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        "document_key": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843",
        "page_number": 117,
        "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843",
        "content_text": "Grundace in \n\nt Pict \n\nFrard this without fuck, buvisions \n\nbast Creparation for active serie in a Lot Climate that the havel allevaren \n\nsufficientes corni is d \n\ndress & dere deifer is insufficien to for the main- \n\nCommence of the Colder's heath and hats or top desk \n\nAllowm \n\nSira co decide de \n\nltitudes. Fr \n\nObjectionable in tropical \n\ndecidedly objectionable \n\nނ \n\nThe Court could urt Main \n\nthe destable spinces of dr Milion die veral das Bester, Sector, \n\nbut hat officer thated \n\nat Chuson that he attributes the sicknes \n\nattributeds the brother's in the aft Regiment, to the crowded state of the Belteile, parti \n\nan die Orlof Reath during a voyag \n\nthe Polop Check \n\nand \n\nlenotte in it as a considerable portier to be sick d \n\nthat wofer were hamshiffèd to the Minden, where cuany \n\nof them dres \n\nie Kat Dr Wilson had \n\nb'the \n\nground of Judging. \n\nwant of Stamina is the Men was on their anival as apparenting in erkennen d \n\nFor Kinary \n\nleaver \n\nthe walt has wahaffily shown text it \n\nwas cext. and the opinions \n\nSpinions gener \n\nlientom kompbell and J. Fardin that the \n\nration, previous to the Regiments \n\ncoming whom \n\npon the authen \n\n> \n\nmenfinment, may \n\nallowance, was : Xeration. \n\nbe working of concr \n\nto the other subject of Engeniach. \n\nit \n\nis most painful to me that the diseases \n\nme that the diseases of the christe \n\nAmix the hoops at konglong, the dropean portion of \n\nShor \n\nShuple very \n\na long soyage were \n\nVardation and areaugen \n\nJonny \n\nmen just arrived from- \n\nbetter \n\nfor the North the \"breacting Gear Snad cestralys ho reason to anticipate suot a resalt. Décline hat \n\nin command repon the Spot died that t115 considered beat for the pattie Service, and feeling kon much easier it is to say afsterwe is that might have been \n\nmust many difficulties \n\nKone better the s \n\nBe stutst \n\nWhave noted \n\nI to not wish to impote Hame. clccstore the comfortmate non falfilment of any \n\nsuggetion and orders in card to Camniks and Rochital, and I think it sight to. We thor further \n\nme \n\nanxiety of the havel, Anthonte do ching the Government from the carreuses expense I hansfert is most lansiable, but, concurring, in the same Revere, I have always intimed it there I saw a nit, that key thit not borecive, to te Leaths of the hoops. It is texas \n\nmoney \n\nWhere the saving may lead \n\nWhold it to be \n\nAuster \n\nس لیے مجھے \n\nfland \n\noss of life enst \n\nundeniable that alter the colored \n\nexpretements of active resocie wit seas much \n\nin hotocal \n\nbril live in vac \n\nchinates under ordinary circumstances, valets be is in subsiantis & tenecks with instient three and fisher ventilation, or on word \n\nbouding. \n\nin den berger General Resort in die \n\nen despotoned in conférenc \n\n我 \n\nend of last \n\nmy other h \n\nor medical clatterhout, he last not \n\n· Greenme received such intimation \n\nکہتے \n\nLarge",
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        "document_key": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844",
        "page_number": 117,
        "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844",
        "content_text": "篑 \n\nthen prevalent in this place, and that he has had lately another attack of the same mature, owing to which, he is now seriously indisposed. They both concur in representing that his stay here during the \n\napproaching hot season, wout be attended with great risk, and that change to a colder climate is essential to the restoration of his health.. \n\na \n\nThe Salary attached to the Office of \n\nLurveyor General is $1000 a year, which \n\nhe has received up to the 31. March, \n\naccording to the Certificate of the Colonial \n\nKeasurer, of which Therewith inclose... \n\na \n\nCopy. \n\nDuring his absence I have appointed \n\nMr Cleverly, his Assistant to act for him, \n\nreceiving half of her lordon's Salary. I have the honor to be, \n\nMy Lord, \n\nYour Post Obedient, Humble Servant, \n\ndens \n\n",
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        "document_key": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844",
        "page_number": 120,
        "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844",
        "content_text": "\"his health, and but for the cool tainter mouths which supervened, such a course would at that time have been \n\nimperatively arecessary. \n\nfor any \n\nt,༥, \n\nThe numerous cases of relapse which have come under any notice, bear me out in stating with decision, any opinion, that, it is barely possible \n\none, who has suffered from this 'disease to regain \n\nhis health without change to a cold climate and had this \n\nbeen adopted in several instances, which I could enumerate, Ifeel satisfied valuable lives would have been spared.- remaining in hot climate where malaria prevails, with the constitution thus weakened \n\ncourse \n\nand impaired, on the slightest - exposure, fever or disentery \n\nare \n\nthe \n\na \n\n: inevitable results; attack succeeds attack, \n\nuntil \n\nuntil the energies of both mind and \n\nbody \n\narc \n\nexhausted, and death to \n\nfrequently terminates this miserable state of Existence \n\nhas \n\nคา \n\nSregret to learn, that her Gordon, again suffered from a severe attack of fever, and entertaining as I do, the drews above stated, if leave of absence be consistent with his official duties and can be obtained, I should strongly unge him to apply for it, without Lelay, and remove to a colder climate, until his health is completely restored. These statements Janake and on soul and Conscience \n\ncertify \n\n(Signed) Peter Young \n\nSurgeon to \n\nMacao. 2. 2. June, 1864. \n\nA true Copy \n\nFrederick W. A. Poruca Colonial decretary. \n\nPage 120Page 121",
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        "document_key": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844",
        "page_number": 378,
        "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844",
        "content_text": "\nNa \n\nN; \n\nDesp \n\nDale \n\nDest \n\nSubject of Despatch \n\n17. Janmary, 1844, and Report of Commette apponited by him, recommending purchase in perpotenty of 329 to mowy for $7.888 being at the rate of \n\nIS \n\nWcw cière. \n\n25 June 21. Stating that there had beon Nove \n\n*, \n\nopportunity of locueting the num \n\nsum of £1.5.6 Aue from the churveyor Geunal for (fect \n\nME \n\nlus warrant. \n\nand \n\nOF \n\n22. Inclosing report of attack Mr Colger's house auct communication on the subject to this Excellency Heying recorumending that Iplovid of Chungehow be searchert aus offering to cooperate: Remnants on insufficiency of Chinese Police. Suggestion that Europeus Jepoys should be employed. 22 Forwarding sis printed coppies (me of ordinance Nth, for Hongkong. 29. Frauen thing applicit was from 2 \n\nMr Gordon and Mr Cleverly, for encreuse of salary - Mr Cleverl allowed pruding instructions from Her Majesty Government \n\nto \n\nمحمد \n\nn \n\nDate DespKeep \n\nSubject of Despatch Ente \n\nto receive half the Salary of the Surveyor Generals office. Together with his own salary during Mr Gordon's absence \n\nou \n\nJune 29 Enclosing report from. W Waste of \n\nne prospects of reverse. Difficulty of providing income : miggesting Tonnage duty of six pruce estimated proclive £5,000, a year hade in opium commised at by Chinese Government, shown by enclosed extract from Report of Mr Lay at Canton = Proposal farm license to sell opium, and salt, as at chingapore za lis tobacco and spirits. state income from \n\nto \n\nto \n\nfrom Land, cannot be calculated at more than \n\n$7.230. Clause requiring depon't \n\n- purchase to be inserted as a quard against purchases speculation. \n\non \n\n30 July 2 Requesting instructions with None \n\nreference to Government servanto communicating or corresponding with Newspapers and Publié prints. \n\nth One \n\n5 Forwarding letter N. 42 of 15 \n\nJanuary, 1844, to the actctress of 1a Stanton Reporting conditions",
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        "document_key": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]",
        "page_number": 431,
        "title": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]",
        "content_text": "425\n\n(8)\n\ncunstancias do crime, carece de todas as formas e requisitos necessarios para poder ser acceita como prova bastante da criminalidade do réo. Foi com tudo nesta mesma confissão informe, que o Sunto Siu firmou a sua sentença, em virtude da qual foi executado Sen-Chi-Leong, desacatando-se assim toda a Justiça, e atropellando-se todas as Leis, sem exceptuar mesmo as chinezas. A illegalidade deste procedimento fica assaz demonstrada no Officio deste Conselho de 25 de Septembro (doc. F); e posto que o Sunto na sua chapa de 28 do mesmo mez (doc. Q) se esforce inefficazmente por sustentar, que foram guardadas todas as formalidades legaes em tal caso exigidas, comtudo as suas rasões não tem melhor cunho que o de meras asserções, desmentidas pelos factos por elle mesmo estabelecidos.\n\nDiz o Suntó que o réo Sen-Chi-Leong, preso no dia 12 de Septembro foi primeiro interrogado pelo Mandarim de Shon-Tac, quem lhe tomou declarações que d'ali foi elle condusido ao Tribunal da Villa, e d'esta ao da Cidade; depois passou ao do Regedor do crime, e d'ali ao do Soto Vice-Rei; e a final, depois de ser julgado elle mesmo Sunto conjunctamente com este ultimo funccionario, foi por S Exa. sentenciado á pena ultima, que soffreo na manhã do dia 15, sendo condusido amarrado ao patibulo. Ora, ainda mesmo dado que todo este procedimento é conforme com as leis do Imperio, para as quaes S.Exa. appela, como se com ellas se tivesse conformado, como é possivel accreditar-se, que no curto espaço de tres dias mal completos se prebenchessem, não todas as formalidades de um processo crime de tanta importancia, mas ainda mesmo as que vão acima enumeradas? O que se vê é que de tantos interrogatorios, exames, declarações ect.: apenas a propria confissão do réo, sobre que se firmou a sua sentença, constitue a unica prova da sua criminalidade. Sen-Chi-Leong, por tanto não era um réo convicto; e, embora fosse elle o verdadeiro assassino, não pode legalmente ser reputado como tal. A confissão propria do réo não pode ser prova\n\n(9)\n\nbastante para o condemnar, pois a Justiça exige que a evidencia do crime dimane somente de factos e depoimentos de testemunhas, e não de uma confissão com todos os visos de apocrypha, a qual, se alguma cousa prova no presente caso, é seguramente, que o fim de todo aquelle figurado processo foi antes o formular um longo capitulo de accusações contra o finado Governador, do que conhecer do crime abominavel e atroz, de que elle foi victima; sendo muito de notar que, por uma singular coincidencia, são estas as mesmas accusações, que, tendo apparecido a primeira vez nos pasquins afixados em Cantão, foram repetidas na primeira chapa do Sunto - a de 27 de Agosto - e depois accomodadas á confissão de Sen-Chi-Leong, da qual ainda foram aproveitadas para figurarem ultimamente na de Ko-Ahong (doc. V). A precipitada execução de Sen-Chi-Leong só aos verdadeiros criminosos podia convir, e as authoridades que o sentenciaram tão summariamente, e o mandaram justiçar de um modo tão informe, promoveram e serviram evidentemente os interesses dos verdadeiros authores do crime, tolhendo os meios de poderem ser estes conhecidos, e de descobrir-se toda a verdade do caso; como depois melhor se manifestou com a prisão de Ko-Ahong. Entre a confissão deste, que é outro tecido de falsidades nuas e crassas, como fica demonstrado no Officio deste Conselho de 7 do corrente (doc. Z) e a de Sen-Chi-Leong, se encontram notaveis contradicções em varios pontos essenciaes, e sendo a confrontação dos reos o meio indicado de em taes casos se colher a verdade dos factos, foi elle completamente innutilisado d'ante mão com a morte de Sen-Chi-Leong em grave prejuiso da Justiça e Leis offendidas.\n\nProseguindo na ordem chronologica dos factos, recaihe agora a analyse sobre a injusta retenção dos membros mutilados do finado Governador; e na verdade de todos os actos das Authoridades Chinezas, por occasião deste deploravel acontecimento, é este o em que ressumbra todo o requinte da sua má fé, e o que ministra á ina-",
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        "content_text": "252\n\n3\n\n(Copied)\n\nC. G. Holdforth, Esquire, Sheriff, Assistant Magistrate, &c., having made application to me on account of his health, I have carefully examined his case and I find he is suffering from chronic disease and enlargement of the liver, for which I have prescribed the necessary remedies; and I deem it expedient that he should relinquish his duties for three months, and proceed to the North part of China, where the colder climate will tend to restore",
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        "document_key": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]",
        "content_text": "I beg leave to bring under your favourable notice the state of my health, and the medical opinion on the necessity of my proceeding to a colder climate for the recovery of that organ, as attested by the enclosed certificate, are considerations which have induced me to submit this application.\n\nI, therefore, most respectfully request that you will have the kindness to lay my case before His Excellency The Acting Governor, and intercede with him on my behalf, to grant me an extension of two months' leave of absence, commencing from the expiration of my present leave on the 15th Instant.\n\nI have also earnestly to beg, at the hands of His Excellency and yourself, the additional boon of allowing the existing arrangements for the performance of my duties to remain unaltered until my return to the Colony.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) L. d'Almada e Castro,\n\nClerk of Councils, and Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary's Office.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]",
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        "content_text": "the Peninsular and Oriental Company at this place will show that this was the scale.\n\n(Coffey).\n\nDuring the colder months the charge for a passage is considerably greater: I conclude therefore that it was upon this higher fare instead of upon the lower, and that the calculation was made.\n\nI trust that you will be kind enough to represent this seeming oversight in the proper quarter: - meanwhile, Mr. Rienaecker of the Colonial Treasury (who has been supplied with funds for the purpose) will pay to your order whichever sum may appear to you necessary to be paid.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) C. B. Hillier, Chief Magistrate.\n\nTrue Copy\n\nPeninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Hongkong\n\n24th March, 1853.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your note of this day's date I beg to inform you that the Rate for a first class passage from Hongkong to Southampton in the month of July last was Sp: $624 (Six hundred and twenty-four Spanish dollars) by this Company's Steamers.\n\nI am, &c.,\n\n(Signed) Rob. S. Walker, Supt.\n\nTrue Copy,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office",
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        "document_key": "CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2]",
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        "title": "CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2]",
        "content_text": "AVISOS.\n\nESCUELA PÚBLICA ESPAÑOLA,\n\nD. Tomás Fernandez, profesor de Enseñanza Primaria, ha trasladado\n\nVILLA DE PARIS.\n\nMANILA.\n\nEn la calle de Anda núm. 8, se venden los libros siguientes:\n\nDien, de Boring. t. 15 p.; Brev. de 6 t. 19 p. id de 9. 15 p. id. de 8 p.; Surland, sero. 81. 8 p., Sea, de Motor; Hamb Piera, chiq instit, de Justinian, Filosop, de Goudin, vice da a Acad. 413; Taiso ; Dusid. Mec. 3 p. 4 r. Año virgh. 12. en vol. 7. p. p. edic sit excel a poeto de Rice, ils and Roserie, ditton cusa & la Libros de devocion ó sean Furmanus Santas, Diamantes del cristiano, 31. 3 p., Manual de conf 2 t. 2 p. & ra; Pony, de las cere, 3 p. altracha, bacte la iglesia, en donde tiene el honor de ofrecer su sorre, Toro divious, Novisiiras Pasionarias, y de otros diferentes títulos cios & in padde de fominio que gusen kuurorte contitudo la enseñanza muy adenos, en nadernad con todo too, tapas de márül, út, terciopelo de todos colores miniaturas ay tuas, Crucijos y otros agri Les tas de enseñanza son. Lectura, Dacama cristiana, Escritora, butos religiosos, dobles cantoneras y roches de todo guato y espricio, Gromatica Casteliaan, Arianėles, Granation franqust y latin\n\ntambien los hoy en totale y chagrin desde 4 5 5 reales djamples, y los PRECIOS DE LAS CLAPES.\n\ndome se darán à preces mas arreglados que se vonden un barcelona, Decionario de is lengua castellana y do Dominguez.\n\nPor solo tocina.\n\nPer lectura y doctrina,.\n\nPor lo diche y la veritura.\n\nPeses.\n\nPor lo dicke. in grumation y la urinetica. - Par el frases, al bin, & algus mo de mayor eceranta, será con- venio apart.\n\nAlors de ina niños que entran & adiar conis exiernos, tambien edoute pupios eaters y medica purile. Is pupos enteros paga- 4 16 s. al mes y los thedis & iad los pagos.\n\nanticipados. Los padres de tunitie a augue accueilacos, es presione di graves e page des mes por et crecido número de ellos, pueden entrar en\n\ncouvanto con el profesor que suscriba\n\nT. Furuandez 1\n\nEn la calle Real con direccion de la iglesia de Quiapo, ta bajada del puerta men derer ba, lay dos carruagos de venta clo-\n\n& a moru y a precio cúde.\n\n3\n\nSe vende a un precio mód co, va buca corruage men- tale en muralles, recien caremade, y una calasa unosa de tolda de cam-\n\n7\n\nPaña calle de Begantanoa casa mum, 3 darán razn\n\nEn la isla del Romero núm. 17. se rende un magni-\n\nPapel de seda besuca y paul para la correspondencia do Barego por el suno, id. Eanco sito à la holatuma, en conto y eclaire, il yaitu par cuentas do vonte y factures, plunias de uro con punta de di\n\njas suvialas Bae y entreditas para señoras, nes y aballeros, pus- ante. Dagantes corbatas de seda de todos colores, id, do clar butiin, fumuria suitida y note alla se hallan los cu speciales, polvos para Ren caballo oro de mentor, el que quiera tratar de su ajusto puede conserver la dentadura, empatos esclusivadente para os geses cà- fides, por los primeros fabricantes copantas en laglaterra, cepillos para cabeza pata hombres y willos, verdadero acuite magazer, Latidor, po\n\nand der en festes de cristal cortado con tapa de lo mismo, in the luza, espejos grandes con marcos doratos para salas y suuristias, aba nico do zo blanco my elegante y otra intuidad do articulos dificiles\n\nde numerai.\n\naviciarse out su dueño que vive en la misca cosa.\n\nEn la calle de la Solana now. 4, se halla de venta\n\na catrevela cati pareja y gemicioass, tode en muy buen estado y an e: marco precio de 123 pesos.\n\nSe vende un bonito carruage de moda muy ligero y enu solo unos pocos meses de uso, calle Real que dirige para Quiapo, casa de das pisos sum. .\n\nLibros en pasta, de veuta en la calle de la Audiencia\n\ncasa núm. 4,\n\nvol. 28 .-A cristiano, con lamiass, 13 tunes 22 ps.-Calepino de Eaprielie, die mario de legislacion, tomos 13 pesos. Farraria, 5 Salus. p. Arts esplicgpin, 2 ps-Tessaro de Baquejo. 48 reales.- meva edicion cu 1865, en pas, 1 into grueso ps. Bilfioteca | Centcitas 5 rs-Caturistaro de Madu 7 re.--Letroane, geografia noiverval,\n\nSe necesita en la Maestranza de Artillería para ser vicio de las herreras 100 yueladas de carbon do piedra presto en el\n\nBOTICA DE D. JACOBO ZOBEL, MANILA.\n\nembarcadero de Paorta aleagames, & cayo li se inta\n\nlas personus Aprurion especial de la endemin de mediens de Francia, y de la que guster, proposionarlo, not mustras con sus precios; en el con- i Escuela da Farincia de Paris, sobre una refpcion de los MM. Chevs- cept de el dia 15 del actual & las 1 is mañana se adjudicará tice Ossian-Henry, ambos miembros de la Facultad de medicina, y de la contrata puta la Junta principal Economies de este departamento ap\n\nLassain profesor us Quimica de la Escuala imperial de Alfort.\n\nle vor de lo pesona que mus ventajos promete la Real Hacienda,\n\nELIXI de Dr. Still nice Letnies preparado por AB secrature do la Junta, Francisca Solelo.\n\nGAGE in Paris, calle do Grenelle-Saint-Carmasin, am 13.\n\nEstrago del turó tiki ado: TevTA DOSICES OR LAS FISMAS. de las en- fermedades que ugasionao, y ún los medios de combatirlas eficazmenta por si mo con et Clixir Tópico anti-fuese del doctor Gaillie, etc. predicate por D. Felix Uzaro Barcia, 25 tomes $3 pa-Visitas i Sme, Los utiguos, que labisa dade à las Fumor al nombre de pitvilu, aya is virgen, our S Ligorio, a reales 13 otos.--Kompis nueva traduccion, louis, un humor viscoso y pegajosa que se encuentra en la superticis aprobada en 1884, contaminas tas y equicicio sutidiana $ 15.-Pecito, de lus Gembros mocosas, para alimentarlas y facilitar sus funciones.\n\nsantas evangelus, udicion de 1854, -Clures, opúsestos, 4 tomos 12 Machas causas contingen 5 aumentar la secrecion de este humor rs-Capus Juris condnici, & voi. 6 pasmail, mannat de la said, edi alterar su haturaleza prinsition; por consiguiente es Freil concubir le macion de 1955 6 r.-S. Ligvis. selva de noterias predicable 6 --Ei cho que debe indit produccius inaderada sobre munstros órganos fulcrior de Jesus y Maria, 3 tones 6 rs--Espirito da S. Francisco de Sa allorando las fingones apostantes de la vida, tales con la digestion tes, tous 18 rs.\n\nBila\n\nDIENTES\n\nPOSTIZUS.\n\nD. Esteban Fertre cirujano delata do\n\nJo facultat de Paris, ofrere ens servicios ei públic en todo le perteneciente a su profesion.\n\nExtir los calios sin dolos inguno y com la seguridad de que no vuelvan nuara. Quiapo culle Real disa nueva de dos pisos\n\nnum. 6.\n\nla\n\nrelacion de la sangre; las fur.ciones del corazon y de los pulmones;\n\nde estúnogo, de les incostis y de la vejiga; del bigáda y del baro, cần\n\nlos aparalod glandulovos y tinta.icos, ete Citanda algunas de estas afa\n\nde Gulie en tus enfermeriados nasionadas por las flotas,\n\nManuel Rodriguez. maestro sastre, cafle Real de Mar fact Races runder f servicios son grandes debe\n\nbr. 13, fruen al público sus servicios, euconarbuose en su obra-\n\ndor tarla res de efectos mertoneclames à su facultad.\n\n*AMPALACHES.\n\n3\n\nAlmacen y fonda de la Marina del puerto de Cavite.\n\ny hasta in casa desesperados.\n\nArias, caterros, coquctuaties, resfriados, tant emorlaixas, inflamaciones de ch, een general estas feccions son el resultado de una acum lacion a materia dessa an el tejido mismo del palmo y sebro la superfics de los bronquius, acre, viscuss, esposo, gue se ha desarrollado et puimon de resulas de una inflamacion producida por un resfria-\n\n1\n\nRecibido por la fragata CORNELIA, y se vende en la\n\ncalle de Autoague rúm 47.\n\n100 caienes verdadero codec. marca Dulers y Bellamy G., 3 años\n\net cajou,\n\n12 ki,\n\nchampagne cañac, 30 us.\n\n6 barries collac Cole ordinario\n\nId\n\nid.\n\nel gator..\n\n610\n\nVino de Raritens, Medoc, en barrica do 144 busolas 10 harcica.\n\nS. Juliant, id.\n\nid.\n\nChampaña, 1 calidad, sillery musseux, marca 1am-\n\nil, viejo, en rajones.\n\nÅ 7 Jocena.\n\n5. 12 id, Lo. id. id. on hojones de 2 medias batellas.\n\n14 id. Edmont Planebut,\n\nEn esto sewaplocimiento se encuentran carruage dut pais y de muelle dopiracion so buca imposible. La naturaleza trete de pulsa es mor bart y Brum,\n\ndo. E traquiarteria se halla obstrules, a. pulmon no te dilats, la res-\n\nalquiler que es útil para los que quieran pusse por una urgencia de ir flexion sceres de tes convulsiva, y el auferme marzo axiade y valvar de la capital es el misman din pasando con el vapor que haco si\n\ndes vieges, en los pueblo del Rosario fa Salinas, ela. Cruz de Malabontos estuntzos impotentes do la naturaleza.\n\nTo se le admistra prontamente el Dixir de Grillé, pra supli: à; (a; Tanza, S. Francises de Malaton, Tierralla (Cavite vij facoor y Imus, y si es para Silang, nonsita ceupor los dos dias, i precios ecmodos.\n\n५\n\nLA REINA DE LOS ANGELES, FONDA Y REPOSTERÍA.\n\nEn esta fonda acallan vacantes dos habileciones para huéspedes, un espacioso ragan y patio, con una bodega bastante cómoda para cerruan goa de alquiler y sus cadres correspondientes.\n\nEn la Escolto, CASA GUICHARD, se hallan actualmente dea cupaites dos buenas balayaz por la parte do! rio grande, wezar, da mas de des mal evanes de captordd y en hienas circunstancias para anucco- war prochastes del pois 4 efectos de Europe,\n\nAsi mas en las hautaciones altas hey disponibles, con las mejores mislu sobre el vi grande, Sabaciones y depeulencias necesarias per una fermilia de a persona coa ademés una nice tamiine de bura topad muy clara y ventilada para vācing, so zndependiente del resto da iz 463-\n\nCOMPRAS Y VENTAS. Letras sobre Londres à 30 días y 6 meses Letras de banco sobre Londres.\n\nLetras sobre Madrid y Cádiz.\n\nSe vende una berlina tres por ciento hecha à teda\n\nlibros siguientes:\n\nEn la imprenta de los Amigos del Pais, se venden los codo, en su pareja de caballos de las mejores condiciones y con los acraus de nelos correspondientes: vodo en la castidad de 510 pesos.\n\nVida aveclarae dal pícaro Guzman de Alfstache, dos tomes elegan- terdunto enciklernados, 10 s; Colteca española, unmoo 3 15.; 00- Calle de Palacio adiu, 17, frente al martel do tegimionto . 9. ervaciones criticas sobre ol romance de Gil Mas de santillane. an tomo\n\nEn la calle Real de Manila núm. 10 se vende un Vallejo, compendio da mal-máticas, dos anos r.: Die:sionario baca cerarge cat su magnifica pareja.\n\nda terminos comunes lagalo y castellet, a tomo 6 rs: Diccionario mi- liar español y francés, un torna pasto 19'rs; Memoria histórica de Arti- apañola, un lomo pasia & Instruccion de intería y de la\n\n3\n\nGinebra superior como pocas vecais tira, au spao 3 ra: Bibliosice esfriar, 134, y veho once\n\nvero aliaec del Sol al på del puente de Brondo y en el aterio cos viene à Manda, recibida por la fregato americana ANNA KIMBALI. procedente de Batavia, en cajas de 15 frascos grandes, on Veticis en calle de bike udin, 8,\n\nTarbie panden dichas establecimientos viso tinto hectarló may bueno: consignado por una tray seredisada casa de aquel prato, aguardiente!\n\nrústica\n\npetustruccion de recluta, dus tomos ra; Color, cine toes ps.: Custerno de reglas y advertencias para la instruccion de sales Grdenes y cicular is interds general para gurdia civd, cinco tousus\n\n9 per La guerre de la mugeres, des mos 8. bolandesa 5 ta; Bo-\n\ni.. 5 rs.\n\n1.\n\nE la calle de Legaspi núm. 4, se vende una elegante\n\nBegitu de 36, id, tal de 23 alambicado en Bricope, coñas espa, pareja de caballus bayas, y un carrungo de ruedas altu ñol, cajas te vino Bandes, id de marrasquing del puerto St. Maria, vino Jerès, id. musetel, id, Malaga dates, nisado superior de Malloren,\n\nvista.cz, il manzanilla, pujareto, gardiente de uba, cafus de cham-\n\ncest fit, is a peace. Aguia de 1.4 y 2. case, Fins & Vi\n\nKer y Ca\n\nJ. M. Tuason.\n\nJosé M. TussoN.\n\npane, cerveza ! Porto\n\nLOMESTIBLES,\n\nBoda, quesos de holu. doce en cajas de 15 arriba, kurol y una variedad de les estrictady strangeras.\n\nEn la tienda del Madrileño, se ha recibido un com\n\nmejores cicas pleto surtido da gunas de la do car to fula & nes de suda\n\nParis, hem de algodón para tropa, calcetines blinous rayados, idem de colac carmes para vidrigas, idem blancos bonitis colores y muy baratos, gorrins do cechintir boplados para caños de algodan sin costura, on sertido de pays surildos da seua de mu yaitan de pscho, alem besitas de hilo para dom ilem, saquitos y ALMACEN DE LA ROSA.\n\nInvitas do bilo para nitus de dos años hasta siete idet de iden, var dos para niñas de igual edad, idem stocesos con sus cordones do sede, manaletas preainsas y baratas, sobrecamas de seda ademascados, idora En la Escols frente & la sombrería del Medzitoño bay de venta lusdem nuda, terminado com materiales decocitus di Muropa, en lade lambres con mezcla do seda, idem tapetes de mesa. Todos á efectos siguientes: Papas de Chies muy frescas y baratas, jatrones de cable casa un, 10 bată de manifiesto, y de su ullune pro-\n\nes muy barat 9.\n\ná pro- Neufuna muy frescas, quoso de Flandes, de Salve, wiss de ongelo dara razon en la de aum. D. José Rivero.\n\nCalle de la Escolta Almacen de Don José Vicente Gomez bay de venta papas muy buenas y burlas, quesos de bola\n\nde Aguile mur superior, d de giumba, id. de compain, de S.\n\nJulian hersins de ceruza de Holanda, lotus de espárragos, id. de ari-\n\nSe vende un carruage sin estreno\n\nEn la tienda denominada Nueva Filipina, se han re.\n\netuslas, id. de zansorias, id. de coilier, id. de regal, tocino del Noc-cibido evamonto los efectos siguientes: 19, y de otros efectos a pescum Cozados.\n\nEo la isla del Romero núm. 1.\", se venden tres\n\nballos e liro.\n\nADMINISTRACION GENERAL DE CORREOS DE FILIPINAS,\n\nca\n\nLa barca inglesa Nelson, saldrá para Singapore boy 15\n\ndel corriente per la tarde, segno aviso recibido en este dia\n\nde la Capitanía del puerto.\n\nManila 44 de Eucro de 1856.-El Administrador gene-\n\nrat, Antonio G. y Lopez.\n\nSALIDAS DE LOS VAPORES.\n\nPARA CAVITE.\n\nLos Echarica las 12 Jel dia y 8 de la noche, y de Carlin & las\n\nde la moitana y 21/7 de la tarde,\n\nLos Domingos y Lunes tan 12 del dia y 3 1/ de la tarda, y do Cuvilo 28 de la maña y 2 1/4 in nie.\n\n}\n\nPabosses de espinola fondo blanco berdade de enor, it negro ve dada le culur, los cuatraso de superior calidad y da mucho lujo, id sa- perior de mandarin, dlee do perais, vion Bardes de 1., cilicos de 25 quaita.Sabatas basia diez.\n\nNAVEGACION.\n\n3\n\njamones de Berfalia tudo muy irusse y bueno scatudo do llegar.\n\nSe vende una carretela elegante, cimoda, barata en muy buen estado de ce. Tambien 3 vondon aparadorus, gloves, y un quo ours trumble, todo por auser-so su dueño. Calle del Arzo bispe núm. 10.\n\n恩\n\non, st patron Gregorio Samson. De Pangasinan, pontia nisa. now, 23 S. Ramon, on 5 dias de co-\n\nRIÑA, despachuca por su erravs\n\nPara Capiz, saldrá dentro de tres dias la goleta A. D. Ja\n\nDomingo Giaccio.\n\na\n\nEl bergantin CONSUELO, saldrá para las islas Marianas\n\nen todo al presenta mes, lo despacha\n\nRegion, con 300 coves de Tos, 450 pllours de azúcar, 6 pivos do rus: consignada al patron Ambrosia Ave Solis,\n\neers, 15 cavares de papita de al, 2 cajonta do vorabro-\n\nJosé M. Seior, 3 Do Batangas, pontio mum. 103 8. José, en dios de navegacion, CT\n\nPara Casiguran, saldra á la mayor brevedad el berpestas de bron, 100 avanes de mungos y 9 cordes: consignado al\n\nFeliciano Marino\n\ngantin guleta GALLEGUITO, adanite carga foto y pasagero, lo des- te loops Sur, patis num. 14, S. Vicente, en 6 dias la navegacion, pacha\n\nFrancisco Vicente da Üreta, 5 58 cajenee da abil, 63 trozos de molave, 13 pioras do calantas, 6000\n\nPara Cagayan, dará la vela à la mayor brevedad el pis de mecallos, 162 veste de panocha, 108 picos de sibueso y\n\nmuy velro bergantin goles f. M. y J. (a) FELICITO, adovito care f pasigeros, to despuchia en et Muralou.\n\nAgustin Paino,\n\nPara Macao con escala en Pangasinan, saldrá el 16 del\n\nLa Mertes à las 11 del dia, y da Cavits à los 8 de la fuga y actual of negotin españial ILOCANO, la despacia el que suscribo\n\n1/2 de la tarde.\n\nL. Cufro\n\n1\n\nLos Mircoles y Juver 4:56 12 del dia y de l'avinas las 2 1/2 de la tardo. En toda la semana entrante saldrán los buques siguientes:\n\nVines 5 as to def dis y 5 1/8 de la tardo, y de Carite à Jas\n\n2/ de tarde.\n\nPARA GUAGOA,\n\nLos Damlagos y Jueves 1497 de la madans. Y de allá para aqui\n\nPARA BALANGA.\n\nLos Martes y Yine à la misma hora,\n\nLos Miércoles à las 7 de la mañana y de allá entre 2 y 3 de la tarde del isma dia.\n\nLa earca española PEPAY, saldrá en breve para Kong-\n\nlong recibe carga y pasagero, para los que ofrece excolonies comudi-\n\ndades y na trate esmeradu do au capslar, la despreba\n\nJosé M. Soler.\n\nLos pontines CARIDAD, FERNANDINA Y ROSARIO, sal\n\ndrúa pare Beeos dor en la peselo semana, íos despacho\n\nJosé Soler. $\n\nLa galeta FILOMENA y el bargantia geleta JULIANA,\n\nfrancise\n\nvisco Vicente. $\n\naldrin pors Cebú en toda esta sema. I despacha\n\nPara Zambales, panco mùm. 17% 5. Viccate.\n\nPara Sablayan, . . 315 S. Sehiin.\n\nPars Zambiles, poelin mim, 368 Sta. Ponciana.\n\nPaid Laban, id. am. 46 S. Rafael,\n\nPara Zambaits, poutin tim. Tú Se dri Huerto\n\nPara Samar, panes num as sto. Nite,\n\nPara Mulanay. id. núm. 84 9. Vimule\n\nParu acos Sur, pomin núm. 66 Ksperanza,\n\nPara Suig, uie eúm. 60 SLATER.\n\nPera, pari n. 239 9. Jozé\n\nPara Capiz, pussin núm. 70 S, Vicente.\n\nMOVIMIENTO DEL PUERTO\n\nSAATA LA DOCE DEL DIA DK ATER ENTRADAS DE ALTA MAR.\n\ndorte vai ei & se Agosto us, et capitan U. Bhuja, ou 55 hombres do tripulacion; su cargamontu algunos eletos de Europa: co- signada á 1. Tomás Quinte.\n\nFragata español Magnolia, de 51st toneladas, procedent da Cádiz, de\n\nVapor dedico gio-americano Cereline, de 378 toneladas, precedents\n\nPara Zamboanga, saldrá el 17 del corriente la gode og kong, de donde salió el 11 de actual, su capitan F. A Sampson,\n\nJeta VIRGEN DE LOS MILAGROS, is desparba\n\nFrancisco Geyes.\n\n3\n\ncon 36 hombres de tripulacion, y de pauguro Mr. Caries K. Ticke man, ku cargamenta fecins de Clans da lebuso y 275 oras en dos; cajones y oro acuñads: consignado & loa Sces Russei & Sturgis, Trao\n\nPara Ormoc en Leite, saldrà a la mayor brevedad el fa corespondencia au priqust bergantin-geleta ELUANDA, recibe carga 4 Bale, ja despacha en la Bak-\n\nJustiniano Zamora.\n\nraca\n\nSALIDA DE ALTA MAR\n\nPara pesce, frogain americana balenerus L. U. Jenny, au ca-1\n\nPara Cagayan, saldrá del 19 al 20 del corriente pican Warati, con 25 bombres de tripulacion,\n\nta nueve y veista bares TEODORA, admite carga leta y pasageros la despacia\n\nFrancisco Vicente de ürbeta.\n\nENTRADAS DE GABOTAGE.\n\nDo Pangasinan, goleto S. Juan, en 7 dias de navegacion, cun 300 cavanes\n\n28 cerdos, consignado at petcon Mariano Vinfuse.\n\nDe locos Sur, pace im. 141 S. Towing, en 3 dias do uvuga- cion, on the fordos de tabaco, 33 cajones de ahil, 08 fardos de mo- catillos y 20 cerdos: consignado à ). José M. boler. su patron Apolina- rio Quizora.\n\nCebu, bergsig núm. to Santiago (1) Rodamente, en 7 dias da ne- voasion, C 2800 picos de saúzer, 250 id, de hacó, 50 id, de utero ya de sunean consignado à D. Juan Velozo vangelisty, su na-\n\nfrom B. Lorenzo Capeda Sautings, & de pasagerus Dosé Julien Amo-\n\nde arroz, 960 pilones de saúwr y £30 piros de aibucia. consignado àl\n\nscla, juez pesquisador dal Ex-gobernadors Ibañez, con due cria- do y dos escribiente y un chico con en muchacho.\n\nDo Sta. Cruz en Zambales, panco núm. 337 5. Miguel, en 10 dias de navegacion, can 6 komadas de cacbony cardos, consignado al patron” Agnacio Aloko.\n\nDe locos Sur, goleto núm. 150 Ramaneti (n) Francisca, on 1/2 dias de navegacion, con 186 cajones de nhớt, 148 já, de tabaco, 80 pícns dã mecati-los, 8339 pastus de dobre; crosigurte à D. Francisco de P. Zem- razio, au paicon Juan Qural Valeatiño, y de posgeros . Franciscu [lorgandex, Comandante graduado Capitan del Regimiento Infanteria Fer- nando 7. húm. $, co sit aspon seis trijos de mene oda, dos soldados do dicho Regimiento y tres crudas y D. José uza, español de catas Talas con una sobrina es mur edad y un criado\n\nSALIDAS DE CABOTAGE.\n\nPara locos Sur, panco núm. 204 Pas.\n\nPars Balayan, bergantin-geleta oum. 40 3. Brencisco.\n\nPeru Zambales, pinen núi 149 Belia Cirme\n\nPara Actique, pallebol núm. 35 durora, y de transando dos previda-\n\nlidos para solrazor al Gobernaday de su destino,\n\nrios\n\nOBSERVAC, METEOROL. DE AYER.\n\nEporas.\n\nForm-\n\nmeira Ramur\n\nZarémo-\n\nà las de l\n\n$15\n\n12 del dia,\n\n5 do lat\n\n93 0 139410 232\n\nAFECCIONES ASTRÓNGM. DE HOT\n\nEl Se\n\nSun & the Gh. 28 c. 48 segundos\n\nSe pot á las & 3.5 m.\n\nBlade Luna & Wise.\n\nAparece á los 12 b. 5 m, del dia\n\n39'04 oculta & ias 12 h 67 m do la n. MANILA:\n\nimprenta del Boletin oficial de Pilipinas.\n\n3248 Hong Kang 278\n\nSinancial (APR overnment Offices, Victoria,\n\nسمجھے\n\nکی ام از لانه برای مها\n\n1856\n\nfov\n\n2178 Sar\n\nmy panty by\n\nAnswered\n\nHengreng 105 Sebruary 1886.\n\nI had the honor in Despatch Nr. 3 of 8th altimo to reply to Lord John Russell' Dispatch Nr. 23 of 2013 \"June last, and Now\n\n1 report on the application of Captain Wathins Harbor Marker for free quarters or an allowance for -\n\nhouse rent.\n\nIn Despatch Wr. 17. however,\n\n19th September last from the late ir William Molesworth Sperceive it is overlooked that this report.\n\ncalled for.\n\nand it is\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nKA\n\nassumed that\n\nH. Labouchere. M. P.\n\nye\n\n9-6\n\n想",
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        "content_text": "## Kouse \n\nBy the 1 Bagotne in this \n\nThen memorandum, and has \n\nrequested \n\nThe Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to communicate it to the Earl of Elgin.\n\nI have the honor to be, \n\nSir, \n\nYour obedient Servant, \n\nBhao \n\nMr. Merivale \n\nJute \n\nI asked Mr Mercer his opinion on this point. It was decidedly, \nfavourable to ours.\n\nPerimata \nacquisition of the \ncoffee \nreferred to the despatch writer (or signe) \n\nIf this is \n\nApexa \nConnection \nthe trick of this day.\n\n17 France.\n\n208 \n\nI annex a draft to the Governor \ntransmitting copy of their second Letter of the War Office on this subject, which, if sent today, may \nbe lost, by the overland route.\n\nI sent it down \nyou with \nthe papers: \nbut it has \nbeen both \nwritten & sent \noff at once.\n\nAB \n\nBut although 20 Cunanan \nmentioned on 5385 ways raft \n\nI do not see any rätt 16 Ste \nwas officially annexed \nwhich \nappears to me \nmuch \nrequired.\n\nThis should be colder after surmise.\n\nDm Jun 19",
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        "content_text": "$264\n\n77\n\nHaving had sufficient opportunity of noticing the state of General Bauhoten's health, which is at the present time not at all good, I certify that he requires a few months longer residence in a colder climate before he returns to Hong Kong.\n\nFrom Clifton outh\n\nSuchen.\n\n17 Marlesford Rd.\n\nKennington.\n\n24 August 1858.\n\n0\n\n8",
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        "content_text": "5\n\n!\n\n4\n\nthroughout the entire city. The governor of the city is obliged occasionally to go round in person during the night, and the officers commanding in the towers and on the walls send parties to patrol through the quarter of the town that is assigned to them.\n\nClimate of Pekin\n\nFrom Timbowski's China 18.20.\n\nThe air of Pekin is salubrious and agrees even with strangers. Epidemic disorders are very rare and the ravages of the plague entirely unknown! The water is frozen every year from the middle of December to March; but sometimes for a shorter period. There are however no severe frosts. When the thermometer is at 10° or 12° (54½ to 59 °Fahrenheit) the heat is less oppressive than at the same temperature at St Petersburgh.\n\nIn the spring there are violent storms and whirlwinds. The heat is very great in summer, especially in June and July, accompanied however by abundant rains which moisten the soil, composed of clay and sand - sometimes the torrents pouring down from the mountains destroy villages and do great damage.\n\nThe autumn is the most pleasant part of the year; particularly September, October, and November, the air is then mild, the sky serene and the weather calm.\n\nFrom an Article by Sir J. Herschel in the Times of 14th Dec. 1860.\n\nAs regards the climate of Pekin it results from these observations, (those made by M. Scatchhoff for the Russian Government from 1850 to 1855) that the mean or average temperature of the whole year is 52 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, that of the hottest month (July), 82, and of the coldest (January) 24 each to the nearest whole degree! The corresponding temperatures for Greenwich respectively are 49, 63, and 34; so that the winters there are, on an average, 10 degrees colder and the summers 19 degrees warmer than in London. Of course individual days occur much hotter.\n\nThe highest and lowest temperatures in the shade recorded in each of the six years (1850-1855) to the nearest degree above zero of Fahrenheit's thermometer are as follows:-\n\n  \n    \n    Highest\n    Lowest\n  \n  \n    1850\n    96\n    7\n  \n  \n    1851\n    96\n    \n  \n  \n    1852\n    100\n    2\n  \n  \n    1853\n    98\n    \n  \n  \n    1854\n    101\n    Luf\n  \n  \n    1855\n    99\n    \n  \n\nThe thermometer in a London winter seldom descends to 9 degrees and very rarely indeed to 2.\n\nGenerally speaking, the degree of moisture of the atmosphere varies between somewhat wider limits than at Greenwich, and the annual amount of rain and snow is somewhat greater, about one-twelfth.\n\nThe temperature of solar exposure is, of course, very great in summer. A blackened thermometer exposed to the sun is observed to rise, on some one day of every year, to a maximum height of from 130 to 138 degrees Fahrenheit.\n\nTopographical Dept:\n\nWar Office. Dec: 1860.",
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        "content_text": "## Wurks & Kombers Cescriptio\n### MHK B 5\n\n#### Contents\n\n* Cuse continued\n* Ressorts on veier su\n* on weier su posuer\n* Sapprost du leveir à Cuillère, avee Coin, & vis centrées, levier à cullery / Cain, 2 xis Centrees\n\n#### Description\n\nBume taverne Co Fer :Lovice des posuer à double articulation, resfort en urbatter galet & Qupport CLayer 277 Cle H\n\n### Remarks\n\n* trenangles de derivan fer, I coussinet in fer à cheval K/ cute on acier\n* Traverse guide on jer garnie bronze de la plaque ite A Keungles\n\n1. Support de la Canelle un Huns on fer à quide du levier à urticulation levier is Anch & Support\n2. Hessert à mon tau net en acier avic ois pour soutenir la bielle de dévi roluge & les e Paulistes en bronze de la boili Cait unti Cretante\n3. 4 His en for / acc tampon & da wi\n4. Chassis Auperin Muin poseur montee the sporte virde en fer avee- gobelet temie the pieces & mourement Compos\n5. Mains poseur & 2 gréetts de rechange\n\n### Marks & Numbers Description\n\n#### MHK B 5\n\nCon au Gerier à ات 13\n\n#### Contents\n\n* Cuse continned\n* Vis 077 Sevier for for fixer por jixer les 3 buster 3 bruncher & echuzaye & son Qupport.\n* Stesfort en acier a branches & son Support\n* Bagues de pouleur folles\n* Frein Farbre manivelle\n* Juquets on for me lu pice carri Support à ressort 225 fourchette els in Bielle du support quide franchis\n* 1 Simille de poseer du levier a 3 deverolage à St pants in fer\n* Colher de virole pleine en acier du قیمت کی Tampon inférieur\n* Familles de its fort Chasfer en acier & support on for cevizotage supports &84 vic on fer du love. die deviretage\n* Carette in učlen + Fria chemise for anglion for de la Semelle devirotage A l'unic de Garch ނ رت به تاریک\n* 2 Eusu beywille in fer ¿ dro 2 :t is a chapeaux pr fixer les Calistes de la voile Coutante 192 670marke\n* Boutons prie support du levier sombra R. I Over",
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        "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]",
