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        "content_text": "i \n\n❀ cents. \n\nferred or, to be preferred, filed, or to be filed, against him, (her, or them) by our Attorney-General in our behalf (or when the Prosecution is at the instance of a private party or private parties describing the Prosecutor or Prosecutors as in the Indictment or Information) and not to depart until he (she, or they) be discharged in due course of law-and Serve upoo the said Defendant (or upon each of the said Defendants copy of the said Indictment or Information, and the notice of Trial indorsed on the same, or annexed thereto, and return on that day to the Registrar of the Court this writ, with whatsoever you have done thereupon. \n\nWitness The Honorable Jahn Walter Holme, \n\nChief Justice of our said Colony at Victoria, the \n\nday of \n\nin the year of our Lord 1844. \n\nFor Registrar,or Clerk, exminining orattesting, and certifying same in all matters For every Habeas Corpus, Mandamus, Certiorari, or any other Writ or \n\nProcess whatsoever, not otherwise charged \n\na \n\nFor every Attachment for Contempt in the presence of the Court or otherwise, \n\n* or disobedience of Order or Rule of Court - For all Interrogatories and Answers filed thereto in pursuance thereof, per folio For every Commission to examine or swear Witnesses, each Witness For every Search in the Registrar's Office \n\nFor every Rule or Order of Court \n\nFor every Receipt granted by the Registrar when demanded \n\nFor every attendance by the Registrar, or other person appointed by the Court, within the limits of Victoria, to administer Oaths, or transact other business, exclusive of expenses \n\nBeyond the limits of Victoria \n\narks \n\nAppealable Matters, \n\nNotice of Trial, ofc. Soc. 94. \n\nC. D. \n\nSCHEDULE (No. 9.) Sec. 94. \n\nNotice of Trial of Indictment or Information. \n\nTake notice that you will be tried on this Indictment (or Information or on the Indictment of Information whereof this is a true copy) at the Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Cour, to be holden at Victoria, in and for the Colony of Hongkong, on the \n\nday of \n\nSCHEDULE (N°. 10.) Sec. 112. \n\nFEES. \n\nFor filing and entering every Petition for leave to appeal \n\nFor every Certificate of Appeal allowed \n\nEcclesiastical Matters. \n\nFor filing and entering petition for Probate or Letters of Administration Swearing Petitioner to the Truth of Petition \n\nFor every caveat filed \n\nFor granting Probate or Letters of Administration \n\nFor filing and entering Bond by Administrator \n\nFor every Certificate by the Registrar, or other officer, of Accounts and Inventories being filed, where the sum realized shall exceed 100 Dollars And for every 100 Dollars above the first 100 Dollars- \n\nSwearing party to Truth of Account or Inventory \n\nFor every exemplification of Will per folio \n\nFor affixing the Seal of the Court to any Process, during Court hours \n\nAfter Court hours \n\nCROWN FEES to be taken and received by the Registrar when the Court sits as a Court of Oven and Terminer and Gaol DELIVERY. For preparing any Bench Warrant, and every other process issuing out of the \n\nCourt of Oyer and Terminer \n\nFor every Venire, taking every recognizance, or discharging, or respiting the same, recording the appearance, plea, or acquittal of every Defendant, for every Bail, and justification of Bail, and for every order of the Court, and copy thereof, in case of felony \n\ncents. \n\nFees, Sec. 112. \n\nFor filing and entering Plaint, or Statement of cause of action For filing and entering Declaration where the amount claimed shall not exceed \n\n100 Dollars \n\nAnd for every 100 Dollars after the first 100 Dollars \n\nFor the same except in Felony \n\nFor Copies of Indictments, or other papers when ordered or required,per folio For every Subpæna \n\n[50] \n\n150] \n\nFor every Search in Office \n\nFor calling and swearing the Jury on Trial \n\nFor entering and recording verdict \n\nFor reading every Notice or other Document exhibited in Court as evidence \n\nFor every Oath administered in Court \n\n150) 501 \n\nFor the same except in felony \n\nAnd in all \"jectments, and in all Actions and proceedings where the thing sought to be recovered shall consist of lands or houses or both, the charge on filing and entering declaration shall be I per cent upon the valuation at which the game is assessed by Government \n\nAnd in all actions or proceedings brought for the recovery of a specific personal Chatel, or for damages done thereto, or for conversion of the same, the charge for filing and entering declaration shall be 1 per cent on the value of the Chattel, and 1 per cent on the damage laid in the Declaration Whit of Summons, each Defendant \n\nRegistrar's Certificate of Declaration being filed \n\nFor filing every Affidavit of Debt where the sum sworn to is under or amounts \n\n10 100 Dollars \n\nFiling every Affidavit of Debt where the sum sworn to exceeds 100 Dollars \n\nfor every 100 Dollars- \n\nFor Judge's order for a Capias \n\nFor Capias in pursuance in every case - \n\nFor Filing and Entering every Appearance \n\nFor auxing every Plea, Answer, Defence, or Demurrer to Declaration, ench \n\nDefendant \n\nFor Subpand, each Witness \n\nFor entering every cause \n\nFor Calling same \n\n[50) \n\nFor adininistering every Oath in Court or Chambers \n\nFor reading every exhibit, document, or paper produced in evidence, unless the \n\nCourt or Judge shall at the time direct a larger sum to be paid \n\nFor every Judgment or Decree pronounced by the Court or Judge, where the \n\namount recovered does not exceed 100 Dollars \n\nAnd for every 100 Dollars above the first 100 Dollars \n\nFor every Prisoner discharged by Proclamation, or acquitted of felony - \n\nFor every Prisoner convicted of felony \n\nFor the same except in felony \n\nSheriff's Fees. \n\nFor service of every Writ of Summons, Summons, Subpoena, Citation, or Order \n\nFor serving every Writ of Capias and other Bailable Process \n\nFor discharging every Defendant at the desire of the Plaintiff. \n\nFor releasing Property seized under Writ of Sequestration, or Fieri Facias by \n\nthe desire of the Plaintiff \n\nFor drawing and taking each Bail-Band, every D fendant \n\nWhen any Summons, Writ or Process of any kind shall be executed, or act done, for which a fee is authorized to be taken as above, the Deputy duly appointed who shall execute such process, or do such act, shall be entitled to one half the fee or fees which the Sheriff may claim under this table \n\nPoundage. \n\nFive per cent to be charged on the first Five hundred Dollars, and two and a half \n\nper cent upon every One hundred Dollars above Five hundred Dollars \n\nSCHEDULE (N°. 11) See. 117. \n\nForms relating to the Summary Jurisdiction of the Court. \n\nFor entering every Judgment or Decree- \n\nFor taxing Costs where the Bill does not exceed 100 Dollars \n\nAnd for every 100 Dollars above the first 100 Dollars - \n\nFor all Writs of Execution \n\nFor every copy of Declaration, Bill, Petition, Plea, Answer, Demurrer, or any other document, paper, or proceeding in Court, not otherwise charged, in all matters, per folio \n\nENTRY OF TLAINT. \n\nColony of Hongkong A. B. of \n\nto wit \n\nin the Colony of Hongkong hereby requires entry to be made in the Supreme Court of \n\nForms relating to SUMMARY JURISDIC- TION, Sec. 117. \n\nEutry of Plaint",
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        "content_text": "\n34. \n\n\"\" consider Tranclamen more revengeful Han tareas, but not mme sensitive. Banilamen, when slaphed or struct \n\nghtly, have generally receives such \n\nHo Everard do. This Present \n\ntatuisud- \n\nだ \n\nis bust instance. Har las come – \n\nobservation wherev \n\nany \n\nستان \n\nWow has been resented. I have been accus= \n\ntimea to mixed brews of Caveart and Manglase \n\n: now for the last four years. \n\nPrisoner declines question. \n\nbitrek. The evidence of withip is reak \n\nhe \n\ncomprims it and with trans- \n\nHowlso viterpasted to prisoner. \n\nsignix D. S. Cliver. \n\nthe first wstrep for the prosecution \n\nIan Cartridge, is again called into Court suk questioned on his former oath states. \n\nVeceased stood by prisoner a fer- records, after he had stuck hun the \n\nLeconde \n\n12 wit : Prot: rich wit: Pros: \n\nsecone blow \n\nLeisurdly \n\nمانگا مان \n\n20 October; \n\nmorth away \n\nana K \n\nPrisoner con. \n\nto grating. \n\ntincs semóbing the \n\nJa \n\nན ན \n\nہے \n\nBis hand in motion as his work 400 \n\n& tines; \n\nZzzzzz \n\nMr Ropkins clashing \n\ndistance, I should say of about five \n\n! eet, prisonce sprung up quickly pon- his triching position and stabled the deceased from behind. I am qoute. sustain that a minute capsed between \n\nthe East blow struck by M. Stoptimis. and the first stab being inflicted \n\nLive by prisoner. \n\nThe foregoing evidence is read \n\nover and exhlaried to the presence, and \n\nwitness with trains. \n\nShaik Mahomed, Jana; or 17 \n\nLiidae of the brig Naclequin, omvorn on # Shoran \n\nKingh \n\nthe \n\nques touch, and dipore. \n\ninterpretation of Major- \n\nCavine, \n\n",
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        "content_text": "No. 7.\n\nFees.\n\nSec. 30.\n\nFor filing and entering Plaint, or Statement of cause of action For filing and entering Declaration where the amount claimed shall not exceed 100 Dollars... $1.00\n\nEcclesiastical Matters.\n\nFor filing and entering petition for Probate or Letters of Administration 1.00 Swearing Petitioner to the Truth of Petition For every caveat filed... $1.00 1.00 2.00\n\n... And for every 100 Dollars after the first 100 Dollars... And in all ejectments, and in all Actions and proceedings where the thing sought to be recovered shall consist of lands, or houses, or both, the charge on filing and entering declaration shall be 1 per cent upon the valuation at which the same is assessed by Government And in all actions or proceedings brought for the recovery of a specific personal Chattel, or for damages done thereto, or for conversion of the same, the charge for filing and entering declaration shall be 1 per cent on the value of the Chattel, and 1 per cent on the damage laid in the Declaration.\n\nFor granting Probate of Letters of Administration For filing and entering Bond by Administrator $5.00 2.00 1.00\n\nFor every Certificate by the Registrar, or other officer of Accounts and Inventories being filed, where the sum realized shall amount to 100 Dollars 2.00 And for every 100 Dollars above the first 100 Dollars Swearing party to Truth of Account or Inventory 1.00\n\nFor every exemplification of Will, per folio 1.00 1.00\n\nSheriff's Fees.\n\nFor service of every Writ of Summons, Subpoena, Citation, or Order 1.00 For every arrest on civil process 5.00 Writ of Summons, each Defendant... 1.00 Registrar's Certificate of Declaration being filed 1.00\n\nFor filing every Affidavit of Debt where the sum sworn to is under or amounts to 100 Dollars... For discharging every Defendant at the desire of the Plaintiff For releasing Property taken in execution at the desire of the Plaintiff For drawing and taking each Bail-Bond, every Defendant 0.50 5.00 1.00 1.00\n\nFiling every Affidavit of Debt where the sum sworn to exceeds 100 Dollars for every 100 Dollars $1.00\n\nJudge's order for a Capias 1.00 For every Capias pursuant thereto 2.00 For Filing and Entering every Appearance 1.00\n\nFor Filing and Entering every Plea, Answer, Defence, Demurrer, or Rejoinder 1.00 For Subpoena, each Witness ... 1.00\n\nWhen any Summons, Writ or Process of any kind shall be executed, or act done, for which a fee is authorized to be taken as above, the Deputy duly appointed who shall execute such process, or do such act, shall be entitled to one half the fee or fees which the Sheriff may claim under this table.\n\nPoundage.\n\nOn every Arrest or Seizure in execution, Five per cent to be charged on the first Five Hundred Dollars, and Two and a Half per cent upon every One Hundred Dollars above Five Hundred Dollars.\n\nFor entering every cause For Calling same For administering every Oath in Court or Chambers $1.00 0.50 0.50\n\n... For reading every exhibit, document, or paper produced in evidence, unless the Court or Judge shall at the time direct a larger sum to be paid 0.50 For every Judgment or Decree pronounced by the Court or Judge, where the amount recovered does not exceed 100 Dollars And for every 100 Dollars above the first 100 Dollars 2.00 1.00\n\nFor entering every Judgment or Decree 1.00 For taxing Costs where the Bill does not exceed 100 Dollars And for every 100 Dollars above the first 100 Dollars 2.00 1.00\n\nFor all Writs of Execution 5.00\n\nFor every copy of Declaration, Bill, Petition, Plea, Answer, Demurrer, or any other document, paper, or proceeding in Court, not otherwise charged, in all matters, per folio 0.50\n\nFor Registrar, or Clerk, examining or attesting, and certifying same in all matters 1.00\n\nFor every Habeas Corpus, Mandamus, Certiorari, or any other Writ or Process whatsoever, not otherwise charged For every Attachment for Contempt in the presence of the Court or otherwise, or disobedience of Rule or Order of Court For all Interrogatories and Answers filed thereto in pursuance thereof, per folio 1.00 1.00 0.50\n\nFor every Commission to examine or swear Witness, each Witness... For every Search in the Registrar's Office For every Rule or Order of Court 1.00 ... 0.50 1.00\n\nFor every Receipt granted by the Registrar when demanded 0.50\n\nexpenses\n\nFor every attendance by the Registrar, or other person appointed by the Court, within the limits of Victoria, to administer Oaths, or transact other business, exclusive of 1.00 Beyond the limits of Victoria 2.00\n\nFor affixing the Seal of the Court to any Process during Court hours After Court hours 1.00 2.00\n\nFor every Transcript of record upon the allowance of a writ of error where the same shall not exceed 50 folios And for every folio beyond 50 folios ... 50.00 1.00\n\nEcclesiastical\n\nHONGKONG:\n\nPRINTED BY AUTHORITY, AT THE OFFICE OF THE CHINA MAIL.\n\n129",
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        "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.",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\nFEES RECEIVED IN PUBLIC OFFICES\n\nSCHEDULE (No. 10), sec. 112.\n\nFEES.\n\nFor filing and entering plaint or statement of cause of action\n\nFor filing and entering declaration where the amount claimed shall not exceed 100 dollars\n\nAnd for every 100 dollars after the first 100 dollars\n\nAnd in all ejectments, and in all actions and proceedings where the thing sought to be recovered shall consist of lands or houses or both, the charge on filing and entering declaration shall be 1 per cent. upon the valuation at which the same is assessed by Government.\n\nAnd in all actions or proceedings brought for the recovery of a specific personal chattel, or for damages done thereto, or for conversion of the same, the charge for filing and entering declaration shall be 1 per cent. on the value of the chattel, and 1 per cent. on the damage laid in the declaration.\n\nWrit of summons, each defendant\n\nRegistrar's certificate of declaration being filed\n\nFor filing every affidavit of debt where the sum sworn to is under or amounts to 100 dollars\n\nFiling every affidavit of debt where the sum sworn to exceeds 100 dollars, for every 100 dollars\n\nFor judge's order for a capias\n\nFor capias in pursuance, in every case\n\n$cts.\n1\n1\n1\n50\n1\n50\n\nIN THE CROWN COLONIES.\n\nSchedule (No. 10)-continued.\n\nCROWN FEES to be taken and received by the Registrar when the Court sits as a Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery.\n\nFor preparing any bench warrant and every other process issuing out of the court of oyer and terminer\n\nFor every venire, taking every recognizance, or discharging or respiting the same, recording the appearance, plea or acquittal of every defendant, for every bail and justification of bail, and for every order of the court and copy thereof, in case of felony\n\nFor the same, except in felony\n\nFor copies of indictments or other papers, when ordered or required, per folio\n\nFor every subpœna\n\nFor every search in office\n\nFor calling and swearing the jury on trial\n\nFor entering and recording verdict\n\nFor reading every notice or other document exhibited in court as evidence\n\nFor every oath administered in court\n\nFor every prisoner discharged by proclamation or acquitted of felony\n\nFor the same, except in felony\n\nFor every prisoner convicted of felony\n\nFor the same, except in felony\n\nSHERIFF'S FEES.\n\nFor service of every writ of summons, summons, subpoena, citation or order\n\nFor serving every writ of capias and other bailable process\n\nFor discharging every defendant at the desire of the plaintiff\n\n$cts.\n2\n150\n138\n\nFor filing and entering every appearance\n\nFor annexing every plea, answer, defence or demurrer to declaration, each defendant\n\nFor subpoena, each witness\n\nFor entering every cause\n\nFor calling same\n\nFor administering every oath in court or chambers\n\nFor reading every exhibit, document or paper produced in evidence, unless the court or judge shall at the time direct a larger sum to be paid\n\nFor releasing property seized under writ of sequestration or fieri facias by the desire of the plaintiff\n\n$cts.\n1\n50\n50\n350\n50\n\nAnd for every 100 dollars above the first 100 dollars\n\nFor entering every judgment or decree\n\nFor every judgment or decree pronounced by the court or judge, where the amount recovered does not exceed 100 dollars\n\nFor taxing costs, where the bill does not exceed 100 dollars\n\nAnd for every 100 dollars above the first 100 dollars\n\nFor every rule or order of court\n\nFor every attendance by the registrar or other person appointed by the court within the limits of Victoria, to administer oaths or transact other business, exclusive of expenses\n\nFor all writs of execution\n\nFor every copy of declaration, bill, petition, plea, answer, demurrer, or any other document, paper or proceeding in court, not otherwise charged, in all matters, per folio\n\nFor registrar or clerk, examining or attesting, and certifying same, in all matters\n\nFor every habeas corpus, mandamus, certiorari or any other writ or process whatsoever, not otherwise charged\n\nFor every attachment for contempt in the presence of the court or otherwise, or disobedience of order or rule of court\n\nFor all interrogatories and answers filed thereto in pursuance thereof, per folio\n\nFor every commission to examine or swear witnesses, each witness\n\nFor every search in the registrar's office\n\nFor every receipt granted by the registrar when demanded\n\n$cts.\n1\n1\n50\n150\n50\n1\n2\n50\n50\n\nFor drawing and taking each bail-bond, every defendant\n\nWhen any summons, writ or process of any kind shall be executed, or act done, for which a fee is authorized to be taken as above, the deputy duly appointed who shall execute such process or do such act, shall be entitled to one-half the fee or fees which the sheriff may claim under this Table.\n\nPOUNDAGE.\n\nFive per cent. to be charged on the first 500 dollars, and 2 per cent. upon every 100 dollars above 500 dollars.\n\n132.--And be it further enacted and ordained, That in all actions and complaints or other proceedings under the summary jurisdiction given by this ordinance, the fees specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked (No. 12), shall, unless and until otherwise ordered and directed, be established, and be deemed and taken as the lawful fees and emoluments for the discharge of the several duties therein specified; and the Chief Justice of the said court shall have full power to compel the payment thereof in a summary way, by order, and on nonpayment, by warrant of distress and sale, under his hand, and sealed with the seal of the court; and the said fees shall be received and accounted for by the registrar of the said court, and be paid over quarterly to the colonial treasurer for the public uses of the said colony.\n\nBeyond the limits of Victoria\n\nAPPEALABLE MATTERS.\n\nFor filing and entering every petition for leave to appeal\n\nFor every certificate of appeal allowed\n\nECCLESIASTICAL MATTERS.\n\nFor filing and entering petition for probate or letters of administration\n\nSwearing petitioner to the truth of petition\n\nFor every caveat filed\n\nFor granting probate or letters of administration\n\nFor filing and entering bond by administrator\n\nFor every certificate by the registrar or other officer of accounts and inventories being filed, where the sum realized shall exceed 100 dollars\n\nAnd for every 100 dollars above the first 100 dollars\n\nSwearing party to truth of account or inventory\n\nFor every exemplification of will, per folio\n\nFor affixing the seal of the court to any process during court hours\n\nAfter court hours\n\nSCHEDULE (No. 12), sec. 132. TABLE OF FEES.\n\n$cts.\nFor entering every plaint, action, &c. and particulars of demand50\nEntering every appearance and defence25\n50\nSummons for defendant, and copy50\nEntering notice of hearing25\nCopy and service on plaintiff and defendant, each40\nAny notice required during the course of proceedings25\nFee on hearing and adjudication, where the sum to be recovered shall not exceed 50 dollars50\nExceeding 50 dollars, and not exceeding 100 dollars75\nEach subpoena of witness, and copy40\nDrawing and signing order for costs, decree or dismissal, each50\nEvery oath of party or witness examined25\nChief Justice's warrant to bailiff for executing decree1\nExecuting any decree or order where the sum shall not exceed 50 dollars50\nExceeding 50 dollars and not exceeding 100 dollars125\nCopies of any other proceedings, per folio12\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Victoria, 21st August 1844.\n\n(signed) E. A. Shelley,\n\nClerk of Councils.",
