[ { "id": 228037, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "Michaelmas Term 18776.8.\n\nExtract from the Records of the Supreme Court of Hongkong.\n\nMAY 1\n\n1348\n\nSaturday the fourteenth day of November 1846\n\n337\n\nIn re Cheung Apion Mr. M. Swyney moved that the return to the Habeas Corpus be filed, but a proper return not having been made (the Writ being imperfectly served) the Court ordered the prisoners to be remanded, and the return to stand over till Wednesday the 18th day of November.\n\nMr M Swyney moved for Writ of Certiorari to be directed to the Chief Magistrate for production of the depositions taken in this case at the Police Office, Granted.\n\nMichaelmas Term. Wednesday the eighteenth day of November 1846.\n\nCheung Apeon & Hong Afoong brought up on Habeas Corpus on the Motion of Mr. M Swyney. The Court ordered them to be discharged together with the other prisoners in the same Warrant; having suffered all the imprisonment authorised by Ordinance.\n\nCertified Extract\n\nRot Binne das Pay Registrar of The Supreme Court", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228156, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 460, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "Bo\n\nQ\n\nTY\n\n453\n\nAppendix.\n\nReport on the\n\nIsland of Hong Kong.\n\nDissent in Council\n\nagainst Opium\n\nOrdinance.\n\nTranslation of a\n\nGrant or Treaty of Privileges.\n\n[ 24 ]\n\nopen to ships under every flag; and that encouragement be given for the resort to and settlement on the island of other European nations. If this be done, a few years will determine whether it be possible to create any trade, or induce any resort to Hong Kong. Large Government establishments, and an immense outlay of the public money for the last three years have produced no beneficial result; but the opium traders, and those who choose to resort thither, have a voice in the management of the affairs of the colony. There can scarcely be less general trade, less prosperity, less security to life and property, than now exists, with a large garrison on shore and a fleet in the harbour.\n\nIf there were any one advantage, political, commercial, financial, or religious, present or prospective, derivable to England from the existing establishments at Hong Kong, there would be some justification for the expense now being incurred, and for the great annual sacrifices of life; but when such advantages do not exist, it is worse than folly to persist in a course begun in error, and which, if continued, must eventually end in national loss and general disappointment.\n\nHong Kong, July 1844.\n\n(2.)\n\nR. M. Martin.\n\nDISSENTIENT on the Proposition for Licensing the Retail and Consumption of OPIUM\n\nin this Colony, on the following grounds\n\n*\n\n1st. Because the consumption of opium is not necessary to the subsistence and health of man, and is therefore a vicious indulgence.\n\n2d. Because the use of opium is not only a vice in itself, but the parent of many other vices; and whoever indulges in opium never ceases its use until poverty and death\n\nensue.\n\n3d. Because it is no justification to say, that as gin, beer, wine, and other fermented liquors are stimulants, attended with pernicious consequences when used continuously in excess, that therefore the use of opium may also be licensed by Government. The experience of civilized nations has shown that fermented liquors are advantageous to the healthful energy of man; but no experience has shown that opium is beneficial to the body or mind of man individually or collectively.\n\n4th. Because no Government ought to make private vice a source of public revenue.\n\n5th. Because, independent of the foregoing and other considerations, the peculiar position in which England at present stands towards the Chinese government on this subject, the strong feeling entertained by a very large and influential portion of the British community at home respecting the sale of opium in China, and the risk which his Excellency incurs of creating an unfavourable impression against his government, without any corresponding fiscal advantage to the State, renders it unadvisable to license the consumption of opium in this colony.\n\nDesirous of earnestly and faithfully advising his Excellency, these remarks are offered for the Governor's consideration with great respect.\n\n26 November 1844.\n\n(3.)\n\nR. M. Martin,\n\nTRANSLATION of a GRANT OF TREATY of PRIVILEGES conceded by the Emperor of Japan to the English, A.D. 1613.\n\n[Original in the Firogane or Cursive character.]\n\nImprimis.-Wee give free licence to the subjects of the King of Great Britain, viz., Sir Thomas Smith, Governor and Company of the East India merchants and adventurers, for ever safely to come into any of our ports of the Empire of Japan, with their shippes and merchandize, without any hindrance to them or their goods; and to abide, buy, sell, and barter, according\n\n[ 25 ]\n\naccording to their own manner, with all nations; to tarry here as long as they think good, and depart at their pleasure.\n\nAppendix.\n\nTranslation of a\n\nItem the 2d.-Wee grant unto them freedom of custom for all such merchandize as either\n\nGrant or Treaty of\n\nnow they have brought, or hereafter shall bring into our kingdom, or shall from hence transport to any foreign part; and do authorize those shippes that hereafter shall arrive and come from England, to proceed to present sale of their commodities without further coming or sending up to our court.\n\nItem the 3d. If any of their shippes shall happen to be in danger of shipwreck, wee will our subjects not only to assist them, but that such parts of shippe and goods as shall be saved be returned to their captain, or Cape merchant, or their assignees; and that they shall or may build one house or more for themselves in any part of our empire where they shall think fittest, and at their departure to make sale thereof at their pleasure.\n\nItem the 4th.If any of the English merchants or others shall depart this life within our dominions, the goods of the deceased shall remain at the dispose of the Cape merchant; and that all offences committed by them shall be punished by the said Cape merchant according to his discretion, and our laws to take no hold of their persons or goods.\n\nItem the 5th, Wee will that yee our subjects trading with them for any of their commodities pay them for the same, according to agreement, without delay or return of their goods again unto them.\n\nItem the 6th. For such commodities as they have now brought or shall hereafter bring, fitting for our service and proper use, wee will that no arrest be made thereof; but that the price be made with the Cape merchant, according as they may sell to others, and present payment upon the delivery of the goods.\n\nItem the 7th. If in discovery of other countries for trade, and return of their shippes they shall need meat or victuals, wee will that yee our subjects furnish them for their money as their needs shall require.\n\nItem the 8th. And without any other passporte, they shall and may set out to the northward upon discovery of Yead Yo, or any other part in or about our empire.\n\nFrom our Castle at Surunga, this first day of the ninth month, and in the eighteenth year of our dairy, according to our computation.\n\nSealed with our broad seal and underwritten,\n\n(4.)\n\nMinna Mouttano, Yei. Ye. Yeas.\n\nTO THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN,\n\nYOUR Majesty's kind letter, sent by your servant Captain John Sares (who is the first\n\nTo the King of\n\nI have known to arrive in any part of my dominions), I heartily embrace, being not a little\n\nGreat Britain.\n\nglad to understand of your great wisdom and power, as having three plentiful and mighty Kingdoms under your powerful command. I acknowledge your Majesty's great bounty in sending me so undeserved a present of many rare things, such as my land affordeth not, neither have I ever before seen, which I receive, not as from a stranger, but as from Majesty, whom I esteem as myself.\n\nyour\n\nDesiring the continuance of friendship with your Highness, and that it may stand with your good liking to send your subjects to any port or part of my dominions, where they shall be most heartily welcome; applauding much their worthiness in their admirable navigation, having with much facility discovered a country so remote, being nowhat amazed with the distance of so mighty a gulf, nor greatness of such infinite clouds and storms, from prosecuting honourable enterprizes of discoveries and merchandizing, wherein they shall find me to further them according to their desires.\n\nI return unto your Majesty a small token of my love (by your said subject), desiring you to accept thereof as from him that much rejoiceth in your friendship.\n\nAnd whereas your Majesty's subjects have desired certain privileges for trade and settling of a factory in my dominions, I have not only granted what they demanded, but have confirmed the same unto them under my broad seal, for better establishing thereof.\n\nFrom my Castle at Surunga, this fourth day of ninth, in the eighteenth year of our dairy, according to our computation, subscribed.\n\nG\n\nMinna Mouttano, Yei. Ye. Yeas.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231938, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "content_text": "Copy to Gor for information to 2.1 Wet/f51262.\n\n1.. 1\n\nFor de for\n\n8546 trọng trong Aduurally\n\nCorr\n\n9 October. 1851.\n\nOCT. 11 1851\n\nCommissione\n\n136\n\nand buying\n\nof the\n\nAdmically to transmit to you herewith, for the information\n\nCarl Grey, the copy of a letter\n\ndated the 18th August last,\n\nfrom Rear Admiral Austen\n\nrelative to Amber ... having been\n\ndetected at the Entrance to the China Sea,\n\nHave the honor to be\n\nYour\n\nLi... obedient Servant\n\nColonial Office\n\nUpon reviewing the original text and applying the rules for OCR proofreading, I made the following changes:\n1. 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Preserved the original content and structure as much as possible, without rephrasing or rewriting.\nThe output is in HTML format using for paragraphs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234254, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "content_text": "PROCLAMATION.\n\nBY His Excellency Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.\n\nWHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the Carriage of Passengers by Sea, it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor of any of Her Majesty's Possessions abroad, by any Proclamation to be by him, from time to time, issued for that purpose, (which shall take effect from the issuing thereof), to declare what shall be deemed for the purposes of the said Act to be the length of the voyage of any ship carrying Passengers from such Possessions to any other place whatsoever, and to substitute for the Articles of food and provisions specified in the said Act, such other articles of food and provisions as he shall deem to be a full equivalent for the same; and also to declare what medicines, medical instruments, and other matters shall be deemed necessary for the medical treatment of the Passengers during such Colonial voyage.\n\nAnd Whereas also by a certain other Act of the said Parliament passed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her said Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend the Passengers Act, 1852, so far as relates to the Passages of Natives of Asia or Africa and also Passages between the Island of Ceylon and certain Parts of the East Indies, it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governors of Her Majesty's Possessions abroad, if they shall think fit, to declare by Proclamation that Ships intended to pass within the Tropics, from any Ports within their respective Governments, may convey Passengers being Natives of Asia or Africa after the rate of one for every twelve superficial feet of the passenger Deck, instead of one for every fifteen such superficial feet, as required by the Twelfth Section of the said \"Passengers Act, 1852\"; Now, therefore, I Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Bart., the Governor aforesaid, by this my Proclamation, issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the Rule of computation by which the length of the voyage of any ship carrying Passengers from Hongkong to the several Places hereinafter enumerated shall be computed, for the purposes of the said recited Act, that is to say;\n\nPASSAGE from HONGKONG to the undermentioned PLACES for Ships propelled by Sails.\n\n \n IN THE MONTHS.\n OCTOBER\nTO\nMARCH\n APRIL\nTO\nSEPTEMBER\n \n \n BOTH INCLUSIVE\n DAYS\n DAYS\n \n \n California or West Coast of America North of the Equator, West Coast of America South of the Equator, Sandwich Islands,\n 100\n 120\n \n \n New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Feejee Islands,\n 120\n ...\n \n \n Tahiti, Society or Friendly Islands, Sydney, Melbourne, or South Australia, ... Western Australia,\n 100\n 100\n \n \n Van Diemen's Land,\n ...\n ...\n \n \n New Zealand,\n +\n 100\n \n \n Manila,\n ...\n ...\n \n \n Singapore,\n ...\n ...\n \n \n Batavia,\n ZAYNKNRA?\n 60\n \n \n Ceylon,\n 60\n ...\n \n \n Madras or Calcutta,\n 60\n ...\n \n \n Bombay,\n 60*\n ...\n \n \n Mauritius or Bourbon,\n 65\n ...\n \n \n Cape of Good Hope,\n 147\n 168\n \n \n West Indies, East Coast of America,\n 162\n 180\n \n \n Great Britain or Europe,\n 3788ENNBAN8888 8 H\n 45\n56\n80\n \n \n \n \n 60\n25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234574, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "page_number": 347, "title": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "content_text": "the protection of the Colony against any Surprise in to apprehension from the Russian fleet, but the Russian flag might be used to protect much \n\nA free booting & capturing, especially in regions where lawless men are abundant too.. \n\nI have the honor to be My dear Lord Duker Yours most obediently & truly John Bowring\n\n12/ PROCLAMATION.\n\nBY His Excellency Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.\n\nWHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the Carriage of Passengers by Sea, it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor of any of Her Majesty's Possessions abroad, by any Proclamation to be by him, from time to time, issued for that purpose, (which shall take effect from the issuing thereof), to declare what shall be deemed for the purposes of the said Act to be the length of the voyage of any ship carrying Passengers from such Possessions to any other place whatsoever, and to substitute for the Articles of food and provisions specified in the said Act, such other articles of food and provisions as he shall deem to be a full equivalent for the same; and also to declare what medicines, medical instruments, and other matters shall be deemed necessary for the medical treatment of the Passengers during such Colonial voyage.\n\nAnd Whereas also by a certain other Act of the said Parliament passed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her said Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend the Passengers Act, 1852, so far as relates to the Passages of Natives of Asia or Africa and also Passages between the Island of Ceylon and certain Parts of the East Indies, it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governors of Her Majesty's Possessions abroad, if they shall think fit, to declare by Proclamation that Ships intended to pass within the Tropics, from any Ports within their respective Governments, may convey Passengers being Natives of Asia or Africa after the rate of one for every twelve superficial feet of the passenger Deck, instead of one for every fifteen such superficial feet, as required by the Twelfth Section of the said \"Passengers Act, 1852\"; Now, therefore, I Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Bart., the Governor aforesaid, by this my Proclamation, issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the Rule of computation by which the length of the voyage of any ship carrying Passengers from Hongkong to the several Places hereinafter enumerated shall be computed, for the purposes of the said recited Act, that is to say;—\n\nJune 11 12 Mr. Ellest. B. Bencole Lebart & Land Hard. the last paragraph in full D. of heutter information jt 2 S semitis I nound is frembring Sardinke peer cuttle was, 9233\n\nPASSAGE from HONGKONG to the undermentioned PLACES for Ships propelled by Sails.\n\nIN THE MONTHS.\n\nOCTOBER APRIL TO TO MARCH SEPTEMBER BOTH INCLUSIVE DAYS\n\nCalifornia or West Coast of America North of the Equator, West Coast of America South of the Equator, ... Sandwich Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Feejee Islands, } Tahiti, Society or Friendly Islands, Sydney, Melbourne, or South Australia, ... Western Australia, Van Diemen's Land, ... New Zealand, ... Manila, Singapore, Batavia, Ceylon, Madras or Calcutta, Bombay, Mauritius or Bourbon, Cape of Good Hope, Great Britain or Europe, West Indies, East Coast of America, \n\n 120\n*100\n\n 100120\n 75100\n 6045\n 6575\n 2020\n 30\nPas 25645\n 7050\n 7560\n 8060\n 8065\n 85\n 168180\n\nER8CFUR8284888872", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 237948, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2]", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2]", "content_text": "Dispatch N20 07/8538\n\nInclosure N/in\n\nGovernment\n\n\"Passengers Act 1855: publishing the \"Chinese Notification 25th January, 1857.\n\nMay\n\n13236,\n\n122\n\nNo. 13.\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nBy His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.\n\nWhereas by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland passed in this the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled An Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships, under the third clause thereof it is enacted, that \"it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong to declare by Proclamation \"for the purposes of this Act, what shall be deemed to be the duration of the Voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship\"-\n\nNow therefore I, SIR JOHN BOWRING, Governor as aforesaid, by this my Proclamation issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the Rule of Computation by which the Length of the Voyage of any Ship carrying Chinese Passengers from Hongkong to the several Places hereinafter mentioned shall be computed, for the purposes of the Act above referred to; that is to say:\n\nPassage from Hongkong to the undermentioned Places for Ships propelled by Sails.\n\n \n \n IN THE MONTHS\n \n \n \n \n October to March.\n April to September.\n \n \n California or West Coast of America, North of the Equator,\n 100 days,\n 120\n \n \n West Coast of America South of the Equator,\n 75 days.\n 120\n \n \n Sandwich Islands,\n \n 19\n \n \n New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Feejee Islands, Tahiti, Society or Friendly Islands,\n ガラ\n 75\n \n \n Sydney, Melbourne, or South Australia,\n 56 #\n 100\n \n \n Western Australia,\n 100\n 100\n \n \n Van Diemen's Land,\n 31\n 39\n \n \n New Zealand,\n 60\n 80 ??\n \n \n Manila,\n 45\n 60 #\n \n \n Singapore,\n 65\n 80 #\n \n \n Batavia,\n 75\n 90\n \n \n Ceylon,\n M\n 20\n \n \n Madras or Calcutta,\n 20\n 45 *\n \n \n Bombay,\n 30\n 60\n \n \n Mauritius or Bourbon,\n \"\n \"\n \n \n Cape of Good Hope,\n 45\n 70\n \n \n West Indies, or East Coast of America,\n 3)\n 11\n \n \n Great Britain or Europe,\n 50\n 75\n \n \n Siam,\n F\n \n \n \n \n 60\n 80\n \n \n \n 19\n \n \n \n \n 60\n 80\n \n \n \n \"\n M\n \n \n \n 65\n 85\n \n \n \n 147\n 168\n \n \n \n #\n H\n \n \n \n 162\n 184\n \n \n \n 93\n \n \n \n \n 50\n \n \n \n Read\n 20\n 45\n \n \n \n 30\n \n \n\n[L.S.]\n\nGiven under my hand and Seal of the Colony, at the Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong, this 26th Day of January in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-six, and in the Nineteenth Year of Her Majesty's Reign.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\nW. T. MERCER,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n59", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238519, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "content_text": "M. West Foreign Offia. In I\n\nB\n\n2. For July.\n\nNo. 13.\n\nJu603% 6.\n\nJOHN BOWRING,\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nBy His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.\n\nWhereas by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland passed in this the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled An Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships, under the third clause thereof it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong to declare by Proclamation \"for the purposes of this Act, what shall be deemed to be the duration of the Voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship:\"- Now therefore I, SIR JOHN BOWRING, Governor as aforesaid, by this my Proclamation issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the Rule of Computation by which the Length of the Voyage of any Ship carrying Chinese Passengers from Hongkong to the several Places hereinafter mentioned shall be computed, for the purposes of the Act above referred to; that is to say:-\n\n \n Passage from Hongkong to the undermentioned Places for Ships propelled\n IN THE MONTHS\n \n \n \n October to March.\n April to September.\n \n \n \n (both inclusive.)\n \n \n \n California or West Coast of America, North of the Equator,\n 75 days.\n 120\n \n \n West Coast of America South of the Equator,\n 15\n 56\n \n \n Sandwich Islands,\n 19\n \n \n \n New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Feejes Islands, Tahiti, Society or Friendly Islands,\n [L.S.]\n \n \n \n Sydney, Melbourne, or South Australia,\n 100 days.\n 120\n \n \n Western Australia,\n 10\n 75\n \n \n Van Diemen's Land,\n 100\n 100\n \n \n New Zealand,\n +\n 60\n \n \n Manila,\n 80\n >\n \n \n Singapore,\n \"} \n 45\n \n \n Batavia,\n 60 +\n 22\n \n \n Ceylon,\n 65\n 80 \"\n \n \n Madras or Calcutta,\n 35\n 75\n \n \n Bombay,\n 75\n 90 >\n \n \n Mauritius or Bourbon,\n 20\n 20\n \n \n Cape of Good Hope,\n Mi\n 45\n \n \n West Indies, or East Coast of America,\n 20\n \"\n \n \n Great Britain or Europe,\n 30\n 60 »\n \n \n Siam,\n 45\n 70 ++\n \n \n \n 99\n 50\n \n \n \n 75 \"\n 60\n \n \n \n 80\n 35\n \n \n \n »\n 60\n \n \n \n 80 n\n 65\n \n \n \n 85 2\n 147\n \n \n \n 168\n 19\n \n \n \n 1\n 162\n \n \n \n 184 #\n 16\n \n \n \n 20\n 45\n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n\nGiven under my hand and Seal of the Colony, at the Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong, this 26th Day of January in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-six,\n\nand in the Nineteenth Year of Her Majesty's Reign.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\nW. T. MERCER,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n63\n\n333", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243740, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "content_text": "# \n\nthe insolence of the betting Slip Clark\" I beg with great respect to ing \n\naccertion \n\nthat this \n\nme having been incorrect \n\n& must \n\nwhilst alleging the duties of Acting Chief Clerk is equally destitute of foundation, as doubtless if the complaint had been made & brought before the Acting Governor this Officer would not have allowed it to pass unnoticed had the least shadow of truth - Sir, I humbly beg to say that I am in my eighteenth year of service, and both an accusation & this kind and such language as that made use of by Dr. the Colonial Surgeon are entirely novel to me.\n\n10.\n\nIn respect to the bad Dollar I have merely to state that I directed whether it was of bullion or private money to be Shroffed by the Shroff at the Government Treasury, and I am therefore responsible for it. At the time that I said Ad Dollar &c him when I saw the very day say the \n\nthe 30th \n\nfor Member, but that of November (when the affair of the bad Dollar took place) and before we left office I told Mr. Route the then Acting Chief Clerk that I would not deduct that dollar from Shroff's wages but pay it myself rather than cause annoyance to Mr. Biorges - His satisfaction was denied me by Mr. K as he, availing himself of his position as Colonial Surgeon thought proper to say the charges have, been since his establishment to the man out of the Fund which has been paid to the different Scenery (the tone now being signed by this officer) and under his orders Different Servants who are borne on the Governor's Establishment - the Shroff ... \n\nlue", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244744, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 486, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## EIGHTEENTH MEETING\n\nCaldwell. I don't think he mentioned any names. He did lots of great many articles, of European consumption—wines, biscuits, and sundry articles for the table, not in use amongst Chinese. That is all I remember about them. I think there were no entries of articles in which Mr Caldwell's name was mentioned. I have not the slightest recollection of any such entries, and if you had not asked the question, I should have said decidedly not. There was nothing, so far as I can recollect, which brought in Mr Caldwell's name at all, or which would have led me inferentially to suppose that Mr Caldwell was referred to. I am only speaking from memory of a circumstance of a year ago. If such entries had been brought to my attention, I should have considered it my duty to bring them officially to notice. I could not use those memoranda for the purposes of the trial; I do not think I could have put them in evidence. Mr May showed them to me, and thought it would bring them forward in the Court. He considered them relevant to the issue, until we had a talk about it.\n\nI obtained no help in this prosecution from Mr Caldwell or through his department. Mr Grand-Pré was one of the witnesses. I did not accept Mr Caldwell as interpreter at the trial. I think Mr Caldwell was tendered. I think Mr Caldwell seemed as if he did not wish to interpret himself. I am almost certain he was tendered at the commencement, but I think also that he was not willing to interpret. Mr Caldwell denied in court on oath all connection or relationship with Ma-chow Wong, by blood, marriage, or adoption. I alluded to Mr Caldwell in the report which was asked from me by the Executive Council about the trial, but did not present to the Governor his extraordinary conduct when joint Superintendent of Police with Mr May, in laboring for the miscarriage of the crown prosecutions of Ma-chow Wong; but I did say, alluding to one point of the evidence, it rested solely on Mr Caldwell's testimony, and that he evinced too much of the character of a partizan for his evidence to carry very much weight with the jury. I said I was sorry to allude in the matter to Mr Caldwell, for whom I had a very great respect—that I was sorry to see him so much in favour of the prisoner; but at the same time I could not but admire the constancy with which he adhered to the man in difficulties whom he considered innocent, and whom he had found useful. My omission to complain was not caused by any idea on my part, that Government patronized Mr Caldwell, and not Mr May. I did not think of complaining; I left all those things to the Executive.\n\nDr Bridges said the verdict was clearly against evidence, and that the jury had no right to bring in a verdict of guilty on that evidence. I do not recollect the Governor saying anything about it. I don't know what the practice of the Attorney General is. The practice which I have followed has been to take the cases in the order fixed, unless when witnesses were absent, or unless the case was too long, and a short one might be brought in at the request of the Judge, to close the day. In entering the nolle prosequi I thought I was doing just what the Judge meant.\n\nIf any one has asserted that the Court or any person ordered a nolle prosequi, such statement is false.\n\n| No. | Remember |\n| --- | --- |\n| 10 | I think I remember. |\n| 11 | I remember nothing about. |\n| 12 | I don't remember. |\n| 13 | I think I remember. |\n| 14 | I can't say I remember. |\n| 15 | I recollect Mr May calling my attention to the entry concerning the Silk robbery. |\n| 16 | I don't remember. |\n| 17 | I don't remember. |\n| 18 | I think I remember something about that, but am not certain. |\n\nThe name Samkwei did not occur in any of the papers that I saw in the second case. It did not, to my knowledge, occur in the papers of the first case. The petition for Ma-chow Wong's pardon was referred to me by the Government. There was an allusion at Government House on the Queen's Birth Day to Ma-chow Wong's name; his name was but mentioned. I was sitting with Mr Caldwell at dinner, and have a tolerably good idea of what was said. He said that the whole case of Ma-chow Wong would be opened up before this Committee. I said \"Indeed.\" Then I said that I wished he, Mr Caldwell, had not worked so much at the trial of Ma-chow Wong, in his favour, for I believed him to be a great scoundrel. I think Mr Caldwell said then, \"That may be, or may not be, but I think I was right in working for him at the time as I did.\" I think there was nothing more than this said. I don't pretend to recollect every word that passed.\n\nUpon hearing Mr May's evidence, my impression as to what was said is not altered. I think it is likely, though I cannot positively recollect, that Mr May told me there was a mysterious opposition to the prosecution of the case, which he could not understand,—an opposition not proceeding from Mr Caldwell. Dr Bridges did not say to me, that he would be better pleased if I did not find a true bill upon the evidence than if I did. He seemed to be quite careless about the matter. He referred to no other case in the calendar.\n\nI called upon Mr May, when I referred to him about the depositions, and I think he called upon me once. I arranged with him that he should see me at my chambers, to see the particular and laborious care evinced in the arrangement of the evidence. I have a distant recollection of Mr May saying that he wished to push the case through for the public good. I think, on one occasion, he disclaimed any hostility to Mr Caldwell. I think Mr May, when reading the memoranda, made an observation as to a reason for not reading some of the entries. I think there were some of the entries he did not read. I think if I heard the entries read over I would recollect them. I have totally forgotten the reason; I don't know whether it was anything about Mr Caldwell.\n\nUpon hearing Mr May's account of the contents of the memoranda, I confirm No. 1: I remember distinctly the 50 taels for powder, and some sums for cannon; but do not remember exactly the 600 taels.\n\n## Thursday, 1st July, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent,—All the Members, except Mr Scarth.\n\nHENRY KINGSMILL—Re-called at his own request, to correct a part of his evidence given yesterday.\n\nThis morning, on turning over my papers, I found the list of the Criminal cases of the Sessions of August 1857—the Session at which Ma-chow Wong was tried—with my own notes made on the margin at the time. On referring to it I find I did not enter a nolle prosequi as to Ma-chow Wong in the second case. There were two prisoners in the second case—Ma-chow Wong, and Lum Ahing one of his shopmen; Ma-chow Wong stood first on the list, Lum Ahing second. My marginal note made at the time is this: \"Nolle prosequi entered as to the second prisoner, the first having been convicted in another case vide supra.\"\n\nSeeing this, I see now that I did not enter a nolle prosequi as to Ma-chow Wong, but only as to Lum Ahing, and the reference made to the Judge as to proceeding with the second case, and his reply thereto, just tally with that statement.\n\n| No. | Remember |\n| --- | --- |\n| 2 | I recollect an item about Saltpetre, but not the particulars connected with it. |\n| 3 | I suppose that must be what I refer to about articles of consumption. I don't remember the fact of cash being mentioned. |\n| 4 | is what I referred to about gambling houses. |\n| 5 | I don't remember. |\n| 6 | I recollect. |\n| 7 | I think I recollect it, but am not quite certain. |\n| 8 | I don't remember. |\n| 9 | I think I recollect the paper about Ross, but not the others. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245081, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "not due spared where they conduce \nto the same purpose. The spoliation \nof documentary evidence, the only \nvalid basis for Inquiry (Matters of Evidence) \nConcerning too of any Kind by which \nmy Lord may charge against Sir Goldwell of making accusations, threats \nGovernor in Council, with respect to the guilt of his friend Mr. Newby Wong the consict, in October last \n1874 187 days: \n\nThe 10th day Compare \ncould be supported or rejected, is a fact admitted by Sir John Strachey Government, although carefully \nConcealed from the knowledge of myself, in May, and all except \nthe actors at the date of my letter \nin 13. Letter of May last. \n\nIn which that charge is contained \nThe value of Bridges' excuse for \nMinister the Eighteenth day. \n\n159 \n\nthe spoliation will be judged. After a careful examination of the facts of this portion of the \ncase, and particularly those appearing in my Goldsworthy and his own. You, sir, will not fail \nto observe also that the \"Beaver \nPapers\" were preserved whilst the \nWah Chow \nWong papers were burned. The unsatisfactory reason \nfor the distinction so made is assigned by Sir Bridges to have \nbeen that the former were \"in the \nhands of the Clerk of the Council\" \nwhilst the latter were within his \nown power to decide as to \"what \nwas to be done with them. It is", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245379, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 458, "title": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "$2753/54 \n\n455 \n\nreported in my Despatch No. 47 of 12th April lost, is thus satisfactorily arranged. \n\nI have the honour to be, \nWith the highest respect, \nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nNo. 108.\n\n## PROCLAMATION\n\nBy His Excellency **SIR JOHN BOWRING**, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China: \n\nWhereas, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, entitled **An Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships**, under the Third Clause thereof, it is enacted that \"it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong to declare by Proclamation for the purposes of this Act, what shall be deemed to be the duration of the Voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship\"; \n\nAnd whereas, in a Proclamation given under my hand and seal at the Government Offices at Victoria, Hongkong, and bearing date the 26th Day of January, 1856, I, **SIR JOHN BOWRING**, did declare the Rule of Computation by which the length of the Voyage of any \"Ship\" carrying Chinese Passengers from Hongkong to the several Places named in the aforesaid Proclamation should be computed, and whereas the said Proclamation had reference only to Ships propelled by sails: \n\nNow therefore I, **SIR JOHN BOWRING**, Governor as aforesaid, by this my Proclamation issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the Rule of Computation by which the Length of Voyage of any Vessel or Ship propelled by Steam, and also of any Ship or Vessel propelled by Sails with the aid of auxiliary screws worked by steam, carrying Chinese Passengers from Hongkong to the several Places hereinafter mentioned, shall be computed for the purposes of the Act above referred to; that is to say: \n\n### Passage from Hongkong to the undermentioned Places for Ships propelled by steam\n\n| Destination | October to March (both inclusive) | April to September |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| California, or West Coast of America, North of the Equator | 52 days | 44 days |\n| West Coast of America, South of the Equator | 57 | 47 |\n| Sandwich Islands | 42 | 32 |\n| New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Feejee Islands, Tahiti, Society, or Friendly Islands | 40 | 40 |\n| Sydney, Milburne, or South Australia | 42 | 50 |\n| Western Australia | 39 | 37 |\n| Van Diemen's Land | 42 | 49 |\n| New Zealand | 48 | 53 |\n| Manila | 8 | 8 |\n| Singapore, Batavia | 10 | 10 |\n| Ceylon | 16 | 13 |\n| Madras or Calcutta | 17 | 17 |\n| Bombay | 24 | 19 |\n| Mauritius | 31 | 27 |\n| Cape of Good Hope | 34 | 31 |\n| West Indies, or East Coast of America | 41 | 36 |\n| Great Britain, or Europe | 96 | 91 |\n| Siam | 10 | ... |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247282, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 583, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "20\n\nJale of every inch of ground them available in this City and suburbs, and I may fairly claim it as the result of that seasonable stroke that many of the casual refugees became permanent settlers and are at this moment identified inalienably and ever with the future fortunes of this Colony\n\nfor the European side of the Colony Ans Kept pace with that of the Chinese and I may take this opportunity of affirming with the heads of the Foreign Community of all nations (Countrymen especially) that is to say in this place every individual coming under the denomination of a Gentleman, I say, and I challenge my detractors to gainsay it, that with two casual exceptions, I have ever lived on terms of cordial esteem, and with all classes (saving a couple of vile Newspaper writers) of mutual respect and confidence.\n\nIn conclusion it only remains for me to say (and I say it proudly) that during my colonial Service now in my eighteenth year, I have never suffered a single reproof from the Colonial Office, and I take this last opportunity of expressing my earnest gratitude to yourself, Sir, for that gracious recognition of my services contained in your Despatch N. 43 of the 1st October 1858.\n\nAnnexed is a Schedule shewing the nature of each enclosure attached.\n\n\"I have the honour to be, With the highest respect, Sir, Your most obedient Humble Servant!\n\nMacg\n\n2/580", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247687, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 361, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "357\n\nnames.\n\na case.\n\nupon\n\n(62)\n\nHe did not do or say anything from which I could receive the impression, that I would please himself or the Governor more by not finding a true bill than by finding a true bill. From this time, until the case left my hands, there was no pressure used with me in favour of Ma-chow Wong by the Government.\n\nAfter I had the depositions, and read them through, I was speaking to Dr Bridges on some other business one day, and I introduced the subject of Ma-chow Wong, and told him the depositions were ample to support a prosecution. He said that was quite enough—that I was to be the judge of that, and I was the only responsible person for carrying on the prosecution. I don't think I spoke to him on the subject from that time until the occasion mentioned at the Club. I think I can positively say that Mr Caldwell was never in communication with me concerning the case. It was my impression that Ma-chow Wong was strongly befriended from some quarter or another. I received this impression from a great many facts. I all along, while I was preparing for the trial, knew that Mr Caldwell was assisting him, for I saw him occasionally in the street with Mr Day and Mr Stace, the Counsel and Attorney for the prisoner, and Mr Caldwell took a great deal of interest in the trial, and gave evidence in the prisoner's behalf.\n\nI have heard it stated that Mr Caldwell expressed confidence in Ma-chow Wong. Then, on the day of the conviction, I think before dark that evening, I heard that Mr Caldwell had petitioned the Governor to allow Ma-chow Wong's tail to remain on, until some further inquiry was made into the case. I never saw the man after he was convicted, but I believe as a matter of fact, that his tail did stay on. I felt particularly anxious about the case, as if my whole reputation were staked upon it. I knew the character of the prisoner, and the terror of the Chinese population about him. I knew that Mr Caldwell expressed confidence in him, and was anxious about his defence. I knew that, with an assistant intimate with the language like Mr Caldwell, the defence had an advantage I had not, and I had two very able counsel against me.\n\nIt was in consequence of the conversation I had with Dr Bridges before I saw the depositions, that I made the remark to him about the case being a sufficient one. I do not know that he saw the depositions, and he had no means that I know of forming an opinion of the case, while the depositions were in my hands. I perfectly recollect Mr May reading over to me some memoranda which he said he had taken from Ma-chow Wong's books. I have a distinct recollection of it, and can give a rough outline of their contents. The memoranda alluded to a traffic in pistols, and guns, and powder, and shot extending over a good space of time. I think a year and a half—at different intervals, and I think in different quantities. There were memoranda too of rents collected from the village of Cheem-sha-tsooy. I think there were memoranda of tolls levied on houses in Tai-ping-shan, which Mr May told me were gambling houses. I am not quite certain about this item. I also think there were entries of a great many articles of European consumption—wines, biscuits, and sundry articles for the table, not in use amongst Chinese. That is all I remember about them. I think there were no entries of articles in which Mr Caldwell's name was mentioned. I have not the slightest recollection of any such, and if you had not asked the question, I should have said decidedly not. There was nothing, so far as I can recollect, which brought in Mr Caldwell's name at all, or which would have led me inferentially to suppose that Mr Caldwell was referred to. I am only speaking from memory of a circumstance of a year ago. If such entries had been brought to my attention, I should have considered it my duty to bring them officially to notice. I could not use those memoranda for the purposes of the trial; I do not think I could have got them in evidence. Mr May showed them to me, and thought I would bring them forward in the Court. He considered them relevant to the issue, until we had a talk about it. I obtained no help in this prosecution from Mr Caldwell or through his department. Mr Grand-Pré was one of the witnesses. I did not accept Mr Caldwell as interpreter at the trial. I think Mr Day tendered him. I think Mr Caldwell seemed as if he did not wish to interpret himself.\n\nI am almost certain he was tendered at the commencement, but I think also that he was not willing to interpret. Mr Caldwell denied in court on oath all connection or relationship with Ma-chow Wong, by blood, marriage, or adoption. I alluded to Mr Caldwell in the report which was asked from me by the Executive Council about the trial, but did not represent to the Governor his extraordinary conduct when joint Superintendent of Police with Mr May, in labouring for the miscarriage of the crown prosecutions of Ma-chow Wong; but I did say, alluding to one point of evidence, it rested solely on Mr Caldwell's testimony, and that he evinced too much of the character of a partisan for his evidence to carry very much weight with the jury. I said I was sorry to allude in the matter to Mr Caldwell, for whom I had a very great respect; but at the same time I could not but admire the constancy with which he adhered to the man in difficulties whom he considered innocent, and whom he had found useful. My omission to complain was not caused by any idea on my part, that Government patronised Mr Caldwell, and not Mr May. I did not think of complaining; I left all those things to the Executive. Dr Bridges said the verdict was clearly against evidence and that the jury had no right to bring in a verdict of guilty on that evidence. I do not recollect the Governor saying anything about it.\n\nI don't know what the practice of the Attorney General is. The practice which I have followed has been to take the cases in the order fixed, unless when witnesses were absent, or unless the case was too long, and a short one might be brought in at the request of the Judge, to close the day. In entering the nolle prosequi I thought I was doing just what the Judge meant. If any one has asserted that the Court or any person ordered a nolle prosequi, such statement is false.\n\n(63)\n\nNo. 10, I think I remember.\n\nNo. 11, I remember nothing about.\n\nNo. 12, I don't remember.\n\nNo. 13, I think I remember.\n\nNo. 14, I can't say I remember.\n\nNo. 15, I recollect Mr May calling my attention to the entry concerning the Silk robbery.\n\nNo. 16, I don't remember.\n\nNo. 17, I don't remember.\n\nNo. 18, I think I remember something about that, but am not certain.\n\nI do not remember the reason assigned by Mr May for not reading some entries.\n\nThe name Samkwei did not occur in any of the papers that I saw in the second case. It did not, to my knowledge, occur in the papers of the first case. The petition for Ma-chow Wong's pardon was referred to me by the Government. There was an allusion at Government House on the Queen's Birth Day to Ma-chow Wong's name; his name was but mentioned. I was sitting with Mr Caldwell at dinner, and have a tolerably good idea of what was said. He said that the whole case of Ma-chow Wong would be opened up before this Committee. I said \"Indeed.\" Then I said that I wished he, Mr Caldwell, had not worked so much at the trial of Ma-chow Wong, in his favour, for I believed him to be a great scoundrel. I think Mr Caldwell said then, \"That may be, or may not be, but I think I was right in working for him at the time as I did.\" I think there was nothing more than this said. I don't pretend to recollect every word that passed. Upon hearing Mr May's evidence, my impression as to what was said is not altered. I think it is likely, though I cannot positively recollect, that Mr May told me there was a mysterious opposition to the prosecution of the case, which he could not understand,—an opposition not proceeding from Mr Caldwell. Dr Bridges did not say to me, that he would be better pleased if I did not find a true bill upon the evidence than if I did. He seemed to be quite careless. He referred to no other case in the calendar. I called upon Mr May, when I referred to him as Colonial Secretary, about the depositions, and I think he called upon me once. I arranged with him that he should see me at my chambers, to see the particular and laborious care evinced in the arrangement of the evidence. I have a distant recollection of Mr May saying that he wished to push the case through for the public good. I think on one occasion, he disclaimed any hostility to Mr Caldwell. I think Mr May, when reading the memoranda, made an observation as to a reason for not reading some of the entries. I think there were some of the entries he did not read. I think if I heard the entries read over I would recollect them. I have totally forgotten the reason; I don't know whether it was anything about Mr Caldwell.\n\nUpon hearing Mr May's account of the contents of the memoranda, I confirm No. 1: I remember distinctly the 50 taels for powder, and some sums for cannon; but do not remember exactly the 600 taels.\n\nI asked the Acting Colonial Secretary what was to be done with the property at the Kwong Yik Loong shop, and the other property belonging to Ma-chow Wong. He said it would be an interminable thing to find out who was the owner of it; that amongst the multiplicity of witnesses, some of them conflicting, no jury could come to a conclusion what was the convict's property, and it was not worthwhile taking any notice of it. I don't know what was the value of the property. Mr May, or someone, told me it was his impression that Ma-chow Wong was a very wealthy man. I think the last day of the trial Mr May asked me regarding the disposal of the property. I think I told him to leave a policeman there as long as he could, and I would see about it, and the result was that I saw the Acting...\n\nAdjourned till to-morrow at 12 o'clock.\n\nEighteenth MEETING.\n\nThursday, 1st July, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent,-All the Members, except Mr Scarth.\n\nHENRY KINGSMILL,-Re-called at his own request, to correct a part of his evidence given yesterday.\n\nThis morning, on turning over my papers, I found the list of the Criminal cases of the Sessions of August 1857—the Session at which Ma-chow Wong was tried—with my own notes made on the margin at the time. On referring to it I find I did not enter a nolle prosequi as to Ma-chow Wong in the second case. There were two prisoners in the second case—Ma-chow Wong, and Lum Ahing, one of his shopmen; and Ma-chow Wong stood first on the list, Lum Ahin second. My marginal note made at the time is this: \"Nolle prosequi entered as to the second prisoner, the first having been convicted in another case vide supra.\" Seeing this, I see now that I did not enter a nolle prosequi as to Ma-chow Wong, but only as to Lum Ahin, and the reference made to the Judge as to proceeding with the second case, and his reply thereto, just tally with that statement.\n\nWith regard to No. 2: I recollect an item about Saltpetre, but not the particulars connected with it.\n\nNo. 3, I suppose that must be what I refer to about articles of consumption. I don't remember the fact of cash being mentioned.\n\nNo. 4, is what I referred to about gambling houses.\n\nNo. 5, I don't remember.\n\nNo. 6, I recollect.\n\nNo. 7, I think I recollect it, but am not quite certain.\n\nNo. 8, I don't remember.\n\nNo. 9, I think I recollect the paper about Ross, but not the others.\n\nI was also asked yesterday, had Dr Bridges spoken to me about any other case at that session. I endeavoured at the time to recollect what cases were tried in the same list, the case of Kan Assam and Lee Atong for murder...