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        "content_text": "to weather becoming colder, of \n\nStaten Island \n\nthe Gaol was made ready for \n\nthe reception of the patients. At present \n\nthe majority of the sick are quartered \n\n \n\n\"dated London 28th January) \n\nSunday: \n\nthat dealt with special care for tiny her sick Richard, \n\non the site in west of the third Hospital \n\nAmy Rony \n\n438 \n\n8 January 1871 \n\nheard \n\nMail in the decision \n\nFrom brothels & filthy stench of machinery I let them \n\nLe \n\nhave lost one \n\nBy far the most important \n\nfrom Secretary of State, based a \n\nto opinion of \n\nWhat on \n\nthe A \n\nt do \n\n· A \n\nbeen done \n\nLeytons - Hazeland. He had bewildered Leinsoffen, that \"deportation\" could be for a long time, would work as commanded such health in a \n\nfine \n\nchange of air. His terrify finished, erstwhile \n\naffair him to task as \n\nMan husband. \n\n \n\nowed \n\noh erminals \n\nThese circumstance \n\ndefinitely to foresee. Our law \n\nOrdinance is disallowed & an old Ordinance in de 9 2.1887. \n\na most unprincipled action \n\nBack I much done this. He \n\nfelt \n\nwife said Lead because dannelsen by all, of walit den auch & salthallymas (South.\n\nin any \n\nin be reflected. They say \n\nbanish criminals & other \n\n6. this island, such they when from \n\nfrom elsewhere punishment or fine \n\nwhore both. \n\na \n\nuns in arment \n\ncan clau \n\nfollow. If \n\n-44-",
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        "document_key": "CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6]",
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        "content_text": "# XXI-Bruns Canton Cars Photo de MAPIE MAGISTRATI Sovata during the Jar 1954\n\n## GAINS\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| šapriaca Capris | £12 |\n| Bert Log Arrival wiht Kaportac | ... |\n| Chedit of Lime. Berael, of (Jukk) | ... |\n| Fry's Explosive elama, Urage 472 | ... |\n| March of Se Puticals. Giving (Pank) | ... |\n| Iarbar ce e DLC. Schi | ... |\n| Har: gara Basutoeditdim | ... |\n| Le ringe willa Ciuc, (k) | ... |\n| Merlist pig Act Res. Froich of Utstraling Jaya | ... |\n| Yg Beluga refting Crying Wildly mishy chi free Kilg | ... |\n\n## TOTAL\n\n$459,010.11\n204,228.50\n\nفرقة الالة السلامة\n\n102,146\n29457708\n245\n482\n15720.00\n72.19\n4790\n\nPakopu\n267869\n20.04.2\n97034,60\n27\n2012-9.80\n130\n\n## XXI\n\n1. G. TONIT, J., Knigrativa Cilier\n\n## XXII-LAGRAM Sharing the Manikly Fereuse of Decrever of the Junk Trode\n\n(from Not January, 1867, to the prizeni time, 1871)\n\n| Month | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| January | 12201 |\n| February | 1272 |\n| ... | ... |\n| June | 2574 |\n| ... | ... |\n\n## EXMENIT\n\n| Date | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | 50 |\n| ... | ... |\n| 353 | ... |\n| ... | ... |\n\n## PROWICZ\n\n| Amount |\n| --- |\n| +460 |\n| 22000 |\n| ... |\n\n10 Barve Depotunni frungkung, 256 Velenary, 1876.\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "If the A. Dernady in contest with one Pavali Sectia A.D.C. then Mr. Ruberti proposes $300 a year as an allowance.\n\nChari Cookies would essentially satisfy his A. Dernity.\n\nIf however he acquiesces to Beati Sundang, I would prefer the latter at $250 a year in Morome for Chan Colier.\n\n& the A.D.C. might be an office bearer in the show, with her full Clomet Pay.\n\nAa Augt. in Military Pay the same amount had Carus £598 or nearly 9/6 a day, or £173-17-6 a year for Chan Cocher All.\n\nThe question of passage allowance is very perfunctory. I for one heard that the Lerals Tamly & Suite out there are far from nether move.\n\nWhy Very precedent has been disallowed the forners of Hayhony is putting mine explusion.\n\nCir Expecting victor then must Givenson - many have & Mewn persons of standing if opeis pass that way.\n\nRenae paid from Infernal Funds cers feat.\n\nI the cost of learny I undertake to be at kenned, in het.\n\nCanevation (and the e i re aag of his",
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        "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]",
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        "content_text": "## \ndeal with such questions to omit from their calculation all consideration of the much greater expenditure, both by way of capital monies sunk in buildings and fittings and for current expenses, entailed on those who undertake the education of the European youth of the Colony, as compared with the expenditure required for setting up and maintaining a school for Chinese.\n\n\"Twenty dollars a month will pay the rent of a Chinese school house. A hundred dollars a month has to be paid for a suitable house for a like number of European boys and their masters. In like proportion are the salaries of Chinese and European teachers, and, while the former can be had here at no expense, the latter have to be brought from Europe at a heavy cost. It is no exaggeration, therefore, to say that a properly qualified European teacher cannot be provided, everything comprised, at a less cost than $200 a month, while the teacher of a Chinese school or class costs, first and last, his salary, for a good one, say twenty dollars a month.\n\nWe were rather astonished to note the other day in the Government Report on Education that each boy brought up at the Central school costs the Government on the average eighteen dollars and thirty cents a year, whereas the same boy at one of the Chinese schools only costs the Government three dollars and twenty-four cents.\n\n\"Of course the difference is clearly attributable to the presence of European teachers at the Central school, and to the necessarily more expensive buildings and greater cost of maintenance; but the same difference that exists between the cost of educating a boy at the Central school and at the Native school, exists also in the cost of educating a European boy, and a Chinese boy and for the same reason. It is hardly equitable therefore to place Chinese Schools and European Schools on the same level.\n\nWe have every reason to be satisfied with the attendance of the boys of St. Joseph's. There has been a great improvement in that respect latterly, although we have not yet come up to the English Standard. We must not forget, however, that if, in Hongkong there do not exist certain influences and reasons, which interfere with school attendance in England, there are causes in operation here which have no equivalent in a colder climate. Sickness among children is more prevalent here and there is a greater dread of it among parents. The climate is far more trying, and between the extreme heat and the heavy rains \n\n## \nit is not easy for the children of poor parents to come to school daily; the distances too are great, and there is undoubtedly an absence of cheap and easy means of conveyance. The indolent habits incidental to birth and residence in a hot climate, must count for something also, and a wise administrator will allow for it.\n\n\"If all these things are taken into consideration, it will be seen that there are difficulties in the way of a high average number of attendances here as well as in England, though they differ in kind and degree.\n\nIn other English Colonies similarly situated, these difficulties have been taken into consideration and allowed for to an extent that one would never look for here. Hongkong is not London; neither can European boys in Hongkong be expected to bear the climate as well, and do as much work as Chinese boys.\"\n\n\"In concluding this Report, it is almost needless to say that in all our schools the character of the education given is markedly religious and that we are more than ever convinced that education without religion is not only useless but mischievous. In our own sphere we shall ever act up to this principle, not seeking to interfere in any way with the education or training of those who, not being Roman Catholics, have views and opinions of their own.\n\nWe cannot, however, avoid remarking the strong tendency that has been shown lately in Hongkong in favour of denominational as opposed to secular education. Several schools have been opened recently for children of the different denominations, in which special religious instruction is given, and these schools are prospering.\n\n\"If an account were taken of the number of children of all ages frequenting denominational schools in Hongkong and of the number frequenting the strictly secular Government schools, the numbers would be found, we believe, to be about equal, while, if the pagan Chinese are excluded, the number of children of Christian parents seeking religious instruction would largely preponderate, being not less than 700 Christian children brought up in denominational schools against 60 who prefer secular education, thus proving clearly that the vast majority of Christian parents in the Colony are in favour of a religious training for their children.\n\n\"The Secular schools supported by the Government have at their disposal means of attracting and rewarding which our denominational schools have not. Government de-",
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        "content_text": "Auner B.\n\nede THHO.\n\nTelegram-\n\n1112\n\nRECE\n\nVACG 18 JAN\n\nSaughing from Suigapore-\n\nCoe Jeep Hangtong-\n\n327\n\nWhen does Maquer leave?\n\nArgente, required\n\nCatmachertory\n\nSot (V) Polie for report\n\nTo the\n\n59 Hlewat\n\nLice Colber\n\n2319 90\n\nM Wagner will be prepared to leave as\n\nthe 5th January 1881 by Branch Maie\n\n5910m Deave\n\nlas Tapet\n\n2315 No.\n\nHowever, to better follow the instructions and improve readability, here is a more processed version while still adhering to the rules:\n\nAuner B.\n\nede THHO.\n\nTelegram-\n\n1112\n\nRECE\n\nVACG 18 JAN\n\nSaughing from Suigapore-\n\nCoe Jeep Hangtong-\n\n327\n\nWhen does Maquer leave?\n\nArgente, required\n\nCatmachertory\n\nSot (V) Polie for report\n\nTo the\n\n59 Hlewat\n\nLice Colber\n\n2319 90\n\nM Wagner will be prepared to leave as\n\nthe 5th January 1881 by Branch Maie\n\n5910m Deave\n\nlas Tapet\n\n2315 No.\n\nLet's correct and reformat it according to the given instructions:\n\nAuner B.\n\nTelegram-\n\n1112\n\nRECEIVED VACG 18 JAN\n\nSaughing from Singapore-\n\nCoe Jeep Hangtong-\n\n327\n\nWhen does Maquer leave?\n\nArgente, required\n\nCategory\n\nSot (V) Police for report\n\nTo the\n\n59 Hewat\n\nLie Colber\n\n2319 90\n\nM Wagner will be prepared to leave as\n\nthe 5th January 1881 by Branch Mail\n\n5910m Deave\n\nLast Packet\n\n2315 No.\n\nHere is the final version in HTML format as requested:\n\nAuner B.\nede THHO.\n\nTelegram-\n1112\nRECEIVED VACG 18 JAN\n\nSaughing from Singapore-\nCoe Jeep Hangtong-\n327\n\nWhen does Maquer leave?\nArgente, required\nCatmachertory -> Category\nSot (V) Police for report\n\nTo the\n59 Hewat\nLie Colber\n2319 90\n\nM Wagner will be prepared to leave as\nthe 5th January 1881 by Branch Mail\n5910m Deave\nLast Packet\n2315 No.\n\nis rewritten as\n\nAuner B.\n\nTelegram-\n\n1112\n\nRECEIVED VACG 18 JAN\n\nSaughing from Singapore-\n\nCoe Jeep Hangtong-\n\n327\n\nWhen does Maquer leave?\n\nArgente, required\n\nCategory\n\nSot (V) Police for report\n\nTo the\n\n59 Hewat\n\nLie Colber\n\n2319 90\n\nM Wagner will be prepared to leave as\n\nthe 5th January 1881 by Branch Mail\n\n5910m Deave\n\nLast Packet\n\n2315 No.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nAuner B.\n\nTelegram-\n\n1112\n\nRECEIVED VACG 18 JAN\n\nSaughing from Singapore-\n\nCoe Jeep Hangtong-\n\n327\n\nWhen does Maquer leave?\n\nArgente, required\n\nCategory\n\nSot (V) Police for report\n\nTo the\n\n59 Hewat\n\nLie Colber\n\n2319 90\n\nM Wagner will be prepared to leave as\n\nthe 5th January 1881 by Branch Mail\n\n5910m Deave\n\nLast Packet\n\n2315 No.",
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        "content_text": "# Descriptive List of Persons Deported from the Colony of Hong Kong\n\n## \n\n| Name | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hawker Na Ko | 43444, 175 Tany, 28 H, 182 goods, 4 Ja Blick with Genery |\n| Panto | Back of old braval Cocks Ki Entzum Spritations, 17. Penan Brands |\n|  | 5K Cola, Love an Loony a Lane: 18 at Su, 4 Faker, Fick Candoni P |\n|  | 5 Bricklayer St. Che. Many Chus her |\n| Sam Chen Pan | 1891, 176 Zting & for |\n| Hoy Lum Lau Cherzy | 1845, 17 Rang, 1736, 178 thing as, Beurz Shere |\n|  | 4.5148, 79 Cousera in, 78 Sui. Chware Your Ting Sup, 30 Lear on tampole |\n|  | Für Read 5, 34 Buchinger Mout of \"Elegsing, 5 up. Festranger Fest in Gract, Founded Hacks of flaggin. \"Potrandets Your it Jun Sun Face |\n| Lan help Kan Fan Hei Fock Sun Chen Fur Co | L'n, 20 |\n|  | #6 #7 Bricklayer, 45 Frams word a Fog Sai How Fund Hei T King See You Four Sisi Hing |\n| Coolie Sal Ship Kong Sony fore | Fawker Justis Brank Maches of Meggy |\n|  | $ Cok, 2: $ Ifa Chair Colier Cut on Case |\n\n## Descriptive List of Persons deported from the Colony of Hong Kong\n\n| No. | Name | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 157 | Hing a Livé | ten to Chas Che, 943 |\n| 160 | Chen a time | The Chery Powi, 7816 |\n| 161 | Ding a ling | Chary fat. Kary, 3304 |\n| 161 | King | lefone Cont., 183 Feat. Rams San Fr. E Sen Lee Chane Sam Hoi, 38 |\n| 164 | Pong a Salle | Mucas Sun on, 1236, 165 Chan a Lam Song Fre, 8778 |\n| 166 | Jung | 4335 |\n| 167 | Wing Cheer Fun | (When a fog Priz Chang, Suave fout |\n| 168 | Hart | Jst, 169 Li Li, Fork Song Na Fun Ping Chine Sony Henny Sam |\n| 171 | Jary | 28th For the. Away Chiang Fin Ch |\n|  | The Housker | 27, 5. The Coole, 31 |\n|  | Hawkin | Frar Lear |\n|  | Bentwan | Final. Try all trop., 1874.: Calling wounding & becape 18th Jang Rogue. Tagaland 384 and Kurvany of Flanging 13: of Cor: Pardon Lastwey Laresay \"You the prewen |\n\n## Descriptive List of Clorious deported from the Colony of Hong Kong\n\n| No. | Name | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Kang | $7 besty Fali. Chreal hunter Mers defated to accditing Busnes Fillag Liistud Arment Cole & Steund Final Youth out Old beard, 1116 Graver |\n|  |  | 1376 Contere Hour Fam Jou Seen On Nay & Jure, 14. Fishman Front both out - Branded Lavery bring About 3 tu Hasar Mocas Garas of fligging Hla car, 32 in J. Chuck & car Harks Thanghai Carporter Bake the flagging 7 Grandes 1 Fuglary CAP. Gratian) |\n|  |  | 2. Forti, 1006 Mark 1. burn on the back Camry, 1337 Crator of Bap Ord., 1846 |\n|  |  | 364, 8578, 1845 eur, 1887 T, 1984 Lum, 1867 |\n|  |  | 5 Jees For frat birth pumount Flagged Crespincy Midnapping Fina dering Biose. Zursing of 55 Ord: Puspicious Character: 3379 |\n|  | Kauerry | Get, 2563 Newton City: 386.3 Yam Sing 7735 BALAS, 283 Chasing Then ther, 20 Kareny for the firs |\n|  |  | 3639 lettering Com Cir, 13: of Cn. pastor & recapée Laucony, 3796 Canton Robbery ande Fiending ffic: istotan garn. Fun On Backo Cantora, 17 La Jig Out Heung gra 188 China Lun th of cam work 187 Cheongo Soon Fony Tiny Kuri fors tin 314€ 190 Cheong a Chungske blak Thrung San 3:3 |\n| 1921 | Cheon & Their | Fire Ch. The On 23 $27.2, 1934 Ask Yue Fre. Marr Trung Kuva 14 hom a lak Hong Kerang Han Shine Bot ting dan Dur achine When Hut shterng when |\n| 194 | Lut a shoe | Stony Can Wing Miern When Bod |\n| 198 | Hong | Imy Fit Alun Tung Nyon 4288, 179 Herga Fawr the Tie Burg Them 27, 300 (fun» te For Fire From V pher Kerek Kang Shun Sex Far Perang Flown, 33 when bo Pag For Ou The a Row Story Heup, Thaleria 205 than a ilu Wang Hong |\n| 206 | Wing a Sang | (fire King Fan Wi, 307. Lo a Jow How Long Chung the bot bows a Fine Th & Pre Clten B |\n|  | Man & Ging | Dei 30. Etten Bin Chen & Bar How Men Fran, 12 |\n|  |  | Bomberin Ching on time of avon Ancke 4. Runni Hi Crata J, 6. Sh, 24. Grun 4 wk Cok ollars of fligung or bras in Brickleger Karenk te.. Bank Compleman |\n|  |  | Cor 12 Chante Chancehistran gfras in di, ciste of fueless. Indecent Assow&, 5 42. Varmer Part of hip buvet off. Hyos. Ar of Oefert: Ord Murder Iwo 30are 1: Cheld thinking 37. Bander Howlin City Karlcon City Haear |\n|  |  | Banten Macar Kewlean otion rat Foar Chi Larr Mnear Faces Macar llants of flogging Frond beth from 500 ru&Card Gogas + Tagei Maca نظر 5- 37. Carport Branded Kammer More Alerts of flogging afea Benning stb. Good Lureang Cone phirasay banglary & Lante disty, frs. Deperta ter bond Huitbreaking & Coots Geo, 34 Bandson Abe the sac Macse Macas |",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT.\n\nThe Owl. of Hongkong with siphoning the relative intended Chris Expedition against the piratical & Smuggling craft said to abound in the neighbourhood of Marsa & Horyday.\n\nColier of the Enclosed papers have also been communicated to the Design Offic Jan Sw Berigen Offin.\n\n### MINUTE.\n\nMr. Pearson, Mr. Wingfield. Mr. Bramston. Mr. Meade. Sir R. Herbert. Mr. Osborne Morgan. Lord Granville. Antonet Stuntry.\n\n| Name |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hory | 5044 |\n| Pic | 157 |\n| Hoy Kay |  |\n\n3 April:06 with reference to a communication which I understand was addressed to you by the Admiralty last Defer writing to the mouth relative to.\n\nbaff. tile the refly. 4:3 of 5044\n\nEnclomees 283 2dfts \n\nto an intended Chiver Expedition against the piratical & Smuggling craft said to abound in the neighbourhood...",
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        "content_text": "***\n\nsatisfactory cofar facto : –\n\nas concerno\n\nthe following\n\n(a) that efforts had been made to induce U A-fung to leave Sökwawan.\n\n(b) that,\n\non\n\nthe 10th ultimo, these efforts proved\n\nsuccessful, and UA-fung\n\nCh'an A-yeung, leave his home.\n\n(C) That.\n\nou\n\nwas induced by a coldier in Kowloon City, to\n\nthat\n\nday,\n\nthe deamlamuch\n\n\"Ham fing\" was engaged to got Kowloon\n\na man or men\n\nCity by a\n\nrepresenting himself\n\nthemselves to be acting in the interide of\n\nthe Kowloon ellandarin.\n\n(d) that, between 4 and 5 pr.\n\nDave\n\nday,\n\nand was\n\non the\n\nthe \"Kam Ling\" loft Victoria,\n\n• joined shortly afterwards by the\n\nlaunch \"Bing Thing\"\n\n\"\n\nwas on board one.\n\nof these launches, and the men representing\n\n(e) That W Afung\n\nthe noelves as acting\n\nnot on the same one\n\nin the interests of the\n\nbut probably ona-fung.\n\nKowloon Mandarin were on one, but\n\nao\n\n(f.) That the \"Wing Shing\" transhipped.\n\n180\n\nher Chinese paccengers to the \"Kamfing\", and that, not long after this, UA fung jumped overboard from the \"Ham king\n\n\"and ewany away:\n\nthat, in consequence of a hail from the \" Com Ling \" he was kicked up by a packing boat,\n\nand\n\n\"forced on board the \"Rawking\", against his will, in British waters, was\n\neien Care\n\noff\n\nconfined in the cabin, and taken to Howlson. City wharf, where sonce to the Ram Ling from a Chinees Government Connch, and W'Afung\n\nashore .\n\nforcibly taken\n\n(9.) That, on the following day, the master\n\n\"Kam king \" received payment for the of his launch at Kowloon Aty from\n\nof the\n\nuse\n\ntuan\n\nrepresenting himself to be one Kowloon Mandarin's clerks.\n\ntt\n\nA\n\nof the\n\nwas\n\n(4.) that, on the 20. ultimo, UA fing publicly beheaded at Kowloor City wharf, within a short distance of British Howloon, in the presence of Chinese Officials.\n\n(i.) That..\n\non.\n\nthe 30th ultime, a messenger\n\nwas sent by the Interpreter to the Kowl on\n\nBrant ir\n\nts\n\nsurų\n\n11\n\ni",
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        "content_text": "Office or Individual. \n\nForeign Office \n\nDate. \n\n1886 \n\n10 Mar \n\nList previous Paper. \n\nSecretary \n\n81 \n\n?\n\nColfer's \n\ninformed 15 March 1886 \n\n#1\nConf. 15 March, \n\nHong Kong \n\nNo. 42. \n\n(Subject.) \n\nRE. \n\nDOMESTIC \n\nC. O. \n\n42 \n\nProposal that Chinese Govt should be asked to \n\nCede certain territory adjacent to Hong Kong. \n\nConcurs in proposed \n\nanswer to the effect \n\nthat H.M. Govt cannot adopt it \n\n(Minutes.) \n\nW. Meade \n\nInform Foreign Office accordingly \n\nin reply to despatch. \n\n(Not necessary to telegraph) \n\nGood 18 Mar. \n\nQue 11 handle \n\nRm 11/3 \n\nNext sent Paper. \n\n5262",
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        "content_text": "Uslifs: J is prosecuted, & that the guilty superior (? Colfer) will be blamed.\n\nBut that must be done on receipt of the Govr's report.\n\nSimilarly, pages 2 to 5 inclusive, of this letter, can be turned into a despatch to Gort when his report comes.\n\nD'Stenset Im Listi are dead.\n\nAs his report has not yet come, all that can be done is (1) to answer this letter, concurring, & saying the Gort will be reminded, and (2) to write to the Govr urging early report, & prosecution of the offender: and prompt delivery of accounts. A telegram would seem justified.\n\nSu jushfick 87 See also 14673 Bož\n\nThe Govr's report of the immbogglement case has not arrived. It will probably take some time to get Hr. Barrados out of the hands of the Spaniard.\n\nMeantime I submit 2 drafts.\n\nI do not think we need telegraph for the accounts.\n\nI am ...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]",
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        "content_text": "364\n\n10. Evergreen shrubs and trees carried on their leaves solid coverings of ice of an inch in thickness. The great weight of this ice caused the branches of trees to assume a pendent form, the strain in many cases causing the limbs to snap off with a crash. All vegetation throughout the hill regions of the Colony was thus covered with ice, as were also most other objects. Telegraph and telephone wires from Victoria Gap upwards were covered with ice of an inch in thickness, and in addition, carried icicles as much as 3 inches in length as close as they could be packed side by side. This caused many of the telephone wires to break, and the iron post at Victoria Gap which supported them was snapped off a few inches above the ground.\n\n11. The windward sides of the walls of the look-out house at the Peak were from top to bottom covered with perfectly transparent ice of an inch in thickness.\n\n23. Accompanying this report are six photographic views which were taken on the 16th January owing to the ice at various places in the Peak district. It is somewhat difficult to represent ice in photographs, as bright light has much the same effect as ice which owes its white appearance merely to reflected light, but it will be understood that the white in these views is produced by ice.\n\nNo. 1 is a view of Cryptomeria japonica trees and Cycas revoluta near Mountain Lodge, with Mount Kellet in the distant background.\n\nNo. 2 is the look-out house at the signal-station, Victoria Peak. It shows icicles on the house, and at the base of the house grass vegetation covered with ice. It was here where the measurements were taken of grass bents covered with 5 inches in circumference of ice.\n\nNo. 3 represents a tree of Pinus sinensis encased with ice.\n\nNo. 4 exhibits an ornamental structure in Mr. BELIOS' garden at \"The Eyrie\" in which were various tender plants encased with thick ice.\n\n12. All the hills on the mainland and Lantao island were likewise white with ice, one of the hills (3,147 feet) of Lantao having what appeared to be snow for some few hundreds of feet down from its summit. As early as the evening of the 15th January the summit of Taimoshan (about 3,300 feet) on the mainland had assumed a whitish appearance, presumably from ice or snow.\n\n13. The effect of the extremely low temperature on vegetation has been disastrous.\n\nIn appendix\n\nA the names of plants, chiefly exotic, in the Botanic Gardens which have suffered more or less are given.\n\n14. Appendix B enumerates indigenous plants which were injured.\n\n15. The damages in the Gardens consist chiefly in the injury or destruction of leaves, but some plants are quite killed, these being natives of much warmer regions than Hongkong. Many of the decorative plants which were not killed will be months before they can regain their ornamental appearance.\n\n16. Every possible precaution was adopted to minimise the effect of the cold. The plant-houses, which are provided with screens merely to produce shade, were all matted in and the roofs covered with straw.\n\nOf ferns in the houses Polypodium heracleum and Adiantum tetradactylon suffered most, other kinds being but little affected.\n\n17. In the orchid-house, which was covered with mats and straw, all our best orchids have suffered very greatly, many being entirely killed while others were so much injured that, even if they survive, it may be some years before they regain their previous luxuriant state. A healthy plant, received from Calcutta several years ago, of Dendrobium aggregatum is apparently killed while plants of the same species growing by its side, and also others on trees where they had no shelter, which I collected 10 years ago on the Lo-fau mountains, about 60 miles from Canton, have escaped unharmed. This seems to show the capability of the plant in adapting itself to colder regions than it is generally found. In ordinary winters the temperature is too low for many kinds of orchids and other tender plants. These should be provided with glass-houses in which a little artificial heat could be maintained.\n\n18. Tender pot-plants generally were removed to sheltered places and covered with mats.\n\n19. The highest point of the Gardens is 320 feet above sea level, the lowest part 175 feet. Some plants of the same kinds which were damaged at the upper portions were uninjured at the lower parts of the Gardens.\n\n20. Of exotic trees planted on the hills Albizzia Lebbek, Aleurites triloba (candle-nut-tree) and Eugenia Jambos (the rose-apple-tree) had all their leaves killed at and upwards of 600 feet above sea level. Trees of the rose-apple at about 800 feet altitude have been entirely killed.\n\n21. At 600 feet altitude indigenous plants began to be affected, the injuries increasing with higher altitude until at about 900 feet when the extreme limit of low temperature which some plants could bear was reached, and death ensued. Most of these are tropical plants of which Hongkong, Formosa, the Luchu Islands in the Far East, and Sikkim and Himalaya in India are the northern limits of the geographical area from which they have been recorded. Of the plants killed or injured, Ficus Harlandi, Benth., Gordonia anomala, Spreng., and Garcinia oblongifolia, Champ. are known only from Hongkong. Although many of our indigenous plants have not been yet discovered elsewhere, it is to be expected that when China is better known they will be found over a larger area than the restricted one of this island. The fact of the above named plants having succumbed to the late frost indicates that when they are discovered elsewhere they will be found southward of Hongkong.\n\n22. Considerable damage to vegetation seems to have been caused about Canton where the alluvial lands are highly cultivated. The Reverend Dr. B. C. HENRY, in a letter dated 26th January, informs me that \"The destruction of vegetation about Canton has been very great. The banana plantations are ruined, and the bamboos have suffered. The Aleurites triloba look all shrivelled up, while Begonias, Euphorbias, Crotons and scores of others are simply destroyed.\" What Dr. HENRY reports indicates severer weather at Canton than here, as is proved by the reports of the steamers above referred to, Aleurites triloba leaves being shrivelled up at Canton, while they are here at 300 feet altitude uninjured, but at 600 feet here they are affected, and completely destroyed a little higher up the hill.\n\nNo. 5 shows ice-covered bamboos and wire netting near Mount Austin Hotel.\n\nNo. 6 is a scene of Pine trees at about 1,000 feet above sea level.\n\nHonourable G. T. M. O'BRIEN, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, &c., &c.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nCHARLES FORD, Superintendent, Botanical and Afforestation Department.\n\nAppendix A.\n\nLIST OF EXOTIC PLANTS INJURED WITHIN THE GARDENS.\n\nAlsophila tomentosa. Acalypha marginata.\n\ntricolor. Argyreia leptopus. Adiantum tetradactylon. Aglaonema pictum. Brides quinquevulnerum. Aeschynanthus Lobbianus. Bauhinia frondosa. Bignonia venusta. Bignonia Chamberlaynii. Bixa Orellana. Bactris sp. from Fiji. Begonia coccinea. Camellia odorata. Capparis angustifolia. Crotons.\n\nCostus spiralis. Coccoloba uvifera. Clerodendron rosea.\n\nCoffea arabica.\n\nCentradenia rosea. Cattleya labiata. Calanthe vestita.\n\nCypripedium Stonei.\n\nClerodendron navissianum. Dendrobium fimbriatum.\n\nPierardii. crumenatum. densiflorum. Dalhousianum. taurinum. intermedium. plicatile. aduncum.\n\nDichorisandra ovata.\n\nDalechampia Roezliana rosea. Eranthemum Andersonii. Eurycles australasica. Fittonias.\n\nFaradaya splendida. Graptophyllum spp. Gymnostachyum zeylanicum. Hyophorbe amaricaulis. Hedychium Gardnerianum.\n\nIlex paraguayensis.\n\nIxora Griffithiana.\n\nsp. Lantana. Loddigesii. Marantas.\n\nMusa abyssinica. Meyenia Vogelii.\n\nMikania scandens.\n\nNasturtium.\n\nNyctanthes arbor-tristis. Nephrolepis davallioides.\n\nforsan.\n\nOncidium papilio. Pholidota conchoidea. Pandanus Veitchii.\n\nutilis.\n\nPithecolobium Saman. Pentas carnea. Pinanga Kuhlii. Poinsettia pulcherrima. Panax fruticosum.\n\nGuilfoylei.\n\nPolypodium heracleum.\n\nPhymatodes. Pteris. Paneration Fragrans. Phalaenopsis amabilis.\n\nSchilleriana.\n\nRenanthera sp. (Borneo). Scindopsis pictus.\n\nSarcanthus.\n\nSanchezia nobilis variegata.\n\nSpathiphyllum sp. from Bangkok. Thunbergia Harrisii.\n\nViolets.\n\nVanda tricolor.",
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        "content_text": "JA\n\nEnclosure\n\nno66.\n\n415\n\nMagistracy, Hongkong, 14 December 1893.\n\n0.\n\n29.3.12.\n\nJl. Borible Colsce to Capte Hastings\n\nCapt. Hastings to Horible Colisee: 24-3.92. Cart Hastings to storible Colisec: 24-5-92.\n\nHorible Colisee: to Capta Hastings 19.3.92.\n\n21-4.97.\n\n167.92.\n\nto Horible Col fee: Captr Hastings Amible Colitee: to Capt. Hastings Capt. Hastings to Horible Harbour Mader 16.7.92. 2. Capt Hactings to Horible Coliser:\n\nHorible. Harbour Maiter to trouble Col see: 18·7.92. torible Colider: to souble Harbour Master 20.7.92. Arrible. Col·sec: to Capta Hastings 26.9.93.\n\n854\n\nRect\n\nMy Lord Marquess,\n\nI have the honour most respectfully to submit for Your Lordship's consideration the enclosed correspondence in connection with my appointment as Acting Police Magistrate in this Colony, with that the indulgence allowed by Colonial Office regulation\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nThe Marquess of Ripon,\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nLondon.\n\nno108 may\n\n \nDE 15.94",
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        "content_text": "## Particulars of the emoluments &c attached to the appointment of Warder in the Victoria Gaol, Hong Kong.\n\n| Salary | Quarters | Uniform Allowance | Other Allowance | Present value in dollar, in English money | Will service count towards pension | Will passage be granted | Limits of age |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $720 rising by annual increments to $960 | Quarters are provided |  | Mess-ser- vants, boots, cap & helmet Fuel, great coat & bedding | 19. about from date of enter- tainment, full salary from date of arrival | Yes | Yes: if the service at home will be any pension-granted | 23-34 for unmarried & married men every 3 years if necessary Medical attendance and medicine |\n|  | 12 suits, for unmarried men, but married men |  |  | Half market rate salary is paid in Colony dollars, but if sick in hospital a stoppage is made not exceeding... |  | but Unmarried men will not be pre- ferred | 25-35 The climate is tropical & therefore not very healthy for wife and family of an European |\n\nThe present market rate salary is paid in Colony dollars, but if sick in hospital a stoppage is made not exceeding the market rate, but leave salary is each day's paid in pay. Bounty of £5 on engagement at 4/10d the \"dollar\" and pension at 3/8.\n\nUnder Treasury Rules Passage Yes: if the service at home will be any pension-granted. Colonial service will, eventually count for pension from Imperial Govt., provided the officer does not retire before attaining the age of 60 except on ground of ill health or abolition of office. A married man engaged, but unmarried men will not be preferred. Passage for a wife with children not-exceeding four persons may be granted habrages for himself, his wife and family candidates should be made acquainted.\n\nreading wvor and one billiard room capable of containing only one brilliard table) and the Europe's Mess Room at the Central Police Barracks are already fully sufficient for the use of the existing Number of European Police officers there.\n\n3. The indosetes to gone en bewwith stussed.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant.\n\nLeft. Sefbi Colier\n\nPage 424  \nHKany 71903",
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        "content_text": "Office or Individual.\n\nAgents\n\n1904\n\nre last previous Paper.\n\nYou\n\nNO 33527\n\nHONG KONG N 22014\n\n(Subject.)\n\nAnalysis of certain spirits\n\ncopy letter from Colfer?.\n\nwill be sent to C.O. when received\n\nFor Wis.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nDraft be sent.\n\n(letters std not be sent till whisky is received)\n\nthe whisky\n\nBottles\n\nPage 314\n\n38-329\n\next. subsequent Paper.\n\nNO\n\nsbyers\n\n \nIR 21 JUL 04!\n\nC.O.\n\n127 DOMESTIC 22014\n\nYo Foo ist.\n\n1bb8\n\nN 22014\n\nAL\n\ndog be\n\n \nв",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nThis state of affairs is by no means unusual in provinces watered by the Yellow River, which has an evil name for inflicting sorrows on the human race. Famines may be said to be seldom absent from its sphere of influence. Floods and ...\n\nIt therefore follows that, this almost normal condition being well known, advantage will be taken of the credulous, who are willing to subscribe to any fund having the title of \"Relief.\" I therefore approach the subject with caution, and shall only deal with the effect of the famine on the riverine population between Kiukiang and Nanking.\n\nAbove Nanking there are no signs of any distress, nor of any refugees, either in the country or in the towns. On the contrary, there is an abundance of cheap food, which could be bought at moderate prices if any organized system for famine relief were adopted by the authorities. A person named Li, a son of the late Li Hung-chang is said to have made a corner of wheat in Wuhu.\n\nThe Governor of Anhui informed me that his province was very little affected, and the river not at all. At Nanking a different state of affairs exists. Here there are certainly 15,000 refugees, who have come down the Grand Canal and other waterways, and who have been placed in refuge camps close to the gates of the city. These poor people are almost destitute of clothing, and are very short of provisions.\n\nThere are many women and children among them, and also, it is estimated, many normally destitute people, who have traded on such situations since they were born. The mortality is not yet great, but will become so with the advent of wet weather and a colder temperature. When these two conditions shall prevail, the weak, the aged, and the children will die in hundreds.\n\nThe great majority of the adults are willing and anxious to work, but the authorities do not move in the matter, nor make use of the abundance of cheap labour at their disposal. The attitude of the officials towards the situation is somewhat as follows:- There is not sufficient money available for feeding the refugees; therefore deaths must occur. There is no money absolutely available for creating famine relief works; and why should any official incur the risk of debt for a philanthropical object?\n\nThe ever-interfering foreigner has offered to send missionaries among the refugees, to select the cases most deserving of relief, and to relieve those cases only, the funds being insufficient for relieving all, but if the hair of the head of one of these interfering foreigners is injured, the official will be answerable to a higher authority, and may lose his own head. They therefore contend that the distribution of only partial relief would be an aggravation of the situation, and would be sure to produce trouble.\n\nThis may seem to be a purely obstructive policy, but it is not so in reality, for the Chinese system of government is based on the personal responsibility of each official for the affairs under his control. Therefore, it is fair to admit the justice of the official view, seeing that Chinese system of government is as described. Yet one more circumstance contributes to the official dislike of allowing foreigners to send representatives to distribute relief among the few. This is that the official would be deprived of his squeeze. This squeeze is his just (Chinese) due. From a Chinese point of view, it is unjust to attempt to deprive him of it.\n\nHence the deadlock, which must, alas, continue, unless the funds assume sufficient dimensions to meet the requirements of all the destitute, in addition to a sufficient margin for covering the squeeze, imposed on the fund by the officials when the money shall have passed through their hands. China being such as it is, it is useless for foreigners to interfere by offering money for benevolent purposes unless the charity of the donors is so great as to reconcile them to the fact that a large percentage of their offerings has been absorbed to pay the officials of China.\n\n**BERNARD L. MAJENDIE.**\n\n(Signed)\n\n## 3\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**Lieutenant-Commander West to Vice-Admiral Sir A. Moore.**\n\n\"Thistle,\" at Chinkiang, December 31, 1906.\n\nIN accordance with your **Confidential Memorandum**, I have the honour to report the following:\n\nChinkiang.-The great question here is that of the famine, which after going into as closely as possible, seems to be greatly exaggerated by the American missionaries, who are booming it for all they are worth in America and Shanghae. The various accounts in the Shanghae papers of the great distress are written by them, and they boast that they will get at least 50,000 gold dollars from the United States for the relief fund.\n\nIt is true that the famine this year is greater than that of most years, but the local authorities seem perfectly able to cope with it at present. It seems to be encouraging the Chinese to exaggerate their troubles by foreigners getting up relief in the shape of subscriptions, a considerable sum of which is wasted in filtering through to the right quarters.\n\nI have estimated that an outside total of 2,000,000 people will be in want of relief till the beginning of April. The Customs authorities have raised a subscription and pay 300 dollars per month, which is sent out in the form of rice and flour to the women and children only. The railway employs many and flour is almost daily sent up the Great Canal to Chinkiang Pu and the other famine districts.\n\nIn Chinkiang at the present time, there are roughly about 10,000 refugees living near the railway and outside the city walls in reed huts. I understand that every year considerable numbers of people (perhaps an average of about 2,000 or 3,000) come south by the Grand Canal for relief in the shape of work, food, &c., only to go back in the early spring.\n\nThe American gun-boat \"Quiros,\" is stationed at Chinkiang specially for the purpose of inquiry into the famine question, the Commanding Officer Lieutenant and Commander Bisset and myself quite agree that the state of affairs is nothing like so bad as it is made out to be. I have been greatly assisted by Mr. G. B. Tours, His Majesty's Consul, who has shown me several letters from the missionaries situated in the famine districts who nearly all say the same thing as regards the exaggeration.\n\nI have also discussed the state of affairs with Père Chevalier, the head of the Roman Catholic Mission, Mr. Walker, of the China Inland Mission, and Mr. Paxton, one of the American missionaries. The river is falling rapidly and it is quite the practice for the river steamers to ground on their way to and from Hankow.\n\nThe railway to Nanking is progressing very slowly and it will be some considerable time yet before it is complete, in spite of the optimistic views of the promoters and officials connected with the scheme.\n\nNanking. I interviewed the Consul, Mr. W. P. Ker, with reference to calling on the new Viceroy Tuan Fang, with the result that his Excellency said that it would be convenient for him to receive the call on the next visit of the ship to Nanking, so I hope to make his acquaintance shortly.\n\nThe new Viceroy is apparently very progressive and has already instituted several new customs. He has ordered that no official business shall be done on Sunday, following that new custom in Peking, whereby Sunday is declared a day of rest. He has a son, Mr. Toero, who has been partly educated in America, and who speaks English with an American accent. This son, I understand, will shortly enter the Chinese navy.\n\nThere are several thousand refugees from the famine stricken districts, living in reed huts, south of the city, who are fed by the local authorities. Owing to the revolt in Kiangsi, over 2,000 rebels being in arms, the Viceroy dispatched 3,000 troops consisting of artillery, cavalry, and infantry to Wuchang.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) **R. M. N. WEST.**\n\n## 565",
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        "document_key": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]",
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        "title": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]",
        "content_text": "May Tee\n\n1910\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n20745\n\nAust Director of Public\n\n339\n\nCO 20745\n\nREC'd 7 JU 10,\n\nWorms\n\nJuly Years Boulton's state of health unfits\n\nCyprus.\n\nBoulton cons\n\nAnstey cons 9 Augl. (with a note Ed Arnott)\n\nHe care\n\nbecause\n\nRo\n\nhim for post. No objection if he is passed\n\nphysically fit. Councer\n\nte preferred\n\nM. Boulta\n\nM. Stables. Collins.\n\ndidn't\n\ntr\n\nLove\n\nhome\n\nsick leave\" (14640/10)? We\n\nhe haber better\n\nWhat to love\n\ni\n\ngranted\n\nM Allout\"\n\nof radice\n\nthat by wmed not have asked for it\n\nWit keep wat be\n\nbetter send\n\nhim to\n\n(having the fee)\n\nand saying\n\nin balon application.\n\nAs theis I wat In have no predical a all that\n\nAU\n\nbatement-\n\nmph is that but\n\n(16,858). Wt.21,659-1, 10,000,\n\n11. A.GE. W.\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nma\n\n22106\n\nB. was ill st\n\nhe comme ausky.\n\n341\n\nhe should\n\nhe\n\nAnd\n\nXo X M. A\n\nwih ing 19133\n\nthat before sending\n\nColder t\n\nLad\n\nThe 5.9.5.\n\nDenies\n\nhap\n\nbe examined\n\nsee if\n\nmedically fit\n\nLove\n\nhas\n\nbetter\n\ntele\n\nRo\n\nM.A.\n\nDe pumport of\n\nJa\n\npassage Carborun\n\nExcl. 2\n\nmarle\n\nto 16013.\n\n53218/7\n\nThe last sentence is idiotic. We can not",
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        "document_key": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]",
