[ { "id": 218525, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 398, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "\nChief Magistrate \n\ncommands, as they may from time to time receive from the said Chief, Marine, or assistant Magistrate, and Superintendent of Police, or any other inferior officers, who may at any time be appointed over them. \n\n3.And in order to provide for one uniform system of Rules and Regulations, to make Rules with throughout the whole Establishment of Police in Hongkong. Be it enacted, that the approbation of the said Chief Magistrate may from time to time, subject to the approbation of the Governor Governor. \n\nfor the time being, frame such orders and Regulations, as he shall deem expedient for the general government of the men, to be appointed members of the Police Force under this Ordinance, the places of their residence, the classification, rank, and particular service of the several members, their distribution, and inspection, the description of arms, accoutrements, and other necessaries to be furnished to them, and which of them shall be provided with horses for the performance of their duties, and all such orders, and regulations relative to the said police force, as the said Chief Magistrate shall, from time to time, deem expedient for preventing neglect, or abuse, and for rendering such force efficient, in the discharge of all its duties, and the said Chief Magistrate may at any time suspend, or dismiss from his employment, any man belonging to the said Police force, whom he shall think remiss, or negligent, in the discharge of his duty, or otherwise unfh for the same, and when any man shall be so dismissed, or cease to belong to the said Police for e, all powers, vested in him as a Constable by virtue of this Ordinance, shall imunediately cease and determine. \n\nConstable not to re- \n\n4. And be it enacted, that no constable to be appointed under this Ordinance, sign without notice, shall he at liberty to resign his office, or withdraw himself from the duties thereof, unless and penalty thereon. expressly authorized so to do in writing, by the Chief Magistrate of Police, or unless he slad give to the said Chief Magistrate of Police, two months notice of his intention so to resign, or withdraw, and if any such constable shall so resign, or withdraw himself without such previous permission or notice, he shall for such offence forfeit and pay a penalty, not exceeding two hundred dollars, on conviction thereof in a summary manner before one Justice of the peace, in manner provided by Ordinance No. 10° of 1844, intituled An Ordinance to rem date summary proceedings before Justices of the Peace, ** and for the protection of Justices in the execution of their Office.” Constable ceasing 5.-And be it enacted, that when any constable to be appointed under this to be such to deliver Ordinance, shall be dismissed from, or shall cease to hold, and exercise bis oflice, all up arms clothes &c. \n\npowers, and authorities vested in hum as a constable, shall immediately cease and penalty in default thereof. \n\ndetermine, to all intents and purposes whatever: and if any such constable shall not within one week after he shall be dismissed from, or cease to hold, and exercise his office, deliver over all and every the arms, and ammunition, and accoutrements, horse, saddle, bridle, clothing, and other appointinents whatsoever, which may have been supplied to him, for the execution of such office, to such person, and at such time, and plice as shall be directed by the said Chief Magistrate, such person making default therein shall, upon conviction for every such offence in a summary manner before a Justice of the Peace, be subject and liable to imprisonment in the common gal, or house of correction, for any period not exceeding three months, and kept to hard' labour, as such Justice of the Peace may direct, and it shall be lawful for such Justice of the Peace, and he is hereby authorized and required, to commait every such offender accordingly, and to issue his warrant to search for, and seize to the use of Her Majesty, all and every the arms, ammunition, accoutrements, horses, bridles, sad-lles, clothing, and other appointments whatsoever, which shall not he so delivered over wherever the same shall be found. \n\nPenalty for Con- \n\n6.And be it enacted, that if any constable to be appointed under this Ordinance, stable remiss in his shall be guilty of any neglect, or violation of duty in his office, or shall neglect or refuse duty. \n\nto obey and execute any warrant, lawfully directed to be by him executed or shall be guilty of any disobedience to the orders and regulations framed, as herein before mentioned, by the said Chief Magistrate, or other misconduct as a constable, he shall for every such offence, on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace in a summary manner, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars, and the amount of such penalty shall, and may be deducted from, and out of any salary accruing de to such offender under this Ordinance, upon a certificate thereof, to be, by the Justice before whom he may be convicted, transmitted to the Treasurer of the said Colony. Penalty in person 7-And be it enacted, that if any person, not appointed and acting under this having in his posses- Ordinance, shall have in his possession any arms, ammunition, or any article of clothing. sion arms belonging accoutrements, or appointments supplied to any person under this Ordinauris, and evali to or assuming the dress of the Police not be able satisfactorily to account for his, or her possession thereof, or shall put on, or assume the dress, name, designation, or description of any person or persons, or any class of persons, appointed under this Ordinance, for the purpose of thereby obtaining admission into any house, or other place, or of doing, or procuring to be done, any other act, which such person or persons, so putting on, or assuming such dress, name, designation, or description, would not by law be entitled to do, or procure to be done of his, or their own authority, every such person so offending shui, in addition to any other punishment to which he, or she may be liable for such offence, forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner, on conviction before a Justice of the Peace. \n\nforce. \n\nGovernor may in- \n\n8.-And be it enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Chief, Marine, or Assistant Magistrate, or the Superintendent of Police, or either or any of stitute inquiries into them, or any other person or persons, to be nominated for the purpose from time to time conduct of Police- by the Governor, to examine on oath into the truth of any charges or complaints, men on Oath. preferred against any person to be appointed under this Ordinance, of any neglect or violation of duty in his office, and to report thereon to the Governor, and any person who on such inquiry, or on any other occasion on which an Oath may be administered under this Ordinance, shall give false evidence, or take a false outh, and be thereof able as Perjury. duly convicted, shall be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, and shall be liable to such pains and penalties, as persous convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury are or may be subject and liable to. \n\nFalse Oath punish- \n\nCommon report to \n\n9-And be it enacted, that if any question arise as to the right of any Chief, Marine, or Assistant Magistrate, or Superintendent of Police, or any Serjeant, or other he proof of the right inferior officer, or of any common constable, to hold or execute any such office of any person to respectively, common reputation shall to all intents and purposes be deemed, and held exercize any office to be sufficient evidence of such right, and it shall not be necessary to produce any, ances \n\nunder thua Ordin appointment, or any Oath, affidavit, or other document, or matter whatsoever, in proof of such right. \n\nFines imposed on \n\n10.--And be it enacted, that all fines imposed on any Serjeant, or other inferior officer, or on any constable under this Ordinance. shall be paid to the Treasurer of Policemen to form a the Colouy of Hongkong, and be carried by him to a separate account, so that the reward fund. same may form a fund, to be called the \"Police Reward Fund,\" to be appropriated for the payment of such rewards, gratuities, bounties, peusions, or other allowances, as the Governor may from time to time award, or direct to be paid to any person or persons appointed under this Ordinance, or to the widows and families of any such person at his death. And that it shall and may be lawful for the Governor to direct, if he shall Governer think fit, that any proportions not exceeding ten shillings in the year, for every one deduct portion of hundred pounds of the salary of every person appointed under this Ordinance, and so Salary to increase in proportion for any salary less than one hundred pounds, shall be deducted yearly Reward Fund. froin such salaries, and added to the Reward Fund and form part thereof. \n\nmay \n\nIL-And be it enacted, that where any person, charged with any misdemeanour \n\nPoliceman \n\nin \n\n: \n\nbad. \n\nor petty felony, shall be brought without a warrant of a Justice of the Peace, into the Chic Command at custody of any Serjeant of Police, or any other inferior officer of Police, in actual Chief ay Station to take command at any Police station, it shall be lawful for such Serjeant, or other inferior officer of Police, if he shall deem it prudent, (provided the Justice of the Peare, before whom the party charged with such misdemeanor, or petty felony is to be taken for examination on such charge, be not then in attendance at his office,) to take bail by recognizance without any fee or reward from such person, conditioned that such \n\nperson shall appear for examination before a Justice of the Peace, at some place to be specified in the recognizance, and at such earliest time then next after, when such Justice of the Peace shall be in attendance at his office, and every recognizance so taken shall be of equal obligation on the parties eutering into the same, and able to the same ti ceedings for estreating thereof, as if the same had been taken before a Justice of the Peace, and the name, residence, and occupation of the party, and his surety or sureties, if any entering into sach recognizance, together with the condition thereof, and the sums respectively acknowledged, shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose, which shall be laid before such Justice, as shall be present at the time and place, when and where the party is required to appear, and if the party do not appear at the time and place required. or within one hour after, the Justice shall cause a record of the recognize to be drawn up, and shall pow the same to the next sinings of the court, in which the offence charged should be brought for trial, with a certicate at the back thereof, sigued by such Justice, that the party or parties have not complied with the obligation therei (contained, and the proper officer of the said cont shall make the like estreats and Schedules of every such recognizance, as of recognizances forfeited in the said court, and if the party not appearing shall apply by any person on his Bail to be estreated, behalf, to postpone the hearing of the charge against him, and the Justice shall think fil to consent thereto, the Justice shall be at liberty to enlarge the recognizance to such further time as he shall appoint, and when the matter shall be heard and Bail may be enlarged determined, either by the dismissal of the complaint, or by binding the party over to answer the matter thereof before any superior court, the recognizance for the appearance \n\nRecognizance of \n\nRecognizance of \n\nConstables to at- \n\nof the party before a Justice shall be discharged without fee or reward, \n\n12-And be it enacted, that the Chief Magistrate of Police, subject to the \n\ne tu dine direct a subieten: kat Magistrates. approbation of the Governor for the time being, shall from ré number of men belongeus to the Poben form to be appointed nacke this. Ordinance, and of such ranks as shah be necessary and proper to attend at the Justices on the acting in and for any port, district, or other division of the said Colony respectively, who shall ober and expeine all the lawful warrants, orders, and commands of such Justices, in all matters civil and erimnat. \n\n-Luce \n\n13-And whee any warrant, order, or command of any Magistrate, shall be delivered or given to any constable, Serjeant, or other inferior officer of Police, he shall, if the time will permit, show or deliver the same to the Superintendent of Police, or \n\nName of consta le appointed to execme warrant to be indors- ed thereon. \n\n: \n\n: \n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227352, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "saved, and returned last night, (37% just.) stating that they observed\na great number\nof bodies, some\nof which they\nidentified - viz two Europeans, five Manilamen, and\na\nChinese boy; but the villagers knew of\nno one being alive.\nA further search is to be made today, and arrangement\nmade for interring the bodies.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) Charles May, Supt. of Police.\n\nPage 44\n\nDetail of persons drowned in the armed Police boat.\n\nInspector Thos. Smithers.\n\nA.S. Fra. Hill.\n\nThos. Seymour.\n\nP.C. Ypm. Taylor.\n\nJames Stafford.\n\nAnd. Chase.\n\nAngelo Bolderini\n\nJ. Harrison.\n\nManila P.C. Andrew Nicolas\n\nJohn De Santo\n\nVictor\n\nConvalescent Constables who\nwere on board for the benefit\nof their health\n\nVieta Perez. Constables of the Water Police\n\nColapso Santiago.\n\nattached to the armed boat.\n\nJulian De Santo\n\nChin. P.B. Le Ayes.\n\nLe Ayut\n\nKwock Ayow.\n\nClice Amun,\n\nFormerly employed in boats plying to Macao, Canton, &c.\n\nIn addition the following not belonging to the Police.\n\nSmithers, son of Inspect. Smithers.\n\nThree Chinese cook boys.\n\nJohn\n\nA\n\nPortuguese boy.\n\nIn all twenty-two.\n\nThe persons saved are.\n\nEur. A.S. De Silva.\n\nManila P.C. Philip Madriago.\n\nDr.\n\nDo.\n\nMariano de Sants.\n\nAntonio Nicolas.\n\nChin. P.C. Wong Ashing.\n\nAnd one Manilaman related to one of the Manila P.C.s.\n\n(degraded) C. May's\n\nSuper #4 of Police.\n\ndt.\n\n \n\n00", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229102, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]", "content_text": "12\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nJUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT.\n\nSUPREME COURT,\n\nSALARIES:\n\nChief Justice,\n\nAttorney General,\n\nRegistrar,\n\nDeputy Registrar,\n\nClerk of Court\n\nClerk to Chief Justice,\n\nHindustani and Malay Interpreter,\n\nUsher and Bailiff,\n\nUnder-bailiff,\n\nChinese Clerk and Shroff\n\nMahomedan Swearer,\n\nThree Messengers @ £12, 10s....\n\nALLOWANCES, Nu.\n\nCONTINGENCIES:\n\nPrinting, Advertising, and Newspapers, Stationery,\n\nOffice Furniture,\n\nIncidental Expenses,\n\n***\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES—HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n13\n\n51\n\nFIXED ESTABLISH-\n\nFIXED ESTABLISH-\n\nMENT.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY,\n\nΤΟ ΤΑΙ,\n\nMENT,\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL.\n\nPOLICE, INCLUDING GAOLS.\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 900\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27\n \n \n 3,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n 22\n \n \n \n \n Chief Magistrate,\n \n \n 700\n \n \n 1,500\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n دو\n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n Assistant do. and Sheriff,\n \n \n 29\n 750\n 23\n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n Superintendent of Police,\n \n \n 500\n 55\n 29\n 350\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 312\n \n \n 22\n \n \n \n \n 300\n \n \n 27\n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n Assistant do.,\n \n \n 300\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Two Deputy Inspectors @ £100 and £75,\n \n \n 175\n \n \n >\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 125\n \n \n 50\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 150\n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 55\n \n \n 37\n 10\n \n \n \n >\n \n \n 62\n 10\n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n Second do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Third do.,\n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n Chinese Interpreter,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n First Clerk of Police Court,...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n do. and Hindustani and Malay Interpreter, Mahomedan Priest (Swearer,) Police Court,\n \n \n 51\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 250\n \n \n وو\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 187\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 100\n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 33\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 37\n 10\n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n European Office Usher,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n do.,\n \n \n 74\n 8\n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6,437\n 10\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 112\n 10\n \n 54\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6,550\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Indian do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n do.,\n \n \n 25\n 12\n **\n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n do.,\n \n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chief Magistrate's Orderly,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n do.,\n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Messenger,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n do.,\n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cooly do.,\n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 77\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 39\n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 29\n \n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6,576\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nECCLESIASTICAL.\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chaplain, Clerk,\n \n \n 700\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8.\n d.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10\n 17\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 710\n 17\n 0\n \n \n \n \n\nSALARIES:\n\nEDUCATIONAL.\n\nThree Chinese Schoolmasters @ £25 each,\n\nMEDICAL.\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n Surgeon,\n \n \n 600\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 77\n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 60\n \n \n 33\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 600\n \n \n 97\n 10\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 697\n 10\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5\n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 702\n 10\n \n 0\n \n \n \n\nSexton,\n\nTwo Burial-ground Keepers @ £12, 10s.,...\n\nMessenger,\n\nALLOWANCES, Nul.\n\nCONTINGENCIES:\n\nIncidental Expenses,\n\nHOSPITAL.\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n \n \n \n \n \n Dispenser,\n \n \n 75\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n >\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 17\n 10\n \n \n \n Cook,\n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n Cooly,\n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n Dispensary Cooly,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 117\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 117\n 10\n 0\n \n\nTwo European Police Sergeants @ £47, 10s. each,\n\nFive Acting do. do. @ £37, 10s. each,\n\nEighteen European Constables @ £32, 10s, each,.......\n\nOne Clerk to Superintendent of Police,\n\nOne Indian Sergeant,\n\nFour do. Acting do. @ £25 each,\n\nThirteen do. Constables 1st class @ £20 each,\n\nSeventy-one do. do. £15, 12s. each,\n\nOne Chinese Sergeant,\n\nThree do. Acting do. @ £17, 10s. each,\n\nNine do. Constables @ £12, 10s. each,\n\nTwo Horse Coolies @ £12, 10s. each,\n\nOne Station Cooly,\n\nOne Lamp Cooly,\n\nJailor, (Sheriff's Departinent.)\n\nAssistant Jailor,...\n\nTurnkey,\n\nEuropean Turnkey,\n\nSix Indian do. @ £19, 7s. 6d.,\n\nOne European Headman,\n\nEight Indian Guards @ £19, 7s. 6d.,\n\nOne Chinese Guard,\n\nALLOWANCES, Nil.\n\nCONTINGENCIES:\n\nPrinting, Advertising, &c.,\n\nPetty Repairs to Office,...\n\nStationery,\n\nIncidental Expenses,\n\nOffice Furniture,\n\nPostage,\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n 3,249\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 55\n \n \n \n \n 95\n 29\n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 187\n 10\n \n \n \n 11\n \n \n \n \n 585\n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n ララ\n \n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n 32\n 10\n \n \n \n 100\n \n \n \n \n 260\n \n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n 21\n \n \n \n \n 27\n 22\n \n \n \n 1,107\n 12\n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n 20\n 77\n >\n \n \n 52\n 10\n \n \n \n 99\n \n \n \n \n 112\n 10\n \n \n \n ל\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AC\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n \n \n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n >\n \n \n \n \n 125\n 55\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 23\n \n \n \n \n 50\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27\n \n \n \n \n ??\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 37\n 10\n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n 58\n 10\n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n 116\n 5\n \n \n \n 22\n \n \n \n \n 36\n 5\n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 155\n \n \n \n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \"1\n \n \n \n \n 51\n \n \n \n \n 23\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6,627\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,378\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 43\n \n \n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27\n \n \n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n +3\n \n \n \n \n 35\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n \n \n \n \n 1)\n \n \n \n \n \"\n \n \n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"\n \n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 78\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 78\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6,705\n 10\n \n \n \n 77", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231849, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n10\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG,\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n11\n\n47\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENT.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL.\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENT.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL.\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL.\n\nHARBOUR MASTER.\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n SALARIES:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Harbour Master,\n 600\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Surveyor General,\n 800\n \n Clerk and Book-keeper,\n 300\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk,\n 200\n \n Indian Interpreter,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n One European Constable,\n \n \n Chinese Overseer of Roads, and Convict Labour,\n 37\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n Ten Chinese Boatmen @ £18 10s. each,\n 185\n \n Three Surveying and Road Coolies, @ £12 10s. each,\n 37\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n Office Cooly,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 43\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 800\n \n \n 266\n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,066\n 11\n \n \n \n ALLOWANCES:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n For keep of Horse to Overseer of Roads,\n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Advertising,\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Copying Plans and Charts,\n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Instruments,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stationery,\n 21\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Incidental Expenses,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL.\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n \n \n Registrar General (the Colonial Treasurer),\n 1,100\n \n \n \n Clerk,\n 87\n 10\n \n \n Chinese Clerk,\n \n \n \n \n Three Chinese Constables @ £13 10s. each,\n 40\n 10\n \n \n \n 1,227\n 10\n \n \n ALLOWANCES, Nil.\n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:\n \n \n Printing, &c.,\n 5\n \n \n \n Boat Numbers.\n \n \n \n \n Stationery,\n 2\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n 1,225\n \n \n \n Stationery,\n \n \n \n \n Purchase and Repair of Boats,\n \n \n \n \n Oil for Lamps and Landing Places,\n \n \n \n \n Flags,\n \n \n \n \n Incidental Expenses,\n \n \n \n\nPOLICE RATE COLLECTORS AND ASSESSORS.\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n \n \n Sub-Collector,\n 300\n \n \n \n Shroff,\n 37\n 10\n \n \n \n 337\n 10\n \n \n ALLOWANCES, Nil.\n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:\n \n \n Advertising and Printing,\n 3\n \n \n \n Stationery,\n 4\n \n \n \n Incidental Expenses,\n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n 10\n 2\n \n \n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n 31\n \n \n \n \n 12\n 11\n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n 17\n 4\n \n \n \n 38\n \n \n\nPOST-OFFICE.\n\n(The Postmaster renders his Accounts direct to the Postmaster-General, London.)\n\nTOTAL CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS,\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n \n \n \n 31\n 409\n \n \n \n \n 35\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 150\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n £15,060\n 0\n 0\n \n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR,\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY,\n\nTREASURER,\n\nAUDITOR,\n\nCLERK OF COUNCILS,\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL,\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL,\n\nHARBOUR MASTER,\n\nPOLICE RATE ASSESSORS AND COLLECTORS,\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n 6,500\n \n \n \n \n 3,112\n \n \n \n \n 1,880\n \n \n \n \n 540\n \n \n \n \n 140\n \n \n \n \n 1,225\n \n \n \n \n 409\n \n \n \n \n 1,104\n \n \n \n \n 150\n \n \n \n \n 15,060", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231850, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nJUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT.\n\n \n FIXED ESTABLISHMENT.\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chief Justice,\n \n 3,000\n \n \n \n \n Attorney General,\n \n 1,500\n \n \n \n \n Registrar,\n \n 750\n \n \n \n \n Deputy Registrar,\n \n 350\n \n \n \n \n Clerk to Chief Justice,\n \n 300\n \n \n \n \n Hindustani and Malay Interpreter,\n \n 50\n \n \n \n \n Usher and Bailiff,\n \n 150\n \n \n \n \n Chinese Clerk and Shroff,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mahomedan Swearer,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Under-bailiff,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6,137\n 10\n \n \n \n PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 112\n 10\n \n \n \n TOTAL.\n \n 6,250\n \n 11\n \n\nCHIEF MAGISTRATE,\n\n \n FIXED ESTABLISHMENT.\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chief Magistrate,\n \n 1,000\n \n \n \n \n First Clerk of Police Court, and Court of Petty Sessions,\n \n 250\n \n \n \n \n Second do. do.,\n \n 187\n 10\n \n \n \n Third do. do., and Hindustani and Malay Interpreter,\n \n 100\n \n 27\n \n \n First Chinese Interpreter,\n \n 125\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 62\n 10\n \n \n \n Three Messengers £12 10s. each,\n \n 37\n 10\n \n \n \n Chief Magistrate's Orderly,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Interpreter and Clerk,\n \n 100\n \n \n \n \n European Usher,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Indian do.,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese do....\n \n 74\n \n 8\n \n \n \n \n 1,662\n 10\n \n \n \n ALLOWANCES, &c.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Printing, Advertising, and Newspapers,..\n \n 21\n 2\n 4\n \n \n Stationery,\n \n 12\n \n 6\n \n \n Furniture,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Incidental Expenses,..\n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 264\n \n 8\n \n \n \n \n 1,926\n \n 18\n \n \n TOTAL CHIEF MAGISTRATE,\n \n 1,951\n \n 18\n \n\nSUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.\n\n \n SALARIES:\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n Superintendent of Police,\n \n 700\n \n \n \n \n Clerk,\n \n 60\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n Sexton, ..\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Two Burial-ground Keepers @ £12 10s, each,\n \n 95\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 795\n \n 17\n \n\nPOLICE INCLUDING GAOLS.\n\n \n FIXED ESTABLISHMENT.\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dispenser,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cook,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cooly,\n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n Dispensary Cooly,\n \n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n 612\n \n 10\n \n \n Seventy-one do.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n One Chinese Sergeant,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Assistant do.,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Two Deputy Inspectors 1 @ £100 and 1 @ £75,\n \n 175\n \n \n \n \n Two European Police Sergeants @ £47 10s. each,\n \n 95\n \n \n \n \n Five do. Acting do. @ £37 10s. do.,\n \n 187\n \n 10\n \n \n Eighteen do. Constables @ £32 10s. do.,\n \n 585\n \n \n \n \n One of them Acting as Clerk extra,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n One Indian Sergeant,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Four do. Acting Sergeants @ £25 each,\n \n 100\n \n \n \n \n Thirteen do. Constables 1st class @ £20 do.,\n \n 260\n \n \n \n \n @ £15 12s. do.,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Three do. Acting Sergeants @ £17 10s. each,\n \n 52\n \n 10\n \n \n Nine do. Constables,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Two Horse Coolies,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n @ £12 10s. do.,\n \n 112\n \n \n \n \n = 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n @ £12 10s. do.,\n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n One Station Cooly,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n One Lamp do.,\n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 987\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2,620\n \n 2\n \n \n Carried forward,\n \n 3,607\n \n 2\n \n\nPage 48\n\nECCLESIASTICAL.\n\n \n SALARIES:\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n Chaplain,\n \n 700\n \n \n \n \n Clerk,\n \n 13\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Printing, Advertising, Publishing, &c., ..\n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n Stationery,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Incidental Expenses,\n \n 5\n \n \n \n\nEDUCATIONAL.\n\n \n SALARIES:\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n Five Chinese School-masters £25 each,\n \n 125\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 125\n \n \n \n\nMEDICAL\n\n \n SALARIES:\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n Colonial Surgeon,\n \n 600\n \n \n \n \n Messenger,..\n \n \n \n \n \n\nHOSPITAL.\n\n \n SALARIES:\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n Dispenser,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cook,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cooly,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dispensary Cooly,\n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232687, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "page_number": 279, "title": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "content_text": "12\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n271\n\n13\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nJUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT.\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENT.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nPOLICE INCLUDING GAOLS.\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENT.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL\n\nCHIEF MAGISTRATE.\n\n \n £\n S.\n d.\n £\n S.\n d.\n £\n S.\n d.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n \n \n \n \n \n 3,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chief Justice,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Attorney General,\n \n \n 1,500\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Registrar,\n \n \n 750\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Deputy Registrar,\n \n \n 350\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk to Chief Justice,\n \n \n 300\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hindustani and Malay Interpreter,\n \n \n 50\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Usher and Bailiff,\n \n \n 150\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chief Magistrate,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n First Clerk of Police Court, and Court of Petty Sessions,\n \n \n 250\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Second do., do.,\n \n \n 150\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Third do.,\n \n \n 100\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n First Chinese Interpreter,\n \n \n 125\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Clerk and Shroff,\n \n \n 62\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mahomedan Swearer,\n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Under-bailiff,\n \n \n 37\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Three Messengers @ £12 10s. each,\n \n \n 37\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6,250\n \n \n 6,250\n \n \n \n \n ALLOWANCES, &c.\n \n \n \n \n \n £\n S.\n d.\n £\n S.\n d.\n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Printing, Advertising, and Newspapers,\n \n \n 1,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stationery,\n \n \n 300\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Furniture,\n \n \n 125\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Incidental Expenses,\n \n \n 100\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese do.,\n \n \n 125\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chief Magistrate's Orderly,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Messenger,\n \n \n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Second do. do. and Clerk,\n \n \n 100\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n European Usher,\n \n \n 86\n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Indian do.,\n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cooly,\n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mahomedan Priest Swearer,\n \n \n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,926\n 18\n \n 1,926\n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Printing, Advertising, Publishing, &c.,\n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stationery,\n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Incidental Expenses,\n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n \n \n \n \n TOTAL CHIEF MAGISTRATE,\n \n \n \n \n \n 1,951\n 18\n \n \n \n ECCLESIASTICAL.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n \n \n Chaplain,\n \n \n 700\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk,\n \n \n 95\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sexton,\n \n \n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Two Burial-ground Keepers @ £12 10s. each,\n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 795\n 17\n \n \n \n SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n \n \n Superintendent of Police,\n \n \n 500\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Assistant do.,\n \n \n 312\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n EDUCATIONAL.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n \n \n Two Deputy Inspectors 1 @ £100 and 1 @ £75,\n \n \n 175\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Two European Police Sergeants £47 10s. each,\n \n \n 95\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Five do. Acting do., @ £37 10s. do.,\n \n \n 187\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eighteen do. Constables £32 10s. do.,\n \n \n 585\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Five Chinese School-masters,\n \n \n 125\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n One of them Acting as Clerk extra,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n One Indian Sergeant,\n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Four do. Acting Sergeants @ £25 each,\n \n \n 100\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thirteen do. Constables 1st class @ £20 do.,\n \n \n 260\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Seventy-one do. @ £15 12s. do.,\n \n \n 1,107\n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n One Chinese Sergeant,\n \n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Three do. Acting Sergeants @ £17 10s. each,\n \n \n 52\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nine do. Constables, @ £12 10s. do.,\n \n \n 112\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Two Horses Coolies,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n £12 10s. do.,\n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n MEDICAL.\n \n \n HOSPITAL.\n \n \n SALARIES:\n \n \n Dispenser,\n \n \n 130\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cook,\n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cooly,\n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n One Station Cooly,\n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lamp do.,\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dispensary Cooly,\n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,607\n 2\n \n \n \n Carried forward,\n \n \n \n \n \n £3,607\n 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233648, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "12\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nJUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT.\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENT.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nSALARIES:\n\nChief Justice,\n\nAttorney General,\n\nRegistrar,\n\nDeputy Registrar,\n\nClerk to Chief Justice,\n\nHindustani and Malay Interpreter,\n\nUsher and Bailiff,\n\nChinese Clerk and Shroff,\n\nMahomedan Swearer,\n\nUnder-bailiff,\n\nThree Messengers @ £12 10s. each,\n\n13\n\n£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.\n\nSALARIES:\n\nChief Magistrate, 1,000\n\nGeneral Interpreter, 400\n\nFirst Clerk, 300\n\nSecond do., 125\n\nChinese do., 37 10\n\nFirst Chinese Interpreter, 100\n\nSecond do. do, and Clerk, 75\n\nEuropean Usher, 74\n\nIndian do., 25\n\nChinese do., 15\n\nChief Magistrate's Orderly, Messenger, 12 10\n\nCooly, 10\n\nMahomedan Swearer, 12 10\n\n£ 2,201 18\n\nALLOWANCES, Nil.\n\nCONTINGENCIES:\n\nPrinting, Advertising, and Newspapers, 9\n\nStationery, 25\n\nIncidental Expenses, \"\"\n\n£ 2,237\n\nECCLESIASTICAL\n\nSALARIES:\n\nChaplain, 700\n\nClerk, 95\n\nSexton, 17\n\nTwo Burial-ground Keepers @ £12 10s. each, 25\n\n£ 795 17\n\nALLOWANCES, Nil.\n\nCONTINGENCIES:\n\nPrinting, Advertising, &c., 15\n\nStationery, 10\n\nIncidental Expenses, 10\n\nSUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.\n\nTOTAL CHIEF MAGISTRATE,\n\nSALARIES:\n\nSuperintendent of Police, 500\n\nAssistant do. (receives Pay as General Interpreter,) \"\"\n\nOne Inspector, 100\n\nEDUCATIONAL.\n\nTwo Deputy do. @ £75 each, 150\n\nSALARIES:\n\nTwo European Sergeants @ £47 10s. each, 95\n\nFive do. Acting do. @ £37 10s. do., 187 10\n\nFive Chinese School-masters, 125\n\nEighteen do. Constables @ £32 10s. do., 585\n\nOne do. do. Acting as Clerk extra, 25\n\nMEDICAL.\n\nOne Indian Sergeant, 32 10\n\nFour do. Acting do. @ £25 each, 100\n\nSALARIES:\n\nColonial Surgeon, 600\n\nMessenger, 12 10\n\nThirteen do. Constables 1st class @ £20 each, 260\n\nSeventy-one do. do. 2d do. @ £15 12s. do., 1,107 12\n\nOne Chinese Sergeant, \"\"\n\nSALARIES:\n\nDispenser, 75\n\nHOSPITAL.\n\nHospital Cook, 15\n\nSteward, 39\n\nTwo Dispensary Coolies @ £12 10s. each, 25\n\nThree do. 37 10\n\nNine do. Constables Acting do. @ £17 10s. each, £12 10s. do., 52 10 112 10\n\nTwo Horses Coolies One Station Cooly, 25\n\nOne Lamp do., £12 10s. do., 12 10\n\n£ 3,370 2 11\n\nCarried forward, £ 3,370 2 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233708, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 217, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "Colonial Expenditure – Hong Kong - \n\nEstablishments Detailed - \n\nMedical \n\n Salaries \n\nColonial Surgeon \n\nNurse Engaged \n\nHospital Servants \n\nDispenser Cook Coolie Steward \n\nPolice including Gaol. \n\nSalaries \n\nin England \n\nChief Magistrate \n\nAssistant Magistrate \n\nClerk of Police Court and Court of Petty Sessions. \n\nInterpreter, Chinese \n\n2nd Interpreter \n\nSurgeon \n\nUsher \n\nIndian \n\nDr \n\nChinese \n\n \n Fixed Establishments\n Provisional and Temporary\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n \n \n £\n \n \n \n \n 600\n \n 600\n \n \n \n \n 12\n 10\n 12\n 10\n \n \n \n \n £\n \n \n \n \n \n Pal\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6/13\n 100.\n \n \n \n \n \n 75\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 130\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 200\n 12\n 8\n \n \n \n \n 798\n 7\n 8\n \n \n \n \n 2338\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 999\n 0\n 4\n \n \n \n \n 100\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 125\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 411\n 3\n 4\n \n \n \n \n 35\n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 44\n 4\n 5\n \n \n \n \n 75\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 21\n 19\n \n \n \n \n \n 55\n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n \n 15\n \n \n \n\nColonial Expenditure -- Hong Kong – \n\nSheriff. \n\nSheriff from \n\nGaol. \n\nEstablishments Detailed. \n\nSalaries 1 March 1852 to \n\nAssistant Jailor \n\nTurnkey \n\nAssistant Turn Key \n\nIndian Constables Headman \n\nIndian Guard \n\nChinese Guard \n\nFemale Turnkey. \n\nAdditional Turn Key - \n\nAdvertising. \n\n \n Fixed Establishments\n Provisional and Temporary\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n \n \n £\n \n \n \n \n \n March,1853\n 645\n 3\n 2\n \n \n \n \n 311\n 5\n \n \n \n \n 93\n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n 710\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 397\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n 22\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n 32\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n 6\n \n 4\n 2\n \n \n \n 221\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n 29\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 116\n \n \n \n \n\nContingencies \n\nSuperintendent of Police. \n\nSalaries \n\nSuperintendent of Police \n\nAssistant \n\nInspector \n\nDeputy Inspector \n\n \n \n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n \n \n 783\n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n 437\n 3\n 8\n \n \n \n \n 1220\n 4\n 10\n \n \n \n \n 1059\n 2\n 10\n \n \n \n \n 5\n 9\n 2\n \n \n \n \n 1230\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n 72\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 500\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 52\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 100\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 75\n \n \n \n \n Cat £2487.10.1/2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n viz: -\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 629\n 19\n 3\n \n \n \n \n 1859\n 10\n 10 1/2\n \n \n Police Fee estimated at £2,800 actual\n \n \n \n \n \n\nChinese Clerk \n\nChief Magistrate's Interpreter \n\nMessenger \n\nOffice Coolie \n\nMohammedan Priest \n\nContingencies \n\nAdvertisements, Printing, and Newspapers \n\nStationery \n\nFurniture \n\nIncidental Expenses. \n\nPetty Repairs to offices. \n\n \n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n \n 32\n \n \n \n \n \n 105\n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n 1855\n 16\n 11\n \n \n \n 467\n 15\n 9\n \n \n \n 2\n 23\n 28\n \n \n \n 515\n 4\n \n \n \n \n 676\n \n \n \n \n \n \n //\n //\n \n \n \n 313\n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n //\n \n \n \n \n 205\n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n 43\n \n \n \n \n 18\n 2\n \n \n Advertising\n \n \n \n \n \n Stationery\n \n \n \n \n \n Contingencies\n \n \n \n \n \n Cutting Blocks\" \"Printing in Chinese\". \n \n \n \n \n \n Plans\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1356\n 19\n 3\n \n \n \n 1859\n 10\n 10 1/2\n \n \n \n 3,216\n 10\n 1/2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SJ\n \n \n \n \n \n 84\n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n 11\n \n \n \n \n 510\n 5\n 3\n \n \n \n 315\n 4\n \n \n \n \n 3220\n 5\n 5", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233739, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 248, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "-176 of 1853\n\nInclosure No / in Despatch\n\n༢\n\nchr1b87/573 245\n\n- V2 1 of 1853-\n\nHongkong\n\nVictoria Regina.\n\nAnno Decimo Septimo.\n\nof the Reign of Hongkong-\n\nAn Ordinance for the Regulation\n\n20 September, 1853-\n\n(\n\nREGULATIONS\n\nFOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE GAOL AT HONGKONG.\n\nTHE Gaol of Hongkong shall be under the immediate Superintendence of the Sheriff of the Colony, who shall be responsible for the proper Conduct thereof.\n\nThe Gaol shall be under the charge of Sheriff.\n\nTo be open to the inspection of Justices of the Peace.\n\nThe Gaol shall be open to the inspection of any Justice of the Peace, and the Governor may appoint certain of the Justices whose duty it shall be to inspect the Gaol at least once a Week, either singly or otherwise. These shall be called Visiting Justices.\n\nGovernor may appoint Visiting Justices.\n\nA Gaol Visitation Book shall be kept in the Custody of the Gaoler, and it shall be the duty of the visiting Justices to write therein the results of their inspection on each occasion; but the Book shall also be open for the remarks of any Justice visiting the Gaol.\n\nGaol Visitation Book.\n\nThis Book shall be forwarded every Monday to the Colonial Secretary, to be by him laid before the Governor, and any Order thereupon that the Governor may see fit to give, shall be intimated by the Colonial Secretary to the Sheriff, whose duty it shall be to see such Order carried out.\n\nGaol to be open to Chaplain and Surgeon.\n\nThe Gaol shall be open at all times to the visits of the Colonial Chaplain and the Colonial Surgeon.\n\nSheriff to prescribe Hours of Work, &c.\n\nThe Sheriff shall prescribe the Hours of every Day during which the Prisoners shall Work, and may on the recommendation of the Colonial Chaplain, and with the sanction of the Colonial Secretary, purchase suitable Books for the use of the Prisoners. All improper Books shall be excluded from the Prison.\n\nSheriff may alter Diet or suspend Regulations in certain cases.\n\nUnder special circumstances the Sheriff may allow a Prisoner Food, Clothing, or other necessaries, besides or in lieu of the Prison allowance, and temporarily suspend any Gaol Regulation in reference to any Prisoner, provided that he record his proceedings therein in a Book to be kept by him and called the Sheriff's Book, which Book shall be from time to time submitted to the Colonial Secretary for the Governor's information.\n\nSheriff may direct that Transported Felons be put to Labour, &c.\n\nThe Sheriff may direct any Prisoners under Sentence of Transportation, or against whom Sentence of Death may have been recorded, to be kept to Hard Labour as Felons; or if such Prisoner be already at Work he may direct the suspension of his Labour provided that he record in the Sheriff's Book his proceedings therein; and he may authorize the employment of any Prisoner in the service of the Gaol, but not in its discipline, or in the service of any Officer, or so that such Prisoner shall sleep without the Prison premises.\n\nSheriff may recommend Prisoners for Pardon.\n\nOn observing or becoming credibly informed of any extraordinary diligence or merit on the part of any Prisoner, he may record the same in the Sheriff's Book, in order that the Governor may consider the propriety of exercising his prerogative of Pardon towards such Prisoner; but if any conditional Pardon or Remission of Punishment be granted to and accepted by any Prisoner, and such Prisoner after release fail to fulfil the required conditions, the Gaoler may convey him together with the original Warrant of Commitment before a Justice of the Peace, who on being satisfied of the noncompliance with the conditions, shall record a Minute of the same on the back of the Warrant, after which such Warrant shall have the same force as if such Pardon or Remission had not been granted.\n\nSheriff may cause Prisoners to be Ironed.\n\nThe Sheriff may order any Prisoner to be Ironed, or taken out of Irons, for such time as he shall direct, recording the facts in the Sheriff's Book.\n\nOfficers of Gaol.\n\nThe Officers of the Gaol shall be,\n\nThe Sheriff,\n\n1 Gaoler,\n\n1 Matron,\n\n2 Turnkeys,\n\n1 Chaplain,\n\n1 Medical Officer,\n\nResident.\n\nSuch other Officers as the Governor may from time to time appoint, and such Constables of the Police Force as may from time to time be appointed to do duty at the Gaol, and the Colonial Chaplain shall be the Chaplain, and the Colonial Surgeon the Medical Officer of the Gaol of Hongkong.\n\nGaoler not to be Under Sheriff, Bailiff, &c.\n\nThe Gaoler shall not be Under Sheriff, or Bailiff, or concerned in any other occupation or in any trade, neither he or Person in trust for him, shall sell or let or derive any benefit from the sale or letting of any Article to any Prisoner, or from any dealing whatsoever with such Prisoner. He shall not let for hire to any Person whatever any room or portion of the residence allotted to him in or near the Gaol, nor any room or ground belonging to the Gaol. He shall not directly or indirectly have any interest in any Contract or agreement for the supply of the Gaol, nor shall he use for himself or his family any Oil, Rations, Food, or other Article whatever", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 237051, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-052 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [9-12]", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-052 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [9-12]", "content_text": "Having referred that \n\nCompensul In the \n\nconsideration of the tool \n\nof Clarendon Desclose, \n\nfor qr information, \n\nThe Copy of a Des pateth on the subject which \n\nhis Lordship has addressed to A. Mis : \n\nMinister at Washington \n\nShere \n\n20th March 1868.\n\n \n\n(Copy)\n\n170\n\n \n\nSUMMONS FOR WITNESS.\n\nAT THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.\n\n28 the cause in Barnes B. by John Maddison,\n\nCopy\n\n[The penalty for disobedience to this Summons is 100 Dollars, and attendance may be enforced by Warrant of Apprehension.]\n\nIf practicable, the Copy must be served on the Party personally; \n\nbut if this be impracticable, it may be left at his last usual Place of Abode, or be affixed to some conspicuous part of the outside of such Abode: and the reason why the Personal Service could not be made, must be stated in the Return.)\n\nCarpenter, Barque \"Reindeer\" is Plaintiff, Captain E. W. Nichols, commanding Barque \"Victoria\" Defendant.\n\nTo William Jones, a Constable of the said Colony, and to all other Constables of the said Colony. \n\nUpon information laid before me, J. J. Mitchell, Soft.,\n\nWhereas a complaint was made to one of HER MAJESTY'S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE in and for the said Colony, for that the said Defendant on the 20th October inst., on board the Barque \"Reindeer\", in Victoria Harbor, did assault and beat John Maddison; unlawfully \n\nand hath been made to appear to me that \n\nSamuel Nelson, Seaman, the Cook & the Steward of the said Barque are Witnesses in this matter and are likely to give material evidence therein; these are therefore to require you to summon the said Witnesses (delivering to them a copy hereof) to be and appear at the Office aforesaid on Tuesday the 23rd day of October 1855, at twelve o'clock in the noon, before such JUSTICE or JUSTICES OF THE PEACE for the said Colony as may then be there, to testify what they shall know concerning the matter of the said complaint.\n\nGiven under my Hand and Seal this 22nd day of October in the Year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Fifty-five\n\nWilliam Jones.\n\n(Signed) W. H. Mitchell, Assistant Magistrate.\n\nI, a Constable of the said Colony, do hereby certify, that on the 22nd of October 1855, at half past four o'clock, P.M. I duly summoned the within named Witnesses and served a true Copy of this Summons on them in the manner following, that is to say: Personally.\n\n(Signed) William Jones, Constable.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-052 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 237179, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-052 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [9-12]", "page_number": 301, "title": "CO129-052 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [9-12]", "content_text": "62.\n\n172\n\nSaid that a Warrant was not requisite, Any police officer could bring the man Shore. I told Mr. May what the Resident Magistrate had said, he then ordered me to go on board the \"Reindeer\", with two European Constables (not armed) and bring Madison on Shore. I got on board at about 5 P.M.\n\nand inquired for the Captain, but was told that he was not on board, I then Enquired for the mate, who immediately Presented himself. Said \"I have come to get one of your men on shore, the man handcuffed to you\" - pointing out the man, the Mate objected.\n\n\"By what authority?\" Said I \"by the Police\", the mate took the key from his pocket and unbraided the handcuff. I told Madison to get a suit of clothes and come on Shore; whilst he was getting his clothes the mate asked me \"for my address, and opened a book - at the top of one of the sheets, with several blank lines\" and I wrote my name.\n\n63.\n\n298\n\nMadison, in the meantime had got the chest of clothes to bring on Shore. I said, \"No, I'll not allow you to bring your chest, but only the suit of clothes, as to-morrow is Sunday\". Madison came on shore with me, and when he was in the Central Police Station I told him to get one of the boarding-house keepers, when he came, to give bail, and also to live with, otherwise he would have to stop in the charge room until the case was decided.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-052 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238399, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "content_text": "Page ...\n\nBath \n\nVICTORIA \n\nHONG-KONG \n\nREPORT and ESTIMATE No.14 OF 1353 \n\nFOR A CENTRAL POLICE STATION \n\n...\n\nGROUND FLOOR\n\nEuropean Constables ... 12\n\nPolice Stove ... 1\n\nEurope ... \n\nSeveral Rooms ... \n\nOne Inspector ... 1\n\nOne Inspector ... \n\nBody ... \n\nRoof of offices ... \n\nFIRST FLOOR\n\nBath Room ... \n\nCochran ... feet ... \n\nWellin ... 1.0 \n\nMain Cook House ... \n\nCharge Room ... \n\nSuper Office ... \n\nPlane Steps ... \n\nClerk's Office ... \n\nLascar Constables ... -15,6- \n\nCook House ... \n\nReserve Portuguese ... \n\nStation Coolies ... b Portuguese \n\nCook House ... \n\nConstables ... Chinese ... 78 \n\nStable ... \n\nSuperintendent ... Super. ... \n\nEuropean ... s ... \n\nCell ... t ell ... \n\nCell ... \n\nCock House ... Cook House ... \n\nSECOND FLOOR\n\nBath ... \n\nLanding ... \n\n...\n\nPage ...\n\nSuperintendent's Quarters ... \n\nDeputy Super ... \n\nOne Inspector ... -876- \n\nBath and ... \n\n15.0 \n\n15.0 \n\nSuperint ... \n\n...\n\n2\\FS103 \n\n15*", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238410, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "content_text": "Elevation of either Side \n\nW Closet. \n\nW Closet \n\n12.0. \n\nPrivy \n\n50 \n\nFront Elevation \n\nEley Section \n\non EF \n\n66 0 \n\nA \n\nEuropean \n\nConstable s \n\nPortu gue se \n\n14 \n\n13.0 \n\nConstabies \n\n13 6 \n\nCoulies \n\nLack up \n\nGroun \n\nFloor \n\nDay Raom \n\n14 \n\n66 0 \n\n50 \n\n0 \n\nRear Elevation \n\nTHE \n\nTULOGNE \n\nBach \n\nWash \n\nTOUTL \n\nBath \n\n2000. \n\n-8.0 \n\n13657/146 \n\nSection GH \n\n56 \n\nSection \n\nSection on CD \n\nNear \n\nDesign \n\nA Police Station \n\nto be built at West Point \n\n10.0 \n\n14.0 \n\nCock houbes \n\nCentre Lins \n\n20 \n\nChinese \n\nIndian Portuguese \n\n0 0 0 \n\nEuropean \n\nbuilding \n\n224-4\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions more closely and improve the output:\n\n## Step 1: Understand the task\nThe task involves proofreading OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, correcting spelling errors, fixing spacing issues, and formatting the text into standard Markdown.\n\n## Step 2: Identify the issues in the given text\nThe given text appears to be a jumbled mix of words, numbers, and phrases, likely resulting from OCR errors. It includes what seems to be architectural or building design details, with terms like \"Elevation,\" \"Section,\" and \"Police Station.\"\n\n## Step 3: Correct spelling errors and spacing issues\nCorrecting obvious spelling errors:\n- \"Eley\" to \"Elev\"\n- \"Constabies\" to \"Constables\"\n- \"Coulies\" to \"Coolies\"\n- \"Lack up\" to \"Lock up\"\n- \"Groun\" to \"Ground\"\n- \"Day Raom\" to \"Day Room\"\n- \"Rear Elevation\" (previously \"-ear Elevation\")\n- \"TULOGNE\" to \"LOGGNE\" or possibly \"LOGGIA\" or another correct term based on context, but without clear reference, it's hard to determine. Assuming it's \"LOGGIA\" or a similar word related to architecture.\n- \"TOUTL\" to \"TOILET\"\n- \"Bach\" to \"Bath\"\n- \"Cock houbes\" to \"Cook houses\"\n- \"Centre Lins\" to \"Centre Line\"\n\n## Step 4: Reorganize the text for clarity and correct formatting\nGiven the content, it seems to describe architectural plans or elevations of a building, possibly a police station. The text includes various sections, elevations, and details about the building's design.\n\n## Step 5: Apply Markdown formatting\nThe text should be formatted using Markdown for structure. However, the original instruction to output only HTML is noted.\n\n## Step 6: Reconstruct the text\nGiven the complexity and the errors in the OCR output, a direct reconstruction into coherent Markdown or HTML is challenging without understanding the original document's layout and content.\n\nElevation of either Side\n\nW Closet.\n\nW Closet\n\n12.0.\n\nPrivy\n\n50\n\nFront Elevation\n\nElev Section\n\non EF\n\n66 0\n\nA\n\nEuropean\n\nConstable's\n\nPortuguese\n\n14\n\n13.0\n\nConstables\n\n13 6\n\nCoolies\n\nLock up\n\nGround\n\nFloor\n\nDay Room\n\n14\n\n66 0\n\n50\n\n0\n\nRear Elevation\n\nTHE LOGGIA\n\nBath\n\nWash\n\nTOILET\n\nBath\n\n2000.