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        "content_text": "expedievy of the measures \n\nwhich it is quoponed to adeffets \n\nnis crates t \n\nto carry \n\nsits offel. \n\nit's Jueritious \n\nHONGKONG.\n\nANNO DECIMO SEXTO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.\n\nNo. 6 of 1852.\n\nBY His Excellency WILLIAM JERVOIS, Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Major-General Commanding Her Majesty's Forces in China, Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAN ORDINANCE FOR THE PREVENTION OF DESERTION, AND BETTER REGULATION OF MERCHANT SEAMEN IN THIS COLONY.\n\n[6th November, 1852.]\n\nWhereas serious Complaints have been lately made of the frequent Desertion of Merchant Seamen, and it is expedient that further Measures be taken for the Prevention thereof: Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Acting Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof,\n\nI. That the Ordinance No. 13 of 1845, entitled \"An Ordinance to establish a licensed Ghaut Serang in the Colony of Hongkong, and for the better Regulation of Lascars resorting thereto,\" and the Ordinance No. 4 of 1846, entitled \"An Ordinance to explain and extend the Provisions of the Ordinance to establish a licensed Ghaut Serang in the Colony of Hongkong, and for the better Regulation of Lascars resorting thereto\"; and the Ordinance No. 2 of 1848, entitled \"An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 13 of 1845, entitled An Ordinance to establish a licensed Ghaut Serang in the Colony of Hongkong, and for the better Regulation of Lascars resorting thereto\";-be and the same hereby are repealed.\n\nII. And that whenever any Seaman shall be discharged from any Vessel within the Precincts of this Colony, the Master of such Vessel shall give at the Time of such Discharge to such Seaman a written Certificate of Discharge, specifying the Time and Nature of Service, and the Time of Discharge of such Seaman, signed by himself; and if such Seaman require it, shall further give him, within Twenty-four Hours after Demand, a true Account in writing of the Wages of such Seaman, and of all Deductions therefrom.\n\nIII. That Ordinance No. 4 of 1850 be extended in all its Provisions to British Seamen and Vessels within the Harbour of Hongkong, as well as to the Seamen and Vessels of Foreign Nations.\n\nIV. And whereas by a Regulation now in force, Merchant Seamen are not allowed to land on leave unless furnished with Tickets of Leave, such Regulation is hereby continued, and it is further enacted that such Tickets shall be according to the following Form :-\n\nHONGKONG, the day of 18.\n\nThe Bearer of this (man's name) belonging to the Ship (name of the ship) has Permission to remain on shore for the Space of (number of hours). Permission granted at o'clock (A.M., or P.M.)\n\nA. B.-Master;\n\nwhich Form shall be publicly and conspicuously posted in the Harbour-Master's Office; and any Seaman found on shore without such Ticket or with a false Ticket, or after his Period of Leave shall have expired, may be taken into Custody without Warrant by any Constable, or by the Master or Person in charge of the Ship to which such Seaman belongs, or by any Person specially deputed in writing for such Purpose by such Master, or such Person in charge, and conveyed before a Magistrate, who may order such Seaman to be taken on board his Ship, and inflict on him a fine not exceeding Ten Shillings, to be paid by the Seaman, or the Master of his Ship on account of such Seaman.\n\nV. That no Seaman shall be discharged from an English Ship or any Foreign Ship whose Flag is not represented by a Consular Officer resident in the Colony elsewhere than at the Harbour-Master's Office, and that every Seaman discharged from a Foreign Ship so represented...\n\nPage 328",
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        "content_text": "71\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nCOPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPARTIES having their own ENGRAVED PLATE can have their Cards, &c., printed in the best style at the Office of\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nof the respective Papers, which will secure early insertion.\n\nEverything taken at Cowloon will be sent to the Government Office, if not claimed before 4 o'clock.\n\nyou will receive an official communication from me, the bending of which I should be glad to avoid, but before the Mail goes I must know whether the stolen articles listed were way whet\n\nYours truly,\n\n(Signed)\n\nNOTICE—The Hours of Public Worship at the HONGKONG REGISTER UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are, on the Sabbath at 11 A.M., and at 7 P.M., and on the Evening of every Wednesday at 7 o'clock. Hongkong, 28th April, 1857.\n\nTO LET by the month, & Three capacious Rooms, capable of accommodating ten gentlemen, with apartments for any number up to that amount.\n\nApply to\n\nBOWRA & Co.\n\nHongkong, 28 April 1857.\n\nTo the Editor at the \"Hongkong Register.\"\n\nHONGKONG, 27th April, 1857,\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Felaban on the 10th April, Mrs. J. CALOROSSET Sure, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Shangwe, on the 15th April, Mrs. H. KOONS, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Macao, on the 9th April, Mrs. B. E. CARNEIRO, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nAt Trinity Church, Shangbae, on the 13th inst., by the Rev. John Halon, WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Esq. of Calcutta, to GUNA EMILY, third Daughter of George Hargreaves, Esq., Liverpool.\n\nOn board American Ship \"Celestial,\" in this harbour, on the 25th April, by the Rev. J. W. Johnson, John A. CREWS WALD, Esq. of Boston, to FRANCES ANNE, Daughter of Edwin Lemist, Esq., of Roxbury, Mass.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nDrowned, in March last, in the 37th year of his age, JOHN VAUGHAN, Esq., M.D., eldest son of the Revd Dr. Vaughan, of Regent's Park, London.\n\nAt Macao, on the 20th April, PATRICK STEWART, Esq., Acting British Consular Agent at that port.\n\nAt Hongkong, on Sunday, 26th April, of dysentery, THOMAS HOPE, eldest and sole surviving son of the Rev. M. C. C., Assistant Chaplain to the Forces. Aged 2 years.\n\nN., lat. 31.16 N., and long. 121.46 E.; on the 22nd, the British barque Whampoa, in lat. 28:21 N., and long. 122.1; on the 23rd, the British schooner Eamont, in lat. 25.24 N., and long. 119.56 E.; on the 24th, the British schooner Emily Elphinstone, in lat. 23.17 N., and long. 121.29 E. Passed the Lady Mary Wood, on the 22nd instant, to the Northward of Turnabout near the use of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nDEAR SIR—Having had occasion to be in Gough Street yesterday (Sunday) morning, I was surprised to see this usually quiet street a scene of bustle and activity, and thinking that I had seen it announced in the Colonial Gazette that no Government or Police work was allowed on the Sabbath, I merely wish to know: 1. If any new private instructions have been given to Contractors or others to set aside this Government order. 2. If not, it is a high disgrace that Government should allow its servants to employ labourers on public work on a \"day of rest.\"\n\nI merely state what I saw almost under the windows of our Lieutenant Governor's house and opposite the house of the Registrar General and the Collector of Police &c., several Chinese workmen were employed in repairing the road; lower down the street, near the house of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nVox Populi is not admissible on the ground, amongst others, that the writer falls into the errors which he condemns. In addition—the letter is anonymous.\n\nJ. BOWRING,\n\nTo the Honorable COLONEL DUNLOP,\n\nThe Colonel issues the following Memo., attaching to it the Governor's letter, which requires that all the stolen property be forthwith returned to the Government Office:\n\n[No. 17—APRIL 29, 1857.]\n\nMemo. The undersigned offers notice that parties who have any articles which were taken at Cowloon will immediately return them to this Office. Officers are requested to state their names, or that they have returned all to this Office.\n\nBy order,\n\n(Signed) JOHN KING, Captain,\n\nTown Major.\n\nTOWN MAJOR'S OFFICE, 25th April, 1857.\n\nThe officers naturally felt annoyed at having such accusations made against them, and their several replies are amusing enough. They run thus:\n\n1. \"Have nothing—I never took anything.\"\n\n2. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n3. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n4. \"Seen.\"\n\n5. \"Not a legal question—stole nothing.\"\n\n6. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n7. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n8. \"Stole nothing: the two hats Dr. Bridges said there was no bar in taking. I have already returned.\"\n\n9. \"I have stolen nothing.\"\n\n10. \"Has stolen nothing.\"\n\n11. \"I took nothing away from Cowloon.\"\n\n12. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\nThis was not all; one of them afterwards wrote a letter demanding an apology under the threat of \"court of inquiry.\" We have not this intermediate correspondence, but the fellow who signs himself \"X X X\" in the China Mail, has said, so it has come to pass, the Registration Ordinance is progressing, and we have an altered and amended—if not improved draft copy of the Ordinance in the last Government Gazette.\n\nThe Band of the 59th Regiment will be performing to-morrow on the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4½ p.m., the following pieces:—\n\nMarch—\"Souvenir des Alpes\"—Leitzer.\n\nPolka—\"Jalve.\"\n\nSelection 4—\"Quadrilles Mouton.\"\n\nWaltz—\"Auf dem Lufte, Gung'—Strauss.\n\nGallop—\"Corsa\"—Kulorer.\n\nWe beg to return our sincere thanks to His Excellency Sir John Bowring Knt. LL.D. &c. for so kindly furnishing us with the precis of the contents of the papers taken at the attack on Cowloon, &c.\n\nBetween that and \"stolen\" there is a mighty difference in the minds of some people. We will illustrate the difference by telling the following story:—A Leith wine merchant whose business had been declining, and upon whom a strong desire for military fame just at the same time fell, was glad to take service with Don Pedro when he contended with Miguell for the throne of Portugal.\n\nIt would have been for him had he in the course of his universal acquirements stumbled upon the precaution of the good Chamundas; or had looked nearer one at the protector-te of Olyfe the hammer, when the community was governed without Laws. Back leginnion, however, was not suited to the busy, meddling mind of Wilmi le Teary. On the contrary, he conceived that the true wisdom of legislation consisted in the multiplicity of laws. He accordingly had great punishments for great crimes, and little punishments for little offences. By degrees the whole surface of society was cut up by ditches and fences, and quickset hedges of the law, and even the sequestered paths of private life so hemmed by petty rules and ordinances, too numerous to be remembered, that one now] could walk a large within the risk of having off a spring-gun or falling into a man-trap—\"Knicker\"-bocker's History of New York.\"\n\nTo the Editor of the \"China Mail.\"\n\nThe COVENT, 1st April, 1857.\n\nDEAR MR. F——\n\nMy wife (who can fight anticly for my peace of mind) derives her views of Hongkong politics from the Friend of China. Upon the ideas of the mild expositor of Sir John's responsibilities, she grafts a few of her own, and the following shortly shadows forth the result.\n\nWas Colony ever at such a pass\n\nWhat with poison, Sed riots, de dear that gas.\n\nA pretty large role of ill it will sum to\n\nThe taxes increasing, such a state the police in,\n\nAnd coolies refusing to carry our chairs;\n\nIf you'd know why this was, it is simply because\n\nThat horrid Sir John's authe Board of affairs!\n\nHe has truly thrown things in a terrible mix,\n\nAnd no wonder it is that with ge we are tow'ring;\n\nLa jury pays a,\" when the public\n\nWhy, who is the party to blame but Sir John?\n\nThe responsible man.—if your servants are capable,\n\nIf your carriage raptures, or child falls down stairs,\n\nFor sourbour, bad potatoes, or premature babi\n\nIs that dreadful old man at the head of affairs!\n\nJust look how he went and black-holed those poor bakers,\n\n(As it must be admitted they'd given you cause,)\n\nAl then four out Murrow & Co. to be breakers\n\nBy housing some coolies) of liberty's laws.\n\nFor struggling young orlenists ain't le a rush nares.*\n\nNor Christian nor Pagan is safe from his energet\n\nHet in happy to heap our dear chaplain's dham Gua\n\nThis cruel old man at the head of affairs!\n\nIf the ad come too late, or fire catches a chimney,\n\nIf our sleep is histure'd by a noisy cock,\n\nEve it a man-of-war strikes on a rock.\n\nf the sun is too hot, or the street lamps burn dim—nay,\n\nthe bugs at the school of St Andrew are lousy,\n\nOr the 59th Band plays unpopular airs;\n\nIf offcids are idle, or paracas are affils!\n\nIt's all the old as it the head\n\nBy his hobbies not only the clothes get se mangled,\n\n\"That buttons and darts take the wake of one's timiz,\n\nBut we're liable, too, in our beds t\n\nto be strangled,\n\nAnd he won't hang the man who emitted the crime.\n\nJould know how his sid yazilation\n\nIf he the load of ane's family rates,\n\nIncremes\n\nHe would practise (what I can't, fin enre) resignation,\n\nAnd put that dear end at the head of affairs.\n\n(Morita loquitur)\n\nAnd now. you've done, pray let me have a word to\n\n(That politics sextainly not a good hand)\n\nI would have you remember it's very absurd, to\n\nTalk about things that you don't understand.\n\nIf he'd three heads, His Cerberas, still be'd have reason\n\nTo say he's tough work to grizzle his air;\n\nAnd I really believe, in' you'll think it high tresom,\n\nWo might have a wote inan at the head of affairs.\n\n*Tron, WELDA.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 26 APRIL 1857.\n\nRooms, where such documents as the government desires to make known are supplied for the use of all the papers without respect to party or color. It would of course be expecting too much from a man who was only a radical member of parliament any such liberality—that style of individual does not act in such a way. All his liberality is expended in clap-trap, and when the time of action comes, he is found to be nothing but a windbag—As for the Mail we could expect no courtesy from it in such a case.\n\nThe Coromandel returned to harbour on the morning of the 26th, from the survey of the rock on which the unfortunate Raleigh struck. The survey was made by Captain Bates, who was accompanied by Mr. Williams, Master of the state that so well known Raleigh, and when then for him.\n\nAs we are a day behind the for, thanks to our kind friends, the above firm, we think it unnecessary to republish the documents, but we call attention to the reasonable inference drawn by the\n\nThere is one drop of comfort in this bucket of filth—the Ordinance never will be carried out, not even when the gloss of novelty is upon it. There is no staff of officials to carry it out.\n\nWe may therefore rest satisfied that the minds of the Chinese will not be undermined by this Ordinance, and the only bad effect of it will be to disgrace a British Statute book. Spies there are, and will be—like other vermin they are useful and can be dispensed with; but the more we can do without them the better, and we hope never to see the day when the inhabitants of a whole colony shall turn spies, and no one however respectable be safe.\n\nThe Sampson has had an engagement with pirates near Mi-chin bay, to the South of the entrance of the Straits of Hainan. The steamer had followed them up to this place which it appears they have made their rendezvous for some time past.\n\nThe result of a sharp and successful contest was the complete defeat of the Pirates who were compelled to retire, having about 200 killed, wounded, or prisoners, in the hands of the assailants. We have not heard of any serious casualties to any of the Sampson crew.\n\nXI. A Chinese Houses shall be divided into things or Káp of Ten Houses each, wherein every Occupier of a House shall answer to Her Majesty for the good conduct of the occupiers of the other nine; and Occupier of a House shall be Kápcheong or Thingman to be elected by common vote of the said Tithing or Kap to that office, subject to the approval of this Government, and he shall be the proper Representative of the said Tithing or Kap, and be distinguished by some Badge to be appointed by His Excellency, and he shall hold his said office during one year; and no other person shall assume the title or badge of Kápcheong of such Tithing or Káp.\n\nXIV. It shall be the duty of every Occupier of House to report to his Kápcheong without delay, to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, Suspicions of Crime, committed or to be committed, and respectively, for all the purposes of this Ordinance, to be aiding and assisting to the said Kápcheong in the execution of the same; and further, to do his utmost to prevent all crimes, felonies, and misdemeanours, and to apprehend all persons whom he shall find in the actual commission of the same.\n\nIV. It shall be the duty of the Kápcheong to communicate forthwith to the Registrar General all such reports as in Section Fourteen are mentioned, when the same are received by him; and likewise to report to him to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, or Suspicions of Crime, whether reported from the Kap or not; and in all other respects to discharge the duties and exercise the powers of a Constable of the Police Force of Hongkong, so as the same are altered by this Ordinance.\n\nThis is the spy system on which the Ordinance rests.\n\nWe give below part of a correspondence between Sir John Bowring and the officers who were employed on the descent lately made on Cowloon, powerful in her armament and crew as the Sampson is.\n\nGovernment Office, 25th April, 1857.\n\nMY DEAR COLONEL—I have been quite shocked to hear that, among other things, the official sent were eiti- Register\" or \"Register's Advertiser, please address to the \"Printer and Publisher\n\nWe further learn that the Chinese captured have been given up to the Mandarins at Amoy, and that the Portuguese taken are to be handed over to the Macao Authorities.\n\nThe expedition to Chek-chun was accompanied by Mr. Wan and acquainted with only one of the inculpating facts by surprise. A large number of \"braves\" were found concealed in the city, and a few house before the attack.\n\nThere is no evidence that poisoning as an art has been practiced in China, and we search her annals in vain for a case parallel to that of Hongkong.\n\nThe pith failed through the dilatoriness of the mandarins sent for distribution among a portion of the attacked force, & quantity of a perennial creeper found on the hills of the central provinces. Its botanical character, as well as its precise physiological action, we have yet to ascertain.\n\nIts active principle appears to be highly volatile, and great exactness is needed in preparing it. Several of Mr. Markwick's gold wristlets were found concealed in a two watchkeys, a ring, and a gold watch and chain had also been pawned to pay a gambling debt, but were not in league with the police.\n\nThe expedition to Cowloon was accompanied by Dr. Bridges, Mr. Caldwell being confined to his room with illness and though the inslemency of the weather prevented it from starting till day light, several hours after the time contemplated, the soldiers were within a hundred yards of the fort ere the Chinese thought of even closing the gates.\n\nThe doors were instantly scaled, the gates opened, and the fort taken possession of, without the longest violence being used towards the Chinese.\n\nIt is said that not far from every poison tree the antidotes were ordered from the Pacific to join Commandant was of course in a state of great alarm.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nShanglus, 23d March, 1857. (From North-China Herald, March 29.)\n\nNotice is hereby given, that in pursuance of arrangements made by the Chinese Authorities for the improvement of the navigation of the Yangtze Kiang, Eight patriotic Iron Nan Boyus have been moored between Chatela Island and Woosung. These have been laid down by M. GEORGE L. CAER, Master, N., in the following positions :-\n\nOn the South Sand, three painted Black, and numbered 3, 9, 5.\n\nOn the North Sand, three painted Red, and numbered 2, 1, 6.\n\nOn the North Spit, off the entrance of Woosung River, one painted Red, and numbered 9.\n\nThe bearings are all Magnetic.\n\nThe Light Ship is moored in 4½ fathoms, at low water, Spring Tides.\n\nThe Trevs upon Block House island bear from N. 15,0,0 West, distance 3 miles.\n\nGO. 1. CA, Master. BN,\n\nBy Order,\n\nH. M. S. Pique.\"\n\nSECRETARY,\n\nNINGPO.\n\nA ROCK NOT NOTED IN THE CHARTS.\n\nThe Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, right in the way of vessels going in to Ningpo from sea through the Fisherman's chain. She was 12 hours on the reef, and 3 feet under her stern at low water.\n\nThe bearings of a rock or reef on which the Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, are as follows:\n\nSkald Island, S. & B., distance 3 cables,\n\nSouth extreme of Chiu-san, E ½ S.\n\nLarge Volcano, S. W. westerly Extremes of Ruggeds, N. N. W. W.,\n\nand N. X. E.\n\n62",
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        "content_text": "4 \n\nof the wife of Mah-chow Wong; and the circumstance should not be overlooked, as evidence of his poverty, and the improbability of his having received in Macao a large sum of money for selling men, that he lay two days in gaol before he could procure bail. While he was in gaol, and, according to Caldwell's evidence, even before he, Caldwell, had taken down A-soung's statement of having been kidnapped and sold by Shum A-hing. Shum A-hing's servant (Cook) was arrested, as particeps criminis in the kidnapping. Shum A-hing immediately on getting bail called on Caldwell to explain the matter of arrest for debt (a circumstance in itself proving how much interest Caldwell took in all Mah-chow Wong's old business \"he knew all about it\") and was then given in custody on the charge of kidnapping. Shum A-hing being safely lodged, Caldwell then got authority from the Governor to go to Macao and release the men said to have been kidnapped, and this brings me to those points of evidence on which sufficiency lies to swear an indictment for conspiracy and subornation of perjury.\n\n\"On the 21st of January A-soong and I arrived in Macao,\" says Caldwell, \"I saw the 32 Coolees in a boat,\" says A-soong, \"after we landed\" - (As the steamer did not leave till Noon it must have been late in the day when he so saw them).\n\nWe called at the Sun-fook-tye hong first,\" says Caldwell, \"on the 23rd (The 22nd was Sunday) where I ascertained that 32 men answering to the names and description given by Ng Ah-soong, had been shipped two days previously for Cuba by Mr. Boyé in the French ship *Emilie Pereire*.\n\nIn rebuttal of this \"answering to names and description\" I now submit Mr. Marquis's testimony appended, to the effect that no books were produced on the occasion of the visit, the manager of the hong did not appear, and no proof whatever was given of any men sent in the *Emilie Pereire* \"answering to names and description.\" Remedios, the Interpreter accompanying them, confirms this; while the evidence of Florentino de ... of Mr. L. Boyd, who despatched the *Emilie Pereire*, is stronger than all. In brief, he has declared (as appended) before the British Consular agent at Macao, that, of his own knowledge, not one of the 45 men brought from Hongkong went in the *Emilie Pereire*, and he gives the names and description of every Coolie that he received from the manager of the Sun-fook-tye hong about and after the period when these 45 came to Macao; the causes which he gives for this knowledge being most plausible.\n\nAt first I was disposed to think that it were possible the men had been placed in the Sun-fook-tye hong and afterwards removed; but he writes me saying that only those went into the Hong that were intended to go to Havana, and this therefore dissipates such conclusion.\n\nIn swearing then, that the 32 men who he, Caldwell, affected to seek, went in the *Emilie Pereire*, and in swearing that some thirty that had left the Sun-fook-tye hong answered to the names and description of the men that had been brought by Shum A-hing from Hongkong, Caldwell, it is clear, swore to what was false; and the probabilities are that A-soong swore also to what was false in saying that he saw the 32 in a boat after landing; the inference desired being that these 32 were then going off to the *Emilie Pereire*.\n\nAs to the Harbour Master's record, there can be no doubt about it. That official's office closes at three and before that hour - before Caldwell and A-soong reached Macao - the Certificate was formally filled in in the books that can be produced, that the *Emilie Pereire* had cleared with 160 on board.\n\nThis I call, for precision of reference, Point No. 1.\n\nTaking Mr. Caldwell's evidence at the Magistrate's Court seriatim, we next find him saying that at the Barracoon called Ho-shang, as soon \"as we appeared, four of the Coolees came forward and spoke with Ng A-soong and corroborated the statement made to me by him of their having been kidnapped and sold.\"\n\nAdmitting that these four were of the 45, though not admitting that they were kidnapped, the question arises how is it that neither of these four gave evidence of the kidnapping at the trial of Shum A-hing? Their names, as found in the Contracts in the Macao Procurador's office, and appearing in the certified copies of the same appended, were Hum joi quin - Cum in quay - Chom Achin and Choin Ajap, and all of them could write. But the name of the man produced in the Hongkong courts was Kwon-sun-kwan, and he could only make a mark for his name. The reasonable inference from this circumstance is that these four could not be depended on to say other than that they had voluntarily consented to go to Havana, and therefore were not kidnapped. This I call Point No. 2.\n\n\"The next day\" says Caldwell \"A-soong was sent to a Barracoon with a Police constable, and returned with one man, who made a similar statement to that received from the four previously released.\" Now as regards this man, called Chong A-ta, there can be no doubt of his impostorship, for the contract which he had signed bears date the 6th of December, (copy appended) the very day on which, according to the evidence, the whole 120 left Copchee over a hundred and fifty miles from Macao. The acceptance of this man, as one of the forty-five, evidences a recklessness in the mode of getting up the evidence, altogether unaccountable. Caldwell appears, in short, to have been satisfied that anything would do for a Hongkong Magistrate and for Hongkong Jury, if he presented it.\n\nPage 313 \n##",
