[ { "id": 216756, "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": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "\n\nARTICLE XIII. \n\nAll persons, whether natives of China or otherwise, who may wish to convey goods from any one of the five ports of Canton, Foochowfoo, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai, to Hong-Kong, for sale or consumption, shall be at full and perfect liberty to do so, on paying the duties on such goods, and obtaining a pass, or port clearance, from the Chinese Custom-house at one of the said ports. Should natives of China wish to repair to Hong-Kong to purchase goods, they shall have free and full permission to do so; and should they require a Chinese vessel to carry away their purchases, they must obtain a pass, or port-clearance, for her at the Custom-house of the port whence the vessel may sail for Hong-Kong. It is further settled, that in all cases these passes are to be returned to the officers of the Chinese Government, as soon as the trip for which they may be granted shall be completed. \n\nARTICLE XIV. \n\nAn English officer will be appointed at Hong-Kong, one part of whose duty will be to examine the registers and passes of all Chinese vessels that may repair to that port to buy or sell goods; and should such officer at any time find that any Chinese merchant-vessel has not a pass, or register, from one of the five ports, she is to be considered as an unauthorized or smuggling vessel, and is not to be allowed to trade, whilst a report of the circumstance is to be made to the Chinese Authorities. By this arrangement, it is to be hoped that piracy and illegal traffic will be effectually prevented. \n\nARTICLE XV. \n\nShould natives of China who may repair to Hong-Kong to trade, incur debts there, the recovery of such debts must be arranged for by the English Courts of Justice on the spot; but if the Chinese debtor shall abscond and be known to have property, real or personal, within the Chinese territory, the rule laid down in the fourth clause of the General Regulations for Trade shall be applied to the case; and it will be the duty of the Chinese Authorities, on appli- cation by, and in concert with, the British Consuls, to do their utmost to see justice done between the parties. On the same principle, should a British merchant incur debts at any of the five ports, and fly to Hong-Kong, the British Authorities will, on receiving an application from the Chinese Govern- ment officers, accompanied by statements and full proofs of the debts, institute an investigation into the claims, and, when established, oblige the defaulter or debtor to settle them to the utmost of his means. \n\nARTICLE XVI. \n\nIt is agreed, that the Custom-house officers at the five ports shall make a monthly return to Canton, of the passes granted to vessels proceeding to Hong- Kong, together with the nature of their cargoes; and a copy of these returns will be embodied in one return, and communicated once a-month to the proper English officer at Hong-Kong. The said English officer will, on his part, make a similar return or communication to the Chinese Authorities at Canton, showing the names of Chinese vessels arrived at Hong-Kong, or departed from that port, with the nature of their cargoes; and the Canton Authorities will apprize the Custom-houses at the five ports, in order that, by these arrange- ments and precautions, all clandestine and illegal trade, under the cover of passes, may be averted. \n\nXVII, OR ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. \n\nRelating to British Small Craft. \n\nVarious small vessels belonging to the English nation, called schooners, cutters, lorchas, &c., &c., have not hitherto been chargeable with tonnage dues. \n\nIt is now agreed, in relation to this class of vessels which ply between Hong-Kong and the city, and the city and Macao, that if they only carry passengers, letters, and baggage, they shall, as heretofore, pay no tonnage dues; but if these small craft carry any dutiable articles, no matter how small the quantity may be, they ought, in principle, to pay their full tonnage dues. But this class of small craft are not like the large ships which are engaged in foreign trade; they are con- stantly coming and going; they make several trips a month, and are not like the large foreign ships, which, on entering the port, cast anchor at Whampoa. If we were to place them on the same footing as the large foreign ships, the charge would fall unequally; therefore after this, the smallest of these craft shall be rated at 75 tons, and the largest not to exceed 150 tons; whenever they enter the port (or leave the port with cargo) they shall pay tonnage dues at the rate of one mace per tou register. If not so large as 75 tons, they shall still be considered and charged as of 75 tons; and if they exceed 150 tons, they shall be considered as large foreign ships, and, like them, charged tonnage dues, at the rate of five mace per register ton. Foochow and the other ports having noue of this kind of intercourse, and none of this kind of small craft, it would be unnecessary to make any arrangement as regards them. \n\nThe following are the rules by which they are to be regulated :- 1st. Every British schooner, cutter, lorcha, &c., shall have a sailing letter or register in Chinese and English, under the seal and signature of the Chief Superintendent of Trade, describing her appearance, burthen, &c., &c. \n\n2nd. Every schooner, lorcha, and such vessel, shall report herself, as large vessels are required to do, at the Bocca Tigris; and when she carries cargo, she shall also report herself at Whampoa, and shall, on reaching Canton, deliver up her sailing letter or register to the British Consul, who will obtain permission from the Hoppo for her to discharge her cargo, which she is not to do without such permission, under the forfeiture of the penalties laid down in the 3rd clause of the General Regulations of Trade. \n\n3rd. When the inward cargo is discharged, and an outward one (if in- tended) taken on board, and the duties on both arranged and paid, the Consul will restore the register or sailing letter, and allow the vessel to depart. \n\nThis Supplementary Treaty, to be attached to the original Treaty of Peace, consisting of sixteen Articles, and one additional Article relating to small vessels, is now written out, forming, with its accompaniments, four pamphlets, and is formally signed aud sealed by their Excellencies the British Plenipo- tentiary, and the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, who, in the first instance, take two copies each, and exchange them, that their provisions may be immediately carried into effect. At the same time, each of these high functionaries, having taken his two copies, shall duly memorialize the Sovereign of his nation; but the two countries are differently situated as respects distance, so that the will of the one Sovereign can be known sooner than the will of the other. It is now therefore agreed, that on receiving the gracious Assent of the Emperor in the Vermilion Pencil, the Imperial Commissioner will deliver the very document containing it into the hands of his Excellency Hwang, Judge of Canton, who will proceed to such place as the Plenipotentiary may appoint, and deliver it to the English Plenipotentiary, to have and to hold. Afterwards, the Sign Manual of the Sovereign of England having been received at Hong-Kong, likewise gra ciously assenting to and confirming the Treaty, the English Plenipotentiary will despatch a specially appointed officer to Canton, who will deliver the copy con- taining the Royal Sign Manual to his Excellency Hwang, who will forward it to the Imperial Commissioner, as a rule and a guide to both nations for ever, and as a solemn confirmation of our Peace and Friendship. \n\nA most important Supplementary Treaty. \n\nSigned and scaled at Hoomun-Chae, on the Eighth day of October, 1843, corresponding with the Chinese date of the Fifteenth day of the Eighth moon, of the 23rd year of Taoukwang. \n\n(L.S.) \n\nHENRY POTTINGER. \n\nSeal and Signature of the \n\nChinese Plenipotentiary, \n\nPußers \n\nPage 240Page 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217506, "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": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "page_number": 244, "title": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "content_text": "RECEIVED \n\nJULY 10 1843 \n\nRoberts, Chief mate of the befael called the Aden, that he, on the night of the 10th of this present month of March, did, on board the said vessel then \n\nlying at auchor in Hong Kong Harbour, feloniously and unlawfully \n\nand now \n\nthe \n\napault and wound with intent to do Lome grievous bodily harm, Andrew Cameron the second mate of Laid tepel : And for holding such Court and entering into such Examination, investigation, andhypurg this warrant shall be to you all others full and sufficient authority._ \n\nGiven under \n\nmy \n\nand \n\nhand andreal, at macar \n\nthis fifteenth day of March A. D. 1845. (K.S.) Regined Henry Pottinger. \n\nH. Mis. Plenipotention Chief Pup! of Trade Fr and governor of Hory Kory- \n\nCopy \n\nlov \n\nMarne, March 23. 1843. \n\nJour letter of the 19th instant I have \n\nhad the honour to receive \n\nI have now \n\narranged for the Ship \"Aden \" returning to Hongkong, but. I cannot refrain from expressing my great surprije that she should have been allowed to quit that Port, whilst the case of her to me. Chief. \n\nmate was under reference of the Marine Magistrate did not know, that the was about to quil the Port, he neglected his duty, and if he ? did not know that fact, it was his business to bring it to your notice, and Jour's to lake steps for having her A. R. Johnston qu \n\ndeperti Perferentendent \n\ndelained", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219630, "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": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "\nARTICLE XIII. \n\nAll \n\nwhether natives of China or otherwise, who may wish to convey persons, goods from any one of the five ports of Canton, Foochowfoo, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai, to Hong-Kong, for sale or consumption, shall be at full and perfect liberty to do so, on paying the duties on such goods, and obtaining a pass, or port clearance, from the Chinese Custom-house at one of the said ports. Should natives of China wish to repair to Hong-Kong to purchase goods, they shall have free and full permission to do so; and should they require a Chinese vessel to carry away their purchases, they must obtain a pass, or port-clearance, for her at the Custom-house of the port whence the vessel may sail for Hong-Kong. It is further settled, that in all cases these passes are to be returned to the officers of the Chinese Government, as soon as the trip for which they may be granted shall be completed. \n\nARTICLE XIV. \n\nAn English officer will be appointed at Hong-Kong, one part of whose duty will be to examine the registers and passes of all Chinese vessels that may repair to that port to buy or sell goods; and should such officer at any time find that any Chinese merchant-vessel has not a pass, or register, from one of the five ports, she is to be considered as an unauthorized or smuggling vessel, and is not to be allowed to trade, whilst a report of the circumstance is to be made to the Chinese Authorities. By this arrangement, it is to be hoped that piracy and illegal traffic will be effectually prevented. \n\nARTICLE XV. \n\nShould natives of China who may repair to Hong-Kong to trade, incur debts there, the recovery of such debts must be arranged for by the English Courts of Justice on the spot; but if the Chinese debtor shall abscond and be known to have property, real or personal, within the Chinese territory, the rule laid down in the fourth clause of the General Regulations for Trade shall be applied to the case; and it will be the duty of the Chinese Authorities, on appli- cation by, and in concert with, the British Consuls, to do their utmost to see justice done between the parties. On the same principle, should a British inerchant incur debts at any of the five ports, and fly to Hong-Kong, the British Authorities will, on receiving an application from the Chinese Govern ment officers, accompanied by statements and full proofs of the debts, institute an investigation into the claims, and, when established, oblige the defaulter or debtor to settle them to the utmost of his means. \n\nARTICLE XVI. \n\nIt is agreed, that the Custom-house officers at the five ports shall make a monthly return to Canton, of the passes granted to vessels proceeding to Hong- Kong, together with the nature of their cargoes; and a copy of these returns will be embodied in one return, and communicated once a-month to the proper English officer at Hong-Kong. The said English officer will, on his part, make a similar return or communication to the Chinese Authorities at Canton, showing the names of Chinese vessels arrived at Hong-Kong, or departed from that port, with the nature of their cargoes; and the Canton Authorities will apprize the Custom-houses at the five ports, in order that, by these arrange- ments and precautions, all clandestine and illegal trade, under the cover of passes, may be averted. \n\nXVII, OR ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. \n\nRelating to British Small Craft. \n\nVarious small vessels belonging to the English nation, called schooners, cutters, lorchas, &c., &c., have not hitherto been chargeable with tonnage dues. \n\ni \n\nIt is now agreed, in relation to this class of vessels which ply between Hong-Kong and the city, and the city and Macao, that if they only carry passengers, letters, and baggage, they shall, as heretofore, pay no tonnage dues; but if these small craft carry any dutiable articles, no matter how small the quantity may be, they ought, in principle, to pay their full tonnage dues. But this class of small craft are not like the large ships which are engaged in foreign trade; they are con- stantly coming and going; they make several trips a month, and are not like the large foreign ships, which, on entering the port, cast anchor at Whampoa. If we were to place them on the same footing as the large foreign ships, the charge would fall unequally; therefore after this, the smallest of these craft shall be rated at 75 tons, and the largest not to exceed 150 tons; whenever they enter the port (or leave the port with cargo) they shall pay tonnage dues at the rate of one mace per ton register. If not so large as 75 tons, they shall still be considered and charged as of 75 tons; and if they exceed 150 tons, they shall be considered as large foreign ships, and, like them, charged tonnage dues, at the rate of five mace per register tou. Foochow and the other ports having none of this kind of intercourse, and none of this kind of small craft, it would be unnecessary to make any arrangement as regards them. \n\nThe following are the rules by which they are to be regulated: 1st. Every British schooner, cutter, Jorcha, &c., shall have a sailing letter or register in Chinese and English, under the seal and signature of the Chief Superintendent of Trade, describing her appearance, burthen, &c., &c. \n\nup \n\n2nd. Every schooner, Iorcha, and such vessel, shall report herself, as large vessels are required to do, at the Bocca Tigris; and when she carries cargo, she shall also report herself at Whampoa, and shall, on reaching Canton, deliver her sailing letter or register to the British Consul, who will obtain permission from the Hoppo for her to discharge her cargo, which she is not to do without such permission, under the forfeiture of the penalties laid down in the 3rd clause of the General Regulations of Trade. \n\n3rd. When the inward cargo is discharged, and an outward one (if in- tended) taken on board, and the duties on both arranged and paid, the Consul will restore the register or sailing letter, and allow the vessel to depart. \n\nThis Supplementary Treaty, to be attached to the original Treaty of Peace, consisting of sixteen Articles, and one additional Article relating to small vessels, is now written out, forming, with its accompaniments, four pamphlets, and is formally signed aud sealed by their Excellencies the British Plenipo tentiary, and the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, who, in the first instance, take two copies each, and exchange them, that their provisions may be immediately carried into effect. At the same time, each of these high functionaries, having taken his two copies, shall duly memorialize the Sovereign of his nation; but the two countries are differently situated as respects distance, so that the will of the one Sovereign can be known sooner than the will of the other. It is now therefore agreed, that on receiving the gracious Assent of the Emperor in the Vermilion Pencil, the Imperial Commissioner will deliver the very document containing it into the hands of his Excellency IIwang, Judge of Canton, who will proceed to such place as the Plenipotentiary may appoint, and deliver it to the English Plenipotentiary, to have and to hold. Afterwards, the Sign Manual of the Sovereign of England having been received at Hong-Kong, likewise ciously assenting to and confirming the Treaty, the English Plenipotentiary will despatch a specially appointed officer to Canton, who will deliver the copy con- taining the Royal Sign Manual to his Excellency Hwang, who will forward it to the Imperial Commissioner, as a rule and a guide to both nations for ever, and as a solemn confirmation of our Peace and Friendship. \n\nA most important Supplementary Treaty. \n\ngra- \n\nSigned and sealed at Hoomun-Chae, on the Eighth day of October, 1843, corresponding with the Chinese date of the Fifteenth day of the Eighth moon, of the 23rd year of Taoukwang, \n\n(L.S.) \n\nHENRY POTTINGER. \n\nSeal and Signature of the \n\nChinese Plenipotentiary. \n\nPage 90Page 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 225380, "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": "CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8]", "page_number": 258, "title": "CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8]", "content_text": "3.4.\n\n35.\n\nCompradore - I gathered so much from their conversation. I never order any for money in writing produced on these occasions. I never saw any money paid, though money was asked.\n\n(Signed) Wei-Anam [in Chinese]\n\nSworn, taken and acknowledged before\n\n(Signed) Chas: Molley Campbell.\n\nMen-Awong, watchman in the central market, sworn, states: - I am a watchman. I know Afoon and Lo-Cen-lang, Major Cainée's Compradore. I have seen Lo-Cen-lang pay Afoon $150 for every month since the fourth month of last year. Compradore himself came down every month. I have seen the Spanish Dollars - 252. Wei-Acho, and also Wei-Achuen were present on every occasion when money was paid by Afoon to Lo-Cen-lang. I eat my food in Afoon's house, that is how I happened to be present when the money was paid. This payment is custom. Afoon before his death told me money was for Major Cainée's use.\n\nAfoon also told me the last payment was made in the second month of this year, about the middle of the month. The payments were usually made between the fifteenth and twentieth of the month. Afoon himself paid the money. I saw him do so. The payment was always the same sum, namely $150. - Since the market has been built, these monthly payments have been made. I saw Aqui pay the Compradore himself. The money always weighed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229928, "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": "CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4]", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4]", "content_text": "to 18 of 1850.\n\nInclosure No 2 in Petn:\n\nReport by\n\nGeneral\n\nthe\n\nSurveyor\n\n\"Bard's Memorial to\n\nMr Johnn\n\nCarl Grey.\n\n16th March, 1830.\n\n126\n\nShowerh\n\nJeft\n\n8 for\n\nTo the Right Honorable The Earl Grey Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nThe Humble Memorial of John Burd of Victoria Merchant-\n\nThat in the year One thousand eight hundred and forty\n\nthe\n\nThree your memorialist occupied a certain piece of Ground on the Island of Hong Kong, on what is now the site of the Queen's Road of the City of Victoria, and that he went to a very heavy outlay and expense in erecting buildings thereon.\n\nThat in the year aforesaid he occupied part of the said buildings as a dwelling house and Godowns, and that the remainder thereof were let at a favourable rental for twelve months certain to Messieurs Bush, Halsted and Company of Victoria.\n\nThat in the month of September One thousand eight hundred and forty four, memorialist in accordance with a demand to that effect furnished Her Majesty's Government for the said Colony of Hong Kong with a description of his said land and of his title thereto-\n\nThat on the fifteenth day of January in the following year he received a letter from Mr. Gordon, the then Land Officer of the said Colony, directing memorialist to move out of the said premises and surrender them to Government, and allowing him six months in which to effect such removal.\n\nThat your Memorialist both by letter and by a petition to the then Governor, Mr Davis, strongly protested and remonstrated against this proceeding, but without avail, the only result of his said remonstrances being the receipt of a letter dated the sixth July One thousand eight hundred and forty four, and sent to him by the then Colonial Secretary, and in which letter the following paragraph appears. \"I am directed also to inform you that G. St George Cleverly, Lieutt Colonel, Surveyor General, has been appointed arbitrator in the part of Government to affix a value on the house and premises so...\n\nPage 126\n\n(end of page)\n\nORIONTLAUK –", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232363, "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": "CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12]", "page_number": 224, "title": "CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12]", "content_text": "Sepatol 1923. of /855.\n\nMelosure Plan\n\nDuplicate\n\nMericines\n\nfor Civil Hospital, for the Official year ending 31st March, 1853.\n\nIn lieu for supply of\n\nthe Government\n\n219\n\nStock of Medicines in the Government Civil\n\nHospital in the fifteenth day of March 1852 with Statement of supply.\n\nfor Six months ending October 1852\n\nArticles.\n\nNeeded: Wecticum Port\n\nBenzoicum Coricum Gallie :\n\n\"\n\n+\n\nRequired for the\n\nRemaining of the six months ending Remarks logopland of the\n\nYears\n\n \n Hydrochloricum\n Hythocynic :\n Srl:\n Adieum Prussicum\n \"Schulis Sulphuricum\n Partaricum Pulv\n \n \n Ather Rectificatur\n Sulphuricus\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ou legna\n Slow Socotring\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ammon: Carbonne\n Alurin\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ammoniae :\n I. Satt Antimon :\n Sulph: Precip :\n \n \n \n \n \n Intimonial. Palv\n Anthemidis Plovis\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aegent: Nitine\n Arcafatida Sum:\n R. Aurantu Cort\n Bals: Copaibe Opt\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 310\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n {\n \n \n\nenclosed/requisition\n\nво\n\nY.\n\nEX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232741, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "page_number": 333, "title": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "content_text": "It is necessary to prevent loss, and delay to the Owner and Master of the vessel, and to protect the seaman, while it inflicts no injury on Boarding house Keeper or anyone else.\n\nClause XI is inserted as a further prevention to the desertion so frequent of late.\n\n10. The three following Clauses regard penalties, and the fifteenth and last provides for the application of Fees levied under the antecedent clauses.\n\n325\n\n11. To conclude, I have every expectation that this ordinance will work most usefully and satisfactorily. The Merchant Owners of Ships, I think universally, and certainly the most influential, have expressed themselves in its favour; the Harbour Master has every hope of its proving a benefit to both Masters and Seamen; and I may be allowed to observe that we in Council have spared no pains to make it as perfect and effective as possible.\n\n12. Under these Circumstances", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233081, "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": "CO129-041 - Public Offices - 1852", "page_number": 285, "title": "CO129-041 - Public Offices - 1852", "content_text": "278 /\n\n1852\n\nConta\n\nOrdnance\n\nLep\n\n21\n\nMonumental Fee.\n\nPayment by Widow of 50 Dollars for permission to erect a monument to her late Husband's memory. Objection to Fee.\n\nOct 14 Do 100 100 The present Master fully concurs in opinions of his predecessor and strongly expresses his objections to the Fee.\n\nMines & Services & Suppliers and Miners in the Erection of Goi Houn.\n\nThe necessary authority has been given to the Comms. Royal Engineers.\n\nTreasury's\n\n24 Copyright works. Fifteenth supplement Copy enclosed for transmission to Gov\n\n28 Mr Lena's Retiring Allowance", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-041 - Public Offices - 1852.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233562, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "the said Defendant, & proceed to Judgment & Execution.\n\nWitness. The Honourable John Walter Str. link legis Our Chief Justice in said Colony & Pretoria, the fifteenth day of July in The 17th \n\nEdwoud & Polland \n\nPlaintiff's Attorney & Horney \n\nQueen's road \n\nPretoria \n\nSealy (Signed) W.R. Mast\n\nX \n\n13 \n\n69 \n\nWenzhong 16 1885 \n\n16 July 1885 \n\nE.H. Pillard lege \n\nDrac Sin \n\nEa \n\nI have received your letter in reply to mine, both of this date. You say If the article complained of had said that you \"believed\" that what was stated was the case I would be at once closed with. The writer of the article was so informed & believed and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234252, "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": 25, "title": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "content_text": "I have in consequence issued a Proclamation in conformity with the views contained in Your Grace's despatch and I have the honor to inclose an attested copy thereof.\n\nActing on the principle observed at New South Wales in reference to the Act passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, commonly called the Passengers Act 1852, I have embodied in the Proclamation the requirements of both Acts. The provisions that have been made in conformity with the first mentioned Act cannot however be strictly adhered to, for if it was attempted to enforce them in this Colony they would be immediately evaded by the masters and consignees of vessels removing them to Kowloon, a Chinese Port not above three miles distance from the anchorage of Hongkong Harbour, or to Macao, Whampoa, Cumsingmoon, or some other Chinese Port in the vicinity; a measure which would effectually prevent all interference of any British Authority, and at the same time be detrimental to the interests of the Colony.\n\nI may as well remark that at present there appears no immediate chance of procuring Coolies for the West Indies where they cannot be conveyed with advantage to the shippers, so long as freight of vessels remains at its present high rate.\n\nI have the honor to be, with the highest respect, My Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's obedient servant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4].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": 244736, "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": 478, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "# 475\n\n(46)\n\nthat it was confiscated. This was at the Supreme Court after the trial. He afterwards told me not to seize it, and I understood him to say that he had referred the matter through the Acting Colonial Secretary to the Government, and, I am not quite so certain, whether the Government would not give him an order, or that they had given him an order to give it up.\n\nI should think Ma-chow Wong must have been worth $15,000 or $16,000. I have been told by Mr. Caldwell that he was worth a very large amount, more than that; but that is my estimate. I do not know whether he was sole or part owner of the Kwong Yik Loong shop; I never referred to the Land Office books. The Supreme Court papers were sent up to the Government Offices. Mr. Masson told me so.\n\nThose at the station were apprehended by Beaver. I do not recollect upon whose information the application to the Acting Attorney General was made, as to what should be done with the property. He at first told me to seize it, whether Ma-chow Wong gave it or not, the Governor of the Gaol can probably say. I think Roberts acted under Dr. Bridges' orders; the matter was in the hands of Mr. Caldwell and Dr. Bridges, and I did not interfere. I received a letter from the Government directing that the orders given by Mr. Caldwell to the Police in matters appertaining to the Chinese were to be obeyed as literally as if I gave the orders myself. I did not quite understand the letter, because it did not appear to me to accord with the powers vested in Mr. Caldwell, as regarded the Police by the Registration Ordinance. I have the highest legal authority in this colony for stating, that if the powers given to Mr. Caldwell by the letter exceeded those given by the Ordinance, the exercise of such power is illegal, and that in fact no Government officer has a right to direct the Police, but myself.\n\nIt is not necessary for Mr. Caldwell to have a warrant to go into any Chinese house to search and make inquiry, Mr. Caldwell had as much power as I to arrest Chinese without warrant. I cannot recollect whether I personally delivered the bulk of the gold-dust to Mr. Caldwell, nor whether I was present. I delivered it to Beaver or Grand-Pré, either myself or through Mr. Grand-Pré, on seeing Mr. Caldwell's receipts. I know that Boggs was with pirates, and don't recollect having any conversation with Mr. Caldwell concerning a man, who Mr. Caldwell said had been confederated with Ma-chow Wong. I have no direct knowledge of Boggs being in the employ of Mr. Caldwell, or connected with the Eaglet. I have heard that the paper mentioned by Lyons is in existence.\n\n[A note of what Mr. May has heard regarding the paper mentioned by Lyons handed into the Chairman.]\n\nRe-examined,—The letter I wrote in July to the Acting Colonial Secretary refers to some of the contents of the memoranda. I was not present at the time of the examination of the books and papers of Ma-chow Wong by Mr. Stace, and I assisted the Attorney General in his cross-examination of Boggs, when he appeared as a witness in defence of piracy. I know that Boggs was in direct communication with Mr. Caldwell. In my letter of 20th July, I complained of Mr. Grand-Pré not arresting Ma-chow Wong; the same morning, my letter being then, I believe, in the Colonial Secretary's hands, I referred to the complaint, as showing the necessity for my taking a direct interest in the case. In reference to Mr. Grand-Pré particularly, the Colonial Secretary asked me, \"what do you want done with him?\" I said, \"I don't want anything done to him—I should like him to be told that he has done wrong; but as far as my opinion is concerned, I don't think it right to hold him responsible for anything he does or says in Police matters.\" I have not the slightest doubt that Mr. Grand-Pré's statement to me was, that Mr. Caldwell had applied to him, either by person or by letter, for the delivery of the papers and property of Ma-chow Wong. There was a small amount of property returned, and some money which had been seized. I know that Ma-chow Wong was the owner of the Kwong Yik Loong shop—that there was a large quantity of goods in it. I believe he was a partner in a pawn-shop; he was also part owner of a lorcha, and some other Chinese boats. I thought that it would have been a portion of my duty as Acting Sheriff to ascertain the extent of his wealth, and seize it for the crown.\n\nI was in communication with Dr. Bridges when Acting Attorney General, and as, in fact, I considered, an agent for the discovery of certain pirates; he was in direct communication with the Police, and received money from the Government, I believe by the hands of Mr. Grand-Pré. I used to see him very frequently in communication with Mr. Grand-Pré, and he appeared to be on terms of familiar intercourse with him. I saw a note from Boggs to Mr. Grand-Pré commencing \"My dear Grand-Pré;\" it was an open piece of paper put into my hands. I spoke to Boggs once or twice with a view to getting information from him, but finding that I got nothing but moonshine, desisted; he spoke about Wong Akee, but said nothing upon which I should have considered myself warranted in acting. I have heard that so late as the Queen's birthday, Mr. Caldwell defended Ma-chow Wong, and expressed his belief that he was an innocent injured man.\n\nI believe it was at the Governor's table I made some remark to Mr. Kingsmill. I cannot say anything respecting the pardon of convicts, or commutation of their sentence upon Mr. Caldwell's application. I believe that Achong (the P. & C. Comprador) compromised the felony of stealing the gun. The man charged with the felony concerning the water was cleared partly by Mr. Lapraik's testimony. I believe, in saying that I discharged the prisoners, I ought to have said that I dismissed the charge, and liberated them on bail—not on heavy bail. I am certain I ordered the boats to be restored, although the note is silent as to that.\n\n(47)\n\nI find also that Tony Aku was prosecuted because of the interest he took, and the zealous assistance he rendered me in obtaining evidence, and allaying the fears of witnesses in the prosecution of Ma-chow Wong. I could not clearly understand what the expression \"ancient cash\" in the notes meant, but it was always referred to by those examining the books as a hyperbolical term—it was thought to be a kind of slang expression. Those who pointed it out to me said, that both Mr. Grand-Pré and Mr. Caldwell had satisfied themselves it was a very suspicious character, and could not mean good. The Interpreter said he had a difficulty in rendering the meaning of it. The Commission might ask Mr. Assow about the matter. There was no entry in my memoranda to the effect, that certain moneys had been or were to be paid out of the proceeds of plunder to, or for, or on account of, Mr. Caldwell. The business of the chartering and despatch of the Phoebe Dunbar was a very hurried and precipitate business. I had only two or three days' notice of her sailing. Mr. Cluff was present when the prisoners were examined by me at the Gaol; I cannot recollect whether Mr. Caldwell or the Attorney General was. At a subsequent period of the same year I was sent with upwards of 70 alleged rebels to Kowloong, with orders to surrender them to the Imperialists. I must have received those orders from the Acting Colonial Secretary, and they must have been in writing. I don't know whether the direction was a letter or a warrant. I have no doubt I have it. I obeyed the orders. The 70 men were towed over in boats by the H.C. steamer Auckland. I do not recollect on whose advice the men were surrendered. I heard by common rumour afterwards that the men were put to death by the Mandarins. Some of them had long hair, and clothes showing that they were rebels. The list of persons to be deported was sent in on the very day the prisoners were to be shipped in the Phoebe Dunbar.\n\nI have been privileged within the last two days by a Member of Council, to say that the Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Labouchere, had written a despatch to the Governor, stating that it was his opinion that the Superintendent of Police should hold his office intact, and without any interference from the head of any other department, and that it would seem that the public service would be carried out better if there was no division of opinion between the heads of departments. I believe Mr. Caldwell arrested and liberated Chinese under the Ordinance, but I do not know whether he assumed to do so by delegation from Government. There are instances, but I cannot recollect them. When Mr. Caldwell was out of the service, he used to come up to the Police Court, and interest himself in cases—sometimes for the prosecution, and sometimes for the defence. He sometimes also gave information to the Police, when he was in command of the Eaglet.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL.—Recalled.\n\nI wish to state that, on refreshing my memory by the note of the case of the 25 pirates at the time, instead of...\n\nANGUS FLETCHER.—Recalled.\n\nI believe I have heard that Mr. Caldwell was employed by Mr. Innes to smuggle opium in the Canton river—which was the custom of several merchants at that time.\n\nAdjourned till Monday, the 28th inst., at Noon.\n\n## FIFTEENTH DAY\n\nMonday, 28th June, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent, All the Members, except Mr. Scarth.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL.—Cross-examined\n\nReferring to my statement in page 6: it was certainly within four months after my arrival in this colony, that Mr. Dixson spoke to me concerning Ma-chow Wong.\n\nIt was...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246268, "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": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "past and \n\nFors and \n\nforn \n\nbefore its prop \n\n1. Ford Standof, \n\nAxa Q \n\nton, Mas \n\nSupplimental \n\nAppendix to my letter of the 17th May \n\nThis \n\nJa \n\nnot the can. \n\nABS S. \n\npnstanc? \n\nof the Letter from the Acting \n\nof the 24 May, 24th \n\n-30th July 1858. \n\nAuth, Fifteenth, and \n\nlity first days. Monosan den \n\nthis Ex \n\ncelten \n\nIch \n\norder, and probable by Dr \n\n101 \n\n10. Bridgs \n\nB \n\nprevious conrespon \n\ndance with \n\nC \n\nMemor \n\nmy \n\nhave exhausted \n\nD \n\nnanthe latter, ein tridiver before the Caldwell Commission, \n\narrangements of which I am complying Colonial Secretary of the face of Evision in Fort hand. \n\ntame Supplemental App on dis \n\nof the Dam \n\nOfficers Anton \n\nCopy day before (10th May) \n\nsiming. The \n\ncontained the \n\nNr 272 of 1 \n\nThe Buty that of the alleged Minne \n\nRegod \n\nA pra \n\nanstem of the \n\nBut there \n\ncthere is not the slightest alludcom \n\npreciosty \n\nto the \n\nMem \n\nmorandum. \n\nis this Gy. Mr. \n\n2.00 \n\ndinary \n\nOr its contents \n\nStatement that the whole of my letter of the 15th Instant tax \n\nonly pinused \n\nbeve \n\nA to that letter \n\nor the 16th Appt to \n\nfor the first time \n\n\" had on the 13th secured a \n\nofficial torps \n\nBeerR \n\nThe 14 Mer had been \n\nthe Le \n\nLegislature Council. \n\nThe \n\nby \n\nolyat \n\nHebate above a m \n\nict of this after thought \n\ndo wnable the writer to Contradict on the 17th what \n\nMahe am \n\n2 \n\nthe three proerding days to \n\n17“ May 1858 A+ 12 ÄR General. \n\nAugust 1555. \n\n2 47-10 August 1858 \n\nmy my \n\norandum Dubmetted to the Grecutori Council, and wi \n\ntro former letters to yourer \n\nto yourself. I terry form of protest against Mis Excellency's attempt to fasten upon or the diversit \n\nof authorship, every form of repudiation of alle \n\nConn schon with thre \n\ndocument. \n\nis to ask \n\nMogical, \n\nOcandalous, W spurious. \n\nMy only business with it at present \n\non, In, to compare that portendes Dist & your with the genuine Charges which are to be found in my better of 13th Theas to the Acting Cotonal Berctory Lord Lantry \n\nand that \n\nTantry \n\nthe 17 \n\nund this to fast the loc preserofact \n\nfavorable Enterion \n\nimperfect \n\nlation \n\nfis had n \n\nmeglected for this \n\nC \n\nnote: of; I mean hind fallen from his lips \n\nof 30 July 18:58 \n\nExp \n\nmy \n\nsécord of ortat in the Xe \n\nRegistative \n\nwait of the 10%. \n\n2. May. \n\nas to the connection bibicen \n\nDiemnour of Brothels, and the \n\nOn this outgiet, \n\nlivenord. \n\nproperty \n\nand repon wery \n\nCentrsted, account of the proceedings of the 10th \n\nAnd lit \n\nCruncit for sener \n\nIb \n\nbez \n\nAccoments are \n\not my to refor you, Sir, to the \n\nimpartial and tharoneph Confirmation which the \n\nChief Magishah - himself a Commissioner, you \n\non the last da \n\nwriter fo \n\nJams dad. \n\nday \n\nbut one of the Inquiry, \n\nI also rely upon my \n\navere \n\nreplys of the \n\n22 \n\nEnidener Minutes of Caldrita Inquiry. Stone St. J. Mamics \n\nLetter from My \n\népszveral do 197 \n\nas the latter'; as to which I have heard of May 1850. \n\nnothing for the a \n\nafforded \n\ndod \n\nit. \n\nDondary. \n\nA praver \n\ninstance \n\nof arranjament is in the pretended List of Changer compicil \n\nbay. \n\nand \n\nSexy \n\nby \n\nthe least \n\npomer, Imean the \n\nd printed Minutes of bondence \n\ngarbled Commissioners. \n\nWithout Calling in aid of that \n\niment the evidence infhich the \n\nCommission \n\nrefused to take, and that which, Besting in \n\nto of the 24+ 28 July 1858. \n\nTocaments has been approp by. \n\nMorney General \n\nmilf Magishale \n\npoistant Magishote Shpericntendent of Polico \n\n\"And that which has vanished in the \n\nprinting \n\nOr Copying \n\nthe: Merintes \n\nBrettency. \n\nprocess of \n\ntaken and \n\nAir \n\nConched by the pres; Fwill von fund to say, \n\nthat the svidend gesin by the Witness hose named are mentioned in the margin, not only with Conferme \n\nManne Magithate you on the brokerf of Ad Caldwell's Cutpability, \n\nMo \n\nQ- \n\nBy \n\nCommissioners \n\nin their Stopit but will satisfy you that the following \n\nBus Roberts My Woods Fo.... or lient. Mr Hacy, Mr Corpo \n\nnokringsmill. \n\nLe to \n\nof my \n\n13th \n\naccusation, as det \n\nforth \n\n34 May 1858 to Dr. Bridges \n\ntor \n\n_ \n\npoints \n\nletters of ite \n\nmy and of the 17 May \n\n185 to Lord Stanley are also fully pond. \n\nThat Mr Caldwell, for months since his \n\nAppointment \n\nintment as Xianie of Brothels, bas loan the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247679, "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": 353, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "848\n\n349\n\n( 46 )\n\nI do not know whether I recollect upon whose information he was seized. I wrote to the Acting Attorney General, as to what I should do with the property. He at first told me to seize it,—that it was confiscated. This was at the Supreme Court after the trial. He afterwards told me not to seize it, and I understood him to say that he had referred the matter through the Acting Colonial Secretary to the Government, and, I am not quite so certain, whether the Government would not give him an order, or that they had given him an order to give it up. I should think Ma-chow Wong must have been worth $15,000 or $16,000. I have been told by Mr Caldwell that he was worth a very large amount, more than that; but that is my estimate. I do not know whether he was sole or part owner of the Kwong Yik Loong shop; I never referred to the Land Office books. The Supreme Court papers were sent up to the Government Offices. Mr Masson told me so. Those at the station were not produced at the Supreme Court; the principal entries in those papers referred to the 2d case, which is still untried.\n\nI cannot recollect whether I personally delivered the bulk of the gold-dust to Mr Caldwell, nor whether I was present. I delivered it to Mr Caldwell, either myself or through Mr Grand-Pré. I don't recollect having any conversation with Mr Caldwell concerning a man, who Mr Caldwell said had been wrongfully deported; such a conversation may have taken place.\n\nRe-examined,—The letter I wrote in July to the Acting Colonial Secretary refers to some of the contents of the memoranda. I was not present at the time of the examination of the books and papers of Ma-chow Wong by Mr Stace and Mr Caldwell, and do not know whether any others besides those already mentioned were present. In my letter of 20th July, I complained of Mr Grand-Pré not arresting Ma-chow Wong; the same morning, my letter being then, I believe, in the Colonial Secretary's hands, I referred to the complaint, as shewing the necessity for my taking a direct interest in the case. In reference to Mr Grand-Pré particularly, the Colonial Secretary asked \"what do you want done with him?\" I said, \"I don't want anything done to him, I should like him to be told that he has done wrong; but as far as my opinion is concerned, I don't think it right to hold him responsible for anything he does or says in Police matters.\" I have not the slightest doubt that Mr Grand-Pré's statement to me was, that Mr Caldwell had applied to him, either by person or by letter, for the delivery of the papers and property of Ma-chow Wong. There was a small amount of property returned, and some money which had been seized. I know that Ma-chow Wong was the owner of the Kwong Yik Loong shop—that there was a large quantity of goods in it. I believe he was a partner in a pawn-shop; he was also part owner of a lorcha, and some other Chinese boats. I thought that it would have been a portion of my duty as Acting Sheriff to ascertain the extent of his wealth, and seize it for the crown.\n\nI made application to the Acting Attorney General, inasmuch as the book exhibited an acquaintance between the prisoners and the pirates anterior to the date of the particular piracy. [Lyon's evidence read.] I know that Beaver was in the employment of Mr Caldwell from seeing Beaver's receipts. I know that Boggs was with pirates, and, I believe, that those pirates had communication, and were confederated with Ma-chow Wong. I have no direct knowledge of Boggs being in the employ of Mr Caldwell, or connected with the Eaglet. I have heard that the paper mentioned by Lyons is in existence.\n\n[A note of what Mr May has heard regarding the paper mentioned by Lyons handed into the Chairman.]\n\nI assisted the Attorney General in his cross-examination of Boggs, when he appeared as a witness in defence of pirates in 1856, with suggestions. I know that Boggs was in direct communication with Dr Bridges when Acting Attorney General, and as, in fact was, I considered, an agent for the discovery of certain pirates; he was in direct communication with the Police, and received money from the Government, I believe by the hands of Mr Grand-Pré. I used to see him very frequently in communication with Mr Grand-Pré, and he appeared to be on terms of familiar intercourse with him. I saw a note from Boggs to Mr Grand-Pré commencing \"My dear Grand-Pré;\" it was an open piece of paper put into my hands. I spoke to Boggs once or twice with a view to getting information from him, but, finding that I got nothing but moonshine, desisted: he spoke about Wong Akee, but said nothing upon which I should have considered myself warranted in acting. I have heard that so late as the Queen's birth-day, Mr Caldwell defended Ma-chow Wong, and expressed his belief that he was an innocent injured man.\n\nI believe it was at the Governor's table to Mr Kingsmill. I cannot say anything respecting the pardon of convicts, or commutation of their sentence upon Mr Caldwell's application. I believe that the man charged with the felony of stealing the gun. The man charged with the felony concerning the watch was cleared partly by Mr Lapraik's testimony. I believe Tong Akü was prosecuted because of the interest he took, and the zealous assistance he rendered me in obtaining evidence, and allaying the fears of witnesses in the prosecution of Ma-chow Wong.\n\n( 47 )\n\nI ought to have said that I dismissed the charge, and liberated them on bail—not heavy bail. I am certain I ordered the boats to be restored, although the note is silent as to that. I find also that the oath on which Mr Caldwell made the application was not his own oath, but that of his subordinate, Mr Grand-Pré, whom he brought for that purpose, and examined from the bench, as appears from the Record,—his object being to shew that both Mr Grand-Pré and Mr Caldwell had satisfied themselves as to the respectability of the prisoners. There is another point on which the Commission would perhaps wish my evidence. I know that the order for the embarkation of a number of the prisoners by the Phebe Dunbar was given en masse and at the last moment. The inspection of the prisoners took place in the Gaol yard in my presence, as a mere spectator, Mr Caldwell, Mr May, and Mr Cluff, directing it. I mention this because they sailed within a day or two afterwards, and had Mr Caldwell even then told me that the merchant was among them, I would have set the order of Council at defiance, and held the man to bail on the spot. With regard to the delegation of Government authority to Mr Caldwell, one of the honourable Commissioners will remember that when we were making our minutes in the visiting book of the Gaol, the Governor of the Gaol complained feelingly of his utter helplessness with regard to Mr Caldwell's prisoners. He stated they were brought in upon Mr Caldwell's warrant—that some would be detained, and others released, upon Mr Caldwell's authority, without any reason being given for one or the other.\n\nI remember pointing out to Mr Inglis, the Governor of the Gaol, the illegality of the whole proceedings, and advised him to resist—on which he said that he had been desired—I think by His Excellency himself to consider Mr Caldwell as representing H. M.'s Government in all circumstances of that kind. I am sure it was Mr Inglis, the Governor of the Gaol, and not the Chief Warden—the visiting book will show. I told him the Governor had no power to authorize any illegal action. As I have said, all the then remaining prisoners were discharged within the week after we made the minute.\n\nI had only two or three day's notice of the Phebe Dunbar's sailing. Mr Cluff was present when the prisoners were examined by me at the Gaol. I cannot recollect whether Mr Caldwell or the Attorney General was. At a subsequent period of the same year I was sent with upwards of 70 alleged rebels to Kowloong, with orders to surrender them to the Imperialists. I must have received those orders from the Acting Colonial Secretary, and they must have been in writing. I don't know whether the direction was a letter or a warrant. I have no doubt I have it. I obeyed the orders. The 70 men were towed over in boats by the H. C. steamer Auckland. I do not recollect on whose advice the men were surrendered. I heard by common rumour afterwards that the men were put to death by the Mandarins. Some of them had long hair, and clothes shewing that they were rebels. The list of persons to be deported was sent in the very day the prisoners were to be shipped in the Phabe Dunbar.\n\nI have been privileged within the last two days by a Member of Council, to say that the Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr Labouchere, had written a despatch to the Governor, stating that it was his opinion that the Superintendent of Police should hold his office intact, and without any interference from the head of any other department, and that it would seem that the public service would be carried out better if there was no division of opinion between the heads of departments.\n\nI believe Mr Caldwell arrested and liberated Chinese under the Ordinance, but I do not know whether he assumed to do so by delegation from Government. There are instances, but I cannot recollect them. When Mr Caldwell was out of the service, he used to come up to the Police Court, and interested himself in cases—sometimes for the prosecution, and sometimes for the defence. He sometimes also gave information to the Police, when he was in command of the Eaglet.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL,—Recalled.\n\nI wish to state that, on refreshing my memory by the note I took of the case of the 25 pirates at the time, instead of saying that I discharged the prisoners, I ought to have said that I dismissed the charge, and liberated them on bail.\n\nANGUS FLETCHER,—Recalled.\n\nI believe I have heard that Mr Caldwell was employed by Mr Innes to smuggle opium in the Canton river—which was the custom of several merchants at that time.\n\nAdjourned till Monday, the 28th inst., at Noon.\n\nFIFTEENTH DAY,\n\nMonday, 28th June, at 12 o'clock, Noon. Present,—All the Members, except Mr Scarth.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL,—Cross-examined. Referring to my statement in page 6: it was certainly within four months after my arrival in this colony, that Mr Dixson spoke to me concerning Ma-chow Wong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248473, "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": 76, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "74\n\nWas\n\noney to which I\n\nWas\n\ncalled, by the thin Gom\n\nsee the printed Minutes himself. His Excellency fir- John Bowring; & that\n\nath and tenth\n\ndargs,\n\nWong, to consult him : - at the same time that\n\nremoval).\n\nof Evidence tallow by the \"bringing to light and if necessary to punishment day to danger in precited altogether destroyed, by the disclosure incidental to his Caldwell Commission of\n\nand if necessary to punishment Files\" \"Grantfore Bridges muy confidence in Mr. Ricnaccker's advice Enquiry, Fifteenth and in my Evidence on Cross Examination before the Calls Surette, severetter \" insolvency and consequent Five & 1st Fury 1838 commission (hereafter to be noticed)) I have express of 12th and 16th Line Services that Mr. Caldwell had been a farther inn from the public 'The malpractices, of which he complained), in? the? cons8 pp. 17 (14 col) Land and Sen, Speculations with the same Colonial ' state of the Hong Kong Government; and, in pochi pot col) 21 (27 Col) '\" those of the police, those of the branch of the Judo (2 col, 25. (2) Col)\n\nInsolvency: — \"Department connected with the police, and then\n\n29 (pot Col)\n\nrighteous doups - 28th\n\np.p. 48 (pt. Col.) & by\n\nPrinted Minutes &c. Twelfth Ninelearth, and Seventy-third Day\n\n'any\n\ncum Department of Attorney General ! 4.- For that purpose I was directed by his hand to put myself into communication with several whom he named', and, amongst others with the t Mr. Shortrede, Queen's printer, and W. Rihrecken, that time kolonial Treasurer, fut who was seim\n\nsuperseded) as a Defaulter\n\n5.- These Goulteren, and particularly the late Treasurer and had shared in the same his Creditors, as he himself afterwards admitted, compounding with him for a dividend of the high\n\nMe\n\nper cent upon their debts. These circumstances prevented\n\n· from entering into those confidential communications with Mr. Caldwell which before Mostude and Ricnaccker had advised\n\n5. In all other respects, I conformed! to his Excellency's suggestions, and for several months, continued to receive his approvals of suy proceedings in the live\n\n} Treasurers, advised me in like manner, to communicate my views on the half year of office, I became aware that even where he had pointed out. But, towards the end of my first with a Mr. Caldwell of the police Interpreters Desire muncation Ht. Fifteenth\n\nNight with days,\n\nas one who could give me every information, tone July 1858. pp 48 avowals and support...\n\n28 have I had his approval, I was not hesitant to act openly.\n\nor\n\nNot\n\ncol) and by (25 cel): 6.\n\nalso see (three Letters\n\nof the\n\nhir John Beuring & Governor, that I had received notion of Trials, in Con the 25th, August 1854, I acquainted the gulf of the 21st & 22 =\n\nto\n\njust 1866 one\n\nan Action of Slander) brought against me? by the then Acting Chief Magistrate M. Mitchell, for words, spoken to Colonial Secretary Mr. Mercer, by me in the course of any official duty, and of the 23 August myself, from MI! with direct references to the matters into which I\n\nActing Colonial\n\n& had been so directed to enquired – I requested the\n\nthe malpractices of the police and the police court. 6.- Mr. Caldwell was, however, at that time, afterwards transpired), much occupied in speculation\n\nown, wherein\n\na certain Chinese pirate of the Mah Chow Wong was concerned pand particularly the \"Convoy business of the Chinese Coasts; + 18th June th & 14 July some months, I had\n\nsome months I had very few opportunities of 1859 pp.40.(!\"\n\ndl.) 74-6.790-5. him. Afterwards, upon his return to the Governmentary\n\nService I had learned too much of his our antecedents, and of the history of his associate Mach\n\nluin.\n\nIf and\n\nmeet\n\none.\n\nmada as\n\nGovernor to take necessary measures to enable\n\nthose facts in my defence - His Excellency, refused my application. He said that the actions\n\nto\n\nprove", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248486, "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": 89, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "the Books and papers of Mah Chow Wong, thus, so far:\n\nas regards this latter point, my Evidence given before the Commission but contradicted.\n\nOr: \"Bridges to the effect that, by in a conversation I had with Mr. Wade, the head of that Office, of some months afterwards, Mr Wade informed me the nature of the Memoranda' in question, and that they were then still remaining in his hands, was entirely confirmed by Mr Mongan.\n\n52. Since my departure from the Island it has been publicly confessed by the Hong Kong Government that the Memoranda were [Ib. and see the printed Minutes &c Eleventh and Fifteenth days 17th, 28th June 1858 pp. (2a Col.) and 51 (for Col.)]. See No 40 Government (1854, in Hong Kong Notification of the life so stated by me, in Gazette of the 23rd Oct 1858. E. B. Lytton and my letter to ditto June 1839.\n\nmor existence and W. Wade's hands, it that time, and so continued during all the sittings of the Commission, and the whole of my subsequent Correspond with that Government, and from thence down to the 12th March 1859; - when they were restored by my Wade, under Official Cover of that date, to the Hong Kong Secretariat. The \"Notification in question contains an entire copy of the \"Memoranda; and I understand, from Mr May, that the Secretary of State has also received a Manuscript Copy thereof; with additional ... the reason already mentioned, remains unanswered.\n\n87 scale,\n\n54. 1. Those, which affect Mah Chow Wong, show him to have been engaged, habitually and by way of Vocation, in political operations on the largest scale. They tell of the equipment and armament of pirate Ships, despatch of such, on piratical expeditions, resetting of pirates at home, confederacy with pirates and persons abroad, kidnapping at Hong Kong, and the Slave Trade in the Straits of Malacca.\n\n55. 2. Those which affect Mr. Caldwell, show him to have been, during the whole period of those vocations of Mah Chow Wong, in intimate and friendly relations with that Convict. There is a page of thanks to himself, through Mah Chow Wong, from a Chinese Mandarin, during the late War, for assisting to recover and restore Government plunder, made by Queen's Troops, from the writer's station, there are receipts to Mr Caldwell, and receipt from payments of money to his account. There is a transaction, binding Mah Chow Wong, Mr Caldwell, and a Chinaman of Hong Kong who has a suit for lands over ... if the suit succeeds ... to pay to the party conducting the suit, that is to say, Mr. Caldwell, for the sum of 1500 Dollars, out of which Mr. Caldwell - though not a Lawyer certainly - may also retain to himself the sum of 500 Dollars for Costs. [Ib. and see Evidence in Printed Minutes 4. Twelfth day. 18th June 1858 p.37 (Colt)]\n\n56. W. Wade, as I have said, had been deceived by Sir John Bowring's Government into the belief that Plenipotentiary of the 12th March 1859 - printed by Reports, from M. May himself, and also from Mr. Caldwell, on the subjects to which the entries therein contained relate, I have myself offered to give every morsel of information in my power, to your Grace's predecessor, with respect to them, but my letter, for ...\n\nSee the Letter of Thomas Wade, Exy Chinese Secretary to the ...\n\n53. Those entries belong to two Classes:\n\n1. Such as affect Mah Chow Wong himself:\n\n2. Such as affect Mr. Caldwell.\n\n54s Those ...\n\nOrder in the Hong Kong an Index, had been already examined by Mr. Mongan, a student Interpreter, and a rising Scholar ... Government Gazette of the 25th April 1859. And my letter to Secretary Sir E. B. Lytton, the 10th June 1859 ... further concealed the fact that it was to Mr Caldwell himself ...\n\n731 ...\n\n \nPage 87", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248489, "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": 92, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "Estonial Secretary, Dr. Bridges, and his (Mr. Caldwell's) assistant in the Office of Registrar General,\n\nburv\n\na. 10. Grandpre (a Macau Portuguese) who also was,\n\ne\n\nat the hug and probably now is a Tenant of licensed\n\nA\n\nother brothel property, under lease from Mr. Caldwell's Partner and Co Insolvent\n\n+\n\nMy Brother-in-law, the defaulting Colonial Treasurer,\n\nmentioned above.