly & severally. | $2,000 | Do. | |\n| SHROFF, | $336 | $2,000 | | $5,000 Personal with two sureties all jointly & severally. | $2,000 | $1,000 | Do. |\n| ASSISTANT | $720 | | | | | | |\n| USHER AND BALLIFF, | $960 | | | | | | |\n| MARINE SORTER, | $1,680 | | | | | | In sole charge of Mails on board English Mail Steamers. |\n| | | $5,000 ($2,500 personal and two suretics of $1,250 each. | | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| APPRAISER. | no salary | None. | None, | | $500 | 10. | Custody of goods seized. |\n| | | | | | | | |\n| 1ST SHROFF, | $360 | $1,000 | | Personal with one surety jointly & severally. | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| SHROFF, (CHAN-TAL-KWONG), | $840 | Summary Court Fees. | $300 | Personal with one surety jointly & severally. | $500 | Do. | |\n| 2ND SHROFF, | $216 | $1,000 | | Personal and two sureties all jointly & severally, | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| EDUCATIONAL :--- | | | | | | | |\n| CENTRAL SCHOOL | | | | | | | |\n| POSTMASTER, SHANGHAI, | $2,880 | $2,500 | $10,000 | Office Vacant. | $2,000 | Do. | |\n| AND MASTER, | | | | | | | |\n| CLERK,-SHANGHAI, | $1,200 | | | | | | |\n| POSTMASTER, YOKOHAMA, | $2,400 | $960 | $4,000 | Personal $2,000 two sureties $1,000 each. | $10,000 | Personal $5,000 two sureties $2,500 each. | $1,000 | Do. |\n| CLERK, | $1,680 | $180 | $250 and charge of Stores, | None. | $100 | Do. | |\n| | | | | | | | |\n| HOSPITAL | | | | | | | |\n| APOTHECARY, CIVIL, | $1,140 | $300 | $200 | | $200 | Do. | |\n| SHROFF, YOKOHAMA, | $360 | $1,000 | | Personal with two sureties all jointly & severally, | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| APOTHECARY, LOCK, | $1,000 | None. | $200 | | $200 | Do. | In charge of Hospital, |\n| STEWARD & STORE KEEPER, | $720 | None. | $500 | | $500 | Do. | |\n| CLERK, | $1,060 | About £1,500 a month passcE- through bis hands. Checked daily. | $1,000 | Personal and one surety for $1,000 jointly & severally. | $1,000 | Do. | In charge of Stores. |\n| MAGISTRACY :--- | | | | | | | |\n| 1ST CLERK, | $1,920 | $200 | | Do. | $200 | Do. | |\n| COLLECTOR OF STAMP REVENUE, | $960 | £4,000 | $22,000 | personal and $10,000 two sureties of £1,000 each. | | | Office held in conjunction with that of Postmaster General. |\n| | | | | | $10,700 | Do. | |\n| SHROFF, | $380 | $1,000 | | Do. | $600 | | |\n| SHROFF, | $240 | $3,000 | | Personal $1,500 one surety $1,500. | $2,000 | Do. | |\n| CAPTAIN SUPERINTEND. ENT OF POLICE, | $3,840 | None. | | $5,000 | | $3,000 | Do. | |\n| 1ST CLERK, | $1,440 | | | $5,000 | $2,500 personal and two sureties of $1,250 each. | $5,000 | 10. | These two clerks are in charge of the dies for |\n| 1ST CLERK, | $1,440 | $350 | | $100 | Chinese Imperial Bond for £100 | $200 | Do | impressing Stamps. |\n| 2ND CLERK, | $1,200 | | | $5,000 | | $5,000 | Do. | |\n| GAOL | | | | | | | |\n| REGISTRAR GENERAL, | $3,840 | $1,500 | | Shares of Bank. | $2,000 | Do. | |\n| WARDEN, | $1,200 | None. | | None. | $100 | Do. | |\n| 2ND CLERK AND SHROFF | $288 | $5,000 | | $500 Personal with two sureties all jointly & severally, | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| 1ST CHINESE CLERK, | $288 | $300 | | Personal with one surety jointly & severally, | $500 | Do. | |\n\nIf my suggestions are adopted, little money will pass through the Registrar's hands. It will be paid into Bank by parties, \n\nConsidered unneces- sary by Mr. Lister,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317227, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "page_number": 308, "title": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "content_text": "# 301\n\n## SCHEDULE A.\n\n**RETURN of OFFICERS entrusted with PUBLIC MONIES, or STORES, shewing the amount and nature of the Security now given in respect of pecuniary or other responsibility attaching to their Offices; also the amount of security recommended to be required for the future.**\n\n## SCHEDULE A.--Continued.\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | Amount | Nature | Amount | Nature | |\n| HARBOUR MASTER, 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Do. | |\n| 1ST CLERK,... | $2,400 | $300 | Do. | | | |\n| STORE CLERK, | $1,080 | $2,000 | Do. | | | |\n| REGISTRAR OF SUPREME COURT, | | | Gives security for the Office of Collector of Stamp Revenue conjointly with that | | | |\n| POSTMASTER GENERAL, | $4,800 | $10,000 | Personal with two sureties jointly and severally. | £2,000 | Do. | |\n| DEPUTY REGISTRAR & ACCOUNTANT,. | | | of Postmaster. | | | |\n| DEPUTY REGISTRAR & APPRAISER,...... | $2,160 | $5,000 | Do. | | | |\n| ASSISTANT Do., | $2,880 | £1,000 | (Three sureties jointly and severally. | £1,000 | Do. | |\n| SHERIFF, | $720 | $2,000 | Do. | | | |\n| CLERK AND USHER,.. | $960 | $2,000 | Do. | | | |\n| MARINE SORTER, | $1,680 | $5,000 | $2,500 personal and two sureties of $1,250 each. | $5,000 | Do. | |\n| CHINESE CLERK AND TRANSLATOR,......... | $840 | $500 | Personal with one surety jointly and severally. | $500 | Do. | |\n| 1ST SHROFF, | $360 | $1,000 | Personal and two sureties all jointly and severally. | $5,000 | Do. | |\n| 2ND SHROFF,. | $216 | $1,000 | Personal with one surety jointly and severally. | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| SHROFF, | $336 | $5,000 | Personal with two sureties all jointly & severally. | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| EDUCATIONAL- CENTRAL SCHOOL. 2ND MASTER, | | | | | | |\n| POSTMASTER, SHANGHAI, | $2,880 | $10,000 | Office Vacant. | $10,000 | Do. | |\n| CLERK, | $1,680 | $180 | $100 | $100 | Do. | |\n| CLERK,SHANGHAI, | $1,200 | $4,000 | $2,000 personal and two sureties of $1,000 each. | $4,000 | Do. | |\n| HOSPITAL:- MONEY ORDER :- | | | | | | |\n| APOTHECARY, CIVIL...... | $1,140 | $200 | Personal with two sureties all jointly & severally. | $200 | Do. | |\n| CLERK, | $1,060 | $1,000 | Personal and one surety for $1,000 jointly and severally. | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| APOTHECARY, Lock, | | | | | | |\n| STEWARD & STORE KEEPER, | $720 | $500 | Do. | $500 | Do. | |\n| COLLECTOR OF STAMP RE- VENUE, | $960 | £4,000 | (£2,000 personal and two sureties of £1,000 each. | £4,000 | Do. | |\n| SHROFF, | $240 | $3,000 | Personal $1,500 and one surety $1,500. | $3,000 | Do. | |\n| 1ST CLERK, | $1,200 | $5,000 | | $5,000 | Do. | |\n| 2ND CLERK,..... | $1,440 | $5,000 | $2,500 personal and two sureties of $1,250 each. | $5,000 | Do. | |\n| MAGISTRACY:- | | | | | | |\n| SHROFF, | $360 | $1,000 | | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| 1ST CLERK,......................... | $1,920 | $250 | | $5,000 | Do. | |\n| CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, | | | | | | |\n| REGISTRAR GENERAL, | $3,840 | $1,500 | Shares of Bank. | $2,000 | Do. | |\n| 2ND CLERK AND SHROFF, | $288 | $500 | Personal with two sureties all jointly and severally. | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| 1ST CLERK,.. | $3,840 | $5,000 | | $5,000 | Do. | |\n| | | $100 | Chinese Imperial Bond for £100 deposited. | $480 | Do. | |\n| 1ST CHINESE CLERK,. | $288 | $300 | Personal with one surety jointly and severally. | $500 | Do. | |\n| SUPERINTENDENT OF VICTO- RIA GAOL, | $4,080 | | | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| WARDEN,****** | $1,200 | $100 | | $100 | Do. | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317276, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "page_number": 356, "title": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "content_text": "## SCHEDULE A.\n\n**RETURN of OFFICERS entrusted with PUBLIC MONIES, or STORES, shewing the amount and nature of the Security now given in respect of pecuniary or other responsibility attaching to their Offices; also the amount of security recommended to be required for the future.**\n\n## SCHEDULE A— Continued.\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | AVERAGE COLLECTIONS MONTHLY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | Amount | Nature | Amount | Nature | |\n| HARBOUR MASTER | $4,200 | $1,800 | $2,000 | Two sureties for $1,000 each. | $10,000 | Title deeds of house property. | |\n| TREASURER | | | | Personal bond with two sureties, all bound jointly and severally in the full amount. | $10,000 | Personal bond with two Sureties all bound jointly, and severally in the full amount. | This Office is generally held in conjunction with that of ... |\n| 1ST CLERK AND CASHIER | $2,400 | $47,000 | $1,000 | Two sureties of $800 each. | $5,000 | | |\n| 1ST SHROFF | $420 | $15,000 | $10,000 | Two sureties jointly & severally. | $10,000 | Do. | |\n| 2ND SHROFF | $240 | $5,000 | $6,000 | Do. | $6,000 | Do. | |\n| SURVEYOR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT:- 1ST CLERK | $2,100 | $300 | None. | | None. | | In charge of Stores. |\n| STORE CLERK | $1,080 | None. | None. | | None. | | |\n| POSTMASTER GENERAL | $3,860 | $9,600 | None. | | $1,000 | | Office of Registrar General. |\n| COLLECTOR OF LIGHT DUES | $2,400 | $1,920 | $1,200 | None. | None. | | |\n| 1ST CLERK, (SAILORS' HOME) | | | | | $1,000 | | |\n| SHROFF, (SAILORS' HOME) | $240 | $1,500 | Personal with two sureties | $500 | $500 | Do. | jointly & severally. |\n| 3RD CLERK | $1,440 | $250 | Personal with one surety | $250 | $250 | Do. | jointly & severally. |\n| INTERPRETER AND SHROFF | $1,120 | $800 | $800 | $2,000 | $1,000 | Personal with one surety $500 each. | $500 | Do. |\n| REGISTRAR OF SUPREME COURT | $4,800 | Fees $400 | $10,000 | Not yet given. | $5,000 | Do. | Gives security for the Office of Collector of Stump Revenue conjointly with that of Postmaster. |\n| SHERIFF | $720 | None. | | | | | |\n| ASSISTANT SHERIFF | $2,880 | $1,000 | Three sureties jointly & severally. | $2,000 | $5,000 | Personal with two sureties all jointly & severally. | $2,000 | $1,000 | Do. |\n| USHER AND BAILIFF | $960 | | | | | | |\n| MARINE STOREKEEPER | $1,680 | In sole charge of Mails on board English Mail Steamers. | $5,000 | $2,500 personal and two sureties of $1,250 each. | $2,000 | Do. | Custody of goods seized. |\n| APPRAISER | no salary | None. | None. | | $500 | Do. | |\n| 1ST SHROFF | $1,680 | $5,000 | Do. | $1,000 | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| 2ND SHROFF | $360 | $1,000 | Personal with one surety jointly & severally. | $1,000 | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| SHROFF (CHAN-TAI-KWONG) | $840 | Summary Court Fees. | $500 | Personal with one surety jointly & severally. | $500 | Do. | |\n| 2ND SHROFF | $216 | $3,000 | | | | | |\n| POSTMASTER, SHANGHAI | $2,880 | $9,600 | $2,500 | Personal and two sureties all jointly & severally. | $4,000 | Personal $2,000 two Sureties $1,000 each. | |\n| CLERK, SHANGHAI | $1,200 | | $10,000 | Office Vacant. | $10,000 | Personal $5,000 two sureties $2,500 each. | |\n| POSTMASTER, YOKOHAMA | $2,400 | $960 | | | | | |\n| SHROFF, YOKOHAMA | $360 | | Personal with two sureties all jointly & severally. | $1,000 | $1,000 | Personal with two sureties all jointly & severally. | |\n\n## EDUCATIONAL :-- CENTRAL SCHOOL\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | AVERAGE COLLECTIONS MONTHLY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | Amount | Nature | Amount | Nature | |\n| 2ND MASTER | | | | | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| CLERK | $1,680 | $180 | $250 | and charge of Stores. | None. | | $100 | Do. |\n| HOSPITAL :- STEWARD & STORE KEEPER | $720 | | None. | | $500 | Do. | |\n| CLERK | $1,060 | About $1,500 a month passed through his hands. Checked daily. | $1,000 | Personal and one surety for $1,000 jointly & severally. | $1,000 | Do. | |\n\n## COLLECTOR OF STAMP REVENUE\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | AVERAGE COLLECTIONS MONTHLY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | Amount | Nature | Amount | Nature | |\n| COLLECTOR OF STAMP REVENUE | $960 | $10,700 | $4,000 | $22,000 personal and two sureties of $1,000 each. | $10,000 | Do. | |\n| SHROFF | $240 | $3,000 | Personal $1,500 one surety $1,800. | $2,000 | Do. | |\n| 1ST CLERK | $1,440 | | These two clerks are in charge of the dies for impressing Stamps. | $5,000 | $2,500 personal and two sureties of $1,250 each. | $5,000 | Do. | |\n| 2ND CLERK | $1,200 | | $5,000 | $1,250 each. | $5,000 | Do. | |\n\n## REGISTRAR GENERAL\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | AVERAGE COLLECTIONS MONTHLY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | Amount | Nature | Amount | Nature | |\n| REGISTRAR GENERAL | $3,840 | $1,500 | Shares of Bank, | $2,000 | Do. | | |\n| 2ND CLERK AND SHROFF | $288 | | $5,000 | | $1,000 | Do. | |\n| 1ST CHINESE CLERK | $288 | $500 | Personal with two sureties all jointly & severally. | $300 | Personal with one surety jointly & severally. | $600 | Do. | |\n\n## MAGISTRACY :—\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | AVERAGE COLLECTIONS MONTHLY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | Amount | Nature | Amount | Nature | |\n| 1ST CLERK | $1,920 | $250 | $200 | Do. | $200 | Do. | Office held in conjunction with that of Postmaster General. |\n| SHROFF | $600 | | $300 | | $200 | Do. | |\n| CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE | $3,840 | None. | $5,000 | Do. | $5,000 | Do. | |\n| 1ST CLERK | $1,440 | $350 | $700 | Chinese Imperial Bond for $100 | $200 | Do. | |\n\n## GAOL:-\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | AVERAGE COLLECTIONS MONTHLY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | Amount | Nature | Amount | Nature | |\n| WARDEN | $1,200 | | None. | | $100 | Do. | |\n\nIf my suggestions are adopted, little money will pass through the Registrar's hands. It will be paid into Bank by parties. Considered unnecessary by Mr. Lister.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317278, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "page_number": 358, "title": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "content_text": "# 351\n\n## SCHEDULE A.\n\n**RETURN of OFFICERS entrusted with PUBLIC MONIES, or STORES, shewing the amount and nature of the Security now given in respect of pecuniary or other responsibility attaching to their Offices; also the amount of security recommended to be required for the future.**\n\n### SCHEDULE A.—Continued.\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| HARBOUR MASTER, | $4,200 | $2,000; Two sureties for $1,000 each | $2,000; Personal bond with two sureties, all bound jointly and severally in the full amount. | |\n| TREASURER, | $960 | $10,000; Title deeds of house property. | $10,000; Personal bond with two sureties, all bound jointly and severally. | |\n| 1ST CLERK AND CASHIER, | $2,400 | £1,000; Two sureties of £500 each | $5,000; Jointly and severally in the full amount. | |\n| COLLECTOR OF LIGHT DUES, | | Do. | | |\n| 1ST CLERK, (SAILORS' HOME), | $1,920 | $500 | Do. | |\n| SHROFF, (SAILORS' HOME), | $500 | Do. | | |\n| 1ST SHROFF, | $420 | $15,000; Two sureties jointly and severally. | $10,000 | |\n| 3RD CLERK, | $1,440 | $250 | $500 | |\n| 2ND SHROFF, | $240 | $5,000 | $5,000 | |\n| 2ND SHROFF, | $240 | $1,500; Personal with two sureties jointly and severally. | $250 | |\n| SURVEYOR GENERAL, | $5,760 | $2,500 | Do. | |\n| INTERPRETER AND SHROFF, | | Do. | | |\n| 1ST CLERK, | $2,400 | $300 | Do. | |\n| STORE CLERK, | $1,080 | $2,000 | Do. | |\n| REGISTRAR OF SUPREME COURT, | $420 | $1,000; Personal with one surety $500 each. | $1,000 | |\n| REGISTRAR OF SUPREME COURT, | $4,800 | $10,000; Personal with two sureties jointly and severally | £2,000 | |\n| POSTMASTER GENERAL, | $3,360 | Gives security for the Office of Collector of Stamp Revenue conjointly with that of Postmaster. | Do. | |\n| DEPUTY REGISTRAR & ACCOUNTANT, | $2,160 | $5,000 | Do. | |\n| DEPUTY REGISTRAR & APPRAISER, | $2,160 | $5,000 | Do. | |\n| ASSISTANT REGISTRAR, | $2,880 | £1,000; Three sureties jointly and severally £1,000 | Do. | |\n| SHERIFF, | $720 | $2,000 | Do. | |\n| CLERK AND USHER, | $960 | $2,000 | Do. | |\n| MARINE SORTER, | $1,680 | $5,000; $2,500 personal and two sureties of $1,250 each. | Do. | |\n| MARINE SORTER, | $1,680 | $5,000 | Do. | |\n| CHINESE CLERK AND TRANSLATOR, | $840 | $500; Personal with one surety jointly and severally. | $500 | |\n| 1ST SHROFF, | $360 | $1,000; Personal with one surety jointly and severally. | $1,000 | |\n| SHROFF, | $336 | $5,000; Personal with two sureties all jointly and severally. | $5,000 | |\n\n### EDUCATIONAL :— CENTRAL SCHOOL.\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2ND SHROFF, | $216 | $1,000; Personal and two sureties all jointly and severally. | $1,000 | |\n| 2ND MASTER, | $2,880 | $10,000 | $10,000 | |\n| POSTMASTER, SHANGHAI, | | Office Vacant. | | |\n| CLERK, SHANGHAI, | $1,680 | $100 | $100 | |\n| CLERK, | $180 | $100 | $100 | |\n| CLERK, | $1,200 | $4,000; $2,000 personal and two sureties of $1,000 each. | $4,000 | |\n\n### HOSPITAL :— MONEY ORDER :--\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| CLERK, | $1,140 | $200; Personal with two sureties all jointly & severally. | $200 | |\n| APOTHECARY, CIVIL, | $1,060 | $1,000; Personal and one surety for $1,000 jointly and severally. | $1,000 | |\n| APOTHECARY, LOCK, | $1,000 | | $200 | |\n| STEWARD & Store Keeper, | $720 | $500 | $500 | |\n\n### COLLECTOR OF STAMP REVENUE,\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| COLLECTOR OF STAMP REVENUE, | $960 | £4,000; £2,000 personal and two sureties of £1,000 each. | Do. | |\n| SHROFF, | $240 | $3,000; Personal $1,500 and one surety $1,500 | $3,000 | |\n| 1ST CLERK, | | Do. | | |\n\n### MAGISTRACY:-\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1ST CLERK, | $1,200 | $5,000; $2,500 personal and two sureties of $1,250 each. | $5,000 | |\n| 2ND CLERK, | $1,440 | $5,000 | $5,000 | |\n| SHROFF, | $360 | $1,000 | $1,000 | |\n| SHROFF, | $1,920 | $250 | $250 | |\n\n### REGISTRAR GENERAL,\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| REGISTRAR GENERAL, | $3,840 | $1,500; Shares of Bank | $2,000 | |\n| CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, | $3,840 | $5,000 | $5,000 | |\n| 2ND CLERK AND SHROFF, | $288 | $500; Personal with two sureties all jointly and severally. | $1,000 | |\n| 1ST CLERK, | $1,440 | | £100 | |\n| 1ST CHINESE CLERK, | $288 | $800; Personal with one surety jointly and severally. | $600 | Chinese Imperial Bond for £100 deposited. |\n\n### SUPERINTENDENT OF VICTORIA GAOL,\n\n| OFFICE | SALARY | SECURITY NOW GIVEN | SECURITY RECOMMENDED | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| SUPERINTENDENT OF VICTORIA GAOL, | $4,080 | $1,000 | $1,000 | |\n| WARDEN, | $1,200 | $100 | $100 | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318765, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 322, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "## Financial Details of Court Offices\n\nThere were also receiving salaries (whose offices have since been or are to be attached to the Registrar's Office of the Supreme Court.)\n\n$10,560.00\n\nRegistrar as Official Trustee,..\nSheriff,\nSheriff's Officer,\nRegistrar of Companies,..\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Registrar as Official Trustee | 960.00 |\n| Sheriff | 720.00 |\n| Sheriff's Officer | 240.00 |\n| Registrar of Companies | 192.00 |\n\nTotal cost,...... $12,672.00\nSee Table appended.\n\nThe fees of Court amounted in the Supreme and Summary Courts to $3,741.00\n\n| Office | Fees |\n| --- | --- |\n| Registrar of Companies | 395.00 |\n| Official Trustee | 111.03 |\n| Sheriff | 300.00 |\n\nSee Mr. LISTER'S evidence attached to Report of Commissioners p. 46, 47.\nTotal fees $4,547.03\nNett cost, $8,124.97\n\nThere were also receiving fees for services which have since been or are hereafter to be performed in the Registrar's Office of the Supreme Court.\n\n| Office | Fees |\n| --- | --- |\n| Registrar as Official Assignee, and Official Administrator | $1,167.34 |\n| Appraiser of Intestate Estates | 510.72 |\n| Bailiff | 396.00 |\n\nTotal $2,074.06\n\nIn 1874, when the Courts were amalgamated the Deputy Registrar's salary was increased to $2,160, and the Clerk of Court in Summary Jurisdiction had his salary increased to $1,920, the Clerk of Court at $480 in Original Jurisdiction being no longer retained on the Estimates.\n\nThe total cost of the Office including salaries to Official Trustee, Registrar of Companies, Sheriff, and Sheriff's Officer was estimated at $12,912.00\n\n| Office | Fees |\n| --- | --- |\n| Fees of Court | $4,861.78 |\n| Registrar of Companies | 217.24 |\n| Official Trustee | 144.08 |\n| Sheriff | 300.00 |\n\nTotal fees $4,200.46 + ... (not shown but implied to be part of the total) is not shown; however, the total fees is $4,861.78 (for Fees of Court) + other fees.\nNett cost, $8,050.22", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318766, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 323, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "## \nThere were receiving fees, \nRegistrar as Official Assignee and Official Administrator, $5,666.88 \nAppraiser, Bailiff, \n$2,535.68 \n581.00 \n$8,783.56 \n\nIn 1875, the cost of the Office was estimated at the same amount, $12,912.00 \nThe fees of Court were \nRegistrar of Companies, \nOfficial Trustee, \nSheriff, say, \n$4,243.60 \n138.00 \n100.90 \n300.00 \n$4,782.50 \nNett cost, \n$8,129.50 \n\nThere were receiving fees, \nRegistrar as Official Assignee and Official Administrator, $1,080.70 \nAppraiser, Bailiff, \n$3,163.01 \n740.50 \n$4,984.21 \n\n## \nIn 1876, the cost of the Office was calculated at the same amount, $12,912.00 \nIn consequence of Mr. ALEXANDER's death, however, there was some reduction. \nThe fees of Court were \nRegistrar of Companies, \nOfficial Trustee, \nSheriff, say, \n$3,773.88 \n66.00 \n300.00 \n$4,819.02 \nand by arrangement with HUFFAM, Mr. ALEXANDER having died, the fees of the Official Assignee and Official Administrator or the greater part of them were paid into the Treasury. They amounted to \n$679.14 \nThere were receiving fees, \nAppraiser, Bailiff, \n$777.64 \n697.50 \n$1,475.14 \nNett cost approximately, $8,092.98", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318767, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "## Cost of Office Estimates for 1877, 1878, and 1879\n\nIn 1877, the cost of the Office was estimated at $12,720.00. The Registrar's salary was increased to $4,800, but he was to receive fees as Official Trustee instead of salary, and was to act as Registrar of Companies without increase of pay.\n\nThe fees of Court were $5,546.00. Other estimated costs included:\n| Category | Estimated Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Registrar of Companies | $3,164.45 |\n| Official Assignee and Administrator, Sheriff | $603.36 |\n| ... | $300.00 |\n| Total | $4,613.81 |\n| Nett cost | $8,106.19 |\n\nThere were receiving fees:\n| Category | Fees Received |\n| --- | --- |\n| Official Trustee | $88.20 |\n| Appraiser | $544.72 |\n| Bailiff | $678.50 |\n| Total | $1,311.42 |\n\nIn 1878, the cost of the Office was estimated at $12,720.00. The fees of Court were $4,221.14. Other estimated costs included:\n| Category | Estimated Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Registrar of Companies | $583.50 |\n| Official Assignee and Administrator, Sheriff | $1,140.68 |\n| Interest on Registrar's Balances | $261.95 |\n| Total | $6,507.27 |\n| Nett cost | $6,212.73 |\n\nThere were receiving fees:\n| Category | Fees Received |\n| --- | --- |\n| Official Trustee | $433.72 |\n| Appraiser | $485.90 |\n| Bailiff | $727.50 |\n| Total | $1,647.12 |\n\nIn 1879, the cost of the Office was estimated at $13,512.00. The increase being due to $600 salary to Clerk of Puisne Judge, and $192 Registrar of Companies.\n\nThe fees of Court were $4,638.31. Other estimated costs included:\n| Category | Estimated Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Registrar of Companies | $1,475.01 |\n| Official Assignee and Administrator, Sheriff | $429.00 |\n| Interest on Registrar's Balances | $96.00 |\n| ... | $366.18 |\n| Total | $7,004.50 |\n| Nett cost | $6,507.50 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318768, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 325, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "## \nThere were receiving fees,\n \nOfficial Trustee, \nAppraiser, \nBailiff, \n$227.95 \n429.50 \n770.50 \n$1,427.95 \n\nIn 1880, the cost of the Office was estimated at ($192, salary to Registrar of Companies being omitted), $13,320.00 \nThe fees of Court were $4,594.76 \nOfficial Assignee and Administrator, Sheriff, \n1,530.93 \n469.50 \nRegistrar of Companies, \n890.00 \nInterest on Registrar's Balances, \n434.93 \n7,920.12 \nNet cost, $5,399.88 \n\nThere were receiving fees, \nOfficial Trustee, \nAppraiser, Bailiff, \n$1,250.78 \n828.50 \n$2,079.28 \n$14,712.00 \n\nIn 1881, the cost of the Office was estimated at \nThis increase of $1,392 was made up by increasing the salary of the Clerk of the Court who was to be appointed Deputy Registrar by $240, increase to Clerk to Puisne Judge $480, Clerk to Registrar $480, Registrar of Companies $192.\n\nThe fees of Court were $5,497.79 \nOfficial Assignee and Administrator, \n520.18 \nSheriff, \n660.17 \nRegistrar of Companies, \n$49.50 \nInterest on Registrar's Balances, \n354.75 \n7,882.39 \nNett cost, $6,829.61 \n\nThere were receiving fees. \nOfficial Trustee, \nAppraiser, \nBailiff, \n$30.75 \n879.05 \n818.50 \n$1,728.30 \n\nFor 1882, the amount proposed by the Governor was $18,360.00 \n\n## Page 324", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318769, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "## Financial Projections for Supreme Court Fees and Office Costs\n\nLord KIMBERLEY approved of reducing the salary proposed for the Deputy Registrars by $1,200. To this must be added the amount proposed to be paid to the Registrar as commutation of fees as Official Trustee, \n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| | $17,160.00 |\n| | 240.00 |\n| Total | $17,400.00 |\n\nIf this proposed scheme, transferring the whole of the fees received by Officers of the Supreme Court, had come into operation at the commencement of the year, the amount of fees paid in to the Treasury up to the 30th June would have been:\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Fees of Court | $4,789.09 |\n| Official Assignee and Administrator | 976.78 |\n| Official Trustee | 154.68 |\n| Appraiser | 995.35 |\n| Bailiff | 573.50 |\n| Sheriff | 515.58 |\n| Registrar of Companies | 297.00 |\n| Interest on Registrar's Balances | 475.22 |\n| Total | $8,777.20 |\n\nThe cost of the Office for the half year would have been $8,700.00, leaving a Balance in favour of the Treasury for the half year of $77.20.\n\nThe amount of fees collected this year is no doubt much larger than usual, the business of the Court having very largely increased in consequence, in a great measure, of the land speculation of last year. They do not as yet show any signs of falling off, as up to the end of August, they have amounted to $11,086.89.\n\nThe fees would have averaged, however, if they had all been paid into the Treasury, during the years 1879, 1880, and 1881 nearly $10,000, and I think that without being largely increased, as some of them might very well be, they will in future range between $12,000 and $15,000.\n\nIf we put the cost of the Office at $17,400.00 and estimate the fees, &c., at $13,500.00, the amount to be provided would be $3,900.00.\n\n| Cost | Fees Estimate | Amount to be Provided |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| $17,400.00 | 13,500.00 | $3,900.00 |\n\nAnd if we put the cost at the amount proposed by the Governor $18,360 plus $240 for Official Trustee, $18,600.00, and estimate the fees, &c., at $13,500.00, the amount to be provided would be $5,100.00.\n\n| Cost | Fees Estimate | Amount to be Provided |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| $18,600.00 | 13,500.00 | $5,100.00 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318773, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 330, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "329 \n\n11 \n\nIn most of the other Colonies the Official Assignee, Official Administrator, Official Trustee (if any), Sheriff, Registrar of Companies (if any), Appraiser, Bailiff of Summary Court, &c., &c., or some of them are paid by fees. In no other Colony that I am aware of have all these duties become centred in the Registrar of the Supreme Court.\n\nIn British Guiana, which is the only Colony in which all or most of the fees of the above or similar offices appear to be paid into the Treasury, it appears from the Colonial Office List,\n\n| Office | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Registrar's Office | £2,990. 0. 0 |\n| Administrator General's | 3,250. 0. 0 |\n| Provost Marshal's | 1,822. 10. 0 |\n| Total | £8,062. 10. 0 |\n\nor say $40,000 as compared with the proposition made by the Governor of $18,360.\n\nIn Mauritius, there are 4 Clerks to the Judges whose salary may amount to Re 12,000; Master, Re 10,000; Substitute master (no salary given); Clerk whose salary may amount to Re 6,000; Cashier's and Clerk whose salary may amount to Re 6,000; Registrar and Clerks whose salary may amount to Re 21,600; Curator of Intestate Estates and Clerks, Re 8,500; total Re 64,100 or say $32,000.\n\nThe Official Assignee receives fees, and no Sheriff or Marshal or similar officer is mentioned. There are besides numerous district Courts performing the work of the Summary side of the Supreme Court.\n\nFor the Straits Settlements the returns are incomplete. The Registrar or Deputy Registrars, if appointed Official Assignee or Official Administrator, take fees which used sometimes to my knowledge to be considerable. No Registrar of Companies, no Appraiser, no Official Trustee appear to have been appointed. But returning to the present subject, I have to point out that the Deputy Registrars, even if they receive the salaries proposed by the Governor, will not receive more than was received by the Deputy Registrar during the last five years that HUFFAM filled that office.\n\nIn 1878 HUFFAM was convicted. Previous to his conviction the Deputy Registrar received:\n\n| Year | Salary and Fees | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1873 | Salary as Deputy Registrar | $1,920.00 |\n| | Salary as Registrar of Companies | 192.00 |\n| | Fees as Appraiser | 510.72 |\n| | Total | $2,622.72 |\n\nPage 330 \nPage 331", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318774, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 331, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "## \nIn 1874. -Salary as Deputy Registrar, \nSalary as Registrar of Companies, \nFees as Appraiser, \n.$2,160.00 \n192.00 \n2,535.68 \n$4,887.68 \n\nIn 1875. -Salary as Deputy Registrar, \n.$2,160.00 \nSalary as Registrar of Companies, \nFees as Appraiser, \n192.00 \n3,163.01 \n$5,515.01 \n\nIn 1876. -Salary as Deputy Registrar, \nSalary as Registrar of Companies, \nFees as Appraiser, \n.$2,160.00 \n192.00 \n777.64 \n$3,129.64 \n\nIn 1877. -Salary as Deputy Registrar, \n.$2,160.00 \nSalary as Registrar of Companies, \nFees as Appraiser, \n192.00 \n544.72 \n$2,896.72 \n\nor an average of $3,810.35 for the five years or $930 above the amount approved of by Lord KIMBERLEY or $450.00 above the amount proposed by the Governor to be paid to each of the Deputy Registrars.\n\nThe appointment of Registrar of Companies has this year come into the Registry and so has that of Appraiser, Sheriff, and Bailiff. These offices were formerly personal and the respective holder of them had to do the work and obtain assistance for himself if he required it, and upon the understanding that the duties were not to interfere with those of the Registrar's Office.\n\nFrom the time of HUFFAM's conviction nothing has been settled in the office, various acting appointments have been made, but it is highly desirable that some permanent arrangements should be made as soon as possible. Mr. SANGSTER could not attend to the Summary Court so much as formerly, and in 1879 Mr. SNOWDEN who had been for some time previously complaining of the great need he had for a clerk got Mr. HAZELAND appointed at a salary of $600 per annum. In 1881 the salary was increased to $1,080 upon condition that Mr. HAZELAND should act as Clerk to the Summary Court. By this arrangement Mr. SANGSTER was released from attending in Court when the Court was sitting which is as a rule usually three or four days a week.\n\nIn 1881 also Mr. BARROS, who was originally employed by Mr. PLUNKET in 1878 and had been retained in the Registrar's Office ever since owing to his services having become absolutely necessary, was placed upon the estimates at a salary of $480.\n\nDespatch No. 141, 30th October, 1879, Mr. SNOWDEN to Colonial Office, Aug. 25th, 1879.\n\n## Page 330", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318781, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "## Fees Received by the Registrar as Official Trustee\n\nThe fees received by the Registrar as Official Trustee have been---\n| Year | Fees |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1878 | $433.73 |\n| 1879 | 227.95 |\n| 1880 | Nil |\n| 1881 | Nil |\n| 1882 (to June 30th) | 154.08 |\n| 1882 (to August 31st) | 154.68 |\n\n## Interest on Registrar's Balances\n\nThe interest on the Registrar's balances have been----\n| Year | Interest |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1879 | $366.18 |\n| 1880 | 434.93 |\n| 1881 | 314.75 |\n| 1882 (to June 30th) | 475.22 |\n| 1882 (to August 31st) | ... |\n\n## Fees Received by the Appraiser\n\nThe Appraiser has received---\n| Year | Fees |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1873 | $510.72 |\n| 1874 | 2,535.68 |\n| 1875 | 3,163.01 |\n| 1876 | 777.64 |\n| 1877 | 544.72 |\n| 1878 | 485.90 |\n| 1879 | 429.50 |\n| 1880 | 1,250.78 |\n| 1881 | 879.05 |\n| Total (9 years) | $10,577.00 |\n\nThe average annual fee during the last 9 years is $1,175.22. The fees during the 6 months ending 30th June, 1882, have amounted to ... and up to the end of August to $1,006.21.\n\n## Fees of the Sheriff\n\nThe fees of the Sheriff have been as follows:-\n| Year | Fees |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1879 | $429.00 |\n| 1880 | 469.50 |\n| 1881 | 660.17 |\n| 1882 (to June 30th) | 515.58 |\n| 1882 (to August 31st) | 697.31 |\n\n## Fees of the Registrar of Companies\n\nThe fees of the Registrar of Companies have been as follows:-\n| Year | Fees |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1879 | $96.00 |\n| 1880 | 890.00 |\n| 1881 | $73.50 |\n| 1882 (to June 30th) | 297.00 |\n| 1882 (to September 30th) | 309.00 |\n| Total | $995.35 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318782, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "20 \n\nAccording to present arrangements and as has been before remarked, besides the appointments formerly held by the Registrar individually, and which are now held by him as Registrar of the Supreme Court, the duties of Registrar of Companies, Appraiser, Sheriff and Bailiff are all to be performed by officers of the Supreme Court and not as hitherto by independent officers and the fees are to be paid into the Treasury. I think that it would have been perhaps better to have left the Registrar to his original duties and to have had two separate officers, one an Administrator General taking the duties of Official Administrator, Official Assignee, Official Liquidator, and Official Trustee, a man conversant with figures and a good business man, the other a Sheriff or Marshal who would be responsible in damages for the neglect or default of his subordinates and would take the superintendence of the duties of the Bailiff, Distrainer and Appraiser as well as the duties of Sheriff, leaving the officers of the Supreme Court to their ordinary duties as such; but as it has been decided that the whole of the work is to be done in the Registry of the Supreme Court under the superintendence of the Registrar, it only remains to be considered how it is to be carried out. The Registrar has hitherto taken the management of Bankruptcy and Probate matters, the duties of Official Trustee and the general superintendence of the office.\n\nAt present \n✦ the duties of Deputy Registrar and Accountant are divided, Mr. BARFF taking a part of the work and Mr. HAZELAND taking the remaining portion and dividing the pay $2,160 between them. If the Secretary of State were to fix the salary at $3,360 instead of $2,760, I believe Mr. BARFF would be willing to come permanently as Accountant. His present pay is however $2,880, so that he cannot be expected to give up his present appointment.\n\nThe duties of Deputy Registrar and Accountant would be by no means light. He would have all the accounts of the Court to keep. At present there are two sets of Books to keep. The Registrar, Official Assignee, and Official Administrator's and the Official Trustee's consisting in each case of Cash Book, Journal, Ledger and monthly balances, but they may be reduced to one set as soon as the office of Official Trustee is amalgamated with that of Registrar. The amount of cash passing through the Cash Book of the Registrar, Official Assignee and Administrator in 1879 amounted to $91,546.01. The Shroff received $8,616.16, and the Balance remaining in hand at the Bank every month uninvested, averaged nearly $19,479.58 and $94.09 in the hands of the Shroff.\n\n| Year | Amount | Received by Shroff | Average Monthly Balance in Bank | Average Monthly Balance in Hands of Shroff |\n|------|--------|--------------------|--------------------------------|------------------------------------------|\n| 1879 | $91,546.01 | $8,616.16 | $19,479.58 | $94.09 |\n| 1880 | $212,826.22 | $13,411.08 | $31,716.79 | $80.62 |\n| 1881 | $132,441.02 | $3,224.23 | $49,832.70 | $87.99 |\n| 1882 | $160,589.69 (up to Aug) | $1,722.43 | $61,199.12 | $130.75 |\n\nThe monthly balances of the Registrar and Official Administrator averaged in 1881 $115,710, and for the first eight months of 1882 $143,938.\n\n338", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318795, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 352, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "# 351 \n\n## 33 \n\nThe other Deputy Registrar would, under the Superintendence of the Registrar, attend to the other branch of the Court. He would have to assist the Registrar, if required, in the preparation of Reports, in drawing up orders, decrees, references, &c., &c.; he would also have to discharge the duties now performed by the Sheriff, the Appraiser, and to superintend the Bailiff, the Sheriff's officer, and the working of the proposed measure for bringing under the jurisdiction of the Summary Court of all distresses for rent, and to issue the process of the Court. When it is taken into consideration that this year there will probably be over 200 Writs of Summons in Original Jurisdiction and 1,500 Summonses in Summary Jurisdiction, it is obvious that the Deputy Registrar will have a great deal to do. In Summary Jurisdiction, Summonses are in most instances applied for by the parties themselves, and I think it will be an advantage to poor suitors to get the assistance of one of the Deputy Registrars in preparing his claim rather than to be dependent on one of the Clerks in the Office. The number of people that the Deputy Registrar would have to see on business in the course of the year would be very large, and as, under the arrangements I propose, he could be constantly in the office, I have no doubt that the business in the Summary Court would largely increase, and some claims that are now made would possibly, under his advice, not be brought forward.\n\nI would propose to attach to his branch the Usher and Clerk of the Court in its Original Jurisdiction when not attending in Court, the Bailiff of the Summary Court, and the Sheriff's officer, and the Chinese Interpreter, Mr. LI HONG-MI, and also Mr. BALL for the purpose of interpretation when required and not otherwise engaged. I do not think, however, that either the Registrar or Deputy Registrar could be answerable in damages for the acts of the Bailiff, Sheriff's officer, Messenger in bankruptcy, or any other officer executing the process of the Court. None of these officers are appointed or removable or dismissible by them, or either of them, and although each officer would be answerable for his own neglect or default, I do not see how the head of the department or his Deputy could be made liable. The public generally would lose the advantage of having a responsible officer liable for damages, but power might be given to the Court to punish subordinate officers guilty of misconduct, which might be sufficient to prevent its taking place. As a fact, I believe no action has ever been brought against the Sheriff, except in cases where the Sheriff has acted under a guarantee of indemnity. The office of Sheriff must, I think, under the new system, be abolished, and power must be given by Ordinance to the bailiffs, &c., of the Court to serve process and enforce executions.\n\nThere only remain attached to the Supreme Court the Clerks of the Judges.\n\nThe Puisne Judge's Clerk now acts as Clerk of the Summary Court, setting free the Deputy Registrar, who will be able to give his undivided attention to office work. The Summary Court, as I have before stated, sits for 3 or 4 days in the week. On other days, the Judge's Clerk would act as a copyist for the Judge; he is also a medium of communication between the Judge and the members of the profession; he is also a", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318797, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 354, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "353\n\nConsideration will also have to be given to Ordinance 4 of 1865 § 2; 13 of 1873, § 2, § 11, § 16, subs. 2, § 17, subs. 3, § 19, § 20, § 76, subs. 2, 7, § 82, subs. 6, 7, 14; 11 of 1873, § 30, § 31; 6 of 1855, § 15; 4 of 1863, § 7; 6 of 1855, § 43; 8 of 1860, § 18; 8 of 1858, § 22; 2 of 1855, § 10.\n\nOrdinance 1 of 1865, § 159 as to the appointments of Registrar of Companies and Official Liquidator; Ordinance 9 of 1870, § 4 as to the appointment of Appraiser; Ordinance 7 of 1873 as to the appointment of Official Trustee will have to be revised.\n\nWith regard to the accounts of the Supreme Court, and the audit thereof, I find that they have been kept and audited under Provisional Instructions issued by Sir JOHN SMALE dated 31st October, 1870, as the result of several conferences between the Chief Justice, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney General, and the Registrar and which are as follows:-\n\nProvisional instructions issued for the guidance of the Registrar, the Deputy Registrars, the Accountant, and other officers of the Supreme Court, as regards receipt and payment of moneys and the keeping of the accounts, to be acted on, on and after the 1st November 1879.\n\nThe Registrar.\n\n1. The Registrar of the Supreme Court shall be responsible for all moneys received into or paid out of the Court.\n\n2. He will open an account at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in the name of the \"Supreme Court of Hongkong\" and will see that all moneys received at the Supreme Court are paid daily into this account, taking care that in no case shall a sum exceeding $500 be left after 11 o'clock A.M. of the day next following the time of receipt in the hands of the Accountant.\n\n3. Monies paid into this account shall only be withdrawn upon cheques bearing the signatures both of the Registrar and of the Accountant, and in the case of cheques exceeding $10,000 in amount, they will be countersigned by the Auditor upon production to him of the order of the Court authorizing the payment.\n\n4. The Registrar will have charge of the general management of all moneys in Court and of estates being subject to the administration of the Court as well as of Bankrupt estates in his capacity of Official Assignee and of Intestates' estates as Official Administrator.\n\n5. He will in such capacity be charged with the receipt and investment of any funds belonging to such Estates under the directions of the Court. All deeds, Bonds and other securities for such investment shall be kept in safe custody in the Registry, subject to such provisions for their security as the Chief Justice shall direct.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318799, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 356, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "355 \n\n37 \n\nSee p. 69 of evidence taken by Commissioners to enquire into offices of \n**Supreme Court**. \n\nthat the Registrar's monthly balances should be published, but that I think it would be giving unnecessary publicity to the affairs of some parties having balances in the Registry, particularly to those for whom the Registrar acts as Official Trustee. \n\nWith regard to Rules and Forms and Tables of fees, the power given by the Code, **VII of Civil Procedure** as to framing Rules is very limited; all the forms in use in the Court have been revised and new Tables of fees have been prepared, submitted to the profession and have been experimentally put in force under Section 94 sub. 3 of the Code since the beginning of July. It has not been thought well to promulgate the Forms or to get Legislative sanction for the Tables of fees, as it is proposed to alter our Code very considerably so as to get the benefit of the changes in the Law recently enacted in England. As a Commission has been nominated to take up the whole question and to take advantage wherever possible of recent English legislation suited to the circumstances of the Colony, it is manifestly desirable not to make any permanent alterations until the Commission have reported and the Legislature has decided what to introduce and what not. \n\nIt will be noticed that I have calculated upon an increase of fees for the coming years. I think that now, with the improved system of collection and with the new scale of fees which equalizes but does not materially increase the amount to be paid, with the attention now given, and which may be increased with a larger staff, to Bankruptcy and Intestacy matters, to the amounts paid over to the Official Trustee, Appraiser, and Registrar of Companies, to the increase to be expected in the fees of the Sheriff and Bailiff, that without any increase in the fees themselves they will fully bear out my estimated increase. They will, however, naturally be revised upon the alterations made in the various Ordinances and I think that, without pressing too hardly upon suitors, they may, if business does not fall off far more than I can anticipate, pay or very nearly pay the whole expenses of the office. \n\nThe question then is whether the Secretary of State will sanction the increased salaries proposed. Without it, of course, Mr. **BARFF** will not accept the post of Accountant and it would be necessary to offer the post to some one else. Mr. **BARFF** has been in the public service for many years and he would not be likely to get any other appointment in the Registry. \n\nWith regard to Mr. **SANGSTER**, he has also been in the public service for many years; his pay as acting Deputy Registrar was $200 per month, as Sheriff $60, and the Appraiser's fees have amounted to over $60. It is true Mr. **SANGSTER** never got the permanent appointment of any of these offices, but he might reasonably have looked forward to doing so, and as has been shown during **HUFFAM**'s time, the office of Deputy Registrar together with his other emoluments amounted to considerably more. \n\nIt is of importance that persons holding the responsible appointments of Deputy Registrar in the Courts should not be inadequately paid. The expenses of living in this Colony are heavy as compared with other Colonies, and a Bookkeeper in a merchant's", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318802, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "# Schedule A.-Continued.\n\n## 1877\n\nBrought forward,.. $13,512\nRegistrar, $4,800\nInterpreter, 1,920\nDeputy Registrar............. 2,160\nAssistant Interpreter, 1,800\nClerk of Court, 1,920\nChinese Clerk, 840\nJudge's Clerk, 1,440\nChinese Clerk and Shroff, 480\nClerk and Usher, 960\n5 Messengers, 372\nBailiff, 480\n\n$18,924\nSheriff, 720\n\n## 1880\n\nSheriff's Officer, 240\nRegistrar, $4,800\nDeputy Registrar,. 2,160\nInterpreter, 1,680\nClerk of Court,. 1,920\nChinese Clerk, 840\nJudge's Clerk, 1,440\nChinese Clerk and Shroff, 336\nClerk to Puisne Judge, 600\n4 Messengers, 288\nClerk and Usher, 960\nBailiff, 480\n\n$13,864\nSheriff, 720\nSheriff's Officer, 240\n\n## 1873\n\n$13,320\nRegistrar, $4,800\nDeputy Registrar,.. 1,920\nClerk of Court,. 2,160\nJudge's Clerk, 1,920\nInterpreter, 1,800\nAssistant Interpreter, 840\nChinese Clerk, 1,440\nChinese Clerk and Shroff, 480\nClerk and Usher, 960\nBailiff, 480\n5 Messengers, 572\nSheriff, 720\n\n$18,732\nSheriff's Officer, 240\n\n## 1881\n\nRegistrar, $4,800\nDeputy Registrar and Accountant,....... 2,160\nInterpreter, 1,920\nDeputy Registrar and Appraiser, 2,160\nChinese Clerk, 940\nJudge's Clerk, 1,440\nChinese Clerk and Shroff, 336\nClerk to Puisne Judge, 1,080\n5 Messengers, 360\nClerk to Registrar, 480\n\n$16,176\nClerk and Usher, 960\nBailiff and Assistant Usher, 480\nSheriff, 720\n\n## 1879\n\nRegistrar, $4,800\nDeputy Registrar,.... 2,160\nRegistrar of Companies, 192\nClerk of Court, 1,920\nJudge's Clerk, 1,440\nInterpreter, 1,920\nClerk to Puisne Judge, 600\nAssistant Interpreter, 1,800\nClerk and Usher, 960\nChinese Clerk and Translator, 840\nBailiff, 480\nChinese Clerk and Shroff, 480\nSheriff, 720\n5 Messengers, 372\nSheriff's Officer, 240\n2 Chinese Constables, 264\nRegistrar of Companies, 192\n\n$14,712\n$20,388\n$13,512\n358", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318803, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 360, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "# Schedule A.-Continued\n\nAmount sanctioned by Lord Kimberley with addition for commutation proposed to be given to the **REGISTRAR** in lieu of **FEES** as **OFFICIAL TRUSTEE**.\n\n| Position | 1882 | \n| --- | --- | \n| Registrar, | $ 4,800 | \n| Official Trustee, | 240 | \n| Deputy Registrar and Accountant, | 2,760 | \n| Do. and Appraiser, | 2,760 | \n| Judge's Clerk, | 1,440 | \n| Clerk to Puisne Judge, | 1,080 | \n| Clerk to Registrar, | 720 | \n| Clerk and Usher, | 960 | \n| Bailiff and Assistant Usher, | 1,200 | \n| Sheriff's Officer, | 720 | \n| Messenger in Bankruptcy, | 720 | \n| Total | 17,400 | \n\nAmount proposed by the **GOVERNOR** with addition of commutation to Registrar in lieu of **FEES** as **OFFICIAL TRUSTEE**.\n\n| Position | 1882 | \n| --- | --- | \n| Registrar, | $ 4,800 | \n| Official Trustee, | 240 | \n| Deputy Registrar and Accountant, | 3,360 | \n| Do. and Appraiser, | 3,360 | \n| Judge's Clerk, | 1,440 | \n| Clerk to Puisne Judge, | 1,080 | \n| Clerk to Registrar, | 720 | \n| Clerk and Usher, | 960 | \n| Bailiff and Assistant Usher, | 1,200 | \n| Sheriff's Officer, | 720 | \n| Messenger in Bankruptcy, | 720 | \n| Total | 18,600 | \n| Supervisor of Interpreters, | 1,800 | \n| Head Interpreter, | 2,400 | \n| Assistant Do., | 1,800 | \n| Interpreter of Hindustani, | 480 | \n| Chinese Clerk and Translator, | 1,200 | \n| Do. and Shroff, | 480 | \n| 5 Messengers, | 372 | \n| 2 Chinese Constables, | 264 | \n| Total | $27,396 | \n| Previous Total | $26,196 | \n\nPage 360 \nPage 361", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318810, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 367, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "## Schedule H\n\nCOURT Fees and Commissions and Fees or OFFICE received in the Supreme Court, or by Officers thereof, which are hereafter to be received by the Registrar and paid into the Treasury.\n\n| Year | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1878 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1st Jan. to 30th June. 1882 | 1st Jan. to 31st Aug. 1882 | 1st Jan. to 30th Sept. 1882 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **REGISTRAR**-Court Fees paid by stamps | $3,741.00 | $4,200.46 | $4,248.60 | | | $43,773.88 | $3,164.45 | $4,221.14 | $4,638.31 | $4,594.76 | $5,497.79 | $1,789.09 | $6,155.37 | $7,064.87 |\n| **OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE**.- % on amounts encashed paid into the Treasury | | 1,300.84 | 1,201.17 | 397.22 | 629.18 | 1,011.27 | 1,157.84 | 1,167.34 | 5,666.88 | 1,080.70 | 679.14 | 608.36 | 1,140.68 | |\n| | | 174.17 | 329.66 | 122.96 | 347.60 | 347.60 | 363.71 | | | | | | | |\n| **OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATOR**, 0/ 10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| **OFFICIAL TRUSTEE**-2 on amount of Trust on taking over up to $10,000, above $10,000, commission 1 on further amount, no commission on income | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| **APPRAISER OF INTESTATE ESTATES**.-2 % on Houses, Land, Goods, Furniture, &c., Ï on cash, Banking account or shares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| **BAILIFF** | 111.03 | 144.08 | 100.90 | 88.20 | 438.72 | 227.95 | 30.75 | 154.68 | 154.68 | 154.68 | 510.72 | 2,536.68 | 3,163.01 | |\n| **SHERIFF**-Paid by stamps | | 777.64 | 544.72 | 485.90 | 429.50 | 1,250.78 | 879.05 | 995.36 | 1,006.21 | 1,006.21 | 396.00 | 581.00 | 740.50 | |\n| | | 697.30 | 678.50 | 727.50 | 770.50 | 828.50 | 818.50 | 573.50 | 786.00 | 965.50 | 429.00 | 169.50 | 660.17 | |\n| | | 515.58 | 697.31 | 785.81 | | | | | | | | | | |\n| **REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES**.-Paid into the Treasury | 395.00 | 217.24 | 138.00 | 66.00 | $46.00 | 583.50 | 96.00 | 890.00 | 819.50 | 297.00 | 309.00 | 321.00 | | |\n| **INTEREST** on Registrar's balance at the Bank | | 261.95 | 366.18 | 434.98 | 354.76 | 475.22 | 619.45 | 619.45 | | | | | | |\n| | | $6,321.09 | 13,345.34 | 9,466.71 | 5,994.16 | 5,625.23 | 7,854.39 | 8,432.45 | 9,999.30 | 9,610.69 | 8,777.20 | 11,086.89 | 12,419.07 | |\n\nPage 366", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - 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The duties of Appraiser will be apportioned between the two District Registrars or other Officers of the Court, according as the Registrar may direct.\n\nIn the meantime, the work will be done by Envinsich.\n\n9. All fees hitherto received in any of these Offices will be paid into the Treasury in future.\n\n10. The whole of the above appointments are provisional and subject to the approval of the Secretary of State.\n\n11. Security must be required from the different Officers in accordance with the rules of 16th August last and the security required by the Chief Justice for the Sheriff's Office and the Messenger in Bankruptcy, viz.:- personal bond with one Surety in the sum of $500; as also the security approved for the Bailiff, viz., personal bond with one Surety in the sum of $1000.\n\n12. Recapitulation", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320780, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "Governor. No.\n\nwaith 25.\n\nDate.\n\n1883.\n\nYel: 3.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nAus: & bed Conf 20.61-19\n\n&& $ (1099) 8 rins. 8--82]\n\nNo.\n\nsong trong\n\n4405\n\n(Subject.)\n\nOrdinance H. 1 of 1883.\n\n\"Distrauts\n\nof.\n\nja Rent.\"\n\nYour ands / Authenticated\n\nRECP\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n158\n\n4405\n\nREGE 13 MAR 87,\n\no other copies with\n\nremachs and Atty fauté Reporti\n\nM. Deanston\n\n? 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Sanction\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nRead.\n\n14/3\n\nand 14/3.\n\nMention of\n\nSanction but it is printed that the reference to appraisers in this clause in Latin 15. or Pochdale D- appears to have been taken from the Minutes of the Straits Settlement without perceiving that the Appraisers' role at the Straits is not provided for in\n\nSanction.\n\n89.16/3\n\nM. 16.\n\n8.a\n\n16.2.\n\nGiven the specific request for HTML output and the complexity of the original text with many unclear or misrecognized terms, the above HTML version aims to correct obvious errors while preserving the original content as closely as possible.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321396, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "content_text": "criterion of the work performed, for in those cases in which little or nothing has been collected, much time has been spent examining the debtors, enquiring into their means of payment, and very often with the result that they are worth nothing and that it is useless to take legal proceedings against them.\n\nThe office of Official Administrator, to which the Registrar was appointed by Ordinance 9 of 1870, is one involving a considerable amount of work and responsibility, for the labour of the Registrar begins before any step has been taken by the party, and much time is spent trying to discover what property, if any, the deceased has. Giving directions to the Appraiser, indicating what enquiries ought to be made to ascertain the value of the Estate, or to secure the property for the heirs, or obliging the next of kin to take out Letters of Administration. Much property was brought into Court last year by the Registrar, thus taking the initiative.\n\nThe realization and management of Intestate Estates take up much time, especially the collecting of the debts, and verification of the claims put in against the estate, attending to mortgage claims, and renewal of Fire Insurance Policies.\n\nThe duties of Official Trustee, though not so heavy, have nevertheless last year taken up some time, especially as part of the assets consists of House property and mortgages.\n\nThe duties of Registrar...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321401, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "content_text": "104\n\nhas done this fairly and. No receipts\n\nof\n\nCourt fees\n\nOfficial assignments\n\nthe touch and of the various offices\n\nthe various offices\n\nendeavour to step up as they have done\n\nI should be glad were the salary of the\n\nRegistrar raised to $396.\n\nThe receipts for the year ending\n\n31st December 1882 were far larger than they\n\nhave ever been before:\n\ndue in a great measure to Mr. Ackroyd's\n\nbusiness qualifications and great\n\nenergy and industry.\n\nOfficial Administrator\n\n$9,502.35\n\n4947.70\n\n1,600.00\n\nFree Official Trustee\n\n154.68\n\nAppraiser\n\n3,806.86\n\nBroker\n\n1,264.50\n\nSheriff\n\n941.81\n\nRegistrar of Companies\n\n627.57\n\nAssistant Registrar's\n\n1,044.67\n\nBalances at Bank\n\n$20,940.05\n\nThey are carried\n\nforward as\n\nfollows:-\n\nCourt\n\nComparing this amount with Schedule\n\nH", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323623, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "Lew \n\n1/4 \n\n53 \n\nI am assured), appraised at their proper value. It is \n\nHere for they have only ab n distance from Hongshing sending, this pape Ar \n\nLately that any importance • vult be attached to any Lear wit belowel accusations accusatio advanced in the stongsong telegramie. \n\na Mr. Price has received gratifying testimony this community. a very F the exompattry and continued confidence of in the address of which I enclose a copy. \n\nColonial secretary in which he, through himself absolved by the Chief dustice. froms imputation, proposes, on behalf of his Department. the appointment of a an Commission of Inquiry. I forth with appoint a Commission, and shall ན vard in due course its forward Report. One important eubject of Inquiry will be to ascntain & Guy \n\n10. Jannea further. r a letter Ensing a A dress. by what by Mr Price to the s the substance, and indeed (as it would appear) Clonial copie", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327316, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "page_number": 104, "title": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "content_text": "103 \n\n6 \n\n**II.- Regulations respecting the Trade at the Ports in Corea**\n\n## I.-Entry and Clearance of Vessels.\n\n1. The master of every British vessel arriving at any open port in Corea shall, within twenty-four hours after arrival, deliver to the Corean Customs authorities a written paper stating the name of the ship, of the port from which she comes, of her master, the number, and, if required, the names of her passengers, her tonnage, and the number of her crew, which paper shall be certified by the master to be a true statement, and shall be signed by him. He shall, at the same time, deposit a written manifest of his cargo, setting forth the marks and numbers of the packages and their contents as they are described in the bills of lading, with the names of the persons to whom they are consigned. The master shall certify that this description is correct, and shall sign his name to the same. When a vessel has been duly entered, the Customs authorities will issue a permit to open batches, which shall be exhibited to the Customs officer on board. Breaking bulk without having obtained such permission will render the master liable to a fine not exceeding 100 Mexican dollars.\n\n2. If any error is discovered in the manifest, it may be corrected within twenty-four hours (exclusive of Sundays and holidays) of its being handed in, without the payment of any fee, but for any alteration or post entry to the manifest made after that time a fee of 5 Mexican dollars shall be paid.\n\n3. Any master who shall neglect to enter his vessel at the Corean Custom-house within the time fixed by this Regulation shall pay a penalty not exceeding 50 Mexican dollars for every twenty-four hours that he shall so neglect to enter his ship.\n\n4. Any British vessel which remains in port for less than forty-eight hours (exclusive of Sundays and holidays) and does not open her hatches, also any vessel driven into port by stress of weather, or only in want of supplies, shall not be required to enter or to pay tonnage dues so long as such vessel does not engage in trade.\n\n5. When the master of a vessel wishes to clear, he shall hand in to the Customs authorities an export manifest containing similar particulars to those given in the import manifest. The Customs authorities will then issue a clearance certificate and return the Consul's receipt for the ship's papers. These documents must be handed into the Consulate before the ship's papers are returned to the master.