[ { "id": 217959, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "content_text": "Four \n\nPAPERS RELATIVE TO EMIGRATION OF \n\nCHINESE of Mauritius on the subject of labour, dated 22nd January, 1842, which, on LABOURERS. the contrary, justly regards the permanent welfare of the enfranchised negroes as dependent upon the preservation of \"the fixed capital at present existing in the sugar colonies;\" and further declares that, \"without the aid to be drawn from a foreign supply of labour, much of that capital will become comparatively useless,\" and that in addition to the very serious loss attendant on such an extinction of property, would be the still greater evil that the colonies must retrograde in wealth and civilization beyond the power of recovery within any assignable period.\" Nearly two years have elapsed since that Despatch was presented to Parliament; the proprietors in these colonies, confidently trusting that the principles it so clearly explains would long ere now have been applied to their relief, have continued the struggle, at enormous sacrifices, to maintain their cultivation; and still the remedy is denied. It is possible, indeed, that the appear- ance of partial success, resulting from the costly efforts which have been made under this expectation, may have had some influence in retarding the concession; and it would almost seem that nothing short of the actual abandonment of their properties will prove that they have been cultivated at a loss. This Committee will now only add to the representations they have already made on this head, that they are prepared to furnish your Lordship with any evidence, or to enter upon any investigation, that may be required to confirm them. If it could have been believed that Her Majesty's Government would persist in the prohibitory policy hitherto pursued towards the West India Colonies, the capital and credit which have partially sustained them would at once have been withdrawn, and the truth rendered manifest. \n\nWhether immigration may be successfully encouraged, and from what sources immigrants may come, are questions separate from the permission to convey them. Adverting to the Despatch to which I have already referred, I beg to assure your Lordship that the West India body cordially accept the rule there laid down, that all emigrants shall be, in the fullest sense of the term, free agents.\" They cannot, however, regard Her Majesty's Indian subjects as enjoying this freedom of action while they are prohibited from entering into engagements which they con- ceive, and which certainly would be, for their advantage. Free agency should have the same meaning in the East as in the West Indies. Neither can the people of Africa, who are settled in the British possessions, or who are willing to resort thither for embarkation, be considered as free agents under the existing restrictions. With regard to Africa, I cannot but deeply regret to learn that the impression your Lordship has received from a perusal of the evidence taken last year is directly opposed to the conclusions which this Committee have drawn from it. In justification of my former reference to this subject, I beg leave to submit to your Lordship the accompanying brief abstract from the evidence. \n\nWith regard to the Order in Council, dated 4th January last, my only motive for alluding to it was, that a measure which might seem to be a relaxation of the general restriction imposed by the Order in Council of 7th September, 1838, should not be omitted in the enumeration I then made. The terms are- No contract of service shall have any force or effect, unless the same shall be signed in the presence of some officer or person in Her Majesty's service, previous designated for that purpose by one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State.\" Until such designation should be announced, it was of course impossible to make any attempt to act upon the permission granted. In the communication now received in Mr. Hope's letter, no mention is made of the United States, where there appears to be greater probability that persons of\" African birth or descent\" may be found willing to enter into agreements for service in the West Indies. But these are not sources from which either immediate or extensive immigration can be expected. \n\nThis Committee having become acquainted with your Lordship's decision respect- ing the introduction of Chinese emigrants from the British settlements in the Straits of Malacca by the Circular No. 3, published by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, several of the parties who were anxious to attempt a cominence- ment of this emigration applied for licences; but, on carefully examining the regu- lations prescribed, it appears to be impracticable to enter into contracts without incurring considerable expense and risk. The licences have therefore, I under- stand, been transmitted, with instructions to use them only in case the people shall be disposed to proceed to the West Indies without any contracts, and suitable vessels, with medical officers, can be found to convey them at the rate fixed; which, \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS TO THE WEST INDIES. \n\nafter deducting the requisite advance to the labourers, it is feared will not present an adequate inducement. This source also will, therefore, probably remain un- available. \n\nThe momentous question, whether the staple products of tropical countries can be raised as effectually and as advantageously by the labour of freemen as by that of slaves,\" can never be brought to a fair trial, until the freedom of the em- ployer be as fully established as the freedom of the labourer,-and emancipation cannot be pronounced successful until that question be satisfactorily solved. In conclusion, I must acquit this Committee of their duty to those whom they repre- sent, by earnestly declaring to your Lordship their conviction-founded upon an intimate knowledge of the actual state of the West India colonies,--that without an immediate and extensive supply of labour their agriculture and trade must still further decline, and your Lordship's prediction touching their social condition be unfortunately verified. \n\nI have, &c. \n\nThe Right Hon. Lord Stanley, &e. &c. &c. \n\n(Signed) \n\nCHARLES CAVE, Chairinan. \n\nEnclosure in No. 19. \n\nABSTRACT of Evidence relative to the possibility of encouraging a successful Emigration from the West Coast of Africa to the West India Colonies.* Evidence of WM. HAMILTON, a Purser in the Navy, who was for upwards of three years in the Liberated African Department. \n\n4558. Thinks 20,000 people might be removed, with great advantage to the colony itself.\" \n\n5473. \n\nEvidence of H. W. MACAULAY, Judge of the Mixed Commission Court. \n\nI see no reason to doubt that a large number of the liberated Africans may eventually \n\nbe induced to remove to the West Indies.\" \n\nyears. \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nEnel. in No. 19. \n\nEmigration from \n\nEvidence of LOGAN HOOK, Collector of Customs at Sierra Leone for fifteen 8231.\" As regards Sierra Leone, I think that we could spare from 10,000 to 15,000 of Sierra Leone. these liberated Africans with very great ease, and with benefit to themselves.\" \n\nIt appears, by Dr. Madden's report, which in that particular has not been questioned, that the managers of villages are not reluctant to employ any authority with which they are invested. He says, (at folio 5), \n\n\"If the liberated Africans were not a patient race, inured to suffering and accustomed to privation, it certainly would be impossible to keep the population that is located in the villages in their places. They would abandon their farms, (?) and flock to Free-town to look for bread.\" \n\nYet to the persons who keep the people in this state of bondage are they required to resort to give notices and receive explanations; and they are taught by the regulations of Her Majesty's Government to regard them as their protectors. \n\nEvidence of WM. HAMILTON, \n\n4607-4611. Thinks if wages were to rise in Sierra Leone, persons would come from up Emigration from the country to fill the places of those who went: they are a fine, healthy, strong set of countries adjacent people.\" \n\n4612. \"A great many do come in at present, both from Timmanee and the Sherboro country.\" \n\n4741. \"Sir John Jeremie expected the emigration to the West Indies would be more than made up by immigration from the interior.\" \n\nEvidence of LOGAN HOOK. \n\n8244. \"The Mandingoes, who inhabit the North Bank on the Bollam Shore, are indis- posed, I think, to emigrate.\" \n\nN.B. Several Mandingoes have since arrived in Trinidad, and are to return to make a \n\nfavourable report. \n\n* This abstract was purposely confined to the evidence of official persons, except as regards the Gambia, in respect to which such testimony could not be obtained; but the witnesses cited in that instance are con- firmed by the Report of Governor Huntley. \n\nto Sierra Leone. \n\n! \n\nPage 240Page 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224794, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4]", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4]", "content_text": "In obedience to The Queen's Commands to regeraint you Which Her Majesty has been pleased to confirm and allow this Ordinance, You will cause signification to be given to the Subjects of Stony Hong by a Proclamation to be published in the usual and most authentic manner.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nANNO DECIMO VICTORIE REGINE.\n\nNo. 7 of 1846.\n\nBy His Excellency Sir John Francis Davis, Baronet, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAN ORDINANCE TO REPEAL ORDINANCE No. 18 of 1844, AND TO ESTABLISH A MORE EFFECTUAL REGISTRY OF THE CHINESE INHABITANTS, AND A CENSUS OF THE POPULATION OF THE ISLAND OF HONGKONG.\n\n[31st December, 1846.]\n\nWHEREAS the Islands, Ports, Harbours, Coasts, and Places near and adjacent to the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies are infested by Pirates and Robbers; and whereas it is necessary for the Protection of the Lives and Property of the Inhabitants of this Colony, and in order the more effectually to prevent Crime, that such Pirates and Robbers, and other Persons of notoriously bad Character, should not be permitted to resort to or reside in the said Colony, and it is deemed expedient to repeal Ordinance No. 18 of 13th November 1844, entitled, \"An Ordinance to repeal \"Ordinance No. 16 of 1844, and to establish a Registry and \"Census of the Inhabitants of the Island of Hongkong,\" and to substitute other Rules and Regulations in lieu thereof:\n\nI. Be it therefore enacted and ordained, by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the Advice of the Legislative Council of the said Colony, that the said Ordinance No. 18 of the Year 1844 be, and the same is hereby repealed, save and except that the Office thereby established, and therein called \"The Census and Registration Office,\" shall continue for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and the duties and business thereof shall be discharged and performed by a Registrar-General and other Officers and Assistants to be nominated by His Excellency the Governor, and which said Registrar-General, Officers, and Assistants shall receive such Salary and Salaries as His Excellency the Governor in Council may be pleased to appoint, subject to Her Majesty's pleasure.\n\n \n Title.\n \n \n \n Preamble.\n \n \n \n Repeal of Ordinance No. 18 of 1844.\n \n \n\nII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That after the passing of this Ordinance, the Registrar-General appointed by Ordinance No. 18 of 1844, or to be appointed under this Ordinance, shall, while he continues to act as such Registrar-General, be Joint Superintendent of Police, a Justice of the Peace, and Protector of Chinese Inhabitants in the said Colony; and that it shall be his duty to use his best endeavours to prevent the commission of crime, and to discover and apprehend the perpetrators thereof, and generally to protect the Chinese Inhabitants of this Colony; and for the purposes of this Ordinance the said Registrar-General is hereby authorised at any time or times to enter any house or boat within the Colony or adjacent waters wholly or partly inhabited or manned by Chinese.\n\nIII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Registrar-General, with the sanction of His Excellency the Governor, or Officer administering the Government for the time being, to divide the Colony of Hongkong into districts; and that the Officers appointed under Ordinance No.\n\nPage 60", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 226927, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-024 - Bonham - 1848 [3-6]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-024 - Bonham - 1848 [3-6]", "content_text": "case, but it was not considered necessary to first demand security for costs, to the amount of $5000, but even this was waived, in consequence of the Governor's wishes, in order to bring the case to issue and trial. In other colonies the law officers of the Crown receiving a regular salary or fees, are paid by the Colonial Treasury in cases in which Magistrates and other officers of the Government are concerned. When I was Acting King's Procureur General in Mauritius during the existence of the slave trade, I was paid by fees; and, in all cases relating to the Customs, Protector of Slaves, &c., I was paid by Government if the officers failed or were unable to recover costs; but by the opposite party when the same was practicable.\n\n(Signed) Charles Molloy Campbell.\n\nP.S. The costs can be recovered whenever the Plaintiffs here succeed, or they may be sued for it in Macao.\n\nTrue Copy\n\n(Signed) L. B. Hillier.\n\nPage 339", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-024 - Bonham - 1848 [3-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234615, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "content_text": "The Fund Governor\n\nvery\n\nstates that as extensive Emigration\n\nis\n\nin progress from Hong Kong to Australia,\n\nand other places, but that the Passenger Vessels\n\nare at present-\n\nneutral;\n\nthat they are generally\n\nseaworthy;\n\n&\n\nthat they are filled much beyond\n\nthe\n\nlimit\n\nthey are legally\n\nsafely allowed, and that such overcrowding is\n\nthe consequence\n\n25\n\nIn order to put\n\nan end to such abuses the Captain General has appointed Mr. Bridges the Police Magistrate to be Protector of Emigrants\n\n& to enforce the\n\nprovisions\n\nSir George Grey\n\nrecommends that\n\nan addition of £200\n\nshould be made to that Officer's Salary\n\nas remuneration for the additional duties imposed upon him.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 237946, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2]", "page_number": 125, "title": "CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2]", "content_text": "3236\n\n120\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nIt having been notified in the London Gazette of August 17th, 1855, that \"the Chinese Passengers' Act 1855 has received the Royal Assent, His Excellency The Governor is pleased to direct the publication of the same for general information.\n\nThis Act will therefore be enforced from this date, and the Emigration Officer has been instructed accordingly.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th January, 1856.\n\nANNO DECIMO OCTAVO & DECIMO NONO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.\n\nCAP. CIV.\n\nAn Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships.\n\n[14th August, 1855.]\n\nWhereas Abuses have occurred in conveying Emigrants from Ports in the Chinese Seas: And whereas it is expedient to prevent such Abuses: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:\n\nDefinition of certain Terms herein mentioned.\n\nI. In the Construction of this Act, the Term \"Chinese Passenger Ship\" shall include every Ship carrying from any Port in Hong Kong, and every British Ship carrying from any Port in China or within One hundred Miles of the Coast thereof, more than Twenty Passengers, being Natives of Asia; the Word \"Colony\" shall include all Her Majesty's Possessions abroad not being under the Government of the East India Company; the Word \"Governor\" shall signify the Person for the Time being lawfully administering the Government of such Colony; the Term \"Legislature of Hong Kong\" shall signify the Governor and Legislative Council or other Legislative Authority of the same for the Time being; the Word \"Ship\" shall include all Sea-going Vessels, the Terms \"Commander\" and \"Master\" of any Ship shall include any Person for the Time being in command or charge of the same; the Term \"Emigration Officer\" shall include every Person lawfully acting as Emigration Officer, Immigration Agent or Protector of Emigrants, and every Person authorized by the Governor of any British Colony to carry out the Provisions of this Act; and the Term \"British Consul\" shall include every Person lawfully exercising Consular Authority on behalf of Her Majesty in any Foreign Port.\n\nII. It shall be lawful for the Legislature of Hong Kong, by any Ordinance to be by them enacted for that Purpose, to make Regulations respecting Chinese Passenger Ships, and, in the Case of British Ships, respecting the Treatment of the Passengers therein while at Sea; and until such Enactment, the Regulations contained in Schedule (4.) to this Act annexed shall be in force. Provided always, that no such Ordinance shall come into operation until Her Majesty's Confirmation of the same shall have been proclaimed in Hong Kong by the Governor thereof.\n\nIII. It shall be lawful for the Governor of Hong Kong to declare, by Proclamation, for the Purposes of this Act and of the said Regulations, what shall be deemed to be the Duration of the Voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship, and by such Proclamation to alter the Scales of Dietary, Medicines, and Medical Comforts contained in the aforesaid Schedule (4).\n\nNo Chinese Passenger Ship to clear out on Voyage of more than Seven Days without Emigration Officer's Certificate and Copy of Regulations, nor until Bond be given to Crown.\n\nIV. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage of more than Seven Days' Duration until the Master thereof shall have received from an Emigration Officer a Copy of the aforesaid Regulations, and a Certificate in the Form contained in Schedule B. to this Act annexed, or in such other Form as may be prescribed by the said Legislature, which Copy and Certificate, with any Documents to be attached thereto (hereinafter designated as Emigration Papers,) shall be signed by the said Emigration Officer, nor until the Master shall, with Two sufficient Sureties, to be approved by the said Emigration Officer, have entered into a joint and several Bond in the Sum of One thousand Pounds to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in the Form contained in Schedule C. to this Act annexed, or in such other Form as shall be prescribed by the said Legislature.\n\nV. The said penal Sum of One thousand Pounds shall be due and recoverable notwithstanding any Penalty or Forfeiture imposed by this Act or by the aforesaid Regulations, and whether such Penalties or Forfeitures shall have been sued for and recovered or not.\n\nVI. It shall be lawful for the Commander of any of Her Majesty's Ships of War, or for any Emigration Officer, Custom House Officer, or British Consul, to enter and search any Chinese Passenger Ship (being a British Vessel or within British Jurisdiction) so long as such Ship shall have any Passengers on board, and for Forty-eight Hours afterwards, and in case such Ship shall be engaged on a Voyage of more than Seven Days' Duration, to require the Production of the Emigration Papers of such Ship, and to examine all Persons on board of the same, in order to ascertain whether the Provisions of this Act and of the Regulations aforesaid have been complied with; and any Person who refuses to allow, attempts to avoid, or obstructs any such Entry, Search, or Examination, or who knowingly misleads or deceives any Person lawfully making any such Search or Examination, or who, being the Master of the Ship or having the Emigration Papers in his Custody, fails to produce the same when required as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a Misdemeanor.\n\nVII. In case of any Neglect or Refusal to comply with any of the Provisions of this Act or any of the Regulations aforesaid, or to perform any Stipulation in any of the Contracts made with the Passengers, the Master of the Ship, and any other Person who may have been guilty of or have aided or abetted such Neglect or Refusal, shall each be deemed for each Offence guilty of a Misdemeanor.\n\nVIII. If any Chinese Passenger Ship clears out or proceeds to Sea on any Voyage exceeding Seven Days in Duration without such Emigration Papers as aforesaid, or if the Emigration Papers of any Chinese Passenger Ship are forged or fraudulently altered, such Ship shall, if she is a British Ship, or if, not being a British Ship, the Offence is committed and the Ship is seized in Her Majesty's Dominions or in the Territories of the East India Company, be forfeited to Her Majesty.\n\nIX. Every Person who commits or aids or abets in committing any Act or Default by which any Chinese Passenger Ship may become liable to Forfeiture shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding One hundred Pounds for each Offence.\n\nX. It shall be lawful for any Commissioned Officer on Full Pay in the Military or Naval Service of Her Majesty, or any British Officer of Customs, or any British Consul, to seize and detain any Ship which has become subject to Forfeiture as aforesaid, and bring her for Adjudication before the High Court of Admiralty in England or Ireland, or any Court having Admiralty Jurisdiction in Her Majesty's Dominions or in the Territories of the East India Company, and such Court may thereupon make such Order in the Case as it thinks fit, and may award such Portion of the Proceeds of the Sale of any forfeited Ship as it thinks right to the Officer bringing in the same for Adjudication, or to any Persons damaged by the Act or Default which has rendered the Ship liable to Forfeiture.\n\nXI. No such Officer as aforesaid shall be responsible, either civilly or criminally, to any Person whomsoever in respect of the Seizure or Detention of any Ship that has been seized or detained by him in pursuance of the Provisions herein contained, notwithstanding that such Ship is not brought in for Adjudication, or, if so brought in, is declared not to be liable to Forfeiture, if it is shown to the Satisfaction of the Judge or Court before whom any Trial relating to such Ship or such Seizure or Detention is held that there are reasonable Grounds for such Seizure or Detention; but if no such Grounds are shown, such Judge or Court may award Payment of Costs and Damages to any Party aggrieved, and make such other Order in the Premises as he or it thinks just.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240006, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "content_text": "Government offices, Hongkong, 9th October, 1855.\n\nI have the honour to report that availing myself of the permission given in the concluding paragraph of your despatch No. 96 of 12th August, I have appointed Mr. E. R. Eatwell to the Offices of Registrar General's and Protector of Chinese and General Interpreter to Government in the Colony.\n\nThe Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, M.P.\n\n...\n\nPage 1413\n\nGov 3268.155\n\n061\n\n9846 7089/06\n\n...\n\nGR...\n\n \nIt appears that the original text was severely affected by OCR errors. I have made the following corrections:\n1. Corrected spelling errors (`hour` to `honour`, `Occcmber` to `October`, `Auquet` to `August`, `despatch N.` to `despatch No.`, `Govenment` to `Government`, `Metria` to likely be part of \"Government offices\", `Fong Kong` to `Hongkong`, `conson` is unclear but left as is due to lack of context, and `cry for conson 28 Felfy` is unintelligible and left as is).\n2. Reordered and rejoined broken sentences.\n3. Removed or corrected extra or missing spaces.\n4. Added missing words or indicated them with `...` where necessary.\n5. Preserved original page numbering lines where detected.\n\nHowever, some parts remain unclear or unintelligible due to the quality of the OCR output. Further manual review may be necessary to fully understand the original document's content.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240007, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "page_number": 224, "title": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "content_text": "Minute Paper\n\nN197.\n\nM. Labouchere,\n\nThe Rt. Honble\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring\n\n24 November 1856.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nReceived\n\nre: X\n\nColonel Caine's Despatch\n\nIn continuation. Ref:\n\nA196,\n\nand this\n\n(LJU)\n\nThe Colony,\n\nconcerning the\n\nthe 20 Instant, AIGI,\n\nGesellschaft, dxlad Carlene\n\nand their\n\nColony.\n\nState of affairs of\n\nPage 1\n\nN198. Incentive.\n\nGov 3268/35\n\n0361\n\n9346 7089/66\n\nCor conton\n\nAnswered 18 March 1867.\n\n88. Copy to Treasury for\n\nFelby\n\nSir,\n\nTRED\n\nGovernment Offices,\n\nVictoria\n\na Fong Kong, 9th December 1855.\n\nI have the honour to report that\n\navailing myself of\n\nthe permission\n\ngiven in the concluding paragraph of your despatch R 96 of 12th August, I arranged to appoint, as a temporary\n\nmeasure,\n\nMr. G. R. Eatwell to the\n\nOffices of Registrar General and Protector of Chinese and General Interpreter to Government in the\n\nRight Honourable Henry Labouchere, M.P.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240008, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "page_number": 225, "title": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "content_text": "3\n\n2191\n\n2,\n\nChinese, Portuguese, Hindoostance,\n\nand Malay Languages-\n\nThe Office of Registrar General\n\nand Protector is one\n\ndefined in\n\nOrdinance 1. 7 of 1846, and in virtue of it the officer is also a Justice of Peace and Joint\n\nSuperintendent of Police - I have\n\njust interfered with Police arrangements,\n\nbut as it was impossible\n\nfor\n\nCaldwell to perform his important\n\nand responsible duties without\n\nMagisterial authority vested in him, I have placed him in the Commission of the Peace.\n\nThe Salary is named at £700 a year;\n\nand I earnestly hope\n\nfor your confirmation of Appointment-\n\nI have stated that during the\n\nColonial Secretary's negotiation with\n\nMr. Caldwell Rear Admiral Sir Michael Seymour applied to me\n\nfor Mr. Caldwell's Services in Canton, as the only person competent to deal with the Chinese population\n\nin the neighbourhood of the Ships of War.\n\nI was thus happily enabled to assist the Admiral, but four or five\n\ndays after Mr Caldwell left for Canton the Emute broke out, which has been reported in despatches\n\nNo 196 and 197 of 22nd and 24th November\n\nPage 2192\n\nwas not found in the original text, but \"P:\" is kept as it is likely an abbreviation or a sign for \"Page\". However, to follow the instruction to keep original content, \"P:\" is kept as is.\n \nRevised to: \n...\n\n is not added as there is no clear missing word. The original text is kept with corrections made according to the instructions.\n\nThe final output is as follows:\n3\n\n2191\n\n2,\n\nChinese, Portuguese, Hindoostance,\n\nand Malay Languages-\n\nThe Office of Registrar General\n\nand Protector is one\n\ndefined in\n\nOrdinance 1. 7 of 1846, and in virtue of it the officer is also a Justice of Peace and Joint\n\nSuperintendent of Police - I have\n\njust interfered with Police arrangements,\n\nbut as it was impossible\n\nfor Caldwell to perform his important\n\nand responsible duties without\n\nMagisterial authority vested in him, I have placed him in the Commission of the Peace.\n\nThe Salary is named at £700 a year;\n\nand I earnestly hope\n\nfor your confirmation of Appointment-\n\nI have stated that during the\n\nColonial Secretary's negotiation with\n\nMr. Caldwell Rear Admiral Sir Michael Seymour applied to me\n\nfor Mr. Caldwell's Services in Canton, as the only person competent to deal with the Chinese population\n\nin the neighbourhood of the Ships of War.\n\nI was thus happily enabled to assist the Admiral, but four or five\n\ndays after Mr Caldwell left for Canton the Emute broke out, which has been reported in despatches\n\nNo 196 and 197 of 22nd and 24th November\n\nP:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240013, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "page_number": 230, "title": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "content_text": "Governor 2005 Hong Kong\n\nK\n\nEntere et\n\n224\n\n18h\n\n# Mars4157\n\nSir John Bowring\n\nN32\n\nMINUTE VR 3 WRElliot\n\nMerivale\n\nKPJ Ball\n\nMIN al doucher\n\n1357 MAR! 16\n\nW. M.\n\nCopy for\n\nIhn\n\nSer,\n\nI have ... you.\n\nDespatched No. 198 of the December reporting\n\nthat you had appointed,\n\nas a temporary measure,\n\nMr. R. Caldwell to the Offices of Registrar General,\n\nProtector of Chinese,\n\nand General Interpreter to the Colonial Government.\n\nYou have so earnestly requested the confirmation of this appointment. I will not, during the present state of our relations with China,\n\n...\n\nPage 1\n\n(To be continued on next page)\n\nHowever, to follow the exact format requested in the output, the corrected version should be:\n\nGovernor 2005 Hong Kong\n\nK\n\nEntere et\n\n224\n\n18h\n\n# Mars4157\n\nSir John Bowring\n\nN32\n\nMINUTE VR 3 WRElliot\n\nMerivale\n\nKPJ Ball\n\nMIN al doucher\n\n1357 MAR! 16\n\nW. M.\n\nCopy for\n\nIhn\n\nSer,\n\nI have ... you.\n\nDespatched No. 198 of the December reporting that you had appointed, as a temporary measure, Mr. R. Caldwell to the Offices of Registrar General, Protector of Chinese, and General Interpreter to the Colonial Government.\n\nYou have so earnestly requested the confirmation of this appointment. I will not, during the present state of our relations with China,\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\nPage 1\n\nRevised to fit the exact output format:\nGovernor 2005 Hong Kong\n\nK\n\nEntere et\n\n224\n\n18h\n\n# Mars4157\n\nSir John Bowring\n\nN32\n\nMINUTE VR 3 WRElliot\n\nMerivale\n\nKPJ Ball\n\nMIN al doucher\n\n1357 MAR! 16\n\nW. M.\n\nCopy for\n\nIhn Ser,\n\nI have ... you.\n\nDespatched No. 198 of the December reporting that you had appointed, as a temporary measure, Mr. R. Caldwell to the Offices of Registrar General, Protector of Chinese, and General Interpreter to the Colonial Government. You have so earnestly requested the confirmation of this appointment. I will not, during the present state of our relations with China,\n\nPage 1\n\nPage 1\n\nPage 1\n\nThe final version:\nGovernor 2005 Hong Kong\n\nK\n\nEntere et\n\n224\n\n18h\n\n# Mars4157\n\nSir John Bowring\n\nN32\n\nMINUTE VR 3 WRElliot\n\nMerivale\n\nKPJ Ball\n\nMIN al doucher\n\n1357 MAR! 16\n\nW. M.\n\nCopy for Ihn Ser,\n\nI have ... you. Despatched No. 198 of the December reporting that you had appointed, as a temporary measure, Mr. R. Caldwell to the Offices of Registrar General, Protector of Chinese, and General Interpreter to the Colonial Government. You have so earnestly requested the confirmation of this appointment. I will not, during the present state of our relations with China,\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\nPage 1\n\nbecomes\nGovernor 2005 Hong Kong\n\nK\n\nEntere et\n\n224\n\n18h\n\n# Mars4157\n\nSir John Bowring\n\nN32\n\nMINUTE VR 3 WRElliot\n\nMerivale\n\nKPJ Ball\n\nMIN al doucher\n\n1357 MAR! 16\n\nW. M.\n\nCopy for Ihn Ser,\n\nI have ... you. Despatched No. 198 of the December reporting that you had appointed, as a temporary measure, Mr. R. Caldwell to the Offices of Registrar General, Protector of Chinese, and General Interpreter to the Colonial Government. You have so earnestly requested the confirmation of this appointment. I will not, during the present state of our relations with China,\n\nPage 1\n\nPage 1\n\nPage 1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240014, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "page_number": 231, "title": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "content_text": "225\n\nChina, add to your embarrassment at Hong Kong by withholding my sanction through to an appointment from Tekes, and averse to the extension of the Civil Establishment of the colony.\n\nA Warrant in favor of Mr. Caldwell will, according to ... transmitted to you immediately. I have however to observe that though the Ordinance constituting the appointment of a Registrar General at Hong Kong has been confirmed by the Queen, it has failed to discover any authority for styling him also General Interpreter to the Government.\n\nYou will remember that the Office of Interpreter was conferred on Mr. Grandpre, at your suggestion, in 1855, and it is very desirable to keep the respective duties of the Public Officers distinct.\n\nI have to inform Mr. Caldwell that he will receive a salary of ... hundred per annum.\n\n... Better omit the passage about the Warrant. The Establishment of the Office is complained of as being illegally established by the Ordinance, which imposes on that Officer the duty of \"Protector to the Chinese Inhabitants.\"\n\nThe issue of a Commission with rather stamp the Office as a permanent one is specially guarded against.\n\nJa...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240015, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "content_text": "E\n\n201419/57\n\n226\n\nNo. 121.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nIt is hereby notified, that His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint DANIEL RICHARD CALDWELL, Esquire, Registrar General and Protector of Chinese Inhabitants in this Colony.\n\nMr Caldwell will also perform the duties of General Interpreter to this Government. This appointment will have effect pending the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th November, 1856.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240017, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "page_number": 234, "title": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "content_text": "No. 131.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nIn GR1178/1922/32(III)\n\n228\n\nThe subjoined Translation of a Notice addressed to the Chinese Inhabitants on the subject of Mr CALDWELL'S recent appointment as Registrar General, and on the necessity of a system of Registration, is published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th December, 1856.\n\nCALDWELL, (Official Title, &c., &c.)\n\nWhereas His Excellency the Governor of this Colony has been pleased to appoint Mr Caldwell, Registrar General and Protector of Chinese residing in Hongkong, this is to give notice to the Chinese Community, that in all cases in which they have difficulty in understanding the law as here administered, or conceive themselves to have wrongs for which they are otherwise unable to obtain redress, they are at liberty to apply between the hours of 10 and 4, at Mr Caldwell's office, next to the Police Station, or in cases of special emergency at his house in Gough Street.\n\nAnd whereas it is expedient for the protection of the good citizen that vagrancy should be as much as possible brought under restraint, it is at the same time desirable that any system of registration having that object in view should be so contrived as to attain it with the least possible inconvenience to those whom it is intended to benefit. No levy of charge or fee is contemplated, and the respectable Inhabitants of the City are invited at their earliest convenience to depute members of their community, either to wait on Mr Caldwell and state what they may have to say in person, or to submit to him in writing such details and suggestions as may enable him, with the aid of his own experience, to devise a system which shall work effectively, but, at the same time, without undue restriction or annoyance.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240151, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "page_number": 368, "title": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "content_text": "Page 362\n\nNo. 132.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe following Document, being the substance of the Reply given to a Petition presented by certain of the Chinese Traders of this Colony, is published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th December, 1856.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has received the Petition of the Le-Tae and other shops, several score in number, and in reference to their complaints, of which a list in seven sections is appended to the Petition, His Excellency desires Petitioners to be informed to the following effect.\n\n1. It is prayed that no more heavy fines be levied for the committing of nuisances, and that those levied in the last few days be returned. The nuisance ordinance was passed for the prevention of fires, and to the preservation of health. It had especially in view the advantage of the Chinese population, and was accordingly published in Chinese. Its provisions having been much infringed both by Chinese and others, the Magistrates proceeded to enforce its penalties. Many persons not Chinese having been heavily fined, on the 20th, and following days, the Chinese were also heavily fined. This was in perfect accordance with the law, and with punishments legally inflicted; it is not the province of His Excellency to interfere. It having been represented to him, however, in a petition numerously and respectably signed, that the poverty of some of the offenders was such as to make the fine a more than ordinary burden, His Excellency has caused the Tipo's to be summoned, and having instituted enquiry, has directed that certain sums be refunded as an act of grace.\n\nThis matter is thus disposed of, nor can further complaints regarding it be entertained.\n\n2. As to the seizure of vessels by Rebels in the harbour of Hongkong. This is an outrage of the gravest character. If unauthorized persons even board vessels lying in harbour, to the annoyance of their owners, &c., these should immediately give notice at the Police Office, or to Mr Caldwell, newly appointed Protector of Chinese, and the delinquents will immediately be seized and dealt with as pirates or robbers. His Excellency finds it difficult to believe what is asserted in the Petition, that applications made in the proper quarters have been unattended to. Should such in any instance be the case, the applicant has it still in his power to address the head of the Government.\n\n3. As to the interference of the Police with goods landing from boats, hawkers' wares, &c., the Police have orders carefully to abstain from any act of personal violence, unless where the resistance of persons lawfully arrested renders it necessary. Any one assaulted by the Police, or whose goods are injured by the Police, has undoubted right to bring the offender before the magistrates. But Petitioners must remember, that the regulations affecting the removal of goods, and the non-obstruction of thoroughfares by hawkers, are all enforced in the interest of the public. Prompt attention should therefore be given to the requisitions of the Police; if it be not, it is their duty to arrest the offender, and it is equally the duty of all good citizens to give every assistance to the Police to enable them to carry out the law—a duty which it is notorious that the Chinese generally neglect; whereby the Police are harassed and culprits escape.\n\n4. The proposition regarding the responsibility of streets, in cases where robbery is charged against shops or houses, appears reasonable, and petitioners will do well to submit their views and wishes on this point to Mr Caldwell, who, in addition to his duties as Protector of Chinese, has been also appointed Registrar General.\n\nPage 362\n\nNo. 132.\n\n(Continued)\n\n(The text is cut off here as the original scan likely ended. However, based on the instructions, we should keep the page numbering information if available.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240189, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "page_number": 406, "title": "CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12]", "content_text": "INDEX\n\n11856\n\n24 Nov X97\n\nGor Bouring\n\nTestimonials in favor\n\nMr Rienacker.\n\n400\n\nq Du 198 Mr Caldwell's re-admission.\n\ninto the Colonial Service. Reports having temporarily appointed Mr Caldwell as Registrar General and Protector of Chinese and General Interpreter to Government.\n\n99 Appointment of Lieut Col Dunlop\n\n200\n\nas\n\nProvisional Member of Executive Council. Announces\n\nSaluting Battery. Acks\n\nDespatch\n\nthe subject\n\nand expresses thanks for support given to his authority\n\n10 200 Embarkation of Military\n\nConvicts per Winchester. Reports.\n\n202 Death of Mr Hillier\n\nH. M. Consul at Pram, Reports\n\nand draws attention to the destitute\n\ncondition of his Family.\n\n203 Report of Police Commission\n\nEncloses\n\nNumeration", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241115, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "× augmented to £800 per annum:\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n10\n\n+ a new office last year - sanctioned by Home Govt. 388.\n\n5 new office - recently sanctioned\n\n© no authority for their having been cut\n\nis now\n\nasking for an increase of salary\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.\n\n11\n\n138\n\nSALARIES :-\n\nCIVIL.\n\nTREASURER.\n\n \n EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS\n \n \n \n \n \n PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY\n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL\n \n \n \n \n\n \n SALARIES:-\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n Treasurer,\n 600\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Clerk,\n 300\n 0\n 0\n \n \n First Clerk,\n 300\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Foreman of Works,\n 300\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Second, and Accountant,\n 250\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Overseer of Works,\n 187\n 10\n 0\n \n \n Chinese Overseer,\n 37\n 10\n 0\n \n \n \n 1,150\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Three Coolies @ £15 each,\n 45\n 0\n 0\n \n \n One Office Coolie,\n 15\n 0\n 0\n \n \n ALLOWANCES, Nil.