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        "content_text": "324 \n\n21 \n\n20 \n\nmust have been cognizant of it, being head Turnkey during the period mentioned.\n\nWitnesses to Signature\n\nSigned JOIN ROSS,\n\nG. Shepheard, --Tide Surveyor, Customs, Canton, H.S.Sproles. H. B. M. Consular Constable\n\nCanton, 27th January, 1862.\n\nOr the fifth day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and sixty two, personally came and appeared before me William Henry Fittock, Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul at Canton, James Ritchie, a Tide Waiter in the Canton Customs' Service, who did solemnly declare and state as follows—That the signature \"James Ritchie\" to the paper writing appended, dated the 14th January 1862, and witnessed by F. M. Wheeler is in my proper hand writing, and that the contents of the said appended paper are true in every respect.\n\nAnd I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an act made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the fourth, intituled an act to repeal an act of the present Session of Parliament: intituled an act for the more effectual abolition of oaths and affirmations taken and made in various departments of the state, and to substitute declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial oaths and affidavits, and to make other provision for the abolition of unnecessary oaths.\n\nThus declared in due form of law at the British Consulate, the day and year first above written.\n\nBefore me\n\nSigned JAMES RITCHIE,\n\n[L.S.] Signed W. H. FITTOCK—H. B. M. Vice-Consul\n\nOn the sixth day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and sixty two, personally came and appeared before me, William Henry Fittock, Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul at Canton, William Gant, Proprietor of the Canton Hotel, Honam, who did solemnly declare and state as follows:--\n\nI William Gant, do solemnly and sincerely declare that the signature \"W. R. Whiteman\" to the paper appended, was done in my presence on the 17th January, 1862, mentioned; and the signature witness to the signature of the said W. R. Whiteman, is in my proper hand writing. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of &c.\n\nSigned W. GANT.\n\nOn the fifth day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Sixty two, personally came and appeared before me, William Henry Fittock, Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul at Canton, John Ross of the Canton Customs' Service, who did solemnly and sincerely declare and state as follows:-\n\nI John Ross do solemnly and sincerely declare that the signature \"John Ross\" to the paper writing appended, dated the 17th January, 1862, and witnessed by G. Shepheard and H. S. Sproles, is in my proper hand writing, and that the statement made by me in the said appended paper is true in every respect—and I make this solemn declaration. &c, &c.\n\nSigned J. ROSS.\n\nCANTON 15th March, 1862.\n\nOfficiating Colonial Secretary\n\nW. H. Alexander Esq.\n\nHongkong.\n\nSIR,\n\nHis Excellency the Governor having been so good as to say that he would give consideration to any statement which I might submit regarding the case of Shum Ahing, at present confined in the Victoria Gaol under the sentence of four years' penal servitude passed on him at the Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court on the 21st February 1860, in a conviction of kidnapping and selling forty five men into slavery, I have the honour to request that you will lay before His Excellency in Council the following facts.—\n\nThe indictment against Shum Ahing ran to the effect that, in December 1859, he had cajoled some forty five Chinese, who had been boarding at his hong, to enter a boat on the assertion that they would be taken to Kupchee, their native place on the East Coast.\n\nThat instead of proceeding to Kupchee, the boat, with Shum Ahing and the men on board, went to Macao, where the forty five were again cajoled into landing at night to take up their quarters in a house called...",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n## 154\nSubject to the other provisions of this Order, all expenses of removal of prisoners and others from or to any place in China or Japan, or from or to Hong Kong, and the expenses of deportation and of the sending of any person to England, shall be defrayed as the expenses relating to distressed British subjects are defrayed, or in such other manner as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State from time to time directs.\n\n## 155\nIf any British subject wilfully obstructs by act or threat an officer of a Court in the performance of his duty,— \n\nOr within or close to the room or place where a Court is sitting wilfully behaves in a violent, threatening, or disrespectful manner, to the disturbance of the Court, or the terror of the suitors or others resorting thereto, \n\nOr wilfully insults the Judge, Assistant Judge, or Law Secretary of the Supreme Court, or any Consular Officer, or any juror or Assessor, or any clerk or officer of a Court, during his sitting or attendance in Court or in going to or returning from Court,— \nHe shall be liable to be immediately apprehended by order of the Court, and to be detained until the rising of the Court, and further on due inquiry and consideration, to be punished with a fine not exceeding 25 dollars, or imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven days, at the discretion of the Court, according to the nature and circumstances of the case.\n\nA minute shall be made and kept of every such case of punishment, recording the facts of the offence and the extent of the punishment; and in the case of a Provincial Court, a copy of such minute shall be forthwith sent to the Judge of the Supreme Court.\n\n## 156\nIf any clerk or officer of a Court acting under pretence of the process or authority of the Court is charged with extortion, or with not duly paying any money levied, or with other misconduct, the Court may (without prejudice to any other liability or punishment to which the clerk or officer would in the absence of the present provision be liable) inquire into the charge in a summary way, and for that purpose summon and enforce the attendance of all necessary persons in like manner as the attendance of witnesses and others may be enforced in a suit, and may make such order thereupon for the repayment of any money extorted or for the due payment of any money levied, and for the payment of such damages and costs, as the Court thinks just; and the Court may also, if it thinks fit, impose such fine upon the clerk or officer, not exceeding 50 dollars for each offence, as seems just.\n\n## 157\nAny suit or proceeding shall not be commenced in any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or Japan or in any Court in Hong Kong against any person for anything done or omitted in pursuance or execution or intended execution of this Order, or of any Regulation or Rule made under it, unless notice in writing is given by the intending plaintiff or prosecutor to the intended defendant one month at least before the commencement of the suit or proceeding, nor unless it is commenced within three months next after the act or omission complained of, or in case of a continuation of damage within three months next after the doing of such damage has ceased.\n\nThe plaintiff in any such suit shall not succeed if tender of sufficient amends is made by the defendant before the commencement thereof; and if no tender is made the defendant may by leave of the Court at any time pay into Court such sum of money as he thinks fit, whereupon such proceeding and order shall be had and made in and by the Court as may be had and made on the payment of money into Court in an ordinary suit.\n\n## XX. HONG KONG\n\n## 158\nWhere a warrant or order of arrest is issued by any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or Japan for the apprehension of a British subject who is charged with having committed a crime or offence within the jurisdiction of the Court issuing the warrant or order, and who is or is supposed to be in Hong Kong, and the warrant or order is produced to any of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for Hong Kong, such Justice may back the warrant or order, and the same when so backed shall be sufficient authority to the person to whom the warrant or order was originally directed, and also to any constable or other peace officer in and for Hong Kong, to apprehend the accused in Hong Kong and to carry him to and deliver him up within the jurisdiction of the Court issuing the warrant or order, according to the warrant or order.\n\n## 159\nThe Supreme Court of Hong Kong may take cognizance of offences committed by British subjects within the peninsula of Macao, and of suits originating there, when the party offending or the party sued comes or is found within the jurisdiction of that Court; but that Court shall not have power to issue any warrant or writ to be executed or served within that peninsula.\n\nPage 581 \nPage 38 \nPage 39 \nPage 138",
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        "content_text": "# Cases for trial with jury, Provincial --cases for Assessors, \n16 Trial with a Jury, \n62. Where a suit originally instituted in the Supreme Court relates to money goods or other property or any matter at issue of the amount or value of 1,500 dollars or upwards, or is brought for recovery of damages of the amount of 1,500 dollars or upwards, the suit shall, on the demand of either party, be, under order of the Court, tried with a Jury.\n\nIn any case (except where, according to the Rules of the Court, the suit is to be heard and determined in a summary way) a suit so instituted may be tried with a jury, if the Court, of its own motion or on the application of either party, thinks fit so to order.\n\nOne of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may, by order under his hand, extend the present provision to any Provincial Court where it appears to him there is a sufficient jury list.\n\n## Trial with Assessors.\n63. Where a suit instituted in a Provincial Court or Consular Court relates to money goods or other property of a less amount or value than 1,500 dollars, or does not relate to or involve, directly or indirectly, a question respecting any matter at issue of the amount or value of 1,500 dollars or upwards, or is brought for recovery of damages of a less amount than 1,500 dollars, the Court may hear and determine the case without Assessors.\n\n## Power of apprehension over British subjects.\nIn all other cases the Court (subject to the provisions of this Order respecting inability to obtain an Assessor) shall hear and determine the case with Assessors.\n\n# III - IN CRIMINAL MATTERS.\n64. Every Court may cause to be apprehended and brought before it any British subject being within the district of the Court and charged with having committed a crime or offence in China or in Japan, and may deal with the accused according to the jurisdiction of the Court and in conformity with the provisions of this Order; or where the crime or offence is triable, and is to be tried, in Her Majesty's dominions, may take the preliminary examination, and commit the accused for trial, and cause or allow him to be taken to the place of intended trial.\n\n65. Where a person charged with having committed a crime or offence in the district of one Court escapes or removes from that district and is found within the district of another Court, the Court within the district of which he is found may proceed in the case to examination, indictment, trial, and punishment, or in a summary way (as the case may require), in the same manner as if the crime or offence had been committed in its own district; or may, on the requisition or with the consent of the Court of the district in which the crime or offence is charged to have been committed, send him in custody to that Court, or require him to give security for his surrender to that Court, there to answer the charge and be dealt with according to law.\n\nWhere any person is to be so sent in custody a warrant shall be issued by the Court within the district of which he is found, and such warrant shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom it is directed to receive and detain the person therein named, and carry him to and deliver him up to the Court of the district within which the crime or offence was committed, according to the warrant.\n\n## warrant issued Backing of in British dominions.\n66. Where a warrant or order of arrest is issued by a competent authority in Her Majesty's dominions for the apprehension of a British subject, who is charged with having committed a crime or offence within the jurisdiction of the authority issuing the warrant or order, and who is, or is supposed to be, in China or in Japan, and the warrant or order is produced to any Court, the Court may back the warrant or order; and the same, when so backed, shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom the warrant or order was originally directed, and also to any constable or other officer of the Court by which it is backed, to apprehend the accused at any place where the Court by which the warrant or order is backed has jurisdiction, and to carry him to and deliver him up in Her Majesty's dominions, according to the warrant or order.\n\n67. Where any person is charged with the commission of a crime or offence the cognizance whereof appertains to any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or in Japan, and it is expedient that the crime or offence be inquired of, tried, determined, and punished within Her Majesty's dominions, the accused may (under `The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, section 4,`) be sent for trial to Hong Kong.\n\nThe Judge of the Supreme Court may, where it appears expedient, by warrant under his hand and seal and the seal of the Supreme Court, cause the accused to be taken for trial to Hong Kong accordingly.\n\nWhere any person is to be so taken to Hong Kong, the Court before which he is charged shall take the preliminary examination, and shall send the depositions to Hong Kong, and (if it seems necessary or proper) may bind over such of the proper witnesses as are British subjects in their own recognizances to appear and give evidence on the trial.\n\nPage 17 \nPage 86 \nPage 1",
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        "content_text": "## Expenses of removal of prisoners and others\n\n38 thereof certified under the seal of the Court executing the same shall be delivered to the constable, officer, or other person acting thereunder, and to the commander or master of any vessel in which the person taken is embarked; and any such copy shall be for all purposes conclusive evidence of the Order of which it purports to be a copy.\n\n154. Subject to the other provisions of this Order, all expenses of removal of prisoners and others from or to any place in China or Japan, or from or to Hong Kong, and the expenses of deportation and of the sending of any person to England, shall be defrayed as the expenses relating to distressed British subjects are defrayed, or in such other manner as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State from time to time directs.\n\n## Punishment for obstruction or disturbance of Court\n\n155. If any British subject wilfully obstructs by act or threat an officer of a Court in the performance of his duty,—  \nOr within or close to the room or place where a Court is sitting wilfully behaves in a violent, threatening, or disrespectful manner, to the disturbance of the Court, or the terror of the suitors or others resorting thereto,—  \nOr wilfully insults the Judge, Assistant Judge, or Law Secretary of the Supreme Court, or any Consular Officer, or any juror or Assessor, or any clerk or officer of a Court, during his sitting or attendance in Court or in going to or returning from Court,—  \nHe shall be liable to be immediately apprehended by order of the Court, and to be detained until the rising of the Court, and further on due inquiry and consideration, to be punished with a fine not exceeding 25 dollars, or imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven days, at the discretion of the Court, according to the nature and circumstances of the case.  \nA minute shall be made and kept of every such case of punishment, recording the facts of the offence and the extent of the punishment; and in the case of a Provincial Court, a copy of such minute shall be forthwith sent to the Judge of the Supreme Court.\n\n## Misconduct of Officers of Court\n\n156. If any clerk or officer of a Court acting under pretence of the process or authority of the Court is charged with extortion, or with not duly paying any money levied, or with other misconduct, the Court may (without prejudice to any other liability or punishment to which the clerk or officer would in the absence of the present provision be liable) inquire into the charge in summary way, and for that purpose summon and enforce the attendance of all necessary persons in like manner as the attendance of witnesses and others may be enforced in a suit, and may make such order thereupon for the repayment of any money extorted or for the due payment of any money levied, and for the payment of such damages and costs, as the Court thinks just; and the Court may also, if it thinks fit, impose such fine upon the clerk or officer, not exceeding 50 dollars for each offence, as seems just.\n\n## Suits for things done under this Order\n\n157. Any suit or proceeding shall not be commenced in any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or Japan or in any Court in Hong Kong against any person for anything done or omitted in pursuance or execution or intended execution of this Order, or of any Regulation or Rule made under it, unless notice in writing is given by the intending plaintiff or prosecutor to the intended defendant one month at least before the commencement of the suit or proceeding, nor unless it is commenced within three months next after the act or omission complained of, or in case of a continuation of damage within three months next after the doing of such damage has ceased.  \nThe plaintiff in any such suit shall not succeed if tender of sufficient amends is made by the defendant before the commencement thereof; and if no tender is made the defendant may by leave of the Court at any time pay into Court such sum of money as he thinks fit, whereupon such proceeding and order shall be had and made in and by the Court as may be had and made on the payment of money into Court in an ordinary suit.\n\n## XX.-HONG KONG\n\n158. Where a warrant or order of arrest is issued by any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or Japan for the apprehension of a British subject who is charged with having committed a crime or offence within the jurisdiction of the Court issuing the warrant or order, and who is or is supposed to be in Hong Kong, and the warrant or order is produced to any of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for Hong Kong, such Justice may back the warrant or order, and the same when so backed shall be sufficient authority to the person to whom the warrant or order was originally directed, and also to any constable or other peace officer in and for Hong Kong, to apprehend the accused in Hong Kong and to carry him to and deliver him up within the jurisdiction of the Court issuing the warrant or order, according to the warrant or order.\n\n159. The Supreme Court of Hong Kong may take cognizance of offences committed by British subjects within the peninsula of Macao, and of suits originating there, when the party offending or the party sued comes or is found within the jurisdiction of that Court; but that Court shall not have power to issue any warrant or writ to be executed or served within that peninsula.\n\nPage 97",
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        "content_text": "231\n\nExpenses of removal of prisoners, &c.\n\nPunishment\n\n38\n\nthereof certified under the seal of the Court executing the same shall be delivered to the constable, officer, or other person acting thereunder, and to the commander or master of any vessel in which the person taken is embarked; and such copy shall be for all purposes conclusive evidence of the Order of which it purports to be a copy.\n\nany\n\n154. Subject to the other provisions of this Order, all expenses of removal of prisoners and others from or to any place in China or Japan, or from or to Hong Kong, and the expenses of deportation and of the sending of any person to England, shall be defrayed as the expenses relating to distressed British subjects are defrayed, or in such other manner as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State from time to time directs.\n\n155. If any British subject wilfully obstructs by act or threat an officer of a Court in the performance of his duty, or within or close to the room or place where a Court is sitting wilfully behaves in a violent, threatening, or disrespectful manner, to the disturbance of the Court, or the terror of the suitors or others resorting thereto, or wilfully insults the Judge, Assistant Judge, or Law Secretary of the Supreme Court, or any Consular Officer, or any juror or Assessor, or any clerk or officer of a Court, during his sitting or attendance in Court or in going to or returning from Court, he shall be liable to be immediately apprehended by order of the Court, and to be detained until the rising of the Court, and further on due inquiry and consideration, to be punished with a fine not exceeding 25 dollars, or imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven days, at the discretion of the Court, according to the nature and circumstances of the case.\n\nA minute shall be made and kept of every such case of punishment, recording the facts of the offence and the extent of the punishment; and in the case of a Provincial Court, a copy of such minute shall be forthwith sent to the Judge of the Supreme Court.\n\n156. If any clerk or officer of a Court acting under pretence of the process or authority of the Court is charged with extortion, or with not duly paying any money levied, or with other misconduct, the Court may (without prejudice to any other liability or punishment to which the clerk or officer would in the absence of the present provision be liable) inquire into the charge in a summary way, and for that purpose summon and enforce the attendance of all necessary persons in like manner as the attendance of witnesses and others may be enforced in a suit, and may make such order thereupon for the repayment of any money extorted or for the due payment of any money levied, and for the payment of such damages and costs, as the Court thinks just; and the Court may also, if it thinks fit, impose such fine upon the clerk or officer, not exceeding 50 dollars for each offence, as seems just.\n\n39\n\n157. Any suit or proceeding shall not be commenced in any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or Japan or in any Court in Hong Kong against any person for anything done or omitted in pursuance or execution or intended execution of this Order, or of any Regulation or Rule made under it, unless notice in writing is given by the intending plaintiff or prosecutor to the intended defendant one month at least before the commencement of the suit or proceeding, nor unless it is commenced within three months next after the act or omission complained of, or in case of a continuation of damage within three months next after the doing of such damage has ceased.\n\nThe plaintiff in any such suit shall not succeed if tender of sufficient amends is made by the defendant before the commencement thereof; and if no tender is made the defendant may by leave of the Court at any time pay into Court such sum of money as he thinks fit, whereupon such proceeding and order shall be had and made in and by the Court as may be had and made on the payment of money into Court in an ordinary suit.\n\nXX.-HONG KONG\n\norder.\n\n158. Where a warrant or order of arrest is issued by any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or Japan for the apprehension of a British subject who is charged with having committed a crime or offence within the jurisdiction of the Court issuing the warrant or order, and who is or is supposed to be in Hong Kong, and the warrant or order is produced to any of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for Hong Kong, such Justice may back the warrant or order, and the same when so backed shall be sufficient authority to the person to whom the warrant or order was originally directed, and also to any constable or other peace officer in and for Hong Kong, to apprehend the accused in Hong Kong and to carry him to and deliver him up within the jurisdiction of the Court issuing the warrant or order, according to the warrant or order.\n\n159. The Supreme Court of Hong Kong may take cognizance of offences committed by British subjects within the peninsula of Macao, and of suits originating there, when the party offending or the party sued comes or is found within the jurisdiction of that Court; but that Court shall not have power to issue any warrant or writ to be executed or served within that peninsula.",