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        "content_text": "# Hongkong\n\nAccount of the aggregate\n\nFisi\n\nSupreme Count\n\nLund Pffee\n\nIps of to 4 hand newered in each of the utter Zus\n\nKuthority\n\nJón estech mounts app i\n\nPoles Sturt\n\nMarine Farce four\n\nSuperintendents M\n\n!\n\n*\n\n# HONGKONG.\n\nANNO OCTAVO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.\n\nNo. 15 of 1844,\n\nad 14\n\nFrau Nr. 13 of 1844 S. & Endli\n\nY His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Espire, Governor and Communit Chief of the Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\n## AN ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH A SUPREME COURT OF JURISDICTION AT HONGKONG\n\n11. And be it further enacted and ordained, That in all matters and proceedings in the said Supreme Court there shall be taken and allowed such fees as the Court shall from time to time order and direct; and that the fees specified in the schedule hereunto annexed, marked (No. 10) shall be the lawful fees to be taken and allowed in the said Court (other than in proceedings under the summary jurisdiction thereof as hereinbefore provided), unless and until the Court shall otherwise order and direct. And all fees received by the Registrar, as well as those received by the inferior officers duly appointed, shall be accounted for quarterly by them respectively to the Colonial Treasurer.\n\n### Schedule (No. 10.) See, 112. FEES.\n\nDescription\nFee\n\nFor filing and entering Plaint, or Statement of cause of action\n\nFor filing and entering Declaration where the sum claimed shall not exceed 100 Dollars\n\nAnd for every 100 Dollars after the first 100 Dollars\n\nAnd in all ejectments, and in all Actions and proceedings where the thing sought to be recovered shall consist of lands or tenements or any estate or charge on lands or tenements, the charge for filing and entering declaration shall be 1 per cent upon the valuation at which the same is assessed by Government\n\nAnd in all actions or proceedings brought for the recovery of a specific personal Chattel, or for damages done thereto, or for detention of the same, the charge for filing and entering declaration shall be 1 per cent on the value of the Chattel, and 1 per cent on the damage laid in the declaration\n\nWrit of Summons, each Defendant\n\nRegistrar's Certificate of Declaration being filed\n\nFor filing every Affidavit of Debt where the sum sworn to is under or amounts to 100 Dollars\n\nFiling every Affidavit of Debt where the sum sworn to exceeds 100 Dollars, for every 100 Dollars\n\nFor Judge's order for a Capias\n\nFor Capias in personam in every case\n\nFor Filing and Entering every Appearance\n\nFor annexing every Plea, Answer, Defence, or Demurrer to Declaration, each Defendant\n\nFor Subpoena, each Witness\n\nFor entering every cause\n\nFor Calling cause\n\nFor administering every Oath in Court or Chambers\n\nFor reading every exhibit, document, or paper produced in evidence, unless the Court or Judge shall at the time direct a larger sum to be paid\n\nFor every Judgement or Decree pronounced by the Court or Judge, where the amount recovered does not exceed 100 Dollars\n\nAnd for every 100 Dollars above the first 100 Dollars\n\nFor entering every Judgment or Decree\n\nFor taxing Costs where the Bill does not exceed 100 Dollars\n\nAnd for every 100 Dollars above the first 100 Dollars\n\nFor all Writs of Execution\n\nFor every copy of Declaration, Bill, Petition, Plea, Answer, Demurrer, or any other document, paper, or proceeding in Court, not otherwise charged, in all matters, per folio\n\nFor Registrar, or Clerk, examining or attesting, and certifying copies in all matters\n\nFor every Habeas Corpus, Mandamus, Certiorari, or any other Writ or Process whatsoever, not otherwise charged\n\nFor every Attachment for Contempt in the presence of the Court or otherwise, or disobedience of Order or Rule of Court\n\nFor all Interrogatories and Answers filed thereto in pursuance thereof, per folio\n\nFor every Commission to examine or swear Witnesses, each Witness\n\nFor every Search in the Registrar's Office\n\nFor every Rule or Order of Court\n\nFor every Receipt granted by the Registrar when demanded\n\nFor every attendance by the Registrar, or other person appointed by the Court, within the limits of Victoria, to administer Oaths, or transact other business, exclusive of expenses\n\nBeyond the limits of Victoria\n\nAppealable Matters\n\nFor filing and entering every Petition for leave to appeal\n\nFor every Certificate of Appeal allowed\n\nEcclesiastical Matters\n\nFor filing and entering petition for Probate or Letters of Administration\n\nSwearing Petitioner to the Truth of Petition\n\nFor every caveat filed\n\nFor granting Probate or Letters of Administration\n\nFor filing and entering Bond by Administrator\n\nFor every Certificate by the Registrar, or other officer, of Accounts and Inventories being filed, when the sum realized shall exceed 100 Dollars\n\nAnd for every 100 Dollars above the first 100 Dollars\n\nSwearing party to Truth of Account or Inventory\n\nFor every exemplification of Will per folio\n\nFor affixing the Seal of the Court to any Process, during Court hours\n\nAfter Court hours\n\nCROWN FEES to be taken and received by the Registrar when the Court sits as a Court of OYER and TERMINER and Gaol Delivery.\n\nDescription\nFee\n\nFor preparing any Bench Warrant, and every other process issuing out of the Court of Oyer and Terminer\n\nFor every Venire, taking every recognizance, or discharging, or respiting the same, recording the appearance, plea, or acquittal of every Defendant, for every Bail, and justification of Bail, and for every order of the Court, and copy thereof, in case of felony\n\nFor the same except in Felony\n\nFor Copies of Indictments, or other papers when ordered or required, per folio\n\nFor every Subpoena\n\nFor every Search in Office\n\nFor calling and swearing the Jury on Trial\n\nFor entering and recording verdict\n\nFor reading every Notice or other Document exhibited in Court as evidence\n\nFor every Oath administered in Court\n\nFor every Prisoner discharged by Proclamation, or acquitted of felony\n\nFor the same except in felony\n\nFor every Prisoner convicted of felony\n\nFor the same except in felony\n\n### Sheriff's Fees\n\nDescription\nFee\n\nFor service of every Writ of Summons, Summons, Subpoena, Citation, or Order\n\nFor serving every Writ of Capias and other Bailable Process\n\nFor discharging every Defendant at the desire of the Plaintiff\n\nFor releasing Property seized under Writ of Sequestration, or Fieri Facias by the desire of the Plaintiff\n\nFor drawing and taking each Bail-Bond, every Defendant\n\nWhen any Summons, Writ or Process of any kind shall be executed, or act done, for which a fee is authorized to be taken as above, the Deputy duly appointed who shall execute such process, or do such act, shall be entitled to one half the fee or fees which the Sheriff may lawfully take under this table\n\n### Poundage\n\nFive per cent to be charged on the first Five hundred Dollars, and two and a half per cent upon every One hundred Dollars above Five hundred Dollars\n\n1:22. —And be it further enacted and ordained, \"That in all actions and complaints or other proceedings under the Summary Jurisdiction given by the Ordinance, the fees specified in the schedule hereunto annexed, marked (No. 12.) shall, unless and until otherwise ordered and directed, be established, and be deemed and taken, as the lawful fees and emoluments for the discharge of the several duties therein specified; and the Chief Justice of the said Court shall have full power to compel the payment thereof in a summary way, by order, and on non-payment, by warrant of distress and sale, under his hand and sealed with the seal of the Court; and the said fees shall be received and accounted for by the Registrar of the said Court, and be paid over quarterly to the Colonial Treasurer for the public uses of the said Colony.\n\n### Schedule (No. 12) S. 132.\n\nDescription\nFee\n\nFor entering every plaint, action, &c., and particulars of demand\n\nEntering every appearance and defence\n\nSummons for Defendant, and Copy\n\nEntering notice of hearing\n\nCopy and service on Plaintiff, and defendant, each\n\nAny notice required during the course of proceedings\n\nFee on hearing and adjudication, where the sum to be recovered shall not exceed $50\n\nExceeding $50 and not exceeding $100\n\nEach Subpoena of witness, and Copy\n\nDrawing and signing order for costs, decree, or dismissal, each\n\nEvery Oath of party, or witness examined\n\nChief Justice's warrant to bailiff for executing decree\n\nExecuting any decree or order, where the sum shall not exceed $50\n\nExceeding $50 and not exceeding $100\n\nCopies of any other proceedings per folio\n# cents\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, Victoria, 21st August, 1844.\n\nE. A. SHELLEY.\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nHONGKONG, Published by Authority\n\nPrinted by John Norris.\n\nPage 332\n\n...\n\n7. And be it further enacted and ordained, That there shall be and belong to the Court the following Officers, that is to say a Registrar, a Clerk, and an Interpreter, and such, and so many other Officers, as to the Chief Justice of the said Court for the time being, shall from time to time appear to be necessary for the administration of justice, and the due execution of all the Powers and Authorities which are granted and committed to the said Court by this Ordinance; and that all Persons who shall or be appointed to any subordinate Office within the said Supreme Court of Hong Kong, shall be so appointed by the Chief Justice of the said Court for the time being, and shall be removable at the discretion of the said Chief Justice: Provided nevertheless that no new Office shall be created in the said Court, unless the Governor, or Acting Governor for the time being, of the said Colony, shall first signify his approbation thereof to the said Chief Justice for the time being, in writing, under the hand of such Governor, or Acting Governor as aforesaid.\n\n8. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the several Superior Officers of the said Court, who now are, or hereafter may be appointed to their said Offices by Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, shall hold their several Offices during the pleasure of Her said Majesty, subject to suspension by The Governor, in like manner as other officers in the said Colony; and that all other superior Officers, appointed with the approbation of The Governor as aforesaid, shall be removable from their several Offices in the said court by The Governor, upon reasonable cause.\n\n9. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the said Supreme Court of Hongkong is hereby authorized and empowered, to approve, admit, and enrol such, and so many persons having been admitted Barristers at Law, or Advocates in Great Britain and Ireland, to Act as Barristers and Advocates; or having been admitted Writers, Procurators, or Solicitors, in one of the Courts at Westminster, Dublin, or Edinburgh, having been admitted as Proctors in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, to Act in the character of Proctors, Attornies, and Solicitors in the said Court; and which persons so approved, admitted, and enrolled as aforesaid, shall be, and are hereby authorized to appear, and plead, and act, in their several respective characters, for the suitors of the said Court, subject always to be removed by the said Court, from their respective stations therein, upon reasonable cause: and it is hereby further enacted and ordained, that no other person or persons whatsoever shall be allowed to appear, and plead, or act in the Supreme Court of Hongkong for, and on behalf of such suitors, or any of them.\n\n10. And be it further enacted and ordained, That in case there shall not be a sufficient number of such Barristers at Law, Advocates, Writers, Attornies, Solicitors, and Proctors within the said Colony, competent and willing to appear, and act for the suitors of the said Court, then, and in that case, the said Supreme Court of Hongkong shall, and is hereby authorized to admit temporarily so many other fit and proper persons to appear and Act as Barristers, Advocates, Proctors, Attornies, and Solicitors as may be necessary, according to such General Rules and Qualifications as the said Court shall, for that purpose, make and establish: Provided always that the persons shall be so admitted temporarily, as aforesaid, subject to the approbation of the Governor, or Acting Governor for the time being, of the said Colony.\n\n...",
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No Fees payable where the Estate is sworn to be under $200.\n\n1.00\n\nSHERIFF'S FEES.\n\nFor discharging every Defendant by desire of Plaintiff,\n\nFor Service of every Writ of Summons, Subpoena, Citation, or Order,\n\nFor every Arrest on Civil Process,\n\n1.00\n\n5.00\n\nFor conveying Defendant to Gaol from Place of Arrest,-per Mile,\n\nFor releasing Property taken in Execution at the desire of Plaintiff,\n\nFor drawing and taking Bail Bond where only one Defendant,\n\nWhere more than one,-each Defendant,\n\n0.50\n\n5.00\n\n2.00\n\nEscape Warrant,\n\nWarrant to apprehend an Insolvent,\n\nFor every Receipt granted by the Registrar, when demanded,\n\nFor affixing the Seal of the Court to any Process during Court Hours,\n\nAfter Court Hours,\n\nFor every Transcript of Record, where the same shall not exceed 30 Folios,\n\nEach Folio beyond 50 Folios,\n\nECCLESIASTICAL FEES.\n\nBY THE PROCTORS.\n\nFor drawing and copying Affidavit, Petition, and other Documents, Attend-\n\nances, &c., the same Fees as in Actions at Law.\n\nBY THE REGISTRAR.\n\nFor filing and entering Petition for Probate or Letters of Administration, &c., 1.00\n\nSwearing Petitioner to the Truth of Petition,\n\nFor every Citation,\n\nWriting Letter for Payment of Debt, Service and Copy,\n\n++\n\nFair Copy of the like and all other Documents, per Folio,\n\nAttending to deliver same,\n\nDrawing Rule to Plead,\n\nDemand of Plea,\n\nCopy and Service,\n\nNotice of Trial,\n\nCopy and Service,\n\nEntering Issue on Roll,\n\nAttending thereon\n\nWarrant and Docket, ...\n\nAttending to pass Record,\n\nCopy particulars to annex to Record,\n\nVenire and Attending to Issue, ...\n\nDistringas\n\ndo.\n\nAttending for Return,\n\nAttending to enter Cause for Trial,\n\nDrawing Subpoena,\n\nCopy and Service (each Witness),\n\nInstructions for Brief,\n\nIL\n\nAttending Counsel in Court, cause not tried,\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\ncause tried,\n\nDrawing and Engrossing Postea,\n\nEntering Interlocutory Judgment,\n\nDo. 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        "content_text": "experience - Many matters such as summonses for time to plead, and to proceed, have been in England delegated to the Masters; and in Equity the Chief Clerks exercise almost judicial functions.\n\nThe expression of discontent of the Profession and suitors never reached my ears in any other shape than that of sorrow that the brief for the Attorney-General was not well enough to come out. I endorse the Attorney-General's statements. The isolated caveat he mentions of the Receiver-General (one of my caves) and the other caveat of Puston & Co. (another of my caves) concern application by summons properly exercisable in Chambers, and, being adjourned, the Chief Justice properly directed it to be resumed at Chambers.\n\nThe Attorney-General took up 3½ hours, wasting the time of the court on matters irrelevant to the preliminary question of his right to be heard at all, and if he had had a public hearing he could probably have consumed many days in quoting international and constitutional law. I will at present only say that during my long and large experience (much longer and larger than that of the Attorney-General) in forensic life, I never found a Judge so careful, ready at all times to meet the convenience of the profession, evidently with the justice of the case, as the Chief Justice of this Colony.\n\nPage 220",
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        "content_text": "## Official Administration\n\n2 X باسم 384 British Brit \"Sammerang\" and died at Angkory حبير about the 14 to be October 18th. I believe that the form of Friss \"Imith this one were the the Regents Tennedy & Co for the said ship. That Citation to rest and Commission of appraisement were issued on the 18th of October 1854, the day on which the affidavit of death was made by John Taggart, Master of British Ship Milbeck; that no caveat was brought into the Registry and no person or persons applied for letters of administration.\n\nThat the value of the Estate as returned by the appraisement was $50, of which was in cash, the remainder in personal effects. That the said Effects have been sold by Public Auction and realized $3349 net. That no claims have been filed against the Estate. That no papers or letters belonging to the deceased appear to have come into the hands of the official Administrator.\n\nI have, &c.,  \n[Signed] N. R. Trazion  \nActing Registrar  \nOfficial Administration.\n\n1 June Copy,  \nM. A. Alexander  \nActing Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "caveat\n\nsequence of frequent absence from the Colony, he had been under the necessity of sending in his resignation to the Belgian Government, and requesting the recognition by this Government of Mr Theophilus Greene Linstead in his room.\n\nAs Mr Linstead is a very proper person to hold the acting appointment, I have caused his recognition to be notified in the Gazette, and further have intimated to that Gentleman himself my intention to report to your Grace in favor of the permanency of his appointment to the Belgian Consulate in the event of such appointment being supported by the Belgian Government.\n\nPossibly this expression of opinion may obviate the necessity and delay of further reference to me hereafter.\n\nI have the honor to be, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's most obedient humble servant,\n\n(Signed) John Bowring\n\nGovernor.\n\nPage 74",
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        "content_text": "The opening witness McClure was\n\nthe most suitable man for this particular session of Policy\n\nagainst the\n\nthis\n\nBut Lord\n\nCameron would not consent to\n\nthe entire proposal\n\nConsequently\n\ndeciding\n\nhit to\n\nfor a Servant without a\n\nconfidant & colleague to employ\n\nPr\n\nC.\n\nfor stronger\n\ncaveat his Existent\n\nin the recommendation of this\n\nCouncil. But at the same\n\nde status he would not\n\nforget, as de\n\nke understanding that the\n\npost was not responsible for\n\ncharacter of persons employed\n\noff sert Plain, L. being\n\nBallers\n\nthin\n\nJan with anon\n\nLaving been employed in\n\ncapacity.\n\nThe D. of Buchungsam might\n\nsin derfätit always upened to\n\nstatial list in hei\n\nJermin\n\nthee\n\nwen bellus modes.\n\n2 painting\n\nLicenses not open to suspicion\n\n455th. by lot on\n\nby Auction\n\ndu. R. Mi\n\nconsidered the current arrangement the bellen_bet he say\n\nasurm.\n\nthat in the event of any circumstances terminating existing\n\narrangements \"Sarill Ideavorin that this fort whole le prepond\n\nPage 335\n\nHere is the reformatted text in HTML as per the instructions. I have corrected spelling errors, fixed spacing issues, rejoined broken sentences, and restored paragraph breaks while following the given rules and compact knowledge. I have not rephrased or rewritten the text, and I have not included any comments or explanations in the output.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-153 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [11-12]",
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        "content_text": "## Mr. Made 126/72 das Kimberley.\n\nAre Kimberley 166/82) Honspross Entered Anowd-2376-5/3/12\n\nMr Welly came here from the Sterling firm on the 2nd of February. On the 1st of November last, a copy of some letter of the 28th of the previous month, refuting the pack about this signage arising from Gent, was received.\n\nI told him that at the meeting, it was decided that the Junior and Subsidiary companies ought to... (image missing)... the car of redemption was to... He agreed and asked me to write something to the effect of this draft.\n\n## Rm 1/2\n\nA very summary caveat. \"Heads you win, tails I lose\" is a favourite Treasury saying.\n\n## Feb. 2/72\n\nSent to the Governor along with the tin. I have already informed thee of the 28th ultimo that the Lt. Governor was offered... \n\nX.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]",
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        "content_text": "94\n\n13.\n\ndirect communication from Hong Kong to the Australian Colonies via Singapore, and there is no reason to assume that the two Bankrupts who absconded in 1878 will be solitary instances; while there serve to illustrate the complications which may arise under the Bankruptcy Laws of different Colonies. The Indian Penal Code has been adopted in the Straits Settlements, and the Debtors Act of 1869 has been adopted both in the Straits and in Queensland as part of their Bankruptcy Law; but with this difference. The Bankrupt who after adjudication fraudulently absconds with part of his estate of the value of twenty pounds from Queensland commits felony (sec. 207 of Insolvency Act of 1874); but the Bankrupt who absconds under similar circumstances from Singapore is not guilty of an offence which apparently amounts to felony (sec. 101 of Ordinance 2 of 1870). So that if a Bankrupt from one Colony were to abscond to the other, it would seem that there would be within the Caveat of rendition from Queensland, the offence is felony there, but the Queensland man who had there committed a felony would not be liable to rendition from Straits. If either of these further complications...",
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        "content_text": "## \n382 \n\nentitled to recover charges for Surgical (if registered) or medical attendance fees.\n\n2. Any person not registered who falsely takes a title implying a qualification to practice medicine or Surgery shall be punishable.\n\n5. The caveat to be administered would be that the medical Council which examines into the sufficiency of diplomas issued, etc., above-mentioned (par:3(0)) (par:3(0)) is subject to appeal to the Governor in Council.\n\n6. I apprehend that there is quite sufficient material for the composition of the necessary Council. It should be provided by law that the Ordinance should not interfere with the practice of medicine and surgery by unregistered Chinese, and that there is no legal objection to giving effect to the wishes of the petitioners by passing an Ordinance if it should be thought right to do so as a matter of policy.\n\n**(Signed) Edward O'Malley**  \nMay, 15, 1882.",
