[ { "id": 223275, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "content_text": "233\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nLegislation.\n\nPopulation.\n\nClimate.\n\nPlaces of worship.\n\nEducation.\n\nTrade.\n\n148\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nWith the prospect of having the principal civil buildings executed by the Ordnance Department, I have confined those erected by the Land Office to three police stations, and the building now occupied by the Post-office Department, the latter yielding a rent of 150l. a-year to the colony.\n\nUnder the head of Legislation, fourteen ordinances were passed during the year 1845, some of them amending previous enactments. The first and immediate wants of the colony may now be considered as supplied, and future ordinances will be required only as occasion shall arise.\n\nThe population return in the \"Blue Book\" is entirely exclusive of troops. It exhibits a total population of 23,748 persons. Of these, the whites are 634, of whom 501 are males, and 133 females. The coloured population, consisting almost entirely of the registered Chinese, amounts to 23,114, being 18,438 males, and 4676 females. The proportion of the latter has increased as the feeling of security induced the Chinese settlers to bring over their families; and I hope to observe the growth of this favourable indication.\n\nThere seems to prevail among the Chinese population a perfect confidence in our Government; and since the establishment of an efficient police, and the severe examples which have been made of some atrocious criminals, security of person and property have been established, in lieu of the robbery and plunder which existed less than two years ago.\n\nThe most gratifying subject of the present Report is the successful vindication of this colony from those charges of unhealthiness which accidental circumstances (some of them inseparably connected with its first occupation) swelled into a species of panic about the time I quitted England, and led many persons to imagine that a residence in the place was a desperate undertaking. The best answer to the whole is the remarkable immunity from disease which followed immediately upon the completion of fitting dwellings, efficient drainage, and other improvements. The delightful winter which prevails here will, I have no doubt, make Hong-Kong a place of resort to invalids from India.\n\nThe colonial surgeon's very complete report, in pages 127 to 138 of the Blue Book, will be found amply to corroborate the above statement, and to prove that this colony is much more healthy than many others of Her Majesty's intertropical possessions. Even in the case of the troops (by no means an infallible test of climate), the mortality was reduced to nearly a half during the last year, before their present excellent barracks were completed; and, now that the soldiers have been housed in them, I entertain no doubt of the marked and favourable result.\n\nSoon after my arrival in the colony in 1844, I represented, that while the Romanists and Dissenters were already provided with respectable places of worship, the members of the Established Church met in a species of shed. But however anxious to commence the erection of a more suitable edifice, I have not yet been fortunate enough to obtain that authority for the expenditure, without which, I was officially informed, it must not be undertaken. On the arrival of the necessary sanction, I hope that a proper building may be raised in the course of a year; and there seems little doubt of obtaining one-third of the cost from among the inhabitants.\n\nThere are four European establishments for education in Victoria, into some of which the use of the Chinese language is introduced. They are at present entirely supported by voluntary contributions. In Despatch, No. 4, of January 20th, I proposed to Her Majesty's Government some small annual contribution to a school established by the Reverend Mr. Stanton, for the education of the children of European police, and others. Mr. Stanton is now erecting a school, by the aid of funds supplied in England, for bringing up young Chinese in the principles of Christianity.\n\nAs among the Chinese population generally, a number of individuals of that nation are employed in Hong-Kong in giving the first elements of instruction to the male children of the inhabitants, for the females are always kept at home. In the Despatch already quoted above, I have suggested that some trifling Government contribution might have a favourable influence on the feeling of the population.\n\nUnder the head of general trade, I may state, that two foreign consuls, American and Danish, have hoisted their flags at Hong-Kong; the first having already obtained his \"exequatur\" from Her Majesty. It seems to me, in every respect, desirable to encourage the resort of all kinds of trade to this port; and I shall have great satisfaction in reporting that the consuls of other foreign states have applied for leave to act.\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS. 149\n\nIn spite of the discouragement afforded by the Supplementary Treaty, the Chinese trade appears to be rather on the increase; and I have the honour to append to this Report a paper by Mr. Gutzlaff on that interesting subject.\n\nThe total absence of a custom-house, affording the regular and exact returns connected with such an establishment, while it encourages trade by holding out the advantages of a free port, at the same time renders it impossible to give a very accurate statement of the commerce carried on.\n\nA surprising increase, as well as improvement, has taken place during the last year in the Chinese shops. The Colonial Almanac, of which I have directed two copies to be forwarded, contains a list of 388 retail dealers, in addition to the three government markets.\n\nA principal obstacle to the Chinese commerce of the place, is the system of piracy which infests the approaches from the east and west; but measures which are now in progress for checking this (and which shall be reported hereafter), will, I trust, have a tendency to remedy the evil. Any local measures would be useless, previous to the receipt of the Vice-Admiralty commission, which is daily expected by the mail-steamer.\n\nMy previous Despatches will have shown, that the small quantity of level land available in the colony for agriculture, must always restrict this branch of productive industry within narrow bounds; but the few valleys which are to be found, will probably be devoted to the growth of market vegetables, rather than rice, which can always be imported by shipping. A better prospect exists for pasture, and endeavours are making to secure an internal supply of bullocks for the use of the Commissariat.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo. 2.\n\nI regret to state (as before observed), that I perceive no immediate prospect of Crown lands affording a considerable increase to the present income derived by Government from leases of Crown lands. The additional leases sold, during 1845, amount only to about 900l. per annum, and raise the whole to something more than 13,000l. The available ground about the town of Victoria has been mostly sold; but the future growth of the colony may create a demand for parcels of ground in the neighbourhood.\n\nWhile it is satisfactory to report that an effectual check has been put to the vast amount of crime prevalent on my first arrival in the colony, the very heavy expense of the police must remain a subject of regret, as long as the peculiar position of this island, within reach of the worst characters from the mainland of China, exposes it to the ingress of a depraved population. Nothing but constant vigilance, and the occasional exhibition of severe examples, will continue to life and property that security which they fortunately enjoy at present. The annual amount of the police-tax, which at present does not produce above 2000l. per annum, will, no doubt, increase with the growth of rateable property.\n\nA profitable use of convict labour has been made during the last year in the construction and repair of roads; and I trust that the maintenance of the prisoners will be compensated in this manner. Within the town of Victoria, and its immediate neighbourhood, their services are very available; but much time is lost, and risk of escape incurred, in their employment at considerable distances from the prison.\n\nThe extremely defective state of the colonial gaol, which was erected only for temporary use, has been attended with much practical inconvenience; but, with the arrival from England of an authority to construct more suitable prisons, the works have been commenced, and I trust their completion is not very far distant.\n\nThe Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. F. DAVIS.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 223824, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "content_text": "Victoria, Hong Kong,\n\n14th October, 1846.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI beg to report to Your Lordship the decease of the late Colonial Surgeon Dr. Dill, from a sudden and severe attack of a liver complaint, caused by unusual exposure to the climate in the discharge of his professional duties.\n\nIn the room of Dr. Dill, I have practised medicine and surgery since its first occupation, and Mr. Young is therefore, by his local and practical experience, peculiarly qualified for the office. 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Further reordering or restructuring may be necessary to accurately represent the original documents.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 225524, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12]", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12]", "content_text": "VICTORIA, BY THE GRACE OF GOD of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, To our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, or to our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our said Colony and its Dependencies for the time being, or to the Officer administering the Government of our said Colony and its Dependencies for the time being; To the Chief Justice of our said Colony, or to the Chief Justice of our said Colony for the time being; To the Officer commanding our Land Forces in the said Colony, or to the Officer commanding our Land Forces in our said Colony for the time being; To the Colonial Secretary of our said Colony, or to the Colonial Secretary of our said Colony for the time being; To the Chief Magistrate of Police of our said Colony, or to the Chief Magistrate of Police of our said Colony for the time being; To our Commander-in-Chief, and to the several Flag Officers of such Squadron of our Ships of War as shall happen to be in any of the Ports or Roadsteads of our said Colony for the time being; And to our several Captains and Commanders of such of our Ships of war as shall happen to be in any of the Ports or Roadsteads of our said Colony for the time being, and to each and every of them, Greeting.—\n\nWHEREAS by an Act made in the Twenty-eighth of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, entitled “An Act for the punishment of Pirates and Robbers of the Sea,” which Act is extended and explained by three other Acts, the first made in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, and entitled \"An Act for remedying certain defects in the Law respecting offences committed upon the High Seas;\" the second made in the Forty-third Year of the Reign of King George the Third, and entitled \"An Act for the more effectually providing for the punishment of offences in wilfully casting away, burning, or destroying Ships and Vessels, and for the more convenient trial of Accessaries in Felonies, and for extending the powers of an Act made in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, as far as relates to Murders, to Accessaries to Murders, and to Manslaughters\" and the third made in the First Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, and entitled \"An Act to remove doubts and to remedy defects in the Law with respect to certain offences committed upon the Sea or within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty,\" certain powers and authorities touching all Treasons, Felonies, and other crimes and misdemeanors committed in or upon the Sea, or in any Haven, River, Creek, or place where the Admiral has power, authority, or jurisdiction, are given to certain Commissioners constituted as therein provided after the Course of the Common Law of this our Realm, to enquire of, try, and determine the same as within this Realm. And Whereas by another Act made in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, entitled \" An Act for the more speedy trial of offences committed in distant parts upon the Sea,\" the like powers and authorities touching all offences so committed as aforesaid are given also to certain other Commissioners, constituted as by the last mentioned Act is provided after the course of the Common Law to enquire of, try, and determine the same in any of our Islands, Plantations, Colonies, Dominions, Forts, and Factories. And Whereas by another Act, made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, entitled \"An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the abolition of the Slave Trade,\" the Commissioners constituted according to the said Act of the Forty-sixth year of the Reign of King George the Third are invested with the like powers and authorities to enquire of, try, and determine all offences against the said Act of the Fifth year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, which shall be committed in any place where the Admiral has not Jurisdiction, and not being within this our United Kingdom nor within the local jurisdiction of any ordinary Court of a British Colony, Settlement, Plantation, or Territory competent to try such offences. And whereas by another Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, entitled \"An Act to enable Commissioners for trying offences upon the Sea and Justices of the Peace to take examinations touching such offences, and to commit to safe custody persons charged therewith,\" certain powers and directions are given to any one or more of the Commissioners constituted according to the said Act of the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, to take informations on oath and to apprehend and commit or bail the parties charged: Know Ye Therefore, That We, confiding very much in your fidelity and careful circumspection, have appointed you or any one of you our Commissioners or Commissioner to take such informations, and to apprehend and commit or bail such persons under such circumstances and in such manner as by the said Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth is provided in that behalf, and have also appointed you or any three of you (of which number our will and pleasure is that our said Governor or Officer administering the said Government, or the said Chief Justice of our said Colony respectively for the time being, shall always be one) our Commissioners to enquire upon the oath of good and lawful men of our said Territory, and by other ways, means, and methods, according to your best knowledge and ability, as well within Liberties as without, whereby the truth of the matter may be the better known and enquired into concerning all Treasons, Piracies, Felonies, Robberies, Murders, Conspiracies, and other offences whatsoever, and accessaries thereto, whomsoever and howsoever done or committed, or hereafter to be done or committed, upon the Sea, or in any Haven, River, Creek, or place where the Admiral hath power, authority, or jurisdiction; and also concerning all offences against the said recited Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, which shall be committed in any place where the Admiral has not jurisdiction, and not being within this our United Kingdom, nor within the local jurisdiction of any ordinary Court of a British Colony, Settlement, Plantation, or Territory, competent to try such offences and to hear and determine all the offences aforesaid, according to the Laws and customs of this our Realm, and the Statutes hereinbefore mentioned, and all other Statutes in that behalf made and provided. And therefore We command you that you and each of you diligently discharge the respective duties of taking informations and of apprehension, commitment, and bailment as aforesaid, and that at certain times and places which shall be fixed for this purpose by you or any three of you at the least (of which number our said Governor or Officer administering the Government, or the said Chief Justice of our said Colony respectively for the time being shall always be one) you diligently enquire of, try, and determine all the said premises, and do in manner aforesaid all things to be done thereupon as appertains to Justice according to the said Laws, Customs, and Statutes of this our Realm, And We do by these Presents command, that it be in our name strictly enjoined to the Provost Marshal or other proper Officer of our said Colony, and others whom it may concern, and to every of them, as well within Liberties as without, and at certain times and places when and as often as need shall require, which our said Governor or Officer administering the said Government for the time being shall make known to them, or either of them in form aforesaid, they cause to come before you or any three of you at the least (of which number our said Governor or Officer administering the said Government, or the said Chief Justice of our said Colony respectively for the time being, shall always be one) so many good and lawful men of our said Colony, as well within Liberties as without, by whom the truth of the matter concerning the premises may be the better known or enquired into; commanding, moreover, all Governors, Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Stewards, Constables, also Keepers of Gaols and Prisons, and all other Officers and Ministers, and all other our faithful and liege Subjects whomsoever, that from time to time, in the execution of the premises and every of them, they be assisting and yielding obedience to you and every of you. In Witness whereof We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself, at Westminster, the Tenth Day of January, in the Ninth Year of our Reign.\n\nBY WRIT OF PRIVY SEAL.\n\nEDMUNDS.\n\n(True Copy.) By Command of His Excellency the Governor, FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th May, 1846.\n\n451", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 239420, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10]", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10]", "content_text": "It this place the criminals prisons the debtor's prison and the Magistrate's Court are. Surrounded by one one inclosures having always in it two gates which are shut at night. The criminal prison has also on two sides a wall of its own, and in the wall another gate opposite to the front of the Court, at twenty-four yards distance, and within the general enclosure.\n\nThere are six cells attached to the Court for the temporary custody of prisoners. When a defendant has been convicted at the Court he is at once conveyed to the criminal prison and afterwards detained there by a Magistrate's warrant. The wards of the jail are in fact used for the same purpose as the cells usually attached to a police Office, the buildings having been thus arranged in proximity to avoid the expense of constructing cells.\n\nA short time ago a defendant was convicted under a local Ordinance of an aggravated assault, and refusing to pay the fine imposed was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. The sheriff and jailor of the Court thereupon conveyed him without written warrant towards", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244166, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "page_number": 502, "title": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "content_text": "living in the midst of the battle, one of our local linguists, Mr. de Rozario, another of the Colonial Servants, should lend their temporary assistance anew to the Allied Authorities in Canton. Mr. Jobscheid remained about two months in the City, principally engaged in testing the prisons and has received the thanks of the Allied Commissioners for his services. Though the Acting Secretary has made a Report to the Commissioners, of which I have the honour to include a Copy, I have thought it right to address the letter which I have to this Government.\n\nMy interference, I am aware, cannot carry quite with it the weight of official Authority as I have no control over the arrangements for the Government at Canton - but I should be wanting in regard to the loud claims of humanity, if I had not called attention to the representations made. The Commissioners have great difficulties to deal with, and questions of jurisdiction, one very embarrassing among the various Authorities, native and foreign, which are...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245031, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "Authorities of lebinar during periods of peace. Abundant evidence is to be found of therence nomenagement held out in various localities to the proceedings against pur peace & prosperity, there will be no security against their repetitions unless poparate Conjuntesspeparation be demanded and enforced. The Mandarins pretend they cannot curb the turbulent spirit of the local population, which to some extent is true. Supt po according to all Chinese Laws and sayings, every locality is made responsible for its own misconducts, and the Imperial Government invariably leaves blame to suffer the penalty of their errors, or to visit them upon those over whom they have authority.\n\nOfficers, misunderstandings mostly confined to the places where they originate, and the poisons of local nomeaNA, nam sinvolves quarrel by an interruption of friendly relations with powers, the higher authorities.\n\nI have delivered to the General a memorandum on, whose...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254105, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "content_text": "Of tougher the Gadaman Sands.\n\nNisprison is forehand recommend quite a scheme for the sanction Punishment as during to the rapid increase in the population of Hongkong, & the consequent increase of crime, it has become nearly imperative to accommodate the convicts in the local prisons & jails, which have already been much extended.\n\nStaffs also enter The Duke of Newcastle that the terms on which it is proposed that the transportation to the Andaman Islands should be undertaken are to be expended at those to be parallel.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255533, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "content_text": "# I \n\n## Memorandum \n\nThat I heard nothing of Sony affairs for a whole year. During ten months of daily duty, the daily cases accumulated which in a state of mist debilitated-morning after morning the local police fought health. I discharged the office of bringing up their prisoners to the magistracy to the Injustrate- and to have never tried, only to bring them away again received any notice of it directly or indirectly a practical and conclusive one- a \n\nI beg leave to take this opportunity of laying before this Honourable Board the whole circumstances of the case unexamined. The remand prisons of the local jailor became filled with untried prisoners, and had it not been for the extraordinary energy of Dr. May, the improfessional assistant magistrate, I must have collapsed - Either the duties which I was able to do in my previous Correspondence- \n\nthe jails of Hong Kong have rivalled those of Naples. The scandal was notorious as to have shocked with big Coleman had the infirmity to be accompanied with the most withering reproaches both against him. Mr. Callaghan of the Fresh Bar was instructed over my head. The final result of the professional test was that Mr. Callaghan arrived at his post only to break down under the besponsible es encountered him- view & have clashed constitutionally, it was unable to get through even the bread and \n\nThe City Ref. M. Marr... \n\n## Page 243 \n\nwas the only Ausme again a \nMr. Callaghan was afflicted the chief magistrate's lighter shave of the for... \n...the milons of Hong Kong have rivelled... \n...the local Press with midultning... \n...the improfessional assistant magistrate... \n...the Ormimal arraigns of the Colony...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258911, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "content_text": "9\n\nunder Colonial, rather than Imperial, control, and, if it pay for itself.\n\nIt is\n\nof\n\nlittle importance in a pecuniary point of view whether it be an Imperial\n\nor Colonial\n\nEstablishment; but, as the advantages anticipated from it are so much more Imperial than local, the\n\nadvance\n\nof\n\n£50,000, and the risk,\n\nwhatever that\n\nmay\n\nbe,\n\nare\n\nobligations\n\nwhich in strict fairness belong rather to the Imperial than the Colonial Government.\n\n13.\n\nBesides, if\n\nin a Colony\n\nlike Hong Kong where Imperial & Colonial\n\ninterests are so mixed\n\nup\n\ntogether,\n\nthe\n\nsystem of \"give and take\" is to be\n\nno longer recognized,\n\nand mutual accommodation is\n\nin each case, to be reduced to\n\na mere matter\n\nof account,\n\nother\n\nquestions, as pointed out by Mr. Mercer in his despatch of\n\n2nd December last, besides\n\nMilitary Expenditure, will necessarily present themselves for adjustment, and it will not, I anticipate, be difficult to prove from the records of our Courts and Prisons, that\n\na considerable\n\nproportion of our large Establishment\n\nfor\n\nthe administration\n\nof\n\nJustice\n\nand\n\nfor\n\nthe custody of\n\nCriminals,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259905, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "page_number": 113, "title": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "content_text": "110\n\nba\n\n1\n\n20\n\namount of revenue outstanding, and of advances to be recovered. The Auditor General estimates that if ever the assets exceed the liabilities by less than £20,000, although the Colony might be quite solvent, it would be unable to meet its engagements in ready money. The available balance on the 1st January last cannot therefore, in my opinion, at the very outside be estimated at more than £73,000.\n\n5. The revenue for the current year is estimated at £121,791, and a sum of £129,248 has been voted to meet the expenses of the year. If these figures be borne out the result at the close of the current year will stand somewhat as follows:-\n\nAvailable balance 1st January, 1864, £ 73,000\n\nRevenue for 1864, 121,791\n\nTotal £ 194,791\n\nExpenditure for 1864, 129,248\n\nAvailable balance 1st January, 1865, £ 65,543\n\n6. In the expenditure for the current year as estimated above no provision whatever has been made for the Mint. The home expenditure for this work is put down by Mr. Kinder at over £35,000 and the building here will, the Surveyor General considers, not cost less than £10,000, irrespective of the cost of the site which will, it is hoped, be recovered by the sale of land in the neighbourhood. The total cost of the undertaking cannot, I think, be put down at less than £50,000. If the votes for the year are all expended, there will still remain due at the close of the year for the completion of the new Convict Gaol at Stone Cutters' Island, and the Post Office in Victoria over £14,500, irrespective of the cost of fittings for the former work, not yet estimated for. On the other hand if the sums voted for works and buildings in the Estimates for this year are not all expended the balance in hand at the close of the year will be larger, but the sums required for the completion of the works in progress will then be correspondingly increased so that no real difference will be made in the present statement.\n\n7. The estimated available balance at the close of this year will therefore be entirely absorbed in the completion of the undertakings at present sanctioned by Your Grace and in progress.\n\n8. The revenue for next year from every source except premium on land sales cannot safely be estimated at more than £115,000. It amounted last year exclusive of premiums to £118,726, in 1862 to £101,801, and in 1861 to £90,866. The ordinary fixed expenditure of the Colony, exclusive of all outlay on public works, amounts at present to over £85,000. The Surveyor General informs me that the maintenance in repair of the existing works, Buildings, Roads, &c., without the commencement of a new undertaking of any description would cost £20,000 a year. This would make a total ordinary expenditure of £105,000 against a revenue of £115,000—leaving a margin of only £10,000 a year to meet all contingencies.\n\n9. In the estimated revenue of £115,000 no account is taken of probable premiums on land sales, because, on the other side of the account, new public works are excluded from the expenditure. But if land be sold, new public works must be undertaken by the Government, as this forms one of the conditions of sale: and the one item therefore may fairly be placed against the other.\n\n10. The expenditure of £105,000 estimated above does not include the establishment for the Mint, which will probably cost in salaries alone £10,000 a year, because it is hoped that when the undertaking is once started it will be self-supporting. If it is not, it will be a failure and should be stopped. However it may not prove self-supporting at the very outset and in view of such a contingency the available balance ought not to be reduced too low.\n\n11. Such being the present financial position of the Colony and its prospects for 1865, I confess that I cannot see where a military contribution of £20,000 for next year is to come from. If it be insisted on it can only be obtained either by the suspension of the Mint works, or by the imposition of a special military contribution tax. The former would, in my opinion, be most impolitic, and the latter alternative would, I think, be peculiarly hard upon the Colony at the present moment; for I cannot help feeling that even assuming the fairness of requiring the Colony to contribute towards its military expenditure, the circumstances connected with the establishment of the Mint entitle it at present to special consideration and exemption. The Colony at its own sole expense and risk is investing £50,000 in an undertaking which will benefit largely British Commercial interests throughout the East, and effect a direct saving to the Imperial Exchequer of not less than £37,500 per annum. But the Colony itself does not expect to derive any direct addition to its revenue from this large expenditure even if this scheme should be entirely successful: for it would be most unwise to attempt to levy any larger seignorage than would suffice to cover the working expenses, and repay the cost of starting the undertaking.\n\n12. It is doubtless more convenient that at this distance the proposed Mint should be under Colonial rather than Imperial control, and if it pay for itself it is of little importance in a pecuniary point of view whether it be an Imperial or a Colonial Establishment; but as the advantages anticipated from it are so much more Imperial than local, the advance of £50,000, and the risk whatever that may be, are obligations which in strict fairness belong rather to the Imperial than the Colonial Government.\n\n13. Besides, if in a Colony like Hongkong, where Imperial and Colonial interests are so mixed up together, the system of \"give and take\" is to be no longer recognised and mutual accommodation is, in such case, to be reduced to a mere matter of account, other questions as pointed out by Mr. Mercer in his Despatch, Separate, of 2nd December last, besides military expenditure, will necessarily present themselves for adjustment, and it will not, I anticipate, be difficult to prove from the records of our Courts and Prisons that a considerable proportion of our large Establishments for the administration of justice and for the custody of criminals is fairly chargeable to the Imperial Government.\n\n14. These considerations are submitted as pertinent even assuming the perfect fairness of calling upon the Colony for a military contribution, but I should wish, in offering them, to guard against being supposed to entertain myself any other opinion on this subject than that submitted in my Despatch of the 21st May last.\n\n15. I shall hope for an early intimation of Your Grace's final decision on the subject of this Despatch as the Estimates for next year should be sent home from the Colony not later than August next.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.\n\nHis Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K.G.,\n\n&c., &c.,\n\n&c.\n\n21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 270954, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9]", "page_number": 363, "title": "CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9]", "content_text": "During to the omission \n\nbostack the of any \n\nStatement shewing \n\nand the \n\nthe protect average \n\nNumber \n\nin \n\n2 \n\n1 \n\nPrisoners \n\nThe Jail during \n\nthe periods intended \n\nThe covered by that. \n\nreport. \n\nIt is impossible the uppe \n\nthat \n\nany \n\naliable \n\nopnsion can be formed \n\nThenasson & I have to \n\nThereupon \n\nrequest zon \n\nCause \n\nb \n\nmission \n\nthat one \n\nto be supplied \n\nBof \n\nPage 363\n\nAttach to 1451/67 Hongre \n\nHamptony \n\nIn J. Rogu \n\nи \n\nPrisena thongs \n\nthe dighs machusn \n\n355 \n\nI been gone through Kün \n\nSi R. Mac @mills. \n\ntches \n\nช \n\nHe has a prisons policy & \n\nStrong \n\n& clear views. \n\nwind casts ande with \n\na \n\nhigh hand all English formciples \n\npractic \n\nexperiences \n\nanouited to local cinces. \n\nshot \n\nthe \n\nallate to thin \n\nJoes not com \n\nEinmalar disfr \n\nと \n\n& \n\nthe 18 Gris67 \n\nreport. Fur \n\ndejst \n\nCorything that aftens in \n\ndispatches suffend \n\nhe might be \n\nnem to have read", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 275108, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9]", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9]", "content_text": "# \n\n325 \n\nDepartment to provide for the carrying into effect of Capital Punishment within Prisons, and instructing me to report to Your Grace my opinion as to the expediency adopting the principle of the Bill in this Colony.\n\nI lost no time in laying Your Grace's despatch and enclosure before my Executive Council and have now to acquaint Your Grace that after mature deliberation it was resolved that \"any change in the mode of carrying out capital sentences in this Colony to the Council at present appears to be uncalled for by any local necessity and is otherwise inexpedient.\"\n\nI quite coincide with the Council in that view, although I was myself the introducer of an Act in South Australia similar to that forwarded by Your Grace, and though before my appointment to the Government of Nova Scotia I had been so impressed by the horrors attending Public Executions in England that I took advantage of a slight personal acquaintance with Sir George Grey, then Secretary of State for the Home Department, to request him to consider whether there was any insuperable obstacle to the introduction in England of Legislation similar to that successfully adopted in reference to Public Executions in Australia.\n\nI believe that my representations led to inquiry and I perceive that", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280542, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "content_text": "ill fitted to win the approval of ev\n\ning the question, and filled with sere sibility?\n\n22. His Excellency has not a whighest\n\nment is really more respected now, experie\n\nhave been permitted to enter the Beersed a\n\nlong ago that the Government was unable sup.\n\njew\n\nning\n\nhaunts. They know now that the overment is confess it. They also know that write in the colony is aced more ough to than a third, whilst larceny amongst survante, a crime gently able to gaming losses, is sever five per cent. Tess than had been before the licences were issued.\n\ntracë-\n\n23. The Governor further der the existence of that great sean-dal and discontent\" at the Gourmt policy, which the commiuse assert to prevail \"here and on the of China.\" That policy was inaugurated with the unanimous approval of the Executive and Legis lative Councils. It has been for a series of years a measure favoured by the local experience of each governor and his advisers. It has now been removed from the region of mere speculation and experiment, and proves that it is possible by its agency to suppress the gross evils inseparable from illegal gambling dens of iniquity. Moreover, the \"scandal and discontent\" are each comparatively limited, as well in duration as extent, for here they are chiefly but recently generated by the reaction of an agitation maintained in England by well meaning persons, ignorant of the circumstances which have produced and which justify that policy. Such ignorance is perhaps natural, but the com-parisons of Hong Kong with Heligoland and Baden most forcibly and aptly illustrate the unfounded inferences to which it leads.\n\n24. Therefore unless by direct command of Her Majesty's Govern-ment, with which the responsibility of the change would then rest, his Excellency is not prepared to abandon the important results already obtained for any mere sentimental objection, or because irrepressibly arises from the policy, by which on the whole the greatest revenue still good can be effected. He would personally be delighted to get rid of that revenue if the committee would only make some practicable sug-gestion enabling him to do so without stcrifieing the power which he now has over the licensees, and which as yet he sees no safe means of dispensing with.\n\n25. In conclusion, I have to state that his Excelleney is well aware he had no actual claim on the committee's attention, except to request their correction of a misstatement of a fact. Nevertheless, as a mem-ber of their association, he craves indulgence for the additional remarks which he has instructed me to make on a subject of some interest to a body established to discuss the most important social questions.-I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,\n\nJ. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.\n\nContinental\n\nIntelliger\n\nNORTH GERMANY.\n\n(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).\n\nHAMBURG, December 1.\n\nthe captain was enabled to make his scape. What adds to the o\n\nof the story is the domestic complication of affairs that ensque from wife having mourned his loss and the married again; and the now finds her surrounded by a numerous progeny in addition left behind.\n\nRear-Asimiral Petz, with the ships forming the Austrian expedition the Far Ea has arrived safely braliar, and left that port on the time by it to Morocco is not stated, 21 of Bovimber for Tangiers. What his object is in wasting precion\n\nand Norway has appointed Mr. William Robertson, of Ningo, to be Vice- By Royal Decree dated Stockholm, November 11, the King of Sweden Consul a at part, under the Consulte-General at Sunghai.\n\nCOMMERCIAL.\n\ns is no altera-\n\nin great request and stocks again nearly exhausted. A cargo (2,540 chests) has just arrived from China, but is not yet in the market. Flores agais Rice callandi no sales reported except for consumption. Cassia Ligne rising. Pepper and Cardamoms also higher. Iu teas: tion. A sudden demand has sprung up for refined camphor, which ha created a rise, and none is now to be had under 20 sch. beo. per lb. Nothing 18.7 for spring delivery. has been done in Spelter; the nominal quotations are 18.10 loco, and\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nARRIVED.-Falcke, from Macao (Cassia Lignea).\n\nSALLEL-Papa, to Shanghai; ward, to Hong Kong; Tellus, ta Akyab; Alice, to Macassar and Heng Kong; Wilhelm, to Bangkok: Honolulu, to Bangkok; J. H. Jessen to Singapore and Penang; Maria\n\nMiles, to Hong Kong,\n\nN.B. The Maria Miles came into collision with the Swedish brig Ve-randa, off the mouth of the Elbe, lest bowsprit and cutwater, and has returned to liamburg to repair damages.\n\nSHIPPING AT REMERHAVEN, lieu, for Kangoou (4,016 bags rice, 500 chests catch); Devonshire, for ARRIVED.-Tordenskiold, for Rangoon (6.590 bags rice); E. Von Beau-\n\nrice); Senator Iken, for Rangoon (18,000 bags rice); Moonbeam, for Bassein (11,425 bags rice); Sarah Newman, for Bassein (13,300 bags Rangoon (10,000 bags rice).\n\nHOLLAND.\n\n(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nof the departments of Foreign Affairs and Justice baving already been The discussions upon the Budget Have progressed must rapidly; those\n\nROTTERDAM, December 1.\n\napproved of by a very large majority, and the remainder are expected to pass without delay, From tho debates I gather some matters of interest for your readers in the Far East. I a former letter I wrote you that the Finance Minister had rejected the claims put forward by Dutch merchants in Japan for compensation for losses arising out of the late hostilities which the Allied l'owers were engaged with Japan, They, however, wi not content with this decision, and a second endeavour has been made course by their influence, in the Second Chamber of the States General obtain a grant of compensation. The members dealing with the th chapter (Foreign Affairs), Messrs. Heydenryck, Pynappel, and Vird Verbrugge, proposed as an amendment to grant a sum of 8.44.757.84 State Commission appointed to examine the claims. The mercha the applicants. This amount was just half the sum proposed by supported this amendment by an alldress, in which they again ondea-veured to prove the justice of their claims. The motion gave rise to a very lengthened debate. Mr. Heydenryck, in order to elucidate the grounds of the proposal, referred to the large number of documents rela-five to the matter, and said that the State ought not to absorb the entire Casembroot gave his opinion that since the King had approved the rejec profit of the indemnification paid by the Japanese Government. Mr. de tion of these claims, the question was at an end. He was astonished at the proposal being made again, but now that it was doce he also had an' amendment to make, which was to grant a sum of 25,000, en hebulf of expedition, and which is now invalided. Mr. Gratana demonstrated that. the Royal Navy, especially for the division which took part in the said\n\nHe opposed the grant, and preferred to support the amendment of Mr. de the traders ought to claim compensation of the Japanese Government\n\nMr. Heyden yek. He said that there was no lawful ground upon which Casembroot. Mr. Godefroi also declared himself against the motion of the State could be called upon to indemnify these traders. Mr.Van Voort-huyzen disapproved of the proposal on the grounds that our traders not put forward any claim of a similar nature. Mr. V. A. Linden said transporting their merchandise to China, which involved costs, for which that the traders had acted against the advice of the English admiral, by they now sought compensation. Several other members also took part in the discussion, and the result was the rejection of Mr. de Casembrout's motion by 46 against 18 votes, and that of Mr. Pynappel, C.S., by 53 against 11 votes, which I think will bet the affair finally at rest. discussion of the budget. Mr. Van Delden said that Holland vught not Another question with regard to Japan was brought forward during the be represented there by an ambasador but by a consul-general. He finished his speech with a philippid against Mr. Polsbroek, which was replied to by Mr. de Casembroot, who demonstrated the necessity that a diplomatic mission should remalu in Japan, and that the chef\" ought to bear the title of minister. After the reply the matter dropped. From again denied the existence of any foundation for the rumours which were the further discussions I only find that the Minister of Foreign Affairs set in circulation, respecting negotiations between Bolland and France to establish a commercial and military convention. Such negotiations the Minister declared bad never taken place, and he stated further that we were on the most friendly terms with all the Powers.\n\nNow that the Prassian Consulates in China have been transformed into German Federal ones, and the salary of the Consul-General in China is transferred to the budget of the Confederation, it has become needful to place on the special Prussian estimates the sums required for the salary of the Envoy at Feking (who has hitherto received the salary of the Con-sul-General), and those of the other officials of the bassy. These will now tigare among the expenses of the Foreign Department, and of course are subject to the approbation and consent of the House of Representa-tives; but when the question is brought forward it will no doubt be a matter for the consideration of the members whether it is expedient to have in future a specifically Prussian Legation at Peking, in addition to the Federal German Consulates already existing in other parts of the Chinese dominions. The subject will probably give rise to an interesting debate, and meet with some opposition, as in the face of the serious deficit in the revenue, great economy is required to make things straight again, and there will be but little inclination to increase the burdens of the tax-payers in Prussia by the creation of new and superfinous appointments, the salaries of which might easily be shifted to the Federal Budget, and be borne by all the twenty-two States composing the North German Confederation in proportion to their population, the more so as the sub-had no more right than the English, French, and Americans, who had jects of all of them are placed under the protection of the Ambassador, be be called Prussian or Federal. Whed the subject was discussed in the last session of the German Parliament, on the occasion of voting the estimates for the Federal budget, it appeared as if the Prussian Govern ment wished to retain the Embassy in China as a Prussian establishment, and of course the members of the Federal Parliament made no opposition, heing only too glad to escape being addled with the payment of the salaries, whilst their fellow-subjects in China enjoyed the same protection as the Prussians. It is now a subject between the Prussian Government and their own Parliament, and simply almoney question; for the appoint-to ment of the Ambassador and the patronage of the inferior offices is placed in both cases in the hands of the King of Prussia, either in bis capacity of sovereign or as President of the North German Confederation. The Germanic Lloyd's,\" established last year for the classification of German shipping, have just published the first number of their Interna-tional Register, with an explanation in German and English of the abbreviations and signs used, as well as the tables for the measurement of shipping and the tarif of charges. It contains a list of the 273 merchant vessels that have hitherto been classified,\n\n&\n\nA strange story is related in a Bremen leval journal, announcing the return to that city of Captain Oldejan, of the Bremen ship Amulia, who bad not been heard of for several years and was supposed to be dead. It appears, however, that he lost his vessol in the China Seas, but, managed with his crew to reach an island where they were kindly received and well treated; but the inhabitants would not allow them to leave, and it was only by means of a well-planned and leverly executed stratagem that\n\nYou will remember that the Finance Minister recently proposed to of the stamp duty now levied on ewspapers Some Amsterdam and augment the import duty on tea, as partial equivalent for the abolition Rotterdam houses have addressed the Second Chamber of the States General, petitioning them to reject this proposal, because an increased daty would greatly prejudice the interests of the ten trade. The Hague\n\nHongkong.\n\nLorial Luna Opo\n\nThe bentang to\n\nMe\n\nAntered\n\n757\n\nNational Association\n\nfor the promotion\n\nof Social\n\nMeet 1/2/69\n\nEn Johmion\n\nSu Wand ford\n\nLovence\n\nAel2d 1387\n\nCopy for. 2o. 16-4 Feb 1869-\n\n4 Feb 186.\n\n22\n\n1869\n\nPRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT\n\n1800\n\nI am directed\n\nGrail Grauwith\n\nacknowlag\n\nThe wicht\n\non the 284444\n\nof your\n\nletter\n\nthe\n\n14 Jaur, & 8\n\nα\n\nthe temorial from\n\nThe National Association\n\nfor the Promotion of Social Secence -\n\non the subject of leccused in. Hongkong Sambling\n\ns of the as\n\naformu.\n\nMemorial", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299846, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "content_text": "4571\n\n174\n\nRECEIVED\n\n16 APR 1877\n\nopinion of local medical men. I think the tendency of opinion in England has further attended since Mr. Wright's digest was Compiled 11 years ago, and that it is now believed that in this kingdom and especially in Prisons, the reduction of diet was carried to excess. A low diet, though producing no immediate ills, may induce a very dangerous liability to disease and inability to resist its attacks\n\n30-4-77\n\nWyo.\n\nGovernment House Hongkong, 28th February 1877\n\nMy Lord,\n\nWith reference to Your Lordship's Despatch No. 100 of the 29th July 1876, I have the satisfaction of being able, on the eve of my departure, to inform\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl of Carnarvon\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303424, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH OCTOBER, 1878.\n\n## His Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy, C.M.G., to the Right Honourable The Earl of Carnarvon.\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 22nd November, 1877.**\n\nMY LORD,\n\nWith reference to my Despatches on the evils of the associated prison system in this Colony, and to your Lordship's instructions in the Despatch No. 45 of the 7th of May last directing me to call on the Surveyor General for plans of the alterations necessary for adapting the Gaol to the Separate System, I have now the honour to transmit to Your Lordship Mr. PRICE's Report, accompanied by plans and a condensed estimate of the cost.\n\nYour Lordship will perceive that owing to the inadequacy of the actual Gaol accommodation, its necessary enlargement and modifications will involve an expenditure of $95,000.\n\nThe transportation of long sentenced criminals, however, as shown by the Surveyor General, would do away with the necessity for a new detached wing and would reduce the outlay to $44,800, or less than one half, a circumstance which makes me the more hopeful of your Lordship's favourable consideration of my Despatches Nos. 117 of 15th September, 121 of 21st September, and No. 155 of 7th November, 1877, with reference to Labuan as a convict settlement for Hongkong.\n\nAs to the works particularized by Mr. PRICE, I may remind your Lordship that this town is built on a strongly marked slope, and that once a building site has been levelled and laid out, it is a matter of extreme difficulty to effect subsequent extensions. These difficulties of level, no less than the want of room, will account for the somewhat close juxtaposition of the buildings and the absence of more capacious airing yards.\n\nThere is no doubt the present Gaol is unfortunately placed. Sir HERCULES ROBINSON'S plan of having a convict prison on Stone Cutter's Island would have prevented some of the serious evils of overcrowding and association to which it has been my duty from time to time to refer. Looking, however, to your Lordship's instructions, I have confined myself to considering such alterations only as may be essential in the existing Gaol in the Town of Victoria.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nJ. POPE HENNESSY,\nGovernor.\n\nThe Right Honourable The EARL OF CARNARVON,\n&c., &c., &c.\n\n## The Right Honourable Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Bart., M. P., to His Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy, C.M.G.\n\n**DOWNING STREET, 5th June, 1878.**\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 164, of the 22nd of November, relating to proposed improvements in the Victoria Gaol, and enclosing plans prepared by the Surveyor General for this purpose.\n\n2. I am aware that in drawing these plans, Mr. PRICE has conformed to the instructions contained in paragraph 6 of my Predecessor's Despatch, No. 45, of the 7th of May, 1877, and I fully appreciate the care which he has bestowed upon them, but after due consideration of the subject, I am of opinion that they will not provide the accommodation required.\n\nIt is true that both you and the Surveyor General refer to the question of the reconstruction of the Gaol as dependent on the project of transporting long sentenced criminals to Labuan. It is convenient, therefore, that I should at once state that I am not at present prepared to entertain this suggestion, and that any scheme for the improvement of the prison discipline in the Colony should proceed on the assumption that Hongkong will have to provide accommodation for the whole of its own criminals.\n\n4. Keeping this decision in view, it will be evident that Mr. PRICE's plans for the enlargement of the existing Gaol, while they scarcely meet even the present requirements of the Colony, are open to objection on the grounds which he has himself indicated in paragraph 16 of his letter to the Colonial Secretary, viz., that the size of the airing yards, already small, will be still further diminished. Such a diminution of the prison yards, together with the crowding of fresh buildings on the present site, would be highly detrimental both to the discipline and the sanitary condition of the prison, and on this ground, it will be necessary to abandon Mr. PRICE's proposal.\n\n5. It has been suggested as a mode of meeting the difficulty that the prisoners should be divided, and a second prison built outside the town, but as at present advised, I consider it wholly out of the question to establish two separate prisons in so small a Colony.\n\n6. Two alternatives present themselves, the one being to enlarge the existing prison by acquiring and building on additional ground in the immediate neighbourhood: the other to abandon the present buildings and erect a wholly new prison on a different site.\n\n7. As regards the acquisition of additional ground, an extension may apparently be sought either above or below the present site; that is to say, it would seem feasible either to resume the leases of the land immediately above Chancery Lane and carry the Gaol up to Caine Road, (at the same time closing Chancery Lane, or making a covered passage between the existing Gaol and the new site), or to resume the houses now occupied for the Civil Hospital and the other premises which are bounded by the Old Bailey.\n\n8. I am aware that the difference of levels may perhaps render it impracticable to carry out either of these schemes, except at a cost which would be prohibitory when added to the compensation payable to the lessees: but I think it right that every possible course should be considered before arriving at a definite conclusion. Either plan would have the advantage of securing the continued protection afforded by the proximity of the Police Barrack; but on the other hand, would be open to the objection that such an extension would permanently fix the Gaol in the heart of a very populous quarter of the City.\n\n9. As regards the ground occupied by the present temporary Hospital, it would apparently be necessary to bring the Police Barrack forward to the Street, so as to leave room for a new prison block where the Barrack now stands; and I should add that I am doubtful whether this locality would admit of the Police Courts being also placed there, or whether it would not be necessary to look for a site elsewhere.\n\n10. If either of these plans were adopted, advantage should be taken of the opportunity of increasing the accommodation to improve as much as possible the existing prison. The enlargement of the airing grounds by the removal of the radiating blocks, and the erection of a separate Hospital, are among the improvements which seem most imperatively called for.\n\n11. The only alternative to these extensions being apparently the construction of an entirely new prison, the question of site remains to be considered: and it will be necessary to weigh the relative merits of all available spots, including Stone Cutters' Island, and any vacant Crown Lands within reasonable distance of the town; or on the face of the hill above the houses.\n\n12. In many respects, I am of opinion that the erection of a new prison on a new site will be found to be the best solution of the question, but the expense which it would involve would doubtless be very great, and it will be for you to inquire carefully into the financial conditions of the various schemes which I have suggested. The main elements for consideration appear to be roughly, on the one hand, the cost of acquiring additional land in the vicinity of the present site and of converting the present buildings and erecting those which will be required in addition; and on the other hand, the cost of a new site and the cost of a new prison; against which should be set the amount that would be derived from the sale of the present site and buildings. I need scarcely say that in the event of its being decided to erect a wholly new Gaol, it would be undesirable to spend money on enlarging or converting the present building.\n\n13. In the foregoing remarks, it has been my object to set before you what I conceive are the chief elements of the question for consideration, and before I arrive at a final decision on a matter in which the assistance of specific local knowledge is so material, I shall be happy to receive from you a report upon the comparative cost of the several proposals, and upon the sites which seem to you suitable for a new Gaol, together with such further suggestions as you may desire to offer after consulting Mr. PRICE.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient humble Servant,\nM. HICKS-BEACH.\n\nGovernor HENNESSY, C. M. G.,\n&c., &c., &c.\n\n## His Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy, C.M.G., to the Right Honourable Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Bart., M. P.\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 3rd October, 1878.**\n\nSIR,\n\nIn Despatch No. 103 of the 22nd of August, 1877, the EARL OF CARNARVON expresses the opinion that Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY, (in a Despatch he wrote a few months before he left Hongkong), had good reason, in the absence of any other apparent cause, for connecting the increase of crime in the Colony with the cheap fares from Canton. His Lordship, however, was good enough to add, \"It is true, however, that as pointed out in your Despatch No. 43 of 22nd June, 1877, the increasing number of recommittals and of convictions generally may be to some extent accounted for by defects in the prison system, as especially by the fact of the discipline of the Gaol not being sufficiently severe to act as a deterrent.\"\n\n2. Next to the serious evils of the associated system, one of the gravest defects I found in Hongkong Gaol was the excessive amount of food given to the Chinese prisoners. The enclosed extracts from minutes of various meetings of the Executive Council contain a record of my views and proceedings on the important question of the prison dietary not being in my opinion sufficiently deterrent.\n\n3. The Regulations on this subject of the Gaol Commission that had been presided over by Mr. SNOWDEN had been adopted and promulgated a short time before my arrival; and Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY, on the eve of his departure, had expressed to Lord CARNARVON, (Despatch No. 40, 28th February, 1877), the opinion that the dietary scale of Victoria Gaol had at length been satisfactorily settled, and finally adopted by the Executive.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303997, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 589, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "## \nbe found himself able to bring back the prisoners to the old gaol from Stonecutters Island, though the former had been considered too small.\n\nI gathered that a prison had actually been built at this island; if the buildings ought to be available now, Stonecutters Island is selected for the new prison; we shall have what the Secretary of State objected to, viz. two prisons and prison establishments in the colony; for all the local authorities seem to agree that it will be necessary to maintain some sort of prison in Victoria. Perhaps, however, a mere lockup will be found sufficient.\n\nIn Keswick's arguments against spending money on the jail seem to have a good deal of weight.\n\nM. Kringfield.\n\nC9.d. 15/July\n\nYou dealt with prison as I did in June last, so I have this in to you - The Treasury is vastly richer for Licensing fees.\n\n$150,940 £ BIG5:700 \nXX 43 200 No, trov 200 73. \nKA 304,000 584 \nYeh: there was a gaol building at Stonecutters Island, & I much wonderstand why there is no reference to it. I think it was destroyed in the typhoon of 1874. \nLee Angker, beshazette & we dryer Bun Accending to Mr. Pues' estimates, the cost of creating a new institution at Stonecutters Island would be considerably less than that of extending the present gaol in either of the directions indicated in the despatch of 5 June 77.\n\nAs for as exploring the new gaol scheme, but it seems to be then forr in dearly the best. Granted that the gaol is to be at Stonecutters Island, there must be some kind of lock-up on the present site.\n\nBefore the question is decided, it would be well to ascertain the grounds for giving up the former.\n\nThe Acting Colonel had at Stonecutters Island, Secretary in 539, his teesh (on to 58% of the ground erlume) adroute the removal to that site and alluded to the previous move in that direction as \"an unfortunate scheme which, however, with drainage, is not likely to occur again.\"\n\nWait for the revised estimates before again working to the fore.\n\nEls 16.7 \nYes. Stonecutters Island probably has merits.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306434, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "content_text": "19th April 1879\n\n26th July\n\n23rd October\n\n#\n\n#\n\n30th May 1878\n\n29th August\n\n15th November\n\n\"\n\n#\n\n9th April 1879\n\n(signed) M. S. Tomnochy, Superintendent Victoria Gaol.\n\n16th March, 1880.\n\n> DRAFT.\n\nA\n\nE. J. P. Hernely\n\nHong Kong to be\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nMr. Thelwall.\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Branston.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nMr. Herbert.\n\nMr. Grant Duff.\n\n201\n\nLord Kimberley. Out).\n\nFurther minute\n\nSw\n\nwith effect\n\nstreng to blue's\n\nd2188\n\nb\n\n13\n\n114\n\n14400\n\nHong\n\nhang 188\n\nLost or\n\n4th Feb. 1880.\n\nI have to acknowledge\n\nthe receipt of four copies of\n\n114 of the 2nd February\n\nrelating to\n\na correspondence\n\nwhich both parties\n\nwith reference to Cast\n\nwinter when to be required\n\nenter into Port de Macao Jurisdiction\n\ncopies\n\nn\n\nregarding\n\n(said Publications went,\n\nthat of Lisbon wise tower founden.\n\nsave\n\nsince von this year's, shall change\n\neffectual remain.\n\nthe papers were Julholme\n\n20\n\n(C-2438) 75.\n\nlease annexes the\n\nstring Inom Regulations\n\nEN\n\n20 local Chung de papers\n\nhis\n\nof it\n\nDane. I request that\n\nhave the good\n\nyou will level Loom willimat\n\nfende\n\ndeling Lany copies of prime regulats\n\nthe\n\nativus now\n\nin force and for the government of\n\nHong Kong prisons.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311426, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "page_number": 447, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "before I shall be able to say. I have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Most Obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) F. Bulkeley Johnson.\n\nReply of the Howard Association\nto\nMr. F. B. Johnson.\n\nThe Howard Association, 5, Bishopsgate Without,\nE.C., London, Jan. 10.\n\nDear Sir,-Your letter from Hong Kong, dated Dec. 8, reached me yesterday, and I have at once looked up various papers and authorities on the subject, so as to be able to reply promptly. But, in the first place, it may be remarked that it is waiter for surprise that we should have received any letter at all from Hong Kong, written under an apparent impression that the penal system of that colony had not been open to serious objection. For it is a matter of world-wide notoriety. Have you not seen the principal English journals of the past few years? Have you not read the Parliamentary and other State papers in which this subject has been treated of by his Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy, Earl Kimberley, and others? Have you not read the letters to the English newspaper on the question by Mr. Peter A. Taylor, M.P., and others? Perhaps, however, in your distant part of the world you have not seen or read these statements. And even if you have, you might, and perhaps not altogether unreasonably, object that general statements in the public Press are not a sufficient authority for grave imputations upon any system or upon any community. Well, let us at once assume this to be so, and set aside all the newspaper correspondence and statements, and confine the matter to official reports. In the autumn of 1879 there was published an official correspondence between the governor of Hong Kong and the Colonial Office. In that Correspondence Governor Hennessy gave an account of what had come under his personal observation, and which indicated a very grave and objectionable state of things in the local penal system. For example, he found two prisoners who had been flogged nine days previously, and who were still bleeding from the wounds occasioned by those floggings-one of the prisoners having eight and the other twelve such wounds. It further appeared that prisoners previously to being flogged were placed on a very weakening diet of rice and water, whereby their floggings were rendered still more penal. Also in about a year and a half more than two hundred floggings were inflicted upon the prisoners in Hong Kong Jail. Governor Hennessy reported to the Secretary of State for the Colonies that \"this is probably without a parallel in any part of the civilised globe of the same amount of population. From further official correspondence published in August, 1881, it appears that the benevolent Governor's interference had already been followed by a material decrease both in grave and in minor crimes, in spite of the decrease or disuse of flogging. The news from the colony received from time to time has shown that much opposition by some of the colonists has been manifested to the Governor's Christian and philanthropic exertions. But here, in Great Britain, there appears to be a general concurrence of public opinion in support of the Governor's action, which is regarded as that of a noble-hearted and courageous man, and a worthy representative of the illustrious and merciful Sovereign for whose name he administers the affairs of your colony. And it is to be hoped that among the European, as certainly amongst the Chinese, population of Hong Kong there are many persons who cordially support and honour the Governor's wise and humane procedure; though it is evident that some, on the other hand, have endeavoured to thwart and discourage him. Doubtless, neither Governor Hennessy nor those who in this country admire his course of action would desire to encourage crime or to pamper prisoners. On the contrary, they would promptly admit that it is no true humanity to render prisons either attractive or insufficiently penal. The proper function of a prison is to tend permanently to empty itself. And all experience shows that this is best secured by a due combination of reformatory with deterrent, and of preventive with repressive treatment. The prompt but slothful resort to mere wholesale flogging has, whenever it has been resorted to, tended to crush men into permanent shams and crime. They have had to be flogged again and again, and imprisoned time after time. I speak now of flogging as a general feature of any system. Experienced criminal administrators who do not wish to see flogging abolished, but mainly held in terrorem for resort in extreme cases, have repeatedly stated their conviction that in this sparing infliction, and on rare occasions, consists its only merit. But even the recent official statistics of your own colony now prove the failure of the former flogging system and the more repressive as well as preventive efficacy of Governor Hennessy's wiser substitute. I shall lay this correspondence before our committee, and meanwhile I remain, Sir, yours very respectfully,\n\nWILLIAM TALLACK, Secretary of the Howard Association.\n\nF. Bulkeley Johnson, Esq., Member of Legislative Council.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311566, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "## Contents\n\n| Subject | Despatch Date | Page |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Botanical & Afforestation Depl | 1 March | 45 |\n| fr. Hennessy LA. | | 46 |\n| W. Wong Chun as | 2 | 47, 48, 49 |\n| | 4 | 50 |\n| As for Zonnochy. | | 68 |\n| W | | 69 |\n| | 10 | 74 |\n| | | 76 |\n| RI. | | RI |\n| P | 3 | 120 |\n| B | 20 | |\n| Sean up | 23 | 91 |\n| Aest bleck in Land Office | | |\n| Ordinance no 6 of 1882 | | M. H.B. Johnson & the Pread! of the Leg. Council |\n| Ordinance no 8 of 1882. | 7 | |\n| Telegraph table from How loom. | | Observatory. Further Report by Major Palme. base of M! Stayller. |\n| Services of Naval Authorities during his Admin. | | |\n| Communication of the Chinese with the Local govt | | |\n| Opium Trade between Sudia & Ching | | |\n| Steam Launch for stealth Officer. | | |\n| Possage Allowance to Inspector & Cameron. | | |\n| Prisons Regulation Ordée. | | |\n| Purchase of show tire busine | | |\n| App! of M! Hiveay to the charge of Junpowder Depol | | |\n| Presentation to dustuctor baweron. | | |\n| Pension to Bolly. | | |\n| Ashinates, 1871. Explanations. | | Defences: |\n| brve of M! Gibbons | | 93, 94 |\n| Tramways Ordce, 1882. | 15 | 95 |\n| Promotions oAppt in the lost office. | | |\n| M! Ackroyd as Registrar of Joins stock. Cos. | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317896, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 147, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW\n\nIn this code to the local peculiarities of each individual Colony, are a clear proof that this code is but the natural and progressive out-growth of practical life, an a posteriori deduction from a complex mass of facts, not an a priori theory super-imposed upon the Colonies.\n\nThe very absence of a predetermined Colonial policy, the very disregard of the old exploded theory that schemes of policy and legislation are omnipotent and that things will go right when laws and regulations are made to make them go right, and finally the very diversity of systems tried by individual Governors in view of the special peculiarities of individual Colonies, secured a healthy atmosphere of liberty in the Colonial nurseries, where, powerful as the Governors might be, the governed had but to stand together and howl una voce to make the Imperial Government indulge them to any reasonable extent, if but for the sake of peace and quietness. The liberty thus given to emotional individuality, in both the governing and the governed, secured full play for the development of character in the administration of the several Colonial communities. That great lesson, taught by modern Sociology, that forms of government are valuable and successful only where they are vitalized by national and local character, is palpably verified and is the real explanation of the secret of success exhibited by the English Colonies in general and the Colony of Hongkong in particular.\n\nThis Colony of Hongkong, if any one asked her how she came into existence—how her executive, administrative, judicial, educational and even mercantile establishments were formed, would have no better answer to give than that of Topsy, \"I specs I growed.\" The abolition of the East-India Company, the obstinate hatred of the Chinese and the blind folly of the Macao Governments, unitedly compelled the English trade to take refuge in Hongkong; the Island was ceded to Great Britain, as much almost against the wishes of the English as the Chinese Government, in 1841, the cession being confirmed by the treaty of Nanking in 1842, and under the pressure of circumstances subsequently enlarged by the cession of a small slice of the opposite mainland, the Peninsula of Kaulung, by the treaty of Tientsin in 1861. This small barren island of Hongkong, counting but a few hundred inhabitants before 1841, rapidly became peopled by settlers from all parts of the world, English, Americans, Germans, French, Portuguese, Parsees, Hindoos, but principally by Chinese from the adjoining districts of the Canton and Fuhkien Provinces, amounting now to a total of 132,524 persons exclusive of the Naval and Military establishments. Nevertheless members of Parliament, as well as leading newspapers in England, are occasionally not quite sure whether Hongkong is one of the open ports of China, with a British Consul to represent English interests there, or actually a British Colony. The Colonial Office List, until a few years ago, used specially to state that \"Hongkong perhaps comes more under the designation of a trading station than that of a Colony,\" and the ordinary Englishman at home has but a hazy notion that Hongkong is somewhere near Timbuctoo or Timbuctoo somewhere near Hongkong.\n\nThese popular facts are but exponents of the truth, that the Colony of Hongkong came into the world like an uncalled-for and unwelcome addition to the family circle of English Colonies, that it was supplied with Governors, Magistrates, Judges, Schools and Prisons and all the other paraphernalia of government simply because, having once come into being, it had to be done something to, but all the same it was systematically ignored as long as possible. Thus this precocious baby, nailed Hongkong, was first helped into the world by Sir Charles Elliot (1841), nursed and kept barely alive by the reticent Sir Henry Pottinger (1842-1844), painfully taught its A B C of government and administration by the learned Sir John Davis (1844-1848), then after a quiet spell of rest under Sir George Bonham (1848-1854) it was taken to the schoolroom by that sham-Sinologist Sir John Bowring (1854-1859); at last having grown to years of discretion, there came the age of enlightened reason, with Sir Hercules Robinson and Mr. William T. Mercer (1859-1866); then followed some years of stern discipline and training at the hands of Sir Richard MacDonnell (1866-1871), until the youthful Colony of Hongkong enjoyed the blissful happiness of being actually made love to, though in a very quiet and dignified style, by \"the good\" Sir Arthur Kennedy (1872-1877).\n\nBy the preceding brief sketch I intended to give prominence to the lesson derived from history that British Colonies flourished because, and in so far as, the special requirements of each individual Colony received their due share of consideration by the representatives of legislation and government. If this proposition is granted, it will be easy to prove the necessary sequel, that in a Colony like Hongkong, where 95 per cent of the population are Chinese, severed by an immense abyss from the governing classes in manners, customs, religion and ways of thinking, being moreover totally ignorant of the language, laws and modes of procedure of the governing classes, that in such a Colony successful government depends upon the measure in which the governed classes, the Chinese, and the governing classes, the English, understand each other. In other words, English education among the Chinese people of the Colony, and Chinese knowledge among the English officials of Hongkong, are the two factors upon which the success of the general scheme of English colonial policy to a great extent depends as far as the Colony of Hongkong is concerned. To make good this proposition I propose in the first instance to review the progress of Anglo-Chinese studies in Hongkong from the foundation of this Colony to the present day; next I shall endeavour to state the present condition of affairs, with special reference to official interpretation in the Courts of Justice; and finally I shall venture to suggest some remedies.\n\n## CHINESE STUDIES AND OFFICIAL INTERPRETATION\n\nI. The early history of Hongkong (from 1842 to 1859) reveals a most distressing picture of official incapacity in high places and of immorality, rowdyism and general lawlessness among the great mass of the people. The successive governors of Hongkong were all men of high moral character, well meaning and intelligent, some even enjoying a European reputation as scholars of first rank, yet Ordinance after Ordinance was passed during the first fifteen years of the Colony, based either on a thorough misunderstanding or thorough disregard of the peculiar wants of the Colony, so that in January 1859 the legal advisers to the Secretary of State for the Colonies had to censure the local legislature for the careless manner in which British Acts of Parliament had been adopted in Hongkong. The heads of departments, during this period, were with scarcely a single exception men of culture and unimpeachable integrity, yet even so high an officer as a Colonial Secretary (Dr. Bridges) had to be put on his trial for bribery and corruption, an Attorney General (Mr. Austen) admitted in his letters to the Secretary of State that bribes had more than once been offered to himself, referring to which a Registrar General (Mr. Caldwell) publicly stated in his self-defence (p. 22) that there were (in 1852) \"some wealthy officers still in the police who are not strangers to the latter practice.\" Again and again native interpreters, employed at the Magistracy and in other departments, were dismissed for corrupt practices, but the cases of detection were probably few as compared with the amount of rascality carried on undetected. As to the native population, it is sufficient to state that Hongkong was up to the time of Sir Hercules Robinson (1859) the chief residence of smugglers and pirates, the paradise of gamblers, thieves, robbers and incendiaries. In 1846 an official notification \"advised\" all European residents to carry arms.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318031, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 283, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "## DRAFT.\n\n279\n\nof working the eyelids with firmness and gentleness : likewise and unfasten :\n\n7. The Regulations forwarded to your Despatch appear to be the same as those enclosed in Sir J. Hussey's dispatch No.200 of the 25th of December 1880, and it is not necessary at present to offer any remarks upon them pending the receipt of the Prisons Regulations Ordinance. They should be brought into harmony with the Rules for English Convict Prisons which have now reached you, and comparison with a second copy is desirable.\n\nEnclosed is a copy of the Regulations for English Local Prisons in place of that which accompanied my dispatch of the 25th December 1880, and which is now with Mr. Marsh. Mr. Tomnatchy will also...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318034, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 286, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "282 \n\nThe system adopted in the English local prisons may properly be followed. In these prisons there are three stages of punishment: \n\n(1) The Penal Stage of rigorous hard labour. \n(2) The Second Stage of industrial hard labour. \n(3) The third stage of light labour. \n\nThe progress of the prisoner through these three stages is dependent upon industry and good conduct. \n\nYou will find the system adopted in the English local prisons for prisoners sentenced to penal servitude fully explained in the Report of the Penal Servitude Commissioners, to which I have referred above. This system is applicable to prisoners sentenced for crimes, understanding the word \"serious\" to mean such crimes as are punished with penal servitude for good conduct.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318048, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 300, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "No. 200\n\nthe 23rd\n\n80\n\n200\n\n%\n\nbec. 1880\n\nand it\n\n81\n\n2188\n\n>\n\nC\n\nis at present unable to offer any \n\nUnnecessary remarks\n\nwhere the offending\n\nnew regulations of the Prisons Ordinance:\n\nThey should be as far as possible brought into harmony with the English Prison Regulations which have now reached you; and for further comparison I enclose a second copy of the Regulations for Local English Prisons in place of that which accompanied my despatch of the 28th Dec. 1880, and which is missing.\n\n1. You will also derive a large amount of useful information from the report of the Penal ...\n\nPage 300\nPage 301", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320647, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "# causes 17 \n\nThe Bill as drafted – I have made in the same copy the alterations in red with other alterations.\n\n## 17 \nIt is rather a farce to speak for Wools thanking the Attorney General for his causal.\n\nAlthough it is desirable to assimilate the law and practice on imprisonment and penal servitude in Hong Kong to that of England and Ireland as far as circumstances will permit, I do not see any advantage in adopting the form of the English Prisons Act 1865, which is embodied in the Schedule, and there are supplementary rules with modifications. The result is that the Rules for Local Prisons (copy annexed) are confusing and ill-arranged.\n\nIt seems to me that the Ordinance should empower the Governor in Council to make regulations and that a clear, complete, and methodically arranged schedule of rules should be framed containing the substance of the English rules (whether contained in the schedule to the Act or made by the Secretary of State) with such variations as may be necessary.\n\nWith this view, I have in the Draft Ordinance substituted a new clause 17 for sub-sections (1) and (5), where the qualifying words \"as far as possible\" seem to be required as the present form does not clearly state the requirements of these sub-sections.\n\nIt seems desirable to provide by the Ordinance itself for the separation of juvenile from adult prisoners.\n\n## Ed.\nIt seems strange to provide expressly for the employment of prisoners outside the gaol.\n\nI see no necessity for adding a clause to provide for the detention of prisoners beyond the expiration of their term of imprisonment as reported by the late Mr. Jonechy (see Attorney General's memorandum, paragraphs 3 & 4).\n\nThe Regulations drafted by the A.G. and his Bill are simply copied with a few alterations from the Schedule in the Prisons Act 1865 – they are obviously imperfect as they embrace matters of greater importance, such as the employment of penal servitude, the duties of visiting justices, the earning of a partial remission of sentences within a mark system, which are altogether untouched.\n\nI doubt whether it would be of much use to draw up a code of rules here without more local knowledge than I possess.\n\nI would therefore suggest that, if Lord Derby concurs in my view, the double set of regulations...\n\n## Page 25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320659, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "# A BILL ENTITLED\n## The Prison Ordinance 1882\nEnclosure 1 in despatch No. 6 of 6th January, 1883, from the Officer Administering the Government, \n(with 6 spare copies)\n\n[C.S.O. No. 4544 of 1882.]\n\n## THE BILL ENTITLED THE PRISON ORDINANCE 1882\n**APPROVED 14 FEB 1883**\n\nMemorandum of the Honourable the Attorney General, dated 7th October, 1882.\n\n1. I understand from the despatches of the Secretary of State which have been sent to me \"to prepare the necessary Ordinance,\" that what is desired is the draft of an Ordinance assimilating the law as to prison discipline in Hongkong to that in force in England.\n\n2. The only Ordinances relating to prisoners at present in force are Ordinance 10 of 1858 and 4 of 1863, and 2 of 1878.\n\n3. The draft Ordinance makes provision corresponding to all that is provided for in these Ordinances with reference to prisons, so that, with the exception of Sections 1 and 2 of the former, the whole of both might be repealed.\n\n4. The portion of the draft Ordinance providing for the setting apart of prison accommodation and for regulating the legal status of prisoners is adapted from Sections of the Imperial Prisons Acts of 1865 and 1877 and from Sections of the above-mentioned local Ordinances as indicated in the marginal notes.\n\n5. The law as to prison discipline is adopted substantially without change from the said Imperial Acts. The separation of prisoners, which is part of such discipline, is provided for in Sections 6 and 7, which correspond to Sections 17 and 18 of the Prisons Act 1865, but I am not sure whether the accommodation at present existing in the Gaol is sufficient to meet the conditions there laid down. The nature of the hard labour to be imposed, which is another part of such discipline, is provided for in Section 8, which corresponds to Section 19 of the Prison Act 1865.\n\n6. Under the Imperial Acts, prison government and discipline are provided for:\n(1.) by certain Sections of those Acts,\n(2.) by regulations contained in the Schedule to the Act of 1865,\n(3.) by rules of Secretary of State made under powers given to him or transferred to him by the Act of 1877.\n\n7. The draft Ordinance proceeds upon the same principle. Under it, prison government and discipline are to be provided for:\n(1.) by certain Sections of the Ordinance,\n(2.) by regulations contained in the Schedule to the Ordinance, which are in most cases a transcript with slight alterations from the rules in Schedule A of the Prisons Act 1865. In one instance only, viz. rule 34, the substance of a Secretary of State's rule (viz. 24 and 25) made under the Prisons Act 1877, is incorporated with the rule transcribed from the Prisons Act 1865.\n(3.) by rules to be made by the Governor in Council under Section 18 of the Ordinance.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320660, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Memorandum on the Draft Prison Ordinance, 1882\n\n8. With reference to powers of punishment, the draft makes provision corresponding to those made by and under the Imperial Acts and in that respect is intended to carry out the directions contained in paragraph 5 of the Secretary of State's despatch 95 of December 28th, 1880.\n\n9. In a few cases where the regulations contained in the Schedule of the Imperial Act provided for the performance of certain duties connected with the administration of the prison by Visiting Justices, the regulations in the Schedule to the draft Ordinance assign those duties to the Superintendent.\n\n10. The draft provides for two classes of hard labour in the same terms as the Imperial Act and rules.\n\nThere are no rules specially applicable either to the labour or discipline of penal servitude prisoners as distinguished from those under sentences of imprisonment with hard labour.\n\n11. I have not prepared any rules to be made by the Governor in Council under Section ... of this Ordinance.\n\nC.S.O. No. 4247 of 1882.\n\n## The Bill Entitled The Prison Ordinance, 1882\n\nMemorandum of the Honourable the Attorney General, dated the 18th December, 1882.\n\nThe Secretary of State's despatch No. 221 of October 6th, 1882, makes it necessary to modify the draft regulations in the Schedule of the draft Ordinance in one or two respects.\n\nThese draft regulations, as they stand, were prepared to carry out the directions contained in previous despatches (see my report accompanying the draft Ordinance).\n\nIn paragraph 11 of the despatch of October 6th, 1882, certain suggestions made by Mr. TONNOCHY on the subject of detaining prisoners after the expiration of their term of imprisonment are referred to and approved of, and the legislation necessary to give effect to them is authorized.\n\nThe provision for the purpose would probably be conveniently made by a clause or clauses in the Ordinance. But it may be found desirable to regulate in that way certain matters of detail not provided for by the Ordinance and Schedule. I have not a copy of Mr. TONNOCHY's despatch or suggestions from which to prepare such a clause or clauses.\n\nThe material for such rules will probably be some of the existing Gaol rules and some of the rules made by the Secretary of State under the Prisons Act 1877.\n\nFrom these materials, the Superintendent of the Victoria Gaol would perhaps be able to draft in the first instance any rules he thinks necessary.\n\nSuch rules must not provide for anything in such a way as to conflict with the Ordinance or with the rules in the Schedule, which have the force of an Ordinance.\n\nIn the 12th paragraph of the despatch, it is directed that the powers of corporal punishment granted to the Superintendent in conjunction with a Justice of the Peace by Section 12 of Ordinance 4 of 1863 shall be retained.\n\nI had provided in the draft Ordinance for the repeal of Ordinance 4 of 1863, but the necessary provision for the retention of this power can be made by re-enacting Section 12 of Ordinance 4 of 1863 as a regulation to be inserted after regulations 47 and 48 in the Schedule to the present draft Ordinance.\n\nThese regulations 47 and 48 were intended, as they stand, to give effect to the directions contained in paragraph 5 of the Secretary of State's despatch 95 of December 28th, 1880, and correspond to rules 57 and 58 in the Schedule to the Prison Act 1865. I have some doubts as to whether some of the rules in the Schedule may be found unworkable in the present state of the Victoria Gaol. When the particular points in which this is so are pointed out by the Superintendent of the Victoria Gaol, it will be a question in each case whether the Ordinance shall be altered to suit the existing state of things or the existing state of things shall be changed so as to come up to the requirements of the Ordinance.\n\nPossibly it was not intended that the retention of the powers given by Section 12 of Ordinance 4 of 1863 should be in addition to or substitution for such a regulation as regulation 48 in the Schedule to the draft Ordinance.\n\nOctober 7th, 1882.\n\nI have put it in the margin of the draft as regulation 48, a.\n\nParagraph 13 of the despatch of October 6th, 1882, says corporal punishment should be reserved for the most serious prison offences.\n\nThis can be provided for by a further modification of rules 48 and 48, a. in such words as I have noted in the margin of the draft.\n\nI pointed out in my memorandum accompanying the draft Ordinance that the regulations in the draft Ordinance would require a good deal of consideration and alteration to suit them to local circumstances, and probably they will now require it still more, in order that they may be made to give effect to the further directions as to penal discipline contained in the despatch of October 6th, 1882.\n\nDecember 18th, 1882.\n\n**EDWARD L. O'MALLEY**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321556, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "page_number": 260, "title": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "content_text": "and gentleman superintendent of goal and dad\n\nas\n\nthe\n\nDerby\n\nis anxious to facilitate\n\nto meet his wishes, possible in this\n\nrespect:\n\nIt is also\n\nvery important\n\ndesirable to secure\n\nthorough knowledge of\n\nEnglish Prisons, their\n\ndiscipline\n\n& management\n\nwith all the latest\n\nsteps are\n\nimprovements: it is\n\nbeing\n\nlatterly\n\nintimated to Gild in\n\nDRAFT.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nMr. Ashley.\n\nLord Derby.\n\nHong Kong\n\nnearly\n\na new\n\n259\n\nprison\n\nas\n\naffording, local circumstances will allow, to\n\nthe English type, and to introduce improved English\n\nregulations on the English\n\nmodel\n\n•\n\nAs the large majority\n\nthe prisoners\n\nare\n\nChinese the new superintendent will be called upon to devote attention\n\nto the study of the Chinese\n\nlanguage.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324612, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "page_number": 644, "title": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "content_text": "633\n\nto whom the appointment might be offered.\n\nThe Ex-prisoners of military prisons of course are mostly beyond the suitable\n\nprisons are\n\n135\n\n361\n\no to the tropics for the\n\nht\n\nstateme\n\nfor young\n\nthere\n\nfirst time\n\nand\n\nthe majority of cases\n\n...\n\ncondemns at far greater than the pay attached to this post.\n\nGovernors of\n\nwill firmly\n\nte\n\nare unsuitable, not possessing the requisite\n\ntraining\n\nHe has many\n\nRow be acquaintance with\n\nas well as with prison work be\n\nis strongly in favour of obtaining highly qualified\n\nfor this post. \"The\n\nSuperintendent\n\nof\n\nthe Hong Kong\n\nholds\n\n-\n\na quite unusually independent position, and it is most desirable\n\nto\n\nensure\n\nthe best type of\n\nexperience be a Deputy Governor of\n\nPrison\n\nHere\n\nlaurels.\n\nbut large limits it would be\n\nnecessary to offer passage money\n\n& Career\n\nwill\n\n...\n\nmening salary of £650 rising by\n\n£50 to £850\n\nEa\n\nthree\n\nyears.\n\nHeaney\n\nhe believes, would be prevented from becoming\n\nCandidates because\n\nthe heavy\n\namount which they would have to pay for their families to Hong Kong.\n\nthe passage of\n\nIf the salary\n\nhe recommend that\n\ncannot be increased\n\nL\n\nmilitary\n\nJan\n\nshould be selected from the War Office, the best of Captains, who have been compelled\n\nto retire\n\nat 40 through not securing\n\ntheir promotion\n\nif there are suitable\n\npan\n\ntheirs with military experience, from\n\nthe Colonial Prison, and that the\n\nCandidate appointed should be sent to Wormwood Scrubs for two months, where\n\nhe will be brought\n\nthrough a complete training.\n\nhe will\n\nCourse of\n\nIf an officer is to\n\nbe trained he should be selected without\n\n10\n\ndelay and early\n\narriving\n\nthat he may be able to\n\nin December and avoid\n\nat Hong Kong at the work\n\ntime of the rainy season.\n\nThe\n\nquestion which has now to be decided\n\nis whether the salary\n\nto be sufficient.\n\nshould be raised\n\nwith to secure\n\na\n\nDeputy Governor of a local Prison, a\n\nshe lear\n\nRA\n\nn\n\nofficer with military experiences\n\nshould be selected & put through\n\nTraining\n\nit would be\n\nHit it decided to train the\n\npreferable\n\nI suppose.\n\nSalary should be aumented (if necessary)\n\nlais\n\nto\n\nKent suggested by M. Fagan passage money.\n\nto\n\nMairi\n\nnot to offer\n\n/\n\nThe present salary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324615, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "page_number": 647, "title": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "content_text": "641\n\nHawate\n\nOld Mr. Just\n\nHOME OFFICE. WHITEHALL. S.W.