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247728, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 402, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "398\n\n(119)\n\nMr L. D'Almada. It is possible Mr Gibb might have mistaken me for my brother.\n\nMr Anstey. There is no mistake in the matter. Mr Jozé D'Almada was here in this Court but a few minutes since, Mr Mitchell the Sheriff saw him.\n\nCourt. Dr Chaldecott might give some explanation.\n\nMr Anstey. I now give notice that if on Monday next, any of the witnesses subpœnaed are absent, I shall not be satisfied with written certificates, but shall insist on Dr Chaldecott being sworn, and personally examined as to their state of health.\n\n5343.\n\nTHE QUEEN v. TARRANT.\n\n(118)\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. Criminal Sessions, November 18th 1858. REGINA V. TARRANT.\n\nAt the opening of the Court this day, the Hon'ble T. Chisholm Anstey, Attorney General, Counsel for the defendant, addressed the Court, as follows,\n\nor March, as nearly as possible. 7th Why he did not, before the end of June, inform the Legislative Council that the documents had been destroyed, and that the production of them, therefore, which had been demanded, again and again, could not take place. 8th If destroyed, what were the contents of those documents, and how far they affected Mr Caldwell or any other officer of Government. Lastly a full, true and complete account of the proceedings.\n\nMr Green. Sir John Bowring is as much bound not to reveal what took place in the Council as the Colonial Secretary or any other public servant.\n\nwith others, to the said Government against Daniel Richard Caldwell, Esquire, Registrar General of the Colony and submitted to the investigation of a Commission appointed for that purpose by Sir John Bowring, the Governor of the said Colony, and which said charge might have been satisfactorily proved before the said Commission, but for the interference of the said Government to prevent the Crown.\n\n(This report is from the shorthand notes taken for the Crown by Mr Weatherhead, Acting Deputy Registrar.)\n\nMy LORD, Some material witnesses are absent; nevertheless, I am quite ready to go on with the case. It is likely to last two days. Mr Davies writes me that being at Macao he cannot appear before Monday, and though the prosecutors have not condescended to notify us of the matter, I have heard, vaguely, that Dr Chaldecott is prepared to swear that Sir John Bowring is unable to appear in this Court, though quite able to drive out in his carriage and go to other places.\n\nCourt. If you are not in a position to go through with it, the case had better be postponed altogether.\n\nMr Anstey. A murrain appears to have visited all the officers of the Government. Another states that he is laid up with a badly inflamed leg. However, I suppose we must bow to the will of Providence, and submit to a postponement.\n\n'pose that it was not performed after deep meditation, and \"with reference to consequences.”\n\nTRIAL.\n\nMonday, 22nd November, 1858.\n\nFor the Crown. The Hon'ble F. W. Green, Esquire, Acting Attorney General, Mr George Cooper Turner, Crown Solicitor.\n\nFor the Defendant. The Hon'ble Thomas Chisholm Anstey, Esquire, Attorney General, Mr Henry Jefferd Tarrant, Attorney.\n\nSPECIAL JURY.\n\nPatrick Campbell Esq., Manager of the Oriental Bank Corporation, (British). John Costerton Esq., Manager of the Incorporated Mercantile Bank of India, London and China, (British). N. M. Beckwith, Esq., of the firm of Russell & Co., (American). Francis Chomley, Esq., of the firm of Dent & Co., (British). Francis Parker, Esq., of the firm of Augustine Heard & Co., (American). Phillip Cohen, Esq., of the firm of Phillips Moore & Co., (British). Albert Vaucher, Esq., of the firm of Vaucher & Co., (Swiss).\n\nThe Jury being sworn, the Acting Registrar read the INFORMATION.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nThe Eighteenth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.\n\nHONGKONG TO WIT.\n\nMr Anstey. Sir John Bowring is at perfect liberty to reveal any of the proceedings of Government to all the world, and exercises the power whenever he thinks fit.\n\nCourt. There is no doubt that Sir John Bowring stands in a very different position in that respect from the other officers of Government. The trial must stand over for the present until the parties now unable to appear recover their health. I cannot appoint a day until they are well.\n\nMr Anstey. As we cannot have de bene esse examination in criminal cases, it would be an advantage to take the evidence of such of the witnesses as are now present.\n\nMr Green. Might it not be possible by making certain admissions to dispense with the evidence of Sir John Bowring?\n\nCourt to Mr Anstey. Your's is an application for postponement on account of the absence of material witnesses.\n\nMr Anstey. I propose that we go on with the case as far as we can.\n\n(Signed) FREDK. WM. GREEN.\n\nWilliam Tarrant, take notice that you will be tried on this information at the Criminal Sessions at the Supreme Court to be holden at Victoria in and for the Colony of Hongkong, on the eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and following days.\n\nA. WEATHERHEAD,\n\nfor the Registrar.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nCriminal Sessions, October, 1858.\n\nThe Queen against William Tarrant.\n\nThe Queen comes into the Court here and charges William Tarrant of the Colony of Hongkong aforesaid, Editor and Proprietor of the Newspaper called the Friend of China, with having, with intent to move the Queen's subjects to hatred and contempt of the Queen's Government in the said Colony, and to cause it to be believed that a certain grave and scandalous charge having been preferred.\n\nMr Anstey being suspended from office was at liberty to act for the defendant.\n\nSECOND PLEA. And for a further plea to the said Information, the said defendant, protesting that he is not guilty as aforesaid, nevertheless, according to the form of the statute in such case provided, says that the said alleged libel in the said Information mentioned was printed and published by him the said defendant, after the passing of the Act of Parliament of the seventh year of the Queen, chapter twenty-six, to wit on the day and year in the said Information mentioned and not otherwise.\n\nDr Chaldecott.—It is impossible for me to fix a date.\n\nMr Anstey.—A week say?\n\nDr Chaldecott.—I should say not, decidedly.\n\nMr Anstey.—Well then, a fortnight perhaps.\n\nDr Chaldecott. It is impossible to say. All I can say is that he is not at present in a fit state to appear in Court.\n\nCourt to Mr Anstey.—What do you wish Sir John Bowring to prove?\n\nMr Anstey. I will state the points required, 1st, I wish to have the documents produced specified in the Subpœna Duces Tecum. 2d All that he knows respecting the receipt of, and the parting with Mr May's memoranda, and the papers respecting Mr Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong on which those memoranda were framed. 3d What took place in the Executive Council respecting these memo. Mr D'Almada having declined to reveal any of the proceedings on the plea of official secrecy. 4th Whether Sir John Bowring knew what became of the memoranda, and the like as to the Ma-chow Wong papers themselves. 5th Whether he gave any and what directions or suggestions respecting the safe keeping or destruction of those documents or any of them. 6th When were those papers destroyed to the best of his belief, whether in May.\n\nMr Anstey. I only want Sir John to give permission to his officers to make the admissions and afford the information required.\n\nCourt. Very well, let it be so.\n\n[Mr Anstey here applies to have the Jury drawn now by the Registrar, so that only those need attend on Monday who would be actually required.]\n\nCourt. They must all appear again on Monday.\n\nMr Anstey. The whole of them?\n\nCourt. Yes.\n\nMr Anstey. I have just been informed by Mr Gibb, whose word no man doubts, that one of the absent witnesses, Mr J. D'Almada, was in Court just now, and present at the very time of my commenting on the circumstance of so many of the Government officers being prevented by illness from attending. I submit that this is a gross contempt of Court, and deserves some notice from your Lordship.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247729, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 403, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "(117)\n\n'jects in China, for the purpose of being examined by Messrs Mongan and Caldwell, or either of them; the original memorandum or circular of His Excellency Sir John Bowring dated the Twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight, addressed to all public departments for their information and guidance, and any copy draft of or extract from the same, and all letters or copies of letters of the said William Thomas Bridges then Acting Colonial Secretary covering the same to such departments, all correspondence and copies of correspondence official and private between you or either of you and Thomas Wade, Esquire, at present Chinese Secretary, between the Thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven, and the day of the trial of the Information referred to herein, and all other documents letters, books, papers, instruments and writings, and copies of documents, letters, books, papers, instruments and writings in your possession, custody or power, or under your control in any way relating to or connected with the matters now at issue.\n\nHis Excellency Sir John Bowring, Knight LL.D. Governor of the Colony of Hongkong, and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British subjects in China, &c., &c., was served with a Subpœna duces tecum to produce.\n\nDOCKET.\n\nSent to Court on 9th November---The Deputy Registrar refused to issue---The Judge subsequently ordered issue and the Registrar to forward to Colonial Secretary---Gave Registrar copy for service.\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. TARRANT Defendant's Attorney.\n\nAlr A. S. Dixson, Government Printer, Mr A. Grand-Pre Collector of Police Rates. Mr Jozé D'Almada, Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office, Mr W. H. Mitchell, Sheriff and Assistant Magistrate, and Mr James Jarman, Inspector of Police.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nCriminal Jurisdiction.\n\nREGINA\n\nV2\n\nTake notice that I, on behalf of Defendant (by Counsel) shall, on the Trial of this case TARRANT object to the Special Jury Panel herein, as struck on the thirteenth instant, on the grounds of the Defendant having had no notice of the nomination thereof and of Twelve Special Jurors only being returned by the Sheriff.\n\n(116)\n\nThe only parties subpoenaed by the Crown were Dr Bridges and Mr Mongan.\n\nHONGKONG\n\nTO WIT.\n\nSUBPŒNA DUCES TECUM.\n\n(Criminal Jurisdiction.)\n\nVictoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, to Norman Ramsay Masson, of Victoria in Hongkong, Acting Registrar of our Supreme Court of Hongkong, Greeting,\n\nyou\n\nF\n\nsame on the Hon'ble H. 'T. Davies, Esq., Chief Magistrate of Police.\n\nAdditional notices were served on Messrs Forth and to the following effect.\n\n(K\n\n\"You (Mr Forth) to produce all papers in your office, possession, power, custody, or control, relative to the evidence taken by the Caldwell Commission---also all correspondence and copy correspondence of William Thomas Bridges Esquire, or His Excellency the Governor with yourselves or each other, or between any or either of you, touching the constitution of the Caldwell Commission and the omission of your name.\n\nAnd\n\n\"You (Mr Davies) to produce all correspondence and copies of correspondence between yourself and William Thomas Bridges, Esquire, regarding the Caldwell enquiry---Minutes of the meeting of Justices convened on or convening same, and all correspondence and copy correspondence about or connected with Assow the Interpreter.\n\nThe Hon'ble Charles St. George Cleverly, Esquire, Surveyor General and Charles May Esquire, Superintendent of Police, were served with subpœnas to produce.\n\nWe command you, that laying aside all and singular business and excuses, you and every of you, be and appear in your proper persons before our Chief Justice of our Supreme Court of our Colony of Hongkong, at Victoria, on the Twenty second day of November instant, at 12 of the Clock noon of the same day, and following days until discharged, and also that you bring with and produce at the time and place aforesaid the original or copy of the circular or memorandum of His Excellency Sir John Bowring, dated the twenty-sixth day of January 1858, addressed to all the public departments of the Colony of Hongkong for the information and guidance thereof, with the letter forwarding you such circular or memorandum; also the Queen's Colonial Service Regulations, or a copy thereof, all other documents, letters, books, papers, instruments and writings, and copies of documents letters, books, papers instruments and writings in your possession, custody or power, or under your control in any way relating thereto, or in any way relating to or connected with the matters now at issue between ourselves and one William Tarrant, in respect of the information for Libel filed by our Acting Attorney General in our Supreme Court of Hongkong in its Criminal Jurisdiction, against the said William Tarrant, dated the eighteenth day of November aforesaid, or containing any entry, memorandum or minute in any wise relating to such matters so at issue as aforesaid, and also there and then to testify and shew all and singular those things which you know concerning the matter so at issue between ourselves and the said Defendant; and this you, or any of you shall by no means omit, under the penalty upon each of you of One Hundred Dollars.\n\nDated, November 16th, 1858.\n\nTo G. TURNER, Esq., Crown Solicitor.\n\n(Signed)\n\n\"Certain paper writings and books in the Chinese language seized on the premises of one Wong Akee otherwise Ma-chow Wong, now a convict in the Gaol of Victoria, including that portion thereof which you, in the month of October 1857, directed should be sent from the Police office or come to the office of the Superintendent of the Trade of British subjects in China, for the purpose of being examined by Messrs Mongan and Caldwell;---the original of your memorandum or circular of the 26th January 1858, addressed to all Public Departments for their information and guidance;---letters or copies of the letters of the then Acting Colonial Secretary covering same to such departments;---and all other letters, books, papers, instruments and writings whatsoever, and copies of documents, letters, books, papers, instruments and writings in your possession, custody or power or under your control, in any way relating to or connected with the matters now at issue between Her Majesty the Queen and one William Tarrant in respect of the Information filed by Her said Majesty's Acting Attorney General against the said William Tarrant, dated the 18th day of November 1858, or containing any entry memorandum or minute in any wise relating to such matters so at issue as aforesaid; and also, then and there to testify and shew all and singular those things which you know on the trial of a certain Information for Libel filed in our said Supreme Court at Victoria, in its Criminal Jurisdiction by Her said Majesty's Acting Attorney General against the said William Tarrant, and dated the 19th day of November aforesaid.\n\nof the firm of Gibb, Livingston & Co.---William Lamont John Darby Gibb, Esquire J. P., Managing Partner Esquire J. P., Sub-manager of the Oriental Bank Corporation---Ludwig Wiese, Esquire, Managing Partner of the house of Siemssen & Co.---N. L. Beckwith, Esquire Managing Partner of the American house of Russell & Co.,---G. L. Wiener, Esquire, Consul for Austria, Managing Partner of the Hongkong branch of Lindsay & Co and Nicolay Duus, Esquire, Consul for Sweden and Norway, Managing Partner of the firm of N. Duus & Co.]\n\nWITNESS, The Honourable JOHN WALTER HULME, Esquire, Our Chief Justice of our said Colony, at Victoria, the Twenty-second day of November, in the Twenty-second year of our reign, 1858.\n\nSealed by\n\nHENRY JEFFERD TARRANT, Defendant's Attorney, Queen's Road, Victoria.\n\nA. WEATHERHEAD, for the Registrar.\n\nA similar subpœna was served on the Hon'ble Frederick Forth, Esq., Acting Colonial Secretary, and the same on Mr Leonardo D'Almada e Castro, Clerk of Councils and Chief Clerk to the said Acting Colonial Secretary, and the\n\n\"The following documents, to wit, you, the said Charles St. George Cleverly, all letters and copies of letters referred to by you in your deposition, and documents relative to the Caldwell Commission and the printing of its proceedings; and you the said Charles May all correspondence and copy correspondence between yourself and any person or persons whomsoever, relative to or in any way connected with the Caldwell enquiry, or any matters connected therewith, either previous to its issuing or during or subsequent to its sitting; and each of you, the said Charles St. George Cleverly and Charles May, all other documents, letters, books, papers, instruments and writings, in your or either of your possession, custody or control, or copies, in any way relating to or connected with the matters at issue between ourselves and one William Tarrant, in respect of an Information for Libel filed by our Acting Attorney General against the said William Tarrant, and dated the eighteenth instant, or containing any entry memorandum or minute in any wise relating to such matters so at issue.\n\nWilliam Thomas Bridges of Victoria, D.C.L. Barrister at law and James Mongan Assistant Chinese Secretary were also subpœnaed by the defendant to produce.\n\n\"All paper writings and books in the Chinese language seized on the premises of one Wong Akee, otherwise Ma-chow Wong, now a convict in the Gaol of Victoria, including that portion thereof which His Excellency Sir John Bowring in the month of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven directed should be sent from the Police office or Court, to the office of the Superintendent of the Trade of British subjects in China, for the purpose of being examined by Messrs Mongan and Caldwell;", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248487, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "88\n\nhimself that they had been entrusted for that purpose, and that the examination (if any) was made by himself and not by Mongan. W. Wade, not yet undeceived;\n\nJames now advances their erroneous belief to explain a fact not known when I left the Island – namely that he, (Mr. Wade) \"never went through\" and \"never looked into\" the papers, so referred to her, during the period of their being in his hands; - for, if Mr. Mongan had searched them, his search, he thought, would be labor in vain. Before he returned to his office, the burning had taken place, and it was then too late. He therefore gives no opinion upon the accuracy of the references, contained in the \"Memoranda\", having no longer judgment. But he acknowledges that they are documents of important character, and that being amongst the destroyed documents, other means are note, as an important papers, gravely reflecting Mr. Caldwell.\n\n37.\n\nMr. Mongan, who had the Originals in his Custody, before and after Mr. Wade has deposed in open Court that \"the 'Memoranda' were too circumstantial to be forgeries!\n\nCross examination of Mr. Wade at the Trial of the Queen vs. Tarrant Ubi supra,\n\nPrinted Minutes, Vic, Seventeenth and Eighteenth, May 1858.\n\n58. The Queen's printer, Mr. Bigon, and the Acting Attorney General Mr. H. Ingham - each of whom had at the time a peculiar reason of his own for noting their accuracy, conform the former upon Oath - Mr. May's narrative, as to the nature of the Entries in the destroyed documents, so noted \"in his 'Memoranda'.\n\n59. The Chief Magistrate, Mr. Davies, himself the Committing Magistrate in Mah Chow Song's case, and afterwards a Commissioner of Enquiry into that of Mr. Caldwell, saw the \"Memoranda\" soon after they were made, had them in his possession, two or three days while the originals were in the hands of the local Government; and says that if Mr. May did not then volunteer their production to the Government, it was because he, Mr. Davies, dissuaded him from parting with a document, which he thought would be Mr. May's safeguard against imputations already hinted by Dr. Bridges, of malicious meaning towards Mr. Caldwell. - Mr. Davies really does not think that Mr. May was guilty of even the smallest act, from which, even now, when he (Mr. Davies) looks back on Mr. May's conduct, with the further knowledge of his relations with W. Caldwell, he (Mr. Davies) could, even if he had the greatest wish to do so, conclude that Mr. May acted unfairly or with hostile feelings towards Caldwell. He confirms the secondary evidence given by May as to the general nature of the contents of the \"Memoranda\".\n\n60. It follows then that, on the face of these papers, Mr. Caldwell is now at least convicted of having had pecuniary accounts and dealings with a Chinaman, whose only way of life at that very time was notoriously the way of piracy and murder, and, further, of having deliberately deceived the Executive Council, as to the nature of those papers and their contents, by preparing and presenting to\n\n33\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248488, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 91, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "89\n\nthat body, a Report of e\n\na so-called \"Examination\"\n\nof the Documents, which Report was false as well in respect of the entries which related to the convict, as of those which related to himself\n\n1. But the Commission of Enquiry, hampered already by the packing of its members, the terms of its warrant of appointment, and its own ill-advised submission of all its actions to the arbitrary opinion of Ma Chow Wong's Counsel,\n\n(and perhaps iny. cxportant Successor to the Attorney-Generalship) was, by the entire destruction of the original document, by an untrue statement of the Cause and manner of that destruction, and by the suppression of the Memorandum containing that secondary evidence of their contents, which is now before your Grace, further misled into making a Report of a most unsatisfactory nature.\n\n00\n\nWote\n\n62. The Chairman, whose casting vote alone carried the Report,\n\nMr. Caldwell, has, at a subsequent period,\n\nFrented Report\n\npp. i - ii\n\n\"and that, since the Report of the Commission had been handed in, further evidence had come to his knowledge\"\n\n63\n\nThe Commissioners are certainly entitled to the benefit of that explanation – But it cannot excuse them from having added to these difficulties those of their own creation, already noticed; nor the haste with which they proceeded to draw up, pass, and reheven their Report, without taking a day's time to consider the evidence which they had collected (extending over seven weeks)\n\nfrom which Report, consequently, all notice of very important matters that had been established, some days or even weeks before to their entire satisfaction, is altogether excluded; whilst others, which are not well, are very imperfectly noticed, and very unsatisfactorily and sometimes very erroneously found. Invite Your Grace's attention to a few instances.\n\n64. W. Beatchwell's unsupported statements, as far as it favored the Honorable the Surveyor General, were invariably admitted as satisfactory evidence by the Commissioners, in his favor; and contradicted, were Jacant ubi suprà 10th and 23rd days; for evidence, 12th and 16th June, and their Legal Adviser and Examiner, Mr. Day, 14th July 1858. pp. 10\n\n\"certainly did not point out the impropriety\"\n\nand upon Oath explained that Wote away Hee has explained in open Court that there \"had been important evidence subsequently given in the Supreme Court, which the Commissioners \"had not heard;\" - that \"the (sworn) evidence of Dr. Bridges, and Mr. Mongan, was so different from what had been given by them (unsworn) before the Commission, as to amount to new evidence!\n\n34\n\nIn General Margenes of the concession\n\nliabilities &c. Thvids Fifth, Leventh\n\n2.\n\nIn this favorable position, the only witnesses to Whom att baldwell pidged it preident & call ad Eighteenth days pot 3nd were his Chinese wife, Ayow, his Chinese Servant, 10th, 16th, 20th June; Size Hai Solicitor Mr. Stace, his quack Doctor; and Chinese ad pt. July 1850 pp. Myth, Vendee of brothel property; Eum ateen, the aching,\n\n6.16. (per $20 bol) 20-1,\n\n3. (15) 2: Col) 22-30, 50-1 lang) 69-70.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250514, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "content_text": "offence, \n\nand the reckless manner in \n\nwhich the prisoner Cocked and \n\npointed a loaded gun under circumstances Affording no justification, I hereby in virtue of the powers vested upon me by the Queen's order in Council to Confirm or vary the punishment awarded by the Consul, when such Award is referred by reason of dissent of Assessors, do sentence the said Michael Moss to three months imprisonment in Her Majesty's Gaol at Hongkong, and further, confirm sentence of deportation. \n\nGiven \n\nthe \n\nhand and \n\nunder my \n\nSeal this eighteenth day of December, 1860, at Her Majesty's Legation, and \n\nConsulate General, Yeddo, \n\n72 \n\n(Signed) Rutherford Alcock, \n\nH. B. M. Envoy Extraordinary \n\n(True copy) \n\n(Signed) I. Howard Nyse \n\nHer Britannic Majesty's Acting Consul at \n\nKanagawa \n\n(True copy) \n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254991, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "content_text": "# THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1862.\n\nany information or indictment, should be punishable by fine and imprisonment, as in the said Act is mentioned:\n\nAnd that if any person within any part of the United Kingdom, or in any part of His Majesty's dominions beyond the seas, should, without the leave and licence of His Majesty for that purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid, equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or attempt or endeavour to equip, furnish, fit out, or arm, or procure to be equipped, furnished, fitted out, or armed, or should knowingly aid, assist, or be concerned in the equipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any ship or vessel, with intent or in order that such ship or vessel should be employed in the service of any foreign Prince, State, or Potentate, or of any foreign Colony, Province, or part of any Province, or People, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise any powers of government in or over any foreign State, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, as a transport or store-ship, or with intent to cruize or commit hostilities against any Prince, State, or Potentate, or against the subjects or citizens of any Prince, State, or Potentate, or against the persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of government in any Colony, Province, or part of any Province or Country, or against the inhabitants of any foreign Colony, Province, or part of any Province or Country, with whom His Majesty should not then be at war; or should, within the United Kingdom, or any of His Majesty's dominions, or in any Settlement, Colony, Territory, Island, or place belonging or subject to His Majesty, issue or deliver any Commission for any ship or vessel, to the intent that such ship or vessel should be employed as aforesaid, every such person so offending should be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour,\n\nenlist or enter himself to enlist, or should agree to enlist or to enter himself to serve as a soldier, or to be employed, or should serve in any warlike or military operation, in the service of or for or under or in aid of any Foreign Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any foreign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, either as an officer or soldier, or in any other military capacity; or if any natural-born subject of His Majesty should, without such leave or licence as aforesaid, accept, or agree to take or accept, any Commission, Warrant, or Appointment as an officer, or should enlist or enter himself, or should agree to enlist or enter himself, to serve as a sailor or marine, or to be employed or engaged, or should serve in and on board any ship or vessel of war, or in and on board any ship or vessel used or fitted out, or equipped or intended to be used, for any warlike purpose, in the service of or for or under or in aid of any Foreign Power, Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any Foreign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People; or if any natural-born subject of His Majesty should, without such leave and licence as aforesaid, engage, contract, or agree to go, or should go to any Foreign State, Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province, or to any place beyond the seas, with an intent or in order to enlist or enter himself to serve, or with intent to serve in any warlike or military operation whatever, whether by land or by sea, in the service of, or for, or under, or in aid of any Foreign Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or in the service of, or for, or under, or in aid of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any Foreign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, either as an officer or a soldier, or in any other military capacity, or as an officer or sailor, or marine, in any such ship or vessel as aforesaid, although no enlisting money, or pay, or reward should have been or should be, in any or either of the cases aforesaid, actually paid to or received by him, or by any person to or for his use or benefit; or if any person whatever, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any part of His Majesty's Dominions elsewhere, or in any Country, Colony, Settlement, Island, or Place belonging to or subject to His Majesty, should hire, retain, engage, or procure, or should attempt or endeavour to hire, retain, engage, or procure, any person or persons whatever to enlist, or to enter or engage to enlist, or to serve or to be employed in any such service or employment as aforesaid, as an officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, either in land or sea service, for or under or in aid of any Foreign Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province, or People, or for or under or in aid of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise any powers of Government as aforesaid, or to go, or to agree to go, or embark from any part of His Majesty's Dominions, for the purpose, or with intent to be so enlisted, entered, engaged, or employed as aforesaid, whether any enlisting money, pay, or reward should have been, or should be actually given or received, or not; in any or either of such cases, every person so offending should be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and upon being convicted thereof, upon any information or indictment, be punished by fine and imprisonment, or either of them, at the discretion of the Court in which such offender should be convicted; and every such ship or vessel, with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and stores which may belong to or be on board of any such ship or vessel, should be forfeited; and it should be lawful for any Officer of His Majesty's Customs or Excise, or any Officer of His Majesty's Navy, who is by law empowered to make seizures for any forfeiture incurred under any of the laws of Customs or Excise, or the laws of trade and navigation, to seize such ships and vessels aforesaid, and in such places and in such manner in which the Officers of His Majesty's Customs or Excise and the Officers of His Majesty's Navy are empowered respectively to make seizures under the laws of Customs and Excise, or under the laws of trade and navigation; and that every such ship and vessel, with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and stores, which may belong to or be on board of such ship or vessel, may be prosecuted and condemned for any breach of the laws made for the protection of the revenues of Customs and Excise, or of the laws of trade and navigation:\n\n## \n\nHer Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, being desirous of enabling Her subjects to engage in and enter the Naval and Military Service of the Emperor of China, is pleased to Order, and it is hereby Ordered, that from and after the first day of September next, it shall be lawful for Horatio Nelson Lay, one of Her Majesty's subjects, and Sherard Osborn, Captain in Her Majesty's Navy, to enter into the Military and Naval Service of the said Emperor, and to accept any Commission, Warrant, or other appointment under the said Emperor, and to accept any money, pay, or reward for their services, and to fit out, equip, purchase, and acquire ships or vessels of war for the use of the said Emperor, and to engage and enlist British subjects to enter the Military and Naval Service of the said Emperor. And it is hereby further Ordered that it shall be lawful for every British subject to enlist and enter himself by engaging and enlisting himself with the said Horatio Nelson Lay and Sherard Osborn, and no other person or persons whatsoever, in the Military and Naval Service of the said Emperor, and to serve the said Emperor in any Military, Warlike, or other operations, either by land or by sea, and for that purpose to go to any place or places beyond the seas, and to accept any Commission, Warrant, or other appointment from or under the said Emperor, and to accept any money, pay, or reward for his service: Provided always, that the licence and permission hereby given shall be in force only for the term of two years from the said first day of September next, unless, by Order in Council made in manner aforesaid, such period should be further extended.\n\n## At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of August, 1862.\n\n### PRESENT,\n\n**The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.**\n\nWHEREAS by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled \"An Act further to amend the laws concerning the burial of the dead in England,\" it is, amongst other things, enacted that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, from time to time to postpone the time appointed by any Order in Council for the discontinuance of burials, or otherwise to vary any Order in Council made under any of the Acts recited in the said Act, or under the said Act (whether the time thereby appointed for the discontinuance of burials thereunder, or other operation of such Order, shall or shall not have arrived), as to Her Majesty, with such advice as aforesaid, may seem fit;\n\n### PRESENT.\n\n**The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.**\n\nWHEREAS the Town Council of the borough of NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, in county of STAFFORD, have under the provisions of an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the seventeenth and eighteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled \"An Act to make further provision for the burial of the dead in England, beyond the limits of the metropolis,\" presented a petition to Her Majesty in Council, stating that an Order in Council has been issued directing that burials should be discontinued, with certain modifications, in the churchyards of St. Giles's and St. George's, both in the parish of Newcastle-under-Lyme; and representing that there is difficulty and inconvenience in providing sufficient places of burial for the inhabitants of the said parish of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and of such part of the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, as is situate within the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, under the powers and provisions of the Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled \"An Act to amend the Laws concerning the burial of the dead in England beyond the limits of the metropolis, and to amend the Act concerning the burial of the dead in the metropolis,\" and praying that powers may be vested in the said Town Council for providing such place or places of burial under the provisions of the various Acts of Parliament relating to burials as shall be deemed requisite for the inhabitants of the said parish of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and of such part of the said parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, as is situate within the said borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme.\n\nAnd whereas certain Orders in Council have been made, directing the discontinuance of burials in the churchyards hereinafter mentioned, from the time mentioned in such Orders respectively; and whereas it seems fit to Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, that the time for discontinuing burials in the said churchyards be postponed;\n\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the time for the discontinuance of burials in such churchyards be postponed, as follows; viz.:\n\n| Churchyard | Original Date | Postponed Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Middlewich, Cheshire | 30th June 1862 | 1st November 1862 |\n| Elm, Isle of Ely | 1st September 1862 | 31st March 1863 |\n| Oadby, Leicestershire | 1st July 1862 | 31st December 1862 |\n| Combe Florey | 1st July 1862 | ... (part of the churchyard to the south of the church) |\n\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty in Council is pleased hereby to give NOTICE of such petition, and to order that the same be taken into consideration by a Committee of the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, on the fourteenth day of October next:\n\nAnd Her Majesty is further pleased to direct, that this Order be published in the London Gazette, and in one of the newspapers usually circulating in the borough of NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, one month at least before the said fourteenth day of October.\n\n**Arthur Helps.**\n\n## At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of August, 1862.\n\n**Arthur Helps.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255443, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "content_text": "## Deposition regarding the 'de' Argen\n\nShortly after the arrival of that vessel was reported to him, I believe the morning after her arrival, the Harbour Master and authorities of the Office of Hong Kong accompanied by the French Consul, the Captain of the 'de' Argen' then stated to the Harbour Master that the ship was put back for repairs with emigrants on board.\n\nThe Harbour Master instructed an inquiry to be made. On the way, he was met by his interpreter and requested to go on board and question the emigrants. The interpreter told me that he was perfectly satisfied with the result of his visit.\n\n## Inspection of the Ship and Emigrants\n\nIn pursuance of the Harbour Master's recommendation, a bulk was constructed and provisions were transferred from the 'de' Argen' to the Hulk. The emigrants were kept on board until the ship was ready to proceed on her voyage.\n\nAbout four or five days after the arrival of the migrants, the Harbour Master and I boarded the 'de' Argen' and inspected the emigrants. The French Consul from Canton was also there. The emigrants had frequent communication with the shore and had been visited on board by their friends.\n\nThe first lieutenant reported to the Harbour Master that they had been badly treated on board. The Harbour Master's Office, Hong Kong, authorized the transfer of the emigrants to the Hulk, but they refused to leave the ship.\n\n## Proceedings against the Ship\n\nOn Friday, the eighteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, I was instructed to investigate a matter regarding the ship. I was accompanied by Monsieur de Fourvour, the Master of the 'de' Argen', and some of the crew. The Superintendent of Police made inquiries on the same day.\n\nThe Harbour Master or his Office authorized the punishment of the emigrants on the Hulk, but the details of the proceeding are not clear. The Police wanted me to remain, and shortly afterwards, I was sent with a note to the Chief Superintendent of Police.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "46\n\nhave to add, in justice to my creditors—assuring you, Sir, that the task is irksome and obnoxious to me in the last degree. I enter upon it.\n\nIt fell to my lot, Sir, and I freely confess the duty was congenial to my instincts as a soldier, though at the time administering this Government as a civilian, to have been called upon to place this island in a state to resist a probable siege, on the breaking out of the Russian war in 1854. It was a season of great public alarm, for a formidable Russian squadron had only just left our waters, and was supposed at the time to be lurking in our very estuary. However, by establishing a system of signals, by the erection of batteries on commanding points, augmenting our land and water police and organizing a corps of Volunteers (who unanimously elected me to be their colonel), I had the satisfaction of seeing the mind of this community reassured and native confidence re-established. I had the happiness of receiving on that occasion that reward, ever the most grateful one to my feelings from force of early associations, the prompt approbation of my immediate chief, the Secretary of State himself. Again, in the winter of 1856, in the absence of the Governor from the colony, it fell to my lot to render it service at a most perilous crisis in suppressing the rising of the Chinese inhabitants, by bringing to bear upon the émeute at the due moment that personal ascendancy over the desperadoes of the population which I had gained during my Career as Chief Magistrate. It was happily quelled without the loss of a single life, and I was heartily thanked by Sir John Bowring on his return from Canton, in the presence of the Secretary to the Superintendency, for having \"by presence of mind and prompt action at the critical moment, saved the effusion of blood in the streets of the city.\" His Excellency was pleased to instruct me forthwith to report in detail the whole matter to the Secretary of State, which I did accordingly, see despatch No. 196 of 22nd November, 1856. No covering despatch from Sir John Bowring, however, accompanied mine, and to this I attribute a simple acknowledgement from the Secretary of State, though how grateful would it have been to my feelings that one line of approval which I have ever looked upon as my highest reward.\n\nNow, on the eve of bidding this colony a final farewell, it only remains for me to express my earnest wishes for its future progress and prosperity. When I landed upon its shore some eighteen years ago I found it a desert hill-side, I leave it (to use a pardonable figure of speech) bespread with palaces, a beautiful\n\n47\n\nand well ordered city, a miracle of British enterprise and dormant power upon the frontier of this crumbling empire. In its infancy, a heavy drain upon the Imperial Exchequer, I have lived to see it in its consolidated strength, a self-supporting settlement, justifying its foundation and thriving in every branch of its industry.\n\nLet it not be supposed for one moment that I claim the credit of these happy results; I merely claim to have been one of the earliest and most confident pioneers of the experiment, and to have been, from the first, not uselessly, I trust, associated with its realization.\n\nBut I cannot help claiming it as a special auspice for myself, though due to no merit of mine, that it was under my administration the colony first made that extraordinary stride in prosperity which is sustained to this day. I happily seized the occasion of the first exodus from Canton in 1854 and in 1855, and the brief presence of those birds of passage amongst us, to originate the public sale of every inch of ground then available in this city and suburbs, and I may fairly claim it as the result of that seasonable stroke that many of those casual refugees became permanent settlers, and are at this moment identified inalienably and for ever with the future fortunes of this colony.\n\nThe European side of the colony has kept pace with that of the Chinese, and I may take this opportunity of affirming that, with the heads of the foreign community of all nations (my own countrymen especially), that is to say, with every individual in this place, coming under the denomination of a gentleman, I say, and I challenge any detractors to gainsay it, that with two casual exceptions, I have ever lived on terms of cordial esteem, and with all classes (saving a couple of vile newspaper editors), on terms of mutual respect and confidence. In conclusion it only remains for me to say (and I say it proudly), that during my whole colonial service, now in my eighteenth year, I have never suffered a single reproof from the Colonial Office, and I take this last opportunity of expressing my earnest gratitude to yourself, Sir, for that gracious recognition of my services contained in your despatch, No. 43, of the 1st October, 1858. Annexed is a schedule showing the nature of each enclosure attached.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. CAINE.\n\nThe Rt. Hon. Sir Edward B. Lytton, Bart, M.P.,\n\nPrincipal Secretary of State for the Colonies, &c.\n\n63", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262157, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "74 \n\n75 \n\n324 \n\nIf an English doctor be engaged, Wong allows one dollar per head. Wong also agrees to engage a competent interpreter and a Chinese doctor at the rate of twenty-five dollars each per month; Mr. Lobscheid is to provide them with a free passage back to Sydney or Hongkong if they do not wish to remain in Tahiti. An advance of five dollars is to be given to them prior to the departure, and the balance to be settled in Tahiti.\n\nEight of the passengers have to act as cooks and one as steward, and a remuneration of five dollars is to be allowed to each cook and ten dollars to the steward for their services during the voyage, payable in Hongkong.\n\nThat Wong agrees to pay demurrage of the chartered ship \"Ferdinand Brumm\" if the passengers are not ready within the specified time and the vessel is thus detained through his fault.\n\nThe \"Ferdinand Brumm\" has thirty laydays (Sundays excepted), and for any time used over and above this time, commencing the eighteenth November, demurrage has to be paid at the rate of seventy-five dollars per diem.\n\nIn witness whereof the contracting parties have hereunto set...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262158, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "page_number": 329, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "their hands this Eighteenth day of November in the Year eighteen hundred sixty-four.\n\n(signed) A. H. FC \nfor Rev? M. Lobscheid.\n\nAs Agents for \n(signed) Worang.\n\n(Time Copy) \n(signed) Bourjan stubener & Z.\n\n(True Copies) \nSt Alexande \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's office, \n(Copy) \n\n## Memorandum \n\nPer Sampson's \n234 \n325 \nHongKong, 25th May, 1865 \n\nMr Lampoar came to this Office today bringing with him this Letter of 22 May, letter. He stated his reason was what he might like to express his regret at any unpleasantness arising between this Government and himself. I observed that as far as the Government was concerned there was no such feeling, but the Acting Governor having been called upon by the Secretary of State to report whether the abuses mentioned by him existed, the enquiries addressed to him and others were necessitated to enable Mr Mercer to", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 268644, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-119 - Public Offices - 1866", "page_number": 224, "title": "CO129-119 - Public Offices - 1866", "content_text": "218\n\nTo Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonial Department.\n\nMemorial for Charles Park, Upholsterer in Glasgow, on behalf of his children, Jane Park aged twelve years; Mary Park aged eight years and six months; Charles Park aged six years and six months; and Georgina Park aged five years, all residing with the Memorialist.\n\nHumbly Sheweth,\n\nThat the late George McLaren, Master of the \"Camont\", died on board that ship while in the Chinese Sea on the Eighteenth day of February Eighteen hundred and sixty-four.\n\nHis effects were legally taken possession of and sold, and the proceeds amounting to Three hundred and thirteen dollars fifty cents were received by Mr. W. H. Alexander, Victoria, Hong Kong, as Official Administrator to the estate and effects of the deceased, conform to receipt dated Twenty-seventh June Eighteen hundred and sixty-four.\n\nThe deceased was illegitimate - he was never married and he died intestate.\n\nHis father was ... Mayor, who resided at Largs, a village on the river Clyde. He died many years ago.\n\nHis mother's name was ... and she died in Edinburgh while ... was a ...\n\nHis parents had another child - a daughter named Mary. She was called by her father's name - McLaren; whilst her brother took the mother's, McLaren.\n\nMary McLaren was brought up with Mr. Main, residing at present in Shore Street, Gourock.\n\nCharles Cart...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-119 - Public Offices - 1866.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 270523, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7]", "page_number": 411, "title": "CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7]", "content_text": "405\n\nthat \"no one wanted to reach Mr. POLLARD his duty, but that he, as Judge, had also a duty to \"discharge.\" Mr. POLLARD then said \"very well, my Lord, we shall both do our duty and it will be \"all right,\" or words to that effect. The Chief Justice then, in a very angry tone, told Mr. POLLARD to sit down and keep silence, adding that Mr. POLLARD made it a rule to have always the last word, which was disrespectful to the Bench. Mr. POLLARD was about again addressing him, but the Chief Justice desired him to sit down, and abruptly left the Bench.