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        "content_text": "## letter with the accompanying report from the Attorney General of Hongkong into our consideration & Export to J.L. our opinion on the questions Raised Herein.\n\nC \n\nIn obedience to G.L's commands We have the honor to Report.\n\nThat, in our opinion,\n\n2 \n\nTelegram from the Amoy police to the Shanghai police, directing the latter to apprehend a felon or justify a British Constable, or other officer of a British Court of Justice having the powers of a magistrate, in apprehending the alleged offender and detaining him until the arrival of a proper warrant.\n\nWe agree with the Attorney General of Hongkong in thinking that in the case of a foreign national, who arrives at a Treaty Port, and is there charged with an offence committed on a British ship, the British Consul can deal with it, under the Consular jurisdiction. An arrest is not \"a warrant or order of arrest issued by a competent authority within Her Majesty's Dominions\" within the meaning of the 66th Section of Order in Council of the 9th March 1865.\n\nWe are further of opinion that a telegram conveying information that a felony has been committed and that a person indicated is suspected, would be in law sufficient under the 268th Section of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, provided such procedure shall be with the express or implied sanction of the Govt. to which such foreign national shall belong.\n\nWe further agree with him in opinion that a Citizen of the U.S.A. could not be surrendered to the Hongkong Authorities by an American Consul at...",
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        "content_text": "X\n\n(8)\n\n$8.\n\n\"And if this recommendation be adopted by Your Lordship, I would suggest that the gratuity which may be granted should be at the rate of one month's salary for each year of service.\"\n\n7. Exclusion of Chinese sanctioned conditionally. 1873. Acknowledging the receipt of the foregoing Despatch, the Earl of KIMBERLEY replies (Despatch No. 177 of 22nd December 1873) conditionally approving of the recommendation that Chinese, on their retirement from the public service, should not receive pensions. The words are these:\n\n\"I am on the whole inclined, if you are quite satisfied that the Chinese Employés of the Government have not been led to expect pensions, to agree that the existing practice under which gratuities are given in these cases should not be departed from. In that case your proposal as to the gratuity to Mr. FAN A-WYE might be adopted, as also your suggestion that the general rate for these gratuities should be one month's salary for each year of service.\"\n\nThe Earl of KIMBERLEY, in the same despatch, directs also attention to paragraph 2 of the Hongkong Pension Minute, \"which appears to hold out to Chinese as well as others complying with its requirements the prospect of a pension,\" and adds, \"this paragraph will apparently require amendment if Chinese Employés of the Government are to be treated exceptionally.\" He further requires explanations of the three cases which occurred in 1872, which, he says, \"do not appear to have been reported to the Secretary of State before the action taken upon them was determined upon: the consequence has been that a practice has been established without due sanction.\"\n\nIt is evident from the tone and wording of the two despatches of the Earl of KIMBERLEY, that the consent of the Secretary of State to the proposed exclusion of Chinese public servants of the Colony from the benefits of the Hongkong Pension Minute was given reluctantly and conditionally and on the strength of incomplete and incorrect representations. And as it is clearly shown above that the Chinese in the Colonial Service did expect to come under the provisions of the Pension Minute, whilst the Earl of KIMBERLEY made the reverse of this the condition for his consent, it follows that the approval of the Secretary of State had been obtained under a misconception. Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY, being evidently misinformed, replied (Despatch No. 32 of 18th February 1874) that he is satisfied the Chinese expected no pensions, and that the omission to report the three cases which occurred in 1872 was an entire oversight.\n\n8. Revision of Pension Minute. No race distinctions sanctioned. 1875 and 1876. The year 1875 marks a new epoch in the history of the pension question. The Superannuation Act of 1875 (Act 38 Vict., Cap. 4) was specially devised for \"Civil Servants who have served in unhealthy climates,\" and although Consuls only were meant to be included under this Act, yet, in forwarding a copy of this Act to the various Colonies, the Earl of CARNARVON (Circular, 14th June 1875) stated his willingness to improve retiring allowances in intertropical Colonies and to apply to them \"the scale existing in Ceylon, Hongkong, and the Straits.\" This was taken up in Hongkong at once as an occasion to urge a revision of the Hongkong Pension Minute, with a view to secure for those Hongkong Civil Servants whom Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL styled \"Foreigners\" all the advantages of the Consular Service, and at the same time to introduce into the Minute a distinction of race and birthplace by excluding from its benefits the Chinese Employés of the Government. Three memorials were accordingly prepared, one by the Judges, one by the leading Civil Servants, and one by the Cadets.\n\nAs regards the Chinese, the despatch (of the then Administrator, Mr. AUSTIN) which forwarded these memorials (No. 110 of 25th August 1875) to the Earl of CARNARVON, then Secretary of State, makes the following recommendation:\n\n\"9. There is one other case which should also be provided for in the event of any alteration of the Pension Minute, viz., that of the Chinese Employés, who are practically in their own country; and in respect to these I would suggest that, as a rule, gratuities should be given, and that, in special cases, the pension should be calculated at the English rates for service in England.\"\n\nSlight reflection ought to have shown that if the argument which underlies this proposition is sound, all the Macao-born and Hongkong-born Civil Servants, that is to say all the Asiatic Portuguese in the service, have to be brought under the same rule, as well as gentlemen like Messrs. Sern, Ball, HAZELAND, WAGNER, SAMPSON and others, who were born in Canton or in Hongkong. In fact, consistent application of the Clause would exclude more than half the Civil Servants at present on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony from the benefits of the Pension Minute, if amended as proposed.\n\nWhether the Earl of CARNARVON objected to this rule in particular or not, does not directly appear, but it is significant that in his reply to the foregoing Despatch and its enclosures (No. 2 of 13th January 1876), whilst giving certain directions for amending the Pension Minute of 1862, the Earl of CARNARVON makes no reference whatever to the proposal made regarding Chinese public servants. He distinctly refused to place the Civil Servants of Hongkong on the same footing as Consular officers; he sanctioned leave of absence on half-pay to count as full service if not exceeding one year in six years, including vacation leave; he allowed Student Interpreters' service to date from date of appointment, under certain conditions; he approved of the Puisne Judge being placed on the same footing as the Chief Justice as regards leave and pension; but he said not a word that could be construed into approval of the proposed distinction of race and birthplace.\n\nSir ARTHUR KENNEDY having instructed Messrs. BRAMSTON, SNOWDEN and AUSTIN to amend the Pension Minute of 1862 in accordance with the instructions of the Earl of CARNARVON, the amended Draft was forwarded (Despatch No. 60 of 23rd March 1876) to the Secretary of State, who, in reply (Despatch No. 37 of 24th June 1876), gives further directions in detail how to amend this Draft, and again makes no mention whatever of any race-distinctions in connection with pensions. The additional amendments now ordered were as follows:-In rule 16, paragraph 2, the words \"on half salary\" were to be inserted after the words \"absence on leave,\" and in paragraph 3 the words \"without salary or\" were to be inserted after the words \"absence on leave.\" Rule 19, paragraph 1, was to end with the words \"to count such leave as service,\" and in paragraph 2 the words \"and not subsequently resuming them\" were to be inserted after the words \"resumption of his duties.\"\n\nAccordingly, Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY had a new Amended Draft prepared. In this Draft the word above mentioned was omitted. Further, instead of inserting, as directed, in paragraph 2 (of Rule 19) the words \"and not subsequently resuming them,\" the whole paragraph was omitted entirely. If amended as directed, it would have run as follows:\n\n\"An officer obtaining extension of leave in England on the ground that his health does not permit of the resumption of his duties, and not subsequently resuming them, will not be entitled to count such extension as service.\"\n\nMinute Draft of September 1876.\n\nThe Amended Draft was however forwarded by Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY (Despatch No. 172 of 5th September 1876) to the Secretary of State under the impression that all the alterations suggested by the Secretary of State had been adopted. Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY merely explains that with a view to more ready reference the additional Pensions Rules (No. 20-26 of the Amended Minute) which were passed in accordance with the proposed Intercolonial Pension Scheme (11th September 1869) have been embodied in the Amended Minute.\n\n9. Question of pensions versus gratuities in the case of Chinese. 1878.\n\nFor nearly two years nothing more was heard in Hongkong of this Amended Minute. Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY had been succeeded in 1877 by Mr. now Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY. The question of pensions versus gratuities having meanwhile been raised in the case of Police Constables, Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY laid down the following principle (see Government Gazette 1878, p. 430):\n\n\"The manifest advantages of having Government Pensioners, among the natives in this Colony and the neighbourhood, are so great that wherever the Law allows I prefer to pension Chinese instead of giving them a lump sum, as the latter practice severs their useful and loyal connection with this Government.\"\n\nThe Law to which this Minute refers is stated in the Police Force Ordinance No. 9 of 1862, Section XII of which runs as follows:\n\n\"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,\n\nPage 215\n\n(9)",
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        "content_text": "10. It should not be understood that the Government of Hongkong has altogether rested on its oars in the matter of these Agencies. I enclose a return shewing that whereas in 1867 the salaries at these Ports amounted to £810, which sum was annually charged on the London Office Grants, we are now expending £1697.10. a year upon the same services. The steamer traffic upon the Coast of China, and communication with America and Australia, have increased enormously, and this Government has not, therefore, been able to refuse the applications of the Agents for increase of Salary in certain cases. The Amoy Agency, owing to the increased number of residents in Formosa, and the incessant exchanges of mails with this Port, can no longer be carried on properly without an Assistant; indeed I learnt that one Agent there was privately giving half his salary to the Consular Constable for assistance, and the clerk at Shanghai is pressing for increase of pay on the ground of long and good service - an application which cannot be indefinitely refused. On the whole it is clear...",
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        "content_text": "by some person in the Consulate not alone -during office hours - steamers arrive at all hours and a mail may have to be distributed at 6 or 10 p.m.\n\nI should be glad if the Hong Kong Government could make some small allowance for the performance of this service at Fientein. As it is the greater part of the work falls on the Consular Constable and Office messengers. The Constable Henry Flomans is a man well qualified to be put in charge of the mails which are received from the English post office, and if the distribution of mails was a recognized part of his duty, for which he received pay, I am sure the work would be very satisfactorily performed.\n\nI think ten dollars a month for the Constable with a dollar each for the two messengers would be sufficient, and would be gladly accepted by them. If the Hong Kong Government could make this grant I would, so long as I remain here, see that the incoming mails are properly dealt with.\n\nI have to...\n\n[illegible] Peggrove forwarded...\n\nPage 19\n\n...\n\nextra work has to be done\n\nhe\n\n78\n\n \nhas been removed and the content re-organised into proper paragraphs. Spelling errors have been corrected (e.g., \"Hongstong\" to \"Hong Kong\", \"lopatable\" to \"Constable\", \"nails\" to \"mails\", \"ww\" removed or corrected, \"Senglish\" to \"English\", \"heury\" to \"Henry\", \"ww A\" removed). Spacing issues have been fixed, and hyphens or line-break artifacts corrected. The original text's page numbering has been preserved as per the guidelines. The output is in HTML format using `` for paragraphs.",
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        "content_text": "404\n\n06:\n\nP.C. Mahomad Bux said that on Saturday morning he was ordered to keep back a mob of Chinese, and that when he went to do so he was pelted with stones. The defendant was one of those who threw a missile, and he arrested him.\n\nFined $50 or two months' in default.\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS\n\nand the unhappy patients on the bulk must be brought to the Tung Wah branch Hospital, and those of the sick who so desire could be permitted to introduce the full disease into their native villages on the mainland! Splendid illustration of the intelligence and perspicuity, to say nothing of the gratitude, of these so-called representatives of the native community!\n\nP.C. Rossball Singh charged a coolie with a similar offense on the same occasion.\n\nFined $50 or two months' in default.\n\nTwo coolies were charged with disorderly conduct in Po Yan Street on the 20th.\n\nA Sikh constable said that during the morning a Chinese gentleman came out of the Tung Wah Hospital and got into his chair. The coolies were about to carry him when a mob of Chinese turned the chair upside down, with the gentleman in it. The occupant of the chair got out and ran back into the hospital. The first defendant was one of those who got hold of the chair. Witness blew his whistle and arrested the defendants. At the same time some stones were thrown. Some watchmen belonging to the Tung Wah Hospital came to witness's assistance and the mob was cleared away.\n\nFined $50 each or two months' in default.\n\nThree old women were next brought up, charged with assaulting Inspector R. Germain, an officer of the Sanitary Board, while in the execution of his duty.\n\nComplainant said—On the 20th inst. at 8.30 a.m. I was on the house-to-house inspection duty in Station Street, Taipingshan. I was called away to Market Street for ten minutes and on returning to Station Street I found the whole place in an uproar.\n\nI pacified the people as best I could and went on with the inspection. On coming out of the next house I was met with a shower of stones and bricks and rubbish. The first defendant threw the brick produced, and the second and third defendants were the ringleaders, urging the others to attack us. I had two inkongs in uniform with me. I arrested the defendants. The people objected to the house-to-house visitation. I was the only man inspecting at the time; I had no soldiers. The house-to-house visitation has been going on for some time every day, and there have been no disturbances hitherto. I have ceased to suppose that it was in consequence of the employment of soldiers that the disturbances arose. The soldiers have been employed for four days.\n\nMr. F.H. May, Captain Superintendent of Police said—I ask for a severe penalty. This is part of an organized arrangement for disturbing the measures taken by the authorities to deal with the plague. The disturbances are only kept under control by the presence of an armed body of police in the Taipingshan district.\n\nThe first defendant was fined $10 or one month's imprisonment, and the other two defendants $5 each or six weeks' in default.\n\nNearly all the fines were paid.\n\nWe regret to learn that Inspector Quincey and several of the officers who have been so actively engaged in the work of visiting the houses are incapacitated by illness from duty.\n\nThe house-to-house visitation, which daily discloses the unreported existence of plague and sometimes discovers the dead bodies of victims in the rotting dampness of basement floors, is to be still more vigorously carried on. Fifty volunteers for this highly necessary work are asked for, and in view of the danger and gravity of the situation, not only to the trade and commerce of the port but to the health of the entire population, these volunteers and probably more, will doubtless be speedily forthcoming.\n\nThe insinuations which have been cast upon the military employed as special sanitary officers, and the reports current that it is this to which the chief objection to the house-to-house visitation is due, caused us to make enquiries in this direction. We learn on the best authority that since their enrollment in this work the military employed have worked very satisfactorily and effectively, that no complaint of their conduct has been made, and that as a matter of fact the majority of the householders were not aware that the men visiting their houses were military, until they were incited by the anti-foreign leaders behind to make demonstrations of vindictiveness. The soldiers employed are all picked men, and the majority are non-commissioned officers. Twelve men of the Shropshire regiment are still engaged in the work of inspection and twelve engineers in disinfecting. Each sanitary officer is accompanied by a likong, and there are now twenty-one men on this special duty in the infected area.\n\nWe might mention, to remove any misconception, that the Government have not completely abrogated their authority even over the Chinese Hospital at the Glassworks. Dr. Penny, R.N., makes visits twice daily to see that things are in a sanitary condition, and European police are on duty at the gates keeping statistics of cases.\n\nIt is said by some who have had so intimate an acquaintance with the development and character of the plague since its appearance here, that the attacks now do not appear to be quite as virulent as a week ago. It may be added that several of the new cases in the Glassworks have been discharged on diagnosis as not suffering from plague. Whether such are being sent to the Hospital accidentally or intentionally it is difficult to say, but plausibility is lent to the latter suggestion by the natural desire among the Chinese to be able to record in their statistics a higher percentage of \"discharged cured\" than the European doctors were able to do.\n\n23rd May. The following are the returns for the twenty-four hours to noon yesterday:\n\nHospital\nAdmissions\nDeaths\n\nKen-edy Hospital\n3\n1\n\nChinese Hospital\n19\n10\n\nCity Hospital\n7\n10\n\nTung Wah Hospital\n27\n18\n\nTotal\n56\n39\n\nThe patients under Chinese medical direction are treated with a decoction made from the root of an aquatic plant, which is said to have been wonderfully successful in dealing with serious cases at Canton. After being infused in hot water for some time for some time the liquid is strained off and administered at regular intervals, while the pulp is applied externally to the buboes as a poultice.\n\nUnder treatment 21\n\n\"A quiet day; plague in a measure abating,\" practically sums up the reports received yesterday. The concessions made by the Government in no longer insisting upon the transfer of patients to the Hygeia and in giving permission (speedily availed of) to establish a Chinese hospital under Chinese control, acted like oil on the troubled waters and no further disturbances took place, or were even attempted, after the Glassworks had been converted into a hospital. The native prejudice, however, not having been largely removed, large numbers of coolies continued yesterday in every way possible to leave the colony, both by steamer and passage-boat, and the exodus appears to be increasing.\n\nAt the Magistracy yesterday a hawker was fined $10 for creating a disturbance near the Tung Wah Hospital.\n\nDEPUTATION TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nIMPORTANT PRONOUNCEMENT.\n\nAt one o'clock yesterday afternoon a deputation from the Tung Wah Hospital, accompanied by the Hon. J.H. Stewart Lockhart (Registrar-General) waited on His Excellency the Governor at Government House for the purpose of representing a certain feeling existing among some sections of the native community. The deputation presented to His Excellency a long petition, the principal points of which were:\n\n(1)—That the house-to-house visitation should cease.\n\n(2)—That sick persons should be allowed to return to their own country.\n\n(3)—That the patients on the Hygeia should be sent to the Glassworks Hospital.\n\n(4)—That all sick persons should be sent to the Glassworks Hospital.\n\nAfter listening attentively to the recital of this document, His Excellency said that he would take the last point first. In reply to that, all he had to say was that sick people might elect to go to any hospital they liked. There was no interference with their choice whatever, and no intention on the part of the Government to force patients into any particular hospital for treatment. As to the request that the sick on the Hygeia should be moved to the branch Hospital, he altogether declined such a responsibility. The idea, he said, was absurd, as if the petitioners' prayer was granted it might result in much unnecessary loss of life. He therefore declined to grant it. As to the request contained in paragraph 2, His Excellency said that he had nothing to do with the return of the people to their own country. If the authorities in Kwang-tung refused to allow persons from Hongkong to go to Macao or elsewhere, he could not coerce those authorities or interfere with their decision.\n\nAnd as regards the first point of the petition—that the house-to-house visitation should cease—His Excellency said that he considered such visitation to be absolutely necessary, and he had no intention whatever to relax the morning regulations in that respect.\n\nThe morning paper had shown how necessary it was, for they reported that three or four dead bodies had been taken out of one house, which would never have been discovered but for the house-to-house visitation. His Excellency reminded the deputation that this was an English colony, and said that the Tung Wah Committee should assist him in carrying out the law and persuading others to obey it. Holding up the proclamation he stated that that was now the law, and it would be carried out. He promised that every consideration should be shown to women and children, and that if any unnecessary damage was done on proof thereof the persons suffering would be recompensed. To show his own opinion of the necessity for visitation he had asked that all the outbuildings and coolie quarters at Government House should be inspected. His Excellency further said that he intended largely to increase the force of Sanitary Inspectors and he hoped that in a few weeks' time all danger would be at an end. He asked the Tung Wah Committee to assist him by getting additional help.\n\nA fatal case has been reported from Queen's Gardens. A day or two ago a coolie employed at the Royal Engineers' mess was taken ill and died before knowledge of the nature of his ailment—which was plague—was known to his companions. The premises have been thoroughly disinfected.\n\nHis Excellency concluded by saying that he was responsible not only for the health of the Chinese but of the Europeans and the Army and Navy, that his decision was embodied in the proclamation, that this proclamation was now the law, and that persons transgressing it would be arrested and punished.\n\nThe Registrar-General frequently interpreted His Excellency's remarks and the deputation withdrew, if not actually satisfied, at any rate fully aware of the determination of the Government to do its best to stamp out and prevent the spread of this insidious disease.\n\nTung Wah Hospital on Monday.\n\nA meeting of the Consular Body, held at Shanghai on the 15th inst., it was unanimously decided to request the taotai, through the Customs, to enforce No. 15 of the Harbour Regulations, as a measure of precaution, against vessels arriving from the South. The Regulation in question is as follows:—\"Vessel arriving from a place infected with cholera or other contagious disease on board shall not come nearer the lower limit of the Harbour than one mile, shall fly at the fore a yellow flag, and shall not allow any one to disembark or come on board without permission from the Harbour Master's Office.\"\n\nThere is some talk of closing the schools at which Chinese scholars attend. We believe that Dr. Bateson Wright has applied to the Governor for permission to close Queen's College, and it is probable if the disease does not receive a decided check during the next few days that this precautionary measure will be adopted.\n\nTHE PROCLAMATION.\n\nThe following is a precis of the proclamation issued by H.E. Sir William Robinson:\n\nWhereas Hongkong is now visited by a plague which is killing Chinese at the rate of between 30 and 40 a day, and it is understood that 8,000 people have succumbed to it since the commencement of the outbreak. It is the general opinion that the outbreak was caused simply by the bad smells from large numbers of dead rats. This has also been proved by a foreign doctor on Shameen, who, after examining some of the newly dead rats, found many worms in the lungs. He advised people not to eat them, as they are a great poison.\n\n22nd May.\n\nWe are glad to be able to announce that the plague in Canton has further diminished during the past three days. The doctors have now discovered the proper method of treating the patients, and the percentage of deaths amongst those who have been attended by them is only twenty per cent. or less.\n\n17th May.\n\nMr. Leach concluded his arguments on the point raised by Mr. Francis as to whether the case should be dealt with in its present form, and Mr. Francis replied.\n\nHis Lordship reserved his decision.\n\nIN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. A.G. WISE, ACTING PUISNE JUDGE.\n\nCHOI CHU vs. CHEUNG KAM TIM.\n\nMr. Creasy Ewens appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Phillippo for the defendant.