\n\nHave got back again to work and I hasten to reply to your note regarding the Superintendent in the Prison at Stanley - think free proposal as to salary may do, but the absence of papers clearance is a very grave drawback. The Military authorities particularly will think so - enclosure is craved for the formal order for the passage and if to a foreigner time he is started with a free hand\n\nof pay - I still think the candidate should get a free passage -\n\nE. Drilone is back of four could\n\nbonding,\n\nLocal\n\nThere seem to be fine again -\n\nThree courses open to get Zurn -\n\n1. To ask you to do it.\n\n2. Not to raise the salary and invite applications from other Governors of Military prisons:\n\nWe will, if you ask by a letter to the Home Office for advice officially; but it will perhaps save time and trouble if we do it all ourselves at once.\n\nE.g. would be to forward our\n\nand train", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325071, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 331, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nThe session of the Legislative Council was opened yesterday afternoon. The Chief Justice took the chair and called upon the Clerk of Councils to read the proclamation summoning the meeting. This having been done, the Clerk of Councils was directed to inform the Governor, who shortly afterwards entered and read the speech given below. The opening ceremony was attended with more formality than has hitherto been the case on similar occasions in Hongkong. The road from Government House to the Public Office was lined with Sikh policemen, and a guard of honour and the Band of the Buffs was posted in the hall of the Public Office, and saluted the Governor on his arrival. In the Council Chamber there was a large attendance, including a considerable number of ladies, the Consuls and Military Officers in uniform, and a large number of the general public. His Excellency wore the uniform of his office and the scarf and order of the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. The Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, and the Surveyor-General also wore the Civil Service Uniform. The Council was composed as follows:-\n\nHis Excellency the GOVERNOR, Sir GEORGE FERGUSON Bower, G.C.M.G.\n\nHon. Sir GEORGE PHILlIPPo, Chief Justice.\n\nHon. W. H. MARSH, C.M.G.\n\nHon. E. L. O'MALLEY, Attorney-General.\n\nHon. A. LISTER, Colonial Treasurer.\n\nHon. J. M. PRICE, Surveyor-General.\n\nHon. F. STEWART, Registrar-General.\n\nHon. P. RYrie.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON,\n\nHon. T. JACKSON.\n\nHon. F. D. SAXTON.\n\nHon. WONG SHING.\n\nTHE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.\n\nHonourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,\n\n1. It is with feelings of much pleasure and interest that I now open the first session of the re-constituted Legislature of Hongkong, and have recourse to your advice and assistance in the administration of the Government.\n\n2. It will always be one of the most satisfactory reminiscences of my long public career that I have been able to procure a more adequate representation in this Council of the community at large. I am confident that the Government will derive valuable aid from the local knowledge and experience of the unofficial members, and I also believe that you will all agree with me that there neither is, nor ought to be, any antagonism between the official and the unofficial element in this Legislature. All the members alike can have no other object but to secure the general welfare, and to advance the progress of the colony.\n\n3. For obvious reasons, it is in the highest degree important that this Council should adhere to the constitutional forms followed by the Legislatures of the other principal Crown Colonies. The address of the Governor at the opening of each annual session will contain, here as elsewhere, a general view of the financial and social condition of the Colony, and a statement of the Legislative and other measures, and of the public works proposed. So the address of the Council in reply will afford the Members of the Legislature the usual constitutional opportunity of expressing their opinion of the conduct and proposals of the Government.\n\n4. Further, in accordance with the practice elsewhere, I recommend you to appoint a Committee of Finance (which should be a Committee of the whole Council), a Committee of Laws, and a Committee of Public Works, which should respectively examine in the first instance the details of every proposed vote and measure.\n\n5. After this brief explanatory preface, I will proceed to state generally the principal subjects to which your attention will be directed during the present Session. Full details will be found in the papers which will be laid before you, and in the statements of the several Heads of Departments.\n\n6. In the first place, with regard to the paramount question of Finance, it is very gratifying to be able to inform you that our position is satisfactory. The Revenue of the year 1883 amounted to $1,294,500; and the Ordinary Expenditure to $1,165,700; leaving an excess of revenue over Ordinary Expenditure of $128,800. The Extraordinary Expenditure of 1883 was defrayed from the accumulated balance, and included the Tai-tam water works, Break-water, Causeway Bay reclamation, Purchase of houses and land for the New Central Market, and Sanitary works.\n\n7. The estimated balance to the credit of the colony on the 31st December, 1883, was $1,095,505. Hongkong is probably the only state or colony of importance which at the present day is not only without a public debt, but which possesses invested assets nearly equal to its annual revenue. However, the existing balances will not be sufficient to carry out several public works which are urgently required by this community, in addition to those \"strong and complete measures of sanitation\" which Mr. Chadwick (the Civil Engineer recently sent out from England) has reported to be absolutely necessary \"for the immediate benefit of the public health.\" Under these circumstances, I concur with the Executive Council in what appears to be the general opinion of the colony, viz., that the present generation of colonists ought not to be deprived of the advantages referred to, while it cannot of course be expected to defray the entire cost of works of a permanent and reproductive character; and that consequently, it will be expedient to raise, on the exhaustion of the existing assets, a moderate loan, not much exceeding the revenue of a single year. This question will not have to be decided in its details during the present Session; but I desire to elicit the opinion of the Council on the principle involved.\n\n8. The Estimates for 1884 have been already voted. The Estimates for 1885 will be laid before you in next November, which seems to be the most generally convenient period for the opening of the annual Session.\n\n9. With regard to Legislative measures, the following Ordinances, among others, have already become law since I assumed this Government in the spring of last year, viz.: Ordinances to provide for the better Regulation of Vehicles and Public Traffic; To organise the construction of certain lines of Tramways; To constitute a Sanitary Board; To amend Merchant Shipping Law and provide for the enforcement of Quarantine; To continue the operation of the French Mail Steamers Ordinance; To authorise the construction of certain Piers and Wharves. The principal Bills which will be laid before you during the present session will be the following:-\n\n(1.) To regulate Weights and Measures.\n\n(2.) To consolidate and amend the Ordinance relating to Opium.\n\n(3.) To establish a Savings Bank.\n\n(4.) To consolidate and amend the laws relating to Stamp Duties.\n\n(5.) To provide for the Registration of Medical Practitioners.\n\n(6.) To regulate Prisons and Prison Discipline.\n\n(7.) To amend the Dangerous Goods' Ordinance, 1873.\n\n(8.) To amend the Preservation of Birds' Ordinance, 1870.\n\n(9.) To amend certain Ordinances relating to Criminal Procedure.\n\n(10.) To amend the law relating to the punishment of criminals.\n\n(11.) To amend the Bankruptcy Ordinance of 1864.\n\n(12.) To regulate the Post Office and Postal Service.\n\n(13.) To Amend Ordinance No. 10 of 1867.\n\n(14.) To provide for the more effectual protection of Chinese female children.\n\n10. The report of the Commission on Smuggling, and an able and exhaustive memorandum by Mr. Justice Russell on the so-called Blockade of Hongkong by Chinese Revenue Cruisers, are recommended to your attention. I have discussed this important question with the present British Minister at Peking, who will, I am confident, lend his aid towards carrying out an equitable settlement.\n\n11. Turning to the vital subject of the Public Health, I am glad to inform you that the recent organisation of a Government Sanitary Board under Ordinance No. 7 of 1883, and the promulgation of new Rules and Regulations under that Ordinance, together with the introduction of improved contracts for the removal and disposal of waste products, have been followed by a marked improvement in the practical sanitation of the Colony. Much, however, remains to be done, both in respect of legislation and of structural sanitary work; but I am confident that the necessary reforms and improvements will in due course be effected by the zeal and ability of the officers to whom this branch of the Public Service has been entrusted, and by the cheerful acquiescence of all classes of our population in such measures and restrictions for the safety of the Public Health as may, with...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325364, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 624, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "621\n\nalready aware, the prospective withdrawal of all Ecclesiastical Grants, as directed by the Colonial Office without reference to the local Legislature, is not in harmony with the general feeling of this Community; which would (as I am informed) have preferred the process formerly termed \"levelling up\" to total disestablishment. It is not stated that, since the disestablishment of the Church in Ireland, payments continue to be made by the Government to Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Presbyterian Chaplains for visiting Prisons and other public Institutions. Full information on this subject has already been laid before you in my despatch no. 2044 of 1883, and its enclosures.\n\nPersonally, I am sensible of the weight of the considerations which have probably weighed with Your Lordship and with your predecessor (Lord Kimberley) in your view of this matter. I now solicit Your Lordship's instructions as to the reply which...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328228, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "content_text": "# \n## Despatch Date. | Subject.\n28 Apr. | Spanish Subjects residents in Hongkong. Compulsory vaccination among the Chinese. Closing of Radivostock by Russia. Occupation of Port Hamilton by England.\n2 May | Annual Inspection of the Police Corpo. Defences.\n2 May | Receipts & Expenditure 1884 - Assets + Liabilities. Defences.\n| Gaol Returns, 1884. Extract from Chinese newspaper re relations between England & Russia. Trade with Singapore.\n| Ordinance 9 of 1885. State of the Prisons. Direct cable with Singapore. Exercise of Admiralty jurisdiction.\n18 | Ordinance 10 of 1885. Educational Reports, 1884.\n20 | Tytam Waterworks.\n21 | Ordinance 4 of 1885.\n22 | \n| Ordinance 12 of 1885. Ordinance 8. Case of Chan Tion. Bill to prevent abuses connected with Children's adoption & Domestic Service.\n| Issue of One Dollar notes. Hongkong & Shanghai Bank. Ordinance 4 of 1885. Fees charged for Bills of Health. Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881. - Part II. Spirit Farm. Occupation of Port Hamilton.\n3 June | Amount of unexpended balance. Imperial Federation. Position of the Attorney General - Question of private practice.\n| Ordinance 15 of 1885. Kowloon Leaseholds. Payments in excess of Estimates, 1884-5.\n4 | Prop? Local Defence Committee.\n15 | \n16 | \n17 | \n| Military pension of General Att Gordon. Effect of French Chinese war on the Chinese nation. Prop. Peace Preservation Ordinance. Amount of unexpended balance. Sale of securities. Payments in respect of Eastern Mail Service. Leave to visit Japan.\n24 | \n## \n| 197 | 199 | 29 | 202 | 130 | \n| 205 | 206 | 209 | 210 | 213 | \n| 217 | 218 | 220 | 222 | 223 | \n| 225 | 231 | 233 | 235 | 237 | \n| 240 | 243 | 244 | 247 | 250 | \n| 251 | 253 | 254 | 259 Conf. | 267 | \n| 269 | 271 | 272 | 273 | 280 | \n| 281 | 270 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334026, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "298\n\nTHE SANITARY RECORD.\n\nSIMPSON, Mr. William Hirst, B.A., Solicitor, has been appointed Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers, at £in per annum.\n\nSMITH, Mr. Job Ross, the Inspector of Nuisances for the Shipley Urban Sanitary District, has been appointed Inspector of Dairies, Cowsheds, &c.\n\nSTEVENSON, Mr. G., the Inspector of Nuisances for the Much-Wenlock Urban Sanitary District, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 & 1886.\n\nSUTCLIFFE, Mr. Alfred, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Thornton Urban Sanitary District, at £40 for one year.\n\nSYKES, Mr. Edward has been appointed Surveyor to the newly-formed Cheadle and Gatley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at £35 per annum, and Inspector of Nuisances at £35 per annum.\n\nSYKES, Mr. James William, Inspector of Nuisances for the Windhill Urban Sanitary District, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886.\n\nTAYLOR, Mr. George, has been elected a Member of the Tipton Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Field, resigned.\n\nTHORNTON, Mr. Reginald Douglas Banker, has been appointed Treasurer to the newly-incorporated Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Wareham.\n\nTHORNTON, Mr. Richard, Surveyor, &c., to the Drighlington Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, has been appointed Inspector pro tem, under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886, and pursuant to the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts of 1878 and 1886.\n\nWALTER, Mr. Nimrod, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Reigate Urban Sanitary District, at £75 for one year.\n\nWARD, Mr. Joseph Henry, has been appointed Clerk to the Baildon Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, Yorkshire, at £24 per annum, vice Hines, resigned.\n\nWATERTON, Mr. William, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances, &c., for the Barnsley Urban Sanitary District, at £120 per annum, vice Savage (but who continues as Canal Boats and Smoke Inspector, at £50 per annum).\n\nWETHERELL, Mr. John, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Richmond (Yorkshire) Rural Sanitary District, at £85 per annum, vice Mr. J. Wetherell, deceased.\n\nWHITE, Mr. John, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Chard Urban Sanitary District, at £20 for one year.\n\nWILLIAMS, Mr. Richard Owen, Surveyor, &c., to the Bethesda Improvement Commissioners and Urban Sanitary Authority, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886.\n\nWORTHINGTON, Mr. Isaac, has been appointed Collector to the newly-formed Cheadle and Gatley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, at 3 per cent. commission.\n\nPUBLIC ANALYSTS.\n\nCULLI, Mr. R. B., has been appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Tiverton, for one year.\n\nESTCOURT, Mr. Charles, has been appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Lancaster, at £10 10s. per annum, and 6s. per analysis, vice Brown.\n\nFUNNAR, Mr. Otto, has been re-appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Derby.\n\nHILL, Alfred Bostock, M.D., S.Sc.Cert.Camb, L.R.C.P.Edin, has been re-appointed Public Analyst for the Borough of Royal Leamington Spa, at £20 per annum, and 6s. 8d. per analysis.\n\nVACANCIES.\n\nMEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH for the Walton-on-the-Naze Urban Sanitary District, £20 per annum. Application, 6th inst., to T. A. Middleton, Clerk to the Authority.\n\nTREASURER to the Alcester Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority. Application to S. A. Guthard, Clerk.\n\nMEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH for the St. Anne's-on-the-Sea Urban Sanitary District. Application, 10th inst., to William Thompson, Clerk.\n\nTREASURER to the Conway Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority. Application to T. E. Parry, Town Clerk.\n\nCLERK to the Birkenhead Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority. Application to The Chairman.\n\nCLERK to the St. Anne's-on-the-Sea Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. Application to The Chairman.\n\nSURVEYOR to the Redditch Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority. Application to H. C. Browning, Clerk.\n\nSURVEYOR and INSPECTOR of NUISANCES to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers. Application to W. H. Simpson, Town Clerk.\n\nCOLLECTOR to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers. Application to W. H. Simpson, Town Clerk.\n\nLOCAL INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hambledon Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority have been invested with urban powers, rights, &c., under the provisions of Sections 157 and 158 of the Public Health Act, 1875, within the contributory places of Bramley, Cranley, Shalford, and Wonersh.\n\nThe Egremont Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority recently re-appointed Dr. Calderwood as Medical Officer of Health for three years, but the Local Government Board have refused their sanction for more than one year, on account of his being a Poor-law district medical officer.\n\nAt the last meeting of the Driffield Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority, it was unanimously resolved to decrease the salary of Dr. Wood, Medical Officer of Health, from £130 to £70 per annum, and that of Mr. Sumner, Inspector of Nuisances, &c., from £100 to £100 per annum, upon the expiration of their appointments at Christmas.\n\nIt was recently proposed to form a Local Government District for the Ogmore and Garw Valleys within the area of the Bridgend Rural Sanitary District, and the necessary formal steps were taken under The Public Health Act for that purpose. This was followed by the usual Local Government Inquiry, at which some evidence in opposition was given. At the meeting of the Bridgend Rural Sanitary Authority on the 4th inst., the question was discussed, and a resolution passed upholding a previous one in favour of the formation of the proposed district, as they 'saw no reason to change their opinion after hearing the objections raised at the recent Government Inquiry.'\n\nNOTES AND QUERIES.\n\nHaving for some time back been in the receipt of Queries appertaining strictly to sanitary work, and which it would be easy to answer, without having to refer our correspondents to competent professional advisers, we have opened a column in which to register such Queries and Replies thereto as can fairly be expected from us; and our subscribers and readers are invited to make such use of this column as will tend to benefit themselves and the community. Both Queries and Replies will, however, be subjected, if unnecessarily long, to a strict curtailment.\n\n205. TEST SOLUTIONS FOR WATER ANALYSIS.\n\nI should be much obliged if you would state where you would recommend me to get reliable test solutions for water analysis according to Wanklyn.\n\nR.M.O.H. [Messrs. Y. E. Becker & Co., 34 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, W.C., supply the solutions in a satisfactory state.—ED.]\n\n206. WATER SUPPLY.\n\nCan you recommend me any book that gives the average quantity of water used or required per head of population throughout the country?\n\nC. W. P.\n\nThe most reliable information as to the quantity of water which should preferably be allowed per head of population under varying conditions is to be found in Parkes' and De Chaumont's 'Practical Hygiene,' and it would, perhaps, be useless to seek elsewhere, as all the information upon this subject is brought down to a late date. Consult the Sixth Edition (1883) of the above work, pages 3 to 7. The publishers are Messrs. J. & A. Churchill, 11 New Burlington Street, London, W. (See also SANITARY RECORD, Aug. 16, 1886, page 91.) All engineers strive as much as possible to allow 30 gallons per head for domestic purposes, and in the work above mentioned this amount is thus distributed—Domestic supply (without bath or closets), 20 gallons; add for general baths, 4 gallons; water-closets, 6 gallons; unavoidable waste, 3 gallons—total, 33 gallons.—ED.]\n\n207. QUALIFICATIONS OF A CHIEF INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES.\n\nWhat do you consider the proper qualifications for a chief inspector of nuisances in a town of between 90,000 and 100,000 inhabitants, whose salary will be between £140 and £160 per annum? There will be several inspectors under him, and there is a medical officer of health who does not practise privately.\n\nALPHA.\n\nThis is not a question which lends itself to any such short answer as alone is possible for us in this corner of the RECORD. But our correspondent will find fully detailed remarks as to the qualifications for the post which he describes in the number for May 15, 1883, p. 510.]\n\nJEYES' PERFECT PURIFIER' is a disinfectant in fluid form of extraordinary efficacy. It is used in the Royal households and by Her Majesty's Government establishments, the Corporation of London, Smithfield and Billingsgate Markets, various steamship and railway companies, the principal hospitals, &c., and is authorised by the Board of Trade and the Indian Government. The testimonials which have been received bear the names among others of such unimpeachable authorities as Sir R. Rawlinson, C.B., C.E., Chief Sanitary Engineer of the Local Board, Home Office; Professor Wanklyn, M.R.C.S.; Dr. C. A. Cameron, Medical Officer of Health, Dublin; Mr. J. T. Dibdin, A.V.D., Cavalry Barracks, York; and Dr. Crookshank, Inspector-General of Prisons, Cairo. In addition to its powerful disinfecting properties, this compound possesses the recommendation that it is non-poisonous, non-corrosive, stainless in use, and cheap. The scientific mind will understand and appreciate this characteristic of the manufacture—that it prevents contagion by destroying its cause; it instantly removes bad smells; is an unfailing cure for eczema and other skin diseases, and is the best known insecticide.—Sold by all respectable Chemists' Stores, &c., in bottles at 6d. and 1s. and drums at 5s. per gallon. Jeyes Sanitary Compound Company (Limited), 43 Cannon Street, London, E.C.—ADVT.)\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Crown Agents\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nRebolt kr\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston,\n\nMr. Meade.\n\n1967\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nLord Onslow.\n\nSir H. T. Holland.\n\nAust 17452\n\n20\n\n12766\n\nرسله\n\nHome May:\n\nJJ.\n\n303\n\n21 Ich 27\n\nSentherm\n\nThe site th\n\nf State\n\nI. Chanis\n\nto authours you & bleet a\n\nGentleman to fill the new Afspendent of\n\nSanilang\n\nEngenaar 506 Fort\n\nHongthing.\n\nThe\n\nappartment is descaled, in to accompaging\n\nAs\n\nзаваривать\n\nand exceeds\n\nfrom it. 3.A.G. and Jam\n\n2017 bag 12\n\nCofzene! Cofz ene 2.\n\nPartialers in auf. In Duis Je618.\n\n(keep to\n\nte\n\nin\n\ndig\n\nduplicate of dess)\n\nlost 2.\n\npamphlets in wig", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 340953, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "page_number": 684, "title": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "content_text": "attention, naturally devotes the caller mainly to the material development of the Island, the effect of which circumstance, is to make the Head of The Public Works Department of Hong Kong take rank almost as the principal lieutenant of the Governor and to impose on him increased public obligations and responsibilities that are even more onerous than those attaching to the offices comprised in the enclosed printed lists which I have underlined in red in order to facilitate comparison and which Your Lordships will perceive are in England placed in The Second Class and conceded an additional seven years.\n\nI may state frankly that I called attention to this matter while I was still in the civil service of the Colony because I conceived that if the justice of my contention were recognised, Your Lordship would readily allow me at least the benefit of the same concession of seven years. My views were supported at the time not only by the Committee appointed to consider the proposed new Pension Minute of which Committee Sir. Samuel Russell was Chairman, but also by the Secretary my superior, but as I left the Colony before the local Government was in possession of your Lordship's decision I am still ignorant as to whether Your Lordship has approved or disapproved of my application to be allowed to count any additional time in the computation for pension over and above the five years hitherto prescribed and it is on this point I now respectfully ask to be enlightened.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient Servant, Maio\n\n174\n\nIMPERIAL PENSION MINUTES.\n\nC. O. 14467\n\nRECD 20 JUL 99\n\n...their Lords are pleased to declare that the following offices should be considered as entitling their holders to the benefits of the Act, though they may not have fulfilled the conditions of the 17th section, and that the number of years to be added to the service of the officers for the purpose of computation, should be-- For the 1st Class ten years.\n\nUnder Secretaries of State, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, Counsel for Drawing Bills, Solicitors to Public Departments, Police and Stipendiary Magistrates, Legal Assistants at--- Board of Trade, Colonial Office, Poor Law Board, And other Departments; Directors of Convict Prisons, Commissioners of Police,\n\n1 seven years. 5 years. For the 2nd For the 3rd\n\nFirst Class (ten years), Chief Commissioner of Police, Medical Officers attached to the Privy Council, Chairman of Directors of Convict Prisons, Inspector General for Art. Director of the National Gallery.\n\nSecond Class (seven years). Professors and Masters of the Royal Military College and similar Establishments; Medical Officers employed in the Civil Service, and giving their whole times; Inspectors of Mines, Factories, Coal-mines, Auditores Prisons and Reformatories, Constabulary, Poor Law,\n\nThird Class (five years). Government Chaplains of Convict Prisons, Inspectors of Schools, Inspectors of Art, Translator at the Foreign Office.\n\nMy Lords will add to the foregoing list any other offices which may, on full consideration, appear to be properly within the scope of the 4th section of the Act.\n\nCOPY OF TREASURY MINUTE. Dated 24th August, 1860.\n\nMy Lords have under consideration the 2nd Report of the Superannuation Committee, appointed by the Minute of 30th May, 1859.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the following offices, in addition to those enumerated in the Minute of 14th June, 1855, shall be brought within the provision of the 4th clause of the 22nd Vic, c. 26, so far as entitling the persons filling such offices to have an additional number of years computed in the calculation of the period of their services, with a view to superannuation allowance on retirement, by reason of the professional or peculiar qualifications required for such offices, and be placed in the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd classes established by the said Minute for such purposes:-\n\nIn the Home Office. Assistant Commissioners of Police Police Surgeon-in-Chief Directors of Reformatories Governors of Prisons Medical Director-General Director of Works. Surveyor-General of Prisons.\n\nTo be placed in the 3rd Class.\n\nColonial Office. Emigration Commissioners\n\nAdmiralty.\n\nCouncil Office.\n\nBoard of Trade. Professional Members of Marine Department Surveyor-General, Marine Department Inspectors, Railway Department Inspector-General of Art and Referee Superintendent-General of Quarantine. Inspectors of Art, Science, and Navigation Architect and Engineer. Director of Geological Survey Director of Museum, London Head of Meteorological Department\n\nPage 674", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 343073, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "page_number": 688, "title": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "content_text": "because wherever the sutra accommodation for prisoners is placed, Patrol Cordies must be engaged and the comparalored small sub-prison might be in charge of the present assistant superintendent of Chief warder, who would be the additional European office.\n\nThe modern cellular building at Suzafre home, Thelwall, being a success. As work of the frising perchinese and the climate is tropical, this prison would, I think, prove a better system for work in Hong Kong than an English prison. There is nothing to be learnt from Indian prisons we ought to avoid.\n\nT.WHO.\n\n14/11\n\n684\n\nM. Wingfield\n\nMINUTE PAPER.\n\nIn the face of this strong opinion by Sir M., I think it is impossible for me to support the author scheme for altering the present prison as an alternative to building elsewhere. I supported it as a matter of expediency because it will beyond doubt be most acceptable to the local community, and it must be other scheme will be forced on them and that the Governor will not force it unless he is strongly ordered to do so.\n\nI should be inclined to adopt Scheme 2, building a new block for say 200 or 250 prisoners avowedly as only an instalment of a whole prison. I would point out that this has already been suggested as the best way out of the difficulty, vide desp: no. GR of the 9th of June 1887 [10321/27] and would allude to the fact that a similar plan was adopted in Mauritius as Mr Heming will remember.\n\nIf a gradual plan of building is adopted...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 346900, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11]", "page_number": 504, "title": "CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11]", "content_text": "# Lord Kreutfore\n\nIf you concur in my view of the case, there are two names that I would submit for your consideration:\n\n1. Capt. F. Craigie Halkett, an ex-mercurial head of the Police & Prisons as the Bahamas.\n2. Mr. J. Alexander, assistant inspector of police at Jamaica.\n\nCapt. Craigie Halkett has been in our service since 1876, when he was appointed artillery inspector in the Gold Coast Constabulary. Since then, he has served as magistrate, commissioner, and superintendent of police in Fiji, inspector of police at Sierra Leone, and has now charge of the Police & Prisons on the Bahamas. He has therefore had a wide variety of experience. He has also gone through a course of instruction at Wormwood Scrubs Prison and is a most reliable & conscientious officer. He has been in the Bahamas for some years and has obtained such favour with the local authorities that his salary has been raised from £400 to £500 a year.\n\nMr. Alexander has been in the service since 1872 in this respect and has been highly spoken of. I am sure he is a thoroughly good officer. His service, however, has been confined entirely to Jamaica, and for this reason, I am inclined to think that Capt. Craigie Halkett, from his extensive experience, is rather more desirable.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350638, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 305, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "303\n\nIn any reply to this Letter the following number should be quoted.\n\n35-29\n\nUnder 40\n\n`X348807`\n\nSir,\n\n**RECEIVED**\n\nC.O. 4699\n\n**(REG 8 MAR 32)**\n\nWHITEHALL.\n\n7th March, 1892.\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th instant, informing him, by direction of Secretary Lord Knutsford, that a higher rate of pay than that previously proposed may, if necessary, be offered in order to obtain volunteers from the Prison Service for employment at Hong Kong; and I am to acquaint you, for his Lordship's information, that my matters received on the 6th instant a report from the Chairman of the Prison Board to the effect that enquiries had been made at all the male Convict Prisons and at the large Local Prisons, but that there were no applicants for the posts in question on the terms stated. There having now been raised fresh terms, however, enquiries shall be made on the subject.\n\nSecretary of State\n\nColonial Office\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nF.ROGER LOCKINGT...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351459, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "content_text": "373\n\n+\n\nWilliam Charles Holland Hastings\n\nEntered Her Majesty's Navy 1805, retired with rank of Commander 1881.\n\nAppointed Inspector of Immigrants, Act: 1881 in Jamaica and Deputy Coroner 1886. Appointed Chief of Police and Inspector of Prisons St. Lucia April 1889. Held local appointments of J.P., Harbour Master and Flot.\n\nAppointed Assistant Harbour Master Hong Kong, November 1889, succeeding duly Edward. B. 1890, being also gazetted Acting Harbour Master.\n\nAppointed Acting Harbour Master to Feb 1891, holding the post till the 10th April 1890. Appointed Superintendent Harbour Police 4th June 1891; Member of the Registration Committee November 1891.\n\nAppointed Acting Police Magistrate 1st April 1892 and still acting as such, also discharging duties of substantive office Assistant Harbour Master, Dr. W. Hastings.\n\n6/2/93", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354890, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 624, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "PARTICULARS of the Office now vacant at the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nDuties of office, and qualifications required for their performance.\n\nTenure secured by a permanent law.\n\nVictoria Gaol.\n\nC. O.\n\n15584\n\nRES 3 SEP 4\n\n620\n\nDuties are laid down in the Gaol Regulations.\n\nQualifications\n\nResponsibilities are previous experience in a responsible situation, in Home Local and Convict prisons.\n\n$1440 per annum rising by $48 per annum to $1680 per annum necessary emoluments, and with free quarters. (Former salary $1536)! No permanent law on the subject.\n\nOther circumstances affecting the value of the office.\n\nFree light and fire\n\nThis amount\n\nOne security of $100 may be deposited with Government securities required, and mode of or may be secured by a bond with surety, jointly and severally.\n\nNature, number, and amount of giving them.\n\nWhether any, and if any, what provision is made from public funds for passage from this country, or elsewhere, of the persons sent to fill the office.\n\nActs or Ordinances making provision respecting any of the above\n\nand\n\nCone\n\nYes. Second-class passage from port of embarkation to Hongkong.\n\nOrdinance 18 of 1885 Sect. 17. Regulations made thereunder\n\nPermanency of the emoluments, and duties.\n\nNo date or\n\nTill the particulars of the security Ordinance in force as regards required, with references to sections in which such provision is made.\n\nPay to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359047, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 453, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "In any reply to this Letter the following number should be quoted.\n`X.54426`\n\n୯\n11903\n449\n16874\n\n25 SEP SU\n25\n\nWHITEHALL,\n·September, 1895.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 9th Ultimo, requesting that the Hong Kong Government may be supplied with three trained warders from the English convict or local prisons for service in the Hong Kong gaol, I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit herewith, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Chamberlain, a list of two applicants, both of whom are certified to be fit for service in a tropical climate.\n\nI am to add that no other suitable officers have made application for the post.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\nColonial Office\n\n144", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359299, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "## \nC.O. \n15963 \nRec'd \n(Red 10 SEP 95) \n\nH.M. Convict Prison, \nMountjoy, \n18/8/95. \n65 \n\nWith reference to recent Circular asking for Candidates from the Irish Prisons Service for the Prisons Service of Hong Kong, I beg most respectfully to request that you will be pleased to forward my name and recommend me for one of the appointments. \nI have served 9 years in the local Service and am fully acquainted with the duties &c. and one year in the Convict Service during which time I hope I have given satisfaction. \n\nThe Governor, \nJ. Connolly, \n1st Class Trades Warder.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359662, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "page_number": 433, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "## \nto supervise local staff and to train them in sound prison discipline. Application is being made to the Scotch and Irish prison departments also for two officers in either case on the same terms so that seven in all expansion boarders may be secured.\n\nThe selected candidates should undergo a searching medical examination so as to ensure that they are well able to stand service in a tropical climate.\n\nI am to add that Mr H.B. Lethbridge, Superintendent of the Hoatung prison, is now in England on leave of absence, and can be put into communication with the Directors of Prisons, if they think fit. His address is Elm Grove, Vika, Southsea.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359663, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "page_number": 434, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "# \n\n11903 \n\nHongkong \n\n429 \n\nAFT. \n\nThe Under Secretary Dublin Castle \nThe Under Secretary for Scotland \n\n**MINUTE.** \n\nLucas \n8. August \nFairfield. \nWingfield. \nBramston. \nMeade. \nBuxton, \nMarquess of Ripon. \n\n3 drafts \nScotch Off. 16012 \n Dublin Colle 15963 \n\n9 August. 95. \n\nI am directed by Secretary Chamberlain to request you to lay before the Lord Lieutenant the enclosed paper of particulars showing the terms on which it is desired to secure two warders with some experience in the Scotch prisons for service in the prison at Hongkong, where it is hoped they will suffice to discipline and train the local staff. A similar application for three warders has been made and two have been secured respectively.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360916, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "page_number": 407, "title": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "content_text": "5. Suggest a treadmill with a view to minimising what seems to be a severe departure in the way of cutting queues. The Governor is averse to it, as it is an old and discarded suggestion made by Mr. Bach, and the English practice is not followed in local prisons.\n\n-7. Make the Superintendent be present at all floggings.\n\nThis is a business-like report.\n\nC.P.L. 13. Nov.\n\nKeep the above suggestions till we have the further report from the Governor.\n\nIt appears that in a long time before there were complaints from the press.\n\n× This is not provided by the rules.\n\nI should then wait for that until we have further information.\n\n10 Years will be the maximum for the rallare.\n\nThe new Land Jail will be submitted.\n\n£12 Whether I should? 20 be the maximum.\n\nThe Evidence on ~pages 222-237 shows that insufficient pain is inflicted on those on whom flogging is carried out.\n\n402 In answer to the marginal notes, I think no flogging of any kind, unless awarded by a court, should be inflicted without the Governor's authority.\n\nThis is because the \"power has been abused at Hongkong\" & I believe this to be the best way of checking the abuse. It has, moreover, the great merit of making the Governor directly responsible.\n\n2. I think there ought to be a distinct Statement in writing & probably on oath before any man is flogged.\n\nRun 14/11 see marginal no.\n\nS. 16/11 The whole question is, Should flogging be a normal punishment? Should it be, as in England, very rare and extraordinary punishment? It ought to be very rare; but, inasmuch as the Hongkong community will not build such a...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366146, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "content_text": "# \nDaspak \nDate \nNo \nAg you. Maj. Gul Black. \nHong Kong \n1898 \nV. I \n1 \nCodents \nSubject \n\n| No | Subject |\n| --- | --- |\n| 69 | 16 March Pensims |\n| 70 | |\n| 71 | |\n| 72 | |\n| 73 | |\n| 74 | |\n| 75 | Water Supply Ordinance 41 1898 |\n| 76 | Plaque |\n| 77 | Application J. J. Mc Michail for transfer to Irish Prisons Service |\n| 78 | 18 New Government offices |\n| 81 | 21 Garment Balances in Local Bank |\n| 82 | Female Prison |\n| 84 | Advance Payment to Chinese officers |\n| 85 | 13 Lunatic R. Gamble |\n| 87 | Seenl |\n| 88 | ALL |\n| 89 | |\n| 90 | \" Tel. 25 |\n| 91 | |\n| 92 | # |\n| 93 | |\n| 95 | |\n| 96 | Plague precautionə |\n\n## # 5 \nCocomial Gresseers in Prison Ordinanes 1885 Armendt \nNaturalization of Leung thi chi \nScanitary \nPublic Works Dept. \nKowloon re Military Contributio, 1897 \n\n| Subject |\n| --- |\n| Acting |\n| Water Supply Ordinance 41 1898 |\n| Plague precautionə |\n| Summer Residence for Garma |\n| Defence. Revised Scherma |\n| Additional Clast in Registration Branch |\n| Pensim. E Bowdler Lean to W. Fisher |\n| Sharp's property Remittance of Jalanes |\n| Reformatory Police Constables Memorial R.D. Ormesby |\n| Sharpis Property |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370128, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "content_text": "## 206 \n\n12 \n\nThe magistrate is aided in his duties by secretaries or shihye, who are placed in charge of the departments dealing with crime, revenue, and official correspondence, and by a staff of police or runners, whose duties are referred to more in detail under the head of police. \n\nThe magistrate may inflict corporal punishment, and possesses the power of imprisonment, but is not empowered to sentence prisoners to death. \n\n## MILITARY OFFICERS \n\nIn addition to the civil officers, there are several military officers in the district. The highest of these is the Taipang Hip or colonel commanding at Taip'ang, a town to the north-east of Mirs Bay. This officer has also quarters at Kowloon, and for this reason is commonly known as the Kowloon Mandarin. He is under the control of the General or of the Kwongtung province, and has under his command several officers and some troops. \n\nMap VII shows where the various officials are stationed. It will be observed from this map that, as a rule, the petty military officers, who control the islands, do not reside on them, but have their headquarters at Taip'ang, on the mainland. \n\n## PRISONS \n\nThere is one main prison, situated at Namt'au, and under the control of an officer entitled Tien Shih. The prison is built to accommodate 120 persons, but is seldom occupied by more than 30 or 40. In addition to the prison, there are six lock-ups, one for each of the four Tung or Divisions into which the district is divided, and two under the control of the deputy magistrates, for detaining persons pending trial. \n\n## POLICE \n\nThere are two classes of police in the district. One class, called ch'ai or runners, is stationed in the district city under the control of the magistrate. They are about 60 in number and are sent, as occasion requires, throughout the district for a variety of purposes, including the making of arrests, the collecting of the land tax, and acting generally as the eyes and ears of the magistrate. They receive no pay from Government, but manage to earn a fair livelihood by illicit squeezes. \n\nIn addition to this class of police, there are, in each village throughout the district, at least two kang fu or village constables, who are appointed by the village, and paid out of contributions made by the villagers according to the extent of their holdings in land. Large villages have five or six constables, the head constable being styled `p`. Their duty is to keep watch, especially at night. They have the power of arrest, which is deputed to them by the gentry and elders of the village. \n\n## LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE VILLAGES \n\nIf a person is arrested by a village constable, he is taken before the gentry and elders of the village, who assemble in a place specially appointed for the purpose. The gentry and elders, who are the representatives of the clans inhabiting the villages, are selected by the inhabitants to deal with cases in the village council. \n\nThe usual cases are those of theft, disputes about land, domestic squabbles, and cases of debt. Most of these cases are summarily dealt with by the village council, and, as a rule, the decision of that council is accepted as final. But if either of the parties to a case is dissatisfied, he can appeal to a council of the Tung, or to a general council made up of representatives of the different Tung. A reference to Map VI will show how the newly leased territory is divided into Tung or Divisions. Each council of a Tung contains representatives of the villages which make up the Tung. In addition to a council of a Tung, there is a general council for the whole of the Tung Lo or Eastern Section, which is practically that portion of the district of Sanon contained in the map attached to the Convention (Map I). This general council is styled the Tung Ping Kuk or Council of Peace for the Eastern Section. It has its council chamber at the market town of Sham Chun, which is regarded as the centre of the Eastern Section. \n\nIf the decision of the council of the Tung or of the General Council is not regarded as satisfactory, an appeal lies to the magistrate of the district. \n\n13 \n\n## THE PROPOSED FUTURE GOVERNMENT OF THE NEWLY LEASED TERRITORY \n\nI am of opinion that, in the future government of the newly leased area, the organization at present in existence should be, as far as possible, utilised. In order to effect this, I recommend that the head of the Administration should be a Resident Commissioner, subordinate to the Governor of Hong Kong, but in all other respects independent. His headquarters should be in the neighbourhood of Taipohui, which seems the most central position, where all the Government Offices and prison should be established. He should be assisted by an Executive Council, consisting of himself, the Treasurer, the Head of the Police, and by an Advisory Council, made up of himself and native representatives, one selected from each Tung or Division. The native representatives should be granted some title, as is done in Ceylon, in order to make them regard the position of member of the Advisory Council as one to be coveted. In addition to a Resident Commissioner, who will, of course, require a Secretary, the following staff will be necessary: \n\n- A Treasurer. He should collect taxes, fees, and all other items of revenue, and pay all salaries and other items of expenditure. In the department of the Treasurer should be a Land Officer, to whom should be entrusted the important duty of having all claims to land properly surveyed and registered, and leases duly issued. The work of this Officer will, for some time to come, be very heavy. Land is held in small allotments, and in many cases, the amount of land mentioned in the lease is not in agreement with the actual holding, and a good deal of land is held without any proper title. I think it would be well to appoint as Land Officer someone who has had practical experience of surveying, and to place under him native surveyors, such as can, I am informed, be obtained from Ceylon. The cost of this staff may be somewhat excessive to begin with, but it is of great importance that the question of titles to land should be settled as soon as possible. I am of opinion that at least eight (8) native surveyors will be necessary. It is unnecessary to point out that the sooner the titles to land are definitely settled, the easier it will be to collect the land tax. Indeed, until such titles are decided, it is impossible to know exactly what land is really available for Crown land. \n\n- The chief work of the Public Works Department will be to erect buildings and to construct roads and piers. A staff consisting of one assistant engineer, a draughtsman, two clerks, and a few overseers would suffice at first. The officers of this Department should, I think, be under the supervision of the Director of Public Works of Hong Kong, so that the new territory may have the benefit of the experience and advice of that officer. I may mention that the present Director of Public Works, Mr. Ormsby, is of opinion that the supervision of the public works in the new territory can, without difficulty, be arranged from Hong Kong. \n\n## POLICE \n\nA European should be appointed as head of the police, and should have under him a Chief Inspector, 4 European Sergeants, and an Indian Sergeant, to act as Jemadar of the Indian Police. A force of at least 30 Chinese and 20 Indians should be enrolled and stationed at headquarters or other convenient places, from whence they could patrol the territory in different directions, in order to maintain peace and good order, and to protect the lives and property of the inhabitants. This force should be properly drilled and partially mounted. A detective force of 15 men will also be required. The existing system of village constables should be maintained, the T, or head constable, being held responsible to the Watch Committee of the village for the good order of the village. The number of these village constables in the Tung Lo, or Eastern section, must be over 1,000. Their pay, which is at present defrayed by the villages, is very small, and will, no doubt, have to be increased in order to secure efficiency. It is hoped that this large force may be gradually improved and converted into a well-disciplined force of military police. To begin with, however, it will be necessary to take them as they are, and make the best possible use of their services. \n\nThe village council should, for purposes of police, act as a watch committee, and control the village constables, the T being in the first instance responsible to them. \n\nWith regard to the policing of the islands, an Indian and 3 native Chinese should be stationed on the island of Cheung Chau, and the same number of men at Tai-O, in the island of Lantao. These police should be under the immediate supervision of a superior officer.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372738, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "& me the fair\n\n$ Somewhat increasing\n\n7\n\nthe clerks\n\nthe salaries\n\nC.Pd. 27. Nov.\n\nthen proposals seem\n\nX\n\ne on 10822/99 Governor\n\nPolice & Prisons\n\n92\n\n \n Present Salary\n Proposed salary\n Immediate Increase\n \n \n $32,000\n $35,000\n I agree\n \n\n*\n\nje 22306/99\n\nColonial Secretary!\n\n \n Class I\n \n \n \n \n $ 9,720\n 1000\n $10,800\n \n \n Captain Supt.of\n $5,760 & quarters\n $5,400 - $7,200 and quarters.\n \n \n I reasonable\n \n \n \n \n Treasurer\n ($ 4,800\n \n \n \n 1st Magistrate\n $ 6,000\n \n \n \n well to proceed as proposed\n \n \n \n \n Director Pub-\n $6,000 - $7,800 by triennial increments of £600\n #PHO BABYEOD\n \n \n I agree While combined with zyishar senust\n 6000 to 7200\n \n \n \n DPW$ 7200 to\n lic Works\n \n \n \n $ 6,660\n 7800\n \n \n \n Attorney Gener$ 8,400\n \n \n \n \n Class II\n \n \n \n \n Assistant Col:\n $ 3,600 - $4,800 by\n \n \n\nRhett her 27\n\nal\n\nConsve\n\ndraft for\n\nS\n\nat once\n\n27/11\n\n:) Mr. Lucas.\n\nIn\n\ntür carer\n\none or\n\nI may have\n\naltogether\n\nof\n\nmade slight modifications, & I have all\n\nomitted from the Draft Despatch the case\n\nof the Local Auditor.\n\nHis Salary should in any case not be raised without consulting the CoA. G, & Mr Gullick whom\n\nI saw\n\nI we\n\ntoday thinks he is\n\nalready\n\nneed not consider his case\n\nuntil he applies.\n\n7.6.7 29/11\n\nwell paid\n\nat\n\nrate\n\nally\n\nCPL 30\n\nat once\n\nnext vacancy] ansfer to ora\n\nass\n\n \n Secretary\n 2nd Magistrate\n \n \n \n Inspector of\n 4,050\n \n \n \n Schools\n \n \n \n \n Head of Royal\n Collage'\n 4,320\n \n \n Registrar of\n $8,400\n $1200\n \n \n Jafrec\n $4,800 - 5,700\n # 75-\n \n \n 4800 to 5400\n by triennial increments of $300\n \n \n \n Supreme Court\n $ 5,400\n \n \n \n Deputy Regis-\n trar & Apprais$ 4,506\n er\n \n \n Postmaster\n General\n \n \n \n Local\n Auditor\n \n \n \n Harbour\n Master\n $4,440 & £100 from Imperial Funds\n \n \n 4,000\n $4,500-$5,100\n \n \n \n $4,200-$5,100 plus\n €100\n \n \n \n $4,800-5,700\n $ 5,400\n \n \n \n P.0.Med:Offr.\n $ 4,800\n $ 5,100 $6,000\n \n \n $300\n в\n \n \n \n Class III\n \n \n \n \n Asst.Registrar General\n $ 3240\n Je to love\n \n \n reduced on\n 4800\n mn barang.\n \n \n 420 to 4880 by triennial\n int49 350\n of\n \n \n 4800 to 6000 by triennial\n J\n 600\n \n \n Deputy Super-\n intendent of $ 3,600 & quarters\n Police\n \n \n Deputy Regis-\n trar & Accoun-\n $ 3,240 tant\n \n \n Assistant Di-\n rector P.Works | 4,200\n 1 Engineer\n \n \n 3 Doctors\n 4,200\n -\n \n \n $5,600 $4,500\n Quarters and allowances for quarters\n \n \n \n 3 Cox to 4200\n more jane 96\n being being retained.\n \n \n #quo\n $3600 $4500\n \n \n \n #48003-\n 4600\n \n \n \n 4203 to 4800\n \n \n \n \n $3,600+ $720 for quar)\n 3600 - $84100 ters.\n \n \n \n Secretary Sani-\n tary Board\n \n \n \n increments of 120\n \n \n \n \n Crown Solicitor\n 3,240\n \n \n \n 3,000-3,600 by annual\n $3000-$3To by annual\n \n \n \n 3600 to 4200\n $1200\n retaining quarters\n \n \n Stet\n \"Increments of $120\n \n \n \n $3600\n $ 360\n stet\n \n \n Class IV", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372801, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 158, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "him purely general supervision of the Prison, and So 9-35′′\n\ngive to the Asst Supt the particular supervision with which the Superintendent was formally entrusted. Section 32 gives new powers to the Asst Supt which were not formerly possessed by the Supt, in the use of the Strait Jacket for the restraint of a violent prisoner!\n\nI notice (see the Rule 86 Court Prisons 1892 Local Prisons) that strait Jackets are not used in England. I am not however as certain that they are as barbarous a punishment as they seem. I have no ... art ... cally to say. I am not convinced that they are barbarous. I won’t say that they are for believing that they are.\n\nThe old Rule 16 as to delegation of the powers of a visiting magistrate is omitted.\n\nAs to what arrangements it is proposed to make in case of the illness or absence of the matron.\n\nRule 99: The latter part requires three months notice of resignation on forfeiture of three months pay. This is aimed at preventing frequent changes in Staff, which have been ... like the abolition of Unproductive Labour. Rule 252 is an innovation in giving to the Superintendent the decision as to the form of hard labour for each prisoner after the separate Confinement is over. This is rather a wide discretion to give, it appears to me unreasonable. But if prudently exercised it may be good.\n\nRule 287 (2) makes the minimum time to be spent in each of the first three Classes 6 months for the probation Class but a year for each of the next two Classes.\n\nI see no advantage in the old Rule no 306, its omission is a good thing.\n\nRule 287: The first seventeen offences are taken from the Local Prison Rules. Though they greatly amplify the old list, most of them can I think be taken exception to, especially as they are not punishable with flogging.\n\nAn officer resigning his appointment with short notice has caused inconvenience; but I am inclined to think one month's notice can reasonably be required.\n\nRules 207, 210 deal with juvenile offenders & are practically new. They appear to me quite in harmony with the spirit of the Home Prison Rules in regard to Juvenile Offenders, 258-274 of those Rules.\n\nN.B Juvenile offenders 2-14 are classified according as they have or have not been previously convicted under Rule 249.\n\nRule 219 appears to me unnecessary having regard to Rule 108 (4). So does Rule 220 having regard to Rule 165. Rules 243 & 284 Secs are new: but the punishment of depriving a prisoner of his mattress is allowed by the English Prison Rules & we need not therefore object to it.\n\nRule 251: Picking oakum is I understand the same as Stone breaking (see old Rule 285). In this country the amount of unproductive hard labour required of Prisoners has been greatly reduced lately. The Governor (see his notes on the Rules) is fully alive to this & is doing his best to keep pace with modern sentiments in this matter. Unfortunately the accommodation at the prison does not admit of anything being done.\n\n3 & 4 (x)--12435-2000-1-99 18195-2000-4-99\n\nIt is rather doubtful whether it is fair in the case of an Offence whether late or repeated, to force medicines down the throats of Chinese Convicts. Their dislike of Western Medicine is notorious. Ought we not at least to raise this point?\n\nRules 290, 291, 293 & 294.\n\nIn regard to the provisions as to Corporal punishment, it will be remembered that as the result of gross abuse of the powers of flogging the exceptionally lenient Rules in regard to flogging were insisted on in our Despatch No 19178. They included abolition of the \"cat\", the Kattens being exclusively substituted in its stead. The maximum number of floggings ordered was reduced in the case of a Superintendent to 25, and where a Visiting Justice had awarded it, to a maximum of twenty.\n\nThis regime was introduced by the Rules in 10341/97, & it tended ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372819, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "173\n\nA well-conducted prisoner may be spent at Industrial Labour.\n\nThe corresponding period of hard unproductive labour in local prisons at home is 28 days only. Public opinion in England has declared against unproductive hard labour and if the prison accommodation admitted of its abolition here, I would recommend its abolition.\n\nThe elimination of prisoners with sentences of 14 days and under from hard labour has been abolished; such exemption is not in accordance with the practice at home and it is difficult to understand why it was introduced here. The distinction between first offenders and old offenders is in accordance with existing practice.\n\nRules 256, 257, and 273 are new. In Rule 256, provision is made for the progressive stage system.\n\n175\n\nRules 274 and 275 take the place of the old Rules 240, 253, and 338. The latter portion of Rule 274 is new in order to provide privileges for the progressive stage system.\n\nRule 277, Sec. 2, takes the place of old Rule 347; the modifications being made in the interests of the progressive stage system.\n\nRules 284-296 take the place of the existing Rules 272...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372820, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 177, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "174\n\n272-284. Rule 284 is new.\n\nRule 286 offences 1-17 are taken from the rules of local prisons at home, offences 18 and 19 have to be provided for in a prison largely inhabited by Asiatic prisoners. No.20 is already an offence under existing rule 238.\n\nRule 288 sec. 1 The diet referred to will be found in the new scale of diets, the same remark applies to sections 2 and 3. These diets are a modified but less severe form of the No.2 and 3 diets for ill-conducted prisoners in use in local prisons at home. Sections 4, 5, and 6 are new; power to reduce one class of labour to another and to forfeit marks is given to the Superintendent in existing rules 292 and 324; there is no power at present to deprive of mattress, but this punishment is used at home. The punishment by deprivation of pork is omitted.\n\nRule 289 Offences 1, 2, 3, 11, and 12 are new; the remainder are the same as provided in existing rule 279. With regard to the punishments provided for in this section, an increase of three strokes with the birch rod for adults and two strokes with the birch in the case of juveniles is made. In England, the maximum number of strokes for a prisoner over 18 years of age is", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372823, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "C.C. 25793 177 Notes on 12 Sep 19\n\nThese Dietaries are based upon the existing Dietaries Modified on the lines of the Dietaries in Local Prisons at Home.\n\nIn the whole of the Dietaries the existing principle of:- \"We at diet will be supplied\" on Saturday and Sunday to male prisons with sentences more than six months. & Giving penal or reduced penal diet will be applied on every Saturday and Sunday:- to female prisoners of 16 years of age and boys under 16. With sentences over six months during the first six months of imprisonment. To all prisoners rigorously sentenced to imprisonment for a period of three months and upwards, and to all prisoners with sentences of six months and upwards, but not over 1st day. First during the first three days of imprisonment and of giving penal or reduced penal diet to all prisoners on Saturdays and Sundays.\n\nIn accordance with Rule 2357, the existing regulations which read as per original has been abandoned for the following reason.\n\nBy Rule 2357, a prisoner on hard labour diet cannot be placed on penal diet. The result is that the prisoners who are sent to Gaol for short days with hard labour cannot be put to hard labour at all but just be employed at picking Oakum or some other form of light labour; and that if they are idle or ill-conducted they cannot be punished by being put to harder labour nor in the Case of Chinese prisoners, with the proper effect by the infliction of dietary punishment, for the difference between the reduced penal and ordinary diet is...\n\n#Page 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372824, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 181, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "punishment diet\n\nfor\n\nChinese is\n\nGV\n\nand\n\nin appreciable being only Roy por dirm \"The practice of giving penal reduced penal diet on Saturday Sunday is not in accordance with what is done in England. Among other reasons it is objectionable, because under Rule 236 no hard labour can be exacted on Saturdays from those prisoners who are on reduced diets.\n\nThe system in vogue in England has therefore been adopted and in the case of Europeans and Chinese, as well as Indians a necessary modification has been made.\n\nIt is proposed to be given for the first few days of imprisonment to all prisoners sentenced to less than one month in the case of Europeans and to less than 6 months in the case of Asiatics.\n\n\"The difference is due to climate reasons.\n\nTwo more classes of diet are proposed for all prisoners and the periods to which they are to be applied are shown on the tables.\n\nClass 2 for Europeans is based on Class 3 in use in Local Prisons at home while Class 3 is the same as the existing full diet for Europeans. In both cases a reduced scale of diet for men without hard labour, women and boys has been adopted which has also been applied to Debtors, \"Misdemeanants\" of the First Class and prisoners on remand and for trial. This is in accordance with the home practice.\n\nIn the diets for Chinese prisoners the existing scale has been followed as closely as possible with the above referred general modifications.\n\nThe two scales for Class 1 and 2 are practically the same as the existing diets 5, 8 and 8A. While the full scale in Class 3 is the same as diet J, a reduced diet has been added for men without hard labour.\n\nThe allowance of 4 ounces of flour once a week to Chinese prisoners sentenced to imprisonment for upwards of 2 years with hard labour, after the first 6 months of the sentence has been passed, has been eliminated.\n\nPort for Chinese is a luxury which should not, I think, have a place in a European Prison dietary, and Indians are allowed a corresponding luxury.\n\nThe diets for Indian prisoners have been entirely remodelled. The general principles observed in the diets for other nationalities have been followed and the diets for men with hard labour have been placed...\n\nPage 61\n\n...\n\n178", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372825, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "te in \n\n• force \n\nthe \n\nplaced on the diet in Punjab. The scale in Phase I is equivalent to that pack, while the \n\nClass 3, 14 is a little larger. Three Masses of diet for sale or \n\nI full coarse in \n\nill conducted firesoners are i \n\nfor all nationalities. \n\n11 \n\ns \n\nintroduced \n\nThese are based with modifications \n\non those in use in the Home Local \n\nPrisons. \n\na scale of Hospital diets has been \n\ndrawn up by the Medical officer. \n\nThere is no fixed scale of present. \n\nI attach a statement \n\nof \n\nthe \n\nComparative cost of the proposed \n\nand existing diets. It will be seen \n\nthat the new scale is somewhat \n\nmore expensive than the old one. \n\nSupt. Victoria Gaol. \n\n98 \n\n \n Scale\n New Scale\n \n \n Includes\n Includes\n \n \n all prisoners with or without hard labour Sentenced to 3 days under\n All prisoners with and without hard labour sentenced to 1st days under\n \n \n \n 6'2 Cents per Daily Ration\n \n \n \n Men with hard labour 1st days Sentenced to more than 3 days and up to 6 months\n \n \n \n 62 Cents rest of sentence\n \n \n \n Men without hard labour 15 cents rest of sentence\n \n \n \n Women and Juveniles 15 Cents rest of sentence\n \n \n \n Sentenced to over 6 months\n \n \n \n Men without hard labour 62 cents\n \n \n \n Women and juveniles 15 cents\n \n \n \n Debtors 1st Class\n \n \n \n Misdemeanants, Remand and for Trial\n \n \n \n 62 cents\n \n \n \n All convicts over ...\n \n \n \n prisoners Remand and for trial 12 Cents\n \n \n \n Debtors and 1st Class whose period Misdemeanants\n \n \n \n Lovents\n \n\nPage 179\n\nComparatia Diets - Co of Curapeans\n\nRale per Daily Ration 5793\n\nPresent Scale 2 SEP 19\n\nRak\n\n \n...\n\n \n The last few lines appear to be cut off or not properly ordered. 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The rest of the corrections and formatting follow the respective rules.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372848, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "1\n\n \n New rule\n Old rule\n Remarks\n \n \n 202\n 252\n \n \n \n 286\n 253\n \n \n \n 254\n Conf336\n \n \n \n 255\n \n \n \n \n 287\n 256\n \n \n \n 288\n \n of labour under rule 257. The yard space being limited it is desirable that the Governor should have power to approve such new forms of labour as it may be found possible to utilise from time to time.\n \n \n 339\n \n Rearranged and with the alteration that under the new rule it is left to the discretion of the Superintendent what form of industrial labour the convict shall be kept at after the period of separate confinement is completed. In the interest of the gaol industries it is desirable that the Superintendent should have that discretion.\n \n \n \n \n New. A Distinction is made between first offenders and old offenders, which is in accordance with the actual practice hitherto observed in the gaol.\n \n \n \n \n Recast. The period of No.1 Hard labour to be exacted from first offenders with sentences of less than two years is reduced to 42 days from that more of the time of a well conducted prisoner may be spent at Industrial labour.\n \n \n \n Imantha\n The corresponding period of hard unproductive labour in local prisons at home is 28 days only. Public opinion in England has declared against unproductive hard labour and did the prison accommodation permit, I would recommend its abolition here.\n \n \n \n uwproductive\n The elimination of prisoners with sentences of 14 days and under from hard labour has been abolished. Such exemption not in accordance with the practice at home, and it is difficult to understand why it was introduced here\n \n\nThe text has been rearranged into a table format as the data appears to be comparative data between new and old rules. 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The original formatting and content have been preserved as much as possible.\n\n was removed as per rule 12 and 16, and the output is now in HTML format using and \n\n tags as required.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372850, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "A\n\n \n New\n Old\n rule\n \n \n 278 (5)\n 252\n Same\n \n \n 278 (6)\n 251\n Same\n \n \n 279\n 248\n Same\n \n \n 280\n 249\n Same\n \n \n 281\n 245\n Same\n \n \n 282\n 241\n \n \n \n 283\n 242\n Remarks\n \n \n 204\n \n Amplified\n \n\nThe limit postponement is abolished; at home the privilege may be absolutely forfeited and that is the principal that has been followed.\n\nNote: Rule 258 is omitted.\n\n \n New\n Old\n \n \n \n 284\n 250\n Same\n \n \n 285\n 275\n Same\n \n \n 286\n 272\n Same\n \n \n 287\n 276\n \n \n \n 288\n \n \n \n \n 289(1)\n 277\n \n \n \n (2)\n \n \n \n \n (3)\n \n Offences 1-17 are taken from the rules of local prisons at home. Offences 18 & 19 have to be provided for in prison largely inhabited by Asiatics. Offence No.20 was already an offence under old rule 238.\n \n\n(1) The diets referred to in sections 1,2,3 of the new rule will be found in the new scale.\n\n(2) Of diets Nos. 2&3 diets a modified and less severe form of the Nos. 2& 3 diets for ill-conducted prisoners in use in local prisons at home.\n\n(4) The punishment by deprivation of pork is omitted as it is entailed by reduction in rations in the case of prisoners entitled to receive pork.\n\n \n New\n Old\n \n \n \n 292\n \n Modified\n \n \n (6)\n 324\n 1\n \n \n (5)\n \n New\n \n \n 290\n 279\n Same with following exceptions.\n \n \n (a)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372851, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "New rule\n\n291\n\nRemarks\n\n205\n\n280\n\n(a) Offence Nos. 1, 2, 3, 11 & 12 are new.\n\n(b) The number of strokes of the birch rod which he inflicted under the section is increased from 12 to 15 in the case of adults and from 6 to 8 in the case of juveniles.\n\nUnder the latest rules for local prisons in England the maximum number of strokes of the birch rod or cat-o'-nine tails for a prisoner over 18 years of age is 36, while the maximum number of strokes of the birch rod for a prisoner under 18 years of age is 18.\n\nI am not an advocate of flogging except in very serious cases and the number of floggings by myself or the Asst. Superintendent this year up to date is only 5 but in my opinion a birching of 12 strokes only in the case of an adult and of 6 strokes only in the case of a juvenile is too mild to be efficacious.\n\nI would point out that under rule 292 no flogging can be inflicted without the previous sanction of the Governor of the Colony. An ample check is thus imposed and there seems little fear of the power to inflict corporal punishment being again abused.\n\nThe punishments under (b) & (c) of the section are based on old rules 292 & 324. The following alterations have been made in the old rule.\n\nIn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373165, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 522, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "Small Pox, \n\n(12) \n\nGOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.\n\nADMISSIONS.\n\nGENERAL DISEASES.\n\nTOTAL.\n\n \n \n Europeans.\n Indians & Asiatics.\n Coloured (Japanese & Persons included).\n Total.\n \n \n Chicken Pox,\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n Measles,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rubella. Synonym, Röteln, German Measles, Epidemic Rose Rash.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Scarlet Fever. Synonym, Scarlatina,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Small Pox,\n \n 10\n \n 10\n \n \n Plague,\n \n *\n \n *\n \n \n Influenza,\n \n 1\n to $2\n 1 to $2\n \n \n Mumps,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diphtheria\n \n 25\n \n 25\n \n \n Laryngeal Diphtheria, Synonym, Membranous Croup,\n \n 33\n \n 33\n \n \n Simple Continued Fever, Synonym, Febricula,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Enteric Fever, Synonym, Typhoid Fever,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Beri-beri, Synonym, Kakké,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Malarial Fever\n \n \n \n \n \n \n a. Intermittent, Synonym. Ague,\n \n 6\n \n 6\n \n \n b. Remittent,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n c. Malarial Cachexia,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Phagedæna\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sloughing Phagedæna,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erysipelas\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n Phlegmonous,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pyæmia,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Septicaemia\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tetanus,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Leprosy, Synonym. Elephantiasis Græcorum\n \n \n \n \n \n \n a. Tubercular,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis. Synonym, Pox\n \n \n \n \n \n \n b. Primary. Hard Chancre or infecting sore,\n \n 4\n \n 4\n \n \n c. Secondary, or Constitutional,\n \n 6\n \n 6\n \n \n d. Inherited,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gonorrhoea, Synonyms, Clap, Blennorrhagia,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Anthrax, Synonyms, Splenic Fever\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Woolsorters' disease, Malignant pustule, Diseases dependent on Animal Parasites,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Effects of Animal Poisons,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n of Vegetable\n \n \n \n \n \n \n of heat,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alcoholism:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Delirium tremens,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rheumatic Fever, Synonym, Acute Rheumatism,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rheumatism,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gout,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cyst,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n New Growth, Non-Malignant,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Malignant,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Anæmia,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hodgkin's Disease, Synonyme, Anæmia\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lymphatics....\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diabetes mellitus, Synonym, Persistent Glycosuria,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Debility,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n LOCAL DISEASES----\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nervous System,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eye.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ear\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Circulatory System,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Respiratory.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Digestive,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lymphatic,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Urinary System,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Male Organs.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Female Organs,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Organs of Locomotion,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Connective Tissue, Skin,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Local Injuries,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Surgical Operations, Under Observation,\n \n 2692\n \n 2692\n \n \n \n \n - 22\n \n - 22\n \n \n \n \n 56\n \n 56\n \n \n \n \n *******\n \n *******\n \n \n \n \n 247\n \n 247\n \n \n DEATHS.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Europeans.\n Indians & Asiatics.\n Coloured Persons.\n Total.\n \n \n \n \n &\n 87\n \n \n \n \n 10\n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n G =\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n :\n \n $\n \n \n \n \n l;:\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n 2*N2\n ::\n \n \n \n \n \n ::\n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n Asiatics.\n 101\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 105\n \n \n \n\n(13)\n\nTUNG WAH HOSPITAL.\n\nADMISSIONS.\n\nDEATHS.\n\n \n \n European Treatment.\n Chinese Treatment.\n Total.\n European Treatment.\n Chinese Treatment.\n Total.\n \n \n GENERAL DISEASES --\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n *Small-pox,\n \n 519\n 519\n \n 21\n 21\n \n \n *Plague,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Influenza.\n 22\n 22\n 1:2\n \n \n \n \n \n Enteric Fever.\n \n 38\n 38\n 4\n \n 4\n \n \n Dysentery,\n \n 35\n 35\n \n 3\n 3\n \n \n Beri-beri,\n \n 38\n 38\n \n 16\n 16\n \n \n Malarial Fever,--\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n a. Intermittent,\n \n 69\n 69\n \n 5\n 5\n \n \n b. Remittent.\n \n 84\n 84\n \n 3\n 3\n \n \n Erysipelas, Pyæmia, Septicaemia, Tetanus,\n \n 101\n 101\n \n \n \n \n \n Tubercle,\n \n 397\n 397\n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis, Constitutional, Alcoholism,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rheumatism,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n New Growth, non-malignant,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n malignant,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Anæmia, Debility,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n LOCAL DISEASES!---\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Nervous System,\n 17\n 397\n \n 61\n 39\n \n \n \n \n \n 61\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 39\n 129\n \n ****\n ----\n \n \n \n \n 316\n - 1\n \n 1\n 2\n \n \n \n \n ས\n 1:\n \n ཡ\n ཨེ\n \n \n \n of the Eyes,...\n 10\n 20\n \n ༣\n \n \n \n \n \n ; :\n ::\n \n :\n \n \n \n \n \n 4\n ++\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n of the Circulatory System,\n \n 36\n \n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n 89\n 107\n \n 3\n 3\n \n \n of the Respiratory System,\n \n 468\n \n 517\n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n of the Digestive System,\n \n 201\n \n 255\n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n 28\n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n 48\n 63\n \n \n 264\n \n \n \n of the Lymphatic System,\n \n 293\n \n 69\n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n 90\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n of the Urinary System,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n 26\n \n \n KAY\n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n \n 11\n \n \n \n \n of the Generative System,--\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Male Organs,\n \n 11\n \n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n Female Organs, ...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n of the Organs of Locomotion,\n \n 41\n \n 34\n \n 75\n \n \n of the Cellular Tissue,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 56\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n of the Skin.\n \n 40\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Local fujuries,\n \n 40\n \n 127\n \n \n \n \n Poisons,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Parasites,\n \n 2\n \n 1\n ཨྠ\n ོ༠\n \n \n \n \n 74\n \n 130\n \n \n \n \n \n 106\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n I\n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n S\n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n 27\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n 135\n \n \n \n \n \n 55\n \n \n 234\n \n \n \n \n \n 352\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n 29\n \n \n 51\n \n \n \n \n Total,\n 1,025\n 1,873\n 2,898\n 170\n 672\n 842\n \n\n* Transferred at once, unless actually dying to Kennedy Town,\n\n(C.) Sanitation.\n\nSanitary conditions are still far from perfect, and the Government recognises that sanitation is one of the most important matters that can engage its attention. There has been an improvement during the past four or five years owing to a strict enforcement of the Public Health Ordinance (No.124 of 1887) and the Insanitary Properties Ordinance (No.15 of 1894). But this improvement can not be said to be universal, and it is to be feared that many of the Chinese dwellings in the city are structurally in a very insanitary condition. There was an Insanitary Properties Commission appointed during the year, and as a result of its enquiries a number of recommendations were submitted to the Government. These recommendations, together with amendments, suggested by the Board, will be embodied in a Bill which, when it becomes law, will probably do much for the amelioration of the present unsatisfactory state of affairs.\n\nIt has recently been proposed to erect a Refuse Destructor of the type now common in many English cities, whereby the town refuse may be destroyed in forced-draught furnaces instead of being conveyed to dumping-grounds as at present. Estimates have been received from two English firms, and the Government hopes to find an early opportunity of giving this matter the attention which it deserves.\n\nPage 363\n\nSE!\n\nTOTAL,\n\n788\n\n-433\n\n1,350\n\n2,571\n\n4.0\n\n0\n\n83\n\n139\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377689, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 158, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "## LEGISLATION\n\nForty Ordinances were passed during the year, of which ten were for the Naturalisation of Chinese. The Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance was amended to enable resumption for \"public purpose.\"\n\n## EDUCATION\n\n### Primary Education\n\nPrimary Education in Hongkong may be divided into two great divisions:\n1. Schools in which an English education is given.\n2. Vernacular\n\nEach division may again be divided into three sub-divisions.\n\n#### I. Schools in which an English education is given\n\nI.A.-There are four Government Schools, outside Queen's College, which give an education in English. These are under the charge of Native Teachers who are capable of teaching at least to the Fourth Standard. A competitive examination is held each year of boys from these schools, of whom four are selected for Free Scholarships tenable at Queen's College. The education at these schools is free, and by far the greater majority of the scholars are Chinese and Eurasians, but there are a few Indians. The number attending these four schools is 631. There is also one school (Belilios Public School for girls) where an English education is given to girls and a few very young boys who are too young to enter Queen's College, but eventually go there. The number of scholars attending this school is 255, and the five schools together have an average daily attendance of 886.\n\nI.B.-Of the Grant-in-aid Schools giving an English education, there are 18, having an average daily attendance of 1,320. Nearly all these schools are attached to, and under the guidance of some religious body; and with the exception of three, viz., The Diocesan School, St. Joseph's College School, and Victoria English School, give quite a primary education only. These three will be mentioned again among the schools giving a secondary education.\n\nI.C.-Private Schools in which an English education is given.-The number of these schools cannot be very correctly stated, especially as it is difficult to say what number of scholars constitutes a school in these circumstances. They also fluctuate a great deal, sometimes being opened till the master finds a more lucrative occupation. It appears, however, that there are seven that may be called schools, generally of some of the native masters of Queen's College. Some of these should come more under the head of Evening Classes held in hired houses.\n\n#### II. Vernacular\n\nII.A.-Of the Government schools which give an education in Chinese only, there are now 7 (one having been closed at the end of 1898) having an average daily attendance of 249.9.\n\nII.B.-There are 73 Grant-in-aid Schools having an attendance of 3,811 scholars for the year, of whom 1,806 are boys and 2,005 girls. The books in use for these schools include some of the smaller Chinese classics, but being, like all the Grant-in-aid Schools, under the control of some religious sect, books compiled under the guidance of these various sects and of a religious character, are, subject to the approval of the Inspector of Schools, substituted for ordinary Chinese books. Under this heading must be reckoned the Portuguese Schools in which the Portuguese language is taught with a hope of substituting, in time, the pure language for the patois which now prevails. There are five of these schools with an attendance of 11 boys and 143 girls for the year.\n\nII.C.-Private schools in which a Chinese education is given.-Considering the facilities offered both by the Government and the Grant-in-aid system for a free education in Chinese, it seems hardly credible that Private schools could exist and be made to pay, but it is evident that they both exist and pay sufficiently for many ventures to be made, for they number 100 with an attendance of 2,195 scholars, one of them being a girls' school.\n\n### SECONDARY EDUCATION\n\nQueen's College, which is a Government institution, has a staff qualified to give a Secondary education, but the time is not yet ripe for it to be turned into a Secondary Educational Institution. The four principal English schools, viz., Queen's College, Diocesan School, St. Joseph's College School, and the Victoria English School prepare candidates for the Senior Oxford Local Examinations, and so may be said to give a Secondary Education to a certain, but very limited, extent; but in all these institutions, by far the majority of the boys receive only a Primary Education. \n\nThree Ordinances had special reference to the New Territory. One was to exempt the Territory from the operation of certain Ordinances not considered applicable to it. A second was to give power to divide the New Territory into Districts and Sub-districts, to appoint Committees of Districts and Sub-districts, make rules for the good order, health, and general good government of the Territory, for the Constitution of Local Tribunals in Districts and Sub-districts, for the hearing and deciding of petty civil and criminal cases, and the levying of contributions on the inhabitants where extra crime required the provision of extra Police. The local tribunals under this Ordinance have not been established.\n\nThe third Ordinance gives power to make rules for the farming out for revenue purposes of the right to sell or otherwise deal in any commodity and for the collection of rent and taxes. Opium was the only commodity that has been dealt with under this Ordinance.\n\nAn important sanitary measure was passed in the Insanitary Properties Ordinance, which has for its object the improvement of light and ventilation in existing domestic buildings, and of open spaces in rear of them, and the provision of larger open spaces in rear of new buildings, and the sanitary maintenance of private streets and lanes. The provisions of the Ordinance still fall short of similar requirements in England, but are as exacting as perhaps could be imposed without involving questions of compensation for loss of space in a City where land is extraordinarily valuable.\n\nOrdinances were passed to consolidate and amend the Law relating to Criminal Procedure, Merchant Shipping, and Prisons, and an important amendment of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance was passed, giving larger powers of dealing with brothels and disorderly houses, and making it penal to permit a woman suffering from contagious disease to remain in a brothel. The provisions of this Ordinance have already had a salutary effect.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 461, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Local Diseases\n\n| Admissions | Everspray Chinese Pre-meal treatment | C. O. | 40248 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | [REC: 459 Death GE10 DEC 00] | Sital Europran Chenece | |\n| | Ratmeal Featuaal | Sotal | |\n\n| Diseases of the | | | | | |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Nerous System | 10 | 19 | 10 | 14 | |\n| Eye | 2 | | 2 | | |\n| Circulatory System | 5 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 9 |\n| Respiratory System | 41 | 71 | 112 | 17 | 67 | 84 |\n| Digestive System | 26 | 34 | 40 | 10 | 18 | 28 |\n| Lymphatic System | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |\n| Urinary System | 4 | | 10 | 2 | 2 | |\n| Generative System; | | | | | | |\n|   Male organs | 2 | | 2 | | | |\n|   Female organs | 1 | | H | | | |\n| Organs of Locomotion | 7 | | 5 | | 12 | |\n| Connective Tissue | 13 | | 10 | | 23 | |\n| Skin | 8 | | 6 | | 14 | |\n| General Injuries | 1 | | 1 | | | |\n| Local Injuries | 15 | | 39 | 54 | 1 | 2 |\n| Poisons | | | | | | |\n\n| To tal | 348 | 404 | 752 | 104 | 212 | 316 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Less Moribund cases | 54 | 27 | 81 | 54 | 27 | 81 |\n| xx | | | | | | |\n| Total treated | 294 | 377 | 671 | 50 | 185 | 235 |\n\nand other Hospitals.\n\nThis includes cases sent to Kennedy Town.\n\n**(ad) J.C.Thomson, Inspecting Medical Officer**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381141, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 669, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "664\n\n: 10-\n\nrecognised prophylactic measures against Plague, or to improve the Sanitary Conditions of the Colony.\n\n26.-In forwarding Dr. Lowson's report to the Government, the late Colonial Surgeon, on 2nd March, 1895, wrote as follows:\n\nThe necessity for remedying the results of faulty construction of the houses in the Chinese quarters, the want of ventilation, light and air in them, the impossibility of keeping them clean and wholesome, the inadequate water supply, the want of proper drainage, the overcrowded condition of the houses, the filthy condition of wells, the necessity for proper latrine accommodation, and the enormous amount of filth collected in the houses have now been fully revealed. I first called the attention of Government to the state of things I have mentioned in my report dated the 15th April, 1874, within six months of my arrival in this Colony. In this report I mentioned by name the streets and lanes, and the position of many gullies without a name in that portion of Taipingshan which has now been walled in, and the condition of filth in which I found the houses, also streets and alleys in other portions of the town; almost the same state of things was found in 1894. Yet a further special report was sent in by a Commission appointed to verify the statements made in my report which was sent in in May 1875. In 1880 Mr. Chadwick arrived with a Royal Commission to investigate the condition of things described, and his full report to the Secretary of State appeared in a Blue Book. Six years afterwards he again visited the Colony and expressed his surprise at finding how little had been done to remedy the state of things he had described, and again reported on them. Many laws have been made in the twenty years previous to 1894 to remedy the insanitary state of the Colony, but most have remained dead letters owing to the difficulties of enforcing them and the prejudices of the Chinese especially and other sections of the community.\n\nSince 1874 the divisions of the City of Victoria inhabited by Chinese have increased more than three-fold in size, and the new portions are in nearly as bad a condition as the old.\n\nThe labours of Hercules in cleansing the Augean stables were a trifle compared with that which the Government has to contend with in the near future in cleansing the City of Victoria and other inhabited portions of the Colony.\n\n27.—Dr. J. A. Lowson attributed the predisposing causes of plague to be \"insanitary conditions, of these, filth and overcrowding must be reckoned as two of \"the most important factors.\" The main causes of the spread of the disease he attributed to the following:-\n\n(1) Want of means for the isolation of people who were almost certainly incubating the disease.\n\n(2) The grossly insanitary condition of the latrines.\n\n(3) Overcrowding.\n\n(4) Want of efficient house scavenging and the filthy habits of the inhabitants.\n\nThose were the most potent factors in the spread of the epidemic; and these simple but urgent matters should be put right forthwith. While I write this, the houses in First Street and several other streets not far from the Government Civil Hospital are in as bad a condition as—if not worse than—they were in April 1894.\n\n28-In the same Report (page 356, Government Gazette, 1895) Dr. Lowson said: \"I am convinced that an epidemic of plague in Hongkong could be tackled and got under rapidly if men in sufficient number could be got to do the work.\" Yet with the experience of recurring epidemics of Plague since 1894 we find a completely undermanned Medical Staff endeavouring to grapple with it in the present year, in which from January to June, there have been over 1,400 reported cases. At the height of the epidemic there was one Medical Officer on duty at the Infectious Hospitals for European and Asiatics at Kennedy Town, who was compelled through want of accommodation to reside a mile from the hospitals, and whose duties also included attendance on the Prisons and the Police. A civil practitioner was not appointed to relieve the official doctor of a portion of his duties until the matter had been ventilated in the Public Press. There is but one Medical Officer of Health, who is assisted by one Sanitary Surveyor and twenty Inspectors of Nuisances, who are without special training. This is the Public Health staff to look after a community of over 280,000 persons, the lower classes of whom are most careless and insanitary in their habits. A Sanitary Inspector takes ten months to visit thoroughly his health district, a duty which should be done daily, and there is only one Inspector for the whole of the markets in the Colony. In the city of Liverpool with its population of 668,615, against that of Hongkong of 288,415, there are no less than 97 sanitary inspectors, 52 of whom hold the certificate of the Sanitary Institute, and whose previous training and occupation have been such as to fit them for the special duties they are called upon to discharge. With a population approximating to half that of Liverpool we have but twenty Inspectors without training or certificates to deal with an Asiatic population requiring more than ordinary supervision.\n\n29.