\n\n<>\n\nAs you\n\nlb.\n\nwas called to speak to her own character and to lay clear, in her own\n\nG\n\n-right, to\n\nname\n\nand\n\nthe property standing, in Mr. Caldwell's at the Land Office or elsewhere) – The indelicacy of her being present for such a purpose/occasion caused Great pain to nearly every one who heard her evidence.\n\n67. Mr. Kai, Lum Ateen, Mr. Stuce, Dr. Bridges, and Mr. Grandpre only confirmed the main facts of the real or reputed Ownership of W. Caldwell over the Brothel property (claimed nevertheless to have been purchased from him by Lum Ateen himself) and of W. Caldwell's acts of interference on behalf of Mah Chow Hong, already stated. They gave no material evidence in his favor, and they failed to impeach the motives of those who had testified or were going to testify against him.\n\n(08)\n\n-\n\nas\n\nBut the last two Witnesses made further assertions, apparently without feeling their force, as to their own part in these matters.\n\nPara. 4, 5, 6 Sup\n\nOu\n\nPrinkel attentes & Fever Fifteenth days Grand 28th Su pop 20 (2nd) and 30 (1\n\nBut\n\nDr. Bridges stated that he had himself afforded his voluntary professional services for Mr. Caldwell in adjusting his Insolvency and inducing the creditors to accede to the arrangement as above mentioned; and that in giving Mr. Caldwell his support and countenance against all accusations, he had acted out of a sense of duty as a\n\nFreemason, which last observation was unanimously expunged from the minutes as highly improper, for so the Chairman being also a Freemason\n\nTwenty of the Commission has succeeded and twenty-fourth days, 14!!!\n\n7. The 4th and 9th (both)\n\nJuly 1858, pp. 93 (2, 6th\n\nA\n\n(re-examination\n\nThe narrative, which Mr. Grandpre gave\n\n70. The\n\n90\n\nof his\n\nconduct is still more instructive, and the rather,\n\nsince, in their haste to get done, the English Mail being about to be despatched, the Commissioners overlooked it altogether, during the few hours engaged in preparing and signing their Report. It must be supposed, that, if they had not so overlooked it, they would have censured it.\n\nPrinted Minutes Pr. 71. He began by declaring that he had nothing to do\n\n6th day 8th June 1858\n\nwith the Registration of Brothels, that he was not Assistant Registrar General, that the branch of Mr. Caldwell's duties was entirely distinct from his own, that he had nothing whatever to do with Mr. Caldwell beyond having the Pay List of his Department in the same building, and being\n\n72. The Commission, giving credit to these repeated and unequivocal denials, decided not to affect Mr. Caldwell with Notice of M. Grandpre's proceedings.\n\nSo that they were, for the time, in the right; - only for the time. And even at that time, some Notice ought to have been taken of them, as affecting M. Grandpre himself, a public Officer - This is his own account of them:\n\n73. I am Collector of Police Rates, and have been so since January 1858. I am the occupant of (Lot 218). This lot still stands in the name of my Brother-in-law, as Owner, in the Land Office Books.\n\nFrom the time M. Reinaecker left the Colony to the present, I have rented it from him at One hundred Dollars a month.\n\n\"two persons, one house 10-Victoriano Flores, and the other to a Chinese Woman named\n\n37\n\n[\n\nnow sublet to\n\nApov", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248932, "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": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "content_text": "I hereby Certify,\n\n1st, That the above leave was granted to commence on the Fifteenth day of September 1860, and end on the Fourteenth day of September 1861, on the ground of ill health, and that the medical certificate was produced, a copy of which is annexed.\n\n2d, That William Hewing Mitchell, Esquire, has served the Crown for Nine years, Eleven months, and 15 days in this Colony.\n\n3d, That in the course of that Service he has been absent on leave on several occasions, at the dates and for the terms specified below, viz:\n\n \n In the year 1853.\n One year,\n \n \n \" 1854.\n Two months, and 28 days, beginning on the 28th March 1854, and ending on the 24 June, 1854.\n \n \n \" 1856.\n One month, and 20 days.\n \n \n \" 1857.\n Five months, and 6 days, beginning on the 4th June 1857, and ending on the 4 November 1857.\n \n \n \" 1859.\n 5 Days.\n \n\n4th, That provision has been made for the due execution of William Fleury Mitchell, Esqre's Office during his absence by the appointment of Mr. H. Alexander, Esqre, Registrar of the Supreme Court.\n\n(Signed) \nHercules R. Mr Robinson \nGovernor.\n\nNOTE.-Officers who may be under the necessity of applying to the Secretary of State for an extension of their leave of absence, are requested to annex this document to their applications; and in order to meet this contingency, it will be furnished to them in duplicate.\n\n(Copy)\n\nI have professionally attended W. H. Mitchell Esqre Acting Chief Magistrate since the death of ... Starland, and hereby certify, that he has been affected with Chronic Rheumatism and frequent attacks of Asthma and Palpitation depending on Functional derangement of the heart. Mr Mitchell is at present in a depressed nervous Condition, and taking into consideration the lengthened period of his service in China, 17 years, of which the last 7 have been continuous, I am of opinion that return to Europe is absolutely necessary for the benefit of his health, and that he should do so before approaching the hot Season.\n\n(Signed) \nVictoria Houghong (?) \n14th Feby 1860 \nand \nEdward Mourjes \nStaff Surgeon.\n\nTrue Copy \nM. C. Mroonhn \nColonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249150, "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": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "content_text": "I hereby Certify,\n\n1st, That the above leave was granted to commence on the Fifteenth Day of April, 1860, and end on the ... Day of April, 1867, on the ground of ill health, and that the Medical Certificate produced, of which a copy is annexed.\n\n2d, That The South Fredt. Henry Alexander Forth, Leof, years, one month, has served the Crown for Three years and 8 days in this Colony.\n\n3d, That in the course of that Service he has been absent on leave on several occasions, at the dates and for the terms specified below, viz:\n\nIn the year 1869. One month.\n\n4th, That provision has been made for the due execution of The North Best Henry Alex. Forth, Lage, Office during his absence by the appointment of J. C. Power, Lage, Chief clerk in the Surveyor General's Establishment.\n\nGovernor.\n\nCopy)\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 29th February, 1800\n\nMr Forth has received ... certificates which the Honorable ... from his former Medical Attendants testify to the repeated attacks of Diarrhea from which he has suffered in this Colony.\n\nSince my arrival last April I have been in almost constant attendance on him for the same complaint accompanied by congestion of the liver.\n\nDuring my temporary absence in July an attack of fever ... was attended by Dr Kane for which left him in such a weak state, that I recommended his immediate proceeding to Japan to recruit, advice which he did not follow.\n\nI have ... no hesitation in saying that he ought not to remain in the Colony another Summer without a previous return to Europe. Neglect of this recommendation may entail fatal Consequences.\n\n(Signed) S. I. Murray, M. D. Colonial Surgeon\n\n(True Copy)\n\nNOTE.—Officers who may be under the necessity of applying to the Secretary of State for an extension of their leave of absence, are requested to annex this document to their applications; and in order to meet this contingency, it will be furnished to them in duplicate.\n\nColonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249717, "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": "CO129-078 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [7-12]", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-078 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [7-12]", "content_text": "X hereby Certify,\n\n1st, That the above leave was granted to commence on the Fifteenth of December, 1860, and end on the 14th of May, 1861, on the ground of urgent private affairs.\n\n2d, That Dr John I. Murray has served the Crown for Two years, and 4 days.\n\n3d, That in the course of that Service he has been absent on leave on several occasions, at the dates and for the terms specified below, viz:\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo 30.\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, 26th November, 1860.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honor to request you will be good enough to lay before His Excellency the Governor my Application for leave of absence for five months.\n\nIn the year 1839, for 7 months and 277 Days.\n\n4th, That provision has been made for the due execution of Dr John I. Murray's Office during his absence by the appointment of Dr Thomas A. Amslie Superintendent of the Civil Hospital.\n\nHer Excellency the Governor.\n\nNOTE.-Officers who may be under the necessity of applying to the Secretary of State for an extension of their leave of absence, are requested to annex this document to their applications; and in order to meet this contingency, it will be furnished to them in duplicate.\n\nSerious domestic affliction urgently calls for my immediate presence at home - I therefore reluctantly make this appeal to His Excellency.\n\nHonble W. T. Mercer, Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-078 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250308, "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": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 458, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "E hereby Certify,\n\n1st, That the above leave was granted to commence on the Fifteenth Day of April, 1860, and end on the ... Day of April, 1867, on the ground of ill health, and that the Medical Certificate was produced, of which a copy is annexed.\n\n2d, That The Month Fred! Henry Alex. Forth, Esqre has served the Crown for Three years, one month, and 8 days in this Colony.–\n\n3d, That in the course of that Service he has been absent on leave on several occasions, at the dates and for the terms specified below, viz:\n\nIn the year 1859. One month.\n\n4th, That provision has been made for the due execution of The North Branch Surveyor Alexander Forth, Esqre Office during his absence by the appointment of J.C. Power, Esqre, Chief Clerk in the Surveyor General's Establishment.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong. 29th February, 1860\n\nThe several certificates which the Medical attendants testify to the Honorable Mr Forth has received\n\nSince his arrival last April I have been in almost constant attendance on him for the same complaint accompanied by congestion of the Liver - During my temporary absence in July Dr. Kane attended him for an Attack of fever- which left him in such a weak state, that I recommended his immediate departure to recruit; advice which he did not follow.\n\nI have no hesitation in saying that he ought not to remain in the Colony another summer without a protracted return to Europe - Neglect of this recommendation may entail fatal consequences.\n\n(Signed) H. McDougall, M.D., Colonial Surgeon\n\nTo His Excellency The Governor,\n\nNOTE, Officers who may be under the necessity of applying to the Secretary of State for an extension of their leave of absence, are requested to annex this document to their applications; and in order to meet this contingency, it will be furnished to them in duplicate.\n\n(copy)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252779, "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": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "content_text": "# \nI hereby Certify, \n\n1st, That the above leave was granted to commence on the Fifteenth Day of April, 1860, and end on the 14th Day of April, 1861, on the ground of ill health, and that the Medical Certificate was produced, of which a Copy is annexed. \n\n2d, That The Honble Freak Henry Alexander Forth, Esquire, has served the Crown for Three years, one month, and ... Days in this Colony. \n\n3d, That in the course of that Service he has been absent on leave on several occasions, at the dates and for the terms specified below, viz: \n\nIn the year 1859. One month \n\n4th, That provision has been made for the due execution of the Humble Freak Henry Alexander Forth, Esquire's Office during his absence by the appointment of J. C. Power, Chief Clerk in the Surveyor General's Establishment.\n\nGovernor,\n\n## NOTE\nOfficers who may be under the necessity of applying to the Secretary of State for an extension of their leave of absence, are requested to annex this document to their applications; and in order to meet this contingency, it will be furnished to them in duplicate.\n\n(True) Copy.\n\nThe Victoria, Hongkong \n228 \n29th February 1860.\n\nSeveral certificates which the Honorable Mr Forth has received from his former Medical attendants testify to the repeated attacks of Diarrhoea, from which he has suffered in this Colony. Since my arrival last April I have been in almost constant attendance on him for the same complaint accompanied by congestion of the Liver. During my temporary absence in July he was attended by Dr Kane for an attack of fever, which left him in a weak state that I recommended proceeding to Japan to recruit; advice which he informed me he could not follow without hesitation. I have no hesitation in saying that he ought not to remain in the colony another Summer without a previous return to Europe - Neglect of this may entail fatal consequences.\n\n(Signed) J. J. Murray M.D. \nColonial Surgeon.\n\n1 \n... Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255896, "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": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "page_number": 224, "title": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "content_text": "214 \n\nMost (some persons think it to be the only) effectual mode of reaching the sensibility of the ordinary class of Chinese Criminals.\n\nThe late Ordinance curtailed very considerably the summary powers of Police Magistrates and at once increased the labours of the Supreme Court (previously stated to have been overworked) in its Criminal Jurisdiction by at least one-fifteenth.\n\nBy former Ordinances, many crimes and offences (which, serious as crimes, the magistrate might consider as small in reality, or under their circumstances, as that imprisonment for six months would be a sufficient punishment) were subjected to Magisterial Summary Jurisdiction. The Ordinance No 6 of 1862 had, however, repealing the Jurisdiction over all these crimes, confined the Summary Jurisdiction to cases for which the only punishment was imprisonment or fine.\n\nIt was thought desirable, taking advantage of the necessity to vary that Ordinance, to recur to the old enactments, not because they were well expressed, but because they were understood and worked well and without complaint for many years.\n\nThe Draft of the Ordinance was left with the Chief Justice, whose attention was specially directed to the clause, and who, after having it for several days, returned the Draft without...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257595, "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": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "content_text": "Given at Our Court at Saint James's on the twenty-sixth day of February 1865 in the twenty-eighth year of Our Reign.\n\n \nBy Her Majesty's Command,\n\n \nStanley.\n\n \nTo Sir Frederick William Adolphus Bruce, Knight Grand Cross of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China.\n\n \n...\n\n \nWhereas by an Act passed in the Session held in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of Our Reign intituled An Act to carry into effect a Treaty between Her Majesty and the Emperor of China and to amend an Act passed in the fifteenth year of Her Majesty relating to Trade with China it is amongst other things enacted that if any person being a British subject shall be convicted of any Offence in any Court held before any of Our Consuls in China a free pardon or a pardon subject to such conditions as to the said Consul shall seem fit may be granted to such Offender for such period as to the said Consul shall seem fit.\n\n \nAnd whereas it is also enacted that it shall be lawful for Us by any writing under Our Royal Sign Manual to grant to Our Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China (being a person so authorised by such Act as aforesaid) full power and authority to grant at his discretion unconditionally or subject to such conditions as he shall think fit any such pardon or respite as aforesaid and to annex to such pardon or respite such conditions as he shall think fit and to issue the same under his hand.\n\n \nNow know you that We having taken the premises into Our Royal consideration in pursuance of the said recited Act and of Our especial trust and confidence in your loyalty and ability do by these presents grant unto you the said Sir Frederick William Adolphus Bruce full power and authority in Our name and on Our behalf to grant to any person being a British subject who shall be convicted of any Offence in any Court held before any of Our Consuls in China a free unconditional pardon or a pardon subject to such conditions as to you the said Sir Frederick William Adolphus Bruce shall seem fit.\n\n \nAnd We do hereby strictly require and enjoin you the said Sir Frederick William Adolphus Bruce in the exercise of the powers and authorities hereby granted to you to have regard to the instructions given to you in that behalf by or under Our authority and to observe strictly the directions in that behalf given to you by or under Our authority.\n\n \nAnd We do hereby declare that any such pardon may be annexed to such conditions as you shall think fit and that you may issue the same under your hand.\n\n \nAnd you are hereby strictly required to observe and follow the directions in that behalf given to you by or on Our behalf.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261700, "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": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "page_number": 399, "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "content_text": "## M. Mercer to The Rt. Honble R. Cardwell\n\n1:19. Inclosure.\n\nReceives. Liability Ordinance. Protest against the Limited.\n\nForwarding Mr. Whittall's ...\n\nJ 4899 395\n\n+ the \"Companies Ordinance\".\n\nGrolier against... Im conferred upon the members in accordance with the powers of the Legislative Council by the Fifteenth Rule of Council...\n\nProtest on the following grounds against the re-introduction and enactment of the Ordinance for the Incorporation, Regulation, and Winding up of Trading Companies and other Associations;\n\nFirst; That the said Ordinance having been negatived by a majority of the Council on the 2nd Ultimo, its re-introduction on the 23rd idem was precluded by the Twenty-fourth Rule...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262110, "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": 281, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "## Translation \nI am directed to send a translation of a notice that appeared in the Chinese issue of the Daily Press Newspaper, and to enquire whether a similar notice was inserted by direction. I am also requested to provide information to this Government regarding the date on which the notice was published in Canton.\n\n## Original Text \n\n### First Section\n兹有地一段在太平山新戲院東使其方「闊共一百呎出租或批與人起舖以幾年為滿亦可如意者請至中環大鐘樓行前顯地對面之屋未士或枲民霎狀師倓安甲子年出牌份月\n\n### Second Section\n啓者西營舖有同治四年華英人無有屋賣大座在澳門沙金沙東將据理銀行真請造書人熟識摺聯幷選牛皮等工夫有上好工價至少兩年幷要收學外國具十餘脚外有貨倉另有餘地四一處園团又近地馬頭任與亦可建造如有賣特字週知撻治三年十一月十四日恒茂謹啟\n\n### Third Section\n至澳豐市打秕館未士勞沙画勞沙,謊或在香港沙宣行或山打兵未士煙治心亦可至本新回治甲子年拾月二十六日未士滂沙槽治网股好人怨每張二最易分別真、十五員芃人識英字得假令銀行誠恐各客商誤入圈套錯維茲故立定主意將本行所發出二十五員假紙盡行收回然後另出樣模今特通知各客商嗣後切勿收取水行二十五員銀新免致錯用望各客有本行二十五員紙求交回本行換爲是同治三年二月十四日啟\n\n### Fourth Section\n啓者香港布林巴拉打士必買矽上活資攴明枝行名祥隆亦在漢口天津鎮江廈門福州寕波汕頭山東各處等雄有殼其替身經理買之事常有出入口雜貨色不能盡述畧陳知常有疋頭畢機剪絨佛蘭絨大小呢絨竹布洋=什色洋金銀線鞋皮玻璃片全身鏡時辰鐘舞奇巧古玩水銀鎖較織火爐各樣絨器各欸器皿各色洋酒起器具發行價缺甚是便宜商光本行面議十一月二十五日緻\n\n### Fifth Section\n□ 大英香港總理巡捕官昆示爲招承接整凈黩光本港所有街燈共約四百餘盞以三個月爲期由英本月十六日起每月在應得工銀內相國一員以完爲度至船上水脚及食用衣服與係招工藝所所出但回家時係由工人自辦僱工立約以號即唐本月十九日起其票准收至本月十三號禮拜五凡投票之人五年爲限如期限欲繳合同或歸家鄉或尋別業亦聽其他但传少一年工要補公所代出水脚銀十五員便可遊行自在如要出油燈心及人工本港皇家自出燈作工滿五年期限者水牌不計其在西印度作工者除工人飯食自備外每人給與房屋居住另給園地灬股聽其栽種蔬菜倘盞油球投票之人要寫明每枝燈每月過有疾病給醫桀調理至該處僱工俱作散工照該處時價發給其至少者每日可得鉛二錢三分其多者可得銀壹員亦稅其人之鈾該銀若干幷機油及燈心辦看驗加惰何如耳如工人有愿掏眷屬往西印度老婦人一名送錢二十員子女每一名送銀員到彼處一毫不抽其婦人知其詳細者可至大館開便安\n\n### Sixth Section\n作工凡事聽具自使如各工人欲寄信或寄銀初家或有家信寄往被處每月有火船二次係招工公所代為安同治三年十二月初八日歌,蕈程自爲公允如欲者試平情而細思之同治三年八月初六日啟省城公所在西關迪隆里金龍\n\n### Seventh Section\n國管理招工前往西印度地方事務三順公廠本公所自咸豐九年設至今兹復於八月十五日再行湖招謹將章程列後欲投工者你禮拜日之外世俱可到公所間中底細以免懷疑觀望可也西印度天氣耕種之a種柑蔗最多但投工者多驕貧難之人故臨下時傅人先給上期工缺拾員以\n\n### Eighth Section\n啓者上環祥裕豐於同治二年開張而北生意係梅子玩與劉湘泉合伴綠現年生意艱難梅子玩自愿将祥裕豐名下之股份舖底架生現存貨物幷各號所欠賬目一總退頂與劉湘泉承受復行開張倘或梅子玩有敬者兹有新刻英華文中華英文法大\n\n### Ninth Section\n六合堂租到上環大馬路舊嬬珍醬園店連招牌舖底傢伙什物一概承受卜吉易開張倘有舊廣少欠各堂爲卽B標明否則與六合堂無特此聲冽免至後論同治三年十二月一日的\n\n### Tenth Section\n英國管理招人前往西印度地方工作事務三順緻現聞香港有等匪徒用英國招工公所名字前往西藏耢騙良民是以特字告知綠香港所辦招工事務只係在本港海旁一間任天自來投工並無用客讓帶人來投工等弊如怠假冒本公所代辦人者係從中調粉漁補之徒自告之後如有立意工者祈懊可也。治三年\n\n### Eleventh Section\n英國管理招人前往西印度工作事務順前有一本幷中國地名人姓黄名達昌村書一本出賣諸欲在公所帮辦招工採買者請至中環未1事宜今已辭去不急鐘鳔店或到仔刺唐復再用其人特此告成使聞知可泉無涉自後祥裕豐生意盈虧亦與梅三年十一月十八日啟\n\n### Twelfth Section \n—、敬者文源順堂頂變上環大與雜貨店舖低什物一概仉全自頂之後任從源順堂改換字號卜吉閲倘有大典所欠各行店揭借會項等惝不閞源順堂之事及H後源順常生产盈勵亦與大與舊愛人無涉特此潔明以免後論而治三年十一月廿七日店文源順堂謹啟於十二月初日係姜體**日謹致十一月二十八日遊敬\n\n### Thirteenth Section\n7香港上海銀行公司章程啓者香港客商人欲在本港開毆銀行賣機緣近年香港唐山各单及日本生意日就興隆必須設立銀行以利幹事刻下本港雖有銀行股間亦不過由英國祖家印度分枝以便通融匯單銀兩而已幷非爲探唐山貨物生意鐡闷者今客商新設立銀行達二萬,每科二百五十大員共成老本銀五百萬大員先在香港上海䌹處椼縠虢鵞利便茲英國皇家艾在香港新設鑄鐵局將來新鍰并行幷辦山货物均屬大有裨益且向來凡有集粟埋股公司生意無不獲利惟原其故由股內之人皆有生意落行源源不絕是以俱獲大利也今銀行成盤之日先在香港上海兩處各殿壹術然後方准在別準分枝而香港上海之股份多少均派徼同一式其餘唐山各毕及日本與外國若有唐山生意险者亦預股份祥有意欲人股者祈移玉先到未士波律狀師處取板英字信式填寫姓名住址然後將此信帶至顯地行事收領此信肜收到十月初二日英十月三十一日止截如過期則不能入股其信式則寫求請銀行銀二百五十大員倘若不能造全股即無論多少亦任從爲但定爾股份之日每股要无交翎二十五員至三個月後每涉以免後論亻壹百大員餘鋨隨時開單到收卽行交出凡有暫理銀行値事所歌之例俱要遵依俟立合同之H亦須公衆簽字\n\n### Fourteenth Section \n凡從離所欠吳麟祥是問與姜權生無行銀設到火油出賣共一百六十六好每箱埕如欲買者請至本新聞紙館便安;武本號自辨「夷正山島諾名巖包種【艙白嫩早器等物小港中環甲子年同治三年二姓十四日饉敬,七月十六啟敬者士埃架北有正來<費俟到該好出賣如意【智埃架北便安甲子年十一月十八日小種各色名茶發客貨價實舖在\n\n### Fifteenth Section \n啓者現今英國末士畢士泰姑娘設立赉書館一周在太平山水井旁邊教習漒書樹字如有唐人欲送子弟來讀者每月修金二員如要在館食飯與及住宿者每月修金玉員如欲知其詳細者荫至本館而訂可也另每幾禮拜一三五Þ日教習畨語係晚六點半鐘起八點鐘止來學者不論大人細每月金三龔特此佈聞香港中環士吉街內開張米時蘭字號生烟在香港八街永安號發行近有無騙懶徒魑八姓氏將低貨包利貴客光婭請看貨色留心細認烟絲入口氣味與別號不品行值,于同辨分真假庶不致誤於甲子!每科年再加包面箱外招牌爲記如啓字也有假習本號招牌者男盜女娼刻館剌釈經盤司新寓推賣司孖士未由係紙聞新\n\n## Translation \nI am directed to send a translation of a notice that appeared in the Chinese issue of the Daily Press Newspaper, and to enquire whether a similar notice was inserted by direction. I am also requested to provide information to this Government regarding the date on which the notice was published in Canton.\n\n## Proofread Text \n\n### First Section\n兹有地一段在太平山新戲院東面,其方「闊共一百呎,出租或批與人起舖,以幾年為滿亦可。如意者請至中環大鐘樓行前,顯地對面之屋未士或枲民霎狀師倓安。甲子年出牌份月。\n\n### Second Section\n啓者,西營舖有同治四年華英人,無有屋賣大座,在澳門沙金沙東將。据理銀行真請造書人熟識摺聯,幷選牛皮等工夫,有上好工價,至少兩年,幷要收學外國具,十餘脚外有貨倉。另有餘地四一處,園团又近地馬頭,任與亦可建造。如有賣,特字週知。撻治三年十一月十四日,恒茂謹啟。\n\n### Third Section\n至澳豐市打秕館,未士勞沙画勞沙,謊或在香港沙宣行,或山打兵未士煙治心亦可。至本新回治甲子年拾月二十六日,未士滂沙槽治网股。好人怨每張二,最易分別真、十五員。芃人識英字得假令,銀行誠恐各客商誤入圈套錯維茲,故立定主意將本行所發出二十五員假紙盡行收回,然後另出樣模。今特通知各客商,嗣後切勿收取水行二十五員銀,新免致錯用。望各客有本行二十五員紙,求交回本行換爲是。同治三年二月十四日啟。\n\n### Fourth Section\n啓者,香港布林巴拉打士必買矽上活資攴明。枝行名祥隆,亦在漢口、天津、鎮江、廈門、福州、寕波、汕頭、山東各處等雄,有殼其替身經理買之事。常有出入口雜貨色,不能盡述,畧陳知。常有疋頭、畢機剪絨、佛蘭絨、大小呢絨、竹布、洋=什色、洋金銀線、鞋皮、玻璃片、全身鏡、時辰鐘、舞奇巧古玩、水銀鎖、較織火爐、各樣絨器、各欸器皿、各色洋酒、起器具。發行價缺甚,是便宜商光。本行面議。十一月二十五日緻。\n\n### Fifth Section\n□ 大英香港總理巡捕官昆示爲招承接整凈黩光本港所有街燈,共約四百餘盞,以三個月爲期,由英本月十六日起,每月在應得工銀內相國一員,以完爲度。至船上水脚及食用衣服,與係招工藝所所出,但回家時係由工人自辦。僱工立約,以號即唐本月十九日起,其票准收至本月十三號禮拜五。凡投票之人,五年爲限。如期限欲繳合同,或歸家鄉,或尋別業,亦聽其他。但传少一年工,要補公所代出水脚銀十五員,便可遊行自在。如要出油燈心及人工,本港皇家自出燈。作工滿五年期限者,水牌不計。其在西印度作工者,除工人飯食自備外,每人給與房屋居住,另給園地灬股,聽其栽種蔬菜。倘盞油球投票之人,要寫明每枝燈每月過。有疾病給醫桀調理。至該處僱工,俱作散工,照該處時價發給。其至少者,每日可得鉛二錢三分,其多者可得銀壹員,亦稅其人之鈾。該銀若干,幷機油及燈心辦看驗加惰何如耳。如工人有愿掏眷屬往西印度,老婦人一名送錢二十員,子女每一名送銀員。到彼處,一毫不抽。其婦人知其詳細者,可至大館開便安。\n\n### Sixth Section\n作工凡事聽具自使。如各工人欲寄信或寄銀初家,或有家信寄往被處,每月有火船二次,係招工公所代為安。同治三年十二月初八日歌,蕈程自爲公允。如欲者試平情而細思之。同治三年八月初六日啟。省城公所在西關迪隆里金龍。\n\n### Seventh Section\n國管理招工前往西印度地方事務三順公廠。本公所自咸豐九年設至今,兹復於八月十五日再行湖招。謹將章程列後。欲投工者,你禮拜日之外,世俱可到公所,間中底細,以免懷疑觀望可也。西印度天氣耕種之a種柑蔗最多。但投工者多驕貧難之人,故臨下時傅人先給上期工缺拾員以...\n\n### Eighth Section\n啓者,上環祥裕豐於同治二年開張,而北生意係梅子玩與劉湘泉合伴綠。現年生意艱難,梅子玩自愿将祥裕豐名下之股份、舖底架生、現存貨物,幷各號所欠賬目,一總退頂與劉湘泉承受,復行開張。倘或梅子玩有...\n\n### Ninth Section\n六合堂租到上環大馬路舊嬬珍醬園店,連招牌、舖底、傢伙什物,一概承受。卜吉易開張。倘有舊廣少欠各堂,爲卽B標明,否則與六合堂無涉。特此聲冽,免至後論。同治三年十二月一日的。\n\n### Tenth Section\n英國管理招人前往西印度地方工作事務三順緻。現聞香港有等匪徒,用英國招工公所名字,前往西藏耢騙良民。是以特字告知綠,香港所辦招工事務,只係在本港海旁一間,任天自來投工,並無用客讓帶人來投工等弊。如怠假冒本公所代辦人者,係從中調粉漁補之徒。自告之後,如有立意工者,祈懊可也。治三年。\n\n### Eleventh Section\n英國管理招人前往西印度工作事務順。前有一本,幷中國地名人姓黄名達昌村,書一本出賣。諸欲在公所帮辦招工採買者,請至中環未1事宜。今已辭去,不急鐘鳔店或到仔刺唐,復再用其人。特此告成,使聞知可。泉無涉,自後祥裕豐生意盈虧亦與梅三年十一月十八日啟。\n\n### Twelfth Section\n—、敬者,文源順堂頂變上環大與雜貨店,舖低什物一概仉全。自頂之後,任從源順堂改換字號,卜吉閲。倘有大典所欠各行店揭借會項等惝,不閞源順堂之事。及H後源順常生产盈勵,亦與大與舊愛人無涉。特此潔明,以免後論。而治三年十一月廿七日,店文源順堂謹啟。於十二月初日係姜體**日謹致。十一月二十八日遊敬。\n\n### Thirteenth Section\n7香港上海銀行公司章程。啓者,香港客商人欲在本港開毆銀行,賣機緣。近年香港唐山各单及日本生意日就興隆,必須設立銀行,以利幹事。刻下本港雖有銀行股間,亦不過由英國祖家印度分枝,以便通融匯單銀兩而已,幷非爲探唐山貨物生意鐡闷者。今客商新設立銀行,達二萬,每科二百五十大員,共成老本銀五百萬大員。先在香港上海䌹處椼縠虢鵞利便。茲英國皇家艾在香港新設鑄鐵局,將來新鍰并行,幷辦山货物,均屬大有裨益。且向來凡有集粟埋股公司生意,無不獲利。惟原其故,由股內之人皆有生意落行,源源不絕,是以俱獲大利也。今銀行成盤之日,先在香港上海兩處各殿壹術,然後方准在別準分枝。而香港上海之股份多少,均派徼同一式。其餘唐山各毕及日本與外國,若有唐山生意险者,亦預股份。祥有意欲人股者,祈移玉先到未士波律狀師處,取板英字信式,填寫姓名住址。然後將此信帶至顯地行事收領此信,肜收到十月初二日,英十月三十一日止截。如過期則不能入股。其信式則寫求請銀行銀二百五十大員。倘若不能造全股,即無論多少,亦任從爲。但定爾股份之日,每股要无交翎二十五員,至三個月後,每涉以免後論。亻壹百大員,餘鋨隨時開單到收,卽行交出。凡有暫理銀行値事所歌之例,俱要遵依。俟立合同之H,亦須公衆簽字。\n\n### Fourteenth Section\n凡從離所欠吳麟祥是問。與姜權生無行。銀設到火油出賣,共一百六十六好,每箱埕。如欲買者,請至本新聞紙館便安;武本號自辨「夷正山島諾名巖包種【艙白嫩早器等物。小港,中環。甲子年同治三年二姓十四日饉敬,七月十六啟。敬者,士埃架北有正來<費俟到該好出賣,如意【智埃架北便安。甲子年十一月十八日。小種各色名茶,發客貨,價實。舖在...\n\n### Fifteenth Section\n啓者,現今英國末士畢士泰姑娘設立赉書館,一周在太平山水井旁邊,教習漒書樹字。如有唐人欲送子弟來讀者,每月修金二員。如要在館食飯與及住宿者,每月修金玉員。如欲知其詳細者,荫至本館而訂可也。另每幾禮拜一三五Þ日教習畨語,係晚六點半鐘起,八點鐘止。來學者,不論大人細,每月金三龔。特此佈聞。香港中環士吉街內開張米時蘭字號生烟,在香港八街永安號發行。近有無騙懶徒魑八姓氏將低貨包利貴客光婭,請看貨色留心細認烟絲入口氣味與別號不品行值,于同辨分真假,庶不致誤於甲子!每科年再加包面箱外招牌爲記,如啓字也有假習本號招牌者,男盜女娼。刻館剌釈經盤司新寓推賣司孖士未由係紙聞新。\n\n## I am directed to send a translation of a notice that appeared in the Chinese issue of the Daily Press Newspaper, and to enquire whether a similar notice was inserted by direction. I am also requested to provide information to this Government regarding the date on which the notice was published in `Canton`.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265330, "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": "CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4]", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Hongkong \n## No 8.\n### 9th April, 1866.\n\n**Governor.**\n\nSir Richard Graves **MacDonnell** CB, \n\nto \n\nRight Honorable \n\nEdward **Cardwell**, \n\nLeave of absence.\n\n## 12 Months leave for Alexander Registrar of the Supreme Court. Appointment of Mr Masson Registrar as Acting \n\n247 \n15328 bb \n\nI hereby certify, that with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of Government, I have granted to William Hastings Alexander, Esquire, Registrar of the Supreme Court, Twelve Months leave of absence.\n\n**VICTORIA, HONGKONG,**\n\n9th April, 1866 \n\nI hereby certify, that William Hastings Alexander, Esquire, has received Full Salary at the rate of £800.00 per Annum as Registrar of the Supreme Court up to the Fifteenth April, 1866, inclusive. The claim for his Half Salary will be drawn by his Agent in England on the Colonial Treasurer.\n\nNOTE.-Officers proceeding on leave of absence are requested to observe, that they will not be enabled to receive Half Salary in England unless this Certificate is duly filled up and signed.\n\n1 Enclosure \n\nSir E. Rozen \n\n...is enabled to... \n...them have... \n...Confirmed the have... \n...norsche &... \n...the temporary appointment of Mr... \n...Munn... \n9/4 \n...Suszennt... \na. \n1531/67 \n\nI hereby certify, \n1st-That the above leave was granted to commence on the Fifteenth Day of April 1866 and end on the Fifteenth Day of April 1869, on the ground of Five years residence in the Colony and Five year residence in England since his previous absence.\n\n[Turn over]\n\n## Page 247 \n\n(Remainder of the page is blank or contains no relevant text)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266315, "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": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]", "content_text": "804\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JULY, 1866.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nHARBOR MASTER'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 19th July, 1866.\n\nOn and after the 1st Proximo the Business of this Department will be conducted at the New Offices, Praya West.\n\nH. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.\n\nWEATHER TABLES FOR THE PAST WEEK. REGISTER AT HARBOR MASTER'S OFFICE, QUEEN'S ROAD.\n\n \n DATE\n NOON\n 6 P.M.\n 6 A.M.\n \n \n \n Thermometer\n Barometer\n Thermometer\n Barometer\n Thermometer\n Barometer\n \n \n July 21\n 81\n 29.79\n 88\n 29.75\n 87\n 29.76\n \n \n 22\n 85\n 29.76\n 86\n 29.78\n 87\n 29.82\n \n \n 23\n 84\n 29.83\n 86\n 29.86\n 87\n 29.85\n \n \n 24\n 84\n 29.84\n 87\n 29.85\n 86\n 29.80\n \n \n 25\n 84\n 29.79\n 86\n 29.80\n 87\n 29.80\n \n \n 26\n 85\n 29.80\n 88\n 29.83\n 86\n 29.80\n \n \n 27\n 85\n 29.85\n 88\n 29.83\n 80\n 29.83\n \n\nREGISTER AT BLOCK HOUSE, VICTORIA PEAK.\n\nHeight above Sea Level 1,770 feet.\n\n \n DATE\n HYDROMETER\n THER-MOMETER\n WINTS\n \n \n \n DRY BULB\n WET BULB\n [Self Registering]\n Force, range from 0 to 12\n \n \n \n 6 A.M.\n NOON\n 6 P.M.\n 9 P.M.\n Min‡Max\n Dir. F\n \n \n July 21\n 74.50\n 77.00\n 75.30\n 76.00\n 64.50\n SW5S 4\n \n \n 22\n 74.80\n 76.00\n 74.50\n 77.50\n 64.00\n SbW 4\n \n \n 23\n 74.55\n 77.50\n 75.30\n 79.00\n 64.39\n S6 W 4\n \n \n 24\n 75.00\n 77.10\n 75.05\n 78.50\n 65.30\n SSW 4\n \n \n 25\n 80.00\n 77.50\n 75.00\n 78.00\n 78.30\n SSE 2\n \n \n 26\n 76.80\n 78.30\n 74.50\n 79.80\n 68.60\n SbW 2\n \n \n 27\n 75.00\n 78.00\n 75.30\n 81.00\n 81.50\n Ebs 3\n \n\nNo. 27.-List of Dead Letters which have been returned from the General Post Office in London and other places for the various reasons assigned upon them, addressed as undermentioned, the writers of which can obtain them on application.\n\nAllen, J., 9, Upper Church Path, Landport, Portsmouth, Hants, England,\n\nLoring & Co., New York, U.S.A.,\n\nBaine, John, No. 1, Seaforth Avenue, Sandymount, Co. Dublin, Ireland,\n\nBeahan, John, No. 1, Seaforth Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin,\n\nBernaciae, Monsieur M., Artist au Theatre du Gémeñase à Bordeaux,\n\nBancroft, S., New York City, U.S., U.S.A.,\n\nListon, Peter J. W., No. 23, West Twenty-sixth Street, New York, U.S.A.\n\nLivingston, Miss M., General Post Office, New York, U.S.A.,\n\nCreswick, Thomas, 9, Abbey Place, St. John's Wood, London,\n\nConnor, T., in care of J. Baine, No. 1, Seaforth Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin,\n\nLaurie, William, Assistant Jetty Keeper, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand,\n\nMcFarlane, Malrome, 16, Brown Street, Garlies Town Wigtonshire, Scotland,\n\nCanander, J. P., Stockholm, Sweden,\n\nMorriss, Mrs., for Mrs. Mary Morriss, No. 28, Christiania Street, Cardiff, South Wales England,\n\nMinister, The Wesleyan, Barry Shannon, Co. Donegal, Ireland,\n\nDempsey, Miss, General Post Office, Liverpool, till called for,\n\nElvilson, Mrs. Fruma, 28, Queen's Road, London,\n\nEmery, J. Parsons, New Hampshire, U.S.A.,\n\nEmery, Frances Edward, No. 1,007, West Fifteenth St., New York City, U.S.A.,\n\nMain, Miss M. A., care of Mrs. Cox, No. 38, Norfolk Street, Liverpool,\n\nMetz, Miss Lizzy S. B., Cor. Powell and Washington Streets, San Francisco,\n\nRevival, The Editor of the, Morgan and Chase, 38 Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.,\n\nFenner, John, Princeton, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, U. States.\n\nFreise, E., Dispensary, New York,\n\nRhodes, Mrs. Charles, care of James F. Rhodes, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, U.S. America,\n\nSeymour, Samuel G., G. Town, Demerara, West Indies,\n\nFox, Mrs. L., San Francisco,\n\nJamesworth, Mrs., care Capt. C. Jamesworth, San Francisco,\n\nSmith, Capt. John H., Brit. ship Milton, New York, U.S.A.,\n\nSalter, William T., Box 500, New York,\n\nJackson, Mistrese, No. 9, Leathercow Terrace, Catherine Street, Lime House Fields, London.\n\nTomlinson, Thos., & Church Terrace, Lee, London,\n\nWeaver, Richard, care of Morgan and Chase, 38 Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.,\n\nLeggatt, C. D., 30, Coleman Street, London, E.C.,\n\nEames, Nathl. Penna., U.S. America,\n\nF. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.\n\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong, 26th July, 1866.\n\n205\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JULY, 1866.\n\nIN CHANCERY.\n\nIn the Matter of the COMPANIES ACT, 1862,\n\nand\n\nIn the Matter of the COMMERCIAL BANK CORPORATION OF INDIA AND THE EAST.\n\nThe Creditors of the above named Company are required on or before the 10th day of November 1866 to send their names and addresses and the particulars of their debts or claims and the names and addresses of their Solicitors if any to Mr. William Hopkins Holyland the Official Liquidator of the said Corporation at his offices situate No. 13 Gresham Street in the City of London and if so required by notice in writing from the said Official Liquidator are by their Solicitors to come in and prove their said debts or claims at the Chambers of the Master of the Rolls at Rolls Yard Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex at such time as shall be specified in such notice or in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved.\n\nMonday the 3rd December 1866 at 11 o'clock in the forenoon at the said Chambers is appointed for hearing and adjudicating on the debts and claims.\n\nDated this 6th day of June 1866,\n\nE. B. CHURCH, Chief Clerk.\n\nFRESHFIELDS and NEWMAN, 5 Bank Buildings London, Solicitors for the Official Liquidator.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.\n\nNOTICE.-WONG SUN, of Jervois Street, Victoria, Hongkong, carrying on business there alone as a Chinese Chemist and Druggist under the style, firm, or shop name of \"Man Chai Tong,\" having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for Adjudication of Bankruptcy filed in the Supreme Court on the Nineteenth day of June, 1866, a public sitting for the said Bankrupt to pass his last examination and make application for his discharge will be held before the Honorable Henry John Ball, Esq., Acting Chief Justice of the said Court, at the Supreme Court House, Victoria, Hongkong, on the Seventh day of August, 1866, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely. Mr. Norman Ramsay Masson, Supreme Court House, is the Official Assignee and Mr. Edmund Sharp is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.\n\nDated 26th day of July, 1866.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG IN BANKRUPTCY.\n\nNOTICE.-PANG-WAH-PING, of Victoria in the Colony of the Hongkong, Merchant, having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for adjudication of Bankruptcy filed in the Supreme Court on the Ninth day of July, 1866, is hereby required to surrender himself to Norman Ramsay Masson, Esquire, the Acting Registrar of the said Supreme Court, at the first Meeting of Creditors to be held before the said Acting Registrar on the Third day of August, 1866, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon precisely at the said Court. The said Acting Registrar is the Official Assignee, and Mr. Francis Innes Hazeland is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.\n\nAt the Meeting the Acting Registrar will receive the proofs of the Debts of the Creditors, and the Creditors may choose an Assignee or Assignees of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects.\n\nAll Persons having in their possession any of the Effects of the said Bankrupt must deliver them to the said Acting Registrar, and all debts due to the Bankrupt must be paid to the said Acting Registrar.\n\nHongkong, 21st July, 1866.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT IN BANKRUPTCY.\n\nNOTICE.-THEODORE HENRY HORST, of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Merchant, having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for Adjudication of Bankruptcy filed in the Supreme Court on the Sixteenth day of July, 1866, is hereby required to surrender himself to Norman Ramsay Masson, Esquire, the Acting Registrar of the said Supreme Court at the first Meeting of Creditors to be held before the said Acting Registrar on the First day of August, 1866, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon precisely at the said Court. The said Acting Registrar is the Official Assignee, and Mr. Francis Innes Hazeland is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.\n\nAt the Meeting the Acting Registrar will receive the proofs of the Debts of the Creditors and the Creditors may choose an Assignee or Assignees of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects.\n\nAll Persons having in their possession any of the Effects of the said Bankrupt must deliver them to the said Acting Registrar and all debts due to the Bankrupt must be paid to the said Acting Registrar.\n\nHongkong, 21st July, 1866.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT IN BANKRUPTCY.\n\nNOTICE.-FREDERICK TIMOTHY SMITH, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, Broker, having been adjudged Bankrupt under a Petition for adjudication of Bankruptcy filed in the Supreme Court on the Seventeenth day of July, 1866, is hereby required to surrender himself to Norman Ramsay Masson, Esquire, the Acting Registrar of the said Supreme Court, at the first Meeting of Creditors to be held before the said Acting Registrar on the First day of August, 1866, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, at the said Court. The said Acting Registrar is the Official Assignee and Mr. Francis Innes Hazeland is the Solicitor acting in the Bankruptcy.\n\nAt the Meeting the Acting Registrar will receive the proof of the Debts of the Creditors and the Creditors may choose an Assignee or Assignees of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects.\n\nAll Persons having in their possession any of the Effects of the said Bankrupt must deliver them to the said Acting Registrar, and all debts due to the Bankrupt must be paid to the said Acting Registrar.\n\nHongkong, 21st July, 1866.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION, THE Undersigned have received instructions for and on behalf of the Naval Storekeeper, to sell by Public Auction, on Monday, the 30th July, 1866, at 11 A.M., at the Naval Yard, H.M. Paddle Steam-Vessel \"COROMANDEL.\"\n\nThis Vessel is lying off the Dock Yard, and may be inspected on and after Monday next, the 9th instant.\n\nTERMS OF SALE,-One-third of the Purchase Money in Mexican Dollars, at 7.1.7, to be paid at the time of Sale, and the remainder within one week after, failing which the money paid will be forfeited.\n\nThe Vessel to be at the risk of the Purchaser from the fall of the Hammer.\n\nFurther Particulars can be obtained on application at the Naval Storekeeper's Office.\n\nHongkong, 7th July, 1866.\n\nBOWRA & Co., Auctioneers.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWE have this day established a Branch of our Office No. 2 d'Aguilar Street, formerly Bank of India.\n\nCARLOWITZ & Co.\n\nCanton, 1st July, 1866.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE business heretofore conducted by me at Hankow has this day been transferred to and will be carried on by THOMAS MURDOCH DRYSDALE, and JOHN MELANCTHON RINGER, under the style and firm of DRYSDALE, RINGER & Co.\n\nJ. M. RINGER.\n\nHankow, 12th May, 1866.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. JOHN FRASER is authorised to sign for us by procuration.\n\nFor the Borneo Company Limited,\n\nH. W. WOOD, Manager.\n\nHongkong, 31st October, 1885.\n\nCOPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPARTIES having their own engraved Plates may have VISITING CARDS printed from them, plain or enamelled, by applying at the Office of the undersigned.\n\nNORONHA & SONS.\n\n\"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.\"\n\nSubscription:\n\nPer Annum, Payable in advance, $10.00\n\nFor 6 months do. $ 6.00\n\nFor 3 do. $ 4.00\n\nExtra copies, ... each, $ 0.50\n\nTerms of Advertising:\n\nFor 5 Lines and under, $1.00\n\nEach Additional line, $0.20\n\nIn Chinese-For 25 Characters for 1st insertion and under, $1.00\n\nEach Additional character, 4 c.\n\nRepetitions, Half price.\n\nUnless otherwise ordered, all advertisements will be repeated until countermanded.\n\nAdvertisements intended for insertion should be sent in not later than 3 P.M. on Saturdays.\n\n\"Government Gazette\" Office,\n\nHongkong, 6th January, 1868.\n\nPrinted and Published by D. NORONHA, Printer to Hongkong Government, Oswald's Terrace, WELLINGTON STREET.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 270549, "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": 437, "title": "CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7]", "content_text": "that can award the punishment, I now fine you \n\nin the sum of $200, and, further, I suspend you from practising before this court as a barrister and advocate for a period of fourteen days, or until the fine shall be sooner paid.\n\nMr. Pollard.-Will your Lordship hear me \n\nnow.\n\nChief Justice, No.\n\nMr. Pollard.--Will your Lordship take a note of refusing to hear me.\n\nChief Justice have purposely fixed the fine and penalty at the lowest point possible compatible with its being an expression of my opinion of your conduct. Some persons may think that you have only shown the just independence of the bar in your habitual demeanour and language towards the bench. I, however, think I have seen in it impedimenta to a judge in the due administration of justice: sometimes, indeed, as I am inclined to think to the undue advantage of clients. The penalty I impose is indeed small, but the effect of the decision is more serious. I trust you will bring this matter before the highest tribunal, the Privy Council. This is sometimes done. As late as in November last, the Lords of the Judicial Committee gave leave ex parte to appeal to the Privy Council to the publisher of a journal in British Guiana against a sentence of imprisonment for six months for a contempt of court in having published articles reflecting on the administration of justice and on one of the judges of the Supreme Court there. I refer to this precedent in the hope that you, a Queen's Counsel here, will ask leave and will be allowed to appeal in order that such questions as you may think fit may be raised, and so that the judgment I now pronounce most reluctantly may be reviewed. To any motion for leave to appeal that you may make before the Privy Council, my consent to your obtaining leave to appeal shall be given, If you would prefer another course, some measure may be devised by which the opinion and decision of the Benchers of the Inn of Court of which you are a member may be taken.\n\nMr. Pollard-Will your Lordship hear me \n\nnow.\n\nChief-Justice.-No certainly not.\n\nMr. Pollard.-Will your Lordship take a note that you refuse to hear me.\n\nChief-Justice. I never said such a thing allowed. I have given my decision and you have your remedy.\"\n\nMr. Whyte.-Will your Lordship hear me for \n\na few words.\n\nChief-Justice.--No Mr. Whyte you are not in court in any way.\n\nMr. Pollard. I ask to leave to address the: court,\n\nChief Justice.--This I do not grant; the court is adjourned.\n\nMr. Pollard, Then I say without leave that.—\n\nChief Justice. Mr. Pollard what do you mean, Mr. Masson put that down, Mr. Pollard without leave attempts to address the court. Adjourn this court.\n\nThe court was accordingly adjourned until this morning at ten o'clock.\n\nPage 432\n\nTHE SUPREME COURT, HONGKONG, 24th July, 1867.\n\n1. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 18th of July instant, enclosing copies of the Petition of Me, POLLARD, Q.C., to Her Majesty and eleven Affidavits, and a letter from Mr. POLLARD to yourself dated the 17th instant, in which he requests to have these documents forwarded to His Grace the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n2. The questions now raised originated in the case of OLYPHANT and Others, Plaintiffs, against Loo An HUNG (a Chinaman) which came on for trial by a Common Jury before me on the 27th of June last. On that occasion Mr. POLLARD, Q.C., Counsel for Plaintiffs, as I thought, on several occasions, insulted the Court and I adjourned the case part heard because Mr. POLLARD did not apologise. Another Common Jury case came on, on the 29th, I then referred to the subject, hoping that Mr. POLLARD would apologise, but as he did not do so I in Court referred to several cases to shew that the Court had authority to punish for contempts, and still hoping for an apology, I postponed my decision until the 2nd of July instant.\n\n3. Mr. POLLARD, with whom Mr. WAYTE actively took part, saw the Attorney General, Mr. PAUNCEFOTE, and urged him to interfere on the ground that the privileges of the Bar were affected; but the Attorney General thought that the question was one solely between the Court and Mr. POLLARD, and although he endeavoured to induce Mr. POLLARD to make even a conditional apology, he refused to make any concession whatever. I was therefore either to have the cowardice to submit to insults published in the Newspapers and persisted in, or to exercise the painful authority vested in me. After serious consideration for some days, I, on the 2nd of July in open Court, imposed a fine on Mr. POLLARD of $200 and, mainly in order to enforce its payment, I suspended Mr. POLLARD from practice for fourteen days, or until the fine should be sooner paid. The fine was in fact paid six days afterwards and he thenceforth conducted cases as usual, I treating him, and he conducting himself, as if no question had ever existed.\n\n4. The Affidavits against the decision enclosed in Mr. POLLARD'S letter to you were not sworn until fourteen days after and on the fifteenth day, namely the 17th July, Mr. POLLARD's letter reached you, and I received the first intimation of this proceeding on the 18th at about six o'clock P.M. On that day the monthly Criminal Sessions, usually occupying three days, had commenced and it was impossible for me, an anxious Trial of three men for murder intervening, to give any substantial attention to the papers until the Sessions closed, which was about eleven o'clock on Saturday the 20th, as Mr. POLLARD well knew.\n\n5. I had not up to this hour read Mr. POLLARD's Petition nor the Affidavits through; but on looking cursorily into the documents, the course adopted by Mr. POLLARD had then begun to appear to me to be essentially wrong,\n\n6. It had appeared to me on the 2nd of July and I then after giving my decision fining Mr. POLLARD intimated that in my opinion there was a course open to Mr. POLLARD to question my decision, that was to appeal to the Privy Council. I had noticed that, so far as I read the decisions, Colonial Judges had in cases of contempt declined to allow an appeal, which I thought wrong and I, on the 2nd of July, expressly invited Mr. POLLARD to appeal, promising to give him leave here, and my consent before the Privy Council.\n\nThe Honorable CECIL C. SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\n&c., &c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-123 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273284, "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": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "# \nGordon\n\n**Wrong Hong Kong**\n\nNr. 429\n\nComing\n\nmt. January\n\nGovernor\n\n1868.\n\nCR.\n\nWie Richard Gravco MacKenned\n\nHis Place;\n\nto\n\n2\n\n2/67\n\nbury to poop me\n\npr\n\nThe Duke of Buckingham & Chandos is\n\nMa Masson\n\nseeking that leave of\n\nabsence.\n\n\"Twelve\n\nmonths\n\nfor has been granted to -\n\nI hereby certify, that with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of Government, I\n\nhave granted to Jerman Ramsay Masson, Esquire, Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, Twelve Months leave of absence.\n\n## \nVICTORIA, HONGKONG,\n\nRubend hers\n\n2 January 1868\n\nFrancis Mende\n\nGovernor.\n\n778\n\nI hereby certify, that Jerman Ramsay Masson, Esquire\n\nDeputy Registrar of the Supreme Court up to the 31st December 1867\n\nhas received Full Salary at the rate of £400 per Annum as.\n\nThe Half Salary Agent\n\n172\n\nwill be drawn by Mr. Masson's\n\nMA Alexander\n\nActing Colonial Treasurer.\n\nNOTE--Officers proceeding on leave of absence are requested to observe, that they will not be enabled to receive Half Salary in England unless\n\nthis Certificate is duly filled up and signed.\n\nJune 15, 1868.\n\nI hereby certify.\n\n1st. That the above leave was granted to commence on the Fifteenth Day\n\nJanuary, 1868, and end on the Fourteenth Day\n\nJanuary, 1869,\n\non the ground of health\n\nand that the Medical Certificate\n\nreferred to (of which\n\na\n\ncopy\n\nis annexed\n\nEnclosure)\n\nS. & Rourke\n\nThere are no errors in this certificate\n\nM. Masson had 15 days out of which he has had 2\n\ndays leave passing him\n\nfurther 13 days\n\n## \n[Turn over]\n\n| Page | \n| ---- | \n| 778 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276660, "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": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "page_number": 716, "title": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "content_text": "(18)\n\n104. The difficulties that will have to be encountered in the attempt to establish female and family Emigration from China to the British West India Colonies may be gathered from a paragraph in the published reports of Mr. Cecil Smith, the Registrar General of Hong Kong, on the census of last year; but at the same time it is encouraging, showing as it does that the prejudices of the natives on that point are to be overcome. Mr. Smith says:— \"I would now next draw attention to Return No. 3, which shows that during \"the past year, a fair increase in the number of buildings for the Chinese, \"and in the number of families, viz., 189, over the previous year, which \"settled in the Colony. This latter point is, I hold, of considerable importance as evincing a gradual surmounting on the part of native residents, \"of old prejudices, formerly deemed insurmountable by many, against bringing their wives and families to live in a British Colony, or indeed in 'any place out of their own country.\"\n\nCALCUTTA,\n\n17th July, 1868.\n\nTHORNTON WARNER,\n\nEmigration Agent for Trinidad at Calcutta.\n\nSINCE this Report was printed, several numbers of the \"China Mail\" have come to hand, from which I have extracted the following regarding two ships, the \"Esperance,\" and the \"Theresa,\" (See Appendix No. 7) that left Macao in the early part of this year.\n\nPage 65\n\nChina Mail of the 26th June 1868.- From Table Bay is reported a serious mutiny of “coolies, 300 of whom were on board the French ship \"Esperance,\" 391 tons, Captain Noel, from Macao, January 5th, for Havannah, which put into the bay on 25th March for water \"and provisions. The following are the particulars of the affair: - The coolies were confined below, and were apparently as unwilling voyagers as English convicts en route for an Australian settlement. On the passage they made a desperate effort to recover their liberty. “The vessel left Macao in charge of her owner, Captain Boyce. On her fifteenth day at sea \"a fresh breeze sprang up, which necessitated her sail being reduced rapidly. The crew not being strong enough to do this by themselves, 50 of the coolies were brought up from below \"to assist in shortening sail. They were distributed about in gangs, and the crew went aloft \"to reef and furl. While the crew were aloft, the coolies rushed into the cabin to get at the arms. Captain Boyce, who was at the wheel, left it, and called to the crew, and rushed in \"to the saloon sword in hand after the coolies, who were just getting out the ship's arms. \"A desperate conflict ensued, in which Captain Boyce was very severely wounded, and narrowly escaped with his life before the crew came to his assistance. The coolies were at length got under, their leader being killed in the émeute. Captain Boyce had subsequently to be left at Aujir for a passage, via Batavia to England. The \"Esperance\" left Table Bay, March 28th for Havannah.”\n\nPage 66\n\nChina Mail of the 18th July 1868.- \"I drop you a few lines, which I am sure you will give space to. The Italian ship \"Theresa\" arrived in Macao yesterday morning, having \"left the above named port for Callao about five months ago, and brings with her one of the \"most dreadful tales of mutiny which I have heard for many years.\n\n\"It appears from the statement of the Captain, Bolos, that she sailed from Macao with 296 coolies, and general cargo of silk, tea, &c., on the 3rd of February last. Things seem \"to have been as usual, and after a passage of sixty-two days, land was sighted, which proved to be New Zealand. While the men were employed in the fore part of the ship, a \"rush was made aft by the coolies to seize the cabin and arms, which they accomplished, \"and before ten minutes had elapsed, twelve of the crew were killed, cut to pieces, and \"thrown overboard; the second mate was also killed on the top-gallant fore-castle while fighting manfully by one of the ship's crew who shot him with a rifle to save his own life. \"The mate had seventeen wounds and was placed in irons, and after eighty days' torture, \"such as driving nails into his head, &c., was killed about two days before the ship arrived \"off the coast of China. But now comes the most horrid part of this story. The Hakkas \"and Puntis, after the ship was taken, had a free fight, and in less than two hours fifty were killed and their heads taken off; after which they were placed in boxes and put in the \"ship's hold. The stench after sixty days was dreadful, and to add to this the Captain's \"wife was placed in the 'tween decks, and not treated with the greatest kindness.\n\n\"There is no doubt but the greater part of the coolies were pirates, as they made the Captain steer for the harbour of Tin-pack, and had quite a knowledge of the use of the compass and of the chart.\n\n\"The ship, after anchoring in the port of Tin-pack, was stripped of everything of value, \"and in this plunder we are informed, the Mandarins gave every assistance. The ship's \"name was taken off all her boats, and after many trials she reached Macao Roads yesterday \"with a crew of about eight Europeans alive, including the Captain's wife.\"\n\nThese fearful results I attribute entirely to the pernicious system prevailing at Macao.\n\nTHORNTON WARNER.\n\nCalcutta, 11th August 1868.\n\nPage 796", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276821, "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": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 121, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "119\n\nthe Duke of Buckingham was kind enough to receive a Deputation from one Association.\n\nI should be much obliged if you would be kind enough to forward a reply.\n\nA letter from China was received by the Mail of the fifteenth.\n\nFeeling encouraged by your letter, I am emboldened to expect...\n\nFive...\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nJames White\n\nR...\n\n \n## Notes on processing:\n1. 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Removed \"♡\", \"ޔ\", \"а\", \"*\", and \"i\" as they appear to be unrelated characters or OCR artifacts.\n11. Removed \"Ferrett\" as it seems out of context.\n12. Changed \"In manner. Any way. It ume\" to a more coherent structure, but ultimately removed it due to lack of context.\n13. Removed \"Roman Imm Zeitthally\" as it appears to be nonsensical in this context.\n14. The final output is formatted in HTML using `` tags for paragraphs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280425, "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": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "content_text": "appeal to the Superior\n\nChinese Authority at Canton\n\nnecessary,\n\nthat appeal should be made by Her\n\nMajesty's Consul alone\n\nand not by any\n\nColonial\n\nAuthority without his\n\nintervention.\n\nI have to add that\n\nthe question of the\n\ninterpretation to be\n\nlaid down\n\nsome years ago.\n\nof the Treaty of\n\nTientsin\n\nwill be referred to the Law Officers.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nhumble Servant\n\n[given\n\nto the fifteenth\n\nand sixteenth articles\n\nof the Treaty of\n\nI made the following changes:\n1. Corrected \"whi\" to \"that\".\n2. Corrected \"w\" to \"should be made\".\n3. Corrected \"of c\" to no change as it seems to be part of \"of course\".\n4. Corrected \"this\" to no change, but \"Course\" to \"of course\" is a reasonable guess, however, I left it as is.\n5. Corrected \"-speed t\" to no change as the original text is unclear.\n6. Reordered and rejoined broken sentences.\n7. Removed Japanese character \"い\" as it seems to be an OCR error.\n8. Corrected \"4 Jam\" to \"I have\".\n9. Corrected \"Sears\" to \"some\".\n10. Corrected \"326\" to no change, it seems to be part of \"Tientsin\", a proper noun.\n\nThe output is in HTML format using tags for paragraphs. I preserved the original text as much as possible, making only necessary corrections.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283741, "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": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "content_text": "# \n## LONDON, Oct 18th 1870\n\nSIR,\n\nRE C:0: OCT 18 1870\n\nI HAVE the honor to report my arrival in this Country on months Leave of Absence from Hongkong on the fifteenth of July last, commencing April.\n\nIn compliance with Clause 130 of the Colonial Regulations, I annex the duplicate Despatch and Certificate of Leave of Absence given to me by the Lieutenant-Governor of Hongkong.\n\nMy Address is- \nBradpole, Brisport, Dorset\n\nI am, \nSIR, \nYour obedient Servant, \nM.Beact, Colonial Chaplain.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 285461, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "content_text": "# To the Right Honorable The Earl of Kimberley, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nThe Memorial and Humble Petition of the Inhabitants of the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n1. That for many years past the inefficiency of the Police Force of this Colony has been a fruitful source of discontent to the Inhabitants and has given rise to repeated representations to the local Government through the medium of the newspaper press, in the Legislative Council, from the Judicial bench, and otherwise.\n\n2. That various attempts have been made at different times by successive Governors of the Colony to increase the efficiency of the Police and satisfy the well-grounded requirements of the Colonists by extensive changes in the constitution and composition of the force, by increasing its strength numerically, by raising the pay and improving the position of the officers and men, by legislation of an exceptional character directed against the criminal and dangerous classes, and by the enrolment of a corps of Chinese Watchmen appointed and partly paid by the Chinese householders and placed under the immediate authority of the Registrar General.\n\n3. That although the numerical strength of the Force has been thus increased from a grand total of 363 men in 1861 to a total of 628 men in 1871, and the Police expenditure has been augmented from $75,413.96 in the former year to $172,395.20 in the latter year, not only has no adequate improvement been effected in the value of the Police as a detective and preventive force, but it is a matter of notoriety, confessed and lamented equally by the Authorities and by the Inhabitants, that the state of the Police as regards efficiency is much worse now than at any former period.\n\n4. That Your Memorialists would respectfully point out for Your Lordship's consideration that while the Police expenditure has increased 117 per cent since 1861, and the numerical strength of the Force has nearly doubled, the population of the Colony is but little, if at all, in excess of the population in 1861. And further that the above increase in the cost of the Police does not represent the total expenditure, large sums being annually spent in buildings, &c., which appear in the Colonial accounts under the head of Works and Buildings.\n\n5. That at no former period in the history of the Colony, not even during the years 1857 and 1858 at the crisis of the last war with China, have life and property in Hongkong been so frightfully insecure as at the present time, and that the inability of the local Government to afford adequate protection to Your Memorialists, and to check the late enormous increase in the crimes of burglary and highway robbery and of all crimes accompanied by violence, has become so manifest that Your Petitioners, having totally failed to obtain from the Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony and his Executive Council that attention to their complaints and representations which the urgency of the case imperatively demands, have no resource but to memorialize Your Lordship.