\n\nThis was a claim of $400. money alleged to have been lent by the plaintiff, a woman, to the defendant's wife for the purchase of necessaries.\n\nThe plaintiff gave very contradictory evidence as to the circumstances of this loan, and His Lordship, not considering that there was sufficient proof of the debt, gave judgment for the defendant with costs.\n\nALLEGED SINGULAR AND FATAL MISTAKE.\n\nA correspondent writes:—\"Is it a fact that a Chinese woman was sent on board the Hygeia by the Sanitary Authorities supposed to be suffering from the plague, but which proved to be a case of pregnancy? And is it true that the mistake was not found out until it was too late to save the patient's life? This is the tale told to me by my servants, and two of them have left my employ in a terrible fright to take their wives out of the colony.\"\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\n15th May.\n\nIN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. E.J. ACKROYD, ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE.\n\nIn re THE CHINA LAND AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nThe bearing was resumed of the motion by the Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris to be placed on the register of shareholders of the China Land and Finance Company, Limited, in respect of 1,500 shares in the Company which had been deposited by Ng Chan Fong, the Bank's compradore, as security for advances made or that might be incurred in future by Ng Chan Fong to the Bank, being additional security under terms of an agreement of the 16th February, 1891, and a bond dated 14th December, 1891.\n\nMr. A.J. Leach, Q.C., instructed by Mr. G.C. Master (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master), appeared on behalf of the Bank; and Mr. J.J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. C. Ewens), on behalf of the Company and Ng Woon Sun How Qua, who had been served with notice of the motion.\n\nHis Lordship, on taking his seat, said—In this case Mr. Leach, before answering Mr. Francis's application that I should not deal with this case at the present stage, asked me to allow him to complete his evidence by cross-examining certain parties upon the affidavits filed by Mr. Francis's clients.\n\n18th May.\n\nIN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\nBEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. E.J. ACKROYD, ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE, AND COMMON JURY.\n\nATTEMPTED ARSON.\n\nChan Sik Ming, an apprentice, aged 19, was charged with feloniously and wilfully attempting to set fire to No. 7, Queen's Road West, occupied by a boot and shoe dealer who employed the defendant, on the 6th inst.\n\nMr. A.J. Leach, Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. A.B. Johnson, Crown Solicitor), prosecuted for the Crown.\n\nPrisoner pleaded not guilty.\n\nAnother apprentice who had been committed as an accomplice was discharged by proclamation.\n\nThe following jury was empanelled:—Messrs. Chow Dart Tong, A. Sharp, J.M. Gutierrez, F.G. Barres, F. Hubbe, D.W. Craddock, and Thos. Grimshaw.\n\nThe facts of the case were that on the night of the day in question the proprietor of the shop awoke and found the defendant setting fire, by means of a large joss stick, gunpowder, and matches, to a box of shavings in one of the rooms on the ground floor.\n\nThe Jury returned a verdict of guilty.\n\nHis Lordship reserved sentence, which was delivered on the 22nd.\n\nHis Lordship (addressing the prisoner) said—The jury have found you guilty of preparing a joss-stick with matches and gunpowder and with having set fire to it. They found that you knew what you were doing, and that you placed it close to a box of shavings in order to set fire to the house; and everything points to the supposition that you did this because your master had given you a few slaps two or three days before. The consequence of your foolish act might have been very serious. The sentence of the Court is that you be imprisoned for one week and that you receive six strokes with a rattan.\n\n21st May.\n\nFORGERY.\n\nPun Long, a clerk, was charged with uttering a forged note purporting to be endorsed by one Chao Yan Lok in January last, with intent to defraud Messrs. Arthur and Co.\n\nMr. A.J. Leach, Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. A.B. Johnson, Crown Solicitor), appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. J.J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. H.L. Dennys), for the defence.\n\nThe following jury was empanelled:—Messrs. A.O. Gutierrez, C.F. de Carvalho, R.S. Philpott, C.A. Plumb, E.J. Moses, M.S. Northcote, and F. 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        "content_text": "## method of appointing Postal Agents \n\nin charge of Post-Offices at the Consular Ports in China, and that in a recent case of defalcation by the agent at Ningpo, who was Consular Constable at that port, the Unofficial Members of Council expressed the opinion that steps should be taken to improve the system.\n\nOn account of the frequent changes in the Consular staff at each port, as well as other reasons, I am of opinion that it would not be practicable to insist on security being furnished in each case, and I accordingly venture to recommend to Your Lordship the propriety of urging the Foreign Office to issue instructions to its officers in China with a view to securing (1) that no officer under the rank of a Consular Assistant should be",
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        "document_key": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897",
        "page_number": 326,
        "title": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897",
        "content_text": "ARTICLE XVII,\n\nThe present Treaty shall come into force ten days after its publication, in conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the High Contracting Parties. It may be terminated by either of the High Contracting Parties at any time on giving to the other six months' notice of its intention to do so.\n\nThe Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged as soon as possible.\n\nIn witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.\n\nNo. 4.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Fraser.\n\nIN the first place, as to \"the considerations which seem to make the conclusion of a regular Extradition Treaty with Japan unobjectionable.\"\n\nI had the honour to explain in an official despatch from Tôkiô in 1889 the difficulties I had met with in attempting to obey Her Majesty's Order in Council and carry out the provisions of the \"Fugitive Offenders' Act,\" under the authority of the British Treaties with Japan, in the case of Campos, a fugitive from Hong Kong, in consequence of the adoption by the Japanese Government of an American reading of those Treaties, whereby they were construed to limit the Japanese cession of jurisdiction over British subjects in Japan in favour of the British Consular authority, to cases of offences committed within Japanese territory only. The jurisdiction thus claimed by the Japanese is of very slight extent. It serves only to cover the case of a fugitive from another country, and to exclude the actual faculty of extradition from the Consular attributes; whilst to the Consul himself the duty of pursuing, arresting, and delivering fugitives to justice, is extremely onerous and difficult—one, in fact, that it is materially impossible for him to undertake without a complete understanding with the native authorities—nor is there now any reason to object to sanctioning the exercise of so much jurisdiction as this over British subjects, on the part of Japan, on the score of barbarity. As all this is on record already, I need not, perhaps, rehearse it any further, nor allude either to the unfortunate necessity for the arrest of Campos by a British constable in the house of a native Japanese without the proprietor's leave, or to the case of Zoilo Nieves, the Spanish fugitive, whose detention in the British Consular gaol at Yokohama, by request of the Spanish Consul, caused that establishment to be watched by Japanese detectives and blockaded for months together.\n\nAt the time when this Campos case occurred, a negotiation was going on between Great Britain and Japan for a revision of Treaties, involving an ultimate abandonment of Consular jurisdiction in Japan, and therefore I was instructed to complete the task of concluding the new Treaty first, and then only to think about an Extradition Treaty as its corollary; but the Japanese Ministry immediately broke up, and Treaty revision was suspended. I made the best arrangement I could for the moment in regard to the arrest and surrender of fugitives without danger of collision; and some time afterwards a monstrous demand made on the part of Russia to Japan for the surrender of a British vessel, the \"Arctic,\" and her crew, on a charge of scaling in Russian waters without licence, enabled me to propose to the Japanese Government the conclusion of a more definite compact upon this rather dangerous question. Her Majesty's Government sanctioned an exchange of notes for the purpose, but that of Japan desired a reciprocal arrangement which should include the surrender of Japanese fugitives from the British possessions to Japan. They desired, in fact, an arrangement almost too complicated for conclusion in the proposed form; and, finally, after another change of administration, have announced their preference for a regular Convention upon the model of that which they contracted with the United States of America in 1884.\n\nSecondly, as to the Treaty itself, I do not think the Japanese are entitled to insist upon the use of their own forms in a reciprocal Agreement, though no doubt they will be disposed to do so. Nor do I see anything to object to in the list of crimes laid down in the proposed draft, as regards the special case of Japan. Neither can I at this moment suggest any addition to it.\n\nArticle III. The stipulation as to non-surrender of nationals is usual and proper. Yet one should, perhaps, guard against any idea that the Japanese Government can possibly demand the surrender of a British subject to be tried and punished by Japanese Courts so long as Consular jurisdiction in regard to offences committed in Japan—the only kind of offence for which such a surrender could be demanded—still exists. Excess of caution is a perfectly right thing, but it is best that we should have an entirely clear view of our own strength as well as of our points of weakness. I do not, of course, say this by way of objection to the stipulation, very much to the contrary, nor even to insist upon any opinion of my own, but merely in order to recommend the establishment of a very clear preliminary understanding upon all similar points.\n\nArticle IV. I quite agree that this provision is absolutely essential at present. Nor does it seem worth while to anticipate an objection to it on the side of the Japanese, as part of a reciprocal Convention, if its necessity and authority are carefully explained to them. Although they are more than sufficiently reckless of quarrels, they will yet hardly care to risk the embarrassment that must result, for instance, from a demand for the surrender of a German, or Frenchman, or Russian to the Hong Kong Government, so long as the States to which the accused might owe allegiance claimed exclusive jurisdiction over him.\n\nThat danger has existed in regard to America, it is true, for some years past, but the immediate vicinity of the British Colony would produce an indefinitely more acute pressure.\n\nThe stipulation that Japan shall not surrender a British subject to a third State without the consent of Great Britain is, I am afraid, hopeless; and the fact that it cannot be made reciprocal encourages me to recommend its being altogether abandoned. My own inquiries upon this point, made in connection with the project of an exchange of notes for the mutual delivery to justice of subjects of either party only, led to the conclusion that, although the Japanese Government would certainly defer to any objection that might be stated on the part of Great Britain to the surrender of a particular British subject to a third State, they could not be induced to give any formal assurance to that effect, and this for two reasons, lest they should compromise a right to jurisdiction which, however slight, they still valued, considering it to be inherent and not ceded, and lest they should contract an engagement contrary to their existing obligations.\n\nPerhaps a little further consideration may show this stipulation to be less needful than it has appeared at first sight to be. And here, what has been already said in regard to Japan may be repeated more strongly still in regard to the suggestion of a possible Extradition Treaty between Japan and China, to the danger of British fugitives taking refuge in Japan after having offended against the Chinese Empire. There is no possibility of a demand on the part of China for the surrender of a British subject for an offence committed within the Chinese jurisdiction, since no British subject can be made answerable to China herself for an offence committed within that jurisdiction, nor any likelihood at all that the Japanese Government would at any time comply with such a demand if it should be made. In case of an offence committed in the interior of China by a foreigner who absconded, the Chinese authorities would demand his punishment either of the nearest Consul or of the Minister in Peking, and if the demand were unsuccessful the occurrence would be put down to the national account. The same thing may be said in regard to Corea. I do not think any Treaty providing Consular jurisdiction at all has ever been so imperfectly worded as to leave room for any doubt as to authority in respect of offences committed in the country admitting Consular Magistrates. If they were so we should have heard of it before this.\n\nThe other countries to be thought of in this connection are Russia, chiefly, and Spain in a secondary degree on account of the Philippine Islands; but their cases have been already, no doubt, fully considered by Her Majesty's Government.\n\nIn conclusion, it should be remembered that the Japanese demands for surrender are likely to be addressed much more often to the neighbouring British Colonies and to India than to Great Britain herself, and the Japanese are likely to feel more anxiety in regard to the Colonies than in regard to the more distant mother country.\n\nHUGH FRASER.\n\nExmouth, November 28, 1892.\n\n(Signed)\n\n[380]\n\nE\n\n322",
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        "document_key": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]",
        "page_number": 104,
        "title": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]",
        "content_text": "I forward for your information a copy of a statement of particulars regarding this case.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour Most Obedient Humble Servant,\nBlack,\nAdministering the Government.\n\nEnclosure.\n\n**COPY.**\n\n**ENCLOSURE**\n\n**STATEMENT OF PARTICULARS.**\n\n| Q. | A. |\n| --- | --- |\n| Name of patient with Christian name at length; | Richard Gamble, |\n| Sex and age; | Male 26. |\n| Married single or widowed ; | Single. |\n| Rank profession or previous occupation (if any); | Police Constable sailor, butcher. |\n| Religious persuasion; | Roman Catholic. |\n| Residence at or immediately previous to the date hereof; | Shanghai General Hospital and H.M's Consular Gaol. |\n| Whether first attack; | not known. |\n| Age on first attack; | ... |\n| When and where previously under care and treatment as a lunatic idiot or person of unsound mind; | ... |\n| Duration of existing attack; | One week. |\n| Supposed cause; | Unknown. |\n| Whether subject to epilepsy; | No, so far as is known. |\n| Whether suicidal; | Yes. |\n| Whether dangerous to others and in what way; | Has not shown himself so as yet. |\n| Whether any near relative has been afflicted with insanity; | Not known. |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]",
        "page_number": 373,
        "title": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]",
        "content_text": "# Government House, Hongkong, 21st June, 1906.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nWith reference to Your Lordship's despatch No.92 of the 18th ultimo transmitting copies of correspondence which had passed between the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office relating to the organization of the British Postal Agencies in China, I have the honour to state that there is no objection to the constables attached to His Majesty's Consulates at the various Treaty Ports in China being appointed the Postal Agents of this Government provided that such constables are reported by His Majesty's Consul at each Port to be men capable of acting efficiently as such Agents and provided His Majesty's Consuls will exercise sufficient supervision over the Agents' Accounts and Cash.\n\n2. In the case of the Agency at Kiungchow which is already conducted by the Consular Constable, I am informed that the postal work at that Port is much less than that at...\n\n**RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.**",
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        "document_key": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]",
        "page_number": 375,
        "title": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]",
        "content_text": "**(COPY)**\n\n**CO.**\n\n**370**\n\n**27596**\n\n**29 JUL 06**\n\n**British Postal Agents in China**\n\n| Place | Name | Salary | Rank |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Amoy | L.A. Mackinnon | $900 | British Consular Assistant |\n| Canton | P. Grant Jones | $900 | do. |\n| Chefoo | Curtes Bros. | $1,800 | Merchants |\n| Foochow | C.D. Smith | $900 | British Consular Assistant |\n| Hankow | W.F.B. Fletcher | $720 | - do. |\n| Hoihow | W.F. Canning | $420 | Constable |\n| Liu Kung Tau | D. Clark | $2,400 | Merchant |\n| Ningpo | J. Pratt | $420 | British Consul |\n| Swatow | A.E. Sly | $900 | Acting Consul |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906",
        "page_number": 283,
        "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906",
        "content_text": "279\n\nConsular service, but should be in the hands of the\n\nConstable under the supervision of the Consul as is\n\nnow the case at Kiungchow.\n\nI am to request that you will inform me whether\n\nin the opinion of the Secretary of State for the\n\nColonies there is any objection to the instructions\n\nsuggested by Sir E. Satow.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nIn Campbell.",
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        "page_number": 285,
        "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906",
        "content_text": "281\n\nC\n\n1 OGAET\n\nDit vrodo tai Jesmo\n\nsard want doplane\n\npartio” mi ajout\n\nand Bu-dawy f\n\nε\n\nJopi Ho!\n\ndo pi\n\ncopy of the replies I have received.\n\nIt will be observed from these reports that at Canton, Amoy, Foochow and Hankow the postal work is done by a member of the staff of the Consulate who has a certain number of Chinese employés under him and who is in receipt of a salary for his services from the Hongkong Post Office amounting to $60 to 75 per mensem. At Kiungchow and Yingpo the Consulate Constable performs the work under Consular supervision, while at Wuchow, in the absence of an Assistant, the sister of the Acting Consul and the Constable have together superintended the post office. His Majesty's Consul at Foochow complains that a large proportion of the time of the Assistant is taken up by his postal duties, and from the replies of His Majesty's Consular Officers at Canton, Amoy and Hankow, it is evident that the same inconvenience must prevail at those ports also. I venture to think that it is not desirable that the junior members of the Consular Service should be permitted to undertake work which interferes with the proper ...\n\n.0.18",
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        "page_number": 286,
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        "content_text": "183\n\n....\n\n14C *. Dehimeri\n\nproper performance of the duties for which they are\n\n281A\n\nYou will perceive\n\npaid by His Majesty's Government.\n\nthat at Kiungchow and Wingpo the postal work is satisfactorily carried out by the Constable,\n\nunder a certain amount of superintendence on the part\n\nof the Consul. It appears to me that this system could\n\nbe introduced with advantage at the other Consulates.\n\nIn some cases it might be difficult at first to find\n\nan able and willing man to undertake the double duties, but\n\nno doubt the increase in the pay would attract a better\n\nclass of man than the salary of the constables does\n\nat present, which, as I have had the honour of pointing\n\nout on various occasions, is insufficient under the\n\npresent conditions of Exchange and of the general rate\n\nof wages in other employments.\n\nI have therefore the honour to suggest that,\n\nshould you approve, instructions should be sent to the\n\nConsular Officers concerned that in future the duties\n\nof the Post Office are not to be entrusted to members\n\nof...",
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        "content_text": "183\n\n3\n\ni\n\n282\n\nDAMN $ ,u to evitateTi\n\na\n\nXI\n\nT\n\nof the Consular Service, but should be placed in the\n\nhands of the Constable under the supervision of the\n\nConsul in the manner reported from Kiungchow. I should\n\nalso propose that in places where there are valid ob-\n\njections to or difficulties in such an arrangement the\n\nHongkong Postal Authorities be informed and requested\n\nto establish an office and staff independent of His\n\nMajesty's Consulate.\n\nI have recently received a communication from the\n\nGovernor of Hongkong urging the desirability of placing\n\nthe post office at Chefoo under Consular control, as\n\nthe present arrangements are unsatisfactory.\n\nI am in\n\ncorrespondence with His Majesty's Consul on the subject\n\nto whom I have recommended that his constable should be\n\nput in charge of the office, unless objections exist\n\nof which I am ignorant.\n\n2. (1) TUĪMATOP\n\n60▲ (D) Jay bad to\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Signed) Ernest Satow",
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        "content_text": "Josidue s \n\ned ulioda vlek \n\nT \n\nCopy.\n\nInclo. in Sir 2, Satow's No. 87 of February 28th, 1906. 283\n\nH.M. Consul Kiungehow to Sir E. Satow. Accounts No. 2.\n\nKiungchow, February 3rd, 1906.\n\n13485 LAPR APR 21506\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your circular of January 10th, I have the honour to report on the postal management of the Hongkong Postal Agency at this port as follows:-\n\nThe Office of the Agency adjoins the Consular Office, occupying what is virtually the verandah on the west side of the Consulate, as shown in the accompanying sketch. The public entrance to both offices is identical, but they are otherwise quite distinct. With the exception of a writing desk which is the property of the Office of Works, the furniture and other articles used by the Agency have been supplied by the General Post Office Hongkong.\n\nThe constable Mr. W.F. Canning is Postal Agent and performs all the office postal work. He receives a salary of $35 a month.\n\nA postman at $10 and a coolie at $6 a month are employed for outdoor work, e.g. delivery of mails, carrying mail bags and boxes, circulation of mail notices, etc.\n\nThe Consul sees that the Postal Agent renders his accounts and remits any balance in hand to the Hongkong Office at the end of each month.\n\nThe present working of the Agency is, I believe, satisfactory to the public and to the Postmaster General Hongkong.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nM. Hughes.\n\nActing Consul.",
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        "content_text": ".008 2\n\n(bertgil)\n\nholo. in Sir R. Satow's No.\n\nNo. 8701 February 28th, 1906.\n\nAccounts No. 3.\n\nSir,\n\nH.M. Consul, Swatow to Sir A. Satow.\n\n13485\n\n3485\n\nAPR 21 1906\n\n285\n\nIn reply to your Circular Separate of the 10th instant inquiring into the manner in which the Hongkong Postal Agency is managed, I have the honour to report as follows.\n\nThe duties of Postal Agent are filled by the Consular Assistant should there happen to be one. There is a Chinese Assistant and a staff of boatmen in the separate employ of the Post Office.\n\nThe Assistant's office in the Consulate is used for Post Office work, but the main portion of the duties of the agency are carried on at a branch office in Swatow.\n\nDuring the three years I have been in charge of this Consulate the duties of Postal Agent have, during the intervals in which no assistant has been attached to the staff, been performed by my sister Miss Christine Willis.\n\nThe salary of the agent is 75 dollars monthly: it has however for some years been the custom here to allow the Consular Constable from $20 to $30 of this sum for his services in supervising the outdoor work of the agency, arrival and despatch of mails, delivery of letters, etc.\n\nI have etc.\n\n(Signed)\n\nR. Willis,\n\nActing Consul",
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        "content_text": "H.M. Consul General Hankow to Sir R. Satow.\n\nHankow, 18th January, 1906.\n\nIn accordance with your Circular of 10th January inquiring as to the status of the British Postal Agency at this port, I have the honour to report that the Post Office is part of and attached to the Consulate and communicates by a door with the Assistant's office.\n\nFor many years the agency was managed by the Consular constable, Mr. Theo Stephens, by whom it was handed over on his retiring in 1893 to his successor Mr. Halone but given first to Mr. Wilton and in December 1894 to Mr. E.F. Allan, Consular Assistant. When in 1896 Mr. Allan was removed, Mr. Carles gave the work to Miss A. Malone, daughter of the present Consular constable, who was ultimately appointed agent. Last June Miss Malone was attacked by hip disease and compelled to take to her bed.\n\nHer father, Mr. Halone, took over the actual management in July last and tried with his daughter's help to carry on the office, Mr. Savage and Mr. Fletcher giving what aid they could find time for.\n\nThe Post Office work includes constant correspondence for which Mr. Halone was not well fitted and at the end of October last, Miss Malone having no prospect of quick restoration to health, resigned the agency.\n\nI had then to address the enclosed letter to the Postmaster General at Hongkong; Mr. W.J.B. Fletcher was appointed postal agent from 1st November 1905 and still holds the position.\n\nPage 292\n\nInclo. in ir 3. Satow's No. of February 28th, 1906.\n\nRest 7 MAY 06,\n\nLAPR 21 1906.",
