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Auction on the 25 pauciary 18196 \n\nhot Claps of Upsit Rice \n\nContent \n\n1844. \n\nKreckeddnan Annual Rent @presst.square. \n\non than lot. presfitquare of Set. #prospetyan, of lot. \n\nツ \n\nBuilding a Consulate at Canton \n\nVice Consul., Interpreter and Clerks \n\n$754425. \n\n$ \n\n\" \n\nاحمر \n\n.20 \n\n12.960 Fel. L 14780 21700 26970 \n\n27.5 \n\n22./0 \n\nb \n\nb \n\n« 10 \n\nA \n\nوجو \n\n\" \n\n\" \n\n18. \n\n26.15 \n\nB.. \n\n15.000. \n\nDollars $799.425... \n\nLand Officer. \n\nh \n\n(True Copy) \n\nMichard Woornam \n\nLand Office \n\n10th Feb 1844 (Signed). A. I. Gordon \n\nدگیم \n\n20.10 \n\n44 C \n\nPurchaser. \n\n47 Mr Henry. \n\nMr Porter. \n\nM 8/1⁄2 A La Kivis. \n\n87 MV. P. Hewart 4h MV P. Stewart. \n\nItr Strachan. \n\n8/1⁄2 Mr Legge. 671⁄2 Mr Legge. \n\n974 At P. Hewart. \n\n64 M. her \n\n£398 18 87/14 \n\nAl. P. ¡ Stewart. \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218914, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "Brought forward 10101 Judicial Department cents 1987. 10 \n\n1st Cork in Police Court Victorici —— 770 nd Do Do Do \n\n$60 Jun 570004 3156... \n\n3d A \n\ndo \n\n($50 km $6000 4/4 3 130 \n\nCink in Police Court Checkchun \n\nOf je jeme: $840 / Interprets in Police Court Kelena___ \n\nrepointendent of Blice \n\nwwwww \n\n337. 10 \n\n(* $100 parse ($1200 (+ 4/4, 3260 \n\npiarcal Apartment: \n\nJuasurer \n\nachingus Click of the Canent -1000. \n\nAuchter actingas \n\nCif Clock L \n\nCert \n\nCost: 1. the Auditor a $100 Pme 19065/4, 260 Legislature \n\nArk of the Exemlist and lequenters Conseils duties performed by Auditor Adminstration of Sands Rouds and Rublic works. 'urveyor General (on sich leave 7 __500 Ericating-Do- \n\n50r \n\nClock of the works and Curt Cuginen 405 Clerk of Registry $1500 (~1/14 - \n\nPraftsman – $1200 \n\nApistant to \n\n-ww- \n\n2 be \n\n202,10 \n\n..AL. Cial bugison $5000 t/ 195.2307. \n\nforward 26067 € \n\n$ \n\nt \n\nBrought forward. 24247 Couseration and Management \n\nof Harbans \n\nd \n\nKantaur Master \n\nboo \n\nAssistant \n\nChenk- \n\nMedical \n\nfoo \n\nHospital hageen \n\nOrdinary Contingencies \n\nGovernor \n\nStatiivery V \n\nColonial Secretary Reportinent \n\nG \n\nCospradores && $15 fms $106, %38 1 Head Coolic \n\n100% 16 \n\nHenger \n\nHe livrlery Printing \n\n18.4 \n\n-72 15.12 \n\n372 16. \n\nArelieval Sepentiment \n\nAudicial \n\nWages of Chinese Clerkin Polier Colal Victori \n\n@ $20 Pro 72/406 4/4 \n\nCompracter Co $15 pmo $180 39 2 Cocles 6. \n\n7. Chour Bearers 6 \n\nla- \n\nCa \n\n2 Overseers of Converts \n\n$12 pm 3282.4% -62.8 \n\nMea \n\nforward 215. 16 27155 16 \n\nPage 240Page 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219016, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "E \n\nCale patel Despatch \n\nt \n\nDate \n\nQuelonnes \n\nDespatch Despatch \n\nof \n\nSulgeat of Despatol. \n\nNo \n\nOne \n\nSubject of Despatch J \n\n5 May 17 th 1844 Detailing robbery by puites of \n\nMilitary treasure proceding by water to Checkchoo-Establisheshent \n\nPolice. Angistragy at the cuinal charge of thing \n\nth \n\n23*? \n\nthere of \n\na \n\nNewfaty of hiring a Count \n\nhouse till decision of Government proposed play for \"Public \n\ncan be had \n\nOffices \n\nGrown \n\nselyet. \n\nNome \n\n10 June 1 Detailing \n\nEstimated reveres of Craven None lands abready £10.173 uncollecte browing 1. lease not being generally made outo-Ceppointment of Mr John Pope as Civil Engineer 21 - Recommendation of Tonnage duty of 6. subject deferred till after interview with Keying on opinm trade. \n\n£4.11.5. Stoves supplied from Naan H. M Ship Blenheim to erect, Hugstaff in front of Government \n\nKouse. \n\n9 May 27 th 184 Iransmitting information as l bue \n\n6th \n\nޅ \n\nthe death \n\nof M. Hade, and enclosing a letter from Meförs Sardnie Matheson &C. on the \n\nreasons \n\nC2 \n\nfor efning \n\nordinance N°13 establishing Chinese peace officers in the \n\nColony \n\nIntewiew with I Logge \n\nrecommending \n\nNone \n\nNone \n\nto him the \n\namalgamation of the Anglo Chinese College and Morrison Education Socrily. \n\nStating \n\nreasons for granting \n\nlave 3 \n\nof absence to Surveyor General W Gordon, and enclosing Certificates from his Medical attendants. Stating appointinent of his Coppistant to Cleverly to act during \n\nhis absence. \n\nNecessity for Church to contain None \n\n300 to 1000 persons. W Stantons opinion \n\nthat one third of \n\nexpense. \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219182, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "that with thoseeption opwork, immediatel affecting the public health \n\nenience, which \n\nor come de \n\nmas \n\nwere specially authorized бути \n\nun letter of the 27 thay, rove of the works included) in the Extinate, pent \n\n$ \n\nI home (It Attinger have \n\nbeen con that \n\nmoned, and \n\nfor buildings \n\nthe ous expenditure actically incurred would appeal Whave been \n\n$10670 for residences for the public Officers and $17.532 for Police