\n \n \n \n \n \n CONTINGENCIES :—\n \n \n \n \n \n Stationery,\n 10\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Incidental,\n 20\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n 1,685\n 0\n 0\n \n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL.\n\n \n EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS\n \n \n \n \n \n PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY\n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL\n \n \n \n \n\n \n SALARIES:-\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n Surveyor General,\n 800\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n 1,170\n 0\n 0\n \n\nAUDITOR.\n\n \n SALARIES:-\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n Auditor, (the Colonial Secretary,)\n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk,\n 200\n 0\n 0\n \n \n ALLOWANCES, Nil.\n \n \n \n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:-\n \n \n \n \n \n Printing, Moiety of Government Gazette,\n 53\n \n \n \n \n Estimates,\n ***\n \n \n \n \n Forms for all Offices,\n 75\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Stationery for the Offices, and for all Printing,...\n 30\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Incidental Expenses,...\n 350\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n 300\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n 15\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n 770\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n 1,070\n 0\n 0\n \n\nCLERK OF COUNCILS.\n\n \n SALARIES:-\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n Clerk of Councils,\n 100\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n 100\n 0\n 0\n \n \n ALLOWANCES, Nil.\n \n \n \n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:--\n \n \n \n \n \n Newspapers, &c.,\n 5\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Stationery,\n 5\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Incidental Expenses, ...\n 5\n 0\n 0\n \n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL.\n\n \n SALARIES:-\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n Registrar General, Protector of Chinese, and General\n 700\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Clerk,\n 300\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Interpreter,\n 300\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Chinese Clerk,\n 47\n 10\n 0\n \n \n One Chinese Coolie,\n 13\n 10\n 0\n \n \n \n 1,361\n 0\n 0\n \n \n ALLOWANCES :—\n \n \n \n \n \n To Overseer of Roads for Horse keep,\n 30\n 0\n 0\n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:-\n \n \n \n \n \n Advertising,\n 5\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Copying Plans and Charts,\n 5\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Stationery,\n 4\n 10\n 0\n \n \n Incidental Expenses,\n 44\n 10\n 0\n \n \n \n 1,105\n 10\n 0\n \n\nMARRIAGE REGISTRAR.\n\n \n SALARIES:-\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n Registrar,\n 50\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n 50\n 0\n 0\n \n \n ALLOWANCES, Nil.\n \n \n \n \n \n CONTINGENCIES:-\n \n \n \n \n \n Printing, &c., (Chinese,)\n 25\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Boat Numbers,\n 15\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Stationery,\n 5\n 0\n 0\n \n \n Incidental Expenses,\n 5\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n 1,740\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n 700\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n 1,061\n 0\n 0", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241555, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 580, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "appreciation which Sir Michael Leighton attaches to there \n\nJame \n\nservices and concur at the time in the inspections submitted to you as to the special claims of Mr Caldwell \n\nupon \n\nthe attention of Her Majesty's Government. \n\n\"I have the honor to be, \n\nrespectfully \n\nof the highest repute \n\nLieut \n\nQmost Obedient Servant \n\nM. Merivale Every Governor for testimony \n\nMr. Caldwell has served, will bear \n\nburden \n\na most valuable. \n\nthe present emergency, \n\nOfficer - and; during \n\nservices are no \n\ndoubt \n\npeculiarly useful to the military & naval \n\nAuthorities . If an honorary distinction were \n\nbestowed on him at the \n\nclose of the war it would, I think, be a real Compliment to him. I am \n\nunable to \n\nsuggest \n\nhow he could be rewarded. \n\nin a pecuniary way it were less unwise \n\nthan promotion. It is \n\nproper to add that \n\nhe is by \n\nno \n\nmeans over- \n\npaid now \n\nbut \n\nrather \n\nthe \n\nreverse. \n\nHis \n\nsalary \n\nis £700 a year. \n\n26 May \n\nMr Intercue Nothing \n\nCan \n\n& he is Registrar General, Protector of Chinese and \n\nGeneral Interpreter. \n\n577 \n\nIn done at present \n\nbeyond acknowledging this service & recording \n\nThe satisfaction of this Govt. at the which this service of Mr Caldwell; services, rendered at a very important crisis. But I should think it very desirable to bear \n\nhim in mind for any post for which he is the man of abilities, united with Experience in the Ways of that important portion of the population \n\nmay be valuable. For Opportunity may \n\noffer itself in the settlement of \n\nThe present dispute with Canton \n\n(Feb. May 2) \n\nby and by. \n\nM. M. hd-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241638, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "71\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nCOPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPARTIES having their own ENGRAVED PLATE can have their Cards, &c., printed in the best style at the Office of\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nof the respective Papers, which will secure early insertion.\n\nEverything taken at Cowloon will be sent to the Government Office, if not claimed before 4 o'clock.\n\nyou will receive an official communication from me, the bending of which I should be glad to avoid, but before the Mail goes I must know whether the stolen articles listed were way whet\n\nYours truly,\n\n(Signed)\n\nNOTICE—The Hours of Public Worship at the HONGKONG REGISTER UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are, on the Sabbath at 11 A.M., and at 7 P.M., and on the Evening of every Wednesday at 7 o'clock. Hongkong, 28th April, 1857.\n\nTO LET by the month, & Three capacious Rooms, capable of accommodating ten gentlemen, with apartments for any number up to that amount.\n\nApply to\n\nBOWRA & Co.\n\nHongkong, 28 April 1857.\n\nTo the Editor at the \"Hongkong Register.\"\n\nHONGKONG, 27th April, 1857,\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Felaban on the 10th April, Mrs. J. CALOROSSET Sure, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Shangwe, on the 15th April, Mrs. H. KOONS, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Macao, on the 9th April, Mrs. B. E. CARNEIRO, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nAt Trinity Church, Shangbae, on the 13th inst., by the Rev. John Halon, WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Esq. of Calcutta, to GUNA EMILY, third Daughter of George Hargreaves, Esq., Liverpool.\n\nOn board American Ship \"Celestial,\" in this harbour, on the 25th April, by the Rev. J. W. Johnson, John A. CREWS WALD, Esq. of Boston, to FRANCES ANNE, Daughter of Edwin Lemist, Esq., of Roxbury, Mass.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nDrowned, in March last, in the 37th year of his age, JOHN VAUGHAN, Esq., M.D., eldest son of the Revd Dr. Vaughan, of Regent's Park, London.\n\nAt Macao, on the 20th April, PATRICK STEWART, Esq., Acting British Consular Agent at that port.\n\nAt Hongkong, on Sunday, 26th April, of dysentery, THOMAS HOPE, eldest and sole surviving son of the Rev. M. C. C., Assistant Chaplain to the Forces. Aged 2 years.\n\nN., lat. 31.16 N., and long. 121.46 E.; on the 22nd, the British barque Whampoa, in lat. 28:21 N., and long. 122.1; on the 23rd, the British schooner Eamont, in lat. 25.24 N., and long. 119.56 E.; on the 24th, the British schooner Emily Elphinstone, in lat. 23.17 N., and long. 121.29 E. Passed the Lady Mary Wood, on the 22nd instant, to the Northward of Turnabout near the use of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nDEAR SIR—Having had occasion to be in Gough Street yesterday (Sunday) morning, I was surprised to see this usually quiet street a scene of bustle and activity, and thinking that I had seen it announced in the Colonial Gazette that no Government or Police work was allowed on the Sabbath, I merely wish to know: 1. If any new private instructions have been given to Contractors or others to set aside this Government order. 2. If not, it is a high disgrace that Government should allow its servants to employ labourers on public work on a \"day of rest.\"\n\nI merely state what I saw almost under the windows of our Lieutenant Governor's house and opposite the house of the Registrar General and the Collector of Police &c., several Chinese workmen were employed in repairing the road; lower down the street, near the house of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nVox Populi is not admissible on the ground, amongst others, that the writer falls into the errors which he condemns. In addition—the letter is anonymous.\n\nJ. BOWRING,\n\nTo the Honorable COLONEL DUNLOP,\n\nThe Colonel issues the following Memo., attaching to it the Governor's letter, which requires that all the stolen property be forthwith returned to the Government Office:\n\n[No. 17—APRIL 29, 1857.]\n\nMemo. The undersigned offers notice that parties who have any articles which were taken at Cowloon will immediately return them to this Office. Officers are requested to state their names, or that they have returned all to this Office.\n\nBy order,\n\n(Signed) JOHN KING, Captain,\n\nTown Major.\n\nTOWN MAJOR'S OFFICE, 25th April, 1857.\n\nThe officers naturally felt annoyed at having such accusations made against them, and their several replies are amusing enough. They run thus:\n\n1. \"Have nothing—I never took anything.\"\n\n2. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n3. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n4. \"Seen.\"\n\n5. \"Not a legal question—stole nothing.\"\n\n6. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n7. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n8. \"Stole nothing: the two hats Dr. Bridges said there was no bar in taking. I have already returned.\"\n\n9. \"I have stolen nothing.\"\n\n10. \"Has stolen nothing.\"\n\n11. \"I took nothing away from Cowloon.\"\n\n12. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\nThis was not all; one of them afterwards wrote a letter demanding an apology under the threat of \"court of inquiry.\" We have not this intermediate correspondence, but the fellow who signs himself \"X X X\" in the China Mail, has said, so it has come to pass, the Registration Ordinance is progressing, and we have an altered and amended—if not improved draft copy of the Ordinance in the last Government Gazette.\n\nThe Band of the 59th Regiment will be performing to-morrow on the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4½ p.m., the following pieces:—\n\nMarch—\"Souvenir des Alpes\"—Leitzer.\n\nPolka—\"Jalve.\"\n\nSelection 4—\"Quadrilles Mouton.\"\n\nWaltz—\"Auf dem Lufte, Gung'—Strauss.\n\nGallop—\"Corsa\"—Kulorer.\n\nWe beg to return our sincere thanks to His Excellency Sir John Bowring Knt. LL.D. &c. for so kindly furnishing us with the precis of the contents of the papers taken at the attack on Cowloon, &c.\n\nBetween that and \"stolen\" there is a mighty difference in the minds of some people. We will illustrate the difference by telling the following story:—A Leith wine merchant whose business had been declining, and upon whom a strong desire for military fame just at the same time fell, was glad to take service with Don Pedro when he contended with Miguell for the throne of Portugal.\n\nIt would have been for him had he in the course of his universal acquirements stumbled upon the precaution of the good Chamundas; or had looked nearer one at the protector-te of Olyfe the hammer, when the community was governed without Laws. Back leginnion, however, was not suited to the busy, meddling mind of Wilmi le Teary. On the contrary, he conceived that the true wisdom of legislation consisted in the multiplicity of laws. He accordingly had great punishments for great crimes, and little punishments for little offences. By degrees the whole surface of society was cut up by ditches and fences, and quickset hedges of the law, and even the sequestered paths of private life so hemmed by petty rules and ordinances, too numerous to be remembered, that one now] could walk a large within the risk of having off a spring-gun or falling into a man-trap—\"Knicker\"-bocker's History of New York.\"\n\nTo the Editor of the \"China Mail.\"\n\nThe COVENT, 1st April, 1857.\n\nDEAR MR. F——\n\nMy wife (who can fight anticly for my peace of mind) derives her views of Hongkong politics from the Friend of China. Upon the ideas of the mild expositor of Sir John's responsibilities, she grafts a few of her own, and the following shortly shadows forth the result.\n\nWas Colony ever at such a pass\n\nWhat with poison, Sed riots, de dear that gas.\n\nA pretty large role of ill it will sum to\n\nThe taxes increasing, such a state the police in,\n\nAnd coolies refusing to carry our chairs;\n\nIf you'd know why this was, it is simply because\n\nThat horrid Sir John's authe Board of affairs!\n\nHe has truly thrown things in a terrible mix,\n\nAnd no wonder it is that with ge we are tow'ring;\n\nLa jury pays a,\" when the public\n\nWhy, who is the party to blame but Sir John?\n\nThe responsible man.—if your servants are capable,\n\nIf your carriage raptures, or child falls down stairs,\n\nFor sourbour, bad potatoes, or premature babi\n\nIs that dreadful old man at the head of affairs!\n\nJust look how he went and black-holed those poor bakers,\n\n(As it must be admitted they'd given you cause,)\n\nAl then four out Murrow & Co. to be breakers\n\nBy housing some coolies) of liberty's laws.\n\nFor struggling young orlenists ain't le a rush nares.*\n\nNor Christian nor Pagan is safe from his energet\n\nHet in happy to heap our dear chaplain's dham Gua\n\nThis cruel old man at the head of affairs!\n\nIf the ad come too late, or fire catches a chimney,\n\nIf our sleep is histure'd by a noisy cock,\n\nEve it a man-of-war strikes on a rock.\n\nf the sun is too hot, or the street lamps burn dim—nay,\n\nthe bugs at the school of St Andrew are lousy,\n\nOr the 59th Band plays unpopular airs;\n\nIf offcids are idle, or paracas are affils!\n\nIt's all the old as it the head\n\nBy his hobbies not only the clothes get se mangled,\n\n\"That buttons and darts take the wake of one's timiz,\n\nBut we're liable, too, in our beds t\n\nto be strangled,\n\nAnd he won't hang the man who emitted the crime.\n\nJould know how his sid yazilation\n\nIf he the load of ane's family rates,\n\nIncremes\n\nHe would practise (what I can't, fin enre) resignation,\n\nAnd put that dear end at the head of affairs.\n\n(Morita loquitur)\n\nAnd now. you've done, pray let me have a word to\n\n(That politics sextainly not a good hand)\n\nI would have you remember it's very absurd, to\n\nTalk about things that you don't understand.\n\nIf he'd three heads, His Cerberas, still be'd have reason\n\nTo say he's tough work to grizzle his air;\n\nAnd I really believe, in' you'll think it high tresom,\n\nWo might have a wote inan at the head of affairs.\n\n*Tron, WELDA.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 26 APRIL 1857.\n\nRooms, where such documents as the government desires to make known are supplied for the use of all the papers without respect to party or color. It would of course be expecting too much from a man who was only a radical member of parliament any such liberality—that style of individual does not act in such a way. All his liberality is expended in clap-trap, and when the time of action comes, he is found to be nothing but a windbag—As for the Mail we could expect no courtesy from it in such a case.\n\nThe Coromandel returned to harbour on the morning of the 26th, from the survey of the rock on which the unfortunate Raleigh struck. The survey was made by Captain Bates, who was accompanied by Mr. Williams, Master of the state that so well known Raleigh, and when then for him.\n\nAs we are a day behind the for, thanks to our kind friends, the above firm, we think it unnecessary to republish the documents, but we call attention to the reasonable inference drawn by the\n\nThere is one drop of comfort in this bucket of filth—the Ordinance never will be carried out, not even when the gloss of novelty is upon it. There is no staff of officials to carry it out.\n\nWe may therefore rest satisfied that the minds of the Chinese will not be undermined by this Ordinance, and the only bad effect of it will be to disgrace a British Statute book. Spies there are, and will be—like other vermin they are useful and can be dispensed with; but the more we can do without them the better, and we hope never to see the day when the inhabitants of a whole colony shall turn spies, and no one however respectable be safe.\n\nThe Sampson has had an engagement with pirates near Mi-chin bay, to the South of the entrance of the Straits of Hainan. The steamer had followed them up to this place which it appears they have made their rendezvous for some time past.\n\nThe result of a sharp and successful contest was the complete defeat of the Pirates who were compelled to retire, having about 200 killed, wounded, or prisoners, in the hands of the assailants. We have not heard of any serious casualties to any of the Sampson crew.\n\nXI. A Chinese Houses shall be divided into things or Káp of Ten Houses each, wherein every Occupier of a House shall answer to Her Majesty for the good conduct of the occupiers of the other nine; and Occupier of a House shall be Kápcheong or Thingman to be elected by common vote of the said Tithing or Kap to that office, subject to the approval of this Government, and he shall be the proper Representative of the said Tithing or Kap, and be distinguished by some Badge to be appointed by His Excellency, and he shall hold his said office during one year; and no other person shall assume the title or badge of Kápcheong of such Tithing or Káp.\n\nXIV. It shall be the duty of every Occupier of House to report to his Kápcheong without delay, to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, Suspicions of Crime, committed or to be committed, and respectively, for all the purposes of this Ordinance, to be aiding and assisting to the said Kápcheong in the execution of the same; and further, to do his utmost to prevent all crimes, felonies, and misdemeanours, and to apprehend all persons whom he shall find in the actual commission of the same.\n\nIV. It shall be the duty of the Kápcheong to communicate forthwith to the Registrar General all such reports as in Section Fourteen are mentioned, when the same are received by him; and likewise to report to him to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, or Suspicions of Crime, whether reported from the Kap or not; and in all other respects to discharge the duties and exercise the powers of a Constable of the Police Force of Hongkong, so as the same are altered by this Ordinance.\n\nThis is the spy system on which the Ordinance rests.\n\nWe give below part of a correspondence between Sir John Bowring and the officers who were employed on the descent lately made on Cowloon, powerful in her armament and crew as the Sampson is.\n\nGovernment Office, 25th April, 1857.\n\nMY DEAR COLONEL—I have been quite shocked to hear that, among other things, the official sent were eiti- Register\" or \"Register's Advertiser, please address to the \"Printer and Publisher\n\nWe further learn that the Chinese captured have been given up to the Mandarins at Amoy, and that the Portuguese taken are to be handed over to the Macao Authorities.\n\nThe expedition to Chek-chun was accompanied by Mr. Wan and acquainted with only one of the inculpating facts by surprise. A large number of \"braves\" were found concealed in the city, and a few house before the attack.\n\nThere is no evidence that poisoning as an art has been practiced in China, and we search her annals in vain for a case parallel to that of Hongkong.\n\nThe pith failed through the dilatoriness of the mandarins sent for distribution among a portion of the attacked force, & quantity of a perennial creeper found on the hills of the central provinces. Its botanical character, as well as its precise physiological action, we have yet to ascertain.\n\nIts active principle appears to be highly volatile, and great exactness is needed in preparing it. Several of Mr. Markwick's gold wristlets were found concealed in a two watchkeys, a ring, and a gold watch and chain had also been pawned to pay a gambling debt, but were not in league with the police.\n\nThe expedition to Cowloon was accompanied by Dr. Bridges, Mr. Caldwell being confined to his room with illness and though the inslemency of the weather prevented it from starting till day light, several hours after the time contemplated, the soldiers were within a hundred yards of the fort ere the Chinese thought of even closing the gates.\n\nThe doors were instantly scaled, the gates opened, and the fort taken possession of, without the longest violence being used towards the Chinese.\n\nIt is said that not far from every poison tree the antidotes were ordered from the Pacific to join Commandant was of course in a state of great alarm.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nShanglus, 23d March, 1857. (From North-China Herald, March 29.)\n\nNotice is hereby given, that in pursuance of arrangements made by the Chinese Authorities for the improvement of the navigation of the Yangtze Kiang, Eight patriotic Iron Nan Boyus have been moored between Chatela Island and Woosung. These have been laid down by M. GEORGE L. CAER, Master, N., in the following positions :-\n\nOn the South Sand, three painted Black, and numbered 3, 9, 5.\n\nOn the North Sand, three painted Red, and numbered 2, 1, 6.\n\nOn the North Spit, off the entrance of Woosung River, one painted Red, and numbered 9.\n\nThe bearings are all Magnetic.\n\nThe Light Ship is moored in 4½ fathoms, at low water, Spring Tides.\n\nThe Trevs upon Block House island bear from N. 15,0,0 West, distance 3 miles.\n\nGO. 1. CA, Master. BN,\n\nBy Order,\n\nH. M. S. Pique.\"\n\nSECRETARY,\n\nNINGPO.\n\nA ROCK NOT NOTED IN THE CHARTS.\n\nThe Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, right in the way of vessels going in to Ningpo from sea through the Fisherman's chain. She was 12 hours on the reef, and 3 feet under her stern at low water.\n\nThe bearings of a rock or reef on which the Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, are as follows:\n\nSkald Island, S. & B., distance 3 cables,\n\nSouth extreme of Chiu-san, E ½ S.\n\nLarge Volcano, S. W. westerly Extremes of Ruggeds, N. N. W. W.,\n\nand N. X. E.\n\n62", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241745, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "Su 6608/\n\nRegistere\n\n168\n\n1\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.\n\nNo. 6 of 1857.\n\nBy His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance for Registration and Regulation of the Chinese People, and for the Population Census, and for other Purposes of Police.\n\n[5th May, 1857.]\n\nBe it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say:\n\nTitle.\n\nPreamble.\n\nI. Ordinances No. 13 of 1844, No. 7 of 1846, and No. of 1853, and so much of Ordinance No. 12 of 1844 as relates to the charging or investing the Chief Magistrate of Police with any direction or superintendence of, or control over, the Police Force thereby established, other than such control as any other Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may in his Magisterial capacity exercise, are hereby repealed.\n\nRepeal of Ordinances and part of an Ordinance.\n\nCensus and Registration Office established.\n\nII. The Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be continued and established; together with the Registrar General and other the Officers and Assistants by whom the duties and business thereof have been hitherto performed.\n\nAppointments of Officers.\n\nIII. The several persons now being the Registrar General, Officers and Assistants of the said Office, shall continue to discharge the said duties and business at their present Salaries during His Excellency's pleasure; and upon any vacancy, His Excellency may from time to time nominate and appoint such Person or Persons to be such Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants respectively, and at such Salary and Salaries as to His Excellency shall seem meet, and also remove him or them at His Excellency's discretion from time to time, and nominate and appoint another or others in his or their room; yet so as that Her Majesty's pleasure shall be taken as to every nomination, appointment, and removal of a Registrar General, and as to every new limitation of Salary under the provisions of this section.\n\nPowers and Duties of the Registrar General.\n\nIV. The Registrar General is, by virtue of his Office, and for the execution of this Ordinance, and not otherwise, a Justice of the Peace, a joint Superintendent of Police, and the Protector of Chinese Inhabitants within this Colony, and as such is bounden to use his best endeavours to prevent the commission of crime, and, if committed, to discover and apprehend the parties guilty thereof, and generally to watch over and protect the said Chinese Inhabitants; and for the purposes aforesaid he is empowered and required to use and exercise all the authorities of a Justice and Superintendent of Police, and also to enter at any time or times, as he shall find meet, any Building soever within this Colony, or Vessel or Boat soever within the Waters of the same or adjacent thereto, if such Building, Vessel, or Boat shall then have any Chinaman within or on board of the same.\n\nV. The other Officers and Assistants in the said Census and Registration Office shall be obedient and assisting unto the said Registrar General in the execution of this Ordinance.\n\nDuties of the other Officers and Assistants.\n\nVI. The Powers and Authorities which by the said Ordinance No. 12 of 1844 were vested in the Chief Magistrate of Police, are from henceforth vested in and shall be exercised by the Superintendent of Police for the time being constituted under the said Ordinance, in all matters wherein any of the provisions for the Census Registration and Protection of Chinese People are not concerned, and by the Registrar General in all matters wherein any of the said provisions are concerned; and the same obedience shall be rendered by the Police Force of this Colony to the orders of the said Superintendent of Police and Registrar General respectively, and to all Rules and Regulations to be by them respectively made under Section Three of the said Ordinance No. 12 of 1844 and this Section, with the approbation of the Governor; due regard being had to the respective matters to which such Powers and Authorities, Rules and Regulations, respectively shall relate.\n\nDivision into Districts, and Numbering.\n\nVII. The Registrar General, with the approbation of the Governor, shall divide this Colony into Districts, and cause every House therein, whether occupied by a Chinaman or by an European, to be numbered, and Tickets to be prepared and issued for the purposes of Section Eight; and it shall be the duty of every Chinese Occupier or Inmate of a House, or of a Boat or Vessel having a Certificate or License under this Ordinance, to procure and retain in his possession one such Ticket from the said Registrar General for the purposes of this Ordinance; and every Chinaman not so procuring, or not so retaining such Ticket, or not producing the same whensoever required, shall, unless he shall make proof of some reasonable justification or excuse, be deemed a vagrant.\n\nNumbers to be painted, Lists of Inmates to be exhibited, and Tickets to be delivered to them.\n\nVIII. Every Chinaman occupying a House, or any Boat or Vessel as aforesaid, shall cause the Number thereof to be painted and affixed to such House, Boat or Vessel in such wise as the Registrar General shall direct, and shall cause to be inscribed in such wise as he shall direct, upon a board exhibited in some conspicuous part of such House, Boat or Vessel, a true and full List of all the Inmates thereof, distinguishing in the case of a House the Inmates of the upper and lower floors thereof, for the time being; and shall deliver to every such inmate a Ticket, stamped by the Registrar General, and containing such particulars, and in such form, as he shall also direct; and every such Ticket shall from time to time, and when the holder thereof shall cease to be such Inmate, be obtained back from him by the said Occupier and cancelled.\n\nPossession of Tickets to be prima facie proof of delivery.\n\nIX. Possession by a Chinaman of any of the Tickets mentioned in Sections Seven and Eight shall be prima facie evidence of the delivery thereof to him as an Inmate by the Chinaman therein mentioned as Occupier.\n\nThe Occupier to be responsible for the Inmates.\n\nX. Every Chinese Occupier shall be held responsible as Surety for the good conduct of every Inmate to whom he shall have delivered any such Ticket unless the said Occupier shall show some matter of justification or excuse.\n\nStatistical information to be furnished by occupiers.\n\nXI. Every such Occupier is hereby commanded to furnish at all times to the Registrar General whatsoever information the said Registrar General shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, require of him; and every Occupier of a House is further commanded, upon the occurrence of any Marriage, Birth, Death, Arrival, or Departure of Inmates within his House, forthwith to report the same to the proper Chinese Officer of his District.\n\nRegistration Tickets to be obtained in case of Chinese Servants resident with Europeans.\n\nXII. Within Ten Days next after the commencement of any future hiring by an European of a Chinaman as a Servant to reside within the Hirer's house or place of business, or (in case of any such hiring which hath already commenced) within Ten Days from the passing of this Ordinance, such Chinaman shall apply to the said Registrar General for a Registration Ticket, and shall at the same time produce unto the said Registrar General a Certificate of his Hiring under the hand of the said Hirer, and (if so required by the latter) satisfy the said Registrar General that he hath obtained sufficient Security after Chinese custom for the indemnity of the said Hirer against his acts and defaults; and thereupon it shall be the duty of the said Registrar General to make out under his Hand the said Registration Ticket, inserting therein such particulars as to him shall seem meet, and to deliver the same unto the said Chinaman.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241901, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 327, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "27/17/57 Special Conditions\n\nAffecting the proposed Docks at Aberdeen, read at Lund safe of 1st June, 1857.\n\nDocks\n\nI. Within three months next after the day of the sale of the two Lots at Aberdeen, the respective purchasers thereof shall commence the construction upon the said Lots, and within eighteen months next after the said day of sale the said Construction shall be finished.\n\nII.\n\nIII. The purchaser of Lot No. 1 of the said two Lots shall bear and discharge the whole expense of and incident to the removal of the village, jetties, wharves, and harbour from the said Lot or the sea front thereof and shall further pay and satisfy unto every person who shall incur loss or liability by the said removal or in consequence thereof the amount of such loss or liability, subject nevertheless to the Condition next hereinafter following.\n\nIV. His Excellency the Governor will appoint and grant a fit and proper site for the said village and Harbour, and the same shall be removed to the said site accordingly. If the purchaser of Lot No. 2 of the said Lots shall find it requisite to remove houses, piers, or other erections from the said Lot or the sea front thereof he shall bear and discharge the cost of the said removal and make compensation therefor in like manner as by Conditions III and IV with respect to Lot No. 1 is provided.\n\nV. Any controversy arising between either of the said purchasers and any person soever under conditions III, IV shall be referred by both parties to the arbitrament of two persons of whom one shall be the Registrar General and Protector of Chinese and the other shall be a person nominated by the purchaser party to the said controversy; and if the said arbitrators cannot...\n\nPage 322\n\n \n(No further text is proofread as the original text ends with \"Cannot\" and \"322\" which seems to be a page number.)\n\nHowever, to follow the exact format required for the output:\n\n27/17/57 Special Conditions\n\nAffecting the proposed Docks at Aberdeen, read at Lund safe of 1st June, 1857.\n\nDocks\n\nI. Within three months next after the day of the sale of the two Lots at Aberdeen, the respective purchasers thereof shall commence the construction upon the said Lots, and within eighteen months next after the said day of sale the said Construction shall be finished.\n\nII.\n\nIII. The purchaser of Lot No. 1 of the said two Lots shall bear and discharge the whole expense of and incident to the removal of the village, jetties, wharves, and harbour from the said Lot or the sea front thereof and shall further pay and satisfy unto every person who shall incur loss or liability by the said removal or in consequence thereof the amount of such loss or liability, subject nevertheless to the Condition next hereinafter following.\n\nIV. His Excellency the Governor will appoint and grant a fit and proper site for the said village and Harbour, and the same shall be removed to the said site accordingly. If the purchaser of Lot No. 2 of the said Lots shall find it requisite to remove houses, piers, or other erections from the said Lot or the sea front thereof he shall bear and discharge the cost of the said removal and make compensation therefor in like manner as by Conditions III and IV with respect to Lot No. 1 is provided.\n\nV. Any controversy arising between either of the said purchasers and any person soever under conditions III, IV shall be referred by both parties to the arbitrament of two persons of whom one shall be the Registrar General and Protector of Chinese and the other shall be a person nominated by the purchaser party to the said controversy; and if the said arbitrators cannot...\n\n322", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241933, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "decision to be signified 4th Inhabitants of Hongkong by a Proclamation & published in the usual \n\n& most authentic \n\nmanner.\n\nHongkong\n\nNEW SERIES.\n\nTHE \n\nIm 7173/57 \n\n354 \n\nGovernment \n\nGAZETTE.\n\nVICTORIA, SATURDAY, 23 MAY, 1857.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nVOL. II. No. 99.\n\nThe Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that \n\n\"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE\" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.\n\nNo. 79.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,\n\nIt is hereby notified, that The Right Honourable The Secretary of State for the Colonies has been pleased to approve the appointment of D. R. CALDWELL, Esquire, as Registrar General and Protector of Chinese at Hongkong. His duties as General Interpreter to the Government will, except in urgent and important cases, cease from this date.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 21st May, 1857.\n\nNo. 30.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe subjoined Notice, issued from the Harbour Master's Office, is published for the information of Masters of Merchant Vessels resorting to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong,\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 21st May, 1857.\n\nIt is hereby notified to Masters and others in charge of Merchant Vessels, that all Ships in Port, and those arriving on or after the 1st June next, until 30th September, will be required to keep their Top Gallant Masts and Yards on deck, Flying Jib-boom in, and that particular attention must be paid to keep their Hawse clear. Any person neglecting these precautionary measures will be subject to the full penalty in all cases. Vide Harbour Regulations-Sec. VIII, Ord. 11 of 1845.\n\nHarbour Master's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th May, 1857.\n\nE. R. MICHELL, Acting Harbour Master.\n\nNo 81.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe following Return of Notes in Circulation and Specie in Reserve at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, is published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 22d May, 1857.\n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary,\n\nAccount of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month ending 30th April, 1857, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.\n\nNOTES ISSUED,\n\n$233,987, exclusive of the Notes of the Oriental Bank still outstanding.\n\nOriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 4th May, 1857.\n\nP. CAMPBELL, Manager.\n\nI have this day inspected the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and found the Specie shewn me to \n\ncorrespond in amount with the Terms of the Royal Charter.\n\nFRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 22d May, 1857.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242346, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "## W. Forth's list of special Disbursements Caused by the disturbances at Canton and the hostile proceedings of Chinese in Hong Kong\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Police and Extra Police | £3295.2.4½ |\n| Registration Ordinance | |\n| I. Audit. Issuing of Night Passes | £377.7.6¾ |\n| Dr Harbour dept. | £18.17.6 |\n| Dr Public Works. J. | £193.1.0 |\n| Charter of the Banque Phoebe Dunbar for deporting Chinese from the Colony, Feby March | £130.1.2 |\n| Charter of the Steamer \"Rose and Shamrock\" | £41.13.4 |\n| Charter of the Steamer \"Eaglet\" | £891.4.2 |\n| Rent of Guard House at Hollywood Road | £17.0.0 |\n| Conveyance of 1 Officer and 29 men of the 59th Regt from Singapore to Hongkong - Paid on Steamer | £67.8.1¾ |\n| Reward to Informers paid in April and May | £6.0.0 |\n| Analysis of poisoned Bread to Dr. Harland | |\n| Parental expenses incurred by the Protector of Chinese on board the St. E. I. Company's S.S. \"Auckland\" | £31.5.0 |\n| Gratuities to sundry persons for secret services rendered to the Government | £37.0.0 |\n| | £306.0.0 |\n| | £20.16.8 |\n| | £2.2.0 |\n| Saddlery, Clothing & Sundries for the Police | £1081.15.9 |\n| Procotage of 2½% upon all salaries not exceeding £300 per annum | £40.12.6 |\n| | £2377.6.3 |\n| **Total** | **£9906.19.3** \n\nAs a general Contribution to the wants of this Colony, a whether an Estimate should be framed on the principle of providing for the salaries of some of the principal Officers of the East within the limit of the above mentioned Amount.\n\nJaum H.M.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242356, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "Corresponding half year.\n\nThis excess of **241** will be accounted for by reference to the Government notice No 26 of 14th February last, raising the Police rate from 5 to 7%. This excess would have been greater, had not the Registrar General and Protector of Immigrants felt it his duty in March last to advocate the appeal of the Tipos of Victoria, who represented \"That House rent continued high, and that in consequence of the vigilance of the Mandarins and gentry at the various towns and seaports now trading with the Colony, very few vessels were trading, and consequently scarcely any business was doing, that this Large Tax would fall heavily upon the Chinese, so much so, that many would be compelled...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243395, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "page_number": 320, "title": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "content_text": "## Instructions for a Court of Enquiry\n\nThe Court of Enquiry is ordered to assemble at Head Quarters, at 11 a.m. on 23rd September 1857.\n\nThe Court will investigate a report, contained in the enclosed Despatch, from the Secretary of State for War, covering a copy of a Despatch from H. E. Br. J. Bowring, respecting the misconduct of a Military Detachment from this Garrison, employed at Kowloon, on the 28th April last.\n\nThe Court will also endeavour to ascertain under what circumstances a private note from H. E. Br. T. Ch. Bowing to Colonel Dunlop, A.D.C., on this subject, was circulated; and afterwards published in a local newspaper.\n\nThe following witnesses will attend: Colonel Dunlop, R.E.; Major Cazalet, Madras N.I.; Captain King, 59th Regiment; Major M. Caldwell, R.A.\n\nThe following documents are furnished for the information of the Court.\n\n| No. | Document Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | Despatch from the Secretary of State for War, dated 3rd August 1857, and enclosure |\n| 2. | Copies of Garrison Orders, by Major General Van Straubenzee, C.B. |\n| | President of the Court of Inquiry |\n\nNote that the original text has \"23th Sepkmber\" which is corrected to \"23rd September\", \"Dropatah\" and \"Dispakt\" which are corrected to \"Despatch\", \"Scorclary\" which is corrected to \"Secretary\", \"Thats for then\" is unclear but left as is due to lack of context, \"W! April Cast\" is corrected to \"28th April last\", \"H. C. Im. T. Boving\" is corrected to \"H. E. Br. T. Ch. Bowing\", \"Cotence Danlop. AM.\" is corrected to \"Colonel Dunlop, A.D.C.\", \"Rotector of Chinesr\" is unclear but seems to refer to a person, possibly \"Protector of Chinese\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243817, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 153, "title": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "content_text": "33.