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        "content_text": "British Consulate General Hankow.\n\n1st November, 1905.\n\n293\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that the Postal Agent here, Miss A. Kalone, has been compelled through ill-health and the death of her mother to hand me her resignation.\n\nTo obtain another suitable person from outside would, so far as I know, be impossible and I have the honour to suggest that my consular assistant Mr. W.J.B. Fletcher be appointed postal agent. Mr. Fletcher's own work is already very considerable but on my persuasion he consents to being nominated if he be given the assistance of the consular constable Mr. Balone, who for some months has been helping his daughter in the routine work of the post-office, but whose age and educational deficiencies preclude my suggesting that he be given the appointment.\n\nMr. Fletcher would take the whole responsibility for the proper conduct of the agency, but represents that in view of the growing work the remuneration which must now be divided, I trust that might be raised to dollar 80 per mensem at least.\n\nI trust this request may be considered favourably.\n\nThe Postmaster-General, HONGKONG.\n\nI have etc.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE.H. Fraser\n\nConsul-General,",
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        "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n### CONFIDENTIAL\n\nThese constitute an imperium in imperio in various parts of China, which must naturally be regarded with jealousy by the Chinese. The rights of these Settlements have been acquired partly by Treaty and partly by practice, and there has been a tendency for these rights to increase. It will not be possible to make any further encroachments upon Chinese jurisdiction, and it will be desirable gradually to define existing rights in Agreements with China, and to impress upon British municipalities that the exercise of their rights must be kept within the limits so defined.\n\nTo secure this it will be necessary that the British Settlements should be kept, through the Consuls, in close touch with the Legation, so that any tendency to exceed their rights may be checked and controlled. Unless this is done we shall again be liable to incidents such as that which recently occurred at Shanghae, and which, if repeated often, might lead to such friction and resentment as would exercise a very adverse influence upon British trade.\n\nAs regards the municipalities established in the exclusively British concessions that exist at certain of the ports, this control ought not to present any difficulties. The case of the native constable in the employ of the Tien-tsin Municipality, who was handed over to the Chinese authorities for trial and punishment in January of the present year, however, suggested that if the advice and authority of His Majesty's Consuls were disregarded, it might become necessary to add to the Municipal Regulations a clause conferring adequate legal powers of control upon the Minister.\n\nThe case of Shanghae is altogether different. The Land Regulations of the \"International Settlement,\" promulgated in 1869, derive their validity from the Minute drawn up by the Ministers of the Powers then diplomatically represented in China, and from the tacit acceptance of the Powers that have concluded Commercial Treaties with China since that date. The Municipal Council established by those Regulations is not an autonomous body, but is bound to defer to the advice and authority of the Consuls of all those Powers, tendered in accordance with the instructions they may receive from their official superiors. In 1903, however, the Municipal Council, to mention one instance, went so far as to disregard the ruling of the Consuls with respect to the stationing of a municipal policeman in the Mixed Court to see that sentences on Chinese prisoners were duly carried out.\n\nShould the Council continue to manifest a tendency to exceed the powers conferred on them by the Land Regulations and to disregard the officially intimated opinion of the Consuls, the obvious remedy would lie in such a modification of the Regulations as would place the Council under the direct control of the Consular Body.\n\nIt may be anticipated that if such a modification were proposed, advantage would be taken of the opportunity to raise the question of revising the electoral franchise in such a manner as to insure the proportional representation on the Council of the different nationalities which go to make up the foreign population of Shanghae, and the present predominance of the British element in the Council, to which we understand much importance is attached by leading British residents, would run the risk of being greatly diminished.\n\nThese considerations should, when occasion requires it, be confidentially communicated by His Majesty's Consul-General to the Chairman for the information and guidance of the British majority of the Council; and the latter should be informed that if they do not defer to the prudent and wise counsels which are given to them, it will become impossible for His Majesty's Government to support them in claims to the exercise of functions not conferred by the Land Regulations, or to resist a general demand for the revision of the Regulations in the sense above indicated. And it will be the duty of His Majesty's Consul-General at all times firmly to discourage and repress such excessive claims, and to endeavour to maintain the status quo.\n\nAs yet there are few, if any, signs that British subjects in the Settlements are prepared to admit the need for any change in policy, or for increased care and restraint in the assertion of their rights as against the Chinese authorities. It will require much tact, as well as firmness, to deal with these matters; on the one hand, to impress on the Chinese that existing rights in foreign Settlements must be definitely recognized and admitted, and, on the other hand, to impress on British subjects that these rights must be made as little irksome and offensive to the Chinese authorities as possible.\n\nBut I am confident that some such policy is the one which offers the best prospect of success, and its results, if it is judiciously applied, and the logic of facts will in the long run support it and commend it to the British communities, will further British trade, and tend to maintain British influence in China.\n\n**This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.**\n\n## [29214]\n\n**(No. 302.) Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Carnegie.**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n743\n\n[September 3.]\n\n| Section | C O. | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| SECTION 1 | 38281 |  |\n\nForeign Office, September 3, 1906. WITH reference to your telegram No. 160 of the 30th August and to previous correspondence on the \"Sainam\" piracy case, I transmit to you herewith copy of a letter which I have received from the `Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce`, making certain suggestions with regard to the policing of the waterways in the neighbourhood of Canton.\n\nYou are authorized, in case you see no objection, to suggest to the Chinese Government that the policing of these waterways should be intrusted to European officers.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n**EDWARD GREY.**\n\n(Signed)\n\n*`Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, July 28, 1906`.*\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\n**EDWARD GREY.**\n\n`[2146 e-1]` \nKECK - 17 00) 06",
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        "content_text": "38\n\n20.390 %.\n\nکریں\n\n387\n\nAs there does not appear the any probability that Mr M. Nathan will reconsider his decision, there only remains the first of the suggestions made by Sir R. Hart, namely, that the duties of the Postal Agencies should be placed, as far as possible, in the hands of the Consulate Constables.\n\nI have accordingly addressed the Consulate Constables.\n\nA despatch in that sense, of which I have the honour to inclose copy, to His Majesty's Consular Representatives at Amoy, Canton, Hankow and Swatow. At Foochow there is no constable, and at Kiungchow and Ningpo the respective Constables are already in charge of the postal arrangements.\n\nI have sent a copy of this despatch to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Signed) J. N. Jordan.",
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        "content_text": "46141\n\n388\n\nduals. in Sir I. Jordan's No 415 of Sept 15. 1956\n\nJohn Jordan\n\n(Received 14 DEC 06) Canton\n\nto HM Consul at\n\nAmoy.\n\nLocal.\n\nPeking, Oct 15, 1906.\n\n(Received DEC 1 1906)\n\nAt the beginning of this year Sir E. Satow's attention was drawn to the not altogether satisfactory arrangements under which certain of the British Post Offices established in various ports in China are conducted, as it appeared that a considerable amount of the time of the Assistants in charge of Post Offices, which should be devoted to Consular work, was occupied by postal duties. He accordingly suggested to H.M. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs that in future the duties of the Post Office should not be entrusted to members of the Consular Service, but should be placed in the hands of a Constable, under the supervision of H.M. Consul.\n\nA system which has",
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        "content_text": "389\n\n(2.\n\nhas been adopted and found to work well at Kingshow & Ningpo.\n\nIt is further proposed that if there were valid objections or difficulties in the way of such an arrangement at any port the Hong Kong Government should be informed & requested to establish an office staff independent of H. M. Consulate, Sir I. Grey approved Sir E. Satow's suggestions \"provided that the Governor of Hongkong raised no objections. Sir J. H. Stewart Lockhart, in his letter, and Sir M. Nathan have however stated that they are not prepared to commit the Colony to the extra expense which would be entailed by the payment of non-Consular Agents – by the renting of outside premises,\n\nThe Under the circumstances I have to request you to follow, as far as you consider advisable, the first of Sir E. Satow's suggestions and to place as much of the postal work at Consulate in charge of the Constable as he is qualified to efficiently perform. I shall be glad to learn in due course what alterations, if any, you may have been able to effect.\n\nYour most obedient, humble Servant,\n\nLil. Sardan\n\n \ndespatch No. of January\n\n \n[...]\n\nShish\n\n(The last two lines appear to be out of place and contain non-English text that seems to be a result of OCR error or misplacement.)\n\n \n\nhas been rewritten to meet the exact HTML output requirement as follows:\n\n389\n\n(2.\n\nhas been adopted and found to work well at Kingshow & Ningpo.\n\nIt is further proposed that if there were valid objections or difficulties in the way of such an arrangement at any port the Hong Kong Government should be informed & requested to establish an office staff independent of H. M. Consulate, Sir I. Grey approved Sir E. Satow's suggestions \"provided that the Governor of Hongkong raised no objections. Sir J. H. Stewart Lockhart, in his letter, and Sir M. Nathan have however stated that they are not prepared to commit the Colony to the extra expense which would be entailed by the payment of non-Consular Agents – by the renting of outside premises,\n\nThe Under the circumstances I have to request you to follow, as far as you consider advisable, the first of Sir E. Satow's suggestions and to place as much of the postal work at Consulate in charge of the Constable as he is qualified to efficiently perform. I shall be glad to learn in due course what alterations, if any, you may have been able to effect.\n\nYour most obedient, humble Servant,\n\nLil. Sardan\ndespatch No. of January\n\nShish",
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        "content_text": "351\n\ntrunk was put in the Baggage Room, and on the 7th of August an offensive smell proceeded from it. On being opened it was found to contain the body of a European woman. The body was buried, but later exhumed and identified by a friend of Gertrude Dayton's as being the remains of that woman. In the trunk were found 2 towels marked 'Hongkong Hotel'; in short the circumstantial evidence seemed conclusively to point to the guilt of the man Adsetts.\n\nThis Government thereupon communicated with the Police at Shanghai and elsewhere, and offered a reward of $500 for his apprehension. Adsetts was a powerful man, an ex-pugilist, and his arrest at Chefoo was effected not without difficulty by a constable of the British Consulate and an American prize-fighter to whom the reward has been disbursed. They effected the arrest on August 13th on the warrant of the American Consul-General there.\n\nAs the only gaol in Chefoo is at the British Consulate Adsetts was confined there, but escaped a few hours afterwards. He was recaptured and again confined in the British Consular Gaol. Later it was deemed advisable to place him on board the United States Cruiser \"Galveston\" then in harbour. In his possession was found a quantity of ladies' toilet articles with the name \"Gertrude\" and a photograph of himself",
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        "content_text": "432\n\n32381\n\n[August 10. FF 08\n\nSECTION 5.\n\n2\n\nAfter all, M. Bapst considered the position he now occupied not unlike what mine was recently when I insisted, in face of much popular opposition, upon the grant of the Chekiang Railway Concession.\n\nI demurred to this analogy, and explained that the negotiations in that instance had as their sole object the fulfilment of a written undertaking given in 1898, and had no political complexion of any kind.\n\nThe date carried us back to the year when France obtained her Concession for the Laokai-Yunnan-fu railway, which formed a more fitting parallel to the Chekiang grant in its original form. The difference was that in giving effect to the latter we had parted with all rights of control, and reduced to a very attenuated form the privileges which France and other Powers had secured and still enjoyed in that memorable year of Railway Concessions.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[27705]\n\n(No. 279.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 10.)\n\nPeking, June 23, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copies of correspondence with His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghae, with reference to a proposition made by the Chairman of the Shanghae Municipal Council to the Senior Consul that all the lands lying between the International Settlement on the north and the railway line should be incorporated within municipal limits and made subject to administration under the Land Regulations.\n\nThe extension of the International Settlement arranged in 1899 was intended to include the lands above referred to, but the Chinese authorities were then resolute in excluding them, alleging that they were in another administrative district, Paoshan, and for that reason outside the area of the Treaty port of Shanghae. This contention was, of course, not admitted, but, rather than allow the negotiations to fall through, the exclusion was acquiesced in by the Municipal Council, and the boundary offered by the Chinese authorities was accepted.\n\nThe question has now again been brought forward in consequence of a conflict of police jurisdiction over certain roads made by the Municipal Council on land purchased by the municipality, wholly or partly beyond Settlement limits.\n\nMy despatch No. 33 of the 17th June to Sir Pelham Warren sufficiently explains my attitude in the matter. While recognizing the desirability of the proposed extension, I express the personal view that, unless the Viceroy of Nanking and the Provincial authorities are in the first place prevailed upon by the Consular Body at Shanghae to support it, there is little prospect of the Central Government considering it favourably.\n\nI have taken occasion in a Confidential despatch, No. 34 of the 19th June, to draw attention to the dangers of the use of force by the Municipal Council for the purpose of asserting or maintaining the right of police over extra-Settlement roads, which has been exercised by the Councils with the tacit acquiescence of the local Chinese authorities for years past, and I have pointed out that, if the exercise of this right is seriously objected to, the proper course is to invite the Chinese authorities to state their objections in the regular manner and to arrange a maintenance of the status quo while these are under discussion.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Sir P. Warren to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nShanghae, June 4, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward to you herewith a copy of a letter which has been addressed to the Senior Consul by the Chairman of the Shanghae Municipal Council, asking for the support of the Consular Body to the proposition that all the lands lying between the Settlement and the railway line be incorporated within municipal limits and made liable to administration under the Land Regulations.\n\nThis demand on the part of the Council, as the letter indicates, has its immediate origin in the attempted arrest by the Chinese police on the outskirts of the Settlement of a foreign constable while patrolling that portion of the North Chekiang road which lies along the Settlement boundary. The road in question is a municipal road, that is, it was built by the Council on land specially acquired by them for the purpose, but where the incident took place the actual boundary-line of the Settlement runs for about 300 yards along the middle of the road, so that one-half of it is inside and the other half outside the Settlement and within the Paoshan district.\n\nUntil the so-called Chinese Commercial Settlement at Paoshan was established some two years ago by the late Taotai, the right of the Council to police all municipal roads was tacitly admitted.\n\n[1905 k--5]\n\nB",
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        "content_text": "roads, whether inside or outside the International Settlement, was acquiesced in by the Chinese authorities. No sooner, however, had the new Chinese municipality been inaugurated than the Taotai, at the request of the Paoshan Magistrate, who was temporarily in charge of its affairs, addressed a letter to the Senior Consul asking for the removal of the municipal police from the North Szechuan road extension, which was stated to be within the area under its control. He informed the Consular Body that a sufficient number of well-trained native police had been engaged to maintain order, and that there was no longer any necessity for the Council to police the road. In view, however, of the fact that since the establishment of the Chinese municipality crime in the district had shown a tendency to increase rather than decrease, the Senior Consul replied to this letter by pointing out that it was scarcely the time to consider the advisability of withdrawing efficient police patrols from roads the property of the foreign community; on the contrary, the Consular Body was of opinion that it might be necessary before long to increase the number of municipal police to assure better the safety of the inhabitants and their property. After this the Taotai confined himself to objecting on various grounds to the new municipal roads in course of construction outside The Settlement, and it was not until the 30th January of the present year that he again returned to the subject by disputing the right of the Council to police the boundary road, another municipal road which runs along the northern boundary of the Settlement, almost parallel to the railway station, and which, like the North Chekiang road, is half inside and half outside the Settlement. His objection, this time, was based on the fact that the road had been built on the site of a creek which, though it had been filled in at municipal expense, was Chinese Government property, and had never been sold to the Council. The inference drawn from this last complaint of the Taotai's was that he no longer questioned the right of the Council to police roads which were indisputably their property, yet from this time onwards the municipal police had constant reason to complain of encroachment by the native police on almost all the municipal roads within the area of the Chinese Settlement, but especially on the North Chekiang road. At first the trespassers were merely ordered off, but, as the nuisance increased, and it became apparent that they were acting under instructions from their superiors, orders were given by the Council to their police to arrest any Chinese police who attempted to patrol a municipal road. On the 28th ultimo two of the Paoshan police were arrested for this offence on the North Chekiang road and taken to the West Hongkew police station. Their detention seems to have caused considerable indignation among their comrades, and later in the day some forty or fifty of them gathered at the mouth of an alley-way entering the road from the Paoshan side, and, when ordered back by the foreign constable on duty, suddenly attacked him and dragged him some distance up the alley-way, with the intention, it is alleged by the Council, of carrying him off and confining him in the Paoshan police station, in revenge for the arrest of the two native policemen. The constable succeeded, however, in drawing his truncheon and forcing his way back again.\n\nThe Council having reported to me in error that the man, who is a British subject, had actually been carried off, I at once sent Mr. Wilkinson, the Vice-Consul, to the Taotai to demand his instant release. Mr. Wilkinson's inquiries soon showed that, as far as the constable was concerned, the seriousness of the affair had been exaggerated, but on the other hand he found both the Shanghae Taotai and Wang Taotai, the official in charge of the Paoshan Settlement, considerably alarmed at the behaviour of their own police. They informed him that the men had got out of hand, and that, unless their two comrades were released, there would most certainly be trouble before the end of the day. At their earnest request Mr. Wilkinson agreed, on condition that they undertook to produce the men at the Mixed Court when required and in the meanwhile to make no further attempts at patrolling the road, to explain the situation to the Council, and ask, on their behalf, for the release of the two men on bail. To these terms they consented, and on the state of affairs being represented by Mr. Wilkinson to the Council, the two men were at once released on the personal security of Wang Taotai that they would appear at the Mixed Court when called upon.\n\nThe day fixed for their trial was Friday last, but on that day neither of the men was sent to the Court, the Taotai explaining afterwards to Mr. Wilkinson that, while he had no intention of going back on his word, he did not propose to allow them to appear until some arrangement had been arrived at on the question of the patrolling of the North Chekiang road, on which, he claimed, the Paoshan police had as much right as the municipal police.\n\nThe affair in itself is of no great importance, but it has brought to a head the Council's resolve to apply for an extension of the International Settlement which will incorporate within its limits the whole of the tract lying between the Settlement and the railway line.\n\nIt is the suburbs in this direction that are the most thickly populated of the Settlement and which it is most desirable from every point of view to have brought within the scope of the Land Regulations.\n\nIt will no doubt be within your recollection that when the Settlement was extended in 1899 it was over the extension into this neighbourhood that the negotiations very nearly broke down. The Council of the time, recognizing the importance of the locality—for it was evident even then that it was in this direction that the growth of the Settlement would be most rapid—were most unwilling to allow it to be excluded from the extension, and it was only on the understanding that the extension then granted was not by any means final, but only an instalment, and that as soon as the necessity of further expansion was proved the Consular Body would at once take the matter up, that they agreed to accept the boundary offered by the Chinese authorities.\n\nThe grounds on which the Council base their opinion that the time has now arrived for applying for a further extension of the Settlement are briefly stated in the Chairman's letter. It is obvious that, if the necessity of including within Settlement limits the district indicated by them was manifest in 1899, the need is far more pressing at the present time. In those days the district in question was most of it open country, and the boundary of the Settlement clearly defined by creeks and other natural obstructions; at the present time the whole area is thickly populated, and as house property has encroached on the boundary the latter has become obliterated, and is now an imaginary line running in places along the middle of a municipal road.