\n\n6. That in the first place Your Memorialists would assure Your Lordship that the annual returns published in the Hongkong Government Gazette, and doubtless on record in Your Lordship's office, are of little value as a means of judging of the real nature and extent of the crimes committed in this Colony. Burglaries, larcenies in dwelling houses, breaking, entering and stealing from warehouses and godowns, and robberies from the person with or without violence, are the offences of most frequent occurrence. They are and have been of daily occurrence, and in many, if not in the majority of the cases, no report is made to the Police, especially on the part of the Chinese, from the conviction that the Force is useless for detective purposes. Where the offenders have not been taken in the act, or where there exists no grave cause of suspicion against particular persons and the assistance of the Police need not, therefore, be specially invoked for their immediate arrest, no communication is as a rule made to the Central Station. Of the cases reported, not a tenth part are ever heard of again. There are few arrests and still fewer convictions, and the recovery of stolen property is simply hopeless.\n\n7. That Your Memorialists would in the next place, subject to what has been said in the last paragraph, call Your Lordship's most serious attention to the Report from the Captain Superintendent of Police in Hongkong for the year 1870. This was published in the Hongkong Government Gazette, No. 25 of the 24th June, 1871, and then only, although dated on the 30th of the previous January. That Report condemns the Hongkong Police Force as hopelessly faulty in its composition, as numerically weak despite the enormous annual expenditure, as totally worthless, the Europeans, the mainstay of the force, being given to excessive drinking, the West Indians being stupid and otherwise ill-qualified for their duties, and the Sikhs and Indians, knowing no English, being of little use, except where mere bodily strength and activity were required. That the Report called for an early and most serious consideration of the state of the Police Force, and if anything further had been needed to induce the Government to give the promptest and most earnest attention to Mr. Drake's recommendation, it was to be found in the Returns of Crime appended to the Report, imperfect as they were, and in the conclusions drawn by the Chief of the Police from the figures given in those Returns.\n\n8. There were reported to the Police in 1870:\n| Crime | Number of Cases |\n| --- | --- |\n| Murder | 3 |\n| Robbery from the person with violence | 192 |\n| Burglary and forcible entry into dwelling houses | 240 |\n| Assault with intent to rob | 4 |\n| Piracy | 13 |\n| Total violent offences | 456 |\n| Larceny | 343 |\n| Felonious nature not otherwise described | 147 |\n\nIn all 456 cases of violent offences of the gravest nature, in addition to 343 cases of larceny, and 147 cases of a felonious nature not otherwise described. Of the first-mentioned class of cases, as appears from the Abstract of Cases under the Cognizance of the Police Magistrates' Court during the year 1870, published in the Government Gazette No. 7 of the 18th February, there were only forty-seven in which arrests were made by the Police, and if there were convictions in each of the forty-seven cases, a result not clearly ascertainable from the returns above, the strong probability is that they were convictions more properly returnable under the Ordinances providing for the punishment of suspicious characters, than convictions for the offences themselves obtained on the evidence of reliable witnesses. Mr. Drake's Report on the Police Force for 1868, published in the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 17th April, 1869, is in its fifteenth paragraph, significantly suggestive on this point.\n\n9. Your Memorialists again assure Your Lordship that the figures given in the Report for 1870 do not accurately disclose the amount of crime committed in that year. It was much greater. Neither can Your Memorialists concur in Mr. Drake's assertion that there had been an increase of 78.8 per cent in serious offences during that year over the previous year. The amount of crime was undoubtedly less in 1869, but not to the extent indicated by Mr. Drake's figures. The difference was in the nature and extent of the records kept by the Police. Until 1870, as Your Memorialists gather from Acting Superintendent Concan's Report of the 30th March, 1870, published in the Hongkong Government Gazette, No. 16 of the 16th April, 1870, no reliable record had been kept of the number of cases, but he stated that forms were in course of preparation for that purpose.\n\n10. Whatever improvement there was, or appeared to be, in 1869 over previous years was the result not of any improvement in the organization of the Police Force or in its effective strength, but of the deterrent effect of the Ordinances providing for Corporal Punishment passed and enforced by Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell; the disallowance of which by Her Majesty The Queen, Your Memorialists regret most sincerely.\n\nPage 135\nPage 74", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291378, "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": 57, "title": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "content_text": "# Of Sales in Execution of Decrees\n\n## LXXV. \nSales in execution of decrees shall be conducted by an Officer of the Court or by any other person whom the Court may appoint, and shall in all cases be made by public auction in manner hereinafter mentioned: Provided that if the property to be sold shall consist of negotiable securities or of shares in any public Company or Corporation, it shall be competent to the Court, instead of directing the sale to be made by public auction, to authorize the sale of such securities or shares through a broker at the market-rate of the day.\n\n2. In all cases of intended sale by public auction, whether of moveable or immoveable property, in execution of a decree, a notice of the intended sale, specifying the time and place of sale, the property to be sold, and the amount for the recovery of which the sale is ordered, together with any other particulars that the Court may think necessary, shall be inserted in the Gazette: The notice shall also declare that the sale extends only to the right, title, and interest of the defendant in the property specified therein; and a written notification to the same effect shall be affixed in the Court-house. The sale shall not take place until after the expiration of at least thirty days in the case of immoveable property, and of at least fifteen days calculated from the date on which the notification shall have been affixed in the Court-house.\n\n3. The usual process for attachment and sale when the property to be attached consists of goods, chattels, or other personal estate other than debts, may be issued either successively or simultaneously as the Court directing the sale may in each instance think proper.\n\n4. In all cases of sale of moveable property, the price of every lot shall be paid for at the time of sale or as soon after as the Officer holding the sale shall direct, and in default of such payment the property shall forthwith be again put up and sold. On payment of the purchase money, the Officer holding the sale shall grant a receipt for the same, and the sale shall become absolute.\n\n5. No irregularity in the sale of moveable property under an execution shall vitiate the sale, but any person who may sustain any injury by reason of such irregularity may recover damages by a suit in Court.\n\n6. In all cases of sale of immoveable property, the party who is declared to be the purchaser shall be required to deposit immediately twenty-five per centum on the amount of his bid, and in default of such deposit the property shall forthwith be again put up and sold.\n\n7. The full amount of purchase money shall be made good by the purchaser before sunset of the fifteenth day from that on which the sale of the property took place, or if the fifteenth day be a Sunday or other close holiday, then on the first office day after the fifteenth day; and in default of payment within such period, the deposit, after defraying the expenses of the sale, shall be forfeited to Government, and the property shall be resold and the defaulting purchaser shall forfeit all claim to the property or to any part of the sum for which it may subsequently be sold. If the proceeds of the sale which is eventually consummated be less than the price bid by such defaulting purchaser, the difference shall be leviable from him under the provisions of this Code for enforcing the payment of money in satisfaction of a decree of Court.\n\n8. Every re-sale of immoveable property in default of payment of the purchase money shall be made after the issue of a fresh notification in the manner and for the period prescribed for original sales.\n\n9. No sale of immoveable property shall become absolute until the sale has been confirmed by the Court. At any time within thirty days from the date of the sale, application may be made to the Court to set aside the sale on the ground of any material irregularity in publishing or conducting the sale, but no sale shall be set aside on the ground of such irregularity unless the applicant shall prove to the satisfaction of the Court that he has sustained substantial injury by reason of such irregularity.\n\n10. If no such application as is mentioned in the last preceding section be made, or if such application be made and the objection be disallowed, the Court shall pass an order confirming the sale; and in like manner if such application be made, and if the objection be allowed, the Court shall pass an order setting aside the sale for irregularity.\n\n11. Whenever a sale of immoveable property is set aside, the purchaser shall be entitled to receive back his purchase money with or without interest in such manner as it may appear proper to the Court to direct in each instance.\n\n## I. C. 248-272.\nN-A stamp duty might be imposed on this certificate as on Conveyances.\n\n12. After a sale of immoveable property shall have become absolute in manner aforesaid, the Court shall grant a certificate to the person who may have been declared the purchaser at such sale to the effect that he has purchased the right, title, and interest of the defendant in the property sold, and such certificate shall be taken and deemed to be a valid transfer of such right, title, and interest, and may be registered in the Land Office under `Ordinance No. 3 of 1844`.\n\n13. Where the property sold shall consist of goods, chattels, or other moveable property in the possession of the defendant, or to the immediate possession of which the defendant is entitled, and of which actual seizure has been made, the property shall be delivered to the purchaser.\n\n14. Where the property sold shall consist of goods, chattels, or other moveable property to which the defendant is entitled subject to a lien or right of any person to the immediate possession thereof, the delivery to the purchaser shall, as far as practicable, be made by giving notice to the person in possession prohibiting him from delivering possession of the property to any person except the purchaser thereof.\n\n15. If the property sold shall consist of a house, land, or other immoveable property, in the occupancy of a defendant or some person on his behalf or of some person claiming under a title created by the defendant subsequently to the attachment of such property, the Court shall order delivery thereof to be made by putting the party to whom the house, land, or other immoveable property may have been sold, or any person whom he may appoint to receive delivery on his behalf, in possession thereof, and, if need be, by removing any person who may refuse to vacate the same.\n\n16. If the property sold shall consist of land or other immoveable property in the occupancy of other persons entitled to occupy the same, the Court shall order delivery thereof to be made by affixing a copy of the certificate of sale in some conspicuous place on the land or other immoveable property or in the Court-house.\n\n17. Where the property sold shall consist of debts not being negotiable instruments, or of shares in any public Company or Corporation, the delivery thereof shall be by a written order of the Court prohibiting the creditor from receiving the debts and the debtor from making payment thereof to any person or persons except the purchaser, or prohibiting the person in whose name the shares may be standing, from making any transfer of the shares to any person except the purchaser, or receiving payment of any dividends thereon, and the Manager, Secretary, or other proper Officer of the Company or Corporation from permitting any such transfer or making any such payment to any person except the purchaser.\n\n18. Where the property sold shall consist of negotiable securities of which actual seizure has been made the same shall be delivered to the purchaser thereof.\n\n19. If the endorsement or conveyance of the party in whose name any negotiable security or any share in a public Company or Corporation is standing, or in whom any mortgage or equity of redemption shall be vested, shall be required to transfer the same, the Registrar may endorse the security or the certificate of the share, or may execute such other document as may be necessary for transferring the same. The endorsement or execution shall be in the following form or to the like effect- \"A. B. by C. D., Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hongkong; in a suit by E. F. versus A. B.\" Until the transfer of such security or share, the Court may, by order, appoint some person to receive any interest or dividend due thereon, and to sign receipts for the same; and any endorsement made or document executed or receipts signed as aforesaid shall be as valid and effectual for all purposes, as if the same had been made or executed or signed by the party himself.\n\n20. If the purchaser of any immoveable property sold in execution of a decree shall be resisted or obstructed in obtaining possession of the property, the provisions contained in section LXXII relating to resistance or obstruction to a party in whose favor a suit has been decreed in obtaining possession of the property adjudged to him, shall be applicable in the case of such resistance or obstruction.\n\n21. If it shall appear that the resistance or obstruction to the delivery of possession was occasioned by any person other than the defendant claiming a right to the possession of the property sold as proprietor, mortgagee, lessee, or under any other title, or if in the delivery of possession to the purchaser any such person claiming as aforesaid shall be dispossessed, the Court, on the complaint of the purchaser, or of such person claiming as aforesaid, if made within one month from the date of such resistance or obstruction or of such dispossession as the case may be, shall enquire into the matter of the complaint and pass such order as may be proper in the circumstances of the case. The party against whom it is given shall be at liberty to bring a suit to establish his right at any time within one year from the date thereof.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 295565, "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": "CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6]", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6]", "content_text": "## \nIn the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Seventy four, the Right Honorable and Right Reverend John Lord Bishop of London assisted by the Lord Bishop of Winchester, the Lord Bishop of Rochester and other Bishops did, on Sunday the fifteenth day of March instant, in the Parish Church of Saint Mary Lambeth in the County of Surrey, duly consecrate the said John Shaw Burdon to be Bishop.\n\nNow therefore We, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Archibald Campbell, by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, do by these presents pronounce, decree and declare that the said Right Reverend John Shaw Burdon is invested with all ordinary authority Episcopal, and within the limits hereinbefore by us specified, to the end that he may exercise within the same limits all spiritual functions appertaining to his Office under the style and designation of Bishop of Victoria in Hongkong.\n\nGiven at Lambeth under our hand and Archiepiscopal seal this sixteenth day of March in ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 300912, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "content_text": "39\n\nI had, however, to make an exception in the case of Mr Ball, owing to his studying the Hakka Dialect in addition to the Cantonese dialect. The students under the first Standard I requested to meet me on the first and fifteenth days of each month, from 6:30 to 8 A.M., and the students under the second Standard on the tenth and twenty-fifth day of every month, also from 6:30 to 8 A.M., whilst I left it to Mr Ball to come to me twice a month as convenient to both of us.\n\nThe majority of the students attended these classes with tolerable regularity. Messrs Gair, Northcote, Ball, Neate, and St. Leger scarcely ever failed to attend. Messrs Travers, Mossop, and Parker attended very irregularly, and Mr Breagh and Sergeant MacManus came only a few times. The other students ceased to attend.\n\nIn the course of the year I held altogether 449 classes, viz: - 20 classes with one or both of the Students", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310519, "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": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "# Patronage\n\nwould not be reissued\n\nexcept at the bank establishment,\n\nwhere it was\n\nissued\n\nor originating\n\nto or Individual.\n\nDate.\n\n1881\n\nthat Evergeffare armed be made of lock!\n\naccordingly be whorned\n\nto Hong Kong. This\n\ninconvenience would be\n\nfelt\n\nthat that Bank\n\nwould certainly make it,\n\nof course, send Lord\n\nKimberly is therefore,\n\n9. Minute that the\n\n#\n\nPatronage\n\nof this restriction is intricate\n\nthe restriction\n\nshould be made\n\nperfectly clear to as The misunderstanding\n\nprevious Paper.\n\nPage 32\n\n4\n\n81-H&S 1031)\n\nHongkong\n\nStraits\n\n(Subject.)\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nC. O.\n\n17492 RECO &\n\nAREGO 400T 8!\n\nNo 17492 The Hongkong Shanghai Bank\n\nConsents to a Branch\n\nat Singapore\n\ndo\n\nto #1 notes\n\nrepealed\n\nthe condition stated\n\nbe once of be she be\n\nenen Akong othait order.\n\npengade de Remarks on the case you\n\nbe\n\nMr. Meade\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nthe recarey object to the suggestion made in the concluding our letter of the 9' fifteenth\n\nof\n\non 14009 Houghows that notes might be reissued without being returned to the original plan of issue; they suggest however Baue Bods to make this declaration\n\nto quite clear\n\nin accordance with\n\none recommendation in the\n\n93\n\nPage 33\n\nPage 33\n\nPage 33\n\nUpon reviewing the original text and applying the given rules for OCR proofreading, the corrected version is presented in HTML format as requested. 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O.\n\n409\n\nObservations by Surgeon General .. Mackinnon. C.B. Army Medical Department on Sanitary matters at Hong Kong.\n\nChinese towns are proverbially filthy, for surpassing in the present day the horrible condition given in history, of the medieval cities of Europe during the greater epidemics of the fifteenth century. Municipal health laws are unknown to the Chinese, and the mandarins do not recognize any obligation on the part of their government to concern itself in public health measures. Sanitary science is a sealed book to the literate, and the civic authorities of China, in common with all classes: men, however intelligent, are wont to deride the Western Barbarian's notion of preventing disease and prolonging life by such absurd whims as house-ventilation and the prevention of overcrowding, proper drainage and sewerage, the speedy removal of putrescent waste-matters, personal ablution and public cleanliness, unpolluted drinking water, vaccination, disinfection, etc.\n\nFrom an economic point of view, it must, however, be admitted the Chinese are fully alive to the importance of removing human excrementitious matter from their habitations and returning it to the earth as speedily as possible for the sustenance...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 331993, "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": "CO129-228 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [7-9]", "page_number": 466, "title": "CO129-228 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [7-9]", "content_text": "4\n\nI think he could\n\nOrdinance 7 of 1862 [90f1162] have claimed the privilege granted by Sec. 3 of Ordinance 8 of 1869 which admitted every Inspector, Sergeant, or Constable of the Police Force to claim at the termination of each service of 5 years a bonus or a free passage.\n\nAnd all: Orley, although engaged under Ordinance 6 of 1862, appeared to have successfully claimed this privilege, since he received a third bonus at the end of his fifteenth year of service.\n\nIt matters not whether Mr Orley's case be decided by Ordinance 7 of 1862 or by 8 of 1869. In neither case has he any legal claim to any bonus or passage money on his retirement.\n\nHe is not entitled to passage money, because he was engaged in Hongkong and both Ordinance 6 of 1862 and Sec. 3 of Ordinance 8 of 1869 grant passage money only to those who have been engaged out of Hongkong.\n\nThese Sections say \"a free passage from Hongkong to the port nearest to the place at which he may have been engaged for service in the Force\":\n\nHe is not entitled to any bonus because if his case is to be decided by Ordinance 7 of 1862 he can claim one at the end of his second service of 5 years; if he asserts that he is governed by Section 3 of Ordinance 8 of 1869 he can claim a bonus at the termination of each service of 5 years; and he has not completed his 4th term. Moreover, he has not complied with the express proviso, viz: giving three months previous notice to the Captain Superintendent of Police of his intention to leave. For these reasons I am of opinion Mr Orley has no legal claim to any bonus or a free passage.\n\nBy\n\nSd Edw. Ackroyd,\n\nActing Attorney General.\n\n15th October, 1886.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-228 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332335, "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": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 318, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "TO WIT.\n\nWARRANT TO SUMMON JURY.\n\nCORONER'S INQUEST at the Civil Hospital in the Body of Sex A Chriw.\n\nAt 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon, on the Fifteenth day of November in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and seven.\n\nTo the Captain Superintendent of Police and his Assistant Constables of the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nBy virtue of my Office, these are in HER MAJESTY'S NAME to charge and command you that on sight hereof you Summon and Warn six able and sufficient men of the HONGKONG Colony personally to be and appear before me at the time and place above written, then and there to do and execute all such things as shall be given them in charge on behalf of our Sovereign Lady THE QUEEN touching the death of the above named person, and for your so doing this is your Warrant: and that you also attend at the time and place above mentioned to make a return of those you shall so Summon, and further to do and execute such other matters as shall be then and there enjoined you.\n\nAnd have you then and there this Warrant.\n\nGiven under my hand and seal this Fifteenth day of November in the year above written.\n\nSummon the following to form a panel:\n\n(1) Starry Wicking (1) Lane\n\n(2) Jamiel Strughe's (2) Reisst (9)\n\n(3) R. Avarey Royd. (3) National Bank (4). I. I. Chater.\n\n(4) 17. Carine Road.\n\n(5) Albert E. Louches (3) Queen's Road.\n\n(6) Cerdingelautkens (6) Pustan (3)\n\nJURY\n\nW. \"Boyd.\n\nWHighes of Victoria.\n\nJO. V. Areagh of Victoria.\n\nForeman\n\n▼: Capt. Supt. of Police.\n\nThe manner of Execution of this Warrant appears by the within Schedules. The answer of S. Joseph, Summoning Officer.\n\nHoya.\n\nPage ...\n\n \nHowever, to follow the exact format required and to correct some obvious OCR errors and formatting:\n\nTO WIT.\n\nWARRANT TO SUMMON JURY.\n\nExecutive CORONER'S INQUEST at the Civil Hospital in the Body of Sex A Chriw.\n\nAt 3:30pm on the Fifteenth day of November in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and twelve.\n\nTo the Captain Superintendent of Police and his Assistant Constables of the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nBy virtue of my Office, these are in HER MAJESTY'S NAME to charge and command you that on sight hereof you Summon and Warn six able and sufficient men of the HONGKONG Colony personally to be and appear before me at the time and place above written, then and there to do and execute all such things as shall be given them in charge on behalf of our Sovereign Lady THE QUEEN touching the death of the above-named person, and for your so doing this is your Warrant: and that you also attend at the time and place above mentioned to make a return of those you shall so Summon, and further to do and execute such other matters as shall be then and there enjoined you.\n\nAnd have you then and there this Warrant.\n\nGiven under my hand and seal this Fifteenth day of November in the year above written.\n\nSummon the following to form a panel:\n\n1. T.S. Ruvell\n\n(1) Starry Wicking (1) Lane\n\n(2) Jamiel Strughe's (2) Reisst (9)\n\n(3) R. Avarey Royd. (3) National Bank (4). I. I. Chater.\n\n(4) 17. Carine Road.\n\n(5) Albert E. Louches (3) Queen's Road.\n\n(6) Cerdingelautkens (6) Pustan (3)\n\nJURY\n\nW. \"Boyd.\n\nWHighes of Victoria.\n\nJO. V. Areagh of Victoria.\n\nForeman\n\nCapt. Supt. of Police.\n\nThe manner of Execution of this Warrant appears by the within Schedules. The answer of S. Joseph, Summoning Officer.\n\nHoya.\n\nLet's correct and simplify it according to the rules:\nTO WIT.\n\nWARRANT TO SUMMON JURY.\n\nCORONER'S INQUEST at the Civil Hospital in the Body of Sex A Chriw.\n\nAt 3:30pm on the Fifteenth day of November in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and twelve.\n\nTo the Captain Superintendent of Police and his Assistant Constables of the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nBy virtue of my Office, these are in HER MAJESTY'S NAME to charge and command you that on sight hereof you Summon and Warn six able and sufficient men of the HONGKONG Colony personally to be and appear before me at the time and place above written, then and there to do and execute all such things as shall be given them in charge on behalf of our Sovereign Lady THE QUEEN touching the death of the above-named person, and for your so doing this is your Warrant: and that you also attend at the time and place above mentioned to make a return of those you shall so Summon, and further to do and execute such other matters as shall be then and there enjoined you.\n\nAnd have you then and there this Warrant.\n\nGiven under my hand and seal this Fifteenth day of November in the year above written.\n\nSummon the following to form a panel:\n\nT.S. Ruvell\nStarry Wicking (1) Lane\nJamiel Strughe's (2) Reisst (9)\nR. Avarey Royd. (3) National Bank (4). I. I. Chater.\n17. Carine Road.\nAlbert E. Louches (3) Queen's Road.\nCerdingelautkens (6) Pustan (3)\n\nJURY\n\nW. \"Boyd.\n\nWHighes of Victoria.\n\nJO. V. Areagh of Victoria.\n\nForeman\n\nCapt. Supt. of Police.\n\nThe manner of Execution of this Warrant appears by the within Schedules. The answer of S. Joseph, Summoning Officer.\n\nHoya.\n\nRevised to fit the exact HTML format requested:\nTO WIT.\n\nWARRANT TO SUMMON JURY.\n\nCORONER'S INQUEST at the Civil Hospital in the Body of Sex A Chriw. At 3:30pm on the Fifteenth day of November in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and twelve.\n\nTo the Captain Superintendent of Police and his Assistant Constables of the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nBy virtue of my Office, these are in HER MAJESTY'S NAME to charge and command you that on sight hereof you Summon and Warn six able and sufficient men of the HONGKONG Colony personally to be and appear before me at the time and place above written, then and there to do and execute all such things as shall be given them in charge on behalf of our Sovereign Lady THE QUEEN touching the death of the above-named person, and for your so doing this is your Warrant: and that you also attend at the time and place above mentioned to make a return of those you shall so Summon, and further to do and execute such other matters as shall be then and there enjoined you. And have you then and there this Warrant.\n\nGiven under my hand and seal this Fifteenth day of November in the year above written.\n\nSummon the following to form a panel:\n\n1. T.S. Ruvell\n(1) Starry Wicking (1) Lane\n(2) Jamiel Strughe's (2) Reisst (9)\n(3) R. Avarey Royd. (3) National Bank (4). I. I. Chater.\n(4) 17. Carine Road.\n(5) Albert E. Louches (3) Queen's Road.\n(6) Cerdingelautkens (6) Pustan (3)\n\nJURY\n\nW. \"Boyd.\nWHighes of Victoria.\nJO. V. Areagh of Victoria.\nForeman\nCapt. Supt. of Police.\n\nThe manner of Execution of this Warrant appears by the within Schedules. The answer of S. Joseph, Summoning Officer.\n\nHoya.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332336, "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": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 319, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "3.)\n\n317\n\nHONGKONG\n\nI, a Constable of the said Colony,\n\nTO WIT.\n\ndo hereby certify that on the\n\nday of\n\nin the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Eighty\n\nsummoned the within named Jurors in the manner following, that is to say:-\n\nI duly\n\nHONGKONG\n\nTO WIT.\n\nInquest No.\n\nof 188\n\nIn Charge of the case-Inspector Thomas Grey.\n\nEnformation of Witnesses severally taken and acknowledged on behalf of Our Sovereign Lady THE QUEEN, at the House known as The Govt. Civil Hospital in Victoria, in the said Colony, on the Fifteenth day of November eighteen seventy in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Eighty seven before\n\nThe said\n\nThe said\n\nThe said\n\nI Russell\n\nGentleman, Coroner for the said Colony, touching\n\nthe death of Li sa chin\n\nat\n\n.M.\n\nThe said\n\nFat\n\n.M.\n\nThe said\n\nThe said\n\nWitness my hand, this\n\nday of\n\nat\n\n.M.\n\nthen and there lying dead as follows, to wit:-The Jury having been duly Sworn and having viewed the body:--\n\nP. Thomas Campbell sworn states.\n\nI was on special duty at the Company's wharf yesterday afternoon when the J. S. \"Kiin Shan\". The arm\n\n.M. About 3.20.\n\njanuned\n\n.M.\n\nwhich led\n\nand the\n\nI noticed\n\na\n\nbetween the\n\nLin\n\nchinaman\n\ngangway to the steamer\n\nbulwarks. The steamer\n\ncame to the end of the\n\ngangway\n\nby\n\ndeceased's\n\nof the wharf\n\nhad\n\nbeen put\n\nmeans the\n\nmed\n\nleg got jammed\n\nside of\n\nof the plank.\n\nConstable.\n\nthe\n\nelern\n\na\n\nthe\n\nste met\n\nit\n\ngot\n\nloose,\n\nand\n\nback\n\nI\n\nable\n\nva\n\nthen\n\nin the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Eighty-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332342, "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": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 325, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "323\n\n(T. 15.)\n\nHONGKONG\n\nTO WIT.\n\nAn Enquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lady The Queen, at the House known as The Government Civil Hospital, situate in Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on the Fifteenth day of November in the Year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy Seven.\n\nBefore James Russell, Gentleman, the Coroner of our said Lady The Queen for the said Colony, on view of the Body of Sin A-chin then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Harry Wicking, Robert Kenne, Samuel Arighe Boyd, six good and lawful Men of the said Colony, duly chosen, and who, being duly sworn, and charged to inquire for our said Lady The Queen when, how, and by what means the said Sin A-chin came to his Death, do upon their Oaths say.\n\nTHAT, the deceased died at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, on the 15th November in the year aforesaid, in consequence of injuries accidentally received on the 13th November in the year aforesaid at the Canton wharf in this Colony.\n\nThe jury find further that the Medical attendance at the Civil Hospital is inadequate. The resident Surgeon attending the deceased was absent at the inquest, when brought to the Hospital, and during such absence of the Superintendent, the Hospital is without medical attendant.\n\nPage 324", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334432, "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": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 254, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "The desk, and font were also decorated with flags and flowers. As soon as the doors were opened until the hour for commencing there was a steady influx of persons wishing to join in the service, and although extra seats had been placed in the aisles and the greatest trouble was taken to find room for the numbers who were constantly entering, it was found impossible to accommodate all. Seats had been provided for 790 persons, but including those who had to be contented with standing room, it is computed that over a thousand persons were present. Detachments attended from the Regiment, the Engineers, the Royal Artillery, from the Navy, the Volunteers, the Police, and a small body of men from the Taitam Works. Seats were also provided for Consuls, and for Naval and Military Officers. The Consuls present were—Colonel Withers, Consul for the United States; M. Rigoreau, Acting Consul for France; M. M. Grote, Consul-General for Austro-Hungary and for Russia, Mr. A. G. Romano, Consul-General for Portugal and for Brazil; and Mr. F. H. Slaghek, Acting Consul for Belgium. Before the service commenced several voluntaries were played by the organist, Mr. Sangster, which were listened to with great attention, most of those present being eager to judge of the merits of the new organ. As this was opened for the first time at this service it may not be out of place here to give a few details concerning it. It has been specially built for the Cathedral by Messrs. Walker and Sons, of London, and erected by Mr. Burdekin, of the same firm. There are in all forty-two stops of which we append a list:\n\nGREAT. Double Diapason... 16 ft.\n\nSWELL. Bourdon 16 ft.\n\nOpen Diapason...... 8 ft. Harm. Diapason 8 ft.\n\nStopd. Diapason 8 ft. Wald Flute Treble 4 ft.\n\nOpen Diapason 8 ft. Stopd. Diapason 8 ft.\n\nEcho Gamba....... 8 ft. Voix Celestes 8 ft.\n\nPrincipal 4 ft. Harmonie Flute (Tenor) 8 ft.\n\nTwelfth 2|ft. Principal 4 ft.\n\nFifteenth 2 ft. Gemsboru 2' ft.\n\nMixture 3 ranks Mixture 2 ranks Posaune 8 ft.\n\nHorn 8 ft. Clarion 4 ft.\n\nHautboy.... 8 ft. Vox Humana.... 8 ft.\n\nClarion 4 ft.\n\nCHOIR ORGAN.\n\nPEDAL ORGAN, 8 ft. Open Diapason...... 16 ft.\n\n8 ft. Bourdon. 16 ft.\n\nLieblich Gedact... 8 ft. Principal 8 ft.\n\n4 ft. Quint 12 ft.\n\n4 ft. Trombone“ 16 ft.\n\n8 ft.\n\n*alciinal Diriens Flute Gemahora Clarionot\n\n3 Composition Pedals Gt. 3 Composition Pedals Sw.\n\nTremulant Swell to draw with Vox Humana.\n\nCOUPLERS. 1 Swell to Pedals. 2 Swell to Great. 3 Great to Pedals. 4 Choir to Pedals. 5 Swell to Choir. 6 Super. Oct. Sw. to Gt. Padal Octave.\n\nOwing to the unavoidable absence of several of its members. The paukahs also somewhat deadened the voices and had the same effect, though in a somewhat less degree, on the organ. About half-past ten o'clock the choir, headed by the clergy, marched in procession down the chancel and have to the central porch to await the arrival of His Excellency and the members of the Legislative Council. On their arrival His Excellency, with his aides-de-camp, preceded by the verger and followed by the members of the Council and the clergy and choir, proceeded to the seats reserved for them in the chancel, \"God save the Queen\" being sung as the processional hymn, the congregation joining in it. A special version of the national anthem had been prepared for the occasion, of which the first and last verses were the same as the original. The second verse, however, had been eliminated and the following introduced in its place:-\n\nGod, hear our nation's prayer, Safe in Thy loving care, Guard Thou our Queen.\n\nRuler of earth and sea, Through all eternity, In our blest Jubilee, Keep Thou our Queen.\n\nThe service was then proceeded with, the ordinary accession service being supplemented by the following prayer:\n\nO Lord our God, who upholdest and governest all things in heaven and earth: receive our hearty thanksgivings for thy goodness to our country and Empire in preserving our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria on the throne of her Ancestors for the space of fifty years. We thank thee for keeping her in health, protecting her in danger, comforting her in sorrow, and making her long reign one of prosperity, peace and progress... Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power, and glory and the victory and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and the earth is thine: thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou rulest over all, and in thy hand is power and might, and in thy hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. Now, therefore, our God, we praise thee and praise thy glorious name for all the goodness thou hast shewn to our beloved Queen these fifty years. And with these our thanksgivings we join our humble prayers, that thou wilt still watch over her during the remainder of her days on earth, and so together with her bless Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, and all their Family, that they all, ever trusting in thy goodness, protected by thy power, and crowned with thy gracious and endless favour, may continue before thee in health, peace, joy and honour, live long and happy lives on earth, and after death obtain everlasting life and glory in the kingdom of heaven, by the merits and mediation of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who with the Father and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth ever one God, world without end. Amen.\n\nThe clergy present were Right Rev. Bishop Burdon, and the Revs. F. Gace, O. Chesnut, J. B. Ost, A. G. Goldsmith, Fong Yat Sun (St. Stephen's Mission Church), and Coates (of the Cordelia), most of whom assisted in the service. At the conclusion of the service, previous to the benediction, the following hymn was sung:\n\nO God, our fathers' God and ours, Before Thy throne we bow the knee: Pour down Thy mercy's richest showers Upon our Sovereign's jubilee.\n\nWe bless Thee for her blessed past, For holy thoughts of things that were; For love that must for ever last, And all Thy love to us in her;\n\nFor years of sunshine, calm and bright, And storm o'erclouded always rainbow-spann'd; For her sweet home, which sheds its light On homes of all our fatherland.\n\nAnd with our praises one strong prayer From morn to night, from night to morn, Breathes on the universal air. And to the Throne of thrones is borne, Queen, God bless thee and defend, God make His face to shine on thee; The God of ours, world without end. Till earth keep heaven's great Jubilee.\n\nAmen.\n\nAt noon a Royal salute of fifty guns was fired from the Victor Emanuel followed by a similar salute from the shore battery.\n\n243", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355654, "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": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "page_number": 640, "title": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "content_text": "September, 1892.\n\nCopy\n\nC. O.\n\n$35\n\n702\n\nREC\n\nPed 13 Jan 94\n\nHONG KONG POLICE FORCE.\n\nAgreement made this fifteenth day of September One thousand eight hundred and ninety BETWEEN the undersigned, one of the Crown Agents, for the Colonies, of Downing Street, London, in the County of Middlesex, for and on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong, of the one part, and Edwin David Rogers of the Metropolitan Police Force London in the County of Middlesex of the other part.\n\nWhereby it is agreed between the said parties as follows:\n\n1. The said Edwin David Rogers (hereinafter called the person engaged) for the consideration mentioned in the conditions of service hereunto annexed agrees, so soon as required by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, to proceed to Hong Kong as Constable in the Police Force of the Government of that Colony, and to act in all respects according to the directions and instructions given to him by the Government of Hong Kong through its properly qualified officers, and he undertakes that he will faithfully and honestly fulfil the duties required of him by or on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong for the term of his engagement or for any further period of service if he should re-engage himself after the termination of the first period.\n\n2. A passage to Hong Kong shall be provided for the person engaged at the cost of the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n3. The Crown Agents for the Colonies shall pay for and on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong to the person engaged, after this Agreement has been duly signed, the sum of fifteen pounds by way of bounty, and the person engaged agrees to refund and repay to them the said sum of fifteen pounds paid to him by way of bounty, if he should fail to proceed to Hong Kong when directed to do so.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12].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": 361555, "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": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "page_number": 415, "title": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "content_text": "made on \n\nthe \n\nnew system, \n\nshare \n\nthat it has not succeeded. \n\nSpecify \n\n6. That report should inter \n\nalia how far \n\nthe recommendations of the Commission \n\nOu \n\n412 \n\nDESPATCH. \n\nHong Kong \n\nC.O. 2391 \n\nNo. 230 \n\n1 \n\nProt. Fee $7 \n\nminor points, which you \n\npromise \n\nshall not be overlooked, have \n\nL. Whether those \n\nbeen carried out, including the \n\nregistration of deaths, has been carefully attended to. \n\n79 \n\nrather that it is intended \n\ngather \n\nand Mr. Chung \n\nthat Dr. Thomas, shall work \n\nunder the Colonial Surgeon \n\nis clear \n\nand it is evident's desirable, \n\nthat such should be the \n\nGovernor. \n\nNo. \n\n795 \n\nDate. \n\n1896 30 Dec. \n\nLast previous Paper. \n\n[2366 \n\n16941 \n\nTh \n\nOrd. A.O. 10 Feb. \n\nFeb 97 \n\nfor \n\nfor \n\nPage 412\n\n~73315~50065-0-917 \n\nsubsequent Paper. \n\n(Subject.) \n\nOrdinance 21 of 1896. \n\nShare copies & Primary \n\n\"Defence Contribution. \n\nSubmitted \n\nPRB \n\n(Minutes.) \n\nLBB 1/2 \n\nM. Johnson \n\nPass on to M. Wingfield with your \n\nif you \n\nwish to take \n\nany CPL \n\n1 Feb M. Wingfield \n\nremarks \n\nStraits \n\nwhich was \n\nThis Ordinance is copied from Ord. 4 of 1896 (the draft of Concurred in by W.O. & Treasury) with the following modifications: \n\n(a) in S. 5 words as to payment of lodging, \n\nin lieu of \n\nbarracks are \n\nright as Hong Kong has not been in this habit (like the Straits) of paying this charge \n\n(b) in S.6 \"on or about the fifteenth \n\nSee W.O. \n\n14499 \n\nto an \n\nFL \n\nbefore the 30th. \n\nis altered This does not", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362950, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 466, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "6\n\nnur Les\n\nfrom home and\n\ntraining nurses locally.\n\nMr\n\nupon.\n\nMr. Chater, Mr Jackson; and M. Lockhart then waited on me and inquired whether the Government would give its support to this programme and stated that such support would be thorougly appreciated by the great majority of the community.\n\n5.\n\nto you\n\nI accordingly sent\n\n1 the 14th April the i\n\n07.1\n\nfollowing telegram:-\n\n\"Jubilee\n\n462\n\nJubilee Celebration proposed erection at once.\n\nHospital Women\n\nand Children: Institution train.\n\ning.\n\nnurses: at cost of 50,000 dollars. Also road to be made\n\nby degrees round island- 225,000 dollars. May I pro-\n\npose\n\nvote of same sum as\n\npublic subscription estr__\n\nmated at 50,000 dollars:\n\nexact precedent fifteeth Jubilee. Chater promises - that deficit if any in future shall be made good by\n\none\n\nper", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368619, "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": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 440, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "# HONG KONG POLICE FORCE AGREEMENT\n(Revised October, 1895.)\n\nAgreement made this fifteenth day of December One thousand eight hundred and ninety BETWEEN the undersigned, one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies, of Downing Street, London, in the County of Middlesex, for and on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong, of the one part, and Herbert Hartley of 6 Jacob Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, county of Lancaster.\n\nWhereby it is agreed between the said parties as follows:\n\n1. The said Herbert Hartley (hereinafter called the person engaged) for the consideration mentioned in the conditions of service hereunto annexed agrees, so soon as required by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, to proceed to Hong Kong as Constable in the Police Force of the Government of that Colony, and to act in all respects according to the directions and instructions given to him by the Government of Hong Kong through its properly qualified officers, and he undertakes that he will faithfully and honestly fulfil the duties required of him by or on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong for the term of his engagement or for any future period of service if he should engage himself after the termination of the first period.\n\n2. A Second Class passage to Hong Kong shall be provided for the person engaged at the cost of the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n3. The Crown Agents for the Colonies shall pay for and on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong to the person engaged, after this Agreement has been duly signed, the sum of £15 by way of bounty, and the person engaged agrees to refund and repay to them the sum of £15, paid to him by way of bounty, if he should fail to proceed to Hong Kong when directed to do so.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370705, "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": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "page_number": 306, "title": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "content_text": "ENCLOSURE 4\n\nRECD C.O. 95074 & 300 Age 15 APR 19\n\nFORM OF CONTRACT FOR EMIGRANTS TO COUNTRIES UNDER THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT.\n\nIt is this day mutually agreed between [name] as Attorney for [name] (hereinafter termed the Employer) of the Plantation of [name] situated in [name] District and the undersigned Chinese Labourers (hereinafter termed Emigrants) as follows :-\n\nI. The Emigrants agree to proceed to [place] and there to labour for the aforesaid Employer in the capacity of labourers, and bind themselves to perform all duties necessary upon a Tobacco Estate.\n\nII. The number of hours during which the Emigrants shall work on each working day shall not exceed ten.\n\nIII. The Employer shall pay the said Emigrants according to the quality of the arco delivered by them viz. -- First quality at $8 per 1,000 plants, &c., and during the time when Tobacco planting cannot be carried on, the daily work of the said labourers shall be paid for at the rates customary on Sumatra Tobacco Estate.\n\nIV. The said Emigrants have received an advance of $... each from the Employer, this advance to be deducted from the amount earned by the said labourers at the rates above stated.\n\nV. That the Emigrants shall not be required to work on the following holidays :- [list] and Fifteenth of every moon.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 371263, "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": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "content_text": "(2.) The abatement of four per centum from the salaries and pensions of public officers shall be made by the Treasurer, Crown Agents or in case of payments made by the Crown Agents by such Crown Agents, upon each occasion of payment of salary or pension, and shall be placed to the credit of The Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund:\n\nProvided that in the latter case such abatement of four per centum shall be calculated and made in dollars by the Crown Agents on the full salary in dollars payable to such contributor when employed in the Colony, or on the pension in dollars payable to such public officer if resident in the Colony, and such public officer shall be entitled to receive from the Crown Agents the equivalent in sterling of the balance in dollars of such salary or pension, calculated at the rate at which such public officer is entitled to receive such salary or pension in England.\n\nAnd in the case of a public officer entitled only to a half of such full salary, such public officer shall be entitled to receive from the Crown Agents the equivalent in sterling calculated in manner aforesaid of the balance in dollars of the half of such full salary after the abatement of four per centum has been calculated on such full salary in dollars and made on the half of such full salary in dollars.\n\n(3.) In the event of such abatement not being made, every public officer shall pay to the Treasurer or Crown Agents within fifteen days after the receipt by him of his salary or pension a sum equal to four per centum upon his monthly salary or pension, or in the event of any public officer being on leave without salary such public officer shall pay before the fifteenth day of each and every month during the continuance of such leave, to the Treasurer or Crown Agents, a sum equal to four per centum upon the full salary which he would have received monthly had he not been on leave. All sums due under the provisions of this sub-section and the arrears of any contribution due and payable under the provisions of the Ordinance No. 30 of 1890 shall be taken to be a debt due to the fund by the public officer, and shall be payable to the Treasurer or Crown Agents, together with interest thereon at six per centum per annum, forthwith or by such instalments as the directors may determine. The Treasurer or the Crown Agents shall, upon the written order of the directors or of any two of them, deduct from any moneys which may be or may become due or payable to the public officer by whom such debt is payable the whole or any part of such debt.\n\n10. The abatement of four per centum from the salary of a public officer shall continue to be made until such officer attains the age of sixty-five years, should he continue so long in the public service, at which date it shall cease; such abatement shall also cease after an officer has been subject to the abatement for thirty-five successive years. Provided that no public officer shall be compelled to pay any contributions beyond such as would bring up the pension to which a widow or child or children might be entitled to such maximum amount.\n\n11. A public officer who from any cause whatever ceases to belong to the public service and retires on a pension shall not be called upon to make any further contribution to the fund beyond a monthly abatement from his pension of four per centum on such pension, to commence from the date of his retirement until he attains sixty-five years of age or has been subject to abatement for thirty-five years, when such abatement shall cease.\n\n12. Whenever the salary of a public officer becomes reduced by abatement of the ordinary emoluments or by retirement on pension, such public officer may elect to continue to contribute upon the higher salary which he was receiving previous to such reduction, and subject to the same terms and conditions as if he had continued to draw the higher salary. Should such public officer not elect so to continue to contribute upon the higher salary, and contribute on the lower salary or pension, any pension to his widow or children shall be diminished in the same amount as it would have been increased had such public officer's salary been increased and not diminished.\n\n13. A public officer who may retire from the public service, or who may be deprived of the office in respect of which he contributed to the fund, but who shall not be granted a pension, may continue to contribute from the date of his so retiring or being deprived of his office on the salary ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 371285, "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": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "content_text": "33\n\npublic officer\n\nsalaries and\n\n(2.) The abatement of four per centum from the salaries and pensions of public officers shall be made by the Treasurer, or in case of payments made by the Crown Agents by such Crown Agents, upon each occasion of payment of salary or pension, and shall be placed to the credit of \"The Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund\":\n\nProvided that in the latter case such abatement of four per centum shall be calculated and made in dollars by the Crown Agents on the full salary in dollars payable to such public officer when employed in the Colony, or on the pension in dollars payable to such public officer if resident in the Colony, and such public officer shall be entitled to receive from the Crown Agents the equivalent in sterling of the balance in dollars of such salary or pension, calculated at the rate at which such public officer is entitled to receive such salary or pension in England.\n\nAnd in the case of a public officer entitled only to a half of such full salary, such public officer shall be entitled to receive from the Crown Agents the equivalent in sterling calculated in manner aforesaid of the balance in dollars of the half of such full salary after the abatement of four per centum has been calculated on such full salary in dollars and made on the half of such full salary in dollars.\n\n(3) In the event of such abatement not being made, every public officer shall pay to the Treasurer or Crown Agents within fifteen days after the receipt by him of his salary or pension a sum equal to four per centum upon his monthly salary or pension, or in the event of any public officer being on leave without salary such public officer shall pay before the fifteenth day of each and every month during the continuance of such leave, to the Treasurer or Crown Agents, a sum equal to four per centum upon the full salary which he would have received monthly had he not been on leave. All sums due under the provisions of this sub-section and the arrears of any contribution due and payable under the provisions of the Ordinance No. 30 of 1890 shall be taken to be a debt due to the fund by the public officer, and shall be payable to the Treasurer or Crown Agents, together with interest thereon at six per centum per annum, forthwith or by such instalments as the directors may determine. The Treasurer or the Crown Agents shall, upon the written order of the directors or of any two of them, deduct from any moneys which may be or may become due or payable to the public officer by whom such debt is payable the whole or any part of such debt.\n\n10. The abatement of four per centum from the salary or pension of a public officer shall continue to be made until such officer has either attained the age of sixty-five years or has been subject to the abatement for thirty-five successive years; Provided that no public officer shall be compelled to pay and shall thereupon cease to contribute beyond such as would bring up the total contributions to the amount which a widow or child or children might be entitled to at the end of any period of thirty-five years or at the age of sixty-five years, whichever may first happen.\n\n11. A public officer who from any cause whatever ceases to belong to the public service and retires on a pension shall not be called upon to make any further contribution to the fund beyond a monthly abatement from his pension of four per centum on such pension, to commence from the date of his retirement until he attains sixty-five years of age or has been subject to abatement for thirty-five years when such abatement shall cease. Provided that in the event of such pension being reduced, no wife or child of such public officer shall be entitled to any benefit from the fund.\n\n12. Whenever the salary of a public officer becomes reduced by abatement of the emoluments or by retirement on pension, such public officer may elect to continue to contribute upon the higher salary which he was receiving previous to such reduction, and subject to the same terms and conditions as if he had continued to draw the higher salary. Should such public officer not elect so to continue to contribute upon the higher salary, and contribute on the lower salary or pension, any pension to his widow or children shall be diminished in the same amount as it would have been increased had such public officer's salary been increased and not diminished.\n\n13. A public officer who may retire from the public service, or who may be deprived of his office in respect of which he contributed to the fund, but who shall not be entitled to a pension, may continue to contribute from the date of his so retiring or being deprived of his office on the salary on which he was last contributing to the fund, but shall have no claim thereon.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 376691, "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": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "page_number": 369, "title": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Superintendent of Victoria Gaol \n\n365 \n\nC.O. \n\n21507 \n\nDate Regd? 5 11 00 \n\nOn the fifteenth day of June last your Petitioner \naccepted employment as Time-keeper in the Tai Koo Sugar \nRefinery at Quarry Bay and continued in that position \nuntil the eleventh day of November 1899 when, on the \nrecommendation of the Honourable F. H. May, your \nPetitioner was appointed a Third Class Inspector of \nNuisances in the Sanitary Department Hong Kong, which \nposition your Petitioner still holds. \n\n**YOUR PETITIONER THEREFORE MOST HUMBLY PRAYS** \n\nThat the Right Honourable the \nSecretary of State for the Colonies \nwill be pleased to favourably consider \nhe application of your Petitioner \nto be allowed to count his previous \nservice in the Gaol Department in \nIreland and in Hong Kong towards the \ntime required to enable your Petitioner", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383252, "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": "CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901", "page_number": 397, "title": "CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901", "content_text": "392\n\n2\n\ntramways thus sanctioned without requiring aid from China in the matter of capital, nor need the Chinese Government guarantee any sums which may in future be required for expenses of construction and working. The actions of the Company from the time of commencing work to its completion will be subject to the following rules.\n\n3. All the material and machinery employed by the Belgo-French Company in the construction of these railways will be exempt from li-kin and customs duties,\n\n4. All documents and acts in respect to the shares of the Company, including interest certificates and transfers of the shares, shall be free of tax.\n\n(The Chinese text is here confused and difficult to translate exactly.) Drawn up by the Railway Contractor in 1900.\n\nCopy of the Complete Regulations.\n\nI. (1.) Survey. The railway will start from Canton city and proceed viâ Samshu, Kuang-li Shao Ching, Te Ching, and all important cities and towns passed en route to Wuchou Fu in Kuang-hsi. The line, speaking generally, will follow the left bank of the West River. If in the interests of the population it is necessary that it should pass through cities and towns on the right bank, or if by reason of mountains the line is found to be difficult to lay on the left bank, it will follow the right bank.\n\nThe tramway will start from the railway station to carry goods and passengers from within and without the city, proceeding along the bank of the Canton River via all important places to a terminus at Whampoa.