-Attention might also be called to the fact that the appointment of the important post of Boarding Health Officer of this great shipping centre has hitherto been given to local practitioners, whose private practice naturally interferes with their Harbour duties, with the result that Mail and other steamers have been subjected at various times to vexatious and unnecessary detentions. In consequence of the strong representations which have recently been made by the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce to the effect that the Port Health Officer should give his undivided attention to his shipping duties, the Government has given assurances that the Medical inspection of shipping visiting the Colony shall be placed on a more satisfactory footing, still the present system is so radically faulty that we deem it advisable to invite attention to the subject.\n\n30.-So serious has the position become that the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce addressed the Government on the 7th June, 1901, and a copy of such letter and H.E. the Governor's reply are attached:\n\nSIR,\n\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce, Hongkong, 7th June, 1901.\n\nThe present severe epidemic of Bubonic Plague, which seems now to have become an annual visitation, presents so serious a menace to the general prosperity of this port and Colony, that in the interest of trade my Committee deem it their duty to make such representations to the Government as they trust may lead to the adoption of every measure practicable calculated to limit the spread of this disease.\n\nI am therefore directed to point out that although it is now seven years since the disease first appeared in a fatally epidemic form, and notwithstanding all...\n\n11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381191, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 719, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "713\n\nIt was in 1889 that Mr. Chadwick's second visit was made and we have failed to find any record of the expression of surprise attributed to him.\n\n15. With regard to the remarks of Dr. Lowson quoted in paragraph 27 the isolation of contacts was in a measure carried out in 1894 by the Permanent Committee who removed over 4,000 persons from Tai-ping-shan and isolated them in unoccupied houses in the Western part of the City. They found it is impossible to carry the system further.\n\nIn 1895 isolation of contacts in large boats was adopted. This was feasible owing to the small number of cases occurring, the total for the year being only 44. In 1896 it was adopted in similar boats during the first two months of the Plague (January and February) when it had to be abandoned owing to the large increase in the number of cases from 49 in January to 168 in March.\n\nIt has not been adopted since as it has not been found possible to carry it out when the number of cases became at all large.\n\nThe latrines in 1894 were constantly disinfected and that precaution has been adopted in every epidemic since.\n\nThe measures taken to abate overcrowding and improve cleanliness have already been described.\n\n16. In paragraph 28 the Petitioners quote an opinion of Dr. Lowson that \"an epidemic in Hongkong could be tackled and got under rapidly if men in sufficient number could be got to do the work.\"\n\nWe regret to say that the experience of 1894 does not justify Dr. Lowson's opinion.\n\nThe Permanent Committee had an unlimited supply of men in that year, comprising Police, Soldiers and Civilian Volunteers, for business, as has been mentioned, was brought to a standstill by the exodus of Chinese.\n\nIn spite of the many workers and of the most drastic measures the epidemic though undoubtedly confined within narrower limits was not \"got under\" one day sooner than it ceased of its own accord in the neighbouring City of Canton where no steps whatever were taken to combat the Plague.\n\nThe measures that have been adopted since 1894 are those which were recommended by the principal workers in the epidemic of 1894, by the Sanitary Board, by the Medical Advisers of the Government, and which commended themselves to the Community as represented on the Legislative Council.\n\nAs to the Medical Staff available to help in carrying out those measures, we would point out that in 1895 a Committee consisting of Deputy Inspector General Knott, R. N., Surgeon Colonel Preston, A.M.S., Mr. McConachie, Mr. Thurburn & Dr. Cantlie was appointed to enquire into the Medical Department, and that the Medical Staff is constituted in accordance with their recommendations with the exception that the Health Officer of the Port retains his private practice.\n\nIt must however be borne in mind that the latter officer employs an Assistant to do the work in the Harbour.\n\nThe statements that \"at the height of the epidemic there was one Medical Officer on duty at the Infectious Hospitals for Europeans and Asiatics at Kennedy Town who was compelled through want of accommodation to reside a mile from the Hospitals and whose duties also included attendance on the Prisons and the Police\" and that a Civil practitioner was not appointed to relieve the official doctor of a portion of his duties until the matter had been ventilated in the Public Press are misleading.\n\nIn the first place one (and the largest) of the Plague Hospitals at Kennedy Town is a branch of the Tung Wa Hospital and is open to Chinese only who are attended by their own native doctors. The European Medical Officer only visits daily to exercise a general supervision.\n\nThe greatest number of cases under treatment at one and the same time in the Kennedy Town Hospital during the recent epidemic was 22. To assist him in attending on these cases the Medical Officer had 2 European Wardmasters, 2 trained European Nurses and 1 trained Chinese Wardmaster—a medical student in his fifth year of study.\n\nThe Medical Officer has never resided in the Kennedy Town Hospital—not even in 1894. He is in telephonic communication with it.\n\nThe Medical Officer's duties at the Gaol occupy about one hour a day. The Police (except women—and these go to Hospital for confinement) and children of whom there are not many go into Hospital when sick. Practically the only Police work is in connection with Post Mortem cases at the Mortuary.\n\nThe Medical Officer was relieved of that work on the 13th of May. At the height of the epidemic (215 cases in one week) he was relieved of the Gaol work on the recommendation of the Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\nIn answer to an inquiry whether the Medical Officer should be in constant attendance at Kennedy Town Hospital the Acting Principal Medical Officer advised that it was not necessary as ample trained assistance was on the spot for any European.\n\nRegarding the alleged insufficiency of the Sanitary Staff, we would draw attention to the fact that it was in consequence of a recommendation made in 1899 by a Select Committee of the Sanitary Board consisting of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, the Medical Officer of Health (Dr. Clark) and Mr. Osborne (one of the Petitioners) based on a report by Dr. Clark himself, that the number of Sanitary Inspectors was fixed at twenty.\n\nWe append a copy of the report marked Enclosure F. as it shows on what calculations the number was arrived at, and would point out that when Dr. Clark made that report he was himself satisfied, and Mr. Osborne, a Member of the Sanitary Board then and now, must have been also satisfied, that an Inspector's visit at least once in two months to each floor of his district was reasonably sufficient.\n\nThe Petitioners omit to mention the fact that the 20 Inspectors were exclusive of a highly trained Chief Inspector of Nuisances obtained from England in the early part of 1899 and who has left recently owing to ill health, or that he is being replaced by an Assistant Medical Officer of Health.\n\nAs for the want of training of the Inspectors the Chief Inspector was engaged principally to train them. Application was however made early in this year for three trained Inspectors from home and two more have recently been asked for.\n\nThe Memorialists compare the Sanitary Staff here with that of Liverpool.\n\nThe Medical Officer of Health we are given to understand based his calculations in some measure on the Sanitary Staff of Newcastle, where he received his training as a Health Officer, which had a population of 228,000 persons in 1899, and a staff of from 14 to 18 Sanitary Inspectors and 1 Chief Inspector in 1891.\n\nThe population of Victoria, Kowloon and the Hill District (which are the districts in which the Sanitary Inspectors work in this Colony) is:—\n\nVictoria, 181,918; Kowloon, 43,871; Hill District, 2,224; Total, 228,018.\n\n17. With regard to the statements contained in the letter of the Chamber of Commerce of the 7th of June, (Para. 30 of the Petition), we have only to point to the enclosures B, and C. hereto to show upon what slender foundations those statements rest.\n\n18. In conclusion we cannot refrain from expressing our regret that the Petition as drafted is calculated to mislead. Any one who reads it, without local knowledge and unacquainted with the real facts of the case, could not but receive the erroneous impression that in Hongkong sanitation has been at a standstill for the last twenty years and that nothing has been done or attempted to improve the sanitary condition of the Colony.\n\nThat such an impression would be entirely erroneous is shown by the facts we have adduced.\n\nIt is unfortunate that the Petition as worded is not more worthy of the good cause—the improved sanitation of Hongkong—it purports to serve.\n\nEvery resident who has the true welfare of the Colony at heart must be in favour of that cause, and it would indeed be a benighted Government that refused to do all in its power to advance it.\n\nBut the sanitary improvement of the Colony in the future is not likely to be secured by misrepresenting its sanitary history in the past.\n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nW. CHATHAM, M.I.C.E.,\n\nActing Director of Public Works and President of the Sanitary Board.\n\nF. H. MAY, Captain Superintendent of Police and Vice-President of the Sanitary Board.\n\nHongkong, 18th July, 1901.\n\nEnclosure F.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385710, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 315, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "## RETURN OF DISEASES AND DEATHS IN 1901 AT THE GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,—Continued.\n\n### MONTHS.\n| JAN. | FEB. | MAR. | APRIL | MAY | JUNE | JULY | AUG. | SEPT. | OCT. | NOV. | DEC. | YEARLY |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Mean Temperature, | | | | | | | | | | | | 54.8 |\n| Mean Humidity, | | | | | | | | | | | | 71.9 |\n\n### LOCAL DISEASES,—Continued.\n| | JAN. | FEB. | MAR. | APRIL | MAY | JUNE | JULY | AUG. | SEPT. | OCT. | NOV. | DEC. | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **Circulatory System** | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Cases | 7 | 78 | 3 | 94 | | 10 | 5 | | 15 | | 6 | | 218 |\n| Deaths | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... |\n| **Respiratory System** | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Cases | 130 | 123 | | 140 | 8 | 144 | 6 | | | | | | 691 |\n| Deaths | 5 | | 3 | | 1 | | | | | | | | 9 |\n| **Digestive System** | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Cases | 181 | 220 | 6 | 107 | | | | | | | | | 514 |\n| Deaths | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... |\n| ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Brought forward, | 160 | 17 | 182 | 5 | 144 | 7 | 174 | 7 | 189 | 12 | 209 | 9 | 221 |\n\n## REMARKS.\n\n| | JAN. | FEB. | MAR. | APRIL | MAY | JUNE | JULY | AUG. | SEPT. | OCT. | NOV. | DEC. | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Mean Temperature, | | | | | | | | | | | | | 64.9 |\n| Mean Humidity, | | | | | | | | | | | | | 54.8 |\n| ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Brought forward, | 160 | 17 | 132 | | | | | | | | | | |\n| **Effects of Death** | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Malformations, | 4 | 22 | | 43 | 2 | | | | | | | | 71 |\n| Poisons, | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... |\n| Parasites, | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... |\n| Under Observation, | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... |\n| ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| TOTAL, | 211 | 157 | 6 | 191 | 7 | 219 | 9 | 235 | 15 | 226 | 15 | 259 | 17 |\n\n| | Cases | Deaths |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| ... | ... | ... |\n| TOTAL | 2,320 | 153 |\n| | | 32,320 | \n## DISEASES.\n| | Cases | Deaths |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| ... | ... | ... |\n| TOTAL | 2,804 | 153 |", "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": 413985, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 487, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "# No. 157\n\nMy Lord,\n\nGovernment House, \nHongkong, 12th June, 1908.\n\n**C O** \n25186 \n13 JUL 08\n\nI have the honour to transmit to Your Lordship the enclosed copy of a minute, dated the 28th ultimo, by the Acting Government Bacteriologist, on the subject of Ratin No. 2, a rat exterminator.\n\n2. In the opinion of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, the results obtained by Dr. C. M. Heanley warrant an extensive trial, Ratin No. 2 being better than Danys' Virus and probably safer than chemical poisons.\n\n3. As it is possible that experiments may have been made with this Ratin by the Medical Department of the Local Government Board, I have the honour to request that their opinion as to its use may be obtained.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord, \nYour Lordship's most obedient, \nhumble servant, \nMuggeridge \nGovernor, &c.\n\nRIGHT HONOURABLE \nTHE EARL OF CREWE, \nK.G. &c. &c. &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414122, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 2\n\n**ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE**\nHongkong, \n2nd July, 1908.\n\n**Report on Ordinance No 12 of 1908.**\n\n28765/32\nP. 7 AUG 08\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled **An Ordinance to provide for the registration of Chemists and Druggists and to regulate the Sale of Poisons**, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.\n\nThis Ordinance, as its title states, provides for the registration of Chemists and Druggists and regulates the Sale of Poisons. It is framed on the basis of the Pharmacy Act 1868, with such amendments as are necessary to suit local requirements.\n\nIt received, generally speaking, the previous sanction of the medical community in this Colony.\n\nW. H. Davies.\n**Attorney General**.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 363, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": ".2\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nShanghae Municipal Council to Senior Consul.\n\nCouncil Room, Shanghae, January 10, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that the steady increase in the number of cases of petty crime brought under the notice of the police, and in the number of native prisoners in municipal custody have again brought into prominence the desirability of the reintroduction of the bamboo, a matter which has engaged the Council's attention at intervals since November 1905, when the change in procedure in this respect was inaugurated at the Mixed Court.\n\nThe method observed in affecting this change offers special features, and the exact position of the question is best recalled by means of a cursory review of what had passed.\n\nAuthority for the abolition of the bamboo is apparently based on an Imperial Rescript issued on the 24th April, 1905, which approved generally the terms of a Report by the Land Revision Commissioners on a Memorial by the Nanking Viceroy. This Report referred to the abolition of torture, and contained a proposal for the substitution of fines for blows. On the 25th April an Edict was issued primarily in reference to the use of torture and the cruelties practised in the native yamêns, and briefly stating that the usual formal sanction had been given to the terms of the Report. There is thus reason to suppose that, in so far as these documents refer to the use of the bamboo, the promulgation of the new procedure was intended to be regarded neither as emphatic nor as universal. On the 15th October a Memorial upon the same matter, and from the same quarter, was similarly sanctioned, wherefrom it was understood that the application of the new rule would be general, though, in the light of what has passed, its terms as published in the native press, seem to express an intention to establish strict observance of the new procedure as an experiment at the Mixed Court alone. The foreign authorities were then at the beginning of November formally notified of the order received.\n\nThe views of the community generally upon the subject again unequivocally found voice at the ratepayers meeting in March last, and lately in the request for the active co-operation of the Consular Body contained in the Council's letter of the 13th April, to which there is little to add. On the 24th May last a telegram appeared in a well-informed native organ stating that the Nanking Viceroy had memorialized the Throne by telegram requesting the reintroduction of blows at the Court on the ground that criminality had largely increased since their cessation, and two days later a second message announced that the formal Imperial sanction had been given. The denial of this announcement had come to the Council's notice, and the grounds therefor may doubtless be verified by the Consular Body.\n\nIt is meanwhile beyond doubt that the recent increase in police cases of all kinds is to be traced directly to the fact that the Settlement, as the sole locality throughout China wherein the bamboo is known to be in disuse, offers an inviting field to habitual malefactors from all quarters. In Tien-tsin and Hankow the bamboo is applied as a matter of ordinary procedure. In the native city and the neighbouring suburb of Nantao the maintenance of order is aided by blows daily administered under orders of the officials in charge. The municipal gaol, moreover, compares so favourably with neighbouring prisons under purely native control, that alone it forms an inadequate deterrent in the eyes of the native criminal, a fact which was recently evidenced by the statement of one prisoner in open Court to the effect that he desired to return to gaol in order to obtain good food. The abolition of blows in the foreign Settlement, if genuinely an experimental administrative reform, has thus clearly proved an inequitable, premature, and perilous measure. I am confident, however, that consideration of the events concurrent with this innovation, and the manner in which it has been carried out, will confirm the Consular Body in the views expressed in the Council's letter of the 13th April.\n\nIn conclusion, it may be observed that in the Council's opinion the bamboo is eminently suited to the character of the native offender, is an adjunct of criminal justice rendered vitally necessary under present conditions if only by reason of immemorial use, and, administered after guilt had been established under the check exercised by the presence of foreigners at the Court, is a wholly humane and salutary mode of correction.\n\nIn inquiring therefore whether the contents of the Council's letter are receiving attention at the hands of the Diplomatic Body at Peking, I have the honour to request\n\n3\n\nthat, since this matter is now of the gravest moment to the security of the community, negotiations may be reopened or vigorously sustained to a satisfactory settlement.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nD. LANDALE, Chairman,\n\nDoyen's Circular, dated January 27, 1908.\n\nLE doyen a l'honneur de faire circuler une lettre du doyen du Corps Consulaire à Shanghai en date du 15 Janvier courant, avec une annexe, par lesquelles la question du rétablissement de l'usage du bambou, comme moyen de châtiment à la Cour Mixte à Shanghai, est soumise au jugement du Corps Diplomatique.\n\nIl prie ses honorables collègues de vouloir bien se prononcer à ce sujet.\n\n(Signé) A. J. VAN CITTERS.\n\nPékin, le 27 Janvier, 1908.\n\nP.S.-Je suis d'avis qu'il sera nécessaire de se conformer au désir du Conseil Municipal et de consentir en conséquence au rétablissement de l'usage du bambou.\n\n(Signé) A. J. VAN CITTERS.\n\nIt is, in my opinion, not desirable for the Diplomatic Body to take any direct initiative in pressing for the reintroduction of the bamboo. The return to the former practice should rather be made by the Chinese authorities under the pressure of the local public opinion, Chinese and foreign, which the Municipal Council may perhaps be able to direct towards the question.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n(Signed)\n\n358\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417501, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 213, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[37471]\n\nNo. 1,\n\n[October 28.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir,\n\nHome Office to Foreign Office.--(Received October 28.)\n\nHome Office, Whitehall, October 26, 1908. WITH reference to your letter of the 10th instant, asking for any Acts or Regulations in force in this country on the subject of the import, sale, &c., of opium and morphin, and inquiring whether there are any Regulations in regard to opium dues, I am directed by the Secretary of State to say, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, that he has consulted the Privy Council Office, Board of Trade, the Commissioners of Customs, and the Board of Inland Revenue on the matter, and has ascertained the following facts :-\n\nOpium is one of the poisons in Part 2 of Schedule A to \"The Pharmacy Act, 1868\" (copy inclosed),† and under the provisions of that Act it must be labelled \"poison,\" and can only be sold by registered chemists.\n\nMorphia comes under \"alkaloids\" in Part 1 of the same Schedule, and its sale is subject to further conditions (see sections 15 and 17 of Act).\n\nNone of the provisions of \"The Pharmacy Act, 1868,\" except that of labelling articles \"poison,\" apply in the case of the exportation of poisons by wholesale dealers. The importation and exportation of these drugs are not subject to any restriction under Customs law or departmental regulation.\n\nThe Secretary of State understands that the Board of Trade have forwarded a copy of the Foreign Office letter to the Local Government Board, with a request that the Board will reply direct to your Department.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE. BLACKWELL.\n\nNOTE—Owing to a misreading on the part of the typists, the word \"dens\" in our draft was copied as \"dues.\" The Home Office have been so informed, and have promised to obtain a report on the subject from the police.—B.A.\n\n† Not printed.\n\n[1980 ee-1]\n\n209", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417502, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 214, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[37494]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[October 28.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n210\n\nSir,\n\nLocal Government Board to Foreign Office.--(Received October 28.)\n\nWhitehall, October 27, 1908.\n\nI AM directed by the Local Government Board to state that they have received, through the Board of Trade, a copy of Sir F. Campbell's letter of the 10th instant to the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, transmitting copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking requesting to be furnished with copies of any Acts or Regulations governing the import, sale, &c., of opium and morphia in the United Kingdom.\n\nI am to state, for the information of the Secretary of State, that, as regards the sale of these drugs, the law with which the Board are concerned is contained in sections 4-7 of \"The Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875.” As regards preparation of these drugs, I am to refer to the British Pharmacopoeia, and in this connection I am to draw attention to the case of White v. Bywater (1887) L.R., 19 Q.B.D., 582.\n\nAt the same time I am to point out that, as opium and morphia are poisons, the provisions of the Poisons Act apply to them, and I am to suggest that the Foreign Office should communicate with the Privy Council Office, as the Department which administers that Act.\n\n&c.\n\nI am,\n\n(Signed)\n\nJOHN LITHIBY.\n\n[1980 ee-3]\n\n-21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417925, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 637, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCHINA TRADE,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[37471]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n633\n\n[October 28.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir,\n\nHome Office to Foreign Office.-(Received October 28.)\n\nHome Office, Whitehall, October 26, 1908. WITH reference to your letter of the 10th instant, asking for any Acts or Regulations in force in this country on the subject of the import, sale, &c., of opium and morphia, and inquiring whether there are any Regulations in regard to opium dues,* I am directed by the Secretary of State to say, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, that he has consulted the Privy Council Office, Board of Trade, the Commissioners of Customs, and the Board of Inland Revenue on the matter, and has ascertained the following facts:--\n\n53\n\nOpium is one of the poisons in Part 2 of Schedule A to \"The Pharmacy Act, 1868\" (copy inclosed),† and under the provisions of that Act it must be labelled \"poison,\" and can only be sold by registered chemists.\n\nMorphia comes under \"alkaloids\" in Part 1 of the same Schedule, and its sale is subject to further conditions (see sections 15 and 17 of Act).\n\nNone of the provisions of \"The Pharmacy Act, 1868,\" except that of labelling articles \"poison,\" apply in the case of the exportation of poisons by wholesale dealers. The importation and exportation of these drugs are not subject to any restriction under Customs law or departmental regulation.\n\nThe Secretary of State understands that the Board of Trade have forwarded a copy of the Foreign Office letter to the Local Government Board, with a request that the Board will reply direct to your Department.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE. BLACKWELL.\n\n*NOTE-Owing to a misreading on the part of the typists, the word \"dens\" in our draft was copied as \"dues.\" The Home Office have been so informed, and have promised to obtain a report on the subject from the police.-B.A.\n\n† Not printed.\n\n[1980 ee-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417926, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 638, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## CHINA TRADE\n\nNo. 1.\n\n634\n\n[October 28.]\n\n### SECTION 2.\n\nLocal Government Board to Foreign Office, (Received October 28.)\n\nWhitehall, October 27, 1908.\n\nSir,\n\nI AM directed by the Local Government Board to state that they have received, through the Board of Trade, a copy of Sir F. Campbell's letter of the 10th instant to the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, transmitting copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking requesting to be furnished with copies of any Acts or Regulations governing the import, sale, &c., of opium and morphia in the United Kingdom.\n\nI am to state, for the information of the Secretary of State, that, as regards the sale of these drugs, the law with which the Board are concerned is contained in sections 4-7 of \"The Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875.\" As regards preparation of these drugs, I am to refer to the British Pharmacopoeia, and in this connection I am to draw attention to the case of White v. Bywater (1887) L.R., 19 Q. B. D., 582.\n\nAt the same time I am to point out that, as opium and morphia are poisons, the provisions of the Poisons Act apply to them, and I am to suggest that the Foreign Office should communicate with the Privy Council Office, as the Department which administers that Act.\n\nI am, &c.\n(Signed) **JOHN LITHIBY**\n\n[37494]\n[1980 ee-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 704, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "18 \n\nThe most remote and unhealthy regions of the Empire; those convicted of selling morphia, except under a special Customs permit, being liable to the same punishment in accordance with the law against knowingly selling poisons, and their shops will also be confiscated.\n\nWe would also pray that instructions be sent to the Customs authorities to enforce the Treaty provisions and put a stop to smuggling, so that the evil may be cut off at its root, and when definite regulations have been laid down we trust that the people will reverently obey them, and that the prohibition of opium may then become really effective.\n\nUpon receipt of Imperial sanction, the Board will issue the necessary instructions to the Governor of Kiangsu, as well as the high authorities of other provinces, the Revenue Council, the High Court of Justice, and the Governor of Peking.\n\nThis Memorial has been drafted by the Board of Laws after consultation with the Imperial Commissioners for Law Reform, and the delay in submitting it has been due to the time required for exchanging correspondence on the subject.\n\nOn the 16th July, the following Imperial Decree was issued: \"**Approved**\".\n\nAppendix (B)\n\nExtract from the \"Official Gazette\" of October 6, 1908.\n\n**MEMORIAL** by the Board of Finance giving the Returns of Imports of Foreign Opium and of the Native Production, together with the Sales thereof, and suggesting a Mode of Procedure in the matter.\n\n(Translation)\n\nOn the 11th October, 1907, the Grand Council received the following Decree from the Throne:\n\n\"The sale of opium under official control is of supreme importance in the suppression of smoking, but a detailed inquiry must be made as a basis on which to act. The returns of foreign imports and of native production and of the amounts of sales must all be collated in detail. The Board of Finance is to depute capable and upright departmental officials to investigate the matter in its entirety with the utmost expedition, at the latest within one year from the present date, and a mode of procedure is to be submitted to us for our assent thereto.\"\n\nThe ...\n\nIn accordance with the Imperial command, we deputed officials to the various provinces to make a full inquiry, and it appears that the amount of native production of opium in the 31st year of Kuang Hsu was 142,698 piculs, in the 32nd year 148,103 piculs, in the 33rd year 119,983 piculs, thus showing a reduction of about 20 per cent. The sale returns for 31st year of Kuang Hsu were 141,525 piculs, for the 32nd year 135,693 piculs, and for the 33rd year 97,738 piculs, thus exhibiting a reduction of between 20 and 30 per cent. The amount of foreign opium passed through the various custom-houses in the 31st year was 51,920 piculs, in the 32nd year 54,117 piculs, in the 33rd year 54,584 piculs, thus exhibiting no reduction whatsoever. The returns for the present year report a reduction of from 30 to 40 per cent. up to 60 and 70 per cent. in the areas of opium cultivation. With regard to foreign imports, the British Government has agreed to reduce the amount by 10 per cent. annually from January last on a total return estimated at 51,000 cases, it being the case that the reduction in the imports still falls short of the remarkable reduction in the native production and sale figures.\n\nIn our opinion, the early suppression of opium depends entirely on the energy of the measures adopted to suppress it. The adoption of a uniform method of sale under official control is certainly a procedure of high importance in connection with its suppression, but we will now proceed to report to your Majesties certain difficulties in connection therewith as the result of our investigation of the subject.\n\n1. The British Government has promised its active co-operation in the suppression of the drug and has issued an order prohibiting the export of Hong Kong prepared opium into China. It appears that in Hong Kong, where the opium imported from abroad is prepared, that under the arrangements for sales under official control, fifteen cases daily are disposed of by the Opium Company, while, as a matter of fact, less than three cases are required for Hong Kong consumption, the remainder being illicitly exported into China. In view of the British Government having forbidden the export of Hong Kong prepared opium into China and of the suppression within two years of the opium houses which were so fruitful a source of taxation in the foreign Settlement of Shanghae, the creation by China of bureaux for the monopoly of the sale of opium will assuredly dissatisfy foreign nations and appear to them to be due to profit-seeking motives. This is the first reason for the impracticability of the arrangement.\n\n2. The second reason against it is as follows: The gradual prohibition of opium over a period of ten years is in itself a humane measure, but a real determination to give up the practice, no matter how intense the craving for the drug, results in the complete abandonment of the habit within a few months. Now that the official classes have in most cases broken themselves of the practice within specified limits of time, while the rest of the population are earnestly striving to imitate them, it is obvious that, as the returns for the last year indicate a reduction of 20 to 30 per cent., a few years more will witness the complete eradication of the evil. Were an official opium monopoly to be started, a definite amount of opium would require to be fixed upon for purchase on the basis of that fixed upon in regard to foreign opium, and what use could be made of the amount of opium annually left over? It would be utterly useless long before the date assigned for its final suppression, and a possible result might be that the foreigners would compel us to purchase up the whole ten years' supply of the drug.\n\n3. The third reason against it is as follows: The establishment of an official bureau would necessitate a most careful system of inspection. An enormous expense was incurred in Formosa by Japan in regulating her system of an official monopoly, and China's police system is but newly organized and as yet incomplete for carrying out such a system. Besides, wealthy opium smokers provided themselves with sufficient supplies of the drug to satisfy their future needs when the order for its prohibition was first issued. The establishment of an official monopoly would result in causing embarrassment to the poorer classes, while the rich would remain unmolested. A system of rigid inspection would imply domiciliary visits at any hour to all houses where opium smoking was suspected, and this would result in abuses and oppression.\n\nIn order to rid our people of this evil without enforcing any oppressive measures, the best course is to adopt an arrangement indirectly based on the principle of official sales, as proposed by the Department of Governmental Affairs, viz., that all establishments selling opium and all opium smokers shall be supplied with permits, omission to secure such being punishable by a heavy fine, and the scale of fees for the same being raised in amount on the basis of the proposals drawn up by present memorialists and the Ministry of the Interior.\n\nIn order to insure the still speedier suppression of the practice, poppy cultivation should be prohibited entirely within a period to be fixed, and Proclamations should be issued by the provincial authorities threatening members of the official classes persisting in the habit with loss of their rank, and the rest of the population with enrolment on a list of opium smokers giving their names, ages, and places of residence, which should be published broadcast. All honours should be closed to them, and they should be treated as pariahs, so that a stimulus for the abandonment of the practice would thus be supplied by a man's natural ambition. This would show that the Government's prohibition of the practice is not due to a mercenary motive, and such a course would inspire respect abroad and render a further reduction of foreign imports of opium practicable.\n\nMoreover, conditions vary in different parts of China. In the north and west, the suppression of poppy cultivation is the most urgent step; in the south and east, what is requisite is the suppression of opium smoking. It is in the maritime and riverine Provinces of Kwangtung, Fukien, Kiangsu, and Chekiang that foreign opium has a larger sale than the native drug, so that the prohibition of poppy cultivation in China would enable the foreigners to find a greater market for the sale of imported opium, so long as the yearly reduction was no greater than at present. Hence, prohibition of smoking is more pressing than stopping cultivation. In Yunnan, Kueichow, Szechuan, Shensi, Shansi, and Honan, the inhabitants smoke only native opium, so that the reduction of cultivation implies a similar reduction of opium smokers. But as some equilibrium must be maintained between supply and demand, and as most of the native opium consumed in the south-east provinces comes from Yunnan and Kueichow, the immediate suppression in its entirety of the cultivation of the poppy in these provinces is impracticable. Local conditions will have to be considered in conjunction with the amount of area under cultivation in each province, before determining as to whether a partial or entire suppression can be carried out. The total amount produced annually exceeds 100,000 piculs, and the proposals made by Ko Feng-shih relative to its suppression over a period of years were submitted by memorialists to the Governors-General and Governors of Kiangsu, Anhui, Shantung, and Honan. With the exception of the Governor of Shantung, who feared that a total suppression would result in illicit trafficking in opium, all three high officials approved of this measure being adopted, and the Provinces of Yunnan, Fukien, and Heilungchiang have already reported the total prohibition of the cultivation of the poppy, so that in six provinces of China its cultivation will be totally prohibited by the second half of this year, and the entire production in the Empire reduced by 30 per cent.\n\nThe production in Fengtien, Kirin, Chihli, Shantung, Kiangsi, Chekiang, Hupei, Hunan, the New Dominion (Hsin Chiang), Kwangtung, and Kwangsi is very small and can be suppressed entirely after the second half of next year, which will imply a further reduction of 10 per cent. in the entire production of the Empire. In Shansi, a large amount is produced, but its sale is confined to the province, so that it will be the Governor's duty to take steps for its entire suppression in due course. Regarding Szechuan, Kueichow, Kansu, and Shensi, most of the native opium consumed in China comes from these four provinces, and we now propose that an annual reduction of over 20 per cent. on the area under cultivation last year shall be carried out, until its entire suppression has been achieved. Success in accomplishing this result at an earlier date and in sowing the area in question with cereals shall be rewarded. A similar reduction of 20 per cent. must annually be effected on the amounts of opium from these four provinces placed for sale in the other provinces, so that in this way the reduction in the number of smokers will be commensurate with the reduction of the area under cultivation. Should it be found that any province, with a view to increasing its revenue, is not making the proper reduction in the amount of opium exported, the share allotted to that province under the Consolidated Opium Tax Regulations will be reduced by one half. As regards foreign profit opium, although a ten years' limit has been fixed, if there are no smokers there will be no profit accruing to the foreigners importing opium, and the traffic will ipso facto cease before the ten years fixed upon.\n\nOn the other hand, the establishing of an official monopoly would mean that many complications would arise, and that no reduction of the ten years period would be possible, and ... \n\n19 \n\nPage 699", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418764, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "Restriction\n\n14\n\nThus to produce the same narcotic effect 1 grain of injected morphia at a cost of 7 cents = 2334 grs. of smoked opium costing $1.32! The profit to the sellers of these pills is also enormous for they are sold at four times the cost price - 75% profit. There is little occasion for surprise that vendors and purchasers are alike eager to obtain them!\n\nThere is, I rejoice to say, some indication that the Chinese Government are waking up to the danger. \"The Governor of Kiangsu submitted a Memorial to the Throne pointing out that there was some chance of curing opium smoking, but none of curing the morphia habit, since morphia is obtainable at a fraction of the cost. This led to the Edict of July 16th (Times August 22, 08) in which it is decreed that any Chinese subject selling morphia (or making instruments for its use) without a Custom's permit shall be banished to a pestilential frontier of the Empire\". But the facts I have already quoted, and the verdict of those who are in the best position to form an opinion, show that the steps taken have so far been ineffective, and that smokers are becoming eaters or morphia injectors.\n\n$1\n\nWhile evils such as these are imminent in China, which contains so large and intelligent a proportion of the human race, it is time that the conscience of the Western Nations was touched, and that their efforts should be directed towards the real issues, which concern alike their honour and China's welfare, and I earnestly wish that those who so disinterestedly devote themselves to the eradication of opium smoking would turn their attention to this terrible evil and be content with Regulation and Control of Smoking.\n\n*\n\nIn Hongkong, a strict control is maintained over the sale of morphine and of Morphine Opium compounds. The quantity imported for local consumption for 1906 and in Hongkong 1907 averaged 5,000 lbs. of the latter. In order to enhance the price, every person licensed to sell has to pay Royalties to the Opium Farmer, so that all the machinery at his disposal for detecting illicit import and sale is brought into play. Licenses are only granted to qualified Chemists of repute and to such Chinese Druggists as had vested interests in the trade before the introduction of the Legislation. If the business changes hands, the licenses are not renewed. Licensees are required to keep books recording all sales and to issue certificates to all purchasers. Several of these licenses to Chinese vendors have lately been cancelled for breach of the regulations, and it is proposed not to renew the remainder after one year's notice.\" At present, exemption is only granted to certain well-known medicines prepared in Europe or America (specified in a schedule) and to all prescriptions made up on the order of a qualified medical practitioner. Representations have been made by the Chamber of Commerce and by one of the large European druggists complaining of the restriction on trade, and claiming exemption on all preparations in which opium or morphia is not the sole ingredient, but this would defeat the object in view, viz., to check the sale of the so-called \"anti-opium\" pills containing morphine, etc. To limit the quantity of opium or morphia contained in a pill would obviously be futile, for several could be taken to produce the result desired. If it should be possible, I should wish to prohibit the sale of all pills, powders, or draughts (except on the prescription of a qualified medical officer) which contained opium or morphia, unless in combination with some other drug in such proportion that it would be disagreeably operative - say an aperient or an emetic - if the pills were consumed for non-medicinal purposes. The transmission by post of opium, morphine, or cocaine is prohibited, and it is also proposed to abolish the bonded warehouse for compounds of opium and morphine hitherto maintained by the Farmer and to retain a Government warehouse only. The question is at the present moment under the consideration of the Government.\n\nThe drastic Ordinance of September 1893 \"for the suppression of the pernicious practice of injecting preparations of morphine by unqualified persons\", together with the provisions of the \"Prepared Opium Ordinance\" which imposed Royalty of $30 per tael for morphia (300% ad valorem) and $5 for opium, † have been so effective in restricting the illicit use of these drugs, that whereas in the Straits Opium Report Hon. Dr. Galloway stated that 39 out of a group of 595 prisoners taken at random (viz., 6.4%) bore injection scars, only one person so scarred was on a recent examination found in the whole of the inmates of both hospitals and gaols of this Colony.\n\n* The Straits Commission endorse these views: Morphia they say has an infinitely greater compelling power over the subject, and an infinitely greater deleterious result (Report § 114). It is easier to smuggle, and the prohibition, or the too great enhancement of price of opium, would increase morphia consumption (Report § 256).\n\n† Ordinance 15 of 1906 and subsequent Amending Ordinances. Report Vol. 1, p. 10.\n\n15\n\nIn June 1908, a Pharmacy Ordinance was enacted under which morphine and cocaine and their preparations were scheduled as Poisons with further restrictions as to their wholesale and retail use. In view of the experience of India, cocaine (though not at present abused here) was made the subject of elaborate regulations of a similar nature to those already in force regarding morphine and opium compounds, in order to control the wholesale trade and prevent illicit import to China.\n\n339\n\nA decoction of the leaves of the Combretum Sundaicum has been stated to be a cure for the opium habit. The Director, Botanical Department, Singapore, informs me that it is a complete fraud which only lasted three months, during which time the promoters made great gains. The only man he knew who tried it became a wreck - took to opium again and died. This was confirmed by the results obtained by the Viceroy of Szechuan, who imported a great quantity at the instance of Mr. Alexander.*\n\nThe education of public opinion, on which both the Straits Commission and M. Hardouin lay stress, is the only real method of curing the habit, the more so that it is usually the rich who smoke to excess. This view is rightly emphasised in the original decree, and there seems little doubt that throughout the Chinese Empire, among the better classes, there has been a very real progress in this direction. Smoking is now prohibited in the Army, Navy, and Civil Services, and in schools and colleges. The evils of the opium habit should be inculcated in every school, not only in China, but in the Foreign Concessions and British Colonies. But above all, stress should be laid on the evils of eating opium and of eating or injecting morphia, and also on the misuse of alcohol.\n\nIt may be of use to restate the facts as to the prevalence of opium smoking. Sir John Jordan gave it as his opinion that only 8,000,000 (say 2%) of the population of China were addicted to the habit.** Sir Robert Hart, I believe, estimated it (in 1881) at a much lower figure. Dr. Ayres states that the Chinese Customs returns estimate the number of smokers to population in China at 2% (1893) - probably referring to Sir Robert Hart's estimate. Mr. Clementi, in a recent elaborate and very careful calculation, puts it at considerably less than 2% for the whole of China, but 4.4% in the province of Szechuan, where purely native opium is smoked, while in Hongkong, where the adult male population (who alone smoke) is three times that of the adult females (while the latter predominate in China), the percentage of smokers is 6.25.\n\nThese figures are challenged by a paper named Chinese Opinion, which argues that it is only the adult male population which should be reckoned, and works out a percentage of 8.31. Mr. Clementi's figures for adult males are, however, more liberal, being 12.94 for Hongkong only. As the population of China is largely rural, the lower estimate is probably more correct, and allowing for a proportion who smoke less than the amount calculated (though this again is probably more than balanced by the excessive smokers), it will probably be approximately correct to say that not more than 1.5% of the total population smoke opium, and not more than ten per cent of the adult males are smokers, - a large proportion of whom are only casually addicted.\n\nIt has been stated that great difficulty is experienced in giving up the habit, but in the Hongkong gaol, the drug is entirely prohibited, with no ill results beyond a little temporary diarrhoea.\n\nI have attempted in the foregoing paragraphs to show that those who may claim to be not less interested in the question of the Native Races, and in the welfare of the intelligent, industrious, and most interesting population of China...\n\nSee also Straits Opium Report §297. I have endeavoured to ascertain whether there is any substance which could be mixed with opium (whether sold medicinally or for smoking) which would render it impossible to use it for self-indulgence in eating, by producing nausea or other deterrent effects. I have not, however, so far been able to discover any such method of denaturing the drug. The Government of Java, which has an Opium Monopoly, mixes some substance with the opium prepared for smoking, by which its own brand can be immediately detected, though the flavour is not spoilt; they decline, however, to disclose the nature of the ingredient. Lithium carbonate (5 grs. to 100 lbs. of opium) will, however, serve the purpose required. It is entirely harmless and does not impair the value for smoking.\n\n† Art. IV of Decree. Sir J. Jordan 26.11.06. China No. 1 (1908).\n\n** Sir Jordan 30.9.06 China No. 1 (1908). Indian Opium Commission, Vol. V, p. 193.\n\nSee also Dr. Ayres' report. Indian Commission Vol. V, p. 193.\n\nStraits Commission §267.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419924, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 470, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "6\n\nEngineering and Shipbuilding.-This section of the Colony's Industry was carried on under adverse circumstances. The great trade depression from which the local Shipping suffered severely made its influence felt in this industry and the amount of new construction turned out by the local Companies was not very encouraging.\n\nIn regard to War Vessels, the active operation of the floating Docks at Tsingtau and at Olongapo in the Philippine Islands, installed by the German and United States Governments respectively, was responsible for the continuance of a very large falling off in the docking and repairing of Foreign War Vessels, the tonnages dealt with by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock for 1906, 1907 and 1908 being 64,318, 3,692 and 3,652 respectively, with apparently no prospect of future improvement. The tonnage of British War Vessels docked was on a level with those prevailing during the year immediately preceding.\n\nWork in the nature of large repairs to Steamers was scarce during the earlier half of the year.\n\nThe Typhoon in July, however, contributed to a large extent towards the improvement experienced in this direction during the latter half.\n\nDuring the year a large Dock built by Messrs. Butterfield & Swire at Quarry Bay was opened. It is 787 feet long, 88 feet wide at the top of the entrance and 81' 8\" at the sill. There are 35 feet over the sill at ordinary high water. In addition to the Dock there are three slipways, one of them about 350 feet long and 80 feet broad, capable of lifting vessels up to 3,000 tons weight. The other two are about 900 feet long by 60 feet broad and are capable of accommodating vessels up to 2,000 tons. There are also Machine Shops, Boiler Shops, a Forge and Smithy, a Foundry, Galvanizing Shop, Saw Mill and a Wood-working Department. The Building Yard is laid out for four big berths capable of taking on vessels up to 600 feet in length, and the machinery is adapted to dealing with this sort of work. The power is supplied by Gas Engines and is transmitted throughout the Yard electrically.\n\nFISHERIES.\n\nA considerable proportion of the boat-population of Hongkong supports itself by deep-sea fishing, in which pursuit a large number of junks are engaged. The villages of Aberdeen, Stanley, Shaukiwan, and many others in the New Territories are largely dependent upon this industry for their prosperity. Fresh water fish is imported from Canton and the West River. There are oyster beds of considerable value in Deep Bay.\n\nFORESTRY AND AGRICULTURE.\n\nForestry work has consisted (1) in the formation of 400 acres of pine plantations in continuation of the Harbour Belt now extending some seven miles from Lai-chi-kok towards Lyemun (2) the continuation of afforesting the catchment areas of Tytam, Pok-fulam and Kowloon Reservoirs, (3) the replanting of felled areas at Aberdeen and Mount Kellett (4) the extension of the avenues of shade trees in Kowloon (5) the care of existing plantations.\n\nThe year was marked by exceptionally good crops of fruits, vegetables and rice in the New Territories; especially may be mentioned the abundance and excellence of the output of Pineapples, Plums, Pears, and Peanuts.\n\nThe chief economic works other than the above have been the successful establishment of the rare and valuable Naumu or Coffin Wood-tree in our nurseries from seeds obtained from Szechuen, and the collection of information and materials relating to the trade of the Colony in vegetable products.\n\nWith a view to placing the botanical resources of the Botanical and Forestry Department as far as possible at the service of the mercantile community of Hongkong the Superintendent has been instructed to collect all possible information upon the vegetable products of the neighbourhood or for which Hongkong is an emporium. This information is to refer chiefly to the raw or partly manufactured products exported from China and include the locality of their production, quantity available, country to which exported, price at port of export and in the markets to which they eventually go. Considerable progress has been made during the year with this scheme and information with regard to a few of our more important vegetable products, such as China-root and Galangal was collected.\n\nA considerable amount of scientific work upon the flora of the Colony and neighbouring parts of China has been done in England and other countries with materials supplied by the Forestry Department.\n\n7\n\nLAND GRANTS AND GENERAL VALUE OF LAND.\n\n403\n\nThe net amount received from Sales of Crown Land and Pier Rights after deducting expenses of the Sales was $69,358, a decrease of $92,101 on the previous year and $218,481 less than the average amount received for each of the past five years. Of this amount $14,665 was received in respect of sales of Pier Rights and the right of extending existing Piers, $7,078 was received in respect of Sales of Crown Land in the New Territories and the balance from Sales of New Lots of Crown Land and Grants of Extension of existing Lots in the Island of Hongkong and Old Kowloon.\n\nThe chief items were for an extension to a Soy Factory at West Point (Inland Lot No. 1300) and for a renewal of the Lease of the Dairy Farm Company's premises in Wyndham Street for a period of 75 years, the existing lease of which is about to expire.\n\nThe considerable decrease in Revenue from Sales of Crown Land may be partly attributed to the fact that in the City of Victoria there is little available building land left and partly to the fact that at the present time there is no great demand for new houses in the City and in Old Kowloon, a considerable number of Chinese shops and dwelling houses being now unlet. The general depression in the land market, which commenced a few years ago, still continues and capitalists who invested in land and buildings at the high prices ruling some ten years ago have suffered very considerable losses; in many cases properties have been sold by mortgagees at far less than the amount of their securities while many other mortgages are holding on awaiting a more favourable opportunity for realizing their securities. There is, however, a very fair demand in the City for property at reduced prices. There appears to be no lack of money in the Colony and a considerable number of transactions in land have taken place during the past year.\n\nThere have been a large number of sales of small lots of Crown Land for native dwellings and industries in the New Territories, and the demand for these is likely to further increase, as the native population now realize the reasonable terms upon which Crown Land can be obtained and the security of tenure afforded by holding under a long lease direct from the Crown.\n\nThree areas of over 40 acres of land at Tai Po in the Island of Lan Tao for use as Salt Pans were put up for auction on an 18 years' lease at the upset annual rental of $15 per acre per annum and after considerable competition one Lot of over 21 acres realized as much as $170 per acre per annum, which shows that Salt Pans in a good locality are apparently very remunerative undertakings. During the year a second area of one square mile in the New Territories was leased to Sir Paul Chater for 75 years for mining purposes.\n\nIII-LEGISLATION.\n\nTwenty-two Ordinances were passed during 1908, of which nine were Amendment Ordinances. A Fire Insurance Companies Ordinance (No. 3) was passed to authorize the removal of Fire Insurance Companies from the Register of Companies in certain cases. Ordinances were also passed to enable Foreign Corporations to acquire and hold land in the Colony (No. 7); to provide for the grant of brewery licences (No. 8); to empower a Magistrate to hold a Small Debts Court in the New Territories (No. 22); to provide for the registration of Chemists and Druggists and to regulate the sale of poisons (No. 12); to regulate theatres and other places of public resort (more especially in regard to precautions against fire) (No. 18); and to transfer the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund and its management to the Government of Hongkong (No. 15).\n\nIV.-EDUCATION.\n\nThere are 73 Government and Grant Schools, the most important of which is Queen's College. Of these, 23 are Upper Grade Schools with a staff competent to give instruction in all subjects of the 7th Standard, and above. These latter schools have an average attendance of 3,992, and the medium of instruction in all of them, with the exception of one girls' school, is English. The 50 remaining Schools are all Lower Grade. They comprise 1 school for British Indians where English and Urdu are taught; 5 Government and 1 Grant Anglo-Chinese Schools; and 43 Grant Vernacular Schools. The average attendance at all these Lower Grade Schools is 2,186. The total average daily attendance, at both Grades of School, is 6,178.\n\nThe revenue derived from school fees is $54,792 (of which $31,073 is from Queen's College) and is rapidly increasing; this is mainly to be accounted for by the increasing numbers of Chinese desirous of an English education.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421223, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 12, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## Medical Note on the Deaths of the Emperor Kuang Hsü and the Empress Dowager\n\n### The Emperor\n\nSince birth, he had never been of robust constitution. There seems little doubt that he suffered from hypospadias, a congenital condition in which it is a surgical fact that there is absence of some part of the floor of the urethra. In almost all these cases, there is some degree of arrested development of the testicles and scrotum, with loss of ability to procreate. The local irritation caused by this hypospadias is capable of setting up spermatorrhoea, or rather a false spermatorrhoea, in which there is a discharge of a seminal-like fluid, destitute of spermatozoa. The presence of this complaint would serve to keep him in a more or less debilitated condition—a lack of virility—all his life.\n\nThe heavy duties of Court life, from which there was never any respite, with Grand Council meetings beginning at 4 A.M., and all the worries of his peculiar position, would appear to have brought him into a condition of neurasthenia. From time to time, he suffered from attacks of insomnia. The never-ending press of work in an individual in whom the capacity for work was limited and the general history of the case were causes such as give rise to neurasthenia. The doctors who attended him know well enough the symptoms of phthisis, as it is so common a disease among Chinese, but they have never said he suffered from this. Nor had his face the puffy appearance of one suffering from kidney disease, and he did not show any of the other manifestations of tuberculosis, such as intestinal or bone disease, as far as can be gathered from the clinical symptoms he was said to have shown.\n\nThe progressive weakness of neurasthenia was accompanied, as is the case in its latter stages, by cardiac weakness and general loss of tone of the circulatory, intestinal, and sexual systems from which he respectively suffered in the last stages of his illness: (1) swelling of the lower limbs, (2) pronounced constipation, (3) pronounced spermatorrhoea. The \"vicious circle\" thus established, by which the weaker his constitution became, the more these symptoms were aggravated and vice versa, gives a quite reasonable explanation of how he came by his death.\n\n### The Empress Dowager\n\nAt the recent audience when Sir John Jordan introduced Admiral Lambton, it was remarked by those of us who were present that, while Her Majesty was looking well, she had aged in appearance, and for some time previous to that, there were reports that she had not been in good health. At the beginning of October, she suffered from an attack of weakness, and the Chinese said she had caught cold (\"chao liang\"). There was a good deal of influenza in Peking about that time, from which a great many Chinese suffered, and it is quite possible she had that, as there were no definite symptoms that they could put a name to beyond general body weakness.\n\nOn her birthday, by all accounts, she ate more than usual and took some fruit which was over-ripe. By the next day, she was suffering from dysenteric symptoms, and the acute diarrhoea with loss of blood very soon brought her into a debilitated state. Dysentery in elderly people is always much more dangerous than in earlier life. A Chinese doctor (Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel in the Lu Chün and in touch with other official doctors) told me that for four days she passed motions of \"strips of black blood\"—evidently pieces of her intestinal mucous coat mixed with blood. This blackness points to the irritation being high up in the bowels—probably an acute gastritis.\n\nIn any case, it seems certain she never really rallied from this attack and felt herself getting steadily weaker. While in this state, she sent Prince Ching to see about her tomb, and during his absence, on hearing of the Emperor's grave condition, her anxiety became acute and no doubt made her worse. A few hours after Prince Ching's return, the Emperor died—about 8 p.m. To the unsettled state of the succession, coupled with the absence of any proper treatment, sedative or otherwise, must have strained her to the utmost. She held a Grand Council meeting at 2 A.M., after a long and anxious day, and later on in the early morning when they returned to again consult with her, she could only wave them aside, saying she was too weak to speak. She died the next afternoon, her dysenteric symptoms persisting to the end.\n\n### Review of the Circumstances of these Deaths\n\nOn reviewing the circumstances of these deaths with a view to rumours which have been bruited abroad as to foul play (poisoning), while, in the Emperor's case, there is no evidence of it, the sudden appearance of acute intestinal disease in the Empress Dowager might be said to be suspicious. But I do not think so for the following reasons:\n\nPoisons all fall into the three main classes of:\n1. Corrosives;\n2. Neurotics; and\n3. Irritants.\n\nUnless there was a widespread collusion to hide the truth, she had none of the symptoms of the two former classes. Those of corrosives are marked and unmistakable, and neurotics are equally excluded—there was no sudden death as by prussic acid, nor coma as by a narcotic, nor sudden rapid suffocating sensations as by strychnine, &c. She might have been given an irritant poison; in the absence of all opportunity for analysis, it would be difficult to say definitely, but from her symptoms, it is improbable that such was the case. There is no mention of her having had nausea, violent vomiting, or great pain, and her illness did not steadily increase in severity till collapse and death occurred.\n\nAs far as can be gathered, though the treatment may have left much to wish for, and if properly carried out might have tided her over this attack, her death was a natural one, my diagnosis being dysentery accentuated by over-fatigue in a senile constitution.\n\n**G. Douglas Gray, M.D.**\n\nPeking, November 19, 1908.\n\n(Signed)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421229, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 18, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## JAN 09 SECTION 5.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 12.) (No. 481.) \n### Sir,\nPeking, October 26, 1908.\n\nWith reference to my telegram No. 161 of the 21st October, I have the honour to inclose copy of a despatch received from His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden containing a Chinese version of the recent collision between Japanese and Chinese troops in the Chientao district.\n\nFrom the fact that the Chinese Government have to-day for the first time in my experience taken pains to make an official communiqué about this incident to the foreign press, copy of which is also inclosed for your information, I gather that it has created some uneasiness.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **J. N. JORDAN**.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No 1.\nActing Consul General Willis to Sir J. Jordan. (No. 72.) \n#### Sir,\nMukden, October 20, 1908.\n\nMR. KEY, the Assistant Commissioner of the Mukden Foreign Office, called on me yesterday afternoon and gave me the following account of the recent collision between the Japanese and Chinese troops in the Chientao district :--\n\nJapanese troops have for some time been engaged in erecting permanent barracks on the north bank of the Tumen, and the Chinese Frontier Commissioner resident at Yen-chi-ting has twice sent police to remonstrate against their action. Recently a body of about twenty police were sent to make a third protest; these were fired on by the Japanese soldiers, and eight were wounded. The wounded men were taken charge of by the Japanese, but two of them have since died. The Chinese police, who were unarmed, could not reply to the Japanese fire.\n\nMr. Key stated that this information had been telegraphed to the Viceroy by the Frontier Commissioner. No detailed reports had yet been received.\n\nFrom the way in which Mr. Key spoke to me, it seemed clear that the Manchurian Government are apprehensive of a forward movement of the Japanese in this district, which, in the absence of roads in Chinese territory, they would be powerless to resist.\n\nI telegraphed the substance of this despatch to you yesterday evening.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **ROBERT WILLIS**.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n#### Communiqué to the Foreign Press.\n\nOn the 16th of the 9th moon (the 10th October, 1908), Shiladatchilo, of the Japanese gendarmerie, with a Corean official named Li Jen Ming, were supervising the construction of a four-roomed building, to be used as an outpost, in the Mow Kun village, Yen Ki district (Chientao), China. In the course of erecting the said building a Chinese official inspector named Li, with an assistant, a corporal, a gendarme, and four police, went to that place and peacefully called upon them to stop the work. Instead of heeding the request, the Japanese uttered impolite words, and stationed there about a dozen of gendarmes to keep a watch of the work. Then the Chinese official sent their police to stop the workmen. Thereupon the Japanese gendarmes forcibly tore with their hands the Chinese official's clothes and uniform, having their marks and buttons all broken off, and behaved violently towards the Chinese interpreter.\n\nTowards the commencement of this month unsuccessful attempts were made by the police authorities to collect the tax, and on the 9th an employé of one of the leading merchant firms was arrested by order of the Chief of Police. The Merchant Guild thereupon sent deputies to demand his release, but these were detained at the central police station. The Guild then ordered a general cessation of business, and all the shops were closed on the 11th and 12th instant. There was no disorder, but from the activity shown by the police throughout these two days, it would seem that the authorities were somewhat apprehensive. At any rate, the strike proved successful, as it has now been decided to reduce the tax to a levy of 2 per cent. on the estimated rental of houses of more than ten rooms, and 1 per cent. on the smaller buildings. Houses of less than three rooms are to be free from taxation.\n\nThis compromise was arranged at an interview between the leading members of the Guild and Huang Taot'ai, the head of the Board of Agriculture and Commerce. The Guild further demanded the dismissal of Wang Taot'ai, the Chief of Police, and the \"Shengking Daily News\" of the 14th states that the Viceroy has removed him.\n\nThe incident is instructive, as showing the difficulties of Chinese officials in imposing any new form of taxation, even where, as in the present instance, there are reasonable grounds for its imposition.\n\nDuring the past two years large sums have been spent for municipal purposes in this city, the majority of which have been paid for out of the 7,000,000 taels saved by the former Viceroy, Chao Erh Sun, and handed by him to the present Administration. There are now about 10 miles in all of macadamized roads, an underground drainage scheme has been carried out in the principal thoroughfares, the streets are lighted, though only with oil lamps, and a tolerably efficient police force has been established. Large sums have also been spent on educational purposes, and, amongst other enterprises of the local government, the establishment of an Agricultural and Forestry department under foreign experts, of a civil hospital under the charge of a German doctor, and the erection of prisons on modern lines, all tend to show that the Manchurian Administration is anxious, as far as funds will permit, to advance along the lines of modern civilization. It is, however, certain that the ordinary revenue of the three eastern provinces will not suffice for enterprises of this nature, and new sources of taxation will have to be found, and found quickly, or the city will drift back to its original condition of squalor.\n\nIn the present case of the house tax, it would appear that a mistake was made in demanding as much as 7 per cent. in the first instance—a lesser sum might have been carried through without difficulty—and there is further no doubt that there is a general feeling that much of the expenditure of the present Administration is unnecessary and often recklessly extravagant.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) **R. WILLIS**.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n`[43325]`\nNo. 1.\n17 \n1188 \n[December 12.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423980, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 113, "title": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## TAT \n111 is increasing. \n\nIn this connection it should however be mentioned that extensive smuggling is stated to be prevalent in India and elsewhere. Any repressive measures of this kind should include, as in India, \"cocaine substitutes\", of which the following are in use: Tropacocaine, acoine, eucaine, holocaine, alypin, nirvanine, novocaine, anaesthesine, stovaine, \"orthoform new\". In deciding which of these substitutes along with cocaine and its preparations are to be subject to restrictions of sale it would usually be advantageous to consult the local Principal Medical Officer.\n\nIt should be noted that the poisons regulations for Great Britain place restrictions on the sale of preparations of coca leaves (see page 5) and in view of the opinion sometimes expressed that the consumption of coca preparations induces \"coca-craving\" which may degenerate into \"cocainism\" it would seem to be desirable to include in the scope of any restrictive legislation preparations made from coca, such as coca wine etc., at any rate those containing a comparatively high percentage of alkaloids.\n\nNovember, 1909.\n\nWendien & Danchann", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428231, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": ".22 \n\ndeputies were elected, distributed as follows among the prefectures and departments of the province\n\nKuang-chou-fu Cha-chou-fu Chao Ching-fu Hui-chou fu.. \n\nKao-chou-fu Chiung-chou-fu Shan-Chou-fu Lieu-chon-fu Lei-chon-fu.. \n\nLo Ting-chou \n\n36 11 \n\ng \n\n} \n\nChia Ying-chou \n\nYang Chiang-chou \n\nLien-chou \n\nNan Hung-chou \n\nChin-chou \n\n1 \n\nYai-chou \n\n1 \n\nManchu Garrison of Canton \n\n3 \n\n\"The majority of these are men who have served as officials, have some official rank and degree, or have been teachers. The mercantile class, pure and simple, seems unrepresented.\n\nNew Assembly Hall.\" The new assembly hall, which is built in foreign style at an estimated cost of 120,000 taels, is situated outside the east gate of the city of Canton. It was not ready by the 14th October, and indeed was first used by the assembly on the 6th November. Meanwhile, the assembly met at the old governor's yamên. The first day was spent on the opening ceremony, on the details of which much thought had been expended. Unlike some of the other provincial capitals, no foreigners were invited or were present at the opening. The official programme was as follows:- \n\nOpening Ceremony. At 8 A.M. on the 14th October, the deputies having all assembled, the governor-general left the reception room and took up his position with all the other provincial officials on the east side of the hall, the deputies facing him on the west side. Both parties then made three deep bows. The governor-general thereupon took his seat at the head of the ball. An official then asked his Excellency to begin the opening ceremony. The governor-general and his deputies stood up, and an official read out the opening address, after which another official read out the reply to the address. When the reply had been read out, the officials and deputies withdrew.\n\nElection of Officers and Standing Committee.-\"The next three or four meetings were spent on the election of the president, two vice-presidents, and nineteen members of the standing committee. For the post of president was selected one I-Hsüch-ching, a representative of Chao Ching Fu, a graduate and a man of excellent repute. Considerable difficulty was experienced in the election of the standing committee, as at first it was ruled that it was necessary to secure over a moiety of the votes of the full assembly before the election was valid. This was found impracticable, and it was not till it was decided that a moiety of the votes of those present was sufficient that the last six of the standing committee were elected.\n\n\"No business was transacted until the assembly were able to meet in the new hall, which was formally opened by the governor-general on the 6th November. The first business meeting was held on the 7th November.\n\nArrangement of Seats.-\"The arrangement of the deputies' seats is in a fan shape, in ascending tiers. Facing them is the rostrum, in front of which are seated the clerks. Behind the rostrum is seated the president flanked by the two vice-presidents. Behind him on a higher level is the governor-general's chair, and seats for the Tartar general, admiral, general, and the two lieutenant-generals. On either side of the deputies' seats are places for the various provincial and territorial officials.\n\nMandarin or Cantonese Dialect spoken in Debates.\" In speaking, either mandarin or Cantonese may be used, but whichever is used is translated into the other dialect by a clerk. Certain subjects for debate are submitted to the assembly by the Hui] Ting, a body established by the present governor-general on his arrival in Canton, consisting of the local, provincial, and territorial officials and the governor-general's foreign secretaries, but not including members of the assembly, though the latter are permitted to attend the meeting as spectators.\n\nProgramme of Business.\" So far the following subjects have been named- \n\nThe suppression of gambling.\n\n\"The abolition of the old police force.\n\n\"The reform of prisons.\n\n\"The application of revenue from family property towards the maintenance of establishments for carrying on the trade or handicraft of the family or clan.\n\n\"The establishment of workhouses.\n\n23 \n\n\"It is not apparent what the result of the assembly's deliberations will be on the reform movement, or what exactly are their powers beyond discussing these and kindred topics, and passing resolutions which they would transmit to the governor-general, to adopt or not as he might think fit.\n\nFriction between Assembly and Viceroy over Mode of Address in written Communications. -A slight friction between the assembly and the governor-general has arisen over the mode of address to be used in communications with each other. The governor-general ordered that he would communicate with the assembly in a 'cha wen,' while they would reply with a chao hui.' The objection to this was that to any han lin' among the deputies the governor-general would have to address a 'chao hui,' and the distinction was one derogatory to the dignity of the assembly as a whole. The desire is that both sides should communicate in chao hui' form. The matter has been referred to Peking.\n\nEstimated Expenses of Assembly.\"The annual expenses of the assembly have been estimated as follows\n\nSalary of president.. \n\nSalary of two vice-presidents \n\nSalary of nineteen resident deputies \n\nSalary of seventy-two other deputies Salary of clerks Miscellaneous expenses \n\nTotal \n\n:::::: \n\nYUNNAN, \n\nTaels. \n\n2,100 \n\n2,880 \n\n15,960 \n\n10,080 \n\n2,880 \n\n18,227 \n\n52,427 \n\nOpening-Little is known yet beyond that the assembly was duly opened on the 14th October, the chief officials and over 100 of the notables being present. The president and two vice-presidents are graduates and expectant officials. subject for discussion was the levying of taxes for the support of schools.\n\nThe first \n\nLocal Disappointment at Outcome of Elections.-1t is understood that the people of Yunnan city are disappointed that none of their representatives were elected to the assembly, and that the officials are correspondingly pleased.\n\nA report on the assemblies of Yunnan* (and Kueichou) is expected from His Majesty's consul-general.\n\nKUEICHOU.\n\nAssembly opened; Reported Protest by President.-A mere reference to the opening of the assembly at Kueilin on the 14th October is found in the foreign press, the native papers containing no information. A special building of foreign type has been erected, and it appears that the president was forced to make a vigorous protest against an attempted encroachment on the privileges of the assembly by the governor.\n\nNEW DOMINION.\n\nDifficulty of including New Dominion in the Scheme.The remoteness of the New Dominion, in conjunction with the wide difference of race and custom of the bulk of the population, which is scanty and scattered, must have suggested a doubt whether the inclusion of the region in a scheme of popular government was practicable or wise, but the central Government evidently considered that the political risk run by differentiating it from the rest of the Empire, and so perhaps facilitating a future separation, were greater than any immediate danger likely to arise locally from the new experiment. However, it is not surprising to find that the officers on the spot hold strong opinions against the adoption pure and simple of the scheme which is considered suitable for the eighteen provinces and Manchuria.\n\n----- \n\nAssembly formed in 1908 altered into Organisation Office. In a memorial published in the \"Official Gazette\"\" of the 14th June the governor of the New Dominion reported that, in obedience to the Imperial decree, an assembly was formed in July 1908, with a president and vice-presidents, but that on receipt of the rules and election law from the Constitutional Government committee, whose directions were to begin with an organisation office, the assembly was altered to an *(P.S.-This report has been sent to the Foreign Office directly by Mr. O'Brien-Butler.)\n\n154", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429012, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 353, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "KIANGSU,\n\nThe appropriations for the assembly are stated to be 120,000 taels (15,000l.) for the buildings at Nanking, and 69,000 taels (7,500l.) annually for salaries, allowances and current expenditure. The payments to members are:-\n\n \n President\n Taels.\n 150 a-month.\n \n \n Two vice-presidents, each\n \n 120\n \n \n Members of standing committee, each\n \n 70\n \n \n Chief secretary\n \n 100\n \n \n Other secretaries, each\n \n 50\n \n\nDuring the session a committee presided over by the Viceroy and composed of the principal provincial officials sat every fifth day at the Viceroy's yamên for the purpose of dealing with business submitted by the assembly, and a similar committee was organised at the governor's yamên at Soochou.\n\nA passage of arms occurred between the Viceroy and the assembly in connection with a resolution advocating the construction of a railway from Hai-chou to Ch'ung-chiang as a form of relief works to alleviate distress caused by floods. The Viceroy approved the scheme, but remitted the resolution back to the assembly because of the difficulty of raising the necessary funds. The standing committee, in reply, reminded the Viceroy that it was only in the event of a divergence of opinion between him and the assembly that a matter should be referred back for further consideration, and they urged that, as the railway scheme had his approbation, his proper course was to do his utmost to carry it into operation. They accordingly declined to consider the matter further.\n\nIn his decisions on the resolutions submitted to him the Viceroy vetoed some as being outside the assembly's functions, others he remitted for further consideration, and a few he approved. In his minute he dwelt on the clause in the regulations empowering him to close the assembly in the event of his admonitions being disregarded. In reply the assembly contested his reading of the regulations, and protested against a minute such as this being made the occasion for reminding the members of the penalties to be incurred for infringing the regulations. His Excellency's attention was called to the fact that the provincial assemblies are the first step towards constitutional government.\n\nAt the request of the standing committee an extraordinary session was called for the 18th April, when it sat for twenty days allotted by regulations. In the petition of the standing committee to the Viceroy it was pointed out that of the forty-six resolutions submitted to the executive only five had been given effect to. The relations between the assembly and the authorities during this session would appear to have been harmonious, though complaint was made that the Viceroy did not give immediate effect to the resolutions passed by the members, even when they were approved.\n\nThe principal matters dealt with of interest to foreigners referred to:—\n\nPayment of Land Tax by Foreigners.-The assembly complained that in spite of the Viceroy's approval of the principal, no effect had been given to their resolution, and the question had been simply referred to the Shanghai taotai. His Excellency replied that the report of the taotai was essential, and that he would direct that official to forward it as soon as possible.\n\nPao-Shan Title Deeds.--The assembly requested that no more official deeds should be issued to foreigners for land in this district. The Viceroy replied that the right to purchase land in Pao-Shan was accorded in 1900, and that he could not now withdraw it, but he undertook that the greatest care should be exercised in order to prevent abuses.\n\nThe assembly have now asked for papers on the subject to see whether this right cannot be recovered.\n\nLand outside Settlements. The assembly requested that official deeds for lands outside settlements should not be granted to foreigners. They also referred to foreigners establishing firms in the interior, especially the Japanese, and pointed out that the treaty of Shimonosiki only authorised the temporary renting of premises in the interior.\n\nShanghai Taotai.-The assembly preferred the following charges against the taotai Tsai Nai-hung, and requested the Viceroy to enquire into them :-\n\nThat he surrendered China's sovereign rights by allowing a consular representative to be present at inquests on Chinese in the settlement;\n\nThat he had, at the request of the consuls, released a headman who was arrested by the magistrate;\n\nThat he had given foreigners facilities to buy land in the settlement; and That he had permitted lotteries in his jurisdiction.\n\nKIANGSI.\n\nThe governor's report on the first session merely says that the deliberations of the assembly were conducted in strict accordance with the regulations. There was no transgression of powers, no disturbance or difficulty. No details of the discussions are given.\n\nThe payments to officers and members are the same as in the Nanking assembly, The estimate for yearly expenditure for salaries, &c., is 46,000 taels (5,700l.).\n\nSix members were elected to the Senate by ballot.\n\nHUPEI.\n\nIn its first session the Hupei assembly displayed a distinct bias against foreigners and an ignorant zeal to minimise treaty rights. Their schemes for reforms were as complicated and regardless of financial considerations as the stock proposals of officials. The native papers, which were supplied with lengthy reports on various topics, lamented the narrowness of the members' views, and pointed out that, being either gentry or officials, actual or expectant, they did not sympathise with the masses, whose burdens they were ready to increase.\n\nThe body of executive officials, from the Viceroy down, affect in conversation to think better of the assembly, but two of them have admitted to His Majesty's consul-general that it deals a serious blow at the Viceroy's power. It supplies the discontented with a means of ventilating grievances, but already its honesty is suspect. It also works with the Hunan assembly in opposing the foreigner over railways and the rice trade, and both show eagerness to combine with other assemblies in coercing the central Government.\n\nSince the close of the full session, the standing committee besides having a fierce dispute with the President which ended in his resignation, and joining in the campaign against foreign loans for the construction of railways, has submitted elaborate schemes for reform of district administration, educational arrangements, and famine relief.\n\nLocal self-government in Hupei has not advanced beyond attempts to draw up voters' lists and exhortations to the people not to suspect that the returns will be followed by extra taxation.\n\nHUNAN,\n\nHis Majesty's consul notes that the assembly is entirely composed of \"gentry\" whose reputation as private citizens is on the whole good. Of the eighty-two members, at most eight have any reputation for capacity, and the rest are mere followers. The people are generally led to regard the assembly with favour, as an appeal to it is encouraged, and many matters are now submitted to it which were formerly referred to the executive. A high official who has spent the best part of his life in Hunan has told His Majesty's consul that the power of the governor has been seriously undermined by the assembly, and that it is a serious menace to the peace of the province. The general opinion in Hunan is that the demands of the assembly to be recognised in all matters will increase, that the power of the executive will diminish correspondingly, and that serious trouble must result. The attitude of the assembly towards questions relating to foreigners has been actively hostile.\n\nThe business discussed during the first session referred to the following subject:-\n\n1. Extension of primary schools.\n\n2. Reform of mining affairs.\n\n3. Reform in method of sealing deeds for real property.\n\n4. Reform of prisons.\n\n5. Reform of abuses in official yamêns.\n\n6. Reform of law school.\n\n7. Enlargement of streets.\n\n8. House tax to be devoted to police service exclusively.\n\n9. Conservancy of the Tung-ting Lake.\n\n[2788 dd-2]\n\nB 2\n\n350", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433537, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nand who will undoubtedly see that it is spent to good purpose. How the measures they may introduce will react on our subsidiary coinage problem in this Colony remains to be seen, and we shall shape our policy accordingly when we know them. The balance of the sum due for the revision of the Ordinances is included. The total net cost after deducting the value of the copies purchased at the ordinary sale price will be $5,000 only, and I can personally testify, as also can the Law Committee of this Council, to the immense amount of time, industry, and ability which Sir Francis Piggott has devoted to the work. fortunate in having so exceptionally able a Chair at the University. It will supersede the vote of $2,500 which has hitherto been granted to the College of Medicine, since this institution will now be absorbed by the University. The latter vote has been retained on the estimates this year, as the College will continue for a great part of the year, but it will not be fully spent. The University vote, should the Council approve, will be paid in full in order to cover cost of passages, etc. I propose that the sum shown in the estimates shall annually be paid over to the funds of the University, as a recognition by Government on the one hand of the large amount subscribed by voluntary contributions towards this project, and on the other hand because the University will greatly benefit the taxpayers of the Colony by affording a means of completing the education of the pupils in the highest classes of our secondary schools. It is not an unduly liberal contribution compared with the $11,150 per annum which The Straits give to the Medical College there. This Government recognition, if assented to by this Council, will, I am confident, greatly encourage the Chinese gentlemen who have made such strenuous efforts to promote this scheme.\n\nThe Miscellaneous vote is, as I have already said, increased by a sum of $32,000 for coal for launches, which replaces votes to a larger amount hitherto shown under various departments.\n\n## Police, Etc.\n\nThe cost of the assisted-passages scheme involves an increase of some $6,000 in the transport vote, which was previously underestimated; the actual expenditure last year standing at $14,000. The police have been increased by the addition of one European sergeant and two lance sergeants; the Indians decreased by 14 constables and the Chinese increased by 44 police constables, while No. 3 police launch is re-commissioned with a full crew. The additions to the strength of the police are made in order to admit of a considerable increase in the detective force, and the division of the whole city and of Kowloon into detective divisions for the better suppression of crime. These measures have already been carried out, the cost this year having been approved by this Council in a supplementary vote, and I think I can already detect a good result. The re-commissioning of the launch is in order to more effectually patrol the waters of the Colony, with a view to stopping armed robberies at sea, which are of too frequent occurrence. A new police station has been opened at Tsun Wan, a European police sergeant being withdrawn from Au Tau for this charge.\n\n## Subsidiary Coinage, Etc.\n\nProvision is made for the loss actually incurred by the receipt of revenue paid in subsidiary coins, the discount being estimated at seven per cent. No provision is made for demonetisation, which the Secretary of State and the Lords of the Treasury consider to be an inadvisable measure, and the cost of which we are at present ill able to afford. We may, however, count it to ourselves for righteousness that during the last four years we have recalled from circulation and melted down silver subsidiary coins to the value of $5,272,012, and copper to the value of $255,446, representing a total of over 78,000,000 coins at a cost to the revenue of $795,758. We shall await with interest the disclosure of the steps which are about to be taken by China for the reorganisation of her currency under the auspices of the four Powers who have guaranteed a great loan for the purpose.\n\nThe effect of those changes is to increase the total for salaries by $17,000, but the total cost of the police, exclusive of fire brigade and prisons, remains the same owing to various economies under other charge votes, and to the transfer of $13,000 for coal for launches to the head Miscellaneous Services. The charge for the department is roughly 12 per cent. of the revenue of the Colony.\n\nSome economies have been effected in the prison staff on the suggestion of the Assistant Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, especially the substitution of four Indian for two European warders; and on the recommendation of the Captain Superintendent of Police the $5,000 voted under Fire Brigade last year for street fire alarms has not been spent. A motor tender with new ladders to enable the firemen to reach the scene of a fire more quickly than is at present possible with coolie-drawn carts has been substituted, at a cost to be provided next year of $14,000.\n\n## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nI laid those matters, with some others, before a committee of experts early last year, and their recommendations were summarized in a report which was laid before this Council on May 5th, 1910 (Sessional Paper 3, 1910).\n\n## The Government's Educational Policy\n\nIn dealing with the Vote for Education, I shall ask your attention to a few remarks on the progress of the general educational policy which has been followed during the past three years.