\n\nAs you are aware, the Chinese authorities, realizing the state of affairs in this district, and anticipating a demand on the part of the Council for an extension of the Settlement, have established in the locality the Chinese municipality, to which reference has already been made. The district in which it functions is called officially the Chinese Commercial Settlement in Paoshan, but, as it includes the Chapei district as well, it is usually known as the Chapei Municipality. In the English sense of the word, it is not a municipal concern at all, but is run by a Chinese expectant Taotai by the name of Wang, appointed by the Viceroy. The intention of the authorities in founding the Settlement was admittedly to block by its means any further extension of the Settlement in a northerly direction, where, as they well knew, the need for extension was most keenly felt. Had the Chapei Municipality been successful in accomplishing the object with which the authorities professed to the Consular Body that it had been established, namely, to insure the good government of the place by affording effective police protection to the inhabitants, preserving cleanliness, providing lighting and pure water, and other benefits of civilization, it is possible that their policy would have been successful, and the question of extension in this direction might have been indefinitely postponed, but, beyond building a few roads and engaging a large but undisciplined and utterly inefficient police force, the achievements of the Chapei Municipality have fallen lamentably short of its professed aims. In spite of its numerous police, the district still enjoys an unenviable reputation as a haunt of robbers and criminals generally, and from a sanitary point of view, as the report of the Municipal Health Officer for 1907, published in the Annual Report of the Shanghae Municipal Council, shows, it is a menace to the public health. In other words, the establishment of a Chinese municipality has proved of no practical benefit to the inhabitants of the district; while, on the other hand, the obstructive policy of the officials in charge of its affairs and the aggressiveness of its police are a source of constant friction with the Shanghae Municipality, which sooner or later is bound to lead to serious consequences. In the interests, therefore, of peace and order, and for the sanitary safety of the International Settlement, it is urgently desirable that the extension suggested by the Council should be conceded at the earliest possible date by the Chinese authorities.\n\nIn his letter to the Senior Consul the Chairman of the Council states that, beyond indicating the railway line as the most desirable new limit in the absence of any natural barrier, the Council do not desire at present to go further into the question of the amount of extension which should be arranged. Although the area suggested by the Council is comparatively small, it is certain that, as in 1898, any expansion into the Paoshan district, within which a portion of proposed extension lies, will for political reasons be strongly opposed by the Chinese authorities. The latter have always maintained that the Treaty port of Shanghae is situated within the limits of the Shanghae Hsien or Magistracy only, and does not extend into the Paoshan Hsien, and on this pretext they have obstructed and constantly disallowed the sale of land to foreigners in the northern outskirts of the Settlement. Once any portion of Paoshan district is included within the area of the Settlement they must of necessity abandon this pretext.\n\nPage 433",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nattitude. Unfortunately the whole of the district north of the northern district of the International Settlement and the most thickly populated in the whole area is in Paoshan. The inclusion of the Chapei district within the Settlement is equally certain to meet with strong opposition, but so large a portion of the area is foreign-owned that the objections of the Chinese may be less difficult to overcome. It is obvious, however, that the extension now asked for, though it may satisfy the community for a few years to come, cannot possibly be final any more than that of 1898. In course of time a demand for the incorporation within municipal limits of a large section of the Pootung district, with its extensive foreign-owned docks and wharves, is, I think, inevitable, but in the meanwhile the extension now asked for is sufficient for the needs of the Settlement. It should, however, include within its area the whole of the neighbourhood of the North Szechuan road extension, in which numbers of foreign residents are already living, and also the new recreation ground and the rifle range, and the opportunity might be taken to have the Soochow Creek, which harbours amongst its large boating population an unusual number of bad characters, likewise brought under municipal jurisdiction. The ideal extension would of course include as far as practicable all property now owned by foreigners, and, if such an extension could be obtained, it would be possible, as far as Shanghae is concerned, to settle the li-kin question once and for all by agreeing that the Settlement and harbour limits only should be the li-kin-free area.\n\nIn conclusion, as showing from other points of view the urgent need of an extension of the present area of the Settlement, I venture to quote the following extract from a leading article in the \"North China Daily News\" of the 31st March :—\n\n**In 1900, when the extension had been incorporated in the Settlement limits, we had a foreign and native population of 352,050 within an area of 5,618 acres, or 62·6 persons to the acre. Last year the estimated population was 523,000, or 93 inhabitants to the acre, and the population had increased by 47,000 over that of 1906. At this rate of increase in another five years we shall have a population of 758,700, giving a density of 135·05 to the acre. A comparison of these figures with those of other cities may be of interest :----\n\n \nPopulation (1907).\nArea. Acres.\nDensity.\n\nShanghae\n523,700\n5,618\n93\n\nLiverpool\n740,000\n17,792\n41.6\n\nManchester\n637,000\n19,893\n32.02\n\nBoston\n602,278\n24,618\n24·47\n\n\"It will be seen from the above Table that the Settlement with its present population should have an area of at least 12,000 acres, or more than double its present acreage. In spite of the number of buildings that go up year by year, the average number of persons to each house is steadily increasing, as will be shown by the following Table:-\n\n \n1900.\n1907.\n\n\"Foreign residents..\n416\n5·8\n\n\"Native residents ..\n6·88\n11·01\n\n\"Per house\n \n11\n\n\"These figures, especially when the small size of the bulk of the native houses is considered, are extraordinarily high. When it is realized that at the present rate of increase Shanghae in 1912 will have a population of upwards of three-quarters of a million, it must be evident that the time has come when both the Council and the Consular Body should move together for a large extension to the municipal area.”\n\nThe Council's letter applying for the extension was laid before the Consular Body at a meeting held on the 2nd instant. It was decided to adjourn the discussion of the question for a fortnight, by which time those members of the Body who desired to do so could communicate with their Ministers in Peking and obtain their views on the subject, I have the honour accordingly to submit the Council's application to your favourable consideration and to request your instructions as to the attitude which I should take up in the matter.\n\nIn addition to the Council's letter I inclose a letter from the China Association strongly supporting the proposed extension, a further letter from the Council to the Senior Consul reporting another encroachment by the Paoshan police on the North Chekiang road, and, lastly, a small plan of the Settlements, showing the railway line and the area indicated for the extension.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nPELHAM L. WARREN.\n\nShanghae Municipal Council to M. Siffert.\n\nCouncil Room, Shanghae, May 28, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform the Consular Body that a foreign police constable was yesterday assaulted on the North Chekiang road, and an attempt made to secure his arrest, by the native police from one of the small stations recently established on the outskirts of the Settlement.\n\nAs is very generally known, this road for a distance of about 300 yards south of the railway station lies along the Settlement boundary, and during the last few months collisions of this character have been not infrequent, a state of affairs which the Council regards as fraught with serious consequences and calling for redress.\n\nThe main facts of the case in point are reported in this morning's newspapers with substantial accuracy, and it is not the Council's wish to make any detailed statement in view of the forthcoming proceedings at the Mixed Court. It is, however, to be noted that the two native police who were arrested and detained at the West Hongkew station have been liberated at the express application of the Taotai Wong, the official responsible for their actions. He stated that if they remained in custody the discipline of the remainder of his men would be impaired, and, upon a guarantee for their appearance at Court, his request was granted.\n\nThe more general question of police authority in this district, however, became a subject for discussion by the Council, with the result that I have the honour to seek the support of your colleagues and yourself to the proposition that all the lands lying between the Settlement and the railway line be incorporated within municipal limits and made liable to administration under the Land Regulations.\n\nThe reasons which the Council adduces for this course may be briefly stated as follows:-\n\n1. The expression, in Article 6 of the Regulations, \"on the admission by vote of public meeting of any tracts of land into the limits of the municipal authority\" is clear evidence that the situation which has arisen was contemplated when the Code was framed, and the conditions which preceded the extension arranged ten years ago were not more difficult than those which at present confront the community.\n\n2. The nominal boundary of the Settlement on the north is, for practical purposes, obliterated, merely threading its way through continuous house property; and if the authority of the municipal police were exactly limited by this line, the difficulties of detective and patrol work would be almost insuperable.\n\n3. The plan of Paoshan displays how large a proportion of the land in question has been registered under the Regulations, and the fact that it cannot be taxed under similar authority constitutes alike an anomaly and a reasonable cause for complaint on the part of owners of land within the line.\n\nThe question as affecting the public health of the Settlement has already been brought to your notice in previous despatches, and there is to be added the serious fact that, in the absence of any authoritative means of road construction or supervision of buildings, the district is growing in a manner which, in view of modern requirements for ventilation, fire protection, and general security, cannot be regarded as otherwise than highly unsatisfactory.\n\n(1905 k~5]",
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        "content_text": "7\n\n435\n\n6\n\nBeyond indicating the railway line as the most desirable new limit in the absence of any natural barrier, the Council does not desire to go further into the question at present of the amount of extension which should be arranged; but, confident of public support to the proposal, the Council suggests that suitable representations be made to the Viceroy and to the Representatives of the Treaty Powers in Peking that extension is necessary in principle, whereafter the formalities which are requisite may be carried out in consultation with the local officials.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nDAVID LANDALE, Chairman.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n\"In thus openly defying the police, the native authorities are stirring up, as they well know, a spirit of restlessness and discontent with the peaceful government of Shanghae, which will surely spread, and may at any time burst forth into anti-foreign demonstrations, the end of which no one can foresee.\"\n\nThe view which Colonel Bruce takes of this matter is not, in the Council's opinion, an exaggerated one. It is clearly unreasonable to expect foreign constables to run the risk of assault without means of protecting themselves, and I venture therefore to lay a stress upon the desirability of making the position clear to the Taotai as soon as may be possible.\n\nApart from the more general question of the extension of the Settlement, it appears to the Council advisable to insist that, pending conclusion of such negotiations as may take place, the native police discontinue any attempt to patrol the municipal roads outside the present boundary.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nDAVID LANDALE, Chairman.\n\nSir,\n\nChina Association to Consul-General Sir P. Warren.\n\nShanghae, May 30, 1908. THE unfortunate incident in connection with the police supervision of the district adjoining the northern boundary of the Settlement is one which clearly illustrates the unsatisfactory condition of affairs arising out of the compromise agreed to in 1898, by which the whole of the Paoshan district was allowed to remain outside the limits of the Settlement.\n\nBritish interests are more particularly affected by the position of the present boundary, as a large proportion of the property outside the line belongs to British subjects, and under these circumstances my Committee would respectfully submit that the application made by the Municipal Council for admission of the principle of an extension of the Settlement should be supported.\n\nThe conflict of authority in the fracas which occurred on the 27th instant was happily not serious, but if the native authorities are so short-sighted as to give instructions to their ill-disciplined police the effect of which is a resort to force, it may easily happen at any moment that serious trouble may spring up. The fact that Taotai Wong asked the Council to liberate the two Paoshan constables who had been arrested, on the plea that he might be unable to maintain discipline if they were held in custody, is evidence that his police force is ill-disciplined, and his failure to carry out his undertaking that they would appear at the Mixed Court for trial tends to destroy confidence.\n\nThe growth of the Settlement in the direction of the rifle range has been so rapid that a large district which was open country in 1898 is now covered with streets and houses, and thickly populated. That the limit of the Settlement is an imaginary line through this district, in some cases in the middle of a municipal road, clearly shows that some change is called for.\n\nThe provisional nature of the boundary agreed upon in 1898 was recognized by all those engaged in the negotiations at the time. As it is in the interest of the Chinese as well as of the foreign community that as little opportunity as possible be given for friction to arise between the Chinese and foreign authorities, my Committee would urge that advantage be taken of this conflict to press upon the Imperial Government the necessity of rearrangement of the boundaries of the Settlement, with a view to the preservation of harmonious relations in the administration of the Settlement.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nF. ANDERSON, Chairman.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Consul-General Sir P. Warren.\n\n(No. 33.) Sir,\n\nPeking, June 17, 1908. I HAVE to acknowledge the receipt, on the 14th instant, of your despatch No. 60 of the 4th June, inclosing copy of a letter which has been addressed to the Senior Consul by the Chairman of the Shanghae Municipal Council, asking for the support of the Consular Body to the proposal that all the lands lying between the Shanghae Settlement and the railway line should be incorporated within the municipal limits, and be made liable to administration under the Land Regulations.\n\nHaving recently had an opportunity of seeing the district in question, I can testify to the inadequacy of the arrangements under which it is at present administered, and am in full sympathy with any proposal that is likely to improve the position of British holders of property on the outskirts of the International Settlement, and to conduce to the peace and good order of the Settlement itself.\n\nBut, as you are aware, Chinese public opinion is everywhere strongly opposed to further concessions of this kind, and unless the Consular Body at Shanghae can secure the assent of the local authorities and the Viceroy to the principle of extension, there seems to me, I regret to say, to be little prospect at present of inducing the Central Government to accede to the request of the Shanghae community. A question of this kind, the Government at Peking is sure to be guided almost entirely by the views of the provincial authorities, and if the Consular Body decide to entertain the proposal, their best chance of attaining this object is to prevail upon the Viceroy at Nanking to support it with the Central Government. A direct application by the Diplomatic Body in the first instance would only result in a reference to the Viceroy,\n\nThere is, unfortunately, an impression here that in some of the recent incidents at Shanghae a tendency has been shown to force this question to an issue, and this, however erroneous, may militate against its impartial consideration. It is important, therefore, that the Council's action should not lend itself to such a construction.\n\nI should add that I have had no opportunity of consulting my colleagues, some of whom are temporarily absent, and that the above must be regarded as merely an expression of my personal views.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nShanghae Municipal Council to M. Siffert.\n\nJune 4, 1908.\n\nIN continuation of my letter of the 28th May, I have the honour to inform you that at 11:40 P.M. last night three mounted men of the native police beyond Settlement limits, one of them carrying a sword, proceeded at a gallop down the North Chekiang road from the railway station. The constable on duty attempted to stop them, but they made their way into an adjoining alley-way.\n\nIn drawing the Council's attention to this incident, the Captain-Superintendent of Police asks for instructions as to the employment of armed force to hinder similar incursions in the future. He writes:--\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Consul-General Sir P. Warren.\n\n(No. 34. Confidential.)\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, June 19, 1908. THE incidents which have given rise to the application of the Municipal Council at Shanghae for an extension of the International Settlement, forwarded in your",
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        "content_text": "On March 1st 1907 Mr. Mansfield received a second letter of repost from the Chief Justice, enclosing a notice of a concurrent writ and an order of the Court of which substituted service was to be effected on defendant's firm.\n\nThis request was duly complied with on March 10th, the notice being served by the Consular Constable. In this case I must admit that Mr. Mansfield established a precedent for the service of a writ of summons issued by the Supreme Court on a Chinese defendant resident outside the jurisdiction of the Court by this Consulate-General, and although in my own opinion the expediency, if not the legality, of my predecessor's action is open to question, I should have been prepared, had the request been communicated to me in this form, to defer to his greater knowledge and experience of legal procedure in mixed cases in China, and undertake the service of the writ. I am still prepared to do so, but, as I am referring this point to His Majesty's Minister in Peking, I would prefer to await his instructions before taking any further steps in the matter.\n\nThe original question, however, on which I ventured to join issue with the Chief Justice, was his request that the",
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        "content_text": "# 367\n\nThat the Letters of Request required the sanction and approval of the Governor of Hongkong.\n\nOn my pointing out that a precedent existed in which Mr. Mansfield, when Consul-General, had complied with similar Letters of Request by availing himself of the Consular Constable, Mr. Fox replied that Mr. Mansfield's action was irregular.\n\n7. Many of these points are questions of Law which I cannot discuss. But in view of the general terms of the British Minister's letter in which it is said that Sir Edward Gray upholds the contention of the Acting Consul-General, which though it does not tally with Mr. Antrobus' letter, may be the actual terms of Sir Edward Grey's despatch - and also with a view of indicating what the point in issue really is, I shall state briefly what the law is on some of these points.\n\n4. The Jurisdiction, or to use the more correct term, the competence of the Supreme Court of Hongkong over absent defendants, subjects or aliens, and therefore over Chinese subjects, has nothing whatever to do with the jurisdiction of the Chinese Courts over their own subjects. The jurisdiction is concurrent.\n\nA judgment by default cannot be obtained without service ...",
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        "content_text": "369\n\nServing a writ by the Consular Constable was therefore irregular.\n\nWith reference to his letter on the subject, one word of explanation is necessary. I had a private letter from him in the same sense as his official letter, as we were in the habit of discussing and corresponding on points of this nature. But owing to the carelessness of the Registrar, I was not informed of the fact that he had written officially on the subject. Had I been so informed, the discussion would have taken place then instead of now.\n\nThe interpretation I have always put upon Article 29 of the Order in Council is that it was expressly drawn broadly, so that it might cover the two cases: \n1. service on British subjects.\n2. service on other defendants through the proper channels.\n\nUnless this second case is included, the Court is powerless against foreign and Chinese defendants who, though they are in China, are legally amenable to the Hongkong Court. It can never have been intended that Canton, for example, should be a haven of refuge for defendants to evade service of writs; but that is what the Consul-General's contention amounts to. Process from this Court may be issued in the cases defined by the Code against a Japanese, or a Chinese, or an Englishman, or a Frenchman in...",
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        "content_text": "## Jurisdiction in British and German Concessions in China\n\nIt has been suggested that a British or German subject holding a lease on the other Power's Concession should be required to enter into an undertaking that they held the lease subject to the condition that all questions in regard thereto should be determined according to the law of the Power holding the Concession. This would be of advantage to British subjects as settling the law and might meet the German difficulty in regard to registration and priority of mortgages. To take a concrete example, suppose that a British mortgagee had advanced money to a German mortgagor on the security of a Canton British Concession lot registered at the British Consulate in the name of the German subject. The mortgage had been registered at the British Consulate in accordance with `section 2` of the Shameen Land Regulations, 1908 (`King's Regulations No. 2 of 1908`), and `Article 129-133` of the `Order in Council 1904`. If the German became bankrupt, the estate would be administered under the jurisdiction of the German Court at Canton, which would give the British mortgagee their rights according to English law in respect of their registered mortgage. If the British mortgagee thought they were not getting their rights, they might apply to the British Court for an injunction restraining the Registrar from transferring the lot until the matter had been duly determined. This case, put vice versa in regard to a British subject holding a lot on the German Concession at Hankow, would seem to give all the certainty to the law of mortgages the Germans can require.\n\nThe alternative would be that the Court of the Power holding the Concession should be the `forum rei sitae` with sole jurisdiction to decide all questions in regard to concession lots. This looks neater on paper, but I am not prepared to say off-hand that it would work well in practice. An obvious objection is that the Court would have no power to act in personam against a foreigner, e.g., in giving possession or the enjoyment of an easement. It would necessitate an amendment of `Article 5` of the `Order in Council 1904`, and perhaps to cover all the ground, an agreement among the Treaty Powers holding concessions.\n\n### Jurisdiction over Foreigners to Enforce Municipal Regulations\n\nThere seem to be grave objections to the German proposals under this head. China has given up her territorial jurisdiction over British subjects to Great Britain. Has Great Britain, therefore, the right to transfer any part of this jurisdiction to Germany? Again, the King in Council can, in virtue of the `Foreign Jurisdiction Act`, bind British subjects in China by legislation, and his Courts can apply German or any other law and can, in civil actions, enforce an undertaking by a British subject to be bound by German law. But has the King the right, as against his own subjects, to put them under the jurisdiction of a German Court? The `Foreign Jurisdiction Act` provides that the jurisdiction held by the Crown shall be enjoyed in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired that jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory, that is to say, by sole virtue of the prerogative as if China were a Crown Colony, so that the King has absolute power of legislation for his subjects in China by `Order in Council`. But because the King can make laws and establish his own Courts to administer them, it by no means follows that he can hand over British subjects in China to the jurisdiction of a Court of a foreign Sovereign.\n\nBut whether illegal or not, I think such a course would be highly inexpedient. It would tend to confuse a long-established system—the personal law administered by the defendant's Court—which works better than a Western lawyer could imagine possible. If a German Court is to fine a British subject in China, is it to imprison in default of payment? (See `Article 13` of `Order in Council 1907`). The grant of any such power to a German Court would be deeply resented by British subjects. Suppose a breach of Municipal Regulations combined with an assault on a German police constable—a very likely case—is the breach to be tried by the German Court and the assault by the British? I believe that in practice, such an arrangement would breed confusion and contempt for the administration of justice; it would upset a practice with which I thought every foreigner in China was satisfied until I read this paper.