\n\n6. Should any ship leave the port without clearing outwards in the manner above prescribed, the master shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 200 Mexican dollars.\n\n7. British steamers may enter and clear on the same day, and they shall not be required to hand in a manifest except for such goods as are to be landed or transhipped at the port of entry.\n\n## II.-Landing and Shipping of Cargo, and Payment of Duties.\n\n1. The importer of any goods who desires to land them shall make and sign an application to that effect at the custom-house, stating his own name, the name of the ship in which the goods have been imported, the marks, numbers, and contents of the packages and their values, and declaring that this statement is correct. The Customs authorities may demand the production of the invoice of each consignment of merchandize. If it is not produced, or if its absence is not satisfactorily accounted for, the owner shall be allowed to land his goods on payment of double the Tariff duty, but the surplus duty so levied shall be refunded on the production of the invoice.\n\n2. All goods so entered may be examined by the Customs officers at the places appointed for the purpose. Such examination shall be made without delay or injury to the merchandize, and the packages shall be at once restored by the Customs authorities to their original condition, in so far as may be practicable.\n\n3. Should the Customs authorities consider the value of any goods paying an ad valorem duty as declared by the importer or exporter insufficient, they shall call upon him to pay duty on the value determined by an appraisement to be made by the Customs appraiser. But should the importer or exporter be dissatisfied with that appraisement, he shall within twenty-four hours (exclusive of Sundays and holidays) state his reasons for such dissatisfaction to the Commissioner of Customs, and shall appoint an appraiser of his own to make a re-appraisement. He shall then declare the value of the goods as determined by such re-appraisement. The Commissioner of Customs will thereupon, at his option, either assess the duty on the value determined by this re-appraisement, or will purchase the goods from the importer or exporter at the price thus determined, with the addition of 5 per cent. In the latter case the purchase-money shall be paid to the importer or exporter within five days from the date on which he has declared the value determined by his own appraiser.\n\n4. Upon all goods damaged on the voyage of importation a fair reduction of duty shall be allowed, proportionate to their deterioration. If any disputes arise as to the amount of such reduction, they shall be settled in the manner pointed out in the preceding clause.\n\n5. All goods intended to be exported shall be entered at the Corean Custom-house before they are shipped. The application to ship shall be made in writing, and shall state the name of the vessel by which the goods are to be exported, the marks and number of the packages, and the quantity, description, and value of the contents. The exporter shall certify in writing that the application gives a true account of all the goods contained therein, and shall sign his name thereto.\n\n6. No goods shall be landed or shipped at other places than those fixed by the Corean Customs authorities, or between the hours of sunset and sunrise, or on Sundays or holidays, without the special permission of the Customs authorities, who will be entitled to reasonable fees for the extra duty thus performed.\n\n7. Claims by importers or exporters for duties paid in excess, or by the Customs authorities for duties which have not been fully paid, shall be entertained only when made within thirty days from the date of payment.\n\n8. No entry will be required in the case of provisions for the use of British ships, their crews and passengers, nor for the baggage of the latter which may be landed or shipped at any time after examination by the Customs officers.\n\n9. Vessels needing repairs may land their cargo for that purpose without the payment of duty. All goods so landed shall remain in charge of the Corean authorities, and all just charges for storage, labour, and supervision shall be paid by the master. But if any portion of such cargo be sold, the duties of the Tariff shall be paid on the portion so disposed of.\n\n10. Any person desiring to tranship cargo shall obtain a permit from the Customs authorities before doing so.\n\n## III.-Protection of the Revenue.\n\n1. The Customs authorities shall have the right to place Customs officers on board any British merchant-vessel in their ports. All such Customs officers shall have access to all parts of the ship in which cargo is stowed. They shall be treated with civility, and such reasonable accommodation shall be allotted to them as the ship affords.\n\n2. The hatches and all other places of entrance into that part of the ship where cargo is stowed may be secured by the Corean Customs officers between the hours of sunset and sunrise, and on Sundays and holidays, by affixing seals, locks, or other fastenings, and if any person shall, without due permission, wilfully open any entrance that has been so secured, or break any seal, lock, or other fastening that has been affixed by the Corean Customs officers, not only the person so offending, but the master of the ship also, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 100 Mexican dollars.\n\n3. Any British subject who ships, or attempts to ship, or discharges, or attempts to discharge, goods which have not been duly entered at the custom-house in the manner above provided, or packages containing goods different from those described in the import or export permit application, or prohibited goods, shall forfeit twice the value of such goods, and the goods shall be confiscated.\n\n4. Any person signing a false declaration or certificate with the intent to defraud the revenue of Corea shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 200 Mexican dollars.\n\n5. Any violation of any provision of these Regulations, to which no penalty is specially attached herein, may be punished by a fine not exceeding 100 Mexican dollars.\n\n**Note.** All documents required by these Regulations, and all other communications addressed to the Corean Customs authorities, may be written in the English language.\n\n(L.S.) (L.S.)\n\n**HARRY S. PARKES.**\n\nSignature in Chinese of MIN YONG-MOK, the Corean Plenipotentiary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328000, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "page_number": 378, "title": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "content_text": "376 \n\n2. \n\nThe question referred to us was: what increased premium and increased Crown rent should be required from the garden holders at Kowloon on their present leases being converted into building leases with a term of seventy-five years? In dealing with this question, we did not think it necessary that we were required to examine what Government had done in certain cases of leases in Victoria or at the Peak; for in that case we should have been obliged to examine into every land transaction and see whether it corresponded to the other cases at Kowloon, or whether Government had done rightly or wrongly.\n\n3. \n\nWe are dealing with leases of seventy-five years, and the Government want to know what is the value of these new leases. We have not appraised the new lease according to the value of the improvements which some tenants have made, but according to what we really believe the land to be worth. If the present garden leases were changed into building leases without any extra premium or Crown rent, we believe that the present leaseholders would at once realize a considerable profit, not on account of their improvements made, but on account of the value of the land itself.\n\n4. \n\nIn the case of Kowloon, we find certain persons, having provisional leases for gardening purposes, are desirous of obtaining in lieu thereof permanent building leases. Mr Humphreys lays great stress on the promises made that he should be allowed indefinite occupation of the ground. It is not this, however, that he now solicits, but an entirely different thing, i.e., a definite...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328207, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "page_number": 585, "title": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \n\nIn December 1880, he joined the Government Office. In April 1884, he was appointed Clerk of Court, and in February 1887, Deputy Registrar. Ms. Sançeler acted as Registrar from March 1881 to February 1882.\n\nThe office was vacant from 1875 to 1886. Of his manner and training, I do consider him capable of managing the office with harmony and securing that co-operation which is essential to the efficiency of a Department.\n\nAs official Administrator and official Assignee, he has important and often delicate duties to perform, bringing him into contact with bankers. In February 1883, he was appointed to his present office as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser on a salary of $2760 with a personal allowance of $600.\n\nIt was only after due reflection and consideration that I felt unable to recommend Mr. Sançeler for the post, as I think he does not possess the necessary qualifications and knowledge for this, nor for the many questions arising in connection with this office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328211, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "page_number": 589, "title": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \n11 \n\nless than 20 per m has been lately confirmed the office of Deputy Registrar and appraiser at a salary of $2,760 and a personal allowance of $600. Besides this, he had at various times held such office. Marshall, to act as sheriff, for which fees were stretched. I submit his services have been amply rewarded, showing no diligence or interest in his duties, which I had a right to expect from him. Very often he has sat reading in his office when, if he had wished to show that he was able to take any part of my duties, a simple application to me would have furnished him with work.\n\n久久acous, and believing that M. Wise is competent to fill the post with especially in the absence of knowledge of Chinese or law or other qualifications, to the credit to himself and satisfaction of the court, in connection with the duties of the office. Lastly, I regret to state that for many years he has been in the interest of the Department.\n\n-Extract ... Me Samplet nice...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333873, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "The double payment involved in reclaiming and building the proposed new Naval establishment would be equivalent to paying for the cause twice over, first in land and then in money.\n\nI have carefully reviewed the assessment contained in my first Report and find nothing to alter or amend.\n\nThe present Naval Yard on Queens Road, in my opinion, could not be appraised at $4 a square foot because it is not in the Chinese business centre of the City. It is only the more valuable class of business premises in Chinese centres that are able to command prices of this kind.\n\nEast of the Parade ground, there is no land, however valuable, that would realize even four or perhaps four and a half dollars a square foot, and in order to attain this high value, the property must be put exclusively to Chinese uses.\n\nThe War Office have lately expended a large sum of money in the purchase of landed property adjoining the present Naval Yard, with the sole object of ridding the cantonment of the Chinese traders that need to reside in that neighbourhood, and it is not likely, therefore, on Military grounds that the Naval Yard premises, if vacated by the Admiralty, could ever be utilized or disposed of by the Colonial Government for Chinese tenements. If they cannot be so utilized, their value will not exceed my original estimate, for the erection of European buildings in this particular locality will not be as lucrative an investment as Chinese dwellings and shops.\n\nViewed from a purely Colonial standpoint, it cannot be gainsaid that the presence of the Naval Yard in its present unfortunate site is a serious", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334566, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 388, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "# RETURN OF LANDS GRANTED AND SOLD DURING THE YEAR 1886.\n\nTotal Number of Acres granted, 1886.\n\nWhere Sold, state the Average Price per Acre.\n\n \n County or District\n Number of Grants under 100 Acres.\n Total Number of Acres.\n Number of Grants.\n Premium per Acre.\n Rent per Acre.\n \n \n Victoria\n \n Marine 6\n 3. 1.164\n \n \n \n \n Do.\n \n \n 0. 3. 93\n \n \n \n \n Do.\n \n Inland 19\n 20. 3.244\n \n \n \n \n Do.\n \n 1\n 27. 0.16\n \n \n \n \n Kowloon\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rural\n Building 1\n 131\n 18. 3. 04\n \n \n \n \n Do.\n Marine 2\n 1.\n 1.20\n \n \n \n \n Do.\n Inland\n 3.\n 1.143\n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL,\n 17\n 0. 5.312\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9.\n 1. 83\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 88\n 82. 2.313\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 666'02\n \n \n \n\nState the Total Number of Acres granted in the Colony.\n\nState the Total Number of Acres sold.\n\nState the Total Number of Acres granted.\n\n \n \n Granted on Lease for 999 Years.\n Sold on Lease for 75 Years.\n Granted on Lease for 75 Years.\n Sold on Lease for 75 Years.\n \n \n $385 to $769\n \n $698\n \n \n \n \n $5 to $884\n Nominal for Chinese Cemetery.\n \n \n \n \n \n $192 to $583\n \n $10\n \n \n \n \n \n 1,117. 2. 64\n \n 82.2.31\n \n \n \n \n $5,887\n \n $523\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 82.2.31\n \n \n \n \n \n $7,276\n \n $9,982\n \n \n $52 to $119\n \n $581\n \n \n \n \n \n 1826\n \n 2618\n \n \n \n $525 to $581\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,117. 2. 64\n \n \n \n \n\nAll Lands in the Colony are granted on Lease.\n\nREMARKS.—82 A. 2 R. 31 P. were granted, and 35 A. 1 R. 0 P. were resumed, leaving 47 A. 1 R. 167 P. additional Land granted during the year. Persons having possession of Land or Houses previously to the Treaty, were allowed to retain them on payment of certain assessed rentals, now collected by the Registrar General; and in cases where such Lands or Houses are not leased, the occupiers are considered as Tenants at Will.\n\nAceRed G. Wise, Land Officer.\n\nALFRED G. WISE, Acting Registrar.\n\n# RETURN of all sums received as REVENUE in the Registry of the Supreme Court during the Year 1886.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Original Jurisdiction,\n $3,704.29\n \n \n Summary Jurisdiction,\n 3,197.09\n \n \n Bankruptcy Jurisdiction,\n 664.65\n \n \n Probate Jurisdiction,\n 748.86\n \n \n Official Administrator's Commission,\n 938.68\n \n \n Official Assignee's Commission,\n 2,517.88\n \n \n Official Trustee's Commission,\n 247.35\n \n \n Appraiser's Fees,\n 531.01\n \n \n Sheriff's Fees,\n 173.50\n \n \n Bailiff's Fees,\n 1,078.00\n \n \n Interest on Deposit of surplus cash,\n 4,013.29\n \n \n Fees on Destraints,\n 1,184.75\n \n \n Registrar of Companies,\n 1,982.40\n \n \n Fine and Forfeitures,\n 2,000.00\n \n \n Land Office Fees,\n 3,985.00\n \n \n \n $22,981.75\n \n\nRegistry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 28th January, 1887.\n\nALFRED G. WISE, Acting Registrar.\n\n# Statement of all sums collected in the Registry of the Supreme Court for the Year 1886, and paid into the Treasury.\n\n \n \n 1885\n 1886\n \n \n REGISTRAR.-Court Fees paid by Stamps,\n $9,829.24\n $9,499.64\n \n \n OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE.- per cent, on amounts encaised paid into the Treasury,\n \n \n \n \n OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATOR.\n 847.88\n 1,135.43\n \n \n \n 938.68\n 2,517.88\n \n \n OFFICIAL TRUSTEE.--2 per cent, on amount of Trust on taking over up to $10,000; above $10,000 commission, 1 per cent, on further amount, 1 per cent, commission on income,\n 935.11\n 247.35\n \n \n APPRAISERS OF INTESTATE ESTATES.-2 per cent, on Houses, Land, Shares, Goods, Furniture, &c., 1 per cent, on cash, Banking Account or\n 181.61\n 531.01\n \n \n BAILIFF,\n 1,157.00\n 1,078.00\n \n \n SHERIFF,\n 184.50\n 173.50\n \n \n REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES,\n 1,037.72\n 1,982.40\n \n \n INTEREST on Registrar's balance at the Bank,\n 4,593.15\n 4,013.29\n \n \n FINE AND FORFEITURES,\n 100.00\n 2,000.00\n \n \n \n $19,991.64\n $22,981.75\n \n \n LAND OFFICE FEES,\n 3,059.00\n 3,985.00\n \n \n TOTAL...\n $23,050.64\n $26,966.75\n \n \n DEPOSITS UNAVAILABLE,-Intestate Estates not claimed,\n \n 374.67\n \n \n \n \n $2,290.35\n \n\nRegistry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 28th January, 1887.\n\nALFRED G. WISE, Acting Registrar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337403, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 434, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "431 \n\n(22)\n\n4. As the cost of the sea-wall and the filling in will not be uniform per yard lineal of sea-frontage throughout, in consequence of the sea being deeper in some places than in others, the work has been divided into seven sections and the cost of each section has been ascertained separately. In this way, the average price per square foot of reclamation has been equitably apportioned for each section, so that of the seven groups of marine lot-owners, no two groups will pay the same price for their reclamations. The cost of that portion of the work which will be defrayed by the Government on account of the areas tinted yellow in the General Plan, will be reduced by the utilization, in the proposed new sea-wall, of the stone of the present Praya wall.\n\n5. The cost of the Government reclamations opposite the Sailors' Home in Section No. 1 have been entirely excluded from the present estimates because already last year the Government had begun this work in connection with the preparation of a site for the proposed new Western Market, and as the filling in at this point is making good progress, there is every probability that the Market site will be completed next year.\n\n6. I annex hereto (marked Returns Nos. 6-7) a schedule of the annual Crown Rents based on the appraisal of $200 per quarter acre, which the lot-owners will have to pay to the Colonial Treasury for their new reclamations. The total amounts to $20,932 per annum. Following the precedent in respect of all previous reclamations, I understand the Government does not propose to charge any premium for the new allotments in consideration of these being reclaimed entirely at the cost of the lot-owners.\n\n7. In Section 2, a portion of the reclamation is shown tinted purple (see the General Plan). This purple Section is also omitted from the present estimates, because the work having been already begun last year, will doubtless be completed before the general scheme has been initiated. The work is being carried out by the Public Works Department at the entire cost and charges of the Wharf and Godown Company, who are the owners of the Marine Lots Nos. 98 to 105. This Company were granted an extension to their lots seawards, subject to their defraying the cost of the requisite sea-wall and filling-in, and subject to their paying the Government a Crown Rent of $764 per annum.\n\n8. The timber jetties and landing-stages along the present line of wall, erected in the early days of the Colony mostly by private enterprise, will have to be removed at the cost of their owners, who are tenants at will of the Crown. Owing to the greatly increased depth of water along the proposed new sea-wall, new piers and landing-stages will not be required except in four or five cases. These will be erected at the cost of the owners.\n\n9. The detailed surveys have not brought to light any new facts that would justify the Government in relaxing any of the conditions prescribed by His Excellency the Governor in the correspondence with Mr. C. P. Chater of November 1887, and I am of opinion that the marine lot-owners should be held to those conditions by written contract between the Government and each individual. There would be less ground for any concession that it is now found the profits accruing to the lot-owners are greater than was anticipated.\n\n10. As it would be a serious hindrance and obstruction to the shipping and landing operations of the port to undertake the proposed new works all along the line at the same time, it is recommended that the reclamation be begun and finished section by section. There would, however, be no objection to two sections being pushed on with at the same time, provided they were in different parts of the harbour-frontage. Probably it will be found most convenient to begin Sections 1 and 7, and when these are finished to pass on to Sections 2 and 6, finishing up with Sections 3 and 5, and then 4.\n\n11. I deem it unnecessary to encumber this letter with technical matter descriptive of proposed constructional details; I therefore attach a separate outline-specification with detail tracings showing what is proposed in respect of sea-wall and embankment.\n\n12. By the light of the new detailed surveys just completed, it is seen that the reclamations, inclusive of roads, but exclusive of the Western Market site opposite the Sailors' Home, and the Wharf and Godown Company's extension, will comprise 57 acres and 3 roods, of which 26 acres will become the property of the marine lot-owners, and 5 acres the property of the Government, while 26 acres will be reserved for roads and streets. The present market value of the 26 acres of building sites to be assigned to the lot-owners, appraised at current rates, comes to $7,910,821. (See Returns Nos. 2-3), while their outlay in reclamation works will be only $2,146,228, showing a net profit to be obtained by them of $5,764,593.\n\n13. The 5 acres of building sites which will fall to Government and which are shown tinted yellow on the General Plan will (exclusive of the Sailors' Home reclamation already appropriated to the proposed new Western Market) represent a minimum value of $1,441,587. (See Return No. 5.) Some of these Government building-sites can be sold, and others utilized for the more urgently needed new public buildings, such as a new Supreme Court, a new Post Office, a new Harbour Master's Office, and a new Fish-Market as an adjunct to the Central Market. If accommodated on the embankment, all these new public buildings may be erected practically at little or no cost to the Government, for in each case, the expense of erection will be covered or nearly covered by the proceeds of the sale of the present old sites of the Supreme Court, Post Office, and the Harbour Office.\n\n14. You will notice some difference between the figures given in this letter in respect of areas and estimates, and those contained in my first Report of the 18th of July, 1887. The present figures are the correct ones, because they are based on the detailed information more recently obtained, and because the design has undergone some modifications since its first inception.\n\n15. The shape of the reclamation at its western terminus has now been changed, and the proposed new sea-wall is shown as running into the present old wall, in such manner as will preclude further objection from the marine lot-owners at the West End.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nThe Honourable F. Stewart, LL.D.,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n## RETURN No. 1.\n\nJ. M. Price.\n\nSurveyor General.\n\n### SCHEDULE OF AREAS AND ESTIMATED COSTS OF THE PORTIONS OF RECLAMATION TO BE ASSIGNED TO THE MARINE LOT-OWNERS AND TO BE PAID FOR BY THEM.\n\n| No. of Section | Area of proposed Reclamation | Amount of Cost exclusive of Government Reclamation | Rate per Square foot which the Reclamation will cost to carry out |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | 197,707 Square feet | $374,232 | $1.89 |\n| 2 | 310,854 | 844,941 | $2.72 |\n| 3 | 197,865 | 345,238 | $1.74 |\n| 4 | 50,605 | 158,044 | $3.12 |\n| 5 | 155,021 | 270,690 | $1.74 |\n| 6 | 240,233 | 440,315 | $1.83 |\n| 7 | 185,083 | 251,860 | $1.36 |\n| Totals | 1,140,544 Square feet | $2,146,228 | |\n\n(28)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337410, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "438\n\n(36)\n\n(d) The preliminary money deposit coupled with the foregoing guarantees will protect the Government against any liability; the arrangement may of course tend to raise the price of the work, for timid contractors especially will charge for these risks, but the increase in the expense will fall on the lot-owners. At whatever cost to others the Government must protect itself against liability in any shape or form, except of course in respect of its own reclamations opposite Government lots, and there the Government must accept risks like any other lot-owner.\n\nThe foregoing safeguards will do away—as regards the Government—with any speculative element that may appear to exist if the work is done for the lot-owners, but if the Government does the work for itself it must take on itself whatever risks and uncertainties there may be in the venture, and itself become the speculator.\n\nA printed contract will have to be entered into between the Government and each individual lot-owner by which, as already stated, the Government must be protected absolutely against any liability.\n\n2. The assessment of values ($7,910,821) of the new lands to be reclaimed from the sea is based on the prices at present ruling in the leasehold-estate market in this Colony, and may be accepted as correct. Each allotment of reclamation has been appraised at the market value of the piece of land immediately behind it. The figures are given in great detail in a voluminous Appendix to my letter to the Colonial Secretary of the 1st of June, 1888. I requested Mr. CHATER to give me his ideas as to the price of land along the Praya, independently of my own appraisals, and I found the discrepancies between us were trifling and limited only to two of the Sections.\n\n3. If the Government were to carry out the reclamation on its own account, the profit would of course be lessened by the amount of compensation to be paid to the present marine lot-owners; that is to say the $5,764,593 would be materially reduced, though it is certain it would not disappear entirely since it is impossible to conceive that the claims for compensation could amount to anything like this sum. But whatever profits may be left, large or small, after paying off all indemnities, the Governor considers such profits might more fitly go into the Colonial Treasury than into the pockets of the marine lot-owners, and on this account His Excellency thinks the work might be done by the Government on its own account and for its own benefit, more especially in view of the fact that the doing of the sections by piecemeal reduces risk and limits the consideration of possible claims to small groups at a time, and thus gives an opportunity to advance or recede as the Government may elect hereafter. As regards risks of injury to the work by typhoons I consider such risks would be the same in either case, for the sections would be quite as liable to be injured or destroyed if carried out one after the other in detail as they would be if done as a whole at the same time.\n\n4. The main advantage would therefore be in the having to deal only with a small number of marine lot-owners' claims at one time, and with regard to marine lot-owners' claims, I do not find in the whole of these papers or in the many oral discussions that have taken place in connexion with this proposed scheme of Reclamation that the Governor has ever had a legal opinion as to the rights of the Crown in respect of foreshores opposite lands leased to individuals.\n\n5. Briefly recapitulated the Government contention has always been that the foreshore is the property of the Crown absolutely, that the Crown has the right to reclaim the sea, at the public expense, in front of the premises of any marine lot-owner and to interpose fresh building sites between those premises and the sea, subject to the payment of such compensation to the lot-owner as may be due him for losses or injury accruing by the interposition of such new lands and of buildings erected thereon.\n\n6. As set forth by Mr. FRANCIS, Q.C. the contention of the marine lot-owner (doubtless put into his head by Mr. FRANCIS himself) is: that in granting him a marine lot-lease for 999 years the Crown has invested him for that term with an indefeasible right (by way of easement), of direct access to High Water Mark, from which access the Crown has no legal power to cut him off. He contends that the shore may silt up from natural causes, or it may—with his concurrence—be reclaimed by the Government, and that the land thus silted up or artificially formed may be absolutely the property of the Government, but that the Government cannot without trespass on the legal rights acquired by him under his marine lease, utilize such land for building or put it to any other uses.\n\n7. If there be anything in the contention of Mr. FRANCIS it is clear that the Governor would not have the power to carry out the Reclamation at the public expense for the public benefit, and His Excellency would have no option but to adhere to the present plan and give the lot-owners whatever benefit may accrue to them under the scheme after reserving one half of their reclamation for public roads. Would it not be desirable in these circumstances to obtain the Attorney General's opinion on the opinion of Mr. FRANCIS?\n\nIt seems to me that before the Governor can be in a position to make any specific recommendation to the Secretary of State in the matter of these Reclamations His Excellency must have this point as to the alleged rights of marine lot-owners thoroughly cleared up.\n\n8. I entertain a strong view in favour of the proposed scheme as a whole for the reasons set forth at such great length in my Report to the Acting Governor (General CAMERON) dated the 18th of July, 1887, (`C.S.O. 1997`) and in view of the dearth of building sites in the town and of the appalling yearly inundation of Chinese from the mainland which is likely to culminate in an epidemic that will engulf the Colony unless steps are taken to build more houses, I consider that the Colonial Government should not stop short at a mere acquiescence in the scheme but that it should—in its wisdom—go much farther and hold out such inducements to the marine lot-owners as will secure the earliest possible realization of the scheme by private enterprise in the manner proposed.\n\n9. For reclamations from the sea made hitherto at the expense of the marine lot-owners the Government of Hongkong has never charged premium in money. It has contented itself with premium in land. In the proposed Reclamation, the total area proposed to be recovered from the sea will be nearly 58 acres, of which five will be Government property and the remaining 53 will be private property. Of these 53 acres of private reclamation the Government proposes to take for public roads 26 acres and will leave the marine lot-owners nearly 27 for their own use. For the filling in of the 26 acres to be taken away from them, these people will have to expend no less a sum than $1,000,000. Of course it may be said that in devoting this million of dollars to the construction of roads and streets the lot-owners are benefiting themselves equally with the public, inasmuch as wide and handsome streets will be sure to enhance the value of their reclamations. On the other hand does not the Public benefit very largely by the creation of these proposed roads reclaimed for them from the sea at enormous cost but towards which they contribute nothing?\n\n10. It may be that in order to secure the early realization of this scheme at the expense of the marine lot-owners and not of the Colonial Treasury I may have counselled over liberal terms. If I have done so it has been because of the great urgency of new building sites for the relief of a population congested to a degree that cannot but cause anxiety to thinking minds, and because of the risk of the scheme being deferred to an indefinite date in the future if claims and litigation come to interpose between the intention of the Government to do the work on its own account and the actual realization of that intention.\n\n11. As however it seems to me that the question as to who shall carry out the work and reap the full benefits from it, wholly pivots on the correctness or otherwise of the contention of the marine lot-owners as explained by Mr. FRANCIS, His Excellency will no doubt wish to have this point cleared up before going further in the matter and I would therefore advise that the papers be referred to the Attorney General for his consideration and opinion on this particular point.\n\n28th June, 1888.\n\nJ. M. PRICE\n\n438\n\n(37)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 340116, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "page_number": 707, "title": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "content_text": "# QUESTIONS and ANSWERS for the information of the Committee of the Legislative Council to enquire into the cost of living, &c., in the Colony,\n\n**Name of Officer:** Fa Sangler \n**Position in the Service:** By Regishan \n\n## QUESTIONS \n\n1. When did you enter the Service? \n2. What Offices have you since held? (Give the dates of your appointment to each Office, and the emoluments attached to each.) \n3. When were you appointed to your present position? \n4. What were your Salary and Emoluments in the following years? \n - 1874 \n - 1879 \n - 1884 \n - 1889 \n5. How much had you to pay for house rent in the following years? \n - 1874 \n - 1879 \n - 1884 \n - 1889 \n\n## ANSWERS \n\n1. 1860 \n\n2. 1860 - Account Police Department till 1864. 2nd Clerk, Registrar General's Office till 1874. Clerk of Supreme Court in addition to above till 1875 (£400). Sheriff till 1879. Appraiser (say) Official Trustee till 1883. Deputy Registrar till... \n - Emoluments: \n | Office | Emoluments |\n |-------------------------------|------------------|\n | 2nd Clerk, Registrar General's Office | |\n | Clerk of Supreme Court | £400 |\n | Sheriff | $60 a month |\n | Appraiser/Official Trustee | £200 |\n | | $300 |\n | Deputy Registrar | $280 a month |\n\n3. 1883 \n\n4. \n | Year | Salary and Emoluments |\n |------|------------------------------------------------|\n | 1874 | £400 per annum. Still Trustee and Appraiser. Sheriff & ... |\n | 1879 | $100 a month |\n | 1884 | |\n | 1889 | $280 | \n\n5. \n | Year | House Rent |\n |------|------------------------------------------------|\n | 1874 | Living at Hotel |\n | 1879 | $44 a month |\n | 1884 | Housing $80 a month |\n | 1889 | On the 15th Jan 89, my Landlord increased my rent to $90 a month (Argyle Terrace House of 4 rooms). Was obliged to take a ... for my family, not being able to get a house except at an exorbitant rent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 340143, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "page_number": 734, "title": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "content_text": "## COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n### EXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n| Year | 1875 | 1880 | 1885 |\n|------|------|------|------|\n\n### XIV. JUDICIAL,\n#### FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n##### CIVIL LIST,\n###### SUPREME COURT.\n\n**SALARIES:** \n| Position | | | \n|----------|------|------|------|\n| Chief Justice | $12,000 | $12,000 | $12,000 |\n| Puisne Judge | $8,160 | $8,160 | $8,160 |\n| Registrar of Supreme Court & Registrar of Companies | $3,840 | $3,840 | $5,040 |\n| Deputy Registrar and Accountant | $1,200 | $2,160 | $2,760 |\n| Sheriff and Appraiser | $2,780 | $2,760 | $2,760 |\n| Judge's Clerk | $1,440 | $1,440 | $1,440 |\n| Clerk to Puisne Judge | $1,080 | $1,080 | $1,080 |\n| Interpreter | $2,400 | $2,400 | $2,400 |\n| Assistant Interpreter | $1,800 | $1,800 | $1,800 |\n| Interpreter of Hindustani | $300 | $300 | $300 |\n| Clerk to Registrar and Sheriff | $720 | $840 | $840 |\n| Clerk and Usher | $960 | $960 | $960 |\n| 1st Bailiff and Assistant Usher | $480 | $1,300 | $720 |\n| Assistant Bailiff | $480 | $480 | $480 |\n| Messenger in Bankruptcy | $720 | $720 | $720 |\n| Chinese Clerk and Translator | $1,200 | $1,200 | $1,200 |\n| Do. and Shroff | $600 | $600 | $265 |\n| Librarian | $205 | $205 | $205 |\n| Messengers, 2 at $84 and 3 at $72 | $384 | $384 | $384 |\n| Scavenger | $72 | $72 | $72 |\n| 2 Chinese Constables | $264 | $264 | $264 |\n| **Total Salaries** | $47,301 | $47,436 | $47,787 |\n\n**ALLOWANCES:**\n| | | | \n|----------|------|------|------|\n| Puisne Judge's Clerk, for Chinese Teacher | $120 | $120 | $120 |\n\n**CONTINGENCIES:**\n| | | | \n|----------|------|------|------|\n| Books for Library, Furniture, &c., Newspapers, and Incidental Expenses | $3,400 | $1,400 | $1,431 |\n| Uniform for Constables | | | |\n\n### ATTORNEY GENERAL.\n\n**SALARIES:**\n| Position | | | \n|----------|------|------|------|\n| Attorney General | $4,800 | $4,800 | $4,800 |\n| Crown Solicitor | $2,400 | $2,400 | $2,400 |\n| Attorney General's Clerk | $600 | $600 | $600 |\n| Crown Solicitor's Clerk | $600 | $600 | $600 |\n| 2 Messengers, 1 at $84, and 1 at $72 | $156 | $156 | $156 |\n| **Total Salaries** | | $2,556 | |\n\n**CONTINGENCIES:**\n| | | | \n|----------|------|------|------|\n| Incidental Expenses, and Newspapers | $2,736 | $150 | $150 |\n\n### LAND REGISTRY OFFICE.\n\n**SALARIES:**\n| Position | | | \n|----------|------|------|------|\n| Deputy Land Officer | $1,440 | $1,020 | $1,020 |\n| Clerk | $720 | $790 | $790 |\n| Messenger | $72 | $72 | $72 |\n| **Total Salaries** | $2,232 | $1,882 | $1,882 |\n\n**CONTINGENCIES:**\n| | | | \n|----------|------|------|------|\n| Mounting Plans, Punkah Coolie, and Incidental Expenses | $160 | $160 | $160 |\n\n**TOTAL JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS** | $62,380 | $36,089 | $40,448 |\n\n### ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE-EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS\nRefreshments to Jurors, Costs of Witnesses in Criminal Cases, and for interpreting Dialects with which the Court Interpreters are unacquainted, Fees to Counsel and Solicitors for Prisoners in Capital Cases | $300 | $200 | $500 |\n\n**TOTAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST** | $62,380 | $37,180 | $25,200 (for Admin of Justice) + other Civil List items\n\n**Personal Allowances**\n- $600 rising by $120 yearly to $960\n- $840 rising by $120 yearly to $1,200", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 343606, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "page_number": 353, "title": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "content_text": "vecat 12 l\n\nsend me to\n\nthe Se\n\nSecretary of\n\nEnclosure 3\n\n352\n\nState for promotion to the vacant\n\noffice.\n\nI have &c.\n\nSof. R. Stafford Northcote.\n\nSecond Clerk.\n\nM? I. A. Hageland to Act. Colonial Secretary.\n\nSupreme Court,\n\n· Hong Kong, 11th November, 1890.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to\n\napply for the post of Assistant – Postmaster General rendered vacant by the promotion of Mr. A.K. Travers.\n\nI joined the service in November 1878, as Clerk to the Puisne\n\nJudge. In September 1883 I was appointed Clerk to the Chief Justice, and have held that office\n\never since. On\n\noccasions I have acted as\n\nDeputy Registrar and Accountant\n\nand\n\nDeputy Registrar and\n\nAppraiser\n\nThe Hon: M. M. Deane, Que.\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 343607, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "page_number": 354, "title": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "content_text": "Appraiser. In March last I was appointed Acting Clerk of Councils and acted as Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office from the 15th of March to the 20th of October this year.\n\nI would further state that I have passed the examinations in Chinese under the Hongkong Civil Service Examination Scheme. I enclose copy of certificate of the 6th and final examination under the higher standard.\n\nI trust that His Excellency will be able to report favourably on my application.\n\n19th July\n\nCopy\n\n353\n\nSub. Enclosure to Enclosure &\n\nWe certify that Mr. Fr. A. Hazeland was examined by the Board of Examiners on the 8th inst, and passed the 6th Examination in Standard II of the Examination Scheme for the Colony.\n\nSigned John Chalmers, Chairman, Board of Examiners;\n\nSigned A. G. Mitchell-Jones, Honorary Secretary of the Board,\n\nHong Kong, 19th July, 1884.\n\nSt. J. A. Hazeland. First Clerk of Court.\n\nPage 353\n\n \n(appears three times at the bottom, but as per instruction, it is kept as is)\n\nbecomes \nPage 353\n\nPage 353\n\nPage 353\n\nThe final output is: \n\nAppraiser. In March last I was appointed Acting Clerk of Councils and acted as Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office from the 15th of March to the 20th of October this year.\n\nI would further state that I have passed the examinations in Chinese under the Hongkong Civil Service Examination Scheme. I enclose copy of certificate of the 6th and final examination under the higher standard.\n\nI trust that His Excellency will be able to report favourably on my application.\n\n19th July\n\nCopy\n\n353\n\nSub. Enclosure to Enclosure &\n\nWe certify that Mr. Fr. A. Hazeland was examined by the Board of Examiners on the 8th inst, and passed the 6th Examination in Standard II of the Examination Scheme for the Colony.\n\nSigned John Chalmers, Chairman, Board of Examiners;\n\nSigned A. G. Mitchell-Jones, Honorary Secretary of the Board,\n\nHong Kong, 19th July, 1884.\n\nSt. J. A. Hazeland. First Clerk of Court.\n\nPage 353\n\nPage 353\n\nPage 353", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 343614, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "page_number": 361, "title": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "content_text": "L (1211)-6576---6000-6-00\n\nNo.\n\n425 Date.\n\n1890\n\n5 Feb\n\nPrevious Paper.\n\n434\n\n(Subject.)\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n737 RECO (REGR 12 JAN 31\n\n350\n\nMr. S. Barff, Sept Rys, wrt Supreme Court\n\nSeuss letter from Liverpool asking whether it is intended that he should act as sole Registrar.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nW. Meade\n\n(I don't know whether this need wait for M. Branston)\n\nWhen the staff of the Supreme Court was reorganized (see 21144/87) two deputy Registrars were appointed, one (W. Barff) to be styled Deputy Registrar & Accountant and the other (M. Sangster) to be styled Deputy Registrar and Appraiser.\n\nI understand M. Barff's complaint to mean this: that when in 1888 he was granted vacation leave, M. Sangster declined to perform temporarily the double duty, but it looks as if the two may have had good reasons.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 343733, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "page_number": 480, "title": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "content_text": "C. I. st. Sangster, Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, Supreme Court.\n\n1884. Received $600 per annum for length of service.\n\nBruce Shepherd, Deputy Land Officer Supreme Court.\n\nNo. 9 as preceding see March not personal allowance of $720 per annum and that the house in which he is obliged to live as Superintendent of the Gaol is not large enough for himself and family thereby necessitating his keeping his family at home.\n\nHon: 17. M. Deane cure. Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n1890. Received a personal allowance of $600 per annum to bring his salary on a level with those of the Deputy Registrars.\n\nI. Syer Ball, Interpreter, Supreme Court.\n\n1884. Received a personal allowance of $480 per annum in consideration of length of service.\n\nMajor General Act. Gordon Superintendent!\n\n1886. Received a personal allowance of $600 per annum for length of service and loss in exchange.\n\nA. McCallum, Superintendent, Sanitary Board.\n\n1890. Received a personal allowance of $360 per annum, Sanitary Board having in 1888 recommended that the Salary of the Superintendent should be raised from $2640 to $3,000.\n\nVictoria Gaol\n\n1889. Received a...\n\nHong Kong, 14th October, 1890.\n\nPage 480\n\nPage 481", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348843, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 576, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# RETURN of all sums received as REVENUE in the Registry of the Supreme Court, during the Year 1891.\n\n## Jurisdictions and Fees\n\n| Jurisdiction/Fees | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Original Jurisdiction | $4,837.88 |\n| Summary Jurisdiction | $4,681.82 |\n| Bankruptcy Jurisdiction | $849.62 |\n| Probate Jurisdiction | $938.41 |\n| Official Administrator's Commission | $2,093.83 |\n| Official Assignee's Commission | $1,233.63 |\n| Official Trustee's Commission | $312.88 |\n| Appraiser's Fees | $2.70 |\n| Sheriff's Fees | $318.00 |\n| Bailiff's Fees | $1,386.50 |\n| Registrar of Companies | $3,655.50 |\n| Interest on Deposit of Surplus cash | $4,087.39 |\n| Fees on Distraints | $1,960.50 |\n| Land Office Fees | $26,419.16 |\n| Fine and Forfeitures | $4,324.00 |\n\nTotal: $30,743.16\n\n## INDICTMENTS and INFORMATIONS in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG, for the Year 1891.\n\n| Offence | Number of Cases | Number of Persons |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Murder | 2 | 2 |\n| Manslaughter | 1 | 1 |\n| Attempt at murder | 2 | 2 |\n| Concealment of Birth | : | : |\n| Abortion | : | : |\n| Rape | 2 | 6 |\n| Unnatural Crimes | 1 | 1 |\n| Robbery with violence | 9 | Hu |\n| Other offences against the Person | : | : |\n| Offences against Property | 2 | 6 |\n| Miscellaneous offences | : | : |\n\n## Case Outcomes\n\n| Outcome | Number of Cases | Number of Persons |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Judgment for the Crown | 26 | |\n| Judgment for the Prisoner | 9 | |\n| Prisoner found Insane | 2 | |\n| Cases postponed | 37 | |\n| Cases which fell through for want of prosecution or absence of accused, and cases thrown out by the Grand Jury | 2 | |\n\n## Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 7th January, 1892.\n\n**EDW. J. ACKROYD, Registrar.**\n\n# RETURN of all SUMS COLLECTED in the Registry of the Supreme Court for the Year 1891, and paid into the Treasury.\n\n## Fees and Commissions\n\n| Fees/Commissions | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Court Fees paid by Stamps | $14,254.30 |\n| Official Assignee's 5% on amounts encashed | $1,247.16 |\n| Official Administrator's Commission | $4,740.01 |\n| Official Trustee's Commission | $13,268.23 |\n| Appraiser of Intestate Estates | $1,233.63 |\n| Bailiff's Fees | $2,093.83 |\n| Sheriff's Fees | $2,980.40 |\n| Registrar of Companies | $3,655.50 |\n| Interest on Registrar's Balance at the Bank | $4,087.39 |\n| Fine and Forfeitures | $30,364.07 |\n| Land Office Fees | $26,419.16 |\n\nTotal: $34,799.32\n\n## Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 31st December, 1891.\n\n**EDW. J. ACKROYD, Registrar.**\n\n# RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been brought under the COGNIZANCE of the SUPREME COURT, during the last Ten Years.\n\n## Yearly Breakdown\n\n| Year | Number of Cases | Number of Persons | Convicted | Acquitted | Charges Abandoned | Postponed |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1882 | 124 | 187 | 124 | 38 | 15 | 21 |\n| 1883 | 91 | 126 | 70 | 26 | 14 | 28 |\n| 1884 | 68 | 101 | 65 | 20 | 8 | : |\n| 1885 | 91 | 147 | 103 | 22 | 16 | : |\n| 1886 | 75 | 107 | 75 | 20 | 16 | : |\n| 1887 | 94 | 155 | 82 | : | : | : |\n| 1888 | 101 | 186 | 99 | 92 | : | : |\n| 1889 | 59 | 80 | 43 | : | : | : |\n| 1890 | 180 | 271 | 153 | 83 | 36 | 17 |\n| 1891 | 32 | 87 | 26 | : | : | : |\n\n## Averages\n\n| Period | Average Number of Cases | Average Number of Persons | Average Convicted | Average Acquitted | Average Charges Abandoned | Average Postponed |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1st Period | 893 | 183% | 847 | 25% | 134 | 223 |\n| 2nd Period | 75% | 120% | 62 | 30% | 153 | 24% |\n\n## Notes\n\nIn one case the recognizance estreated, this case is included in the total, but not in any other of the above headings.\nIn one case the recognizance estreated, and one prisoner committed suicide in the Gaol.\ne. In one case the recognizance estreated.\nf. In three cases the recognizances were estreated.\ng. In one case the recognizance estreated, this case is included in the total, but not in any other of the above headings.\n\n## Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 7th January, 1892.\n\n**EDW. J. ACKROYD, Registrar.**\n\n## Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 31st December, 1891.\n\n**EDW. J. ACKROYD, Registrar.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353394, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 382, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "since the position of the office of Registrar is a composite one, he being Registrar of the Supreme Court, Registrar of Deeds & Companies, Official designee, Official Administrator, Official Trustee and Receiver, and Land Officer. In Shepherd's case, he is Deputy Land Officer and In Sangster is one of the two Deputy Registrars, his duties being to some extent differently, or distinct from those of the other Deputy Registrar, and in the distribution of work between them, one is styled \"Deputy Regt. Appraiser\" the other \"Deputy Regt. Accountant.\n\nSur... 1 380 In Shepherd and Dr Sangster, both appear to have been performing some work distinct and separate from the work of their offices, and were therefore entitled under local Regn... to more than their level pay.\n\nI am...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353409, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 397, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "of fees or Commission. The omission to report the appointment is all the more significant because at that time the Governor (par. 16 of 544/91) recommended, and the S. of State \"with some hesitation sanctioned\" (par. 6 of desp. no. 574) an increase of pay to M. Bruce Shepherd.\n\nNothing being said at the time about remuneration, indeed, in the absence of fees formerly drawn by his brother officers the Deputy Registrars [with whom he was to be on an equal footing], it was actually adduced as a reason for increasing his salary that he would not be receiving these personal fees.\n\nIt was settled by Fremat 21144/82 that all these personal fees at the Supreme Court should be abolished. Lord Ripon's predecessor appears not to have had his attention drawn to the former Ordinance of 1891 providing for the Official Receiver to receive a fee. Ord. 20 of 1891 superseded the Ordinance of 1865 to 1850.\n\nEvery occasion of an appointment of a trustee other than himself, & a Commission not exceeding 5 percent when he is himself appointed Trustee; observe that no appointment was made.\n\nQuotation from Table of Fees in Blue Book for 1891.\n\nThis is not a question of the Law, but of the bargain between the Crown and its Servant. The Official Receiver, under the Ordinance, appears to have been appointed and reported to the S. of State for approval, but it appears from the Gazette that M. Bruce Shepherd was appointed \"provisionally\" in Jan. 1892.\n\nAs regards W. Shepherd's pay having been increased on the supposition that he received no other remuneration beyond his salary; & say that in future, pending a probable amendment of the Ordinance, the fees or Commission which he receives must be paid into the Treasury (although he need not be required to refund the amounts hitherto received by him).\n\nThis was previously done by the Official Assignee, to whom 5 per cent on all monies received was payable by Order of this Court under S. 7 of Ord. 5 of 1864, but who, under the terms of his appointment, was not allowed to retain this commission (or other similar fees received by him as Official Administrator, or as Official Appraiser, & trustee).\n\nFurther observe that under the old Bankruptcy Ordinance, the Registrar was ex officio Official Manager of the Court (S.6).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358655, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "59 \n\nof particulars regarding the pension of Mr. C. F. A. Sangster, Deputy Registrar and Appraiser in the Supreme Court, who wishes to retire from the service on the expiry of his leave.\n\nMr Sangster's pension is payable at 3/3 to the dollar, but as I understand that he intends to make a representation on this point, I would beg to refer you to the decision regarding his case conveyed to you in paragraph 6 of Lord Knutsford's despatch `W:51` of the 26th February, 1892.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most Obedient \nHumble Servant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358710, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 6.\n\n**MEMORANDUM SHEWING ALTERATIONS OF ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE FOR 1896.**\n\n## APPROVED ESTIMATE FOR 1895.\n\n## ESTIMATE FOR 1896.\n\n_Note: Explanation of items of alteration is contained in the footnotes appended to the Estimates._\n\n| DEPARTMENT | Personal Emoluments | Other Charges, Departmental | Appropriations in Aid | Personal Emoluments | Other Charges, Departmental | Total | Increase | Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE | 89,876 | 2,453 | 41,339 | 91,998 | 4,453 | 48,259 | 1,920 | 3,000 |\n| COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT | 29,176 | 4,100 | 83,270 | 24,576 | 2,440 | 29,016 | 4,860 | 60 |\n| AUDIT DEPARTMENT | 5,014 | 4,406 | 10,000 | 5,044 | 4,956 | 10,000 | | |\n| TREASURY | 21,474 | 1,226 | 22,700 | 21,028 | 1,326 | 22,454 | 216 | 946 |\n| PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT | 70,549 | 9,147 | 84,696 | 70,861 | 8,931 | 88,282 | 198 | 216 |\n| POST OFFICE | 41,808 | 144,708 | 136,470 | 6,800 | 20,524 | 115,255 | 1,390 | 548 |\n| REGISTRAR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT | 20,951 | 1,399 | 09,88% | 12,846 | 1,407 | 14,253 | 8,080 | % |\n| HARKOUR MASTER'S DEPARTMENT | 49,290 | 13,0%) | 62,321 | 49,050 | 14,768 | 63,813 | 240 | 1,782 |\n| LIGHTHOUSES | 9,828 | 6,310 | 16,139 | 730 | 10,90$ | 6,190 | 1,492 | 120 |\n| OBSERVATORY | 10,462 | 2,785 | 13,287 | 10,502 | 2,300 | 12,802 | 435 | 50 |\n| STAMP OFFICE | 4,068 | 260 | 4,328 | 3,312 | 240 | 3,072 | 7 | 766 |\n| BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT | 9,110 | 10,760 | 19,870 | 1,100 | 9,16% | 9,960 | ... | 743 |\n| LEGAL DEPARTMENTS | 66,663 | 2,219 | 68,582 | 63,634 | 2,544 | 70,898 | 2,016 | 1,471 |\n| ECCLESIASTICAL | 2,200 | + | 2,000 | | | | | |\n| EDUCATION | 43,804 | 34,756 | 78,390 | 14,420 | 42,329 | 34,799 | 42 | 1,312 |\n| MEDICAL DEPARTMENTS | 48,078 | +4521 | *7,794 | 21,500 | 45,700 | £5,00 | 93,716 | 6,433 |\n| MAGISTRACY | 23,872 | 1,800 | 25,2*2 | 17,475 | 1,880 | 18,606 | | 6,896 |\n| POLICE | 164,136 | 65,411 | 229,547 | 2,000 | 164,016 | 59,85% | 7,854 | 6,895 |\n| SUB-DEPARTMENT-FIRE BRIGADE | 14,134 | 5,944 | 20,098 | 17,874 | 4,941 | 2,280 | 86,120 | 22,456 |\n| SANITARY DEPARTMENT | 29,571 | 41,103 | 74,670 | 27,700 | 49,176 | $4,982 | 8,071 | 1,950 |\n\n## REMARKS.\n\n- Clerk of Councils to be dismissed in February. Rent of \"Craigiebarn\" included. Chief Clerkship to be abolished in February. One Passed Clerk promoted.\n- New appointments on the subordinate staff.\n- Salaries of 1st, 2nd and 3rd Clerks reduced.\n- Treasury Staff reconstituted. $2,000 transferred in the 1893 Estimate. Decrease therefore equal to $2,248 on original salaries.\n- Registrar Generalship abolished as a separate office. 1 Inspectorship abolished. Gratuities to Lightkeepers abolished. Increase for repairs to steam-launches.\n- Allowances of Lightkeepers merged in salary.\n- Stipulated increments. Provision for Telegraph Services included under Miscellaneous Services.\n- Salaries of 1st and 2nd Clerks reduced. Stipulated increments. Tree-planting Vote reduced.\n- Chief Clerk, C.S.O., and Clerk of Councils transferred on present salary to the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, Office of Deputy Registrar and Accountant revived. Salaries of 1st and 2nd Clerks of Court reduced. Messenger in Bankruptcy abolished.\n- An English Master, Queen's College, abolished.\n- Staff reduced by appointment of Medical Officer of Health.\n- Staff reduced by 1 Police Magistrate, 1 Clerk, and 1 Interpreter.\n- Fire Brigade Amalgamated with Police Department. Decrease under \"Other Charges\" due to introduction of store-hulk instead of launches and Towing launches. Stipulated increments on salaries balanced by reduction of Other Charges.\n- New shed for Central Market and Sheep and Pig Depot, and cost of lighting the Central Market.\n\n## TOTAL DEPARTMENTAL\n\n745,092 | 419,07 | 1,166,400 | 50,406 | $,200 | 2,00X1 | 139,707 | 14,710 | 94,000 | $28, 466 | 1,168,087 | 14,000 | 26,14) | 18 731 | 5,200 | 2,000\n\n## CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES\n\n## TRANSPORT\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES\n\n## CHARGE ON ACCOUNT OF PUBLIC DEBT\n\n## PENSIONS\n\n| | 1895 | 1896 | Increase | Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| TOTAL DEPARTMENTAL | 745,092 | | | |\n| CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES | | | | |\n| TRANSPORT | | | | |\n| MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES | 106,017 | NU,260 | 24,6 10 | 12,300 |\n| CHARGE ON ACCOUNT OF PUBLIC DEBT | | | 16,843 | |\n| PENSIONS | | | | |\n| MILITARY EXPENDITURE | | | 34,216 | |\n| PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT | | | 15,200 | |\n| PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY | | | 22,670 | |\n| TOTAL EXPENDITURE | 2,436,690 | 2479,06% | | |\n\n## SUMMARY\n\n| | Increase | Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS | 12,871 | |\n| OTHER CHARGES | | 4,309 |\n| MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES | | 12,200 |\n| CHARGE ON ACCOUNT OF PUBLIC DEBT | 16,843 | |\n| PENSIONS | | |\n| MILITARY EXPENDITURE | 34,216 | |\n| PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT | 15,200 | |\n| PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY | 22,670 | |\n| TOTAL | $89,607$ | $47,211$ |\n\n## INCREASE IN TOTAL EXPENDITURE\n\n47,231 | $ 42,566\n\nConsulting Engineer, Water and Drainage, resigned. Other changes explained in footnotes to Estimates. Contribution to Sinking Fund. 112,800 or 179% of estimated revenue (exclusive of premium on Land Sales) and provision for Bad and Doubtful Debts ($40,000). Increased cost of maintaining Sewerage and Water Works due to extension of the Systems. Expenditure on latter now chargeable in Water Account. Includes $30,000 for Volpingahan Improvement, $18,000 for Public Latrines, and $10,000 for Tupanamma of Public Recreation Ground, Happy Valley.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359906, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "# BAIL\n\n38. Whenever bail is required by these rules, it shall be given by filing one or more bail bonds, each of which shall be signed by two sureties, unless the Court shall, on special cause shown, order that one surety shall suffice.\n\n39. Every bail bond shall be prepared in the registry and shall be signed before the registrar, or by his direction before a clerk in the registry, or before a commissioner appointed by the Court, to take bail. Forms of bail bond and commission to take bail will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 14 and 15.\n\n40. Sureties may attend to sign a bond either separately or together.\n\n41. If bail is taken before a commissioner, the sureties shall justify by affidavit.\n\n42. The commission to take bail and the affidavits of justification shall be prepared in the registry, and issued with the bail bond, and shall with the bail bond, when executed, be returned to the registry by the commissioner.\n\n43. No commissioner shall be entitled to take bail in any action in which he, or any person in partnership with him, is acting as solicitor or agent.\n\n44. Before filing a bail bond, notice of bail shall be served upon the adverse party, and a certificate of such service shall be indorsed on the bond by the party filing it. A form of Notice of Bail will be found in the Appendix hereto, No. 16.\n\n45. If the adverse party is not satisfied with the sufficiency of any surety, he may file a notice objecting to such surety, or requiring him to justify, if he has not already done so. Forms of Notice to Justify, of Affidavit of Justification, and of Notice of Objection to Bail, will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 17, 18 and 19.\n\n## RELEASES\n\n46. A release for property arrested by warrant may be issued by order of the Court.\n\n47. A release may also be issued by the registrar, unless there is a caveat outstanding against the release of the property:\n- (a) On payment into Court of the amount claimed, or of the appraised value of the property arrested,\nor, where cargo is arrested for freight only, of the amount of the freight verified by affidavit;\n- (b) On one or more bail bonds being filed for the amount claimed, or for the appraised value of the property arrested; and on proof that twenty-four hours' notice of the names and addresses of the sureties has been previously served on the party at whose instance the property has been arrested;\n- (c) On the application of the party at whose instance the property has been arrested;\n- (d) On a consent in writing being filed signed by the party at whose instance the property has been arrested;\n- (e) On discontinuance or dismissal of the action in which the property has been arrested.\n\n48. Where property has been arrested for salvage, the release shall not be issued under the foregoing rule, except on discontinuance or dismissal of the action, until the value of the property arrested has been agreed upon between the parties or determined by the Court.