\n\nFirst, as regards the schools (whether supported by Government alone, or by missions or by others with a Government grant) in which a secondary education is given. A tendency had grown up to regard an increased attendance of pupils as the chief sign of progress and development. The staff of the Schools had not, in the large majority of cases, kept pace with the increase in numbers of scholars, and the Government schools were no exception. In Queen's College, for instance, the attendance was about 1,000, though the numbers for whom it is now found (even with extra classrooms) that proper accommodation can be provided is only 800. As a consequence, the size of the classes had in many cases grown very large and much in excess of the number which could properly and efficiently be taught by a single master. The quality of the education afforded was therefore deteriorating from year to year, while the schools were overcrowded. Moreover, there was a tendency in most, if not in all, of the schools which professed to give a secondary education, to increase the numbers in the lowest (viz., the primary) classes, and as the grant was given per caput, the same sum was received for a mere infant as for boys in the top classes whose education required expensive masters.\n\nThe Medical Department shows no change of importance. The Lunatic Asylum is retained on its present basis, but the question of providing some better accommodation for its increasing numbers is engaging my attention. The grant to the Tung Wa Hospital for medicines, hitherto an elastic amount, is increased by $1,000, and $2,500 is now fixed as a maximum. The Sanitary Department continues its policy of substituting direct control for the unwieldy contracts which it was difficult to supervise. The total of the salaries is thereby increased to a small amount by the engagement of extra bullock drivers and launch men in order to effect a much larger decrease in the contracts which appear under other charges.\n\nEffect: The total estimated expenditure in this department has now fallen to $341,096, with an increase of efficiency due to improved methods and to the constant supervision and thought given by the Head of the Department, and by the public-spirited gentlemen who form the Sanitary Board.\n\nTo check the tendency to augment the lower classes at the expense of the advanced ones, a higher grant was given for pupils in the upper and middle divisions of a school than for those in the lower division; while a special grant, which now appears separately to the amount of $3,500, was given for those who passed the tests of the Oxford Local examination. To ensure adequate personal attention to every pupil, and to check overcrowding, the numbers in a single class under one master were limited to 40. The standard of each class was at the same time made identical in all Government and grant schools throughout the Colony, so that comparison of the education given by each school is now easy. These reforms were applied to Government schools equally with grant schools, and the teaching staff was considerably increased, while the number of pupils was reduced partly by the introduction of dual desks, which prevented the former overcrowding and reduced the accommodation available, and partly by the elimination of...\n\n## 192\n## 193\n## 114", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440404, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 297, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "294\n\n46\n\ndrug would injure his health. Such licensed consumers are registered, and as they die out the use of opium will gradually be abolished. The law further provided that no person might be licensed who was either not of full age or a woman, though the latter could obtain a licence by special sanction of the commissioner.\n\nAn additional safeguard against the consumption of opium by persons hitherto unused to it was provided in the clause of the ordinance which prohibits the existence of opium divans.\n\nNo opium, whether raw or prepared, may be exported from Wei-hai-Wei except under licence from the commissioner. It will be seen that a complete system of control, leading to the abolition of the consumption of opium in the territory, has been established, and that measures have been taken to prevent the drug being exported from Wei-hai-Wei.\n\nThe situation in Ceylon was slightly different. Besides those persons who were habitual consumers of opium, the vederalas (or native doctors who were trained in the traditional Ceylonese system of medicine) habitually used opium in their prescriptions. Some difficulty was encountered in the settlement of the question of what persons, professing to be vederalas, had any claim to knowledge of the ancient tradition. The matter was, however, decided by careful enquiry, and those persons who were found to be qualified vederalas were registered, and are entitled to use opium in treating their patients.\n\nAn ordinance, which came into force on the 1st October, 1910, regulates the traffic.\n\nThe right of importing opium, whether raw or prepared, is vested solely in the Government, and is delegated to the principal civil medical officer, who has charge of the distribution of the drug. Opium for purely medicinal purposes may be supplied by the principal civil medical officer to qualified medical men and veterinary surgeons, and to registered vederalas. It can only be supplied to other persons on registration as habitual consumers. No person could be registered except on production of satisfactory evidence that at the time when the law was passed he was a habitual consumer, together with evidence of the amount which he was accustomed to consume and the manner and form of consumption. Thus the opium consumers in Ceylon are a definite number, to which additions cannot be made. The use of the drug, except for medicinal purposes, must therefore disappear in course of time. Further precautions against undue use of opium are taken by limiting the annual amount allowed to a registered consumer or vederala to eight ounces.\n\nThe importation, possession, or sale of opium, except by the authorised officer (the principal civil medical officer), and for the purposes described above, is illegal. It has therefore not been found necessary to impose any restriction on the exportation of opium, since the amount imported depends on the purely local consumption, the maximum amount of which can be ascertained.\n\nThe conditions in the Malay peninsula and in Hong Kong appear to preclude for the present any system of registration of opium consumers, the object of which is to compile a list to which no addition can be made; the constant changes in the population of Hong Kong and the regular immigration of Chinese into the Malay peninsula prevent the introduction of such a system, since, under present conditions, a large proportion of new-comers are consumers of opium.\n\nBoth in Hong Kong and in the Malay peninsula the policy of the Government has been, and continues to be, the restriction of the traffic, so far as is possible, consistently with the prevention of the substitution of morphia injection and other forms of drug taking. The habit is already deplorably prevalent, and smuggling is hard to check, since the packages containing the drugs are capable of easy concealment.\n\nUntil the beginning of 1910, the importation, preparation, and sale of opium was farmed by the Government of the Straits Settlements to a syndicate, whose interest lay in encouraging the use of the drug as far as possible. By Ordinance No. 21 of 1909 the Government took to itself the monopoly of the right to import, export, prepare, sell, and retail opium. Chandu, i.e., opium prepared for consumption, can only be retailed by duly licensed persons and at a fixed price, and licences are required for the maintenance of smoking divans. Only adult males can buy chandu. Further restrictions on the sale were imposed by a heavy increase in the price, which in 1910 was raised by 50 per cent., and by the rigid suppression of opium-smoking in brothels, which had been a lucrative though illegal addition to the farmers' profits.\n\nPage 47\n\nIn the settlement of Labuan, which is at present still subject to the \"farm system\", the Government will introduce the monopoly system at the end of 1912, when the farm expires. Arrangements have also been made to supply the State of North Borneo with chandu in bulk from the 1st January, 1913, when the present farm will be terminated.\n\nThe Federated Malay States in 1909 were divided into coastal and non-coastal areas. In the former, the same system which existed in the Straits Settlements was established. In the latter, which were largely in the hands of farmers, only raw opium might be imported, and the manufacture and sale of chandu were in the hands of the farmer or of licensed persons. Since the 1st January, 1911, however, the system in force in the Straits Settlements has been extended not only over the whole of the Federated Malay States, but over all the other protected States in the peninsula with the exception of Kelantan and Trengganu, where it has not yet been found possible to cancel the existing farms. The Government of the Straits Settlements imports, prepares, and supplies all the chandu needed by the States.\n\nIn the Straits Settlements the Governor in Council has power to prohibit the exportation of raw opium or of chandu, or to impose limitations and conditions on exportation. At present opium may not be exported to Trengganu and Siam except when the requisition for the export is countersigned by the British agent at Trengganu or the Siamese consul-general at Singapore, as the case may be.\n\nNo restrictions on exportation from the Federated Malay States are provided by law, since they receive their supplies from the Straits Settlements, and the colony only imports sufficient raw opium for its own needs and those of the States which it supplies.\n\nThe Government of Hong Kong has not found it practicable to take the monopoly of the importation, preparation, and sale of opium into its own hands, but since the meeting of the Shanghai Commission, restrictions on the traffic have been made by the limitation of the farmer to a certain number of chests per annum (800 in 1911) by the suppression of opium divans and by forbidding the sale of prepared opium to any person other than an adult male.\n\nThe preparation and sale of opium is vested in the farmer, and raw opium can only be imported by him or by a person possessing a permit signed by a Government officer and countersigned by the farmer. By a resolution of the Legislative Council which came into force on the 1st September, 1911, the importation of any kind of raw Indian opium is forbidden unless covered by export permits from the Government of India to the effect that it has been declared for shipment to or consumption in China. This resolution does not apply to opium imported by or for the use of the farmer. The exportation of prepared opium or of dross opium (i.e., a preparation of opium in which the residue of opium, which has been smoked, forms the main ingredient) to China, French Indo-China, the United States of America, the Philippine Islands, the Netherlands Indies, Siam, and Japan is forbidden under the provisions of \"The Opium Ordinance, 1909,\" and Government Notification No. 94 of the 1st April, 1910. The exportation of opium to those places to which it is lawful can only be carried out with the written permission of the superintendent of imports and exports.\n\n(b) Morphia, Cocaine, and other Drugs.\n\nThere were previously restrictions on the importation and sale of morphia and other deleterious drugs in the Eastern colonies and protected States, but since the meeting of the Shanghai Commission, the legislation on the subject has been amended so as to impose greater restrictions.\n\nThe Wei-hai-Wei Ordinance No. 1 of 1909 forbids any person except qualified medical men and chemists to import, export, possess, sell, or buy any morphine or other hypnotic, including cocaine. Such qualified persons may only deal in or dispense such drugs for bona fide medicinal purposes. The only change which has been made in the law of Ceylon is that dealing in morphine, which up to 1910 was regulated by the Poisons Ordinance, is now regulated by \"The Opium Ordinance, 1910,\" and is subjected to the same restrictions with regard to importation, sale, and possession as opium. Under \"The Poisons Ordinance, 1901,\" the sale of cocaine and other poisonous drugs is subjected to regulations similar to those in force in the United Kingdom.\n\nWhen the Shanghai Commission met, the law in force in the Straits Settlements regulating the importation, sale, and use of morphia, cocaine, &c., was \"The Deleterious Drugs Ordinance, 1907.\" Under its provisions no deleterious drug could be imported or exported to the Federated Malay States without written permission from the principal civil medical officer, and no person except a medical practitioner or chemist licensed by the principal civil medical officer could prescribe or deal in the drugs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440431, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 354, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "46\n\ndrug would injure his health. Such licensed consumers are registered, and as they die out the use of opium will gradually be abolished. The law further provided that no person might be licensed who was either not of full age or a woman, though the latter could obtain a licence by special sanction of the commissioner.\n\nAn additional safeguard against the consumption of opium by persons hitherto unused to it was provided in the clause of the ordinance which prohibits the existence of opium divans.\n\nNo opium, whether raw or prepared, may be exported from Wei-hai-Wei except under licence from the commissioner. It will be seen that a complete system of control, leading to the abolition of the consumption of opium in the territory, has been established, and that measures have been taken to prevent the drug being exported from Wei-hai-Wei.\n\nThe situation in Ceylon was slightly different. Besides those persons who were habitual consumers of opium, the vedaralas (or native doctors who were trained in the traditional Ceylonese system of medicine) habitually used opium in their prescriptions. Some difficulty was encountered in the settlement of the question of what persons, professing to be vedaralas, had any claim to knowledge of the ancient tradition. The matter was, however, decided by careful enquiry, and those persons who were found to be qualified vedaralas were registered, and are entitled to use opium in treating their patients.\n\nAn ordinance, which came into force on the 1st October, 1910, regulates the traffic.\n\nThe right of importing opium, whether raw or prepared, is vested solely in the Government, and is delegated to the principal civil medical officer, who has charge of the distribution of the drug. Opium for purely medicinal purposes may be supplied by the principal civil medical officer to qualified medical men and veterinary surgeons, and to registered vedaralas. It can only be supplied to other persons on registration as habitual consumers. No person could be registered except on production of satisfactory evidence that at the time when the law was passed he was a habitual consumer, together with evidence of the amount which he was accustomed to consume and the manner and form of consumption. Thus the opium consumers in Ceylon are a definite number, to which additions cannot be made. The use of the drug, except for medicinal purposes, must therefore disappear in course of time. Further precautions against undue use of opium are taken by limiting the annual amount allowed to a registered consumer or vedarala to eight ounces.\n\nThe importation, possession, or sale of opium, except by the authorised officer (the principal civil medical officer), and for the purposes described above, is illegal. It has therefore not been found necessary to impose any restriction on the exportation of opium, since the amount imported depends on the purely local consumption, the maximum amount of which can be ascertained.\n\nThe conditions in the Malay peninsula and in Hong Kong appear to preclude for the present any system of registration of opium consumers, the object of which is to compile a list to which no addition can be made; the constant changes in the population of Hong Kong and the regular immigration of Chinese into the Malay peninsula prevent the introduction of such a system, since, under present conditions, a large proportion of new-comers are consumers of opium.\n\nBoth in Hong Kong and in the Malay peninsula the policy of the Government has been, and continues to be, the restriction of the traffic, so far as is possible, consistently with the prevention of the substitution of morphia injection and other forms of drug taking. The habit is already deplorably prevalent, and smuggling is hard to check, since the packages containing the drugs are capable of easy concealment.\n\nUntil the beginning of 1910, the importation, preparation, and sale of opium was farmed by the Government of the Straits Settlements to a syndicate, whose interest lay in encouraging the use of the drug as far as possible. By Ordinance No. 21 of 1909 the Government took to itself the monopoly of the right to import, export, prepare, sell, and retail opium. Chandu, i.e., opium prepared for consumption, can only be retailed by duly licensed persons and at a fixed price, and licences are required for the maintenance of smoking divans. Only adult males can buy chandu. Further restrictions on the sale were imposed by a heavy increase in the price, which in 1910 was raised by 50 per cent., and by the rigid suppression of opium-smoking in brothels, which had been a lucrative though illegal addition to the farmers' profits.\n\nIn the settlement of Labuan, which is at present still subject to the \"farm system\", the Government will introduce the monopoly system at the end of 1912, when the farm expires. Arrangements have also been made to supply the State of North Borneo with chandu in bulk from the 1st January, 1913, when the present farm will be terminated.\n\nPage 47\n\n350\n\nBorneo with chandu in bulk from the 1st January, 1913, when the present farm will be terminated.\n\nareas.\n\nThe Federated Malay States in 1909 were divided into coastal and non-coastal areas. In the former, the same system which existed in the Straits Settlements was established. In the latter, which were largely in the hands of farmers, only raw opium might be imported, and the manufacture and sale of chandu were in the hands of the farmer or of licensed persons. Since the 1st January, 1911, however, the system in force in the Straits Settlements has been extended not only over the whole of the Federated Malay States, but over all the other protected States in the peninsula with the exception of Kelantan and Trengganu, where it has not yet been found possible to cancel the existing farms. The Government of the Straits Settlements imports, prepares, and supplies all the chandu needed by the States.\n\nIn the Straits Settlements the Governor in Council has power to prohibit the exportation of raw opium or of chandu, or to impose limitations and conditions on exportation. At present opium may not be exported to Trengganu and Siam except when the requisition for the export is countersigned by the British agent at Trengganu or the Siamese consul-general at Singapore, as the case may be.\n\nNo restrictions on exportation from the Federated Malay States are provided by law, since they receive their supplies from the Straits Settlements, and the colony only imports sufficient raw opium for its own needs and those of the States which it supplies.\n\nThe Government of Hong Kong has not found it practicable to take the monopoly of the importation, preparation, and sale of opium into its own hands, but since the meeting of the Shanghai Commission, restrictions on the traffic have been made by the limitation of the farmer to a certain number of chests per annum (800 in 1911) by the suppression of opium divans and by forbidding the sale of prepared opium to any person other than an adult male.\n\nThe preparation and sale of opium is vested in the farmer, and raw opium can only be imported by him or by a person possessing a permit signed by a Government officer and countersigned by the farmer. By a resolution of the Legislative Council which came into force on the 1st September, 1911, the importation of any kind of raw Indian opium is forbidden unless covered by export permits from the Government of India to the effect that it has been declared for shipment to or consumption in China. This resolution does not apply to opium imported by or for the use of the farmer. The exportation of prepared opium or of dross opium (i.e., preparation of opium in which the residue of opium, which has been smoked, forms the main ingredient) to China, French Indo-China, the United States of America, the Philippine Islands, the Netherlands Indies, Siam, and Japan is forbidden under the provisions of \"The Opium Ordinance, 1909,\" and Government Notification No. 94 of the 1st April, 1910. The exportation of opium to those places to which it is lawful can only be carried out with the written permission of the superintendent of imports and exports.\n\n(b.) Morphia, Cocaine, and other Drugs.\n\nThere were previously restrictions on the importation and sale of morphia and other deleterious drugs in the Eastern colonies and protected States, but since the meeting of the Shanghai Commission, the legislation on the subject has been amended so as to impose greater restrictions.\n\nThe Wei-hai-Wei Ordinance No. 1 of 1909 forbids any person except qualified medical men and chemists to import, export, possess, sell, or buy any morphine or other hypnotic, including cocaine. Such qualified persons may only deal in or dispense such drugs for bona fide medicinal purposes. The only change which has been made in the law of Ceylon is that dealing in morphine, which up to 1910 was regulated by the Poisons Ordinance, is now regulated by \"The Opium Ordinance, 1910,\" and is subjected to the same restrictions with regard to importation, sale, and possession as opium. Under \"The Poisons Ordinance, 1901,\" the sale of cocaine and other poisonous drugs is subjected to regulations similar to those in force in the United Kingdom.\n\nWhen the Shanghai Commission met, the law in force in the Straits Settlements regulating the importation, sale, and use of morphia, cocaine, &c., was \"The Deleterious Drugs Ordinance, 1907.\" Under its provisions no deleterious drug could be imported or exported to the Federated Malay States without written permission from the principal civil medical officer, and no person except a medical practitioner or chemist licensed by the principal civil medical officer could prescribe or deal in the drugs. The", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442632, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "content_text": "196 \n\nto 660 chests. Under the lease just expired, he was allowed 900 chests per annum. Of the 660 chests, 540 are for local consumption and 120 chests for export. It is calculated that the amount allowed for local consumption is legitimately required. No export will be permitted except on production of permits for importation by the Government of the country of destination.\n\n(3)\n\nThe sale of medicinal opium, of morphine, of any alkaloid or constituent of opium, of coca, cocaine, and all its derivatives, and of the preparations of any strength of the above-mentioned substances, has been so drastically regulated as to prevent, as much as is possible, any abuse and ill-effect arising from the administration of these drugs.\n\nThe sale of Heroin and other derivatives of morphine or cocaine is restricted as a poison under the Pharmacy Ordinance. No necessity has yet arisen to legislate specially for these poisons, but the matter is engaging attention.\n\n(4)\n\nA system of very large rewards has been established for seizures or information leading to seizures of opium, morphine, etc., which is being handled in an illegal manner for purposes of smuggling.\n\n(5)\n\nThe definition of opium divan is widened in the Ordinance referred to above with a view to strengthening the hands of the Police in dealing with the opening of such Divans, which, since the 1st of March, 1910, has been illegal.\n\n(6)\n\nThe use of prepared opium is further discouraged by the advance in price for which it is sold under the Monopoly system. The price is now $5.50 a tael for prepared opium and $250 a tael for dross opium.\n\n(7)\n\nWith a view to possible improvement in the control of the purchase of prepared opium, this Government has under consideration a scheme for taking the opium monopoly into its...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445998, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 469, "title": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "467\n\nRECO\n\nC.O\n\n30293\n\nIRA 5 SEP 13\n\nGentlemen,\n\nI beg to thank you for giving me the opportunity of becoming a candidate for the post of Assistant Superintendent of the Victoria Gaol, Hong Kong, and to express the hope that my candidature may receive your favourable recommendation.\n\nI may refer to my application, made about 4 years ago (while serving at the Directors' office) for consideration for a Class I Governorship. Since then, I have gained considerable and valuable experience in assisting in the opening and organising of two new Institutions.\n\nI am now over 34 years of age, and, during my 15 years of Prison service, have had the wide experience of performing duty at a Convict Prison, a Local Prison, the Head office, a Borstal Institution, and the Preventive Detention Prison.\n\nThe Directors may rest assured that\n\nA. M. Hison\n\nBamp Hill, Newport! 19 August, 1913.\n\n...\n\nPage 467\n\n...\n\nPage 467\n\n \nwill be replaced to \nA. M. Hison\n\nBamp Hill, Newport, 19 August, 1913.\n\nto \nThe Directors\n\nof\n\nConvict Prisons.\n\nand remove the last three lines as they are repetition of page number. The corrected version is as follows:\n\n467\n\nRECO\n\nC.O\n\n30293\n\nIRA 5 SEP 13\n\nGentlemen,\n\nI beg to thank you for giving me the opportunity of becoming a candidate for the post of Assistant Superintendent of the Victoria Gaol, Hong Kong, and to express the hope that my candidature may receive your favourable recommendation.\n\nI may refer to my application, made about 4 years ago (while serving at the Directors' office) for consideration for a Class I Governorship. Since then, I have gained considerable and valuable experience in assisting in the opening and organising of two new Institutions.\n\nI am now over 34 years of age, and, during my 15 years of Prison service, have had the wide experience of performing duty at a Convict Prison, a Local Prison, the Head office, a Borstal Institution, and the Preventive Detention Prison.\n\nThe Directors may rest assured that\n\nA. M. Hison\n\nBamp Hill, Newport, 19 August, 1913.\n\nThe Directors\n\nof\n\nConvict Prisons.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446001, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 472, "title": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "stores and case, to my \nentire \nI consider him suitable in \nthe satisfaction_ \n\nIn the \nevery way \ny \nPrisons \n-post-he seeks my bool: Separation \nHong Kong \nPrison \n22.8.13. Free.\n\nPRISON COMMISSION 23 AUG. 1913 \nGilbert Edwin Scott. \n470 \n31 years \nAge Married. \nDate \nof \nbirth, 1st Oct. 1882 \n1 child (male) 2yrs old. \nSick leave \nduring \nService. \nnil.\n\nParticulars of Service :-\n\n \n 3 years\n 12\n 15½ years.\n 32\n \n \n unestablished at Prison Commission.\n established at Portland Prison, Prison Commission & B'ham Prisons\n Total.\n \n \n\n· years Boy Clerk at Prison Commission in the \nStaff Branch. \n6½ years \nat Portland Convict Prison (under Lt. Som. Inspector of Prisons, Major Briscoe) = \nServed \nall \nthe branches of \nDiscipline, \nprincipally \nStore & Manufacturing Dept., but was \nengaged \non industrial work. \n3 years at Prison Commission- Employed \non miscellaneous Staff work, and also work \nin connection with stationery, prison library, and printing. \n4½ years at Birmingham Prison- A busy local \nPrison where almost \nevery detail has to be met every day. Prison work has to be carried out \non the Discipline side. \n\nOn \nAlso a \ncollecting \ncentre \nfor male & female modified Borstal inmates. Engaged for 18 months on industrial work, \nand \nthe last 12 months have been in \ncharge of the Discipline Branch \nof \nthe Office. \nPerformed the duties of \nSteward for 6 months \nduring the present year, which include supervision of industries.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446421, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 403, "title": "CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "Wakefield. March 3rd 1915\n\nSir,\n\nI humbly beg to be placed upon the list of applicants for transfer to Hong Kong.\n\nI am a qualified nurse and am fully conversant with the duties and discipline of prison work. I joined the Prison Service at Hull on August 18th 1901, was transferred to Parkhurst in October 1911 & was appointed night nurse at Wakefield December 15th 1911.\n\nReferring to paragraph (3) in the circular letter, as I am a member of the Territorial Army I append the following particulars.\n\n(a) I was transferred on February 10th 1911, as Corporal of the 3/185 Field Ambulance R.A.M.C. (S.R) Regimental No 985. I will be due for discharge on February 10th 1915.\n\nAs you will see from the above I have had experience both in local & convict prisons & if successful in gaining an appointment, I shall endeavour to show that I merit the confidence you have placed in me.\n\nI remain,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nH. Mr. Parker", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463487, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 579, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Supplementary Vote\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\n## Alien Enemies (Winding Up) Ordinance, 1914\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL I beg to move that the consideration of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to amend further the Alien Enemies Winding up Ordinance, 1914**, be adjourned to the next meeting of the Council.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\n## Enemy Trading\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, **Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914**. In doing so he said: The objects and reasons given in the Bill laid upon the table make it unnecessary for me to say very much on this Bill. The main object of it is to introduce here the provisions of the United Kingdom Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1916, which was passed in January this year. Most of the clauses deal with formal, minor or technical details. Clause 7, I think, is one of the few clauses which require any special notice. The clause provides that the various restrictions on dealing with enemy property shall continue not only during the continuance of the present war, but thereafter until such time as they may be removed by order of the Governor-in-Council. In connection with this clause I do not think I can do better than read the explanation given by the Solicitor-General when he introduced the English Act into the House of Commons. He said: \"When peace is declared the existing restrictions on dealing with the enemy and in making remittances to enemies abroad will cease before there is time to investigate and consider the treatment of British property in enemy countries. The object of this clause is that there shall be an interval during which the whole position of property here and abroad can be considered and adjusted before a general release of property takes place, and the proposal is that the date of this general release shall be fixed by Order-in-Council, which can be made as soon as matters are assured.\" A similar clause had already been proposed here in connection with the local liquidations, and it is now embodied in the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Bill, which will come before Council at the next meeting. The only other clause I would like to refer to is clause 10. That clause imposes certain restrictions on dealings by enemy subjects in connection with Hongkong Companies, and the only thing I would like to point out with regard to that clause is that it is merely a particular instance of the prohibition which has been enforced in Hongkong since December, 1914, under the Ordinance passed in that month, all persons in the Colony being prohibited from dealing in any way with any property of or for the benefit of an enemy.\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY then proposed that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee.\n\n## Supplementary Appropriation Bill\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to authorize the appropriation of a supplementary sum of three millions nine hundred and forty-seven thousand and twenty-seven dollars and forty-one cents, to defray the charges of the year 1915**. In doing so he said: In moving the first reading of this Bill I directed the attention of hon. members to the statement in the Treasurer's report in which the large increase in expenditure last year was explained. The method of presenting the assets and liabilities of the Colony has been revised, and they are now on a cash basis. The position, instead of being obscured by advances made to the railway in anticipation of a loan, is now cleared by debiting the general account with all expenditure over and above that derived from the actual cash payments received on account of the Wuchang loan, the last of which was paid in October. Although nominally the amount required in this Bill is a very large one, it will be seen that it is made up of only a few items. There is the large item for Kowloon-Canton Railway, which I have already referred to, of $3,036,199, and there are other items under the heading of miscellaneous services; on account of loss in subsidiary coins, a sum of $484,057; on account of the maintenance of the prisoners of war, $65,266; and on account of war expenditure, $175,091. These three items are such as could not be foreseen, and with the railway expenditure practically make up the amount required under this Bill. In all the departments of the Government, with the exception of the railway, there was a saving in the estimated expenditure last year, amounting to a considerable sum in the case of the Harbour Master's Department, the Imports and Exports Department, and the Public Works Department, and I think the explanatory remarks in each case will show how those savings came about.\n\nI beg to move the second reading.\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY then proposed that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee.\n\n## Registration of Chemists\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the registration of Pharmaceutical Chemists and to the regulation of the sale and use of Poisons**. In doing so he said: This Bill has three objects. One is to consolidate the law relating to pharmaceutical chemists and poisons. Anyone who has had to deal with the Ordinances as they stand at present will recognise the need for the consolidation. The second object is to re-enact a certain part of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, which was not included in the Opium Ordinance, 1914. The provisions of that part refer to the injection of morphine and cocaine and restrictions on the sale of them. This permission has been taken from the English Act, and it is under a more detailed and more particular prohibition, whereas the other was a general or universal prohibition. It will be illegal for any person to administer by injection any poison in part 3 of the schedule, including morphine and cocaine, except on the certificate of a registered medical practitioner. It will also be illegal to supply any poison within that part of the schedule unless on the prescription of a registered medical practitioner. The third object of the Bill is the revision and re-arrangement, which was also necessary, of the schedule of poisons. Another section of the English Act which has not been included is section 5, which requires enemy subjects within the United Kingdom to report to the Custodian particulars of shares or other property valued at £50 or upwards held by them. Section 6, which deals with the grant to the Custodian of patent rights in the case of pending applications by enemy subjects, enables the grant to be made to the Custodian for the completion of patent rights.\n\nI beg to move the second reading.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded.\n\nCouncil then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.\n\nThe Bill passed through Committee without amendment, and, on Council resuming,\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the Bill be read a third time.\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the Bill was then read a third time and passed.\n\n## Registration of Chemists (Continued)\n\nCouncil then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.\n\nIn Clause 13, (3) (b), the word \"person\" was substituted for the words \"licentiate of the Hongkong College of Medicine.\" In Clause 14 the words \"or some other person authorised thereto by regulation made under the Ordinance\" were added. In Clause 15 (a) and (c) the word \"registered\" was inserted before the words \"medical practitioner.\"\n\nOn Council resuming,\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the Bill be read a third time.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was then read a third time and passed.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY left the Chair and the Council went into Finance Committee.\n\nPage 568", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465291, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Supplementary Vote\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to authorize the appropriation of a supplementary sum of three millions nine hundred and forty-seven thousand and twenty-seven dollars and forty-one cents, to defray the Charges of the year 1913**. In doing so he said: In moving the first reading of this Bill I directed the attention of hon. members to the statement in the Treasurer's report in which the large increase in expenditure last year was explained. The method of presenting the assets and liabilities of the Colony has been revised, and they are now on a cash basis. The position, instead of being obscured by advances made to the railway in anticipation of loan, is now cleared by debiting the general account with all expenditure over and above that derived from the actual cash payments received on account of the Wuchang loan, the last of which was paid in October. Although nominally the amount required in this Bill is a very large one it will be seen that it is made up of only a few items. There is the large item for Kowloon-Canton Railway, which I have already referred to, of $3,036,199, and there are other items under the heading of \"miscellaneous services\"; on account of loss in subsidiary coins, a sum of $155,057; on account of the maintenance of the prisoners of war, $65,900; and special war expenditure, $175,091. These three items are such as could not be foreseen, and with the railway expenditure practically make up the amount required under this Bill. In all the departments of the Government, with the exception of the railway, there was a saving in the estimated expenditure last year, amounting to a considerable sum in the case of the Harbour Master's Department, the Imports and Exports Department, and the Public Works Department, and I think the explanatory remarks in each case will show how those savings came about.\n\nI beg to move the second reading.\n\n**THE COLONIAL TREASURER** seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** then proposed that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee.\n\n**THE COLONIAL TREASURER** seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\n## Alien Enemies (Winding Up) Ordinance, 1914\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL**--I beg to move that the consideration of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to amend further the Alien Enemies Winding up Ordinance, 1914**, be adjourned to the next meeting of the Council.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\n## Enemy Trading\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved the second reading of the Bill intituled **\"An Ordinance to amend further the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914\"**. In doing so he said--The object and reasons given in the Bill laid upon the table make it unnecessary for me to say very much on this Bill. The main object of it is to introduce here the provisions of the United Kingdom Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1914. Most of the clauses deal with formal or technical details. Clause 7, I think, is one of the few clauses which require any special notice. The clause provides that the various restrictions on dealing with enemy property shall continue not only during the continuance of the present war, but thereafter until such time as they are removed by order of the Governor-in-Council. In connection with this clause I do not think I can do better than read the explanation given by the Solicitor General when he introduced the English Act into the House of Commons. He said: \"When peace is declared the existing restrictions on dealing with the enemy and in making remittances to enemies abroad will cease before there is time to investigate and consider the treatment of British property in enemy countries. The object of this clause is that there shall be an interval during which the whole position of property here and abroad can be considered, and adjusted before a general release takes place, and the proposed arrangement is that the date of this general release shall be fixed by Order-in-Council, which can be made as soon as matters are assured.\"\n\nA similar clause had already been proposed here in connection with the local liquidations, and it is now embodied in the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Bill, which will come before Council at the next meeting. The only other clause I would like to refer to is clause 8. That clause imposes certain restrictions on dealings by enemy subjects in connection with Hongkong Companies, and the only thing I would like to point out with regard to that clause is that it is merely a particular instance of the prohibition which has been enforced in Hongkong since December, 1914, under the Ordinance passed in that month, whereby all persons in the Colony being prohibited from dealing in any way with any property for the benefit of enemy subjects except with Your Excellency's permission.\n\nI beg to move the second reading.\n\nThe Council then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.\n\nThe Bill passed through Committee without amendment, and, on Council resuming,\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved that the Bill be read a third time.\n\n**THE COLONIAL TREASURER** seconded, and the Bill was then read a third time and passed.\n\n## Registration of Chemists\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the registration of Pharmaceutical Chemists and to the regulation of the sale and use of Poisons**. In doing so he said: This Bill has three objects. One is to consolidate the law relating to pharmaceutical chemists and poisons. Anyone who has had to deal with the Ordinances as they stand at present will recognise the need for the consolidation.\n\nThe second object is to re-enact a certain part of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, which was not included in the Opium Ordinance, 1914. The provisions of that part refer to the injection of morphine and cocaine and similar things. Under the Bill it will be illegal for any person to administer by injection any poison in Part 3 of the schedule, including morphine and cocaine, except on the certificate of a registered medical practitioner. It will also be illegal to supply any poison within that part of the schedule unless on the prescription of a registered medical practitioner.\n\nThe third object of the Bill is the revision and re-arrangement, which in England was found necessary, of the schedule of poisons. Three sections of the English Act have not been adopted in this Bill. One is a section which gives power now in England to wind up firms of enemy nationality or enemy association. That section, of course, is unnecessary here because the policy of winding up enemy firms was adopted in this Colony in October, 1914, and re-affirmed in January of this year.\n\nAnother section of the English Act which has not been included is section 5, which requires enemy subjects within the United Kingdom to report to the Custodian particulars of shares valued at £50 or upwards held by them. Section 8, which deals with the grant to the Custodian of patent rights in the case of pending applications by enemy subjects. The clause enables the grant to be made to the Custodian for the completion of patent rights.\n\nI beg to move the second reading.\n\nThe Council then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.\n\nIn Clause 13, (3) (b), the word \"licentiate\" was substituted for the words \"person licentiate of the Hongkong College of Medicine.\"\n\nIn Clause 14 the words \"or some other person authorised thereto by regulation made under the Ordinance\" were added.\n\nIn Clause 15 (a) and (c) the word \"registered\" was inserted before the words \"medical practitioner.\"\n\nOn Council resuming,\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved that the Bill be read a third time.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the Bill was then read a third time and passed.\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY** left the Chair and the Council went into Finance Committee.\n\nPage 22\nPage 23\nPage 85 \nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478695, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 160, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "# EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| No. | Regt. | Age | Medical Notes | Qualifications and Previous Employment | O.U.T.C. Courses | Present Locality | Rank |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| D.O.1438 | | 36 | Good | B.W.F. Ed. privately. 4 yrs. app. W. E. Davies, Ironmongers and builders merchants, S. Wales, 2 yrs asst. J. Griffiths ironmongers, Swansea, 2 yrs. Brown Bros., cycle and motor agents, London. 8 yrs. representative S. Bristol Trading Co. (Welsh) | | Wales | Capt. |\n| 1519 | Y. & L. | 56 | Good | Ed, Uppingham, Trinity Coll., Dublin. 22 yrs, Reg. Army. Acted as regimental and garrison adjutant. Experienced secretarial and administrative duties, | | Ireland | Major |\n| D.O.1442 | | 21 | M.G.C. Good | Ed. Edward VI., Louth. senior local exam., 1913. Joined Army from school. | Cambridge | Lincoln | 2nd Lieut. |\n| 1521 | R.G.A. | 34 | | Ed. privately. 6 yrs. clerk. Battery accountant. | | London | 2nd Lieut. |\n| 1522 | | 49 | Fair | Ed privately. 22 yrs. Reg. Army, rose from ranks. Accustomed clerical work, office routine. | | London | Capt. |\n| D.O.1452 | Buffs | 30 | Good. Left lung weak | Ed. privately. 2 yrs. P.O. Savings Bank. 4 yrs. clerk Dyonniars, London. Union Bank of Canada. Papanil Bank, London. [French, Spanish] | | Wales | Lieut. |\n| D.O.1485 | I.A. | 24 | Good | Ed, privately. 2 yrs. counting house F. Gorringe. Ltd. 2 yrs. asst. accountant Redcliff Co., [Hindustani, Burmese] | | Leicester | Lieut. |\n| 1528 | Middlesex | 43 | Good | Ed. privately. 7 mos, asst. acct. 5 yrs. B.S.A. Police. 6 yrs. Prisons Dept., S.E. Africa. Knowledge D.E. book-keeping, accountancy. Hobbies, horses and cattle. | | Kent | Private |\n| D.O.1482 | Lincoln | 39 | Fair | Ed. privately. 9 yrs. clerk Stock Exchange. Thoroughly understands office routine. [French] | | Warwick | 2nd Lieut. |\n| D.O.1469 | Middlesex | 37 | Fair | Ed. privately. Editorial statistical work. Official Intelligence Depart. Stock Exchange. 18 yrs. est, finally manager, produce firm, Chili. Knowledge cereals, finance, office routine. 2 yrs. clerk, Buenos Aires and G. S. Rly. | | London | Private |\n| 1530 | London | 28 | Good | Ed. privately. 5 yrs. clerical experience. | | London | 2nd Lieut. |\n| 1539 | Hussars | 49 | Fair | Ed. privately. 30 yrs, service in Army. | | Kent | Capt. |\n| D.O.1471 | C.L.C. | 34 | Fair | Ed. privately, China and Japan. 4 yrs. mercantile asst., Collins & Co., China. 2 yrs, departmental manager. 4 yrs. sanitary inspector, Shanghai Municipal Council. 1 yr. superintendent concrete construction. Knowledge business routine, systems organisation. Hobbies, pottery, painting, leather, woodwork [French, Chinese, Japanese, German] | | London | 2nd Lieut. |\n| 1540 | C.E.F. | 44 | Good | Ed. privately. Experienced canning plant perishable goods, Colonisation work, transcontinental rys. 2 yrs. H.Q. Staff, Ministry of Munitions. | | London | Warrant Officer |\n| 1542 | Bedford | 29 | Fair | Ed. privately. Clerk Las Palmas Produce Co., Argentine. yrs. sheep farming. [French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese] | | London | 2nd Lieut. |\n| D.O.1472 | Cheshire | 57 | Fair | Ed. privately. Solicitor's clerk. 25 yrs. manager Scottish National Key Registry. | | London | Lieut. |\n| 1548 | I.A. | 66 | Good | Ed. privately; R.M.C., Sandhurst. 18 yrs. India Army. 17 yrs. Military Magistrate. Commander, Prisoners of War Camps. | | London | Lieut.-Col. |\n| D.O.1482 | Can. Inf. | 24 | Good. L. leg amputated | Ed. privately. 2 yrs. Yorkshire Insurance Coy. (Dublin Branch). 2 yrs. Canadian Bank of Commerce. Relinquished post to join Army. Desires clerical post. | | Dublin district preferred | Sergt |\n| D.O.1484 | | 13 | Good | Ed. privately. B.A., Oxford, 18 yrs. Reg. Army. 3 yrs. organising secretary Lord Roberts' National Service League. Good organiser, lecturer, disciplinarian. [French] | | Ireland | Lieut.-Col. |\n| 1568 | | 27 | Fair | Ed. privately, 4 yrs. Channel Coast Committee, Victoria St., London. Junior clerk to private secretary, afterwards chief accountant and auditor. 1 yr. manager of company's works in France. [French, Spanish] | | London | Lieut. |\n| 1744 | Lincoln | 64 | Good | Ed. privately. 27 yrs. Army. 9 yrs. 1st Class Warrant Officer, Quartermaster, 1916 | | Notts | Lieut. |\n| D.O.1503 | A.V.C. | 64 | Fair | Ed. privately. 31 yrs. Reg. Army, 3 yrs. as Quartermaster. Thorough knowledge stores and accounts. | | Warwick | Hon. Lieut |\n| 1220 | | 39 | Fair | Ed. privately. Qualified analytical chemist. Fellow Chemical Soc. 20 yrs experience chemical work. Knowledge food, drugs, minerals, metals. Good organiser. | | London | 2nd Lieut. |\n| D.0.1516 | X.G.C. | 29 | Fair. D.A.H. | Ed. privately. 4 yrs, clk, British Linen Bk, Wigtown, N.B. 6 yrs book-keeper and cashier Mackie & Gladstone, Birkenhead & Liverpool. | | Wales | 2nd Lieut. |\n| | | | | | | | |\n| H.Q. D.O.A-29.7.18 H.Q.D.046-22.7.18 | | | | | | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491551, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "content_text": "*\n\nSAMPLING.\n\n7. The amount of sampling done during the year is shown in the following table:-\n\n \n Tea Oil\n 11,000 slabs.\n \n Cassia Oil.\n 2,410\n \n \n Tin\n \n \n Bismuth Ore\n 2 tons.\n \n \n Wolfram\n 9,847 bags.\n \n Coal\n 600 tons.\n \n \n Antimony\n 1,120 cases.\n \n \n \n \n \n Wood Oil\n \n \n \n 46,110 galls.\n \n \n Lard\n \n \n \n 138,995\n \n \n Copper\n 932 bars.\n \n \n 90,502\n \n \n Peanut Oil\n \n \n \n 80,511\n \n \n Manganese Ore\n 5,200 tons.\n \n \n 500\n \n \n Coconut Oil\n \n \n \n 407\n \n \n Anise Oil\n 8,692 cases.\n \n \n \n \n \n Camphor Oil\n \n \n \n \n \n\nEXAMINATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC.\n\n8. Owing no doubt to the high exchange ruling during the past year, less work was done for local exporting firms than in 1918. The fees paid into the Treasury during the year amounted to $35,258.50 as against $43,995.00 in 1918.\n\nThe value of the year's work as determined from the Tariff of Fees (Government Notification No. 139 of 1918) is $39,918.50 as against $48,670.00 in 1918.\n\nLIBRARY.\n\n9. Several standard works of reference have been added.\n\nSPECIAL REPORTS.\n\n10. Special Reports have been supplied on Chinese Camphor, Standards for Oils, The Macao Poisoning Case, Fuel Oils, Mineral Deposits in the New Territories, The Storage of Dangerous Goods, and the Composition of Hongkong Milks.\n\nRESEARCH.\n\n11. Processes for the estimation of minute quantities of Lead in Cassia Oil and for the estimation of Water in Crude Camphor have been worked out and descriptions sent to the Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry.\n\nA new physico-chemical method for the determination of Camphor Oil in Crude Camphor has also been devised and a description sent to the “Analyst”.\n\nAn extended investigation is being conducted into the nature and constitution of Chinese Camphor Oil.\n\nSTAFF.\n\n12. Mr. Lubatti acted as Government Analyst from the end of January to the end of October, during which time I was absent from the Colony on leave. Mr. K. W. Lane joined the staff as Assistant Analyst, and Mr. L. Cheng as Temporary Assistant Analyst during the year.\n\nLABORATORY ACCOMMODATION.\n\n13. No further increase of work can take place in the present Laboratory which is at present worked to its utmost capacity. As a fall in exchange will almost certainly be accompanied by an increased demand for analytical work, it is desirable that arrangements be made as speedily as possible for the provision of more adequate laboratory accommodation.\n\nANALYST'S DEPARTMENT.\n\nREPORT BY MR. E. R. DOVEY, A.R.C.Sc., Government Analyst.\n\nThe number of analyses performed during the year was 1,880 as against 1,169 in 1917.\n\nThe following classification shows the nature of the work done:-\n\n \n \n I.—Chemico-legal.\n 1918\n 1917\n \n \n Toxicological examinations (including 16 stomachs),\n 57\n 32\n \n \n Articles for stains,\n 0\n 1\n \n \n Coins and coining materials,\n 5\n 2\n \n \n Ice,\n 0\n 9\n \n \n II.—Potable Waters.\n \n \n \n \n Public supplies,\n 36\n 36\n \n \n Wells, etc.,\n 9\n 31\n \n \n Mineral waters,\n 0\n 5\n \n \n III.—Dangerous Goods Ordinance.\n \n \n \n \n Petroleum oil,\n 79\n 70\n \n \n Liquid fuel,\n 27\n 52\n \n \n Substances for explosives,\n 0\n 1\n \n \n Ships for inflammable vapour,\n 18\n 18\n \n \n IV.—Food and Drugs Ordinance.\n \n \n \n \n Beer,\n 6\n 6\n \n \n Brandy,\n 9\n 12\n \n \n Bread,\n 0\n 9\n \n \n Flour,\n 6\n 13\n \n \n Gio,\n 3\n 2\n \n \n Ice cream,\n 2\n \n \n \n Lard,\n 102\n 79\n \n \n Milk, fresh,\n 97\n 80\n \n \n Milk, condensed,\n 2\n \n \n \n Margarine,\n 2\n 0\n \n \n Macaroni,\n 0\n 1\n \n \n Pepper,\n 0\n 1\n \n \n Port wine,\n 7\n 4\n \n \n Rice,\n 3\n 0\n \n \n Rum,\n 5\n 4\n \n \n Salt,\n 2\n 1\n \n \n Sherry,\n 2\n 2\n \n \n Whisky,\n 13\n 11\n \n \n V.—Building Materials.\n \n \n \n \n Cement, Paint,\n 0\n 1\n \n \n Oil,\n 6\n 0\n \n \n Wood,\n 1\n 0\n \n \n Preservative,\n 1\n 0\n \n \n VI.—Pharmacy Ordinance.\n \n \n \n \n Medicines for poisons,\n 16\n $\n \n \n Morphine,\n 3\n 0\n \n \n Cocaine,\n 1\n 0\n \n \n Opium,\n 3\n 0\n \n \n Opium leaves,\n 1\n \n \n \n Pills,\n *\n 2\n \n \n Other drugs,\n 12\n 9\n \n \n VII.—Mineralogical, etc.\n \n \n \n \n Metals,\n 437\n 311\n \n \n Ores,\n 364\n 167\n \n \n Coals,\n 11\n 10\n \n \n Lignite,\n 0\n 1\n \n \n VIII.—Oils.\n \n \n \n \n Anise,\n 32\n 31\n \n \n Cassia,\n 50\n 13\n \n \n Colza,\n 0\n 1\n \n \n Cottonseed,\n 0\n 2\n \n \n Linseed,\n 0\n 1\n \n \n Lubricating,\n 0\n 9\n \n \n Peanut,\n 12\n 2\n \n \n Peanut butter,\n 1\n 1\n \n \n Perilla,\n 2\n 0\n \n \n Teaseed,\n 21\n 10\n \n \n Tallow,\n 1\n 0\n \n \n Wood,\n 343\n 32\n \n \n Castor,\n 2\n 1\n \n \n Coconut,\n 6\n 1\n \n \n IX.—Miscellaneous.\n \n \n \n \n Coal tar disinfectants,\n 2\n 2\n \n \n Urine,\n 23\n 14\n \n \n \n 24\n 76\n \n \n \n 130\n 90", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495371, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "31\n\n30\n\n-\n\ntyphoid vaccines; the preparation of anti-meningococcus serum, and of the vaccine to prevent abortion in cows. The making of anti-rabic vaccine is also undertaken, and thirty-one persons were treated after having been bitten by dogs, although not all of the dogs were rabid. The examination of rat corpses to detect whether any of them were suffering from plague resulted in 73,245 dead rats being inspected but only two of these were found to be infected with plague.\n\nIX. THE PUBLIC MORTUARIES,\n\nIn Victoria.—3,973 post-mortem examinations were formed, and the results are given in detail in the appendix to this report. One of the points of interest is the comparison between the number of persons who are said to have died from tuberculosis of the lungs (195) and the number of those entered as having died from tuberculosis of the abdominal organs and other tissues (73). In recent years it has been suggested that tuberculosis, in children, at any rate, generally enters the body by way of the respiratory system, and that it is not common to find it affecting the organs in the abdomen, as a primary infection. Assuming this to be accurate so far as children are concerned it does not appear to hold good for all ages. Another item of interest is the small number of cases which are reported to have died from dysentery; eight deaths are ascribed to this cause for the year and nine for the year before. Although the precise kind of dysentery has not been indicated it is fairly certain that the amoebic form was that responsible for the great majority. But even so, eight cases of dysentery in all but 4,000 deaths, is less than one would suppose, and it is a question which deserves further attention, not only as to the prevalence of dysentery, but the forms which occur here. Malignant growths are comparatively rarely seen. In 1921 seven are reported in 3,471 examinations and one case is reported among the 3,973 examinations in 1922. There is no reference to animal parasites as the cause of death, for neither the hookworm nor the bilharzia family appear to have been observed. The deaths stated to be due to enteric fevers also seem to be few. The work of the public mortuary in Victoria has always been a part of the duty of the Bacteriologist, but on account of shortage of staff it was necessary this year to depute a medical officer for this duty.\n\nThe Public Mortuary in Kowloon : Male bodies examined... 1,277 Female bodies examined... 779 Bodies of unknown sex... 11 Total... 2,067\n\nThe nationalities represented were Europeans 4, Chinese 2,055, Japanese 4, Indians 2, Negro 1, Filipino 1.\n\nEpitome of causes of death.\n\n19221921\nDiseases caused by infection,\nof the nervous system.6218\nof respiratory system,77\ndigestive system,...201139\ngenitourinary system..........2313\nfemale organs,188127\nDisorders of nutrition or metabolism....1252\n5112\n6937\n2\nDeaths from violence :— (a) general injuries, (b) local238158\n(c) poisons13\nToo decomposed for diagnosis, Undiagnosed.\n\n32,333 rats were examined and 19 were found to be infected with plague.\n\nX.—The Chinese Midwives.\n\nSeven midwives were employed as in previous years, and six pupils were being trained in midwifery at the expense of government. In most of the districts these midwives are greatly appreciated and their services are sought after. A maternity hospital for Chinese containing about 60 beds was opened during the year and will prove to be a great benefit to the large number of Chinese women who seek for modern methods of treatment in childbirth. The hospital, although referred to in this report, is not a government institution, but is under the auspices of the Chinese themselves; the government, however, provides a lady doctor to supervise the work. In 1922 about 2,800 Chinese patients were attended during childbirth in the various institutions of the colony, in addition to those attended by the government midwives. This is not a great number compared with the population, but it is three times the number as compared with, say, five years ago, and is only another sign of the growing faith in modern medicine which is being evinced by the Chinese.\n\n38", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495392, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "Nomenclature.\n\nBrought forward.................\n\n70\n\nTable I-(Continued),\n\nDiseases and Deaths in 1922 at the Civil, Victoria, and Gaol Hospitals.\n\nCIVIL HOSPITAL,\n\nVICTORIA HOSPITAL.\n\nGAOL HOSPITAL,\n\nRemaining in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1921.\n\nYearly Total.\n\nTotal Cases Treated.\n\nRemaining in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1922.\n\nAdmissions.\n\nDeaths.\n\nYearly Total.\n\nTotal Cases Treated.\n\nRemaining in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1922.\n\nAdmissions.\n\nDeaths.\n\nYearly Total.\n\nTotal Cases Treated.\n\nRemaining in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1922.\n\nAdmissions.\n\nDeaths.\n\n \n Local Injuries —Contd.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fracture Phalanges..\n \n 2\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n Nasal bone\n \n 3\n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n Os Calcis\n \n 2\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n Dislocations\n \n 10\n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n Ruptured Kidney\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n Rupture of urethra\n \n 4\n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n Tumours and Cysts\n \n 97\n 13\n 102\n 3\n \n \n \n \n Malformations.\n \n 9\n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n Poisons-Opium\n \n 3\n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n Alcohol\n \n 25\n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n Star anise\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Datura\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Metal\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Arsenious acid\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ptomaine\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Animal Parasites—Ascaris lumbricoides\n \n 16\n \n 16\n \n \n \n \n \n Ankylostoma duodenale...\n \n 3\n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n Taenia solium\n \n 2\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n Filaria bancrofti\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Malingering\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In attendance\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n Under Observation......\n \n 54\n \n 54\n \n 47\n \n \n \n \n \n 47\n \n 47\n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL.......\n 125\n 4,021\n 323\n 4,146\n 183\n \n \n \n \n \n 178\n 2\n 178\n 5\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n 328\n 8\n 333\n 12\n 2\n 15\n \n \n\n71\n\nTable I.\n\nDiseases and Deaths in 1922 at the Tung Wah Hospital.\n\n \n DISEASES.\n Remaining in Hospital at end of 1921.\n Admissions.\n Deaths.\n Total Cases Treated.\n Remaining in Hospital at end of 1922.\n \n \n Diseases Caused by Infection: Chicken-pox...............................\n \n 15\n \n 15\n \n 2\n \n \n Diphtheria\n \n 17\n \n 17\n \n \n \n \n Dysentery:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Protozoal\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (b) Bacillary\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Enteric Fever:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Typhoid\n 22\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (b) Para-typhoid\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gonococcal infection\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Influenza\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Leprosy :-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Anaesthetic\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (b) Nodular\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Malaria:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Quartan\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (b) Benign tertian\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (c) Sub-tertian\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Measles....\n 1\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n (d) Malarial Cachexia\n \n 2\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n Meningococcal Infection :-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Cerebro-spinal fever\n \n 12\n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n Plague\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis :-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Acquired\n 347\n \n 19\n 366\n 20\n \n \n \n (b) Congenital..\n 2\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n Tetanus\n 13\n \n 10\n 13\n \n \n \n \n Tuberculosis (General)\n 31\n \n \n 31\n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Nervous System\n 362\n 6\n \n 368\n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Nerves\n 7\n \n \n 7\n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Spinal Cord\n 8\n \n \n 8\n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the cerebral meninges:—\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Tuberculosis\n \n 3\n 1\n 3\n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Brain :-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Apoplexy\n 7\n \n \n 7\n \n \n \n \n (b) Paralysis\n 181\n \n \n 181\n \n \n \n \n (c) Epilepsy..\n 2\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n Carried forward,.\n \n 2,662\n 955\n 2,717\n 62\n \n \n \n \n 55\n \n \n \n \n 58\n \n\n58", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495393, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "Table 1,- Continued).\n\nDiseases and Deaths in 1922 at the Tung Wah Hospital.\n\nRemain-\n\n73\n\n-\n\nTable 1,-Continued.\n\nDiseases and Deaths in 1922 at the Tung Wah Hospital.\n\n \n DISEASES\n Remain-ing in Hospital at end of 1921\n Admis-sions\n Total Cases Treated\n Deaths\n Remain-ing in Hospital at end of 1922\n \n \n Brought forward,\n 55\n 2,662\n 2,717\n 955\n 62\n \n \n Brought forward,\n 145\n 4,664\n 4,809\n 1,737\n 160\n \n \n Mental Diseases\n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Eye\n 112\n 12\n 124\n \n 116\n \n \n Diseases due to Disorders of Nutrition or of Metabolism :-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Beri-beri\n 29\n 817\n 846\n 374\n 29\n \n \n Diseases of the Ear\n 3\n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Nose\n \n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Circulatory System :-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Valvular (mitral)\n 32\n 32\n \n 2\n \n \n \n Diseases of the Male Organs of Generation\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Spleen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Splenomegaly\n X\n \n X\n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Lymphatic System :-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Inflammation of lymphatic glands\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (b) Tuberculosis of lymphatic glands\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Endocrine Glands:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1. Thyroid Gland :-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Exophthalmic Goitre\n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Respiratory System:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Bronchitis\n 2\n 24\n 26\n 16\n 2\n \n \n (b) Asthma\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (c) Pneumonia (lobar)\n 1\n 10\n 11\n 10\n \n \n \n (d) Pneumonia (lobular)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (e) Pulmonary tuberculosis\n 81\n 481\n 562\n 308\n 98\n \n \n Diseases of the Digestive System\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Diseases of the alimentary tract\n 190\n 617\n 807\n 333\n 29\n \n \n (b) Diseases of the liver\n 925\n 201\n 1,126\n 96\n 19\n \n \n (c) Diseases of the gall-bladder and ducts\n 12\n 367\n 379\n 96\n 19\n \n \n (d) Diseases of the peritoneum\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Teeth and Gums\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Pyorrhoea\n \n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n \n (b) Alveolar abscess\n \n 4\n 4\n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Urinary Organs\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Nephritis (Chronic)\n 16\n 228\n 244\n 36\n 2\n \n \n (b) Cystitis\n \n 16\n 16\n 6\n \n \n \n (c) Calculus\n \n 6\n 6\n 2\n \n \n \n Diseases of the Female Organs of Generation\n 44\n 45\n 89\n 4\n 34\n \n \n Diseases of the Organs of Locomotion\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Osteo-myelitis\n 3\n 18\n 21\n \n \n \n \n (b) Synovitis\n \n 40\n 40\n \n 3\n \n \n (c) Myalgia\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (d) Lumbago\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (e) Rheumatoid arthritis\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Areolar Tissue\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Inflammation\n 27\n 308\n 335\n 31\n \n \n \n (b) Abscess\n 123\n 262\n 385\n 123\n 5\n \n \n (c) Carbuncle\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n General Injuries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Burns and scalds\n 23\n 89\n 112\n 14\n \n \n \n Local Injuries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Wounds\n 125\n 139\n 264\n 5\n \n \n \n (b) Fractures\n 46\n 51\n 97\n 2\n \n \n \n Tumours and cysts\n 58\n 2\n 60\n 2\n \n \n \n Poisons\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Opium\n 174\n 36\n 210\n \n \n \n \n Animal Parasites\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Ascaris lumbricoides\n 2\n 16\n 18\n 2\n \n \n \n (b) Ankylostoma duodenale\n 2\n 2\n 4\n \n \n \n \n (c) Filaria bancrofti\n \n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n \n Parturition\n 14\n \n 14\n 2\n \n \n \n Old age\n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Carried forward\n 145\n 4,664\n 4,809\n 1,737\n 160\n \n \n Total\n 257\n 8,079\n 8,336\n 2,267\n 336\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 59", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495395, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "DISEASES.\n\n76\n\nTable II, Continued).\n\nShowing the Admissions and Mortality in the Tung Wah Hospital during the year 1922, with the proportion of cases treated by Western and Chinese methods respectively.\n\nDISEASE AND DEATHS IN 1922 SHOWING THE ADMISSIONS AND MORTALITY IN THE KWONG WA HOSPITAL WITH THE PROPORTION OF CASES TREATED BY EUROPEAN AND CHINESE METHODS RESPECTIVELY.\n\n \n DISEASES\n Remaining in Hospital at the end of 1921\n ADMISSIONS.\n DEATHS.\n WESTERN TREATMENT.\n CHINESE TREATMENT.\n Admissions.\n Deaths.\n Admissions.\n Deaths.\n \n \n Brought forward....\n \n \n \n \n \n 2,826\n 997\n 2,861\n 1,124\n \n \n Diseases of the Female Organs of Generation...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Organs of Locomotion :—\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Osteo-myelitis\n \n 19\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (b) Synovitis\n \n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (c) Myalgia\n \n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (d) Lumbago\n \n 39\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (e) Rheumatoid arthritis\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Areolar Tissue\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Inflammation\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (b) Abscess\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (c) Carbuncle\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Skin\n \n 398\n 91\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CAUSED BY INFECTIONS.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diphtheria\n \n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dysentery.\n \n 28\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Enteric:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Typhoid fever\n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gonorrhoea\n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Influenza\n \n 31\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Leprosy..\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Malaria\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Malarial Cachexia\n \n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Measles.\n \n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cerebral Spinal Fever...\n \n 34\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mumps\n \n 302\n 105\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Plague\n \n 68\n 13\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Septicaemia\n \n 14\n 7\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Small Pox..\n \n 134\n 22\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis (a) acquired\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tetanus.\n \n 30\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tuberculosis\n \n 38\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meningococcal Infection :--\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Nervous System....\n \n 20\n 7\n \n \n 65\n 93\n 15\n 3\n \n \n Eye Ear\n \n 17\n 4\n \n \n 21\n \n 6\n \n \n \n Circulatory System...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Respiratory\n \n 8\n 6\n \n \n 90\n 66\n 164\n 39\n \n \n Digistive\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diseases due to disorders of Nutrition\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n of the male organs of generative.,\n \n 18\n \n \n \n 38\n \n 184\n 123\n \n \n Animal Parasites\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n female\n \n 20\n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Ascaris lumbricordes\n \n 4\n \n \n \n 11\n \n 25\n \n \n \n (b) Ankylostoma duodenale\n \n 4\n \n \n \n 9\n \n 95\n \n \n \n organs of Locomotion.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Skins\n \n 1\n \n \n \n 31\n \n 19\n 54\n \n \n (e) Filaria bancrofti\n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n Urinary System\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Parturition\n \n 9\n \n \n \n 182\n 136\n 327\n \n \n \n Old age\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Areolar Tissues\n \n 1,017\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n General Injuries\n \n 59\n 33\n \n \n 75\n 40\n \n \n \n \n Local Injuries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n New growth:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total,.....\n \n 4,622\n 1,056\n 3,714\n 1,211\n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) non Malignant\n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (b) Malignant\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Poisons\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Animal parasites\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Parturitions..\n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total\n \n 206\n 20\n 20\n 10\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n \n 19\n 9\n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 717\n 741\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n 218\n 3,407\n 1,541\n 5,154\n 1,004\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 484\n 1,488\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n77", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495396, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "78\n\nTABLE OF CASES TREATED AT THE GOVERNMENT DISPENSARY,\n\nDISEASES.\n\nKOWLOON.\n\n \n Number of Patients 1922.\n Number of Patients 1921.\n \n\n79\n\nTABLE OF CASES TREATED AT THE GOVERNMENT DISPENSARY,\n\nKowloon,—Continued.\n\nDISEASES.\n\n \n DISEASES CAUSED BY INFECTION,\n Number of Patients 1922.\n Number of Patients 1921.\n \n \n Brought forward.............\n 1,888\n 1,161\n \n \n Chicken-pox\n 58\n ...\n \n \n Dengue\n ...\n ...\n \n \n Dysentery\n ...\n X\n \n \n Enteric Fever :-\n \n \n \n \n (a) Typhoid\n 1,497\n 767\n \n \n Erysipelas.....\n 3\n ...\n \n \n Gonorrhoea\n 215\n 160\n \n \n Influenza\n 408\n 201\n \n \n Leprosy\n 2\n ...\n \n \n Malaria...\n 371\n 228\n \n \n Measles..\n 18\n ...\n \n \n Mumps\n 40\n 51\n \n \n Meningococcal Infection :-\n \n \n \n \n Cerebro-spinal Fever\n ...\n 33\n \n \n Plague\n 3+\n ...\n \n \n Pyrexia of unknown origin\n 5,108\n 3,469\n \n \n Syphilis\n 11\n ...\n \n \n Whooping Cough..........\n 1\n ...\n \n \n DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.\n \n \n \n \n Diseases of the Nerves :-\n \n \n \n \n Neuritis\n 234\n 218\n \n \n Neuralgia\n 30\n 3\n \n \n Hysteria\n 16\n 2\n \n \n Diseases of the cerebral meninges:-\n \n \n \n \n Meningitis\n 31\n ...\n \n \n DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM,-Continued.\n \n \n \n \n DISEASES OF THE BRAIN.\n \n \n \n \n Hydocephalus congenital\n ...\n ...\n \n \n Apoplexy\n ...\n ...\n \n \n Paralysis\n ...\n ...\n \n \n Carried forward..........\n 1,888\n 1,161\n \n \n DISEASES OF THE EYE\n 4,410\n 2,061\n \n \n Ear\n *\n ...\n \n \n Nose\n 47\n ...\n \n \n DISEASES OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM\n 12\n 25\n \n \n DISEASES OF THE BLOOD\n 145\n ...\n \n \n DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM\n 1,549\n 1,135\n \n \n DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM\n 1,447\n 1,016\n \n \n DISEASES OF THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM\n 31\n 146\n \n \n DISEASES OF THE URINARY SYSTEM\n 158\n 36\n \n \n DISEASES OF THE MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION\n 14\n 21\n \n \n DISEASES OF THE FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION\n 113\n 81\n \n \n DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF LOCOMOTION\n 613\n 308\n \n \n AREOLAR TISSUE\n ...\n ...\n \n \n DISEASES DUE TO DISORDERS OF NUTRITION\n 173\n 146\n \n \n TUBERCULOSIS\n ...\n 23\n \n \n LOCAL\n ...\n ...\n \n \n (a) Acquired\n ...\n ...\n \n \n (b) Congenital\n ...\n ...\n \n \n SKIN\n 2,732\n 2,173\n \n \n INJURIES, GENERAL\n 1,819\n 1,879\n \n \n POISONS-CHRONIC OPIUM\n 16\n 2\n \n \n PARASITES:-\n \n \n \n \n (a) Animal\n 829\n 535\n \n \n (b) Vegetable\n 179\n 137\n \n \n VACCINATIONS\n 1,385\n 510\n \n \n NEW GROWTH NON-MALIGNANT\n 202\n 131\n \n \n PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS\n 57\n 44\n \n \n Total.....\n 24,768\n 15,838\n \n\n62", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495400, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "86\n\nPUBLIC MORTUARY, KOWLOON,-Continued.\n\n87\n\nPUBLIC MORTUARY, KOWLOON,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward,\n\n \n 1922\n 1921\n \n \n 405\n 237\n \n\nDISEASE OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM,-Contd.\n\nBrought forward,\n\n \n 31\n 11\n \n\nBrought forward,\n\nDISEASE OF THE FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION.\n\n \n 1922\n 1921\n \n \n 1,493\n 987\n \n\nMyocarditis,\n\nAtheroma,\n\nAortic aneurysm,\n\nPatent foramen ovale,\n\n \n 2\n +4\n \n \n 28\n \n \n\nRupture of tubal gestation,\n\n \n 3\n 4\n \n\nAffections consequent on parturition :-\n\nPost partum hæmorrhage,\n\n \n 1\n \n \n\nStill birth....\n\n \n 128\n 95\n \n \n 62\n 18\n \n \n 56\n 32\n \n\nDISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM.\n\n188\n\n127\n\nAcute Bronchitis, ...\n\n \n 231\n 179\n \n\nDISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS.\n\nAcute lobar pneumonia,\n\n \n 73\n 29\n \n\nAcute lobular pneumonia,\n\n \n 337\n 194\n \n\nAcute tubal nephritis,\n\nPulmonary Tuberculosis,\n\n \n 84\n 51\n \n\nChronic tubal nephritis,\n\nAtelectasis,\n\n \n 4\n \n \n\nAcute Pleurisy (a) serous,\n\n \n 27\n \n \n \n (b) purulent,\n \n \n \n 48\n \n \n\nSE interstitial nephritis,\n\n \n 20\n \n \n\nPronephrosis,\n\n \n 7\n \n \n \n 55\n 23\n \n \n 13\n \n \n\n806\n\n541\n\nDISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.\n\nGENERAL INJURIES,\n\nEffects of heat--Burns,\n\nRetro-pharyngeal abscess,\n\nCarcinoma of the pharynx,\n\nStrangulation,\n\nDrowning,\n\n \n 16\n +\n \n \n 28\n \n \n\nAcute inflammation of the Stomach,\n\nSuffocation,\n\n*180*\n\nGastric ulcer,\n\n \n 23\n 5\n \n \n 2\n \n \n\nAcute enteritis,\n\n \n 125\n 84\n \n\n***\n\n \n 51\n 42\n \n\nSuppurative appendicitis,\n\n \n 3\n \n \n\nTuberculosis of the intestine,\n\nIntussusception.\n\n \n 3\n \n \n\nImperforate anus....\n\n \n 1\n \n \n\nTropical abscess of the liver,\n\nMultilobular cirrhosis of the liver,\n\n \n 13\n 13\n \n \n ***\n \n \n\nObstructive jaundice,\n\nIcterus neonatorum,\n\nNew growth of the liver-malignant,\n\nSuppurative cholangitis, ...\n\n \n 7\n !\n \n\nLOCAL INJURIES.\n\nPunctured wounds, Multiple Injuries,... Gunshot wounds, Fracture of the Skull,\n\n \n →\n \n \n \n 13\n 19\n \n \n 19\n \n \n \n ...\n \n \n \n 25\n \n \n\nAcute suppurative peritonitis,\n\nTuberculous peritonitis,\n\n \n J\n \n \n \n 99\n 10\n \n \n 16\n \n \n\n208\n\n139\n\n \n 2427\n \n \n\n\"\n\n \n +1\n \n \n\nPelvis,\n\n \n 1\n \n \n \n 15\n 21\n \n\nFemur (compound),\n\nTibia (\n\n \n 35\n 27\n \n \n \"\n ...\n \n\nSpine, Ribs,\n\n \n !\n \n \n \n T\n \n \n\nRupture of the Spleen,\n\nintestine,.\n\nDISORDERS OF NUTRITION.\n\nBeri-beri,\n\n \n 10\n 48\n \n\nInanition\n\n \n 2\n 4\n \n \n 12\n 52\n \n\nCarried forward,\n\n \n 1,493\n 987\n \n\n \n 1+\n ++\n \n\nbladder,\n\n \n \"\n \n \n\nliver,\n\nPoisons-opium,\n\nToo decomposed for diagnosis,\n\nTotal,...\n\n \n --\n ---\n \n \n ...\n :\n \n \n 2\n 5\n \n \n 238\n 158\n \n \n 312\n 197\n \n \n ...\n 2,067\n \n \n 1,366\n \n \n \n 66", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497213, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 459, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "453\n\nthe Second Sub-paragraph of paragraph 6 of the enclosure to `47043`.\n\nThe Superintendent of Imports and Exports appears to have hit the nail on the head when he says that \"until we can devise means to get at the capitalists who are behind the trade, we shall never control the traffic\". Sir Malcolm Delevingne has repeatedly urged the same view. It was for this reason that in June the Governor was asked (`10906`) to pass, as soon as possible, an Ordinance on the lines of the Dangerous Drugs Amendment Act 1923.\n\nFor more than two years the Hong Kong Government has been intending to replace the local \"Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance\" by an Ordinance on the lines of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1920. Their law officers have however been prevented from tackling it by pressure of work, and it was not considered urgent as the existing Ordinance is quite stringent. They are presumably now engaged on this work.\n\nAmongst other things the Amending Act provides that \"Any person who in Great Britain aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission in any place outside Great Britain of any offence punishable under the provisions of any corresponding law in force in that place, or does any act preparatory to, or in furtherance of, any act which if committed in Great Britain would constitute an offence against this Act; shall be guilty of an offence against this Act\". And it gives drastic powers of search and examination of the books and papers etc. of anyone suspected of any such transaction.\n\nThen the new Ordinance is passed the Hong Kong Government will have similar powers and will be in a position to deal with persons who use Hong Kong as headquarters for illicit operations elsewhere.\n\n(`867578`) Wt. 20119/\n\nWhether", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498491, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "content_text": "60 \n\nMinister or under the hand and Consular seal of one of His Majesty's Consular officers in China, shall be conclusive evidence of the due making of such Regulations.\n\n214. The respective powers aforesaid extend to the making of Regulations for the governance, visitation, care, and superintendence of prisons in China, for the removal of prisoners from one prison to another, for the infliction of corporal or other punishment on prisoners committing offences against the rules or discipline of a prison, and for the earning of remission of sentence; but the provisions of this Order respecting penalties, and respecting the printing, affixing, exhibiting, and sale of Regulations, and the mode of trial of offences against Regulations, do not apply to Regulations respecting prisons and offences of prisoners.\n\n## PART X.-CONSULAR REGISTRATION\n\n### Registration of Persons\n\n215.—(1) A register of British subjects shall be kept in the office of every Consulate in China.\n\n(2) Every British subject resident in China shall, in the month of January of each year, be registered at the Consulate of the Consular District within which he resides, provided that if some other Consulate is more easy of access, he may, with the assent of the Consular Officer, be registered there. A British subject arriving in China must apply for registration within one month after his arrival; provided that a person who fails to apply for or to obtain registration within the time limited by this Article may be registered at any time if he excuses his failure to the satisfaction of the Consular Officer.\n\n(3) Where a person is in possession of a valid British passport, the Consular Officer shall, on the first registration of any such person, endorse on the passport without further fee than that provided for in paragraph (6) of this Article a certificate of registration in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State. Where any such person applies for the renewal of the registration and produces his passport, the renewal of the registration shall without further fee than that provided for in paragraph (6) be endorsed thereon.\n\n(4) Every person who has not previously been registered applying to be registered under this Order shall, unless excused by the Consular Officer, attend personally for that purpose at the Consulate, but any person applying for the renewal of his registration need not attend personally unless directed by the Consular Officer so to do; provided that the registration of the wife of a man who is registered under this Order may, if she be living with him, be effected without her personal attendance being required, and provided also that the registration of minors, being his relatives in whatever degree, living with the head of a family who is registered under this Order, may be effected without their personal attendance being required.\n\n61\n\n(5) A person registered in any register of British subjects established under the provisions of any Order in Council which has been repealed shall be registered under the provisions of this Order, unless the Consular Officer is satisfied after enquiry that the previous registration was erroneous or that such person is not entitled to registration under the provisions of this Order.\n\n(6) Every person shall, on every registration of himself, and on every renewal of the registration, pay a fee of two dollars, or such other fee as the Secretary of State from time to time appoints. The amount of the fee may be uniform for all persons, or may vary according to the position and circumstances of different classes, if the Secretary of State from time to time so directs, but may not in any case exceed four dollars.\n\n(7) Where any person applies to be registered, he shall be entitled without a fee to the assistance of the Consular Officer in the preparation of any affidavit that may be required.\n\n(8) The Consular Officer may require the production of such evidence that an applicant for registration is entitled to the status of a British subject as he may see fit, but subject to such directions as may be issued by the Secretary of State.\n\n(9) If any British subject neglects to obtain registration under the provisions of this Order, he shall not be entitled to be recognised or protected as a British subject in China, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each instance of such failure, but he shall, although not registered, be subject to the jurisdiction of His Majesty's Courts in China.\n\n### Registration of Companies\n\n216. A register of companies incorporated or registered in the United Kingdom or in any British possession and carrying on business in China shall be kept in the office of every Consulate in China.\n\n217. The Consulate at which companies shall be registered shall be that in the district in which their chief local office is situated, or their business is chiefly carried on, and notice shall be given at the Consulate of any other district in which the company is also carrying on business as to the place at which the company is so registered.\n\n218.—(1) On the registration of a company at a Consulate there shall be deposited and filed in the office of the Consulate a copy of the certificate of incorporation of the company, or other document corresponding thereto, a copy of the memorandum and articles of association or other documents corresponding thereto, a statement showing the nominal capital of the company, and the amounts thereof which have been subscribed and paid up respectively, a list of the directors of the company, showing in respect of each director his full name and nationality and his address, and, if the company has been incorporated under a law which provides for the periodical filing of a list of the shareholders, a copy of the last list so filed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 501917, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "3\n\nregards the working of foreign courts, the investigations of the commission will, for obvious reasons, be subject to a certain limitation; their object will be to suggest remedies for defects, if any, inherent in the working of all foreign courts alike, whatever their nationality; it will hardly be possible for them to fix their attention exclusively upon, much less to recommend remedies for, any abuses that may be presented by the courts of particular nationalities. But as regards Chinese courts, there is no analogous limitation that need confine either the attention or the recommendations of the commission to the working of any particular court or set of courts. Nor is there anything to prevent them from enquiring into and making recommendations as to the conditions and administration of Chinese prisons.\n\n4. This observation suggests that as regards foreign courts, there is one general feature of the present system to which the commission will give their serious, if not their exclusive, attention. This is the inconveniences arising from the diversity of laws administered by courts of different nationalities in China. In principle it would seem that the remedy for these inconveniences lies in the gradual and progressive substitution, as regards particular subjects, of Chinese laws for foreign laws. But, in considering the practicability of any such substitution at any stage, the commission will be confronted with a practical difficulty that will no doubt seem especially acute to its British and American members—namely, the difficulty which British and American courts will find in applying, in any department, but especially in the domain of criminal law, a system which is understood to be mainly based upon continental models of jurisprudence.\n\n5. Assuming, however, that this difficulty is not insuperable, the method of substitution just indicated seems to present considerable practical possibilities. Thus the Trade Mark Law recently enacted by the Chinese Government is an example of a law which might be so applied; other examples are the police and municipal regulations and the local licences and taxes of Chinese municipalities in the interior, game laws, laws prohibiting import of or dealing in arms or noxious drugs, &c. Other Chinese laws might be added to the category, until in time practically the whole body of Chinese law might be made binding on all foreigners in China to the exclusion of their own law. This would remove one of the greatest evils arising out of the present practice of extra-territoriality and at the same time pave the way towards the time when these laws would be administered not by foreign courts, but by Chinese courts, namely, the complete abolition of extra-territoriality.\n\n6. The two immediately preceding paragraphs adumbrate a general method by which the commission may think it possible that the way might be paved for the eventual complete abolition of exterritorial jurisdiction when they approach the problem from the angle of simplifying the administration of justice by the existing foreign courts. When the problem is approached from the other side—that of the defects of the Chinese courts—a second, but not incompatible, method at once suggests itself. This is the method of what might be called gradually diminishing probation, beginning with the institution, at particular places or for particular purposes, of special mixed tribunals which would apply Chinese law to foreigners. Such a system of tribunals would entail a Central Mixed Court of Appeal.\n\n7. The principles of probation involved in this second method seem susceptible of a variety of applications in practice. Thus the regulations and bye-laws of foreign municipalities might be applied to foreigners and Chinese alike not in a variety of different tribunals, but in one mixed tribunal presided over by Chinese and foreign judges sitting together. The Chinese would gain face by acquiring the right to appoint judges to such a tribunal, and the experience and training might prove of great value.\n\n8. Here, again, however, it is apprehended that the commission will be confronted with a practical difficulty. The Chinese will presumably be reluctant to accept any period of probation, and there is some force in the view that an attempt to institute mixed tribunals would only produce increased friction. As against this it may be pointed out that the mere presence in a Chinese court of foreign judges, who might be the salaried servants of the Chinese Government, would not divest the court of its Chinese national character, and that any such system, if accepted by the Chinese, would, by its educational effect and by improving the standards of Chinese justice, accelerate the process of gradually abandoning extra-territorial jurisdiction more effectively than any other method. The analogy of Siam is instructive in these respects and suggests that this path deserves careful exploration.\n\n9. In this connection it is for consideration whether a fruitful source of friction could not in any case be removed by abandoning the treaty right to send a foreign official observer to watch the trial of suits brought by foreigners against Chinese. An arrangement similar to that in the Sino-German Treaty (which admits German lawyers and interpreters, but not German officials) might place this matter on a permanently satisfactory basis.\n\n10. A further suggestion, on which again immediate action might be practicable, is that in certain minor classes of case, such as breach of Chinese municipal or police regulations, purely Chinese courts might be allowed immediately to assume jurisdiction over foreigners, and that the area of such jurisdiction might be gradually widened until it embraced the whole field. In considering any such suggestion, it would, of course, be necessary to bear in mind the objections to allowing foreigners to become liable to detention in Chinese prisons.