\n\n7. After a short interval, the Chief Justice returned and at once asked Mr. POLLARD if he apologised; Mr. POLLARD asked him for what; the Chief Justice said, \"you know very well for what.\" Mr. POLLARD, in a quiet and collected manner, said that he had never intentionally been disrespectful to the Bench, and was not conscious of having done anything that could be so construed, that no one would be more ready to acknowledge his fault and to apologise if shown reason for so doing, but \"he did not see that he had done anything which called for an apology,\" and added that \"he thought \"the Court should be satisfied, there was an intention to insult it before making such an assumption.” The Chief Justice then said in an excited tone \"did you not say to me that a Chinaman was not a \"piece of paper?\" Mr. POLLARD asked \"is it for that, my Lord, I am to apologise?\" The Chief Justice said that is part of it, but there is more.” Mr. POLLARD denied knowing what the Chief Justice alluded to and asked to be informed, and attempted, two or three times, to address the Court, but the Chief Justice refused to hear him or to tell him with what he charged him, and angrily ordered him to be silent, and to sit down, and then he addressed the Jury, in a very excited manner, and told them he would adjourn the Court until Saturday, the Twenty-ninth. Mr. POLLARD protested against the adjournment, arguing that though the Court had power to deal with him, it was not competent to prejudice the Plaintiffs' case, as other Counsel could be procured for them. I also appealed to the Court to permit me, at least, to finish the cross-examination of the Comprador, as I deemed it of the utmost importance for my client that his cross-examination should proceed. The Chief Justice however refused, and then adjourned the case indefinitely, saying to the Jury that he \"would not proceed with the case until Mr. POLLARD apologised.\"\n\n8. The Court was accordingly adjourned, but, by mutual consent, the Record was immediately withdrawn, and the case submitted to arbitration, as the mode of dealing with it which appeared to be least prejudicial to the interests of our respective clients.\n\n9. On Saturday, the Twenty-ninth of June, I was again in the Supreme Court as Counsel for the Defendant in a case in which Mr. POLLARD appeared for the Plaintiffs. As soon as the Chief Justice had taken his seat on the Bench, he asked if any gentleman at the Bar had anything to say; on this, I informed him that the case, which had been before him on the preceding Thursday, had been referred to arbitration. The Chief Justice asked if any other gentleman had anything to say, and there being no answer, he then proceeded to read, as it appeared to me, from a manuscript, some sentences which, to the best of my belief, are given verbatim in the report contained in the China Mail of the Twenty-ninth of June, (copy hereunto annexed, marked A.) He intimated that he intended to give his decision in the matter on the following Monday, as Mr. POLLARD had received notice. Mr. POLLARD denied having received any such notice. The Chief Justice remarked that his objection \"was but a technical one and was in keeping with his conduct throughout.\" Mr. POLLARD then asked permission to speak, which was refused. Mr. POLLARD then called on the Chief Justice to note that he had applied to the Court to be allowed to speak and permission was refused. On this the Chief Justice said, \"Oh if you put it in that way you may speak,\" and when asked what he had to say, he stated that he had never sought to be aggressive\" on this the Chief Justice interposed, in an excited manner, saying \"that the Bench could protect itself from aggression,\" or something to the like purport, Mr. POLLARD then, in a very collected and respectful manner, disavowed ever having intentionally insulted the Court and assured the Chief Justice that there was \"no one who more respected the Bench than he did even apart from his position as a Barrister, but that he also owed \"something to his profession as a member of the Bar, that he was not aware of having done anything \"which required him to make an apology, but that he was then ready to do so, if any one, who was present in Court on the previous Thursday, would say that an apology was due from him to the Bench, and that he was not the only member of the Bar who had been in Court on that occasion.\"\n\n10. While in the act of finishing the last sentence, Mr. POLLARD sat down; the Chief Justice in a very angry and insulting tone ordered him to stand when he addressed the Court. Mr. POLLARD rose and said that was all he had to say.\n\n11. The case proceeded and lasted for some hours; at its close, before charging the Jury, the Chief Justice called both Counsel up to the Bench and made suggestions, which led to a verdict against my client by consent. Both Mr. POLLARD and I had also occasion, three times on that day, to attend before the Chief Justice in his Chamber in Bankruptcy, but nothing particular passed. Mr. POLLARD was most respectful, and the Chief Justice appeared to be on the very best terms with him. At the close of the day it was announced that his decision would be given \"on the Thursday's occurrence,\" on Tuesday the Second of July, instead of Monday the First, the day originally named.\n\n12. On Tuesday, the Second of July, I was also in Court. When the Chief Justice had taken his seat, Mr. POLLARD most respectfully protested against the Jurisdiction of the Court to deal with him in any manner for anything which had occurred previously. A note was taken of his objection, and he was then called upon by the Acting Registrar of the Court, in a manner most humiliating to him, to stand whilst the Chief Justice read out a very lengthened Judgment, which to the best of my belief is accurately reported in the Daily Press for Wednesday, July Third, (copy hereunto annexed, marked B.)\n\n13. I have been for many years a Member of the Irish Bar and was constant attendant at the Courts in Dublin, previous to my appointment in One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-two, as Police Magistrate of Hongkong, and I can conscientiously declare, that never in my experience, has any Barrister, much less a Queen's Counsel, been treated with such indignity, and subjected to such public contumely, as Mr. POLLARD was on the Second of July.\n\n14. I can also conscientiously affirm that there was nothing done or said by Mr. POLLARD either on the Twenty-seventh or the Twenty-ninth of June which called for such an unusual expression of displeasure on the part of the Chief Justice; and I believe that if the Chief Justice had not unfortunately allowed himself to be needlessly and unduly excited, he would not have construed any of the acts of Mr. POLLARD on either of those days to be contempts of Court.\n\nSworn at Victoria, Hongkong, this\n\nEighteenth day of July, A.D. 1867.\n\nBefore me\n\nR. C. Hayes\n\nWhen Charles Whyte.\n\nMS for Hayking AnyRay", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 270534, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7]", "page_number": 422, "title": "CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7]", "content_text": "829147/4\n\n417\n\nIn the matter of the Petition of EDWARD HUTCHINSON POLLARD, One of Her Majesty's Counsel for the Colony of Hongkong, against The Honorable the Chief Justice of the said Colony, and against the Sentence passed upon the said Petitioner by the said Chief Justice, on the Second day of July, a.v. 1887.\n\n1, GOTTFRIED Carl Rodarz, of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Storekeeper, make oath and say :--\n\n1. That I was one of the Jury sworn to try the case of OLYPHANT and Others v. Loo AHUNG before the Chief Justice of the said Colony at the Supreme Court House, Hongkong, on Thursday, the Twenty-seventh day of June last.\n\n2. That I have read the Petition of Mr. EDWARD HUTCHINSON POLLARD herein and that it contains a correct and fairly stated account of what passed in the said Supreme Court on the Thursday above mentioned.\n\n3. That I was attending carefully to everything that passed on the Thursday, and I know that the Interpreter got very confused about the answers given by the Comprador (as witness) to Mr. POLLARD'S questions as to what the Defendant said about the four samples and the bulk of the Sugar (about which the action was brought), and that it was only then that Mr. POLLARD put leading questions, through the Interpreter, and they were, in my opinion, necessary to clear up the evident misunderstanding between the witness and the Interpreter.\n\n4. That in my opinion Mr. POLLARD said nothing and did nothing which could possibly be strained into even an unintentional disrespect to, or contempt of, the Court or Judge, and that neither in his manner, demeanour, nor tone of voice was there anything objectionable, as, while contending firmly for what he advanced, his manner appeared to me to be such as to afford no ground of complaint, and I was astonished when the Chief Justice called on Mr. POLLARD to apologise.\n\n5. That it appeared to me when Mr. POLLARD asked the Chief Justice to tell him what he complained of, that the Chief Justice could not give any other reason than that Mr. POLLARD had said to the Court \"that he could not produce a Chinaman as if he were a paper,\" and I was much surprised to hear this put forward, as the words were spoken by Mr. POLLARD to Mr. WYRTS, and certainly not to the Court at all.\n\n6. That from the first occasion on which the Chief Justice addressed Mr. POLLARD on the Thursday, it appeared to me that his (the Chief Justice's) manner was arbitrary, excited and irritating.\n\nSworn at Victoria, Hongkong, this Eighteenth day of July, A.D., 1887.\n\nBefore me\n\nJ.P.\n\nGottfried Carl Friedrich Rodatz.\n\nEX.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 271595, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "content_text": "I heard the Captain of the Mint say something very loud but I cannot tell what that was. I did not hear any talking before that. In reply to the loud something which the Captain of the Mint said so loud the person he was speaking to said he would not allow the Captain of the Mint to speak to him like that or words to that effect and then went into the next room and began writing.\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 4th entitled \"An act to repeal an act of the present Session of Parliament and entitled 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 entire suppression of voluntary and extra Judicial Oaths and Affidavits and to make other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary Oaths\".\n\n(True Copy)\n\n153\n\nSigned) G Allen\n\nDeclared and subscribed at Hongkong this eighteenth day of November A.D. 1867 before me justice of the Peace for the Colony of Hong Kong acting Colonial Secretary\n\nSigned) James Pattletonson", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278126, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "content_text": "[ 20 ]\n\nExtract from the Minutes of the Executive Council of Hongkong.\n\n“SATURDAY, 3RD APRIL, 1869.”\n\n«PRESENT:”\n\n“His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., Governor,\n\nThe Honorable COLONEL KNOX GORE, Commandant of the Garrison.\n\nThe Honorable J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Honorable JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, Attorney General.\n\nThe Honorable W. H. RENSHAW, Auditor General.\n\nThe Queen v. Saint.\n\n136\n\nINFORMATION\n\n“His Excellency the Governor lays on the Table the Letter addressed to him by Governor De Souza (10th March), together with His Excellency’s Minute thereon of same date, referring it to the Honorable the Attorney General, also the Report of that Officer on the subject; And it is resolved, that Application for Special Leave to appeal in Reg. v. Saint be made, through the Right Honorable the Secretary of State, to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.”\n\n(True Extract),\n\nL. D’ALMADA E CASTRO,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nHONGKONG\n\nTO WIT.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nTRINITY TERM, IN THE THIRTY-FIRST YEAR\n\nOF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA.\n\nBE IT REMEMBERED, that the Honorable HENRY JOHN BALL, Esquire, Acting Attorney General of Our Lady the Queen, who prosecutes for Our said Lady the Queen in this behalf, in his proper person, comes here into the Supreme Court of Hongkong, before the Chief Justice thereof, on the Eighteenth Day of May, in this same Term, and for Our Lady the Queen, gives the Court here to understand and be informed, That before and at the times of the printing and publication of the false, scandalous, malicious and defamatory libels and libellous matter and things, hereinafter mentioned and set forth, there subsisted and now subsists, alliance, friendship, amity, peace and concord between Our Sovereign Lady The Queen, and His Most Faithful Majesty The King of Portugal, and the subjects of Their said Majesties respectively, and that before and at those times, His Excellency Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL was, and yet is, the Minister of Marine and for the Colonies, in the Government of His said Most Faithful Majesty, and had previously been Governor for His said Majesty of the Settlement, Province, or Colony of Macao, upon the coast of the Empire of China.\n\nThat CHARLES ABRAHAM SAINT, of the City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, being the Proprietor, Printer and Publisher of a certain Newspaper called The China Mail, well knowing the premises, but being a malicious and evil disposed person, and unlawfully and maliciously devising, and intending to revile, traduce, defame and vilify the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL, so being and as such Minister as aforesaid, and to bring him into great hatred, scandal, infamy, disgrace and contempt, as well among the liege subjects of Our said Lady The Queen, as among the subjects of His said Most Faithful Majesty, and to cause it to be suspected, that he had acted corruptly, improperly and dishonestly, in his said Office of Minister of Marine, and for the Colonies of His said Most Faithful Majesty, and also unlawfully and maliciously devising, as much as in him the said CHARLES ABRAHAM SAINT lay, to interrupt, disturb and destroy the friendship, amity, peace and concord, subsisting between Our Lady The Queen and Her subjects, and His said Most Faithful Majesty and His subjects, on the Fifth Day of May, in the Year of Our Lord, One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-eight, at the City of Victoria, in this Colony, unlawfully and maliciously, did print and publish, and cause and procure to be printed and published, in the said Newspaper called The China Mail, a very false, scandalous and malicious libel of and concerning the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL, as such Minister as aforesaid, that is to say --\n\n“Curious rumours are floating about respecting Macao (meaning the said Settlement, Province, or Colony of His said Majesty) and the action taken by the Portuguese Government regarding the recent exposures of the coolie trade. It is asserted by those who have good means of knowing, that Senhor AMARAL (meaning the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL,) who enjoys the honor of representing the coolie Colony (meaning Macao) in the Portuguese Parliament, has become alarmed, lest the thorough ventilation of abuses recently commenced, should lead to legislation likely to prejudice the interests of the pig-dealers (meaning persons accused or suspected of kidnapping and man-stealing) and influenced by", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291920, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "page_number": 599, "title": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "content_text": "# 11390\n\n**RECEIVE**\n\nC.O.\n\n29 OCT 1873\n\n536\n\n\nAlthough sent before the receipt of yours, these despatches are therefore sent only for the information of His Excellency.\n\n\nN. 201\n\nMy Lord,\n\nGovernment House, Darjeeling, 18 September, 1873\n\nI have this day transmitted to Your Lordship the following Telegraphic Message:\n\nEighteenth September. Lavalle \"Spanish leave absent or on leave\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl of Kimberley,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298261, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "page_number": 185, "title": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "content_text": "pagating Porin?.. \n\nClerk's Name. \n\nGreigns No. \n\n61721\n\n184\n\nTHE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED,\n\nLONDON STATIONS;\n\nBRANCH STATIONS: 8, LEADENHALL STREET, and 42, FINSBURY CIRCUS.\n\nCHIEF STATION: 74, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C.\n\n6\n\nNo.\n\nof Words\n\n2-6\n\nREMARKS.\n\nThe following TELEGRAM Received at\n\nFrom\n\ni\n\nDated\n\nTo\n\nAddress\n\neighteenth\n\nEZRK\n\n___187\"\n\nvid Falmouth.\n\nTime\n\nReceived?\n\n? 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M\n\n20/5176.\n\n\" No inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Paper.\n\n......\n\nThe Public are expressly requested to take Notice that Messages are only forwarded by The EASTERN TELEGRAPH Company, Limited, on the condition that no responsibility is incurred for delay in transmission or delivery, or for non-transmission or non-delivery, or for mistakes from whatever cause they may arise, but any enquiry at the Office will be promptly attended to.\n\nREPLIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED VIA FALMOUTH.”\n\nWaterlow and Sons, Printers, Great Winchester Street, E.C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302022, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH FEBRUARY, 1878.\n\n## METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER AT THE UNDERMENTIONED STATIONS.\n\n| Date | Baro- Meter | Thermometer | Wind Direction | Force | Weather |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 8th February | 30.28 | 56.5 | NNE | 2 | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n\n## Description of Wind\n\n* Just sufficient to give steerage way\n* Gentle Breeze\n* Strong Breeze\n* Moderate Gale\n* Whole Gale\n\n## NOTICE\n\n**THE next Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court will be held on Monday, the Eighteenth day of February, a.n. 1878, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon.**\n\nBy Order,\nC. B. PLUNKET, Registrar.\n\n## SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG\n\n* Until further notice, the Court will sit in its Summary Jurisdiction, on every Tuesday, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon.\n* Until further notice, the Court will sit in its Original Jurisdiction on Mondays and Thursdays.\n\nBy Order,\nC. B. PLUNKET, Registrar.\n\n## IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG\n\n### Foreign Attachments\n\n#### SUMMARY JURISDICTION\n\n* Suit No. 168: Plaintiff - LEONG A SOO, Defendant - NG KEW\n* Suit No. 173: Plaintiff - YIP TAI NOAN, Defendant - NG KEW\n\n#### ORIGINAL JURISDICTION\n\n* Suit No. 5: Plaintiff - HO A TOW, Defendant - NG KAW\n* Suit No. 7: Plaintiff - LO A NGAN, Defendant - NG A KEW\n* Suit No. 8: Plaintiff - LEUNG A WOON, Defendant - NG A KEW\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that Writs of Foreign Attachments returnable on the 27th day of February instant, against all the Property moveable or immoveable of the above-named Defendant within the Colony, has been issued in each of the above Suits pursuant to the Provisions of Section LXXXII of \"The Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure.\"\n\nDated the 14th day of February, A.D. 1878.\nSHARP, TOLLER & JOHNSON, Solicitors for the several Plaintiffs, Supreme Court House, Hongkong.\n\n## NOTICE\n\nWHEREAS pursuant to the Provisions of Ordinance No. 14 of 1862, the following Petition to His Excellency the Governor in Council for Letters Patent for the Exclusive Right to use within this Colony and its Dependencies, the Invention hereinafter mentioned, has, together with the Specifications and Declarations required by the said Ordinance, been filed in the Office of the Colonial Secretary...\n\nNotice is hereby given, that His Excellency the Governor has appointed MONDAY, the 18th day of February, 1878, at noon, for a Sitting of the Executive Council...\n\nDated at Victoria, Hongkong, this 9th day of February, 1878.\nWM. H. BRERETON, Solicitor for the Petitioner, 29, Queen's Road, Hongkong.\n\n## IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY\n\nKOONG CHEONG, of `Road Central`, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, Trader in European goods...\n\nA public sitting for the said Bankrupt to pass his last examination, and to make application for his order of discharge, will be held before the Honourable Sir JOHN SMALE, Knight, Chief Justice...\n\nDated the 9th day of February, 1878.\nSHARP, TOLLER & JOHNSON, Solicitors in the Bankruptcy.\n\n## THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED\n\n**NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS**\n\nTHE NINTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at the Office of the Company, No. 7, Queen's Road, on Monday, the 18th February next, at Three o'clock in the afternoon...\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers, Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Limited.\nHongkong, January 26th, 1878.\n\n## NOTICE\n\nMR. H. F. MEYERINK has been admitted a PARTNER in our firm from this date.\nMEYER & Co.\nHongkong, 1st January, 1878.\n\n## \"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE\"\n\nSubscription: Per Annum, Payable in advance, $12.00. Extra copies, each, $0.50.\nTerms of Advertising: For 5 Lines and under, $1.00. Each Additional line, $0.20.\n\nPrinted and Published by NORONHA & SONS, Printers to the Hongkong Government, Oswald's Terrace, Wellington Street, Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302176, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 337, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG TO WIT.\n\nI, Joseph Schicke, do hereby certify that on the Thirtieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Seventy-Eight, I duly summoned the within named Jurors in the manner following, that is to say:-\n\nThe said Mr. Keller Personally at the Distillery Sat. 10 A.M. East Point.\n\nThe said C. F. Grossmann left at Pressmen & Co.\n\nThe said I. H. Stefanijel Personally, at the Jardine's for 12352.\n\nThe said J. J. Jorge left at Russell & Co. 12.\n\nThe said C. J. Briselik Personally at 47-Road Central Julius.\n\nThe said H. Legge has left for Fordlow at 12.30 P.M.\n\nWitness my hand, this Thirtieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Seventy-Eight.\n\n(Signed) Joseph Schicke Constable.\n\n## HONGKONG TO WIT.\n\nInformation of Witnesses severally taken and acknowledged on behalf of Our Sovereign Lady THE QUEEN, at the House known as the temporary Civil Hospital, in Victoria in the said Colony on the Eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-Eight, before R. Creagh, Gentleman, Coroner for the said Colony, touching the death of Chan hear this then and there lying dead as follows, to wit:-\n\nThe Jury having been duly Sworn and having viewed the body:-\n\nThis Ignacia Dalmada Sworn states: I am Lighthouse Keeper and am stationed at Cape d'Aguilar. At about 5.30 a.m. Yesterday I was coming from Theko & Hinghong, about two miles from Theko in the direction Shon Hi Wan. I saw the woman Court Chan ami about 25 yards in front of Sha. She had the child now in court in her arms. The prisoner was Sitting on the ground close by, close to him holding him by the queue. All the ground close by, tree and the child were covered with blood and when I arrived I said \"What is the matter?\" the prisoner Said that woman owed me ten tucks. I said \"Why should you kill a woman in that way?\" The prisoner made no reply.\n\nThe Chopper in Court was on the ground.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304320, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "## Telegram \n264 \n\nof telegram \n\nI beg to report that intimation of interruption of \nthe line between Saigon and Singapore has only this day been forwarded from the former station.\n\n2. \nI beg also to enclose copy of a letter from the Honourable James \nSutell offering to resign the Office of Coroner if by so doing it would facilitate the arrangements proposed \nby you.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, Your Most Obedient Humble Servant, \nJ...\n\n## Telegram \n> \nSecretary of State London \nto \nGovernor \nHongkong.\n\nEighteenth. Plunket was good magistrate \nin Straits and should be moved. \nIf made Magistrate could not rearrange offices \nas to give him other duties instead of Fire Brigade which \nwould make up his emoluments to his present pay.\n\nSecretary of State. \nAdministrator", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335971, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-236 - Others - 1887", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-236 - Others - 1887", "content_text": "## Form for Telegram RECEIVED from the Continent\nPOST OFFICE AND SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHS.\n\n2, THROGMORTON AVENUE, LONDON WALL, E.C. \nThe Submarine Telegraph Company \nReceived the following Telegram:- No..\n\nD. 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Any complaint, however, will meet with every attention on being brought under the notice of the Secretary. \n\nWaterlow and Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-236 - Others - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 340637, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "page_number": 366, "title": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "content_text": "# Equipment Regulations\n\n## Auxiliary Forces\n\n### MILITIA\n\nEquipment-Spare Parts for the Repair of Martini-Henry Rifles.\n\nIn the table of spare parts for each battalion substituted by Clause 197, Army Circulars, 1885, for paragraph 1816 of the Regulations for the Militia, 1883 (Army Regulations, Vol. VIII.), in the eighteenth line, for the words \"Scrows, spring, guard, trigger\"; substitute \"Screws, swivel, guard, trigger.”\n\n### VOLUNTEERS\n\n#### Arms\n\n1. The following will be substituted for paragraph 523 of the Regulations for the Volunteer Force, 1884 (Army Regulations, Vol. IX.):\n\n523. All arms issued to a Volunteer Corps remain the property of Her Majesty's Government, and the Commanding Officer for the time being is held responsible for their being at all times in a serviceable state, and for their being returned into store when required, in good condition (fair wear and tear excepted). He will also take such precautions as shall prevent their being hired by, or lent to, other persons, or used for purposes other than those for which they were issued to the corps.\n\n2. The following will be substituted for paragraph 527 of the above-mentioned regulations, as amended by Clause 179, Army Circulars, 1885:\n\n527. The arms will be deposited after drill in the armouries of the corps, except when the Commanding Officer may judge it expedient to permit members of the corps to keep their arms at their own houses, in which case a written permission will be given by him to each member who is allowed to take his arms home. A correct record will always be kept of all rifles issued from corps armouries to individuals, and the necessary note should be made before the arms are removed. As the Commanding Officer is responsible to the Secretary of State for the condition of the arms issued to the corps, it will be his duty to give such permission with care, and it may be withdrawn by him in any case whenever he may consider it necessary. The arms retained in private custody will be subject to inspection at any time by the Lieut.-Colonel of the sub-district. In any case in which the arms are neglected, the discretionary power granted to the Commanding Officer in this paragraph will be withdrawn.\n\n#### Musical Instruments - Bugles\n\nThe following will be added after paragraph 565 of the Regulations for the Volunteer Force, 1884 (Army Regulations, Vol. IX.):\n\n565a. Bugles and strings will be issued from Ordnance Stores, on prepayment, when demanded.\n\nPage 363\nFebruary 1886.\n\n## Regulations for the Ordnance Store Department\n\nCl. 26 At the end of the paragraph - \"Add Should there be more than 6 ozs, increase in weight, and should the cases not be damaged to such an extent as to render them clearly unserviceable, they will be returned to Woolwich for examination.\"\n\nCl. 27. February 1886.\n\nCl. 28. February 1886.\n\nCl. 29. February 1886.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344112, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "R. 172\n\nAgreement\n\nRLC2\n\n1360\n\nLEEZZ JAN 30\n\n06\n\nmade the eighteenth day of January One thousand eight hundred and ninety - Between The Undersigned One of the Crown Agents for the Colonies of Downing Street Westminster in the County of Middlesex acting for and on behalf of The Government of Hong Kong (hereinafter called the Government) of the one part and Arthur Maxwell Quill of 31, Grove Road Wanstead London in the County of Essex of the other part\n\nWhereby it is agreed by and between the parties hereto as follows:-\n\nThe said Arthur Maxwell Quill shall be appointed Assistant Engineer (in the Colony of Hong Kong).\n\nThe period of service shall be for Three years, commencing from the date of arrival in Hong Kong and he will be placed under the Orders of M. Chadwick the Consulting Engineer now in the Colony and subsequently under the Orders of the Resident Engineer of the Water and Drainage Works and in the event of his services not being required by these Officers for the whole period of his engagement his services shall be placed at the disposal of the Surveyor General of the Colony until the completion of his engagement.\n\nThe chief duties of the said Arthur Maxwell Quill shall be the carrying out of the reconstruction of the tanks for the drainage and water distribution of the Colony and all other duties which he may be directed to perform by his Superior Officers for the time being.\n\nThe Salary to be paid to the said Arthur Maxwell Quill shall be at the rate of Two thousand dollars ($2000) for the first year Two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars ($2250) for the second year and Two thousand five hundred dollars ($2500) for the third year with a", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355776, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## List of Brothels-concluded.\n\n| House No. | Street | Owner's name | Nationality of occupants |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 41 | Fraser | FOUGA BRC | |\n| 44 | Twenty-seventh | MACGREGORS MILL | |\n| 46 | Ditto | SHAIN LONES | |\n| 40 | Ditto | MILL | Chinese and Burmese |\n| 50 | Ditto | Ebrahim Jeewah and Mahomod Ebraki Jeewah | ...Burmese |\n| 58 | Ditto | Suratti Bazaar Co., Ltd. Muimmed Becnijos Patzit | Natives |\n| 59 | Ditto | ...Patbarndu Venketaratnam | Eurasians |\n| 63 | Ditto | Chinese | Chinese |\n| 66 | Ditto | Eenof Baymeah | Chinese |\n| 67 | Ditto | Ebrahim E. Mayeti | Burmese |\n| 79 | Ditto | Ally Ismailjes | Ditto |\n| 51 | Ditto | Suratti Bazar Co., Ltd. | Ditto |\n| 43 | Ditto | Dawood | Natives |\n| 44 | Ditto | Nanoo Hoosain | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | Suratti Cazaar Co., Ltd. | Farnese |\n| | Ditto | Nagamat | Natives |\n| | Ditto | Em. Salabhoy Douda | Barniese |\n| | Ditto | Eau. Esoufjes Mageth | Daten |\n| | Nonó Metal Depot | Suratti Bazaar Co., Ltd. | Ditto |\n| | WHARF | Ditto | Ditto |\n| | BAZAAR | Ditto | Ditto |\n| | KEIGHLYST | Iemail Majas | Nativos |\n| 24 | Ditto | Manng Tanlay | Shaik Siller |\n| 47 | Thirty-first | Fraser | $2 |\n| 46 | Ditto | Pritio | $ |\n| 19 | Thirty-fifth | Ditto | Forty-second... |\n| 16 | Ditto | Ditto | 11 |\n| | Dalhousie | Fajes Banatolia | 76 |\n| | Sparks | Suratti Bazar Co., Ltd. Hashiro ArazŘE | Rahimahu and Yooookjae Duña |\n| | Thirty-seventh | Balu Savaka | Eu. Adjes Waker |\n| | Ditto | Em, Ally Moslle | Foot Nalla Moidin |\n| | Ditto | ... Ma Gyi | Lenst Ally |\n| | Ditto | Marambee | Mahomed Ajim Tilly |\n| | Ditto | Ismail Kuan | Govindram |\n| | Ditto | Terapil Khan | ...Hajes Sharriff |\n\n## LIST OF SCHOOLS.\n\n| No. | Name | Nationality/Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| No. 1 | Maung Po Kyin's | Natives (in some rooms) |\n| No. 2 | Municipal Girls' | Burmese (upstairs only) |\n| No. 3 | Maung Po Myin's | Burmese |\n| No. 9 | | |\n| No. 10 | | |\n| No. 8 | St. John's Convent | |\n| No. 16 | Madouray Pillay's | Baptist Tamil |\n| No. 17 | Ranguon College | Diocesan |\n| No. 18 | St. Joseph's Convent | Spanish |\n| No. J | Maung Po Kin's | Burmese (opposite Convent gate) |\n| No. 1 | Methodhist Girls' | |\n| No. 19 | St. Gabriel's | Asiatics and Natives (in some rooms) |\n| No. 5 | St. Mary's | |\n| No. 12 | Baptist Boys' | Bursucke |\n| No. 20 | Lutheran | |\n| No. 6 | Elafit Humed's | Mussulman |\n| No. 7 | | Mussulman |\n| No. 13 | St. Paul's | |\n| No. 14 | St. Phillips' | |\n| No. zi | St. Anthony's | Beyond the limits of the plan |\n| No 22 | St. Barnabas' | Natives (in some rooms) |\n| No. 7-a | | Mussulman |\n| No. 15 | St. John's College | Burmese |\n\n| House No. | Street | Owner's name | Nationality of occupants |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 10 | Thirty-eighth | Moella Ramzan | Natives |\n| 54-a | Ditto | Lewis | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | Hajce Jamalladin | Ditto |\n| 80 | Thirty-ninth | B. Opwasjee | Burmese |\n| 84 | Ditto | Shaik Dawood | Ditto |\n| 86 | Fortieth | Sparks | Natives (in some rooms) |\n| 87 | Ditto | | Natives |\n| 90 | Forty-first | Crisp | Canal |\n| 43 | Ditto | Brooking | Mahomed Dupiay |\n| 24 | Dalhousie | Iron Bazaar Co., Ltd. | Ditto |\n| 17 | Seventeenth | Mu Shwe Phe | Burmese |\n| | Eighteenth | Hajee Juranliudin | Ditto |\n| | Seventeenth | Judah Ezekioj | Ditto |\n| | Ditto | Ebrali Doss | Natives |\n| 96 | Godwin road | Iron Bazaar Co., Ltd. | Ditto |\n| 97 | Ditto | Mahomed Dupley | Burmese (in some rooms) |\n| 12 | Fifteenth | Ma Thet Pyin | |\n| 100 | Dailonsie | Tau You Koon | |\n| | Ditto | Shaik Siller | |\n| 101 | Old Bazaar roar | Ma Lê | |\n| 102 | Ditto | N, K. | |\n| 103 | Ditto | | |\n| 104 | Ditto | Maung Mysing | Barnese |\n| 106 | Ditto | Maung Kyun | Ditto |\n| 107 | Litto | Li | Ditto |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356159, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 436, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## Confidential.\n\n20554/88.\n\nExtract from Report dated 21 Dec. 1888\n\nremarks in 1858 upon Mr S. Montagu's Mint Vote for 1888/9.\n\n### Coinage of a British dollar for circulation in the East.\n\nSee Fifth Annual Report (1874) p.p. 9, 74. Eighth Annual Report (1877) p.11. Eighteenth Annual Report (1887) p.14\n\nMr Montagu finally proposes that the Mint should be allowed to coin for the public a British trade-dollar for circulation in the East, pointing out that the Mexican dollars circulating in China and British Dependencies in the East are now the principal coins used for trade purposes in those countries. This question has frequently been brought under Their Lordships' notice as will be seen by a reference to my Annual Reports.\n\nIn 1874 the Governor of Hong Kong, and in 1877 the Governor of the Straits Settlements, reported to the Colonial Office on the subject of the currencies of those Colonies, with special reference to the dependence of the trading communities in the East on Mexican and other foreign dollars, and in 1887 the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements forwarded a Memorial for presentation to the Queen praying that Her Majesty would be pleased to cause a British dollar to be issued for circulation in the Colony. As Their Lordships are aware, a Mint was established in Hong Kong in 1864 for the coinage of a British dollar, with the expectation that there would be sufficient inducements to holders of bullion to bring it in for coinage, and that the Mint-charge, which was fixed at 2 per cent, would be sufficient to meet the expenses of the Mint. This experiment was a complete failure so far as its financial results were concerned, and the Mint was abandoned in 1868. The time selected for the experiment of a Mint at Hong Kong was doubtless unfavourable, but it is to be feared that any other scheme for obtaining a British dollar...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356160, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 437, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "429 \n\nA British dollar coined in London and shipped to Hong Kong would, without more expense than that which now attends the purchase of Mexican dollars in the market, equally prove financially unsuccessful. Mexican dollars can frequently be purchased in London, and at Hong Kong, at a price but slightly above their value as bar silver, and occasionally even at a price not exceeding their metallic value. If a British dollar were coined in London, on the other hand, the silver would have in the first instance to be bought at its market price, and a Mint charge of at least two per cent would be incurred for coinage. To these expenses must be added the cost of freight to the East and insurance, which may be taken to be one per cent, so that, before laying down at Hong Kong a dollar coined in London a shipper would have incurred an expenditure equal to three per cent on the value of the bar silver which he had purchased.\n\nI may add that besides the Mexican dollar the Japanese yen is current at Hong Kong, and the yen and United States trade-dollar in the Straits Settlements, and that there would appear to be no reason for apprehending any falling off in the supply of Mexican or other dollars. Even during the period of serious political disturbances in Mexico, if there was any dearth of dollars at Hong Kong, that dearth is to be accounted for, not by a decrease in the number of dollars coined, but by the fact that the rate of exchange in China had for some time ruled so low as not to attract shipments, and that it became more profitable, therefore, to melt the coin in this country. The coinage of yen, moreover, would appear to be increasing, as during the year ended the 30th June 1887 a far larger number of these coins were struck than in any previous year. See `Eighteenth Annual Report (1887) p.39`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356161, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 438, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## C \n430 \n\nany former year, and a Mint is in course of erection at Canton, in which the Chinese Government propose to coin dollars which would certainly find their way into general circulation in the East. \nSee Eighteenth Annual Report (1887) p.40", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368071, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10]", "page_number": 480, "title": "CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10]", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nTel: \n\n**Governor** \nHongkong \n23375 \n98 \n463 \n\nAnd 27 April '99 \n\nWhen ... pink root \n473 \nmay reply be expected to \nmenstruous \neighteenth para of my Despatch no.\n\n## MINUTE\n\n31st Macaughtier 26, \nMr/Sir W. Hamilton 27 \n26/4. \n37 \nMr. Antrobus, \nCreste \n332 23 December. \nMr. Cox. \nMr. Lucas. \nMr. Graham. \nSir E. Wingfield. \nEarl of Selborne, \nMr. Chamberlain. \n\nfor Contow \nSee further minute \nSent \n4.15 ... \n7/4 \n\nPage 480 \nPage 481", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394700, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "the date of the exchange of ratifications and until a revision is effected as hereinafter provided.\n\nIt is further agreed that either of the High Contracting Parties may demand that the Tariff and the Articles of this Convention be revised at the end of ten years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications thereof. If no revision is demanded before the end of the first term of ten years, then these Articles in their present form shall remain in full force for a further term of ten years reckoned from the end of the first term, and so on for successive periods of ten years.\n\nThe English and Chinese texts of the present Treaty and its three Annexes have been carefully compared; but, in the event of there being any difference of meaning between them, the sense as expressed in the English text shall be held to be the correct one.\n\nThis Treaty and its three Annexes shall be ratified by the two High Contracting Parties in conformity with their respective constitutions, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in Washington not later than twelve months from the present date.\n\nIn testimony whereof we, the Undersigned, by virtue of our respective powers, have signed this Treaty in duplicate in the English and Chinese languages, and have affixed our respective seals,\n\nDone at Shanghae, this 8th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1903, and in the twenty-ninth year of Kuang Hsü, eighth month and eighteenth day.\n\n(Signed)\n\nEDWIN H. CONGER. JOHN GOODNOW. JOHN F. SEAMAN.\n\n(Seals.)\n\n(Seals and signatures of Chinese Plenipotentiaries.)\n\nPage 9\n\nout of such port. Such branches, as well as the main Native Customs offices at each open port, shall be administered by the Imperial Maritime Customs, as provided by the Protocol of 1901.\n\n(Signed)\n\nEDWIN H. CONGER. JOHN GOODNOW. JOHN F. SEAMAN.\n\n(Seals.)\n\n(Seals and signatures of Chinese Plenipotentiaries.)\n\nAnnex 3.\n\nThe Schedule of Tariff duties on imported goods annexed to this Treaty under Article V is hereby mutually declared to be the Schedule agreed upon between the Representatives of China and the United States, and signed by John Goodnow, for the United States and their Excellencies Lü Hai-huan and Sheng Hsüan-huai for China, at Shanghae, on the 6th day of September, A.D. 1902, according to the Protocol of the 7th day of September, A.D. 1901.\n\n(Signed)\n\nEDWIN H. CONGER.\n\nJOHN GOODNOW. JOHN F. SEAMAN. (Seals.)\n\n(Seals and signatures of Chinese Plenipotentiaries.)\n\nAnnex 1.\n\nAs the citizens of the United States are already forbidden by Treaty to deal in or handle opium, no mention has been made in this Treaty of opium taxation.\n\nAs the trade in salt is a Government monopoly in China, no mention has been made in this Treaty of salt taxation.\n\nIt is, however, understood, after full discussion and consideration, that the collection of inland dues on opium and salt and the means for the protection of the revenue therefrom, and for preventing illicit traffic therein, are left to be administered by the Chinese Government in such manner as shall in nowise interfere with the provisions of Article IV of this Treaty, regarding the unobstructed transit of other goods.\n\n(Signed)\n\nEDWIN H. CONGER.\n\nJOHN GOODNOW. JOHN F. SEAMAN.\n\n(Seals.)\n\n(Seals and signatures of Chinese Plenipotentiaries.)\n\nAnnex 2.\n\nArticle IV of the Treaty of Commerce between the United States and China of this date provides for the retention of the Native Customs offices at the open ports. For the purpose of safeguarding the revenue of China at such places, it is understood that the Chinese Government shall be entitled to establish and maintain such branch Native Customs offices at each open port, within a reasonable distance of the main Native Customs offices at the port, as shall be deemed by the authorities of the Imperial Maritime Customs at that port necessary to collect the revenue from the trade into and\n\nGentlemen,\n\nDespatches.\n\nShanghae, June 23, 1903. Article IV of the Treaty of Commerce now being negotiated between the United States and China provides for the abolition of Native Customs offices inland for the collection of revenue on goods in transit. It is, however, understood that we do not by this Treaty abolish the offices for the collection of the octroi on native produce at the Chungwen and other gates at Peking, nor do we abolish the live-stock and house duties in Peking (Tso and Yeo Yib).\n\nWe are, &c.\n\n(Signed) JOHN GOODNOW,\n\nJ. F. SEAMAN, Treaty Commissioners for the United States.\n\nTo their Excellencies, Lü Hai-huan, Sheng Hsüan-huai,\n\nWu Ting-fang, Treaty Commissioners for China.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nShanghae, September 24, 1903. In our discussions we have on several occasions insisted that this Treaty should embody both the provisions contained in the revised British Commercial Treaty recognizing the right of China to collect consumption duty and excise duty, and also her right to levy production duty in order to make good the duty which would have been leviable on goods in transit by the Native Custom-houses inland, now abolished. You have not agreed to embody these provisions in your Treaty, you have constantly replied that the United States has no intention of limiting in this Treaty the sovereign rights of China excepting as specified therein.\n\nIt was our intention to write a despatch to be an Annex to the Treaty specially affirming the right of China to levy the taxes mentioned above. However, you have at our urgent request inserted in the 17th Article of this Treaty a very broadly worded clause as follows: \"Nothing in this Article is intended to interfere with the inherent right of China to levy such other taxes as are not in conflict with its provisions.\"\n\n[2250 hh-1]\n\nD\n\nPage 35", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394704, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "ARTICLE XII.\n\nThe present Treaty is signed in the Japanese, Chinese, and English languages. In order, however, to prevent future discussions, the Plenipotentiaries of the High Contracting Parties have agreed that in case of any divergence in the interpretation between the Japanese and Chinese texts of the Treaty, the difference shall be settled by reference to the English text.\n\nARTICLE XIII.\n\nThe present Treaty shall be ratified by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and His Majesty the Emperor of China, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Peking as soon as possible, and not later than six months from the present date.\"\n\nIn witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.\n\nDone at Shanghae this eighth day of the tenth month of the thirty-sixth year of Meiji, corresponding to the eighteenth day of the eighth moon of the twenty-ninth year of Kuang-Hsü.\n\n(L.S.) (L.S.)\n\n(Signature of his Excellency Lü Hai-Huan.)\n\nHIOKI EKI, ODAGIRI MASNOSKE.\n\n(Signature of his Excellency Sheng Hsuan-Huai.) (Signature of his Excellency Wu Ting-Fang.)\n\nPage ...\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nC. O.\n\n39\n\n3903\n\nNo. 3908\n\n(Subject.)\n\nSurcharging of Chinese Stamps\n\ncopy letter from China taoyin reporting\n\nRussian postal auths suggesting that Artist practice of surcharging in postal auth's adopt similar measures:\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nI don't think there is any point in the proposal.\n\n...\n\nC56\n\nx so reply 4/2\n\nGuys alum Cars Op\n\n1-138-32 20000-11-2\n\nSubsequent Paper.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403537, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 446, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## 12\n\nThe Regent of the petty State of Teng Keng, situated on the right bank of the Salween, latitude 26° north, had come over to Pien Ma to meet the Taotai and come to see me.\n\nThe claims of Teng Keng were investigated.\n\nAt Tsui Ho the Lisu inhabitants told us that they had originally come over from the Salween side of the great Irrawaddy divide, and therefore considered themselves as Teng Keng's men. They paid a small tax in kind, of the value of about 12 annas per house, and if the Teng Keng Chief came to visit them they made a contribution to his travelling expenses. They stated that there were several Lisu hamlets scattered about the hill-sides who were in the same position towards the Teng Keng Chief. These hamlets are hardly to be considered permanent, as after taking a crop or two off the hill-side the Lisu will often remove their bamboo wattle huts to some other fold in the mountains. The Lashi Headman of the Pien Ma, an old man, who began by stating his desire to make submission to the British, the Regent of Teng Keng, and several other natives made statements on the subject of the payment of tribute, which, though they were not in precise agreement with each other, were enough to prove that no one really knows what amount is paid per annum, and also that it differs considerably from year to year. The financial arrangements of Teng Keng are, in short, not such as would meet the approval of the Revenue Secretary to the Government of India. The Regent's statement to me was the vaguest of all, and it is clear that he knows very little of the country which is supposed to belong to him.\n\nIt appears that Pien Ma, U Tung, Kang Fang, Ku Lan, P'a Ti, and some other hamlets, all of which are Lashi or Lisu villages near the headwaters of the Ngaw Chang, and comprise in all a little over 200 families, were supposed to have been assigned by the Chinese Government to Teng Keng after the famous campaign in Chia Ching's reign (see above). These villages had previously been, and continued for some time after to be, subject to Lung Pang, on the right bank, further down the Ngaw Chang; but some years after the Chinese campaign a feud broke out between the Pien Ma group of villages and Chi Kaw, near Lung Pang, on account of a cattle theft. Chi Kaw raided and burnt Pien Ma, and Pien Ma replied by engaging the assistance of the Chinese from Teng Keng. They then burnt and looted Chi Kaw, and in compensation for Teng Keng's help, and in satisfaction for the previous murder of two members of the Teng Keng Headman's family, they agreed to pay him tribute. Present this tribute is paid mostly in kind. The Pien Ma Headman stated that, including scattered households of Lisu immigrants from the Salween, there are now nearly 350 families in this tribute-paying tract, of whom one-half are Lashi and one-half Lisu, but I believe this number to be beyond the mark.