\n\nThere is, however, a flaw in the present system, namely, that there is no power to enforce Municipal Regulations on any other subject of a foreign Power except the lot-holder who has entered into an undertaking to be bound by the Concession Regulations. To give an example, how is bye-law 27 of the Canton Land Regulations in regard to riding and driving (`King's Regulation No. 2 of 1905`) to be enforced against a German who, not being a lot-holder, has not given the above undertaking, say a German bluejacket? The bye-law is not German law, and the German Court would have no power to enforce it. The remedy would seem to be Regulations, agreed to by all the Treaty Powers, applying to all Concessions and issued, so far as we are concerned, under `Article 156` of the `Order in Council 1904`. There would, I believe, be no difficulty in drawing one set of Regulations to apply to all Concessions in China.\n\n1. \"Jurisdiction over land\" would be then provided for by the undertaking, and \n2. \"Jurisdiction over foreigners\" by such Regulations, without upsetting the present practice in regard to the jurisdiction. Perhaps these two measures might meet the German requirements. I agree that in both cases, there is a serious difficulty to be met, but I recommend the above course of action as likely to work better in practice than that proposed by Dr. Kriege.\n\n**Supreme Court, Shanghae, February 24, 1909.**\n\n**(Signed) F. S. A. BOURNE**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n### Acting Consul-General Ker to Sir J. Jordan\n\n**(No. 12.) Tien-tsin, February 4, 1909.**\n\nSir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch `No. 6` of the 30th ultimo, inclosing copies of correspondence relative to a proposal put forward by the German Delegate to the International Naval Conference in London for the modification of jurisdiction in the British and German Concessions in China, and calling for an expression of my views on the points raised by Dr. Kriege.\n\nDr. Kriege's suggestion is that the German Consular Authorities should have, within the limits of the German Concession, jurisdiction over British subjects \"in all matters relating to land and to the enforcement of municipal regulations,\" and that the British Consular authorities should have a like jurisdiction over German subjects.\n\nNo case is made out for granting such jurisdiction for the purpose of enforcing municipal regulations, and it suffices to apply to this part of the proposal Mr. Hurst's opinion that it \"would thrust upon us a considerable jurisdiction that there would be no advantage in possessing.\"\n\nWith regard to \"land matters,\" Dr. Kriege advances the arguments: (1) that money cannot be safely lent on mortgage unless both parties know their legal position, and (2) that the judgment of a foreign Consular Court cannot be enforced without application to the Consular Court of the Concession Power.\n\nTo meet these arguments, it is only necessary to examine the law and practice prevailing in the British Concession at Tien-tsin. If a German owns a lot in the British Concession and mortgages it to a Frenchman, the instrument of mortgage is registered in the British Consulate-General and nowhere else. The German authorities in Tien-tsin have expressly recognized that such registration is all that is necessary to give validity to the document; for it is obviously essential that the register of mortgages should exist alongside of and be complementary to the land-register.\n\nDuring the forty-eight years that the British Concession has existed in Tien-tsin, no legal proceedings have ever been taken to enforce a mortgage; but, in the case which I have quoted, if the French mortgagee required the help of the law to enforce their rights, they would naturally bring an action against the German mortgagor in the German Court, which, on due proof of the registration of the mortgage, would determine the rights of the parties by an application of the elementary principles of private international law. No further application in the British Consular Court would be necessary; the British Consul-General, acting in their executive capacity, would give effect to the Decree of the German Court.\n\nI venture to submit that the mere statement of the system now in force is sufficient to refute Dr. Kriege's arguments in favour of altering it. The system is, in fact, juridically more sound and logical than that suggested by Dr. Kriege, for even if the change were made, a British Court could only exercise a partial jurisdiction over a German defendant, the exact limits of which it would be impossible to define, for instance, that it is not contemplated that a British judge should have power to commit a German mortgagor to prison for contempt of Court. This is only one of many difficult questions which might arise and which might prove a fertile source of friction and inconvenience.\n\nPage 255  \n[2243 -3]",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[39842]\n\nOctober 30.(23 NOV 09)\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n86\n\n### No. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received October 30.)**\n\n(No. 320.)\n\nPeking, September 7, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copies of two despatches from the acting British consul-general at Mukden, with enclosures, respecting the arrest of a British subject named Birkett, by the South Manchurian railway settlement police at Changchun.\n\nBefore receiving Mr. Willis' second despatch, I had approved the terms of the note which he had addressed to his Japanese colleague on the 28th ultimo, but from the enclosures in Mr. Willis' second despatch, it would appear that the Japanese authorities admit that the proper course would have been to have handed Birkett over to the Chinese authorities pending reference to the nearest British consular officer, and that he was only detained at the hotel out of consideration for his personal comfort.\n\nThe action of the Japanese authorities in this case contrasts favourably with that of the Russian authorities in the case of Craig and Company's agent at Harbin, reported in my immediately preceding despatch.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**(No. 38.) Acting Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.**\n\nMukden, August 28, 1909.\n\nYESTERDAY morning I received notice from the Japanese police at Mukden that one Birkett, a British subject, had been arrested by the South Manchurian railway settlement police at Chang-chun for having obtained credit from the Yamato hotel at that place, and attempting to leave without settling his account. Birkett was being sent to Mukden by the South Manchurian railway, and would arrive the same evening.\n\nI at once saw Mr. Koike, my Japanese colleague, and arranged with him to take charge of the man at the railway station at Mukden. At the same time I told Mr. Koike clearly that I did not acknowledge the right of Japanese settlement police to arrest and detain British subjects. Mr. Koike replied that the Japanese Government claimed sole rights of administration in the railway areas, but added that he thought from his telegram that Birkett had not been arrested, but was coming down of his own free will.\n\nIn the absence of a constable attached to this consulate-general, and there being no possible place in my present quarters suitable for use as a cell, I was forced to request the assistance of the Chinese authorities for effecting the arrest and securing the detention of the accused. I thought it wiser to refuse Mr. Koike's offer of assistance, and the remainder of my colleagues are without facilities of this nature.\n\nAlthough I remanded Birkett for ten days so as to give him a chance of proving the truth of his statements, I have little doubt but that he is a confirmed swindler. As long as the Japanese police are de facto administering the railway settlements it seems to me that we cannot well object to their arrest of British subjects when it is necessary, in the interests of justice; but in this case Birkett was in their charge from 1:30 P.M. on the 26th August until 6 P.M. on the 27th, when he was handed to me.\n\nI consequently deemed it my duty to take exception to the action of the Japanese police, and accordingly I addressed a note to Mr. Koike, copy of which I have the honour to inclose.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nROBERT WILLIS.",
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        "content_text": "Sir,\n\n2\n\ncouncil's possession as to what has been done by the Chinese in Chapei to improve the police and sanitary conditions there.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nD. SIFFERT, Consul-General for Belgium and Senior Consul.\n\nChairman, Municipal Council, to Consul-General Sir P. Warren,\n\nShanghai, October 12, 1910.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the consular body's communication dated the 13th July, requesting information as to what progress has been made by the Chapei Administration towards the improvement of the police and sanitary conditions in that district.\n\nI have accordingly the honour to enclose police reports and memoranda from the Health Office and by the municipal engineer, giving complete replies to the consular body's enquiries. Therefrom it will be seen that there is little difference or improvement to be recorded. On the other hand, there are many indications in these reports of the risks which the foreign community incurs from this hazardous experiment on the settlement's borders, and of the many troublesome incidents which date from its inauguration.\n\nI have further the honour to enclose a protest by 100 owners of land in the neighbourhood registered in foreign consulates, and measuring nearly 3,000 mou. The total area registered in foreign consulates measures approximately 3,124 mou, inclusive of the council's holding of 400 mou.\n\nIt will be seen that the signatories object to intervention by the constabulary as an infringement upon their treaty rights. A still more serious irregularity is the attempted levy of taxation, to which the letter giving cover to this protest refers.\n\nI have no doubt that this influential expression of the views of the foreigners closely concerned, when transmitted to the diplomatic body at Peking, will receive the unstinted support which it merits, and that strong representations will be made in protest against the misdirected activities of the Chapei Administration.\n\nIn conclusion, I further venture to express the hope that the consular body, in forwarding the enclosed information to Peking, will endorse my request that efforts be steadily sustained to secure attention to the request of the community for an extension of the settlement, which, in the council's opinion, has now become a matter of urgent public necessity, and alone will prove the ultimate means of putting an end to rapidly growing complications.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nDAVID LANDALE.\n\nPolice Report.\n\nIn respect to what has been done by the Chinese in Chapei to improve the police conditions there, I have to offer the following remarks:\n\nI have never had the opportunity of seeing the inner organisation or working of the Chapei police, and therefore am not in a position to say what improvement has taken place during the last three years. It may, however, be of use to the consular body to recall the various difficulties which the police have experienced with the Chapei constabulary during the last two years. The attached list is a summary of these.\n\nSo far as my own observation goes during the three years I have been in charge of the force, it is clear that the Chapei constabulary, who function on the boundary, are placed there mainly for the purpose of watching our police force, and also for the purpose of maintaining what is called China's sovereign rights so far as the actual boundary itself is concerned.\n\nOn the Chinese side of the settlement boundary their work appears to be of little account, to judge by the open way in which armed parties of robbers can gain access to the north-eastern boundary of the settlement apparently whenever they wish.\n\nCo-operation in the true sense of the word is, I regret to say, impossible. The Shanghai municipal police are prepared to furnish all the usual means of co-operation, such as pawnshop circulars, circulars of lost property, circulars of deportees; also of prisoners wanted for serious crimes. But the result of the offer to furnish these details has resulted practically in no advantage.\n\nOn the other hand, the force is always ready to aid the Chinese authorities in the arrest of criminals wanted by them who have taken refuge within settlement limits. It is seldom that any such action is required from this force, for the reason that the Chapei authorities seem to have preference for the irregular action of sending their own runners, or men of even higher authority, into the settlement to make arrests themselves.\n\nThe only sign of co-operation (which it is a pleasure to refer to) is that given mainly in the West Hongkew and Hongkew districts on the northern border by underlings in charge of certain native stations there.\n\nSo long as the constabulary surrounding this settlement is organised and conducted under present methods, so long will co-operation be impossible. If the authorities in charge of police work at Soochow, Nanking, Hangchow, and other similar towns were really in earnest in endeavouring to aid this settlement in capturing criminals and preventing crime, very much might be done were modern organisation put into force. As things now are, it is, I regret to say, impossible to count upon assistance. For any bargain there must be reciprocity.\n\nC. D. BRUCE, Captain-Superintendent of Police.\n\nSub-Enclosure.\n\nMay 27, 1908.-Police Constable Sinclair assaulted by constabulary, vide council's letter of the 28th May; vide \"Municipal Gazette\" of the 4th June, 1908.\n\nMay 31, 1908.-Treatment of railway foreman by Chapei constabulary for assaulting an official's mafoo, vide \"Municipal Gazette\" of the 18th June and of the 6th August, 1908.\n\nReport for October, 1908.-No co-operation in recovery of stolen property. Pawnshops unsupervised, springing up on the settlement boundary.\n\nOctober 9, 1908.-Native police constable 384 arrested by constabulary and confined in an insanitary privy, vide \"Municipal Gazette\" of the 19th November, 1908.\n\nDecember 1908.-Shooting of two children and another attacked with a sword at gambling sheds, Harbin Road, vide \"Municipal Gazette\" of the 10th December, 1908.\n\nFebruary 1909.-Municipal servants molested in executing their ordinary duties in Alabaster Road, vide \"Municipal Gazette\" of the 18th February 1909.\n\nMarch 13, 1909.-Constabulary encroaching on road leading from North Szechuan Road to railway crossing, and molesting municipal servants, vide \"Municipal Gazette\" of the 15th April, 1909.\n\nReport for March.-Gambling in Li Hongkew, unsuppressed by the constabulary, in a depot about 200 yards from a constabulary station.\n\nReport for May.-The same subject.\n\nAugust 22, 1909.-Irregular arrest of Ng Ah-dau in Markham Road, vide \"Municipal Gazette\" of 21st October, 1909, p. 298, and \"Municipal Gazette\" of the 13th January, 1910, and the 20th January, 1910.\n\nSeptember 1909.-Obstruction by Wang Taotai, Superintendent of the Chapei Constabulary, to police action in endeavouring to arrest a suspected felon, and an ex-Chapei constable in refuge at his private residence, No. 11, Sinza Road, vide \"Municipal Gazette\" of the 21st October and the 28th October, 1909, pp. 303 and 314.\n\nReport for September.-Further communication on the same incident.\n\nReport for December.-Gambling in Li Hongkew sheds proceeding under the eyes of the constabulary.\n\nReport for February 1910.-Continued systematic public gambling beyond the boundary.\n\nReport for May 1910.-Armed robberies in Wayside and Yangtszepoo, and the inefficient manner in which Chinese authorities manage matters affecting the settlement or its north-east boundary.\n\nReport for June 1910.-Action of the Chapei constabulary in respect to the supply of pork.\n\nC. D. BRUCE, Captain-Superintendent of Police.\n\nPage 534",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nstabbing a woman to death, was transferred to the native city so that he might receive greater punishment, whence he escaped.\n\nThe case was fully reported in the local newspaper, and, in amplification of the published account, I have the honour to enclose a copy of the police report on the case.\n\nThe council take the opportunity to express the view that the time has arrived for further effort in the direction of restoring to the mixed court its former powers of punishment in all cases except such as call for death penalty or banishment. The growing interests of the settlement, both in respect of its population and its foreign commerce, is such as to warrant the view that the mixed court, the sole tribunal for commercial suits against natives and for police and criminal cases, is second in importance to no court of justice in China.\n\nI need allude at no great length to the disabilities under which the court at present labours; to its obsolete and quite unworkable code of regulations; to its insignificant official status as a branch or junior court under the native city magistrate; to the indefensible limitation of its power to inflict blows, while every petty yamên in the vicinity of the settlement still retains this necessary means of handling the Chinese criminal classes. These are but the broadest indications of what is necessary to set the mixed court of Shanghai upon an adequate basis.\n\nThe council's object in addressing the consular body in the matter is that representations may be made in Peking, couched in terms of firm remonstrance; giving the necessary serious warning that the present attitude of the native authorities in respect to the court is leading to a grave situation; pointing out that no more suitable time than the present will arise for pressing the matter to a satisfactory issue.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nD. LANDALE, Chairman,\n\nShanghai Municipal Council,\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n3\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nConsul General Sir P. Warren to Mr. Max Müller.\n\n(No. 62.) Sir,\n\nShanghai, August 9, 1910. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 32 of the 27th ultimo with reference to the transfer of criminals from the Shanghai Mixed Court to the magistrate's court in the city.\n\nThe present situation is correctly described in the letter of the municipal council to the senior consul of the 4th April, and the sole remedy would seem to be to increase the powers of the mixed court by allowing the court to deal with all cases not involving the death penalty. Such an increase of the powers of the court would be vigorously opposed by the Chinese authorities, who are bent upon reducing the powers of the court to a minimum, and care nothing for the consequent increased difficulty in policing and controlling the criminal classes in the international settlement. As has been frequently pointed out, it would be a great advantage if the mixed court magistrate were of higher rank than at present and in consequence more independent; as matters now are he is completely under the thumb of the taotai.\n\nThe abolition of the use of the bamboo in the settlement, while it is still freely used in the city, has caused the flocking into the settlement of numbers of the rowdy class who, although dreading corporal punishment, care little or nothing for a few months' imprisonment in the municipal gaol. There is some difficulty, however, in asking for the restoration of the bamboo, though there seems to be good reason to believe that the Chinese authorities would be willing to consent to it if asked to do so.\n\nI consider that the only possible way of improving the present position of affairs is by increasing the powers of the court as indicated above, and appointing independent magistrates of higher rank than the present incumbents. I fear, however, that it will be difficult to persuade the Chinese authorities to consent to either of those reforms.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nPELHAM L. WARREN.\n\nSir,\n\nMr. Landale to M. Siffert.\n\nCouncil Room, Shanghai, July 5, 1910.\n\nIN continuation of my letter of the 4th April, I have the honour to refer to the recent escape of thirty-nine criminals from the city penitentiary.\n\nThe council in the light of past experience realises that it may be difficult, though not impossible to guard against a sudden outbreak such as appears to have occurred on this occasion. The fact that the prisoners were able to obtain possession of fire-arms gives ground for some alarm, but it is satisfactory to note from reports submitted by the captain superintendent of police that numbers of the fugitives have been arrested before damage or violence was done.\n\nI must not, however, omit to take notice of the occurrence as a further example of the unfortunate results following from the curtailment of the powers of punishment of the mixed court. There is a growing number of instances in which justice had been defeated by the present unsatisfactory practice of transferring offenders to the native city so that they may receive greater punishment than five years imprisonment. On this occasion two of the escaped prisoners were members of the gang concerned in the murder of Chinese constable No. 664 in January 1909, and it is reported that they have not yet been recaptured.\n\nThe council cannot refrain from bringing the matter formally to your notice requesting the consular body to communicate officially to the authorities at Peking the fact that thirty-nine hardened criminals of types such as this have contrived to overpower their guard in the city, and that at least ten of their number even now remain at large. I trust that what has occurred will be taken as a striking illustration of the urgency of still seeking remedy for the state of affairs to which attention has been drawn in my last letter on that subject and in the council's many representations during recent years.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nD. LANDALE, Chairman,\n\nShanghai Municipal Council.\n\n538",
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        "content_text": "233\n\nThe greater part of the population affected is probably\n\nwithout food and with little chance of getting any for\n\nsome days. To increase the distress a great fire broke\n\nout in the city on the evening of the 13th instant and\n\nburned all that night and the following day.\n\nlife and property will be enormous.\n\nThe loss of\n\nThe Concessions on Shameen are under water to a\n\ndepth of some four or five feet and the ground floor of\n\nnearly every house is completely flooded. The Consular\n\nhouses, which are among the oldest on the Concession, have\n\nsuffered to a greater extent than others. A part of the\n\nConstable's quarters has already fallen.\n\nThe front of\n\nthe Consul-General's house has sunk and threatens to\n\ncollapse at any moment and there are serious cracks in the\n\nVice-Consul's house. None of these buildings are safe and\n\nhave had to be evacuated.\n\nThanks to the strenuous\n\nefforts of my staff, who were working for three days up\n\nto their waists in water, the archives and records of the\n\noffice have been placed out of reach of the water and will\n\nbe safe, provided that the office building does not\n\ncollapse.\n\nI shall report to His Majesty's Office of Works in\n\ndue course as to the condition of the Government buildings.\n\nYesterday",
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        "content_text": "No. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n19\n\n18\n\nDeath or desertion to be reported.\n\nPenalty on master for unclean condition of ship.\n\n(7) In the event of the death of any of the crew, passengers, or other persons on board of any ship in the waters of the Colony, or of the desertion of any of the crew of any British or colonial ship or of any foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Colony, or in the event of the death of any of the crew, passengers or persons on board of any ship in the course of a voyage to the Colony, the master of such ship shall, forthwith or on the arrival of the ship in the Colony, as the case may be, report the same to the Harbour Master, and, in default, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars for every death or desertion which he may neglect to report.\n\n(8) If any ship carrying passengers from any port or place to any port or place in the Colony is found, on its arrival in the Colony, to be in a filthy and insanitary condition, the master of the ship shall, on summary conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer of the Port to inspect every such ship on its arrival in order to ascertain the sanitary condition thereof.\n\nSeaman or apprentice deserting may be apprehended and put on board vessel to which he belongs, etc.\n\nDiscipline.\n\n9.—(1)(a) If any seaman or apprentice belonging to the crew of any British ship deserts therefrom or absents himself from his duty while the ship is within the waters of the Colony, it shall be lawful for any police officer, or for the master or person in charge of the ship, or for anyone specially deputed by such master or person in charge to arrest such seaman or apprentice without warrant and convey him before a Stipendiary Magistrate; and in case such seaman or apprentice refuses to return to his duty on board the ship or does not give a sufficient reason for such refusal, the Stipendiary Magistrate may order such seaman or apprentice to be put forcibly on board the ship or to be confined in any gaol or other place of security within the Colony, for any period, until he can be put on board the ship at her departure from the port or until he is demanded by the master of the ship: Provided always that the said period of confinement shall not, in the absence of such departure or demand, exceed 3 months.\n\n(b) If any seaman or apprentice deserts, when within the waters of the Colony, from a merchant ship belonging to a subject of any foreign country to which an Order in Council has declared that section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall apply, any Court, Justice, or officer who would have had cognizance of the matter if the seaman or apprentice had deserted from a British ship shall, on the application of a consular officer of the foreign country, aid in apprehending the deserter, and for that purpose may, on information given upon oath, issue a warrant for his apprehension, and, on proof of the desertion, order him to be conveyed on board his ship or delivered to the master or mate of his ship, or to the owner of the ship or his agent, to be so conveyed; and any such warrant or order may be executed accordingly. If any person harbours or secretes any deserter liable to be apprehended under this sub-section, knowing or having reason to believe that he has deserted, he shall for each offence, on summary conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars.\n\n• As amended by No. 2 of 1903, No. 80 of 1911, No. 61 of 1911, No. 16 of 1912, No. 17 of 1912 and No. 21 of 1912.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for a Stipendiary Magistrate, on complaint of the master of any British ship to the effect that he has reasonable cause to believe that any seaman who has deserted while such ship is within the waters of the Colony is harboured, secreted, or concealed, or suspected to be harboured, secreted, or concealed, on board any other ship, boat, or other vessel or in any house or place whatsoever, to issue a warrant directing a constable to search such ship, boat, or other vessel, or such house or place, and to lodge such seaman in any police station; and every such seaman shall, with all convenient speed, be brought before a Stipendiary Magistrate, to be dealt with as is hereinbefore directed.\n\n(3) If any person harbours, conceals, employs, or retains, or assists in harbouring, concealing, employing, or retaining, any seaman belonging to the crew of any British ship who has deserted therefrom or otherwise absconded or absented himself from duty, while such ship is within the waters of the Colony, knowing such seaman to have deserted, absconded, or absented himself from duty, or causes, induces, or persuades, or endeavours to cause, induce, or persuade, any such seaman in any manner whatsoever to violate, or to attempt or endeavour to violate, any agreement which he may have entered into to serve on board any such ship, or knowingly connives at the desertion, absconding, or absence from duty of any such seaman, such person so offending shall for every such offence, on summary conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding 250 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 6 months.",