\n\n-8.0\n\n13657/146\n\nSection GH\n\n56\n\nSection\n\nSection on CD\n\nNear\n\nDesign\n\nA Police Station\n\nto be built at West Point\n\n10.0\n\n14.0\n\nCook houses\n\nCentre Line\n\n20\n\nChinese\n\nIndian Portuguese\n\n0 0 0\n\nEuropean\n\nbuilding\n\n224-4\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nElevation of either Side \n\nW Closet. \n\nW Closet \n\n12.0. \n\nPrivy \n\n50 \n\nFront Elevation \n\nElev Section \n\non EF \n\n66 0 \n\nA \n\nEuropean \n\nConstable's \n\nPortuguese \n\n14 \n\n13.0 \n\nConstables \n\n13 6 \n\nCoolies \n\nLock up \n\nGround \n\nFloor \n\nDay Room \n\n14 \n\n66 0 \n\n50 \n\n0 \n\nRear Elevation \n\nTHE LOGGIA \n\nBath \n\nWash \n\nTOILET \n\nBath \n\n2000. \n\n-8.0 \n\n13657/146 \n\nSection GH \n\n56 \n\nSection \n\nSection on CD \n\nNear \n\nDesign \n\nA Police Station \n\nto be built at West Point \n\n10.0 \n\n14.0 \n\nCook houses \n\nCentre Line \n\n20 \n\nChinese \n\nIndian Portuguese \n\n0 0 0 \n\nEuropean \n\nbuilding \n\n224-4", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240372, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-060 - Public Offices - 1856", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-060 - Public Offices - 1856", "content_text": "\"have authority to go on board any ship in Harbor, yet you had the Magistrate and qu \"a Warrant.\" I went to the Assistant Magistrate, being close at hand, and the Office being closed, and told her that I had been sent by the Superintendent of Police for a Warrant (explaining to him at the same time the occurrence), to bring on shore one Madison, Carpenter of the \"Reindeer\". The Assistant Magistrate said that a Warrant was not requisite, Police Officer could bring the man on shore. I told Mr. May what the Asst Magistrate had said; he then ordered me to go on board the \"Reindeer\", with two European Constables (not armed) and bring Madison on shore. I got on board at about 9 a.m., and inquired for the Captain, on being told that he was not on board, I enquired for the Mate, who immediately presented himself. I said \"I have come to get one of your men on shore, the one handcuffed to the bulwark\" - pointing to Madison. The Mate asked me by what authority? I said \"by the Police\". The Mate took the key from his pocket and unlocked the handcuff. I told Madison to get a suit of clothes and come on shore. Whilst he was getting his clothes the Mate asked me for my address, and opened a book with several blank sheets, and I wrote my name at the top of one of the sheets, as follows - Mr Alexandre Gres, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Hong Kong. Madison in the meantime had got his chest of clothes to bring on shore. I said, \"no, I'll not allow you to bring the chest, but only one suit of your clothes, as tomorrow is Sunday\". Madison\n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-060 - Public Offices - 1856.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242013, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 439, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "Metoria, 9th July, 1887.\n\nThe Brouble Hurry Inconchere, ino.\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring\n\n/ Inclosure.\n\nN110.\n\nReceived\n\nTrammitting Copy of Revised Gaol Regulations.\n\nh. 8161/57.\n\n433\n\n# REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE GAOL AT HONGKONG.\n\nI. The Gaol of Hongkong shall be under the immediate Superintendence of the Governor of the Gaol, who shall be responsible for the proper Conduct thereof.\n\nGaol to be under charge of Governor of Gaol,\n\nTo be open to the\n\nGovernor may appoint\n\nII. The Gaol shall be open to the inspection of any Justice of the Peace, and inspection of Justices His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong may appoint certain of the Justices whose of the Peace. duty it shall be to inspect the Gaol at least once a Week, either singly or otherwise. His Excellency the These shall be called Visiting Justices. A Gaol Visitation Book shall be kept in the Visiting Justices. Custody of the Governor of the Gaol, and it shall be the duty of the Visiting Justices to write therein the results of their inspection on each occasion; but the Book shall also be open for the remarks of any Justice visiting the Gaol.\n\nIII. This Book shall be forwarded every Monday to the Colonial Secretary, to Gaol Visitation Book. be by him laid before his said Excellency, and any Order thereupon that his said Excellency may see fit to give, shall be intimated by the Colonial Secretary to the Governor of the Gaol, whose duty it shall be to see such Order carried out.\n\nIV. The Gaol shall be open at all times to the visits of the Colonial Chaplain and the Colonial Surgeon.\n\nGaol to be open to\n\nChaplain and Surgeon.\n\nprescribe Hours of\n\nV. The Governor of the Gaol shall prescribe the Hours of every Day during Governor of Gaol to which the Prisoners shall Work; and may, on the recommendation of the Colonial Work,purchase Books, Chaplain, and with the sanction of the Colonial Secretary, purchase suitable Books &c. for the use of the Prisoners. All improper Books shall be excluded from the Prison.\n\nGovernor of Gaol\n\ncertain cases.\n\nVI. Under special circumstances, the Governor of the Gaol may allow & may alter Diet or sus Prisoner Food, Clothing, or other necessaries, besides or in lieu of the Prison allow- pend Regulations in\n\nPrisoner: ance, and temporarily suspend any Gaol Regulation in reference to any provided that he record his proceedings therein in a Book to be kept by him, and called the Governor's Book, which Book shall be from time to time submitted to the Colonial Secretary for his said Excellency's information.\n\nmay direct that Trans-\n\nVII. The Governor of the Gaol may direct any Prisoners under Sentence of Governor of Gaol Transportation, or against whom Sentence of Death may have been recorded, to be ported Felons be put kept to Hard Labour as Felons; or if such Prisoner be already at Work, he may to Labour, &c. direct the suspension of his Labour, provided that he record in the Governor's Book his proceedings therein; and he may at his discretion authorize the employment of any Prisoner in the service of the Gaol, but not in its discipline, or in the service of any Officer, or so that such Prisoner shall sleep without the Prison premises.\n\nGovernor of Gaol\n\nVIII. On observing or becoming credibly informed of any extraordinary dili- may recommend Pri- gence or merit on the part of any Prisoner, the said Governor may record the same soners for Pardon. in the Governor's Book, in order that his said Excellency may consider the propriety Prisoner not complying with conditions of exercising his prerogative of Pardon towards such Prisoner; but if any conditional Pardon or Remission of Punishment be granted to and accepted by any Prisoner, and of Pardon. such Prisoner after release fail to fulfil the required conditions, the said Governor may convey him together with the original Warrant of Commitment before a Justice of the Peace, who, on being satisfied of the non-compliance with the conditions, shall record a Minute of the same on the back of the Warrant, after which such Warrant shall have the same force as if such Pardon or Remission had not been granted.\n\nIX. The Governor of the Gaol may order any Prisoner to be ironed, or taken may cause Prisoners out of Irons, for such time as he shall direct, recording the facts in the Governor's to be Ironed. Book.\n\nX. The Officers of the Gaol shall be,-\n\nGovernor of Gaol\n\nThe Governor of the Gaol,\n\n1 Warden,\n\n1 Matron,\n\nResident.\n\n2 Turnkeys,\n\n1 Chaplain,\n\n1 Medical Officer,\n\nSuch other Officers as his said Excellency may from time to time appoint, and such Constables of the Police Force as may from time to time be appointed to do duty at the Gaol. And the Colonial Chaplain shall be the Chaplain, and the Colonial Surgeon the Medical Officer, of the Gaol of Hongkong.\n\nOfficers of Gaol.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242486, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 372, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "## REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE GAOL AT HONGKONG.\n\n(11084/57\n370\n\nI. The Gaol of Hongkong shall be under the immediate Superintendence of the Governor of the Gaol, who shall be responsible for the proper Conduct thereof.\n\n**Gaol to be under charge of Governor of Gaol.**\n\nII. The Gaol shall be open to the inspection of any Justice of the Peace, and His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong may appoint certain of the Justices whose duty it shall be to inspect the Gaol at least once a Week, either singly or otherwise. These shall be called Visiting Justices. A Gaol Visitation Book shall be kept in the Custody of the Governor of the Gaol, and it shall be the duty of the Visiting Justices to write therein the results of their inspection on each occasion; but the Book shall also be open for the remarks of any Justice visiting the Gaol.\n\n**Gaol to be open to inspection of Justices of the Peace.**\n**Visiting Justices.**\n\nIII. This Book shall be forwarded every Monday to the Colonial Secretary, to be by him laid before his said Excellency, and any Order thereupon that his said Excellency may see fit to give, shall be intimated by the Colonial Secretary to the Governor of the Gaol, whose duty it shall be to see such Order carried out.\n\nIV. The Gaol shall be open at all times to the visits of the Colonial Chaplain and the Colonial Surgeon.\n\n**Gaol to be open to Chaplain and Surgeon.**\n\nV. The Governor of the Gaol shall prescribe the Hours of every Day during which the Prisoners shall Work; and may, on the recommendation of the Colonial Chaplain, and with the sanction of the Colonial Secretary, purchase suitable Books &c. for the use of the Prisoners. All improper Books shall be excluded from the Prison.\n\n**Governor of Gaol to prescribe Hours of Work.**\n\nVI. Under special circumstances, the Governor of the Gaol may allow a Prisoner Food, Clothing, or other necessaries, besides or in lieu of the Prison allowance, and temporarily suspend any Gaol Regulation in reference to any Prisoner: provided that he record his proceedings therein in a Book to be kept by him, and called the Governor's Book, which Book shall be from time to time submitted to the Colonial Secretary for his said Excellency's information.\n\n**Governor of Gaol may alter Diet or suspend Regulations in certain cases.**\n\nVII. The Governor of the Gaol may direct any Prisoners under Sentence of Transportation, or against whom Sentence of Death may have been recorded, to be kept to Hard Labour as Felons; or if such Prisoner be already at Work, he may direct the suspension of his Labour, provided that he record in the Governor's Book his proceedings therein; and he may at his discretion authorize the employment of any Prisoner in the service of the Gaol, but not in its discipline, or in the service of any Officer, or so that such Prisoner shall sleep without the Prison premises.\n\n**Governor of Gaol may direct that Transported Felons be put to Labour, &c.**\n\nVIII. On observing or becoming credibly informed of any extraordinary diligence or merit on the part of any Prisoner, the said Governor may record the same in the Governor's Book, in order that his said Excellency may consider the propriety of exercising his prerogative of Pardon towards such Prisoner; but if any conditional Pardon or Remission of Punishment be granted to and accepted by any Prisoner, and such Prisoner after release fail to fulfil the required conditions, the said Governor may convey him together with the original Warrant of Commitment before a Justice of the Peace, who, on being satisfied of the non-compliance with the conditions, shall record a Minute of the same on the back of the Warrant, after which such Warrant shall have the same force as if such Pardon or Remission had not been granted.\n\n**Governor of Gaol may recommend Prisoners for Pardon.**\n**Prisoner not complying with conditions of Pardon.**\n\nIX. The Governor of the Gaol may order any Prisoner to be ironed, or taken out of Irons, for such time as he shall direct, recording the facts in the Governor's Book.\n\n**Governor of Gaol may cause Prisoners to be Ironed.**\n\nX. The Officers of the Gaol shall be,-\n| Officer |\n| --- |\n| The Governor of the Gaol |\n| 1 Warden |\n| 1 Matron |\n| 2 Turnkeys |\n| 1 Chaplain |\n| 1 Medical Officer |\n| Such other Officers as his said Excellency may from time to time appoint |\n| Such Constables of the Police Force as may from time to time be appointed to do duty at the Gaol |\n\n**Officers of Gaol.**\n\nThe Colonial Chaplain shall be the Chaplain, and the Colonial Surgeon the Medical Officer, of the Gaol of Hongkong.\n\n148.\n\noffenditure of some thousands.\n\nI have, te!) \n\nSigned / WJ. Bridges, \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Show Copy)\n\nJ. J. Budges Acting Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244720, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 462, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "(14)\n\n(15)\n\n459\n\nto collect the rents. I went to Lum Ateen, who said that he had bought the houses. I told him that I had spent a good deal of money in repairing them, and that there were some rents unpaid, and I asked him to let them to me, I being responsible for the repairs. Lum Ateen said that I might have the seven houses at the same rate as before, $30, to which I agreed. The other house was agreed for the same day, for $25. My previous knowledge of Lum Ateen extended only to knowing him by sight. The house spoken of as being intended for a hospital has not been used as such; it is now a family house. I do not know how Lum Ateen got the money for the houses, and do not know anything of his pecuniary affairs, nor anything about his going to Macao.\n\n**TOMAS BERNARDO RIBEIRO**.-Called and examined. I live in Hollywood Road, house No. 300; have been there since January 1857. I took the house of Mr Caldwell's comprador, who told me that the house was Mr Caldwell's. I am keeper of a licensed boarding house; I pay the rent to the comprador, whom I last saw this morning. He came to my house about half-past 7 this morning of his own accord, and said, \"If any gentleman comes asking you, don't tell that this house belongs to Mr Caldwell. Say that it belongs to Mrs Caldwell, or a relation.\"\n\n[Mr Caldwell admits that he receives the rent of the house, but denies the ownership. He also admits that he is the reputed owner, or in other words, that people suppose him to be the owner.]\n\nI told him that the policeman had asked me who the owner of the house was, and that I told the policeman the comprador had told me the house belonged to Mr Caldwell. The comprador did not tell me that if anyone asked who the owner of the house was I was not to say Mr Caldwell. This conversation was in Manila language.\n\n**CHUN SAMCHUN**,-Called and examined. I am a broker, and reside in house No. 331; the number of the ground lot I don't know. I have lived there ten days, and took the house from a person called Lum Ateen, or rather his collector of the same surname who lives at the Cho Sow Tong. I know Mr Caldwell, but have not seen him at my residence. I do not know about Mr Caldwell having any interest in the house.\n\n**CHOU AH-CHEE**,-Recalled. I have brought my rent book. [Book examined, and found to contain entries beginning 20th December last, of $16 rent, paid to and acknowledged by Yee Wo.] Afook is the master of the Yee Wo shop.\n\n**FONG WEIKAI**,-Occupant of inland lot 250, and house 411,-Called and examined. I have occupied the house a few days, and took it from Yee Wo.\n\n**WONG AOON**,-Called and examined. I have occupied my present house (the same house as last witness) two months. I took it from Yee Wo. I do not know who the owner of the house is.\n\n**HO ACHOONG**,-Called and examined. No part of the house in which I live is used as a brothel. There is no brothel on the side of the street in which I live; there is one over the way. The comprador once said that unless I could pay every month I should be turned out. One time he took me down to Mr Caldwell's office. I have lived in the same house as last witness since the 15th January last. I took it from Yee Wo Fook, to whom my boarders pay the rent. I do not know to whom he pays it, nor who the owner of the house is. I said to Mr Caldwell, \"Excuse me this time, as soon as I get ships I will pay.\" Mr Caldwell said, \"I have nothing to do with it; you had better speak to the comprador.\" The comprador said, that I must pay or seek another house. On the 20th of this month I shall owe one month's rent; all the rest has been paid.\n\n**JOHN LYONS**.-Recalled. I have looked at the plan of houses in this colony, and find that house 300 is on lot 204. There are other 5 houses on the same lot, none of which are to my knowledge brothels. The other houses in this lot are numbered 301, 299, 249, 250, 248. Laurenço Pablo lives in a house 248 Lascar Upper Row, No. of license 22.\n\n**LAURENCO PABLO**.-Called and examined. I live in Lascar Upper Row, behind the house of Ribeiro. I keep a Boarding House, and have lived there sixteen months. I took the house of Mr Caldwell's comprador-Lai Sze-kai, who told me that Mr Caldwell was the owner. I pay the rent to the comprador, and last saw him at half-past 7 this morning, at which time he came to my house voluntarily. He asked me what the policeman had said to me, and I told...\n\n**LEONG CHEWKWONG**,-(Lot 204, house 301, Hollywood Road,)-Called and examined. I have occupied this house since the 24th December last, took it from Lai Sze-kai, master of the Tai Cheong shop. I pay the rent to him. He says that he collects the rent for a relation. He has never used Mr Caldwell's name in connection with it.\n\n**CH'UN KUNHEE**,-(Lot 204, house 299,)-Called and examined. I have lived in this house two years. I rented it from Lai Sze-kai of the Tai Cheong shop. I never paid any rent to Mr Caldwell.\n\n[The Commissioners at the request of Mr May proceeded to examine two witnesses on reference to charge \"4 in the second branch of the inquiry. Their evidence will be found printed with the rest of the evidence on the same charge.]\n\nAdjourned to 1 P.M. on the 3d.\n\n## FIFTH DAY,\nThursday, 3d June, 1858. Present,-All the Members.\n\n**GEORGE COOPER TURNER**,-Called and examined. I am a Solicitor in this colony. In December last I was, and still am, Solicitor to the Attorney General. Upon reference to document (M) I can state that, on the 3d January, 1857, I, as Solicitor for the Attorney General, obtained a transfer into his name in the land office, of lots 475, 476, 477, 478, 480, 483, 484, 485, and 507. These lots had been purchased by him from Mr Caldwell. Mr Anstey was very desirous in the latter end of December last, of selling these lots, and I applied to Mr Caldwell to point out where... I think at that time Mr Caldwell said, that he had a friend who was very anxious to buy one of these lots. When I replied, that I did not think it likely that the Attorney General would sell any one particular lot, as he wanted to get rid of the whole together. I made some enquiry as to the lot Mr Caldwell's friend wished to buy, and called on him afterwards to tell him, that the Attorney General would not sell any one lot; the purchaser, if he bought, must take the whole. The lot Mr Caldwell wished to buy was one near the Kulan obelisk; the others are in the neighbourhood of East Point. The whole were afterwards sold to Mr Strachan.\n\nI have collected rents for Mr Caldwell for 11 houses besides. They are not sold I know of my own knowledge that these houses belonged to a sister of Mrs Caldwell, whose name I do not know Chun Atsoo; I know they are the property of Mrs Caldwell's sister, because Mrs Caldwell told me so, and at one time offered to let them to me. Mrs Caldwell managed the affairs of this property. The rents of these 11 houses are paid to Mrs Caldwell, and have always been since I collected them. I collected rent on any other lots for Mrs Caldwell. In the month of February last, I spoke to Mr Caldwell concerning the payment of ground rent on Lum Ateen's property. Lum Ateen was going home he told me to pay the ground rents for him; I said, that I did not know what amount. I had to pay; Lum Ateen told me, I might go to my old master-Mr Caldwell-about it. I went to Mr Caldwell in the month of February, and asked him to give me a note for me to go and pay ground rents. Mr Caldwell told me that he himself was going to pay ground rents, and would wait till Lum Ateen's return, and hand the receipts over to him. He told me that the receipts were at the office; he would get them by and by. I know a Boarding House keeper in Hollywood Road called Tomas. I let him the house in which he lives. I saw him yesterday morning. I said to him, and all the Chinese tenants, \"Don't be afraid; if any inquiry be made, you may say that the houses belong to my mistress [Mrs Caldwell].\"\n\nCross-examined,-Mr Caldwell did not, at the time of the conversation with him, mention the name of the friend; nor do I know for whom the lot was wanted.\n\n**LAI SZE KAI**,-Called and examined. I was Comprador to Mr Caldwell. I ceased to be Comprador from the time Mr Caldwell ceased to be master of the `Eaglet`, about two years ago. Since then I have been partner with Low Ateem in a shop, and now myself keep a shop which is in Stanley Street. When I was Comprador to Mr Caldwell I went with the steamer; I also collected rents. I have had charge of four houses, but I do not know the numbers of the ground lots on which they stand. [The lot referred to is 197.] The present occupants are Lee Koon-tai, Ngow Poo, Chew Angee, Ch'o Ngu, Akwun, who keeps a Chair shop, and Yew Aon-there are eight tenants altogether. I received rents for Mr Caldwell until I went on board the steamer as Comprador, after which I believe Mr Caldwell's cook was collector. After I left the steamer I again collected rents for Mr Caldwell, and continued to do so up to the middle of December last, when the houses were sold to Lum Ateen, after that time I collected them for Lum Ateen as some of them still owed rent.\n\nI delivered to Mr Caldwell the rents as I collected them. When I was collector, for Mr Caldwell, the rents amounted to about $49 a month. The previous evening I went to collect the rents. I was not going to let the houses to them. One of the tenants came to me next morning, and so I went to all. They said some constables had been making inquiry as to the names and occupations of the tenants, and that this was their reason for being frightened.\n\nCross-examined,-The amount of rent due upon the four houses when they were transferred to Lum Ateen in December, was about $70; there is none of this due now. I was in Gaol about the 4th moon of last year, about a debt of my partner. I was 6 or 7 days in Gaol. I have never been in Gaol on a criminal charge. I do not know Chew Alai-nor have I heard the name; neither do I know Chun Atsoo. I had an interview with Mrs Caldwell's sister at Macao, about 4 years ago; I do not know her name. I do not know if she has a sister living in Hongkong. Six of the eleven houses are near the Joss-house in Hollywood Road, and the other are in Queen's Road West. It was after I left the steamer in July, 1856, that Mrs Caldwell offered to let me the houses. I have known Lum Ateen 3 years.\n\n| Name | House No. | Lot No. | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Tomas Bernardo Ribeiro | 300 | 204 | Boarding House keeper |\n| Leong Chewkwong | 301 | 204 | Paid rent to Lai Sze-kai |\n| Ch'un Kunhee | 299 | 204 | Rented from Lai Sze-kai |\n| Fong Weikai | 411 | 250 | Took house from Yee Wo |\n| Wong Aoon | - | - | Took house from Yee Wo |\n| Ho Achoong | - | - | Paid rent to Yee Wo Fook |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244735, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 477, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "(45)\n\n474\n\n(44)\n\nshall, in the course of the investigation, endeavour to bring before the Commission persons who will testify to the facts I mention.\n\nAdjourned till 12 o'clock to-morrow.\n\n## FOURTEENTH DAY\n\nThursday, 24th June, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent, All the Members, except the Honourable Mr Cleverly, whose place in the chair was taken by the Honourable Mr Davies.\n\n### ANGUS FLETCHER\n\n—Called and examined.\n\nI formerly had a partner named Innes, who has been dead many years. I believe Mr Caldwell was once in Mr Innes's employ. I do not know of my own knowledge why Mr Caldwell was discharged. I am one of the oldest residents in China, and have known about Mr Caldwell, otherwise than as employed by Mr Innes, for some time. I did not know anything of him beyond that he was a little thoughtless; this was nearly twenty years ago. I do not recollect having ever heard any accusation brought against him.\n\nI do not know under what circumstances Mr Caldwell left my late partner; he left before I joined him. I believe he was Clerk or Book-keeper with him. I never heard a word from Mr Innes, nor from any one else, as to the circumstances under which Mr Caldwell left Mr Innes's employ.\n\n[The Attorney General having been informed that neither to himself nor to any of the public could printed copies of the evidence be furnished, but that he was at liberty to inspect them in the room, and that copies of his own evidence would be furnished, requested that a minute might be made that he had not had any of the fasciculi since the third, and had therefore had no opportunity, and now should have none, of correcting in his own copy, and suggesting to the Commission for correction in theirs, such of the errors in the evidence as taken as he was able to correct, as well as of offering suggestions for examination of witnesses.]\n\n### CHARLES MAY\n\n—Recalled.\n\nGrand-Pré in conversation; and, I was then told, that the European Constable who had charge of Ma-chow Wong had immediately before made known that certain large bribes had been offered him by Ma-chow Wong. One of the bribes was offered to induce the Constable to allow the prisoner interview with Mr Caldwell. I did not consider the prisoners secure at the Police Station as I thought necessary, and him up to the Gaol.\n\nI did not know that the papers which had been sent to Government Office had not been returned to the Police until I heard of their destruction at Government Office, therefore the papers given up could only have been those belonging to the Kwong Yik Loong [Ma-chow Wong's] shop. I recollect that Mr Grand-Pré said that Mr Caldwell had, by, I think, a note which he had in his hand, applied for the papers of Ma-chow Wong, and I am not quite so certain, but I think Mr Grand-Pré said something about Dr Bridges having authorised their being given up.\n\nI am certain that some property remained in the hands of the police, and I have no doubt this property was given up by Mr Grand Pré, who therefore can give evidence upon it. I have asked both Inspectors, but they can give me no information upon this. I do not know whether I was at that time Acting Assistant Magistrate, or Acting Superintendent of Police. I endeavoured to find out who gave up the property at the Police Station, and the Inspectors have told me that they did not, and that therefore it must have been Mr Grand-Pré.\n\nI am certain that those papers given up were the Kwong Yik Loong papers, because the others have been destroyed. It now strikes me that I have heard that some of the papers, which were deposited at the Supreme Court, were given up, upon this head Mr Masson can give evidence.\n\nI think I can produce a witness who saw the first wife of Ma-chow Wong go into Mr Caldwell's house within the last two months. I did hear that Ma-chow Wong's wife had found a refuge in Mr Caldwell's house. I heard it from more than one; amongst others, from Tong Aku the Interpreter.\n\nAbout the notoriety of the pirate Po-pak Shing, Assow, that Police Court Interpreter, who told me more than twelve months ago that this man was a notorious pirate, can give evidence. As to the connection between Po-pak Shing and Ma-chow Wong, and the buying off of the witnesses, I hand in the name of a witness who can give evidence.\n\nI saw Mr Caldwell go into the Chief Magistrate's room with the bail, on the occasion of Ma-chow Wong's being bailed by order of the Chief Justice; this is the extent of my knowledge. I do not recollect how many bail there were, and do not know if the Chief Magistrate desired Mr Caldwell to be present on the occasion. I heard that the Chief Magistrate had had a communication with Mr Caldwell on the subject, but did not know what it was. On the night of Ma-chow Wong's apprehension on my warrant, I gave special orders as to his custody, and that he should be under the special care of a European Constable, to the exclusion of the usual Chinese Constables who watch the cells. At half-past ten o'clock at night or later, I went incidentally to the charge room, and saw Mr Caldwell and Mr...\n\nMr Caldwell himself told me that the boat of which he had command was manned by Chinese, he did not say by Europeans and Indians, I know from what he told me.\n\nCross-examined.—A man deposed at the Supreme Court that Ma-chow Wong had offered him $1,000, to abstain from giving evidence so far as it referred to the identification of the prisoners, the Captain of the boat I think. He had command at different times of two boats, one of which was decked, and I should think a schooner, because he told me of his having been nearly drowned in the cabin.\n\nI taxed my memory as far as I possibly could with regard to the memoranda, and I cannot recollect more minutely than I stated. The memorandum number 8 in Mr Caldwell's report does not agree with number 8 in my evidence; there was only one paper, as I have stated with regard to No. 9. There might have been one Johnson, but there was a Graham. I remember about Graham, because he was subsequently imprisoned for felony. He was Sheriff's Officer and robbed a boat. Now I recollect, there were two letters from the Kowloong Commandant, one to Ma-chow Wong, and one to his partner.\n\nI have not the slightest doubt that I told the Honourable the Attorney General what my impression was prior to my knowledge that the books and papers had been destroyed, that the books and papers of Ma-chow Wong which were at the Police Station had been given up. I remember the sailing of the Phoebe Dunbar with the deported persons. I was the Acting Sheriff at the time, and sent in a list to Government of all persons who were then in Gaol under warrants of Justices of the Peace or Stipendiary Magistrates, coming under Ordinance 2 of 1857, viz., persons dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony. I have no copy of the list, and know that it is in the records of the Gaol.\n\nThere were other names on the list, put on by order of the Government, quite certain that I must have told other persons, but I cannot recollect whom. At the time of the taking of the memoranda, and up to the time of my knowledge of the destruction of the papers, I had not any idea that the memoranda would be a subject of import. The memoranda were written in a style in which I would write a draft for a letter; they were scribbled. It was singular that the memoranda were not destroyed. I am sure that Roberts told me that he had found about 36 guns on board the supposed Alma. I am not sure whether he said that Mr Caldwell told him that the lorcha belonged to him then, or had belonged to him.\n\nI do not recollect Mr Caldwell searching with me for the security papers in the gold dust affair. I have not the slightest recollection of his doing so. I had the general management of the deportation, being Acting Sheriff at the time. The list of persons to be deported was made out by me or by persons under my orders. I believe the list to comprise all prisoners of the classes before mentioned. I had no knowledge of any one fact relating to one prisoner more than to another.\n\nI made the seizure on Bonham Strand; those who could not find security, and were included in the list, were very likely beggars, but I can't say that they were. I do not think that Mr Caldwell was present when I searched for the security papers, after the petition had been presented. I think it was Roberts who apprehended the men.\n\nPage 474", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253469, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "page_number": 97, "title": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \n04\n\nbut this is one of the minor evils, doubtless owing to the care with which the Officers attend to the Police also in some small degree to the wise provision afforded by the Government for their relief in sickness. It is nevertheless certain that they would be still healthier if the stations underwent a thorough architectural revision in regard to drainage, sufficient accommodation, etc. These remarks apply especially to the Central Police Station, which I consider to be in a very defective condition in many respects: the whole of the smoke from the cook houses (56) passes freely through the offices.\n\nIt will be noted that the number is absolutely greater but relatively less than in former years.\n\nTable I. shews the admissions and deaths in the Hospital of Members of the Police force during every month of 1861.\n\nTable II. shows the rate per cent of sickness and mortality of the Police during the same year.\n\nThe Police Constables have been directed to submit to a monthly medical examination for the future.\n\nThe great reduction in the severity of the syphilitic cases admitted...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253504, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "content_text": "## 82.\n\n129\n\nتولد\n\nOne alone, the whole smoke flows freely from the whole of the Cook houses - passes freely through the rooms of the Barracks where they are quartered, and they have under different names, and if not to attend at the Hospital, a superior officer would be personally responsible, and not the same man twice - no doubt that the results would be satisfactory.\n\n3. The Police Constables have been examined by the Doctor in the same manner; so that the surgeon examining them might be certain that's every man was passed.\n\nMy objection to the monthly medical examination of the men of the Police Force by the Colonial Surgeon attending at Hospital arises from the fact of its entailing great inconveniences from the unnecessary trouble to the men, especially during the night, after having been out on duty.\n\nThe great reduction in the severity of the syphilitic cases admitted into Hospital has been one of the results - If the men were brought up more regularly and in a more disciplined manner, an examination, which I beg leave to draw attention to, would be still more satisfactory.\n\n(liquid) Jas. Jarman.\nActing Superintendent of Police\n\n(True Extract)\n(signs) M. H. Alexander,\nActing Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256693, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10]", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10]", "content_text": "Warden not to be Bailiff, &c. \n\nBooks to be kept by Governor. \n\nBooks in his charge. \n\nInspection by Justices. \n\nEntries of Fees and Fines. \n\nWarden may appoint Deputy, \n\nWarden's Copy of Regulation, \n\nSubordination of Warden. \n\nDuties of Governor of the Gaol. \n\nAs to his Female Prisoners \n\nForbearance enjoined. \n\nGovernor of Gaol ordinates. \n\nSuch other Officers as his said Excellency may from time to time appoint, and such Constables of the Police Force as may from time to time be appointed to do duty at the Gaol. And the Colonial Chaplain shall be the Chaplain, and the Colonial Surgeon the Medical Officer, of the Gaol of Hongkong.\n\nXI. No Officer of the Gaol shall be Under-Sheriff, or Bailiff, or concerned in any other occupation, or in any trade; and no such Officer, and no Person in trust for him, shall sell, let, or derive any benefit from the sale or letting, of any Article to any Prisoner, or from any dealing whatsoever with such Prisoner. No such Officer shall let for hire to any Person whatever, any room or portion of the residence allotted to him in or near the Gaol, or any room or ground belonging to the Gaol. No such Officer shall directly or indirectly have any interest in any Contract or Agreement for the supply of the Gaol, or use for himself or his family any Oil, Rations, Food, or other Article whatever supplied for the use of the Gaol, or by or on behalf of any Contractor for the supply of the Gaol.\n\nXII. Under the direction of the Governor of the Gaol shall be kept in a clean and intelligible manner the following Books, and he shall be responsible that they be safely preserved, and that they be not subjected to any alteration or erasure -\n\n1. Fine and Fee Book.\n\n2. Order Book.\n\n3. Journal.\n\n4. Gaol Register.\n\n5. Work Book.\n\n6. Prisoner's Property Book.\n\n7. Gaol Furniture and Stores Book.\n\n8. Provision Book.\n\n9. General Daily Account Book.\n\nXIII. He shall also keep under his charge the Governor's Book, and the Gaol Visitation Book.\n\nXIV. All these Books shall be open to inspection by any Justice of the Peace visiting the Gaol, and calling for the same.\n\nXV. The said Governor shall cause to be entered in the Fine and Fee Book, all Fees taken from time to time by him or any other Officer of the Gaol, specifying the Authority under which each Fee was taken, and all Fines paid by any Prisoner confined in default of payment of such Fine.\n\nXVI. With the approbation of the Governor of the Gaol, the Warden shall appoint an Officer of the Gaol to act as Deputy Warden whenever he shall be unavoidably absent, and during such absence the Deputy shall have all the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Warden. Before leaving the Gaol the Warden shall personally give over charge to his Deputy.\n\nXVII. The Warden shall be supplied with a Copy of these Regulations.\n\nXVIII. The Warden shall consider the Governor of the Gaol his immediate superior, and shall obey all his orders.\n\nXIX. The Governor of the Gaol shall enforce on all his Subordinates the due execution of their several duties, not permitting them to have any other employment. He shall reside in the house allotted to him for a residence, and shall record all absences at night, and the cause of them, in his Journal. He shall see that no Person other than an Officer of the Gaol, in the discharge of duty as such, without his permission, speak to or hold any intercourse or communication with a Prisoner, and that no Person sleep in the Gaol, other than a Prisoner, an Officer of the Gaol, or one of such Officer's Servants or family.\n\nXX. The said Governor shall see that no one attached to the Gaol visit the Female Prisoners except in company with the Matron.\n\nXXI. He shall himself, and shall see that every Officer of the Gaol do in like manner, exercise his Authority with firmness, humanity, and good temper; on no account striking any Prisoner without due authority.\n\nXXII. The said Governor shall enter in the Order Book all orders relating to the Gaol. He may suspend any resident Officer of the Gaol disobeying his orders, or otherwise misconducting himself, recording the particulars and reasons in his Journal, and reporting the same without delay to his said Excellency.\n\nXXIII. The Governor of the Gaol shall not enforce the attendance of any Prisoner at Divine Service whose religious persuasion shall not accord with such Service.\n\nXXIV. The said Governor shall record in his Journal all occurrences affecting the Gaol; particularly such as relate to the Health, Discipline, or Employment of the Prisoners, or the infringement of Gaol Regulations as to punishments; also every change of diet or clothing among the Prisoners; the allowance of extraordinary indulgence to any Prisoner; any omission to wash the Prisoners; or clean or whitewash the Gaol at the appointed times; every case in which he may have placed in Irons a Prisoner, not a Felon, and the causes thereof; and the several other matters enjoined by these Regulations.\n\nXXV. The said Governor shall personally inspect every Ward, Cell, Yard, Division, or Part of the Gaol, and see every Prisoner at least once in each 24 hours, and in default shall record the omission and the cause thereof in his Journal; and at least once a Week at an uncertain hour of the night go through the Gaol, and visit every Person on guard over the same, making an accurate record in his Journal of such visit, the hour thereof, and the state of the Gaol and the Guards.\n\nXXVI. The said Governor shall record in his Journal every complaint made to him by any Prisoner.\n\nXXVII. The said Governor shall take every precaution to prevent Fire, or the escape of Prisoners, and shall cause all the Wards, Cells, Bolts, Bars and Locks of the Gaol, and the Irons of the Prisoners, to be thoroughly examined daily; and shall fully explain the duty required of every Officer of the Gaol in case of Fire, or of the attempt of a Prisoner, or of any confederated attempt on the part of any number of Prisoners, to escape.\n\nXXVIII. He shall cause a Light to be constantly burning throughout the night, in every Ward or Division of the Gaol in which Prisoners shall be confined, but such Light shall not be placed inside the Cell within reach of the Prisoners; and a Light shall also be placed in each of the sleeping apartments of the Officers of the Gaol not on duty, in order that such Officers may in case of alarm be ready for duty in the shortest possible time.\n\nXXIX. He shall cause that every Prisoner on admission be placed in a reception Cell, and strictly searched, and that all Knives, Weapons, Instruments, or things whatsoever likely to facilitate escape, be taken from such Prisoner; but no such search shall be made in presence of any other Prisoner, nor shall any Female Prisoner be searched except by the Matron of the Gaol.\n\nXXX. On the Admission of each Prisoner, the Warden shall cause to be recorded in the Gaol Register, the Prisoner's Name, Sex, Country, Age, Height, Features, whether such Prisoner can Read or Write, and other particulars that he may deem necessary; and he shall take charge of all Money, Clothes, and other Effects that such Prisoner may have, or which may from time to time be sent on the Prisoner's account, and shall record an Inventory of the same in the Prisoner's Property Book, with the time of the Prisoner's admission, or of their receipt, and shall restore them on the Prisoner's discharge, or dispose of them as the Governor of the Gaol may direct; but any of such Money or Property which a Prisoner before trial may require for the purpose of assisting him in conducting his defence on such trial shall be restored to him by the said Governor on demand.\n\nXXXI. The Governor of the Gaol shall cause plain and legible Copies of these Regulations, in English and Chinese, to be fixed in conspicuous places within the Gaol, and so that every Prisoner may have access thereto; and Translations in the Chinese Language of all Regulations now in force or hereafter to be enacted, with regard to the conduct of the Gaol, shall be posted up in at least Three conspicuous places therein.\n\nXXXII. He shall cause every part of the Gaol premises to be swept daily clean, or oftener if requisite, and shall cause the Gaol to be washed throughout at least once a Week.\n\nXXXIII. He shall cause every Prisoner to wash himself daily, and that the whole Person of every Prisoner be washed thoroughly at least once a Week, and the Clothes constantly worn by such Prisoner next the Skin, to be exchanged for a clean suit at least once a Week. In the case of Prisoners under sentence of transportation or penal servitude, and also of Prisoners whom the Governor of the Gaol shall find to be of incorrigibly filthy habits, or whose Health shall otherwise require it, he shall as soon as convenient after sentence cause their Tails (if any) to be cut off, and to be so kept until Six Months before their enlargement. He shall cause the Hair of every Prisoner to be kept cut as closely as such Prisoner has been in the habit of wearing it, but (except as above, and also except in the case of Europeans) not more closely, unless the Medical Officer so order; and he shall cause all Male Prisoners to be shaved once a Week, in the manner in which they may before have been accustomed to be shaved.\n\nXXXIV. He shall cause the Bedding and spare Clothing of every Prisoner to be aired once a Week, in the open air if practicable, and to be washed as often as needful.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259372, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "content_text": "[21 \n\nr \n\n[3] \n\nand an Interpreter. The duties of this Staff shall be so arranged that two Turnkeys shall be on shore duty with the Convicts from 6 A.M. until noon, and two from noon until the time that the Convicts are conducted back to the Hulk. These Turnkeys shall have the direction and management of the Convicts, it shall be their duty to take notes in a memorandum book kept by each of any instance of disobedience or misconduct of the Convicts, making daily report of the same to the Superintendent. The Warden and Head Turnkey shall have general observation of the duties on shore, both as regards the Turnkeys and the Convicts, in addition the Warden and Head Turnkey will each have special duties to perform, some of which are hereinafter specified, but it is especially the duty of these Officers energetically and zealously to carry out and enforce the orders of the Superintendent.\n\nIt shall be the duty of the Head Turnkey to take special charge of the Hospital and Sick and (with the Clerk and Interpreter) to be present when the Surgeon visits the Sick, and he shall see that the orders of the Surgeon are fully carried out, both as regards medicine and sick diet, this is to be effected with a kindly and observant spirit so that the comfort and nourishment of the sick may be attained, otherwise the object and intent of the Surgeon cannot be gained.\n\nFrom opening Gaol until locking up there shall be one Turnkey on duty on board the Convict Hulk, and from the time of locking up until opening Gaol each member of the Gaol Staff shall have two hours' night watch.\n\nIt is imperatively necessary that day and night there shall be one of the Gaol Staff on duty and in charge of the Convict Hulk.\n\nFrom the time of locking up until opening Gaol the Turnkey on duty shall, accompanied by a Police Sentry, once in every hour visit the main and lower decks, looking searchingly into each cell with the view of ascertaining that all is correct; if anything suspicious is observed, or anything exhibiting a requirement to open a Convict's cell, immediate report is to be made to the Superintendent; during this examination below decks a sentry shall remain at the upper grating, locking the grating when the Turnkey and Constable have descended and keeping it locked until their return, if an outcry or alarm proceeds from below this sentry shall instantly give a general alarm.\n\n3. Police detachment at the Convict Establishment and its duties.\n\nThe detachment of Police doing duty at the Convict Establishment shall be in strength in the proportion of one Constable to ten Convicts (exclusive of Sergeants and Acting Sergeants) and in addition there shall be a reserve guard at the Signal Station. The detachment at this date is as follows:-\n\nSergeants. 1\n\nActg. Serg. 1\n\nConstables. 2\n\nConvict Hulk, 1\n\nSignal Station, 1\n\n6 24 Indian 6 do.\n\nEuropean Force. do. do.\n\nTotal,.... 3 1 European in charge of Signals.\n\n4 36\n\n-This is apart from the Water Police which will be hereinafter specified.\n\nThe European Sergeant shall have charge of the Police detachment, he shall receive from the Superintendent of the Hulk orders for the duties and distribution of the Police, and shall obey and see these orders efficiently carried out, it being distinctly understood that the Superintendent of the Hulk has sole authority to issue these orders and is wholly responsible for them; upon the capacity and earnest aid of the Police Sergeant in charge must much depend the activity, vigilance, subordination and good conduct of the entire detachment. The attention of the Police Sergeant in charge is drawn to, and it is well that he should consider, the importance of his post and the responsibility thrown upon him.\n\n20", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259376, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "content_text": "Officer attached to the department of that Officer; this Subordinate shall be present at the Inspection at 8 A.M. and furnish the Superintendent with a requisition for men for the several works in progress, which shall be implicitly carried out, but it is desirable that there should not be more than five labor detachments.\n\n13. Arrangements for Convicts' labor and mode of enforcing the same and effecting security.\n\nThe detachments of Convicts for labor shall be told off, so that each detachment be composed of Convicts having consecutive numbers. A Turnkey or European Constable and a proportionate number of Indian Constables shall be sent in charge of each detachment of Convicts, and mat huts of a readily moveable construction shall be erected near the places of labor for the protection of the Turnkeys and Police. The European Constable or Turnkey in charge of each labor detachment shall have a memorandum of the numbers of the Convicts forming the detachment. Once every hour a signal shall be given from the Convict Hulk by hoisting a yellow flag, upon which the said European Constable or Turnkey in charge shall assemble his particular detachment, (the Convicts falling into line in numerical order,) and ascertain that it is correct. The Convicts on board the Convict Hulk shall \"fall in\" at the same hourly signal, and the sick and Hospital attendants ascertained to be present.\n\nThe summary of this rule is that in addition to the general Inspections, once in each hour every Convict shall be under observation and ascertained to be present.\n\n14. Duties on board Convict Hulk during the day. When the whole of the Convicts for labor on shore have been conducted ashore, the Warden or Head Turnkey shall proceed to examine the Convict's cells, and ascertain that every Convict and every article belonging to the Convicts have been removed, after which the Convicts set apart for the purpose shall cleanse the lower and main decks: this must be completed by 10 A.M. at which time the Superintendent of the Hulk, after examination of the lower and main decks, shall see that the upper deck grating is locked, the key thereof being deposited in his Office, and the said grating shall not be unlocked (excepting for special cause) until the time of locking up.\n\nPage 11\n\nA certain number of Convicts shall be employed on board the Convict Hulk as cooks for the Gaol Staff and Police, but the number of these, and of those employed in cleaning the Hulk shall be limited so that idleness on board is prevented. Those employed as cooks shall be called upon to cleanse their respective galleys and cooking utensils, and the quarters of those for whom they cook.\n\nThe following shall be inviolable rules: firstly, no Convict with the exception of the two or three employed as cooks for the Superintendent and Officers aft, shall go aft of the barricade in the waist of the vessel, and secondly all the Convicts excepting those in Hospital shall be locked up in their cells at or before 6 P.M.\n\n15. Reception of Rations from the Contractor. The Superintendent of the Hulk shall personally satisfy himself that the Rations are delivered in proper quantity and quality.\n\nThe Clerk, Interpreter and Warden shall invariably be present and receive the Rations, taking account of weight, &c.\n\n16. Issue of Rations to the Convicts.\n\nThe issue of Rations shall be conducted so that each Convict shall receive his provisions hot and in a cleanly and comfortable manner. Each Convict shall have supplied to him a tin dish for rice, a tin plate for fish or vegetable and a tin pint pot for tea. The manner of issuing the Rations shall be as follows: the Convicts having been\n\nPage 24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259387, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "content_text": "35\n\nto be forth in the most commanding positions - moreover it has been the invariable rule for a constable to be placed on the highest elevation overlooking the Prisoners and the Hulk, which on my first visit to the works I entirely approved of.\n\nI have now given written orders which will, I think, prevent such an omission in future.\n\nAs to the second observation of the Board respecting the Stone boats, I beg to state that they were being worked on the morning of the 21st April, in precisely the same manner as when I arrived, and for a considerable time before. I am not aware, neither are there any records in this department, of any other method having been directed.\n\nI am of opinion that to work them separately is impracticable; the small Guard over the Stone barge cannot afford to be split into two divisions. There is also but one Police book on duty at a time; it therefore follows that one of the barges would not have what ought to be a most effectual protection.\n\nI was not aware until lately that any order had been given by the Captain Superintendent of Police that the Constables should be provided with ten rounds of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259401, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "content_text": "7\n\n49\n\nPouches of the Constables be reduced to three rounds, remarking that ten rounds was too much Constables only wasted it.\n\nSerjeant Albert as was his duty obeyed the order and satisfied himself by simply making a note of it in his pocket book.\n\nI consider the Serjeant in charge responsible to me for the general efficiency of the force more especially the care of arms and ammunition- and Serjeant Albert exhibited a great want of proper judgement after obeying the directions of the Superintendent in not bringing this circumstance under my notice without delay- which would have been his proper course of duty.\n\nOn the morning of the escape the Serjeant's report shows \"Present on duty 280 Rounds of Ammunition. this appears to embrace the Reserve Ammunition in charge of the Superintendent which appears to have been erroneously included in the Serjeant's report.\n\nThe amount of Reserve Ammunition supplied for the use of the Police force exclusive of 10 rounds for each man since the establishment of the Prison at", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259436, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "content_text": "516.\n\non to another route. I sent them to Samshing where another party of Police had proceeded. I went as far as Teinwan. - I made enquiries and found the convicts had not been seen there. I saw a Police Boat there under charge of Inspector Manoel da Silva, and returned in her to the Hulk this was late in the evening.\n\nManoel da Silva. I am Inspector of the Water Police. The arrangement made with regard to the Water Police at Stone Cutters Island was that there should be a Floating Station and Portugue...\n\n84 Constables and 16 Chinese Lukongs being there have never been more than four Boats, but have had ... Crens for four Boats. - I never understood there were to be five mouths, about four or so ago. I heard that one of the Police Boats required repair - I told the constable to report to his Bater and ask him to write to Captain Quin - finding that the Boat had not been sent in for repair I sent for it about the end of March. - I sent no boat to supply her place - I have had boats over for painting but not for repair. I sent a book to supply their place, the boat under repair was sent back...\n\n... (no changes made to the original text's sentence structure or wording beyond correcting obvious OCR errors and adding minimal punctuation for clarity, as per the guidelines)\n\nFormatted into HTML as requested, with \n\n tags for paragraphs.\n\n \n\n becomes unnecessary as the paragraph structure is maintained. \n\nThe final output is: \n\n516.\n\non to another route. I sent them to Samshing where another party of Police had proceeded. I went as far as Teinwan. - I made enquiries and found the convicts had not been seen there. I saw a Police Boat there under charge of Inspector Manoel da Silva, and returned in her to the Hulk this was late in the evening.\n\nManoel da Silva. I am Inspector of the Water Police. The arrangement made with regard to the Water Police at Stone Cutters Island was that there should be a Floating Station and Portugue...\n\n84 Constables and 16 Chinese Lukongs being there have never been more than four Boats, but have had ... Crens for four Boats. - I never understood there were to be five mouths, about four or so ago. I heard that one of the Police Boats required repair - I told the constable to report to his Bater and ask him to write to Captain Quin - finding that the Boat had not been sent in for repair I sent for it about the end of March. - I sent no boat to supply her place - I have had boats over for painting but not for repair. I sent a book to supply their place, the boat under repair was sent back...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262708, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "content_text": "## Estimate of Expenditure for the year 1986 compared with that estimated for the year 1985 with explanatory remarks (Continued)\n\n| Estimated | Estimate | Increase | Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1986 | 1985* | | |\n| Brought forward: | 220,425.80 | 53,970.80 | 166,545 |\n\n### Remarks\n\n306 | 90 | Registrar General | Increase of £47 pa annum each to messenger and office cook; collection of statistics for ...\n\n150 | 164 | 1704 | 1680 | 244 | Decrease in Revenue Services; Getty expenses collecting Revenue at the Villages\n\n\"Actual Increase\" | +4 | Harbor Master and Emigration Officer | 8,608 | 9,040 | 432 | Decrease Supernumerary Boarding Officer; Increase 4 Boatmen for Surveyor General's Department...\n\n#482 | #120 | 288 | Judicial Establishment | 440 | 6,560 | 120 | Decrease allowance to Clerk of Supreme Court Jurisdiction for Chinese Teacher\n\n816 | 816 | Registrar of Companies | | | | \n\n942 | 702 | 240 | Ecclesiastical Establishment | Under Ordinance No 1 of 1846. | Increase to Salary of Sexton.\n\n9386 | 9608 | | Educational | | | | \n\n15110 | 14360 | 750 | Medical | | | | \n\n4,650 | 4,282 | 368 | Police Magistrate | | | | \n\n50,494 | 50,126 | 368 | Police | | Actual Increase | 18,4020 | 147,938 | 6,082 | Increase 14 European policemen £1152, 3e Indian constables £14320, 2 Instructors of Drill £120=$5592\n\n| | | | Do. Forage for horses; but reduction in cost of meals for prisoners £38\n\n6132 | | Relial Increase | 60827 | Burial of Destitutes; Difference in Ammunition.\n\n... | ... | Increase to Salary of Coroner; Allowance to Interpreters for interpreting Dialects.\n\nAntinoon to count Interpreters | Decrease in Indian Moulmein salary p:96; contingencies £30 | 0.12\n\nDecrease in Rent | Increase one Chinese Teacher.\n\nActual Decrease | 4,462 | 240 | 902 | Increase for Bedding.\n\n$150 | \"500 | | Carried forward | £422,099 | 80 | 248,140.80 | 14,823 | 8641", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272397, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "page_number": 590, "title": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "content_text": "588\n\nTo take bail.\n\nParticulars of recognizance\n\n(10)\n\nany person so apprehended, shall be brought without warrant to the Officer in charge of any Police Station, it shall be lawful for such last mentioned Officer in a case of misdemeanour if he shall deem it proper so to do, and if no Magistrate shall be in attendance at his Office, to take bail by recognizance with or without sureties in a sufficient sum without fee or reward from such person, conditioned that such person shall appear for examination before a Magistrate at some place to be specified in the recognizance being the earliest time then next after when a Magistrate shall be in attendance at his Office; and every recognizance so taken shall be of equal obligation on the parties entering into the same and liable to the same proceedings for estreating thereof as if the same had been taken before a Magistrate; and the respective names, residences, and occupations of the person so apprehended and his surety or sureties if any entering into such recognizance together with the condition thereof, and the sums respectively acknowledged, shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose which shall be laid before the Magistrate before whom the person apprehended is to appear; and if he do not appear when called upon at the time and place mentioned in such recognizance, the Magistrate shall forthwith estreat the recognizance: Provided that if the person apprehended shall appear and shall make application for a postponement of the hearing of the charge against him, the Magistrate may if he see fit to grant such application, enlarge the recognizance to such further time as he may think proper, and when the matter shall have been heard and determined such recognizance shall be discharged without fee or reward.