\n\n11. To sum up\n\nUnder this head, the transfer of jurisdiction to Chinese courts, there are two methods by which the Powers, without endangering the interests of their nationals, might conceivably co-operate with the Chinese towards the gradual abolition of jurisdictional privileges. One is the application of specially selected Chinese laws to foreigners by their own authorities. The other is the application of Chinese law to foreigners by Chinese and foreign judges in special mixed tribunals. It will be for the commission to consider to what extent these methods are applicable and in what combinations at what successive stages.\n\n12. The complexity of the problem is increased by the fact that no progressive application of these two methods, whether singly or in combination, would be likely to be acceptable to the Powers, which would entail the transfer to Chinese jurisdiction of foreign personal status cases before criminal cases in which foreigners are involved had been so transferred, or which would involve the transfer of such criminal cases before civil cases in which foreigners are concerned had been transferred—in each case with satisfactory results. In other words, the recommendations of the commission should be framed in such a way that, whatever the administrative stages by which the surrender of exterritorial jurisdiction is to be completed, the surrender should be completed progressively as regards the three classes of case indicated. Broadly speaking, so long as foreign jurisdiction is even partially retained in civil cases, it should be wholly retained in criminal cases, and so long as it is even partially retained in criminal cases, it should be wholly retained in personal status cases. This need not exclude the possibility of the transfer of minor criminal cases, especially as regards the enforcement of municipal regulations or comparatively unimportant personal status questions, before the surrender of criminal or civil jurisdiction, as the case may be, has been completely effected.\n\n(B)—Features of the Present System of Extra-territoriality of which the modification need not necessarily be made dependent on Action on the part of the Chinese.\n\n13.\n\nIt may be expected that the Chinese representative on the commission will urge that the commission should investigate certain matters which constitute grievances in the eyes of Chinese opinion, and which, although they do not directly come under the head of jurisdictional privileges, arise out of those privileges or are otherwise intimately connected with them. The British Commissioner's general attitude in such matters will be determined by the instructions contained in the Secretary of State's despatch of the 1st December, 1925; that is to say, he will bear in mind that His Majesty's Government would welcome any suitable opportunity to disarm Chinese dislike of the privileged position of foreigners by abandoning superfluous and irritating rights. A review of the sort of matters the Chinese are likely to raise on the commission suggests that this principle—the principle of shortening so far as possible the front which the foreign Powers expose to the attacks of Chinese national feeling—will receive at the hands of the British representative an application that will vary according to circumstances.\n\n14. It may, in the first place, be urged that the commission should investigate the whole system of foreign concessions and settlements in China, the terms under which they are held and the conditions under which they are administered, with a view to recommending fundamental modifications of the system, if not its total abolition.\n\n15. If so, the British representative will bear in mind that Shanghai is the most prominent example of the system in question; that, if the retrocession of the Mixed Court and Chinese representation on the Shanghai Municipal Council can be arranged, an essential factor in Chinese discontent under this head will have been met; that, if these reforms can be arranged, a precedent will be created which is\n\n[13876]\n\nB 2\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503716, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 212, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "201\n\n32\n\nRECORD OF CASES IN LAI-CHI-KOK HOSPITAL GAOLS\n\n1925.\n\nGeneral Diseases.\n\nDiseases caused by Infection :\n\nDengue 29\n\nDysentery 76\n\nMalaria Fever 81\n\nErysipelas 2\n\nSepticemia 4\n\nSyphilis 8\n\nRheumatism 7\n\nInfluenza 14\n\nDiseases due to disorders of Nutrition or Metabolism\n\nBeri-beri 3\n\nDiseases of the blood\n\nAnemia 17\n\nLocal Diseases\n\nDiseases of the Circulatory system **\n\n\" 2\n\nRespiratory system 25\n\nDigestive system 84\n\nAlveolar Tissue 19\n\nLocal Injuries 1\n\nChronic Opium poisoning 9\n\nPoisons:\n\nTotal, 362\n\nRECORD OF OUT-PATIENTS LAI-CHI-KOK GAOL 1925.\n\nGeneral Diseases.\n\nDiseases caused by Infection :\n\nInfluenza 1\n\nSepticemia 19\n\nSyphilis 23\n\nGonorrhoea 13\n\nRheumatism 107\n\nDiseases due to disorders of Nutrition or Metabolism :\n\nBeri-beri 11\n\nDiseases of the Blood\n\nAnemia 20\n\nLocal Diseases\n\nDiseases of Eye 45\n\nEar 17\n\nCirculatory System 12\n\nRespiratory System 138\n\nDigestive System 91\n\nAlveolar Tissue 158\n\nSkin 119\n\nTeeth & Gums 17\n\nDebility 11\n\nLocal Injuries 103\n\nChronic Opium poisoning 250\n\nPoisons: 35\n\nParasites 507\n\nTotal, 1,690\n\nBACTERIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE,\n\nREPORT FOR THE YEAR 1925.\n\nBy E. P. MINETT, M.D., D.P.H., D.T.M. & H., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., GOVERNMENT BACTERIOLOGIST.\n\n1.-PREPARATION OF CALF LYMPH.\n\nThe preparation of Calf vaccine was maintained regularly up to June, since then considerable difficulty has been experienced in obtaining buffalo calves.\n\nThe number of calves used for vaccination was 25.\n\nThe number of tubes of lymph issued was 14,404, a falling off from last year's issue owing to the comparative absence of Small Pox cases in the Colony.\n\nThe quantity of lymph in stock on 31st December, 1925, 3928 cc. calculated to be sufficient for the vaccination of 177,840 persons.\n\nThe value of lymph issued free as per Government Notification No. 380 of 1910 was $4,753.50.\n\nThere were no very heavy demands for lymph owing to the absence of any vaccination campaign.\n\nCalves from the Dairy Farm were experimented with for the production of lymph but were found to be unsatisfactory, the yield per calf being 7 grams only corresponding to 35 cc. of glycerinated calf lymph.\n\n2.--ANTI-MENINGOCOCCUS SERUM.\n\nDuring the year 2530 cc. were issued, the present amount of serum in stock and ready for issue is 107.470 cc. about 107.5 litres.\n\nFrequent control tests for sterility were carried out and the agglutinating power was estimated regularly.\n\n3. CONTAGIOUS ABORTION VACCINE.\n\nA smaller amount of this vaccine was prepared this year than in former years, and no new strains of B. Aborticus isolated, as the Dairy Farm herd is now being segregated and fewer animals affected.\n\nA large number of agglutination tests were carried out at the request of the Veterinary Surgeon.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503744, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "86\n\n-\n\nTable 1-(Continued).\n\nDiseases and Deaths in 1925 at the Civil, Victoria, and Gaol Hospitals.\n\nVICTORIA HOSPITAL.\n\nCIVIL HOSPITAL.\n\nGAOL HOSPITAL.\n\nNomenclature.\n\n \n Remain ing in Hospital na 31st Dec., 1924\n Admis- sions\n Deaths\n Total Cases Treated\n Remain- ing in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1925\n \n \n 1734\n 3,805\n 213\n 3,917\n 106\n \n \n Remain ing in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1924\n Admis- sions\n Deaths\n Total Cases Treated\n Remain- ing in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1925\n \n \n 239\n 3\n 245\n 4\n 9\n \n \n Remain ing in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1924\n Admis- sions\n Deaths\n Total Cases Treated\n Remain- ing in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1925\n \n \n 444\n 29\n 453\n 12\n -\n \n\nBrought forward......\n\n \n 112\n 3,805\n 213\n 3,917\n 106\n \n \n 6\n 239\n 3\n 245\n 4\n \n \n 9\n 444\n 29\n 453\n 12\n \n\nLocomotion,-Continued:-\n\nDiseases of the Organs of\n\n \n Synovitis\n Osteo-Myelitis\n Myalgia\n Lumbago\n Rheumatoid arthritis\n Arthritis\n Bursitis\n Tuberculosis of joints\n \n \n 11\n 2\n 9\n 9\n 2\n 2\n 11\n 2\n \n \n 3\n -\n 21\n 24\n 6\n -\n -\n -\n \n\nDiseases of the Arcolar tissue :—\n\n \n Cellulitis\n Abscess\n Carbuncle\n Gangrene\n \n \n 30\n 4\n 37\n -\n \n \n 121\n 4\n 128\n -\n \n \n 14\n -\n 14\n -\n \n \n 1\n -\n -\n -\n \n\nDiseases of the Skin:-\n\n \n Lupus\n Boil\n Urticaria\n Eczema\n Impetigo\n Tinea\n Scabies\n Lichen\n Herpes\n Psoriasis\n Ulcer\n \n \n -\n 83\n 33\n 17\n 18\n -\n 2\n 5\n 20\n 1\n -\n \n \n 2\n -\n -\n -\n -\n -\n -\n -\n -\n -\n -\n \n\nDermatitis.\n\nDisensos of the Urinary Orgatas :—\n\n \n Nephritis, Acute\n Cystitis\n Chronic\n Haematuria\n \n \n 5\n -\n -\n -\n \n\n87\n\n-\n\nTable I,-(Continued).\n\nDiseases and Deaths in 1925 at the Civil, Victoria, and Gaol Hospitals.\n\nVICTORIA HOSPITAL.\n\nCIVIL HOSPITAL.\n\nGAOL HOSPITAL.\n\nNomenclature.\n\n \n Remain ing in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1924\n Admis- sions\n Deaths\n Total Cases Treated\n Remain ing in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1925\n \n \n 140\n 1,234\n 236\n 4,378\n 133\n \n \n Remain ing in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1924\n Admis- sions\n Deaths\n Total Cases Treated\n Remain ing in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1925\n \n \n 7\n 261\n 3\n 264\n 9\n \n \n Remain ing in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1924\n Admis- sions\n Deaths\n Total Cases Treated\n Remain ing in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1925\n \n \n 461\n 30\n 470\n 14\n -\n \n\nBrought forward....\n\n \n 140\n 1,234\n 236\n 4,378\n 133\n \n \n ī\n 261\n 3\n 264\n 9\n \n \n 461\n 30\n 470\n 14\n -\n \n\nDiscases of the Urinary Organs, -\n\nContd.\n\n \n Hydronephrosis\n Pyelitis\n Hamiloputes\n \n \n -\n 2\n -\n \n \n 31\n -\n -\n \n\nGeneral Injuries:-\n\n \n Burns\n Scalds\n Multiple Injuries\n Drowning\n \n \n 1\n 78\n 3\n -\n \n \n 21\n -\n 14\n 3\n \n \n 5\n 5\n -\n -\n \n\nAlcoholisin\n\n \n 55\n +1\n 3\n 3\n \n \n 1\n -\n -\n -\n \n\nLocal Injuries:-\n\n \n Septic\n Envreais\n Chyturia\n Retention of urine\n Calculus\n \n \n 18\n -\n -\n 2\n 2\n \n \n 18\n -\n 1\n 2\n 17\n \n \n 20\n 1\n -\n -\n 19\n \n \n 1\n -\n -\n -\n 2\n \n\nCarried forward......\n\n \n 1404,238\n 236\n 14,378\n 133\n \n \n 7\n 261\n 3\n 264\n \n \n 9\n 461\n 30\n 470\n \n\n...\n\n \n Abrasion\n Wounds, Incised\n Contused\n Laceratel\n Stab\n Gun shot\n \n \n 65\n 70\n 2\n 12\n 30\n -\n \n \n 125\n -\n 128\n 132\n 6\n 31\n \n \n 3\n -\n 3\n 144\n 11\n 1\n \n \n 108\n -\n 109\n 2\n -\n 73\n \n \n -\n -\n -\n 2\n -\n -\n \n\n \n Sprain\n Fracture-Skull\n Jaw, lower\n Jaw, upper\n Spine\n Ribs\n Clavicle\n Scapula\n Humerns\n \n \n 25\n 58\n 2\n 2\n -\n 13\n -\n -\n 11\n \n \n 26\n 40\n 3\n 2\n 12\n 13\n 1\n 71\n -\n \n \n -\n 59\n -\n -\n -\n 1\n **\n 6\n *\n \n\n \n Radius\n Ulum\n Pelvis\n Fomur\n Tibia\n Fibula\n Patella\n Tibia an Finla\n \n \n 20\n 9\n 2\n 1\n 20\n 23\n 11\n -\n \n \n 20\n -\n -\n -\n +\n 16\n 20\n \"\n \n \n -\n 1\n 3\n -\n 4\n 6\n -\n 2\n \n \n -\n -\n -\n -\n I\n -\n *\n 1\n \n \n -\n -\n -\n -\n 22\n 25\n 3\n >\n \n \n -\n -\n -\n -\n >\n 9\n 9\n -\n \n\nCurried forward.......\n\n \n 197\n 5,216\n 325\n 5.408\n 162\n \n \n 276\n 4\n 283\n 10\n 9\n \n \n 494\n 30\n 503\n 14\n -\n \n\nPage 240\n\nPage 241\n\n-\n\nTable I,-{Continued).\n\nDiseases and Deaths in 1925 at the Civil, Victoria, and Gaol Hospitals.\n\nCIVIL HOSPITAL.\n\n—\n\nVICTORIA HOSPITAL.\n\nGAOL HOSPITAL.\n\nNomenclature.\n\n \n Remain ing in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1924\n Admis- sions\n Deaths\n Total Cases Treated\n Remain ing in Hospital on 31st Dec., 1925\n \n\nBrought forward......\n\n \n 192\n 5,216\n 325\n 5.408\n 162\n \n \n 7\n 276\n 4\n 283\n 10\n \n \n 9\n 494\n 30\n 503\n 14\n \n\nLocal Injuries,—Contd.\n\n \n Fracture-Phalanges\n Nasal bone\n \n \n 2\n -\n \n\nDebility\n\n \n 23\n \n\nMarius\n\n \n 2\n \n\nDislocations\n\n \n -\n \n\nTumours and Cyata..\n\n \n 63\n \n\nMalformations\n\n \n 29\n \n\nPoisons-Upium........\n\n \n 20\n \n\nAlcohol\n\n \n +4\n \n \n 27\n \n\nStar anise\n\n \n 1\n \n\nDatitra\n\n \n 1\n \n\nLyrrol\n\n \n 2\n \n\nCaffeine\n\n \n 1\n \n\nPtomaine\n\n \n 1\n \n\nLead\n\n \n *\n \n\nCaustic soda\n\n \n *\n \n\nCarbon monoxide\n\n \n 11\n \n \n 1\n \n\nHydrochloric acid................\n\n \n -\n \n\nMercuric chloride\n\n \n -\n \n\nAnimal Parasites-Ascaris lum-\n\nbricoides\n\n \n 28:\n \n \n 29\n \n \n 2\n \n\nAnkylostoma\n\nduodenale...\n\n \n +\n \n \n 17\n \n \n 21\n \n\nTrenia solium\n\n \n *\n \n \n 8\n \n \n i\n \n \n TH\n \n \n H\n \n\nFilaria\n\nbancrofti ...\n\n \n :\n \n \n :\n \n \n ات\n \n \n 3\n \n \n :\n \n \n 3\n \n\nE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503749, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "985\n\nTABLE OF CASES TREATED AT THE GOVERNMENT DISPENSARY, KOWLOON,--Continued.\n\n97\n\nAppendix O.\n\nPUBLIC MORTUARY, VICTORIA.\n\nDISEASES.\n\nNumber ofNumber of\nPatientsPatients\n1925.1924.\n\nREPORT BY GOVERNMENT BACTERIOLOGIST.\n\nReport on post-mortem examinations.\n\n1925.1924.\nBrought forward,12,000\nMale bodies examined,12,2241,952\n2,148\nFemale bodies examined,1,6141,873\nBones only,\nSkull only,1\nFemale+\nDiseases of the Male Organs of generation,31\nOrgans of Locomotion,1829\n133137\nTotal,3,5684,022\n615559\nAreolar Tissue,3,049\n7,230\nSkin,T\n4,4583,891\ndue to Disorders of Nutrition,11\n489334\nplaces,\nInjuries, General,312538\nClaimed bodies sent from hospitals and other\nUnclaimed bodies mostly abandoned.\nLocal,3,1974,052\nPoisons-Chronic Opium,114\n3,0483,142\n520880\nTotal,3,5684,022\nParasites:-\n(a) Animal,1,2361,736\n(b) Vegetable,561745\nNew Growth non-malignant,1155\nmalignant,\nEpitome of Causes of Death.\nI.--Local Diseases :-\n1\nVaccination,474571\nPhysical Examinations,255397\n(a) of the Nervous System,5567\n(b)Circulatory System,49\n43\n(c)Respiratory System,1,938\n2,219\n(d)Digestive System,162\n168\nTotal,\n(e)26,82032,508\nGenito-Urinary System,1417\n(f) Of Diseases caused by Infection,398718\n(g) Diseases due to Disorder of Nutrition or of Metabolism,654445\n(h) Of Conditions affecting Child, result of Mechanical Causes,100104\n(i) Of Diseases of the Skin,1\n(}) Of Diseases of the Blood,1\n(k) Of Diseases of the Lymphatics,\n(1) Malformations,3\nII.-Deaths from Violence :—\n(a) General,4851\n(b) Local,4082\nIII. General Undiagnosed Conditions,108102\nTotal,3,5684,022\n\n232", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503755, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "108\n\n(f) Diseases caused by infection,—Contd.,\n\nSyphilis :-\n\n(a) acquired,\n\n(b) Congenital,\n\nTuberculosis,\n\nTetanus,\n\nLeprosy,\n\n...\n\nTotal,\n\n1925.\n\n1924.\n\n3\n\n40\n\n113\n\n57\n\n50\n\n6\n\n?\n\n1\n\n278\n\n767\n\n(g) Disease due to disorders of Nutrition or metabolism:—\n\nBeri-beri,\n\n11.—Deaths from violence:-\n\n198\n\n113\n\n(a) General,\n\nEffects of heat-burns,\n\nStrangulation,\n\n1\n\nDrowning,\n\nSuffocation,\n\n9\n\n6\n\n8\n\n14\n\n16\n\n39\n\n1\n\nTotal,\n\n34\n\n62\n\n(b) Local:-\n\nCut throat,\n\nMultiple injuries,\n\nGunshot wounds,\n\nPunctured wounds,\n\nFracture of the Skull,\n\n3\n\n1\n\n3\n\n3\n\n7\n\n14\n\n7\n\n2\n\n37\n\n45\n\n35\n\n\"\"\n\nPelvis,\n\n1\n\n6\n\n\"\"\n\n\"\"\n\nTibia,\n\n1\n\n\"\"\n\n\"\"\n\n\"\"\n\nSpine,\n\n1\n\n\"\"\n\nRibs,\n\n1\n\n\"\"\n\n\"\"\n\nSternum,\n\n \n3\n\nRupture of the spleen,\n\n.8\n\n\"\"\n\n\"\"\n\n\"\"\n\n,,\n\n\"\"\n\n\"\"\n\n\"\"\n\n\"\"\n\nintestine, liver, Heart,\n\n3\n\n1721 10 2 60 —\n\n5\n\n3\n\n1\n\nLaceration of lung,\n\nUmbilical hæmorrhage,\n\nPoisons:-\n\nOpium,\n\n2\n\nQ\n\n1\n\n5\n\n2\n\nPlomaim,\n\n2\n\nSewer gas,\n\n1\n\nSenility,\n\n1\n\nToo decomposed for diagnosis,\n\n266\n\n252\n\nPlacenta only,\n\n1\n\n356\n\n349\n\nTotal,\n\n.2,350\n\n2,617\n\nNumber of rats examined,\n\n.32,401\n\nPlague infected,\n\nNil.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505260, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "that a new policy should be adopted, it would appear to be our plain duty to explain frankly our objections to the old policy and our reasons for recommending the new one. A memorandum for this purpose has been prepared and is annexed.\n\n12. If this memorandum is handed to the Powers it will quickly become public property. Therefore, whether we state in the memorandum that we propose to break away from the Powers and follow our new policy alone, or whether the memorandum contains no hint of any such intention, the result in practice will be very much the same. The mere fact of the publication of the memorandum will be taken as an indication that we have already broken away from the Powers, and it would, in practice, be impossible for us to continue to pursue a policy in China when, in a document of such importance, we had publicly condemned it and proclaimed our faith in a diametrically opposite policy.\n\n13. The decision we have to take therefore resolves itself to this: shall we attempt to persuade the Powers to adopt what we consider to be the only wise policy in China, or shall we stifle our convictions and continue to concur in their policy, which we believe to be wrong and morally indefensible? For, having once stated our own policy, we shall be publicly committed to pursue it, and by the fact of stating it we shall have already broken away from the Powers.\n\n14. The objections to breaking away from the Powers should not be minimised, but the only alternative is to pursue reluctantly a policy which we believe to be wrong. The mistrust and suspicion to which this has already given rise has been alluded to above. We offend both the Chinese and the Powers, and it seems hardly possible to continue on so unsatisfactory a course any longer. On the other hand, if we adopt a policy of our own the rift in the solidarity of the Powers may only be for a time. There is at least a chance that the Powers may appreciate the force of our arguments and decide to follow our lead. The only two Powers that really count in China are America and Japan. American policy has recently been guided by Wall Street, but if our appeal for justice and generosity gains the ear of the Middle West the State Department may have no option but to follow. The Japanese have already abandoned all idea of coercing China, and they may be quick to see that the real alternative to coercion is not ineffective protests, but a sympathetic adjustment of treaty privileges to the claims put forward by the Chinese authorities at different times and in different localities.\n\n15. On the whole, therefore, we are inclined to think that the chief danger to be feared from a public statement of our new policy is not that it will break up the solidarity of the Powers but that it may encourage the Chinese in a general assault upon all the treaties. This is a very real danger, and great care has been taken to guard against it in the memorandum which is being prepared for communication to the Powers.\n\nII.—The Canton Boycott.\n\nCanton is the headquarters of the Kuo Min-tang, the Chinese Nationalist party, which was founded by Sun Yat-sen. The city has a long tradition of restlessness, turbulence and anti-foreign feeling. The Canton Government regards itself as independent of Peking and in fact as the rightful Government of all China, though it has not yet so far claimed formal recognition by the Powers either as an independent Government or as the Government of China. It declines to regard itself as bound by the so-called \"unequal treaties\" concluded by the Powers with China, and ignores them in many respects, though it has made no direct attack on some of their main provisions.\n\nFrom July 1925 to October 1926 the Cantonese boycotted British trade. No goods of whatever origin coming via Hong Kong were allowed to enter the Province of Kwangtung, of which Canton is the capital, and no goods exported from the province were allowed to go via Hong Kong. No British vessel was allowed to discharge cargo and no vessel, of whatever nationality, that had called at Hong Kong was allowed to unload. In addition, the life of British residents was made most unpleasant by the intimidation of their servants and by the difficulties in maintaining their food supply. Such trade as was conducted by foreigners other than British was heavily mulcted for the necessary permits.\n\nThe boycott arose out of the shooting incidents at Shanghai on the 30th May, 1925, and at Shameen (the Anglo-French concession at Canton) on the 23rd June of the same year, the latter of which was deliberately provoked by Communist influence. Chinese fired on the Anglo-French concession; the British and French troops replied, and some fifty Chinese were killed.\n\nThe three forces behind the boycott were:—\n\n1. The Canton Government, who, though they denied responsibility, nevertheless connived at and encouraged the boycott and took no steps to terminate it. In time they became tired of the boycott, which incommoded the local Chinese merchants only less than Hong Kong, and they began to find the Strike Committee an embarrassment, a kind of imperium in imperio; yet they did not feel themselves strong enough to proceed against the boycott organisation,\n\n2. The boycott organisation manned by an army of unemployed from Hong Kong and Canton, and at one time numbering more than 100,000; this organisation maintained its own courts and prisons, and its members made a living out of permits, fines and confiscated goods.\n\n3. The Soviet advisers of the Canton Government, who, though they cannot be said to have created the boycott, yet certainly to some extent guided it, and directed the Nationalist anti-foreign movement into anti-British channels. Neither the Cantonese Government nor the Kuomintang, whose organ it is, is Communist, though there is a left wing which is in sympathy with the Communist doctrine. They have turned to the Russians because the Russians alone were prepared to treat them on equal terms and to provide money, advisers and equipment. Chinese Nationalists are using the Russians for their own ends, and it may be expected that if the Kuomintang establishes itself as the Government of China and enters into relations with the Powers its need of Russian support will decrease and the influence of the Russians will wane. The Soviet Government, however, has some right to claim the Canton boycott as its most outstanding success outside its own borders since it came into existence. The loss to British trade and to the colony of Hong Kong, in particular, has been very great.\n\nSeveral attempts were made to settle the boycott question by negotiation, but they broke down on every occasion, chiefly owing to the refusal of the Hong Kong Government to pay compensation or to countenance the payment of compensation, i.e., blackmail, to the strikers, which the Cantonese negotiators made the sine qua non for a settlement. In March 1926, the Cantonese authorities, who had hitherto refused to regard themselves for the purposes of negotiation as anything more than intermediaries between the strikers and the Hong Kong Government, proposed direct negotiations, but these came to nothing for the reason given above. Negotiations were reopened at Canton on the 15th July on the proposal of Eugene Chen, the newly appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Canton Administration. Mr. J. F. Brenan, His Majesty's acting consul-general at Canton, was a member of the British delegation. Negotiations were suspended on the 25th July, the two delegations desiring to refer to their respective Governments the proposals made to each of them by the other. The Cantonese proposal was for an enquiry into the facts of the Shameen incident of the 23rd June, 1925. The British proposal was for a loan for port and railway construction at and around Canton. These proposals, however, came to nothing, and by the beginning of September the situation had been changed by two further developments.\n\nIn the first place the increased activities of the strike pickets in Canton harbour and their shooting upon British subjects moved His Majesty's Government to take forcible action to put a stop to these piratical activities. On the 4th September the picket boats were driven off the harbour; the pickets were driven off British-owned wharves and a gunboat was moored along the strike examination shed. This rendered the enforcement of the boycott of British shipping much more difficult than it had previously been.\n\nAbout the same time the Cantonese northern expedition obtained unexpected success and advanced into Central China, occupying Hankow, where there are foreign concessions, and Hanyang, where there are iron works and an arsenal. They had thus established themselves in the Yang-tsze Valley, and had almost eliminated Wu Pei-fu as a military force. It was feared that the extension of Cantonese influence to the Yang-tsze would be followed by a boycott of British goods on the familiar Cantonese lines, but although there was some anti-British and anti-foreign agitation, no serious boycott developed. There was some firing.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507306, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 37, "title": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "content_text": "The CANTON GAZETTE \n特産 \n廣州日報 \n新聞能問 \n\nRegistered No the Past Othee 23 \n\n民國十六年五月十八日 星期三 \n# Vol. V No. 951 CANTON, CHINA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1927 \n\n## NATIONALIST GOVT. AT NANKING BASED ON KUOMINTANG PRINCIPLES, SAYS GEN. CHIANG; DENIES MUSSOLINI CHARGE \n\nOfficial messages received here from Nanking confirm the report of the capture of Pukow by General Chiang Kai-shek's forces. The big drive against the Northern militarists, which was recently launched, is being pushed with vigour in all directions.\n\nPukow was captured by the 1st and 40th army on the morning of the 15th inst. 3,000 Shantung soldiers were made captives. Our army crossed the river at 7 a.m. on Sunday. The enemy soldiers retreated in disorder towards the north. Railway ferry service between Hsiakwan and Pukow was at once restored.\n\nSingle Copy: 10 Cent $2.00 A Month $24.00 A Year \n\n## MINISTER C. C. WU ISSUES STATEMENT ON THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE NATIONALIST GOVT. AT NANKING \n\n(From our Nanking Correspondent)\n\nThe Nationalist Government addresses itself to the task of the movement.\n\n(From a Correspondent) Shanghai, May 12.—The Bureau of Foreign Affairs for Kiangsu has issued the following extract from a statement made by Mr. C.C. Wu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government at Nanking:- \n\n\"When General Chiang returned to Nanchang, he reported to the Central Council of the Kuomintang. With its inauguration, the Nationalist Government in Nanking was in full accordance with the resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang. The establishment of the Nationalist Government in Nanking is another stage reached in the Chinese Nationalist movement.\n\n\"The opposing forces, Progress and Reaction, which came to grips in 1911, have continued to struggle up to the present. Both of the communications sent to the Hankow Government automatically cease to function. The continuation of its regime is a revolt against the Three People's Principle, and consequently the Kuomintang.\n\n\"The Nationalist Government in Nanking is built on the true principles of the Kuomintang. Our chief task then is to consolidate the power of the Party so that it constitutes the supreme authority of the Government.\n\na. Overthrow of militarism.\nb. A friendly policy towards Russia, and.\nc. Uplift of farmers and labourers.\n\nThe first and third policies are so evident to permit any mis-understanding and are not to be altered under any circumstances. All the loyal members of the Kuomintang should give their fullest support to them.\n\n## Second Policy \n\nNo Mussolini Ambition \n\nAt first, the southern army stationed at Nanking under a barriage of heavy gun-fire advanced upon the enemy and crossed the Yangtze river. The Chihli and Shantung forces owing to their weakness retreated towards the north at 4 p.m. They are being pursued by our army at present.\n\nThe principles of the Kuomintang have moulded the thought of new China, and the Government founded on these principles has in the short space of two years extended its jurisdiction from Canton to more than half of China, including the richest, most populous, and most progressive cities and provinces.\n\nWith every confidence in the good intentions of the foreign governments, this government will no doubt as to the ultimate triumph of the cause of Progress and will employ for that purpose all legitimate means. It has taken note of the statements emanating from authorized spokesmen of the foreign governments as to the inapplicability of the existing treaties and their readiness to meet the wishes of the Chinese people.\n\nMeanwhile, the Nationalist Government will do all in its power to protect foreign life and property according to the generally accepted rules of international law.\n\nThere are not a few who criticized General Chiang for aspiring to be the Mussolini of China and attempting to work for a Fascist government for this country. Such criticism is entirely unfounded.\n\nThe Nanking Government is not a personal Government of General Chiang but a party government in the interest of the entire Chinese people.\n\nBut what we are opposed to is the vicious actions of Borodin, the Russian representative, which tend to be detrimental not only to the cause of the Party but also of the Nation.\n\n## Northerners Retreat \n\nShanghai, May 15.—Vernacular papers report that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's troops have occupied Pukow, this morning, taking prisoners more than 3,000 Northerners, including 600 Russians, and a great quantity of ammunitions.\n\nThe defeated troops are retreating to Chuchow on the Tientsin-Pukow railway.—Reuter.\n\n## Capture Of Yangchow \n\nShanghai, May 16.—A wireless message from Nanking states that Gen. Ho Yiu-cho crossed Pukow, opposite Nanking, fell to the river secretly from Tai-shingkwan and Chosekki to cut the Tientsin-Pukow and Tung-ko-wuyi railway lines and then attacked the enemy from the rear and front with the troops who had crossed the river from Nanking.\n\nOn the 15th at 7 a.m. Pukow was completely captured by us. 3000 Shantung captives and a few hundred were White Russians. Scores of heavy guns and machine guns were captured. Our troops are pursuing forward.\n\n(Continued on Page 2)\n\n## Merchants Must Pay In Share Of Strike Relief Loan In 3 Days \n\nMerchants in this city who have not yet done so are given three days within which to pay in their quota of the $1,500,000 loan which the General Chamber of Commerce has undertaken to make to the Government to enable the Canton-Hankow Strikers' Relief Fund.\n\n## To Organise A New Students Union Federation At Nanking \n\nStudent unions in the various provinces are invited by the Students' Union of Kwangtung to organise an All-China Students' Federation at Nanking.\n\nA circular telegram sent out says: \"The All-China Students' Federation at Nanking will be inaugurated to organise a strong revolutionary student organ there.\"\n\n## Instructions to Improve Local Prisons \n\nInstructions to district magistrates to improve the conditions of local prisons were given by the Provincial Government yesterday.\n\nAn Order No. FAII-4988 has been received from the Military Headquarters is to the following effect: \"The installation of the Nationalist Government at Nanking affords an opportunity to make a public statement of its foreign policy.\n\nPrivileges Of Foreigners \n\nIn the forthcoming negotiations for the abrogation of the special privileges of foreigners in China, the Chinese object, not to the presence of the foreigner, but to his position of privilege. They consider that the foreigner should be placed on a footing of equality with the people among whom he has voluntarily chosen to live and trade.\n\nThe presence in the party of Communist influences at variance with the precepts of the Kuomintang has during the past few weeks brought what hitherto has been an internal schism to an open split. Nevertheless, as these influences are small, there is every confidence that they will be completely eliminated in the near future.\n\n## Foreign Policy \n\nThe Chinese people, irrespective of geographical situation and political creed, are all united in demanding international justice and fairplay. In the interest of peace and welfare of the world, such a simple and reasonable request by a quarter of the human race ought not to be made in vain.\n\nThe Nationalist Government trusts that the foreign governments and peoples will display farsighted statesmanship and practical wisdom in the solution of the outstanding problem of the day.\n\n## BRITISH INDUSTRIAL LEADERS ON TOUR IN GERMANY \n\nBerlin, April 25.—A British industrial commission including Sir Alfred Mond, Sir Henry MacGowan, General Duncan and William Coates arrived at Berlin after having inspected the great Leunt Wireless Works.\n\n## RATIFY TURCO-GERMAN TRADE PACT \n\nBerlin, April 14.—The Turkish National Assembly ratified the Turco-German trade pact.\n\n## Gunboats Ordered For Patrol Service \n\nRepairs to the gunboats `Fuk On` and `Fei Ying` have recently been completed, and the two vessels will be immediately commissioned for patrol work. The gunboats `Moo Fung` and `Kong Kim` are still in dock, and every effort is being made to complete the repairs.\n\nPage 37", "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": 508341, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-501-6 Sweepstakes and Lotteries 3-1-1927 - 3-1-1927", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-501-6 Sweepstakes and Lotteries 3-1-1927 - 3-1-1927", "content_text": "# \n## Prisoners awaiting Trial: Previous Convictions\n\n21. The précis of facts, which should also be signed by the Chief Constable, should contain the full name, approximate age, occupation and address of the person against whom it is proposed to proceed, and outline the offence or offences in respect of which proceedings are desired.\n\n22. The following Acts require the fiat of the Attorney-General as a necessary preliminary to a prosecution:-\n- Explosive Substances Act, 1883. (Explosions likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property.) See page 37.\n- Firearms Act, 1920, Section 7. (Having firearms or ammunition with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury to property.) See page 37.\n- Geneva Convention Act, 1911. (Improper use of the Red Cross.) See page 59.\n- Money-lenders Act, 1900. (Unregistered money-lenders or persons carrying on business at places other than their registered address.) See page 57.\n- Newspapers, Printers and Reading Rooms Repeal Act, 1869. (Persons printing, publishing or dispersing papers which do not bear the printer's name and address or assisting in so doing.)\n- Prevention of Corruption Acts, 1906 and 1916. (Bribery and corruption, including bribes to police officers.)\n- Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889. (Bribery of members and officers of public bodies).\n- Punishment of Incest Act, 1908.\n\n23. In a case under the Punishment of Incest Act, 1908, the accused was arrested by a police officer on a charge of attempting to commit incest with his daughter, and a week later the Chief Constable communicated with the Director of Public Prosecutions, who instituted proceedings for the full offence. The Judge before whom the prisoner was indicted ruled that the indictment was bad because the prosecution had commenced with the arrest and charge of the prisoner for attempted incest, and that at that time Section 6 of the Act had not been complied with. The prisoner was thereupon discharged. In order to avoid any risk of the like failure in a future case, no prisoner should be arrested nor charge preferred under the Act unless the authority of the Director of Public Prosecutions or the sanction of the Attorney-General has been obtained first. In any case where the offence is in relation to a person under 16 years of age and there is no time to obtain the necessary authority or consent, the accused should be charged under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, and the facts reported to the Director of Public Prosecutions, with a view to a charge under the Punishment of Incest Act, 1908, being substituted, if this is thought desirable.\n\n## Prisoners awaiting Trial: Previous Convictions\n\n24. Governors of His Majesty's prisons are greatly assisted in the performance of their duty of preparing Calendars of prisoners if, whenever a prisoner is committed for trial, the Police at once communicate to the Governor any information regarding his previous convictions. The information should be supplied on the special forms, which can be obtained from any local prison.\n\n25. Any police officer who recognises an unconvicted prisoner whom he sees at a Police Court, in prison, or elsewhere, as having been previously convicted of any offence, should report the particulars of the previous conviction at once, so that the officer in charge of the case and the Prison Governor may be informed.\n\n26. If a prisoner is recognised, just before or during his trial, as having a previous conviction, the officer in charge of the case should furnish the Clerk of the Court with a form giving full particulars of the former conviction, and a duplicate should be forwarded to the Prison Governor with a note stating that the particulars have been supplied to the Clerk of the Court.\n\n27. A list of the previous convictions recorded against a prisoner awaiting trial which it is proposed to lay before the Court is read to the prisoner in prison, and if he disputes any of them, a note to that effect is made on the list. Prison Governors are instructed to send the Police due notice if a prisoner shows an intention to dispute any previous conviction included in the list.\n\n28. It is unusual for a prisoner not to admit a previous conviction which is charged in an indictment against him and police officers are, therefore, rarely called to give evidence regarding it. It is, therefore, unnecessary for police officers from another force to attend the Court merely to prove a previous conviction charged in an indictment, unless there is reason to think it will be disputed. The name of the officer who will be able to attend should, however, be obtained in order that a telegram may be sent if it becomes necessary. If a prisoner unexpectedly repudiates a previous conviction charged against him, the case can generally be put back for the officer's attendance.\n\n29. Paragraph 28 does not apply where prisoners are indicted as habitual criminals under Part II of the Prevention of Crime Act, 1908. Prisoners do not ordinarily plead guilty to such indictments, and it is therefore advisable for witnesses to be in attendance to prove the previous convictions essential to establish the charge of being an habitual criminal.\n\n## Production of Prisoners\n\n30. When the Police desire a prisoner in prison produced in Court, whether for the purpose of giving evidence in other cases or of being dealt with for another offence, application should be made to the Secretary of State for the issue of an order under Section 11 of the Prison Act, 1898. If an order is issued, the prisoner will be conveyed to the Court by prison officers and will remain in their custody.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-501-6 Sweepstakes and Lotteries 3-1-1927 - 3-1-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510795, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-504-15 Various ordinances 4-4-1927 - 29-11-1927", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-504-15 Various ordinances 4-4-1927 - 29-11-1927", "content_text": "# Ordinance No. 6 of 1887\n\nOrdinances No. 1 of 1884, 16 of 1914, and $ of 1916, Ordinance No. 1 of 1903,\n\n(3) The first part of the register shall consist of the two Jurors Lists for the current jury year brought into force under the provisions of the Jury Ordinance, 1887.\n\n(4) The second part of the said register, which shall be kept by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, shall consist of the names of all male persons of any of the following classes who shall have duly applied to be registered therein, and whose claims to be registered shall have been duly allowed :- \n| Class | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative Council; |\n| (b) | persons of sound mind who have previously been included in the jurors lists but have been omitted therefrom on account of age or infirmity; |\n| (c) | barristers and solicitors in actual practice and the clerks of solicitors in actual practice; |\n| (d) | persons registered under Section 4 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, or under the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914, or under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916; |\n| (e) | editors, sub-editors and reporters of daily newspapers published in the Colony; |\n| (f) | clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests, and ministers of any congregation of Protestant Dissenters or of Jews, acting as such in the Colony; |\n| (g) | professors and other academic officers of the University of Hong Kong; |\n| (h) | masters of schools which are certified by the Director of Education as not being vernacular schools; |\n| (i) | masters of steamers and local pilots; |\n| (j) | officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps, and such other members of the Hong Kong Defence Corps as shall have been exempted from jury service by the Governor in Council; |\n\nProvided that no person who is in the service of the Crown, and whose whole time is at the disposal of the Crown, shall be entitled to be included in the said register.\n\n(5) If any question arises as to the right of any person to be included in the second part of the said register, such question shall be decided by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, subject to an appeal within seven days to the Governor in Council, whose decision thereupon shall be final; Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to vary such decision at any time.\n\n(6) Subject to any rules which may be made under s.9 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, the second part of the said register shall be closed to any fresh applications for registration for fourteen days before the day appointed for any ballot for the election of a member of the Sanitary Board, and shall remain closed until after the balloting in that election shall have been completed.\n\n(7) Every person who at any ballot held under this section applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who, having voted once at any such ballot, applies at the same ballot for a ballot paper in his own name, and every person who, for the purpose of procuring his registration in the second part of the register referred to in sub-sections (2) to (6), knowingly makes any false or misleading representation, whether verbal or in writing or by conduct, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.\n\n(8) If any question arises as to the validity of any proceeding in any election or intended election of a member of the Sanitary Board, the decision of the Governor in Council thereon shall be final and conclusive for all purposes whatsoever, and the Governor in Council may thereupon give any direction which he may think fit.\n\n## Renumbering of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903\n6. Sub-sections (3) and (4) of s. 8 of the principal Ordinance are renumbered (9) and (10).\n\n## Substitution of new section\n7. Section 97 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :- \n### Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, Exceptional buildings\n**s. 97**. Subject to the provisions of any regulations made under section 98, the design, construction and situation of every exceptional building shall be subject to the special approval of the Building Authority.\n\n## Repeal of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, and substitution of new section\n8. Section 98 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :- \n### Power to make regulations relating to exceptional buildings\n**s. 98**. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations governing the design, construction and situation of exceptional buildings or any class of exceptional buildings.\n\n## Repeal of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, and substitution of new section\n9. Sections 162 and 162A of the principal Ordinance are repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :- \n### Water closets and water-flushed urinals\n**162**-(1) No person shall maintain, or allow to remain on any premises owned or occupied by him, any water closet or urinal constructed before the 24th day of June, 1927, unless such water closet or urinal was constructed with the permission of the Board and the consent of the Governor in Council or was constructed in and is in a hospital.\n\n(2) No person shall after the 23rd day of June, 1927, construct any water closet or urinal, and no person shall maintain, or allow to remain on any premises owned or occupied by him, any water closet or urinal, constructed after the 23rd day of June, 1927, except with the permission of the Board and of the Colonial Secretary and in accordance with the terms and conditions of such permission.\n\n(3) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to order the removal of any water closet or urinal whatsoever if the water closet or urinal was constructed or has been maintained without due permission or in breach of any of the terms or conditions of any such permission, or if the water closet or urinal has been kept in an insanitary or uncleanly condition.\n\n(4) A magistrate shall order the removal of any water closet or urinal whatsoever which has not been removed within three months after a notice to remove it shall have been served on either the owner or the occupier of the premises on which the water closet or urinal is situated.\n\nPage 62\nPage 63\nPage 60\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-504-15 Various ordinances 4-4-1927 - 29-11-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512208, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "23\n\nRECORD OF OUT-PATIENTS, LAI CHI KOK GAOL, 1926.\n\nGeneral Diseases.\n\nDiseases caused by Infection:\n\nSepticaemia\n\nSyphilis\n\nGonorrhoea\n\nRheumatism\n\nDiseases of the Blood:\n\nAnaemia\n\n9\n\n37\n\n17\n\n8\n\n3\n\nDiseases due to disorders of Nutrition or Metabolism:\n\nBeri-beri\n\nDiseases of the Eye\n\n17\n\n20\n\nEar\n\n99\n\n\"\"\n\n10\n\nCirculatory System\n\n2\n\n\"}\"\n\nRespiratory System\n\n17\n\nDigestive System\n\n16\n\n\"\"\n\nGenerative System.\n\n28\n\nAlveolar Tissue\n\n50\n\nSkin\n\n3\n\nTeeth & Gums\n\n24\n\n\"\"\n\nPoisons:\n\nChronic Opium Poisoning\n\n248\n\n·\n\nLocal Injuries\n\n61\n\nParasites\n\n132\n\nMalingering\n\nObservation\n\n3\n\nTotal\n\n710\n\nRECORD OF CASES IN LAI CHI KOK HOSPITAL GAOLS\n\n1926.\n\nGeneral Diseases.\n\nDiseases caused by Infection:-\n\nGonorrhoea\n\nDiphtheria\n\nDysentery\n\nMalaria Fever\n\nSepticaemia Syphilis\n\nRheumatism\n\n11\n\n1\n\n5\n\n118\n\n13\n\n9\n\n2\n\n35", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512209, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "Page 36\n\n24\n\nDiseases due to disorders of Nutrition or Metabolism:-\n\nBeri-beri\n\nDiseases of the Blood:-\n\nAnaemia\n\n13\n\n25\n\nNationalities and sexes were represented as follows:-\n\n \n \n 1926\n 1925\n \n \n Europeans,\n 1,494\n 2,576\n \n \n Chinese,\n 18,649\n 21,936\n \n \n Indians,\n 1,105\n 1,269\n \n \n Others,\n 802\n 1,039\n \n \n \n 22,050\n 26,820\n \n\nEpilepsy\n\nDiseases of the Nervous System :-\n\nAbscess of brain Neuralgia\n\nDiseases of the Circulatory System\n\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n 4\n 57\n \n \n \n 15\n \n \n \n\nRespiratory System\n\n**\n\n17\n\n77\n\nDigestive System.\n\n22\n\nAreolar Tissue\n\nLocal Injuries\n\n4\n\n \n Males,\n Females,\n \n \n \n \n \n Poisons :--\n \n \n Chronic Opium Poisoning\n \n Observation\n \n \n 18\n 23\n \n \n \n Total\n \n 255\n \n\nfollows:-\n\n \n \n 1926\n 1925\n \n \n \n 13,326\n 17,002\n \n \n \n 8,741\n 9,818\n \n \n \n 22,050\n 26,820\n \n\n1,892 Government Servants attended for treatment As\n\n \n \n 1926\n 1925\n \n \n Kowloon Canton Railway, Police,\n 737\n 686\n \n \n \n 784\n 1,079\n \n \n Others,\n 371\n 489\n \n \n \n 1,892\n 2,254\n \n\nyear.\n\nGOVERNMENT DISPENSARY, KOWLOON.\n\nREPORT FOR THE YEAR 1926.\n\nDr. Newton was the Medical Officer in charge during the The attendances amounted to 22,050 as compared with 26,820 in 1925. The Dispensary in Nathan Road was closed at the end of September the patients being seen at the Railway in a room kindly provided by the Manager.\n\nThe total cases treated were made up as follows:-\n\nThe number of prescriptions dispensed during the year was 12,034 as compared with 17,853 in 1925,\n\n25 patients received Anti-rabic vaccine treatment.\n\n \n \n 1926\n 1925\n \n \n New Cases,\n 10,280\n 13,875\n \n \n Old Cases,\n 3,285\n 4,081\n \n \n Vaccinations,\n 671\n 474\n \n \n Physical Examinations,\n 226\n 255\n \n \n Daily Dressings,\n 7,688\n 8,135\n \n \n \n 22,050\n 26,820\n \n\nKOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY.\n\nDr. I. Newton was Medical Officer in Charge of the Railway during the year.\n\nDuring the year 737 employees were treated at the Govern- ment Dispensary as compared with 686 last year.\n\n37\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512236, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "Table I,-(Continued).\n\nDiseases and Deaths in 1926 at the Civil, Victoria, and Gaol Hospitals.\n\n \n CIVIL HOSPITAL\n VICTORIA HOSPITAL\n GAOL HOSPITAL\n \n \n Nomenclature\n Remaining on 1st Jan., 1926\n Admissions\n Total Cases Treated\n Deaths\n Remaining on 31st Dec., 1926\n Remaining on 1st Jan., 1926\n Admissions\n Total Cases Treated\n Deaths\n Remaining on 31st Dec., 1926\n Remaining on 1st Jan., 1926\n Admissions\n Total Cases Treated\n Deaths\n Remaining on 31st Dec., 1926\n \n \n Brought forward\n 162\n 4,770\n 4,932\n 311\n 179\n 10\n 227\n 231\n 9\n 5\n 23\n 362\n 385\n 10\n 23\n \n \n Local Injuries,—Contd.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fracture-Phalanges\n \n 8\n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nasal bone\n \n 13\n 13\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Debility\n \n 4\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Marasmus\n \n 17\n 17\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dislocations\n \n 5\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tumours and Cysts\n \n 56\n 56\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Malformations\n \n 25\n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Poisons-Opium\n \n 29\n 29\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kerosine\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cyanide\n \n 1\n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Datura\n \n 9\n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lysol\n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Camphor\n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ptomaine\n \n 39\n 39\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lead\n \n 29\n 29\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Caustic soda\n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Carbon monoxide\n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hydrochloric acid\n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Strychnine\n \n 1\n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Animal Parasites-Ascaris lumbricoides\n \n 95\n 95\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ankylostoma duodenale\n \n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tænia solium\n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Filaria bancrofti\n \n 15\n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clonorchiasis\n \n 17\n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n N. A. D.\n \n 123\n 123\n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In attendance\n \n 9\n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Under Observation\n \n 15\n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Electric shock\n \n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dog bite\n \n 15\n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Miscellaneous\n \n 64\n 64\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Malingering\n \n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL\n 179\n 5,202\n 5,381\n 335\n 196\n 10\n 257\n 264\n 5\n \n 22\n 602\n 631\n 10\n 26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512242, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "TABLE OF CASES AT THE GOVERNMENT DISPENSARY, KOWLOON,-Continued.\n\nDISEASES.\n\n \n Number of patients 1926\n Number of patients 1925\n \n \n Brought forward,\n \n \n \n 7,317\n 12,000\n \n \n Diseases of the Male Organs of generation\n 40\n 18\n \n \n Female\n 108\n 133\n \n \n Organs of Locomotion,\n 315\n 615\n \n \n Areolar Tissue, Skin,\n 3,493\n 3,049\n \n \n \n 4,397\n 4,458\n \n \n due to disorders of nutrition,\n 252\n 489\n \n \n Injuries, General,\n 463\n 312\n \n \n Local,\n 3,281\n 3,197\n \n \n Poisons:\n \n \n \n \n (a) Chronic Opium,\n 3\n 11\n \n \n (b) Alcohol,\n 1\n 1\n \n \n (c) Lead,\n \n \n \n \n Parasites:-\n \n \n \n \n (a) Animal,\n 913\n 1,236\n \n \n (b) Vegetable,\n 557\n 561\n \n \n New Growths, Non-Malignant,\n 9\n 11\n \n \n Malignant,\n 3\n 1\n \n \n Vaccinations,\n 671\n 474\n \n \n Physical Examinations,\n 226\n 255\n \n \n Total,\n 22,050\n 26,820", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512251, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "11.-Deaths from Violence:— \n\n1926. 1925.\n\n(a) General, 54 34\n\n(b) Poisons, 15 8\n\n(c) Local, 65 79\n\nIII.-Undiagnosed conditions (Decomposed) 156 266\n\nTotal, 1,837 2,350\n\n1.-Local Diseases.\n\nCerebral Haemorrhage, (a) of the Nervous System:-— \n\nTubercular Meningitis, 6 1\n\nMeningitis other than C. S. F. or Tuber- cular, 11 3\n\nShock, 1 \n\nEpilepsy, 1 \n\nTotal 24 \n\n(b) of the Circulatory System :—— \n\nInflammation of pericardium:- \n\n1. Sero fibrinous 6 \n\n2. Suppurative, 12 1\n\n1. Malignant endocarditis, 1 \n\nInflamation of the Endocardium:- \n\n2. Chronic inflammation of mitral vale, 3 \n\n3. Chronic inflammation of aortic vale. 10 1\n\n4. Chronic inflammation of Tricuspid vale, \n\nMyocardial degeneration, 31 \n\nArterio Selerosis, 24 \n\nRuptured aortic aneurism, \n\nHaemophilia, \n\n(c) of the Respiratory System \n\nAcute Bronchitis, 31 \n\nLobar Pneumonia, 81 \n\nLobular Pneumonia, 456 568\n\nPulmonary Tuberculosis. 81 \n\nCongenital Pulmonary Atelectasis, 14 \n\nsagas \n\nPleurisy (a) Serous, 4 \n\n(b) Purulent, 19 \n\nBronchiectasis, 689 758\n\n(d) of the Digestive System :- \n\nAcute Suppurative Peritonitis, Acute Pancreatitis, 12 2\n\nGastric Ulcer, 1 3\n\nAcute Enteritis, 309 483\n\nSuppurative Appendicitis, 3 6\n\nTubercular Enteritis, 6 \n\nStrangulated Hernia, 1 \n\nTropical Abscess of Liver, 1 \n\nMultilobular Cirrhosis of Liver, 2 \n\nObstructive Jaundice, 3 \n\nΙ Icterus Neonatorum, 2 16\n\nTubercular Peritonitis, 2 5\n\nTabes Mesenterica, Ulcerative Colitis, Duodenal Ulcer, \n\nCholecystitis, Canerum Oris, Choleraie Diarrhoea, \n\nIntussusseption, \n\nPyloric Obstruction, 1 1\n\nTotal, 386 539\n\n(c) of the Genito-Urinary System: \n\nAcute Tubal Nephritis, 7 4\n\nChronic Tubal Nephritis, 11 4\n\nChronic interstitial Nephritis, \n\nPyonephrosis, 14 \n\nPolycystic disease of kidneys \n\nTotal, 26 \n\n(f) Affections consequent on Parturition to the Child:- \n\n1. Still birth, . 61 107\n\n2. Premature Birth, 29 \n\n8. Ruptured tentorium cerebelli, \n\n4. Other birth injuries, \n\n5. Anencephalic Monster, \n\nTotal, 99 112\n\n(g) Diseases caused by infection : \n\nDysentery, 12 5\n\nEnteric. 7 \n\nInfluenza, 1 \n\nMalaria, S. T. 131 134\n\nCarried forward 149 147", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512253, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "89\n\nII.—Deaths from Violence:-\n\n(a) General:-\n\nEffects of heat burns,\n\nElectrocution,\n\nStrangulation, Drowning, Hanging, Suffocation,\n\n(b) Poisons:- Opium,\n\nPtomain,\n\nSewer Gas,\n\nFormaldehyde,\n\nCorrosive Alkali,\n\nArsenic,\n\nCarbolic Acid,\n\n \n 1926\n 1925\n \n \n 9\n 2\n \n \n 6\n 8\n \n \n 31\n 16\n \n \n 3\n 4\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n Total,\n 54\n \n \n \n 34\n \n \n 11\n 1\n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n Total,\n 15\n \n \n 52\n 1\n \n\n(c) Local:-\n\n \n \n 1926\n 1925\n \n \n Cut throat,\n 3\n 3\n \n \n Punctured wounds,\n 11\n 7\n \n \n Multiple injuries,\n 11\n 7\n \n \n Gunshot wounds,\n \n \n \n \n Fracture of the skull,\n 17\n 17\n \n \n Pelvis,\n 1\n 1\n \n \n ??\n \"\"\n \"\"\n \n \n Tibia,\n 4\n 1\n \n \n \"\"\n \"} \n 11\"\n \n \n \"\"\n \"\n \"\"\n \n \n Spine,\n 2\n 1\n \n \n Ribs,\n 1\n \n \n \n Sternum,\n \"\"\n \"\"\n \n \n } }\n \n \n \n \n Femur,\n \n 19\n \n \n Rupture of the Spleen,\n \"\"\n ''\n \n \n Intestine, Liver,\n \"\"\"\n \n \n \n Heart,\n \n \n \n \n Laceration of lung,\n 2\n 2\n \n \n Concussion,\n 2\n 3\n \n\nIII.—Undiagnosed condition,\n\n(Decomposed)\n\n \n \n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n Total,\n 65\n 79\n \n\nNumber of rats examined,\n\n \n 156\n 266\n \n \n 36,665\n \n\nPlague infected,\n\n.......Nil.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 516936, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-513-2 Problem of extra-territorial privileges in China and the abolition of extra-territoriality 15-8-1929 - 15-11-1929", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-513-2 Problem of extra-territorial privileges in China and the abolition of extra-territoriality 15-8-1929 - 15-11-1929", "content_text": "# Tientsin British Committee of Information\n\n## **MEMORANDUM NO. 27**\n\n### The Abolition of Extraterritoriality\n\n#### HOW THE LAW IS ADMINISTERED IN CHINA\n\nThe National Government of China, according to the repeated statements of its Ministers at Nanking, is determined to bring about the abolition of extraterritoriality by the end of 1929. Its propagandists, at home and abroad, argue that its modern Courts and modern prisons, and its new Legal Codes justify the demand for the immediate and unconditional abolition of Consular jurisdiction.\n\nThere are some Modern Courts and prisons, but even in Shanghai, where these Courts function in the full glare of publicity, the judiciary are under political control. The Civil Code has not yet been completed and the revised Criminal Code is a dead letter where the accused are members of the Kuomintang, or are able to enlist the support of that Party. The two leading articles from the `Peking & Tientsin Times` of July 5 and 6, 1929, which are reproduced below deal with an incident which may not be of great importance in itself, but which is typical of what is going on throughout the Country, and which gains additional significance from the fact that it occurred in Peking while the President of the National Government himself was in that City. A report on the incident by the Director of the Joint Military and Police Office is added.\n\n### **UNBRIDLED LAWLESSNESS**\n\n[Reprinted from the `Peking & Tientsin Times`, of July 5, 1929.]\n\nIt would surely be impossible to find a parallel in any other country in the world for what has recently occurred in Peking in connection with the attempt to continue the anti-Japanese boycott.\n\nSome days ago a consignment of 675 reams of Japanese paper was sent to Peking, consigned to the Garrison Headquarters, for the use of a certain Shansi newspaper office in the Capital. Before it left Tientsin the consignees obligingly tendered what is euphoniously described as a \"registration fee\" to the local Boycott Committee. But when the cargo reached its destination it was seized by the pickets of the Peking Boycott Committee and carried off to their headquarters. Representatives of the military and the police called at the Committee's offices to request the release of the cargo, and were rebuffed. They were followed by the Mayor of Peking, who added his personal plea for the release of the paper, and was curtly informed that his request could not be granted. The spectacle of the Mayor of a great City proceeding in person to the headquarters of an illegal organization to plead for the release of cargo illegally seized, could not occur in any other country.\n\nOn the day following the Mayor's visit twenty soldiers were sent to the Boycott Committee's Headquarters to remove the cargo, which they did, delivering it to the offices of the `Min Yen Pao`. This action enraged the Boycott Committee, which, three days later, despatched twenty pickets to the offices of the newspaper and recovered possession of some of the bales of paper. Police appeared while the cargo was being removed, and took two of the pickets into custody. The arrest of these ruffians was followed by an \"indignation meeting\" in which various other \"popular associations\" were invited to participate. This meeting appointed a delegation to call upon General Chiang Kai-shek and enlist his support. General Chiang referred them to one of his subordinates, to whom they related their \"grievance\", and they also succeeded in waylaying General Shang Chen (Governor of the Province) who is reported to have been weak enough to promise to punish those responsible for the arrests, if it should prove that they had been shielding parties guilty of importing Japanese goods! The whole Boycott organization made an attempt to see General Chiang Kai-shek later in the day, but were referred by an A.D.C. to the Municipal Government or the District Kuomintang. They left the Hotel in a state of great indignation, breathing threats against General Chiang. On the following day (Wednesday) the Boycott Association again assembled outside the `Hotel de Pekin`, and demanded an interview with General Chiang Kai-shek. They failed to gain admittance, so...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-2 Problem of extra-territorial privileges in China and the abolition of extra-territoriality 15-8-1929 - 15-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 516937, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-513-2 Problem of extra-territorial privileges in China and the abolition of extra-territoriality 15-8-1929 - 15-11-1929", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-513-2 Problem of extra-territorial privileges in China and the abolition of extra-territoriality 15-8-1929 - 15-11-1929", "content_text": "## SCRAPS OF PAPER\n\n[Reprinted from the Peking & Tientsin Times of July 6, 1929.]\n\nIf we return to-day to the case of the forcible seizure of a consignment of Japanese paper, consigned to the Min Yen Pao, it is not because we desire to exaggerate the importance of the barefaced robbery of a comparatively small cargo of newsprint, but because we intend to show that what has occurred at Peking, under the very nose of the President of the National Government, strikes at the very root of China's pretensions, administrative, judicial, and diplomatic. We propose to deal with the issues raised under these headings, taking the diplomatic aspect first.\n\nIt may be recalled that the Notes embodying the settlement of the Tsinan question contained a stipulation on the Japanese side that the Chinese Government guarantee, on their sole responsibility, the safety of the lives and property of the Japanese subjects resident in China after the withdrawal of the Japanese troops from Shantung. The Chinese Government accepted this stipulation, recognizing its responsibility \"in accordance with international law\" to \"afford protection to foreign nationals in China, and that they consider it incumbent on them to extend such protection to resident Japanese in future.\"\n\nIt is not stretching the meaning of this undertaking to insist that it applies not only to the actual protection of the persons of Japanese and of property actually in their possession, but also to the Chinese Government's responsibility \"in accordance with international law\" to permit the free circulation in Chinese territory of articles of Japanese manufacture which have paid the stipulated import duties. That was the Japanese, and as we shall show later, the Chinese understanding of the agreement. No one in his senses can suppose that the Japanese Minister would have signed the Tsinan Notes had there been appended thereto a reservation to the effect that goods of Japanese origin or manufacture would be liable to seizure immediately they left the Japanese importers' hands. The mere collection of import duty is official recognition of the right of the Japanese to dispose, as and where they will, of the cargoes on which it has been paid. And the use of the word \"protection\" becomes meaningless if the value of Japanese property is destroyed by the inability of the importers to deliver their goods to bona fide and law-abiding purchasers. The Min Yen Pao incident, then, is a gross violation of a solemn international obligation, and raises in an acute form, the question whether the National Government is able or willing to fulfil the responsibilities it assumes as a result of negotiations with Foreign States.\n\n## \n\nFrom the administrative point of view, the failure of the National Government is equally glaring. Shortly after the signature of the Tsinan agreement, orders were issued by the Central Kuomintang Headquarters to the effect that all anti-Japanese movements throughout the Country were immediately to be terminated, and all existing anti-Japanese organizations were thenceforward to devote their attention to the development of national industry, instead of enforcing an anti-Japanese boycott. The Peking and Tientsin boycott organizations, we believe, in common with those in Mid-China, changed their name to that of \"Committee for Accelerating the Abolition of the Unequal Treaties.\" But they absolutely refused to relax their anti-Japanese activities, which were, in fact, intensified to an extent which has brought about collisions between the members of the Boycott Committee, and the merchants' organizations, in various parts of this province. The merchants not unnaturally resented continued interference with their trade after the Government's order that the boycott should cease.\n\nAnd they have protested, repeatedly, but ineffectively, against the confiscation or taxation of their cargo by organizations which were never strictly legal, and have now been formally banned by the National Government. Yet in Peking, while General Chiang Kai-shek has actually been in residence there, the local boycott Committee has not only openly defied the authorities, but won the day. It rejected the request of the proprietor, the military and the police authorities, and the mayor, for the release of a consignment of Japanese paper which had been illegally seized at the Chienmen Station; and after the Joint Military and Police Office sent troops to remove the cargo and deliver it to its lawful owner, the local Committee had the audacity to raid the Min Yen Pao offices, armed with clubs and iron bars, and remove most of the cargo to its headquarters. Two of the ringleaders in this act of robbery with violence were arrested by the Police. They have since been released with profuse apologies, and are now being treated as heroes by the local Kuomintang. It is evident, therefore, that the orders of the Government are of no effect in Peking, and that they can be treated with complete contempt by any gang of hooligans that poses as a \"patriotic organization.\"\n\nBut it is perhaps from the judicial point of view that the incident is most serious. Attempts are being made by the Nanking Government to bring about the immediate and unconditional abolition of extraterritoriality. Dr. Wang Chung-hui, the Minister of Justice, is at present abroad conducting a propaganda campaign with this object in view. He has already been giving interviewers glowing pictures of the modernization of China's judicial codes, Courts, and prisons, and attacking extraterritoriality as an obsolete system \"not in keeping with the dignity of New China.\" Is it in keeping with that \"dignity\" that criminals arrested in the very act of committing a felony—to wit, robbery with violence—should never even be brought to trial, but, on the threat of hostile demonstrations by their accomplices, should be released with profound apologies by the Director of the Military and Police Department, and humbly persuaded to accept their freedom? The incident is such a travesty of justice that the facts would be read with incredulity in any law-abiding country in Europe or America. Imagine, if it is possible, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Lord Byng, pleading with a couple of armed burglars to leave Vine Street Police Station, after they had been arrested in flagranti delicto, breaking into the office of the Morning Post, and carrying off bales of newsprint for which it had paid. Imagine a demonstration of the \"London Burglars' Union\" outside No. 10 Downing Street while the Prime Minister was in residence, to demand the release of their colleagues and the surrender by the Morning Post of a quantity of paper to which they had no legal or moral claim. Imagine the Headquarters of the British Labour Party in London welcoming as heroes a couple of hooligans who had been caught breaking into private premises and removing private property, and could offer no justification except that they had done the same thing, without being punished, before. The administration of justice becomes farcical when lawbreakers become heroes, and the officials responsible for the maintenance of law and order, and the administration of justice, apologize even for arresting them. No international undertakings that the Chinese Government may offer, no administrative order that it may issue, and no Courts it may establish, can be of the slightest use when such things can happen. Treaties, laws, and judicial regulations simply become worthless scraps of paper. And what remains?\n\n\"Perpetual emptiness! Unceasing change!\nNo single volume paramount, no code,\nNo master spirit, no determined road;\nBut equally a want of books and men!\"\n\n## PEKING OFFICIAL'S STATEMENT\n\n[Reprinted from the North China Standard of July 6, 1929.]\n\nMr. Li Yu, director of the Joint Military and Police Office, for whose dismissal and punishment the anti-Japanese Boycott Association has been agitating, has issued a statement setting forth his side of the controversy with the Association arising from the seizure of 57 bundles of Japanese paper by the professional agitators. After characterizing the Association as an illegal organization and giving a summary of the circumstances leading up to the arrest of two pickets of the association on the morning of July 2nd, Mr. Li goes on to say:\n\nIt should be noted that the paper was bought in Tientsin by the Garrison Headquarters here and intended for the use of the Publicity Department of the Garrison. When it was shipped from Tientsin, the authorities there had examined it and issued a Huchao for its safe transportation. But when the shipment arrived at Chienmen station, it was seized by the anti-Japanese Association as \"enemy goods.\"\n\nActing on orders from our superiors, we repeatedly negotiated with the Association for its release, but its officers simply ignored us.\n\nIt should be further noted that this paper was bought after the Nanking National Government had formally ordered the dissolution of all anti-Japanese Associations in the country. The argument that we have violated the anti-Japanese movement therefore does not apply. What is more, the shipment was intended for the use of the Propaganda Department and not destined to any newspaper. The Min Yen Pao has a job printing department and has a contract from the Garrison Headquarters to print all its propaganda literature and posters.\n\nIt has become a long practice for the Garrison to store its paper supply with the paper. What justification does the Association have for its repeated attacks and raids on the offices of the Min Yen Pao?\n\nIt is a matter of record that the local authorities have received repeated orders from Nanking to close the Boycott Association and suppress the anti-Japanese movement. All the anti-Japanese slogans and posters which once filled the walls of the city have been removed by the authorities. Yet the Association continues to function in defiance of the orders of the Government and is carrying on the blackmailing and extortion game without fear. We are in duty bound to suppress its activities.\n\nIt is for intelligent public opinion to say whether the Association has the right to confiscate a shipment of paper bought after the official cancellation of the anti-Japanese boycott. We hereby set forth all the circumstances of the case and appeal for the impartial consideration of all the wise and virtuous men in the country.\n\n[Note: The Boycott Committee has since been permitted to \"seal up\" half the cargo of paper in the offices of the Min Yen Pao, and has decided to \"fine\" the paper $10,000 (£1,000) in addition to confiscating the consignment.]\n\nPage 12\nPage 19\n\n181, Victoria Road, \nTientsin. \nFor the Tientsin British Committee of Information. \nH. G. W. WOODHEAD, \n(Acting Chairman). \n\nPage 10\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-2 Problem of extra-territorial privileges in China and the abolition of extra-territoriality 15-8-1929 - 15-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520218, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n191\n\nIt is somewhat disconcerting to find in the Estimates a comparatively large vote for the creation of a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. This, it seems to us, is a retrograde step: it is entirely alien to the spirit of international concord and fraternity, which is rapidly gathering weight and momentum. The clarion call is for the total abolition of war, and for the reduction of the weapons of destruction to a bare minimum required for police and defence purposes.\n\nWould it not be a happy gesture for the Government, in this public manner, to abandon this Reserve Force, and thus demonstrate that even such a comparatively small, though important, British Colony as Hong Kong is completely at one with the British Empire in advancing by every means possible the works of peace—in the genuine and noble resolve to hasten the coming of that day when \"Man to man the World o'er shall brothers be\"?\n\nThe honourable senior unofficial member having already commented upon the overcrowded state of the Prisons, I need only say a few words on the Female Prison. I am told that the accommodation is unsatisfactory, and that the lot of the female prisoners can be made less hard. Since Mrs. Southorn and her helpers have undertaken the work of visiting this section of the Gaol, some improvement has been effected, and it is sincerely hoped that they will continue this good work, for which the Chinese community feel very grateful.\n\nWhile we endorse the policy of the Government in developing the preventive side of the Medical Department's work, may we respectfully ask that that policy may be carried out in a liberal and sympathetic spirit, and with due regard to the susceptibilities of the people? Some medical men who may be highly qualified in their profession, and who may have the best intentions in the world, may be led by their enthusiasm and zeal into the introduction of measures that are totally unsuitable for local conditions.\n\nThe Tung Wah Eastern Hospital is ready to be opened this year: but the Government, in the belief that it could not be for want of funds, has made no provision in the Estimates for 1930. We are happy to say that arrangements have been made whereby the maintenance of the Hospital is assured for two years, thus enabling it to be opened at the end of November next; and we therefore ask that the Government will be so good as to make a substantial grant to this most deserving and much needed institution. If it be inconvenient to make provision in the Estimates now, perhaps a supplementary vote could be taken when the time comes.\n\nThe honourable senior unofficial member has asked for the provision of more recreation grounds and open spaces. We strongly endorse this recommendation, because in the past this very necessary provision has unfortunately been neglected, particularly in the heart of the city.\n\n62", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520434, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "page_number": 278, "title": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "content_text": "## 163. Acting Pay Provisions and Local Matters\n\n(b) In any other case, the emoluments which he would receive if his case fell under (2) above.\n\nWe consider these provisions form a right and proper basis on which acting pay should be allowed, but that, if possible, officers should not be appointed to perform the duties of two distinct offices at the same time. We recommend, however, that absence on long leave should mean absence on leave for a period exceeding two months or for any period prior to retirement.\n\n163. But there are several local matters which require consideration and have been provided for in the present General Orders. We now proceed to deal with them.\n\nUnder General Order Nos. `92(2)` and `25(11)`, a Cadet Officer of Class II who acts as Treasurer, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, First Magistrate, Director of Education, or Crown Solicitor receives an additional salary of £50 or £100 a year according as his substantive salary exceeds or does not exceed £900 per annum; while under General Order No. `92(3)`, a Cadet Officer of Class II who acts in a Staff or other office outside the Cadet Service receives half his substantive salary and half the initial salary of the office in which he is acting. We consider it unnecessary to make these special provisions and that the Cadet Officer should come under the general rule mentioned in the last preceding paragraph. The proviso which limits the pay drawn to the minimum emoluments of the senior office is, in our opinion, an adequate safeguard against overpayment.\n\nA Cadet Officer of Class II is, also, under General Order Nos. `92(2)` and `95(11)`, granted an additional salary of £50 a year while he performs the duties of certain posts of considerable responsibility. We agree that that provision should remain and would place the salary bar, on reaching which the additional salary ceases to be payable, at £1,100 per annum, which corresponds fairly with the present bar, which is at £900 per annum.\n\n## (b) Charge Allowances (or Duty Allowances or Pay)\n\n164. These allowances are paid as follows:\n\n| Department | Post | Allowance |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Harbour Department, Marine Surveyors' Office | 2 Senior Assistant Surveyors | Duty Pay £50 each |\n| Prisons Department | 1 Chief Warder | Charge Allowance $600 |\n| Public Works Department | Architectural, Engineer in Charge | Charge Allowance $2,400 each |\n| | Drainage, Engineer in Charge | |\n| | Electrical, Engineer in Charge | |\n| | General Works, Engineer in Charge | |\n| | Port Development, Engineer in Charge | |\n| | Roads, Piers, Bridges, etc., Engineer in Charge | |\n| | Valuations & Resumptions, Engineer in Charge | |\n| | Crown Lands Superintendent | Charge Allowance $1,200 each |\n| | Surveys Superintendent | |\n| Kowloon-Canton Railway | Traffic Manager | Charge Allowance $1,000 |\n| | Chief Mechanical Engineer | Charge Allowance $1,500 |\n\nWe have been unable to discover any reason for the grant of these allowances. They are confined to the four departments above mentioned and are payable to officers in charge of sub-departments: and on that ground should be equally payable to a master in charge of a school, a doctor in charge of a hospital, or a custodian of a bathing beach.\n\nPage 328", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520800, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-5 Nurses Registration Ordinance- 1929- Bill 19-9-1929 - 25-2-1930", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-519-5 Nurses Registration Ordinance- 1929- Bill 19-9-1929 - 25-2-1930", "content_text": "# PART 2\n\n## Nursing Topics\n\n### General Nursing Procedures\n\n* Bed Sores. \n* Filling of water beds, water and air pillows, hot water bottles. \n* Charting. Temperature, pulse, respiration. \n* Common abbreviations in prescriptions. \n* Measuring of lotions and simple drugs. \n* Inhalations. Steam kettle. Inhaler. Oxygen apparatus. \n* Fomentations: surgical and medical. \n* Ice bag. \n* Enemas, cleansing and stimulative. \n* Excreta. Keeping of specimens. Care and sterilizing of catheters. \n* Bandaging. Splints and extensions. \n* Requirements for simple ward dressings. \n* Cleaning and sterilizing of instruments. \n* Preparing and serving meals. \n* Feeding helpless patients and children.\n\n### Specialized Nursing Procedures\n\n* Preparation for rectal and cystoscopic examinations. \n* Artificial feeding. \n* Test meals. \n* Lavage, and irrigation of rectum, stomach, throat, nose, ears and eyes. \n* Weights and measures. \n* Lotions in ward use. \n* Administration of drugs; hypodermic injections. \n* Preparation for intravenous and subcutaneous infusions. \n* Common instruments, names and uses. \n* Common technical terms and abbreviations. \n* Local applications; cold and hot. \n* Counter irritation by poultices, mustard leaves, blisters, cupping, leeches. \n* Aspiration, Southey's tubes, tapping, lumbar puncture. \n* Micturition. Catheterisation. Bladder lavage. \n* Baths. Sponging. Packs. Hot-air Baths. \n* First aid in emergencies. Haemorrhage. Fits. Faints. Asphyxia. \n* Shock. Burns. \n* Last offices.\n\n## IV.-Materia Medica\n\n* Laxatives, anthelmintics, expectorants, emetics, gastric tonics, sedatives, cardiac drugs, antipyretics, diurics, diaphoretics, hypnotics, narcitics, anaesthetics, nerve stimulants. \n* Weights and measures. \n* Poisons. \n* Hypodermic injections. \n* Value of the cubic-centimetre, the litre, the gramme.\n\n## DIET OF PATIENTS\n\n* Chemical constituents of foods and value of special articles of food, such as milk, butter, cheese, eggs, fish, meat, vegetables, and fruits, farinaceous foods, alcohol, beverages, condiments. \n* Proprietary preparations, their value and dangers. \n* The feeding of infants and children. \n* Diets in special cases of diseases; in renal disease; in affections of the stomach and heart; in diabetes. \n* Methods of cooking; sick-room cooking; beef-tea, soup, jelly, junket, whey, albumen water, barley water, egg dishes.\n\n## V.-Medical Nursing\n\n### DISEASES OF THE BLOOD AND ORGANS OF CIRCULATION\n\n* General symptoms of heart disease; features of heart failure. \n* The pulse: its rate, character, rhythm; oedema, anasarca, effusions; cyanosis; fever. \n* Treatment and nursing care.\n\nPage 50\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-5 Nurses Registration Ordinance- 1929- Bill 19-9-1929 - 25-2-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521175, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930", "content_text": "244\n\nTHE CHINA CRITIC\n\nMarch 13, 1930\n\nMarch 13, 1930\n\nTHE CHINA CRITIC\n\n79\n\n245\n\nliquidation as an act of good faith. The report further states that the suggestion has been put forward that the Ministry should try to obtain financial assistance by means of foreign loans, but it has been its policy to avoid even negotiations in that direction until there is assurance that the terms and conditions which could be offered to prospective foreign purchasers of bonds would be such as could be accepted and yet which would not imperil China's financial integrity. This sound policy of the Ministry is no doubt responsible for its ability to float the large amount of internal loans during the past few years. The report states during the past fiscal year $80,000,000 was borrowed for current expenditures from a country already exhausted by civil war, banditry and economic maladjustment. This, together with the successful operation of the government Central Bank, indicates the confidence of the people in the National Government.\n\nLastly, it may be mentioned that the emphasis the Minister places on an efficient civil service is highly welcome. Civil service in practically every Government institution, he declares, has suffered as a result of the military activities and all had to be content with whatever personnel was immediately available. The important task of installing an efficient civil service system has been the object of the National Government which recently organized the Examination Yuan. This Yuan will deal with the work of determining the standards of staff qualifications and treatment in the various Government institutions. It must be stated that the Ministry of Finance has always been doing its utmost to help the organization of an efficient civil service. Unlike Government employees in the Peking days who had their salaries months and even years in arrears, those in Nanjing, we understand, have been promptly paid their full wages. It is well known that an efficient civil service will be the only lasting remedy for centuries of corruption among Government officials, but as the Ministry realizes, an efficient civil service requires a well-paid as well as well-selected personnel.\n\nAmerican Courts, British Prisons and Extraterritoriality\n\nWere it not for the existence of extraterritoriality, we have reason to believe, few foreigners would find pleasure in condemning Chinese affairs. Political scandals in China would probably be little known or at least advertised abroad as political scandals are scarcely known to the Chinese public. But the approximately ninety years of the extraterritorial regime and the recent Chinese demand to have it abolished have developed among the treaty-port foreigners the pastime of knocking China. The political-minded among them have regarded themselves as judges as to what shall be done and shall not be done in this country, apparently giving little thought to the old saying that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Cancel extraterritoriality and they will probably devote their time to the more profitable work of adapting themselves to conditions in a country where they have chosen to reside and carry out their business, instead of wasting their ink and energy in finding fault with Chinese politics.\n\nOne of our readers in London recently sent us some newspaper clippings which are worth the attention of those Shanghailanders whose conviction is of the die-hard tinge and who for many years have refused to budge an inch on the extraterritoriality question. If politics be their life interest, it seems logical that they should return home and interest their fellow countrymen in some reforms rather than stay here demanding reforms from the Chinese. In the London Evening News of February 3, 1930, there appeared an interview with Mr. Daniel Hopkin, Socialist M.P. for Carmarthen, upon his return to England after a short stay in the United States. Mr. Hopkin was reported to have said the following:\n\n\"A very funny thing happened to me in the Capitol at Washington. I was being entertained. While I was talking to my host, a man approached and said he learned that my friend was going to give a dinner for a Britisher.\n\n'If you want any stuff, I have got plenty,' he remarked.\n\n'He was a bootlegger touting for orders and in the Capitol at that.'\n\nBut, of course, bootlegging is illegal but not exactly illegitimate from the popular viewpoint! So, it is not a question of ability to enforce the law. Perhaps it is unreadiness. Yet, during the stay of Mr. Hopkin, according to the Evening News, an extra 3,000,000 pounds was voted to cope with the liquor business.\n\n'I could hardly believe my eyes when I first started to read the daily papers there,' Mr. Hopkin was further reported to have remarked. 'A campaign was being carried on in which it was being stated that magistrates were taking money on far too wholesale a scale for letting off prisoners. They gave the names of the magistrates and everything else that would be absolutely impossible in this country.\n\n'Apparently the suggestion was that a man was accused of a crime for which the punishment would be two years imprisonment. The magistrate would suggest bail for 40 pounds. He would then divide with the counsel for the accused a respectable bribe.\n\n'The man would not come up for trial when the case was heard and would merely forfeit his 40 pounds.'\n\nWe have these scandals and worse in China, possibly. And in China, extraterritoriality must be maintained at all costs, with foreigners all the time lecturing the Chinese as to what constitutes a decent judiciary and the foreign governments insisting that recommendations of the Extraterritoriality Commission of 1926 must be carried out to their satisfaction before the Chinese courts will approach the western or Anglo-Saxon 'standard!'\n\nIt is a great coincidence that the same paper on the same day carried a story of the suicide of Spiers who was sentenced by a British court to ten years of penal servitude with an addition of 15 strokes of the cat-o'-nine-tails. While being taken to the 'triangle' where the latter punishment was to be administered, he broke away and flung himself over the banisters of a staircase to the stone floor below to death. The special correspondent of the London Evening News describes the 'cat' as follows:\n\n'The 'cat' is one of the most dreaded forms of punishment in the whole penal code.\n\n'Hardened criminals regard it as second only to the gallows.\n\n'It calls for no surprise to students of penology to recall that the penalty for treason in England, hanging, drawing and quartering, remained in force until as late as 1870. 'In the first decades of the same century, women were branded and whipped, and until 1837, a perjurer was liable to be nailed by the ears to a pillory. There were 223 offences punishable by death, including the 'crime' of damaging Westminster Bridge, or appearing on it in disguise.'\n\nWhen one is mindful of such barbarities, the 'cat' would appear too humane for any hardened criminal.\n\nIt calls for no surprise either when the matter is viewed psychologically. Enlightened penologists may exert their utmost to reduce corporal punishment to the minimum, but human nature, the British notwithstanding, is so constituted that a certain amount of sadistic impulse, no matter how residual, will always remain and will make itself felt whenever there is a chance. The 'cat' and 'the third degree' in America are but expressions of this impulse, which and the like of which no amount of enlightenment, we are afraid, will ever succeed in wholly abolishing. It has even been suggested that unless a man is armed with a sufficiently strong sadistic tendency in his mental make-up, he is not fit to be a gaoler or a warden!\n\n'A prisoner receiving the cat-o'-nine-tails is strapped with outstretched arms to the triangle and the punishment is administered in the presence of the prison doctor, who first of all certifies that the man is fit to receive it.\n\n'After feeling the prisoner's pulse, the doctor says 'one'—and the first stroke is given.\n\n'It is stopped if he shows signs of collapse, and if the man continues fit to receive it.\n\n'But the surprise is that those who created the system of extraterritoriality in China years ago on the ground that Chinese courts and prisons used torture are the very people among whom we find this interesting cat-o'-nine-tails. The greater surprise still is that extraterritoriality in China must be maintained in spite of Chinese reforms!'\n\nMy Experience in Reading A Chinese Daily\n\nBy Lin Yutang\n\nMr. Durham S.F. Chen's article on 'What Ails the Press of Shanghai?' in the last number of The Critic was both interesting and provocative. His account of the Shanghai press was hardly believable. I knew that, with the exception of the China Times, the respectable dailies of Shanghai have never been properly edited, but I thought Mr. Chen might have exaggerated. Having faith in human nature and human institutions in general, I spent eight coppers on one of the well-known local 'big papers'—and who does not know their names?—and prepared to set out on a voyage of exploration for myself. I wished to see that the things aren't quite so bad, and that the so-called Chinese genius for business enterprise, backed by one or two millions of capital, coupled with the renowned Chinese capacity for 'composing literature,' and supported by a reading public of about a hundred and fifty thousand readers, couldn't produce just such a silly thing Mr. Chen described it to be. I discovered, however, that things are never so bad that they might not be worse. My faith in human institutions was visibly shaken, and I had a vague sense of horror as to what would be 'the journey's end.'\n\nNot that I was dissatisfied with the size or the weight of the purchase. On the other hand, I was extremely satisfied. Anybody who does not feel satisfied with getting over twenty pages of reading matter (but we will come to that by and by) for eight or ten coppers must be a miser and an old grouch indeed. Supposing the literary burden in my hand to weigh four ounces, and supposing I should sell the old papers at six coppers a catty, I might still recover approximately one-fifth of my capital back, and think of all the educational, inspirational, and informational matter I might glean from its pages before parting hands with it to the second-hand dealer! I told myself that the things of truth and beauty which I might find therein would definitely become a part of my personality and increase my spiritual riches.\n\nI had, comparatively speaking, very little difficulty in locating its 'front page,' for if it is not on the outside, it must be on the inside. What surprised me was that the front page actually consisted of less than one-third of a page, tucked away in what we would call the 'lowest' bottom corner of the fourth page of the first...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524392, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-1 Reports of Salaries Commission 31-12-1929 - 27-10-1930", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-524-1 Reports of Salaries Commission 31-12-1929 - 27-10-1930", "content_text": "33\n\n(b) In any other case, the emoluments which he would receive if his case fell under (2) above.\n\nWe consider these provisions form a right and proper basis on which acting pay should be allowed, but that if possible, officers should not be appointed to perform the duties of two distinct offices at the same time. We recommend, however, that absence on long leave should mean absence on leave for a period exceeding two months or for any period prior to retirement.\n\n163. But there are several local matters which require consideration and have been provided for in the present General Orders. We now proceed to deal with them.