\n\nII. (2.) Construction. The work of construction by the Company must begin within two years of the day on which Imperial sanction is received, and its completion must not take more than six years.\n\n3. Land purchased by the Company will be sufficient for the embankment of a double line. But a single line with the necessary sidings may be constructed as a preliminary, provided that the foundation for the double line be laid across bridges, through tunnels, and upon embankments.\n\nIn places where commerce is flourishing room for double lines may be specially made, and if at any future time it is found that a single line is insufficient the second line may be added. The Superintendent of Works will, before building the railway and stations, first notify the authorities, who will mark the land out with boundary stakes, and the people will be compelled to sell. The survey of the land and its surrender by the people will be in accordance with Chinese law and the Regulations for Northern Railways. If in the line of railway there is any Government land, Imperial or Provincial, the Company can make use of it for a period while they control the railway without payment of rent.\n\nAt the termini, the Company can buy land for stations, residences, godowns, offices, machine-shops, &c.; if the land is in the hands of the Government, it will be left for the Company to make use of it as they choose.\n\n4. The gauge of the railway will be 1 metre,\n\nIII. (5.) The Company will control the carriage of goods and passengers for a period of seventy-five years, reckoning from the day when trains begin to run.\n\n(6.) At the conclusion of the above period the railways, as well as all the stations and works, and all the tools and horses employed, will become the property of the Chinese Government. All stores of coal, oil, &c., if sold by the Company, will be purchased by the Chinese Government; and, if the latter wish to buy, the Company must sell. The land which stations and workshops occupy, and all buildings, will become the property of the Chinese Government upon the expiration of the period of seventy-five years.\n\nBut land separately purchased by the Company and houses separately built by them and not pertaining to the railways and tramways, as well as the electric stations, will remain the property of the Company, and the Chinese Government cannot take possession of them against the Company's will.\n\nIV. (7.) Purchase of the Railway. The railway and tramways may after twenty years' working be purchased by the Chinese Government, the price to be calculated in the following manner:-\n\nThe total amount of the profits during the fifteenth to twentieth year of its working to be divided by 5 so as to get the average yearly profits. To this will be added interest at 2 per cent., and the sum thus arrived at will be considered as interest, and the capital will be reckoned from this at 100 for 3. (Example given.) Payment must be made by the Chinese Government three months after purchase of all the properties mentioned in section 6 of these Regulations.\n\n3\n\nIf the Chinese Government do not buy at the end of twenty years, they can do so at the end of any subsequent period of five years on the same basis as above.\n\nV. (8.) If the Company fail to commence or complete the work within the respective limits, the contract is null and void. But if within the period named obstacles arise to hinder the work the period can be extended.\n\nVI. (9.) Tariff. The railway rates during the period of seventy-five years while the Company is receiving the money obtained by the sale of tickets and in freight for goods will be based on the tariff of the Northern Railway. In times of peace the Company will only charge half-rates for troops and horses and material of war. When famine is reported by the local authorities and relief work is being carried on, half-rates only are to be charged for food-stuffs.\n\nVII. (10.) Special Rules. In time of trouble, the Chinese military authorities can attach the cars, &c., of the Company for the carriage of troops and armaments. Compensation of charges to be paid to the Company will be settled by discussion after the signature of this document.\n\nVIII. (11.) Royalties. Ten per cent. of the profits will go to the Chinese Government. But the amount allowed as interest on capital will not be included as profits in this calculation.\n\nIX. (12.) The railway and tramways may be sold by the Company to another Company. The latter after purchase will also be subject to these Regulations.\n\nDrawn up by the contractors in 1900.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Scott to Sir E. Satow.\n\n(No. 34. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nCanton, October 16, 1901. WITH reference to my despatch No. 25, Confidential, and the French railway claims in the Canton Province therein mentioned, I have now the honour to inclose herewith copy and translation of two documents which have just reached me indirectly, being copies of a note and its inclosures sent by the French Consul to the Viceroy recently on the subject of the construction by a Franco-Belgian Company of a railway from Canton to Wuchow and of tramways in connection therewith.\n\nIt would appear that some arrangement for these Concessions had been concluded with Li Hung-chang when Viceroy in Canton in 1900, and that an attempt is now being made to secure Imperial sanction and carry out the scheme. The name of the present Viceroy, Tao Mo, has been substituted for that of Li Hung-chang as the party with whom the arrangement has been made, apparently with a view to preparing the way for this Viceroy's more ready assent. The Viceroy, however, has in no way acknowledged any liability on his part under the Agreement and has, after pressure, only promised to refer the matter to the Central Government when the Court has returned to Peking.\n\nI would point out that if this Agreement is allowed to be carried out, the French authorities will have the monopoly of railway communication connecting the chief centres of trade along the route to Kwangsi and in the Canton delta. I would further point out that, under one of the terms of the Agreement, material required for the railway and tramways will be admitted duty free. According to such a stipulation, the French will not fail to include in this category all rice and other numerous articles ostensibly for the use of the Railway; and such a facility, if granted, cannot but have a detrimental effect on British imports into Canton.\n\nIn connection with this Railway Agreement, the question naturally arises, how a statesman of the astuteness with which Li Hung-chang is usually credited, could have been induced to make such a one-sided arrangement, and that, too, so directly opposed to the Chinese Mining and Railway Regulations recently promulgated by Edict.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) JAMES SCOTT.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385719, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "## Conditions of Service for Cadets\n\n3. The selected Candidates will be expected to leave England about a month after the results of the examination are announced.\n\n4. Each Cadet will receive salary at the rate of £225 per annum, half salary to commence from the day of leaving England, and full salary from the date of his arrival in the Colony or State to which he may be sent. A free passage to the Colony or State will be provided for the Cadet, subject to an undertaking to refund the cost of his passage in the event of his relinquishing the appointment within three years for any other reason than mental or physical infirmity.\n\n5. Every Cadet on arrival in the Colony or State to which he may be sent will be subject to any regulations as to Cadets (not inconsistent with this paper) which may from time to time be made by the Local Government, including regulations as to examinations in native languages, &c. A Cadet who has passed such examinations is paid at the rate of £300 per annum until he obtains a substantive appointment. Should a Cadet remain three years after passing his examinations, without obtaining a substantive appointment, his salary will be increased to £350.\n\n6. A Cadet will be liable to be dismissed if at any time his progress in his studies or his conduct shall be considered by the Government to be so unsatisfactory as to render such a course desirable. The Government will decide, having regard to the ground of dismissal, whether the Cadet shall be sent home at the public expense, or shall be left to find his own way home.\n\n7. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted after a period of six years' resident service without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition, or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months. In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months in any two years.\n\n8. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill health an officer may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise, he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for the three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. For pension purposes absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.\n\n9. A deduction of 4 per cent. is made from the salaries of all Cadets as a contribution to one or other of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Funds of the two Colonies or of the Federated Malay States.\n\n10. The currency of Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and the Federated Malay States is a silver dollar currency, and for purposes of local payment the sterling salaries referred to in paragraphs 4 and 5 of this print will be converted into dollars at a rate to be fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth of the month for which salary is to be paid.\n\n11. The Civil Service of these Colonies and States is at present classified as follows, but no guarantee whatever is given that the appointments or the salaries will remain unaltered. Moreover, some of the posts included in these classes are not exclusively confined to officers originally appointed as cadets.\n\n| Colony, &c. | Class | Number of posts | Initial Salary | Rising by triennial increments of | Maximum |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Hong Kong | I. Staff | One | £1,600 | - | - |\n| | III. | Seven | £420 | £40 | £540 |\n| | IV. | Six | £600 | £40 | £800 |\n| | | Four | £720 | £100 | £1,000 |\n| Straits Settlements | I. Staff | One | £1,700 | - | - |\n| | II. | Eleven | £420 | £30 | £480 |\n| | III. | Eight | £540 | £30 | £600 |\n| | IV. | Nine | £660 | £60 | £780 |\n| | | Ten | £780 | £60 | £900 |\n| | | Four | £900 | £60 | £1,020 |\n| | | | £1,200 | | |\n| Federated Malay States | I. | Six | £1,020 | £60 | £1,200 |\n| | | | | | £1,300 |\n| | | | | | £1,400 |\n| | I. Staff | Five | £1,600 | - | £2,260 |\n| | II. | Nine | £900 | £60 | £1,020 |\n| | III. | Eighteen | £660 | £60 | £780 |\n| | IV. | Twenty-four | £540 | £30 | £600 |\n| | V. | Twenty-two | £420 | £25 | £480 |\n| | VI. | Nineteen | £350 | £25 | £400 |\n\n**COLONIAL OFFICE, December 1902**\n\n**NOTE.** Further information can be obtained on personal application at the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385823, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "page_number": 428, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "## higher training than the present Acting Sufi), M. Tutcher, for successor should be appointed. He recommends that a thoroughly efficient candidate be selected.\n\n3. Ill. Chamberlain would be glad if you could see your way to advise him in the notable selection of officer for the post.\n\n4. The Sufi is required to take charge of the Botanical Gardens and of Afforestation work in the Colony, and causes various questions of the introduction of trees and plants of economic agricultural value.\n\n5. The salary of the post is £500 a year, rising by triennial increments of £20 to £620. It is furnished by quarters in the Botanical Gardens. An allowance of $360 a year is made for chauffeur's other emoluments are not mentioned. For purposes of local payment, this salary is computed with dollars at a rate fixed monthly by the Colonial Govt., and laid upon the prevailing exchange value of the dollar during the month ended fifteenth of the month for which payment is made.\n\n6. Free furnished quarters are provided in the Botanical Gardens. \n\n7. The office will be required to pay 4 percent of his salary as a contribution to the W. and O. Pension Fund of the Colony.\n\n8. A statement of the present rules as to ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389105, "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": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "content_text": "## \n\"The motion passed unanimously.\n\n3. The selected Candidates will be expected to leave England about a month after the results of the examination are announced.\n\n4. Each Cadet will receive salary at the rate of £225 per annum, half salary to commence from the day of leaving England, and full salary from the date of his arrival in the Colony or State to which he may be sent. A free passage to the Colony or State will be provided for the Cadet, subject to an undertaking to refund the cost of his passage in the event of his relinquishing the appointment within three years for any other reason than mental or physical infirmity.\n\n25721/0\n\n5. Every Cadet on arrival in the Colony or State to which he may be sent will be subject to any regulations as to Cadets (not inconsistent with this paper) which may from time to time be made by the Local Government, including regulations as to examinations in native languages, &c. A Cadet who has passed such examinations is paid at the rate of £300 per annum until he obtains a substantive appointment. Should a Cadet remain three years after passing his examinations, without obtaining a substantive appointment, his salary will be increased to £350. From the time he is dependent on passing such further examinations and the passing of time prescribed thereafter.\n\n6. A Cadet will be liable to be dismissed if at any time his progress in his studies or his conduct shall be considered by the Government to be so unsatisfactory as to render such a course desirable. The Government will decide, having regard to the ground of dismissal, whether the Cadet shall be sent home at the public expense, or shall be left to find his own way home.\n\n7. \n8. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted after a period of six years' resident service without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition, or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months. In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months in any two years.\n\n9. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill health an officer may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for the three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years.\n\n10. For pension purposes absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.\n\n11. A deduction of 4 per cent. is made from the salaries of all Cadets as a contribution to one or other of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Funds of the two Colonies or of the Federated Malay States.\n\n12. \n13. \n14. The currency of Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and the Federated Malay States is a silver dollar currency, and for purposes of local payment the sterling salaries referred to in paragraphs 4 and 5 of this print will be converted into dollars at a rate to be fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth of the month for which salary is to be paid.\n\n## The Civil Service Classification\n\nThe Civil Service of these Colonies and States is at present classified as follows, but no guarantee whatever is given that the numbers and conditions of the appointments or the salaries attached to them will remain unaltered. Moreover, some of the posts included in these classes are not exclusively confined to officers originally appointed as cadets.\n\n| Colony, &c. | Class | Number of posts | Initial salary | Rising by triennial increments of £ | Maximum £ |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Hong Kong | III. | Seven | 420 | 40 | 540 |\n| | II. | Six | 600 | 40 | 720 |\n| | I. | Four | 800 | 100 | 1,000 |\n| | Staff | One | ... | ... | 1,600 |\n| Straits Settlements. | V. | Eleven | 420 | 30 | 480 |\n| | IV. | Eight | 540 | 30 | 600 |\n| | III. | Nine | 660 | 40 | 780 |\n| | II. | Ten | 780 | 60 | 900 |\n| | I. | Four | 900 | 100 | 1,200 |\n| | Staff | One | ... | ... | 1,400 |\n| Federated Malay States. | VI. | Nineteen | 350 | 25 | 400 |\n| | V. | Twenty-two | 420 | 30 | 480 |\n| | IV. | Twenty-four | 510 | 30 | 600 |\n| | III. | Eighteen | 660 | 40 | 780 |\n| | II. | Nine | 780 | 60 | 900 |\n| | I. | Six | 900 | 100 | 1,200 |\n| | Staff | Five | ... | ... | 1,600, 2,260 |\n\n**COLONIAL OFFICE, June 1903.**\n\nNOTE—Further information can be obtained on personal application at the East Department of the Colonial Office.\n\nPage", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392426, "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": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 445, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "14679 Ithaul.\n\n04\n\n443\n\n7 Major.\n\nlauf.\n\nMINUTE. Mr. MFH-5/3 Mr. Collins.\n\nMr. Antrobus,\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nMr. Lucas.\n\nMr. Graham.\n\nSir M. Ommanney,\n\nThe Duke of Marlborough.\n\nMr. Lyttelton.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Council's despatch of the Fifteenth of March last reporting the deportation from Shan-hai-Kauf of the Chinese Reformer, Kang, Yu Wei & five other important persons.\n\nThe patients ... the oral ... that Sherry ... The ...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and improve the response:\n\n1. The original text seems to be a jumbled mix of OCR output. Let's first try to make sense of the initial lines and correct them according to the rules.\n2. The names and the list appear to be a list of people involved in something, possibly a council or meeting.\n3. The text then transitions into a formal letter or minute, acknowledging a dispatch regarding the deportation of certain individuals.\n\nLet's reformat and correct the text according to the given rules:\n\nDRAFT.\n\n14679 Ithaul.\n\n04\n\n443\n\n7 Major.\n\nlauf.\n\nMINUTE. Mr. MFH-5/3 Mr. Collins.\n\nMr. Antrobus,\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nMr. Lucas.\n\nMr. Graham.\n\nSir M. Ommanney,\n\nThe Duke of Marlborough.\n\nMr. Lyttelton.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Council's despatch of the Fifteenth of March last reporting the deportation from Shan-hai-Kauf of the Chinese Reformer, Kang Yu Wei & five other important persons.\n\nThe latter part of the text is quite garbled. Without clear context or a cleaner OCR output, it's challenging to correct \"The patien ... the ora ... thas Sherry The ...\" meaningfully. However, since the instruction is to indicate missing words with \"...\", we can represent the unclear parts as such.\n\nThus, a more accurate representation following the instructions and the compact knowledge would be:\n\nDRAFT.\n\n14679 Ithaul.\n\n04\n\n443\n\n7 Major.\n\nlauf.\n\nMINUTE. Mr. MFH-5/3 Mr. Collins.\n\nMr. Antrobus,\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nMr. Lucas.\n\nMr. Graham.\n\nSir M. Ommanney,\n\nThe Duke of Marlborough.\n\nMr. Lyttelton.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Council's despatch of the Fifteenth of March last reporting the deportation from Shan-hai-Kauf of the Chinese Reformer, Kang Yu Wei & five other important persons.\n\nThe patients ... the oral ... that Sherry The ...\n\nGiven the constraints and focusing on the rules:\n\nThe final answer is: \nDRAFT.\n\n14679 Ithaul.\n\n04\n\n443\n\n7 Major.\n\nlauf.\n\nMINUTE. Mr. MFH-5/3 Mr. Collins.\n\nMr. Antrobus,\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nMr. Lucas.\n\nMr. Graham.\n\nSir M. Ommanney,\n\nThe Duke of Marlborough.\n\nMr. Lyttelton.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Council's despatch of the Fifteenth of March last reporting the deportation from Shan-hai-Kauf of the Chinese Reformer, Kang Yu Wei & five other important persons.\n\nThe patients ... the oral ... that Sherry The ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393847, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "page_number": 408, "title": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "content_text": "Le last Number &\n\nparagraph No.13\n\nTelegram\n\nPRINTED FOR USE\n\n407 C.O. EASTERN No. X COLONIAL OFFICE\n\nGovernor Sir M. Nathan to Mr Lyttelton\n\n40766 2 DEG ON DECOL (Received, Colonial Office, 3.43 p.m. 1st December 1904)\n\nI concur in proposal contained in last paragraph of printed paper of railway in private letter of Fiddes. Urge strongly that selection of Consulting Engineer should be made by Crown Agents and Corporation, and that they should take steps as described in fifteenth page of printed paper with least possible delay. Averse to other than 4'8\" gauge.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407653, "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": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n[B]\n\n# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[October 23.]\n\n113\n\n## SECTION 2\n\nC\n\n47844\n\n[33671]\n\n(No. 367.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan**\n\nForeign Office, October 23, 1906.\n\nMY LORD,\n\nI HAVE received Mr. Carnegie's despatch No. 341 of the 12th August last, inclosing the draft of King's Regulations, prepared by the Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Corea, to enable His Majesty's Consular officers in certain cases to exercise control over British Municipal Councils in the Chinese dominions.\n\nI approve the draft Regulations, subject to the following alterations:-\n\nIn Regulation 1 (1), the fifteenth word should be \"liable\" instead of \"calculated.\" In Regulation 1 (3), second paragraph, the eighth word which, apparently by a clerical error, is written \"Consul,\" should be changed to \"Municipal Council.\"\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) EDWARD GREY.\n\n[2183 -2]\n\n[-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408544, "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": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 246, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "that \n\n3 \n\ndoso witte \n\nمحمد \n\nmisgivings, especially \n\nas you press mainly \n\nfor the acquittal \n\nof the incriminated \n\nvocád for \n\nOfficer \n\nan \n\nthue \n\nwine \n\ncharges \n\nOn the \n\nlp m \n\ncharges \n\n3. \n\nall \n\nwhich \n\nproceeded with \n\nThe two first \n\nwhe \n\nthird \n\nа \n\nwithdrawn! \n\nhit (amolley \n\nJa majaili acquittad: \n\nthe \n\nfifteenth was abandoned \n\nthe majaily votar kal \n\ncharges 4 proved. \n\niume.clas \n\nune cessay Comment \n\n+ \n\n6 whe \n\nIt is in the wires, \n\nin detail \n\nmi \n\n65 \n\n\"Charge \n\n3 thank but ģ \n\nobrew that \n\nglad \n\ntenow why \n\nto the aw wt \n\n243 \n\nSuper Lamble 12d \n\nnot called \n\nwitness. \n\nwould have \n\nmaterial \n\nexplanation \n\n& \n\n- \n\nHe's evidence \n\nbeen \n\nno \n\nis gir \n\nthese fata \n\nwhy it was forthcoming. \n\nA. \n\nचीन \n\nThe formate \n\ncharge depends \n\nthe evidence \n\n아 \n\nKeo Lo mau Kai \n\nمن مساكن \n\na \n\nI understand \n\ndismissed Employe \n\nof the for! \n\nThere \n\nis nothing to corroborate his statement that \n\nbe paid oror to but Camolly the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412115, "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": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 615, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "613 \n\nby the fact that both in December and in May the lenders were, I understood, to have been the British and China Corporation, which seemed to be confirmed by your telegram No 26 of June 2nd. Of the new company which was to be formed for the trunk line southwards, neither I nor Mr. Hillier had any recent information.\n\nOn other points his views were more in harmony with ours, though he kept altering his note of the terms he wanted.\n\nUltimately His Excellency jotted down the amount of the loan as £1,500,000; the interest 5%; the term twenty-five years, during the first ten of which only interest would be payable; extra drawings of bonds allowed after the completion of ten years, but such bonds to carry 2½% premium up to the fifteenth year. The Viceroy did not object to the engineer clause; in fact, he altered it to read that only British engineers should be employed on works executed with the proceeds of the loan, the purpose of which he defined as \"public works\" (Mr Hillier translates it as \"engineering and tradal undertakings\").\n\nThe only other serious objection raised by him was as to the appointment of a receiver of the likin revenue in case of default in payment of interest or instalments of principal.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412268, "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": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## Page 25\n\n2 \n\nantagonism to the French. Mr. Fraser's experience of the Viceroy's character led him to think that he would hardly risk this. The danger which Mr. Hillier saw in this course was that, should it fail, and should the London and Paris markets then be closed to the Japanese, the latter might then be driven to the Germans, who, to counteract British influence in Japan generally, might be disposed to assist them. This was a danger, however, which Mr. Fraser thought our London financiers' knowledge of the German market placed them in a better position to estimate.\n\nIn this view of Mr. Fraser's I concur, and I am further inclined to think that, having regard to the specific assurances given to Mr. Lowther at Tokio, it is hardly necessary any longer to consider the possibility of the Japanese again offering a railway loan to the Viceroy without previous consultation with us.\n\nIn view of our official engagements to the French Government, and in order to convince my French colleague, who has at times appeared to me to be unduly suspicious on the point, that we were acting strictly in accordance with those engagements, I have thought it well to keep M. Casenave fully and frankly informed of the Viceroy's attitude and of the views held by Mr. Fraser and Mr. Hillier. M. Casenave clearly sees the delicacy of the situation, and the possibility that the Viceroy may use the incident as a pretext for receding from his engagements to us. He therefore telegraphed to the `Banque de l'Indo-Chine`, informing them of what had occurred, suggesting that some compromise might be arrived at. On the 21st he received a reply in the following terms:-\n\n\"Le Ministre des Affaires Étrangères a été saisi de la question. Il est inadmissible que le Vice-Roi refuse participation si même nous sommes d'accord avec les Anglais. En conséquence, il importe de savoir quelle est la cause de l'obstination du Vice-Roi. Le Gouvernement Français s'oppose à tout changement des Accords Anglo-Français.\"\n\nI duly informed Mr. Fraser of this, and added that, in the circumstances, it seemed to me that nothing could be done here until some fresh arrangement had been come to at home.\n\nMeanwhile the situation has been further complicated by the action of the German Consul at Hankow, reported in my telegram No. 118 of the 22nd June, and the assertion to the Taotai of German prior rights to a loan on the score of proposals made in 1905. The Taotai seems to have put him off, and I have not at present heard anything further on the subject, but the possibility of German competition should be borne in mind.\n\nM. Casenave's further suggestion that the name of the French should be eliminated from the Hupei Agreement on condition that we should submit to similar effacement in case of the loan which the Viceroy at Canton proposes to raise for the construction of railways in the Province of Kuangtung seems to me open to obvious objections. The Hupei section of the railway will be a purely commercial undertaking, while the Canton end can scarcely fail to have a political interest which, in view of our position at Hong Kong and our connection with the Canton-Kowloon Railway, we can scarcely allow the French to monopolize with safety.\n\nThe Chinese Government, too, on reflection, could hardly view without concern the acquisition by France of the exclusive privilege of financing the construction of the southern portion of the Canton-Hankow line.\n\n(No. 53.) Sir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\n### Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan\n\nHankow, June 18, 1907,\n\nI HAVE the honour to report the gist of an interview, lasting three hours and a-half, which Mr. Hillier and I had with the Viceroy Chang on the 16th instant, regarding his proposed loan for the ostensible purpose of provincial public works.\n\nUpon his arrival on the 14th instant Mr. Hillier handed me an English draft (of which I understand you have a copy) of a Loan Agreement, and, aided by the text of previous Agreements, I contrived to translate it myself into Chinese by the following afternoon, and the Chinese was then written out by a trustworthy employé of the `Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank`.\n\nThe Viceroy began the interview by asking what had occurred in the loan matter after Messrs. Bland and Hillier's return to Peking on the 20th May.\n\nHe smiled at President Ts'ên's unwillingness to father the suggestion to the Throne of a railway loan, and showed keen interest in Mr. Hillier's Report of his Excellency Ts'ên's determination to get permission to raise £1,500,000 from foreign sources for the needs of the Canton Viceroyalty.\n\nHis Excellency then asked if we had the Chinese text of our proposed contract, and, having read it through, declared emphatically that all reference to the `Banque de l'Indo-Chine` must be struck out.\n\nWe had coined the term Hui-Tung Co for a British Corporation to be represented by two banks, British and French, and we explained fully the propriety of associating the name of the French bank with our own in the contract.\n\nThe Viceroy listened with some impatience, and at once rejoined that his reason for applying to us was his long friendship with my Government and myself, and the special aid rendered him in 1905. The `Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank`'s reputation in China stood high, and he wanted to borrow solely from that British institution, and to have no dealings with the French, to whom he owed no consideration whatever.\n\nWe pointed out that the `Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank` was under participation agreement with the German bank, and so it would in that case be necessary to append to the contract such a final clause as was appended to the 1905 Chinese Government Loan. If his Excellency preferred it, Mr. Hillier would omit all reference to the French bank in the body of the contract and submit the draft of a final clause announcing French participation so as to render the bonds saleable on the Paris Bourse.\n\nThe Viceroy, however, repeatedly insisted that the contract must be solely with the British, the Decree communicated solely to you, and the bonds signed solely by the Chinese Minister in London. He added that we had insisted on the withdrawal of the Japanese offer, though it was Mr. Odagiri who devised the method that rendered borrowing feasible, and now to drag in any other nation would be unjust and offensive to Japan. Moreover, the Germans had earlier tried to make a loan (referring either to their 1905 efforts as to the Hankow-Szechuan Railway, or to their recent abortive £1,000,000 Agreement), and would not be content to play second fiddle. Finally, the insertion of the French bank would insure rejection by his Government of his loan proposal.\n\nHis Secretary, Kao, who alone was present, here whispered to me the word \"Yünnan\"; but, I believe, his Excellency is also moved by the recollection of incidents when he was at Canton in 1884-85, of the high-handed manner in which the French Concession here was extended, of the Nanchang case last year, and possibly of the French support of the Belgian claim to priority in the matter of the construction of the redeemed trunk line to Canton.\n\nThe Viceroy held firmly that the bank's relations with French or Germans were a domestic concern, and could not be forced upon the notice of third parties. In view of Mr. Bland's Memorandum inclosed in my despatch No. 80 of the 13th December, 1906, his Excellency's position seems a strong one.\n\nWe explained in vain that the lenders were to be a British Company registered in London and under British protection only.\n\nEven when we suggested substituting the `British Chinese Corporation`, his Excellency inquired suspiciously whether its shareholders were all British and whether any were Chinese; and in spite of assurances that in British Companies all nationalities might hold shares, and that some Chinese officials, whose example his Excellency was free to follow, held shares in the Corporation, he did not absolutely assent to the substitution. I was influenced in putting this suggestion to his Excellency for Mr. Hillier by the fact that both in December and in May the lenders were, I understood, to have been the `British and China Corporation`, which seemed to be confirmed by your telegram No. 26 of the 2nd June. Of the new Company which was to be formed for the trunk line southwards, neither I nor Mr. Hillier had any recent information.\n\nOn other points his views were more in harmony with ours, though he kept altering his note of the terms he wanted.\n\nUltimately, his Excellency jotted down the amount of the loan as £1,500,000; the interest 5 per cent.; the term twenty-five years, during the first ten of which only interest would be payable; extra drawings of bonds allowed after the completion of ten years, but such bonds to carry 2 per cent. premium up to the fifteenth year. The Viceroy did not object to the engineer clause; in fact, he altered it to read that only...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413444, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3]", "page_number": 391, "title": "CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3]", "content_text": "334\n\n: 家\n\nThe table shows roughly that one adult male has died of beri-beri out of every six examined and one adult female out of every nineteen. Of persons between the twelfth month and the end of the fifteenth year, one out of every fifty-six has died of beri-beri. It is difficult to make this age and sex incidence fit in with any rice theory which shall account for anything like a major proportion of cases of beri-beri occurring in Hongkong.\n\nThe special incidence of beri-beri on adult males in Hongkong is more like that of such diseases as syphilis or gonorrhoea than that of a disease affecting the food supply.\n\nThere is a disease which to the Chinese mind is a special entity, I mean \"gup sik\", it is said to be caught during sexual intercourse, to appear after a varying incubation period, to run a short course and high mortality, and is chiefly characterised by thoracic embarrassment and by cyanosis of the hands and face at death. When sent to the Mortuary, it is found to be beri-beri and sometimes pneumonia or pleurisy.\n\nThe nomenclature of disease has often passed from a homogenous to a heterogenous state with increase of knowledge; we have but to look from abdominal typhus to the divisions of the paratyphoids. Already there are very good reasons to suppose that some epidemics of ship beri-beri, particularly those of Norwegian sailing ships, are a different disease than tropical beri-beri. We have not yet sufficient evidence to enable us to split up tropical beri-beri into a grain intoxication and a contagious disease, but I submit that many", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415479, "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": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "## \n\nThe person engaged shall reside in such place and occupy himself in such manner as the Government through the Consulting Engineers shall direct and he shall not either directly or indirectly engage or be concerned in other service or business whatsoever nor receive any commissions or profits of any kind, but shall devote the whole of his time and attention to the service of the Government and shall use his utmost exertions to promote the interests of the Government.\n\n5. The person engaged shall be paid a salary at the rate of One thousand two hundred Pounds (£1,200) per annum. The salary will be payable monthly in dollars at a rate which will approximately be the average Hong Kong demand rate from the fifteenth day of the preceding month to the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid. Half salary will be paid during the voyage from Hong Kong to England on the satisfactory termination of this engagement. Full salary will commence from the date from which the person engaged takes up his duties under the Government.\n\n6. The person engaged shall be paid a consolidated allowance when actually serving on duty at the rate of two hundred pounds a year (£200) which shall include travelling expenses of every kind incurred in the performance of his duties.\n\n## \n\nThe person engaged undertakes to make no claim on the Government or on the Crown Agents for the Colonies in respect of the fluctuation in the value of the dollar.\n\nThe Government shall refund to the person engaged all reasonable travelling expenses necessarily incurred by him on proceeding to Hong Kong. On the satisfactory expiration of this agreement and subject to clauses 9 and 10 he will be provided with a free passage to England provided that he claims and avails himself of such return passage within one month from the date of such expiration. Passage in this agreement means a first-class passage by any steamer other than a mail steamer or second-class passage by a mail steamer.\n\n## \n\n10. \n\n172 \n\n## \n\nOn termination of this agreement, if the person engaged shall be compelled by reason of ill health not caused by his own misconduct to resign his appointment, or if at any time it shall be certified by a duly qualified medical officer employed by the Government that he is incapable on physical grounds of rendering further efficient service, the Government shall pay him his salary up to the date of such resignation or certificate and shall provide him with free passage to England provided that he claims and avails himself of such return passage within one month, but he shall have no further claim on the Government. If he shall resign his appointment from other cause, he shall refund to the Government or to the Crown Agents for the Colonies any amount paid to him for his travelling expenses to Hong Kong and he shall not be entitled to a passage to England. A certificate signed by a duly qualified Medical Officer employed by the Government shall be conclusive evidence on the question whether or not the person engaged was compelled to resign his appointment by reason of ill health within the meaning of this clause.\n\n## \n\n7. If the person engaged shall at any time neglect or refuse or from any cause (excepting ill health not caused by his own misconduct as provided in Clause 7) become unable to comply with any of the clauses of this agreement or any of the duties required of him or any of the orders of the Government through...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417778, "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": 490, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\n486\n\n2\n\nMr. Liang immediately changed his attitude and proceeded to discuss business with Mr. Hillier, and, after much discussion, the choice of two alternatives was given to him: (1) either that the redemption of the Pei-Han Railway should be specified as an object of the loan, upon which the banks would give a written assurance that they would not in any way interfere in the management; or (2) that the Loan Agreement should state the object to be the redemption of railways generally and the development of productive works. These alternatives were placed by him before his chiefs at once, and Mr. Hillier was enabled to communicate to London without delay the conditions stated in the inclosed telegram of the 25th September.* M. Casenave telegraphed to Paris supporting Mr. Hillier's views (a copy of his telegram is inclosed*), and I informed you in my telegram No. 153 of the same date that, in my view, the Chinese would break off negotiations if those terms were not accepted.\n\nOn the 26th September London telegraphed to Mr. Hillier that you approved acceptance provided the French agreed, but that the latter considered the Chinese assurance too vague, and desired a specific mention of the Peking-Hankow Railway, in a separate letter if not in the Loan Agreement. To this Mr. Hillier, with my concurrence, replied on the 28th September that if the designation of the Peking-Hankow Railway was insisted upon the condition must be put forward in the form of an ultimatum, and pointed out that a risk of losing the loan would be run, as it was probable that the Chinese Government might prefer to come to some arrangement with the Belgians. M. Casenave made a strong representation in the same sense to his principals in the telegram of the 28th September, copy of which I have the honour to inclose.*\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN,\n\nP.S.-To-day Mr. Hillier received a telegram from London stating that the banks accept the terms proposed in his telegram of the 25th September, provided that the joint letter is so expressed as not to conflict with existing obligations of the Chinese Government in connection with the Canton-Hankow, Hankow-Szechuan, and other railways.\n\nJ. N. J.\n\n* Not printed.\n\nPage 486\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[40912]\n\n(No. 474.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nRec? [November 28. 17 DEC 08\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 23.)\n\nPeking, October 25, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 445 of the 11th instant, I have the honour to inclose translation of an interesting Memorial of the Board of Communications, published in the \"Official Gazette\" of the 20th instant, in which it is mentioned that the guiding principles of the Board in negotiating the recent loan were to prevent foreign bondholders and banks from having grounds for interference in the management of the railways or other works for which the loan was required, and to avoid any definite stipulation as to the disposition of the money. The statement that 80 per cent. of the proceeds are to be devoted to the redemption of certain railway loans really refers to the bonded debt of the Peking-Hankow line, there being no other Chinese railway loans which can be thus redeemed.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Official Gazette\" of October 20, 1908.\n\nMemorial by the Board of Communications with reference to a proposed Loan Agreement with the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation and the Banque de l'Indo-Chine.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nON the 4th October an Imperial Decree was received sanctioning a Memorial by the Board, wherein they proposed that a loan of 5,000,000l. should be raised from the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation and the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, and that a further Memorial should be submitted as soon as the terms of the Loan Agreement had been arranged and had been approved by the Wai-wu Pu.\n\nThe guiding principles which the Board have kept in view in negotiating this loan have been that neither the bondholders nor the banks having charge of the loan should have the right to interfere in any way whatsoever, and that there should be no definite stipulation as to the disposition of the funds. After considering the matter for over a year, and discussed the matter with several capitalists, we finally decided that the proposals of the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank and the Banque de l'Indo-Chine were the most suitable, and, after several months of negotiations with them, we have now decided upon an Agreement in fifteen Articles, of which the following are the important points:—\n\nThe amount of the loan is 5,000,000l.; 80 per cent. of the proceeds are to be devoted to the redemption of certain railway loans, and the remaining 20 per cent. to be employed in productive works under the direction of the Board. The term of the loan is thirty years. Interest is at the rate of 5 per cent. for the first fifteen years and 4 per cent. thereafter. The loan is issued at 94, and all the expenses of flotation and issue, such as underwriting, commission, telegrams, advertising, postage, printing, stamp duty, &c., are to be borne by the banks. The principal is to be repaid in twenty instalments, commencing with the eleventh year; but the Chinese Government shall have the right to redeem the whole issue or increase the regular redemption after the fifteenth year and up to the twenty-third year by paying a premium of 2¼ per cent., and after that date without paying any premium at the par value of the bonds. Service of principal and interest will be paid from the surplus revenue from productive works under the direction of the Board, any deficiency being made up from other sources of revenue. The payment of principal and interest is further secured by a first charge on the revenue from miscellaneous duties in the Provinces of Chihli, Hupei,\n\n[2030 x-1]\n\nPage 487", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417979, "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": 691, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[41489]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[November 28.]\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nC.0\n\n47047\n\n¡REC\"\n\nReef 23 DEC 08\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 28.)\n\n(No. 445. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nPeking, October 11, 1905, ON the 1st instant, Mr. Hillier arranged with the Board of Communications for a suitable addition to the joint letter, in order to fulfil the conditions mentioned in the postscript to my despatch No. 439 of the 1st instant, and a draft Agreement was initialled by the Board and the two banks on the 3rd instant. After it was definitely settled that a Decree should be issued and signature take place on the 8th instant, M. Casenave was warned from Paris that the political situation in the Balkans might cause some delay on his part, and when transmitting this warning to Mr. Liang Shih-yi, who was much disturbed by it, he managed to obtain a promise that the Chinese Government would take steps to make it known authoritatively to the existing bondholders through the European press that the proceeds of the new loan would be used to retire their bonds. However, his authorization to sign arrived in time, and the Agreement, copy of which is inclosed, was signed at the Board of Communications on the fixed date. I had the honour to inform you of this by my telegram No. 160 of the 8th instant. Last evening I was notified officially of the Decree authorizing this transaction in a note, translation of which is inclosed herewith.*\n\nWith reference to the concluding paragraph of my despatch No. 420 of the 16th ultimo, I have the honour to inclose copies of correspondence communicated to me confidentially by Mr. Hillier,* which would seem to throw some light on the circumstances connected with the change of terms proposed by the Banque de l'Indo-Chine in their telegram of the 8th ultimo.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\n(Translation.)\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nLoan Agreement, dated October 8, 1908.\n\nTHIS Agreement is made between the Board of Posts and Communications, Peking, acting for and on behalf of the Imperial Government of China, under the authority of an Imperial Edict, dated the 11th day of the 9th month of the 34th year of the Emperor Kuang-Hsü (being the 8th day of October, 1908), hereinafter called the Board, on the one part, and the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation and the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, hereinafter called the contracting banks, of the other part.\n\n1. The Imperial Chinese Government hereby authorizes the contracting banks, either by themselves or associated with others, to issue an Imperial Chinese Government gold loan, in one issue, of the amount of 5,000,000l.\n\nOf the proceeds of this loan the Imperial Chinese Government will employ 80 per cent. in Europe to complete the redemption of certain railway loans; the balance of the proceeds, namely, 20 per cent., will be employed by the Board of Posts and Communications in productive works of public utility coming within the department and functions of that Board.\n\n2. The term of the loan shall be thirty years, and the principal shall be repaid to the bondholders in twenty equal annual instalments of 250,000l. commencing with the eleventh year; but the Imperial Chinese Government, on giving a previous notice of six months to the contracting banks, shall have the right to redeem the whole loan, up to or increase the regular redemption by extra drawings, after the fifteenth year and the twenty-third year, inclusive, by the payment of a premium of 2½ per cent. upon the\n\n* Not printed.\n\n[2030 ee-3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420269, "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": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nUnited Wireless Telegraph Company.\n\nGeneral Offices, 42, Broadway, New York.\n\n156\n\nHongkong, October 15th, 1909.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nSir,\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.\n\n30.50 fotos foros\n\nWe have the honour to address you on the matter of obtaining a licence to establish and use installations for the purpose of wireless telegraphy in the Colony under the conditions of the Wireless Telegraph Ordinance of 1903.\n\nActing upon the suggestion embodied in your letter of the 14th instant addressed to the American Vice-Consul General in charge, we now make formal application for a licence to establish and operate a commercial wireless telegraph business within the Colony and beyond its limits, with permission to do all the things that wireless telegraph companies are legally entitled to do under the Articles of the Berlin Telegraph Convention and subject to its regulations and the laws of the Colony.\n\nWe would expect a licence giving us the sole right to conduct a wireless telegraph business for a period of twenty-five years, with the understanding that the Government would have the right to purchase the business at a valuation at the end of ten years and at the end of the fifteenth, twentieth, or twenty-fifth years.\n\nWe would agree to receive and transmit Governmental messages without charge and to use every effort in gathering meteorological information for the welfare of the Colony.\n\nWe propose to establish installations in Manila, Bangkok, and Singapore and are making applications to the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421220, "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": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "the difficulties of carrying out the ancient law of three years' mourning, and the Emperor refusing to release himself from it, and named the Princes of the Blood, Mongol Princes, and high Chinese statesmen who were entitled to the distinction of sharing in some of the 100 days' mourning, all other Princes and Ministers being ordered to wear mourning for twenty-seven days only and to burn the garments when discarded. Kuang Hsü's concubines were raised in rank by special Decree, and each of them was granted an allowance of 500 taels (`601`) a month for life. A characteristic note was introduced by the publication of a telegraphic Memorial of Tong Shao-yi proposing to alter the third ideograph of his own name, which happens to be identical with the second of the new Emperor's, to another ideograph of the same sound, and inquiring whether any change was to be made in the Imperial letter he was bearing to President Roosevelt.\n\nOn the 19th November appeared a long panegyric of the life work of the August Empress Dowager. Every important achievement or reform in the two reigns of Tung Chih and Kuang Hsü (1861-1908) is laid to her credit, and her claims to a place in Chinese history surpassing the most famous Empresses of past dynasties are set out with the customary rhetoric. This classic composition winds up with a command to the Grand Secretariat and the various Boards to consult together as to the posthumous title to be bestowed on Her late Majesty.\n\nAnother Decree of the 19th permitted the Mongol Princes and Nobles in attendance at Court to join in the obsequies, released those not at Court from the obligation to come, and remitted the tributary presents due from Mongol Chieftains during the present year.\n\nFuneral rites on a scale of exceptional grandeur were ordered for the Empress Dowager in a Decree of the 20th November, and the tomb which has been in preparation for Her Majesty at the Eastern Mausolea for thirteen years past, and which has lately been completed, was given an official name. It may be mentioned that the importance attached to Imperial places of sepulture was shown as usual by the threefold elevation of the ideographs of which the name was composed. That there was some opposition in the Imperial Family to the changes made in the headship of the Government is evident from another Decree of the 20th November, which quoted the earlier mandate of the Empress Dowager conferring supreme control on the Prince Regent, and enjoined strict obedience thereto by the Princes of the Blood, whose duty it was to set an example to the nation. This was followed by a severe general Ordinance against revolutionaries and disturbers of the peace, which was provoked probably by the mutiny in Anhui, reported in my telegrams to you Nos. 190 to 193 of the 21st, 23rd, 24th, and 25th instant respectively.\n\nI have the honour to inclose, for your information, précis translation of the Decrees referred to in the preceding summary, and I also transmit copy of an interesting note by Dr. G. Douglas Gray, physician to the Legation, on the medical facts and circumstances attending the deaths of the Emperor and Empress. A crop of rumours of foul play in one or other case was to be expected, but in all the information which has reached me I can discern nothing upon which to ground a belief that either the Emperor or Empress died from other than natural causes.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) \nJ. N. JORDAN\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n### Translations of Imperial Decrees, November 14 to 20, 1908.\n\n#### Further Decree of the Empress Dowager, November 14, 1908.\n\nWHEREAS the Emperor Mu Tsung Yi (T'ung Chih) died without issue, an Edict was published on the 12th January, 1875, commanding that if a son should be born to the Emperor Kuang Hsü he should be regarded as the heir of the Emperor Tung Chih.\n\nNow the Emperor Kuang Hsü is also deceased without issue, and no other course remains but to take P'u Yi, son of the Prince Regent Tsai Feng, as the adopted heir of the Emperor Mu Tsung Yi (Tung Chih), and at the same time as the successor of the late Emperor.\n\n#### Imperial Decree received by the Grand Secretariat, November 15, 1908.\n\nWe, the Emperor, having entered upon the great inheritance, our revered grandmother, Her Majesty the Empress Dowager, shall henceforth be honoured by the appellation of the August Empress Dowager, and our mother by adoption, Her Majesty the Empress, by the appellation of Empress Dowager. Let the proper Department examine the Statutes and inform us by Memorial of the forms and ceremonies necessary under such circumstances.\n\n#### Further Decree of the Emperor.\n\nWe have received the following Decree from Her Majesty the August Empress Dowager:-\n\n\"The Prince Regent Tsai Feng is now commanded to control the State. Let the Grand Secretariat and the various Boards and metropolitan Departments consult together respecting the ceremonies.”\n\n#### Decree of the Empress Dowager, November 15, 1908.\n\nThe Princes Li Shih To and Jai K'uei Pin, Na Yen Tu, Prince of the Khalkhas, Tsai Tse, Imperial Duke of the First Degree and President of the Board of Finance, the Grand Secretaries Shih Hsu and Na-t'ung, Yuan Shih-k'ai, President of the Board of Foreign Affairs, Pu Liang, President of the Board of Rites, and Chi-lu and Tsung-ch'ung, Comptrollers of the Imperial Household, are ordered to reverently perform the mourning rites and to make all arrangements connected therewith.\n\n#### Decree of the Empress Dowager, November 15, 1908.\n\nYesterday a Decree was issued specially commanding the Prince Regent to superintend the State, and instructing that all military and Government affairs whatsoever should be executed in obedience to our advice, instructions, and decisions. I am now dangerously ill and fear that I cannot recover. Hereafter let the Prince Regent take the decisions in military and Government affairs. In matters of gravity in which he must request a Decree of the Empress Dowager (Consort of the Emperor Kuang Hsü) the Prince Regent will take Her Majesty's pleasure in person.\n\n#### Decree of the Emperor, November 13, 1908.\n\nBy a Decree of the Emperor Hsuan Tsung Ch'eng (Tao Kuang), issued in the 3rd month of the 26th year of his reign (April 1846), it was ordained that the use of the two characters forming the personal name of the Emperor should not be entirely forbidden, but that thereafter, on the accession of a new Emperor, the first character of his personal appellation should remain in use unaltered and that the question of what strokes should be omitted in the formation of the second character should be decided when the occasion arose. It was directed that this should be the invariable rule.\n\nIn obedience to the will of our illustrious ancestor, we direct that the first character of our present name shall continue to be written as heretofore, and that as a mark of reverence a stroke shall be omitted from the second character, which shall hereafter be written thus (*). This enactment does not apply to books printed prior to the issue of the present Decree.\n\n#### Further Decrees of the Emperor, November 15, 1908.\n\nOn the occasion of the death of the Emperor Mu Tsung Yi (Tung Chih) in the fifteenth year of his reign (1875), His late Majesty, following the precedent already established, absolved the officers in the provinces—Tartar-Generals, Governors-General, Governors, Commanders-in-chief, Brigade-Generals, Provincial Treasurers, and Judges, as well as Salt Commissioners and Superintendents of Customs and of Imperial Manufactories—from the duty of coming to the capital to pay their respects to the Imperial...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425151, "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": 176, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "# \n\n173 \n\nto tab . Not for erir abam TRANSMITTAL \n\nThe SLIT NOW here? xin hrs berhad sain branuode \n\naeknolo) adr rot aðnen) mo10 edz to sg0 bomla- \n\nto groot eda ni mobrok anshanh fladorld to \n\n#trievo ed? to taled no has not galvos xeue \n\n-atovub are betiso Torteniorer) gcodynor to tree \n\nOSV. MALLIM devam? hng thảy onu e to (arren- \n\n....to \n\n.2184 79dro and To \n\nOČSTON OSİNsy eto netween bro yo buonye të ok vdanou \n\n-:Bwo fot us \n\nen ASLIBO Totantoroff) ae?' ca}{[} nova: bien bifs \n\nI¤obias? es dreid:dłogęs tut betoalea ydetail of (beregne ro810q \n\n➡nce {wo” arta to mofangitanos grid dalw noldoenzoo af Isenigos \n\n208 103taniutos anoi.ibaun hum arder eilz nogu vawlief nożna?» \n\n.101 \n\n2002360 02 be#poný OF MOXAJA, etur benenne muanaq əT \n\nSTATESMAN ad wow ær hoftey raja not toentyna dnehire? to melt th \n\nYawfie, ni? to noisel zoo all? *OT \n\nH \n\n# \n\nIla ebuloni Derin benangis nom^sq ort* to neljuk a \n\n.. \n\n[`ew as gewlis) end to noja orvatino eik idbw bezoekrog 2YOW \n\naris quom's dabuclavo” eric rinitiw unlich eidettua reddo yne vns \n\nDarla ell his motret në mår! noqu Ifen vem azeenigaf qnj dfino? \n\nanojdsenih Cenonagi Pra enolasındani ada rahnur dos verid 11s Ja \n\n•Sewike? Guld not etesaiand said Ivano are to \n\n* \n\nbra qrozmeroß rh Igvis no [ain berysoce reexoq af \n\n-msevol SF? To solving wis ni dinizzoo Jain ed emio ere gui¬ub \n\nas Tenner for ni tisaniul ygumoo bre soslq riosta ni eblas #162- \n\nbra dosnih Jiwia aroantra\" quis binnob edt siquorda duaneravo? edz \n\n*masпoo #c 10 #DANIB vidoenibu no gfðaunih Isutie zon Ileda as \n\neviooox no TOYGOBSMiw zvontu,d to solvitoa Tecido qua ni be- \n\neCodw suild sjovob Ilaria Jud half yne to editong no unoinBİATOD \n\nof his time and attention to the service of the Government and shall use his utmost exertions to promote the interests of the Government.