Stations & a Magislatio Stoure and Prisonat Checkchu. There \n\nExpenditure, appears 15how Stanley to be \n\nnot unreasonable in \n\n肇 \n\n\" \n\nincount, and lobe of \n\nMicient mysneg \n\nMr Davis in to justify authorizing them without a previous referenc this Country; Lordship is therefo \n\nbir \n\nof opinion that they \n\nshould weave the \n\nRencation of the Lords of the Kearny. \n\nMrespect to the \n\nContribution towards \n\nthe Church LordStanky. Received some time ago separate Report from M. Davis - but as it appeared to his daditi that are penditure of £ 9000 for thea \n\n· modation of the small \n\naccom \n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221179, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 774, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "uncemented stones should be built with two gateways (if considered requisite) at the points where the line cuts the roads.\n\nof course\n\nShould there be any Chinese Houses within the limit thus demarcated, they must of course be removed and Government will - as formerly intimated to Lord Saltoun - have them appraised and pay for them, for which purpose the Assistant Land Officer and Assistant Chief Magistrate will be ready to go to Chukchoo on any day that may suit all parties.\n\nIn conclusion I am desired to request the favor of the sketch, and tracing herewith forwarded, being returned to this Office as the Despatch to which they relate has been already transmitted to Her Majesty's Government, and the alteration which is now sanctioned must also be submitted and explained.\n\nI have to (Signed) Richard Horname\n\nNo:174\n\nThomas Scales Type\n\nSir,\n\nDeputy Post Master Hong Kong\n\nVictoria,\n\n763\n\nHongkong, April 29th 1846.\n\nI am directed by His Excellency the Governor to intimate to you, having had under consideration the question of Colonial Postage being charged on Newspapers, he has been pleased to take on himself the responsibility of directing that, pending a reference to Her Majesty's Government, no charge on that account shall be made at the Post Office on Newspapers coming into or going out of the Colony.\n\nA notification to this effect will be issued for general information, in the Government Gazette.\n\nNo:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221270, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "content_text": "The Colony was at that time, in respect to its Chinese population, in a state of disorder which has happily been ameliorated, and partly, in consequence, of this Ordinance: Robberies were of constant occurrence, about a week before my arrival 12,000 rupees belonging to the Commissariat store were carried off, near Chekohoo, and the soldiers by which it was guarded were murdered, as then reported to Your Lordship.\n\nA more vigilant and active Police has since corrected the above evil, and many robbers were either shot or captured. Still something was required, besides an European or Hindoostanee police, for the native population, something akin to the unpaid constables of the parishes in England, and this was found already existing among the Chinese institutions.\n\nThe Ordinance in question adheres to these as nearly as possible, and the Enactment is of course much more congenial to the 20,000 Chinese, who inhabit this island, than the unnecessary importation into their villages of foreign regulations. The appointment of these tithingmen and hundreders, for such in fact they are, gives to the individuals so appointed a degree of weight and authority among their Countrymen, and, on my personal explorations of the island, I have met with great respect and attention from them, returning the same with presents to themselves and their children.\n\nAnother advantage attending this Enactment under notice, is its Economy, as like the old parish Constables.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221368, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "content_text": "Office of Police Magistrate at Chekchoo.\n\nthe\n\ngood\n\nroads which\n\nare now\n\ncompleting\n\nto both Chekchoo and Shehpaewan will\n\nenable Mr. Hillier to\n\nsupervise\n\nthose\n\nstations, with the allowance of 50 Dollars a month\n\nfor\n\nhorses and extra expenses.\n\nan\n\nBesides suppressing the Office of an additional Magistrate at Chekchoo, a reduction has been made in the police establishment there of 1,500 dollars per Annum. This considerable\n\nsaving in the whole must be attributed to the\n\nfacilities afforded by the new Roads,\n\nwhich in this\n\naffording\n\nmanner, as well as in giving a new value to\n\nbuilding sites,\n\nwill amply repay the first expense of\n\ntheir construction.\n\nThe good and easy road to\n\nShehpaewan\n\nnow contributes to render\n\nthat spot\n\nan excellent position.