\n\nUnder General Order Nos. 92(2) and 25(11) a Cadet Officer of Class II who acts as Treasurer, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, First Magistrate, Director of Education or Crown Solicitor receives additional salary of £50 or £100 a year according as his substantive salary exceeds or does not exceed £900 per annum; while under General Order No. 92(3) a Cadet Officer of Class II who acts in a Staff or other office outside the Cadet Service receives half his substantive salary and half the initial salary of the office in which he is acting. We consider it unnecessary to make these special provisions and that the Cadet Officer should come under the general rule mentioned in the last preceding paragraph. The proviso which limits the pay drawn to the minimum emoluments of the senior office is, in our opinion, an adequate safeguard against overpayment.\n\nA Cadet Officer of Class II is, also, under General Order Nos. 92(2) and 95(11), granted additional salary of £50 a year while he performs the duties of certain posts of considerable responsibility. We agree that that provision should remain and would place the salary bar, on reaching which the additional salary ceases to be payable, at £1,100 per annum which corresponds fairly with the present bar which is at £900 per annum.\n\n(b) Charge Allowances (or Duty Allowances or Pay).\n\n164. These allowances are paid as follows:-\n\nHarbour Department, Marine Surveyors' Office :-\n\n2 Senior Assistant Surveyors: Duty Pay £50 each.\n\nPrisons Department :-\n\n1 Chief Warder: Charge Allowance $600.\n\nPublic Works Department:-\n\nArchitectural, Engineer in Charge\n\nDrainage, Engineer in Charge\n\nElectrical, Engineer in Charge\n\nGeneral Works, Engineer in Charge\n\nPort Development, Engineer in Charge\n\nRoads, Piers, Bridges, etc., Engineer in Charge\n\nValuations & Resumptions, Engineer in Charge Crown Lands-Superintendent\n\nSurveys Superintendent\n\nKowloon-Canton Railway :-\n\nTraffic Manager, Charge Allowance $1,000.\n\nCharge Allowances of $2,400 each.\n\nCharge Allowances of $1,200 each.\n\nChief Mechanical Engineer, Charge Allowance $1,500.\n\nWe have been unable to discover any reason for the grant of these allowances. They are confined to the four departments above mentioned and are payable to officers in charge of sub-departments; and on that ground should be equally payable to a master in charge of a school, a doctor in charge of a hospital, or a custodian of a bathing beach.\n\n176", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-1 Reports of Salaries Commission 31-12-1929 - 27-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 525167, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "content_text": "204\n\nHONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\narticle, or any other Grant-in-Aid or non-Government school, but it is very clear that unless the system of grants to these Schools (which are staffed by British Masters and Mistresses) is changed, some of them will soon have to close their doors.\n\nFire Brigade. Whilst all reductions in expenditure are welcome, I trust the Chief Officer is quite satisfied there will be no loss of efficiency in consequence of the reduction in the number of drivers and firemen.\n\nPrisons Department.-It is to be hoped that work on the new printing shop approved by the Finance Committee early this year is being proceeded with, and that the new linotype machine will soon be installed and in working order, as printing is considered as likely to be a revenue-earning industry in Victoria Gaol.\n\nIn conclusion, I repeat the pledge made by the Senior Unofficial Member, that Your Excellency will have our support in your present policy of thrift, and, wherever possible, retrenchment.-(Applause).\n\nIncreased Light Dues.\n\nTHE HON. MR. C. G. S. MACKIE.-Sir, I wish to associate myself with the remarks made by my Hon. friends, the Senior Unofficial Member, Sir Shou-son Chow and Mr. Owen Hughes, who have presented a very fair criticism of the Budget and the manner in which it is proposed to meet the heavy estimated expenditure. The levies to be imposed are in most cases reasonable, but the suggested taxes on shipping, in the form of increased light dues and hire of buoys are, I consider, wrong in principle. This form of taxation has been the subject of several debates in this Chamber in the past, and if one can judge from records of the meetings the official attitude has been that shipping should only be taxed for specific purposes from which a direct benefit is obtained. In the present instance this can scarcely be put forward as an argument in favour of the suggested levies.\n\nHong Kong owes its very existence to shipping and, its prosperity has been largely built up from the benefits derived from the advantages obtaining to a free port. This great asset should be maintained as far as possible at all costs.\n\nQuite apart from the objections to taxing shipping in order to augment local revenue, it must be admitted by all that this particular trade is passing through a very hard time and it is only by the most rigid economy that many companies are able to carry on.\n\nIf it can possibly be done I would like to see the proposed taxes withdrawn. Failing that, Sir, I hope some assurance can be given that they will be considered in the nature of a temporary levy only and will be removed when the finances of the Colony are on a healthier basis. (Applause).\n\n59\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526101, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-526-6 Schemes for employment of time-expired soldiers 4-2-1930 - 12-12-1930", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-526-6 Schemes for employment of time-expired soldiers 4-2-1930 - 12-12-1930", "content_text": "# No 230.\n\n**RECEIVED** \n2 6 MAY 1930 \n**COL. OFFICE**\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nHONG KONG 25th April, 1930.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n2. I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that the question of the local employment in the Government service of soldiers whose terms of service expire while abroad has recently engaged the attention of this Government. Hitherto a number of vacancies in various departments have been filled from this source, but in order that the matter might be dealt with more systematically Sir Cecil Clementi appointed a small Committee, consisting of the Inspector General of Police, the Superintendent of Prisons and a military representative, to make such recommendations on this subject as they might think proper. I attach a copy of the Report of that Committee.\n\n3. I now propose to implement paragraph 3(g) of the Committee's recommendations by appointing a permanent Committee under the Chairmanship of the Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary, the other members being an officer of the Public Works Department, the Deputy Inspector General of Police, the Superintendent of Prisons, the Head of the Sanitary Department and a military representative to be nominated by His Excellency the General Officer Commanding. It will be observed that the question of engaging men who may be discharged in India is touched upon.\n\n4. ...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \nLORD PASSFIELD, \n&C., \n&C., \n&C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-526-6 Schemes for employment of time-expired soldiers 4-2-1930 - 12-12-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526107, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-526-6 Schemes for employment of time-expired soldiers 4-2-1930 - 12-12-1930", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-526-6 Schemes for employment of time-expired soldiers 4-2-1930 - 12-12-1930", "content_text": "## \n4.\n\n23 \n\nSuperintendent of Imports and Exports or \nHead of the Sanitary Department. \nAssistant Director of Public Works (Hong Kong) \nand one representative from the Military \nAuthorities.\n\nTheir duties would be:-\n\n(1) To ascertain annually from the Hong Kong \nGovernment (by means of the Circular already referred to) the numbers of ex-soldiers for whom employment will be found during the year.\n\n(2) To obtain the names and details, including qualifications, of all candidates available, through the Army representative.\n\n(3) To examine all candidates and pass them on (if suitable) to the Heads of the Departments concerned, with their recommendation, copy of which would also be sent to the Colonial Secretary for the information of the Governor.\n\n(4) To transact any other business connected with the employment by the Hong Kong Government of local ex-service and time-expired men.\n\n(Sd.) E. D. C. Wolfe, \nInspector General of Police.\n\n(Sd.) J. W. Franks, \nSuperintendent of Prisons.\n\n(Sd.) B. C. Lake, Major \n2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, \nMilitary Representative.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-526-6 Schemes for employment of time-expired soldiers 4-2-1930 - 12-12-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527142, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "# 61\n\n12\n\n(unless he has obtained a free pardon), and not being under outlawry, shall be qualified to serve on a jury.\n\n(2) All persons so qualified shall be liable to serve, except the following —\n\n| Category |\n| --- |\n| Persons in His Majesty's Diplomatic, Consular, or other Civil Service, in actual employment; |\n| Officers, clerks, keepers of prisons, messengers, and other persons attached to or in the service of the Court; |\n| Officers and others on full pay in His Majesty's Navy, Army or Air Force, or in actual employment in the service of any Department connected therewith; |\n| Persons holding appointments in the civil, naval, or military service of Egypt; |\n| Clergymen and ministers actually discharging professional duties; |\n| Legal practitioners in actual practice; |\n| Physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries in actual practice; |\n| Persons disabled by mental or bodily infirmity; |\n\n(3) A jury shall consist of five jurors.\n\n(4) In civil and in criminal cases the like challenges shall be allowed as in England, with this addition, that in civil cases each party may challenge three jurors peremptorily.\n\n(5) A jury shall be required to give a unanimous verdict, provided that, with the consent of the parties, the verdict of a majority may be taken in civil cases.\n\n## 34\n(1) An assessor shall be a competent and impartial British subject, of good repute, nominated and summoned by the Court for the purpose of acting as assessor.\n\n(2) In the Supreme Court there may be one assessor or two assessors, as the Court thinks fit.\n\n(3) In a Provincial Court there shall ordinarily be not fewer than two, and not more than four, assessors. Where, however, by reason of local circumstances, the Court is able to obtain the presence of one assessor only, the Court may, if it thinks fit, sit with one assessor only; and where, for like reasons, the Court is not able to obtain the presence of any assessor, the Court may, if it thinks fit, sit without an assessor—the Court, in every case, recording in the Minutes its reason for sitting with one assessor only or without an assessor.\n\n(4) An assessor shall not have any voice in the decision of the Court in any case, civil or criminal; but an assessor dissenting, in a civil case, from any decision of the Court, or, in a criminal case, from any decision of the Court or the conviction or the amount of punishment awarded, may record in the Minutes his dissent, and the grounds thereof, and shall be entitled to receive, without payment, a certified copy of the Minutes.\n\n## 35\nAny person failing to attend as juror or assessor according to a summons shall be deemed guilty of a contempt of Court and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.\n\n# 13\n\n## Part III.—Criminal Matters\n\n## 36\n(1) Except as regards offences made or declared such by this or any other Order in Council relating to Egypt or by any Rules or Regulations made under any such Order—\n\nAny act that would not by a Court of Justice having criminal jurisdiction in England be deemed an offence in England shall not, in the exercise of criminal jurisdiction under this Order, be deemed an offence, or be the subject of any criminal proceedings under this Order.\n\n(2) Subject to the provisions of this Order, criminal jurisdiction under this Order shall, so far as circumstances admit, be exercised on the principles of, and in conformity with, English law for the time being, and with the powers vested in the Courts of Justice and Justices of the Peace in England, according to their respective jurisdiction and authority.\n\n(3) In the application of the `Perjury Act, 1911`, (a) by the Court in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, the words \"judicial proceeding\" in the said Act shall be deemed to include a proceeding before an Egyptian Court or a Court in Egypt of any State in amity with His Majesty.\n\n## 37\nEvery Court may cause to be summoned or arrested, and brought before it, any person subject to, and being within the limits of, its jurisdiction, and accused of having committed an offence cognizable under this Order, and may deal with the accused according to the jurisdiction of the Court and in conformity with the provisions of this Order.\n\n## 38\nFor the purposes of criminal jurisdiction every offence and cause of complaint committed or arising in Egypt shall be deemed to have been committed or to have arisen, either in the place where the same actually was committed or arose, or in any place in Egypt where the person charged or complained of happens to be at the time of the institution or commencement of the proceedings against him.\n\n## 39\nWhere a person accused of an offence escapes or removes from the Consular district within which the offence was committed and is found within another Consular district, the Court within whose district he is found may proceed in the case to trial and punishment, or to preliminary examination (as the case may require), in like manner as if the offence had been committed in its own district; or may, on the requisition or with the consent of the Court within whose district the offence was committed, send him in custody to that Court, or require him to give security for his surrender to that Court, there to be dealt with according to law.\n\n(a) `1-2 G. 5. c. 6.`\n\n# 62", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527147, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "## 63. Subject to Rules of Court made under this Order, the Court may, out of any moneys in its hands arising from fees of Court or other fees, or moneys received under this Order, order payment of allowances in respect of their reasonable expenses to any complainant or witnesses attending before the Court, on the trial of any criminal case with a jury or assessors (including the preliminary examination of the accused antecedent thereto), and also fees and costs to legal practitioners and allowances to jurors, assessors, interpreters, medical practitioners, and other persons in respect of services rendered in criminal cases.\n\nSubject as aforesaid, where on the conclusion of a preliminary examination the accused is discharged, the Court may, for special reasons to be recorded in the Minutes, order payment of the like allowances as are above mentioned to any complainant or witnesses attending before the Court at the preliminary examination.\n\n## 64. \n(1) The Supreme Court may, by general order approved by the Secretary of State, prescribe the manner in which and the prisons in Egypt at which punishments passed by any Court or otherwise awarded under this Order are to be carried into execution.\n(2) The warrant of any Court shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom it is directed to receive and detain the person therein named in any prison so prescribed.\n\n## Imprisonment in His Majesty's dominions\n\n## 65. \n(1) Where an offender is sentenced to imprisonment, and the Supreme Court thinks it expedient that the sentence be carried into effect within His Majesty's dominions, and the offender is accordingly, under section 7 of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, sent for imprisonment to a place in His Majesty's dominions, the place shall be either Malta, Gibraltar, Cyprus or Bombay, or a place in some other part of His Majesty's dominions out of the United Kingdom, the Government whereof consents that offenders may be sent thither under this Article.\n(2) The Supreme Court may, by warrant under the hand of a Judge and the seal of the Court, cause the offender to be sent to such place as aforesaid, in order that the sentence may be there carried into effect accordingly.\n(3) The warrant shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom it is directed to receive and detain the person therein named and to carry him to and deliver him up at the place named, according to the warrant.\n\n## 66. \n(1) The Supreme Court shall, when required by the Secretary of State, or may in any other case, send to him a report of the sentence of the Court with a copy of the Minutes and notes of evidence, and with any observations which the Court thinks fit to make.\n(2) Every Provincial Court shall, in accordance with Rules to be made under this Order, send to the Supreme Court a report of the sentence of the Court in every case tried by the Court with assessors, with such Minutes, notes of evidence, and other documents as such Rules may direct, and with any observations which the Court thinks fit to make.\n\n## 67. \n(1) The Secretary of State may, either on the report of the Supreme Court recommending such action, or upon the recommendation of the High Commissioner, or upon such medical evidence or other grounds as he may think necessary, mitigate or remit any punishment awarded by any Court.\n(2) Nothing in this Order shall affect His Majesty's prerogative of pardon.\n\n## Inquests\n\n## 68. \n(1) The Court shall have and discharge within the district of the Court all the powers and duties appertaining in England to the office of Coroner in relation to the deaths of British subjects.\n(2) The jurisdiction of the Court under this Article shall be exercised subject to the following provisions:\n| Provision | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | Where a British subject is charged with causing the death, the Court may, without holding an inquest, proceed forthwith with the preliminary examination. |\n| (b) | Where a British subject is not charged with causing the death, the Court shall, without any jury, hold an inquest, taking the depositions of those who know the facts. |\n| (c) | If, during or after the inquest, a British subject is so charged, the depositions shall be read over in the presence of the witnesses and of the accused, who shall be entitled to cross-examine each witness, and the procedure shall be as in other cases of preliminary examination. |\n| (d) | If after the inquest, the Court does not see fit to cause any person to be charged, or if, at the conclusion of the preliminary examination, the accused is discharged, the Court shall certify its opinion of the cause of the death. |\n| (e) | When the inquest is held by a Provincial or Local Court, the certificate and the depositions shall be sent forthwith to the Supreme Court, and that Court may give any directions which may seem proper in the circumstances, and may quash the proceedings or findings and make any orders necessary in consequence thereof. |\n(3) The Registrar of the Supreme Court may, subject to any general or special directions of the Supreme Court, exercise the powers of a Provincial Court under this Article.\n\nPage 60\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527164, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "160. The respective powers aforesaid extend to the making of Regulations for the governance, visitation, care, and superintendence of prisons in Egypt, for the removal of prisoners from one prison to another, for the infliction of corporal or other punishment on prisoners committing offences against the rules or discipline of a prison, and for the earning of remission of imprisonment; but the provisions of this Order respecting penalties, and respecting the printing, affixing, exhibiting, and sale of Regulations, and the mode of trial of charges of offences against Regulations, do not apply to Regulations respecting prisons and offences of prisoners.\n\n## VIII. Registration\n\n### (a) British subjects\n\n161. A register of British subjects shall be kept in the office of every Consulate in Egypt.\n\n162. Every British subject resident in Egypt shall, in the month of January of each year, be registered at the Consulate of the Consular district within which he resides, provided that if some other Consulate is more easy of access, he may, with the assent of the Consular Officer, be registered there. A British subject arriving in Egypt must apply for registration within one month after his arrival; provided that a person who fails to apply for or to obtain registration within the time limited by this Article may be registered at any time if he excuses his failure to the satisfaction of the Consular Officer.\n\n163. Where a person is in possession of a valid British passport the Consular Officer shall, on the first registration of any such person, endorse on the passport, without further fee than that provided for in Article 166 of this Order, a certificate of registration in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State. Where any such person applies for the renewal of the registration and produces his passport, the renewal of the registration shall, without further fee than that provided for in Article 166, be endorsed thereon.\n\n164. Every person who has not previously been registered applying to be registered under this Order shall, unless excused by the Consular Officer, attend personally for that purpose at the Consulate, but any person applying for the renewal of his registration need not attend personally unless directed by the Consular Officer so to do, provided that the registration of the wife or wives of a man who is registered under this Order may, if living with him, be effected without their personal attendance being required, and provided also that the registration of minors, being his relatives in whatever degree, living with the head of a family who is registered under this Order, may be effected without their personal attendance being required.\n\n165. A person registered in any register of British subjects established under the provisions of any Order in Council which have ceased to apply in Egypt shall be registered under the provisions of this Order, unless the Consular Officer is satisfied after enquiry that the previous registration was erroneous or that such person is not entitled to registration under the provisions of this Order.\n\n166. Every person shall, on every registration of himself, and on every renewal of the registration, pay a fee of two shillings and six pence, or such other fee as the Secretary of State from time to time appoints. The amount of the fee may be uniform for all persons, or may vary according to the position and circumstances of different classes, if the Secretary of State from time to time so directs, but may not in any case exceed five shillings.\n\n167. Where any person applies to be registered, he shall be entitled, without fee, to the assistance of the Consular Officer in the preparation of any affidavit that may be required.\n\n168. The Consular Officer may require the production of such evidence that an applicant for registration is entitled to the status of a British subject as he may see fit, but subject to such directions as may be issued by the Secretary of State.\n\n169. If any British subject neglects to obtain registration under the provisions of this Order, he shall not be entitled to be recognised or protected as a British subject in Egypt, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two pounds for each instance of such failure, but he shall, although not registered, be subject to the jurisdiction of His Majesty's Courts in Egypt.\n\n170. All registers kept under any Order repealed by this Order shall continue in force until superseded by registers kept under this Order.\n\n### (b) Registration of Companies\n\n171. Every company incorporated under the laws of Great Britain or of any other part of His Majesty's dominions, protectorates or mandated territories, which carries on business in Egypt, shall be registered at the Consulate in the district in which its chief local office is situated or its business is chiefly carried on. A list of all companies so registered shall be kept in the office of every Consulate in Egypt.\n\n172. On the registration of a company under Article 171 there shall be deposited and filed in the office of the Consulate a certified copy of the certificate of incorporation of the company or other document corresponding thereto, a certified copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, Charter, statutes or other instrument constituting or defining the constitution of the company, a statement showing the nominal capital of the company and the amounts thereof which have been subscribed and ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527173, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "# INTERPRETATION ACT, 1889-\ndefinitions of, to apply. 3.\n\nrules of construction enacted by, to have effect, 3.\n\n## INTERPRETERS— \npayment of expenses of, 63. Rules as to, 141(1)(g).\n\n## INTESTACY-\ncustody of property of intestate, 110(2).\n\ninventory of property, 110(2). property of deceased person vests in Judge of Supreme Court until administration granted, 110(1).\n\n## INVENTIONS, &c.\noffences against Statutes, &c., relating to, are punishable under Order, 69.\n\n## INVENTORY-\nof property of intestate, 110(2).\n\n## JEWS-\nEnglish law to apply to, 91.\n\n## JUDGE-\nappointment of, 7(2).\n\nillness or incapacity of, 9(1). magisterial capacity of, 15.\n\nmay give directions to Provincial Courts as to records, &c., 15. qualification of, 7(2).\n\nrevocation of warrant of appointment of, 8.\n\ntenure of office of, 7(3). vacancy in office, 9.\n\n## JUDGE, ACTING— \nappointment of, 9(1).\n\npower and authority of, 9(2).\n\n## JUDGE, ACTING ASSISTANT-\nappointment of, 10.\n\npower and authority of, 10.\n\n## JUDGE, ASSISTANT— \nappointment of, 7(2).\n\nappointment of, temporary, 10. illness or incapacity of, 10. magisterial capacity of, 15.\n\npower and authority of temporary, 10.\n\nrevocation of warrant of appointment of, 8.\n\ntenure of office, 7(3). vacancy in Office, 10.\n\n## JUDGMENTS, \nENFORCEMENT OF, 119.\n\n## JUDICIAL DOCUMENTS-\nProof of, 190.\n\n## JUDICIAL NOTICE-\nto be taken of certain acts, 190.\n\n## JURISDICTION-\nArrest of persons within, 37. case beyond jurisdiction of Provincial Court to be reported to Supreme Court, 26(3). companies, over, 181. concurrent, of Provincial Courts, 23(3).\n\nof Supreme Court, 23(1). courts exercising in Egypt, 28. criminal, where crime committed or criminal found, 38. escape or removal from, 39. exercise of civil, 91 et seq. exercise of criminal, 36 et seq. exercise of, principles for, 5, 29(2). extent and limits of, 2, 4. immunity of High Commissioner, in criminal matters when death or cause of death within, 40(1).\n\nin matters within jurisdiction of Egyptian Mixed Tribunals, 24.\n\nof Local and Provincial Courts, 23(2).\n\nof Supreme Court, 28(1).\n\nin probate, 107.\n\nover offences on high seas, 40(2). punishment by Courts in exercise of criminal, 58.\n\nrecital of Preamble.\n\nservice of process outside, 171(1)(i).\n\nto be exercised according to Order in Council, 5.\n\n(And see Admiralty, Administration, Bankruptcy, Divorce, Foreign Tribunal, Lunacy, Probate.)\n\n## JURISDICTION, LOCAL-\nin cases of escape or removal of a prisoner, 39.\n\nin cases of murder or manslaughter, 40(1).\n\nin cases of offences on the high seas, 40(2).\n\nin criminal matters, 37 et seq.\n\n## JUROR-\nallowance of expenses, 63. 141(1)(g).\n\nchallenge of, 38(4). failure to attend as, fine for, 35. liability to serve as, 33(2). persons exempted from liability to serve as, 33(2). qualification of, 33(1).\n\n## JURY-\nbefore Supreme Court--only, 28.\n\nin cases of treason or murder, 46(1).\n\nin cases of felony or serious crime, 46(2).\n\ncomposition of, 33(3). costs in trial with, 97.\n\ncourt may direct civil case to be heard with, 93.\n\ncriminal trial, time of, with, 47(1).\n\nwhen may be with, 46(3).\n\nwhen must be with, 46(1) and (2). with, notice of time to accused, 47(2).\n\nif Court thinks fit, 46(3), 193(2) and (3).\n\nin cases involving £250, 93(1). payment of expenses of, 63.\n\nRules as to, 141(1)(g). verdict of majority in civil cases by consent, 33(5).\n\nverdict to be unanimous in criminal cases, 38(5).\n\nwhen and how may be demanded in civil matters, 93.\n\nwhen jury may be dispensed with, 46(2).\n\n## KING IN COUNCIL \n(see Privy Council).\n\n## KING'S REGULATIONS-\napproval of by Secretary of State, 158(1).\n\ncopies of to be on sale, 159(2). effect of, 158(1).\n\nevidence of making of, 159(3). forfeiture of goods under, 157(2). penalty for breach of, 157(3). power of High Commissioner to make, 157, 160.\n\nprisons and punishment of prisoners, as to, 160.\n\nto be printed and exhibited, 159(1). urgent, 158.\n\n## LAW-\nBritish and foreign, proof of, 151. Imperial or Colonial, how applied, 80.\n\npublication under, 30.\n\nof England applied to civil proceedings, 91.\n\ncriminal proceedings, 36.\n\n## LAWS-\nconstruction of according to local circumstances, 30.\n\n## LEGAL PRACTITIONER-\ndefinition, 3.\n\nrules as to, Judge may make, 141(1)(E).\n\nstruck off, may appeal to Privy Council, 141(1)(k).\n\n## LEGITIMACY ACT, 1926— \napplication of, 102.\n\n## LETTERS OF REQUEST-\nissue by Supreme Court, 147(2).\n\n## LICENCE-\nsale without, of goods subject to monopoly, is offence against Order, 70(1)(c).\n\n## LIMITS OF ORDER-\nBritish subjects within, 4(i). definition of, 2. property of British subjects within and without, 4(iii).\n\n## LOCAL COURTS— \nappointment of Registrar of, 20(5). civil jurisdiction of, limited to actions not exceeding £20, 95(1). orders made by High Commissioner concerning, to be published, 21. punishment which may be adjudged by, 58(8).\n\nregistrar of to act as Public Prosecutor, 32.\n\nstyle of, 20(3).\n\nto be under superintendence of a Provincial Court, 20(4).\n\nto enforce any order for payment of money by execution on goods of party, 95(3).\n\nto execute orders of Supreme Court, 44.\n\nto report civil cases to Provincial Court, 95(2).\n\nuncommissioned consular officers to hold, 20(1).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527177, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "## REGISTRAR (continued)\nSupreme Court, of, 12.\nto act as Public Prosecutor in Provincial or Local Court, 32.\nto exercise powers and jurisdiction of Provincial Court for certain purposes, 25.\n\n## REGISTRATION\nafter residence of one month, 162.\nBritish subjects, of, 161 et seq.\nendorsement of passport, 163.\nerroneous, 165.\nevidence to be produced, 168.\nfee on, 166.\nfree assistance to be furnished in preparation of affidavits, 167.\nminors, of, 164.\npersonal attendance by persons requiring, 164.\npunishment of persons neglecting, 169.\nstatus of persons neglecting, 169.\ntime for, 162.\nwife, of, 164.\n(And see Companies.)\n\n## REGULATIONS, KING'S\napproval of by Secretary of State, 158.\ncopies of, to be on sale, 159(2).\neffect of, 158.\nevidence of making of, 159(3).\nforfeiture of goods under, 157(2).\npenalty for breach of, 157(3).\npower of High Commissioner to make, 157, 160.\nprisons and punishment of prisoners, as to, 160.\nto be printed and exhibited, 159(1).\nurgent, 158.\n\n## REGULATIONS, LOCAL\nbreach of, how punished, 73(1) and (2).\ndisposal of fine under, 73(3).\n\n## REHEARING \n(see Appeal (Civil), Privy Council).\n\n## RELIGION\noffences against, 75.\nprevention by consular officers of offences against, 75(3).\nprocedure on hearing charge of offence against, 75(2).\n\n## RELIGIOUS LAW\nto whom applicable, 91.\n\n## REMAND\nordinarily for not more than seven days, 42(1).\nsave in cases of necessity for not more than fourteen days, 42(2).\n\n## REMISSION\nof sentence, report to Secretary of State recommending, 67(1).\n\n## REMOVAL\nof cases (see Provincial Court).\nof persons accused from jurisdiction, 39.\nof prisoners and others, expenses of, 149.\n\n## RENT\ndistress for, 118.\n\n## REPEAL\nof Orders in Council, 191(1) and Schedule.\nproceedings begun under repealed Orders to be continued under provisions of this Order, 191(3).\nsaving for existing lists of jurors and assessors, 191(4).\nsaving for existing Rules and Regulations, 191(2).\nsaving for past operation of Orders under, 191(1).\nsaving for proceedings for penalties under Orders under, 191(1).\n\n## REPORT, ANNUAL\nby Judge of Supreme Court to Secretary of State, 188(1).\nby Local Court to Supreme Court, 188(2).\nshall be sent through Provincial Court, 188(3).\nby Provincial Court to Supreme Court, 188(2).\n\n## REPORT OF SENTENCE\nto High Commissioner, when required, 81(11).\nto Secretary of State from Supreme Court, when required, 81(11).\nto Supreme Court from Provincial Court, when required, 81(5).\n\n## REQUEST\nletters of, 147(2).\n\n## RESERVED CASE \nIN CIVIL MATTERS, 96(2).\nRESERVED CASE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS (see Appeal (Criminal)).\n\n## RULES OF COURT\nas to fees and costs to be sanctioned by Treasury, 141(8).\nauthority of Judge of Supreme Court to make, 141.\ndeclared to be urgent, 141(3).\ndefinition of, 3.\ngeneral power of Judge of Supreme Court to make, 141.\nrequire approval of Secretary of State, 141.\nsaving for existing, 191(2).\nto be approved by Secretary of State, 141(3).\nurgent Rules may be issued with approval of High Commissioner, 141(3).\n\n## SANITARY REGULATIONS\noffences against, 73.\n\n## SEAL\nof Local Court, 20(6).\nof Provincial Court, 18(5).\nof Supreme Court, 11.\n\n## SECRETARY OF STATE\nannual report of Judge to, 188(1).\ndefinition of, 8.\nmay appoint acting Judge, 9(1).\nmay give directions as to administration of Imperial and Colonial laws, 30.\nmay give permission to deported person to return to Egypt, 81(12).\nmay temporarily attach Consular officers to Supreme Court, 12(2).\npower to direct that British protection be not accorded to a company, 181.\nSupreme Court may report to, advising remission or mitigation of sentence, 67(1).\nSupreme Court to report order of deportation to, 81(11).\nto allow King's Regulations, 158.\nto approve appointment of Acting Assistant Judge, 10.\nto approve general order of Supreme Court as to prisons, 64(1).\nto approve Rules of Court, 141.\nto approve seal of Supreme Court, 11.\nto approve transfer of ordinary sittings of Supreme Court, 13.\nto direct application of fees, &c., levied under the Order in Council, 187.\nto direct mode of paying expenses of deportation, 81(10).\nto give directions as to disposal of forfeited goods of persons convicted for revenue offences, 70(3).\n\n## SECURITY\nby foreign plaintiff or defendant submitting to jurisdiction of Court, 158(1).\nCourt may order to be given for costs or damages, 62(4).\nfor payment of debts of estate of deceased person, 108(2).\nfor surrender of accused person to Court where offence committed, 39.\norder to give, not to be deemed a punishment in case of summary trial, 48(2).\n\n## SECURITY TO KEEP THE PEACE\nCourt may require on conviction, 81(2).\non conviction of exciting disaffection, 81(1).\non conviction of publishing, &c., seditious matter, 74(1).\nCourt may require when breach of peace is apprehended, 81(1).\ndeportation on failure to give, 81(8).\n\n## SEDITIOUS MATTER\npublication of, 74.\nwhat it includes, 74(3).\n\n## SEIZURE AND FORFEITURE OF GOODS BY COURT, 70(3).\n\n## SENTENCE\nmitigation or remission of, 67(1).\neffect where to be carried into within His Majesty's dominions, 65.\n\n## SERVICE\nof process outside jurisdiction, 171(1)(i).\n\n## SHIP\ncommander or master to carry persons under order of Court, 148, 149(2).\ndetention of, 43.\ndefinition of, 8.\n\nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527178, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 91, "title": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "## STATUTES REFERRED TO (continued)\n\n| Statute | Section |\n| --- | --- |\n| Merchandise Marks Act, 1887 | 69 |\n| Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 | 3(c) bis, 40 |\n| Patents and Designs Acts, 1907 and 1928 | 69 |\n| Perjury Act, 1911 | 36 |\n| Public Authorities' Protection Act, 1893 | 152 |\n| Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 | 185 |\n| Trade-Marks Acts, 1905 to 1919 | 69 |\n| Vagrancy Acts | 81 |\n| Wills Act, 1837 | 3(c) |\n\n## STATUTORY AND OTHER OFFENCES, PROVISIONS IN ORDER IN COUNCIL\n69 et seq.\n\n## SUBPOENA (see Witnesses)\n\n## SUMMARY TRIAL\n- limit of punishment, on, 48(1)\n- when may be had, 48(1)\n\n## SUMMONS\n- of persons charged with offences, 37\n- of witnesses, 146(1)\n- powers of Court, 43\n- service of writ of, Judge of Supreme Court may make Rules for service outside Egypt, 141(1)(i)\n\n## SUPREME COURT\n- admission to bail by, in trials for treason or murder, 45(1)\n- admission to bail when refused by Provincial Court, 45(8)\n- appeals to and from, 82 et seq, 120 et seq\n- appointment of \n - Acting Assistant Judge, 10\n - Acting Judge, 9\n - Judge and Assistant Judge, 7(2)\n - officers of, 12\n- assessors in, 84(2), 94(1)\n- concurrent jurisdiction in areas of Provincial Courts, 23(1)\n- constitution of, 7\n- constitution of Full Court, 16\n- contempt of, 76(1)\n- Court of Record, to be, 22\n- deposit of Powers of Attorney, 145, 185\n- establishment and style of, 7(1)\n- garnishee proceedings in aid of judgment of foreign Tribunal, 156\n- jurisdiction \n - in lunacy of, 104(1)\n - in probate and administration of, 106 et seq\n - of, 22 et seq\n - of Registrar, 25\n - over persons in service of High Commissioner, 29\n - matrimonial jurisdiction of, 100 et seq\n- may examine records of Provincial Courts, 15\n- Commission may order to take evidence out of Egypt, 147\n- may prescribe prisons in Egypt, 64\n- may require surety for payment of debts of estate of deceased person, 108(2)\n- may sit with assessors, 94\n- may visit any place in Egypt, 15\n- officers of, 12\n- place of sittings of, 13\n- power of Judge to make Rules, 141\n- power to transfer to itself case pending in \n - Local Court, 26(4)\n - Provincial Court, 26(4)\n- property of deceased person vests in Judge until grant of administration, 110(1)\n- Provincial Courts, has all powers of, 23\n- Provincial and Local Courts to execute orders of, 45\n- punishment that may be adjudged by, 58(1)\n- qualification of Judges, 7(2)\n- report of, recommending remission or mitigation of sentence, 67\n- report of cases to, and procedure thereon, 26\n- seal of, 11\n- sittings of, 13\n- substituted for Superior Court of British Colony, or Magistrate in His Majesty's dominions, in certain enactments, 90\n- to be auxiliary to Provincial and Local Courts, 27\n- trial before, with jury in civil cases, when, 93\n- trial with jury or assessors before, 28(a)\n- trial with jury or assessors in criminal matters before, 46\n- warrant of, to send prisoner under sentence to place in His Majesty's dominions, 65\n\n## SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE (CONSOLIDATION) ACT, 1925\n- application of, 185\n\n## SURETY (see Bail, Security)\n\n## TIME\n- for appeal to Privy Council, 17(1), 124\n\n## TRADE-MARKS\n- offences against Statutes, &c., are grave offences against Order, 69\n\n## TRANSFER MADE TO AVOID SEIZURE\n144\n\n## TRANSFER OF CASES\n- from Provincial or Local Court to Supreme Court, 26(4)\n\n## TREASON\n- person accused not to be admitted to bail except by Supreme Court, 45(1)\n- trial must be before Supreme Court with jury, 46(1)\n\n## TREASURY, THE\n- to sanction Rules relating to fees and costs, 141(8)\n\n## TREATY\n- definition of, 3\n- jurisdiction by, Preamble and 4\n- regulations for \n - giving effect to Treaty respecting importation or exportation of arms, 157(c)\n - securing observance of, 157(b)\n- violation of stipulations of, 72, 157\n\n## TRIAL\n- Civil \n - before Local Court, of action involving £20 or under, 95", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527276, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 189, "title": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "# ARTICLE 3.\n\n1. The legal counsellors shall be selected from among those who possess the training, qualifications and practical experience necessary for appointment to judicial offices.\n\n2. The names, and the amount and conditions of payment of salaries, of the legal counsellors will be communicated by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Government to His Majesty's Diplomatic Representative in China, and their terms of service will be governed by contracts in accordance with the attached declaration by the Chinese Government. They shall remain in office for a specified term, unless dismissed for cause duly shown, and shall otherwise receive the consideration and respect due to the dignity of their office.\n\n3. A legal counsellor need not permanently reside at the place in which the special chamber of the court to which he is assigned is established and there shall be a flexible and practicable system of administration of assignments in order to ensure efficiency in the employment of the said legal counsellors.\n\n4. The legal counsellors shall serve under the Minister of Justice, and shall be deputed by the Ministry of Justice for serving during the hearing of cases involving subjects of His Majesty as defendants or accused in the special chambers provided in the preceding article. It shall be the duty of the legal counsellors in these cases to observe the workings of the special chambers. They shall have access to the files of the proceedings, and may present their views in writing to the judges, who shall give due consideration to the views thus expressed by the legal counsellors. Adequate arrangements will be made for interpretation in order to enable the legal counsellors to follow and observe the proceedings in court. The legal counsellors shall forward to the Minister of Justice such reports as they may consider necessary, and copies of these reports in cases involving subjects of His Majesty as defendants or accused will immediately be furnished by them to His Majesty's Diplomatic Representative in China upon request.\n\n5. The legal counsellors shall be authorised to receive directly observations regarding the administration of justice, the execution of judgments, or the manner of the application of the law, and at the request of any of the interested parties shall bring such observations to the notice of the Minister of Justice with a view to ensuring the observance of Chinese law. Copies of such observations in cases involving subjects of His Majesty will likewise immediately be furnished by the legal counsellors to His Majesty's Diplomatic Representative in China upon request.\n\n6. Similarly the legal counsellors shall be authorised to receive any other observations or complaints, including such as may be caused by domiciliary visits, expropriations, requisitions, arrests, &c., which observations shall be similarly dealt with. Immediately following any domiciliary visits, search, or arrests, directly affecting subjects of His Majesty in any judicial district, the local authorities shall notify the legal counsellor who shall be most accessible in point of time.\n\n7. In all cases in which subjects of His Majesty are involved as defendants or accused a foreign legal counsellor shall be present at the hearings of the cases in both the high and district courts and judgment shall be reserved until he has made within three days after the conclusion of the trial such observations in chambers as he may desire to the judges, and, in the event of the judges failing to give them due consideration, the execution of the judgment will be suspended until the observations of the legal counsellor have been considered by the Ministry of Justice, which will take such action as it deems appropriate in the interests of justice.\n\n8. The Chinese courts referred to in article 1 shall not begin to exercise jurisdiction over subjects of His Majesty until the special chambers referred to in article 2 have been organised and until the legal counsellors above mentioned have been appointed and installed in office as provided in this article.\n\n## ARTICLE 4.\n\n1. A subject of His Majesty appearing before a Chinese court as party to a civil or criminal suit may employ duly qualified Chinese or British or other foreign lawyers and interpreters, provided in the case of the lawyers that they are registered as such with the Chinese Government, and such lawyers, if of foreign nationality, shall have the same rights and privileges as Chinese lawyers appearing before the court, and shall be subject to the laws and regulations governing Chinese lawyers.\n\n2. Hearings shall be in the Chinese language, but the court shall take measures to ensure an understanding of the proceedings by all parties to the case and have the assistance of competent interpreters if necessary.\n\n3. Subjects of His Majesty, parties to a suit, or persons authorised by them shall, upon payment of the usual official fees for such copy, have the right to obtain certified copies of the evidence and judgment in such suit, and arrangements will, if necessary and where possible, be made for supplying on application and on payment of appropriate fees translations of such documents.\n\n4. In all judicial proceedings in which subjects of His Majesty are summoned to appear, whether as parties to the case or witnesses, and in all court processes directly concerning subjects of His Majesty, their names will, in order to avoid mistakes and misunderstandings, be added in English to the Chinese text of the summons, order or other court process.\n\n## ARTICLE 5.\n\n1. Except in cases of flagrante delicto, subjects of His Majesty may not be arrested, detained or imprisoned except upon an order formally issued by a modern court of justice specifically stating the legal grounds on which, and the offence for which, action is authorised. They shall within twenty-four hours after arrest, exclusive of legal holidays, be brought for hearing before the nearest modern court of justice competent to deal with the case. If there is no competent modern court which can be reached in this space of time, any subject of His Majesty thus arrested will be brought before the nearest competent modern court with the least possible delay.\n\n2. Any subject of His Majesty arrested or otherwise detained shall be permitted to communicate immediately with the nearest British consular officer, and he is to be afforded all possible facilities to that end. British consular officers or their representatives shall be permitted to visit at all reasonable times any subject of His Majesty under detention.\n\n3. Subjects of His Majesty under detention or sentence of imprisonment will only be detained or imprisoned in modern detention houses or modern prisons or in other premises suitable for their detention or imprisonment.\n\n4. Subjects of His Majesty serving sentences of imprisonment may be visited by British consular officers or their representatives at all reasonable times.\n\n5. If any subject of His Majesty charged with any offence, the maximum penalty for which does not exceed imprisonment for six months, makes application before sentence is given for the imposition of a fine instead of imprisonment, the Chinese court will grant such application. In any such case the fine imposed will not exceed a maximum of one thousand yuan (dollars). Similarly, if any subject of His Majesty charged with any offence punishable under the Chinese criminal code by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or fine, makes application before sentence is given for the imposition of a fine instead of imprisonment, the Chinese court will grant such application. In any such case the fine imposed will not exceed a maximum of three thousand yuan (dollars).\n\n6. Except in the case of crimes punishable by death or imprisonment for life, immediate release on bail will, on application, be granted to any subject of His Majesty arrested or detained, unless the court has good reason to believe that the accused may flee from justice after release. The amount of bail will be reasonably proportionate to the offence alleged. Such facilities for release on bail will be granted to appellants until the sentence of the final appellate court is given.\n\n7. Subjects of His Majesty shall not be subject to imprisonment for debt. If, however, it is shown that a debtor is taking action which will render execution on his goods in China impossible, or if execution cannot be safeguarded by any other means, he may be ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527872, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-530-6 Nurses Registration Ordinance 1931 6-2-1931 - 4-11-1931", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-530-6 Nurses Registration Ordinance 1931 6-2-1931 - 4-11-1931", "content_text": "# \n244 \n\n## 22nd May. \n[A.D. 1931. \n\n245 \n\n### Test meals. \nLavage, and irrigation of rectum, stomach, throat, nose, ears and eyes. \nWeights and measures. \nLotions in ward use. \nAdministration of drugs; hypodermic injections. Preparation for intravenous and subcutaneous infusions. \nCommon instruments, names and uses. Common technical terms and abbreviations. \nLocal applications; cold and hot. \nCounter irritation by poultices, mustard leaves, blisters, cupping, leeches. \nAspiration, Southey's tubes, tapping, lumbar puncture. \nMicturition. Catheterisation. Bladder lavage. Baths. Sponging. Packs. Hot-air Baths. \nFirst aid in emergencies. Haemorrhage. Faints. Asphyxia. Shock. Burns. \nLast offices. \n\n## IV.-Materia Medica. \nFits. \nLaxatives, anthelmintics, expectorants, emetics, gastric tonics, sedatives, cardiac drugs, antipyretics, diuretics, diaphoretics, hypnotics, narcotics, anaesthetics, nerve stimulants. Weights and measures. Poisons. Hypodermic injections. Value of the cubic-centimetre, the litre, the gramme. \n\n### DIET OF PATIENTS. \nChemical constituents of foods and value of special articles of food, such as milk, butter, cheese, eggs, fish, meat, vegetables, and fruits, farinaceous foods, alcohol, beverages, condiments. Proprietary preparations, their value and dangers. The feeding of infants and children. Diets in special cases of diseases; in renal disease; in affections of the stomach and heart; in diabetes. Methods of cooking; sick-room cooking; beef-tea, soup, jelly, junket, whey, albumen water, barley water, egg dishes. \n\n## V.-Medical Nursing. \n\n### DISEASES OF THE BLOOD AND ORGANS OF CIRCULATION. \nGeneral symptoms of heart disease; features of heart failure. The pulse: its rate, character, rhythm; oedema, anasarca, effusions; cyanosis; fever. Treatment and nursing care. \n\n### DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF RESPIRATION. \nGeneral symptoms of respiratory disease. Breathing: various types. Cough character, expectoration, pain. Pneumonia, bronchitis, pleurisy, tuberculosis. Treatment and nursing care. \n\n### DISEASES OF ORGANS OF DIGESTION. \nGeneral symptoms; appetite, nausea, vomiting, pain, character of vomit, state of bowels, character of stools. Jaundice. Treatment and nursing care. \n\n### DISEASES OF URINARY ORGANS. \nGeneral symptoms. Urine. Uraemia. Calculus. Cystitis. Renal disease. Treatment and nursing care. \n\n### DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. \nGeneral features; loss of power of movement; sensation; bladder; convulsions; coma. Nursing of cases of paralysis, chorea, meningitis, functional nervous disorders. Elementary principles of treatment by massage and electricity. \n\n63", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-6 Nurses Registration Ordinance 1931 6-2-1931 - 4-11-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530655, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932", "page_number": 123, "title": "CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932", "content_text": "## 3.\n\nThe quality of Indian warders varies significantly between Hong Kong and Shanghai, with those in Shanghai appearing to be better material. This disparity is likely due to the differing recruitment methods employed by the two locations. Shanghai recruits its gaol staff directly from India, whereas Hong Kong engages them locally. It is possible that the local recruitment in Hong Kong results in individuals who have been dismissed from other employment seeking positions within the Prisons service. In contrast, the Hong Kong Police recruit their Indian personnel directly from India and obtain a satisfactory type of candidate. It is recommended that the Prisons Department adopt a similar recruitment strategy to improve the quality of its staff. By doing so, it should be possible to largely replace European warders with Indians, particularly as the number of European warders is expected to decrease upon the completion of the new gaol.\n\n## 6.\nAt present, acting pay is granted to Indian prisons officers who act in a higher post, even if only for a single day. It is proposed that a minimum qualifying period of four months be introduced for acting pay, aligning with the practices of other Government departments. While the resulting savings would not be substantial, this change would reduce the administrative burden on the Superintendent and the Treasurer.\n\n## 7.\nThere appear to be insufficient grounds for maintaining two European hospital supervisors. It is suggested that one of these posts be abolished.\n\n## 8.\nThe experiment involving three Chinese Trades Instructors has not yielded satisfactory results. It is recommended that two of these posts be abolished.\n\n## 9.\nUpon the construction of a new gaol, the Treasurer should be required to assess and provide advice on the financial implications of gaol printing. The Commissioners are of the opinion that this aspect has not been adequately considered by Government to date, a view supported by the financial arguments previously presented.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533541, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-539-12 Loans for public works- military finances 26-2-1932 - 7-3-1933", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-539-12 Loans for public works- military finances 26-2-1932 - 7-3-1933", "content_text": "160\n\nHONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n4. Article 30 of the Geneva Convention (No. 2) provides that the Convention shall not come into force until ninety days after the Secretary-General has received the number of ratifications or accessions therein specified.\n\n5. The existing law of the Colony relating to dangerous drugs is contained mainly in the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance No. 9 of 1916, and the Regulations thereunder and in the Dangerous Drugs Ordinances, No. 22 of 1923 and No. 4 of 1928, and the Regulations thereunder.\n\n6. As a result of the Geneva Convention (No. 2) it became necessary in England to pass, on the 24th March this year, the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1932, amending the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920, the Dangerous Drugs and Poisons (Amendment) Act, 1923, the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1925, on which the local legislation is mainly founded.\n\n7. Consequently it becomes necessary to amend the two local Dangerous Drugs Ordinances. This Ordinance therefore consolidates Ordinances No. 22 of 1923 and No. 4 of 1928 with amendments suggested by the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1932, and by the Secretary of State's Circular Despatch of the 22nd July, 1932.\n\nTHE BUDGET.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the second reading of \"A Bill to apply a sum not exceeding Twenty-seven million five hundred and eighty-five thousand one hundred and forty-two Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1933.\"\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded the motion.\n\nTHE HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK.-Sir,-The speech, which I am about to deliver, represents the unanimous views of my Unofficial colleagues and myself on the Government programme for 1933.\n\nThe Estimates contain little contentious matter, and we are satisfied that the finances of the Colony, in spite of the temporary depression, are in a sound condition.\n\nFor the sake of convenience of reference, the points made by the Hon. Colonial Secretary, in his able and comprehensive speech, at the last meeting of this Council, are dealt with, so far as possible, in the same order as he dealt with them.\n\nAt the outset we have to congratulate the Government upon having, at long last, made provision in the Budget for 1933, for a commencement with the new Government Civil Hospital and the new Gaol and the new Central British School.\n\n20", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-12 Loans for public works- military finances 26-2-1932 - 7-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533911, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-539-2 Nguyen ai Quoc- arrangements for deportation 29-1-1932 - 31-1-1933", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-539-2 Nguyen ai Quoc- arrangements for deportation 29-1-1932 - 31-1-1933", "content_text": "SUNG MAN CHO v. SUPERINTENDENT OF PRISONS OF HONG KONG\n\nAND ANOTHER\n\nJO INT OPINION\n\n104\n\nAfter most careful consideration we have advised the Respondents to settle this case upon the terms endorsed on our Briefs and the Order of the Privy Council has been made giving the Appellant leave to withdraw the Appeal by consent.\n\nWe are satisfied that such a result is the most satisfactory one for the Governor of Hong Kong from every point of view. The decision of the Local Court as to the validity of the Deportation Order and the Shipping Order stands unchallenged; a result which is obviously of great importance. There was in our opinion a serious risk of the Deportation Order being held to be invalidly made and the custody of the appellant being held to be illegal, while the action of the officer who questioned the Appellant was obviously open to serious criticism and comment by the Court. The original 'Ship' Order and the renewals of that 'Ship' Order, provided for the Appellant to be landed in French territory, though the only evidence before the Court was that the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-2 Nguyen ai Quoc- arrangements for deportation 29-1-1932 - 31-1-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535546, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n4. Article 30 of the Geneva Convention (No. 2) provides that the Convention shall not come into force until ninety days after the Secretary-General has received the number of ratifications or accessions therein specified.\n\n5. The existing law of the Colony relating to dangerous drugs is contained mainly in the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance No. 9 of 1916, and the Regulations thereunder and in the Dangerous Drugs Ordinances, No. 22 of 1923 and No. 4 of 1928, and the Regulations thereunder.\n\n6. As a result of the Geneva Convention (No. 2) it became necessary in England to pass, on the 24th March this year, the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1932, amending the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920, the Dangerous Drugs and Poisons (Amendment) Act, 1923, the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1925, on which the local legislation is mainly founded.\n\n7. Consequently it becomes necessary to amend the two local Dangerous Drugs Ordinances. This Ordinance therefore consolidates Ordinances No. 22 of 1923 and No. 4 of 1928 with amendments suggested by the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1932, and by the Secretary of State's Circular Despatch of the 22nd July, 1932.\n\nTHE BUDGET.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the second reading of \"A Bill to apply a sum not exceeding Twenty-seven million five hundred and eighty-five thousand one hundred and forty-two Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1933.”\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded the motion.\n\nTHE HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK.-Sir,-The speech, which I am about to deliver, represents the unanimous views of my Unofficial colleagues and myself on the Government programme for 1933.\n\nThe Estimates contain little contentious matter, and we are satisfied that the finances of the Colony, in spite of the temporary depression, are in a sound condition.\n\nFor the sake of convenience of reference, the points made by the Hon. Colonial Secretary, in his able and comprehensive speech, at the last meeting of this Council, are dealt with, so far as possible, in the same order as he dealt with them.\n\nAt the outset we have to congratulate the Government upon having, at long last, made provision in the Budget for 1933, for a commencement with the new Government Civil Hospital and the new Gaol and the new Central British School.\n\nPage 164\n\n \n\nPage 164 \n\nPage 164", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 537042, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-543-16 China- protection for Anglo-Chinese 13-2-1933 - 13-3-1934", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-543-16 China- protection for Anglo-Chinese 13-2-1933 - 13-3-1934", "content_text": "## Regulations take effect.\n\n60 \n\nNotice of the disapproval of any Regulations declared to be urgent shall be sent by the Minister to the Judge not later than the date on which notice of such disapproval is published.\n\n(3) No person shall be convicted of a breach of such Regulations committed before the date on which such regulations were published, as provided by Article 213, at the Consulate of the district in which the alleged breach was committed.\n\n213.-(1) All Regulations approved under this Order, whether imposing penalties or not, shall be printed, and a printed copy thereof shall be affixed, and be at all times kept exhibited conspicuously in the public office of each Consulate in China. Provided that Regulations having only a local application need only be affixed and exhibited in the localities in which they apply.\n\n(2) Printed copies of the Regulations shall be kept on sale at such reasonable price as the Minister from time to time directs.\n\n(3) A printed copy of any Regulations purporting to be made under this Order, and to be certified under the hand of the Minister or under the hand and Consular seal of one of His Majesty's Consular officers in China, shall be conclusive evidence of the due making of such Regulations.\n\n214. The respective powers aforesaid extend to the making of Regulations for the governance, visitation, care, and superintendence of prisons in China, for the removal of prisoners from one prison to another, for the infliction of corporal or other punishment on prisoners committing offences against the rules or discipline of a prison, and for the earning of remission of sentence; but the provisions of this Order respecting penalties, and respecting the printing, affixing, exhibiting, and sale of Regulations, and the mode of trial of offences against Regulations, do not apply to Regulations respecting prisons and offences of prisoners.\n\n## PART X.-CONSULAR REGISTRATION\n\n### Registration of Persons\n\n215.—(1) A register of British subjects shall be kept in the office of every Consulate in China.\n\n(2) Every British subject resident in China shall, in the month of January of each year, be registered at the Consulate of the Consular District within which he resides, provided that if some other Consulate is more easy of access, he may, with the assent of the Consular Officer, be registered there. A British subject arriving in China must apply for registration within one month after his arrival; provided that a person who fails to apply for or to obtain registration within the time limited by this Article may be registered at any time if he excuses his failure to the satisfaction of the Consular Officer.\n\n(3) Where a person is in possession of a valid British passport, the Consular Officer shall, on the first registration of any such person, endorse on the passport without further fee than that provided for in paragraph (6) of this Article a certificate of registration in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State. Where any such person applies for the renewal of the registration and produces his passport, the renewal of the registration shall without further fee than that provided for in paragraph (6) be endorsed thereon.\n\n(4) Every person who has not previously been registered applying to be registered under this Order shall, unless excused by the Consular Officer, attend personally for that purpose at the Consulate, but any person applying for the renewal of his registration need not attend personally unless directed by the Consular Officer so to do; provided that the registration of the wife of a man who is registered under this Order may, if she be living with him, be effected without her personal attendance being required, and provided also that the registration of minors, being his relatives in whatever degree, living with the head of a family who is registered under this Order, may be effected without their personal attendance being required.\n\n(5) A person registered in any register of British subjects established under the provisions of any Order in Council which has been repealed shall be registered under the provisions of this Order, unless the Consular Officer is satisfied after enquiry that the previous registration was erroneous or that such person is not entitled to registration under the provisions of this Order.\n\n(6) Every person shall, on every registration of himself, and on every renewal of the registration, pay a fee of two dollars, or such other fee as the Secretary of State from time to time appoints. The amount of the fee may be uniform for all persons, or may vary according to the position and circumstances of different classes, if the Secretary of State from time to time so directs, but may not in any case exceed four dollars.\n\n(7) Where any person applies to be registered, he shall be entitled without a fee to the assistance of the Consular Officer in the preparation of any affidavit that may be required.\n\n(8) The Consular Officer may require the production of such evidence that an applicant for registration is entitled to the status of a British subject as he may see fit, but subject to such directions as may be issued by the Secretary of State.\n\n(9) If any British subject neglects to obtain registration under the provisions of this Order, he shall not be entitled to be recognised or protected as a British subject in China, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each instance of such failure, but he shall, although not registered, be subject to the jurisdiction of His Majesty's Courts in China.\n\n### Registration of Companies\n\n216. A register of companies incorporated or registered in the United Kingdom or in any British possession and carrying on business in China shall be kept in the office of every Consulate in China.\n\n217. The Consulate at which companies shall be registered shall be that in the district in which their chief local office is \n\n61 \n80", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-543-16 China- protection for Anglo-Chinese 13-2-1933 - 13-3-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543352, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "## Ordinances Nos. 1 of 1884, 16 of 1914, and 9 of 1916. Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.\n\n2 \n\n(b) persons of sound mind who have previously been included in the Jurors Lists but have been omitted or removed therefrom on account of age or infirmity, or on account of exemption from jury service granted by the Governor in Council or by the Court;\n\n(c) barristers and solicitors in actual practice and the clerks of solicitors in actual practice;\n\n(d) persons registered under section 4 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, or under the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914, or under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916:\n\n(e) editors, sub-editors, and reporters of daily newspapers published in the Colony;\n\n(f) clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests, and ministers of any congregation of Protestant Dissenters or of Jews, acting as such in the Colony;\n\n(g) professors and other academic officers of the University of Hong Kong;\n\n(h) masters of schools which are certified by the Director of Education as not being vernacular schools;\n\n(i) masters of steamers and local pilots; and\n\n(j) officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, and such other members of the Corps as shall have been exempted from jury service by the Governor in Council;\n\nProvided that no person who is in the service of the Crown, and whose whole time is at the disposal of the Crown, shall be entitled to be included in the said register.\n\n(5) If any question arises as to the right of any person to be included in the second part of the said register, such question shall be decided by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, subject to an appeal within seven days to the Governor-in-Council, whose decision thereupon shall be final; Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to vary such decision at any time.\n\n(6) Subject to any rules which may have been made under s. 9 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, or which may be made under section 4 of this Ordinance, the second part of the said register shall be closed to any fresh applications for registration for fourteen days before the day appointed for any ballot for the election of a member of the Urban Council, and shall remain closed until after the balloting in that election shall have been completed.\n\n(7) Every person who at any ballot held under this section applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who, having voted once at any such ballot, applies at the same ballot for a ballot paper in his own name, and every person who, for the purpose of procuring his registration in the second part of the register referred to in sub-sections (2) to (6), knowingly makes any false or misleading representation, whether verbal or in writing or by conduct, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding $500 and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.\n\n(8) If any question arises as to the validity of any proceeding in any election or intended election of a member of the Urban Council, the decision of the Governor in Council thereon shall be final and conclusive for all purposes whatsoever, and the Governor in Council may thereupon give any direction which he may think fit.\n\n(9) The other four additional members (two of whom shall be Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor.\n\n## Election of members of the Council.\n\n4. All matters relating to the keeping and revision of the register and to the election of the members shall be governed by rules made by the Governor in Council: Provided that the rules made under section 9 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, shall remain in force so far as they are applicable until they are altered or replaced by rules made by the Governor in Council under this section.\n\n## Members' names to be gazetted.\n\n5. The names of all additional members elected or appointed shall be forthwith notified in the Gazette.\n\n## Substitution of members.\n\n6. If any member of the Council be at any time prevented for more than six months by absence or other cause from acting, the Governor may appoint, or if the member has been elected, the electors may nominate, and if more than one candidate is nominated may elect, some other person to replace such member, until he shall return or be able to resume his functions.\n\n## Duties of the Urban Council.\n\n7. The duties of the Urban Council shall be to exercise control within the area allotted to it over all matters in respect of which powers are given to it by this Ordinance or any other Ordinance.\n\n## Duty of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.\n\n8. It shall be the duty of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services to assist and advise the Urban Council in matters relating to Public Health and to superintend the enforcement and observance of the Ordinances relating to Public Health and of the by-laws and regulations made thereunder.\n\n## Constitution unaffected by vacancies.\n\n9. The Council shall be held to be legally constituted notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by the death, absence, resignation, or incapacity of any member.\n\n## Council meetings.\n\n10.—(1) The Council shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The Chairman may at any time, and shall, on a requisition signed by three members of the Council, summon a meeting thereof.\n\n(2) Any four members shall be a quorum, and at every meeting at which the Chairman or Vice-Chairman is absent, the members present shall appoint a temporary chairman to preside.\n\nThe chairman at any meeting shall have a deliberate and also, if the votes be equal, a casting vote.\n\n## Standing orders.\n\n11.—(1) The Council may make Standing Orders for regulating the procedure at its meetings.\n\n(2) The present Standing Orders of the Sanitary Board shall continue in force so far as they are applicable until replaced under this section.\n\n## Appointment of select committees.\n\n12. (1) The Council may appoint select committees, consisting of not less than two of its members or one of its members and a Health Officer or a Veterinary Officer, and may by appointment or removal change the personnel of any such committee.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543556, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "## Ordinances Nos. 1 of 1884, 16 of 1914, and 9 of 1916.\nOrdinance No. 1 of 1903.\n\n2\n\n**(b)** persons of sound mind who have previously been included in the Jurors Lists but have been omitted or removed therefrom on account of age or infirmity, or on account of exemption from jury service granted by the Governor in Council or by the Court;\n\n**(c)** barristers and solicitors in actual practice and the clerks of solicitors in actual practice;\n\n**(d)** persons registered under section 4 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, or under the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914, or under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916;\n\n**(e)** editors, sub-editors, and reporters of daily newspapers published in the Colony;\n\n**(f)** clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests, and ministers of any congregation of Protestant Dissenters or of Jews, acting as such in the Colony;\n\n**(g)** professors and other academic officers of the University of Hong Kong;\n\n**(h)** masters of schools which are certified by the Director of Education as not being vernacular schools;\n\n**(i)** masters of steamers and local pilots; and\n\n**(j)** officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, and such other members of the Corps as shall have been exempted from jury service by the Governor in Council;\n\nProvided that no person who is in the service of the Crown, and whose whole time is at the disposal of the Crown, shall be entitled to be included in the said register.\n\n**(5)** If any question arises as to the right of any person to be included in the second part of the said register, such question shall be decided by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, subject to an appeal within seven days to the Governor-in-Council, whose decision thereupon shall be final; Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to vary such decision at any time.\n\n**(6)** Subject to any rules which may have been made under s. 9 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, or which may be made under section 4 of this Ordinance, the second part of the said register shall be closed to any fresh applications for registration for fourteen days before the day appointed for any ballot for the election of a member of the Urban Council, and shall remain closed until after the balloting in that election shall have been completed.\n\n**(7)** Every person who at any ballot held under this section applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who, having voted once at any such ballot, applies at the same ballot for a ballot paper in his own name, and every person who, for the purpose of procuring his registration in the second part of the register referred to in sub-sections (2) to (6), knowingly makes any false or misleading representation, whether verbal or in writing or by conduct, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding $500 and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.\n\n**(8)** If any question arises as to the validity of any proceeding in any election or intended election of a member of the Urban Council, the decision of the Governor in Council thereon shall be final and conclusive for all purposes whatsoever, and the Governor in Council may thereupon give any direction which he may think fit.\n\n**(9)** The other four additional members (two of whom shall be Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor.\n\n## Election of Members of Council\n\n4. All matters relating to the keeping and revision of the register and to the election of the members shall be governed by rules made by the Governor in Council: Provided that the rules made under section 9 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, shall remain in force so far as they are applicable until they are altered or replaced by rules made by the Governor in Council under this section.\n\n## Members' Names to be Gazetted\n\n5. The names of all additional members elected or appointed shall be forthwith notified in the `Gazette`.\n\n## Substitution of Members\n\n6. If any member of the Council be at any time prevented for more than six months by absence or other cause from acting, the Governor may appoint, or if the member has been elected, the electors may nominate, and if more than one candidate is nominated may elect, some other person to replace such member, until he shall return or be able to resume his functions.\n\n## Duties of the Urban Council\n\n7. The duties of the Urban Council shall be to exercise control within the area allotted to it over all matters in respect of which powers are given to it by this Ordinance or any other Ordinance.\n\n## Duty of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services\n\n8. It shall be the duty of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services to assist and advise the Urban Council in matters relating to Public Health and to superintend the enforcement and observance of the Ordinances relating to Public Health and of the by-laws and regulations made thereunder.\n\n## Constitution Unaffected by Vacancies\n\n9. The Council shall be held to be legally constituted notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by the death, absence, resignation, or incapacity of any member.\n\n## Council Meetings\n\n10. **(1)** The Council shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The Chairman may at any time, and shall, on a requisition signed by three members of the Council, summon a meeting thereof.\n\n**(2)** Any four members shall be a quorum, and at every meeting at which the Chairman or Vice-Chairman is absent, the members present shall appoint a temporary chairman to preside. The chairman at any meeting shall have a deliberate and also, if the votes be equal, a casting vote.\n\n## Standing Orders\n\n11. **(1)** The Council may make Standing Orders for regulating the procedure at its meetings.\n\n**(2)** The present Standing Orders of the Sanitary Board shall continue in force so far as they are applicable until replaced under this section.\n\n## Appointment of Select Committees\n\n12. **(1)** The Council may appoint select committees, consisting of not less than two of its members or one of its members and a Health Officer or a Veterinary Officer, and may by appointment or removal change the personnel of any such committee.\n\n3\n4\n16", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545480, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "content_text": "## Chapter XIII (continued)\n\n13. The total number of persons committed to prison in the year 1933 was 11,439 as compared with 7,793 in 1932. The daily average number of prisoners in the prisons in 1933 was 1,472. The highest previous average was 1,189 in 1927. Over 90% of prisoners admitted are persons born outside the Colony.\n\n14. The health of the prisoners generally was well maintained in the prisons.\n\n15. The discipline in all three prisons was good.\n\n16. Prisoners are employed at printing, bookbinding, tinsmithing, matmaking, tailoring, carpentering, weaving, gardening, laundry work, cleaning, and minor repairs to buildings. The bulk of the Government printing and bookbinding is done in Victoria Gaol.\n\n17. A small separate ward is reserved in Victoria Gaol for Juveniles who are kept as far as possible apart from other prisoners. The daily average number of Juveniles in 1933 was 4.1. A school-master attends daily to instruct them. In 1929, the daily average was high, and a separate hall was set aside at Lai Chi Kok for Juveniles, but the number is now so small that it has been found more expedient to deal with them in Victoria Gaol.\n\n18. Police Magistrates may, under the provisions of the Magistrates Ordinance No. 41 of 1932, give time for the payment of fines.\n\n19. Lady visitors attend the Female Prison twice weekly to instruct the prisoners in hand-work and to impart elementary education.\n\n20. Visiting Justices inspect and report on the prisons every fortnight.\n\n## Chapter XIV\n### LEGISLATION\n\nThirty Ordinances were passed during the year 1933. These and also the Regulations, Rules, By-laws, and other subsidiary legislative enactments are published in a separate volume by the Government Printers. The thirty Ordinances comprised two appropriation, one replacement, one incorporation, four consolidation, twenty amendment, and two Ordinances which were new to the Colony.\n\n2. The Appropriation Ordinance (No. 19) applied a sum not exceeding $27,029,235 to the public service for the year 1934, and Ordinance No. 11 appropriated a supplementary sum of $517,015.30 to defray the charges of the year 1932.\n\n3. The replacement Ordinance was the Public Works Loan Redemption Ordinance (No. 15), which provided for the redemption of the bonds issued under the authority of the Public Works Loan Ordinance, 1927, repealed.\n\n4. Ordinance No. 18 incorporated the Procurator in Hong Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute.\n\n5. The following Ordinances, viz: Arms and Ammunition (No. 2), Full Court (No. 8), Volunteer (No. 10), and Miscellaneous Licences (No. 25) consolidated and to some extent amended the existing law on these subjects.\n\n6. The Ordinances new to the Colony were the Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund Ordinance (No. 24) and the Naval Volunteer Ordinance (No. 30). Of these, Ordinance No. 24 establishes a fund for services similar to those performed by like funds in the Straits Settlements and India, and in England by the Mercantile Marine Masters and Officers Relief Fund. The local fund is administered by a Committee financed by the revenue of the Colony. Ordinance No. 30 is based on a model prepared in England for enactment by the legislatures of this and other Colonies.\n\n7. The twenty amending Ordinances covered a wide range of subjects, viz: Code of Civil Procedure (Nos. 1 and 13), Printers and Publishers (No. 3), Supreme Court (Nos. 4 and 12), Criminal Procedure (No. 5), Summary Offences (Nos. 6 and 26), New Territories Regulation (No. 7), Divorce (No. 9), Probates (No. 14), Opium (No. 16), Betting Duty (No. 17), Dangerous Goods (No. 20), Industrial and Reformatory Schools (No. 21), Juvenile Offenders (No. 22), Bankruptcy and Magistrates (No. 23), Telephone (No. 27), Merchant Shipping (No. 28), and Companies (No. 29).\n\n8. Three Ordinances (No. 9, Divorce Amendment, on 1st November, 1933, and Nos. 21, Industrial and Reformatory Schools, and 22, Juvenile Offenders, on 20th November, 1933), were brought into operation by Proclamation on the same dates as the principal Ordinances which they amend, and Nos. 27 (Telephone Amendment) and 29 (Companies Amendment) are expressed to commence on 1st January, 1934.\n\n9. Similarly, the subsidiary legislation covered a wide range of subjects, including Public Places Regulation, Vagrancy, Criminal Procedure, Merchant Shipping, Civil Procedure, Gunpowder and Fireworks, Public Health and Buildings, Advertisements, Vehicles and Traffic Regulation, Education, Boarding Houses, Ferries, Places of Public Entertainment Regulation, Post Office, Public Revenue Protection, Liquors, Tobacco, Factories and Workshops, Divorce, Police Pensions, Prisons, Companies, and Naval Volunteer Force.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545502, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934", "content_text": "13. The total number of persons committed to prison in the year 1933 was 11,439 as compared with 7,798 in 1932. The daily average number of prisoners in the prisons in 1933 was 1,472. The highest previous average was 1,189 in 1927. Over 90% of prisoners admitted are persons born outside the Colony.\n\n14. The health of the prisoners generally was well maintained in the prisons.\n\n15. The discipline in all three prisons was good.\n\n16. Prisoners are employed at printing, bookbinding, tinsmithing, matmaking, tailoring, carpentering, weaving, gardening, laundry work, cleaning, and minor repairs to buildings. The bulk of the Government printing and bookbinding is done in Victoria Gaol.\n\n17. A small separate ward is reserved in Victoria Gaol for Juveniles who are kept as far as possible apart from other prisoners. The daily average number of Juveniles in 1933 was 41. A schoolmaster attends daily to instruct them. In 1929, the daily average was high, and a separate hall was set aside at Lai Chi Kok for Juveniles, but the number is now so small that it has been found more expedient to deal with them in Victoria Gaol.\n\n18. Police Magistrates may, under the provisions of the Magistrates Ordinance No. 14 of 1932, give time for the payment of fines.\n\n19. Lady visitors attend the Female Prison twice weekly to instruct the prisoners in hand-work and to impart elementary education.\n\n20. Visiting Justices inspect and report on the prisons every fortnight.\n\n## Chapter XIV. LEGISLATION\n\nThirty Ordinances were passed during the year 1933. These and also the Regulations, Rules, By-laws, and other subsidiary legislative enactments are published in a separate volume by the Government Printers. The thirty Ordinances comprised two appropriation, one replacement, one incorporation, four consolidation, twenty amendment, and two Ordinances which were new to the Colony.\n\n2. The Appropriation Ordinance (No. 19) applied a sum not exceeding $27,029,235 to the public service for the year 1934, and Ordinance No. 11 appropriated a supplementary sum of $517,015.30 to defray the charges of the year 1932.\n\n3. The replacement Ordinance was the Public Works Loan Redemption Ordinance (No. 15), which provided for the redemption of the bonds issued under the authority of the Public Works Loan Ordinance, 1927, repealed.\n\n4. Ordinance No. 18 incorporated the Procurator in Hong Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute.\n\n5. The following Ordinances, viz.: Arms and Ammunition (No. 2), Full Court (No. 8), Volunteer (No. 10), and Miscellaneous Licences (No. 25) consolidated and to some extent amended the existing law on these subjects.\n\n6. The Ordinances new to the Colony were the Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund Ordinance (No. 24) and the Naval Volunteer Ordinance (No. 30). Of these, Ordinance No. 24 establishes a fund for services similar to those performed by like funds in the Straits Settlements and India, and in England by the Mercantile Marine Masters and Officers Relief Fund. The local fund is administered by a Committee financed by the revenue of the Colony. Ordinance No. 30 is based on a model prepared in England for enactment by the legislatures of this and other Colonies.\n\n7. The twenty amending Ordinances covered a wide range of subjects, viz.: Code of Civil Procedure (Nos. 1 and 13), Printers and Publishers (No. 3), Supreme Court (Nos. 4 and 12), Criminal Procedure (No. 5), Summary Offences (Nos. 6 and 26), New Territories Regulation (No. 7), Divorce (No. 9), Probates (No. 14), Opium (No. 16), Betting Duty (No. 17), Dangerous Goods (No. 20), Industrial and Reformatory Schools (No. 21), Juvenile Offenders (No. 22), Bankruptcy and Magistrates (No. 23), Telephone (No. 27), Merchant Shipping (No. 28), and Companies (No. 29).\n\n8. Three Ordinances (No. 9, Divorce Amendment, on 1st November, 1933, and Nos. 21, Industrial and Reformatory Schools, and 22, Juvenile Offenders, on 20th November, 1933) were brought into operation by Proclamation on the same dates as the principal Ordinances which they amend, and Nos. 27 (Telephone Amendment) and 29 (Companies Amendment) are expressed to commence on 1st January, 1934.\n\n9. Similarly, the subsidiary legislation covered a wide range of subjects, including Public Places Regulation, Vagrancy, Criminal Procedure, Merchant Shipping, Civil Procedure, Gunpowder and Fireworks, Public Health and Buildings, Advertisements, Vehicles and Traffic Regulation, Education, Boarding Houses, Ferries, Places of Public Entertainment Regulation, Post Office, Public Revenue Protection, Liquors, Tobacco, Factories and Workshops, Divorce, Police Pensions, Prisons, Companies, and Naval Volunteer Force.\n\nPage 38\nPage 39\nPage 97\nPage 98", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-549-12 Annual report of the Social and Economic Progress of the People of Hong Kong- 1933... 8-6-1934 - 11-6-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551928, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-558-4 Hong Kong Government Service (Levy on Salaries) Ordinance 1936 24-4-1936 - 17-7-1936", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-558-4 Hong Kong Government Service (Levy on Salaries) Ordinance 1936 24-4-1936 - 17-7-1936", "content_text": "# HONGKONG GOVERNMENT SERVICE (LEVY ON SALARIES) ORDINANCE, 1936\n\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to make provision for a levy on the salaries of public officers in the Hong Kong Government Service.\" He said:\n\nThe necessity for the introduction of a measure of this nature and the general principles governing it are set out in the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons, but in a Bill of this importance it is only right that I should supplement that Memorandum with an explanation in greater detail.\n\nClause 2 provides for a double levy on all sterling salaries which exceed £240 per annum. That figure has been selected because it is regarded as the bare level of subsistence in the case of sterling paid officers. Officers below the £240 level are, in the Police Department lance-sergeants whose salary rises from £190 to £240, in the Prisons Department certain junior warders where the salary rises from £190 to £330, and in the Medical Department certain junior nursing sisters where the salary rises from £220 to £295.\n\nThe first part of the double levy on sterling salaries is a graduated percentage cut of 2 per cent. on the first £240, 5 per cent. on the next £360, 7½ per cent. on the next £400, 10 per cent. on the next £400 and 12½ per cent. on the remainder of the salary.\n\nThe second part of the double levy is provided for in clause 2(4) and involves the payment of the salaries, after deduction of the percentage levy and Widows' and Orphans' Pension Contribution (if any), at the arbitrary rate of one shilling and sixpence to the dollar, for the first quarter of this year, and for subsequent quarters at such rates as this Council may direct by resolution. On this point I may say that the Government intend to introduce, with the approval of the Secretary of State, a resolution for a lower exchange rate, that of one shilling and five pence farthing, for the second quarter, with further reductions of rate for the last two quarters.\n\nThe double cut for the first quarter will amount on the higher salaries of £1,400 and over to a levy of 20 per cent. and over.\n\nThese proposals sound very drastic, but they are designed to do justice between sterling paid salaries and dollar paid salaries in view of the fact that when a sharp fall in exchange occurs the cost of living does not rise pari passu. There is a lag which has for the purpose in hand been taken at a year, partly because that is the period under review and partly because there are grounds for viewing the financial situation after 1936 with less anxiety as by that time our most expensive commitments for Public Works Extraordinary will be completed or nearing completion.\n\nClause 3 of the Bill provides for a levy on dollar salaries exceeding $240 per annum at the rate for the first half year of 4 per cent. on the first $1,000, 8 per cent. on the next $1,500, 12 per cent. on the next $2,500, and 15 per cent. on the remainder. For the rest of the year these rates will be reduced to 3 per cent., 6 per cent., 10 per cent., and 12 per cent. respectively.\n\nHere again the figure $240 has been selected as representing the bare level of subsistence. It will exclude messengers and coolies and others not receiving more than $20 per mensem.\n\nIt must be remembered that on the revision of salaries in 1930 resulting from the Report of the Salaries Commission the basic dollar salaries were increased twenty per cent. whereas the basic sterling salaries received an increase of only 15 per cent., the contemplated High Cost of Living Allowance never having been in fact paid. This fact has to be considered in contrasting the differences in the incidence of the levy in the cases of the dollar paid and sterling paid salaries.\n\nThe only other clause of the Bill which calls for special comment is clause 6 which allows the Legislative Council by resolution to exempt either wholly or partially from the operation of clauses 2 and 3 any officer or any class or description of officer. It is intended by the Government to introduce under this clause a resolution exempting from levy the salaries paid to those (other than officers seconded from the general establishment) employed on the construction of the Jubilee Reservoir and Shing Mun Dam.\n\nI now turn to the financial aspect of the proposals.\n\nThe deficit on the estimates for 1936 at one shilling and eight-pence amount to $2,926,303. To this has to be added the sum of $3,000,000 for our sterling commitments if the dollar is reckoned at one shilling and threepence making $5,926,303 in all. The conventional dollar taxes on liquor, tobacco and light dues are estimated (less Military Contribution) to produce $936,000 and the taking in the surplus on the Trade Loan (less military contribution) a further $400,000. Deducting these receipts the deficit is reduced to $4,590,303. The dollar and sterling salary cuts are estimated to reduce the total salary bill by $1,143,475 leaving a deficit on the year's working of $3,446,828. Certain reductions in Public Works expenditure have been effected, which, however, are largely set off by the extra cost (owing to the low dollar) of the new Queen Mary Hospital; but it is anticipated that $164,600 will be saved. Deducting this sum the net deficit is therefore $3,282,228 for the year.