\n\n49. The registrar may refuse to issue a release without the order of the Court.\n\n50. The release shall be prepared in the registry, and shall be signed by the registrar, and issued under the seal of the Court. A form of release will be found in the Appendix hereto, No. 20.\n\n51. The release shall be served on the bailiff either personally, or by leaving it at his office, by the party by whom it is taken out.\n\n52. On service of the release and on payment to the bailiff of all fees due to and charges incurred by him in respect of the arrest and custody of the property, the property shall be at once released from arrest.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359910, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 106, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## COSTS\n\n98. Where the sum in dispute or the value of the res does not exceed one thousand dollars, half costs only shall be charged and allowed. In any other action, the Court may in its discretion order that half costs only shall be allowed.\n\n99. Where costs are awarded to a plaintiff, the expression \"sum in dispute\" shall mean the sum recovered by him in addition to the sum, if any, counterclaimed from him by the defendant; and where costs are awarded to a defendant, it shall mean the sum claimed from him in addition to the sum, if any, recovered by him.\n\n100. The judge may direct payment of a lump sum in lieu of taxed costs.\n\n101. If any plaintiff (other than a seaman suing for his wages or for the loss of his clothes and effects in a collision), or any defendant making a counterclaim is not resident in the Colony, the judge may, on the application of the adverse party, order him to give bail for costs.\n\n102. If a tender is rejected, but is afterwards accepted, or is held by the judge to be sufficient, the party rejecting the tender shall, unless the Court shall otherwise order, be condemned in the costs incurred after tender made.\n\n### TAXATION OF COSTS\n\n103. A party desiring to have a bill of costs taxed shall file the bill, and, as soon as conveniently may be, the registrar shall send to the parties notice of the time at which the taxation will take place.\n\n104. At the time appointed, if either party is present, the taxation shall be proceeded with.\n\n105. Within one week from the completion of the taxation, application may be made to the Court to review the taxation.\n\n106. Costs may be taxed either by the Court or by the registrar, and as well between solicitor and client, as between party and party.\n\n107. If in a taxation between solicitor and client more than one sixth of the bill is struck off, the solicitor shall pay all the costs attending the taxation.\n\n### APPRAISEMENT AND SALE, &C.\n\n108. The Court may, either before or after final judgment, order any property under the arrest of the Court to be appraised, or to be sold with or without appraisement, and either by public auction or by private contract.\n\n109. If the property is deteriorating in value, the Court may order it to be sold forthwith.\n\n110. If the property to be sold is of small value, the Court may, in its discretion, order it to be sold without a commission of sale being issued.\n\n111. The Court may, either before or after final judgment, order any property under arrest of the Court to be removed or any cargo under arrest on board ship to be discharged.\n\n112. The appraisement, sale, and removal of property, the discharge of cargo, and the demolition and sale of a vessel condemned under any Slave Trade Act, shall be effected under the authority of a commission addressed to the bailiff. Forms of commissions of appraisement, sale, appraisement and sale, removal, discharge of cargo, and demolition and sale, will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 27 to 32.\n\n113. The commission shall, as soon as possible after its execution, be filed by the bailiff, with a return setting forth the manner in which it has been executed.\n\n114. As soon as possible after the execution of a commission of sale, the bailiff shall pay into Court the gross proceeds of the sale, and shall with the commission file his accounts and vouchers in support thereof.\n\n115. The registrar shall tax the bailiff's account, and shall report the amount at which he considers it should be allowed; and any party who is interested in the proceeds may be heard before the registrar on the taxation.\n\n116. Application may be made to the Court on motion to review the registrar's taxation.\n\n117. The Court may, in its discretion, order any property under the arrest of the Court to be inspected. A form of order for inspection will be found in the Appendix hereto, No. 33.\n\nPage 105", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359938, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## SCHEDULE annexed to the foregoing report\n\n| No. | Claimed $ | Allowed $ | C. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | | | |\n| 2 | | | |\n| 3 | | | |\n| 4 | | | |\n| ... | | | |\n| Total | | | |\n\nWith interest thereon from the day of ... 18..., at the rate of ... per cent. per annum until paid.\n\n(Signed) E.F., Registrar.\n\n## No. 27. COMMISSION OF APPRAISEMENT\n\nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. (L.S.)\n\n[Title of Action.]\n\nVICTORIA, &c.\n\nTo the Bailiff of our Supreme Court of Hongkong greeting.\n\nWhereas the said Court has ordered that [state whether ship or cargo, and state name of ship and, if part only of cargo, state what part] shall be appraised.\n\nWe, therefore, hereby command you to reduce into writing an inventory of the said [ship or cargo, &c., as the case may be], and having chosen one or more experienced person or persons, to swear him or them to appraise the same according to the true value thereof, and upon a certificate of such value having been reduced into writing, and signed by yourself and by the appraiser or appraisers, to file the same in the registry of our said Court, together with this commission.\n\nGiven at ... in our said Court, under the seal thereof, this ... day of ... 18...\n\n(Signed) E.F., Registrar.\n\n## No. 28. COMMISSION OF SALE\n\nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. (L.S.)\n\n[Title of Action.] VICTORIA, &c.\n\nTo the Bailiff of our Supreme Court of Hongkong greeting.\n\nWhereas the said Court has ordered that [state whether ship or cargo and state name of ship, and if part only of cargo, what part] shall be sold.\n\nWe, therefore, hereby command you to reduce into writing an inventory of the said [ship or cargo, &c., as the case may be], and to cause the said [ship or cargo, &c.] to be sold by public auction for the highest price that can be obtained for the same.\n\nAnd we further command you, as soon as the sale has been completed, to pay the proceeds arising therefrom into our said Court, and to file an account sale signed by you, together with this commission.\n\nGiven at ... in our said Court, under the seal thereof, this ... day of ... 18...\n\n(Signed) E.F., Registrar.\n\nRule 117 \nRule 112 \n37 \n133", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359939, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## COMMISSION OF APPRAISEMENT AND SALE\n\nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. (1,8.)\n\n[Title of Action.]\n\nVICTORIA, &c.\n\nTo the Bailiff of our Supreme Court of Hongkong greeting. Whereas the said Court has ordered that [state whether ship or cargo, and state name of ship, and if part only of cargo, what part] shall be appraised and sold. We, therefore, hereby command you to reduce into writing an inventory of the said [ship or cargo &c., as the case may be], and having chosen one or more experienced person or persons to swear him or them to appraise the same according to the true value thereof, and when a certificate of such value has been reduced into writing and signed by yourself and by the appraiser or appraisers, to cause the said [ship or cargo, &c., as the case may be] to be sold by public auction for the highest price, not under the appraised value thereof, that can be obtained for the same.\n\nAnd we further command you, as soon as the sale has been completed, to pay the proceeds arising therefrom into our said Court, and to file the said certificate of appraisement and an account sale signed by you, together with this commission, in our said Court, under the seal thereof, this day of 18.\n\nGiven at (Signed) **Commission of Appraisement and Sale** \nTaken out by E. F. \nRegistrar.\n\n## COMMISSION OF REMOVAL\n\nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. (L.S.)\n\n[Title of Action.] VICTORIA, &C.\n\nTo the Bailiff of our Supreme Court of Hongkong greeting. Whereas the said Court has ordered that the [state name and description of ship] shall be removed from on a policy of insurance in the sum of being deposited in the registry of our said Court: and whereas a policy of insurance for the said sum has been so deposited. We, therefore, hereby command you to cause the said ship to be removed recordingly.\n\nAnd we further command you, as soon as the removal has been completed, to file a certificate thereof, signed by you, in the said registry, together with this commission, in our said Court, under the seal thereof, this day of 18.\n\nGiven at (Signed) E.F., \nRegistrar. \n**Commission of Removal** \nTaken out by \n\n## COMMISSION FOR DISCHARGE OF CARGO\n\nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. (L.S.)\n\n[Title of Action.] VICTORIA, &c.\n\nTo the Bailiff of our Supreme Court of Hongkong greeting. Whereas the said Court has ordered that the cargo of the ship shall be discharged. We therefore hereby command you to discharge the said cargo from on board the said ship, and to put the same into some fit and proper place of deposit. And we further command you, as soon as the discharge of the said cargo has been completed, to file your certificate thereof in the registry of our said Court, together with this commission.\n\nGiven at in our said Court, under the seal thereof, this day of 18. \n(Signed) E. F., \nRegistrar. \n**Commission for Discharge of Cargo** \nTaken out by \n\nPage 38 \nPage 134", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359945, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Decrees in Various Actions\n\n### (7) Decree of Restitution in a Slave Trade Action\n\nThe Court having heard, etc., pronounced that it had not been proved that the vessel was engaged in or fitted out for the slave trade, and ordered that the said vessel should be restored to the claimant, together with the goods and effects on board thereof;\n\nadd, as the case may be, \n- but without costs or damages, \n- or on payment by the said claimant of the costs incurred by the seizors in this Action;\n\nand awarded to the said claimant costs and damages in respect of the detention of the said vessel, and [referred the same to the registrar (assisted by merchants) to report the amount thereof, and] directed that all accounts and vouchers with the proofs in support thereof, if any, should be filed within ... days.\n\n### (8) Decree in Case of Capture from Pirates\n\nThe Court having heard, etc., pronounced that the said junk \"Tecumseh\" [and her cargo] had been at the time of the capture thereof by H.M.S. \"Torch\" the property of pirates, and condemned the same as a droit and perquisite of Her Majesty in Her office of Admiralty;\n\nor \n\npronounced that the said junk \"Tecumseh\" (and her cargo) had prior to her re-capture by H.M.S. \"Torch,\" etc., been captured by pirates from the claimant [state name and description of former owner], and decreed that the same should be restored to the said claimant as the lawful owner thereof, on payment to the re-captors of one-eighth part of the true value thereof in lieu of salvage. The Court also directed that the said junk (and her cargo) should be appraised;\n\nIf the junk, etc., has been captured after an engagement with the pirates, and if there is a petition for bounty, add \n\nThe Court further declared that the persons attacked or engaged by H.M.S. \"Torch,\" etc., on the occasion of the capture of the said junk were pirates, that the total number of pirates so attacked or engaged was about ..., that of that number ... were captured, and that the only vessel engaged was H.M.S. \"Torch\" [or, as the case may be].\n\n### (9) Decree of Condemnation under Pacific Islanders Protection Acts\n\nThe Court having heard, etc., pronounced that the ship had been at the time of her seizure [or during the voyage on which she was met] employed [or fitted out for employment] in violation of the Pacific Islanders Protection Acts, 1872 and 1875, and he condemned the said ship [and her cargo, and all goods and effects found on board, or as the case may be,] as forfeited to Her Majesty.\n\nThe Court further ordered that the said ship [and her cargo, and the said goods and effects] should be sold by public auction, and that the proceeds should be paid into Court.\n\nPage 44\nPage 140", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359947, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## II. FEES OF COURT AND ASSESSOR'S FEES\n\n### Court Fees\n\n| Fee Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sealing any warrant, release, commission, attachment or other instrument requiring to be sealed (other than a writ of summons or subpoena) | $10.00 |\n| Filing a bail bond | $5.00 |\n| Order for reference | $10.00 |\n| Filing Preliminary Act | $5.00 |\n| Notice issued by Registrar | $1.00 |\n| Bailiff attending unlivery of cargo (to be paid in cash) for each day | $10.00 |\n| Bailiff executing any commission of appraisement, sale or appraisement and sale, exclusive of the fees, if any, paid to the appraiser and auctioneer | $6.00 |\n| Bailiff executing any other commission or instrument or any warrant or attachment | $2.50 |\n| On the gross proceeds of any ship or goods, &c. sold by order of the Court (to be deducted from the proceeds in Court) if not exceeding $1,000 | $10.00 |\n| For every additional $1,000 or part thereof | $5.00 |\n| For every matter or proceeding not above specified | the same fee as is taken in Original Jurisdiction in respect of a similar matter or proceeding |\n\n### Assessor's Fees\n\n| Fee Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| For each nautical or other assessor whether at the examination of witnesses or at the trial of an action or at the hearing of an appeal or upon any assessment of damages or taking of an account according to the case per diem | $10.00 to $50.00 |\n\n**Note**: The above fees shall be paid to the Registrar for the assessors in cash and in the first instance by the party preferring the claim or in the case of an appeal by the appellant.\n\nPage 46 \nPage 142", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359989, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 185, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## BAIL\n\n39. Whenever bail is required by these rules, it shall be given by filing one or more bail bonds, each of which shall be signed by two sureties, unless the judge shall, on special cause shown, order that one surety shall suffice.\n\n40. Every bail bond shall be prepared in the registry and shall be signed before the registrar, or by his direction before a clerk in the registry, or before a commissioner appointed by the court, to take bail. Forms of bail bond and commission to take bail will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 14 and 15.\n\n41. Sureties may attend to sign a bond either separately or together.\n\n42. If bail is taken before a commissioner, the sureties shall justify by affidavit.\n\n43. The commission to take bail and the affidavits of justification shall be prepared in the registry, and issued with the bail bond, and shall with the bail bond, when executed, be returned to the registry by the commissioner.\n\n44. No commissioner shall be entitled to take bail in any action in which he, or any person in partnership with him, is acting as solicitor or agent.\n\n45. Before filing a bail bond, notice of bail shall be served upon the adverse party, and a certificate of such service shall be indorsed on the bond by the party filing it. A form of Notice of Bail will be found in the Appendix hereto, No. 16.\n\n46. If the adverse party is not satisfied with the sufficiency of any surety, he may file a notice objecting to such surety, or requiring him to justify, if he has not already done so. Forms of Notice to Justify, of Affidavit of Justification, and of Notice of Objection to Bail, will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 17, 18, and 19.\n\n## RELEASES\n\n47. A release for property arrested by warrant may be issued by order of the judge.\n\n48. A release may also be issued by the registrar, unless there is a caveat outstanding against the release of the property.\n\n(a) On payment into court of the amount claimed, or of the appraised value of the property arrested, or, where cargo is arrested for freight only, of the amount of the freight verified by affidavit.\n\n(b) On one or more bail bonds being filed for the amount claimed, or for the appraised value of the property arrested; and on proof that twenty-four hours' notice of the names and addresses of the sureties has been previously served on the party at whose instance the property has been arrested.\n\n(c) On the application of the party at whose instance the property has been arrested.\n\n(d) On a consent in writing being filed signed by the party at whose instance the property has been arrested.\n\n(e) On discontinuance or dismissal of the action in which the property has been arrested.\n\n49. Where property has been arrested for salvage, the release shall not be issued under the foregoing rule, except on discontinuance or dismissal of the action, until the value of the property arrested has been agreed upon between the parties or determined by the judge.\n\n50. The registrar may refuse to issue a release without the order of the judge.\n\n51. The release shall be prepared in the registry, and shall be signed by the registrar, and issued under the seal of the court. A form of release will be found in the Appendix hereto, No. 20.\n\n52. The release shall be served on the Marshal, either personally, or by leaving it at his office, by the party by whom it is taken out.\n\n53. On service of the release and on payment to the Marshal of all fees due to and charges incurred by him in respect of the arrest and custody of the property, the property shall be at once released from arrest.\n\n## PRELIMINARY ACTS\n\n54. In an action for damage by collision, each party shall, within one week from an appearance being entered, file a Preliminary Act, sealed up, signed by the party, and containing a statement of the following particulars:\n\n(1) The names of the ships which came into collision, and the names of their masters.\n\n(2) The time of the collision.\n\n(3) The place of the collision.\n\n(4) The direction and force of the wind.\n\n(5) The state of the weather.\n\n(6) The state and force of the tide.\n\n(7) The course and speed of the ship when the other was first seen.\n\n(8) The lights, if any, carried by her.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359994, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## DISCONTINUANCE\n\n4. The Plaintiff may, at any time, discontinue his action by filing a notice to that effect, and the Defendant shall thereupon be entitled to have judgment entered for his costs of action on filing a notice to enter the same. The discontinuance of an action by the Plaintiff shall not prejudice any action consolidated therewith or any counterclaim previously set up by the Defendant. Forms of notice of discontinuance and of notice to enter judgment for costs will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 49 and 50.\n\n## CONSENTS\n\n5. Any consent in writing signed by the parties may, by permission of the registrar, be filed, and shall thereupon become an order of court.\n\n## APPEALS\n\n120-127 \n### Rules Relating to Appeals\n\n150. A party desiring to appeal shall, within one month from the date of the decree or order appealed from, file a notice of appeal, and give bail in such sum, not exceeding $300, as the Full Court judges may order, to answer the costs of the appeal. A form of notice of appeal will be found in the Appendix hereto, No. 3.\n\n151. Notwithstanding the filing of the notice of appeal, the decree or order appealed from may be carried into effect, provided that the party in whose favour it has been made gives bail to abide the event of the appeal and to answer the costs thereof, in such sum as the judge may order.\n\n152. An appellant desiring to prosecute his appeal is to cause the registrar to be served with an inhibition and citation, and a monition for process, or is to take such other steps as may be required by the practice of the Appellate Court.\n\n153. On service of the inhibition and citation all proceedings in the action will be stayed.\n\n### Rules for Appeals to the Full Court\n\n123. All appeals to the Full Court shall be brought by notice of motion in a summary way. The notice of motion shall state whether the whole or part only of the judgment or order appealed from is complained of, and in the latter case shall specify such part.\n\n188. The notice of appeal shall be served on all parties directly affected by the appeal, but this court may direct the notice of the appeal to be served on any parties to the action or upon any person not a party, and may postpone the hearing of the appeal on such terms as may seem just and may give such judgment and make such order as might have been given or made if the persons served with notice had been originally parties.\n\n125. The Full Court may, in its discretion, hear the appeal in the aid of one or more assessors, whose fees shall be paid in the first instance by the appellant, unless the Full Court shall otherwise order.\n\n128. The Full Court shall have all powers and duties of the Court as to amendment and otherwise, and full discretionary power to receive further evidence on questions of fact.\n\n124. The Full Court shall have power to give such judgment and make such order as the case may require, or to order a new trial, or to make such order as to the whole or any part of the costs of the proceedings pending the appeal as may seem just.\n\n15. It shall not be necessary for a respondent to give notice of cross-appeal, but if he intends, in the hearing of the appeal, to apply for any variation of the decision of this court, he shall give notice of such intention to any parties who may be affected by such application. The omission to give such notice may be ground for an adjournment of the appeal, or for a special order as to costs.\n\n126. No appeal shall, except by special leave of the Full Court, be brought after the expiration of the time limited for appealing.\n\n127. An appeal shall not operate as a stay of proceedings unless the Full Court shall so order, and any such order may be made upon such terms as the Full Court may direct.\n\n### Taxation and Costs\n\n135. Within one week from the completion of the taxation, application may be made to the judge to review the taxation.\n\n136. Costs may be taxed either by the judge or by the registrar, and as well between solicitor and client as between party and party.\n\n137. If in a taxation between solicitor and client more than one sixth of the bill is struck off, the solicitor shall pay all the costs attending the taxation.\n\n### Appraisement and Sale\n\n138. The judge, either before or after final judgment, may order any property under the arrest of the court to be appraised, or to be sold with or without appraisement, and either by public auction or by private contract.\n\n139. If the property is deteriorating in value, the judge may order it to be sold forthwith.\n\n140. If the property to be sold is of small value, the judge may, if he order it to be sold without a commission of sale being issued.\n\n141. The judge may, either before or after final judgment, order any property under arrest of the court to be removed, or any cargo under arrest on board ship to be discharged.\n\n142. The appraisement, sale, and removal of property, the discharge of cargo, and the demolition and sale of a vessel condemned under any Slave Trade Act, shall be effected under the authority of a commission addressed to the marshal. Forms of commissions of appraisement, sale, appraisement and sale, removal, discharge of cargo, and demolition and sale, will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 42 to 47.\n\n143. The commission shall, as soon as possible after its execution, be filed by the marshal with a return setting forth the manner in which it has been executed.\n\n144. As soon as possible after the execution of a commission of sale, the marshal shall pay into court the gross proceeds of the sale, and shall with the commission file his accounts and vouchers in support thereof.\n\n145. The registrar shall tax the marshal's account, and shall report the amount at which he considers it should be allowed; and any party who is interested in the proceeds may be heard before the registrar on the taxation.\n\n146. Application may be made to the judge on motion to review the registrar's taxation.\n\n147. The judge may, if he thinks fit, order any property under the arrest of the court to be inspected. A form of order for inspection will be found in the Appendix hereto, No. 48.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360018, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## No. 70 SCHEDULE annexed to the foregoing report.\n\n| Item | Claimed | Allowed |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| [Here state as briefly as possible the several items of the claim with the amount claimed and allowed on each item] | | |\n\n&c.\n\n## No. 71 COMMISSION OF APPRAISEMENT\n\nIn the Vice Admiralty Court of **VICTORIA, &c.** \n[Title of Action.]\n\n(L.S.)\n\nTo the marshal of our Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong greeting.\n\nWhereas the judge of our said court has ordered that [state whether ship or cargo, and state name of ship and, if part only of cargo, state what part] shall be appraised.\n\nWe, therefore, hereby command you to reduce into writing an inventory of the said [ship or cargo, &c., as the case may be], and having chosen one or more experienced person or persons, to swear him or them to appraise the same according to the true value thereof, and upon a certificate of such value having been reduced into writing, and signed by yourself and by the appraiser or appraisers, to file the same in the registry of our said court, together with this commission.\n\nGiven at Hong Kong, in our said court, under the seal thereof, this 18 day of ... \n(Signed) \nE.F., Registrar.\n\n## Total $212\n\nWith interest thereon from the 18 day of ... at the rate of ... per cent. per annum until paid, \n(Signed) \nE.F., Registrar.\n\n## No. 42 Rule 149. COMMISSION OF APPRAISEMENT\n\nIn the Vice Admiralty Court of **VICTORIA, &c.** \n[Title of Action.]\n\n## No. 28 Rule 19. COMMISSION OF SALE\n\nIn the Vice-Admiralty Court of **VICTORIA, &c.** \n[Title of Action.]\n\n(L.S.)\n\nTo the marshal of our Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong greeting.\n\nWhereas the judge of our said court has ordered that [state whether ship or cargo and state name of ship, and if part only of cargo, what part] shall be sold.\n\nWe, therefore, hereby command you to reduce into writing an inventory of the said [ship or cargo, or cargo, &c.] as the case may be, and to cause the said ship to be sold by public auction for the highest price that can be obtained for the same.\n\nAnd we further command you, as soon as the sale has been completed, to pay the proceeds arising therefrom into our said court, and to file an account sale signed by you, together with this commission.\n\nGiven at Hong Kong, in our said court, under the seal thereof, this ... day of ... 18... \n(Signed) \nE.F., Registrar. \nCommission of Sale. \nTaken out by ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360019, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 215, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## COMMISSION OF APPRAISEMENT AND SALE\n\n112\nRule 1\nBailiffh\n72\nNo. 429\n\nIn the Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong\n(L.S.)\nAdmiralty Jurisdiction\n[Title of Action]\nVICTORIA, &c.\n\nTo the marshal of our Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong greeting.\n\nWhereas the judge of our said court has ordered that [state whether ship or cargo, and state name of ship, and if part only of cargo, what part] shall be appraised and sold. We, therefore, hereby command you to reduce into writing an inventory of the said [ship or cargo, &c., as the case may be], and having chosen one or more experienced person or persons to swear him or them to appraise the same according to the true value thereof, and when a certificate of such value has been reduced into writing and signed by yourself and by the appraiser or appraisers, to cause the said [ship or cargo, &c., as the case may be] to be sold by public auction for the highest price, not under the appraised value thereof, that can be obtained for the same.\n\nAnd we further command you, as soon as the sale has been completed, to pay the proceeds arising therefrom into our said court, and to file the said certificate of appraisement and an account sale signed by you, together with this commission.\n\nGiven at Hong Kong, in our said court, under the seal thereof, this \nday of \n18.\n\n**Commission of Appraisement and Sale.**\nTaken out by \n(Signed)\nE.F.,\nRegistrar.\n\n73\n\n## COMMISSION OF REMOVAL\n\n213\n30\nNo. D.\nRule \n112\nBailiffh\n\nIn the Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong\nAdmiralty Jurisdiction\n[Title of Action]\n(L.S.)\nVICTORIA, &c.\n\nTo the marshal of our Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong greeting.\n\nWhereas a sum of ... being deposited in the registry of our said court; and whereas a policy of insurance for the said sum has been so deposited. We, therefore, hereby command you to cause the said ship to be removed accordingly. And we further command you, as soon as the removal has been completed, to file a certificate thereof, signed by you, in the said registry, together with this commission.\n\nGiven at Hong Kong, in our said court, under the seal thereof, this \nday of \n18.\n\n**Commission of Removal.**\nTaken out by \n(Signed)\nE.F.,\nRegistrar.\n\n37\nNo. 40.\n\n## COMMISSION FOR DISCHARGE OF CARGO\n\nRule 142.\n\nIn the Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong\nAdmiralty Jurisdiction\n(L.S.)\n[Title of Action]\nVICTORIA, &c.\n\nTo the marshal of our Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong greeting.\n\nWhereas the judge of our said court has ordered that the cargo of the ship ... shall be discharged. We, therefore, hereby command you to discharge the said cargo from on board the said ship, and to put the same into some fit and proper place of deposit. And we further command you, as soon as the discharge of the said cargo has been completed, to file your certificate thereof in the registry of our said court, together with this commission.\n\nGiven at Hong Kong, in our said court, under the seal thereof, this \nday of \n18.\n\n**Commission for Discharge of Cargo.**\nTaken out by \n(Signed)\nE.F.,\nRegistrar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360025, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Decrees in Various Actions\n\n### (5.) Decree in Action for Possession\n\nThe judge having heard, &c., decreed that possession of the property should be given to the Plaintiff, and condemned the Defendant [and his bail] in costs.\n\n### (6.) Decree of Condemnation in a Slave Trade Action\n\nThe judge having heard, &c. [as above], pronounced that the vessel, name unknown [or as the case may be], seized by H.M.S. \"Torch\" on the day of 18, had been at the time of her seizure engaged in or fitted out for the slave trade in contravention of the Treaties existing between Great Britain and [or in violation of the Acts 5 Geo. IV. c. 113, and 36 & 37 Vict. c. 88., or as the case may be], and he condemned the said vessel [together with the slaves, goods, and effects on board thereof] as forfeited to Her Majesty [or condemned the said vessel and slaves as forfeited, &c., but ordered that the cargo should be restored to the claimant, or, as the case may be]. The judge further ordered that the said slaves [or the slaves then surviving], consisting of men, boys, and girls, should be delivered over to [state to whom, or how the slaves are to be disposed of].\n\nIf the vessel has been brought into port, add: payment by the said claimant of the costs incurred by the seizors in this Action; and awarded to the said claimant costs and damages in respect of the detention of the said vessel, and [referred the same to the registrar (assisted by merchants) to report the amount thereof, and directed that all accounts and vouchers with the proofs in support thereof, if any, should be filed within days.\n\n### (7.) Decree of Restitution in a Slave Trade Action\n\nThe judge having heard, &c., pronounced that it had not been proved that the vessel was engaged in or fitted out for the slave trade, and ordered that the said vessel should be restored to the claimant, together with the goods and effects on board thereof; add, as the case may be, but without costs or damages, thereof in lieu of salvage. The judge also directed that the said junk [and her cargo] should be appraised.\n\nIf the junk, &c., has been captured after an engagement with the pirates, and if there is a petition for bounty, add: The judge further declared that the persons attacked or engaged by H.M.S. \"Torch,\" &c. on the occasion of the capture of the said junk were pirates, that the total number of pirates so attacked or engaged was about, that of that number were captured, and that the only vessel engaged was H.M.S. \"Torch\" [or, as the case may be].\n\n### (8.) Decree in Case of Capture from Pirates\n\nThe judge having heard, &c., pronounced that the said junk \"Tecumseh\" [and her cargo] had been at the time of the capture thereof by H.M.S. \"Torch\" the property of pirates, and condemned the same as a droit and perquisite of Her Majesty in Her office of Admiralty; or pronounced that the said junk \"Tecumseh\" [and her cargo] had prior to her re-capture by H.M.S. \"Torch,\" &c. been captured by pirates from the claimant [state name and description of former owner], and he decreed that the same should be restored to the said claimant as the lawful owner thereof.\n\nThe judge further ordered that the tonnage of the vessel should be ascertained by the rule in force for the admeasurement of British vessels, and that the vessel should be broken up, and that the materials thereof should be publicly sold in separate parts, together with her cargo [if any].\n\nIf the vessel has been abandoned or destroyed by the seizors prior to the adjudication, and the court is satisfied that the abandonment or destruction was justifiable, add: The judge further declared that, after full consideration by the court of the circumstances of the case, the seizors had satisfied the court that the abandonment [or destruction] of the vessel was inevitable or otherwise under the circumstances proper and justifiable.\n\n### (9.) Decree of Condemnation under Pacific Islanders Protection Acts\n\nThe judge, having heard, &c., pronounced that the ship had been at the time of her seizure [or during the voyage on which she was met] employed [or fitted out for employment] in violation of the Pacific Islanders Protection Acts, 1872 and 1875, and he condemned the said ship [and her cargo, and all goods and effects found on board, or as the case may be,] as forfeited to Her Majesty.\n\nThe judge further ordered that the said ship [cargo, and the said goods and effects] should be sold by public auction, and that the proceeds should be paid into court.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360027, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## II. TABLES OF FEES TO BE TAKEN BY THE JUDGES, REGISTRARS, MARSHALS, AND PRACTITIONERS, &C. OF THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURTS.\n\n### I - BY THE JUDGE\n\n| Service | Fee |\n| --- | --- |\n| On administering any oath or declaration in Court or in Chambers | £0 5 0 |\n| On examination before him of any witness before trial | £1 0 0 |\n| On any motion in Chambers | £0 10 0 |\n| On any motion in Court | £1 0 0 |\n| On a final decree in an uncontested action | £1 5 0 |\n| On a final decree in a contested action | £1 0 0 to £5 0 0 |\n| On the assessment of damages, or taking of any account, if assessed or taken by the Judge, according to the capital sum involved | ... |\n| On signing or certifying any document | £0 5 0 |\n\n### II - BY THE REGISTRAR\n\n1. For preparing Instruments, &c.\n - For sealing any writ of summons or other document required to be sealed | £0 2 6\n - For preparing any warrant, release, commission, attachment, or other instrument, required to be sealed, or any bail bond | ...\n - For preparing a receivable order or a receipt for money to be paid out of court | ...\n - For preparing and sending any notice | ...\n\n| Service | Fee |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sealing any warrant, release, commission, attachment or other instrument requiring to be sealed (other than a writ of summons or subpoena) | ... |\n| Filing a bail bond | £0 2 6 |\n| Order for reference | £2 2 1 |\n| Filing Preliminary Act... Notice issued by Registrar | £1 0 0 |\n| Bailiff attending unlivery of Cargo (to be paid in cash) | £6 0 0 |\n| Bailiff executing any commission of appraisement, sale or, and sale, exclusive of the fees, if any, paid to the appraiser and auctioneer | £10 0 0 |\n| Bailiff executing any other warrant or attachment | £0 10 0 |\n| On the gross proceeds of any ship or goods resold by order of the Court (to be deducted from the proceeds in Court) If not ... | £0 5 0 |\n| For preparing any other document for every folio | £0 2 0 |\n\n**Note**: The fees for preparing shall include drawing, copying, or engrossing and fair executing.\n\n2. For Filing,\n - On filing any instrument or other document, except minutes and exhibits | £0 5 0\n - For every additional $1000 or part thereof | ...\n\n| Value | Fee |\n| --- | --- |\n| $1000 | £10 0 0 |\n| every additional $1000 or part thereof | £5 0 0, £2 5 0, £10 0 0, $200 |\n\nFor every matter or proceeding not above specified the same fee as is taken in Original Jurisdiction.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360583, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "content_text": "## \n\nspecifico \n\nthese grave irregularities \n\nunder his beads. \n\n(2) The third head requires \n\ncomment. It may \n\nnot be desirable to amend the law and require \n\nsolicitors in Hong Kong to take out an annual certificate but, until that amendment is made, there can be no irregularity on the part of the Registrar, allowing solicitors to practice without taking out such certificates.\n\n(b) With reference to heads (1) and (2) it is satisfactory to find that a duty amounting altogether to $200 has been recovered on two estates the value of which seems to have been understated. As far as I can ascertain, the practice appears to have been to accept the value sworn to by the Petitioner for Probate or Letters of Administration unless there existed reason to disbelieve the affidavit; but I do not know upon what authority Mr. Keppel states that in no single instance has it been found necessary to ascertain the correctness of the value of the estate sworn to. Mr. Ackroyd and Mr. Pollock, who have successively been Registrars for many years past and are now in the Colony, but I think they should have been referred to before Mr. Kemp has committed himself to so broad a statement, especially as, in Mr. Pollock's Minutes of 10th April 1896, he states that having conferred with Mr. Justice Wise he understands from him \"it is not correct to state that the value declared as the value of an estate of a deceased person has been accepted without any inquiry or calculation.\" I am unable to speak from my own knowledge and Mr. Sangster, I believe, for many years deputy Registrar and Appraiser, has left the colony, having retired on his pension.\n\nMr. Siegfried appears to me to be acting wisely in stimulating...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361681, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "page_number": 541, "title": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "content_text": "STKIE TA\n\nColony\n\nHey Kry\n\nR\n\n690 Appts.\n\n73200 96.\n\n23593\n\nRECE\n\nOFFICE OF THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES, NOV 36\n\nDOWNING STREET, LONDON, SW.\n\n12th Nov. 1896.\n\n537\n\nSir,\n\nReferring to your letter of the 8th Octr 1896.\n\n201027\n\n146.\n\nI have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of the Secretary of State, a copy of the Agreement into which we have entered on behalf of the Government of ...\n\nin Hong Kong with Mr. A. D. Hollingworth on his appointment as Expriser/Appraiser (Examiner of ships?) in that Colony.\n\nA passage has been provided for Mr. Hollingworth in the steamship ...\n\nA copy of the Agreement has been forwarded to the Colonial Government.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant,\n\n[Signature]\n\nW...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362200, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "page_number": 425, "title": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "content_text": "419\n\nate means to induce them to make Hong Kong their permanent abode and domicile and to resort to our courts of justice as much as possible.\n\n4. For these and other reasons these three high officials who had much greater and longer experience of Chinese than Mr. Kyshe can boast of, threw cold water on my proposals; later experience convinced me that they were right.\n\nI admit that something may be lost every year by the Treasury in this matter but the amount cannot be large and better that than to sow discontent and distrust among the Chinese Community.\n\n16. With respect to the Commission of appraisement referred to by the Acting Chief Justice, I beg to state that the issue of it is authorized only in certain cases (see section 4 ord: 9 of 1870) I am of opinion that it was not meant to issue when there is an application for probate or for letters of administration; besides I do not see what more the appraiser can do than the Registrar or Deputy Registrar has always done unless Mr. Kyshe wishes to throw all the responsibility upon him.\n\nFor the reasons given above I trust that this commission will be issued only in those cases provided for by law, and will not be used to effect indirectly that which the law has not authorized.\n\nTo conclude my remarks on this point, I would call attention to Sir George Phillippo's report on the Supreme Court dated 1882, this report shows the knowledge which he possessed of the work of the Registry, and in it occurs the following passage:-\n\n\"The accountant would have enough to do, if he had the duty cast upon him of calling for and testifying the veri...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362452, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "page_number": 677, "title": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "content_text": "in Emy body's mouth. It is a simple thing-on\"\n\nThe case eseus time take\n\n857\n\ngui different to sutures, 29.1.96\n\nS\n\n30/1\n\n783\n\nJob\n\n669\n\n33 Sumyside I:ad Ealing. W.\n\n25th January 1896.\n\n41121\n\nSFGL00 JAN 25,\n\nThe Right Honourable The Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies Sir,\n\nI have the honour to\n\nacknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 21st inst., notifying that I am granted a pension of £2560 per annum at 3/8 to the dollar, as Deputy Registrar\n\nand\n\nAppraiser of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, the pension to commence from the 21st inst.\n\nThe object I have, Sir, in addressing you on this matter, is the rate of exchange at which my pension\n\nhas been fixed.\n\nAlmost up to the date\n\nof my leaving Hongkong, in December last, I had always looked upon my pension being allowed at 4s 4d/%", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372754, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 111, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "Office \n\nBOTANICAL & AFFN. DEPT. \n\n1 \n\nSuperintendent \n\nAsst. \n\nDo.. \n\nLEGAL DEPARTMENTS. \n\nSUPREME COURT. \n\n \n HongKong\n Straits Settlements\n \n \n 9,550\n 4,800\n \n \n 1,200\n 2,100\n \n \n Chief Justice\n 12,000\n 18,000\n \n \n Puisne Judge\n 8,400\n 8,400\n \n \n Registrar\n 5,400\n 4,800\n \n \n Deputy Registrar & appraiser\n 4,536\n 3,000\n \n \n Do. & Accountant\n 3,240\n \n \n \n First Clerk of Court\n 1,458\n 1,368\n \n \n Second Do.\n 1,200\n 1,200\n \n \n Interpreter\n 2,592\n 1,200\n \n \n Asst. Do.\n \n \n \n \n Clerk to Registrar\n 2,000\n 780\n \n \n \n 1020 to 1140)\n 1,500\n \n \n Do. & Usher\n 960\n 780\n \n \n First Bailiff & Asst. Usher\n \n \n \n \n Second Do.\n 1,500\n 660\n \n \n \n 1,000\n 360\n \n \n Chinese Clerk & Interpreter\n 840 to 1200\n 540\n \n\nLAND REGISTRY OFFICE. \n\n \n Deputy Land Officer\n J\n 暑\n \n \n Clerk\n 3,840\n 720\n \n \n \n 4,800\n 780\n \n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S DEPT. \n\n \n Attorney General\n 8,400\n 7,800\n \n \n Crown Solicitor\n \n 3,240\n \n \n Attorney General's Clerk\n 720\n 900\n \n \n Crown Solicitor's Clerk\n 720\n \n \n\n108", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372760, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "114\n\nthe Deputy Superintendent of Police,\n\nthe Deputy Registrar and Accountant of\n\nthe Deputy Land Offices\n\nthe Supreme Court, and (on the next\n\nvacancy) the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser\n\nto re-\n\nceive $3600 rising to $4200 by triennial increments of $300;\n\n(d) The Assistant Superintendent of\n\nPolice (for the New Territory), the\n\nAssistant Superintendent of the Gaol,\n\nand the Assistant Postmaster General to\n\nreceive $2400 rising to $3000 by triennial increments of $300.\n\n5. In the Medical Department the\n\nPrincipal Civil Medical Officer may be\n\ngiven $4800 rising to $6,000 by triennial increments of $600;\n\nthe three Assistant Surgeons may be given $3600 rising to $4200 by triennial increments of $300,\n\nthe present allowance to the Assistant Medical", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377570, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "C.O. 25974/38\n\n[Form to be filled in and returned to the Governor for transmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.]\n\nName in full. Arthur Smith.\nDate. August, 1900.\n\nDay and year of birth. 21 March, 1852.\n\nAge last birthday. 48.\n\nPlace of birth. Lanton, Herefordshire. Book parents Armen.\n\nWhether single, married, or a widower. Married.\n\nNumber of Children-Sons. 3, Aged respectively 20, 19, 16. Daughters 2, 18, 11.\n\nWhere educated: St. Paul's College, Hongkong. Professional qualifications, if any; and employment, if any, before entering the public service (subjects).\n\nBarrister-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn. Mercantile Assistant in the firm of Access Bourjan Hiebener & Co., and subsequently for two years in the law firm of Messrs. AAL.PO, TN-Cany. Semiral Offii Assistant at Shrugtong.\n\n## COLONIAL SERVICE.\n\n| Colony | Name of Office | From | To |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Hongkong | Stipendiary Interpreter, | Febry. 1868 | Dec. 1869 |\n| | Clerk, Magistracy | Sept. 1872 | Aug. 1873 |\n| | Chief Clerk Colonial Secretary's Office) and Clerk of Councils. | Sept. 1873 | Febry, 1875 |\n| | Deputy Registrar | Febry. 1875 | Febry, 1881 |\n| | Appraiser of the Probate Court; Commissioner for Oaths; and Commissioner under The Deceased's disporches of properties Ordin | Febry. 1881 | June, 1898 |\n| | Registrar of the Supreme Court | June, 1898 | Free 1895 (date crossed out) |\n\nSalary of present Office $4,536 per Annu.\n\nWhether a house or lodging is provided, or an allowance in lieu thereof No.\n\nAverage of fees, if any, for the last 3 years Nil.\n\n## PROMOTION DESIRED\n\nPolice Magistrate, any other Sundicial or Administrative appointment by preference. Was a member of the Retrenchment Commission, 1894, for any of these appointments.\n\n*Acting appointments are not to be entered here, but may be mentioned on the next page.\n\nIf the officer holds more than one office, full particulars of each must be given.\n\nIf private practice is allowed, the estimated value should be stated.\n\nThe value of a Colonial appointment depends upon so many circumstances besides the salary that the Secretary of State often cannot judge what would be acceptable to an officer. Applicants for promotion should therefore, in their own interests, state as precisely as possible what they desire, either specifying certain appointments, or at least mentioning the Colonies to which they would or would not be willing to go and the amount of salary which they think that they may reasonably expect.\n\nWB & L (1)-94470-250-9-97\n\n[TURN OVER.\n\n## Reserved to enter the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. \n\nXi", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377571, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "39 \n\n[Any further information which may be considered necessary should be written on this page, and not in a separate letter.] \n\nIn addition to the foregoing substantive appointments, I have held the following appointments at the periods stated, viz. in connection with the substantive appointment.\n\nAssessor of Municipal Rates. 1881 to 1882. \nSuperintendent of the Opium Revenue. Aug. 1883 to Febry 1885. \nSuperintendent of Imports and Exports. (Organizing Dept.). \nSecretary to the Board under the Taipingchan Ordinance } June 1887 until the duties were handed over to His Excellency the Governor in 1888. \nSecretary to the Insanitary Properties Commission } 1896. \n\nActing Appointments. \nActing Deputy Land Officer. \nOfficial Receiver in Bankruptcy April, 1895 to Novbr. 1896 \nActing Registrar of the Supreme Court Decbr. 1896. \nOfficial Administrator & Official Trustee. 1898 to Febry, 1900. \nRegistrar of Companies. \n\n2-11-1900.\n\npecuniarily & legal training. languages \nIn addition to a Commercial and legal training, I am conversant with the following languages: \nArmenian - written and oral. \nChinese - Cantonese and Pekinese colloquial \nHindustani - colloquial. \nMalay - colloquial. \nPortuguese - colloquial. \n\nA Seth, \nDeputy Registrar, \nSupreme Court, \nHong Kong.\n\nMy transfer from the Colonial Secretary's Office to the Supreme Court in 1895 did not carry any increase of salary, the salary of the Office of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser being then (with a personal allowance of $600 per Annum) $3840 per Annum. The salary of the Office has since been increased to $3600 rising to $4200 per Annum; but this does not", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380374, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "page_number": 616, "title": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Dear Mr. Myndham\n\nCourt 61, Hongkong, August 1901\n\nI venture to address you in reference to the appointment of Deputy Registrar and Accountant-General, now vacant in this Court, owing to the promotion of Mr. T. Hageland to the magistracy. I have held this acting appointment for 2 1/2 years, and the supernumerary appointment of acting Deputy Registrar and Appraiser for 18 months; and I held both the acting appointments for more than one year without extra pay when the Registrar was absent on leave in 1899. Thus for 4 years I have been familiar with the law and the work in this Registry, in the Judges' Chambers, and in correspondence with the Colonial Secretary and the Courts.\n\nYours truly,\nP. Hanson\nPrivate Secretary\n12/01/19", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382699, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 682, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "Wallt \n\n4,200. $300 Quinquennially the pensionable \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\nAppointment. \n\nClass III \n\nDiv I. conta) brown Solicitor. \n\nResent Incremente Remarks are for Proposed Triennial Remarks \n\nSalary. $ \n\nDeputy Reg. & Appraiser 3,500-4,200 \n\nLd. Accountant \n\nSalary 3/-Dollar \n\nSalary. diesemen to \n\nZ \n\nZ \n\n5740. \n\nOve. \n\n476-555. 540-600 \n\n30. \n\ndo. \n\ndo \n\nde \n\nSecond Master, Queen's College \n\ndo. \n\nds. \n\nds. \n\nds. \n\ndo. \n\nHealth Officer of Port \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo \n\nDupty. Supt. of Police \n\ndo. \n\nFree Quarters \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo \n\nFee Quarters \n\nCode Vety. Surgeon \n\ndo \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\nSecretary Fan. Board. Class II. \n\ndo. \n\n4. \n\nSalary \n\ndo. \n\nLo. \n\ndo. \n\nrecou \n\nSupt. of Cloctore... \n\n3 Executive Engineers \n\n3,000-3,600 \n\ndo. \n\n396-476 440-500 \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\nLe \n\nWest. Crownaster General \n\n396. \n\nde \n\ndo. \n\n3,000. \n\nAsst Harbour Master 3,000-3,600 800 Triennially. \n\n396-476. \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\nDirector of Observatory. \n\nco. \n\ndo. \n\nSupt. Bot & Af. Dept. \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\nBlue Interpreter \n\n3,600 \n\nAsst. Land Officer. \n\n3,600. \n\nClass \n\nFree Quarters \n\nds. \n\ndo. \n\nLo. Free Quarters \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo \n\ndo. \n\n476 \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo \n\nLo. \n\nWest. Marine \n\npud \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\n2,400. \n\nLo. \n\ndo. \n\n2,400-3,000 300 Triennially. \n\n2,700 \n\n2. Rest Supts of Police 2,400-3,000 300 Triennially Free Quarters 317-396 360-470 6. Rest. Engineers. \n\nRincipal Land Surveyor \n\n30. \n\nFree Quarters. \n\ndo. \n\nde. \n\ndo \n\n317 \n\noo. \n\ndo. \n\n317-396. \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\n357. \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\nCluef Asst. Observatory 2,100 2,700 300 Triennially Head Mistress Bel. Pub: School 2,400-3,000 \n\n277-357 \n\ndo. \n\nLo. \n\ndo. \n\n317-396. \n\ndo. \n\nds. \n\n4 Senior Coast Masters. \n\nCoastmaster, Shanghai. \n\nFirst Clerk, Magistracy. 2/60-2,400 to biennially Apothecary & emal yot 2,400-3,000 500 Triennially do. \n\ndo. \n\n3,000 \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\ndo. \n\nFree Quarters \n\n396. \n\nds. \n\nLo. \n\nFree Quarters \n\ndo. \n\n286-317 \n\ndo.. \n\ndo. \n\n1317-396. \n\ndo. \n\ndo \n\ndo. \n\n12/640 \n\n676", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382707, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 690, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "684\n\nClass II.\n\nRegistrar of the\n\nSupreme Court\n\n+ Postmaster General\n\nInspector of Schools\n\n£600, rising to £720 by three triennial increments of £40\n\ndo\n\ndo\n\ndo\n\n+ Second Magistrate\n\nAssistant Colonial Secretary\n\ndo\n\nDeputy Superintendent of Police\n\ndo\n\nClass III.\n\nAssistant Registrar\n\n£420 rising to £540\n\nGeneral\n\n+ Deputy Registrar &\n\nAccountant\n\nby three triennial\n\nincrements of £40\n\ndo\n\n+ Do\n\ndo\n\nAppraiser\n\ndo\n\n+ Secretary to the Sanitary\n\nBoard\n\ndo\n\n+ Assistant Postmaster\n\nGeneral\n\ndo\n\nAssistant Superintendent of Police\n\ndo\n\n+\n\nDo\n\ndo\n\ndo\n\ndo\n\n+(The appointments marked thus are not at\n\npresent held by cadets, but should for the\n\ngenerally given to cadets of any are qualified for them) future be considered or to them.)\n\nI am aware that the majority of the\n\n9.\n\nposts in class III have not, hitherto,\n\nbeen\n\nconsidered to belong to the cadet service.\n\nThey\n\nPage 690\n\nPage 691", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385279, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 519, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "COPY\n\nSir,\n\nA.\n\nEnclosure No. 1 to Despatch No.\n\n2nd July, 1903.\n\n7\n\n280\n\nof the\n\nSupreme Court,\n\nHongkong, 15th July, 1901.\n\n0.\n\n518\n\nOwing to the appointment of Mr. Francis Arthur Hazeland as Second Magistrate, I have the honour to apply for the appointment of Deputy Registrar and Accountant now vacant in the Registry.\n\n2. I have been connected with the Registry in the Acting appointment of Deputy Registrar and Accountant, and Deputy Registrar and Appraiser for a period of nearly 4 years and am intimately acquainted with the work in the Registry in Chambers and in the Courts.\n\n3. I believe during this period I have given every satisfaction to their Honours the Judges, and beg to request that this application may be submitted to them for their remarks before being forwarded for the consideration of His Excellency the Governor.\n\nAs a\n\nJ.M. Norton-Kyshe, Esq.,\n\nRegistrar.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) J.M. Jones,\n\nActing Deputy Registrar and Appraiser,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385282, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 522, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "0.0 P Y.\n\nEnclosure No. 2 to Despatch No. 22 of the\n\n2nd July, 1902.\n\nSupreme Court,\n\nHongkong, June 10th, 1902.\n\n521\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to forward the enclosed minute addressed to me by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, with regard to the vacant office of Deputy Registrar and Accountant.\n\n2. I quite concur in his views that it is most desirable that the post should be filled up without delay.\n\n3. It is not satisfactory to have the duties of the office parcelled out, as at present, among the various clerks in the Registry.\n\n4. The qualifications for such an appointment are a fair acquaintance with law, especially the law and practice of the Supreme Court, and a knowledge of Book-keeping. Though some knowledge of Chinese is an advantage, it does not compare in importance with the experience acquired in legal practice by a man who has served his articles with a Solicitor at home.\n\n5. Mr. Seth, the other Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, is not in such good health as he used to be and if we should lose his really valuable services I am afraid great difficulties would arise with regard to the important work of the Registry of the Supreme Court.\n\n6. It is desirable that any candidate should understand that he would be expected to remain for some years in the post, as it is only by experience that a proper knowledge of his work can be obtained; and when accounts of moneys in trust estates and suits lasting often for years, have to be kept, it is desirable that the officer responsible should have some acquaintance with the history of the proceedings connected with them.\n\n7. I have, therefore, the honour to recommend that the Secretary of State should be asked to send out some suitable Officer from home and that there should be no further delay in making the appointment.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nMajor-General Sir W.J. Gascoigne,\n\nK.C.M.G., Administering the Government.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sgd.) W. Meigh Goodman,\n\nChief Justice.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385767, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "page_number": 372, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "## STERLING SALARY SCHEME,--Continued.\n\n| PRESENT SALARY | PRESENT SALARY AT 3/ THE DOLLAR | PROPOSED SALARY IN STERLING | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | |\n| Increase | Maximum | Increase Triennial | |\n| Maximum | | Maximum | |\n| $ | £ | £ | |\n| | £ | £ | |\n| | $ | | |\n\n### HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPT.,-Contd.\n\n| OFFICE | PRESENT SALARY | PRESENT SALARY AT 3/ THE DOLLAR | PROPOSED SALARY IN STERLING | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | $ | £ | £ | |\n| Light Keeper, Waglan, | | | | |\n| Assistant Light Keeper, Waglan.......... | 1,620 | 243 | 260 | Free quarters. |\n| | 1,560 | 234 | 220 | 10 |\n| | | | 240 | |\n| Second *\" | 1,500 | 225 | 220 | 10 |\n| | | | 240 | |\n| Master of \"Stanley”, | 1,800 | 270 | 200 | 25 |\n| | | | 250 | |\n| Officer in Charge Gunpowder Depôt, | 2,040 | 306 | 240 | 20 |\n| | | | 280 | |\n| Inspector of Junks, | 1,320 | 198 | 168 | 12 |\n| | | | 180 | |\n\n### OBSERVATORY,~- \n\n| OFFICE | PRESENT SALARY | PRESENT SALARY AT 3/ THE DOLLAR | PROPOSED SALARY IN STERLING | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | $ | £ | £ | |\n| Director, | 3,000 | 300 F | | |\n| | 3,600 | 450 | 540 | |\n| | | | 420 | 40 |\n| | | | 540 | Free quarters. |\n| Chief Assistant, | 2,100 | 300 μ | | |\n| | 2,700 | 315 | 405 | |\n| | | | 360 | 30 |\n| | | | 420 | |\n\n### BOTANICAL & AFFORESTATION DEPT., \n\n| OFFICE | PRESENT SALARY | PRESENT SALARY AT 3/ THE DOLLAR | PROPOSED SALARY IN STERLING | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | $ | £ | £ | |\n| Superintendent, | 1,800 | 300 | | |\n| | 2,400 | 270 | 360 | |\n| | | | 270 | 30 |\n| | | | 560 | |\n| Assistant Superintendent, | 3,000 | 30 III | | |\n| | 3,600 | 450 | 540 | |\n| | | | 140 | 30 |\n| | | | 500 | Free quarters. |\n| Assistant for New Territory, | 1,920 | 288 | 270 | 30 |\n| | 1,200 | 180 | 210 | 20 |\n| | | | 28 | |\n| | 360 | | | No house allowance, |\n| | 250 | | | Do. |\n\n## STERLING SALARY SCHEME,-- Continued.\n\n| PRESENT SALARY | PRESENT SALARY AT 3/ THE DOLLAR | PROPOSED SALARY IN STERLING | OFFICE | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | | |\n| Increase | Maximum | Increase Triennial | | |\n| Maximum | | Maximum | | |\n| $ | £ | £ | | |\n| | £ | £ | | |\n\n### LEGAL DEPARTMENTS,— Contd.