\n\nI. That Solicitors' Clerks and persons acting as their Agents, without being instructed by their Attorney or Solicitor, and that they often do so act.\n\n2. That Interpreters and others, being natives from the population of this Colony, are a tender portion advising them in legal matters, assisting proceedings; and that this, not being \"practising\" strictly so called, does not render them amenable to the above-mentioned rules.\n\n3. That these facts are notorious.\n\n(Signed) Edward K. Stan,\nSecretary to the Hongkong Law Society\n\nTrue copy \nAttorney General, \nColonial Secretary.\n\n(Copy.)\n\n150\n\nMinute by the Acting Colonial Secretary for the information of His Excellency The Governor.\n\nOn perusing the letter of Mr. Secretary Labouchere, there can be no question but that he desired further information solely on the question of the introduction of Chinese as Lawyers into the Supreme Court of this Colony. Mr. Anstey, however, availed himself of the opportunity this afforded him to make professional capital by putting himself forward to the Solicitors as their protector against the inroads of the Barristers. It is", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243999, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 335, "title": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Seasons, - by Typhoons and Storms \nand the fierce Elements which the Proxies bring into irresistible activity added to the entire Dependence of the Colony on foreign supply of the materials of construction (except granite, of which we produce a superfluity), that much uncertainty must attend the expenditure of the Surveyor General's Department.\n\nI attach great importance to the question of an adequate water supply. Though the Island owes its very name to the reputation of its waters, the vast increase of population, the enormous demands for the Shipping, and the insufficiency of present arrangements (though much has been done) to provide a sufficiency of water, - all serves to show that measures for providing for the exigency of the case should have early attention - which I will not fail to give.\n\nThe growth of the native population - a growth still likely to progress - makes the services of Registrar General and Protector of the Chinese more and more important. The Chinese dwellings in the City are not only crowded but crammed, while the increasing proportion of females to males shows tendencies... \n\nPage 332 \n12", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244382, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 123, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "# III. Office of Superintendent of Police, \nthe \"Victoria, Hongkong, 19th June 1858.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 18th instant, enclosing a letter from the Acting Colonial Secretary to your address; both on the subject of additional Police protection at, or in the vicinity of your premises.\n\nI beg, in reply to your letter, to acquaint you, that it is altogether out of my power, because the strength of the Police Force is closely approximated to the duties it is called upon to perform, to station an additional Constable on the Road West of your house. I have, however, given direction that the Constable on the beat in the vicinity of your residence shall patrol to the Western boundary of your ground.\n\nI wish to mention to you that only two constables are specially stationed at the house of the Registrar General and Protector of Chinese; the third (who is the constable doing duty at the Registration Office) simply resides there, instead of in a Police Station.\n\nIn order to remove any impression from your mind, that I give this special protection to the Registrar General, I wish you to know that it was at your instance and request that I refused to comply with the positive instructions of the Acting Colonial Secretary to send the two Constables to the Registrar General, and that I did deem it my duty now, (in reference to your application for special protection) to report, that I have not one Constable more than is required for the necessary and defined duties of the Force.\n\nI shall be glad, when called upon by the Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary, to report my views on the subject.\n\nI have enclosed herein the letter of the Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary before mentioned.\n\nI have the honor, etc.,\n(Signed) C. May,\nSuperintendent of Police.\n\nThe Honorable The Attorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244627, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 368, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "# 375\n\nI am led to suspect that this man, as criminal as it is attempted by some people to make him out to be, will find that those who condemn him would endeavour to bring forward some of his accusers and I should be one of the foremost to assist in bringing to light any crime which he might be charged with having committed.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) W.R. Caldwell. \nRegistrar General & Protector of Chinese\n\n(True Copy) \nMS Bridges. \nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\n(Copy)\n\nMr Caldwell certainly makes one very strong point and one which almost entirely destroys the principal feature of the case made against Ahei by Mr. Attorney General. \nMr. Caldwell was within the last three years 16 months out of Government employ, and a considerable portion of that time out of the Colony, consequently his supposed Government support ceased altogether at that time, yet no charge of any deception whatsoever was preferred against him. \nThis sole fact is stronger than any amount of reports founded on Chinese public opinion, but I confess to having myself a strong impression against Ahei because he was in a position enabling him to do a great deal of \"squeezing\".\n\n(Signed) W.F. May.\n\n(Copy)\n\nMr. Caldwell's suggestion is quite reasonable - The Government invited...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244630, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 371, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## British Naval power.\n\nAnd lastly, that he Wong Akee was enabled to do this because of his connection with Mr. Caldwell, who by his position under Her Majesty's Government enabled Wong Akee to work his schemes and, that Mr. Caldwell's name was put prominently before the pirates as their protector or the reverse.\n\nHis Excellency will doubtless perceive that if the accusations be true there is a bond of union amongst those connected, which accident alone can bring to light, and altho' there is floating on the minds of the Chinese community a general knowledge and belief of the accusations, that no direct intelligence can be obtained from them.\n\nThere is undoubtedly a common feeling that Wong Akee alias Makow Wong has immense power, which he wields for protection of his friends & the destruction of his enemies & that he derives this immense power from Mr. Caldwell. I have had a knowledge of Wong for at least \n\nPage 368 \n217", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244651, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 392, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "# Appendix, No.6.\n\n## ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.\n\n### No. 8 of 1858.\n\nHis Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\n**An Ordinance for Regulation of the Chinese People, and for the Population Census, and for other Purposes of Police.**\n\n10th May, 1858.\n\nBe it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say:\n\n1. Ordinance No. 6 of 1857 is hereby repealed.\n\n**Repeal of Ordinance No. 6 of 1857.**\n\nThe Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be continued and established, together with the Registrar General and other the Officers and Assistants by whom the duties and business thereof have been hitherto performed; and also together with the Classification presently existing, in the Books of the said Office, of Boats and Vessels, for the purposes of the Schedule to this Ordinance.\n\nThe several Persons now being the Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants, of the said Office, shall discharge the duties and business thereof in future at their present Salaries during His Excellency's pleasure; and upon any vacancy, His Excellency may from time to time nominate and appoint such Person or Persons to be such Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants respectively, and at such Salary and Emoluments as to His Excellency shall seem meet, and also remove him or them at His Excellency's discretion from time to time, and nominate and appoint another or others in his or their room; yet so as that Her Majesty's pleasure shall be taken as to every nomination, appointment, and removal of a Registrar General, and as to every new limitation of Salary under the provisions of this Section.\n\n**Appointments of Officers.**\n\n## IV.\n\nThe Registrar General is, by virtue of his Office, and for the execution of this Ordinance, and otherwise, the Protector of Chinese Inhabitants within this Colony, and as such is bounden to use his endeavours to prevent the commission of crime, and, if committed, to discover and apprehend the Parties guilty thereof, and generally to watch over and protect the said Chinese Inhabitants; and, for the purposes aforesaid only, he is empowered to enter at any reasonable time or times, as he shall find meet, any Building whatsoever within this Colony, or Vessel or Boat whatsoever within the Waters of the same or adjacent thereto, if such Building, Vessel, or Boat shall then have any Chinaman within or on board of the same.\n\n## V.\n\nThe other Officers and Assistants in the said Census and Registration Office shall be obedient and subject unto the said Registrar General in the execution of this Ordinance.\n\n**Duties of the other Officers and Assistants.**\n\n## VI.\n\nThe Powers and Authorities touching the direction and Superintendence of the Police Force, which by Ordinance 12 of 1844 were vested in the Chief Magistrate of Police, are from henceforth vested in and shall be exercised by, the Superintendent of Police for the time being, constituted under the said Ordinance; and obedience shall be rendered by the Police Force of this Colony to the orders of the said Superintendent of Police, and to all Rules and Regulations by him made or to be made with the approbation of the Governor in Council; and the Registrar General is hereby empowered to require from the Superintendent of Police, or in his absence from the Officer acting for him, the services of such of the subordinate members of the Police Force as he may deem necessary for the due execution of the duties of his office, and the said Force when so required shall receive orders from the Superintendent of Police or Inspector on duty, to obey the commands of the said Registrar General in the same manner as those of the Superintendent of Police.\n\n**The Chief Magistrate's authority to devolve upon the Superintendent of Police.**\n\n## VII.\n\nEvery Person occupying a House, shall cause the Number thereof to be continued upon or painted and affixed to such House, in such wise as the Registrar General shall direct.\n\n**Numbers to be painted.**\n\n## VIII.\n\nHis Excellency in Council shall have power to approve for, and appoint to, the office of Tepo in every Town, Village, Hamlet, and District, of this Colony, a proper Person to be presented unto him by the Occupiers of Chinese Houses therein, or (in default of such presentment) to be nominated by His Excellency in Council for that purpose.\n\n**Power to elect and appoint Tepos.**\n\n## IX.\n\nEvery Tepo shall have, throughout his Town, Village, Hamlet, or District, but not further or otherwise, the same powers and authorities, and perform the duties of Constable, and, in that capacity, shall be immediately subordinate unto the Registrar General, and shall conform to whatsoever lawful Orders, Rules, and Regulations he shall, with the approbation of His Excellency, frame and issue for the better execution of their duties under this Ordinance.\n\n**Powers and Duties of the Tepos.**\n\n## X.\n\nThe amount of the Salary of each Tepo shall be from time to time fixed by His Excellency in Council, and shall be paid out of the Produce of the Police Tax.\n\n**Salaries of the Tepos.**\n\n## XI.\n\nThe Hawking of Goods or Wares in the Streets or Roads of this Colony, without a License from the Registrar General, is hereby prohibited.\n\n**Unlicensed Hawking prohibited.**\n\n## XII.\n\nNo License for such Hawking shall be granted by the Registrar General to any Person except upon Payment of the Fee in that behalf mentioned in the Schedule hereunto annexed; and every such License shall be subject to forfeiture on conviction of the holder of any offence before any Justice of the Peace. And every Applicant, on receiving his said License, shall pay therefor to the Registrar General, to the use of the Crown, the Fee in that behalf mentioned in the Schedule hereunto annexed.\n\n**Conditions and Fees of Hawking Licenses.**\n\n## XIII.\n\nThe Registrar General shall grant to such fit and proper Persons, being Chinamen, as shall make application unto him in that behalf, Licenses to undertake and perform the Burials of Chinese Dead in the Cemeteries, and after the manner prescribed by law; and every such License shall be limited in duration to One Year, but renewable at the expiration of each Year; and there shall be paid to him to the use of the Crown for every such grant or renewal the Fee in that behalf specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed.\n\n**The Registrar General to grant Undertakers' Licenses.**\n\n## XIV.\n\nNo Person, not being an Undertaker licensed under Section Thirteen, shall henceforward undertake or perform any Burials of Chinese Dead, or dig any Grave within any such Cemetery as aforesaid.\n\n**None but Licensed Undertakers to bury or dig Graves.**\n\n## XV.\n\nEvery Licensed Undertaker is hereby required to use his best skill and endeavour to prevent and repress all Offences against, and Violations of, the Laws for regulating Chinese Burials, and to apprehend, or cause to be apprehended, all Persons accused thereof, and from time to time to report every such Offence or Violation to the Registrar General with all reasonable speed.\n\n**The Undertakers are required to prevent and repress Offences against Burial Laws.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244722, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 464, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "461 \n\n(18)\n\nin Peel Street, and a Barber, next door but one to her house, occasions on which I had a quarrel with Mr Caldwell. I who gave me information in answer to an inquiry of mine on was officiating as Registrar General and Protector of Chinese this subject on the 11th or 12th of May last, should be called. for five or six years up to the time that Mr Caldwell was ap- This inquiry was a voluntary one, and the result was pointed to those offices,—I have never since then expressed a communicated to the Attorney General. I never employed desire to be appointed Registrar General. \n\nAbout eight or any person directly to make inquiries. I gave a suggestion, nine months ago, when I had a conversation with the Acting not a direction, to Lyons, about ascertaining from the Colonial Secretary on the subject of Police, I stated that if it occupants, who they considered were the owners. I inquir- was considered by H. M.'s Government, that it would be for the ed of Lyons if he knew if Mr Caldwell owned any property interests of the public that Mr Caldwell should have the in Taipingshan. He said, \"I do; he owns lot 206.\". I asked Superintendence of the Police, I would most gladly take the him how he knew it, and he said Mr Caldwell had acknow- office of the Registrar General; I expressed no wish, but ledged himself to be the owner to him, when he had occasion said it rather in irony than otherwise. I did not ask it in to go to Mr Caldwell on business as Inspector of Nuisances. Inspector Roberts is a member of the Police force.\n\nThe slightest degree as a favour to myself, I did not say has that such an arrangement would be the means of putting made inquiries concerning the Ma-chow Wong branch the top to any hostility on my part towards, or disputes between, inquiry; he has not done so by my direction, but in the myself and Mr Caldwell, or anything to that effect. I have pursuit of his inquiries he has acted upon my advice, as to emphatically disavowed on many occasions, and I believe then, the mode in which he should conduct them. Precisely the hostility to Mr Caldwell, and I do so now. \n\nI did that same remark applies to Lyons. \n\nsay I think it would be believed the hatred of Mr Caldwell towards me, arising out of Ma-chow Wong's conviction, would never cease, and I say so now. I recollect some three or four years ago having a con- versation with Mr Caldwell, in which it was mooted between us, that an arrangement by which he would be Superintendent of Police, and I Registrar General, would be very pleasant. I spoke to Mr Mercer about it. There would have been no net pecuniary benefit to me. I do not know what Mr Caldwell's salary is; my salary is £575, horse and quarters. I have since my family went to England, I may have dined 3 times with them on Christmas days—but not more than 3 times. I did all in my power to turn the brothel-keepers out, but was unsuccessful by reason of the then defective state of the law in that respect. I did not in any way ask additional powers from the Executive, but I received none. This matter was inquired into by the Government at the time, and they expressed their satisfaction with my conduct. I believe, but do not know, that Mr Caldwell resigned his appointment in 1855, because the Government refused to increase his salary; I know he applied for an increase, but on reconsideration I think he left the service because he purchased the Eaglet.\n\nBy inherent character I mean the making use of position and power to exact services rendered. The inquiries I made, and suggestions and advice I have given, were not prompted by any private motives, but from the desire for the public good—morality was not the subject of my thoughts. I remember in 1851 giving Mr Strachan information, which induced him to write an article in his paper regarding Mr Caldwell's informant, in reference to an attack on the steamer Hongkong. I know that the statement in the article was proved to be untrue. Mr Caldwell wrote a letter to the China Mail on the subject, and I reported that circumstance to the Governor. The result was a written apology from Mr Caldwell to me, relative to his conduct.\n\nCross-examined.—I have been on terms of acquaintance, but not intimacy, with Mrs Caldwell, since she resided at the Police Station—for about six years back. I went to their house on the occasion of their giving parties, between half-a-dozen times otherwise. Within the last six years, I may have dined with them on Christmas days—but not more than 3 times. I owned houses which were occupied as brothels to my knowledge, but not with my consent. I did not believe she was in any way connected with the business of a brothel, but only an inmate of one. Her manners and demeanour, and the management of her household, were always marked by strict propriety of conduct, and were those of a gentlewoman.\n\nFREDERICK WOODS, Recalled.\n\nReferring to my answer when previously examined, as to whether I had bought land from Mr Caldwell in Taipingshan, I have to state, that I did not purchase land of him, but that I did purchase at auction lots 206, 263, and 264, which were, I believe, Mr Caldwell's property in November last year. The part which I stated as mortgaged remains on the security of deeds. I have no anxiety about not being paid, and have no reason for supposing I shan't be paid.\n\nCross-examined.—I believe that Assow and Lum Ateen have it at home, and can produce it. I thought Ma-chow Wong was the informant; and this was one of the two grounds for believing that there was a brothel on lot 206, is the fact that every house in Taipingshan is more or less a brothel. I remember Mr Caldwell spoke to me of the purchase. It was within a fortnight after the Western market sale in November last that I resold one of the lots to a Chinaman through Mr Caldwell. I have sold more land this year to Mr Caldwell, or through him as agent. I told Mr May that the shops formerly belonged to Mr Caldwell. Mr May's question was, “Are these houses Mr Caldwell's;\" I said \"Yes,\" and he then went away. When I said this to Mr May, I did not recollect that Ateen had come for the rents. Lum Ateen gave me the receipt, and he is the landlord; Lum Ateen came to my house for the rent. About April or May 1857, Mr Caldwell was going to sell all his houses; and I went to him and asked him to sell me one of them, and he told me that he would only sell them all together. Mr Caldwell never wanted to buy from me.\n\nRe-examined. I had a section of lot 209 which I bought at Public Auction in the latter part of last year. At the time I bought it, it was in the name of Sheik Moosdeen. The section was sold at Public Auction, about a fortnight after the fire, and the transfer was made within a fortnight after that time; it was sold to Achong, the P. & O. comprador. I never heard Mr Caldwell's name in the matter.\n\nLEUNG ATAI.—Called and examined.\n\nI am aware that a relation of mine has lately wished to sell to Mrs Caldwell two shops, numbered, I think, 381 and 332. They were entrusted to me for sale. I first went to Mr May, who could not give me the price I asked. I saw Mr May himself; I do not know a woman called Aoi. Mr May only offered $400 and odd, and I asked upwards of $500. Afterwards I went to Sze-kai's shop; Sze-kai asked me where I had been; I said that I had been to Mr May's about the sale of my relation's houses. Sze-kai and I went to some negotiation, and Sze-kai dealt personally with him, but I was not present. I know that Sze-kai has bought the houses, because I asked my relation when Mr May requested me, and my relation told me they had been sold to Sze-kai's mistress, who is Mrs Caldwell, for $500, of which $400 had been paid, and the remainder was to be paid when the ground lease was transferred. This was about ten days ago.\n\nCross-examined, I went to the Central Police Station to Mr May; I was never offered $420 or any other sum by a Chinese woman in European clothes or any other female for the houses. When Mr May saw the houses, he said they were old and broken down, and not worth so much. I do not know whether Mr May wanted to buy the houses for himself, or as agent for anyone. My relation is called Tong Achewy and lived a little way below the Police Station.\n\nMARIA.—Called and examined.\n\nAdjourned till Noon, 9th June.\n\nSEVENTH DAY.\n\nWednesday, 9th June, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon. Present,—All the Members.\n\nOn the termination of the proceedings on the 7th instant, the Hon'ble the Attorney General handed in a letter of protest, against the manner of taking the evidence of the Chinese, as being wholly favourable to Mr Caldwell.\n\nFrom this opinion of the Honorable the Attorney General the Commission entirely dissent.\n\n[Mak Afook's account books of rents received produced.]\n\nJ. MONGAN, Assistant Chinese Secretary, Called and examined.\n\nThere is no entry in either of these books from which it may appear upon whose account the rents have been collected.\n\nMAK AFOOK,—Called and examined.\n\nThe rents of which there are entries in this book are in respect of the 22 houses, and of one of the other three.\n\nLUM ATEEN,—Recalled.\n\n[Produces five documents in Chinese, being copies of ground leases and mesne assignments, and also the receipt of the Colonial Treasurer for £2.2.5 received on the 26th February 1858, from Mr Caldwell, on account of Chew Alai, in respect of lots 238 C, 240, and 250; also, like receipt on the same date for £8.14.7 from Mr Caldwell on account of Lum Ateen, in respect of lots 179, 241 B, 241 C, 242 B, and 262, also of receipt on the 15th December 1857 by F. Woods of $1,500 from Lum Ateen, as part of purchase-money of lots 206, 263, and 264, sold to him for the sum of $3,000, with an agreement that the balance shall remain on security of the premises at interest; also, the receipts given by F. Woods to Lum Ateen for the interest on the said sum of $1,500, from the 15th December 1857 to the 31st May 1858; also, an acknowledgment by Siemssen & Co. of the receipt by them]\n\nI reside a little below Mr Strachan's house. Three doors from my house there is a house which formerly belonged to Mr Caldwell and which I heard was sold in the middle of last year. On the 19th April, I paid the ground rent to Lum Ateen. When Mr Rienecker was here I paid the ground rent to him; afterwards for about two years to Mr Caldwell; and the last six months rent to Lum Ateen. Lum Ateen came to me for the ground rent about the beginning of February last, when I said I had not the money. I am not certain that my house is Number 72 or 76. The reason I pay ground rent to Lum Ateen is, that my house is in the same lot with his, that he has more houses in the lot.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244726, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 468, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## Testimony of Mr. Caldwell\n\nMe ty thales interten \n\n(27) \n\n465 \n\n(26) \n\npay the ground rent for Chun Atsoo's lots, if you will give me the money I will pay it for you.\" He gave me then a $50 note, and I paid the ground rent.\n\nI left the Chinaman with the Shroff, and did not see the payment made or receipt given. I have never at any period paid any ground rent on account of this lot, and have never been consulted about nor taken any part in, the payment of this rent on any previous occasion.\n\nLum Ateen did live, and I think does now, with Assow the road overseer. He never lived on the water. I have known the man for many years; his family is wealthy and he himself I should think is worth from $10,000 to $12,000.\n\nI always pay the ground rent on Chun Atsoo's lots: 204, 331, 382. Those three lots stood in my name in the Land Office before the 6th May 1857. I had explained to Dr. Bridges, who had kindly undertaken the arrangement of my affairs, and also particularly to Siemssen & Co., without whose consent I could do nothing, that these lots though standing in my name were really the property of my wife's sister Chun Atsoo, and that they had been purchased with her money. I had not the management of her property; it was in respect of the lot purchased by me at auction at the sale of the Western Market property.\n\nThe lot 552, for which 4d. was paid by me on account, was managed by my wife for her; the lots stood in my name for safety only. She has let them out to Szekai, and he pays $75 a-month. I have never received any of the rents of this property myself, nor have I any account of them. I wish to explain that by the admission in page 14 of the evidence, I did not mean that I personally received these rents, but that my wife did. I pay these ground rents at the request of my wife, who gives me the money for that purpose. The payments of $75 a-month which have been received by Mrs. Caldwell are not carried into my general family account, but to an entirely distinct and separate account which she keeps with her sister.\n\nI was in June, 1857, advised to make a declaration or affidavit to the effect, that this property, though registered in my name, was the property of Chun Atsoo, and had been purchased by me for her with money placed in my hands for that purpose. I prepared an affidavit to that effect, and went to Mr. May for the purpose of deposing to it before him. He thought it could not be done, and took the opinion of the Chief Magistrate, who, Mr. May told me, was of the same opinion. I was consequently never sworn.\n\nOn the 6th May 1857, I did transfer these lots to the name of Chun Atsoo, for the nominal consideration of $3. The payment I made on the 18th February, which was stated in the receipt to be on account of Mr. Woods, was in respect of the four lots 206, 263, 264, and 551, purchased by Lum Ateen of Mr. Woods. The receipt was in that form, because the property still stood in the name of Mr. Woods.\n\nI received a verbal message from Atuk, who occupied shop 56 in the market, which had previously been sold, desiring me to purchase this lot for him to the limit of $1,400. Dr. Bridges was standing close to me at the time. I had just got a commission to purchase one of the shops. I told him that I did buy it at $1,410. After I had told Atuk that he was the purchaser, he told me he could not raise the whole of the purchase-money, but had made over the lot to another person for $1,500 - he did not at that time say to whom. The purchase-money had been paid. The 4d. was an unpaid balance of ground rent to 24th December last. I paid the 4d. I did not know the name of the second purchaser, or the then owner, for the lease had not been made out.\n\n### Charges Against Mr. Caldwell\n\nWith reference to charge 5: I never speculated in brothels or in brothel licenses. I consider it a malicious charge, to say the least of it. The lot I wished to purchase through Mr. Turner of Mr. Anstey was for Lum Ateen. If this lot had been purchased by Lum Ateen, no houses could have been erected as licensed brothels on it, for it faces and abuts on the Queen's Road, and the Brothels' Ordinance expressly prohibits keeping a brothel even within the brothel districts if it faces the Queen's Road.\n\nWith reference to charge 16: I have never purchased any land in this colony either on my own account, or as agent, or on account of any other person, since December last, when I became licenser of brothels.\n\n### Payment on Account of Sin On Wo\n\nWith reference to the payment on the 5th March on account of Sin On Wo, I should state that I did not make that payment at all. On the afternoon of the 4th, a Sunon man, whose name I do not know, came to me at my office, and brought me a receipt for ground rent on a lot in the name of Sin On Wo for £8 and odd for the half-year, and he said that he had been to the Land Office, and that they wanted $90 from him, more than double what he had paid before. He came to me as Protector of Chinese, as hundreds of people do every day for advice. I told him if he would come next day, I would see about it. He came the next day - the 5th, and I showed the receipt to Mr. Carvalho, and asked for an explanation. He told me that the increase was on account of an encroachment - some ground which he had built upon.\n\n### Purchase of a House in Taipingshan\n\nAt the end of last month, I had to write an official letter to the Acting Colonial Secretary, with reference to a charge made against me of owning land in this colony. I mentioned this after I went home to Mrs. Caldwell, and that I had positively denied the charge. She then said that she had bargained for a house in Taipingshan, as she had a large sum in her hands belonging to her sister. She said she had agreed to pay $470, of which she had paid $400 from part of the funds in her hands, the property of her sister. These funds are the accumulation of the rents paid to her by Szekai on account of her sister Chun Atsoo. She afterwards discovered that this house was only a section of a lot, and she said she had requested Szekai to see if the person who had the other section would sell it, as she would prefer buying both. She would allow Szekai to sell the house to any other person by paying her back the $400. She said she considered Szekai answerable to her for the $400.\n\n### Personal History\n\nMy first child was born on the 3rd December, 1844, and died ten days afterwards; the next was born on the 31st October, 1846. I made at the time of their births entries of the dates in a prayer book which I now produce. I wish to state that this purchase was not to be paid for by her out of any moneys belonging to me in her hands, and that I have no possible interest in the purchase, as I am not, unfortunately, possessed of so much money.\n\nIn the statement which Mr. Inglis made as to his having seen my wife in a brothel in 1844, I say he must have been mistaken, as she was my wife, and living with me as such, during the whole of that year, in the house I had provided for her, which was in Choong Wan - and not in Taipingshan.\n\n### Living Arrangements\n\nIn the middle of 1844, the houses in Choong Wan were pulled down, and the inmates removed to Taipingshan. I then removed Mrs. Caldwell to the upper story of a shop in the Lower Bazaar - no part of the house was used as a brothel. About the end of the year, we removed to Taipingshan, and remained about two months in a house built in lieu of the one we had first inhabited. In the beginning of 1845, I rented the whole of the upper story of a house in Queen's Road.\n\nI am desirous of denying in as strong language as I can use, that my wife was a Chinese girl from a brothel, or that she ever lived in a brothel at all.\n\n### Charges 15 and 17\n\nWith reference to charge 15: I deny that also. I purchased at auction lot 206, with three dilapidated houses on it, for $270. These houses had been brothels in the flourishing time of Taipingshan, but were not so when I purchased them in 1854. With reference to all other houses which I have ever owned in this colony, none of them were brothels when I purchased them; none of the houses I have ever owned in this colony were brothels during the time they remained in my possession, nor when I sold them to different persons. With reference to those which were sold to Mr. Woods, I know that they were not brothels, as I was at the auction, and went into all the houses.\n\nWith reference to charge 17: I deny this charge altogether. I have received no rents on any lot since the 14th of December last.\n\n### Relationship with Mr. May\n\nNo two persons could have been more intimate than myself and Mr. May from the time his wife left Hong Kong. From 1851 to 1857, I am certain that Mr. May was a casual visitor without invitation at our house, at least six times a month, instead of six times altogether, particularly when my sister was here on a two years' visit from Singapore. My sister played on the piano, and he came in almost every evening. I never left him out on the occasion of our giving parties to our friends, and he came on nearly every occasion. I can positively state that he was never absent one year on Christmas day, but always dined with us.\n\n### Family Relations\n\nWith reference to charge 16: Mrs. Caldwell has one sister whose name is Chun Atsoo, and whose proper residence is in Macao. She has not been in this colony since 1851. She is married to a Fuhkien merchant. She has also a daughter with whom she is now staying. She has only been in this colony twice on a visit, and when she came resided in our house. She never kept a brothel. Mrs. Caldwell has no other sister by blood or usage besides Chun Atsoo. I deny charge 16 altogether.\n\nI have known a woman named Shap-me as long as I have known my wife. Shap-lok's mother and Mrs. Caldwell's mother were sworn sisters. Sworn sisters are bound to support and protect each other, and to perform the funeral rites to each other as sisters. The custom does not imply the slightest relationship or connection between the children of such sisters according to the Chinese usage.\n\n### Letter from Siemssen & Co.\n\nI beg now to hand in a letter (P) from Siemssen & Co. under date 25th of April, 1857, to Dr. Bridges, agreeing to accept the proposal which had been made by him on behalf of me for the benefit of my creditors. In this letter, there is an error in the valuation put on the landed property, including as it does the value of the three lots which were in fact the property of Chun Atsoo. This error was subsequently pointed out to Siemssen & Co., who desired me to draw up the affidavit I have before mentioned, in order that the creditors should be satisfied. To this letter is also appended an agreement to accept this arrangement by all the European creditors, except Lane, Crawford & Co., whose claim was only $48. A translation of this letter was made by me at Siemssen & Co.'s request, and signed by all the Chinese creditors, but I am not at this moment able to find it.\n\n### Marriage to Mrs. Caldwell\n\nI was first married privately to my wife according to Chinese usage in November 1843 - all the ceremonies used by Chinese on such occasions were then performed by my wife. On no other condition would her mother consent to let her live with me. I was then living in the Magistracy compound. She was not living in a brothel at the time; I could not obtain admission into the house in which she was then living with her mother because it was a family house. The arrangement was made by a third party. After this Chinese marriage had been performed, she came to live with me.\n\nAdjourned till 12 o'clock on Wednesday, 16th June.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244740, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 482, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "479 \n\n(53) \n\nby order of the Governor. While the interest in the matter came to my knowledge, and directions were given to Mr. Inglis, a report was expected from him, but Mr. Wade went up to Canton and had several other matters to attend to, and the matter gradually died away. The applications for the report were continued after the production of the papers found on Beaver. Mr. Wade told me that he had so much to do that he could not give any time or attention to the report, and that is how I explain its not having been produced. What Mr. Mongan says about the order for the destruction of the papers is substantially correct. The order was given shortly after Mr. Wade's departure for the North. As far as I had anything to say, Mr. Mongan came in to me and said, \"What's to be done with the books and papers.\" I said he had better ask the Governor, and he told me the Governor had desired him to ask me; then I said, \"They're rubbish and had better be burnt,\" or words to that effect. I had not received information from any quarter whatsoever at this time that they might be important. I had no knowing hint from anyone—and if I had had the remotest idea that they would have proved important in any way, I should not have ordered their destruction. I never had any hint from Mr. Caldwell; nothing ever passed between Mr. Caldwell and myself on the subject.\n\nI consider it the duty of a detective to put all prima facie cases in train for trial, but there is no such thing as a detective here; it is the duty of all persons not to obstruct their being so put in train. That is most certainly the duty of the Protector of Chinese and Superintendent of Police, but not of Justices generally.\n\nIn answering the question why I applied the term \"partizanship\" with reference to Mr. May on the occasion of my last giving evidence, I would say that having been Crown prosecutor here for nearly three years, I have been enabled to form an accurate knowledge of the manner in which Mr. May generally conducted Police investigations or assisted in getting up cases; and having found him pursue an entirely different course so far as regards activity and energy in Ma-chow Wong's case from what I had ever seen or known him show in any other case, knowing the bitter spirit that he had for many months past shown towards Mr. Caldwell, and believing that Ma-chow Wong was made but the cause to attack Mr. Caldwell—because Mr. May, during my tenure of office, had never brought Ma-chow Wong's crimes or conduct to my notice in any way, I came to the conclusion, which I still adhere to, that Mr. May with regard to the getting up of the case against Ma-chow Wong was actuated by the private feelings of a partizan.\n\nI believe that Mr. Caldwell was not in the Government employ as interpreter at the end of 1855. I am under the impression that he ceased to be interpreter when he left the Government service in June or July 1855. I was out of the colony the whole of 1856, except the first fifteen days and the last six, and have no knowledge whether a subsequent application in that year for promoting Mr. Caldwell to a higher office was rejected in Downing Street before the 22nd November 1856.\n\nI hand into the Commission the original report of Mr. Wade under date 27th October 1857 upon the document found in the possession of Beaver.\n\nTo the best of my belief, I never, without consulting the Governor, ordered the release of prisoners or their property—their persons certainly not. Having had time to think over the question of the liberation of the property of Ma-chow Wong, I think that I did give directions to Mr. Grand-Pre as to taking away the Police from the premises without consulting the Governor, and I should do the same thing again under similar circumstances, having been directed by His Excellency not to trouble him about questions of Police details of which I considered this to have been one.\n\nI decline to answer the question whether I have, without reference to the Governor, liberty of action as Colonial Secretary under the Government Memorandum of January last; or whether the Secretary of State has sanctioned or even seen that memorandum.\n\nSubsequently to September last, the question of a pardon for Ma-chow Wong has never come before His Excellency or the Executive Council; the subject was mooted to myself once by my late Comprador—it was relative to the escape of some prisoners from the Gaol, and he asked me if Ma-chow Wong's friends brought the prisoner back to Gaol, whether Ma-chow Wong could procure a pardon. An offer of mitigation in sentence was made to another prisoner in the Gaol whose sentence was mitigated in consequence of effecting the capture. I told the Comprador that nothing would get Ma-chow Wong's liberation. I added that neither would I do anything myself, nor did I think the Governor would pardon him under any circumstances. That is the only time, and this the only person, when and with whom I have spoken concerning Ma-chow Wong's pardon subsequent to September 1856. I think it was from Mr. Caldwell himself that I understood it was he who arrested Beaver. I remember a minute being made in the Gaol book by Mr. Anstey and Mr. Lyall or somebody else regarding the commitment of certain prisoners. I cannot take upon myself to state whether the minute said they were all committed under the warrant of Mr. Caldwell. I cannot, from my own knowledge, answer whether the prisoners were discharged within a week after that minute was made.