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        "content_text": "姐\n\n147\n\nEnclosure 5 mm. Vs. yu\n\n77\n\non the suicide of op so and\n\nout ow\n\nReport\n\nthat\n\nof\n\nFaur Isoi.\n\nOp So at the time of her death was about 26 years old. She was married and had one child - a girl about 5 years old.\n\nHer husband and her child lived in China with her mother-in-law.\n\nThey were in poor circumstances and it was to support them that she became a prostitute.\n\nAt a similar case was brought to the notice of the Registrar General the other day. I wished to enter a caveat, enquiries being made it was found that she was a widow with an old mother-in-law who were dependent on her.\n\nIp so was in the habit of sending...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893",
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        "content_text": "C. CHAPMAN,\n\nA. Mem. Inst. C.E.,\n\nMem. Inst. M.E.,\n\nCHANCERY LANE,\n\nLONDON, W.C.\n\nPage 438\n\nIt appears to be impossible at this date of September ... to his execution of the papers appears to be...\n\nand it will be that the Patent be validated when granted may may...\n\nin which case it appears to me against myself to my own interests.\n\nI may file a Caveat with Executors to you for the whole of the original papers, the Colonial Secretary's letter of August 4th and Draft for 30 dollars.\n\nI most respectfully beg that they be forwarded by the next mail to him with suitable instructions.\n\nThe date of his letter N7129 August, 18... 1893 is distinct evidence of the receipt of the papers at the Office of the Colonial Secretary in the Colony.\n\nI have to request that you will give instructions that the Application be antedated to the day of its receipt at the Colonial Secretary's Office in Hong Kong.\n\nI beg the favour of this being done with the Inclosures, viz. copy of letter and receipt.\n\nOur draft for ... operation ... with your...\n\nPage 438\n\n \nhas been adjusted to reflect the original format with proper paragraph breaks and minor corrections for spacing and clarity. The original text had several OCR errors and formatting issues, which have been addressed to improve readability while maintaining the original content and structure.",
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        "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.",
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        "content_text": "## PAYMENTS INTO COURT\n\n134. All payments into Court shall be made in accordance with and subject to the provisions of any Ordinance or Rule of Court for the time being in force with respect to payments into the Supreme Court.\n\n135. A receipt for the amount shall be filed, and thereupon the payment into Court shall be deemed to be complete.\n\n## PAYMENTS OUT OF COURT\n\n136. No money shall be paid out of Court except upon an order signed by a judge. A form of order for payment out of Court will be found in the Appendix hereto, No. 37; subject as aforesaid all payments out of Court shall be made in accordance with and subject to the provisions of any Ordinance or Rule of Court for the time being in force with reference to payments out of the Supreme Court.\n\n## CAVEATS\n\n137. Any person desiring to prevent the arrest of any property may file a notice undertaking, within three days after being required to do so, to give bail to any action or counterclaim that may have been, or may be, brought against the property, and thereupon the registrar shall enter a caveat in the caveat warrant book hereinafter mentioned. Forms of notice and of caveat warrant will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 38 and 39.\n\n138. Any person desiring to prevent the release of any property under arrest shall file a notice, and thereupon the registrar shall enter a caveat in the caveat release book hereinafter mentioned. Forms of notice and of caveat release will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 40 and 41.\n\n139. Any person desiring to prevent the payment of money out of Court shall file a notice, and thereupon the registrar shall enter a caveat in the caveat payment book hereinafter mentioned. Forms of notice and of caveat payment will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 42 and 43.\n\n140. If the person entering a caveat is not a party to the action, the notice shall state his name and address, and an address within three miles of the registry at which it shall be sufficient to leave all documents required to be served upon him.\n\n141. The entry of a caveat warrant shall not prevent the issue of a warrant, but a party at whose instance a warrant shall be issued for the arrest of any property in respect of which there is a caveat warrant outstanding, shall be condemned in all costs and damages occasioned thereby, unless he shall show to the satisfaction of the Court good and sufficient reason to the contrary.\n\n142. The party, at whose instance a caveat release or caveat payment is entered, shall be condemned in all costs and damages occasioned thereby, unless he shall show, to the satisfaction of the Court, good and sufficient reason to the contrary.\n\n143. A caveat shall not remain in force for more than six months from the date of entering the same.\n\n144. A caveat may at any time be withdrawn by the person at whose instance it has been entered, on his filing a notice withdrawing it. A form of notice of withdrawal will be found in the Appendix hereto, No. 44.\n\nThe Court may over-rule any caveat.\n\nPage 107",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n158. There shall be kept in the registry a caveat warrant book, a caveat release book, and a caveat payment book, in which all such caveats respectively and the withdrawal thereof shall be entered by the registrar.\n\n169. Any solicitor may, free of charge, inspect the minute and caveat books.\n\n160. The parties to an action may, while the action is pending, and for one year after its termination, inspect, free of charge, all the records in the action.\n\n## \n\n161. Except as provided by the two last preceding rules, no person shall be entitled to inspect the records in a pending action without the permission of the registrar.\n\n162. In an action which is terminated, any person may, on payment of a search fee, inspect the records in the action.\n\n## COPIES\n\n163. Any person entitled to inspect any document in an action shall, on payment of the proper charges for the same, be entitled to an office copy thereof under seal of the Court.\n\n## FORMS\n\n164. The forms in the appendix to these rules shall be followed with such variations as the circumstances may require, and any party using any other forms shall be liable for any costs occasioned thereby.\n\n## COURT AND ASSESSOR'S FEES\n\n165. Subject to the following rules, the Court fees set forth in the table of fees in the appendix hereto shall be taken in respect of the matters or proceedings therein specified, and in respect of all other matters or proceedings, the Court Fees taken for similar matters or proceedings in the Original Jurisdiction according to the scale for the time being in force shall be taken.\n\n166. All Court fees shall, unless it be otherwise provided in the appendix, be payable in the same manner as they are for the time being payable in the Original Jurisdiction of the Court.\n\n167. Assessors shall, subject to the provisions of these rules, be paid the fees set forth in the appendix.\n\n168. All fees paid by a party to whom costs are awarded shall, subject to the provisions of these rules, be allowed as costs on taxation.\n\n169. Where the sum in dispute or the value of the res does not exceed one thousand dollars, half fees only shall be charged and allowed.\n\n## CASES NOT PROVIDED FOR\n\n170. All Ordinances having reference to the practice and procedure of the Supreme Court as regards the form and admission of evidence and as to the form and administration of oaths and declarations and as to subpoenas and as to the form of affidavits and declarations and as to the examination of witnesses before trial and as to the time for doing any act or taking any proceeding in an action and as to enforcing any decree or order shall, so far as the same may be applicable and not inconsistent with the present rules, apply to proceedings in the Admiralty Jurisdiction. In all other cases not provided for by these rules, the practice of the Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice of England shall be followed.\n\n171. The Chief Justice may, from time to time, by rule of Court duly made and published as by law provided, amend or alter the above rules in respect of any of the following matters, viz. The forms to be used, the Court or assessors' fees to be taken, and the costs of solicitors and barristers to be allowed on taxation, and may in like manner from time to time alter, amend or revoke any such rule of Court as occasion may require.\n\n## \n\n13\n\n109",
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        "content_text": "# No. 37. \n## ORDER FOR PAYMENT OUT OF COURT. \nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction.\n\nI **[Title of Action]** , Judge of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, hereby order payment of the sum of **[state sum in letters and figures]**, being the amount **[state whether found due for damages or costs, or tendered in the action or, as the case may be]** to be paid to **[state name and address of party or solicitor to whom the money is to be paid]** out of the **[proceeds of sale of ship, etc., or as the case may be]** now remaining in Court.\n\nDated the **day of** 18**.\n\nWitness, E.P., Registrar.\n\n(Signed) J.K., Judge (or Chief Justice).\n\nRule 136,\n\n# No. 38. \n## NOTICE FOR CAVEAT WARRANT. \nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction.\n\nTake notice that I, A.B. of **[state address]**, apply for a caveat against the issue of any warrant for the arrest of **[state name and nature of property]**, and I undertake, within three days after being required to do so, to give bail to any action or counterclaim that may have been or may be brought against the same in this Court in a sum not exceeding **[state sum in letters]** dollars, or to pay such sum into Court.\n\nMy address for service is **[state address for service]**.\n\nDated the **day of** 18**.\n\n(Signed) A.B.\n\n# No. 39. \n## CAVEAT WARRANT. \nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. **[State Name of Ship, etc.]**\n\nCaveat entered this **day of** 18** against the issue of any warrant for the arrest of **[state name and nature of property]** without notice being first given to **[state name and address of person to whom, and address at which notice is to be given]**, who has undertaken to give bail to any action or counterclaim that may have been or may be brought in the said Court against the said **[state name and nature of property]**.\n\nOn withdrawal of caveat add: Caveat withdrawn the **day of** 18**.\n\n# No. 40. \n## NOTICE FOR CAVEAT RELEASE. \nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. **[Title of Action].**\n\nTake notice that I, A.B., **[Plaintiff or Defendant]** in the above-named action, apply for a caveat against the release of **[state name and nature of property]**.\n\nIf the person applying for the caveat is not a party to the action, he must also state his address and an address for service within three miles of the registry.\n\nDated the **day of** 18**.\n\n(Signed) A.B.\n\n# No. 41. \n## CAVEAT RELEASE. \nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. **[Title of Action].**\n\nCaveat entered this **day of** 18** against the issue of any release of **[state name and nature of property]** by **[state name and address of person entering caveat, and his address for service]**.\n\nOn withdrawal of caveat, add: Caveat withdrawn this **day of** 18**.\n\nRule 137.  \nRule 177.  \nRule 138.  \n\nBal 13  \n40  \n136",
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        "content_text": "# No. 42. NOTICE FOR CAVEAT PAYMENT\n\nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. [Title of Action.]\n\nTake notice that I, A.B., Plaintiff [or Defendant] in the above-named action, apply for a caveat against the payment of any money if for costs, add for costs, or as the case may be out of the proceeds of the sale of [state whether ship or cargo, and name of ship, &c.] now remaining in Court, without notice being first given to me.\n\n[If the person applying for the caveat is not a party to the action, he must also state his address, and an address for service within three miles of the registry.]\n\nDated the day of 18.\n\n(Signed) A.B.\n\nRule 129.\n\n# No. 43. CAVEAT PAYMENT\n\nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. [Title of Action.] Caveat entered this day of against the payment of any money [if for costs, add for costs, or as the case may be out of the proceeds of the sale of [state whether ship or cargo, and if ship, state name of ship, &c.] now remaining in Court, without notice being first given to [state name and address of person to whom, and address at which, notice is to be given.]\n\nOn withdrawal of the caveat, add-\n\nCaveat withdrawn this day of.\n\n# No. 44. NOTICE FOR WITHDRAWAL OF CAVEAT\n\nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. [Title of Action.]\n\nTake notice that I withdraw the caveat [state whether caveat warrant, release, or payment] entered by me in this action [or as the case may be].\n\nDated the day of 18.\n\n(Signed) A.B.\n\n# No. 45. ORDER FOR PAYMENT\n\nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. (L.S.)\n\nOn the [Title of Action.] day of Before 18.\n\nIt is ordered that A.B. [Plaintiff or Defendant, &c.] do pay to C.D. [Defendant or Plaintiff, &c.] within days from the date hereof the sum of $ [state sum in letters and figures] being the amount (or balance of the amount) found due from the said A.B. to the said C.D. for [state whether for damages, salvage, or costs, or as the case may be] in the above-named action.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE.F., Registrar.\n\n# No. 46. ATTACHMENT\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 [state name and description of person to be attached] to be attached for [state briefly the ground of attachment].\n\nWe, therefore, hereby command you to attach the said and to bring him before our said Court.\n\nGiven at seal thereof, this day of in our said Court, under the 18.\n\n(Signed) E.F., Registrar.\n\nTaken out by.\n\nRule 122.\nRule 144.\nRule 145.\nRule 146.\n\nPage 41\nPage 137",
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        "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.",
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        "content_text": "## PAYMENTS TO COURT\n\n354. All moneys to be paid to court shall be paid, upon receivable orders to be obtained in the registry, to the account of the registrar at some bank to be approved by the judge, or, with the sanction of the local government, into the Treasury of the Possession. A form of receivable order will be found in the Appendix hereto No. 52.\n\n187. A bank receipt for the amount shall be filed, and thereupon the payment into court shall be deemed to be complete.\n\n## PAYMENTS OUT OF COURT\n\n158. No money shall be paid out of court except upon an order signed by a judge, and on lodging a receipt to be prepared in the registry, the party to whom the money is payable under the order will receive a cheque for that amount, signed by the registrar, upon the bank in which the money has been lodged, or an order upon the Treasury in such form as the local government shall direct. A form of order for payment out of court will be found in the Appendix hereto, No. 53.\n\n## CAVEATS\n\n150. Any person desiring to prevent the arrest of any property may file a notice undertaking, within three days after being required to do so, to give bail to any action or counterclaim that may have been, or may be, brought against the property, and thereupon the registrar shall enter a caveat in the caveat warrant book herein-after mentioned. Forms of notice and of caveat warrant will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 54 and 55.\n\n160. Any person desiring to prevent the release of any property under arrest, shall file a notice, and thereupon the registrar shall enter a caveat in the caveat release book herein-after mentioned. Forms of notice and of caveat release will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 56 and 57.\n\n161. Any person desiring to prevent the payment of money out of court shall file a notice, and thereupon the registrar shall enter a caveat in the caveat payment book herein-after mentioned. Forms of notice and of caveat payment will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 56 and 59.\n\n139. All payments into Court shall be made in accordance with and subject to the provisions of any Ordinance or Rule of Court for the time being in force with respect to payments into the Supreme Court.\n\n162. If the person entering a caveat is not a party to the action, the notice shall state his name and address, and an address within three miles of the registry at which it shall be sufficient to leave all documents required to be served upon him.\n\n163. The entry of a caveat warrant shall not prevent the issue of a warrant, but a party at whose instance a warrant shall be issued for the arrest of any property in respect of which there is a caveat warrant outstanding, shall be condemned in all costs and damages occasioned thereby, unless he shall show to the satisfaction of the judge good and sufficient reason to the contrary.\n\n164. The party at whose instance a caveat release or caveat payment is entered, shall be condemned in all costs and damages occasioned thereby, unless he shall show to the satisfaction of the judge good and sufficient reason to the contrary.\n\n189. A caveat shall not remain in force for more than six months from the date of entering the same.\n\n166. A caveat may at any time be withdrawn by the person at whose instance it has been entered, on his filing a notice withdrawing it. A form of notice of withdrawal will be found in the Appendix hereto, No. 60.\n\n167. The judge may overrule any caveat.\n\n## SUBPOENAS\n\n168. Any party desiring to compel the attendance of witnesses shall serve him with a subpoena, which shall be prepared by the party and issued under the seal of the court. Forms of subpoenas will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 61 and 62.\n\n169. A subpoena may contain the names of any number of witnesses, or may be issued with the names of the witnesses in blank.\n\n170. Service of the subpoena must be personal, and may be made by the party or his agent, and shall be proved by affidavit.\n\n## ORDERS FOR PAYMENT\n\n171. On application by a party to whom any sum has been found due, the judge may order payment to be made out of any money in court applicable for the purpose.\n\nIf there is no such money in court, or if it is insufficient, the judge may order that the party liable shall pay the sum found due, or the balance thereof, as the case may be, within such time as to the judge shall seem fit. The party to whom the sum is due may then obtain from the registry and serve upon the party liable an order for payment under seal of the court. A form of order for payment will be found in the Appendix hereto, No. 63.",
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        "content_text": "## HOLIDAYS\n191. The registry and the marshal's office shall be closed on Sundays, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, and Christmas Day, and on such days as are appointed by law or by the Governor of The Possession to be kept as holidays or fast days.\n\n## RECORDS OF THE COURT\n192. There shall be kept in the registry a book, to be called the minute book, in which the registrar shall enter in order of date, under the head of each action, and on a page numbered with the number of the action, a record of the commencement of the action, of all appearances entered, all documents issued or filed, all acts done, and all orders and decrees of the court, whether made by the judge, or by the registrar, or by consent of the parties in the action. Forms of minute of order of court, of minute on examination of witnesses, of minute of decree, and of minutes in an action for damage by collision, will be found in the Appendix hereto, Nos. 68 to 71.\n\n193. There shall be kept in the registry a caveat warrant book, a caveat release book, and a caveat payment book, in which all such caveats respectively and the withdrawal thereof shall be entered by the registrar.\n\n194. Any solicitor may, free of charge, inspect the minute and caveat books.\n\n195. The parties to an action may, while the action is pending, and for one year after its termination, inspect, free of charge, all the records in the action.\n\n196. Except as provided by the two last preceding rules, no person shall be entitled to inspect the records in a pending action without the permission of the registrar.\n\n197. In an action which is terminated, any person may, on payment of a search fee, inspect the records in the action.\n\n## COPIES\n198. Any person entitled to inspect any document in an action shall, on payment of the proper charges for the same, be entitled to an office copy thereof under seal of the court.\n\n## FORMS\n199. The forms in the appendix to these rules shall be followed with such variations as the circumstances may require, and any party using any other forms shall be liable for any costs occasioned thereby.\n\n## Court and Counselor's Fees\n200. Subject to the following rules, the fees set forth in the tables of fees in the appendix shall be allowed on taxation.\n\n201. Where the fee is per folio, the folio shall be counted at the rate of 72 words, and every numeral, whether contained in columns or otherwise written, shall be counted and charged for as a word.\n\n202. Where the sum in dispute does not exceed $500, or the value of the res does not exceed $1000, one half only of the fees set forth in the Table hereto annexed shall be charged and allowed.\n\n203. 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, shall mean the sum claimed in addition to the sum, if any, recovered by him.\n\n204. The judge may in any action order that half fees only shall be allowed.\n\n205. If the same practitioner acts as both counsel and solicitor in an action, he shall not for any proceeding be allowed to receive fees in both capacities, nor to receive a fee as counsel where the act of a solicitor only is necessary.\n\n## REPEALING CLAUSE\n206. From and after the 1st day of January 1884, except in regard to actions commenced before that day, the undermentioned rules and regulations, together with all forms thereto annexed, and all tables of fees now in force in any court shall be repealed; viz.:\n\n(a) The rules and regulations touching the practice to be observed in suits and proceedings in the several Courts of Vice-Admiralty abroad, established by an Order in Council of the 27th June 1832.\n\n(b) The twenty-fifth section of rules and regulations touching the practice to be observed in suits and proceedings in the several courts of Vice-Admiralty abroad, substituted in lieu of section 25 in the former rules and regulations, and established by an Order in Council of the 25th June 1851.\n\n166. Court fees are (in original jurisdiction) payable by stamps, adhesive or impressed, as the Governor may from time to time direct.\n\n167. Assessors shall, subject to the provisions of these Rules, be paid the fees set forth in the appendix. All fees paid to Assessors shall be allowed as costs.\n\n168. Where the sum in dispute, or the value of the res does not exceed one thousand dollars, half fees only shall be charged and allowed.",