\n\n| OFFICE | PRESENT SALARY | PRESENT SALARY AT 3/ THE DOLLAR | PROPOSED SALARY IN STERLING | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | $ | £ | £ | |\n| Deputy Registrar and Appraiser,.. | 4,536 | 680/8 | | |\n| | | | 420 | 40 |\n| | | | 540 | 17 |\n| Accountant, | 3,600 | 300 m | | |\n| | 4,200 | 540 | 630 | |\n| | | | 420 | 40 |\n| | | | 540 | |\n| Chief Interpreter, | 3,000 | 540 | | |\n| | | 440 | 30 | |\n| | | 600 | * | Personal Allowance, |\n| | 480 | 72 | | |\n| First Bailiff, | 1,800 | 60 I | | |\n| | 2,100 | 270 | 316 | |\n| | | | 240 | 30 |\n| | | | 300 | |\n| Second ** | | | | |\n| Land Officer, | | | | |\n| Assistant Land Officer, | | | | |\n| Attorney General, | 5,400 | 810 | | |\n| | | 600 | 80 | |\n| | | 780 | | |\n| ·Crown Solicitor,...... | 3,600 | : | | |\n| | | 540 | 440 | 30 |\n| | | 500 | : | |\n| Third Bailiff, | 1,500 | | | |\n| | 4,200 | 630 | 600 | |\n| | | 840 | 60 \" | |\n| | | 1,080 | | |\n| | 1,200 | 126 | 162 | 100 |\n| | | 20 | 140 | Non-pensionable. |\n| | | | | On appointment of a European. |\n\n### EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,——— \n\n| OFFICE | PRESENT SALARY | PRESENT SALARY AT 3/ THE DOLLAR | PROPOSED SALARY IN STERLING | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | $ | £ | £ | |\n| Inspector of Schools,... | 4,800 | 300 III | | |\n| | 5,400 | 720 | 810 | |\n| | | | 600 | 40 |\n| | | | 720 | |\n| Head Mistress, Belilios Public School, | 2,400 | 300 III | | |\n| | 3,000 | 360 | 450 | |\n| | | | 360 | 30 |\n| | | | 480 | |\n| First Assistant, | 1,620 | 240 | | |\n| | 2,100 | 243 | 315 | |\n| | | | 220 | 30 |\n| | | | 280 | |\n| Second | 1,380 | 240 IIL | | |\n| | 1,860 | 207 | 279 | |\n| | | | 180 | 30 |\n| | | | 240 | |\n| Master, Kowloon School, | 360 | 30 | | |\n| | 480 | | | On completion of probation of 3 years at £330 per annum. |\n| Mistress, Kowloon School, | 120 | 20 | | |\n| | 160 | | | On completion of probation of 3 years at £90 per annum. |\n\n[ 5 ] \n369", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385770, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "page_number": 375, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "## STERLING SALARY SCHEME,—Continued\n\n| OFFICE | PROPOSED SALARY IN STERLING | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | Minimum | Increase Triennial | Maximum | |\n| HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPT.,--Contd. | | | | |\n| Light Keeper, Waglan, | £220 | £10 | £240 | |\n| Assistant Light Keeper, Waglan, | £220 | £10 | £240 | |\n| Master of Stanley | £200 | £12 | £... | |\n| Officer in Charge Gunpowder Depôt, | £240 | £... | £... | |\n| Inspector of Junks, | £168 | £12 | £180 | |\n| LEGAL DEPARTMENTS.-Contd. | | | | |\n| Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, | £420 | £40 | £540 | £240 |\n| Accountant, | £420 | £40 | £540 | £240 |\n| Chief Interpreter, | £440 | £30 | £500 | £250 + Personal Allowance, £20 |\n| First Bailiff, | £240 | £30 | £300 | |\n| Second \" | £160 | £20 | £200 | |\n| Land Officer, | £600 | £80 | £780 | |\n| Assistant Land Officer, | £440 | £30 | £500 | Free quarters. |\n| Attorney General, | £1,500 | ... | ... | |\n| Crown Solicitor....... | £600 | ... | ... | |\n| Third Bailiff, | £100 | £20 | £140 | On appointment of a European. |\n| Chief Assistant, | £270 | £30 | £360 | |\n| BOTANICAL & AFFORESTATION DEPT., | | | | |\n| Superintendent, | £440 | £30 | £500 | Free quarters. |\n| Assistant Superintendent, | £270 | £30 | £360 | No house allowance. |\n| EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,---- | | | | |\n| Inspector of Schools,.. | £600 | ... | ... | |\n| Assistant for New Territory, | £210 | £20 | £250 | |\n| Head Mistress, Belilios Public School, | £360 | ... | ... | |\n| First Assistant, | £220 | ... | ... | |\n| Master, Kowloon School, | £360 | £30 | £480 | |\n| Mistress, Kowloon School, | £120 | £10 | £160 | |\n| | | | | On completion of probation of 3 years at £330 per annum. |\n| | | | | On completion of probation of 3 years at £90 per annum. |\n\n[5]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385967, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 10th. October, 1902.\n\n46\n\nSir,\n\nIn continuation of my Despatch No. 429 of the 26th. ultimo, I have the honour to inform you that I am now in receipt of your Despatch No. 276 of the 29th. of last August, appointing Mr. J. W. Jones to be Deputy Registrar and Appraiser of the Supreme Court with effect from the 7th. June, 1901, which is the date on which Mr. Hazeland was confirmed in his appointment of Police Magistrate, and to draw your attention to the fact that a further vacancy in the Staff of Masters at Queen's College is occasioned thereby.\n\n2. In view of the antedating of the appointment of Mr. Jones, the Headmaster of Queen's College has recommended that the promotions in the Senior Grade should be antedated as follows:\n\n| Name | Original Date | Antedated to |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Mr. E. Ralphs | 20th July, 1901 | 7th June, 1901 |\n| Mr. A.W. Grant | 30th October, 1901 | 20th July, 1901 |\n\nbut with effect as regards salary from the 1st. instant only. Dr. Wright also recommends that Mr. Bertram Tanner, Junior Assistant Master, should be promoted to be Senior Assistant Master at a salary of $2,400 with effect as regards salary from the 1st. instant, but that his appointment should be antedated to the 20th. October, 1901. Mr. Jones' long continued acting appointment...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.\n\nC.O. 46388 \nRed 10 NOV 02 \n`C.P.L. 14/1`\n`C.P.L. 15/1`\n`No.452`\nDr Mu \nGoo \n350b8 \nA. C. Doom \nComes \nComme \nHaykay \nC.O. \nHongkong. \nNo. 429 \nNo. 276 \n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present in the original text, hence not included. \nPage 46", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386373, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 453, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "## CLASS III.\n\n* \"Assistant Registrar General, £420 rising to £540 by three triennial increments of £40.\n* \"Deputy Registrar & Appraiser, Ditto.\n* \"Deputy Registrar & Accountant, Ditto.\n* \"Secretary, Sanitary Board, Ditto.\n* \"Assistant Post Master General, Ditto.\n* \"Assistant Superintendent of Police, Ditto.\n\n(The appointments marked thus are not at present held by cadets, but should for the future be generally given to cadets if they are qualified for them).\n\n\"I am aware that the majority of the posts in Class III have not, hitherto, been considered to belong to the cadet service. They are, however, posts which cadets can fairly be called upon to occupy, and the duties of which they will in all probability be qualified to fulfil. On this point Sir Henry Blake, whom I have had the advantage of consulting, is inclined to agree.\n\n\"In future, therefore, a vacancy in one of these posts should preferably be filled by the selection of a cadet, if a cadet can be found who is qualified to hold it.\"\n\nWe would represent that for at least some of the substantive appointments mentioned above, especially that of Deputy Superintendent of Police, cadets of the Colony were fully qualified.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386381, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 461, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "# \n\n457 \n\nOn the retirement of Mr. C. W. Duggan, Secretary of the Sanitary Board, the Governor in Despatch No. 198 of the 30th May, 1901, at the recommendation of the Sanitary Board, advised the appointment of Mr. G. A. Woodcock, Assistant Schoolmaster, Queen's College, to the vacancy: and the Secretary of State approved in Despatch No. 241 of the 19th July, 1901.\n\n## \n\nOn the promotion of Mr. Badeley to be Captain Superintendent of Police, General Gascoigne in Despatch No. 235 of the 31st May, 1902, recommended Mr. Hallifax, Cadet, to be Deputy Superintendent of Police: but the Secretary of State in his telegram dated 18th July, 1902, stated that he had appointed Captain Lyons, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Perak, to this post.\n\n## \n\nOn the promotion of Mr. Hazeland to be 2nd Police Magistrate, General Gascoigne in Despatch No. 280 of the 2nd July, 1902, recommended Mr. Kemp, Cadet, to be Deputy Registrar and Appraiser of the Supreme Court: but the Secretary of State appointed Mr. J. N. Jones, Assistant Schoolmaster at Queen's College, in Despatch No. 276 of the 29th August, 1902.\n\n## \n\nOn the death of Commander T. C. H. Hastings, General Gascoigne, in Despatch No. 154 of the 18th April, 1902, recommended Mr. C. Mcl. Messer, Cadet, for the appointment of Postmaster-General: but the Secretary of State on the recommendation of the Governor of the Straits Settlements, appointed Mr. L. A. M. Johnston, Cadet in the Service of the Straits Settlements, by Despatch No. 184 of the 20th June, 1902.\n\n(Sd.) C. Clementi\n1st December, 1902", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387636, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 389, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "## The O.A.G.'s recommendation, and that his application will be borne in mind\n\nA.F. 4/6 5W/4/6\n\nI ask Sir H. Blath & Sir J. Carrington opinion of him CPL.\n\nfor\n\n4\n\nat once\n\nAcce C. Bank Cossage. 21203 (Red 29 MAY 02/26\n\nThe Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nLondon.\n\nDee Banks. Chester May 1902\n\nmy Lord.\n\nI have the honour to address you with reference to the appointment of Deputy Registrar and Accountant of the Supreme Court, Hongkong, now rendered vacant by the promotion of Mr. J. Hageland to the magistracy in July last.\n\n2. I then applied for the appointment and have received only a formal reply, and the appointment has not yet been filled up. I would therefore beg to inform your Excellency that I passed my final examination for the Bar at Gray's Inn so far back as October 1896 and since September 1897, until 16th April on leave, I have constantly been employed in the Supreme Court either in the capacity of Deputy Registrar and Accountant or as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, and on one occasion, during the absence of Mr. J. W. Norton Kyshe, the Registrar, on leave...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389500, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "page_number": 403, "title": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "content_text": "## STERLING SALARY SCHEME,—Continued.\n\n| OFFICE | PRESENT SALARY | PRESENT SALARY AT 3- THE DOLLAR. | PROPOSED SALARY IN Sterling. | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | |\n| | Increase | Maximum | Increase Triennial | |\n| | Maximum | Maximum | Maximum | |\n| HARBOUR Master's Dept.,—Contd. | | | | |\n| Light Keeper, Waglan, | £1,620 | £1,560 | £1,800 | Free quarters. |\n| | 243 | 234 | 270 | |\n| | 250 | 220 | 200 | |\n| | | 10 | 25 | |\n| | | 240 | 250 | |\n| Assistant Light Keeper, Waglan.. | £1,500 | £1,500 | £2,040 | |\n| | 225 | 225 | 306 | |\n| | 220 | 220 | 240 | |\n| | 10 | 10 | 20 | |\n| | 240 | 240 | 280 | |\n| Second Master of \"Stanley\", | £1,800 | | £1,320 | |\n| | 270 | | 198 | |\n| | 200 | | 168 | |\n| | 25 | | 12 | |\n| | 250 | | 180 | |\n| Officer in Charge Gunpowder Depôt, | £2,040 | | £3,000 | |\n| | 306 | 300 `m\"` | 300 `m\"` | |\n| | 240 | 3.600 | 3.600 | |\n| | 20 | 450 | 450 | |\n| | 280 | 640 | 640 | |\n| Inspector of Junks, | £1,320 | 420 | £2,100 | |\n| | 198 | 40 | 300 `0` | |\n| | 168 | 540 | 2,700 | |\n| | 12 | | 315 `!` | |\n| | 180 | | 405 | |\n| OBSERVATORY.- | | | | |\n| Director, | £3,000 | 360 | £1,800 | |\n| | 300 `m\"` | 30 | 600 | |\n| | 3.600 | 420 | 2,400 | |\n| | 450 | | 370 | |\n| | | | 360 | |\n| Chief Assistant... | £2,100 | 270 | £3,000 | Free quarters. |\n| | 300 `0` | 30 | 300 `J` | |\n| | 2,700 | 420 | 3,600 | |\n| | 315 `!` | | 450 | |\n| | 405 | | 540 | |\n| | 360 | | 440 | |\n| | 30 | | 30 | |\n| | 420 | | 500 | |\n| BOTANICAL & AFFORESTATION DEPT..— | | | | |\n| Superintendent, | £1,920 | 288 | £1,200 | No house allowance. |\n| | 288 | 270 | 180 | |\n| | 270 | | 210 | |\n| | | | 20 | |\n| | | | 38 | |\n| | | | 30 | |\n| | | | 360 | |\n| Assistant Superintendent,... | £1,200 | 250 | | |\n| | | Do. | | |\n| Assistaur for New Territory, | £4.500 | | £4,500 | |\n| | | | 13,500 | |\n| | | | 8,400 | |\n| | | | 4,400 | |\n| | | | 2,025 | |\n| | | | 2,000 | |\n| | | | 1,260 | |\n| | | | 1,300 | |\n| | | | 720 | |\n| | | | RIO | |\n| | | | 60:}) | |\n| | | | 10 | |\n| | | | 720 | |\n| LEGAL DEPARTMENTS, | | | | |\n| Chief Justice.................... | | | | |\n| Puisue Judge. | | | | |\n| Iegistrar. | | | | |\n\n## STERLING SALARY SCHEME,-- Continued,\n\n| OFFICE | PRESENT SALARY | PRESENT SALARY AT 3- THE DOLLAR. | PROPOSED SALARY IN STERLING, | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | |\n| | Increase | Maximum | Increase Triennial | |\n| | 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440 | 500 | |\n| | | 30 | | |\n| Third Bailiff, | £1,500 | £4,200 | | |\n| | | 630 | | |\n| | | 840 | 1,080 | |\n| | | 60 | 126 | |\n| | | | 162 | |\n| | | | 100 | |\n| | | | 20. | |\n| | | | 140 | |\n| EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,- | | | | |\n| Inspector of Schools,... | £4,800 | 300 | £5,400 | |\n| | 300 | 720 | 810 | |\n| | 5,400 | 600 | 600 | |\n| | | 40 | 780 | |\n| Head Mistress, Belilios Public School, | £2,400 | 300 `ur` | £3,000 | |\n| | 300 | 360 | 360 | |\n| | | 450 | 480 | |\n| | | 360 | 30 | |\n| | | 30 | | |\n| First Assistant, | £1,620 | 240 `m` | £2,100 | |\n| | 240 | 248 | 315 | |\n| | | 315 | 220 | |\n| | | 220 | 30 | |\n| | | 30 | 280 | |\n| Second Assistant, | £1,380 | 240 `m` | £1,860 | |\n| | 240 | 207 | 279 | |\n| | | 279 | 180 | |\n| | | 180 | 30 | |\n| | | 30 | 240 | |\n| Master, Kowloon School, | £360 | 30 | £480 | On completion of probation of 8 years at £330 per annum. |\n| Mistress, Kowloon School, | £120 | 20 | £160 | On completion of probation of 3 years at £90 per annum. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389798, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "## 71 \n**M** \nThe Enclosure No: 2.) \n1963. \n3. \n\nI forward also copies of a Supplementary Report by the Commission whom I requested to enquire into the allegation made by Mr. Norton Kyshe that the Chief Justice used Mr. Seth, Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, as his clerk. This reference did not reach the Commission until after they had examined Mr. Norton Kyshe, which accounts for it having been made the subject of a Supplementary Report.\n\nI regret that I am obliged to send the Registrar's voluminous reply in original, but I am unwilling to delay forwarding this whole case for your consideration (and the shortest time in which the reply of Mr. Norton Kyshe could be printed is 10 days) for the following reasons;— \n\nOn the 9th July (that is two days after the incident of the 7th of July in the Chief Justice's Chambers) Mr. Norton Kyshe applied for leave of absence. This I declined to grant him pending settlement of the questions disclosed in the Chief Justice's letter of the 10th July.\n\nOn the 28th August Mr. Norton Kyshe renewed his application, forwarding in support a Medical Certificate, copy of which is enclosed, and asked to be allowed to leave the Colony on the 26th September. With the advice of the Executive Council, I granted this application. Subsequently, on the 9th September, Mr. Norton Kyshe asked to be allowed to postpone his leave in order that the result of the Report of the Commission might be made known before he left the Colony, and I granted his request.\n\nOn the 26th September, a copy of the Report of the Commission was forwarded to Mr. Norton Kyshe for his observations.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389834, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "## \n\n107 \n\nHis apology and not report the matter suggested that I had \"got into trouble\". Mr. Kyshe, as an argument against my reporting, said \"It will do you no good\". I knew perfectly well that friction between two Officers is apt to make the Authorities think they may both be quarrelsome, and I replied, \"I know it will do me no good, but though it is unpleasant and will cause me annoyance, I consider it is my duty to report this matter\". No question of my apologizing entered into my head. I was then the complainant.\n\n11. As to paragraph 11, the disrespect to me was in the presence of Members of the Bar, Solicitors, and the Deputy Registrar. The written apology speaks for itself; that offered the next morning was in the presence of no one but Mr. Kyshe and myself. As regards any apology in the afternoon of the 7th July, when Mr. Kyshe came into my room, I begged him to withdraw as there was some tension of feeling between us, and I told him it would be better not to have any interview that afternoon but to wait till feelings had calmed down.\n\n12. As regards paragraph 12, I should think Mr. Kyshe must have forgotten himself when writing in that strain. The Chief Justice's Clerk (Mr. Xavier) has been acting almost ever since my appointment as \"Deputy Registrar and Accountant\", while Mr. Seth, the other Deputy Registrar, viz:- the \"Deputy Registrar and Appraiser\", has been doing his own work. Mr. Xavier has kept the Books in the Registrar's Office, and I have not even seen him on an average once in three weeks.\n\nMr. Kyshe has had, therefore, a Deputy Registrar as well as an Acting Deputy Registrar, I presume approved by himself, during Mr. Jones' absence, while the Chief Justice has had no clerk. (See Blue Book `J.72` for 1902). I never asked or expected Mr. Kyshe to do any of my work. All I asked him to do was to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389877, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "# COPY\n\nNo.1.\n\n**Supreme Court**, \nJune 10th, 1902, \n150\n\n**To His Excellency**\n\nSir,\n\n1. I have the honour to forward the enclosed Minute addressed to me by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, with regard to the vacant office of Deputy Registrar and Accountant.\n\n2. I quite concur in his views that it is most desirable that the post should be filled up without delay.\n\n3. It is not satisfactory to have the duties of the office parcelled out, as at present, among the various clerks in the Registry.\n\n4. The qualifications for such an appointment are a fair acquaintance with law, especially the law and practice of the Supreme Court, and a knowledge of book-keeping. Though some knowledge of Chinese is an advantage, it does not compare in importance with the experience acquired in legal practice by a man who has served his articles with a Solicitor at home.\n\n5. Mr. Seth, the other Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, is not in such good health as he used to be and if we should lose his really valuable services I am afraid great difficulties would arise with regard to the important work of the Registry of the Supreme Court.\n\n6. It is desirable that any candidate should understand that he would be expected to remain for some years in the post, as it is only by experience that a proper knowledge of his work can be obtained; and when accounts of moneys in trust estates and suits lasting often for years, have to be kept, it is desirable...\n\n**Major General Sir A. J. Gascoigne, K.C.M.G.** \nAdministering the Government.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389938, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "## Observations on the Report\n\nWhen deporting an individual, the Commissioners in para. 3 of the Report state that the department laid down specific duties for each of the officers to perform. There is a conflict of evidence between the Registrar and other witnesses called before me. The Registrar does, in fact, personally perform duties that the Commissioner had done their duty in looking through the Evidence; they would have seen that the Chief Justice says, and rightly so from experience, that it is a matter for the Department, that is myself, as head (see p. 544). In addition, the whole staff was examined in the way they absolutely knew nothing about the subject, and their total ignorance of the matter upon which they had been called to give evidence was plainly evident.\n\nWith regard to paragraph 4, the Deputy Registrar, being also an Appraiser, makes his appraisement and, as Deputy Registrar, he has prepared, as part of his duties, the necessary papers where there is no dispute, and where there is a dispute, he would see that the papers are in order before passing them over.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390031, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 307, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "Observaties \n\nMidence \n\n130 \n\nWidence is therefore false. See c.&. quations 660 and ya. sect. 944. \n\n299 \n\nAla dorsal adunt Man 1.303. \n\n304 \n\nIgents admit Uniquectice mentioned, and thewr I have always hand submitted tome way afflication for Purbati_ Colministration since there hav cary. \n\nThe wwn practiu introdmed way that the minute shoes a attached from the Deperity and appraiser so the Registon who, ther permal santing, should countersigue that winute; this was at the request, Itticiler, of this presen Chiny furten. I state that thaugh my own persmal and most careful supervision Lee (which mm. litt is compelled admit, 8.189) and unprovement carried an Angklung. \n\nassumption of duties ridually I home can ride incremend them remane thungle mat couple and permmal superition; statement wit \n\nWith regard thing partion, then Desertin attending cypre te fendige being responsible", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390047, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 323, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "## Evidence\n\n147 contention that I have devoted any time since I have been in public service anything to uphold \"Seats witted\" your interests of the Statement that I connive at any time when he being received assistance from me whether I ought to grant or cut off (to fix) Purbate on there may have been one way of application to the Robators Administration is accompanied by a minute from my sly thin, the Deputy Register and Appraiser hand as part of this duty first looked with the papers, and I hand being alpiniescend or demise in the papers submitted this Amman. 506 as to my persual supervision of the wate Chief Justica of the Registering, of which he charged gth other with not sufficiently exercising, the Registry.\n\nI reply letter of 18th fully to the statements of Lee panquish 12 ymy the Comical feasting i für William jordenk to the statements that... \n\n19. \n320 \nAn Clay the sen \n... \nAservat hidance Cho \n... \nYou ric hast \n... \nLe connst veeall any W \n... \nthe Administration crefully adds I might remind him thick a to cart \n... \nbeing or themise in the papers \n... \nof the Registing, of which he charged gth other with not ficient exercising, the Registry.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390148, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 424, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "1249\n\nthe Acting Treasurer, it would have been more regular to have asked Mr Thomson if he had first ascertained the correctness of the facts from the responsible officer, me, as the head of the Department, before making such sweeping and groundless charges to the Executive as he has done.\n\n2. As a preliminary, I beg to state that the subject of probate duty is one that I have ever made my personal concern. Indeed, it is one against which office complaints were made on my assumption of duty, and the enormous increase in the revenue since I have been in charge is the direct result of the attention paid by me in that direction.\n\n3. In the estate under consideration, I have no reason to believe that it has been undervalued, and I am confirmed in my belief by the enclosed reports (A) from the Deputy Land Officer and (B) Messrs Wilkinson & Grist, the Solicitors for the Executors.\n\n4. At the time of the filing of the Petition for Probate, Mr Sect, the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, fully investigated the matter (as he invariably does in all cases of Administration) and satisfied himself as far as he was able to, as to the truth of the Petition.\n\n5. It would be interesting to know where Mr Thomson got his information to bring an undoubted fact that \"the Government is cheated in very many, if not all, cases of probate duty paid on Chinese estates.\" He has never been in the Registry of the Supreme Court; he knows absolutely nothing of the working or internal routine of my office, and so far as Acting Collector goes, he has never during the time he has been in the Treasury queried or attempted to query any valuation fixed by my Department.\n\n6. In contradiction of his statement as to the Chinese, I beg to state that there is no class of Asiatics more ready to pay the proper value when such has been ascertained than the Chinese. These people compare most favourably in that respect with Europeans, who I find, especially in Hongkong, are always prepared by subterfuge means to defraud the revenue, and in that respect, they are no worse than our own people in England, where such stringent... \n\nAppendix B-continued \n420 \n5f Oct 15 y 1903, pars \nof Admi \n\"tration) and \nAngered fin Mefiston's letter of Oct. 11 of Probate and Letters \n\n## appears to be a page footer or header with unrelated or garbled text, and is omitted for clarity.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392275, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 294, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "C.C. 292 COPY. Enclosure 12494 TELEGRAM 1. 9 PR 04\n\nFrom the Officer Administering the Government, Hongkong, to the Secretary of State, London, dated 4th June, 1902.\n\nReferring to my telegram of 25th April and yours 9th May Coronation Committee press for early reply to make arrangements necessary in this climate. I should not have accepted responsibility of recommending for your approval and that of Secretary of State for War were I not positive of ultimate approval of both.\n\nCopy enclosed\n\nPage 292\n\nThe list of words \"Fathognomy Arboriform Coronation Committee Legislator Guardship Stagdeer Niobium Climate. irradiancy Armourer Quaternion Absolution Floughboy Farchment Appraises And Samenfach Multiply Ultimate Proemial Appointing Bedmolding Eoth.\" appears to be a jumbled collection likely resulting from OCR misinterpretation of non-textual elements or text in a different layout. As per the instructions, the focus is on correcting the main body of the telegram text rather than reordering or interpreting unrelated or nonsensical text segments. Thus, it has been omitted to maintain the coherence and relevance of the proofread text.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392860, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\nNo 23636\n\nC. O.\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n23636\n\nRES 4 JUL 04\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court recommends the appointment of J.A. Kemp as Dep. Registrar & Appraiser.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nMr Lucas\n\nWBG(73)—13389~10007-11-3\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nKrast\n\n27068\n\nfur settling\n\nhighly spoken of by witnesses \"before the Commission.\n\nwhi man\n\nthese alls\n\n? \n\ntments from 19. mar Small salary pant see take effect. if necessay, from 19.\n\nСајва\n\n23628) See also 23718)\n\nMr Harris 9/7\n\nThis is very well earned promotion\n\nI consider Mr Settle to be a most excellent officer. If you agree, approve, but the date of the\n\nPage 145\n\nMay\n\n1904\n\nPrevious Paper.\n\nNo 23636\n\n(Subject.)\n\n40\n\nRES 4 JUL 04!\n\n...\n\n \n\nRe-formatted to meet the requirements:\n\n# HONG KONG\n\nNo 23636\n\nC. O.\n\n## DESPATCH.\n\n**23636**\n\nRES 4 JUL 04\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court recommends the appointment of J.A. Kemp as Dep. Registrar & Appraiser.\n\n## (Minutes.)\n\nMr Lucas\n\nWBG(73)—13389~10007-11-3\n\nNext subsequent Paper. Krast 27068 fur settling highly spoken of by witnesses \"before the Commission. whi man these alls ? tments from 19. mar Small salary pant see take effect. if necessay, from 19. 23628) See also 23718)\n\nMr Harris 9/7\n\nThis is very well earned promotion I consider Mr Settle to be a most excellent officer. If you agree, approve, but the date of the\n\nPage 145\n\nMay 1904\n\nPrevious Paper.\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested (HTML using for paragraphs), here is the revised version:\n\n# HONG KONG\n\n is not valid HTML, so the closest valid representation is:\nHONG KONG\n\nNo 23636\n\nC. O.\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n23636\n\nRES 4 JUL 04\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court recommends the appointment of J.A. Kemp as Dep. Registrar & Appraiser.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nMr Lucas\n\nWBG(73)—13389~10007-11-3\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nKrast 27068 fur settling highly spoken of by witnesses \"before the Commission.\n\nwhi man these alls ?\n\ntments from 19. mar Small salary pant see take effect. if necessay, from 19.\n\n23628) See also 23718)\n\nMr Harris 9/7\n\nThis is very well earned promotion I consider Mr Settle to be a most excellent officer. If you agree, approve, but the date of the\n\nPage 145\n\nMay 1904\n\nPrevious Paper.\n\nThe final output is:\nHONG KONG\n\nNo 23636\n\nC. O.\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n23636\n\nRES 4 JUL 04\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court recommends the appointment of J.A. Kemp as Dep. Registrar & Appraiser.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nMr Lucas\n\nWBG(73)—13389~10007-11-3\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nKrast 27068 fur settling highly spoken of by witnesses \"before the Commission.\n\nwhi man these alls ?\n\ntments from 19. mar Small salary pant see take effect. if necessay, from 19.\n\n23628) See also 23718)\n\nMr Harris 9/7\n\nThis is very well earned promotion I consider Mr Settle to be a most excellent officer. If you agree, approve, but the date of the\n\nPage 145\n\nMay 1904\n\nPrevious Paper.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392861, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "content_text": "Appointment requires further consideration.\n\nI am inclined to think that while Mr. Kyske is drawing his pay in lieu of pension, the appointment is vacant, it should not be filled in the sense of full pay; but we need not trouble you with this point.\n\nC.No.245.\n\nHongkong.\n\nC.P.L.\n\n6.Jun.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment House,\n\nC.O. C. O.\n\n23636\n\nPr. 41\n\nRec'd 4 JUL 04\n\nHongkong. 4th. June, 1904.\n\nI have the honour to recommend the appointment of Mr. Arathoon Seth, Deputy Registrar and Appraiser since 1895, to succeed Mr. Norton-Kyshe as Registrar of the Supreme Court.\n\n2. Mr. Seth joined the Service of this Colony as far back as 1868 and has held various important posts, which he filled with ability, prior to his appointment to be Deputy Registrar. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1893 and acted as Registrar in 1898 and has been so acting since Mr. Kyshe left the Colony. He is a hardworking Officer who is thoroughly conversant with the duties of the post of Registrar. In addition to his other qualifications, he speaks both Cantonese and Hindustani, which are extremely useful to him in the discharge of his duties.\n\n3. In the event of your making this appointment, I would submit the name of Mr. J. H. Kemp, Passed Cadet, to succeed Mr. Seth as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser. Mr. Kemp was recommended for the post of Deputy Registrar and Accountant in Sir William Gascoigne's Despatch No.280 of the 2nd. July, 1902, to which I beg to refer you. He has been acting...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,\n\netc., etc., etc.\n\n800.\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392864, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "content_text": "Kú Kysle J. H. Kemp\n\nkur Setti\n\nRegistrar.\n\nbar seu\n\nof tur\n\nto succeed\n\nDefauly\n\nAppraiser\n\nYou will have\n\nNo 164 of 2\n\nthe cutes mes\n\nform\n\nmy\n\ndesp:\n\nitu 30 of May\n\nthat, though\n\nVaster hit Kyshe's por retirement\n\nwill date from!\n\nof way, he has\n\nallwood to remain\n\nthe 18th\n\nhem Salay until his fecusi\n\nRegistrars\n\nthe port will not be vailable but for such\n\nund during which the Keyshe is wing half salary.\n\ncomotion of a\n\ncondition Me f? Sell You\n\nKamp that they thick accepté aut saling as\n\nbe represtalit ytte all\n\nhe salary of the porte 44 must for- defrayed from Halgking funds\n\nthe cheque whole of beat the Regntrary salary with not to. available,\n\nern auch deduction (if any) of as referencats the differenen\n\narm. relegand the half salary them half Empi the pension f ho kyse.\n\nit 5 für ally settled;\n\nShmed k hecessay adj certiments J. prom. theat Wit Kyshe's cantuind pension is ud- t equal his Hayking half salar whole full salary Uie differente\n\n2 We under ~ of cause, anghe for the Auvent of this in fixed..\n\n2 3.\n\nThe promotio the furo offic Concerned theref of samed not- take effect until after the payment of half salary to wt/Rigale ceases.\n\nthan Salay the pension to mae the half promforimes the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393226, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "page_number": 407, "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "content_text": "Hor. \n\nNo. \n\n323\n\n904\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo. 33133\n\n(Subject.)\n\nDA5TCH.\n\nC O.\n\n30133\n\nr 23 SEP 04:\n\nMemorial of [who loves\n\nDeputy & Appraiser of the\n\nPrevious Paper.\n\nfor appt as\n\nG\n\nReference Of\n\nin place of Mr Jattemp\n\nJerwards hub\n\nor failing\n\nyobs\n\n~135~30000-73-3\n\nMemorandum Paper!\n\nthat for appt in another Colony: cannot recommend former request\n\nas regards transfer\n\nthe performances of his duty has been satisfactory\n\nfor Fiddes\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nThis Schoolmaster cos\n\nwas\n\nbecause\n\nto act for\n\nalmost this present post\n\nthey\n\nhad allowed him\n\nalmost four years, das. his claims could not be ignored. (see 32068/02.) The post and tharine\n\nhave he\n\nGiven\n\ntheir Kemp.\n\nThe present post\n\nwhich\n\nis one\n\nfor\n\nCadets are given a preference,\n\nregarded Henrybody.\n\ni Kemp is\n\nnor\n\nq\n\nfor more capable person. to afue\n\nlut Jones dans\n\nthat because for special reasons\n\nhe\n\na ce\n\n+\n\n1\n\npreferred ther\n\nKemp, thorefne he must always", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393227, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "page_number": 408, "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "content_text": "For Jones memorial\n\nbo so, is menty\n\nabsurd\n\nin\n\nThe Face of\n\nObjectionable\n\n& I slid h\n\nwhile\n\nNo. 323\n\nHongkong.\n\ninclined to say so,\n\nsquashing\n\nfir\n\nas\n\n!\n\nI. hattinn to reply\n\nhe proposes.\n\nMr Hari's tsee.\n\nof transfer. His salay nor\n\nequivalent to. #540\n\ni\n\nFor Harris\n\nto question\n\nan\n\nis\n\na\n\nyear.\n\nRA\n\n24/9⋅\n\nPr. 27\n\nalonce\n\nAs to transfer. merely say\n\nwill scent caison\n\nit is noted &\n\nxcaria anx\n\nYes. I havinded muni stat\n\nThe chances are\n\nIncall one does not\n\ninforore them by the applicator\n\n] sir,\n\n23636\n\nGoverment House,\n\n33406\n\nBu 27 SEP 04.\n\nHongkong, 22nd August, 1904.\n\nWith reference to your Despatch No.216\n\nof the 13th July, 1904, in which, inter alia,\n\nyou approved of\n\nthe appointment of Mr. J. H. Kemp, Passed Cadet, to succeed\n\nMr. Arathoon Seth as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, I have\n\nthe honour to transmit herewith a letter from Mr. J. W. Lee-Jones,\n\nDeputy Registrar and Accountant, in which he asks for\n\na reconsideration of the appointment of Mr. Kemp to a post to\n\nwhich he considers himself entitled, or, failing that, for a\n\ntransfer to some other post, commensurate with his experience\n\nand attainments in another Colony.\n\nt 1904.\n\n(duplicate)\n\n02\n\n2.\n\nThe circumstances in which Mr. Jones,\n\nthough not a member of the Cadet Service, was given the appointment\n\nhe now holds, which is one of those for which it has been decided\n\nthat Cadet Officers shall be regarded as having special claims,\n\nare set forth in Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No.276 dated the 29th August, 1902.\n\n3.\n\nThe post of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser\n\nis similarly one for Cadet Officers; it carries with it salary\n\non the same scale as that of Deputy Registrar and Accountant\n\nbut the more important legal work falls on the holder of the former office.\n\n4.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,\n\n&C\n\n \nUpon reviewing the provided text and following the instructions for OCR proofreading, here is the corrected version in HTML format as requested:\n\nFor Jones memorial\n\nbo so, is menty absurd in The Face of Objectionable & ... while No. 323 Hongkong. inclined to say so, squashing ... as !\n\nI ... to reply he proposes. 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Lee-Jones, Deputy Registrar and Accountant, in which he asks for a reconsideration of the appointment of Mr. Kemp to a post to which he considers himself entitled, or, failing that, for a transfer to some other post, commensurate with his experience and attainments in another Colony.\n\n(duplicate)\n\n2.\n\nThe circumstances in which Mr. Jones, though not a member of the Cadet Service, was given the appointment he now holds, which is one of those for which it has been decided that Cadet Officers shall be regarded as having special claims, are set forth in Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No.276 dated the 29th August, 1902.\n\n3.\n\nThe post of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser is similarly one for Cadet Officers; it carries with it salary on the same scale as that of Deputy Registrar and Accountant but the more important legal work falls on the holder of the former office.\n\n4.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P., &c\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and to improve the response further:\n\n1. 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I \n\nshould feel obliged to address your Lordship in the \n\nnature of a complaint and also of appeal, but the \n\nrecent appointment of Mr F.H. Kemp, passed Cadet, to be \n\nDeputy Registrar and Appraiser of this Court in the \n\nplace of Mr A. Seth, now Registrar, thus taking prece- \n\ndence over me the Deputy Registrar and Accountant, and \n\ngiving Mr Kemp the higher legal work, has left me no \n\nresource but to appeal to your Lordship and to place \n\nthe facts on which I base my own claims to preferment \n\nbefore you and to ask for your most kindly consider- \n\nation. \n\n2. \n\nThe appointment of Mr Kemp to be Deputy \n\nRegistrar and Appraiser has taken me completely by \n\nTo the Right Honourable, \n\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies, \n\nDowning Street, \n\nLondon. \n\nsurprise\n\nPage 4 (inferred, not directly in the text but following the original format instruction for page numbering) is not directly available; however, the given text does not contain the exact \"Page XX\" format. Thus, it is left as is.\n\nUpon closer inspection, the original text appears to be a scanned letter. 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Seth, now Registrar, thus taking precedence over me the Deputy Registrar and Accountant, and \n\ngiving Mr Kemp the higher legal work, has left me no \n\nresource but to appeal to your Lordship and to place \n\nthe facts on which I base my own claims to preferment \n\nbefore you and to ask for your most kindly consideration. \n\n2. \n\nThe appointment of Mr Kemp to be Deputy \n\nRegistrar and Appraiser has taken me completely by \n\nTo the Right Honourable, \n\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies, \n\nDowning Street, \n\nLondon. \n\nsurprise\n\nCorrected minor errors and reformatted according to the instructions. Note that \"plời\" was corrected to \"place\", \"preced-\" to \"precedence\", and some minor spacing issues were fixed. The text is now in a proper HTML format with paragraph tags.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393231, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "content_text": "N\n\nLOE\n\n*W UBOJ CEtec/2:00 (. \n\n1 mol geliqure\n\n410\n\n-0.8%\n\nSAM\n\nA 180AD Diuos 1 2:aokulata. Inel una sonel\n\nAT B\n\nHUDOO VOCA\n\n20 Jayla eri zero\n\npool to denumit te sinu ert 34t\n\n*\n\nLJMRŠTRODUA one Istraigan\n\ne.‡ JANY DO*l ent not* zavingoo (i.r? zav 1 TAVUOTOK\n\niivetä Su\n\nTelitas\n\nPRO OLFICTWTB T\n\nVINU 206886kog Jaw(18) VOL\n\ncrew odw busla 20 roa\n\n4.00 sngin etdimuats 18veory pha viselged sits at /\n\natow end #tæði of bogi da su bluow priced red sud\n\nca pels Lind Lori soltaicBHOG (BJBB1, 3503)\n\n₫ Lori nohilang betu542\n\n*. \n\nBART 10 alow 233 BAZI CANIA DI ASTɛyo rehaŭ est quizso\n\n„sza pitalvolinaq (eppeixomi legel İstoneų aisti80\n\n-eigen fil 23 1-6,501000 and to s¿reiwona one atunecotq\n\n**\n\nlong and important.\n\n4.\n\nBut with reference to Mr Kemp, for whom I entertain\n\nthe highest respect, I thought that our relative positions had\n\nalready been settled by your Lordship's predecessor the Right\n\nHonourable Joseph Chamberlain appointing me in August 1902 to the\n\noffice of Deputy Registrar and Accountant, in preference to Mr\n\nKemp who was also then a candidate for the office.\n\n5. In view therefore of this selection I thought my status\n\nat least with reference to Mr Kemp, had been indelibly fixed, and\n\nin all that pertained to the Registry - if ever he should come in-\n\nit would be as junior to me.\n\n8. I would venture to remind your Lordship that I have\n\nbeen continuously engaged in the Registry of this Court in either\n\none or other of the Deputyships, and sometimes doing the duties\n\nof both, since 9th September 1897 - a date previous to Mr Kemp's\n\nentry in the Hong Kong Civil Service, and have performed the\n\nduties of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser during the following\n\nperiods :-\n\na. 16th December 1898 to 28th January 1900.\n\nb. 30th May 1900 to\n\n7th April 1902.\n\nc. 16th October 1905 to present time.\n\nAt the present moment I am performing the duties of both Deputies,\n\nand it will be seen that I have acted as Deputy Registrar and\n\nAppraiser", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393232, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "page_number": 413, "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "content_text": "411\n\nAppraiser in the various occasions for more than three and half years.\n\n* NEW **\n\n1. CJ example, now Judge\n\n.7. But if there is any period to which I might call special attention to my work in this Registry is to the period marked, (b) 30th May 1900 to 7th April 1902.-During this period the present Registrar, then Senior Deputy, went to England on sick leave and for nearly 2 years under Mr Norton-Kyshe, recently retired, I did the work of this Registry and received very feeble support.\n\n8. When I entered this Registry in 1897 I had already passed my Bar Final Examination, and was called to the Bar in June 1903. During my tenure of office in this Court, I have gained much experience as a lawyer.\n\n8. While fully recognizing the unique position that Cadets hold in the Hong Kong Civil Service, I have never known a case in which a Cadet, simply because he is a Cadet, in legal appointments has taken precedence to a Barrister-at-law, and I most respectfully submit that the present case, for my reasons already given, is not one that can with justice and reasonable fair treatment to me allow Mr Kemp to step into the Registry as Senior Deputy Registrar, but rather that he should come in as Deputy Registrar and Accountant, thus giving him the best possible training, and with submission, dispensing justice to me,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393233, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "page_number": 414, "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "content_text": "412\n\n-30\n\none set at bar £104 1st enc £2.00) GUDITEv end of regla vaga\n\n60\n\nwikim i no al of ceblog (us et exens 11 Jul\n\n7\n\n.2769%\n\nie toega\n\n.)\n\nA triple nets (Teuselged justa iz erit\n\nTwen tol na əri dole\n\nbuse bula y7jeigen eine 10 dlow med\n\n2\n\nlaez Çijns09%\n\n.loaqua si@sm) Viev\n\nvuteised eins setatma i nert .8\n\n3 of eliac em bae\n\naeciq: 1 Jaucü band di ecillo to euLTO. 42 30770 .9001 &a.\n\na moltikog supine end anmi, gövet、IJI MILA\n\nSUNGIN leven evar i esivreƐ ¡1750 ¿noïgnda ens ni tion stebet\n\nCogsi ni, Jeb#0 # 2) en eauaced vigata jjeba a foldw at ears\n\n*#! ¬ Ïœ−19.211.82 s ut eouebede.\n\nT EAA ETRON SUSPE\n\n21.06.201\n\n1.\n\n4.1\n\n,9680 TDALAny and wast\n\nSaet ona 9010 aug 23 kw\n\n(Jaleel vis CJLİ GOTE OT\n\nPULLA SO.\n\n1.\n\nZA FI SAJo Pijone ed søns 18...ST JUG Tæticişən y$uqet rotmel\n\n•\n\nfuæ vet aldi salvly cunt fast, wonek bne tættelsen („tuge\n\nHOIJELL DR1zneqaso nolcalados nutw bae gataiøst sluie-\n\n1\n\nme, I would ask therefore my Lord, if it be possible, that Mr A Kemp's appointment as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser be reconsidered and that he be appointed Deputy Registrar and Accountant, giving the senior position to me.\n\n10. I feel that the true situation has not been brought fully to your Lordship's notice, or that it has been overlooked, but if on considering my letter your Lordship feels that you cannot make any alteration in the Deputy appointments, I respectfully beg that your Lordship will transfer me to some other legal post, commensurate with my experience and attainments, in another Colony- where I may have an opportunity of serving His Majesty's Colonial Government under happier auspices for I feel that this recent appointment will damage me socially and cast a slur upon my abilities.\n\n11. The present moment my Lord, is a most favourable opportunity of enquiring into my abilities and moral worth, should you think of transfering me elsewhere, and I would respectfully beg to refer your Lordship to Sir John Worrell Carrington- our former Chief Justice, also to Sir William Meigh Goodman our present Chief Justice, and also to Mr Justice Wise, the Puisne Judge, all of whom, so far as I am aware, will be in England", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "page_number": 416, "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nHongkong day\n\nGov\n\nGovernor Sir Matthew Nathan\n\nSir\n\n1.418/10\n\nCollins 18\n\nHong\n\n33133\n\n414\n\n20 Oct 1904\n\nI have the honour\n\nto acknowledge the\n\nreceipt of your teop no\n\nThe Hilden 19/32 resp\n\nno 323 of the\n\n22nd of August forwarding\n\na\n\nletter\n\nfrom Mr IWhitJones\n\nI WHEE\n\nasking that he\n\nmay\n\nbe appointed to the post of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser\n\nof\n\nthe Supreme Court Hongkong in place of Mr Krump, or failing", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395986, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "content_text": "## \n| Position | Salary Scale |\n| --- | --- |\n| Assessor of Rates | $4,200 - $800 triennially or $540 + $800 by $30 |\n| Assistant Registrar-General | $3,600 - $4,200 by $800 triennially or $420 + $540 by $40 |\n| Deputy Registrar and Appraiser | $3,600 - $4,200 by $800 triennially or $420 + $540 by $40 |\n| Secretary to Sanitary Board and Accountant | $8,600 or $440 + $500 by $80 |\n| Assistant Land Officer, New Ter. | $8,600 or $440 + $500 by $80 |\n| Assistant Postmaster-General | $8,000 or $420 + $540 by $40 |\n| Assistant Superintendent of Police | $2,400 or $420 + $540 by $40, then $3,000 by $200 triennially |\n| Assistant Secretary, Sanitary Board | $360 - $450 by $30 triennially |\n\n63 \nC.O. 5686 \nRrd 22 FEB 05 \nCLASS III.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404976, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "content_text": "## \n\n167 \n\nOrdinance passed on the 23rd May, which has since been embodied \nin Section 349 of the Code of Civil Procedure (No. 3 of 1901).\n\nIn 1894 the Chief Justice's Clerk did not apparently attend the Chief Justice in Court, and one of the recommendations of the Committee appointed in that year to enquire into the Expenditure of the Colony, which Committee was presided over by the Acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Ackroyd), was that the Chief Justice's Clerk should take the place in Court of a Deputy Registrar, and that one of the two appointments as Deputy Registrar should be abolished. The same Committee, on information furnished by their Chairman that the Puisne Judge's Clerk beyond now and then copying out Judgments had little or nothing to do when the Judge was not sitting in Summary Jurisdiction, advised that he should attend in the Registry when required and assist in the work there. At the instance of Sir Fielding Clarke, no effect was given to the above recommendations except as regards the Puisne Judge's Clerk, and from the time Sir John Carrington became Chief Justice in 1896, the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser attended the Chief Justice in Chambers in place of the Chief Justice's Clerk. From evidence given by Sir William Goodman before the Commission that enquired in 1903 into the work of Supreme Court Registry, it would appear that while the Registrar was present in Court and a Deputy Registrar was attending the Chief Justice both in Court and in Chambers, the Chief Justice's Clerk was mainly employed in the Registry.\n\nI am not aware how the duties of the various members of the Supreme Court are at present allotted, but as Your Honour has informed me of your entire concurrence in the recommendations of the Retrenchment Committee of 1894 that only one Deputy Registrar would be necessary, provided the Chief Justice's Clerk attended the Chief Justice in Court as well as in Chambers.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409065, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "IN Council\n\nI am directed to inform you that the Governor has approved the terms of the going ...\n\nEtter and others on behalf of ... reason for interference\n\nPM 24/5\n\nare\n\nAnd that acting appointments are entirely within the Governor's discretion\n\nCPL\n\n25\n\nonce\n\nat one\n\nNo.\n\n96.\n\nHongkong.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nCO 17747\n\n7 MAY 07 Government House,\n\n127 Hongkong, 18th April, 1907.\n\nI have the honour to transmit a Memorial addressed to Your Lordship by Mr. J. W. Lee-Jones, Deputy Registrar and Accountant in the Supreme Court, on the subject of the appointment of Mr. J. H. Kemp, Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, to act as Registrar of the Supreme Court and as Official Trustee and Official Receiver in Bankruptcy during the absence on leave of Mr. A. Seth, Registrar of the Supreme Court, and of Mr. G. H. Wakeman, Land Officer and Official Trustee and Receiver in Bankruptcy.\n\nIn this connection I beg to refer Your Lordship to the Despatches noted in the margin.\n\n2.\n\nMr. Wakeman left the Colony before Mr. Seth and Mr. Kemp was appointed to act as Official Trustee and Receiver at the suggestion of the Registrar of the Supreme Court and of the Judges.\n\nTo the Secretary of State\n\nTo Gov.\n\nNo. 323 of 22nd August 1906,\n\nNo. 299 of 20th October, 1906.\n\nTo THE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G., &c., &c.\n\n3.\n\nWhen Mr. Seth went on leave I had ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409066, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "? \n\nonclosure 2. \n\n128 \n\nhad no hesitation in selecting Mr. Kemp for the appointment \n\nof Registrar seeing that of the two Deputy Registrars he is \n\nthe more capable. Thereupon Mr. Lee-Jones addressed a \n\nletter to the Colonial Secretary in which on the score of \n\nlength of service and on other grounds similar to those \n\nrecited in his Memorial, he insisted on a prior claim to \n\nthe appointment. To this letter the Colonial Secretary by \n\nmy direction wrote the reply of which I enclose a copy. \n\n4. \n\nI have since the above arrangements were made appointed Mr. C. D. Melbourne, First \n\nClerk at the Magistracy, to act in Mr. Kemp's substantive \n\nappointment as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser and I have \n\nconfidence that with this extra assistance Mr. Kemp will \n\nbe able to discharge the duties of the responsible posts \n\nto which he has been appointed to the satisfaction of the \n\nGovernment and of the public. \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nMy Lord, \n\nYour Lordship's most obedient, \n\nhumble servant, \n\nM[ir]lutan \n\nGovernor, &C.. \n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409067, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "Enclosure 1.\n\n129\n\nSupreme Court, Hongkong,\n\n12 April 1907.\n\nThe Right Honourable Lord Elgin\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nLondon.\n\n[RECD MAY 07]\n\nMy Lord,\n\nAs I have the great misfortune to differ with the Hong Kong Government on the recent appointments of Mr. J.H. Kemp Passed Cadet and Deputy Registrar and Appraiser of this Court, to be acting Registrar and also Official Receiver in Bankruptcy when I think I have strong preferential claims I have the honour, though with great reluctance, to appeal to your Lordship on the subject.\n\n2. In putting forward my aspect of the case I may say that I have been in the service of this Colony for upwards of 22 years, that I am 47 years of age, a Barrister-at-law, and a man with a grown-up family dependent upon me.\n\nMr. J. H. Kemp is a passed Cadet, 32 years of age. He entered the service in November 1899 and was appointed Deputy Registrar and Appraiser on 1st August 1904. Early in 1905 he proceeded to England on vacation leave and then passed the bar final examination, resuming his duties in this Registry in July 1906. I must point out therefore that Mr. Kemp's actual work in this Registry has not been a very extensive one in point of time, nor is he a barrister-at-law or likely to become one for some few years. His sole claim therefore to preferment lies in the fact that he is a Cadet and I am not. On the other hand, I am a barrister-at-law of extensive experience in this Registry, and he is not, and the appointment, over which the difficulty arises, i.e. the Registrarship is a legal appointment of some prominence.\n\n3. In September 1897, having already passed the bar final examination in 1896, I was appointed Acting Deputy Registrar and Accountant of this Court and in August 1902 was appointed to the substantive post with effect from June 1901.\n\nPage 130\n\n...\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409068, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "130\n\n4. When I applied for the post of Deputy Registrar and Accountant in 1901 Mr. Kemp was, so far as I am aware, my only competitor. The Secretary of State, Chamberlain, in his despatch of 29th August 1902, settling the appointment expressed himself as follows:-\n\n\"As the post is one of those, for which it has been decided that Cadet Officers shall be regarded as having preferential claims, I should, in the absence of special circumstances, have had no hesitation in approving the appointment of Mr. Kemp, but, as matters stand, I consider it to be impossible without great hardship to disregard the claims of Mr. J. W. Jones who has held the acting appointment for so long and is reported to have performed the duties of the office satisfactorily. I have therefore come to the conclusion that the latter Officer should be appointed and have informed him accordingly.\"\n\nUnder the circumstances, therefore, I consider that my seniority and claims, so far as Mr. Kemp is concerned in this Registry, were settled once and for ever by Secretary of State Chamberlain, and any future attempt to place Mr. Kemp before or above me at any further time is unjust. Such has now been done and whether rightly or wrongly I labour now under a deep-rooted sense of grievance and injustice, which has greatly affected my health.\n\n5. In 1904, various changes took place in this Registry. Mr. Norton Kyshe retired and Mr. Seth, the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, was appointed Registrar, while Mr. Kemp was appointed Deputy Registrar and Appraiser.\n\nFor this latter appointment, I was not a candidate, but on hearing of Mr. Kemp's appointment to the post, I wrote to Mr. Secretary of State Lyttleton on the subject, as I considered that, having for years been junior to Mr. Seth and having had the most laborious work in this Registry, I was fairly entitled to take up the more congenial work of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser. I wrote with very little hope of success, the substantive appointment having been already made, and I was not therefore surprised to be subsequently informed that no changes could be made.\n\n6. With reference to the two offices of the Deputy...\n\n(2) Av", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409069, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "131\n\nthis Court I respectfully submit that they are on terms of equality in so much as the salary of both offices are the same and that these Officers rank in seniority accordance to the date of their first appointment to either.\n\nThe offices were established by the Supreme Court Ordinance No.1 of 1873, and I need go no further back than 1884 to establish the fact that the Deputy Registrar and Accountant was senior to the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser and continued so for eleven years.\n\nA reference to the Blue Books of this Colony will show that Mr. Barff, the Deputy Registrar and Accountant was appointed in January 1883 and Mr. Sangster the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser was appointed in February of the same year; thus Mr. Barff's seniority was established by the priority of appointment of one month; a fortiori I am the senior Deputy because I was appointed on 7th June 1901 and Mr. J. H. Kemp not until 1st August 1904.\n\n7. There has been no break in the continuity of these respective offices, since to have effected which, after the officers were once appointed, the Supreme Court Ordinance of 1873 would have to be amended.\n\n8. The appointment of Mr. Seth to be Deputy Registrar and Appraiser on 27th June 1895 at an enhanced pay over Mr. Hazeland, appointed Deputy Registrar and Accountant on 1st January 1896, did not make of itself the office of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser superior or senior to that of the Deputy Registrar and Accountant for there were certain personal considerations with reference to Mr. Seth that necessitated he should, in justice, draw a higher pay than his predecessor or otherwise he would doubtless have declined the office.\n\nPrevious to occupying the appointment of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser Mr. Seth held two offices, i.e. Chief clerk in the Colonial Secretary's office and also clerk of councils. These two appointments gave him in the aggregate $338 per mensem.\n\nThe Government having thought it desirable to make some changes, Mr. Seth was appointed to the Registry and on his accepting the Court\n\n(3)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409070, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 136, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "132\n\nappointment the $398 per mensem was continued to him.\n\nOn Mr. Kemp's appointment the salary of the office reverted to the old standard; i.e. the same as that of the Deputy Registrar and Accountant.\n\nIf however anything is to be made out of this point on salary then I am senior in this sense for at present I draw $25 per month more than Mr. Kemp and in June next will draw $50 per month more than he in his substantive appointment.\n\n9. Nor can it be said that the work of the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser is in any way superior to that of the Deputy Registrar and Accountant for Secretary of State Sir Michael Hicks Beach in discussing the staff of this Registry on 30th October 1879 as to whether an additional accountant was necessary inter alia thus expresses himself:-\n\n\"I propose that the staff should only consist of the Registrar and the two Deputy Registrars, one of whom should make the accounts of the Court and the Bankruptcy and intestate valuations and similar matters his special business, though he should be ready to take up such other duties as he may be called upon to perform; while the second should be in lieu of the present clerk of the Court.\"\n\nConditions have slightly changed since 1879 but the fact remains that His Excellency speaks of my office first and speaks of the appraiser Deputy Registrar and Accountant in lieu of the present clerk of the Court.\n\nI do not wish however to lay much weight upon this point except to bring to your Lordship's mind the fact that the duties of the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser are not superior, and never were, to those of the Deputy Registrar and Accountant; nor has the office its origin from a higher plane. Therefore in no sense can it be considered the superior office.\n\n10. Your Lordship is aware that Cadets have a preferential claim to certain appointments, if they are qualified to fill them. Among these appointments are those of the Registrar, the Deputy Registrar and Accountant and the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser.\n\n(4)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409071, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "133\n\nFirstly, I submit that as the regulations with reference to these appointments being Cadet appointments came into force long after I entered the Registry; which I did in September 1897, Such regulations could not affect me as I consider such regulations could only point to the future and not to the past. I had in fact already acquired a vested interest.