\n\nAll Chinese petitions for pardon or commutation are sent through Mr. Inglis or Mr. Caldwell—if from prisoners through Mr. Inglis; if from prisoners' friends through Mr. Caldwell. It is the custom to refer them sometimes to the Chief Justice for his report. They are referred to the Chief Justice, I should say, eight times out of ten—the other two out of ten consist of petty cases and cases which it has been already determined not to pardon. I do not remember, since I have held office, a single Supreme Court case in which such an application was not referred to the Chief Justice. I do not allude to such a case as that I mentioned just now of a mitigation of punishment in consequence of services rendered in the recapture of prisoners. It is very seldom, if ever, that they are referred to the present Attorney General for his opinion. The application in the Ma-chow Wong case was referred to the Chief Justice and Acting Attorney General. The report of the Chief Justice is certainly not conclusive.\n\n(55) \n\nSupreme Court, I had left a blank for that portion of it. Mr. May was present as Acting Sheriff. Far from imagining that he was willing to help me, I expostulated with him, thus—\"Good God, Mr. May, you cannot defend this abominable connection between Mr. Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong; you cannot expect me to go on finding bills for mock piracies on the evidence of the wretches whom you bring before this Court as Crown witnesses. You have heard the speech of Eli Boggs. Can any Government stand against such an infamy and disgrace? You heard that speech and shrunk under it.\" To my astonishment, Mr. May replied, \"I have never had but one opinion about Mr. Caldwell, Ma-chow Wong, Eli Boggs, or the connection; but I am nobody and have no power.\" It was then I asked his permission to refer to him in the report as one who would speak if called upon. He said \"yes\" and advised me also to refer to Mr. Inglis who knew a great deal also. I did so. The prime mover in all these inquiries is I, myself, and I have named those who have instigated me to become such. Mr. May was but one of my witnesses and by no means a ready one.\n\nMy firm conviction is that no murder was ever committed of the man in question. I heard from the Governor of the Gaol that Mr. Caldwell has had several interviews with Ma-chow Wong subsequent to his conviction at the Supreme Court. By reference to my previous evidence and my letter of 20th July 1857, it will be seen I have spoken and then written of a connection existing between the gold dust robberies, Pang Poi-yeen being one and Ma-chow Wong; and I believed that Ma-chow Wong's influence has been exercised since his incarceration in the Gaol to cause the apprehension of persons.\n\nCHARLES MAY - Recalled\n\nI have heard the Attorney General's statement and concur with it. Until addressed by the Attorney General, I never expressed any opinion to the Attorney General or to any high Government Officer on the subject of the impropriety of the intimacy between Mr. Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong. It will be observed by my evidence that I was in no way a participator in this intimacy and that I always, when I had occasion, exhibited my sense of the impropriety of the acquaintance and full intent of bringing Ma-chow Wong to justice when I had opportunity.\n\nShortly after resuming my office of Superintendent of Police in January 1858, a Chinaman presented himself to my office late one afternoon and said that he wanted police to go to Stanley to apprehend some men on suspicion of murder of a Chinaman whose name I knew and whom I knew to have been the principal witness in the Stanley treason case. I questioned the man, ascertained that he had no knowledge but from hearsay, and told him to bring any person to me who could give information of the act and measures should be taken.\n\nThe next day, on seeing the Colonial Secretary at Government Office, the Colonial Secretary said, \"You go to Mr. Inglis at the Gaol, he will give you some important information on the Stanley murder case,\" and informed me they had taken three men on the charge of murder. I said, \"No men have been apprehended, but I will go to Mr. Inglis.\" I did so. Mr. Inglis said, \"I am quite certain that three men have been apprehended because a Chinaman who has been employed in the matter states that he saw the three men in custody at Stanley last night.\" We had some further conversation in which he mentioned that two Chinamen then in Gaol under Ordinance 2 of 1857, supposed to have been connected with the treason case, had caused this information to be given upon which the Acting Colonial Secretary and police had been previously acting, but strangely that they wanted to mix Ma-chow Wong up with the matter and hoist him out of Gaol on the credit of his information.\n\nIn reference to the papers found on Beaver, I beg to refer...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244753, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 495, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## 492\n\n(80)\n\nMr. Lapraik. The arrest was by Mr. Caldwell. Lün Cheong, I was Gaoler at the time of Eli Boggs' trial, and attended the prisoner, said that during Ma-chow Wong's investigation at the Magistrate's Office, Ma-chow Wong's family was living with him. One day he went home and said to Ma-chow Wong's wife that very likely Ma-chow Wong's case would be committed to the Supreme Court, and that Ma-chow Wong's wife was not pleased; he also said that some of the men had petitioned on behalf of Ma-chow Wong, and had gone round the town to get shops' signatures; that he himself being a native of Sunon refused to go to get signatures. Because of this he says Ma-chow Wong's wife had an ill-feeling towards him; he said he believed that Ma-chow Wong's wife herself complained to Mr. Caldwell, and for that reason he believes that he was prosecuted.\n\nI took down the depositions in Court as Gaoler on the occasion of his trial. To the Supreme Court, a tin box containing articles belonging to him was brought. I received the tin box from the Police, but do not recollect from which officer. It was placed on the table at the Court. I do not remember what was in it, nor do I remember anything being taken out. I was present when Eli Boggs made his defence. I think he had some papers in his hand. I don't remember whether he read from them. I am not certain whether the box was handed over to the Police: after the trial, if it had been taken back to the Gaol, it would have been deposited in the Store-room. I have never seen it since. I do not remember seeing or hearing at the trial any paper containing Mr. Caldwell's name read. I heard Mr. Caldwell's name mentioned by Boggs in his defence.\n\nCross-examined,—I recollect the examination in the Gaol Yard of the men who were sent to Hainan. There was a great number of men apprehended in Bonham Strand, some of whom were put in the Debtor's Gaol, and some in the Mill Yard. I remember a large number of these men being examined in the Debtor's Gaol Yard.\n\nI have heard from Kwei Ch'oi, a Chinese female, that she was sent for by Mrs. Caldwell. Mrs. Caldwell said, \"people are saying that you gave me a gold bangle. Did you give it me or not.\" Kwei Ch'oi replied that she had not given her one. I have not heard of any other person being sent for.\n\nCross-examined,—I went to Kwei Ch'oi's house on the occasion I speak of. I visit her now and then. I think this was about a fortnight ago, but I heard the report from several other women before. I did not go to her house for the purpose of questioning her about this. I asked her whether she had put a gold chain into a loaf of bread, and sent it as a present to Mrs. Caldwell. She said \"No.\" I asked about the gold chain because I had heard of it. I haven't heard about the intimidation of witnesses who were to appear before this Commission, but judge from my own arrest. I told Mr. May when asked that I was afraid to come before the Commission to say anything against Mr. Caldwell; if I should, no doubt I would get into trouble. I also heard that a man conversing with another said, \"I hear that Assow is going to give evidence against Mr. Caldwell; if he should, he will not get clear off himself.\" This man was the Chinese Sergeant of Police, Lo Ahing. I think it was about the beginning of last month that I was arrested.\n\nI do not remember the Attorney General being present. I remember Mr. May and Mr. Caldwell. The prisoners deported to Hainan were mustered by Mr. May—the list drawn up—and Mr. May and Mr. Cluff were present. I do not recollect the Attorney General or Mr. Caldwell being present. Mr. Caldwell came to me the day after and inquired about two men who had been sent away, who ought not to have been sent. Mr. Caldwell had nothing that I am aware of to do with the deportation of these men; it was conducted by Mr. May, who was then Acting Sheriff and Superintendent of Police. Mr. Caldwell mentioned the names of two men, but I do not remember the names. After I told him that they were gone, he appeared to be angry, and my reply to the best of my recollection was that I could not help myself, and that I was acting under the orders of my superior Mr. May.\n\nI made out a rough draft of the list of prisoners to be deported, and these were finally arranged by Mr. May. This occasion, on the morning of their embarkation, is to my knowledge the only one on which the prisoners were mustered.\n\nLEONARDO D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Called and examined.\n\nRe-examined,—I have never as Gaoler had reason to remark or complain upon the great number of commitments or liberations on warrants signed by Mr. Caldwell under the deportation ordinance. There was only one occasion on which we were very much overcrowded with prisoners. I think that about that time a great many prisoners were received from several justices. I think there were no more upon Mr. Caldwell's warrant than upon others. Mr. Caldwell has never, during my service as Gaoler, interfered in any way with the Gaol, the prisoners, or the officers. There was a difficulty in mustering the men for deportation, the names which some of them gave being different from those on the list, and I think that Mr. May called Mr. Cluff to interpret. I did not see Mr. Anstey present.\n\n[The proceedings of the several meetings of the Executive Council at which reference was made to the case of Ma-chow Wong were read to the Commission by permission of His Excellency the Governor, from which it appeared that Mr. Morgan was examined previously to Mr. May, and that the Council finally decided on rejecting the prayer of the Petition for the release of Ma-chow Wong, upon a perusal of the translation by Mr. Wade of the papers found on Beaver; Mr. Wade stating that he had not had time in any way to examine the papers referred to in Mr. May's memoranda.]\n\n## ROBERT EDWARD MACKENZIE, Called and examined.\n\nI am Clerk of Councils and Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office. I did not officiate as Clerk of Councils when the enquiry concerning Ma-chow Wong was being made by the Executive Council. My brother, who is now sick, officiated.\n\n## CHARLES MAY, Recalled at his own request.\n\n(81)\n\nI recollect the man Feaver being brought before me charged with piracy. Mr. Caldwell was the first witness and stated that from documentary evidence, which he would produce on a future day, he would show the prisoner's confederation was with pirates. I have referred to the depositions in the case, and I have no hesitation in stating my conviction that the case was grossly mismanaged, and that Beaver ought to have taken his position at the bar of the Supreme Court, and as far as I was concerned as sitting Magistrate, would have been committed had the documents been produced before me. The Acting Colonial Secretary in his evidence states that one of his reasons—I think he says his chief reason for referring Ma-chow Wong papers and books to Mr. Wade for re-examination, was to ascertain whether credibility was to be attached to Mr. Caldwell's translation, or to any memoranda, inasmuch as that was a thing apart from Ma-chow Wong's case. The destruction of the papers and books placed the settlement of that question beyond possibility.\n\n## WOHANG, Broker, Called and examined.\n\nI remember a Pawnbroker of the Foo Tai shop, in which I had a share, being convicted of receiving a stolen watch. I remember after he was convicted a petition being presented to the Governor for his pardon. His sentence was remitted from 14 to 2 years. A partner of the pawn-shop came to me and said that if I would pay a few hundreds of dollars to Shaplok, the man would be let off. He wanted me to write a paper to the effect that I would pay this money to Shaplok. Mr. Lane was in my shop at the time and advised me not to sign. I have never paid any money. It was before the trial at the Supreme Court that this man came. I do not know if anyone paid any money. The man came again, and I said \"it is no use saying anything about it, I will have nothing to do with it.\"\n\nThere has been no communication within the last month and a half from Mrs. Caldwell to me, or anyone belonging to my house, regarding this matter. I have heard of the present inquiry from Wong Ashing. I do not know who prepared the two petitions. After signature, one was brought up here and handed to one of the Chinese in the office, who gave it to Dr. Bridges, who directed it to be taken to Mr. Caldwell. It was accordingly taken to Mr. Caldwell, who told me to leave it with him. I do not know whether Mr. Caldwell supported it. When my partner asked me why I did not pay the money to Shaplok, I went to Mr. Caldwell and asked whether I had a right to pay the money to Shaplok. He answered, \"No, I did not authorize it.\" When my partner spoke about the payment to be made to Shaplok, he did not mention either Mr. Caldwell's or Mrs. Caldwell's name. I have not seen Shaplok for about a year.\n\nShaplok is acquainted with a good many people in the colony, but whether she is related to Mrs. Caldwell or not I cannot say. After the prisoner was in Gaol under sentence, the other pawnshop man came to me and told me that the money should be given to Shaplok, and that she would ask someone to take the case in hand; my partner did not say whom she would engage, and did not mention Mr. or Mrs. Caldwell's name. I did not suppose that Mr. Caldwell was concerned in it. I went to Mr. Caldwell because he was Protector of Chinese, and I took the petition there. It was after the case was decided at the Supreme Court.\n\n## JOHN ROBERTS, Recalled.\n\nI remember being instructed by Mr. May to take possession of a lorcha off Wanchi, which was supposed to be the Alma. I did seize her and found that she was not the Alma. I found about 36 cannon on board; there were certainly not less. I suppose she could carry about 2,000 piculs cargo. Some of the guns were mounted, and some were dismounted, lying forward. From what I was told on board, I went to Mr. Caldwell's office and saw Mr. Caldwell. There was with him at the time a man whom I did not know, but whom I have since known as Ma-chow Wong. Mr. Caldwell told me he had sold the lorcha and then commenced talking with the Chinaman, and told me she was not the Alma. I inquired about the guns. I don't recollect if he said to whom he had sold her, but it was evident from the manner in which he spoke and referred my inquiries concerning the guns to the Chinaman, that the latter was the owner or agent of the lorcha. I inquired about the guns, and Mr. Caldwell spoke to the Chinaman, and said they were guns of two junks which were either repairing or had been lost on the coast. I told him that it was not the Alma, and I would report it to Mr. May. After I left the office, this Chinaman came out and asked me if it would be necessary for the men to go to the Police Court, and I told him no. I then reported it to Mr. May and had the Police withdrawn.\n\nCross-examined.—Mr. Caldwell asked if there was a large vessel alongside, and I said that there was a lighter alongside, into which I thought they were going to hoist the guns. There are always a number of vessels at Wanchi.\n\nAdjourned till to-morrow at 12 o'clock.\n\n## TWENTY FIRST DAY\n\nSaturday, 10th July, at 12 o'clock Noon. Present. All the Members except the Hon. Mr. Davies.\n\n## JOHN BROWN COMPTON, Called and examined.\n\nI have resided in China since January 1834. I knew Mr. Caldwell when he first came to Canton, about July or August...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244758, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 500, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "497 \n\n(90) \n\nThe whole therefore of these seven charges may, I trust, be considered as having been satisfactorily met and answered; and should such be the case, the evidence brought forward by my accusers in support of the remaining charges will, if proceeding from the same parties, and got up in a similar manner, be viewed I think with considerable suspicion. I will particularize, for instance, among many others, the attempt to cuff off the steamer Hongkong, in 1851, and as to the complicity of Tong Achik (the brother and predecessor of Tong Aking as Interpreter at the Magistracy) with pirates, which led to his dismissal from Government employ. I always had the most thorough reliance in him as far as one can have in any Chinaman, and I must repeat to this Hon'ble Commission what I have already notified to the Government, that it was owing principally to Ma-chow Wong, that I have been enabled to render those services, for which I have been over and over again thanked by my official superiors.\n\nI will now proceed to consider the charges arising out of what may be called the Ma-chow Wong branch of this inquiry, and which in fact embrace all the remaining heads of accusation, except the first and the two last.\n\nIt will simplify the matter, if I make two preliminary statements,—one regarding my own early life in China, the other as to my connection with Ma-chow Wong.\n\nI do not pretend or even wish to moot the question of Ma-chow Wong's innocence or guilt—now that point has been decided; but I do most respectfully point out to the Commission, that as Protector of Chinese, and as a private individual, I violated no law, and was in no way deficient in duty to the Government, in bringing the Petition in Ma-chow Wong's favour to the notice of His Excellency the Governor, and in exerting myself in a legal manner on his behalf. I only did what any man might, I think, do for an assistant of tried usefulness.\n\nI left Singapore for China for the first time (not being then quite seventeen years of age) in July, 1834, under the charge of Captain Chevely, and carrying with me a letter of introduction from Messrs A. L. Johnston & Co., of Singapore, to Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co. We arrived during Lord Napier's troubles, and I remained for a few weeks at Lintin on board Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s receiving ship the Hercules. While there, Mr W. Jardine introduced me to Mr Keating, in whose employ I remained until his death at Macao, in the early part of 1837. I then became Book-keeper to Mr Innes until the autumn of 1838, when I left him in consequence of the violent language he used to me on a Chinaman absconding, to whom I had sold some Turkey handkerchiefs. About this time the disturbances commenced regarding the Opium trade, and I went to Macao; shortly after this all the foreigners left Canton, and I then took charge, as Accountant for Mr Markwick, of the Isabella, a storeship lying with the Opium receiving ships, until my health broke down in the latter part of 1839, and I went to reside on shore at Macao. Mr Innes, hearing that I was ill, sent Dr Anderson to attend me, paying his account himself. My illness lasted some time, and in February, 1840, I went down to Singapore in the Angelica. I returned to China in June 1840, attached to the Commissariat of the Expeditionary Force, and was stationed at Chusan until the expedition renewed its operations against Canton in 1841. I remained in the department until the conclusion of hostilities there. With the assistance of some friends I then purchased and sailed a brig called the Thistle, until the latter end of 1842. In January 1843, I entered Government employ; my conduct since then has been stated by the Honourable the Lieutenant-Governor.\n\nWhile I was out of Government employ, I was engaged in three several pecuniary transactions with Ma-chow Wong. The first, a speculation to the West Coast, for which I chartered seven Chinese vessels to carry cargo; one of these belonged to Ma-chow Wong, and all of them during the time of their charter carried the Eaglet's flag, but at no other time. There were four partners in this speculation,—Siemssen & Co., the Tai Chaong Hong, Ma-chow Wong (who begged me to allow him to have a share), and myself; and it was terminated at the end of 1855. It is out of this single transaction, mentioned by me to Mr May in the confidence of private intercourse, that he has concocted the evidence appearing at page 40, as to my being a partner with Ma-chow Wong in a carrying trade carried on in many vessels, and has invented the statement as to my granting the Eaglet's flag as a pass of protection.\n\nThe Second, I employed Ma-chow to build five houses for me in Taipingshan, and provided him with the funds as they were required from time to time. The entries in the books in which Mr May mentions my name as occurring, and which have been more ingeniously than truthfully attempted to be made out, both by him and Mr Anstey, to be payments to me, had reference to this transaction, and were payments from, not to me.\n\nThe Third,—Ma-chow Wong wanted $500, to lengthen the Kee-Loong-Poo-on, his own lorcha. I advanced him this money, and to secure myself took out papers for her in my own name, giving him a share of the profits. Subsequently the balance of account being in his favour, I restored the lorcha to him in the end of October 1856, and ceased to have any further interest in her. Mr Anstey has stated, that at Ma-chow Wong's trial, I deposed to still having an interest in this vessel. The notes of the Chief Justice will be the best possible evidence as to this invention, and I respectfully request the Commission to consult the notes of the Chief Justice (if they have them) upon it, as affording another remarkable instance, if more be wanted, of the insufficient grounds upon which the Attorney General ventures to make serious statements.\n\nSince Ma-chow Wong has been in Gaol, I have never, except in the presence of the Acting Colonial Secretary, or the Governor of the Gaol, or by order of the former, seen or spoken to Ma-chow Wong, with three exceptions, and these were as follows—once for the purpose of ascertaining with certainty regarding his being committed for trial at the Supreme Court in 1847, when he was either acquitted or bill found; and twice while visiting the Gaol as Visiting Justice in my regular turn. Mr Inglis has made one mistake on this point, as will appear from the note which I here hand in.[1]\n\nWhen I further add that Ma-chow Wong can neither read nor write beyond just marking his name, and that there is not, nor ever has been, any affinity by adoption of any kind whatsoever between him and any member of my family, or any person in any way connected with me, I shall have concluded my general statement as to my connection with Ma-chow Wong.\n\nAfterwards held to bail, I think for using threats, and the Chief Magistrate requested my attendance at the Magistracy on the subject. Sze-kai was one of the four bail on this occasion, but without my having heard a word on the subject, and he had not been in any way in my employ since I returned to Government service. The Hon'ble the Chief Magistrate has stated, that on another occasion, when Ma-chow Wong was brought before him, I procured the bail for his appearance within six weeks. I beg leave most respectfully to deny this. I was present at the Magistracy at the time on other business, and never left it; bail was tendered and referred to me on the bench, and I approved it. This was my sole action in the matter.\n\nMr Anstey having himself proved that he had incorrectly stated the charge against me, as to procuring the release of 25 men, I should simply confine myself to the remark that, when an Assistant Superintendent of Police is called and recommends the discharge of suspected persons, it is hardly fair to accuse the Registrar General of guilt in concurring, supposing him, as I certainly then was, to be also satisfied; but I feel it necessary to call the attention of the Commission to the disingenuous manner in which Mr Grand-Pré's name is introduced. Mr Grand-Pré was not in any way my subordinate then; he was totally disconnected with me, and appeared simply as a Police official.\n\nSo much extraneous matter has arisen in the course of this inquiry, that I should not be dealing fairly to myself or to the Commission were I to confine my reply to the evidence brought in support of the specific charges in this second branch of the case; I must therefore, at the risk of wearying the Hon'ble Commission, pick out, item by item, everything which appears worthy of remark, and deal with the several matters successively. I, however, omit from this list all statements, which have no further support than the \"it is said\" of my accusers.\n\n\"I did not then know the fact of his (Eli Boggs') connection with the Eaglet or Mr Caldwell\" Mr Anstey has stated. I did not then know it for the same reason that he does not know it now, and that is, because such fact never had any existence save in his own imagination, as has been most satisfactorily proved in the course of this enquiry.\n\nThe only other \"fact\" which Mr Anstey has brought against me, of his own knowledge, the deportation of Mr Cooper Turner's clients, has broken down in an equally remarkable manner. Mr May has, strange to say, destroyed his friend's fabric, for if these Chinese were improperly deported, I, who had nothing to say to the measure, could not certainly be blamable. But so far from my having got them out of the way, as is poetically asserted, I was very much pained to hear that Mr May had, without any reference to any one, included them in the list, and McKenzie the Jailor has related to the Commission my complaints on the subject, which had reference to these very two men. I may here take the opportunity of observing that, in the same manner as I objected, and successfully, I am glad to say to the Rebel chiefs being included in the deportation, (Mr Wade's letter will bear me out in this), so also I made my respectful remonstrance against what I conceived to be the impolicy of sending the 72 men taken by the Niger to the authorities at Cowloong.\n\nDocument (Q) was handed in by the Attorney General as proof of my having, in his opinion, committed an illegality, in giving a pass to a Chinese vessel. I was directed by His Excellency the Governor, in consequence of an arrangement come to with His Excellency the Admiral for the protection of honest traders during the hostilities on the Canton River, to give passes to boats bringing provisions here. I received instructions as Registrar General, for the Attorney General knows full well that I was Registrar General long before the Ordinance he refers to passed, and I put my official seal to the pass in accordance with the instructions I received.\n\nI am charged with having procured bail for Ma-chow Wong—such bail being a servant of my own. Although this charge is utterly false, and has not been supported by any evidence, some explanation may be useful on the subject. Ma-chow Wong was held to bail twice. On the first occasion—by order of the Chief Justice in a heavy sum—his securities were Loo Aqui of the Lower Bazaar, and Loong Ach, formerly the P. & O. Company's Comprador. I was in no way consulted on the subject, not even in the usual manner, as to the substance of the parties.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary, who differed from me, will, however, I am sure, if required, still further confirm the evidence he has given.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246186, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "opposite phone, where the culprit was in the habit of imprisoning and torturing his employees upon his \"country estate House\". Mr Wade's certificate on this subject must have satisfied his Excellency that Mr. Baldwin had deceived him and the Executive Council; for from that moment our His Excellency stated in the Legislative Council that he had been misled.\n\nConnected with this affair was General Appleburnham, who sat in that Executive Council, but on the 10th instant, it was determined not to be the man to satisfy the Secretary of State - where I can but present a conjecture!\n\nMatt made this misconduct to Mr Caldwell the more suspicious, were the important facts that, first, on the trial of the convict in the Supreme Court, it was elicited from Mr. Caldwell himself that down to that time he had possessed the interest of parties with the culprit in one of his boathouses; nay, that he possessed it still, for he observed that it was still undisposed of; that the numerous accounts and shop books of the pirate's Hong, produced and read before the Magistrate in my presence and bearing a date two days before I went on sick leave, contained frequent mention of Mr Caldwell by his Chinese name \"Sam-Kwei\", and his name in my accounts; and that in some of the papers found after my departure, and reported by Mr. May to His Excellency, there were entries of money due to him on account or out of the produce of plunder made at sea.\n\nI care not whether those entries were true or false; if they were made by Mr Caldwell's authority, or by any one else, they proved to be made by him. Mr. Caldwell, notwithstanding these entries were brought to his knowledge, continued to the last the steady and zealous friend of the pirate whose hand had recorded them. When His Excellency, instead of appropriating to public use the enormous wealth of the forfeited \"felow\", ordered it to be restored to his \"friends\", not a little portion of it, but the whole of the important tools he had used - (except the two memoranda sent up by Mr. May, which that gentleman informs me he never received back from His Excellency, and are still lying at the Police office). It is a certain fact that \"the friend\" of the pirate, as such, demanded and received those effects, including of course the evidences of guilt, without Mr. Caldwell's interference. This induces me the rather to give credit to another statement which has been made that a wife of the pirate, after his conviction, found a shelter in the house of the same \"Justice of the Peace and Protector General of the Chinese\". This is the woman whom, in one of my many letters alluding to these comments on the affairs (letters which have never elicited from His Excellency censure upon me for writing that in), I mentioned, on the authority of M. Search, J.P., as being still engaged as deeply as ever her husband was in ventures; able lots to do by the sums she received on the improvident surrender.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246212, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "# Office of Superintendent of Police\n## Victoria Hong Kong 19th June 1858.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge receipt of letter dated 18th instant, enclosing letter from the Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary; both on the subject of additional Police protection at or in the vicinity of your residence.\n\nI beg, in reply to your letter, to acquaint you, that it is altogether out of my powers to station an additional forceable on the road west of your house, closely because the strength of the Police Force is approximated to the duty it is called upon to perform. I have however given direction that the Constable on the beat in that neighborhood shall patrol to the western boundary of your ground.\n\nI wish to mention to you that only two Constables are specially stationed at the house of the Registrar General and Protector of Chinese; the third (who is the Constable doing duty at the Registration Office) simply resides there, instead of on a Police Station.\n\nIn order to remove any impression from your mind, that I give this special protection to the Registrar General, and refuse it to you, I have to inform you, that so far from being desirous that you should receive the protection you now ask for, I should deem it my duty, had the Acting Colonial Secretary directed me to send the like number of Constables to you, and that I did then, to report that I have not one Good Constable more than is required for the necessary and defined duties of the Force.\n\nI shall be glad, when called upon by the Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary, to report my views on the subject.\n\nI have enclosed herein the letter of the Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary before mentioned.\n\nI have the honor etc.\n(signed) C. May\nSuperintendent of Police.\n\nThe Honorable the Attorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246392, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "922\n\nAs in the beginning of December last, and which offices he filled with credit to himself and benefit of the Community. His principal reason for resigning the appointments was the total inadequacy of the salary allowed him by Government, and which was £285 a year, utterly disproportionate to the arduous duties he had to perform, and even to his support in this Colony; moreover, other expenses of the above amount we are assured had been expended in office expenses alone.\n\nWe have heard also of another resignation of Government employment on the same grounds. Both these resignations, be it noted, are by Englishmen - not aliens - who it would appear are soon likely to monopolize all the fattest Government offices.\n\nFrom \"The Friend of China\". Mr. Nickson, the recently appointed Crown Solicitor, Protector of Chinese (and, we believe, Deputy Sheriff), has tendered his resignation, we hear on the ground that the remuneration of $115 a month is insufficient. After paying $15 dollars for office rent, a like sum for the smallest and least English-understanding Portuguese Copyist procurable, and the aggregate of these few extra bailiffs, about as much remains monthly as the Club House offers for a Chinese Cook, and whether that is sufficient for a Gentleman of Education and Experience, the public must form an opinion for themselves.\n\nDuring his short stay, coming to Mr. Nickson's many and strict attention to duty have won, on all hands, general urbanity and golden opinions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246771, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "Duplicate English No 1\n\nHong Kong 21st January 1859.\n\nOn the 17th May 1858\n\nand 19th\n\nI had the honor to address your immediate predecessor, on the subject of the corrupt administration of his foreman at that time in the hands of a barrister of his Court by illegal delegation from the Governor, more especially that branch of the administration which was worked through a person named Caldwell, formerly of the medical staff at Singapore, whose criminal and other connexions with Chinese brothel keepers, pirates, and other Chinese people of the lowest order, appeared to me very short of fitting him any longer to fill the important post of Protector of Chinese (since Registrar General for Chinese) at Hongkong.\n\nIn January 1858 Reasons were shown why he should not be allowed to continue in that office.\n\nThe Government Commissioner, in whose selection I was not consulted, and which, to say the least of it, was little likely to strain matters against the accused - having been appointed, subsequently by The Right Honorable Sir Edward L. Bulwer Lytton, Bart., Secretary of State for the Colonies.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246777, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "And though any observations on the south of that case, where, for the plea being one of justification or denial, the jury found by the special verdict that the libel was true, that the confinement of Dr. Bridges under the warrant of the Governor dated the 26th January 1855, was illegal, and that he and his accomplices were guilty as libelled, of destroying by a contemptible and despicable trick, the papers referred to.\n\nThe following want of attention to the last paragraph of Report ... as papers whose loss prevented them from doing complete justice to the case before them; and which if not burned, would have no doubt prevented some at least of the omissions in their Report.\n\n... in like manner, but only for the present the deceitful proceedings, which from June 1853 to ... another recent case, that of the Banket Balche an Action for damages for a false and strong ... Beer Protector (miscalled anden to those Chenamen, by their Protector Caldwell), was suddenly brought in a close through the direct intervention of Caldwell himself, in calling ... a disclaimer of their ... the trembling wretches before him, and obtained ... her favor, then an admission in action without cause, then one upon oath, and his last ... a discontinuance.\n\nAnd yet I feel that I have said more than enough to justify the misgiving, which I signified at the outset.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nJ. Bryson, Esq., M.R.\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nmost obedient servant.\n\n(Copy) Circular 2\n\nTo ...\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, 26 January 1858.\n\nHis Excellency The Governor is pleased to direct that the following Rules defining the functions of the Colonial Secretary, be circulated for the information ...\n\nThe Honorable The Chief Justice, The Honorable The Attorney General, The Honorable The Colonial Treasurer, The Honorable The Surveyor General, The Honorable The Chief Magistrate, The Acting Auditor General, The Clerk of Councils, The Acting Harbor Master, The Registrar General, The Supreme Court, The Colonial Chaplain, The Acting Colonial Surgeon, The Sheriff, The Superintendent of Police, The Governor of the Gaol, The Police Rate Assessor...\n\nPage 78", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246915, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "be retained in \n\nhis \n\npart of protector \n\nMhmise. \n\nCarnarvon \n\n(Copy)) \n\nTo \n\n4241979/5 \n\n216 \n\nPrecis of Five Chinese Petitions to His Excellency Sir J. Bowring from the Chinese inhabitants of Hongkong praying for Mr. Caldwell's retention in Office.\n\nNo. 1. From the inhabitants of the Lower District - Petitioners \n\nstate that Mr. Caldwell is held in general estimation on account of his regard for the people, and, that a deep sense of his merits, with respect for his authority, prevails throughout the island. Further, that he is thoroughly \n\nconversant with Chinese customs, \n\nand", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246923, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "There might have been papers in existence which were now in all probability perished.\n\nOf the facts, however, there was no doubt at all; and the following is a brief summary of them:-\n\nDaniel Richard Caldwell, now Justice of the Peace for Hongkong, the Protector of Chinese (for the purposes of the Chinese Police Regulation Ordinance of 1858), and (in right of his office of Registrar General) a Public Accountant, for the same Colony, did quit this settlement for China, in consequence of a crime committed by him against the firm (of Shaw & Whitehead) whereof he at that time was a clerk.\n\nThe crime in question was such that, if prosecuted, would have made him liable to the pains and penalties of fraud and embezzlement, by the Common Law, or those which, by analogy to that law, had been appointed by the Criminal legislation (of the Government of the East India Company) then in force here. But the crime was compounded: the default was made good; and the delinquent was allowed to depart.\n\nPage 223", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247665, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "1EE\n\n335\n\n(18)\n\nin Peel Street, and a Barber, next door but one to her house, who gave me information in answer to an inquiry of mine on this subject on the 11th or 12th of May last, should be called.\n\nThis inquiry was a voluntary one, and the result was communicated to the Attorney General. I never employed any person directly to make inquiries. I gave a suggestion, not a direction, to Lyons, about ascertaining from the occupants, who they considered were the owners. I inquired of Lyons if he knew if Mr Caldwell owned any property in Taipingshan. He said, \"I do; he owns lot 206.\" I asked him how he knew it, and he said Mr Caldwell had acknowledged himself to be the owner to him, when he had occasion to go to Mr Caldwell on business as Inspector of Nuisances. Inspector Roberts is a member of the Police force, and has made inquiries concerning the Ma-chow Wong branch of the inquiry; he has not done so by my direction, but in the pursuit of his inquiries he has acted upon my advice, as to the mode in which he should conduct them. Precisely the same remark applies to Lyons. I think it would be imprudent in the present stage of inquiry, were I to give the names of others from whom I have sought information regarding the Ma-chow Wong branch of the inquiry.