\n\nF\n\n139\n\nNaval Station. I proceeded thither by\n\nwater with the Rear Admiral in the\n\nFlag Ship \"Agincourt\", which was anchored in the interior of the harbour, where with moorings\n\nthere is abundant\n\nspace for three line of battle ships and several frigates. Under these\n\ncircumstances, with a\n\n5\n\nMiles\n\ngood road from\n\nVictoria, the Admiralty\n\non\n\nwill, I trust, not hesitate to fix Shehpaewan\n\nas a Naval Station, since, in addition to its other advantages, it\n\nto the south\n\nwill give great security side of the island.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nYour Lordship's\n\nMost Obedient\n\nHumble Servant", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221427, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "page_number": 230, "title": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "content_text": "3rd April, 1845.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong\n\nGovernor\n\nLord Stanley.\n\nReceived.\n\nNo 39.\n\nof Superintendent of Police\n\nReporting arrival in Colony\n\nSmitters & Mefregon, &c.\n\nMr May, and Inspectors\n\n1\n\n226\n\nFinancial.\n\n14 August 2\n\nNI\n\n134\n\nAUC 2\n\n1846\n\nMy Lord,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n9th April, 1845.\n\nI have the honor to enclose to Your Lordship a supplementary Report and Estimate for the completion of the road from Victoria to Saiwan, authorized by the Lieutenant Governor, in absence, amounting in the whole to $6431.61, and a Report and Estimate amounting to $46,746.50 for its continuation to Sylane, where it will join the present horse-path leading from Victoria to Checkchu, which latter place I have taken the liberty to name \"Stanley\" after Your Lordship.\n\nI have already reported in my despatch\n\nThe Right Honorable,\n\nThe Lord Stanley,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276767, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "65\n\n1\n\nIV.\n\n14\n\nCORRESPONDENCE WITH THE COLONIAL DEPARTMENT\n\nHONG KONG. lain are an inadequate provision for the spiritual instruction of the British population.\n\nThe military station of Checkchoo, on the opposite side of the island, with some hundreds of British soldiers, is entirely destitute of the services of a chaplain resident among them.\n\nOn my arrival at Chusan, also, it was no common trial to find that during a period of five years, since its first occupation by the British, a body of 600 European soldiers and their families had been without the advantage of a resident Chaplain, and that it was reserved for myself, as the first clergyman of the Church of England, to hold a regular service on Sundays among the military. These 600 men, the sad relics of war, disease and climate, were assembled in the Buddhist temple, converted for a season to the purposes of Christian worship. Numbers had sunk into a premature grave, without the solaces of religion in their dying hour. The French ambassador, during his visit to that island, drew an invidious contrast in my hearing between the total absence for five years of the means of regular religious instruction for the British in Chusan, and the conduct of his own Government, who, in addition to other priests on board the frigate, allowed a private Chaplain for himself among his own suite.\n\nThe specific measure which I beg to recommend to your Lordship is the appointment of at least three additional Chaplains. One is required at the military post of Checkchoo, in the island of Hong Kong, at present without any religious instruction, except the occasional visit of the Military Chaplain from Victoria, at a distance of eight miles, with bad roads, over a mountainous line of country, which in that climate separates the two localities at the ordinary distance of 20 miles in England. Two Consulate Chaplains might be stationed with advantage at the two free ports of Canton and Shanghai, at each of which cities the British community is considerable, and where there are many sailors of the small sloops of war, and the numerous merchant vessels which frequent these ports.\n\n4. The last topic to which I beg your Lordship's permission to advert partakes of a more general character, but is in a no less degree identified with the duties and the interest of the British Government. I allude to the affording of reasonable facilities, by the Consular authorities in the five free ports, to British missionaries in the prosecution of their work.\n\nDuring my exploratory visit and residence at each of the five ports of China, I have enjoyed ample opportunities of intercourse with the natives, and of fully testing the groundlessness of any fears as to the Chinese viewing with alarm or jealousy the efforts of missionaries.\n\nAs a proof of the growing liberality of the Chinese Government, I may recall your Lordship's recollection to the Imperial Edict of universal religious toleration propounded two years ago by Ke-Ying, the Imperial Commissioner, and confirmed by successive supplementary edicts.