\n\nThe forty households of Pien Ma pay to the annual value of about 10 taels. Besides this a toll on coffin wood brought up from the Ngaw Chang by the Chinese firm mentioned above is levied at Kang Fang, near the left bank of the Upper Ngaw Chang, by Teng Keng. The produce of this toll is never more, and often less, than 100 taels a-year. On the whole, I think we may say that the annual sum which Teng Keng derives from the Upper Ngaw Chang is probably 300 rupees a-year at the outside.\n\nIt is to be noted that, apart from the collection of this uncertain sum, there is no regular administration of Pien Ma or the adjacent villages by Teng Keng. He has no power or machinery to undertake anything of the kind. The country is very poor, and much disturbed by feuds, which, I expect, if the truth were known, often prevent Teng Keng from \"touching\" his revenue. The Lung Pang \"Duwa\" has a vendetta with the Chinese, and shortly before our arrival it appears that he distinctly intimated to Teng Keng that neither Teng Keng nor any other Chinese would be allowed to cross the Ngaw Chang, and it was probably this threat which induced the Taotai to withdraw the claims of Ming Kwang to the Lang Pang group.\n\nThen Pien Ma has a vendetta with Shang Lou, a village of fifty families of Lashi, situated to the west of Pien Ma. It is reported that disorders have recently taken place at U Tung, and it is clear that there is practically no such thing as government in the country.\n\nOn the other hand, it must be admitted that Teng Keng has more substantial claims to the consideration of the British Government than Ming Kwang; he has a scintilla juris, and the levy of uncertain sums at irregular intervals is as far as the Chinese have ever gone anywhere in Yunnan towards the administration of frontier tribes.\n\nBefore reaching Pien Ma the Taotai had delivered to me further documentary evidence regarding his claims in the shape of a Memorial to the Throne from the Viceroy of Yünnan in the eighteenth century, together with an Instruction issued by the Tengyueh officials, undated, but probably of the same date as the Memorial.\n\n## 13\n\nPage 439\n\nThese documents profess to assign a number of \"barbarian\" villages, of which the names are given, among the respective jurisdictions of Tengyueh, Pao Shan, Yün Lung, and Li Chiang, all in West Yünnan. Most of these villages are in the Salween Valley, and therefore not now in question; but Pien Ma, U Tung, Tzu Chu, Hparè, &c., are mentioned in the list as being subject to Tengyueh and Pao Shan. As I have already pointed out, there is no evidence that the arrangements set forth in these documents ever represented the real state of affairs. I fail to see that the Government of India is compelled to pay any more attention to these papers than the President of the United States would pay to the Papal Bulls of the sixteenth century, which assigned the whole of the New World to Spain and Portugal. If you accept the premises that the New World belonged to the Pope to assign, the Bulls are excellent titles; so if we follow the Taotai, and accept as true beyond contradiction any statement set down in a document sealed by the Chinese Government, then the Memorial would be a good title to the villages in question. But as in fact the premises are absurd, the conclusion cannot be supported.\n\nOn the 19th April we broke up our camp at Pien Ma, and, in view of the lateness of the season and the continued bad weather, divided our forces; while the Taotai and myself proceeded east to the Salween, Mr. Leveson and Surveyor Natha Singh proceeded down to the Ngaw Chang. A Chinese deputy was detailed to go with them, but he thought that discretion was the better part of valour, and returned to Ming Kwang.\n\nMr. Leveson gives the following particulars, which fully confirm our previous information respecting the condition of the Kachins on the Ngaw Chang, and his visit to them:---\n\n\"I spent three days on the Upper Ngaw Chang, and most of the Headmen came to see me, including Gaw Yawm (in Chinese, Shang Lon), and Shi Jang (in Chinese, Hsieh Chiang), Chi Kaw, and others. They were all friendly and accepted presents. The surveyors fixed all the villages, and went down the other side (right bank) of the Ngaw Chang as far as Pa Le, below Lung Pang. I then returned to Pien Ma.\n\n\"Teng Keng left a nasty reputation behind him at Pien Ma by beating a Lashi Headman for not providing supplies for the Chinese.\n\n\"The statement of the Headman from the Lower Kau Shang is to the same effect as that of Hparè----namely, that they are in no way subordinate to any Chinese, and have never paid tribute.\n\n\"The Shi Jang (Hsieh Chiang) Headman makes the same statement, but adds that he occasionally exchanges presents of 'huang lien' (a medicine) for salt with the Ming Kwang Fu Yi.\n\n\"The trans-Ngaw Chang, or Lung Pang, group of villages comprises some 120 families at Lang Pang, Pa Le, Kan Kawn (Kan K'un), Hpien Law (Kwan Chai), &c. Their Headmen have no dealings whatever with the Chinese Chiefs, and, in fact, threatened this year to do for them if they crossed the Ngaw Chang.\n\n(This is the group of villages to which the Taotai has withdrawn his claims.)\n\n\"The Gaw Yawm (Chinese, Shang Lon) group on the Shang Tawn River, which joins the Ngaw Chang between the Pien Ma and Kan Sheng Rivers, has some forty or fifty households of Lashi.\n\n\"They state that they are in subordinate alliance with Ta Tang; every third year he gives them a buffalo, and they give him 50 viss of 'huang lien' (165 lb.). He exercises no jurisdiction beyond this, but he did actually visit Gaw Yawm while we were at Pien Ma.\n\n\"The Upper Ngaw Chang, or Pien Ma, group includes five villages of over 25 households and some nine hamlets, in all probably 240 households, of which some 180 are Lisu, mostly immigrants from the Salween, and the rest Lashi.\n\n\"The Lashi are supposed to pay about one-tenth of a tael per house per year to Teng Keng. The total tribute thus collected is not over 25 taels a-year, and is paid in kind, usually very miscellaneous kind. These villages describe themselves as in subordinate alliance with Teng Keng.\n\n\"The hamlet of Kang Fang (house of toll) is primarily the head-quarters of the Chinese coffin-wood firm. It used to be further down the Ngaw Chang, near the junction of the Pien Ma affluent. It was moved further up when wood became scarce in that locality. Tang Tung, or U Tung, is the first stage of the wood coolies en route to Ming Kwang; hence the two Chinese houses there.\n\nPage 54\n\nKang Fang is, secondarily, Teng Keng's toll and tribute collecting centre. Lisu, who extract coffin-wood on their own account apart from the Chinese firm, pay one set of boards in twenty-five.\" \n\n`[2167 -1]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 410835, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## 7 \n\n## 12 \n\n\n## 13 \n\nOf the surplus of the net annual revenue of the railway lines after payment of interest and repayment of principal of the loan, first a participation of ... per cent. of the ... per cent. of the said surplus will be granted to the Syndicate in remuneration for the construction and the working of the railway lines. Secondly, an amount equal to said surplus will be transferred to a loan service reserve fund to be deposited with the two banks and bearing interest at the market rate, and the remainder will be at the disposal of the Imperial Government of China. The deposit of these surplus earnings shall, however, be discontinued when the accumulated loan service reserve fund shall have reached £... \n\nAn account of the said loan service reserve fund will be rendered yearly to the Boards of Commissioners, the Wai-wu Pu, and to the Board of Revenue, and the fund will be drawn upon only in the case of the revenue of the railway lines being insufficient to meet the service of interest and principal of the loan. On redemption of the loan being completed, the balance of this fund will revert to the Chinese Government. This fund may, however, be used towards the final redemption of the loan, due notice to be given to the Syndicate of the intention of the Imperial Government so to use the fund. \n\n## 29. \nThe powers and authority given and delegated to the Imperial Directors by the Imperial Government of China shall, in the case of their promotion or removal, be transferred to their successors, and the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank and the Chinese Central Railways (Limited) may, subject to all their obligations hereunder, transfer or delegate all or any of their rights, powers, and discretions hereunder to any German or British Company, Directors, or agents, with power of further transfer and sub-delegation; such transfer, sub-transfer, delegations, or sub-delegations to be subject to the approval of the Imperial Chinese Directors. \n\n## 30. \nThe Imperial Chinese Government may affix on the railway telegraph poles such wires as they may at any time deem necessary for the Government service and likewise the Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration may also affix on the railway telegraph poles such wires as the Telegraph Administration may require for their service, and for so affixing wires on the railway poles the Telegraph Administration shall contribute towards the cost of the erection of the poles and of their annual maintenance in proportion to the number of wires owned by the Telegraph Administration to those owned by the Railway Administration. \n\nThe Railway Administration shall not accept any commercial telegrams for transmission over their line except under special arrangements with the Telegraph Administration. \n\n## 31. \nThe Imperial Government shall take all reasonable measures to protect the property of the railway in case of need, and should at any time the Boards of Commissioners deem policing necessary at any point of the line, it shall be supplied by and at the expense of the Railway Administration. Under no circumstances must any foreign force be sent on the line or be posted about the station premises. \n\n## 32. \nThe railway shall not carry any mails other than those dispatched by the Imperial Chinese Postal Departments, and shall observe such regulations as the Imperial Government may adopt from time to time in respect of mail matters conveyed by the railways. The railway service mails may, however, be conveyed free of restrictions. \n\n## 58. \nDifferences arising between the Imperial Directors and the Syndicate will be taken up and decided with equity and justice by the Wai-wu Pu on the one side, and the Minister for Germany, and the Minister for Great Britain in China on the other side. \n\n## 34. \nThis Agreement is signed under authority of an Imperial Edict, dated ..., which has been officially communicated to the Ministers of Germany and Great Britain in Peking by the Wai-wu Pu. \n\n## 35. \nFive sets of this Agreement are executed in English and Chinese, one set to be retained by the Wai-wu Pu, one by the Board of Commerce, one by the Imperial Directors, one by the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, and one by the Chinese Central Railways (Limited). In the event of any doubt arising regarding the interpretation of the Contract, the English text shall rule. \n\nSigned at Peking by the Contracting Parties this ... day ... \n\nSigned by the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation in accordance with ... clause 5. \n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1. \n\n## TIEN-TSIN-YANG-TSZE RAILWAY. \n\n## Minutes of the Seventeenth Meeting held at the Office of the Tien-tsin Customs Taotai (Liang Ta-jén), on Saturday, August 11, 1906. \n\n### Present: \n\n| Name | Title/Representation |\n| --- | --- |\n| Taotai Liang Tun-yen | |\n| Taotai C. L. Chow | Director of Northern Railways |\n| Mr. H. Cordes | |\n| M. J. O. P. Bland | |\n\nSUBMITTING the final Agreement as drafted, Mr. Cordes suggests that taking this document as the basis for negotiation, it be now discussed with reference to the counter-proposals formally made by the Viceroy's Representatives in November 1903. Neither Mr. Liang nor Mr. Chow are familiar with the earlier negotiations, but the former expresses the view that the proposals put forward in 1903 do not apply to the situation as it now exists, and that an entirely new basis of negotiation is advisable. He claims that the Chinese Government is entitled to exclusive control of funds borrowed under Imperial Government guarantee, &c. \n\nWithout discussing the informal expressions of opinion, it is agreed that the next meeting will be held at 3 P.M. on Saturday the 18th instant, and that in the meanwhile the Chinese Representatives will acquaint themselves with the conditions of the draft Agreement and ascertain the present views of the Viceroy in regard to his counter-proposals of 1903, which the representatives of the Syndicates are prepared to discuss and in certain cases to accept. \n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1. \n\n## Minutes of the Eighteenth Meeting held at the Office of the Taikwan Taotai at Tien-tsin, on Saturday, August 25, 1906. \n\n### Present: \n\n| Name | Title/Representation |\n| --- | --- |\n| Taotai Liang Tun-yen | representing the Viceroy |\n| Taotai C. L. Chow | |\n| Mr. H. Cordes | representing the Deutsche-Asiatische Bank |\n| Mr. J. O. P. Bland | representing the Central Railways (Limited) |\n\nDISCUSSING the basis for the present negotiations and the best means of bringing about their satisfactory conclusion, Liang Taotai expresses the opinion that reference to the Preliminary Agreement and to past negotiations is unnecessary, and suggests that the Agreement be considered from a new standpoint based on existing conditions. \n\nMr. Cordes points out that the Anglo-German Syndicate's rights are necessarily based on the Preliminary Agreement, which cannot therefore be ignored, but he suggests that in the Final Agreement, when concluded, a clause might properly be inserted stating that by virtue of the terms therein recorded, the Preliminary Agreement is superseded and annulled. \n\nMr. Bland suggests that the Viceroy's counter-proposals of November 1903, having reference to the draft Final Agreement of that date, would appear to afford the best basis for the present negotiations. It is therefore essential in the first instance to know whether his Excellency adheres to those counter-proposals, or whether further modification of the Chinese Government's terms is to be expected. \n\nTaotai Liang Tun-yen states that owing to the Viceroy's illness there has been no opportunity of obtaining definite instructions on the subject. He thinks, moreover, that the Syndicate's acceptance or non-acceptance of the counter-proposals of 1903 should be definitely stated. \n\n[2268 -9] \n\n## E \n\n\n## 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 410836, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## Minutes of the Eighteenth Meeting held at the Office of the Haikwan Taotai at Tien-tsin\n\nIt is eventually agreed to take these counter-proposals as the basis for negotiation, comparing them seriatim with the draft of Final Agreement, the Viceroy's Representatives being of opinion that his Excellency will abide by these terms, especially if the question of control is settled to his satisfaction.\n\nAn informal discussion takes place on this subject, the Chinese Representatives holding that if China guarantees the interest on a Government railway loan, the final control in construction and working of the line must rest with the Chinese authorities.\n\nMr. Cordes, on the other hand, points out that so long as the loan remains unredeemed, the interests and rights of the bondholders are entitled to effective representation and protection by their representative agents, the Syndicate. The proposal that in matters of difference the decision of the Director-General should be final, is impracticable, an opinion in which Mr. Bland concurs. The point is left for settlement hereafter under Article 10.\n\nOmitting for the present discussion of the terms of the preamble, the first six Articles are discussed with the following results:\n\n| Article | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Liang Taotai suggests the possibility of a 4 per Cent. Loan, but it is eventually agreed to allow this Article to stand unamended, leaving the amount of the loan undetermined until the question of price shall have been arranged under Article 13. The railway to be known as the \"Tientsin-Yang-tsze Railway.\" |\n| 2 | The terminus of the southern section of the railway is to be Puk'ou instead of Kuachou (Chinkiang). |\n| 3 | To meet the views of Liang Taotai the words \"which should not exceed four years\" are substituted for the words \"which is considered to be six years\" in the first paragraph of this Article. In the second paragraph, after the word agreement, it is decided to insert the words \"by reason of any cause other than those provided for in Article 16 hereinafter.\" Mr. Cordes objects to the principle of forfeiture, pointing out that in the present negotiations the Chinese Government is dealing with financial institutions of established reputation, whose interests and good name in China must necessarily be of a permanent nature. For this reason, precautions to prevent the recurrence of the state of affairs which occurred in the Yueh-Han line appear unnecessary and ill-advised. Chow Taotai concurs in a suggestion made by Mr. Bland that the Chinese Government's interests should be sufficiently protected by the insertion of a clause in Article 16 to the effect that if the Syndicate should desire to postpone the performance of the contract owing to the condition of the money market, the matter would be amicably discussed and arranged with the Representative of the Chinese Government. |\n| 4 | The Article is allowed to stand as in the Syndicate's draft, the additional words contained in the counter-proposals being recognized as unnecessary and confusing. |\n| 5 | Liang Taotai thought that his Excellency the Viceroy might desire to reduce the term of the loan to thirty years. This Article was only partially discussed, the text of the counter-proposals being left for future consideration. |\n| 6 | In regard to the redemption of the loan, or portion thereof, in advance of the dates prescribed in the amortization schedule, it is understood that, provided the other conditions of the contract can be satisfactorily arranged, the Syndicate may be prepared to agree to the conditions laid down in the counter-proposals, that is, redemption after twelve and a-half years, at a premium of 2½ per cent. after thirty years at par, it being provided, however, that due notice be given for the information of the bondholders concerned. If the Directors of the Syndicate authorize this important modification of the loan terms, it will be with a view to facilitating the conclusion of negotiations. |\n\nAt this point, after arranging for the next meeting at 3 P.M. on Saturday, the 1st September, the meeting adjourns.\n\nPage 31\n\n## Inclosure 5 in No. 1\n\n## Minutes of the Nineteenth Meeting held at the Office of the Haikwan Taotai at Tien-tsin, on Saturday, September 1, 1906\n\nPresent:\n- Taotai Liang Tun-yen, representing the Viceroy.\n- Taotai C. L. Chow,\n- Mr. H. Cordes, representing the Deutsche-Asiatische Bank.\n- Mr. J. O. P. Bland, representing the Chinese Central Railways (Limited).\n\nThe discussion of the Chinese Government's counter-proposals was resumed at Article 7.\n\n| Article | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 7 | A question arises as to the intention and effect of the clauses in this Article referring to payments of interest and capital made in Europe, and particularly to the stipulation that interest shall be allowed on such payments. No satisfactory solution being arrived at, the clause is left in abeyance, but Mr. Cordes records his opinion that it is unusual and calculated to create misunderstanding. A suggestion is made by Liang Taotai that interest should be allowed on payments of principal and interest for the period of twenty-one days before due date, during which the banks hold these funds for distribution to the bondholders, but it is pointed out that the allowance of such a period for the necessary banking arrangements without interest claimed, is usual in all Chinese Loan Agreements, and that the Syndicate could not consent to a proposal of the kind which would involve the banks in direct loss. |\n| 8 | The sense of the meeting is recorded in favour of retaining the Article, as drafted in the original Preliminary Agreement, which prescribes the procedure to be followed for making good interest and capital payments, in the event of the revenues of the railway proving insufficient for the purpose. If this is done reference to the Central Government's responsibility will be deleted wherever it occurs in other Articles. |\n| 9 | For the words \"lines named in clause 2,\" the word \"railway\" is substituted. The Chinese Commissioners accept the inclusion of provision for temporary transfer of the line to the Syndicate in the event of default, as prescribed in the draft Agreement, and agree to adopt for this clause the form of the corresponding Article in the Shanghae-Nanking Loan Agreement, with an additional paragraph allowing a reasonable period of grace: say, three months. |\n| 10 | The second paragraph of this Article is placed after paragraph 4, the remainder of the Article being accepted. |\n| 11 | The additional paragraph in the draft Agreement is accepted for inclusion in this Article. |\n| 12 | Unchanged. |\n| 13 | The Chinese Government's proposal to make the loan \"in one issue divided into several calls\" is fully discussed, and its impracticable nature explained. It is realized that the intention of the Government is to prevent loss of interest by borrowing funds at different rates as construction proceeds, but the Chinese Representatives recognize that the conditions under which loans are floated in Europe render it difficult to provide for more than two or three series. In this connection Mr. Bland lays stress on the difficulties and objections inseparable from naming a fixed price, binding alike on the Chinese Government and on the Syndicate, for loan issues which may not be required for several years, and suggests as an equitable and convenient alternative that the Chinese Government should allow the Syndicate a fixed rate of commission on flotation, the loan issues being then made to meet the Chinese Government's requirements, the Syndicate being relieved of responsibility for money market fluctuations beyond its control, and all possible cause of delay and disagreement thus removed. He instances the case of the Shanghae-Nanking Loan Agreement where the price was definitely fixed at 90 in the contract and subsequently disputed--the Chinese Representatives concur in the view that this means many difficulties would be eliminated. It is noted that the Syndicate has not made any proposals in this sense, and that any negotiations on this basis would require to be confirmed. He suggests that at a commission rate of ½ per cent. business might be possible. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416417, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 582, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "575\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government. CO.\n\n12\n\nInclosure 16 in No. 1.\n\nJapanese Newspaper Extracts.\n\n(1.)\n\nSummary of Rules regarding the Reorganization of Kwangtung Administration.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n1. IN negotiations regarding police matters with local Chinese officials, Japanese Consular officers shall act under the direction of the Governor-General of Kwangtung.\n\n2. Consular officers shall also serve as administrative officials of the Kwangtung Government General, and as such shall be intrusted with the administration of police matters within the lands belonging to the railway.\n\n3. There shall be added to the Departments of the Kwangtung Government General a Directorate of Foreign Affairs, the head of which, acting under the direction of the Governor-General, shall exercise all diplomatic rights pertaining to his jurisdiction vis-à-vis Consular officers. He shall also facilitate in every possible way the transaction of business between the Governor-General and Consular officers.\n\n4. The position of Consular police shall be abolished, and the duties connected therewith shall be transferred to the Kwangtung Government police, who shall act outside as well as inside the railway zone.\n\n*(2.)\n\nSettlement of the Question of the Distribution of Japanese Diplomatic Powers in Manchuria. (Translation.)\n\nThe negotiations which have recently been going on between the Japanese Foreign Office and the Kwangtung Government regarding the extent of the diplomatic powers of the Governor-General have now been concluded. As a result, full diplomatic powers have now been delegated to the Governor-General in reference to all questions arising within the railway zone and adjoining lands. Consular officials in Manchuria will be subjected to his direction in such matters. All Japanese Consulates in Manchuria will have a representative of the Governor-General attached to them, and thus effective co-operation will be secured.\n\nThe exercise of police powers both in the railway zone and in the Consular Settlements have also been intrusted to the Governor-General.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[15470]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n18960\n\nReceived [April 27.]\n\n28 MAY 08\n\nSECTION 4.\n\nQuestion asked in the House of Commons, April 27, 1908.\n\nMr. Bellairs,-To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the estimated loss to the British taxpayer of £62,590 on the Pacific cable for 1908-9 is mainly due to the faulty route selected to the barren rock called Fanning Island; and whether it is practicable, and, if so, will the question be considered in conjunction with the Colonial Governments, to underrun and relay the cables to the shipping port of Honolulu, where the American cables land, so as to benefit British shipping, afford alternative routes by the American cables, and gain a fresh route to the Far East.\n\nAnswer.\n\nThe estimated loss on the Pacific cable for the year 1908-9 is £69,000, of which only five-eighteenths, or under £14,000, will fall on the British taxpayer. The route via Fanning Island was adopted in accordance with the desire of the Colonial Governments concerned that the route should touch only British territory. In the absence of any suggestion from those Governments, His Majesty's Government do not propose to consider the question of relaying the line so as to touch at Honolulu.\n\n[2921 dd---4]\n\n0", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416967, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 293, "title": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)\n\n29532 271\n\n290\n\nt\n\n(No. 18.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, May 21, 1908. REFERRING to your telegram No. 13 of the 9th instant, and my telegrams Nos. 13 and 14 of the 11th and 13th instant respectively, relative to the landing of Chinese troops on Wung Kum Island, near Macao, I have now the honour to report that the incident does not appear to have been of any serious moment.\n\nSince the \"Tatsu Maru\" case, the Chinese authorities have reinforced the preventive guards round the boundaries of Macao to stop the smuggling of arms. It seems that the force landed on Wung Kum only consisted of fourteen men, whose duties were to keep watch on the population of the island, many of whom are suspected of being concerned in the smuggling operations. A deputy has been sent down by the Viceroy to inquire into the matter, but he has not yet reported. The question of jurisdiction over the Island of Wung Kum is still in abeyance until such time as Macao and its dependencies have been delimitated, as agreed in the Treaty between Portugal and China signed in 1887.\n\nThe Governor of Macao, his Excellency Pedro d'Azevedo Coutinho, has resigned and returned to Europe, but as far as is known his retirement has no connection with the above incident.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Télégraphique.)\n\n(Signed) R. W. MANSFIELD.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nBaron Sendal to Portuguese Government.\n\nLe 3 Juin, 1908. MINISTRE d'Angleterre a vu Ouai-ou Pou hier, qui a refusé très poliment, mais nettement, d'accepter ses bons offices pour le moment, l'affaire étant entre Portugal et Chine.\n\nQuai-ou Pu désire réponse aux deux notes.\n\nLes archives de la Légation n'ont pas les moyens nécessaires pour formuler une réponse.\n\nDemande instruction si je dois accuser réception des deux notes disant que j'apprends du contenu de la note du 22 Mai, que le Viceroi de Canton va traiter la question avec les autorités de Macao.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[25994]\n\nNo. 1,\n\nSBORO AUG 08\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received July 27.)\n\n(No. 260. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nPeking, June 5, 1908. I HAVE the honour to report the substance of a conversation which I had yesterday with the Nepalese Envoy, Kaji Bhyrab Bahadur, who is living in quarters provided for him by the Chinese Government at the extreme north of the city, some four miles from the Legation quarter. It is possible that the Chinese selected this locality with the view of removing the Envoy from foreign influence, but, if so, the precaution was unnecessary, as the latter has instructions from the Maharajah to enter into relations only with this Legation.\n\nThe Envoy is especially proud of the fact that his father, who is now 83, is one of the two surviving Nepalese veterans of the Indian Mutiny. He was Nepalese Agent at Lhassa in 1883, when the attack was made upon the Goorkha traders there by the Thibetans, and, according to his son, was mainly instrumental in averting war between the two countries by his skilful diplomacy in securing suitable reparation for the outrage.\n\nThe Kaji does not seem to think that Chinese influence in Thibet is increasing, or that her efforts at reform there have so far produced much effect. The relations between the Goorkha traders and the Chinese were, he said, only passably good, as the Chinese Resident rather grudged the Nepalese the enjoyment of the rights which they had acquired by the longstanding Treaty with Thibet. The Chinese viewed with especial disfavour the arrangement by which all male children born of a Goorkha father and a Thibetan mother assumed the nationality of the father.\n\nOn his journey across Thibet he had been passed on from one Chinese Commissariat Station to another, and had found things made comparatively easy for him. It was only when he reached the borders of China proper that his difficulties began. These had at no time been very serious, but they had constituted a constant worry, and had been caused entirely by the malpractices of the smaller officials. When he appealed to the Governors and Viceroys he had universally received instant redress, but the difficulty was to reach the ears of the higher authorities. After resorting to a variety of other methods, he had found in the end that an appeal by letter sent through the Customs post proved the most efficacious remedy.\n\nHis treatment in Peking the Envoy described as being of the stereotyped kind which had been meted out to previous Missions since the last years of the eighteenth century. He had presented the usual letter and articles of so-called tribute from his Sovereign, and had been twice received in audience by the Emperor and Empress Dowager.\n\nThe letter, of which he promised me an English translation, was not, he said, so obsequious in tone as the version usually published in the \"Peking Gazette\" represented it to be.\n\nThe question of continuing these Missions appeared to him to be of doubtful utility, and he was reporting on the subject. Former Missions had been largely in the nature of commercial speculations, and had proved very successful in this respect. Little profit was now to be made by bringing Nepalese produce to China. The change, although the Envoy did not say so, is probably due to the restrictions placed upon the sale of opium, which was, I believe, in former years one of the articles in which the Mission traded.\n\nThe only advantage he saw in the continuance of the Mission was the opportunity it gave Nepal of gaining access to China and of acquiring some first-hand information of the great changes that were going on in the country. He had utilized this opportunity to the best of his ability, and had during his journey acquired a working knowledge of Chinese in order to enable him to gain a better insight into the conditions of Chinese life. But, on the whole, he was inclined to think that the Mission was a relic of the past which might be discontinued, although the process should be a gradual one.\n\n[1865 dd-6]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418039, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 751, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "746\n\nOpium in India and China.\n\nExclusion of opium\n\n2\n\nPacific Coast of the United States, places for opium smoking (\"opium joints\") have been established. Their existence has led to serious evils, and has directed the attention of the authorities to the necessity of limiting the evil by more effective measures of control.\n\n3. In the East the abuse of opium dates back several centuries. In India, where opium is usually swallowed in the form of pills (\"opium eating\"), this vicious habit largely conduced to the inferiority of the native troops, and contributed materially to the British victories of the eighteenth century. In China the vicious use of the drug appears to have begun when the habit of smoking opium was introduced from the Island of Formosa at the beginning of the same century. The Chinese Government, as early as 1729, issued an Edict prohibiting the sale of opium and ordering the closing of opium dens. This prohibition was repeatedly renewed under more and more strict penalties. Nevertheless, the use of opium continued to spread in China. In 1840 the measures taken by the Chinese Government to put an end to the import of the drug at Canton led to a war between China and Great Britain. After a second war, in which Great Britain and France were allied against China, the Chinese Government at last consented, by a supplement to the Treaty of Tien-tsin (1858), to legalize the import of opium. Being thenceforth unable to prevent the introduction of foreign opium, the Chinese authorities allowed their former laws prohibiting the cultivation of the poppy to fall into desuetude. The production of native opium increased year by year, so that in a Report recently prepared by the British Legation at Peking (China No. 1 (1908)), p. 33) the production in China is estimated at about six times the amount of the import.\n\nA century ago the yearly import of opium into China was under 300 tons; there is no reliable evidence that at that time any opium was produced in China. The total annual consumption in China prior to the reforms of the past two years was estimated at over 22,000 tons, of which 3,180 tons came from India.\n\n4. When Japan opened her ports to the commerce of the world she was careful to stipulate, by an Article of her Treaty with Great Britain made in 1858, that the trade in opium should be entirely prohibited, excepting for medical requirements. Japan has always maintained this prohibition under very severe penalties, which are rigorously enforced. The Committee of Investigation appointed by the American Government of the Philippine Islands in 1903 says on this subject in its Report:-\n\nSelf-governing British Colonies.\n\n\"There has been no moment in the nation's history when the people have wavered in their uncompromising attitude toward the drug and its use, so that an instinctive hatred of it possesses them. China's curse has been Japan's warning, and a warning heeded. No surer testimony to the reality of the evil effects of opium can be found than the horror with which China's next-door neighbour views it.\"\n\n5. All the self-governing British Colonies which contain any considerable Chinese population have adopted prohibitive laws against the sale and use of opium, apart from medical requirements. New Zealand in 1901 and Australia in 1901 adopted strict measures against the import and sale of the drug. This prohibitive legislation is due, in both Colonies, to the initiative of the Chinese themselves. Canada has just adopted (July 1908) a similar law, in order to put an end to the opium traffic carried on by Chinese in her ports on the Pacific Coast.\n\nFormosa.\n\nPhilippine Islands.\n\n6. After the annexation of Formosa, where the opium vice prevailed widely amongst the natives, the Japanese Government enacted a law constituting the opium trade a State monopoly. Under this law consumers have to register themselves, and can only obtain the daily dose of opium stated in their certificate of registration. After a certain date, no fresh registrations were to be allowed, so that on the disappearance of the present generation of consumers, the non-medical use of the drug should come to an end. There were, in 1900, 169,064 registered consumers; this number had fallen in 1907 to 113,937.\n\n7. After the annexation of the Philippine Islands by the United States, the American Government was faced by the question of the use of opium. A Committee of Inquiry was appointed, consisting of three members: the Chairman, Major Carter, was the Commissioner of Public Health for the islands; the second member was the Right Rev. C. H. Brent, Anglican Bishop in the islands; the third, Dr. José Albert, a distinguished Filipino physician. The Committee visited Japan, Formosa, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Saigon, Singapore, Penang, Burma, and Java. The recommendations contained in the Report which it presented to the Government are reproduced in Appendix (A).\n\nIn pursuance of these recommendations the American Congress enacted, in March 1905, immediate prohibition of the sale and use of opium to Filipinos, except for medical requirements. The Chinese population of about 70,000 was allowed a period of three years, at the end of which prohibition was to be applicable to it also. A law adopted by the Legislature of the Philippines on the 10th October, 1907, directed that the Chinese consumers should be registered, that only their accustomed daily dose of opium should be furnished to them, and that this dose should be reduced each month by 15 per cent, until it was entirely cut off. On the 1st March, 1908, the day on which prohibition became universal in the Philippine Islands, there remained only some 200 opium smokers in a hospital at Manila and a few more in provincial hospitals. These were soon entirely cured. In those islands prohibition appears to be, as in Japan, complete and effective; only druggists and medical men can obtain opium for medical requirements.\n\n8. In the course of the debate in the House of Commons in May 1906, on the Chinese Resolution mentioned in paragraph 1, the Secretary of State for India, Mr. John Morley (now Lord Morley), intervened to state the position of the Government on this question. He stated that both the British Government and the Government of India would agree to any proposal which the Chinese Government might make in good faith for the restriction of the consumption of opium. This offer was communicated to the Chinese Government by the British Minister at the Court of Peking, Sir John Jordan. On the 20th September, 1906, the Imperial Decree appeared, of which a translation follows:-\n\n\"Imperial Decree.\n\n\"Since the restrictions against the use of opium were removed, the poison of this drug has practically permeated the whole of China. The opium smoker wastes time and neglects his work, ruins his health, and impoverishes his family, and the poverty and weakness which for the past few decades have been daily increasing amongst us are undoubtedly attributable to this cause. To speak of this arouses our indignation, and, at a moment when we are striving to strengthen the Empire, it behoves us to admonish the people that all may realize the necessity of freeing themselves from these coils, and thus pass from sickness into health.\n\n\"It is hereby commanded that within a period of ten years the evils arising from foreign and native opium be equally and completely eradicated. Let the Government Council (Cheng Wu Chu) frame such measures as may be suitable and necessary for strictly forbidding the consumption of the drug and the cultivation of the poppy, and let them submit their proposals for our approval.\"\n\nTwo months later, at the end of November, were published the detailed Regulations for giving effect to the Edict of September, of which a translation is contained in Appendix (B).* It will be sufficient here to give a brief summary. The Regulations begin (Article 1) by directing the suppression of opium cultivation in China within ten years. Governors are to ascertain the acreage hitherto devoted to poppy cultivation in their respective provinces, and to diminish it gradually by one-ninth each year. The local authorities who succeed in completely extinguishing the cultivation before the end of the ten years are to be encouraged and rewarded. Smokers are to be registered (Article 2); those only who have obtained licences will be allowed to purchase the prescribed quantity of opium. Under Article 3 this quantity is to be annually reduced by 20 or 30 per cent., except as regards persons over 60 years of age. Opium-smoking dens are to be closed after six months (Article 4), and existing opium shops are to be closely inspected (Article 5). The preparation and distribution of medicines for the cure of smokers are to be encouraged, provided these medicines do not contain opium or morphia (Article 6). Anti-Opium Societies are to be encouraged (Article 7); the local authorities and gentry are exhorted to take the lead in the anti-opium movement (Article 8). It is strictly forbidden to officials of every degree to smoke opium (Article 9); they ought to give the people an example of abstinence from this vice. Those who are already over 60, and cannot, therefore, give up the habit, will be dispensed with; the rest will be allowed a period of six months to cure themselves. The Board of Foreign Affairs is to enter into negotiations (Article 10) with foreign Powers with a view to ending the import of opium from abroad.\n\n* This refers to the French translation appended to the original Memorial. An English translation, made at the British Embassy in Peking will be found on pp. 4-8 of the White Paper China No. 1 (1908); Correspondence respecting the Opium Question in China.\" It has been reprinted separately by the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade, 181, Queen Victoria Street, London, EC.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418503, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "III E A \n\nto exeroise to draft set jb sde \n\n+ \n\nnoidjatatoo sit breg of \n\nwpm-aang að notfotbalul moslise QA adi ex nst og od vnd[o] wa \n\ned to poiRINTŰ He nİ #725m a nlagteo Joette or has b. \n\n• ff...? 3 Josuaron ymoto. \n\ncedure hereafter construed. \n\nates of sittings \n\nCourt of jedl. \n\nat to notutijenoo . \n\nInA \n\nto exersolbet to do? argagır? \n\ne-bu, obsluha ns to Jnsuzabojas \n\n+ \n\n.85880 \n\net etmenbrema *sto dostle of bra anaso \n\nat moltalex et vnofa0 \n\n‚nnodhao. to tort«vo? * là vď batoane di sẸ \n\n-:awofCo* as Tosneu't Ibnigroll aritaleles♫ :3 to tasZTOJ \n\n.I \n\nas beato ad vos bons:łb¬0 elɗT \n\nnun hen- en Ileria Mae \"2005 ande¬th*0 *aszbot Too \n\nsonanthro #tuoi c \n\nor el debu ano as beira/00 \n\nC'eted at as but sorts to netratando duro? A \n\n“ \n\n£208 \n\nal de noi: oibainu! More eve \n\nIjara pes \n\n• \n\nJEJ?* \n\n80)17 STOM -order03 \n\n.8 \n\nImecul to TRUS \n\n.breiter \n\n1st We \n\no Jalaton fdarin Ias at to drno Fil \n\nto ember a to bab grof “ \n\n.C \n\nmottatt a \n\nto iron 10 \n\n. I \n\nord to P1S ACTO” he SAEMO *o to\" el pre a' Jaze \n\n* „nolol as to ngách sundert \n\nJuttaeng Ilula eobrasī też.2 \n\nLOY Old 10 ATOway bus notathat-ul att \n\ndavidma Blade CVSI Ɖorestb~0 tron \n\nJany ut euaitnou tona-Fond utile 10 unokatrenų mit d \n\n-03 anidela agbub qalır bas Poftach be hill && int \n\nLetolewi nie\" as of past tom nej?sntereul) quldage \n\nto not olbal OS \"PT ON T -notatvtc\" Sİ \n\n2: \n\nKAVATO \n\nKI SONGFU \n\nsbog mi \"$42 \n\nbends sections and 78 of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance 1899. \n\npellate Juris-liction conferred on the Divisional Court. \n\napplying to \"The Court of Appeal\", \n\n6. Subject to any arrangements which may be from time to time made by mutual arrangement between the Judges of the Court of Appeal the hearing of Appeals by the Court of Appeal shall commence on the 4th day of January and the 4th day of July in every year or on the lawful day next following. \n\n7. The Criminal Procedure Ordinance 1899 is hereby amended as follows:- \n\n(1). By the substitution in sub-section (1) of Section 5 of the words \"the eighteenth day of the months of February, April, June, August, October and December in every year\" for the words \"the eighteenth day of every month\". \n\n(2). By the substitution of the words \"Court of Appeal\" for the words \"Full Court\" wherever the latter words appear in section 78. \n\n8. (1). There shall be an appeal as of right to the Divisional Court from every decision (whether given before or after the commencement of this Ordinance) of one of the Judges sitting alone in the following cases: \n\n(a) In all actions and other proceedings heard in the Supreme Court in the exercise of its Summary Jurisdiction. \n\n(b) In all matters heard in Chambers. \n\n(c) In every interlocutory order or interlocutory judgment. \n\n(2). Every appeal to the Divisional Court from matters heard in Chambers and from interlocutory orders or interlocutory judgments shall be by way of rehearing and shall be brought by notice of motion in a summary way. \n\nas anim, aloo ar Ilala sva s'a erubegon” £}-69 to ebon gniviqqs \n\n(3).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425629, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 653, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "## ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS \n648 \nRECR \nC \n20710 \nREGE 7 JUL 10 \n\nHongkong, \n27th May, \n1910. \n\nReport on Ordinance No...... of 1910 \n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled \n**An Ordinance further to amend the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890** \nand I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to \nthe Governor's Instructions \n\nSection 4 of this Ordinance provides that where an \naccused has been committed for trial between the tenth and eighteenth \ndays of any month inclusive he shall be tried at the Criminal \nSessions commencing on the eighteenth day of the month following. \nThe object of the measure is to give the Attorney General and the \nCrown Solicitor time to prepare the cases for the Sessions. \n\nSection 5 of this Ordinance empowers the Magistrate to \norder youths convicted in the cases only of simple larceny, assault \noccasioning actual bodily harm and indecent assault to be whipped", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429249, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 590, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "J\n\nExtract E.\n\n(a) \"The Chinese delegation demonstrated that there had been an opium question in China since the beginning of the eighteenth century, and that though many efforts had been made by the Emperors to suppress this habit, they had signally failed. This appeared to be largely due to the fact that at the critical moment when China was putting forth Herculean efforts to suppress the evil—that is, at the end of the eighteenth and in the early part of the last century—the vice was fixed on her because of her inability to contend against or control the large amount of Indian opium smuggled or otherwise introduced into the country.\n\nAs the result of the clandestine introduction of Indian opium and the final legalization of the opium traffic by the Tientsin treaties (1858), negotiated after the Arrow war, general indifference prevailed throughout China, and the internal production of the drug, which had for many years been large, now assumed huge proportions.\" (Page 65).\n\nK\n\n(b) \"Although no formal declaration was made as to further international action in regard to opium production, traffic, and misuse, it was nevertheless recognized that such action was necessary before the powers could congratulate themselves on having solved the problem that has loomed so large and so long in the Far East, causing war and other evil consequences not outstripped by the evil consequences of slavery.\" (Page 71).\n\n8\n\nThe following passage from the report presented by the Chinese delegation shows what they actually said on these questions (I. O. C., Fol. II., page 45):\n\n\"Foreign opium was first imported from Goa by the Portuguese in the beginning of the eighteenth century, and the first prohibiting edict against opium smoking was issued by the Emperor Yung Cheng in 1729, enacting severe penalties on the sale of opium and the opening of opium-smoking divans, and from this time on the sale of opium for the purpose of smoking became a criminal offence. In 1729 the arrivals of foreign opium were but 200 chests, but a constant increase followed each year, and by 1790 the importation had reached the figure of over 4,000 chests. In 1796 an edict formally prohibiting the importation of all opium was issued, and in 1800 this prohibitory edict was issued anew. From that date all trade in opium became contraband. Instead of diminishing, the trade flourished in spite of the prohibition, and by the year 1820 the importation amounted to 5,000 chests. By 1830 it had increased to 16,877 chests, by 1838 to 20,619 chests, by 1850 to 50,000 chests, and in 1858 to 70,000 chests. In November of the last-mentioned year the trade was legalized by China and a tariff rate of Hk. Tls. 30 per picul on opium was chargeable thereafter. While there can be little doubt that this legalization of the opium traffic was contrary to the wishes of the Imperial Family and the enlightened classes in China, the country was then in the throes of the greatest rebellion ever experienced in its history and revenue was badly needed. It was recognized that as the contraband trade continued in spite of the Imperial disfavour, it would be best to legalize it as the choice of two evils, and this was accordingly done.