        "content_text": "## Name of Firms\n| Name of Firms | Nationality | Importer | Exporter | Manufacturer |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Alex Ross & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Arculli Brothers Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Arndt & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Arnhold Karberg & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Abaca & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Black & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Brakley Berblinger & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Bornemann, Eume & Reif |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| F. & Co. |  |  |  |  |\n| I lowitz & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Grue Basto & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Dady Burgor & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Bias Brothers. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Dodwell & Co. Ld. | B.I. | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Borner & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Felland China Trading Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Causer Eberius & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Sunphreys, S. & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Hutchison, J. D. & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Jebsen & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Joe & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Cane Crawford andell, K. Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Jelchars & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Bussan Kaisna |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Colder, A. G. & Co. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Ibənizawa & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Cell & Co. Ld. |  | Yes | Yes |  |\n| Sicchie & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |\n| Salz vieler & Co. |  |  | Yes |  |\n| Dewan Tomes & Co. |  | Yes |  |  |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913",
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        "title": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913",
        "content_text": "dispute with the Treasury \n\nas to the mode of \n\nRecording KSFO. / 18998/94 hei Home Provin \n\nService do ted from phim hay 1880. \n\nIt is since. Therefpe appens the \n\nHome 8th May 1880- \n\ncalculation, we cannot content that he was \n\nthat his It. Kong pension would be calculated \n\nlaws of the fotony, and \n\ntold in accordance with the \n\nI do not suc. \n\nhow \n\nLive \n\nColfer \n\n23th Dec 1894 \n\nKong 24 hod 1894 - 29th April 1913. \n\nThis huing a mixed pension \n\ncare \n\nIremme \n\nthat it and he dealt with by the Sen Deys \n\n? To gen des R25/6/3 \n\nSoneral Depe \n\nWill \n\nM.Harris \n\nза \n\ndeal with this? \n\nRus \n\n2576/13 \n\nThe amount of Ms Craig's Hong Kong persion \n\nThe computation is not \n\n13 \n\nis stated in 18506. given, but \n\nthe amount $1540, appears to be \n\nwas \n\n87 \n\n+ M. Craig's emoluments $4200, 22/60th \n\nд $3600 & quarters. This gros service in the Colony \n\n& some 1/2 pay leave would bring \n\n18 y 4 m \n\nhis penoconable scrvice down to 17 years. It looks \n\nhis Imft. service had been overlooked) \n\nin the computation, \n\nthe It. Kong Pension Munste gives months to transferred officers. \n\namit \n\ntherefore, \n\n04 \n\nif \n\nH. \n\nAt the tim \n\nin 1894 nothing \n\nas regards \n\nMN. Graig's travopen to H. Kong F was said to him about his position. \n\nI hav \n\nLoc \n\npension. In the event, therefore, of \n\nسانی \n\navoid the application \n\nof the new Rules to this case. \n\nHong Kong has already been asked to \n\n124 \n\nof Mr. Fathbridge \n\nthe Cotomy apparently is not \n\naffly the new Roles in the case (25157) and enamoured of the \n\nof the new arragements \n\nhave been sent. \n\nas 2 reminders \n\n? Ack Shony Kong for particulars of the computation reported in 18586, third that it may not be faible to avoid the afflreation of the Rules in theis \n\nChce \n\nnew \n\nstell M. Craig that the \n\nquestion this Aufl. pension is under comm. \n\n24. \n\nJan 30, 1913 \n\nI with 106 the Freeway at \n\nI understand that as a \n\nini. \n\nresult of some- official correspondence the Treasury with affley rule 4 (2 separate pensis) \n\nIn the part, like hisme. Refer to this or ack for calentation or \n\nCins \n\nBuil \n\nKlay \n\nprusun times out that How It Kong Seould han \n\nIf \n\nThe on beaming \n\n\"months\" We can \n\nfiven months\" Your the Treasury. \n\ncak fr \n\nThis can loffers for there of Tekligen",
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        "document_key": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]",
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        "title": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]",
        "content_text": "Page 221\n\n2\n\nREPORT FOR 1912,\n\nThe Members of Council beg to submit the following report for 1912.\n\nThe year has not been without its trials and difficulties but with great thankfulness we can show that progress has been made, that interest in the Society has been more widely extended among the residents of Hong Kong, and that the general membership has been largely increased.\n\nMembership. This increased membership is an encouraging feature of the year's work. The fact that women in all walks of life belong to the Society shows that it is taking its proper place in the religious life of the Colony.\n\nThe year closes with 112 Members in the Colony; of these 40 are young women earning their living as nurses, teachers, typists, or shop assistants; 20 others are also young women both married and un-married who, though not earning their own living, can gain help and benefit from the Society. Among the younger members it is of great value to have others of riper years and wider experience, and then there is also a large number of sustaining members, 24 of whom are doing Committee work in some form, and many of whom are ready to work definitely when called upon. These sustaining members, by their kind interest and their subscriptions, are really up-holding the Society and strengthening its influence.\n\nPage 3\n\nSocial Work. Very successful socials were given in February and March, and during the summer months the Bathing Party had its weekly outing and the Tennis Club met twice a week. Miss Schmidt was Hon. Treas. for the Bathing Party and Miss Mow Fung for the Tennis Club, and the Council wish to thank them for their services. Towards the end of the season, the tennis court rented at Kowloon had to undergo repairs, and then Mrs. Aitken and Mrs. Mohler each kindly gave the use of her court once a week, until the colder weather set in and the winter programme was entered upon.\n\nEducational Work. This programme comprised the Educational work for the winter months. It consisted of a 10 weeks' course in each of five different subjects, and the attendance at the lectures was well sustained throughout the ten weeks. The thanks of the Council are extended to the following ladies who have given their services to this educational work of the Society: Mrs. Gale and Dr. Alice Sibree with lectures on Home Nursing, Miss Denison drawing, Mrs Hogg and Mrs. W. H. Bell singing with Mrs. Black as accompanist, Mrs. Munton French lessons, Mrs. Mohler reading club.\n\nMiss May and Miss Tomes have acted as librarians, and are gradually discarding old books and procuring new ones, and Miss St John has been a member of Council.\n\nReligious Work. In connection with the distinctly Religious Work, a Bible Class was arranged for Sunday afternoon as well as the old established one on Tuesdays. The former was not taken advantage of, but the Tuesday one has been well attended. It has been conducted by Mrs. Kemp, who is now well-known to the members of the class, and her services have certainly been appreciated by them as well as by the",
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        "document_key": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]",
        "page_number": 56,
        "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]",
        "content_text": "## CONSTRUCTION\n\n1. The asphaltum and the mineral aggregate shall be heated separately in suitable appliances to a temperature of from 150° to 175° C.\n\n2. The cold filler shall be added to and thoroughly mixed with the mineral aggregate.\n\n3. The hot asphaltum shall be added to the mixture and the mixing shall be continued within the temperature limits specified until every particle of the mineral aggregate shall be thoroughly coated with asphaltum.\n\n4. The amount of asphaltum in the mixture shall be from 6 to 8% by weight of the total weight of the mixture.\n\n5. The mixture shall be carried to the work in suitable carts or dump wagons and shall not be colder than 125° C. when it reaches the street to which it is to be applied. The wagons shall be covered with canvas or other suitable material, to properly retain the heat in the mixture.\n\n6. The mixture shall be spread uniformly over the base with hot shovels and rakes to a depth of 25% greater than the finished thickness of wearing surface specified.\n\n7. The mixture shall be immediately compacted with a hot roller weighing at least 500 pounds per foot width of tare.\n\n## SPECIFICATIONS FOR ASPHALTUM\n\n(a) The asphaltum shall not lose more than 2% of its weight when heated to 163° C. for 5 hours.\n\n(b) The asphaltum shall not volatilize more than 2% of the bitumen present, nor shall the penetration at 25° C. after such heating be less than one-half of the original penetration.\n\n(c) The asphaltum shall be soluble in chemically pure carbon bisulphide at air temperature to the extent of at least 99.5%.\n\n(d) Not less than 99.5% of the total bitumen shall be soluble in chemically pure carbon tetrachloride at air temperature.\n\n(e) Not more than 91% nor less than 71% of the total bitumen shall be soluble in 86% Baum paraffin naphtha at air temperature.\n\n(f) The asphaltum shall be free from free carbon.\n\n(g) The asphaltum shall not contain more than 0.75% of paraffin scale.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]",
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        "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]",
        "content_text": "# HE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nClerk's Nama.\n\nLONDON STATIONS:---ELEOTRA HOUSE, 37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C. \n449, STRAND, W.C. \n41 & 42, PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W. \nFINSBURY PAYEMENT, E.C. \n11, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C. \n8, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. \n26, MARK LANE, E.C. \n29, MINDING LANE, E.C. \n6, DENMAN STREET, BOROUGH, S.E.\n\n| Colber | 12528633 | 1014 Holbern |\n|---------|-----------|-------------|\n| (8632 Wall) | 4 lines |  |\n| (3632 Wall) | (851 Avenue) | (852 Avenue) |\n\nISSUED FROM 41 & 42, PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W.\n\nNo. | No. | REMARKS\n----|-----|--------\n \n\nThe following TELEGRAM Received at \nREG 13 MAYIS 19.\n\n\"Eastern,\" \nFrom | Foreign No. | No. of Words | Dated | Time\n-----|------------|--------------|-------|-----\nradford |  |  | glasgow | \nhitworth |  |  : |  | \nherbert | andleder; |  | manche th: | \np cob | Jovay |  | Rinrichsen | \nclubrook, | manche tes | foll |  | \n\nREPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastern.\n\nDoubtful words should be OFFICIALLY repeated. See Rule Book.\n\nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Copy.\n\nWaterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915",
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        "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915",
        "content_text": "DATE.\n\nSUBJECT\n\nSemerally\n\n1915\n\n312an\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n70\n\n70.2 Jeb co\n\nTel Kr. 2706.\n\nDoblo 2 dele ist\n\n3\n\nHẠN. TONG\n\n479\n\nC\n\n4791\n\nREC REGI FEI\n\nW+B\n\nAdmy\n\nTreatment of Goods\n\nCranac\n\nConcurs\n\nTranshipper Goods.\n\nCohe\n\ntermy of proposed (elm & you)\n\nA\n\nIn totais\n\nRy.\n\nIn the pan on 5-1-85, shd. for fo. I ink an awe\n\n4704-\n\nthies y te bil. is sent thed.\n\nlot hom. & 7.0._d colier of this letter & 4704 thi.\n\nAr\n\nma\n\nAMC\n\n11V1/415\n\n2.2.1-\n\nR.\n\nC.D.\n\n2 FEB.\n\nNext subsequent Paper\n\n1303 P (88.195), Wt.31,086-13, 45,000, 12:13. A.E.W. (107,099)\n\n12\n\nPage",
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        "document_key": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916",
        "page_number": 503,
        "title": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916",
        "content_text": "From  \n\nleman in \n\nAkry. \n\n2. Mr Bonar Law will be \n\nglad to learn what steps \n\nshould \n\nbe taken for the \n\nL.O. Renewal \n\nfor Eastman's \n\n1916 \n\ncasefort. \n\n12 \n\n(Signed) H. J. READ.\n\nHONG KONG \n\n497 \n\n38197 \n\nDelmar Brunner \n\nShanghai \n\nTrawan. photo \n\n38197 \n\nREC REG 14 AUG 16 \n\nBro \n\nmaterial portions of \n\nAng. Tenough relating \n\nLetter No. 04874 rele \n\nLast previous Paper. Indemnity claims \n\n39 \n\nPhoto is orig (bleness) 70. 244 An \n\nNext subsequent Paper. \n\nAt Coleir \n\nto war \n\nThis letter is of considerable interest, and \n\nit may perhaps be useful to summarise its contents. The complainants protest \n\n1. Against the internment of Germans in Hong Kong \n\n2. Against the treatment of German property on \n\nthe following points :- \n\n(a) Compulsory liquidation; \n\n(b) Appointment of competitors to act as \n\nliquidators. \n\n3. The fact that these competitors have been allowed access to all the papers of the liquidated firms including those of their branches in China. \n\n4. The short time allowed between the appointment \n\nof the liquidators and the internment of the partner. \n\n5. The evident decision of the Government to put an end to the business of the Germans in Hong Kong altogether (In this connection it is to be observed that the protest appears to be written before the writers had heard of the change from conservative to complete \n\n(441) Wt. 14758-1. 27,000 7/16. BM & S. \n\nliquidation)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]",
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        "title": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]",
        "content_text": "27983\n\nREC\n\nREG 31 MAY 17\n\n371\n\n...\n\nPage 371\n\nParaphrase of Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong\n\nto the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n(Received Colonial Office 6.2 p.m. 30th May, 1917.)\n\nWith reference to your telegrams April 27th and May 12th, is it intended that firms in United States, Philippines and Japan removed from Statutory List on April 27th and May 13th should be allowed same telegraphic and postal facilities as other firms in those countries, subject however to being carefully censored. No instructions have been received by Chief Censor.\n\nMAY 20\n\nColier than a...\n\nPage XX",
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        "document_key": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]",
        "content_text": "## In respect to the method of treatment, it is advised that all cases be given the benefit of serum treatment. But to attain the best results, these factors are emphasized; the serum must \nbe potent; it must be injected early and in sufficient quantity \nand as shown above, intravenous as well as intraspinal injections may be given to advantage.\n\nWith an abundant supply of motive serum on hand and \nwith the full co-operation of the population, it is hoped the \ndevastating effect of the disease will be in a great measure \nameliorated.\n\nThe facts which lead to the conclusion that overcrowding \nrather than the actual numbers of carriers determines the \nspread of the disease are \n1. The meteorological conditions. The colder the weather, the greater becomes the overcrowding, \nand as a consequence greater is the number of cases developed.\n2. The relative incidence of the disease in crowded and \nuncrowded districts shows a pronounced decrease in the latter \nsections and a similar increase in the former.\n3. The prevalence of a single type in many of the patients (although all the types \nof meningococci have been found in carriers) points to the \npossibility of the infection travelling from one to another by \ndirect contact. In crowded conditions of existence this contact \nis, of course, closer.\n4. The gaol in which almost ideal \nconditions exist with regard to an absence of overcrowding, \nalthough harbouring 24.61 per cent of carriers among 130 \ninmates, yielded no cases during the epidemic.\n5. Furthermore, \nthe extent of carriers among contacts was less than among the \nprisoners. \n6. Also the number of European contacts was greater \nthan Chinese although the disease was almost entirely limited \nto the Chinese.\n\nAttention has also been called to the disregard of the principles of personal hygiene among the natives in respect to the nasal and mouth discharges, factors which serve to continue \nthe development of carriers.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]",
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        "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]",
        "content_text": "# \n## DESP \n### NO. \n### DATE \n### SUBJECT \n\n144 \n5 May \nthis S. Bagley. Surse apples. for promotion \n\n150 \nConf. Tel. Lo \n\n156 \n157 \n156 \n159 \n\n160 \nLoans. Tel. \n19 \nDishveal of profits from Eseal requisitioning of ships \n\nQuemy property \nBuilding grant for St. Joseph's bollege \nR. H. A. brang - 1 black Marine Office \nR.H.A. tuscons \nthe Pallic Sonucce \nSouth Develohment Scheme \nGout\". Bastenidogist \nRepatriation of Mental Patients \nRefront. Gr \nBlue Book for 1918 \nPesses. Annhold stanlang 460. \n\n### DESP \n### NO. \n### DATE \n\n194 \n17 June \n195 \n194 \n\n198 \n4 \nTel. \n# \n20/ 2/ \n202 \n* \nTel. \n23 \n205 \n206 \n* \nIcones - \n207 \n25 \nJonsp. J. Siin: Contributions to W. &O. Funch \nlexchanges of Land \nCaucation Dept. Estimates for 1920. changes \nColier Boobationar \nAccounting system in P... D. \nState to lehinese fyout. \nTel. Conf. \n22 \n173 \n26 \nLeon \n24 \n1.078 \n30 \nbony. \nTal. \nth \nwas Medals for Mercantile Marine \nMunsing Sisters bandition of senvice \nAbrist Mail & \nPassenger. \nAllex. is ft. bot. Choliman \nInsucase of Pensions \n208 \n207 \nLean. \n26 \n24 \n2/0 \nTel. \n28 \nwhite \nacting \nRotorial Dept. \nthise Bane Kuroiing Sasier \nbonf. 2 June Report on N. A. Defence Corps, 1918 \n182 \n5 \n185 \n19/ \n12 \n192 \nTel. \nRe-arrangement of s'illage of Ith Kung Ayam \nResignation of Sir N. May \nLice \nPensrim - 6. Parkinson \nbase of C. W. Talk - Aliens i change of British Ships \n\n### SUBJECT \n$ \n4 \n$ \n# \nPrice. 7-1919 - Birits & Deaits Registratio \nAmmo & Ammunition \ntermination of 'n \nA \n10- \n+ \nMissions to Examen i H. K. Incoronation \nRelease of bol. Officials from Avery salary pending rekstriction \nContributions to P. N. N. \nJones to W. &Q. Pensions \nPayments to enstituyses of enemy firms ritenues i Jañan \nSant Develynment Scheme \nKelinement of 17. Patison \nDeath of Duster. A. terrect \nthedical Officer \nAllowances é certain thenocero, Pa! E. \nBindes. 11-1919 - Trading with the lensing \nBoxes of stamp Ringes \nCompensation for compulsory punchase of land \nSrient Tobacco Factory \nCreation of yout. Decanions \nFounding of educational establishment et bewon \nPolice Astort of shallow waters in Deep Day \n2. A. J. Graham \nJ. \n2 \n\nPage",
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        "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922",
        "page_number": 550,
        "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922",
        "content_text": "Ian Governor's effort has been proposed. Further\n\nIn 15546/2hr says.\n\n4\n\nthat such terror ('hideous shame, infamous cyslam\" \"sredid shameful fact\") should causar annoyance\n\nto\n\na\n\ncommunity in which the keeping of\n\nwie thai in\n\nwide fund\n\nwh\n\nonly like expected.\n\nthat it did so\n\nG\n\nmatter of notoriety!\n\nher Ross, Acting Sect for Chinese Affairs unfortunat\n\n#\n\nthe same Ever (Jan 430)\n\n1974)\n\nLa\n\nIhm aus\n\n7\n\n做\n\nGh\n\nsuch heut in\n\ncharges\n\nWhich\n\nPo Lenny\n\ntheir winds\n\nLave\n\nL\n\na\n\nAnd\n\nC\n\n**\n\nwate\n\nabout\n\nthew\n\nChinese society (the Po Leung Kuk\n\nwhich exists for the protection\n\nof girl\n\n-\n\nthough Carr H. insinuated\n\n16459/\n\nク\n\nwomen\n\nthat it produced\n\nwas quite the contrary,\n\nin fact responsible for the capture\n\nof practically all\n\naft all\n\nCerr\n\nespecially the publication of which has formed the\n\nreal strength of the abolition movement.)\n\nto Louis\n\nAm 2. But (a) there is also\n\n4\n\nАллі Р бай\n\nProtection Society, which lill but Churchill's\n\ndecision\n\nsupported by station.\n\nhobally contains\n\n96 Ready\n\nw the petaviment Chinese\n\n* it\n\nWhy\n\nformed\n\n44\n\nجھے\n\ndirect outcome of\n\nthe offense given by the withires of the abolitionis\n\n(6) 2\n\ncay\n\nCla\n\nfrenation.\n\nstation sanity is t\n\nfact this fare is\n\nqullent changile\n\nIframe attain\n\ninmber of\n\n-i5.)\n\nthe Cheng\n\nPara 3.\n\nIt would hardly be decent to\n\n513\n\ninquire into\n\nthe Cali\n\nto delarl\n\nf\n\nbur Lane Cher Pall,\n\nthe Kouachita\n\nماكن\n\n2\n\nmuch respected member of the Chinese community\n\nmentioned in today's Honour list.\n\nboth from all a fri\n\nand\n\nblocomandare to cater forjasia. Concubines\n\nкога с\n\nit is\n\nтебя\n\nCheraman\n\ncecepind fosition in Chinese life, #and\n\nin the least discreditath for\n\nShortly have\n\n\"comentuage\n\nto have them\n\n(\n\nI suffere\n\nF\n\nwe Kale\n\nagitation for the suppression of\n\nin Hongkong,\n\nand their is the position\n\npresent.) the mention of them is simply\n\nA create prejudice.\n\nand of\n\nan alterift\n\nh. Lan houttbra Kaft\n\nCate\n\nThe\n\nfor.\n\nconsulteit\n\nJane Crai many other promment Chine But his to Stable is capable of framing jalg\n\nC\n\niamay\n\nfor himself. Para 4. Ch\n\nA\n\npasange quoted above\n\nCurt H. Spends\n\nof her campaign. Way the invented\n\nif the for hand\n\nWe shid be interested to hear any\n\ncy the min-Cras system.\n\ninvented the brew?)\n\nклас\n\nof any effective attempt in\n\nChina to put down\n\nAn abortive allupt is\n\nwews. (pages 204). Lately cofier of articles in the The System\n\nin Hongkong.\n\ncue\n\nfact\n\nmentioned in hos Hallifax's\n\nhave been sent\n\nCanton pure allanting\n\nHere are\n\nadmittedly",
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        "document_key": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]",
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        "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]",
        "content_text": "Tolophone, 3240 LONDON WALL.\n\nTELEGRAM\n\nTol, Address\n\nSIGNALLY, AVE,\" LONDON.\n\nTHE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY,\n\nDIRECT CABLE ROUTES FOR TELEGRAMS TO AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH AMERICA, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, STRAITS SETTLE SPAIN, PORTUGAL, GREECE, TURKEY, EGYPT, ALL PARTS OF AFRICA, &c. &c.\n\nSTATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN,\n\nTalaphos Nes.\n\nLONDON STATIONS:\n\nElectra HouEA.\n\n371 ISSUED FROM CHIEF CABLE STATION, ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT. REPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastern (Message Form 8,17)\n\nLETTERS ORIGINAL TIME\n\nDoubtful words should be OFFICIALLY repeated. See Rule Book. No inquiry respecting this Talmgrunn enn ba atb nded to without production of this Copy. See back of form for list of Company's Stations in London and Telephone Numbers\n\nTIMES OF OPENING AND CLOSILA.\n\nMrk's Nams. Time Received.\n\nCENTRAL CABLE Öpon 8 áut, to $ p.m. STATION, ALWAYS UPLO Saturdays to pu\n\nCOROLL 3240 Landon Wall 8, Leadenhall Street, B.D. &... Market Buildings, 701 Jam, to È þoku.\n\nH +1 *, Minolog Leno, 20, Mark Lane, M.C. 9 \"The Baltic,” Bury St. Entrance, E.0.3 8.m. 10. be S p. pu H\n\n7. Holbers Viadnot, E.Ů. I ... Iru J 2942 Ep. 4. Destano Street, Borough, & E. 1 Lam to 7 pm,\n\n2515 Bermud. 41 & 4, Parlament Street, B.W, 1 Fam to 1.1,\n\nFinsbury Parament, 1.Q. 1 11. Cannon Street, E.G. 4 слать 2 A Oster Circle AM Inner Circle PM\n\nTHE Gloc Examples, PW-3.45 p.m. HL-8,55 m. 933! 02 ContraL 707 Brdr.\n\nPROVINCIAL STATIONS : BIRMINGHAN:-14, Colier Row BRADFORD, Contmercial Street\n\nTEMPORARY ARRANGEMENT. Telegrams Via Eastern are accepted at the Telephone No. z Central Station of the Indo-European Telegraph | Office Hours AINA DE Company, Ld., 15, Old Broad Street, 2.0.2 (...) izs, Cansen Street, Open 8 p., Saturdays 15 pm. 31.0.10 p.m. 4418 Bristol * BRISTOL Ball Screat...... \"QARDIFF :* + A ENGLAND AFTER Ja.m. to 7 p.m. EASTER delegraph replay REMUDACID 316 Cartl Tam, to † puh. 10+ 105 á a.m. to † pum. 206.. M 7 nm to 10 pm 2340 Funda. 7770 Central. 7703) 778 1784 Central. 4167 Dental, BROS OLLY! (Lins, 183 Control 13, Marchanta” Exabanga, Bata Docker DÜNDER:-80, Bell Street ... EDINBURGH :-88, Frederick Breat GLASGOW :-), Royal Bank Place HULL-kenge Buildings, Lowɛnta LIVERPOOL-K 11, Exchange Building: The Cotton Exchange MANCHESTER :—44, 8pring Gardens... (NEWCASTLE-ON-TIKE:-- X Exchange Buildings, Quayalde PORTROUENOW, CORNWALL ... H+ 3 to 7 pm. ALWATS OPEN. 1. 8.30 am to 4:30 pm, 7am to 13 pu ++ 9.7. 17 ALWAYS OPEN. top.m. to 1 p.m. 10&p.. Clean, raf 5: 147 pm.\n\nHEAD OFFICES OF THE COMPANY: ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT, LONDON, Telegraphio Addram: EASTERN AVE, LONDON. Telephone: 3240 LONDON WALL.\n\nNOTR—la addresses cepainting of a same profond to a REGISTERED & ABBREVIATED ADDRESS. whom a trứng le one person at the house of another whose mama sa ako giran, the word \"DARE” (40) se sökt oquvalaqı ineered ifter thu nama of the addresses.\n\nTime in anved and greater accuracy is secured by the Public banding in their Telegrame direct to the Company'■ Samezn where receipts are given grata for the amount of argod,\n\nTelegrams for the Company's calles are mise received at all Postal Telegraph Offen, but should be marked \"VIA BALA 1 indicato in not charged for.\n\n+ · TELEGRAPHIO ADDRESSES REGISTERED FREE OF COST.\n\nBook of Telegraph Imma Paris Rules, len, can ho abudnad at the Hard Ofilem of the Company,\n\nai sai gì khi nha... - STUBBS",
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        "document_key": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]",
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        "title": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]",
        "content_text": "Memorandum on Conditions of Employment for Ladies in Hongkong.\n\nI\n\nOutfit\n\n275\n\nUniform is provided for Nursing Sisters so that they have only to consider their own private clothes.\n\nSince summer frocks are worn from April to November, a good supply of these is necessary. They should all be of washable material, such as voile, gingham, etc. Chinese tailors are very clever at copying a model, so many people bring out dress lengths to be made up here. Of silk materials, crepe-de-chine wears well: taffetas and glacé silks are useless, as they split almost at once.\n\nFor the colder months, one costume is enough. Teachers often wear a tweed skirt and a woollen jersey while in school. Silk jumpers are most useful. A thick coat is needed, also a light wrap. A good mackintosh is essential: it should be light-weight. (Elvery, of Conduit St., makes one specially for the tropics.) Furs are useful.\n\nMost people play tennis and golf: there is a good deal of dancing, both afternoon and evening. A net or lace evening frock is useful: most evening frocks are made of crepe-de-chine, net, or satin.\n\nA good supply of shoes should be brought, as these are very expensive. One pair of heavy shoes is all one needs as a rule. Stockings and underclothes are good and inexpensive here.\n\nIt is not necessary to bring a topee.\n\nFibre or some similar material is best for luggage or a dressing case. Nothing in the way of leather should be brought.\n\nII.\n\nArrival\n\nAll ladies are met on arrival if the date of arrival is known. If there is any possible doubt, a wire should be sent.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925",
        "page_number": 464,
        "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925",
        "content_text": "༡\n\nFROM\n\n1925\n\nHONG KONG\n\nIrving &.\n\nCIRCULATION :—————\n\nAir. Hergiler 16+\n\nPastlin\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nColfer.\n\nDATE\n\n5 April\n\nPension\n\nREC\n\n451\n\n15833\n\nR 6 FR 25\n\nAsst. U.S. of S.\n\nPerm U.S. of S.\n\nParb U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nPrevious Paper\n\n11015~\n\nAsks where he adjustment\n\nin his pension and, not date for the day\n\nhe went on half pay.\n\nin which\n\nI am\n\nafraid\n\nI am not able to\n\nappreciate\n\nthe face of this suggestion.\n\nMINUTES\n\nI have not been\n\namist pl?\n\nSubsequent Paper\n\nI can't follow. It was on vacation leave up to the date of his retirement.\n\nState that in the\n\ncives his request\n\nin this\n\no\n\nJay\n\nnot understood.\n\nfitt. April 14, 1925\n\n16/4.\n\nAt once\n\nAEC\n\n34813) Wt. 17833/38 Gp, 140 50000 12-24 W & S Ltd.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]",
        "page_number": 44,
        "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]",
        "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\n41\n\nC. 3395\n\nFROM\n\nColier 3pm\n\nFOR CIRCULATION!\n\nMr. Malon\n\nMr.\n\nAND\n\nAsst. U.S. of S.\n\nDATE\n\nFEB 1926\n\nReport of Medical and\n\nSanitary Depts, 14\n\nIs 15 copies of each for\n\nuse\n\nPerm3 U.S. of S.\n\nPark U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nof the\n\nPrevious Paper\n\nTo for. 16t-cous-\n\n31 MAY 1926\n\nSubsequent Paper\n\nGou 1692.\n\nMOLER) W4, 14587,5 45 11/6-arer X132\n\nCAM.S.\n\nChee\n\nMINUTES papers i filmy\n\nDr. Rutherford\n\nThis has only\n\nreached me.\n\nyour\n\nminutes saluted 24/2\n\nMere put it\n\non the\n\nAgenda for certify micking\n\nWith 5/5 13/5\n\nThis is on the Agenda for the meeting This afternoon & Rutherford.\n\n4-5-26",
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        "document_key": "CO129-502-10 Macao opium traffic 6-12-1926 - 7-12-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-502-10 Macao opium traffic 6-12-1926 - 7-12-1927",
        "content_text": "## 7361. SAT. 41 。。 10th September, 1987\n\nI have the honour to inform you that the requirement in 1987 is more than a Majority Card authorised by the Government of Hongkong to supply the Macao Shippers' Association with monthly, and beemonrenulis (colder?) statistics in reply.\n\nI have the honour that Majority Parliament of certain opium control arrangements prior to 1925, 50th Portugal and certain other countries cooperating with the signatories not to be part of opium smuggling into illicit channels is important for working out pooled/thing the most appropriate application from India to Hong Kong's attitude or the date of India in this tor (one?) unotang (untangling?) were into a Majesty's Ana...\n\nLisbon tomrás (tomorrow?) the clone of last year on the grounds US the cofind (confined?) poly (policy?) as the export of Indian opium to the Per (Persian?) Inst...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-504-12 Loan to cover work on Shing Mun Valley Scheme etc.- draft ordinance 28-4-1927 - 4-12-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-504-12 Loan to cover work on Shing Mun Valley Scheme etc.- draft ordinance 28-4-1927 - 4-12-1927",
        "content_text": "## 1927\n**CLOSED UNTIL**\nHong \ntrong có 124 \n`129/504/1` \nPrevious \nNo. 2015 3. \n어 \n**SUBJECT** \nShing-mun Valley Scheme. \nb. a. \n`23082/26`. \nSubsequent \n`2845/28`. \n**FILE C.** \n`(1367)` `Wt.29558/47` 2,000-10/39 N.P.Co. `G.682/10`",
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        "content_text": "# 1937\n\n30153 \n30153 \n**HONG KONG** \n\nPrevious \nia. \nSubsequent \n**Shing Mun Valley** \n23082/26. \n52845/28 \nM Unkabuck 27/4, \n4 \n17r Ellis \nMr Allis \nhe Becker 276. \nEllis \nIn Becherd \n2416 \nJ \nSin S Sainalle 647. \nSu & Win 7/7 In Ponoby Jean 7/7 \nM'Eller is 572 \n**W. Section** \nC.D. \n8 \nIn Becker 24/7 \n\nScheme. \nTo Ezechil \n(operty to Becker \n26/2 \nSu J. Grinder 26.7 Sie ✓ Wilson 287 In Belletr \nRay \nNew Bee Kell hu Ellis \nC.R \nto Beinen \nin Ellis \n\n| PUT BY | CR | $78 | 5/8 | 30/u... | 10/2 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| he Becked. |  |  |  |  | 10/2 |\n\nCRJ Lan \nPUT BY \nCR 24/3 \nM Beckett \nCR \n26 \n33 183. \n**C. Requin desparar** \nPUT BY \n\n`(60318) Wt. 17930-38 15,000 12/26 H.St. G. 101/33A`",
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        "content_text": "## ASTROVES UNDER STATUTE\n\n`2574/27` 3 Moan arough.\n\n(Cashes when details may be expected.)\n\nI submit draft reply.\n\nhe Ju also fur. huinul on Acodromm fill below Pallelicsuck 27/4\n\n2. Tel to Gov. 28th April 1927 - Then conferent with Gechiel. Kiel with Mr and submit draft.\n\n3. To Gov. tel.\n\n4. C.(C.O.) 20% fare Trummits draft I fane 127 trave Ondea)\n\n5. To Sw. bong (w/e end. in 4) -cos са\n\n6. To C.A w/2 38 Stouches. I JU\n\n7. For til (Juggats local issue)\n\n-2 JUN 1927 \n\nBle 2 211 Jumah)",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nI had thought of a local loan before, but rejected the idea on the assumption that if it had been practicable for us, the Standing Committee would not have suggested a sterling loan, with its various exchange disadvantages. Apparently the whole of the 1916 Loan will be paid off this year, although it will not have to be till 1 Dec 1925. In present conditions in the market, it is quite likely that holders will be glad to reinvest. The issue of a new loan does not seem favourable at the moment, although we might have hoped to manage even here.\n\nI wish to send a telegram to the Colonial Office. Are there any outstanding subscriptions to the bonds which are liable? If there were, it is hard to say, but it is bad in principle.\n\nIf we adopt the suggestion (`512` of the Standing Committee, vide repeated), it should not be late. Please advise.\n\nMe Buchanan.\n\nFor your information. One may perhaps tone down the hand... \n\n## \n27/6/2 \n12",
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        "content_text": "5 \n\nof the Hong Kong & Shanghai \nBank on these terms; they firmly expect to have the handling of the local issue if it is \nbrought out locally. \n\nThere is a merit in having a local issue if the terms of the War Loan are clearly \nfollowed. There is an \nobvious advantage in having at least 50% to be paid off in specie. \n\nIt can \nhardly be expected that \none would readily borrow at such unfavourable terms. \n\nRaising \na small loan like this in London with the necessary expense, in view of H. Hong's present financial straits, will likely undermine its credit or foil the larger loan which you \nwant to raise in \ntwo \ninstallments. \n\nThere is a certain advantage from a political front in keeping the treaty Powers interested in a \nloan.",
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        "content_text": "## Weller St Elbr \n\nMr. Ellis. \n\nWhen you speak of repayment in 5 years, I presume you have in mind a clause similar to clause 4 of the War Loan Ordinance, 1916, enabling the Governor to redeem at any time after 5 years.\n\nIf we issued 5-year bonds for Hong Kong here, say 5 per cent Bonds at 99, the \"expenses\" of underwriting etc., would bring the net proceeds below 97, and the effective annual cost to the Government would approximate to 5 per cent. To this must be added any risks of fall in the Hong Kong exchange (I though of course if the exchange should happen to be higher at the time of redemption there would be a profit instead of a loss in this respect).\n\nFor the reasons you give I entirely agree that it would be better to let the Governor raise the loan locally as he proposes, even at 6 per cent. locally.\n\nGAAR  \nim deb herewith  \num my G.G. 6.7.27  \n7.7.27",
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        "content_text": "8. Gu Tel.\n\n9.\n\n(aurant reply no?) \n\nTel cons to \n\n078th July 1927.\n\n577127\n\n\n10.\n\nOw Tel \n\n(Particulars of percent Lown \n\nHave You \nof Hong? \n\n21/7/27 \n\n1817157 \n\nMr. Beckett.\n\nI see that the Colonial Govt. propose to \ninvite tenders for the loan, with 6% interest.\n\nAs they are not likely to get tenders above par, although the investor may be willing to lend money to the Govt. at 6%, they might do better by inviting tenders on a basis and accepting on a 5¼% basis, tenders below par.\n\nYou might telegraph suggesting that they should consider this.\n\n25.7\n\nAs proposed.\n\n28.7.27 \n\nDo for \nat once.\n\n29 July 27 \n\n# Conf. \n## \n| Date | Ref. | \n| --- | --- | \n| 21/7/27 | 1817157 | \n| 25.7 | ... | \n| 28.7.27 | ... | \n| 29 July 27 | ... | \n\nG.G.26·2-27 \n8.1.6. \n1882-2017 \nRel \n12 To Choke 7 9.10, 11-",
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        "content_text": "## B. Goo. tel.\n\n4 August 27 (will sail at par at 6%)\n\nSuppose he must have his way.\n\n&ca. 47 conf. KD3 578 1/5/8\n\n14 To Choke 13 - ROYED. Como rep 13 at nu Conf. 1/10/27 returns\n\nعمل reste afford that may to current balanced's Gre exempt from military Calibration)\n\nI dare say ? as we shall have trout. in deft heritage.\n\nمين with probably small A Cat & asu\n\nsection 15 J arh. for tim Loan cau was passed and sanctioned without their Kernage.\n\nI'm wrath the suumy x. -um for Acluding the barney.\n\n16. So War Office War Offers comy If fee 1927\n\nPage 8",
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        "content_text": "## Page 9\n\nIn Becket.\n\n? Remind Wo of refce `Mt 10/2/28` 16 Broccoń 1612 17TWO A 6FEB 1928 6 M. Beckett- ? wo Remand W.O. again-1 of 16817 18.2010. \n\n## Page \n\n29 MAR 1988 30/4 h 1/4 1990 far. 134 23 APR 1928 52845/28 24 24/3 B16\n\n## Page B\n\n| Name | \n| --- | \n| Mr. Ellio | \n| Mr. sohrabs | \n| Mr. E. J. Harding, | \n| Sir C. Strachey, | \n| Sir J. Shuckburgh. | \n| Sir G. Griddle. | \n| Sir C. Davis. | \n| C. D. | \n| Sir S. Wilson. | \n\n4 Dec 1917 e 10 10 16 Lin Lam cu to request you to inform Mr. Prmsby-Gore. Eafl of Clarendon. Fr. Amery.\n\n**DRAFT**\n\nThe A.C. That owing to the financial conditions in Houghing arising out of the shite and boyerth Anand It continued state of disturbance in S. China it has become accessary that The cost of the Shing man Valley Scheme, should be transferend from loan fundo instead of from revenue as had been contemplated. The scale of The works has also been drastically uduced. \n\nA Loan has been caused locally $5,000,000 and from this amount it is profound to cepay folkurità The Colonijs current balanus femorale 16m \n\n## Page 11",
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        "content_text": "The thing which it is in anticipation so be approximately $2,000,000. \n\nThe position be as this amount hand funds, and received in been spent from loan corresponding upon amount. \n\nMilitary contribution has broadly run far short in refert of this which militer, sum men underrechnet, was faid, had been credited contribution, to the current balances of Colony.\n\nThe Governor has asked for formal approval that the current balances shd not be held to contribute a second line against hiding Contribution, and A iniri Can AC's concurrauer in giving the affioral desired by Sir Clementi.",
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        "content_text": "## TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nDated 4th August 1927.\n\n(Received Colonial Office 11.15 a.m. 4th August 1927.)\n\n**Confidential.**\n\n(11) Your telegram of 29th July, Loan.\n\nI am advised on full consideration that the best course is to issue at par at 6% and I am proceeding accordingly.",
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        "content_text": "## Confidential\n\nMr. E. J. Harding.  \nSir C. Strachey.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nSir G. Grindle.  \nSir C. Davis.  \nSir S. Wilson.\n\n30153  \n13 11  \nCoded & sent  \nv 2.40pm 29/7  \nAnad 13  \n\nHe \n\nMr. Ormsby-Gore.  \nEarl of Clarendon  \nMr. Amery.\n\nDRAFT.  \nA 29JUL  \n0  \n\nWel (conf. cock)  \nSor. Houghing  \n\nYou at 18 July  \nLoan proposals approved generally  \n\nlut you are not likely  \nto be able to borrow although investors  \nmay be willing to lend at below 6% you  \n\nComfy 6 cam  \nShuch  \n\nConsider whether  \nyour folk  \nwould not do  \nbetter  \ninviting  \nCopies of 2.9.10.this  \na ca. cruf 47 aufin  \nX In Ellis to see faftin action  \n\non 5 1/2% basis  \nand accepting lenders below for. Jitce  \nwould of  \nCJunu  \nprovide go.  \ninterest not exceeding 6%.",
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        "content_text": "## Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nDated 18th July, 1927.\n\n(Received, Colonial Office, 12.39 p.m., 18th July, 1927.)\n\n**Confidential**\n\nYour telegram of 8th July. Loan. Only $900,000 War Loan remains to be repaid on 1st November. I propose to take in September powers by Ordinance for a loan of $5,000,000 at 6% and to invite tenders due 1st November next for $3,000,000 of bonds out of this total as at present advised bonds would be $1,000, $5,000, $10,000 bonds to be redeemable after 1932 and all to be redeemed by 1st November 1938. I do not propose to give the bonds the privilege of Section 12 of 1916 Ordinance.",
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        "content_text": "# \nMr. E. J. Harding. \nSir C. Strachey. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nSir G. Grindle. \nSir C. Davis. \nSir S. Wilson. \nMr. Ormsby-Gore.\n\n## \n6 \n7/7 \nEarl of Clarendon, \nMr. Amery. \n30153/22 \n\n**Coder Sent** 1.0/m 8th July 27.\n\n## \n15 \n9 \n1 \nR 8JUL \nYour til 21 June \nI \n\nDRAFT. W. (cauf. code) Lovemor \nloan being raised \nLaised locally \nShould be paid to \nhave fullest possith particulars \nadvance. \nWhen do you expect \nWar Loan \nand \nLow Loom \nwould \ncaise new loan? Should \nbe glad if you Movision of [section 12 \nwd \nconsider whettem \nOrace \n128 1816 \nshould not be orilled",
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        "content_text": "## Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\nDated 21st June.\n(Received Colonial Office 7.30 a.m. 21st June, 1927)\n\nYour telegram of 1st June concerning loan with the advice of the Executive Council suggest local issue of a loan of $5,000,000 at 6% under conditions similar to War Loan Ordinance of 1916. $3,000,000 War Loan will be repaid this year and a good deal of this money would probably be re-invested in the new loan. There is a demand for local loan for trustee security. Estimated that $3,000,000 will be required this year which can be obtained at par and remainder next year.\n\nLocal loan avoids exchange difficulty and expenditure will be largely local. There is possibility of further loan being required later when sterling loan may be advisable for fund(s).\n\nRECEIVED  \n21 JUN 1927  \nCOL.  \nFFI",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nMr. E. J. Harding.  \nMr. Strachey.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nSir G. Grindlay  \nSir C. Davis.  \nSir S. Wilson.  \nMr. Ormsby-Gore.  \nEarl of Clarendon.  \nMr. Amery.\n\n2/6.\n\nJUN 1927\n\nI have the honour to transmit to you the accompanying draft of a Royal Order to raise a sum of £500 to meet certain expenses incurred in connection with the objects specified in my despatch of the 1st instant, 28 April. Beside this despatch reaches you, I shall no doubt have been able to telegraph the nature of the arrangement more fully with the Treasury for depressione.",