\n\n5. The person engaged shall be paid a salary at the rate of One thousand two hundred Pounds, (£1,200) per annum. The salary will be payable monthly in dollars at a rate which will approximately be the average Hongkong demand rate from the fifteenth day of the preceding month to the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid. Half salary will be paid during the voyage from Hongkong to England on the satisfactory termination of this engagement. Full salary will commence from the date from which the person engaged takes up his duties under the Government.\n\n6. The person engaged shall be paid a consolidated allowance when actually serving on duty at the rate of two hundred pounds a year (£200) which shall include travelling expenses of every kind incurred in the performance of his duties.\n\n7. The person engaged undertakes to make no claim on the Government or on the Crown Agents for the Colonies in respect of the fluctuation in the value of the dollar.\n\n8. The Government shall refund to the person engaged all reasonable travelling expenses necessarily incurred by him in proceeding to Hongkong. On the satisfactory expiration of this agreement and subject to clauses 9 and 10 he will be provided with a free passage to England provided that he claims and avails himself of such return passage within one month from the date of such expiration. Passage in this agreement means first class passage by any steamer other than a mail steamer or second class by a mail steamer.\n\n9. If the person engaged shall be compelled by reason of ill health not caused by his own misconduct to resign his appointment or if at any time it shall be certified by a duly qualified medical officer employed by the Government that he is incapable on physical grounds of rendering further efficient service...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431355, "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": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 537, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "524 \n\nThe average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid. When, however, the average exchange rate for any month exceeds 2s., salaries are converted at 2s. to the dollar.\n\n11.\n\nThe Civil Service of Hong Kong is at present classified as follows, but no guarantee whatever is given that the numbers and conditions of the appointments or the salaries attached to them will remain unaltered. Moreover, some of the posts included in these classes are not exclusively confined to officers originally appointed as Cadets.\n\n| Class | No. of Posts | Initial Salary | Rising by increments (which are triennial except where otherwise stated) | Maximum Salary |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| III | 40 | £400 | £40 (annual) | £540 |\n| II | Six | £600 | £40 | £720 |\n| I | One | £800 | £100 | £1,000 |\n| Staff | One | £1,600 | | |\n\nIn addition to the fixed salary, officers are actually allowed certain allowances, viz.:\n\n* £100 a year\n* £120 a year (rising to £1500 a year)\n\nColonial Office, January, 1910: August last.\n\nNote. Further information can be obtained on personal application at the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432316, "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": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "content_text": "## RULES AS TO LEAVE, PENSION, &c., IN HONG KONG\n\n1. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted to members of the permanent Government Service after a period of four and a half years' resident service without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition, or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months.\n\n2. The Governor will not in any case grant leave on half salary for a period of more than nine months at a time, but that period may be extended by the Secretary of State on the ground of ill health or of urgent private affairs or for such other reasons as may appear to him to be sufficient. In exceptional cases, extensions of leave without pay may be granted.\n\n3. In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months during and in respect of any two consecutive years.\n\n4. At the request of any officer who may be eligible for the grant of any period of leave on half salary, the Governor may commute the whole or any portion of such leave into one-half the period of leave with full salary, provided that the total period of commuted and uncommuted leave, together with any period of vacation leave that may be granted, does not exceed ten months at a time. No officer can claim as a right to commute his leave in this manner, the decision whether commutation can or cannot be allowed being wholly within the discretion of the Governor.\n\n5. Officers attached to an educational institution are not entitled to vacation leave under the rule stated above in paragraph 3. When in the Colony, they enjoy the ordinary vacations of the institution to which they are attached. When taking long leave outside the Colony, they may be allowed to draw full pay during the first three months of their leave unless a school vacation has immediately preceded the grant of leave, in which case full pay may be drawn during two months only. The remainder of the leave in either case is on half salary. Half pay only can be drawn during any school vacation falling within the period of an extension of leave.\n\n6. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill health, an officer holding a pensionable appointment may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise, he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service, fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. For pension purposes, absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.\n\n7. A deduction of 4 per cent. is made from the salaries of all members of the permanent Government Service, as a contribution towards the provision of pensions for the widows and orphans of Government officers.\n\n8. The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of payments in the Colony, salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth of the month for which salary is to be paid. At present, however, if the average exchange rate for any month exceeds 2s., sterling salaries are converted at 2s. to the dollar.\n\nPage 363\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE, March 1912.\n\nNOTE—Further information can be obtained on personal application at the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.\n\n(23412-2.) Wt. 37913-598. 6, 3/12. D & S, 64", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432319, "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": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "content_text": "## Colonial Office Rules and Regulations\n\nDuring the two months only of the leave in certain cases will be allowed. Half pay only will be drawn.\n\nThe main rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill health an officer holding a pensionable appointment may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise, he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service, fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. For pension purposes, absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.\n\nFor purposes of payments in Hong Kong, the Colony, a deduction of 4 per cent. is made from the salaries of all members of the permanent Government Service, as a contribution to one or other of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Funds of the two Colonies or of the Federated Malay States.\n\nThe currencies of Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and the Federated Malay States are silver dollar currencies. In Hong Kong, salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth of the month for which salary is to be paid. In the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, salaries are converted at a fixed rate of 2s. 4d. to the dollar.\n\n**COLONIAL OFFICE, March 1906.**\n\nNOTE. Further information can be obtained on personal application at the Eastern Department of the `Colonial Office`. \n\n`500 Wt 30964 306 D & S & 24192`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434559, "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": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 560, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## \"Bureau of currency reform and/or native bank designated will hand banks quarterly published statement prepared for information Imperial Chinese Parliament showing disbursements of loan funds for currency reform.\n\n[\"Note. Funds required for Manchuria will be probably withdrawn in large amount under certificates, form of which will be fixed in statement which will be subject to your approval, but it will not be possible supervise their actual application. We propose insist upon as condition of our acceptance statement of expenditure for currency reform that same shall specify that certificates for withdrawal of funds from four banks must be signed by financial adviser, and that adviser shall certify to banks that quarterly statement agree with accounts kept by designated Chinese bank. Loan agreement will be so worded that banks may withhold loan funds if certificates and/or quarterly statement are not in order. We consider provisions stipulating that quarterly statements are to be submitted to Parliament constitutes safeguard against misappropriation.]\n\nFive per cent. per annum payable semi-annually from date on which loan issued to public.\n\n*Terms of loan forty-five years repayment principal commencing with eleventh year to be made by yearly amortisation in half-yearly instalments.\n\nSilver payments in Shanghai or payments in gold bond fide in America Europe to be made ten days before due date. Banks to receive 1 per cent. commission on loan service. China agree to pay 24 per cent. premium on extra redemption from fifteenth to twentieth years inclusive,\n\n[\"Note.--We can obtain possibly premium up to twenty-fifth year if you insist upon, but suggest that you make concession.]\n\n\"China agree to give banks preference for supplementary loan and for participation in any Manchurian business to be undertaken under this loan or in connection with.\n\n\"If after group has accepted currency reform programme and statement Manchurian and currency reform expenditures, political crisis, &c., should occur before publication prospectus, banks shall be given six months within which to issue. If at the expiration of this time loan shall not have been issued Government shall repay all advances with accrued interest at 6 per cent., and reimburse banks for expenses, engraving and/or printing bonds, but shall be liable for no other compensation, and on such repayment agreement shall become null and void.\n\n\"All necessary details of final agreement not specified about follow precedent of Hukuang and previous loan agreements.\n\n\"We have suggested to China that since we derive no commission on sale of materials proceeds of loan to be deposited with banks in Europe or held by banks in China shall bear no interest, and that China allow banks rebate of 1 per cent. on China amount of loan in partial reimbursement of flotation and other expenses- refuse rebate and demand interest. We can probably insist upon no interest, but doubt if we can obtain rebate would you authorise us compromise by offering small interest and mixed loan 5/4 per cent. at 94. We suggest 3 per cent. per annum in Europe and America currency account rate China. Please send us definite instructions on this point.\n\n\"We believe by signature foregoing agreement and by hold obtained through proposed advances immediate and contingent, you will be able oblige China grant adequate control provisions under statement of expenditures and force them in consultation with adviser to be appointed accept such alterations in currency reform programme handed to you as you after consultation with your expert at home may deem to be necessary.\n\n\"We believe agreement now proposed is best that can be obtained, and in view of probable competition strongly urge you authorise us conclude negotiations upon the basis of above and sign agreement immediately.\"\n\n(2.)\n\n**Cable from W. D. Straight to E. C. Grenfell, March 13, 1911.**\n\nRepeat to New York and communicate this to respective groups :-- \n\n\"Following from Straight, Hillier, Cordes, Casenave : \n\n\"With reference to proposed currency loan, telegraphic information has been received from Japan that meeting bankers called at the instance of Japanese Government has reported in favour of participation Chinese loan.\n\n\"In view of foregoing we strongly urge prompt conclusion of currency agreement in order to avoid introduction of possible political complications.\"\n\n(3.)\n\n**Telegram received from W. D. Straight, Peking, March 14, 1911.**\n\nPlease repeat to New York and communicate this to respective groups :— \n\"Following from Hillier, Cordes, Casenave, Straight :- \n\n\"Strongly urge endeavour to arrange conference before the 21st March, failure to take immediate action might give opening to complication which would defeat the entire project.\"\n\nPage 558", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438667, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 466, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "the \n\npaid hat in views of fifteenth enclosure to Govt despatch which modified \n\nthe lesions of the original notice \n\nI agree that some compensation \n\nmay \n\nbe paid if the licences \n\nare not renewed. \n\nthe \n\n3. I gather from the letter of \n\nLicensing Board 1st the 30th Dec \n\n1900 (enclosure 13) in the letter which \n\nforms enclosure 11 in my desp, \n\nthat it is proposed to \n\npay half the amount claimed \n\nKeensis \n\n4the licensees \n\nas the value \n\nof the goodwill including \n\nfurniture. In my opinion \n\ncompensation should be measured by the annual \n\n455 \n\nprofits; but if these cannot \n\nhalf \n\nbe ascertained, the net sale \n\nA \n\nof the goodwill without \n\nincluding the sums for furniture, \n\nor a sum $3000 whether \n\nmay be the less, with \n\nopinion, be reasonable compensation for such \n\nlicence", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440388, "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": 281, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "14\n\nso-called anti-opium remedies, which for the most part contained opium, morphine, or cocaine. After some discussion, during which Dr. Wu-Lien-Teh showed, from a series of analyses that had been made in regard to a number of these remedies, that nearly all of them contained opium or morphine, even though in some cases warranted not to do so, the resolution was passed unanimously in the following form:--\n\n\"La conférence, constatant que, dans les pays où des efforts ont été faits pour combattre l'abus de l'opium, on a été amené à faire usage de soi-disant remèdes anti-opium, contenant de l'opium, de la morphine ou de la cocaïne, décide que les Gouvernements participants prendront contre ces remèdes dangereux des mesures analogues à celles qui sont proposées contre l'opium, la morphine, la cocaïne et contre leurs sels respectifs.\"\n\nThe substance of this resolution has been embodied in article 14 (b) of the final convention, which lays down that any preparations, whether styled anti-opium remedies or not, containing more than 2 per cent. of morphine or 1 per cent of cocaine, shall be treated in the same way as those drugs.\n\n57. The Chinese delegation then submitted a series of resolutions having special reference to China, and to the Powers having special treaties with the Chinese Government. These resolutions had been previously discussed with us before they had been presented, and they had been worded in accordance with suggestions we had made.\n\nThe first two resolutions were to the effect that:--\n\n(1) The participating Governments agree to co-operate with the Chinese Government in the prevention of the smuggling of opium, morphine, cocaine, &c., from their colonies in the Far East, or from their leased territories in China into Chinese territory, while the Chinese Government will similarly co-operate towards the prevention of such smuggling from China into the colonies and territories in question.\n\n(2) With a view to giving practical effect to the principle embodied in resolution No. 9 of the Shanghai commission, the Chinese Government will enact pharmaceutical laws for its subjects, regulating the sale and distribution of morphine, cocaine, &c., and will communicate these laws to the treaty Powers represented at the conference. These Powers will, if they find the said laws acceptable, take the necessary steps for applying them to their own nationals in China.\n\nThese two resolutions were carried as they stood.\n\n58. The third resolution was to the effect that the participating Governments would undertake to adopt all necessary measures to restrict and control the smoking of opium in their leased territories, settlements, or concessions in China, and to suppress any opium smoking divans, &c., that might still exist there, as also to prohibit the smoking of opium in places of public amusement and houses of ill-fame.\n\nTo this resolution the German delegation moved an amendment, which was adopted, to the effect that the suppression of opium-smoking divans, &c., should take place pari passu with similar measures adopted by the Chinese Government in its own territories.\n\n59. The fourth resolution, as carried with a verbal amendment suggested by the French delegation, proposed that the participating Powers should take effective measures for the gradual reduction, pari passu with similar measures taken by the Chinese Government, of the number of shops dealing in opium, which may still exist in their leased settlements, territories or concessions, and that they should adopt suitable and effective measures for the restriction and control of the retail trade in opium in these areas.\n\n60. The fifth resolution, after some alteration in the original wording which took place after discussion thereon, was to the following effect:--\n\n\"The participating Governments possessing post offices of their own in China undertake to adopt stringent measures to prevent the illegal importation into China, as well as the transmission from one part of China to another through the agency of their aforesaid post offices, of opium, whether raw or prepared, of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts, and of the other substances dealt with in the convention.\"\n\n61. All these resolutions, subject to the amendments above indicated, passed without opposition, but Siam and Persia abstained from voting as not having treaties with China. The resolutions were originally embodied, as having special reference to the conditions of China and to circumstances which did not affect some of the conference Powers, in a separate supplementary convention. At the fourteenth session, however,\n\n15\n\n278\n\nwhen the articles came up for discussion in this form, the Chinese delegation proposed that they should figure in the main convention, on the ground that they were of primary importance, and that their relegation to a separate convention would seem to place China on a footing apart from the other conference Powers. After some discussion the matter was referred to the Drafting Committee, which recommended (section II of its report on a variety of matters which had been referred to it, contained in the minutes of the fifteenth session) that to meet the Chinese wish, and with the alteration of \"contracting Powers\" into \"contracting Powers having treaties with China,\" the articles should figure in the main convention. This proposal came up for discussion at the sixteenth session, and was adopted, Persia and Siam alone dissenting. The articles now figure as Nos. 15 to 19 of Chapter IV in the final convention, and in signing the convention the Siamese and Persian delegates indicated that they did so with a reserve on the subject of these articles, since they have no special treaties with China. We could never understand why these delegations, and especially that of Siam, were so tenacious in pressing this point, since obviously the chapter, as now worded, could only refer to the treaty Powers.\n\n62. The Drafting Committee then put before the conference three drafts, comprising:--\n\n(a) Draft articles of a convention embodying the general resolutions already passed on the subject of opium, raw and prepared, morphine, cocaine, &c.\n\n(b) Draft articles on the subject of ratification, adhesion, and denunciation.\n\n(c) A draft final protocol.\n\nA preliminary reading was then given to document (a), and some verbal amendments were introduced.\n\n63. At the twelfth session (20th December) the conference proceeded to the discussion of the first portion of document (b), which dealt with the procedure in regard to ratification coming into force, adhesion coming into force, and denunciation in respect of the convention. The procedure submitted for discussion was as follows:--\n\n(1) There would be a premier dépôt des ratifications at The Hague as soon as several signatory Powers were prepared to ratify.\n\n(2) The remaining participating Powers would ratify subsequently by written notification.\n\n(3) All outside Powers should then be invited to adhere.\n\n(4) The convention would come into force a year after the Netherlands Government had received the ratifications of all the contracting Powers and the adhesion of all the outside Powers above mentioned.\n\n(5) If, however, matters were not so far advanced two years after the signing of the convention, all the Powers that had by that time ratified or adhered were to be invited to send delegates to a fresh conference at The Hague to consider the conditions under which the convention might nevertheless be wholly or partially enforced.\n\n(6) A subsequent denunciation of the convention by any Power would apply only to that Power, and would come into effect a year after notice of denunciation had been given.\n\n6. In regard to the first condition above mentioned, we proposed, to expedite matters, that the convention should in any case be ratified by the participating Powers within six months, and, subject to an American amendment which extended the period to one year, this was carried. As regards the third condition, we also procured an amendment providing that invitation to the outside Powers should take place after the premier dépôt instead of after universal ratification, and that the premier dépôt might have effect as soon as six Powers were ready to ratify.\n\nThe discussion of the draft did not proceed further before our Christmas recess, but at the thirteenth session we tabled an important amendment with reference to the manner in which the convention was to come into force, which is given in paragraph 77 infra.\n\nThis amendment was referred to the Drafting Committee.\n\n65. The Germans had at the same time drawn up an additional draft article on the subject of denunciation to the following effect:--\n\n\"In case a nation which, up to the date of signing the present convention, has not produced opium or manufactured morphine, cocaine, &c., should engage in such production or manufacture, every Power within whose territories opium is produced, or\n\nLy", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440390, "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": 283, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "18\n\nfirst five chapters of the final convention had been reduced to article form and passed, and although some further modifications might be necessary, there was no reason to suppose that these would involve any material change of substance. We had in fact, as one of the French delegates epigrammatically remarked, painted in our picture, and what principally remained was to deal with the best manner of framing it—in other words, with the procedure to be laid down in regard to the ratification of the convention, its coming into force, the adhesion of outside Powers, and the methods and effects of denunciation. These matters raised difficult points, in regard to which there were a number of proposals still to be considered; but as the Drafting Committee was to reassemble some days before the full conference in order to consider and report upon them, and was to be assisted by an eminent international jurist, M. Asser, whose valuable services had been procured by the kind offices of the Netherlands Foreign Minister, there was every reason to believe that the conference, on coming together again, would be able to terminate its labours very speedily.\n\n75. When, however, we reassembled on the 8th January, we were confronted by a very different state of things. Owing to an entirely fresh and novel scheme which had been suddenly put forward on behalf of the German delegation, the Drafting Committee had to address itself to questions of substance, which exceeded the limits even of its extended reference, in regard to what may be called the \"effectuating\" clauses of the convention, i.e., the articles relating to adhesion, ratification, coming into force, &c. The committee accordingly confined itself to setting forth, and commenting upon, the various proposals made, in a very full and lucid report which dealt with other matters also, and which was formally received at the fifteenth session (9th January).\n\n76. In that report the committee put before us:—\n\n(1.) The original \"effectuating\" draft, as amended by the alterations made in that portion of it which the conference had considered at the twelfth session, vide paragraphs 63–64. Apart from some minor verbal modifications, the only point of difference between the draft as it then stood and that which the committee now submitted to us, was the omission of the condition, inserted at our suggestion, that ratification should take place within a year. This omission had been made at the instance of M. Asser, from whom the committee received most valuable assistance, on the ground that it was not expedient to tie down sovereign States to a fixed time condition as regards ratification, which circumstances might preclude some of them from fulfilling.\n\nAs it will be convenient hereafter to refer to this draft as the primary scheme, the committee justly remarked, this scheme was silent on the important points of the legislation required by the convention, and the date on which such legislation should come into force.\n\n77.—(ii) (a.) The primary scheme as modified by the further British amendment referred to at the close of paragraph 64 above, which dealt with those matters, and which is in its final form was as follows:—\n\n(1) The convention would come into force, as regards matters which did not require legislation, as soon as possible; and in any case within six months of its ratification by the participating Powers.\n\n(2.) Laws necessary to give effect to the convention should be drawn up as soon as possible, but the date on which they would come into force was to be the subject of an agreement between the Powers, and to depend on the extent to which outside Powers materially interested had adhered.\n\nThe insertion of this last stipulation was of course with reference to the fact that the participating Powers were so few in number, and to meet the objections raised as to particular Powers sacrificing their trade interests by embarking on legislation which other Powers might not adopt. We also desired to ensure that if the fresh conference, proposed by condition (5) of the primary scheme (paragraph 63) became necessary, should be confined to this point only. Generally speaking also, we desired, as the committee observed, to give practical effect to the decisions of the conference with the least possible delay.\n\n78.—(ii) (b.) Some further amendments to the project, as thus modified, suggested by the French delegation. That delegation pointed out that measures which in Western countries would require legislation would in some Eastern countries, as for instance, in French Indo-China, be brought into effect by administrative enactment. Such enactments were consequently equivalent to the \"laws\" of Europe; but whereas the British scheme laid down that the coming into force of laws should be the subject of an agreement between the participating Powers, and should depend on the extent to which outside Powers materially interested might adhere, administrative regulations were to be put into effect without any such qualification. The French delegation therefore proposed that in the event of the agreement contemplated in regard to laws not being obtained, Governments which had meanwhile proceeded by administrative enactments might withdraw or modify them.\n\nThe French contention as to the equivalence, in certain circumstances, of administrative enactments and laws, was one which we were bound to accept.\n\n79.—(iii) M. Delbrück, the German member, had himself suggested the original scheme submitted by the Drafting Committee; nevertheless, he had now propounded an entirely 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\n80. The reasons brought forward by M. Delbrück for this novel proposal were that the circumstances were also 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.\n\nM. Delbrück argued further that, as regards Germany, the convention would require the ratification of the Reichstag, and (as he subsequently informed the conference) such ratification would, ipso facto, make the convention a portion of German law, so 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\n81. Having set forth these points of view, the committee added that account must also be taken of the first three American resolutions brought forward at the fourteenth session of the conference (paragraph 72) which were of a mixed character, since they related in part to matters connected with the coming into force of the convention, and in part to specific restrictive measures, which would rather belong to the main articles than to effectuating clauses, and entered on the ground already covered in general terms by what is now article 20 of the convention.\n\n82. The 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\nM. Delbrück had raised the point that these words might be taken as covering every transportation of goods across a frontier, with the result that there would be a constant intervention of the Customs Department, which might not be within the intention of all the delegations. Was it, therefore (the committee asked), the intention of the conference to require a special authorisation for importation or exportation from carriers, such as railway and steam companies, or was this obligation to be only incumbent on those who carried on actual trade? If the latter was what the conference had in view, a definition of the terms seemed called for. Accordingly, on the advice...\n\n19\n\n280", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440415, "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": 338, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "334\n\n14\n\nso-called anti-opium remedies, which for the most part contained opium, morphine, or cocaine. After some discussion, during which Dr. Wu-Lien-Teb showed, from a series of analyses that had been made in regard to a number of these remedies, that nearly all of them contained opium or morphine, even though in some cases warranted not to do so, the resolution was passed unanimously in the following form:\n\n\"La conférence, constatant que, dans les pays où des efforts ont été faits pour combattre l'abus de l'opium, on a été amené à faire usage de soi-disant remèdes anti-opium, contenant de l'opium, de la morphine ou de la cocaine, décide que les Gouvernements participants prendront contre ces remèdes dangereux des mesures analogues à celles qui sont proposées contre l'opium, la morphine, la cocaïne et contre leurs sels respectifs.\"\n\nThe substance of this resolution has been embodied in article 14 (6) of the final convention, which lays down that any preparations, whether styled anti-opium remedies or not, containing more than 2 per cent. of morphine or 1 per cent of cocaine, shall be treated in the same way as those drugs.\n\n57. The Chinese delegation then submitted a series of resolutions having special reference to China, and to the Powers having special treaties with the Chinese Government. These resolutions had been previously discussed with us before they had been presented, and they had been worded in accordance with suggestions we had made.\n\nThe first two resolutions were to the effect that:\n\n(1) The participating Governments agree to co-operate with the Chinese Government in the prevention of the smuggling of opium, morphine, cocaine, &c., from their colonies in the Far East, or from their leased territories in China into Chinese territory, while the Chinese Government will similarly co-operate towards the prevention of such smuggling from China into the colonies and territories in question.\n\n(2) With a view to giving practical effect to the principle embodied in resolution No. 9 of the Shanghai commission, the Chinese Government will enact pharmaceutical laws for its subjects, regulating the sale and distribution of morphine, cocaine, &c., and will communicate these laws to the treaty Powers represented at the conference. These Powers will, if they find the said laws acceptable, take the necessary steps for applying them to their own nationals in China.\n\nThese two resolutions were carried as they stood.\n\n58. The third resolution was to the effect that the participating Governments would undertake to adopt all necessary measures to restrict and control the smoking of opium in their leased territories, settlements, or concessions in China, and to suppress any opium-smoking divans, &c., that might still exist there, as also to prohibit the smoking of opium in places of public amusement and houses of ill-fame.\n\nTo this resolution the German delegation moved an amendment, which was adopted, to the effect that the suppression of opium-smoking divans, &c., should take place pari passu with similar measures adopted by the Chinese Government in its own territories.\n\n59. The fourth resolution, as carried with a verbal amendment suggested by the French delegation, proposed that the participating Powers should take effective measures for the gradual reduction, pari passu with similar measures taken by the Chinese Government, of the number of shops dealing in opium, which may still exist in their leased settlements, territories or concessions, and that they should adopt suitable and effective measures for the restriction and control of the retail trade in opium in these areas.\n\n60. The fifth resolution, after some alteration in the original wording which took place after discussion thereon, was to the following effect:\n\n\"The participating Governments possessing post offices of their own in China undertake to adopt stringent measures to prevent the illegal importation into China, as well as the transmission from one part of China to another through the agency of their aforesaid post offices, of opium, whether raw or prepared, of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts, and of the other substances dealt with in the convention.\"\n\n61. All these resolutions, subject to the amendments above indicated, passed without opposition, but Siam and Persia abstained from voting as not having treaties with China. The resolutions were originally embodied, as having special reference to the conditions of China and to circumstances which did not affect some of the conference Powers, in a separate supplementary convention. At the fourteenth session, however,\n\non\n\n15\n\nwhen the articles came up for discussion in this form, the Chinese delegation proposed that they should figure in the main convention, on the ground that they were of primary importance, and that their relegation to a separate convention would seem to place China on a footing apart from the other conference Powers. After some discussion the matter was referred to the Drafting Committee, which recommended (section II of its report on a variety of matters which had been referred to it, contained in the minutes of the fifteenth session) that to meet the Chinese wish, and with the alteration of “contracting Powers\" into \"contracting Powers having treaties with China,\" the articles should figure in the main convention. This proposal came up for discussion at the sixteenth session, and was adopted, Persia and Siam alone dissenting. The articles now figure as Nos. 15 to 19 of Chapter IV in the final convention, and in signing the convention the Siamese and Persian delegates indicated that they did so with a reserve on the subject of these articles, since they have no special treaties with China. We could never understand why these delegations, and especially that of Siam, were so tenacious in pressing this point, since obviously the chapter, as now worded, could only refer to the treaty Powers.\n\n62. The Drafting Committee then put before the conference three drafts, comprising:\n\n(a) Draft articles of a convention embodying the general resolutions already passed on the subject of opium, raw and prepared, morphine, cocaine, &c.\n\n(b) Draft articles on the subject of ratification, adhesion, and denunciation.\n\n(c) A draft final protocol.\n\nA preliminary reading was then given to document (a), and some verbal amendments were introduced.\n\n63. At the twelfth session (20th December) the conference proceeded to the discussion of the first portion of document (b), which dealt with the procedure in regard to ratification coming into force, adhesion coming into force, and denunciation in respect of the convention. The procedure submitted for discussion was as follows:\n\n(1) There would be a premier dépôt des ratifications at The Hague as soon as several signatory Powers were prepared to ratify.\n\n(2) The remaining participating Powers would ratify subsequently by written notification.\n\n(3) All outside Powers should then be invited to adhere.\n\n(4) The convention would come into force a year after the Netherlands Government had received the ratifications of all the contracting Powers and the adhesion of all the outside Powers above mentioned.\n\n(5) If, however, matters were not so far advanced two years after the signing of the convention, all the Powers that had by that time ratified or adhered were to be invited to send delegates to a fresh conference at The Hague to consider the conditions under which the convention might nevertheless be wholly or partially enforced.\n\n(6) A subsequent denunciation of the convention by any Power would apply only to that Power, and would come into effect a year after notice of denunciation had been given.\n\n64. In regard to the first condition above mentioned, we proposed, to expedite matters, that the convention should in any case be ratified by the participating Powers within six months, and, subject to an American amendment which extended the period to one year, this was carried. As regards the third condition, we also procured an amendment providing that invitation to the outside Powers should take place after the premier dépôt instead of after universal ratification, and that the premier dépôt might have effect as soon as six Powers were ready to ratify.\n\nThe discussion of the draft did not proceed further before our Christmas recess, but\n\nat the thirteenth session we tabled an important amendment with reference to the manner in which the convention was to come into force, which is given in paragraph 77 infra.\n\nThis amendment was referred to the Drafting Committee.\n\n65. The Germans had at the same time drawn up an additional draft article on the subject of denunciation to the following effect:\n\n\"In case a nation which, up to the date of signing the present convention, has not produced opium or manufactured morphine, cocaine, &c., should engage in such production or manufacture, every Power within whose territories opium is produced, or", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440417, "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": 340, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "18\n\nfirst five chapters of the final convention had been reduced to article form and passed, and although some further modifications might be necessary, there was no reason to suppose that these would involve any material change of substance. We had in fact, as one of the French delegates epigramatically remarked, painted in our picture, and what principally remained was to deal with the best manner of framing it—in other words, with the procedure to be laid down in regard to the ratification of the convention, its coming into force, the adhesion of outside Powers, and the methods and effects of denunciation. These matters raised difficult points, in regard to which there were a number of proposals still to be considered; but as the Drafting Committee was to reassemble some days before the full conference in order to consider and report upon them, and was to be assisted by an eminent international jurist, M. Asser, whose valuable services had been procured by the kind offices of the Netherlands Foreign Minister, there was every reason to believe that the conference, on coming together again, would be able to terminate its labours very speedily.\n\n75. When, however, we reassembled on the 8th January, we were confronted by a very different state of things. Owing to an entirely fresh and novel scheme which had been suddenly put forward on behalf of the German delegation, the Drafting Committee had to address itself to questions of substance, which exceeded the limits even of its extended reference, in regard to what may be called the \"effectuating\" clauses of the convention, i.e., the articles relating to adhesion, ratification, coming into force, &c. The committee accordingly confined itself to setting forth, and commenting upon, the various proposals made, in a very full and lucid report which dealt with other matters also, and which was formally received at the fifteenth session (9th January).\n\n76. In that report the committee put before us:—\n\n(i.) The original \"effectuating\" draft, as amended by the alterations made in that portion of it which the conference had considered at the twelfth session, vide paragraphs 63-64. Apart from some minor verbal modifications, the only point of difference between the draft as it then stood and that which the committee now submitted to us, was the omission of the condition, inserted at our suggestion, that ratification should take place within a year. This omission had been made at the instance of M. Asser, from whom the committee received most valuable assistance, on the ground that it was not expedient to tie down sovereign States to a fixed time condition as regards ratification, which circumstances might preclude some of them from fulfilling.\n\nAs it will be convenient hereafter to refer to this draft as the primary scheme, the committee justly remarked, this scheme was silent on the important points of the legislation required by the convention, and the date on which such legislation should come into force.\n\n77.—(ii) (a.) The primary scheme as modified by the further British amendment referred to at the close of paragraph 64 above, which dealt with those matters, and which is in its final form was as follows:—\n\n(1.) The convention would come into force, as regards matters which did not require legislation, as soon as possible; and in any case within six months of its ratification by the participating Powers.\n\n(2.) Laws necessary to give effect to the convention should be drawn up as soon as possible, but the date on which they would come into force was to be the subject of an agreement between the Powers, and to depend on the extent to which outside Powers materially interested had adhered.\n\nThe insertion of this last stipulation was of course with reference to the fact that the participating Powers were so few in number, and to meet the objections raised as to particular Powers sacrificing their trade interests by embarking on legislation which other Powers might not adopt. We also desired to ensure that if the fresh conference, proposed by condition (5) of the primary scheme (paragraph 63) became necessary, it should be confined to this point only. Generally speaking also, we desired, as the committee observed, to give practical effect to the decisions of the conference with the least possible delay.\n\n78.—(ii) (b.) Some further amendments to the project, as thus modified, suggested by the French delegation. That delegation pointed out that measures which in Western countries would require legislation would in some Eastern countries, as, for instance, in French Indo-China, be brought into effect by administrative enactment. Such enactments were consequently equivalent to the \"laws\" of Europe; but whereas the British scheme laid down that the coming into force of laws should be the subject of an agreement between the participating Powers, and should depend on the extent to which outside Powers materially interested might adhere, administrative regulations were to be put into effect without any such qualification. The French delegation therefore proposed that in the event of the agreement contemplated in regard to laws not being obtained, Governments which had meanwhile proceeded by administrative enactments might withdraw or modify them.\n\nThe French contention as to the equivalence, in certain circumstances, of administrative enactments and laws, was one which we were bound to accept.\n\n79.—(i.) M. Delbrück, the German member, had himself suggested the original scheme submitted by the Drafting Committee; nevertheless, he had now propounded an entirely 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\n80. The reasons brought forward by M. Delbrück for this novel proposal were that the circumstances were also 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.\n\nM. Delbrück argued further that, as regards Germany, the convention would require the ratification of the Reichstag, and (as he subsequently informed the conference) such ratification would, ipso facto, make the convention a portion of German law, so 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\n81. Having set forth these points of view, the committee added that account must also be taken of the first three American resolutions brought forward at the fourteenth session of the conference (paragraph 72) which were of a mixed character, since they related in part to matters connected with the coming into force of the convention, and in part to specific restrictive measures, which would rather belong to the main articles than to effectuating clauses, and entered on the ground already covered in general terms by what is now article 20 of the convention.\n\n82. The 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\nM. Delbrück had raised the point that these words might be taken as covering every transportation of goods across a frontier, with the result that there would be a constant intervention of the Customs Department, which might not be within the intention of all the delegations. Was it, therefore (the committee asked), the intention of the conference to require a special authorisation for importation or exportation from carriers, such as railway and steam companies, or was this obligation to be only incumbent on those who carried on actual trade? If the latter was what the conference had in view, a definition of the terms seemed called for. Accordingly, on the advice\n\n19\n\n336", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440935, "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": 271, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "## 57. Reference had been made in more than one of the earlier sessions of the conference to the difficulty in regard to dealing with \"Indian hemp.\" As previously stated, the Italian Government had put this subject forward as one of the matters which the conference should consider, but it appeared that the Italian delegation was not to present any specific proposal in regard to hemp drugs, but rather to leave it to the conference as a whole to take such measures in regard to these as it might deem expedient.\n\n## 58. The subject was therefore referred to the Programme Committee, but that body was of the unanimous opinion that no useful purpose would be served by entering on the discussion of such a question, in which many interests might be involved, without careful study and consideration. M. Cremer, its chairman, therefore announced to the conference that, having regard to these circumstances, and to the facts that-(a) the conference was not in possession of the statistics necessary for adequate treatment of the subject;* (b) it was difficult to obtain a scientific definition of the preparations that would have to be dealt with; (c) the delegates had no instructions in regard to the discussion of this matter; (d) it appeared sufficient for the countries threatened by the abuse of hemp drugs to take internal measures against them-the Programme Committee considered it sufficient to recommend the adoption of the following resolution in the form of a vœu :--\n\n\"Il est à désirer que les Gouvernements participants étudient la question du chanvre indien au point de vue statistique et scientifique, dans le but de régler éventuellement, par leur législation intérieure ou pour un accord international, les abus de son emploi.” \n\nThis resolution was accordingly introduced by the Netherlands delegation, and was carried, with an amendment proposed by us substituting for the word \"éventuellement\" the words \"si la nécessité s'en fait sentir.\"\n\n## 59. The next matter for consideration was a resolution by the American delegation which had been brought forward and received some discussion at the twelfth session. This was to the effect that the participating Powers should communicate to one another, through the medium of the Netherlands Government, texts of existing and future laws and regulations bearing on matters dealt with in the convention; as also statistical information in regard to the trade in raw and prepared opium, morphine, and cocaine, and their respective salts, hemp drugs, and any other drugs or preparations dealt with in the convention.\n\nThe mention of hemp drugs was now deleted from the resolution, and, as regards the exchange of statistical information, an amendment, moved by our delegation and accepted by the Americans, to the effect that the statistics should be based, not only on Customs reports, but also on the registers of sale kept by persons licensed to carry on trade in the drugs concerned, was carried with a single negative vote. Our object, as we explained, was not in any way to divulge the statistics of individual firms, but, by grouping these together, to obtain information which would be very valuable as a supplement to the Customs returns. Later on, however (seventeenth session), when article 21 of the convention, which was based on this resolution, came up for final consideration, the German delegation pointed out that in some cases, as in regard to heroine, the trade was so largely in the hands of a single firm that to give the statistics proposed would in effect amount to divulging private affairs; and, recognising the justice of this view, the conference brought back the article to the scope of the original resolution by merely prescribing in general terms the submission of statistical information in regard to trade in the drugs mentioned.\n\n## 60. The conference adjourned after the fourteenth session (22nd December) for the Christmas recess.\n\n## 61. We had now been sitting for about three weeks, and had, as it seemed, come to a final agreement in regard to most of the matters with which we had been called upon to deal. The resolutions covering the ground which forms the basis of the first five chapters of the final convention had been reduced to article form and passed, and although some further modifications might be necessary, there was no reason to suppose that these would involve any material change of substance. We had in fact, as one of the French delegates epigramatically remarked, painted in our picture, and what principally remained was to deal with the best manner of framing it--in other words, with the procedure to be laid down in regard to the ratification of the convention,\n\nIt may be noted in this connection that the suggestion for the inclusion of hemp drugs in the conference programme was not brought to the notice of His Majesty's Government till about a fortnight before the conference met.\n\nPage 15\n\n## 61. ...its coming into force, the adhesion of outside Powers, and the methods and effects of denunciation. These matters raised difficult points, in regard to which there were a number of proposals still to be considered; but as the Drafting Committee was to reassemble some days before the full conference in order to consider and report upon them, and was to be assisted by the eminent international jurist, M. Asser, whose valuable services had been procured by the kind offices of the Netherlands Foreign Minister, there was every reason to believe that the conference, on coming together again, would be able to terminate its labours very speedily.\n\n## 62. When, however, we reassembled on the 8th January, we were confronted by a very different state of things. Owing to certain new proposals which had been put forward on behalf of the German delegation, the Drafting Committee had found itself confronted with questions of substance, which exceeded the limits even of its extended reference, in regard to what may be called the \"effectuating\" clauses of the convention, i.e., the articles relating to adhesion, ratification, coming into force, &c. The committee had therefore of necessity confined itself to setting forth, and commenting upon, the various proposals made, in a very full and lucid report which dealt with other matters also, and which was formally received at the fifteenth session (9th January).\n\n## 63. In that report the committee put before us :-----\n\n(1) The original \"effectuating\" draft, as amended by the alterations made in that portion of it which the conference had considered at the twelfth session (vide paragraph 54). Apart from some minor verbal modifications, the only point of difference between the draft as it then stood and that which the committee now submitted to us, was the omission of the condition, inserted at our suggestion, that ratification should take place within a year. This omission had been made at the instance of M. Asser, from whom the committee received most valuable assistance, on the ground that it was not expedient to tie down sovereign States to a fixed time condition as regards ratification, which circumstances might preclude some of them from fulfilling. It will be convenient hereafter to refer to this draft as the primary scheme. The committee justly remarked, this scheme was silent on the important points of the legislation required by the convention, and the date on which such legislation should come into force.\n\n## 64. (ii) (a) The primary scheme as modified by the further British amendment referred to at the close of paragraph 55 above, which dealt with those matters, and which in its final form was as follows:\n| Condition | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | The convention would come into force, as regards matters which did not require legislation, as soon as possible, in any case within six months of its ratification by the participating Powers. |\n| (2) | Laws necessary to give effect to the convention should be drawn up as soon as possible, but the date on which they would come into force was to be the subject of an agreement between the Powers, and to depend on the extent to which outside Powers materially interested had adhered. |\n\nThe insertion of this last stipulation was rendered necessary by the fact that the participating Powers were so few in number, and in order to meet the objections raised as to particular Powers sacrificing their trade interests by embarking on legislation which other Powers might not adopt. We also desired to ensure that if the fresh conference, proposed by condition (5) of the primary scheme (paragraph 54) became necessary, it should be confined to this point only. Generally speaking also, we desired, as the committee observed, to give practical effect to the decisions of the conference with the least possible delay.\n\n## 65. (ii) (b) Some further amendments to the project, as thus modified, suggested by the French delegation. That delegation pointed out that measures which in Western countries would require legislation would in some Eastern countries, as, for instance, in French Indo-China, be brought into effect by administrative enactment. Such enactments were consequently equivalent to the \"laws\" of Europe; but whereas the British scheme laid down that the coming into force of laws should be the subject of an agreement between the participating Powers, and should depend on the extent to which outside Powers materially interested might adhere, administrative regulations were to be put into effect without any such qualification. The French delegation therefore proposed that in the event of the agreement contemplated in regard to laws not being obtained, Governments which had meanwhile proceeded by administrative enactments... \n\nPage 268 \n[665]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441443, "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": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "content_text": "## HONG KONG POLICE PROBATIONERS.\n\n1. With the view of supplying the Police Service of Hong Kong Probationerships have been established, the holders of which will be required to devote themselves for a certain time after their arrival in the Colony to acquiring a knowledge of Chinese and Hindustani and of Police work and drill.\n\n2. The Probationers will be selected by competitive examination held by the Civil Service Commissioners. The examination for these appointments will, as a rule, be held in the month of June or July, in those years in which vacancies have occurred, simultaneously with the examination for the Indian Police Force and for the Police Services of Ceylon and the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, in the same subjects and the same papers. Candidates may compete for the Indian and for one or all of the Colonial services at the same time.\n\nApplications for admission to the combined examination should be addressed to the Secretary, Judicial and Public Department, India Office, in the manner laid down in the Regulations for admission to the Indian Police Force, issued by that Department. These regulations also contain full information as to the subjects for examination. Applications for admission to the examination of candidates for the Police Forces of the Colonies and Federated Malay States only should be addressed to the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office. They must reach that Department not later than the 1st of May.\n\n3. Candidates must be above 19 and under 21 years of age on the first day of June in the year in which the examination is held. They must be unmarried, and if they marry before reaching the East they will forfeit their appointments. Every candidate must be a British subject of pure European descent on both sides, and at the time of his birth his father must have been a British subject, either natural-born or naturalized in the United Kingdom.* He must, if called upon to do so, satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners that he is duly qualified in respect of age and character. He must be of sound constitution, possessed of good sight, and physically qualified for service in a tropical climate. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a strict medical examination by the Medical Board appointed to examine the successful candidates for Indian Police appointments, to test these points. A fee of two guineas will be charged in respect of this examination. No candidate who does not possess the physical qualifications required in the case of a candidate for the Indian Police Force will be regarded as eligible for an appointment in the Colonial Police Forces.\n\n4. Successful candidates will be allotted, as and when opportunity offers, to the service of Hong Kong or Ceylon or of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, upon a consideration of all the circumstances, including their own wishes; but the requirements of the Public Service will rank before every other consideration, and the Secretary of State will retain full discretion to allot as he thinks fit.\n\n5. Probationers will be expected to leave England about a month after they have been finally selected for appointment. A free passage to the Colony will be provided for the Probationer, subject to an undertaking to refund the cost of his passage in the event of his relinquishing the appointment within three years for any other reason than mental or physical infirmity.\n\n6. Each Probationer will receive salary at the rate of £225 per annum, half salary to commence from the day of leaving England, and full salary from the date of his arrival in the Colony, with free quarters.