\n\nSecondly, I submit that when Mr. Kemp was appointed Deputy Registrar and Appraiser in 1904 he had then his preferential claim satisfied, insomuch as he was appointed in preference to Mr. Melbourne, barrister-at-law and a recent addition to the service. In fact Mr. Kemp was already the senior to Mr. Melbourne, having entered the service in November 1898 while Mr. Melbourne only entered the service in May 1900.\n\nThirdly, I submit that when Mr. Kemp was appointed Deputy Registrar and Appraiser he entered the ranks of professional men, and that he fully realized this position by going Home almost immediately to read for the Bar, to which he is not yet called: that at present he is only a law student, and that it would be unreasonable and unjust to appoint an unqualified man over a more experienced and qualified one in a legal appointment.\n\nFourthly, I submit that when I entered the service 22 years ago there were very few Cadets in this Colony and up to the present moment the appointment of Registrar has always been held by an old servant of the Government, that therefore the augmentation of the Cadet service was not to upset the existing system but gradually to fill up the gap and caused by retirement or death of the older servants, that the older servants still remaining have the preference to be filled by a barrister-at-law of experience that their qualifications most faithful service entitles them to.\n\nFifthly, I submit that the appointment of Registrar should be the invariable rience,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409073, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "135 \n\nThe Registrar communicated to Mr. Gibbons—a former holder of the office—on taking up his appointment and dated 23rd January \n138 \n\"The Registrar requires to possess a general knowledge of the practice of the Courts and of Mercantile and Commercial business with a sufficient acquaintance of accounts and book-keeping &c\" \nTo these qualifications should now be added a competent and thorough knowledge of company law and the administration of estates, as the Registrar is now Registrar of Companies and Official Administrator of intestate estates and Official Trustee under the Trustee's Ordinance.\n\nI question, therefore, whether the Colony possesses a Cadet holding all these qualifications, and I am prepared to say that no man, however clever and able he may be, could acquire such a knowledge in less than 12 months, even though possessing legal training.\n\nIf the Government still thinks it necessary to desire these qualifications, which are undoubtedly necessary, they can only be found at the present moment outside the Cadet ranks.\n\n## 12. With reference to Mr. Kemp's appointment as Acting Official Receiver and Official Trustee in Bankruptcy, which is not one of the preferential offices open to Cadets, I have very little to say except that the appointment was not made on the merits, or at least the merits were not considered.\n\nThe Registrar was asked officially if one of the deputies could be spared to fill the Acting appointment, and at the same time, it was privately conveyed to him, or he was given to understand, that Mr. Kemp was desired, for so he himself informed me—and, as he had no choice in the matter, he accordingly, with the assent of their Honours the Judges, recommended Mr. Kemp.\n\nAs Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, there could be no legal objection to this appointment, but as to the appointment of the Registrar to the offices, I am afraid that the whole tenor of the Bankruptcy Ordinance No.7 of 1891 is opposed to the appointment. Will your Lordship kindly compare Section 62 Subsection 2.—The Trustee's accounts examined and audited by the Registrar—and #", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409074, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "136\n\nM\n\nagain Section 80 Subsection 1\n\nthe Official Trustee paid to the Registrar of the Court.\n\nunclaimed funds in the hands of\n\nW\n\nI should like to say that at the time when Mr. Kemp was recommended for the acting appointment of Official Receiver and Trustee in Bankruptcy, the Registrar was himself in fairly good health and had no idea, at that time, of proceeding to England.\n\n13. Finally, my Lord, can I ask whether I have any special claims on your kind consideration, for it is an invidious task to write such a letter as this, which is extremely distasteful to me,\n\nand only written as a last resort, but I should like to call your Lordship's attention to the fact that in 1900, while acting as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, I was struck by the ease with which Probate duty was avoided, the probate law in this Colony not then being up to date with the Home Act. I was therefore the initiative force to conform the local law to the Home Acts by which gifts made inter vivos and within 12 months of death became subject to probate duty vide\n\n\"The Hongkong Stamp Ordinance No.16 of 1901 Section 18.\n\nWith reference to my qualifications as a lawyer on company law, I would beg to mention to your Lordship that for the convenience of the public I have, only so recently as January last, published my book on the Hongkong Company Ordinance, - a work urgently wanted - and which is, I hope, destined to become the text book and guide for all those interested in Company affairs in the Far East.\n\nAs your Lordship will perceive, this unfortunate difference has arisen through the Cadet system, which, in my humble opinion, is being pressed too far and hard upon me, one of the oldest servants, and I am all the more anxious to obtain an expression of your Lordship's opinion as Mr. Seth, the Registrar, left the Colony in very feeble health and may retire on pension in the very near future.\n\nand it I have endeavoured impartially to state my case, it may be that if all the facts stated in this letter were known to His Excellency the Governor, my appeal to your Lordship might not", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409077, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "8E1 \n\n.7900 \n\n139 \n\nYORK, vesundel tos socÀPHON \n\nwal to andd491 700y cử tpinnefer \n\n6021,oue ele pc „Jsunú svetont .sendelsen edd cu teckenbus \n\nOniriu \n\nduda „976 wo er rolvant livro poonspor ndo ni quisoines quoy to \n\nsad boy week ca Plusretne i owel . 3o jede \n\ntoregen be \n\nsiti ma ai coiv98d chlapy cãy to \n\nPOUMONOTO Do atato lo vulncing secili s \n\n,025,esncl-sai. \n\n4. When I applied for the post of Deputy Registrar and Accountant in 1901 Mr. Kemp was, as far as I am aware, my only competitor, and Secretary of State Chamberlain in his despatch of 29th August 1902 settling the appointment expressed himself as follows:- \"As the post is one of those, for which it has been decided that Cadet Officers shall be regarded as having preferential claims, I should, in the absence of special circumstances, have had no hesitation in approving the appointment of Mr. Kemp, but, as matters stand, I consider it to be impossible without great hardship to disregard the claims of Mr. J. W. Jones who has held the acting appointment for so long and is reported to have performed the duties of the office satisfactorily. I have therefore come to \n\nthe conclusion that the latter officer should be appointed and \n\nhave informed him accordingly.\" \n\nUnder the circumstances therefore, I consider that my seniority \n\nand claims, as far as Mr. Kemp is concerned in this Registry, \n\nsettled ones and for ever by Secretary of State Chamberlain and an \n\nattempt to place Mr. Kemp before or above me at any further time \n\nunjust, such has now been done and whether rightly or wrongly I \n\nlabour now under a deep rooted sense of grievance and injustice; \n\nmisfortune has greatly affected my health. \n\n5. In 1904 various changes took place in this Registry, Mr. Merton \n\nKayao retired and Mr. Both the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser was \n\nappointed Registrar, while Mr. Kemp was appointed Deputy Registrar \n\nand Appraiser. \n\nFor this later appointment I was not a candidate but on hearing \n\nof Mr. Kemp's appointment to the post I wrote to Mr. Secretary \n\nof State Lyttleton on the subject as I considered, having for years \n\nbeen junior to Mr. Both, had the most laborious work in this Registry \n\nI was fairly entitled to take up the more congenial work of Deputy \n\nRegistrar and Appraiser. I wrote with very little hope of success, \n\nthe substantive appointment having been already made and I was \n\nnot therefore surprised to be subsequently informed that no \n\nchanges could be made. \n\n6. With reference to the status of the Deputy Registrars in \n\n(2)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409078, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "2\n\n140\n\nthis Court I respectfully submit that they are on terms of equality;\n\nin so much as the salary of both offices are the same and that\n\nthese Officers rank in seniority accordance to the date of their\n\nfirst appointment de facto.\n\nThe offices were established by the Supreme Court Ordinance\n\n30.1 of 1873, and I need go no further back than 1884 to establish\n\nthe fact that the Deputy Registrar and Accountant was senior to\n\nthe Deputy Registrar and Appraiser and continued so for eleven\n\nyears.\n\n#\n\nA reference to the nine Files of this Colony will show that Mr\n\nBarff, the Deputy Registrar and Accountant was appointed in Janu-\n\nary 1883 and Mr. Sangster the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser was\n\nappointed in February of the same year; thus Mr. Barff's seniority\n\nwas established by the priority of appointment of one month;\n\na fortiori I am the senior Deputy because I was appointed on 7th\n\nJune 1901 and Mr. J. R. Kemp not until 1st August 1904.\n\n7. There has been no break in the continuity of these respective\n\noffices, since they have existed which, after the officers were once\n\nappointed the Supreme Court Ordinance of 1873 would have to be\n\namended.\n\n8. The appointment of Mr. Bath to be Deputy Registrar and Apprais-\n\ner on 27th June 1898 at an enhanced pay over Mr. Fenwick, ap-\n\npointed Deputy Registrar and Accountant on 1st January 1896, did\n\nnot make of itself the office of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser\n\nsuperior or senior to that of the Deputy Registrar and Accountant\n\nfor there were certain personal considerations with reference to\n\nMr. Bath that necessitated he should, in justice, draw a higher\n\npay than his predecessor or otherwise he would doubtless have de-\n\nclined the office.\n\nPrevious to occupying the appointment of Deputy Registrar Appraiser Mr. Bath held two offices, i.e. Chief Clerk in the\n\nColonial Secretary's office and also Clerk of Councils. These appointments gave him in the aggregate $498 per month.\n\nThe Government having thought it desirable to make some changes Mr. Bath was appointed to the Registry and on his accepting the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409079, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "Y\n\n141\n\nappointment the $378 per mensem was continued to him.\n\nOn Mr. Kemp's appointment the salary of the office reverted to the old standard, the same as that of the Deputy Registrar and Accountant.\n\nIf however anything is to be made out of this point on salary then I am senior in this sense for at present I draw $28 per month more than Mr. Kemp and in June next will draw $50 per month more than he in his substantive appointment.\n\n9. Nor can it be said that the work of the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser is in any way superior to that of the Deputy Registrar and Accountant for Secretary of State Sir Michael Hicks Beach in discussing the staff of this Registry on 30th October 1879 as to whether an additional accountant was necessary inter alia then expresses himself;\n\n\"I propose that the staff should only consist of the Registrar and the two Deputy Registrars, one of whom should make the Court and the Bankruptcy and intestate valuations and similar matters his special business, though he should be ready to take up such other duties as he may be called upon to perform, while the second should be in lieu of the present clerk of the Court.\"\n\nConditions have slightly changed since 1879 but the fact remains that His Excellency speaks of my office first and speaks of the Appraiser or Deputy Registrar and Accountant in lieu of the present clerk of the Court.\n\nI do not wish however to lay much weight upon this point except to bring to your Lordship's mind the fact that the duties of the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser are not superior, and never were, to those of the Deputy Registrar and Accountant; nor has the office its origin from a higher plane. Therefore in no sense can it be considered the superior office.\n\n10. Your Lordship is aware that Cadets have a preferential claim to certain appointments, if they are qualified to fill them, among these appointments are those of the Registrar, the Deputy Registrar and Accountant and the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser.\n\n5", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409080, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 146, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "Firstly, I submit that no regulations with reference to these appointments being Cadet appointments should interfere — long after I entered the Registry; which I did in September 1897. Such regulations could only point to the future and not to the past. I had in fact already acquired a vested interest.\n\nSecondly, I submit that when Mr. Kemp was appointed Deputy Registrar and Appraiser in 1904 he had then his preferential claim satisfied, inasmuch as he was appointed in preference to Mr. Melbourne, Barrister-at-Law and an addition to the service. In fact Mr. Kemp was already the senior to Mr. Melbourne, having entered the service in November 1898 while Mr. Melbourne only entered the service in May 1900.\n\nThirdly, I submit that when Mr. Kemp was appointed Deputy Registrar and Appraiser he entered the ranks of professional men, and that he fully realised this position by going home almost immediately to read for the Bar, to which he is not yet admitted; that at present he is only a law student, and that it would be unreasonable and unjust to appoint an unqualified man over a more experienced and qualified one in a legal appointment.\n\nFourthly, I submit that when I entered the service 22 years ago there were very few Cadets in this Colony and up to the present moment the appointment of Registrar has always been held by an old servant of the Government, that therefore the augmentation of the Cadet service was not to upset the existing system but gradually to fill up the gaps caused by retirement or death of the elder servants, and that the elder servants still remaining have the preference that their qualifications and most faithful service entitle them.\n\nFifthly, I submit that the appointment of Registrar should be filled by a Barrister-at-Law of experience, the invariable...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409082, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "144\n\n9))\n\nRegistrar communicated to Mr. Gibbens - former holder of the office, on taking up his appointment and dated 23rd January 1886:\n\n# The Registrar requires to possess a general knowledge of the practice of the Courts and of mercantile and Commercial business with a sufficient acquaintance of accounts and book-keeping.\n\nDo these qualifications should now be added, a competent and thorough knowledge of company law and the administration of estates, as the Registrar is now Registrar of Companies and official Administrator of intestate estates and official Trustees under the Trustee's Ordinance.\n\nI question therefore whether the Colony possesses a Cadet holding all these qualifications, and I am prepared to say that however clever and able he may be, could acquire such a knowledge in less than 12 months even though possessing legal training.\n\nIf the Government still thinks it necessary to desire these qualifications which are undoubtedly necessary, they can only be found at the present moment, outside the Cadet ranks.\n\n13. With reference to Mr. Kemp's appointment as Acting Official Receiver and official Trustee in Bankruptcy, which is not one of the preferential offices open to Cadets, I have very little to say except that the appointment was not made on the merits, or at least the merits were not considered.\n\nThe Registrar was asked officially if one of the officers could be spared to fill the Acting appointment, and at the same time it was privately conveyed to him, or he was given to understand, that Mr. Kemp was desired, for so he himself informed me - and, as he had no choice in the matter, he accordingly with the assent of their Honours the Judges, recommended Mr. Kemp.\n\nAs Deputy Registrar and Appraiser there could be no legal objection to this appointment, but as to the appointment of the Registrar to the offices I am afraid that the whole tenor of the Bankruptcy ordinance No. 7 of 1891 is opposed to the appointment. Will your Lordship kindly compare Section 62 Subsection 2. The Trustee's accounts examined and audited by the Registrar - and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409083, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 149, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "145\n\nagain destion 80 Subsection\n\nnelaimed funds in the hands of\n\nofficial Trustee paid to the Registrar of the court.\n\nI should like to say that at the time when Mr. Kemp was recommended for the setting appointment of Official Receiver and Trustee in Bankruptcy, the Registrar was himself in fairly good health and had no idea, at that time, of proceeding to England.\n\n13. Finally, my Lord, can I make whether I have any special claims on your kind consideration, for it is an invidious task to write such a letter as this, which is extremely distasteful to me, and only written as a last resort, but I should like to call your Lordship's attention to the fact that in 1900, while acting as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, I was struck by the same with which Probate duty was avoided, the probate law in this Colony not then being up to date of the Home Act. I was therefore the initiative force to conform the local law to the Home Acts by which gifts made \"inter vivos\" and within 12 months death became subject to probate duty - vide The Hongkong Stamp Ordinance No.16 of 1901 Section 18.\n\nWith reference to my qualifications as a lawyer on company law I would beg to mention to your Lordship that for the convenience of the public I have, only so recently as January, last published my book on the Hongkong Company Ordinance, a work urgently wanted and which is, I hope, destined to become the text book and guide for all those interested in company affairs in the Far East.\n\nAs your Lordship will perceive, this unfortunate difference has arisen through the Cadet system, which, in my humble opinion is being pressed too far and hard upon me, one of the oldest servants, and I am all the more anxious to obtain an expression of your Lordship's opinion as Mr. Beth, the Registrar, left the Colony in very feeble health and may retire on pension in the very near future.\n\nI have endeavoured impartially to state my case, and I may be that if all the facts stated in this letter were known His Excellency the Governor my appeal to your Lordship might not...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409496, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 562, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "(K14)\n\nRETURN of OFFICES who have given Security for the due Discharge of their Duties,\n\n(K15)\n\nprepared at the Annual Inspection of Securities, held on 7th February, 1907,--Continued.\n\n \n Name of Officer giving Security.\n Exact Titles of all Appointments (either permanent or temporary) now held by him.\n Nature of the Security given.\n Names, Addresses, and Occupations of the Sureties in each Bond.\n Title of Office in respect of which the Bond is given.\n Date of Bond.\n Amount of Bond.\n \n \n HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPT.- Continued.\n \n \n \n Master of Lighthouse Tender \"Stanley\"\n Guarantee Bond by the Commercial Union Assurance Company.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk,\n \n B. B. Harker, Architect: A. V. Apcar of Messrs. A. V. Apcar and Company.\n \n \n \n \n \n E. F. Casey.\n \n Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n A. C. Botelho, A. P. Guterres,\n \n 22nd March, 1906.\n 500\n \n \n \n First Clerk, (Mercantile Marine Office),\n \n So Get Tai, Shroff and Clerk, Trang Shi Keng, Shroff (Shipping Office),\n \n 26th June, 1906.\n 1,000\n \n \n \n \n \n A. G. Romane, Merchant; J. J. Leiria, Merchant.\n \n 11th June, 1905.\n 260\n \n \n \n \n \n 3. M. Franco; Joseph D'Encarnação.\n \n 9th May, 1906.\n 500\n \n \n \n \n \n Chan Pin of No. 2 Water Street, Owner of Latrines; Lan Cheong, Master of the Cheong Shing shop No. 15 Jubilee Street.\n \n 26th August, 1903.\n 500\n \n \n \n \n \n Chan Sau Ling, Landlord of Honghom Inland Lot No. 132; Leong Ah Woon, Landlady of Section B of the remaining portion of Inland Lot No. 110,\n \n 6th October, 1906.\n 1,000\n \n \n Lan Fuk Ki.\n Interpreter, Shamshuipo,\n Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n \n \n 5th May, 1905.\n 1,500\n \n \n \n \n \n Kwong Yan Po, Interpreter, Hunghom,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wong Shane nam shroff transfores forge Dept.\n \n \n \n \n \n JUDICIAL AND LEGAL DEPT.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SUPREME COURT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n Chan Yau, Owner of the You Li Paper Ware's shop No. 18 Station Street, Yaumati Wong Wan Ju; Owner of the Yu Châu Groce's shop No. 26 Station St., Yaumati,\n \n 6th January, 1903.\n 100\n \n \n \n \n \n Hung Shing Tong. Master of the Size Lung shop No. 40 Wellington Street; Lang Hin, Master of Hung Yuen Tai shop No. 89 Connaught Road.\n \n 14th May, 1906.\n 100\n \n \n J. W. Jones,\n Deputy Registrar and Appraiser,\n Personal Bond with one Surety, jointly and severally.\n Sir C. P. Chater, K.C.S.G.; Dr. George P. Jordan.\n \n 29th April, 1903.\n 5,000\n \n \n J. H. Kemp,\n Deputy Registrar and Accountant,\n Guarantee Bond by the Commercial Union Assurance Company.\n W. G. Humphreys.\n \n \n \n \n \n A. W. Mill.\n Usher,\n Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n Poon Yu But, a partner in the Tak Cheong Tailor, No. 50 and 52 Queen's Road Central; Leung Fei Cooke, Coal Contractor, No. 32 Connaught Road.\n \n 4th October, 1897.\n 5,000\n \n \n Frederick Howell,\n Bailiff and Assistant Usher,\n \n Chan A-fook, Compradore; Chan A-foo, Shopkeeper at Stanley.\n \n 1st August, 1906.\n 250\n \n \n Joseph Leonard Jum...\n Second Brit...\n \n Mok Koon Yak, Compradore to Butterfield & Swire; Mok Mau Chung, Assistant Compradore to Butterfield & Swire.\n \n 15th November, 1905.\n 1,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5th June, 1890.\n 500\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15th December, 1902.\n \n \n\n556", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409643, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 709, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "Lost Colonial Treasurer \n\nA. Dollar Salary: $6,000 - $600 - $7,200. £795 \n\nSorting Officer \n\nRegistrar-General \n\n1955 \n\n£200 - £97 - £1,000 £500 - £100 - £1,000. \n\nPrevent Sterling Secretary I & Event Sterling \n\nRegistrar, Supreme Court. \n\nInspector of Schools. \n\nRegistrar-General \n\nFirst Magistrate \n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police \n\nPostmaster-General. \n\ndo. $4,000-$300 - $5400 \n\n£715 £720 - £810 £600 - £40 - £720. \n\ndo. \n\nDeputy Registrar and Appraiser. $3,600 - $300 - $4,200 \n\ndo. \n\nSecond Magistrate \n\nAssistant Colonial Secretary; \n\nDeputy Superintendent of Police $3,600 - $300 - $4,200 \n\nAssistant Registrar-General. \n\nDeputy Registrar and Accountant \n\nSecretary, Sanitary Board. \n\nAssistant Postmaster-General. \n\nAssistant Superintendent of Police $2,400 - $80 - $800 £317 — £396. \n\nAssistant Land Officer, New Territories. $3,600 \n\nNew Post $3,600 \n\n£540-£45 - £630 \n\n£540-£30 - £600 \n\n£450 \n\nPage 702\n\nThe text appears to be a list of colonial officials with their salaries. 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I am the more willing to meet the wish of Sir F. Piggott in this matter, because it is not improbable that this point has been raised before now in other Colonies and that Your Lordship will be in a position to refer to precedents of which I am not cognizant.\n\n2. The correspondence was initiated by Sir F. Piggott on the 29th of last February in connection with the transfer of Mr. J. H. Kemp from his post as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser of the Supreme Court to act as Police Magistrate, this transfer having been made necessary by the absence of Mr. Justice Wise on leave and the consequent...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \nTHE EARL OF CREWE \n&C. &C. &C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414635, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 546, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 2.\n\n542\n\nH. Kemp, whose record of service as set out in the Hongkong Civil Service List I have the honour to enclose. Mr. Kemp held the post of Assistant Secretary to the Sanitary Board from the 11th January, 1904, until the 1st of August in the same year, when he was appointed Deputy Registrar and Appraiser of the Supreme Court, a position which he now holds. Mr. Kemp is, in my opinion, well qualified for the post of Head of the Sanitary Department, in which his legal training would be of great service, and I confidently recommend him to Your Lordship.\n\n5.\n\nTo succeed Mr. Kemp as Deputy Registrar, I submit to Your Lordship the name of Mr. J. R. ... Wood, Assistant Land Officer for the Southern District of the New Territories, who has studied law while on leave in England and is now acting as Second Police Magistrate with success; while to succeed Mr. Wood as Assistant Land Officer, I recommend Mr. G. N. Orme, Passed Cadet with nearly seven years' service, who is well qualified as he has already acted in that capacity. I enclose the record of both Officers as given in the Hongkong Civil Service List.\n\n6.\n\nAs my recommendation that Mr. Wood should take the place of Mr. Kemp involves a change in the Staff of the Supreme Court, I am consulting the Chief Justice.\n\n## Enclosures\n\n475.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414640, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 551, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 3\n\nJoseph Horsford Kemp, B.A., Cape Univ. Born 23rd December, 1874.\n\nDeputy Registrar and Appraiser, Supreme Court, $3,600 to $4,200.\n\n1898, Nov. 17. Appointed Cadet.\n\n1898, Dec. 25. Arrived in Colony. Attached to Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\n1899, Jan. to July. Stationed in New Territories, in connection with Land Office work.\n\n1899, July. Registrar, Land Court.\n\n1900, May 26. Acting Second Police Magistrate.\n\n1900, Nov. 28. Secretary, Squatters' Board. Continued to act also as 2nd Police Magistrate.\n\n1902, June 11. Passed Cadet.\n\n1902, Sept. 4. At Canton studying Chinese.\n\n1902, Dec. 11. Ceased to be Secretary to the Squatters' Board.\n\n1904, Jan. 11. Assistant Secretary, Sanitary Board.\n\n1904, March 30. Acting 2nd Police Magistrate.\n\n1904, Aug. 1. Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, Supreme Court.\n\n1904, Sept. 4. Acting 1st Police Magistrate.\n\n1904, Oct. 10. Acting 2nd Police Magistrate.\n\n1904, Oct. 27. Assumed duty as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser.\n\n1905, Mar 16. Acting 2nd Police Magistrate.\n\n1905, July 13. On half-pay leave.\n\n1906, July 18. Resumed duty on return from leave.\n\n1907, March 14. Acting Registrar, Supreme Court, &c.\n\n1907, April 2. Acting Official Receiver in Bankruptcy.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414927, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 216, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 2nd November, 1908.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Honour's letter of the 26th ult. on the subject of the proposed transfer of Mr. Kemp to the Sanitary Department and of the appointment of Mr. Wood to be Deputy Registrar and Appraiser.\n\n2. I am not aware of any authority for the statement that Mr. Kemp is designated as the successor of Mr. Seth. I refrain from comment upon the reflections on Mr. Seth contained in your letter, since the question of that Officer's character and conduct form the subject of a separate correspondence, which has been referred to the Secretary of State and in which I recorded my own opinion very fully.\n\n3. I regret that I am unable to fall in with your view that the Registry should be separated from the ordinary Service. Consequently, I feel unable to stand in the way of Mr. Kemp's promotion and I have accordingly recommended him for the appointment of Head of the Sanitary Department should it become vacant.\n\n4. I am also unable to support Mr. Lee-Jones's application to succeed Mr. Kemp, because the post of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser is one of those to which Officers of the Cadet class have a prior claim, and the claims of Mr. Wood are therefore superior. Moreover, Mr. Wood is an Officer of ability whom I can confidently recommend for the appointment, and I have submitted his name to the Secretary of State.\n\n5. I shall, however, send a copy of your letter under reply and of my answer to it to Lord Crewe.\n\nI have etc., \n**(sd.) F. D. Lugard,** \nGovernor, &c.\n\nThe Chief Justice. \n\n## Enclosure \n3 \n45092 \n212 \n9 008 \n**tong£4.9 .¶ (.ba)** \n.oltau, telɗ9 \nsir, \n1.038 even I", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418861, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 439, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "To arrange for him to succeed Seth.\n\nNa be be helfed post of Deputy Registran Cadets have M. to the 6 appraiser Inferential\n\nAccording to 154,06 you Lee Jones. Land 436 unable in filling app Brough (vacant) app= go dait this is conclus a 'preferent' Cadet with necessity 6- app if there a bilker man available. By the for Sons. suggest kit I for tumo proti the saday to which claim.\n\nx Consequently have to say I Think Rat shall * love Carefully cnsidered his The Sys has application, but regrets That ha hax been wishes meet M. up the Seth's retirement. If so I approve the several made tells That Mr. me has Cantmere / for are B this desp. Samk tant Why he wor\n\nIt w be difficult & go behind the hors recommendations, and I Kuns resson for doing so. ? Affrore his proposals Sie Hopwood 10/5 Isaw In Lee Jones & I must say he impressed L I think it is rey forrmably. to pass sey recommendations (12. Grayson Hageland knowledge mam and 8 almost uneque that his judgments almost always well received) Mr Fiddes I' agree. Eght 7/5. Log English-hir der-Jones and apped to his present pot breause furs it.\n\nBlake had let him act- so long long that be but it was hard & send him back to his proper job- that go School manter Str. has he called to the Bar, & tot Kemp has not but the latter has passed all the exams barrister because of the obstructiveness of the suns gland. who, insist on his eating all the statata munter. bad tumors at 6 o'clock.\n\nHein by hard the for- does not even mention him. He is affareoty & cond persona frate to the CT be adraicably qualifies bying experienc She like to ask the from his reason, to succeed I felt. I for not mentioning heim afon hem by panie Very HB2 1075 well 11.5 at mee", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418862, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 440, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "263077---\n\nMr Cox\n\nI have spoken to you about this matter, but I fear you have not fully apprehended the circumstances. It was assumed that everybody was familiar with the troublesome little person.\n\nThe facts are these: Mr de Saussey was promoted to succeed Mr Hazeland, Deputy Registrar & Accountant, in 1902, on the recommendation of Sir W. J. Gascoigne, that he should be succeeded by a Cadet of good reputation & considerable legal knowledge.\n\nMr de Saussey discovered that Mr Dee-Jones, a schoolmaster's brother, had been allowed to act for four years as Deputy Registrar & Appraiser, a position regarded as higher, & the holder usually acts for the Registrar.\n\nWhen Mr de Saussey was promoted to Registrar, on the retirement of Mr Eastern Dreyfus, I recommended Mr Kemp, then Second Police Magistrate, who had shown considerable aptitude for legal work.\n\nI recommended him with confidence, saying \"Mr Kemp is an officer of much greater natural ability than Mr W. Lee Jones, and therefore more fitted for the appointment.\" This proposal was approved, though with great reluctance on everybody's part, as Mr Jones had been preferred for the post.\n\nIt was decided that Mr Jones must be removed from the post, although it was one for which cadets had a preferential claim. At the same time, it was pointed out that the promotion of Mr de Saussey had brought the matter to notice.\n\nThe next step was the appointment of Mr Kemp as Deputy Registrar & Appraiser in 1907, to succeed Mr de Saussey.\n\nThis post and that held by Mr Jones were on the same scale of salary, but the arrangement was protested against by a memorial, and the Government saw no objection to the arrangement.\n\nThe next stage was in 1907, when Mr Jones protested against Mr Kemp's acting as Registrar in Mr de Saussey's absence, on the ground that he was the senior officer.\n\nHe was told brutally that in the Public Service, length of service in a particular branch was not considered, and that the officer's priority was determined by his seniority in the service.\n\nPage 437\n\nW. & S. Ltd.—18679—6000--10-07.\n\n-1979-6000-4-08.\n\n33137/57.\n\n32068/02\n\n17747/7\n\n23636\n\n33133/64.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418863, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "the officer when considered both fitted for office and used any particular appointment. (The sops this letter) Six months' probation in his despatch\n\nCarrying\n\nthe protest said that he had no hesitation in recommending Kemp\n\nD\n\nnext but Jones claim to rank next after the Registrar, when Kemp was transferred to the Harbour Department.\n\nLamitan\n\nWord was appointed to succeed him as appraiser.\n\nDeputy Registrar\n\nthe foregoing would not agree saying that her Wood's claims were superior both to Kemp and Jones.\n\nthe Sgs endorsed his\n\nJones' claims have thereby been recognized\n\nSeveral times\n\nNor was Kemp inferior to those of Wood & Jones; this is doubtless the reason why the former did not think it worth while to mention Kemp, Woo cared not to prefer him to Kemp without upsetting half a dozen previous decisions.\n\nThe C\n\nfears that\n\nhe is persona grata with\n\nis set off by\n\nthe fact that the C. J. asserts that the appointment of Kemp will be hailed with great satisfaction.\n\nShe is a most capable officer\n\nW. & S. L.-16679-6000-10-07.\n\n53\n\n-1979-8000-4-08.\n\nis well acquainted with the work of the\n\n457092/08.\n\n14332/09\n\noffice gave general satisfaction when he acted in Bette's absence\"\n\nI understand that these were the various considerations had converted you\n\n+ 3 sub- drafts. of the dept\n\nR.8.5.\n\n12 15°\n\nI asked Stubbs to speak to him (or about this)\n\nJever man\n\nChevr\n\nMint mir meinte\n\ninis affectusion written wunder\n\nBr. 13\n\nI am much obliged to Stubbs\n\n& I agree that there is no case for Mundel Jones\n\n? Apporre the or hospersals\n\nLoro few.\n\n4B2\n\n375\n\nYes, has. Lee Jones\n\nAw. in disposed of.. For\n\nI agree\n\n= 14.V\n\napproval..\n\nFlex\n\n14.5", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418865, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 443, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "440\n\n3.\n\nA further vacancy on the legal side of the Service will shortly be occasioned by the retirement on pension of Mr. A. Seth, I.S.O., Registrar of the Supreme Court, after nearly forty years' most faithful service. To this post I would recommend Mr. J. H. Kemp, Head of the Sanitary Department.\n\n4.\n\nMr. Kemp, who has passed with distinction the Bar Examinations and will shortly be called, is a Cadet and he has spent practically the whole of the last six years of his service as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser and as Acting Registrar and Acting Police Magistrate. He is fully qualified for the appointment, and his legal training will render his services of greater value at the Registry than in his present post, the duties of which he has not yet assumed.\n\n5.\n\nTo succeed Mr. Kemp at the Sanitary Department I have to recommend Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Assistant Registrar-General, who after Mr. Hallifax is the most senior of the Cadets holding third-class appointments. Mr. Hallifax does not wish to be considered a candidate.\n\n6.\n\nTo the post of Assistant Registrar-General I propose the appointment of Mr. R. O. Hutchison, who", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418866, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 444, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "441 who is the senior of the two Passed Cadets.\n\n7.\n\nIf the promotion of Mr. Hazeland is approved the post of Second Police Magistrate will be thereby rendered vacant. To this appointment I have to recommend Mr. J. R. Wood, Deputy Registrar and Appraiser.\n\nMr. Hallifax does not desire to be recommended for the post, and Mr. Wood is the next Cadet in order of seniority after Mr. Wolfe. He is at present acting as Second Magistrate and he has proved himself most capable in the appointment.\n\nI propose that it should be made a condition of his promotion that he should pass at an early date the Law Examination specified at page 156 of the Hongkong Civil Service List for 1909 as giving Cadets a preferential claim to the appointment of Police Magistrate.\n\n8.\n\nMr. Wood's promotion will render vacant the post of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser for which I have to recommend Mr. G. N. Orme, Assistant Land Officer for the New Territories. Mr. Orme is reading for the Bar and has passed one examination. He has been attached to the Registry for a brief period and he has acted successfully as Second Magistrate.\n\n9.\n\nMr. D. W. Tratman has acted for the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418870, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 448, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "Deportment.\n\nhur R.O. Hutchison 6\n\nh. Assistant Registrar funeral.\n\nur J. R. Wood to be\n\nSecond Police magistrate\n\nMurg. N. Orme th.\n\nAsst Land Officer for\n\n10\n\nDeputy Registrar &\n\nAppraiser\n\nmr D. W. Tratman &\n\nb. Asst Land officer for the New Territories,\n\nShay. A\n\nIng\n\nJ. W. Lee. Jones Eng\n\nR.S.L. 10/4\n\nhitudes 13\n\nhir Cox. 1\n\nTylic\n\nIM.5\n\nthe rz\n\nquae\n\nR.\n\nD.\n\nC.\n\n17 349.\n\nI am\n\n445\n\nto ack\n\nrupt gzr letter\n\nŠ\n\ntu\n\no may in\n\nwhich you apply for the\n\nappt g Registrar g\n\nthe Supreme Court of Hong Kong which will\n\nshortly become vacant\n\nowing\n\nto the retirement\n\nof Mr. A. Selt. J. So.\n\nLord (run\n\ndesires me\n\nhe has\n\nThat\n\ngiven careful\n\nconsideration kymme\n\nrepresentations hit that", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419768, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 314, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "that is the duties I D.O.\n\nI \n\nA.D.O. an identical \n\nthere sel\n\nfr\n\nSufficient of reason\n\ntrans \"My Roos my addition\n\nThis salary In the period during which he act as\n\nDist. Offer only.\n\nthenfure that\n\nin the respect\n\nI am unable to approve ge Proposal\n\nGovernor. No.\n\n227\n\n1909\n\n6 Any\"\"\n\nHONG KONG\n\n29726\n\n397\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nC.O £9720 1\n\nUP & SEP\n\nActing allowance for In G. A. Woodcock\n\nLast Previous Paper actung Left Refer accountant\n\nRecommends that quarter of lapsing s\n\nAuse 197\n\n10 may\n\n168----A. & E. W.-20009/27--- 25000-11-08.\n\next subsequent Paper\n\n75 - 5 - 8/274760\n\npay of the afft be\n\nMr. Stable.\n\nprouted to him.\n\nIt is not a\n\n1/8 of the par\n\n? appevord\n\nhur Collins\n\nvery large\n\nmount\n\na. I think it might be\n\nof\n\nR&\n\nThe poition is very badly\n\nexplained.\n\nor alpease th\n\nthis. Borte the Deputy Registras\n\naccta\n\nthe or Registrar &appraiser\n\nOne of then\n\nabsent. One\n\nare about.\n\no the other\n\nis\n\n& suppose.\n\nacting somewhere slse.\n\nbeau\n\nfur melboune is doing the work", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419769, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 315, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "4\n\n7\n\n2 D.R.& Appraiser in\n\naddit in this om\n\nwork\n\nClock in\n\nthe magistrany.\n\nClif\n\nNo.227\n\nHongkong.\n\nfor Woodwork. Sect of the Saintay\n\nBrand, is acting\n\naccountant,\n\nD.R. D\n\nBut the salay of the posta\n\nthe 5. B. & that\n\nof sect of to\n\nof D.R. Accantant are the\n\nSaund\n\nget inne\n\nIf there is\n\non the face of it really no\n\nwhy but Woodcock shr\n\nthau\n\nthe two t\n\nsalaries (= his sulatantul salay.).\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI assume havorar\n\nfrom the\n\nof the words\n\n'additional\n\nwork'\n\nthat what his 7.2 is\n\ntrying to explain in\n\nfur melbruna has to do his om work he can't do all the work\n\nframtrendy\n\nis that\n\n30 JR.\n\nthe mila\n\nvanally done\n\nhas the me\n\nAppraiser\n\nthe D.R.\n\notherne\n\nof this is so with him! Robião\n\nAA\n\nSame\n\nfor woodwork.\n\no agre\n\n919.\n\nAn mu je ala\n\nC.0\n\n29726 !\n\nLEGO O SEP 20\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 6th. August, 1909.\n\nI have the honour to transmit for\n\nYour Lordship's favourable consideration the enclosed copy\n\nof a minute by the Registrar, Supreme Court, dated the 1st.\n\ninstant and to endorse his recommendation that Mr. G. A.\n\nWoodwook, who is acting as Deputy Registrar and Accountant,\n\nshould be permitted to draw one-quarter of the lapsing\n\nhalf-pay of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser.\n\n2.\n\nUpon the promotion of Mr. J. R.\n\nWood from the Registry of the Supreme Court to the\n\nMagistracy, which was approved in Your Lordship's Despatch\n\nNo. 88 of the 17th. of last May, it was found that no\n\nOfficer was available who could devote his whole time to\n\ndischarging the duties of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser.\n\nI, therefore, arranged with the concurrence of the Chief\n\nJustice that Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, the Chief Clark at\n\nthe Magistracy, should discharge those duties in addition\n\nRIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF CRITVE,\n\n¿C...\n\n800.\n\n8cc. 1\n\nto", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419770, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 316, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "303 to his own. Such an arrangement had been made once before and though it is not entirely satisfactory, it was in the present case unavoidable, and must continue until Mr. Leo-Jones returns from leave.\n\n3. Mr. Melbourne draws, under Colonial Office Rule No. 77, the whole of his own pay as Chief Clerk at the Magistracy and half the initial salary of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser. The remaining half of the salary of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser is lapsing to the Treasury, and as the present arrangement throws additional work upon Mr. Woodcock, I recommend that a quarter of the lapsing half-pay should be paid to him.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nHungary\n\nGovernor, &C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419771, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nHon. Col. Secy.,\n\nC.O\n\n49726\n\n210\n\nGEO? G SEP O\n\nI recommend that Mr. Woodcock, acting Deputy Registrar and Accountant, draw on the lapsing pay of the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser so long as the present half-day arrangement lasts. My grounds are as follows:-\n\n(a). Mr. Melbourne cannot do more than half of the work, especially as he is sometimes detained at the Magistracy. Mr. Woodcock is doing the greater part of the other half. I have been doing some of it but I find that I cannot continue to do so and I have passed it to Mr. Woodcock. This will probably necessitate his working overtime.\n\n(b). When Mr. Woodcock is the only Deputy in the office he often has to work at high pressure. This seems almost equivalent to overtime.\n\n(Sd.) J. H. Kemp,\n\n1st August, 1909.\n\nRegistrar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419867, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 413, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "My Lord,\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 14th August, 1909.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's Despatch No. 116 of the 30th of last June in which you inform me that it may not be possible to accede to Mr. G. A. Woodcock's request to be allowed to retire on pension and that at the same time you doubt whether it would be to the good of Queen's College to transfer him to the post of Second Master, a matter upon which I have myself had much misgiving.\n\n2. Your Lordship requests me to suggest some other arrangement which would be likely to prove more satisfactory in practice, and after careful consideration I have come to the conclusion that the best solution of the difficulty will be to appoint Mr. Woodcock to be Chief Clerk at the Magistracy on his present salary and to promote Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, the present Chief Clerk, to be Deputy Registrar and Appraiser vice Mr. J. R. Wood...\n\nRIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF CREWE\n\nPage 237\n\n3087406\n\nREC9\n\nCP 16 SEP 09\n\nTQ727\n\n(1390), Wt, 20024-26, 6000, 11/08, A, & E, W. (8327).\n\n1081-7, 6000. 4,00.\n\nNo.\n\n...\n\n800...\n\n800 • •\n\n&C. *", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419868, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 414, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "407\n\nWood, whom Your Lordship has promoted to be Second Police Magistrate.\n\na\n\n3.\n\nMr. Woodcock's present salary is $4,200 per annum with Exchange Compensation but without any allowances and is therefore equivalent in sterling to £630. The salary of Chief Clerk at the Magistracy is £360 rising to £420 by £30 triennially and carries with it the privilege of free quarters at the Magistracy, as the Chief Clerk is required to reside there in case he should at any time be required to take dying depositions during the night time. The salary of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser is £420 rising to £540 by £40 triennially, and the salary of Secretary of the Sanitary Board has been reduced to £360 rising to £420 by £30 triennially. My proposal, therefore, will decrease the saving due to the retrenchment in the Sanitary Department but there will remain an immediate gain to Government of £60 per annum, while, upon the retirement of Mr. Woodcock, the next Chief Clerk at the Magistracy will be appointed on the existing salary, and the full saving of between £270 and £210 will take effect.\n\n4.\n\nThe suggested arrangement is acceptable both to Mr. Woodcock and to Mr. Melbourne, and I enclose a copy of a minute by the Registrar of the Supreme", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419869, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 415, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "Enclosure 1.\n\n403\n\nSupreme Court, dated the 13th instant on the subject. Mr. Kemp recommends that Mr. Melbourne rather than Mr. J. V. Lee-Jones should be appointed Deputy Registrar and Appraiser. The salaries of the posts of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser and of Deputy Registrar and Accountant are identical, but I agree with Mr. Kemp that Mr. Melbourne on account of his seniority at the Bar and in the legal branch of the service would be better qualified to act for the Head of the Department, when the latter is on leave, and I therefore concur in Mr. Kemp's recommendation.\n\n5. Woodcock will gain slightly as in addition to his present salary he will enjoy the privilege of free quarters at the Magistracy, which, however, will not count for leave or pension purposes.\n\n6. Should Your Lordship approve these recommendations I propose further that the usual promotions in Queen's College should take effect, namely that Mr. B. Ralphs should be appointed Second Master and that Mr. R. J. Birbeck, the most senior of the Junior Assistant Masters should be appointed to be a Senior Assistant Master. As I consider it to be a matter of the first importance that the Headmaster and Second Master of Queen's College should be able to speak and write Chinese, I", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419872, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 418, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "Hon. Colonial Secretary,\n\n30879\n\n411\n\nPECO\n\nEG 16 SEP 09\n\n1. Mr. Woodcock is prepared to accept the post of First Clerk to the Magistrates at $4,200 with Compensation plus quarters.\n\n2. That being so, I recommend that Mr. Melbourne be appointed Deputy Registrar and Appraiser.\n\n3. I recommend Mr. Melbourne rather than Mr. Lee-Jones because (1) he has 12 years seniority at the Bar; (2) he has been engaged in legal work since 1891, part of the time in a Solicitor's Office, part of the time in practice at the Bar, and part of the time in the Government Service; (3) he is senior to Mr. Lee-Jones in the legal branch of the service; and (4) I think that he would be the more fitted to act as Registrar. The pay of the two Deputy Registrars is the same.\n\n13th August, 1909.\n\n(sd.) J. H. Kemp, Registrar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419876, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 422, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "1 d. p. Tom an \n\nthe As\" \n\nRegistas Sent with affect from \n\nthe If January ut \n\n7 \n\n2. labo \n\nappear the appt \n\npromotion 9 MCAD. rettomane \n\nthe Deputy Registras \n\nAppraiser, MEA. \n\nwordarek the Chrif \n\nclute at the Angishncy, \n\nMark E. Ralphs & R. J. \n\nrespectively \n\nAnkek the 2nd Martis \n\nSenior Ass' Most im \n\nto Queen's College. \n\nTapes \n\nthat the prom tion \n\nothe the last mento) \n\noffrais may \n\nThe But \n\nfrom the 8th this last. \n\nQ \n\nnot sure \n\nBun \n\nthat he mean \n\nthis \n\n415 \n\nI have caused y Dubeck \n\nto be so imp.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420170, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "Justice's recommendation that \"the old titles of the two Deputy Registrars be abolished\" and that they should be simply called Senior and Junior Deputy Registrars. The salaries of the two posts are identical and neither of the Deputy Registrars is subordinate to the other. The distinction, therefore, in title between them as \"Deputy Registrar and Appraiser\" and \"Deputy Registrar and Accountant\" should in my opinion remain unchanged.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nJohnny Ang\n\nGovernor, Hong Kong\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420172, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "Government House,\n\nHongkong, 17th August, 1909.\n\nSir,\n\nIn continuation of my letter No. 1928/09 of the 29th of last June, I have the honour to inform you that, in view of instructions received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies with regard to Mr. G. A. Woodcock's future employment, I have recommended to Lord Crewe that Mr. Woodcock should be appointed Chief Clerk at the Magistracy and that Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, who has on several occasions acted as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser of the Supreme Court and who is at present acting in that post, should be given the substantive appointment which has been left vacant owing to the promotion of Mr. J. R. Wood.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(sd.) F. D. Lugard,\n\nGovernor.\n\nTo\n\nThe Chief Justice.\n\nRECO REGP // NOV 09\n\n36967", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420175, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "Page 36967\n\nREG 1 NOV 09,\n\nSir,\n\nI am in receipt of a letter from the Chief Justice stating that His Honour considers Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne to be \"wholly unfit from any point of view to undertake Registry work\", whether as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, the post in which he is now acting, or as Deputy Registrar and Accountant. The Chief Justice adds that Your Honour feels very strongly upon this point and desires to lay your views before me. I have therefore the honour to invite you to do so.\n\n2.\n\nAs Your Honour is no doubt aware, I have recommended Mr. Melbourne for appointment to the post of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser which has been left vacant by the promotion of Mr. J. R. Wood. I made this recommendation after consultation with the Registrar of the Supreme Court who stated that he advised the appointment of Mr. Melbourne rather than Mr. Lee-Jones, because (1) Mr. Melbourne has 12 years seniority at the Bar; (2) he has been engaged in legal work since 1891, part of the time in a Solicitor's office, part of the time in practice at the Bar, and part of the time in Government Service; and (3) he is mentor to Mr. Lee-Jones in the legal branch of the service. Mr. J. H. Kemp has further expressed the opinion...\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 25th August, 1909.\n\n...\n\nPage 36968", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420176, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "# Ils Honour \nThe Puisne Judge.\n\nI am of opinion that Mr. Melbourne would be more fitted than Mr. Lee Jones to act as Registrar of the Supreme Court, in the event of the Registrar's temporary absence. I may add that Mr. Melbourne has on several occasions acted as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser since the appointment of Mr. Lee Jones to be Deputy Registrar and Accountant; and the only other officer in Government Service at the present time available for appointment to the Registry of the Supreme Court is Mr. G. A. Woodcock, whose claims do not appear to be as strong or whose experience of the department is not as considerable as is the case with Mr. Melbourne.\n\nI have etc.,\n(sd.) F. D. Lugard,\nGovernor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420177, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "# Government House, Hongkong, 22nd September, 1909.\n\n36967\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter No. 9303/07 Confidential of the 25th ultimo and to the interview which Your Honour subsequently had with me, my recollection is that you informed me that, when you expressed yourself to the Chief Justice as opposed to Mr. Melbourne's appointment to be Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, you were unaware that it had been recommended by the Registrar, Supreme Court, and that in view of that recommendation you withdrew your former opinion.\n\n2. I shall be glad if you will be good enough to confirm the above record of our interview.\n\nTo\nThe Puisne Judge.\n\nI have etc.,\n**(sd.) F. D. Lugard,**\nGovernor, &c.\n\n## Stamp\nRace II NOV 09", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420178, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "Supreme Court House, Hongkong,\n\n23rd. September, 1909.\n\nC.O\n\n36967\n\nRece Rec2 11 NOV 09,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt\n\nof Your Excellency's letter 9303/07 Confidential, dated 22nd.\n\ninstant with reference to the appointment of Mr. Melbourne to be\n\nDeputy Registrar and Appraiser and in reply to state that my\n\nopposition to the appointment was based upon my own somewhat\n\nlimited opportunities of observation of Mr. Melbourne's work.\n\nIn view of the recommendation of the\n\nRegistrar and of the opinion of two prominent members of the\n\nlegal profession whom I subsequently consulted I desired at the\n\ninterview I had with Your Excellency to withdraw my opposition.\n\nI should not have troubled Your Excellency upon the subject had\n\nI been aware when I spoke to the Chief Justice that Mr. Kemp\n\nhad already been consulted.\n\nI have etc.,\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernor,&c..\n\n(sd.) H. H. J. Gompertz,\n\nPuisne Judge.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420185, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "Page 369\n\n...\n\nDRAFT.\n\nEN.\n\n36967/09\n\nSt Kong.\n\n72\n\nInd\n\n.cafeapl. Pohit out of\n\nHong Kong\n\n280\n\n.00\n\nBanka titol modežnog a (to monette 60 silt to bæɑ??\" Ga nuntaise\n\ncdelig on a *A T\n\nbre\n\nさおさむ or bal 18 3 .borobradis\n\ntel:”) bra namrečmidt ere to stolulɛog ovizafst mis 0.\n\nae bropo£\n\n***. @ SYA I\n\n.ookcanī tekɗo\n\n.Bottom.\n\nSir BLagard.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Robinson 18/11 Mr. Stuth 18 Mr. Fiddes. Collins !!\n\nMr. Just,\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nSir C. Lucas.\n\nSir F. Hopwood.\n\nCol. Seely.\n\nLord Crewe,\n\nVir\n\n19 Mov. mg.\n\nI have the honour to act the\n\ndespatch No 288 of the\n\n8th det transmitting a copy of\n\ncorrespondence with the Chief Justice\n\non the subject of My Meltrume\n\napplying for deputy Registrar &\n\nAppraiser\n\n2. I have to request that\n\nyou will much oblige me by\n\nforwarding the recommendation\n\nof Mr. Piggott\n\n...\n\nMalton: 17 -12\n\n** mostroll to tumnevo\"\n\nthat I have read.\n\nhis letter\n\nwhat that\n\nthat there is a difference.\n\nLopinion\n\nAny\n\nfitness for the past Berich\n\nhe has been appointed.\n\nI hurt horses that M.\n\nPage 370", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420708, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "# DESPATCH\n\nCO 553 JAN 10 Governor. No. 376. 1909\n\n## Last Previous Paper\n36967 24726/09 Ause cons 33. 28, Ith and 126.10 May 10 Co 72484/10 1788-A, R. W.-20969/27- 25010-11-09.\n\n## Next subsequent Paper\n\nReports grant of Acting Allowances to Mr. G. A. Woodcock for acting for some time as Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, and of an initial pay of Deputy Registrar to Mr. C. A. Melbourne in addition to his own pay.\n\nI have perused this and other papers on the same sort & subject, chiefly `39869/09` (bundled with her). I think we ought to refer to that & transmit to whether the Governor considers it such especial care.\n\nI don't understand how the first increment of the D.R. Appraiser comes to lapse, unless he...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420709, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 3rd December, 1909.\n\nWith reference to paragraph 2 of Your Lordship's Despatch No. 214 of the 22nd of last September, I have the honour to report that, as no Officer is available to act for Mr. J. W. Lee-Jones as Deputy Registrar and Accountant, it has been necessary to arrange that Mr. G. A. Woodcock should devote half of his time to his duties as Chief Clerk at the Magistracy and spend the remainder of his time at the Supreme Court as Deputy Registrar and Accountant, the post in which he was acting at the date of his transfer to the Magistracy.\n\n2. This arrangement throws extra work both upon Mr. Woodcock and also upon Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, and I have therefore permitted Mr. Melbourne to draw one-quarter of the initial pay of Deputy Registrar and Accountant, i.e. £8 15s. ($100) per mensem, in addition to his own salary; and Mr. Woodcock ...\n\nMy Lord,\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE \nTHE EARL OF CREWE**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420710, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "## CO 553/17: \nWoodcock to draw, in addition to his own pay as Chief Clerk at the Magistracy, the rest of the pay which is lapsing in the Department, i.e. \none-quarter of initial pay of Deputy Registrar and Accountant equals $75 plus Exchange Compensation equals $126; \none-half of the 2 increments of Mr. Lee-Jones equals $25 plus Exchange Compensation equals $42; \nall the 1st increment of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser equals $25 plus Exchange Compensation equals $42. \nTotal per mensem $210.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord, \nYour Lordship's most obedient, \nhumble servant,\n\nGovernor, &c. \nJAN 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424920, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 568, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \n560 \n\nid attached \n\n1460 su Faced noti JR \n\nin reliance on the previous ruling.\n\n(c). \nThat Mr. Woodcock's case is covered by Colonial Office Regulation No. 77 and that under this rule he is entitled to draw on the lapsing pay.\n\n(a). \nThat since the 5th of last January Mr. Woodcock has been doing a half day's work at the Supreme Court in addition to all his own work at the Magistracy without any extra pay and that this arrangement will continue until the 6th proximo.\n\n2. \nSince the return from leave of Mr. J. W. Lee-Jones on the 5th of January there has been lapsing pay available for the special remuneration of Mr. Woodcock. But on and from the 6th of April the half salary of Mr. Melbourne, Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, who is drawing $3,600 per annum will be available. \nUntil a Passed Cadet is available to act for Mr. Melbourne it will be necessary that the work of the latter shall continue to be performed, as at present, in part by Mr. Woodcock in addition to his duties as First Clerk at the Magistracy, and in part by Mr. Lee Jones, Deputy Registrar and Accountant.