\n\nto be entered in book.\n\nAnd forfeited on non-appearance of defendant.\n\nPolice Officer not responsible for want of jurisdiction. General issue may be pleaded and special matter given in evidence.\n\nXIX. In case any action shall be brought against any Officer or Constable of the Police Force for any act done in obedience to the warrant of any Magistrate, the Officer or Constable shall not be responsible for any irregularity in the issuing of the warrant, or for any want of jurisdiction in the Magistrate issuing the same, and the Officer or Constable may plead the general issue and give such warrant in evidence, and upon producing such warrant and proving that the signature thereto is the hand-writing of a person reputed to be a Magistrate, and that the act was done in obedience to such warrant, the Jury or Court before whom the action is tried shall find a verdict for the defendant who shall also recover double his costs of suit.\n\nXX. If any victualler or keeper of any house, shop, room or other place for the sale of any liquors whether spirituous or otherwise shall knowingly harbor or entertain any man belonging to the Police, or permit him to abide or remain in his house or on his premises during any part of the time appointed for his being on duty, every such victualler or keeper being convicted thereof before any Magistrate shall for each offence forfeit and pay such sum not exceeding one hundred dollars together with costs to be recovered in a summary manner as the said Magistrate shall direct, and in default of payment shall be liable if no sufficient distress can be found to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months.\n\nXXI. If any person shall assault or resist any member of the Police Force acting in the execution of his duty, or shall aid or incite any person so to assault or resist, or shall refuse to assist any Officer or Constable in the execution of his duty when called upon so to do, every such offender being thereof convicted before any Magistrate shall for every such offence forfeit and pay such sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, together with costs to be recovered in a summary manner as the said Magistrate in his discretion may order, and in default of payment shall be liable if no sufficient distress can be found to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months.\n\nCircumstances in which Officer may be allowed to resign or may be dismissed.\n\nXXII. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary His Excellency the Governor shall have power to grant permission to resign to any Inspector Sergeant or Constable of the Force who may become unfit for further service from ill-health, on the certificate of the Colonial Surgeon to that effect being produced; or in any special cases brought to His Excellency's notice by the Captain Superintendent, His Excellency the Governor shall have power to grant to any such Officer permission to resign, or to dismiss any such Officer.\n\nTerms on which any member of Police Force may resign.\n\nXXIII. Any Inspector Sergeant or Constable of the Police Force shall be entitled to claim his discharge at any time during the period of his first or second enlistment of five years, upon his giving to the Captain Superintendent three months' notice of his wish to withdraw, and paying a sum equivalent to two months' pay of the rank he may hold at the time of his giving notice of withdrawal for each unexpired year of his term of enlistment.\n\nRewards badges and medals may be given for extraordinary services.\n\nXXIV. His Excellency the Governor is hereby empowered to grant rewards to any Officers or Constables of the Police Force who shall distinguish themselves by extraordinary diligence, zeal or exertion in the execution of their duties; and the Captain Superintendent shall report to His Excellency any such Officer who shall so distinguish himself, stating the nature of the service; and His Excellency the Governor shall have power to grant distinctive badges and medals to such Officers of the Police Force for long and faithful or extraordinary services.\n\nXXV. His Excellency the Governor is empowered to direct suitable stations for the quarters and accommodation of the Police Force, and furniture suitable for the same to be provided, and to direct the erection, fitting up and furnishing of suitable premises as a place or places for instructing, training and drilling the Police Force as occasion may require.\n\nStations and furniture to be provided for Police Force.\n\nXXVI. His Excellency the Governor is hereby empowered if he shall think fit on the application of any householder, to appoint any member of the Police Force to do special duty in and upon the premises of the applicant, and every householder who shall so avail himself of the services of any Constable of the Police Force shall pay to the Captain Superintendent of the Police Force for the same at the rate of two-thirds of the pay and allowance of such Constable; and all sums which shall be received by the Captain Superintendent for such special services, shall be paid by him into the Colonial treasury forthwith and be accounted for monthly, and every sum of money due for such special services shall be deemed a debt due to the Crown, and shall be recoverable in a summary manner by the Captain Superintendent.\n\nXXVII. All Officers and Constables now serving and who have been contributing to the Police Superannuation Fund shall be entitled to reckon their past services as part of the period of ten years required to establish a claim to pension as hereinbefore provided.\n\nTerm of service by present Police Officers to count in claim for pension.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 275732, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12]", "page_number": 304, "title": "CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12]", "content_text": "## Ordinance Relating to the Police Force\n\n**Oath of Office**\n\n`tendent to be a Justice`\n\nSuperintendent of the Police [or, Assistant Superintendent, as the case may be] without favor or affection, malice or illwill, that I will cause Her Majesty's Peace to be kept and preserved, and that I will prevent to the best of my power all Offences against the same, and that while I shall continue to hold the said Office, I will, to the best of my skill and knowledge, discharge all the duties thereof faithfully according to Law. So help me God.\n\n### Powers and Duties of Captain Superintendent\n\nAnd the Captain Superintendent shall, during his tenure of the Office, have and exercise all the powers of a Justice of the Peace, with regard to the Police Force, or any Member or Members thereof, in relation to matters of Police.\n\n### Appointment and Examination of Officers and Constables\n\nVIII. Inspectors and other Subordinate Officers and Constables shall before appointment, be examined by the Captain Superintendent and Colonial Surgeon, and having been so examined and approved of, shall go before a Police Magistrate of the Colony and answer the Questions, and subscribe and take the Oath or make the Declaration contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, marked `B`.\n\nIX. Every Inspector or other Subordinate Officer and Constable to be appointed, shall engage and bind himself to serve in the Police Force for the term of Five Years, during which term he shall not be at liberty to resign his Office or to withdraw himself from the duties thereof, except as is hereinafter provided.\n\n### Service and Retirement\n\nX. Whenever any Inspector, Sergeant, or Constable of the Police Force shall be desirous to leave the Force at the termination of his Service of Five Years, he shall be at liberty to do so, upon his giving to the Captain Superintendent Three Months' previous Notice of his intention so to do; and he shall be thereupon entitled to a Free Passage from Hongkong to the Port nearest to the Place at which he may have been engaged for Service in the Force, or in lieu thereof or in case he shall have been engaged in Hong-kong, he shall be entitled to a Sum equal to Three Months' Pay of the Rank to which at the time he may belong.\n\nXI. In case any Inspector, Sergeant, or Constable, who shall have completed the period of Service for which he had engaged, shall be desirous of continuing in the Police Force, he shall be at liberty to engage and bind himself for a further term of Five Years on the same terms and conditions, and in like manner as is provided by Section IX.\n\nXII. Whenever any Inspector, Sergeant or Constable shall have completed the full term of Service of Ten Years in the Police Force, he shall be entitled in addition to the bonus or passage money mentioned in Section X, to an Annual Pension of Fifteen Sixtieths of the Annual Pay of his Rank, and also for every full and complete Year's Service after Ten Years, to an addition to the annual Pension of One Sixtieth, in respect of each additional Year of such Service; and such Pension shall be computed upon the amount of the Annual Pay enjoyed by the Person retiring at the time of his retirement: Provided he shall have been in the receipt of the same for at least Three Years; otherwise the Pension shall be calculated upon the average amount of Pay received by such Person for the Three Years next preceding the commencement of such Pension. Provided always, that His Excellency the Governor shall and may grant Superannuation Allowance or a fixed sum by way of compensation to any Inspector, Sergeant, or Constable of the Force, who shall be disabled for further Service by reason of Wounds or Injuries received in the actual execution of his duty.\n\n### Rules and Discipline\n\nXIII. The Captain Superintendent shall from time to time, subject to the approval of His Excellency the Governor, frame such Orders and Regulations as he shall deem expedient for the general government and discipline of the Police Force.\n\nXIV. Whenever any Inspector, Sergeant or Constable of the Force shall resign the Service, or shall cease to hold and exercise his Office, all power and authority vested in him by virtue thereof, shall forthwith cease and determine to all intents and purposes whatever; and every such Officer shall deliver over all and every the Arms, Ammunition, Horses, Accoutrements, and other appointments whatsoever which shall have been supplied to him in such capacity, to the Person and at the time and place to be appointed by the Captain Superintendent; and it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace to issue his Warrant to search for and seize Arms, Ammunition, Horses, Accoutrements and other appointments whatsoever which shall not be so delivered over, wheresoever the same shall be found.\n\n### Penalties and Punishments\n\nXV. Whenever any Inspector, Sergeant or Constable of the Force shall be guilty of any neglect or violation of duty in his Office, or shall neglect or refuse to obey or execute any Warrant lawfully directed to be by him executed, or shall be guilty of any disobedience to the Orders and Regulations framed by the Captain Superintendent, or any other misconduct as an Officer of the Police Force or as a Constable, or who having duly engaged and bound himself to serve in the Force shall desert therefrom, or who being permitted to resign shall not upon ceasing to belong to the Force deliver up all Arms, Accoutrements and Appointments whatsoever entrusted to him for the performance of his duty, he shall, upon conviction thereof before a Police Magistrate in a Summary manner, forfeit and pay a Sum not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars, and in default of payment thereof, be imprisoned in any Gaol of this Colony with or without Hard Labor, for any Term not exceeding Six Months; and every Offender shall forfeit all pay during his Imprisonment.\n\nXVI. The Captain Superintendent shall, in cases of breach of Discipline or neglect of duty by any Officer or Constable of the Force, upon proof thereof to his satisfaction, have power to order the Offender to forfeit and pay a Sum not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars, or award Imprisonment for any term not exceeding Seven Days with forfeiture of Pay; or, in his discretion, the Captain Superintending may bring the Offender before a Police Magistrate who shall have power to award Imprisonment for any term not exceeding Fourteen Days with or without Hard Labour, together with forfeiture of all Pay during such Imprisonment.\n\n### Offences Relating to Police Appointments\n\nXVII. If any Person not being a member of the Police Force shall have in his possession any Arms, Accoutrements or Appointments supplied to any Officer of the Force, and shall not be able satisfactorily to account for his possession thereof, or shall put on or assume the Dress, Name, Designation or Description of an Officer of the Force or of a Constable, every such Person so offending shall, in addition to any other Punishment to which he may be liable for such Offence, forfeit and pay for every such Offence any Sum not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars, to be recovered in a Summary Manner before any Police Magistrate.\n\n### Powers of Police Officers\n\nXVIII. It shall be lawful for any Officer or Constable of the Police Force to apprehend any Person who shall be charged with, or whom he shall reasonably suspect of being guilty of any Felony or Misdemeanour without any Warrant for that purpose, and whether he shall have seen such Felony or Misdemeanour committed or not, and whenever any Person so apprehended shall be brought without Warrant to the Officer in charge of any Police Station, it shall be lawful for such last mentioned Officer, in a case of Misdemeanour, if he shall deem it proper so to do, and if no Magistrate shall be in attendance at his Office, to take bail by recognizance with or without sureties in a sufficient Sum without fee or reward from such Person, conditioned that such Person shall appear for examination before a Magistrate at some place to be specified in the Recognizance, being the earliest time then next after when a Magistrate shall be in attendance at his Office; and every Recognizance so taken shall be of equal obligation on the Parties entering into the same and liable to the same proceedings for estreating thereof, as if the same had been taken before a Magistrate; and the respective Names, Residences and Occupations of the Person so apprehended, and his surety or sureties, Particulars of Recognizance to be entered in a Book to be kept for that purpose, which shall be laid before the Magistrate, before whom the Person apprehended is to appear; and if he do not appear when called upon at the time and place mentioned in such Recognizance, the Magistrate shall forthwith estreat the Recognizance: Provided that, if the Person apprehended shall appear and shall make Application for a postponement of the Hearing of the Charge against him, the Magistrate may, if he see fit to grant such Application, enlarge the Recognizance to such further time as he think may proper, and when the matter shall have been heard and determined, such Recognizance shall be discharged without fee or reward.\n\n### Protection of Police Officers\n\nXIX. In case any Action shall be brought against any Officer or Constable of the Police Force for any act done in obedience to the Warrant of any Magistrate, the Officer or Constable shall not be responsible for any irregularity in the issuing of the Warrant or for any want of Jurisdiction in the Magistrate issuing the same, and the Officer or Constable may plead the general issue and give such Warrant in evidence; and upon producing such Warrant and proving that the Signature thereto is the hand-writing of a Person reputed to be a Magistrate, and that the act was done in obedience to such Warrant, the Jury or Court before whom the Action is tried, shall find a Verdict for the Defendant who shall also recover double his Costs of Suit.\n\n### Harbouring Police Officers\n\nXX. If any Victualler or Keeper of any House, Shop, Room or other Place for the Sale of any Liquors whether spirituous or otherwise, shall knowingly harbour or entertain any man belonging to the Police Force, or permit him to abide or remain in his House on conviction to be fined.\n\nPage 301", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279158, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 192, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "188\n\nyet equally effective for Police purposes. In the interim, however, they could not reasonably have expected me to abandon substantial results for theories which, however applicable elsewhere, as I readily admit them to be, seemed wholly out of place here under the circumstances.\n\nI have thus explained the position of the Colony towards the Special Fund so far as I can explain a subject of which many details are still unsettled, and which you must regard as liable to re-arrangement and modification. The Council, moreover, must always regard that Fund as one liable at any moment to disappear. You should, therefore, distinctly bear in mind that except for improving the Police Force, and benefiting the Chinese community as explained above, that Fund is unavailable. Even those indirect benefits must cease in the event of a change of instructions from Her Majesty's Government or the discovery of some effective substitute for the licensing system.\n\nThus, it is all the more desirable that you should keenly scrutinize the state of your finances, and see whether any diminution of expenditure, either on your Establishments or otherwise, can be effected without detriment to the Public Service, that you may gradually lessen your permanent annual charges, and so release a portion of your Revenue now absorbed thereby.\n\nI am aware that such economies seem easiest to those who know least of the work and duties of the various Departments. For example, a reformer of our Police would, on inquiry, be probably surprised to find that in the daytime 32 beats have to be patrolled, and the men relieved at the end of each six hours, and that 92 beats at night have to be similarly manned and relieved, whilst from five to nine boats and their crews are kept on duty and relieved night and day, at stated periods, in the harbor, as also that a Gaol guard of 23 has to be daily provided and Patrols furnished along a distance of 10 miles. To all these must be added special duties, which require daily some 50 men, independent of the outstations beyond the City, which must likewise be guarded and patrolled. He would likewise have to make an allowance for men in Hospital, and from the severity of the duty, they number 50 percent more in the Police than in the military at present.\n\nSuch a reformer would thus learn how a necessity for meeting numerous duties entails a corresponding necessity for paying a numerous force, and that no mere improvement in its quality can dispense with the primary want of many men to do duty in many different places at the same time.\n\nSo far from the Superintendent of Police considering the Police sufficient in numbers, he complained to me last May that at night \"in the Central part of the town, 31 men had to perform the duty laid down in the 'Section Book' for 61,\" and that so few constables could be spared for the outlying villages \"that adequate daily explorations of the adjacent hills were impossible.\" The Estimates before you, therefore, propose an increase as well in number as in quality, provision being made for a total of 717 instead of 643, whilst the number of Europeans will be increased from 112 to 146, and the Expenditure from $183,000 to $202,000. That sum, however, does not include the expense of gratuities and passages for 30 men from England, who, if procurable at all, which is very doubtful, will cost the Colony £3,000 before they have done an hour's duty.\n\nWith the proposed Telegraphs, and when the additional outstations now building are completed, it may perhaps be found that a smaller Force can do the duty. I nevertheless see little prospect of your ever having a Police Force at once effective and cheap. I know no place where it would be so difficult to realize such an anticipation as Hongkong. This is especially the case because the influx of population in 1869 continued into 1870.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279218, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "823\n\n248\n\n[+]\n\napparently to be used only for purposes auxiliary to the original object of the experiment, viz.: suppression of crime, or the special benefit of the race by whose peculiar infirmity that experiment was first necessitated and is now maintained.\n\n14. The purposes, therefore, to which a portion of the Special Fund has been or may be devoted, are all in accordance with the above principles. Thus extended means of education are afforded to the Chinese such as new School Houses, a Lecture Room at the Central Hall, Apparatus for conducting experiments calculated to develop an interest in practical and scientific knowledge, especially of a kind applicable to manufactures. Assistance likewise in maintaining that useful corps—the Chinese watchmen—has been given and more is promised, though, in proportion as it is assisted from without, the Chinese subscriptions for its support decline, so that ultimately I fear the corps must be dissolved at least for a time. I might also enumerate an extended classification of Interpreters and the employment, on a different system, of abler and better paid men in that capacity, so as to meet a hardship long complained of by the native population in connection with our Courts—a large contribution ($15,000) to the erection of the Chinese Hospital under Chinese management (but with due precautions), and a reimbursement to the Harbor Master's Department for loss of Revenue by abatement of Fees hitherto exacted from Chinese vessels only. Even the expense of special sanitary improvements in the physical condition of the Inhabitants of the Chinese Quarter of the City, which might otherwise have been indefinitely postponed, will be facilitated by contributions from the same source.\n\n15. In all those particulars, however, care is taken that the Special Fund shall contribute nothing, except for items over and above the Colony's ordinary previous Expenditure, for which Expenditure Her Majesty's Government is resolved that it shall raise an adequate Local Revenue. Thus under the head of Education (Page 19, Estimates 1870) you will perceive that the Expenditure having been increased, the difference only between the Expenditure in 1866, and that contemplated for 1870, viz.: $4,448, is to be taken from the Special Fund, a plan similar to that followed in the Police Estimates (Vide Estimates, Page 24).\n\n16. All these contributions to useful purposes entail a large Expenditure. Nevertheless, at the end of the current year, there will be more than $140,000 still remaining to the credit of the Special Fund, which will again commence rapidly to accumulate, unless the License Fees be considerably diminished, a policy which it would be difficult to justify, as it could only benefit the Licensees.\n\n17. Now, it is evident that no Expenditure, so effective as that adverted to for suppression of crime and the improvement, physical and moral, of the large population in our midst, can take place without reacting beneficially on this Community generally. Therefore, it may be said that the licensing system, by increasing the means of Government to effect good, directly benefits the Colony. I leave, however, to others, if any be still so inclined, to argue that such resulting advantage ought to make us abandon a policy which has effected a remarkable diminution of crime and corruption, and this, moreover, at a time when it has been raised from the level of mere experiment to that of successful Legislation. Let us hope, therefore, that the different views are now entertained by former opponents of the measure. motives of many deserved and met general sympathy whilst personally I have always regretted that none of them were able to suggest some policy more in harmony with their own opinions and yet equally effective for Police purposes. In the interim, however, they could not reasonably have expected me to abandon substantial results for theories which, however applicable elsewhere, as I readily admit them to be, seemed wholly out of place here under the circumstances.\n\n18. I have thus explained the position of the Colony towards the Special Fund so far as I can explain a subject of which many details are still unsettled, and\n\n[5]\n\nwhich you must regard as liable to re-arrangement and modification. The Council, moreover, must always regard that Fund as one which may at any moment disappear. You should, therefore, distinctly bear in mind that except for improving the Police Force, and benefitting the Chinese community, as explained above, that Fund is unavailable. Even those indirect benefits must cease in the event of a change of instructions from Her Majesty's Government or the discovery of some effective substitute for the licensing system.\n\n19. Hence, it is all the more desirable that you should keenly scrutinize the state of your finances, and see whether any diminution of expenditure, either on your Establishments or otherwise, can be effected without detriment to the Public Service, so that you may gradually lessen your permanent annual charges, and release a portion of your Revenue now absorbed thereby.\n\n20. I am aware that such economies seem easiest to those who know least of the work and duties of the various Departments. For example, a reformer of our Police would on inquiry be probably surprised to find, that in the day time 32 beats have to be patrolled, and the men relieved at the end of each six hours, and that 92 beats at night have to be similarly manned and relieved, whilst from five to nine boats and their crews are kept always on duty and relieved night and day, at stated periods, in the harbor, as also that a Gaol guard of 23 has to be daily provided and Patrols furnished along a distance of 10 miles. To all these must be added special duties, which require daily some 50 men, independent of the outstations beyond the City, which must likewise be guarded and patrolled. He would also have to make an allowance for men in Hospital, and from the severity of the duty, they number 50 per cent more in the Police at present than in the Military.\n\n21. Such a reformer would thus learn how it is that a necessity for meeting numerous duties entails a corresponding necessity for paying a numerous force, and that no mere improvement in its quality can dispense with the primary want of many men to do duty in many different places at the same time.\n\n22. So far from the Superintendent of Police considering the Police sufficient in numbers, he complained to me last May that at night \"in the Central part of the town, 31 men had to perform the duty laid down in the 'Section Book' for 61,\" and that so few constables could be spared for the outlying villages \"that adequate daily explorations of the adjacent hills were impossible.\" The Estimates before you, therefore, propose an increase as well in number as in quality, provision being made for a total of 717 instead of 643 whilst the number of Europeans will be increased from 112 to 146, and the Expenditure from $183,000 to $202,000. That sum, however, does not include the expense of gratuities and passages for 30 men from England, who if procurable at all, which is very doubtful, will cost the Colony £3,000 before they have done an hour's duty.\n\n23. With the proposed Telegraphs, and when the additional outstations now building are completed, may perhaps be found that a smaller Force can do the duty. I nevertheless see little prospect of your ever having a Police Force at once effective and cheap. I know no place where it would be so difficult to realize such an anticipation as Hongkong. This is especially the case because the influx of criminals from the adjoining turbulent Provinces, which differ entirely in the character of their population from that of the natives of the Straits or Shanghai, is regulated by circumstances beyond your control, and the course of which you can only watch, whilst keeping yourselves ever on the alert and the defensive, as though in a normal state of siege.\n\n24. Moreover, at this distance from England and in this climate, temperance and honesty in Europeans command an exorbitant premium, and unluckily when\n\n2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279344, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 380, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "Expenditure\n\nMiscellaneous Departments\n\nConnor\n\nMemorandum explaining Alteration of Estimates as to Expenditure\n\n \n Estimated for 1869\n Estimated for 1870\n Increase/Decrease\n \n \n \n \n Explanatory Remarks\n \n \n 375\n 1480\n 44.80\n \n \n Colonial Secretary\n Colonial Treasurer\n \n \n \n 15742\n 14576\n 1,256\n \n \n The decrease is in Salaries, allowances, Contingencies Rent for Interpreters,\n \n \n 6216\n 4620\n 1,596\n \n \n The Staff has been reduced by one desk and a Shroff\n \n \n 11,247\n 12,447\n 1,200\n \n \n The aid of a Clerk has been given to this department\n \n \n Auditor\n Several Members of Council\n \n \n \n Surveyor General\n Postmaster General\n \n \n \n Registrar General\n \n \n \n \n 100\n 1001\n \n \n \n 19696\n 19912\n 216\n \n \n 933\n 8412\n \n \n \n 288\n \n \n \n \n 34,365.33\n 43,432\n \n \n \n 26,141 60\n 15,396.80\n \n \n \n Harbor Master\n \n \n \n \n Collector of Stamp Revenue\n \n \n \n \n 4,600\n 4430\n 150\n \n \n Carried forward\n 126,741.60\n 113,765.80\n \n \n \n 126741.60\n 13765.80\n \n\nA European overseer and Watchman have been engaged at a cost of $816 as saving off book having accrued from the Salary fourth. This decrease is chiefly for rent at Gotohanna where a Part offer is being licensed.\n\nOn allowance for chair hire to the Registrar General\n\nThis is 10,744 808 The aid of $10,000 from the Special Fund accounts chiefly for this decrease, but the Charges have also been lessened by the removal of two Constables at Stanley, and a decrease in rent & contingencies\n\nthe department has been reduced by $150\n\nThe requisition from for contingencies- 1704-14679.80", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279350, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "384\n\n381\n\n[4]\n\napparently to be used only for purposes auxiliary to the original object of the experiment, viz.: suppression of crime, or the special benefit of the race by whose peculiar infirmity that experiment was first necessitated and is now maintained.\n\n14. The purposes, therefore, to which a portion of the Special Fund has been or may be devoted, are all in accordance with the above principles. Thus extended means of education are afforded to the Chinese such as new School Houses, a Lecture Room at the Central Hall, Apparatus for conducting experiments calculated to develop an interest in practical and scientific knowledge, especially of a kind applicable to manufactures. Assistance likewise in maintaining that useful corps- the Chinese watchmen--has been given and more is promised, though, in proportion as it is assisted from without, the Chinese subscriptions for its support decline, so that ultimately I fear the corps must be dissolved at least for a time. I might also enumerate an extended classification of Interpreters and the employment, on a different system, of abler and better paid men in that capacity, so as to meet a hardship long complained of by the native population in connection with our Courts a large contribution ($15,000) to the erection of the Chinese Hospital under Chinese management (but with due precautions),—and a reimbursement to the Harbor Master's Department for loss of Revenue by abatement of Fees hitherto exacted from Chinese vessels only. Even the expense of special sanitary improvements in the physical condition of the Inhabitants of the Chinese Quarter of the City, which might otherwise have been indefinitely postponed, will be facilitated by contributions from the same source.\n\n15. In all those particulars, however, care is taken that the Special Fund shall contribute nothing, except for items over and above the Colony's ordinary previous Expenditure, for which Expenditure Her Majesty's Government is resolved that it shall raise an adequate Local Revenue. Thus under the head of Education (Page 19, Estimates 1870) you will perceive that the Expenditure having been increased, the difference only between the Expenditure in 1866, and that contemplated for 1870, viz.: $4,448, is to be taken from the Special Fund, a plan similar to that followed in the Police Estimates (Vide Estimates, Page 24).\n\n16. All these contributions to useful purposes entail a large Expenditure. Nevertheless, at the end of the current year, there will be more than $140,000 still remaining to the credit of the Special Fund, which will again commence rapidly to accumulate, unless the License Fees be considerably diminished, a policy which it would be difficult to justify, as it could only benefit the Licensees.\n\n17. Now, it is evident that no Expenditure, so effective as that adverted to for suppression of crime and the improvement, physical and moral, of the large population in our midst, can take place without reacting beneficially on this Community generally. Therefore, it may be said that the licensing system, by increasing the means of Government to effect good, directly benefits the Colony. I leave, however, to others, if any be still so inclined, to argue that such resulting advantage ought to make us abandon a policy which has effected a remarkable diminution of crime and corruption, and this, moreover, at a time when it has been raised from the level of mere experiment to that of successful Legislation. Let us hope, therefore, that different views are now entertained by former opponents of the measure. The motives of many deserved and met general sympathy whilst personally I have always regretted that none of them were able to suggest some policy more in harmony with their own opinions and yet equally effective for Police purposes. In the interim, however, they could not reasonably have expected me to abandon substantial results for theories which however applicable elsewhere, as I readily admit them to be, seemed wholly out of place here under the circumstances.\n\n18. I have thus explained the position of the Colony towards the Special Fund so far as I can explain a subject of which many details are still unsettled, and\n\n[5]\n\nwhich you must regard as liable to re-arrangement and modification. The Council, moreover, must always regard that Fund as one which may at any moment disappear. You should, therefore, distinctly bear in mind that except for improving the Police Force, and benefitting the Chinese community, as explained above, that Fund is unavailable. Even those indirect benefits must cease in the event of a change of instructions from Her Majesty's Government or the discovery of some effective substitute for the licensing system.\n\n19. Hence, it is all the more desirable that you should keenly scrutinize the state of your finances, and see whether any diminution of expenditure, either on your Establishments or otherwise, can be effected without detriment to the Public Service, so that you may gradually lessen your permanent annual charges, and release a portion of your Revenue now absorbed thereby.\n\n20. I am aware that such economies seem easiest to those who know least of the work and duties of the various Departments. For example a reformer of our Police would on inquiry be probably surprised to find, that in the day time 32 beats have to be patrolled, and the men relieved at the end of each six hours, and that 92 beats at night have to be similarly manned and relieved, whilst from five to nine boats and their crews are kept always on duty and relieved night and day, at stated periods, in the harbor, as also that a Gaol guard of 23 has to be daily provided and Patrols furnished along a distance of 10 miles. To all these must be added special duties, which require daily some 50 men, independent of the outstations beyond the City, which must likewise be guarded and patrolled. He would also have to make an allowance for men in Hospital, and from the severity of the duty, they number 50 per cent more in the Police at present than in the Military.\n\n21. Such a reformer would thus learn how it is that a necessity for meeting numerous duties entails a corresponding necessity for paying a numerous force, and that no mere improvement in its quality can dispense with the primary want of many men to do duty in many different places at the same time.\n\n22. So far from the Superintendent of Police considering the Police sufficient in numbers, he complained to me last May that at night \"in the Central part of the town, 31 men had to perform the duty laid down in the Section Book for 61,” and that so few constables could be spared for the outlying villages \"that adequate daily explorations of the adjacent hills were impossible.\" The Estimates before you, therefore, propose an increase as well in number as in quality, provision being made for a total of 717 instead of 643 whilst the number of Europeans will be increased from 112 to 146, and the Expenditure from $183,000 to $202,000. That sum, however, does not include the expense of gratuities and passages for 30 men from England, who if procurable at all, which is very doubtful, will cost the Colony £3,000 before they have done an hour's duty.\n\n23. With the proposed Telegraphs, and when the additional outstations now building are completed, it may perhaps be found that a smaller Force can do the duty. I nevertheless see little prospect of your ever having a Police Force at once effective and cheap. I know no place where it would be so difficult to realize such an anticipation as Hongkong. This is especially the case because the influx of criminals from the adjoining turbulent Provinces, which differ entirely in the character of their population from that of the natives of the Straits or Shanghai, is regulated by circumstances beyond your control, and the course of which you can only watch, whilst keeping yourselves ever on the alert and the defensive, as though in a normal state of siege.\n\n24. Moreover, at this distance from England and in this climate, temperance and honesty in Europeans command an exorbitant premium, and unluckily when", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279587, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 623, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "apparently to be used only for purposes auxiliary to the original object of the experiment, viz.: suppression of crime, or the special benefit of the race by whose peculiar infirmity that experiment was first necessitated and is now maintained.\n\n14. The purposes, therefore, to which a portion of the Special Fund has been or may be devoted, are all in accordance with the above principles. Thus extended means of education are afforded to the Chinese such as new School Houses, a Lecture Room at the Central Hall, Apparatus for conducting experiments calculated to develop an interest in practical and scientific knowledge, especially of a kind applicable to manufactures. Assistance likewise in maintaining that useful corps- the Chinese watchmen-has been given and more is promised, though, in proportion as it is assisted from without, the Chinese subscriptions for its support decline, so that ultimately I fear the corps must be dissolved at least for a time. I might also enumerate an extended classification of Interpreters and the employment, on a different system, of abler and better paid men in that capacity, so as to meet a hardship long complained of by the native population in connection with our Courts a large contribution ($15,000) to the erection of the Chinese Hospital under Chinese management (but with due precautions),—and a reimbursement to the Harbor Master's Department for loss of Revenue by abatement of Fees hitherto exacted from Chinese vessels only. Even the expense of special sanitary improvements in the physical condition of the Inhabitants of the Chinese Quarter of the City, which might otherwise have been indefinitely postponed, will be facilitated by contributions from the same source.\n\n15. In all those particulars, however, care is taken that the Special Fund shall contribute nothing, except for items over and above the Colony's ordinary previous Expenditure, for which Expenditure Her Majesty's Government is resolved that it shall raise an adequate Local Revenue. Thus under the head of Education (Page 19, Estimates 1870) you will perceive that the Expenditure having been increased, the difference only between the Expenditure in 1866, and that contemplated for 1870, viz.: $4,448, to be taken from the Special Fund, a plan similar to that followed in the Police Estimates (Vide Estimates, Page 24).\n\n16. All these contributions to useful purposes entail a large Expenditure. Nevertheless, at the end of the current year, there will be more than $140,000 still remaining to the credit of the Special Fund, which will again commence rapidly to accumulate, unless the License Fees be considerably diminished, a policy which it would be difficult to justify, as it could only benefit the Licensees.\n\n17. Now, it is evident that no Expenditure, so effective as that adverted to for suppression of crime and the improvement, physical and moral, of the large population in our midst, can take place without reacting beneficially on this Community generally. Therefore, it may be said that the licensing system, by increasing the means of Government to effect good, directly benefits the Colony. I leave, however, to others, if any be still so inclined, to argue that such resulting advantage ought to make us abandon a policy which has effected a remarkable diminution of crime and corruption, and this, moreover, at a time when it has been raised from the level of mere experiment to that of successful Legislation. Let us hope, therefore, that The different views are now entertained by former opponents of the measure. motives of many deserved and met general sympathy whilst personally I have always regretted that none of them were able to suggest some policy more in harmony with their own opinions and yet equally effective for Police purposes. In the interim, however, they could not reasonably have expected me to abandon substantial results for theories which however applicable elsewhere, as I readily admit them to be, seemed wholly out of place here under the circumstances.\n\n18. I have thus explained the position of the Colony towards the Special Fund so far as I can explain a subject of which many details are still unsettled, and\n\nPage 5\n\n614\n\nThe Council,\n\nwhich you must regard as liable to re-arrangement and modification. moreover, must always regard that Fund as one which may at any moment disappear. You should, therefore, distinctly bear in mind that except for improving the Police Force, and benefitting the Chinese community, as explained above, that Fund is unavailable. Even those indirect benefits must cease in the event of a change of instructions from Her Majesty's Government or the discovery of some effective substitute for the licensing system.\n\n19. Hence, it is all the more desirable that you should keenly scrutinize the state of your finances, and see whether any diminution of expenditure, either on your Establishments or otherwise, can be effected without detriment to the Public Service, so that you may gradually lessen your permanent annual charges, and release a portion of your Revenue now absorbed thereby,\n\n20. I am aware that such economies seem easiest to those who know least of the work and duties of the various Departments. For example a reformer of our Police would on inquiry he probably surprised to find, that in the day time 32 beats have to be patrolled, and the men relieved at the end of each six hours, and that 92 beats at night have to be similarly manned and relieved, whilst from five to nine boats and their crews are kept always on duty and relieved night and day, at stated periods, in the harbor, as also that a Gaol guard of 23 has to be daily provided and Patrols furnished along a distance of 10 miles. To all these must be added special duties, which require daily some 50 men, independent of the outstations beyond the City, which must likewise be guarded and patrolled. He would also have to make an allowance for men in Hospital, and from the severity of the duty, they number 50 per cent more in the Police at present than in the Military,\n\n*\n\n21 Such a reformer would thus learn how it is that a necessity for meeting numerous duties entails a corresponding necessity for paying a numerous force, and that no mere improvement in its quality can dispense with the primary want of many men to do duty in many different places at the same time.\n\n22. So far from the Superintendent of Police considering the Police sufficient in numbers, he complained to me last May that at night \"in the Central part of the town, 31 men had to perform the duty laid down in the 'Section Book' for 61,\" \"that and that so few constables could be spared for the outlying villages adequate daily explorations of the adjacent hills were impossible.\" The Estimates before you, therefore, propose an increase as well in number as in quality, provision being made for a total of 717 instead of 643 whilst the number of Europeans will be increased from 112 to 146, and the Expenditure from $183,000 to $202,000. That sum, however, does not include the expense of gratuities and passages for 30 men from England, who if procurable at all, which is very doubtful, will cost the Colony £3,000 before they have done an hour's duty.\n\n23. With the proposed Telegraphs, and when the additional outstations now building are completed, it may perhaps be found that a smaller Force can do the duty. I nevertheless see little prospect of your ever having a Police Force at once effective and cheap. I know no place where it would be so difficult to realize such an anticipation as Hongkong. This is especially the case because the influx of criminals from the adjoining turbulent Provinces, which differ entirely in the character of their population from that of the natives of the Straits or Shanghai, is regulated by circumstances beyond your control, and the course of which you can only watch, whilst keeping yourselves ever on the alert and the defensive, as though in a normal state of siege.\n\n24. Moreover, at this distance from England and in this climate, temperance and honesty in Europeans command an exorbitant premium, and unluckily when", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282494, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "content_text": "## 2\n\n### Kits: Machinery\n\nContinued.\n\n20. Inspecting Members of the Force coming to Station regulations regarding kit. At each Kit inspection for establishing a complete kit the Office inspecting is now enabled to prevent Officers and Constables unnecessarily delaying and this have proved very good, check. Hong Kong Outposts to report leaving their posts.\n\nCompare Hit with themselves at Central Station at once detect any deficiency.\n\n### Result\n\n| Object | Result |\n| --- | --- |\n| ... | ... |\n\nArming for one Duty Rolls. In preventing unnecessary delay in relieving Constables.\n\nTo prevent the objectionable Object not yet attained, Establishing rule practice of inspecting although a great al[ly] of the Town being on from 10 p.m. to 6 am and one third from 4 to 10 p.m.\n\n21. Great Guards regularly. No complaint made. Clearly an improvement has been made. Constables being in charge of Sections, Medical Inspection.\n\nTo ensure regular Establishing rule of attendance, for!\n\n13 Removed of sick person picked up by the Police, & To ensure the greatest care and attention being paid by Members of the Force in all such cases.\n\nSince promulgation of this order. Old stretchers, improved on, and no complaint since the issue of this order.\n\n### Sick Book\n\nTo be kept so that the Superintendent at Central Station may see every morning what men are on the Sick List and establishing form of restricted. This change was made Result was satisfactory a temporary measure to prevent viz: in preventing the numerous robberies committed during the night time. Duty in improved by this arrangement is too severe. Also means to provide for a guard number of Constables being constantly within the walls of the Prison and walled for these Kalis.\n\n# \n2 framed Complaints. Now the men more on duty satisfied, and the duties efficiently sufficient times to rest, and to the third performed. food.\n\n### Inspectors relief\n\nIn order to ensure the Object Changing have attendance of one of these from 7 to 8 AM. Officers at Caplanes, Superintendent's Officer, during time of disposing of Defaulters.\n\n**Object attained**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 285708, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "page_number": 322, "title": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "content_text": "## \nMy object is not to find fault with this gentleman, who according to his training and lights, doubtless does his best. Knowledge is power, and at the same time, we are told by \"education men become easy to lead, but hard to drive.\" But I cannot imagine the Superintendent employing his leisure hours in examining the proficiency of his men in Greek or attainments in Mathematics, or on this barren island finding a suitable field for the display of the hunting knowledge of his deputy.\n\n321\n\nAppointments like these bring forcibly back to my mind the qualification necessary in former times for applicants for the situation of cook on board a man-of-war. It was that the seaman applying for the situation must needs have a wooden leg. We may smile at such a qualification, but my authority is MICHAEL SCOTT, the talented author of Tom Cringle's Log, and in this Colony many appointments have been made with as little regard to any ability needed to fulfil the requirements of the several situations.\n\nWhat I now propose is, that the Government should take immediate steps to rid the Colony of the present Police and officers, and substituting say, 400 Englishmen, including a proportionate number of energetic Sergeants and Inspectors, and one Superintendent to command the whole, and invested with full authority.\n\nIt has been said that Europeans are open to bribery. This, for the sake of argument, I will grant, but it must be borne in mind that the faults as well as merits of the men are dependent in a measure on the discretion and talent of their officers, and little can be expected from any class unless they have full confidence in their leaders. Take, as an example, the Irish constabulary, living among Fenians, their loyalty is without stain, and for efficiency they are unsurpassed in the whole Empire and our Protectors would and should attain the same high standard if encouragement were given to those who did their duty, and a further reward to those attaining a moderate knowledge of the native tongue.\n\nLet not, however, my idea of encouragement be misunderstood. I do not mean that any of the force possessing a knowledge of Cantonese should be foisted into the posts of Acting Colonial Secretary, Magistrate, Acting Harbor Master or Sheriff or even rewarded by the gift of a waggonette. No, if any man attained through his diligence a knowledge of Chinese, then if his character proved good, let him be made an officer; or if his attainments justified the appointment make him an Interpreter in the Supreme or Magistrate's Court, - posts I may mention formerly intended to be filled by student Interpreters.\n\nThe Police in Edinburgh are chiefly recruited from men of some education and sons of small farmers, and are in receipt of £1.3.0 per week, while in London and other principal towns the pay is £1 to £1.5.0.\n\nAs the census of this Colony shows little change in the last ten years, I estimate the population at 116,000. Therefore 400 good men and officers would be ample for the service, and their pay might be apportioned thus:\n\n| Position | Number | Pay per person | Total Pay |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Superintendent | 1 | $3,840 | $3,840 |\n| Assistant | 1 | $1,920 | $1,920 |\n| Clerks | 2 | $1,080 | $2,160 |\n| Inspectors | 3 | $840 | $2,520 |\n| Inspectors | 3 | $720 | $2,160 |\n| Sergeants | 20 | $372 | $7,440 |\n| Men | 70 | $336 | $23,520 |\n| Men | 150 | $312 | $46,800 |\n| Men | 150 | $288 | $43,200 |\n\n$133,560\n\nbut we have to add passage money from England, say:\n| Position | Number | Passage Money per person | Total Passage Money |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Officers | 4 | £50 | £200 |\n| Inspectors | 6 | £35 | £210 |\n| Men | 370 | £20 | £7,400 |\n| | | | £7,810 ex. 4/4 |\n\n$36,046.15, making a total of $169,606.15 or $32,405.85 less than we are paying at the present time, but in future years in addition to having an efficient force, it will be perceived the retrenchment would benefit the Colony to the extent of $68,152 per annum.\n\nMy motives in bringing the subject to the notice of the public will not, I trust, be misunderstood. I simply attempt to point out one of the many abuses existing in this hitherto ill-governed Colony. Few, I believe, are aware that at the present time there are 92 officers and 31 coolies to watch over the well doing of 630 Constables,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 285734, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "page_number": 348, "title": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "content_text": "# POLICE FORCE\n\n10. The state of the Police Force calls for early and most serious consideration.\n\n11. The present plan of enlisting men from all quarters of the world throws great obstacles in the way of efficiently employing the Force. So many prejudices of color, caste, and nationality have to be overcome, so great difficulties arise with reference to quarters and cooking arrangements, and so the petty internal jealousies are nurtured, that all spirit of mutual co-operation for the good of the Police is lost.\n\n12. It is generally admitted that the peculiar situation and climate of the Colony cause difficulties in the selection of a Police Force; but these difficulties are materially increased by the results shown in Table C. From this, it appears that vacancies in the European and West Indian Force occur at the rate of 50 per cent per annum, in the Sikh and Indian Force at the rate of 13 per cent per annum, and in the Chinese at the rate of 9 per cent.\n\n13. Moreover, out of six Constables specially selected at Scotland Yard for their sobriety and steadiness, no less than three were dismissed in less than three years. The time of service of the remaining three, now Inspectors and valuable officers, expires in April 1872; as does also that of 11 Sikhs and Indians in May 1872; of whom 70 will probably leave of their own accord. At the time, there are no European, West or East Indians in the Colony suitable and eligible as recruits.\n\n14. With reference to the several Nationalities in the Force, Europeans appear to be unable to refrain from excessive drinking; the West Indians, with four or five exceptions, are found to be almost worthless owing to their stupidity and other bad qualities. These men, however, having previously lived in the Colony without employment, are not fair specimens of their race. The Sikhs continue to be most useful in cases of assault and arrests for drunkenness, but their want of knowledge of English continues a drawback. The same, in a lesser degree, applies to the Indians, but among both are men who have made great progress in English and Chinese.\n\n15. I regret that on the division of Lokongs into classes during the past year, the pay of the fourth class was reduced to $7 per mensem. This has led to the enlistment of inferior men. Formerly, I had at least 10 or 12 applicants for each vacancy; now, the outside number is two. The result is that information is not obtained as readily as before, and I shall probably have to apply that several of the present Force be dismissed.\n\n16. I enclose a Table (D) of Police Defaulters.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS\n\n17. The establishment of telegraphic communication between the various Stations has proved very useful and has enabled me to reduce the number of horses. Wires are still wanted to No. (Fire Brigade) Station.\n\n18. The difficulties usually attendant on the detection of crime are in this Colony materially increased by the absence of any information from the Gaol. The arrest of one member of a gang ought to be followed by its entire break-up, but here no information is given. The establishment of a large Pawnbroker's shop just outside our territory at Kowloon affords a convenient place for the disposal of miscellaneous stolen property; whilst watches are readily purchased at the numerous single watchmakers in the Colony and are then sent out of Hongkong.\n\n19. At the Central Station, the want of proper cook-houses, latrines, lavatories, and stables, complained of for so long a time, still continues.\n\n20. I enclose a Table (E) comparing crime with that committed in 1868 and 1869. It should be borne in mind that Tables A and E contain, as in previous years, all cases reported, as well as those in which arrests are made.\n\n21. I also enclose the Deputy Superintendent's Report (F) on the Stables.\n\n22. I am indebted to Mr. WILLCOCKS for the enclosed Report (G) on the Police Schools.\n\n23. Table II shows the disposition of the Force on the 15th instant.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nW. M. DEANE,\n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police,\n\nThe Honorable J. GARDINER AUSTIN,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nHONGKONG.\n\n## TABLE A\n\nRETURN OF SERIOUS and MINOR OFFENCES reported to have been committed during the Year 1870, with Results of such Reports.\n\n| Offence | Europeans and Americans | Indians | Chinese | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Robbery with Violence from the Person | 2 | 1 | 39 | 50 |\n| Burglary and Forcible Entry into Dwelling House | 2 | 1 | 111 | 240 |\n| Robbery with Intent to rob | | | 2 | 2 |\n| Larceny | 78 | 389 | 1,886 | 1,021 |\n| Felonies not already given | | | 654 | 264 |\n| Kidnapping | | | 686 | 507 |\n| Assault | 1,614 | 615 | 36 | |\n| Gambling | | | | |\n| Unlawful Possession | | | | |\n| Piracy | | | | |\n| Sudden Death | | | | |\n| Miscellaneous Offences | 1,886 | 1,021 | 654 | 2,179 |\n| TOTAL | | | | 5,151 |\n\n* There are also 18 Cases of Robberies in Chinese Waters reported during the Year.\n\nThis Column includes Breaches of Public Vehicle, Spirits, Opium, Junk, Ordinances, &c., Unlicensed Hawking, Desertion, Refusal of Duty, Damaging Property, &c., &c.\n\nPolice Department, Hongkong, 30th January, 1871.\n\nW. M. DEANE,\n\nCaptain Superintendent.\n\n| Month | Europeans and Americans | Indians | Chinese | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| January | 12 | 06 | 33 | |\n| February | 1 | 16 | 79 | 169 |\n| March | | | 285 | 24 |\n| April | 87 | | 565 | 150 |\n| May | | | 120 | 30 |\n| June | | | 1929 | 117 |\n| July | 324 | 180 | 144 | 25 |\n| August | 223 | 167 | 56 | 312 |\n| September | 841 | | | 4251 |\n| October | 812 | 116 | | 812 |\n| November | 227 | | | 116 |\n| December | 296 | 106 | 109 | 3 |\n| TOTAL | | | | |\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287015, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "Form of Order\n\nSubject\n\nObject\n\nResult\n\nNature of Articles\n\nReplaceable\n\nReported by Superintendent (Mt. Davis)\n\nCondition Unsatisfactory\n\nVerification, be checked by the Superintendent and the lists kept in \"the order book\" and alterations are to be made therein unless by the authority of the Superintendent.