[ { "id": 218213, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "No 4, of 1844. \n\nIndohore, N. 3 in Despatah \n\nImplicate \n\nregarding the formation of \n\nMinute by Sir Henry Pottinger \n\nAu \n\nturoplan Police Corps, laid before.- \n\nCouncil \n\non 24th January, 18ths. \n\nDuplicate \n\nNo:45 \n\nSir, \n\nRECEIVED \n\nMAY. 6 \n\nColonial Department, 761 \n\nvernment Hause hetōria \n\nHongheus 7 January 26 184.4. \n\nJam directed by His Excellency the Governor in Cancil to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's \n\ndate giving \n\nCover \n\nto \n\nOriginal \n\norre \n\nfrom Lieutenant Colonel Gregory to the address of the Hecrovable Major General D'Aquilar regarding the necessity for European Police Station at Chuck Cher.. \n\nan \n\nIn reply I am directed to -- acquaint you that Government have at this moment under its consideration \n\nα \n\nplan for forming an efficient - \n\nPolice for every part of the Colorry and that in the \n\nmean time and until be matured and \n\nCarr \n\nthat plan Captain D'Aguilar, \n\nNo, Ne, \n\nCarried", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218214, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "as a \n\nPolice at Chuk Choo \n\ncarried inti effect, stis Excellency in Council would suggest to the sherreracte the Major General Commanding, that Lieutenant Colonel Gregory should be empowered to select a now commissioned Officer and six Privates-all steady sober men- pows the 98th Regiment be employed and to be relieved from all other duties. \n\nOn the names of \n\nof this non commissioned Officer and these six privates being communicated to the Honorable the Chief Magistrate they will be enrolled. his list and will be entitled to the usual extra allowance as Police- \n\nmen. \n\nа \n\nWith respect to there being resident Magistrate at Chuck Choo, His Excellency the Governor in Council kes the advantage of it, and it will form \n\npart. \n\nar \n\nbe \n\npart of the arrangements new under consideration, but it ambraces not merely the nomination of a heagistrate het also percorsion for Sarterpreter which it is anost difficult to make. Chinese Linguists might be entertained, but it would on dangerous and improper to trust the in cases that involved either imprisonment; fine, or corporal punishment to the mallest extent; and the same objection is specially applicable to the individual alluded to in Lieutenant Colonel Gregory's letter ( by the appellation of the Lord Mayor) who is a notoriously disreputable character, and has besides claim to the post he holds at present as the head (Seps) of the village of Chuck Choo. \n\nno \n\nJeaneet in some measure the \n\ndifficulties of the matter under discussion the lovernor in Council requests \n\nyou", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218217, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "8.4 of 1844. – \n\nnclosure – Nr 4in Despatch \n\nThe \n\nColonel Grigory \n\nforwarding an representation from to a letter from Captain B'Aquilar, \n\nwritten by Sir Henry Pottinger \n\nSuplicate Reply directed to be \n\nas to the want \n\nof an European Police Station- \n\naf \n\nat Cheti choo. \n\n26th Jany: \n\n1844. \n\nN°5. \n\nNo I to b. \n\nMy Lord. \n\none \n\nColonial Department 88 Government Houses, Victoria, (Horgaang ) January 30th 1864. \n\nI have the honor to submit, \n\nfor Your . Lordship's information, and. for such Command I as you may consider necessary, Copies of letters and of a. Minuto _ (explanatory of of them) respecting Quarters for Major General D' Aquistar, and his personal Staff; also, for a part of the Officers of the Regiments doing the Garrison Buty \n\nin this City ; and for the Reverend Mr. Stanton, Chaplain of this Colony. \n\nI do not think it necessary \n\nThe Right Honorable \n\nLord Stanley, \n\nAo \n\nAc \n\nto \n\nPage 90Page 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221038, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 633, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "the Governor in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's \n\ndate giving \n\ncover to \n\nan Original \n\nletter from Licut Colonel Gregory to the address of the Honorable Major General D\n\n\" Aguilar regarding the necessity for a European Police Station at Chuck Choo.\n\nIn reply I am directed to acquaint you that Government have at this moment under its consideration a \n\nplan for forming an efficient Police for every part of the Colony and that \n\nin the mean time and until that plan be matured and carried into effect \n\nHis Excellency in Council would suggest to the Honorable the Major General Commanding, that Licut Colonel Gregory should be empowered to select a non-Commissioned Officer and six Privates - all steady and sober men - from the 98th Regiment to be employed as a Police at Chuck Choo and to be relieved from all other duties.