\n\nCross-examined,-I have been on terms of acquaintanceship, but not intimacy, with Mrs Caldwell, since she resided at the Police Station-for about six years back. I went to their house on the occasion of their giving parties, within the last six years, since my family went to England, I may have dined 3 times with them on Christmas days-but not more than 3 times. During the time I was on these terms with Mr and Mrs Caldwell, I believed that she had been taken out of a brothel but by this I do not mean that I believed she was in any way connected with the business of a brothel, but only an inmate of one. Her manners and demeanour, and the management of her household, were always marked by strict propriety of conduct, and were those of a gentlewoman; but the inherent character of the Chinese, derived from education, manners, and custom, are not in my opinion in her, more than in any of her country women, eradicated by her marriage with Mr Caldwell. By inherent character, I mean the making use of position and power to obtain return for services rendered. The inquiries I made, the evidence I have given, and suggestions and advice I have offered, were not prompted by any private motives, but from the desire for the public good-morality was not the subject of my thoughts. I remember in 1851 giving Mr Strachan information, which induced him to write an article in his paper regarding Mr Caldwell's informant, in reference to an attack on the steamer Hongkong. I know that the statement in the article was proved to be untrue. Mr Caldwell wrote a letter to the China Mail on the subject, and I reported that circumstance to the Governor. The result was a written apology from Mr Caldwell to me, relative to his conduct, I have it at home, and can produce it. I thought Ma-chow Wong was the informant; and this was one of the two occasions on which I had a quarrel with Mr Caldwell.\n\nI was officiating as Registrar General and Protector of Chinese for five or six years up to the time that Mr Caldwell was appointed to those offices,-I have never since then expressed a desire to be appointed Registrar General. About eight or nine months ago, when I had a conversation with the Acting Colonial Secretary on the subject of Police, I stated that if it was considered by H. M.'s Government, that it would be for the interest of the public that Mr Caldwell should have the Superintendence of the Police, I would most gladly take the office of the Registrar General; I expressed no wish, but said it rather in irony than otherwise. I did not ask it in the slightest degree as a favour to myself. I did not say that such an arrangement would be the means of putting a stop to any hostility on my part towards, or disputes between, myself and Mr Caldwell, or anything to that effect. I have emphatically disavowed on many occasions, and I believe then, all hostility to Mr Caldwell, and I do so now. I did say that I believed the hatred of Mr Caldwell towards me arising out of Ma-chow Wong's conviction, would never cease, and I say so now. I recollect some three or four years ago having a conversation with Mr Caldwell, in which it was mooted between us, that an arrangement by which he would be Superintendent of Police, and I Registrar General, would be very pleasant.\n\nI have owned houses which were occupied as brothels to my knowledge, but not with my consent. I did all in my power to turn the brothel-keepers out, but was unsuccessful by reason of the then defective state of the law in that respect. I asked additional powers from the Executive, but I received none. This matter was inquired into by the Government at the time, and they expressed their satisfaction with my conduct. I believe, but do not know, that Mr Caldwell refused to increase his salary; I know he applied for an increase, but on reconsideration I think he left the service because he purchased the Eaglet.\n\nFREDERICK WOODS,-Recalled.\n\nReferring to my answer when previously examined, as to whether I had bought land from Mr Caldwell in Taipingshan, I have to state, that I did not purchase land of him, but that I did purchase at auction lots 206, 263, and 264, which were, I believe, Mr Caldwell's property in November last year. The part which I stated as mortgaged remains being paid, and have no reason for supposing I shan't be paid. My grounds for believing that there was a brothel on lot 206, is the fact that every house in Taipingshan is more or less a brothel.\n\nCross-examined,—I believe that Assow and Lum Ateen did come to me before or after-I think after-Mr Caldwell spoke to me of the purchase.\n\n(19)\n\nRe-examined, It was within a fortnight after the Western Market sale [in November last] that I resold one of the shops to a Chinaman through Mr Caldwell. I have sold no more land this year to Mr Caldwell, or through him to a Chinaman. I explicitly told the Colonial Treasurer and Attorney General, that I had not sold any lots to Mr Caldwell this year, either to himself or through him as agent. Mr Caldwell has no interest in any purchase of land by me this year. I had a section of lot 209 which I bought at Public Auction in the latter part of last year. At the time I bought it, it was in the name of Sheik Moosdeen. The section was sold at Public Auction, about a fortnight after the fire, and the transfer was made within a fortnight after that time; it was sold to Achong, the P. & O. comprador. I never heard Mr Caldwell's name in the matter.\n\nLEUNG ATAI,-Called and examined.\n\nI am aware that a relation of mine has lately wished to sell to Mrs Caldwell two shops, numbered, I think, 331 and 332. They were entrusted to me for sale. I first went to Mr May, who could not give me the price I asked. I saw Mr May himself. I do not know a woman called Aoi. Mr May only offered $400 and odd, and I asked upwards of $500. I afterwards went to Sze-kai's shop; Sze-kai asked me where I had been; I said that I had been to Mr May's about the sale of my relation's houses. Sze-kai and I went to my relation, and Sze-kai dealt personally with him, but I was not present. I know that Sze-kai has bought the houses, because I asked my relation when Mr May requested me, and my relation told me they had been sold to Sze-kai's mistress, who is Mrs Caldwell, for $500, of which $400 had been paid, and the remainder was to be paid when the ground lease was divided. This was about ten days ago.\n\nCross-examined,-I went to the Central Police Station to see Mr May; I was never offered $420 or any other sum by a Chinese woman in European clothes or any other female for the houses. When Mr May saw the houses, he said they were old and broken down, and not worth so much. I do not know whether Mr May wanted to buy the houses for himself, or as agent for any one. My relation is called Tong Achew, and lives a little way below the Police Station.\n\nMARIA,-Called and examined.\n\nThree doors from my house there is a house which formerly belonged to Mr Caldwell, and which I heard was sold in the middle of last year. On the 19th April, I paid the ground rent to Lum Ateen. When Mr Richaecker was here I paid the ground rent to him; afterwards for about two years to Mr Caldwell; and the last six months rent to Lum Ateen. Lum Ateen came to me for the ground rent about the beginning of February last, when I said I had not the money. I think that my house is Number 72 or 76, but I am not sure. The reason I pay ground rent to Lum Ateen is, that my house is in the same lot with his, that he has more ground than I, and that he collects it. In October or November last, Mr Caldwell and Ateen told me, that Ateen had purchased them, and that I was to pay the rent to him. I told Mr May that the shops formerly belonged to Mr Caldwell. Mr May's question was, \"Are these houses Mr Caldwell's;\" I said \"Yes,\" and he then went away. When I said this to Mr May, I did not recollect that Ateen had come for the rents. Lum Ateen gave me the receipt, and he is the landlord; Lum Ateen came to my house for the rent. About April or May 1857, Mr Caldwell was going to sell all his houses; and I went to him and asked him to sell me one of them, and he told me that he would only sell them all together. Mr Caldwell never wanted to buy from me.\n\nAdjourned till Noon, 9th June.\n\nSEVENTH DAY.\n\nWednesday, 9th June, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent,-All the Members.\n\nOn the termination of the proceedings on the 7th instant, the Hon'ble the Attorney General handed in a letter of protest, against the manner of taking the evidence of the Chinese, as being wholly favourable to Mr Caldwell.\n\nFrom this opinion of the Honorable the Attorney General the Commission entirely dissent.\n\n[Mak Afook's account books of rents received produced.]\n\nJ. MONGAN, Assistant Chinese Secretary,--Called and examined.\n\nThere is no entry in either of these books from which it may appear upon whose account the rents have been collected.\n\nMAK AFOOK,-Called and examined,\n\nThe rents of which there are entries in this book are in respect of the 22 houses, and of one of the other three.\n\nLUM ATEEN, Recalled.\n\n[Produces five documents in Chinese: being copies of ground leases and mesne assignments, and also the receipt of the Colonial Treasurer for £2.2s.5d. received on the 26th February 1858, from Mr Caldwell, on account of Chew Alai, in respect of lots 238, C, 240, and 250; also, like receipt on the same date for £8.14s.7d. from Mr Caldwell on account of Lum Ateen, in respect of lots 179, 241 B, 241 C, 242 B, and 262, also of receipt on the 15th December 1857 by F. Woods of $1,500 from Lum Ateen, as part of purchase-money of lots 206, 263, and 264, sold to him for the sum of $3,000, with an agreement that the balance shall remain on security of the premises at interest; also, the receipts given by F. Woods to Lum Ateen for the interest on the said sum of $1,500, from the 15th December 1857 to the 31st May 1858; also, an acknowledgment by Siemssen & Co. of the receipt by them on the 9th September ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247712, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "188\n\n382\n\n(151)\n\nBesides the case above referred to, he appeared before our late Chief Magistrate once or twice in matters touching extortion. From his numerous delinquencies, Mr Hillier had a thorough abhorrence of the man. He was also apprehended upon a charge of obstructing the police and conniving at the escape of a man charged with felony, (afterwards ascertained to be a notorious pirate;) but his early patron still presided over the fortunes of Wong, bailed him out, and, attending at the Police Court, re-established the purity of his reputation; and once more Akee returned to his lair at the market, \"a wiser if not a better man.\"\n\nWhenever a case of piracy broke down at the Police Court, Akee's shadow was seen in the background, though his agents alone appeared bodily in court.\n\nAn outline of the case not tried at the late sessions of the Supreme Court cannot be other than useful intelligence to the public. In July last, a respectable trader chartered a junk to bring a cargo of sugar, blue dye, and sesame seed to the colony. On the 6th July, the day after sailing, the vessel was attacked and captured near Linting by a fleet of pirates, and during the attack, the wife of the master, the wife of the master's son, and two of the junk's crew, were killed, and the master and some others of the crew wounded. The pirates threw the dead bodies overboard, sailed the boat to Linting, and the same night trans-shipped the cargo into their own vessel, liberating the captured boat at about 3 A.M. of the 7th July. The latter got under weigh at daybreak and sailed to Hongkong, and at 7 o'clock the same morning information was given to the charterer, who, after sending word of the piracy to the police, went in quest of the plundered cargo.\n\nAt 9 A.M. the same day he found 110 bags of the sugar, and 15 tubs of blue dye, at Ma-chow Wong's shop in Bonham Strand. The man in charge of the shop referred the owner to Ma-chow Wong, with whom accordingly he had an interview at the Central Market. Ma-chow Wong, after decrying any appeal to the police, promised to restore the sugar in his possession, and to use his best influence to aid in the recovery of the remainder, stating that the person who had given him the sugar had left the colony. Accordingly, the sugar and blue dye were given up, but only after a demur subsequent to the first arrangement, and on understanding that the receiver was to give Ma-chow Wong a bonus of $100. The books of the shop prove these strange facts, that before and after the delivery of the sugar, Ma-chow Wong had been in direct correspondence and dealings with the pirates, having paid to the latter the $100 received from the owner of the sugar, the day subsequent to its delivery, and consequently at that time with a full knowledge that the recipient was a pirate. Another peculiar feature of the matter is, that as early as 7 A.M. of 7th July, (the day after the piracy,) a man from Ma-chow Wong's shop had effected a sale of the sugar to another dealer—a friend to the firm; so that if there had been any delay in the search, the sugar would not have been found.\n\nThe charges against Tong Aku, the interpreter, trumped up in consequence of the assistance rendered by him against Ma-chow Wong, resulted in his entire acquittal; and his accuser in each instance was so plainly convicted of perjury, that the Magistrate deemed it his duty to sentence the one not already a convict to pay a fine of £10, or suffer two months' imprisonment. As the money was of course not forthcoming, the scoundrel is now at work on the roads among the chain gang.\n\nWe have only further now to add, that we believe it to be quite true that Ma-chow Wong, and his partner in iniquity Wong Atung, have for some reason been allowed to retain their queues, when others, and much lesser criminals, have been deprived of theirs. This, we presume, will now be rectified, for so far as we understand, there is not the slightest hope of pardon—and it were a lasting shame to Sir John Bowring and his Council did they extend it to such a miscreant.—China Mail, 17th September, 1857.\n\nNow had you any doubt as to who was the party implicated and pointed at?—Had you then the least doubt that that article referred to Caldwell's participation with Ma-chow Wong and pirates?\n\nMr Mongan.—I do not like to swear as to what my opinions were at that time; I am not certain about it.\n\nAttorney General.—Did it not appear to you very strange that Sir John Bowring—that a just and honorable Government—should have selected Caldwell for this investigation of the documents?\n\nMr. Mongan.—It did not strike me at the time, but it did some time afterwards.\n\nAttorney General.—When?\n\n(150)\n\nMr Mongan.—Yes.\n\nI think all papers taken out were put back when examination was made.\n\nMr Mongan.—Yes.\n\nAttorney General.—You have rooms upstairs as well as down,\n\nMr Mongan.—Yes.\n\nAttorney General.—Now I will read you your deposition. (to Court)—Your Lordship will take—You had read this article in the China Mail (reads).——that down—That's a new fact—Are you sure of that?\n\n\"An alarm, groundless we believe, seems to prevail among the public, and especially the Chinese port that through a mistaken leniency on the part of Sir John Bowring, the convict Ma-chow Wong may be again let loose on the community.\n\nGovernment must be too well aware of the antecedents of this \"highly respectable\" and \"very ill-used\" individual, to permit him even a chance of escape. The books of the firm found in his shop are of themselves, we are told, quite sufficient to justify his deportation under Ordinance No. 2 of 1857, for they prove a direct communication with the mandarins, and especially with a lieutenant of the notorious Chan-kwai-chih. They also shew the purchase of such immense quantities—thousands of dollars' worth of munitions of war, including gunpowder, shot, guns, muskets, shields, stinkpots, &c., as could by no possibility have been employed for any purpose but that of piracy. He is there shewn also to have been connected in some manner with the robbery of Silk from Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s godowns, and to have likewise taken an active share in recovering pirate-vessels seized by H. M. ships-of-war. He has, besides, engaged extensively in a slave trade carried on in the Straits; and is shewn to have advanced money to, and actually assisted in the escape of, pirates. He seems to have been the universal agent in all matters connected with the defence of criminals, and the sums of money disbursed in the shape of lawyer's fees are enormous; in fact, one would almost be inclined to consider him the authorized protector of Chinese miscreants of every kind. Some money transactions with foreigners are referred to in his books, and others we warrant, of which for the present we will say no more, than merely to state, that in the \"gold-dust robbery alone,\" a sum of about $1000 out of $40,000 was recovered, and ordered to be handed over to the poor unfortunates from whom it had been stolen, and that its distribution was somehow made through Ma-chow Wong. How much stuck to his fingers, we cannot say; but we are assured that only about one-half reached those for whom it was intended, and that even that sum was not fairly distributed.\n\nWe have no means now of ascertaining particulars of his numerous appearances in public, but besides his having to disgorge $20 which he had extorted from a poor Chinawoman just returned from California, and the particulars of which will be found in the China Mail of February 15 and 24, 1853, we know that in 1847 he and several others were tried at the Supreme Court for breaking into the store of Mr Hall, and stealing children's wearing apparel, stationery, &c. Some of the clothing was afterwards offered to Mrs Clifton for sale, and this led to the apprehension of a man, who stated that he received the articles from Ma-chow Wong. The house of the latter was searched and other portions of the stolen property found under his bed; nevertheless he escaped conviction—for even in those days he had a friend in the council. From that time until he became fat upon his ill-gotten gains, Ma-chow Wong was considered as the orbit round which the satellites of plunder revolved, and to him as the centre of attraction came the booty. He became the recognized head of the turbulent class of Chinese people, and a man of might and power for evil; and even held subordinate situations under government, such as that of Tepo of Shek-pai-wan, from which he was summarily ousted by Mr Hillier in 1853.\n\nAttorney General.—Well, was there not enough space in those offices to accommodate such documents for a few weeks, until Mr Wade's return?\n\nMr Mongan.—There may have been.\n\nAttorney General.—There may have been. Why quibble in this way? You know there was ample room.\n\nMr Mongan.—Yes, certainly there was room to have accommodated them 'till Mr Wade came back.\n\nCourt.—There was room.\n\nMr Mongan.—Yes, my Lord, I suppose there was.\n\nAttorney General.—Did it not occur to you, during examination of those books, as something strange that you should be directed only to assist Mr Caldwell?!\n\nMr Mongan.—I knew nothing about Ma-chow Wong at that time—It may have appeared singular. Very likely I thought it singular.\n\nAttorney General.—You, a gentleman of your attainments, to assist the man who was affected by the libel in the Mail...\n\nMr Mongan.—I dare say it did occur to me then, and I know it occurs to me now.\n\nAttorney General.—Very well, that is all I want to know. You see the letter begins \"Mr Caldwell has been directed to make the translation—you to assist\"—and then the Chief Magistrate to send. \"What seal was it on those packages?\n\nMr Mongan.—I am not sure what seal was on them—\n\nAttorney General.—They were sealed, you say—you must know what kind of a seal it was.\n\nMr Mongan.—I do not mean to be positive about it.\n\nAttorney General.—When you sent them to Mr Wade, do you not remember what stamp was on them?\n\nMr Mongan.—No.\n\nAttorney General.—But you do not remember any stamp?\n\nMr Mongan.—At no time do I remember what stamp was on the wax.\n\nAttorney General.—Have you not sworn that the suspicious documents would not take up more than half a cubic foot?\n\nMr Mongan.—Yes, I have sworn so—I mean that if all the suspicious documents had been collected together they would not measure more altogether than half a cubic foot.\n\nAttorney General.—You were examined twice by the Caldwell Commission.\n\nMr. Mongan.—Yes—once on the 23d of June.\n\nAttorney General.—And with exception of a slight discrepancy, the 30th of September for 29th of September, you swore, at the Police Court, to the truth of those depositions.\n\nMr Mongan.—I did.\n\nAttorney General.—Well, what made you alter that statement at the Police Court—why those corrections?\n\nMr Mongan.—I know that I received the books the day after the letter forwarding them—I thought so—I had not the letter before me.\n\nAttorney General.—The letter is dated the 28th—What made you think this?—What induced you to correct?\n\nMr Mongan.—On referring to my memorandum book I found that I received the papers on the 30th.\n\nAttorney General.—You read the article in the China Mail?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247718, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 392, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "788\n\n388\n\n(139)\n\ning to exhibit the innocence and whiteness of the bleached lamb.\" We ask in astonishment. What do His Excellency and the honourable the Executive Council want? If they doubt that the evidence in the case tried did not warrant the return of the verdict of guilty, the evidence in the case untried admits of no doubt of the prisoner's guilt.\n\nIf there be a deficient or weak link in the chain of legal evidence, surely the Executive Council can put on their reasoning and unprofessional spectacles, and look at the moral evidence, --such for instance, as the intercepted letter written by the accountant of Ma-chow Wong, sealed and ready to be forwarded to the writer's father on the mainland and which reads to this effect--\"A woeful thing has happened; our shop has been seized upon a charge of buying sugar from pirates; but the saddest part is, that the ownership of Ma-chow Wong in the boat has been discovered,\" &c., &c. And another fragment of legally rejected evidence is, that after the capture of the sugar-laden boat by the pirates, and when the bodies of the murdered men and women had been cast overboard, the pirates said to the survivors of the crew,--\"for the dead, that is past; but regarding the cargo, go to Ma-chow Wong.\" We would request His Excellency to ask the Honourable the Acting Attorney General (who so painstakingly performed his duty) whether such evidence was not tendered to him.\n\nAs regards the examination of the books and accounts of such a \"villanous old bird\" as Ma-chow Wong, do His Excellency and the Executive Council expect to find written in bold unblushing type, \"I am a confederate of pirates\"--\"I am a receiver of stolen goods,\" \"I am the protector of felons, gamblers, et hoc genus omne?\" Or, still less likely, do they suppose there will be boastingly written proof of how cleverly he uses as a tool (to effect his vile objects) a recognized and trusted agent of Her Majesty's Government?\n\nOut upon such wilful blindness, say we, and most certainly we shall not fail to do our utmost to draw aside the flimsy veil of assumed doubt of his guilt, and to stigmatise and draw down public indignation on all concerned in effecting so glaring a violation of public justice.\n\nWe have received a communication from the Acting Clerk of Councils, requesting our presence at a Meeting of the Executive Council at noon on Monday next, \"with such proofs and evidence as you (we) may possess in support of the charges preferred by you against the above mentioned convict,\" (Wong A-kee,) \"in the China Mail of the 17th ultimo.\" We need scarcely say, that we shall have no difficulty in substantiating all we have written, and a great deal more; and if, after the proofs adduced, Sir John Bowring will persist in the course he seems determined to pursue, and liberate this unmitigated scoundrel from prison, he will well merit the opprobium which he may rest assured the community will not fail to heap upon him.--China Mail, 8th October, 1857.\n\nNow considering the position of this paper at that time, considering that Caldwell was the party directly pointed\n\nAttorney General.--And of this,----(reads the second evidence of the contents of Mr May's Memoranda, see page 37 supra.)\n\n(138)\n\nI have no objection to your mentioning to Dr Bridges (or to the Council) that I have memoranda which bear out the statement appearing in your paper.\n\nOf course I cannot give you these memo., but I will bring them if I am required to attend the Council.\n\nYou\n\nTouching the production of Chinese at the Council to support your assertions, I am compelled to say, that I agree with you that it would be dangerous either in reference to their persons or the truth--Yours very truly,\n\nC. MAY.\n\n13th October, 1857.\n\nMY DEAR MR ALMADA,--I left in the hands of His Excellency, yesterday, Mr May's note to me. As I furnished you with a copy of it, will you please send me the original by the bearer, and oblige,--Yours very truly,\n\nAND S. DIXSON.\n\n13th October, 1857.\n\nand on investigation, the bulk of that article proved to be charged on Ma-chow Wong--Connection with this, the greatest trash ever written.\n\nscreant is charged on Caldwell--\"AND THE BOOKS PROVED THESE THINGS,\" I call your attention to this article in the China Mail of the 15th Oct., 1857. (Reads,)\n\nLast week we mentioned having been requested to attend a meeting of the Executive Council on Monday, to satisfy the members as to our report of Ma-chow Wong's career being correct, and below we publish the correspondence that has taken place. It will be observed, that we reserve our right to state what we please regarding the proceedings before the Council; but for the present at least refrain from trenching on supposed privileges, further than in stating, that, by the assistance of Mr May, we were enabled to adduce the most satisfactory proofs of the dangerous character of the felon now in jail, and such as must place all hope of pardon, or even the least mitigation of punishment, utterly beyond question. Ma-chow Wong's antecedents, and portions of Mr Dixson's statements were fortunately in a position, without native aid, to show, that Ma-chow Wong had purchased immense quantities of ammunition, including stinkpots, &c.,--to adduce strong inference of his knowledge of the Silk robbery--proof that he had sold men and women into slavery--that he had assisted pirates to escape, and advanced large sums to lawyers for their defence. All this, and much more we say, Mr May's memoranda of the contents of the books of the firm of which Ma-chow Wong was the head, proved beyond a doubt; and the produces are now in the hands of the Executive Council, where his memoranda, and read them, item by item--The Council should be the books themselves, but whether they are so or not, we are by no means assured.\n\nIn one point it seems we were mistaken--in saying that Mong A-kee had been Tepo of Shek-pai-wan; we ought to have said, \"Head of the Municipal Police\" there;--then referred Mr May to Mr Mongan's translation, (see page 114 supra.)\n\nDo you confirm that?\n\nCOUNCIL OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,\n\n6th October, 1857.\n\nSIR,--Certain statements having appeared in the China Mail of the 7th ultimo, having reference to the convict Wong A-kee as Ma-chow-Wong, I am desired by His Excellency The Governor to request your attendance at a meeting of the Executive Council to be held on Monday the 12th instant, at noon, with such proofs and evidence as you may possess in support of the charges preferred by you against the above mentioned convict.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,\n\nJ. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,\n\nfor the Clerk of Councils.\n\nDr Bridges.--Yes. I remember Mr Lane was examined before Mr Dixson. My astonishment was that I had not seen those documents before. I was sitting, and it is hardly likely I should have said I did not know whether I was on my head or my heels. I did express considerable surprise that I had not. My statement was, that I was surprised at not having seen those documents before, and that such important papers should be with the Superintendent of Police, and I not know anything about it. My astonishment was greater at the fact of their having got into the hands of the printer before being handed to the Government, than at the contents of the books respecting Ma-chow Wong, whom I knew to be up to most things, a pirate, and a great vagabond.\n\nHONGKONG, 10th October, 1857.\n\nMY DEAR MAY, I cannot think of exposing Chinese to the mercies of Mr Ma-chow Wong and his myrmidons, and I had been summoned) entirely upon European testimony. I know you to be cognizant of the facts stated by me, and I\n\nAttorney General.--What was Mr May's explanation?\n\nDr Bridges. I think he stated he had shewn them to...\n\nMY DEAR SIR,--Herewith I return the note from Mr May. You are of course aware that the proceedings of the Council are confidential. Yours truly,\n\nJ. M. D'ALMADA.\n\nA. S. Dixson, Esq.\n\n\"CHINA MAIL\" OFFICE\n\n13th October, 1857.\n\nMY DEAR SIR,--I do not know anything about the proceedings of the Council being confidential, but the information I gave was voluntary and my own, and therefore I intend to make use of it as best pleases me. I have told the readers of the China Mail I was summoned before the Council, and I shall certainly tell them what I said there.--Yours very truly,\n\nAND. S. DIXSON.\n\nJ. M. D'ALMADA, Esq.\n\nWe reserve further notes on the subject of the examination for future use, in case they should be required; but with the desire to follow the dictates of truth and justice by which it is to be hoped the President and honourable Members of the Council are alone actuated, there is little likelihood of their ever being called for.\"--China Mail, 15 October, 1857.\n\n\"We regret exceedingly to have to report a re-agitation on the part of Sir John Bowring--instigated, we believe, by Mr Caldwell--for the liberation of that scoundrel and convicted felon Ma-chow Wong. Our readers, we believe, are as heartily tired of the subject as we are ourselves, and we wish we were permitted to drop it; but the re-opening of the question, after it had, we imagined, been set at rest for ever, leads us to fear that some other and more powerful influence is at work than that of the Protector of Chinese, though the guiding hand is not apparent. There is an old adage which forcibly brings itself to our recollection at the present time, that \"none are so blind as those who will not see.\"\n\nfor upon no other foundation can we place so determined and persistent an attempt to violate reason and\n\nat--I put to you this question,--did not these two articles sink into your mind at the time with sufficient force to lead you to do your utmost to find out what part Mr Caldwell took in those transactions?\n\nDr Bridges.--They made no more impression on my mind than statements in the newspapers generally do,\n\n(Kingsmill.)\n\nbeing a government employé, I will ask Almada to send for\n\nYours very truly,\n\nAND. S. DIXSON.\n\nMonday.\n\nAttorney General.--Why did he not show them to you?\n\nDr Bridges.--I am not sure that he did not say he thought he had mentioned them to me, I cannot be positive as to what Mr May said.\n\nMY DEAR DIXSON,--In reply to your note of this morning, I regret that it will be out of my power to attend the Executive Council at its late sessions.\n\nIf the Government and Executive Council imagine that they will have washed the blackamoor white, simply by administering the Queen's prerogative of pardon to the convicted felon, they are egregiously mistaken; for to the public of Hongkong he will still be a blackamoor, and possibly a tinge of his darkness may be shadowed on those who have been vainly attempting...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247722, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 396, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "392\n\n( 131 )\n\nWeil, as yet, there is no result except the taking down an is\n\n( 130 )\n\n\"Of all men else I have avoided thee' as Macbeth says' to if born,\n\nAttorney General. Did you send that to the Friend of China ?* bich in any other case would be merely a personal mat- would, if directed against Sir John Bowring, be against\n\ne Queen's Goverument?\n\nDr Bridges. That would depend upon the nature of\n\ne libel.\n\nIt\n\nDr Bridges.--I may have forwarded it—but I do not conceive that to be a seditious libel.\n\nAttorney General.-Then do you consider this reflect- ing on you and Sir John a seditious libel? (reads from the \"Friend of China\" of 28th July, See page 122 supra). You state that you consider the principal charge to be No. 11.\n\nDr Bridges.-The connection with Ma-chow Wong I consider to be the serious charge. I understand that the charge is, that the Government by a damnable and contemptible trick prevented the connection between Mr Caldwell and Ma-chow Wong from being proved.\n\nAttorney General. You do not confine your opinion to No. 11?\n\nDr Bridges. The connection with Ma-chow Wong forms the subject of several of the charges.\n\nAttorney General. The information does not specify what the charge is, but the Acting Attorney General says that it refers to charge No. 11. The libel has reference to No. 10. We wish to fix by inuendo what is the principal charge?\n\nary documents are missing? They were in the custody of occurrence, the Acting Colonial Secretary dared to be guilty Dr Bridges. Because Sir John Bowring is the Queen's some government man in some way connected with the Legis such an interference is more than we could understand, we presentative. As regards myself, I was his principal sub- another Gentleman untimely delivered, not born, or, lative Council, as they were produced before that body. Some\n\nwe not so well acquainted with Dr Bridges that nothing bdmate, upon whom the machinery of Government prin- | earth born.\"-Friend of China, April 11, 1855, can do world surprise us-Hongkong Register July 6, 1857 pally devolved. people may object to the fatal and irrevocable doom \"burnt.\"\n\nCOMMITTEE ON THE PROTECTOR OF THE CHINESE-Most We shall not quarrel about a word, and shall therefore return them as \"non est inventus,\" and add, it is a most unfortunate our readers are aware that such a committee had been appoin thing for somebody's character that such a return has to be ed, and perhaps some may wonder what the result has bee made under the circumstances.-Hongkong Register June 29,\n\n\"In the face of the menace held out of further enquiry at the mense amount of evidence, to which an immense amount mo conclusion of the committee's labors, I will state what the mal will have to be added. We do not therefore draw attention practices were which were imputed by the Governor to Dr this case at the present time for the purpose of making any Bridges, and some of which I stated to Mr Mercer. The Gov-marks of it, but to introduce to our readers' notice a rath Attorney General. Suppose it related to the Greek ernor said he was never able to obtain an unbiassed opinion strange episode in the case before the committee. One of that, or such personal matters?\n\nDr Bridges.--If you will show me a libel directed from Dr Bridges, by reason of his being mixed up with a quan- charges is for having intimate connections with Ma-chow Won tity of local business. That there was a strange and illicit con. This man was the Jonathan Wild of Hongkong, the fitter ainst any Governor and Colonial Secretary I'll say nection between him and the Chinese community-that he used and putter up of piracies from the earliest days of the colony.hether I consider it a seditious libel or not,\n\nAttorney General.---Well what do you think of this? it to the great discredit of his office by every kind of extortion from him Mr Caldwell obtained much secret information. of an usurious character-he being an extensive money lender was said at the time we commenced warlike operations at Ca A subscriber has sent us an extract from Legare's Diary\n\nthat people. That the house where he lived and con- ton that the information so given was of a most valuable nat 85) which he thinks may prove edifying to the public, as among ducted the business of the Attorney Generalship was filled with for the protection of the Colony against the attempts of hibitory of what different great men think of each other opium and other merchandise not belonging to Dr Bridges, but brave, urged on by the Mandarins. It was however observe hardly to our taste, and if the gentleman caricatured had deposited there in pawn-That he availed himself of his post than when any information was obtained about the braves en consistent to past professions, not in these columns should tion to exact such a rate of interest as the borrowers could not were always too late to catch them. A contemporary wh antagonists have had opportunity of pointing their ridicule. honestly afford to pay. The Governor mentioned to me what the\n\nhad been writing against the scoundrel for years never ceases Excellency's late abjuration, however, of all sympathy with sum was--but it was so incredulous that it could not have been urging that the man should be seized and tried. An opponen struggling for liberty, has been so marked, and the mis- paid unless the goods pawned were stolen. The Governor nity occurred, and Ma-chow Wong was captured, tried, four ef he has effected is so serious, and is likely to prove of so further said that the goods going out and into Dr Bridges's guilty, and sentenced. When he was taken everything belon uring a nature, that we have lost all that regard which En- house was a scandal to the neighborhood. He continued by ing to him was seized, including his account books. The shmen generally feel for the representative of their Sover saying that the departure of Dr Bridges was the signal for all books were taken to the Police Office, and of their fate mo manner of complaints respecting Dr Bridges's conduct in office\n\nanon. The general impression was, that Ma-chow We At 6 dine at the Palace in the little apartments. Dinner being privately made to him, the Governor, of which he had would be so well supported that on the rehearing of his ca\n\nde remarkable by the presence of a Radical notabilité Dr never had any previous notice. Finally the Governor said he before the Executive Council Sir John Bowring would exerci\n\nwring har es testamentarius of Jerry Bentham and Editor (dit had been weak enough to give a strong certificate, or letter of his prerogative of mercy, and pardon the pirate, for his service of the Westminster Review; a very vulgar cuistre, lectur- credentials, which Dr Bridges had taken away with him; but as spy. This led to our contemporary throwing out so man incessantly about first priciples, and proclaiming himself in that he, the Governor had been careful to confine his praise to\n\nWhat a world it dark hints, that he was invited to attend before the Councilery worl, look and gesture Sir Oracle. Dr Bridges's abilities as a lawyer, and that he had explained in give in evidence what he knew. He did so, and stated that buld be if governed by these self conceited and presumptuous the proper quarter that by \"lawyer\" he did not mean “interna-Ma-chow Wong's books there were proofs of the purchase injays; and yet their favorite theme of railing is the arro- tional lawyer.\" These were only some of the many things large quantities of arms and ammunition and also the proof thence of the aristocracy, whose whole system of manners (the He talked inces- that I was very much pained to hear from His Excellency he was the proprietor of Chim-sa-tsuy, a piratical village on thy antiththon of this school) is self denial. Hongkong Register July 6, 1857,”\n\nopposite shore, where all the piracies were concocted and thtly at the table (sitting next to me on my right) to Rogier, The Friend of China calls Dr Bridges \"a meddling busy plunder concealer; further, that the books contained in addie Minister of the Interior, who listened like a most docile cate- body\" he is all that and something more, and every one tion a specific reference to certain produce which had beef men, and apparently with immense edification. knows the fate that attends the schemes of such people. The captured by pirates. The Chinese interpreter Mr Mongan when the Queen and Her Ladies are seated, he goes up to Mail says in reference to this and another case growing out whom the books had been given for translation, said no booker Majesty and harangues her in the most extraordinary man- of it, that \"a Governor of a strong decided character would at containing such information had been given him. The edit ever witnessed since the execution of Marie Antoinette; once put a stop to this sort of thing, and suspend right and left.\" of the Mail was then asked for the authority on which he madasting himself between Her Majesty and the Lady next her, We perfectly agree with our contemporary, for, if Dr Bridges such statements, on which he named Mr May, Superintende bing up and down his head and spectacles like a duck in a had been guilty of nothing but this gross interference with the of Police. On that gentleman being called, he said he hadle gesticulating, &c. police, he should be at once suspended as unfit for his office by desired the interpreters of the Police Court to look through thamilton puts the Grand Marshal up to going to Her Majesty's lonial Secretary, who, as a lawyer and the responsible adviser such interference. The Acting Colonial Secretary is member books, and from their translation he took down such entries of the Legislative Council, and it is not two months since that body passed Ordinance 8 of 1858 for regulation of the Chinese People &c, and for other purposes of Police. By Section VI of that Ordinance the control of the police which had been vested in the Chief Magistrate by 12 of 1844 was transferred in the fullest and most ample manner to the Superintendent of Police; and we are assured that this was done by an express coinmand\n\ncontained in a despatch of the Secretary of State who said he objected most decidedly to any divided command of the police that the Superintendent must be solely responsible and have the sole control. How in the face of these facts of so recent\n\nAfter din-\n\nWe looked on in amaze; at last\n\nCourt. The answer is that Nos. 10 and 11 run together. Dr Bridges. And the whole of the charges referring to the connection with Ma-chow Wong, which I conceive to be the principal charge against Ma-chow Wong.