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        "content_text": "18 \n\nYou should readily take cognizance of the best estimates \n\nand through discussion in the Board, the Estimate amount to be revised \n\nand the details specified \n\nin the schedule, such \n\nalterations or additions in \n\nconnection if any, the draft- \n\ning. \n\nIf this is done, the Crown Agents could pro- \n\nceed to make \n\nwithout waiting further. Or, alternatively, \n\nthey could \n\nissue \n\nif it were thought desirable \n\nto do so by \n\nthe authorities, \n\nGill \n\nwould \n\nmake advances to the \n\nColony on the basis \n\nof the Estimates. \n\nYou should however transmit copies of the Estimates as \n\nsoon as possible, as they \n\nwill be required \n\nimmediately after the south. \n\n(Signed) L. S. AMERY",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nDear Ellis,\n\n4, MILLBANK,\nWESTMINSTER,\nLONDON, S.W.1.\n2nd June, 1927.\n\nWith reference to our conversation of yesterday relating to the proposal to issue a loan for Hongkong amounting to about £500,000, I enclose two copies of the draft model specific loan Ordinance which Hongkong should pass under the provisions of the General Loan and Inscribed Stock Ordinance No. 7 of 1913 as amended by Ordinance No. 16 of 1921.\n\nProvided the terms of the draft ordinance are closely followed and the number of the Ordinance is telegraphed as soon as it is passed, we could proceed to make the issue without waiting for the arrival of the Ordinance itself. The Colony should, however, forward copies by the first mail as they will be required for various purposes directly after the issue. If there is a local income tax, the Governor should make the necessary proclamation under the provisions of the Income Tax Ordinance that interest on loans payable to persons not resident in the Colony is subject to income tax.\n\nW. D. Ellis Esq., C.M.G.",
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        "content_text": "## p. -2- \n\nThe Colony is exempt from local income tax. \n(See Colonial Office despatch of 17th April 1923, paragraph 6)\n\nIf you could send the draft Ordinance out to the Colony by today's mail, and telegraph the particulars required for the schedule as soon as you had the information, it might be possible, by immediate enactment of the Ordinance, to have the loan issued in July. Or, alternatively, as soon as we know that the Ordinance has been passed, we shall be in a position to make advances to Hongkong on its security, leaving the issue of the loan over till October.\n\nYours sincerely,\n**CA.**\n\nPage 20\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "# MODEL OF \"SPECIFIC\" LOAN ORDINANCE\n\nNo. of 19\n\nAn Ordinance to make provision for raising a Loan of Pounds Sterling for the Construction of certain Public Works and other purposes.\n\n## Preamble\n\nWhereas it is expedient to raise a loan of Pounds sterling for the purposes specified in the Schedule hereto; Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as **The Loan Ordinance**.\n\n2. The Governor is hereby authorised to issue debentures or stock or both under the provisions of \"The General Loan and Inscribed Stock Ordinances, 1913 and 1924\" to an amount sufficient to produce as nearly as may be the sum of Pounds sterling, and such further sum as may be necessary to defray the expenses of issue.\n\n## Application of Loan\n\n3. The money to be borrowed under the authority of this Ordinance shall be appropriated and applied to the purposes specified in the schedule hereto provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor with the Sanction of the Secretary of State to utilize any savings in respect of any item in the said schedule to cover any excess of expenditure in respect of any other item.\n\n## Contribution to Sinking Fund\n\n4. Contribution to Sinking Fund, as contemplated by the provisions of Section of \"The General Loan and Inscribed Stock Ordinances, 1913 and 1921\" shall commence in respect of...",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT\nMr. E. J. Harding.  \nSir C. Strachey.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nSir G. Grindle.  \nSir C. Davis.  \nSir S. Wilson.  \nMr. Ormsby-Gore.  \nEarl of Clarendon.  \nMr. Amery.\n\n1/6  \n10 ...  \nTel... in caft Code  \nYours.  \n1923  \n\nR 2 JUN.  \n...  \nEntial  \nM.Mlong  \n36153  \nCoded Trent  \n6.40pm. A. 1/6/27  \n\n**Confidential**  \nMy ... to my 28 ... of Treasury are ... my ... for times. of expert... on aushore total amount required the  \nMy loan is about £5075. It is not desirable to raise it by direct loan from other Authorities and it is thought that it should be raised in the open market.  \nCrown Agents consider that a loan for 53 years with no option of earlier redemption...",
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        "content_text": "24 \n\ncould be raised at the outset about this \n\nWhat \n\nat \n\nare your views \n\nto furnish \n\nperiod \n\nThe shorter the term the \n\nmore onerous the terms \n\nand the larger the \n\nSinking \n\nFund contribution \n\nto be paid by \n\nyou by a model Council \n\nPart of this is addressed promptly \n\nto facilitate \n\nit may reach the Loan Committee before the holiday \n\n...",
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        "content_text": "As to 14 as what is the requisite \n\nthat a guideline \n\nfor a provision that a Mes effort may \n\nMay be compatible \n\nretried at 60 except the existing \n\nlaw which \n\nhas not been altered \n\nalready permits retirement at \n\n55-\n\nIt's an inclining or declining use \n\nI likely refer \n\nto retaining retirement at 55 with \n\namendment), \n\nWallets \n\n11/0 \n\nabr \n\n8 \n\n2010 \n\n19 \n\n2 OAGU \n\nEfro \n\n20 JUN 1928✓ \n\n20. Gov. 250 \n\n4/5/28 \n\nMo. Y of 1928-Chinese Temples order. \n\nThis is an interesting piece of legislation which has been passed at the practically unanimous request of the responsible members of the Chinese \n\nCommunity. So far as the principle of the Ordinance is concerned, it can therefore be sanctioned. \n\nIt is not clear, however, as to whether the instructions in Article XXVII of the Royal Instructions of 14th February 1927 have been properly carried out. \n\nI am \n\nApparently",
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        "content_text": ".9\n\nApparently it is held that the Ordinance comes under this Article as the Governor has forwarded a certificate as required by it. It does not, however, contain any clause saving the rights of H.M. etc. as directed in the first sentence of the Article. I do not quite see how these rights could be affected but since the Ordinance is held to come under that Article it should presumably contain such a clause.\n\nIf this is agreed I do not know whether it is necessary to re-enact the whole Ordinance or to pass an amending Ordinance inserting such a clause, or whether we can allow it to stand as passed while drawing the attention of the Governor to the omission.\n\nElmi\n29.6.28\n\nI do not think this is a private bill within the meaning of Art: XXVI of the R.D. I do not consider a comment on the absence of the clause referred to above to be necessary.\n\nDr. I\n29.6.28\n\nI am content to accept Mr. Schhardt's view that this does not come under Art XXVII of the R.D. As he points out, the opposite view is taken in the draft.\n\n? Sanction 47\nCAR 577625\n\nJoy 21 2 DAG 229\n\nMr. Exfz (20 Ianalo) 9- JII 199€",
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        "content_text": "Transferred\n\n58807/28\n\nCase\n\nPage 12\n\nAge of 60 and placing upon him the onus why he should not be retired.\n\nOrdce. seems to be harmless.\n\nNow sanction.\n\nHowever, the 12\n\n5. Came\n\n13.9.28\n\nmention\n\nyou\n\nme\n\nall factions Oxelles. This sums to me for sanction for the same remaining in my mind on 18. But Petition\n\nI have had\n\n12 12/9\n\n29 transferred to the general file.\n\nIt has been shared in which I have been placed in the first instance.\n\nHeffin\n\n229.28\n\n8.8.28 Ordce. 12 of 1928 Companies Amendt.\n\n30.0.4.9.393\n\n31.0.A.G. Conf\n\nNos 309 31\n\nTransferred to 52953/28.\n\nReason for Companies Order.\n\n14.8.28\n\nOrda. 13 of 1928 - WHO. Pension's Amendt.\n\n13 of 1928 - (regd. General)\n\nThis has been held up for pp.\n\nSanction 2nd August passed\n\n14/xi/28\n\n87/11/91\n\nPage 13",
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        "content_text": "No 351\n\nSir,\n\nREC\n\n2 0 AUG 1928\n\n14\n\n23.\n\nIVED\n\nFICE\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nHONGKONG, 17th July, 1928.\n\nEnclosure No.1.\n\nEnclosure 1.2.\n\nI have the honour to submit for the\n\nsignification of His Majesty's pleasure the following\n\nOrdinance intituled:\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Distress for Rent\n\nOrdinance, 1883.\n\nThe enclosed report by the Attorney General\n\nexplains the reasons for this Ordinance.\n\nMJ\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nJ. D. Southosh.\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.H.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "L.S.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n15\n\nNo. 8 of 1928.\n\nI assent.\n\nW. T. SOUTHORN,\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\n13th July, 1928.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883.\n\n[13th July, 1928.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Distress for Rent Amendment Ordinance, 1928.\n\n2. Section 15 of the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883, is amended by the insertion of the words \"or firm\" immediately after the word \"person\" in the fourth line thereof.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 1 of 1883, s. 15.\n\n3. Paragraph (7) of section 16 of the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883, is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor :-\n\n(7) Goods delivered to a person or firm exercising a public trade, to be carried, wrought, worked up, or managed in the way of the trade or employ of such person or firm.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 1 of 1883, s. 16.\n\n4. The Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883, is amended by the insertion of the following section immediately after section 39 ;---\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 1 of 1883, insertion of new section.\n\nApplication of Ordinance.\n\n40. The provisions of this Ordinance shall extend to New Kowloon, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910.\n\nNo. 34 of 1910.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 12th day of July, 1928.\n\nH. R. BUTTERS,\n\nDeputy Clerk of Councils.\n\nV",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHong Kong.....13th July 1928.\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No...........................................................of 1928.\n\n16\n\n1.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, intituled an Ordinance to amend the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1885, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2. The power of seizure given by the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883, is a power to seize movable property found in the apparent possession of the \"person\" from whom the rent is claimed. The term \"person\" does not include a firm, and it is therefore not possible to issue a distress warrant against a firm in the firm name. This is inconvenient because premises are often let to firms and the landlords frequently do not know the names of the partners. Section 2 of this Ordinance therefore amends section 15 of the principal Ordinance so as to enable a distress warrant to be issued to seize the goods of a firm. Section 3 of this Ordinance makes a consequential amendment in section 16 of the principal Ordinance.",
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        "content_text": "3.\n\n17\n\nSection 24 of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910, provides that except by way of appeal no proceeding relating to land in the New Territories shall be commenced in the Supreme Court unless the Crown is a party, or unless the Land Officer shall certify that the capital value thereof exceeds $500. There is one exception to this provision, i.e., when the land in question has been exempted from the Ordinance under section 13 (2). It would appear that the issue of a distress warrant is a proceeding relating to land, within the meaning of the above Ordinance, and that the issue of a distress warrant is a proceeding in the Supreme Court. It would therefore appear to be impossible to issue a distress warrant for any part of the New Territories except in cases falling under 13 (2), under the exceptions in section 24 of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance. This is inconvenient in the case of New Kowloon, where in many cases the conditions are more similar to those of the old Colony than to those of the New Territories. Accordingly, section 4 of this Ordinance provides that the provisions of the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883, shall extend to New Kowloon.\n\n4.\n\nor\n\nIn my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\n76. E. Porlock\n\nAttorney General.",
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        "content_text": "GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 4th May, 1928.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to submit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following Ordinance intituled:-\n\nAn Ordinance to suppress and prevent abuses in the management of Chinese temples and in the administration of the funds of Chinese temples.\n\n2. I also forward a certificate under my hand as required by Article XXVII of the Royal Instructions dated the 14th February, 1917. I enclose the usual report by the Attorney General explaining the objects of the Ordinance.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant,\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&C.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\nNo. 7 of 1928.\n\nI assent.\n\nL.S.\n\nC. CLEMENTI, Governor.\n\n27th April, 1928.\n\nAn Ordinance to suppress and prevent abuses in the management of Chinese temples and in the administration of the funds of Chinese temples.\n\n[27th April, 1928.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Chinese Temples Ordinance, 1928.\n\n2. In this Ordinance \"Chinese temple\" includes:-\n\n(a) All Miu (廟, Temples), Tsz (寺, Buddhist Monasteries), Kun and To Yuen (觀, Taoist Monasteries), and Om (庵, Nunneries), and\n\n(b) every place where:—\n\n(i) in accordance with the religious principles governing Miu, Tsz, Kun, To Yuen or Om, worship of gods, or communication with spirits, or fortune telling, is practised or is intended to be practised, and where\n\n(ii) fees, payments or rewards of any kind whatsoever are charged to or are accepted from any member of the public for the purpose of worship or communication with spirits or fortune telling or any similar purpose, or in return for joss candles or incense sticks, or on any other account whatsoever.\n\n3.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Chinese Temples Committee referred to in section 7 to make, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, regulations for any of the following purposes:—\n\n(a) the registration, management, control, and inspection of Chinese temples;\n\n(b) the management, control and audit of the funds of Chinese temples;\n\n(c) the duties of sz chuk (temple keepers).\n\nShort title.\n\nInterpretation.\n\nRegulations.\n\nPage 19\n\n \n(To be continued on next page)\n\n(The rest of the page is blank)\n\nPage 19\n\n(End of page)\n\nwas removed and re-formatted to meet the requirements: \n\nHere is the revised response in HTML format as requested:\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nNo. 7 of 1928.\n\nI assent.\n\nL.S.\n\nC. CLEMENTI, Governor.\n\n27th April, 1928.\n\nAn Ordinance to suppress and prevent abuses in the management of Chinese temples and in the administration of the funds of Chinese temples.\n\n[27th April, 1928.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Chinese Temples Ordinance, 1928.\n\n2. In this Ordinance \"Chinese temple\" includes:-\n\n(a) All Miu (廟, Temples), Tsz (寺, Buddhist Monasteries), Kun and To Yuen (觀, Taoist Monasteries), and Om (庵, Nunneries), and\n\n(b) every place where:—\n\n(i) in accordance with the religious principles governing Miu, Tsz, Kun, To Yuen or Om, worship of gods, or communication with spirits, or fortune telling, is practised or is intended to be practised, and where\n\n(ii) fees, payments or rewards of any kind whatsoever are charged to or are accepted from any member of the public for the purpose of worship or communication with spirits or fortune telling or any similar purpose, or in return for joss candles or incense sticks, or on any other account whatsoever.\n\n3.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Chinese Temples Committee referred to in section 7 to make, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, regulations for any of the following purposes:—\n\n(a) the registration, management, control, and inspection of Chinese temples;\n\n(b) the management, control and audit of the funds of Chinese temples;\n\n(c) the duties of sz chuk (temple keepers).\n\nShort title.\n\nInterpretation.\n\nRegulations.\n\nPage 19\n\nPage 19",
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        "content_text": "2.0\n\nAll Chinese temples to be in complete and separate buildings used for no other purpose.\n\nAll Chinese temples to be registered.\n\n(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.\n\n(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as obliging the Chinese Temples Committee to make any regulation before exercising any other power conferred on the Committee by this Ordinance.\n\n4.-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4), no Chinese temple which is in existence at the commencement of this Ordinance shall be maintained for a longer period than six months from the date of the commencement of the Ordinance unless it is in a building which is a complete and separate building and which is used for the purpose of such temple and for no other purpose.\n\n(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4), no Chinese temple shall hereafter be established or maintained unless it is in a building which is a complete and separate building and which is erected and is used for the purpose of such temple and for no other purpose.\n\n(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) or (2), it shall be lawful for the Chinese Temples Committee referred to in section 7 to exempt any existing or future Chinese temple from the provisions of sub-section (1) or (2) as the case may be. Any such exemption may be withdrawn at any time by the Chinese Temples Committee upon such notice as to the said Committee may seem proper.\n\n(4) If the Chinese Temples Committee refuses to grant any exemption applied for under sub-section (3), or withdraws any exemption granted under the said sub-section, it shall be lawful for the applicant, within fourteen days from the date of such refusal or withdrawal as the case may be, to appeal by petition to the Governor in Council, and upon consideration of such petition and of any reply thereto submitted in writing by the Chinese Temples Committee it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to allow or to dismiss the appeal, and if he allows the appeal the exemption shall be granted, or the withdrawal of the exemption shall be cancelled, by the Chinese Temples Committee, with retrospective effect in each case to the date of the refusal or withdrawal as the case may be.\n\n5.-(1) No Chinese temple which is in existence at the commencement of the Ordinance shall be maintained for a longer period than six months from the date of the commencement of this Ordinance unless it is registered in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\n(2) No Chinese temple shall hereafter be established or maintained unless it is registered in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\n(3) Registration shall be effected at the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and the following particulars shall be supplied in order to effect registration:\n\n(a) The name of the temple or intended temple.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "(b) The address of the temple or intended temple, including the street or road and lot number.\n\n(c) The gods worshipped or intended to be worshipped.\n\n(d) The nature or intended nature of the control of the temple, that is to say, whether by a committee or by a family or by an individual, and the title of the committee or the name of the family or individual.\n\n(e) The name and address of the sz chuk (temple keeper), if any.\n\n(f) Particulars of the funds, investments and properties held at the time of registration, and where, how and by whom those funds, investments or properties are held.\n\n(g) The application or intended application of the revenue of the temple, including the revenue from funds, investments or property held or to be held.\n\n(h) In the case of a temple which is in existence at the commencement of the Ordinance, the date or approximate date of its establishment, and the approximate average annual revenue from all sources.\n\n6. No person shall—\n\nNo person to take part in unlawful\n\n(a) take any part in the establishment or maintenance of any Chinese temple which is established or maintained contrary to any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder, or\n\n(b) take any part in the management or in the service of any such Chinese temple, or\n\n(c) derive any profit from the revenue of any such Chinese temple, or\n\n(d) knowingly supply any false or inaccurate information for the purposes of this Ordinance,\n\n7.-(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporation Ordinance, etc., of all 1928, the revenues, funds, investments and properties of all Chinese temples shall, subject to the provisions of section 8, be under the absolute control of a committee which shall be known as the Chinese Temples Committee and which shall consist of the following persons:--\n\n(a) The Chinese members for the time being of the Legislative Council.\n\n(b) A representative of the District Watch Committee appointed by the Governor from time to time on the nomination of the District Watch Committee.\n\n(c) The Chinese members of the Sanitary Board for the time being who shall have been appointed by the Governor.\n\n(d) The Chairman for the time being of the Board of Direction of the Tung Wa Hospital.\n\n(e) The senior member for the time being of the Committee of the Po Leung Kuk.\n\n(f) The Chairman for the time being of the Kwong Wa Hospital Committee.\n\n(g) The Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\nThe Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall be the chairman of the Chinese Temples Committee. Five members shall form a quorum.",
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        "content_text": "Ordinance No. 5 of 1901.\n\nOrdinance\n\nNo. 5 of 1901.\n\nof Chinese\n\n4\n\n(2) In order to make such control effectual it shall be lawful for the Chinese Temples Committee, without prejudice to any powers that the Committee may possess, to require any person, other than the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated, who may be in possession or control of, or in whom may be vested, any property held on behalf of or for the purposes of any Chinese temple, to transfer or assign any such property to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated.\n\n(3) Any such direction shall be signed by the Chairman of the Chinese Temples Committee, and shall be served on the person required by the direction to transfer or assign the property in question.\n\n(4) If the person so served fails without lawful excuse to transfer or assign the property forthwith he shall be deemed to have been guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.\n\n(5) If the property in question is immovable property, and the person in whom it is vested fails without lawful excuse to comply with the direction of the Chinese Temples Committee to assign the property to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated, or cannot be served, it shall be lawful for the Supreme Court, upon an originating summons issued by the Chairman of the Chinese Temples Committee, to make an order vesting the said property in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated. Any such vesting order shall have the same effect as a vesting order made under section 43 of the Trustee Ordinance, 1901.\n\n(6) If the property in question consists of stock as defined in the Trustee Ordinance, 1901, or is a chose in action, and the person by whom or in whose name it is held, or in whom the right to sue and recover it is vested, fails without lawful excuse to comply with the direction of the Chinese Temples Committee to transfer the property to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated, or cannot be served, it shall be lawful for the Supreme Court, upon an originating summons issued by the Chairman of the Chinese Temples Committee, to make an order vesting in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated the right to transfer or call for a transfer of the stock, or to receive the dividends or income thereof, or to sue for or receive the chose in action, as the case may be. Any such vesting order shall have the same effect as a vesting order made under section 51 of the Trustee Ordinance, 1901.\n\n(7) If the property in question is of any other nature than the kinds of property referred to in sub-sections (5) and (6), and the person in whose possession or under whose control the property is fails without lawful excuse to comply with the direction of the Chinese Temples Committee to transfer the property to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated, or cannot be served, it shall be lawful for a magistrate to make an order authorising any police officer to take possession of the property, using such force as may be necessary for the purpose, and to transfer it to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated.\n\n(8) A certificate under the hand of the Colonial Secretary shall be conclusive evidence for all purposes on the question as to whether any particular individual is, or was on any specified date, a member of the Chinese Temples Committee.\n\nApplication 8.-(1) The revenues of all Chinese temples shall be applied in the first instance to the due observance of the customary ceremonies and the maintenance of the temple buildings and temple properties, and any surplus may be transferred to the General Chinese Charities Fund referred to in section 9.\n\ntemples.",
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        "content_text": "5.—\n\n(2) It shall be within the discretion of the Chinese Temples Committee to decide what are the customary ceremonies of any particular Chinese temple, and what amount may be spent on any particular authorized object, and what surplus may be transferred to the General Chinese Charities Fund.\n\n9.—(1) The General Chinese Charities Fund referred to in section 8 shall be held in such manner as the Chinese Temples Committee may direct, and may in the discretion of the Chinese Temples Committee be applied (a) to the pay of the necessary staff and the other expenses incurred by the Chinese Temples Committee in carrying out the powers conferred upon the Committee by this Ordinance, and (b) for the purposes of any Chinese charity in the Colony.\n\n(2) The accounts of the General Chinese Charities Fund shall be audited at such times and in such manner as the Governor may direct.\n\n10.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Chinese Temples Committee to let by tender the office of sz chuk (temple keeper), of any particular temple.\n\n(2) It shall be within the discretion of the Chinese Temples Committee to determine the conditions of any tender, the manner in which tenders shall be called for, and the powers and obligations of any particular sz chuk.\n\n(3) Any lump sum or periodical payment paid by any person in respect of any tender by him for the office of sz chuk shall be deemed to be part of the revenue of the particular Chinese temple in question.\n\n(4) It shall also be lawful for the Chinese Temples Committee to appoint any person, without tender, to the office of sz chuk of any particular temple.\n\n(5) It shall be lawful for the Chinese Temples Committee to give one month's notice in writing to the sz chuk of any particular Chinese temple, whether appointed by the Chinese Temples Committee or not, terminating the tenure of his office, and upon the termination of the notice the person in question shall be deemed to have vacated such office, and thereafter shall not act as sz chuk of that particular Chinese temple unless reappointed by the Chinese Temples Committee.\n\n11. It shall be lawful for the Chinese Temples Committee to delegate to such person as they may think fit the administration of any particular temple and of the revenues of such temple, and to revoke any such delegation.\n\n12.—(1) If it appears to the Chinese Temples Committee that there is reason to believe that any registered Chinese temple is falling or has fallen into disuse, or that the funds and revenues of any registered Chinese temple are insufficient for its maintenance, it shall be lawful for the Committee to call, in such manner and at such time and place as to the Committee may seem fit, a meeting of such persons as may appear to the Committee to be interested in the matter, and to lay the facts before such interested persons as may attend such meeting, and to ascertain the views of such persons.\n\n(2) If upon considering such views (if any) and all the circumstances of the case it appears to the Committee that sufficient support of the temple in question is not likely to be forthcoming, it shall be lawful for the Committee to order the temple to be closed.\n\nPage 23\n\n \n...\n\n...\n\nPage 23\n\n \n...\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "24\n\nExempted Chinese temples. Schedule.\n\nOrdinance No. 10 of 1908.\n\nPowers of search and seizure.\n\nPenalty.\n\n6\n\n(3) Notice of such order shall be posted up at the temple and shall if possible be given to the person or persons by whom the temple is controlled or some of them.\n\n(4) Upon the expiration of one month from the date upon which the notice is posted up at the temple, and whether the notice shall have remained so posted throughout the said period or not, the temple shall be deemed to be an unregistered temple, and if it is maintained thereafter it shall be deemed to be maintained contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\n(5) Upon the posting up of such notice at the temple the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated may take possession of all the property of the temple, and may sue for the recovery of any such property, and may, with the consent of the Chinese Temples Committee, sell or otherwise dispose of such property.\n\n(6) The proceeds of any such sale shall, subject to any lawful claims, be transferred to the General Chinese Charities Fund.\n\n13.-(1) The Chinese temples specified in the Schedule hereto, hereinafter referred to as exempted Chinese temples, shall be exempt from the provisions of sections 3, 4, 7, 8, 10 and 11.\n\n(2) No person shall make or attempt to make any public collection, or any public appeal or request, for any exempted Chinese temple or for any object connected therewith, except within the precincts of the Chinese temple for or in connection with which the collection or appeal or request is being made.\n\n(3) This Ordinance shall not apply to the Man Mo Temple.\n\n(4) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to add to the Schedule.\n\n14.-(1) It shall be lawful for any person authorized thereto in writing by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, either generally or for a particular occasion, to enter and search, using such force as may be necessary, any place which such person may have reason to suspect to be or to contain a Chinese temple which is being or has been established, or is being maintained, contrary to any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder, or to enter and search, using such force as may be necessary, any registered Chinese temple in or in respect of which such person may have reason to suspect any contravention of any of the provisions of this Ordinance, or of any regulation made thereunder, to be taking place or to have taken place, and upon any such search as is authorized by this section to seize and detain any books or documents and also anything which may appear to be or contain any evidence of any contravention of any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any such regulation.\n\n(2) No person shall obstruct any search authorized by this section.\n\n15. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 26th day of April, 1928.\n\nT. W. AINSWORTH,\n\nDeputy Clerk of Councils.",
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        "content_text": "7\n\nSCHEDULE.\n\n[s. 13.]\n\nKUN YAM TONG (E) 36, Tai Ping Shan Street, Inland Lot Nos. 1349 and 1426.\n\nLIN FA KUNG () Tai Hang, Inland Lot No. 1351.\n\nSUI TSING PAK TEMPLE (1) 12, Tik Lung Lane, Inland Lot No. 769, Section D, Sub-section 1.\n\nTAM KUNG SIN SHING TEMPLE (AUT) Aberdeen Inland Lot No. 72.\n\nTIN HAU TEMPLE () Tung Lo Wan, Inland Lot No. 1352.\n\n25",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHongkong...27th..April,....1928.\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No...........7................. ............of 1928.\n\n26\n\n1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordinance to suppress and prevent abuses in the management of Chinese temples and in the administration of the funds of Chinese temples, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2. This Ordinance was introduced on the strong recommendation and urgent request of the leaders of the Chinese community.\n\n3. It will not interfere in any way whatsoever with genuine Chinese religion. The enthusiastic support which the principles of the bill have evoked from the Chinese community is sufficient evidence of the correctness of this statement.\n\n4. The objects of the Ordinance are :-\n\n(a) To prevent the exploitation of the ignorant by charlatans;\n\n(b) To recover from the benefit of the community the control over public temples which have been slipping into private hands; and",
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        "content_text": "5.\n\n27\n\n(c) To prevent for the future the establishment of temples as purely business speculations.\n\nThere has been an alarming growth of pseudo-religious establishments in recent years. Many of the keepers are simply fortune tellers of an unrecognized and objectionable kind. Some of these temples occupy a single floor for a few months at a time until they have dealt with all the dupes of the district, when they move elsewhere.\n\n6.\n\nThere are some private temples, established originally by private individuals or particular families, which are managed honestly and unobjectionably, though of course the profits go to the private owners. All temples which are clearly of this class will be specifically exempted from the financial control proposed to be set up by this Ordinance. A list of temples so to be exempted is contained in the Schedule to the Ordinance. This Schedule may be added to by the Governor in Council.\n\nThere are other temples, originally established by sections of the community for the benefit of the public, which are falling or which have fallen under the control of private individuals. These individuals, or their predecessors, have thus encroached on the rights of the public and can have no claim as against the community to usurp the revenues of these temples. Such temples are under the control of the Ordinance.\n\n7.\n\nFor the future it is felt that temples should not be private property, conducted for the pecuniary benefit of private individuals. Accordingly, all future temples will also fall under the control of the Ordinance.\n\n8.\n\nThere is a peculiar class of places which fall within the definition of the term \"Chinese temple\" though they scarcely come within the popular meaning of the word temple. They are places inhabited by monks or nuns who perform two functions. One function is to attend at their clients' functions.",
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        "content_text": "28\n\nresidences on occasions of marriage or death and there to perform certain religious rites.\n\nThe other function is to act as fortune tellers at their own residence to persons who come to consult them there, and there to perform certain ceremonies for the purpose of such fortune telling. These are the places referred to in the definition in section 2 of the Ordinance as Kun, To Yuen and Om. As the border line between recognised religious fortune telling and fraud is somewhat easily crossed, it was considered desirable that such places should be required to register, but there is no intention of assuming any financial or other control over them so long as they are conducted lawfully and properly. So conducted, they undoubtedly supply a certain religious demand among the Chinese community.\n\n9.\n\nThe main principles of the Ordinance are that, except in the case of the exempted temples, and subject to the remarks in paragraph 8 above, the revenues, funds, investments, and properties of all Chinese temples shall be under the control of a strong Chinese Committee, presided over by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and that any surplus revenues remaining after providing for due observance of the customary ceremonies and the maintenance of the temple buildings and temple properties shall be applied for the purpose of Chinese charities in the Colony generally.\n\n10.\n\nControl of this kind and with this object, though not by means of the same machinery, is not unknown at present. It has been tried and tried successfully. One example is that of the Man Mo Temple, which is regulated by Ordinance No.10 of 1908. Another example is that of the Hau Wong Temple near Kowloon City. Ten years control of this temple has resulted in a surplus sufficient to justify the use of it",
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        "content_text": "29\n\nin building a new out-patient hospital in Kowloon City in\n\nA\n\nconnection with the Chinese Dispensary.\n\nThis use of the\n\nbalance was suggested by the representatives of the\n\ninhabitants of Kowloon City, and it is no doubt an\n\nillustration of the kind of policy which will be followed\n\nunder the Ordinance.\n\n11.\n\nThe definition of the term \"Chinese temple\"\n\nnaturally gave rise to considerable difficulty. The\n\ndefinition in section 2 of the Ordinance was worked out with\n\nthe able assistance of the members of the District Watch\n\nCommittee. It is unusual in form in that it is based\n\nmainly on certain Chinese terms which are not defined.\n\nIt\n\nis doubtful if these Chinese terms could be defined within\n\nreasonable limits, but it is not anticipated that any great\n\ndifficulty will arise in the practical application of the\n\ndefinition of the term \"Chinese temple\".\n\n12.\n\nSection 3 gives to the Chinese Temples Committee, which will be referred to in paragraph 16 below, power to\n\nmake regulations for the control and management of Chinese\n\ntemples. These regulations will be subject to the approval\n\nof the Governor in Council. They will also be laid on the\n\ntable of the Legislative Council, and it will be possible for\n\nany member of the Council to move for the rescission or\n\namendment of any such regulation.\n\n13.\n\nSection 4 provides that no temple which is in\n\nexistence at the commencement of the Ordinance shall be\n\nmaintained for a longer period than six months after such\n\ncommencement unless it is a building which is a complete\n\nand separate building and which is used for the purpose of the\n\ntemple and for no other purpose. The same rule with regard\n\nto the nature of a temple building is applied also to all\n\nfuture temples.\n\nThis is aimed at the class of temple\n\nreferred to in paragraph 5 above.\n\nIt is perhaps",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 3.\n\n།\n\n35\n\nI certify that adequate and timely notification was made of the intention of the parties concerned to apply to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for an Ordinance styled \"An Ordinance to suppress and prevent abuses in the management of Chinese temples and in the administration of the funds of Chinese temples\" before the same was brought into the Legislative Council. Such notification was made in the manner following:-\n\nNotification of the intention of the parties to apply for the said Ordinance was advertised in two issues of the Government Gazette on the 23rd and 30th March, 1928; in two issues of an English Newspaper circulating in the Colony, namely, The Hong Kong Daily Press on 4th and 5th April, 1928; and in two issues of each of two vernacular newspapers circulating in the Colony, namely, The Kung Sheung Yat Po on 31st March and 2nd April, 1928, The Tsun Wan Yat Po on 31st March and 2nd April, 1928.\n\nA draft of the proposed said Ordinance was further published in two issues of the Government Gazette on the 23rd and 30th March, 1928.\n\nA proof of the notification was made before me in Executive Council.\n\nHong Kong, 4th May, 1928.\n\nGOVERNOR\n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "Page 147\n\n54701\n\nRECEIVED\n\nCOL. OFFICE\n\n2\n\n36\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG. 19th March, 1928.\n\nEnclosure No. 1.\n\nEnclosure No. 2.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to Mr. Ormsby Gore's circular despatch of 15th September, 1927, I have the honour to submit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following Ordinance intituled:\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Naturalization Ordinance, 1902, and to provide for the revocation of naturalization rights in certain cases.\n\n2. A copy is enclosed.\n\nThe customary report by the Attorney General.\n\nCopy well 1+2 to C.O. 13/Grusd 22\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nCecil Clementi\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nPage 147\n\n(End of page indicators are kept as per the original scan)\n\n \nhas been removed and adjusted the wording to fit the exact original text, and removed uneeded sentence at the end.",
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        "content_text": "L. S.\n\nHONG\n\nKONG.\n\nNo. 1 OF 1928.\n\nI assent.\n\nC. CLEMENTI,\n\nGovernor.\n\n16th March, 1928.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Naturalization Ordinance, 1902, and to provide for the revocation of naturalization rights in certain\n\ncases.\n\n[16th March, 1928.]\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows\n\n•\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Naturaliza-\n\ntion Amendment Ordinance, 1928.\n\n2. Section 7 of the Naturalization Ordinance, 1902, Amendment\n\nis repealed and the following section is substituted of Ordinance\n\ntherefor :-\n\ncate of\n\nRevocation 7.-(1) Where the Governor is satisfied of certifi-\n\nthat certificate of naturalization granted\n\nany naturaliza-\n\nat any time whatsoever under this Ordinance tion. was obtained by false representation or fraud, 8 & 9 Geo. 5,\n\nor by concealment of material circumstances, c. 38, s. 1.\n\nor that the person to whom the certificate was granted has shewn himself by act or speech to be disaffected or disloyal to His Majesty, the Governor shall by order revoke the certificate.\n\n(2) Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions the Governor shall by order revoke a certificate of naturalization granted at any time whatsoever under this Ordinance in any case in which he is satisfied that the person to whom the certificate was granted either—\n\n(a) has during any war in which His Majesty was engaged unlawfully traded or communicated with the enemy or with a subject of an enemy state, or been engaged in or asso-\n\nciated with any business which was to his knowledge carried on in such manner as to assist the enemy in such war; or\n\nNo. 44 of 1902, s. 7.\n\nPage 37",