\n\nThe next step in the history of opium is found in the Chefoo Convention of 1876, by which the British Government accepted in principle a proposal that inland taxation (likin) on the drug should be collected simultaneously with the import duty, i.e., by the Imperial, and not the provincial, authorities. This was made effective by an Additional Article signed on 18th July, 1885, by which the amount of likin was settled at Hk. Tls. 80 per picul, making, with the import duty, a total of Hk. Tls. 110 per picul, which the Chinese Government now collects.\"\n\nExtract F.\n\n9\n\nAppendix II.\n\nEXTRACTS FROM DR. WRIGHT'S REPORT.\n\n\"The British delegates presented data showing that in the Crown colony of the Straits Settlements and in the protected Federated Malay States a commission recently appointed had reported on the opium vice as seen there, the report being somewhat favourable to the continuance of the opium farm by which the Government disposed of opium and acquired a large revenue.\" (Page 67).\n\nExtract G.\n\n\"Resolution 6 was unfortunate in that it declared that the International Commission was not constituted in such a manner as to permit the investigation from a scientific point of view of anti-opium remedies, and the properties and effects of opium, for there were several delegates in the commission who were competent to pronounce on the subject. The Japanese Government, anticipating such an investigation, had sent as part of its delegation two eminent scientists who for many years have been in charge of the Japanese Government monopoly for the manufacture of opium and its preparations used in medicine. However, it developed that the principles of the moral and economic dangers of the misuse of opium were not to be endangered by this resolution, and opposition was waived for the sake of harmony.\" (Pages 70-71).\n\nThe following is an extract from the Straits Settlements Commission's own summary of its findings (Report, Vol. 1, para. 342):\n\n\"We find that the vast majority of smokers indulge to an extent that may properly be called moderate, and that excessive indulgence occurs only in isolated instances.\n\nWe find that there has been no increase in the prevalence of the habit, and in this we include use in moderation and use in excess, during the past decade.\n\nWe do not find it proved that the evils arising from the use of opium have in any way increased during the past decade. We consider, however, that the circumstances surrounding the use of opium justify the Government in maintaining a closer and stricter control over it and we therefore recommend that the present system of farming the opium revenue be abolished and that a Government monopoly of the preparation and distribution of chandu be substituted.\"\n\nThe following is also extracted from the same report (para. 3104):\n\n\"We have up to the present refrained from consideration of the purely fiscal side of the opium question, and our arguments on the question of prohibition are based entirely on consideration of the facts that the evils arising from the use of opium in the areas with which the commission has had to deal are not sufficiently widespread or acute as to justify legislative prohibition of the use of opium, and that popular desire for such legislation has not yet reached such an advanced stage as to render a policy of that nature desirable.\"\n\nThis question in a somewhat different form was first voted upon in the 6th Session (see I. O. C., Fol. I, page 31).\n\nIt was again discussed and voted upon in the 8th and 9th Sessions (see pages 36-38, ibid) on the following resolution moved by the Chinese delegate:\n\n\"That a committee consisting of five delegates be appointed to consider and report on the medical aspects of the opium question, including the best methods of curing the opium habit without recourse to the drug or any of its derivatives.\"\n\nThe following is an extract from the speech of Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, the senior British delegate, and from the subsequent proceedings:\n\nThere was one dissentient from the principles adopted in this report. The portion of the summary of recommendations not reproduced in this extract relates to the use of opium in brothels, the arrangements for shops, sales to women and children, and the price of chandu.\n\nThe Commission then proceeded to deal separately with financial considerations, finally recording (paragraph 321) that these also led them to a conclusion adverse to prohibition.\n\n586", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "84\n\npreparations' should be omitted.\n\nonly but upon all countries.\n\n10\n\nThis would put the pressure not upon one country He also ventured to suggest to the United States it is the duty of all delegation that the paragraph in question should read countries to adopt reasonable measures to prevent, etc.'\n\n\"Dr. Hamilton Wright accepted these amendments, and the resolution in its altered form was adopted unanimously by the House.\n\n56\n\n(Note. The Portuguese delegation asked permission to reserve its vote on each and all of the resolutions).”\n\nExtract (E).\n\n(a.) \"The Chinese delegation demonstrated that there had been an opium question in China since the beginning of the eighteenth century, and that though many efforts had been made by the Emperors to suppress the habit, they had signally failed. This appeared to be largely due to the fact that at the critical moment when China was putting forth herculean efforts to suppress the evil---that is, at the end of the eighteenth and in the early part of the last century-the vice was fixed on her because of her inability to contend against or control the large amount of Indian opium smuggled or otherwise introduced into the country.\n\n\"As the result of the clandestine introduction of Indian opium and the final legalisation of the opium traffic by the Tien-tsin treaties (1858), negotiated after the Arrow war, general indifference prevailed throughout China, and the internal production of the drug, which had for many years been large, now assumed huge proportions.\" (P. 66.)\n\n(b.) \"Although no formal declaration was made as to further international action in regard to opium production, traffic, and misuse, it was, nevertheless, recognised that such action was necessary before the Powers could congratulate themselves on having solved the problem that has loomed so large and so long in the Far East, causing war and other evil consequences not (P. 71.) outstripped by the evil consequences of slavery.\"\n\nThe following passage from the report presented by the Chinese delegation shows what they actually said on these questions (\"International Opium Commission,\" vol. ii, P. 45):\n\n44\n\nForeign opium was first imported from Goa by the Portuguese in the beginning of the eighteenth century, and the first prohibiting edict against opium smoking was issued by the Emperor Yung Chêng in 1729, enacting severe penalties on the sale of opium and the opening of opium-smoking divans, and from this time on the sale of In 1729 the arrivals of opium for the purpose of smoking became a criminal offence. foreign opium were but 200 chests, but a constant increase followed each and by year, In 1796 an edict 1790 the importation had reached the figure of over 4,000 chests. formally prohibiting the importation of all opium was issued, and in 1800 this prohibitory edict was issued anew. From that date all trade in opium became contraband. Instead of diminishing, the trade flourished in spite of the prohibition, and by the year 1820 the importation amounted to 5,000 chests. By 1830 it had increased to 16,877 chests, by 1838 to 20,619 chests, by 1850 to 50,000 chests, and in 1858 to 70,000 chests. In November of the last-mentioned year the trade was legalised by China, and a tariff rate of Haikwan taels 30 per picul on opium was chargeable thereafter. While there can be little doubt that this legalisation of the opium traffic was contrary to the wishes of the Imperial Family and the enlightened classes in China, the country was then in the throes of the greatest rebellion ever experienced in its history, and revenue was badly needed. It was recognised that as the contraband trade continued in spite of the Imperial disfavour, it would be best to legalise it as the choice of two evils, and this was accordingly done.\n\n\"The next step in the history of opium is found in the Chefoo Convention of 1876, by which the British Government accepted in principle a proposal that inland taxation (li-kin) on the drug should be collected simultaneously with the import duty, i.e., by the Imperial, and not the provincial, authorities. This was made effective by an additional article, signed on the 18th July, 1885, by which the amount of li-kin was settled at Haikwan taels 80 per picul, making, with the import duty, a total of Haikwan taels 110 per picul, which the Chinese Government now collects.\"\n\n11\n\nAppendix 2.\n\nExtracts from Dr. Wright's Report.\n\nExtract (F).\n\n\"The British delegates presented data showing that in the Crown colony of the Straits Settlements and in the protected Federated Malay States a commission recently appointed had reported on the opium vice as seen there, the report being somewhat favourable to the continuance of the opium farm by which the Government disposed of opium and acquired a large revenue.\" (P. 67.)\n\nThe following is an extract* from the Straits Settlements Commission's own summary of its findings. (Report, vol. i, paragraph 342) :-\n\n\"We find that the vast majority of smokers indulge to an extent that may properly be called moderate, and that excessive indulgence occurs only in isolated instances.\n\n\"We find that there has been no increase in the prevalence of the habit, and in this we include use in moderation and use in excess, during the past decade.\n\n\"We do not find it proved that the evils arising from the use of opium have in any way increased during the past decade, We consider, however, that the circumstances surrounding the use of opium justify the Government in maintaining a closer and stricter control over it and we therefore recommend that the present system of farming the opium revenue be abolished and that a Government monopoly of the preparation and distribution of chandu be substituted.”\n\nThe following is also extracted from the same report (paragraph 310):- \"We have up to the present refrained from consideration of the purely fiscal side of the opium question, and our arguments on the question of prohibition are based entirely on consideration of the facts that the evils arising from the use of opium in the areas with which the commission has had to deal are not sufficiently widespread or acute as to justify legislative prohibition of the use of opium and that popular desire for such legislation has not yet reached such an advanced stage as to render a policy of that nature desirable.\"\n\nExtract (G).\n\n\"Resolution 6 was unfortunate in that it declared that the International Commission was not constituted in such a manner as to permit the investigation from a scientific point of view of anti-opium remedies, and the properties and effects of opium, for there were several delegates in the commission who were competent to pronounce on the subject. The Japanese Government anticipating such an investigation had sent as part of its delegation two eminent scientists who for many years have been in charge of the Japanese Government monopoly for the manufacture of opium and its preparations used in medicine. However, it developed that the principles of the moral and economic dangers of the misuse of opium were not to be endangered by this resolution, and opposition was waived for the sake of harmony. (Pp. 70-71.)\n\nThis question in a somewhat different form was first voted upon in the sixth session (see \"International Opium Commission,\" vol. i, p. 31).\n\nIt was again discussed and voted upon in the eighth and ninth sessions (see pp. 36-38, ibid.) on the following resolution moved by the Chinese delegate :\n\n\"That a committee consisting of five delegates be appointed to consider and report on the medical aspects of the opium question, including the best methods of curing the opium habit without recourse to the drug or any of its derivatives.\"\n\n* There was one dissentient from the principles adopted in this report. The portion of the summary of recommendations not reproduced in this extract relates to the use of opium in brothels, the arrangements for shops, sales to women and children, and the price of chandu.\n\n+ The commission then proceeded to deal separately with financial considerations, finally recording (paragraph 321), that these also led them to a conclusion adverse to prohibition.\n\n[2860 k-3]\n\nE\n\n14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431852, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n## PRESENT: 1ST JUNE, 1911.\n\n**PRESENT:**\n- HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, SIR FREDERICK J. DEALTRY LUGARD, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.\n- COLONEL C. W. R. ST. JOHN, R.E. (THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS)\n- HON. MR. CLEMENTI (Colonial Secretary)\n- HON. MR. C. G. ALABASTER (Attorney-General)\n- HON. MR. A. M. THOMSON (Colonial Treasurer)\n- HON. MR. W. CHATHAM, C.M.G. (Director of Public Works)\n- HON. MR. A. W. BREWIN (Registrar General)\n- HON. CAPTAIN F. W. LYONS (Captain-Superintendent of Police)\n- HON. DR. HO KAI, M.B., C.M.G.\n- HON. MR. WEI YUK, C.M.G.\n- HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C.\n- HON. MR. E. A. HEWETT\n- HON. MR. C. MONTAGUE EDE\n- HON. MR. C. H. ROSS\n- MR. R. H. CROFTON (Clerk of Councils)\n\n## Papers\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table the following papers: Sessional paper No. 6; Report of the Post Office; and Report of the Director of Education.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table the Report of the proceedings of the Standing Law Committee.\n\n## Minutes\nThe minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.\n\n## Financial\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY--Your Excellency has directed me not to lay on the table to-day the financial minutes which appear as the first item under the head \"Business\" in the Agenda list, because you think it will be a convenience to hon. members if in future financial minutes are presented in the form of quarterly schedules. The Finance Committee will therefore in future be called together only once a quarter instead of as at present after almost every meeting of the Council. That is the practice elsewhere, and will, I hope, commend itself to hon. members.\n\n## The Military Contribution\nHON. MR. EDE moved the following resolution standing in his name: \"That it is desirable that the Military Contribution should be fixed at the annual sum of One million Dollars ($1,000,000).\"\n\nIn doing so he said: Your Excellency, The unofficial members of this Council are unanimous in the opinion that this question should be brought up for debate at this time, viz., before the Imperial Conference closes. I fully realize that the question of the Military Contribution is a knotty and much debated one, but in moving the motion I am encouraged by your Excellency's attitude as shown in the debate of the 24th September, 1908. You there stated that you approached the matter of the Military Contribution with an open mind, possibly with a bias in favour of the view that the Contribution weighed too heavily, and that you were fully prepared, if your examination of the matter should confirm that view, to appeal to the Imperial Authorities for its reduction. That statement warrants that if it can be shown by reasoned argument that the Contribution at present paid by the Colony falls unnecessarily heavily on the taxpayer, relief may be counted upon. The following factors affect the question: (1) The ratio of taxation at present levied. (2) The cost of Defence of Trade and Property.\n\nIt has been stated, and is believed by a section of the community, that we are more lightly taxed than residents at Home, and I deem that the time has arrived when this statement, which has for so long passed current for truth, should be disproved. I preface my remarks by saying I have studied all available statistics fairly fully. I have examined the incidence of taxation on different classes of the population, but I have discovered it to be impossible by this means to arrive at any tangible result either for or against the argument for a reduction.\n\nI propose therefore to treat the whole question from the point of view of the Law of Average, a very simple law and easily understood by the people. Following this law, to arrive at the burden of taxation per head, one must divide the Revenue by the population. The Gross Revenue of Great Britain in the year 1909, for which full statistics are available, was Imperial £153,000,000, Municipal £163,000,000, or, in all, £316,000,000, the population in the same year being estimated at 46,000,000, or a taxation of £6. 17s. per head.\n\nThe Gross Revenue of this Colony in the same year amounted to $6,800,000, while the population here and in the New Territory was 429,000 (not 129,000), or, say, $16 per head, which translated into sterling equals £1 9s., or rather less than one-fifth of the taxation per capita at Home. This at first sight appears to support the contention of those who believe that we are too lightly taxed, but the most important factor has yet to be reckoned with, and that is the ability of the taxpayer to stand the burden of taxation.\n\nIt is very difficult to arrive at the average wealth of the individual in Great Britain. At first sight, the income tax collected would seem to give one a fair indication, but this is misleading, in so far as many below a certain figure per annum pay no income tax at all, and various books of statistics differ as to what proportion this class is to the whole.\n\nAnother method of estimating the average wealth per head is to take the gross income brought under review of the Department, which in 1908-9—the latest available—was £1,009,000,000 sterling; but even this method is faulty by reason of the factor that it still excludes a large percentage of the population whose incomes are not brought under review at all, and one must perforce look elsewhere for more exact figures.\n\nIn L. G. Chiozza Money's book, \"Riches and Poverty,\" published in 1904, one finds that the national income of the United Kingdom in 1903 was estimated at £1,710,000,000 sterling, but this figure has been challenged by an authority who is more widely known and accepted, viz., A. L. Bowley, who in his notes on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress, as well as in his book, \"National Progress in Wealth and Trade,\" places the figures at £2,000,000,000 annually. He arrives at this by dividing the national income into four groups: (1) The part received as wages, (2) the part under review of the Inland Revenue Department, (3) the sum of money which is earned as salaries too small to be considered by the income tax collectors, and (4) the profits from investments abroad and businesses at Home which in part escape the tax gatherer, though legally liable.\n\nThis estimate, which was made in 1904, has not since been challenged. It is true that the population of Great Britain has increased since that date, but the average rate of wages has not risen, and although it may be possible, or even probable, that the sum given by Bowley has grown to a larger figure between 1904 and 1909, it is quite impossible to make an estimate which is not open to be at once challenged, and I therefore take the actual figures given, viz., £2,000,000,000 annually, as representing the total income of the population of the United Kingdom in 1909.\n\nWhat, therefore, was the capital value of property to produce that income? I can speak personally of sterling investments on a fairly large scale, and my experience, which coincides with that of many others in important commercial positions, shows that the average rate of interest is rather under three per cent., but as I am anxious that no taint of special pleading shall characterise this argument, I have put down the average rate of interest at four per cent., or 25 per cent. higher than that obtainable for well-invested money. This shows that the capital value of privately-owned property in the United Kingdom is £50,000,000,000 sterling. Divide by the population, and it gives a per capita wealth of £1,090 per head.\n\nThe value of property in this Colony is not even as easy to arrive at, but a fair estimate sets it down at $275,000,000, which is the equivalent of £25,000,000, or, say, £60 per head, as against £1,090 per head at Home. It follows, therefore, that the average wealth of an individual in this Colony is one-eighteenth of that of an individual at Home, so that although we pay taxes of £1. 9s. per head, or, as I said earlier, about one-fifth that paid per unit in the United Kingdom, this sum is paid out of... \n\nPage 102\nPage 103", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440191, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "83\n\n08\n\nTranslation of telegram received from the Wai-wu Pu, dated February 19th 1912.\n\nCO 0490\n\n! MAR 12\n\nThe Provisional Government now proclaims that the Lunar Calendar shall be superseded by the Solar Calendar.\n\nThe first day of the first moon of the year Jen Tzu in the Lunar Calendar will be the eighteenth day of the second month of the first year of the Chinese Republic.\n\nChinese Legation.\n\nFebruary 20th 1912.\n\npl", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440391, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 284, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "21\n\n281\n\n20\n\nof M. Asser, the committee had prepared the following formula, which specifically applied only to raw opium, but would, of course, be equally necessary in regard to importation or exportation of other drugs:—\n\n\"Par importation, on entend l'acte d'introduire de l'étranger en qualité de commerçant en gros, demi-gros ou en détail, de consignataire ou commissionnaire, de l'opium brut.\n\n\"Par exportation, on entend l'acte d'expédier vers l'étranger, en qualité de commerçant en gros, en demi-gros ou en détail, où de commissionnaire, de l'opium brut.”\n\n83. This definition would show that it was only actual traders who required a licence. M. Asser and Sir William Collins had objected to the addition of the words, à l'exclusion des simples transporteurs, expéditeurs ou transitaires, on the ground that the formal exclusion of these persons might constitute indirect encouragement to contraband dealing, and that it was, therefore, better to omit them by implication, in the event of the definition proposed being necessary, rather than explicitly. The committee further pointed out that the question of carriers was specifically raised by the second American resolution brought forward at the fourteenth session and referred to in paragraph 72 above.\n\n84. As Sir William Meyer subsequently pointed out to the conference (twentieth session), we could not accept the definition prepared by the committee, since it omitted two categories of persons, whom experience in India had shown to be very dangerous smugglers of prohibited drugs, i.e.—\n\n(a.) Persons who were not in any way traders by profession, but took advantage of their visit to a prohibiting country to introduce, for their own profit, considerable quantities of the forbidden drugs.\n\n(b.) Go-betweens secretly employed by persons engaged in trade, who were paid to undergo fine or imprisonment, if detected, rather than divulge the names of their real employers.\n\nOur desire was therefore to treat importation and exportation as having the widest possible sense; but this, on the other hand, was not in the least likely to be accepted by the German delegation.\n\n85. The remaining portions of the committee's report dealt mainly with—\n\n(a.) The wording of a number of the articles already agreed on, in regard to which the suggestions of the committee were subsequently in large measure accepted.\n\n(b.) The proposal, already referred to in paragraph 61, for bringing the special Chinese articles into the main convention.\n\n(c) The submission of a fresh draft final protocol.\n\n86. Apart from the important questions which had been thus raised by the report of the Drafting Committee, we were also faced with a very serious difficulty in regard to the morphine and cocaine articles. Although, as previously explained in paragraphs 45 and 46, the resolutions on which these were based had been put forward by us after consultation and agreement with the German delegation, and we had in some cases modified our original proposals in order to bring them along with us, the Germans now informed us, to our great surprise, that they would be obliged to move a series of amendments in regard to articles 10 to 16 of the original draft convention, as quoted in paragraph 48, which would have the result of invalidating the binding character of most of these articles.\n\n87. We had thus, as will be seen, to face problems of a very serious character, and which involved not merely private conference with other delegations, but in some cases references to His Majesty's Government. Unfortunately, too, we were deprived at this juncture of the guidance of Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, whose health had not permitted him to return to The Hague after the Christmas recess. The leadership of the British delegation accordingly passed, during the remainder of the conference, to Sir William Meyer as the next senior delegate.\n\n88. The sixteenth session (10th January) dealt mainly with matters which have already been reported on, such as the transfer of the special Chinese articles to the main convention.\n\n89. At the seventeenth session (11th January) the report of the Drafting Committee on the various \"effectuating\" proposals came up for discussion. Sir William Meyer pointed out that superficially the main cleavage seemed to be between the primary and the British schemes on the one hand, and the German scheme on the other, since the first two followed the usual method of ratification of the contracting Powers preceding the adhesion of others, while the latter put adhesion first. From the practical point of view, however, the primary and the German schemes stood together on one side, and the British on the other, since the former postponed the coming into force of the convention until the adhesion of all the outside Powers had been obtained, while the latter provided that all matters which did not involve special legislation (or its equivalent, as suggested by the French delegation) should come into force on ratification by the Powers represented at the conference.\n\n90. M. Delbrück gave a clear exposition of the circumstances which had led to the propounding of the German scheme, in the course of which he laid stress on the fact (as we have already indicated) that ratification of the convention by the Reichstag would make it an integral part of the German corpus juris; while in the United States, for example, even if the convention were ratified by the Senate, its provisions would remain ineffective until applied by internal legislation.\n\n91. M. Cremer (Netherlands) said that his delegation could not accept the British scheme even if modified by the acceptance of the French amendment, since no Government was likely to put in hand laws or their equivalents without any certainty that these would eventually be applied. It would, in fact, be a case of every country waiting to see what the others would do.\n\n92. Dr. Hamilton Wright objected to waiting for the adhesion of outside Powers, and said that his delegation would like ratification and the coming into force of the convention to be effectuated as soon as possible. Finally, M. Delbrück indicated that it might be possible to proceed without getting the adhesion of all the outside Powers. The debate was then adjourned to the next session.\n\n93. The course of the discussion, however, and exchanges of opinion with other delegations, had already convinced us that the British amendment to the primary scheme was not likely to find acceptance. As we more than once indicated to the conference, our object throughout was to insist on the practical and expeditious enforcement of the measures that had already been agreed to, rather than on questions of form; and as between the primary and the German schemes, the latter had the advantage that the adhesion of outside Powers was to be sought immediately after the signing of the convention, while under the former that process would not be commenced till six at least of the conference Powers had ratified. Accordingly, on the 11th January, we sent you a telegram asking whether we might negotiate on the basis of the German scheme, endeavouring to shorten the periods before which the convention should come into force, and to substitute \"substantial\" for \"unanimous\" adhesion of outside Powers.\n\n94. At the eighteenth session (12th January) the adjourned debate on the subject of the \"effectuation\" procedure was opened by M. Brenier (France), who pointed out that the divergent schemes before the conference arose from a conflict of ideas, typically represented by the German and British delegations respectively. The former, looking to the great difficulties of embarking on the measures approved by the conference without adhesion of outside Powers, held that the obtainment of such adhesion was the first object to be aimed at; the latter, concerned chiefly with getting the convention into force as soon as possible, objected to the delay which the German method would involve. In order to bridge these differences between these divergent ideas, M. Brenier suggested a compromise scheme and proposed that the Drafting Committee should reconsider the subject on the lines he had put forward.\n\nThe American delegation, however, proposed an amendment referring the matter back to the committee without any specific instructions, and this was carried.\n\n95. The Drafting Committee, which had been materially aided in its fresh deliberations by the kind assistance of M. van Swinderen as well as of M. Asser, then agreed to put forward a scheme following in some respects the lines of the German proposal as a basis for further discussion by itself. Sir William Collins, our representative on the committee, thereupon discussed with us the amendments which would be necessary in order to make the scheme a satisfactory one from our point of view, and we reported these to you in our despatch No. 9 of the 14th January. The main lines of the scheme as it was thus to be altered are shown below, the clauses italicised being those which Sir William Collins was to propose:—\n\n(1.) As soon as the convention had been signed, the outside Powers of Europe and America were to be invited to sign it also. No reference was now made to the word adhesion as being an unsuitable term to use in the circumstances proposed.\n\n(2.) As soon as these supplementary signatures had been obtained, ratification would be proceeded with.\n\nPage 373", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440392, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 285, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "22\n\n(3.) If, however, all the outside Powers had not signed by the 31st December, 1912, the Powers that had signed, whether originally or by way of supplementary signature, should send representatives to The Hague to consider whether ratification might not nevertheless be proceeded with. Our object here was to cut short the delay which might be caused by refusal to sign, or procrastination in agreeing to sign, on the part of some of the outside Powers.\n\n(4.) The convention was to come into force two months after the completion of the ratification process. (The Drafting Committee's original scheme said six months.)\n\n(5.) Laws, &c., necessary to give effect to the provisions of the convention should be drawn up and presented to the Parliaments concerned within six months of the convention coming into force.\n\n(6.) The date on which such legislation should come into force would, however, be the subject of agreement between the signatory Powers.\n\nWe thus met the point, raised in your telegram of the 12th January, and the Board of Trade letter enclosed in your despatch No. 16 of the 13th idem, that restrictions should not be enforced until each State had had an opportunity of considering the extent to which other Powers were prepared to move in the same direction.\n\n(7.) In the event of grave difficulties arising in regard to the putting into force of the convention as a whole, or of the laws, &c., specifically contemplated thereby, a fresh conference should be summoned to obtain agreement on these matters.\n\n96. We indicated, in addressing you on the subject of these amendments, that we thought the procedure proposed would present material advantages in coping with the difficulties of a situation in which the representatives of only a few Powers were endeavouring to deal with matters some of which were of universal concern. We also observed that M. Brenier, on behalf of France, would, for the reasons stated in paragraph 78, propose to place administrative ordinances on the same footing as laws with reference to conditions (5) to (7), and that we must admit the justice of this proposal.\n\n97. The committee accepted our amendments (with the small change of two months into three in regard to clause 4 above) and also M. Brenier's; and at the nineteenth session (15th January) the latter, as chairman of the Drafting Committee, put the scheme before the conference as the best method of reconciling the differences of view indicated in his speech at the eighteenth session. The scheme was received with general favour, although at this stage several of the delegations, our own included, could not definitely commit themselves to its acceptance pending instructions from their Governments.\n\nOne of\n\n98. In your despatch No. 18 of the 17th January you authorised us to accept the scheme if we thought that certain further amendments which had been suggested by the Board of Trade were not likely to prove acceptable to the conference. Those suggestions was that the provision for a supplementary conference mentioned in clause (7) above should also cover the possibility of undue delay in ratification, and to meet this eventuality we successfully proposed, at the twenty-third session, to amend what is now article 24 of the convention accordingly. We explained in our despatch No. 12 of the 20th January why we had not thought it advisable to press the Board of Trade's other suggestions.\n\n99. It was also agreed at the twenty-third session to amend the conditions of clause (5) above, so as to cover the contingency of a legislature not being in session at the date on which the six months' delay allowed expired. In that case laws not already put before such a Parliament were to be submitted to it on its reassembly.\n\n100. The other delegations which had reserved their acceptance of the scheme when first put forward, also in due course received the assent of their Governments to its adoption, and the scheme has formed the basis, with some verbal modifications, of articles 22-24 of the convention.\n\n101. At the nineteenth session the final protocol as revised by the Drafting Committee, was also accepted on first reading.\n\n102. At the twentieth session (16th January) the German delegation brought forward the amendments to the morphine and cocaine articles of which preliminary mention has been made in paragraph 86 above.\n\nThe extent to which these amendments, as they were first drawn up and communicated to us, altered the provisions of the original articles 10 to 16, as exhibited in paragraph 48 above, will be best seen from the statement below, which puts the original articles and the proposed German re-draft in parallel columns.\n\nOriginal Articles. (See paragraph 48 ante).\n\nARTICLE 10.\n\nLes Puissances contractantes limiteront, par des lois, aux seuls établissements et locaux qui auront été désignés à cet effet, la fabrication de la morphine, de la cocaine et de leurs sels respectifs.\n\nARTICLE 11.\n\nLes Puissances contractantes exigeront que tous ceux qui fabriquent, importent, vendent, distribuent et exportent la morphine, la cocaïne et leurs sels respectifs, soient munis d'un permis pour se livrer à ces opérations.\n\nARTICLE 12.\n\nLes Puissances contractantes exigeront des fabricants et commerçants munis de ces permis la consignation sur leurs livres de toutes transactions concernant la fabrication, l'importation, la vente, la distribution et l'exportation de la morphine, de la cocaine et de leurs sels respectifs. Cette règle ne s'appliquera pas forcément aux prescriptions médicales, et faites par des pharmaciens dûment autorisés.\n\nARTICLE 13.\n\n...\n\n23\n\nGerman re-draft.\n\nARTICLE 10 (formerly 13).\n\nLes Puissances contractantes auront soin de faire contrôler, dans la mesure du possible, tous ceux qui fabriquent, importent, vendent, distribuent, et exportent la morphine, la cocaine et leurs sels respectifs, ainsi que les bâtiments où ces fabricants et commerçants exercent cette industrie ou ce commerce.\n\nARTICLE 11 (formerly 10).\n\nLes Puissances contractantes prendront, à cet effet, les mesures nécessaires pour constater dans quels établissements et locaux la morphine, la cocaïne et leurs sels respectifs sont fabriqués.\n\nARTICLE 12 (formerly 11).\n\nLes Puissances contractantes auront soin, dans la mesure du possible, d'exiger que tous ceux qui fabriquent, importent, vendent, distribuent et exportent la morphine, la cocaïne et leurs sels respectifs en avertiront les autorités ou se muniront d'un permis pour se livrer à ces opérations.\n\nARTICLE 13 (formerly 12).\n\nLes Puissances contractantes auront soin, dans la mesure du possible, d'exiger de ces fabricants et commerçants la consignation sur leurs livres des quantités fabriquées, des importations, des ventes, de toute autre cession, et des exportations de morphine, de la cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs. Cette règle ne s'appliquera pas forcément aux prescriptions, et aux ventes faites par des pharmaciens dûment autorisés.\n\nARTICLE 14.\n\nLes Puissances contractantes prohiberont dans leur commerce intérieur toute cession de morphine, de cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs, à toutes personnes non autorisées.\n\nARTICLE 15.\n\nLes Puissances contractantes interdiront, en tenant compte des différences de leurs conditions commerciales, l'importation de la morphine, de la cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs à d'autres qu'à des personnes autorisées.\n\nARTICLE 16.\n\n...\n\n282\n\nARTICLE 14 (old 14).\n\nLes Puissances contractantes prohiberont dans leur commerce intérieur toute cession de morphine, de cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs, à toutes personnes non autorisées.\n\nARTICLE 15 (old 15).\n\nLes Puissances contractantes, en tenant compte des différences de leurs conditions commerciales, auront soin de restreindre, dans la mesure du possible, l'importation commerciale, de la morphine, de la cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs aux personnes y autorisées. Les Puissances contractantes s'engagent à prohiber, par des conventions spéciales ou autrement, l'exportation de la morphine, de la cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs de leurs pays et colonies vers les pays, colonies ou territoires à bail des autres Puissances contractantes, sauf dans le cas où le destinataire aura reçu un permis accordé conformément aux lois du pays.\n\nARTICLE 16 (old 16).\n\nLes Puissances contractantes envisageront...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440418, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "20\n\nof M. Asser, the committee had prepared the following formula, which specifically applied only to raw opium, but would, of course, be equally necessary in regard to importation or exportation of other drugs:-\n\n\"Par importation, on entend l'acte d'introduire de l'étranger en qualité de commerçant en gros, demi-gros ou en détail, de consignataire ou commissionnaire, de l'opium brut.\n\n\"Par exportation, on entend l'acte d'expédier vers l'étranger, en qualité de commerçant en gros, en demi-gros ou en détail, où de commissionnaire, de l'opium brut.\"\n\n83. This definition would show that it was only actual traders who required a licence. M. Asser and Sir William Collins had objected to the addition of the words, à l'exclusion des simples transporteurs, expéditeurs ou transitaires, on the ground that the formal exclusion of these persons might constitute indirect encouragement to contraband dealing, and that it was, therefore, better to omit them by implication, in the event of the definition proposed being necessary, rather than explicitly. The committee further pointed out that the question of carriers was specifically raised by the second American resolution brought forward at the fourteenth session and referred to in paragraph 72 above.\n\n84. As Sir William Meyer subsequently pointed out to the conference (twentieth session), we could not accept the definition prepared by the committee, since it omitted two categories of persons, whom experience in India had shown to be very dangerous smugglers of prohibited drugs, i.e.:--\n\n(a.) Persons who were not in any way traders by profession, but took advantage of their visit to a prohibiting country to introduce, for their own profit, considerable quantities of the forbidden drugs.\n\n(b.) Go-betweens secretly employed by persons engaged in trade, who were paid to undergo fine or imprisonment, if detected, rather than divulge the names of their real employers.\n\nOur desire was therefore to treat importation and exportation as having the widest possible sense; but this, on the other hand, was not in the least likely to be accepted by the German delegation.\n\n85. The remaining portions of the committee's report dealt mainly with--\n\n(a.) The wording of a number of the articles already agreed on, in regard to which the suggestions of the committee were subsequently in large measure accepted.\n\n(b.) The proposal, already referred to in paragraph 61, for bringing the special Chinese articles into the main convention.\n\n(c.) The submission of a fresh draft final protocol.\n\n86. Apart from the important questions which had been thus raised by the report of the Drafting Committee, we were also faced with a very serious difficulty in regard to the morphine and cocaine articles. Although, as previously explained in paragraphs 45 and 46, the resolutions on which these were based had been put forward by us after consultation and agreement with the German delegation, and we had in some cases modified our original proposals in order to bring them along with us, the Germans now informed us, to our great surprise, that they would be obliged to move a series of amendments in regard to articles 10 to 16 of the original draft convention, as quoted in paragraph 48, which would have the result of invalidating the binding character of most of these articles.\n\n87. We had thus, as will be seen, to face problems of a very serious character, and which involved not merely private conference with other delegations, but in some cases references to His Majesty's Government. Unfortunately, too, we were deprived at this juncture of the guidance of Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, whose health had not permitted him to return to The Hague after the Christmas recess. The leadership of the British delegation accordingly passed, during the remainder of the conference, to Sir William Meyer as the next senior delegate.\n\n38. The sixteenth session (10th January) dealt mainly with matters which have already been reported on, such as the transfer of the special Chinese articles to the main convention.\n\n39. At the seventeenth session (11th January) the report of the Drafting Committee on the various \"effectuating\" proposals came up for discussion. Sir William Meyer pointed out that superficially the main cleavage seemed to be between the primary and the British schemes on the one hand, and the German scheme on the other, since the first two followed the usual method of ratification of the contracting Powers preceding the adhesion of others, while the latter put adhesion first. From the practical point of view, however, the primary and the German schemes stood together on one side, and the British on the other, since the former postponed the coming into force of the convention until the adhesion of all the outside Powers had been obtained, while the latter provided that all matters which did not involve special legislation (or its equivalent, as suggested by the French delegation) should come into force on ratification by the Powers represented at the conference.\n\n90. M. Delbrück gave a clear exposition of the circumstances which had led to the propounding of the German scheme, in the course of which he laid stress on the fact (as we have already indicated) that ratification of the convention by the Reichstag would make it an integral part of the German corpus juris; while in the United States, for example, even if the convention were ratified by the Senate, its provisions would remain ineffective until applied by internal legislation.\n\n91. M. Cremer (Netherlands) said that his delegation could not accept the British scheme even if modified by the acceptance of the French amendment, since no Government was likely to put in hand laws or their equivalents without any certainty that these would eventually be applied. It would, in fact, be a case of every country waiting to see what the others would do.\n\n92. Dr. Hamilton Wright objected to waiting for the adhesion of outside Powers, and said that his delegation would like ratification and the coming into force of the convention to be effectuated as soon as possible. Finally, M. Delbrück indicated that it might be possible to proceed without getting the adhesion of all the outside Powers. The debate was then adjourned to the next session.\n\n93. The course of the discussion, however, and exchanges of opinion with other delegations, had already convinced us that the British amendment to the primary scheme was not likely to find acceptance. As we more than once indicated to the conference, our object throughout was to insist on the practical and expeditions enforcement of the measures that had already been agreed to, rather than on questions of form; and as between the primary and the German schemes, the latter had the advantage that the adhesion of outside Powers was to be sought immediately after the signing of the convention, while under the former that process would not be commenced till six at least of the conference Powers had ratified. Accordingly, on the 11th January, we sent you a telegram asking whether we might negotiate on the basis of the German scheme, endeavouring to shorten the periods before which the convention should come into force, and to substitute \"substantial\" for \"unanimous\" adhesion of outside Powers.\n\n37\n\n*\n\n94. At the eighteenth session (12th January) the adjourned debate on the subject of the \"effectuation\" procedure was opened by M. Brenier (France), who pointed out that the divergent schemes before the conference arose from a conflict of ideas, typically represented by the German and British delegations respectively. The former, looking to the great difficulties of embarking on the measures approved by the conference without adhesion of outside Powers, held that the obtainment of such adhesion was the first object to be aimed at; the latter, concerned chiefly with getting the convention into force as soon as possible, objected to the delay which the German method would involve. In order to bridge these differences between these divergent ideas, M. Brenier suggested a compromise scheme and proposed that the Drafting Committee should reconsider the subject on the lines he had put forward.\n\nThe American delegation, however, proposed an amendment referring the matter back to the committee without any specific instructions, and this was carried.\n\n95. The Drafting Committee, which had been materially aided in its fresh deliberations by the kind assistance of M. van Swinderen as well as of M. Asser, then agreed to put forward a scheme following in some respects the lines of the German proposal as a basis for further discussion by itself. Sir William Collins, our representative on the committee, thereupon discussed with us the amendments which would be necessary in order to make the scheme a satisfactory one from our point of view, and we reported these to you in our despatch No. 9 of the 14th January. The main lines of the scheme as it was thus to be altered are shown below, the clauses italicised being those which Sir William Collins was to propose:----\n\n(1.) As soon as the convention had been signed, the outside Powers of Europe and America were to be invited to sign it also. No reference was now made to the word \"adhesion\" as being an unsuitable term to use in the circumstances proposed.