\n\nAttorney General.-Do you know whether the Attorney General declined to follow the order of charges as laid down by the Government, and that the Commission ac- quiesced and allowed him to take his own course?\n\nDr Bridges. Yes. I understood that the Attorney on given his evidence before the Caldwell Commission dis- tinctly refused to follow the order of the charges, and that the Commissioners acquiesced in his doing so?\n\nAttorney General-Had not strong language appeared in the news papers on the defence given by me.\n\nDr Bridges. Of my own knowledge I cannot say, but I believe something of the kind appeared in the Hongkong Register.\n\nAttorney General.--I will read to you,-\n\n\"But after this explanation, what then? Why, certain docu- ments were destroyed by order of Dr Bridges, the Acting Co-\n\nof the Governor, ought to have known better; but we will not lay the blame on Dr Bridges-that his superior must still bear, whether the documents included Mr May's memoranda or not. That such memoranda did exist, there can be no question. If not destroyed, as non-produceable at the demands of the Com\n\niverance by engaging her in conversation; the manœuvre he thought of importance; these he now produced in two mcceeds, for after a few moments indecision the Radical leaves morandum books They were read and corroborated the char Round Table and comes up to us-but after speaking a ges of the Mail to the letter, which shut up Ma-chow Wonge while in a most absurd strain of egotism, finding no sym- claim of being an honest man, Now comes the episode. Whethy in our circle, and no obstacle to his renewing his attack\n\nshould have all the documents in the case before them. Among t, and takes him, off by some means or other. Crampton the present committee was appointed it was promised the on the Queen, he is at her again; but D'Aerschot is on the mittee, what does it matter in what manner such extraordin- others called for early in the case were Mr May's memorands he is in advance of his times a long way, and is showing Enquiry in the Colonial Office of the Clerk of Councils was of specimen of the manners of the twenty fifth century. no use; no such documents were in the archives of the Execu tive Council. Nobody knew where they were.\n\nOn this the Attorney General proposed to give evidence as to where the\n\nLegaré will be better known to Citizens of the United States than\n\nshmen as their Ambassador at Naples and other courts.\n\nThe Editor of the Friend of China did not know who it came from. He thought the hand writing was Dr Bridges's, and by showing it to friends with a view to confirm him in his opinion, the supposition, as to the communicator, was talked of, and so, afterwards, became known to Mr Chisholm Anstey. Had Dr Bridges denied the communication, the defendant would not have attempted to prove it.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248147, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "content_text": "Daniel Richard\n\nCaldwell may be immediately suspended from exercising his offices of Registrar General and Protector of Chinese, and\n\nJustice of Peace\n\nof Hong Kong.\n\nI am desired\n\nto acquaint you\n\nthat Sir Hercules\n\nRobinson, the\n\npresent Governor of that Colony,\n\nwill\n\n226\n\nwill be instructed\n\nto enquire into\n\nthe charges made against Mr Caldwell.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nH. M.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248148, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "page_number": 220, "title": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "content_text": "£6742/19\n\nThe Petition\n\nTo the\n\nQueen's Most Excellent Majesty\n\nin Council.\n\n227\n\nof the Inhabitants of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and its Neighbourhood in Public Meeting assembled Humbly Sheweth\n\nThat in the month of November, 1858, an Information William Tarrant publisher of the Hong Kong newspaper called the \"Friend of China\", was filed in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong by the Government of that Colony.\n\nThat the Information charged the said William Tarrant with unjustly and maliciously printing and publishing a certain scandalous and malicious libel of and concerning the said Government of Hong Kong to the effect that the said Government had destroyed certain public papers and records for the purpose of securing one of the officers of the Government, Daniel Richard Caldwell, Registrar-General of the Colony, from conviction on a grave and scandalous charge; and had pronounced sentence against him... to the effect that he need not be put on trial with Machow \"long\" Wong: and had perhaps connived at his acts of piracy.\n\nThat the said William Tarrant pleaded not guilty, and a Justification, to the effect that William Thomas Bridges the then Colonial Secretary by connivance with Sir John Bowring usurped the said Government, and during such usurpation did cause certain public papers and records to be destroyed to prevent the truth or falsity of the criminal charges against the said Daniel Richard Caldwell being established; and that the publication was for the public benefit, in order to the lawful punishment of the said William Thomas Bridges and others.\n\nThat the Jury impanelled to try the said Information, after hearing the evidence for the prosecution only, returned a verdict for the defendant on both pleas; thus establishing the truth of the charges brought against the said Government of Hong Kong, and that it was for the public benefit that those charges had been printed and published.\n\nThat the presiding Judge awarded costs against the said Government.\n\nThat the said Machow Wong was convicted in September, 1857, of piracy, and transported for life to the penal settlement of Labuan.\n\nThat under a commission appointed by the said Sir John Bowring on the 4th day of May, 1858, previously to the said trial, to inquire into and report upon certain charges brought against the said Daniel Richard Caldwell, it was proved that a long and intimate connection had existed between the convict Machow Wong and the said Daniel Richard Caldwell.\n\nThat it was also found, by the said Commission, that the said Daniel Richard Caldwell had, until very recently, been a partner with the said convict in a Corfu, and the minutes of the said Commission further showed that the said Daniel Richard Caldwell admitted that a like partnership had existed between him and the said convict in at least seven other instances, and that a number of persons in their employ had been, at various times, guilty of piracy.\n\nThat the evidence given under the said Commission was privately printed and circulated by the Hong Kong Government, but without the documentary evidence taken under the said Commission, and contrary to the protest of the members thereof, as was stated on oath by the chairman of the said Commission on the said trial of the said William Tarrant.\n\nThat attempts were made by the said Daniel Richard Caldwell, after the conviction of the said Machow Wong, to obtain his pardon.\n\nThat amongst other duties entrusted to the said Daniel Richard Caldwell, he is especially charged with that of setting Her Majesty's cruisers in motion against persons whom he alleges to be pirates, and against all vessels which he alleges to be pirate, and against all places where he alleges pirates to be.\n\nThat it is the habit of Her Majesty's commanders to act upon the sole, uncorroborated, information of the said Daniel Richard Caldwell, in all such cases of alleged piracy.\n\nThat since the signing of the late Treaty of Peace with China, invasions of the Chinese coast, in violation of the Treaty, have been directed by the said Daniel Richard Caldwell.\n\nThat the three following cases occurred in the months of March and April last, in each of which it appears by the despatches of Her Majesty's naval Officers employed, they acted on the sole and unsupported allegations of the said Daniel Richard Caldwell:-\n\n1. An expedition in the month of March last against a town and squadron at Kulon, near Macao, where great slaughter and cruelties were committed, and from which one thousand dollars were extorted.\n\n2. An expedition in the same month of March against the city of Namtao, in Junon, which, after a cannonade of the city, resulted in the payment of one thousand dollars in money, and security for the payment of three thousand dollars more within ten days into the hands of the said Daniel Richard Caldwell, as compensation for losses alleged to have been practically occasioned to his Chinese Shroff or money agent, the truth of which allegations was not investigated before the Canton Consul, as it should have been; and who expressed his readiness to adjudicate on the case, until it now appears from the official authentication of the Chinese customs authorities at Canton, that the alleged piracy was the result of a judicial condemnation and confiscation of the said Shroff's or money agent's property, and an illegal attempt to smuggle salt into the said district.\n\n3. An expedition against the town of Hu-Tung, one hundred and twenty miles distant from Hong Kong, and burning the said town within five hours, extorted from the people compensation to a Chinaman of Kupchi (entirely unconnected with the British dominions) for property alleged to have been taken from him by a pirate (Machow Wong), but without any proof, or attempt of proof, to connect the said town with the said alleged piracy.\n\nThat notwithstanding the said verdict in the said trial of \"The Queen v. Tarrant\", and the publication of the said Commissioner's Report, the said Daniel Richard Caldwell still continues to hold his offices of Registrar-General and Protector of Chinese, and Justice of Peace.\n\nThat Your Petitioners are informed that the public press at Hong Kong teems with the gravest charges against Her Majesty's local Government, arising out of the acts of the said Daniel Richard Caldwell, without any steps being taken to arrest it, and which cannot fail to reflect upon Her Majesty's Government at home.\n\nThat Your Petitioners are further informed that a public officer of known character and ability has resigned his office in consequence of the acts of which Your Petitioners complain having been suffered to remain unredressed, and that other resignations are likely to follow.\n\nYour Petitioners therefore humbly pray Your Majesty that the said Daniel Richard Caldwell may be immediately suspended from exercising his said offices of Registrar-General and Protector of Chinese, and Justice of Peace, and that Your Majesty will further institute such an inquiry as will vindicate the Honour of Your Majesty's Crown, and do Justice.\n\nAnd Your Majesty's Petitioners will ever pray-\n\nOn behalf of the Public Meeting held on the 20th day of June, 1859.\n\nJos Layrock Magor", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248404, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "5\n\nthen been in existence, were perished.\n\nin all probability,\n\nNo doubt at all;\n\nOf the facts, however there was and the following is the brief summary of\n\nDaniel Richard Caldwell, late Justice of the Peace for Hongkong, the Protector of Chinese (for the purposes of the Police and Regulation Ordinance 1858) and (in right of his office of Registrar-General) a Public Accountant for the same Colony, did quit this settlement for China, in consequence of a crime, committed by him against the prosecutors Shaw and Whithead, whose client he at that time was:\n\nsuch, is, of course, prosecuted. The crime in question was one which would have made him liable to the pains & penalties of fraud and embezzlement, by the common law, and those, which, by analogy to that law, had been appointed by the criminal legislation (of the Government of the then East India Company).\n\nBut the crime was compounded; the debt paid; and the delinquent was allowed to depart. Sir George Bonham, to whom the Secretary of State, on receiving the copy of this letter (which came home by the mail of the following day), will, doubtless, refer for further particulars, is said to be aware of the above facts, and of others, not less dishonoring.\n\nAnd I believe that Mr. Fitzpatrick, late a partner in the extinct house of Brandram & Fitzpatrick of Canton, but now resident at Macao, was quite ready to have confirmed my statement in question of Caldwell's complicity,—instead of doing Mr. Day's bidding, had they thought for themselves, and exerted some pains to procure his evidence.\n\nIt was chiefly on his reported statement,\n\nthat I then grounded my faith in the popular current;—for he and his had been resident here at or about the time when the events were said to have taken place.\n\nI take this opportunity also to inform you, that many persons here, connected by Caldwell's brother (Henry), the fugitive Registrar of Singapore, are advised by this Mail from England that, disregarding the criminal warrants, which are out against him (and the Protector confiding in the manifest power of his brother), that criminal also is on his way to Hong Kong, a passenger aboard the Norham. Having heard of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance and the facilities it offers to Notaries, he has gone out to practice, having bought a Notarial Faculty, and is now at the local Bar!\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\n(signed)\n\nThe Honorable the Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.\n\nHouses A.G.\n\nSingapore, 6 Feby. 1889.\n\nAustin", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248423, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "the Honble\n\nand legislation jeremilla\n\ntime, abandoned Hong Kong for Shanghae Hennyhedor Davies, the late they Magistrate of thing Keny. I say the late, because I am informed, a Komp. *ery desponding letter prom himself, just received that my own fate, the iniquities of story kong, their prolonged inspeenity, and my final departure Roux the island, have led to his renouncing\n\nMagistys Cronical service, resigning all his posti ut Hory Kory, and perceeding to the northe effaina\n\ntemperary when he had accepted a\n\nunder\n\n\"the Compern of that country, connected with the Customs; lised where he would be freed pom the corruptions and annoyances, which he most justly complained of at Hong Kong.\n\non\n\nthe 15th\n\nLastly, sir, the late Geveran Bownicy, principally increspated in the Caldwell Case, having-as learn - taken his passage fu begland ulting, will have left they Kong beyon : Severin Motrinon will have left lugland.\n\nbefore this.\n\nbanellery\n\nBut this absence of material lenopean pathies is not the only hindrance to be apprehended.\n\nis\n\nI do not hesitate to\n\nsay\n\nno\n\nthat, so for\n\nInquiry the rest sufferers, the (mese, are concerned, the enquing already damned, by the preliminary micasure fo confirming the suspension of suyself, the accuser, from office\n\nAct one of them, sir, will now come,\n\nare shrewd and silpsh. against the guilty. The Chinese\n\nforward\n\nThey\n\n1\n\nCan\n\nread\n\nThey su me\n\nmer\n\nThey\n\n25\n\nruined, and, to far as they\n\ndisgraced.\n\nace theme Cheef Magistrate, Mr. Davies,\n\nflying from the island and prom office, in quest\n\nof predom, and peace of conscience.\n\nThey\n\nme thin Suspenstendent of Police, Ner\n\nMay, awaiting his\n\nJusne\n\nservice.\n\nthreatened removal from the\n\nOn the other hand, they behold in the\n\nBrother tranquil posession of great concluemment and Enormen hower, as their Protector; \"Registrar General, Licineer; and pustics of the Peace, _ a wretch when impudent avowal, before a Government (miniscon Chinese Convict his partnership in kine Lorchas, all engaged in the infamous \"Convry broiness,' with a compelled the Commission, albeit packed in his\n\nCorcha fawn, to find him guilty of a long d'intimate\n\n\"' connection, and pastaudiep in _ at least _ a with that convect, described in the same findery to have been always a notorious pirate!\n\nWhats\n\nThey tears that he continues to wield at wis the forces of Her Majesty, for the destruction of\n\nplace it pleases this modern\n\neve\n\nChinese person\n\nJonathan Wild to deiate for pineey.\n\nThey remember the unquestionably piratical Lorcha, Arrow, and the war waged to avenge the captura\n\nJ", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248442, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "Imperial legislation in the subject of Readining has been to add very materially to the already strong bias of the naval mind in favor of aggression on such occasions and it is to this very strong inducement to action that the last paragraph in the Admiral's farewell despatch to Sir John Bowring alludes.\n\nOn the other hand, the Government Journal at Hongkong, compelled to join in the general expression of indignation there, against the facility accorded to a man like Caldwell, of engaging the Queen's forces in a private war against a peaceable nation, whether for the direct benefit of himself, or that of his Chinese Shroff.\n\nI am further informed by a Correspondent of credit, that the things adduced as evidence to Caldwell, which are believed to have been laid before you by the late Governor Bowring, had been hawked about Hong Kong (for signature), by the Taipings' \"Head Constables\", entirely under the Registrar General & Protector of Chinese.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient and humble servant,\n\nThe Right Hon'ble\n\nT. Churchohen Anstey\n\nTo Sir Edward B. Lytton Bart MP.\n\nH.M. Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDowning Street.\n\n...\n\nPage 55\n\nOur papers do not enable us to state on what day Sir Michael Seymour quitted Hong Kong; but in the Gov. Notification dated the 21st March, will be found a statement, different from that of Mr. Anstey, which says that Commodore Elliot acted in the affair in compliance with instructions from the Commander in Chief.\n\nABS. 31 May.\n\nPut by?\n\nI'm pure duty's character,\n\nPerhaps, conforming to Anstey's character, it would be better to acknowledge this\n\nJune 2\n\nC.\n\nD.\n\nM.\n\n \nPage 56", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248475, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "76\n\ndee\n\nrary letters of the\n\n8th July 1857 & 13th May\n\n1858. to Dr Bridges,\n\nthe facts which transpired at their trials came of other information, received by one, about Mr. Wilson, Mr. May, Mr. Inglis the Magistrate and others; so much to the prejudice of Mr Caldwell's character, that, by the end of the suspicion had ripened into absolute conviction. Him and his close alliances with Chinese Crime the corruptions complained of were chiefly and solely to be ascribed.\n\nThe first and second trials,\n\nThe Beggs,\n\n13.\n\nA speech of great power\n\nlasted two hours, and made a\n\nthe great impression\n\nActing Colonial Secretary, severely reproached the Hong Kong Government and Secretary Lord Stanley with his own seduction into the crimes for which\n\nSee Minutes of Seventeenth & Twenty-second days, 30th June & 13th July 1858: pp. 58 (14th Col) 54-60, 71 Col. and 88. (3rd Col.), and see Mr. May's Depositions (in the Police Court) I'm the\n\n14. - For Mr Couldwell himself had been promoted in sequence to the offices of Justice of the Peace and Registrar General and Protector of Chinese at Hong Kong, and had greatly increased his credit and influence with Sir John Bowring, by means of the great ascendancy with which this extraordinary combination of powers had given him over the 72,000 Chinese Inhabitants of Hong Kong. Moreover, a Dr. Bridges\n\na Barrister of Hong Kong, and practising also as Attorney there, and who (before my arrival) had filled the office of Acting Attorney General for the Colony, had been in February 1857 appointed by Sir John Bowring to act as Colonial Secretary and Executive Councillor, during the absence in Europe of Mr. Mercer upon a sick leave of 18 months, with liberty to continue to practice for his clients notwithstanding such acting appointment. Dr Bridges and Mr Caldwell were in very intimate and friendly relations.\n\n15. - I myself, shortly after the date of my unanswered report on Ali Beggs Case, and in same month of July, was obliged by sickness to quit Hong Kong for Calcutta, upon a six month's leave", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248790, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "Lin \n\n1 \n\n2007 trong trong \n\nREGISTER \n\nMAR 3 1859 \n\nLord \n\nDanvers heav \n\nOf Bes \n\nFebruar 287/57 \n\ncall \n\ncall \n\n387 \n\nThinghy \n\nof her to cast of the attention Your Lordship to the Iiste of the government Ibon Rong. On the 26th January 1858 John Bowring issued a circular delimiting his authority to the Colonial Secretary, forbiding any member of the Government deducting to himself any official communication, authority. Dr. Danvers, the Colonial Secretary, ordered certain firpor...\n\nng \n\nunder the cover \n\nthis ar \n\nbe burnt which contained conclusive evidence of the connexion of Mr. Caldwell, Registrar General, Protector of the Chinese, and Justice of the Peace, with a pirate named Machow Nong. The Governor, Sir John Bowring, has instituted a prosecution \n\nagainst a newspaper called the Friend of China, for a libel. That libel charged...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248792, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 395, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "I thank Mr. Menzi to emanate from the \"Foreign Affairs Committee\". Some body connected with it. No doubt Wally thinks the amos ought to hold on my que alomenez. I Sush meddling. Acre, but by? Am Wb 3. The writer cannot spell Correctly.\n\nHong Kong Library, 27th Feb 1851.\n\nMAR 15 1859\n\n\"Me big to call our attention to the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n\"On the 26th January 1858, Sir Boke issued a circular, No. ... to the Colonial Secretary, forbidding any Member to address to himself any relegotting and the Government Official Cour... \"eation,\" Under the cover of this authority Bridges, the Colonial Secretary or Hered certame papers to be burnt, which contained Conclusive evisunce of the connexion Don Caldwell, Protector of the Chinese, Registrar-General, and Justice of the ... with a Pirate named Machow Woug. The Governor, Ser John Bowring, ...\n\nPage 278. Nets Rand-Side near\n\nTh Wery 389\n\n... (text seems to be cut off or heavily corrupted)\n\nIt appears that the original text is heavily damaged due to OCR errors. I have made the following corrections:\n\n- Corrected spelling errors where possible.\n- Removed extra spaces and added missing spaces to improve readability.\n- Rejoined broken sentences where logical.\n- Preserved original paragraph breaks and page numbering lines as per instructions.\n\nHowever, due to the heavy corruption and damage to the original text, some parts remain unclear or nonsensical. Further manual review may be necessary to fully restore the original content.\n\nSince the last part is cut off or heavily corrupted, it is not possible to provide a complete correction.\n\n \n becomes \n\nI thank Mr. Menzi to emanate from the \"Foreign Affairs Committee\". Some body connected with it. No doubt Wally thinks the amos ought to hold on my que alomenez. I Sush meddling. Acre, but by? Am Wb 3. The writer cannot spell Correctly.\n\nHong Kong Library, 27th Feb 1851.\n\nMAR 15 1859\n\n\"Me big to call our attention to the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n\"On the 26th January 1858, Sir Boke issued a circular, No. ... to the Colonial Secretary, forbidding any Member to address to himself any relegotting and the Government Official Cour... \"eation,\" Under the cover of this authority Bridges, the Colonial Secretary or Hered certame papers to be burnt, which contained Conclusive evisunce of the connexion Don Caldwell, Protector of the Chinese, Registrar-General, and Justice of the ... with a Pirate named Machow Woug. The Governor, Ser John Bowring, ...\n\nPage 278. Nets Rand-Side near\n\nTh Wery 389", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248993, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "content_text": "45040.\n\n179\n\nby Shum aking\n\ninto doing so by Sheem\n\nin the manner I have above-stated.\n\n(signature of\n\nIng Aserng.\n\nThe above statement made\n\nbefore\n\nme\n\nthis 19th day of January,\n\n1860.\n\n[Signed] D. R. Caldwell\n\nProtector of Chinese.\n\nTrue Copy\n\nJ. Murray\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo 37.\n\nFrom\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong,\n\nthe\n\n20th\n\nJanuary,\n\n1860.\n\nI enclose letter to the Governor\n\nof Macao, which His Excellency\n\nSir H. Robinson is desirous that\n\nyou should deliver in person. His Excellency\n\nis at a loss\n\nto see\n\nwhom you speak, has not been arrested, as well as\n\nD.R. Caldwell, Esq.\n\nRegistrar General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250344, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 494, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "492\n\nTo which was added, Collector of Chinese Revenue, 8th November 1845, and Assistant Police Magistrate, 10th December 1845.\n\nUnder Sir J. F. Davis and Sir George Bonham ;- Registrar General, Justice of the Peace, Joint Superintendent of Police and Protector of Chinese, 1st February 1847, until I left in 1849.\n\nUnder Sir John Bowring and Colonel Caine :- Governor of Victoria Gaol and Justice of the Peace, 4th May 1857. To which was added, Acting Harbor Master and Emigration Officer, 23 February 1858.\n\nMarine Magistrate, Harbor Master and Emigration Officer, 25th August 1858. To which is now added, Principal Officer of Customs, 21st September 1859.\n\nI have the honor to annex, Official and private letters, Certificates, and extracts from Gazettes and Colonial Newspapers expressive of the estimation in which my services have been held both by my superior Officers and by the Public.\n\nI have reason to believe that few Hong Kong Government servants have been so fortunate as to acquire such strong and favorable testimonials and I respectfully beg a patient perusal of the documents themselves.\n\nIn connection with this subject, I would beg to add a few particulars of detail, which do not come within the scope of the certificates alluded to.\n\nAt the commencement of my career I devoted myself to the study of the local Chinese dialect, and in a short time was able to speak it tolerably: This study opened to me sources of practical information.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250600, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "content_text": "With the greatest respect for His Excellency's decision in this matter, I would humbly submit, that the application of this rule in my case would bear particularly hard, in as much as the loss of the money arose from no fault of my own.\n\nThe Iron Chest in which the money was deposited was furnished by the Government to be used as the place of temporary deposit for all monies received into the Registrar-General's Office previous to its transmission to the office of the Colonial Treasurer.\n\nThat chest was kept within the office itself, and the two office Coolies allowed by the Government slept within the office for the protection of the chest as well as the other property belonging to the Registrar General's Department.\n\nThe money stolen in the chest was not retained beyond the period fixed by the Government Circular under date the 20th April 1860, nor beyond that prescribed by the Market Ordinance regulating the payment of the market rents into the Colonial Treasury.\n\nThe sum of #1819 stolen consisted of market rents the collection of which in no way appertains to my duties as Registrar General and Protector of Chinese, but is an extra duty imposed upon me for which I...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250631, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "page_number": 192, "title": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "content_text": "though they be - and supported by falsehood\n\nas\n\nI have the means of\n\nshewing, subject of official\n\ninvestigation.\n\nare still the\n\nI beg therefore to tender\n\n1 to His Excellency from this date my resignation of the Offices of Justice of the Peace, Registrar General and Protector of Chinese\n\nwhich I have had the honor to hold under the Government of this Colony.\n\nI have 2.\n\n123\n\n(signed) D. R. Baldwell\n\n(True Copy)\n\nTo\n\nThe\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250670, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "page_number": 231, "title": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "content_text": "nineteen days making in all \"Seven years four months and five days Service.\n\nParticulars as follows.\n\nPolice Clerk 15th March 1844, under Sir Henry Pottinger. Clerk and Interpreter to Harbour Magistrates Court, 14 March 1845, under Sir John F. Davis, officiating Registrar General, 16th July 1845, to which I was added Collector of Chinese Revenue 8th November 1845, and Assistant Police Magistrate, 10th December 1845. Under Sir J. Davis and Sir George Bonham, Registrar General, Justice of the Peace, Joint Superintendent of Police and Protector of Chinese, 1st February 1847 until I left in 1849. Under Sir John Bowring and Colonel Caine -\n\n227\n\nGovernor of Victoria Gaol and Justice of the Peace, 4th May 1857, to which was added Acting Harbour Master and Emigration Officer 23rd February 1858.\n\nMarine Magistrate, Harbor Master and Emigration Officer, 25th August 1865, to which is now added Principal Officer of Customs, 21st September 1869.\n\nI have the honor to annex Official and Private letters, Certificates, and extracts from Gazettes and Colonial Newspapers, expressive of the estimation in which my services have been held both by my superior Officers and by the Public.\n\nI have reason to believe that few Hongkong Government Servants have been so fortunate as to acquire such strong and favorable", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250846, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "page_number": 407, "title": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "content_text": "4\n\nwas to be made for any person who had not learnt Chinese.\n\nThe position of the Colony nevertheless at the present moment is as unsatisfactory in this respect as it well could be. There is not an officer of the Government (Interpreters excepted) who even understands Chinese.\n\nThe Interpretership of Supreme Court has been vacant for nearly a year. Salary £400.\n\nThe office of Registrar General and Protector of Chinese has been vacant for over two months, and I am unable to find a qualified Gentleman who will accept either post.\n\nThe nine or ten Interpreters at present in the employment of the local Government are either Chinese or Portuguese - persons of no position - and who have neither education nor sufficient knowledge of the English language to qualify them for their important and most responsible duties.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251380, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "page_number": 390, "title": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "content_text": "## Correspondence regarding the Brothel Ordinance and the Conduct of Public Functionaries\n\n\"1.—I have read with much concern the correspondence connected with the proceedings of public functionaries in reference to the brothel Ordinance.\n\n\"The Registrar General did in my judgment give evidence in Atai's case tending to implicate Mr. May in direct complicity with the Brothel in question, which evidence justice requires that Mr. Caldwell contradicted and that charge certainly not established, should revise his statements as to the mode of escape of the prostitutes whom he supposed had been assisted by a party under Mr. May's protection. On being convinced of his error, I think Mr. Caldwell should convey to Mr. May the expression of his regret with the acknowledgment of that error—and I recommend greater caution in any statements connected with the execution of his responsible duties.\"\n\n**The Registrar General.**\n\n\"No. 15.\"\n\nI have, &c.\n\nLC\n\n\"W. T. BRIDGES,\" Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\noath administered to me before I was called upon to give evidence. I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,\n\n\"D. R. CALDWELL,\" \"Registrar General & Protector of Chinese.\"\n\nHonorable W. T. Bridges, Esq., D.C.L.\" \"Acting Colonial Secretary,\n&c.,\n&c.,\nge.\"\n\n\"I am respectfully of opinion that the Registrar General's explanation is completely satisfactory, and I venture to hope that His Excellency the Governor will authorise me to state so officially.—W. T. B.\"\"31/3/58.\"\n\n**Memo: to Mr. Bridges.**\n\n\"State to Mr. Caldwell that having caused further information to be taken and convinced myself that the statement was made by him as to the escape of the women without any mala fides on his part, his explanation is deemed satisfactory.“ J. B.”—“ 3/4/58.\"\n\n## REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 31st March, 1858.\n\nSIR, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd instant, communicating to me the minute made by His Excellency the Governor regarding my conduct connected with the case of a woman named Ahtai, convicted of keeping a Brothel, and as it would appear from the wording of the minute that I have made a statement which is not true, and that His Excellency calls upon me in justice to Mr. May to express my regret and to acknowledge the error, I feel it my duty respectfully to represent to His Excellency, that at the time I made the discovery of a window being on the side of a house belonging to Mr. May, and close to a roof leading from Ahtai's house, and the fact that Ahtai's women were in the house when I first knocked, and not finding them when I gained admission, and that if they left the house at all, they must have gone through that window; there being apparently no other means of escape or concealment, I considered I was right in the conclusion I then came to, and which the Constable who was with me at the time agreed to, viz., that the women had escaped through that window; that they actually did so I could not say, but I only stated what was my impression at the time; as to the practicability of any women or even a child making their escape from the roof to the window, I am now the more positive, as I have since inspected the place in company with Mr. Jarman, who, I believe, has stated that it is quite impossible for any woman to do so, and to which statement he still adheres, although, strange to say, he would not do so at the time he examined the place with me, but requested that I would give him the night to consider over the matter! and, as I expected, the next morning he informed me he could not alter his former statement. The distance from the window to the edge of the roof is just about 2 feet, the lower part of the former being on a level with the latter, the window being about 3 feet high, the Venetians, when opened, would project on each side of the window about a foot, thus affording a very convenient support to a person stepping across, and I must consequently adhere to my former statement that the window afforded a most ready means of escape for even a child; I must however acknowledge that on my last examination of the premises the window in question I found open and observed that there are wooden bars to it; if these bars, being fixtures, were in the window on the night in question of course it would have been impossible for any person to have gone through, but at the time it was shut and knowing that the house belonged to Mr. May I did not attempt to open it; had I not known this, I should certainly have endeavoured to have gone through the window in pursuit of the women.\n\n\"I beg further to state that I had no wish to connect Mr. May in any way with the case; on the contrary, I purposely avoided it by describing his house as a private house, but the evidence which I afterwards gave regarding him and his house was forced from me by questions from yourself through the Chief Magistrate, to which I was bound to reply. Had I voluntarily brought Mr. May's name unnecessarily into the matter I might reasonably be expected to apologise for having done so, but I beg respectfully to observe that I was only doing my duty in replying to questions put to me by my superiors and acting up to the ...\n\n\"No. 181.\"\n\n## COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 3rd April, 1858.\n\nSIR,—I have submitted to His Excellency the Governor your letter No. 3, and I am directed to inform you that His Excellency having caused further information to be taken in the circumstances connected with the case of Ahtai's house, is convinced that the statement made by you as to the escape of the women was made in good faith on your part.\n\n\"His Excellency is therefore of opinion that your explanation is satisfactory. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,\n\n**The Registrar General.**\n\nCC\n\n\"W. T. BRIDGES,\" Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nMr. Caldwell having no further evidence to produce in support of Charge 2, Mr. May stated in reply that he had always been opposed to the indiscriminate employment of the Police in visiting and regulating brothels, believing such not to have been the intention of the Legislative Council when passing the Ordinance. He thought such a course if allowed would have opened a floodgate for the inundation of the Police Department with corruption and extortion, greater even than that lately discovered in the case of the gambling houses. But he stated that the Police always interfered whenever ordered to do so by the Superintendent, or an Inspector, or by the Registrar General. There was a standing order that the Police were to give their services to the Registrar General whenever he required them, and he asserted that he had always given the most zealous assistance in carrying out the Ordinance as far as he was empowered to do so; and that he had only refrained from interfering himself, or allowing the Police to interfere, in a manner which would in his opinion have been not only injudicious, but illegal. Charge 3 was then proceeded with :--\n\n\"With having by misrepresentations induced the Acting Chief Magistrate, who had sentenced a prisoner charged with receiving Goods in pawn without a licence, to reverse his judgment and discharge the prisoner, there being conclusive evidence of his guilt.\"\n\nMr. Caldwell in support of this Charge wished the following depositions in a case before the Acting Chief Magistrate in the year 1859 to be placed on the Minutes:--\n\nPage 390\nPage 391", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252694, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "page_number": 147, "title": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "content_text": "## RECEIVED\n\n## PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT\n\nMy Lord,\n\n4.C.427 of 1862\n\nMy hand is on your sent link.\n\n7 DEC\n\nThe date of my last communication to the Department over which you preside. That communication was shortly followed by the official intelligence from Hong Kong of intention to commence an enquiry into the truth of my official reports, of the charges of piratical connections preferred against Daniel Richard Caldwell, the Protector General of Chinese, and Registrar, and Brothels Licenser of Hongkong.\n\n\"Mr. May, the Magistrate of Police, reported in favor of which charges. He was deplorably unable in that matter, to distinguish between real guilt, and the mere effusions of private malice\" to the Duke of Newcastle, the Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. \n\nThat London July 1357 on Sir John Bowring, then Governor of that island, declared me...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253559, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "page_number": 187, "title": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "content_text": "# \"Sailing under such Register\"\n\nThe object of my now intruding upon Your Grace's attention is to state, that if Your Grace will give directions to have this charge inquired into, I will undertake to prove, principally if not entirely, from documents in the archives of the Colonial Secretary's department, that Mr Caldwell obtained in his own name, by making a false declaration of Ownership, a Colonial Register for a lorcha which belonged to a notorious pirate Chief; that the said Lorcha was commanded by a notorious pirate, who was used as the means of communication between the pirates outside and the pirates resident in the Colony, and that Az Caldwell paid this Commander money in the name of Wages.\n\nI further pledge myself to prove that this Lorcha was thus piratically owned, employed, and Commanded whilst Az Caldwell was the Registrar General, the Protector of Chinese, and a Justice of the Peace of this Colony, and that Dr. Bridges was not only aware of all this, but that he denied it on oath and suppressed the facts.\n\nAnd I further pledge myself to produce indubitable evidence to prove that Mr. Mercer was aware of these circumstances subsequent to the Lorcha being so owned and Commanded, but previously to Az Caldwell being dismissed from the public Service. Should I bring this knowledge home to Mr. Mercer, it follows of necessity, that he also concealed and suppressed the facts.\n\nShould Your Grace see fit to grant my request, I beg leave to state that if every facility be granted to me, I will certainly not require ten hours to submit all the evidence I have. I shall be ready at any moment when it suits the Convenience of the local Government to grant me a hearing.