\n\nBut I can adduce more positive proofs of the more tolerant spirit of the Chinese Government, as seen in the liberal disposition of the local mandarins. In the city of Amoy, I had constant access, with the other Protestant missionaries, to the highest local authorities, without any other official introduction than that of belonging to the missionary body. The five high mandarins of the city and district (two of whom belonged to the dominant race of Manchoo Tartars) gave jointly an invitation to a special entertainment to the missionary body, seven in number, including myself. The highest seats of honour were assigned to us; and on that and various other occasions a full acquiescence was expressed in the benevolence of the missionary work.\n\nI venture to submit this topic to your Lordship's consideration, from the knowledge that in some of the cities in China missionaries have gained a considerable and a rapidly increasing moral influence. I need not point out to your Lordship how important this influence with the intelligent portion of the Chinese may prove to British interests at this important crisis of national intercourse, and therefore how expedient it is that the most cordial relation should exist between the Consular authorities and the missionaries.\n\nThe Right Hon. the Earl Grey,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(signed) George Smith.\n\nF\n\nON COLONIAL CHURCH LEGISLATION, &c.\n\n15\n\nEnclosure 2, in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nDowning-street, 19 March 1847. I AM directed by Earl Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th January,* in which you bring under his Lordship's notice certain statements and suggestions on the subject of the religious and social affairs of the British settlement at Hong Kong,\n\nLord Grey directs me to express to you his regret that so much delay should have occurred in answering your letter. It has been occasioned by the necessity under which his Lordship has been placed, of collecting some further information explanatory of the real state of the case to which you refer.\n\nI am now to state, that until the receipt of your letter, Lord Grey had not been aware of the existence at Hong Kong, of the regulation that any Chinese is liable to be detained in custody for moving abroad in the streets or public roads after a certain hour in the evening without bearing a lantern, and a written note from his European employer. His Lordship, however, finds that your statement is confirmed by others possessing great means of information on the subject, and he therefore proposes immediately to call on the Governor for an explanation.\n\nLord Grey has attentively considered your suggestions for the establishment of an institution for the education of Chinese, and for making \"adequate provision for the spiritual wants of British subjects in China, military, civil, and mercantile.\" His Lordship directs me to inform you, that looking to the already heavy expense of the public establishments at Hong Kong, he is not prepared to consent to any increase of that expense for those objects, howsoever desirable they may be.\n\nRespecting the condition of the Church of England at Hong Kong, you state that while places of worship raised by the Roman-catholic, and by different Christian sects from Europe and America, and even a Mahomedan Mosque, built by the contributions of the poor Indian Sepoys and camp followers, have risen up with wonderful rapidity; at the period of your leaving China in May last, only a temporary building, almost the meanest edifice in the town, existed as a place for Divine worship, according to the ritual of the Church of England.\" From this statement, Lord Grey cannot but draw the conclusion, that the members of the Established Church have already been taught to depend too much upon assistance from the public, and too little on their own spontaneous exertions, and that to this cause must be ascribed the mortifying contrast which you describe between the efforts which they have made for the advancement of religious worship and instruction, and those of the members of other religious bodies.\n\nI have, &c. The Rev. G. Smith.\n\n(signed) B. Hawes.\n\nNo. 2.\n\nCopy of a LETTER from his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury to Earl Grey.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nAddington, Croydon, 14 December 1848.\n\nI TAKE the liberty of addressing your Lordship, at the instance of the Society for Propagating the Gospel, on the subject of a Bishop for China.\n\nI understand that Her Majesty has been pleased to grant her consent to the establishment of a Bishop for the China Seas, to be styled, probably, Bishop of Victoria, as the capital of Hong Kong.\n\nI am now desired to state, that an adequate fund for the endowment of this bishopric, is in the hands of the Society, and to petition your Lordship, that the necessary steps be taken with the view to the early accomplishment of this object, by the creation of the intended see.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(signed)\n\nJ. B. Cantuar.\n\nIV. HONG KONG. Encl. 2, in No. 1.\n\n* Page 1\n\nNo. 2. Archbishop of Canterbury to\n\nEarl Grey\n\n14 Dec. 1848.\n\n355---4-\n\nB 4\n\nNo. 3.\n\nF\n\nG\n\nR", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]