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        "content_text": "Page 2\n\nThe text appears to be a jumbled mix of nonsensical words and phrases, likely due to OCR errors. However, from line 382 onwards, a coherent text starts.\n\n382\n\nused they would have a demonstration by three to four thousand natives who could then very easily invade Shameen inspite of protection from gunboats. He begged to propose the adoption of the amendment.\n\nMr. de Courcy seconded.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Tope asked what was the numerical strength of the police force on the British Concession?\n\nThe Chairman of the Municipal Council: The numerical strength at present is 38.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General explained that the police were divided into shifts, twelve being the largest number on duty at one time.\n\nMr. Walker proposed that in place of a native inspector a foreign inspector be engaged. The Chinese police, he considered, required much more control than at present.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: That would double the amount to be voted.\n\nThe Chairman of the Municipal Council: There is already a European Superintendent the Consular Constable, who is doing that work.\n\nMr. Walker explained that the recent outrage had shown them that the police force needed more control. If there was to be a repetition of such an occurrence they should see to it that the police were under better control.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: There is no question of another outrage. As explained the question of engaging the men was thought of before the outrage occurred. It is merely a Police measure to regulate the traffic in Shameen.\n\nMr. Walker: I consider it is absolutely necessary to have a foreign inspector; especially after the outrage.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: I think it is a matter which requires to be treated separately, and if the Council thinks that a foreign inspector is necessary we can bring it up later.\n\nPage 25",
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        "content_text": "A C \n\n:Nemoj [aqbol, ent to Heleno ENT \n\nI puloc actio ereydu yn aniyel tuonti \n\nLED: TLOY TOE \n\nesdu. \n\nTATEĢOJOT \n\n...icitpicast #I? seogong of sa hiwov \n\nbmw at Leltuiouen aliis 11 tout voy MLT BILOT I \n\nCONCL & no „rap weg Mica, to zat » erlupen DIN- \n\nbrir-eno CA CELJE TE: 7900* tug dati,bri no „thes 79q .wz9% piát rok æt feeASTONİ \n\nZELB, 10 BUZI F \n\n1** MTAKTO pocowing 1776 QUL,JON ON +\"76 L8ROJITIQU* \n\nAlege tro Man D) Telon-Ius:100 .m.d.H egete afat da \n\n914 AMOR? CA \n\n: \n\n, \n\n\"AY DI .adX18 vc enantio' vd govet \n\n1550 NOVI LÀ DAGEGET DI 29 776 80- \n\n... \n\nzł „ybodyerve of „potol-Lube orer sofav milk to the gola dast avoxx-IIGH I no di esalg dent est \n\nILTAST OF TImed \"on 9797 veitt erentino to antibred and ot axle ti kay medi .ed diaba yarit në rbortem wiert mi \n\nSotal annio est muut noon tivow you hayo Igns STOW \n\nCASAL. · don arow yadt dent nworin beri daek 'tri a.it Ze or Inuenië 14 300ɔanda xi betapa reed hon eɔting matƐ A SLULCTJ meed hai averit I .aidvora of bei tai ei.t \n\nered sident to boo..llexit erom net so event, ndron sasild \n\naati dore nt arsala MI Dish at had yadt era. \n\nsi birow are.* tunt redrezer at bed var .nT9dNam \n\nrt beo.:sfreqxe ytimcftina Seahlzmo from graft dict \n\n249\" and Irestaurant Terk voxuan li bensqged Ma dede werd ***** *wer clit c.* vatwo usto vital ent at Bed \n\n***ELATAN STOM TI EJ Sircy +i nasmenë II 979 \n\nJon car JSAS DI Curtion to tell and al ment edita Atiy \n\n25 \n\n505 \n\nused they would have a demonstration by three to four thousand natives who could then very easily invade Shameen inspite of protection from gunboats. He begged to propose the adoption of the amendment. \n\nMr. de Courcy seconded. \n\nThe Rev. Mr. Tope asked what was the numerical strength of the police force on the British Concession? The Chairman of the Municipal Council: The numerical strength at present is 38. \n\nH.B.M. Consul-General explained that the police were divided into shifts, twelve being the largest number on duty at one time. \n\nMr. Walker proposed that in place of a native inspector a foreign inspector be engaged. The Chinese police, he considered, required much more control than at present. \n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: That would double the amount to be voted. \n\nThe Chairman of the Municipal Council: There is already a European Superintendent the Consular Constable, who is doing that work. \n\nMr. Walker explained that the recent outrage had shown them that the police force needed more control. If there was to be a repetition of such an occurrence they should see to it that the police were under better control. \n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: There is no question of another outrage. As explained the question of engaging the men was thought of before the outrage occurred. It is merely a Police measure to regulate the traffic in Shameen. \n\nMr. Walker: I consider it is absolutely necessary to have a foreign inspector; especially after the outrage. \n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: I think it is a matter which requires to be treated separately, and if the Council thinks that a foreign inspector is necessary we can bring it up later.",
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        "content_text": "## Part V - Execution of Warrants and Removal of Prisoners\n\n101. \n52 be delivered to the commander or master of any vessel in which the person to whom the writ, order, or warrant relates is embarked.\n\n(4) Where the writ, order, or warrant issues from the Supreme Court and is executed by a Provincial Court, a copy thereof certified under the seal of the Court executing the same shall be delivered to the constable, officer, or other person acting thereunder, and to the commander or master of any vessel in which the person taken is embarked; and any such copy shall be for all purposes conclusive evidence of the order of which it purports to be a copy.\n\n149.-(1) Subject to the other provisions of this Order, all expenses of removal of prisoners and others from or to any place in Egypt, and the expenses of sending any person to England or elsewhere, shall be defrayed in such manner as the Secretary of State from time to time directs.\n\n(2) Any master of a British ship when required shall be bound to take such persons for a reasonable remuneration, to be determined by a judge of the Supreme Court, and in case of non-compliance shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.\n\n150. The following Acts, namely \n-- \nThe Foreign Tribunals Evidence Act, 1856,(a) \nThe Evidence by Commission Act, 1859,(b) \nThe Evidence by Commission Act, 1885,(c) \nor so much thereof as is for the time being in force, shall extend to Egypt, with the adaptation following, namely:- \nIn the said Acts the Supreme Court is substituted for a Supreme Court in a Colony.\n\n151. The following Acts, namely:- \nThe British Law Ascertainment Act, 1859,(d) \nThe Foreign Law Ascertainment Act, 1861,(e) \nor so much thereof as is for the time being in force, shall extend to Egypt, with the adaptation following, namely :— \nIn the said Acts the Supreme Court is substituted for a Superior Court in a Colony.\n\n152. The Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893,(f) shall extend to Egypt with the following adaptations, namely:- \nThe said Act shall read as if the words \"in Egypt\" were substituted for the words \"in the United Kingdom\" and the words \"this Order and any other Order relating to Egypt, and any Regulations or Rules made under any such Order,\" were added after the words \"Act of Parliament\" in section 1 of that Act.\n\n(a) 19 & 20 V. c. 113. \n(b) 22 V. c. 20. \n(d) 22–3 V. c. 69. \n(f) 56–7 V. c. 61. \n(c) 48-9 V. c. 74. \n(e) 24-5 V. c. 11.\n\n## Part VI.-Egyptian and Foreign Subjects and Tribunals\n\n53 \n153.-(1) Where a foreigner desires to institute or take in the Court an action against a British subject, or a British subject desires to institute or take in the Court an action against a foreigner, the Court shall, subject to the provisos hereinafter contained, entertain the same, and shall hear and determine it :- \nProvided that :- \n(1) the foreigner, if defendant, submits to the jurisdiction, and \n(2) the Court may require the foreigner, whether plaintiff or defendant, (a) to obtain and file in Court the consent in writing of his consular officer or other competent authority to his submission to the jurisdiction, and (b) to give security to the satisfaction of the Court, and to such reasonable amount as the Court thinks fit, by deposit or otherwise, to pay fees, damages, costs, and expenses, and to abide by and perform such decision as shall be given by the Court or on appeal.\n\n(2) The Court may hear and determine any case under this Article either with or without a jury or assessors, as the Court shall think fit, and in all other respects according to the ordinary procedure of the Court.\n\n(3) No cross action or counter claim shall be brought against a plaintiff who is a foreigner unless the conditions provided in paragraph (1) of the proviso to this Article are fulfilled.\n\n(4) Where a foreigner obtains in the Court an order against a defendant, being a British subject, and in another suit before the Court or another tribunal in Egypt that defendant is plaintiff and the foreigner is defendant, the Court may, if it thinks fit, on the application of the British subject, stay the enforcement of the order pending that other suit, and may set off any amount ordered to be paid by one party in one suit against any amount ordered to be paid by the other party in the other suit.\n\n154.-(1) Where it is shown either by the request of the Court or judicial officer concerned, or otherwise, that the attendance of a British subject to give evidence, or for any other purpose connected with the administration of justice, is required in an Egyptian Court or before an Egyptian judicial officer, or in a Court or before a judicial officer in Egypt of a State in amity with His Majesty, the Court may, if it thinks fit, in a case and in circumstances in which the Court would require his attendance before itself, order that he do attend in such Court, or before such judicial officer, and for such purposes as aforesaid.\n\n(2) A Provincial Court cannot so order attendance at any place beyond its jurisdiction.\n\n102",
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        "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905",
        "content_text": "## Paragraph 9\n\nHe says \"As far as I can gather through Guerilla sources H.E. is closely confined in Room 406 of the Peninsula Hotel. He has been allowed no contact with the Secretariat or anyone else since the surrender. It is said and I repeat it for what it is worth that he is not permitted to look on the faces of any servants. I know no facts of his confinement\".\n\nI will give here a few notes I have made re H.E. He took the surrender very keenly this I understand from Wing Commander H.T. Bennett, R.A.F., who was I believe Liaison Officer between the Japanese and British Forces. I'm not sure if one had a Liaison Officer between enemy forces but he certainly was our official Interpreter and was staying with the G.O.C. at the time of surrender. He said that H.E. on the evening of the 25th December 1941 sat in the corner of the drawing room and literally retched. Apparently even the Japanese G.O.C. felt for him and treated him with the greatest courtesy and kindness sending him over to the Peninsula Hotel and then sending his personal boy over with his effects. Also, I have received the impression that the surrender came as a shock to H.E. as he was seen by A.J.R. Moss walking down Ice House Street at about 1 pm. News of the surrender was received at 4-30 pm. on the day of the surrender with only a Chinese Police Constable with him; this was his usual procedure during the War when he hailed Moss by name and asked him how his truck driving was faring. He appeared in the best of spirits. I later heard that H.E. refused to give the Japanese any assistance which they asked for in running the Colony. This last is purely rumour though and I cannot give the source.\n\n## Paragraph 11 - American and Dutch Consulates\n\nMr. V.P. Thompson's notes read as follows:\n\n\"As from about 9.3.42, interned in separately guarded establishment (Preparatory School) at Stanley. No contact with Camp. Guarded by former Hongkong Police. Previously were confined somewhere in town.\"\n\nI will add that actually they are guarded by former Hongkong Indian and Chinese Police and I understood that they were previously confined in their residences on the Peak. Also this Preparatory School was used, when we were first interned, to house approximately one hundred and fifty British men who were, just before the American Consular Officials arrived, moved to the Indian Warders Quarters. The barbed wire around the garden was also removed and a white stone wall erected which was about eight feet high. I received the impression that the Consular Officials were confined to the building as they were often seen taking exercise on the flat roof of the building. I very seldom saw them in the garden. The removal of the barbed wire from around this building caused much speculation in the Camp and when it was found that Consular Officials were to be interned there it was argued that under International Law Consular Officials may not be confined behind barbed wire and they are also to receive special protection - this may explain the careful watch that is placed over them. There is still barbed wire along the beach which is at the foot of the garden of this building. I believe they have their Chinese servants with them and from what I saw were driven in in their own car. Certainly their Consul's Packard was parked in the garden. I am now referring to Bruins, U.S. Consul and Acting Consul General when Southerd was away from Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n341\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n10\n\n[8.9 contd.] period, until he can be put on board the ship when the ship leaves the port or until he is demanded by the master of the ship: Provided always that the said period of confinement shall not, in the absence of such departure or demand, exceed three months.\n\n57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 238.\n\nShip or house may be searched for deserter.\n\nPenalty on person harbouring deserter.\n\n(b) If any seaman or apprentice deserts, when within the waters of the Colony, from a merchant ship belonging to a subject of any foreign country to which an Order in Council has declared that section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall apply, any court, justice, or officer who would have had cognizance of the matter if the seaman or apprentice had deserted from a British ship shall, on the application of a consular officer of the foreign country, aid in apprehending the deserter, and for that purpose may, on information given upon oath, issue a warrant for his apprehension, and, on proof of the desertion, order him to be conveyed on board his ship or delivered to the master or mate of his ship, or to the owner of the ship or his agent, to be so conveyed; and any such warrant or order may be executed accordingly. Every person who harbours or secretes any deserter liable to be apprehended under this sub-section, knowing or having reason to believe that he has deserted, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for a magistrate, on complaint of the master of any British ship to the effect that he has reasonable cause to believe that any seaman who has deserted while such ship is within the waters of the Colony is harboured, secreted or concealed, or suspected to be harboured, secreted or concealed, on board any other ship, boat or other vessel or in any house or place whatsoever, to issue a warrant directing a constable to search such ship, boat or other vessel, or such house or place, and to lodge such seaman in any police station; and every such seaman shall, with all convenient speed, be brought before a magistrate, to be dealt with as is hereinbefore directed.\n\n(3) Every person who-\n\n(a) harbours, conceals, employs or retains, or assists in harbouring, concealing, employing or retaining, any seaman belonging to the crew of any British ship who has deserted therefrom or otherwise absconded or absented himself from duty, while such ship is within the waters of the Colony,\n\nknowing such seaman to have deserted, absconded or absented [s. 9 contd.] himself from duty; or\n\n(b) causes, induces or persuades, or attempts to cause, induce or persuade, any such seaman in any manner whatsoever to violate or to attempt to violate any agreement which he may have entered into to serve on board any such ship; or\n\n(c) knowingly connives at the desertion, absconding or absence from duty of any such seaman,\n\nshall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.\n\ndeclaration\n\n(4) The Harbour Master, before granting a port clearance Harbour\n\nMaster to any ship, may, if he has reasonable grounds for believing that\n\nmay require any deserter is concealed on board such ship, proceed on board master to thereof, and then and there require the master to institute due search for suspected and diligent search for such deserter, and further, if he deems deserters, it necessary, require the master to make a statutory declaration and to make that to the best of his knowledge and belief, after due and of search. diligent search, no such deserter is concealed within or about his ship; and every master of a ship who refuses or unnecessarily delays to comply with such requisition shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars; and every master of a ship who makes any such statutory declaration containing any false statement shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.\n\n(5) Every Seaman lawfully engaged, and every apprentice Offences to the sea service, who commits any of the following offences against\n\ndiscipline. within the waters of the Colony, shall be liable to be punished as follows:—\n\n(a) if he deserts from his ship, he shall be guilty of the 57 & 58 Vict. offence of desertion, and be liable to forfeit all or any part of c. 60, s. 221. the effects which he leaves on board and of the wages which he has then earned and also to satisfy any excess of wages properly paid by the owner or master of the ship to any substitute engaged in his place at a higher rate of wages than the rate stipulated to be paid to him; and also he shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve weeks;\n\n(b) if he neglects, or refuses without reasonable cause, to join his ship or to proceed to sea in his ship, or is absent without leave at any time within twenty-four hours of the ship's\n\n342",
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        "content_text": "423\n\n18\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n[3.9 contd.] period, until he can be put on board the ship when the ship leaves the port or until he is demanded by the master of the ship: Provided always that the said period of confinement shall not, in the absence of such departure or demand, exceed three months.\n\n57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 238.\n\nShip or house may be searched for deserter. Penalty on person harbouring deserter.\n\n(b) If any seaman or apprentice deserts, when within the waters of the Colony, from a merchant ship belonging to a subject of any foreign country to which an Order in Council has declared that section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall apply, any court, justice, or officer who would have had cognizance of the matter if the seaman or apprentice had deserted from a British ship shall, on the application of a consular officer of the foreign country, aid in apprehending the deserter, and for that purpose may, on information given upon oath, issue a warrant for his apprehension, and, on proof of the desertion, order him to be conveyed on board his ship or delivered to the master or mate of his ship, or to the owner of the ship or his agent, to be so conveyed; and any such warrant or order may be executed accordingly. Every person who harbours or secretes any deserter liable to be apprehended under this sub-section, knowing or having reason to believe that he has deserted, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for a magistrate, on complaint of the master of any British ship to the effect that he has reasonable cause to believe that any seaman who has deserted while such ship is within the waters of the Colony is harboured, secreted or concealed, or suspected to be harboured, secreted or concealed, on board any other ship, boat or other vessel or in any house or place whatsoever, to issue a warrant directing a constable to search such ship, boat or other vessel, or such house or place, and to lodge such seaman in any police station; and every such seaman shall, with all convenient speed, be brought before a magistrate, to be dealt with as is herein before directed.\n\n(3) Every person who—\n\n(a) harbours, conceals, employs or retains, or assists in harbouring, concealing, employing or retaining, any seaman belonging to the crew of any British ship who has deserted therefrom or otherwise absconded or absented himself from duty, while such ship is within the waters of the Colony,\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n19\n\nknowing such seaman to have deserted, absconded or absented [8. 9 contd.] himself from duty; or\n\n(b) causes, induces or persuades, or attempts to induce or persuade, any such seaman in any manner whatsoever to violate or to attempt to violate any agreement which he may have entered into to serve on board any such ship; or\n\n(c) knowingly connives at the desertion, absconding or absence from duty of any such seaman,\n\nshall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.\n\nand to make declaration of search.\n\n(4) The Harbour Master, before granting a port clearance Harbour Master to any ship, may, if he has reasonable grounds for believing that may require any deserter is concealed on board such ship, proceed on board master to thereof, and then and there require the master to institute due search for suspected and diligent search for such deserter, and further, if he deems deserters, it necessary, require the master to make a statutory declaration that to the best of his knowledge and belief, after due and diligent search, no such deserter is concealed within or about his ship; and every master of a ship who refuses or unnecessarily delays to comply with such requisition shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars; and every master of a ship who makes any such statutory declaration containing any false statement shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.\n\n(5) Every seaman lawfully engaged, and every apprentice Offences to the sea service, who commits any of the following offences against discipline. within the waters of the Colony, shall be liable to be punished as follows:\n\n(a) if he deserts from his ship, he shall be guilty of the 57 & 58 Vict. offence of desertion, and be liable to forfeit all or any part of c. 60, s. 221. the effects which he leaves on board and of the wages which he has then earned and also to satisfy any excess of wages properly paid by the owner or master of the ship to any substitute engaged in his place at a higher rate of wages than the rate stipulated to be paid to him; and also he shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve weeks;\n\n(b) if he neglects, or refuses without reasonable cause, join his ship or to proceed to sea in his ship, or is absent without leave at any time within twenty-four hours of the ship's\n\n424",
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