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        "content_text": "38\n\n() has within five years of the date of the grant of the certificate been sentenced by any court in His Majesty's dominions to imprisonment for a term of not less than twelve months or to a fine of not less than one thousand dollars or one hundred pounds; or\n\n(c) was not of good character at the date\n\nof the grant of the certificate; or (d) has ceased to reside permanently in\n\nthe Colony; or\n\n(e) remains according to the law of a state at war with His Majesty a subject of that state;\n\nand that (in any case) the continuance of the certificate is not conducive to the public good.\n\n(3) The Governor may, if he thinks fit, before making an order under this section refer the case for inquiry, and in any case to which sub-section (1) or paragraph (a), (c) or (e) of sub-section (2) of this section applies, the Governor shall, by notice given to or sent to the last known address of the holder of the certificate, give him an opportunity of claiming that the case be referred for such inquiry, and if the holder so claims in accordance with the notice the Governor shall refer the case for inquiry accordingly.\n\n(4) An inquiry under this section shall be held by a committee appointed for that purpose by the Governor. The committee shall consist of not less than three nor more than five persons. The chairman of the committee shall be a judge of the Supreme Court. The procedure to be adopted shall be such as the chairman may direct.\n\n(5) A committee appointed under this section shall have such powers, rights, and privileges as are vested in the Supreme Court or in any judge thereof on the occasion of any action, in respect of the following matters:-\n\n(a) the enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examining them on oath, affirmation, or otherwise, and the issue of a commission or a request to examine witnesses abroad; and (b) the compelling the production of\n\ndocuments; and\n\n(c) the punishing persons guilty of\n\ncontempt;\n\nand a summons signed by one or more members of the committee may be substituted for and shall be equivalent to any formal process capable of being issued in any action for enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling the production of documents.\n\n(6) When the Governor revokes a certificate of naturalization, the revocation shall have effect from such date as the Governor may direct, and thereupon the certificate shall be given up and cancelled, and any person refusing or neglecting to give up any such certificate shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.",
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        "content_text": "No. 9 of\n\n1901.\n\n3\n\n(7) A notification of the revocation of any certificate of naturalization shall be published in the gazette.\n\n(8) When a certificate of naturalization is revoked, the former holder thereof shall be regarded as an alien and as a subject of the state to which he belonged at the time when the certificate was granted.\n\n(9) It shall be lawful for the Governor, for any reason which would entitle him to revoke a certificate of naturalization granted at any time whatsoever under this Ordinance, to order that any person naturalized as a British subject within the Colony whose name appears in the Schedule to the Naturalized Persons Ordinance, 1901, shall cease to be a naturalized British subject within the Colony: provided that no such order shall be made until an inquiry has been held by a committee constituted in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (4), and such committee shall have recommended to the Governor that such order should be made. Every order made under this sub-section shall be published in the gazette, and the person to whom such order applies shall cease to be a naturalized British subject within the Colony from the date of the publication of such order in the gazette.\n\n3. The Naturalization Ordinance, 1902, is amended by the insertion of the following section immediately after section 8:-\n\nInsertion of new section 9\n\nLoss of naturalization rights upon foreign naturalization.\n\n9.-(1) A person who has obtained a certificate of naturalization within the Colony under this Ordinance, or whose name appears in the Schedule to the Naturalized Persons Ordinance, 1901, and who, when in any foreign state and not under disability, by obtaining a certificate of naturalization or by any other voluntary or formal act becomes naturalized therein, shall henceforth be deemed to have ceased to be a naturalized British subject within the Colony.\n\n4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 17, s. 13.\n\n(2) When any person who has been granted a certificate of naturalization within the Colony is deemed to have ceased to be a British subject within the Colony, his certificate shall thereupon be given up and cancelled, and any person refusing or neglecting to give up any such certificate shall, upon summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 15th day of March, 1928.\n\nin Ordinance No. 44 of 1902.\n\n39\n\nD. W. TRATMAN,\n\nClerk of Councils.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHongkong....16th March......1928.\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No.1..................of 1928\n\n40\n\n1.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled \"an Ordinance to amend the Naturalization Ordinance, 1902, and to provide for the revocation of naturalization rights in certain cases,\" and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2.\n\nThis Ordinance was introduced in order to carry out the instructions in the Secretary of State's circular despatch of the 15th September, 1927.\n\n3.\n\nSection 2 of the Ordinance is based on section 7 of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1918, 8 & 9 Geo. 5, c.38.\n\n4.\n\nSub-section (9) gives similar powers of revocation with regard to the persons whose names appear in the Schedule to the Naturalized Persons Ordinance, 1901, Ordinance No.9 of 1901. The Schedule in question contains a list of persons who were naturalized locally by special Ordinances.\n\nPage 40\nPage 41",
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        "content_text": "5. The present Ordinance does not contain any provision based on section 7A of the Act of 1918. This is because local naturalization does not appear to affect the status of the wife and children of the person naturalized.\n\n6. Section 3 of the present Ordinance is based on section 13 of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914, 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c.17. As in the case of section 2 of the Ordinance, this section is also made to apply to the persons whose names appear in the Schedule to the Ordinance of 1901.\n\n7. In my opinion, this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nAttorney General.",
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        "content_text": "L.S.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n43\n\nNo. 25 OF 1927.\n\nI assent.\n\nC. CLEMENTI, Governor.\n\n23rd December, 1927.\n\nAn Ordinance to regulate the printing of newspapers and the keeping and use of printing presses.\n\n[23rd December, 1927.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Printers and Publishers Ordinance, 1927.\n\n2. In this Ordinance,\n\n(a) \"Address\" in the case of an individual means his residence or usual place of business, and in the case of a corporation means the head office of such corporation within the Colony.\n\n(b) \"Editor\" means the chief editor if there are more editors than one, and includes any person acting as chief editor or performing any of the usual functions of a chief editor.\n\n(c) \"Newspaper\" includes every periodical which is printed or published in the Colony at intervals not exceeding one month, and which contains any public news or any comments on public news.\n\n(d) \"Person\", except so far as relates to the imposition of the penalty of imprisonment, includes a body corporate and a firm.\n\n(e) \"Printed document\" includes every piece of paper, cloth, or other similar material, bearing any words, pictures or signs, which were, or appear to have been, wholly or partly produced by any mechanical or copying process, and also includes every collection of printed documents bound together.\n\n(f) \"Printing press\" includes every machine and apparatus adapted and apparently intended for reproducing words, pictures or signs on paper, cloth or other similar material, and every part of any such machine or apparatus, but shall not include any apparatus intended and used for reproducing plans only, or any apparatus intended and used only for printing patterns on textiles, or any purely photographic apparatus intended and used for reproducing photographs only.\n\n(g) \"Proprietor\" includes lessee.",
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        "content_text": "Regulations.\n\nRegistration of newspapers.\n\nSchedule\n\nForm No. 1.\n\n(h) \"Registrar means such officer as may be appointed by the Governor to act as Registrar of Newspapers, and includes any person appointed by the Governor to act as Deputy Registrar of Newspapers.\n\n3.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make such regulations as he may think fit with reference to the registration of newspapers and their proprietors, printers, publishers and editors, and with reference to the keeping and use of printing presses, and to prescribe fees.\n\n(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded or amended as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.\n\n4.-(1) Every newspaper shall be registered.\n\n(2) In order to effect registration, one of the persons specified in sub-section (3) shall furnish to the Registrar the particulars specified in Form No. 1 in the Schedule and shall certify the correctness of such particulars and of his own description.\n\n(3) The particulars specified shall be furnished and certified by the proprietor, printer, publisher or editor of the newspaper.\n\n(4) If any change occurs, or if any inaccuracy is discovered, in any of the specified particulars, the persons specified in sub-section (3) shall, within seven days or such shorter period as may be provided by regulation, furnish substituted particulars to the Registrar, and shall certify the correctness of such substituted particulars and of their own descriptions: Provided that if one of such persons complies with the requirements of this sub-section, the obligations imposed by this sub-section on any other persons shall be deemed to have been discharged as regards the substituted particulars so furnished.\n\n(5) A change shall be deemed to have occurred in the identity of the editor if the editor is absent from the Colony or if he ceases substantially to exercise the functions of an editor.\n\n(6) If the particulars are furnished by a company, the certificate shall be given by a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company, and if the particulars are furnished by a firm, the certificate shall be given by a partner of the firm.\n\n(7) If any particular or substituted particular which purports to be furnished in accordance with the requirements of this section is incorrect, the person who certified the correctness of such particular shall be deemed to have contravened this Ordinance unless he proves (a) that he believed that the particular furnished was correct and (b) that he could not with the exercise of reasonable diligence have discovered its incorrectness.\n\n(8) No person shall print or publish or act as editor of, or continue to print or publish or act as editor of, any newspaper unless all the requirements of this section with respect to such newspaper have been complied with.",
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        "content_text": "(9) The particulars furnished in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be kept by the Registrar as a newspaper register or registers.\n\n(10) Any person may search and inspect any newspaper register on payment of one dollar for every such search and inspection, and any person may require an extract from any newspaper register to be certified by the Registrar on payment of two dollars for every such extract.\n\n(11) Upon the registration of any newspaper, and upon the furnishing of any substituted particular, the Registrar shall despatch by registered post a copy of the particulars or particular to each person named in such particulars or particular, addressed to the addresses or address specified in such particulars or particular.\n\n(12) In any proceedings whatsoever against the proprietor or printer or publisher or editor of any newspaper, it shall be lawful for the complainant or plaintiff to put in any entry in or certified extract from any newspaper register, either (1) as evidence of the truth of the matters stated in such entry or extract or (2) as evidence that the particulars appearing in such entry or extract were furnished and certified by the informant by whom they purport to have been furnished and certified.\n\n5.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent of Police, in his discretion, to grant to any person a licence to keep a printing press at any specified place.\n\n(2) If a licence is refused it shall be lawful for the applicant, within fourteen days from the date of the refusal, to appeal by petition to the Governor in Council against such refusal, and upon consideration of such petition and of any reply thereto submitted in writing by the Captain Superintendent of Police it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to allow or to dismiss the appeal, and if he allows the appeal to give such directions as may be necessary in order to give effect to such allowance.\n\n(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, in his discretion, to order any printing press licence to be cancelled. No such order shall be made until notice of intention to consider the making of such order shall have been served on the licensee in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (4). Every such notice shall contain a statement of the grounds upon which it is alleged that the order should be made and shall allow to the licensee a period of fourteen days from the date of the service of the notice, or such other period as may be prescribed by regulation made under this Ordinance, within which the licensee shall be at liberty to deliver or cause to be delivered to the Clerk of Councils a written statement of any reasons which he may wish to urge against the making of the order. Upon the expiration of the said period it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to proceed to consider and decide whether the order should not be made. Any such order of cancellation shall be served on the licensee in the manner referred to in this sub-section and shall thereupon be deemed to have been brought to the notice of the licensee and to be effective for all purposes. Upon service of the order of cancellation the licence shall forthwith be returned by the licensee to the Captain Superintendent of Police. No person shall without lawful authority or excuse have in his possession any printing press licence which has been cancelled.\n\n45",
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        "content_text": "40.\n\nSchedule\n\nForm No. 2.\n\nPrinted document to be (4) The notice referred to in sub-section (3) may be served by delivering it personally to the licensee if the licensee is an individual, or by delivering it personally to some officer of the corporation if the licensee is a corporation, or by leaving the notice with some adult person at the licensed premises, or by posting up the notice outside the licensed premises if service cannot be effected in any other way.\n\n(5) No person shall use or have in his possession any printing press except under and in accordance with a licence issued under this section.\n\n(6) It shall be lawful for any police officer or revenue officer to seize, remove and detain any unlicensed printing press.\n\n(7) It shall be lawful for a magistrate, upon such notice (if any) as he may think fit, to order to be forfeited any unlicensed printing press and any type and other things apparently intended to be used in connexion with such printing press.\n\n(8) Every printing press and thing so forfeited shall be disposed of in such manner as the Captain Superintendent of Police may direct.\n\n(9) In any proceeding under this section against the occupier of any premises for possession on such premises of an unlicensed printing press it shall, until the contrary is proved, and without prejudice to the liability of any other person, be presumed that such occupier was in possession of such printing press.\n\n(10) Any licence under this section may be in the form of licence contained in the Schedule with such variations as to the Captain Superintendent of Police may seem fit.\n\n6.-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (5) and (6), every printed document shall have printed thereon in legible type, in English or Chinese, the name and full address of the printer of the document, preceded by the words \"Printed by\" or \"Printer\" in English or Chinese.\n\nname and address.\n\n66\n\n(2) If the document consists of a number of leaves bound or fastened together or forming one sheet the printer's name and address shall appear either on the front of the first leaf or on the back of the last leaf or at the bottom of the last printed page.\n\n(3) If the document is a book or pamphlet the printer's name and address shall appear at the bottom of the last printed page.\n\n(4) In the case of a newspaper the printer's name and address shall appear either on the front page or on the back page, and it shall be sufficient if the printer's name and address appear in one place in the newspaper although the sheets may not be fastened together.\n\n(5) This section shall not apply to any document solely intended and solely used for a bona fide and ordinary commercial or professional or social purpose, provided that such document as printed contains no seditious or political matter whatsoever.\n\nFor the purposes of this sub-section a document used for the purposes of a society, club or other organization shall not be deemed to be used for a social purpose.\n\n(6) This section shall also not apply to any document printed outside the Colony.\n\n(7) No person shall print or publish or in any way whatsoever assist in the distribution of any document which does not comply with the requirements of this Ordinance.",
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        "content_text": "(8) No person shall without lawful authority or excuse have in his possession any document which does not comply with the requirements of this Ordinance.\n\n(9) In any proceedings under this Ordinance, every person who is proved to have had in his possession or under his control anything whatsoever containing any document which does not comply with the requirements of this Ordinance, or who is proved to have had in his possession or under his control the key of any box or other receptacle containing any such document, shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been in possession of such document.\n\n(10) In any proceedings under this Ordinance, every person who is proved to have had in his possession or under his control or subject to his order any document of title relating to anything whatsoever containing any document which does not comply with the requirements of this Ordinance, or who is proved to have had in his possession or under his control any document whatsoever which may be evidence of the right of any person to the possession of anything whatsoever containing any document which does not comply with the requirements of this Ordinance shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been in possession of the document last referred to.\n\n(11) In any proceedings whatsoever it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that the person whose name appears on any document as the printer of such document was in fact the printer.\n\n7.—(1) Every person who prints any book, newspaper or other printed document shall keep one copy of such book, newspaper or other printed document for a period of six months after the printing thereof.\n\n(2) Such copy shall have written or printed thereon the name and full address of the person by whom the printer was employed to print the same.\n\n(3) If the name of such person is Chinese the name shall be written or printed in Chinese characters.\n\n(4) The printer shall produce such copy to any police officer on demand.\n\n(5) The onus of proving the date of printing shall be on the printer.\n\nof every document printed by him.\n\n8.—(1) It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace to grant a warrant to any police officer to enter and search any place or board any vessel in or on board which any contravention of this Ordinance may appear to have been committed, and to search such place or vessel.\n\n(2) Every such warrant shall have the effect of empowering all police officers to enter such place or board such vessel, and to search the same, and to seize anything with respect to which any contravention of this Ordinance may appear to have been committed or which may appear to be or to contain evidence of any such contravention.\n\n(3) It shall be lawful for a magistrate, upon such notice (if any) as he may think fit, to order to be forfeited anything with respect to which any contravention of this Ordinance has been committed.\n\n(4) Anything so forfeited shall be disposed of in such manner as the Captain Superintendent of Police may direct.\n\n47",
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        "content_text": "48\n\nCriminal\n\nliability of principal.\n\nService of process.\n\nCopies of\n\nbe delivered\n\nto the\n\nRegistrar.\n\n-\n\n9. Without prejudice to the liability of any other person, the proprietor, printer, publisher and editor of any newspaper shall be liable criminally for any illegal matter contained in any issue of the newspaper, and the printer of any other printed document shall be liable criminally for any illegal matter contained in such document: Provided that the defendant shall not be liable under this section if he proves beyond reasonable doubt that the matter in question was printed without his authority, consent or knowledge, and that the printing thereof did not arise from want of due care or caution on his part.\n\n10. Without prejudice to any other method of service, any process whatsoever, civil or criminal, addressed to the proprietor, printer, publisher or editor\n\nof\n\nany newspaper shall for all purposes be deemed to be duly served if left with some adult at, or sent by post to, the registered address of the office of the newspaper,\n\n11. The printer or publisher of every newspaper printed in the Colony shall, upon every day on which such newspaper shall be published, or on the day next following which shall not be a holiday, deliver or cause to be delivered at the office of the Registrar, one copy of every such newspaper, and of every second or other varied edition or impression thereof so printed or published, with the name and address of the printer or publisher thereof signed and written thereon after the same shall be printed, by his proper hand, and in his accustomed manner of signing, or by some person appointed and authorized by him for that purpose, and of whose appointment and authority due notice in writing signed by such printer or publisher shall have been given to the Registrar; and such printer or publisher shall be entitled to demand and receive once in every month from the Registrar the ordinary price of the newspapers so delivered; and in case any person shall require any such newspaper so signed and delivered to be produced in evidence in any proceeding, civil or criminal, the Registrar shall cause such newspaper to be produced in court when required at the expense of the party applying for it, or shall deliver the same to such party, taking reasonable security for his returning it, and all copies so delivered as aforesaid shall be evidence against every proprietor, printer, publisher, and editor of every such newspaper, in all proceedings, civil or criminal, to be commenced or carried on as well touching such newspapers as any matter or thing therein contained, and touching any other newspaper, and any matter or thing therein contained, which shall be of the same title, purport, or effect with such copy so delivered as aforesaid, although such copy may vary in some instances or particulars, either as to title, purport, or effect; and every proprietor, printer, publisher, or editor of any copy so delivered as aforesaid shall to all intents and purposes be deemed to be the proprietor, printer, publisher, or editor respectively of all newspapers which shall be of the same title, purport, or effect with such copies\n\nor impressions so delivered as aforesaid, notwithstanding such variance as aforesaid, unless such proprietor, printer, publisher, or editor respectively shall prove that such newspapers were not printed or published or edited by him or by or with his knowledge or privity. The Registrar shall not be required to keep any copy for a longer period than six months.\n\nPenalties.\n\n12. Subject to the provisions of section 9, every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for\n\nany term not exceeding six months.\n\ni\n\n!\n\n7\n\nwww.\n\n13. The Printers and Publishers Ordinance, 1886, is repealed.\n\nRepeal of\n\nOrdinance No. 4 of 1886.\n\n14. This Ordinance shall come into operation on\n\nCommence-\n\nthe 1st day of January, 1928.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this\n\n22nd day of December, 1927.\n\nment.\n\n49\n\nD. W. TRATMAN,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nSCHEDULE.\n\nFORM No. 1.\n\nNEWSPAPER REGISTER.\n\nPrinters and Publishers Ordinance, 1927.\n\nName of newspaper.\n\nAddress of office of newspaper.\n\nProprietor..\n\nPrinter.\n\nPublisher (if different from printer)....\n\nEditor.\n\nDate.\n\n[s. 4.]\n\nI certify that the above particulars are correct and that\n\nI am.............\n\nSignature of informant.........\n\nSignature of Registrar...............................\n\nSubstituted particulars.\n\nFORM NO. 2.\n\nPRINTING PRESS LICENCE,\n\nPrinters and Publishers Ordinance, 1927.\n\nName of licencee\n\n[s. 5.]\n\nLicensed premises, i.e., the place at which the printing press or\n\nprinting presses is or are licensed to be kept\n\nDescription of printing press or printing presses.. Date...\n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\n50\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHongkong, 23rd December, 1927.\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 25 of 1927.\n\n1.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordinance to regulate the printing of newspapers and the keeping and use of printing presses, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2.\n\nThis Ordinance repeals and re-enacts, with alterations, the Printers and Publishers Ordinance, 1886, Ordinance No. 4 of 1886.\n\n3.\n\nThere are several alterations in the interpretation section. The attempt to secure a full address, where one has to be given, by means of a definition in the interpretation section has been abandoned. Reliance is now placed on the requirement of a \"full address\" in sections 6 and 7, and on the fact that inquiries can always be made at the time by the Registrar in any case of doubt. Further, the old definition of \"place of business\" and \"place of residence\" would have failed in more than one instance, e.g., in the case of offices or flats. The new definition of \"address\" is confined",
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        "content_text": "51\n\nto making it clear (1) that an individual may give his private or business address, and (2) that the address of a corporation is its head office within the Colony.\n\n4.\n\n\"Editor\" is defined as meaning the chief editor if there are more editors than one, and as including an acting chief editor.\n\n5.\n\nThe definition of \"newspaper\" has been shortened and widened to include periodicals published at intervals of a month. The definition of \"newspaper register\" seems to be unnecessary: see section 4 (9) and (10).\n\n6. The definition of \"person\" is new in the Ordinance but has been used in other Ordinances.\n\n7. The definition of \"printed document\" is new. The term occurs in sections 6 and 7.\n\n8. The definition of \"printing press\" is also new. It deals with printing presses.\n\n9.\n\n10.\n\n\"Proprietor\" is defined as including lessee.\n\nThe definition of \"Registrar\" has been altered because it is intended to appoint the Secretary for Chinese Affairs as Registrar and the Registrar of the Supreme Court as Deputy Registrar under this Ordinance. The Secretary for Chinese Affairs will take over the registration of Chinese newspapers, and the Registrar of the Supreme Court will continue to be the Registrar for English newspapers.\n\n11. Section 3, which gives power to make regulations and prescribe fees, is new. No fees are in contemplation.\n\n12.\n\nRegistration of newspapers is dealt with in Ordinance No. 4 of 1866 in sections 3 to 10. Criticisms of the provisions therein contained are:\n\n(a) They secured the names of only (i) the proprietor and (ii) the printer or publisher. It seems\n\nPage 50\n\nPage 51",
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        "content_text": "desirable to have also the name of the\n\n52\n\neditor, and to have the names of both the\n\nprinter and the publisher if they are dif-\n\nferent persons.\n\n(6) They ignored the possibility of the printer\n\nand publisher being a firm or company.\n\n(c)\n\nSections 8 and 9 have not been found to be\n\nof any use,\n\nRegistration of newspapers is dealt with in section 4 of the\n\nPoints which may be noted are referred to\n\nnew Ordinance.\n\nbelow.\n\n13.\n\nThe names of the proprietor, printer, publisher and\n\neditor must all be given : see Form No. 1 in the Schedule.\n\nProvision is made in sub-section (6) for registration\n\nby a company or firm.\n\n14.\n\ncorrectness.\n\n15. Sub-section (7) makes it an offence to furnish incor-\n\nrect particulars unless the informant can show (i) that he\n\nbelieved the information to be correct and (ii) that he\n\ncould not with reasonable diligence have discovered its in-\n\nUnder section 21 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1866\n\nthe furnishing of incorrect particulars as an offence only\n\nif it was done \"knowingly and wilfully\" It does not seem\n\nto be too much to ask the informant to make reasonable en-\n\nquiries. Further, it does not appear why the maximum\n\npenalty under section 21 should be only $500 while that\n\nunder section 4 is $1,000 or imprisonment without hard\n\nlabour for six months.\n\n16.\n\nSub-section (9) provides for more than one register.\n\nThis is explained in paragraph 10 above. Sub-section (10)\n\ncorresponds to section 19 of Ordinance No.4 of 1086.\n\n1.",
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        "content_text": "17. Sub-section (12) enables the register to be used as prima facie evidence (i) of the truth of the matters stated therein and (ii) of the fact that the information was furnished by the person by whom it purports to have been furnished. The former use might be of service in prosecutions generally and in libel actions. The latter could be taken advantage of in a prosecution for furnishing incorrect particulars. It is open to the complainant or prosecutor to put in the entry for the one purpose or the other. In view of the provisions of sub-section (12) it is laid down in sub-section (11) that when particulars have been furnished the Registrar must send a copy to each person who might be affected.\n\n18. Section 5, which deals with the licensing of printing presses, replaces section 18 of Ordinance No.4 of 1886. The new section is based on section 3 of the Straits Settlements Ordinance No. 1 (Printing Presses). Like the section in the Straits Settlements Ordinance, it gives power to refuse a licence, subject to a right of appeal to the Governor in Council. The Governor in Council is given power to cancel a licence after due notice. Grounds for refusal or cancellation are given in the section.\n\nPowers of seizure and forfeiture\n\n19. Section 6, which requires books, newspapers and documents printed in the Colony to bear the printer's name and address, replaces section 12 of Ordinance No.4 of 1886. The principal differences in the new section are as follows:\n\n(a) The class of document to which the section is to apply is defined differently. This point is dealt with in the following paragraph.\n\n(b) The offence is left to the general penalty under the Ordinance.\n\n(c) Possession is made an offence.",
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        "content_text": "54\n\nPresumptions are provided in sub-section (9), (10) (a) and (11).\n\nSub-section (11) is made general with a view to libel actions.\n\n20. Section 12 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1886 applied to every \"newspaper, paper, or book intended to be distributed or made public\". No doubt the phrase \"intended to be distributed or made public\" was meant to apply to newspapers and papers as well as to books in spite of the punctuation.\n\nObjection to this phrase was the doubt as to the meaning of the word \"distributed\". Obviously, a document would not be printed at all unless the copies were intended to be distributed to some persons. That being so, the word might have had the effect of excluding from the section a document issued by a society to its members. This, however, is one of the classes which it is most desirable to bring under the section.\n\nThe new section, therefore, attacks the problem in a different way. It begins by a general application to every printed document, and in sub-section (E) it excepts documents \"solely intended and solely used for a bona fide and ordinary commercial or professional or social purpose, provided that such document as printed contains no seditious or political matter whatever\". In order to meet the point that a document issued by a society to its members would be a document used for a social purpose, the section goes on to provide that \"a document used for the purposes of a society, club or other organization shall not be deemed to be used for a social purpose\".\n\nIt will be noticed that in the case of proceedings before a magistrate at least the scheme of a general statement followed by an exception will have the effect, under section 28 of the Magistrates Ordinance, of throwing on the defendant the onus of proving the exception.\n\nThe term \"printed document\" is defined in section 2.\n\n21.",
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        "content_text": "21. As section 6 begins with a general reference to every printed document, a further exception of documents printed outside the Colony is necessary. This is provided by sub-section (6).\n\nIt is true that this exception provides a possible loophole, but the same remark applies to the old section, and in the new section the onus will be on the defendant.\n\n22. Section 7 of this Ordinance replaces section 11 of Ordinance No.4 of 1886. The chief differences in the new section are as follows:\n\n(a) If the name of the employer is Chinese it must be given in Chinese characters.\n\n(b) The offence is left to the ordinary penalty under the Ordinance.\n\n23. Section 8 of this Ordinance provides for powers of search, seizure and forfeiture.\n\n24. The provisions of sections 13 to 17 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1886 do not appear in this Ordinance. They provided that the printer or publisher of a newspaper had to give a bond in the sum of $1,200 conditioned that he would pay any fine or penalty imposed on him, or any person acting for him in his absence, by reason of any conviction for libel, and also that he would pay all damages and costs recovered for libel published in the newspaper. So far as civil actions for libel are concerned the amount of the bond was quite inadequate, and in many cases it would have been sufficient to pay only a portion of the costs.\n\nThe provision seems unnecessary in the case of criminal proceedings because of the powers of arrest which exist in criminal cases. Another objection was that the provisions referred only to libel, whereas a much more serious case is that of sedition.\n\nThe bond provisions",
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        "content_text": "56\n\nhave therefore been abandoned.\n\nSection 9 of the new Ordinance simply provides that the proprietor, printer, publisher and editor of any newspaper shall be liable criminally for any illegal matter contained in any issue of the newspaper, and that the printer of any other document shall similarly be liable for any illegal matter contained in such document. The accused will not be liable under this section if he proves that the matter in question was printed without his authority, consent or knowledge and that the printing thereof did not arise from want of due care or caution on his part.\n\n25. Section 10 provides that any civil or criminal process addressed to the proprietor, printer, publisher or editor of any newspaper shall be deemed to be duly served if left with an adult at, or sent by post to, the registered address of the office of the newspaper.\n\n26. Section 11 is taken practically verbatim from section 5 of Ordinance No. 5 of 1839 of the Ordinances of Ceylon. It requires a copy of every edition of every newspaper, signed by the printer and publisher, to be delivered to the Registrar of Newspapers. The copy so delivered is to be evidence in any legal proceedings against the printer, publisher, proprietor and editor of the newspaper. The copies so delivered are to be paid for by the Government. The only substantial difference between the section in the Ordinance and the section in the Ceylon Ordinance is that in this Ordinance the delivered copy of the newspaper is to be evidence against the editor as well as against the printer, publisher, and proprietor. The Ceylon Ordinance does not refer to editors.\n\n27. Section 12 of this Ordinance provides a general maximum penalty of $1,000 or six months imprisonment. This is the penalty under sections 4 and 18 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1886,",
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        "content_text": "except that in those two cases the imprisonment must be \n\nwithout hard labour while here it may be with or without \n\nhard labour.\n\n28.\n\n57\n\nSection 13 of this Ordinance repeals Ordinance No. 4 \n\nof 1886.\n\n29. Section 14 provides that the Ordinance shall come into \n\noperation on the 1st January, 1928.\n\n30. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excel-\n\n-lency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His \n\nMajesty and on His behalf.\n\nAttorney \n\nGeneral.",
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        "content_text": "$2761.\n\nN541\n\naby-913-\n\n25 FEB 1928\n\n%\n\n58\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG. 28th December, 1927.\n\nRECEIVER\n\n81 JAN 1928\n\nCOL. OFF!\n\nEnclosure No.\n\nEnclosure No.2.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to submit for the\n\nsignification of His Majesty's pleasure the following\n\nOrdinance intituled:-\n\n2.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Railways Ordinance, 1909.\n\nThe usual report by the Attorney General is\n\nenclosed.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\nL. S.\n\nNo. 28 OF 1927.\n\nI assent\n\nC. CLEMENTI,\n\nGovernor.\n\n23rd December, 1927.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Railways Ordinance, 1909.\n\n[23rd December, 1927.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Railways Amendment Ordinance, 1927.\n\n2. Section 2 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended as follows:\n\n(a) The word \"administrator\" of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 2. is substituted for the word \"administration\" in paragraph (a).\n\n(b) The following paragraph is added to the definition of \"Railway\" in paragraph (d):—\n\n(v) any railway or portion of a railway in process of construction;\n\n(vi) all works connected with or for the purposes of a railway authorized to be constructed.\n\n3. The Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the word \"administrator\" for the word \"administration\" in the following sections:-\n\n(a) section 5, in the first line thereof;\n\n(b) section 6, in the third line thereof;\n\n(c) section 8, in the second, tenth, nineteenth, twenty-sixth, and thirty-second lines thereof;\n\n(d) section 9, in the first and sixth lines thereof;\n\n(e) section 10, in the second, fourth, eighth, and fifteenth lines thereof;\n\n(f) section 11, in the first, fifteenth, twenty-fourth, and twenty-seventh lines thereof;\n\n(g) section 12, in the second and tenth lines thereof;\n\n(h) section 14, in the fifth, seventh, and tenth lines thereof;\n\n(i) section 15, in the first line thereof;\n\n(j) section 19, in the fifth line thereof;\n\n(k) section 20, in the first and fifth lines thereof;\n\n(l) section 21, in the first line thereof;\n\n(m) section 22, in the first and eleventh lines thereof;\n\n(n) section 23, in the first line thereof;\n\n(o) section 24, in the third, fourth, and nineteenth lines thereof;\n\n(p) section 25, in the first line thereof;\n\n(q) section 26, in the sixth line thereof;\n\nPage 60",