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        "content_text": "## Rule 156\n\n### RECEIVABLE ORDER\n\nNo. 52\n\n**RECEIVABLE ORDER.**\n\nRegistry of the Vice-Admiralty Court,\n\nSir,\n\nI have to request that you will receive from [state name of person paying in the money] the sum of ... pounds ... shillings, and ... pence, on account in the above-named action, and place the same to the credit of the account of the registrar of the Vice-Admiralty Court of Hong Kong.\n\nDated the ... day of ... 18...\n\n(Signed)  \nE.F.,  \nRegistrar,\n\nTo the Manager of [state name or style of bank to which the payment is to be made.]  \nOr To the Treasurer of the Supreme Court.\n\n### ORDER FOR PAYMENT OUT OF COURT\n\nNo. 53\n\n**ORDER FOR PAYMENT OUT OF COURT.**\n\nIn the Vice-Admiralty Court, Hong Kong.\n\n[Title of Action.]\n\nI, ... Supreme Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court, hereby order payment of the sum of [state sum in letters and figures], being the amount [state whether found due for damages or costs, or tendered in the action, or, as the case may be] to be made to [state name and address of party or solicitor to whom the money is to be paid] out of the [proceeds of sale of ship, &c., or as the case may be] now remaining in court.\n\nDated the ... day of ... 18...\n\nWitness,  \nE.F.,  \nRegistrar.\n\n(Signed)  \nJ.K.,  \nJudge.\n\n### NOTICE FOR CAVEAT WARRANT\n\nNo. 54\n\n**NOTICE FOR CAVEAT WARRANT.**\n\nIn the Vice-Admiralty Court of Hong Kong.\n\nTake notice that I, A.B. of Hong Kong, apply for a caveat against the issue of any warrant for the arrest of [state name and nature of property], and I undertake, within three days after being required to do so, to give bail to any action for counterclaim that may have been or may be brought against the same in this Court in a sum not exceeding [state sum in letters] pounds or to pay such sum into court.\n\nMy address for service is ...\n\nDated the ... day of ... 18...\n\n(Signed)  \nA.B.\n\n### CAVEAT WARRANT\n\nNo. 55\n\n**CAVEAT WARRANT.**\n\nIn the Vice Admiralty Court.  \n[State Name of Jurisdiction].\n\nCaveat entered this ... day of ... 18... against the issue of any warrant for the arrest of [state name and nature of property] without notice being first given to [state name and address of person to whom, and address at which notice is to be given], who has undertaken to give bail to any action or counterclaim that may have been or may be brought in the said court against the said [state name and nature of property].\n\nOn withdrawal of caveat add - Caveat withdrawn the ... day of ... 18...\n\n### NOTICE FOR CAVEAT RELEASE\n\nNo. 56\n\n**NOTICE FOR CAVEAT RELEASE.**\n\nIn the Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong.\n\n[Title of Action.]\n\nTake notice that I, A.B., Plaintiff [or Defendant] in the above-named action, apply for a caveat against the release of [state name and nature of property].\n\nIf the person applying for the caveat is not a party to the action, he must also state his address and an address for service within three miles of the registry.\n\nDated the ... day of ... 18...\n\n(Signed)  \nA.B.",
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        "content_text": "## CAVEAT RELEASE\n### No. 57.4/\n\nIn the Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong\n\n**CAVEAT RELEASE**\n\n[Fitle of Action]\n\nCaveat entered this day of ... 18...\n\n## NOTICE FOR WITHDRAWAL OF CAVEAT\n### No. 60.4\n\nIn the Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong\n\n**NOTICE FOR WITHDRAWAL OF CAVEAT**\n\n[Title of Action]\n\nTake notice that I withdraw the caveat against the issue of any release of [state name and nature of property] by [state name and address of person entering caveat], or warrant, release, or payment entered by the ... in this action [or/and his address for service].\n\nOn withdrawal of caveat, add - Caveat withdrawn this day of ... 18...\n\nDated the ... day of ... 18...\n\n## NOTICE FOR CAVEAT PAYMENT\n### No. 58.f\n\nIn the Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong\n\n**NOTICE FOR CAVEAT PAYMENT**\n\n[Title of Action]\n\nTake notice that I, A.B., Plaintiff [or Defendant] in the above-named action, apply for a caveat against the payment of any money [if for costs, add for costs, or as the case may be] out of the proceeds of the sale of [state whether ship or cargo, and name of ship, etc.] now remaining in court, without notice being first given to me.\n\n[If the person applying for the caveat is not a party to the action, he must also state his address, and an address for service within three miles of the registry.]\n\nDated the ... day of ... 18...\n\n## SUBPOENA\nIn the Vice-Admiralty Court of Hong Kong\n\n**VICTORIA, &c.**\n\nTo ...\n\nWe command you that, all other things set aside, you appear in person before the judge [or the registrar, or G.H., a commissioner appointed by an order of our said Court] on the ... day of ... at ... o'clock in the noon of the same day, and so from day to day as may be required, and give evidence in the above-named action.\n\nAnd herein fail not at your peril.\n\nGiven at ... this ... day of ... 18...\n\n(Signed) A.B.\n\n## CAVEAT PAYMENT\n### No. 58.43\n\nIn the Vice Admiralty Court of Hong Kong\n\n**CAVEAT PAYMENT**\n\n[Title of Action]\n\nCaveat entered this day of ... 18... against the payment of any money [if for costs, add for costs, or as the case may be] out of the proceeds of the sale of [state whether ship or cargo, and if ship, state name of ship, etc.] now remaining in court, without notice being first given to [state name and address of person to whom, and address at which, notice is to be given].\n\nOn withdrawal of the caveat, add - Caveat withdrawn this ... day of ... 18...\n\n## SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM\n### No. 62.\n\nThe same as the preceding form, adding before the words \"And herein fail not at your peril,\" the words \"and that you bring with you for production before the said judge (or registrar or commissioner, as the case may be) the following documents; viz. [Here state the documents required to be produced.]\n\n| Rule | Form Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| 168 | No. 58.f, No. 58.43 |\n| 169 | No. 62. | \nRule 180144 \n Rule 168 \n Rule 169",
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        "content_text": "29. No nation shall be brought to the Official Administrator for anything done by him in respect of the execution or the intended execution of any power vested in him by section 14 or section 19, but any person who feels aggrieved thereby may apply for redress to the Court by summary petition verified upon oath, and the Court may thereupon take such evidence as it thinks fit, and may make such order in relation to the matter which the justice of the case requires.\n\nPART III\n\nGRANTING AND REVOCATION OF PROBATES, ETC.\n\nCaveat.\n\n30.-(1.) A caveat against the grant of any probate or administration may be lodged in the Registry of the Court.\n\n(2.) Subject to any rules or orders made under this Ordinance, the practice and procedure of the Court in respect of any such caveat shall, as nearly as may be, conform with the practice and procedure hitherto in use in respect of such caveats.\n\nExecutorship.\n\n31. Where any person renounces probate of the will of which he is appointed executor or one of the executors, the rights of such person in respect of the executorship shall wholly cease, and the representation of the testator and the administration of his estate shall and may, without any further renunciation, go, devolve, and be committed in like manner as if such person had not been appointed executor.\n\n32. Whenever an executor appointed in a will survives the testator but dies without having taken probate, or, having been cited to take probate, does not appear to such citation, the right of such person in respect of the executorship shall wholly cease, and the representation of the testator and the administration of his estate shall go, devolve, and be committed in like manner as if such person had not been appointed executor.\n\nAdministration.\n\n33. Where a person dies wholly intestate as to his personal estate or leaving a will affecting personal estate but without having appointed an executor thereof willing and competent to take probate, or where the executor is, at the time of the death of such person, resident out of the Colony, or where it appears to the Court to be necessary or convenient to appoint some person to be the administrator of the estate of the deceased person or of any part of such estate, other than the person who, if this Ordinance had not been passed, would by law have been entitled to a grant of administration of such personal estate, it shall be lawful for the Court, in its discretion, to appoint such person as the Court thinks fit to be such administrator upon his giving such security, if any, as the Court may direct, and every such administration may be limited in such manner as the Court thinks fit.\n\n34.-(1.) At the expiration of twelve months from the death of any deceased person, if the executor or executors to whom probate of the will has been granted, or the person or persons to whom administration has been granted, is or are residing out of the jurisdiction of the Court, it shall be lawful for the Court, on the application of any creditor, next of kin, or legatee, grounded on an affidavit made for that purpose, to grant such special administration as it may think fit of the estate of such deceased person.\n\n(2.) It shall be lawful for the Court, on application made for that purpose by any person interested, to direct any shares or stock in any joint stock company to be transferred into the name of the Registrar, in trust for such purposes as the Court may direct, in any suit in which the person to whom such special administration has been granted is a party: Provided, nevertheless, that if any executor or administrator of such deceased person, being capable of acting as such, returns to and resides within the jurisdiction of the Court, the Court may, if it thinks fit, revoke such special grant: Provided, also, that if any suit is pending in any Court in relation to the estate of such deceased person, such executor or administrator shall be entitled to be made a party thereto.\n\nTrust against Fraud\n\n(No. 8 of 1862, s.22)\n\nAmendment\n\n(No. of 1960, s.51-1)\n\nAmendment\n\n(No. 20 of 197#, s.3)\n\nAmendment\n\n(No. of 1960, s.32-1)\n\n632",
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        "content_text": "## adaptation of \nthe Imperial Act \nand the Customs Regulations to \nand the \nthe local conditions of Hongkong \n\nHongkong \nNO. \n324 \n\nOffice or Individual. \nand the objections which \n(Subject.) \nyou \n\nFitton Anderam Brooks Ho \n\nrain \nwould apparently hold \n1898 \nMerchandise Marks. \nDOMESTIC. \n476 \n31 Mar \nequally in the \nof the \nurges amendment of fol. \nlan \n1st previous Paper. \nImperial Act & \nRegulations. \n5390 \n(Minutes.) \nalu \nt \nrequest \nthat \nthe \nenclosed \nOrdinance may \nban \nreturned when \nyou \nhave done \nwith \nit \n9 April \n`$e-X80-30003-12` 67 \nSin W. Hamilton \n\nThis amounts to a repetition of the request made in their former letter to reissue the Ordinance, \"amended by striking out the words which allow goods to be imported, though bearing a trade mark of some manufacturer or firm in the U.K., if such name or trade mark is accompanied by a definite indication of the country in which the goods are produced\". No fresh arguments are made or are adduced to lead us to reconsider the decision, and I see nothing to lead me to suppose otherwise. \n5398. It is thought there is a point at which the principle of Caveat Emptor comes in. \n\n? Reply that this office has nothing to add to the reply in my letter of the 30th.",
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        "content_text": "# Rules\n## Issue of Crown lease\n## Boundary marks\n## Easements\n## Caveats\n\n21. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the Governor in Council may from time to time make Rules in respect of all or any of the following matters -\n\n(a) the form of the Titles Register;\n\n(b) the form of the Register of Transfers and the mode in which such Registers are to be kept;\n\n(c) the mode in which registration is to be conducted;\n\n(d) the fees to be taken by the Registrar;\n\n(e) the custody of the Registers and other documents connected with the business of registration;\n\n(f) generally in relation to any matters, whether similar or not to those above-mentioned, as to which it may be expedient to make Rules for carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\nAll such Rules shall be published in the **Gazette**.\n\n22. It shall be lawful for any customary land-holder to notify to the Registrar his desire to surrender his rights in his customary land to the Crown and to receive in exchange a Crown lease. Such notification shall be in the form prescribed in **Form G** in the Schedule hereto; and on receipt of such notification, duly signed by the applicant, the Registrar shall forward the same to the Colonial Secretary with a report; and it shall then be lawful for the Governor to order that a Crown lease for such period and on such terms as he shall think fit be issued to the applicant in respect of such land; and such land shall, from the date of the issue of such Crown lease, be exempt from the provisions of this Ordinance and shall become subject to the general law in force in the Colony with regard to land held upon lease from the Crown.\n\n23. The Registrar may, by a notice in writing, duly served in the manner prescribed in Rule 3 of the Rules made under section 21 of this Ordinance, require any customary land-holder to erect boundary marks where necessary for the purpose of defining the limits of his customary land, or to repair any boundary marks already existing; and if such land-holder fails to comply with this requisition within a period to be specified in the notice, the Registrar may cause the work to be done and recover the cost thereof as if it were an arrear of revenue due in respect of the land.\n\n24.-(1) Nothing contained in this Ordinance shall derogate from any Rights of Way or other Easements now or hereafter acquired by the public in, over, along, or across any customary land, or shall be deemed to confer on the registered holder of any customary land a right to interfere with or obstruct the public use of any way or other easement so acquired or enjoyed as aforesaid.\n\n(2) In case the registered holder of any customary land shall interfere with or obstruct the public use of any way or any easement now or hereafter acquired or enjoyed by the public in, over, along, or across the land of which he is the registered holder, any person aggrieved or damnified by such interference or obstruction may apply to the Registrar for a summons calling upon such registered holder, on a day named therein, to show cause why an order shall not be made requiring him to abate such interference or remove such obstruction.\n\nIn case the registered holder shall fail to show cause as aforesaid, the Registrar may, if he thinks fit, make an order requiring him to abate the interference or remove the obstruction within such limit of time as the Registrar may deem reasonable; and if the registered holder fails to comply with the terms of the order within the specified period, the Registrar may cause the necessary steps to be taken to that end and recover the cost thereof as if it were an arrear of Revenue due in respect of the land.\n\n25.-(1) Any person claiming to be interested at law or in equity, whether under an agreement, or under an unregistered instrument, or otherwise, however, in any land, may lodge a caveat with the Registrar forbidding the registration of any dealing with such land, either absolutely or unless such dealing shall be expressed to be subject to the claim of the caveator, or to any conditions conformable to law expressed therein.\n\nA caveat may be in the form prescribed in the Form in the Schedule hereto, and shall be under the hand and verified by the declaration of the caveator or an agent duly authorised in writing as aforesaid, and shall contain an address to which notices may be sent or at which proceedings may be served. Upon the receipt of a caveat, the Registrar shall make a memorandum thereon of the date and hour of the receipt thereof and shall enter a memorandum thereof in the Titles Register and shall forthwith send a notice of such caveat to the person against whose title such caveat shall have been lodged. So long as any caveat shall remain in force, the Registrar shall not, contrary to the requirements thereof, register any dealing with the land in respect of which such caveat shall have been lodged.\n\n(2) The registered proprietor or any other person claiming estate or interest in the land may, by summons, call upon any caveator to attend before the Registrar to show cause why the caveat should not be removed; and the Registrar may, upon proof that the caveator has been summoned, and upon such evidence as the Registrar may require, make such order in the premises, either **ex parte** or otherwise, as shall seem just.\n\n26. All fees payable under this Ordinance or under any Rules or Regulation made thereunder may be recovered in a summary manner before a Police Magistrate.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 12th day of December, 1902.\n\n**C. CLEMENTI**, Acting Clerk of Councils.\n\nAssented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 20th day of December, 1902.\n\n**F. H. MAY**, Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "# FORM G.\n\nI, A.B., being entitled as customary land-holder to the land described in the Titles Register Book folio \n\ndo hereby notify my desire to surrender all my rights in such customary land to the Crown and to receive in return a Crown lease on the terms of and at a Crown rent of \n\n| Book No. | Folio No. | Demarcation District | Lot No. | Crown Rent | Name of Holder | Area | General description |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n\n## Form H.\n\n## FORM 1.\n\n**Memorandum of Lease.**\n\n(Signed.)\n\n1. A.B., of \n\nbeing registered as the customary holder of the land situated at \n\ndo hereby lease to C.D. of \n\nfor the space of \n\nyears from the \n\nday of \n\npayable \n\nall the said land to be held by him the said C.D. as lessee \n\nat the yearly rental of \n\nsubject to the following covenants, conditions, and restrictions.\n\nI, the above-named C.D., do hereby accept this Lease of \n\nthe above described lands to be held by me as lessee, and subject to the conditions, restrictions, and covenants above set forth.\n\nDated this \n\nday of \n\n19 \n\nSignatures of Lessor & Lessee.\n\n**Signature of Registrar.**\n\n## FORM J.\n\n**Caveat forbidding Registration of Dealing with Estate or Interest.**\n\nTo the Registrar of Titles, New Territories.\n\nTake notice that I, A.B., of \n\nclaiming \n\nforbid the registration of any dealing with the estate or interest of C.D. in the said land.\n\n[Address for service of notices and proceedings:]\n\nDated this \n\nday of \n\n. 19 \n\nA.B.\n\nI, the above-named \n\nagent for \n\nthe above-named A.B., make oath and say that the allegations in the above Caveat are true in substance and in fact.\n\nSworn by the said A.B. at \n\nthis \n\nday of \n\n19 \n\nBefore me, \n\n## Enclosure 2.\n\nPage 143\n\n**ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.**\n\n31 JAN 031\n\n27th, December, \n\nHongkong, \n\n1902.\n\n**Report on Ordinance No. of 1902.**\n\n47\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled \n\n**The New Territories Titles Ordinance, 1902**\n\nand I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.\n\nIt is desirable to provide a system of Land Tenure for the New Territories (exclusive of New Kowloon).\n\nIn the rest of the Territories, there are some quarter of a million holdings often of a very low value.\n\nThe transfer of these and their transmission by inheritance is governed by custom of patriarchal origin. Society in general in the New Territories is not suited for the introduction of English Real Property Law.\n\nEvery original holder of land is to be treated as a customary landholder.\n\nDealings with customary land by transfer or by way of charge, and its transmission by inheritance are regulated by means of a system adapted from that known as \"The Torrens System\".\n\nProvision is made by which a customary landholder desirous of obtaining a Crown Lease may do so upon the surrender to the Crown of his customary rights in the land to be leased.\n\nPersons taking up land from the Crown in the New Territories may at their option become customary landholders or they may obtain a Crown Lease and come under the general law of the Colony.\n\n**Attorney General**",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government,\n\nC.0\n\n556\n\nG\n\nKingdom. Members of a firm might very easily overlook the date on which registration of a mark granted twenty years previously expires.\n\n(5.) Regulation 15. As in the case of Regulation 5 the time limit should be extended to six months.\n\n(6.) Regulation 18. It is hoped that the Trade-marks Gazette will be published both in Chinese and English, and that it will appear at such intervals as will enable parties interested to have ample notice of any application for registration of a mark having been made, or of any other matters in which they may be concerned. It is presumed that copies will be obtained at every custom-house at the Treaty ports.