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's most obedient Servant,\nГуминой \n\n## Page 183", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253686, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "page_number": 314, "title": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \n4. \n\n5 \n\ntivo, become \n\nwill, in a year an excellent Chinese Scholar \n\nI have no hesitation. \n\ntherefore, although Mr. Turner \n\nhas been but a few years in the Service in this Colony, recommending \n\nin \n\nhim \n\nfor the Office of **Registrar General and Protector of Chinese**, to which I have provisionally appointed him, and for which he is better fitted \n\nin this \n\nway \n\nthan \n\nany other official in Government. I think also this early promotion to the head of departments will have the effect of encouraging other junior Officers to follow his example in \n\n**Ordinance No. 13 of 1860**. \n\n310 \n\nlearning Chinese \n\nThe Salary of \n\n**Registrar General** is $700 \n\nper \n\nyear, \n\nborne \n\nupon \n\nthe Civil List to \n\nbe paid \n\n7 \n\nthe \n\nOffice being in the \n\nreceipt of public monies is required to enter into Bond to the Crown, $5000. himself in £2500 and two Sureties in £1250 each. \n\nI have further to report \n\nthat I have appointed provisionally subject to your approval, to be \n\n**first clerk**, in the place of Mr. Turner, Mr. John Gerrard, the second clerk in the **Registrar General's department**, and Mr. Edward Ross Chapman,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254212, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 315, "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "content_text": "## L. D'A e Castro Esq.\n\n**FIR,**\n\nClerk of Councils,—Hongkong.\n\nCanton 27th March 1862.\n\nHaving reference to your reply of the 10th ult to my letter of the 31st January, in which you inform me that the Minutes of the Civil Service Abuses Inquiry having been printed merely for official and private use, my request for a copy upon which to form a prosecution for the libel, in said minutes, perpetrated on me by D. R. Caldwell, er Registrar General, and J. Scott, Governor of Victoria Gaol, cannot be complied with—I have the honour to inform you that before I received your answer, a gentleman, to whom a copy of the Minutes had been given for his private use, was so good as to make me a present of it, coupled with no conditions whatever, So that, were I so disposed, it would be quite competent in me to prosecute the Government, through its printer, for the libel as propagated in official and private circles.\n\nHaving, however, given full consideration to the circumstances of the case, I have come to the conclusion that the libellers, Scott and Caldwell, had a graver object than my mere annoyance in view, and that if there is to be a prosecution at all, it must be a criminal one, at the instance of the Crown itself;—certainly I shall take no further steps in the matter,—Scott's allegations of any intimacy with the prisoner Shum Aling being so absurd that I cannot bring myself to believe any reasonable person, having a knowledge of me, can give credence to a single word of it.\n\nI feel certain too that my reputation is so safe in official quarters that I can afford to treat the matter with the fullest scorn; and but for your informing me that the minutes have been printed for private as well as official use, the matter might stand without further notice. But the time will come, no doubt, when the Minutes in question will be laid before Parliament, and then what may be thought if I take no steps to rebut the ridiculous calumny upon my character?\n\nIn this view, I think I am not unreasonable in asking the President and Members of the Council, by whose orders the Minutes containing the libel were printed for official and private use, to print and circulate with the Minutes a Supplement containing the printed correspondence of which I enclose you two copies.\n\nI have &c.\n\nW. TARRANT\n\nP. S. The gentleman who gave me the copy of the minutes spoken of, has since expressed a wish to see it for some private reference; and you will oblige by letting me have a clean copy to give to him, mine having some private marks which I do not desire others to see.\n\nCANTON, 27th February, 1862.\n\nThe Hon. JOHN SMALE, Esq., M. L. C.—M. F. C.\n\n&c, &c, &c.\n\nHongkong.\n\n312\n\nSIR,\n\nI beg leave to address you as Grand Jury of the Colony of Hongkong, and crave your attention to the following narrative. The Executive Council of the Government have recently given publicity to a volume intituled Minutes of Inquiry into Civil Service abuses before the Executive Council, 1860-61, and printed by D. Noronha, Government Printer.\n\nAlmost all these minutes refer to an enquiry into an alleged intimacy between Mr. D. R. Caldwell, late Registrar General and Protector of Chinese, and one Mah-chow Wong, a Convict undergoing sentence of transportation for piracy; the result of the enquiry being a finding by the Council that there had been a long and intimate connection between them, and it was of such a character as to render him, (Caldwell,) unfit for the public service, which they recommended his dismissal from.\n\nThe enquiry of which this was the result was ordered by His Grace the Duke of Newcastle in compliance with the prayers of certain public bodies in England; and that it would take place after the arrival in Hongkong of Governor Sir Hercules Robinson, was generally known some time before the Commission of Enquiry was organized. In 1858 there had been a similar Inquiry, and it was because the finding of that Commission was incompatible with the evidence that the public bodies to whom I have referred memorialized the Government, and prayed further investigation. I am particular in drawing attention to these premises, in order to show that D. R. Caldwell, knowing what was about to occur, had strong reason for desiring to remove from his path every person likely to be able to give evidence of the intimacy which had existed between him and the convicted pirate.\n\nForemost among such was a Chinese of the name of Shum Ahing—This man had been over thirteen years in constant business connection with the convict—he had built a hong in Hongkong, in which the pirate had a pecuniary and peculiar interest;—was related to a person at Kupchee with whom the pirate had business relations; was so far implicated with the pirate on one of the charges of which he was convicted", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254229, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 332, "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "content_text": "## \n\n31\n\nprisoner, whose name was Shum Ahing, wanting to see me, to do something for him, \nI did not see him again, to the best of my remembrance, till after he was convicted on the 21st of February. I had no sympathy for him nor for any of the Mah-chow Wong people, and did not seek to see him. The mornings were cold about that time, and I seldom quitted my cell till after the convicts had left to go to work on the roads, so that when I next saw him, the second time in my life, was after his return on the first day of his going out, on the 23rd of February. On that day I wrote in my diary thus: \"Shum Ahing the Mah-chow Wong **partner**, was convicted of slave dealing and kidnapping, and has four years penal servitude i.e., subject to transportation. He cries agon ... deal at having to go out in the Chain gang, and says two weeks of **it** will kill him. Asow (the barber) declares him a victim of the gung.\" The third time of my speaking to him was again during the short interval that elapsed between the return of the Chain gang and the general lock-up. I conclude this by finding my entry on the 25th, of what he had told me of the rights of his case.\n\nDr. Murray's record of the sick will show, I think, that the man broke down within a week of being in gaol, and that he sent him to the hospital—a place I could not enter.\n\nThe next I saw of him was through the gratings of the door of the solitary cell before spoken of, on the 12th of March. He had complained of diarrhoea in the hospital, and the object of his being sent to the solitary cell, (a very common occurrence) was to test the evidences, if any, of the disease. The report being that he had no such sickness, he was ordered to be flogged for shamming—and thrice, within nine days from that date, he was lashed up to the triangles in the yard and his flesh torn from him.\n\nOn the 21st of March, I left the Criminal Gaol, so that for this warm intimacy of mine with Shum Ahing to have taken place, it must have been within the eight or nine days in question, and when the poor creature's back will have been like a piece of raw beef. I believe during that period, when he was breaking stones in the yard, being too much cut up to go out to work, I spoke to him at the same time that I spoke to his brother, who had been sentenced to ten days imprisonment for giving him opium in the road, and for which he, Shum Ahing, was flogged again, and I told him to send this brother to me when his case... \n\nI was out of the gaol, and I would do what I could in investigating. After I left the Criminal Gaol the brother called on me twice, and then he was warned by the gung that if he visited me again he would get into trouble. Shum Ahing's family, since they were spirited out of the Colony, I have never seen him, or any member of Almost all the information I got of Shui Ahing's case in the Criminal Gaol was from the prisoner who shaved me, and who asserted from the first that he, Shum Ahing, was the victim of a conspiracy of the Mah-chow Wong gang—and that he was not the first of the kind in that prison.\n\n35\n\n328\n\nAs to being found with my arm around Shun Ahing's neck—Gaol Governor Scott's assertion—and that he had separated us several times—I should feel insulted if anyone asked me if there were an approach to truth in it. A more clumsy, ridiculous falsehood I cannot conceive; and my first impression was that it was only thrown in the concoction intended for a defence, for the purpose of aiding my enemies in the Government Service in adding another to the many I have been made to endure for doing what I conscientiously meant for the public good.\n\nSubsequent circumstances lead me to feel certain that these men, Scott and Caldwell—if such rascals may be called men—had a graver object; and what that object was—point 6 of my abstract of disproofs—is so clear to any comprehension that I have deemed it right to ask the Attorney General to institute criminal proceedings against the parties on a charge of conspiracy.\n\nA copy of my letter to the Attorney General, Enclosure K,* I beg to append, with that officer's reply, Enclosure L.† regarding which I have to say that so long as the Hongkong Government have an officer styled Protector of the Chinese—and a part of his business is the going to Macao to release, at the public expense, men supposed to have been kidnapped—I hold it to be no part of a private individual's duty to enter the lists as public prosecutor.\n\nIn search of the information which I now lay before His Excellency, I have already, in voyaging twice to Macao, and the like to Hongkong, expended a good deal of time, and certainly in money not less than a hundred dollars—Should I, however, be successful in obtaining the release of a man who I verily believe to be innocent of the charge for which he is undergoing penal servitude, with the occasional inhuman torture of Victoria Gaol, and who would undoubtedly have remained in his living tomb, without the possibility of his claim to justice being known but for my providential presence there at the same time,—my reward will be ample in an approving conscience.\n\nShui Aking, I need not tell His Excellency, is a man well in years, and in his statement to me he speaks of having dependent on him a family of young children, besides an aged father and mother, to whom his restoration, after upwards of two years separation—upwards of two years of undeserved penal servitude,—would be a great boon.\n\nI have &c.,\n\nW. TARRANT.\n\n* See page 1 ante.— \n† See page 9 ante.— \n\nEngnice...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255338, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 50, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "content_text": "# Office FOGG\n\nJustify deserved the sentence suspension from the Attorney General's office of that Island, which that Governor had, in 1858, pronounced.\n\nIt is an imputation which rests upon me under Your Grace's own sanction, not only contrived the sentence, but you published it to the world, with the reasons appended by its author, and without disavowing them.\n\nI. The accuracy of my quotations, given in the letter of the 11th November and 29th May last, from Sir John Bowring's notification of his official intention to suspend me from my office, is clear, and of the grounds of it admitted, nor indeed could it be denied.\n\nAccording to that notification, the question of my suspension depended solely on one thing, the credit due to the charges themselves.\n\nThe authority of Mr. Superintendent May, and they imported to one Hamilton Caldwell, another language interpreter, charges of piracy. If those charges were true, I was guilty of the crime of piracy.\n\n6. In the gist of the tire pages cited in your prejudicial letter, it is apparently said, \"I have accordingly advised Her Majesty to dismiss him (myself) from his post.\" What is the immediate antecedent to which that word \"accordingly\" agrees with? It is the Report of the Court of Inquiry (of 1858), that the charges had failed, and with the (former) result, that the failure of these charges, considering the reckless spirit of both parties, implicated the real guilt.\n\nBut if they were the men in office, their protectors were also implicated.\n\n4 \n... \nM. Austry unfit to Continue...\n\n7. Sie... \n\n## Page 48", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255383, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 95, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "content_text": "93\n\n\"that your Excellency would do me the justice to consider, that the result of the Inquiry would be to establish the truth, and to clear me, of the charge of 'piratical practices', which as Attorney General of Her Majesty, for the Colony of Hong Kong, I preferred against Mr Daniel Caldwell, at that time Her Majesty's Protector General of its Chinese inhabitants.\" And, after preliminary observations, I was informed by your Excellency's direction, \"that you were perfectly ready to express your opinion on the charge of piracy, of which I was the principal author, brought against A. Caldwell, before the Commission of Inquiry of 1858, had been substantially established by the recent investigation\" - as well as \"his culpability in connection with Ma-chan-Wong was concerned;\" - and consequently, that it could not be said in the words of the letter, by order of Governor Bowring, addressed to me, \"that none of those charges had been satisfactorily proved;\" – And that your Excellency would go further in ordering a Public Inquiry into that officer's Conduct. I did, in that respect, render a service to Her Majesty's Government, and the Colony of Hong Kong?\n\nFor the assurance thus expressed, I beg leave to offer to your Excellency, my most sincere thanks. With reference to the preliminary observations as mentioned above, I need not repeat the language of my past correspondence, to convince your Excellency, that I was not desirous of avoiding...\n\n[appears to be end of page; no clear next paragraph]\n\nDi Frederic Rogers, Undersecretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255523, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 235, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "content_text": "The object of my now intruding upon Your Grace's attention is to state that if Your Grace will give directions to have this charge enquired into, I will undertake to prove, principally if not entirely, from documents in the archives of the Colonial Secretary's department, that ultra Caldwell obtained in his own name, by making false declaration of ownerships, a Colonial Register for a lorcha which belonged to a notorious pirate chief, that the said lorcha was commanded by a notorious pirate who was used as the means of communication between the pirates outside and the pirates resident in the Colony, and that all along Caldwell paid this commander money in the name of wages.\n\nI further pledge myself to prove that this lorcha was thus piratically owned, employed and commanded whilst Caldwell was the Registrar General, the Protector of Chinese and a Justice of the Peace of this Colony and that Dr Bridges was not only aware of all this, but that he denied it wrongly and suppressed the facts.\n\nAnd I further pledge myself to produce inductive evidence to prove that Mr Mercer was aware of these circumstances subsequent to the lorcha being so owned and commanded, but previously to Mr Caldwell being dismissed from the public service.\n\nShould I bring this knowledge home to Mr Mercer, it follows of necessity, that he also concealed and suppressed the facts.\n\nShould Your Grace see fit to grant me a hearing, I beg leave to state that if any facility be granted to me I will certainly not require three hours to submit all the evidence I have. I shall be ready at any moment when it may suit the convenience of the local Government to grant it.\n\nJam ally Lond Duxe, \nYour Grace's most obedient servant \nJip Murrows \n\n233", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258004, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "content_text": "Mutiny the Address, the Looking Zeal indicating\n\nthat I had always \"borne a good face\" before all people whenever they might be placed - the pure water intimating that I had in all occasions administered justice with perfect integrity and purity and with \"clean hands.\" The Cup was presented to me because the Junks were the most noble and beneficial\n\nto China, supplying the people with food in plenty, and with shelter and protection in mature age - and,\n\nall the trees\n\nand the people delighted\n\nhad ever\n\nthus to intimate that I was the protector\n\nof the good, and their supporter and defender\n\non all occasions.\n\nI have ventured to trouble His Grace with these details, because\n\nthe receipt of such a gift, be the value small or great, is contrary to a general principle, and I most respectfully ask for the expression of His Grace's opinion as to whether under the peculiar circumstances it would be right for me to retain the Cup, and, if not, in what way I should dispose\n\nof it so as to avoid giving offence to the whole Chinese community, merchants and others, all of whom were\n\nmy\n\nwell-wishers\n\nand\n\nhad\n\nplaced their\n\nrespect and confidence in me. I beg to offer my\n\nbest apologies\n\nfor occupying so much of His Grace's time, but I was anxious to avoid falling into a mistake with regard to\n\nsuch a unusual matter.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nYour Lordship's Obedient Servant,\n\nW. H. Adams,\n\nChief Justice.\n\nTo Frederic Rogers, Under Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-096 - Others - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260828, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "26\n\nAt all events, the discontent would never have arrived at such a pitch, and with Mr. Caldwell at Colonel Caine's elbow, whilst the honourable gentleman was addressing the mob, he must have been a bold villain indeed that would have ventured upon the cry of \"Ta Ta Fan-kwei lo\" (strike, strike the barbarian), to which, in his absence, the crowd on all sides gave free utterance. One good measure, however, to result from this affair will be, the general registration of Chinese in the colony, in accordance with the Proclamation.\n\nDeeming it a duty I owe to myself, I addressed the Governor through the Colonial Secretary, suggesting means for the preservation of life and property until the restoration of order at Canton, and the following is a true copy of the same:--\n\nSir,\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\nDecember 20, 1856.\n\nThe present state of affairs at Canton having given rise to divers rumours connected with the safety of this colony, I have been induced to draw up the following proposals, which I beg you will do me the honour to submit to his Excellency the Governor.\n\nThat lists of all Portuguese and all other foreign male inhabitants above the age of fifteen, be immediately sent in to the Colonial Secretary, together with the locality where they reside, for the purpose of being enrolled in companies near to their own habitations, in event of its becoming necessary for them to defend the same. It is fair to presume that every foreigner is possessed of arms, and this force would considerably aid the police and military, not only in maintaining order, but also in putting down disturbers of the peace. The boarding-house keepers to furnish a list of such of their boarders as might be inclined to volunteer for an auxiliary police force, to turn out when called upon; and upon such occasions they should be remunerated for their services by the Government. If arms be not procurable, they would prove a most efficient auxiliary, if merely possessing clubs. I am informed that from fifty to sixty Manilla men and Malays are out of employ on shore; these men, with forty Europeans, ought to be hired at once as a temporary increase to the police force, for the specific purpose of night patrols of at least six or eight parties.\n\n27\n\n53\n\nThe Masters of all merchant ships (British) in the harbour to send a boat's crew from each vessel on occasion of fire or disturbance; the numbers being, of course, in proportion to their numerical strength on board; which might be easily ascertained by the harbour-master from the masters; these crews would necessarily be armed.\n\nIt would be essential to appoint places of assembly, or points of rendezvous, for parties from the water, as well as for those on shore; so that all confusion might be avoided, and each party have its particular point of assembly clearly defined. A well understood signal should be established and promulgated to the public, so as to ensure the prompt and unmistakable attendance of those concerned.\n\nThe military force is so distant from the city, that I should strongly recommend a party of the 59th Regiment, of not less than fifty bayonets, being established in some central position of the town, to come on duty at seven in the evening, and to return to their barracks on the following morning. I further suggest that a Committee of Public Safety be formed for taking into consideration the best means of preserving life and property. The Committee to consist as follows, until a better suggestion be made:--The Senior Naval officer; officer commanding the Troops, and his Town Major; the Chief Magistrate; Harbour Master; Mr. May, Superintendent of Police; Mr. Caldwell, Registrar-General and Protector of the Chinese; Mr. E. Pereira, Mr. Antrobus, Mr. Gibb, Mr. Scarth, Mr. R. S. Walker, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Agent; Mr. Armstrong, two Masters of vessels, and three of the most influential and trustworthy of the Chinese; as well as Mr. Lapraik, Mr. George Duddell, and Mr. Lane; and the result of their labours to be submitted to the Governor for his sanction. Barricades at the ends of streets are very desirable; to be removed, of course, during the day. The city to be told off into wards and districts, with supervising officers to each; one of such officers to be taken from the inhabitants.\n\nFor the present native craft should be prohibited from moving about the harbour after seven in the evening, unless only to convey Europeans to their vessels. Only two wharfs should be allowed for this purpose. Steamers conveying native passengers to Hong Kong should detain any passengers with arms, and immediately send them to the Police Station.\n\nThe Police ought to carefully watch the actions and abodes of all Chinese idlers or suspicious persons, not having any ostensible means of livelihood, and through the instrumentality of the Tepos of districts, take them to the Police Station for examination, invariably searching their houses for arms.\n\nHong Kong Harbour should at the present crisis be ...\n\nG", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261267, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 494, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "## LAND TELEGRAPH TO HONG-KONG AND THE CHINESE PORTS\n\nIt is part of Captain Sprye's plan to unite Rangoon and Hong-Kong by a line of overland wires: thus enabling news from Europe to reach Hong-Kong before the mail steamer has finished coaling in Ceylon, and three weeks before she brings her mail to the most southerly of the Chinese ports. Of the practicability of this project, there seems to be no question among persons on the spot. The Rangoon papers write in its favour, and the general body of mercantile men in the East regard it as perfectly feasible and most desirable.\n\nOur English Government at first looked unfavourably on the proposition, and long snubbed it officially as an impracticable project. The treaty with Burmah has, however, removed what was, in truth, the only serious difficulty in the way. We believe that if adequately pressed by mercantile bodies, like our Chambers of Commerce, the Government will be driven to take steps to remove any other difficulties, except those which should be left to private enterprise. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has recently presented a second memorial on the subject, and Leeds has before now made representations in favour of thus opening up the West of China. Let not its energy flag.\n\n## ESMOK, ON THE SOUTH-WEST OF CHINA\n\n(Rangoon Gazette, 19th May, 1863.)\n\nOne of the chief difficulties which has beset Captain Sprye in his energetic attempts to bring about direct commercial communication between British Burmah and Western China is the supreme ignorance of objectors. Sometimes the provinces of China bordering on Burmah are described as being unfruitful and sterile, and the population scanty; sometimes all but impassable mountains are said to block up the way; and, among other ingenious guesses, to assist in bringing disfavour upon the project, is that started, we believe, by the `Friend of India`, viz., that \"Esmok is a myth.\" But there is now some chance of justice being done to the projector of this direct route. Mr. Bixby, of the Toungoo missionary establishment, is prosecuting inquiries regarding the South-Eastern Shan States, and South-Western China; and the result is that such information as he has collected inclines him to think favourably of Captain Sprye's proposition. The province of Yunan has been described to him as populous and productive, and Samoke, or Esmoke (Esmok), as a large and wealthy city, inhabited chiefly by Chinese, but partly by Shans and other races.\n\nIn our extract columns, we give Mr. Bixby's letter in full from the `Rangoon Times`. It will, doubtless, attract the attention of Captain Sprye, who is at this present time engaged in circulating among mercantile men at home the information which led to his conception of the practicability of an overland trade way from Rangoon to China. Mr. Bixby's inquiries, so far as they have yet been prosecuted, are all in favour of Captain Sprye, and all against the crude surmises of the half-informed, or else utterly ignorant people, who set themselves up for critics of his project.\n\n### FROM M. H. B., Toungoo, 4th May, 1863\n\n\"I noticed in your paper, a short time since, that the existence of such a city as Esmok, on the Chinese frontier, is questioned; that it was called 'a myth, &c., &c.\n\n\"I have taken some pains to ascertain the truth about it, but until to-day had been unable to get any reliable information from the Shans. This morning, I found a Shan, who came from Mung-la, opposite Esmok according to Yule's map, and, without giving him any names, required him to give me an outline map of the country, with the names of all the principal places. Among the number of these, I find Seing-sa-moke, which is, beyond question, Esmok. It is a Shan word. Seing means a Buddhist temple, or zayat, and sa-moke is descriptive of the land upon which it stands. The city is called, therefore, quite naturally, Sa-moke; and Esmok and Samoke are quite as similar as Dow-way and Tavoy, Mau-lamyeing and Maumain, Pyeemnico and Prome, Sittoung and Sitting, and many other Burman names anglicised.\n\n\"Sa-moke is said to be a large city, inhabited principally by Chinese, but with a large admixture of Shans, and other races. The country around must be very populous and wealthy.\n\n\"Judging from the accounts given me by natives, Yunan must be a remarkable country, both as it regards the people and the natural productions. More complete and reliable information will be forthcoming. Such data as I have lead me to think favourably of Captain Sprye's project.\"\n\n## LAND TELEGRAPH TO HONG-KONG AND THE CHINESE PORTS\n\n(Glasgow Herald, 14th July, 1863.)\n\nA Committee of the House of Commons, taken aback by answers made to them by Brinsley, the hydraulic engineer, in regard to a project under consideration, asked him abruptly what he thought Providence intended rivers for? What do I think Providence intended rivers for?\" repeated Brinsley, \"why, to feed navigable canals, of course!\" If Brinsley was entitled to the joke for the sake of the good philosophy in it—though the Chinese, whose commerce depends so much on their canals, would probably think that his raison d'être for rivers was quite sufficient—much more might our utilitarian merchants be pardoned if they thought that God had created electricity with a special eye to the electric telegraph. In this mode of application, it has subserved our highest worldly interests to an extent which could never have been anticipated.\n\n| Route | Distance (geographical miles) |\n| -------------------- | ------------------------------ |\n| London to Belgrade | 900 |\n| Belgrade to Constantinople | 450 |\n| Constantinople to Bussorah | 1100 |\n| Bussorah to Kurrachee | 1050 |\n| Karrachee to Calcutta | 1155 |\n| Calcutta to Dacca | 135 |\n| Dacca to Rangoon | 480 |\n| Rangoon to Shooe-Gyen | 130 |\n\nThere are few of our merchants, if they look at their maps and follow the route we have described, who will not feel their mouths watering, in a figurative sense, when they find the telegraph so terminating in Pegu. Their eyes will traverse, with eager and wistful glance, the narrow overland space that separates Shooe-Gyen from that mighty gateway of our commerce with China—Hong-Kong; and they will naturally ask themselves why the Home and Indian Governments, having wisely and successfully carried the wires so far, should not carry them the little farther that is thus needed to bring Hong-Kong into direct telegraphic communication with London? The distance, compared with that which will soon be traversed by the telegraph to India, is insignificant, and 120 miles of it would be over British territory. We should then, according to the detailed statement of the Messrs. Sprye hereon, have 279 miles from the north-east frontier of British Pegu, across Burmah, by the cities of Kiang-Tang and Kiang-Hung, to Sz-mau (Esmok) on the south-west frontier of China. Thence along the imperial roads, down the Pearl and West River valleys, through six or seven of the principal Southern Chinese cities, to Canton, would be 757 miles; with 70 more from that city to Hong-Kong. These distances yield a total of only 1,226 geographical miles, or, by adding one-fourth, as before, for deviations, 1,534.\n\nBeing then on the eve of completing an unbroken line of telegraphic communication from London as far as Eastern Pegu, a distance of 6,750 geographical, or about 7,100 English, miles, it becomes a question of great and pressing importance, especially to our merchants and shipowners, in view of the vast interests which we now have springing up in China, whether the Home and Indian Governments should not take the steps necessary for carrying the wires over the 1,500 miles of land that separate us from Hong-Kong. The project is not new. For several years, the Messrs. Sprye, whose names are well known in connection with our commercial system in the East, have been pressing on both Governments the importance of thus extending the Indian wires, by land, from Pegu to Hong-Kong and the open ports of China; and have spared no pains in endeavouring to satisfy them and the public as to the practicability of the proposal.\n\n## THE COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH BURMAH\n\n(Manchester Guardian, 21st July, 1863.)\n\nIn the `Guardian` of the 18th ultimo, we published the text of the treaty concluded with the King of Burmah on the 10th of November. We will here notice those provisions of it which seem to us to possess most interest to home manufacturers, merchants, and shipowners.\n\nArticle 4 of the treaty, referring to goods imported into Rangoon from any British or foreign territory, for export to the Burmese territory, stipulates that—\"If such goods are declared for export to other territories, and not for sale in the Burmese territory, the Burmese ruler shall, if he believes the manifest to be true, not cause bulk to be broken, and such goods shall be free of duty.\"\n\nNow, the western provinces of China comprise the only \"other territories\" beyond Burmah that can be commercially approached from Rangoon.\n\nAnother most valuable provision in the treaty, in reference to the opening of direct trade between Eastern Pegu and China across Burmah, is that part of article 7 which provides that:—\"British merchants shall be allowed to settle and to have lands...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 270728, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 137, "title": "CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9]", "content_text": "the face of them respectively; 20 Sections I and II seem time \n\nV most important provisions Section arms the Registrar General with Magisterial powers which he may exercise unreservedly subject nevertheless to the Appeal mentioned in Section: This provision is new and seems unexceptionable, certainly having regard to the wisdom and discretion of the Officer who now fills that post\n\nI must here call attention to Ordinance No. 8 of 1858 whereby it will be perceived (See Sec. II) that the Registrar General is by virtue of his Office, the Protector of Chinese Inhabitants within this Colony,\" a circumstance which renders that officer singularly fit to have entrusted to him the working of this Ordinance. Moreover I believe no person has ever been appointed to the Office who is well acquainted with the Chinese language.\n\n21. Sections III, IX and I contemplate the granting of a license in lieu of a mere registration. The provision in Section II giving to the Registrar General power to cancel or suspend a License will tend much not only to the furtherance of the special object of this Ordinance but to the maintenance of general order in Brothels.\n\n22. Section III re-enacts in an improved form Section XXI of the Ordinance of 1857 and the same may be said of Section III in reference to a Section bearing the like number in such Ordinance. Section III will manifestly be very difficult to carry into practice for no reason, but there is no reason why it should not be inserted. Section XIV recommends itself.\n\n24. Section XV may be described as amalgamating the provisions contained in Sections III and I of the Ordinance of 1857\n\n25. Section XII contains some provision which must be in every whole. As under it there must be in every Brothel a responsible person who had a special interest in its character.\n\nSection III by reference to an Ordinance very recently passed in effect enacts that where a fine has been imposed upon a person resident in any house and the Offender cannot be found the fine shall be recovered from the Householder.\n\nSection XVII is a re-enactment of Section XIII of the Ordinance of 1857 with", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277582, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3]", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3]", "content_text": "52\n\nwaited on\n\nby the Mandarin of Markham\n\nwho stated that he had received special\n\ninstructions from Canton, by\n\nreason, of some representations to the Vice Roy by Consul Robertson. In consequence thereof he stated that he should be obliged to discontinue his visits to Mr. Smith; with whom he had been\n\non terms of friendly intimacy. He represented that notwithstanding that his\n\ninstructions were strict and forbade his\n\ncommunicating with...\n\n2.\n\nAs Kowloon City and territory is\n\nnot only in the neighbourhood but\n\nin\n\nactual contact with British territory and\n\nthere is constant intercourse of\n\nevery\n\nsort to and fro across the boundary,\n\ncreating\n\nvarious relations and mutual\n\nobligations, it seemed to me\n\nextraordinarily jealous and unwise\n\nproceeding to prohibit all\n\nfriendly intercourse between the Protector of Aborigines here and the Chinese Authorities of the soil immediately contiguous. I have\n\nreason to believe that such frequent\n\nand\n\neasy exchange of friendly\n\ncommunications and warnings between the Kowloon Mandarins and the Registrar\n\nGeneral and Police Department had been\n\nattended with\n\npower and great public\n\nadvantages. Indeed it is difficult to imagine that it could have been otherwise.\n\n3.\n\nMr. Smith, however, did I believe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280533, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 15, "title": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "content_text": "On which that Memorial was founded, and of which none are refuted; now, except by an occasional denial so much as noticed, by the \"Despatch\" or better in questions whilst the silence of the Governor as to certain allegations would seem to confess them to be true. They afford to pass by the repeated yet unfounded assumption that their Committee consists of persons not one of whom have ever resided in China or Hong Kong or who have had any means of becoming practically acquainted with the doings of the Hong Kong Government. It is the stereotyped assertion, although an often refuted one; and it will be difficult to persuade Your Lordship that the great traditions upon which the Colonial empire of England was planted, and to which, according to the as yet unfulfilled prognostics of the founders of Hong Kong, as quoted in the former Memorial, the laws, government, and policy of that Colony - especially adapted as an example to the neighbouring Empire - are out of place in the present discussion or are not binding upon the present Government of that Colony, or that any objections to its proceedings which may be based upon those traditions ought to be considered as open to disparagement on the part of that Government as the mere \"sentimental objections\" of \"well-meaning persons\" in England, \"ignorant of the circumstances which have produced and which justify a policy\" (Paragraph 244).\n\nIt is at the same time confessed, that but for his local experience, the Governor would have subscribed similar remonstrances, and applauded himself for subscribing it (Paragraph 12).\n\nYour Memorialists see the least reason to qualify in any way the adherence which they now express to the statements of their former Memorial. They trust that, by Your Lordship at least, it will be now considered; and, in considering it, that due weight will be given to the important evidence to which its marginal references will direct Your Lordship. But to one of those proofs they may now not unprofitably make particular reference, seeing that the \"despatch\" or letter before them contains the broad although unsupported assertion that the increase of gambling at Hong Kong was not due to any defect in the law or any remissness on the part of the local authorities.\n\nThe despatch of Sir Hercules Robinson of the sixteenth December one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two (1862), Para sixty-one, [transmitting Copy of the Minutes of the Enquiry into the conduct of the Registrar General of Hong Kong and Protector General of Chinese, which led then recently to the conviction and dismissal of that Magistrate] is the document to which your Memorialists refer. If, as has been stated, the grant of the Gambling Houses Farm has been in any way negotiated or conducted with or through that person, the document acquires a new and painful interest in its bearing on this question.\n\nBut it has an importance of its own; for it clearly proves not only the non-execution of the Ordinance of Hong Kong, and the other laws against Gambling, but also the connivance of the very particular subordinate to whom the Government would have looked for the practical fulfilment of their duty.\n\nPage 14\n\nPage 15\n\nJafew flommons\n\n12, 13\n\nAR111\n\nand 15-60) pp 3-21.\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280534, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 16, "title": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "content_text": "& Note. Last note.\n\n16.\n\nA\n\nA\n\ntheir duty in that respect. The paragraph cited in the margin shows what in Governor Sir Hercules Robinson's judgment, had been ascertained by the Commission of Enquiry on the following points.\n\nMr. Caldwell and a Chinaman, Wong, were from very soon after the beginning of the Colony, two of its inhabitants. They had engaged in piratical ships, and other disreputable adventures. Mr. Caldwell had placed his \"great influence and power as a principal subordinate of Government at his partner's disposal.\" This lasted until the latter was convicted of piracy and transported in September one thousand eight hundred and fifty.\n\nMr. Caldwell retained all his power as sole Magistrate or Protector General of the Chinese until the twenty-fourth September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one when he was dismissed from all his Office upon proof of his above connections with Machow Wong. During the whole of the time of their partnership, \"Pirates and other ruffians (resorting to the Island) were provided with professional assistance when charged with offences against the law.\" \"Complainants or witnesses were intimidated\"; and \"the great influence\" which the Chinese confederate possessed through the English confederate, was so exercised as frequently to obstruct or pervert the course of justice.\n\nIn addition to those instances of the guilty practices of Machow Wong, his Excellency further describes him as \"an extortioner, a recipient of bribes from gambling houses, a confederate of pirates, and a receiver of stolen goods,\" and adds that \"Chinese of standing and property would not appear against him on account of their evidence\" and \"they were in terror of their lives.