\n\n(2.) As soon as these supplementary signatures had been obtained, ratification would be proceeded with. [2458 s-2\n\nG\n\n-2]\n\n337\n\n21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440419, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "29\n\n(3.) If, however, all the outside Powers had not signed by the 31st December, 1912, the Powers that had signed, whether originally or by way of supplementary signature, should send representatives to The Hague to consider whether ratification might not nevertheless be proceeded with. Our object here was to cut short the delay which might be caused by refusal to sign, or procrastination in agreeing to sign, on the part of some of the outside Powers.\n\n(4) The convention was to come into force two months after the completion of the ratification process. (The Drafting Committee's original scheme said six months.)\n\n(5.) Laws, &c., necessary to give effect to the provisions of the convention should be drawn and presented to the Parliaments concerned within six months of the convention coming into force.\n\nup\n\n(6.) The date on which such legislation should come into force would, however, be the subject of agreement between the signatory Powers.\n\nWe thus met the point, raised in your telegram of the 12th January, and the Board of Trade letter enclosed in your despatch No. 16 of the 13th idem, that restrictions should not be enforced until each State had had an opportunity of considering the extent to which other Powers were prepared to move in the same direction.\n\n(7.) In the event of grave difficulties arising in regard to the putting into force of the convention as a whole, or of the laws, &c., specifically contemplated thereby, conference should be summoned to obtain agreement on these matters.\n\na fresh\n\n96. We indicated, in addressing you on the subject of these amendments, that we thought the procedure proposed would present material advantages in coping with the difficulties of a situation in which the representatives of only a few Powers were endeavouring to deal with matters some of which were of universal concern. We also observed that M. Brenier, on behalf of France, would, for the reasons stated in paragraph 78, propose to place administrative ordinances on the same footing as laws with reference to conditions (5) to (7), and that we must admit the justice of this proposal.\n\n97. The committee accepted our amendments (with the small change of two months into three in regard to clause 4 above) and also M. Brenier's; and at the nineteenth session (15th January) the latter, as chairman of the Drafting Committee, put the scheme before the conference as the best method of reconciling the differences of view indicated in his speech at the eighteenth session. The scheme was received with general favour, although at this stage several of the delegations, our own included, could not definitely commit themselves to its acceptance pending instructions from their Governments.\n\n98. In your despatch No. 18 of the 17th January you authorised us to accept the scheme if we thought that certain further amendments which had been suggested by the Board of Trade were not likely to prove acceptable to the conference. One of those suggestions was that the provision for a supplementary conference mentioned in clause (7) above should also cover the possibility of undue delay in ratification, and to meet this eventuality we successfully proposed, at the twenty-third session, to amend what is now article 24 of the convention accordingly. We explained in our despatch No. 12 of the 20th January why we had not thought it advisable to press the Board of Trade's other suggestions.\n\n99. It was also agreed at the twenty-third session to amend the conditions of clause (5) above, so as to cover the contingency of a legislature not being in session at the date on which the six months' delay allowed expired. In that case laws not already put before such a Parliament were to be submitted to it on its reassembly.\n\n100. The other delegations which had reserved their acceptance of the scheme when first put forward, also in due course received the assent of their Governments to its adoption, and the scheme has formed the basis, with some verbal modifications, of articles 22-24 of the convention.\n\n101. At the nineteenth session the final protocol as revised by the Drafting Committee, was also accepted on first reading.\n\n102. At the twentieth session (16th January) the German delegation brought forward the amendments to the morphine and cocaine articles of which preliminary mention has been made in paragraph 86 above.\n\nThe extent to which these amendments, as they were first drawn up and communicated to us, altered the provisions of the original articles 10 to 16, as exhibited in paragraph 48 above, will be best seen from the statement below, which puts the original articles and the proposed German re-draft in parallel columns.\n\nOriginal Articles.\n\n(See paragraph 48 ante).\n\n \n ARTICLE 10.\n German re-draft.\n \n \n Les Puissances contractantes limiteront, par des lois, aux seuls établissements et locaux qui auront été désignés à cet effet, la fabrication de la morphine, de la cocaine et de leurs sels respectifs.\n ARTICLE 10 (formerly 13). Les Puissances contractantes auront soin de faire contrôler, dans la mesure du possible, tous ceux qui fabriquent, importent, vendent, distribuent, et exportent la morphine, la cocaïne et leurs sels respectifs, ainsi que les bâtiments où ces fabricants et commerçants exercent cette industrie ou ce commerce.\n \n \n ARTICLE 11. Les Puissances contractantes exigeront que tous ceux qui fabriquent, importent, vendent, distribuent et exportent la morphine, la cocaïne et leurs sels respectifs, soient munis d'un permis pour se livrer à ces opérations.\n ARTICLE 11 (formerly 10). Les Puissances contractantes prendront, à cet effet, les mesures nécessaires pour constater dans quels établissements et locaux la morphine, la cocaïne et leurs sels respectifs sont fabriqués.\n \n \n ARTICLE 12. Les Puissances contractantes exigeront des fabricants et commerçants munis de ces permis la consignation sur leurs livres de toutes transactions concernant la fabrication, l'importation, la vente, la distribution et l'exportation de la morphine, de la cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs. Cette règle ne s'appliquera pas forcément aux prescriptions médicales, et faites par des pharmaciens dûment autorisés.\n ARTICLE 12 (formerly 11). Les Puissances contractantes auront soin, dans la mesure du possible, d'exiger que tous ceux qui fabriquent, importent, vendent, distribuent et exportent la morphine, la cocaïne et leurs sels respectifs en avertiront les autorités ou se muniront d'un permis pour se livrer à ces opérations.\n \n \n ARTICLE 13. Les Puissances contractantes entreprendront de faire contrôler ces fabricants et commerçants, ainsi que les bâtiments où ils exercent cette industrie ou ce commerce.\n ARTICLE 13 (formerly 12). Les Puissances contractantes auront soin, dans la mesure du possible, d'exiger de ces fabricants et commerçants la consignation sur leurs livres des quantités fabriquées, des importations, des ventes, de toute autre cession, et des exportations de morphine, de la cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs. Cette règle ne s'appliquera pas forcément aux prescriptions, et aux ventes faites par des pharmaciens dûment autorisés.\n \n \n ARTICLE 14. Les Puissances contractantes prohiberont dans leur commerce intérieur toute cession de morphine, de cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs, à toutes personnes non autorisées.\n ARTICLE 14 (old 14). Les Puissances contractantes prohiberont dans leur commerce intérieur toute cession de morphine, de cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs, à toutes personnes non autorisées.\n \n \n ARTICLE 15. Les Puissances contractantes interdiront, en tenant compte des différences de leurs conditions commerciales, l'importation de la morphine, de la cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs à d'autres qu'à des personnes autorisées.\n ARTICLE 15 (old 15). Les Puissances contractantes, en tenant compte des différences de leurs conditions commerciales, auront soin de restreindre, dans la mesure du possible, l'importation commerciale, de la morphine, de la cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs aux personnes y autorisées.\n \n \n ARTICLE 16. Les Puissances contractantes s'engagent à prohiber, par des conventions spéciales ou autrement, l'exportation de la morphine, de la cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs de leurs pays et colonies vers les pays, colonies ou territoires à bail des autres Puissances contractantes, sauf dans le cas où le destinataire aura reçu un permis accordé conformément aux lois du pays.\n ARTICLE 16 (old 16). Les Puissances contractantes envisageront de prendre des mesures pour que...\n \n\n23\n\n338", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440936, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "269 \n\n16 \n\nmight withdraw or modify them. The French contention as to the equivalence, in certain circumstances, of administrative enactments and laws, was one which we were bound to accept.\n\n## 66\n-(i) M. Delbrück, the German delegate on the Committee, had submitted a new scheme, the main lines of which were as follows:- \n\n(a) Immediately after the signature of the convention by the conference delegates, all the outside Powers of Europe and America were to be invited to adhere. \n\n(b) When all these Powers had thus adhered to the convention, the process of ratification by all the Powers now concerned would commence, and would be carried into effect as soon as possible. \n\n(c) Adherence and ratification should be not merely for the home territories of any Power, but for its colonies and other outside possessions and protectorates also. \n\n(d) The convention would come into force a year after the completion of ratification by all the Powers concerned. \n\n(e) If, however, matters had not advanced to the ratification stage two years after the date of the signing of the convention by the delegates, a fresh conference should be held to consider conditions under which the convention might nevertheless be brought into force, wholly or in part.\n\nThis project, which we shall refer to hereafter as the German scheme, involved an entirely new principle, viz., the subordination of ratification to adhesion; but M. Asser did not think there was any objection in principle to this, although his own preference was for the usual method.\n\n## 67\nThe reasons brought forward by M. Delbrück in support of his proposal were that the circumstances were unprecedented, since some of the matters dealt with by the conference were of world-wide interest, and could not be adequately carried out by the small number of Powers represented at the conference, especially in view of the fact that some of the non-represented Powers occupied a very important position in regard to the questions under discussion, as, for instance, Turkey in regard to raw opium, and Bolivia and Peru (where the coca plant is principally produced) in regard to cocaine. M. Delbrück argued further that, as regards Germany, the convention would require the ratification of the Reichstag, and that it would be difficult to obtain such ratification while the attitude of outside Powers was unknown.\n\nOn the other hand, Sir William Collins had pointed out that this scheme as it stood, making ratification dependent on the adherence of all outside Powers of Europe and America, was likely to lead to indefinite delay in regard to the practical enforcement of the measures on which the conference had agreed.\n\n## 68\nThe Drafting Committee also reported difficulties which had arisen as to the exact significance of the words \"importation\" and \"exportation,\" as used in article 5 of the convention, on the subject of raw opium, and also in articles 7 and 8, and in some of the articles in chapter 3, in regard to prepared opium, morphine, cocaine, &c.\n\n## 69\nThe remaining portions of the committee's report dealt mainly with-- \n(a) The wording of a number of the articles already agreed on, in regard to which the suggestions of the committee were subsequently in large measure accepted. \n(b) A proposal for bringing the special Chinese articles into the main convention. \n(c) The submission of a fresh draft final protocol.\n\n## 70\nApart from the important questions which had been thus raised by the report of the Drafting Committee, we were also faced with a serious difficulty in regard to the morphine and cocaine articles, into which the German delegation, as a result of the conferences they had had with their Government in Berlin, were now desirous of introducing important modifications. We had thus, as will be seen, to face fresh problems of a serious character, which involved not merely private conference with other delegations, but in some cases references to His Majesty's Government. Unfortunately we were deprived at this juncture of the guidance of Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, whose health had not permitted him to return to The Hague after the Christmas recess.\n\n## 71\nThe sixteenth session (10th January) dealt mainly with matters which have already been reported on, such as the transfer of the special Chinese articles to the main convention.\n\n## 72\nAt the seventeenth session (11th January) the report of the Drafting Committee on the various \"effectuating\" proposals came up for discussion. M. Delbrück gave a clear exposition of the circumstances which had led to the propounding of the German scheme, in the course of which he laid stress on the fact that ratification of the convention by the Reichstag would make it an integral part of the German corpus juris, while in the United States, for example, even if the convention were ratified by the Senate, its provisions would remain ineffective until applied by internal legislation.\n\n## 73\nThe course of the discussion, in which various delegations took part, had convinced us that the British amendment to the primary scheme had been superseded by the new proposals now put forward. As we more than once indicated to the conference, our object throughout was to insist on the practical and expeditious enforcement of the measures that had already been agreed to, rather than on questions of form; and as between the primary and the German schemes, the latter had the advantage that the agreement of outside Powers was to be sought immediately after the signing of the convention, while under the former that process would not be commenced till six at least of the conference Powers had ratified. We accordingly requested instructions as to whether we should negotiate on the basis of the German scheme, while endeavouring to shorten the periods before the convention should come into force, and to substitute \"substantial\" for \"unanimous\" adhesion of outside Powers.\n\n## 74\nAt the eighteenth session (12th January) the adjourned debate on the subject of the \"effectuation\" procedure was opened by M. Brenier (France), who pointed out that the divergent schemes before the conference arose from a conflict of ideas. The German delegation, looking to the great difficulties of embarking on the measures approved by the conference without adhesion of outside Powers, held that the obtainment of such adhesion was the first object to be aimed at; other delegations, concerned chiefly with getting the convention into force as soon as possible, objected to the delay which the German method would involve. In order to bridge the differences between these divergent ideas, M. Brenier suggested a compromise scheme and proposed that the Drafting Committee should present a definite proposal in regard to ratification, adhesion, and the coming into force of the convention. The American delegation proposed an amendment, which was carried, directing the committee to have regard to all the proposals which had been made, but not to express approval of any one of them.\n\n## 75\nThe Drafting Committee, which had been materially aided in its fresh deliberations by the kind assistance of M. van Swinderen as well as of M. Asser, then put forward a scheme following in some respects the lines of the German proposal. The main lines of the scheme as it was thus to be altered are shown below, the clauses italicised being those which we considered necessary in order to make the scheme a satisfactory one from our point of view - \n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | As soon as the convention had been signed, the outside Powers of Europe and America were to be invited to sign it also. No reference was now made to the word \"adhesion\" as being an unsuitable term to use in the circumstances proposed. |\n| (2) | As soon as these supplementary signatures had been obtained, ratification would be proceeded with. |\n| (3) | If, however, all the outside Powers had not signed by the 31st December, 1912, the Powers that had signed, whether originally or by way of supplementary signature, should send representatives to The Hague to consider whether ratification might not nevertheless be proceeded with. Our object here was to cut short the delay which might be caused by refusal to sign, or procrastination in agreeing to sign, on the part of some of the outside Powers. |\n| (4) | The convention was to come into force two months after the completion of the ratification process. (The Drafting Committee's original scheme said six months.) |\n| (5) | Laws, &c., necessary to give effect to the provisions of the convention should be drawn up and presented to the Parliaments concerned within six months of the convention coming into force. |\n| (6) | The date on which such legislation should come into force would, however, be the subject of agreement between the signatory Powers. We thus met the point which had been raised by the Board of Trade that restrictions should not be enforced until each State had had an opportunity of considering the extent to which other Powers were prepared to move in the same direction. |\n| (7) | In the event of grave difficulties arising in regard to the putting into force of the convention as a whole, or of the laws, &c., specifically contemplated thereby, a fresh conference should be summoned to obtain agreement on these matters. |\n\n## 76\nWe indicated, in addressing you on the subject of these amendments, that we thought the procedure proposed would present material advantages in coping with the ... \n\nPage 269\nPage 16\nPage 17\n[660] \nD 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440937, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 273, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "## 18 \n\nThe difficulties of a situation in which the representatives of only a few Powers were endeavouring to deal with matters some of which were of universal concern. We also observed that the French Delegation would, for the reasons stated in paragraph 65, propose to place administrative ordinances on the same footing as laws with reference to conditions (5) to (7), and that we must admit the justice of this proposal.\n\n77. The committee accepted our amendments (with the small change of two months into three in regard to clause 4 above) and also that of the French Delegation; and at the nineteenth session (15th January) the chairman of the Drafting Committee put the scheme before the conference as the best method of reconciling the differences of view indicated in his speech at the eighteenth session. The scheme was received with general favour, although at this stage several of the delegations, our own included, could not definitely commit themselves to its acceptance pending instructions from their Governments. The delegations which had reserved their acceptance of the scheme when first put forward, in due course received the assent of their Governments to its adoption, and the scheme has formed the basis, with some verbal modifications, of articles 22-24 of the convention.\n\n78. At the nineteenth session the final protocol as revised by the Drafting Committee, was also accepted on first reading.\n\n79. At the twentieth session (16th January) the German delegation brought forward the amendments to the morphine and cocaine articles of which preliminary mention has been made in paragraph 70 above. We had had a meeting with the German delegates on the subject on the 9th January, at which they had explained to us, as they now proceeded to do to the full conference, that on returning to Berlin for the Christmas recess and discussing matters with their Government, it had been found that the categorical form in which the original articles were drawn up was not suited to the constitution and conditions of the Empire, for while the convention would have to be ratified by the Reichstag, so becoming a part of the German law, the matters with which these articles dealt were, for the most part, within the sphere not of the Imperial Government or legislature, but of the individual States. The Bundesrat was accordingly not likely to put before the Reichstag, or was the latter likely to ratify, articles which would thus encroach upon State autonomy. The German delegates further explained to us that in a number of the individual States the method of controlling chemical or dangerous industries was not by licensing, but simply by requiring notification to the authorities, who could then intervene if their intervention seemed called for. It was to suit this method that amendments in the wording of the old articles 10 and 11 were now proposed to be introduced.\n\n80. Having taken note of these considerations, we proceeded to discuss the amendments on their merits, and pointed out that we could not accept them as they stood, since they whittled down the original articles far too much.\n\nIn the original German draft of the amended articles the categorical terms \"limiteront,\" \"exigeront,\" &c., had been replaced by such formulae as \"auront soin, dans la mesure du possible, de faire contrôler, exiger,\" &c. Further, whereas the original article 10 laid down that the manufacture of morphine, cocaine, &c., should only take place in premises specially set apart for the purpose, the German amendment merely provided that the authorities should take note of such premises. Again, whereas the original article 11 required producers of, and dealers in, the drugs in question to obtain a licence, the German amendment allowed them, as an alternative, merely to apprise the authorities that they were embarking on these operations, and this alternative was placed first as if to show that it would be the more usual course.\n\n81. After considerable discussion it was provisionally agreed that:\n\n(1.) Instead of such expressions as \"auront soin, dans la mesure du possible,\" the word employed should be the equivalent of the English \"will use their best endeavours,\" or of the German \"nach Möglichkeit darauf Bedacht nehmen.\"\n\nWe proposed \"s'efforceront\" as the proper French equivalent, and our German colleagues, though at first reluctant to accept this rendering, on the ground that it seemed to imply an undesirable amount of coercion, ultimately, after several meetings, agreed to it.\n\n(2.) As regards original article 10, the former provisions should stand, provided that, as an alternative, Governments which so desired might simply keep themselves informed of the premises in which manufacture was carried on, and maintain a register of them.\n\n(3.) As regards original article 11 again, the licensing method should come first, with an official notification to the authorities as an alternative.\n\n## 19 \n\n## 270 \n\n82. The final result of our conferences with the German delegates will be seen from the text of the German amendments as actually presented to the conference which is given below. It represents the substance of what we provisionally agreed to on the 9th January, with some verbal modifications subsequently arrived at:\n\n(Old Article 13.)\n\n**ARTICLE 10.**\n\n\"The contracting Powers shall use their best endeavours to cause to be controlled all persons manufacturing, importing, selling, distributing, and exporting morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts, as well as the buildings in which these manufacturers and traders carry on such industry or trade.\n\nTo this end, the contracting Powers shall use their best endeavours to take the following measures:\n\n(Old Article 10.)\n\n\"(a.) Limit to the sole establishments and premises which have been designated for this purpose the manufacture of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts, or inform themselves in which establishments and premises morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts are manufactured, and keep a register of them.\n\n## 14 \n\n(Old Article 11.)\n\n(b) Require all those who manufacture, import, sell, distribute, and export morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts to obtain a permit to carry out these operations, or give official notice to the authorities.\n\n(Old Article 12.)\n\n(c) Require these manufacturers and traders to record in their books the quantities manufactured, imports, sales, any other transfer, and exports of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts. This rule shall not necessarily apply to prescriptions and sales made by duly authorised pharmacists.\n\n**ARTICLE 11** (Old Article 14).\n\n\"The contracting Powers shall prohibit in their internal trade any transfer of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts to unauthorised persons.\n\n**ARTICLE 12** (Old Article 15).\n\n\"The contracting Powers, taking into account the differences in their conditions, shall use their best endeavours to restrict the importation of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts to authorised persons.\n\n**ARTICLE 13** (Old Article 16).\n\n\"The contracting Powers shall use their best endeavours to take measures to ensure that the exportation of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts from their countries, colonies, and leased territories to the countries, colonies, and leased territories of the other contracting Powers takes place only in cases where the recipient has received a permit issued in accordance with the laws of the importing country authorising the importation of these drugs.\n\nTo this end, any Government may from time to time provide the Governments of exporting countries with information regarding persons to whom import permits for morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts have been issued.\"\n\n(Old Article 18.)\n\n(Translation.)\n\n**ARTICLE 10.**\n\n| English | French |\n| --- | --- |\n| The contracting Powers shall use their best endeavours to cause to be controlled all persons manufacturing, importing, selling, distributing, and exporting morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts, as well as the buildings in which these manufacturers and traders carry on such industry or trade. | Les Puissances contractantes s'efforceront de faire contrôler tous ceux qui fabriquent, importent, vendent, distribuent et exportent la morphine, la cocaïne et leurs sels respectifs, ainsi que les bâtiments où ces fabricants et commerçants exercent cette industrie ou ce commerce. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457649, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 391, "title": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "44170\n\nREOP\n\nFC 25 SEP 15\n\n3LJ\n\nFILES ONLY\n\nCypher telegram to Sir I Fraser (Shanghai)\n\nForeign Office, September 23rd, 1915. 5.45 p.m.\n\nNo. 91.\n\nFollowing for Arnhold:-\n\n\"Foreign Office have not notified Delcassé. Maintain French Government should be officially informed present position by their own representative Peking. Consequently urge Minister strongly cabling Paris without further delay. Have written Delcassé direct eighteenth, but success improbable unless supported by recommendation French Minister Peking.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481618, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 350, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "Their face value in ten years' time, will no doubt give rise to difficulties in the future and we may find ourselves faced with a request for diplomatic action to enforce payment for a transaction which originated in fraud and ended in smoke.\n\nBut in the meantime the opium merchants appear to be satisfied with the arrangement, and it is possible that they have in some way insured themselves against loss. Possibly the sale of the 300 chests prior to the decision to burn the stocks, and which realised a sum of 4,800,000 taels, has gone some way towards meeting the debt.\n\n# Foreign\n\nThe foreign trade in opium which began in the eighteenth century has thus come to a dramatic end in the burning of the surplus Indian stocks, and it only remains for foreign Governments to keep a strict watch on exports. After a campaign of twelve years, in which the Government of India have played a noble part, we have removed finally the stigma attaching in the popular mind to our connection with this traffic, and by keeping our own hands clean in the future we can continue to exercise pressure to prevent the exploitation of China by other countries, and to assist the Chinese to eradicate their own cultivation. On the whole the Chinese have co-operated cordially with us in this great task and are grateful for what we have done. It has been estimated that the amount of money spent by Chinese on foreign opium legitimately imported through the customs during the sixteen years from 1901 to 1916 must have been about 1,000,000,000 taels. This sum shows what potentialities exist for other merchandise.\n\nBut much work remains to be done in China itself. The province of Shensi which was declared free of poppy cultivation in August 1917, is now, owing to the disorganised state of the country, again planted all over under the protection of brigand hands. On the other hand, in the neighbouring province of Shansi, where a capable governor exercises authority, no opium is either grown or imported. In several southern provinces, notably Fukien, where the land has been devastated by civil war, the farmers are encouraged to grow poppy in order to recoup their loss. Until more orderly administration and better control can be exercised over them, the complete eradication of cultivation cannot be hoped for; but there is little doubt that so long as the present President remains in power a determined effort in this direction will be made.\n\nThere is a still more hopeful sign; it can no longer be said that there is no public opinion on the subject in China. The work of the last twelve years is bearing fruit. Wide publicity is given in the native as well as the foreign press to the question. The people are impressed with the necessity of putting their house in order if they wish to benefit by the advantages of the new age and to gain the goodwill of the nations of Europe and America. Under the auspices of the International Anti-Opium Association of Shanghai and the Peking Anti-Opium Campaign Committee, large public meetings are to be held in the principal cities and the people will be urged to support the Government in its efforts to regenerate the country. It is, moreover, proposed to approach the various foreign Governments through the Peace Conference in order to secure the enactment of effective legislation for the enforcement of article 15 of The Hague Convention of 1912. It is sincerely to be hoped that Great Britain will continue to play the leading and honourable part she has taken in this question.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nOffice\n\n8th May 1919\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nFO 25264.\n\nAlso 23993\n\nHONG KONG 27903 301\n\nRE 9 MAY 19\n\nInternational opium convention.\n\nCopy corres with the Society for the Suppression of the opium trade\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nFO 34064\n\nEarle (2014-4 h.) W, 30978-21, 50m. 11/18. DB. G. 122/41.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488540, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 281, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Part of \n\nsecurity for excess note issue may be kept in such places and under such conditions as the Governor may approve.\n\n2. The said coin or bullion shall be under the control of the Colonial Secretary and Colonial Treasurer exclusively for the redemption of such bills and notes, wherever the same may have been issued: Provided nevertheless that nothing herein contained shall exempt the company from the operation of any law restricting or regulating the issue of bills or notes in the Colony or in any place outside the Colony where the company has banks or branch banks.\n\n(4.) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3) of this section, portions of the security in coin or bullion provided for by the said sub-section may be kept deposited in such places outside the Colony, with such persons, to such amounts, and subject to such conditions, as may at any time and from time to time be approved by the Governor.\n\n3. Section 22 of the principal Ordinance is amended as follows:-\n\n(a) \"$50,000,000\" is substituted for \"$20,000,000\" in the eleventh line thereof.\n\n(b) \"$20,000,000\" is substituted for \"$10,000,000\" in the fifteenth line thereof.\n\n(c) The second proviso thereto, that is to say, all the words after the words \"herein provided\" in the eighteenth line thereof, is repealed.\n\n## Ordinance No. 3 of 1866, S. 22.\n\n3\n\n4. The comparison between the existing law and the new Ordinance can also be made in the following way.\n\nAs regards the first $20,000,000 of the total issue.\n\n| Security under present law | Security under new Ordinance |\n| --- | --- |\n| $10,000,000 in coin or securities, $5,000,000 in coin or securities. $5,000,000 in coin or bullion | $20,000,000 in coin or securities |\n\nIt will thus be seen that the value of the security will not be altered, but that the Corporation will be relieved from the necessity of keeping coin or bullion against any part of the first $20,000,000 of the total note issue.\n\n5. It will be noted that one provision disappears in the proposed new section 13, i.e., the requirement of the latter part of the present section 13(1), that the Corporation must keep at each of its establishments an amount of coin or bullion equal in value to one-third at least of the notes issued from such establishment and actually in circulation. It is considered that this may be left to the discretion of the Corporation.\n\n6. Sub-section (4) of section 13 will enable the Corporation, subject in all respects to the approval of the Governor, to keep, in places outside the Colony where notes may be issued by the Corporation, part of the excess note issue security, which must of course be in coin or bullion. The bringing of this section into practical operation is of course dependent upon the arrangement of a satisfactory scheme for the custody of the coin or bullion.\n\n## Objects and Reasons.\n\n1. The objects of this bill are:-\n\n(a) To give the Corporation power to increase its capital, with the consent of the Governor, up to $60,000,000. The present limit is $20,000,000.\n\n(b) To increase the limit of the ordinary note issue from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000,\n\n(c) To revise the requirements of the law as to the security to be held against the ordinary note issue,\n\n(d) To enable the Corporation to keep at certain places outside the Colony part of the security held against the excess note issue.\n\n2. Under the existing law the excess note issue must be fully covered by coin or bullion, under the control of custodians independent of the Corporation, and this will be so under the new Ordinance also. In future, however, the excess note issue will mean any issue in excess of $20,000,000 instead of $15,000,000 as at present.\n\n3. The present requirements of the law as to the security to be held against the ordinary note issue are that coins or securities approved by the Secretary of State must be kept with the Crown Agents, or with trustees appointed by the Secretary of State, equal in value to two-thirds of the first $10,000,000 of the issue, and that the remaining one-third of the issue must be fully covered by such coin or securities, so deposited. The new Ordinance will provide simply that two-thirds of the ordinary issue, which issue will in future amount to $20,000,000, must be so covered.\n\nPage 274", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489926, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 417, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n**OPIUM.**\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n`F 3442/330/10`\n\n## No. 1.\n\n416\n\n[September 14.]\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n**Sir B. Alston to the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.-(Received September 16.)**\n\nPeking, July 29, 1921.\n\n**(No. 429.) My Lord,**\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith copies of a report upon opium cultivation and traffic in Northern Manchuria, which the Inspector-General of Customs has been good enough to communicate to me. Mr. Myers's report, which appears to be based upon reliable and accurate information, indicates a state of affairs in Manchuria which is comparable to that in the worst of the opium-growing provinces.\n\nMr. Myers himself has, it will be observed, been brought to the conclusion—which is held by an increasingly large number of responsible observers in this country, and is shared, as I have reason to know, by Sir Francis Aglen himself—that the substitution of legalisation and Government control for the present ineffective prohibition offers the only immediate remedy for the condition into which China has lapsed in regard to the opium question.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**B. ALSTON.**\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**The Cultivation of Opium in North Manchuria.**\n\nI BEG to submit the following report on opium cultivation in North Manchuria. The particulars which I am able to supply are very reliable, having been obtained through the medium of a keen Russian botanist who has made scientific visits to the various places, and whose information has been obtained at first hand. The report is drawn up with a special view to show the deleterious effect the cultivation and traffic have on the Customs Administration, and at the conclusion certain suggestions are made which may be worthy of some consideration.\n\n#### General Remarks\n\nThe cultivation of the poppy plant in North Manchuria dates back to the eighteenth century, long before the Chinese immigration from the south and the advent of the Russians, Japanese, and Koreans from the west and east. Twenty years ago, 10 per cent. of the total arable land—and the richest soil at that—was under poppy. The cultivation was free and was very profitable, bringing in to the farmer a revenue two or three times greater than that which he would realise if he had the same area under wheat or any other cereal. After the edict of 1908, the cultivation of the poppy ceased in many of the North Manchuria districts, and prices went up to between twenty and thirty times their original figures; the fields which still existed were scattered about in the hilly districts. The next natural step was that the cultivation of the poppy was transferred from Chinese to Russian territory by local Chinese and Koreans, the fields being cultivated right up to the frontier. Smuggling into Manchuria was a comparatively easy matter, but the favourite means of conveyance was by the railway. These conditions prevailed up to 1915, after which the cultivation of the poppy in North Manchuria again came into prominence. From 1918 up to the present, the cultivation of poppy has been carried on to an unprecedented extent.\n\n#### Centres of Poppy Cultivation\n\nThe principal poppy districts in North Manchuria are along the eastern section of the railway from Suifenho to Maoerbahan station. Round about Harbin, the soil is unfavourable for the growth of poppy. Round about Ashibo, cultivation is only carried on in the hill districts, and the same conditions occur at Macerhshan, where the poppy-fields are at a considerable distance from the station of that name. From Macerhshan to Imienpo and from Imienpo to the valley of the Mutanchiang, the poppy is cultivated on a considerable scale on the hill-sides. Poppy cultivation extends all down the Mutanchiang on the slopes of the flanking hills. The largest and richest poppy-fields are to be found round the Mutanchiong, Kho, Hsisosuifen, and Silinho, which extends to Suifenho and over the frontier to the Ussuri.\n\n`[6896 q-1]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489931, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 422, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n## Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n### Consul Toure to Sir B. Alston.\n\n**(No. 41.) Sir,**\n\nAmoy, July 16, 1921. I note from the Peking Government Gazette of the 7th July that the President of China has appointed one Wang Ta-chen as inspector of opium poppy cultivation for the province of Fukien.\n\nI do not know how much is known of this Wang family in Peking; but I have the honour to mention that the family is a Fukien family, hailing from Ch'uanchow, on the coast between Amoy and Foochow. Two brothers, Wang Ta-chen and Wang Ta-heng, went to Peking some few years ago to open a banking business. I am informed that Wang Ta-chen obtained a post in the Board of Revenue, and that Wang Ta-heng is the president of the Fukien Guild in Peking.\n\nAbout three months ago Wang Ta-heng arrived in Fukien, having been appointed from Peking to make an inspection of opium poppy cultivation in the province. I have seen no record of any report by Wang Ta-heng; my despatch `No. 20` of the 21st March, 1921, gave you the local position of opium cultivation. If the common talk regarding Wang Ta-heng's procedure is not wholly untrue, it would be interesting to see whatever report was rendered by Wang Ta-heng to his superiors at Peking. It is said that he made much personal profit out of his official tour; his system being to mulct the cultivators in \"hush money,\" and then to bribe the local civil and military authorities; the handsome balance then falls into the pocket of the inspector, and everybody is pleased.\n\nAn inspection of Wang Ta-heng's report, if any exists, would throw light on the truth or falsity of the current reports concerning him; but in any case the present selection of his brother as his successor in the inspection would seem particularly unsuitable.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## OPIUM.\n\n### CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n`F 3442/330/10`\n\n## No. 1.\n\n[September 18.]\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n#### Sir B. Alston to the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.—(Received September 16.)\n\n**(No. 429.) My Lord,**\n\nPeking, July 29, 1921. I have the honour to transmit herewith copies of a report upon opium cultivation and traffic in Northern Manchuria, which the Inspector-General of Customs has been good enough to communicate to me. Mr. Myers's report, which appears to be based upon reliable and accurate information, indicates a state of affairs in Manchuria which is comparable to that in the worst of the opium-growing provinces.\n\nMr. Myers himself has, it will be observed, been brought to the conclusion—which is held by an increasingly large number of responsible observers in this country, and is shared, as I have reason to know, by Sir Francis Aglen himself—that the substitution of legalisation and Government control for the present ineffective prohibition offers the only immediate remedy for the condition into which China has lapsed in regard to the opium question.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\n### (Translation.)\n\n#### Chinese Students Anti-Opium Association to Sir B. Alston.\n\nJuly 22, 1921. China's slackness in prohibiting opium has reached the extreme point, and we are all moved to shame on this account.\n\nWe have read the note sent by you to the Wai-chiao Pu the other day on the subject of trade in and cultivation of opium, giving full details; the facts are clear and cannot be denied. Our Government's one idea is to make a pretence at dealing with the matter. Owing to Wellington Koo's telegram and consequent fear that the League of Nations Committee would delegate persons to investigate with the result that present conditions would be known to the world, the Government decided itself to appoint commissioners to investigate. But there are fifteen provinces and territories in which there is opium, and they have only appointed commissioners for five of these. Their object is that if it be said \"delegates should be appointed,\" they can say \"we have appointed delegates;\" if it be said \"investigation should be carried out,\" they can say \"investigation is being carried out.\"\n\nThe five commissioners who have been appointed should have gone to their respective provinces before the opium harvest. But delay succeeds on delay, until it looks as though the investigation would only be carried out after the harvest had been completed. The citizens of China are utterly ashamed of the attitude so disclosed, and we hope that you will press home your warnings, so that perhaps the Government may yet repent.\n\nAs regards provinces other than the five for which commissioners have been appointed there is much traffic in and cultivation of opium, and they should also be closely inspected. We hope that you will not be persuaded to allow the matter to be dropped or slurred over.\n\n### Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n#### The Cultivation of Opium in North Manchuria.\n\nI beg to submit the following report on opium cultivation in North Manchuria. The particulars which I am able to supply are very reliable, having been obtained through the medium of a keen Russian botanist who has made scientific visits to the various places, and whose information has been obtained at first hand. The report is drawn up with a special view to show the deleterious effect the cultivation and traffic have on the Customs Administration, and at the conclusion certain suggestions are made which may be worthy of some consideration.\n\n### General Remarks.\n\nThe cultivation of the poppy plant in North Manchuria dates back to the eighteenth century, long before the Chinese immigration from the south and the advent of the Russians, Japanese, and Koreans from the west and east. Twenty years ago 10 per cent. of the total arable land—and the richest soil at that—was under poppy. The cultivation was free and was very profitable, bringing in to the farmer a revenue two or three times greater than that which he would realise if he had the same area under wheat or any other cereal. After the edict of 1908 the cultivation of the poppy ceased in many of the North Manchuria districts, and prices went up to between twenty and thirty times their original figures; the fields which still existed were scattered about in the hilly districts. The next natural step was that the cultivation of the poppy was transferred from Chinese to Russian territory by local Chinese and Koreans, the fields being cultivated right up to the frontier. Smuggling into Manchuria was a comparatively easy matter, but the favourite means of conveyance was by the railway. These conditions prevailed up to 1915, after which the cultivation of the poppy in North Manchuria again came into prominence. From 1918 up to the present the cultivation of poppy has been carried on to an unprecedented extent.\n\n### Centres of Poppy Cultivation.\n\nThe principal poppy districts in North Manchuria are along the eastern section of the railway from Suifenho to Maoerhshan station. Round about Harbin the soil is unfavourable for the growth of poppy. Round about Ashiho cultivation is only carried on in the hill districts, and the same conditions occur at Maoerhshan, where the poppy-fields are at a considerable distance from the station. From Maoerhshan to Imienpo and from Imienpo to the valley of the Mutanchiang the poppy is cultivated on a considerable scale on the hill-sides. Poppy cultivation extends all down the Mutanchiang on the slopes of the flanking hills. The largest and richest poppy-fields are to be found round the Mutanchiang, Hulin, Haiso, Suifen, and Silin-ho, which extends to Suifenho and over the frontier to the Ussuri.\n\nPage 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492282, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 212, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "September 3rd, 1921.\n\nST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.\n\nIMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION.\n\nThe new class-room of St. Joseph's College form a striking addition to the architectural features of the Peak's lower slopes.\n\nWith the practical completion of these class-rooms the directorate of St. Joseph's College see the fruition of a scheme which has caused them anxious deliberation for a long time past. The old problem of \"cutting the coat according to the cloth\" has been an acute one, in this instance. Education, unfortunately, is not a form of enterprise for which unlimited supplies of money are available. The price of materials has risen so greatly of late that first one part of the scheme and then another has had to be sacrificed and, even then, the original estimate of $80,000 has been exceeded by about $30,000, and St. Joseph's are obliged to ask the Government to supplement its original generous grant. The Government promised $40,000, half the amount of the estimate and, as the total cost is larger than $80,000 through causes over which the directors have no control, and which they have done their best to counter-balance, by making cuts in the original scheme, it is hoped that the Government will see its way to increase its contribution so as to pay half of the final, instead of half of the estimated sum.\n\nIt had been hoped to provide laboratories for science teaching, but this very necessary acquisition to the College must await the generosity of Old Boys of St. Joseph's or other friends of education. A recreation hall and gymnasium is, also, urgently needed to accommodate the boys in hot or rainy weather. If funds had permitted, this would have been constructed, so as to join the old school buildings to the new, the whole forming three sides of a square.