\n\n(7.) Regulation 23. The meeting was strongly of opinion that the fees in respect of marks already registered abroad should be on a largely reduced scale. The fee (10 taels) for renewal of a certificate when lost is considered far too high, and the fees for entering a caveat or lodging a protest should be refunded to the applicant in the event of his objection being sustained.\n\n(8.) Supplementary Regulation 24. Public notice of the date on which the Regulations are to come into force must be given, so as to enable firms concerned to make previous arrangements. The full text of the Regulations, and their annexes in Chinese and English, must be published at the same time.\n\n(9.) Such are practically all the observations the British mercantile community have to offer, but it might be of value to have a clause inserted providing that all duly accredited representatives of non-resident owners of trade-marks can be sued locally for any breach of the Regulations in connection with marks which they represent.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON,\n\nCommercial Attaché.\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n2\n\n[September 26\n\nSECTION\n\n#1 OCT 041\n\nSir E. Satou to the Marquess of Lansdowne.--(Received September 26.)\n\n(No. 276.)\n\nPeking, July 30, 1904. My Lord,\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a despatch which I have received from His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghae, forwarding a letter which has been addressed to the Commissioner of Customs at that place by certain riparian owners and others, submitting a scheme for the construction of a \"bund\" on both sides of the Whangpoo River.\n\nIt appears to me that the only benefit resulting from the adoption of this proposal would be in favour of the riparian owners, who would acquire very valuable additions to their present property, and that it ought not to be entertained, unless as a part of a general scheme prepared by competent engineers for the improvement of the Whangpoo River navigation.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Jamieson,\n\nTHE accompanying translation is made from the Chinese original. The list of classifications has not been translated. It is based on a foreign model, and to it are appended specimens of the forms to be used.\n\nThese will doubtless be published by the Customs in due course.\n\n2. The spirit of the Regulations is more in consonance with existing procedure than those proposed by the Customs.\n\nThey are elastic, and capable of wide interpretation, whereas the others left little scope for going beyond a literal analysis of the actual wording. Constituted as Chinese Courts are, this is an advantage.\n\n3. In offering observations thereon, one might confine oneself to taking care that no important point has been overlooked, or that nothing likely to injure rights which British subjects have hitherto enjoyed has been introduced.\n\nIt seems to the Undersigned, for instance, that the absence of provision for previous notice by public advertisement of intended registration is an important omission. Nor do Regulation 6 and Supplementary Regulation 25 appear to be quite satisfactory.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON,\n\nCommercial Attaché.\n\n(Signed)\n\n(No. 43.)\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Sir P. Warren to Sir E. Satow.\n\nShanghae, July 22, 1904. I HAVE the honour to inclose a copy of a communication which has been addressed to the Commissioner of Customs here by certain riparian owners and others, laying before him a scheme for bunding on both sides of the Whangpoo River. I have not heard what reply has been made by the Commissioner, but I think it unlikely that the idea will be entertained by the Customs authorities.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nSir,\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nPELHAM L. WARREN.\n\nRiparian Owners and others to the Commissioner of Customs, Shanghae.\n\n1904.\n\nA\n\nShanghae, March\n\nWE beg to draw your attention to the unsatisfactory condition of the River Whangpoo, which is rapidly deteriorating, and in so doing depreciating the value of our property on its banks.\n\nIn our judgment the matter is so serious as to call for immediate action being taken to rectify the damage that is being caused not only to ourselves but to the trade of the port generally.\n\nWe understand that experts are practically agreed that the proper way to arrest the deterioration of the river is by correcting the irregularity of its width, and making some increase towards its mouth, in agreement with a certain accepted formula as shown by accompanying plan, and we respectfully urge that this or some similar scheme of conservancy be at once adopted, and that owners of river frontages be permitted, at their own expense, to bund out in front of their respective lots to the line determined on.\n\nFor ourselves we agree to bund our properties accordingly, and at our own expense, directly permission is given, it being understood that title-deeds will be granted for all land so reclaimed at the present Shenko price of 300 taels per mow, including all expenses, and we have no doubt other riverside owners will be ready to accept such a plan.\n\n[2156 cc-3]",
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        "content_text": "It appears that the views of petitioners have any remedy is against the vendors who corrupted their title.\n\nThe petitioners claimed over $400,000, but were awarded $25,000 for what they had lost. I saw Mr. J. Hastings about this today. He elaborated the pleas just frowned upon in the Petition at consideration, but really added nothing new except this - when I put it to him that the legal remedies of the petitioners had not been exhausted, he said that the Petitioners applied for leave to appeal to the P.C. from the decision of the Full Court on their motion to be added as parties to the appeal, but that leave was refused on the ground that that decision was only on an interlocutory order.\n\n[This does not affect the question in the Petition but it is relevant to Crown Solicitor's observations on pages 24 & 25 thereof.] I then suggested that \"Ham Tak Huts\" might have been put up to appeal to the P.C., or that the Petitioners might have applied to the Privy Council for special leave to appeal. He said that they had taken counsel's opinion and acting thereon had refrained from taking any such steps. I said that that was a matter between them and their legal advisers, but that unless the Secretary was satisfied that they had exhausted their legal remedies it was difficult to see how he could act on the petition.\n\nI then inquired about the further legal remedies which appeared to be open to them - viz an action against their Vendors (Tin Pat Thine) for the covenant of title. I was not surprised to hear that it was not considered worth pursuing (with \"thin chances\"!). Mr. Hastings also laid stress on the fact that the Secretary had recently ordered compensation to be paid in exactly similar circumstances.\n\nI replied that my recollection was that no compensation was paid to Ito Hap Puis, but a comparatively small sum was allowed him for certain out-of-pocket expenses connected with the case. There seemed to be some misunderstanding; the fact is that this was not a parallel case to the present, as it was not a case of concerted speculation - the Petitioners were in the position of having \"jumped before they looked\" something of a parenthetical injunction which the vendors had not certainly got to sell - Caveat Emptor.\n\nThe losses of Crown-land on resumption is $52,640. I agree. The claim for compensation is a mere technical one & has no moral grounds whatever to support it.\n\nPage 299",
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        "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]",
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        "content_text": "This une clearly a grou \nbeach of the Regulations: \n\nI agree with In follies that a severe censure should suffice.\n\nTelegraph that the facts as reported do not warrant dismissal and that Howell should be severely censured & reinstated.\n\nAnd in drafting to the Governor explain that the caveat, a condition of its antiquity, was not of its kind - as the agreement entered into between Howell & Talam suggests intention that the Governor had no objection to eating personally into land or undertaking any obligations which would interfere with his duties as a public servant. Unfortunately, as events turned out, he did personally engage in the transactions to an unwarrantable extent & he must be severely censured.\n\n[this remark - you will note - Tulkens disagrees]\n\nT.C.K. 14/1 \n76 \nSu I Ashwood (on the facts as stated) I agree that the punishment is much too lenient.\n\nI would be inclined to approve M'Collins' purposes. My only difficulty is that the pending case of Howell vs Talam may throw further light on the matter. It is perhaps unlikely, but supposing it were shown that Howell had taken an active share in the business \"let\" (not sold) to Tuen Cheong + after it was passed to Tang Kee, we should perhaps have to take a different course merely reprimanding Howell. \n\nI am therefore inclined to suspend the decision until after the case vs Howell & Talam.\n\n[asking for civil suit against Mr Howell; which may or may not bring discredit upon Mr H - but I don't see that we are justified in taking any account of this at present].\n\nT.C.M. 14/1 \n\nOn the other hand, it has been decided to refer the report. A Branch 14/1 suggested mainly rejecting it. \n\nI fear that Howell's unfitness is clear.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909",
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        "content_text": "Eventually it turned out that the tank trouble was over and that the Do. were willing to drop all discussion on the matter.\n\nI said that as far as Refere... A Mongol... the advantages were concerned, Chamad... ww... she had gained not for herself but for British interests generally: Best proof of Kom adran las had been surrendered was the fact that Western desires, including those of France, were being met; that her freedom of action was not being hampered by proposed action, and that she was in league with Galler... Z... the for... ought to take action.\n\nI said I did not think his Excellency had waved opposition to the action being done.\n\nSir Egreg... was prepared to agree, and entered a caveat against anything being done to the Ind... by Carpente... Assword. Welddis wanted Sir D... to await the reply, and it was agreed that he await the instructions the following day from Infole & Sis d. Heywood on the 26th, and thereafter inform... F... that we were not offering opposition.\n\nMaddie was sceptical about France lodging the arrangements who he hoped & made. Of course, negotiations with the Germans may fail or succeed, and if he succeeds, we would have to write to him and explain the semi-official and his hoped for bearing.\n\nIt was suggested that the ring might find competition: Sis d. Complete... lent thing and just head list Champ. Chi Trump is negotiating with Vecision Maxin for a loan of ten millions, ostensibly for £2,000,000 for this Carlton Hall loan.\n\nIt is a rather tortuous business. I doubt if this country... Avok... is listening to the foregoing.\n\nHe sent me the Annexed money.\n\nW. & S. Ltd.--16679-6000-10-07, -1979-6000--4-08, agreed.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913",
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        "content_text": "Colonial Office,\n\n167 Downing Street.\n\nS.I.\n\nMi Haveart\n\nYou will see from\n\nMinute on 16260/12\n\nthat the\n\nyou afforded scheme referred to, in\n\nJune 1912.\n\n\"Since that time however\n\nit appears from\n\nthe minutes",
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        "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]",
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        "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nC. D. R. 24 MAR\n\nD.\n\n24\n\nS\n\n  \n    |\n    371\n    24\n  \n\n15 March in with much\n\nThe RO. Stephens\n\nMINU\n\n1. Wille 24/2/14.\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Driffen 24\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nLord Emmott.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\nregret that\n\nI am to\n\n८\n\ninfor drcelian\n\nof the See:\n\nKaveart,\n\nA\n\nthe\n\ndeath recode] of\n\nlunt brother\n\nWarder\n\nNobs: 27 Febter D\n\nlans End\n\n21\n\nH. Stephens\n\nVictoria\n\nItkany.\n\nof the\n\nSaol staff,\n\n#\n\n2.\n\nA coby\n\nthe Farmors desp",
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        "document_key": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]",
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        "content_text": "THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES\n\nto\n\nMessrs Sutton Ommanney and Rendall\n\nIN THE PRIVY COUNCIL\n\nON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF\n\nHONGKONG. Criminal Jurisdiction.\n\nSec. Hongkong 8.\n\nBETWEEN\n\n424\n\nho.112 of 1913.\n\nIBRAHIM\n\n-and-\n\nAppellant\n\nTHE KING.\n\nRespondent\n\n1913\n\nMay 29 to June 13\n\nPROFESSIONAL CHARGES on behalf of the Respondent relative to the Petition for Special Leave to Appeal and subsequently to the Appellant's Appeal to the Privy Council.\n\nInstructions to oppose Petition for Special Leave to Appeal. Perusing documents in the case forwarded by you. Perusing copy Petition for Special Leave to Appeal. Preparing and copy caveat. Attending at Council Office lodging same.\n\nPerusing China and Corea Order in Council of 1904 and the Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1890. Drawing Observations to Counsel and fair copy. Copy Petition and copy despatches for Counsel. Attending Counsel in conference. On receipt of Summons to attend hearing copy for Counsel and attending him. Attending Court when Petition heard and allowed. Attending Council Office paying fees and taxing receipt.\n\nAttendances",
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        "document_key": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914",
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        "content_text": "## TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS. \"OMMANNEY LONDON\" \nTELEPHONE LONDON WALL- 24981  \n34. Great Winchester Street.  \nLondon, EC.  \nJuly 7th 1914.\n\nDear Tennyson,\n\nIn reference to my interview with you yesterday, I estimate the costs incurred up to the present date at £35. 1. 0\n\n| Item | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Paid Retainer to Mr R. Finlay, K.C. | £35. 1. 0 |\n| Privy Council fee for lodging Caveat | £1. 0. 0 |\n| **Total** | **£36. 1. 0** |\n\nSo far as it is possible to estimate, assuming that we paid Junior Counsel a fee of five guineas to attend and press for payment of costs, the extra cost of so doing would amount to £8.\n\nYou will doubtless bear in mind that, as far as I know, we are without any information as to whether the Petitioner has any means available for payment of costs if an Order for costs is made against him.\n\nYours sincerely,\nCharles N. Onmanney\n\nC. B. L. Tennyson Esq.\n\nPage 330",
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        "document_key": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]",
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        "content_text": "Page 363\n\nSTATIONS IN\n\nLONDON.-\n\nTermon Not\n\n3632 London Wall. Electra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C.\n\n(4 Lines,)\n\n3632 London Wall - 11. Old Broad Street. E.C,\n\n2528 Gerrard -\n\n440, Strand. W.C. (Charing Cross).\n\nTiccompute Abonens!\n\nBIGNALLY. AVE, LONDON.\"\n\nTelephone No. 1\n\n4408 Avenue\n\n2942 Hop-\n\n-\n\nTelegramur Aonscys\n\nSIGNALLY. AVE, LONDON.”\n\n\"The Ballic,\" Fury St. Entrance, E.C\n\n+\n\n6. Denman Street, Borough, S.E.\n\n2616 Gerrard -\n\n*241 & 42, Parliament Street, S.W,\n\n851 Avenue\n\n852 Avenue\n\n-\n\n8, Lendenhall Street, E.C.\n\n1014 Holborn\n\n7.\n\n37. Holborn Viaduct, E.C.\n\n- Market Buildings, 39, Milking Lane-26, Mark\n\nLane, E.C\n\nForeign Auction Mart, Caveat Garden, W.C\n\nHead Office:-\n\nElectra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. Telephone:-1137 LONDON WALL. Telegraphic Address:-\"EASTERN AVE,\" LONDON.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n52063\n\n383\n\nC\n\nO\n\n52963\n\nREC\n\nREG: 27T17\n\nWIP\n\nEv May\n\n1917\n\nCoup\n\n5 Sept.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n36233\n\nPeak District\n\nExclusion of Chinese from\n\nCalle attention to\n\nappempts by certain business baguire residences in Peak Dist. y urges wipersauce of pexesoring this district for bropeus\n\nRewards as to\n\npepper to auta\n\nthe unitention of orice of 1800 &f the apparent intention of recoily swarow of its car pretation brace a leves indicates treguets wetter. by kl.\n\nSua Eu/ 52975\n\nJK 1/14/17\n\nFur\n\nAnad tel: 3 Nov\n\n6 Jung\n\n552975\n\nNext subsequent Paper..\n\nSar\n\n52965\n\n(19677-4 h.) Wt. 83p-12. 15,000 10/17.\n\nD&S\n\nG 122 41.\n\nPage 363",
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        "document_key": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]",
        "page_number": 205,
        "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]",
        "content_text": "to me to be a most ill-advised action.\n\nThe newspaper article seems to contain a certain amount of alliteration,\n\nVery little libel...\n\nThe proposed financing of the action out of public funds is most reprehensible. Besides the general objection on grounds of policy, it is open to the following disadvantages:\n\n1. It is a most doubtful point whether, with an agreement such as this, the plaintiff can recover his costs from the defendant. Even if he is successful, because the defendant's obligation to pay the taxed costs follows from the agreement which seems to have been made that, not the plaintiff, but the public funds would be liable, because the firm has in effect said, \"On the plaintiff shall in no case be liable; if the defendant's don't pay, I will.\"\n\n2. These agreements to finance litigation are what are called \"maintenance\" which is a fault and also a criminal offence.\n\nThe promise to Hamilton & Co. without debating myself at this agreement would be such a one - it certainly \"savours\" of maintenance.\n\nIf we must sanction this expenditure, we should, I think, labour under a very strong objection, as above.\n\nCaveat\n\nI should have thought the very large sum which the firm has been self in for over a similar action in Wales a recent case, should have made him pause before agreeing to incur a potential liability.\n\nP.S. It should be remembered, that if Mr. Lovegrove loses this action, his own costs, the defendant's taxed costs will have to be paid.\n\n28.9.18\n\nAs this is an important question in principle, perhaps you would kindly add your views.\n\nThe Acting C.M.\n\nIt appears to me that Lovegrove has acted improperly. When a legal officer is constrained to foot the bill personally, any such \"agreement\" with Hamilton & Co. in advance of the proceedings would be... \n\nPage 34019/18 \n26/9/18 \nA.S.B.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920",
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        "content_text": "For further communication on this subject, please quote No. A 6110/6110/95.\n\nTo the Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nSir,\n\nRES\n\n45322\n\n10 11 FEB 20\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE.\n\nS.W.1.\n\n58\n\n9th September, 1920.\n\nI am directed by Earl Curzon of Kedleston to transmit to you herewith copy of a letter from the Portuguese Chargé d'Affaires to His Majesty's Representative at Paris relative to the shipment of war material ordered by the Government of Macao from Hotchkiss and Company.\n\nI am to state that there is no objection to the shipment of these arms and to request that you will send suitable instructions to the Governor of Hong-Kong to accord facilities in this respect.\n\nI am to add however that it would be advisable to cover such instructions by a \"caveat\" to the effect that the transhipment should be carried out as unobtrusively as possible in order that the Chinese Government may not have any opportunity for argument.\n\nUnder Secretary of State, Colonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "# In Dominion \n## Discussion on Mission Property\n\n1. I do not think my observations are of much value. As a matter of course, action is suggested on this subject. \n\nIn the Gold Coast, the property of the Basel Mission was vested in Trustees (Ordinance 40 of 1918) till the Gov. passed an Ordinance to vest it and lease it to manage the mission property in Trustees as prescribed by the approved societies or missionary bodies. This is apparently done also in Hong Kong but not under any particular law.\n\n2. Say that if the Trustees think fit, they can sell the property referred to or can repay themselves from other funds of the missions concerned, but by the Peace Treaty, we are bound to vest enemy mission property in Trustees and can't get out of it. \n\nThe question of selling the site is one for local consideration. I think Cumaon is justified in selling it up and repaying itself for the money spent, but the balance should be handed to the Trustees who are bound to spend it on the work of the mission that owned the property.\n\nIn this case, there is a dispute between the C.M.S. and the London Mission, but it is not clear that the latter body has succeeded to the Germans. I may here enter the caveat that the Basel Mission is technically Swiss. It is of course a German body: \"durch und durch deutsch\" is how it is described in a German official publication; but it may argue that it is Swiss.\n\n3. Warn him as to possible trouble over Basel being Swiss.\n\nI am much obliged to Mr. Flood for his letter. I don't think that it is necessary for you to go through all the files referred to in the Gov.'s despatch (`47083/19`, `47009/19`).\n\nFor the rest, what has been done is to appoint Trustees for the time being to manage and submit proposals for permanent arrangements (para. 8 of despatch). I think it would suffice to inform the Conference of Missionary Societies of the fact and composition of the Board (which refers to para. 6 of despatch).\n\nCune, 25/11/20",