\n\nInspectors, Inspectors and Sergeants will send to the Superintendent, once a year by the 20th of each \"expiring\" year as prescribed - made east on or before the last day of the preceding month.\n\nBlue testicles become\n\nI\n\nOdin Barracks, 24.3.70\n\nF\n\nSectionised\n\nRepairable\n\nTotal\n\nReturns,\n\nAct. Bes: Supt\n\nA List of all Government property at the various stations is to be made out-\n\nThis list, which is renewable as they are to be preserved to the time; as things they cannot be \"replaced until authorised by competent authority. As a rule, requisitions for articles from the stores are only to be made when they are invariably to accompany the articles not forming a portion of the kit and appointments is sent to the store.\n\nIt will be the duty of the Officers in charge of the Stations to minutely examine all articles to be shown out in the Returns attached to General Memorandum of 21st April will any person\n\nreturns sent in on the 2nd of each month.\n\n\"The correctness of Ammunition need during the month. The Stores at least once a week, reporting all damage found to have been committed and\n\nOn the 3rd Proximo, an abstract or \"is to be placed over page requisitions; so that a precise quantity notifying such on the Station List : similar.\n\nsay \"may be supplied to keep up the Stock.\n\nthe same date of each succeeding month a return for each Station is to be sent to this Office.\n\nAll unserviceable\n\n\"requisitions are to be made out on Form 52.\n\n+2. of Police Orders oft seq.\n\nKits - making regulations so as to ensure each one\n\nfor and establishing a\n\n4\n\nForm 53. –\n\nbe kept in a complete\n\nOrder\n\nOfficer, having the supervision of all the\n\n\"and where\n\nHave Lists and\n\n\"Returns are to be made out by the Inspectors for these Stations under their immediate charge, Sergeants one in charge under Inspectors it will be sufficient for the latter officers to sign such Lists and returns - this couching for this condition. Lists and \"returns for Stations under the sole charge of Sergeants\n\n\"by such as are in charge.\n\nand Constables are to be made out\n\n\"Muun articles being perishable. they are to be returned to the Store ; as they \"cannot be replaced until concurred by competent authority. As a rule Requisitions\n\n\"for Articles from the time being only to be made quarterly and they are invariably to accompany\n\n\"the Reliaus peat ice on the 3rd of each, month .-\n\n\"\n\nlavitte\n\nThe comment of Ammunition used during the month, to be noted on pack \"requisitions so that a similar quantity may be supplied to keep up the stock.\n\n• All high officials are held responsible for all Articles of Clothing and Appointments, supplied to these, still it is the duty of the Inspectors and Sergeants. that they are kept in good and serviceable condition.\n\nunserviceable\n\nDefect Attained_\n\n4\n\nto tu\n\n(ed). I. Hitzhey have. Act. Def 2 Supt. 12.00 April 1878.\n\nThis is a palpable order.\n\nIt refers largely to details\n\nAt least his inspections which it is the Special duty of the Assistant Superintendent this officer inspecting to extend to . of Cedar Dept. 1862.\n\nis you enabled to\n\ncompare his with\n\nClothing light and, at once, detect any deficiency.\n\nPage 138", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287020, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "Form of Oath\n\nAffirmation\n\nSubject\n\nM... Mist Jendian Sargeant.\n\nS. 20. Sitle Constable\n\nS.leap\n\n6.2.\n\nCorporal\n\nSergeant\n\nI. ll. Indians Constable\n\nCorporal\n\n1.3.\n\nSugrant\n\nle.le. Chinese Constable\n\nResult\n\nRemarks by Inspecting Officer (14 10:9enne). -\n\n6. hap\n\n6.8.\n\n34.\n\nPolice Sclerol\n\n35.\n\n366.\n\nCorporal.\n\nSergeant,\n\nBenulgating rules for\n\nImprovement of and regularity of\n\nattendance\n\nI can find nothing essentially new in this order.\n\nDefaulters Book.\n\n7 Jan 1870. 9th. 157. Akbar Khanen - about farm School - Jail - Pre\n\nTelegraph . Working of Reestablishing Rules to save them at fourtent regulent __ This is part\n\nby Doline.\n\nHere for Recruits -\n\nestablishing fell and complete. inline\n\nof these incomplete..\n\n- proclamation of the alles suvers that will be an Efficient staff of 1 telate. 6e Suspectes. 16. feuil, on the completion of the Telegraph, Offers as Telegraph and Signallers' despatch and\n\nCorporals.\n\nTo procure all necessary\n\ninformation relating to a candidate, being taken in writing.\n\nConstables.\n\nacting\n\n04\n\nLe clerks...\n\nG\n\nBy this explius no platt Ihes original Stars is fixed by Gect: 9 of 1862. Schedule\n\nbe able se cases of B. and most herefore be retained so long as that deaths of Members Uxetinence is in face. -\n\nof the Departurect - \" to communicate with the unant relations,\n\nThere is no\n\nobjection to the extra delicits _ but the\n\nis at present coutrous; as the saun seguitten on bette sides of the\n\nlette sides of the page..\n\n& fento\n\nGre\n\nHaw\n\nPolice Brusanks, Herang Horny\n\n30th Denver 1307.\n\n\"\n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police.\n\n113\n\nPage 113", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288375, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "page_number": 320, "title": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "content_text": "(308 (36)\n\n2. These certificates will not of themselves entitle the holders of them to promotion, but they will be taken in addition to, and be considered of equal weight with proficiency in Police Duties.\n\n3. The certificates will be two in number: the first for the rank of Corporal, and the second for that of Inspector.\n\n4. Examinations for the granting of certificates will be held in the Library of the Police Barracks at such times as may be found necessary.\n\n5. These Examinations will be open to all members of the Force whether in attendance at the Police school or not.\n\n6. The following is the scheme of Examination :-\n\nA. FOR CORPORAL'S CERTIFICATE.\n\n1. Handwriting,\n\n2. Dictation,\n\n3. Arithmetic,\n\n4. Composition sufficient for keeping Occurrence Book,\n\n5. Duties of Constable,\n\n6. Knowledge of Town and Sections,\n\n7. Knowledge of Police Regulations,\n\n8. Knowledge of Drill,\n\n(N.B. In Arithmetic, 40 marks will be allotted to the first four rules.)\n\n \n No. of marks.\n \n \n \n 50\n \n \n \n 50\n \n \n \n 75\n \n \n \n 75\n \n \n \n 75\n \n \n \n 75\n \n \n \n 25\n \n \n \n Total, 500\n \n \n\nB. FOR INSPECTOR'S CERTIFICATE.\n\n1. Dictation\n\n2. Arithmetic (including mental Arithmetic)\n\n3. Geography (especially that of the Colony and adjoining Province)\n\n4. Composition (sufficient for Official Reports and correct transmission of Telegram)\n\n5. Knowledge of General Order Book,\n\n6. Ordinances relating to Police matters,\n\n7. Languages, or Telegraphy,\n\n(N.B. Sec. 7, \"Languages or Telegraphy\" is not obligatory.)\n\n \n No. of marks.\n \n \n 150\n \n \n 100\n \n \n 100\n \n \n 150\n \n \n 150\n \n \n 200\n \n \n 150\n \n \n Total, 1,000\n \n\n7. No competitor will receive a certificate unless he obtains two thirds of the total number of marks (Section 7 for Inspector's certificate excluded).\n\n8. In the case of Corporals and Sergeants who have attended the Police School, special weight will be attached in their Certificates to regularity of attendance, diligence, progress, and good conduct while at school.\n\n9. Attendance at School will be taken into consideration in granting certificates for promotion.\n\n10. Indian and Chinese Constables obtaining Certificates of a competent knowledge of English will be recommended for good conduct or Inspector's allowances.\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. M. DEANE.\n\nC. V. CREAGH.\n\nF. STEWART.\n\nA. LISTER,\n\nSchool Committee.\n\n(37)\n\nAPPENDIX O.\n\nHONOURABLE C. MAY'S SCHEME OF RELIEFS AND DUTY FOR POLICE.\n\nMEMORANDUM\n\nHONGKONG, 22nd March, 1872.\n\nfor the information of the Commission appointed to enquire into matters connected with the Police of the Colony.\n\nSuggestions with regard to the duties in the City of Victoria exclusive of Water Police, Detachments at Villages, Gaol Guard, or special duties at Government Departments.\n\nTotal estimated strength apart from Superior Officers.\n\n46 European Serjeants and Constables.\n\n360 Sikh or Indian Serjeants and Constables.\n\nThe City to be divided into Sub-divisions, Sections, and (Day and Night) duty Beats.\n\nDay Duty.\n\nDistrict divided into four Sections and about fifty-four beats.\n\nOne-third of the total European and Sikh and Indian forces to be told off for day duty, European Constables to have charge of Sections and two principal wharves, in two Reliefs, first from 6 a.m. until 12 noon; second, from noon until 6 p.m.\n\nSikh and Indian Force. 1st Relief from 6 a.m. until 10 a.m., 60 men; 2nd do. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 60; 1st do. to go on duty again from 2 until 6 p.m.\n\nThe 1st Relief would be strengthened for one hour (viz., from 6 until 7 a.m.) by one third of the 2nd Relief; this extra duty would occur to each day duty man once in six days, and the 1st Relief from 6 until 10 a.m. by the 1st Relief of the European night duty as follows:-\n\nNight Duty.\n\nComposed of two-thirds of the European and Sikh and Indian Forces.\n\nEuropean Night Duty,\n\n1st Relief from 6 p.m. until midnight.\n\n2nd Relief from midnight until 6 a.m.\n\nThe City extending from Hung-heung Lò (Eastward) to Shek-tong Tsui (Westward) would for the purposes of night duty be divided into four sub-divisions, ten Sections, and about 220 beats. European Serjeants or Acting Serjeants would be in charge of sub-divisions and a European Constable in charge of each Section, and in addition (as hereafter shown) an Indian or Sikh Serjeant or Indian Serjeant would be in charge of each Section.\n\nSikh and Indian Force.\n\nOne Relief from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m., ten Sections and two hundred and twenty Beats; a Serjeant or Acting Serjeant on each Section (in charge) and one Constable on each Beat.\n\nIt will be understood that by this arrangement every member of the Force, both European and Sikh or Indian, has one month on day duty and two months on night duty, and that the term of duty is for Europeans six hours out of twenty-four, and for the Sikh and Indian Force eight hours out of twenty-four, with the trifling exception of one-sixth of the Day duty having one hour additional.\n\nThe network of Beats would be so complete that it would be unnecessary to have two Constables on one Beat, neither would it be desirable to have Pickets.\n\nThis arrangement of duties is (I am certain) perfectly practicable, and is in accordance with the system adopted in the London Metropolitan Police.\n\n(Signed) C. MAY.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291088, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "content_text": "231\n\n3.\n\nThey were slow in understanding.\n\nOn the 19th March, I explained the Rules and Regulations to them on the 11th March.\n\nPage 14\n\nIn the Book of Regulations 18. 82. The following \"Each Constable shall be examined monthly by the Colonial Surgeon for the purpose of ascertaining if he be infected with venereal disease, and notwithstanding examinations, it is ordered that every Member of the Force when becoming infected, shall apply at once to the Colonial Surgeon for medical attention.\"\n\n\"Those who are ascertained to be infected at the monthly Examination; The whole of his pay will be stopped whilst he is in Hospital; but if he voluntarily reports himself, only the usual stoppage of pay for treatment will be incurred; viz :- Inspector 70 cents, European Constable 21 cents a day, Indian Constable 17 cents, Chinese Constables 13 cents a day.\"\n\nI expressly told them that if they had any complaint to make, they should speak to me at my Office concerning it.\n\nI further hear that Inspecting Grey and Hospital staff were spoken to.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291091, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "page_number": 258, "title": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "content_text": "254\n\naccepting service\n\ncajoled into accepting\n\nin this Colony and that provided\n\nthey\n\nwere\n\nthem\n\nbelieve to be led\n\naway\n\n18.\n\nThis medical examination\n\nmade\n\na\n\ndemonstration,\n\nit\n\nof little\n\nquery\n\non\n\nwhat\n\nwas\n\nmade?\n\n\"\n\nare I\n\npart of\n\nto\n\nAs to who the ringleaders\n\nonly speak at\n\nCan\n\npresent from the demeanour\n\nof\n\nThey appear to me to be.\n\n+\n\nBriarly, 20 Penn, 111 · Corcoran, 123 Costelle, and 37 Harvey; 54 Hooper, and 117 Sullivan\n\nappear\n\nto\n\nbe inclined to become contumacious,\n\nbut not to the degree of the\n\nThe rest I\n\nfour were\n\nmen.\n\naccording to the old Book\n\nof Regulations, in force so far back as in 1862. The\n\nobjection to it, that I\n\nwas made\n\nin\n\n1872. The Constables who joined\n\nfrom Scotland (CSO916/1873), and it was decided that the examination should continue; but\n\nthat greater privacy should be\n\nsecured.\n\n19.\n\nIt is also stated, but this\n\nway affects the\n\nlately joined\n\nmen\n\ntheir misconduct\n\ntook place before the examinations;", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291096, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "content_text": "6.\n\nmen\n\nwere sworn in as Constables, and on the 14th March,\n\nConsidering that they had had time to learn from the other Constables the general outlines of the Service, I explained and read out the principal Rules, Regulations, and local Ordinances that affected them and their duties.\n\n7. I unhesitatingly state\n\nthat I read out the Points\n\non enrolling - Medical inspection, and further that I added\n\nSome Comments rendered\n\ndesirable, from the Contagious Disease Ordinance being in\n\nforce in this Colony. I also told\n\nthem that I should be always happy to see any of them in\n\nmy office, should they have Complaints to make or desire advice on any point.\n\n10.\n\nOn the 16 March the printed book of Regulations was given to them. The similarity of the majority of these regulations to those of the London Police is apparent.\n\n11.\n\nOn the 15 March, Storspool advised George Brinly, who stated that he wished to be exempt from this examination,\n\nto send me an\n\napplication", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291589, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "page_number": 268, "title": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "content_text": "266 \n\n(36) \n\n2. These certificates will not of themselves entitle the holders of them to promotion, but they will be taken in addition to, and be considered of equal weight with, proficiency in Police Duties.\n\n3. The certificates will be two in number: the first for the rank of Corporal, and the second for that of Inspector.\n\n4. Examinations for the granting of certificates will be held in the Library of the Police Barracks at such times as may be found necessary.\n\n5. These Examinations will be open to all members of the Force, whether in attendance at the Police school or not.\n\n6. The following is the scheme of Examination:--\n\n## A. For Corporal's Certificate\n\n| Subject | No. of marks |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. Handwriting | 50 |\n| 2. Dictation | 75 |\n| 3. Arithmetic | 50 |\n| 4. Composition sufficient for keeping Occurrence Book | 75 |\n| 5. Duties of Constable | 75 |\n| 6. Knowledge of Town and Sections | 75 |\n| 7. Knowledge of Police Regulations | 75 |\n| 8. Knowledge of Drill | 25 |\n| Total | 500 |\n\n(N.B. In Arithmetic, 40 marks will be allotted to the first four rules.)\n\n## B. For Inspector's Certificate\n\n| Subject | No. of marks |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. Dictation | 150 |\n| 2. Arithmetic (including mental Arithmetic) | 100 |\n| 3. Geography (especially that of the Colony and adjoining Province) | 100 |\n| 4. Composition (sufficient for Official Reports and correct transmission of Telegrams) | 150 |\n| 5. Knowledge of General Order Book | 150 |\n| 6. Ordinances relating to Police matters | 200 |\n| 7. Languages, or Telegraphy | 150 |\n| Total | 1,000 |\n\n(N.B. Sec. 7, \"Languages or Telegraphy\" is not obligatory.)\n\n7. No competitor will receive a certificate unless he obtains two-thirds of the total number of marks (Section 7 for Inspector's certificate excluded).\n\n8. In the case of Corporals and Sergeants who have attended the Police School, special weight will be attached in their Certificates to regularity of attendance, diligence, progress, and good conduct while at school.\n\n9. Attendance at School will be taken into consideration in granting certificates for promotion.\n\n10. Indian and Chinese Constables obtaining Certificates of a competent knowledge of English will be recommended for good conduct or Inspector's allowances.\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. M. DEANE. \nC. V. CREAGH. \nF. STEWART. \nA. LISTER.\n\nSchool Committee.\n\n(37)\n\n## APPENDIX C.\n\n**HONOURABLE C. MAY'S SCHEME OF RELIEFS AND DUTY FOR POLICE**\n\n**MEMORANDUM**\n\nHONGKONG, 22nd March, 1872.\n\nFor the information of the Commission appointed to enquire into matters connected with the Police of the Colony.\n\nSuggestions with regard to the duties in the City of Victoria exclusive of Water Police, Detachments at Villages, Gaol Guard, or special duties at Government Departments.\n\nTotal estimated strength apart from Superior Officers:\n\n- 46 European Serjeants and Constables.\n- 360 Sikh or Indian Serjeants and Constables.\n\nThe City to be divided into Sub-divisions, Sections, and (Day and Night) duty Beats.\n\n### Day Duty\n\nDistrict divided into four Sections and about fifty-four beats. One-third of the total European and Sikh and Indian forces to be told off for day duty. European Constables to have charge of Sections and two principal wharves, in two Reliefs, first from 6 a.m. until 12 noon; second, from noon until 6 p.m.\n\n### Sikh and Indian Force\n\n- 1st Relief from 6 a.m. until 10 a.m., 60 men\n- 2nd Relief from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., 60 men\n- 1st Relief from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m., 60 men\n\nThe 1st Relief would be strengthened for one hour (viz., from 6 until 7 a.m.) by one-third of the 2nd Relief: this extra duty would occur to each day duty man once in six days, and the 1st Relief from 6 until 10 p.m. by the 1st Relief of the European night duty.\n\n### Night Duty\n\nComposed of two-thirds of the European and Sikh and Indian Forces.\n\n#### European Night Duty\n\n- 1st Relief from 6 p.m. until midnight.\n- 2nd Relief from midnight until 6 a.m.\n\nThe City extending from Hung-heung Lò (Eastward) to Shek-tong Tsui (Westward) would, for the purposes of night duty, be divided into four sub-divisions, ten Sections, and about 220 beats. European Serjeants or Acting Serjeants would be in charge of sub-divisions and a European Constable in charge of each Section, and in addition (as hereafter shown) an Indian or Sikh Serjeant would be in charge of each Section.\n\n#### Sikh and Indian Force\n\nOne Relief from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m., ten Sections and two hundred and twenty Beats; a Serjeant or Acting Serjeant on each Section (in charge) and one Constable on each Beat.\n\nIt will be understood that by this arrangement every member of the Force, both European and Sikh or Indian, has one month on day duty and two months on night duty, and that the term of duty is for Europeans six hours out of twenty-four, and for the Sikh and Indian Force eight hours out of twenty-four, with the trifling exception of one-sixth of the Day duty having one hour additional.\n\nThe network of Beats would be so complete that it would be unnecessary to have two Constables on one Beat, neither would it be desirable to have Pickets.\n\nThis arrangement of duties is (I am certain) perfectly practicable, and is in accordance with the system adopted in the London Metropolitan Police.\n\n(Signed) C. MAY.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291794, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "page_number": 473, "title": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "content_text": "## COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG\n### EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n#### FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS\n#### PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY\n#### TOTAL TO BE VOTED\n\n## SUMMARY JURISDICTION COURT\n### SALARIES:\n| Position | £ s. d. | $ | C. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Judge | 300. 0.0 | | 1,440.00 |\n| Clerk of Court | | | 720.00 |\n| Interpreter | 150. 0.0 | | |\n| Chinese Clerk and Assistant Interpreter | 178. 0.0 | | 840.00 |\n| Bailiff and Clerk | 100, 0.0 | | 480.00 |\n| Messenger | 15. 0.0 | | 72.00 |\n| **Total** | 740. 0.0 | | 8,552.00 |\n\n### TEMPORARY\n\n## CIVIL LIST\n### EDUCATIONAL\n\n| Position/Expense | £ s. d. | $ | C. | £ s. d. | $ | C. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Head Master of Central School | 500, 0.0 | | 2,400.00 | | | |\n| Assistant Masters, 2 at $1,440 | | | | 850. 0.0 | | |\n| 2 Do. do., do. | 150, 0.0 | | 720.00 | | | 240.00 |\n| Teachers of English, 2 at $430 ca. | 337.10.0 | | 1,620.00 | | | |\n| 2 at $240, and 2 at $90 each | | | | 217.10.0 | | 1,044.00 |\n| 4 Chinese Teachers, 3 at $300, 1 at $144 | | | | 550, 0.0 | | 2,640.00 |\n| 30 Do. do. | | | | 207.30.0 | | 996.00 |\n| 3 Monitors | 22.10.0 | | 108.00 | | | |\n| 1 Chinese Writer | 87.30.0 | | 180.00 | | | |\n| 8 Coolies, at $72 each | 45. 0.0 | | 216.00: | | | 24.00 |\n| Scavenger at Girl's School | 6. 0.0 | | | | | |\n| **Total Salaries** | | | | 740, 0.0 | 3,552.00 | |\n| | 2,665.0.0 | 12,792.00 | | 407.10.0 | 1,956.00 | |\n| | 3,072.30.0 | 14,748.00 | | | | |\n\n### CONTINGENCIES:\n| Expense | £ s. d. | $ | C. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Refreshments to Jurors, Compensation to Witnesses in Criminal Cases, and for interpreting Dialects | 760.16.8 | 3,659.00 | |\n| Office Furniture, and Incidental Expenses | 20.10.8 | 100.00 | |\n| Travelling Expenses | 31.5.0 | 150.00 | |\n| To Head Master for Chinese Teacher | 25.0.0 | 120.00 | |\n| To 3 Assist. at $120 each | 75.0.0 | 300.00 | |\n| Incidental Expenses, (Books, &c.) | 131.5.0 | 630.00 | |\n| Chinese Books | 187.10.0 | 900.00 | |\n| Prizes | 41.13.4 | 200.00 | |\n| Furniture | 52. 1.8 | 250.00 | |\n| Working Expenses of Laboratory | 41.13.4 | 200.00 | |\n| | 83. 0.8 | | |\n| | 41.13.4 | 200.00 | |\n\n### GRANTS IN AID\n| | £ s. d. | $ | C. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 400.00 | | 400.5.0 |\n| | 1,950.00 | | 3,610.0.0 |\n| | 17,328.00 | | 410.13.4 |\n| | 2,000.00 | | 2,377. 1.8 |\n| | 11,410.00 | | |\n\n### RENT:\n| | £ s. d. | $ | C. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Government Schools | 312.10 0 | | 1,500.00 |\n| Quarters for Assistant Masters | 150, 0.0 | | 720.00 |\n| | 462.10.0 | 2,920.00 | |\n\n## TOTAL JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST\n£1,827. 1.8 | $42,370.00\n\n## TOTAL EDUCATIONAL\n£4,480.3.4 | $21,548.00\n\n## REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES\n### SALARIES:\n| Position | £ s. d. | $ | C. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Registrar | 40. 0.0 | | 192.00 |\n| **Total** | 40. 0.0 | | 192.00 |\n\n## TOTAL REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES\n£40. 0.0 | $192.00\n\n## MEDICAL\n### CIVIL HOSPITAL\n#### SALARIES\n| Position | £ s. d. | $ | C. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Colonial Surgeon | 600.0.0 | | 2,880.00 |\n\n## ECCLESIASTICAL\n### SALARIES:\n| Position | £ s. d. | $ | C. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Colonial Chaplain | 150. 0.0 | | 720.00 |\n| Clerk | 11. 5.0 | | 54.00 |\n| Sexton | | | |\n| 2 Burial Ground Keepers at $72 each | 30. 0.0 | | 144.00 |\n| **Total** | 191. 5.0 | | 918.00 |\n\n### ALLOWANCES:\n| Position | £ s. d. | $ | C. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Superintendent | 450. 0.0 | 2,160.00 | |\n| Dispenser | 237.10.0 | 1,140.00 | |\n| 1 Wardmaster | 100. 0,0 | 480.00 | |\n| 3 do. | 182.10.0 | 876.00 | |\n| Inspector of Nuisances, (P.C.) | 150. 0.0 | 720.00 | |\n| 2nd do. do. | 123. 0.0 | 600.00 | |\n| 2 Chinese Constables | 40. 0.0 | 192.00 | |\n| 1 Brahmin Cook | 37.10.0 | 180.00 | |\n| 1 Chinese do. | 25. 0.0 | 120.00 | |\n| 5 Coolies, at $96 each | 100. 0.0 | 480.00 | |\n| Gate Keeper | 15. 0.0 | 72.00 | |\n| Scavenger | 15. 0.0 | 72.00 | |\n| To Colonial Chaplain for Conveyance | 60. 0.0 | 288.00 | |\n| 3 Coolies, at $72 each | 45. 0.0 | 216.00 | |\n| 1 Gardener | 18. 0.0 | 72.00 | |\n| 1 Female Nurse | 7.10.0 | 36.00 | |\n| | 5. 0.0 | 24.00 | |\n\n### CONTINGENCIES:\n| Expense | £ s. d. | $ | C. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Surplices, &c. | 67.10.0 | 324.00 | |\n| | 256, 5.0 | 1,230.00 | |\n\n## TOTAL ECCLESIASTICAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST\n£1,056.5.0 | $5,070,00\n£1,545.0.0 | 7,410.00\n£600.0.0 | 2,880.00\n\nPage 18 \nPage 19 \nPage 30 \nPage 470", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301349, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "page_number": 477, "title": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "content_text": "## 475 \n\n## 414 \n\n**(2)** \n\nIt is possible that there are many others, and I think it would be desirable if the attention of the Surveyor General was called to this matter with the view of suggesting some fence or parapet in case of new buildings or houses undergoing repair.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \nJAMES RUSSELL, Coroner.\n\nThe Honourable CECIL C. SMITH, \nActing Colonial Secretary, \nHongkong.\n\n**WARRANT TO SUMMON JURY**\n\nCoroner's Inquest at the New Government Civil Hospital on the Body of Fung-A-Sz, alias A-SAU, a Chinese female adult, at Four o'clock in the afternoon on this Seventeenth day of October in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-seven.\n\nTo the Captain Superintendent of Police and his assistant Constables of the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nBy virtue of my Office, these are in **HER MAJESTY'S NAME** to charge and command you that on sight hereof you Summon and Warn six able and sufficient men of the Colony personally to be and appear before me at the time and place above written, then and there to do and execute all such things as shall be given them in charge on behalf of our Sovereign Lady **THE QUEEN** touching the death of the above named person, and for your so doing this is your Warrant: and that you also attend at the time and place above mentioned to make a return of those you shall so Summon, and further to do and execute such other matters as shall be then and there enjoined you. And have you then and there this Warrant.\n\nGiven under my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of October in the year above written, \nJAMES RUSSELL, \nCoroner.\n\nSummon the following to form a panel:-\n| Number | Name |\n|--------|------|\n| (1) | P. ROSE |\n| (2) | J. JACK |\n| (3) | CONRAD H. BLUHM |\n| (4) | ROBERT F. SMITH |\n| (5) | A. G. AITKEN |\n| (6) | W. S. BAMSEY |\n\nJury:-\n| Name |\n|------|\n| JOHN JACK |\n| R. F. SMITH |\n| CONRAD H. BLUHM |\n\nThe manner of Execution of this Warrant appears by the above Schedules. The answer of \nJOSEPH WHITE, P.C., 42, Summoning Officer.\n\nI have personally examined these houses. They do not differ from others in the Chinese quarters of the City. Although the roof-slopes are very steep, many of them have hatchways on the ridges for the purpose of giving access to the tiles on which to spread and dry wash clothes. None have parapets or other protection, and the question to consider when the new Building Ordinance under preparation is submitted to His Excellency, will be whether one should forbid these hatchways as dangerous, or else compel builders to erect parapets or balustrading in lieu of eaves. The same applies to flat roofs. The smoke-holes (so called) are in reality small yards left in the rear of houses for ventilation and light and not for smoke. The following diagram of an ordinary row of Chinese houses shows these tiny yards, generally from 6 to 10 feet square, marked A, B, C, D, etc.\n\nIt was down into one of these yards that the two girls fell off the cook house roof which was flat. I cannot quite agree with Inspector Lee's statement that in all other houses the roofs are fenced round. My experience is that but comparatively few houses have this protection and that only in frail bamboos or wood which soon rots and becomes unsecure as a fence.\n\n23rd November, 1877. \nJ. M. PRICE, \nSurveyor General.\n\n**(3)**\n\nIn charge of the case-Inspector McKie.\n\nInformation of Witnesses severally taken and acknowledged on behalf of our Sovereign Lady **THE QUEEN**, at the House known as the Government Civil Hospital, in Victoria in the said Colony, on the 17th day of October, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-seven, before JAMES RUSSELL, Gentleman, Coroner for the said Colony, touching the death of A-SAU, a Chinese female, surname unknown, then and there lying dead as follows, to wit\n\nThe Jury having been duly sworn and having viewed the body:-\n\nCHARLES JOHN WHARRY, sworn, states:-I am Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital. The body of deceased was brought to the Hospital at half-past one o'clock this morning. It was then recently dead. It is that of a Chinese female about thirty-five years of age. The body is very fat. I found on examination a fracture of the right upper arm, and also a fracture on the right thigh. The jaw was broken into several pieces. There was a deep cut on the chin, and the jaw was badly fractured. Death appeared to have resulted from the shock from these injuries. The injuries were such as might be caused by a fall from a height. At the same time this morning there was another woman fetched to Hospital suffering from fracture of the left thigh, and a comminuted fracture of the lower jaw with a severe cut on the chin. I think she will probably recover. Inspector GREY reported to me that the deceased and the injured woman had both come from the same house and that they had fallen from a height.\n\nC. J. WHARRY, M.D.\n\nInspector JOHN LEE, being duly cautioned as to his position as a witness, it being alleged that he was in pursuit of the women in a house when the deceased came by her death, expresses his desire to give evidence.\n\nJOHN LEE, sworn and told that he need not answer any question which he may think tends to criminate him, states:-I am an Inspector of Brothels. As Inspector of Brothels I have standing orders from the Registrar General to enter any house suspected of being an unlicensed brothel. I have no orders in writing to that effect. I have been Inspector since November 1870, and succeeded a man named JAMESON.\n\nLast night about six o'clock the Interpreter CHENG-A-YU came to me, and I gave him ten $1 notes to give to men who were going to discover unlicensed brothels. I took the numbers of the notes. Inspector WHITEHEAD, who is also an Inspector of Brothels, and myself met the Interpreter at twelve o'clock, and he took us to No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace. The Interpreter knocked at the door and called out the name of a Chinese who was inside. The door was opened from the inside. This door that I refer to was an inner door. The street door was opened. We went into the house, and found three women in the rooms. From what we learned we took them into custody, and they were taken to the Central Station by Inspector WHITEHEAD; and the Interpreter and myself went on to No. 42, Peel Street, in consequence of information which I had received from him that that house was an unlicensed brothel. We got to No. 42, Peel Street, between half-past twelve o'clock and one o'clock, and when we got to the street door the Interpreter called out the name of one of the informers. There was no answer for a long time, for five minutes or more. I knocked at the door with my stick. A woman from the first floor looked out of the window, and asked-\"What do you want?\" I told her to open the door. She came and opened the door. (At this juncture the Coroner and Jury adjourn to inspect the premises, ten minutes to five o'clock).\n\nResumed at ten minutes past five o'clock.\n\nJOHN LEE, further examined, states:-The house which the Coroner and Jury have just visited is No. 42, Peel Street. I went up the stairs which leads to the upper floor of the house. On the stair there are folding half-doors. The folding doors were fastened on the inside by a sliding bar. I climbed over the doors and opened them, and got up to a trap door, which I found closed. That trap door was opened by a man inside. When he opened the door, he pointed out a ladder leading from the cook-house to the roof up which he said the women had gone. It was then about quarter to one o'clock. I went up the ladder, and got on to the platform on the roof, and I heard some people on the roof on the other side of the wall which divides the flat portion of the roof of 44 from that of 42, and I got round the corner of that dividing wall, and as I got round I saw a woman going down the trap of 44 which is similar to the one on the roof of the house 42. I saw the woman going down and I made a grab at her and caught her sleeve, but could not stop her. At the same time, I saw two other figures on the flat roof. As I grabbed at the woman, I heard the crash from the roof of 44, and I did not know where the persons had gone to.\n\nI did not see if they fell or jumped. There is an unprotected open space on the roof of 8 feet by 5 feet, which is the same width and length as the ground floor. This open space acts as a smoke-hole permitting the escape of the smoke from all the kitchens in the different floors of the house. The height of the flat roof above the yard below is 36 feet. The yard below is paved with granite. There is no projection into that area except one piece of wood acting as a sun screen, about 1 foot broad, and placed in the form of a shade for a window on the first floor. That has been broken and, I think, it was the crash of that which I heard by one of the women coming into contact with it.\n\nI followed the woman down the trap, and followed her right into the street. I pursued and she ran up the steps of Peel Street, and up to Staunton Street, and a coolie caught her about ten yards...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302610, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "## TABLE D\n| Force | Deaths | Sickness | Resignations through Service or other Causes | Resignations through Expiry of Pension | Transferred to other Department | Dismissals | Desertions |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Europeans, Indians, | 12 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 3 |\n| Chinese, | 12 | 225 | 25 | | | | |\n| Total,.... | 24 | 242 | 37 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 3 |\n\nCentral Police Station, Hongkong, 15th February, 1878.\n\n## E.\n\n**C. V. CREAGH**, \nActing Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n## POLICE SCHOOL, HONGKONG, 1st February, 1878.\n\nSIR—I have the honour to forward for your perusal the Report on the Police School for the year ending 31st December, 1877.\n\n2. During the year, the School has been pursuing a quiet course of usefulness. The sad death of Mr. Gara has been a great loss to the School: his intimate knowledge of Police work, and his excellence as a teacher, made his services especially valuable, and it was a difficult matter to fill his place satisfactorily. Mr. DUGGAN, however, since his appointment has performed his duties well, and increased experience will make him a very valuable teacher.\n\n3. Mr. CHEUNG-A-LEUNG, who left for a post in the Chinese Mission to Japan, was succeeded by Mr. CAO-CHI-TUN.\n\n4. As a large number of Europeans now possess exemption certificates, and a considerable number have left the Colony on the expiration of their term of service, the attendance has been small, but as only three of the last draft succeeded in passing the examination, I expect a larger attendance during 1878. The number of men who presented themselves during the year for examination was 19, of whom 13 passed and the remainder failed. A feature worthy of note in the examination of this year is that a number of those who passed consisted of men whose education had been neglected in early life, but who are now qualified for promotion, which they could never hope to obtain but for the education received at the school.\n\n5. To make the teaching of the Europeans as practical as possible, I have introduced the Police Regulations as a text book, and have made the writing of Reports a weekly exercise.\n\n6. There have been two examinations of the Indian Constables during the year, one to test their knowledge of English and Chinese in order to select two intelligent men for Corporalships; the other was the ordinary Annual Examination. The first examination has produced a most satisfactory effect. The fact that a knowledge of English and Chinese led to promotion has caused a greater interest to be taken in these studies by a larger number of men, and accordingly I am able to report a marked progress on the part of the Indians during the year, and at the examination at its close much better results were obtained than at the examinations of previous years. I may note that one Indian Corporal passed the European examination.\n\n7. Towards the end of the year, the attendance of the Constables was considerably diminished in consequence of ball practice at Kowloon, but this was partly compensated by the attendance of Indian Candidates, who, while waiting for a vacancy in the force, employ their leisure in the study of English and Chinese.\n\n8. I have to make the same Report on the Chinese Constables that has been made in previous years. They make good progress in the time they are allowed to come to school; in some instances more than can be reasonably expected under the circumstances. Still, as long as promotions are made from the ranks to Interpreterships, so long will these men make up by private study for the loss of school time of which the exigencies of the service deprive them. Three Interpreters have been taken from the school, and one English-speaking Lokang transferred for service to the Gaol department during the year.\n\n9. In conclusion, I beg to throw out the suggestion that the scheme of quarterly examinations be so extended as to comprise promotions to Sergeantships and even to higher positions in the service. Such a scheme would induce many of the more studious men to prosecute their studies after their attendance at school is no longer compulsory. I am sure that if it were understood that a higher grade certificate formed a factor in selection for promotion, a very large number of men would work to obtain it.\n\nThe following are the Statistics for the year:\n| Nationality | School days | Average Attendance |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Europeans, | 156 | 4.16 |\n| Indians, | 152 | 28.07 |\n| Chinese,.. | 76 | 115.46 |\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \n**ALEXANDER FALCONER**, Master in Charge.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302614, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "## 414 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 1877.\n\nHe had with prison discipline. The principles I have laid down are well-established principles; they have been proved almost with the accuracy of a proposition in Euclid, and it is no wonder when those principles were not acted upon, that you have an overflowing gaol, and prison offences increasing in this rapid ratio for the last three years,—426, 1,085, and 2,726.\n\nIt has been asserted that the number of prisoners at present in our gaol is actually greater than in prison; his mind as well as his body is affected: he may be physically altered by prison treatment. There is nothing an Executive can so thoroughly make a greater mistake in than in assuming medical knowledge they cannot be expected to have. The Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong has had experience in other parts of the East, and in his first conversation with me, he told me in connection with his Indian experience that there was not a doctor in India who would for a moment countenance the flogging of Orientals on the back with the cat as was in 1876. Here is a return from the Acting Superintendent, Captain Ducat; I find, according to this return, the total number of Chinese and Coloured prisoners in Hongkong Gaol to-day is 382. What was the number of Chinese and Coloured prisoners at this time last year in the prison? It was 430. That is, however, a matter of small importance. The fact that we have fewer criminals in the gaol to-day than on the 17th of September, 1876, is of itself of little moment, for in the first place, the regulations which I hope ultimately to introduce are, except in some urgent but minor points, not yet in force, and the slight changes I have made are trivial compared to those I will have ultimately to propose.\n\nDr. Ayres made a report of great gravity to me with respect to flogging the Chinese on the back in this Colony. In the gaol hospital, I saw one man, an old man, who had been a long time in prison. This man was pointed out to me by Dr. Ayres as being in hospital for incurable lung disease. I attach no great significance, therefore, to the fact that at this date there happen to be fewer criminals in the gaol than at this time last year. The incurable hæmorrhage of the lungs from which this prisoner suffers is entirely due to those floggings. The Colonial Surgeon assured me that this prisoner had been a tall, strong man when he came into prison; now he is on the edge of the grave. He had been punished twenty-three times, including three floggings.\n\nI have mentioned Captain Ducat, and I had not the honour of his acquaintance beyond that of any other gentleman who may do me the favour of coming to Government House occasionally, but I sent to His Excellency the General commanding the troops and asked him to select from the officers under his command a strict disciplinarian, for I wanted a man of the kind to deal with the gaol until Mr. Tonnochy came out. Dr. Ayres gave it as his professional opinion that in every case where a Chinaman is flogged on the back with the cat, symptoms of congestion of the lungs follow, and he says he is never surprised when that congestion passes away and the man is apparently cured at the time from the effects of the flogging that the same man in a few months comes back to the hospital spitting blood. He drew my attention also to the fact of the scars remaining on their backs for the remainder of their lives, so that when liberated from prison and working on a day like this, their backs are seen, and they are branded amongst whatever honest men they may be among. The prisoner carries such punishment with him to the end of his life. The law never intended that.\n\nWith regard to the branding and deportation of prisoners, such as the branding of fifty prisoners in January last, it is not only opposed to all sound principles of dealing with criminals, but Mr. Douglas, a former Superintendent of the Gaol, had pointed out in a minute to one of my predecessors that the branding of a prisoner on the cheek or the neck had a bad effect, because the Hongkong brand is well known at Canton and at Macao. They know the meaning of that mark; and the consequence is that the branded man is hunted away by all honest people; he cannot get employment; he is rendered for life ineligible as an Emigrant, and he is driven back again to prey on the property of this Colony, because he has no other means of getting a livelihood.\n\nSince I assumed this Government of this Colony, the Visiting Justices have sometimes sentenced prisoners to be flogged for prison offences; in every case, I have approved that flogging, and upon the whole, I have approved, I say it with regret, of something over twenty floggings since my arrival; I say it with regret, because on my left (the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. Cecil Smith) drew my attention to what a Secretary of State had written to one of my predecessors. He said an indelible mark on the cheek of a criminal is evidently objectionable as fastening on the delinquent a stigma from which he could never be rescued; it consigns him to permanent infamy. Well, I think it must be admitted there is a good deal in what that Secretary of State—it was the late Lord Derby—said. The views Lord Derby expressed to the Governor of Hongkong were subsequently confirmed by the practical experience of Mr. Douglas, the Superintendent of the Gaol.\n\nMy perusal of the prison archives of this Colony—for not a month has passed for many years without its quota of branded prisoners being deported to the mainland—has convinced me that Lord Derby was right. I think the Chief Justice and others will agree with me that the time has come when we may fairly re-consider this odious part of our prison discipline. Mr. Keswick's views and those of the Police Commission have been carried out, and we have a Police force chiefly of Chinese. Not a deported man comes back now but he is very soon known. Formerly, we had all Europeans and Indians, but they could not distinguish the Chinese prisoners one from another; now the Chinese constables could detect without the branding; and if even in a small number of cases we are to be convinced that it prevents men from obtaining honest employment and drives them back to petty crimes, I think we might give up the branding system.\n\nWithin the last few months, I have received some printed despatches in which reference is made incidentally to the gaol system in the Bahamas. The previous Governor differed with me and thought that the negroes could only be influenced by the lash. He said Europeans, Chinese, or Hindoos might deal with in another way, but not negroes. When I went there, Lord Kimberley said to me, \"I am giving you a troublesome post; owing perhaps to wrecking, crime is excessive.\" I endeavoured to see what could be done, and while I applied with strict severity the laws for the protection of life and property, I endeavoured to rectify the prison discipline. I endeavoured to give the prisoners useful labour and had them informed that the only way in which they could regain their liberty before their full sentence expired was by steady good conduct and hard work. That system was carried out, not my system, but the system of the British Government, the system laid down by the Secretary of State, that you must combine the two things, severe punishment with reformatory training.\n\nWhen I visited the gaol for the first time, I found three, five, and seven prisoners in the same sleeping cells, overcrowded in every way. On making inquiry from Mr. Tomlin, I found that it had been even worse in 1876, when the number of prisoners was larger; during the greater part of that year, the Chinese prisoners had only 190 cubic feet of air allowed for each person in the sleeping cells; the Government having over and over again laid it down that only each prisoner ought not to have less than 600 cubic feet of sleeping space. It might be asked, how comes it to pass that the Government have not noticed this, that you had 190 feet only instead of 600 feet?\n\nIn the Blue Book for 1876, in answer to the usual printed question, which comes out from the Colonial Office, \"How many cubic feet of space are there for each prisoner during the hours of sleep?\"—there is this answer: \"The daily average number of prisoners during 1876 was 432, as against 374 in the previous year; the cubic space for each person was 86·4 feet as against 982 feet in the preceding year.\" But it is not only that. Certain gentlemen excel in explaining that the space of passages and corridors had been included in the estimate.\n\n## 415\n\nGentlemen, I have said that Her Majesty's Government have an extensive experience, and there is no doubt whatever that no greater mistake can be made than to imagine the local knowledge of any place can outweigh the universal experience of Her Majesty's Government in dealing with such matters.\n\nGentlemen, ... \n\nI have not gone into full particulars with respect to what was the result? Not a single lash was applied in the Bahamas from that time, and crime declines, and he adds, I am very happy to say that I have not allowed a single case of flogging. That able Governor has carried out, not my system, but the system laid down by the Secretary of State.\n\nThe best attempt at reformation is to keep the prisoners employed at useful labour and let them understand that remission of imprisonment will depend upon that labour and on steady good conduct. Unfortunately, the opposite experiment was tried here; the gentlemen who framed the Gaol Report laid down that reformation was impossible, but also gave up the idea in toto of anything useful. Has he the opportunity of practising that for the good of the State and himself? No; he leaves this prison probably ignorant of the little he knew before going in.\n\nI made the Labuan prison pay all its expenses; and with this, as I have just said, there was no flogging, and crime declined in the Colony. Within the last few months, I have received some printed despatches... It was only the other day a man was brought up before my honourable friend here (Mr. May), or Mr. Russell, for returning from deportation. The constable said, “I knew the man perfectly well without the branding.” \n\nHaving administered Governments in other parts of the world, I can recollect the fact that during the four years I had to deal with the worst classes of Singapore and Hongkong convicts at Labuan, not a single lash was applied. The sixty Chinese convicts that were sent from Hongkong to Labuan, and the hundred Chinese convicts I got from the Straits Settlement enabled me to study for four years the mode of treating Chinese prisoners. I visited the prison every week. I substituted Chinese Turnkeys for Malay Warders. I made your very worst Hongkong criminals amenable to strict discipline. I found that Chinamen could be made to conduct themselves properly and that it was not hopeless to attempt to improve their moral condition. By the aid of your convict labour...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302663, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "## TABLE D\n### CASUALTIES in the POLICE FORCE during the Year 1877\n\n| | Deaths | Resignations through Sickness | Resignations through Expiry of Service or other Causes | Transferred to other Department | Dismissals | Pensioned | Desertions | Total |\n|----------|--------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|-------------------------------|------------|----------|------------|-------|\n| Europeans| 0 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 22 |\n| Indians | 10 | C | -9090 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 3 | **...**|\n| Chinese | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| Total | 16 | 31 | 22 | 20 | 4 | 3 | ... | ... |\n\nC. V. CREAGH, \n**Acting Captain Superintendent of Police** \nCentral Police Station, Hongkong, 15th February, 1878.\n\n## POLICE SCHOOL, HONGKONG, 1st February, 1878\nI have the honour to forward for your perusal the Report on the Police School for the year ending 31st December, 1877.\n\n2. During the year, the School has been pursuing a quiet course of usefulness. The sad death of Mr. Garn has been a great loss to the School: his intimate knowledge of Police work, and his excellence as a teacher, made his services especially valuable, and it was a difficult matter to fill his place satisfactorily. Mr. Duggan, however, since his appointment has performed his duties well, and increased experience will make him a very valuable teacher.\n\n3. Mr. Chung-A-Lau-No, who left for a post in the Chinese Mission to Japan, was succeeded by Mr. Cay-Chi-Tsun.\n\n4. As a large number of Europeans now possess exemption certificates, and a considerable number have left the Colony on the expiration of their term of service, the attendance has been small, but as only three of the last draft succeeded in passing the examination, I expect a larger attendance during 1878. The number of men who presented themselves during the year for examination was 19, of whom 13 passed and the remainder failed. A feature worthy of note in the examinations of this year is that a number of those who passed consisted of men whose education had been neglected in early life, but who are now qualified for promotion, which they could never hope to obtain but for the education received at the school.\n\n5. To make the teaching of the Europeans as practical as possible, I have introduced the Police Regulations as a text book, and have made the writing of Reports a weekly exercise.\n\n6. There have been two examinations of the Indian Constables during the year, one to test their knowledge of English and Chinese in order to select two intelligent men for Corporalships; the other was the ordinary Annual Examination. The first examination has produced a most satisfactory effect. The fact that a knowledge of English and Chinese led to promotion has caused a greater interest to be taken in these studies by a larger number of men, and accordingly, I am glad to report a marked progress on the part of the Indians during the year, and at the examination at its close, much higher results were obtained than at the examinations of previous years. I may note that one Indian Corporal passed the European examination.\n\n7. Towards the end of the year, the attendance of the Constables was considerably diminished in consequence of ball practice at Kowloon, but this was partly compensated by the attendance of Indian Candidates, who, while waiting for vacancy in the force, employ their leisure in the study of English and Chinese.\n\n8. I have to make the same Report on the Chinese Constables that has been made in previous years. They make good progress in the time they are allowed to come to school; in some instances, more than can be reasonably expected under the circumstances. Still, as long as promotions are made from the ranks to Interpreterships, so long will these men make up by private study for the loss of school time of which the exigencies of the service deprive them. Three Interpreters have been taken from the school, and one English-speaking Lokang transferred for service to the Gaol department during the year.\n\n9. In conclusion, I beg to throw out the suggestion that the scheme of quarterly examinations be so extended as to comprise promotions to Sergeantships and even to higher positions in the service. Such a scheme would induce many of the more studious men to prosecute their studies after their attendance at school is no longer compulsory. I am sure that if it were understood that a higher grade certificate formed a factor in selection for promotion, a very large number of men would work to obtain it.\n\nThe following are the Statistics for the year:\n| Nationality | School days | Average Attendance |\n|-------------|-------------|--------------------|\n| Europeans | 156 | 4.16 |\n| Indians | 152 | 28.07 |\n| Chinese | 76 | 116.46 |\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \nALEXANDER FALCONER, \nMaster in Charge.\n\n## No. 44125\n### Night duties of the Police Force\nDate: 1878\n\nForwarded Copies of Minute thereon extracted by Law Officer with Report, etc., of Police and ...\n\nLast Paper: `GR1178/1922/32(III)`\n\nMinutes: \nI think the Governor has ... in connexion with the Police arrangements strengthening the night patrols. \n... how ... see des in connexion with the `XCR(85)72` ... \nHe is right in this but he cannot ... in this manner ... to raise unlimited access to ... as they please. \n... security of burglars ... \n... Cory as Caca A Rewt hor19 Chevro ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303896, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 488, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "433 \n\n3. before \n\nIn bringing this question before me the Captain Superintendent added that John Freeman's character roll counts for ten years' service as \"very good\". Upon looking through the Police defaulters' Book I found eight offences recorded against Freeman, one being an offence described as \"gross neglect of duty,\" and upon calling for the details the Captain Superintendent stated that it was a case in which D.C. Freeman, being in charge of a Police Station, was bound to have sent the Indian Constables on duty at 8 P.M., but that, at midnight, the Inspector of the district having occasion to arrest a man, found no Constables on night duty, and proceeding to the Police Station he found Freeman and the Indians (who ought to have been on duty) in their beds. \n\nThis incident occurred in the middle of the year 1877, and though Freeman was fined $6, he had again to be fined ($5) in the following month \"for being asleep on duty\". I have long been of the opinion that the thorough performance of the ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303900, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 492, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "# No. 33, P.C. JOHN FREEMAN, joined April, 1860.\n\n## EXTRACTS FROM POLICE DEFAULTER'S BOOK\n\n| Date | Misconduct | Decision of Superintendent |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Apr. 30, 1870 | Losing a Government Revolver | To be re-placed |\n| July 12, 1870 | Disorderly Conduct | Cautioned |\n| Apr. 12, 1871 | Assault on P.C. 59, in Station | Fined $1 |\n| May 8, 1874 | Absent from Drill | One day's extra Drill |\n| Sept. 12, 1874 | Absent from Station | Cautioned |\n| Oct. 5, 1875 | Fighting in Whitfield Station | Leave stopped for one month |\n| May 20, 1877 | Gross Neglect of Duty | Fined $6 |\n| June 15, 1877 | Asleep on Duty | Fined $5 |\n\nW. M. DEANE, \n**Captain Superintendent of Police**\n\n語批憲督 \n437 \n據總巡捕廳於本...遵飭解明該語大意呈 \n後一語本部:不月十一日中文末覽按斐文當差日查伊品行單作爲極好一語詳 \n年其間品行亦可甚明曉仰廳將按該差充役十 \n巡見其被罰錢三次亦未嘗有一次 \n稟覆聼铺 \n覆是爲大咎計其犯案之數少而服罰上十大圓者蓋上十大圍者 \n語批憲督 \n禀役之年多故理合發給告退文憑 \n已卯年又三月二 \n語個月即銀一百二十大 \n批三欸更加賞給俸金三差役者畫一格外賞給 \n圓抑或照由英國遣充 \n可否除養老銀外遵依已已年則例第八條第 \n現在告退求給養老銀 \n十年時初在本港充役 \n酌奪據稱該差斐文前 \n一查此案應:本部堂 \n一據總 \n遵老 \n役前品附申巡 \n當伊行斐詳捕據 \n充單文並廳 \n稱該斐文當時因承派委督理 \n詳閱該案稟覆據總巡捕廳禀覆 \n稱爲大夫職經批飭總巡捕廳查 \n有一案斷難寬宥據該品行單嘗 \n案八次其中雖有非極關係者但 \n一本部堂查該差品行單見錄犯 \n紅\n\n## Minute by His Excellency the Governor\n\nI do not quite understand the last paragraph the Captain Superintendent's letter, of the 1st of May, 1879. Ask him to explain what he means by saying “I enclose his (JOHN FREEMAN'S) *character roll, which would count for ten years \"service as very good.” \n\nJ. PORE HENNESSY. \n14th May, 1879.\n\n## Report by the Captain Superintendent of Police\n\nI have the honour to report that the amplified meaning of the paragraph referred to is to this effect:- \nJOHN FREEMAN has served ten years, and reference to his character roll shows that during that period of service he has only been fined on three occasions, and that on none of those occasions did the fine amount to $10 (which sum denotes a \"serious offence\"). Therefore, as the number of offences are few when the number of years he has served are considered, his character on his discharge certificate would be marked \"very good.\" \n\nW. M. DEANE, \n**Captain Superintendent of Police**\n\n## Minute by His Excellency the Governor\n\n1. In this case it rests with me to decide whether P. C. JOHN FREEMAN, who was enlisted in our Police Force ten years ago in Hongkong and who is now retiring on pension, should receive the three months' pay (as a sort of gratuity in addition to the pension) amounting to $120, being the sum he can receive under section 3 of Ordinance 8 of 1869, or whether the greater favour of giving $250 (payable to Constables enlisted in the United Kingdom) should be allowed to him.