\n\nBut enough, for the nonce, of what might have been.\" It must not be supposed, from the foregoing hints of the aspirations of St. Joseph's, that what has been accomplished is a truncated and inadequate achievement. Far from it.\n\nOn the top storey, the ceiling is of moulded teakwood, which gives a very handsome effect. It would have been very pleasant to St. Joseph's, we imagine, to make an inaugural bonfire, this afternoon, of all their antiquated school furniture, and, after the fashion of the newly-married, have nothing but new furniture in the new home. Funds would not run to it; but one or two rooms are resplendent with new furniture—perhaps in the hope that some of to-day's visitors may be touched by the contrast and rise to the occasion.\n\nIt should be said that eighteen of the rooms will be used as class-rooms, one as a reception room and one as a scouts' hall. There are, in addition, in the towers at either end of the main building, masters' rooms, luncheon rooms for pupils and cloak rooms and lavatories, provided with the water carriage system.\n\nAN EARLY EDUCATIONALIST.\n\nThe exterior of the building is imposing. In a niche, on the level of the top floor, is a statue of St. John Baptist de la Salle, teaching a youth from an open book.\n\nThe sculpture is a copy, made in France, of the well-known statue by Falquière. De la Salle, who lived at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, was the founder of popular education in France. He founded the Society of the Christian Brothers—devoted entirely to the furtherance of education—which has now extended over a great part of the world.\n\nThe original design of the building provided for facings with rubbed-red brick work, so that its appearance would have been in keeping with the French Fathers' Mission House near by. The cost proved prohibitive, however, and the exterior had to be plastered, instead. Such sacrifices as this, of course, grieve nobody more than the architects in this case, Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood—who, whenever they see the finished work, will probably be tempted to sadly contrast the real with the ideal.\n\nBANK OF EAST ASIA.\n\nNEW PREMISES COMPLETED.\n\nThe Bank of East Asia moves to its new offices, No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central, on Sept. 5th.\n\nThe term \"new offices\" seems permissible, in the circumstances, for, although the shell of the old building remains, the place has undergone such a complete transformation, under the direction of Messrs. Little, Adams & Wood, architects, that recent arrivals in the Colony might very reasonably suppose the building to be an entirely new one.\n\nWhat happened was that, after the Bank acquired No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central, the whole of the interior was gutted, and the place was given a new inside.\" Walls, roof and facade are the same; the facade, revealed to public view in the last few days, looks new, it is true, but this is because the granite has been \"punched.\" The roof, has been extensively re-laid; walls have been strengthened and new stanchions have been put in, so that the building, if not new, in the full sense of the word, is as good as new.\n\nThe building has, now, teak-covered concrete floors. The ground floor is arranged as banking premises for the Bank of East Asia, with treasury, book safe, and safe deposit vault of reinforced concrete construction and provided with Chubb's treasury doors. The brass counter fittings and much of the other metal work is locally made.\n\nThe two offices floors above are fitted as offices. All woodwork is of teak and is fitted with swinging, wall blackboards of American construction. All woodwork is of stained teak; the floors are of concrete, covered with teak, but, on the top floor, mosaic tiling in the public space is supplied by Messrs. Malkin, of London. Modern sanitary arrangements are installed throughout the building.\n\nTHE BANK OF CHINA.\n\nHONGKONG SKY-SCRAPER COMPLETED.\n\nAn enterprise which forms a landmark in the history of Hongkong—the Colony's first \"sky-scraper\"—entered on its final stage, this week and the Bank of China, in Queen's Road Central, is ready for occupation.\n\nMessrs. Little, Adams and Wood are the architects who have supervised this great project, which has cost $200,000, and has occupied the period since March 1920,—about 18 months. Mr. Foo Sik, the builder, is also the owner of the site.\n\nThe building is a six-storeyed one, reinforced concrete framed. It is 90 feet high, and when the next-door building is completed, in the same style, the whole block will measure a hundred feet square. To all intents and purposes, the two buildings will form a monster cube, within a few feet of being 100 feet wide, by 100 feet deep, by 100 feet high. The adjoining premises are being rebuilt, to the same height, for the Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank.\n\nThe ground floor of the new building is arranged as banking premises for the Bank of China, and the upper floors are available to be let as offices. The bank treasury, in the basement, is built entirely of reinforced concrete, with walls 2ft. 6ins. thick, lined with asphalte to keep the place dry, and further lined with pointed brickwork.\n\nThe building is faced in stone, up to the first floor level, and above that in rubbed green brickwork. The general effect is admirable and imposing. The green rubbed facing bricks form a new feature in building decoration, so far as any large building in Hongkong is concerned. All the floors and roof are of concrete, and the whole of the woodwork is of teak.\n\nThere are two handsome entrances to the building; one, in Queen's Road, to the Bank of China, and the other, in Duddell Street, for the use of tenants of the upper floors. Two Penrose passenger lifts serve the tenants. The building has a flat roof, so we may yet see the example of New York followed in Hongkong and have roof supper-dances beneath the stars.\n\nACCOMMODATION FOR 600 PUPILS.\n\nThe new class-rooms, erected at the northern end of the school playground, parallel with the existing buildings, provide upwards of 20 rooms and will comfortably accommodate 600 pupils, or 750 with only a little squeezing. The building is a four-storey one, of reinforced concrete, with five class-rooms on each floor, and verandahs giving, at one and the same time, access to the class-rooms and protection from sun and rain. The verandahs and corridors are paved with red quarry tiles, supplied by Messrs. Malkin, of London. The staircases are of concrete, each tread being ribbed to prevent slipping when exuberant youths are released from class and race downstairs, treading close on one another's heels.\n\nThe class-rooms are of an ideal size from an educational point of view, neither too large nor too small. Each room is fitted with ...\n\nSHENSI BRIGAND SHOT.\n\nReuter's Peking correspondent writes: A report from General Yen Hsing-wen, Tuchun of Shensi, says that Colonel Kuo Chien, the leader of the bandits who recently imprisoned Mr. Stevens, the English Missionary, has been executed. Kuo was the last of four bandit leaders who have terrorized various regions in Shensi for several years. Sometimes a partisan of General Chen Shu-fan, and at other times an open enemy of the Provincial Government and the people alike, Kuo is believed to have maintained close relations with Kuangtung for many years.\n\nWhen General Feng Yu-hsiang entered Shensi in June, Kuo came forward with an offer of assistance and subsequently requested permission to enter Sianfu. General Feng did not accept his offer of help, but allowed him to go to Sian.\n\nMeanwhile, however, Generals Yen and Feng had made close inquiries into the records of Kuo and other suspected characters.\n\nConvincing evidence of many crimes carried out by Kuo was secured, and he was summarily shot by order of the Tuchun.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493089, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 442, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "423\n\nARTICLES OF AGREEMENT made and entered into this eighteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and Seventy five BETWEEN ROBERT HENRY BOYCE of Shanghai in the Empire of China Assistant Surveyor of works acting for and on behalf of Her Majesty's First Commissioner of works and Buildings London (hereinafter called the Landlord) of the one part and SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., for himself and his successors as Governor of Hongkong and its Dependencies for and on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Victoria of the other part (hereinafter called the tenant) THE said Landlord hereby agrees to let and the said tenant hereby agrees to take and rent for the term of nine hundred and ninety nine years to commence from the first day of April One thousand eight hundred and seventy four ALL THAT piece or parcel of ground situate on the British Concession at Shanghai aforesaid being a portion of the ground known as the \"Old Jail Lot\" and numbered Lot Five hundred and eighty one Registered Five hundred and seventy four in the British Consular Register for the Port of Shanghai delineated and colored in the Plan drawn in the margin hereof, measuring on the North and South sides One hundred and ten feet and on the East and West sides Sixty four feet and a half (be the same several admeasurements little more or less) and bounded on the North by the Peking Road on the South by the remaining portion of the \"Old Jail Lot\", on the East by the Upper Yuen Ming Yuen Road and on the West by private property Together with all easements and appurtenances to the said premises belonging or in anywise appertaining YIELDING AND PAYING\n\nUPPER YUEN MING YUEN ROAD\n\n110 feet\n\nSITE FOR BRITISH\n\nPOST OFFICE\n\nOld Jail Lot\n\n64½ feet\n\nRemaining portion of\n\nLot letting under Her Majesty's Government\n\nPrivate property\n\nASIATIC\n\nSociety's House", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504386, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "247\n\nCopy of Telegram from Canton, December 16th, 1926 at 1.40 p.m.\n\nThe\n\nIn accordance with the plan drafted by the Kwangtung Provincial Government for suppression of banditry, Canton authorities have decided to send troops to attack the zone around Bias Bay, where sea pirates have a stronghold. The general commanding Eighteenth Division has been ordered to send troops to attack, and Canton Navy Forces have been ordered to send a gunboat to co-operate. For the zone close to Hong Kong, New Territories, and adjacent waters, Canton authorities, after notifying the Hong Kong Government of the commencement of the campaign, have made it clear to Hong Kong that co-operation is desired to the extent of arresting bandits crossing the boundary and handing them to Chinese authorities on land as well as on sea. For Chinese territory, Canton authorities reserve the right to suppress banditry. This reservation was made explicit on account of the reported intention of the Hong Kong Government to send Navy craft and airplanes to destroy the bandit stronghold at Bias Bay. Canton authorities announce willingness to receive from the Hong Kong Government any information of a nature facilitating the suppression of banditry and express appreciation of any co-operation extended by the Hong Kong Government acting in conformity with the policy outlined.\n\nBY CANTON: WAI YUK.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504388, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 258, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "Copy of Telegram from Canton, December 16th 1926 at 1.40 p.m.\n\n243\n\nIn accordance with the plan drafted by the Kwangtung Provincial Government for suppression of banditry Canton authorities have decided to send troops to attack the zone around Bias Bay where sea pirates have stronghold.\n\nThe general commanding Eighteenth Division has been ordered to send troops to attack and Canton Navy Forces have been ordered to send Gunboat to cooperate. For zone close to Hong Kong New Territories and adjacent waters Canton authorities after notifying Hong Kong Government of commencement of campaign have made it clear to Hong Kong that cooperation is desired to the extent of arresting bandits crossing boundary and handing them to Chinese authorities on land as well as on sea.\n\nFor Chinese territory Canton authorities reserve right to suppress banditry. This reservation made explicit on account of reported intention of the Hong Kong Government to send Navy craft and airplanes to destroy bandit stronghold at Bias Bay. Canton authorities announce willingness to receive from the Hong Kong Government any information of nature facilitating suppression of banditry and express appreciation of any cooperation extended by Hongkong Government acting in conformity with the policy outlined.\n\nBY CANTON: WAI YUK\n\nIQ", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506379, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927", "content_text": "## Class II\n\n(a) English Composition. Idioms. Letter-writing. \n(b) Grammar. Analysis. Parsing. Paraphrasing. \n(c) Dictation. \n(d) Literature: \"A Christmas Carol\" Dickens.\n\nHistory \nJunior Local Syllabus. \nOutlines of European History in the nineteenth Century.\n\nGeography: \n(a) Physical Geography: Text-Book. Chap. I and parts omitted in previous reading. \n(b) Commercial Geography of the World.\n\nAlgebra: \nSimultaneous quadratics. Problems relating to quadratics. \nTheory of Quadratics. \nIndices. Surds. Elementary Logarithms. \nGraphical solution of equations.\n\nGeometry: \nHall and Stevens' Geometry. Books II and III.\n\nArithmetic: \nSimple and Compound Interest. Use of Logarithms in decimal calculations. \nGeneral work for Junior Local.\n\nDomestic Science: \nFood. Ventilation. Water. Cleanliness. Personal Hygiene.\n\nDrawing: \ni. Model. More advanced straight and curved lined objects. Textures. \nii. Design. \niii. Illustration.\n\n## CHINESE\n\nLiterature: \nMencius, Books I to IV.\n\nComposition: \nEssay writing. \nQuestions and answers on set books.\n\nHistory \nKung Wo New History Book V.\n\nGeography: \nKung Wo New Geography.\n\n## ENGLISH\n\n### CLASS III\n\n(a) English Composition--reproduction and letter writing. \n(b) Grammar: Construction of Sentences. Idioms Paraphrasing. \n(c) Recitation: Selected Poems. \n(d) Dictation. \n(e) Literature: Robinson Crusoe. Alcott Little Women.\n\nHistory \nGeneral European History from Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century.\n\nGeography \n(a) Physical Geography: Text-book Chaps. II, III, IV, VII. Map-reading. \n(b) General Geography with special reference to Commercial products.\n\nAlgebra: \nEasy formulae. Factorization H.C.F. and L.C.M. \nEasy Quadratics. Square root. \nGraph of x^2.\n\nGeometry: \nHall and Stevens' Geometry. Book I. Props. 1–12. Problems 10–15. \nBook II. Props. 23–30. with appendix.\n\n[ 6 ]\n[ 7 ]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507371, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "content_text": "## \n101\n\nMany as are the suggestions we have for improvement, there is one thing essential to the complete solution of all problems concerning the livelihood of the people and the removal of all the hardships of the peasants, workmen, and other classes, and that is the early success of our Northern Expedition and the National Revolution. Therefore I should shout as my sixteenth slogan, \"Let us all work hard to accomplish the National Revolution.\"\n\nToday is the most joyous festival for our Chinese workmen as well as for all workmen in the world. All of us should temper our joy with the reflection that difficulties and hardships still surround us. We must stand together and work energetically and spontaneously with the courage of our convictions. Again, while our own Chinese workmen must endure all the miseries of oppression to get their living, we must remember that all the working classes throughout the world are also subject to the same miseries, and we should do our utmost to help them. But we cannot help them till we have become strong enough ourselves, for if a man cannot run himself, he certainly will not be able to help others to gallop. Therefore the accomplishment of the National Revolution will not only enable us to help ourselves but also others, and will not only help China but also the whole world. So let our seventeenth slogan be, \"Without the success of our National Revolution there can be no World Revolution.\"\n\nI greet you all with the hope that our workmen will win soon their radical emancipation, and let us end by shouting our eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth slogans with one voice:-\n\n**The Kuomintang is the only Party that will promote the real benefit of the workmen.**\n\n**The Kuomintang is the only party that will create property for the workmen and leave them to enjoy it.**\n\n**The Kuomintang is the only party that is fighting for the emancipation of the workmen.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509003, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-4 Acquisition of Kai Tak for an aerodrome- provision of funds 11-1-1927 - 12-5-1927", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-502-4 Acquisition of Kai Tak for an aerodrome- provision of funds 11-1-1927 - 12-5-1927", "content_text": "## OUTY. \n## UAGENT. \n`208/208/23.`\n\n\n**POREIGN OFFICE** » \n`3.7.1.` \n137 \n\n22nd January, 1927.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to refer to the question of the proposed aerodrome site at Hongkong, which came up for consideration at the two hundred and eighteenth meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defence, held on November 25th. It was then decided to postpone raising the matter with the Japanese and United States Governments pending enquiries to be made from the Government of Hongkong regarding the acquisition of the necessary land. Since then, however, the question has been discussed again by the Committee of Imperial Defence, at a meeting held on January 18th, and the purchase of the site and the establishment of the aerodrome are now regarded as urgent in view of recent developments in China.\n\n2. Sir Austen Chamberlain concurs in this view, and is prepared to agree to the recommendations of the Committee being carried out without prior consultation with the United States and Japanese Governments.\n\n3. He will, however, take steps forthwith to inform these governments that His Majesty's Government are compelled to adopt these measures owing to the menacing situation in China; and that while in their opinion these measures cannot be regarded as an infringement of Article 19 of the Washington Treaty, they desire that the other parties to that article should be informed of the action which they are taking.\n\n4.\n\nThe Secretary \nof the Air Ministry.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-4 Acquisition of Kai Tak for an aerodrome- provision of funds 11-1-1927 - 12-5-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512775, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928", "content_text": "124\n\n10\n\nOn 7th March, the British Government issued a White Paper, containing the text of the Treaty, and an account of the progress of the negotiations. They also addressed to the Egyptian Government a note pointing out that owing to the rejection of the Treaty the British Government could not allow any of their responsibilities under the Declaration of 1922* to be endangered either by Egyptian legislation or by administrative action.\n\nThe Note was intended to make clear the objection of the British Government to the Omdas Law,\" which, if passed, would make the election of the headmen (omda) of villages a party matter, and to a proposed administrative ordinance which would permit the carrying of arms by certain persons.\n\n*\n\nOn 8th March, Sarwat Pasha was still in office, temporarily, pending the choice of a successor.\n\nGERMANY.\n\nGeneral Groener, the new Minister of Defence, has already created a good impression in the Reichstag by his outspoken declaration that politics will on no account be allowed to intrude in the Reichswehr, and that all attempts to tamper with the loyalty of the defence forces will be sternly suppressed.\n\n\"\n\nAn opportunity to take action on these lines may soon be given to the Minister, for numerous accusations have been made by Socialist Deputies to the effect that Fascist cells are being established in the Navy by the extreme reactionaries under Captain Ehrhardt. This officer appears to be reviving the Viking\" organisation, having found the methods of the Stahlhelm too subdued.\n\nThe political crisis caused by the cleavage in the Government coalition over the education bill came to a head last month, and an immediate dissolution was only prevented by the intervention of the President. The Government subsequently agreed to carry through urgent measures such as the Budget, on which they were able to agree, and the elections will therefore not take place before May.\n\nThe event of the month in Berlin was the state visit of the King and Queen of Afghanistan, no trouble or expense being spared to make a success of this the first visit of a reigning monarch to Germany since the war. The Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Hergt, was unable to resist the opportunity to stress German friendship for another nation involved in a continuous struggle for her security and the independence of the country,\" but he was severely taken to task for this indiscretion by the Socialist Press. A great point was made of showing King Amanulla what progress had been made in aviation, and he was presented by the Government with a triple engined Junker passenger aero-plane, no doubt in the hope that contracts for Germany would result.\n\n* Declaration of Egypt's independence subject to certain reservations.\n\n11\n\nGREECE.\n\nOn 20th February, M. Ziamis's new Cabinet obtained a vote of confidence from the Chamber, and the Government will now proceed with its programme. On 17th February, General Pangalos, who had been brought to Athens the previous day, appeared before the plenary session of the Examining Commission. General Pangalos stated, in reply to the charges of having over-thrown the country's regime by force of arms, that no lawful regime existed in Greece between 1916 and the date of his move, except for brief interludes in 1920 and 1922, nor was the parliamentary regime working normally and in accordance with the people's wishes. His regime was not different from that of his predecessor, and the fact that it was dubbed a dictatorship was insignificant, since nomenclature was a question of taste. He declared that the motives which animated him in the action he took were not personal, but sprang from the then parlous situation of the country, both from the international point of view and from the point of view of unpreparedness for war. He said his move was not secretly carried out; on the contrary, he had warned the Government and had recommended the formation of a Coalition. He expressed gratification at his trial by representatives of the people, and said that the Court should examine his motives, not his mistakes, since his intentions were indubitably bona fide. The trial continues.\n\nPERSIA.\n\nIn a Note issued on 1st March, and addressed to the Persian Minister in London, the British Government replied to the Persian protest, made in November 1927, against Article 6 of the Anglo-Hedjaz Treaty (signed 20th May, 1927), which refers, inter alia, to the islands of Bahrein in the north-western part of the Persian gulf.\n\n[C\n\nBy Article 6, the King of the Hedjaz and Nejd undertakes to maintain friendly and peaceful relations with the territories of Koweit and Bahrein, and with the Sheikhs of Qabar and the Oman Coast, who are in special treaty relations with his Britannic Majesty's Government.\"\n\nThe Persian protest asserts that the islands of Bahrein are a part of Persian territory. The claim rests on the slender ground that for a short time in the eighteenth century the islands were overrun by Persian troops. The latter were, however, driven out by the Arab inhabitants under the direct ancestor of the present Sheikh over a hundred years ago, and since that time treaty relations have existed between the successive Sheikhs of Bahrein and the British Government.\n\nThe British Note, after alluding to the claims which have been made from time to time by the Persian and also the Turkish Governments, states that the British Government have never recognized the validity of these claims. The Note concludes by\n\n175\n\nPage 120\nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513368, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "content_text": "63\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 38.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 39.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 40.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 42.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 44.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 50.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 51.\n\n4\n\n8. Section 38 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"two hundred and fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n9. Section 39 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"ten dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n10. Section 40 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n11. Section 42 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the seventh line thereof.\n\n12. Section 44 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the repeal of the words in the last three lines thereof and the substitution therefor of the words \"railway premises and further shall forfeit his fare and shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars\".\n\n13. Section 50 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"ten dollars\" in the fourth line thereof and by the substitution of the words \"two hundred and fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n14. Section 51 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 54.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 56.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 58.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 59.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 60.\n\nRepeal of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 67.\n\nAmendment of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 68.\n\n19\n\n15. Section 54 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the eighteenth line thereof.\n\n16. Section 56 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"two hundred and fifty dollars\" for the words \"one hundred dollars\" in the eleventh line thereof.\n\n17. Section 58 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the ninth line and by the substitution of the words \"two hundred and fifty dollars\" for the words \"one hundred dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n18. Section 59 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"two hundred and fifty dollars\" for the words \"fifty dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n19. Section 60 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"ten dollars\" in the last line thereof.\n\n20. Section 67 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is repealed.\n\n21. Section 68 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the words \"fifty dollars\" for the words \"twenty dollars\" in the sixth line thereof.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 22nd day of December, 1927.\n\nD. W. TRATMAN,\n\nClerk of Councils.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524043, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-523-4 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 13-11-1929 - 10-1-1931", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-523-4 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 13-11-1929 - 10-1-1931", "content_text": "Encl: No: (1) to S.S. Secret Despatch of 12th Sept. 1930.\n\n57\n\nACT of February 10th 1910 (Ind. Off. Gaz. 296 (Neth. Off. Gaz. 55) containing rules for Netherland subjectship of the population of Netherland India.\n\nWe Wilhelmina, etc., etc.\n\nWHEREAS WE deem it desirable to define the characteristics of the Netherland subjectship of the population of Netherland India, etc., etc.\n\nArticle 1. When not Netherlanders in accordance with the Act on Netherland nationals and residents, yet are Netherland subjects:-\n\n1o. those born in Netherland India from parents established there or, in the case of an unknown father, from a mother established there;\n\n2o. those born in Netherland India from unknown parents;\n\n3o. the wife or the widow, not remarried, of a subject as defined under 1o or 2o;\n\n4o. the unmarried children born without Netherland India from a subject as defined in this article, provided they are under eighteen years of age;\n\n5o. the children born without Netherland India from parents, who are subjects in accordance with this article, if following upon their marriage or after the attainment of their eighteenth year they are established within the Kingdom or establish themselves therein, as well as their wives and their unmarried children, which are under eighteen years of age, if they also establish themselves within the Kingdom.\n\nArticle 2. Netherland subjectship as defined in Article 1 is lost:\n\n1o. through naturalization in a foreign country. This loss comprises the wife of the naturalized person and his children under eighteen years of age;\n\n2o.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-523-4 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 13-11-1929 - 10-1-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527260, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "# Straits Settlements \n## 235 \n### Enclosure No: (1) to \n## Federated Malay States \n### Despatch No: 382 of 15th July, 1931. \n**REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE EXERCISE OF JURISDICTION OVER FOREIGN NATIONALS IN CHINA**\n\nFollowing is an authorized translation of the Regulations governing the Exercise of Jurisdiction over Foreign Nationals in China promulgated by the National Government on May 4 after being passed by the Legislative Yuan. The Regulations will come into force on January 1, 1932.\n\n### ARTICLE I\nThe term \"foreign nationals\" used in these Regulations exclusively refers to those foreign nationals who enjoyed extraterritorial privileges in China on the thirty-first day of the twelfth month of the eighteenth year of the Republic. (Dec. 31, 1929).\n\n### ARTICLE II\nForeign nationals shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Chinese Courts of Justice of all instances.\n\n### ARTICLE III\nIn the District Court in the Special Area of the Three Eastern Provinces and in the District Courts at Sheyang, Tientsin, Tsingtao, Shanghai, Hankow, Chunking, Foochow, Canton and Kwunmin, as well as in the Provincial High Courts to which such District Courts respectively belong, Special Chambers shall be established for the trial of civil and criminal cases in which foreign nationals are defendants or accused.\n\n### ARTICLE IV\nThe Chief Judge of the Special Chamber shall be the President of the Court to which it belongs.\n\n### ARTICLE V\nWhere a civil or criminal case involving a foreign national as defendant or accused arises within the jurisdiction of a Court other than those mentioned in Article III, the defendant or accused may request in writing that the case be heard by Court.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527576, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "content_text": "## C. 70107/30/7 [No. 12]\n\n**(Confidential)**\n\n## REVISE\n\n## MINUTES OF THE NINETEENTH MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES\n\nHELD IN THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THURSDAY, THE 23RD OCTOBER, 1930, AT 11 A.M.\n\n### Present\n\n* **SIR CECIL BOTTOMLEY** (in the Chair)\n* MISS BURSTALL\n* SIR JAMES CURRIE\n* SIR WILLIAM GOWERS\n* SIR ROBERT HAMILTON\n* LORD LUGARD\n* SIR GEORGE MAXWELL\n* SIR PERCY NUNN\n* MR. OLDHAM\n* SIR MICHAEL SADLER\n* MISS WHITELAW\n* LADY CURRIE\n* H. H. ANNETTS (Deputy Director of Education, Nigeria)\n* MR. HARMAN (Assistant Director of Education, Gold Coast)\n* PROFESSOR ROTHENSTEIN\n* MR. AINSWORTH\n* MR. STEVENS\n* MR. TOMLINSON\n* Mr. ELLIS\n* MR. PARKINSON\n* MR. BEVIR, Colonial Office\n* CAPTAIN NEWBOLT\n* MR. MAYHEW, Joint Secretary\n* MR. POYNTON, Official Secretary\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN explained that Dr. Drummond Shiels had not yet returned from Cyprus and Palestine and that Sir John Shuckburgh was still absent from the Colonial Office. He welcomed the visitors present at the meeting.\n\n### 2. The Minutes of the Eighteenth Meeting were confirmed subject to slight amendments.\n\n### 3. Secretaries' Notices\n\nMR. MAYHEW reported that:\n\n(a) Mr. W. A. Stewart had been appointed as Supervisor of Technical Education in the Palestine Department of Education. An important part of his functions would be to give advice regarding the development of indigenous arts and crafts. Prior to his appointment, he had conducted a preliminary survey, accompanied by the Director of Education. Mr. Stewart had been educated in the School of Art, Bradford, and the Royal College of Art. He had had experience as head designer to a firm of silk manufacturers, as Director of the School of Egyptian Arts and Crafts, Cairo, and as technical artist to an American archæological expedition in Egypt. He had been recommended by Professor Rothenstein.\n\n(b) Mr. J. R. Cullen had been appointed Director of Education in Cyprus, in place of Canon Newham who had retired. Mr. Cullen was a scholar of Balliol, Hertford scholar and Craven scholar, and took a first-class in Classical Moderations and a second-class in Lit. Hum. He had been employed on the staff of Winchester College, and had also been engaged in archæological work in Asia Minor, in the course of which he acquired a knowledge of Turkish and modern Greek. Prior to his appointment, he underwent an intensive course of training in administration and school inspection, under the general direction of one of His Majesty's Inspectors of Schools.\n\n(c) Referring to the announcement at the last meeting that the Palestine Government had accepted an annual grant of £1,000 for at least two years from the Institute of Rural Life, controlled by the Near East Foundation, New York, and with reference to a question then put by Mr. Snell, MR. MAYHEW stated that the approved scheme towards the expenses of which this grant was to be devoted was for the advancement of Arab rural communities by an improved system of education with an agricultural bias. This involved an intensive course of agricultural training for village schoolmasters at ...\n\n*See page `Education.-Gp. 6. 39/2372. 3. 125. 12/30. (7526) M. & S.` \n## Page 90", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530929, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-534-9 Law of Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 1-4-1931 - 20-4-1932", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-534-9 Law of Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 1-4-1931 - 20-4-1932", "content_text": "-11-\n\n69\n\nthe jurisdiction of this court to adjudicate upon offences committed at sea depends, was in its effect parallel with the statute of Henry VIII in England, and, therefore, that as the later act authorised the trial both of misdemeanours and of felonies, the act of Henry VIII might be correctly construed in the same sense. I at that time supposed that the definitions of piracy contained in textbooks relating to English criminal law represented merely the personal opinion of each writer. The opinions, with few exceptions, necessitate that the offence of piracy in respect of which an accused person became liable to conviction in the courts of the realm, must amount in its constituent acts to a felony if those acts had occurred upon land. The standard definition is contained in East's \"Pleas of the Crown\" (volume II, p.796):\n\n\"The offence of piracy by common law consists in committing those acts of robbery and depredation upon the high seas which if committed upon land, would have amounted to felony there.\" I then regarded this definition as the ipse dixit of the scholar and I was led to the conclusion that though no conviction has been recorded under the statute of Henry VIII unless for felony, yet that fact was merely accidental. The offence charged against the prisoners in these proceedings if committed on land would have amounted to an assault with intent to rob. That offence in the reign of Henry VIII was, under the common law, a misdemeanour and not a felony; and was made a felony by statute during the eighteenth century (see 17 Geo. II, c.21).\n\nIf,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-534-9 Law of Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 1-4-1931 - 20-4-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530951, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-534-9 Law of Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 1-4-1931 - 20-4-1932", "page_number": 91, "title": "CO129-534-9 Law of Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 1-4-1931 - 20-4-1932", "content_text": "91\n\nthe jurisdiction of this court to adjudicate upon offences committed at sea depends, was in its effect parallel with the statute of Henry VIII in England, and, therefore, that as the later act authorised the trial both of misdemeanours and of felonies, the act of Henry VIII might be correctly construed in the same sense. I at that time supposed that the definitions of piracy contained in textbooks relating to English criminal law represented merely the personal opinion of each writer. These opinions, with few exceptions, necessitate that the offence of piracy in respect of which an accused person became liable to conviction in the courts of the realm, must amount in its constituent acts to a felony if those acts had occurred upon land. The standard definition is contained in East's \"Pleas of the Crown\" (volume II, p. 796): \"The offence of piracy by common law consists in committing those acts of robbery and depredation upon the high seas which if committed upon land,\n\nwould have amounted to felony there.\" I then regarded this definition as the ipse dixit of the scholar and I was led to the conclusion that though\n\nno conviction has been recorded under the statute\n\nof Henry VIII unless for felony, yet that fact was merely accidental. The offence charged against the prisoners in these proceedings if committed\n\non land would have amounted to an assault with intent\n\nto rob. That offence in the reign of Henry VIII was,\n\nunder the common law, a misdemeanour and not a felony; and was made a felony by statute during the eighteenth century (see 17 Geo. II, c. 21).\n\nIf,\n\ntherefore", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-534-9 Law of Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 1-4-1931 - 20-4-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531266, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 106, "title": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "Form.\n\nCr S 25. C\n\nNoel Instone Brewer. To........\n\n104\n\ndollars and 87 cents, of collateral securities and loans amounting to 549,650 dollars, of mortgage and long term loans amounting to 266,630 dollars and of stocks, shares and other investments amounting to 484,831 dollars and 80 cents, and of uncalled capital amounting to 1,420,950 dollars, and that the liabilities of the said public company consisted of capital issued and subscribed amounting to 2,613,260 dollars and of customers' deposits amounting to 406,400 dollars and 25 cents, he the said Noel Instone Brewer knowing the said written statement or account to be false in the several particulars aforesaid; with intent to deceive or defraud Lo Yin and Chen Zung Chan and divers others shareholders in the said public company, or with intent to induce divers persons unknown to become shareholders therein, or to entrust or advance any property to such public company, or to enter into any security for the benefit thereof.\n\nJ.H. Kemp\n\nAttorney General\n\nTAKE NOTICE that you will be tried on the Indictment whereof this is a true copy at the Ordinary Criminal Session above mentioned to be holden at Victoria, in and for the Colony of Hongkong on the eighteenth day of January, 1920\n\nRegistrar,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531270, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "(criminal form No. 25C)\n\n108\n\n1\n\nand at the end of the year, the assets of the said public company consisted of loans amounting to 349,630 dollars, of mortgage and long-term loans amounting to 266,630 dollars, of stocks, shares and other investments amounting to 484,831 dollars, and of uncalled capital amounting to 1,420,950 dollars; and that the liabilities of the said public company consisted of capital issued and subscribed amounting to 1,613,260 dollars and of customers' deposits amounting to 46,400 dollars and 25 cents.\n\nThat the said Noel Instone Brewer, knowing the said written statement or account to be false in the several particulars aforesaid, with intent to deceive or defraud De Vin and Chan Yung Chun and divers other shareholders in the said public company, or with intent to induce divers persons unknown to become shareholders therein, or to intrust or invest any property or security for the benefit of the said public company or of the said Noel Instone Brewer.\n\nD. J. F. Kemp\n\nAttorney General\n\nTAKE NOTICE that you will be tried on the Indictment whereof this is a true copy at the Ordinary Criminal Session above mentioned to be holden at Victoria, in and for the Colony of Hongkong on the eighteenth day of January, 1930.\n\nRegistrar, Supreme Court.\n\nPage 110\n\nPage 111\n\n109", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533491, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-539-11 Hong Kong Flying Club- proposed establishment of a Flying Training school at Kai Tak 8-4-1932 - 4-3-1933", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-539-11 Hong Kong Flying Club- proposed establishment of a Flying Training school at Kai Tak 8-4-1932 - 4-3-1933", "content_text": "No.497/1920c.\n\nEnclosure No. 3.\n\n80\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n26th August, 1920.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 6th August, forwarding a petition addressed to His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government from the Far East Aviation Co., Ltd., on the subject of a Flying Training School, I am directed to inform you that a copy of the petition has been forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n2. I am to inform you that as at present advised His Excellency is unable to accede to the request contained in the eighteenth paragraph of the petition.\n\nI am, Gentlemen,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\n(sd.) H.R. Butters,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nMessrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nI made the following changes:\n1. Corrected \"1932\" to \"1920\" as the year seems out of context with \"No.497/1920c.\" at the beginning.\n2. Formatted the text into paragraphs using HTML `` tags.\n3. Corrected minor spacing issues and ensured proper formatting. \n4. Left the content unchanged otherwise, adhering to the rules provided.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-11 Hong Kong Flying Club- proposed establishment of a Flying Training school at Kai Tak 8-4-1932 - 4-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544667, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-547-8 Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 22-3-1934 - 14-12-1934", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-547-8 Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 22-3-1934 - 14-12-1934", "content_text": "## No. 2\n\n8\n\nthe Offences at Sea Act, 1536, (28 Hen. VIII, c. 15). It is from this statute that the courts in England trace their jurisdiction to proceed in the trial of piracy jure gentium. By section 1 of this statute all treasons, felonies, robberies, murders and confederacies hereafter to be committed in or upon the sea etc, shall be delivered in like form and condition as if any such had been committed upon the land after the common course of the laws of this realm used for treasons, felonies, murders, robberies and confederacies of the same done and committed upon the land within this realm\". It is under this act that indictments in England for piracy have been laid and criminal proceedings have been conducted. This act is not concerned only with piracy but includes the other crimes set out in its terms. It is now definitely recognised that the act conferred a jurisdiction over foreigners in foreign ships in respect of piracy but that in respect of other crimes the jurisdiction granted is confined to British subjects and/or to British ships.\n\nAt the trial I refused an application to quash the indictment. The application was made on the ground that no robbery was disclosed. The matter was not then argued very fully. When I allowed the trial to proceed, my decision was influenced by the idea that the Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849, (12 & 13 Vict., c. 96), on which the jurisdiction of this court to adjudicate upon offences committed at sea depends, was in its effect parallel with the statute of Henry VIII in England, and, therefore, that as the later act authorised the trial both of misdemeanours and of felonies, the act of Henry VIII might be correctly construed in the same sense. I at that time supposed that the definitions of piracy contained in text-books relating to English criminal law represented merely the personal opinion of each writer. These opinions, with few exceptions, necessitate that the offence of piracy, in respect of which an accused person became liable to conviction in the courts of the realm, must amount in its constituent acts to a felony if those acts had occurred upon land. The standard definition is contained in East's Pleas of the Crown (volume II, p. 796): \"The offence of piracy by common law consists in committing those acts of robbery and depredation upon the high seas which, if committed upon land, would have amounted to felony there.\" I then regarded this definition as the ipse dixit of the scholar and I was led to the conclusion that though no conviction has been recorded under the statute of Henry VIII unless for felony, yet that fact was merely accidental.\n\n## 9\n## No. 2\n\nThe offence charged against the prisoners in these proceedings if committed on land would have amounted to an assault with intent to rob. That offence in the reign of Henry VIII was, under the common law, a misdemeanour and not a felony, and was made a felony by statute delivered during the eighteenth century (see 17 Geo. II, c. 21). If, therefore, the orthodox definition of piracy be correct, it would appear that without a robbery no conviction could be obtained for the crime of piracy. However, on the question at that time, the validity of that limitation was not accepted by me and I allowed the indictment to go to the jury.\n\nNow, in consideration of the question of law reserved, my attention has been drawn to the record in East's Pleas of the Crown (volume II, at p. 807) where it appears that this interpretation placed upon the statute of Henry VIII is not a matter of scholastic opinion but is based upon a decision reached by the judges in conference, Holt C.J. presiding, in 1702, in connection with the trial of Rex v. Snape and Aires. The judges decided, with two dissentients, that the statute of Henry VIII extended only to such offences as would be felony if committed on land. By that decision this court is bound.\n\nIt is not open to this court at this time to hold that incidents at sea which do not constitute a felony can amount to a piracy punishable under the statute of Henry VIII. Unless, therefore, the statute founding the jurisdiction of this court in admiralty offences has created a wider jurisdiction in piracy than that conferred by statute upon the courts in England it would appear that my decision to entertain this indictment was wrong in law.\n\nThe following point may perhaps be considered arguable, but it seems to me a correct proposition to say that the jurisdiction of the English courts in piracy which was created by the statute of Henry VIII was at no time enlarged by the subsequent statutory additions in England to the list of felonies.\n\nApart from the distinction drawn in the law of England between felony and misdemeanour it is also necessary in interpreting the Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849, to inquire what meaning has been given in England both in statutes and in indictments to the word \"piracy\". It has been agreed that, so far as recorded cases have been investigated in connection with the present matter, no case has been found in which a conviction for piracy has been entered in circumstances where no stealing has occurred.\n\nThe authoritative statement for the courts of British Colonies is contained in the judg...\n\n1st April, 1931 -continued.\n\nL 44 \nC \n\nPage 77", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-547-8 Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 22-3-1934 - 14-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546503, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "content_text": "138\n\nIn the matter of an Application by Ng Loi Yuen alias Ng Yik Lam alias Ng Yik San for leave to appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council from a judgment of the Full Court of Hong Kong dated the seventeenth day of October 1934.\n\n1.\n\n2.\n\nINSTRUCTIONS\n\n(1) The applicant was charged on the ninth day of July 1934 before the first Police Magistrate, Hong Kong, with the murder of one Michael Pine, a European male child aged eight years. The result of such preliminary proceedings was that on the ninth day of August 1934 the applicant was committed to take his trial at the Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong to be held in or for the month of August. A copy of the depositions is sent herewith.