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        "content_text": "The Treaty says that the Frog which the Missions Trustees possessed is in the hands of or due to this our debt Lit... Lieut. I should have thought that this Covered the selling of the property, the paying of debts to the late... and the handing over to her proper Trustees.\n\nSince the assets have been handed over I believe that the site matters will be dealt with by the Trustees.\n\nI don't think it would be wise to deal with Tate without the former Course, at any rate defer to 70. We also put a caveat when we were hotly against attempting to deal with Mission property which is treated as Enemy Property.\n\nArtB. 26/11/20\n\nWiron 53743. Deal with this. If necessary refer to `XCR(85)72`.\n\nAEC 27.8\n\n`CGcer-d 409/19`\n`531 01/16`\n`53805/20`\n`53840/20`\n\nSee P. Fiddes + 627\n\nIn January 1919 the Conference of Missionary Societies pressed us to deal with the Basel mission and other enemy missions in Hong Kong on the lines adopted in the Gold Coast. The Secretary of State explained the Gold Coast legislation to Hong Kong, and in June 1919, an Ordinance was passed empowering the Governor to vest in the Custodian of Enemy Property any property of any enemy mission or any mission which is in his opinion one of enemy association or is one the determination of whose activities is for the security of Colonial or Imperial interests required. The Governor clearly has power to deal with the Basel Mission in spite of its \"Swiss\" character, but there being no trading side to the mission in Hong Kong, there seems to be no call for any such elaborate arrangement as was made on the Gold Coast. In July 1919 Archdeacon Barnett of the Church Missionary Society, Rev. T.W. Pearce of the London Mission, and the Custodian were appointed a Committee of Enquiry and on their recommendation they were subsequently constituted a Board of Trustees for the management of the properties and affairs of enemy missions generally (The Governor says \"generally\" but it would appear that the trustees are really only dealing with the Evangelical Missions. Article 453 of the Peace Treaty is therefore being complied with). Some temporary arrangements have been made for the charitable work of the Missions and the Governor proposes to call on the Trustees to propound a permanent scheme.\n\nAll we need do is to inform the Conference of Missionary Societies in reply to their inquiry of the action taken.\n\nThe Governor also proposes that the Government should recoup itself for expenses before handing over the property. I agree with Mr. Bushe that this is not covered by the Peace Treaty and had better be made a matter of negotiation.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922",
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        "title": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922",
        "content_text": "Warning has been given (e.g. by Gazette notification), it might happen that where a Caveat notification has been given, permission to tranship might occur. re-export referred funding reference the Japanese might get excited about it (as in fact they did on last occasion) & the comity of nations might be disturbed! Whether Gazette notification would be sufficient, the Japanese Govt said. be informed of the decision through diplomatic channels, so. for or backing sig. 62395/22 14.\n\n487 sales a que for the 2.0 D Possibly, the best for the Hit Govt. is to ensure the Gazette notification is brought officially to the notice of the Japanese Ent. Personally, I think that on the whole, particularly in view of the infrequent occurrence of such cases, Notification in the Gazette would be better to define action to be taken. When he had the opportunity of discussing it with Smith, Sir G. Grindle said.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nSo JJ. Packen.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nBJP 25/2. Mr. Collins 24 Mr. Davis. Mr.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nA.S. Hutchinson Exp.\n\nDear Hutchin,\n\nThanks for some letting ALL about Samue return 9 Smith who have that The inspection Feb. for Than appear that they have Connection anth Mr. Ormsby-Gore. Duke of Devonshire. the Revenan which Cover Samuels unable dispore of sur counter.\n\nI put Delevingne suggestion that",
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        "content_text": "POSAL X-\n\nABLES.\n\n4\n\nstations in Egypt and India, and would concur in the dropping of the second station in Egypt and the station at Hong Kong, in order to save the capital cost. He pointed out the urgency for an early decision.\n\nSIR HENRY HOTTAN said that the views of the Committee might be drafted in the form of a Memorandum to be laid before the Cabinet, on the following lines: -\n\nThat in view of the decisions by the Governments of Australia and India, the Committee considered that the station in Hong Kong and the second station in Egypt should be dropped, and that the stations in Egypt and India should be proceeded with, the former being of about double power, i.e. 240 KW if this could be done without additional capital expenditure. That the Imperial Government should meet the capital outlay required to build the Indian station, repayment later by the Government of India being arranged if possible.\n\nHe could not agree...\n\nMR. PARTING wished to lodge a caveat with the views expressed, as the acceptance of them would be interpreted as a recognition that the \"step\" system, as recommended by the Imperial Wireless Telegraphy Committee, was commended by the Imperial...\n\nMR. SPIRLING reserved the views of the Foreign Office with regard to the abandonment of the Hong Kong station.\n\nThe representatives of the Fighting Services considered that before the abandonment of the Hong Kong station was finally decided upon, the question would require to be reviewed from the Imperial Defence point of view.\n\n(2)\n\nTHE COMMITTEE agreed:-\n\nThat Sir Henry Hottman, assisted by Mr. Brown and the Secretary, should draft a Memorandum on the above lines (see Appendix II).\n\nThe Committee had before them I.D.C. Paper No. 638 giving the result of the negotiations in Washington re ex-German cables.\n\nEX 3301 explained that no action was required by the Committee at present as it had been generally agreed at the Conference at Washington that France should be responsible for taking the next step.\n\nTHE COMMITTEE decided to take note of I.D.C. Paper No.638.\n\n2. Whitehall Gardens, S.W.\n\n31st March 1922.\n\nPage 3\n\n \n\n!\n\n!",
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        "document_key": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]",
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        "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]",
        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\ncept them, but I do not think that the General Officer Commanding has ever been in a position to definitely close any bargain without the approval of the War Office. With regard to the question of the areas reserved by the War Office and the difficulty of access to the rear of the Military lands, of course, we here will endeavour, as far as possible, in the lay-out of these lands, to meet the wishes of the Colony as to roads, and access, and so on. We always wish to carry on with the utmost goodwill with the authorities of the Colony and I hope that will always be so in the future. We cannot get on here without the goodwill of the Colony. In regard to the clause in Sir John Oakley's award that says that lots may be withdrawn, if the War Office so desires, I think the War Office are simply safeguarding themselves. It has always been a condition in all these negotiations that the War Office would not complete the bargain until the actual time came, because it is so hard to look into the future. I am sure they will endeavour, as far as possible, to carry out their part of the bargain. With regard to new provision, I think His Excellency has fully dealt with it. As to the reserved area I referred to just now-the Detention Barracks, Headquarter House and grounds, and the married quarters-I believe the idea is that the road shall be carried in at the northern end of the Detention Barracks and that the widening of Garden Road should be extended,-I can only say that in the lay-out of these parts we will endeavour to meet these wishes, Sir. (Applause.)\n\n166\n30\n\n**H.E. THE GOVERNOR**-If I may be permitted to say one word more, I cannot allow what the hon. and gallant member has said to pass without remark because it may possibly be of importance in future. I contend that there can be no question on reading the Circular Dispatch that the words Military Authorities and Colonial Authorities mean the local Military Authorities and the local Colonial Authorities, and I do not think that the action of the War Office has been in accordance with the Circular Despatches. But, as I have said before, we are in their hands because they are at liberty to say \"We accept your interpretation of the Circular but we do not propose to move.\" I merely put this in as a caveat in case any question should arise again in future.\n\nThe motion was then agreed to.\n\n## Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved the second reading of the Bill to amend further the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance 1866.\n\n**THE COLONIAL TREASURER** seconded, and the motion was agreed to.\n\nCommittee to consider the Bill clause by clause and on the Council resuming the Bill was read a third time and passed.\n\nThe Council then resolved itself into Committee. \n\nThe Adjournment \n**H.E. THE GOVERNOR**-The Council will adjourn sine die.",
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        "content_text": "## not concerned in the greater part of the Order) and if you are satisfied as to the repeal of the 1877 Order I think we right concur at once with a caveat that if the Hong Kong Government shows reasonable ground for any amendment we shall ask for such amendment to be carried out.\n\n1/7/24  \nI see last have Biz Willen in `70/24685/24`. We do not lean to have the draft provision leend to them exfereed to, but I annex copy of Companies (Courolidation) Act God on nation 274 of wh. the fuonisions of Art. 203 N the new dft affear the Craned.\n\nI relect seeing something about this - I think a Lo. enquiry addressed it siken Wing Ridley Luis frindle. But SRZ have not been able to have anything regt about it. Think foreve On the whisk I CHE Can safely a sufferland the last frand of fine). Reiling's form `37832` that po. are pressing for afly. Que 40% \n\nGh8.7.24 araio i",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTES\n\nRestrictions which they will be seen from this letter, F.O. have already sent some reply upon this subject. It is rendered improbable that the procedure indicated will be adopted in spite of the fact that `50674` renders it improbable. \n\nOn the last occasion, the seizure of the Maritime Customs was discussed. A sharp demonstration between the Powers concerned proved sufficient. But it is clear from `49251/23` (and from `4482/21`) that further measures in the direction of commercial and postal reprisals were contemplated and it was this item which caused a caveat from the HK point of view.\n\nWe cannot very well take exception to the proposals in the present instance but a repetition of it seems unwarranted. A warning seems called for and we think we might reply on the lines suggested, should the necessity for counter-measures arise.\n\nLush will initiate action on our behalf on 17th Oct 1923 (`49251/23`). Copy correspondence with F.O., including copies of Sir R. Mackay's note in this connection and `50674`, to be sent for signature.\n\nThe 24-10-24\n\nDist. Note taken.\n\n## MINUTES\nSay that Sir R. Mackay refers to `49251/23` and says it is not now anticipated that the Maritime Customs will be interfered with. Thanks.\n\nMB  \n22.10.24  \n`Gr.30.1`  \n30.10.24",
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        "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924",
        "content_text": "## Statement of the Affairs of the Compromise\nThe immediate devising of the arrangement is to compromise. The delegation consists of 3 Ambassadors. Campbell is a sensible fellow here, without any avowed intention of pressing from China.\n\n### Strength of the Delegation\nThe delegation is being supported by Charly representation, Delavegue, and Lay.\n\n### Composition of the Delegation\nThe Japs are lying, and European (11 of them), Chinese, and Home Eastern Colleagues are intending to press from China.\n\n### Assessment of Campbell\nCampbell is a \"pullers\" fellow, Cavert handed, and our fourth. Van Weltum has been apportioned to Charly Wahren.\n\n### Concerns and Predictions\nIf things go on as they are today, it will be a few days before any further action is taken, but daily budgeting will be required for the British policy at present.\n\n## Ordre\nEn face du Jardin Anglais et Geneva-Palace, Genève\n\n### Conference Details\nSo far, the real subject of the conference is merely a pamphlet from China, and statements from folder 74-7 have been discussed.\n\n### Invitations\nThe Japanese were invited, and Portugal was also invited (from...).\n\n### Hotel Information\nDans toutes les chambres, eau courante et téléphone. Appartements privés avec bains. E. Huni, Directeur.\n\n### Developments\nYesterday, it was determined to wait for a fortnight, though it was felt that it would be a long wait.\n\n### Expenditure\nThe expenditure amounts to £... \n\n### Letter to Colleagues\nDear Colleagues,\n\nI have discussed some questions with Chia, and it appears that the sole reason for... \n\n...bis Shuf Jely a Sprech lin for...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-504-5 Study leave- amendments to General Orders 3-3-1927 - 27-2-1928",
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        "title": "CO129-504-5 Study leave- amendments to General Orders 3-3-1927 - 27-2-1928",
        "content_text": "4\n\nplace, get a part of their salary from the local Government and a part say from the central fund, but so far as their careers are concerned can be assured by the central fund here as to prospects. They would take on with us, although, as a matter of book-keeping, in order to keep the fund in reasonable proportions whenever they are loaned to a Colony, that Colony would pay such salary as they had normally got down for the appointment.\n\nSir DONALD CAMERON: The view was that the whole of the trained technical staff, including the most recently joined officer, should belong to that service. It would make the service a very much more important one in general with a central organisation here. If the salary in the Colony was not sufficient, the fund would have to make it up.\n\nMr. ROBERTSON: Plus a contribution towards pension? Sir DONALD CAMERON: There would be no contribution towards pension if this question is solved, as I indicated a moment ago,\n\nSir SAMUEL WILSON: Do you anticipate any difficulty on the part of the local Legislative Councils?\n\nSir DONALD CAMERON: It would not be done in an arbitrary way.\n\nMr. AMERY: Then there is the question of their leaving one Colony to go to another.\n\nSir SAMUEL WILSON: I do not know whether Sir Donald had in view the question of interchange of scientific officers, and that they should not be left long in any one Colony.\n\nMr. AMERY: I want to be quite clear about the proposal Do I understand it to be this? Take agriculture for instance. All recruits are recruited here by the Colonial Office into the Colonial Agricultural Service. They have before them a scale of salaries they are going to get right through, and as far as they are concerned the individual prospects they can see from the day they enter the service, and what their prospects are by way of pension. Then we farm them out to the Colonies, who pay them their rates, and in certain cases we may have to supplement those rates and make up the difference from the pool, to which all the Colonies have to contribute.\n\nThat is the scheme?\n\nSir DONALD CAMERON: Yes. If I may say so, I had the opportunity of having a conversation of some length with the new Director at Amani before I left, and having got the sense of opinion in Tanganyika-quite naturally Tanganyika is paying a larger sum per annum in proportion as compared with the other Colonies-I am quite willing to say to the Colonial Office that I would ask the Legislative Council to increase that sum if Amani was going to be part of an Imperial whole, and not merely parochial for one or two Colonies. I understand, from what I have seen since, that Amani is to be administered on the technical side from here.\n\nRestriction of Imperial Service to Specialist Officers.\n\nMr. ORMSBY GORE: I think the first real practical problem is whether Sir Donald Cameron's proposal stands a chance of being carried for the whole agricultural service, or whether it is for the one-third of that service who are definitely specialists. In 17 principal agricultural Dependencies-I have left out all the smaller ones, and I am speaking roughly-we have now got 300 agricultural officers; 200 of those, including all the Directors of Agriculture, are administrative officers; 100 are agricultural specialists, almost exactly divided into four quarters; one quarter botanists, one quarter chemists, one quarter entomologists, and one quarter mycologists. It seems to me that the pool should be comparatively simple to work for those 100. When you come to the moving about of the administrative people you come to the large difficulties that Sir Gordon Guggisberg presses, and the necessity for administrative continuity. I throw that out for the consideration\n\n5\n\nSir DONALD CAMERON: I had no intention that they should be moved any more often than now on promotion. It gives you the opportunity you have not got now.\n\nMr. AMERY: There is one difficulty that occurs to me—I daresay there may be a solution of it. If we guarantee our service a certain scale of pay which at present corresponds more or less to the scale of pay in the better services, and, therefore, does not require more than a small pool to make good, what happens if a particular Colony, or a number of them, wishing to make money at the expense of the pool, cuts down its own scale of salaries, and therefore gets more of the balance made up from the pool?\n\nSir DONALD CAMERON: We shall have to enter a caveat at the beginning.\n\nMr. AMERY: Of course, you would refuse to send them any good men.\n\nSir DONALD CAMERON: They would have to pay the difference on what they agreed if they reduced it, and not the pool.\n\nMr. ORMSBY GORE: And see that the scales for agriculture are not lower than for certain other services not in the pool-education officers or whatever the services are.\n\nSir EDWARD GRIGG: I should think it would be more difficult to persuade the Colonies who had started on a low scale to raise it when their prospects improved.\n\nMr. AMERY: That is another aspect of the same argument. If your pool were fixed on some percentage of revenue, however small, when their prospects improved they would be giving more to the pool.\n\nSir HERBERT STANLEY: Would not it be difficult in some Colonies to give a pledge or guarantee of what the Legislative Council might do? I am thinking specially of Ceylon.\n\nMr. ALEXANDER: It would be impossible. Also, we find that in laying down any salary scale you cannot possibly think of the agricultural service only but of all your services. These salary questions are questions of salaries of all the officers of all the different departments, and you cannot consider one without considering the other. There would otherwise be a hopeless muddle.\n\nSir DONALD CAMERON: We do in the medical service in East and West Africa.\n\nMr. ALEXANDER: You could not in Ceylon.\n\nMr. OLIPHANT: Could not one leave it to the option of the individual Colony whether it wishes to have an Imperial Service man or not? I cannot quite see the necessity of having a pool at all. Could not one have this on a system that you have an Imperial Service which is farmed out to the Colonies who want to take the men? Let them take men of a seniority they can afford. If they cannot afford a senior man, they can take a junior man. That applies principally to the administrative branches.\n\nMr. ROBERTSON: Once you introduce the scheme it would be impossible to get a good man outside the scheme.\n\nMr. ALEXANDER: If you confined yourself to the expert research officers, I think you would be able to persuade the Legislative Council of Ceylon to vote something to get expert assistance, but you would not get them to go in for a scheme for administrative officers. For one thing, they always point out now, quite unfairly, that the administrative agricultural officer is not sufficiently in touch with the people; he does not know their language. Our efforts have been devoted mainly to tea and rubber, and so on-coconuts to some extent-but little to the needs of the agricultural population, and they would be very chary of going into a pool which would perhaps take\n\n19",
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        "document_key": "CO129-508-10 Application by C. G. Alabaster for judicial appointment in Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States... 13-12-1927 - 18-2-1928",
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        "title": "CO129-508-10 Application by C. G. Alabaster for judicial appointment in Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States... 13-12-1927 - 18-2-1928",
        "content_text": "Goo Cauf \n\nfor Judgestif P.Pr. F. In 12/272 applenport obsons) \n\n(Torch applen wilt \n\n? \n\nto his J. Riley for sien. \n\n21/1 \n\nRather difficult to fit tim in \n\nin \n\nview of the claims of \n\nmentes fitte \n\n(4) Cadets (b) \n\ntrack Bar (2) officers of \n\notter Celonial. \n\nFurn \n\nThe 24/1 \n\n\"(b)\" supta go in with \"(a)\" and al \n\nfor \"Cadet \"judge \n\nVacancies \n\nconsident \n\nWe? Thorin I \n\n-- \n\nis \n\nBut the Alabaster could be consichead for the \n\nther class of strasti o fonds, eship the \"profcosion a fridgeships, which are usuall, filled fra le promotion \n\nje by \n\nof legal offers wither in the Straits \n\nor some the Colony ate \n\nThere is \n\nno reason \n\nGood \n\nMah \n\nEngland \n\npractising of the Bar, whiten in \n\nor Ikony, she not by car-aidend for flints \"profissional\" jüche, echip \n\ntions; he is up a rarest is the supervi chems of other \"professional\" candidates who have \n\nand the one \n\nCool Jordicial records \n\nLeout \n\nColement Service \n\n(n \n\nI think his pplication might to \n\nR.C. 23.1.28 luclid with \n\nCaveat \n\nas a \n\nbove JS. A 23/11\n\nHere is the revised response in HTML format with minor corrections and reordering as per the instructions:\n\nGood Cause\n\nfor Judgeship P.Pr. F. In 12/272 appointment observations\n\n(Torch application will\n\n? \n\nto his J. Riley for signature\n\n21/1\n\nRather difficult to fit him in\n\nin view of the claims of\n\nmerits fit\n\n(4) Cadets (b)\n\nfrom Bar (2) officers of\n\nother Colonial\n\nService\n\nThe 24/1\n\n\"(b)\" should go in with \"(a)\" and all\n\nfor \"Cadet\" Judge\n\nVacancies\n\nconsidered\n\nWe? Thorin I\n\n--\n\nis\n\nBut the Alabaster could be considered for the\n\nother class of Straits Settlements, e.g., the \"professional\" judgeships, which are usually filled from legal officers either in the Straits\n\nor some other Colony\n\nThere is\n\nno reason\n\nGood\n\nMan\n\nEngland\n\npractising at the Bar, whether in\n\nor Hong Kong, should not be considered for \"professional\" judgeships; he is one of the supervisory cadre of other \"professional\" candidates who have\n\nand the one\n\nCool Judicial records\n\nLayout\n\nColonial Service\n\n(n\n\nI think his application might be\n\nR.C. 23.1.28 lucid with\n\nCaveat\n\nas a\n\nabove JS. A 23/11",