\n\n3. \nI have, therefore, to recommend that while Mr. Woodcock is so employed he may receive two-thirds", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424922, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 570, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "## No. 9303/1907\n\n**NUMBER AND DATE SHOULD BE QUOTED IN REFERENCE TO THIS LETTER**\n\n**TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS \"SECRETARY,HONCKONG\"**\n\n**COVT., A.B.C. 4TH & 5TH EDITION & STEVENS'S ENGINEERING CODES.**\n\nDesks like not scares you!\n\n**RECEIVED 25 APR 10**\n\n## COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 2nd April, 1910.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, and is directed to request that the following corrections may be made in the Governor's Despatch No. 100 of the 23rd March, 1910, viz.:-\n\n(1) that at the end of the 2nd line of paragraph 2 the word \"no\" may be inserted. This line will then read:- \"Since the return from leave of Mr. J. W. Lee-Jones on the 5th of January there has been no lapsing pay available\".\n\n(2) that in the last line of the first part of the same paragraph, the figures \"$3,600\" may be altered to \"£460\" as Mr. Melbourne is on a sterling not on a dollar salary. This line will then read; \"the half salary of Mr. Melbourne, Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, who is drawing £460 per annum will be available\".\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, LONDON.\n\nPage 570 \nPage 571", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 373, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "## Colonial Treasurer\n### Class I\n\n| Position | Present Salary (Dollar) | Starting | Scale |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Colonial Treasurer | | $6000-7200 | by $6 |\n| Registrar Supreme Court | | $4,800-5,300 | by $200 |\n| Postmaster-General | | | |\n| Director of Education | | $4,800-5,300 | by $3/month |\n\n### Salary Scale\n| Position | Salary in Sterling or Dollar Scale | Equivalent Salary at 3/- to the dollar |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | £900 - 1,060 | by £90 |\n| | £720 - 810 | by £45 |\n\n### Remarks\n- House Allowance\n- Imperial Allowance £100\n- Personal allowance $300; allowance for supervising Technical Institute $400.\n\n### Salary in Straits Settlements\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| | £1,200 |\n| | £900-1,020 by £60 |\n| | £900-1,000 by £577 |\n| | £600-900 by £60 |\n| | £900-1,020 by £1,200 |\n| | £560-780 by £152 |\n\n## Class II\n\n| Position | Present Salary (Dollar) | Starting | Scale |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Second Magistrate | | | |\n| Head, Sanitary Dept. | | $3,600 - 4,200 | by $200 |\n| District Officer | | | |\n\n### Unclassed\n\n| Position | Present Salary (Dollar) | Starting | Scale |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Deputy Supt. of Police | | | |\n\n### Class II\n\n| Position | Present Salary (Dollar) | Starting | Scale |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Assessor of Rates | | £600-720 | by £45/£60 |\n| Deputy Registrar & Accountant | | $3,600-4,200 | |\n| Asst District Officer, Northern District | | £420-540 | by £40/£30 |\n| Asst District Officer, Southern District | | £420-540 | by £40/£30 |\n| 2nd Asst Reg.-General | | | |\n| Deputy Registrar & Appraisers | | £540-630/£540-660 | by £45/£30 |\n| Post Postmaster General | | | |\n| Deputy Official Receiver | | £540-600 | by £30 |\n\n### Remarks\n- Free quarters.\n- Special allowance $500 to recent holder.\n- To be transferred to Class II at a later date.\n- Allowance for extra work $175.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425349, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "## HECR \n16016 \nRec 28 MAY 10 \n\n**Class II.** \nDistrict officer \n($3600-4200) @ 5/- \n{ \nIncrease on \nexisting scale. \n}\n\n| Present Scale | Proposed Scale | Minimum | Maximum |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| £540-630 | £720-810 | £180 | £180 |\n\n## Clase III. \nAsst. District Officer, S.D. \nIst. Asst. R.G.\n\n| Present Scale | Proposed Scale | Minimum | Maximum | Increment |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 420-540 | 540-630 | 420 | 120 | 90 |\n| 540 | 540-630 | | | 90 |\n| 420-540 | 540-630 | | | 90 |\n\n2nd -do-. \n| 420-540 | 540-630 | | | 90 |\n\nDeputy Registrar \n& Appraiser. \n| 420-540 | 540-630 | | 120 | 90 |\n\nAsst. P.M.G. \n| 420-540 | 540-630 | | 120 | 90 |\n\nDeputy Official \nReceiver. \n| 420-540 | 540-630 | | £900 | £720 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425350, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 375, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "## CLASS II.\n\n| Position | Pay to be drawn in 1911 on existing scale | Pay to be drawn in 1911 if new scale is approved |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| District Officer | £630 | £720 |\n\n## CLASS III.\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Asst. District Officer | 420 - 540 |\n| 1st. Asst. Registrar General | 420 - 540 |\n| 2nd. Asst. Registrar General | 420 - 540 |\n| Deputy Registrar and Appraiser | 460 - 540 |\n| Asst. Postmaster General | 540 - 581 |\n| Deputy Official Receiver | 460 - 540 |\n\n| Total | £3,550 | £4,001 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Increase in 1911 | | £451 | \n| Deduct | | £651* |\n \n*For present incumbent only.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425354, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 379, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "## \n| Position | Salary Range | Sterling Value |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Colonial Treasurer | $6000 - $600 - $7,200 | £795 - £955 |\n| Registrar-General, First Magistrate, Capt. Supt. of Police | $4,000 - $30 - $5,400 | £635 - £715 |\n| Postmaster-General, Director of Education, Second Magistrate | | £720 |\n| Equivalent | | £0.00 - £100, £1,000 |\n| | | -Aust - £210, £600 - £40 - £720 |\n| Post Col. Secretary, Head Jan. Dept. | | |\n| Deputy Supt. of Police | $3,600 - $300 - $4,200 | £476 - £555 |\n| Assessor of Rates, 2nd Post. Asst-General, Deputy Registrar & Appraiser, Accountant | $3,600 - $300 - $4,200 | £476 - £555 |\n| Asst Postmaster, Coastal, District Officer Asst, Asst. Supt of Police, Asst. District Officer, Deputy Official Receiver, Board | $1,600, $1,396, $2,760-$2,558, $4,540 | £540-£630, £420-£540, £540, £430-£540, £420-£540 |\n| | | £540, £420-£540 |\n\n## \nM. bedando \n\nDure 376 Solarie \"D\" Prevent Slisting Fest. \"A\" Dollar Salary. 18. Sterling value at alone \"6\" Present Sterling Jof 1907. \n\nPage 376", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426836, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 616, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "No. 314. Hongkong. Co. 32929 Ref 27 OCT 10\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 22nd September, 1910\n\nYou.12484 My Lord,\n\nWith reference to the last paragraph of Sir F. D. Lugard's Despatch No. 100 of the 23rd of last March, I have the honour to report that during Mr. Melbourne's absence on half-pay leave an arrangement similar to that approved during Mr. J. W. Lee-Jones' leave was made, viz.:- that Mr. Woodcock and Mr. Lee-Jones should share in the discharge of Mr. Melbourne's duties, Mr. Woodcock giving half of his time to the Supreme Court.\n\n2. The Registrar of the Supreme Court reports that Mr. Lee-Jones has had quite as much extra work as Mr. Melbourne had and that the Official Administrator's work, practically all of which is done by Mr. Lee-Jones, could not be done better or kept more up to date. The present arrangement, under which the Magistrate's Clerk gives half a day to the Registry of the Supreme Court and the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser has extra work.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CRIME, &C.\n\n80...\n\n \nwork", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431344, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "## COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG\n2nd November, 1911\n\nDear Mr. Stubbs,\n\nI do not know whether Burnos replied to your note of the 16th September forwarding a print on the subject of Hongkong cadetships. In case he did not, would refer you to the Governor's confidential despatches of the 21st September and 16th October which appear to answer your questions.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nR. E. Stubbs, Esq., Colonial Office, London.\n\n### Preceding Notes\n\nRegistrar. 2nd Magistrate DO. new categories Head of Sanity Dept. Director p.m.g. Micers & Came in I think are the Land & the Asst Solicitor aught but the posts are not at present held & Cadets, but I Solms Snd I have left them out. Class III. I included. 2 Asst. Registrarfel Assessor f Rates (und th Asst Treasurer Defenty Refilmar & Appraiser & aumlank No. 738/11 (LUMBER AND DATE SHOULD BE QUOTED IN REFERENCE TO THIS LETTER TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS \"SECRETARY, HONGKONG\" COVT, ABC. 4TH & 5TH Epa& STEVENS'S ENGINEERING CODES. 24.80s hew Tanitnes Inese Deputy Vicial Reccivar. Assistant Harbor master (It is proposed to appt a Callet for now. Ackerical work) Ass! P.k.g. are add or showed h., Cadet ports a a whe. There is also an Assh Land Officer (now a solor) who we will portably for a Cadet in future, but I have thought it hat to leave the ant\", so as to It is hitter not à provide a mazin overstate facts & the Asst Stacker haste suff has not you been croated. be I have also thought it hat to not to mentin the special duty alle lose the sugpon in give of the to official Receing 19801 is altad - makeshift This print most necessarily be a I propone to ask hir Bamen t'state bates vianocy the Sort on to the member of ports which shot part und issues. fut. B42218 sant, print \n\n### Original Page Numbering\nPage 513", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433157, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10]", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10]", "content_text": "# List of Appointments to which Cadets have a preferential claim if qualified.\n\nReg: 26 OCT 11\n\n| Authority | Class | Post |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Colonial Treasurer | I | Registrar-General |\n| | | First Magistrate |\n| | | Captain Superintendent of Police |\n| | | Crown Solicitor |\n| | II | Registrar, Supreme Court |\n| | | Postmaster-General |\n| | | Director of Education |\n| | | Second Magistrate |\n| | | Assistant Colonial Secretary |\n| | | Head of Sanitary Department |\n| | | District Officer, New Territories |\n| | III | Assistant Treasurership |\n| | | Two Assistant Registrars-General |\n| | | Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, Supreme Court |\n| | | Deputy Registrar and Accountant, Supreme Court |\n| | | Assistant Postmaster-General |\n\nC.O. Despatch No. 171 of 13th June, 1902. `You. 239870`\n\nC.O. Despatches Nos. 89 & 167 of 31st March and 9th June, 1911; C.O. Despatch No. 173 of 15th June, 1911 `2010-961`\n\nC.O. Despatch No. 171 of 13th June, 1902\n\n| Authority | Class | Post |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | | 1 to present authority. |\n| | | 1 |\n| | | 1 |\n| C.O. Despatch No. 27 of 4th February, 1909. | | `Jov. 2439/89` |\n| C.O. Despatch No. 173 of 15th June, 1911. | | C.O. No. 171 of 13th June, 1902. `239870` |\n| 2. Authority assumed from C.O.D. 179 of 11th August, 1908. | | `4.2321` C.O. No. 171 of 13th June, 1902. |\n| | | `You` |\n| C.O.D. 27 of 4th February, 1909. | | Two Assistant District Officers |\n| | | Deputy Official Receiver |\n| | | Superintendent of Imports and Exports |\n| | | Assistant Crown Solicitor |\n\nC.O.D. of 11th August, 1908; C.O.D. 186 of 1st July, 1910.\n\nNo present authority.\n\nNo preferential claim.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433160, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10]", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10]", "content_text": "To make it clear at the same time that Cadet Ficus will also be eligible for any other posts for which they possess the necessary qualifications, suggest that the notification should be in the form of the enclosed memorandum.\n\nFor instance, ordinarily reserved for officers who enter the service. Probation...\n\n4. \nI approve the proposals contained in para... \nRegarding the 21st... with regard to the appointment of the Sanitary Board.\n\nThe following posts will be filled by the appointment of officers who have entered the Cadets service.\n\n| Class | Posts |\n| --- | --- |\n| **Class I** | Treasurer, Registrar General, First Magistrate |\n| **Class II** | Registrar, Supreme Court, Postmaster-General |\n| **Class III** | Director of Education, Second Magistrate, Assistant Colonial Secretary, Head of Sanitary Department, District Officer, New Territories, Assistant Treasurer, First Assistant Registrar General, Second Assistant Registrar General, Deputy Registrar & Appraiser, Supreme Court, Deputy Registrar & Accountant, Supreme Court, Assistant Postmaster General |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434849, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## COURT DECISIONS\n**(T. D. 81505)**\n### Philippine cigars-Direct shipment\n\n259\n\n**UNITED STATES UNITED CIGAR STORES Co. (No.266)**\n\n**COREGS 16. MAY 11**\n\n### PHILIPPINE CIGAR TRANSSHIPPED AT HONGKONG, a Direct-SHIPMENT\n\nIn the enactment of the provisions of the tariff act of 1909 that relate to commerce between the United States proper and the Philippine Islands, the Congress will be presumed to have had in mind the actual requirements of trade in the Philippines as these may call for transshipment of merchandise; and having in view too, the recognized benevolent intent of legislation affecting the archipelago, that shipment must be deemed a direct shipment from the Philippines to the United States when the consignment was forwarded on a through bill of lading from Manila to New York, but by reason of a trade requirement was transshipped at Hongkong; and so the goods fell within section 5, tariff act of 1909, making them free of duty.\n\nUnited States Court of Customs Appeals, April 10, 1911.\n\n**APPEAL** from a decision of the Board of United States General Appraisers, G. A. 7026 (T. D. 30643). [Decision affirmed.]\n\nD. Frank Lloyd, Assistant Attorney General (Charles Duane Baker on the brief), for the United States.\n\nMax J. Kohler, Sol M. Stroock, and Henry L. Moses for appellee.\n\nBefore MONTGOMERY, HUNT, SMITH, BARBER, and DE VRIES, Judges.\n\nSMITH, Judge, delivered the opinion of the court:\n\nA verified consular invoice dated Manila, P. I., June 25, 1909, shows that the United Cigar Stores Co., a corporation organized under the laws of New Jersey, purchased at Manila from the Philippine Co. (Ltd.), at a cost of $3,387.25, inclusive of packing and other charges, 225,000 cigars, manufactured from tobacco the growth and product of the Philippine Islands. It appears from the bill of lading in evidence that the cigars so purchased were delivered at Manila on June 25, 1909, to the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. for carriage from that place to New York, shipment thereof to be by the steamship Korea to San Francisco and thence to destination by transshipment. As the Korea had left Manila on June 19, 1909, and was lying at Hongkong at the time the bill of lading was executed, the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. placed the cigars on board the `Fuensang` and caused them to be transported by that vessel to Hongkong, where by lighters they were immediately transferred without landing to the `Korea`. The `Korea` carried the goods to San Francisco, whence, under entry for immediate transportation in bond, they were forwarded by rail to New York. At New York the cigars were entered for immediate consumption, and the collector, after liquidating the entry as \"free,\" delivered the goods to the importer, who sold them for $9,500. Subsequent to the sale by the importer the collector of customs, believing that the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434850, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 264, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "(62\n\n## COURT DECISIONS.\n\ntransboarding of the cigars at Hongkong interrupted their \"direct shipment\" from Manila to the United States and that they were therefore not entitled to free entry, ordered a reliquidation, and imposed on the merchandise duties amounting in the aggregate to some $19,000, under the provisions of paragraph 224 of the tariff act of August 5, 1909, which reads as follows:\n\n224. Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of all kinds, four dollars and fifty cents per pound and twenty-five per centum ad valorem, and paper cigars and cigarettes, including wrappers, shall be subject to the same duties as are herein imposed upon cigars.\n\nThe importers protested against the reliquidation and the duties imposed and claimed that the cigars were entitled to free entry under the provisions of section 5 of the act, the relevant parts of which are as follows:\n\nSEC. 5. That there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands the rates of duty which are required to be levied, collected, and paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries: Provided, That ... all articles the growth or product of or manufactured in the Philippine Islands from materials the growth or product of the Philippine Islands or of the United States, or of both, from the Philippine Islands shall hereafter be admitted free of duty, except ... coming into the United States cigare in excess of one hundred and fifty million cigars, which quantities shall be ascertained by the Secretary of the Treasury under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe.\n\nAnd provided further, That the free admission, herein provided, of such articles, the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, into the Philippine Islands, or of the growth, product, or manufacture, as hereinbefore defined, of the Philippine Islands into the United States, shall be conditioned upon the direct shipment thereof from the country of origin to the country of destination: Provided, That direct shipment shall include shipments in bond through foreign territory contiguous to the United States,\n\nThe Board of General Appraisers sustained the protest and the Government appealed.\n\nIt seems to be conceded that the cigars were manufactured from tobacco the growth and product of the Philippine Islands within the meaning of the statute; that the limit of 150,000,000 cigars entitled to exemption from duty in any one fiscal year was not exceeded by the importation; and that shipment from origin to destination was accomplished as hereinbefore recited. There being no dispute as to the facts of the case, the question to be determined on appeal is purely one of law, namely, What construction shall be put upon the provision for \"direct shipment,\" which is expressly made a condition for the admission free of goods coming from the Philippines to the United States?\n\nThe Government insists that no dutiable merchandise imported from the Philippines is entitled to free entry unless transported therefrom to the United States in a single bottom and that once such merchandise has passed beyond the maritime jurisdiction of the islands any transfer of it from one vessel to another is violative of the statutory condition and precludes its admission without payment of the usual duties. On the other hand, the importers claim that goods the product, growth, and manufacture of the Philippines are exempt from duty if their shipment is made on a through bill of lading and if as a matter of fact they come to the United States without entering into the commerce of any other country.\n\nThe language of the statutory provision is fairly susceptible of either interpretation, and it is therefore not only permissible but necessary to consider the history of the legislation and to inquire into the conditions and the circumstances inducing its enactment in order to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion touching its true purpose and intention.\n\nThe United States acquired the Philippines by cession from the Kingdom of Spain, and their acquisition was in a measure one of the unavoidable results of the Spanish-American War. The treaty between the high-contracting parties did not vest the peoples of the islands with the rights and privileges of American citizenship, and that of course left their future well-being largely dependent on whether they should be considered as utter strangers to the American household or as wards of the Nation for whose happiness and prosperity the Government was at least morally responsible. The original instructions of the President to the Philippine Commission and the organic act for the government of the islands argue strongly that the political welfare and material progress of the Filipino people were matters of real and serious concern to the American Government. Indeed, both act and instructions indicate that from the outset the United States regarded the inhabitants of its newly acquired territory as something more than mere aliens, and that in dealing with them it elected to pursue a policy which was highly altruistic and benevolent.\n\nThe establishment of civil government in the islands, the concession of a large measure of political autonomy to the peoples thereof, and the beneficent intent of legislation affecting their business interests, are all convincing evidences that a kindly purpose rather than a selfish one was to distinguish our sovereign relations with the Philippines. In this spirit was passed the act of March 8, 1902, which admitted to the United States articles the growth and product of the Philippine Islands at 75 per cent of the duty imposed on foreign imports of the same character and which directed that all the duties collected thereon be covered into the Philippine treasury. That act was intended to stimulate the business of the islands and to provide revenue for their government. Unfortunately, time and experience proved that it was not effective for either purpose, and that fact as shown by public documents having been officially called to the attention of Congress brought about the enactment of section 5 of the tariff act of August 5,\n\n63\n\n## COURT DECISIONS.\n\n260", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434852, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 266, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# COURT DECISIONS.\n\nThe transportation of the merchandise from the port of original shipment to the United States and the voyage from the country of origin to the country of destination must be regarded as continuous. Griswold v. Maxwell (11 Fed. Cas., 5838).\n\nAgain, in the case of reciprocal commercial agreements between the United States and foreign countries, it is the rule that goods are not entitled to the benefit of such agreements unless they be the products of the treaty nation and are directly imported from it. Nevertheless, it seems to be settled doctrine that if goods are originally shipped and destined for the United States and such fact is evidenced by consular invoices and through bills of lading, a transshipment of them en route not amounting to a commingling of the goods with the commerce of the country of transshipment does not alter their status as a direct importation from the country of origin. The necessity for transshipment of goods, and that such transshipment should not be considered as an interruption of their direct importation, was recognized by the Treasury Department as early as May 27, 1899 (`T. D. 21186`), and has been scrupulously followed ever since by the Board of General Appraisers. In re Montagne & Son (`T. D. 21565`, Aug. 31, 1899); In re Hermann Brothers (`T. D. 22447`, Aug. 15, 1900); In re The Florida Brewing Co. (`T. D. 23473-a`, Jan. 21, 1902); In re Morello (`T. D. 24971`, Feb. 2, 1904); In re Leerburger Brothers (`T. D. 25510`, July 28, 1904).\n\nIf merchandise from a foreign country shown by consular invoices and through bills of lading to be destined for the United States may be transshipped without losing its character as an importation from the country of original shipment; if under reciprocity treaties with foreign countries goods may be admitted as directly imported from the place of origin although they have been transshipped in other countries, it would seem that there could be no sound reason for refusing the same consideration to goods from an American possession invoiced on through bills of lading for the United States and merely transshipped en route. To hold that Philippine products so transshipped are not directly imported from the islands, or that their transshipment, compelled by the laws of trade, constitutes a breach of the condition for their direct shipment, would be, in effect, to hold that Congress contemplated that commercial relations between the United States and its oriental possessions, for the well-being of which it stands pledged, should be hampered by conditions not exacted from foreign countries for the welfare and business prosperity of which the nation is in no way responsible. Such a holding we are not prepared to make in the absence of language which would leave us no other alternative. That the term \"direct shipment\" was not designed to restrict carriage to one vessel, but to insure that the goods imported into the United States should be the identical goods exported from the Philippine Islands is evidenced to some extent by the language used in the proviso relating to articles unpacked while en route by accident, wreck, or other casualty, or so damaged as to necessitate their repacking. This proviso declares that such articles—\n\nshall be admitted free of duty upon satisfactory proof that the unpacking occurred through accident or necessity and that the merchandise involved is the identical merchandise originally shipped from the United States or the Philippine Islands, as the case may be, and that its condition has not been changed, except for such damage as may have been sustained.\n\n\"Direct shipment\" means no more than \"directly imported,\" and if Philippine products invoiced for the United States on a through bill of lading have been so transshipped as not to permit of their commingling en route with the commerce of any other country, the condition for direct shipment has been fulfilled according to the purpose and meaning of the statute. That the condition was based on \"direct shipment\" rather than on \"a through bill of lading\" was, in all probability, due to the fact that the former was a broad term while the latter was limited and would not cover the case of importations carried in vessels owned or chartered by the importers and which therefore had no technical bills of lading.\n\nThe fact that the law provides that \"direct shipment\" shall include shipments in bond through foreign territory contiguous to the United States shows no more than that the legislature was not forgetful of trade contingencies and that it was mindful of making provision for the free admission of the goods even if they should pass to the control of a carrier in contiguous territory who might not be bound by the original contract of lading.\n\nThe rule that the unnecessary transfer of a cargo insured by a particular vessel from that vessel to another avoids the policy of insurance has no application here. In such cases the insurer selects his risk by the terms of his contract of insurance and very properly no other risk can be substituted for it without his consent unless necessity compels a substitution beneficial to him as well as to the insured.\n\nThe decision of the Board of General Appraisers is affirmed. MONTGOMERY, Presiding Judge, and HUNT, BARBER, and DE VRIES, Judges, concur.\n\n## COURT DECISIONS. \nPage 262 \nPage 67", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434853, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 267, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# COURT DECISIONS\n(T. D. 31506)\n\nBarettes set with imitation jet.\n\n**UNITED STATES. BEIERLE & Co.** (No. 239).\n\n**BARETTES OF BARE METAL SET WITH IMITATION JET, NOT JEWELRY.**\n\nOn review of the interpretations, both legislative and judicial, there being an absence of any evidence going to show a commercial designation of the commodity and the fact appearing that the relevant clause in the tariff act of 1909 was placed there after a like clause in the tariff act of 1897, had received an authoritative interpretation, similar to the one here now given, barettes made of base metal and set with imitation jet are not dutiable as \"jewelry,\" but are dutiable as manufactures of paste under paragraph 109, tariff act of 1909.\n\nUnited States Court of Customs Appeals, April 10, 1911. **APPEAL** from a decision of the Board of United States General Appraisers, G. A. 7019 (T. D. 30612).\n\n[Decision affirmed.]\n\nD. Frank Lloyd, Assistant Attorney General (Charles Duane Baker on the brief), for the United States.\n\nComstock & Washburn (Albert A. Washburn of counsel) for appellees.\n\nBefore **MONTGOMERY, HUNT SMITH, Barber, and DE VRIES, Judges**,\n\nDE VRIES, Judge, delivered the opinion of the court:\n\nThis appeal as it reaches this court involves the dutiable classification under the tariff law of 1909 of barettes, composed of base metal set with imitation jet.\n\nWhen the case was before the Board there were three classes of merchandise involved.\n\nFirst, hat pins having tops set with imitation precious stones and composed of glass or paste other than imitation jet. These were assessed by the collector as glass, cut, at 60 per cent ad valorem. The board held that they were properly dutiable at 45 per cent ad valorem under the appropriate provision of the tariff law on authority of United States v. New York Merchandise Co. (167 Fed. Rep., 684). The appeal of the Government as to this class of merchandise was expressly abandoned in the briefs and at the hearing.\n\nThe third class was hat pins having tops set with imitation of precious stones composed of glass or paste other than imitation jet, the same being articles of jewelry or personal adornment costing more than 20 cents per dozen pieces, and were held by the board to be dutiable at the specific rates, varying according to the value, and 25 per-cent ad valorem under paragraph 448. There was no appeal from the decision of the board as to this class of merchandise.\n\nThe question here is the dutiable classification of the barettes. The Government contends that they are properly dutiable as \"articles commonly or commercially known as jewelry,\" under the ...\n\nPage 263\nTreasury Decision's no. 31506, April 20, 1911\n15258", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435252, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# MANILA, P. I., MONDAY, MAY 29, 1911.\n\n## TRANSHIPMENT AT HONGKONG NOT VIOLATION OF PAYNE BILL\n\nLo 284. \n6 JUL 1911\n\nThe Government argues that the islands any transfer of it from one vessel to another is violative of the statutory condition and precludes its admission without payment of the usual duties. On the other hand, the Importers claim that goods, the products, growth, and manufacture of the Philippines are exempt from duty if their shipment is made on a through bill of lading and if, as a matter of fact, they come to the United States without entering into the commerce of any other country.\n\nThe language of the statutory provision is fairly susceptible of either interpretation, and it is therefore not only permissible but necessary to consider the history of the legislation and to inquire into the conditions and the circumstances inducing its enactment in order to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion touching its true purpose and intention.\n\nThe United States acquired the Philippines by cession from the Kingdom of Spain, and their acquisition was in a measure one of the unavoidable results of the Spanish-American War. The treaty between the high-contracting parties did not vest the peoples of the islands with the rights and privileges of American citizens, and that of course left their future well-being largely dependent on whether they should be considered as utter strangers to the American household or as wards of the Nation for whose happiness and prosperity the Government was at least morally responsible.\n\nThe original instructions of the President to the Philippine Commission and the organic act for the Government of the islands argue strongly that the political welfare and material progress of the Filipino people were matters of real and serious concern to the American Government. Indeed, both set and instructions indicate that from the outset the United States regarded the inhabitants of its newly acquired territory as something more than mere aliens, and that in dealing with them it elected to pursue a policy which was highly altruistic and benevolent.\n\nThe establishment of civil government in the islands, the concession of a large measure of political autonomy to the peoples thereof, and the beneficent intent of legislation affecting their business interests are all convincing evidences that a kindly purpose rather than a selfish one was to distinguish our sovereign relations with the Philippines. In this spirit was passed the act of March 8, 1902, admitted to the United States articles the growth and product of Philippine Islands at 75 per cent of the duty imposed on foreign imports of the same character.\n\n## Decision of Court of Customs Appeals in United Stores Case Holds That It Was Made Necessary by Trade Requirement and Goods Entitled to Free Entry-Full Text of the Decision\n\nA verified consular invoice dated Manila, P. I., June 25, 1909, shows that the United Cigar Stores Co., a corporation organized under the laws of New Jersey, purchased at Manila from the Philippine Co. (Ltd) at a cost $3,387, inclusive of packing and other charges, 225,000 cigars manufactured from tobacco the growth and product of the Philippine Islands. It appears from the bill of lading in evidence that the cigars so purchased were delivered at Manila on June 25, 1909, to the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. for carriage from that place to New York, shipment thereof to be by the steamship `KOREA` or to San Francisco and thence to destination by transshipment.\n\nAs the `KOREA` had left Manila on June 19, 1909, and was lying at Hongkong at the time the bill of lading was executed, the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. placed the cigars on board the `YUENSANG` and caused them to be transported by that vessel to Hongkong where by lighters they were immediately transferred without landing to the `KOREA`. The `KOREA` carried the goods to San Francisco, whence, under entry for immediate transportation in bond, they were forwarded by rail to New York.\n\nAt New York, the cigars were entered for immediate consumption and the collector, after liquidating the entry as \"free,\" delivered the goods to the consignee who sold $9,500 worth. Subsequent to the sale by the importer, the collector of customs, believing that the trans-shipment of the cigars at Hongkong interrupted their \"direct shipment\" from Manila to the United States and that they were therefore not entitled to free entry, ordered reliquidation, and imposed on the merchandise duties amounting in the aggregate to some $19,000, under the provisions of paragraph 224 of the tariff act of August 5, 1909, which reads as follows:\n\n**224 Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of all kinds four dollars and fifty cents per pound and twenty-five per centum ad valorem...**\n\nIt seems to be conceded that the cigars were manufactured from tobacco, the growth and product of the Philippine Islands within the meaning of the statute; that the time limit of 150,000,000 cigars entitled to exemption from duty in any one fiscal year was not exceeded by the importation; and that shipment from origin to destination was accomplished as hereinbefore recited.\n\nThere being no dispute as to the facts of the case, the question to be determined on appeal is purely one of law, namely, what construction is to be put upon the provision \"direct shipment,\" which is expressly made a condition for the admission free of goods coming from the Philippines to the United States?\n\nThe Government insists that no dutiable merchandise imported from the Philippines is entitled to free entry unless transported there from the United States in a single bottom and beyond the maritime jurisdiction of the United States.\n\nThe relevant parts of section 5 of the act are as follows:\n\n\"Sec. 5. That there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands the rates of duty which are required to be levied, collected, and paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries; Provided, all articles the growth or product of or manufactured in the Philippine Islands from materials the growth or product of the Philippine Islands or of the United States or of both, coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands shall hereafter be admitted free of duty, except cigars in excess of one hundred million and fifty million cigars, which quantities shall be ascertained by the Secretary of the Treasury under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. And provided further, That the free admission herein provided, of such articles, the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, into the Philippine Islands, and of the growth, product, or manufacture, as hereinbefore defined, of the Philippine Islands into the United States, shall be conditioned upon the direct shipment thereof from the country of origin to the country of destination: Provided, That direct shipment shall include shipments in bond through foreign territory contiguous to the United States.\"\n\nThe board of General Appraisers sustained the protest and the Government appealed.\n\nThe decision was written by Judge Smith and concurred in by all the members of the court.\n\nIt reads:\n\n...\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435253, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# \n\n32 \n\n22619 RECO REGO I JUL II \n\nIf merchandise from a foreign country cannot be assumed to have been destined for the United States and merely transshipped en route, surround such a commercial concession with safeguards which would practically preclude a substitution of goods and reasonably secure the revenue of both countries against fraud or evasion. Accordingly, admission free of duty was conditioned upon their direct shipment from the country of origin, or growth, product, or manufacture of the other country under reciprocal commercial agreements between the United States and foreign countries.\n\nIf under reciprocal city treaties with foreign countries goods may be admitted as directly imported from the place of origin though they have been transshipped to the country of destination. The term \"direct shipment,\" considered by itself, is open to several interpretations. It may mean that the goods must be carried from the Philippines to the United States or vice versa in a single vessel proceeding by the most direct route without stopping at way ports, or it may mean shipment in a single vessel following its usual and customary course, or it may mean that the goods must be originally destined for and that without mingling with the commerce of any other place they must come as direct from the country of origin to the country of destination as commercial limitations may permit.\n\nIn the light of these facts, holding in view the settled policy governing our relations with the Philippines, considering the beneficent trend of all congressional legislation affecting them, and bearing in mind that transhipment at Hongkong of Philippine goods destined for the United States was a trade necessity compelled by the laws of trade, constitutes a breach of the condition for their direct shipment, would be, we think, unwarranted. To hold that Philippine products so transshipped are not directly imported from the islands, or that their transshipment would be in effect to hold that Congress intended to impose a condition which for lack of adequate shipping conveniences was commercially impracticable, and therefore frustrative of the primary and principal purpose of the law.\n\nOur opinion in this behalf is confirmed by the attitude of the courts as to transhipment and the effect thereof on importations and directness. For a long time, judicial tribunals have appreciated that the exigencies of transportation frequently require that goods exported from other countries and destined for the United States shall be transshipped en route. In consequence, the courts have held almost uniformly that such transshipment does not change the status of the goods as an importation from the country of the original shipment if they have not mingled with the commerce of any other country and if the official invoices and bills of lading evidence that fact.\n\n\"Direct shipment\" means no more than \"directly imported,\" and if Philippine products invoiced for the United States on a through bill of lading have been no more than transshipped en route, it is a matter of history that when Spain and Portugal shared the Indies between them, Manila was the dominant and most important port in the Orient. In time, however, Great Britain gained a foothold in the Far East, the Suez Canal was constructed, new avenues for commerce were opened up, and Spain lost her trade ascendancy. Hongkong became a shipping terminal and ultimately the port of final destination for nearly all deep water craft trading with the Orient. As a result, Manila ceased to be a shipping center, and Philippine goods had to be carried in British bottoms, and the trade of the islands with the outside world was forced through Hongkong, to which all minor ports of adjacent territory were made tributary by the diversion to that port of shipping facilities.\n\nThe necessity for transshipment of goods, and that such transshipment should not be considered as an interruption of their direct importation, was recognized by the Treasury Department as early as May 27, 1899 (`T.D. 31186`) and has been scrupulously followed ever since by the Board of General Appraisers. In re Montagne & Son (`T.D. 21565`, Aug. 31, 1899); In re Hermann Brothers (`T.D. 22447`, Aug. 16, 1900); In re Morello (`T.D. 24971`, Feb. 14, 1907); In re Leerburger Brothers (`T.D. 25510`, July 28, 1904).\n\nThe fact that the law provided that \"direct shipment\" shall include shipment in bond through foreign territory contiguous to the United States shows no more than that the legislature was not forgetful of trade contingencies and that it was mindful of making provision for the free admission of the goods even if they should pass to the control of a carrier in contiguous territory who might not be bound by the original contract of lading.\n\nThe rule that the transfer of goods between the Orient and the United States favors Hongkong as a shipping point and that only occasional trips are made to Manila is apparent from the fact that for the six months ended December 31, vessels of the Pacific Mail Co. and of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha made 25 trips from Hongkong to the United States, and during the same period only 7 trips from the Philippines to the same destination. In their time-tables, these companies expressly direct attention to the fact that their vessels call at Manila only about once a month and that those not able to take advantage of the monthly trips should avail themselves of the \"half a dozen lines of steamers\" the vessels of which make trips between Hongkong and Manila every two or three days.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441037, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 373, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "## Warrants for detention.\n\n369\n\nPayment by owners, Agart, etc.\n\nCollector, -appeals to\n\nThe collector shall at the same time issue a warrant for the detention of the offending merchandise, vessel, animal, or other property and shall fix the bond, upon the giving of which, with good and sufficient surety or sureties, to be approved by the collector issuing the warrant, the merchandise, vessel, animal, or other property offending shall desire to pay the fine fixed or the value of the property seized for confiscation or forfeiture as appraised and fixed by the collector, the collector may receive the amount from the person or owner in compromise of the liability, to be accounted for as other collections of his office, and may give the person paying a release in full for the same, together with possession of the property or cancellation of the bond.\n\nIf these proceedings take place and the seizure is made at any port except that of Manila, the person whose property is seized may forthwith appeal to the Insular Collector of Customs for the Philippine Islands at Manila by filing with him a certified copy of the proceedings by the collector of the port of seizure and such additional evidence as he may desire. The Insular Collector of Customs for the Philippine Islands, upon such appeal, may reverse the action of his subordinate, modify or approve the same, and in like manner may accept a compromise and, upon payment of the sum fixed, issue a release of the liability and property or bond.\n\n## Appeal cases where no compromise is effected.\n\nIn cases appealed from the collectors of customs other than the Insular Collector of Customs for the Philippine Islands at Manila, and in cases arising at Manila, if no compromise is effected with the Insular Collector of Customs for the Philippine Islands, then and in that case it shall be the duty of the Insular Collector of Customs for the Philippine Islands forthwith, on receiving notice from the person or agent whose property has been seized that he will not consent to a compromise, to file a record of all the proceedings in the Court of First Instance for the city of Manila with a petition reciting the facts, asking the judgment of the court upon the issue of fine or penalty or confiscation or forfeiture, and praying, upon judgment, for a public sale of the seized property after due advertisement to satisfy the judgment.\n\n## Process.\n\nProcess shall issue against the owner or agent in possession of the property, and the pleadings and procedure shall be, as in other cases, in the Court of First Instance for the city of Manila, of a summary character regulated by the orders of the court.\n\n## Sale.\n\nThe sale, if ordered, shall take place in the district of seizure after four weeks' posting of notice thereof at the door of the office of the Collector of Customs of the district and the publication once a week for four weeks of notice in any newspaper of general circulation in the district of seizure, if any, and also after publication, in the discretion of the court, of the same number of notices in a newspaper of general circulation in Manila.\n\n## Judgment.\n\nThe judgment of the court in such proceedings shall be limited to one in rem against the property seized. Criminal proceedings against the person offending shall be prosecuted under section sixteen hundred and sixty-eight hereof.\n\n## Criminal proceedings by Collector.\n\nNothing herein contained shall prevent the collector of customs from instituting ordinary criminal proceedings for violation of this title, the customs laws, and the Immigration and Chinese Exclusion Acts, in the proper Court of First Instance or in the Court of First Instance for the city of Manila, under section sixteen hundred and sixty-eight hereof.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441040, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 376, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "## Page 372\n\nand thereafter the direction and the nature of the proceedings shall be the same as provided in Section three hundred and thirteen as amended.\n\nThe Judgment of the Court of Customs Appeals in cases brought to a hearing under Section three hundred and thirteen, as above amended, shall be final in all cases of fine, penalty, confirmation, or forfeiture where the appraised value or the estimated value fixed in the proceedings of the collector has not exceeded two thousand dollars. In all other cases under said Section an appeal may be taken by the owner of the condemned or confirmed property or his agent from the Judgment of the Court of Customs Appeals to the Supreme Court of the Islands, which shall be taken in the same manner and shall be governed by the same procedure as an appeal to the Supreme Court from the Courts of First Instance: Provided, however, That no appeal shall be permitted unless notice of the appeal shall be filed in the clerk's office of the Court of Customs Appeals within ten days after the entry of the judgment appealed from: And unless signed by both of the Judges of said court who heard the judgment appealed from. \n\nProvided, That no bill of exceptions...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 444269, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]", "page_number": 266, "title": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]", "content_text": "## C. O. N° 359.\n\n32184 REC'd 15 SEP 13\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 23rd August, 1913.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that, owing to the exigencies of the service, the Staff of the Registry of the Supreme Court has of late been very short-handed. Mr. J. R. Wood has been on leave since the 18th September, 1912, and it was necessary to appoint Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, Deputy Registrar and Appraiser of the Supreme Court, to fill the vacant post of 2nd Magistrate. The vacancy in the Supreme Court could not be filled as no officer was available. Subsequently, as from the 26th February, 1913, Mr. J. W. Lee-Jones, Deputy Registrar and Accountant of the Supreme Court, was granted four months' vacation leave and four months and 29 days' half-pay leave, Mr. S. B. B. McElderry being appointed to act for him. Moreover, it has been necessary to appoint Mr. A. M. Thomson, the Colonial Treasurer, to act as Colonial Secretary and Mr. A. C. M. Fletcher, the Official Receiver, has therefore since the 19th February been acting as Treasurer. No officer was available to fill the vacant post of Official Receiver: therefore, Mr. Nisbet, the Registrar of the Supreme Court, and Mr. McElderry have been obliged for some months past to discharge the duties of four officers, viz.:- Registrar and 2 Deputy Registrars of the Supreme Court, and Official Receiver.\n\n2.\n\nOn the 4th August, at the request of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, who was not satisfied with the work of Mr. J. D. Lloyd as his First Assistant, a transfer was arranged,\n\n**RIGHT HONOURABLE LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,** \n&c., &c., &c.\n\nMr.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447104, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 202, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "201\n\nTUIBI Jou ob I as :eeirom and beviovan bad yoy tent bemaas\n\n• Yne gnises\n\nsano s'il ji usal ni edol, and vae I new anoloiqeve ya\n\nJauð Juock Jon Jud wolvaned Istones, quuɣ du da beaweiz eier TOJAŃ TRORUNě slonu quoŸ „ni z to #tum ma I 16890 zaludiðzay Word 'nob I deki ɣlub erőled an osa od suso ¡LA demonzi\n\nbla\n\n•XIjuste edeb\n\nexii Low ed vid dan pijnignal nuð ¿tal ban way tosle drow woy\n\nIIad Jon DI I\n\n+\n\nTo mati II\n\nodami ant oJETLA OJ 58,\n\n» JUURI Jquerɑ „Um\n\no ni saw di dindir wostal of\n\nkladon mer exauð Jarið mid\n\nVenom\n\nti Jand min Lied đon cih I two bus oề vớy anne oơ min blod I\n\nToma Jnjia Yad Ja Brid noidanisiqre requiq a ova poy\n\n.bunio yna sebnu beraichend don new macik mi la, .bт0008 m′′o tuvę to su sea of muso vớỷ,ELI XING MAIL NO\n\nDS YOUNGU, IMA I HILð boaruso į ka}\n\n(.ami rrty\n\n+\n\n(.bewnisroo) inriore-B80%) .(hello@t) Jødei'. ‚Å ‚H.TM ni voy of abam adriem,34 To mejon nieos todas as ¿'nob I kuwa nesɛ bim 1 1ì aninə ylir:ereoòn too Iuoife I .salit Tendo\n\nđì đu pond evo: diljku dud garon end devinues han po、tanë poston\n\n.ttomie edt saw\n\nni noijauhiniaba to ensued .SNSBI ...oll secubung saanti▼)\n\n-xilio equisa BHJ DNA TÂ,, ni yu İnanyay to stum a så sredi doldw\n\nMA\n\n*\n\nCynom snu berisoer 1lems\n\nmi jarom nri havdeoer kai să 11 11on m och ann don bib I\n\nti yonors suð blod of bai - ved blnow 11ouis aut :seso ■'rnil val\n\n(mon eile meiw aquad\" diywod oral að driwo đua đi barieser bar od\n\n.Jİ Devis001 van Jon blue a est Jud ¡ði blød ba\n\nend bau moj sajuuse I say oed Houle and sou hna woy bonne I\n\nheld earrood yeno: su♬ ben. woy triguo.\" I y nom\n\nTOI NO# 'I ON BƏY\n\nلارو\n\nI\n\nthe shroff to have it. I thought you had the money and asked you\n\nbecause I had suspicions about you. On the last interview I only\n\nput to you 3 cases Nam Ly Singh, Essa Loorsha and Chan Low Yin; these 3 cases did not start my suspicions as I had already been\n\ninvestigating.\n\nI started investigating because I found 3 files in your\n\nlocked drawer: I did not know you had files locked up in your\n\ndrawer: after you had left the office I found a locked drawer and\n\nsent for you to open it.\n\nI did not know that you had handed over to your successor\n\non June 30th.: I don't know if your successor was there on the\n\n30th. June p.m.: he may have been there. For all I know you might\n\nleft your papers in any state. I assumed that you had handed over\n\nyour work and office properties to your successor as he was down\n\nthere on several occasions.\n\nOn July 2nd. in the morning I found a locked drawer in your\n\ndesk: I did not know what was in it; I sent for you to open it; I\n\ndon't know exactly what time it was: your table is 6 or 7 feet long\n\nwhen you came in I was standing so that I could see the drawer\n\nopened.\n\nIn Nam Ly Singh's case the paper on which the note of receipt\n\nwas was on the file.\n\nI leave the Probate and L. A. matters to the Deputy Registrar\n\nand Appraiser: and he investigates the value of the estate; he initials it and passes it on to me: and I check the legality.\n\nI principally looked at the official documents; sometimes I looked at the correspondence, sometimes not. I am quite responsible for all the office.\n\nThere might have been notes of payment on other files between January and April; but I didn't observe them.\n\nIf there were such notes I did not examine the files with such care as to observe them. I do not know if the practice of receiving fees in advance was current in my predecessor's time. If it was, when Mr. Kemp was there, there was no harm in your continuing it; I should have stopped it if I had known of it.\n\nDate", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447113, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "Page 210\n\n11th December, 1913.\n\n...\n\n6th. Day Samuel Burnside Boyd McElderry.\n\nI was Deputy Registrar and Appraiser from 18th November, 1912, till 5th August, 1913: and I was in the office all that time. I dealt with Probate and Letters of Administration cases.\n\nIn poor cases where Mr. Alim Khan received authority to prepare the papers in the Registry the practice was that the money payable by the applicant was handed to Alim Khan and he was supposed to affix stamps.\n\nI was not aware that Mr. A. K. received the money en bloc at one time.\n\nI don't remember anything about Cordeiro's case. Mr. A. Khan had substantial control of these cases.\n\nI do not remember anything definite about these cases. In Ghanaya Singh's case: I signed the letter (Exhibit G). I had nothing to do with the transmission of the Money Order: I believe that it was all left to Mr. A. Khan.\n\nI gave no instructions about the money at all: I didn't know whether the money was forwarded or not; nor did I enquire as to what the equivalent was or for any voucher. It was very slack of me. I do not know how the money is transmitted or who had the cheque. I did not know what the practice was at all.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Alim Khan.\n\nThe practices I followed were sometimes taken from you as practices of the Registry. I don't know if G is in the usual form. I would compare the figures with the ledger; as a rule myself: and the ledger is posted up from the cash-book.\n\nI should satisfy myself that the figure was correct.\n\n(Treasurer asks for a similar letter to G).\n\nI don't remember if this Estate was wound up on my instructions. You used to communicate to us, on occasions, the Registrar's wishes. I don't recollect signing the letter: but I should be greatly surprised if I signed it in blank. I don't remember any conversation about it. I don't remember if you called my attention to the amount. In a pauper case I should ask what ...\n\nPage 210\n\n \n(End of page indicated by original scan metadata)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447114, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 212, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "DIS\n\nR\n\n211\n\n.CİVI,TALLBOMG .util YC a\n\n•yryobikali byoù ebianınä lemmBÉ „Todox VƏ ASLI mori rexiangų, vas Tentsijan (Jugen Bam I Jav Ile soitto end ni saw I Lu8 :&IZI (Jagyan nJU IIIJ „SICA .Bernt.noidæiðsinimb, tu arejsou nos eJadoti stim dlanb I .emit -uną od witOIUS DGVİBOST ABAX milá,mi ezɛdy senso rooq mi\n\nKontori und Jan Baw #dijonny Bod (WeigUË end ri støysq and sing- Boqque bam en bra neid miIA od Deheusi waw Jasɔiliqa esit yd olunyng squeda ritts of be-\n\nJe bold ne yacom out beviewer „X vnú dado atawa Jou Baw I\n\nL\n\n•\n\nsaid eno\n\n.9809 8'0TİMbreŬ Juoda „zing ta təcilower J'nob I\n\n.288 0 Asal.. to londros Iaintedwa basi masa .7h .Benno eserid Cuous stiniteb yninityna tedener Jon ob I .(0 didina) zerjel eik berjjia I zanao m'ignić ayansið ni\n\nyouall ent to nolaabuan ng mud siław ob of gnidien ba.. I\n\nIX. A ul of thei lin saw ti zany eveiled I :xebx)\n\n•\n\nword 'nbio I :Ils da yozom sit Juoda anoltoundeni on øvej I\n\nod an exiupne I bib for icon to babya\"no) am jerai erið merkta Y\n\nto dosia grov a JI .radiowuy the 10) no sam ti oleviupo acid. Jadw\n\ner bad our 10 beddį. MELA’LJ MÅ „omoni elid wuri word Jon ab I . MAI\n\n.Ila ja amw kniforty Bud dat vond don bi- 1 .speao\n\n·\n\na poy not? mind conundersca exsw bewollol I sæciscang sar\n\narrot Lemnu au ni mi 0 ti word tron 1 gadai_sui dit to meoljuerq ora ;Heayn elutoas ¡Tegnol edt dðir neuşit mis en 'quoo blow I .alood-11880 mis morì qu betsoq si nejbal edi\n\n●JOSTIUD SAW Bwyil múj tauit Menyu ylaitan nivous I\n\n...(ù ut ra jai tímie r x1 mina new#0677)\n\n-Joutseni ya no qu bawow Baw adeună mind li redkermex 2*nob I\n\nBudar.Gin-Doo no a 02 93 Dinu woɔ ve beau moy.anoi-\n\n་\n\n•\n\nI Jud :rejjel nas mingis Joellaser t'noo I .sodaiw e'zontsized J'mob I .ausid ni ji ner iɛ I li Lesinqua við vera ed elvons vino vo、 ti z. wat J'mol I .Ji Juous no IOVOD \\ns Toɖnele'I asr daun I SOBD TO...'q e në Termo. 2 lad os noitnejja ym\n\nJA\n\nit would cost the applicant and tell the applicant what it would cost him and I should tell him the matter would be done at the Registry. I have never seen you receive money although I knew you did receive it and sold stamps. You received money in cash to my knowledge. I did not know you did not apply it immediately.\n\nI should as a rule, see that stamps were affixed before I signed; but not always; I don't remember ever being told you had the cash or stamps would affix them afterwards.\n\nProbate file No. 75/13. I signed the papers on 15th February, 1913, without the stamp being on: I did this for convenience of the people: but I did not know you had the money but I do not know that I remember this case.\n\nI remember that there was a complaint about too much work in the office. I have a hazy recollection that you complained about having too much work and much delay in the way of the pauper estates. It was common knowledge that in many pauper cases there was much delay due to sureties not being satisfactory.\n\nI don't remember in the H. K. & S. B. case where there were $12 to pay you told me that you had the $12 and were going to return it pending the completion.\n\nMr. Charles Alexander Dick Melbourne: Deputy Registrar and Appraiser: since September, 1909: Mr. Alim Khan was there when I went. I was away on other duty all this year till August and practically all last year. I have dealt with Probate and Letters of Administration cases and they all passed through my hand. All pauper cases went to Mr. A. K. first and he, after getting permission, prepared the papers. There would be certain fees payable: I thought the shroff received the fees; I was unaware that Mr. A. Khan received cash. I didn't know how the stamps got on the documents. The shroff kept the stamps. Exhibit G: I cannot say if it is in the ordinary form.\n\nI believe I have signed documents without the stamps, but I should have asked Mr. Alim Khan (if he brought the papers) if the shroff had received the money for the stamps. Mr. Alim Khan was a good clerk.