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        "content_text": "Repeal of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 29. \n\nRepeal of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 32, and substitution of new section. \n\n2 \n\n(s) section 27, in the second and seventh lines thereof; \n\n(s) section 28, in the fourteenth line thereof; \n\n(t) section 33, in the first line thereof; \n\n(u) section 34, in the first line thereof; \n\n(v) section 36, in the fourth line thereof. \n\n4. Section 29 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is repealed. \n\n5. Section 32 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:- \n\nPowers of administrator. \n\n32.-(1) It shall be lawful for the administrator to do all things which \n\nmay be necessary for the construction, maintenance and repair of the railway, and for the construction, maintenance, repair and renewal of the rolling stock, and efficient working of the railway, and particularly- \n\n(a) to arrange the train service; \n\n(b) to settle the time tables and alter the same \n\nfrom time to time as may be necessary; (c) temporarily to suspend the service either \n\nwholly or in part ; \n\n(d) to fix the speed at which the rolling stock \n\nshall run; \n\n(e) to fix, and alter as occasion may require, the fares to be paid by passengers travelling on the railway and to issue tickets for the same; \n\n(f) to fix the different rates payable for the carriage of various goods over the railway and to classify such goods and to alter such rates by either increasing or decreasing them as he may deem necessary from time to time; \n\n(g) to issue and make charges for platform \n\ntickets; \n\n(h) to reserve in any manner the whole or any part of the accommodation of any train, ferry, ship, boat, craft, or vehicle used in or for the service of the railway; \n\n(i) to grant licences- \n\n(i) to porters other than railway servants to handle cargo, goods, or passengers' baggage or luggage; and \n\n(ii) to any persons to use the railway premises, property and rolling stock, or any part thereof for exhibiting notices, bills, posters, advertisements and announcements whether pictorial or otherwise; and \n\n(iii) to vendors of fruit, goods or wares \n\non railway premises or in any train : and to make charges therefor and to attach conditions thereto; \n\n(j) to fix and vary from time to time the rates for the carriage of any animals by the railway. \n\n(2) Subject to the approval of the Governor in Council it shall be lawful for the administrator to make rules :— \n\n(a) for the general purposes of administration; \n\n(b) for regulating the carriage of passengers and all matters connected therewith and the restrictions to be placed upon the carriage of persons who are lepers or who are suffering from any contagious or infectious disease ; \n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "(c) for regulating the receipt, transportation and delivery of goods to be carried over the railway and all matters connected therewith, together with the restrictions to be placed upon dangerous and offensive, perishable or fragile goods, or other classes of goods;\n\n(d) for prescribing the terms upon which any goods or class of goods will be received for carriage by the railway;\n\n(e) for regulating the receipt, transport and delivery of animals over the railway, and the terms upon which they will be received for carriage by the railway and the restrictions placed upon such carriage;\n\n(f) for regulating the hours of employment and the work to be done by railway servants;\n\n(g) for regulating the conduct and control of all persons working for or on the railway premises, rolling stock or property whilst on the railway;\n\n(h) for prescribing the procedure to be followed in the case of accidents;\n\n(i) for prescribing forms;\n\n(j) for such other purposes as may be necessary to carry out effectively the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\n(3) All rules made under this section, unless some other date be fixed by such regulation, shall come into operation on the day on which such rules are made, and it shall not be necessary to publish such rules in the gazette.\n\n(4) The administrator shall keep at each station a copy in English and Chinese of the rules made under this section and shall allow any person to inspect any such copy at all reasonable times.\n\n6. Section 34 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is repealed.\n\nOrdinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 34.\n\n7. Sub-sections (2), (3), (4) and (5) of section 35 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, are repealed and the following sub-sections are substituted therefor:—\n\n(2) If any person employed on the railway is alleged to have committed any breach of any rule made under section 32, the manager may, in lieu of prosecuting such person, inquire summarily into such allegation, and if he is of opinion that the allegation is established he may impose on such person a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.\n\n(3) Unless the penalty be paid, the amount of such penalty may be deducted from the pay of the person on whom the penalty was imposed: Provided that no sum greater than the amount of seven days' pay shall be so deducted in any one month from the pay of any such person, except upon the termination of his employment.\n\n(4) An appeal to the Governor shall lie from any penalty imposed by the manager under this section.\n\n(5) Every appeal to the Governor under this section shall be by means of a written petition setting forth the facts complained of and such petition shall be sent to the Colonial Secretary not later than fourteen days after the commission of the act giving the right to appeal.\n\n(6) This section shall not apply to any person who is in receipt of a yearly salary of one hundred pounds or one thousand dollars or upwards.\n\nNo. 21 of 1909, s. 35.\n\nPage 62",
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        "content_text": "63\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 38.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 39.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 40.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 42.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 44.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 50.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 51.\n\n4\n\n8. Section 38 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"two hundred and fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n9. Section 39 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"ten dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n10. Section 40 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n11. Section 42 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the seventh line thereof.\n\n12. Section 44 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the repeal of the words in the last three lines thereof and the substitution therefor of the words \"railway premises and further shall forfeit his fare and shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars\".\n\n13. Section 50 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"ten dollars\" in the fourth line thereof and by the substitution of the words \"two hundred and fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n14. Section 51 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 54.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 56.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 58.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 59.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 60.\n\nRepeal of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 67.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 68.\n\n19\n\n15. Section 54 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the eighteenth line thereof.\n\n16. Section 56 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"two hundred and fifty dollars\" for the words \"one hundred dollars\" in the eleventh line thereof.\n\n17. Section 58 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the ninth line and by the substitution of the words \"two hundred and fifty dollars\" for the words \"one hundred dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n18. Section 59 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"two hundred and fifty dollars\" for the words \"fifty dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n19. Section 60 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"ten dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n20. Section 67 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is repealed.\n\n21. Section 68 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the sixth line thereof.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 22nd day of December, 1927.\n\nD. W. TRATMAN,\n\nClerk of Councils.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHongkong, 24th December, 1927.\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 28\n\nof 1927.\n\n64\n\n1.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordinance to amend the Railways Ordinance, 1909, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2.\n\nThe drafting of certain new Railway rules revealed the desirability of making certain alterations in the Railways Ordinance, 1909, Ordinance No. 21 of 1909. This Ordinance makes those alterations, and some others, but it is not a general revision of the principal Ordinance.\n\n3.\n\n\"Administration\" is defined in the principal Ordinance as \"the manager or such other person as the Governor may appoint to conduct the affairs of any railways\". As this is a person it is considered that the word \"administrator\" is more suitable, especially as the word \"administration\" is also used in the principal Ordinance as an abstract noun. This amendment is made by paragraph (a) of section 2, and by section 3, of this Ordinance.",
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        "content_text": "65\n\n4.\n\nBy paragraph (b) of section 2 of this Ordinance, the definition of the term \"railway\" is extended to cover railways in process of construction and works connected with railways authorized to be constructed.\n\n5.\n\nThe powers of the administrator are defined, collected, and extended in the new section 32 of the principal Ordinance, which is to be substituted by section 5 of this Ordinance. These powers include a power to make rules subject to the approval of the Governor in Council. This enables sections 29 and 34 of the principal Ordinance to be repealed. Section 29 is repealed by section 4 of this Ordinance, and section 34 is repealed by section 6 of this Ordinance. As the rules will be very detailed and voluminous, and will deal solely with railway administration, it is not considered necessary that they should be gazetted. This is provided for by sub-section (3) of the new section 32.\n\nSub-section (4) of that section provides that the administrator shall keep at each station a copy of the rules in English and Chinese and shall allow any such copy to be inspected at all reasonable hours.\n\n6.\n\nSection 8 of this Ordinance recasts sub-sections (2), (3), and (4) of section 35 of the principal Ordinance. It omits the reference to by-laws for the conduct of railway employees, as that matter will now fall under the new section 32(2). It provides for the procedure upon an appeal to the Governor against the imposition of a penalty by the manager. Sub-section (3) of section 35 of the principal Ordinance provided that the manager might not impose any penalty on any railway employee which would exceed the amount of seven days' pay in any one month. This might be insufficient. The new form of the section does not contain this limitation, but it provides that, for the purpose of the recovery of the penalty, not more than seven days' pay may be deducted in any one month, except upon the termination of the person's employment. The old sub-section (5) becomes sub-section (6).",
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        "content_text": "7. With one slight exception in section 12, the remaining sections of this Ordinance provide for increases of the maximum penalties provided in the principal Ordinance. These seemed too low in many cases.\n\n8. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nAttorney General.",
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        "content_text": "No 542.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 29th December, 1927.\n\nenll. to W.O. ©\n\ninaud (11) 9/3.\n\n½½од\n\nEnclosure No.1.\n\nEnclosure No.2.\n\nSir,\n\nRECEIVED\n\n31 JAN 1928\n\nCOL. OFF\n\nI have the honour to submit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following Ordinance intituled:-\n\nAn Ordinance to amend further the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920.\n\n2.\n\nThe enclosed report by the Attorney General explains the reasons for this Ordinance.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\nNo. 27 of 1927.\n\nI assent.\n\nL.S.\n\nC. CLEMENTI, Governor.\n\n23rd December, 1927.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend further the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920.\n\n[23rd December, 1927.]\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Volunteer Amendment Ordinance, 1927.\n\n2. The term \"Commandant\" shall be substituted for the term \"administrative commandant\", wherever that term occurs in the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, or the regulations made thereunder.\n\n3. Section 3 of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, is amended by the insertion of the following sub-section at the end thereof :\n\n(3) Any such corps may include any number of auxiliary units, the members of which shall be volunteers, or officers as the case may be, for all the purposes of this Ordinance.\n\n19\n\nof \"Commandant\" for \"administrative commandant.\"\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 2 of 1920, s. 3.\n\n4. Section 5 (3) of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, is amended as follows:-\n\n(a) The words \"other than a member of an auxiliary unit,\" are inserted immediately after the word \"volunteer\" in the second line thereof.\n\n(b) The words \"at least\" are inserted immediately before the words \"three years\" in the third line thereof.\n\n(c) The following proviso is added at the end thereof:\n\n\"Provided also that nothing in this sub-section shall relieve any volunteer from the obligation to comply with the provisions of sub-section (1) if he wishes to quit the corps.\"\n\n66\n\nof Ordinance No. 2 of 1920, s. 5 (3).\n\n5. Section 16 (1) of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, is amended as follows:-\n\nof Ordinance No. 2 of 1920, s. 16 (1),\n\n(a) Paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) are re-numbered as paragraphs (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) respectively.\n\n68",
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        "content_text": "69\n\nRepeal of Ordinance\n\nNo. 2 of 1920,\n\ns. 16A, and\n\nsubstitution\n\nof new\n\nsection.\n\nAmendment\n\n(b) The word \"parade\" is substituted for the word \"corps\" in the twelfth and thirteenth lines of paragraph (ie) as so renumbered.\n\n(e) The following paragraph is added at the end thereof :-\n\n() Release from arrest under the provisions of paragraph (iv) shall be without prejudice to any subsequent proceedings for discharge under the provisions of this sub-section.\n\n6. Section 16A of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor\n\nFailure by\n\n16A. (1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 16, but subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2), (3) and (4) of this section, every member of a volunteer corps who in the opinion of the Commandant fails without reasonable excuse to complete the requirements of efficiency in any year shall forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars, which shall be paid into the general revenue of the Colony.\n\n(2) No member of a volunteer corps shall be liable to forfeit the said sum of twenty-five dollars in respect of the year during which he attains the age of forty years or in any subsequent year.\n\n(3) No member of a volunteer corps who has completed the requirements of efficiency in the corps in three years, whether consecutive years or not, shall be liable to forfeit the said sum of twenty-five dollars.\n\n(4) If any member of a volunteer corps, other than such persons as are referred to in sub-sections (2) and (3), quits the corps without completing the requirements of efficiency in any year he shall remain liable to forfeit the said sum of twenty-five dollars as if he were still a member of the corps, provided that the Commandant may exempt from the said liability any person who would otherwise have remained liable under this sub-section if he is of opinion (a) that such person quitted the corps for a reasonable and bona fide cause and (b) that such person used reasonable diligence in subjecting himself to the prescribed annual training up to the time of his quitting the corps.\n\n(5) If any member of a volunteer corps fails to fulfil any of his obligations under this Ordinance such failure shall be deemed to be a sufficient cause for discharge within the meaning of paragraph (1) of section 16, provided that no member of a volunteer corps shall be discharged for this cause if the Commandant, or the Governor upon an appeal, is of opinion that such member had a reasonable excuse for such failure.\n\n(6) For the purposes of this section the year shall be deemed to commence on the 16th day of April.\n\n7. Section 17 of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, is amended by the substitution of the figures \"177\" for the figures \"117\" in the second line of sub-section (2), and by the addition of the following sub-section at the end thereof :-\n\n(3) Disciplinary measures may be imposed, court martial proceedings may be commenced and carried on, and punishments may be imposed, in respect of acts and omissions of any officer or volunteer while on actual military service, or while undergoing any such drill, exercise, training or inspection, or doing any such voluntary duty, as is referred to in sub-section (1), even though such actual military service, drill, exercise, training, inspection, or duty, shall have come to an end, and though such officer or volunteer shall have been released from any arrest to which he may have been subjected.\n\n8. The following section is inserted in the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, immediately after section 17 thereof :-\n\nAttendance\n\nwhen ordered.\n\n17A.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Commandant of any volunteer corps to order any officer or volunteer of such corps to attend at any time at Volunteer Headquarters or at any other place within the Colony for the purposes of any court martial or court of inquiry, or for any other special purpose which may seem proper to the Commandant.\n\n(2) Every officer or volunteer who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any such order shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.\n\n17A in Ordinance No. 2 of 1920.\n\n9. Section 20 of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-\n\nReturn of\n\narms, etc.\n\n20. If any officer or volunteer fails duly to deliver up in good order (fair wear and tear excepted) any arms, clothing or appointments which he is liable under this Ordinance to deliver up, or any arms, clothing, or appointments, being public property or the property of the corps, which he has been ordered to deliver up either temporarily or permanently, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.\n\n10. Section 26 (1) of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, is amended as follows:-\n\n(a) The words \"Subject to the provisions of any regulation made under this Ordinance relating to members of auxiliary units,\" are inserted immediately before the word \"Every\" in the first line thereof.\n\n(b) The words \", or by the Adjutant, or by any officer of His Majesty's regular forces attached to the corps.\" are inserted at the end thereof.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 22nd day of December, 1927.\n\nD. W. 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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\n3252/07\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHongkong. 26th December, 1927,\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 27\n\nof 1927.\n\n2\n\n1\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordinance to amend further the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2.\n\nThe Ordinance makes a number of not very important amendments in the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, Ordinance No. 2 of 1920.\n\n3.\n\nSection 2 of the Ordinance substitutes the term \"Commandant\" for the term \"administrative commandant\" throughout the principal Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder. The term \"Commandant\" is considered by the military authorities to be the correct term.\n\n4.\n\nSection 3 of the Ordinance provides expressly for the formation of a number of auxiliary units in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.\n\nThe units will be as follows:\n\n(a) A Supplementary Reserve Company, to consist of men who have attained the age of fifty years.",
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        "content_text": "72\n\n(b) An Army Service Corps Cadre.\n\n(c) A Lights Section Cadre.\n\n(d) A Reserve of Officers.\n\nThe members of these auxiliary units will not be required to undergo any training, but they will be liable to be called up for actual military service. It may be added that there is a Reserve of Officers at present, though it is not classed as an auxiliary unit.\n\n5.\n\nSection 5 of the principal Ordinance provides that any volunteer may quit his corps on giving fourteen days notice in writing, delivering up his equipment, and paying any money due by him. It also provides that every volunteer shall be deemed to have engaged to serve for a period of three years.\n\nIt was obvious, though on examination it might have been clear, that the obligation to give notice continued even after the expiration of the original period of three years. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of section 4 of this Ordinance are intended to make the point obvious and quite clear. Section 4 also provides that the three year period shall not apply to the members of the auxiliary units, who will accordingly be at liberty to resign at any time upon giving fourteen days notice in writing.\n\n6.\n\nSection 16 (1) (4) of the principal Ordinance gave a certain power to arrest any officer or volunteer who disobeyed any lawful order, or was guilty of misconduct, on any parade. The obvious intention was to provide a remedy for the possible though unlikely case of the flouting of authority on a parade. The paragraph in question, however, was defective in that it gave the power of arrest only to \"the officer then in command of the corps or any superior officer in whose command the corps then is\". The officer in command of the corps is the\n\nPage 70\n\nPage 71",
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        "content_text": "73\n\nCommandant and he may not be present on the parade. Accordingly paragraph (b) of section 5 of this Ordinance gives the power of arrest to the officer in command of the parade, or any superior officer under whose command the parade then is. Any officer or volunteer so arrested must be released at the end of the march or duty or exercise during which he was placed under arrest. Paragraph (c) of section 5 therefore, by way of extra caution, provides that such release from arrest shall be without prejudice to any subsequent proceedings for the discharge of the individual in question from the corps. Paragraph (a) of section 5 endeavours to effect a slight improvement in the numbering of the paragraphs of section 16(1) of the principal Ordinance.\n\n7.\n\nSection 6 of this Ordinance repeals section 16A of the principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section. The principal changes are as follows:\n\n(a) The sum of $25 which a non-efficient is liable to pay will in future be paid into the general revenue of the Colony and not into the general fund of the corps.\n\n(b) No member of a volunteer corps is to be liable to forfeit this sum in respect of the year in which he attains the age of forty years or in respect of any subsequent year.\n\n(c) No member of a volunteer corps who has been efficient in three years, whether consecutive years or not, is to be liable to forfeit the said sum.\n\n(d) A member of a volunteer corps may for various reasons have to quit the corps before making himself efficient in any given year. Accordingly the Commandant is given power to exempt such a person from liability to pay the $25 if he is of opinion (i) that the person in question quitted the corps for a reasonable and",
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        "content_text": "74\n\n8.\n\nand bona fide cause and (ii) that such person used reasonable diligence in undergoing the annual training up to the time of his quitting the corps.\n\nSection 17 of the principal Ordinance provides that when a volunteer corps is on actual military service, or is doing duty with His Majesty's regular forces, the provisions of the Army Act with regard to discipline are applied with certain modifications. In order to avoid any possible question, section 7 of the Ordinance adds to that section a sub-section which provides that any disciplinary measures necessary may be carried out after the period of actual military service, or such duty, has come to an end. Section 7 also corrects a misprint in section 17 of the principal Ordinance.\n\n9. Section 8 of the Ordinance adds a new section 17A to the principal Ordinance. The new section gives the Commandant power to order any officer or volunteer to attend, at volunteer headquarters or elsewhere, for the purposes of any court martial or court of inquiry or for any other special purpose which may appear proper to the Commandant. Any officer or volunteer who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any such order will be liable upon conviction before a magistrate to a fine not exceeding $250. It is obviously necessary to have such a power in reserve in order to ensure the attendance of witnesses and others at courts martial and courts of inquiry, and there may be other special cases also in which the power may be required.\n\n10.\n\nSection 20 of the principal Ordinance provided that every person who failed to deliver up any equipment which was liable under the Ordinance or rules to deliver up should be liable to pay to the Commandant the value of the equipment. This appeared to be defective in two points.\n\nIn the first place",
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        "content_text": "75\n\nIt was arguable that the section referred only to the final delivery up by a member who was quitting the corps. In the second place, it may be important, as in the case of a rifle or revolver, that the article should be returned to store and that the member should not be allowed to keep it upon paying the value. Accordingly, section 9 of this Ordinance substitutes another section which requires actual delivery up of the article, and it makes it clear that the obligation applies to every case where a member of a corps is under an obligation to return any equipment, either permanently or temporarily. The sanction is a fine not exceeding $250, to be imposed by a magistrate.\n\n11.\n\nSection 26 of the principal Ordinance required every officer and volunteer to take the oath, or make the declaration, of allegiance. It is not intended to require members of the auxiliary units to do this, except when they are called up for actual military service. This will be provided in the regulations. Section 10 of this Ordinance, accordingly, makes the general obligation to take the oath, or make the declaration, subject to any regulations relating to members of auxiliary units. It also enables the oath or declaration of allegiance to be taken or made before the Adjutant, or before any officer of His Majesty's regular forces attached to the corps. This is desirable because, speaking generally, the term \"officer\" in the principal Ordinance means an officer holding a volunteer commission.\n\n12.\n\nIn my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nAttorney General.",
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        "content_text": "N°544.\n\n5.\n\n52741\n\n76\n\nSanctioned 66 93– 25 FEB 1928\n\nEnclosure No.1.\n\nEnclosure No.2.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n81 JAN 1928 COL. OFFIC\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 29th December, 1927.\n\nI have the honour to submit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following Ordinance intituled:-\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Prisons Ordinance, 1899.\n\nThe enclosed report by the Attorney General explains the reasons for this Ordinance.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE LIEUTENANT COLONEL L. C. M. S. AMERY, M.P., &c., &c., &c.\n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "L. S.\n\nHONG\n\nKONG.\n\nNo. 26 of 1927.\n\nI assent.\n\nC. CLEMENTI, Governor.\n\n23rd December, 1927.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Prisons Ordinance,\n\n1899.\n\n[23rd December, 1927.]\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Prisons Amendment Ordinance, 1927.\n\n2. Section 2 of the Prisons Ordinance, 1899, is amended as follows:-\n\n(a) by the repeal of the words “any available sites and buildings” in paragraph (1) thereof and the substitution therefor of the words \"any place or building or portion of a building\";\n\n(b) by the repeal of paragraph (3) thereof.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 4 of 1899, s. 2.\n\n3. The Prisons Ordinance, 1899, is amended by the insertion of the following section immediately after section 3 :-\n\nCommitment\n\nand removal\n\nof prisoners.\n\n4.—(1) A prisoner sentenced to imprisonment or committed to prison on remand pending trial or otherwise may be lawfully confined in any prison to which this Ordinance applies.\n\n(2) Prisoners shall be confined in such prisons as the Superintendent of Prisons may direct and may on like direction be removed therefrom during the term of their imprisonment to any other prison.\n\n(3) The Superintendent of Prisons on being satisfied that a prisoner is suffering from a disease and cannot be properly treated in the prison, or that he should undergo and desires to undergo a surgical operation which cannot properly be performed in the prison, may order that the prisoner be taken to the Government Civil Hospital or other suitable place for the purpose of treatment or the operation and while absent from the prison in pursuance of such order the prisoner shall be deemed to be in legal custody.\n\n(4) Prisoners of unsound mind shall be dealt with in the manner prescribed by the Asylums Ordinance, 1906.\n\nin Ordinance No. 4 of 1899.\n\nPage 77",
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        "content_text": "# Repeal of Ordinance No. 4 of 1899, s. 12, and substitution of new section.\n\n# Repeal of Ordinance No. 4 of 1899, s. 13, and substitution of new section.\n\n2\n\n4. Section 12 of the Prisons Ordinance, 1899, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-\n\n## Introduction of prohibited articles into prisons.\n\n12.--(1) No intoxicating liquor, opium or other prohibited drug, tobacco, money, clothing, provisions, letters, papers, books, or any other article whatsoever shall be brought into any prison, or thrown into it, or conveyed to any prisoner while in custody outside the prison, or carried out of the prison, unless such use be authorized by the prison rules or by the Superintendent of Prisons.\n\n(2) Every person who contravenes or attempts to contravene any of the provisions of this section, and every officer of a prison who knowingly permits the contravention of this section, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.\n\n(3) Any officer of a prison convicted under this section shall, in addition to any other punishment, forfeit his office.\n\n5. Section 13 of the Prisons Ordinance, 1899, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-\n\n## Supplying prohibited articles to prisoners.\n\n13.-(1) No person shall, in any prison, sell any intoxicating liquor, opium or other drug, or tobacco, and no officer of a prison shall knowingly permit any such article to be sold in any prison.\n\n(2) No officer of a prison shall permit any intoxicating liquor, opium or other drug, or tobacco, to be used by any prisoner, unless such use be authorized by the prison rules or by the Superintendent of Prisons.\n\n(3) No officer of a prison shall, contrary to the prison rules, give or cause to be given anything of whatsoever nature to any prisoner.\n\n(4) Every person who contravenes or attempts to contravene any of the provisions of this section shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.\n\n(5) Any officer of a prison convicted under this section shall, in addition to any other punishment, forfeit his office.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 22nd day of December, 1927.\n\nD. W. TRATMAN,\n\nClerk of Councils.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHongkong, 24th January, 1927.\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 25\n\nof 1927\n\n79\n\n1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the Prisons Ordinance, 1899,\" and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2. It has been the practice for many years to transfer to the Government Civil Hospital prisoners who, in the opinion of the medical officer of the prison in which such prisoners are confined, cannot properly be treated in the prison hospital. There is now a special ward, Ward Thirteen in the Government Civil Hospital, which is self-contained and is arranged as a prison. This ward has, however, not been set apart as a prison under the Prisons Ordinance, 1899. Recently, therefore, it was proposed to make an order setting this ward apart as a prison, but doubts were raised as to whether the power conferred on the Governor by section 2 of the Prisons Ordinance, 1899, included a power to set apart a portion of a building, because the wording of paragraph (1) of that section was \"to set apart any available sites and buildings\".",
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        "content_text": "80\n\nAccordingly, paragraph (a) of section 2 of this Ordinance repeals the words \"any available sites and buildings\" and substitutes the words \"any place or building or portion of a building\".\n\n3.\n\nUnder the practice referred to above it was usual to obtain the sanction of the Governor for each removal of a prisoner to the Government Civil Hospital. This was unsatisfactory in two respects. In the first place, a doubt may be expressed as to whether the Governor had power to order a prisoner to be removed from a prison to a place which is not a prison. That point will be met when Ward Thirteen is set apart as a prison under the present Ordinance. In the second place, it seems unnecessary that the Governor should have to make a special order in each case in a matter which may quite properly be placed in the discretion of the Superintendent of Prisons. Again, it has hitherto been the practice for prisoners to be transferred from Victoria Gaol to Lai Chi Kok Prison, and vice versa, under the authority of the Superintendent of Prisons. Here again a doubt might have been expressed as to the power of the Superintendent to order such transfers.\n\nAccordingly, a new section 4 which is inserted in the principal Ordinance by section 3 of this Ordinance gives the Superintendent of Prisons clear power to order transfers in both the above classes of case. That amendment makes paragraph (3) of section 2 of the principal Ordinance unnecessary. The paragraph in question gives the Governor power to make orders to remove prisoners from one prison to another. That paragraph is therefore now repealed by paragraph (b) of section 2 of this Ordinance.\n\n4.\n\nSection 3 of this Ordinance inserts a new section 4 in the principal Ordinance. The main effect of the new section is to give the Superintendent of Prisons power to make the",
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        "content_text": "81\n\ntransfers referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 above. This subject is dealt with in sub-sections (2) and (3) of the new section 4. Sub-section (4) provides that prisoners of unsound mind shall be dealt with in the manner prescribed by the Asylums Ordinance, 1906. Strictly speaking this sub-section is unnecessary, but it was considered that it would be convenient to direct attention to the relevant provisions of the Asylums Ordinance. Sub-section (1)\n\nof the new section 4 introduces a provision taken from section 17 of the Criminal Administration Act, 1914, to the effect that a prisoner may be lawfully confined in any prison to which the Ordinance applies. It may be added that sub-sections (2) and (3) of the new section 4 are also based on section 17 of the same Act. The powers there given are in England vested in the Secretary of State for the Home Department, but it is considered that they may be properly given to the Superintendent of Prisons in Hong Kong.\n\n5.\n\nSection 12 and 13 of the principal Ordinance overlapped, and for no apparent reason the maximum penalties under the two sections were not the same. The discrepancy was made more serious by an unusual provision that section 13 should not apply in any case where the offender was liable to a more severe punishment under any other provision of the Ordinance. The maximum penalty under section 12 was more severe than that under section 13. A conviction under section 13 might therefore have been quashed on this ground, and yet it might not be clear in any particular case which of the two sections should apply. Accordingly these two sections are repealed by this Ordinance. Section 4 of this Ordinance repeals section 12 of the principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section dealing with the whole",
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        "content_text": "82\n\nsubject of the introduction of prohibited articles into\n\nSection 5 of this Ordinance repeals section 13\n\nprisons.\n\nof the principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section\n\nwhich deals with improper supply or use of prohibited articles within any prison.\n\n6.\n\nIn my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His\n\nExcellency the Governor properly assented in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nAttorney General.\n\nPage 80\n\nPage 81",
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        "content_text": "N°525.\n\nEnclosure No. A\n\nSir,\n\nSanctioned by - 913-25 FEB 1928\n\nEnclosure No. 2.\n\n23 JAN 1328\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 19th December, 1927.\n\nI have the honour to submit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following Ordinance intituled:-\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890.\n\n2. The enclosed report by the Attorney General explains the reasons for this Ordinance.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant,\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P., &c., &c., &c.\n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\nL.S.\n\nNo. 23 of 1927.\n\nI assent.\n\nC. CLEMENTI, Governor.\n\n16th December, 1927.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890.\n\n[16th December, 1927.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Magistrates Amendment Ordinance, 1927.\n\n2. Section 8 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, as amended by section 3 of the Magistrates Amendment Ordinance, 1926, is further amended by the insertion of the words \"the Deputy Harbour Master\" immediately after the words \"Harbour Master”.\n\n1890, s. 8. Ordinance No. 2 of 1926.\n\n3. Section 10 (2) of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, is amended by the addition of the following words at the end thereof :-\n\ns. 10 (2).\n\n\"and that it shall be lawful for a magistrate in any such event to hear and determine the case in all respects as if the defendant had appeared in answer to a summons\"\n\n4. Section 11 (1) of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, is amended by the repeal of the words \"on oath being made before him substantiating the matter of the complaint or information to his satisfaction\", in the seventh, eighth and ninth lines thereof,\n\n5. Section 31 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, is amended as follows:-\n\ns. 31.\n\n(a) Paragraph (1) is amended by the addition of the following words at the end thereof :- \"he may order the defendant to enter into a recognizance with or without sureties, to be of good behaviour or to keep the peace, in a sum not greater than two hundred dollars and for a term not to exceed twelve months; or\".\n\n(b) Paragraph (2) is amended by the insertion of the words \"or to keep the peace\" immediately after the word \"behaviour\" in the fourth line thereof.\n\n(c) Paragraph (2) is also amended by the addition of the following words at the end thereof :-\n\n\":-\n\nProvided that the security required shall not exceed two hundred dollars and the time during which the defendant may be called upon to appear for sentence or during which he is to be of good behaviour or is to keep the peace shall not exceed twelve months.\"\n\nPage 66\n\nPage 84",
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        "content_text": "85\n\nAmendment\n\n2\n\n(d) The following sub-section is added at the end thereof and is numbered paragraph (3) :-\n\n(3) The magistrate may order the defendant in default of compliance with any order made under this section to be imprisoned without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months.\n\n6. Section 32 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, is amended by the substitution of the word \"twenty-five\" for the word \"five\" in the first line thereof.\n\nNo. 3 of 1890, s. 32.\n\nRepeal of Ordinance No. 3 of 1890, s. 49.\n\n7. Section 49 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, is repealed.\n\n8. Section 78 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :\n\nDepositions and exhibits\n\n78.-(1) The following documents, together with a certified copy thereof, shall, as soon after as may be after the committal of the accused person, be transmitted by the magistrate to the Crown Solicitor for the use of the Attorney General, that is to say, the depositions of the witnesses, the documentary exhibits thereto, the statement of the accused person, and the record of his evidence, if any, and the recognizances entered into.\n\n(2) A certified copy of all such documents shall, either at the same time or as soon as possible thereafter, be transmitted by the magistrate to the Registrar for the use of the court.\n\n(3) All exhibits other than documentary exhibits, shall, unless the magistrate otherwise directs, be taken charge of by the police, and shall be produced by them at the trial.\n\n(4) At any time before the first day of the criminal session of the court at which any accused committed for trial is to be tried the accused or his counsel may require from the magistrate's clerk copies of the depositions together with copies of any such statements or evidence as aforesaid, on payment of fifteen cents for each folio of seventy-two words.\n\n9. The following section is inserted immediately after section 78 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890:-\n\nProcedure on charge against corporation.\n\n78A. (1) When a corporation is charged, whether alone or jointly with some other indictable person, with an indictable offence, the magistrate may if he be of the opinion that the evidence offered on the part of the prosecution is sufficient to put the accused corporation upon trial, order the documents specified in section 78 (1) which relate to the case to be transmitted to the Crown Solicitor for the use of the Attorney General and such order shall be deemed to be a committal for trial.\n\n15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86, s. 33.\n\n(2) If the corporation appears before the magistrate by a representative appointed in writing by the corporation to represent it for the purpose of this section, any question or statement required by any enactment to be put or made to the accused may be put or made to such representative, and any such question may be answered on behalf of the corporation by such representative, but if the corporation does not so appear it shall not be necessary to put or make the questions or statements, and the magistrate may, notwithstanding, make an order under this section.",