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        "title": "CO129-508-10 Application by C. G. Alabaster for judicial appointment in Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States... 13-12-1927 - 18-2-1928",
        "content_text": "Noted in \n\nPrecedent Book \n\nThen \n\nJSR. \n\nYes, we have fairly information about \n\nwe can \n\nhave \n\nJSR \n\ndispose with \n\nthe P/1: usuals \n\nThe Honk \n\n→ \n\nrecord in the \n\nform. As file AF \n\nI attach \n\nC \n\nAmer \n\nIt is now 9 years since the end \n\nof the War, and, cogent as the reasons were for making enquiries of this kind while the \n\nWar was still a recent event, they have \n\ncertainly lost their force with time. The \n\nGovernment of Hong Kong has, apparently, \n\ncontinued to employ Mr. Alabaster in various \n\ncapacities ever since. He has been made a \n\nKing's Counsel, Unofficial Member of the \n\nLegislative Council, and so on. We really \n\ncannot begin now enquiring into the reasons \n\nwhy he did not join the Forces, reasons which \n\nwere apparently good enough to justify someone \n\nin recommending him for an O.B.E. in 1918, \n\npresumably for effective War service at Hong \n\nKong. I should, therefore, give this enquiry a miss. \n\nThe Promotions Branch are quite \n\nprepared to take over Mr. Alabaster's case. \n\nAs he is in Hong Kong, I do not believe in the necessity for referees, and that sort of \n\nthing. If Sir John Risley is satisfied, we \n\nwill have a P/1 filled up properly, and the \n\ncaveat indicated shall be conveyed to him in \n\nthe despatch sending out the P/1. \n\nletter We lately received \n\nfrom Sir John Risley about \n\nMr. Alabaster \n\nJ.S.R. \n\n7/2/28 \n\n290 for Bond 31- \n\n4/2/28 \n\nJ.S.R \n\n4/2/25 \n\n26.6.2.18 \n\n18 FEB 1928 \n\n...\n\nAu",
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        "document_key": "CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932",
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        "title": "CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932",
        "content_text": "I saw M. Charles Burchell yesterday about this case and arranged that we should send him an instruction to appear for the respondents.\n\nI enclose the uncorrected proof of the record of the proceedings dated 10.48. On receipt of our letter M. Burchell will lodge a caveat & will study the record of the proceedings. If he requires any further documents he will let me know.\n\nI instructed him to brief Mr. Prendergast in due course.\n\nIn view of the Colonial telegram (1.53) I think we had better send the letter to Messrs Burchells at once, putting a red slip on the file.\n\nI shall also have to write to the F.O.\n\n20/1/32\n\nJ. Duncan.\n\n5. covers\n\nWrite Messrs Burchells as proposed; & send F.O. cy of (53) saying $95 in the proposed reply.\n\nTo Burchells (W/any level in 48) - copy sent\n\nF.O. (mc 53)\n\n21.1.32 done",
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        "document_key": "CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932",
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        "title": "CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932",
        "content_text": "39\n\nthe 11th of September, 1931,\n\nhas been granted,\n\nin the case.\n\nand\n\nI am to request that you will\n\ntake steps to lodge a caveat on\n\nbehalf of the Respondents, the\n\nPrisons, Superintendent of Police, Hong\n\nKong, and the Inspector General\n\nof Police, Hong Kong at the\n\nPrivy Council office.\n\nI am,\n\netc.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-541-10 Cheng Kwok Yau- application for special leave to appeal 13-10-1932 - 3-2-1933",
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        "title": "CO129-541-10 Cheng Kwok Yau- application for special leave to appeal 13-10-1932 - 3-2-1933",
        "content_text": "1 Day 466\n\nDesires to know by telegraph application for special leave to appeal.\n\n13/X result ? Send (1) copy with one copy of each enclosure to Burchells asking them to brief counsel to appear on the hearing in order to assist the Board.\n\nVerition queron 15.41.32 7tCalder 15·11.32 loved\n\nThe application has not yet been made, so I do not think we will risk running up any costs unnecessarily. For the moment, therefore, it will be sufficient to tell Burchells that if a petition is lodged, they may enter a caveat, and that if they will let us know when that happens, we will send them the information necessary to enable them to instruct counsel to appear on the application.\n\nHis n H1B 17.11.02. at once\n\n \nグ\n\n150",
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        "document_key": "CO129-551-13 Ng Loi Yuen- Appeal to the Privy Council 9-1-1935 - 9-1-1935",
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        "content_text": "THE GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG.\n\nDr to\n\n53530/35.\n\n1938 Feb.\n\n12\n\n5. The Sanctuary,\n\nWestminster, S.W.1\n\n22nd February, 1935.\n\nBurchells.\n\nNg Loi Yuen\n\n-\n\nThe King.\n\nProfessional Charges in relation to instructions to oppose Petition for Special Leave to Appeal to His Majesty in Council.\n\nPreparing and lodging Caveat and perusing Petition; Brief to Counsel and copy Petition to accompany. Summons for Hearing attendances on Counsel, with papers, to appoint, and at conference and attending in Council Chamber when Petition heard and Leave to Appeal refused. Perusing and approving Order and paying Privy Council Fees.\n\nIncluding all incidental work\n\nDisbursements\n\n  \n    Privy Council Fees.\n    £5 10\n    \n    £30\n    \n  \n  \n    Fees paid to Mr. Kenelm Preedy, of Counsel\n    \n    16 16\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Shorthand Writers Charges.\n    £23 18 7\n    \n    \n    £24 1\n  \n  \n    Fares, postages &c.,\n    \n    \n    15\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    £23 18 7\n    \n    \n    £24 1\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    £47 19 7",
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        "content_text": "BURCHELLS.\n\nC.T.D. BURCHELL.\n\nA.W. BURCHELL.\n\nTELEPHONE - VICTORIA 6431.\n\nPLEASE ADDRESS YOUR REPLY TO THE FIRM AND REFER TO INITIAL\n\n53530/35.\n\nSir,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n5, The Sanctuary,\n\nWestminster, S.W.1.\n\n8th February\n\n1935.\n\nNg Loi Yuen -v- The King\n\nWe beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of\n\nyesterday, enclosing a copy of a Despatch dated the 9th ulto.,\n\nfrom the Governor of Hong Kong, dealing with this matter.\n\n2.\n\nIt will not be possible to make any arrangement for\n\npostponing the hearing of the application for special leave to\n\nappeal, as the Petitioner is lying under sentence of death, and\n\nhas only been respited until the 17th of this month.\n\n3.\n\nThis, however, will not prejudice the Crown's Case\n\nin any way as the facts of the Case are fully set out in the\n\nPetition for Special Leave to Appeal.\n\n4.\n\nThe Notice of intention to apply for special leave to\n\nappeal having been served on the proper officer in Hong Kong,\n\nthe Petitioner is in a position to have his application set\n\ndown for hearing without any Caveat being entered on behalf of\n\nthe Crown, and we were therefore obliged to enter a Caveat\n\nforthwith in order to obtain a copy of the Petition to enable\n\nus to instruct Counsel in time for the hearing.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nBunchells.",
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        "content_text": "C. O.\n\n53530/35 Hong Kong\n\nMr. Costar o 2\n\nMr. Bushe\n\nMr. Gent.\n\n7\n\nMr. Parkinson.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\n25 February, 1935.\n\n3 DRAFTS Conson.\n\nMESSRS. BURCHELLS.\n\nNo 20\n\n4.1.55\n\nTo You Fit No 10\n\n22:35\n\nD (2) C.\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nGentlemen,\n\n(A) ack. The receipt of I am, etc. to refer to your letter reference C. of the 5th February, 1935, reporting that you were on that day served with a Petition for Special Leave to Appeal in forma pauperis to the Privy Council on behalf of one, Ng Loi Yuen.\n\n2. I am to enclose a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject, together with a copy of a telegram sent in reply.\n\n3. It is noted that a caveat has already been entered at the Privy Council Office. I am to enquire whether it is possible...",
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        "content_text": "CussA \n\nBURCHELLS. \n\nC.T.D. BURCHELL. \n\nA.W.BURCHELL. \n\nTELEPHONE - VICTORIA 6431. \n\nPLEASE ADDRESS YOUR REPLY TO \n\nTHE FIRM AND REFER TO INITIAL. \n\nC. \n\n29 \n\n5, The Sanctuary, \n\nWestminster, S.W.1. \n\n5th February \n\n19.35. \n\nRECEIVED \n\n-6 FEB 1935 \n\nSir, \n\nC.O. REGY \n\nNg Loi Yuen -v- Rex. \n\nWe beg to inform you that we were today served \n\nwith a Petition for Special Leave to Appeal to the Privy \n\nCouncil in the above Case. \n\n2. \n\nAfter a conference with the Legal Department, \n\nwe entered a Caveat at the Privy Council Office, so as to \n\nenable the application to be speedily heard. \n\n3. \n\nWe understand that the Petitioner, who was \n\nsentenced to death for murder, has only been respited \n\nuntil the 17th instant. \n\nWe are, Sir, \n\nYour obedient Servants, \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \n\nColonial Office, \n\nDowning Street, \n\nS.W.1. \n\nBurchells. \n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "title": "CO129-559-17 Dysentry Epidemic- report- etc. 11-11-1936 - 26-11-1936",
        "content_text": "# Enclosure No.1.\n\nI have caused to be laid on this table (a copy will be found in the portfolio of each Honourable Member and there are a number of copies on the Press Table) a Report by the Director of Medical Services on an Epidemic of Dysentery caused by the Shiga Bacillus.\n\nThat epidemic has resulted, as we all know to our sorrow and consternation, in the deaths of eight little children; and our sympathy with the parents who have suffered this inconsolable loss is deeper than any words of mine can express.\n\nA number of the bereaved have sent me a request, which has been published in the Press, for the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry with the object of ascertaining the answer to four questions. It is because I feel myself in a position to answer those four questions as well as could any Commission of Inquiry, and without the inherent delay, that I have decided to make a statement supplementary to the Report of the Director of Medical Services.\n\nThe first of the questions is \"What was the source of the infection?\" Inasmuch as the food and drink consumed by the patients prior to their illness was not analysed, and was not subsequently available for analysis, the source can never be proved. Those who are conversant with the limitations of inductive logic and with scientific method will recognize that from obtainable data there can emerge nothing more than reasonable inference. From the data on which the Director of Medical Services has based paragraph 14 of his Report I have inferred, exercising my reason to the best of my care and conscience, that the main immediate source of infection lay in milk (probably in a single batch of milk) supplied from the Farm Depot of the Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd.\n\nWhat may have infected the milk seems to me a problem incapable of solution by a Commission of Inquiry; it requires rather active professional and technical investigation; and this is already being prosecuted along three main lines, (a) search for a human carrier of the disease among those who manipulate the milk, (b) search for possible contamination by water, and (c) search for possible opportunities for contamination by flies.\n\nThe second question is \"whether the Dairy Farm Company's 'Nursery Milk' was pasteurised prior to the epidemic\". The answer is in the negative. Since the 15th November, however, the Company has pasteurised all its deliveries.\n\nThe third question is \"whether any or all of the deaths could have been prevented had the authorities taken immediate precautions when the epidemic was first notified on or about the 7th November, 1936\". The answer is again in the negative. The epidemic was not in fact notified, because dysentery is not a notifiable disease; but, even if it had been, such notification could not have prevented fatalities which have been confined to children who were taken ill on the 8th November and to one connected case.\n\nThe fourth and last question is as to \"whether any action is contemplated by Government to prevent a recurrence of this or any other type of epidemic\". I am not prepared at this juncture to state that any particular measure is contemplated, for that would imply that a decision has already been taken. I do state however that certain measures are under consideration and will form the subject of early reference to my Executive Council. One is the compulsory pasteurisation of milk. I am aware that there is some medical opinion against it, and the pros and cons will need to be carefully weighed; and they will be carefully weighed. In the meantime the only pasteurisation plant known to me in this Colony, that of the Dairy Farm Company is, as I have already stated, being applied to all their deliveries. Another measure under my consideration is for the statutory notifiability of dysentery. Arguments against it emerge from the Report now on the table; nevertheless the question must be thrashed out before a definite conclusion is reached. Thirdly I am determined to prosecute any line of precaution, compatible with common sense and with our financial resources, which may be indicated by the results of the threefold investigation which I have already adumbrated, and which may be summed up in the three words carriers, water and flies.\n\nIn conclusion I feel it my duty to utter a few words of caution. Public analysis of all food and drink is impossible; it can only be an analysis of samples and, whatever the method and frequency of selection employed, the samples can never be representative of the whole supply. Secondly the results of analysis, and still more of bacteriological examination, do not come to hand until after the substances, of which samples are analysed and examined, have been consumed. Thirdly however comprehensive and drastic sanitary regulations may be, and however great the vigilance of the Sanitary Authority, there will always be those who break the regulations and go undiscovered. When there is discovery it may often be after harm has been done. Local methods of agriculture are known; the conditions obtaining in our, now happily doomed, Central Market are known. From personal inspection and collaboration I am satisfied that our Medical and Sanitary Service is an efficient machine manned by an able and untiring crew. But however great their efficiency and perseverance, and however many statutory or other implements and equipment we may add to their armoury, honesty compels me to confess that I cannot foresee the day when the principle of \"caveat emptor\" can be safely abrogated in its application to the purchaser of comestibles in this Colony.\n\nPage 2\nPage 3\nPage 10\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "## instructions\n\nLet it be noted that a caveat has been lodged.\n\n### Burchells\n\n29.1237. Notifies receipt of petition & desires instructions. Burchells to enter caveat and brief counsel to appear before the court.\n\nTel. Lo 4. K due to the fact that affidavit has been lodged. Necessary documents to be forwarded.\n\nP. Rogers 4.1. Cut & ask if any further information is required from HK.\n\nSend copies of the Judgment.\n\n5Wkant. Sam\n\nTo Gov. Tel 12. lamsa 5/4/38\n\n**DESTROYED UNDER AUTHORITY**\n\n| To | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Burchell's | Copies of exchange to NO 1 Cons |\n| Burchell's | 67-38 |",
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        "content_text": "**BURCHELLS**\n\nA.W. BURCHELL. B.M.C. TRENCH. \nH. H. MARSHALL.\n\nTELEPHONE-Abbey 3108 (2 LINES)\n\nPLEASE ADDRESS YOUR REPLY TO \nTHE FIRM AND REFER TO INITIAL \nM.\n\nHong Kong\nSir,\n\n53689/5\n\n5, The Sanctuary,\nWestminster, S.W.1.\n29th December, 1937.\n\n### Chung Chi Cheung v. Rex\n\nWe beg to report that we have to-day been served \nwith a Petition for special leave to appeal in this case. \nWe are having the necessary copies thereof made and will \nshortly send one copy to Sir Grattan Bushe in accordance with \nthe usual practice.\n\n2. We shall be glad if you will kindly let us have \nyour instructions as to whether we are to enter a caveat and \nbrief Counsel to oppose the Petition in due course.\n\n3. The Petitioner is under sentence of death, the \nexecution being postponed for four months on the 16th October \nlast.\n\nWe are, Sir,\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\nColonial Office,\nDowning Street,\nS.W.1.\n\n**Burchells**",
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        "content_text": "BURCHELLS.\n\nA.W. BURCHELL.\n\nB.M.C. TRENCH.\n\nH.H. MARSHALL.\n\nTELEPHONE-Abbey 3108 (2 LINES)\n\nPLEASE ADDRESS YOUR REPLY TO\n\nTHE FIRM AND REFER TO INITIAL\n\n5. The Sanctuary,\n\n82\n\nWestminster, S.W.1.\n\nJan. 7th, 1938.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n53689/3/387. Hong Kong.\n\nSir,\n\n5|53689|3|87\n\nChung Chi Cheung V. The King.\n\nWe beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of yesterday enclosing two copies of the Judgment of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in this case.\n\n2.\n\nWe have to-day lodged a Caveat on behalf of the Respondent and are immediately preparing the Brief to Counsel to oppose the Petition. We will enquire whether there is any further information which he requires and, if so, we will communicate with you again.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nS.W.1.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nBurchells.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]",
        "page_number": 223,
        "title": "CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]",
        "content_text": "experience - Many matters such as summonses for time to plead, and to proceed forth, have been in England delegated to the Masters; and in Equity the Chief Clerks exercise almost judicial functions.\n\nThe expression of discontent of the Profession and suitors never reached my ears in any other shape than that of sorrow that the brief for the Attorney-General was not well enough to come out. I endorse the Attorney-General's statements. The isolated caveat he mentions of the Receiver-General (one of my caves) and the other caveat of Puston & Co. (another of my caves) concern application by summons properly exercisable in Chambers, and, being adjourned, the Chief Justice properly directed it to be resumed at Chambers.\n\nThe Attorney-General took up 3½ hours, wasting the time of the court on matters irrelevant to the preliminary question of his right to be heard at all, and if he had had a public hearing he could probably have consumed many days in quoting international and constitutional law. I will at present only say that during my long and large experience (much longer and larger than that of the Attorney-General) in forensic life, I never found a Judge, as careful, and ready at all times to meet the convenience of the province, consistently with the justice of the case, as the Chief Justice of this Colony.\n\nPage 220",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940",
        "page_number": 13,
        "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940",
        "content_text": "# \n\nAn undertaking was given to the Select Committee that certain items of P.W.D. and other special expenditure could be deferred if the revenue position showed serious deterioration. It appears, however, to me that two other factors ought to be taken into account in reviewing such expenditure - increasing costs and the cash position. More on this later.\n\nBoth sides of the Estimates contain provision for the Fishery Research Station and Aquarium for which a C.D.F. grant was approved. This, however, is in suspense; and approval of the Estimates should include a caveat on this subject.\n\n## LOAN ACCOUNTS, SURPLUS BALANCES AND CASH RESOURCES\n\nExpenditure under the 1934 Loan is being closed down, the authorised limit being exhausted, and there has been discussion on `53593/39` about the liquidation, by borrowing in some way the unraised portion of this Loan, of the heavy advances made on this account from surplus balances.\n\nHeavy advances from them have also been made (and it is proposed that they should continue) on account of another loan, but one of a purely hypothetical nature. The figures will be found in Appendix VI(C) to the Estimates (p.136) and were discussed in my previous minute on this file and in minutes on `53593/39`.\n\nThe position is that the revenue surplus balances must already be heavily overdrawn, and will be even more so by 31.3.41. Presumably the only reason this 'overdraft' does not cause a shortage of cash is the existence of various special funds which appear in Appendix IV to the Estimates (p.133), the principal...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-577-3 Proposed transfer of military barracks to alternative site 30-1-1939 - 14-12-1939",
        "page_number": 9,
        "title": "CO129-577-3 Proposed transfer of military barracks to alternative site 30-1-1939 - 14-12-1939",