\n\nIt is obvious that such a position calls for sacrifice on the part of Government officers and the only question the Government had to consider was the amount of that sacrifice.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n## Objects and Reasons\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:-\n\n1. In order to assist in decreasing the anticipated budget deficit for the year 1936 after the fall in the exchange value of the local dollar it has been considered necessary to impose a temporary levy on Government salaries by way of reduction of expenditure.\n\n2. In accordance with the views expressed in the Secretary of State's Circular despatch of the 16th July, 1932, dealing with such levies in the Colonies generally, the reductions are clearly designated as temporary and accordingly take the form of a levy on salaries imposed by statute renewable from year to year, the value of emoluments for pension purposes is not affected, and the principle of a fairly graduated scale of reduction is adopted in preference to an arrangement providing for all-over cuts of so much per cent. on salaries up to a certain limit, and of a higher percentage on salaries above that limit.\n\n3. Clause 6 gives the legislature power to grant exemptions by resolution.\n\nPage 13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-558-4 Hong Kong Government Service (Levy on Salaries) Ordinance 1936 24-4-1936 - 17-7-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553395, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-561-1 Tung Wah and associated hospitals- financial problems 9-9-1937 - 2-10-1937", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-561-1 Tung Wah and associated hospitals- financial problems 9-9-1937 - 2-10-1937", "content_text": "# File No. 1937\n\n## Subject\n| File No. | Subject |\n| --- | --- |\n| 53556 | Wah Hospitals |\n| 53564 | Jung |\n| 53567 | Vacancies |\n| | Budget Officers |\n| | Hoang Mang Rong |\n| 53579 | H. Rony Volunteer Defence Corps Attachment to |\n| | Local Staff |\n| | Home Units for Training |\n| 53593 | Loans for Public Works |\n| 53600 | |\n| 53611 | Hay Rong University |\n| 53611/1 | P.W.D. Estimates - 1938 |\n| | U.H. Contribution |\n| 53617 | Defence - Military Lands |\n| 53652 | Companies (Amendment) Draft Bill |\n| 53654 | |\n| 53660 | Just of Prisons - 1936 Report |\n| 53666 | Botanical & Forestry Department |\n| 53685 | Naval Volunteer Force |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-1 Tung Wah and associated hospitals- financial problems 9-9-1937 - 2-10-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553723, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "content_text": "# Head 20 - Police Department\n\n## Changes in Establishment\n\n2. A reduction of nine in the number of European Lance Sergeants is offset by an increase of ten Cantonese Sub-Inspectors in accordance with the policy of gradual Asiaticization. One additional Cantonese Lance Sergeant has been provided for Kowloon City and sixteen Cantonese constables for duty as follows:—\n| Location | Number | Reason |\n| :-------------- | :----- | :--------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| Shamshuipo | 6 | a growing district where crime is very prevalent. |\n| Shing Mun | 2 | formerly paid from Loan Funds; it is considered advisable to maintain the Police Station here in view of local conditions. |\n| Kowloon Magistracy | 1 | necessitated by additional Court work. |\n| Gough Hill Station | 1 | detective duty. |\n| Upper Levels Station | 2 | now without a detective staff. |\n| Pokfulami Station | 1 | now manned only by Indians. This district has assumed greater importance with residential development and the completion of the Queen Mary Hospital. |\n| Mong Kok Tsui Station | 1 | |\n| Stanley Station | 1 | also in a rapidly developing district. |\n| Central Magistracy | 1 | in view of the proposed third Court. |\n\n3. In the Indian Contingent, one post of Probationary Sub-Inspector has been abolished. Two additional sergeants have been provided for Shing Mun and for Kowloon Magistracy respectively, and four additional constables for Shing Mun. These Shing Mun posts, which now appear in the Estimates for the first time, were formerly provided for under Loan Funds.\n\n4. An increase of two Telegraphists is necessitated by the fitting of No. 2 Police Launch with wireless.\n\n5. The increase in the establishment of Anti-Piracy Guards has been made at the request of the shipping companies, and the expense will not fall on Government. The Northern Chinese division of Anti-Piracy Guards has been divided into 1st and 2nd Class Constables to correspond with the regular Police.\n\n6. One additional driver is provided for the small van mentioned in paragraph 10.\n\n7. The two Female Probation Officers under Remand Home, Juvenile Offenders, have been placed on the same scale of salary.\n\n8. Under \"Other Charges,\" increases are mainly due to increased prices and to expansion. The increase in the amount provided for ammunition is, however, due to the fact that, owing to the fall in exchange at the end of 1935, it was necessary to cancel the indent for the whole of the ammunition required in 1936, with the result that the reserve supply is seriously depleted. A public telephone is being provided for the Headquarters Traffic Office for the convenience of the public.\n\n9. Under Special Expenditure, some small items designed to secure greater efficiency are explained in the footnotes. More replacements of arms are necessary, and provision for Anti-Gas Equipment is again made, this year's vote not having been spent pending improvements in apparatus.\n\n10. Two new Motor Vehicles are provided for under Sub-Head 40; one small patrol van is required for the Shamshuipo Division, and one car is required to replace the present Police Car 804, which has been unfavourably reported on by a Board of Survey.\n\n11. Provision for the annual Safety First Campaign has again been inserted under Special Expenditure.\n\n## Head 21 - Prisons Department\n\n1. Some increases under various Sub-heads of \"Other Charges\" have been necessitated by the increase in the number of prisoners and by the continued maintenance of Victoria Gaol in addition to the Hong Kong Prison. Should Victoria Gaol be closed, it is expected there will be considerable savings. One post of Chief Warder has been abolished with the closing of Laichikok Prison. Five additional Wardresses have been provided as the average daily number of female prisoners at Laichikok is now over 200, whereas the existing staff was based on an average of 100.\n\n2. The Principal Printing Officer has been granted a slightly higher scale of salary commensurate with his increased responsibilities consequent on the greater amount of Government printing now carried out at Stanley.\n\n3. Some reshuffling of the Indian Staff involving no increase in the establishment will result in greater efficiency and a small saving.\n\n# Head 22 - Medical Department\n\n1. Another increase has to be shown in the total of Personal Emoluments under this Head, mainly due to an increase of staff for the Queen Mary Hospital. Some months' experience of the running of this institution has shown that the present staff is inadequate. The Queen Mary Hospital contains 500 beds as compared with a total of 318 beds for the Victoria and Government Civil Hospitals combined.\n\n2. Under I. Administrative Staff, there is a net increase of one Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff (Local Section) clerk and one Junior Clerical Staff Class VIB clerk. Both these clerks are required to cope with the increasing work; the former in the Births and Deaths Registration Office and the latter part-time in Central Medical Store and part-time in Head Office.\n\n3. Under III. Hospital Division, General, provision has been made for one additional House Officer for the Queen Mary Hospital. It is considered that one of the House Officers at the Queen Mary Hospital should have a salary commensurate with his responsibilities somewhat higher than the others, and provision has been made for this.\n\n4. Provision for a temporary Storekeeper for nine months under \"Drugs and Dispensing,\" and for a temporary Steward for ten months under \"Stewards\" has had to be made as the substantive holders of these posts are due for leave in 1938.\n\n5. Under Nursing Staff (General), twenty additional Probationer Nurses are provided for the Queen Mary Hospital. As against this, it has been possible to abolish five posts for Probationer Dressers. The appellations \"Matrons (Grade I)\" and \"Matrons (Grade II)\" are new, having been substituted for \"Senior Sisters\" and \"Matrons\" respectively.\n\n6. Three Class VIB clerks have been added under Junior Clerical Staff (Hospitals). Two of these clerks, who were formerly employed by the Fire Brigade in Kowloon, replace two Telephone Boys under \"Queen Mary Hospital.\"\n\n7. Under \"School Hygiene\" appears a Class VIB clerk formerly paid by the Education Department, who will, with the transfer of the office of the Health Officer for Schools to the Violet Peel Health Centre, appear in future under this Head.\n\n8. An Infant Welfare Nurse has been substituted for an Interpreter and Assistant under \"Maternity and Child Welfare.\" The latter has been transferred to Chinese Hospitals, under which division there is also provided an additional Midwife who has been transferred from the division \"New Territories,\" and a new post of Tutor Sister. This post has been included with a view to securing a higher standard of training for nurses in the Chinese Hospitals, as it is felt that the present methods leave something to be desired.\n\n9. Three additional Inspectors are provided for in the Malaria Bureau to deal with a much extended programme of work.\n\nPage 382", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555627, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938", "content_text": "- 2 - \n\n14 \n\nHong Kong Government as being possibly a matter for future consideration; although, as Perrins explained in his letter above referred to, it is really impossible to attempt any judgment on such matters without a knowledge of local conditions.\n\nI should add that the provisions in Part I of the Ordinance relating to Pharmacy (which, like the poisons provisions, appear to correspond generally with the similar provisions in our Act of 1933) are the primary concern of the Privy Council Office; and I have sent a copy of this correspondence to Leadbitter of that Office asking him to communicate with you direct.\n\nYours sincerely, \nHult Whitelegg", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555629, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938", "content_text": "# PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL, S. W. 1.\n\n22nd October, 1937.\n\nDear Gent,\n\nWhitelegge has sent me copies of the Hong Kong Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1937, and of the correspondence on the subject. I am afraid, however, that we are in the same position as the Home Office and not qualified to criticise Colonial legislation.\n\nPart I of the Ordinance follows largely Part I of the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1933, with which we are concerned, but the modifications which have been made seem designed to adapt the provisions to local conditions of which we have no knowledge.\n\nYours sincerely,\nFiliadatter\n\nG.4.J. Gent, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., **COLONIAL OFFICE**.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555633, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938", "content_text": "# TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCE\n## BETWEEN\n### THE PHARMACY AND POISONS ORDINANCE, 1937,\n### AND\n### THE PHARMACY AND POISONS ACT, 1933, (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 25).\n\n| Section of this Ordinance | Section of the 1933 Act | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | 2 | Short title. |\n| | 29 | |\n| 8(1) | | (a) Interpretation. Arrangement with creditors-\"or a deed......applies\" omitted; Authorised seller of poisons—“section 10, section 11 and section 12\" for \"section eight, section nine and section ten of this Act\"; \"Ordinance\" for 'Act\" here and elsewhere wherever occurring; Definition of \"Byelaws”, \"the Council\", “Local authority”, \"Pharmacy Acts\", \"Public analyst”, \"Registered dentist\", \"Rules\", \"The Society\" omitted; Certificate of registration \"section 8 of this Ordinance\" for \"section thirteen of the Pharmacy Act, 1868\"; Dispensing \"registered medical practitioner' for \"duly qualified medical practitioner\" here and elsewhere wherever occurring; \"dental surgeon\" for \"dentist”; “duly qualified veterinary surgeon\" for \"registered veterinary surgeon\" here and elsewhere wherever occurring; Definition of \"duly qualified veterinary surgeon\" added; Pharmacist-\"and includes every member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and every person holding a diploma approved by the Governor in Council under section 3(1)(d), or a certificate of competent skill and knowledge and qualification to exercise the business or calling of pharmacist, granted under or by virtue of this or any former Ordinance relating to pharmacy\", added; Register \"register of pharmacists kept under this Ordinance\" for \"register of pharmaceutical chemists or the register of chemists and druggists\". |\n| | | (b) \"in relation to a medical practitioner, registered or deemed to be registered under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1935\" added; (c) \"in relation to a dental surgeon, registered or exempted from registration under the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914\" for \"in relation to a dentist, registered under the Dentists Act, 1879, \"Registrar means the Director of Medical Services\" added. |\n| | | References to the Poisons Board omitted; power added to regulate (a) the grant or refusal of certificates of competency, (b) examinations, (c) the appointment ... |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555636, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938", "content_text": "## Table of Correspondence,—Continued.\n\n| Section of this Ordinance. | Section of the 1933 Act. | Remarks. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 18 | 17 | |\n| 19 | 18 | |\n| 20 | 19 | |\n| 21 | 20 | |\n| 22 | 21 | |\n| 23 | 24 | |\n| 24 | 25 | |\n\n## PART II.\n\nReferences to the Poisons Board omitted. \"registrar\" for \"local authority\" here and elsewhere wherever the expression occurs; s.s. (5) in the Act advanced to S.S. (2); Governor in Council for \"Secretary of State\".\n\n(in s.s. (2)) “regulations\" for \"rules\". \n\n(in s.s. (3)) \"but which need not be used exclusively for that purpose\", omitted; para. (a) of the proviso omitted; \"Colony\" for \"United Kingdom\" (in para (2)); \"Governor in Council\" for \"Secretary of State\" (in para. (4)); para. (4) (a) (i) omitted; the reference to a local authority in para. (4) (b) omitted;\n\n(in s.s. (1)) \"being the occupier of any premises\" for \"having premises in the area of the authority\"; \"in the form prescribed by rules\" omitted;\n\n(in s.s. (2)) \"within fourteen days of the registrar's decision appeal petition to the Governor in Council\" for \"in accordance with rules made ...by the Secretary of State etc.\";\n\ns.s. (5) and (6) in the Act omitted: \n\n(in s.s. (6): s.s. (8) in the Act) \"two hundred and fifty dollars\" for \"twenty pounds\"; \"fifty dollars\" for \"five pounds\".\n\n## PART III.\n\n\"five hundred dollars\" for \"fifty pounds\": \"one hundred dollars\" for \"ten pounds\";\n\n(in S.S. (3)) \"Attorney General\" for \"Secretary of State\";\n\ns.s. (4) in the Act omitted; \n\nin s.s. (4)s.s. (5) in the Act \"analyst\" for \"public analyst'.\n\n(s.s. (1)) references to the Society omitted; power to the registrar to authorize any public officer to be an inspector replaces the power of appointment in England; \n\ns.s. (2) and (3) in the Act omitted;", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558728, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "content_text": "DETAILS OF REVENUE.\n\nREVENUE\n\nApproved Estimate 1938.\n\nEstimate 1939.\n\n1.-DUTIES.\n\n \n Import Duty on Liquor\n 1,175,000\n \n \n \n Motor Spirit\n 770,000\n 900,000 (2)\n \n \n Perfumed Spirits\n 100,000\n 120,000\n \n \n Tobacco\n 3,800,000\n 4,600,000 (1)\n \n \n Duty on locally manufactured liquor\n 975,000\n 1,250,000 (1)\n \n \n Total\n 6,820,000\n 8,370,000\n \n\n2.—PORT & HARBOUR DUES.\n\n \n Light Dues\n 530,000\n \n \n \n \n Buoy Dues\n 125,000\n 125,000\n } (3)\n \n \n Total\n $ 655,000\n 600,000\n \n \n\n3.-LICENCES & INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.\n\n(A) LICENCES.\n\n \n Air Services, Pilot\n 600\n 600\n \n \n \n Arms\n 24,000\n 25,000 (4)\n \n \n \n Auctioneers\n 1,800\n 1,500 (5)\n \n \n \n Billiard Table\n 1,400\n 1,400\n \n \n \n Boat\n 113,000\n 127,000\n \n \n \n Chinese Boarding House\n 16,500\n 16,500\n \n \n \n Chinese Passenger Ship\n 1,500\n 1,500\n \n \n \n Chinese Undertakers\n 1,400\n 1,400\n \n \n \n Companies Local, Registers\n 2,000\n 2,250 (4)\n \n \n \n Dance Halls\n 4,000 (6)\n \n \n \n \n Dangerous Goods\n 19,000\n 25,000\n \n \n \n Dogs\n 22,000\n 22,000\n \n \n \n Emigration Passage Broker\n 1,400\n 1,400\n \n \n \n Ferries\n 406,300\n 406,401\n \n \n \n Fishing Stake & Station\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n \n Forestry N. T.\n 10,000\n \n \n \n \n Game\n \n 5,100\n \n \n \n Hawker\n 5,000 (5)\n \n \n \n \n Junk\n 75,000\n 65,000 (5)\n \n \n \n Liquor\n 38,000\n 42,000\n \n \n \n Marine Store Dealer\n 320,000\n 325,000\n \n \n \n Marriage\n 10,000\n 9,000 (5)\n \n \n \n Miscellaneous\n 9,000\n 3,500 (4)\n \n \n \n Money Changers\n 3,200\n 7,200\n \n \n \n Motor Spirit\n 500 (7)\n \n \n \n \n Opium Monopoly\n 16,400\n 3,000\n \n \n \n Pawnbroker\n 275,000\n 350,000 (8)\n \n \n \n Pharmacy and Poisons\n 154,000\n 156,500\n \n \n \n Printing Press\n 16,000 (5)\n \n \n \n \n Special Food\n 3,000\n 1,000 (6)\n \n \n \n Steam Launch\n 3,500 (6)\n \n \n \n \n Theatrical\n 19,000\n 20,000\n \n \n \n Tobacco\n 15,000\n 16,500\n \n \n \n Vehicles Motor\n 300,000\n 340,000 (4)\n \n \n \n Motor Drivers\n 47,000\n 55,000 (4)\n \n \n \n Other\n 46,000\n 40,000 (5)\n \n \n \n Carried forward\n $ 2,029,800\n 2,172,451\n \n \n\n(1) Increased population.\n\n(2) Increased number of cars\n\n(3) Interruption of Coastal Trade. (4) More licences.\n\n(5) Fewer licences.\n\n(6) New head.\n\n(7) Less licences, see explanation (6). (8) Increased consumption.\n\nPage 67\n\n \nPage 67\n\nPage 67", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558835, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939", "content_text": "DETAILS OF Revenue,\n\n1.-DUTIES.\n\n \n REVENUE\n Approved Estimate 1938\n Estimate 1939\n \n \n Import Duty on Liquor\n 1,175,000\n 1,500,000 (1)\n \n \n Motor Spirit\n 770,000\n 900,000 (2)\n \n \n Perfumed Spirits\n 100,000\n 120,000\n \n \n Tobacco\n 3,800,000\n 4,600,000 (1)\n \n \n Duty on locally manufactured liquor\n 975,000\n 1,250,000 (1)\n \n \n Total\n 6,820,000\n 8,370,000\n \n\n2.-PORT & HARBOUR DUES.\n\n \n \n Approved Estimate 1938\n Estimate 1939\n \n \n Light Dues\n 530,000\n 475,000 (3)\n \n \n Buoy Dues\n 125,000\n 125,000\n \n \n Total\n 655,000\n 600,000\n \n\n3.-LICENCES & INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.\n\n(A) Licences.\n\n \n \n Approved Estimate 1938\n Estimate 1939\n \n \n Air Services, Pilot\n 600\n 24,000\n \n \n Arms\n 25,000 (4)\n \n \n \n Auctioneers\n 1,800\n 1,500 (5)\n \n \n Billiard Table\n 1,400\n 1,400\n \n \n Boat\n 113,000\n 127,000\n \n \n Chinese Boarding House\n 16,500\n \n \n \n Chinese Passenger Ship\n \n 1,500\n \n \n Chinese Undertakers\n 1,400\n 1,400\n \n \n Companies Local, Registers\n 2,000\n 2,250 (4)\n \n \n Dance Halls\n 4,000 (6)\n \n \n \n Dangerous Goods\n 19,000\n 25,000\n \n \n Dogs\n 22,000\n 22,000\n \n \n Emigration Passage Broker\n 1,400\n 1,400\n \n \n Ferries\n 406,300\n 406,401\n \n \n Fishing Stake & Station\n 1,000\n \n \n \n Forestry N. T.\n 10,000\n 10,000\n \n \n Game\n 5,100\n 5,000 (5)\n \n \n Hawker\n \n 65,000 (5)\n \n \n Junk\n 38,000\n 42,000\n \n \n Liquor\n 320,000\n 325,000\n \n \n Marine Store Dealer\n 10,000\n 9,000 (5)\n \n \n Marriage\n 3,200\n 3,500 (4)\n \n \n Miscellaneous\n 7,200\n \n \n \n Money Changers\n 500 (7)\n 16,000 (5)\n \n \n Motor Spirit\n 3,000\n 3,000\n \n \n Opium Monopoly\n 275,000\n 350,000 (8)\n \n \n Pawnbroker\n 154,000\n 156,500\n \n \n Pharmacy and Poisons\n 1,000 (6)\n 3,500 (6)\n \n \n Printing Press\n 19,000\n 20,000\n \n \n Special Food\n 15,000\n 16,500\n \n \n Steam Launch\n \n \n \n \n Theatrical\n 4,000\n 4,000\n \n \n Tobacco\n 70,000\n 70,000\n \n \n Vehicles Motor\n 300,000\n 340,000 (4)\n \n \n Motor Drivers\n 47,000\n 55,000 (4)\n \n \n Other\n 46,000\n 40,000 (5)\n \n \n Carried forward\n 2,029,800\n 2,172,451\n \n\n(1) Increased population.\n\n(2) Increased number of cars\n\n(3) Interruption of Coastal Trade.\n\n(4) More licences.\n\n(5) Fewer licences.\n\n(6) New head.\n\n(7) Less licences, see explanation (6).\n\n(8) Increased consumption.\n\nPage 198", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 559330, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 42, "title": "CO129-569-12 Law Revision Ordinance 1937 24-12-1937 - 28-5-1938", "content_text": "51\n\nMemorandum,—contd.\n\n- 5\n\n—\n\nMemorandum,-contd.\n\nNo. OF AMENDMENT IN SCHEDULE.\n\n52.-(1).\n\n54.\n\n55.-(1).\n\n50.\n\n(2).\n\nREASON FOR AMENDMENT.\n\nLaichikok and Stanley Prisons having been appointed houses of detention by G.N.'s 540 of 19.8.32 and 954 of 4.12.36, the provision by Ordinance of such houses has become unnecessary and sections 3 and 4 of the Ordinance are amended and combined accordingly.\n\nThese amendments are made for conformity with No. 4 of 1889, s. 3 (1), as amended by No. 14 of 1986.\n\nSections 63 and 64 of the Ordinance are now unnecessary. See No. 21 of 1922, s. 15, and No. 32 of 1935, s. 63.\n\nThe words by the verdict repealed by this amendment are surplusage (R. v. Ettridge 2 Cr. App. R. 62).\n\nNo. of AMENDMENT IN SCHEDULE.\n\n60.-(5).\n\n(6).\n\n(7) (ii).\n\n(iii).\n\n(iv).\n\n(8).\n\nSection 80 is now unnecessary.\n\ns. 66 (3).\n\nSee No. 32 of 1935,\n\n(v).\n\n(5).\n\nThe provisions of the more recent 7 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 1 (2) & (8) and s. 6, are substituted for the provisions of the earlier 50 & 51 Vict. c. 25, ss. 1 & 2.\n\n61.\n\n62.\n\n58.-(2).\n\n59.\n\n60.-(1).\n\n(2).\n\n(8).\n\n(3A)\n\n(4).\n\n63.\n\n64.\n\n65.\n\nREASON FOR AMENDMENT.\n\nA summons book in the form prescribed by s. 826 of the Ordinance has never been kept: other records which are kept are sufficient and the section is therefore repealed as unnecessary.\n\nThis amendment enacts as ss. 654 to 689 of this Ordinance provisions corresponding to new English provisions contained in Rules of the Supreme Court in England dated the 23rd June, 1921, which substituted new rules for those on which the old ss. 654 to 670 of this Ordinance were based.\n\nSee note to para. 60 (2) supra.\n\nThis amendment is made to bring Form No. 12 into line with the corresponding English form, which has been amended.\n\nThis amendment is made for conformity with s. 439 of the Ordinance, as amended by No. 32 of 1981.\n\nSee note to para. 60 (6) supra.\n\nSee C.S.O. 3607/20 at page 60.\n\nThis Ordinance is repealed as unnecessary.\n\nThe Civil Medical Staff are subject to the same discipline under General Orders as other Government servants.\n\nThis amendment is based upon 24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 47.\n\nThe substitution of the year 1938 for the year 1913 covers the period for which this Ordinance has been extended by G.N.'s 426 of 1924, 490 of 1925, 454 of 1926, 472 of 1927, 655 of 1928, 567 of 1929, 567 of 1930, 4 of 1932, 559 of 1932, 604 of 1933, 905 of 1934, 635 of 1935, 689 of 1936 and 560 of 1937.\n\nThe substitution of the date 3rd December for 31st December, 1936, prevents a hiatus which would otherwise have existed between the coming into force of No. 51 of 1936 and the repeal of No. 18 of 1928.\n\nThe regulations and tables contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance have been transferred under the powers contained in No. 51 of 1936 to the volume of Regulations corresponding to the first volume of the Ordinances. Consequential amendments have been made in the Ordinance relating to this transfer and the other amendments noted in this paragraph are mainly verbal.\n\nThis amendment is consequential on the amendment of section 5 of the Ordinance by No. 27 of 1980.\n\nThe provisions of the later 15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49, s. 44, are substituted for the earlier provisions of 36 & 37 Vict. c. 66, ss. 25 (10) & 25 (11).\n\nThis amendment is designed to bring the local practice into line with the current English practice.\n\nThe words deleted by this amendment have never been acted on and are in fact unnecessary in local circumstances.\n\nA new sub-section (1) is added to section 362 of the Ordinance to make it clear that all questions relating to taxation are subject to review by the court.\n\nA new sub-section (3) is added to section 412, incorporating therein the amendment effected by R.S.C. July 1905 r. 8 adapted to local circumstances.\n\nSection 594 of the Ordinance is repealed as unnecessary and misleading in that it apparently excludes decisions in summary jurisdiction.\n\n4. Generally speaking, it may be said that this Revision has not introduced new matter into the law of the Colony but has been confined to the collection of the existing law, the repeal of spent legislation, the correction of obvious errors, the standardization of expression, and the removal of inconsistencies.\n\nDecember, 1937.\n\nC. G. ALABASTER,\n\nAttorney General.\n\n52 END", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-569-12 Law Revision Ordinance 1937 24-12-1937 - 28-5-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563136, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-573-8 Disposal of prisoners sentenced by Supreme Court of China 3-6-1938 - 25-8-1938", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-573-8 Disposal of prisoners sentenced by Supreme Court of China 3-6-1938 - 25-8-1938", "content_text": "## Copy. \nNo. 14.\n\nCopied to - \nSecretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nGovernment House, \nHong Kong, 28th May, 1938.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to refer to Section 70 of the China Order in Council 1925, regarding the sending for imprisonment to Hong Kong or to places in some other part of His Majesty's Dominions of prisoners sentenced by His Majesty's Supreme Court in China.\n\n2. I understand the reasons for these provisions of the Order in Council to be that adequate prison facilities do not exist in the places of jurisdiction in China for the accommodation of prisoners so sentenced to long terms of imprisonment and that such prisons as exist do not provide an organized system of hard labour. In addition, it is realized, of course, that conditions in Shanghai in the latter part of 1937 were most unfavourable for the detention of long-term prisoners there.\n\n3. On the other hand, the Hong Kong prisons are not really suitable for the detention of Europeans for any but the shortest periods. Moreover, the prison is already seriously overcrowded by prisoners sentenced by local courts.\n\n4. It has been found possible occasionally to arrange for the removal of prisoners, sentenced to imprisonment in Hong Kong by His Majesty's Supreme Court in China, to India or their domicile elsewhere. This course, however, not only involves His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador, in Shanghai.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-8 Disposal of prisoners sentenced by Supreme Court of China 3-6-1938 - 25-8-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564434, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "## \n\nThe **expenditure resolution** seems to be unexceptionable. \n\nIt would be useful to have the duplicate of `enclosure 3` filed on the Loan file (`53593/39`) with a copy of our reply, as it is awkward having to deal with Ests. file when subsequent Loan resolutions come in. \n\nS.S.D. should in due course see the Prisons and Labor Office proposals in these Estimates, Dr. O'Brien the Medical ones and Mr. Cox the Educational ones. \n\nNIS Andrews \n1.1.40 \n\nThese estimates cover a fifteen-month period from 1st January, 1940 to 31st March, 1941. They were prepared in the Autumn before the outbreak of war and were reviewed in October when the Governor intended to recast them in the form of a double budget: (a) dealing with revenue and expenditure of a normal character; (b) a supplementary war budget which would include all expenditure of a defence character together with a substantial contribution to H.M.G. for war expenses, for all of which revenue would be provided by emergency taxation and in particular, income tax. Local unofficial opinion has, however, shown itself so strongly against the suitability of a tax on incomes in the circumstances of Hong Kong, that the Governor's project had to be dropped and the original Estimates have now been passed after relatively minor adjustments, the effect of which has been to increase the deficit in the budget from", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564487, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "# DETAILS OF REVENUE\n\n## REVENUE\n\n### Approved Estimate 1939\n### Estimate, 1940-41\n\n| Category | Approved Estimate 1939 ($) | Estimate, 1940-41 ($) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **1.-DUTIES** | | |\n| Import Duty on Liquor | 1,500,000 | 2,800,000 |\n| Motor Spirit | 900,000 | 2,300,000 |\n| Perfumed Spirits | 120,000 | 176,000 |\n| Tobacco | 4,600,000 | 7,000,000 |\n| Duty on locally manufactured liquor | 1,250,000 | 1,750,000 |\n| Total | 8,870,000 | 13,526,000 |\n| **2. ASSESSED TAXES** | | |\n| Assessed Taxes (Rates) Hong Kong | 6,200,000 | 6,212,000 |\n| Kowloon | 9,288,000 | 9,303,100 |\n| N.T. North | 7,650 | 9,700 |\n| South | 4,350 | 5,400 |\n| Total | | |\n| **3. INTERNAL REVENUE** | | |\n| Bets and Sweeps Tax | 2400 | |\n| Entertainment Tax | 200,000 | |\n| Estate Duty | | |\n| Stamp Duties | | |\n| Total | | |\n| **4.- LICENCES, FINES & FORFEITURES** | | |\n| **(A) LICENCES** | | |\n| Brought forward | 1,112,951 | 1,507,120 |\n| Motor Spirit | 3,000 | |\n| Pawnbroker | 156,500 | 190,500 |\n| Pharmacy and Poisons | 5,600 | 8,650 |\n| Printing Press | 1,000 | 3,500 |\n| Special Food | 3,500 | 5,400 |\n| Steam Launch | 5,400 | 8,650 |\n| Theatrical | 20,000 | 25,200 |\n| Tobacco | 16,500 | 19,000 |\n| Vehicles Motor | -4,000 | 7,200 |\n| Motor Drivers | 55,000 | 71,850 |\n| Other | 40,000 | 54,400 |\n| Other Drivers, etc | 2,000 | 4,450 |\n| Motor Special Licensing Fee-Foreign Registration | 80,000 | 100,000 |\n| Wireless Receiving | 135,000 | 254,000 |\n| Other | 5,700 | 16,800 |\n| **(B) FINES & FORFEITURES** | | |\n| Building Covenant Fines | 200,000 | 300,000 |\n| Fines | 800,000 | 1,250,000 |\n| Forfeitures | 450,000 | 1,500,000 |\n| Total | 3,000,000 | |\n| **5. FEES OF COURT OR OFFICE, PAYMENTS FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, & REIMBURSEMENTS IN AID** | | |\n| **(A) FEES** | | |\n| Air Services | 70,000 | 80,500 |\n| Arms | 600 | 800 |\n| Auctioneers | 25,000 | 40,650 |\n| Billiard Table | 1,500 | 1,400 |\n| Boat | 1,250 | 1,400 |\n| Chinese Boarding House | 1,400 | |\n| Bills of Health | 9,000 | 13,500 |\n| Births and Deaths Registration | 9,000 | 18,500 |\n| Chinese Passenger Ship | 1,500 | 1,350 |\n| Boundary Stones & Survey | 80,000 | 32,000 |\n| Chinese Undertakers | 1,400 | 2,650 |\n| Cemetery | 750 | |\n| Companies Local, Registers | 2,250 | 4,500 |\n| Certificates to Chinese Proceeding to any foreign country | 500 | 1,150 |\n| Dance Halls | 4,000 | 5,350 |\n| China Companies | 210,000 | 270,000 |\n| Dangerous Goods | 25,000 | 25,700 |\n| Chinese Cemetery | 13,000 | 24,800 |\n| Dogs | 22,000 | 40,800 |\n| Consultants | 10,000 | 18,000 |\n| Emigration Passage Broker | 1,400 | 2,600 |\n| Court | 85,000 | 86,000 |\n| Ferries | 406,401 | 542,760 |\n| Crown Leases | 40,000 | 87,000 |\n| Fishing Stake & Station | 1,000 | 810 |\n| Deeds Registration | 72,000 | 104,000 |\n| Forestry N. T. | 10,000 | 11,000 |\n| Earth and Stone Permits N. T. | 5,500 | 7,500 |\n| Game | 5,000 | 5,650 |\n| Engagement and Discharge of Seamen | 50,000 | 52,000 |\n| Hawker | 65,000 | 85,000 |\n| Evening Institute | 8,000 | 11,500 |\n| Junk | 42,000 | 55,000 |\n| Examination of Masters, Mates and Engineers | 1,500 | 1,900 |\n| Liquor | 325,000 | 490,000 |\n| Marine Store Dealer | 9,000 | 11,900 |\n| Marriage | 8,500 | 7,500 |\n| Miscellaneous | 500 | 350 |\n| Money Changers | 16,000 | |\n| Hong Kong Companies Registration | 20,000 | 29,000 |\n| Carried forward | 684,250 | 778,200 |\n| Carried forward | 1,112,951 | 1,507,120 |\n\n(1) More consumption, increased population.\n(2) Increased duties.\n(3) Heavy Oil tax.\n(4) Rise in rentals and less vacant tenements.\n(5) Increased attendances.\n(6) Improved business conditions.\n(7) More licences issued.\n(8) Fewer temporary licences.\n(9) Increased fees.\n(10) Fewer licences issued.\n(11) Singapore restrictions limiting number of passengers.\n(12) Includes 2 periods as fees are payable annually in the 1st quarter.\n(13) Increased fees for Western Ferry Service.\n(14) Fewer stake nets erected.\n(15) More registry marriages.\n(1) Hydrocarbon oils Ordinance.\n(2) More licences issued.\n(3) Includes 2 periods as fees are payable annually in the 1st quarter.\n(4) Fewer licences issued.\n(5) More tobacco importers and retailers.\n(6) Increased population.\n(7) Normal increases.\n(8) More fines imposed.\n(9) Variable.\n(10) Includes £5,629 :11:3 @ 1/2-$91,599.66 confiscated silver.\n(11) Anticipated increase.\n(12) More registrations.\n(13) Fewer Boundary stones fixed.\n(14) Disquiet in Shanghai; removals to Hong Kong.\n(15) More burials in Government Cemeteries.\n(16) Fewer distraints and write of execution issued.\n(17) Leas Crown leases issued.\n(18) More deeds registered.\n(19) Fewer permits issued.\n(20) More ships laid up.\n(21) More students.\n(22) More companies registered.\n\nPage 70\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 566036, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-9 Prison Department- vacancy for assistant superintendent of prisons 21-6-1939 - 15-11-1939", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-578-9 Prison Department- vacancy for assistant superintendent of prisons 21-6-1939 - 15-11-1939", "content_text": "Particulars of the Office of Assistant Superintendent of Prisons, Prison Department, Hong Kong.\n\n14\n\nDuties of office and qualifications required for their performance.\n\nAssistant Superintendent of the Hong Kong Prison, Stanley. Should have served in one of H.K.'s Regular Forces or received a University education. It is not essential that he should have served in the Home or Colonial Prisons Services. He can be trained satisfactorily here. It is the right type of man rather than his knowledge of Prison Administration which is important.\n\n2. Language qualifications required.\n\nTo be able to converse in Urdu would be an advantage.\n\n3. Salary of office. (see also under 4)\n\n£500 - £820 (£500 for the first two years and then by annual increments of 1 of £70, 4 of £25, 1 of £90, and 2 of £30) plus a non-pensionable residential allowance payable only while in Colony at the following rate: 10% of the first £400 of salary, 5% of the second, 21% of the third.\n\n4. Conversion of salary into local currency.\n\nSalaries are converted for payment in local currency at a rate fixed from time to time by Government. They are at present paid at the rate of 1/3 = $1 so long as the Treasury rate of the dollar based on the average monthly rate of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank remains at or below that rate.\n\n5. Contribution to Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Scheme. Allowances, quarters and other circumstances affecting the value of office.\n\nA deduction of 4% from salary is made as contribution to the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Scheme. If Government quarters are provided, the officer will be charged 12% of his basic salary for unfurnished or 13% for furnished quarters. If the officer resides in Government quarters attached to the Prisons, these rates will be reduced to 6% and 7% respectively.\n\n6. Nature, number and amount of securities required, and mode of giving them.\n\nNil.\n\n7. Passage.\n\nFirst Class Passage will be provided in accordance with Colonial Regulation No.81.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-9 Prison Department- vacancy for assistant superintendent of prisons 21-6-1939 - 15-11-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568411, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-582-11 Dispersal of convicts in the event of war 10-7-1939 - 30-8-1939", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-582-11 Dispersal of convicts in the event of war 10-7-1939 - 30-8-1939", "content_text": "18313-26-11-32)\n\nTELEPHONE:-WHITEHALL 8100\n\nTelegrams:-\"IMPRISON, Parl, London\"\n\nSECRET\n\nPRISON COMMISSION,\n\nHOME OFFICE,\n\n3 WHITEHALL, S.W.1.\n\n15th August, 1939.\n\nDear Gent,\n\nThank you for your letter of August 10th enclosing one from the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nIn this country we are in a somewhat similar position, but the position is not so serious as that indicated in the Governor's letter. In the event of war we shall be compelled to close all the London prisons, and some of those in the provincial cities. Fortunately, we have considerable reserves for accommodation in places which are comparatively immune from attack. These would not, however, suffice for the total amount to be evacuated from London and elsewhere, and we have, therefore, arranged that all those prisoners who have three months or less to serve on the date of evacuation, will be immediately discharged.\n\nIn view of the numbers quoted in Sir Geoffry Northcote's letter, I should imagine that he would find it necessary to be somewhat more generous, and to release those who have less than a year to serve.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nA. Paterson\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 10\n\n(*3950-150) Wt. 46262-29 30.000 3/39 T.S. 695 54039/39 Hong Kong. C. O.\n\nMr. Bickle\n\nS-o for Mr. Gent's signature.\n\n10 August, 1939.\n\nMr. A. J. Dawe.\n\nSir H. Moore.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nA. PATERSON, ESQ., M.I.C.\n\nSECRET.\n\nDear Paterson,\n\nI enclose a copy of a letter which I have received from Sir Geoffry Northcote, the Governor of Hong Kong, in which he raises the question of the method of dealing with the local prison population in the event of an attack being made on the Colony by Japan.\n\nAs you will appreciate that in the event of a war with Japan the very small area of Hong Kong would provide no place safe from bombardment to which prisoners could be transferred.\n\nYou will remember that a similar problem was discussed with you recently as affecting Kenya. There it is proposed\n\nPage 11\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-11 Dispersal of convicts in the event of war 10-7-1939 - 30-8-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569470, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-1 Financial returns 1939 17-9-1940 - 17-9-1940", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-584-1 Financial returns 1939 17-9-1940 - 17-9-1940", "content_text": "COLONY OF HONG KONG 1939.\n\nSTATEMENT OF REVENUE IN THE YEAR, UNDER HEADS AND SUB-HEADS.\n\nBrought forward,\n\nLICENCES & INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED\n\nA. LICENCES,-Contd.\n\n \n SUB-HEADS.\n AS COMPARED WITH THE ESTIMATES.\n ESTIMATED,\n ACTUAL.\n INCREASE\n DECREASE.\n \n \n Brought forward,\n \n 174,900\n 183,754.30\n 8,854.30\n \n \n \n Companies Local, Registers,\n \n 2,250\n 2,250.98\n 0.98\n \n \n \n Dance Halls...\n \n 4,000\n 3,760.00\n \n 240.00\n \n \n Dangerous Goods,\n \n 25,000\n 21,477.46\n \n 3,522.54\n \n \n \n Overestimated.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dugs,\n \n 22,000\n 24,170.00\n 2,170.00\n \n \n \n \n Underestimated.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emigration Passage Broker,\n \n 1,400\n 1,310.00\n \n 90.00\n \n \n Ferries,\n Higher tender for Stern Ferry Service.\n 406,401\n 434,095.50\n 27,694.50\n \n \n \n Fishing Stake & Station,\n \n 1,000\n 678.50\n \n 321.50\n \n \n Forestry, N.T.,\n \n 10,000\n 9,443.13\n \n 556.87\n \n \n Game.\n Underestimated.\n 5,000\n 6,515.00\n 1,515.00\n \n \n \n Hawker.\n \n 65,000\n 62,107.50\n \n 2,892.50\n \n \n Junk,\n \n 42,000\n 45,898.90\n 3,898.90\n \n \n \n Liquor,\n Increased Fees, Increased population,\n 325,000\n 365,552.73\n 40,552.73\n \n \n \n Marine Store Dealer,\n \n 9,000\n 10,440.00\n 1,440.00\n \n \n \n Marriage,\n Popularity of Registry Marriages (Chinese)\n 3,500\n 7,439.00\n 3,939.00\n \n \n \n Mining N.T.,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Miscellaneous,\n \n 500\n 865.50\n 365.50\n \n \n \n Money Changers,\n Underestimated.\n 16,000\n 18,275.00\n 2,275.00\n \n \n \n Motor Spirit,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Opium Monopoly,\n Less traffic in illicit opium; increased population,\n 350,000\n 1,025,269.76\n 675,269.76\n \n \n \n Pawnbroker,\n \n 156,500\n \n \n \n \n \n Pharmacy and Poisons..\n \n 1,000\n \n \n \n \n \n Carried forward,\n \n 8,970,000\n 11,694,807.45\n 2,794,576.01\n \n \n\nPage 9", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-1 Financial returns 1939 17-9-1940 - 17-9-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570064, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 336, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "# 13\n\n## B.-AGRICULTURE.\n\nIt is proposed to establish an Experimental Agricultural Station in the New Territories with a view to improving local agriculture and animal husbandry and so help to make the Colony less dependent on outside sources for its food supplies. If times were normal it is possible that a grant from the Colonial Development Fund might be made available for this purpose; such a grant can hardly be expected in present circumstances but it is felt that the need for this Station is so pressing that funds should be provided from local sources if the financial position permits. Accordingly, a sum of $150,000 is provided under Head 30, Public Works Extraordinary, for the erection and equipment of the Station buildings and since the Station will be under the general supervision of the Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry Department, who has already been gazetted as Agricultural Adviser for the Colony, it is fitting that provision be made under Head 4 for the personnel and maintenance of the Station. The Station will be in the direct charge of a European Agricultural Officer who, it is proposed, will be recruited from another Colony; the salary scale suggested for this post is that obtaining for similar posts in the African Colonies. One of the most important problems of the moment is to what extent human nightsoil and other waste matters from the urban area can first be rendered harmless from the point of view of public health and then distributed to the farmers of the New Territories as fertilizer; the recent researches of Mr. G. S. Kennedy-Skipton have shown that this matter is worth pursuing and as a first step, on the recommendation of the Government's Agricultural Adviser, a sum of $60,000 is provided under Sub-head 14, Experimental Disposal of Nightsoil in New Territories, for further practical experiments in this direction.\n\n## HEAD 5. CHARITABLE SERVICES.\n\n### SUB-HEAD 3.—It is proposed to increase the grant to the Chinese Public Dispensaries from $30,000 to $40,000 per annum. These institutions continue to do excellent work in spite of falling subscriptions from the public; it is considered that they should be encouraged by an increased grant to carry on and so relieve the pressure on the Tung Wah and Government Hospitals.\n\n### SUB-HEAD 11.-The number of inmates of the Po Leung Kuk has greatly increased since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities in 1937 and the influx of refugees, and the Committee finds that its income from subscriptions and other sources is insufficient to meet expenditure. Since all women and children in the Kuk are sent there by the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs or the Police, it is fitting that Government should increase its annual grant from $10,000 to $15,000.\n\n### SUB-HEAD 17.--Hitherto, the monies confiscated by the Magistrates as a result of Police raids on gambling establishments, etc., have been paid into a Poor Box Fund which has not been brought to account as Revenue but has remained for disposal at the discretion of the Magistrates to deserving cases. As a result of representations by the Auditor, it is now proposed to regularize the position by crediting all receipts to Revenue and placing a sum of money, tentatively fixed at $5,000 per annum, at the disposal of the Magistrates for charitable disbursements. The discretion of the Magistrates will not, of course, be interfered with.\n\n### SUB-HEAD 18.-On the recommendation of the Commissioner of Prisons and the Director of Medical Services, it is proposed to establish during the current financial year 1940-41 a Camp for Male Juvenile Offenders within the bounds of the Refugee Camp at Kam Tin in the New Territories. As an experiment, certain boys who are not confirmed criminals will be sent to this Camp for a period of at least six months instead of to the Reformatory (Remand Home).\n\n### SUB-HEAD 22.-The amount provided is based on the actual expenditure for the first eight months of the current financial year.\n\nPage 401", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572820, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942", "page_number": 254, "title": "CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942", "content_text": "## Article 7 and 8\n\n25.1\n\nemergency and then shall only be subjected to such restrictions as are necessary in the interests of national security and which are imposed upon all foreigners.\n\nArticle 7. The consular officers of one H.C.P., duly provided with exequaturs, shall be permitted to reside in those ports, places and cities of the territories of the other H.C.P. which are or may be open to consular officers of any foreign power. The consular officers of one H.C.P. shall have the right within their districts in the territories of the other H.C.P. to interview, communicate with and to advise the nationals and companies of the former H.C.P., and nationals of one H.C.P. within the territory of the other H.C.P. shall have the right at all times to communicate with the consular officers of the former H.C.P. The consular officers of one H.C.P. in the territories of the other shall be informed immediately by the appropriate local authorities when any of their nationals are arrested or detained in their consular districts by the local authorities. They shall have the right to visit within the limits of their districts any of their nationals who are under arrest or awaiting trial in prison. Communications from the nationals of one H.C.P. in prison in the territories of the other H.C.P. addressed to the consular officers of the former H.C.P. will be forwarded to the appropriate consular officer by the local authorities. Consular officers of one H.C.P. shall be accorded in the territories of the other H.C.P. the rights, privileges and immunities enjoyed by consular officers under modern international usage.\n\nArticle 8. provides for negotiations for a comprehensive treaty of friendship, commerce, navigation and consular rights after the war. Pending the conclusion of such treaty all provisions of existing treaties shall remain in force insofar as they are not abrogated by or inconsistent with the present treaty. Any question affecting the rights in China of British nationals not covered by such provisions shall be discussed and decided in accordance with generally accepted principles of international law and with modern international practice.\n\nArticle 9. Ratification clause.\n\nEnds.\n\n3.\n\nAn exchange of notes would provide on a reciprocal basis that:\n\n(a) Except where considerations of national security or military necessity in time of war are involved, British nationals in China would be dealt with only in regular Courts of Justice.\n\n(b) British nationals will be detained only in suitable prisons.\n\n(c) In matters of personal status and succession Chinese courts will apply the law of the territory from which the British national concerned originates, and British courts will apply the law of the domicile of Chinese national concerned.\n\n4.\n\nMy comments follow.\n\nO.T.P.\n\nCopy to:\n\nSir J. Brenan, F.O.\nMr. Costar, D.O.\nMr. Annan, B.O.\nMr. Monson, C.O.\nMr. A.R. Fraser, C.M.G., M.B.E., Board of Trade\nMr. N.E. Young, M.C., Treasury.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 576874, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-12 Military Administration- Civil affairs- directives to force commander and senior officials 24-2-1945 - 13-9-1945", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-591-12 Military Administration- Civil affairs- directives to force commander and senior officials 24-2-1945 - 13-9-1945", "content_text": "DISTRIBUTION OF THIS MESSAGE IS TO BE LIMITED TO THOSE OFFICERS WHO ARE CONCERNED WITH ITS CONTENTS\n\nTOP SECRET\n\n136\n\nOUT\n\nWARNING: This is an unparaphrased version of a secret cypher or confidential code message, and the text must first be paraphrased* if it is essential to communicate it to persons outside British or Allied Government Services.\n\n(*NOTE: Messages shown as having been sent in a One-Time Pad: \"O.T.P.\" are excepted from this rule.)\n\n-2-\n\n(iv) The establishment of relief camps and the provision\n\nof relief for distressed persons.\n\n(v) The provision of medical treatment in these camps,\n\nin hospitals or elsewhere.\n\n(vi) The taking of adequate measures of public health and\n\nsanitation.\n\n(vii) The restoration and maintenance of essential public\n\nservices.\n\n(viii) The control and distribution of supplies.\n\n(ix) Responsibility for enemy state property and the\n\nproperty of absent owners, etc. (in accordance with a separate Directive).\n\n(x) The setting up of such wartime control (e.g. exchange control, censorship) as may be deemed necessary.\n\n(xi) Treatment of renegades and quislings in accordance with\n\nthe terms of the special directive issued to you.\n\n(xii) The establishment of currency, banking and fiscal\n\narrangements in accordance with separate directives.\n\n(xiii) The control of prices and wages.\n\n(xiv) The greatest possible use of local resources.\n\nThese activities will require the provision of both consumption and capital goods. The essential supplies required for the period of military administration are being procured from the War Office and will be shipped to you as soon as possible.\n\nYou will be furnished with particular directives on the more important of those matters.\n\n4.\n\nIn carrying out your duties you will bear in mind the long-term objectives of Colonial policy. This will involve:\n\n(i) The reconstruction of the Colony's financial and\n\nfiscal structure.\n\n(ii) The re-organisation of civil courts, police and prisons.\n\n(iii) The rehabilitation of commerce and industry, including\n\nagriculture and fisheries.\n\n(iv) ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-12 Military Administration- Civil affairs- directives to force commander and senior officials 24-2-1945 - 13-9-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 576884, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-12 Military Administration- Civil affairs- directives to force commander and senior officials 24-2-1945 - 13-9-1945", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-591-12 Military Administration- Civil affairs- directives to force commander and senior officials 24-2-1945 - 13-9-1945", "content_text": "7 war\n\ndamage.\n\n146\n\n(xi) Treatment of renegades and quislings in accordance with the terms of the special directive issued to you.\n\n(xii) The establishment of currency, banking and fiscal arrangements in accordance with separate directives.\n\n(xiii) The control of prices and wages.\n\n(xiv) The greatest possible use of local resources.\n\nThese activities will require the provision of both consumption and capital goods. The essential supplies required for the period of military administration are being procured from the War Office and will be shipped to you as soon as possible.\n\nYou will be furnished with particular directives on the more important of these matters.\n\n44.\n\nIn carrying out your duties you will bear in mind the long term objectives of Colonial policy. This will involve:\n\n(i) The reconstruction of the Colony's financial and fiscal structure.\n\n(ii) The reorganisation of civil courts, police and prisons.\n\n(iii) The rehabilitation of commerce and industry, including agriculture and fisheries.\n\n(iv) The reconstruction and development of public and private utilities, and in particular of the port and air services.\n\n(v) The reorganisation of hospitals and other public health and sanitary organisations.\n\n(vi) The reorganisation of the educational system of the Colony.\n\n(vii) The implementation of all other aspects of policy of His Majesty's Government for Colonial administration and development.\n\n(viii) Preparation for the transfer of the administration to a civil government.\n\nAgain you will be furnished with directives on the more important of these matters.\n\n45. As the liberation of Hong Kong involves the immediate resumption of His Majesty's Government's responsibility for the good", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-12 Military Administration- Civil affairs- directives to force commander and senior officials 24-2-1945 - 13-9-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577212, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-17 Liberation of Hong Kong- instructions to Mr Gimson- proposed civil administrator 10-8-1945 - 21-9-1945", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-591-17 Liberation of Hong Kong- instructions to Mr Gimson- proposed civil administrator 10-8-1945 - 21-9-1945", "content_text": "31\n\n(iv) The establishment of relief camps and the provision of relief for distressed persons.\n\n(v) The provision of medical treatment in these camps, in hospitals or elsewhere.\n\n(vi) The taking of adequate measures of public health and sanitation.\n\n(vii) The restoration and maintenance of essential public services.\n\n(viii) The control and distribution of supplies.\n\n(ix) Responsibility for enemy state property and the property of absent owners, etc. (in accordance with a separate Directive).\n\n(x) The setting up of such wartime control (e.g. exchange control, censorship) as may be deemed necessary.\n\n(xi) Treatment of renegades and quislings in accordance with the terms of the special directive issued to you.\n\n(xii) The establishment of currency, banking and fiscal arrangements in accordance with separate directives.\n\n(xiii) The control of prices and wages.\n\n(xiv) The greatest possible use of local resources.\n\nThese activities will require the provision of both consumption and capital goods. The essential supplies required for the period of military administration are being procured from the War Office and will be shipped to you as soon as possible.\n\nYou will be furnished with particular directives on the more important of these matters.\n\n4.\n\nIn carrying out your duties you will bear in mind the long term objectives of Colonial policy. This will involve:\n\n(i) The reconstruction of the Colony's financial and fiscal structure.\n\n(ii) The re-organisation of civil courts, police and prisons.\n\n(iii) The rehabilitation of commerce and industry, including agriculture and fisheries.\n\n(iv) The reconstruction and development of public and private utilities, and in particular of the port and air services.\n\n(v) The re-organisation of hospitals and other public health and sanitary organisations.\n\n(vi) The re-organisation of the educational system of the Colony.\n\n(vii) The implementation of all other aspects of policy of His Majesty's Government for Colonial administration and development.\n\n(viii)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-17 Liberation of Hong Kong- instructions to Mr Gimson- proposed civil administrator 10-8-1945 - 21-9-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577872, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945", "content_text": "Mr. Robison.\n\nI am extremely sorry that this file has been held up for so long due to an accumulation of work which, for months past, I have not been able to disperse. Now that at last I have been able to read the Governor's despatch at 20 I find that the proposed amendments to the Grant Code seem to be quite straightforward. The original Code was, I think, subject to very considerable local criticism. The suggested amendments are rational and, subject to the views of the Education Advisers, I hope that we can approve them all.\n\nThe standard of education in the Colony in the past is not one of which it seems possible to be very proud. (It has been pointed out that during the period 1934-1939 the average expenditure on education was only 5.96% of the Colony's total expenditure while the expenditure on police and prisons was 11.92%.) The provision for primary vernacular education in particular has been open to criticism. The introduction of the Amended Grant Code should do much to improve matters. (Although the Code had been approved in June 1941 it did not effectively come into force before the war.) The amount allowed for grants to grant-in-aid schools and subsidies to vernacular schools in the 1946/47 Estimates is $1,950,000 (£121,875) as against $620,058 (£38,753) in 1941/42.\n\nIn the last paragraph of his despatch the Governor asks that the amended text may be brought to the attention of the Advisory Committee on Education. You will no doubt say whether the conveyance of the Secretary of State's approval to the amended Code (if that is agreed) must await consideration by the Committee.\n\nA leaf wwb 2.1.47.\n\nhi ht hayle\n\nThe revised Code appears to be a very comprehensive and at the same time concise document. As it has been drawn up by the Director in consultation with all interested parties it may be presumed that all have agreed with the amendments.\n\nThe Governor has asked that the amended text should be brought to the attention of the A.C.E.C., but he has not suggested that there is any point in dispute about which he would like an opinion from the A.C.E.C.\n\nThe Non-African sub-committee of the A.C.E.C. will be very interested to have copies of the revised Code; if twelve copies could be sent to me I will distribute them amongst these members, who without knowledge of local conditions would hardly feel competent to offer comments which in any way would prevent the Secretary of State from giving his approval.\n\nI therefore suggest that the Secretary of State's approval of the amended Code be conveyed to the Governor in order that there may be no delay in putting into operation what appear to me to be necessary amendments to maintain a satisfactory education service of combined Government and grant-in-aid efforts.\n\nDihorTwin 4.1.47", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-3 Education Department- revised grant code 24-10-1945 - 11-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578308, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "content_text": "SECRET\n\nHONG KONG\n\nCIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES\n\nPRISONS\n\n17/8/44.\n\n17\n\n1.\n\nDuring the period of military administration when the Prisons Department should be administered as a branch of the Police Department under the general control of the Commissioner of Police, on the same lines as in pre-war days.\n\n2.\n\nEarly consideration should be given to the adoption of the recommendations for reducing the prison population which were advanced by the Commission on Prisons in 1939, in particular, the substitution of sentences of detention in a labour camp for the short sentences of imprisonment which were so numerous as to overcrowd the prisons. This camp, if created, should be on the Mainland.\n\n3.\n\nColonial Office Memorandum on modern conceptions of penal administration (prepared for the Controller of Development and Welfare in the West Indies) should be used for general guidance in so far as it is applicable to local conditions.\n\n4.\n\nEfforts should be made to provide useful employment for as many prisoners as possible. This will entail the creation of a staff of industrial instructors for which suitably qualified Chinese candidates might be found.\n\n5.\n\nIn the re-staffing of the prisons the proportion of non-European Prison Officers should be increased.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578310, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "content_text": "# SECRET\n\n# HONG KONG\n\n# CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES\n\n## PRISONS\n\n19\n\n17/8/44\n\n10/8/44.\n\n1. During the period of military administration, the Prisons Department should be administered as a branch of the Police Department under the general control of the Commissioner of Police, on the same lines as in pre-war days, and early consideration should be given to the adoption of the recommendations for reducing the prison population which were advanced by the Commission on Prisons in 1939, in particular, the substitution of sentences of detention in a labour camp for the short sentences of imprisonment which were so numerous as to overcrowd the prisons. This camp, if created, should be on the Mainland.\n\n3. Colonial Office Memorandum on modern conceptions of penal administration (prepared for the Controller of Development and Welfare in the West Indies) should be used for general guidance in so far as it is applicable to local conditions.\n\n4. Efforts should be made to provide useful employment for as many prisoners as possible. This will entail the creation of a staff of industrial instructors for which suitably qualified Chinese candidates might be found.\n\n5. In the re-staffing of the prisons, the proportion of non-European Prison Officers should be increased.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578311, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "content_text": "SECRET\n\nHONG KONG\n\nCIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES\n\nPRISONS\n\n10/8/44.\n\n20\n\n1. During the period of military administration the Prisons Department should be administered as a branch of the Police Department under the general control of the Commissioner of Police, and early Police, on the same lines as in pre-war days, consideration should be given to the adoption of the recommendations for reducing the prison population which were advanced by the Commission on Prisons in 1939, in particular, the substitution of sentences of detention in a labour camp for the short sentences of imprisonment which were so numerous as to overcrowd the prisons. This camp, if created, should be on the Mainland.\n\n2. Colonial Office Memorandum on modern conceptions of penal administration (prepared for the Controller of Development and Welfare in the West Indies) should be used for general guidance in so far as it is applicable to local conditions.\n\n3. Efforts should be made to provide useful employment for as many prisoners as possible. This will entail the creation of a staff of industrial instructors for which suitably qualified Chinese candidates might be found.\n\n4. In the re-staffing of the prisons the proportion of non-European Prison Officers should be increased.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578324, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "content_text": "33\n\ntong-Chinese graduates of local industrial Colleges.\n\n11. Else involve the provision of adequate tools.\n\nStanley\n\n4) The site should be at a considerable distance from Hong Kong City and the Court, and special transport for the carriage between Stanley Prison and the City of prisoners, staff and stores will be an immediate need.\n\n5.) A successful feature of prison administration in Hong Kong has been the Prison Hospital. The needs of the Hospital on re-occupation should be borne in mind by the Medical authorities.\n\n6.) In the re-staffing of the prisons the proportion of European Prison Officers should be reduced.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578385, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "content_text": "•93\n\namong Chinese graduates of local industrial Colleges.\n\nIt will also involve the provision of adequate tools.\n\nBy\n\nStanley is a considerable distance from Hong Kong\n\nCity and the Courts, and special transport for the carriage\n\nof prisoners, staff and stores will be an immediate need.\n\n8.\n\nA successful feature of prison administration in\n\nHong Kong has been the Prison Hospital. The needs of this\n\nhospital on re-occupation should be borne in mind by the\n\nMedical authorities.\n\nIn the re-staffing of the prisons the proportion\n\nof European Prison Officers should be reduced.\n\n9.\n\n2\n\na\n\n}", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578406, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "page_number": 115, "title": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "content_text": "54132\n\nHONG KONG\n\nCIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES\n\nFirst Draft\n\n8/4/44.\n\nPRISONS\n\n114\n\n1.\n\nAccommodation consisted of:-\n\nHong Kong Prison (Stanley): - 1476 single cells for males (of which 18 were used as stores).\n\nVictoria Remand Prison: 166 male prisoners.\n\nLai Chi Kok Female Prison: 200\n\n2. The chief disability under which the Prison staff worked was overcrowding.\n\nThere were in 1939 an average of 2832 prisoners at Stanley instead of 1458. Three prisoners had to be housed in some cells intended for single prisoners.\n\n3.\n\nDifficulty was experienced in finding useful employment for prisoners.\n\nIn 1939 the daily average was 1391 men employed at Stanley and 205 women in the Lai Chi Kok Prison.\n\nComplaint was made of a lack of technical instructors.\n\n4. In the first instance the Prisons Department should be administered as a branch of the Police Department under general control of the Commissioner of Police.\n\n5. The administration of the Prisons on the same lines as those in force in pre-war days should be re-introduced under the close control of the Commissioner of Police and if practical the recommendations adopted for reducing the prison population which were advanced by the Commission on Prisons in 1939. The chief of these labour was the substitution of sentences of detention in a camp for the short sentence of imprisonment which were so numerous as to clutter up the prison proper. Such camp if created was to be on the Mainland.\n\n6.\n\nEfforts should be made to provide useful employment for as many prisoners as possible. This will entail the creation of a staff of industrial instructors which would be possible from among Chinese graduates of local industrial Colleges.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578436, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944", "content_text": "# PRISONS\n\n1.\n\n# HONG KONG DIRECTIVE\n\n7\n\nAccommodation consisted of:-\n\nHong Kong Prison (Stanley):- 54172\n\n## FIRST DRAFT\n\n3/4/44\n\n144\n\n1476 single cells for males (of which 18 were used as stores).\n\nVictoria Remand Prison:- 166 male prisoners.\n\nLai Chi Kok Female Prison:- 200 (7) - (segregate figure not found).\n\n2. The chief disability under which the Prison staff worked was overcrowding.\n\nThere were in 1939 an average of 2832 prisoners at Stanley instead of 1458. Three prisoners had to be housed in some cells intended for single prisoners.\n\n3. Difficulty was experienced in finding useful employment for prisoners. In 1939 the daily average was 1391 men employed at Stanley and 205 women in the Lai Chi Kok Prison. Complaint was made of a lack of technical instructors.\n\n4. In the first instance the Prisons Department will be administered as a branch of the Police Department under general control of the Commissioner of Police.\n\n5. The administration of the prisons on the same lines as those in force in pre-war days should be re-introduced under the control of the Commissioner of Police and if practical the recommendations adopted for reducing the prison population which were advanced by the Commissioner of Prisons in 1939. The chief of these was the substitution of sentences of detention in a camp for the short sentence of imprisonment which were so numerous as to clutter up the prison proper. Such camp if created was to be on the mainland.\n\n6. The Home for Juvenile offenders, formerly a sub-branch of the Police Department, should be transferred to the Prisons Department.\n\n7. Efforts should be made to provide useful employment for as many prisoners as possible. This will entail the creation of a staff of industrial instructors which would be possible from among Chinese graduates of local industrial colleges like Aberdeen or the technical college.\n\nIt will also involve the provision of adequate tools.\n\nThe importance of resuscitation and creation of employment for prisoners...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-8 Policy directives 10-3-1944 - 17-8-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578490, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945", "content_text": "SECRET\n\nHONG KONG\n\nCIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES\n\nPRISONS\n\n29\n\n1. During the period of military administration the Prisons Department should be administered as a branch of the Police Department under the general control of the Commissioner of Police, on the same lines as in pre-war days.\n\n2. Early consideration should be given to the adoption of the recommendations for reducing the prison population which were advanced by the Commission on Prisons in 1939, in particular, the substitution of sentences of detention in a labour camp for the short sentences of imprisonment which were so numerous as to overcrowd the prisons. This camp, if created, should be on the Mainland.\n\n3. The Colonial Office Memorandum on modern conceptions of penal administration (prepared for the Controller of Development and Welfare in the West Indies) should be used for general guidance in so far as it is applicable to local conditions.\n\n4. Efforts should be made to provide useful employment for as many prisoners as possible. This will entail the creation of a staff of industrial instructors for which suitably qualified Chinese candidates might be found.\n\n5. In the re-staffing of the prisons the proportion of non-European Prison Officers should be increased.\n\nColonial Office, 8th October, 1945.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578510, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945", "content_text": "SECRET\n\nHONG KONG\n\nCIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES\n\nPRISONS\n\n51\n\n17/8/44.\n\n1.\n\nDuring the period of military administration the Prisons Department should be administered as a branch of the Police Department under the general control of the Commissioner of Police, on the same lines as in pre-war days.\n\n2.\n\nEarly consideration should be given to the adoption of the recommendations for reducing the prison population which were advanced by the Commission on Prisons in 1939, in particular, the substitution of sentences of detention in a labour camp for the short sentences of imprisonment which were so numerous as to overcrowd the prisons. This camp, if created, should be on the Mainland.\n\n3.\n\nColonial Office Memorandum on modern conceptions of penal administration (prepared for the Controller of Development and Welfare in the West Indies) should be used for general guidance in so far as it is applicable to local conditions.\n\n4.\n\nEfforts should be made to provide useful employment for as many prisoners as possible. This will entail the creation of a staff of industrial instructors for which suitably qualified Chinese candidates might be found.\n\n5.\n\nIn the re-staffing of the prisons the proportion of non-European Prison Officers should be increased.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578531, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945", "content_text": "SECRET\n\nHONG KONG\n\nCIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES\n\nPRISONS\n\n15/44\n\n70\n\n1.\n\nDuring the period of military administration the Prisons Department should be administered as a branch of the Police Department under the general control of the Commissioner of Police, on the same lines as in pre-war days.\n\n2.\n\nEarly consideration should be given to the adoption of the recommendations for reducing the prison population which were advanced by the Commission on Prisons in 1939, in particular, the substitution of sentences of detention in a labour camp for the short sentences of imprisonment which were so numerous as to overcrowd the prisons. This camp, if created, should be on the Mainland.\n\n3.\n\nColonial Office Memorandum on modern conceptions of penal administration (prepared for the Controller of Development and Welfare in the West Indies) should be used for general guidance in so far as it is applicable to local conditions.\n\n4.\n\nEfforts should be made to provide useful employment for as many prisoners as possible. This will entail the creation of a staff of industrial instructors for which suitably qualified Chinese candidates might be found.\n\n5.\n\nIn the re-staffing of the prisons the proportion of non-European Prison Officers should be increased.\n\n1545\n\nPage 70\n\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579026, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-16 Future policy- interpretation proclamation 1-8-1945 - 31-8-1945", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-592-16 Future policy- interpretation proclamation 1-8-1945 - 31-8-1945", "content_text": "Commissioner of Customs and Excise;\n\nDeputy Commissioner of Customs and Excise.\n\nLicensing Justice;\n\nLicensing Officer.\n\nLocal Authority.\n\nJustice of the Peace.\n\n4\n\nLIQUORS CUSTOMS AND EXCISE\n\nS.0.1 (Customs and Excise).\n\nDistrict Civil Affairs Officer.\n\nThe Principal Administrative Officer of a District by whatever title designated.\n\nPresident of the Municipal Commissioners;\n\nThe Municipal Commissioners;\n\nSenior Civil Affairs Officer.\n\nS.0.1 (Customs and Excise) and\n\nCivil Affairs Officer.\n\nMILITARY GOVERNMENT\n\nDistrict Civil Affairs Officer.\n\nDeputy Chief Civil Affairs Officers and\n\nSenior Civil Affairs Officer.\n\nCommissioner of Customs and Excise;\n\nDeputy Commissioner of Customs and Excise.\n\nOPIUM AND DUTY\n\nS.0.1 (Customs and Excise).\n\nInspector General of Police\n\nInspector of Prisons\n\nPOLICE AND PRISONS\n\nOfficer Commanding Civil Affairs Police,\n\nOfficer Commanding Civil Affairs Prisons.\n\n29", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-16 Future policy- interpretation proclamation 1-8-1945 - 31-8-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579775, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945", "content_text": "1302\n\nSECRET\n\n1. At a meeting held on May day with representatives of the China Association (Messrs. Morse and Swire) the Hong Kong Planning Unit (Mr. MacDougall) and the Colonial Office (Mr. Gent, Mr. Paskin, Mr. Mayle, Miss Ruston) the question was raised as to the possibility of a more liberal form of Government in Hong Kong after the Colony had been reoccupied and \"settled down\".\n\n2. The conception was that a large measure of government might be vested in a Municipal Council. Matters which it was suggested would be appropriate to the responsibilities of such a Council were:\n\n3. Local Government, Certain land acquisition rights, Housing, Medical Services, Sanitation, Poor Relief, Public Analyst's Department, Certain aspects of education, particularly Technical Schools, Certain Public Works, Local Finance\n\nMatters which must be reserved for the Central Government would be Defence, Foreign Affairs and Finance. The following would also be appropriate:\n\n· Administration of Justice, Police, Prisons, Labour, Registrar General's office, Fisheries, Some Public Works.\n\n4*", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579780, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945", "content_text": "Ito Hong Kong Planning Board (Mr. Morss Downton) and to Colonial Office (Mr. Gent Mr. Parkinson, Mr. Maskelyne, Mr. is Caulfield).\n\nQuelque chose\n\n2\n\nlad\n\nΛ\n\nO\n\nMay Day\n\n135\n\nAt today's meeting with the representatives of the China Association (Messrs. Morse and Swire) the question was raised of the possibility of designing a more liberal form of Government in Hong Kong after the Colony had been reoccupied and \"settled down\".\n\nThe conception was that a large measure of Government should be vested in a Municipal Council on the lines of the International Settlement of Shanghai.\n\nSome speakers suggested a very rough division of subjects which it was thought would be appropriate to such a Council were:\n\nA. Local Government,\n\nCertain land acquisition rights,\n\nHousing,\n\nSanitation,\n\nMedical Services,\n\nPoor Relief,\n\nPublic Analyst Department,\n\nCertain aspects of education, particularly Technical Schools,\n\nCertain Public Works,\n\nLocal Finance.\n\nMatters which must be reserved for the Central Government would be Defence, Foreign Affairs and Finance. The following matters would also be appropriate:\n\nAdministration of Justice,\n\nPolice,\n\nPrisons,\n\nLabour,\n\nRegistrar General's Office,\n\nFisheries,\n\nSome Public Works.\n\n4\n\nThere was considerable discussion as to whether a Municipal Council should be responsible for the whole territory, including the rural areas, or whether", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584650, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "## \n### (iii) \n### (iv) \n### (v) \n\nto serve under their existing terms of service, or of accepting the terms of service recommended in this Report;\n\nas the whole implication of the principle of expatriation pay is the lack of a suitable local candidate we imagine that the necessity of special recruitment from India must gradually disappear. In the same way the necessity of resorting to special recruitment of officers from China can arise only rarely in practice. Here again we can imagine a case where it is essential to get a \"specialist\" from, say, North China, in which case, of course, the payment of expatriation pay would be reasonable;\n\nwe therefore recommend expatriation pay in accordance with the principles above stated for certain officers already recruited from India and North China, i.e., Indian officers of the Hong Kong Police Force and Prisons Department and Chinese members of the Hong Kong Police Force forming the Shantung Police Contingent;\n\nit is obvious that there are many places which, having regard to their relation with Hong Kong, should be excluded from the category of places in which recruitment would involve expatriation pay. As, however, it would be very difficult to suggest a precise geographical definition which would not be merely arbitrary we feel that it must be left to the discretion of Government to decide what places within China and South East Asia should be included, or excluded, as places in which recruitment would entitle the appointee to expatriation pay.\n\n## Definition\n\n12.\n\nComing now to the question of definition, We suggest that this should be done in the form of a series of rules or regulations on the following lines:-\n\n### (i) \n\"Overseas country\" means a country other than Hong Kong, China, Macao, Japan, India, Burma, Ceylon, the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies, Siam, Malaya, French Indo-China, Borneo or Sarawak, or any adjacent territories in South East Asia, from which a person is engaged for service with the Hong Kong Government, provided that for special reasons and in respect of any special case the Governor-in-Council may direct that India and such part or parts of China as the Governor-in-Council shall think fit shall be deemed to be within the definition of an overseas country.\n\n### (ii) \"Expatriate Officer\" means a person who, owing to the lack in the Colony of a candidate possessing the requisite qualifications, has been appointed from an overseas country to the service of the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584651, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "## (iii) \n27. \n\n- 19 · \n\nHong Kong Government, and \n\n(b) \nwho on the first occasion of his engagement as aforesaid, was habitually resident in or had his sole or principal place of residence in and was not resident for temporary purposes only in an overseas country; and \n\n(c) \nwho has his principal family and social ties and general background in an overseas country; and \n\n(d) \nwhose engagement as aforesaid represents a material degree of dislocation or severance from such overseas country, and his work and ties therein.\n\nProvided that nothing contained above shall preclude an officer being deemed to be an expatriate officer by reason only of his having before his first appointment to the service of the Hong Kong Government been habitually resident for the purpose of his calling or profession in a country other than an overseas country if before the commencement of such residence he fulfilled the requirements set out above.\n\nProvided further that the following categories of officers shall be deemed to be expatriate officers:- \n\n(a) Indian officers of the Hong Kong Police Force and the Prisons Department recruited from India; \n\n(b) Chinese members of the Hong Kong Police constituting the Shantung Contingent.\n\nIf any question arises as to whether any officer is an expatriate officer and entitled to expatriation pay under these rules, or as to the amount of such pay, the same shall be decided by the Governor-in-Council whose decision shall be final.\n\n## Detailed recommendations regarding expatriation pay.\n\n43. \n\nWe recommend that expatriation pay should be granted to expatriate officers in addition to basic pay at the rates set out in `Appendix VI`. We have not recommended a fixed percentage of basic salary as expatriation pay since this would result in irregular sums in certain instances, but have suggested for accounting convenience a series of platforms. We recommend that expatriation pay should be pensionable and that it should be payable both while an officer is resident in the Colony and while he is on leave. We do not, however, recommend that expatriation pay should be taken into account when percentage deductions are made for the rent of Government quarters, since if such deductions were made from expatriation pay, an overseas officer on the same basic salary as a local officer and of the same seniority would, if both officers...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584673, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "## 48 \n-40- \n\nFor Assistant Superintendents at $7630 per annum proceeding in the following year to $8640 per annum. They should be eligible for confirmation to the permanent establishment two years after entering the scale.\n\n## 94\n\nWe recommend a scale for Assistant Superintendents of Police rising from $7680 per annum to $15600 per annum, with an efficiency bar between $11520 and $12000 per annum. We consider that advancement from the rank of Assistant Superintendent beyond $15600 per annum to the rank of Superintendent should be by promotion and that in future the distinction between Assistant Superintendent and Superintendent should not be merely a question of length of service or the passing of an efficiency bar. We do not recommend the retention of the rank of Senior Superintendent. We understand that Government has approved in principle the creation of a grade of Assistant Commissioner in addition to that of Deputy Commissioner. For the grade of Assistant Commissioner we recommend a basic salary of $22000, for the grade of Deputy Commissioner $24000 and for the Commissioner $26000 per annum.\n\n## Prisons Department\n\n## 95\n\nWe are of the opinion that the pay and conditions of service of officers in the Prisons Department require considerable revision in order that the Department may function efficiently upon modern lines. In the United Kingdom the prison service is on rates of pay practically identical with those of the various Police Forces and we recommend that both services should receive similar treatment here.\n\n## 96\n\nWe propose that in future the rank and file of the Prisons Department should not be restricted to Indian officers but should be open to local recruits as well. We recommend the abolition of the grades of guards and assistant warders. After the satisfactory completion of an initial training period of one year, a recruit would become a warder, and on promotion would proceed through the grades of Assistant Principal Warder to Principal Warder, Assistant Chief Warder and Chief Warder. Suitably qualified warders employed as drivers, electricians or locksmiths should in addition receive non-pensionable technician pay at the rate of $15 per month while so employed.\n\n## 97\n\nWe recommend the creation of a grade of Prison Officers Grade II to which suitable local candidates who have obtained the Hong Kong School Leaving Certificate should be admitted as the result of a competitive examination. Promotion to Prison Officer Grade I from Grade II should depend upon the passing of an efficiency bar. We recommend that such overseas officers as it is necessary to recruit should be men with previous experience in the prison service and that they should enter as Prison Officers Grade I and serve a three years' probation. Before confirmation to the permanent establishment they should be required to pass the first two examinations in Cantonese. We propose an efficiency bar in the scale for Prison Officers Grade I between $7200 per annum and $7600 per annum. Promotion from Prison Officer Grade I to Principal Officer and from Principal Officer to Assistant Chief Officer and Chief Officer should be dependent upon vacancies.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584688, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "-55- \n\n## 158.\n\nWe are of opinion that the sick leave rules should contain special provision for officers suffering from tuberculosis, a disease of wide incidence in Hong Kong. Government servants are at present accommodated for long periods of curative treatment in the Queen Mary Hospital, a general hospital, with the result that its accommodation and resources are strained. We should welcome an ample provision of sanatorium accommodation for Government servants and for the public generally. Meanwhile, we consider that a man should be assured that his sick leave will be terminated only if it is found necessary to invalid him out of the service.\n\n## Local Leave\n\n### 159.\n\nEvidence showed how relatively little men have been accustomed to take advantage of short annual leave. Hong Kong is not well placed. To escape from summer heat and humidity, an officer has had to travel to Japan, to distant places in China, to the Philippines, or to Indo-China, at great expense and frequently with a good deal of discomfort. At present, few of these places are accessible. Short leave spent in Hong Kong is hardly more than extended absence from office duty, which in itself is not commonly of much profit to mind or body. There are administrative difficulties against releasing more than a fraction of the officers who may wish to take leave at the time of the year at which the leave most profitably can be taken. Further, we had evidence that there is a tendency to regard the man who uses his annual leave for the purpose for which it was given as selfish because he leaves some other person to do his work, a point of view equally irrational and vicious. It is in the public interest that officers should take local leave; the provision is ample: our only recommendation is that, as conditions in the area improve, officers should be encouraged to take the local leave due to them.\n\n## Passages\n\n### 160.\n\nWe do not recommend any fundamental changes in the rules governing the provision of passages. Some amendment to General Order 197(2) will be required as the result of the revision of salaries. We propose that expatriate stenographers on the permanent establishment should be granted leave and passages on the same terms as other expatriate officers. We consider that the privilege of free fares to certain destinations at present enjoyed by Police and Prisons officers when proceeding on or returning from leave in the United Kingdom and Ireland should be abolished, if the officers concerned elect to come on the new salary scales and terms of service.\n\n### 161.\n\nIn view of the extra cost to Government of air travel, we recommend that expatriate officers should be allowed to opt, in ordinary circumstances, whether to travel by sea or air when proceeding on or returning from home leave, but that air travel should not be compulsory unless, in any particular case, it is necessitated by the exigencies of the service. We recommend that officers on leave travelling by air should not be allowed the normal standard voyage allowance but only the actual number of days spent on the flight. The possibilities of delay owing to bad flying weather and the differences in the time schedules of the various air lines would seem to preclude the prescription of a...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584714, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "## APPENDIX VII CONTINUED\n\n(xci) Recommendation that the Prisons Department staff should be paid on substantially the same rates as police officers. (paragraph 95).\n\n(xcii) Recommendation that recruitment of rank and file in Prisons Department should be open to local candidates. (paragraph 96).\n\n(xciii) Recommendation that the grades of guard and assistant warder should be abolished. (paragraph 96).\n\n(xciv) Recommendation that local candidates should be selected for new grade of prison officer, grade II. (paragraph 97).\n\n(xcv) Recommendation that assistant superintendents should serve a three years' probation: should be required to learn Cantonese and that there should be an efficiency bar between grades of assistant superintendent and superintendent. (paragraph 98)\n\n(xcvi) Recommendation that probation officers and trade instructors in the Prisons Department should be paid at the same rates as corresponding grades of teachers. (paragraph 100).\n\n(xcvii) Recommendation that Fire Brigade staff should be given similar pay to corresponding grades in the Police Force. (paragraph 101).\n\n(xcviii) Recommendation that Imports and Exports Department staff should be given similar pay to corresponding grades in the Police Force. (paragraph 104).\n\n(xcix) Recommendation that assistant medical officers should normally be on a ten years scale. (paragraph 105).\n\n(ci) Recommendations regarding the nursing service. (paragraphs 106 and 107).\n\n(cii) Recommendations regarding almoners. (paragraph 108).\n\n(ciii) Recommendations regarding dressers, dispensers, masseuses and radiographic assistants. (paragraph 109).\n\n(civ) Recommendations regarding health staff. (paragraph 110).\n\n(cv) Recommendation regarding the classification of teaching staff. (paragraph 111).\n\n(cvi) Recommendations regarding senior masters, senior mistresses and inspectors of vernacular schools. (paragraph 113).\n\n(cvii) Recommendation regarding the grading of physical training staff and workshop instructors. (paragraphs 114 and 115).\n\nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584716, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "TENDIA VII - CONTINUED.\n\n(cxxii) Recommendation regarding demarcators and forestry demarcators. (paragraph 140).\n\n(cxxiii) Recommendation that solicitors should be given credit for previous experience in the same way as barristers. (paragraph 141).\n\nRecommendation that qualified social welfare workers should receive the same scales of pay as teachers. (paragraph 142).\n\n(cxxiv)\n(cxxv)\n(cxxvi) Recommendations regarding staff of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs and the District Watch Force. (paragraphs 143 and 144).\n\nRecommendations regarding staff of the Labour Office. (paragraph 145).\n\n(cxxvii) Recommendations regarding staff of the Inland Revenue Department. (paragraph 146).\n\n(cxxviii)\n(cxxix) Recommendation that the posts of grade IV Foremen in the Sanitary Department should be abolished. (paragraph 147).\n\nRecommendations regarding staff of the Development Secretariat and allied departments. (paragraphs 148 to 151).\n\n(cxxx) Recommendation that overseas officers who have attained the age of forty and have completed ten years service should serve a tour of three years. (paragraph 154).\n\n(cxxxi)\n(cxxxii)\n(cxxxiii) Recommendation that study leave should be given generously to local officers. (paragraphs 155 and 156).\n\nRecommendation that the sick leave rules should be redrafted to remove possible uncertainty particularly in the case of officers suffering from tuberculosis. (paragraphs 157 and 158).\n\nRecommendation that officers should be encouraged for health reasons to take the local leave due to them. (paragraph 159).\n\n(cxxxiv) Recommendation that General Order 197(2) should be revised. (paragraph 160).\n\n(cxxxv) Recommendation that expatriate stenographers should be given the same leave and passage privileges as other expatriate officers. (paragraph 160).\n\n(cxxxvi)\n(cxxxvii) Recommendation that privilege of free fares to certain destinations in the United Kingdom enjoyed by Police and Prisons officers should be abolished. (paragraph 160).\n\nRecommendation that air travel to or from ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584764, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "## \n### (iii)\n### (iv)\n### (v)\n\nto serve under their existing terms of service, or of accepting the terms of service recommended in this Report;\n\nas the whole implication of the principle of expatriation pay is the lack of a suitable local candidate we imagine that the necessity of special recruitment from India must gradually disappear. In the same way the necessity of resorting to special recruitment of officers from China can arise only rarely in practice. Here again we can imagine a case where it is essential to get a \"specialist\" from, say, North China, in which case, of course, the payment of expatriation pay would be reasonable;\n\nwe therefore recommend expatriation pay in accordance with the principles above stated for certain officers already recruited from India and North China, i.e. Indian officers of the Hong Kong Police Force and Prisons Department and Chinese members of the Hong Kong Police Force forming the Shantung Police Contingent;\n\nit is obvious that there are many places which, having regard to their relation with Hong Kong, should be excluded from the category of places in which recruitment would involve expatriation pay. As, however, it would be very difficult to suggest a precise geographical definition which would not be merely arbitrary we feel that it must be left to the discretion of Government to decide what places within China and South East Asia should be included, or excluded, as places in which recruitment would entitle the appointee to expatriation pay.