\n\n2. In bringing this question before me, the Captain Superintendent adds that JOHN FREEMAN'S character roll counts for ten years' service as \"Very good.\" \n\n3. But on looking through the character roll, I find eight offences recorded, some no doubt not very serious, but one so grave that it is impossible for me to overlook it. It is an offence described in the character roll as \"gross neglect of duty,\" and, on calling for the details, the Captain Superintendent states that it was a case in which P.C. FREEMAN being in charge of a Police Station was bound to have sent the Indian Constables on duty at 10 P.M., but that, at midnight, the Inspector of the district having occasion to arrest a man found no Constables on night duty, and on proceeding to the Police Station he found FREEMAN and the Indians (who ought to have been on duty) in their beds.\n\n極好作行其 \n差巡邏而是夜夜半時有該 \n到巡該地方遺印 \n度理紅地方時應出巡邏者章,均睡床上 \n故徑往差館即見斐文及印度差 \n總差因事拿人而差役未到巡邏 \n案月 \n+犯辛未年三月十九日因爲操演期未到敝署决斷罰伊另 \n册案犯役差 \n乙甲犯案册將厥所犯案照抄錄於左 \n李斐文自已巳年三月充當三十三號差役茲由敝差役 \n自操演一天 \n九銀十 \n十因所日日犯因 \n案甲戊年八月初二日因擅離差館倣洶决斷嚴加譴責 \n册乙亥年九月初七日因在差館打架做爰决斷罰一月內不 \n六大圓 \n丁丑年五月初五日因當值司更時睡覺一案 \n准告假 \n丁丑年四月十四日因大失職敝各决斷罰鍰 \n丁丁 \n年年做啥决斷罰銀五大圓 \n日日打 \n案饑不 \n語批憲 \n郎將差役斐 \n仰總巡捕廳 \n巡廳遵將犯案口供册照抄呈 \n掖著决斷罰銀一大圓 \n差庚午年六月十四日因犯妄行一案敝署决 \nż嚴譴實 \n庚午年三月三十日因失小洋第一副潄署决斷照式填償 \n辛未年二月二十三日因與第五十九號差役在館鬥毆 \n督有口供送查 \n大圓一案所 \n四月罰銀六 \n文於丁丑年 \n捕巡總 \n稟覆廳 \n十於總役 \n㸃是差斐 \n月十三日批 \n已卯年閏三 \n總巡捕廳 \n出曾国 \n巡役斐文失職一案因 \n覽查第三十三號差 \n禀禀覆 \n仰筋總差 \n該差失職總 \n原由所有巡是夜夜半時有該地方 \n遣印度差出巡邏而 \n館於夜間十點鐘時應 \n因承派委督紅磡差 \n遵查該差役斐文當時 \n斷銀六大圓 \n此+點鐘未遣印度差 \n於是月十二日夜 \n枇禀覆 \n出更巡邏由飯礬决 \n語己卯年閏 \n總差嘉夫偷焢斐文 \n憲供詞詳開 \n稱 \n已卯年閏三月十三 \n日禀覆 \n日批 \n三月十八 \n有更 \n戲塲拿獲一犯遍不 \n總差因事巡至土瓜灣 \n嘉覆捕巡總 \n均時 \n裴 \n是遣 \n夜印 \n及故獲事芈 \n印機 \n度 \n者等碳瓜 \n竟是乃不灣 \n禀均睡床上謹此稟覆 \n已卯年又三月 \n時理應出更巡邏者竟 \n十九 \n禀覆 \n嘉美倫將 \n批憲 \n督\n\n## Minute by His Excellency the Governor\n\nLet me see the record of the enquiry when he was fined $6 in May, 1877. \nJ. POPE HENNESSY. \n3rd May, 1879.\n\n## Report by Captain Superintendent of Police\n\n**Extract from Defaulter's Evidence Book** \n\"33, FREEMAN, neglect of duty. Mr. CAMERON states at 10 P.M. on 24th, defendant did not put Indians on duty. \nFined $6. \n3rd May. 1879. \n“C, V. CREAGH, \n\"Acting Captain Superintendent of Police.\" \nW. M. DEANE, \n**Captain Superintendent of Police**\n\n## Minute by His Excellency the Governor\n\nCall on Inspector CAMERON to furnish a more minute account of the neglect of duty in question. \nJ. POPE HENNESSY. \n5th May, 1879.\n\n## Report by the Captain Superintendent of Police\n\nL. C. FREEMAN was in charge of Hung Hom Station. At 10 P.M. he ought to have sent the Indians on duty. At midnight the Inspector of the District visited the theatre at To Kwa Wan, arrested a man, and found no Constable there. He went to Hung Hom, and found FREEMAN and the Indians (who ought to have been on duty) in their beds. \n9th May. 1879. \nW. M. DEANE. \n**Captain Superintendent of Police**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304073, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "17 \n\nsailed from Hongkong some 3 or 4 months bound for Foochow and thence for Lydney. The Crew were shipped at Hongkong.\n\nago \n\nThe Captain's name I am unable to ascertain, the first and second mate were named respectively Boyt and Haines.\n\nWith the exception of the Chinese Boy, Cook and Carpenter, and of Peter Robinson, \na Creole claiming British Nationality, \nthe rest, 7 in number, of the Crew were Javanese Malays.\n\nWhen 10 or 15 days out from Hongkong, \nthe Captain and his two mates \nappear to have been murdered by the Crew, who subsequently made for Palawan in the S.S., off which Island they scuttled \nher in deep water, and took to their boats, \nand eventually reached Binkoka, where \nseven of them were arrested by the Sheriff - three escaping in a native boat.\n\nAfter the scuttling of the vessel, the Carpenter, Cook and Boy - all Chinese - \nappear also to have been murdered by the Crew.\n\nAs the Men were shipped at HongKong, and as \nI can obtain no particulars of the vessel here, not even the name \nof her Captain - I have decided to send the seven men to Hongkong in charge of some Labuan constables via Singapore, to be dealt with by Your Excellency.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304534, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 477, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "## COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG\n### MEDICAL\n#### EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n\n| Category | FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS | PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY | TOTAL TO BE VOTED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| CIVIL LIST | | | |\n| **CIVIL HOSPITAL** | $ | | $ |\n| SALARIES:- | | | |\n| Colonial Surgeon, | 2,100 | | |\n| Superintendent, | | | |\n| Apothecary, | 1,440 | | |\n| Stoward and Storekeeper, | 720 | | |\n| Clerk, | 204 | | |\n| First Warden, | 420 | | |\n| Second do., | 360 | | |\n| Nurse, (Male), | 120 | | |\n| 6 Nurses, at $96 each, | 576 | | |\n| Dispensary Coolie, | 96 | | |\n| Store Coolie, | 120 | | |\n| Messenger, | 96 | | |\n| 2 Chinese Cooks, 1 at $180 and 1 at $90, | 276 | | |\n| 2 Indian Cooks, | 120 | | |\n| Gate Keeper, | 96 | | |\n| Scavenger, | 84 | | |\n| Female Chinese Nurse, | 96 | | |\n| 5 Coolies, at $72 each, | 360 | | |\n| Gardener, | 84 | | |\n| 2 Indian Constables, | 324 | | |\n| | 6,948 | 864 | 7,812 |\n| **LUNATIC ASYLUM AND SMALL POX HOSPITAL** | | | |\n| SALARIES:- | | | |\n| Ward Masters, Nurses, Cooks and Coolies, | 2,000 | | 2,000 |\n| | 2,000 | | 2,000 |\n| **LOCK HOSPITAL** | | | |\n| SALARIES:- | | | |\n| Surgeon, | 804 | | |\n| Do., Wanchai, | 380 | | |\n| Dispenser, | 760 | | |\n| Do., Wanchai, | 240 | | |\n| 3 Inspectors of Brothels, (P.C.), | 2,040 | | |\n| Chinese Interpreter, | 180 | | |\n| Matron, | 360 | | |\n| 2 Nurses, | 96 | | |\n| Cook, | 72 | | |\n| 3 Coolies, at $72 each, | 216 | | |\n| Gate Keeper, at $72, | 72 | | |\n| | 5,260 | | 5,260 |\n| SALARIES:- | | | |\n| Health Officer, and Inspector of Emigrants, | 2,000 | | 2,880 |\n| ALLOWANCES:- | | | |\n| Chair Coolies to Colonial Surgeon. | 288 | | |\n| Boat Hire to Health Officer, | 480 | | |\n| | 2,768 | | |\n| **ESTABLISHMENTS** | 17,840 | 2,880 | 17,840 |\n| Carried forward, | | | 2,880 |\n| | | | 475 | \n## Page 23", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304559, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 502, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG\n## EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n\n### NEXTS\n#### FIXED ESTABLISH- PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY\n#### TOTAL TO BE VOTED\n\n### CIVIL LIST\n#### COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG\n##### EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n\n## MEDICAL\n### CIVIL LIST\n\n| Category | FIXED ESTABLISH-MENTS | PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY | TOTAL TO BE VOTED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | $ | $ | $ |\n| **EDUCATIONAL** | | | |\n| SALARIES:- | | | |\n| Inspector of Schools, | 2,400 | | |\n| 32 Chinese Teachers, | 2,880 | | |\n| Chinese Clerk | 180 | | |\n| Scavenger at Girls' School | 24 | | |\n| | | | 2,880 |\n| **ECCLESIASTICAL** | | | |\n| SALARIES:- | | | |\n| Colonial Chaplain, | 3,840 | | |\n| Clerk, | 54 | | |\n| Sexton, | 720 | | |\n| | | | 4,998 |\n| **CIVIL HOSPITAL** | | | |\n| SALARIES:- | | | |\n| Colonial Surgeon, | 2,160 | | |\n| Superintendent, | | | |\n| Messenger, | 70 | | |\n| Apothecary, | 1,440 | | |\n| Steward and Storekeeper, | 720 | | |\n| Clerk, | 264 | | |\n| | 846 | | 6,948 |\n| ALLOWANCES :---- | | | |\n| To Colonial Chaplain, for Conveyance, | 840 | | |\n| First Warden, | 420 | | |\n| Second do., | 360 | | |\n| Nurse, (Male), | 120 | | |\n| | | | 864 |\n| CONTINGENCIES :— | | | |\n| Nurses, at $98 each, | 576 | | |\n| Surplices, &c., | 64 | | |\n| Dispensary Coolie, | 96 | | |\n| Store Coolie, | 120 | | |\n| Messenger, | 96 | | |\n| 2 Chinese Cooks, 1 at $180 and 1 at $96, | 276 | | |\n| 2 Indian Cooks, | 120 | | |\n| Gate Keeper, | 96 | | |\n| Scavenger, | 84 | | |\n| Female Chinese Nurse, | 96 | | |\n| 5 Coolies, at $72 each, | 360 | | |\n| Gardener, | 84 | | |\n| 2 Indian Constables, | 324 | | |\n| | | | 2,880 |\n| | | | 7,812 |\n\n23\n\n| Category | FIXED ESTABLISH-MENTS | PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY | TOTAL TO BE VOTED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | $ | $ | $ |\n| **ALLOWANCES :-** | | | |\n| Chair Coolies to Colonial Surgeon, | 288 | | |\n| | | | 3,084 |\n| **LUNATIC ASYLUM AND SMALL POX HOSPITAL** | | | |\n| SALARIES | | | |\n| Head Master of Central School, | 2,400 | | |\n| Assistant do., | 1,680 | | |\n| Teachers of English, 1 at $720, 1 at $480, 2 at $240, and 2 at $90 each, | 1,860 | | |\n| Ward Masters, Nurses, Cooks and Coolies, | 2,000 | | |\n| 4 Chinese Teachers, 3 at $300 & 1 at $144, | 1,044 | | |\n| 3 Monitors, | 108 | | |\n| Clerk to Head Master, | 180 | | |\n| 3 Coolies, 1 at $96, 2 at $72 each, | 240 | | |\n| | | | 13,092 |\n| | | | 900 |\n| | | | 13,992 |\n| **LOCK HOSPITAL** | | | |\n| SALARIES:- | | | |\n| Surgeon, | 864 | | |\n| Dispenser, | 360 | | |\n| Inspectors of Brothels, (P.C.), | 2,040 | | |\n| Matron, | 360 | | |\n| 2 Nurses, | 96 | | |\n| Cook, | 72 | | |\n| 3 Coolies, at $72 each, | 216 | | |\n| Gate Keeper, at $72, | 72 | | |\n| | | | 4080 |\n| **ALLOWANCES :---** | | | |\n| To Inspector of Schools, for Conveyance, | 288 | | |\n| Do., for Chinese Teacher, | 120 | | |\n| Do., Wanchai | 240 | | |\n| To Head Master, for Chinese Teacher, | 120 | | |\n| 5 Assist. do., for do., | 600 | | |\n| Wanchai, | 240 | | |\n| | | | 1,608 |\n| **CONTINGENCIES:-** | | | |\n| INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS-Incidental Books, &c., | 250 | | |\n| Chinese Books, | 100 | | |\n| Prizes, | 185 | | |\n| Furniture, | 50 | | |\n| | | | 585 |\n| HRAD MASTER-Incidental Expenses, Books, &c., | 200 | | |\n| Chinese Books, | 150 | | |\n| Prizes, | 100 | | |\n| Furniture, | 100 | | |\n| Working Expenses of Laboratory, | 1,350 | | |\n| | | | 1,900 |\n| **ESTABLISHMENT** | | | |\n| SALARIES:-- | | | |\n| Health Officer, and Inspector of Emigrants, | 6,000 | | |\n| | | | 6,000 |\n| **GRANTS-IN-AID-** | | | |\n| Amount of Grant, | 1,176 | | |\n| Government Schools, | | | 1,176 |\n| **RENT:-** | | | Nil. |\n| **ALLOWANCES:-** | | | |\n| Boat Hire to Health Officer, | 480 | | |\n| Quarters for Inspector of Schools, | 720 | | |\n| Do. for Assistant Masters, | 1,680 | | |\n| | | | 2,880 |\n| **TOTAL EDUCATIONAL** | | | 23,979 |\n| | | | |\n| | | | 33,555 |\n| | | | 17,840 |\n| | | | 2,880 |\n| Carried forward,... | | | 17,840 |\n| | | | 2,880 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306529, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "page_number": 285, "title": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "content_text": "REPORT OF INSPECTOR CRADOCK.\n\nCENTRAL POLICE STATION, 5th July, 1880.\n\nSIR,-I have the honour to report I am of opinion that the present system works well, but now that the Force is increased by fifty Indians, I consider that the day duties ought to be increased, more especially that from 6 to 10 P.M.\n\nI am, &c.,\n\nJ. CRADOCK, Inspector of Police.\n\nNOTE BY THE ACTING CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.\n\nThe Charles May was intended for this duty (see C.S.O. No.2545 of 1877), but at present there is no necessity to have her permanently manned with a large crew, which would diminish the strength of the Harbour Police. Without disturbing the regular duties, I can arrange to send three or four times a week to some of the outlying villages at uncertain hours of the day and night. She is now out under the command of Acting Chief Inspector GREY.\n\n10th July, 1880.\n\nC. V. CREAGH, Acting Capt. Supt. of Police.\n\nTo the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\nREPORT OF INSPECTOR RIVERS.\n\nNo. 2, POLICE STATION, 5th July, 1880.\n\nSIR. In accordance with your Memo. of the 30th ultimo, I beg to state that I still adhere to my former opinions, expressed in my reports of the 28th of June and 18th October, 1879.\n\nAfter 12 months' experience of the working of the Police duties on the two-thirds system, I still say that during the time the system has been in force, there has been almost an entire absence of burglaries and larcenies from dwelling houses in the night time, on this district.\n\nI would suggest that the day duty, from 6 to 10 P.M., on this district, should be strengthened by, at the least, 2 men, that being the time that the Soldiers and Sailors are rather troublesome.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nW. RIVERS, Inspector in charge East District.\n\nREPORT OF INSPECTOR LINDSAY.\n\nCENTRAL POLICE STATION, 5th July, 1880.\n\nSIR,---In accordance with your order of the 1st instant, I have the honour to report that as crime greatly decreased during the past twelve months, I am of opinion that the present system is the best mode of regulating the night duties. I cannot suggest any change further than that contained in last paragraph of my report of 27th June 1879, as it appears to me that the Police is now well able to cope with the criminal class in this Colony.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nJ. LINDSAY, Inspector.\n\nTo C. V. CREAGH, Esq.,\n\nActing Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\nREPORT OF INSPECTOR THOMSON.\n\nNo. 7. POLICE STATION. 5th July, 1880.\n\nREPORT OF INSPECTOR BREMNER.\n\nCENTRAL POLICE STATION, 5th July, 1880.\n\nSIR,-In accordance with your Memo. of the 1st instant. I beg most respectfully to state that I can only refer you to what I stated in my report of the 27th June, 1879, and add that little or no crime has been reported in this district as having been committed between the hours of 10 P.M. and 6 A.M. since the present system came in force.\n\nI am still of the opinion that there are insufficient men on day duty, especially from 6 to 10 P.M. I find from reference to the Occurrence Book, that nearly all larcenies from the person (reported) were committed between 6 and 10 P.M.\n\nI would also bring to your notice that there is no Sergeant of any nationality doing patrol during the day time; this gives the men a chance to neglect their duty.\n\nI am,\n\n&c.,\n\nD. BREMNER, Inspector of Police.\n\nFor the information of His Excellency the Governor. I beg to forward the following report in reference to Police duties in the Central District,\n\n1st. The seventy-two Indian and Chinese Constables, with the addition of the European Constables, who are on duty between 10 P.M. and 6 A.M., are, I think, quite sufficient for the district, and seem to work well.\n\n2nd. The only alteration on the present system which I beg to offer an opinion on is, that the duties between 6 and 10 P.M., might be strengthened.\n\n3rd. I think that the number of men on duty from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M. are quite sufficient for the district during the day time.\n\nTo C. V. CREAGH, Esq.,\n\nActing Capt. Supt. of Police.\n\nREPORT OF INSPECTOR MATHIESON.\n\nPOLICE HULK,\n\n5th July, 1880.\n\nSIR, I have the honour to forward to you the following report-vide Memo. 5th instant.\n\n1. I can only repeat the words of my former report, dated the 18th October, 1879, with reference to the working of the Force on the two-thirds system. I know of no other system that would put the Police Force on so sound a basis.\n\n2. Since my last report, the Water Police have been supplied with two small Steam Launches, and they are used almost entirely for patrol duty in the Harbour, from 9 P.M. to 5 A.M., and these little boats appear to be a terror to the marine thieves in the dead of night.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nJ. MATHIESON, Inspector.\n\nTo the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\nEXTRACT FROM REPORT BY Mr. HORSFOOL, THE ACTING DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.\n\nWith reference to the continued working of the 3rds night duty system, I have the honour to report that since its introduction serious night crimes have very materially decreased and are gradually decreasing.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nTo C. V. CREAGH, Esq.,\n\nActing Capt. Supt. of Police.\n\nPage 283", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309867, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "3 European bystables. / Room 88.6×24-6×13-6 hight\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\n1261 cubic feet per\n\n1 Mess room 24.0×22.6×14.6 with bath room, cook room,\n\nLavatory, latrines to 10 Lieutons. 1 Room 32.0 x 22.0\" x 14.6=1020\n\ncubic feet per man\n\nBath room, cook-room, latrine to.\n\n10 Chinese constables.\n\n1 Room 32.0' x 22.4 × 13.6\" = 964 cubic feet per\n\nBath room, Cook room, latrine etc.\n\n50 Chinese Constables. 3 Rooms each 24.0' x 14.6 = 522 cubic feet per\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\n2 Rooms each 30.6 × 24.6 × 13.6 = 504 cubic feet per\n\nX Inspector. / Setting Room 24.0×24.0\n\n1 Red room 34.0'x 17.0 with Bath room, store, cook room etc.\n\n525\n\nQuarters for / Dining Room 23.4×16.0:\n\n1 Deputy Superintendent) / Drawing room, 24.0×24.0:\n\n2 Bed Rooms 24.0\" x 17.0\" and 22.4 x 16.0\" with Bath room\n\nKitchen, store, quarters for Servants.\n\n(signed) R. Bowdler,\n\nActing Surveyor General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 316618, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "content_text": "## RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HONEST PEOPLE.\n\n1. This Association will call every year at a certain time one General Meeting of all the Committee members to arrange for the public election of Directors, also to examine the accounts, which will then be submitted to the Government for its information and so forth.\n\n2. All Committee members who have been elected Directors, will, when their term of office is about to expire, or at least half a month prior to its expiry, tender their resignation, so that others may be elected from among the number of Committee members, but if again elected they may resume their office. The names of the persons so elected will, however, have to be submitted to the Government for the information of His Excellency the Governor.\n\n3. When the time comes for the Annual General Meeting, previous notice thereof must be given to all Committee members, inviting them to come and take part in the meeting, or notice be given at least 7 days previous by insertion in one of the Chinese newspapers, so that all may be informed.\n\n4. At the ordinary meetings of the Directors three Directors present to sign the papers shall form a quorum.\n\n5. Managers or Agents or others employed by the Association will, if involved in any litigation, being charged by others on account of public business, or charging others on the same account, have all their expenses paid from the public funds.\n\n6. From among the Directors who have been publicly elected out of the number of the Committee members, there shall be elected a Chairman, a Vice-Chairman, and a Treasurer, and they shall be responsible for what they do.\n\n7. The Treasurer shall be selected from among the Directors and be appointed by them, and shall be authorized to make all arrangements for getting good interest and so on. If the said officer is found deficient in his accounts, the nine other Directors shall be responsible for the amount, and no excuse will be allowed. As to putting out money on loan, the said officer shall at the time consult the other members and act accordingly.\n\n8. Each of those who have been elected Directors shall, on entering office, sign a declaration on oath to signify his sincerity and disinterestedness.\n\n9. Every Detective to be employed by the Association must find two respectable and substantial persons to stand security for him, each signing a bond for $250 guarantee against extortion, coercion or trumping up of false charges or other offences, and on entering office he shall further be required to sign a declaration on oath in proof of his good faith.\n\n10. Any Rules and Regulations passed by the Directors from time to time after due discussion may be successively added with a view to consolidate the system and to perfect it in details.\n\n11. All Committee members should be careful to cherish the principle of human charity and entirely refrain from any improper action, but on meeting with kidnapped persons proceed with increased alacrity or join other members of the Association in energetic efforts for their rescue, and further, by some means or other, get the kidnappers arrested and handed over to the Government to be prosecuted, all with the hope that these evil practices be eradicated, when all people will rejoice over the riddance, which is the great aim of this Association.\n\n12. All Committee members should be careful not to listen to any slander and thereupon lose courage and draw back half way, which would be wasting all the trouble taken in organizing this scheme. But it is hoped they will deal with every case with straightforwardness, when they need not be ashamed before gods or men, but will be able to face the bright spirits, and if after all there is vituperation or praise, they need not trouble themselves about it. Besides, it must be considered that the English Government wields great power in its hands, and is surely able to see through all the intricacies of each case, and will certainly prevent those criminals to play secret mischief.\n\n13. This Association must establish a Register of the Committee members, account-books for receipts and disbursements, also a Day-book, Letter-book, Minute-book and so forth, to facilitate inquiries that may be made at any time by Committee members.\n\n14. At the first starting of this Association, it has been agreed to use temporarily the Tung-wah Hospital for the purpose of meetings and for a place of detention of kidnapped persons until funds have been collected, when the English Government will be petitioned for the grant of a piece of ground suitable for the erection of buildings where destitute people can be accommodated.\n\nThe above 14 rules are designed for the guidance of the Committee members of this Association, and are now expressly transcribed and submitted to His Excellency the Governor for scrutiny and ratification.\n\n[In `C.S.O. 2491 of 1880`.]\n\n## Additional Rules\n\n11. All affairs of the Association, whether important or unimportant, provided they are of advantage to the members of Committee or concern the Association, may at any time be brought before a meeting for discussion, and action shall be taken according to the vote of the majority.\n\n12. All lawsuits in which the Association may be involved by charges preferred on account of the public acts of the Association, shall be authoritatively dealt with by the Attorney whom the Government may appoint, or by the Attorney General, and all expenses shall be paid by the Government.\n\n13. All Ordinances enacted by the English Government, or hereafter to be enacted, for the repression of kidnapping or selling persons for purposes of prostitution, and similar offences, may at any time be published by the Association for general information, or the Association may issue special advertisements to be sent into the inland districts with a view to make them known far and wide, so as to warn people.\n\n14. The Directors of this Association shall in the first instance be the ten persons to be elected publicly, and they shall record the names of all Committee members in a Register, and those ten persons first elected shall be considered the founders of the Association. But they shall resign at the end of a year, and others shall be elected from among the Committee members to take their places. They shall, however, be eligible for re-election for a term not exceeding three years.\n\n15. All Directors newly elected every year shall forward their surnames and names to be submitted to His Excellency the Governor for ratification.\n\n16. All transactions of the Association shall be carefully recorded, and such records shall at any time be open to the inspection of the members of the Committee and of the Government.\n\n17. All expenses incurred by the Association, and the accounts of receipts and disbursements, shall be annually exhibited (in a balance sheet), which shall be printed and copies distributed for the information of the Committee members, and a copy of the same shall be submitted to the Government for scrutiny and verification.\n\n18. The salaries of all Secret Detectives, informers or managers employed by the Association shall be defrayed out of the public funds. The Detectives shall be first sworn in by the Government, and when approved by the Government shall be considered as if they were Police Constables, but such Detectives shall confine themselves entirely to the detection and repression of crimes of kidnapping and to the arresting of kidnappers, as also to the rescue of kidnapped persons. Whenever any business they have in hand from day to day concerns the Superintendent of Police or the Harbour Master, they shall be bound to report the matter to them and apply for their co-operation. But the Superintendent of Police or Harbour Master shall not use such Detectives in pursuance of other matters.\n\n19. Whenever in a case of kidnapping there are persons who gave the information, they shall not be rewarded until the Police Court or the Supreme Court have decided the case, when, according to the regulations existing, the Government will determine upon a commensurate reward, and no such reward need be paid by the Association.\n\n20. When any transaction of the Association requires authority exceeding the powers of the Association, application shall be made to the Government for assistance and co-operation, but if by accident the Association should unwittingly exceed its powers, application shall also be made to the Government for forbearance.\n\nThe above twenty regulations are herewith expressly submitted to His Excellency the Governor for ratification, and an official reply will be awaited before they are given effect, and further, the Government is entreated to embody these Rules and Regulations in a Special Ordinance to ensure their permanency. Such is the Petitioners' earnest prayer.\n\n28th September, 1880.\n\nTranslated by E. J. Eitel.\n\nPage 243\n\n## MINUTES BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.\n\nI have revised the rules, and have pointed out such amendments as appear necessary to reduce them to a form in which the Government might recognize them. Apart from this, I have left them precisely as I found them. They are Chinese in their structure, and I presume that those who drew them up are satisfied that they are suited to the object in view.\n\nMarch 31st, 1881.\n\n**EDWARD O'MALLEY**\n\nI send herewith also some draft rules which I have drawn up, showing how the objects of the Society might be provided for, subject to the conditions that seem to be necessary from a Government point of view.\n\nApril 1st, 1881.\n\n**EDWARD O'MALLEY**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317045, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "page_number": 126, "title": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "content_text": "125 \n\n**minenti** by the Superintendent. \n\nThe Excelsior's approval not known. \n\nTrust not yet \n\nThe number of patients in Hospital is 52. One patient was \nrefused admission this morning and four yesterday, and besides two sick \nConstables were \nbefore they \nsent \nWest \ndischarged yesterday \nwith wounds, in order \nto make room for two urgent cases. \n\nI believe the measurements \nof the wards in the New Kowloon Hospital \nwill permit of 33 beds being placed \nthere, and I expect that these beds \nwill \nvery \nsoon \nbe filled. \n\nFor the treatment of this number of patients, and for the proper care of \nthem and of the Hospital I would respectfully suggest the following provision by Medical Officer at $150 per mensem, one European Medical Assistant \n$30 \n\nThe Chinese Head nurse $16 \nFour \nNurses \n$16 \n\n{ \nCoolies $12 \none \nCook \n$10 \n\n$248) \n\nApproved by Pub MPH. \n\nI estimate that not \nmore than half of these additional", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318274, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "## Page 526\n\n9. The President or Vice-President or Treasurer and two other members shall form a quorum of the Committee.\n\n10. There shall be an Annual Meeting of the Society to be held at the Office in the month of...\n\n11. At the Annual Meeting, the election of the Committee shall take place, and the outgoing Committee shall present a report of its proceedings for the preceding year, including a complete statement of the financial position of the Society, duly audited.\n\n12. The Society will endeavour by correspondence and inquiry to assist in the detection and bringing to justice of persons guilty of kidnapping and kindred offences. The Society will also endeavour, by the establishment of a Home in Hongkong, to provide temporary accommodation for destitute women and children who may be rescued from illegal custody. The Society will also endeavour to restore rescued women and children to their relatives, and in case of those who are friendless, to make such provision as may be proper for their welfare.\n\n13. Detective and other Constables may, from time to time, be placed at the service of the Society upon such conditions as may be sanctioned by the Governor.\n\n14. Detectives and Constables employed by the Society shall act only under written instructions signed by the President or Vice-President of the Society.\n\n15. The Committee first elected shall appoint four of their number to be Trustees, and such Trustees shall be the Lessees of any Crown Lease granted by the Government to the Society for the purpose of the Society. In case of the death of a Trustee, the Committee for the time being shall elect one of its members to take his place.\n\n16. A Minute Book shall be kept for recording the proceedings of the meetings of the Society, and before proceeding with the business of a subsequent meeting, the minutes of the previous meeting shall be read and confirmed and signed by the President, Vice-President or person filling his place.\n\n17. The Committee may, from time to time, make and revoke rules for the management of the affairs of the Society; such rules being submitted for the approval of the Governor before they are put into operation.\n\n同人察覺拐之婦女幼童等須要遺責明正其罪並在港建造房屋一所以爲暫行撫養被拐婦女幼童之用凡被... \n第十二歎此公局須要着力查察這等案並撥時可用禀公差役人等及訪查事 \n第十三歎公局可囑請隨時可撥憲核准由督差役仍須禀 \n但此等差役須由主席或副主席或正主事宣讀方視爲合法以安其終身 \n第十四歎公局役人須承主席或副主席命令筆寫明件辦 \n第十五歎由舉定之值事中另立四位以爲局之業主並承辦人或有假領地段以爲公局之用並出名向國家領受所給憑據 \n其人係暫代理或有承辦人或身故則由值事者押名於上以承其責 \n第十六歎凡每次聚會須將所辦之事登記於事錄本以爲將次所辦之事之證 \n並於每次聚會時先將上次事錄本讀出並由主席或副主席或代席正主事核准簽名方可舉行 \n第十七歎該值事等可以隨時設立新章或更章程但辦更此事爲改章程俟督憲批准方可實行\n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 328\n\nThe following gentlemen have been reported to this Government as forming the Committee of the Po Leung-kuk (Society for the protection of Women and Children) for the year 1882-1883.\n\nBy Command,\nColonial Secretary's Office,\nHongkong, 12th August, 1882.\n\n| Name | Position/ Occupation |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. FUNG MING SHAN | Merchant, President |\n| NG TAI YONG | Barrister-at-Law, Vice-President |\n| LEUNG HOK CHAU | of Messrs. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Compradore's Office, Treasurer |\n| LI YAT LAU | of the LAI HING Shop |\n| WONG KWAN T'ONG | K'in Fung Nam-pak Hong. Kwong kí Shop |\n| CH'AN SHUT CH'O | Ch'an Kwan Yuk-tóng, Central Market |\n| Ün Man Ts'or | Manager of Branch Stamp Office |\n| Chiu Tsz Kí | of the United States Consulate |\n| Ts'Ù ÜTING | of the Shan On Bank |\n| LI UT HING | Merchant |\n\n示諭事照得現報保良局所舉值事等姓名開示於下特諭 \n馮明珊正主席 \n伍秩副主席 \n槊鶴巢管理銀兩 \n李逸樓 \n黄筠堂 \n陳述初 \n袁敏才 \n曹雨亭 \n趙子璣 \n李月卿 \n住港商人 \n住港大狀師 \n禮興號 \n乾豐南北行內廣記 \n中市陳崑玉堂 \n厘印分局 \n美國領事署 \n懊安銀店 \n住港商人 \n\nFREDERICK STEWART, \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nEnclosure 2 in Administrator's despatch W. 191 of 11th September, 1882 \n(fwith six spare copies)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318276, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE POOHYANGSHAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF FEMALE IMMIGRANTS.\n\n\n521 \n\n## Rules and Regulations of the Association\n\n11. All affairs of the Association, whether important or unimportant, provided they are of advantage to the members of Committee or concern the Association, may at any time be brought before a meeting for discussion, and action shall be taken according to the vote of the majority.\n\n12. All lawsuits in which the Association may be involved by charges preferred on account of the public acts of the Association, shall be authoritatively dealt with by the Attorney whom the Government may appoint, or by the Attorney General, and all expenses shall be paid by the Government.\n\n13. All Ordinances enacted by the English Government, or hereafter to be enacted, for the repression of kidnapping or selling persons for purposes of prostitution, and similar offences, may at any time be published by the Association for general information, or the Association may issue special advertisements to be sent into the inland districts with a view to make them known far and wide, so as to warn people.\n\n14. The Directors of this Association shall in the first instance be the ten persons to be elected publicly, and they shall record the names of all Committee members in a Register, and those ten persons first elected shall be considered the founders of the Association. But they shall resign at the end of a year, and others shall be elected from among the Committee members to take their places. They shall, however, be eligible for re-election for a term not exceeding three years.\n\n15. All Directors newly elected every year shall forward their surnames and names to be submitted to His Excellency the Governor for ratification.\n\n16. All transactions of the Association shall be carefully recorded, and such records shall at any time be open to the inspection of the members of the Committee and of the Government.\n\n17. All expenses incurred by the Association, and the accounts of receipts and disbursements, shall be annually exhibited (in a balance sheet), which shall be printed and copies distributed for the information of the Committee members, and a copy of the same shall be submitted to the Government for scrutiny and verification.\n\n18. The salaries of all Secret Detectives, informers or managers employed by the Association shall be defrayed out of the public funds. The Detectives shall be first sworn in by the Government, and when approved by the Government shall be considered as if they were Police Constables, but such Detectives shall confine themselves entirely to the detection and repression of crimes of kidnapping and to the arresting of kidnappers, as also to the rescue of kidnapped persons. Whenever any business they have in hand from day to day concerns the Superintendent of Police or the Harbour Master, they shall be bound to report the matter to them and apply for their co-operation. But the Superintendent of Police or Harbour Master shall not use such Detectives in pursuance of other matters.\n\n19. Whenever in a case of kidnapping there are persons who gave the information, they shall not be rewarded until the Police Court or the Supreme Court have decided the case, when, according to the regulations existing, the Government will determine upon a commensurate reward, and no such reward need be paid by the Association.\n\n20. When any transaction of the Association requires authority exceeding the powers of the Association, application shall be made to the Government for assistance and co-operation, but if by accident the Association should unwittingly exceed its powers, application shall also be made to the Government for forbearance.\n\nThe above twenty regulations are herewith expressly submitted to His Excellency the Governor for ratification, and an official reply will be awaited before they are given effect, and further, the Government is entreated to embody these Rules and Regulations in a Special Ordinance to ensure their permanency.\n\nSuch is the Petitioners' earnest prayer.\n\n28th September, 1880.\n\n[In `C.S.O. 2491 of 1880`.]\n\n**(Translation)**\n\nTranslated by \nE. J. EITEL.\n\n## RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HONEST PEOPLE.\n\n1. This Association will call every year at a certain time one General Meeting of all the Committee members to arrange for the public election of Directors, also to examine the accounts, which will then be submitted to the Government for its information and so forth.\n\n2. All Committee members who have been elected Directors, will, when their term of office is about to expire, or at least half a month prior to its expiry, tender their resignation, so that others may be elected from among the number of Committee members, but if again elected they may resume their office. The names of the persons so elected will, however, have to be submitted to the Government for the information of His Excellency the Governor.\n\n3. When the time comes for the Annual General Meeting, previous notice thereof must be given to Committee members, inviting them to come and take part in the meeting, or notice be given at least 7 days previous by insertion in one of the Chinese newspapers, so that all may be informed.\n\n4. At the ordinary meetings of the Directors three Directors present to sign the papers shall form a quorum.\n\n5. Managers or Agents or others employed by the Association will, if involved in any litigation, being charged by others on account of public business, or charging others on the same account, have all their expenses paid from the public funds.\n\n6. From among the Directors who have been publicly elected out of the number of the Committee members, there shall be elected a Chairman, a Vice-Chairman, and a Treasurer, and they shall be responsible for what they do.\n\n7. The Treasurer shall be selected from among the Directors and be appointed by them, and shall be authorized to make all arrangements for getting good interest and so on. If the said officer is found deficient in his accounts, the nine other Directors shall be responsible for the amount, and no excuse will be allowed. As to putting out money on loan, the said officer shall at the time consult the other members and act accordingly.\n\n8. Each of those who have been elected Directors shall, on entering office, sign a declaration on oath to signify his sincerity and disinterestedness.\n\n9. Every Detective to be employed by the Association must find two respectable and substantial persons to stand security for him, each signing a bond for $250 guarantee against extortion, coercion or trumping up of false charges or other offences, and on entering office he shall further be required to sign a declaration on oath in proof of his good faith.\n\n10. Any Rules and Regulations passed by the Directors from time to time after due discussion may be successively added with a view to consolidate the system and to perfect it in details.\n\n11. All Committee members should be careful to cherish the principle of human charity and entirely refrain from any improper action, but on meeting with kidnapped persons proceed with increased alacrity or join other members of the Association in energetic efforts for their rescue, and further, by some means or other, get the kidnappers arrested and handed over to the Government to be prosecuted, all with the hope that these evil practices be eradicated, when all people will rejoice over the riddance, which is the great aim of this Association.\n\n12. All Committee members should be careful not to listen to any slander and thereupon lose courage and draw back half way, which would be wasting all the trouble taken in organizing this scheme. But it is hoped they will deal with every case with straightforwardness, when they need not be ashamed before gods or men, but will be able to face the bright spirits, and if after all there is vituperation or praise, they need not trouble themselves about it. Besides, it must be considered that the English Government wields great power in its hands, and is surely able to see through all the intricacies of each case, and will certainly prevent those criminals from playing secret mischief.\n\n13. This Association must establish a Register of the Committee members, account-books for receipts and disbursements, also a Day-book, Letter-book, Minute-book and so forth, to facilitate inquiries that may be made at any time by Committee members.\n\n14. At the first starting of this Association, it has been agreed to use temporarily the Tung-wa Hospital for the purpose of meetings and for a place of detention of kidnapped persons until funds have been collected, when the English Government will be petitioned for the grant of a piece of ground suitable for the erection of buildings where destitute people can be accommodated.\n\nThe above 14 rules are designed for the guidance of the Committee members of this Association, and are now expressly transcribed and submitted to His Excellency the Governor for scrutiny and ratification.\n\n## MINUTES BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL\n\nI have revised the rules, and have pointed out such amendments as appear necessary to reduce them to a form in which the Government might recognize them. Apart from this, I have left them precisely as I found them. They are Chinese in their structure, and I presume that those who drew them up are satisfied that they are suited to the object in view.\n\nMarch 31st, 1881.\n\n**EDWARD O'MALLEY**\n\nI send herewith also some draft rules which I have drawn up, showing how the objects of the Society might be provided for, subject to the conditions that seem to be necessary from a Government point of view.\n\nApril 1st, 1881.\n\n**EDWARD O'MALLEY**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319270, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "content_text": "that no constables now in the Force will be allowed married quarters if they choose to marry before attaining the rank of Sergeant.\n\nI have the honour to be My Lord. Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nB. Bue c. o.\n\n2000 HONGKONG 87\n\n**POLICE PENSIONS AND GRATUITIES.**\n\n**Minute by the Officer Administering the Government.**\n\n269\n\nIn my despatch 169 of 24th August last, I promised to address the Secretary of State more fully on the subject of Police Pensions, the amount of which is steadily increasing every year, as will be seen by the enclosure, and will in my opinion continue to increase probably for the next 10 years, before the maximum is attained.\n\n2. Under the existing rules made by the Governor in Council, which do not appear to have been ever sent home for approval, and copy of which is annexed, a pension is granted to any member of the Force who has served ten years, at the rate of 1% of his annual pay, and for every complete year's service after ten years' an addition of part is made. This rule is applied to the whole force whether natives of Hongkong or China, Sikhs, or Europeans, and in deciding whether Chinese and Indians should continue to be allowed to reckon five years additional as well as Europeans, the rates of pay given to the different races should I think be taken into consideration. These are as follows:--\n\n| Class | Chinese | Europeans | Indians | Water |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1st Class | $480 | $186 | $168 | $96 |\n| 2nd Class | $444 | $162 | $132 | $84 |\n| 3rd Class | $408 | $150 | $108 | X |\n\n3. A superannuation allowance in lieu of pension, calculated at five times the annual pension, may be given on the application of the Grantee, or when there is a difficulty in effecting periodical payments of pensions at the residence of the Pensioner. The Chinese prefer in nearly every case to take the superannuation allowance or commuted pension, which enables them to return to their native villages and to purchase land or to open a small shop, but Governor HENNESSY, it will be seen, preferred paying pensions. After the decision referred to in the annexure, a petition was presented signed by 127 Chinese Members of the Force praying for reconsideration thereof, but it was not listened to, and as may be seen in the Blue Book of 1881, 21 Chinese Members were after this decision pensioned. Only one Chinese name will be found in the pension list previous to this. As the regulation leaves it to the discretion of the Governor (in Council) whether a pension or a superannuation allowance should be given, I have not hesitated to approve of applications for the latter that have been made to me, supported by a medical certificate that the Constable retiring is in good health. In that case not only is the wish of the pensioner gratified, but a considerable saving is effected by paying a commuted sum in full for all claims.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319282, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "page_number": 286, "title": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "content_text": "## RETURN SHEWING CASUALTIES IN THE POLICE FORCE FROM 1870 TO 1881.\n\n| YEAR | DEATHS | RESIGNATIONS THROUGH SICKNESS | RESIGNATIONS THROUGH EXPIRY OF TERM OF SERVICE OR OTHERWISE | DISMISSALS | DESERTIONS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1870 | 16 | 2 | 14 | 3 | ... |\n| 1871 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 2 | ... |\n| 1872 | 8 | ... | 12 | 1 | ... |\n| 1873 | 11 | 3 | 14 | --- | 2 |\n| 1874 | 15 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 1 |\n| 1875 | 8 | 1 | 25 | 1 | ... |\n| 1876 | 11 | 2 | 43 | ... | 1 |\n| 1877 | 10 | 1 | 53 | ... | ... |\n| 1878 | 8 | 1 | 256 | 1 | ... |\n| 1879 | 6 | ... | 195 | ... | ... |\n| 1880 | 12 | 1 | CRZ* | ... | ... |\n| 1881 | 8 | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| TOTAL | 122 | 13 | 1,488 | 12 | 4 |\n\n*From Government Gazette.\n\nNo. 318.\n\nPOLICE OFFICE, \nHONGKONG, 15th November, 1882.\n\n15 Europeans. \n80 Indians, \nPensioned during this period,.\n\nPolice Office, \nHongkong, 28th November, 1889.\n\nSIR,\n\nAdverting to the question of married quarters for Europeans Constables. I have the honour to submit for approval the following regulations.\n\n2. (a.) After the 1st January, 1883, no married European Constable shall be enlisted unless the number of married Constables in the Force whose wives are resident in the Colony does not exceed ten in number.\n\n(b.) No European Constable who marries after the above date will be entitled to married quarters unless the number of married Constables, &c. (as before).\n\n(c.) The number of Sergeants or Acting Sergeants for whom quarters shall be provided shall be ten in number.\n\n(d.) Married quarters will be allowed to Inspectors.\n\n(e.) The accommodation provided shall be two rooms, one bath room, and the use of a cook house; the size of a room shall not be less than 12′0′′ × 12′0′′ for a Constable, or 14′ × 14′0′′ for an Inspector, or a Sergeant.\n\n(f.) In default of accommodation, an allowance of $15 a month will be granted, and for the purposes of discipline, lodgings taken under this allowance shall be deemed to be Police Stations.\n\n(g.) The Captain Superintendent shall in case of misconduct on part of any officer or Constable, or the wife or child, and if he deems it necessary for the discipline of the Force, exercise the right to decline the further use of married quarters to any such Officer or Constable.\n\n3. It is to be observed that Government does not undertake to provide married quarters for Indians or Chinese.\n\n4. It would be advisable to at once pull down and re-build No. 9 as married quarters for Constables.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \nW. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320851, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 230, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "any Ordinance at 4/2 \n\nbeen specified in terms of the dollar. The pay \n\nof the Police Force \n\nis credited in terms in Schedule A of \n\nthe Ordinance of 1862. In the Blue Book \n\nfor 1893, the year in which the pay of a \n\nfirst Class Constable was fixed as it is \n\nat present, the amount appears as £100-\n\nwhich has been paid in $480, or at \n\nthe rate of 4.80 dollars to the pound sterling. \n\nSince £1 must \n\nbe reckoned at 4½ to the pound so \n\nthe respectfully submit that so long Government pay \n\nthe Police Force at the rate \n\nof using the dollar, that rate must be deemed \n\nto be the rate prescribed by Government in a clause of Agreement dealing with the appropriation of a portion of a Constable's monthly pay; and that \n\nthis rate must \n\nbe maintained until Ord. 1 of 1864 \n\nis \n\nrepealed. \n\nPage 229 \n\nWith reference to the course of action \n\ndirected as to the Singapore Price, I have \n\nofficial information as to the rate of \n\nexchange current in the \n\nColony, whether \n\nOfficial or banking, \n\nbut this distinction \n\nin the circumstances of the Forces \n\nmay be pointed out. The \n\nmen enlisted \n\nfor Singapore were, I believe, the first detachment engaged in England, \n\nwhereas in Hong Kong this method \n\nof recruiting Constables has been adopted \n\nsince 1891. Hence \n\nany innovation on \n\nthe system of remittance in practice, as regards the majority of the European \n\nForce, would affect with special harshness \n\nthe new men, unless the matter \n\nRepealed", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330751, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "content_text": "Singapore\n\nHong Kong they receive an allowance of $15 per month for rent of quarters.\n\n(\n\nAudit Office\n\nHong Kong, 30th April, 1886.\n\nFor Official reference only.\n\nB.\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nPOLICE PENSIONS AND GRATUITIES.\n\nC.O.\n\n10836\n\nREG 16 JUN 36/\n\nMinute by the Officer Administering the Government.\n\nRevised to date\n\n5513!\n\nIn my despatch 169 of 24th August last, I promised to address the Secretary of State more fully on the subject of Police Pensions, the amount of which is steadily increasing every year, as will be seen by the enclosure, and will in my opinion continue to increase probably for the next 10 years, before the maximum is attained.\n\n2. Under the existing rules made by the Governor in Council, which do not appear to have been ever sent home for approval, and copy of which is annexed, a pension is granted to any member of the Force who has served ten years, at the rate of 1/5 of his annual pay, and for every complete year's service after ten years' an addition of 1/60 part is made. This rule is applied to the whole force whether natives of Hongkong or China, Sikhs, or Europeans, and in deciding whether Chinese and Indians should continue to be allowed to reckon five years additional as well as Europeans, the rates of pay given to the different races should I think be taken into consideration. These are as follows :-\n\n \n \n Chinese\n Europeans\n Indians\n \n \n Constables 1st Class,\n $186\n $540\n $150\n \n \n 2nd Class,\n $168\n $162\n $108\n \n \n 3rd Class,\n $96\n $132\n \n \n \n Land Water\n $84\n \n \n \n \n \n $480\n \n \n \n\n3. A superannuation allowance in lieu of pension, calculated at five times the annual pension, may be given on the application of the Grantee, or when there is a difficulty in effecting periodical payments of pensions at the residence of the Pensioner. The Chinese prefer in nearly every case to take the superannuation allowance or commuted pension, which enables them to return to their native villages and to purchase land or to open a small shop, but Governor HENNESSY, it will be seen, preferred paying pensions. After the decision referred to in the annexure, a petition was presented signed by 127 Chinese Members of the Force praying for reconsideration thereof, but it was not listened to, and as may be seen in the Blue Book of 1881, 21 Chinese Members were after this decision pensioned. Only one Chinese name will be found in the pension list previous to this. As the regulation leaves it to the discretion of the Governor (in Council) whether a pension or a superannuation allowance should be given, I have not hesitated to approve of applications for the latter that have been made to me, supported by a medical certificate that the Constable retiring is in good health. In that case not only is the wish of the pensioner gratified, but a considerable saving is effected by paying a commuted sum in full for all claims.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330763, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "content_text": "24\n\nTOTAL.\n\nGRAND TOTAL.\n\n*sa \"subipu *Sutipu) 480 M suvedoang *esour *pa πεiραι uvodoing asan *aupu *asipur 450 M uBadoing\n\nRETURN SHEWING CASUALTIES IN THE POLICE FORCE FROM 1870 TO 1881.\n\n \n YEAR.\n DEATHS.\n RESIGNATIONS THROUGH SICKNESS.\n RESIGNATIONS THROUGH EXPIRY OF TERM OF SERVICE OR OTHERWISE.\n DISMISSALS AND DESERTIONS.\n \n \n 1870,\n 38\n 152\n 101\n 18\n \n \n 1871,\n 05\n 211\n 160\n 114\n \n \n 1872,\n 125\n 108\n 89\n \n \n \n 1873,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1874.\n 111\n 122\n \n 21\n \n \n 1875,\n 24\n 13\n 11\n 10\n \n \n 1876,\n 73\n \n \n \n \n \n 1877,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1878,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1879,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1880,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1881,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL,\n 982\n \n \n \n \n \n INSPECTORS,\n 256\n 106\n 12\n 89\n \n \n \n 887\n 135\n 30\n 150\n \n \n \n 1,488\n \n \n 504\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 603\n \n\n* From Government Gazette.\n\nPensioned during this period,.. 16 Europeans. 80 Indians.\n\nPolice Office, Hongkong, 28th November, 1889.\n\nNo. 318.\n\nSIR,\n\nPOLICE OFFICE, HONGKONG, 15th November, 1882.\n\nAdverting to the question of married quarters for Europeans Constables, I have the honour to submit for approval the following regulations.\n\n2. (a.) After the 1st January, 1883, no married European Constable shall be enlisted unless the number of married Constables in the Force whose wives are resident in the Colony does not exceed ten in number.\n\n(b.) No European Constable who marries after the above date will be entitled to married quarters unless the number of married Constables, &c. (as before).\n\n(c.) The number of Sergeants or Acting Sergeants for whom quarters shall be provided shall be ten in number.\n\n(d) Married quarters will be allowed to Inspectors.\n\n(e) The accommodation provided shall be two rooms, one bath room, and the use of a cook house; the size of a room shall not be less than 12′0′′ × 12′0′′ for a Constable, or 14′′ × 14′ 0′′ for an Inspector, or a Sergeant.\n\n(f.) In default of accommodation, an allowance of $15 a month will be granted, and for the purposes of discipline, lodgings taken under this allowance shall be deemed to be Police Stations.\n\n(g.) The Captain Superintendent shall in case of misconduct on part of any officer or Constable, or the wife or child, and if he deems it necessary for the discipline of the Force, exercise the right to decline the further use of married quarters to any such Officer or Constable.\n\n3. It is to be observed that Government does not undertake to provide married quarters for Indians or Chinese.\n\n4. It would be advisable to at once pull down and re-build No. 9 as married quarters for Constables.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nW. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n223\n\n25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 331053, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "page_number": 136, "title": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "content_text": "12.\n\nOu duty in Hollywood Road. With regard to the words \"Wednesday morning\" P.C. 278 bears the name of Lave Chime and on Wednesday the 20th May he was on duty from 8am to 10am. Post which is in front of the Mean Mo Temple.\n\nPackage B3 bears his name.\n\nWith regard to the words \"his name\", 2011 I find described thus (read from Section book, page 18) \"This beat is in the neighbourhood of Tank Lane. The greater part of the Not Section No 11 beat constables named in the list ▲ have been at their several beats for a week.\" The 2nd defendant is an ex-Police Constable.\n\nNo question.\n\nTeik declared states: \"I am a coolie living in East Street. On the 10th May at 11am I was standing at the entrance of Man Hing Lane, I saw a number of Lokongs, over 10 in number, go inside Man Hing Lane and I saw some of them pay money to the defendant. This is the first time I have seen the constables receive money purposely.\"\n\nI went there to see this with my own eyes. The Constables were in plain clothes. I knew them to be Constables by having seen them on duty. I do not know the 1st defendant. They were all Chinese Constables. There were no Europeans or Sikhs there.\n\nTo our Hokton: \"I live in East Street. I have been a Police informer for some time and I got my living partly by informing. I saw that it was money the defendant gave.\"\n\nI cannot swear that I saw the 1st defendant exactly. I cannot recognize the men again. So to the Court: \"I cannot re-recognize them because I cannot remember who were there. There were so many people.\"\n\nIse Fik declared States: \"I am a mat packer...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 331065, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "content_text": "as to make me quite unfit for business\n\nto rout\n\nNo question. Jacques Ullman sworn states: I am store keeper in Queen's Road and I live in Wyndham Street, N.4.1. The noise was intolerable, mainly at the back of the premises.\n\nlast night\n\nhouse is\n\nIt is\n\n- is right at\n\ngongs and singing and music. There is also burning of joss papers.\n\nNo question.\n\nMontague Salamon\n\nsworn\n\nstates: I am broker residing in 65 Wyndham Street. At 10.10pm on the 24th August I sent a letter to the Officer in charge at the Central Station enquiring whether the noise going on in D'Aguilar Street was known to the Police or not. No notice was taken of my note except that the book was initialled. I wrote on behalf of several people who had been complaining. I then went to bed at 10.30 pm and I had to shut the windows to keep out the noise.\n\nAt 11 o'clock p.m. I was awakened by hearing a riot - a noise as if there was a fire or something going on. I got up and came over to the Police Station in my sleeping clothes. When I got to the Station it was minutes to 11 o'clock, I got no satisfaction from the Constables - I think Police Constable 91 said I need not make such a fuss, as they were making plenty of noise in the Garden with the Band. I went back and found my neighbour, W. Ellis, wife of Captain Ellis, on the verandah of her house next door to mine. She told me her husband was very alarmed at the noise that was going on down below. This was 11.15p.m. I stayed on the verandah until 11.28 p.m. the noise continuing the whole time without cessation. The noise consisted of howling and then laughing. It sounded to me as if the Police were interfering and that the crowd was...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 331285, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "page_number": 368, "title": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "content_text": "366\n\nThe fourteen men who were arrested in connection with this second fray were tried by Mr Mitchell-Innes at the Police Court this afternoon. The evidence given will be found below. Dr Ho Kai, instructed by Mr Caldwell, appeared on behalf of Lo Aluk for the prosecution, and Mr Wilson, of Messrs Wotton and Deacon, for the defence. The evidence given against the men seemed to implicate them in the attack, but there was a good deal of divergence in the individual prisoners identified by the constables. The most unsatisfactory witness was a Chinese detective, whose complicity or at least knowledge of the on-goings might have been guessed at from the manner in which he gave his evidence. Mr Wilson, who cross-examined him but could elicit from him nothing but a bare denial, said he was perfectly satisfied that he knew all about the case and his Worship animadverted on the character of a detective who refused to say what he evidently knew.