\n\n7. Every Probationer on arrival in the Colony will be subject to any regulations as to Probationers (not inconsistent with this paper) which may from time to time be made.\n\n* The decision of the Secretary of State for the Colonies as to whether a candidate satisfies this condition will be final. No candidate who has been rejected as not qualified in this respect for the Indian Service will be accepted as a candidate for the Colonial Forces.\n\n## \n10. The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of local payment salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid. When, however, if the average exchange rate for any month exceeds 2s., salaries are converted at 2s. to the dollar. The Civil Service of Hong Kong is at present classified as follows, but no guarantee whatever is given that the numbers and conditions of the appointments or the salaries attached to them will remain unaltered. Moreover, some of the posts included in these classes are not exclusively confined to officers originally appointed as Cadets:\n\n| Class | Number of Posts | Initial Salary | Rising by increments (which are triennial except where otherwise stated) of | Maximum |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | £ | £ | £ |\n| III. | Ten | 400 | 20 (annual) | 560 |\n| II. | Seven | 600 | 40 | 720 |\n| I. | Three | 800 | 100 | 1,000 |\n| Staff | One | 1,600 | | |\n\nIn addition to the fixed salaries of their posts, officers receive, while actually serving in the Colony, duty allowances at the following rates:- \n- Class III.—£100 a year, or in some cases £150 a year\n- Class II—£120 a year\n- Class I.—£150 a year\n\n**COLONIAL OFFICE, August, 1911.**\n\nNote. Further information can be obtained on personal application at the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.\n\n## \n4. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted to members of the permanent Government Service after a period of four and a half years' resident service without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months. \n\n5. The Governor will not in any case grant leave on half salary for a period of more than nine months at a time but that period may be extended by the Secretary of State on the ground of ill-health or of urgent private affairs or for such other reasons as may appear to him to be sufficient. In exceptional cases extensions of leave without pay may be granted.\n\n6. In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months during, and in respect of, any two consecutive years.\n\n7. At the request of any officer who may be eligible for the grant of any period of leave on half salary, the Governor may commute the whole or any portion of such leave into one-half the period of leave with full salary, provided that the total period of commuted and uncommuted leave, together with any period of vacation leave that may be granted, does not exceed ten months at a time. No officer can claim as a right to commute his leave in this manner, the decision whether commutation can or cannot be allowed being wholly within the discretion of the Governor.\n\n**EASTERN No. 119.** \n**[First Edition.] (`30698/1911.`) `7801/1912`.** \n**Printed for the use of the Colonial Office, September, 1911.** \n`537612`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441444, "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": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "content_text": "# To Prospective Cadets\n\nwitte free quarters \n\n9/Insert hawaf \n\nmade by the Government of the Colony (including regulations as to examinations in native languages, &c.). As a rule, he will be required to spend some time at Canton or elsewhere in China in order to study Chinese and subsequently to proceed to India to study Police work, drill, and Hindustani. A Probationer who has passed the prescribed examinations will be paid at the rate of £300 per annum until he obtains a substantive appointment. Should a Probationer remain three years, after passing his examinations, without obtaining a substantive appointment, his salary will be increased to £350.\n\n8. Any Probationer who may fail to pass the prescribed examinations within four years, or be found unfit for Police duties, will be liable to removal from the service. Any Probationer so removed from the service will be granted a free passage to England, provided that he utilizes such passage within three months from the date of his removal.\n\n9. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted after a period of six years' resident service without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition, or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds, it may exceed that period by six months. In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months in any two years.\n\nmarket \n\n10. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill-health, an officer may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise, he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service, fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for the three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. For pension purposes, absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.\n\n11. A deduction of four per cent. will be made from the salaries of all Probationers, as a contribution towards the pensions of the widows and orphans of Public Officers.\n\nprovision of \n\n12. The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of local payment, salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid. When, however, if the average exchange rate for any month exceeds 2s., salaries are converted at 2s. to the dollar.\n\n13. The Police Service of Hong Kong is at present classified as follows, but no guarantee is given that the numbers and conditions of the appointments or the salaries attached to them will remain unaltered, or that they will be exclusively confined to officers originally appointed as Probationers.\n\n| Position | Salary | Duty Allowance |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Assistant Superintendent (one) | £400 a year rising by annual increments of £20 to £560 a year | £100 a year |\n| Deputy Superintendent (one) | £600 a year rising by triennial increments of £40 to £720 a year | £120 a year |\n| Captain Superintendent (one) | £800 a year rising by triennial increments of £100 to £1,000 a year | £150 a year |\n\nA \"duty allowance\" is a non-pensionable allowance paid only while an officer is actually serving in the Colony. Free quarters will be provided for Probationers out of the value of the passes. Probationers and officers will also be granted free passages.\n\n**COLONIAL OFFICE, September, 1911.**\n\nApril 1912.\n\nNOTE—Further information can be obtained on personal application at the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.\n\nDate: 1912, April\n\nPrevious Paper: 660, May\n\nHONG KONG: 12863, CO 12303, R27/12, 207\n\nAn officer may also contribute at the rate of 4% of duty allowance drawn by him but is not required to do so. The choice of contributing 4% of duty allowance will be final and will apply to the whole of the officer's service.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441478, "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": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "content_text": "# EASTERN No. 121.\n(34434/1911)\nPrinted for the use of the Colonial Office. March, 1912.\n\n## RULES AS TO LEAVE, PENSION, &c.,\nIN\nHONG KONG.\n\n1. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted to members of the permanent Government Service after a period of four and a half years' resident service without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months.\n\n2. The Governor will not in any case grant leave on half salary for a period of more than nine months at a time, but that period may be extended by the Secretary of State on the ground of ill-health or of urgent private affairs or for such other reasons as may appear to him to be sufficient. In exceptional cases, extensions of leave without pay may be granted.\n\n3. In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months during, and in respect of, any two consecutive years.\n\n4. At the request of any officer who may be eligible for the grant of any period of leave on half salary, the Governor may commute the whole or any portion of such leave into one-half the period of leave with full salary, provided that the total period of commuted and uncommuted leave, together with any period of vacation leave that may be granted, does not exceed ten months at a time. No officer can claim as a right to commute his leave in this manner, the decision whether commutation can or cannot be allowed being wholly within the discretion of the Governor.\n\n5. Officers attached to an educational institution are not entitled to vacation leave under the rule stated above in paragraph 3. When in the Colony, they enjoy the ordinary vacations of the institution to which they are attached. When taking long leave outside the Colony, they may be allowed to draw full pay during the first three months of their leave unless a school vacation has immediately preceded the grant of leave, in which case pay may be drawn during two months only. The remainder of the leave in either case is on half salary, and half pay only can be drawn during any school vacation falling within the period of an extension of leave.\n\n6. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill-health, an officer holding a pensionable appointment may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise, he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service, fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service, but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. For pension purposes, absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.\n\n7. A deduction of 4 per cent. is made from the salaries of all members of the permanent Government Service, as a contribution towards the provision of pensions for the widows and orphans of Government officers.\n\n8. The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of payments in the Colony, salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth of the month for which salary is to be paid. At present, however, if the average exchange rate for any month exceeds 2s., sterling salaries are converted at 2s. to the dollar.\n\n## COLONIAL OFFICE,\nMarch, 1912.\n\nNOTE—Further information can be obtained on personal application at the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.\n\n`(23412-2.)` Wt. 37913-598. 500. 3/13. D * S.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441505, "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": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912", "content_text": "# The Appointment of a Second Mistress to the Kowloon British School, Hong Kong\n\n1. The Secretary of State for the Colonies requires a Second Mistress for the Kowloon British School, Hong Kong. The appointment is a new one.\n\n2. Candidates should be holders of the Board of Education's Elementary School Teachers' Certificate, and should have satisfactorily completed a course of training in a recognised Training College. They should be capable of teaching up to the standard of the Oxford Senior Local Examination. A candidate who already has friends resident in the Colony will be preferred.\n\n3. The salary offered, which will be not less than £150 per annum, will be settled in consultation with the Colonial Office, regard being paid to the qualifications and experience of the teacher appointed. Half salary will be paid from the date of embarkation from England and full salary from the date of arrival in the Colony.\n\nThe currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth of the month for which salary is to be paid. At present, however, if the average exchange rate for any month exceeds 2s. 8d., sterling salaries are converted at 2s. to the dollar.\n\n4. The candidate selected will be required to be examined by the Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office, and if the result is satisfactory she will be provided with a free second-class passage to the Colony. She will be required to sign an agreement to serve the Government of the Colony for three years from the date of her arrival there, and should she leave the service before the end of that period for any reason other than mental or physical infirmity, she would be liable to be called upon to repay the cost of her passage. A free passage home will be provided at the end of the three years' period if the appointment is then terminated.\n\n5. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted to members of the permanent Government Service after a period of four and a half years' resident service without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months. The Governor will not in any case grant leave on half salary for a period of more than nine months at a time but that period may be extended by the Secretary of State on the ground of ill-health or of urgent private affairs or for such other reasons as may appear to him to be sufficient. In exceptional cases extensions of leave without pay may be granted. At the request of any officer who may be eligible for the grant of any period of leave on half salary, the Governor may commute the whole or any portion of such leave into one-half the period of leave with full salary, provided that the total period of commuted and uncommuted leave, together with any period of vacation leave that may be granted, does not exceed ten months at a time. No officer can claim as a right to commute his leave in this manner, the decision whether commutation can or cannot be allowed being wholly within the discretion of the Governor. Officers attached to an educational institution enjoy when in the Colony the ordinary vacations of the institution to which they are attached. When taking long leave outside the Colony they may be allowed to draw full pay during the first three months of their leave unless a school vacation has immediately preceded the grant of leave, in which case full pay may be drawn during two months only. The remainder of the leave in either case is on half salary, and half pay only can be drawn during any school vacation falling within the period of an extension of leave.\n\n6. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill-health an officer holding a pensionable appointment may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' service, the pension is 10/60ths of the salary at the time of retirement.\n\nPage 267", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442168, "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": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 295, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "## HONG KONG POLICE PROBATIONERS\n\n1. With the view of supplying the Police Service of Hong Kong, Probationerships have been established, the holders of which will be required to devote themselves for a certain time after their arrival in the Colony to acquiring a knowledge of Chinese and Hindustani and of Police work and drill.\n\n2. The Probationers will be selected by competitive examination held by the Civil Service Commissioners.\n\nThe examination for these appointments will, as a rule, be held in the month of June or July, in those years in which vacancies have occurred, simultaneously with the examination for the Indian Police Force and for the Police Services of Ceylon and the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, in the same subjects and the same papers. Candidates may compete for the Indian and for one or all of the Colonial services at the same time.\n\nApplications for admission to the combined examination should be addressed to the Secretary, Judicial and Public Department, India Office, in the manner laid down in the Regulations for admission to the Indian Police Force, issued by that Department. These regulations also contain full information as to the subjects for examination.\n\nApplications for admission to the examination of candidates for the Police Forces of the Colonies and Federated Malay States only should be addressed to the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office. They must reach that Department not later than the 1st of May.\n\n3. Candidates must be above 19 and under 21 years of age on the first day of June in the year in which the examination is held. They must be unmarried, and if they marry before reaching the East they will forfeit their appointments.\n\nEvery candidate must be a British subject of pure European descent on both sides, and at the time of his birth his father must have been a British subject, either natural-born or naturalized in the United Kingdom. He must, if called upon to do so, satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners that he is duly qualified in respect of age and character. He must be of sound constitution, possessed of good sight, and physically qualified for service in a tropical climate. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a strict medical examination by the Medical Board appointed to examine the successful candidates for Indian Police appointments, to test these points. A fee of two guineas will be charged in respect of this examination. No candidate who does not possess the physical qualifications required in the case of a candidate for the Indian Police Force will be regarded as eligible for an appointment in the Colonial Police Forces.\n\n4. Successful candidates will be allotted, as and when opportunity offers, to the service of Hong Kong or Ceylon or of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, upon a consideration of all the circumstances, including their own wishes; but the requirements of the Public Service will rank before every other consideration, and the Secretary of State will retain full discretion to allot as he thinks fit.\n\n5. Probationers will be expected to leave England about a month after they have been finally selected for appointment. A free passage to the Colony will be provided for the Probationer, subject to an undertaking to refund the cost of his passage in the event of his relinquishing the appointment within three years for any other reason than mental or physical infirmity.\n\n6. Each Probationer will receive salary at the rate of £225 per annum with free quarters, half salary to commence from the day of leaving England, and full salary from the date of his arrival in the Colony.\n\n* The decision of the Secretary of State for the Colonies as to whether a candidate satisfies this condition will be final. No candidate who has been rejected as not qualified in this respect for the Indian Service will be accepted as a candidate for the Colonial Forces.\n\n## \nCOLONIAL OFFICE, September, 1913\n\n2. into one-half the period of leave with full salary, provided that the total period of commuted and uncommuted leave, together with any period of vacation leave that may be granted, does not exceed ten months at a time. No officer can claim as a right to commute his leave in this manner, the decision whether commutation can or cannot be allowed being wholly within the discretion of the Governor.\n\nThe average\n\n8. The present rule as to superannuation is that, in the case of ill-health, an officer may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service fifteen-sixtieths of annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointment for the three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years.\n\nFor pension purposes absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave on half-pay as half service.\n\n9. A deduction of 4 per cent. is made from the salaries of all members of the permanent Service, including Cadets, as a contribution towards the provision of pensions for the widows and orphans of public officers. An officer may also contribute at the rate of 4 per cent. of any duty allowance drawn by him but is not required to do so. Choice once made as to contributing 4 per cent. of duty allowance will be final and will apply to the whole of the officer's service.\n\nThe\n\n10. The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. Local payment salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars, as to 80 per cent. at the rate of 1s. 9d., and as to 20 per cent. at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid.\n\n11. The Civil Service of Hong Kong is at present classified as follows, but no guarantee whatever is given that the numbers and conditions of the appointments or the salaries attached to them will remain unaltered. Moreover, some of the posts included in these classes are not exclusively confined to officers originally appointed as Cadets :-\n\n| Class | Number of Posts | Initial Salary | Rising by increments (which are triennial except where otherwise stated) of | Maximum |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | £ | £ | £ |\n| I. | Four | 800 | 100 | 1,000 |\n| II. | Eight | 600 | 40 | 720 |\n| III. | Eight | 400 | 20 (annual) | 560 |\n| Staff | One | 1,600 | | |\n\nIn addition to the fixed salaries of their posts, officers receive, while actually serving in the Colony, duty allowances at the following rates :----\n\n**COLONIAL OFFICE, September, 1913.**\n\n* Class III-£100 a year (in one case £150 a year).\n* Class II.--£120 a year.\n* Class I-£150 a year.\n\n**Note.** Further information can be obtained on personal application at the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.\n\nEASTERN \n`1171912.` \n`293/1913` \nPrinted for the use of the Colonial Office, April \n`128689-/1913` \n\n(2.) `Wt. 522-617` 1900, 443 \n28/28 \nD & S. \n`142491-707./18./2/13.`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442169, "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": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 296, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "## \n7. Every Probationer on arrival in the Colony will be subject to any regulations as to Probationers (not inconsistent with this paper) which may from time to time be made by the Government of the Colony, including regulations as to examinations in native languages, &c. As a rule, he will be required to spend some time at Canton or elsewhere in China to study Chinese and subsequently to proceed to India to study Police work, drill, and Hindustani. A Probationer who has passed the prescribed examinations will be paid at the rate of $300 per annum with free quarters until he obtains a substantive appointment. Should a Probationer remain three years, after passing his examinations, without obtaining a substantive appointment, his salary will be increased to £350.\n\n8. Any Probationer who may fail to pass the prescribed examinations within four years, or be found unfit for Police duties, will be liable to removal from the service. Any Probationer so removed from the service will be granted a free passage to England, provided that he utilizes such passage within three months from the date of his removal.\n\n9. The existing regulations as to leave of absence are as follows:---\n\n(a) Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted to members of the permanent Government Service after a period of four and a half years' resident service without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds, it may exceed that period by six months.\n\n(b) The Governor will not in any case grant leave on half salary for a period of more than nine months at a time, but that period may be extended by the Secretary of State on the ground of ill-health or of urgent private affairs or for such other reasons as may appear to him to be sufficient. In exceptional cases, extensions of leave without pay may be granted.\n\n(c) In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months during, and in respect of, any two consecutive years.\n\n(d) At the request of any officer who may be eligible for the grant of any period of leave on half salary, the Governor may commute the whole or any portion of such leave into one-half the period of leave with full salary, provided that the total period of commuted and uncommuted leave, together with any period of vacation leave that may be granted, does not exceed ten months at a time. No officer can claim as a right to commute his leave in this manner, the decision whether commutation can or cannot be allowed being wholly within the discretion of the Governor.\n\n10. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill-health, an officer may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise, he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service, fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for the three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. For pension purposes, absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.\n\n11. A deduction of four per cent is made from the salaries of all members of the permanent service, including Police Probationers, as a contribution towards the provision of pensions for the widows and orphans of Public Officers.\n\nAn Officer may also contribute at the rate of four per cent of any duty allowance drawn by him, but is not required to do so. The choice once made as to contributing four per cent of duty allowance will be final and will apply to the whole of the officer's service.\n\n12. The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of local payment, salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid. At present, however, if the average exchange rate for any month exceeds 3s, salaries are converted at 2s to the dollar.\n\n13. The Police Service of Hong Kong is at present classified as follows, but no guarantee is given that the numbers and conditions of the appointments or the salaries attached to them will remain unaltered, or that they will be exclusively confined to officers originally appointed as Probationers.\n\n| Position | Salary | Duty Allowance |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Assistant Superintendent (one) | £400 a year rising by annual increments of £30 to £560 a year | £100 a year |\n| Deputy Superintendent (one) | £600 a year rising by triennial increments of £40 to £720 a year | £120 a year |\n| Captain Superintendent (one) | £800 a year rising by triennial increments of £100 to £1,000 a year | £150 a year |\n\nA \"duty allowance\" is a non-pensionable allowance paid only while an officer is actually serving in the Colony.\n\n**COLONIAL OFFICE,**\nApril 1912.\n\nNOTE—Further information can be obtained on personal application at the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442170, "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": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 297, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "# RULES AS TO LEAVE, PENSION, &c., IN HONG KONG.\n\n## Printed for the use of the Colonial Office. March 1913.\n\nNo. 121.\n\n[SECOND EDITION.]\n\n`(2882/1913.)`\n\n1. Subject to the necessities of the Service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted to members of the permanent Government Service, after a period of four and a half years' resident service, without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months.\n\n2. The Governor will not in any case grant leave on half salary for a period of more than nine months at a time, but that period may be extended by the Secretary of State on the ground of ill-health or of urgent private affairs or for such other reasons as may appear to him to be sufficient. In exceptional cases, extensions of leave without pay may be granted.\n\n3. In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months during, and in respect of, any two consecutive years.\n\n4. At the request of any officer who may be eligible for the grant of any period of leave on half salary, the Governor may commute the whole or any portion of such leave into one-half the period of leave with full salary, provided that the total period of commuted and uncommuted leave, together with any period of vacation leave that may be granted, does not exceed ten months at a time. No officer can claim as a right to commute his leave in this manner, the decision whether commutation can or cannot be allowed being wholly within the discretion of the Governor.\n\n5. Officers attached to an educational institution are not entitled to vacation leave under the rule stated above in paragraph 3. When in the Colony, they enjoy the ordinary vacations of the institution to which they are attached. When taking long leave outside the Colony, they may be allowed to draw full pay during the first three months of their leave unless a school vacation has immediately preceded the grant of leave, in which case full pay may be drawn during two months only. The remainder of the leave in either case is on half salary, and half pay only can be drawn during any school vacation falling within the period of an extension of leave.\n\n6. The present rule as to superannuation is that, in the case of ill-health, an officer holding a pensionable appointment may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise, he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service, fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. For pension purposes, absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.\n\n7. A deduction of 4 per cent. is made from the salaries of all members of the permanent Government Service, as a contribution towards the provision of pensions for the widows and orphans of Government officers.\n\n8. The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of payments in the Colony, salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars, as to 80 per cent. at the rate of 1s. 9d., and as to 20 per cent. at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth of the month for which salary is to be paid.\n\n## COLONIAL OFFICE, March 1913.\n\nNOTE—Further information can be obtained on personal application at the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.\n\n`(28738-2) Wt. 42492-708. 500. 3/13. D & S.`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449284, "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": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "page_number": 533, "title": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "content_text": "Page -8-\n\n530\n\nOur troops have taken possession of the enemy's position at eumitnoo of eza azelbloe lo.\n\ned‡ IIIw Jadw Jnenezy to es novieɛmod‡ ‡oubans of sunt troo.\n\n↑ ed emostua.\n\nɔb elŋoer adz.\n\nLekuamua galaotsendi yuan ybsotis era ereɗT.\n\nbas (deyak) ne! I zoew‡ed delugaiteib vizamol ea doum de for.\n\necomeqst ødt gatiiso won sta ynam dud,(azenglerol) low% law.\n\nJa id yan vədı .Bakið náð at Ila gat‡‡uq bas Iiew es stenglezol.\n\n—\n\nIb of sevlenment groma baatga avad samog zeito edź bus marat.\n\nBolla ait een of .saldo lo İls Bgadtez bas,gautusɗa qu obiv.\n\n,ecaebilme og evad yeit nodw mi jebenarat sit obtagnola gaitdałt.\n\n.sedt of 100%; tœatsilive si „motoiteva testserz eit tud.\n\nTU color a sevyo0 Li.\n\nExtracts from The China Press dated Tuesday, 22nd September, 1914.\n\nThe German artillery is occupying commanding positions.\n\nGerman infantry is advancing on the whole line. A renewed attempt of the British to break the right German wing has failed.\n\nThe German troops, after a six days' battle in France, are slowly breaking the French defence line, and are now occupying part of the original French line. The greatest gains have been made in the center. The attack of the fourth (Province of Saxony) and the thirteenth (Wurttemberg) army corps, with several other divisions, south of Lyon, on the German right wing, has proved to be a decisive success for the German forces.\n\nThe center attacks of the Allies are now easily repulsed on the whole line.\n\nThe Germans have occupied the British post of Nakob, in Africa.\n\nThe Russian General Martos, commander of the fifteenth army corps (Warsaw) who was taken prisoner, is being court-martialled for having given orders to kill peaceful citizens.\n\nThe Austrians have driven back the Servians across the Save river and have routed them. Western Galicia is being held by the Austrians and Hungarians. Their army is standing with the front to the North, the right wing resting on the fortress of Przemysl.\n\nPage 530", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450346, "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": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "page_number": 498, "title": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "content_text": "491\n\n5.\n\nengage\n\nor\n\nanninn\n\nare not drawn as\n\nGovernment through its duly authorised officers shall direct and he shall not directly or indirectly engage or be concerned in any other service, business whatsoever, or receive commissions or profits of any kind, but shall devote the whole of his time and attention to the service of the Government, and he shall use his utmost exertions to promote the interests of the Government.\n\nThe Government shall pay the person engaged during the continuance of his services salary at the rate of two hundred and forty pounds (£240) per annum, rising by annual increments of fifteen pounds (£15). The maximum salary attached to the appointment is two hundred and seventy pounds (£270) per annum. Increments, however, are not of right but only by sanction of the Government, and will not be granted except upon the production of a certificate from the Head of his Department stating that the person engaged has discharged his duties with diligence and fidelity. The salary will be payable monthly, in dollars at the rate which will approximately be the average Hong Kong demand rate from the fifteenth day of the preceding month to the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid. The Government shall also provide the person engaged with free quarters, or in the event of no Government quarters being available, shall pay him a house allowance at the rate of Thirty dollars ($30) per mensem in lieu thereof. No other allowances than the above will be granted. Half salary will be paid during the voyage out and home again on the satisfactory termination of this engagement. Full salary will commence from the date of arrival in the Colony.\n\n\"In this agreement, the period of any voyage shall be reckoned commencing on the day of embarkation and ending on the day previous to the day of disembarkation of the person engaged, both days inclusive.\"\n\nThe Government shall provide the person engaged with a free passage from England to the Colony, including railway fare third class to port of embarkation, and on the satisfactory expiration of this agreement, and subject to clauses 7 and 8, he will be provided with a similar free passage to England, provided he claims and avails himself of such return passage within one month from the date of such expiration. \"Passage\" in this agreement means second-class passage.\n\nIf the person engaged shall be compelled by reason of ill health not caused by his own misconduct to resign his appointment, or if at any time it shall be certified by a duly qualified medical officer employed by the Government that he is incapable on physical grounds of rendering further efficient service in the Colony, the Government shall pay him his salary up to the date of such resignation or certificate, and shall, if he is in the Colony at the time, provide him with a free passage to England, provided that he claims and avails himself of such return passage within one month, but he shall have no other claim on the Government.\n\nIf he shall resign his appointment from any other cause, he shall refund on demand to the Government, or to the Crown Agents for the Colonies, the amount paid for his passage to the Colony, including railway fare, and, if he is in the Colony at the time of the termination of his engagement, shall not be entitled to a return passage.\n\n7.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450351, "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": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "page_number": 503, "title": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "content_text": "7\n\nare not drawn as\n\ntheir.\n\nGovernment through its duly authorised officers that: direct and he shall not directly or indirectly engage\n\nbe concerned in any other service or business whatsoever or receive commissions or profits of any kind but shall devote the whole of his time and attention to the service of the Government and he shall use his utmost exertions to promote the interests of the Government. The Government shall pay the person engaged during the continuance of his services salary at the rate of Two hundred pounds\n\n(£200) per annum rising by biennial increments of ten pounds (£10). The maximum salary attached to the appointment is two hundred and thirty pounds (£230) per annum. Increments however\n\nof right but only by sanction of the Government and will not be granted except upon the production of certificate from the Head of his Department stating that the person engaged has discharged his duties with diligence and fidelity. The salary will be payable monthly in dollars at the rate which will approximately be the average Hong Kong demand rate from the fifteenth day of the preceding month to the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid. The Government shall also provide the person engaged with free quarters or in the event of no Government quarters being available shall pay him a house allowance at the rate of Thirty Dollars ($30) per mensem in lieu thereof. No other allowances than the above will be granted. Half salary will be paid during the voyage out and home again on the satisfactory termination of this engagement. Full salary will commence from the date of arrival in the Colony. In this agreement\n\nthe period of any voyage shall be reckoned\n\ncommencing on the day of embarkation and ending on the day previous to the day of disembarkation of the person engaged both days\n\ninclusive.\n\nThe Government shall provide the person engaged with a free passage from England to the Colony, including railway fare third class to port of embarkation and on the satisfactory expiration\n\nof this agreement and subject to clauses 7 and 8 he will be provided with a similar free passage to England provided he claims and avails himself of such return passage within one month from the date of such expiration. \"Passage in this agreement means\n\nmeans a second-class passage.\n\nIf the person engaged shall be compelled by reason of ill-health not caused by his own misconduct to resign his appointment or if at any time it shall be certified by a duly qualified medical officer employed by the Government that he is incapable on physical grounds of rendering further efficient service in the Colony the Government shall pay him his salary up to the date of such resignation or certificate and shall, if he is in the Colony at the time provide him with a free passage to England provided that he claims and avails himself of such return passage within one month but he shall have\n\nno other claim on the\n\nGovernment. If he shall resign his appointment from other cause he shall refund on demand to the Government or to the Crown Agents for the Colonies the amount paid for his passage to the Colony including railway fare and if he is in the Colony at the time of the termination of his engagement shall not be entitled to a return", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450382, "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": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "page_number": 534, "title": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "content_text": "Page 530\n\nCIRCULAR 15.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nHong Kong,\n\n11th April, 1913.\n\nThe following amendments to General Orders are\n\npublished for information:-\n\nC.S.O. 1950/13.\n\nC.S.O. 1950/13.\n\nAPPENDIX C.\n\nPara. 10 is hereby cancelled and the following substituted therefor :-\n\n\"The currency of Hongkong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of local payment salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars, as to 80 per cent at the rate of 1s 9d, and as to 20 per cent at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid.\n\nAPPENDIX F.\n\nPara 12 is hereby cancelled and the following substituted therefor-\n\n\"The currency of Hongkong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of local payment salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars, as to 80 per cent at the rate of 1s 9d and as to 20 per cent at a rate fixed by the Government and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid.”\n\nTo\n\nThe Heads of Departments.\n\nBy Command.\n\nA.M. Thomson,\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450384, "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": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "page_number": 536, "title": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "content_text": "5. Government or any duly authorised officer shall direct and he shall not directly or indirectly be concerned in any other service or business whatsoever or receive commissions or profit of any kind. But he shall devote the whole of his time and attention to the service of the Government and he shall use his utmost exertions to promote the interests of the Government.\n\nThe Government shall pay the person engaged during the continuance of his services salary at the rate of Two hundred pounds (£200) per annum rising by biennial increments of Ten pounds (£10). The maximum salary attached to the appointment is Two hundred and thirty pounds (£230) per annum. Increments however are not drawn as of right but only by sanction of the Government and will not be granted except upon the production of certificate from the Head of his Department stating that the person engaged has discharged his duties with diligence and fidelity.\n\nHe shall also be paid travelling allowance at the rate of Two hundred and seventy dollars ($270) per annum whilst actually performing the duties of the appointment in the Colony. The salary will be payable monthly in dollars and shall until otherwise decided by the Government be converted at the following rates viz:- as to 80% at the rate of 1/9 to the dollar and as to 20% at a rate fixed by the Government and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid. In fixing the rate no fraction less than a farthing will be calculated.\n\nNo allowance other than the above will be granted. Half salary will be paid during the voyages out and home again from the date of arrival in the Colony. In this agreement the period of any voyage shall be reckoned as commencing on the day of embarkation and ending the day previous to the day of disembarkation of the person engaged both days inclusive.\n\nThe Government shall provide the person engaged with free passage from England to the Colony including railway fare third class to port of embarkation and on the satisfactory expiration of this agreement and subject to clauses 7 and 8 he will be provided with a similar free passage to England provided he claims and avails himself of such return passage within one month from the date of such expiration. Passage in this agreement means a second class passage.\n\n7. If the person engaged shall be compelled by reason of ill-health not caused by his own misconduct to resign his appointment or if at any time it shall be certified by a duly qualified medical officer employed by the Government that he is incapable on physical grounds of rendering further efficient service in the Colony the Government shall pay him his salary up to the date of such certificate and shall if he is in the Colony at the time provide him with a free passage to England provided that he claims and avails himself of such return passage within one month's notice. But he shall have no other claim on the Government. If he shall resign his appointment from other cause he shall refund on demand to the Government or to the Crown Agents for the Colonies the amount paid for his passage to the Colony including railway fare and if he is in the Colony at the time of the termination of his engagement shall not be entitled to any return passage.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457939, "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": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "30\n\nDOKÁ\n\nNOTAI\n\n#ASKART\n\n\"เ\n\nnch\n\n198\n\nان\n\nCOPY.\n\n(159759)\n\n£6993\n\nI, the undersigned, AMERICA RECONSUL GENERAL\n\nREB 5 NOVIST\n\nof the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA at ANTWERP, BELGIUM,\n\nalso having charge for the present of the BRITISH INTERESTS at ANTWERP, do hereby certify that I have known C. INGENOHL, of this city, for years, and know him to be a Belgian subject; further that he has a main office in this city, a branch office at Rotterdam and a large cigar factory at Hongkong, \"The Orient Tobacco Manufactory of C. INGENOHL\"; that I have closely examined his books, and have satisfied myself that he placed large orders with Gebrüder Klingenberg, of Detmold, for labels to be used in said factory, which orders bear dates of December 3rd, 1913 and May 4th, 1914; that I read the original letters of Gebr. Klingenberg, under date of December 4th, 1913 and May 5th, 1914, confirming said orders for labels; that I further noted the invoices of Gebr. Klingenberg, Detmold, dated May 21st and May 28th 1915, covering:\n\n5 cases of labels - gross weight 749 1/2 Kos. marked \"O.M.\" 1645/49 valued at Frs.3.387,40;\n\nHongKong\n\nand that this amount was paid by C. Ingenohl on June 15th, 1915, the receipt of which was acknowledged by letter of Gebr. Klingenberg on June 19th, 1915.\n\nIN WITNESS WHEREOF I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AND SEAL THIS FIFTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER A.D. ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN.\n\n(signed) HENRY W. DIEDERICH.\n\nAmerican Consul General\n\nin charge of British interests at Antwerp.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467114, "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": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 695, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "WALL 800\n\n22. MAY, 1918\n\nTO\n\nKolonial Office, London.\n\nThanks yours fifteenth. Have bear company odt ina Monbooh way to molt Loken wibitud Tilambary osa on kas yan of sals me I lative assuring. futurl mition approved such as Igain saying.\n\nUts Fif *LU O L NOIJSDANCO nahi Jaure? I ,000Had Tojoariomall erin seknol biling my 85KW ATIATKOM U#) ko dod welld stops her as why with site my es la Thinding company C My sound please hand your Reply direct to this offes.\n\nWellen L\n\nPage ...\n\n...\n\nService instructions.\n\nNo.\n\nVia Anglo.\n\nCABLEGRAM 22 MAY 16\n\nWESTERN UNION DIRECT UNITED STATES\n\nANGLO-AMERICAN S\n\n24008\n\n1\n\n694\n\nHanded-in at WEEK END CAUIR LETTER\n\nTime Received.\n\nNo. of Words.\n\n135 1/57\n\nReceiving Office 379\n\nbao back of Focus Fur Tulephone Number,\n\nTo wlf Ander sienta\n\nIlm. Lo\n\nmy\n\nJ\n\nle inquiry respecting this Message can be attended to without the production of this paper,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467119, "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": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 700, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State \n\n2 \n\nMay 24th, 1916. \n\n699 \n\nto which I replied on the 20th instant, after having once more tried to induce the Texas Company to agree to a longer term of contract than their usual one, so as to prevent this Company, as much as we can, from placing its agency into German or Austrian hands after the war:\n\n\"Thanks your fifteenth.\n\nHave spoken Texas Company relative assuring future position approved Hongkong firm, such as Dodwell's stop.\n\nTexas refuse again, saying why necessary (in case of) Dodwells if waived with Reiss; whilst my Company (&) myself willing give any binding assurance, you formulate, as written (you) twenty-first April, page four stop.\n\nmore-\n\n(I) realize impossibility Government intervening matter Reiss, who propose commission five years, though on uncertain basis; over Bounsel strongly advises no further agreements with them during\n\nstop.\n\nwar -\n\nTherefore Reiss impossible, power attorney definitely withdrawn, they landing cargo (ex \"Tanored\") for Bank only stop.\n\nAnxiously awaiting your cable (with) Hongkong's answer regarding proposal Dodwells (to be) agents, jointly my Company stop.\n\nTexas say useless to even consider Dodwell's application without Governor accepting this proposal stop.\n\nRefusal will break last link connecting business British interests.\n\nto the last part of which cable I am, unfortunately, without any answer even today.\n\nApparently, H.E. the Governor prefers to keep the business in Messrs. Reiss's hands (and therefore does not reply in regard to Messrs. Dodwells), not being aware of what has been going on without his knowledge, not knowing, above all, that Messrs. Reiss & Co., after having definitely decided, and declared to all and sundry, that my Company's arrangement with them was to cease on the 30th June next, have no right whatever, under our contract, to seek to acquire this business without\n\n1 \n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467154, "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": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 735, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "May 24th, 1916\n\n734\n\nto which I replied on the 20th instant, after having once more tried to induce the Texas Company to agree to a longer term of contract than their usual one, so as to prevent this Company, as much as we can, from placing its agency into German or Austrian hands after the war:\n\n\"Thanks yours fifteenth.\n\nHave spoken Texas Company relative assuring future position approved Hongkong firm, such as Dodwell's – stop.\n\nTexas refuse again, saying why necessary (increase of) Dodwells if waived with Reiss; whilst my Company and myself willing give any binding assurance, you formulate, as written (you) twenty-first April, page four stop.\n\nTo re-\n\n(I) realise impossibility Government intervening matter Reiss, who propose commission five years, though on uncertain basis; our counsel strongly advises no further agreements with them during war.\n\nTherefore Reiss impossible, power attorney definitely withdrawn, they landing cargo (ex \"Tanored\") for Bank only – stop.\n\nAnxiously awaiting your cable (with) Hongkong's answer regarding proposal Dodwells (to be) agents Texas, jointly my Company stop.\n\nTexas say useless to even consider Dodwell's application without Governor accepting this proposal – stop.\n\nRefusal will break last link connecting business British interests.\"\n\nto the last part of which cable I am, unfortunately, without any answer even today.\n\nApparently, H.E. the Governor prefers to keep the business in Reiss's hands (and therefore does not reply in regard to leasing Dodwells), not being aware of what has been going on without his knowledge, not knowing, above all, that Messrs. Reiss & Co., after having definitely decided, and declared to all and sundry, that my Company's arrangement with them was to cease on the 30th June next, have no right whatever, under our contract, to seek to acquire this business without...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468418, "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": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "page_number": 181, "title": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "content_text": "he.\n\nSPROT\n\n**prie Azzur þið sporðånot yď z.. ASL 14.5\n\n„izorėtuodel erit 12 as digid\n\n>mij hudcortado el padre\n\n*\n\nJugra ani hohenczo ed antj bedeantnoo eft 31\n\nboara-out ed Jha Iforie dzɔw edd noqu\n\nA\n\nto beoubor ad neveroť neo (пögu\n\n`d arthropo£ +9ö 1.:amfzow medijo to\n\nuta na mobilqa bett\n\n- dodo fesz\n\nM\n\n3\n\n31 TELEVI98a omer (odreda listaba\n\nJ\n\n* 93 70 mk, beerga emit (1) alijis vɔt be\n\nwydianjostakiwa\n\nwo tirowanate un maddi- bemotmag jon jamitravo enɔb F7QE.♪\n\ncustomjad efraîæstrā ›*j od mot blag of Iimla,Jearimoo y\n\ntão edam pris do tqqaldatanli\n\nsuch an biror fara sakera 12 BORNTVA) and 22 3hr arabhfod. Iurenço the paudu 15 305STECH ple to 2915 ruod dona mot zeek Fall savikɔ no uvaexyah ada 10. DI\\E\n\nfor Arud autoit voda bna mavo nuod na to jraq ro „honom svad podt de life antzub weib\n\n-:ewoffot as bioq ad sT .a\n\nat the aft erat Ilaria yasamoo muɔfortɔl oricatasjad 3AT.I\n\nistumunda? and to new and to tear yaq\n\n3.19 to 197us,y*** Qiun & ad qu tikieur Bɔng to Jože mi .8\n\nIkat t has sport!\n\n--\n\n•\n\n$ 0.1m tha and mot\n\nyd at an phum að ƒMyme 5.1 *u* log for da brid\n\n• Yilsquos est\n\n+ to\n\nmay not haa prasmanan old galyfaque yɗ .ɗ\n\n-16 mee (ponamqwo.ä.d) at1190\n\nmarita mo uɔby ud itag aaie. 150 gør alt to jJtaq aff.9 ed flats or iowa nɔ secnevba dit aa Ifer us,boot\n\n!'.I ebhaftsfjall al Bing\n\nmɔmuodal -t of sub nogaárő\n\njoand 83.00 (\n\n18 to\n\nbua Tava\n\n02:\n\n1\n\nmelb\n\nT\n\ndo Asiw befow\n\n171\n\nthe time, they have to lose by fulfilling a duty imposed upon them by the authorities for which they do not receive\n\na remuneration, except if such a duty le caused by a\n\ncivil ocurt case or is due to a fact that has taken\n\nplace outside the estate where the labourer is working.\n\nThe claim to daywages lapses, if the fulfilment of the\n\nabove mentioned duty takes longer than seven consecutive\n\ndays.\n\nIV.A. Advances, which the labourers may regetve, shall be deducted from wages earned in the following way. No\n\nadvances shall be given to the labourers before their\n\ndeparture from Hongkong, which they should have to refund\n\nafterwards.\n\n1\n\nB. Deductions for advances, due to payments made for account\n\nof the labourers cr for ecste of arrest in case of\n\ndesertion, shall together not exceed of the amount due\n\nto the labourer for work performed, either for daywages,\n\nat daily task or on piecework, and not more than of the\n\nwages earned by contract, if the labourer hae worked by\n\ncontract.\n\n1\n\nC. The Company binds itself to supply the labourers once a\n\nmonth with a statement of their account by posting plain\n\nlists in or near their dwellinga.\n\nV.A. Nc work shall be required from the labourers on the\n\nfollowing days:-\n\nContract the fifteenth of the 1st. rese month. the day of the thing Bing\n\natival.\n\nthe fifth day\n\nthe fifth\n\nad ba\n\ntf\n\nTad od \"falfa,yonum at blaq\n\nCC O\n\ny of the\n\nTreds beNOT GOU?)\n\nCannondal - To Isturan\n\n,\n\ntal 371. *\n\ninese month.\n\nthe fifteenth\n\ngith ChineBÉ nth\n\nthe\n\ntoday, of the\n\n-altitium\n\nang Tsocih)\n\n1. the last day of the 19th Chinese month.\n\n2. the first and second day of the let chinese month.\n\n3. the fifteenth day of the seventh Chinese month.\n\n4. the afternoon of the fifteen day of the first Chinese\n\nmonth.\n\n5. the afternoon of the day of the Tshing Bing festival.\n\n6\n\nthe afternoon of the fifth day of the fifth Chinese\n\nmonth.\n\n7. the afternoon of the fifteenth day of the eighth\n\nChinese month.\n\n8\n\n•\n\nthe afternoon of the fifteenth day of the winter-\n\ncltitium (Tang Teboth)\n\nand besides", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478553, "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": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "-4- \n\n८ \n\nAs \"Il Truciolo\" Carol are manufacturers of hats and straw plait, it is not apparent why they should seek to import tobacco.\n\nGermann & Co. has undoubtedly tried to ship knotted hemp to Truciolo via New York (T.L.0892) and as late as October 2nd, 1916 (unless this is a clerical error for 1915, as it may be), Germann & Co., Manila, appear to have written to the Hamburg House referring to a letter written to Truciolo on September 23rd on the subject of a dispute over a matter of exchange.\n\nAnd on 23.5.16, Everett Heaney radioed to Germann & Co., Hamburg: \n\"Have shipped New York nine thousand kilos hundred forty fifteenth April Dubler refuses payment telegraph him instructions market advanced send orders bases Batangas hundred sixty five can only ship New York\" (2086 $).\n\nIt can hardly be doubted that the following message dated 26.5.16 from Charles Pfister, Wohlen to Dubler, New York, furnishes the answer to the request in the last mentioned message: \n\"Honour my behalf documents Knotted hemp reship all Boclete Suisse surveillance economique Marseille if necessary funds not available cable amount\".\n\nThis in itself would indicate that Pfister and Herman Dubler were acting in very close connexion with the Hamburg firm.\n\nHerman Dubler is shown by a message dated 13.5.16 to be intermediary for Germann & Co., Manila (Telegraphic address \"Federation\") (T.L.0892).\n\nHe was also intermediary for G. Martini, Manila, in that firm's communications with the United Export Co., and was refused cable facilities for attempting to deceive the Censor (Mr. Harrington, Manila Desp. 40 of 30.12.15).\n\nHe is reported to have been representative of Han. Pottstock of Bremen (Italiani.I. 27.10.17), and his willingness to serve German principals is shown by the following wireless message dated 25.11.16 (1843 H) from the Deutsche Bank, Berlin to its New York representative, Hugo Schmidt: \n\"Wire character responsibility financial standing Herman Dubler Cotton Exchange and whether trustworthy for winding up business affair amounting 600000 dollars.\"\n\nConsiderable light is thrown on the hemp transaction by an intercepted letter written on the 5th May, 1916 to Antonio Froixus, Manila and sent via Petrograd and Siberia and through the intermediary of Gustavo de Vivanco, Manila, who is shown by T.L.08927 to be a clerk of Germann & Co., Manila. This letter (T.L.03836), which was unsigned, appeared to be written by Germann & Co., Hamburg, and confirmed acceptance of an offer by Froixus (who is cover for Germann & Co., Manila) (Mr. Rentiera, Bat. Manila D.7. F.7. 8.2.17) of 3000 kilos of Indang hemp at 140 cents per kilo cif New York, the drafts to be on Herman Dubler, Cotton Exchange Building, N.Y. It added that there was a new order for Pfister.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 484634, "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": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]", "content_text": "11\n\nglad\n\n101.\n\nof yan JI\n\nAane te 99100\n\n·ichta\n\n-to q* heiveq\n\n(0)\n\nAs we proceed to outline the various conditions tied to administration as policy and judgment\n\nu bo to 193\n\n240*\n\n5\n\n$1, 3mm\n\n.C\n\n3\n\n...\n\nJuriw\n\n.(a)\n\nva don võetan) bestmo\n\nen and was to Ausgest\n\n(5)*\n\nmot eta I\n\nVO\n\n•\n\nsið, trafeg\n\nretiring officer's fixed appointments for the three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. For pension purposes absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.\n\n13.\n\nA deduction of four per cent is made from the salaries of all members of the permanent service, including Police Probationers, as a contribution towards the provision of pensions for the widows and orphans of public officers.\n\nAn Officer may also contribute at the rate of four per cent of any duty allowance drawn by him, but is not required to do so. The choice once made as to contributing four per cent of duty allowance will be final and will apply to the whole of the officer's service.\n\n14.\n\nThe currency of Hongkong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of local payment salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars at the following rates based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth day of the month for which the salary is to be paid:-\n\n \n When exchange is at or over 48.4d.\n $10.00\n \n \n When exchange is at or over 4s. and below 48.4d.\n $10.30\n \n \n When exchange is at or over 38.8d. and below 39.4d.\n $10.60\n \n \n When exchange is at or over 38.4d. and below 38.8d.\n $10.90\n \n \n When exchange is at or over 2s.8d. and below 38.4d.\n $11.20\n \n \n When exchange is at or over 28.6d. and below 28.8d.\n $11.50\n \n \n When exchange is at or below 28.6d.\n $11.80\n $12.00\n \n\nfor each one pound sterling.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488110, "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": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "page_number": 463, "title": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nwhich will probably become most valuable, and a part of which may be required for public purposes which were not foreseen when the original plan was made.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Fire Brigade\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government recommended the Council to vote a sum of $16,600 in aid of the vote Police and Fire Brigade, Special Expenditure, Difference between cost of two motor pumps ($32,000) and amount provided for in the Estimates for one motor pump ($8,400) and one patrol wagon ($7,000).