        "content_text": "# Page 10\n\nI do not follow the reference to the use of \"loan funds, if other funds are not available\" in para. G of (1). As far as I can see, H.K. has no unutilised loan funds, but has advanced considerable sums from surplus balances against the raising of the remainder of the 3½% $25,000,000 Loan of 1934.\n\nIf the expenditure on barracks etc. is to be regarded as a charge against the 1934 Loan, I suppose this could be arranged on transfer to item 8 of the Schedule under section 3(2) of Ordinance 11 of 1934. But this hardly seems a suitable procedure with regard to expenditure which is expected to be reimbursed in the fairly near future, since it unnecessarily restricts the objects for which the Loan was raised. Nor does the para. seem to mean this.\n\nI suggest we add a caveat to para. G of the draft now submitted, saying that we assume that this will be referred to us in detail at a later stage, that we are not clear what loan funds could be used for the purpose, or how.\n\nNis Andrews  \n20.07.39\n\nI think it will be as well to ask for fuller information when the financing...\n\n# Page 11",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-589-9 Government House- damage caused by construction of underground Air Raid shelter tunnels. For extracted photographs.... 1-4-1941 - 1-11-1941",
        "page_number": 30,
        "title": "CO129-589-9 Government House- damage caused by construction of underground Air Raid shelter tunnels. For extracted photographs.... 1-4-1941 - 1-11-1941",
        "content_text": "## 4/30114/27\n\nOn the other hand, it is far from improbable that still more serious movement may occur at any moment or that a typhoon may greatly increase the damage. I have, therefore, asked and obtained permission from the Commander-in-Chief, China Station, to occupy Admiralty House temporarily, should it become necessary for me to quit here. I am greatly obliged by Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton's kind compliance with my request.\n\n4. The Naval Commander-in-Chief's assent, however, was limited by the following condition: \"It should be understood that this is an emergency measure and does not affect it (Admiralty House) being available for my use should I have need of it in the future\".\n\nI recognize that this 'caveat' was necessary, having regard to the terms on which the property was offered to and accepted by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (vide Mr. Amery's despatch No. 87 dated April 6th, 1927). At the same time, it calls for immediate consideration of the situation that would come about were it to become necessary for the Governor to vacate the present Government House, for it would obviously be impracticable as well as undesirable that he should be liable to find himself without an official residence at short notice.\n\nIn so describing that contingency, I have not forgotten the existence of Mountain Lodge, but I have no hesitation in saying that the Lodge is quite unsuitable as the principal residence of the Governor. It is very inaccessible, lying as it does at the end of some three-quarters of a mile of a steep single-traffic lane, and it has no parking space for cars. It is much too small for the Governor's obligations in the way of entertainment, and for most of the year, it is wrapped in wet cloud.\n\nPage 30  \nPage 31",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-595-5 Validity of registration of land during Japanese occupation 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946",
        "page_number": 39,
        "title": "CO129-595-5 Validity of registration of land during Japanese occupation 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946",
        "content_text": "Orig. on `55249/2/45`\n\n## MALAYA\n### INTERIM POLICY DIRECTIVE\n#### LAND\n##### PART I\n###### PRELIMINARY\n\n39 人\n\n1. **Mines** CONDITION OF REGISTERS. Legal Officers and Colonial Lands, and Surveys should report as soon as possible on the condition of the Registers. The following proceeds on the assumption that the Registers will be, for the most part, intact.\n\n2. REGISTERS IN REGISTRATION OF TITLES AREAS. These Registers should be brought up to date and should be dealt with so as to give effect to the following policy:-\n    (a) Where there has been a change, since the date of the Japanese occupation of the area concerned (hereinafter called \"the occupation date\"), in the registered proprietorship of registered land, the name of the person who was proprietor of the land prior to the occupation date, (hereinafter called \"the previous proprietor\") should be restored as registered proprietor unless:-\n    (b) \n    3. \n    (i) the memorandum of transfer, or other instrument effecting a transfer from the previous proprietor, purports to be signed by the previous proprietor himself and to be attested in the manner prescribed by pre-occupation law;\n    (ii) a transmission of the land has occurred occasioned by the death, disability or bankruptcy of the previous proprietor;\n    (iii) the registration of the previous proprietor has been displaced pursuant to an order of a Court in proceedings in which the previous proprietor was personally served. (Note: In this paragraph \"Court\" includes a Court sitting during the Japanese occupation).\n\nIn any case not falling within sub-paragraphs (i), (ii) or (iii) above, the Register should remain unaltered unless and until directed to be altered by the Lands Titles Commission hereinafter mentioned.\n\n3. In dealing with unregistered documents executed during the period of Japanese occupation which may be presented to Registrars after the re-occupation of Malaya, the same principles should be applied, that is to say, the title of the previous proprietor should not be disturbed, and the new document should be rejected, unless such document purports to be signed by the previous proprietor personally and to be attested in the manner prescribed by pre-occupation law, or an Order of Court is presented which was made in proceedings in which the previous proprietor was personally served. Any person who may be aggrieved should be directed to apply to the Lands Titles Commission and should, in the mean time, be permitted to protect his interest by registering a caveat against the title.\n\nREGISTERS IN THE REGISTRATION OF DEEDS AREA should mutatis mutandis be similarly dealt with, that is to say:-\n    (a) Registrations of conveyances and assignments of land made inter vivos since the occupation date should be removed from the Registers, and instruments executed during the period of Japanese occupation which may be presented for registration after the re-occupation of Malaya by the British, should not be registered unless:-\n\n/(1)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-604-2 Crown Leases 23-2-1948 - 6-11-1948",
        "page_number": 43,
        "title": "CO129-604-2 Crown Leases 23-2-1948 - 6-11-1948",
        "content_text": "43\n\nEncl. 1.\n\namended as proposed in (7)\n\n# 75 YEAR CROWN LEASES.\n\n## GRANT OF NEW CROWN LEASES.\n\nTerms and conditions relating to applications made after 16.6.47.\n\nA public announcement on this subject was made in the press of the Colony in June, 1946, under which certain concessions were made applicable in respect of grants approved on applications received within the period of one year from that date: These special concessions being inapplicable after 16th June, 1947, the following further statement is issued of the conditions appertaining to applications made after that date:-\n\n1. Application. Applications for the grant of new Crown leases will, save in exceptional circumstances, be considered only in cases where there is less than 20 years unexpired of the original leasehold term.\n\n2. Title. The title of the applicant to the existing lease or tenancy to be subject to approval by the Land Officer and an effective surrender to the Crown of the existing term or interest to be executed.\n\n3. Term. The new Crown lease to be for a term of 75 years plus the unexpired portion of the original term.\n\n4. Crown Rent. Crown rent to continue at the rate applicable under the existing lease for the period corresponding to the unexpired residue of the original term: Upon the expiration of that period the Crown rent for the subsequent term of 75 years to be re-assessed and to be at such a rate as shall be then determined by Government according to the full and fair value of the land (exclusive of the buildings thereon) at that date and the rate or scale of Crown rent being charged by Government for leases of land in the same district at that time, the rate being collated on the value of the land exclusive of the building.\n\n5. Premium. Payment of a premium would be required based on land values prevailing in the locality at the time of the application, such premium to be payable in one lump sum on acceptance of the application or (at the option of the lessee) by instalments over an agreed period of years or over the unexpired residue of the existing term, together with the whole of the new term: In the case of payment by instalments, addition would be made to allow for interest in respect of the deferred payments, such interest to be calculated at the rate of 5 per cent per annum.\n\n6. Building and Repairing Covenants.\n\n(a) An appropriate Building Covenant would be imposed in every case according to the nature and locality of the lot, the extent of the existing development of the land and the state of repair and condition of the buildings thereon.\n\n(b) Failure to comply with a Building Covenant within the prescribed period would render the lessee liable to forfeiture of the land to the Crown without payment or allowance in respect of the premium paid or any amount expended in the partial development of the land or any compensation whatsoever.\n\n(c) There would be a binding restriction against any sale, sub-letting or other alienation of the land without the consent in writing of the Governor pending the completion of the Building Covenant, and a provision that all Assignments, Mortgages, Sub-Leases or other dealings with the property should be registered at the Land Office.\n\n(d) A Covenant by the lessee to maintain and repair all buildings erected or to be erected on the land would be imposed in every case.\n\nDone\n\nCaveat in respect of the ... arising from the special circumstance, which will not constitute precedent for dealing with the renewal.",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-607-1 Enquiry into loss of public money 22-5-1948 - 26-10-1948",
        "page_number": 51,
        "title": "CO129-607-1 Enquiry into loss of public money 22-5-1948 - 26-10-1948",
        "content_text": "140\n\n51\n\nno Accountant General's inspection of my accounts since the liberation. This I take it is due, as in the case of the analogous omission on the part of the Audit Dept., to shortage of staff.\n\n8.\n\nIn my investigation, and in compiling this report, I have received the fullest possible co-operation from Mr. Wakefield who, I am confident, will be very much on his guard for some time to come. I must however enter the caveat that no busy Administrative Officer who has not time to give full attention to accounts can be sure of not succumbing to carefully-planned fraud.\n\n9.\n\n10.\n\na)\n\nb)\n\nc)\n\na) As to J.T. Wakefield.\n\nI admit the charges laid against me, in Section V & VII of this report, having given the D.O.N.T., Mr. J. Barrow, my fullest co-operation in its compilation.\n\nI freely admit that the standard of my work as to Accounts has been most inefficient and that, until the unfortunate occurrence of the loss of the money, I had the briefest knowledge of the running of Government Accounts, and had Chung II been a cleverer man than he was, could have got away with still far more.\n\nI admit that on at least one previous occasion in 1945/46 I was warned by the D.O.N.T. (Mr. J. Barrow), that I should be more careful where public money was concerned.\n\nI have always had a positive dislike of Accounts in any dealings in money and openly admit that the manner in which I keep my personal accounts is most deplorable.\n\nHowever, both in assisting in compiling the foregoing report and in supervision of the Accounts in this office since the 11th May, I have come, far more, to understand the procedure of dealing with public monies and dare to say no further slip involving losses of public money will get by me, excepting of course a carefully-planned fraud.\n\nWe feel very strongly that we have been let down by the Clerk i/c Accounts, Mr. Au-Yeung, who appears to us to have shown such a degree of irresponsibility as to suggest connivance at the fraud.\n\n11.\n\nChun Yiu Kei\n\nWe attach a Table, compiled by Mr. (Chung I), Executive Officer, Grade II, who by my orders took charge of the accounts from Mr. Au-Yeung, soon after the discovery of the loss.\n\n12.\n\nIf it should appear that there is the slightest implication of negligence against Mr. Gordon Williams, the new D.O. Taipo, that implication is quite unintentional: he has only just taken over, and obviously cannot be expected to share any responsibility for what has occurred.\n\nsgd: J. Barrow,\n\nJ.T. Wakefield,\n\n26.5.48",
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        "document_key": "CO129-607-1 Enquiry into loss of public money 22-5-1948 - 26-10-1948",
        "page_number": 55,
        "title": "CO129-607-1 Enquiry into loss of public money 22-5-1948 - 26-10-1948",
        "content_text": "BANK ACCOUNT\n\nCASH,\n\nDepartmental\n\n55\n\nG.O.\n\n304\n\nTo be paid into bank daily, or at earliest possible opportunity\n\n285\n\nTo be handled only by certain officers\n\n297\n\nTo be paid as early as possible into a bank\n\n359\n\nDaily payment into bank\n\n360\n\n299 & 373\n\nCASH BOOK\n\nCHEQUES FROM TREASURY\n\nCollection of\n\nIMPREST\n\nLEDGER\n\n302\n\n352\n\n354\n\n299\n\nOFFICER,\n\nLiability of for loss\n\n292\n\nRECEIPTS,\n\nTo be given for every sum paid to an Accounting Officer\n\n282\n\nRECEIPT BOOKS,\n\nResponsibility for safe custody and proper use\n\n298\n\nInstructions regarding them\n\n298\n\nSTAMPS\n\n362\n\nSTORES\n\n366\n\nSUB-ACCOUNTANT,\n\nDefinition\n\nGeneral Caveat 2\n\nResponsibility of...\n\n233\n\n233\n\n236\n\nVOUCHERS\n\n314 & 370\n\nResponsibility for accuracy of\n\n320\n\nSub\n\n322\n\nNOTE:\n\n11\n\nAs I read G.O.O., ... safe or vault means the Treasurers' safe or vault, not Departmental safes or vaults.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-609-4 Future policy- draft proclamation for moratorium on unsettled debts 24-8-1945 - 22-2-1947",
        "page_number": 26,
        "title": "CO129-609-4 Future policy- draft proclamation for moratorium on unsettled debts 24-8-1945 - 22-2-1947",
        "content_text": "26\n\nA\n\nBRITISH MILITARY ADMINISTRATION, HONG KONG\n\nA\n\nPROCLAMATION NO.\n\nA Proclamation to close financial institutions, to proclaim a moratorium and to prohibit certain dealings in land.\n\nI\n\nDO HEREBY PROCLAIM AND ORDER:\n\nPART I\n\nPRELIMINARY\n\nArticle 1\n\nShort Title\n\nThis Proclamation may be cited as the Moratorium Proclamation.\n\nArticle 2\n\nInterpretation\n\nIn this Proclamation unless the context otherwise requires:-\n\n\"Controller\" means the officer for the time being performing the duties of Chief Financial Adviser under the British Military Administration;\n\n\"dealing\" in relation to land means any transaction of whatever nature, entered into after the coming into force of this Proclamation, by which land is affected and includes a caveat;\n\n\"debt\" includes any form of claim for payment of, or obligation to money;\n\n\"financial institution\" means any person or body of persons whether incorporated or not carrying on the business of banking including the receiving of money on current account or on deposit or of granting credit in any form or of dealing in foreign exchange or of maintaining safe deposit facilities;\n\n\"land\" includes land of whatever tenure; tenements and hereditaments corporeal or incorporeal; rights over, and interests in land; houses and other buildings and fixtures attached to the earth; and an undivided share in land.\n\nPART II - CLOSING OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS\n\nArticle 3\n\nSuspension of business and closing of premises\n\n(1)\n\nEvery financial institution shall forthwith suspend business and close its premises to the public.\n\n(2)\n\nThe re-opening of any premises so closed and the resumption of any business so suspended shall be subject to such terms, conditions and restrictions as the Controller, or any officer authorised by him in that behalf, may prescribe, by notice or by general or specific order or by written communication addressed to the financial institution concerned. Notwithstanding anything in this Article banks may:-\n\n(a)\n\nreceive accounts and otherwise conduct new business in respect of the British Military Administration or any",
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        "document_key": "CO129-609-4 Future policy- draft proclamation for moratorium on unsettled debts 24-8-1945 - 22-2-1947",
        "page_number": 29,
        "title": "CO129-609-4 Future policy- draft proclamation for moratorium on unsettled debts 24-8-1945 - 22-2-1947",
        "content_text": "BRITISH MILITARY ADMINISTRATION, HONG KONG\n\nA\n\n24\n\nPROCLAMATION NO.\n\nA Proclamation to close financial institutions, to proclaim a moratorium and to prohibit certain dealings in land.\n\nI DO HEREBY PROCLAIM AND ORDER:\n\nPART I PRELIMINARY\n\nArticle 1\n\nShort Title\n\nThis Proclamation may be cited as the Moratorium Proclamation.\n\nArticle 2\n\nInterpretation\n\nIn this Proclamation unless the context otherwise requires:\n\n\"Controller\" means the officer for the time being performing the duties of Chief Financial Adviser under the British Military Administration;\n\n\"dealing\" in relation to land means any transaction of whatever nature, entered into after the coming into force of this Proclamation, by which land is affected and includes a caveat;\n\n\"debt\" includes any form of claim for payment of, or obligation to money;\n\n\"financial institution\" means any person or body of persons whether incorporated or not carrying on the business of banking including the receiving of money on current account or on deposit or of granting credit in any form or of dealing in foreign exchange or of maintaining safe deposit facilities;\n\n\"land\" includes land of whatever tenure; tenements and hereditaments corporeal or incorporeal; rights over, and interests in land; houses and other buildings and fixtures attached to the earth; and an undivided share in land.\n\nPART II\n\nCLOSING OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS\n\nArticle 3\n\nSuspension of business and closing of premises\n\n(1) Every financial institution shall forthwith suspend business and close its premises to the public.\n\n(2) The re-opening of any premises so closed and the resumption of any business so suspended shall be subject to such terms, conditions and restrictions as the Controller, or any officer authorised by him in that behalf, may prescribe, by notice or by general or specific order or by written communication addressed to the financial institution concerned. Notwithstanding anything in this Article banks may:\n\n(a) receive accounts and otherwise conduct new business in respect of the British Military Administration or any",
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        "title": "CO129-609-4 Future policy- draft proclamation for moratorium on unsettled debts 24-8-1945 - 22-2-1947",
        "content_text": "# 32\n\n# REVISED\n\n## BRITISH MILITARY ADMINISTRATION, MALAYA\n\n## PROCLAMATION NO.\n\nA Proclamation to close financial institutions, to proclaim a moratorium and to prohibit certain dealings in land.\n\nI,\n\n## Short title.\n\n## Interpretation.\n\nDO HEREBY PROCLAIM AND ORDER:\n\n## PART I\n\n## PRELIMINARY\n\n1. This Proclamation may be cited as the Moratorium Proclamation.\n\n2. In this Proclamation unless the context otherwise requires:\n\n- \"Controller\" means the officer for the time being performing the duties of Controller of Finance and Accounts under the British Military Administration;\n\n- \"dealing\" in relation to land means any transaction between parties, of whatever nature by which land is affected and includes a caveat;\n\n- \"debt\" includes any form of claim or obligation for the payment of money;\n\n- \"financial institution\" means any person or body of persons whether incorporated or not carrying on the business of banking including the receiving of money on current account or on deposit or of granting credit in any form or of dealing in foreign exchange or of maintaining safe deposit facilities;\n\n- \"Government\" means ...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-610-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 3-1-1947 - 29-12-1947",
        "page_number": 22,
        "title": "CO129-610-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 3-1-1947 - 29-12-1947",
        "content_text": "## MR. Sech \n21 \n\nWe did not manage to discuss the draft letter to MR. Crombie with Sir M. Young this morning, in view of the time we took on the Constitution despatch. I did however give Sir M. Young a copy of the draft, and asked him to let us know if there are any additional points to be thought out. Meanwhile, I have incorporated in the draft the various points which you mentioned to me this morning, & submit a clean draft opposite.\n\n23/6 \n\nJager I \nSir Thomas Lloyd.\n\nI feel that Sir Orme Sargent will expect us to make, in writing to the Treasury, the point in the last paragraph of 30, and if we do not, he may feel impelled to put in his own caveat to Mr. Crombie, the effect of which might be unfortunate. I feel, therefore, that the words in square brackets in paragraph 2 of the draft must stand, although I have somewhat modified them. I do not know, however, whether you will think it worth while discussing this point with Sir Orme Sargent before the draft goes off. Personally, I do not think we need object to the point being included.\n\nI have not heard from Sir Mark Young since he had a copy of the original draft on Monday, and clearly there is no need for us to wait for him.\n\n25th June, 1947.\n\n| Date | To | From |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 22-6 |  |  |\n| 27-6-47 |  |  |\n| 31 | J. F. B. Crombie (2) |  |\n|  | Sir Orme Sargent (F.O.) | my (31) |",
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