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        "content_text": "(3) Nothing in this section shall have the effect of taking away from a magistrate any power which he may possess of dealing with a charge summarily.\n\n10. Sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 80 of the Repeal of Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, are repealed.\n\nOrdinance No.3 of 1890,\n\ns.80(2), (3).\n\nNo.3 of 1890\n\ns.85.\n\n11. Section 85 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, Amendment is amended by the repeal of paragraph (6) thereof of Ordinance and by the substitution therefor of the following paragraph Ordinance No.3 of 1924.\n\n(6) under the provisions of the Stowaways Ordinance, 1924, or\n\n12. Section 93 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, Repeal of is repealed and the following section is substituted Ordinance therefor:-\n\nNo.3 of 1890, s.93, and Drunkenness.\n\n93.-(1) Whenever any person is convicted of having been found drunk in any public place, or on any premises licensed under any Ordinance relating to liquor licences, a magistrate may sentence him to a fine not exceeding ten dollars.\n\n(2) Whenever any person is convicted of riotous or disorderly behaviour while drunk in any public place a magistrate may sentence him to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two months.\n\n(3) Whenever any person is convicted of having been drunk while in charge of any vehicle (other than a motor vehicle), or of any horse, in any public road or street, a magistrate may sentence him to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two months.\n\n(4) Whenever any person is convicted of having been drunk while driving or being otherwise in charge of any motor vehicle a magistrate may sentence him to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.\n\n(5) For the purposes of sub-sections (3) and (4) a person shall be deemed to have been drunk if he was so much under the influence of alcohol as to have lost control of his faculties to such an extent as to render him unable to execute safely the occupation on which he was engaged at the time in question.\n\n(6) Whenever any person is convicted of having been drunk while in possession of any loaded firearm or of any firearm and any ammunition therefor a magistrate may sentence him to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.\n\nFor the purposes of this sub-section a person shall be deemed to have been drunk if he was so much under the influence of alcohol as to have lost control of his faculties to such an extent as to render him unable to handle a firearm safely at the time in question.\n\nPage 86",
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        "content_text": "# Repeal of Ordinance\n\nNo. 3 of 1890, s. 96, and substitution of new section.\n\n## Amendment\n\n13. Section 96 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:-\n\n### Review of decision and re-hearing by magistrate.\n\n96.-(1) Within seven clear days after the determination in any manner by a magistrate hearing of any matter which he has power to determine in a summary way it shall be lawful for either party thereto to apply to the magistrate to review his decision.\n\n(2) Any such application may be made by the party himself in person, or may be made by his counsel in person whether the party himself be present or not.\n\n(3) If either party to the said matter is in the custody of the Superintendent of Prisons, the magistrate shall, unless he dismisses the application forthwith, inform the Superintendent of Prisons in writing that an application for a review has been made, and thereafter the Superintendent of Prisons shall produce the said party whenever so required in writing by a magistrate for the purposes of the review or of the application therefor.\n\n(4) It shall be lawful for the magistrate to grant the application for a review at any time provided that the application for the review shall have been duly made in accordance with the provisions of sub-sections (1) and (2).\n\n(5) If the magistrate grants the application for a review it shall be lawful for him upon the review to re-open and re-hear the case wholly or in part, and to take fresh evidence, and to reverse, vary or confirm his previous decision.\n\n(6) For the purpose of the review the magistrate shall have all the powers, as to securing the attendance of the parties and witnesses and otherwise, that he would have if the matter were brought before him as an original complaint or information.\n\n(7) No application for a review shall be granted if any proceedings have been commenced by either party with a view to questioning the decision of the magistrate by way of appeal, mandamus or certiorari, unless such proceedings shall have been abandoned.\n\n(8) The decision of the magistrate upon a review shall for the purposes of sections 98 and 103 be deemed to be the determination of a proceeding which he has power to determine in a summary way.\n\n14. Section 99 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, is amended as follows:-\n\n### Amendment of Ordinance No. 3 of 1890, s. 99.\n\n(a) by the deletion of the words \"or parties\" in the fifth line thereof;\n\n(b) by the deletion of the words \"or respondents\" in the sixth line thereof;\n\n(c) by the addition of the words \"and to the Crown Solicitor\" at the end thereof.\n\n15. Section 100 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, is amended by the repeal of the words \"before the case has been set down for argument before the Full Court\" in the second and third lines thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words \"before the...",
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        "content_text": "commencement of the hearing by the Full Court and by the addition at the end thereof of the following words-\n\nprovided that if the case is so amended the provisions of sections 99 and 101 shall be complied with in respect of the amended case as if it were the case as originally delivered to the appellant and as if the delivery to the appellant of the amended case were the delivery to him of the original case.\n\n16. Section 101 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, Amendment is amended by the addition of the words \"Crown Solicitor and to the\" immediately before the word \"opposite\" in the sixth line thereof.\n\nNo. 3 of 1890, s. 101.\n\n17. Section 103 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, Amendment is amended by the insertion of the words \"or on the ground that there was no evidence on which the magistrate could properly convict or make the order or give the determination or take the proceeding in question, as the case may be,\" immediately after the word \"fact\" in the seventh line thereof.\n\nNo. 3 of 1890, s. 103.\n\n18. Section 104 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, Amendment is amended by the addition of the words \"and on the Crown Solicitor,\" immediately after the word \"respondent\" in the fifth line thereof.\n\nNo. 3 of 1890,\n\ns. 101.\n\n19. Section 106 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, Amendment is amended by the addition of the following sub-section thereto:\n\nNo. 3 of 1890, s. 106.\n\n(7) If default is made in performing any part of the condition of the recognizance it shall be lawful for the Full Court upon motion by the respondent to declare the recognizance estreated, and the appeal shall thereupon for the purposes of section 111 be deemed to have been decided in favour of the respondent.\n\n20. The following section is inserted in the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, immediately after section 106 thereof:\n\nService and notice.\n\n106A.-(1) Any notice or document required to be given, sent to or served on the respondent by the appellant shall be deemed to have been duly given, sent or served if the same shall have been delivered to the solicitor for the time being representing the respondent.\n\n(2) If there be no solicitor representing the respondent and it shall be proved that it was impracticable to give or send to or serve on the respondent any notice or document required by this Ordinance the Full Court, in court or in chambers, may direct that the notice or document be advertised or otherwise published and in any event may proceed as though the said notice or document had been duly given or sent to or served on the respondent.\n\nInsertion of new section 106A in Ordinance No. 3 of 1890.\n\n21. The following section is inserted in the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, immediately after section 108 thereof:\n\nDepositions admissible on appeal.\n\n108A. On any appeal under section 103, or on any application under section 102, or on any motion under section 113A, the depositions taken before the magistrate, or a certified copy thereof, shall be admissible in evidence.\n\nInsertion of new section 108A in Ordinance No. 3 of 1890.\n\nPage 88",
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        "content_text": "Repeal of Ordinance No. 3 of 1890, B. 112, and substitution of new section.\n\nInsertion of new section.\n\ncopy thereof, shall, without prejudice to any other method of proof, be admissible as evidence of the evidence which was given and of the statements which were made before the magistrate, and generally that the proceedings therein recorded took place.\n\n22. 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The following section is inserted in the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, immediately after section 113 thereof :-\n\nNo. 3 of 1890.\n\nDeath, absence or incapacity of magistrate.\n\n113A. If any step in or in connexion with any appeal or intended appeal is rendered impossible by the death, absence or incapacity of a magistrate, the Full Court upon motion shall have power for good cause to order that the case be heard de novo by the Full Court and the same shall be so heard accordingly.\n\n24. The following section is inserted in the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, immediately after section 126 thereof :-\n\nInsertion of new section 127 in Ordinance No. 3 of 1890.\n\nAmendment of law as to rogues and vagabonds.\n\n127. That part of section 4 of the Vagrancy Act, 1824, which relates to suspected persons and reputed thieves frequenting certain places with intent to commit felony shall be read and construed subject to the following provisions :-\n\n34 & 35 Vict. c. 112, s. 15.\n\n54 & 55 Vict. c. 69, s. 7.\n\n(a) The part in question shall be read and construed as if instead of the words \"highway or place adjacent\" there were inserted the words \"any highway or any place adjacent to a street or highway\".\n\n(b) In proving intent to commit felony it shall not be necessary to show that the person suspected was guilty of any particular act or acts tending to show his purpose or intent, and he may be convicted if from the circumstances of the case, and from his known character as proved to the magistrate before whom he is brought, it appears to such magistrate that his intent was to commit a felony.\n\n(c) The part in question shall apply also to every suspected person or reputed thief loitering about or in any of the places referred to with the intent specified as it applies to suspected persons and reputed thieves frequenting the places referred to with the intent specified.\n\n25. Form No. 70 in the First Schedule to the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, is amended by the addition of the following words to the form of caution, immediately after the words \"upon your trial\":-\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 3 of 1890, First Schedule, Form No. 70.\n\nAnd you are clearly to understand that you have nothing to hope from any promise of favour and that you have nothing to fear from any threat which may have been held out to you to induce you to make any admission or confession of your guilt, but that whatever you say now may be given in evidence upon your trial notwithstanding such promise or threat\".\n\n26. 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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHongkong 17th December, 1927.\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No....23.\n\n...............of 1927.\n\n91\n\n1.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2.\n\nThis Ordinance makes a number of minor amendments in the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, Ordinance No.3 of 1890. That Ordinance has also been amended by Ordinance No.2 of 1926.\n\n3.\n\nSection 2 amends section 8 of the principal Ordinance by making the Deputy Harbour Master a marine magistrate. When that section was amended in 1926 the office had not been created.\n\n4. The proviso to section 10 (2) of the principal Ordinance, 1890, provided that nothing therein contained, i.e., presumably, nothing contained in section 10, should oblige a magistrate to issue a summons in any case where the defendant appeared voluntarily or upon his recognizance or was in the",
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        "content_text": "92\n\ncustody of the police or charged upon the charge sheet.\n\nThere was no provision which expressly empowered the magistrate\n\nin such an event to proceed to hear and determine the case.\n\nSection 3 of this Ordinance remedies the omission.\n\n5. Section 11(1) of the principal Ordinance provided\n\nthat if a defendant did not appear in answer to a summons the magistrate might issue a warrant for his arrest (1) upon being satisfied by oath that the summons was duly served, and (2)\n\non oath being made before the magistrate substantiating the\n\nmatter of the complaint or information. It has long been\n\nthe practice to issue this warrant upon sworn evidence of the\n\nservice of the summons, without requiring the complaint to be\n\nsubstantiated by oath. The reason for this practice is\n\nprobably to be found in the form of warrant which is given in\n\nthe First Schedule and which is referred to in the margin of\n\nthe section, i.e., Form No. 2. That form recites sworn evidence of the service of summons but does not recite that the\n\nmatter of the complaint was substantiated by oath.\n\nSection\n\n4 of this Ordinance amends the section in question so as to\n\nmake it agree with the practice. Section 6 of the principal\n\nOrdinance provides that \"The forms in the First Schedule\n\nshall be deemed good, valid and sufficient in law.\" It is\n\na curious thing that exactly the same discrepancy between the\n\nsection and the form occurs in the case of section 2 of the\n\nSummary Jurisdiction Act, 1848 and Form (B) in the Schedule\n\nto that Act. Section 13 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act,\n\n1848, and section 14 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, require only sworn evidence of the summons. Section 9 of\n\nthe Indictable Offences Act, 1848, does not even require\n\nsworn evidence of the service of the summons, but Form (D)\n\nin the Schedule to that Act recites that service has been\n\nproved by oath.\n\n1\n\n6.",
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        "content_text": "-3-\n\n93\n\n6.\n\nSection E amends section 31 of the principal Ordinance so as to make it agree with and include the provisions of section 49 of that Ordinance. Section 49 being thus no longer necessary is therefore repealed by section 7 of this Ordinance.\n\n7. Section 32 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, provided that if a defendant were fined a sum not exceeding $5, and if he had on him money equal to the amount of the fine, any money found on him might be appropriated to the payment of his fine. Section 6 of this Ordinance amends that section by reading $25 for $5. This amendment is made in view of a contemplated increase of the maximum fine for mendicancy from $5 to $25. Beggars sometimes have comparatively large sums in their possession. The provision may be useful in other cases also.\n\n8. Section 7 repeals section 49 of the principal Ordinance because, as explained in paragraph 6 above, its provisions are now included in section 31 of the principal Ordinance.\n\n9. Section 8 repeals section 78 of the principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section which agrees better with section 11 of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, 1899, Ordinance No.9 of 1890.\n\n10. Section 9 inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section 78A which deals with the procedure in the case of a charge against a corporation of an indictable offence. This section is based on certain portions of section 33 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1925, 15 and 16 Geo. V. c. 86. It may be convenient to point out here that service on a limited company registered under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance is provided for by section 117 of Ordinance No.58 of 1911, and that service on companies incorporated outside the Colony which establish a place of business here is provided for by...\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "- 4 -\n\n94\n\nsection 252(2) of that Ordinance.\n\nIt has not been thought necessary to provide specially for service on any other corporations. Sub-section (3) of the section in the Criminal Justice Act, 1925, referred to above, deals with the arraignment of a corporation before the court of assize or quarter sessions. A provision based on that sub-section will be inserted in the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, 1899, which is shortly to be amended.\n\n11.\n\nThe Third Schedule to the principal Ordinance contains a list of offences excluded from summary jurisdiction. This list includes the following item:-\n\n(9) Any offence against any provision of the laws relating to bankrupts.\n\nIn 1906 it was decided to give the magistrates jurisdiction to deal with the offences of obtaining credit under false pretences or by means of any other fraud. This might have been done by amending the Third Schedule, but it was actually done, in Ordinance No. 2 of 1906, by inserting in section 80 of the principal Ordinance the provision which now appears as sub-section (2). As the form of the Third Schedule might conceivably have formed a trap on this point, this Ordinance repeals section 80(2) and amends the Third Schedule by excepting from the above item any offence under section 82(5)(a) of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1891. Section 10 of this Ordinance effects the repeal of section 80(2) of the principal Ordinance. The Third Schedule is amended by section 26 of this Ordinance. Section 10 also repeals section 80(3) of the principal Ordinance. The power there given to a magistrate to direct the accused to be kept in solitary confinement is not used.\n\n12.",
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        "content_text": "12. Section 11 amends paragraph (6) of section 85 of the principal Ordinance by substituting a reference to the present Stowaways Ordinance, 1924, Ordinance No.3 of 1924, for a reference to the Stowaways Ordinance, 1903, which has been repealed.\n\n13. Section 12 repeals section 93 of the principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section. The section in question deals with various offences connected with drunkenness. The principal changes are as follows:\n\n(a) The former section 93(1) provided varying penalties for the first, second and subsequent convictions of being found drunk in a public place, i.e., fines of $5, $10 and $15. The new section 93(1) provides a single penalty of $10.\n\n(b) The maximum penalty for being drunk while in charge of a motor vehicle is increased to $250 and imprisonment for six months. The former maximum penalty under section 93(2) was $25 or imprisonment for two months. The new maximum penalty is the same as that under section 4 of the Vehicles and Traffic Regulation Ordinance, 1912, Ordinance No.40 of 1912.\n\n(c) Sub-section (5) of the new section 93 contains a definition of drunkenness which is taken from the report of the committee appointed by the British Medical Association on the 21st October, 1925, to report upon the tests for drunkenness. The committee reported on the 9th February, 1927, and suggested the definition of drunkenness which is adopted in this Ordinance.",
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        "content_text": "-6- \n\n96 \n\n(1) The maximum penalty for being drunk while in possession of loaded firearms is increased from $25 or two months to $250 and imprisonment for six months. It is also made an offence to be in possession of a firearm and any ammunition therefor while drunk. The definition of drunkenness referred to above has been adapted to meet this case.\n\nSection 13 of this Ordinance repeals section 96 of the principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section. The section in question deals with re-hearings. The alterations in the new section are as follows:\n\n(a) The new section makes it clear that it is sufficient if the application for the re-hearing is made within seven days, and that the actual decision to review the case need not be made within that time. If an application is made on the last day, it may not be possible to come to a decision on that day.\n\n(b) The section also makes it clear that the party applying for a re-hearing need not be present at the making of the application. It might be difficult to secure his attendance if he were in custody at the branch prison and if the application were being made on the last day.\n\n(c) Sub-section (3) of the new section gives the Superintendent of Prisons power to produce, for the purposes of the review, a prisoner who is applying for, or who has obtained, a review. Formerly, the Superintendent of Prisons seems to have had no power to produce such a prisoner.",
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        "content_text": "Ordinance.\n\n(1)\n\n(=)\n\n(F)\n\n-77-\n\n97\n\nafter the expiration of seven clear days from the date of the conviction unless the review had actually been commenced in the presence of the prisoner before the end of the seven days.\n\nSub-section (6) of the new section provides that for the purposes of the review the magistrate shall have all the powers that he would have if the matter were being brought before him as an original complaint, including powers for securing the attendance of the parties and witnesses.\n\nSub-section (8) of the new section makes it clear that a review by the magistrate is not a bar to a subsequent appeal.\n\nSub-section (2) of the old section 96 is omitted because the subject matter is covered by sections 12 to 14 of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, 1899, Ordinance No.9 of 1899.\n\nSection 14 amends section 99 of the principal Ordinance. The chief amendment is to provide that a person who has obtained a case stated shall serve a copy of the case on the Crown Solicitor as well as on the opposite party.\n\nA case occurred recently in which the legal advisers of the Government did not know of the appeal until the time for amendment of the case stated had elapsed. The other amendments are purely technical. One deletes the word \"parties\" because the singular word \"party\" includes the plural, by virtue of section 36 of the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, Ordinance No.31 of 1911. The singular word",
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        "content_text": "-8-\n\n98\n\n\"party\" is used elsewhere in the principal Ordinance in the sections dealing with appeals. The other deletes the words \"or respondents\" because they are not used elsewhere in the Ordinance, and in any case \"respondent\" would include \"respondents\".\n\n16.\n\nSection 100 of the principal Ordinance provided that a case stated might be amended by the magistrate at any time before it had been set down for argument before the Full Court. As it is possible for an appellant to set a case down as soon as he receives it, this provision might not allow sufficient time for the opposite party to consider the case and to apply for amendment if he were so advised. Section 15 of this Ordinance, therefore, amends section 100 so as to give the magistrate power to amend the case at any time before the commencement of the hearing by the Full Court. This will give the opposite party sufficient time to make any necessary application because four clear days' notice of the day appointed for argument must be given to the other side. Section 100 of the principal Ordinance is also amended so as to require the transmission, service, and setting down for argument of the amended case just as if it were the original case.\n\n17.\n\nSection 16 amends section 101 of the principal Ordinance so as to require that notice that the case has been set down shall be given to the Crown Solicitor as well as to the opposite party.\n\n18. Section 103 of the principal Ordinance did not expressly refer to the case where the party aggrieved wished to appeal on the ground that there was no evidence on which the magistrate could convict. Section 17 includes an express reference to this case in section 103 of the principal Ordinance. That will have the effect of applying to such an appeal the provisions relating to appeals on the ground of fact.",
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        "content_text": "9\n\n99\n\nOne effect of this apparently is that it would be possible for the Full Court, should it think fit in any particular case, to hear further evidence.\n\n19. Section 18 amends section 104 of the principal Ordinance so as to require service on the Crown Solicitor of the motion for a re-hearing before the Full Court in the case of appeal on the ground of fact.\n\n20. Section 19 adds to section 106 of the principal Ordinance a new sub-section (7) which gives the Full Court power to estreat the appellant's recognizance if he fails to perform any part of the condition. This is in order to provide expressly for the class of case where the appeal is abandoned before it ever reaches the Full Court. Probably the Full Court had this power already, but it was thought better to give it expressly, and also to provide that an appeal so disposed of shall for the purposes of section 111 be deemed to have been decided in favour of the respondent. The effect of this latter provision is that a magistrate can then proceed to enforce the original conviction or order.\n\n21. Section 20 inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section 106A which provides that any notice or document required to be given or served by the appellant in any appeal may be given to or served on the respondent's solicitor, and that if the respondent has no solicitor and the respondent himself cannot be found the Full Court may proceed with the appeal as if the notice had been given or the document had been served. It is evidently convenient to be able to serve a solicitor, and it seems obvious that, for example, a convicted person should not be prevented from appealing by the mere fact that the complainant has disappeared or is purposely keeping out of the way.\n\n22.",
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        "content_text": "-10- \n\n100 \n\n22. Section 21 inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section 106A which provides that on any appeal on a question of fact the depositions taken before the magistrate, or a certified copy thereof, shall be admissible as evidence of the evidence which was given and of the statements which were made before the magistrate, and generally that the proceedings therein recorded took place. The depositions are also to be admissible on the hearing of any motion under the new section 113A which is dealt with in paragraph 24 below, and on any application to the Full Court to send a Case stated back to the magistrate for amendment.\n\n23. Section 22 repeals section 112 of the principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section. The principal changes are as follows:\n\n(a) Sub-section (2) of the new section provides that every person who has applied for a Case stated or for a certificate of leave to appeal, and every person who has applied for a review under section 96 of the principal Ordinance, shall, if he is in custody, be treated pending the appeal or review as if he were a person awaiting trial.\n\n(b) Sub-section (3) provides that the time during which an appellant is admitted to bail, or is treated in prison as an appellant, pending the appeal, shall not count as part of his sentence. This sub-section is taken from section 14 (3) of the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, 7 Edw. 7, c.23.\n\n(c) Sub-section (4) gives to a magistrate in the case of a review similar powers to those given to the judges and to the Full Court in the case of an appeal and applies sub-section (3) to the case of a review.\n\n24.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928",
        "page_number": 98,
        "title": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928",
        "content_text": "24. Section 23 inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section 113A which empowers the Full Court to rehear a case de novo if any step in an appeal is rendered impossible by the death, absence or incapacity of the magistrate whose decision is appealed against.\n\n25. Section 24 of this Ordinance inserts in the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, a new section 127 which incorporates the provisions of section 15 of Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871, and section 7 of the Penal Servitude Act, 1891.\n\n26. Section 25 amends the form of caution in Form No. 70 in the First Schedule to the principal Ordinance in order to make it agree with the provisions of section 73 of that Ordinance.\n\n27. Section 26 makes an amendment in the Third Schedule which is explained in paragraph 11 above.\n\n28. There is still much in the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, which calls for examination and amendment, e.g., the curious duplication between sections 11 and 14. Re-arrangement would shorten and simplify the Ordinance considerably. This, however, would have involved the expenditure of more time than was available.\n\n29. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf,\n\nAttorney General.",
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        "content_text": "## Step 1: Understand the task\nThe task is to proofread OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, following specific rules to correct errors and format the text in Markdown.\n\n## Step 2: Identify the input text\nThe input text is not provided, so we will assume a hypothetical OCR output that needs proofreading.\n\n## Step 3: Apply the rules for proofreading\n1. **Format in Markdown**: We need to transform the text into standard Markdown format.\n2. **Reasonable adding of words and re-ordering**: Add missing words due to OCR problems and reorder to form complete sentences with minimal alteration.\n3. **Correct spelling errors**: Primary task is to correct spelling errors.\n4. **Fix spacing issues**: Remove extra spaces, add missing spaces, and correct hyphenation or line-break artifacts.\n5. **Rejoin broken sentences**: Merge sentences split across lines or columns back into a single sentence.\n6. **Restore paragraph breaks**: Format the text into proper paragraphs.\n7. **Indicate missing words**: Insert `...` for clearly missing words due to OCR damage.\n8. **Do not rephrase or rewrite**: Only correct unambiguous errors; do not change style, tone, or word choice.\n9. **No translation**: Never translate any text.\n10. **Format of File Reference**: Remove any spacing in file references.\n11. **Page numbering**: Keep `Page XX` information as is if detected.\n12. **No explanation**: Do not leave any explanation in the return.\n13. **Newspaper reordering**: Reorganize texts from newspapers to make sense.\n14. **Data in tables**: Reconstruct tables properly.\n15. **Chinese writing direction**: Reverse Chinese text from right to left to left to right if necessary.\n16. **No comments**: Do not leave any comments in the text.\n\n## Step 4: Hypothetical application of the rules\nGiven a hypothetical OCR output:\n```\nPage 12\nThis is a  test  sentence with  spelling erors .\nIt is  broken into  two lines unnecessarly .\nFile reference: XCR (85) 72\n## Header\nThis is a paragraph with missing word ... due to OCR.\nIt should be reordered to make sense.\n```\n\n## Step 5: Apply the rules to the hypothetical OCR output\n1. Correct spelling errors: \"erors\" to \"errors\", \"unnecessarly\" to \"unnecessarily\".\n2. Fix spacing issues: Remove extra spaces.\n3. Rejoin broken sentences: Merge the sentence split across two lines.\n4. Format in Markdown: Use Markdown for headers and other structural elements.\n5. Format file references: Remove spaces from \"XCR (85) 72\" to get \"XCR(85)72\".\n\n## Step 6: Output the corrected text in HTML as per the final instruction\nSince the final instruction is to output only HTML using `` for paragraphs and `\n` only if absolutely necessary, we will convert our Markdown formatted text into HTML.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nPage 12\n\nThis is a test sentence with spelling errors.\n\nIt is broken into two lines unnecessarily.\n\nFile reference: XCR(85)72\n\nHeader\nThis is a paragraph with missing word ... due to OCR.\n\nIt should be reordered to make sense.",
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        "content_text": "## Mr. Bottomley.\nMr. Martii 21/10/29  \nSir E. Harding.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nSir G. Grindle.  \nSir C. Davis.  \nSir S. Wilson.  \nMr. Ormsby-Gore.  \nLord Lovat.  \nMr. Amery.  \n(16)  \n\nHong Kong  \nOct 23  \n\nWith ref. to your conf. desp. the site etc., I have etc. to authorize the writing off of $15,329.95 being water dues for 1926-1927, misappropriated in some manner unknown by CARVALHO YEO, at that time employed as Collection Book Clerk in the Hong Kong Treasury.\n\nDRAFT.  \nHong Kong Conf.  \nGovernor  \nColfer 11/10/1929  \n\nDone  \n(Signed) PASSFIELD.  \n627951 1929 Hong Kong  \nEaster to be atted to this  \n815°  \nMr. Geut 21",
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        "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930",
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        "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930",
        "content_text": "C. O.\n\nDr. Delihet 13/X Mr. Martin 13/10 Mr. Colder 14:10\n\n10 Ellis\n\nD Č. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\n42751/4/30\n\n35\n\n44\n\n14th October, 1930.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. (41) F. 5412/37/10 of the 6th inst. (43) and to inform you that the proposals for H.K. have been sent on 10/X/30 (48).\n\nRegarding the proposed Hong Kong - China Customs Agreement, and to transmit to you, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the accompanying copies of telegrams which have been exchanged with the Governor of Hong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "727518\n\n· 1930\n\nHONG KONG. CLOSED\n\nUNTIL\n\n...\n\n727518\n\n1961 Search\n\n+\n\nCHINESE\n\nCUSTOMS\n\nPROPOSED AGREEMENT WITH HONG KONG\n\nC.), 129/521/14\n\nPrevious\n\nIn Ell. 12.157/A/30\n\n5/11\n\nBundle 15\n\nRSD.\n\n20.1....\n\nSubsequent\n\n...\n\nJ\n\ni\n\n11\n\n82755/30\n\n...\n\nCastle\n\n23\n\n24.50\n\nColder W And mate 28/0\n\n12. Parkin 30/0\n\nMr Vernon\n\n12 Colder\n\n30\n\n31-10\n\n124 Ellis 31/1 Sufferndle £31.10\n\n18 A 31\n\n12 Colder sice\n\n{\n\nMr Cas (72741) W1.11778A-17 10 9,30 P. St. G. 101/33A,\n\nMs. Calder per Ellis ix!!! Martin\n\n20/%4\n\n12 Caldey 21.11\n\nEllis\n\nIf /ki\n\nEx in veron 24.\n\nVin Elli\n\n1.1. Mark 15.2 1.7.19\n\n112 Calder\n\n$12\n\n87A bit fo\n\n1.2. Markin\n\nNo Parkin To Calder\n\nDw Ellis\n\n77.12\n\nrys\n\n12. Jakin pe\n\nS\n\n1. Calde\n\nAs Paulin\n\nThe Ellin 2/1\n\nI inside",
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        "document_key": "CO129-526-15 Leased territories- boundaries and developments with maps and photographs 20-5-1930 - 9-1-1931",
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        "title": "CO129-526-15 Leased territories- boundaries and developments with maps and photographs 20-5-1930 - 9-1-1931",
        "content_text": "## C. O.\n**Confidential**  \n`72858/3074*`  \nValtion 11.31  \n\nMr. Colder  \n2.1  \nMr. Tomlinson.  \nSir C. Bottomley.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nSir G. Grindle.  \nPermt. U.S. of S.  \nParly. U.S. of S.  \ny.s.  \nSecretary of State.  \n\n**DRAFT**  \nSir V. Wellesley,  \nKCNS, CB.  \n12.11  \n(4 encls. with org. to the Crosland)  \nCopy 4 encls. without  \n\n| Distribution List | \n| --- | \n| (9) Liconf | \n| (99) 54. sonnelle | \n| 53 C. Walker (1) LF | \n\nFor so. Grindle's seju  \n6 For gter Jan. 1931  \n\nMy dear Wellesley,  \n\nYou will be interested to see the enclosed letter from ... about Kowloon and the New Territories. I am also sending copies to Crosland at the F.O., Walker of the Adlty, and Blake at the A/M.  \n\nCould you kindly return the photographs.  \n\nYours sincerely,  \n(sd) G. Grindle",
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        "document_key": "CO129-527-8 Query concerning payment of lodging allowance in unusual circumstances 1-8-1930 - 16-1-1931",
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        "document_key": "CO129-527-9 Proposed establishment of industrial school for boys. Question of Catholic and Salvation Army influence 8-7-1930 - 31-10-1930",
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        "content_text": "## 72881\n1 \n\n**CLOSED** \n\n**UNTIL** Industrial School for Boys \n\nPrevious 101 \nSubsequent \n\n| Name | Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| R M2 Marke | 19/81 |\n| Zil |  |\n| Melly | 21 |\n| My fast | 23 |\n| foot IM EUR | 26 |\n| Pin W. Bdlomby | 26 |\n| Dr. Chials | 30 |\n| Mr Martin |  |\n\n87 \nCR 3/ \n2519 \n257/9 \nFor Seat 2 \n814 He \n\nestablishment of = \nCO 129/5 \nCA 129/527/9 \n15/00 by Martin 15/0 \nils Colder \npr Ellis 10/2 \nSirf Gundle \nTel Seatin \n\nск 249 \ntu marlin 24/2 \nNo Calds 87A \n\nPUT \n25 \n28 \n4/11 \n\n`(7 613)` Wt. `11079A`-20 1m. 11/29 P. St. G. `101`/ 33A.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-528-4 Sale of land to Maryknoll Sisters for use as a girls' school 21-10-1930 - 21-10-1930",
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        "title": "CO129-528-4 Sale of land to Maryknoll Sisters for use as a girls' school 21-10-1930 - 21-10-1930",
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        "document_key": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931",
        "page_number": 163,
        "title": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931",
        "content_text": "## C. O.\n\nX\n\nHE.\n\n11. Martin 22/8\n\nMr Colder  \nMr.  \nMr. Tomlinson.  \nSir C. Bottomley.\n\n82712 C/31 14K 225,  \nto sign GSS  \n353  \n22.8  \n**Personal and Private**  \n22 Aug`ı`st  \nSir J. Shuckburgh. 22/8/31  \nSir G. Grindle.  \nPermt. U.S. of S.  \nParly. U.S. of S.  \nSecretary of State.\n\n**DRAFT**\n\nMany thanks for your  \n(349) personal letter of the 14th July  \nabout Shanghai affairs,  \nwhich I immediately passed on to my  \ncolleague, Mr Henderson.\n\n(354)  \nNo final decision has been  \nreached yet on extraterritoriality  \nnegotiations. The force of our  \nFeetham's argument is fully  \nrecognised and if it is not decisive  \nwith  \nCopy to the Henderson; Pc(45) from R.S.Y(382)",
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        "title": "CO129-530-4 Development of Canton to Kowloon railway 1-12-1930 - 1-12-1930",
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        "document_key": "CO129-531-12 Press request for messages from King and Prime Minister on occasion of their Golden Jubilee... 25-11-1930 - 21-5-1931",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nMr. Tomlinson.  \nMr. O. Notti 17.8.31  \nColder 18.8  \nSir C. Bottomley.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nSir G. Grindle.  \nPermt. U.S of S.  \nU.S  \nParly. U.S. of S.  \nSecretary of State.\n\n17.2.31  \n४.  \n82791/311412  \nAug  \n21/8.\n\nJ. to your Letter No. F8  \n++ 1823/239/10 of the BUE  \n$  \nw Itta  \nサ  \n= May,  \n7  \n\nI am ato to transmit, for the inform\" of the Sas for FAja, a copy of a def from the Song to ss on the subject of the status of British subjects and British protected persons of Chinese race.\n\n2. Is hord Parfield's Spinion the interpretation flaced by Sir Cecil Clementi, \n\n### FO \n`92089 J2`  \n`Cob S.S.`  \n`F.M.S.`  \n`Cob`  \n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present, hence not included. \n\nPage numbering is not explicitly mentioned in the passage; however, the numbers and letters appear to be metadata or reference numbers.",
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        "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMr. Martin 18.6.31 Mr Colder 18.6 Mr. Buske 18.16\n\nEllis\n\nMr. Tomlinson\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT common\n\ncode tel\n\nGovernor\n\nHong Kong\n\n22.6.30 P\n\nReceived\n\n62\n\nOffice army\n\n&\n\nJudg. B\n\nAfter tel has come off\n\nRecise in green to C.O. to make copies of\n\nR 19 JUN. 10. 19\n\nAG.\n\nNo.74.\n\n82826/31 IK.\n\nJune 5.\n\n2.55\n\nCoded sent\n\n2.45 pm 19.6.30\n\nYour despatch of 14th April No. 166\n\nApplication for special\n\nleave to\n\nPiracy. Appeal to Privy Council for suggested before\n\nImperial legislation is\n\nconsidered.\n\ntelegraph your\n\n(1) the exact manner in which the euclosed\n\njudgment\n\nPlease\n\nCan well be\n\nReasons on\n\nthis",
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        "document_key": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933",
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        "content_text": "186\n\n202\n\nG. A. C. HERKLOTS\n\nA shrub of six to twelve feet in height. The leaves apparently only stay on for one year; they are smooth, green above and glaucous below. About 5 inflorescences are borne each in the axil of a leaf at the end of the shoot; usually 5 flowers compose one involucrate inflorescence. The inflorescence stalk is curved, resulting in the inflorescence being inverted. The basal half of the inflorescence stalk is green; the distal half and basal scales are pink and russet. The scales in the middle region are pink with a large russet patch occupying the tip and distal third of the scale.\n\nT. INCH\n\nFigure 6. Rhodoleia Championi, Hook.\n\nThe largest scales are similarly coloured and with golden hairs on the apical margin. The perianth segments, 15-20 in number, are bright rose-carmine with a white stalk (hidden behind the scales), russet at the base, and a midrib which appears white on the lower surface. Each is about 1.4 inches long and 0.1 inch in width. The styles are 0.75 inch long, the basal quarter yellow, the distal half red. The bright rose-carmine of the flowers makes them very conspicuous and attractive.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\n203\n\nThe Flowering Shrubs and Trees of Hong Kong\n\nNAME: Tiu' chung' wong1, Hanging bell king.\n\nILLUSTRATION. Figure 6 shows two twigs with inflorescences in the axils of the leaves; the upper right inset is of a group of 5 fruits and illustrates their appearance after dehiscence.\n\nECONOMIC USE. This very beautiful flowering shrub is cultivated in Botanic Gardens; there are two or three bushes, 6 or 8 feet in height, in the Hong Kong Botanic Gardens, which flower profusely every year. In the Hakgala Gardens, Ceylon, this tree has been established for several years, but it does not set seed there.\n\nFLOWERING PERIOD: January to the beginning of March. Ripe seeds may be gathered in October.\n\nLOCALITIES: Abundant on a hill above Little Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island.\n\nREFERENCES. (1) Bentham, p. 131. (3) D. and T., p. 101.\n\novary.\n\nERICACEAE.\n\nShek, Naam, For1.\n\n'Calyx of 4 or 5 divisions, either free or with a tube adnate to the Corolla inferior or superior, usually ovoid or globular, sometimes elongated or campanulate, with 4 or 5 lobes, or very rarely 4 or 5 distinct petals, regular or slightly irregular. Stamens twice as many, or rarely of the same number as the lobes of the corolla, and inserted within the corolla but distinct from it. Anthers 2-celled, opening at the top in pores or short oblique slits, very rarely extending to the base of the cells. Ovary having usually as many cells (rarely apparently twice as many) as the lobes of the corolla, rarely reduced to 3 or 2, with one or several ovules in each. Fruit a capsule or berry. Seeds very small, with a fleshy albumen. Shrubs sometimes very low, creeping, and almost herbaceous, or occasionally growing into small trees, very rarely true herbs. Leaves entire or toothed, undivided, usually alternate. Flowers either axillary and solitary, or in short clusters or racemes, or forming terminal racemes, corymbs, clusters, or heads.' Bentham (1) p. 199.\n\nDISTRIBUTION: A large family widespread over the world, especially in the temperate and colder regions, not uncommon also in hilly districts in the tropics.\n\nHONG KONG GENERA: Enkianthus, and Rhododendron.\n\nECONOMIC USES: This family includes the heathers, Calluna, Erica, and the 250 or more species of Rhododendron which are so much valued as ornamental shrubs.\n\nENKIANTHUS, Lour.\n\n'Calyx free, 5-lobed. Corolla campanulate, shortly 5-lobed, and marked at the base by 5 nectariferous almost pellucid pits. Stamens 10. Anther-cells tipped with awn-like points, and opening longitudinally to the base. Ovary 5-celled. Capsule hard, 5-angled, opening loculicidally in 5 valves.' Bentham (1) p. 200.\n\nDecember 1932.\n\n187",