\n\nJ\n\nCross-\n\ni", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447132, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 230, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "858 \n\n229 \n\n0800 TAQ \n\nDo I \n\n*W* \n\n· \n\n...noel dat inil of \n\nDOİCOLE DİÁn bait of smyknittik i. ona mat \n\n÷ \n\n.: Beni stødt to diet sot kasolquvoni alawan dan Plaor verso ent -100 od kinou si esiJets bilav bust of Bdunoilqen dag blưng sa ti asiup Iost · Low knit dojelykos adi hives sindim 0.3 Jarà mind- Duis tot Moljanurida to ensound not anoidideq ni zráðdug ni skaa Pilav in.) „J Delist smoliya yna 21 jasmanifoça to ? Laned ne TODEN BILTOų #i, sídit rodes einirk leiði110 wij ni stodd Bożeniu. ni moa. turinimo. Zu ernedød not yiiqə ud Wuž 1: 5 #mevaibr0 Swoj od krigen naiw ytimoittik om ovu blow admɔ seeno down Bi mind to sĺą...re n', .amyba ni onnistɗo meet galvai yend soet junioruo bou. I samo nad nɔ,beasesek,lut ženƐ to aaso edi vid zavo dag vð islin? jnİTAN TOLCİð og sed non vousyha ni ses? tu tujuatili dun ud edum? I,ooijua Pilaw halt ydlwožilib bosses -Zag me an. 1o noijaliay and tut matoŸ Di Inari \n\nCa \n\n-- \n\nSo nieco i juu - and i,iL. TOJEN \"İNİ: Iciolto aid amid tało ni vi ozunăm o «MOLJNIJI ŽOT ŽIŽA, \n\nJant,di neineb ed agua.dla,saml you iti wana yrreblom,“m Moitoe.lvo ai çono. Tu muen IIw z nicores noivossuaq ya mi bad I \n\nI Jual \n\n+ \n\n+ \n\namatue esisto dermos dvi bacterq now I două mâm cơ bedrogen Jon bluso I JAJ jen medus ni o asexunà hal. Be880 Tempas, not dada ed of adla gieria aude hodne aus I með að bæedda Vizomice rega of besili zy on 82 Bonao saquay and to? wéloilo' a stir sham -Biq:100 I dw, asium vyrobit aizsamtei nužduo „ka uz rebiango \n\na Jalis min beametoni viva dvor odrooti Juoda shau xar dek- \n\n...im ob of Mtindon ylevulusca bau bes 11ơnia ni madă „NA NA PRAE \n\niw snis(quos au bial ovat dan bluve #roletais bem from sindơng \n\nevoda Iniafquos adi sbmu our noareq ade now I jak od brojər \n\ntoi yaw you to đưo v sá uử beiu yrobilo. vmi tud ad ben zelo n \n\n.tigerin of word Jeed noaser \n\nmini hətti a druna I \n\n4 \n\nV 90. MA. \n\nTAHIL \n\ncame to the conclusion that I had received fees in advance in the case of Nam Ly Sing, deceased, from a note in my handwriting as to receipt of payment of money in the file in that case. And he further admitted that he would have come to the same conclusion if he had seen similar notes as to receipt of payment of money in other pauper cases, but that he did not remember seeing any previous to this note in Nam Ly Sing deceased, which is dated the ... day of May, 1913. \n\nI respectfully submit that this could not have been either possible or probable. Lot less than a hundred of these files must have been placed before him to be passed on to the Chief Justice by him for grants to be made. He admitted that although petitions in probate matters are initialled by the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser as correct he looks through them to see if the legal formalities are complied with. He further admitted that the fact that petitions are initialled by the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser as correct did not relieve him of the responsibility as the Head of the Department to acquaint himself generally with the facts connected therewith and to see that they were in order as a whole. This being so I would request the Committee to consider with what amount of care Mr. Hisbet must have scrutinized the Probate files placed before him to be passed on to the Chief Justice and in spite of all that he did not see any full sheet of blue foolscap paper with a note as to receipt of payment of money by me in any other cases except the case of Nam Ly Sing, deceased, and the last case that I had in the Registry. \n\nIn spite of the fact that he saw me receiving cash from pauper applicants and in spite of the fact that he often saw me in the Registry with half a dozen pauper people investigating and furthermore in spite of the fact that his suspicions had been aroused in November last as is alleged by him by a report from Mr. Fletcher, the then Deputy Registrar and Appraiser that I was receiving fees in advance, he never questioned me with regard to it. When he says that he subsequent to the report by Mr. Fletcher spoke to me about it but that he does not remember what took place", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447133, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 231, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "The text provided appears to be a jumbled mix of nonsensical words and phrases, likely due to errors in the OCR process. To correct this, I will focus on the coherent English text that appears towards the end of the provided snippet.\n\nhe makes an intentional mistake about it. The Circular of the 14th. of November last year was the result as is alleged by him of the report by Mr. Fletcher yet he tells the Committee that he does not remember what he said to me but he remembers the nature of the report by Mr. Fletcher. The reason why he did not speak to me about it was because he already knew of the practice and took no notice of it. I submit that if he would have spoken to me about Mr. Fletcher's report he would have been handed the balance in Li Ah Shau's case which was then in my possession and I further submit I could not have been so daring as to still continue the practice in spite of the warning by the Head of the Department.\n\nI did not take the fees in advance in a concealed manner from applicants but openly and in the presence of my colleagues sitting near to me in the Registry and with their assistance as to interpretation, &c.\n\nThis I submit has been substantially proved by the fact that Mr. Nisbet himself handed me about $12 in cash in advance in the case of Re Sonksen, deceased, in January this year for payment of Court Fees in that case. I submit that if he was unaware of the existence of this practice he would not have deposited the Court Fees paid to him in advance by the officer from the German Consulate with me but would have gone straight to the Shroff with the sum in accordance with the General Orders and could have never dreamt of me. But knowing that I was the proper person in the Registry for these sort of things could not at the time help doing otherwise.\n\nDela\n\nD. A. Cordeiro, deceased.\n\nI was the most busy clerk in the Registry and if I may say a jack of all trades and especially when a batch of Probate papers were sent down by the Chief Justice after making the grants. It was the duty of the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser to draft grants but not knowing the work I was made to do it. It is not any easy or small work and requires great care and attention and knowledge of probate law. I often could not attend to drafting work for 10 days", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447134, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "231\n\n... as to whori ani „ji juoda odatsik lanoitastri na neúsz on and tu maini yỏ begge IIv sina Mindet Bud Bam zsoy Jasi rodmevo. To Ju 880) Ni Jend setti 100 Một slist ad day tanodal Jim yď Froqri\n\neds to muER, AL\n\nat boys Jor: DİL QU\n\n-\n\nTodas: 1571\n\neoiron on dou mua soido»ty and to \"enal ybeeïla sá saumond um di\n\n•TÁL BOJA CLA od nežoga von \"kuum ad ti 303 3 Indian 1 ...ji to ♫a in ki soralea mur beben zond aved blaʊw sa Progor #*andodeft I JINODU TEIwi I na moinasamog 2 Ni Fuð um nolikt vano a'uadƐ\n\noitom\n\nB munitnoo Ilija od ma ynisah on need sva zou bimuo Junusta, all out I breit molt pol ynimuar se♬ to stiqa JOTŤ 10, 1-4 bɔlesonoo a mi najavom ni seel and sind zor bih i\n\nelius vinego Jud mżanoll‹ginn DATE ME MİJJİS BOU_malico y, to [anquodni od 1: BOIBJ8.088 nace daâm bom pirmignil sat MÅ\n\nJed dual and yď varuky gainitanandum noco and Sjusdam I wiffT\n\nÀ neno ni S♫ Jubwa na cnbow Member Peanàl\n\nto dosyaq mul taa, nane you. Tu ni pinsan anh,mnamoƐ on to sen\n\n6:2 10 GIWscu ade so ti Jens Jimmun I Jonas jada 12 noot Swet Jijoj saj bejiaoqab ayu, con viuor ad esitonsą sind To monataire -Íver:o)) na með and mun) nuni?10 sud zu eonavbe ni min oử bằng seol\n\nen niv Ttor..\n\n1049,; OVR hlavo an encrð læreusû mað driv sombrosos nË MUN\n\nev ni montɔq regorg and am I dać goŻWORK Jul\n\n·\n\n10 dwaerb\n\nOPPOLAṬES*\n\nmy I 12 nun yutma jná was ni amlo ywưd Jmon But now I BIB:ų atndoTI to soʻng a anum yilniosque han mehena Ila Yo konį Adana Tala soiroul de inu 2013 ya perun Juan esem\n\nJug edraga dianb ♬ toniriq4, 20G TRIŠNİZef yuqadi od: le ytub edu TO VE'S VS J001 BÍ Đà i do a dam sen I hơn set Nina Jon to spolmoni me noisesta boa eta Jast, setimper jus arow ¡leme\n\n1% ärom Midtaná od bruta dan cium nost. I .*«i asadorų\n\nor a fortnight after the grants were made by the Chief Justice on account of other office work.\n\nThe drafting work would not be given any special attention unless it is urgently required to be done by the person entitled to the grant. The drafts are sent to the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser formally to be passed as an officer in authority. After they are passed by him they go to the Registrar. The Deputy Registrar would keep them for a few days until he has time to go through them as a matter of course and after he has finished with them they go to the Registrar formally who may keep them for an-other few days. Then they come back to me to be engrossed and after they are engrossed they are sent to the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser to be examined. The engrossing takes much longer time than the drafting work. Some of the grants have lengthy Wille akkur attached to them and take time to be examined. I was most highly pressed with work just about this time with interpreting in Criminal Sessions. I used to be for days engaged in Court from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. and after that had to attend to general office work forgetting all about work that was not urgent and required no special attention to be given to. Mr. Noronha told me, I remember it perfectly well, that there was no urgency about the matter. In June he rang me up on the telephone and told me that the Bank would like to see the Letters of Administration and asked me if I could let him have it at my convenience. I promised and whilst I was attending to it he rang me up again. I then gave it my special attention and got it through for him by the 17th of June last and not the end as is stated by him. I regret that the Court fees were not paid on due date, namely, the 17th of June lest, when the Letters of Administration were signed. It was through an oversight and the file was in the drawer where all these current pauper cases put through by me were usually kept.\n\nC\n\nChan How Tin deceased.\n\nThe facts as to the non-payment of the Court Fees in this case are exactly the same as in Cordeiro, deceased, and it was an oversight on my part and they would have been paid over to the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447135, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "Registrar as I had paid other moneys to him before the 30th of June last if he would have gone through my probate work as was intimated by him to me in the morning of that day at about 11 a.m.\n\nIt was admitted by the Registrar that the question of delay as a whole could not be attached to me. That apparently and according to the files the delay was due to want of valid sureties. But the Hon. The Colonial Treasurer desired to know how and why the case of Li Ah Shau, deceased, which was his case when he was Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, was held up for such a long time. With regard to that case I submit the applicant Li Tam Kiu should not be believed when he says that I never asked him to find sureties and hurry up. He lies when he denies it. I met him several times both on the Lungnon-Kowloon City Road and near the Kowloon City Police Station carrying vegetables and on each occasion asked him to hurry up and to get sureties and on each of those occasions he assented to do so and that was how and why the matter was outstanding when I left the Registry. I would ask the Committee not to believe him that I never informed him that his sureties that he had submitted were not valid. The Report is on the file and in the usual course it must have gone to the Registrar first and he must have known that it was a pauper or small case and did not exercise his discretion to accept the sureties although reported \"not valid\".\n\nOn the 30th of June last I carried away with me the balances in my hands in the following matters to be returned to the respective payers thereof:-\n\n1. E. Stainfield, deceased.....................$89.00\n\n2. Li Ah Shau, deceased.......................$8.50\n\n3. Shek Fuk, deceased.......................$11.50\n\n4. Ip Kwai, deceased.........................$24.00\n\nI found the petitioner in the case of Ip Kwai, deceased, and returned to her the $24 soon after my transfer.\n\nOn my transfer to the General Post Office I interviewed one of the sons of the petitioner in the case of E. Stainfield, deceased, and offered the balance of $89 to him to take it to his father for me, but he intimated that he was not on good terms with his father.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447147, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "244\n\nto my approaching them on the matter. He permitted me to do the necessary. I interviewed the petitioners on several occasions and the result was, that I discovered further properties alleged to belong to the deceased on which the petitioners offered to pay probate duty, in spite of the fact that they contended that the properties did not form part of the estate of the deceased. That they would pay the probate duty thereon as their position in the commercial circle would not permit them to fight it out with the Government in Court. The Government would have got about $20,000 by way of further probate duty and interest thereon but the Registrar instead of following the usual practice of accepting the probate duty instituted perjury proceedings against the petitioners. The Honourable the Colonial Treasurer would, I think, remember that in his time as Deputy Registrar and Appraiser he often got the value of the properties in the petitions increased and added further properties not disclosed by petitioners and charged probate duty thereon and interest, where payable, but never instituted legal proceedings against any petitioner. He would probably remember the case in which he got further properties added and which increased the amount of probate duty payable in the matter by about $40,000.\n\nAs soon as the Summons was served the petitioners called to see me in the Registry and said to me \"what have you done\". I replied \"nothing\". They then showed me the Summons to my surprise. I at once went and saw Mr. McElderry and asked him to have the summons withdrawn or else my credit with friends as a friend would be ruined. That I could not see the Government my employers lose anything properly entitled to and that as such servant I had done my duty. That I did not act in the matter to deceive my friends as a friend and to let them in for perjury proceedings. That I had told him before taking this responsibility that I would not like to be exposed in the matter. He promised to speak to Mr. Nisbet about it as the Summons was in his name. A few days later I saw him and he told me that he had seen Mr. Nisbet, but he would not agree. He told me that he had conveyed\n\n04", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449234, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "page_number": 483, "title": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "content_text": "081\n\nTranslation of CODE Telegram\n\nFrom Governor, Singapore, (for Secretary of State)\n\n88\n\n481\n\nMFTJ0IOT 2000 to noitalansSTĮ\n\nETATE TO THATIDER BOTT\n\n-DMCORNICH „ÆÐI STOO OT\n\n„AIGI,redotoð Iső stel\n\n------\n\n.redotoo tal bas teduntquƐ ditas to muszjelet wor angitottjast to somnumidumo of brager dółw bevorqga alsnogori ni qirarentreq to notdulonaib pritosquer wal guitstro pisoris to è aloitta yɗ begnado Jon at aeonstamonto Latoega ant →dd? redmedgeƐ to soltamsfoor¶\n\nTo\n\nGovernor, Hongkong.\n\nDate 5th October, 1914.\n\nFollowing is repetition of telegram from Secretary of State for the Colonies for your information and guidance. (Begins) October 3rd. My despatch 14th August. Prize Court Rules 1914 Order-in-Council passed September 30th taking effect that date amends Rules as follows. (Begins)\n\nOrder 28 Rule 3 omitted retrospectively as though it had\n\nnever been inserted.\n\nOrder 29 following words omitted in Rules 1 and 3 words\n\non motion in Rule 1 words form of notice of motion will be found in Appendix A No.54 on Rule 4 words by motion.\n\nFollowing new rule added to Order 29 (begins)\n\n4A. Notwithstanding anything contained in this order,\n\nthe court shall on the request of the proper officer of the Crown accept in lieu of payment into Court an undertaking in writing signed by the proper officer\n\nof the Crown for payment into Court on behalf of the Crown of the appraised value of the ship, or of the amount fixed under the Rule 4 of this order, as the\n\ncase may be, at such time or times as the Court shall\n\ndeclare by order that the same or any part thereof is required for the purpose of payment out of Court.\n\n48. Where in any case of requisition under this order\n\nit is made to appear to the Judge on behalf of the Crown that the Lords of the Admiralty desire to requisition the ship temporarily, the Court\n\nmay, in lieu of an order of release, make an order\n\nfor the temporary delivery of the ship to the Lords", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449944, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "content_text": "Translation of CODE Telegram\n\nFrom SECRETARY OF STATE\n\nTo GOVERNOR, HONGKONG.\n\nDate 1st December, 1914.\n\nAs it may be desired to utilize \"Tannenfels\" for commercial purposes please report by telegram following details. Probable date of condemnation, speed, consumption, passenger capacity, deadweight, cargo capacity, bunker capacity, amount of coal and provisions on board and value of ship, stating whether appraised by Court or not and if insured amount for which insured also whether ship empty and when it will be ready to sail if taken over by Admiralty.\n\nHARCOURT", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450096, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "page_number": 248, "title": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "content_text": "Page 244\n\nTranslation of CODE Telegram:\n\nFrom GOVERNOR, HONGKONG,\n\nTo SECRETARY OF STATE\n\nDate 4th December, 1914.\n\n...\n\nIn reply to your telegram of the 1st December \"Tannenfels likely to be condemned by Prize Court on the 7th December. Speed in knots 11, consumption of coal 45 tons, daily accommodation 1,300, deadweight 7,100 tons, bunker capacity in tons 1180, approximate value £43,000, no cargo or coal on board. Prize Court has not appraised or insured vessel. It is ready to sail but requires stores and coal.\n\nMAY", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450103, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "content_text": "Translation of CODE Telegram\n\nFrom GOVERNOR, HONGKONG,\n\nTo SECRETARY OF STATE.\n\nDate 12th December, 1914.\n\n92\n\n251\n\nYour telegram of 5th December \"Hanametal\" not likely to be condemned. \"Paklat\" and \"Rio Pasig\" not yet condemned particulars will be sent in due course. \"Frisia\" speed in knot 11 coal consumption 50 tons accommodation passengers 1440 deadweight capacity for cargo 1500 reserve bunker not included 7415 tons permanent bunker capacity in tons 645 and 725 reserve bunker approximate value $66,000 coal now on board 60 tons.\n\n\"Rajaburi\" speed in knots 10 coal consumption 18 tons accommodation passengers coasting trade 940 foreign trade 405 deadweight capacity for cargo 1900 tons bunker capacity in tons 335 approximate value £26,000 coal now on board 40 tons can leave at short notice. None of them appraised or insured.\n\nMAY", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "page_number": 387, "title": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "content_text": "In any further communica-\n\ntion on this subject, please quote\n\nN.L.16829/14,\n\nand address letter to-\n\nThe Secretary.\n\nAdmiralty, Whitehall,\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\nC.O.\n\n36767\n\n383\n\nAdmiralty,\n\nR2 26 SEP 14 25th September 1942.\n\n \n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 24th instant,\n\nNo.36266/14, forwarding a copy of a telegram received\n\nfrom the Governor of Hong Kong relative to the chartering\n\nof the Prize \"Frisia\" together with a draft of the reply\n\nwhich it is proposed to return, I am commanded by my\n\nLords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for\n\nthe information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nthat they concur in the terms of the draft reply but that\n\nthey would suggest that it should include an approval of\n\nthe rate of hire which it is proposed to exact and that a\n\ncondition should be inserted to the effect that the vessel\n\nshould be appraised before being chartered since such appraisement would be of considerable utility in the event of any dispute as to depreciation.\n\n \n\nUnder Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nLP.-No. 8.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nW. Graham Fry.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453426, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 212, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "## Translation of CODE Telegram\n**SECRETARY OF STATE** \n**GOVERNOR, HONGKONG.** \n11th March, 1915.\n\n91 208\n\nMy Telegram of 8th February, \"Rajaburi\" has been valued by Lachlan & Co. for purposes of insurance at £16,250. In order to meet possible claims of German owners at end of war it appears desirable that insurance value should be the appraised value. Please request Court to appraise accordingly if no appraisement made unless Court would accept Lachlan's valuation which would be convenient. Please report by telegram particulars of appraisement when made.\n\n## From \n#b00 \nKotak dál \n.rer \nTo \nDate \n@350 \n.800 \naboð \nTodqvo \n6550 \neboo \nthan \nHeer \n.00s \n.IOS \n.200 \nLis 21 \n+ \n.cos \nDASS \n• \n309 \n€60 \nbass \n+ \nros \n.803 \nbra resang of boxitts eď bizona aɗqatyotosT \nabo \nBYTE \n.205 \nmõte?\" to reaso ni annibosoorg trưod sal¬¶ boysta eď of \"sztond Bret\" bis \"alḍmag Canolfɔsıtand toddruk gribneq \nobod \nDTES \n.OIS \nat bortupe, ora mlako to untsof TIITED .#gog Imbrag gď insa aboo to toequer \narft yď bevaal acoitountant quidwolemic) wad 10 uoltaffstand aut anibroyer y‡farimBA suojuudio* Tto Iannarið falla eďt ni stri£ faidina vo bevisado ed of ɔlitant and bas .aqida \nabog \nBTES \nIIS \n.SIS \n**HARCOURT**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453718, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 504, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Translation of CODE Telegram\nFrom GOVERNOR, SINGAPORE, (For Secretary of State)\nTo GOVERNOR, HONGKONG.\nDate 15th April, 1915.\n\nThe following is repetition of telegram from Secretary of State:- \n\nMarch 27th. Orders-in-Council March 23rd taking effect from that date further amends Prize Court Rules as follows:-\n\n- Order 9 Rule 1; omit words 'upon filing an affidavit' and substituting following words 'any party other than the proper officer of the Crown' for words 'any other party'. \n- Order 11 Rule 1; omit words between word 'time' line 4 and word 'order' line 5. \n- Order 15 and following Rule 21 begins 'notwithstanding anything contained in these rules the proper officer of the Crown may apply to the Judge for leave to administer interrogatories for the examination of any person whether a Party to the cause or not'. \n- Order 29 as amended by Order-in-Council November 28th is revoked and following substituted:-\n - Rule 1 'where it is made to appear to the Judge on the application of the proper officer of the Crown that it is desired to requisition on behalf of His Majesty a ship in respect of which no final decree of condemnation has been made he shall order that the ship shall be appraised and that upon an undertaking being given in accordance with rule 5 of this Order the ship shall be released and delivered to the Crown'\n - Rule 2 as former rule 2 excepting as follows:- For words down to 'thereof' line 2 substitute following words 'where a decree for the detention of a ship' also for words after 'issue' line 7 to the end of line 8 substitute 'upon an undertaking being given in accordance with rule 5 of this Order' also for words 'Lords of the Admiralty' on two occasions read 'Crown' and line 5 'desires' for 'desire'.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453719, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 505, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "## Rule Changes\n\nRule 3 is amended to substitute 'Crown' for 'Lords of the Admiralty'.\n\nRule 4 is amended to omit all words after 'made' in line 5 and substitute the words 'the Court may on the application of any party fix the amount to be paid by the Crown in respect of the value of the ship'.\n\nRule 5 is amended to substitute for the opening words 'upkeep calculated at' the words 'in every case of requisition under this Order an undertaking in writing shall be filed'.\n\nRule 6 is amended to substitute 'desires' for 'desire' and 'Crown' for 'Lords of the Admiralty' in two places; also omitting the words 'return to the Crown of the money' and the word 'into Court or some or any part thereof or the' and substituting 'by reason of' for 'during' towards the end.\n\nRule 7 remains as former Rule 5.\n\n## New Rule 7\n\nIn any case of requisition of a ship in respect of which no cause has been instituted, any person interested in such ship may, without issuing a writ provided he does not intend to make a claim for restitution or damages, apply by summons for an order that the amount to be paid in respect of such ship be fixed by the Court. The Judge may, on the hearing of the summons, order the ship to be appraised or to be valued or give such other directions for fixing the amount as he may think fit.\n\n## Appendix A Changes\n\nForm 4 in Appendix A is amended to omit the words 'Commander of our ship of war' and the words 'taken and seized as prize by our said ship of war'.\n\nIt will be observed that amendments to Articles 11 and 29 are of special importance.\n\nHarcourt. \nYOUNG.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454045, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Translation of CODE Telegram From SECRETARY OF STATE. GOVERNOR, HONGKONG, 11th May, 1915.\n\nTo Date\n\n266\n252\n\nYour telegram of 20th April. Understand \"Paklet\" required by Admiralty for transport service. Court should be asked to order delivery to Crown under Order-in-Council of February 3rd and ship handed over to Senior Naval Officer who will arrange registration. Steps should be taken to have ship valued by competent surveyor on basis of what it would fetch if sold by auction in London today as it lies in Hongkong. Consumable stores should be included in valuation. No need to have ship appraised under order of Court.\n\n**HARCOURT**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454893, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "page_number": 286, "title": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "content_text": "# \n282\n\nI, **FRANCIS HENRY MAY**, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice Admiral of the same, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:-\n\n(1). From the year 1893 to the 1902 inclusive I commanded the Police Force of the Colony of Hong Kong. I was in the said Colony and in command of the said Force during the whole of the year 1899.\n\n(2) I was well acquainted with Mr. H.H. Kirch and with his wife, Mrs. Kirch (nee Dick-Melbourne) who were residents in the said Colony from the year 1894 to the 27th day of April 1899.\n\n(3) I was also well acquainted during the major portion of the last mentioned period with Mr. Charles Alexander Dick-Melbourne (the brother of the said Mrs. Kirch) who was at that time practising at the Bar in the said Colony. In the year 1900 Mr. Charles Alexander Dick-Melbourne entered the service of the Hong Kong Government. He is still employed by that Government and occupies the position of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser in the Supreme Court in the said Colony.\n\n(4) I remember that on the 27th day of April 1899 Mr. Charles Alexander Dick-Melbourne came to see me in my office as the Captain Superintendent of the Police. He informed me that his brother-in-law, Mr. H.H. Kirch, had disappeared and could not be found. I took every measure that was likely to be effective to find Mr. Kirch dead or alive. A large number of the Police", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454896, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "page_number": 289, "title": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "content_text": "## \n\n285 (5). In consequence of such aforesaid instructions, I communicated with the said Mr. H. H. Kirch and had many interviews with him during the month of April 1899 and was pressing him for payment right up to and including the 26th day of April 1899. The last date on which I saw him was the 22nd day of April 1899.\n\n(6) I remember the disappearance of the said Mr. H. H. Kirch, which happened between the 26th and the morning of the 27th day of April 1899. I know this from the entries in my firm's Day Book, which show that Mr. H. H. Kirch's brother-in-law (Mr. Charles Alexander Dick-Melbourne), with whom I was well acquainted and who was then practising in the Colony as a Barrister-at-Law and who now fills the office of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong), came to my firm's office on the 27th day of April 1899 to inform me of the fact of Mr. H. H. Kirch's disappearance. Prior to this, I myself had been making enquiries as to the whereabouts of the said Mr. H. H. Kirch, as I was desirous of seeing him in connection with the debts for which I was pressing him for payment as above mentioned.\n\n(7) I know that a thorough search was made by the Police for Mr. H. H. Kirch both on land and on board outgoing vessels, and that no trace of him was found either dead or alive. His household furniture was seized and sold at the instance of my firm acting on behalf of the creditors of the said Mr. H. H. Kirch, but, apart from the proceeds thus realised and those resulting from such securities as were held by his creditors, his indebtedness to his creditors remained undischarged, and no subsequent trace of him was, to my knowledge, ever discovered.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454898, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "page_number": 291, "title": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "content_text": "# \n287 \n\nI, CHARLES ALEXANDER DICK-MELBOURNE of \"Tanderagee\" No. 132, The Peak in the Colony of Hong Kong, Barrister-at-Law, do solemnly and sincerely declare and say as follows:- \n\n(1) I am a member of the Inner Temple, London, England, and was called to the English Bar on the 17th day of November 1891. I was admitted to practise as a Barrister in the Supreme Court of Hongkong on the 14th day of November, 1895. \n\n(2) On the 1st day of May 1900 I entered the service of the Hongkong Government by whom I am still employed and at the present time occupy the position of Deputy Registrar and Appraiser in the Supreme Court of Hongkong. \n\n(3) Mrs. Kirch is my sister. I knew and was well acquainted with her husband, Mr. H.H. Kirch, who, with Mrs. Kirch, resided in the said Colony of Hongkong from the year 1894 up to the 27th day of April, 1899. \n\n(4) Mr. H.H. Kirch was for some time prior to the year 1893 a partner in the firm of Schelhass and Co. which carried on business in Hongkong as General Merchants but in or about the year 1898 Mr. H.H. Kirch left the firm of Schelhass and Co. and started business on his own account as a General Merchant under the style of \"H.H. Kirch and Co\". Mr. H.H. Kirch was in financial difficulties during and for some time prior to the month of April 1899 and to my knowledge he was in consequence much pressed by his creditors for payment of various large amounts due to such creditors. \n\n(5)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459531, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 390, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "REGE 27 JUL 15\n\nC.\n\nC\n\nK\n\n34510 Stlay\n\nA\n\n-\n\nDir,\n\n372\n\nQue ex\n\nDRAFT.\n\nStay\n\n4214\n\nIn may\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr.JtMelen 18/15 Mr. Johnson off\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nStr 11. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland,\n\nMr. Bonar Law.\n\n26 Enly is\n\n(34510)\n\n2dfs.\n\nAnd. 43107\n\nI have re to\n\ntransmet\n\nb\n\nYou for\n\n/\n\nEar carson, a copy of\n\na letter fran that. Tr.\n\nKirch\n\nthe Weft\n\nof\n\na German eutect, who\n\ndeares to proceed to\n\nIthay.\n\n2. Sunderstand\n\nthat Mars March is\n\nAustralian\n\n6\n\na sister\n\nan\n\n9 birth &\n\nll\n\nCAD Melbourne,\n\nSchute Registrar\n\nAppraiser, supreme\n\nPage 390\n\nPage 391\n\nCourt: & Ishall be\n\nfaust:\n\nwill\n\nElad\n\nunfort\n\nter whether\n\nThe\n\nwarld\n\nbe allowed\n\nStay\n\nif\n\nto land in\n\nshe proceeded\n\no the Zolary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462800, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "page_number": 589, "title": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "content_text": "## Staff List with Salaries\n\n| Name | Position | Salary Range |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| E.J. Edwards | Asst. Master, Queen's College | £300-£550 |\n| A. Gibson | Colonial Veterinary | £480-£600 |\n| B.W. Gray | Surgeon | £540-£600 |\n| 2. Hall | 2nd. Master Queen's College | £450-£480 |\n| H.E. Goldsmith | Asst. Engineer P.W.D. | £360-£450 |\n| A.W. Grant | Land Surveyor, P.W.D. | £380-£410 |\n| A.T. Hamilton | 2nd. Asst. Marine | |\n| P.M. Hodgson | Beadmaster, Kowloon British School | £420-£540 |\n| B.H.H. Ixer | Asst. Crown Solicitor | £360-£450 |\n| D. Jaffe | Asst. Land Officer | £420-£540 |\n| K. | Executive Engineer P.W.D. | £480-£600 |\n| W. Kay | Headmaster, Wantsee English School | £300-£350 |\n| Lancelot Forster | Asst. Master, Queen's College | £200-£350 |\n| R.E. Lindsell | | |\n| J. D. Lloyd | 3rd. Asst. to Secretary for Chinese Affairs | £400-£560 |\n| H.C. Lowick | Asst. Postmaster General | £400-£560 |\n| O.F. Labatti | Asst. Engineer, P.W.D. | |\n| G.P. de Martin | Asst. Analyst, Medical Dept. | £260-£450 |\n| | Asst. Master, Queen's College | £300-£450 |\n| S.B.B. McElderry | Deputy Registrar & Acct. | £400-£560 |\n| O.D. Melbourne | Deputy Registrar and Appraiser | £400-£560 |\n| S.R. Moore | | |\n| A. Morris | Asst. Master, Education Dept. | £300-£550 |\n| | Headmaster, Saiyingpun School | £500-£550 |\n| H.G. Nolan | Chief Interpreter, | £360-£500 |\n| T. L. Pertina | Supreme Court | |\n| J. Ralston | Executive Engineer P.W.D. | £480-£600 |\n| E.B. Rood | Asst. Master, Queen's College | £500-£550 |\n| | 1st. Grade Surveyor, P.W.D. | £450-£480 |\n| L.C.P. Rees | Principal Land Surveyor, P.W.D. | £610-£840 |\n| F.J. de Rome | Asst. Master, Queen's College | £500-£550 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469682, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 556, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "56\n\nPower to erect lighthouses, etc.; to raise necessary funds by loan.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor to erect and maintain within the Colony such lighthouses, buoys, or beacons for the guidance of ships, and to lay, erect, and maintain such cables, wires, and other necessary apparatus for the purpose of telegraphic or other communication in connection therewith or for any other purpose as the Governor-in-Council may think necessary.\n\n(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor with the assent of the Legislative Council, to raise by way of public loan, on the security of the general revenues, such sums of money as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, and every loan so raised shall be a charge upon the said revenues.\n\n(4) It shall be lawful for the Governor, in the meanwhile, with such assent as aforesaid, to order the payment, by way of temporary advance, out of the Treasury, of such sums of money arising from the general revenues as may be required for the purposes aforesaid : Provided always that all sums of money so advanced shall be repaid into the Treasury out of the sums which may be raised by way of loan under the provisions hereinbefore contained.\n\nLight and other Dues.\n\n32.—(1) The owner, agent, or master of every ship which enters the waters of the Colony shall pay such dues as may be fixed by order of the Governor, pursuant to resolution of the Legislative Council, to such officer as the Governor may appoint to collect the dues.\n\nAll British and foreign ships of war and all vessels of less than 20 tons shall be exempt from the payment of the said dues.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council,\n\n(a) to fix the times, places, and modes at and in which the dues shall be payable;\n\n(b) to exempt any ships or classes of ships from such payment, and to annex any terms or conditions to such exemptions; and\n\n(c) to substitute any other dues or classes of dues, whether by way of annual payment or otherwise, in respect of any ships or classes of ships.\n\n(3) Tables of all dues, and a copy of regulations in respect thereof, shall be posted up at the Harbour Master's office.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n57\n\n(4) A receipt for the said dues shall be given by the person appointed to collect the same to every person paying in the same, and the Harbour Master shall not grant a clearance to any ship unless production of receipt for such dues is produced to him.\n\n(5) If the owner, agent, or master of any ship fails, on demand of the authorised collector, to pay the said dues in respect thereof, it shall be lawful for such collector, in addition to any other remedy which he is entitled to use, to enter upon such ship and distrain the goods, guns, tackle, or any other things of or belonging to or on board such ship, and to detain such distress until the said dues are paid; and if payment of the same is not made within the 3 days next ensuing such distress, the collector may, at any time during the continuance of such non-payment, cause the distress to be appraised by two sufficient persons, and thereupon sell the same, and apply the proceeds in payment of the dues unpaid together with reasonable expenses incurred by him under this section, paying the surplus, if any, on demand, to the said owner, agent, or master.\n\n(6) In order to ascertain the burden of any ship liable to pay dues under this section, the authorised collector may require the owner or master to produce the register of such ship for his inspection, and, on the refusal or neglect of such owner or master to produce such register or to satisfy the collector as to what is the true burden of the ship, it shall be lawful for him to cause such ship to be measured at the expense of the owner or master thereof, which shall be recoverable in the same manner as dues payable under this section; and such measurement shall be deemed to be the real burden of the ship, and may be treated as such for all the purposes of this section.\n\n(7) The master of any ship who,\n\n(a) departs or attempts to depart from any port leaving unpaid the dues required to be paid under this section; or\n\n(b) refuses to have his ship measured to ascertain her burden in tons; or\n\n(c) obstructs any person in the duties of his office, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 200 dollars.\n\nDamage to Lights, Buoys, and Beacons, Cables, etc.\n\n38.—(1) Any person who wilfully or negligently commits any of the following offences:\n\n* As amended by No. 30 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911, No. 16 of 1913, No. 17 of 1912 and No. 31 of 1912.\n\nInjuring\n\n551", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477209, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "page_number": 439, "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "content_text": "435\n\n`B.T 37580`\n\nClass 24 is \"cotton piece goods of all kinds\", and class 34 is \"cloths and stuffs of wool, worsted or hair\".\n\n3.\n\nI now understand from your telegram of the 9th August that an assignment of the trade marks in question with the goodwill connected with these particular trade marks will be valid. If that be so, and if Messrs. V. and C. Dunlop are prepared to accept an assignment so limited, I see no objection to the application in this case of the general policy indicated in your despatch of the 10th October, 1917. I also agree that the value of this limited portion of the goodwill of Messrs. Heyerink and Company's piece goods department may be treated as nominal.\n\n4.\n\nI enclose a copy of a letter received from the Chamber of Commerce in reply to a request by the Registrar of Trade Marks for the name of an appraiser who could supply a valuation of the trade marks in question and of the goodwill of the piece goods department of Messrs. Meyerink and Company. The question of this valuation no longer arises, but it may be of interest to you to know the attitude of the Chamber of Commerce to the question of German trade marks generally. One of my reasons for enclosing a copy of this letter is the fact that the licence to pay fees for the renewal of enemy owned trade marks has recently been withdrawn by the Board of Trade. I am addressing you separately on the question of the withdrawal of this licence.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nGovernor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478446, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 683, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n## 18034\n### C. 18034 REC\n\nREA 13 APR 181\n\nBoard of Sale of Trade marks registered in joint names of Messrs W.-C. Dunlop & Inegerink to:\n\nTrade 1918\n\n12 April. Concurs in proposal to approve suggestions referred in Soo's despatch; Suggests that the price to be charged should be based upon a valuation to be made by local appraiser appointed by the govt.\n\nCons 18 Apr /18 at 300, 11th para.\n\n18. Next subsequent Paper 21350.\n\nI am afraid I have nothing to say on the basis of valuation.\n\nApprove the suggestion as in para of Letter 06. 13600\n\nThis corresp. has been so long that I would now like to inform Govt. and say that if he concurs we propose to inform Messrs. D. accordingly. `XCR(14174)` Wt. 5426-16. 50m, 1117 D&S. G 122 41\n\n16.4.18 8812\n\n17.4.18", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478447, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 684, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "679 \n\nAny further communication should be addressed to- \n\n**THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY**, the address given opposite. \n\nThe following letter and number should \n\nbe quoted :- \n\n`C. 3648` \n\nTelegraphic Address: \n\n**BOARD OF TRADE**, \n**(COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT)**, \n18034 \n**GWYDYR HOUSE**, \n**WHITEHALL, LONDON** \nTelephone No.: 3840 Victoria. \n\n## REC REB2 13 APR 18 \n\nSir, \n\nWHITEHALL, \nLONDON, S.W. 1. \n12th April, 1918. \n\nWith reference to your letter (No.13600/18) of the 6th April enclosing a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong regarding the sale of the trade marks registered in the joint names of Messrs. W. & C. Dunlop and Messrs. Meyerink & Company, I am directed by the Board of Trade to state that they concur in Mr. Long's proposal to approve the suggestions made in paragraph 3 of Sir H. May's despatch. \n\nI am to suggest that the price to be charged for the goodwill and trade marks should be based upon a valuation to be made by a local appraiser to be appointed by the Governor. \n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour obedient Servant, \nH. J. Read \nUnder Secretary of State, \n**COLONIAL OFFICE**.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478448, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 685, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "## DRAFT Telegram Governor Hong Kong MINUTE.\n\nSmmens 1874/18\n\nMr. Beckett on July \nMr. Grindle. \nMr. Lambert. \nGolf Read. \nBir 17. Fiddes, \nMr. Hewins. \nMr. Lang.\n\n1600 \nAnad 33183.\n\nYour telegram of 21st instant. No. Jo \nProposals approved \nTrade would suggest that price \nfor goodwill and trademarks \nshould be based on valuation by local appraiser approved by your \ncommittee. \nIf you concur will inform \nCumloes accordingly.\n\nLong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491769, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\n186\n\nSo 3846 121/1212\n\nZL\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nL6857\n\nAnod\n\nSin.\n\nSov. 22176/22. dop Jo\n\n19\n\nI have etc.\n\nZown desp\n\nrephi.\n\nCutter\n\nNo\n\nDec 21.\n\nto refer\n\nJune\n\nto\n\n433 of\n\nthe\n\ntransmitting\n\nto the Questionnaire\n\n309\n\n222\n\nup by the for advisory\n\nOpium.\n\nto as\n\nreply to\n\nThe statement\n\nA doss\n\nMr. Collin\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Davis.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nSir B. Read\n\nSir J. Masterton Smith,\n\nMr. Wood.\n\nMr. Churchill.\n\n22176.\n\nnot appraised\n\nto\n\nbe\n\ncorrect\n\na4\n\nresp.,\n\nat the time of your\n\naddition\n\n- Open Ordinance of 1914\n\nunending balances\n\n1917 * 1918\n\n$\n\nwere & still are\n\nut also\n\nthe\n\nthe\n\nin\n\nforce (vide 51 of Ordinance No\n\nof 1922, forwarded with\n\nXCR(85)72\n\nNo 138\n\nthat the\n\ny\n\nThe (B\" branch).\n\nIt has\n\ncopies of\n\nOrdinance of 1914\n\nbeen suggested\n\nwt.\n\nThe Opium\n\n- Cultivat", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 496832, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "# DRAFT\n\n## Hlory 33676\n\nR 14 JUL\n\n10/0\n\n73\n\n18 July 28.\n\nI am appraised that on 29 June, ...\n\nwilli ...\n\n1. C. Lewith Riffe, OBE\n\nWhat has been done about ...?\n\n## MINUTE\n\nMr. AA 577 1x 34, cAtting ensay\n\nMr. Davis.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nSir H. Read.\n\nSir J. Masterton Smith.\n\nMr. Ormsby-Gore.\n\nDuke of Devonshire.\n\nCon ...\n\nat woz 9.7.03\n\nTo you, when ... in our only copy, I am afraid I shall have to refer to what you have to demonstrate.\n\nReferred to Clan of Lag. Co. and in 22/05/22. in sig. for entron.\n\nI have entered ...\n\na far ...\n\nwith her Manly foun 313 lumps.\n\nConsequence of the visit of your commission. We know that ... affomited and finde local official committee was delayed and the unfortunate was owing to difficulty in felling entame wide owing to the shuker which caused disturbance (slony).\n\nWhen we were there, we felt it. Dad ... what had any general is beny home, calling for ...\n\nI will feel that the bearing in mind the various positi larsed at our Sydk) w.ommsey Sore.\n\nYou will find it carefully, inluiss...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "## Light and other Dues\n\n32.--(1.) The owner, agent, or master of every ship which enters the waters of the Colony shall pay such dues as may be fixed by order of the Governor, pursuant to resolution of the Legislative Council, to such officer as the Governor may appoint to collect the same. All British and foreign ships of war and all vessels of less than 20 tons shall be exempt from the payment of the said dues.\n\n(2.) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council,-\n(a) to fix the times, places, and modes at and in which the dues shall be payable;\n(b) to exempt any ship or classes of ships from such payment, and to annex any terms or conditions to such exemptions; and\n(c) to substitute any other dues or classes of dues, whether by way of annual payment or otherwise, in respect of any ships or classes of ships.\n\n(3.) Tables of all dues, and a copy of regulations in respect thereof shall be posted up at the Harbour Master's Office.\n\n(4.) A receipt for the said dues shall be given by the person appointed to collect the same to every person paying in the same, and the Harbour Master shall not grant a clearance to any ship unless such receipt is produced by him.\n\n(5.) If the owner, agent, or master of any ship fails, on demand of the authorised collector, to pay the said dues in respect thereof, it shall be lawful for such collector, in addition to any other remedy which he is entitled to use, to enter upon such ship and distrain the goods, guns, tackle, or any other things of or belonging to or on board such ship, and to detain such distress, until the said dues are paid; and if payment of the same is not made within 3 days next ensuing such distress, the collector may, at any time during the continuance of such non-payment, cause the distress to be appraised by two sufficient persons, and thereupon sell the same, and apply the proceeds in payment of the dues unpaid together with reasonable expenses incurred by him under this section, paying the surplus, if any, on demand, to the said owner, agent, or master.\n\n(6.) In order to ascertain the burden of any ship liable to pay dues under this section, the authorised collector may require the owner or master to produce the register of such ship for his inspection, and, on the refusal or neglect of such owner or master to produce such register or to satisfy the collector as to what is the true burden of the ship, it shall be lawful for him to cause such ship to be measured at the expense of the owner or master thereof, which shall be recoverable in the same manner as dues payable under this section, and such measurement shall be deemed to be the real burden of the ship, and treated as such for all the purposes of this section.\n\n(7.) The master of any ship who,—\n(a) departs or attempts to depart from any port leaving unpaid the dues required to be paid under this section; or\n(b) refuses to have his ship measured to ascertain her burden in tons; or\n(c) obstructs any person in the duties of his office,\nshall be liable to a fine not exceeding 200 dollars.\n\n### Table P\n\n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | All ships which enter the waters of the Colony except British and foreign ships of war, shall pay the following dues, viz |\n| | 2 cents per ton. |\n| 2. | Such dues shall be paid either at the time of entry or at the time of clearance. |\n| 3. | All River Steamers which enter the waters of the Colony by day or by night, shall pay five sixths of a cent per ton. |\n\nPage 55 \nPage 96", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507296, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "content_text": "# The CANTON GAZETTE \n## 廣州日報 \nRegistered at the Post Office as a Newspaper \n\n**Vol. V No. 955 CANTON, CHINA, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1927** \n民國十六年五月二十三日星期一\n\n## NANKING, A TURNING POINT IN FAR EASTERN AND WORLD AFFAIRS!! \nNANKING EVENTS MARK THE PASSING OF EUROPEAN INFLUENCE, PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH INFLUENCE IN CHINA. SAYS AMERICAN EDITOR. BRITISH ACTIONS SEVERLY CRITICIZED.\n\nBy J.B. POWELL\n\nMr. Powell, editor and publisher of the **CHINA WEEKLY REVIEW**, has been extremely sympathetic with the Nationalist Movement. The influence predominant in Asia today, it naturally can be only a matter of time until America and Russia will come to an understanding.\n\n## The Editor.\n\n### General Feng Yu-hsiang's Troops Arrive In Honan\nTungkwan is Temporary Headquarters of 20,000 Nationalist Troops\nNationalists About to Surround Pengfu\nChief Chiang Returns To Nanking\n\n**Single Copy: 10 Cents** \n**$2.00 A Month** \n**$24.00 A Year**\n\n## WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE SENDS GREETINGS TO CHINA'S FEMINIST ORGANIZATIONS\nFrom Shanghai \nCLAIMS TO STAND FOR FREEDOM AND PEACE; TO SUPPORT CHINA'S MOVEMENT TO RID THE COUNTRY OF MILITARISM AND IMPERIALISM; ADVOCATES ABROGATION OF UNILATERAL TREATIES AND BETTER CONDITIONS FOR THE WORKERS\n\nChiang Kai-shek, Commander-in-Chief of All the Nationalist Armies, has returned to Nanking from Shanghai at 7 a.m. on the morning of April 25th, 1927. He was welcomed by Messrs. Chang Ching Kiang, Li Shek-tsun, Yang Shu-chang, and Chen Ying-sze.\n\nHankow, May 19.—According to a Japanese source, General Feng Yu-hsiang's troops have arrived in Honan and number some 20,000. Their temporary headquarters are at Tungkwan.\n\nThe tension in Hankow is growing more serious. The anti-British feeling in China is severe. Further, it believes that, in view of the strength of the Nationalist Movement, this country should take some definite steps to show goodwill.\n\nThe Women's International League for Peace and Freedom sends Greetings to the Federation of Feminist Organisations in China.\n\n\"Recognising that China is passing through a national struggle in which the Canton Government, is the rallying force for a democratic Government, and when the regular application of strictly legal claims is impracticable, the Women's International League urges that the British Government should:\n| Action | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| A. | Not intervene on any side of the national conflict with cash, credit or munitions, nor sanction such intervention by any of its nationals; |\n| B. | Withdraw all ships of war from the Yangtze and other Chinese territorial waters, removing if necessary for their safety, any British nationals who may desire this; |\n| C. | Let it be known that it is willing to enter into treaties with the Chinese on a footing of equality, abandoning extra-territorial rights and control of Chinese taxation. |\n\nNanking, May 20.—The first of the Nationalist Army Corps, after taking Chuchow, are now advancing Northwards and are about to surround Pengpu.\n\nThe British Section taken from the **REVIEW** for May 14, 1927, shows his great interest in the solutions of the problems of construction now pressing for solution in this quarter of the world.\n\nThe dispatch says: \"We have been informed by your Secretariat Department, that you have decided to put the Telephone Bureau under the control of the Municipal Government. We cordially invite your co-operation with us in the endeavour to spread the truth, to resist the war spirit and to make men realise that the only way to protect women is for men to cease from fighting each other and firmly resolve to settle matters by reason and goodwill.\"\n\n(Signed) H.M. SWANWICK, on behalf of the Executive Committee.\n\n## The New Municipal Government\nSince Mr. Lum Wen-kai assumed the mayorship of this city, certain changes have been made in the Municipal Government: Yiao Sze-yee has been appointed Chief of the General Affairs Section, Chau Hok-tong, the Chief Secretary, and Ng Chek-ying, Accountant. Mr. Lau Wei-shik's resignation from his position as Commissioner of the Bureau of Finance has been accepted, but his successor has not been decided upon.\n\n## AN APOLOGY AND CORRECTION\nFor the past day or so, our editors in charge have inadvertently inserted the words \"Northern and Southern\" in these columns in connection with the Revolutionary War. Such words are entirely misleading, and the Management of the **Gazette** has to apologize to its readers for such a mistake. However, those who are responsible for them have been summarily dismissed from office. The Management wishes it be peremptorily and explicitly understood that the war in China is NOT between the North and the South, but between the progressive Nationalists and the reactionary militarists. Any one who is a loyal adherent of the Kuomintang and a faithful follower of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen is a progressive Nationalist, irrespective of locality.\n\nThe Management.\n\n## To Prohibit Gambling, Is Kuomintang Order\nIt expresses the hope that Great Britain will pursue the policy of restoring to the Chinese complete control of their own finances, whatever may be done by any other power.\n\nA notification has been despatched by the Provincial Kuomintang to the Party authorities of various districts to enforce effectively measures for the prohibition of gambling.\n\nThe notification says: \"A prohibition order has been issued by the Ministry of Finance to forbid gambling. Should unscrupulous gentries of any district be found guilty of protecting the gamblers and encouraging gambling business, the district Kuomintang authorities are authorized to arrest the gamblers and ring leaders, destroy the gambling dens and punish the gentries in accordance with military law.\"\n\n## To Conduct Kiangyin Bombardment In Shanghai\nShanghai, May 20.—In view of the bombardment by a British cruiser at Kiangyin, on the southern bank of the Yangtsze in Kiangsu, causing damage to the Chinese population, the Foreign Minister of the Nationalist Government, Dr. C. C. Wu, has ordered the Foreign Commissioner of Kiangsu to take up the matter with the British Consul-General at Shanghai.\n\n## Commissioner Of Municipal Bureau To Resign\nCommissioner Lau Wei-shik of the Municipal Bureau of Finance has recently sent in his resignation to the Municipal Government on account of ill health. Mr. Lau is known to have done good work during his half year of service. He has been generally appraised for effecting the installation of the automatic telephones in this city and for making good efforts to organize the municipal bank which will be soon inaugurated.\n\n## (Continued on Page 2)\n\n## NANKING, A TURNING POINT IN FAR EASTERN AND WORLD AFFAIRS!! \n(Continued from Page 1)\nThe Underlying reasons for these great and historic developments naturally predate the Nanking incidents of March 24 last: they really back to the front defense lines which the World War which left victors and vanquished so weakened and so beset with deep-seated war animosities, that the so-called European accord in respect to dealings with the 'backward' nations of the Orient, could no longer be invoked.\n\nDuring the course of the Britain and World War, Great Britain, in combination with Japan, forced Germany out of China. After the war, Great Britain, with the assistance of France, Italy, and the United States, forced Russia out of Europe and into Asia.\n\nThe influence predominant in Asia today, it naturally can be only a matter of time until America and Russia will come to an understanding. The growing influence of America, Russia, Japan, and China, the nations, which due to geographical location, territorial extent, economic and human resources, are by right justly entitled to dominate the North Pacific area.\n\nThe Canton-Kowloon Railway to Resume Express Train Service\nThough through traffic has been resumed by the Canton-Kowloon Railway, the resumption of express train service has so far been delayed, owing to the lack of locomotives and Freight cars. It is learned from the Managing Office that the express train service will be able to start on or about the first of June.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511334, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "content_text": "146\n\nHead 16-SUPREME COURT\n\n147\n\nHead 17.-ATTORNEY GENERAL, & Head 18.-CROWN SOLICITOR\n\n35\n\n# Head 16. SUPREME COURT\n\nApproved Estimate, 1927. Estimate, 1928.\n\n4 Conveyance Allowances :-\n\nSub-leads:--\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\nAppeal Judge:—\n\n2 Subsistence Allowance at $15 a day\n\n3 Travelling Expenses\n\nFirst Bailiff at $420\n\nSecond Bailiff at $180\n\n2 Bailiffs at $240 each\n\nAssistant Bailiff at $180\n\n$\n\nApproved Estimate, 1927. Estimate, 1928.\n\n118,587 121,919\n\n$ $\n\nOther Charges\n\n$\n\nHead 17.-ATTORNEY GENERAL\n\n300 200\n\n500 200\n\nSub-beads :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\n22,238 33,448\n\nOther Charges\n\n1,440 1,440\n\n2 Books\n\nClerk and Usher at $180\n\n3 Incidental Expenses\n\n150 150\n\n150 200\n\n(1)\n\n5 Fees to Counsel and Solicitors for Prisoners in Capital Cases\n\n1,000 2,000\n\n6 Incidental Expenses & Incidental Expenses of Appeal Judge.......\n\n450 600\n\n} (1)\n\nTotal Attorney General\n\n22,538 33,798\n\n7 Incidental Expenses: Watchmen\n\n16,000 10,000\n\n(2)\n\n8 Law Reports\n\n600 600\n\n9 Library\n\n900 900\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\n10 Registration of Companies at Shanghai\n\n11 Uniform for Messengers\n\n10,000 100\n\n10,000 400\n\n(3)\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\nTotal Supreme Court\n\n149,777 148,559\n\n1927 1928\n\nNUMBERS.\n\n1927 1928\n\n1 1\n\nI 1\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\n \n Chief Justice, (£2,400)\n 21,600\n 21,600\n \n \n Puisne Judge, (£1,600)\n \n \n \n \n I\n 1\n \n \n \n Attorney General (£1,800)\n \n \n \n \n Acting Pay\n 11,200\n \n \n \n I\n 1\n \n \n \n Assistant to Attorney General\n \n \n \n \n CC\n (2) (3)\n \n \n \n }\n 1\n \n \n \n Office Attendant\n 168\n 168\n \n \n 28,800\n 28,800\n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowance\n 36\n 36\n \n \n 19,200\n 19,200\n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowance\n 48\n 48\n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Acting pay\n 7,200\n \n \n \n I\n (4)\n \n \n \n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n Messengers at $132 each\n 264\n 264\n \n \n Appeal Judge, ($3,000).\n 3,000\n 3,000\n \n \n Do.,\n \n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowance to 1 at $24\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Registrar, &c., (£900 to £1,100 by £50 annually).......\n 13,200\n 13,200\n \n \n i\n \n \n \n \n and at $12\n 26\n 36\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n - Deputy Registrar and Appraiser, (£600 to £800 by\n \n \n \n \n Do.,\n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowances at $48 each\n 96\n 96\n \n \n £25 annually)\n 9,600\n 9,600\n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Personal Allowance.\n 1,200\n 1,200\n \n \n Total Personal Emoluments\n 22,238\n 33,448\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Clerk of Court and Clerk to Chief Justice, (nt £350)\n 1,200\n \n \n \n (5)\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Interpreter, (L360 to £500 by 4 annual increments\n \n \n \n \n of £30 and 1 of £20)\n 7,400\n 5,760\n \n\n# Head 18.-CROWN SOLICITOR\n\n \n 1\n First Bailiff, (£400 to £480 by £20 annually)\n 3,760\n 4,820\n \n \n Second Bailiff, (£320 to £360 by £10 annually)\n 1,800\n 1,320\n \n \n Sub-beads:--\n \n \n \n \n Do..-\n \n \n \n \n Shorthand Allowance\n 240\n 240\n \n \n Personal Emoluments\n 35,304\n 36,425\n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Language Allowance.......\n 120\n 120\n \n \n I\n \n \n \n \n Assistant Bailiff. ($1,600 to $2,100 by $100 annually)\n 2,100\n 2,100\n \n \n Other Charges\n \n \n \n \n Bailiff (£320 to £360 by £10 annually)\n 4,050\n 1,169\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Bailiff (£260 to £300 by £10 annually)\n 3,400\n 3,600\n \n \n 2 Books\n 200\n \n \n \n I\n \n \n \n \n Clerk and Usher, (£220 to £300 by £10 annually).......