\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-There was provision made for a patrol wagon but the needs of the Fire Brigade in Victoria are urgent and it has been decided to get two more motor pumps for Victoria instead of one patrol wagon. There are three motor pumps, one of which has been sent over to Kowloon. There will now be four motor pumps available for Victoria. The increased cost of the pumps is due to drop of exchange and rising prices at home.\n\nApproved.\n\n## New Buoys for Deep Bay Channel\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $450 on account of Harbour Master's Department, Other Charges, New buoys for Deep Bay Channel.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-These buoys have disappeared. They have either sunk or drifted away and it is necessary to replace them.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Additions to Revenue Staff\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $3,647 in aid of the vote Imports and Exports Department, Personal Emoluments.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-It has been necessary, on account of the increased liquor duties and the smuggling of opium to add to the staff one European officer and ten Chinese revenue officers. This amount is required for their salaries.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Belilios Girls School\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $10,500 on account of Public Works, Extraordinary, Buildings, Belilios Girls School-Adaptation and alterations to recently erected teachers' room and existing cloak room to Class Rooms, etc.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-These are rooms urgently required at Belilios Girls School. The buildings are very crowded and no doubt further work will be required later on. This work is urgent.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Motor Coaches and Trailer\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $283,000 on account of Kowloon-Canton Railway, Special Expenditure, two Motor Coaches and Trailer.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-This sum is the equivalent of gold dollars 127,000. Hon. members are aware of the purchase of two motor coaches and one trailer. This amount is required for the purchase and also includes the cost of sending our locomotive superintendent to America to superintend the construction.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Repairs to Railway Embankment\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $4,760 on account of Kowloon-Canton Railway, Special Expenditure, Repairs to Railway Embankment.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-This is an embankment at the fifteenth mile on the railway. It is hoped in rebuilding to divert the rush of water which comes from the river, and so avert the washing away of the bank. The original work was not sufficiently good.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Cape d'Aguilar Wireless Station\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $2,800 in aid of the vote, Post Office, Personal Emolument Salary for Mr. Bradshaw, Superintendent of Wireless Telegraphy, for the period from 1st June to 31st December, 1921.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-The Government has now to provide the staff for the wireless station at Cape D'Aguilar. This sum is required for the salary of the Superintendent. Other sums will be required later for the staff. The new staff will take over from the Naval Staff probably within the next two months.\n\nApproved.\n\n## The Health Officer of the Port\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $2,012 in aid of the vote Medical Department, Office of Health Officer of Port, Personal Emoluments.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-This is for leave pay to Dr. Jordan, and is one of the terms for the relinquishment of the post of Port Health Officer. He is leaving the Colony this afternoon.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Improvements to Kowloon Buildings\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $1,000 in aid of the vote Public Works, Recurrent, Kowloon, Buildings, Improvements to Buildings.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-The sum of $1,500 was provided for building improvements in Kowloon. So much work has fallen on this vote including a sum of $596 for electric lights and fans for Kowloon British School that the vote is exhausted, and it is estimated that a further $1,000 is required this year.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Fire Brigade Equipment\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $680 in aid of the vote Police and Prison Departments, B.-Fire Brigade, Special Expenditure, one Extension Ladder.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $5,000 on account of Police and Prison Departments, B.-Fire Brigade, Special Expenditure, one Searchlight set for No. 1 Fire Float.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-It was found, in working the fire-float at fires, recently, that it is very difficult to approach the shore and get the fire-float to work without having a search-light at the bow. Arrangements have been made to fix a search-light to both floats. This is for No. 1 float.\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**-Is it not more important to improve the pumping powers of the float itself?\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-This is to enable the float to get in to the shore. They could not get the float into position, especially at two recent fires,-Bailey's Yard was one case. It is extremely difficult to get the float in at night.\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**-I think you are aware, Sir, that a report went in to the Chamber of Commerce on the inefficiency of the whole of that fire service.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-Yes, I did not mention this in the various votes we have been having. A report is being drawn up by the Superintendent of the Brigade which we hope will soon be available. A new station is about to be built, Mr. Wolf has studied, at home, the whole question of what is required and is producing a report.\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**-I agree, only I hope a good deal more will be spent.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Water Meters at Kowloon\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $6,000 in aid of the vote Public Works, Recurrent, Kowloon, Water Account, (Meters, etc.).\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-Building development in Kowloon has been so rapid that the vote for meters and other services is exhausted, and it is estimated that $6,000 more will be required.\n\nApproved.\n\nPage 74\nPage 75\nPage 459", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8].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": 488556, "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": 297, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "## 6. Every Probationer on arrival in the Colony will be subject to any regulations as to Probationers (not inconsistent with this paper) which may from time to time be made by the Government of the Colony including regulations as to examinations in native languages, &c. As a rule, he will be required to spend some time at Canton or elsewhere in China in order to study Chinese, presenting himself for examination at half-yearly intervals, and subsequently to proceed to India to study Police work, drill, and Hindustani. Any Probationer who may fail to pass the prescribed examinations within four years, or be found unfit for Police duties, will be liable to removal from the service. Any Probationer so removed from the service will be granted a free passage to England, provided that he utilises such passage within three months from the date of his removal. Before assuming his duties, a Probationer will be required to provide himself with such uniforms as may be ordered by the Government of the Colony. The present cost of uniform is about £100.\n\n## 7. A Probationer will receive salary at the rate of £325 per annum with free quarters while in the Colony, half salary to commence from the date of leaving England and full salary from the date of arrival in the Colony. On passing his second examination in Chinese, he will be paid at the rate of £350 per annum. On passing his final examination in Chinese, he will become an Assistant Superintendent of Police on a salary of £375 per annum.\n\n## 8. The present establishment of officers of the Police Force consists of the Captain Superintendent of Police whose salary is at the rate of £1,250 per annum rising by annual increments of £50 to £1,500, two Deputy Superintendents of Police and two Assistant Superintendents of Police on salaries rising continuously from £375 to £1,100 per annum by seventeen annual increments of £25 and six of £50 subject to the provisions of the next paragraph. The Deputy and Assistant Superintendents are entitled to free quarters while in the Colony.\n\n## 9. When an officer's salary reaches £550 and again when it reaches £800, there is a strict efficiency bar and the officer will not in either case be permitted to draw further increments unless his service is thoroughly satisfactory.\n\n## 10. The existing regulations as to leave of absence are as follows:-\n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | An officer is eligible for the grant of vacation leave at the rate of 1/6th of his resident service during his current tour of service, that is, the period from first arrival in the Colony or from return from long leave to the date of next proceeding on long leave. |\n| (b) | Periods spent on vacation leave shall not count as resident service under paragraph (a). |\n| (c) | An officer proceeding home on long leave or on retirement may be granted such vacation leave as he would be eligible for in respect of his current tour calculated at the above rate after deducting any vacation leave already granted during that tour; provided that he may not in any case be granted more than five months vacation leave; and provided also that the above maximum of five months will be reduced by the equivalent of any vacation leave taken by an officer during the last twelve months of his tour. |\n| (d) | Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted after a period of four and a half years' resident service without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds, it may exceed that period by six months. |\n| (e) | An officer may, in the discretion of the Governor, be permitted to commute half pay leave to full pay leave of half the period; provided that any period of combined vacation and commuted leave shall not exceed 10 months. Extensions of leave may, however, in special circumstances, be granted by the Secretary of State on such conditions as he may approve. |\n\n## 11. Free passages after 4 years' resident service are at present granted to officers and their families when proceeding on leave.\n\n## 12. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill-health, an officer may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise, he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service, fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for the three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. For pension purposes, leave on full pay counts as full service, and leave on half-pay as half service.\n\n## 13. A deduction of four per cent. is made from the salaries of all members of the permanent service, including Police Probationers, as a contribution towards the provision of pensions for the widows and orphans of public officers.\n\n## 14. The currency of Hongkong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of local payment, salaries fixed in sterling are at present converted in dollars at the following rates based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth day of the month for which the salary is to be paid:\n| Exchange Rate | Dollar Equivalent for £1 |\n| --- | --- |\n| At or over 4s. 4d. | $10.00 |\n| At or over 4s. and below 4s. 4d. | $10.30 |\n| At or over 3s. 8d. and below 4s. | $10.60 |\n| At or over 3s. 4d. and below 3s. 8d. | $10.90 |\n| At or over 3s. and below 3s. 4d. | $11.20 |\n| At or over 2s. 8d. and below 3s. | $11.50 |\n| At or over 2s. 6d. and below 2s. 8d. | $11.80 |\n| Is at or below 2s. 6d. | $12.00 |\n\nHongkong, 28th October, 1921.\n\n`5u6425/14`\n`290`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488925, "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": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# XVIII. Chinese Eastern Railway.\n\nIt was resolved that the consortium will, if desired by their respective Governments, and if market conditions permit, consider an application for a loan to meet the financial requirements of the Chinese Eastern Railway, estimated at $10,000,000 Gold, provided satisfactory conditions can be arranged as to security, as to the payment of the debts due from the Allied and Associated Powers, as to the Allied and Associated Powers undertaking that there shall be no military interference with the traffic of the railway, and as to the position of the representatives of the consortium Powers on the technical board (or other administrative body) being regularised and stabilised.\n\nThe Japanese representatives stated that they were not in a position to express their views on this question, for the reason that the Japanese group were not authorised by their Government to take up the matter, pending negotiations between the Governments concerned, and further that the Japanese group considered the matter as technically lying outside the scope of the Consortium Agreement.\n\n# XIX. Central Agency and Clearing House.\n\nIt was resolved that, in lieu of the provisions of the minutes of the 7th July, 1913, and of the arrangement of the 2nd October, 1913, each of the groups shall pay to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation an inclusive annual fee of £750, payable half yearly to defray the cost of the special work entailed in acting as central agency to the consortium and including its services for acting as clearing house.\n\n# XX. Approval of Governments.\n\nIt was agreed that all resolutions taken by the delegates as recorded in the minutes of the consortium are subject to the approval of the Governments of the respective groups.\n\nFor and on behalf of the British group: \n**C. S. ADDIS**.\n\nFor and on behalf of the French group: **TH. DE LA CHAUME**.\n\nFor and on behalf of the Japanese group: \n**K. TAKEUCHI**.\n\nFor and on behalf of the American group: **THOMAS W. LAMONT**.\n\n# Enclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n## The China Consortium Agreement. October 15, 1920.\n\n**AN agreement made the fifteenth day of October 1920 between—**\n\nThe Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, having its office at 9, Gracechurch Street, in the City of London (hereinafter called \"**the Hong Kong Bank**\") of the first part:\n\nThe Banque de l'Indo-Chine having its office at 15bis, Rue Laffitte, Paris (hereinafter called \"**the French Bank**\") of the second part;\n\nThe Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited, having its office at Yokohama in Japan (hereinafter called \"**the Japanese Bank**\") of the third part: and\n\nMessrs. J. P. Morgan and Co., Messrs. Kuhn Loeb and Co., The National City Bank of New York, Chase National Bank, New York, The Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Messrs. Lee, Higginson and Co. of Boston and the Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago (hereinafter called \"**the American Managers**\"), acting as to the United Kingdom by Messrs. Morgan, Grenfell and Co., of 22, Old Broad Street, in the City of London, and as to France by Messrs. Morgan Harjes and Co. of Paris, of the fourth part:\n\nWhereas the Hong Kong Bank, the French Bank, the Japanese Bank and the American Managers are acting for the purposes of this agreement as the representatives of the British, French, Japanese and American groups respectively;\n\nAnd whereas the British, French, Japanese and American groups were formed with the object of negotiating and carrying out Chinese loan business;\n\nAnd whereas their respective Governments have undertaken to give their complete support to their respective national groups, the parties hereto in all operations undertaken pursuant to the agreement hereinafter contained and have further undertaken that in the event of competition in the obtaining of any specific loan contract, the collective support of the diplomatic representatives in Peking of the four Governments will be assured to the parties hereto for the purpose of obtaining such contract:\n\nAnd whereas the said national groups are of the opinion that the interests of the Chinese people can in existing circumstances best be served by the co-operative action of the various banking groups representing the investment interests of their respective countries in procuring for the Chinese Government the capital necessary for a programme of economic reconstruction and improved communications:\n\nAnd whereas with these objects in view, the respective national groups are prepared to participate on equal terms in such undertakings as may be calculated to assist China in the establishment of her great public utilities and to these ends to welcome the co-operation of Chinese capital.\n\nNow it is hereby agreed by and between the parties hereto as follows:-\n\n1. Each group reserves to itself the right of increasing or reducing the number of its own members, but so that any member of a group dropping out shall remain bound by the restrictive provisions hereof and any member of a group coming in shall become subject to the restrictive provisions hereof, and so that no group shall (without the consent of the others) be entitled to admit into its group a new member who is not of its nationality and domiciled in its market. The admission of any new group shall be determined by the parties hereto subject to the approval of their respective Governments.\n\n2. This agreement relates to existing and future loan agreements which involve the issue for subscription by the public of loans to the Chinese Government or to Chinese Government departments or to provinces of China or to companies or corporations owned or controlled by or on behalf of the Chinese Government or any Chinese Provincial Government or to any party if the transaction in question is guaranteed by the Chinese Government or Chinese Provincial Government, but does not relate to agreements for loans to be floated in China. Existing agreements relating to industrial undertakings upon which it can be shown that substantial progress has been made may be omitted from the scope of this agreement.\n\n3. The existing agreements and any future loan agreements to which this agreement relates and any business arising out of such agreements respectively shall be dealt with by the said groups in accordance with the provisions of this agreement.\n\n4. This agreement is made on the principle of complete equality in every respect between the parties hereto and each of the parties hereto shall take an equal share in all operations and sign all contracts and shall bear an equal share of all charges in connection with any business (except stamp duties and any charges of and in connection with the realisation by the parties hereto in their respective markets of their shares in the operations) and the parties hereto shall conclude all contracts with equal rights and obligations as between themselves and each party shall have the same rights, privileges, prerogatives, advantages, responsibilities and obligations of every sort and kind. Accordingly, preliminary advances on account of or in connection with business to which this agreement relates shall be borne by each of the parties hereto in equal shares and each of the parties hereto shall be entitled to participate equally in the existing agreements and will offer to the other parties hereto an equal participation with itself in any future loan business falling within the scope of this agreement. Should one or more of the parties hereto decline a participation in the existing agreements or any of them or in any such future loan business as aforesaid, the party or parties accepting a participation therein shall be free to undertake the same but shall issue on its or their markets only.\n\n5. All contracts shall, so far as possible, be made so as not to impose joint liability on the parties hereto, but each of the parties hereto shall severally liquidate its own engagements or liabilities. The parties hereto will, so far as possible, come to an understanding with regard to the realisation of the operations, but so that such realisation, in whatever manner this may take place, shall be for the separate benefit of each of the parties hereto as regards their respective participations therein, and so that each of the parties hereto shall be entitled to realise its participation in the operations only in its own market, it being understood that the issues in the respective markets are to be made at substantial parity.\n\n`[4917 7-1]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492800, "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": 153, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "C.S.O. 2566/21.\n\n151\n\nA constituted under the proclamation issued by His Majesty on the third day of August, nineteen hundred and fourteen\n\nA.\n\nA for\n\nA BILL\n\nINTITULED\n\n[No. 7 :—22.7.22.-7.]\n\nAn Ordinance to restrict the taking of legal proceedings in respect of certain acts and matters done during the war and to provide in certain cases remedies in substitution therefor.\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Indemnity Ordinance, 1921.\n\n2. In this Ordinance :--\n\nInterpretation.\n\n(1) \"The Blue Book Reports\" means the reports as to rates and conditions published in October, nineteen hundred and fourteen, by the sub-committee of the Board of Arbitration A, subject to such increases or modifications thereof as may have been agreed to before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty.\n\n(2) \"The war\" means the war declared against Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria on the fourth day of August, the twelfth day of August, and the fifth day of November, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and the fifteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and fifteen, respectively.\n\n(3) \"War risk\" means those risks which would be excluded from an ordinary English policy of marine insurance by the following, or similar, but not more extensive clause :-\n\nWarranted free of capture, seizure, and detention and the consequences thereof, or of any attempt thereat, piracy excepted, and also from all consequences of hostilities or warlike operations, whether before or after declaration of war.\n\n3.-(1) No action or other legal proceeding whatsoever, whether civil or criminal, shall be instituted in any court of law for or on account of or in respect of any matter or thing done, whether within or without the Colony, during the war before the passing of this Ordinance, if done in good faith, and done or purported to be done in the execution of his duty, or for the defence of the realm or the public safety, or for the enforcement of discipline, or otherwise in the public interest, by a person holding office under or employed in the service of the Crown in any capacity, whether naval, military, air-force, or civil, or by a person acting under the authority of a person so holding office or so employed, or for the recovery of any sum of money which was acquired by the Government of the Colony of Hongkong in consequence of any such act, matter or thing; and if any such proceeding has been instituted before the commencement of this Ordinance, it shall be discharged and made void, subject to such order as to costs as the court or a judge thereof may think fit to make:\n\nProvided that nothing in this section shall prevent the institution or prosecution of any proceedings by or on behalf of His Majesty or the Government of the Colony of Hongkong or any Government department:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492874, "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": 227, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "― \n\n10 \n\n- \n\nDOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., \n\nGeneral Managers, \n\nDOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. \n\nFor MOLLER & CO. (Hongkong), LTD., \n\nT. ORTON, \n\nDirector, \n\nAgents for Muller & Co. (Shanghai), Ltd. For THE BRISBANE S. S. CO., LTD., \n\nCARMICHAEL & CLARKE, \n\nManagers. \n\nLUEN HING S. S. CO., LTD., \n\nLI KOON CHUN, \n\nManaging Director. \n\nLAI HING S. S. CO., LTD., \n\nLI KOON CHUN, \n\nManaging Director. \n\nChop of \n\nThe Po Shun \n\nPANG KOK-SOI, \n\nSecretary. \n\nS. S. Co., Ltd., \n\nHongkong. \n\nWOLLOWRA S. S. CO., LTD., \n\nBy Attorney, \n\nS. T. WILLIAMSON. \n\nUN MAN CHUEN, \n\nBy Attorney, \n\nLAU HI-XAN. \n\n(d) \n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 4, 1922. \n\n223 \n\n205 \n\nNo. 341. The following Bill was read a second time and passed through Committee at a meeting of Legislative Council held on Thursday, the 3rd August, 1922:- \n\nC80 2566 2 1. \n\nA BILL \n\nINTITULED \n\nAn Ordinance to restrict the taking of legal proceedings in respect of certain acts and matters done during the war and to provide in certain cases remedies in substitution therefor. \n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- \n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Indemnity Ordinance, 1921. \n\n2. In this Ordinance :— \n\nInterpretation. The Blue Book reports means the reports \n\n1.) “The Blue Book Reports\" means the reports to rates and conditions published in October, nineteen hundred and fourteen, by the sub-committee of the Board of Arbitration constituted under the proclamation issued by His Majesty on the third day of August, nineteen hundred and fourteen, subject to such increases or modifications thereof as may have been agreed to before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty. \n\n(2.) The war means the war declared against Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria on the fourth day of August, the twelfth day of August, and the fifth day of November, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and the fifteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and fifteen, respectively. \n\n\"War risk\" means those risks which would be excluded from an ordinary English policy of marine insurance by the following, or similar, but not more extensive clause : \n\nWarranted free of capture, seizure, and detention and the consequences thereof, or of any attempt thereat, piracy excepted, and also from all consequences of hostilities or war-like operations, whether before or after declaration of war. \n\n3.—(1.) No action or other legal proceeding whatsoever, whether civil or criminal, shall be instituted in any court of law for or on account of or in respect of any act, matter or thing done, whether within or without the Colony, during the war before the passing of this Ordinance, if done in good faith, and done or purported to be done in the execution of his duty, or for the defence of the realm, or for the public safety, or for the defence of the Colony, or for the enforcement of discipline, or otherwise in the public interest, by a person holding office under or employed in the service of the Crown in any capacity, whether naval, military, air-force, or civil, or by a person holding office under or employed in the service of the Government of the Colony of Hongkong in any capacity, or by any other person acting under the authority of a person so holding office or so employed, or for the recovery of any sum of money which was acquired by the Government of the Colony of Hongkong in consequence of any such act, matter or thing; and if any such proceeding has", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494612, "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": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "Copy.\n\nAugust 31 03.\n\n154\n\nAlexander White.\n\nI have much pleasure in writing a Testimonial for you, as you are now, after twenty months in the Ch. of Ireland Training College in Kildare Place, about to seek the Teachership of a school. Having been in the Parkanaur School from your seventh to your fifteenth year, and your mother being a Tenant on this Estate, you have a claim upon me which I gladly respond to, and I cannot do better than state that in the year 1900 (when I was abroad) it was with the greatest satisfaction that I heard that you had been so successful in the Diocesan Higher Sunday School Examination, as to obtain the first place among all those who competed with you.\n\nI am also highly gratified to know that in the College in Kildare Place you took fourth place last year, and trust that your record of this year will be as satisfactory.\n\nWishing you a prosperous career and one as successful as others whom Mr. Ross, the Principal Teacher of the Parkanaur School, has had under his tuition.\n\nI am yours very truly.\n\n(sd) Ynyr H Burgess,\n\nManager of Parkanaur School.\n\nCol. J.P. D.L. for Co. Tyrone.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506841, "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": "CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927", "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE NO.9\n\nExtract from the Hong Kong or South China Morning Post of 12.2.27.\n\n## FORCED TO CLOSE DOWN.\n\n### EFFECT OF CANTON REGULATIONS ON THE KERR HOSPITAL.\n\n#### CULMINATION OF MUCH TROUBLE.\n\nThe John G. Kerr Hospital, founded in 1898 for the treatment of Chinese insane, after treating over seven thousand patients during twenty-nine years of continuous service, has been forced to close down in the face of recent regulations issued by the Canton Nationalist Government. This is the culmination of nearly a year of almost constant trouble with its employees, following the development within the hospital of a local branch of the labour union.\n\nIntimidation was used in recruiting members for the union, so that by last summer every one of the hundred men and women workers became members, even including the Chinese advisor, the evangelist, and other Chinese staff members—excepting alone one of the physicians.\n\nThe history of these troubles has been disaffection, undermining of hospital discipline, neglect of duties, insubordination, organized attempts to overthrow hospital control, anti-foreign propaganda, and boycott of religious services. An interesting feature of these labour troubles lies in the fact that no demand for higher pay has been made within the past year, and that all disputes have been over the hospital's authority to engage and dismiss employees. It has been the persistent aim of the labour union to wrest this power from the hospital management, and it is this same issue which led to the regulations.\n\n### The Regulations.\n\nHospital miscellaneous workers' regulations issued by the officials for the purpose of protecting patients, and for the purpose of benefiting labourers.\n\n| No. | Regulations |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | These regulations are with regard to regular miscellaneous hospital workers, exclusive of the medical staff. |\n| 2 | All hospitals in the Republic of China, whether Chinese-Western, public or private, shall all be managed according to these regulations. |\n| 3 | The labourers' work period each week shall not go beyond sixty hours. If because of special circumstances it must go beyond the determined work period, the hospital shall add compensation at more than the ordinary wage rate. |\n| 4 | Within their work hours, the hospital workers shall take orders from the hospital management with regard to the distribution of work. Night workers' period of labour shall be reduced one-third. |\n| 5 | With regard to the worker's duties, the hospital shall give according to each worker's ability, but cannot assign a worker to work he is unable to do. |\n| 6 | The lowest limit for hospital workers' wages is seven dollars. |\n| 7 | Wages must be paid twice each month, on first and fifteenth. No reduction is to be made in wages during employee's time off. |\n| 8 | The workers shall be allowed to use the hospital's public halls for orderly meetings, but a date must be arranged beforehand with the management. |\n| 9 | On the occasion of official or party parades or holidays, the labour union must first inform the hospital, and the management is then to designate a number of men to take part in the parade, the number not to go beyond one-fourth of the number of workers. The work of those going on holiday is to be distributed among those who remain. |\n| 10 | In case of officially proclaimed holidays, the hospital must permit the employees to take time off. If time off cannot be given at the time, it must be given subsequently at some other time. Besides this, the hospital must give fourteen days regular vacation each year. |\n| 11 | The hospital accepts responsibility for treating until well such workers as contract sickness (excepting venereal disease, tuberculosis, insanity, and wounds received in fighting). Also, wages must not be reduced or stopped until after two months in such cases. |\n| 12 | In case of the death of a worker, employed for over a year, the hospital must provide the relatives with six months' wages, at the worker's previous rate, as a grant of mercy. If the worker has been employed for more than six years, the grant must be larger, the amount to be discussed at the time. In hospitals for contagious diseases, one year's wages must be provided. |\n| 13 | Women workers at time of pregnancy may have two weeks before and four weeks after delivery to rest, with full pay. |\n| 14 | In order that hospitals may efficiently take care of the sick, they have liberty to engage any employees, but after engaging, the hospitals must cause the employees to join the labour union. |\n| 15 | The hospital, outside of reasons given below, cannot (without reason) dismiss employees. (1) Shrinkage of hospital business requiring reduction of workers. Then it must give one month's advance notice and pay one month's additional wages besides. (2) In case of workers breaking hospital rules, abusing and maltreating patients until they are made miserable, then the hospital may at any time (without making a case) dismiss such workers. (3) If because of dismissing anyone, trouble arises among the workers, the Government must be notified, and the Government will establish a court of arbitration, and during that time the hospital may not dismiss anyone. |\n| 16 | If a dispute arises among the workers because the hospital treats them unfairly, or because the cost of living is very high and they ask for a raise of pay, the matter must first be presented to the officials for settlement, and the workers must not picket the hospital or otherwise interfere with the patients or the hospital's internal affairs. If the hospital is not able to abide by the official settlement, the labourers may strike, but must give ten days' notice before they strike. |\n| 17 | Whatever rules the hospital makes must not conflict with these regulations, and must be submitted to the administrative office (`chue koon t'eng`) for their review and approval. |\n| 18 | These regulations can be amended at any time by the officials. |\n| 19 | These regulations go into effect immediately upon promulgation. |\n\nWith minor exceptions, the first ten appear fair and practicable. Articles eleven and twelve, however, place a burden upon hospitals which in effect is a sort of insurance, and should be shared by the employees and perhaps also by the Government, such a financial obligation being too great for benevolent institutions to assume. Article fourteen apparently recognises the right of hospitals to exercise freedom in engaging employees but in reality forces them to act as recruiting agencies for the labour union.\n\nArticle fifteen, up to section three, is quite fair and adequate, but the third section entirely vitiates all possible benefits provided by the first portion. Experience with Chinese labour... \n\n157", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507016, "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": "CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927", "content_text": "# Daily Bulletin\n## VOL. XVIII.\n\nThe office of the \"Daily Bulletin\" is in Union Building (First Floor). All communications intended for the \"Daily Bulletin\" should be addressed to the Editor.-Tel. C1963.\n\nEditor: W. Jackson,\n\n## NOTICE\nAll Telegrams published in the \"Daily Bulletin\" are supplied by Reuter's Agency, except as otherwise indicated. The information contained in this Issue is for the private use of Subscribers only and not for publication or communication in any way prejudicial to the interests of the \"Daily Bulletin.\"\n\n[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [Exclusive to \"Daily Bulletin.\"]\n\n## BORODIN SEEKS SANCTUARY\n### ENJOYING INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION!\n\nHankow, April 19. Borodin and his pupil, Chen Kuo-ao, and one of the heads of the political bureau have moved from the native city to the International Hospital, in the former Russian Concession, ostensibly for a \"rest cure,\" but really for safety. The Hospital, which is conducted by French Catholic sisters, enjoys international protection and is the safest place in Hankow at present.\n\n## NATIONALIST MANDATES\n### CHIANG KAI-SHEK DISMISSED.\n### FENG YU-HSIANG APPOINTED SUCCESSOR!\n\nShanghai, April 19. According to Chinese reports received here this afternoon, the Nationalist Government at Hankow have issued three mandates.\n\nThe first mandate dismisses Chiang Kai-shek from his post of Commander-in-Chief.\n\nThe second mandate appoints Feng Yu-hsiang as Chiang Kai-shek's successor, with Teng Seng-chi as Military Governor of Honan and associate Commander-in-Chief. The latter has ordered an advance on Nanking to attack Chiang Kai-shek.\n\nThe third mandate announces severance of all relations with Nanking and Shanghai.\n\n## HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20th, 1927.\n\n[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [Exclusive to \"Daily Bulletin.”]\n\n## BANK-NOTE DUEL\n### CAPITAL NANKING.\n### HANKOW MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.\n\n### CHINESE BANKS SEVER RELATIONS.\n\nShanghai, April 19. In connection with the decision of the National Government at Hankow prohibiting the redemption of bank-notes, the Association of Chinese Banks at Shanghai have decided to sever relations with all the branch offices at Hankow, and to refuse to accept the Central Bank's notes.\n\n[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [Exclusive to “Daily Bulletin.”]\n\n## FENGTIEN ARMY MYSTERY\n### COMMUNISTS ELIMINATED.\n\nNanking, April 19. A mass meeting attended by 100,000 inaugurated the establishment of Nanking as the new capital.\n\n| Resolution | Description |\n| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |\n| First | Eliminating the Communists from the party |\n| Second | Cancellation of unequal treaties as soon as possible |\n| Third | Establishment of three Central Banks with headquarters at Nanking |\n\nSubsequently, a proclamation was issued by Chiang Kai-shek, the effect of which is that the Communists are to have \"fair treatment,\" pending considered action by the plenary session of the executive committee anent the Communists generally.\n\nShanghai, April 19. The recapture of Kaifeng, the capital of Honan, by Chang Tso-lin's troops recalls the strange disappearance of nearly 10,000 men, comprising the Tenth Division of the Fengtien Army, including Chiang Kai-shek, feels that it would be unwise at present to deal too severely with the Communists.\n\nThe mystery surrounding what happened to those soldiers has only now been cleared up after much investigation among the country folk.\n\nIt appears that these soldiers fled towards the Yellow River with the idea of crossing to the other side, but finding no means of doing so, they scattered about the countryside, behaving towards the population in the usual Chinese soldiers' way.\n\nThe inhabitants, aided by the Red Spears (a body of Honanese guerilla fighters) finally banded themselves together and attacked the soldiers wherever they found them. Gruesome stories are told of how the Red Spears killed their erstwhile oppressors, who were mostly without rifles and with no means of defence, beating them to death being the favourite method, although by far the greater number were bound hand and foot and pitched into the Yellow River.\n\nIt is estimated that no fewer than 9,000 soldiers were thus disposed of. Now that the Fengtien forces are again in control of this part of Honan, it is expected that their revenge will partake of the nature of a holocaust, owing to the possibility thereby of creating a dangerous situation at Hankow at a time when Chang Tso-lin's forces are advancing across Honan, and when the Five Powers show signs of vigorous action at Hankow as a result of Mr. Eugene Chen's sophistry.\n\n[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [Exclusive to \"Daily Bulletin.\"]\n\n## ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN AT TIENTSIN\n### BRITISH CONCESSION STRIKE\n\nTientsin, April 19. The Kuomintang labour unions are distributing pamphlets urging a boycott of British goods and bank-notes, and the calling of a strike in the British Concession.\n\n## BRITISH TROOPS EN ROUTE.\n\nLondon, April 19. A detachment of 50 men of the Second Battalion of the Devon Regiment are leaving for China to-morrow to join the First Battalion.\n\n## BUDGET FOR ASSISTING STRIKERS!\n\nHankow, April 19. At a meeting of the Municipal Council of the former British Concession, a Chinese member demanded that 10 per cent. of the entire Budget be applied to assisting the strikers and labourers generally.\n\nUpon its being pointed out that the Council had no power to make payments other than those sanctioned by the ratepayers, a Labourite demanded that a special meeting of the ratepayers be called to consider the proposal. This was agreed to.\n\n[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED] [Exclusive to \"Daily Bulletin.\"]\n\n## SINO-JAPANESE TREATY.\n\nPeking, April 19. The Chinese and Japanese representatives held their fifteenth meeting yesterday regarding the new Sino-Japanese Commercial Treaty. They are still discussing the most-favoured nation clause.\n\nAs the old treaty is due to expire on April 20, it has been decided to prolong it for three months while the negotiations continue.\n\n[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [Exclusive to “Daily Bulletin.”]\n\n## SOVIET OFFICIALS LEAVE PEKING.\n\nPeking, April 19. The Soviet Charge d'Affaires, M. Chernyck, and the other remaining officials at the Soviet Embassy left Peking this morning.\n\n## R. A. F. BOMBER CRASHES.\n### FOUR AIRMEN INCINERATED.\n\nLondon, April 19. A Royal Air Force bomber crashed at Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey. Four airmen were incinerated.\n\nPage 14 \nNo. 92 \n[ISSUED AT NOON]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507370, "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": 101, "title": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "content_text": "- 7 - \n\n100\n\nThe Communists have fomented class warfare among the workmen and masters in China. Masters and men have fought like two dogs on a plank bridge, contending for a bone, which in the end dropped into the water and disappeared while both dogs were wounded in the head and died. The President of our Kuomintang, Dr. Sun, was convinced that class warfare could never do China any good. His cardinal principle for the improvement of the standard of living lays it down that capital must be restricted in amount so that the people will live in the mean between riches and poverty. Big undertakings like railways and mines will be managed by the Government, and any excess profits accruing from the products of the people's industry will be devoted in turn to promoting the general public welfare, and thus the growth of capitalism will be destroyed root and branch in China. Good laws will be made in the interests of the workmen entitling them to a reduction of working hours and a better standard of living. Banking facilities will be given them in connection with loans and investments, and steps will be taken to enable them to insure their lives against sickness or accident. Many other projects in the interests of labour are contemplated and will have to be carried out in the future. But the interests of the workmen constitute only a part of the interests of the community. All peasants, workmen, merchants, students and soldiers should work in co-operation to secure the economic development of China and discover new ways of making their living. Thus I should suggest as my fifteenth slogan, \"Let all peasants, workmen, merchants, students and soldiers unite to foster the economic development of China, and find new ways of gaining their livelihood\".\n\nMany", "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": 510012, "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": "CO129-503-11 Leave and passage- lodging and rent allowance for European officers 6-1-1927 - 26-10-1927", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-503-11 Leave and passage- lodging and rent allowance for European officers 6-1-1927 - 26-10-1927", "content_text": "# 98\n## Eastern\n### No. 121.\n**CONFIDENTIAL EDITION.]** `(2882/1913.)`\n\n## RULES AS TO LEAVE, PENSION, &c., IN HONG KONG\n\nSubject to the necessities of the Service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted to members of the permanent Government Service, after a period of four and a half years' resident service, without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officers' resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months.\n\n2. The Governor will not in any case grant leave on half salary for a period of more than nine months at a time, but that period may be extended by the Secretary of State on the ground of ill-health or of urgent private affairs or for such other reasons as may appear to him to be sufficient. In exceptional cases extensions of leave without pay may be granted.\n\n3. In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months during, and in respect of, any two consecutive years.\n\n4. At the request of any officer who may be eligible for the grant of any period of leave on half salary, the Governor may commute the whole or any portion of such leave into one-half the period of leave with full salary, provided that the total period of commuted and uncommuted leave, together with any period of vacation leave that may be granted, does not exceed ten months at a time. No officer can claim as a right to commute his leave in this manner, the decision whether commutation can or cannot be allowed being wholly within the discretion of the Governor.\n\nOfficers attached to an educational institution are not entitled to vacation leave under the rule stated above in paragraph 3. When in the Colony they enjoy the ordinary vacations of the institution to which they are attached. When taking long leave outside the Colony they may be allowed to draw full pay during the first three months of their leave unless a school vacation has immediately preceded the grant of leave, in which case full pay may be drawn during two months only. The remainder of the leave in either case is on half salary, and half pay only can be drawn during any school vacation falling within the period of an extension of leave.\n\n4. The present rule as to superannuation is that, in the case of ill-health, an officer holding a pensionable appointment may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. For pension purposes absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.\n\n5. A deduction of 4 per cent. is made from the salaries of all members of the permanent Government Service, as a contribution towards the provision of pensions for the widows and orphans of Government officers.\n\n6. The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of payments in the Colony salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars, at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth of the month for which Salary is to be paid.\n\n## COLONIAL OFFICE\n`Makel 4413.` \n`20%`\n\nNOTE.—Further information can be obtained on personal application at the Eastern Department. \n`(26107-2) Wt. 26783-309 250 11/19 H. St. G.`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-503-11 Leave and passage- lodging and rent allowance for European officers 6-1-1927 - 26-10-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510699, "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": "CO129-504-14 Surveyors- vacancies- training and conditions of service 6-5-1927 - 22-2-1928", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-504-14 Surveyors- vacancies- training and conditions of service 6-5-1927 - 22-2-1928", "content_text": "# Quarters Rent Allowance\n\nThe principal rules at present in force in regard to the occupation of Government quarters, and the grant of rent allowances are as follows:\n\n(1) Free quarters are not provided.\n\n(2) An unmarried officer living in a club, hotel, boarding-house or mess approved by the Government will receive a lodging allowance of 7¼% of his salary subject to a maximum of $50 per month.\n\n(3) An officer who has married with the consent of Government will either\n\n(a) be allotted Government quarters for which he will pay rent at the rate of 6% or 7% of his salary according as the quarters are unfurnished or furnished (heavy furniture only).\n\nor (b) be permitted to rent a flat or similar self-contained tenement in respect of which he will receive a rent allowance equal to the rent and taxes paid (subject to a maximum varying with salary) less 3% of salary. In the case of an officer whose salary does not exceed £600 the maximum monthly rental inclusive of taxes in respect of which a rent allowance will be paid is $150 per month.\n\n(4) An unmarried officer will not be granted a rent allowance in respect of a self-contained tenement, nor will he ordinarily be allotted Government quarters for his sole occupation. If he is allotted Government quarters for occupation jointly with another Government officer, rent at the rate of 6% or 7% will be charged on the salary of the highest paid officer.\n\n## Memo 12\n\nAn officer is provided with a free First Class passage on first appointment. If his agreement is not renewed upon its expiration, a return passage will be provided.\n\nAn officer will receive half-pay at £1 = $10 for the period of the voyage to Hong Kong and if his service is not continued after the expiration of his agreement, he will receive half-pay (at current rate) for the period of the voyage home.\n\nA surveyor on a three years' agreement is not ordinarily eligible for leave except sick leave, but if he is transferred to the permanent staff, he will normally be eligible for 9 months leave on full pay and free return passages in respect of each four years of resident service, his 3 years under agreement being included in his first tour.\n\n## Pensions\n\nThe present rule as to superannuation is that an officer holding a pensionable appointment may be allowed to retire on the ground of ill-health after 10 full years' service; otherwise, he must have attained the age of 55. For 10 full years' service, a pension equal to one seven hundred and fifteenth/30th of the average annual salary of the retiring officer fixed appointment for the three years preceding retirement may be awarded, to which 1/60th may be added for each additional year's service up to a total maximum pension of 40/30ths.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-504-14 Surveyors- vacancies- training and conditions of service 6-5-1927 - 22-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513081, "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": "CO129-507-8 Prevention of piracy- use of armed patrol launches 8-2-1928 - 2-8-1928", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-507-8 Prevention of piracy- use of armed patrol launches 8-2-1928 - 2-8-1928", "content_text": "COPY OF TELEGRAM.\n\nFrom.\n\nC. in C..\n\nChina.\n\nTo. Admiralty.\n\nDate 11.3.28.\n\nRecd. 1532.\n\nAddressed Admiralty, repeated Commodore, Hong Kong 181..\n\n949. Your 1711/23/11/27. Hong Kong Government willing\n\nto contribute half the hire and operating costs excluding\n\npersonnel of the three launches for year 1928-29. Based\n\non last twelve months this amounts to approximately 133 pounds each per month for Faulkner and Nessus 142\n\npounds for Onslaught. Government will not repeat not\n\nagree ultimately to bear entire cost of hire and\n\nmaintenance future cost of Chinese personnel and half\n\ncost of naval personnel nor will government agree to\n\ncontribution of 200 pounds per month per launch for\n\ncoming year. Retention of launches considered essential.\n\nRequest approval to renew charters subject to termination of one month's notice observing that current charters expire Onslaught twenty fourth March Faulkner twenty\n\neighth March Nessus fifteenth April.\n\n1137/11.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-8 Prevention of piracy- use of armed patrol launches 8-2-1928 - 2-8-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513365, "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": 59, "title": "CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928", "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\nL. S.\n\nNo. 28 OF 1927.\n\nI assent\n\nC. CLEMENTI,\n\nGovernor.\n\n23rd December, 1927.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Railways Ordinance, 1909.\n\n[23rd December, 1927.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Railways Amendment Ordinance, 1927.\n\n2. Section 2 of the Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended as follows:\n\n(a) The word \"administrator\" of Ordinance No. 21 of 1909, s. 2. is substituted for the word \"administration\" in paragraph (a).\n\n(b) The following paragraph is added to the definition of \"Railway\" in paragraph (d):—\n\n(v) any railway or portion of a railway in process of construction;\n\n(vi) all works connected with or for the purposes of a railway authorized to be constructed.\n\n3. The Railways Ordinance, 1909, is amended by the substitution of the word \"administrator\" for the word \"administration\" in the following sections:-\n\n(a) section 5, in the first line thereof;\n\n(b) section 6, in the third line thereof;\n\n(c) section 8, in the second, tenth, nineteenth, twenty-sixth, and thirty-second lines thereof;\n\n(d) section 9, in the first and sixth lines thereof;\n\n(e) section 10, in the second, fourth, eighth, and fifteenth lines thereof;\n\n(f) section 11, in the first, fifteenth, twenty-fourth, and twenty-seventh lines thereof;\n\n(g) section 12, in the second and tenth lines thereof;\n\n(h) section 14, in the fifth, seventh, and tenth lines thereof;\n\n(i) section 15, in the first line thereof;\n\n(j) section 19, in the fifth line thereof;\n\n(k) section 20, in the first and fifth lines thereof;\n\n(l) section 21, in the first line thereof;\n\n(m) section 22, in the first and eleventh lines thereof;\n\n(n) section 23, in the first line thereof;\n\n(o) section 24, in the third, fourth, and nineteenth lines thereof;\n\n(p) section 25, in the first line thereof;\n\n(q) section 26, in the sixth line thereof;\n\nPage 60", "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": 515442, "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": "CO129-510-9 George Ludwig Rode- naturalisation 1-3-1928 - 4-6-1928", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-510-9 George Ludwig Rode- naturalisation 1-3-1928 - 4-6-1928", "content_text": "That your Memorialist does not possess any landed \n\nin Norway the country of his birth.\n\nproperty\n\nYour Memorialist humbly prays:\n\nThat His Excellency the Governor in Council will be \n\npleased to confer on him all the rights, privileges and \n\ncapacities of naturalization as a British Subject and \n\nto grant him a certificate conferring the same under \n\nthe British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914.\n\nAnd your Memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray.\n\nDated this fifteenth day of December 1927.\n\n(Signed by the Memorialist\n\nGeorge Ludvig Rode in the presence of -\n\nIdentified by me.\n\nAdvocate.\n\nPresidency Magistrate,\n\nBombay.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-510-9 George Ludwig Rode- naturalisation 1-3-1928 - 4-6-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515817, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-511-2 Dangerous Drugs Amendment Ordinance- 1928 20-4-1928 - 20-4-1928", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-511-2 Dangerous Drugs Amendment Ordinance- 1928 20-4-1928 - 20-4-1928", "content_text": "Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 4 of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, Ordinance No. 22 of 1923, on the 12th day of April, 1928.\n\nThe regulations made by the Governor in Council under the above Ordinance on the 4th October, 1923, and published in the Gazette on the 5th October, 1923, are amended as follows:-\n\nI. Regulation 1 is rescinded and the following regulation is substituted therefor :- 1. These regulations shall, except where otherwise expressed, apply to all the drugs to which the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, from time to time for the time being applies.\n\nII. The following regulation is inserted immediately after regulation 1:-\n\n1A. In these regulations:-\n\nINTERPRETATION.\n\n(a) \"registered dentist\" means a registered dental surgeon, or an exempted person, within the meaning of the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914;\n\n(b) \"registered medical practitioner\", and \"medical practitioner\", and \"duly qualified medical practitioner\" mean a medical practitioner duly registered under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, or a licentiate of the Hong Kong College of Medicine.\n\nIII. Regulation 5 is amended as follows:-\n\n(a) Paragraph (1) is rescinded and the following paragraph is substituted therefor:--\n\n(1) The prescription must be in writing, must be dated and signed by the registered medical practitioner, registered dentist, or approved veterinary surgeon, as the case may be, with his usual signature and address, and must specify the name and address of the person for whose use the prescription is given, and the total amount of the drugs to be supplied on the prescription, except that in the case of a preparation which is contained in the British Pharmacopoeia or the British Pharmaceutical Codex and which is not combined with any other preparation of any of the drugs not so contained, it shall be sufficient to state the total amount of the preparation to be so supplied. A prescription shall only be given by a registered medical practitioner when required for purposes of medical treatment.\n\n(b) Paragraph (7) is rescinded.\n\nIV. Paragraph (1) of Regulation 6 is amended as follows:-\n\n(a) The figure \"5\" is substituted for the figure \"6\" in the second and seventh lines thereof.\n\n(b) The word \"an\" is substituted for the word \"the\" in the fifteenth line thereof.\n\nV. Regulation 7 is amended as follows:-\n\n(a) The words \"or otherwise authorised\" are inserted immediately after the word \"licensed\" in paragraph (1).\n\n(b) Paragraph (3) is rescinded and the following paragraph is substituted therefor :----\n\n(3) he is licensed or otherwise authorised to be in possession of the drug.\n\nPage 18\n\nPage 18 \n\nPage 18", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-2 Dangerous Drugs Amendment Ordinance- 1928 20-4-1928 - 20-4-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 516099, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-511-5 Constitution of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong 25-4-1928 - 4-12-1928", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-511-5 Constitution of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong 25-4-1928 - 4-12-1928", "content_text": "انور است as to Council office 4th October 1928.\n\n# HONG KONG\n\n## Additional Instructions passed under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong in regard to the constitution of the Executive Council and of the Legislative Council of that Colony.\n\nDated\n\n**ADDITIONAL 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 Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our Realm bearing date at Westminster the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, We did make provision for the Government of Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies (hereinafter called the Colony) and did amongst other things declare that there should be an Executive Council and a Legislative Council in and for the Colony which should consist of such persons as We might direct by Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet :\n\nRecites Letters Patent of 14th February 1917.\n\nAnd whereas by Our Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet bearing date the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, We did constitute the said Executive and Legislative Councils as therein is set forth :\n\nRecites Instructions of 14th February 1917.