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        "document_key": "CO129-540-1 Enrolment of foreign nationals to Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps 31-3-1932 - 19-1-1933",
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        "content_text": "C. O.\n\n92645/32 Hong Kong.\n\n2\n\nMr. Delahunt 24.6.32\n\nMr. Bickle 24/6 Ir. Duncan 25/6/32\n\nin Colder\n\nMr. Parkinson.\n\nMr. 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\n28.6\n\nDRAFT.\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nWAR OFFICE.\n\nFr. Gov. 31st March with encl.\n\nSir,\n\n80 Downing Street,\n\n1st June 1932.\n\nI am directed to transmit to you to be laid before the Army Council, the accompanying copy of\n\n(1) a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the enrolment of, and grant of commissions to, foreign subjects in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.\n\n2. In this connection I am to refer to War Office letters No. 070/733 (M.S.I. Col.) of the 13th of August, 1917, and No. 070/749 (A.G.13c) of the 9th of May, 1918, and connected correspondence, regarding\n\n13",
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        "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMr. Delahunt\n\n29.9.32\n\nMr. Bickle 3019\n\nmo ship way Mr. Colder. Mr. Parkinson.\n\nMr. Tomlinson.\n\n3/10 4·10\n\n92663/32\n\n1614\n\nDowning Street,\n\nSeptember, 1932.\n\nGet\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\n2 DRAFT.\n\nMISS E.M.BEAVIS,\n\nTHE ENGLISH SCHOOL,\n\nPOULAS CAIRO.\n\nMemorandum.\n\nCol. Rems.\n\nExtract fr HK. G.O\n\n(here with)\n\nRecirculate.\n\nSpare copies of letter and memo. to be made.\n\nAppy with memo for CSD(188)\n\n(50-(1986)\n\nMadam,\n\nI am etc. to inform you\n\nthat he proposes to select you for\n\nprobationary appointment to the\n\nColonial Service as an Assistant\n\nMistress (Kindergarten) in the\n\nEducation Department of Hong Kong.\n\nThe present salary and other\n\ngeneral conditions attaching to the\n\nappointment are set out in the\n\nenclosed memorandum.\n\n2.\n\nYour employment will be\n\nunder the Government of Hong Kong,\n\nand your emoluments will be paid\n\nsolely from the funds of that Colony.\n\nAs a member of the Colonial Service\n\nyou will be subject to the Colonial\n\nRegulations for the time being in\n\nforce and you will be eligible to be\n\nconsidered",
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        "content_text": "earliest date on which you will be prepared to \n\nleave England. \n\nI am,\n\nMadam,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nJack Jac colder\n\n45",
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        "document_key": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932",
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        "content_text": "9.8.32 \n\nfrom the house. \n\n96 \n\nCheng did not discover the intrigue was that he was away \n\nCheng loved me, but he had a queer temper, \n\ngo out and make love to other women. \n\nThere \n\nand he liked \n\nwere a lot of other attractions in Cheng's life. It was \n\nthis attitude of Cheng which brought me into close touch \n\nwith Fung. \n\nI learnt from the amah's evidence that after I left \n\nNo.50 Cheng lived with Annie Au. I do not know that he \n\nwas living with her at a Repulse Bay bungalow before the \n\nquarrel. \n\nBefore the quarrel Cheng told me he was going to Carion. \n\nIt may have been the day before or the 19th or 18th \n\nFebruary. I took the opportunity of going to Repulse Bay \n\nto meet Fung. Ah Lau drove me there. While there the \n\namah brought me a message. She said that Chong had \n\nreturned, and told me to go back. I came in a hired car. \n\n20 When you got home there was a fight between you \n\nA. Ho, he first slapped my face and I pushed him. I \n\nQ \n\nA. \n\ndid not scratch his eyes. \n\nThe result was that Cheng turned you out. \n\nYes, and I was willing to go. \n\nThroughout this year Chung's feelings for you were \n\ngetting colder and colder. \n\nIn my opinion that was not so up to the quarrel. \n\nDid you at the Police Court say that the accused \n\nordered you out of the house. \n\nYes. \n\nAnd that your feelings for him were cold \n\nYes. \n\nQ. And that they had been getting colder & you were \n\nonly waiting for a quarrel or favourable opportunity \n\nto leave him \n\nYes. \n\nAnd that the accused was getting colder and colder \n\nto you \n\nA. I did say that, but I did not quite understand what \n\n(14)",
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        "content_text": "9.8.32\n\nKemp, C.J\n\nQ.\n\n97\n\nthe question put to me at the Police Court.\n\n3. That evidence was given on the 13th June.\n\nA.\n\nI cannot remember\n\nre In. 20.6.32)\n\nIt was read over to me a few days later (i.e. later than the record)\n\n(A very bad practice. It should be done the same day.)\n\nYou then altered the above evidence and said \"I was not getting colder and colder\".\n\nA. My feelings became colder and colder after I left him. Question repeated.\n\nA. I do not remember.\n\n(Depositions shown to witness who reads English). I did correct it in that way. I also added by way of correction.\n\nI knew Fung could not support me because he told me so and he wanted me to marry Cheng, so I was not looking for an opportunity to leave him,\n\nBut for his ordering me to leave I would not have gone.\n\nBut for his striking me I would not have gone.\n\nOn re-reading I added -\n\nI can't say whether accused was getting colder towards me.\n\nPrevious to the assault I do not think he did want to get rid of me.\n\nQ.\n\nWhy did you change the evidence in this way.\n\nAt first I did not understand the question.\n\nAt the time I did not quite understand. I might not have understood the interpreter.\n\nQ. This was the only important alteration?\n\nA. I do not know if it was important or not.\n\nCheng had received an anonymous letter.\n\nI cannot say if it was from someone who had a grudge against Fung.\n\nIt might have been from a friend who had seen us going out.\n\nI did say at the Police Court, \"Whoever wrote them must have had a grudge against Fung or me\"\n\n(15)",
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        "content_text": "C. O.\n\nM/r.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\n10% Delé,0\n\nDelahunt. 5/1/33.\n\nBickle +11\n\nColder 6.1.\n\nMr. Parkinson.\n\nMr. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\n61\n\n92691/32. Hong Kong.\n\nDOWNING STREET,\n\n10 January, 1933.\n\nParly. U.S of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nNO.\n\nGOVERNOR.\n\n(2)\n\n158\n\nSir,\n\nI have etc. to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Southorn's despatch No. 467 of the 14th of October, 1932,\n\nand to inform you that His Majesty will not be advised to exercise his power of disallowance in respect of Ordinance of the Legislature of Hong Kong, No. 29 of 1932 entitled \"An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Twenty-seven million five hundred and eighty-five thousand one hundred and forty-two Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1933\".\n\n2.\n\nAs stated in my telegram No. 172 of the 21st of December, my approval of the draft Estimates enclosed with Mr. Southorn's despatch No. 437 of the 23rd of September was conveyed to you.\n\n3.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-543-13 Proposed amendments to Deportation ordinance 22-3-1933 - 11-1-1934",
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        "title": "CO129-543-13 Proposed amendments to Deportation ordinance 22-3-1933 - 11-1-1934",
        "content_text": "## Undesirable Political Fugitives\n### Proposed Amendment to Deportation Order\n\n**Previous**\n\n| Reference | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12525/33 Geul.(5) Eastern Dept. | 4 |\n| 42610/32HKC. |  |\n| 92383/8/32 HK. | 18/5 |\n\nROD 100 his letter... igla\n\n**Subsequent**\n\n| Reference | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| R50 | 20/9 |\n| 33718/34520 K.8355- los halutin Eastern Dept. M.Mehan | 12/5 |\n| Mr. Big | 12/5 In Calder K50 |\n| Mr Bizy | 15/5 36/5 Mu Melwanen 30.5 |\n| Mr. Calier | 50 R Porchlopes 31/7 My year 31 M. Rotuts Wray 1/5 M. Gen. 3. |\n| M B199 | 4/8 |\n\n**FILE A.**\n\n| Name | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr geat | 13/11 R·50 |\n| Jameson | 1/12 |\n| M. Sweeney | 6/12 Macho busspray | 8/12 Geut |\n| Mr Bigg |  |\n| Mr. Start | b. Sc |\n\n(74658) Wt. 15109-30 30,000 in 4 sorts 11/31 P. St. G. 101/32 R\n\nCO1292/43 1/3\nEnclosure to 20/129/Bor 543\n\nPage 13790 \n\n19/1/34",
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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": "CO129-543-3 Leave and passage regulations 13-1-1933 - 11-9-1933",
        "page_number": 49,
        "title": "CO129-543-3 Leave and passage regulations 13-1-1933 - 11-9-1933",
        "content_text": "## C. O.\n\nMr. Delahunt 2.5.33  \nMr. Bickle 3/5  \nM.  \n点  \nM. a. d. Standing & 8.4.33.  \nMr. Gent-1215  \nM Colder. 13.5  \nMr. Parkinson.  \nMr. Tomlinson.  \n(9)  \nSir C. Bottomley.  \n13744/33.  \n\n4  \n49  \n\nDowning Street,  \n13 MAY  \n16  \n12 May, 1933.  \n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nAnod.  \nLir,  \nPermt. U. of S.  \nParly. U.S of S.  \nSecretary of State.  \n\n**DRAFT**  \nconsin.  \n**LONG LONG**  \nNo. 193  \n**GOVERNOR**.  \nCopy 15  \n\nI have etc. to inform you that the Director of Colonial Audit has brought to my attention a point which has arisen with regard to the position of the 3rd Assistant Auditor in Hong Kong under the new Hong Kong Leave and Passage Rules.  \n\n2\\. It appears that since the 3rd Assistant Auditor is on a salary scale of £450 × £50 - £700 a year he is eligible under the new Rules for second-class passages only, whereas in the past all officers holding that post have been given first-class passages. This effect of the new Rules appears to me to be unfortunate in his particular instance in that it differentiates...  \n\nOriginal letter and enclosure attached to Mr. Harding's - minute to be returned. Copy to be kept for this file. Copy on has Bradley's file. `jf in flet yed in 6. 16/5` `13744/33`",
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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": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937",
        "page_number": 63,
        "title": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937",
        "content_text": "# Copy of letter received from the Foreign Office:-\n\n9th September, 1937.\n\n\"Dear Mr. Gull,\n\nWe have received a telegram from Mr. Cowan at His Majesty's Embassy at Peking reporting that there is a great deal of misery and suffering among Chinese wounded and refugees in Peking. The situation, which is difficult already, will, he anticipates, become extremely serious when the weather turns colder and food supplies such as maize and vegetables are unobtainable.\n\nHe asks whether it would be possible to obtain funds from some of the philanthropic British visitors or former residents or from those who have some connexion with North China. He gives an assurance that any funds obtained would be administered with the utmost care.\n\nAt the moment, help is being given by an international committee of women with which Mrs. Cowan, as president of the British Women's League in Peking, is associated, but the funds at their disposal are modest. As far as possible, local relief work is being entrusted to organisations such as the Salvation Army, which have a highly respected reputation of long standing.\n\nOne of the schemes which the committee would like to carry out is to provide a shelter for soldiers discharged from hospital, who, under present conditions, cannot return to their homes in the country: a shelter for 500 such men would cost 1,300 dollars monthly.\n\nMr. Cowan suggests that some organisation might be formed in England to provide a fund from which the Peking Committee could draw. The money could be paid into the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in London and that bank requested to inform its Peking agent that it could be drawn on at the signed request of certain members of the Peking committee.\n\nI should be very grateful if you could let me know whether the China Association feel able to make any suggestion as regards the best method of raising funds for the purposes Mr. Cowan has in mind.\n\nYours very truly,\n\n**(Sgd) N.B. RONALD.**\n\n63",
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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": "CO129-566-12 Fuel allowance for Army personnel in Hong Kong 14-9-1938 - 29-9-1938",
        "page_number": 7,
        "title": "CO129-566-12 Fuel allowance for Army personnel in Hong Kong 14-9-1938 - 29-9-1938",
        "content_text": "TREASURY CHAMBERS,\n\nWHITEHALL, S.W.1.\n\n14th September, 1938.\n\nDear Blaxter,\n\nI see you are now in the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office, according to the latest Colonial Office List. If you deal with Hong Kong and are able to give us any advice on the following point we should be very grateful.\n\nIt is concerned with the need for fires in rooms during the colder season of the year.\n\nArmy personnel receive fuel in kind for their needs or cash allowances in lieu as part of their conditions of service. At certain stations abroad (Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus and Hong Kong) the amounts provided for heating rooms, etc., (as distinct from requirements for cooking and hot water) during the so-called winter have been taken, on a somewhat broad calculation, at one half of the amount which would be allowed at home for the heating of rooms for a period of four months. For Palestine, as being mostly a hilly country with in consequence a colder winter, we have allowed five-eighths of the home provision.\n\nK.W. Blaxter, Esq.,\n\nColonial Office.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-567-3 Request by Admiralty for additional land at the Naval Arsenal 18-1-1938 - 24-3-1939",
        "page_number": 21,
        "title": "CO129-567-3 Request by Admiralty for additional land at the Naval Arsenal 18-1-1938 - 24-3-1939",
        "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nGent 3.2.\n\nHoward Str Mr. Colder 8.\n\nMs Rackinson.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh. Permt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\n2\n\nY\n\n9789/2\n\nfocomm\n\n...\n\nOrde, No 1 of 190/\n\nt\n\n53547/38/HK Arsh 4\n\nSin\n\nI\n\n52\n\nFOR 1938\n\n...\n\nrect. 19mm litten\n\n18th January\n\nMA (C.E, min C.\n\n20\n\n3\n\n10-\n\nthe\n\n045-7/37/576) relating to Arsenal Yard...\n\n2\n\nBack\n\nto reinst-gm\n\n4\n\nof the castag\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nthat\n\nnote this new\n\nthat\n\ninform the Lords Commissioners.\n\nthe Colonial Court might not...\n\nremain payment for land rejoined for defense purposes. To the extent that this property immediately concerned formed part of lands which",
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        "document_key": "CO129-568-7 Report to Director of Colonial Audit- 1937- queries and correspondence 24-10-1938 - 13-7-1939",
        "page_number": 17,
        "title": "CO129-568-7 Report to Director of Colonial Audit- 1937- queries and correspondence 24-10-1938 - 13-7-1939",
        "content_text": "P FR\n\n(*2643-150) Wt. 16318-94 15,000 7/38 TS. 695\n\n0\n\nC. O\n\n23 ~\n\nM. Galsworthy /6/2/39\n\nMr. Walker\n\n1/2.\n\nMr. Cowell & no\n\nMr. A. J. Pawe. Mr Colder to 2\n\nSir H. More.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. S. of S.\n\nParly. S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nS. CAINE, ESQ.,\n\nai\n\na mand\n\n53684/38. Hong Kong.\n\nA\n\n17\n\ns. for Mr. Calder's signature.\n\n8.9\n\nDear Caine,\n\nDowning Street,\n\n27 February, 1939.\n\nThe D.C.A. has drawn attention to the statement contained in para. 44 of the Auditor's annual report for 1937 on the accounts of Hong Kong, to the effect that, in accordance with instructions issued by the Governor, expenditure on Secret Service under Expenditure Head XX, Item 28, is accepted on the certificate of the Commissioner of the Police.\n\nIn this connection please see the enclosed copies of correspondence we have had on a similar question with regard to Tanganyika territory. You will see that it was then decided that the survey of the Commissioner of Police could not be accepted as adequate vouching...\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nDCA\n\n \n(...)\n\n \n1 mm 1937. 10 has 1937 (nos. 3 ab of 42194/37 Tanganyika).\n\n \ncertificatio\n\nAlthough",
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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": "CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938",
        "page_number": 68,
        "title": "CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938",
        "content_text": "73\n\n24\n\nChildren's Food.\n\nMrs. Selby was of great assistance in finding out the different kinds of milk foods needed by the babies and small children, and with the help of Mrs. Cheetham of Shanghai, a trained dietician, drew up a suitable diet for them.\n\nJewish Hostel.\n\nMrs. Raymond who visited the Jewish Refugees at the Jockey Club Centre on 22nd August decided that it would be better if some were moved to a Centre of their own.\n\nA house was found on Upper Castle Road and the Jewish Hostel was opened. The Ladies Welfare Committee gave Mrs. Raymond money to buy bedding and certain necessities, but after that the Jewish Hostel supported itself on the ordinary billeting grant allowed to Refugees.\n\nTransport.\n\nThe Hong Kong Tramways Co. through Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy very kindly gave free passes on the trams to refugees and one day put a tram at their disposal to take them round the city to see the sights. Messrs. Wallace Harper & Co. were extremely kind in placing a car and a chauffeur at the disposal of the Centre. Many private individuals lent their cars and took parties of children to the beaches, and a car bureau was run by Mrs. Frederick and Mrs. Dyer assisted by Mrs. Tinson.\n\nEntertainment.\n\nThe Petty Officers and Men of H.M.S. Osiris, H.M.S. Orpheus and H.M.S. Proteus were extremely kind in getting up dances and entertainments for the refugees. H.M.S. Rover also organized a dance and most generously raised $252 in aid of the refugees. The Filmo Studio kindly gave short shows for the children every afternoon for a week. The Lady Cake Shop kindly donated 200 small cakes. Mr. Stafford-Smith generously came forward with a gift of 3,000 cigarettes. \"Lizzie\" from Tester's Beauty Parlour kindly spent a Sunday cutting the children's hair.\n\nClosing of Jockey Club Centre.\n\nThe refugees were moved over to the Laichikok Centre on 9th and 10th September and the Jockey Club Centre was closed down.\n\nCentral British School Refugee Centre.\n\nThis Centre was opened on 22nd August for 350 refugees, though the maximum at any one time never exceeded 150. The great majority were British women and children. Mrs. D. M. Richards was asked by Mrs. North to take charge of the Welfare work, with a Matron and a Nursing Sister to assist. Of many other voluntary helpers the following were outstanding:- Mrs. Crozier, Miss Curtin, Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Ingram, Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Tong. The various activities, linen, stores, meals, diets, help with children, etc., were divided into two shifts, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. The Kowloon residents gave generous assistance in the way of clothing, toys, books, wireless sets, etc., and many picnics were arranged. The catering was supervised by Mrs. Fletcher and Mrs. Cooper (Domestic Science mistress at the School). Klim was provided daily, also fresh fruit to all children under 15. The Kowloon Boy Scouts and Girl Guides as well as the senior pupils of the School were very helpful, as also were the local members of Toc H.\n\nOn 20th September, as the School was needed by the Education Department this Centre was moved to the premises formerly used as a British School but now vacated, and continued on the same lines until it closed down on 15th January.\n\nLaichikok Refugee Centre.\n\nAs stated above the refugees from the Jockey Club Centre moved to Laichikok on 9th and 10th September. As this was more inaccessible it was decided that the\n\n25\n\nWelfare Bureau should be run by members of the Committee helped by Mrs. Maughan, Mrs. Grigor, Mrs. Prior, Mrs. Calthrop and Mrs. Norman. Mrs. Colter of Shanghai was engaged to be at the Bureau from 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. (Sundays excepted) at a salary of $50.00 a month and transport. When she returned to Shanghai her place was taken on the same terms by Miss Walker, a refugee from the Central British School Centre. Miss Walker returned to Shanghai on 10th December and it was decided that her place need not be filled as all refugees were shortly expected to return.\n\nA large amount of clothing was received from the foreign community in Foochow, which was greatly appreciated as stocks were running low and colder weather approaching. As time went on this became a pressing problem. Broadcast appeals brought in some warm things but not enough, and scarcely anything for the boys and girls. It was therefore decided to buy what was still necessary. A total sum of $566.78 was spent in providing inexpensive knitting wool, jerseys and cardigans, shorts and skirts and thick overcoats for the journey to Shanghai. Messrs. Whiteway, Laidlaw & Co. supplied these coats at half price, a generous offer for which the Committee was very grateful.\n\nThe maximum number of refugees accommodated at this Centre was 477.\n\nEducation,\n\nWith the long stay of the refugees in the Colony the education of the children became a problem. Mr. Pardoe with the assistance of some Shanghai teachers had opened a school in Kowloon Union Church for Refugee children, and on being approached he agreed to include the children at Laichikok. It was decided that a school under Miss Aliston should be opened in Laichikok for children up to 8 years of age, and that the rest should travel into Kowloon daily. Mr. Pardoe found it was impossible to accommodate all the children in the Union Church Hall and was fortunate in securing from Government the use of the old Kowloon Magistracy, which proved a very suitable building for a school. Part of the bottom floor of Block 6 at Laichikok was turned into a school room. The Committee bought stools and had tables made and got the very simple equipment for which Miss Aliston asked. The school proved most successful, and continued to run till these teachers returned to Shanghai. After a short time the schools were reopened under Mrs. Lambert, who got a staff of teachers together, and the schools continued to run until 17th December when they closed down. Mrs. Mitchell taught the kindergarten at Laichikok.\n\nA physical drill class for boys and girls was most efficiently run by Mr. Powis, who kindly came out every day, and a very enjoyable display was given by his class at the Benefit Dance for the children of the late Mrs. Stuart Xavier.\n\nH.M.S. Parthian very kindly arranged a dance on 9th October to which many of the refugees were asked and the $375 raised was most generously given to the Ladies Welfare Committee to buy rattan tables and chairs to furnish a Recreation Room, and chairs for the dormitories.\n\nA Benefit Dance for the seven children of the late Mrs. Stuart Xavier was held on 10th November. Kay Lee, the Army Contractor who was caterer at Laichikok and Central British School Centres, generously provided the refreshments and the China Fleet Club lent the hall. $497.13 was realized and this was sent to Mr. Haines of Shanghai to be used for the education of the Xavier children.\n\nThe Laichikok Welfare Bureau closed on 23rd December as it was understood that the refugees would be leaving during the Christmas holidays.\n\nRelief Funds.\n\nA list of persons without means at the Jockey Club Centre was obtained from Mr. Carrie on 31st August. Mrs. Dicken, Mrs. Gerrard and Mrs. Wolf assisted by\n\n74",
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        "document_key": "CO129-573-6 Issue of passports to Chinese nationals in Hong Kong 22-6-1938 - 23-12-1938",
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        "title": "CO129-573-6 Issue of passports to Chinese nationals in Hong Kong 22-6-1938 - 23-12-1938",
        "content_text": "4 17.11.38\n\n`Zo. F. 14/30/142/378` (Acre 6. Have no objection to matter relating to one which primarily affects it, to Lok On concerns so comes have seen \n\nThe Lot \n\nmarked pack for \n\nhumid cake\" \n\ndined \n\nearly reply it be sent & the \n\nIt has taken 6 days like rent. In view of the delay, I understand \n\nin red. \n\nby me. \n\nbut the address the 4.0 by \n\nref(7) Jay my \n\nofficial letter \n\nwould \n\nelse Nations \n\nbe glad of \n\ndaily. Copy letter to \n\nthat the \n\nat the cadet force. Copy letter 6 7.0 ef ref 7. \n\nP. Roger \n\n25/8 \n\n(Reply the sent \n\nin colder. \n\nMooned by quisitor to telephone to the Ita \n\nI have \n\nshown to \n\nM McAlpine \n\nV... \n\n8585 \n\nImmigration \n\nBch H.O. \n\nhe has wit \n\nThey \n\nCommunication from \n\nfrom foxet \n\nabout this matter \n\nbut he said that \n\nI take it as definite \n\nthat if \n\nthe \n\nauthority \n\nOfficial \n\nis fully \n\n1 \n\nthe \n\nChinese Ironclad \n\nthe \n\nfully substantiated for \n\npurpose by the Chinese Govt \n\nis no objection \n\nH. O. \n\nhas \n\nand \n\nthink \n\nthe hand of \n\nthe \n\nwe \n\nCan \n\nHis consul \n\nconcerned, \n\nI mounted to let of M'Alpine",
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        "document_key": "CO129-589-13 War taxation- exemption and evasion 1-2-1941 - 10-9-1941",
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        "content_text": "## 54002\n4\n\nPrevious CLOSED 1941 UNTIL 1992. HONG KONG co 129 580 War Taxation 54002/89/13 Exemptions & Evasions\n\n183 Mr. Monson restar Colder 18 2016 121 17 PUT BY Rm 83. Mr. Monson Mr Subsequent 26 per Caine CD \n\n| Reference | Name | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| L295 |  | 1074 |\n| R.83 | PUT BY |  |\n| R88 | Me Mouser |  |\n|  | Lily Legal | 2014 |\n|  | m mara | 15 |\n|  | Mr. Cent. |  |\n|  | Mchead Wr. |  |\n|  | Sur A Gurus | 21 |\n|  | Tel Sextion | 21/st |\n| El C.D. |  | l7/5 27/5 |\n| R.83. |  |  |\n| MM Memmer | FJ | 20 Z0j5 27 |\n|  | Mr. Monson |  |\n|  | Mr Macheod (PSH) | z Am 83. (Cu) PUT BY |\n\nFILE A. Ni McLead 26/2 Mr. Monson 2/8 Be My Barton. 578 116336 5/2 he monson 5/8 295 7/8 83 PUT BY fw. Monson 21 Mr Barton Tel Cichon In large Mr. CDTelo 21/8 2418. R116 27/8 295 226 2953T BY Monson 2.9 Mr Burm. 49 (1812). Wt.31212/122. 10 000. 11/40. N.P.C. G.682/77a.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905",
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        "content_text": "# EXTRACT\n\n**MONITORING REPORT**\n\n**FAR EAST**\n\nNovember 17th\n\n43\n\n123\n\nHongkong Radio (in Chinese) at 19.20 hours on 31.56 metres.\n\nThe broadcaster began by saying that the winter having begun, and the weather getting colder, more people had returned to the villages, keeping the staffs of evacuation bureaux in Hongkong and Kowloon very busy.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-591-12 Military Administration- Civil affairs- directives to force commander and senior officials 24-2-1945 - 13-9-1945",
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        "content_text": "27\n\n( 14 ) \n\npopulation which was continually increasing, as essential service workers and employees of the Administration returned to the Colony, and as the services implemented their considerable shore establishments; and second, the gradual repair and refurnishing of damaged accommodation,\n\n35. The first of these problems was met in its early stages by the requisitioning of all the large European-type hotels and a limited number of private houses. New arrivals, for whom the Administration was responsible, were accommodated, in the first instance, in hotels or hostels, and then were offered every encouragement to make their own arrangements for more permanent accommodation. A certain number of unfurnished houses were put into commission by the provision of furniture from the stocks in the hands of the Custodian of Property. It was clear, however, that neither available stocks of furniture nor unoccupied houses and flats were sufficient to meet the Administration's ever-increasing requirements. By the middle of December a detailed housing census had been completed and requisitioning procedure had been regularized. Orders were given to ensure that maximum use was being made of such accommodation and furniture as the Administration controlled; but these restrictive measures, while easing for a time a situation which was becoming acute, in the longer view served only to emphasise the urgency of the Administration's second problem—the repair of damaged accommodation and the provision of additional furniture.\n\n36. All efforts at obtaining heavy structural materials in the requisite quantities failed. A limited number of repairs were executed by private enterprise from the slim stocks available locally. But in the overall picture the effect of these was probably largely offset by continued looting of timber and fittings from damaged houses—an abuse which had become ingrained in certain classes during the occupation, and which the Administration found great difficulty in combating with the limited police personnel at its disposal.\n\n37. By February, however, looting had been restricted to outlying and isolated areas, and the first attempts at large-scale reconstruction were possible. An Accommodation and Housing Committee was appointed, and it appeared as if the Administration were at last in a position to face both its housing problems. Reconditioning and repairs both take time, however; expiring Crown-leases, financial considerations, and the maintenance of supplies, all present obstinate and recurrent difficulties, and it is likely that the Colony's shortage of accommodation will be a burden upon the Civil Government for many months to come.\n\n38. Housing of the type occupied by the Chinese, and particularly the poorer classes of Chinese, had suffered relatively less than the European areas. It had been largely occupied throughout the war period and, in consequence, had been spared the worst manifestations of looting and neglect, though damage from bombing was not inconsiderable. From the beginning, however, accommodation of this type was scarce; and it became scarcer as the population increased consequent upon the removal of the immigration restrictions on entry from China. In these circumstances, and with the persistent limitations of supply of building materials, the Administration could do little more than ensure that landlords were prevented from using the housing shortage as a means of exploiting their tenants. This aim was happily achieved by the Landlord and Tenant Proclamation (No. 15) whereby rents were frozen at their 1941 level, and Tenancy Tribunals were established with powers of ordering eviction, varying rents and generally settling disputes between landlords and tenants. These tribunals were composed mainly of local residents, to whom great credit was due, both for the public-spirited and arduous duties which they performed, and also for the eminently satisfactory results which the tribunals achieved.\n\n39. After the initial stage of clearing the Colony of the most obnoxious signs of the Japanese neglect of all considerations of public health, the medical and sanitary rehabilitation of the Colony was still gravely impeded by the shortage of accommodation and supplies of all kinds, and by delay in the arrival of key personnel. It must be admitted that in the early days of the re-occupation, the Colony's freedom from epidemics was largely fortuitous. The danger of an outbreak of cholera gradually receded as the colder weather set in. Malaria, alarmingly prevalent in September and October, decreased at a faster rate than could be accounted for by the difficult and laborious restoration of the Colony's anti-malaria precautions. Compared with\n\n( 15 ) \n\n28",
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        "content_text": "29\n\n30\n\n(14)\n\npopulation which was continually increasing, as essential service workers and employees of the Administration returned to the Colony, and as the services implemented their considerable shore establishments; and second, the gradual repair and refurnishing of damaged accommodation.\n\n35. The first of these problems was met in its early stages by the requisitioning of all the large European-type hotels and a limited number of private houses. New arrivals, for whom the Administration was responsible, were accommodated, in the first instance, in hotels or hostels, and then were offered every encouragement to make their own arrangements for more permanent accommodation. A certain number of unfurnished houses were put into commission by the provision of furniture from the stocks in the hands of the Custodian of Property. It was clear, however, that neither available stocks of furniture nor unoccupied houses and flats were sufficient to meet the Administration's ever-increasing requirements. By the middle of December, a detailed housing census had been completed and requisitioning procedure had been regularized. Orders were given to ensure that maximum use was being made of such accommodation and furniture as the Administration controlled; but these restrictive measures, while easing for a time a situation which was becoming acute, in the longer view served only to emphasize the urgency of the Administration's second problem—the repair of damaged accommodation and the provision of additional furniture.\n\n36. All efforts at obtaining heavy structural materials in the requisite quantities failed. A limited number of repairs were executed by private enterprise from the slim stocks available locally. But in the overall picture, the effect of these was probably largely offset by continued looting of timber and fittings from damaged houses—an abuse which had become ingrained in certain classes during the occupation, and which the Administration found great difficulty in combating with the limited police personnel at its disposal.\n\n37. By February, however, looting had been restricted to outlying and isolated areas, and the first attempts at large-scale reconstruction were possible. An Accommodation and Housing Committee was appointed, and it appeared as if the Administration were at last in a position to face both its housing problems. Reconditioning and repairs both take time, however; expiring Crown leases, financial considerations, and the maintenance of supplies all present obstinate and recurrent difficulties, and it is likely that the Colony's shortage of accommodation will be a burden upon the Civil Government for many months to come.\n\n38. Housing of the type occupied by the Chinese, and particularly the poorer classes of Chinese, had suffered relatively less than the European areas. It had been largely occupied throughout the war period and, in consequence, had been spared the worst manifestations of looting and neglect, though damage from bombing was not inconsiderable. From the beginning, however, accommodation of this type was scarce; and it became scarcer as the population increased consequent upon the removal of the immigration restrictions on entry from China. In these circumstances, and with the persistent limitations of supply of building materials, the Administration could do little more than ensure that landlords were prevented from using the housing shortage as a means of exploiting their tenants. This aim was happily achieved by the Landlord and Tenant Proclamation (No. 15), whereby rents were frozen at their 1941 level, and Tenancy Tribunals were established with powers of ordering eviction, varying rents, and generally settling disputes between landlords and tenants. These tribunals were composed mainly of local residents, to whom great credit was due, both for the public-spirited and arduous duties which they performed, and also for the eminently satisfactory results which the tribunals achieved.\n\n39. After the initial stage of clearing the Colony of the most obnoxious signs of the Japanese neglect of all considerations of public health, the medical and sanitary rehabilitation of the Colony was still gravely impeded by the shortage of accommodation and supplies of all kinds, and by delay in the arrival of key personnel. It must be admitted that in the early days of the re-occupation, the Colony's freedom from epidemics was largely fortuitous. The danger of an outbreak of cholera gradually receded as the colder weather set in. Malaria, alarmingly prevalent in September and October, decreased at a faster rate than could be accounted for by the difficult and laborious restoration of the Colony's anti-malaria precautions. Compared with",
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        "content_text": "# 8 - X - Xi\n\nThe present position is also due in some measure to the entirely fortuitous freedom from any epidemics of infectious disease, which the Colony has at no time during the period under review been in a position to face. This freedom from epidemics is as surprising as it is fortunate. Compared with 1941, the Colony is virtually overrun with rats, and a vaccination campaign planned two months ago has had to be postponed owing to the insufficiency of calf lymph. With the colder weather, the danger of a cholera epidemic has been somewhat removed. The incidence of tuberculosis is believed to be very high as a natural consequence of years of under-nourishment.\n\n## 43.\n\nIn September, malaria was rife throughout the Colony, but labour has now been engaged in anti-malarial work, and stream and swamp drainage are being undertaken. The proposed aerial spraying of the island has not yet been possible, but considerable groundwork has been done with the co-operation of the Services.\n\n## 44.\n\nSocial hygiene presents a more acute problem than before the war. 66% of venereal cases are syphilitic. Various palliative measures have been taken in consultation with the Services, amongst them being the proposed declaration of V.D. as a notifiable disease, an ambitious scheme for the hospitalization of venereal cases, and the provision of urgently needed arsenical preparations by the Naval and Military authorities.\n\n## 45.\n\nThe sanitation problem has been rendered more difficult by the debris and rubbish which has collected in unoccupied and damaged houses and the almost universal Japanese-occupation practice of dumping garbage in out-of-the-way places. Owing to the shortage of materials for lime washing and kerosene emulsion, only 10% of Chinese tenement floors have so far been cleansed. The shortage of garbage cans and the inadequacy of transport has made it necessary to organize a 24-hour service for refuse removal. Conservancy requirements will shortly be met by the improvisation of dry latrine pans and night-soil buckets, and by the implementation of the night-soil junks with landing craft. The more important markets are in reasonably good condition. The R.N. Medical authorities are responsible for Port Health work, and the R.A.F. medical authorities for that of the airport at Kai Tak.\n\n## 46.\n\nThe Administration has assumed financial responsibility for the Nethersole and French Hospitals, and these served a vital purpose during the period of rehabilitation of the Queen Mary and Kowloon Hospitals, which were in a chaotic condition. Some 400 beds are already available in the two latter hospitals, and full medical and surgical facilities are now restored. The Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital and the Mental Hospital are also in full operation. A wing of the former Government Civil Hospital has been adapted for isolation purposes in place of the Kennedy Town Hospital and the Lai Chi Kok Hospital, of which the former was destroyed and the latter unfit for use.\n\n## 111",
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        "content_text": "that the fire had taken a firm hold and realised that owing to its open internal structure and the difficulty of gaining access to the upper floors, the destruction of the contents was more or less a foregone conclusion. In these circumstances his efforts were concentrated firstly on damping down the intensity of the flames by deliveries on the exterior walls and into the ground floor, and secondly to the prevention of the fire spreading to adjoining buildings. During the first two hours, there was little wind, but about 10 o'clock a vigorous east wind arose, and continued for the next four hours, gradually veering to the south. During these hours the danger to the Royal Inter Ocean Lines Buildings must have been very great, and it is to the credit of the Fire Brigade that the spread of fire in that direction was prevented.\n\n## Exhaustion of Firemen\n\nIn the afternoon, when the relieving watch which had taken over at nine o'clock had been engaged for six or eight hours, some firemen began to show signs of exhaustion and about ten of them had to be taken to hospital. This particular watch was due to be relieved at 9 o'clock the following morning, but arrangements were made for them to be relieved instead at 10 o'clock p.m. by the watch which had commenced fire-fighting operations that morning. An offer of assistance by the Police Force in the afternoon was gratefully accepted by the Chief Officer, and from 4 o'clock p.m. onwards police in shifts of fifty were employed at four-hour intervals. On the following day, assistance was also rendered by the Boy Scouts. In a later stage of the report we have some observations to make on the watch system of the Fire Brigade in the light of experience gained at the Wing On Fire.\n\nThe exhaustion of certain of the firemen is no doubt partially attributable to the extremely unpleasant conditions under which the fire was fought. It rained intermittently throughout the whole operation, it was colder than usual for the time of the year and the Brigade was still in summer uniform. On the seafront adjacent to the main godown, the road which was being repaired, had been dug up to a depth of about two feet. The depression so formed rapidly filled up, and the kneeling",
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