\n\n## Definition\n\n12.\n\nComing now to the question of definition, we suggest that this should be done in the form of a series of rules or regulations on the following lines:-\n\n(i) \"Overseas country\" means a country other than Hong Kong, China, Macao, Japan, India, Burma, Ceylon, the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies, Siam, Malaya, French Indo-China, Borneo or Sarawak, or any adjacent territories in South East Asia, from which a person is engaged for service with the Hong Kong Government, provided that for special reasons and in respect of any special case the Governor-in-Council may direct that India and such part or parts of China as the Governor-in-Council shall think fit shall be deemed to be within the definition of an overseas country.\n\n(ii) \"Expatriate Officer\" means a person who, owing to the lack in the Colony of a candidate possessing the requisite qualifications, has been appointed from an overseas country to the service of the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584765, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "## 26\n\n(iii) 19 -\n\nHong Kong Government, and\n\n(a) who on the first occasion of his engagement as aforesaid, was habitually resident in or had his sole or principal place of residence in and was not resident for temporary purposes only in an overseas country; and\n\n(c)\n\nwho has his principal family and social ties and general background in an overseas country; and\n\nwhose engagement as aforesaid represents a material degree of dislocation or severance from such overseas country, and his work and ties therein.\n\nProvided that nothing contained above shall preclude an officer being deemed to be an expatriate officer by reason only of his having before his first appointment to the service of the Hong Kong Government been habitually resident for the purpose of his calling or profession in a country other than an overseas country if before the commencement of such residence he fulfilled the requirements set out above.\n\nProvided further that the following categories of officers shall be deemed to be expatriate officers:-\n\n(a) Indian officers of the Hong Kong Police Force and the Prisons Department recruited from India;\n\n(b) Chinese members of the Hong Kong Police constituting the Shantung Contingent.\n\nIf any question arises as to whether any officer is an expatriate officer and entitled to expatriation pay under these rules, or as to the amount of such pay, the same shall be decided by the Governor-in-Council whose decision shall be final.\n\n## Detailed recommendations regarding expatriation pay.\n\n### 43.\n\nWe recommend that expatriation pay should be granted to expatriate officers in addition to basic pay at the rates set out in Appendix VI. We have not recommended a fixed percentage of basic salary as expatriation pay since this would result in irregular sums in certain instances, but have suggested for accounting convenience a series of platforms. We recommend that expatriation pay should be pensionable and that it should be payable both while an officer is resident in the Colony and while he is on leave. We do not, however, recommend that expatriation pay should be taken into account when percentage deductions are made for the rent of Government quarters, since if such deductions were made from expatriation pay, an overseas officer on the same basic salary as a local officer and of the same seniority would, if both officers...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584787, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "-40- \n\nFor assistant superintendents at $7680 per annum proceeding in the following year to $8640 per annum. They should be eligible for confirmation to the permanent establishment two years after entering the scale.\n\n94.\n\nWe recommend a scale for assistant superintendents of police rising from $7600 per annum to $15600 per annum, with an efficiency bar between $11520 and $12000 per annum. We consider that advancement from the rank of assistant superintendent beyond $15600 per annum to the rank of superintendent should be by promotion and that in future the distinction between assistant superintendent and superintendent should not be merely a question of length of service or the passing of an efficiency bar. We do not recommend the retention of the rank of senior superintendent. We understand that Government has approved in principle the creation of a grade of assistant commissioner in addition to that of deputy commissioner. For the grade of assistant commissioner we recommend a basic salary of $22000, for the grade of deputy commissioner $24000 and for the Commissioner $28000 per annum.\n\n## Prisons Department\n\n95.\n\nWe are of the opinion that the pay and conditions of service of officers in the Prisons Department require considerable revision in order that the Department may function efficiently upon modern lines. In the United Kingdom the prison service is on rates of pay practically identical with those of the various Police Forces and we recommend that both services should receive similar treatment here.\n\n96.\n\nWe propose that in future the rank and file of the Prisons Department should not be restricted to Indian officers but should be open to local recruits as well. We recommend the abolition of the grades of guards and assistant warders. After the satisfactory completion of an initial training period of one year, a recruit would become a warder, and on promotion would proceed through the grades of assistant principal warder to principal warder, assistant chief warder and chief warder. Suitably qualified warders employed as drivers, electricians or locksmiths should in addition receive non-pensionable technician pay at the rate of $15 per month while so employed.\n\n97.\n\nWe recommend the creation of a grade of prison officers grade II to which suitable local candidates who have obtained the Hong Kong School Leaving Certificate should be admitted as the result of a competitive examination. Promotion to prison officer grade I from grade II should depend upon the passing of an efficiency bar. We recommend that such overseas officers as it is necessary to recruit should be men with previous experience in the prison service and that they should enter as prison officers grade I and serve a three years' probation. Before confirmation to the permanent establishment they should be required to pass the first two examinations in Cantonese. We propose an efficiency bar in the scale for prison officers grade I between $7200 per annum and $7680 per annum. Promotion from prison officer grade I to principal officer and from principal officer to assistant chief officer and chief officer should be dependent upon vacancies.\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584802, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "# 63 \n-55- \n158.\n\nWe are of opinion that the sick leave rules should contain special provision for officers suffering from tuberculosis, a disease of wide incidence in Hong Kong. Government servants are at present accommodated for long periods of curative treatment in the Queen Mary Hospital, a general hospital, with the result that its accommodation and resources are strained. We should welcome an ample provision of sanatorium accommodation for Government servants and for the public generally. Meanwhile, we consider that a man should be assured that his sick leave will be terminated only if it is found necessary to invalid him out of the service.\n\n## Local Leave\n\n159.\n\nEvidence showed how relatively little men have been accustomed to take advantage of short annual leave. Hong Kong is not well placed. To escape from summer heat and humidity, an officer has had to travel to Japan, to distant places in China, to the Philippines, or to Indo-China, at great expense and frequently with a good deal of discomfort. At present, few of these places are accessible. Short leave spent in Hong Kong is hardly more than extended absence from office duty, which in itself is not commonly of much profit to mind or body. There are administrative difficulties against releasing more than a fraction of the officers who may wish to take leave at the time of the year at which the leave most profitably can be taken. Further, we had evidence that there is a tendency to regard the man who uses his annual leave for the purpose for which it was given as selfish because he leaves some other person to do his work, a point of view equally irrational and vicious. It is in the public interest that officers should take local leave: the provision is ample; our only recommendation is that, as conditions in the area improve, officers should be encouraged to take the local leave due to them.\n\n## Passages\n\n160.\n\nWe do not recommend any fundamental changes in the rules governing the provision of passages. An amendment to `General Order 197(2)` will be required as the result of the revision of salaries. We propose that expatriate stenographers on the permanent establishment should be granted leave and passages on the same terms as other expatriate officers. We consider that the privilege of free fares to certain destinations at present enjoyed by Police and Prisons officers when proceeding on or returning from leave in the United Kingdom and Ireland should be abolished if the officers concerned elect to come on the new salary scales and terms of service.\n\n161.\n\nIn view of the extra cost to Government of air travel, we recommend that expatriate officers should be allowed to opt, in ordinary circumstances, whether to travel by sea or air when proceeding on or returning from home leave, but that air travel should not be compulsory unless, in any particular case, it is necessitated by the exigencies of the service. We recommend that officers on leave travelling by air should not be allowed the normal standard voyage allowance but only the actual number of days spent on the flight. The possibilities of delay owing to bad flying weather and the differences in the time schedules of the various air lines would seem to preclude the prescription of a...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584828, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "# APPENDIX VII CONTINUED\n\n(xci) Recommendation that the Prisons Department staff should be paid on substantially the same rates as police officers. (paragraph 95).\n\n(xcii) Recommendation that recruitment of rank and file in Prisons Department should be open to local candidates. (paragraph 96).\n\n(xciii) Recommendation that the grades of guard and assistant warder should be abolished. (paragraph 96).\n\n(xciv) Recommendation that local candidates should be selected for new grade of prison officer, grade II. (paragraph 97).\n\n(xcv) Recommendation that assistant superintendents should serve a three years' probation; should be required to learn Cantonese and that there should be an efficiency bar between grades of assistant superintendent and superintendent. (paragraph 98).\n\n(xcvi) Recommendation that probation officers and trade instructors in the Prisons Department should be paid at the same rates as corresponding grades of teachers. (paragraph 100).\n\n(xcvii) Recommendation that Fire Brigade staff should be given similar pay to corresponding grades in the Police Force. (paragraph 101).\n\n(xcviii) Recommendation that Imports and Exports Department staff should be given similar pay to corresponding grades in the Police Force. (paragraph 104).\n\n(xcix) Recommendation that assistant medical officers should normally be on a ten years scale. (paragraph 105).\n\n(c) Recommendations regarding the nursing service. (paragraphs 106 and 107).\n\n(ci) Recommendations regarding almoners. (paragraph 108).\n\n(cii) Recommendations regarding dressers, dispensers, masseuses and radiographic assistants. (paragraph 109).\n\n(ciii) Recommendations regarding health staff. (paragraph 110).\n\n(civ) Recommendation regarding the classification of teaching staff. (paragraph 111).\n\n(cv) Recommendations regarding senior master, senior mistresses and inspectors of vernacular schools. (paragraph 113).\n\n(cvi) Recommendation regarding the grading of physical training staff and workshop instructors. (paragraphs 114 and 115).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584830, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 91, "title": "CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "## APPENDIX VII CONTINUED\n\n(cxxii) Recommendation regarding demarcators and forestry demarcators. (paragraph 140).\n\n(cxxiii) Recommendation that solicitors should be given credit for previous experience in the same way as barristers. (paragraph 141).\n\n(cxxiv) Recommendation that qualified social welfare workers should receive the same scales of pay as teachers. (paragraph 142).\n\n(cxxv) \n(cxxvi) \n(cxxvii) Recommendations regarding staff of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs and the District Watch Force. (paragraphs 143 and 144). Recommendations regarding staff of the Labour Office. (paragraph 145). Recommendations regarding staff of the Inland Revenue Department. (paragraph 146).\n\n(cxxviii) Recommendation that the posts of grade IV foremen in the Sanitary Department should be abolished. (paragraph 147).\n\n(cxxix) \n(cxxx) \n(cxxxi) \n(cxxxii) \n(cxxxiii) \n(cxxxiv) \n(cxxxv) \n(cxxxvi) \n(cxxxvii) Recommendations regarding staff of the Development Secretariat and allied departments. (paragraphs 148 to 151).\n\nRecommendation that overseas officers who have attained the age of forty and have completed ten years service should serve a tour of three years. (paragraph 154). Recommendation that study leave should be given generously to local officers. (paragraphs 155 and 156).\n\nRecommendation that the sick leave rules should be redrafted to remove possible uncertainty particularly in the case of officers suffering from tuberculosis. (paragraphs 157 and 158). Recommendation that officers should be encouraged for health reasons to take the local leave due to them. (paragraph 159).\n\nRecommendation that General Order 197(2) should be revised. (paragraph 160). Recommendation that expatriate stenographers should be given the same leave and passage privileges as other expatriate officers. (paragraph 160).\n\nRecommendation that privilege of free fares to certain destinations in the United Kingdom enjoyed by Police and Prisons officers should be abolished. (paragraph 160). Recommendation that air travel to or from ... \n\n## Page 90A", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-4 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584841, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "## 2 \n\n## 3.\n\nConsiderable regrading has been carried out and substantial increases are proposed for the Police Force, the Prisons Department and for local nurses, teachers, doctors and engineers. Increased opportunities of promotion for local officers have been provided by the creation of new grades in many departments, such as those for assistant master, assistant engineers, and assistant medical officers, in which local officers will be able to obtain the necessary training and experience before rising to grades formerly staffed by overseas officers. Another important proposal is for the reorganisation of existing clerical services into a single general clerical service, in which suitable local officers will be able to rise to posts of responsibility. Discontent in the Police Force, particularly amongst the European Inspectorate, should be allayed by the proposal to bring all non-gazetted police officers, accepting the new terms of service, on to the permanent pensionable establishment on the same conditions for leave and pensions as the remainder of the service. Diversities in existing salary scales have been substantially reduced by the application of model scales and the Commission recommends that a number of allowances should be abolished.\n\n## 4.\n\nCertain general rules for conversion from existing salary scales are put forward, and it is recommended that the revised scales and conditions of service should be brought into effect from 1st January, 1947.\n\n## 5.\n\nThe continuance of the payment of high cost of living allowances is recommended, and a temporary scheme based on voluminous evidence which the Commission received is put forward.\n\n## 6.\n\nOnly minor changes are proposed in general conditions of service. The Commission recommends that expatriate officers should serve a three-year tour after reaching the age of forty and completing ten years' service, instead of after reaching the age of forty-five and completing twenty years' service. In view of the expense of air passages and the time taken in sea voyages, the Commission is unable to recommend any scheme of short annual holidays for overseas officers.\n\n## 7.\n\nThe report also contains a qualified recommendation that Government should have the right to call upon any officer to retire after he has reached the age of 45, and that officers should have the right to retire voluntarily after attaining that age.\n\n## 8.\n\nThe Commission endorses the proposal that an independent Public Services Commission should be appointed as soon as possible.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 585024, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 189, "title": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "# APPENDIX IV.\n\n## PRISONS DEPARTMENT (continued).\n\n| Officers | Salary in $ p.a. | Basic in $ p.a. | Proposed Expat.in $ p.a. | Salary in £.p.a. | Proposed Basic in £.p.a. | Proposed Total in £. p.a. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Locksmith | 200-400 | 350 | | | 125 | |\n| | 3200-5600 | | | | | 725 |\n| | 4800-9600 | | | | | |\n| | 1600-2000 | | | | | |\n| | 300-600 | | | | | |\n| | 100-125 | | | | | |\n\n## LOCAL STAFF.\n\n| | Salary in $ p.a. | Basic in $ p.a. | Proposed Expat.in $ p.a. | Salary in £.p.a. | Proposed Basic in £.p.a. | Proposed Total in £. p.a. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Latron | 2400-3600 | 262.10.-375 | | | | |\n| Assistant Latron | 1500-1800 | 165-210 | | | | |\n| | 2040-3360 | | | | | |\n| Principal Wardress | 1200-1500 | 135-157.10. | | | | |\n| | 2160-2520 | | | | | |\n| Wardresses | 540-720 | 112.10.-131.5. | | | | |\n| | 1020-2100 | | | | | |\n\n## INDIAN STAFF.\n\n| | Salary in $ p.a. | Basic in $ p.a. | Proposed Expat.in $ p.a. | Salary in £.p.a. | Proposed Basic in £.p.a. | Proposed Total in £. p.a. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Chief Warder | 1400-2400 | 206.5.-262.10. | | | | |\n| | 3300-4200 | | | | | |\n| | 720-600 | | | | | |\n| Assistant Chief Warder | 1200-2040 | 165.-251.5.-322.10. | | | | |\n| | 560-48153 | | | | | |\n| | 200- | | | | | |\n| Chief Warder | 1400-2400 | 187.10.-222.10. | | | | |\n| | 3000 | | | | | |\n| Principal Warder | 1000-2040 | 127.10.-150 | | | | |\n| | 420- | | | | | |\n| Warder | 1300-2400 | 153.15.-176.5. | | | | |\n| Assistant Principal Warders | 650-1620 | 101.5.-121.5.- | | | | |\n| | 320- | | | | | |\n| | 20- | | | | | |\n| | 800-1800 | 112.10.-132.10. | | | | |\n\n## Remarks.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 585134, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 299, "title": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "# APPENDIX VII \n## CONTINUED.\n\ncclxviii\n\n(lxxvii) Recommendation that the General Clerical Service should be divided into four clerical grades, two executive grades and two senior executive grades. (paragraphs 82 and 83).\n\n(lxxviii) Recommendation that there should be three grades of women clerks. (paragraph 85).\n\n(lxxix) Recommendation that there should be three grades of stenographers. (paragraph 85).\n\n(lxxx) Recommendation that postal clerks should in future be included in the General Clerical Service. (paragraph 86).\n\n(lxxxi) Recommendation that the present system of a combined clerical and accounting service should be retained. (paragraph 87).\n\n(lxxxii) Recommendation that the duties of shroffs and cashiers should be performed by members of the General Clerical Service. (paragraph 88).\n\n(lxxxiii) Recommendation that except in the case of purely temporary officers the provision of security should be discontinued. (paragraph 88).\n\n(lxxxiv) Recommendation that all Police Officers should be placed on the permanent pensionable establishment after satisfactory completion of an appropriate period of probation instead of being engaged on a series of five year contracts. (paragraph 89).\n\n(lxxxv) Recommendation that Police Officers accepting the new conditions of service should be brought under the provisions of the Pensions Ordinance. (paragraph 89).\n\n(lxxxvi) Recommendation that established Police Officers should contribute to the Widows and Orphans Pensions Scheme. (paragraph 89).\n\n(lxxxvii) Recommendation that ranks of lance corporal, lance sergeant and senior sergeant major should be abolished. (paragraph 90).\n\n(lxxxviii) Recommendation that civilian dock staff in the Water Police, motor drivers, mechanics and telephone operators in the Police Force should be trained as police and incorporated in the Police Force. (paragraph 91).\n\n(lxxxix) Recommendation that there should be a promotion bar between the grades of Assistant Superintendent and Superintendent of Police. (paragraph 94).\n\n(xc) Recommendation that the grade of Senior Superintendent of Police should be abolished. (paragraph 94).\n\n(xci) Recommendation that the Prisons Department staff should be paid on substantially the same rates as police officers. (paragraph 95).\n\n(xcii) Recommendation that recruitment of rank and file in Prisons Department should be open to local candidates. (paragraph 96).\n\n299", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 585135, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 300, "title": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "## colxix\n\nRecommendation that the grades of guard and assistant warder should be abolished. (paragraph 96).\n\nRecommendation that local candidates should be selected for new grade of prison officer, grade II. (paragraph 97).\n\nRecommendation that assistant superintendents should serve a three years' probation: should be required to learn Cantonese and that there should be an efficiency bar between grades of assistant superintendent and superintendent. (paragraph 98).\n\nRecommendation that probation officers and trade instructors in the Prisons Department should be paid at the same rates as corresponding grades of teachers. (paragraph 100).\n\n## APPENDIX VII\n\n## A\n\nCONTINUED.\n\n(xciii) Recommendations regarding the nursing service. (paragraphs 106 and 107).\n\n(xciv) Recommendations regarding almoners. (paragraph 108).\n\n(xcv) Recommendation that Fire Brigade staff should be given similar pay to corresponding grades in the Police Force (paragraph 101).\n\n(xcvi) Recommendation that Imports and Exports Department staff should be given similar pay to corresponding grades in the Police Force. (paragraph 104)\n\n(xcvii) Recommendation that assistant medical officers should normally be on a ten years scale. (paragraph 105).\n\n(xcviii) Recommendations regarding dressers, dispensers, masseuses and radiographic assistants. (paragraph 109).\n\n(xcix) Recommendations regarding health staff. (paragraph 110).\n\n(c) Recommendation regarding the classification of teaching staff. (paragraph 113).\n\n(ci) Recommendations regarding senior masters, senior mistresses and inspectors of vernacular schools. (paragraph 114 and 115).\n\n(cii) Recommendation regarding the grading of physical training staff and workshop instructors. (paragraph 116).\n\n(ciii) Recommendation that assistant engineers should be on a ten years scale. (paragraph 116).\n\n(civ) Recommendation that quantity surveyors and land surveyors should be on the same scale as architects and engineers. (paragraph 117).\n\n(cv) Recommendation that an efficiency bar should replace the present promotion bar between grades III and II inspectors of works and land bailiffs and senior land bailiffs. (paragraph 118).\n\n(cvi) \n\n(cvii) Recommendation that suitably qualified assistant land surveyors should be eligible for promotion to land surveyors as vacancies occur. (paragraph 120).\n\n## Page 300\n## Page 301", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 585137, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 302, "title": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "# APPENDIX VII\n\nRecommendation that the posts of grade IV foremen in the Sanitary Department should be abolished. (paragraph 147). Recommendations regarding staff of the Development Secretariat and allied departments, (paragraphs 148 to 151). Recommendation that overseas officers who have attained the age of forty and have completed ten years service should serve a tour of three years. (paragraph 154).\n\nRecommendation that study leave should be given generously to local officers. (paragraphs 155 and 156).\n\nRecommendation that the sick leave rules should be redrafted to remove possible uncertainty particularly in the case of officers suffering from tuberculosis. (paragraphs 157 and 158).\n\nRecommendation that officers should be encouraged for health reasons to take the local leave due to them. (paragraph 159). Recommendation that General Order 197(2) should be revised. (paragraph 160).\n\nRecommendation that expatriate stenographers should be given the same leave and passage privileges as other expatriate officers. (paragraph 160).\n\nRecommendation that privilege of free fares to certain destinations in the United Kingdom enjoyed by Police and Prisons officers should be abolished. (paragraph 160).\n\nRecommendation that air travel to or from leave should in normal circumstances be optional. (paragraph 161).\n\nRecommendation that officers travelling on leave by air should be granted actual time of flight rather than a standard flight allowance. (paragraph 161).\n\nRecommendation that officers should qualify for pension not by holding a pensionable post but by having been appointed \"established\" Civil Servants. (paragraph 162).\n\nQualified recommendation that Government should have power to call upon officers to retire at 45 and that officers should have the right of voluntary retirement at or after that age. (paragraph 163).\n\nRecommendation that the possibility of a superannuation scheme for officers at present under Pension Regulations C might be investigated. (paragraph 164).\n\nRecommendation that monthly paid staff at present under Pension Regulations C should receive annual retiring allowances at the rates prescribed under Pension Regulations B. (paragraph 165).\n\nRecommendation that the previous inquiry into the Widows and Orphans Pension Scheme should be completed. (paragraph 166).\n\n302", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 585341, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-600-4 Salaries Commission- comments on report 12-10-1947 - 15-12-1947", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-600-4 Salaries Commission- comments on report 12-10-1947 - 15-12-1947", "content_text": "## creating new posts and will be considering the position of existing social workers attached to other departments. I note, for example, that probation officers and the Reformatory School are included in the Department of Prisons. There may well be a good administrative reason for this extraordinary arrangement but I suggest that very early consideration be given to the staff requirements in the services dealing with the treatment of delinquency. As a first step, and to place the emphasis in the right place, I suggest that probation officers be transferred from the Prisons Department to the Department of Social Welfare. The Reformatory School should certainly not be in the Prison Service and would be better transferred to Social Welfare. My remarks on welfare officers' salaries apply with equal force to probation officers' salaries.\n\nI see from the list of witnesses who appeared before or submitted written representations to the Commission that the Director of Social Welfare does not seem to have had an opportunity of stating his views. It is, therefore, possible that the Commission did not receive full information on the scope and relative importance of a welfare service and that sufficient consideration was not given to the functions of welfare officers in relation to those of other technical officers. I should like to comment on this question in greater detail after I have had an opportunity of considering any views held by the Director of Social Welfare. If the proposed salary scales are in general approved would it be possible to reserve a decision on social welfare salaries? The fact that the service is a new one and the Commission's report seems to have been prepared before the department was properly established may provide a reason for further and more detailed examination of the position.\n\nW. I. J. Wallace Esq.,\n\nYours Sincerely\nW. D. Gregg \nWith Chun \nJam \nthe local \nimmigration \nPhone \ntaking up my \nAddress \nEdgware 7371.\n\nthe above\n\nPage 20\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-600-4 Salaries Commission- comments on report 12-10-1947 - 15-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 586060, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949", "content_text": "# INTERPRETATION.\n\nNo. 31 of 1911.\n\n16\n\n[5. 39 contd.] Government Analyst. Ordinance No. 8 of 1935. Prison. [cf. No. 38 of 1932, s. 2.] Superintendent of Prisons. Ordinance No. 38 of 1932. United Kingdom British Islands, No. 31 of 1911.\n\n(13) \"Government Analyst\" includes for the purposes of all Ordinances any analyst appointed by the Governor under the Adulterated Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1935.\n\n(14) \"Prison\" includes any place or building or portion of a building set apart or hereafter to be set apart for the purpose of a prison under any Ordinance relating to prisons.\n\n(15) \"Superintendent of Prisons\" means the person appointed to that office under the Prisons Ordinance, 1932. This definition shall apply to all warrants of committal or other documents.\n\nC.-Geographical definitions.\n\n(1) \"United Kingdom\" means the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\n(2) \"British Islands\" means the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (1).\n\nBritish possession. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (2).\n\nBritish colony. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (3).\n\n(3) \"British possession\" means any part of His Majesty's dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom; and where parts of such dominions are under both a central and a local legislature, all parts under the central legislature shall, for the purposes of this definition, be deemed to be one British possession.\n\n(4) \"British colony\" or \"colony\" means, where the Colony of Hong Kong is not intended, any part of His Majesty's dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom and of British India; and where parts of such dominions are under both a central and a local legislature, all parts under the central legislature shall, for the purposes of this definition, be deemed to be one colony.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (4).\n\nBritish India. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (4).\n\n(5) \"British India\" means all territories and places within His Majesty's dominions which are for the time being governed by His Majesty through the Governor-General of India, or through any Governor or other officer subordinate to the Governor-General of India.\n\n(6) \"India\" means British India together with any territories of any native prince or chief under the suzerainty of His Majesty exercised through the Governor-General of India or other officer subordinate to the Governor-General of India.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (5).\n\nD.-Judicial definitions.\n\n(1) \"High Court\" means, when used with reference to England or Northern Ireland, His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England or Northern Ireland, as the case may be.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 13 (3).\n\nCourt of assize or assize.\n\n(2) \"Assizes\" means, as respects England, Wales and Northern Ireland, a court of assize, a court of oyer and terminer and a court of gaol delivery, or any of them, and as respects England and Wales, includes the Central Criminal Court; and as respects Hong Kong, means Supreme Court, either one judge or the Full Court, sitting in its criminal jurisdiction; and unless it is specially provided that any offence is to be tried summarily before a magistrate or otherwise, all offences shall be triable before the Supreme Court sitting in its criminal jurisdiction.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 13 (4).\n\n(3) \"Supreme Court\" means the Supreme Court of Hong Kong.\n\n(4) \"Probate court\" means, as respects Hong Kong, the Supreme Court sitting in its probate jurisdiction.\n\n(5) \"Bankruptcy court\" means, as respects Hong Kong, the Supreme Court sitting in its bankruptcy jurisdiction.\n\n(6) \"Colonial Court of Admiralty\" means, as respects Hong Kong, the Supreme Court sitting in its Admiralty jurisdiction.\n\n(7) \"Court\" means the Supreme Court as well as any other court holden in the Colony; but in the absence of any indication to the contrary, the jurisdiction created by or referred to in any enactment shall be exercised only by the Supreme Court.\n\nNo. 41 of 1932.\n\n(8) \"Magistrate\" means a magistrate appointed under the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932, but does not include a marine magistrate in cases not coming within section 6 of the said Ordinance, unless such magistrate is expressly indicated; and unless the contrary intention appears, the expression \"triable before a magistrate\" or \"tried summarily\", or any other expression having the like intent, means that an offence may be\n\n17\n\n[s.39 contd.]\n\nPage 17\n\n...\n\nPage 18\n\n...\n\nPage 19\n\n...\n\n \nbe tried by a magistrate.\n\nPage 17\n\n...\n\nPage 18\n\n...\n\nPage 19", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 587218, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "content_text": "COLONY OF HONG KONG\n\nStatement showing the total Receipts and Payments for the year ended the 31st March, 194\n\nEstimated Actual More than Estimated\n\nHEAD OF SERVICE.\n\n$ C. $ C. $ C.\n\nBalance in hand on 194\n\nREVENUE.\n\nLess than Estimated.\n\nHEAD OF SERVICE.\n\nBalance overpaid on 194\n\nEXPENDITURE.\n\nDuties\n\nAssessed Taxes\n\nInternal Revenue\n\nLicences, Fines & Forfeitures\n\nFees of Court or Office, Payments for Specific Purposes & Reimbursements\n\nWater Revenue\n\nPost Office\n\nKowloon-Canton Railway\n\nRevenue from Land Rents, Properties and Investments\n\nMiscellaneous Receipts\n\nLand Sales\n\nTOTAL (ORDINARY)\n\nTotal Revenue\n\nMore than Estimated\n\nH.E. the Governor\n\nColonial Secretariat & Legislature\n\nAudit Department\n\nDevelopment Secretariat :—\n\nA. Directorate\n\nB. Agriculture\n\nC. Fisheries\n\nD. Fisheries Research Station\n\nE. Forestry\n\nF. Gardens\n\nDirectorate of Air Services\n\nDistrict Office, North\n\nSouth\n\nEducation Department\n\nFire Brigade\n\nHarbour Department\n\nHong Kong Naval Volunteer Force\n\nHong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps\n\nImports & Exports Department\n\nInland Revenue Department\n\nJudiciary:-\n\nA. Supreme Court\n\nB. Magistracy, Hong Kong.\n\nKowloon\n\nKowloon-Canton Railway\n\nLabour Office\n\nLegal Departments\n\nMedical Department: A. Medical\n\nB. Relief\n\nMiscellaneous Services\n\nPensions\n\nPolice Force\n\nPost Office, Tele. & Broadcasting :--\n\nA. Post Office\n\nB. Telecommunications\n\nC. Broadcasting\n\nPublic Relations Office\n\nPrisons Department\n\nPublic Debt\n\nPublic Works Department.\n\nExtraordinary\n\nRoyal Observatory\n\nSanitary Department\n\nS. C. A. & District Watch Force:-\n\nA. S. C. A.\n\nB. District Watch Force\n\nStores Department\n\nTreasury\n\nSupplies, Trade & Industry Department\n\nCustodian of Property\n\nQuartering Commandant's Office\n\nReparations Claims Office\n\nTotal Expenditure\n\nMore than Estimated\n\nTotal Expenditure including Balance\n\nTotal Revenue including Balance\n\nAdvances\n\nOTHER RECEIPTS.\n\nAdvances pending Raising of Loan\n\nCrown Agents Remittances\n\nDeposits\n\nImprests\n\nJoint Colonial Fund\n\nLoans to Local Bodies\n\nRemittances Cash between Chests\n\nSpecial Funds:-Banking & Insurance Cos.\n\nSuspense\n\nBanking & Insurance Cos.-Investments\n\nEducation Scholarships Fund\n\n4% Conversion Loan Sinking Fund\n\n4% Conversion Loan Sinking Fund-Investments\n\nGrant Schools Provident Fund\n\nNickel Coinage-Investments & Current a/c.\n\nNickel Coinage Security Fund\n\nNote Issue-Current Account\n\nNote Security Fund\n\nSubsidiary Note Issue-Current a/c.\n\nSubsidiary Note Security Fund\n\nThe Treasury, Hong Kong, 194\n\nOTHER PAYMENTS,\n\nEstimated Actual\n\nAdvances\n\nAdvances pending Raising of Loan\n\nCrown Agents Remittances\n\nDeposits\n\nImprests\n\nJoint Colonial Fund\n\nLoans to Local Bodies\n\nRemittances Cash between Chests\n\nSpecial Funds: Banking & Insurance Cos.\n\nSuspense\n\nBanking & Insurance Cos.-Investments\n\nEducation Scholarships Fund\n\n4% Conversion Loan Sinking Fund\n\n4% Conversion Loan Sinking Fund-Investments\n\nGrant Schools Provident Fund\n\nNickel Coinage-Investments & Current a/c.\n\nNickel Coinage Security Fund\n\nNote Issue Current Account\n\nNote Security Fund\n\nSubsidiary Note Issue Current a/c.\n\nSubsidiary Note Security Fund\n\nBalance\n\nAccountant General.\n\nMore than Estimated\n\n$ C. $ C.\n\nLess than Estimated\n\n$ C. $ C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 587311, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "content_text": "# STATEMENT SHOWING THE TOTAL RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS OF HONG KONG FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1947\n\nOPENING BALANCE:- 1st May, 1946: - $7,262.14\n\n \n HEAD OF SERVICE\n Estimated\n Actual\n More than Estimated\n Less than Estimated\n \n \n His Excellency the Governor\n $161,809\n $185,980.48\n $24,171.48\n \n \n \n Colonial Secretary's Office and Legislature\n $477,112\n $487,616.53\n $10,504.53\n \n \n \n Audit Department\n $134,802\n $97,749.84\n \n $37,052.16\n \n \n Charitable Services\n $155,745\n $116,243.80\n \n $39,501.20\n \n \n Defence:- B. A. Volunteer Defence Corps Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force District office, North\n $73,682\n $28,791.18\n \n $44,890.82\n \n \n District office, South\n $59,756\n $...\n \n \n \n \n Education Department\n $6,392,275\n $...\n \n \n \n \n Fire Brigade Duties\n $774,940\n $...\n \n \n \n \n Import & Exports Office\n $595,218\n $...\n \n \n \n \n Assessed Taxes\n $5,750,000\n $6,826,648.90\n $1,076,648.90\n \n \n \n Judiciary: - A. B. C. Supreme Court Magistracy, Hong Kong Kowloon\n $245,439\n $220,718.85\n \n $24,720.15\n \n \n \n $65,412\n $70,737.63\n $5,325.63\n \n \n \n Internal Revenue\n $7,000,000\n $12,127,252.71\n $5,127,252.71\n \n \n \n Kowloon-Canton Railway\n $11,085,835\n $1,461,979.72\n \n $9,623,855.28\n \n \n Legal Departments\n $333,532\n $...\n \n \n \n \n Medical Department\n $10,711,380\n $...\n \n \n \n \n Miscellaneous Services\n $62,837,771\n $...\n \n \n \n \n Licences, Fines and Forfeitures\n \n $...\n \n \n \n \n Pensions\n $4,115,000\n $1,716,400\n \n $2,398,600\n \n \n Police Force\n $5,849,189\n $25,343,887.78\n $19,494,698.78\n \n \n \n Post Office, Telecommunications & Broadcasting:- A. Post Office\n $908,585\n $526,875\n \n $381,710\n \n \n B. Telecommunications\n $707,644\n $...\n \n \n \n \n C. Broadcasting\n $174,848\n $...\n \n \n \n \n Payments for Specific Purposes, and Reimbursements in Aid\n $6,140,500\n $4,948,178.79\n \n $1,192,321.21\n \n \n Prisons Department\n \n $...\n \n \n \n \n Public Debt\n $1,653,120\n $5,982,600\n $4,329,480\n \n \n \n Public Works Department\n $2,888,996\n $...\n \n \n \n \n Water Revenue\n $2,600,000\n $2,538,683.98\n \n $61,316.02\n \n \n Public Works Recurrent\n $6,189,398\n $...\n \n \n \n \n Royal Observatory\n $176,735\n $...\n \n \n \n \n Sanitary Department\n $3,017,987\n $...\n \n \n \n \n Secretariat for Chinese Affairs & Labour Office:- Kowloon-Canton Railway\n $3,402,900\n $4,414,899.14\n $1,011,999.14\n \n \n \n Revenue from Land Rents, Properties & Investments\n $8,730,017\n $...\n \n \n \n \n Development Secretariat:- Miscellaneous Receipts\n $1,491,000\n $2,437,520.52\n $946,520.52\n \n \n \n A. Directorate\n $52,964\n $...\n \n \n \n \n B. Agriculture\n $337,036\n $...\n \n \n \n \n C. Fisheries Department\n $3,871,163.34\n $...\n \n \n \n \n D. Fisheries Research Station\n $259,050\n $...\n \n \n \n \n E. Forestry Department\n $907,224\n $...\n \n \n \n \n F. Gardens Department\n $349,353\n $227,570.22\n \n $121,782.78\n \n \n TOTAL (EXCLUSIVE OF LAND SALES):-\n $51,108,300\n $81,961,188.24\n $32,106,525.47\n $1,253,637.23\n \n \n Land Sales, (Premia on New Leases)\n $200,000\n $180,367.80\n \n $19,632.20\n \n \n TOTAL REVENUE:-\n $51,308,300\n $82,141,556.04\n $32,106,525.47\n $1,273,269.43\n \n\nPage 131\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n General Revenue Account\n \n $134,148,315.43\n \n $167,854,576\n \n \n Deposits\n \n $1,207,702.54\n \n $85,622,390.78\n \n \n Advances (Personal, Other Administrations & Miscellaneous)\n \n $1,904,016.82\n \n $4,403,109.26\n \n \n Advances (Pending Raising of Loan)\n \n \n \n $86,635,294.48\n \n \n Imprests\n \n $91,134,091.87\n \n $2,000\n \n \n Joint Colonial Fund\n \n $2,285,623.09\n \n $28,564,708.73\n \n \n Remittances - Cash between Chests\n \n $283.03\n \n $28\n \n \n Loan to Local Bodies\n \n \n \n $91\n \n \n Loan Works\n \n \n \n $87\n \n \n Suspense\n \n $190,506,997.23\n \n $141,655,559\n \n \n Currency Funds:- Note Security Fund\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Current a/c\n $9,117,092.57\n \n $1,000,000\n $3,517,092.57\n \n \n Subsidiary Note Security Fund\n \n $2,253,478\n \n $1,003,478.65\n \n \n - do - Current a/c\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Overprinted Note Security Fund\n \n $340,040\n \n $340,040\n \n \n Nickel Coinage Security Fund\n \n $215,004.14\n \n $215,004.14\n \n \n S.C.A. Funds:- Chinese Public Dispensaries\n \n $6,000\n \n $6,000\n \n \n - do - (Hong Kong Government Loan, 1933)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n District Watchmen\n \n $58,000\n \n $58,000\n \n \n - do - (Hong Kong Government Loan, 1933 & 1940)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Passage Money\n \n $6,000\n \n $6,000\n \n \n - do - (Hong Kong Government Loan, 1940)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Miscellaneous Funds:- China Provident Loan & Mortgage Co.,Ltd.\n \n \n \n $100,000\n \n \n - do - Fixed Deposits\n \n $68,301.71\n \n \n \n \n Education Scholarships\n \n \n \n \n \n \n - do - Investments & Fixed Deposits\n \n $3,031,685.80\n \n $3,031,685.80\n \n \n Conversion Loan Sinking Fund\n \n $80,920,000\n \n $80,920,000\n \n \n - do - Sterling Investment\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Banking & Insurance Companies\n \n \n \n \n \n \n - do - Sterling Investment\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supreme Court (Official Administrator, Trustee etc.)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Current a/c and Fixed Deposit\n \n $2,940,160.80\n \n $2,940,160.80\n \n \n Grant Schools Provident Fund\n \n $138,623.75\n \n \n \n \n - do - Sterling Investment\n \n $1,320.53\n \n $1,320.53\n \n \n Water Works - Renewal Fund\n \n \n \n $392,063\n \n \n Sundry\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Government Loan, 1940 & Fixed Deposit\n \n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL RECEIPTS:-\n \n $662,601,992.39\n \n \n \n \n TOTAL EXPEND\n \n \n \n $652,311,833.33\n \n \n TOTAL:-\n \n $662,601,992.39\n \n $662,601,992.39\n \n \n TOTAL PAYMENTS:-\n \n \n \n $652,311,833.33\n \n \n NETT BALANCE:- 31st March, 1947:-\n \n $10,290,159.06\n \n \n \n \n TOTAL:-\n \n $662,601,992.39\n \n $662,601,992.39\n \n\nTHE TREASURY, HONG KONG, 10th February, 1948\n\nExamined. 9th Sept 1949. DIRECTOR OF AUDIT\n\nAs the absentee of H. R. Hirst, Accountant General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 587312, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "page_number": 119, "title": "CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949", "content_text": "Estimated \n\nHEAD OF SERVICE. \n\nBalance in hand on \n\n194 \n\nREVENUE. \n\nCOLONY OF HONG \n\nKONG \n\nStatement showing the total Receipts and Payments for the year ended the 31st March, 194 \n\nActual \n\nMore than Estimated \n\n* \n\nc. \n\nLess than Estimated \n\n$ \n\nHEAD OF SERVICE. \n\nc. \n\nBalance overpaid on \n\n194 \n\nEXPENDITURE. \n\nDuties \n\nAssessed Taxes \n\nInternal Revenue \n\nLicences, Fines & Forfeitures \n\nFees of Court or Office, Payments for Specific \n\nPurposes & Reimbursements \n\nWater Revenue \n\nPost Office \n\nKowloon-Canton Railway \n\nRevenue from Land Rents, Properties \n\nand Investments \n\nMiscellaneous Receipts \n\nLand Sales \n\nTOTAL (URDINARY) \n\nTotal Revenue \n\nMore than Estimated \n\nH.E. the Governor \n\nColonial Secretariat & Legiskture \n\nAudit Department \n\nDevelopment Secretariat :--| \n\nA. Directorate \n\nB. Agriculture \n\nC. Fisheries \n\nD. \n\nFisheries Research Station \n\nE. Forestry \n\nF. Ciardens \n\nDirectorate of Air Services \n\nDistrict Office, North \n\nSouth \n\nEducation Department \n\nFire Brigade \n\nHarbour Department \n\nHong Kong Naval Volunteer Force \n\nHong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps \n\nImports & Exports Department \n\nInland Revenue Department \n\nJudiciary:- \n\nA. Supreme Court \n\nB. Magistracy, Hong Kong C. \n\nKowloon \n\nKowloon-Canton Railway \n\nLabour Office \n\nLegal Departments Medical Department:- \n\nA. Medical \n\nB. Relief \n\nMiscellaneous Services \n\nPensions \n\nPolice Force \n\n品 \n\nPost Office, Tele. & Broadcaling:- \n\n1. Post Office \n\nB. Telecommunication. \n\nC. Broadcasting \n\nPublic Relations Office \n\nPrisons Department \n\nPublic Debt \n\nPublic Work Umpartment \n\nRecurrent \n\nExtraordinary \n\nRoyal Observatory \n\n-Sanitary Department \n\nS. C. A. & District Watch Force :- \n\n1. 8. C. A. \n\nB. District Watch Fore \n\nStores Department \n\nTreasury \n\nSupplies, Trade & Industry Department \n\nCustodian of Property \n\nQuartering Commandant's Office \n\nReparations Claims Office \n\nTotal Expenditure \n\nMore than Estimatel \n\nTotal Expenditure including Balance \n\nTotal Revenue including Balance \n\nOTHER RECEIPTS. \n\nAdvances \n\nAdvances pending Raising of Loan \n\nCrown Agents Remittances \n\nDeposits \n\nImprests \n\nJoint Colonial Fund \n\nLoans to Local Bodies \n\nRemittances-Cash between Chests \n\nSpecial Funds: Banking & Insurance Cos. \n\nSuspense \n\nBanking & Insurance Cos.-Investments Education Scholarships Fund \n\n4% Conversion Loan Sinking Fund \n\n4% Conversion Loan Sinking Fund--Investments \n\nGrant Schools Provident Fund \n\nNickel Coinage-Investments & Current a/c. \n\nNickel Coinage Security Fund \n\nNote Issue-Current Account \n\nNote Security Fund \n\nSubsidiary Note Issue-Current a/c. \n\nSubsidiary Note Security Fund \n\nOTHER PAYMENTS. \n\nEstimated \n\n* \n\nActual \n\nJ.... \n\nAdvances \n\nAdvances pending Raising of Loan \n\nCrown Agents Remittances \n\nDeposits \n\nImprests \n\nJoint Colonial Fund \n\nLoans to Local Bodies \n\nRemittances Cash between Chests \n\nSpecial Funds -Banking & Insurance Cos. \n\nSuspense \n\nBanking & Insurance Cos.-Investments Education Scholarships Fund \n\n4% Conversion Loan Sinking Fund \n\n4% Conversion Loan Sinking Fund-Investments Grant Schools Provident Fund \n\nNickel Coinage Investments & Current a/c. \n\nNickel Coinage Security Fund \n\nNote Issue Current Account \n\nNote Security Fund \n\nSubsidiary Note Issue-Current a/c. Subsidiary Note Security Fund \n\nThe Treasury, Hong Kong, \n\n194 \n\nBalance \n\nAccountant General. \n\nC. \n\nMore than \n\nEstimated \n\n፫ . \n\n13 \n\nLess than Estimated", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-605-1 Annual Accounts- 1946-7 9-9-1948 - 14-3-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 587419, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-605-2 Annual Accounts- 1947-8 22-7-1949 - 20-9-1949", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-605-2 Annual Accounts- 1947-8 22-7-1949 - 20-9-1949", "content_text": "# COLONY OF HONG KONG\n\nStatement showing the total Receipts and Payments for the year ended the 31st March, 1948\n\nPage 1\n\n \n\n## REVENUE\n\n \n\n \n HEAD OF SERVICE\n Estimated\n Actual\n More than Estimated\n Less than Estimated\n \n \n Balance in hand on 1st April 1947\n $\n 10,290,159.06\n $\n $\n \n \n Duties\n 185,498\n 535,000\n 240,573.75\n 55,075.75\n \n \n Colonial Secretariat & Legislature\n 691,378.23\n \n 156,378.23\n \n \n \n Audit Department\n 147,134\n 175,077.74\n 27,643.74\n \n \n \n Assessed Taxes\n 6,510,000\n 9,984,659.55\n 3,474,629.55\n \n \n \n A. Directorate\n 63,572\n 54,122.94\n \n 9,449.06\n \n \n B. Agriculture\n 341,705\n 196,719.90\n \n 144,985.10\n \n \n C. Fisheries\n 91,738\n 71,737.05\n \n 20,000.95\n \n \n D. Fisheries Research Station\n 37,930\n 12,532.55\n \n 25,397.45\n \n \n E. Forestry\n 198,283\n 170,066.48\n \n 28,216.52\n \n \n F. Gardens\n 172,312\n 169,722.56\n \n 2,589.44\n \n \n Directorate of Air Services\n 164,974\n 254,589.54\n 90,015.54\n \n \n \n Internal Revenue\n 29,950,000\n 38,696,205.28\n 8,746,205.28\n \n \n \n Licences, Fines & Forfeitures\n 3,125,100\n 7,441,657.61\n 4,316,557.61\n \n \n \n Fees of Court or Office, Payments for Specific Purposes & Reimbursements\n 7,428,450\n 9,083,326.85\n 1,654,876.85\n \n \n \n Water Revenue\n 4,841,000\n 5,667,227.78\n 826,227.78\n \n \n \n Post Office\n 3,635,000\n 7,065,230.24\n 3,430,230.24\n \n \n \n Kowloon-Canton Railway\n 5,355,300\n 6,370,059.01\n 1,014,759.01\n \n \n\nPage 2\n\n \n HEAD OF SERVICE\n Estimated\n Actual\n More than Estimated\n Less than Estimated\n \n \n Medical Department\n 122,668\n 150,835.83\n 28,167.83\n \n \n \n Education Department\n 20,467\n 113,260.08\n 92,793.08\n \n \n \n Fire Brigade\n 7,378,025\n 6,444,815.97\n \n 933,209.03\n \n \n Harbour Department\n 569,476.51\n 3,539,033\n 2,969,556.49\n \n \n \n Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force\n 3,360,156.09\n 4,378\n \n 3,355,778.09\n \n \n Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps\n 2,714.51\n 741,611\n 738,896.49\n \n \n \n Imports & Exports Department\n 72,774.62\n 612,957\n 540,182.38\n \n \n \n Inland Revenue Department\n 5,434,369.77\n 3,443,008\n \n 1,991,361.77\n \n \n Judiciary:- A. Supreme Court\n 311,563.21\n 254,083\n \n 57,480.21\n \n \n B. Magistracy, Hong Kong\n 242,078.47\n 233,209.03\n \n 8,869.44\n \n \n Labour Office\n 60,959.49\n 170,876.94\n 109,917.45\n \n \n \n District Office, North\n 1,836.38\n 58,587.23\n 56,750.85\n \n \n \n South\n 29,438.79\n 12,004.53\n \n 17,434.26\n \n \n Police Force\n 5,021,762\n 2,995,236.54\n \n 2,026,525.46\n \n \n Post Office, Tele. & Broadcasting:- A. Post Office\n 2,316,202\n 2,201,618\n \n 114,584\n \n \n B. Telecommunications\n 670,762\n 93,720\n \n 577,042\n \n \n C. Broadcasting\n 458,631\n 7,830,148\n 7,371,517\n \n \n \n Revenue from Land Rents, Properties and Investments\n 30,347,020\n 2,280,800\n \n 28,066,220\n \n \n Pensions\n 4,463,000\n 3,557,493.52\n \n 905,506.48\n \n \n Miscellaneous Receipts\n 4,456,012.16\n 1,272,712.16\n \n 3,183,300\n \n \n TOTAL (ORDINARY)\n 104,209,750\n 143,193,449\n 38,983,699.15\n \n \n \n Land Sales\n 7,923,000\n 5,630,000\n \n 2,293,000\n \n \n Grant by Imperial Government\n 9,104,861.33\n 12,000,000\n 2,895,138.67\n \n \n \n Secretariat for Chinese Affairs & District Watch Force\n 168,583\n 308,813.87\n 140,230.87\n \n \n\nPage 3\n\n \n HEAD OF SERVICE\n Estimated\n Actual\n More than Estimated\n Less than Estimated\n \n \n Public Works Department\n 11,053,986\n 1,469,060\n \n 9,584,926\n \n \n Sanitary Department\n 1,244,243.67\n 60,763,924.38\n 59,519,680.71\n \n \n \n Stores Department\n 2,487,870.35\n 6,234,521.70\n 3,746,651.35\n \n \n \n Treasury\n 206,054.51\n 199,414.46\n \n 6,640.05\n \n \n Quartering Commandant's Office\n 179,666.31\n 30,416,093.38\n 30,236,427.07\n \n \n \n Reparations Claims Office\n 1,459,335.96\n 660,759.21\n \n 798,576.75\n \n \n Supplies, Trade & Industry Department\n 643,754\n 600,734.27\n \n 43,019.73\n \n \n Custodian of Property\n -92,980\n 148,637.48\n 241,617.48\n \n \n \n Public Relations Office\n -267,741.59\n 444,377.75\n 712,119.34\n \n \n \n Prisons Department\n 36,980.27\n -25,639.48\n \n 62,619.75\n \n \n Public Debt\n -647,932.14\n -55,146.94\n 592,785.20\n \n \n \n Royal Observatory\n 5,975,862.93\n 310,331.65\n \n 5,665,531.28\n \n \n Total Revenue including Balance\n 174,588,469.49\n \n \n \n \n\n## EXPENDITURE\n\n \n HEAD OF SERVICE\n Estimated\n Actual\n More than Estimated\n Less than Estimated\n \n \n TOTAL (ORDINARY)\n 109,839,750\n 164,298,310.48\n 54,458,560.48\n \n \n\nPage 4\n\n## OTHER RECEIPTS\n\n \n HEAD OF SERVICE\n Actual\n \n \n Advances\n 46,278,238.09\n \n \n Levies on incoming and outgoing of Loan\n 48,560,490.15\n \n \n Deposits\n 1,039,349.97\n \n \n Improstu\n 1,320.53\n \n \n Investment Adjustment a/c\n 154,432,000\n \n \n Joint Colonial Fund\n 910,000\n \n \n Loans to Local Bodies\n 3,316,491.41\n \n \n Remittances-Cash between Chests\n 327,609,858.57\n \n \n Suspense Account\n 8,710,361.83\n \n \n Note Security Fund\n 3,700,000\n \n \n Note Security Fund-Current a/c\n 1,756,987.16\n \n \n Subsidiary Note-Security Fund\n 649,000\n \n \n Subsidiary Note-Current a/c\n 106,137.87\n \n \n Nickel Coinage-Sterling Investment\n 79,399.60\n \n \n Nickel Coinage-Security Fund\n 92,448.80\n \n \n 4% Conversion Loan Sinking Fund\n 281,577.33\n \n \n 4% Conversion Loan Sinking Fund-Sterling Investment\n 30\n \n \n Jubilee Note-Security Fund\n 100\n \n \n Jubilee Note-Current a/c\n 30\n \n \n Chinese Public Dispensaries\n 3,120,970.40\n \n \n District Watchmen\n 13,155\n \n \n District Watchmen-Hong Kong Government Loan\n 170\n \n \n Passage Money\n 151,498\n \n \n Banking & Insurance Cos.\n \n \n \n Education Scholarships Fund\n 432,065\n \n \n Education Scholarships Fund-Investment & Fixed Deposits\n 2,403,859.86\n \n \n Grant Schools Provident Fund\n 1,689,000\n \n \n Grant Schools Provident Fund-Sterling Investment\n 400,000\n \n \n Grant Schools Building Depreciation Fund\n 3,034,175\n \n \n Grant Schools Building Depreciation Fund-Sterling Investment\n 1,689,000\n \n \n Supreme Court-Official Administrator etc.\n 64,530,628\n \n \n Supreme Court-Current a/c & Fixed Deposits\n 3,745.86\n \n \n Fixed Deposits\n 1,088,585,273.30\n \n \n Rehabilitation Loan\n \n \n \n General Revenue Balance\n \n \n \n Tylenoe\n \n \n\nPage 5\n\n## OTHER PAYMENTS\n\n \n HEAD OF SERVICE\n Actual\n \n \n Advances\n 23,187,404.67\n \n \n Deposits\n 55,063,515.83\n \n \n Improstu\n 949,388.88\n \n \n Investment Adjustment a/c\n 177,744,000\n \n \n Joint Colonial Fund\n 130,000\n \n \n Loans to Local Bodies\n 3,316,491.41\n \n \n Remittances-Cash between Chests\n 327,609,858.57\n \n \n Suspense Account\n \n \n \n Note Security Fund\n 3,700,000\n \n \n Note Security Fund-Current a/c\n 8,310,361.83\n \n \n Subsidiary Note-Security Fund\n \n \n \n Subsidiary Note-Current a/c\n 14,855.53\n \n \n Nickel Coinage-Investments & Current a/c\n 2,501.20\n \n \n Nickel Coinage-Security Fund\n 136,842.87\n \n \n 4% Conversion Loan Sinking Fund\n 402,205\n \n \n 4% Conversion Loan Sinking Fund-Sterling Investment\n 2,403,859.86\n \n \n Chinese Public Dispensaries\n \n \n \n District Watchmen\n \n \n \n District Watchmen-Hong Kong Government Loan\n 13,035\n \n \n Passage Money-Hong Kong Government Loan\n 299,047.42\n \n \n Banking & Insurance Cos.-Sterling Investment\n 2,403,859.86\n \n \n Education Scholarships Fund\n \n \n \n Education Scholarships Fund-Hong Kong Government Loan\n 3,120,970.40\n \n \n Grant Schools Provident Fund\n 125,724\n \n \n Grant Schools Provident Fund-Sterling Investment\n 64,000\n \n \n Grant Schools Building Depreciation Fund\n 66,173\n \n \n Grant Schools Building Depreciation Fund-Sterling Investment\n \n \n \n Supreme Court-Official Administrator etc.\n \n \n \n Supreme Court-Current a/c & Fixed Deposits\n \n \n \n Fixed Deposits\n \n \n \n Overprinted Note Security Fund\n \n \n \n Rehabilitation Loan\n \n \n \n General Revenue Balance\n 64,530,628.02\n \n \n Tylenoe\n 24,020.86\n \n\nThe Treasury, Hong Kong, 6 October 1948\n\nExamined. M. Tummy. Director of Audit. 10th May, 1949.\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-605-2 Annual Accounts- 1947-8 22-7-1949 - 20-9-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 588608, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947", "content_text": "46\n\ntime the Indian Contingent will be gradually run down and consideration will be given to the possibility of raising a new contingent drawn from Chinese other than Cantonese. It is considered that the presence of at least 300 well-trained Indian Police is for the time being essential not only to strengthen the Police Force as a whole but also as a safeguard in circumstances in which it might not be possible to rely on the loyalty and effectiveness of the local Cantonese contingent.\n\n40\n\nI take this opportunity of reporting that similar action in respect of the Indian Prison Officers was initiated in February, 1947, when, with the consent of the Punjab Government, a European Prisons Officer was despatched to Lahore to organize the return to Hong Kong of all Indian Prison Officers, none of whom it is proposed to retire on abolition of office. This action was necessitated by the proven unreliability of the Cantonese and other local Prison staff which has been recruited since the re-occupation.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nMt.\n\nOFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT.\n\n2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589847, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948", "content_text": "14.5, N. (Continued)\n\nGertrude Tieng Wos, Mrs. Ong. For services to the Blood Transfusion Service, Singapore,\n\nAlfred Eric Peters, Esq., Keeper of Prisons, Antigua, Leeward Islands,\n\nHenry William Pledge, Esq., Staff Officer, Crown Agents for the Colonies.\n\nFrancis Ramadhani, Esq., Staff Grade Clerk, Tanganyika Local Civil Service.\n\nGershom Adolphus Ricketts, Esq. For services to education and technical training in Nigeria.\n\nThe Reverend David Maxwell-Robertson, Principal, Luates School, Northern Rhodesia.\n\nBenedict Aloysius Skelchy, Esq. For services to the Co-operative Society Movement in the Malayan Union.\n\nHoward Emmott Dunscomb Smith, Esq. For services to horticulture in Bermuda,\n\nEvgenia, Mrs. Theodoton. Cyprus For public services in\n\nArthur George Whitehead, Esq., Chief Draughtsman, Lands and Mines Department, Tanganyika.\n\nWilfred Augustine Keyinde Williams, Esq., Office Assistant, Public Works Department, Sierra Leone.\n\nM.B.E. (Honorary).\n\nChe Abdul Muan bin Rahmat, lately Penghulu of Tanjong Karang, Malayan Union.\n\nMohamed Hussein, Sheikh of the Tarika at Sheikh, British Somaliland.\n\nAmritlal Kashiram Jani, Esq., Clerk, Special Grade, Zanzibar.\n\nHusni Khalifa, Esq., Mayor of Acre, Palestine.\n\nMoshe Koffy, Esq., Senior Accountant, Palestine.\n\nMiss Elaine Lublat, Education Officer, Palestine.\n\nPage 161\n\nMiss Laura Adolfine Madsen, Nursing Sister, Sudan United Mission, Danish Branch, Numan, Adamawa Province, Nigeria.\n\nMoung Choo Yah, Secretary to the Town Board, Kuala Lumpur, Malayan Union.\n\nRwang Pam, Headmaster, Rivom Elementary School, Plateau Province, Nigeria.\n\n/BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL.\n\nPage 162", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 591152, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-611-4 Development Committee- reports on various aspects 11-12-1945 - 14-7-1947", "page_number": 108, "title": "CO129-611-4 Development Committee- reports on various aspects 11-12-1945 - 14-7-1947", "content_text": "## \nThe products would be distributed as follows – \nFactories, dockyards, etc., employing labour and feeding their staff. \nSchools. \nHospitals and prisons. \nRetail shops and restaurants. \nFood kitchens and restaurants for the indigent and very poor. \nShipping companies. \nExport to China and elsewhere. \n\nAgar and I are convinced that it would be possible to manufacture attractive biscuits from wheat flour, soybean flour, peanut meal, etc., which would find a ready sale with the shipping companies. Labour is cheap in Hong Kong and there is no reason why we should not make an improved ship's (lifeboat) biscuit that would more than satisfy Board of Trade requirements, and be cheaper than elsewhere. In addition, fancy biscuits, cocktail biscuits, breakfast goods, malt and fish oil extracts, vitamin concentrates, etc., are all practicable. \n\nI am certain that given a start and the right publicity a Food Factory on the lines outlined here could pay its way and help in no small measure to combat malnutrition amongst the local populace and might even, by its example, stretch to China.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-611-4 Development Committee- reports on various aspects 11-12-1945 - 14-7-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 593951, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-616-3 Prevention of Corruption Ordinance- 1948 7-8-1948 - 21-10-1948", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-616-3 Prevention of Corruption Ordinance- 1948 7-8-1948 - 21-10-1948", "content_text": "16 \n\n[s. 39 contd.] **Government Analyst**. **Ordinance No. 8 of 1935**. \n\n**Prison**. \n\n[cf. **No. 38 of 1932**, s. 2.] \n\n**Superintendent of Prisons**. **Ordinance No. 38 of 1932**. \n\n**United Kingdom**. \n\n**British Islands**. \n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (1). \n\n**British possession**. \n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (2). \n\n**British colony**. \n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (3). \n\n**No. 31 of 1911**. \n\n## INTERPRETATION\n\n(13) \"**Government Analyst**\" includes for the purposes of all Ordinances any analyst appointed by the Governor under the **Adulterated Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1935**.\n\n(14) \"**Prison**\" includes any place or building or portion of a building set apart or hereafter to be set apart for the purpose of a prison under any Ordinance relating to prisons.\n\n(15) \"**Superintendent of Prisons**\" means the person appointed to that office under the **Prisons Ordinance, 1932**. This definition shall apply to all warrants of committal or other documents.\n\n### C.-Geographical definitions\n\n(1) \"**United Kingdom**\" means the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\n(2) \"**British Islands**\" means the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.\n\n(3) \"**British possession**\" means any part of His Majesty's dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom; and where parts of such dominions are under both a central and a local legislature, all parts under the central legislature shall, for the purposes of this definition, be deemed to be one British possession.\n\n66 \n\n(4) \"**British colony**\" or \"colony\" means, where the Colony of Hong Kong is not intended, any part of His Majesty's dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom and of British India; and where parts of such dominions are under both a central and a local legislature, all parts under the central legislature shall, for the purposes of this definition, be deemed to be one colony.\n\n**British India**. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (4). \n\n**India**. 52 & 53 Vict.\n\n(5) \"**British India**\" means all territories and places within His Majesty's dominions which are for the time being governed by His Majesty through the Governor-General of India, or through any Governor or other officer subordinate to the Governor-General of India.\n\n(6) \"**India**\" means British India together with any territories of any native prince or chief under the suzerainty of His Majesty.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-616-3 Prevention of Corruption Ordinance- 1948 7-8-1948 - 21-10-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596766, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951", "content_text": "6\n\nActual Expenditure\n\n1947-48\n\nEXPENDITURE\n\nAbstract of actual and estimated expenditure for the period 1947 to 1951\n\nHEAD OF EXPENDITURE.\n\nApproved Estimate\n\n1949-50\n\n$4\n\nApproved Estimate for 1950-51\n\nREVENUE\n\nActual Expenditure\n\n1948-49\n\nDETAILS OF REVENUE\n\nApproved Estimate 1949-50\n\nEstimate 1950-51\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n240,574\n\n212,680\n\n231,297\n\n230,285\n\n$\n\n1. H.E. the Governor\n\n2. Agriculture Department\n\n3. Audit Department\n\n196,720\n\n357,814\n\n730,228\n\n813,135\n\n1-DUTIES\n\n175,078\n\n247,328\n\n243,807\n\n247,023\n\n4. Civil Aviation Department\n\n254,590\n\n566,641\n\n834,430\n\n1,136,379\n\n5. Colonial Secretariat and Legislature\n\n691,378\n\n954,861\n\n1,098,644\n\n1,177,833\n\n1.\n\nImport duty on hydrocarbon oils\n\n5,750,000\n\n2.\n\nImport duty on liquor\n\n6,000,000\n\n7,000,000 (1)\n\n6,000,000\n\n6. Department of Commerce and In-\n\n3.\n\nImport duty on perfumed spirits\n\n250,000\n\ndustry\n\n554,370\n\n1,037,651\n\n1,288,179\n\n1,236,167\n\n4.\n\nImport duty on tobacco\n\n16,250,000\n\n7. Co-operatives and Marketing\n\n5.\n\nDuty on locally-manufactured liquor\n\n2,500,000\n\n300,000 (2)\n\n18,000,000\n\n3,000,000 (1)\n\n(3)\n\nA-Fish Marketing Organiza-\n\ntion\n\n6.\n\n73,927\n\n79,322\n\nDuty on proprietary medicines and toilet preparations.\n\n2,500,000\n\n3,000,000 (2)\n\n7.\n\nDuty on table waters\n\n1,000,000\n\n2,000,000 (1) (4)\n\n14. Hong Kong Defence Force\n\nB-Vegetable Marketing Or-\n\nganization\n\n8. District Office New Territories\n\n9. Education Department\n\n10. Fire Brigade\n\n11. Fisheries Department\n\n12. Forestry Department\n\n13. Gardens Department\n\nA-Hong Kong Regiment\n\nB-Hong Kong Naval Force\n\nC-Hong Kong Auxiliary Air\n\nForce\n\n15. Inland Revenue Department\n\n84,084\n\n76,225\n\nTotal\n\n150,836\n\n6,444,816\n\n365,267\n\n11,703,081\n\n365,990\n\n383,208\n\n34,250,000\n\n39,300,000\n\n5,085,335\n\n5,443,781\n\n2-RATES\n\n569,476\n\n947,603\n\n1,184,104\n\n1,382,027\n\n71,737\n\n62,602\n\n121,593\n\n106,641\n\n176,066\n\n483,086\n\n429,896\n\n169,723\n\n413,949\n\n349,381\n\n410,230\n\n341,487\n\n1.\n\nHong Kong\n\nKowloon\n\n10,000,000\n\n13,000,000\n\n5,500,000\n\n3.\n\nNew Territories\n\n16,300\n\n72,775\n\n620,392\n\n2,285,303\n\n2,714\n\n47,267\n\n209,282\n\n1,049,316\n\n568,567\n\nTotal\n\n15,516,300\n\n8,500,000 (5)\n\n18,000 (5)\n\n21,518,000\n\n000\n\n(5)\n\n135,930\n\n123,400\n\n3-INTERNAL REVENUE\n\n311,569\n\n593,096\n\n815,205\n\n889,555\n\n16. Kowloon Canton Railway\n\n2,995,237\n\n4,361,198\n\n5,443,695\n\n5,007,031\n\n1.\n\nBets and sweeps tax\n\n136,888\n\n236,845\n\n286,335\n\n291,119\n\n3,500,000\n\n17. Labour Department\n\n2.\n\nBusiness registration tax\n\n18. Legal Department\n\n308,814\n\n524,189\n\n372,874\n\n657,443\n\n4,000,000 (6)\n\n6,000,000\n\n(7)\n\n3.\n\nDance halls tax\n\n19. Magistracies\n\n4.\n\nEarnings and profits tax\n\nA-Hong Kong Magistracy\n\n92,835\n\n116,389\n\n130,099\n\n135,798\n\n375,000\n\n40,000,000\n\n500,000 (6)\n\n44,000,000\n\n(8)\n\n5.\n\nEntertainment tax\n\nB--Kowloon Magistracy\n\n63,313\n\n104,987\n\n112,782\n\n114,509\n\n3,500,000\n\n6.\n\nEstate duty\n\n5,000,000 (6)\n\n20. Marine Department\n\n3,368,156\n\n4,275,932\n\n4,934,137\n\n6,169,258\n\n7.\n\nMeals and liquor tax\n\n2,000,000\n\n2,000,000\n\n21. Medical Department\n\n7,023,423\n\n12,924,505\n\n12,749,022\n\n12,668,351\n\n2,750,000\n\n3,000,000 (6)\n\n8.\n\nStamp duties\n\n22. Miscellaneous Services\n\n60,763,921\n\n57,386,656\n\n37,832,100\n\n37,521,500\n\n9,400,000\n\n12,000,000\n\n(4)\n\n23. Pensions\n\n5,922,336\n\n24. Police Force\n\n6,627,702\n\n6,499,716\n\n10,715,689\n\n6,720,000\n\n12,633,722\n\n7,870,000\n\n15,553,762\n\nTotal\n\n61,525,000\n\n76,500,000\n\n25. Post Office, Broadcasting, and Tele-\n\n4-LICENCES, FINES, AND FORFEITURES\n\ncommunications\n\nA-Post Office\n\n1,668,270\n\nB-Broadcasting\n\nC-Telecommunications\n\n26. Prisons Department\n\n27. Public Debt\n\n201,632\n\n615,615\n\n2,514,370\n\n2,932,582\n\n242,614\n\n784,289\n\n3,030,449\n\n3,664,958\n\n345,899\n\n979,314\n\n3,934,617\n\n4,195,644\n\nA-LICENCES\n\n422,833\n\n1.\n\nAir services\n\n955,979\n\n3,500\n\n5,000\n\n2.\n\nArms\n\n(9)\n\n4,268,341\n\n30,000\n\n30,000\n\n3.\n\nAuctioneers\n\n1,862,285\n\n4,009,900\n\n5,486,841\n\n5,084,631\n\n1,800\n\n1,800\n\n4.\n\nBakehouses\n\n28. Public Relations Office\n\n56,023\n\n72,494\n\n141,808\n\n192,042\n\n9,000\n\n9,000\n\n5.\n\nBanks\n\n29. Public Works Department\n\n2,487,870\n\n3,643,255\n\n4,349,180\n\n5,434,368\n\n600,000\n\n700,000\n\n(3)\n\n6.\n\nBilliard tables\n\n30. Public Works Recurrent\n\n6,234,522\n\n9,747,900\n\n12,632,000\n\n16,633,000\n\n5,700\n\n6,000\n\n(3)\n\n7.\n\nBoats\n\n31. Public Works Non-Recurrent\n\n886,055\n\n2,604,141\n\n19,618,000\n\n29,184,563\n\n250,000\n\n350,000\n\n8.\n\nCafes\n\n(10)\n\n32. Rating and Valuation Department.\n\n161,644\n\n196,901\n\n212,259\n\n5,500\n\n6,000\n\n(3)\n\n9.\n\nCattle, goats, and swine\n\n33. Registrar General's Department\n\n166,750\n\n196,351\n\n9,000\n\n5,000\n\n10.\n\nChinese boarding houses\n\n(11)\n\n34. Royal Observatory\n\n35. Sanitary Department and Urban\n\nCouncil\n\n36. Secretariat for Chinese Affairs\n\nA-Secretariat for Chinese\n\nAffairs\n\nC-District Watch Force\n\n199,414\n\n1,761,802\n\n291,386\n\n4,313,058\n\n404,588\n\n5,724,186\n\n415,046\n\n14,000\n\n20,000\n\n11.\n\nCompanies, local registers\n\n(9)\n\n25,000\n\n25,000\n\n12.\n\nDairies\n\n7,444,297\n\n2,000\n\n2,000\n\n13.\n\nDance halls\n\n7,200\n\n7,200\n\n14.\n\nDangerous goods\n\n30,000\n\n35,000\n\n(9)\n\n179,666\n\nB-Social Welfare Office\n\n1,244,244\n\n52,709\n\n172,759\n\n1,005,033\n\n177,111\n\n187,031\n\n15.\n\nDangerous and offensive trades\n\n25,000\n\n27,000 (9)\n\n16.\n\nDogs\n\n812,176\n\n756,341\n\n70,000\n\n70,000\n\n17.\n\n183,343\n\n186,069\n\n168,131\n\nElectric signs\n\n250,000\n\n(7)\n\n18.\n\nEmigration passage brokers\n\n37. Statistical Department\n\n3,200\n\n3,200\n\n19.\n\nFactories\n\nA-Statistical Department\n\n114,606\n\n131,188\n\n131,707\n\n100,000\n\n100,000\n\n20.\n\nFerries\n\nB-Registration Branch\n\n297,560\n\n414,000\n\n422,400\n\n38. Stores Department\n\n8,175,983\n\n7,874,312\n\n6,591,432\n\n39. Subventions\n\n199,396\n\n878,547\n\n13,245,721\n\n5,564,002\n\n14,326,900\n\n21.\n\nFishing stakes and stations\n\n(9)\n\n800\n\n800\n\n22.\n\nFood factories\n\n20,000\n\n25,000\n\n(9)\n\n40. Department of Supplies and Dis-\n\ntribution\n\n23.\n\nFood-preserving establishments\n\n25,000\n\n23,000\n\n680,734\n\n731,968\n\n792,486\n\n41. Supreme Court\n\n242,078\n\n329,041\n\n422,381\n\n42. Treasury\n\n754,906\n\n726,224\n\n780,245\n\n832,349\n\n448,103\n\n801,347\n\n24.\n\nForestry, New Territories\n\n4,000\n\n4,000\n\n25.\n\n26.\n\nGame\n\n20,000\n\n30,000\n\nHawkers\n\na at a\n\n(11)\n\n500,000\n\n500,000\n\n43. Colonial Development and Welfare\n\n27.\n\n44. Custodian of Property\n\n118,637\n\n57,993\n\n42,600\n\n42,156\n\n45. Quartering Authority\n\n46. Essential Services Corps\n\n204,199\n\n185,851\n\n30.\n\nLiquor\n\n31.\n\n28.\n\nJunks\n\nLaundries\n\nMarine-store dealers\n\n80,000\n\n80,000\n\n5,000\n\n6,300\n\n850,000\n\n900,000\n\n35,000\n\n60,000\n\nDevelopment Secretariat\n\nA-Directorate\n\nDistrict Office, South\n\n32.\n\nMarriage\n\n24,000\n\n24,000\n\nâââ\n\n(9)\n\n(9) (10)\n\n(9)\n\n54,123\n\n48,493\n\n33.\n\nMassage\n\n1,800\n\n1,000\n\n(8)\n\nB-Fisheries Research Station.\n\n34.\n\n12,533\n\n19,133\n\nMilk shops\n\n2,700\n\n3,000\n\n(9)\n\n35.\n\n113,260\n\nMiscellaneous\n\n12,000\n\n12,000\n\n36.\n\nMoney changers\n\n60,000\n\n55,000\n\n(8)\n\nTotal\n\n127,701,174\n\n159,954,023\n\n179,924,312\n\n200,839,083\n\n85\n\n7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596874, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951", "content_text": "EXPENDITURE\n\nAbstract of actual and estimated expenditure for the period 1947 to 1951\n\nHEAD OF EXPENDITURE\n\n \n \n Actual Expenditure 1947-48\n $\n Actual Expenditure 1948-49\n $\n Approved Estimate 1949-50\n $\n Approved Estimate for 1950-51\n $\n \n \n 1. H.E. the Governor\n \n 240,574\n \n 212,680\n \n 231,297\n \n 230,285\n \n \n 2. Agriculture Department\n \n 196,720\n \n 357,814\n \n 730,228\n \n 813,135\n \n \n 3. Audit Department\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4. Civil Aviation Department\n \n 254,590\n \n 566,041\n \n 834,430\n \n \n \n \n 5. Colonial Secretariat and Legislature\n \n 691,378\n \n 954,861\n \n 1,098,644\n \n 1,136,379\n \n \n 6. Department of Commerce and Industry\n \n 554,370\n \n 1,037,651\n \n 1,288,179\n \n 1,236,167\n \n \n 7. Co-operatives and Marketing\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Fish Marketing Organization\n \n 73,927\n \n 79,322\n \n \n \n \n \n \n B-Vegetable Marketing Organization\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8. District Office New Territories\n \n 84,084\n \n 76,225\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9. Education Department\n \n \n \n 365,267\n \n 365,990\n \n 383,208\n \n \n 10. Fire Brigade\n \n \n \n \n \n 6,444,816\n \n 11,703,081\n \n \n 11. Fisheries Department\n \n \n \n \n \n 5,085,335\n \n 5,443,781\n \n \n 12. Forestry Department\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13. Gardens Department\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14. Hong Kong Defence Force\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A-Hong Kong Regiment\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n B-Hong Kong Naval Force\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n C-Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15. Inland Revenue Department\n \n 311,569\n \n 593,096\n \n 815,205\n \n 889,555\n \n \n 16. Kowloon Canton Railway\n \n 2,995,237\n \n 4,361,198\n \n 5,443,695\n \n 5,007,031\n \n \n 17. Labour Department\n \n 136,888\n \n 236,845\n \n 286,335\n \n 291,119\n \n \n 18. Legal Department\n \n 308,814\n \n 524,189\n \n 372,874\n \n 657,443\n \n \n 19. Magistracies\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A-Hong Kong Magistracy\n \n 92,835\n \n 116,389\n \n 130,099\n \n 135,798\n \n \n B-Kowloon Magistracy\n \n 63,313\n \n 104,987\n \n 112,782\n \n 114,509\n \n \n 20. Marine Department\n \n 3,368,156\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 21. Medical Department\n \n 7,023,423\n \n 4,275,932\n \n 12,924,505\n \n 4,934,137\n \n \n 22. Miscellaneous Services\n \n 60,763,921\n \n 57,386,656\n \n 12,749,022\n \n 37,832,100\n \n \n 23. Pensions\n \n 5,922,336\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24. Police Force\n \n 6,627,702\n \n 6,499,716\n \n 10,715,689\n \n 6,720,000\n \n \n 25. Post Office, Broadcasting, and Telecommunications\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A-Post Office\n \n 1,668,270\n \n \n \n 2,514,370\n \n 2,932,582\n \n \n B-Broadcasting\n \n 201,632\n \n 615,615\n \n 242,614\n \n 784,289\n \n \n C-Telecommunications\n \n \n \n \n \n 3,030,449\n \n \n \n \n 26. Prisons Department\n \n \n \n 1,862,285\n \n 4,009,900\n \n 3,664,958\n \n \n 27. Public Debt\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28. Public Relations Office\n \n 56,023\n \n 72,494\n \n 141,808\n \n 192,042\n \n \n 29. Public Works Department\n \n 2,487,870\n \n 3,643,255\n \n 4,349,180\n \n 5,434,368\n \n \n 30. Public Works Recurrent\n \n 6,234,522\n \n 9,747,900\n \n 12,632,000\n \n 16,633,000\n \n \n 31. Public Works Non-Recurrent\n \n 886,055\n \n 2,604,141\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 32. Rating and Valuation Department\n \n 161,644\n \n 196,901\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 33. Registrar General's Department\n \n 166,750\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 34. Royal Observatory\n \n 199,414\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 35. Sanitary Department and Urban Council\n \n 1,761,802\n \n 291,386\n \n 4,313,058\n \n 404,588\n \n \n 36. Secretariat for Chinese Affairs\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A-Secretariat for Chinese Affairs\n \n \n \n 1,244,244\n \n 52,709\n \n \n \n \n B-Social Welfare Office\n \n 172,759\n \n 1,005,033\n \n 177,111\n \n 187,031\n \n \n C-District Watch Force\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 37. Statistical Department\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A-Statistical Department\n \n 114,606\n \n 131,188\n \n 131,707\n \n \n \n \n B-Registration Branch\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 38. Stores Department\n \n 8,175,983\n \n 7,874,312\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 39. Subventions\n \n 199,396\n \n 878,547\n \n 6,591,432\n \n 13,245,721\n \n \n 40. Department of Supplies and Distribution\n \n 680,734\n \n 731,968\n \n 792,486\n \n 832,349\n \n \n 41. Supreme Court\n \n 242,078\n \n 329,041\n \n 422,381\n \n 448,103\n \n \n 42. Treasury\n \n 754,906\n \n 726,224\n \n 780,245\n \n 801,347\n \n \n 43. Colonial Development and Welfare Schemes\n \n 219,435\n \n 2,316,480\n \n 570,700\n \n \n \n \n 44. Custodian of Property\n \n 118,637\n \n 57,993\n \n 42,600\n \n 42,156\n \n \n 45. Quartering Authority\n \n 204,199\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 46. Essential Services Corps\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Development Secretariat\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A-Directorate\n \n 54,123\n \n 48,493\n \n \n \n \n \n \n B-Fisheries Research Station. District Office, South\n \n 12,533\n \n 19,133\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,177,833\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nREVENUE\n\nDETAILS OF REVENUE\n\n \n \n Actual Revenue 1947-48\n $\n Actual Revenue 1948-49\n $\n Approved Estimate 1949-50\n $\n Estimate 1950-51\n $\n \n \n 1-DUTIES\n \n 175,078\n \n 247,528\n \n 243,807\n \n 247,023\n \n \n 1. Import duty on hydrocarbon oils\n \n 5,750,000\n \n \n \n 7,000,000\n \n 6,000,000\n \n \n 2. Import duty on liquor\n \n 6,000,000\n \n \n \n 6,000,000\n \n \n \n \n 3. Import duty on perfumed spirits\n \n 250,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4. Import duty on tobacco\n \n 16,250,000\n \n \n \n 18,000,000\n \n \n \n \n 5. Duty on locally-manufactured liquor\n \n 2,500,000\n \n \n \n 3,000,000\n \n \n \n \n 6. Duty on proprietary medicines and toilet preparations.\n \n 300,000\n \n (2)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 7. Duty on table waters\n \n 1,000,000\n \n \n \n 2,000,000\n \n (1) (4)\n \n \n Total\n \n 34,250,000\n \n 39,300,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2-RATES\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1. Hong Kong\n \n 10,000,000\n \n 176,066\n \n 483,086\n \n 429,896\n \n \n 2. Kowloon\n \n 5,500,000\n \n 169,723\n \n 413,949\n \n 349,381\n \n \n 3. New Territories\n \n 16,300\n \n 72,775\n \n 620,392\n \n \n \n \n Total\n \n 15,516,300\n \n 18,000\n \n (5)\n \n (5)\n \n \n 3-INTERNAL REVENUE\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1. Bets and sweeps tax\n \n 3,500,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2. Business registration tax\n \n 4,000,000\n \n (6)\n \n 6,000,000\n \n \n \n \n 3. Dance halls tax\n \n 375,000\n \n (7)\n \n 500,000\n \n (6)\n \n \n 4. Earnings and profits tax\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5. Entertainment tax\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6. Estate duty\n \n 40,000,000\n \n 3,500,000\n \n 2,000,000\n \n \n \n \n 7. Meals and liquor tax\n \n 2,750,000\n \n 3,000,000\n \n \n \n (6)\n \n \n 8. Stamp duties\n \n 9,400,000\n \n 12,000,000\n \n \n \n (4)\n \n \n Total\n \n 61,525,000\n \n 76,500,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4-LICENCES, FINES, AND FORFEITURES\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A-LICENCES\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1. Air services\n \n 3,500\n \n 5,000\n \n \n \n (9)\n \n \n 2. Arms\n \n 30,000\n \n 30,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3. Auctioneers\n \n 1,800\n \n 1,800\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4. Bakehouses\n \n 9,000\n \n 9,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5. Banks\n \n 600,000\n \n 700,000\n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n 6. Billiard tables\n \n 5,700\n \n 6,000\n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n 7. Boats\n \n 250,000\n \n 350,000\n \n (10)\n \n \n \n \n 8. Cafes\n \n 5,500\n \n 6,000\n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n 9. Cattle, goats, and swine\n \n 9,000\n \n 5,000\n \n (11)\n \n \n \n \n 10. Chinese boarding houses\n \n 14,000\n \n 20,000\n \n (9)\n \n \n \n \n 11. Companies, local registers\n \n 25,000\n \n 25,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12. Dairies\n \n 2,000\n \n 2,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13. Dance halls\n \n 7,200\n \n 7,200\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14. Dangerous goods\n \n 30,000\n \n 35,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15. Dangerous and offensive trades\n \n 25,000\n \n 27,000\n \n (9)\n \n \n \n \n 16. Dogs\n \n 70,000\n \n 70,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 17. Electric signs\n \n 250,000\n \n \n \n (7)\n \n \n \n \n 18. Emigration passage brokers\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 19. Factories\n \n 3,200\n \n 3,200\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20. Ferries\n \n 414,000\n \n 422,400\n \n (9)\n \n \n \n \n 21. Fishing stakes and stations\n \n 800\n \n 800\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 22. Food factories\n \n 20,000\n \n 25,000\n \n (9)\n \n \n \n \n 23. Food-preserving establishments\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24. Forestry, New Territories\n \n 4,000\n \n 4,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25. Game\n \n 20,000\n \n 30,000\n \n (9)\n \n \n \n \n 26. Hawkers\n \n 500,000\n \n 500,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27. Hydrocarbon oils\n \n 30,000\n \n 30,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28. Junks\n \n 80,000\n \n 80,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 29. Laundries\n \n 5,000\n \n 6,300\n \n (9)\n \n \n \n \n 30. Liquor\n \n 850,000\n \n 900,000\n \n (9) (10)\n \n \n \n \n 31. Marine-store dealers\n \n 35,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 32. Marriage\n \n 24,000\n \n 24,000\n \n \n \n 1,000\n \n \n 33. Massage\n \n 1,800\n \n \n \n \n \n (8)\n \n \n 34. Milk shops\n \n 2,700\n \n 3,000\n \n \n \n (9)\n \n \n 35. Miscellaneous\n \n 113,260\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 36. Money changers\n \n 12,000\n \n 12,000\n \n 60,000\n \n 55,000\n \n \n Total\n \n 127,701,174\n \n 159,954,023\n \n 179,924,312\n \n 200,839,083\n \n\nPage 190\n\nPage 191", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 597037, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-623-9 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1952 1-2-1951 - 30-11-1951", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-623-9 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1952 1-2-1951 - 30-11-1951", "content_text": "Actual Expenditure\n\n1948-49\n\n$\n\nEXPENDITURE\n\nAbstract of actual and estimated expenditure for the period 1948 to 1952\n\nHEAD OF EXPENDITURE,\n\n69\n\nApproved Estimate for 1951-52\n\n$\n\nActual Expenditure\n\nApproved\n\nREVENUE\n\nEstimate\n\n1949-50\n\n1950-51\n\nApproved\n\n$\n\nDETAILS OF REVENUE\n\nEstimate 1950-51\n\nEstimate 1951-52\n\n1 H.E. the Governor\n\n212,680\n\n244,982\n\n230,285\n\n226,925\n\n$\n\n$\n\n2 Agriculture, Fisheries, and\n\n1-DUTIES\n\nForestry Department\n\n357,814\n\n523,905\n\n813,135\n\n1,834,967\n\n3 Audit Department\n\n247,528\n\n212,769\n\n247,023\n\n283,487\n\n1 Import duty on hydrocarbon oils\n\n7,000,000\n\n12,000,000\n\n4 Civil Aviation Department\n\n566,641\n\n773,392\n\n1,136,379\n\n832,508\n\n2 Import duty on liquor\n\n6,000,000\n\n5 Colonial Development and Welfare\n\nSchemes\n\n3 Import duty on perfumed spirits\n\n300,000\n\n9,000,000 (1)\n\n400,000 (1)\n\n219,435\n\n1,044,103\n\n570,700\n\n586,350\n\n4 Import duty on tobacco\n\n18,000,000\n\n25,000,000 (1)\n\n6 Colonial Secretariat and Legis-\n\nlature\n\n5 Duty on locally-manufactured liquor\n\n3,000,000\n\n4,000,000 (1)\n\n954,861\n\n1,201,938\n\n1,177,833\n\n1,181,580\n\n6 Duty on proprietary medicines and toilet preparations.\n\n3,000,000\n\n3,500,000 (1)\n\n7 Commerce and Industry Depart-\n\nment\n\n7 Duty on table waters\n\n2,000,000\n\n2,500,000 (1)\n\n8 Custodian of Property\n\n1,037,651\n\n57,993\n\n9 Education Department\n\n11,703,081\n\n1,154,711\n\n41,339\n\n4,476,141\n\n10 Essential Services Corps\n\nA-Essential Services Corps. B-Civil Defence Planning\n\n1,236,167\n\n42,156\n\n5,443,781\n\n185,851\n\n1,909,785\n\n29,356\n\n5,498,936\n\nTotal\n\n2-RATES\n\n39,300,000\n\n56,400,000\n\n81,039\n\n1 Hong Kong\n\n13,000,000\n\n71,856\n\nOffice\n\n2 Kowloon\n\n8,500,000\n\n11 Fire Brigade\n\n947,603\n\n1,115,202\n\n1,382,027\n\n2,419,586\n\n3 New Territories\n\n18,000\n\n12 Hong Kong Defence Force\n\nA-Hong Kong Regiment B-Hong Kong Naval Force. C--Hong Kong Auxiliary Air\n\nForce\n\n620,392\n\n47,267\n\n3,739,285\n\n88,996\n\n1,049,316\n\n1,234,507\n\nTotal\n\n21,518,000\n\n16,000,000\n\n11,000,000\n\n40,000\n\n27,040,000\n\nNAN\n\n(2)\n\n(2)\n\n568,567\n\n589,807\n\n33,607\n\n123,400\n\n177,940\n\n3-INTERNAL REVENUE\n\n13 Inland Revenue Department\n\n593,096\n\n731,308\n\n889,555\n\n891,172\n\n14 Kowloon Canton Railway\n\n4,361,198\n\n5,021,703\n\n5,007,031\n\n5,751,958\n\n1 Bets and sweeps tax\n\n15 Labour Department\n\n16 Legal Department\n\n236,845\n\n233,633\n\n291,119\n\n328,962\n\n2 Business registration tax\n\n524,189\n\n364,283\n\n657,443\n\n563,240\n\n3 Dance halls tax\n\n4,000,000\n\n6,000,000\n\n500,000\n\n17 Magistracies\n\n4 Earnings and profits tax\n\n44,000,000\n\nA-Hong Kong Magistracy..\n\n116,389\n\n128,542\n\n135,798\n\n140,507\n\n5 Entertainment tax\n\n5,000,000\n\nB-Kowloon Magistracy\n\n104,987\n\n106,173\n\n114,509\n\n124,510\n\n6 Estate duty\n\n2,000,000\n\n18 Marine Department\n\n4,275,932\n\n3,972,852\n\n6,169,258\n\n11,829,815\n\n7 Meals and liquor tax\n\n3,000,000\n\n5,000,000 (3)\n\n4,000,000\n\n600,000 (5)\n\n44,000,000\n\n(6)\n\n7,000,000\n\n8,000,000 (7)\n\n3,000,000\n\nOTO OF\n\n(4)\n\n19 Medical Department\n\n12,924,505\n\n20 Miscellaneous Services\n\n57,386,656\n\n11,675,099\n\n38,234,810\n\n12,668,351\n\n14,007,254\n\n8 Stamp duties\n\n12,000,000\n\n11,500,000\n\n(8)\n\n37,521,500\n\n50,079,856\n\n21 New Territories, District Ad-\n\nTotal\n\n76,500,000\n\n83,100,000\n\n22 Pensions\n\nministration\n\n23 Police Force\n\n24 Post Office\n\n26 Public Debt\n\n365,267\n\n6,499,716\n\n10,715,689\n\n367,938\n\n7,347,902\n\n12,806,353\n\n383,208\n\n7,870,000\n\n15,553,762\n\n398,066\n\n8,585,000\n\n4-LICENCES, FINES, AND FORFEITURES\n\n16,916,776\n\n2,932,582\n\n3,518,003\n\n4,195,644\n\n6,831,153\n\nA-LICENCES\n\n25 Prisons Department\n\n3,030,449\n\n3,360,026\n\n4,268,341\n\n4,208,575\n\n1 Air services\n\n4,009,900\n\n8,989,385\n\n5,084,631\n\n5,000\n\n10,000 (9)\n\n3,863,556\n\n2 Arms\n\n30,000\n\n51,000\n\n27 Public Relation Office\n\n(9)\n\n3 Auctioneers\n\nA-Public Relations Office B-Broadcasting\n\n72,494\n\n242,614\n\n113,000\n\n192,042\n\n1,800\n\n1,800\n\n210,024\n\n4 Bakehouses\n\n9,000\n\n28 Public Works Department\n\n3,643,255\n\n29 Public Works Recurrent\n\n9,747,900\n\n276,695\n\n3,976,808\n\n12,974,374\n\n9,000\n\n422,833\n\n5,434,368\n\n16,633,000\n\n7,363,892\n\n15,205,000\n\n437,206\n\n6 Billiard tables\n\n5 Banks\n\n700,000\n\n650,000\n\n(10)\n\n7 Boats\n\n30 Public Works Non-Recurrent\n\n2,604,141\n\n17,625,355\n\n6,000\n\n350,000\n\n9,300\n\n(9)\n\n29,184,563\n\n375,000\n\n(4)\n\n34,226,437\n\n8 Cafes\n\n6,000\n\n31 Quartering Authority\n\n7,000\n\n(9)\n\n204,199\n\n175,586\n\n9 Cattle, goats, and swine\n\n5,000\n\n32 Rating and Valuation Department.\n\n161,644\n\n177,034\n\n10,000 (9)\n\n212,259\n\n193,042\n\n10 Chinese boarding houses\n\n20,000\n\n33 Registrar General's Department..\n\n183,601\n\n24,500 (9)\n\n196,351\n\n183,283\n\n11 Companies, local registers\n\n25,000\n\n34 Royal Observatory\n\n291,386\n\n347,445\n\n25,000\n\n415,046\n\n518,753\n\n12 Dairies\n\n35 Sanitary Department and Urban\n\nCouncil\n\n2,000\n\n2,000\n\n13 Dance halls\n\n4,313,058\n\n5,040,596\n\n7,200\n\n20,000\n\n(5)\n\n7,444,297\n\n6,853,816\n\n14 Dangerous goods\n\n35,000\n\n36 Secretariat for Chinese Affairs\n\n35,000\n\n15 Dangerous and offensive trades\n\n27,000\n\nA Secretariat for Chinese\n\nAffairs\n\n27,000\n\n16 Dogs\n\n70,000\n\n172,759\n\n207,981\n\n50,000\n\n(10)\n\n187,031\n\n191,020\n\n18 Electric signs\n\n250,000\n\nB-Social Welfare Office C-District Watch Force\n\n37 Statistical Department\n\n1,005,033\n\n809,930\n\n(11)\n\n756,341\n\n3,135,931\n\n17 Emigration passage brokers\n\n3,200\n\n183,343\n\n169,774\n\n4,000\n\n(9)\n\n168,131\n\n159,101\n\n19 Factories\n\n100,000\n\n(11)\n\n20 Ferries\n\n422,400\n\nA-Statistical Department B-Registration Branch\n\n114,606\n\n121,899\n\n410,400\n\n(12)\n\n131,707\n\n138,085\n\n21 Fishing stakes and stations\n\n800\n\n1,000\n\n575,215\n\n(9)\n\n297,560\n\n161,983\n\n22 Food factories\n\n38 Stores Department\n\n7,874,312\n\n9,826,119\n\n25,000\n\n31,000 (9)\n\n5,564,002\n\n39 Subventions\n\n878,547\n\n13,861,005\n\n14,326,900\n\n40 Supreme Court\n\n329,041\n\n399,208\n\n41 Treasury\n\n42 Co-operatives and Marketing\n\nA-Cooperatives Department. B-Marketing Department\n\n726,224\n\n765,526\n\n448,103\n\n801,347\n\n5,382,735\n\n17,144,498\n\n473,361\n\n842,973\n\n23 Food-preserving establishments\n\n23,000\n\n25,000 (9)\n\n24 Forestry, New Territories\n\n4,000\n\n6,000 (9)\n\n25 Game\n\n30,000\n\n35,000 (9)\n\n26 Hawkers\n\n500,000\n\n629,000\n\n(9)\n\n27 Hydrocarbon oils\n\n30,000\n\n20,000 (10)\n\n67,834\n\n79,322\n\n67,761\n\n125,534\n\n28 Junks\n\n80,000\n\n80,000\n\nVegetable Marketing Organization.\n\n60,138\n\n76,225\n\nFisheries Department\n\n62,602\n\n94,174\n\n106,641\n\nForestry Department\n\n483,086\n\n397,736\n\n410,230\n\nGardens Department\n\n413,949\n\n297,486\n\n341,487\n\nSupplies and Distribution Depart-\n\nDepartment\n\n731,968\n\n840,750\n\n832,349\n\nTelecommunications\n\n784,289\n\n1,402,760\n\n955,979\n\nDevelopment Secretariat\n\n29 Laundries\n\n30 Liquor\n\n31 Marine-store dealers\n\n32 Marriage\n\n33 Massage\n\n34 Milk shops\n\n35 Miscellaneous\n\n36 Money changers\n\n6,300\n\n8,500\n\n(9)\n\n900,000\n\n1,265,000\n\n(4) (9)\n\n60,000\n\n51,000\n\n(10)\n\n24,000\n\n18,000\n\n(10)\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n\n(9)\n\n3,000\n\n4,000\n\n(9)\n\n12,000\n\n15,800\n\n55,000\n\n60,000\n\nA Directorate\n\nB-Fisheries Research Station.\n\n48,493\n\n19,133\n\nTotal\n\n159,954,023\n\n182,121,723\n\n200,839,083\n\n234,669,050\n\nT\n\n70", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-9 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1952 1-2-1951 - 30-11-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 597464, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-624-14 Finances- relief stores- Hangover stores and Siamese free rice 1-7-1948 - 31-12-1951", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-624-14 Finances- relief stores- Hangover stores and Siamese free rice 1-7-1948 - 31-12-1951", "content_text": "101\n\n3.\n\n(f) The Colonial Office suggested that a list of points for discussion should be sent to Hong Kong and that Hong Kong should be asked to inform us of any further points which they wish to raise. The Treasury agreed, subject to careful drafting, in order not to create the impression that we considered that Hong Kong had certain valid claims against us or to raise old matters already settled. The Colonial Office agreed that there were certain matters which it should be left to Hong Kong to raise.\n\nIt was decided that the following action was necessary on the various individual issues likely to arise:-\n\n(a) Denials claims. The Colonial Office should issue their draft dispatch as soon as possible after clearance with the Air Ministry. This passage places liability for expenditure of £1m or more (if claimants pressed their claims) with the Hong Kong Government and repudiates Service Department's liability while leaving it open in certain circumstances for Hong Kong to ask for some assistance in the light of the actual liability incurred.\n\n(b) The Colonial Office should also study the Allen report as soon as possible to see whether any factual points arise.\n\n(c) The Admiralty should reply as soon as possible to the Colonial Office about the claim for flour requisitioned on their behalf in order to state their view on the claim with special reference to the possibility of local liability.\n\n(d) The Treasury said that H.M.G. were pursuing with the Government of India the question whether the financial settlement with India left it to them to pay Hong Kong for certain War Supplies board claims, but they thought it might be possible to agree that H.M.G. should underwrite this claim with all due reservations about liability. If payments were made it would be to Hong Kong individual merchants not to the local Government.\n\n(e) In the absence of any departments who might appropriately investigate the small supplies board claim by Hong Kong against Burma, the Treasury agreed to investigate the matter in the first place in case Hong Kong wished to raise it, but said that it would have to be borne in mind that Burma owed us a great deal more than it owed Hong Kong quite apart from the merits of the case.\n\n(f) The War Office said that they admitted in principle a claim by Hong Kong for railway wagons and intended to offer an interim payment during this financial year although the total amount was in dispute. The claim was for £54,000.\n\n(g) Red Cross Funds. The Colonial Office should approach the Treasury as soon as possible on the question of the Governor's contention that any recoveries of Red Cross Funds should go to Hong Kong and not to H.M.G.\n\n(h) War Criminals. It was for Hong Kong to comment on H.M.G's view that the cost of maintenance and repatriation of war criminals detained in Colonial prisons should rest with Colonial Governments. Some easement was forthcoming since General MacArthur has agreed that these criminals should serve the rest of their sentence in Japan.\n\n(i) Kowloon Properties. War Office are settling direct with the property owners concerned.\n\n(j) Argyll Road explosion. The Colonial Office should look up the papers in case Hong Kong wish to revive this claim.\n\n2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-624-14 Finances- relief stores- Hangover stores and Siamese free rice 1-7-1948 - 31-12-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]