\n\nOn the names of this non-Commissioned Officer and these six Privates being communicated to the Honorable the Chief Magistrate, they will be enrolled on his list and will be entitled to the usual extra allowance as Police men.\n\nWith respect to there being a resident Magistrate at Chuck Choo His Excellency the Governor in Council sees the advantage of it, and it will form part of the arrangements now under consideration; but, it embraces not merely the nomination of a magistrate but also provision for an Interpreter which it is most difficult to make. Chinese Linguists might be entertained.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221039, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 634, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "entertained, but it would be dangerous and improper to trust them in cases that involved either imprisonment, fine, or corporal punishment to the smallest extent, and the same objection is specially applicable to the individual alluded to in Lieut: Colonel Gregory's letter by the appellation of the Lord Mayor) who is a notoriously disreputable character, and has besides no claim to the post he holds at present as the head (Tepo) of the village of Chuck Choo.\n\nTo meet in some measure the difficulties of the matter under discussion the Governor in Council, requests the Honorable the Major General Commanding to order that the limits of the Cantonment at Chuck Choo shall be carefully defined and marked off by natural marks or where they do not exist by pillars being built, and as soon as this is done the limits will be published for general information and an Ordinance or Regulation will be framed and passed in Council providing for all offences committed within those limits as well as all claims for debts (both to a certain to be defined extent) being investigated and disposed of by Military Court of Requests, which can be appointed monthly (to sit once or twice a week as occasion may require) under such orders as the Honorable the Major General may be pleased to issue.\n\nIn conclusion I am directed to further communicate to you the opinion of Government that a Guard Room ...\n\n \nPage 623\n\n was corrected to \nentertained, but it would be dangerous and improper to trust them in cases that involved either imprisonment, fine, or corporal punishment to the smallest extent, and the same objection is specially applicable to the individual alluded to in Lieut: Colonel Gregory's letter by the appellation of the Lord Mayor) who is a notoriously disreputable character, and has besides no claim to the post he holds at present as the head (Tepo) of the village of Chuck Choo.\n\nTo meet in some measure the difficulties of the matter under discussion the Governor in Council, requests the Honorable the Major General Commanding to order that the limits of the Cantonment at Chuck Choo shall be carefully defined and marked off by natural marks or where they do not exist by pillars being built, and as soon as this is done the limits will be published for general information and an Ordinance or Regulation will be framed and passed in Council providing for all offences committed within those limits as well as all claims for debts (both to a certain to be defined extent) being investigated and disposed of by Military Court of Requests, which can be appointed monthly (to sit once or twice a week as occasion may require) under such orders as the Honorable the Major General may be pleased to issue.\n\nIn conclusion I am directed to further communicate to you the opinion of Government that a Guard Room ...\n\nPage 623\n\nHowever, to follow the format to the letter as requested:\n\nentertained, but it would be dangerous and improper to trust them in cases that involved either imprisonment, fine, or corporal punishment to the smallest extent, and the same objection is specially applicable to the individual alluded to in Lieut: Colonel Gregory's letter by the appellation of the Lord Mayor) who is a notoriously disreputable character, and has besides no claim to the post he holds at present as the head (Tepo) of the village of Chuck Choo.\n\nTo meet in some measure the difficulties of the matter under discussion the Governor in Council, requests the Honorable the Major General Commanding to order that the limits of the Cantonment at Chuck Choo shall be carefully defined and marked off by natural marks or where they do not exist by pillars being built, and as soon as this is done the limits will be published for general information and an Ordinance or Regulation will be framed and passed in Council providing for all offences committed within those limits as well as all claims for debts (both to a certain to be defined extent) being investigated and disposed of by Military Court of Requests, which can be appointed monthly (to sit once or twice a week as occasion may require) under such orders as the Honorable the Major General may be pleased to issue.