\n\n(2) By section 5 of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance 1899 (Ordinance No.9 of 1899), the ordinary session for the Supreme Court in its criminal jurisdiction is to be on the eighteenth day of every month, or if that day is a dies non, then the next lawful day, with power to the Chief Justice to change the day. By notification No.612 of 1934, published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the tenth day of August 1934, the Sessions for August 1934 were ordered to be commenced on August 20th.\n\n(3) On the opening day of the August Sessions (20.8.34), the applicant was arraigned on an indictment dated the sixteenth day of August 1934, of which a copy is sent herewith. Section 2 of Ordinance 2 of 1865 referred to in the Indictment is as follows:\n\n2. Every person who is convicted of murder shall suffer death as a felon.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty, and the common jury disagreed and were", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548418, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-5 Japanese activities in Macao and Canton 31-1-1935 - 22-11-1935", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-553-5 Japanese activities in Macao and Canton 31-1-1935 - 22-11-1935", "content_text": "Page 63\n\nANO DE 1935–BOLETIM OFICIAL DE MACAU-N.o 30–27 DE JULHO\n\n—\n\n1019\n\nrect connection with the exploitation of the responsible for the payment of the instal- the Company and who communicate to the monopoly referred to. - Third.-The Comments relating to partners' holdings not yet Company to such effect. If the Company pany's duration is for an undetermined pe- fully paid, at the date of the notification.- shall not effect the amortisation, such part- riod, commencement starting to all Twelfth. — The division of partners' hold- ners may transfer their partners' holdings to effects from this date. · Fourth. — The ca- ings is not prohibited. — Thirteenth. The others, but they should, however, first offer pital of the Company is one million dollars dividing up of partners' holdings shall be them, through the Management, to the other corresponding to the partners' holdings expressly agreed to by the Company by partners, and any of the partners shall have subscribed by the partners as follows: means of certified writing or certified docu- the right to acquire them. And if more than The party, George Gwinnett Noble Tinson, ment in which the amount of the partners' one partner wishes to acquire the same part- eight hundred thousand dollars, that is to holdings resulting from the division shall be ner's holding, it shall be granted by drawing say eighty per cent of the Company's capital, mentioned and also the names of the persons lots. — Twenty-second. — No sum necessary and the party Frederick Johnson Gellion, to whom they are to be transferred to res- to maintain the Company's capital entire two hundred thousand dollars, that is to say pectively. — Fourteenth. — The permission; may be withdrawn for the amortisation of twenty per cent of the Company's capital. of the Company for the division of the part-the partners' holdings. — Twenty-third. \n\n– Fifth. — On account of the respective ners' holdings amongst the heirs of the part- This Company shall be represented in court partners' holdings each partner has already ners is dispensed with. Fifteenth. The or otherwise, actively and passively, by a Ge- paid in the sum of fifty per cent of the co-proprietors of an indivisable partners' neral Manager and not less than two nor amount subscribed. The remaining fifty per holding shall exercise the respective rights more than four managers, who may be cent shall be paid in equal instalments, in common. · Sixteenth.· The various ius- chosen from among persons who are not when called for by the management, with at talments of capital shall be proportional to connected with the Company. — Twenty- least fifteen days notice. Sixth. - For the the partners' holding. -Seventeenth.—Part--fourth. — The Macao Electric Lighting development of the exploitation of the ser- ners are not granted any delay in which to Company Limited is now chosen to be the rice of the water supply or of any other make payments. Eighteenth. Any part- General Manager, who shall exercise the branch of activity within the objects of the ner failing to pay calls shall be advised by functions of such, through their manager, Company, the capital of the Company may registered letter stating the period, which legally nominated, or the person legally be increased once or more times; the respec- cannot be less than one month, in which to substituting the same. Note. The General tive subscriptions should be offered in the pay the instalment due. — Note one. Manager, in addition to the rights and obli- first place, however, to the partners and Upon failure to pay, such partner may begations conferred by law, has all the powers only after they have declared that they do excluded, but in this case be shall lose innecessary to represent and sign the Deed of not wish to subscribe then offers may be favour of the Company the partners' holding the Concessionary Contract of the service of made to outsiders. Seventh. All the de- and the partial payments already made, all the supply of potable and nonpotable water cisions in respect of alterations of the Com- of which must be communicated to him by to the city of Macao, made between the Lo- \n\n! pany's Articles of Association should be registered letter. Note two.- Notwith-yal Senate and the Sociedade de Abasteci- passed by three-quarters of the votes cor- standing his exclusion, such partner shall mento de Águas de Macau, Limitada; to responding to the capital of the Com- answer for the losses which the Company manage and administrate all and any service pany, and should also satisfy the other may suffer, as regards the payment of the relating to the said concession; to carry out conditions required by the Articles of Asso- instalment not made, and shall have the all the operations constituting the Compa- ciations. - Note one. \n\n-The general meet- rights and obligations which by this law areny's business; to sign the correspondence; to ings convened for the purpose of deliberat- shared by the previous proprietors of the draw, accept, and endorse bills; to deposit ing regarding the increase, restoration or re- partners' holdings with regard to the instal- money and sign cheques; to arrange and li- duction of the capital, should be convened ments not yet called for. Nineteeth. \n\nquidate account with the debtors and the by means of notices published with at least The payment of the instalment relating to creditors, establishing balances; to receive one month's notice, and in accordance with the partners' holding of the partner exclud- all the sums, values and documents belong- the other requirements of the Articles of ed, on the terms of the proceding article, ing to the Company, receive from postal or Association, and the subject matter to be may be claimed from all the previous owners other authorities all letters, registered or dealt with should always be mentioned. of the said partners' holding, who shall be otherwise, goods ordered, merchandise and Note turo. The minutes of the meeting held jointly responsible vis-a-vis the Com- everything else addressed to the Company; containing any of the subjects specified in pany. - Twentieth. — If the entire payment to issue recepts and grant quittances, sign Note One should be made out in legal form cannot be obtained from the predecessors of written documents, admit and dismiss staff not being the Registered Notes of Notary the excluded partner, the Company may and claim from debtors and came to arran- public, and shall be signed by a notary and effect the sale of the partners' holding gements with them and carry to their con- two witnesses, but the partners need not through a broker. - Note one. The sale clusion cases in respect thereof and the res- sign them if they do not wish to do so. need not be effected through a broker if the pective appeals; to give effect to judicial Eighth. -- No increase of the Company's ca- excluded partner and the previous proprie executions; to appeal, aggravate, and stay pital may be made unless all the partners tors of the partners' holding who have execution; to apply for seizure of property, holdings have been fully paid up. - Ninth effected partial payments on account of the signing the respective declarations; to apply The transfer to others of partners' hold- instalment agree to it. - Note two. for judicial sales and auctions; to effect in ings either between the partners or to out- From the proceeds of the sale, after pay-the Land Offices all registrations as well siders may only be effected with the express ment of all the expenses of the sale, the ins- as at the Department of the Treasury consent of the Company and should be pro- ! talment and indemnity due to delay, shall be Services any declarations, aud to with- ved by certified documents. - Tenth. The withdrawn for the repayment of the partial draw either or both, and accept concor- transfer to others of partners' holdings shall payment which have been effected by the datas (arrangements); and in the event only be effective as regards the Company, previous owners of the partner's holding, on of bankruptcy of any debtors, to claim the from the date of the respective notification account of the instalment duc. - Twenty-respective credits, their verification, classifi- which may be made by registared letter. -first.—The Company may amortise the Eleventh. -The transferor and the trans- partner's holdings of the partners who do feree of partners' holdings shall be jointly not wish to continue to be associated with \n\n—\n\nAd\n\n1\n\ncation and allocation; to oppose and allege in the name of the Company everything in right and justice in general, represent the\n\nPage 63\n\n2nd.\n\npage.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-5 Japanese activities in Macao and Canton 31-1-1935 - 22-11-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552860, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-560-15 Traffic of arms to China 18-2-1937 - 15-11-1937", "page_number": 181, "title": "CO129-560-15 Traffic of arms to China 18-2-1937 - 15-11-1937", "content_text": "## \n181\n\nThe opinion was that Foreign orders, e.g., for China, should be met if they did not interfere in any way with our re-armament programme.\n\n**MR. HORE-BELISHA** pointed out that, whilst it might be considered a major British interest to assist China by the supply of armaments, there was a priority list in which China was placed eighteenth, whereas Egypt was placed first. If sufficient importance was attached to supplying armaments to China then her position on the priority list should presumably be advanced.\n\n**SIR MAURICE HANKEY** said he hoped that the Sub-Committee would not overlook the point that, if we refused to supply armaments to a country which was in difficulties, such action would preclude our chances of getting future orders from them. The time was approaching when, according to our own re-armaments programme, orders would lessen and foreign orders would be all the more required if we were to maintain our war potential. If we accepted orders from foreign countries in normal times, but, for potential reasons, refused supply in times of stress, we would find that orders would not be forthcoming in future.\n\n**MR. EDEN** said he did not suggest discriminatory action. He would arrange to have the question of the legal position regarding the sale of surplus stocks considered,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-15 Traffic of arms to China 18-2-1937 - 15-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555354, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "page_number": 204, "title": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "content_text": "# \n[1st witness Lam Chu (recalled).] \n[18th witness Yu Man-hoi.] \n\n50 \n\n1272. You could see the loom of the light? **Yes.** \n\n(Witness left witness box). \n\n1273. Mr. Whyatt: I am afraid I am not in a position to put any further evidence before the Commission this afternoon. \n\n1274. Chairman: Is it possible for you to give us any indication how long we are likely to be occupied in taking all the evidence? \n\n1275. Mr. Whyatt: It is impossible to say how long it will take as... \n\n1276. Chairman: I appreciate the difficulty. It would not be possible to give us an accurate estimate, but approximately? \n\n1277. Mr. Whyatt: If we adjourn to Thursday morning I think I can say that we will finish on Thursday, possibly before lunch. \n\n1278. Chairman: Adjourned until 10.00 a.m. on Thursday morning. \n\n10 a.m., 21st October, 1937. \n\n1279. Mr. Whyatt: Sir, you will remember that on the first day of the hearing Lam Chu in his evidence, in answer to my question as to what it was about their appearance which made him think the sailors on the submarine were Japanese, replied \"Because I could recognize them by their clothing-the outer garment had a sort of suspender leading from the shoulder to the trousers.\" It has occurred to me that perhaps that evidence might be clarified somewhat if Lam Chu might be recalled to demonstrate. \n\n1280. Chairman: I am afraid that I was not able to glean much from it and I think it might help considerably if he might explain a little further what he meant. \nFirst Witness. Lam Chu (recalled). \n\n1281. Lam Chu recalled (on former declaration). \n\n1282. Mr. Whyatt: You told me in your evidence that you recognized these sailors on board the submarine as Japanese sailors because they wore a sort of suspender leading from the shoulder to the trousers? **Yes, I said that.** \n\n1283. (Two straps produced-one white and one dark brown). \n\n1284. Take one or both of these straps as you please and show us how they were wearing their straps. (Witness places one strap over his right shoulder and one over his left shoulder hanging straight down over his chest to waist). \n\n1285. What colour were the straps? \n\n1286. Chairman: Like a pair of braces. \n\n1287. Mr. Whyatt: Yes, that is right. \n\n1288. Witness (holding up white strap): The colour of the straps on the sailors was darker than this colour. \n\n1289. Could you say whether anything was attached to the straps? In the front I saw nothing attached to the straps at all; the ends of the straps were attached to the trousers. \n\n1290. What width were these straps? About the same width as this strap (1″). \n\n(Witness left the witness box). \n\n1291. Mr. Whyatt: Now, sir, I will call the compradore of the s.s. Kaying. \n1292. Eighteenth Witness. Yu Man-hei, duly declared, states:— \n1293. Mr. Whyatt: You are the compradore of the s.s. Kaying? **Assistant compradore.** \n\n1294. Were you on board the s.s. Kaying on 27th September when she was bound from Shanghai to Hong Kong? **Yes.** \n\n1295. Do you recollect anything unusual happening on that voyage? We met a fishing junk-no, not a junk; we found two men afloat. \n\n1296. About what time of the day was that? Between 6 and 7 p.m. \n\n1297. That was on the 27th September? **It was.** \n\n51 \n\n[18th witness Yu Man-hoi.] \n[19th witness Thomas Gillson Mackay.] \n\n1298. What did you do? I was then in my cabin. I noticed the steamer had stopped, and the captain then sent for me and asked me to go up to the deck. \n\n1299. What did you do when you got on deck? I saw in the distance two men on a raft calling out \"Save life\". \n\n1300. And was the ship manoeuvred, and eventually were these two men picked up from the raft and taken aboard the \"Kaying\"? They were picked up and put on board. \n\n1301. And when they were put on board in whose charge were they placed? They were left with me by the chief officer and I was told to take them below. \n\n1302. What sort of condition were they in? They appeared to be much fatigued, and their hands and feet looked very white as if they had been in the water for a long time. \n\n1303. What did you do for them? At first I wanted to give them some rice, but I was advised not to do so for the reason that, as they had been in the water for such a long time, it would not be wise to do that. I then gave them some brandy, a glass each, and later I gave them some congee, and then clothing. \n\n1304. Did you ascertain the names of these two men? **Yes, their names are Ho Pak-kung and Ho Pak-shing.** \n\n1305. And eventually they were put ashore in Hong Kong? **Yes.** \n\n1306. Do you know where they were sent to? They were put on board a sampan and were left in the hands of the boat people. I don't know where they went eventually. \n\n(Witness left the witness box). \n\n1307. Mr. Whyatt: I think it would be convenient if I put in a few photographs of these guns we have been talking about, sir. Two of these junks escaped and I thought if we were going to have any photographs of the guns we might have photographs of the cannon on these junks. I asked the police photographer to have certain photographs taken. \n\n1308. Nineteenth Witness. Thomas Gillison Mackay, Acting Police Sergeant A119, duly sworn, states:- \n\n1309. Mr. Whyatt: Sergeant Mackay, you are the police photographer? **I am.** \n1310. In the Hong Kong police? **Yes.** \n\n1311. Did you go yesterday to visit two junks? **Yes.** \n1312. Do you remember their numbers? **28 and 4470.** \n\n1313. Whereabouts were they lying? In Hang Hau Bay. \n\n1314. And when you got there did you take certain photographs? **I did.** \n1315. What was the first junk that you visited? No. 28. \n\n1316. You know more about these photographs than I do. Will you show us the photographs that you took of Junk No. 28? (Witness produces a photograph [marked `T.G.M.1.`]) This is a gun on the port side. \n\n1317. Is that on Junk No. 28? **Yes.** \n\n1318. How many copies did you make? There are six copies of each photograph. \n1319. Did you take any more photographs on Junk 28? This was taken on the starboard side of the same vessel—[`T.G.M.2.`] \n\n1320. Did you take any more photographs on Junk 28? **No, only these two.** \n\n1321. After taking these two photographs on Junk 28-what was the next photograph you took? I took one on 4470. \n\n1322. What did you photograph on 4470? A gun which was lying on deck-[`T.G.M.3.`] \n\n1323. Chairman: Any trace of gun mountings? There are gun mountings but they were in the hold and they were used as ballast, made fast to the side by wires. \n\n249", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556616, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-565-8 British Medical aid for China- sponsered by League of Nations 14-10-1937 - 5-1-1938", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-565-8 British Medical aid for China- sponsered by League of Nations 14-10-1937 - 5-1-1938", "content_text": "50/30817/30817\n\nAir Mail.\n\nSir,\n\nGeneva, December 22nd, 1937.\n\nI have the honour to inform you that, in accordance with a decision of the Eighteenth Assembly, the League of Nations is sending out to China a medical mission in connection with the control of epidemics among the civilian and refugee population. This mission consists of three medical units.\n\nCertain quantities of narcotic drugs are included among the medical supplies of the mission, and I should be grateful if the Government of Hong-Kong would facilitate the entry of these drugs into Hong-Kong and their subsequent re-export to China for the use of the above-mentioned three League of Nations medical units.\n\nThe narcotic drugs included among the supplies of the mission are those required for its work, and it is proposed to import them into Hong-Kong only for transit to China. I may mention that the Permanent Chinese Delegation to the League of Nations in Geneva has approached the Government of China with a request that the required import certificates be issued and presented to the Hong-Kong authorities.\n\nI enclose herewith certified copies of the export licences issued for the export of the drugs in question from the United Kingdom, from France and from Switzerland. The export licences give complete lists of the narcotic drugs included in the shipments.\n\nThe drugs exported from France and Switzerland were shipped\n\nThe Colonial Secretary\n\nHong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-565-8 British Medical aid for China- sponsered by League of Nations 14-10-1937 - 5-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556684, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-565-9 Amendment to Letters Patent relating to Governor and Commander-in-Chief 5-10-1937 - 9-5-1938", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-565-9 Amendment to Letters Patent relating to Governor and Commander-in-Chief 5-10-1937 - 9-5-1938", "content_text": "25\n\nRecites\n\nFebruary, 1917, and Additional Instruc-\n\nADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS to Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, or other Officer for the time being administering the Government of Our said Colony and its Dependencies.\n\nWHEREAS by certain Instructions under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies (therein and hereinafter called the Governor) of Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies (therein and hereinafter called the Colony), bearing date the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, as amended by Additional Instructions bearing date the Tenth day of January, 1922, the Fifteenth day of November, 1928, and the Twentieth day of November, 1929, provision is made, amongst other things, for the constitution of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony and the appointment and suspension of officers:\n\nAND WHEREAS We are minded to make other provision in regards to the matters aforesaid:\n\nNOW, THEREFORE, We do, by these Our Additional Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, as from a date to be fixed by the Governor by notification in the Hong Kong Government Gazette, revoke, without prejudice to any appointment lawfully made, or to anything lawfully done, thereunder, the Additional Instructions of the Tenth day of January, 1922, the Fifteenth day of November, 1928, and the Twentieth day of November, 1929, and Clauses Five, Eighteen, Thirty-two, and Thirty-three of the Instructions of the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, and We do hereby direct and enjoin and declare Our will and pleasure that from the date so fixed the said Instructions of the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, shall be construed as if the following Clauses had been inserted therein instead of the Second, Fifth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Twentieth, and Thirty-second Clauses thereof:\n\nClause II. The Executive Council of the Colony shall consist of the Senior Military Officer for the time being in command of Our regular troops within the Colony, the persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial Secretary, of Attorney-General, of Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and of Financial Secretary of the Colony, who are hereinafter referred to as ex officio Members, and of such other persons as We may from time to time appoint by any Instructions or Warrant under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or as the Governor in pursuance of Instructions from Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State may from time to time appoint by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony. Persons so appointed are hereinafter referred to as Official Members or Unofficial Members according as they hold, or do not hold, office under the Crown in the Colony at the time of appointment.\n\nEvery Unofficial Member shall vacate his seat at the end of five years from the date of the Instrument by which he is appointed or of such other period as may be specified in that Instrument, but shall be eligible to be re-appointed in the manner aforesaid for a further period or periods, each period not exceeding five years:\n\nProvided that if any such Member is provisionally appointed to fill a vacant seat in the Council and his provisional appointment is immediately followed by his definitive appointment, the said period of five years shall be reckoned from the date of the Instrument provisionally appointing him.\n\nIf any Official Member ceases to hold office under the Crown in the Colony, his seat in the Council shall thereupon become vacant.\n\nClause V. The Members of the Executive Council shall have seniority and precedence as We may specially assign, and in default thereof, first the ex officio Members in the order in which their offices are above-mentioned, (except that the Senior Military Officer if below the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in Our Army, shall take precedence after the person lawfully discharging the functions of Attorney-General); then the Official Members, according to the priority of their respective appointments, or if appointed by the same Instrument, according to the order in which they are named therein; then the Unofficial Members, according to the like priority, except that any Unofficial Member re-appointed immediately on the termination of his term of Office shall, as between himself and other Unofficial Members, take precedence according to the date from which he has been continuously a Member of the Council.\n\nClause XIII. The Legislative Council of the Colony shall consist of the Governor, the Senior Military Officer for the time being in command of Our regular troops within the Colony, the persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial Secretary, Attorney-General, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and Financial Secretary of the Colony, and such other persons holding office under the Crown in the Colony, and not exceeding four in number at any one time, as We may from time to time appoint by any Instructions or Warrants under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or as the Governor, in pursuance of Instructions from Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, may from time to time appoint by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, and all such persons shall be styled Official Members of the Legislative Council; and further of such persons, not exceeding eight in number at any one time, as the Governor,\n\n3\n\n26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-565-9 Amendment to Letters Patent relating to Governor and Commander-in-Chief 5-10-1937 - 9-5-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556688, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-565-9 Amendment to Letters Patent relating to Governor and Commander-in-Chief 5-10-1937 - 9-5-1938", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-565-9 Amendment to Letters Patent relating to Governor and Commander-in-Chief 5-10-1937 - 9-5-1938", "content_text": "31\n\nRecites\n\nFebruary,\n\n1917, and Additional Instruc-tions.\n\n2\n\nADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS to Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, or other Officer for the time being adminis-tering the Government of Our said Colony and its Dependencies.\n\nWHEREAS by certain Instructions under the Royal Sign Instructions Manual and Signet to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of 14th\n\n(therein and hereinafter called the Governor) of Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies (therein and hereinafter called the Colony), bearing date the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, as amended by Additional Instructions bearing date the Tenth day of January, 1922, the Fifteenth day of November, 1928, and the Twentieth day of November, 1929, provision is made, amongst other things, for the constitution of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony and the appointment and suspension of officers:\n\nRevokes Additional\n\nand\n\nAND WHEREAS We are minded to make other provision in re-gards to the matters aforesaid:\n\nNOW, THEREFORE, We do, by these Our Additional Instruc-tions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, as from a date to be Instructions fixed by the Governor by notification in the Hong Kong and replaces Clauses II,\n\nGovernment Gazette, revoke, without prejudice to any appoint-ment lawfully made, or to anything lawfully done, thereunder, V, XIII, the Additional Instructions of the Tenth day of January, 1922, XIV, XVI, the Fifteenth day of November, 1928, and the Twentieth day of November, 1929, and Clauses Five, Eighteen, Thirty-two and XVIII, XX, and revokes Thirty-three of the Instructions of the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, and We do hereby direct and enjoin and declare Our will and pleasure that from the date so fixed the said Instructions of the Fourteenth day of February, 1917,\n\ntions of 14th shall be construed as if the following Clauses had been inserted February,\n\ntherein instead of the Second, Fifth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, 1917.\n\nSixteenth, Eighteenth, Twentieth and Thirty-second Clauses thereof:-\n\nXXXII,\n\nClause\n\nXXXIII,\n\nof Instruc-\n\nConstitu-tion of Executive Council.\n\nII. The Executive Council of the Colony shall consist of the Senior Military Officer for the time being in command of Our regular troops within the Colony, the persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial Secretary, of Attorney-General, of Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and of Financial Secretary of the Colony, who are hereinafter referred to as ex officio Members, and of such other persons as We may from time to time appoint by any Instructions or Warrant under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or as the Governor in pur-suance of Instructions from Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State may from time to time appoint by an Instru-ment under the Public Seal of the Colony. Persons so appointed\n\nL\n\n3\n\nare hereinafter referred to as Official Members or Unofficial Members according as they hold, or do not hold, office under the Crown in the Colony at the time of appointment.\n\nEvery Unofficial Member shall vacate his seat at the end of Vacation of five years from the date of the Instrument by which he is seats. appointed or of such other period as may be specified in that Instrument, but shall be eligible to be re-appointed in the manner aforesaid for a further period or periods, each period not exceeding five years:\n\nProvided that if any such Member is provisionally appointed to fill a vacant seat in the Council and his provisional appoint-ment is immediately followed by his definitive appointment, the said period of five years shall be reckoned from the date of the Instrument provisionally appointing him.\n\nIf any Official Member cease to hold office under the Crown in the Colony his seat in the Council shall thereupon become\n\nvacant.\n\nV. The Members of the Executive Council shall have seniority Precedence. and precedence as We may specially assign, and in default thereof, first the ex officio Members in the order in which their offices are above-mentioned, (except that the Senior Military Officer if below the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in Our Army, shall take precedence after the person lawfully discharging the functions of Attorney-General); then the Official Members, according to the priority of their respective appointments, or if appointed by the same Instrument, according to the order in which they are named therein; then the Unofficial Members, according to the like priority, except that any Unofficial Mem-ber re-appointed immediately on the termination of his term of Office shall, as between himself and other Unofficial Members, take precedence according to the date from which he has been continuously a Member of the Council.\n\nXIII. The Legislative Council of the Colony shall consist of Constitu-the Governor, the Senior Military Officer for the time being in tion of Command of Our regular troops within the Colony, the persons Council.\n\nLegislative for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial Secretary, Attorney-General, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and Financial Secretary of the Colony, and such other persons hold-ing office under the Crown in the Colony, and not exceeding four in number at any one time, as We may from time to time appoint by any Instructions or Warrants under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or as the Governor, in pursuance of Instructions from Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, may from time to time appoint by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, and all such persons shall be styled Official Official Members of the Legislative Council; and further of such persons, Members. not exceeding eight in number at any one time, as the Governor,\n\n7499\n\nB\n\n3.9", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-565-9 Amendment to Letters Patent relating to Governor and Commander-in-Chief 5-10-1937 - 9-5-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 559217, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-568-9 Chung Chi Cheung- petition to appeal against decision of Hong Kong court 7-1-1938 - 28-12-1938", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-568-9 Chung Chi Cheung- petition to appeal against decision of Hong Kong court 7-1-1938 - 28-12-1938", "content_text": "25A\n\nI, HENRY CHARLES MACNAMARA of Hong Kong Bank Building, Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong Barrister-at-law hereby certify that I was Counsel on behalf of the above-named Petitioner in the Appeal to the Full Court in Hong Kong, from the Judgment of His Honour the Chief Justice of Hong Kong holding that the Supreme Court of Hong Kong had jurisdiction to try the said Petitioner on the charge of murder set out in the foregoing petition and am of the opinion that the said Petitioner has reasonable ground of appeal to His Majesty in Council against the Judgment of the said Full Court in Hong Kong\n\nDATED the Eighteenth day of November, 1937.\n\n(SIGNED) H.C. MACNAMARA.\n\n5.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-9 Chung Chi Cheung- petition to appeal against decision of Hong Kong court 7-1-1938 - 28-12-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 559305, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-569-12 Law Revision Ordinance 1937 24-12-1937 - 28-5-1938", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-569-12 Law Revision Ordinance 1937 24-12-1937 - 28-5-1938", "content_text": "# SHORT TITLE.\n\n## Schedule, contd.\n\n## AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.\n\n# SHORT TITLE.\n\n## Schedule, contd.\n\n## AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.\n\n16. The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1878. (No. 1 of 1873.)\n\n17. The Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873. (No. 3 of 1878.)\n\n18. The Supreme Court (Summary Jurisdiction) Ordinance, 1873. (No. 4 of 1873.)\n\nC to the Attorney General's department Assistant immediately after the words Attorney General in the second line thereof.\n\n2\n\n(1) Section 4 is repealed and the following section substituted therefor :-\n\n4. For the purposes of this Ordinance, 'petroleum' includes crude petroleum, oil made from petroleum or from coal, shale, peat or other bituminous substances, and other products of petroleum or of any of the above-mentioned oils, and mixtures containing petroleum or any of the above-mentioned oils.\n\n(2) Section 5 is amended by the repeal of sub-section (2) thereof.\n\n(3) Section 19 is amended by the repeal of the words \"naval or military authorities\" in the fourth line thereof and the substitution therefor of the words \"naval, military or air force authorities\".\n\n(1) Section 6, as amended by Ordinance No. 27 of 1934, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:-\n\n6. The practice of the English courts for the time being shall be in force in the Colony, subject to the same exceptions as are contained in section 5 in relation to the laws of England.\n\n(2) Section 13 (2), as amended by Ordinance No. 27 of 1934, is amended by the repeal of the words and figures \"were on the 31st day of December, 1930, assigned\" in the second and third lines thereof and the substitution therefor of the words \"are for the time being assigned\".\n\n(3) Section 22 is amended by the insertion of the words \"to the Full Court\" immediately after the word \"appeals\" in the third line thereof.\n\n(4) Section 23 is amended by the repeal of the words \"or from the decision of any magistrate\" in the fourth and fifth lines thereof.\n\n(5) Section 32 (1) is amended by the repeal of the words \"regulating the times of holding the court\" in the second and third lines thereof and the substitution therefor of the words \"regulating the business and hours of the court and of the offices connected therewith\".\n\n(1) Section 3 is repealed.\n\n18. The Supreme Court (Summary Jurisdiction) Ordinance, 1873. (No. 4 of 1873.), --contd.\n\n19. The Foreign Recruiting Ordinance, 1874. (No. 1 of 1874.)\n\n20. The Naval Establishments Police Ordinance, 1875. (No. 1 of 1875.)\n\n21. The Extradition (Hongkong) Ordinance, 1875. (No. 5 of 1875.)\n\n22. The Marriage Ordinance, 1875. (No. 7 of 1875.)\n\n23. The Public Officers (Conviction of Crime) Ordinance, 1882. (No. 2 of 1882.)\n\n(2) Section 34 (2) is repealed and the following sub-section substituted therefor:—\n\n(2) In case either party to an action is dissatisfied with the decision of any question of fact or of law arising in the case, he may, within seven days from the date of the judgment, apply to the trial judge for leave to appeal, or, if he refuses leave, within a further seven days from the date of such refusal to the Full Court, and on such application the judge or the Full Court may in his or its discretion grant leave to appeal on such terms as to notice and other matters as he or it may think fit:\n\nProvided that the judge or the Full Court, as the case may be, may extend the time for any such application notwithstanding that such time may have expired.\n\nSection 3 is amended by the insertion of the words \"or for service in,\" immediately after the words \"service of\" in the second line thereof.\n\n(1) Section 3 is amended by the repeal of the word \"aforesaid\" in the third line thereof and the substitution therefor of the words \"in charge of the Royal Naval Establishments on shore\";\n\n(2) Section 4 is amended:\n\n(i) by the repeal of the words \"as aforesaid\" in sub-section (2) thereof and the substitution therefor of the words \"and under section 5\";\n\n(ii) by the insertion of the words \"ceasing to hold and exercise his office,\" immediately after the word \"resign\" in the first line of sub-section (5) thereof.\n\n(1) The title is amended by the repeal of the word and figures \"1870 and 1878\" at the end thereof.\n\n19\n\n(2) Section 4, as amended by Ordinance No. 20 of 1936, is amended by the repeal of the words \"The Gaol\" in the first line thereof and the substitution therefor of the words and figures \"Every prison for the time being set apart as such under the Prisons Ordinance, 1932,\".\n\nSection 22 is amended by the insertion of the words \"or more\" immediately after the word \"two\" in the eighth line thereof.\n\nSection 2 is amended by the repeal of the words \"from His Majesty\" in the twelfth and eighteenth lines thereof.\n\n19", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-569-12 Law Revision Ordinance 1937 24-12-1937 - 28-5-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 561793, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-571-18 League of Nations- medical aid for China and reduced cable rates 8-2-1938 - 30-1-1939", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-571-18 League of Nations- medical aid for China and reduced cable rates 8-2-1938 - 30-1-1939", "content_text": "(F1747/120/10)\n\nTo. 81 (170/1/38)\n\n**British Legation,**\n**The Hague.**\n\n9th February, 1938.\n\nSir,\n\n114\n\nAt the eighteenth Assembly of the League of Nations, held in September/October, 1937, it was decided to provide from the League's funds a sum of two million Swiss francs for combating epidemics in China. In the course of the discussion on this question the Netherlands Delegation declared on behalf of the Netherlands Government that, in view of the Netherlands territories in Asia, the Netherlands were particularly exposed to the danger of contagion from such epidemics. They were therefore prepared to consider a direct contribution for the purpose in question, provided that the States General approved.\n\n2. I have the honour to inform you that on the 2nd February a supplementary estimate of expenditure by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for 1938 amounting to 25,000 florins was introduced. In an accompanying explanatory memorandum Mr. Patijn, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, stated that, since the sum voted by the League of Nations would not be adequate for the grant of decisive aid to China, the Netherlands Government were of the opinion that they should help to increase it. For this purpose the States General were being asked to vote 25,000 florins on account of the budget of the mother country, while it was proposed to ask for a similar sum on account of the budget of the Netherlands East Indies.\n\n3. It was stated further in the memorandum that\n\nThe Right Honourable\nAnthony Eden, M.C., M.P.,\netc.,\netc.,\netc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-571-18 League of Nations- medical aid for China and reduced cable rates 8-2-1938 - 30-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580088, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-593-1 Future policy- unofficial views 18-6-1946 - 28-12-1946", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-593-1 Future policy- unofficial views 18-6-1946 - 28-12-1946", "content_text": "44\n\nterms in Hongkong's housing vocabulary. (3) The \"cubicle\" ten feet or so square is often the home of a family of six. Tens of thousands of homeless \"street sleepers\" have been a municipal problem for many years, without perceptible improvement.\n\nAttempts at Denationalization\n\nHongkong was one of the first objectives of the new Chinese nationalism in 1924-27 and its administration has never recovered from the shock. Since then many efforts have been made, unsuccessfully, to denationalize its people and create a particularist psychology linked with loyalty to the British crown. In official dealings in the Chinese language the residents must describe themselves not as Chungkuo Jen, like the other people of China, but as Hua Jen, which is supposed to have a racial rather than national connotation. Government schools teach all higher subjects in English, ignore Chinese culture and political history, and produce, at best, competent bilingual clerks and monolingual (English) lawyers, doctors, engineers and junior civil servants.\n\nThe general strikes that tied up the colony in the early 1920s have left a heritage of fear of labor. The leading workers' organizations of the time, ranging from the seamen's to the barbers' unions, have been proscribed ever since as \"illegal secret societies.\" A paternalistic government Labor Office exists and arbitrates disputes.\n\nAs a byproduct of British democracy at home, many of these phenomena have been carefully described and often denounced in official Commission of Enquiry reports. But colonial realities and the power of local \"interests\" have prevented any remedies. The young civil servant coming out from England full of reforming zeal and changing, within a few years, into a defender of the status quo or automatic functionary escaping after office hours into cultural studies, is a typical and repeated symbol of this contradiction. (4)\n\n(3) The Annual Report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hongkong, published by the Colonial Office in London, uses the following identical words to describe the typical Hongkong tenement in all issues from 1927 through 1938: \"The usual frontage of each house is fifteen feet ... and a depth of thirty-five feet, while each storey consists of one large room with a native type kitchen in the rear. This room is separated by thin partitions seven feet high into three cubicles, each of which may accommodate a family. A latrine is built at ground floor level, one to each house irrespective of the number of occupants, and is common to all. The houses are divided by scavenging lanes six feet wide.\"\n\n(4) Edmund Burney in his Report on Education in Hongkong, published on behalf of the Government of Hongkong by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, London, 1935, describes school premises as \"usually inadequate and sometimes abominable.\" He points out that graduates of Hongkong schools know neither Chinese nor English and pours scorn on institutions he visited in which Chinese boys were \"being taught not without some detail, about the religious wars in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\" but nothing about China. One of his major criticisms is the insufficient expenditure on primary schools, which are \"all that the poorer Chinese can afford, and the government is giving least help to those who are least able to help themselves.\" For a description of Hongkong's economy and economic policy, see Report of the Governor's Commission to Enquire into the Causes and Effects of the Present Trade Depression in Hongkong, 1934-35.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-1 Future policy- unofficial views 18-6-1946 - 28-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 586439, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-603-4 Industrial relations- necessity for introducing arbitration procedures 16-10-1946 - 20-12-1946", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-603-4 Industrial relations- necessity for introducing arbitration procedures 16-10-1946 - 20-12-1946", "content_text": "I.\n\nINTRODUCTORY.\n\n34\n\nWages and conditions of employment in Great Britain are determined in very large measures by agreements reached by collective bargaining between voluntarily formed organisations of employers and of workpeople.\n\nThe policy of the State in relation to the regulation of wages and the prevention and settlement of disputes is to avoid unnecessary intervention and to encourage the parties to reach a settlement themselves. Statutory machinery is, however, provided to which differences may be referred if the parties so desire when the voluntary machinery existing in the trade or industry concerned fails to provide a settlement, or when the parties concerned are not covered by any such machinery.\n\nThe need under the voluntary system for the effective organisation of the Trade unions and parties is generally recognised and accepted on all sides. Employers' associations are commonly recognised by the Government as representing the interests of their members, and are called into consultation when matters affecting them are under consideration. Provision is also made in a number of legislative measures for the representation of employers' and workers' organisations on various statutory bodies.\n\nThe principal matters relating to wages and working conditions, on which some form of State regulation has been found to be necessary are:\n\n(i) the fixing and enforcement of minimum conditions of employment in factories; (ii) the hours of employment of women and children and young persons; (iii) the fixing and enforcement of minimum rates of wages in\n\n(a) agriculture,\n\n(b) certain trades in which, owing to lack of organisation or other circumstances, there is no adequate machinery for the effective regulation of wages and low standards of wages commonly prevail.\n\nThe State also requires that any work that is carried out with the aid of public money from central funds or other forms of State assistance (e.g., loans, subsidies, or guarantees) shall be executed under 'fair' conditions, in accordance with the standards agreed between employers and trade unions or prevailing among good employers.\n\nIn the case of the Cotton Manufacturing (Weaving) Industry, statutory assistance is given for the enforcement of collective agreements reached by organisations of employers and of workpeople.\n\nIt is the purpose of this memorandum to give an outline of the organisation and machinery by which this system of settling wages and working conditions is operated.\n\nII.\n\nOrganisation of Employers and Workpeople.\n\n(a) Historical and legislative development.\n\nThe problems arising in connection with the relationship of the State to industry and the development of constitutional relations between employers and workers have been worked out gradually since the latter part of the eighteenth century. The law on the subject is consequently embodied in a considerable number of Acts, supported by a large body of case law, which have not been codified in any official document. In the following paragraphs, the causes and effects of the chief legislative measures concerned are briefly reviewed.\n\nIt should be noted that in its legal sense, as apart from its ordinary application only to combinations of workers, the term \"trade union\" is used to cover all combinations both of workers and of employers.\n\nAlthough legislation tending to check combinations, particularly with regard to workpeople, has been in existence since the Middle Ages, it is sufficient for present purposes to make a beginning in 1799 when the growth of combination among workmen, and the distrust with which such combinations were held, led to the passing of the first general Act, the Combination Act of 1799, to prevent unlawful combinations. This Act, together with an amending Act passed in the following year, declared illegal all contracts by workmen for improving their conditions of employment, and rendered persons entering into combination for the same purpose liable to penalties.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-603-4 Industrial relations- necessity for introducing arbitration procedures 16-10-1946 - 20-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]