\n 3,600\n 3,600\n \n \n 3 Incidental Expenses\n 200\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Clerk and Usher, ($1,500)\n 1,500\n 1,500\n \n \n 4 Legal Expenses\n 3,000\n 3,000\n \n \n 200\n 230\n \n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n Office Attendants, at $168 each\n 336\n 304\n \n \n :\n (6)\n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances to 1\n \n \n \n \n Total Crown Solicitor\n 38,704\n 39,855\n \n \n at $108, 1 at $60, and 1 at $12\n 18\n 180\n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowances, to 2 at $48 each\n \n \n \n \n and at $24\n 96\n 120\n \n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\n \n 1\n | Head Watchman, at $300\n Do..\n 300\n 300\n \n \n Rent Allowance, at $48.\n 48\n 48\n \n \n Details of the foregoing.\n \n \n \n \n 24\n 24\n \n \n \n \n Watchmen, at $168 each\n Do..\n 4,032\n 4,032\n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances to 2 at $144. 4 at $96, 2 at $91, 2 at $84, 1 at $72, 5 at $60, 1 at $49, 2 at $48, 2 at $24, 2 at $12 and 1 at $3\n \n 771\n 1,494\n \n\nNUMBERS.\n\n \n 1927\n 1928\n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n Crown Solicitor, (£1,000 to £1,200 by £25 annually)\n 13,343\n 13,643\n \n \n I\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Assistant Crown Solicitor. (£850 to £975 by £25\n \n \n \n \n Du\n \n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowances to 24 at $48 each ..........\n 1,152\n 1,152\n \n \n annually\n 10,800\n 11,100\n \n \n 180\n 24\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Assistaut Crown Solicitor, (£600 to £800 by £25\n \n \n \n \n Head Messenger and Caretaker, at $168\n 168\n \n \n \n anuually)\n 8,063\n 8,363\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowance at $36\n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowance at $24\n 24\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Stenographer, ($2,400 to $3,600 by $200 annually),\n 2,426\n 2,623\n \n \n (7)\n \n \n \n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Office Attendant at $168\n 168\n 168\n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Personal Allowance at $12\n 12\n \n \n \n Do.,\n \n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowance at $60)\n 36\n 60\n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n Messengers, at $132 each\n 396\n 396\n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowance at $48\n \n 48\n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Do.,\n \n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowance to 1 at $11\n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowances at $48 euch\n 21\n \n \n \n | }\n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n Messengers, at $132 cach\n 264\n 264\n \n \n 144\n 1.44\n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n Cuolies, at $132 each\n 660\n 660\n \n \n Do., Do.,\n \n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowance to 1 at $60...\n 36\n 60\n \n \n Personal Allowance to 1 at $24..\n 24\n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $72,\n \n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n But t{utures nl $48\n \n \n \n \n 96\n 96\n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n 1 at $60, I al $48, 1 at $18, and I at $1...\n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowances at $48 cach\n 126\n 199\n \n \n 240Do.\n \n \n \n \n Personal Allowance to I\n 21\n 210\n \n \n G\n \n \n \n \n Total Personal Emoluments\n 35,304\n 36,425\n \n \n Total Personal Emoluments\n 118,587\n 121,919\n \n\n(1) Previous provision insufficient.\n\n(2) Considered sufficient.\n\n(5) More uniform.\n\n(1) To officer acting during absence on leave of Puisne Judge.\n\n(7) Now Office Attendant.\n\n(3) Provided for under Head 3, Senior Clerical and Account-\n\ning Staff.\n\n(1) Uniforms for messengers.\n\n(2) To Officer acting during leave of absence of Attorney\n\nGeneral.\n\n(3) Under Cadet Service.\n\n(6) One previously Head Messenger.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511530, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-505-4 Labour situation in Canton and effect on Hong Kong- Labour Advisory Board 27-1-1927 - 31-8-1927", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-505-4 Labour situation in Canton and effect on Hong Kong- Labour Advisory Board 27-1-1927 - 31-8-1927", "content_text": "The CANTON GAZETTE 廣州州日報\n\nA B C\nRegistered at the Othee 29 A\n\nVol. V No. 955 CANTON, CHINA, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1927 民國十六年五月二十三日星期一\n\nNANKING, A TURNING POINT IN FAR EASTERN AND WORLD AFFAIRS!\nNANKING EVENTS MARK THE PASSING OF EUROPEAN INFLUENCE, PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH INFLUENCE IN CHINA, SAYS AMERICAN EDITOR. BRITISH ACTIONS SEVERLY CRITICIZED.\n\nBy J.B. PoWELL\n\nMr. Powell, editor and publisher of the CHINA WEEKLY REVIEW is has been extremely sympathetic with the Nationalist Movement.\n\n--The Editor.\n\nhsiang's Troops Arrive In Honan Tungkwan is Temporary Headquarters of 20,000 Nationalist Troops\n\nChief Chiang Returns To Nanking\n\nSingle Copy: 10 Cents $2.00 A Month $24.00 A Year\n\nWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE SENDS GREETINGS TO CHINA'S FEMINIST ORGANIZATIONS\nFrom Shanghai CLAIMS TO STAND FOR FREEDOM AND PEACE; TO SUPPORT CHINA'S MOVEMENT TO RID THE COUNTRY OF MILITARISM AND IMPERIALISM; ADVOCATES ABROGATION OF UNILATERAL TREATIES AND BETTER CONDITIONS FOR THE WORKERS\n\n(Special to the GAZETTE)\n\nautonomy in fiscal matters, and to revise the Treaties so that they may meet with Chinese consent.\n\nChiang Kai-shek Commander-in-Chief of All the Nationalist Armies, Haukow, May 19. According to a Japanese source, General Feng Yu-hsiang's troops have arrived in Honan and number some 20,000. Their temporary headquarters are at Tungkwan.\n\nMessrs. Chang Ching Kiang, Li (Delayed) Shek-tsun, Yang Shu-chang and Yang Hu at the station. Upon arrival, the Commander-in-Chief went to the Ching-an Temple\n\nFurther, it believes that, in view of the strength of anti-British feeling in China, this country should take some definite steps to show goodwill.\n\nThe British Section taken from the REVIEW for May 14, 1927, shows his great interest in the solutions of the vast problems of construction now pressing for solution in this quarter of the world.\n\nGeneral Shah Tao Yan, have advanced up to Yochow, situated at the North-east of the Tung Ting Lake in Hunan and having direct railway communication with Hankow.\n\nAfter noon, he attended the memorial service held at the public recreation ground at which he delivered an impressive speech.\n\nGen. Li Lieh-chun had gone to see him to consult with him about party and national affairs.\n\nAt 7:30 p.m. of the same day, the Nationalist Commander-in-Chief attended a welcome party given in his honor at the Lun Wo Tai Theater by the City Kuomintang.\n\nAt this party, he delivered another impressive speech.\n\nThen he returned to Nanking city at midnight by special train.\n\nNationalists About to Surround Pengfu\nThe first of the Nationalist Army Corps, after taking Chuchow, are now advancing Northwards and are about to surround Pengpu.\n\n\"Reds\" Prepare To Quit Wuchang\n\nTo Be Under Control Of Municipality\n\nGovernment should:\n\nNot intervene on any side\na. we have rejoiced in the movement for the liberation of China\nb. Withdraw all ships of war and troops from the Yangtze and other Chinese waters, leaving if necessary for their safety, any British nationals who may desire this;\nc. let it be known that it is not the policy of the British Government to negotiate or arbitrate on matters of dispute between your country and the Chinese.\n\nNewspapermen, in the course of their daily work often write things, the true significance of which they fail to recognize.\n\nHankow, May 19.-It is reported that General Yang Sen's forces have landed about 70 miles below Cheng-Li and it is stated that they were yesterday in conflict about 15 miles away with Wuchang.\n\nIt is of course too early to gauge the final outcome of the events which have emerged from the Nanking incidents in their almost world-embracing ramifications, but it is safe to say now without much fear of contradiction, that the failure of the European Powers, particularly Great Britain, to bring about intervention in China, as a result of the Nanking events, really marks the turning point in what has generally been known as the Far Eastern Question.\n\nSome of these reports are of particular interest in connection with the developments mentioned in the beginning of this discussion.\n\nAccording to a dispatch from the Telephone Bureau to the Municipal Government, the Bureau will be put under the control of the Municipal Government, upon the approval of the Canton branch of the Political Council.\n\nOn May 5, the Japanese Toho news agency in a dispatch from Peking stated that the British Government had given instructions to Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister in Peking, to the effect that there was to be no \"second Note\" on the Nanking outrages.\n\nThere is considerable danger and anxiety, but also of hope.\n\nWe stand for Peace and Freedom, and we believe that without Freedom there can be no Peace.\n\nWe pledge ourselves on this side of the world to do our utmost to restrain the use or the threats of force, and to induce our Government to negotiate or arbitrate on matters of dispute between your country and the Chinese.\n\nAN APOLOGY AND CORRECTION\nFor the past day or so, our editors in charge have inadvertently inserted the words \"Northern and Southern\" in these columns in connection with the Revolutionary War.\n\nSuch words are entirely misleading, and the Management of the Gazette has to apologize to its readers for such a mistake.\n\nThe Management wishes it be peremptorily and explicitly understood that the war in China is NOT between the North and the South, but between the progressive Nationalists and the reactionary militarists.\n\nAny one who is a loyal adherent of the Kuomintang and a faithful follower of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen is a progressive Nationalist, irrespective of locality.\n\nThe Management.\n\nTo Conduct Kiangyin Bombardment\nA notification has been despatched by the Provincial Kuomintang to the Party authorities of various districts to enforce effectively measures for the prohibition of gambling.\n\nThe notification says: \"A prohibition order has been issued by the Ministry of Finance to forbid gambling.\n\nShould unscrupulous gentries of any district be found guilty of protecting the gamblers and encouraging gambling business, the district Kuomintang authorities are authorized to arrest the gamblers and ring leaders.\n\nThey are further authorized to destroy the gambling dens and punish the gentries in accordance with military law.\"\n\nCommissioner Of Municipal Bureau To Resign\nCommissioner Lau Wei-shih of the Municipal Bureau of Finance has recently sent in his resignation to the Municipal Government on account of ill health.\n\nMr. Lau is known to have done good work during his half year of service.\n\nHe has been generally appraised for effecting the installation of the automatic telephones in this city and for making good efforts to organize the municipal bank which will be soon inaugurated.\n\nSince Mr. Lum Wen-kai assumed the mayorship of this city, certain changes have been made in the Municipal Government: Yiao Sze-yee has been appointed Chief of the General Affairs Section, Chau Hok-tong, the Chief Secretary, and Ng Chek-ying, Accountant.\n\nMr. Lau Wei-shih's resignation from his position as Commissioner of Finance has been accepted, but his successor has as yet not been decided upon.\n\n(Continued on Page 2)\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-505-4 Labour situation in Canton and effect on Hong Kong- Labour Advisory Board 27-1-1927 - 31-8-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513935, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-5 Supreme Court of Hong Kong- slackness of registry accounting methods 28-10-1927 - 23-4-1928", "page_number": 179, "title": "CO129-508-5 Supreme Court of Hong Kong- slackness of registry accounting methods 28-10-1927 - 23-4-1928", "content_text": "4\n\nA\n\n179\n\nthe attention of the Court and that it is usual for the party causing the arrest to provide funds for upkeep of the ship; failing which application should be made to the Court for directions. He further said that he did not know the source from which the First Bailiff was getting the necessary funds until June or July, 1926; that the arrangements actually made by the latter were no concern of the Registry, and that the Registrar had no power to give authority for any advances to be made. As regards the date when Mr. Melbourne says he first became aware of how the upkeep of the ship was being financed, there is a difference between him and Mr. Hill, First Bailiff; the latter asserting that he kept the former informed of what was being done by him, (0.42 of the Notes of Evidence).\n\n10. It is obvious from this resume of the evidence that there is a serious difference of opinion between the Bailiff on the one hand and Messrs. Hisbet, Melbourne and O'Sullivan as to the source from which funds for the upkeep of arrested ships are to be obtained. On the other hand it is clear that owing to the difficulty there has been in finding a purchaser for the s.s. \"Ling Nam\" a heavy responsibility was undertaken by Mr. Hill, First Bailiff, and that none of his superiors in the Registry made any attempt to control his action in the matter or to inform themselves of what was being done by Mr. Hill.\n\n11. So far as the s.s. \"Ling Nam\" is concerned, the heavy expenditure has been incurred. The primary cause of it has been the difficulty of finding a purchaser in the present condition of business in the Colony. The appraised value of the ship was first fixed at $270,000.00 but this figure", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-5 Supreme Court of Hong Kong- slackness of registry accounting methods 28-10-1927 - 23-4-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 514989, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-510-14 Report of committee of enquiry into discrepancies and losses in government departments in Hong Kong... 21-4-1928 - 24-10-1928", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-510-14 Report of committee of enquiry into discrepancies and losses in government departments in Hong Kong... 21-4-1928 - 24-10-1928", "content_text": "# Section VI.\n\n## MATTERS TOUCHING THE REGISTRY OF THE SUPREME COURT.\n\n86. As mentioned in the introductory paragraphs of this Report, matters touching the Registry have already been investigated by a Committee of Enquiry, and by a Board of Survey, and after reading and considering the evidence and Reports we have not deemed it necessary to hear any further witnesses.\n\n87. The Committee of Enquiry investigated the failure of the officers of the Registry to procure, from the Auctioneering and Brokering Company, Limited, prompt payment of approximately $30,000.00, the proceeds of some 128 sales which had been conducted by the Company under the orders of the Court in 1925 and 1926. This failure resulted in an ultimate loss to the Government of $7,818.97.\n\nSomewhat complicated relations then existed between the Company and the Registry. The S.S., \"Ling Nam\" had been seized at the instance of certain judgement creditors and as they had failed to furnish funds for the maintenance and safeguarding of the ship, an arrangement had been made by the late Mr. A. W. Hill, acting in a capacity similar to that of the Admiralty Marshal in England, for the Company to provide the requisite moneys. Under this arrangement the Company furnished, in cash and kind, $22,267.23.\n\nThe ship had been appraised at $270,000.00 and the Company was employed to conduct an auction which proved abortive owing to the conditions arising out of the strike and boycott.\n\nOn the evidence given before the Committee there is some doubt as to whether the Registrar and Deputy Registrar were aware of either the nature or the extent of this arrangement for providing moneys for the S.S. \"Ling Nam\", until such large sums had been advanced that they saw no alternative to continuing the arrangement.\n\nThey also appear to have been in the dark as to the extent of the Company's failure to make the necessary payments of the proceeds of sales.\n\nFrom time to time solicitors and members of the public made complaints to the Registrar, and these were referred by him to the First Bailiff, who appears to have obtained from the Company funds for the settlement of these pressing claims.\n\nHe also appears to have given to the Deputy Registrar frequent assurances that the proceeds of sales were being paid in with promptitude.\n\nWe conclude that the late Mr. Hill must have been well aware of the delays in payment, but that he believed that on the ultimate settlement of the account between the Government and the Company in connection with the S.S. \"Ling Nam\" there would be a substantial balance in favour of the Company, and such would undoubtedly have been the case if the sale had proved successful and the Company thus become entitled to a commission.\n\n88. If the Registrar or Deputy Registrar had made any searching investigation of the relevant books of account and Court files the position with regard to delays in payment must have been apparent. This investigation they did not make because they placed reliance in the assurances given by the late Mr. Hill. It does not seem unreasonable that they should have relied on the word of an officer who had been on the staff of the Supreme Court since 1903, and who held so responsible a position as that of First Bailiff.\n\n89. The investigations of the Committee of Enquiry showed that the accounts of the Court were not kept in a satisfactory manner, but we do not consider it necessary in this Report to enter into details with regard to that matter. Since the Committee submitted its report an Accountant has been appointed for the Supreme Court, and we are satisfied that good progress has been made in putting the accounting operations of the Court on a satisfactory footing.\n\n90. The Board of Survey investigated in the first place matters in connection with the deposits made by Fire, Marine and Life Insurance Companies. These were found to be on a whole in a satisfactory condition.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-510-14 Report of committee of enquiry into discrepancies and losses in government departments in Hong Kong... 21-4-1928 - 24-10-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515638, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-511-12 Staff list for Hong Kong- approval for staff increase in Colonial Secretary's Office 15-6-1928 - 15-6-1928", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-511-12 Staff list for Hong Kong- approval for staff increase in Colonial Secretary's Office 15-6-1928 - 15-6-1928", "content_text": "20\n\n10\n\nHONG KONG,—Continued.\n\nLIGHTHOUSES.-Continued.\n\n3 1st Class Lighthouse | £320-£20-£400... W. F. Hast, June 21, '16.\n\nKeepers.\n\nA. E. Harvey, Sept. 1, '20.\n\nR. Roskruge, June 6, 24.\n\n5 2nd Class Light- | $1,800-81 20-\n\nhouse Keepers.\n\nR. P. Brown, Aug. 1, '20.\n\n$2,400\n\nH. C. Brown, Aug. 1, '20.\n\nSublt.\n\nF. Bamsey, Sept. 1, '23. D. V. Maher, Aug, 1, 225. Ed. de Silva, Oct. 1, 27.\n\nIMPORTS AND EXPORTS DEPARTMENT.\n\nAssistant Supdt.\n\nCadet Officer.\n\nCader Officer.\n\nAsst. Supdt. and £600-£25-£750...] H. A. Taylor, Feb, 1, '14.\n\nChief Justice\n\nPuisne Judge Registrar.\n\n11\n\nHONG KONG,—Continued.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\n£2,400 ............. Sir Henry Cowper Gollan\n\n£1,600\n\nKt., K.C., C.B.E., Oct 15, 24. J. R. Wood, Nov. 23, '25. £900-£50-£1,100 H. A. Nisbet, Mar. 15, 11.\n\nDeputy Registrar and | £600-£25-£800 & C. D. Melbourne, Sept. 21.\n\nAppraiser.\n\nClerk to Chief Justice First Bailiff.\n\nSecond Bailiff ·\n\nClerk and Usher\n\n£100 p.a. Personal '09. Pensionable Alice.\n\n£200-£10-£350\n\nS. C. & A. S.\n\n£400-£20-£480... J. Wiltshire, (Acting)\n\nSept. 1, '27. £320-£10-£360... T. F. O'Sullivan, Sept. 26, '16. £200-£10-£300. E. L. Stainfield, July 1, '17.\n\nMonopoly Analyst\n\nChief Preventive\n\nOfficer.\n\n£400-£25-£500... S. J. Clarke, Jan. 21,\n\n21.\n\nSenior Revenue Officer. £400-£20-£480... G. Watt, Oct. 1, 21.\n\n4 1st Class Revenue £320-£10-£360... P. Lanigan, Aug. 21, '16.\n\nOfficers.\n\nA. W. Grimmitt, Jan. 1, '20.\n\nA. Marks, Jan. 26, '20. Wm. Ward, Sept. 1, 27.\n\n11 2nd Class Revenue | £220-£10-£300.. | J. W. Brown, July 1, '21.\n\nOfficers.\n\nDirector Chief Assistant First Assistant\n\nII. V. l'eurse, June 11, '23. T. Tallon, April 1, 23. P. J. O'Neill, Nov. 24, '23. A. L. Powell, Jan. 14, 24. R. A. Trengove, July 1, 24. E. T. Warden, Dec. 1, 24. N. J. Young, Jan. 1, 27. C. C. Hancox, Mar. i, '27. E. Tuck, June 17, 27. J. Davidson, Aug. 11, '27.\n\nROYAL OBSERVATORY.\n\n£750-£25-£900..... T. F. Claxton, June 14, '12. £400-£20-£700... C. W. Jeffries, June 14, '12.\n\nDo.\n\nB. D. Evans, May 17, '12.\n\nMAGISTRACY, (Hong Kong),\n\nFirst Police Magis- | £1,250-£50-\n\n£1,500\n\ntrate.\n\nR. E. Lindsell.\n\nCadet Officer.\n\nSecond Police Mag.\n\nMAGISTRACY, (Kowloon).\n\nPolice Magistrate_...]\n\n| Cadet Officer.\n\nDISTRICT OFFICERS.\n\nDist. Officer (North)'\n\nDist. Officer (South)\n\nCadet Officer. Cadet Officer.\n\nLand Bailiff's (3) .... £330-£10-£360..... G.J.Chambers, Sept. 10, '13.\n\nDo.\n\nS. H. Peplow, Jan. 1, '24. £270-£10-£320..., W. G. Routley, July 8, '23.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.\n\nAttorney General........ £1,800\n\nAssistant\n\nGeneral\n\nAttorney\n\nSir Joseph Horsford Kemp,\n\nKt., K.C., C.B.E., Nov. 3, '15.\n\nSomerset Fitzroy (Acting).\n\n21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-12 Staff list for Hong Kong- approval for staff increase in Colonial Secretary's Office 15-6-1928 - 15-6-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 518445, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-515-2 Exportation of meat to Canada- various certificates 20-12-1928 - 20-12-1928", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-515-2 Exportation of meat to Canada- various certificates 20-12-1928 - 20-12-1928", "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 1.\n\n9\n\n**HEALTH OF ANIMALS BRANCH,**\n\nThe Colonial Secretary's Office, \nHong Kong, China. \nOttawa, February 19th, 1925.\n\nNot enclosed.\n\nDear Sir:\n\nI beg to enclose copies of communications received at this office, in connection with a shipment of what was described and certified as fifteen cases of sausage, exported from Hong Kong to Wing Hong Yuen at Victoria, and covered by a certificate signed by Walter J. E. MacKenzie, Colonial Veterinarian, that this shipment conformed with the requirements of the Meat and Canned Foods Act. The packages in question were marked with his official stamp.\n\nYou will note from the statement of the Customs Appraiser that this shipment was wrongly described and certified and has not been permitted entry into Canada.\n\nI have taken this matter up with the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and I am advised to communicate with you to the effect that certificates signed by this officer cannot be accepted in future.\n\nI regret this action, yet the provisions of the Canadian Statutes must be observed and I am forwarding, for your information, a copy of the Act and the Regulations, by which you will see that the only grounds upon which these certificates can be issued, are, when the establishment in which the animals are slaughtered is under the constant supervision and control of a Veterinary Inspector of the National Government, and that the manufacture of the products must", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-515-2 Exportation of meat to Canada- various certificates 20-12-1928 - 20-12-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 518448, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-515-2 Exportation of meat to Canada- various certificates 20-12-1928 - 20-12-1928", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-515-2 Exportation of meat to Canada- various certificates 20-12-1928 - 20-12-1928", "content_text": "## CUSTOMS & EXCISE, CANADA\n\nMr. F. W. Davey, \nCollector of Customs, \nVictoria, B.C. \nPort of Victoria, B.C. \nFeb. 4th, 1925.\n\n12\n\nDear Sir:\n\nReferring to entry No.15968 covering 15 C/S Sausages consigned Wing Hong Yuen, I beg to report that the Meat Certificate accompanying this shipment and signed by the Veterinary Surgeon in Hong Kong is for sausages only, whereas cases contain dried Duck with a covering of sausages on top of said duck.\n\nAll the above cases are branded by the Veterinary Surgeon.\n\nYours truly,\n(Sd.) J. E. Kenny \nAssistant Appraiser.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-515-2 Exportation of meat to Canada- various certificates 20-12-1928 - 20-12-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521453, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-520-7 Public Utility companies- acquisition by foreign groups 4-12-1929 - 26-1-1930", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-520-7 Public Utility companies- acquisition by foreign groups 4-12-1929 - 26-1-1930", "content_text": "Gregin \n\non 72850/30 \n\nRECEIVED 31 MAY 1930 \n\nCO.L.OFFIOR \n\n12 \n\n172 \n\nTELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary \n\nof State for the Colonies. \n\nDated 31st May. \n\n(Received, Colonial Office, 10.25 a.m., 31st May, 1930). \n\nNo.42. Request authority to sell by private treaty at 81 cents1 per square foot considered reasonable appraised value of an area of about 160,500 square feet in Kowloon to China Light and Power Company which supplies electric light and power in Kowloon. This Company in accordance with Government policy is changing frequency and extending service to new territoryCS necessitating extension to plant for which area now requested is essential being adjacent to existing plant. Conditions of sale include use of land for development of electricity supply only. As Company is almost compelled to buy public auction might lead to exorbitant price through rival bids.\n\nbecomes\nGregin \n\non 72850/30 \n\nRECEIVED 31 MAY 1930 \n\nC.O.L.OFFIOR \n\n12 \n\n172 \n\nTELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary \n\nof State for the Colonies. \n\nDated 31st May. \n\n(Received, Colonial Office, 10.25 a.m., 31st May, 1930). \n\nNo.42. Request authority to sell by private treaty at 81 cents1 per square foot considered reasonable appraised value of an area of about 160,500 square feet in Kowloon to China Light and Power Company which supplies electric light and power in Kowloon. This Company in accordance with Government policy is changing frequency and extending service to new territoryCS necessitating extension to plant for which area now requested is essential being adjacent to existing plant. Conditions of sale include use of land for development of electricity supply only. As Company is almost compelled to buy, public auction might lead to exorbitant price through rival bids.\n\nHere is the revised response in HTML format as requested:\n\nGregin\n\non 72850/30\n\nRECEIVED 31 MAY 1930\n\nC.O.L.OFFIOR\n\n12\n\n172\n\nTELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary\n\nof State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 31st May.\n\n(Received, Colonial Office, 10.25 a.m., 31st May, 1930).\n\nNo.42. Request authority to sell by private treaty at 81 cents per square foot considered reasonable appraised value of an area of about 160,500 square feet in Kowloon to China Light and Power Company which supplies electric light and power in Kowloon. This Company in accordance with Government policy is changing frequency and extending service to new territoryCS necessitating extension to plant for which area now requested is essential being adjacent to existing plant. Conditions of sale include use of land for development of electricity supply only. As Company is almost compelled to buy, public auction might lead to exorbitant price through rival bids.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-520-7 Public Utility companies- acquisition by foreign groups 4-12-1929 - 26-1-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526181, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-526-8 Selling of land to China Light & Power Company 31-5-1930 - 16-9-1930", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-526-8 Selling of land to China Light & Power Company 31-5-1930 - 16-9-1930", "content_text": "## TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nDated 31st May (Received, Colonial Office, 10.25 a.m., 31st May, 1930).\n\n**No.42**. Request authority to sell by private treaty at 81 cents 75 per square foot considered reasonable appraised value of an area of about 160,500 square feet in Kowloon to China Light and Power Company which supplies electric light and power in Kowloon. This Company, in accordance with Government policy, is changing frequency and extending service to New Territories, necessitating extension to plant for which area now requested is essential, being adjacent to existing plant. Conditions of sale include use of land for development of electricity supply only. As Company is almost compelled to buy, public auction might lead to exorbitant price through rival bids.\n\nPage 10 \nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-526-8 Selling of land to China Light & Power Company 31-5-1930 - 16-9-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554287, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "10. For whatever reason, pasteurisation is very generally undertaken in America as part of the system of distributing milk to urban consumers. This is brought out in the following table (table 2):\n\n## TABLE 2\nThe extent of pasteurisation in cities in the United States in 1924 and 1930.\n\n| Number of cities | Population of reporting cities | Percentage of cities in which the percentage of pasteurised milk was— | | | | | | | |\n| --- | --- | 90 to 100 | | 50 to 100 | | 10 to 50 | | 0 to 10 | |\n| | | 1924 | 1930 | 1924 | 1930 | 1924 | 1930 | 1924 | 1930 |\n| 19 | 500,000 and over | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |\n| 37 | 100,000 to 500,000 | 56.8 | 91.9 | 37.8 | 8.1 | 5.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |\n| 19 | 75,000 to 100,000 | 26.3 | 73.6 | 52.6 | 26.4 | 15.8 | 0.0 | 5.3 | 0.0 |\n| 25 | 50,000 to 75,000 | 20.0 | 80.0 | 40.0 | 20.0 | 12.0 | 0.0 | 28.0 | 0.0 |\n| 56 | 25,000 to 50,000 | 23.2 | 77.8 | 30.4 | 22.2 | 19.6 | 0.0 | 26.8 | 0.0 |\n| 60 | 10,000 to 25,000 | 20.0 | 80.0 | 30.4 | 17.4 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 30.0 | 2.2 |\n| 105 | Under 10,000 | 12.4 | 80.4 | 17.8 | 13.3 | 25.0 | 5.0 | 45.7 | 1.8 |\n\n(ii) The eradication of bovine tuberculosis in the United States of America.\n\n11. In 1917 the federal government initiated a campaign for the eradication of tuberculosis from livestock in the United States. The tuberculosis eradication division of the Bureau of Animal Industry was then set up with a programme of—\n(1) the eradication of the disease from pure-bred herds of cattle;\n(2) the eradication of the disease among swine;\n(3) the eradication of the disease in circumscribed areas.\n\nIn 1928 two more items were added to this programme, namely—\n(4) the eradication of avian tuberculosis among fowls; and\n(5) the eradication of Johne's disease (which is also known as para-tuberculosis).\n\n12. Emphasis is placed upon the eradication of tuberculosis from pedigree cattle, as such cattle are particularly liable to be moved from one herd to another. The method of eradication is the periodic testing of the herd with tuberculin and the removal of reacting cattle. When two successive annual tests or three successive semi-annual tests are completed in any herd without the discovery of a reactor, the herd receives a certificate of freedom from tuberculosis from the state and federal authorities, which is valid for one year. Such herds are known as accredited herds. Owners entering the scheme sign an undertaking to co-operate with the authorities and agree to keep their herds for the purposes of dairying or breeding. Restrictions are placed upon the entry of animals into herds which either have received a certificate or are in process of qualifying for one. Broadly speaking, animals may not be introduced into such herds unless they originate from an accredited herd or are subjected to adequate isolation and testing.\n\n13. The area plan of eradication, which is not confined to pure-bred cattle, was first put into operation a few years after the accredited herd plan. The area for the purposes of the plan is generally a county, but may be a smaller unit, for example, a township. Testing under the scheme begins in any area when 90 per cent. of the owners of herds or the owners of 90 per cent. of the cattle in the area have agreed to co-operate with the authorities. When the testing of the herds of the voluntary entrants has been completed, and the reactors have been slaughtered, the movements of cattle which have not been tested are subjected to severe restrictions, the effect of which is to prohibit their removal from the premises on which they are situated. In this way recalcitrant owners are induced to co-operate. When the incidence of tuberculosis has been reduced to not more than one-half of one per cent., the area is declared to be a modified accredited area. A general retest of all cattle in such an area takes place every three years.\n\n14. The testing of cattle under both the accredited herd plan and under the accredited area plan is undertaken by veterinary officers of the federal or state government, or of the county in question. Animals reacting to the test are generally consigned to public stockyards for slaughter. Exceptional animals, however, and animals in heavily infected districts may sometimes be segregated from healthy stock, the former sometimes on farms set aside by the state government or by associations of pedigree cattle breeders. Compensation is paid for reacting cattle slaughtered. The actual terms of compensation vary, being determined by the different local regulations in force, but are in every case based upon a valuation of the animal before slaughter. The federal government makes a contribution to this compensation based upon the following rules:\n- (1) no payment shall exceed one-third of the difference between the appraised value of an animal and the salvage value;\n- (2) no payment shall exceed the amount paid or to be paid by the state, county or municipality;\n- (3) in no case shall any payment be more than 35 dollars for any grade animal, or more than 70 dollars for any pure-bred animal; and\n- (4) no payment shall be made unless the owner has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations.\n\nThe distribution of the loss occasioned by slaughter is of interest. The average valuation of all cattle slaughtered since 1919 has been 107.96 dollars, of which 30.78 dollars has been recovered from the sale of the carcase, leaving a net loss of 77.18 dollars. This has been borne in the following manner: by the state governments 31.99 dollars, by the federal government 20.42 dollars, leaving 24.77 dollars to be borne by the owner of the animal. At present, owing to the low price of cattle, the figures are very considerably less.\n\n15. Partly, no doubt, on account of the high compensation paid, but also as a result of the increasing insistence in municipal milk regulations on freedom from tuberculosis in herds supplying milk for urban consumption, eradication has made substantial progress in the United States. To-day, 1,577 counties out of a total of 3,073 are modified accredited areas, and over 34 million animals are under supervision by the tuberculosis eradication division. Six surveys of the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in the United States have been carried out by the Department of Agriculture, and these show a remarkable diminution in its incidence in recent years. The estimated percentage of cattle infected with tuberculosis has been as follows in the years named:\n1922 - 4.0\n1924 - 3.3\n1926 - 2.8\n1928 - 2.0\n1930 - 1.7\n1932 - 1.4\n\nIt is confidently anticipated that the operation of the measures now in force will reduce the incidence of the disease to a very low level and will prevent any danger of its subsequent recrudescence. These successful results have not been achieved without considerable expense. In the last ten years...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554288, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "148 \n\nThe federal, state and county authorities have, between them, spent approximately 150 million dollars on the eradication of tuberculosis.\n\n### (iii) The eradication of bovine tuberculosis in Canada\n\n16. There are four schemes under which attempts are being made to eradicate bovine tuberculosis in Canada. The first in point of time, but perhaps the least successful, provided for the free testing of cattle with tuberculosis in herds supplying milk for consumption within any municipality which enforced certain regulations regarding milk within its area, and applied for assistance in the control of bovine tuberculosis and for the compensation of owners of tuberculous cows slaughtered as a result of the test. The regulations of the municipality were bound to require, in addition to a minimum hygienic standard for dairies supplying milk within its boundaries, that no dairy should sell unpasteurised milk within the municipality after two years had elapsed from the date of the first test with tuberculin of the cattle belonging to the dairy in question, unless a veterinary inspector certified that such cattle were free from tuberculosis. Cattle in dairies the milk from which was sold to dairy companies equipped with adequate pasteurising plants who pasteurised the milk in question were not necessarily tested with tuberculin. Cattle in other dairies were tested with tuberculin and examined clinically by a veterinary inspector of the Dominion government. Cows discovered to be suffering from open tuberculosis were required to be slaughtered forthwith. Cows reacting to the test, but not suffering from open tuberculosis, might either be slaughtered or retained in the herd. If the latter alternative was chosen, milk from that dairy was required to be pasteurised. Compensation was paid for cows slaughtered, up to one-half of their appraised value in the case of cows with open tuberculosis, and up to two-thirds of their appraised value in the case of other reacting cows. Cows bought by owners of herds which were under control were required to pass the tuberculin test before being placed with healthy cows.\n\n17. This plan was brought into operation in 1916, and by 1924 thirty municipalities were receiving assistance under it. By that time, however, it was clear that satisfactory results could not be expected from it, and no further municipalities have been admitted under it. The reasons for the comparative failure of this scheme were the reinfection of tested herds by contact with untested herds selling pasteurised milk, and the reinfection of herds by cattle bought from outside sources to replenish wastage. It was also suspected that reacting cattle were being deliberately sent into herds under control with a view to securing compensation.\n\n18. The second scheme to be adopted as part of the campaign against bovine tuberculosis was the accredited herd plan. This scheme is only open to owners of herds in which not less than five animals are pure-bred and not more than two-thirds of the total are cross-bred. Herds under this scheme are tested by the veterinary inspectors of the federal Department of Agriculture. Accredited herds are those in which no reactors are found at two successive annual tests or three successive semi-annual tests. Every herd owner entering the scheme undertakes, in consideration of the assistance given him in the testing of his herd, to observe various hygienic precautions against the spread of tuberculosis, to introduce no animal into his herd except under conditions which secure that it shall be free from tuberculosis, and to remove all reacting animals from his herd for immediate slaughter. Compensation is paid for animals slaughtered up to two-thirds of their appraised value, subject to a maximum compensation which has been varied from time to time. The United States and the Dominion of Canada have each agreed to accept a certificate of accreditation issued by the other as though it were issued by itself. The number of accredited herds has increased rapidly in recent years, and in 1932 there were 5,533.\n\n149 \n\n19. Herds which are excluded from the accredited herd plan may become supervised herds. This plan is not the subject of any official regulations but is based upon an agreement with the Department of Agriculture signed by the owner of the herd in question. Under this agreement, in consideration for his herd being tested with tuberculin by the department, the herd owner undertakes to carry out the instructions of the department's veterinary officer, to slaughter all reacting cattle, and to take necessary precautions against the reintroduction of tuberculosis into his herd either by the purchase of new stock or in other ways. No compensation is paid for cattle slaughtered. Under this plan, 4,855 herds had been tested by 1932, at which time 1,842 herds were awaiting test. As the restricted area plan, to which we next refer, extends, supervised herds are comprehended in the larger scheme and are no longer dealt with as individual herds.\n\n20. The restricted area plan was brought into operation by an order in council dated the 4th May, 1927. It provides that, on the application of a provincial government, and with the consent of two-thirds of the cattle owners in the proposed area, the Dominion government may declare an area a restricted area. Under the restrictions which are thereupon imposed on the movements of cattle into such an area, cattle which are neither drawn from accredited herds nor pass a tuberculin test are prohibited from entering the area except for immediate slaughter. Cattle within the area are tested with tuberculin as soon as possible after the area is proclaimed, and thereafter as often as is required by the veterinary director-general. Reactors to the test are slaughtered without delay, and compensation is paid to their owners up to two-thirds of their value, subject to a maximum compensation. Under this plan, 1,627,473 cattle had been tested by the year 1932, and 1,242,379 animals were being supervised under it.\n\nIn many restricted areas, the incidence of tuberculosis had been reduced to very small proportions. In the province of Prince Edward Island, for example, the whole of which constitutes a single restricted area, the incidence of tuberculosis was in 1929 no more than 0.15 per cent.\n\n21. The extent of the effort which is being made in Canada to control bovine tuberculosis may be judged from the fact that in the year ended the 31st March, 1932, nearly one million tests were carried out on over 800,000 animals. Among these, nearly 20,000 reactors were discovered and slaughtered, and compensation amounting to $665,000 was paid for them out of public funds. As in the United States, a very hopeful view is taken by those in charge of these operations of the prospect of reducing tuberculosis to manageable proportions.\n\n22. In addition to the efforts which it is making to eradicate bovine tuberculosis, the Dominion government has instituted a plan under which it is hoped eventually to reduce the incidence of contagious abortion. This plan resembles the supervised herd plan in that it is based on an agreement between the herd owner and the Department of Agriculture, under which, in return for assistance in making blood tests of his cattle, the owner undertakes to carry out the instructions of the department's veterinary officer. The methods of eradication employed, however, are different. The method of the isolation of the reacting section of the herd and its gradual elimination as uninfected young stock are reared is contemplated as an alternative to the method of immediate slaughter in the eradication of this disease. The sale of reacting animals is also permitted, but only into herds already infected with the disease, and on disclosure of the fact that the animal has reacted to the intending purchaser. At the end of the year 1931-32, only 81 herds were under supervision, of which 70 had already been tested and 11 were awaiting test.\n\n### (iv) The control of the milk supply and of cattle diseases in Denmark\n\n23. The milk supply of Copenhagen is drawn from farms which are subject to a monthly veterinary inspection. This inspection refers not only to the health of the cows but also to the cleanliness of the cows and of the \n\n156", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 559588, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-569-7 Revision of salaries 6-7-1938 - 11-10-1938", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-569-7 Revision of salaries 6-7-1938 - 11-10-1938", "content_text": "75\n\nrepresented a reasonable standard of remuneration compatible\n\nwith the responsibility of position, professional qualifications\n\nrequired, social obligations and cost of living. We submit\n\nthat present conditions in the Colony do not warrant any reduction\n\nin the salaries and allowances recommended by that\n\nCommission.\n\n12. Responsibilities.\n\nWe feel that the responsibilities of an Engineer\n\nin Hong Kong are not truly appraised either by Government or\n\nby the General public. Conditions in this densely populated\n\nand rapidly developing Colony are of an Urban or Municipal\n\nnature and the consequent responsibilities of Engineers of all\n\ngrades are more onerous than those of most other Colonies where\n\n\"rural\" conditions obtain. This difference in responsibilities\n\nis generally recognised by the fact that the remuneration of\n\nofficers working under \"rural\" conditions is considerably less\n\nthan that paid to officers working under \"urban\" conditions.\n\n13. Conclusion.\n\nWe are confident that you recognise the importance\n\nof the duties of your Engineering Staff and that you will\n\nrealize the dissatisfaction which would be aroused by the\n\nintroduction of the proposals contemplated by Government.\n\nWe therefore humbly submit these representations and request\n\nthat you will forward them to Government with your strong\n\nrecommendation that the present salary scales, allowances\n\nand pensionable emoluments be at least maintained for the present\n\npersonnel both for acting appointments and on promotion.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servants,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-569-7 Revision of salaries 6-7-1938 - 11-10-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579691, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945", "content_text": "43\n\nTa Kung Pao, Chungking\n\nAugust 30, 1945.\n\nThe Ta Kung Pao completely endorsed the policy of the Chinese Government in not taking over the control of Hongkong so as to avoid misunderstanding between China and Great Britain, and hailed it as a \"gentlemanlike attitude\" and the \"traditional morality of the Chinese people in placing righteousness before material gain.\"\n\n\"In fact\", the paper said, \"the value of Hongkong should be re-appraised. After the war, the paper opined, Hongkong will be unimportant both as a naval base and as a commercial port.\n\n\"Even so\", the paper continued, \"China will not ask for the return of Hongkong by illegal channels, since it was a leased territory and is therefore an affair of exclusively British concern. What we will mention now is not Hongkong but Kowloon.\" The Ta Kung Pao then reviewed how the old and new territories of Kowloon were permanently leased or ceded to Great Britain under an unequal treaty, and said that they should be restored to China. \"Otherwise,\" the paper pointed out, \"it will become a loophole in the existing Sino-British friendship.\"\n\nConcluding, the paper said: \"We believe the foreign policy of the British Labour Government will be idealistic and put emphasis on righteousness. If so, the question of the Kowloon concession will, and not only Kowloon, but Hongkong as well can be easily solved; rationally settled.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580117, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "Mr. Gent.\n\nYou will I think wish to see this file in connection with Dr. Sloss' visit tomorrow.\n\nUnfortunately it has been missing for some time and it was only yesterday after a search list had proved fruitless that it occurred to me Mr. Paskin might have it. Mr. Paskin had intended to minute on the file on the immediate action which might be taken to order the minimum essential supplies and equipment needed before the University can be re-opened. He has, however, not been well enough to do so.\n\nOn this account the draft of a reply to Sir Andrew Caldecott's letter at (29) has not reached you. You will probably wish now to wait until we have had a talk with Dr. Sloss.\n\nThe letter at (38) from the British Council's representative in Chungking (which I had not read until today) is of considerable interest, particularly the opinion that \"Hong Kong University is potentially the largest single cultural contribution to Chinese reconstruction which Great Britain is capable of contributing\".\n\nI had a brief talk with Dr. Sloss yesterday and it seems to me that two main problems now demand consideration; -\n\n(a) The policy which is to govern our planning in the future of the University, and\n\n(b) The detailed questions of administration including those connected with staff and those students, (Dr. Sloss mentioned White Russians and others) who had been in internment.\n\nAs to (a) Dr. Sloss tells me that there is nothing left at all of the University and that it will have to be reconstituted from the beginning\". In his view this endorses the need for a decision now as to whether or not it is going to be regarded as an Imperial responsibility. To discuss this, it might be useful to call an informal meeting to which it seems the following should be invited:-\n\nMr. Gent.\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nDr. Kauntze.\n\nMr. N.L. Smith.\n\nMr. Sterndale-Bennett.\n\nDr. Sloss.\n\nMr. Morse.\n\n? Sir Andrew Caldecott.\n\n? Someone from the Treasury.\n\n? Someone from the British Council.\n\nI told Dr. Sloss of our intention to establish a small informal Committee to represent the University and explained that, in fact, it had not met. The two members of this proposed Committee who are named are Dr. R.E. Priestley and Mrs. L. Forrester.\n\nDr. Sloss is coming in before his meeting with you tomorrow morning to look at the relevant files which I have here ready for him so that he may be appraised of the situation.\n\n11. 10. 45.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589416, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "content_text": "62\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n385\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n63\n\nShip's burden to be ascertained by measurement in certain cases.\n\nPenalty on master for departing without paying dues, etc.\n\nPenalty for injuring lighthouse, etc.\n\n[ct. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 666.]\n\ndistrain the goods, guns, tackle, or any other things of or belonging to or on board such ship, and to detain such distress until the said dues are paid; and if payment of the same is not made within the three days next ensuing such distress, the collector may, at any time during the continuance of such non-payment, cause the distress to be appraised by two sufficient persons, and thereupon sell the same, and apply the proceeds in payment of the dues unpaid together with reasonable expenses incurred by him under this section, paying the surplus, if any, on demand, to the said owner, agent or master.\n\n(6) In order to ascertain the burden of any ship liable to pay dues under this section, the collector may require the owner or master to produce the register of such ship for his inspection, and, on the refusal or neglect of such owner or master to produce such register or to satisfy the collector as to what is the true burden of the ship, it shall be lawful for him to cause such ship to be measured, and any expenses incurred in such measurement shall be recoverable from the owner or master of such ship in the same manner as dues payable under this section; and such measurement shall be deemed to be the real burden of the ship, and may be treated as such for all the purposes of this section.\n\n(7) The master of any ship who-\n\n(a) departs or attempts to depart from any port leaving unpaid the dues required to be paid under this section; or\n\n(b) refuses to have his ship measured to ascertain her burden in tons; or\n\n(c) obstructs any person in the duties of his office,\n\nshall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars,\n\nDamage to lights, buoys and beacons, cables, etc. 33.-(1) Every person who wilfully or negligently commits any of the following offences:\n\n(a) injures any lighthouse or the lights exhibited therein, or any buoy or beacon, or any cables, wires or other apparatus, either in connexion therewith or otherwise; or\n\n(b) removes, alters, injures or destroys any lightship, buoy or beacon, or any cables, wires or other apparatus, either in connexion therewith or otherwise; or\n\n(c) rides by, makes fast to, or runs foul of any lightship, buoy or beacon,\n\nshall, in addition to the expenses of making good any damage so occasioned, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the protection of telegraph cables or wires, either in connexion with any lighthouse, lightship, buoy or beacon, or otherwise,\n\nGap Rock lighthouse.\n\n34. The powers and provisions contained in sections 31 to 33, in respect of lighthouses, buoys, beacons, cables, wires or other apparatus in connexion therewith, and dues, shall equally apply to the lighthouse upon the island commonly known as Gap Rock and any cables, wires and other apparatus for the purpose of telegraphic or other communication in connexion therewith.\n\nPrevention of false lights.\n\n35. (1) Whenever any fire or light is burnt or exhibited at such place or in such manner as to be liable to be mistaken for a light proceeding from a lighthouse, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to serve a notice on the owner of the place where the fire or light is burnt or exhibited or on the person having charge of such fire or light, either personally, or by delivery at the place of abode of such owner or person, or by affixing the same in some conspicuous spot near to such fire or light, and by such notice to direct such owner or person, within a reasonable time to be therein specified, to take effectual means for extinguishing or effectually screening such existing fire or light, and for preventing for the future any similar fire or light; and every owner or person who fails to comply with such notice shall be deemed guilty of a common nuisance, and, in addition to any other penalties or liabilities of any kind thereby incurred, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.\n\n(2) If any owner or person fails to comply with such notice as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to enter into the place wherein the same may be, and forthwith to abate false light.\n\n386\n\nPage 340\n\nPage 341", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589467, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "page_number": 392, "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "content_text": "62\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n467\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n63\n\nShip's burden to be ascertained by measurement in certain cases.\n\nPenalty on master for departing without paying dues, etc.\n\nPenalty for injuring lighthouse, etc.\n\n[cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 666.]\n\ndistrain the goods, guns, tackle, or any other things of or belonging to or on board such ship, and to detain such distress until the said dues are paid; and if payment of the same is not made within the three days next ensuing such distress, the collector may, at any time during the continuance of such non-payment, cause the distress to be appraised by two sufficient persons, and thereupon sell the same, and apply the proceeds in payment of the dues unpaid together with reasonable expenses incurred by him under this section, paying the surplus, if any, on demand, to the said owner, agent or master.\n\n(6) In order to ascertain the burden of any ship liable to dues under this section, the collector may require the owner or master to produce the register of such ship for his inspection, and, on the refusal or neglect of such owner or master to produce such register or to satisfy the collector as to what is the true burden of the ship, it shall be lawful for him to cause such ship to be measured, and any expenses incurred in such measurement shall be recoverable from the owner or master of such ship in the same manner as dues payable under this section; and such measurement shall be deemed to be the real burden of the ship, and may be treated as such for all the purposes of this section.\n\n(7) The master of any ship who—\n\n(a) departs or attempts to depart from any port leaving unpaid the dues required to be paid under this section; or\n\n(b) refuses to have his ship measured to ascertain her burden in tons; or\n\n(c) obstructs any person in the duties of his office,\n\nshall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.\n\nDamage to lights, buoys and beacons, cables, etc.\n\n33.-(1) Every person who wilfully or negligently commits any of the following offences :--\n\n(a) injures any lighthouse or the lights exhibited therein, or any buoy or beacon, or any cables, wires or other apparatus, either in connexion therewith or otherwise; or\n\n(b) removes, alters, injures or destroys any lightship, buoy or beacon, or any cables, wires or other apparatus, either in connexion therewith or otherwise; or\n\n(c) rides by, makes fast to, or runs foul of any lightship, buoy or beacon,\n\nshall, in addition to the expenses of making good any damage so occasioned, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the protection of telegraph cables or wires, either in connexion with any lighthouse, lightship, buoy or beacon, or otherwise.\n\nGap Rock lighthouse.\n\n34. The powers and provisions contained in sections 31 to 33 in respect of lighthouses, buoys, beacons, cables, wires or other apparatus in connexion therewith, and dues, shall equally apply to the lighthouse upon the island commonly known as Gap Rock and any cables, wires and other apparatus for the purpose of telegraphic or other communication in connexion therewith.\n\nPrevention of false lights.\n\n35.-(1) Whenever any fire or light is burnt or exhibited at such place or in such manner as to be liable to be mistaken for a light proceeding from a lighthouse, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to serve a notice on the owner of the place where the fire or light is burnt or exhibited or on the person having charge of such fire or light, either personally, or by delivery at the place of abode of such owner or person, or by affixing the same in some conspicuous spot near to such fire or light, and by such notice to direct such owner or person, within a reasonable time to be therein specified, to take effectual means for extinguishing or effectually screening such existing fire or light, and for preventing for the future any similar fire or light; and every owner or person who fails to comply with such notice shall be deemed guilty of a common nuisance, and, in addition to any other penalties or liabilities of any kind thereby incurred, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.\n\n(2) If any owner or person fails to comply with such notice as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to enter into the place wherein the same may be, and forthwith to abate the false light.\n\n468", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599181, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-2 Fertilizer factory new territories- contains drawings 1-12-1950 - 31-1-1952", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-627-2 Fertilizer factory new territories- contains drawings 1-12-1950 - 31-1-1952", "content_text": "Mr Armitage Smith\n\nPl see (21) to (25)+\n\nmy\n\nmie of 23/7.\n\n&\n\nB\n\nI am not happy about this. I think it was a mistake on H.K's part to allow Mr Foment to return to the U.K. before he had completed the scheme.\n\nHe told me on 2/7 that the idea was that after completing the scheme, he should take it back to H.K. for further consideration there. I think he was hoping to be taken as Consulting Engineer & receive fees calculated to a percentage, taxes & as he thought the project would cost £300,000 to £400,000, there would be higher fees than the £125 p.a. H.K. are now affirming!\n\nI am really sending this to you for para 2 of the draft opposite. Is this sufficient or do you wish to amplify it?\n\nYou will see from the detailed draft that it would appear from Mr Barnett's letter of the 19th June that you have already been informed of the information required to enable the scheme to be appraised as a C.D.W. project.\n\nUnfortunately, we have not been sent a copy of the minutes of the meeting referred to in para 2 of Barnett's letter - cred to (22).\n\n24/7\n\nI have suggested changes to the original draft.\n\n26 Brunt, 27 Brunt\n\ncombination and X\n\nJ.N.A. Armitage-Smith\n\nG\n\n(26)\n\n25/7\n\nWall\n\n25.7.51\n\n30.7.51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-2 Fertilizer factory new territories- contains drawings 1-12-1950 - 31-1-1952.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]