\n\nIn conclusion I am directed to further communicate to you the opinion of Government that a Guard Room ...\n\nPage 623", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221048, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 643, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "General\n\nuse for\n\nwhatever\n\nto the Military Department and should be dealt with as the Major\n\nmay see fit\n\nfit to direct. Government has no possible claim to the Barracks, and as they were originally built by order of his Hugh Gough and have since been added to, altered, and repaired under Lord Saltown's authority, their transfer to the Civil Department of the Colony would only tend to confusion in the Public Accounts, besides adding to the already too onerous duties of the Land Officer and his Establishment\n\nthat\n\nHis Excellency would suggest that a Committee should be appointed to report on the Barracks and to decide whether the materials should be sold\n\nor kept for future Military Buildings. In the former\n\ncase the proceeds would be paid\n\nof\n\nNo:55\n\ncourse\n\n638\n\nover to the General - and in the latter\n\nbe paid to the Commissary\n\nthe materials would remain at the\n\ndisposal of the Engineers Department.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\n(Signed) Richard Wontner.\n\nThe Honorable,\n\nSir\n\nMajor Caine,\n\nChief Magistrate,\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong\n\n2nd February 184...\n\nI am directed by the Governor in Council to forward to you the\n\naccompanying copy of a letter (No:45) written by His Excellency's\n\ndirection\n\nin reply to a representation forwarded to him from Colonel Gregory regarding.\n\nthe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221049, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 644, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "list of \n\nthe necessity for an European Police Station at Check Choo, and I am to request you to place upon your Police-men, and pay \n\nthe usual allowance to, the Non Commissioned Officer and six Privates whose \n\nnames \n\nyou by Colonel \n\nwill be forwarded to Gregory, and who it is to be hoped will \n\nprove a sufficient protection to the \n\nneighbourhood until a more \n\ncomplete \n\nPolice Establishment. \n\nbe formed.\n\n(Signed) Richard Womnam-\n\nA. J. Gordon Esqre \n\nLand Officer be \n\nVictoria, Hong Kong. 2th February 18441. \n\nNo: 56 \n\n639 \n\nI have to acknowledge the receipts \n\nof your letter No: 9 of the 21st Ultimo forwarding an Estimate of the Expense of the Contingent Work in the Land-Department for the current month amounting to $249 - His Excellency the Governor in Council is pleased to sanction \n\nthis expense, \n\nI am directed to request you to prepare, in time for transmission to England on the 18th Instant, by the \"Sesostris \" a general \n\nEstimate such as shall include all sums already expended on Works of the like description and such as shall also show the sums of money that will probably be required for the continuance of them during the Current year. \n\nI have …\n\n(Signed) Richard Humam. \n\nMy…", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221121, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 716, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "Let him have thou\n\nShave be\n\n(Signed) Richard Wosmanr,\n\nThe Honorable,\n\nMajor Caine de.\n\nVetria,\n\nSir,\n\nHongkong, March 27, 1841\n\nSam directed by His Excellency the Governor in Council to forward to you an Original letter and its Enclosure from the Assistant Military Secretary to Major General D'Aquilar regarding a Police Station being built at Chuck Choo.\n\nHis Excellency in Council is of opinion that if a station is to be built at all it ought to be situated so as to afford equal protection to the village and the Cantonments, and requested at your convenience to inquire into the application made by Lieut. Colonel Gregory and to submit your opinion for the decision of Government, already aware of the probability of Chuck Choo becoming a place of sufficient importance to call for the permanent residence of a Magistrate and will be pleased to bear this contingency in mind in any arrangement that you may recommend in consequence of this letter.\n\nShave de\n\n(Signed) Richard Worman\n\nP.S. Be so good as to return the Original Enclosures with your reply.\n\n(Signed) R..\n\nNo: 117\n\n711\n\nNo:118", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]