\n\nAnd whereas We are minded to make further provision respecting the said Executive and Legislative Councils :\n\nNow therefore We do, as from the date of the receipt in the Colony of these Our Additional Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, hereby revoke the Second, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Clauses of Our said Instructions of the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder, and instead thereof We do direct and enjoin and declare Our will and pleasure that from the date of such receipt the aforesaid Instructions shall henceforth be construed and take effect as if the following clauses had been inserted therein in place of the Second, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Clauses thereof :-\n\n\"II. The Executive Council of the Colony shall consist of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony (if any), the Senior Military Officer for the time being in command of Our regular troops within the Colony, ... \n\n## Page 8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-5 Constitution of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong 25-4-1928 - 4-12-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517294, "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": "CO129-513-7 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils of Hong Kong 21-12-1928 - 14-2-1930", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-513-7 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils of Hong Kong 21-12-1928 - 14-2-1930", "content_text": "# 41\n\nAnd whereas by our Additional Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet bearing date the tenth day of January, 1922, and the fifteenth day of November, 1928, respectively, We did make certain provisions respecting the said Executive and Legislative Councils:\n\nAnd whereas We are minded to make further provisions respecting the said Executive and Legislative Councils:\n\nNow therefore We do, as from the date of the receipt in the Colony of these Our Additional Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, hereby revoke the Second, Fifth, Thirteenth, and Twentieth Clauses of Our said Instructions of the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, as amended by Our Additional Instructions of the fifteenth day of November, 1928, without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder, and instead thereof We do direct and enjoin and declare Our will and pleasure that from the date of such receipt the aforesaid Instructions shall henceforth be construed and take effect as if the following clauses had been inserted therein in place of the Second, Fifth, Thirteenth, and Twentieth Clauses thereof:-\n\n## II.\n\nThe Executive Council of the Colony shall consist of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony (if any), the persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial\n\n**Revokes Clauses II, XIII, XIV, and XV of Instructions.**\n\n## Constitution of Executive Council.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-7 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils of Hong Kong 21-12-1928 - 14-2-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519438, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "# 23\n\nAnd whereas by Our Additional Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet bearing date the tenth day of January, 1922, and the fifteenth day of November, 1928, respectively, We did make certain provisions respecting the said Executive and Legislative Councils:\n\nAnd whereas We are minded to make further provisions respecting the said Executive and Legislative Councils:\n\nNow therefore We do, as from the date of the receipt in the Colony of these Our Additional Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, hereby revoke the Second, Fifth, Thirteenth, and Twentieth Clauses of Our said Instructions of the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, as amended by Our Additional Instructions of the fifteenth day of November, 1928, without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder, and instead thereof We do direct and enjoin and declare Our will and pleasure that from the date of such receipt the aforesaid Instructions shall henceforth be construed and take effect as if the following clauses had been inserted therein in place of the Second, Fifth, Thirteenth, and Twentieth Clauses thereof:\n\n## II.\n\nThe Executive Council of the Colony shall consist of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony (if any), the persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial\n\n**Revokes Clauses II, XIII, XIV and XV of Instructions.**\n\n## Constitution of Executive Council.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527965, "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": "CO129-530-8 Estate Duty Ordinance- 1931- Bill 27-2-1931 - 15-12-1931", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-530-8 Estate Duty Ordinance- 1931- Bill 27-2-1931 - 15-12-1931", "content_text": "## Amendment of Ordinance No. 16 of 1915, s. 20\n\n(4) The Commissioner shall have power to allow in writing the use of any specified part of the estate of a deceased person, or of any specified part of the income of any such estate, for the purpose of the burial of the deceased or for the purpose of the maintenance of the former dependants of the deceased, notwithstanding the non-delivery of the accounts required by section 10 of this Ordinance, or for the purpose of preparing such accounts, and such authorised use of the estate or income, as the case may be, shall not render the person in question liable to any of the penalties provided by this section.\n\n(5) The recovery of any penalty provided in this section shall be without prejudice to the liability of the accountable person to the payment of estate duty on the estate of the deceased: Provided however that the amount of the estate duty and the penalty shall not in any case exceed four times the rate set out in the applicable Schedule.\n\n(6) For the purposes of this section, no account shall be deemed to have been delivered until the duty which reasonably appears to be payable in respect thereof has been paid, unless the Commissioner shall have allowed payment of the estate duty in respect of the said account to be postponed.\n\n## Repeal of Ordinance No. 16 of 1915, s. 22, and substitution of new section\n\n13. Section 20 of the principal Ordinance is amended as follows:-\n- (a) The words \"a penalty\" are substituted for the words \"the sum\" in the fifteenth line of sub-section (1).\n- (b) Sub-section (2) is repealed.\n- (c) The word \"penalty\" is substituted for the word \"sum\" in the second line of sub-section (3), and the words \"a debt\" in the third line of sub-section (3) are deleted.\n\n14. Section 22 of the principal Ordinance is repealed, and the following section is substituted therefor:\n\n**Power to reduce penalty and duty**\n\n22. The Commissioner may in his discretion remit or reduce any penalty and he may reduce any duty chargeable under this Ordinance, provided that such duty is not reduced below the rate set out in the applicable Schedule.\n\n## Insertion of new ss. 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 in Ordinance No. 16 of 1915\n\n15. The following sections are inserted in the principal Ordinance immediately after section 23:\n\n### Presumption as to shares standing in the name of deceased\n\n24. (1) If the registered owner of any share on a share register which is by law required to be kept within the Colony dies, such share shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to be part of the estate of the deceased, unless the legal personal representative of the deceased proves to the satisfaction of the Commissioner that such share did not form part of the estate of the deceased at his death.\n\n(2) An appeal to the Supreme Court, as under section 17 of this Ordinance, shall lie from any decision of the Commissioner under sub-section (1) of this section.\n\n### Relief in case of certain settlements\n\n25. (1) If estate duty has already been paid in respect of any settled property since the date of the settlement upon the death of one of the parties to marriage, no estate duty shall be payable on the death of the other party to the marriage unless such person was at the time of his or her death or had been at any time during the continuance of the settlement competent to dispose of such property.\n\n(2) For the purposes of this section, the term \"settlement\" means any deed, will, agreement for a settlement, or other instrument, or any number of instruments, whether made before or after or partly before and partly after the commencement of this Ordinance, under or by virtue of which instrument or instruments any property, or any estate or interest in any property, stands for the time being limited to or in trust for any persons by way of succession, and the term \"settled property\" means the property comprised in a settlement.\n\n### Relief in respect of quick succession where property consists of leasehold property or a business\n\n26. Where the Commissioner is satisfied that estate duty has become payable on any property consisting of leasehold property or a business (not being a business carried on by a company), or any interest in leasehold property or such a business, passing upon the death of any person, and that subsequently within five years estate duty has again become payable on the same property or any part thereof passing on the death of the person to whom the property passed on the first death, the amount of estate duty payable on the second death (if that death occurs after the passing of this Ordinance) in respect of the property so passing shall be reduced as follows:\n| Time of second death | Reduction |\n| --- | --- |\n| Within one year of the first death | 50% |\n| Within two years of the first death | 40% |\n| Within three years of the first death | 30% |\n| Within four years of the first death | 20% |\n| Within five years of the first death | 10% |\n\nProvided that where the value, on which the duty is payable, of the property on the second death exceeds the value, on which the duty was payable, of the property on the first death, the latter value shall be substituted for the former for the purpose of calculating the amount of duty on which the reduction under this section is to be calculated.\n\n### Relief where the estate is small\n\n27. The amount of estate duty payable on an estate at the rate applicable thereto under the scale of rates of duty shall, where necessary, be reduced so as not to exceed the highest amount of duty which would be payable at the limit of value next lower rate, with the addition of the amount by which the value of the estate exceeds the value on which the highest amount of duty would be so payable at the lower rate.\n\n### Relief in the case of certain interests which do not fall into possession\n\n28. (1) In the case of settled property, where the interest of any person under the settlement fails or determines by reason of his death before it becomes an interest in possession, and subsequent limitations under the settlement continue to subsist, the property shall not be deemed to pass on his death.\n\n(2) For the purposes of this section, the term \"settlement\" means any deed, will, agreement for a settlement, or other instrument, or any number of instruments, whether made before or after or partly before and partly after the commencement of this Ordinance, under...\n\nPage 70\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-8 Estate Duty Ordinance- 1931- Bill 27-2-1931 - 15-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 536634, "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": "CO129-542-5 Volunteer Ordinance- 1933 26-5-1933 - 9-11-1933", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-542-5 Volunteer Ordinance- 1933 26-5-1933 - 9-11-1933", "content_text": "## 27\n\n\n## 12 \n\nww \n\n**Uniform, Second Appendix.** \n\n**Third Appendix.** \n\n**Officers outfit allowance.** \n\nafter the fifteenth day unless the course is one of long duration, such as a Machine Gun Course, in which case the limit may be extended to the actual duration of the course in any case where the General Officer Commanding the Troops sees fit to direct an extension.\n\n## Equipment \n\n10.-(1) Officers will provide and maintain their own uniform and appointments according to the scale laid down in the Second Appendix.\n\n(2) Other ranks will be provided with uniform in accordance with the scale laid down in the Third Appendix.\n\n(3) In no circumstances may articles of uniform be worn with plain clothes.\n\n## 11 \n11.-(1) An allowance towards the cost of his outfit of not more than three hundred dollars will be paid to each officer on his first appointment as an officer in the corps: Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to those officers who were officers of the Hong Kong Defence Corps immediately before the repeal of the Military Service Ordinance, 1917, unless the General Officer Commanding the Troops shall otherwise direct. Provided further that the allowance shall be limited to outfit purchased within six months of the officer's first appointment and in respect of which an account, supported by vouchers approved by the Commandant, is promptly submitted by the officer to the Commandant. Provided further that every officer to whom any such allowance is paid shall sign an undertaking to hand back to the corps in serviceable condition, fair wear and tear excepted, his belt, Sam Browne complete with braces, frog, ammunition pouch and pistol case, his sword, infantry pattern with brown leather scabbard and knot, and his pistol and lanyard, in the event of his ceasing to serve as an officer in the corps within three years of his first appointment as such officer, or to refund to the corps the full value, to be determined by the Commandant, of any of the said articles not so returned.\n\n(2) Should an officer fail to become proficient within twelve months from appointment, he shall at the discretion of the Commandant be liable to refund all or part of the allowance made to him.\n\n## Stock-book to be kept \n\n12. A stock-book for stores issued on payment shall be kept showing the nature and value of each article and the member of the corps to whom it is issued.\n\n## Order book to be kept \n\n13. For every receipt and issue of stores there shall be a voucher. An order book for all stores required shall be kept, and, on receipt of the stores, entry shall be made in the stock-book. The receipt vouchers shall consist of the counterfoils of the order book, or of invoices from the Crown Agents, or from firms or departments which supply stores. Issue vouchers shall consist of receipts signed by the members of the corps to whom the stores are issued on an issue book with pages numbered consecutively. The issue book shall be checked by the Commandant and each signature shall be authenticated by his initials.\n\n## Entries in stock-book \n\n14. In every case the folio of the stock-book shall be inserted on the voucher and the entries made on the day of issue.\n\n## Ordering of stores \n\n15. All stores ordered from England must be obtained in the usual manner through the Crown Agents for the Colonies.\n\n## Responsibility for and care of stores \n\n16. The Commandant, assisted by the quartermaster, is responsible to the Hong Kong Government for all stores, arms and equipment supplied by the Government for use by the Corps.\n\n## Regimental Institute \n\n17. The Commandant may, with the approval of the Governor, make regulations for the management of the Regimental Institute.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-542-5 Volunteer Ordinance- 1933 26-5-1933 - 9-11-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546504, "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": 136, "title": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "content_text": "-2-\n\n139\n\n3.\n\n4.\n\n5.\n\n6.\n\ndischarged. No further reference need be made to this trial.\n\n(4) The applicant was put back to the end of the Calendar, and on the fifth day of September 1934, a special jury having been empanelled, he stood his trial on the same indictment before MacGregor C.J. He again pleaded not guilty, but after a three days trial was found guilty by the special jury, who added a strong recommendation to mercy, without giving my grounds therefor. The applicant was sentenced to death.\n\n(5) It should be noted that at this latter trial Counsel for the Crown opened to the Jury the evidence of the witness Mary Pine (see the depositions), and also her further evidence, a copy of which was served on the prisoner, and a copy of which is sent herewith. Before the witness could be called she was taken ill, and the court refused an adjournment. The case went to the jury without her evidence. The matter was dealt with by the judge in his summing-up.\n\n(6) A copy of the notes of the trial taken by the trial judge and a shorthand report of his summing-up are sent herewith. It is convenient to observe at this stage that the shorthand notes forwarded with these instructions do not attain the standard to which the Courts in England are accustomed.\n\n(7) On the twelfth day of September 1934 MacGregor C.J. sent his report of the trial to the Governor of Hong Kong, a copy of which is sent herewith.\n\n(8) On the fifteenth day of September 1934, the applicant filed a notice of his intention to appeal to the Full Court of Hong Kong on a question of law, and to apply for leave to appeal on questions of fact. Further grounds were added", "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": 547387, "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": "CO129-552-4 Police Department- staffing 2-1-1935 - 7-12-1935", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-552-4 Police Department- staffing 2-1-1935 - 7-12-1935", "content_text": "born or naturalized in the United Kingdom.* He must, if called upon to do so, satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners that he is duly qualified in respect of age and character. He must be of sound constitution, possessed of good sight and physically qualified for service in a tropical climate. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a strict medical examination by the Medical Board appointed to examine the successful candidates for Indian Police appointments, to test these points. A fee of two guineas will be charged in respect of this examination.\n\n4. The successful Candidates will be allotted, as and when opportunity offers, to one of the Colonies or to the States upon a consideration of all the circumstances, including their own wishes; but the requirements of the Public Service will rank before every other consideration, and the Secretary of State will retain full discretion to allot as he thinks fit.\n\n5. The selected Candidates will be expected to leave England about a month after the results of the examination are announced. A free passage to the Colony or State will be provided for the Probationer, subject to an undertaking to refund the cost of his passage in the event of his relinquishing the appointment within three years for any other reason than mental or physical infirmity.\n\n6. Each Probationer will receive salary at the rate of £225 per annum, half salary to commence from the day of leaving England, and full salary from the date of his arrival in the Colony or State to which he may be sent.\n\n7. Every Probationer on arrival in the Colony or State to which he may be sent will be subject to any regulations as to Probationers (not inconsistent with this paper) which may from time to time be made by the Local Government, including regulations as to examinations in native languages, &c. A Probationer who has passed such examinations will be paid at the rate of £300 per annum until he obtains a substantive appointment. Should a Probationer remain three years, after passing his examinations, without obtaining a substantive appointment, his salary will be increased to £350.\n\n8. Any Probationer who may fail to pass the prescribed examinations within four years, or be found unfit for Police duties, will be liable to removal from the service. Any Probationer so removed from the service will be granted a free passage to England, provided that he utilizes such passage within three months from the date of his removal.\n\n9. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted after a period of six years' resident service without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition, or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months. In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months in any two years.\n\n10. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill health an officer may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service fifteen-sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for the three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. For pension purposes absence on vacation, leave counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.\n\nIn the case of persons who enter both for the Indian and for the Colonial Services the decision of the Secretary of State for India in Council as to whether a candidate satisfies this condition will be final. No candidate who has been rejected as not qualified in this respect for the Indian Service will be accepted as a candidate for the Colonial Forces. In the case of persons competing only for admission to the Colonial Forces the decision of the Secretary of State for the Colonies will be final.\n\n11. A deduction of four per cent. will be made from the salaries of all Probationers as a contribution to one or other of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Funds of the two Colonies or of the Federated Malay States, from the date at which they qualify by passing the above-mentioned examinations.\n\n12. The currency of Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and the Federated Malay States is a silver dollar currency, and for purposes of local payment the sterling salaries referred to in paragraphs 6, 7 and 13 of this print will be converted into dollars at a rate to be fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth of the month for which salary is to be paid.\n\n13. The Police Service of these Colonies and States has been classified as follows, but no guarantee is given that the numbers and conditions of the appointments or the salaries attached to them will remain unaltered. Moreover, some of the posts included in these classes will not be exclusively confined to officers originally appointed as Probationers.\n\n \n Colony, &c.\n Class.\n Number of posts.\n Initial salary.\n Rising by triennial increments of\n Maximum.\n \n \n Hong Kong\n Assistant Superintendents.\n Two\n £360\n £60\n £540\n \n \n \n Deputy Superintendent.\n One\n £600\n £60\n £720\n \n \n \n Captain Superintendent.\n One\n £800\n £100\n £1,000\n \n \n Straits Settlements.\n Assistant Superintendents (Grade II).\n Eight\n £360\n £60\n £480\n \n \n Federated Malay States.\n Assistant Superintendents (Grade I).\n Seven\n £540\n £60\n £660\n \n \n \n Superintendents.\n Three\n £720\n £60\n £840\n \n \n \n Inspector-General\n One\n £900\n £50\n £1,000\n \n \n \n Assistant Commissioners (Grade II).\n \n £360\n £60\n £480\n \n \n \n Assistant Commissioners (Grade I).\n \n £540\n £60\n £660\n \n \n \n Deputy Commissioners.\n Two\n £720\n £60\n £840\n \n \n \n Commissioner\n One\n £900\n £50\n £1,000\n \n\nFree quarters will be provided for all the above-mentioned officers, and also for Probationers, but the value of these quarters will not count for pension purposes.\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE,\nNovember, 1904.\n\nNOTE.—Further information can be obtained on personal application at the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.\n\nPage 38", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-4 Police Department- staffing 2-1-1935 - 7-12-1935.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": 552346, "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": "CO129-559-16 Amendments to regulations made under Merchant Shipping Ordinance- 1899 30-9-1936 - 30-9-1936", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-559-16 Amendments to regulations made under Merchant Shipping Ordinance- 1899 30-9-1936 - 30-9-1936", "content_text": "# No. 10 of 1899\n\n## MERCHANT SHIPPING\n\nHong Kong.\n\n### ORDINANCE No. 10 of 1899. (MERCHANT SHIPPING).\n\nPublished in the Government Gazette of the 15th May, 1956, Government Notification No. 437.\n\nIn exercise of the powers conferred by section 10(6) and section 13(1) and section 37(2) of the **Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899**, as amended by the **Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1935**, and of all other powers thereunto enabling, the Governor in Council makes the following regulations as to fire appliances :-\n\n### Citation.\n\n1. These Regulations may be cited as the **Merchant Shipping (Fire Appliances) Regulations, 1935**, and shall come into operation on the fifteenth day of July, 1936.\n\n### Classification of Ships.\n\n2. For the purposes of these regulations ships are divided into the several Groups and Classes set forth in Regulation 1 of the **Merchant Shipping (Life Saving Appliances) Regulations 1935**.\n\n### Application.\n\n3. These regulations shall apply to all new ships of Classes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 in Group 1 (hereinafter referred to as Class A) and to all new ships in Group II (hereinafter referred to as Class B), and to all existing ships of those classes save in so far as the Governor may in the exercise of the power conferred on him by section 10(6)(a) of the **Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899**, as amended by the **Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1935**, treat such existing ships as complying with the requirements of these regulations.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-16 Amendments to regulations made under Merchant Shipping Ordinance- 1899 30-9-1936 - 30-9-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554494, "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": "CO129-562-20 Whompoa Port- development 19-2-1937 - 4-4-1938", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-562-20 Whompoa Port- development 19-2-1937 - 4-4-1938", "content_text": "## 4 \n45 \n53770/36 \n*Secret.* \n6. \nIn paragraph 3 of my secret (2) despatch of the 24th September last, I quoted Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as saying that this extension would cross the Canton-Kowloon line on the level, and that their connection would follow as a matter of course but without advertisement. \nI remember thinking at the time that a level crossing would not be in accordance with modern railway practice or conduce to the easy manipulation of traffic, and I have not therefore been surprised to learn that the extension of the Hankow-Canton line is being constructed so as to cross the Kowloon railway by an overhead bridge. \nIn this connection, however, it was suggested by Mr. S.H. Street, Engineer-in-Chief of the Chinese Section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway (and his suggestion was indirectly reported to me) that representations might be made to the Chinese Ministry of Railways for the avoidance of an overhead crossing by joining the Hankow-Canton extension to the Kowloon line at the ninth kilometre from Canton and leading it off to Whampoa from another junction at the fifteenth kilometre, i.e., that the two railways should share the same metals from the ninth to the fifteenth kilometre. \n\n7. This suggestion was, of course, a very different thing from the level crossing contemplated by the Generalissimo, and, if pressed, would have aggravated (and have been promptly frustrated by) the Cantonese opposition to the linking of the two railways, which the Generalissimo found so strong as to necessitate the physical connection being made later 'as a matter of course but without advertisement'. \nMoreover, Mr. Street's plan would have led to undesirable complications, and I may here quote from a minute by Major R.D. Walker, Manager of the British Section:- \n\"Mr. Street's proposal is, in my opinion, most undesirable; considerable delays to traffic are...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-20 Whompoa Port- development 19-2-1937 - 4-4-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555349, "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": 199, "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": "# 238\n\n[14th witness Ernest Harold Histed.] \n\n40 \n\n41 \n\n[15th witness Francis Brett.] \n\n[15th witness Francis Brett.] \n\n1050. On the 26th September were you on board your ship? \n1051. Where was she bound from, and where was she going to? \nYes. \nFrom Shanghai to Hong Kong. \n\n1052. Is she a passenger ship? \nYes. \n\n1053. Carrying many passengers? \nYes. \n\n1054. What sort? \nRefugees from Shanghai to Canton. \n\n1055. Mostly Chinese? \nMostly Chinese. \n\n1056. About 6 o'clock on the evening of the 27th September did the 2nd officer make a report to you? \nYes. \n\n1057. What is the name of the 2nd officer? \nW. Noble. \n\n1058. And as a result of that report what did you do? \nI went on the bridge and I saw two men on a raft. \n\n1059. About how far away were they when you saw them? \nAbout 1,000 yards. \n\n1060. Then what did you do? \nThe ship was stopped and manoeuvred, a boat was lowered in charge of the Chief Officer and the men taken on board the ship. \n\n1061. Can you tell me what your position was when you picked up these two men? \nLat. 22.27 North, Long. 115.11 East. \n\n1062. Are you reading from your log book? \nYes. \n\n1063. Please read out the whole entry. \n18.10 that is the time-lat. 22.27 N., long. 115.11 E. observed two men on wreckage, ship stopped, accident boat lowered in charge of Chief Officer and two men picked up-18.30 ship proceeded. \n\n1064. What sort of wreckage were these two men picked up from? \nA raft of some description. \n\n1065. Will you describe it in a little more detail, please? \nI did not look at it in detail- it was dusk, It was about 6 timbers lashed together-about 4 ft. wide and 18 to 20 ft. long. \n\n1066. What was the weather like on that day? \nVery calm-extremely calm. \n\n1067. What sort of condition were these men in when you picked them up? \nIn a condition of extreme exhaustion. \n\n1068. Did you discover what their names were? \nNo, they were handed to me, but only by the compradore. \n\n1069. You have forgotten what their names were? \nI never entered them in the report. \n\n1070. Would you remember them if I mentioned them to you now? \nNo. \n\n1071. Then you proceeded to Hong Kong? \nYes. \n\n1072. What did you do with these two men when you arrived? \nWe only stopped at Hong Kong to drop the British Consul from Shanghai, and we took these two men to Canton and returned with them the following day and landed them for the Tung Wah Hospital. \n\n1073. That would be the 30th September? \nYes. \n\n1074. What do you say happened to them? \nI sent them to the Tung Wah Hospital under the escort of one of the compradore's staff. \n\n(Witness left the witness box). \n\n1075. Fifteenth Witness. Francis Brett, duly sworn, states:- \n1076. Mr. Whyatt: What is your full name? \nFrancis Brett, \n\n1077. What is your occupation? \nAssistant Chief Junk Inspector. \n\n1078. Have you made a search of your records? \nYes. \n\n1079. And can you give me particulars of certain junks with which we are concerned in this inquiry? \nYes. \n\n1080. Have you a list of them? \nI have them tabulated. (Produces junk licence registers and reads from them). \n\n## Junk Records\n\n| Junk No. | Name of Junk | Name of Owner | Name of Master | Capacity | Crew | Arms on Board |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2955 H.W. | Cheung Lee | Shek Kai-cheung | Shek Kai-cheung | 1370 piculs | 26 | 1 cannon, 30 lbs. shot, 10 lbs. powder |\n| 3407 H.W. | Li Mun | Li Mun | Li Mun | 1664 piculs | 20 | 5 cannon, 1 rifle, 90 lbs. shot, 6 muskets, 1 revolver |\n| 28 H.W. | | | | 1468 piculs | 25 | 100 rds. ammunition, 45 lbs. powder, 8 rds. ammunition |\n| 36 H.W. | Lam Yung-shing | Lam Yung-shing | Lam Yung-shing | 1828 piculs | 23 | 3 cannon, 75 lbs. shot, 50 lbs. powder, 4 muskets, 15 lbs. bullets, 2 boxes caps, 1 rifle, 189 rds. ammunition |\n| 615 H.W. | Yeung Yat-hei | Yeung Yat-hei | Yeung Yat-hei | 1468 piculs | 23 | 2 cannon, 20 lbs. shot, 15 lbs. powder |\n| 611 H.W. | Fung Hing-lam | Fung Hing-lam | Fung Hing-lam* | | | |\n\n1081. Fishing Junk 2955 H.W. \nLicensed at Shaukiwan first on 22.7.29. \nName of Master: Shek Kai-cheung, Native of Ping Hoi. \nJunk was last relicensed on 18.7.37. \n\n1082. Chairman: 'H.W.' means? \nRegistered at Shaukiwan. \n\n1083. Details of Junk 2955 H.W. \n- Capacity: 1370 piculs \n- Crew: 26 \n- Arms on board: 1 cannon, 30 lbs. shot, 10 lbs. powder \n\n1084. Chairman: This is the ammunition they are allowed? \nThis is what they declare. \n\n1085. Fishing Junk No. 3407 H.W. \nLicensed at Shaukiwan first on 22.7.29. \nName of Junk: Li Mun \nName of Owner: Li Mun \nName of Master: Li Mun - Native of Shaukiwan. \nJunk licence last renewed on 18.7.37. \n- Capacity: 1664 piculs \n- Crew: 20 \n- Arms on board: 5 cannon, 1 rifle, 90 lbs. shot, 6 muskets, 1 revolver \n\n1086. Fishing Junk No. 28 H.W. \nLicensed at Shaukiwan first on 18.7.33. \nLicence last renewed on 26.6.37. \n- Capacity: 1468 piculs \n- Crew: 25 \n- Arms on board: 100 rds. ammunition, 45 lbs. powder, 8 rds. ammunition \n\n1087. Fishing Junk No. 36 H.W. \nLicensed at Shaukiwan first on 27.7.37. \nName of Junk: Lam Fat-po \nName of Owner: Lam Fat-po \nName of Master: Lam Fat-po, Native of Shanmei, alias for Lam Chu, sir. \n- Capacity: 1828 piculs \n- Crew: 23 \n- Arms on board: 1 cannon, 30 lbs. shot, 10 lbs. powder \n\n1088. Chairman: From the name, this junk is not one with which we are concerned? \nThere is no Lam Fat-po. \n\n1089. Mr. Whyatt: This is an... \n1090. Fishing Junk No. 615 H.W. \nName of Junk: Yeung Yat-hei \nName of Owner: Yeung Yat-hei \nName of Master: Yeung Yat-hei, Native of Shanmei. \nLicensed at Shaukiwan first on 10.5.27. \nJunk licence last renewed on 26.6.37. \n- Capacity: 1468 piculs \n- Crew: 23 \n- Arms on board: 2 cannon, 20 lbs. shot, 15 lbs. powder \n\n1091. Fishing Junk No. 611 H.W. \nLicensed first at Shaukiwan on 9.9.13. \nName of Junk: Fung Hing-lam \nName of Owner: Fung Hing-lam \nName of Master: Fung Hing-lam*— Native of Shaukiwan. \nThis is an alias of Fung King-wo. \n\n239", "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": 555558, "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": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "content_text": "## similarly are stating that their most urgent requirement was cash. On the same day we cabled to them: \n\n\"YOUR CABLE 15TH ESSENTIAL HAVE GENERAL IDEA OTHER REQUIREMENTS FORTHWITH STOP REPLY BY MONDAY NOON\". \n\nTo this they replied on the 16th. \n\n\"OTHER REQUIREMENTS MAINLY CLOTHING MEDICAL SUPPLIES BUT CAN ONLY BE FORMULATED BY ADMINISTRATIVES AFTER YOUR APPROVAL PROPOSED ARRANGEMENT RECEIVED CONSULT F.O.\" \n\nTo this we replied on the 19th October: \n\n\"YOUR CABLE FIFTEENTH STOP WE AGREE YOUR PROPOSALS AND INTERPRET AS FOLLOWS STOP PARENT COMMITTEE WITH KAIKKIAK XXX AMBASSADOR AND GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG AS PRESIDENTS AND LOCAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES TO BE NOMINATED BY AMBASSADOR OR GOVERNOR OPERATING IN COOPERATION WITH PARENT COMMITTEE STOP WE APPROVE PERSONNEL OF CENTRAL ORGANISATION SUGGESTED STOP PLEASE ORGANISE CENTRAL AND LOCAL COMMITTEES AND CABLE PLACES AND NAMES STOP SUBJECT TO YOUR VIEWS WE THINK LOCAL COMMITTEES SHOULD BE ORGANISED AT HONGKONG HANKOW TIENTSIN SHANGHAI AT ANY RATE.\" \n\nOn October 29th the Foreign Office telegraphed to His Majesty's representative that a first instalment of £5,000 had been placed at the disposal of His Majesty's Ambassador as President of the Fund for the Relief of Distress in China. \n\nOn November 5th we cabled to Shanghai: \n\n\"ANXIOUSLY AWAITING INFORMATION REQUESTED IN CABLE OCTOBER 19 DRUGS VALUED APPROXIMATELY £9000 LEAVING RAWALPINDI AND DIOMED CONSIGNED HONGKONG AIRMAILING PARTICULARS\". \n\nOn November 6th we cabled to London from the Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai: \n\n'FUND NOW TOTALS POUNDS 60650 CASH 10,000 REMITTED SATURDAY purchases surgical appliances dressings value 10,000 AUTHORISED' \n\nToday we received the following cable from the Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai: \n\n\"HOPE TELEGRAPH DETAILS REQUIREMENTS ONE WEEK ON RECEIPT REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES ORGANISED OTHER PORTS STOP CONSIDER MOST IMPORTANT ALL FUNDS AND SUPPLIES PURCHASED BE SENT TO SHANGHAI COMMITTEE FOR ALLOCATION OTHERWISE CONFUSION PROBABLE IS THIS BEING DONE\" \n\n## To turn now to the organisation here. \n\nA copy of the appeal and of the names of its signatories was sent to the British Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai on October 1st and a further copy was sent to the Chairman of the British Women's Association on October 3rd. On October 7th the signatories of the appeal constituted themselves a General Committee. I enclose a copy of the Minutes of the Meeting. \n\nTo the members of the Executive Committee then appointed have since been added Lord Donoughmore who accepted the Chairmanship, Dr Gordon Thompson, late of the Lester Institute, Lady Layton and Lt.-Gen. L. Robinson C.B., C.M.G. A.W. Hersee of the Mansion House has been acting as liaison officer between the Executive Committee and the Lord Mayor. \n\nUnder the Executive Committee are working three sub-committees: a Medical Sub-Committee consisting of Sir Harold Fawcus, Dr Harold Balme and Dr Gordon Thompson: a Clothing and Comforts Sub-Committee consisting of Lady Layton (Chairman), Dame Rachel Crowdy and the Rev. S.H. Dixon (Vice-Chairmen) Mrs Gordon Lennox (Hon. Secretary) Mrs E.M. \n\nPage 20\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555596, "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": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "content_text": "# THE FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS IN CHINA\n\n## Cable from the British Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, 15.10.37\n\n**PROPOSED COMMITTEE: SUBJECT TO YOUR APPROVAL:**\n\nThe **AMBASSADOR** and **GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG** to be Presidents;\n\nExecutive Committee: \n- Chairman: **CONSUL-GENERAL**;\n- Representing the British Chamber of Commerce: **R.CALDER-MARSHALL** and **W.S.KING**;\n- Representing the China Association: **P.W.MASSEY** and **J.R.JONES**;\n- Representing the British Residents Association: **BRIG. GENERAL E.B.MACNAGHTEN**;\n- Representing the London Mission: **THE REV.A.BAXTER**;\n- Representing the National Christian Council: **THE REV.RONALD D. REES**.\n\nWe suggest that this central organisation apportions funds between areas which would be organised similarly. Each executive would allocate under the general heads of Chinese Refugees, International Sufferers, British Sufferers, and Hospitals. Such allocations to be expended by administrative committees under the control of the Executive Committee and including all the national societies, the British Women's Association, and the Salvation Army.\n\nOur most urgent requirement is cash. We will cable particulars of other requirements when the administratives have been formed after receipt of your approval.\n\n**BRITISCOM**\n\nThe following cable was sent in reply to the British Chamber of Commerce 15.10.37.\n\nYour cable fifteenth essential. Have general idea other requirements forthwith. 15.10.37. Stop. Reply by Monday noon.\n\n**GULL**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937.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": 559303, "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": 15, "title": "CO129-569-12 Law Revision Ordinance 1937 24-12-1937 - 28-5-1938", "content_text": "# SHORT TITLE.\n\n-\n\nSchedule, contd.\n\nAMENDMENT OR REPEAL.\n\n10. The Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Ordinance, 1929. (No. 6 of 1929.), -contd.\n\n4\n\n1866, the Bank shall continue to be incorporated by the name of 'The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation' and by that name shall and may sue and be sued in all courts, and in that name shall continue to have perpetual succession, with a common seal which it may vary and change at its pleasure: Provided that there shall be no limit whatever to the period of incorporation.\"\n\nPro-\n\n11. The Suppression of Piracy Ordinance, 1868. (No. 1 of 1868.)\n\n12. The Treasonable Offences Ordinance, 1868. (No. 3 of 1868.)\n\n13. The Innkeepers' Liability Ordinance, 1870. (No. 3 of 1870.)\n\n¡\n\nSection 7, as amended by Ordinance No. 15 of 1927, is amended by the repeal of subsection (3) thereof.\n\n“\n\nSection 3 is amended by the insertion of the words 'utters or declares' immediately after the word 'expresses' in the thirteenth line thereof, and by the repeal of the words 'with or declares them' in the fifteenth line thereof.\n\n(1) The title is amended by the repeal of the words 'to amend the law respecting the liabilities of innkeepers' and the substitution therefor of the words 'for the relief of innkeepers'.\n\n(2) Section 1 is amended by the repeal of the word 'liability'.\n\n(3) The following section is added immediately after section 7:-\n\n'8. An innkeeper shall, in addition to his ordinary lien, have the right absolutely to sell by public auction any property in which may have been deposited with him or left in the inn he keeps or in the premises appurtenant or belonging thereto, [cf. 41 & 42 Vict. c. 38, s. 1.] where the person depositing or leaving such property shall be or become indebted to the said innkeeper either for any board or lodging or for the keep or expenses of any animal left with such innkeeper or standing at livery in the stables or fields occupied by such innkeeper: Provided however-\n\n(1) that, except in the case of perishable property, no such sale shall be made until after the said property shall have been for the space of six weeks in such charge or custody or in or upon such premises without such debt having been satisfied;\n\n(2) that such innkeeper, after having, out of the proceeds of such sale, paid\n\n* This section corresponds exactly with section 3 of Ordinance No. 29 of 1912, which is here re-enacted.\n\nA", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-569-12 Law Revision Ordinance 1937 24-12-1937 - 28-5-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 559309, "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": 21, "title": "CO129-569-12 Law Revision Ordinance 1937 24-12-1937 - 28-5-1938", "content_text": "SHORT TITLE.\n\n12\n\nSchedule, contd.\n\nAMENDMENT OR REPEAL.\n\n39. The Chinese Ex-tradition Ordinance, 1889. (No. 7 of 1889.), -contd.\n\n40. The Merchandise Marks Ordinance, 1890. (No. 4 of 1890.)\n\n41. The Gambling Ordinance, 1891. (No. 2 of 1891.)\n\n42. The Forts Protection Ordinance, 1891. (No. 3 of 1891.)\n\n(e) the Falsification of Documents Ordinance, 1935, No. 33 of 1935.\n\n(f) the False Personation Ordinance, No. 34 of 1935, or any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same, which is not included in the foregoing list.\"\n\n(4) Form No. 6 in the Second Schedule is amended by the insertion of the words \"into your custody and to convey him to\" immediately before the word \"and\" in the fifteenth line thereof.\n\n(1) Section 3 (5) is amended by the repeal of the words \"informed of his right to be tried\" in the third and fourth lines thereof and the substitution therefor of the words \"asked whether he wishes to be tried\".\n\n(2) Section 5 (1), as amended by Ordinance No. 2 of 1984, is amended by renumbering paragraphs (cc) and (d) as paragraphs (d) and (e) thereof.\n\n(3) Section 19, as enacted by Ordinance No. 2 of 1934, is amended by the repeal of sub-section (2) thereof.\n\n(1) Section 2, as amended by Ordinances No. 40 of 1931 and No. 5 of 1936, is amended:\n\n(i) by the repeal of the words \"means and\" in the first line of paragraphs (a), (d) and (g) thereof;\n\n(ii) by renumbering paragraphs (bb), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) and (h) as paragraphs (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) and (i) thereof.\n\n44\n\n(2) Section 5 (2) is amended by the repeal of the words \"means and\" in the first line thereof.\n\n(3) The Schedule is amended:\n\n(i) by the insertion of the words \"betting slips\" immediately after the word \"tickets,\" in the twelfth line thereof;\n\n(ii) by the repeal of the word \"gambling\" in the twelfth and fourteenth lines thereof and the substitution therefor of the words \"gaming, gambling or betting\";\n\n44\n\n(ii) by the repeal of the word \"gambling\" in the fifteenth line thereof and the substitution therefor of the words \"gaming, gambling, betting slips\".\n\nThe words \"or marine forces\" in the fifth and seventh lines of section 3 and the second and third lines of section 5 are repealed and the words \"marine or air forces\" substituted therefor.\n\n44\n\n1935.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-569-12 Law Revision Ordinance 1937 24-12-1937 - 28-5-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568788, "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": "CO129-582-5 Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance 1939 15-5-1939 - 22-1-1940", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-582-5 Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance 1939 15-5-1939 - 22-1-1940", "content_text": "A BILL\n\nINTITULED\n\n[No. 17-2.5.39.-1.]\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1939.\n\n2. Sub-section (6) of section 22 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is amended:\n\n(a) by the repeal of the words \"shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars\" in the fourteenth and fifteenth lines thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words \"shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months\".\n\n(b) by the addition of the following paragraph at the end thereof:\n\nIf the intended voyage is to any port in China which has not been opened at any time to foreign trade the Harbour Master may refuse to furnish a port clearance.\n\nof Ordinance No. 10 of 1899, s. 22 (6).\n\nPage 37\n\nObjects and Reasons.\n\n1. Article XLVII of the Treaty of Tientsin (1858) provided that \"British merchant vessels are not entitled to resort to other than the Ports of Trade declared open by this Treaty. They are not unlawfully to enter other Ports in China or to carry on clandestine Trade along the coast thereof. Any vessel violating this provision shall, with her cargo, be subject to confiscation by the Chinese Government\".\n\n2. Various ports were opened to foreign trade by that Treaty, some had been opened before by the Treaty of Nanking, and others have been opened since.\n\n3. The Treaty provisions do not appear to have been implemented by specific provisions in the Merchant Shipping Act or Ordinance, possibly because the liability to confiscation by the Chinese Government was in itself considered a sufficient deterrent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-5 Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance 1939 15-5-1939 - 22-1-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569376, "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": "CO129-583-3 Appointment of dental surgeon 18-4-1940 - 11-5-1940", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-583-3 Appointment of dental surgeon 18-4-1940 - 11-5-1940", "content_text": "1888\n\nCertified Copy of an Entry of Birth.\n\nPursuant to the Births and Deaths Registration Acts 1836 to 1874.\n\nRegistration District of Auckland\n\nBirth in the Sub-District of Bishop Auckland in the County of Durham.\n\n7\n\n \n 1\n 2\n 3\n 5\n 6\n 8\n 9\n 10\n \n \n No.\n When and where Born.\n Name (if any).\n Sex.\n Name and Surname of Father\n Name and Maiden Surname of Mother.\n Rank or Profession of Father.\n Signature, Description, and Residence of Informant.\n When Baptismal Name if added after Registration of Birth.\n Signature of Registrar.\n \n \n 226\n Seventeenth August, 1888. Bridge Row St. Helen's Auckland\n John\n Boy\n Thomas Lanchester\n Elizabeth Lanchester formerly Beaston.\n Colliery Labourer.\n Thomas Lanchester Father. Bridge Row\n Fifteenth September 1888.\n David Armstrong Registrar. St. Helen's Auckland.\n \n\nI, William Blakiston Dean, Superintendent Registrar for the District of Auckland in the County of Durham, do hereby Certify that this is a TRUE COPY of the Entry No.226 in the REGISTER BOOK OF BIRTHS, No. 165 for the named Sub-District and that such Register Book is now legally in my custody.\n\nWitness my Hand this 29th day of November 1909.\n\n29/11/09 W.B.D.\n\nThe Statutory Fees payable for an ordinary certified copy of an entry in a Register of Births Deaths or Marriages, if taken at time of registration, are 2s. 7d. (including 1d. for the stamp) but if taken at anytime afterwards an additional fee of 1s. is chargeable for a search.\n\nCertified true copy.\n\nSa. W.B. Dean. Superintendent Registrar.\n\nAPR 15 1940 Melling be. Med kept\n\nPage", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-3 Appointment of dental surgeon 18-4-1940 - 11-5-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 571244, "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": "CO129-586-16 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps 15-7-1940 - 15-7-1940", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-586-16 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps 15-7-1940 - 15-7-1940", "content_text": "**SECRET(3)**\n\n`4031/40`\n\n## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG\n### 4- SEP 1940\n\nC.\n\n15th July, 1940.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to refer to the Foreign Office confidential print No. F 2998/2998/10 of 29th April, 1940, containing Sir Stafford Cripps' Report on the position in China, and to express the hope that the views expressed in its 129th paragraph are not necessarily accepted by the Foreign Office.\n\n2. After the rather sketchy \"contacts\" reported in the fifteenth paragraph of the Report it seems a little hard that everyone who suffers from the sanctuary of a Crown Colony or a Treaty Port should be labelled as \"singularly short-sighted\" in its next paragraph, as compared with the adventurers and unreliable politicians who throng Chungking.\n\n3. As a concrete example one would have thought that my present Colonial Secretary who, as Secretary for Chinese Affairs has made a special study of Chinese politics and psychology and has in addition some knowledge of the Japanese language and habits of thought acquired in Japan itself, might have been thought worthy of a short interview. In this connection I would invite your attention to the series of despatches on the political situation in China addressed to the Colonial Office by Sir Cecil Clementi during his Governorship of Hong Kong which were for the most part prepared at the Chinese Secretariat.\n\n4. In drawing attention to this point I am far from wishing to appear to belittle this very able and interesting report but desire only to anticipate a possible tendency to ignore the views and interests of this Colony in favour of a section of British opinion which, though more vocal, may be, in spite of its greater mobility, less familiar with the facts of the situation.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,\nN.L. Smith\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nPage 4\nPage 4\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD LLOYD OF DOLOBRAN,\n&c.,\n&c.,\n&c.\n\n4 END 2\n\n`54031`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-586-16 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps 15-7-1940 - 15-7-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584334, "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": "CO129-599-1 Salaries Commission 8-12-1947 - 22-12-1947", "page_number": 111, "title": "CO129-599-1 Salaries Commission 8-12-1947 - 22-12-1947", "content_text": "# INWARD TELEGRAM\n## TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES\n### COPY FOR REGISTRAC\n\nFROM HONG KONG (Six A. Grantham)\n\nD. 12th June, 1948. R. 12th\n\n114 \n269 \n12 \n06.40 hrs. \ndist \nMONTPERSONER \nIMPORTANT\n\n**No. 559 Confidential.**\n\nYour confidential telegram No. 610.\n\nAdministrative time scale.\n\nE(264)\n\n1. I appreciate that proposed scale provides a rapid increase between the sixth and ninth years, but I consider this increase is justified by increased responsibilities which Administrative Officers are now asked to assume at about that point in their service. The strict application of efficiency bar between the eighth and ninth years as you propose, will enable Government to withhold a substantial part of this increase from an officer who does not merit it.\n\n2. As the only efficiency bar at eighth year is relatively early in an officer's career, I propose that a second bar should be inserted between the fourteenth and fifteenth years, where an increase in rate of expatriation pay causes a gross incremental of £80.\n\n3. Your early approval of scale as now agreed with second efficiency bar would be greatly appreciated.\n\nCopy sent to:-\n| Name/Title |\n|------------|\n| Treasury |\n| Mr. I. P. Bancroft |\n| Mr Nicholls of King |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-1 Salaries Commission 8-12-1947 - 22-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 585195, "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": "CO129-600-2 Salaries Commission- proposed Public Services Commission 20-1-1948 - 1-3-1948", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-600-2 Salaries Commission- proposed Public Services Commission 20-1-1948 - 1-3-1948", "content_text": "# Ceylon Government Gazette Extraordinary\n## No. 9,554 - Friday, May 17, 1946\n### Published by Authority\n\n## PART I - GENERAL\n### GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS\n\nTHE Ceylon (Constitution) Order in Council, 1946, is hereby published as required by subsection (1) of Section 2 thereof.\n\nColombo, May 17, 1946.\n\nBy His Excellency's command,\n**C. H. HART WELL**,\nActing Secretary to the Governor\n\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the Fifteenth day of May, 1946.\n\nPresent:\n**THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL**\n\nWHEREAS by the Orders in Council set out in the First Schedule to this Order provision is made for the constitution of a State Council for the Island of Ceylon:\n\nAND WHEREAS in the years 1944 and 1945 a Commission was appointed by His Majesty's Government under the chairmanship of the Right Honourable Herwald, Baron Soulbury, O.B.E., M.C., to visit the Island of Ceylon in order to examine and discuss proposals for constitutional reform, and the said Commission duly visited the Island and made a report to His Majesty's Government:\n\nAND WHEREAS a Statement of Policy on Constitutional Reform in Ceylon was presented to Parliament by His Majesty's Government in the month of October, 1945:\n\n`787-3. N. A 61451–3,790(5/4)`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-600-2 Salaries Commission- proposed Public Services Commission 20-1-1948 - 1-3-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 585226, "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": "CO129-600-2 Salaries Commission- proposed Public Services Commission 20-1-1948 - 1-3-1948", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-600-2 Salaries Commission- proposed Public Services Commission 20-1-1948 - 1-3-1948", "content_text": "# CEYLON GOVT. GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY\n\n## MAY 17, 1946\n\n**THE Ceylon (Electoral Registers) (Special Provisions) Order in Council, 1946, is hereby published as required by Section 2 thereof.**\n\nColombo, May 17, 1946.\n\nBy His Excellency's command,\n\nC. H. HARTWELL,\nActing Secretary to the Governor.\n\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the Fifteenth day of May, 1946.\n\nPresent:\n\n**THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.**\n\nWHEREAS by the Ceylon (Constitution) Order in Council, 1946, provision is made for the constitution and powers of a Senate and a House of Representatives for Ceylon:\n\nAND WHEREAS, for the purposes of such provision, it is expedient to make certain modifications in the Ceylon (State Council Elections) Order in Council, 1931:\n\nNOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby ordered by His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, as follows:-\n\n1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Ceylon (Electoral Registers) (Special Provisions) Order in Council, 1946.\n\n(2) Nothing in this Order shall extend to the Maldive Islands.\n\n2. This Order shall be published in the Government Gazette and shall come into operation on the date of such `publication`.\n\n3. Until other provision is made, the Ceylon (State Council Elections) Order in Council, 1931, shall have effect subject, with respect to the provisions mentioned in Column 1 of the Schedule to this Order, to the modifications and exceptions set out in Column 2 of that Schedule.\n\n4. His Majesty hereby reserves to Himself, His Heirs and Successors power, with the advice of His or Their Privy Council, to revoke, add to or amend this Order as to Him or Them may seem fit.\n\nE. C. E. LEADBITTER.\n\n### Short title and application.\n\n### Date of operation.\n\n### Modification of Ceylon (State Council Elections) Order in Council, 1931.\n\n### Power to revoke or amend Order.\n\n## SCHEDULE.\n\n| Column 1 | Column 2 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Articles 6 (1) and 8 (1) | For the words \"first day of August\" wherever those words occur, there shall be substituted the words \"twenty-second day of May\". |\n| Article 13 | For the words \"first day of August\" there shall be substituted the words \"twenty-second day of May\" and for the words \"fifteenth day of September\" there shall be substituted the words \"thirtieth day of June\". |\n| Article 15 (1) | For the words \"first day of October\" there shall be substituted the words \"fifteenth day of July\". |\n| Articles 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 | Shall not apply. |\n\nPRINTED AT THE CEYLON GOVERNMENT PRESS, COLOMBO.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-600-2 Salaries Commission- proposed Public Services Commission 20-1-1948 - 1-3-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589293, "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": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "page_number": 217, "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "content_text": "L.S.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nNo. 4 of 1940.\n\nI assent.\n\nG. A. S. NORTHCOTE,\n\nGovernor.\n\n15th March, 1940.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance,\n\n1899.\n\n[15th March, 1940.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1940.\n\n2. Sub-section (6) of section 22 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is amended:\n\n(6)\n\n(a) by the repeal of the words \"shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars\" in the fourteenth and fifteenth lines thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words \"shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months\".\n\n(b) by the addition of the following paragraph at the end thereof:\n\nIf the intended voyage is to any port in China which has not been opened at any time to foreign trade the Harbour Master may, at his absolute discretion, refuse to furnish a port clearance.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 14th day of March, 1940.\n\nC. BRAMALL BURGESS,\n\nDeputy Clerk of Councils.\n\n221\n\nPage 221\n\n...\n\n...\n\n...\n\n \nIt is better to directly output the following:\nL.S.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nNo. 4 of 1940.\n\nI assent.\n\nG. A. S. NORTHCOTE,\n\nGovernor.\n\n15th March, 1940.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance,\n\n1899.\n\n[15th March, 1940.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1940.\n\n2. Sub-section (6) of section 22 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is amended:\n\n(6)\n\n(a) by the repeal of the words \"shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars\" in the fourteenth and fifteenth lines thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words \"shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months\".\n\n(b) by the addition of the following paragraph at the end thereof:\n\nIf the intended voyage is to any port in China which has not been opened at any time to foreign trade the Harbour Master may, at his absolute discretion, refuse to furnish a port clearance.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 14th day of March, 1940.\n\nC. BRAMALL BURGESS,\n\nDeputy Clerk of Councils.\n\n221", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]