\n\nThat the Chinese lukongs are not unconnected with this affair is strongly suspected by the authorities and this afternoon a detective named Afat was arrested along with a batch of about twenty other prisoners, alleged members of the Triad Society and instigators of the disturbance that occurred yesterday. In fact, it is said, that this Afat is one of the head ring-leaders of the Society and that he has been making a very good thing of it, pocketing a dollar or two from every new member.\n\nIt will be remembered that quite recently a charge of detention was brought against a certain shopman from whose house it was said a Chinaman detained for emigration purposes had thrown himself out of the window to escape being sent away, the charge was unsubstantiated and a charge of perjury was brought against the complainants. Now it is said that the attack yesterday evening arose out of this charge of perjury being persisted in. But whatever may be the exact origin of the affair there is no doubt that this Triad Society is at the bottom of the whole matter and that it will either have to be suppressed promptly or an order made that all such societies shall be duly registered by the Government. This latter course, which is adopted in Singapore, seems to be the best way out of the difficulty.\n\nAt first only the prisoners connected with the second disturbance were charged with the felony of belonging to a secret society; and it was the intention to proceed with this case with the utmost celerity so as to have it tried at the Supreme Court at the Criminal Sessions next Friday. We understand, however, that this charge of being connected with a secret society may be brought against all the prisoners, and before a thorough investigation can be made into the affair a longer time than six days will, we fear, be required.\n\nThe following is the evidence taken at the trial of the fourteen men this afternoon:\n\nThe fourteen men were tried before Mr Mitchell-Innes at the Police Court in the afternoon, Superintendent Deane being also on the bench. The men were charged at the instance of Lo Aluk, head coolie, or keeper of a coolie house, with fighting and creating a disturbance and with being members of the Triad Society; the first, second and third were also charged with cutting and wounding Wong Sa Fak, and the fourteenth was further charged with being armed with a deadly weapon, namely a sword.\n\nDuncan Macdonald P.C. No. 15, said: Yesterday a report was made to him about 7:30 that there was a fight taking place at Gough Street. He got the instructions from Inspector Mathieson and went to No. 6 Gough Street, accompanied by four or five constables. He arrested there 7 men pointed out by Lo Aluk, the complainant. Those were the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th and 9th prisoners. He seized about sixty fighting poles, some of bamboo and some of wood. They were found on the ground floor of the room. The men were all greatly excited.\n\nHe found a man wounded in the Central Station; he had two long cuts in the back and one on the right hip. That man picked out the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prisoners, and said they were the men who wounded him. The injured man was taken to the Civil Hospital. The house where he arrested the men was a coolie house. There were no other persons on the same floor. The men were very quiet when he went in. He found the sticks in the same floor.\n\nCross-examined: He saw a good many people outside the house. All was quiet outside when he went down. The report made to him was that there was fighting in the street. He arrived on the spot between 7:30 and 8 p.m. He saw the complainant, Lo Aluk, in Gough Street, about 10 yards from Aberdeen Street. He afterwards saw him in the house. He had had no communication with Lo Aluk about going to Gough Street. He took Lo Aluk for a respectable man, and he pointed out the men who had been fighting to him. The men did not offer any opposition to his entering the house. There were a few Chinese constables with him when the arrest was made, but he could not tell their numbers, as they were in plain clothes. Most of the sixty poles were found inside the room about the door. None of the seven men had fighting poles in their hands. He was not the first to enter the house. There were two doors. He was standing at the front door. An entrance was made from the side door. P.C. No. 17, with other constables, entered from the side door. He could not say whether they appeared like men who had gone inside to avoid the row or were connected with the row.\n\nIt was dark when he entered and he could not say then whether there were more present at the time. A light, however, was afterwards got. No knives or other fighting weapons were found on the men. Lo Aluk was the only man who pointed out the seven men to him.\n\nRe-examined: He could swear positively to the 1st, 2nd and 8th being of the seven he arrested. The poles were scattered on the floor. There were only four or five outside. He was quite sure that he went straight to No. 6 Gough Street. He entered that house because there were most people about it. He entered on his own discretion.\n\nBy the Bench: Lo Aluk said in Chinese to him in the house \"These are some of the men who have been fighting.\"\n\nP.C. Gillies, said: Along with four or five constables he went to Gough Street. Lo Aluk was in the charge room making a complaint to Inspector Matheson; Lo Aluk went along with them and pointed out that the men were in No. 6. The front door was locked and they could not get in by it. They then went to the side door and burst it open. They found seven men in the house, whom Lo Aluk pointed out to him. There were the 1st, and 2nd, 4th and 5th, and 9th he recognised positively; No. 6 he was not sure about. The men were taken to the gaol. Some were standing on beds, some of them were in the cook house, some were near the front door. The bamboo sticks were standing against the door leading to the cook house or scattered about the floor. When the police went in the men in their hurry upset several lamps, leaving only one small lamp burning.\n\nCross-examined: The door was fastened from the inside so as to prevent anyone entering. They tried to escape when he entered. There was nobody outside but the police, and he thought it was of the police that they were afraid. When he went to the house he found a great number of people shouting outside. He did not see any poles outside. The side door was only in the form of a thin partition and was easily knocked in. The men were running about the room and when captured were identified by Lo Aluk as having made the attack on his house.\n\nP.C. Duncan Macdonald said: He went down with P.Cs. 17 and 15 and Lo Aluk to No. 6 Gough Street. The complainant pointed to No. 6. They tried to get in at the front door but could not manage it.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335185, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 467, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "I have looked up my old Blue Book and with respect to the Fol. Treasurer's opinion, I take it that that section implies that those who did not contribute to the Police Super. Fund before the passing of that Ord., could not count the period previous for pension purposes.\n\nTherefore, that bit I do not see that the can be allowed to Abbas?\n\nThe other pension is right, we do not notice these Police Pensions unless they are awarded.\n\nI think that 27 of ada o g1562 implied that constables who had contributed to the Police Fund were not entitled to reckon their past service for pensions under that Ordinance.\n\nBut I think that the Govt in Council to grant a member of Schie a pension in such a way that he would have been entitled to claim under the regulations made under the Ordinance 1889 and that therefore the Govt in Council did exercise their discretion in granting Abbas a pension based on his whole period of service including the period prior to his being attested and having regard to his meritorious service.\n\nI think they exercised a wise discretion in doing so.\n\nSanctioning the fear of increasing Police Salaries raised in 1862 and not reduced.\n\nW.J. Gay\n\n421-077", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 338723, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "content_text": "# III. \nIn `C.S.O. 148` *Proposed Regulations for Members of the Police Force for the encouragement of proficiency in the Chinese language.*\n\n## I. \nInstead of the four certificates hitherto granted, two certificates shall be granted in ordinary cases, with a third one to be awarded only in cases of exceptional knowledge.\n\n## II. \nInstead of the allowances of $2.50 and $1 a month now given to European and Indian Constables respectively who hold a certificate from the Board of Examiners, the following scale of remuneration shall be adopted, viz.:\n\n| Rank | 1st Certificate | 2nd Certificate | 3rd Certificate |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| European Constables | $2.50 | $5.00 | $10.00 |\n| Indian Constables | $1.00 | $3.00 | $5.00 |\n\nDRAFT. No - 45 5103 · G. W. Ces Vaux. Hemg March \n\nSuch remuneration to be drawn only so long as the receiver remains in the Police Force.\n\n## III. \nFor the first certificate, a knowledge of colloquial shall be required. For the second certificate, a higher standard of colloquial will be necessary, as well as acquaintance with a book in Colloquial to be approved of by the Board: and in the case of the third certificate an acquaintance with the written Chinese character will be necessary, as well as an advanced knowledge of Colloquial.\n\n## IV. \nIn no case shall the third certificate be granted without the sanction of His Excellency the Governor, upon the recommendation of the Board.\n\n## V. \nMembers of the Police Force already holding certificates under the old scheme, shall be allowed to continue drawing their present allowances, but will be at liberty to offer themselves for examination for the second and third certificates under the new scheme, and shall be entitled, on passing, to the higher allowances.\n\nMINUTE. \nBir. Lucas \nBir. 18. \nFairfield 18.3 \nMr. Wingfield. \nMr. Bramston. \nMr. Meade. \nSir R. Herbert. \nBaron de Worms. \nLord Knutsford.\n\nPage ...\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 45 of the 5th instant, enclosing copies of a message addressed to your council, covering proposals for regulations for the improvement of Interpretation in the colony.\n\n2. These regulations seem to me well adapted to the object with which they have been framed, and you have my authority, if you think fit, to use them at once.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 339155, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "page_number": 591, "title": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "content_text": "## II.\nThe salary of the student Interpreters will be 40 Dollars a month, payable however subject to a certificate of the Examiners after every period of six months, to the effect that satisfactory progress is being made in knowledge of the Chinese language, and in the facility of interpreting it into English and vice versa.\n\n## III.\nAny student Interpreter who at the end of three years from his appointment as such shall pass a satisfactory examination in the Chinese language, and whose conduct in other respects shall have earned approval, will be attached to some Department, and will receive a salary of not less than $100 a month, if, or as soon as, he is of the age of 18 years, subject to the Colonial Rules and Regulations relating to Salaries of Civil Servants.\n\n## IV.\nEvery student Interpreter on his appointment shall furnish security for the repayment of a sum, not exceeding half of the whole sum received by him by way of salary, in the event of his leaving the service of the Colony before the expiration of 6 years from the time of his appointment.\n\n## I. Regulations for Members of the Police Force for the encouragement of proficiency in the Chinese language.\nInstead of the four certificates hitherto granted, two certificates shall be granted in ordinary cases, with a third one to be awarded only in cases of exceptional knowledge.\n\n## II.\nInstead of the allowances of $2.50 and $1 a month now given to European and Indian Constables respectively who hold a certificate from the Board of Examiners, the following scale of remuneration shall be adopted, viz.:-\n| Category | 1st Certificate | 2nd Certificate | 3rd Certificate |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| European Constables | $2.50 | $5.00 | $10.00 |\n| Indian Constables | $1.00 | $3.00 | $5.00 |\nsuch remuneration may be drawn only so long as the receiver remains in the Police Force.\n\nFor the first certificate, a knowledge of colloquial shall be required.\nFor the second certificate, a higher standard of colloquial will be necessary, as well as acquaintance with a book in Colloquial to be approved of by the Board: and in the case of the third certificate an acquaintance with the written Chinese character will be necessary, as well as an advanced knowledge of Colloquial.\nIn no case shall the third certificate be granted without the sanction of His Excellency the Governor, upon the recommendation of the Board.\n\n## V.\nMembers of the Police Force already holding certificates under the old scheme, shall be allowed to continue drawing their present allowances, but will be at liberty to offer themselves for examination for the second and third certificates under the new scheme, and shall be entitled, on passing, to the higher allowances.\n\n8 (49,042) 3000 3-89\n\n| No. | Date | Subject | Reference |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 130 | 10 June | | at previous Paper |\n| 11188 | | | Stong tong |\n| 11183 | | **DESPATCH** | |\n| | 4 JUN 99 | REG: | Loan Services of Major Champernowne |\n\n\"owing to Excessive rain. Colonial Engineers require Every assistance. Please request War Office to lend three months service Major Champernowne R.E. just returning home G.O.C approves, work being Essentially necessary health of troops\"\n\n(Minutes.)\nDraft written 25. 4. 257 4 June\n\nFrequent Paper. T15:24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 340146, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "page_number": 737, "title": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG\n\n## EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n\n### MEDICAL,-Continued\n\nBrought forward,.............. | 21,006 | 3,540 \n---------------------------|---------|--------- \n**LUNATIC ASYLUM, AND SMALL-POX HOSPITAL** | | \nSALARIES:- | | \nWard Masters, Nurses, Cocks, Coulies, and Watchman,....... | 2,500 | 2,500 \n**LAZARETTO** | | \nSALARIES:- | | \nCaretakers, | 304 | \nTemporary Staff for 3 months, | 201 | 14 \nPublic Vaccinator, | 360 | $28 \n**ESTABLISHMENTS** | | \n**HOSPITALS-EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS** | | \nMedical Comforts, | 7,000 | \nLight and Fuel, | 1,200 | \nWashing, | | \nIncidental Expenses, Furniture, &c., . | 9,000 | 200 \nUniforta for Constables....... | 100 | 600 \n**CIVIL HOSPITAL** | | \nProvisions for Patients, | 1,800 | 700 \nBedding for | | \nMedicines, | 1,700 | BA \nSurgical Instruments, | | 210 \nAnalytical Apparatus, &e., - | | 15 \nConveyance to Surgeon in charge of Mortuury....... | | 455 \nRENT:- | | \nRoomas substituted for School-house usai as Hospital................... | | 31 \n**LUNATIC ASYLUM, AND SMALL-POX HOSPITAL** | | \nProvisions, Bedding, Fuel, Light, Go,, | 25,234 | \n**LOCK HOSPITAL** | | \nSALARIES:--- | | \nResident Surgeon, | 1,800 | 1,800 \nSteward and Clerk........ | 180 | 240 \nChinese Interpreter, | | 480 \n3 Inspectors of Police, 1 at $1,900, 1-at $900, sed 1 at $846,, | 3,000 | \nMatron, | | 720) \nCook, | 180 | \nfiate Keeper, | | \n4 Coolies, at $72 each, | 288 | \n**HOSPITALS,—Exclusive of ESTABLISHMENTA** | | \nProvisions for Patients, | 6,408 | 800 \nLight, Fuel, and Incidentuls, | | 240 \nBedding and Clothing, | | 250 \nMedicines, | | 150 \nInstrumeats, | | 15 \nRegistrar General's Office Expenses under Contagious | | \nDiseases Ordinance, | | 100 \nRegistrar General's Doat and Crow, | 300 | \nUniform for Coustables,......... | | 107 \n**RENT** | | \nTemporary Lock Hospital, | 2.012 | 100 \nWaitsai Examination Room, | | 73 \nQuarters for Inspectors........ | 720 | \nContribution to St. Joseph's Hospitium,..................... | 1,002 | 800 \nTOTAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST,... | 67,795 | 3.60 \n#7743 | | \n\nPage 27 \nPage 1575", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344007, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "Office, etc.\n\nDate\n\nbrown Agent's 22 May\n\nT\n\nJE\n\nSubject.\n\nhuises for Civil Hospital\n\n15 July Agreement with Miss M. E. Ward\n\n123\n\nSelection\n\n\"\n\nof\n\n7 but\n\n10\n\n47\n\n11\n\n15\n\nน\n\nk\n\n+1\n\n14\n\n11 Dec.\n\n12\n\n11\n\n\"\n\n6 hurses for the Hospital Agreements with Messrs. Gibbs & Gall Agreement with M.W.G. Nicholls\n\nPraya Reclamation Works\n\nSelection of 15 Police Constables\n\nAppt of Mr. J.R. Cook as Asst. Engineer\n\nthe use of local cement for Praya Works\n\nCouncil office 14 Nov. Training Expenses of\n\n(Education Dept.)\n\nTeachers\n\nOffice of Treasury\n\nDate.\n\n78\n\n\"\n\nSubject.\n\n4 Aug. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank\n\nSupply of Subsidiary Coin 22 Sept. Khong and Shanghai Bank\n\nForeign Office & Aug.\n\n\"\n\nIF\n\n11\n\n20\n\n2 Sept.\n\n16\n\n2\n\n\"\n\n13\n\n11\n\n17\n\n[1\n\n\"\n\nConsular Prisoners in Col. Gaols Corres between persons into Hong Kong? Consul, Convention between Chinese Govt & Tel. Cos. Rumoured intention of Chinese Govt to event Fors\n\n(Canton\n\nVinit\n\nof\n\nBd.\n\nTrade My\n\nJeb\n\n2 Apl.\n\n·Patents Ordre. 1889\n\n14\n\n11\n\n11\n\nt\n\nT\n\nMr. Winter's Complaint agst Harbour Master 11 June Appt. of Mr. G. Peebles as Marine Surveyor\n\n125\n\n18 July\n\nAppt. of Mr. Dixon as Asst. Marine Surveyor 3 Oct. Merchandise marks Ordce.\n\n13 Nov. Conveyance of Distressed Seamen\n\nLabour in Bombay India Office 31 Oct. Sunday Labour in\n\nShanghai\n\nLaw Officers 19 Aug. Chinese Submarine miners\n\nTreasury\n\nMy Jan. Military Contribution\n\n22 Feb. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordce, 2 Apl. Supply of\n\n123\n\nl,\n\nSubsidiary coins\n\n(Bank\n\nBranches & Agencies of Hongkong\n\nMy June Establishment of Branches &\n\n30\n\nIssue of 50 cent pieces\n\n15 July Securities of Hongkong Bank agst. note issue\n\n1\n\nS\n\n3 Oct. Chinese Convention with Telegraph Co.\n\nVisit of Czarewitch to the East 13 Nov. Visit of Prince Bahnurangst of Siam\n\nCzarewitch to the East\n\n9 Dec. Consular Prisoners in Col. Gaols\n\n16\n\n31\n\n*\n\nChinese Consuls\n\nNationality of persons born on lands\n\nassigned to British Govt at Shanghai\n\nWar Office 15 Jan. Military Contribution\n\n2 Apl. Suggested Military Governor for Hong Kong 31 May\n\nWar Dept. Property and Praya Extensions.\n\n19 June Disposal of ground south of Kennedy's\n\n128\n\n+\n\ncost of Defence Works.\n\n15\n\n14\n\n26\n\n1\n\n14 July Expenditure on Defences\n\n29\n\nn\n\n11 Aug.\n\nMilitary Contribution\n\ndisposal of land south of Kennedy Rd Removal of Naval & Military Establishments\"\n\nRemoval\n\nof Kazarelto from Stonecutter's Island brown houses of marine lot's 260-2 16 Sept. Tytain Water Supply\n\n22\n\n29\n\nContribution towards Survey\n\nMilitary Contribution\n\nWaterworks Ordce.\n\n8 Oct.\n\nHouses\n\nof\n\nParlia", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348460, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 193, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 95. \nThe building consisting of three slaughter houses, one exclusively for the use of Indians, the others for the killing of cattle, sheep, and pigs; three sheds for the accommodation of animals to be slaughtered, office, coolie quarters, and out-buildings covers an area of 8,615 square feet and is approaching completion.\n\n## 96. \nPublic Laundries.-A site 17,660 square feet in area has been selected for the construction of ten public laundries on Kennedy Road, Wanchai.\n\n## 97. \nThese laundries, consisting of two living rooms, cook house, washing, drying, and ironing rooms, are being erected by Mr. TSANG SAM under `contract (1)`. Good progress has been made with the work, and the laundries will shortly be ready for occupation.\n\n## 98. \nPublic Latrines.--Previous to the past year, very inadequate latrine accommodation existed in the villages of Hongkong and Kowloon. To meet this want, ten cast-iron latrines obtained from Messrs. MACFARLANE & Co. of Glasgow have been erected in the villages of Stanley, Shaukiwan, Aplichau, Hung Hom, and Yaumati. They appear to meet the requirements of the native population and will doubtless improve the sanitary condition of the villages.\n\n## 99. \nLatrines were also completed in June last in Jardine's Bazaar and Poyan Street. The former covers an area of 540 square feet and the latter an area of 770 square feet.\n\n## 100. \nCivil Hospital Staff Quarters.-This building is situated at the corner of High Street at its junction with Eastern Street and occupies a site 21,114 square feet in area. The building is two stories in height and consists of 10 bed rooms, 5 sitting rooms, an office, and one dining room with the necessary servants' quarters, bath, and lavatory accommodation.\n\n## 101. \nIn addition to the above, a chemical laboratory 41 feet by 21.4 feet and store rooms have been provided.\n\n## 102. \nA `contract (3)` was entered into with Mr. TSANG KENG in November, 1889, for its erection, the time fixed for its completion being May, 1891. I regret, however, that owing to what appears to be inexcusable delay on the part of the contractor, this building is not yet completed, though in a very advanced stage.\n\n## 103. \nCivil Hospital Coolie Quarters-Commenced in July, 1890, the `contract ()` being obtained by Mr. Wo SING, were completed in April, 1891. This building occupies a site (2,800 square feet) within the Hospital compound and is two stories in height, consisting of 7 rooms with the necessary bath, lavatory, and kitchen accommodation.\n\n## 104. \nCivil Hospital alterations and additions.-Under this heading, the necessary boiler house, boiler, and piping have been provided and erected for supplying hot water to the bathrooms, lavatories, and kitchen throughout the Civil Hospital main buildings.\n\n## 105. \nThe contract for this work was obtained by Messrs. FENWICK & Co. in May last and has been satisfactorily completed at a cost of $850.\n\n## 106. \nThe retaining wall on the northern boundary has been built, and a few minor improvements have also been carried out.\n\n## 107. \nLunatic Asylum for Chinese.-This building, situated in High Street, occupies an area of 11,700 square feet, including an airing court of 5,650 square feet, was commenced in April, 1890, by Mr. YEE HING under `contract (48)` and satisfactorily completed in July, 1891.\n\n## 108. \nThe building is two stories in height, in addition to a 7-foot basement, and consists of 4 day rooms and 16 single cells, four of which are padded. Four rooms are provided for the attendants and office, as well as the necessary servants' quarters, kitchen, bath, and lavatory accommodation.\n\n## 109. \nPolice Station Aberdeen-Commenced by Mr. SOON LOONG in October, 1890, under `contract (38)`, is situated near the eastern end of the village on an elevated site having a southern aspect, has been satisfactorily completed.\n\n## 110. \nThis building is two stories in height with a 4-foot basement and is built of brickwork with stone dressings.\n\n## 111. \nThe accommodation provided consists of 3 rooms for a married Inspector, mess-room and barrack-room for 4 European Constables, barrack-rooms for 6 Sikh Constables, 8 Chinese Constables, and 6 Water Police with lavatory and bath accommodation, 4 cells, charge room, stables, store-rooms, servants' quarters, and kitchens.\n\n## 112. \nThe site is divided into two terraces, the stables, store-rooms, &c. being placed on the lower and the remaining buildings on the upper.\n\n## 113. \nPolice Station at Quarry Bay-Occupying an elevated site on the western side of Quarry Bay, 4,340 square feet in area, is a one-storied building containing 2 rooms, store-room, and 2 cells. Detached from the main building but approached by a covered way are the kitchens, servants' quarters, and offices. This building was commenced in November, 1890, and completed in July last by Mr. CHAN A TONG under `contract (8)`.\n\n## 114. \nKennedytown Police Station.-The sum of $2,000 has been expended in erecting a retaining wall at the back of the building and cutting away the steep hill side, which had commenced to slip.\n\n## 115. \nDistrict School Sai-ying-poon.-This school is situated at the junction of High Street with Pokfulam Road and was commenced in September, 1890. It occupies an area of 6,530 square feet. Three class rooms are provided and fitted up to accommodate 186 children. Quarters have been provided for a coolie and the necessary kitchen accommodation and offices. The work has been carried out by Mr. YEUNG A TING under `contract (11)` and was completed in June last.\n\n## 116. \nAdditions to Government House-Erected from the designs of Messrs. PALMER & TURNER and under their supervision, was commenced in April, 1890, consist of a ball room 60 feet by 40 feet, supper, card, and billiard rooms, and other accessories, is situated at the eastern end of Government House and occupies a site 2,700 square feet in area.\n\n## 117. \nThe building, with the exception of the decorations and lighting, was completed in September last. A contract has been entered into with the Electric Company for lighting this portion of Government House with electricity.\n\n## 118. \nThe installation of the Electric Light has been commenced and consists of 138 incandescent lamps of a total candle-power amounting to upwards of 2,600.\n\n## 119. \nThe alternating current for supplying these lamps will be taken from the Electric Company's house-lighting mains at a pressure of 2,000 volts and will be reduced by a transformer placed in the building to a pressure of 100 volts for the purposes of lighting the lamps.\n\n## 120. \nAll wires used in the building will be insulated with vulcanized india-rubber protected by a braided covering and laid in hard wood casings; the sizes of the wires employed varying, as the number of lamps supplied, from a strand of 19 No. 16 B. W. G. copper wires to 1 No. 18 B. W. G. copper wire for a single lamp.\n\n## 121. \nThe amount of electric energy consumed will be measured by meters placed in the building, the charge being 35 cents per 1,000 watt-hours, at which rate it is estimated that the lighting will cost about $3.50 per hour for current when all the lamps are alight.\n\n## 122. \nThe estimated initial cost of Installation is dollars four thousand three hundred and eighty-one and cents fifty. ($4,381.50.)\n\n## 123. \nOn the completion of the electric installation, it is proposed to proceed with the internal decoration of the building.\n\n## 124. \nQuarters for Superintendent, Botanical & Afforestation Department.-This building, situated at the junction of the Albany and Robinson Roads, occupying an area of 7,920 square feet, is two stories in height. On the ground floor is an herbarium 44 feet by 22 feet, 2 offices, and 2 store rooms; on the upper floor are the Superintendent's private quarters. Work was commenced in March last by Mr. YEE HING under `contract (4)` and the building is now nearly completed.\n\n## 125. \nPier Stone Cutters' Island.-A substantial timber pier has been constructed on the northern shore of Stone Cutters' Island opposite the Powder Magazine. The pier is 176 feet in length and has a floor area of 1,930 square feet. This work was carried out by Mr. CHAN A TSAN under `contract (3)` entered into in November, 1890, and completed in March, 1891.\n\n## 126. \nThe reconstruction of the Governor's Peak Residence; Magazine for Explosives, Stone Cutters' Island; Shaukiwan Market Extension; and Lowering Queen's Road West, have not yet been proceeded with.\n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY WORKS\n\n## 127. \nThe Vaccine Institute-is being erected on a site 4,800 square feet in area immediately north of the Kennedy Road at its western end. The buildings are one story in height and comprise a waiting room, operating room, quarters for a caretaker, and the necessary cook houses and offices. To the north of the main building but connected by a covered way across a yard 33 feet in width are situated 20 stalls for calves and the necessary fodder store.\n\n## 128. \nYaumati Praya Wall.-During the gale of July last, the southern portion of the Yaumati Praya Wall, 750 lineal feet in length, was carried away, and the Praya roadway at this point considerably damaged. A `contract (1)` was entered into with Mr. TSANG SAM in September last for the reconstruction of the wall and repair of the roadway. The amount of this contract was $5,508.10, and the time for its completion July, 1892. Fair progress has been made with this work.\n\n... \nPage 2 \n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357398, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "content_text": "## ADDITIONAL POLICE PENSION REGULATIONS\n\nMade by the Governor in Council under Section 17 of **\"The Police Force Consolidation Ordinance, 1887,\"** on the 28th day of January, 1895.\n\n1. In estimating the conduct of subordinate officers and constables for pension purposes the expression \"good\" and \"uniformly good\" will be deemed to be synonymous terms.\n\n2. The conduct of any subordinate officer or constable will be deemed \"good\" and will, subject to the report of the Captain Superintendent of Police, entitle him to full pension if he has not obtained during his term of active service an average of four black marks per annum under the Police Regulations for the time being in force.\n\n3. If any such officer or constable has obtained during his term of active service an average per annum of four black marks, his conduct will, as a rule, but subject to the report of the Captain Superintendent of Police, and unless the Governor in Council shall, in any particular case, otherwise determine, be estimated and his pension calculated upon the scale following:\n\n| Black marks | Scale | Conduct | Deductions from full pension |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Four and under six black marks per annum | | very fair | 1/8 |\n| Six and under eight | | fair | 1/6 |\n| Eight and under ten | | indifferent | 1/4 |\n| Ten and under fourteen | | very indifferent | 1/3 |\n\n## COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG.\n\nJ. G. T. BUCKLE, \nActing Clerk of Councils.\n\nNo. 141 \nSir, \nEnclosure \nC.O. `10053` \n**REC'd 10 JUN 95** \n252 \n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police to Colonial Secretary. \nPolice Office, \nHong Kong South, April 1895.\n\nI have the honour to report that the system of attaching black marks to punishments has had a marked deterrent effect on the commission of offences against discipline by the Police.\n\nFor the first quarter of 1894 when the system was not in force the number of reports against men of the force was 175. The strength was 639 which gives a percentage of 27.\n\nFor the first quarter of this year with a strength of 686 the number of reports was 111 or 18 per cent.\n\nThe comparison with the average of the last five years would be still more striking to judge by the amount of fines collected.\n\nUnfortunately the Defaulter Book for some years previous to 1894 has been mislaid and I have been unable to find it.\n\nThere is no system of good marks as these would be very difficult to assess and tabulate but under section 5 of the Additional Pension Regulation of the 28th January, the estimate by the mark system of an officer's conduct for pension purposes is subject to the report of the Captain Superintendent of Police (Deputy Captain).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361064, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "page_number": 555, "title": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "content_text": "that the (may be made by enquiry into the truth of Mr Doyle's statement to the Governor, and that the result of the may be communicated to My Chaubsla\n\nNo. Governor.\n\nrison 219 Date. 1896 15 Sept\n\nLast previous Paper. 11651 Satories Hongkong DESPATCH.\n\nC.0 21452 No. 714 J = P 15 CT 36 (Subject.) Advances to Police Constables to pay cost of passages for their wives.\n\nobjects to such grants for Mr Fairfield Put By noted TCM 29/10/96 (Minutes.) 549 To be noted for Police Guidance Purley To be noted in Eastan memo book When marthed off at Dr.19.10 C.P219 once\n\nPage 219\n\n*W R$ 6 (79)—42451–6096-10-05 Next subsequent Paper Fa !", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362705, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "(Ref. No.).\n\nFor A Roug 76607\n\nII.\n\nThe salary of the student Interpreters will be 40 Dollars a month, payable however subject to a certificate of the Examiners after every period of six months, to the effect that satisfactory progress is being made in knowledge of the Chinese language, and in the facility of interpreting it into English and vice versa.\n\nIII.\n\nAny student Interpreter who at the end of three years from his appointment as such shall pass a satisfactory examination in the Chinese language, and whose conduct in other respects shall have earned approval, will be attached to some Department, and will receive a salary of not less than $100 a month, if, or as soon as he is of the age of 18 years, subject to the Colonial Rules and Regulations relating to Salaries of Civil Servants.\n\nIV.\n\nEvery student Interpreter on his appointment shall furnish security for the repayment of a sum, not exceeding half of the whole sum received by him by way of salary, in the event of his leaving the service of the Colony before the expiration of 6 years from the time of his appointment.\n\nIII.\n\nRegulations for Members of the Police Force for the encouragement of proficiency in the Chinese language.\n\nI.\n\nInstead of the four certificates hitherto granted, two certificates shall be granted in ordinary cases, with a third one to be awarded only in cases of exceptional knowledge.\n\nII.\n\nInstead of the allowances of $2.50 and $1 a month now given to European and Indian Constables respectively who hold a certificate from the Board of Examiners, the following scale of remuneration shall be adopted, viz.:\n\n \n \n European Constables\n Indian Constables\n \n \n 1st Certificate\n $2.50\n $1.00\n \n \n 2nd Certificate\n $5.00\n $3.00\n \n \n 3rd Certificate\n $10.00\n $5.00\n \n\nsuch remuneration may be drawn only so long as the receiver remains in the Police Force.\n\nIII.\n\nFor the first certificate, a knowledge of colloquial shall be required.\n\nFor the second certificate, a higher standard of colloquial will be necessary, as well as acquaintance with a book in Colloquial to be approved of by the Board: and in the case of the third certificate acquaintance with the written Chinese character will be necessary, as well as an advanced knowledge of Colloquial.\n\nIV.\n\nIn no case shall the third certificate be granted without the sanction of His Excellency the Governor, upon the recommendation of the Board.\n\nV.\n\nMembers of the Police Force already holding certificates under the old scheme, shall be allowed to continue drawing their present allowances, but will be at liberty to offer themselves for examination for the second and third certificates under the new scheme, and shall be entitled, on passing, to the higher allowances.\n\nDRAFT DESPATCH.\n\nGovernor No. 80\n\nHis W. Robinson.\n\nSir,\n\nMinute dated 1374\n\nWilson 13/4\n\nMr. Lucas 13\n\nMr. Fairfield.\n\n219 Downing Street,\n\n5 April 1890.\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nSir R Meade.\n\nEarl of Selborne.\n\nMr. Chamberlain.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your despatch No 41 of the 10th ultimo reporting, the appointment of Mr. A. J. Mackie to be a student Interpreter in the Public Service of Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363156, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 672, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "13.50\n\n664\n\nRed 25 JUN 17\n\nThe salary of the student Interpreters will be 40 Dollars a month, payable however subject to a certificate of the Examiners after every period of six months, to the effect that satisfactory progress is being made in knowledge of the Chinese language, and in the facility of interpreting it into English and vice versa.\n\nIII.\n\nAny student Interpreter who at the end of three years from his appointment as such shall pass a satisfactory examination in the Chinese language, and whose conduct in other respects shall have earned approval, will be attached to some Department, and will receive a salary of not less than $100 a month, if, or as soon as, he is of the age of 18 years, subject to the Colonial Rules and Regulations relating to Salaries of Civil Servants.\n\nIV.\n\nEvery student Interpreter on his appointment shall furnish security for the repayment of a sum, not exceeding half of the whole sum received by him by way of salary, in the event of his leaving the service of the Colony before the expiration of 6 years from the time of his appointment.\n\nIII.\n\nRegulations for Members of the Police Force for the encouragement of proficiency in the Chinese language.\n\nI.\n\nInstead of the four certificates hitherto granted, two certificates shall be granted in ordinary cases, with a third one to be awarded only in cases of exceptional knowledge.\n\nII.\n\nInstead of the allowances of $2.50 and $1 a month now given to European and Indian Constables respectively who hold a certificate from the Board of Examiners, the following scale of remuneration shall be adopted, viz.:-\n\n \n \n 1st Certificate\n 2nd Certificate\n 3rd Certificate\n \n \n European Constables,\n $2.50\n $5.00\n $10.00\n \n \n Indian Constables,..\n 1.00\n 3.00\n 5.00\n \n\nsuch remuneration may be drawn only so long as the receiver remains in the Police Force.\n\nIII.\n\nFor the first certificate, a knowledge of colloquial shall be required.\n\nFor the second certificate, a higher standard of colloquial will be necessary, as well as acquaintance with a book in Colloquial to be approved of by the Board; and in the case of the third certificate an acquaintance with the written Chinese character will be necessary, as well as an advanced knowledge of Colloquial.\n\nIV.\n\nIn no case shall the third certificate be granted without the sanction of His Excellency the Governor, upon the recommendation of the Board.\n\nMembers of the Police Force already holding certificates under the old scheme, shall be allowed to continue drawing their present allowances, but will be at liberty to offer themselves for examination for the second and third certificates under the new scheme, and shall be entitled, on passing, to the higher allowances.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 474.\n\nThe following Conditions, made by His Excellency the Governor under which Teachers' allowances may be granted to Candidates for bonuses under Section 1. of the Interpretation Regulations published in Government Notification No. 209 of 4th May, 1889, are published.\n\n1. Any member of the Civil Service, studying Chinese under Section I. of Government Notification 209 of 4th May, 1889, will be permitted to draw Teacher's Allowance for a period not exceeding two years in respect of any one dialect.\n\n2. During that period the Board of Examiners will test his progress in the study of that Dialect by half yearly examinations in accordance with a fixed syllabus approved by the Governor, and the student will be expected to pass his final examination within 3 years from the date of commencing to draw the allowance.\n\n3. The Governor may for any one of the following reasons require the refund of the total amounts drawn by the candidate or any portion of them (a) on the report of the Board that he has not made satisfactory progress during the preceding half year, if the failure appears to the Board to be caused by neglect of study rather than by want of linguistic ability; (b) in case of failure to satisfy the Board at his final examination when such failure indicates neglect of study; (c) on his ceasing without permission to study the prescribed Dialect at any time before passing his final examination; (d) on leaving the service before passing the final examination or within a period of 3 years subsequent to passing it.\n\n4. On good cause (such as illness, or unforeseen want of linguistic talent,) being shown the Governor may dispense with the refund of the allowance, and in the case of illness or other good cause being proved to the satisfaction of the Board, the Governor may grant leave to extend the time of any examination due under Rule No. 2.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th November, 1891.\n\nW. M. GOODMAN, Acting Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363535, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 370, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "laten into destitty £\n\nand\n\nhat them brought before\n\n1\n\nne\n\nWhen\n\nbook I let them that\n\nI had found their names\n\nin a list at the\n\ngambling\n\ndépôt Rept by Sam Yin, but explained the reasons\n\nfor which it had been decided to banish them.\n\nNone of them made any\n\nde mar\n\nor denied the\n\ncharges against them\n\nThere was one,\n\n6.C.143\n\nAn Ting, who could not\n\nbe found at the time that\n\nthe others were arrested.\n\nHe\n\nwas\n\n369\n\nbroughtome\n\nlate and I took him\n\ninto a private room, and\n\nasked him to tell me\n\nthe truth. I hoped that\n\nhe might be able\n\nto give me some\n\ninformation\n\nregarding the complicity\n\nof the three Detectives who\n\nwere favourites\n\nof the\n\nDeputy Constables.\n\nHe thereupon made a\n\nstatement marked\n\nEnclosure XV\n\nThe statement is valuable\n\nas it shows the entry", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363578, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "(26)\n\nI think he had charge\n\nof wa Lane at plague time\n\nList H is\n\nAir\n\nold one\n\nThis\n\nIf Elvok\n\nat E I can perhaps lay. According\n\nto E 2 paid Tang Cheong\n\n$18:\n\nthe daily payment\n\nI was making to Tang Cheong up I was arrested (19th of\n\n$18 to this was\n\n5th\n\nthe day.\n\nmoon).\n\nto\n\nThe amount increased\n\nI heard that was Mann\n\nfrom time to time\n\nthe name\n\nNo 89\n\nof\n\nbut it's only what I heard in the\n\nThis no 89 has been here\n\nwas opened.\n\nStreet.\n\nSince the house\n\nThe\n\nbusiness\n\nat hot wou have\n\nJustice\n\nwas carried on from between 576\n\nam till midnight\n\nChinese Constables\n\n(27)\n\n411\n\nforce used to collect their fees\n\ndaily from the gambling house direct.\n\nused to get 50 cts\n\nThe beat\n\neach\n\n7\n\neach day\n\npaid every day,\n\na lot of old\n\nThe\n\nnaut\n\nvaried as sometimes men would be\n\nbeat Isometimes\n\nThe young Chinese\n\nThe\n\nmore young\n\nmen could not speak\n\nthe\n\ndocument marked I chews\n\nthat on this year\n\nthe 7th day of the 5th moon\n\nthe person in charge\n\nof the game paid An English constable No 24 An Indian Constable No 547\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\n\"1\n\n\"\n\n$10\n\nFi\n\nwas\n\nor Sergeants\n\nbut\n\nif European\n\nCame wear\n\nthe alarm was closed.\n\n#\n\n\"1\n\nthis whether the\n\n#t\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\nmuch money\n\n641\n\n523\n\n743\n\n536\n\n(634)\n\n656\n\n$1.20 1iby axat\n\n27\n\n\"\n\n1\n\n\"\n\n80 Ch. by a tut\n\nyounger\n\nbrother\n\n150 Pd by a Cheong\n\n35 (don't know who paid)\n\n50\n\n25\n\n25\n\n30\n\n#\n\n80\n\nL\n\n4\n\n\"\n\n(a child)\n\n(don't know)\n\n\"\n\n)\n\npole cemen\n\nwas given the door\n\nPolice\n\nent\n\nwe did\n\nwere receiving\n\nto prevent their being suspected\n\nof being corrupt officers. talk to the\n\nWe could\n\nChinese but it was\n\ndifficult to communicate with the English\n\nThe Chinese constables\n\nwere all known to receive bribes\n\nbut the English constables wished\n\nthe fact that they\n\nreceived bribes.\n\nAs to the Indian Police about 80% of the red members of être\n\nChinese Constables on duty that\n\nday in day time.\n\nDistrict watchmen on city that\n\nday in daytime\n\n \n New\n Old\n \n \n Lain Tam\n 1.60\n \n \n Chi\n 1\"\n 60\n \n \n Laigumpoon\n 20\n \n \n lokong\n 50\n \n \n Three\n }\n 30\n \n \n 90\n \n \n \n \n Jos Luvun cook to credenz\n a yat used to take the money. English constable 24 every day\n \n \n Lat\n be used to be a", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363612, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 446, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "Defendant-How long after your arrival in the colony did you receive information about the gambling houses in Wa Lane?\n\nWitness-Immediately after my arrival.\n\nDid that information say how long gambling had been carried on there?--I do not think so.\n\nOn what date were those entries made in the book?-They are not dated.\n\nTo the best of your knowledge when did gambling cease in Kwai Wa Lane. How long after your arrival in the colony?-Gambling ceased during the remainder of the month of October. Then it began again. To the best of my knowledge and belief it went on until I raided the place.\n\nI am speaking about Kwai Wa Lane-All I can say about Kwai Wa Lane is that after the end of November I received no more complaints about gambling in that lane.\n\nMr. Francis--I have one question, your Worship. Does Rule 73 apply to the Inspector whom you have put in charge of these different sections for the purpose of suppressing gambling? Have they a right to send a man into a house for the purpose of finding out if gambling is going on?-Yes. The rule does not apply to those Inspectors.\n\nEach Inspector has a complete right to take whatever steps he thinks necessary to suppress gambling in his district. That is so.\n\nHis Worship-Has that been the practice in the Police Force?-The prohibition against entering these gambling houses applies to constables only.\n\nThat has been the practice?-Yes.\n\nDefendant-That is how you construe the regulation. Will you kindly look at it from a common sense point of view.\n\nHis Worship here read the regulation.\n\nDefendant-That rule affects the whole Force, from the Captain Superintendent downwards.\n\nWitness-An Inspector of Police constantly sends an informer into a gambling house to obtain information; otherwise he would not get a conviction.\n\nIs there an order prohibiting Inspectors employing informers or sending constables into these gambling houses, and have there not been prosecutions in which Inspectors have entered these houses and people have been killed and the Inspectors charged with manslaughter at the Supreme Court?-I do not know of any such order prohibiting Inspectors employing informers. With regard to the last part-\n\nHis Worship-That is all.\n\nWitness-There is a second question.\n\nHis Worship-No, there is no second question. Sign the depositions, please.\n\nCheng On, who was brought up in the custody of Acting Chief Inspector Mackie, was the next witness. He said:\n\nI am Chinese, an Excise Officer in the employ of the Opium Farm. I have been in that employ thirteen months. Before that, I was a detective in the Hongkong Police Force. I am acquainted with all or nearly all the Inspectors, and as Excise Officer, I was frequently up at the Police Court. I know defendant, Inspector Witchell. He is known as \"No. 12\" amongst the Chinese. I have paid him money. Sometimes if he was not at home, I paid his wife. From the 14th of March to the 17th of June, I have paid him $12.60 every week, each Monday. I got that money from Tung Kum. I always got this money from Tung Kum, who is the keeper of the Yee Yuon mercer's shop, Hollywood Road.\n\nBefore the first payment was made by me to the defendant, on 11th March, he invited me to his room. I went with him and conversed with him in the Inspector's quarters. Mrs. Witchell was present; she was going in and out of the room. I was speaking half in Chinese and half in English. Defendant speaks Chinese. This conversation had reference to the money payments afterwards made.\n\nHe said, \"In going round on my duty, I saw a lot of people standing at the entrance to Chung Hing Lane and Wa Lane. Then I used my stick to drive them away. Then a Chinese abused me, and said 'No. 12 is proud.' Then I ran after a Chinaman. That Chinaman ran up to the first floor and called me to come upstairs, waving his hand. As I had no warrant, I dared not go upstairs. He wanted to disgrace me.\n\nI went away and a lot of people jeered at me. I do not know who taught the Chinese to treat me in this way. They think I cannot arrest them, but I can arrest them. If I arrest them, Mr. May will be very pleased with it. I have known these gambling houses for a long time. I know that some of my fokis received some money to spend, therefore I do not wish to arrest them. If I go to arrest them, it will spoil the business of my fokis, which is a very foolish act to do. I do not wish to do such an act; I do not know why the Chinese treat me in this way. In my section, I know a house was open for two days, and the people have petitioned to Mr. May.\"\n\nI asked him, \"Who told you all this thing you have told me?\" He said, \"An old man, Saug Yung, between fifty and sixty years of age.\" I told him not to have any conversation with that man now; he is not a proper man and he does not know how to speak.\n\nOn one occasion, there was gambling going on in Kwai Wa Lane, and defendant said, \"I do not know which took Mr. May up to a house in Jervois Street to look into the second floor of a house in Kwai Wa Lane where the gambling was going on. After looking at the place, Mr. May came back to the office and sent someone to call me. Then Mr. May said to me, 'There is gambling in your place.' I replied to Mr. May, 'Sometimes.' Mr. May answered, 'Gambling going on just now.' Then Mr. May said, 'Take out a paper at once to arrest.'\"\n\nHe told me all this news. Then defendant asked me if I knew the \"fat child.\" I said, \"Yes, I know him.\" He said, \"When I go round on my duty, this man follows me and wants to speak to me.\n\nAs there were a lot of people in the street, I did not wish to speak to him.\" Witness asked Inspector Witchell, \"How do you know him?\" \"I know him,\" he replied, \"because he is the master in Chang Hing Street.\" Then Inspector Witchell said, \"I do not know why the man wanted to speak to me. I think he wants to speak to me about gambling in Kwai Wa Lane.\" I said, \"If the man were to offer you anything, don't promise him.\" He said, \"Mr. May has great power, because he had arrested once before.\" I said, \"That place cannot be kept as a gambling house.\"\n\nMr. Francis-Tell me what he said about money.\n\nDefendant--Your Worship, will you direct the witness to tell the story in his own way?\n\nMr. Francis-I am entitled to examine the witness as I like.\n\nHis Worship-I think Mr. Francis's question must be put.\n\nWitness (continuing)-The defendant said, \"I receive not a cash from this place.\" Then defendant asked me, \"Do you know those gambling people?\" I said, \"I do.\" The defendant said, \"I have a lot of children and the expenses are large. My money is not sufficient. Will you kindly go and see those persons to get some expenses for me.\" I said, \"I am afraid that the people might refuse because they are not in your section.\" Defendant said, \"If they are in my section, I won't let them keep open. As they belong to another person's section, I am not afraid. As people are eating flesh, I want you to pick up some bone; I shall be obliged if you will ask these persons for me.\"\n\nI went and saw Tung Kum, and A. Yeun or Sam Yeun. I had a conversation with Inspector Witchell about Sam Yeun. In consequence of that conversation with the Inspector, I told all I had heard to Tung Kum, who told Sam Yeun. I was there when he told Sam Yeun. Sam Yeun replied, \"Very little.\" I said, \"How much.\" He said, \"$1 a day.\"\n\nThe Magistrate-Is this evidence, Mr. Francis?\n\nMr. Francis-Yes, your Worship, I think so. He is the authorised agent of the defendant.\n\nDefendant-I object to that remark; it is nothing but humbug from beginning to end.\n\nWitness (continuing)--I told defendant what sum had been mentioned. Defendant said, \"Maskee.\" I further told him people want 10 cents for labour; I was referring to Tung Kum. I was not referring to myself. Then defendant said, \"All right, I am satisfied, I will pay him ten cents labour.\" Then I said to Mr. Witchell, \"If a man is willing to give, are you willing to receive? It is not my affair.\" The Inspector said, \"I receive.\" In accordance with that arrangement, I received $12.60 a week.\n\n445", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363617, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 451, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "For twelve years' service P-Yes. Was that the full amount that you were entitled to P-Yes, and three months' \"cam-shaw.\"\n\nThere was no deduction for misconduct P-No.\n\nDid you at any time go to Sam Yeen in company with Cheng On P-No.\n\nThis concluded the cross-examination and defendant asked his Worship to order all the witnesses to be detained in Court that they could not communicate with any other witness.\n\nHis Worship acceded to the application.\n\nHo Wai Tsim was then called. He said-I keep a mercer's shop at 118, Jervois Street. It is a shop where Chinese silk is sold. I am the manager. I know Cheng On, whom I recognise, in court.\n\nMr. Francis--Has that man at any time got any samples of silk from you? F-Witness--Yes.\n\nDid he get them from you personally or someone else in your employment?-He got them from me personally.\n\nWhen?-During the first decade of the 4th moon: between the 2nd and 11th May.\n\nDid he get samples of silk on more than one occasion?-Only once.\n\nHow many samples did he get at that time?---Three or four.\n\nDid he change those samples or get others at any time?-He came and asked me to change them and I said we had not any more. He did not return the samples.\n\nHow soon after he got the first samples did he come and ask for others?-One or two days afterwards. He asked for samples of blue silk.\n\nDid he buy any silk or silk clothing from you at any time?-He bought two pieces of silk cloth.\n\nWas that before or after he got the samples?--Before.\n\nHow long before?-Between ten and twenty days.\n\nDid he buy any silk of which you gave him samples?-No.\n\nDid you make any clothes for him?-Yes, two pieces of clothing.\n\nWhat were they?-One blue silk jacket and one tight silk jacket.\n\nAbout what time did you make that blue silk jacket?-On the 20th May.\n\nWhere did he get the silk from which you made that blue silk jacket?-From my shop. He ordered the jacket in my shop.\n\nDid he pay for the silk and jackets?-No, he has not paid the money.\n\nDoes he owe you for them or were they presents?---He owes me.\n\nIs the account entered in the books with the proper date?-Yes.\n\nBy what name do you know him?-Cheng Man San.\n\nIs that the man (pointing to Cheng On) who bought the silk and got the samples?-Yes.\n\nDid you know him before he bought this silk?-Yes, I have known him for many years.\n\nDefendant-Do you remember if I have ever been to your shop to get samples or to buy silk?---No, I do not remember.\n\nMr. Francis-Your Worship, that is the case for the prosecution, and I would ask your Worship to commit the case for trial. Of course if Mr. Witchell desires to call witnesses here your Worship will be bound to hear them and take their evidence. This is one of those cases your Worship cannot deal with unless you entirely discharge it if you decide there is no case to go to the jury.\n\nHis Worship-There are one or two questions which I wish to ask of witnesses before committing. With regard to the list of names, in what light do you wish me to regard that as evidence? It has merely been mentioned as having been found.\n\nMr. Francis-Your Worship will please bear in mind that I did not put it in evidence. It was called for and put in evidence by the defendant himself; he called for it and asked for its production. Your Worship will remember that I simply brought out the fact of the existence of such a book, but I did not tender it as evidence nor make use of it as evidence.\n\nDefendant-In the other case the Hon. the Captain Superintendent of Police inferred from what he had seen in other account books-\n\nHis Worship--One moment.\n\nAfter looking at the depositions His Worship said-The book having been put in and the defendant wishing to examine further on it.\n\nMr. Francis-I do not think, according to the ordinary rules with reference to the discovery of new evidence, he has a right to examine anything other than that which refers to him either directly or indirectly. It is a constant practice in the Supreme Court when books of a confidential character are produced, for instance, merchant's books, that only entries referring to the particular transactions are exposed, the witness of course swearing that there is nothing else in the book or in the accounts which in any way refers to the case before the Court or which affects the prisoner. The defendant is entitled to see the entries affecting him if he likes.\n\nThe defendant asked, \"Is there anything in that book referring to me?\" and the Captain Superintendent of Police was bound to say there was. The defendant is certainly entitled to see anything in that book referring to himself.\n\nDefendant--I think the book was brought out by counsel. He said that $1.10 and $1 had been paid to \"No. 12.\"\n\nMr. Francis-It was wholly in answer to your question.\n\nDefendant-I think not, sir.\n\nMr. Francis-If your Worship will look at the evidence you will see that I simply got out the fact that a complete set of accounts was found. The moment Mr. Witchell asked questions about it and insisted upon knowing what entries were in it it became evidence for all purposes.\n\nHis Worship asked if the defendant was not entitled to examine the book, it having been put in.\n\nMr. Francis said no.\n\nHis Worship asked for an authority.\n\nMr. Francis replied that he had no law on the subject with him, but it was the constant practice in the Supreme Court to disclose only such entries as related to the particular case. Counsel also pointed out that he did not think his Worship need trouble himself about the matter as it must be dealt with at the Supreme Court. Of course the book was in the custody of Mr. May and it had been marked by his Worship. The question of how far it was evidence would be disposed of at the Supreme Court.\n\nHis Worship (to defendant)-Do you reserve your claim to cross-examine on that book, supposing the case be committed?\n\nDefendant-If your Worship commits the case I will reserve my claim.\n\nHis Worship-On that understanding I will say no more about it.\n\nHon. F. H. May, Captain Superintendent of Police, was then recalled.\n\nHis Worship-When did you become Captain Superintendent of Police?\n\nHon. F. H. May-On the 11th May, 1893.\n\nWere the police regulations, from which you quoted rule 73, made before your time?-Yes, in 1892.\n\nThat rule you say refers to constables and not to inspectors; is that so?-Yes.\n\nIn those rules and regulations are there any rules referring to Inspectors regarding gambling?-To the best of my knowledge there are not.\n\nWhat rules have the Inspectors for their guidance? You read out an order the other day; is there any other order for their guidance besides that?-There are other orders.\n\nThose orders would be issued by the Superintendent, would they not?-Yes.\n\nDepartmentally?-Yes.\n\nHave the rules and regulations been issued by the authority of the Government?-Yes, but there are some orders which the Captain Superintendent has power to issue himself.\n\nAre there any orders for the guidance of the police to which you would like to call my attention?-Yes. I should like to show you the order to which Inspector Witchell referred.\n\nIs the order you read on Saturday respecting gambling the only order you have issued on that subject?-I think so. I do not remember any other order.\n\nHas this particular order received the sanction of the Government?-No, it was not necessary.\n\nPage 450", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363635, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 469, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "No. 1. Total of sums of money on it, $148.90 to $149.70.\n\n6. A signed receipt for rent of 2nd floor 198, Hollywood Road for 3rd and 4th moons, $16.00; occupied by Yik Kei. Dated 9th day, 5th moon, 23rd Kwangtung (1897).\n\n7. Apparently a rough balance sheet of receipts and expenditure up to the 11th day (no month given). Total, $9,456.36. Total, $9,445.50. Loss, $10.86.\n\n8. On one side 36 names with numbers under them. On the other 10 names with sums of money under them. Two short memoranda of expenditure.\n\n9. Similar in substance and arrangement to Nos. 1 and 5, Total of sums of money on it, $150.25.\n\n10. Memorandum regarding some Chinese constables who have joined the force, left, or \"gone abroad.\"\n\n11. List of 8 articles of jewellery.\n\n12. A long list of persons with sums of money against their names, and the names of the persons to whom the money was actually paid.\n\n13. An account book. Commences on the 29th of the 11th moon (no year given) and goes down to the 28th of the 3rd moon. There is one entry for each day—the balance in favour of or against the house. On the 28th of the month a balance of the entries for the preceding month is struck. On 28th of 3rd moon there is a credit balance of $2,381.60.\n\n14. Similar to the above. Commences on the 29th of the 3rd moon and goes down to the 17th of the 6th moon. (No year given). Final balance. Credit, $1,788.00.\n\n15. Similar to the above. Commences on 23rd of 7th moon Peng year (1896), and goes down to the 4th of the 5th moon Teng year (1897). Final balance: debit, Tls. 4,973.254 or $6,907.30.\n\n16. Similar to the above. Commences on the 5th of the 5th moon Teng year (1897) and goes down to the 19th of 5th moon. No balance struck.\n\n17. Ledger (damaged). Dates, but not in order. Value of articles pledged, $787.00. Value of articles redeemed, $121.00.\n\n18. List of articles pledged (some redeemed) between the 21st of the 9th moon (1896) to 18th of 5th moon, 1897.\n\n19. List of articles pledged. Commences on 17th of the 4th moon, 1895. The dates are not in order. Also contains an account of two employés with the firm.\n\n20. This contains (1) The daily accounts for the 18th, 14th, and 15th of the 11th moon, and for the 5th moon from the 5th to 19th day. These accounts give the receipts and expenditure for the day and on the back are noted down particulars of the expenditure of the gambling house. With each account is a list of the articles received as pledges. (2) An account of the share of a man holding a share of ... in the business. From the 7th moon to the 4th moon (No year). (3) A pawn ticket. (4) Nine prescriptions. (5) A list of 12 names with sums of money against them: total, $62.70. Date 13th of 11th moon. (6) Four pieces of paper, on two of which are memoranda of accounts.\n\nIn answer to further questions by the Attorney-General, witness said that to him the books did not show the nature of the establishment, but he did not know whether the Chinese could tell. The establishment appeared to have made money last year and lost money this year, as at the time of closing they had a large debit balance. He could not tell whether the books related to Wa Lane or East Street. Witness then spoke to the entries relating to money paid to \"No. 12.\" In regard to Sam Yeon's statements, he had been able to test the accuracy of them in many cases. Tung Kum appeared to have been general agent and distributor of money. The first part of the book produced contained the names of police officers and the latter part contained the names of persons in other departments and also of miscellaneous persons. Tung Kum and Cheng On were not at first willing to make their statements to witness; before they did make them, they were allowed to see their legal advisers. Messrs. Descon and Hastings were the advisers for Cheng On, and Mr. Reece was legal adviser for Tung Kum. Tung Kum and Cheng On were arrested on the 12th inst., and they were placed in separate cells.\n\nHis Lordship: On what ground were they arrested?\n\nWitness: On banishment warrants issued under section 19 of the Gambling Ordinance.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Robinson: The defendant had been in the Force fifteen years. He came from Bristol. His character was good. Witness was then questioned about the police rules in regard to gambling houses.\n\nMr. Robinson: Have you heard that watchmen not only watch premises but shadow the Inspectors and watch them to bed?\n\nWitness: I have heard that they watch the Inspectors. I should be more correct if I said that I have heard they watch some of the Inspectors.\n\nCheng On said that he did not see a warrant. Is that true? I showed Cheng On a warrant and his legal adviser inspected it.\n\nWhat he said is absolutely false, then? I do not think it is false.\n\nWas the warrant also shown to Tung Kum? Yes.\n\nWere any terms of pardon held out to Cheng On? I have not told him anything.\n\nPerhaps you told his solicitor? I do not know anything about what his solicitor told him.\n\nHave you held out any inducement to Cheng On or to his solicitor? No, not before he made his statement.\n\nWhat was the last time you saw Cheng On for the purpose of examining him? Yesterday, I think.\n\nHe was under a long examination yesterday? Not a long examination.\n\nBy the Crown Solicitor or by yourself or by whom? By Mr. Francis.\n\nOn what date was any inducement held out to Cheng On that it would be better for him to turn Queen's evidence? There was no inducement held out to him.\n\nWhat do you understand by inducement? He was not promised anything and he was not threatened in any way.\n\nWas he given to understand anything? Not by me.\n\nBy whom? I do not know. By Mr. Francis? No.\n\nBy anyone? I do not know.\n\nWas anyone in connection with Cheng On told that it would be better if Cheng On made a clean breast of it? No.\n\n463\n\nMay I take it from you on oath that nothing has taken place to give Cheng On any hope that if he turned Queen's evidence it would be better for him? No, I will not say that. When Cheng On was arrested, he was told that if he told the truth about what he knew of this matter, the Government would take his case into consideration.\n\nYou do not think that amounts to anything like an inducement to turn Queen's evidence? No, I do not think so.\n\nHe being under punishment at the time? I do not think it is a direct inducement.\n\nMr. Robinson: I did not say a direct inducement; I said inducement.\n\nHis Lordship: Of course, we can judge ourselves of the inducement.\n\nMr. Robinson: I want the judgment of the witness. I think he is very much inclined to chop logic. He is sworn to tell the truth and the whole truth.\n\nHis Lordship: If there is more behind, get it out of him, but if it rests here, we can judge ourselves.\n\nMr. Robinson (to witness): With regard to Tung Kum, when he was arrested, did anything of the sort take place?\n\nWitness: Yes, the same thing. He was told that if he told the truth, the Government would take his case into consideration.\n\nWas he told who was to be the judge of the truth? He was not told.\n\nDo you remember three detectives, whom Mr. Reece represented, being arrested under banishment warrants with respect to this case? Yes.\n\n......", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363636, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 470, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "Were they told that if they would tell the truth they would not be punished?—Yes, they were.\n\nAnd they said they knew nothing against the men who have been suspended and nothing against Witchell?—No, they did not.\n\nWhat did they say?—If you will ask me separately in regard to each man I will tell you about them, but I cannot lump them all together.\n\nDid any of them give any information to incriminate?—No.\n\nTo incriminate Witchell?—No. Through whom was the communication that they would be not punished made?—Through Mr. Ewens's interpreter.\n\nOh, you spoke to Mr. Ewens's clerk and told him to tell them?—Yes.\n\nThese men were banished?—Yes.\n\nWith regard to Sam Yeen—he is in a different position, he is a convicted man—what hope was held out to him?—He was told that if he would make a full disclosure his case would be taken into consideration by the Government if he desired any mitigation of his sentence.\n\nHe was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment?—Yes.\n\nIn answer to further questions witness said that he denied he was exceeding his powers in committing the men arrested under banishment warrants to Victoria Gaol. One of the men was an opium smoker. He was not told that if he would make his statement first he could get his opium. He got opium the second day after his admission to gaol.\n\nAt this point the Court adjourned until ten o'clock this morning, when Mr. Robinson will proceed to cross-examine the witness in regard to the books found in the house in East Street.\n\nThe defendant was allowed bail as before.\n\nSUPREME COURT,\n\n30th July.\n\nCRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\nBEFORE SIR JOHN CARRINGTON (CHIEF JUSTICE).\n\nTHE CHARGE AGAINST INSPECTOR WITCHELL.\n\nThe trial was resumed of Job Witchell, Inspector of Police, who is charged with accepting bribes from the keepers and managers of gambling houses between the 13th March, 1897, and the 19th June.\n\nBefore the case proceeded Mr. Robinson said that the gentleman who was giving the bond wished to go away and counsel asked the leave of the court to extend the bond until the conclusion of the Sessions.\n\nThe Attorney-General offered no objection, but he remarked that the application implied that his learned friend was going to occupy the court a great number of days.\n\nHon. F. H. May, Captain Superintendent of Police, was then called for further examination. On entering the witness box he said—My Lord, I notice in the newspaper report this morning of my evidence the following question—\n\nHis Lordship—Are we concerned with that?\n\nWitness—I wish to make a slight correction.\n\nHis Lordship—Is it something you stated yourself that is not quite accurate or is the newspaper report inaccurate?\n\nWitness—I think there was something in the mind of the learned counsel who put the question to me that I did not take exactly as being in his mind. The question was, \"Was anyone in connection with Cheng On told that it would be better if Cheng On made a clean breast of it?\" I took that to mean somebody connected with Cheng On—some of his family relations or Chinese friends—and I said \"No.\" It occurs to me that possibly the learned counsel may have referred to Cheng On's solicitor, in which case the answer would be incorrect, for I did say to Cheng On's solicitor that the best way to help his client would be by telling his client to make a clean breast of it. The same in regard to Tung Kam. I did not make any promise or make any definite reference. I simply said to their representative, in the words of the learned counsel, that it would be better to tell the truth.\n\nMr. Robinson (cross-examining)—Who is No. 12?\n\nWitness—No. 12 is Inspector Witchell.\n\nI repeat the question; who is No. 12?—No. 12 is Inspector Witchell.\n\nHis Lordship—The witness has already stated that the Chinese called him that. You cannot go beyond that. He said, \"I know the Chinese call him No. 12.\" The jury's time is very valuable and you must really try to get the trial over in a reasonable time.\n\nMr. Robinson—I think your Lordship will see that it is Mr. May who is taking up the time. (To witness.) Who is No. 12?\n\nHis Lordship (To witness)—In your judgment who is No. 12?\n\nMr. Robinson—Not in his judgment.\n\nHis Lordship—As far as you know who is No. 12?\n\nMr. Robinson—I have not asked him in connection with this case. I say, who is No. 12?\n\nHis Lordship—We are not dealing with any other case but this case.\n\nMr. Robinson—If your Lordship pleases. Who is No. 12?\n\nWitness—Inspector Witchell.\n\nInspector Witchell was No. 12. Who is No. 127?\n\nHis Lordship—Why can't you put the question in a different way?\n\nWitness—Because I want to see how the witness speaks. Your Lordship is not so au fait with the numbers of constables as Mr. May. (To witness.) Who is No. 12?\n\nWitness—If you refer to P. C. No. 12, there may be a constable with that number, but I cannot give his name. He would be referred to as P. C. No. 12, or if he is a sergeant, P. S. No. 12.\n\nMr. Robinson—I asked you who is No. 12 and now you are volunteering the statement that gamblers would call him No. 12.\n\nMr. Francis—He has not said anything about gamblers.\n\nHis Lordship—He has already stated that so far as this case is concerned the defendant was called No. 12 by the Chinese.\n\nMr. Robinson—There is more than one No. 12. The Inspector's number was 12 and if you see No. 12 in the book it must be the defendant?\n\nWitness—Yes.\n\nIs there not another No. 12 at the present moment in the colony?—Yes.\n\nA man of the name of Sullivan?—I think it is Sullivan.\n\nAttached to the Central District?—Yes.\n\nHow long has he been here?—He has been here about eighteen months.\n\nThat is during the whole period of this gambling house?—Yes.\n\nAs a matter of fact as an Inspector is raised he ceases to carry a number and the number is given to a new man?—Yes.\n\nSome of the numbers have been borne time after time by different men?—Yes.\n\nIn regard to these books, when you found them in No. 3, East Street, was that the first time you had been in East Street?—Yes.\n\nWhen you got there you found six men, I think?—There were more than six men.\n\nDid you receive a communication about East Street?—Yes.\n\nFrom a barrister in the colony?—Yes. A communication from Mr. Francis, Q.C.?—Yes.\n\nDid he tell you who his informer was?—No.\n\nDid he say that some man had been to him?—He did not say where he got his information. Mr. Francis only told you he was informed?—Yes.\n\nYou had never been into No. 3, East Street; have you ever been into East Street?—Yes.\n\nYou had never been in this house?—I may have been at the time of the plague.\n\nYou did very good service then, we all know; but apart from that you have no acquaintance with East Street?—No.\n\nIn this case the warrant was signed by yourself in your character of Justice of the Peace?—Yes.\n\nDid you issue the warrant to Inspector Mackie?—It was not issued to anybody in particular.\n\nTo all or any constables, and you handed it to Inspector Mackie?—Yes.\n\nAnd you went with him?—Yes.\n\nIn answer to further questions witness said...\n\n469", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363640, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 474, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "great pain and should be investigated very carefully. My learned friend introduced Nos. 89 and 91 with a view of showing that these persons were not at present in the gambling districts but that they were stationed at other places. He could only possibly do that in order to say to the jury \"There are two names of men who could not be in receipt of money; therefore do not believe the evidence.\" He therefore put me to the rather painful task of asking whether both those men were not in charge of these gambling districts before they went to their present stations. I stopped there.\n\nIf my learned friend says it is absolutely certain that it cannot be right, I say that such argument is fallacious and I shall have to show that the men did receive bribes. If my friend in his address to the jury opens an argument of that kind and says that this list is an absurdity because Government House is there, I shall have to give the explanation. It is possible a boy at Government House might be receiving the money. That sort of thing is quite common and not absurd at all. I do not want to go into the other cases in that list and try the list, as such a task would be endless and unfair.\n\nHis Lordship—I have already stated that there is an apparent and evident absurdity in this list, but we must not go into the truth or untruth of the entries, even supposing they are prima facie reasonable,\n\nThe Attorney-General—I would ask your Lordship for permission to ask one question only. In a colony like this it is not right that any dirt should be thrown at high quarters in this matter. My friend is going to say the list is an absurdity—\n\nMr. Robinson—The dirt will not stick.\n\nThe Attorney-General—You would not wish to imply that the Governor has accepted money?\n\nMr. Robinson—Oh, no.\n\nMr. Frannis (to Witness)—There is an entry \"Government House\" there.\n\nWitness—That is a firm or head soldier. What does 3 mean? 7-30 cents. Who got the money—a lukong told me he was on duty in the Ping Tong bong→→→\n\nA lukong got the money?—Yes.\n\nCan you tell me if the entry means the Governor's residence or the General's residence?—I am not able to explain, but if you send for Ho Wai Pong he will tell you all about it. (Loud Laughter.)\n\nWho is Ho Wai Pong?—A lukong at Government House.\n\nHis Lordship—Why did you pay a lukong in the employ of Government House 30 cents a day? Because I was afraid that this lukong might give some information to the Governor.\n\nMr. Robinson (cross-examining)—How long is it since you commenced making the list on this bit of paper? It looks very clean.\n\nWitness—I made entries on that piece of paper many years ago. I made the entries bit by bit as people came in for money.\n\nHow many years?—About three.\n\nWhere did you keep the paper?—In the drawer of a cupboard.\n\nThe colour of the ink is the same all through? The entries were copied from another piece of paper about three years ago, that piece of paper being very dirty.\n\nThere was a loss of capital this year?—Yes. There was a quarrel?—Yes.\n\nAmongst the partners?—Yes.\n\nDo you know if one of them went to Mr. Francis?—I do not know.\n\nFor what purpose were those accounts kept—for the purpose of showing partners how the money was made and spent?—Yes.\n\nAnd for the purpose of showing that you and your fokis were not swindling them?—There was no swindling. Here are the accounts and they could see them.\n\nBetween ten and twenty watobmen were employed by the syndicate?—Yes.\n\nFor the purpose of keeping a guard round the house and preventing the police from coming in unexpectedly?—Yes.\n\nHis Lordship—With regard to the entry \"$110,\" you told us you put \"$1.10\" after Chong On told you he wanted 10 cents?\n\nCheung On mentioned something about his trouble and that he was entitled to get something for his trouble.\n\nYou told us Cheng On suggested 10 cents and you agreed.—He did not ask me for 10 cents; he simply mentioned that he was entitled to receive something. I did not promise to give him anything. I said I would see my master about it.\n\nHow could you tell that Cheng On really came on behalf of No. 12?—I say this because before any payment was made No. 12 went to Wa Lane and beat the fokis, but after making the payment to Cheng On there was no more beating.\n\nWhen he came to you you agreed at once to give him $1. How do you know he really came on behalf of No. 12?—Well, I said the proof is evident because after Cheng On had been to my place there was no more beating of my fokis, and that is why I came to the conclusion that he came on behalf of No. 12.\n\nDid you go and see No. 12?—No.\n\nWhy didn't you?—We carry on an illegal business and therefore we are afraid to see foreigners—Englishmen. There must be some connection in the matter, otherwise Cheng On would not have come and asked me about the matter. If Cheng On had come for himself and asked for the money I would not have given him a cent.\n\nYou have no writing from No. 12?—No. Do any of the people whom you say receive sums of money come and receive them direct from you, or they paid through somebody else?—The majority of them are paid indirectly.\n\nSome of them directly? As far as Europeans were concerned they got their payment indirectly. Some Chinese constables got their money directly and some indirectly.\n\nThese two entries are the only entries in all these books and papers referring to No. 12?—The only entries having reference to No. 12 are in this paper, and not in the account books and papers.\n\nIs there not any book of daily payments or monthly payments which would show the sums paid? Any cash books?—No, I have no entries in other books as to the daily payments. All the payments and names appear in this list. I have another paper like this with the names and the payments to each man.\n\nLike that?—Not as full as this one, but there appear there the names of the parties to whom the money is paid and the names of those who acted as agents and so on.\n\nDid you take any part in the actual carrying on of the gambling?—No, I did not assist in carrying on the gambling. I was stationed at No. 3, East Street looking after the accounts.\n\nDid you know No. 12 yourself by sight?—I knew the defendant only by sight.\n\nDid you know who No. 12 was?—He is an Inspector—a detective Inspector.\n\nDid you know who he was?—He was an Inspector.\n\nWhen Cheng On called the name No. 12 did you know which man that was?—Yes, I knew No. 12 because in the first and second moons he went to Wa Lane and beat fokis there.\n\nLook at the defendant. Is that the Inspector?—Yes.\n\nWhen Cheng On called the name \"No. 12\" did you know it was the defendant in the dock?—Yes, I know who No. 12 was directly Cheng On told me about it because No. 12 had been to Wa Lane several times and my fokis told me about him.\n\nWas that memorandum made merely for the purpose of your business?—Yes.\n\nAnd used in the course of your business?—Yes. Were all payments you had to make entered in that book—All expenses I have just mentioned were entered in that book, but profit and loss are entered in other books.\n\nBy whose orders was a name put in the list?—Did you do it yourself or by order of your master?—Not by order of my master. I made it myself and in case my master called for the accounts I could show them to him.\n\nYou had his authority to put names on that list? I put all the names in this list to show my master in case he accused me of swindling him.\n\n473", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363774, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 608, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "203\n\n307.97\n\nin the gaol. One of the (& new\n\nAt 4.45 p.m. the court is Regina ν. 30th adjourned until 10.00 a.m. to morrow.\n\nJuly, 1897.\n\nCorem Carrington, J.\n\nJob Witchall\n\nCounsel and solicitors J. H. Day & Eseni\n\ntrial resumed - second day,\n\n4.0 before.\n\nI did say to Theng Bu's solicitor that it would be better for him to advise his client to make a clean breast of it, as also in the case of Fang Kam. I say there is one detective constable who is numbered 12 in the Police Force now. Can't a detective constable be becoming an ordinary constable? There is one attached to the Central District. He has been here about 18 months. He is an ordinary Constable. On Inspector he ceases to bear a number. When I raided No. 3 East Street I found more than six men.\n\nThe warrant was signed by myself as J.P. [zur Robinson refers to the form of warrant given by the Ordinance 7 of 1891]\n\nI addressed the warrant to all constables, and I handed it to Inspector Jnackie for execution. The warrant purported to be on my knowledge beyond what Mr. Francis told me. I had no communication from Dun...him. The books, papers, and articles found at No. 3 East Street were found in a cupboard or locked up in a tin box. I have produced all the books and papers that I seized. I was present when Sain was tried, and in the middle of the case he pleaded guilty. The information was correct that No. 3 East Street was a depôt - it turned out not to be a gambling house, as was stated in the warrant.\n\nThe book of which I spoke at the Police Court as containing an entry that a dollar a day was paid to defendant, was C.12. This was a mistake as far as a daily payment was concerned. Defendant asked that C.12 should be put in, but on Mr. Francis' objection, it was not put in in its entirety.\n\nMy recollection is that I did not say to the magistrate that I had no complaints of gambling in Kwai Wa Lane after the end of October.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365921, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "# \n\n250 \n\ncautioned him not to say anything to Captain May against your Petitioner. The insinuation is obvious, namely, that your Petitioner knew that the witness could give evidence of misconduct on the part of your Petitioner. But the fact that the witness has not given or attempted to give evidence of misconduct by your Petitioner, other than the said conversation, surely goes to show not only that there was no such misconduct, but that the alleged conversation together with its insinuation is false.\n\n## 21.-AU HING P.C. 143, and HAU HANG P.C. 137.- \nOne of these two men, Au Hing, was actually banished as a promoter of gambling. Hau Hung (one of the contingent sent to England for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations) was taken straight from the steamer into gaol. Both are now in the Police, notwithstanding their self-admitted delinquencies. Your Petitioner cannot remember exactly what they said, but though they naturally and, one may say, necessarily, did their best to say what would please the Captain Superintendent, they could say nothing worse than that they had heard, or that they believed, that your Petitioner received bribes from 2, Wah Lane. On the other hand, their direct evidence goes in Petitioner's favour, on the charge of negligence, for they admit that they took bribes not to report the gambling, and did not do so.\n\n## 22.- \nThe actual finding against your Petitioner was gross neglect of duty in not reporting the gambling house at No. 2, Wah Lane. As to duty, your Petitioner was not in charge of any of the sections into which, for the purpose of better suppressing gambling, the central district of the city is divided. He was in charge of the general criminal investigation work. From 1891 up to 1893 your Petitioner was active in searching for and prosecuting gambling houses, but about the middle of 1893 your Petitioner was directed (reversing earlier instructions of Captain Superintendent May) to cease from that work, and to devote himself to the general criminal business of the Colony. Your Petitioner accordingly so instructed his staff of detectives, leaving the special task of discovering and suppressing gambling houses to the individual Inspectors, heads of sections in the Central district, whose particular business it was under the Police Regulations. Thereafter, whilst Captain May was in charge, your Petitioner only made investigation himself on one or two occasions under special instructions. Of course, the general duty to report any gambling house, of whose existence he might become aware, continued as before. But your Petitioner asserts most positively that he had no knowledge of this gambling house at 2, Wah Lane.\n\nAs to opportunities of discovering gambling houses, even Inspectors of districts or sections have only very limited means of investigation, or more properly speaking they have no means at all, and are entirely dependent upon information supplied by informers. They have, for instance, no more right than an ordinary constable to enter or to send spies into houses suspected of being gambling houses (see Police Regulations, heading \"Public Gambling,\" Rule 1), and ordinary constables are positively prohibited from so doing under pain of dismissal (see Police Regulations, heading \"Constable,\" Rule 73). Now and again, of course, an experienced officer's suspicions may be roused by chance observation as he moves about, but naturally this does not often happen, and with regard to this particular house, the evidence is that the managers not only had Chinese detectives and others in their pay, but also kept a large number of watchmen on purpose to ward off detection. Your Petitioner may add that this house is in a low neighbourhood, in a lane chiefly composed of brothels, where people of a low character are constantly going in and out, and where, consequently, detection by mere observation is practically out of the question. Moreover, as to sources of information, gambling informers would naturally report to the Inspector in charge of the section, and not to your Petitioner. The other principal source of information consists of letters, generally anonymous, addressed to the Captain Superintendent, which Captain May almost invariably passes on to the Inspector in charge of the district or section. Again, the reversal of the former practice of rewarding informers out of fines imposed on gamblers has left them without much inducement to inform, except with the object of making money out of the gambling houses by giving them information of the prospective raid.\n\nCaptain May has admitted that at the time when the above charge was laid against your Petitioner, viz.: July 13th, he had not realized that the powers of Inspectors were as limited as those of Constables, and, in fact, thought that Inspectors were not bound by the limitations affecting Constables, but that they could, conformably with the Rules, enter suspected houses if they chose, and send in spies of their own motion. Perhaps had Captain May realized on July 13th, 1897, the real position of Inspectors, he would have paused before taking action, or recommending H.E. the Governor to take action by way of suspension, upon the mere suspicion raised by an entry in a Chinese gambler's book or paper, without a tittle of evidence obtained, or a word of explanation asked.\n\n## 23.- \nWhat makes the case strange is that whilst your Petitioner and several others were suspended, two Inspectors whose names (or rather numbers) were also on the list were apparently left undealt with until a considerable time afterwards, indeed not until the public press had demanded an enquiry or an apology. Some enquiry was then held by the Captain Superintendent, and Petitioner has purposely delayed this Petition to ascertain the result, but as nothing is yet known, no doubt their cases have been referred home. Both men at this time (November, 1897) are still discharging their duties as Inspectors. Your Petitioner makes no complaint; both are men of excellent repute, but he points out that the fact that their cases were undealt with shows that in respect of them the list of names found was felt, and properly felt, to be unreliable. The fact was that neither of the men had been stationed in the district or section in which No. 2, Wah Lane is situated for about eighteen months previously, and then only temporarily for a few weeks.\n\nYour Petitioner was shown the entry referring to his former Police number in the paper, but had no opportunity of examining the document as a whole. As the document seemed to him outside the case, and not necessary to be...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366695, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 104, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "100 \n\nThe house with which Sam Yin was connected?\n\nO Mi Cheung made no detailed statement. He merely denied all knowledge of Sam Yin and the gambling house with which he was connected.\n\nFinally, there are the confessions of the Detectives Au Hing (Enclosure V of my report) and Hau Hang, both of whom gave evidence against Stanton, Quincey, and Baker. I enclose a copy of the statement made to me by P.C. Hau Hang the day he arrived in the Colony from England, whither he had been to take part in the Jubilee.\n\nHe was taken off the steamer the morning of his arrival here before she had any communication with the shore, and conveyed straight to my office in the Gaol by Chief Detective Inspector Hanson, so that he had not had an opportunity of learning what had taken place during his absence.\n\nHe admitted that he received the very sum in bribes that is set down in List H against his name.\n\nI do not think that anything more is required to satisfy any reasonable person that each and every one of the signatories of the Petition received bribes from the gambling masters of the Wa Lane gambling house to neglect their duty to report the gambling house. Such duty is clearly laid down in the Chinese Regulation book (in the English & Chinese languages) issued to each member of the Chinese Force, in the same terms as in the Regulation book for European Constables, viz. - *A Constable is to report if he has reason to suspect the existence of a public gaming house.*", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367115, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "content_text": "# Desprich No \n200 \n20 \n203 204 \n\n## Date \n21 Jerky \n+ \n22 \n\n### Cost of Telegrams \n## Subject \nTung Wa Hospital. \nDu Donelan \n## Land \n206 \n\n*t \n## Petition \n1 \nLo Jungchi \n207 \n\n## Revi's im \nq \nSalanis \n208 \nMr Ta Howe \n209 \n## New Territory \n\n### Despatch No \n## Date \nTel \n15 auf. \n## Plague \n230 \n17 \n231 \n\n## Subject \n### Ordinances of 9, 1898 \nKowloon Godowns \nTramways Ordinance 10 of 1898. \n2 \nCattle Diseases Amendt \nBuilding Amend! \nKellet Island \nChinese Certification Fees \n2357 \n\n164 \n## Conspiracies. \nTel \n18 \n236 \n19 \nTel \n23 \n237 \n246 \n238 \n17 \n\n### War between U. States r3pain. \n## Gratuity R.M. Jamesons. \nMr. G.M.S. Lockhart \n## Ordinance 8 of 1898 \nNaturalization of Tong Yuk \n## Supreme Court Vacations \nSupplementary Estimate, appropriation by order, 1897 \n## Trade Marks Classifications \nRegulating \n## New Territory \nGeduriance 7 \nuy of \n1898. Naturalization of Chan Tung \n## Queen's Recreation Ground \n15 \n71898 \n18 \n## Blue Book 1897 \n## Trade Marks \nSheana \nCay \n\nTel \n210 \n211 \n26 \n## Chinese jurisdiction in Kowloon \n## Plague \nWTO. Peusins Tund. Contribution of Mr Lettebridge \n## Vagrants Law \n212 \n## Land Reserve at Causeway Bay \n213 \n27 \n## Praya Reclamation \n215 \n## Annual Reports, \nTel \n28 \n## New Territory, Chinese Customs \nawan, \narrangement \nConf \n216 \n## Ordinance 6 of 1898. \nq \nHong Kong & Shanghai Bank \n243 \n30 \nAmind! \n217 \n## Pension W. Fisher \n244 \n218 \nMr H.T. Watson \nMr B. Tanner. \n245 \n246 \n31 \n219 \n221 \nTel \n222 \n223 \n29 \n\n## Chinese Customs Protection \nanf \n## Plague \n## Note Issue. Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank \n## Extension \n## Police Constables \n## Execution \n## Naval Yard \nq \nWan Harg \n## Treasury Balances, 31 July \n## Plague Report \n1 \n224 \n225 \n4 \n226 \nTel \n9 \n## Volunteer Corps 1897 \n227 \n11 \n## Pensions & gratuity \n228 \n12 \n## Post office \n229 \n13 \n## Opie at Wei hai \n## Chinese Customs in New Territory \nwei \nA", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367259, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "page_number": 147, "title": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "content_text": "## \n\n145 \n\n16621 \n\n92 UG \n\nThe patients were transferred as follows: to Kennedy Town Plague Hospital, 72; to Tung Wah Branch Plague Hospital, 222.\n\nI enclose a separate report of the Plague Branch which was opened on 2nd May, and closed on 27th June.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police appointed Chinese Constables to superintend the transfer of Plague patients to the Plague Hospitals.\n\nOf the remaining 386 admissions, 277 were treated by the Chinese doctors, 104 by Dr. Chung according to Western principles, 4 were transferred to Govt. Civil Hospital, and 1 to the Italian Convent.\n\n58 dead bodies (36 male and 22 female) were brought to the Hospital mortuary for interment.\n\nAll the six large wards on the ground level have during the quarter been re-floored with wood.\n\nA uniform has now been provided for the coolies.\n\nI append a copy of minutes made in the Visitors' Book during the past three months.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n**(Sa.) JOHN C. THOMSON, M.D.** \nInspecting Medical Officer.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373163, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 520, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "517\n\n(S)\n\nQueen's College,--The total number on the roll for 1898 was 1,844, or 132 in excess of 1897. In order to make the accommodation equal as far as possible to the demand for admission, the rate of fees was increased from the 1st April. Over 120 boys had to be turned away owing to lack of accommodation. The total amount of fees was $21,593, being an increase of $8,138 upon the receipts for 1897, and more than double the receipts for 1896. Owing to various departmental economies, and to a reduction of $1,200 in the Crown Agents' account, the actual nett expenditure amounted to $16,303.91, as compared with $25,623.52 in 1897.\n\nTwo additional English masters and one native mathematical master were appointed during the year.\n\nThe results in the Oxford Locals showed marked improvement, the percentage of passes being 50 instead of 18 in 1897.\n\nThe Lower and Preparatory Schools were examined by the headmaster, and out of 350 boys, 257 or 83% passed. The Upper School was examined by independent examiners appointed by the Government, and showed satisfactory results.\n\nIV. GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.\n\n(A.) Hospitals,--There are several hospitals in the Colony, of which only one, the Civil Hospital, is entirely a Government institution, though the Tung Wa Hospital is also under Government supervision. These, of course, are in addition to the military and prison hospitals. Further information as to the cases treated in the two hospitals named will be found under the head of Public Health (VII. B).\n\nAmong the patients treated by the Government Civil Hospital there were 469 deaths, of which 103 were British and foreign and 366 Chinese. 319 of the deaths recorded were due to plague. The Tung Wa Hospital treated 3,019 in-patients and 90,880 out-patients. The total number of deaths was 1,187, of which 243 were due to plague and 280 to phthisis. The percentage of deaths to admissions was 35.05, as against 35.24 in 1897 and 38.80 in 1896. It may be mentioned that the provision of free burial and the restoration of destitutes to their homes are regarded as two of the most important functions of this institution.\n\n(B.) Asylum.--The Lunatic Asylum is managed in connection with the Government Civil Hospital and is divided into European and Chinese wards. There were 82 patients admitted in 1898, of whom 73 were cured and relieved. Six patients died during the year.\n\n(C.) Poor Houses.--There is no poor house in the Colony, but the Tung Wa Hospital does good work in relieving and sending destitutes back to their native villages.\n\n(9)\n\nThe Society co-operates with the Benevolent Societies of Canton, Macao, and other places, in restoring women and girls to their relations, and in other ways. No money grant is received from the Government.\n\nVI.--JUDICIAL STATISTICS.\n\n(A.) Police.--The total strength of the Police Force during 1898 was as follows:---\n\n \n Europeans\n Indians\n Chinese\n Total\n \n \n 112\n 226\n 292\n 630\n \n\nBesides these there are a Captain Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent, a paymaster, three clerks, and 48 coolies.\n\nThis brings the total number of the entire staff up to 679.\n\nSeveral rewards were granted to members of all three contingents for intelligence and promptness.\n\nThe Chinese constables, it is remarked, never appear to fail in courage.\n\nSeveral of the staff were detailed for plague services. Seven of the Force died of plague during the year, but only one of these was on plague duty. Altogether there were 19 deaths, of which 12 were among the Chinese, 4 among the Europeans, and 3 among the Indians.\n\n(B.) Prison.\n\nThe total number of prisoners admitted to Victoria Gaol in 1898 was 5,427, as compared with 5,076 in 1897. The daily average in the prison was 511, as compared with 462 in 1897. The offences of a criminal nature numbered 3,590; the offences of a non-criminal nature, 1,887. Offences against prison discipline numbered 4,038 as against 2,619 in 1897, being an increase of 2.24 per head of population. This increase is attributed by the Superintendent partly to the interruption of regular routine work and the placing of a larger number of prisoners in association during the structural alterations, and partly to numerous resignations in the Indian staff giving rise to the employment of inexperienced officers and consequent relaxation of discipline.\n\nThe capacity of the Gaol accommodation extends to 557 prisoners; yet on several occasions during 1898 it was found necessary to accommodate a slightly larger number, and on one occasion room had to be found for as many as 589. It is evident that with a growing population and the acquisition of New Territory the question of increasing the Gaol accommodation for the Colony will become a pressing one.\n\nThe prisoners are employed on productive labour, on unproductive labour, and on Gaol services, value of the productive labour and that utilised on prison services is returned at $9,919.45. The establishment consists of 29 Europeans and 44 Indians. Besides these there are a Superintendent, a Chief Warder, clerical staff, and servants.\n\n(D.) Reformatories.--Hitherto there has been no properly organized Reformatory in Hongkong, but the Government has for some time been engaged in making arrangements for the establishment of such an institution in the near future.\n\nA building has been generously presented by Mr. Bello, which is in course of construction, and should be ready for occupation before the middle of 1900.\n\n(E.) The Hongkong Savings Bank, started on 1st May, 1885, is conducted by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and receives deposits from $1 up to $250 in any one day, with a maximum of $2,500 in any one year. The deposits bear interest at the rate of 3¼% per annum on the daily balance. Withdrawals are paid on demand, upon production of the pass-book by the account-holder, or his duly appointed agent.\n\nThe following figures will give an idea of its growth :-\n\nOn 30th June, 1886, the deposits amounted to $122,000.\n\nOn 30th June last there were over 3,000 accounts with a total of some $1,100,000, as against $900,000 on the corresponding date last year, and $800,000 in 1897.\n\nCorrespondence relating to business of the Hongkong Savings Bank, if marked \"On Hongkong Savings Bank Business,\" is forwarded free of charge by the various British Post Offices in Hongkong and China.\n\n(C.) Criminal Statistics.\n\nThe following table will show the total number of cases reported to the Police during each of the past five years ---\n\n \n \n 1894\n 1895\n 1896\n 1897\n 1898\n INCREASE IN 1898\n \n \n Serious Cases reported,\n 2,575\n 2,767\n 2,314\n 2,896\n 2,935\n 39 or 1.34%\n \n \n Bluor,\n 6,062\n 10,608\n 10,661\n 6,733\n 7,661\n 928 or 13.78%\n \n \n TOTAL\n 8,697\n 13,376\n 12,975\n 9,629\n 10,598\n 967 or 10.01%\n \n\n(F.) The Po Láng Kuk is a Society, under the supervision of Government, for the Protection of Women and Girls. The number of cases dealt with by the Society during 1898 was 412, which is 27 more than the previous year.\n\nThe receipts of the Working Committee amounted during 1898 to $5,054.17, and the expenditure came to $4,778.72, leaving a balance in hand of $275.45.\n\nIn \"Serious\" offences reported, the year 1898 shows an increase over 1897 in the following crimes: \"unlawful possession\" (38 cases), \"larceny\" (45 cases), \"burglary\" (11 cases), and \"assault with intent to rob\" (1 case). But against these increases must be set decreases in the following: \"murder\" (7), \"robbery\" (7), \"kidnapping\" (19), and \"other felonies\" (23).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 375454, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-297 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [1-3]", "page_number": 281, "title": "CO129-297 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [1-3]", "content_text": "Enclosure.\n\nCOPY.\n\nHonourable Colonial Secretary,\n\nREC C.O. 6491 27 FEB 279\n\nI attach a table showing (1) our present rates, (2) rates which we recommended and (3) rates which the Secretary of State now sanctions, you will see that for P.C.'8, and Lance Sergeants (all but 10 cents a month) the Secretary of State has granted what we asked. The increase, deducting the contribution to the Widows and Orphans Fund, for Sergeants and 3rd class Inspectors is so small as to be hardly appreciable, while for 2nd and 1st class Inspectors and for Chief Inspectors, it is little more than nominal.\n\nI don't know what the ration allowances at Singapore amount to. From the Singapore Blue Book 1898, it looks as if all 2nd class Inspectors got $5 a month and all 3rd class Inspectors, Sergeants, and Constables (European) $10 a month, but probably that has all been revised at their recent increase of salaries. I attach a list showing which of our 2nd and 3rd class Inspectors and Sergeants are married, and what allowances they draw for medals and languages. It will be seen that of 8 married officers four draw no allowances at all, while the other four draw an average of $5 a month each. If all the allowances drawn by 2nd and 3rd class Inspectors and Sergeants were divided up among the married ones, it would average $6.25 per man, which is probably less than the ration allowance drawn by the married officers at Singapore. It must be borne in mind that medals are only granted for very special services or very long and faithful service, and that the Chinese language is so difficult that very few men ever learn enough of it to earn an allowance.\n\nI", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-297 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384618, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 495, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "No.133\n\nHongkong.\n\nColony\n\nMear\n\nMessrs Wylie and Cook called here today. They said that their agreements had been cancelled, but that they alleged connection between they understood that Way would be dismissed and left penniless in the event they worked the right hours.\n\nJ. Ing\n\n7/27/8\n\nREC\n\nC. O.\n\n18666\n\nGovernment House, JY 02)\n\nHongkong, 8th April, 1902.\n\n491\n\nM\n\n908\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No.19 of January 16th, forwarding copies of some correspondence which had taken place between the Colonial Office and Mr. F. H. May, C.M.G., on the subject of four Policemen who had been enlisted for service in this Colony.\n\n2.\n\nOf these four men, Clark has been dismissed and Sleeman has at his own request been transferred to the Land Police, but the other two, Cook and Wylie, in spite of the statement contained in paragraph 3 of your letter to Mr. F. H. May to the effect that they were engaged on the same terms as ordinary Police Constables, insist that they were engaged solely as Water Police, that they cannot be called upon to perform more than 6 hours duty a day and that they are not liable to be transferred to the Land Police.\n\n3.\n\nI transmit two letters from their Solicitor, Mr. Reece, in which their case is formulated.\n\nEnclosures 1&2, 17th March, 1907.\n\n4.\n\nThe usual hours of duty in the Water Police are 8 hours a day and as it was unfair to the other men to allow any preferential treatment in the matter of hours\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,\n\n800...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384619, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 496, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "492\n\n競\n\nof duty the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police has called upon these men under paragraph 3 of Mr. Antrobus' letter to Mr. May either to continue in the Water Police doing the same hours of duty as the other men or else to be transferred to the Land Police.\n\n5.\n\nThe former alternative has been accepted by them without prejudice to their claims pending a further reference to you. I have, therefore, to ask that you will cause their original Agreements and conditions of service to be examined and that you will inform me as to the precise terms upon which these men were enlisted.\n\n6.\n\nIf their contention is true it would seem that the Crown Agents were mistaken in using the 6 hours form of condition of service in substitution for the 8 hours form. I enclose one of the '8 hours' conditions of service, a supply of which, I understand, is in the hands of the Crown Agents for enlistment purposes.\n\n7.\n\nIn the event of their contention being substantiated Police Constables Cook and Wylie have expressed their wish to have their engagements cancelled and that they may be sent back to England, rather than accept service in the Land Police or do 8 hours in the 24 permanently in the Water Police. I have, therefore, to enquire whether such a course can be adopted if they prove to be in the right in their contentions.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nHumble servant,\n\nM.J. Gascoigne\n\nMajor-General,\n\nAdministering the Government,\n\nMYD", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384620, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 497, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\n** **\n\nSir,\n\n*\n\nat\n\n• Profits\n\n493\n\nEnclosure No. 1 to Despatch No.: 133 off the C. O.\n\n9th April, 1902.\n\n18666\n\nRECO\n\n32, Queen's Road Central\n\n2. MAY 02\n\nHongkong, 11th March, 1903.**\n\nI am instructed by Water Police Constables Wylie and Cook, Nos. 34 and 39 to inform you that they only received at 3 o'clock this afternoon your written communication addressed to Inspector Riley and dated yesterday.\n\nMy Clients are advised that they are not bound to consent to any modification of the Agreements on which they came out to this Colony and they therefore respectfully decline to sign any one of the four documents annexed to your communication.\n\nThe service which they signed for was that of Water Police and it is expressly stipulated in their Agreements that as a rule they have to perform six hours duty in each twenty-four hours generally between ... and 3 a.m.\n\nThey are advised that under their Agreements they cannot be transferred to the Land Police and that they cannot be required as a rule to do more than six hours only in each twenty-four hours.\n\nThey are willing and always have been willing to abide by the terms of their Agreements and they most respectfully submit that so long as they perform their part of the Agreements you have no power to dismiss them.\n\nIf you are communicating with the Secretary of State on the subject I shall be much obliged if you will forward to him the original or a copy of this letter and if you will also request him to send to each of my clients the part of the Agreement to which each is entitled signed by one of the Crown Agents.\n\nI have etc.;\n\n... J. Badeley, Esq.\n\nActing Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n(signed) J. P. Reece.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384621, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 498, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure No. 2 to Despatch No. 133 of the 3rd April, 1903.\n\n494\n\n63, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, 13th March, 1903,\n\nWith reference to your Postscript of yesterday to your communication on the subject of Water Police Constables Wylie and Cook, I have advised my clients, in view of the letter from the Under Secretary of State to Mr. May dated the 15th January last, to sign provisionally and without prejudice to their contention the Document marked 3 annexed to your communication with an addition to which I submit you cannot possibly have any objection, clearly stating that the temporary arrangement is absolutely without prejudice to their rights.\n\nWith respect to the Under Secretary's letter, I would point out (1) that the \"blank copy\" of the Agreements is not a correct copy of the Agreements actually entered into and does not even purport to be a correct copy, and that according to my clients' instructions the Agreements which they signed were headed \"Hongkong Water Police\", the printed heading having been altered and initialled by one of the Crown Agents before the Agreements were signed; (2) that Mr. Chamberlain seems to recognise the justice of their claim to perform only six hours service a day; and (3) that though my clients were engaged \"on the usual terms so far as the printed form remained unaltered\", the Under Secretary is mistaken in saying that they were not engaged specially for service in the Water Police.\n\nMy Clients were formerly in the Metropolitan Police Thames Division, which is a Division of Water Police; they volunteered for service in the Water Police of Hongkong in consequence of a Printed Order asking for Volunteers in the Hongkong Water Police, which specified that men in the Thames Division only need apply. Inspector Hollands of the Thames Division, on my clients volunteering, fully understood that they only volunteered as Water Police.\n\nMy Clients were passed by Dr. Manson as fit for the Water Police, and all the Documents with the Crown Agents show that my clients were only engaged for the Water Police and that it was never intended that they should be liable to be transferred to the Land Police.\n\nMy Client Wylie has produced for your inspection one of these Documents headed \"Hongkong Service Water Police\", and on the whole I submit that nothing can be clearer than that my Clients were engaged ...\n\nJ. Badeley, Esq.,\n\nActing Captain Superintendent of Police.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384625, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 502, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\nGov/18666\n\n498\n\nDRAFT.\n\nNo 16 0.A.C.\n\n164\n\nR.E.S. 5/6\n\nMr Johnson\n\n7th June 1902.\n\nSir,\n\n6 Jun\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No 133 of the 8th of April and to transmit to you the original Agreements of Constables Cook and Wylie.\n\n2. These Agreements do not contain any reference to \"Water Police\" but it is clear from their previous correspondence with the C.A. that Messrs Cook and Wylie understood that they were engaged solely for service as Water Police and must therefore be held to have agreed to serve as Water Police only, performing not more than six hours duty a day.\n\n3. In these circumstances I am willing to approve the proposal that their Agreements should be cancelled and they should be sent back to England.\n\n4. With regard to paragraph 6 of your despatch I have to point out that it does not appear that copies of the \"Conditions of Service\" ...\n\nPage 1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385291, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 531, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "II\n\nThe salary of the student Interpreters will be 40 Dollars a month, payable however subject to a certificate of the Examiners after every period of six months, to the effect that satisfactory progress is being made in knowledge of the Chinese language, and in the facility of interpreting it into English and vice versâ.\n\nIII.\n\nAny student Interpreter who at the end of three years from his appointment as such shall pass satisfactory examination in the Chinese language, and whose conduct in other respects shall have earned approval, will be attached to some Department, and will receive a salary of not less than $100 a month, if, or as soon as, he is of the age of 18 years, subject to the Colonial Rules and Regulations relating to Salaries of Civil Servants.\n\nIV.\n\nEvery student Interpreter on his appointment shall furnish security for the repayment of a sum not exceeding half of the whole sum received by him by way of salary, in the event of his leaving the service of the Colony before the expiration of 6 years from the time of his appointment.\n\nIII.\n\nRegulations for Members of the Police Force for the encouragement of proficiency in the Chinese language.\n\nI.\n\nInstead of the four certificates hitherto granted, two certificates shall be granted in ordinary cases, with a third one to be awarded only in cases of exceptional knowledge.\n\nII.\n\nInstead of the allowances of $2.50 and $1 a month now given to European and Indian Constables respectively who hold a certificate from the Board of Examiners, the following scale of remuneration shall be adopted, viz.:-\n\n \n \n European Constables\n Indian Constables\n \n \n 1st Certificate\n $2.50\n $1.00\n \n \n 2nd Certificate\n $5.00\n $3.00\n \n \n 3rd Certificate\n $10.00\n $5.00\n \n\nsuch remuneration may be drawn only so long as the receiver remains in the Police Force.\n\nFor the first certificate, a knowledge of colloquial shall be required.\n\nFor the second certificate, a higher standard of colloquial will be necessary, as well as acquaintance with a book in Colloquial to be approved of by the Board: and in the case of the third certificate an acquaintance with the written Chinese character will be necessary, as well as an advanced knowledge of Colloquial.\n\nIV.\n\nIn no case shall the third certificate be granted without the sanction of His Excellency the Governor, upon the recommendation of the Board.\n\nV.\n\nMembers of the Police Force already holding certificates under the old scheme, shall be allowed to continue drawing their present allowances, but will be at liberty to offer themselves for examination for the second and third certificates under the new scheme, and shall be entitled, on passing, to the higher allowances.\n\nNo.\n\n1902\n\n3 July\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nNo. 3204\n\n(Subject.)\n\nOrder 15 1902\n\n\"Warrant Amendment\"\n\nC.O. 32071\n\n4 AUG O\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n530\n\nSubmits\n\nMr Johns\n\nof the\n\n(Minutes) ffare copies to debentary\n\nThey have\n\nincrease\n\nI same\n\nfees, and added others. 2 Sanction G/3.\n\nMaces\n\nA. Fils\n\nSu/618\n\nSo purees. Some of the fees\n\nproceed\n\nrather high.\n\nHBL\n\nC.Pd. 97/0\n\nat once", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385398, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "Date: 11 Aug.\n\nSubject:\n\n351 12. Pension of be. Ford.\n\n353.12 Conf. 12. 35613 35-4 13\n\nFree med. attendance on officers.\n\n355 12. Pay of Coronation Contingent - Murder of Young Rui Wan. Draft Naturalization Ordce. Chinese Emigrants for Mexico. Ideal f\n\n35813\n\n359 14\n\n360 14. Coronation & Stephens & Attorney Gen.\n\nWTO pension fund\n\n361 15 Sterling Salaries.\n\n#\n\n36215\n\nt Ordce. 2\n\n363. 18. King's Park Kowloon.\n\n365 18. Report of Principal Civil Med. Officer\n\nChinese Emigration Bodce 01.\n\n34019\n\n341 30. 342 20. Dock extension\n\n61 Asst. Engineer on Temp. Staff off. WR. 344 20 - New Postal Agencies in N. China 350 26. Site of Old Gaol at Shanghai.\n\n381 26. Destructor in fort at Foochow.\n\n382 24. Public Works.\n\nConf. 204. Deas of Colony\n\n383. 28. Conversion of Cd. transactions into silver Currency.\n\n384 29 Ordce\n\n39.\n\n385 24. Calabt. of Postal Agencies at Peking & Lieuten\n\n386 29 Report on Health & Sanitation of.\n\n384 94. Reglus. for Cadets.\n\n39629 \"Blue Book Report or\n\n+\n\n392 2 Sept Land for Dock Extension\n\n393 3\n\n39413 Water Ordce.\n\nSanitation & Water supply.\n\nC\n\nDate: \n\nSubject-\n\n395 3 Sept. Fees of Head Bailiff of Supreme Court.\n\nLewerage & Drainage\n\n3963 #\n\n3944\" Hours of service for Constables 398 + Sterling Salariz,\n\n399\n\n402\n\n4 Selasies\n\n5. Dallantry of t. 6. Counsell. 6. Pay of members of Fire Brigade.\n\n403 6. Sterling Salaries. Home\n\n404 6. Public Fountains\n\n406 9. Ordce 30.\n\n404 10 #\n\nPension of Dr Lowson.\n\n408 10\"\n\n40G 11\" Reap. of new territory\n\nHouses for Govt. Officers.\n\n411 12. Supt. of Botanical & Afforestation Dept. Gent. 12. Administration\n\nConf. 12. Failure of China\n\n412. 15. Retirement of R. C. Dixon\n\nHing ing. Supt. of Botanical & Afforestation Sept.\n\n418 18. Land for Dock Extension\n\n419 18 Grant to be hitchell\n\n\"\n\n421 18 Apfeln of A. G. Wire.\n\n#\n\n425 20. Salary of hu. Lewis.\n\n426 23. Commutation of pension of hu. Faherty\n\n424 no. Advance to Ab Langley.\n\n429 26. Master's at Ju'en's College.\n\n431 26. Proposed Atlantic mail service.\n\nhole issue of Chartered Bank. Education\n\n33.\n\n129\n\n435′′ 30 *\n\n436 30. Fees for Atty. Genl.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385757, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "page_number": 362, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "# DESPATCH\n## No. 397 1902\n### HONG KONG\n#### No 41669\n\n**(Subject.) Hours of Service for Constables.**\n\n44 Sept.\n\n**Est previous Paper.** 200\n\nAs Pa...\n\n**Beans 3 3 5 4 to be...**\n\nYour last reports how Governor states amendment to be made future engagements have been sent home.\n\nThe question of duty hours arose and in conditions in Constables' Cook and lodging.\n\n**(Minutes.)**\n\nThe words must be in working state!! Why was it of & Sundance sent to you.\n\nReply dated 8/10 that it will be communicated, send copy of that to be. & inform be accordingly short draft.\n\n`5478/10` \n`ALF8;--38651-20000-12-01`\n`XCR(?)` is not present, however `5478/10` is likely a file reference.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385758, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "page_number": 363, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "# No. 397.\n\n## Hongkong.\n\nC\n\nGovernment House, \nHongkong, 4th September, 1902.\n\n360 \n99781\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your Despatch No. 164 of the 6th June last, I have the honour to inform you that Constables Cook and Wylie have been sent home. The latter's health broke down and it had been decided to invalid him shortly before the receipt of your Despatch above referred to.\n\n2. The records in the Gaol Printing Department show that 50 copies of the conditions of service for Water Police embodying the 8 hours duty clause were printed in November, 1900, a few days before the particulars of office for a Water Police Inspector referred to in the 5th paragraph of Sir Henry Blake's Despatch No. 499 of the 17th November, 1900. Mr. May, who was at the time Captain Superintendent of Police and Superintendent of the Gaol, states that both forms were printed for the purposes of the requisition for the Inspector of Water Police and six Constables asked for in that Despatch, but there is no record in the Colonial Secretary's Office that the conditions of service for the Constables were actually forwarded.\n\n3. Inspector Riley was the selected candidate.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE** \n**JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,** \n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387763, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 516, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "## XXI - Allowances for knowledge of languages are granted as follows:\n\n**KNOWLEDGE OF CHINESE-** \n1st Certificate, $5 a month. \n2nd Certificate, $10 a month. \n3rd Certificate, $15 a month. \nand facilities are provided for acquiring this language.\n\n**HINDUSTANI—** \n1st Certificate, $2.50 a month. \n2nd Certificate, $5 a month. \n3rd Certificate, $10 a month.\n\n## XXII - Medals are occasionally granted for special services or for long and faithful service, and carry with them the following allowances :--\n| Medal Class | Allowance |\n|-------------|-----------|\n| 4th class | $2.50 |\n| 3rd class | $5 |\n| 2nd class | $7.50 |\n| 1st class | $10 |\n\n## XXIII. There are also other occasional special services for which special pay may be earned.\n\nTwo Inspectors and 3 Sergeants draw $11 a month for work in connection with the Harbour Department. \nOne Inspector and 2 Sergeants also draw $15 as Inspectors of Nuisances at rural Stations. \nTwo Inspectors, 2 Sergeants, and 14 Constables, draw from $4 to $6 a month for Telephone Services.\n\nMessrs JW Wylie and wi y Cook... \nMr. Laicas. \nMr. Antrobus. \nGentleman Mr. Cox. \nMr. Graham. \nSir M. Ommanney. \nEarl of Onslow. \nMr. Chamberlain.\n\n(Signature of Constable.) \n(Signature of Witness.)\n\nYou are kindly requested to go through this draft. \nJ. 19 419 \nJSR. \n4/9 \nletter of 30th of August, subject of your engagement in Water Police in Hongkong, and to inform you that he understands...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390382, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 657, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "## \n\n62 \n\n650 \n\nduties. \n\n3. \n\nThe Constable who was on duty since 8 A.M., McLean, was at his \ntiffin in the **sile** room. \n\n4. \n\nThe orders are in page 18 of the Regulation Book paras 14- \n\n5. \nI attach a copy of an additional order I issued after this escape. \n\n6. \n\nIn my opinion the system is to blame - and the system is rendered \nnecessary owing to the paucity of Police, which renders a proper \nescort an impossibility without denuding some beats, and also on \naccount of an inadequate and unsuitable accommodation for prisoners at \nthe Police Court. \n\nIn order to effect a saving in men the custom has been for each \nConstable who has arrested a prisoner to take charge of him. \nIn this case the prisoners were let out before each prisoner's escort \nhad arrived. \nThe F.C.(McLean) thought that sufficient escort had come for the \nprisoners. Sometimes one constable may have custody of more than one. \nSituated as the Police Court is I consider that risk is run every day \nof a prisoner escaping. \n\nIn the Straits and Malay States the prisoners are kept in a cell \nadjacent to the Court, and something more **elequate** for their safe \ncustody is required here. \n\nYour Excellency, \n\n(Sd) \nF. L. \n18.8.08. \n\nBesides the regulations quoted see also page 12. The Inspector on \nduty has charge of the cells. The system is correctly described in replies 7 and 8 to Your Excellency's queries. \n\n(Sd) \nF. B. M. \n19.8.08.\n\nIt has been the practice to utilise the Constables who arrested the \nprisoners (supplemented by others when there are many prisoners) to act \nas escort. They are as reliable as any other Police. The cells are quite \nclose to the Magistracy. I must add that I cannot call to mind a case \nin which a prisoner escaped while being removed from Police cells to \nMagistracy.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393519, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "content_text": "# EDUCATION, ÍNSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS. OTHER CHARGES,\n\nPrincipal Grants under New Grant Code (C.O.D.185 of 1903).--The increase is due to the full effects of the increased grants under the new Code being felt for the first time in 1905 and is made up as follows:---\n\nEnglish Schools, Class I.\n\n1,400 Scholars at 30/- ($18), $25,200\n\nClass II.\n\n400 Scholars at $7, 2,800\n\nVernacular Schools, Class I.\n\n2,500 Scholars at $7, 17,500\n\n$45,500\n\nQUEEN'S COLLEGE.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nSecond Master's Allowance for Knowledge of Chinese.--Exchange Compensation is drawn on this allowance, which in Mr. MAY's--the only such case--is a personal allowance and is not on the same footing as the language allowances drawn by other officers. $180 was first inserted in the Estimates for 1893 as a personal allowance to this Officer.\n\nGymnastic Instructor.--On the recommendation of the Head Master a non-commissioned officer's services are to be obtained to give the necessary instruction when the new appliances arrive and the rate of remuneration is that fixed by the Military Authorities, namely, $1 per hour.\n\nMEDICAL DEPARTMENTS. PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS. Civil Hospital.\n\nMessengers.--A Coolie at $96 has become necessary for the Laboratory where a private coolie is at present employed on Government business.\n\nLunatic Asylums. Kennedy Town Hospital. Maternity Hospital. Cook--It has been found impossible to get and keep good cooks at $9 a month for these posts in consequence of general rise of wages of Chinese servants.\n\nOTHER CHARGES, Civil Hospital,\n\nMetallurgical Furnace for Laboratory. The present apparatus can only be used for ores and minerals in single quantities and the increased and increasing work requires more expedient methods. The one provided for will take 10 or more samples at a time.\n\nPOLICE.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,\n\n6 Telephone Clerks.--An additional Clerk was appointed in 1903 and paid from lapsing salaries. His services were necessary as complaints were made by the Sanitary Department at the delay and difficulty in communicating with the District Sanitary Offices through the Government Telephone Exchange.\n\nEuropean Force: Sergeants and Constables.--The differences between the amounts provided in 1904 and required in 1905 are caused only by stipulated increments falling due, and to the number of Sergeants or Lance Sergeants or Constables on dollar pay having been promoted in consequence of vacancies due partly to promotions of their predecessors some of whose salaries were fixed in Sterling or in Dollars or vice versa. There is no increase in the Establishment.\n\n17 Boatmen--It has proved impossible to secure and retain men for $8 a month and it was necessary in April last to raise their pay to $9.\n\nOTHER CHARGES,\n\nIncidental Expenses.--The reduction of $444 represents $72 Allowance to Boatmen at Cheung Chow now shown separately under Personal Emoluments, and $372 for wages of Coolies as explained in Mr. MAY's despatch No. 206 of 16th May, 1904, and approved by the Secretary of State in despatch No. 198 of 27th June.\n\nRent of Police Stations.--The increase is $240 for rent of house to accommodate the increased Chinese Detective Staff, but may not be required when the additional storey for the Central Station is completed or if there is room in the temporary accommodation provided during such addition: and $50 for taxes on house next to No. 2 Police Station.\n\nVICTORIA GAOL.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\n6 Temporary Guards.--Owing to crowding of Gaol two Store rooms had to be converted into Dormitories to accommodate prisoners and these extra Guards were added to the Staff in consequence. They are provided for next year in anticipation of similar crowding.\n\n4 Cooks at $96.--The increase of $1 a month to 2 cooks was found to be necessary, $7 a month being insufficient.\n\nSANITARY DEPARTMENT.\n\nPERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nWatchman, Kwai Chung.--This is the revival of an appointment which existed up to 1900. It has been found necessary so as to ensure that the refuse from the dust boats is taken to the appointed place on shore and not deposited in the sea between Hongkong and Cheung Sha Wan.\n\nSanitary Inspector acting as Overseer to Cemeteries.--It was recommended by the Sanitary Board that this Overseer should be accorded this altered status and the salary attaching to it on condition that he devotes his whole time to the work. At present he is also Cathedral Verger, a position he will relinquish.\n\n3 Sextons, Sai Yu Shek Cemetery and Rent Allowance.--This staff is necessary but was overlooked by the Sanitary Department when the Cemetery was selected in May, 1903. Their wages have been paid this year out of lapsing salaries.\n\nEngineers and Attendants for Bath-houses. They are required for the Bath-houses in Cross Street and Pound Lane and for the supervision of the Disinfecting Tanks erected as a result of the plague experiment of Sir HENRY BLAKE in 1903. Their Wages have this year been paid out of \"Coolie Labour\" not having been estimated for.\n\nOTHER CHARGES,\n\nCemetery Incidental Expenses.--The increase is provided to meet cost of laying out Sai Yu Shek Cemetery declared a burial place by Government Notification of 22nd May, 1903, and cost of putting existing cemeteries in better order. The vote may be reconsidered for 1906.\n\nIncidental Expenses.--The reduction in round figures represents the sums of which the item has been relieved by separate provision being made.\n\nLatrine at Wanchai Gap Road.--A ventilating shaft with electric exhaust fan was installed to obviate complaints from the public, which had been frequent, of disagreeable smells in the vicinity of the latrine.\n\nPage 79", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413457, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3]", "page_number": 404, "title": "CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3]", "content_text": "# 337\n\nAt present our men stationed at various Police Stations have to cook their own food. At Central Station Sikhs pay the cook a sum of $20 per month and Mahomedans $10. Such like is the case with the men stationed at No. 8, 2, 7, Mt. Gough, Tsim Sha Tsui, Sham Shui Po and Yaumati Police Stations. To meet the above expenses our men, as a truth, borrow money from the watchmen and we find a great difficulty in paying them back on account of insufficient pay.\n\n4. At present there are 3 classes amongst the constables and 6 amongst the Lance Sergeants and Sergeants. We beg to request that you will kindly reduce such a number of classes and make only 2 as 2nd and 1st amongst the Police Constables and 2 as Lance Sergeants and Sergeants amongst the both ranks of Sergeants like the European and Chinese members of the Police Force.\n\n5. The pay of both the European and Chinese members of the Force has several times been increased. For the Europeans from $24.00 to the present pay and for Chinese (3rd class) from $7 to $13 and so on. While the pay of a Chinese Sergeant exceeds that of Indian Sergeant a sum of $2.50 per month. Since some years the Indians have been allowed on account of exchange to remit half of their actual pay to India at the rate of 44 cents per Rupee but no actual pay is increased for the Indians since their Force is established in 1867. Good Conduct Badges have also been granted to them since a few years but this system did little good because their bonus money has been stopped and put in for the badges while a bad character cannot get any badge until he keeps himself clear of any report for 6 months. 3rd class badge is 75 cents after 2 years, 2nd class $1.28 after 5 years and 1st class $1.75 after 8 years.\n\nEach member was allowed on the completion of 5 years service to receive his 3 months actual pay as bonus, but now this privilege is not allowed except the Jemadars.\n\n6. The pay of allowances for English and Chinese languages is also too small. The Indians take so much pain to learn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437596, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "content_text": "Page 243\n\nMarch 11th.\n\nTo Mr. Hutchison,\n\nSir,\n\nHerewith a few lines to let you know I have taken my own life,\n\nI cannot stand the strain on my mind any longer. No one knows how I have suffered since I was struck on the head with the man I shot in self defence. I don't know what I am doing. I would sooner die than ever stand on a charge for manslaughter. I am too brave a man to allow the Chinese to laugh at me now I am in trouble so I think I am doing the best thing to save any more trouble.\n\nI hope you will see the C.S.P. and get his permission to see the manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and to see that the few dollars are sent home to my poor father who is unable to work. I must thank you and Mr. King for your kindness towards me.\n\nI hope whatever expense I have cost you the Government will refund it to you; if they will not, I hope that you take it out of my money in the Bank, but I hope the Government will see that all my money, and if my things are sold, that it is sent to my poor father. Everybody seems against me now I am in trouble.\n\nI hope the C.S.P. will allow all the Indian Constables to follow my body to its last place of rest. I have been a true servant to the Crown for 13 years and I hope they will respect me at the last, although I am making all this trouble. Kindly let my father know of my death.\n\nI don't know what I am doing. You will find my bank book in my drawers and kindly see the C.S.P. and ask him to give P.S. 16 Kendall permission to open my letters and answer them all that comes for me.\n\nMy downfall has come in the world. I will never stand in a pressing box. I think I am doing the best thing. I hope the police will prosecute the other prisoners. The man what was shot is the man that struck me on the head.\n\nI cannot stand against the people what are up against me. I hear that (Y. Yuk) what is on the (Legislative Council) is pressing this case against us, and I hear that if I get away on this case the Chinese are going to have my life, so I would sooner die with my own hand.\n\nI hope you will try and do your best for my poor father.\n\n...\n\nPage 243\n\n...\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438251, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "C. D.\n\n21SEP\n\nto introduce the use of the \"en\" under the Flogging Amendment Ordinance No. 12 of 1911. This punishment was awarded in 20 cases during December. The Police succeeded in preventing any serious outbreak of lawlessness, though the influx of undesirable characters from Canton and other parts of China was disagreeably apparent and many cases of disorderliness, assaults and petty thieving were reported. Military assistance was provided in the form of armed patrols, and the Police Force was temporarily augmented by enlisting 20 special constables,\n\nOn 21st January, Sir Henry May vacated the office of Colonial Secretary to take up the office of Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Southern Pacific. His place was filled by the appointment of Mr. W. D. Barnes from the Federated Malay States Service, whose untimely death on the 28th October again rendered the Colonial Secretaryship vacant. Mr. Claud Severn of the Federated Malay States Service was subsequently appointed, but did not assume his duties during the year. Mr. C. Clementi was in charge of the Colonial Secretary's Department from 22nd January to 21st February, and acted as Colonial Secretary from 22nd February to 6th June and again from 29th November to the end of the year under review, Mr. Brewin acted from 30th October to 28th November.\n\nPage 2273\n\nMINUTE.\n\nTo His Excellency\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government.\n\n22nd June 191...\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch No...\n\nMr. Clementi Secretary.\n\n[...]\n\n2. I enclose a copy of the Report on the Blue Book for the Year 191..., and the alterations in the form in which it has been presented to Parliament. You will observe that some slight changes have been made in the wording of your despatch, and that the following have been made in the Report when being printed for the Annual Reports:\n\n(a) The address and introduction have been omitted.\n\n[...]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438850, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]", "content_text": "Enclosure 4.\n\nSchedule of Expenditure involved by the increases.\n\n1 Probationer @ £225 @ 1/10... do. House Allowance..\n\n1 Inspector, 2nd Class, @ £200.\n\n10 European Constables at £100 each...\n\n5 Indian Constables at £50 each...\n\nAdditional Launch (No. 4):-\n\n1 European Sergeant @ £140...\n\n1 Constable @ £100.\n\n2 Coxswains, 1st Class, £60 each.\n\n1 Engineer-in-chief.\n\n1 Engineer, 1st Class,\n\n1 Boatswain...\n\n2 Stokers @ £18 each.\n\n8 Seamen @ £12 each..\n\n1 Cook for Europeans..\n\n1 Cook for Chinese...\n\nMotor Launch:-\n\n2 European Constables @ £100 each...\n\n2 Coxswains, 2nd Class, @ £18 each..\n\n2 Engineers, 1st Class, @ £30 each..\n\n4 Seamen £12 each.\n\nArms and Ammunition...\n\nBedding, Mess Utensils...\n\nClothing and Accoutrements\n\nCoal for Barracks.\n\nCoolie hire...\n\nConveyance for Probationer.\n\nLanguage Allowance..\n\nDisinfectants...\n\nEqualization of Exchange on Indian Remittances\n\nCoal and Oil-fuel for Launches\n\nRepairs to Launches.\n\nStores for Launches\n\nFurniture...\n\nPassages and Bonuses.\n\n£\n360\n152\n540\n2,182\n910\n1,250\n1,527\n720\n420\n360\n240\n432\n1,152\n120\n60\n432\n720\n576\n2,500\n1,500\n3,000\n400\n200\n360\n180\n300\n4,000\n6,500\n1,500\n480\n200\n5,000\n2,400\n1,350\n708\n500\nTotal...£68,447\n\nRation Allowance for Europeans in New Territories\n\nfor 75 Indians..\n\ndo. do. for 1 European Sergeant & 1 European Constable on Launch Duty and 12 Seamen.\n\nTransport...\n\nApproval conveyed in S. of S. Telegram of 3rd September, 1912.\n\nYou 27318.\n\nRECO\n\nREGE 30 OCT 2455", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439155, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "content_text": "HONG KONG P.W.D.\n\nP.W.E.\n\n48.\n\nSTUDIO\n\nDRAWING\n\nOFFICE\n\nPROPOSED WALL\n\nHIGH.\n\n4 BOATMEN\n\nINTERPRETER\n\nPROPOSED CHEUNG CHAU POLICE STATION\n\nC.5.0. 4077/12\n\n69\n\n \n COMPOUND\n \n \n CELL\n CELL\n \n \n STORE\n \n \n BATH\n BED ROOM\n \n \n BATH\n BED ROOM\n \n \n E. SERGEANTS\n \n \n LIVING ROOM\n \n \n COOLIE\n C.KITCHEN\n \n \n 17C.BATH\n \n \n 10 INDIANS\n &\n CHINESE CONSTABLES\n \n \n 15.0\"\n \n \n CHARGE ROOM\n \n \n 15.0\"\n \n \n zz:9\"\n \n \n GROUND PLAN\n \n \n NI. BATH\n \n \n INDIAN KITCHEN?\n \n \n SCALE 1 INCH = 8 FEET.\n \n \n us:o\".\n \n \n FIRST FLOOR\n \n \n ELEVATION\n \n \n ΒΑΤΗ\n \n \n E.CONSTABLE MESS ROOM\n \n \n AMAH\n BOY'S COOK\n \n \n KITCHENS,\n \n \n E.CONSTABLES\n \n \n BED ROOM\n \n \n 12:0\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455498, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 194, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 1.\n\n**COPY**\n\nTo The Right Honourable \nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n52201 \nREG || NOV 15\n\nSir,\n\nWe, the European Inspectors, Sergeants, and Constables of the Hongkong Police Force, respectfully beg to submit a copy attached herewith of a memorandum addressed by His Excellency the Governor to us relative to a petition which we sent in recently asking for an increase of salary, and better pension conditions, and in doing so we beg most respectfully to draw your attention to the following facts which we hope will convince you that our petition was submitted to you in an unfavourable manner by His Excellency the Governor and in the hope that when you are made aware of the full facts we may still hope for a more satisfactory reply.\n\nRegarding B, C, D, E, F, and G of Memorandum, we have nothing to say as we accept what His Excellency says in the matter.\n\nAs regards (a) salaries and pensions: \nFirstly, we would point out that His Excellency the Governor, in order to gain his point in refusing us a rise of pay, has classified our Chief Inspector on a level with a Sub-divisional Inspector in London. In London, there are 30 Chief Inspectors in a force of 47,000. In Hongkong, there is one Chief Inspector in a force of 1,100 men. At the time we joined the Hongkong Police, our Chief Inspector held the rank of Acting Deputy Superintendent, Hongkong, and it is on record that a Hongkong Police Chief Inspector has held and drawn the pension of that rank vide Blue Book 144 of the 13th June, 1895. We Inspectors feel keenly being thus humiliated and barred by His Excellency from obtaining a rank equivalent to Chief Inspector and Superintendent in the uniform branch, and 1st class Inspector, and Chief Inspector in the Criminal Investigation Department, of the Metropolitan Police. In the Metropolitan Police, the men who hold", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492970, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 323, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "REMOVAL NOTICE.\n\nAndersen, Meyer & Co., Ltd., beg to announce the removal on September 1st., 1922, of their offices from No. 2, Queen's Road Central, to No. 67, 69, Des Voeux Road. (SITE OF THE OLD VICTORIA THEATRE)\n\nThe Hongkong Telegraph. FOUNDED 1881 No. 12,503\n\nKEMAL TO MEET GENERAL HARINGTON. Atlantic Flotilla En Route. GREECE INVOKES AID OF VENIZELOS.\n\nSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1922.\n\nConstantinople, September 29. Replying to General Harington's telegram mentioned in a message of the 28th inst., Mustapha Kemal declares that his troops will not advance further. He desires that no incident shall occur, and will seize the earliest opportunity of meeting General Harington.\n\n[A message of the 28th inst. stated: General Harington, in a conciliatory reply to Kemal Pasha, thanks him for his declaration to respect the neutrality of the Straits and his desire to avoid incidents, and points out that the destruction and building of roads was carried out as a military necessity. He assures Kemal Pasha that no shot will be fired except by his, General Harington's, orders, and expresses readiness to meet Kemal Pasha anywhere that is convenient to discuss an understanding.]\n\nNaval Reinforcements on the Way.\n\nGibraltar, September 29. The flotilla leader and eight destroyers of the first flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet have arrived en route to the Near East, also two submarines.\n\nFull Support from Australia.\n\nMelbourne, September 27. Speaking in the House of Representatives, Mr. Hughes said that Australia was praying that there would not be war, but if it came Britain would be in the right, even if left alone. Australia had previously put in the field a larger army than the Turks could now muster, and would do the same again if necessary.\n\nVenizelos to Represent Greece at Conference?\n\nThe Revolutionary Committee has telegraphed to M. Venizelos at Paris asking him to undertake the defence of Greek interests with the Entente and to represent Greece at the Near East conference.\n\nThe Committee demanded the immediate departure from Greece of ex-King Constantine, ex-Queen Sophie, and the Princes Nicholas and Andrew. It is understood that they departed aboard a battleship last night.\n\nThe Committee has forbidden demonstrations in the streets. It is announced that the revolution has not been accompanied by a single drop of bloodshed. Several Royalist officers arrested at the outbreak of the revolution have been released, and all political prisoners have been liberated. The elements which long terrorized the city under the Constantin regime have mysteriously disappeared. It is rumoured that ex-Premiers, Gounaris, Stratos, and Protopapadakis have been arrested. Many politicians believe that the reign of the new King will not be a long one, and that a republic is likely.\n\nGreece Talking of Retrieving Disaster.\n\nLater. The revolutionary leaders, in a statement, insist that the movement is absolutely national, and is exclusively aimed at reparation of the recent catastrophe and the creation of a strong army to save Thrace. They declare that the settlement of the dynastic question must conform to the will of the great majority of the Greek people.\n\nHigh Commissioners Despatch Pacificatory Delegates.\n\nConstantinople, September 29. The High Commissioners have decided to despatch a commission composed of British, French, and Italian officers to Rodosto, Lule Burgas, and Adrianople to exercise a pacifying influence.\n\nArrest of Greek Premiers Confirmed.\n\nParis, September 29. A message from Athens confirms the arrest of the three ex-Premiers. M. Theotokis and Rear-Admiral Goudas have also been arrested. The message adds that it is expected they will be brought to trial as responsible for the events in Asia Minor.\n\nCabinet Regards Kemalist Action as Infringement.\n\nLondon, September 29. At the conclusion of further series of Cabinet meetings, anxiety in official circles was nowise eased. It is understood that the Government regard the Turkish action as an infringement of the Allied Note, and decided that it is impossible to permit the Kemalists to remain and continue positions in the neutral zone. The Government has therefore informed the military authorities that they have complete support in demanding the withdrawal of the Kemalists, leaving the question of a time-limit to the discretion of General Harington, Admiral Brock, and the High Commissioner. Meantime, the members of the Cabinet are standing by ready for emergencies, and are expecting an early development.\n\nRumour of War Causes Slump.\n\nLondon, September 29. The nervousness created by the Near Eastern situation is exemplified by the slump on the Liverpool cotton market today owing to a baseless rumour that Britain had declared war on Turkey, concerning which an authoritative denial was subsequently issued.\n\nLANCASHIRE COTTON TRADE DEPRESSION.\n\nCompanies Gradually Losing Their Capital.\n\nLondon, September 29. The question of the continued severe depression in the Lancashire cotton trade was discussed at a Manchester meeting of representatives of over fifty per cent. of the spinning companies. Leading spinners pointed out that most concerns were gradually losing their capital, and only immediate and drastic action would avert a financial crisis. An enquiry into the question of fixing minimum prices for standard counts of yarn was suggested, also the curtailment of production.\n\nLEAGUE OF NATIONS FINANCES.\n\nSUN YAT-SEN'S REPLY.\n\nAuthenticity of \"Telegraph\" Letters Admitted.\n\n1922. 日十初月八\n\nLAST NIGHT'S SENSATION.\n\nDetective Murdered; Two Men Shot.\n\nSINGLE COPY 10 CTS. $30 PER ANNUM\n\nTHE BANK\n\nREMOVAL NOTICE.\n\nAndersen, Meyer & Co., Ltd., beg to announce the removal on September 1st., 1922, of their offices from No. 2, Queen's Road Central, to No. 67, 69, Des Voeux Road. (SITE OF THE OLD VICTORIA THEATRE.)\n\nMYSTERY. PORTUGUESE CRUISER.\n\nNot a Book-keeping Error.\n\nOrdered to Macao.\n\nLisbon, Sept. 29. The cruiser Republica has been ordered to proceed to Macao from South America.\n\nThe disappearance of $200,000 from the International Banking Corporation still remains shrouded in mystery. A Telegraph reporter who called on the acting manager this morning to inquire if anything had been discovered which would throw some light on the affair was informed that the Bank are still in the dark as to what has happened to the money.\n\nIt has been ascertained that the loss is not through any book-keeping error, the pressman was told, and there has been no tampering with either the vaults or the safes. Beyond those facts, practically nothing appears to be known.\n\nAbout eight o'clock last night, armed men visited 26, Wing Wo Street, an emigrants' boarding house. They gagged and bound the inmates and during the half-hour they remained on the premises collected all the money and valuables, including gold dollars and foreign coin to the value of some $6,000.\n\nAs the robbers were leaving, they were observed by Detective Sergeant Sin Chuen, who, it will be remembered, was highly praised for his services in the famous Wo Ping Theatre case. Although single-handed, the detective tackled the gang, but they were too many for him. One of the armed men pointed his revolver at the officer and fired, hitting him in the chest. The gang then made off, chased by a number of police and others who by this time had been attracted to the scene.\n\nThe chase was an exciting one, and firearms were used frequently. Two men, on one of whom was found a revolver, were arrested. They were escorted to the Central Police Station by a party of constables with drawn revolvers, and on the way, an accident happened. In Graham Street, the weapon of one of the constables accidentally went off and wounded two brothers who came out of No. 6 to watch the procession pass.\n\nThe police visited the boarding house where the robbery occurred and it is understood that three daggers were found.\n\nJAPAN'S MILITARISTS.\n\nFurther Disclosures.\n\nTokyo, Sept. 30. The revelations continued by the Kokumin alleging that Japanese militarists have completed plans to establish a buffer state in alliance with Germany and Russia intended.\n\nDenial of Bolshevism.\n\n(Our Own Correspondent.)\n\nShanghai, September 29. Dr. Sun Yat-sen admits the veracity of the Hongkong Telegraph's disclosures relative to the proposal to form an Alliance with Germany and Russia.\n\nHe says, however, that the letters have been improperly translated and are partly false. He defended himself on the ground that all the Powers except Germany and Russia continued to be aggressive. He cites the relinquishment of extra-territoriality as proof that Germany and Russia have shown a favourable attitude to China.\n\nChina's Desire for Equality.\n\nDr. Sun Yat-sen says that the creation of the Soviet Government had removed China's greatest political menace, so long as the Soviet Government continues its non-Imperialistic policy. He says that China's greatest need is assistance from Powers which will treat China as an equal, and believes that Germany and Russia are the only Powers qualified to treat China in that manner. He therefore favours a conciliatory attitude towards Germany and Russia.\n\nAccording to Dr. Sun, such a policy will not injure any of the other Powers which honestly desire a re-united China. He states that these are his main considerations.\n\nBolshevism Unsuited to China.\n\nDr. Sun says that epithets accusing him of Bolshevistic views do not injure him and will not deter him. He denies that he has any sympathy with Bolshevism as a principle and says that a correct reading of his letters will prove this beyond doubt. He also says that he may issue an English translation of the letters reproduced in the \"Hongkong Telegraph\". He asserts that the \"Hongkong Telegraph's\" insinuation that the letters reveal a leaning towards Bolshevism is a charge unworthy of an answer, as all intelligent minds will realise that China is politically and economically unsuited to Bolshevism. Dr. Sun says that he never once dreamed of transforming China into a Bolshevik Republic.\n\nFruitless Overtures to Foreign Capitalists.\n\nIn conclusion, the late President of the South says that he had made repeated overtures to American, British, and other foreign capitalists with a view to arousing their interest in the commercial development of China, but all were deaf to his suggestions. Hence, he says, he had to turn elsewhere for much-needed co-operation.\n\nSIKI'S VICTORY.\n\nEndorsed by French Boxing Federation.\n\nParis, September 29. The French Boxing Federation has endorsed the decision of the judges in the Carpentier-Siki fight and approved Siki's claim to the light-heavyweight championship of the world.\n\nARMS TRAFFIC.\n\nFull Sentence Imposed.\n\nWhen charged today with trafficking in arms on river boats, the prisoner was found guilty. Inspector Fallon prosecuted, and asked the Magistrate to pass an exemplary sentence, pointing out that this trafficking in arms was attaining serious proportions. The Magistrate accordingly imposed the full penalty of a year's hard labour on the prisoner.\n\nThe Chinese detective, Sin Cheun, who was shot by the armed men, was taken to the Government Civil Hospital, but the wound was serious and the gallant man expired shortly after admission.\n\nA report was made to the police by the accountant of the Wong Tak Loong, import and export firm, occupying the first and second floors of No. 26 Wing Wo Street, to the effect that the gang entered the premises at 7.30, being armed with daggers and revolvers which they used to intimidate the twelve fokia of the firm.\n\nAfter being bound and gagged, the victims were all bundled into one room whilst the process of ransacking the floors took place. From a safe, the robbers took a sum of $4,176, some American money, and a gold watch and chain, the value of which is unknown.\n\nHONGKONG FINANCES.\n\nA Healthy Outlook.\n\nHongkong's finances continue in a healthy state. The figures for the first half of the year are now available. These show that at the end of June there was a balance of $11,512,230, which compares with $7, $7,810,494 during the first half of 1921. The increase was largely due to more receipts from land sales, which produced no less than $2,197,356, against $208,627 for 1921.\n\nDuring the month of June, the revenue was $1,646,108, this comparing with $1,372,442 for June, 1921.\n\nThe total expenditure during the half year was $8,278,026, this contrasting with $6,421,324 for the first six months of 1921, there being considerable increases in Miscellaneous Expenditure and Public Works Extraordinary. For the month of June, the outgoings totalled $1,519,647, compared with $1,066,426 in June last year.\n\nV.R.C. SPORTS.\n\nSecond Day's Events.\n\nThe attendance on the second day of the annual sports carnival of the Victoria Recreation Club left much to be desired, for it was the poorest on record. However, there were enough competitors to make every race interesting, the 220 yards Championship being the outstanding feature of the day.\n\nIn the absence of Johnstone, Lyon was favourite, though with rivals of the capability of Laing and Jack, the finish was a hot one. Lyon set the pace, and in the fourth length, the tussle between Laing and Jack for second place became very keen. Jack had enjoyed the advantage, but in this length, Laing made up and was ahead of the former by a mere matter of feet. The race then resolved itself principally into a tussle between these two for second place, Laing eventually beating Jack by a few seconds. Lyon's win yesterday makes his third championship success in this year's sports. Time—D. Lyon, 2 mins. 40 secs.; D. Laing, 2 mins. 47 secs.\n\nFollowing are the results of the other events:\n\nFour lengths handicap (members).—1, S. A. Marcal; 2, T. Stewart. Time 1 min. 13 sec.\n\nLong plunge.—1, M. Souza; 2. B. Rasmussen. Distance 58 ft. 2 ins.\n\nTwo lengths handicap (open).—1, Baldwin, 2, G. McDade.\n\nTwo lengths test race (men).—1, D. Lyon, V. Ramsay, A. A. R. Remedio, W. Hyde, A. Kitchell, G. A. Razavet, and D. Ogilvie. Time 3 mins. 38 secs.\n\n100 yards boys' championship.—1, A. May; 2, J. Montalto. Time 1 min. 7-2/5 secs.\n\nFour lengths handicap (ladies).—1, Miss R. Kitchell; 2, Miss E. Bell. Time 1 min. 40 secs.\n\nFour lengths handicap (girls) 1st. heat.—1, E. Allen; 2, Molly Groundwater. 2nd. heat.—1, E. Bliss; 2, B. Pathejohns.\n\nTwo lengths handicap (boys).—1st. heat.—1, A. May; 2, W. Tillery. 2nd. heat.—1, W. G. Urquhart; 2;, L. Rozs Pereira. 3rd. heat.—1, A. Bliss; 2; F. Suzara. 4th. heat.—1, H. Watson; 2, G. Noronha. 5th. heat.—1, J. Montalto; 2, M. Noronha.\n\nCANTON'S FINANCES.\n\nReported Conclusion of Foreign Loan.\n\nOur Canton correspondent states that the members of the Provincial Assembly, on hearing that a foreign loan of £2,000,000 has been concluded and was signed by the Civil Governor on the 28th instant, are keen to know the details of the scheme.\n\nIRISH POSTAL SETTLEMENT.\n\nLondon, September 29. The report of the Fourth Commission shows that the League of Nations is financially stressed, owing to the non-payment of contributions totalling 5,000,000 gold francs for 1921 and the payment so far of only 55 per cent. of the 1922 contributions while the Budget has increased to 25 millions.\n\nThe Irish postal settlement provides that three-eighths of the proposed wage reduction shall operate from September 1st, and the remainder from December 1st. The submitted to and approved by the Assembly.\n\nAn Unsatisfactory Position.\n\nGeneva, September 29.\n\nLISTEN!\n\nMake a hobby of your advertising.\n\nThe full week-end programme at the World Theatre is given on page 4.\n\n\"The Witness for the Defence\" is being shown at the Star Theatre tonight.—Page 4.\n\nTo-Day's Exchange. The closing rate of the dollar on demand today was 2s, 6.13/16d\n\nLighting Up-Time. Lighting-up time today, 6.13 p.m.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515573, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928", "content_text": "126\n\n42\n\n# Head 23.-POLICE FORCE\n\n## POLICE FORCE,—Continued.\n\n \n Approved Estimate, 1928\n Estimate, 1929\n \n \n $\n \n \n\n## PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,—Continued,\n\n# Head 24. PRISONS DEPARTMENT\n\n \n Approved Estimate, 1928\n Estimate, 1929\n \n \n $\n \n \n\n## Details of the foregoing,—Continued.\n\n# Head 24.-PRISONS DEPARTMENT\n\n \n Brought forward\n 1,349,792\n 1,392,822\n \n\n## NUMBERS.\n\n \n Sub-heads\n 1928\n 1929\n \n \n 1 Personal Emoluments\n 296,441\n 297,764\n \n \n Miscellaneous,—Cautioned.\n 17\n 18\n \n \n Messengers, at $132 each\n 2,244\n 2,376\n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n Other Charges\n \n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $108, 1 at $72, 1 at $20, 6 at $12 each, 1 at $10, 1 at $8 and 1 at $4.\n \n \n \n \n 2 Arms and Ammunition\n 300\n 266\n \n \n 29-1\n \n (2)\n \n \n 3 Conveyance allowance to Superintendent\n 600\n 250\n \n \n 600\n (1)\n \n \n \n Rent Allowances to 8 at $48 each, and 10 at $24 each\n 524\n 624\n \n \n 4 Cleansing and Sanitary Materials.\n 5,000\n 5,000\n \n \n Coolies, at $132 each......\n 113\n 118\n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $108, 1 at $90, 1 at $72, 4 at $60 each, 1 at $27, 1 at $56, 1 at $54, 1 at $52, 1 at $49, 6 at $48 each, 1 at $40, 10 at $36 each, 1 at $31 each, 7 at $24 each, 1 at $22, 2 at $18 each,\n 14,916\n 15,576\n \n \n 5 Clothing and Shoes for Staff..\n 18,000\n \n \n \n 6 Clothing for Prisoners\n 17,000\n 14,000\n \n \n (1)\n \n 14,000\n \n \n 7 Executioner's Fees\n 300\n 300\n \n \n Fuci.........\n 16,000\n 17,000\n \n \n 9 Furniture...\n (2)\n \n \n \n 800\n 800\n \n \n \n 10 Grants to Protestant and Roman Catholic Chaplains for Religious Services\n 1,200\n 1,200\n \n \n 11 Gratuities to Prisoners for Industrial Labour..\n 1,600\n 1,450\n \n \n 1 at $17, 1 at $16, 31 at $12 each, 2 at $1 each, 2 at $9 each, 3 at $8\n \n \n \n \n 12 Incidental Expenses\n (1)\n \n \n \n 2,000\n 2,000\n \n \n \n each, 2 at $7 each, 1 at $6, 3 at $5 each,\n \n \n \n \n 13 Light\n \n \n \n \n 14 Materials for Remunerative Industries\n 20,000\n 20,000\n \n \n 8,000\n \n \n \n \n 2 at $4 each, 4 at $3 each and 1 at $2. Do.. Rent Allowances to 29 at $48 each, and 90 at $24 each\n 7,000\n \n \n \n 1,835\n 2,280\n (2)\n \n \n 15 Materials for Repairs and Renewals\n (1)\n \n \n \n 9,000\n 10,000\n \n \n \n 16 Photography\n (2)\n \n \n \n 950\n 3,384\n \n \n \n 1,000\n 3,504\n \n \n \n (2)\n \n \n \n \n 17 Rations for Indian Warders\n \n \n \n \n Do.. Personal Allowances to 1 at $46, 2 at $12 each, 1 at $8 and 1 at $5\n 16,000\n 16,000\n \n \n 18 Rent for Quarters for European Warders\n 18,000\n 22,000\n \n \n 141\n \n \n \n \n 73\n \n \n \n \n 19 Rent for Quarters for Indian Warders.................\n \n \n \n \n Range Marker.....\n 400\n 400\n \n \n \n 20 Subsistence of Prisoners\n 10,200\n 90,000\n \n \n \n 6,000\n (1)\n \n \n \n 100,000\n \n \n \n \n Warder, Finger Print Allowance................\n 60\n (3)\n \n \n 60\n \n \n \n \n Police Training School.\n \n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Do.\n \n \n \n \n Principal, (£500 to £600 by £25. annually) Language Allowance......\n 6,400\n \n \n \n 180\n \n \n \n \n 6,000\n 180\n \n \n \n ## SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.\n \n \n \n \n 21 Printing Machine\n 8,000\n (2)\n \n \n 1,000\n \n \n \n \n 54\n \n \n \n \n 22 Book-back rounding Machine\n \n \n \n \n Assistant Principal, (Sub-Inspector), (£320 to £360 by £10 annually)\n 4,820\n \n \n \n Total Prisons Department\n 528,591\n \n \n \n 4,320\n 548,364\n \n \n \n Drill Instructor, (Sub-Inspector), (£320 to £360 by £10 annually)\n 4,320\n \n \n \n 4,320\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Musketry Instructor, (Sergeant), (£220 to £300 by £10 annually)\n 3,600\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Bartack Sergeant, (Lance Sergeant), (£160 to £180 by £10 and £180 to £200 by £5 annually)\n 3,600\n \n \n \n ## PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n Indian Teachers, (1 at $1,200 to $1,500 by $75 annually and 1 at $900 to $1,150 by $50 annually)\n 2,400\n \n \n \n 2,400\n \n \n \n \n ## Details of the foregoing.\n \n \n \n \n NUMBERS.\n 1928\n 1929\n \n \n 2,092\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Do., Do..\n \n \n \n \n Indian Sub-Inspector, ($780 to $840 by $60 annually)\n \n \n \n \n Language Allowance\n 2,267\n (3)\n \n \n 840\n 840\n \n \n \n Staff.\n 1928\n 1929\n \n \n 84\n 84\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Good Conduct Medal Allowance.\n \n \n \n \n Superintendent, (£600 to £1,100 by £25 annually)...\n 11,700\n \n \n \n 12,000\n \n \n \n \n 30\n 30\n \n \n \n 5\n 5\n \n \n \n Indian Drill Instructors, (1 Sergeant, $360 to $420 by $12 annually, 1 Lance Sergeant $336 to $348 by $12, and 3 Constables at $312)\n \n \n \n \n Indian Drill Instructors, Language Allowances to\n \n \n \n \n Assistant Superintendent, (£500 to £700 by £25 annually)\n 7,175\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Chinese School Teacher, ($360)\n 360\n (4)\n \n \n 7,475\n (4)\n \n \n \n 360\n \n \n \n \n 1,704\n 1,704\n \n \n \n 1 at $48, 1 at $20, and 1 at $12.......\n \n \n \n \n ## Discipline Officers.\n \n \n \n \n 90\n 90\n \n \n \n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Chinese Sergeant Major...\n \n \n \n \n Chief Warders, (£400 to £450 by £25 annually)..\n 10,299\n \n \n \n 10,599\n \n \n \n \n 600\n (4)\n \n \n \n 600\n \n \n \n \n Do.,\n \n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Language Allowance..\n \n \n \n \n Charge Allowance to 1\n 48\n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n Chinese Drill Instructors, Constables, at $261\n 48\n \n \n \n Do.,\n \n \n \n \n Separation Allowance to 1\n 306\n \n \n \n 365\n \n \n \n \n 528\n 528\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Chinese Teacher, at $300\n \n \n \n \n Assistant Chief Warder, (£400)\n 4,800\n \n \n \n 4,800\n \n \n \n \n 300\n 300\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Messenger, at $132...\n \n \n \n \n Pharmacist, (£300 to £400 by £10 annually)\n 3,930\n \n \n \n 4,050\n \n \n \n \n 1:2\n (4)\n \n \n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowance\n 132\n \n \n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n Do.. Good Conduct Allowance.\n 24\n \n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n Station Coolies, at $132 each\n 792\n \n \n \n Do.,\n \n \n \n \n Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $21, 1 at $12 and 1 at $9\n 1,188\n (1)\n \n \n Carried forward\n 89,230\n \n \n \n 40,249\n \n \n \n \n 26\n \n \n \n \n 66\n 66\n \n \n \n Do., Recruits, & European, 20 Indian, 40 Chinese First Aud Instructors Allowances.\n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowances to 9 at $24 each\n 42\n \n \n \n 192\n 216\n (2)\n \n \n (1) Considered sufficient.\n \n \n \n \n (3) Under estimated in 1928.\n \n \n \n \n 20,000\n 20,000\n \n \n \n 8,000\n \n \n \n \n (2) Previous provision insufficient.\n \n \n \n \n (4) Stipulated increments.\n \n \n \n \n Total Personal Emoluments.......................\n 1,421,276\n \n \n \n 1,469,976\n \n \n \n \n (D) New Posts.\n \n \n \n \n (2) More allowances,\n \n \n \n \n (3) Stipulated increments.\n \n \n \n\n127\n\n43", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-11 Estimates- 1929 21-9-1928 - 14-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526598, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "content_text": "22\n\nthe compound. I saw him fire 2 shots in the direction of the Sergeant's bath room. I then ran into my own room at the end of the wing, and the boy went with me. Just before the Indian with the rifle appeared on the verandah, I saw my mistress at the dining-room verandah door. She did not say anything to me or I to her. Then she disappeared into the sitting room.\n\nThe Indian appeared and went along to the bath-room door. We hid in our room. Later I heard about 3 more shots. So far as I saw or heard, the Indian fired 2 shots only on the verandah. I heard no shots fired in the Station downstairs.\n\nJury No X X marked. Ip Chu Mui signed. R.E.Lindsell P.M.\n\nAdjourned to 15th August at 2.15 p.m. Ed. R.E.Lindsell P.M. 12.8.30\n\nP.13\n\nEnquiry continued. Jury present. Further evidence.\n\n6. Ng Kun decd. \"I am Government seaman, W.167, stationed at Lok Ha Chau. On July 21st I was on reserve duty at the Station and about 5 p.m. I was cooking rice in the Chinese kitchen at the side of the compound. I heard two shots from the back, i.e., by the flag staff. I ran to the door and looked out into the compound. I saw the Station Guard running across the compound towards the Charge Room, and followed him. He went straight to the front verandah and switched on the alarm bell. I stood for a moment in the passage. The Station Guard ran into his barrack room on the left and I to my room on the right. I was in a panic; I had no idea what was up. I had heard two shots only. I shut the door of my room. Another seaman, the station coolie, and the Chinese constables' cook were there. Afterwards I heard several more shots in rapid succession and shots were fired up to 10 p.m. I did not come out at all until the rescue party arrived.\n\nThe Station Guard ran...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526600, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "content_text": "P.15\n\n24\n\nTo Jury:\n\n\"On the alarm going in the day time it was my duty to fall in in the Charge room. I didn't do it this time because I saw others stampeding. I have often practised the alarm, the last time having been about a month before this affair.\"\n\nsd. Ip Lam\ned. R. E. Lindsell\nP.M.\n\n8. Man Tim decd. \"I am cook to the Chinese officers and employees at Lok Ma Chau and on July 21st afternoon was in the Station. About 5 p.m. I was in the Chinese cook-house beside the compound. I was alone. I did not see 6th witness anywhere about. I heard 2 shots fired and bolted straight for my barrack room. I did not see anyone in the compound. I did not notice the Station Guard before we shut ourselves in our room.\"\n\nmark sd. Man Tim\nwitness to mark.\nsd. So Kam Shing\nsd. R. E. Lindsell\nP.M.\n\n9. Man Kan decd. \"I have been station coolie at Lok Ma Chau about 11 years and was there on 21st July. About 5 p.m. I was in the only Chinese cook-house boiling tea. There were 2 or 3 others there too. I heard shots and bolted straight for the store room across the compound. I did not see any one in the compound. I was in a panic because I didn't know what was up. I stayed in the store-room until the rescue party arrived.\"\n\nJury - No X X.\nsd. Man Kan\nad. R. B. Lindsell\nP.M.\n\n10. Cheung Man Wai decd. \"I am a police interpreter stationed at Lok Ma Chau and was at that Station on 21st July last. About 5 p.m. I was in my then quarters, the end room at the side of the compound, together with my wife. My door was open. I heard 2 shots fired outside and then saw 3 or 4 Indian constables run into the compound from the back gate. Of these the Station Guard...\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532082, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-536-6 Anti-Japanese Riots 28-9-1931 - 25-2-1932", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-536-6 Anti-Japanese Riots 28-9-1931 - 25-2-1932", "content_text": "# MAGISTRATES POWERS RELATING TO POSSESSION, ETC. OF SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS, OFFENSIVE WEAPONS, ETC.\n\n27. Every person who-\n\n(1) prints, publishes, circulates, distributes, or has in his possession any seditious matter as defined in the Seditious Publications Ordinance, 1914;\n\nor\n\n(2) by violence or threats of violence prevents or endeavours to prevent any other person from doing any act which he is legally entitled to do; or\n\n(3) commits any offence against the provisions of section 22 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1845;\n\nshall be liable upon summary conviction before a magistrate to the penalties provided by section 3 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922.\n\n28. Whenever it is proved to the satisfaction of a magistrate, that any printing press, machine, tool, instrument, type, block, paper, material or thing has after the 21st day of June, 1925, in any manner, been used or prepared for use for, or in connexion with, the printing or production of any newspaper, book, placard, pamphlet, document, writing or pictorial representation containing any seditious matter as defined in the Seditious Publications Ordinance, 1914, it shall be lawful for such magistrate, upon the application of the Inspector General of Police or some person authorised by him, to order such printing press, machine, tool, instrument, type, block, paper, material or thing to be forfeited to the Crown, whether any person has been charged or convicted or may hereafter be charged or convicted of any offence in connexion therewith, or not.\n\n# SPECIAL CONSTABLES\n\n29. Every person who has been enrolled or appointed as a special constable or hereafter may be enrolled or appointed as a special constable, whether voluntarily or otherwise, as from the date of his enrolment or appointment and until such enrolment or appointment shall be cancelled or determined by the Governor or some person authorised by the Governor, shall be deemed to have had and he shall have all the powers, privileges, protection and immunities mentioned or referred to in section of the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886, but with the like exception as to pay and pension or other reward.\n\n30. Every such special constable shall be and shall from the date of his enrolment or appointment be deemed to have been subject to the orders of the Governor, the magistrates, the Inspector General of Police, and any other person authorised by the Governor or the Inspector General of Police to act in that behalf.\n\n31. Every such special constable shall be and shall from the date of his enrolment or appointment be deemed to have been subject to punishment, as mentioned in section 5 of the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886, for refusal or neglect, without reasonable excuse, to serve or to obey such lawful orders and directions as have been or may be given to him for the performance of the duties of his office.\n\n# CENSORSHIP, ETC. OF TELEGRAMS AND LETTERS\n\n32. It shall be lawful for any person authorised for that purpose by the Governor to censor, and to suspend the transmission of, any telegram to or from or in transit through the Colony and to order that no person shall transmit any telegram from or through the Colony without the permission of such person as may be authorised by the Governor to give such permission.\n\n33. It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General, or any person authorised by him, to seize, open, censor, and suspend the transmission of, any letter received by the Post Office, or by any person, for delivery in the Colony, or intended to be transmitted by any means from the Colony to any place out of the Colony.\n\n- 5-\n\n# COMMANDEERING OF PREMISES, VEHICLES AND SUPPLIES\n\n34. It shall be lawful for the Inspector General of Police, or any person authorised by him, to take possession of, use, and control, any premises, for any purpose which he may consider a public purpose.\n\n35. It shall be lawful for the Inspector General of Police, or any person authorised by him, to take possession of any vehicle and to use such vehicle for any purpose which he, or such person, may consider a public purpose.\n\n36.(1) It shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works, or for the Inspector General of Police, or for any person authorised thereto by either of the said officers, to take possession of any coal, firewood, or foodstuffs, and to dispose of the same in any manner which he may consider desirable in the public interest.\n\n(2) Any coal, firewood, or foodstuffs taken possession of under the provisions of this regulation and not returned to the owner, shall be paid for at such rates as shall be determined by a board of arbitrators hereafter to be appointed by the Governor.\n\n# ENTRY\n\n37. It shall be lawful for any person empowered by any regulation made under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, to do anything to effect any entry which he may consider necessary to enable him to exercise such power.\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\n1st October, 1931.\n\nN. L. SMITH,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nNOTE. The effect of these regulations is to consolidate, with minor amendments, those already in force; but to omit the Water Shortage Regulations, which are no longer required.\n\n(Extract from the Hong Kong Government Gazette No. 47 of the 2nd October, 1931.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-6 Anti-Japanese Riots 28-9-1931 - 25-2-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553578, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "page_number": 172, "title": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n...sides of the harbour. Turning to Appendix K being the Report of the Inspector General of Police for 1936, Table V shows the yearly Return of Crime for the whole Colony for 1936. The total Charge Cases under the Head of Serious Offences is 6,234 while under Minor Offences the number is 37,549, making a Grand Total of 43,783. In the category of Hawking Offences we have the formidable number of 26,075, or, roughly, 60% of the Grand Total. Assuming, Sir, that each of these hawking offences occupied an average of two minutes in a Police Court, this alone would account for 866 hours in the year, the equivalent of 144 6-hour days. The trial of Hawking Offences, therefore, may be said to have been a full-time job for a single Magistrate for half of a working year. (I see that my honourable friend Mr. M. K. Lo has made calculations similar to mine, with this difference, that I have credited Magistrates with an extra hour's work per day). Admittedly, Sir, some of these were offences which must be dealt with by a Police Court. But for each of these there must be half-a-dozen which could have been met by a word of warning from the Police Officer in the Charge Room concerned, whose discretion could be relied on in such cases. However, I have heard that the large number of petty offences charged is due in great measure to the existence of what is known as a \"Case Book\", which constitutes a Police Constable's Record of Cases to his credit, and by which his chances of promotion are governed, the principle apparently being the more cases, the better the man. I have heard even, that fines are on occasion inflicted on officers whose case-books over a certain period show a blank. If this be correct, it is a system which cannot be too strongly condemned, for, while contributing unnecessarily to the work of Police Courts, it has the further and far greater disadvantage of being utterly wrong, in that it is directly contrary to the best conception of what constitutes a good policeman.\n\nIn the 1912 Edition of Sir Howard Vincent's Police Code will be found the following, from an Address to Police Constables on their Duties, by the Late Right Hon. Lord Brampton, written specially for the book. \"...the constable who keeps his beat free from crime deserves much more credit than the man who only counts up the number of convictions he has obtained for offences committed within it. It is true that the latter makes more show than the former, but the former is the better officer\".\n\nMaking all due allowances for the difference in conditions in Hong Kong from those prevailing in England, I still fail to see any justification for a system which sets the discovery rather than the prevention of crime at a premium. One may well imagine the dangers attendant on such a system where a man of unscrupulous conscience is concerned, with opportunities such as this Colony affords by reason of its thousands of ignorant people. If this system does prevail, then, no matter for how long it has been in existence, I sincerely urge the proper authority seriously to consider putting an end to it, and to substitute therefor some other gauge whereby a police-officer's efficiency and his right to promotion may be measured. (Applause).\n\nPage 130\nPage 194", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]