\"\n\n17.\n\nThis striking illustration of the rest of the case will be better appreciated, if your Memorialist reminds Your Lordships that only four years had elapsed from Mr. Caldwell's fall when the first draft of the Gambling Houses Ordinance was laid before the Legislative Council—that the only Ordinance then in force for the proposed prevention of the crime of Gambling was the original Ordinance of 1844, whose lamentable defects and errors had always been notorious.\n\nYour Memorialists most respectfully request Your Lordship to take their Memorial into your consideration, and allow them the honour of an interview with Your Lordship for the purpose of explaining and enforcing their statements and complaints. And Your Memorialists will ever pray.\n\nErnest Pears\n\nGeneral Secretary.\n\n10 Aug", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280559, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 41, "title": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "content_text": "Miad\n\nA\n\nF\n\n\"Ordinance\n\nforen It was upeseritet to Governor John Bowring\n\nthe then Registrar General of the mess that the\n\nfor film Bow dag. In faldewest Tito prejring Ondruances hat only in an imperfect way the Cheness Laws of Responsorlity, - mistural and sergnosial.\n\n(aldweli)\n\n1857: \"for regula experent to intorene them bodity, and desertation premis and that it wa\n\nOrdinance on \"and regulation of to confide the management to heme (the (aldurs) aloueve Simay 1857. B. subject to the Governor in Council only. The Covenian thinkerker hape & thirugh the Lensation forement an\n\nsuch as the Land of the Paon und Kla\" for \"Rap\" a\n\nto f\n\nthe latter was boy said to be called in the long\n\nRegister Conto\n\nof\n\nthenew People, by \"The Population. Jour and for other pinter\n\nReimblej\n\nThat is to say the color districts ordained (J.7.) that a police there\n\nreach,\n\nthe division\n\n1732\n\nthe\n\nor Reily & Bon an elective Kay thi mny or Tithing man, of the population into \"thane\n\nthe reponitting of each honacholder fo of the \"Kap for than of the other nine, _ and their respective\n\n8-12 the Suters, defined and declared : (s. 13-17.) those of the \":\"Tapo\" of the \"Town Aage Hamlet or district,\" Whence declared (s. 18. the hanging out of the defined and \"The \"Mun-par \"\" \"equired of every occupied (impremacy of the \"Repentar Gencial\" as sole magistrate over and their tithings macted. I do. 4.6.7.19.) these officials aut, the infare of these arrangements, the authonly of t Chey mazestiate of Police over the Polen Force of the colony satirely abolished (so. 1. 6.) it out number of provisions which invested the Regestion fenceal, under his new followed,\n\n15 only Eugh of \"Protector General of the Chinese \" with antitrary porn over theme, intrest only to the will of the Governor (W.22-28.) But the penalties for desobedience conti. be cofaced expenst them at Petty lesions (18.39-40.\n\njant was an appeal to the Supriam fount by (ontinen 15.43. Pulse last provisions veu introduced against me\n\nThe is\n\nthe\n\nIrell's wish; - and we wherested in the foreman that they made the boat, & unishing aged dividing his own power, on which. What Law was to depend his opent to the Bruance the Geveiner was hear. to In going\n\nL\n\n200\n\n\"\n\n+1\n\n39\n\nsay that he aloned not be deplored to carry of tho comply anto ammidiate effect, so far as that Law song ancona\n\nI never orns,\n\nin that regne\n\nsport into effect, except to that the two prazosing Ordinances were repeated By A (0.1.)\n\nIt appears from Governor John Bowring's inform \"Menates\" of \"Votes & Proceedings of the Lepidation forains\n\n\"The 17th March 1A580 hà\n\n\"of Hong Kong\" that on\n\nthen that \"experience\n\nhad perved the desirableness f\n\nthe ancistasies of the coloray \" whoreecing certeen modifiations into the Ordnan\n\n6.910570\n\nand that there come \"now be\n\nyou, Gas, 20 mart 105.\n\ncount in the future Whey\n\numperne? atisfactorily adopted\",\n\nthe onversion of all the sections relating to the thenise Lace:\n\nA \"Kaps; and the reenacturend in that of Responschlity.\n\nthe Ormance, repeating\n\nlars before and the Withings\n\nair the rest of\n\n180 explanation was\n\n\"Romance \"etc. K\" shape of 8.91858.\n\nOrginal one\n\nSexport Anneeal (exper & Report of the\n\nthe\n\nForened\n\nbut the Ordinance, so attered, poped on the 5th way pottung.\n\nunder the same title with that wan to wplace.\n\nFinally it appears from\n\nof\n\nthe Arnaun which in\n\nthe Report of pusfaltad\n\negelia General of Lucysor mi Cecil C. South of the 25th Petrus 1858 that by Kory for in 1866 analy\n\nreferred to by\n\nthe Laws of the Pain & Kea in Hong Kong,\n\nbeen\n\ntolong good effects had followed the experiment, or .\n\nthe\n\nAthe\n\nand that as justiped his the new lepolation to be \"a success\n\nwhat it conse Ordinance to which he cepees (para. 15.10.1 is \"the Retoria Rege hation Ordnance 1866\" whenty \"Andrmance of Gour\" Responsibility was theron on the houschalices of preventing the ele de canto or [ccompant of their bouse, prom commetton\n\n\"\n\nRy. McDonnell Steele\n\nI file frenacted as\n\nany\n\nwith few action. \"yuregistered Krithit, or Mibler Gamblingtonuses, - and the The The candling farm them reach of the Laws relating to the Meest sale of sheets, the les Whereff yad met wouth wa ready compliance on all sides with fait\n\n\"orate really appested in putting down thex offences:\n\nBITZUAKOVA s A UMIESTA B\n\n1\n\n\"Colvay of Hong Ning:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280757, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 240, "title": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "content_text": "During the period of my incarceration it happened that Mr. Anstey, the Attorney General of Hong Kong, became unwillingly convinced that there was some ground for the charges of which he had strongly condemned my own denunciations, as well as for the suspicions long entertained by himself of the existence of a far graver state of things than I had denounced. He became aware of a connection of Mr. Caldwell, the Registrar General and Protector of the Chinese, with certain native pirates and robbers, who by means of Mr. Caldwell's influence in the Executive, through the intervention of his coadjutant Dr. Burgess, then acting Colonial Secretary (whose ascendency over the Governor in local matters was supreme), kept the entire Chinese community in a state of thraldom.\n\nMr. Anstey officially apprised the Governor of his discoveries but under the advice of the then Colonial Secretary, Dr. William Thomas Bridges, himself a party to the league, Sir John Bowring declined to interfere, and Mr. Anstey reported the matter to the Secretary of State. Before a reply could be received from Lord Stanley, the Governor laid on the table of the Legislative Council several bills, the effect of which was very much to increase Mr. Caldwell's powers over the Chinese people of the place. As a Legislative Councillor, Mr. Anstey, in his place, renewed his representations of the danger and disgrace which he apprehended from Mr. Caldwell's connection with the public service and was able to carry some amendments of those bills.\n\nThereupon His Excellency ordered a special commission to enquire into the subject, but the constitution of the commission was such, and the Governor so palpably espoused Mr. Caldwell's cause, that the whole bearing of the arrangements regarding the enquiry tended to the exculpation of the accused, and Mr. Anstey consequently refused to prosecute his charges before a tribunal whose integrity and independence he had good cause to doubt.\n\nThe sittings of the commission commenced on the 27th day of May 1858 and resulted in a finding on the 27th July following. This finding being equivocal, qualified, and contradictory, yet exculpatory withal, was not deemed satisfactory by Sir G. B. Lytton, Bart, the new Secretary of State, nor his successor, the Duke of Newcastle.\n\nIn pursuance of instructions, a notification appeared in the Hong Kong Gazette dated 28th July 1860 intimating that the new Governor (then Sir Hercules Robinson) would sit in Executive Council for the purpose of enquiring into the abuses which had been alleged to exist in the Civil Service of Hong Kong \"generally\" (which I had never ceased to expose) and \"especially into the alleged tampering of some of the subordinate departments with the malversation, corruption, and piratical practices of part of the Chinese community in or frequenting the Colony.\" All persons capable of giving information in furtherance of the proposed investigation were invited to attend.\n\nIt is much to be regretted that the notification did not take place until the end of 1859, a year and a half after Mr. Anstey had ceased to be Attorney General and had removed to the Bombay Bar. What all the other officials connected with the \"so-called enquiry\" had been doing by that time had been removed, with the exception of Mr. May, the Superintendent of Police and Assistant-Justice Magistrate, who had strongly supported Mr. Anstey and was himself threatened with suspension. Sir John Bowring and Dr. Bridges were both in England, and Mr. Caldwell was in the unchecked vigour of his official authority.\n\nPage 240\n\nPage 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280758, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 241, "title": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "content_text": "Miscellaneous\n\nB\n\nC\n\nenquiry.\n\n...\n\nA great mistake marked the beginning of the new enquiry. A general conviction prevailed that it would be a mere waste of time to prosecute the matter. Nobody but myself responded to the notification to attend, and even I was urgently entreated by those who warmly sympathised with and supported me to decline all connection with the enquiry. But I had so identified myself with the denunciations of the abuses which had been long prevailing that I felt it impossible to retain my self-respect and be silent. Your Lordship will please take note that it was impossible to obtain Chinese testimony due to the apprehension of the vengeance of Mr. Caldwell and his native coadjutors. I handed in a list of twenty-four charges against Mr. Caldwell.\n\nThe enquiry commenced on the 13th August 1860 and concluded on the 24th September 1861, the Council having sat for thirty days. The result was a finding which honourably acquitted Mr. May with thanks for his integrity and public spirit, Mr. Caldwell being dismissed with ignominy. Governor Robinson addressed a special despatch to the Secretary of State on the subject, dated 15th December 1861, explanatory of the finding. Mr. Caldwell was therein pronounced to have been culpably and intimately connected and associated with an infamous pirate whose influence over Mr. Caldwell invested him (the pirate) with immense power, enabling him to tyrannize over the lower orders of Chinese without their daring to complain, as they were in terror of their lives on account of him.\n\nThe Governor further stated that this pirate was constantly in trouble and that on all occasions Mr. Caldwell proved himself his steady friend and ally, sometimes as Justice of the Peace sitting on the bench and sometimes as Protector of the Chinese - that public repute pronounced the pirate an extortioner, a recipient of bribes for gambling houses, a confederate of pirates, and a receiver of stolen goods - that by the great influence he derived from his intimacy and connection with Mr. Caldwell, he frequently managed to pervert and obstruct the course of justice for the protection of his friends and the destruction of his enemies. These grave charges form only a small portion of the finding - I extract sufficient for my present purpose only.\n\nAt the twenty-sixth sitting of the Council (on February 1861), some correspondence was read which had occurred subsequently to the previous meeting between the Government and Mr. Caldwell. It seemed that Mr. Caldwell had lost a sum of public money which the Governor had decided that he should make good. In the first place, $160 per month had been stopped from Mr. Caldwell's salary, and then a moiety of $140 - Mr. Caldwell alleged that, having to pay $150 per month to his creditors under a deed of compromise, the residue of his salary was insufficient to maintain himself and his large family, and that therefore he absconded in order that he might be able to maintain himself. The Governor replied that Mr. Caldwell should be allowed to draw his full salary until a finding should be arrived at. Mr. Caldwell declined this offer, refused to attend the Council further, and made over his functions to his Chief Clerk. Thus it came to pass that only five out of the twenty-four charges which I laid were investigated. May I beg Your Lordship to bear this circumstance in mind.\n\nI had been well aware for some years prior to Mr. Caldwell's dismissal that a number of Chinese...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280997, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "(12)\n\nLibrary, St. Andrew's Hall, and the Theatre each in turn elicited, as they deserved, the Prince's high commendation. His Royal Highness then ascended the dais prepared for him in the Reception Room, and the private Entrée, at which the higher Officials, Civil and Military, were presented, commenced. The Prince was observed to address a few words to the Senior Naval Officer of the U.S. Navy, and it was understood that he expressed to that gentleman his sympathy with two of the sailors on board the U.S.N.S. Iroquois, who had been injured while firing the salute on his landing, an event which caused general regret, but which was fortunately the only contre-temps that occurred during the Royal visit.\n\nThe general Levée followed, and upwards of three hundred gentlemen, representing several nationalities, were presented to His Royal Highness. His Excellency Vice-Admiral De Souza, the Governor of Macao, and Suite, arrived about this time, and were received by the Prince with much cordiality, His Excellency remaining till the termination of the Levée on the dais beside Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell at the right hand of the Prince. The effect produced by the splendid suite of Rooms in which the Reception took place and the number of British and Foreign uniforms, Civil, Military, and Naval, was the subject of general remark.\n\nWhen the Levée was over, but in the presence of almost all who had attended it, Thomas Pyke, Esq., entered at the head of the Committee appointed to present an Address on behalf of the general Community of Hongkong. The Address, with the Prince's reply, which was delivered with much feeling, will be found in the Appendix, (B).\n\n(13)\n\nThe Parsee deputation was next introduced. Mr. D. Ruttunjee, who had been selected as spokesman, expressed the sentiments of reverence which he and those whom he represented entertained towards Her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family, including His Royal Highness, and begged permission to read an Address, which he did in a particularly clear and distinct manner. Vide Appendix, (C).\n\nThe Registrar General, (who is also Protector of Chinese) the Honorable Cecil C. Smith, at the head of a deputation of the Chinese Community, next appeared, and requested His Royal Highness to accept the very respectful Address which they had drawn up as an expression of their admiration and affection for himself, and as a token of their appreciation of the laws and institutions of this portion of Her Majesty's dominions, where they had found a home.\n\nThis was one of the marked incidents of the occasion; several of the Native gentlemen presented being apparelled, after the fashion of Mandarins, in long silk robes, and decorated with peacock's feathers, and making obeisance after the most approved rules of propriety; and the Address which they presented being very elaborately composed, both as to wording and external appearance. It was of rich yellow satin, lined with crimson damask silk, and was about three yards in length and one in breadth. The outer edge of six inches or more was embroidered with the Imperial Dragons (with five claws) worked in gold thread; and within this border was one somewhat narrower made of flowers, and peacocks and other birds, the whole having a very life-like appearance. The Address was written within these borders in vermillion, and was a masterpiece of penmanship. An admirable translation of it, together with the Prince's reply which was much appreciated by the Native community, whose representatives\n\n35", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281217, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "the remonstrances and protestations of the Chinese Government and their urgent representations to all residents in China consider that the proposed Provisions fall as far short of the just requirements of British Trade in that they deal too favorably with the antiquated theory and prejudices of the Chinese. In very respect, we find China treated as a favoured nation that deserved well for her former fidelity to obligations, and the honesty of purpose displayed by her in endeavouring to perform her Treaty stipulations; and as far as British Merchants are concerned, little, if any benefits are obtained, while additional Duties are imposed without reason, and the Transit difficulty increased by the conspicuous absence of any guarantee for the observance of better faith in the future than has characterized the past. As to Hongkong, this colony has reason to complain that it, in especial, must be injuriously affected by some of the proposed alterations to which we now beg respectfully to draw your Lordship's attention.\n\nBy Article 2, it is proposed to allow the Chinese Government permission to appoint Consuls to all Ports in British dominions.\n\nViewed in the abstract, it appears but reasonable that China should enjoy such a right; and able to appoint Consuls in London, Liverpool, Calcutta, Melbourne, or other distant British Ports, no disadvantage would arise; and it is possible that some mutual benefits would, in time, accrue to both countries. The case, however, is very different when we have to deal with Hongkong; and no doubt can be entertained that this clause was suggested by the British Minister and inserted mainly with Hongkong in view. This colony was originally established as an experiment; and the views of its founders have been fully realised by its progress and growth. It is an unproductive Island, but its geographical situation, and its magnificent harbour, marked it out as admirably adapted to become the emporium of foreign commerce in this portion of the world; and the headquarters from which the large financial and commercial transactions of British and foreign merchants in China could best be carried on. Its success, however, and the immunity which as a free Port it enjoys from Customs and other dues, have long been regarded with jealous displeasure by the Chinese Government, which has done all in its power to interfere with its trade, especially that carried on by native Merchants settled in Hongkong. Indeed, it has required the vigorous action of our able and energetic Governor to counteract the undisguised attempts which the Canton Officials have made to cripple the trade of this colony.\n\nChina can in no sense be considered a country entitled to all the same rights and privileges as civilized Nations, which are bound by international law; in which the life, the liberty, and the property of all, foreigners as well as natives, are secure and respected; and where a recognized procedure and a regular legal system can be relied on by those who feel themselves aggrieved. All foreign Nations that have entered into diplomatic relations with China, have carefully reserved their extraterritorial rights; thereby showing that in most important particulars, they consider it outside the pale of modern civilization. Nor can the fact that British Consuls reside in the Treaty Ports in China, be adduced in favour of the proposed clause, because it is manifest that in appointing them, the British Government had two objects in view. The first was to protect the lives and property of Britishmen residing within the dominions of the Emperor of China; and in the next place to secure the Chinese from the injuries they might sustain, if all who called themselves British were permitted to resort to China, without any check upon their conduct. In Hongkong, the Chinese residents require no Consular protection; because though amenable to British law, they can appeal to our tribunals; with this additional safeguard, that they have an important official, the Registrar General, to whom as \"Protector of the Chinese,\" they can always have recourse for advice and protection.\n\nWe have no hesitation in saying that if a native be appointed as Consul for China in Hongkong, he will in reality be a spy on the Chinese merchants residing in this colony;—and we have several very wealthy and intelligent men of that class—and his main duty will be to report to the Mandarins of the adjoining Province, the amount that can be extorted from them by the nefarious means which our experience shows us the provincial despots know but too well how to use.\n\nThe 4th Article of the proposed Convention provides that native produce from the interior, on which the Inland dues and charges have been levied in excess of the Transit Tariff, when sent to a foreign Port, shall be entitled to a refund of such excess, if exported within Twelve months. By the 5th Article, Hongkong appears to be excluded from this stipulation, and we are unable to see why this colony should labour under so obvious a disadvantage, nor why goods shipped to Hongkong, a British Port, should not have the same refund as native produce sent direct to London, or any other foreign Port. The issue of the ordinary Duty Proofs for native produce shipped from a Treaty Port to Hongkong for re-shipment to another Treaty Port, would be an advantage to the colony, and the renewal of a valuable concession formerly enjoyed.\n\nWe hail with pleasure the stipulations contained in Articles 12 and 13 relating to bonded Warehouses, the working of coal mines, the opening of Wuhu as a Port, the exemption from duty of materials used in docks, foreign coal and grain, and the introduction of a steam-tug on the Poyang Lake. All these are steps in the right direction. We cannot but think, however, that if the Chinese Government has consented to provide a Tug for the purpose of towing British-owned vessels of the Chinese type, the British Minister would not have found it insuperably difficult to induce it to permit small steamers to ply, under proper restrictions, upon the Poyang Lake, and other inland waters.\n\nThe proposed alteration in the 28th Article of the Treaty, by which a commutation of all Transit Dues is to be effected by the payment of increased Import and Export Duties, would be willingly accepted as an experiment, were we assured that by it the local Mandarins will be prevented from levying, as heretofore, any illegal charges.\n\nWe do not, however, consider that the process contemplated by the supplementary Rules attached, will suffice to ensure that the contemplated arrangement will be faithfully carried out by the Chinese officials; and without ample guarantee against the imposition of illegal charges by the Provincial Authorities, it appears to us that the only result to Foreign merchants will be an increased burden of two and a half per cent. on the value of their goods, without any countervailing advantage.\n\nIt should not be forgotten that the exemption which Sir Rutherford Alcock is prepared to purchase at so high a cost, is already ours by the Treaty of Tientsin, and that a most dangerous precedent will be established by giving the Chinese an additional duty for breaking faith with us. The conditions affixed to the privilege are a direct premium for further violations of the stipulations of the Treaty, and as an instance of the trust that may be reposed in the honourable intentions of the Chinese Government at the very time these stipulations of the convention have been agreed upon, it is worthy of remark that at Canton, an additional tax has, within the last few days, been imposed on foreign goods. It is contrary to all experience to expect the faithful observance of the new terms of transit, and it is suicidal on the part of a country like Great Britain, so deeply interested in the development of our import trade in manufactures, to recede from a favourable position when once secured, or inertly to suffer valuable concessions once obtained, to be afterwards denied us systematically, and occasionally with insolence. The convention, as regards the transit dues, is therefore, in a most essential point, unsatisfactory.\n\nPage 255", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281239, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 278, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "Property sunk \n\n( 6 ) \n\n22. Before leaving this branch of the subject, we must remind your Lordship that British Merchants have, on the faith that Her Majesty's Government would insist upon the Treaty being honestly carried out by the Chinese Government, sunk an immense amount of capital at the open Ports, in reclaiming the Concession lands, and in building houses and godowns; and have besides expended vast sums of money in making the necessary preparations for the increased trade, which it was naturally anticipated would result from the Treaty; and which would undoubtedly have ensued, but for the misconduct of the Chinese, and the leniency with which their bad faith has been regarded by the British Government,\n\n23. It is also worthy of remark that, under the Order of the Queen in Council, promulgated in March, 1865, for the government of Her Majesty's subjects in China and Japan, severe penalties are imposed on British subjects for violating certain stipulations in the Treaty; moreover, a simple process has been instituted for bringing such offenders to justice; and the Consular Courts have been given great powers in dealing with them. Every safeguard, in fact, is enjoyed by the Chinese, while we are virtually without a remedy for the breaches of the Treaty from which we suffer.\n\n24. The British residents here and at the Treaty Ports had shown singular unanimity in bringing under Sir RUTHERFORD ALCOCK'S notice the grievances of which they complained; and it was therefore with no ordinary anxiety that they awaited the promulgation of the alterations proposed to be effected in the Provisions of the Treaty of Tientsin. These have recently been made public; and great disappointment has been felt by all the foreign Communities in China, at the nature and the amount of change contemplated by the British Government. We had expected that some stringent means would have been devised to put a stop to further evasions or violations by the Chinese of any portion of the Treaty; we had ventured to hope that some weight would have been attached to our just and continued complaints; and had thought that, in a new Convention, more regard would have been shown to our interests and our representations, than to the remonstrances and protestations of the Chinese Government and their urgent demands. All residents in China consider that the proposed Provisions fall as far short of the just requirements of Foreign Trade in the East, as they deal too favorably with the antiquated theories and prejudices of the Chinese. In every respect, we find China treated as a favored nation that deserved well for her former fidelity to obligations, and the honesty of purpose displayed by her in endeavouring to perform her Treaty stipulations; and as far as British merchants are concerned, little, if any, increased benefits are obtained, while additional Duties are imposed without reason, and the Transit difficulty increased by the conspicuous absence of any guarantee for the observance of better faith in the future than has characterized the past. As to Hongkong, this Colony has reason to complain that it, in especial, must be injuriously affected by some of the proposed alterations, to which we now beg respectfully to draw your Lordship's attention.\n\n25. By Article 2, it is proposed to allow the Chinese Government permission to appoint Consuls to all Ports in British dominions.\n\n26. Viewed in the abstract, it appears but fair that China should enjoy such a right; and were she to appoint Consuls in London, Liverpool, Calcutta, Melbourne, or other distant British Ports, no disadvantage would arise; and it is possible that some mutual benefits would accrue to both countries. The case, however, is very different when we have to deal with Hongkong; and strange though it may seem, it is generally understood that this Clause was suggested by the British Minister and inserted mainly with Hongkong in view. This Colony was originally established as an experiment; and the views of its founders have been fully realised by its progress and growth. It is an unproductive Island, but its geographical situation, and its magnificent harbour, marked it out as admirably adapted to become the emporium of foreign Commerce in this portion of the world; and the headquarters, from which the large financial and commercial transactions of British and Foreign merchants in China could best be carried on.\n\n(7)\n\nIts success, however, and the immunity which as a free Port it enjoys from Customs and other dues, have long been regarded with jealous displeasure by the Chinese Government, which has done all in its power to interfere with its trade, especially that carried on by native Merchants settled in Hongkong. Indeed, it has required the vigorous action of our able and energetic Governor to counteract the undisguised attempts which the Canton Officials have made to cripple the trade of this Colony.\n\n27. China can in no sense be considered as a country entitled to all the same rights and privileges as civilized Nations, which are bound by international law; in which the life, the liberty, and the property of all, foreigners as well as natives, are secure and respected; and where a recognized procedure and a regular legal system can be relied on by those who feel themselves aggrieved. All foreign Nations that have entered into diplomatic relations with China, have carefully reserved their exterritorial rights; thereby shewing that in one most important particular, they consider it as outside the pale of modern civilization. Nor can the fact that British Consuls reside in the Treaty Ports in China, be adduced in favor of the proposed clause, because it is manifest that in appointing them, the British Government had two objects in view. First, to protect the lives and property of Englishmen residing within the dominions of the Emperor of China; and in the next place, to secure the Chinese from the injuries they might sustain, if all without distinction who called themselves British subjects, were permitted to resort to China, without any check upon their conduct.\n\n28. In Hongkong, the Chinese residents require no Consular protection; because, though amenable to British law, they can appeal to our Tribunals; with this additional safeguard that they have an important official in the Registrar General, to whom as \"Protector of the Chinese,\" they can always have recourse for advice and assistance.\n\n29. We have no hesitation in saying that if a native be appointed as Consul for China in Hongkong, he will in reality be a spy on the Chinese merchants residing in this Colony—and we have several very wealthy and intelligent men of that class—and his main duty will be to report to the Mandarins of the adjoining Provinces, the amount that can be extorted from them by the nefarious means which our experience shows us the provincial despots know but too well how to use.\n\n30. The 4th Article of the proposed Convention provides that native produce sent to Hongkong from the interior, on which the Inland dues and charges have been levied in excess of the Transit Tariff when sent to a foreign Port, shall be entitled to a refund of such excess, if exported within Twelve months. By the 5th Article, Hongkong appears to be excluded from this stipulation, and we are unable to see why this Colony should labour under so obvious a disadvantage, nor why goods shipped to Hongkong, a British Port, should not have the same refund as native produce sent direct to London, or any other foreign Port. The issue of the ordinary Duty Proofs for native produce shipped from a Treaty Port to Hongkong for re-shipment to another Treaty Port, would be an advantage to the Colony, and the renewal of a valuable concession formerly enjoyed.\n\n31. We hail with pleasure the stipulations contained in Articles 12 and 13 relating to bonded Warehouses, the working of Coal-mines, the opening of Wu-hu as a Port, the exemption from duty of materials used in docks, foreign coal and guano, and the introduction of a steam-tug on the Poyang Lake. All these are steps in the right direction. We cannot but think, however, that if the Chinese Government has consented to provide a Tug for the purpose of towing British-owned vessels of the Chinese type, the British Minister would not have found it insuperably difficult to induce it to permit small steamers to ply under proper restrictions upon the Poyang Lake, and other Inland waters.\n\n32. The proposed alteration in the 8th Article of the Treaty, by which a commutation of all Transit Dues is to be effected by the payment of increased Import and Export Duties, would be willingly accepted as an experiment, were we assured that by it, the local Mandarins will be prevented from levying, as heretofore, any illegal charges. We do not, however, consider that the process contemplated by", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281744, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "page_number": 306, "title": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "content_text": "# Articles of Agreement\n\nArticles of Agreement, made this ... day of ... month... in the year of the Christian Era 1870, being the ... day of the 9th year of the reign of Tungchi, according to the Chinese Imperial Calendar, Between ... native of China, of the one part, and Alexander Lumsden, Esq., for and on behalf of the Oriental Coal Company, (Limited,) of the other part, as follows:--The said ... in consideration of the covenants, agreements, and stipulations hereinafter entered into by the said Alexander Lumsden, doth hereby promise and agree to and with the said Alexander Lumsden, his executors, administrators, and assigns, in manner and form following, that is to say ----\n\nI-That he, the said ... shall be provided with a free passage and food from Hongkong to Labuan as well as a free passage back to this port at the expiration of his agreement (if required) which is to date from the day he commences work at Labuan.\n\nII-That the said ... agrees to serve the Oriental Coal Company (Limited) for the term of ... years as a Coal hewer, or general labourer, faithfully and diligently according to the best of his ability.\n\nIII.That the said ... is to be paid at the rate of ... dollars per month for the first month (less thirty cents for each day he is absent from work,) and afterwards if approved by His Excellency the Governor of Labuan at the rate of ten cents per box of five piculs of clean Coal, with Miner's stores provided by the Company or thirteen cents per box of Coal exclusive of Miner's stores; that if the said ... work twenty lawful days in succession, he is to be paid a premium of fifty cents; and if, in the same time he cuts one hundred boxes of Coal of five piculs each, he is to receive a premium of one dollar.\n\nIV.-That the said ... is to be provided with house and garden rent free, medical attendance and medicine also free, either in or out of hospital.\n\nV.That the said ... is to be paid once a month in full, and have cash advanced if required, every evening in the proportion of not more than three fourths of his earnings these advances to be deducted from his Monthly pay.\n\nVI.-That a day's work is to consist of nine and a half hours-namely from 6 A.M. to 11 A.M. and from 1 P.M. to 5:30 P.M.\n\nVII. That the said ... is to work every lawful day unless prevented by sickness and shall be obedient to all the Company's officers and be guided generally by the rules approved of by the Governor for the time being at Labuan and now in force at the Colliery.\n\nVIII. That the said ... agrees to embark in the Brit... Mr. Milen now in this port for Labuan under the terms of the foregoing agreement.\n\n(Signed) ... \n(Signed) \nfor the Oriental Coal Co., (Limited.)\n\n## Chinese Version\n\n同 合 約 據 人 名 ... 村 人 氏 現 因 利 布 公 司 東 方 煤 炭 公 司 林 士 田 招 人 前 往 該 處 傭 工 今 年 方 ... 歲 係 廣 東 ... 情 愿 照 此 約 內 章 程 如 林 士 田 離 任 不 論 何 人 接 替 仍 照 此 約 辦 理 故 將 本 日 彼 此 當 面 議 定 各 規 條 開 列 于 後\n\n一 該 工 人 自 香 港 落 船 往 利 布 晏 地 方 之 日 起 船 上 水 脚 并 所 需 之 食 用 均 係 本 公 司 自 出 及 到 作 工 之 日 始 計 做 滿 ... 年 爲 期\n\n二 該 工 人 承 允 在 東 方 煤 炭 公 司 做 煤 炭 工 夫 別 樣 工 作 必 須 時 時 依 例 做 足 工 夫 及 恭 敬 順 從\n\n三 該 工 人 之 工 銀 第 一 個 月 每 月 ... 銀 元 ( 每 日 不 在 工 作 扣 三 十 個 先 士 ) 之 後 若 利 布 晏 地 方 之 督 憲 大 人 允 准 按 每 箱 五 百 斤 之 凈 煤 炭 每 箱 加 賞 銀 十 個 先 士 若 有 煤 炭 穴 當 需 之 物 給 以 應 用 若 不 給 以 在 煤 炭 穴 當 需 之 物 每 箱 合 共 加 賞 十 三 個 先 士 若 該 工 人 連 做 二 十 日 工 夫 不 歇 即 加 賞 工 銀 五 十 個 先 士 若 連 做 二 十 日 之 內 能 取 一 百 箱 之 煤 炭 每 箱 有 五 百 斤 之 重 者 又 加 賞 銀 一 大 員\n\n四 本 公 司 須 備 辦 該 工 人 房 屋 並 茶 園 與 該 工 人 居 住 無 用 該 工 人 納 租 若 有 病 痛 不 論 該 工 人 在 醫 館 或 不 在 醫 館 俱 有 醫 生 藥 材 調 理\n\n五 該 工 人 每 月 到 期 定 必 交 給 工 銀 清 訖 若 該 工 人 意 欲 出 些 上 期 根 銀 必 待 每 晌 乃 肯 先 出 四 分 之 三 工 銀 與 他 所 有 先 出 之\n\n六 該 工 人 每 日 要 做 九 點 半 鐘 之 工 夫 自 早 晨 六 點 起 做 至 十 一 點 止 又 自 下 午 一 點 起 做 至 五 點 半 止\n\n七 該 工 人 每 日 若 非 遇 病 必 要 依 例 做 足 工 夫 另 要 聽 本 公 司 所 立 之 督 工 人 盼 附 前 要 遵 從 利 布 晏 地 方 在 任 之 督 憲 所 允 許 之 規 條 而 行\n\n八 該 工 人 照 此 約 內 章 程 情 愿 在 本 香 港 落 船 去 利 布 晏 地 方 恐 口 無 憑 依 樣 立 合 同 二 紙 各 執 一 紙 存 據\n\n同 治 九 年 ... 月 ... 日 \n東 方 煤 炭 公 司 代 理 人 林 士 田 \n立 合 同 約 據 人 ... 的 筆\n\n但 工 適 他 國 船 政 司 知 見 本 司 當 面 查 得 該 工 人 料 必 明 白 該 合 同 之 意 又 曾 經 釋 出 土 話 解 明 與 該 工 人 知 悉 并 他 自 言 情 愿 前 往 並 已 收 上 期 銀\n\n(Signed) \nI certify that on this ... day of ... 1870 at Hongkong in my presence, the above contract was fully, distinctly, and intelligibly (as I believe) explained to the above named Labourer in a Dialect which he understood; that he expressed himself willing to be bound by its terms; and that he received an advance of wages to the amount of ... dollars.\n\nAsthana \nProtector of Emigration Officer.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281959, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "3. \n\nin the same telegraph, will doubtless have since reached Your Lordship. The first report of those painful and long events was brought to the Colony on the 23rd of May by the mate of the \"Caraotaurs\" who had been despatched in a small boat in search of aid, and was enough to secure a passage for himself. \n\nImmediately on receipt of the intelligence, two men-of-war were despatched by Vice Admiral Sir Henry Kellett to the Paracel and Mainan. The surviving crew of the remaining passengers were transported to Mainan, and from thence to Macao. \n\nThe sums asked for these services were $1000 and $800 respectively, and as the charge appeared to be sufficient, I considered it expedient to consult with Admiral Kellett who advised payment of the latter claim under deduction of $100, but suggested further consideration of the former when the rightful claimants should reach Hong Kong. \n\nOn the arrival of one of these I thought it advisable to leave the final settlement of the matter to the judgment of the Registrar General and Protector of Chinese.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282613, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "content_text": "# Testimonials for T. F. Rice, Inspector of Police\n\n## From the Honorable JULES LOUIS COLIN, Barrister-at-Law\n\n**Procureur General's Chambers, April 2nd, 1869**\n\nDear Sir,-- I have great pleasure in bearing testimony to the skill and energy with which you have conducted before the District Magistrate of Grand Port the prosecutions which were entrusted to your care as Deputy of the Procureur General.\n\nThe intelligent manner in which you, as Inspector of Police, have investigated into cases of Felony during preliminary inquiries has, for a long time, been noticed in the Supreme Court and in this Office.\n\nBelieve me, dear Sir, yours very faithfully,\n\n**J. L. COLIN, Acting Procureur General**\n\nTo T. F. Rice, Esq., Inspector of Police, Mahebourg.\n\n## From Major O'BRIEN, Inspector General of Police, Mauritius\n\n**Port Louis, 11th March 1869**\n\nMy dear Mr. Rice,- It affords me great pleasure to bear testimony to the zeal and energy you have shown while under my orders as an Inspector in charge of the Police of one of the most important districts of this Colony.\n\nWere I to single out any special services to which you may lay claim, I would certainly allude to the promptness and activity you evinced in succouring the Poor and Sick during the fearful epidemic now, I trust, on the wane, and though I personally wish you every success in obtaining advancement, which you well merit, out of Mauritius, yet I cannot but feel officially that I am, in so doing, depriving myself of the services of one of my best Officers.\n\nBelieve me to remain yours faithfully,\n\n**J. T. N. O'BRIEN, Major Unattached and Inspector General of Police**\n\nTo T. F. RICE, Esq., Inspector of Police, Mahebourg.\n\n## From Lieut.-Col. MACDONALD, Acting Inspector General of Police, Mauritius, 1866 and 1867\n\n**Mont à l'Abbé House, Jersey, May 27th, 1869**\n\nHaving been requested by Mr. RICE to bear testimony to his character and services during the period that I held the appointment of Acting Inspector General of Police in the Mauritius, I have much pleasure in stating that he, being in charge of Grand Port District, fulfilled all the duties of his Office, viz. Inspector of Police, entirely to my satisfaction, and his character was unimpeachable.\n\nAnd in justice, I have further to add that this Officer displayed great tact and judgment on many occasions, but especially in one instance, when disturbances of some magnitude occurred on one or two Sugar Estates between the Emigrants and their Employers, he evinced superior intelligence.\n\nI consider him highly worthy of promotion.\n\n**P. MACDONALD, Lieut. Col., H. P. late Commanding 2nd Batt. 13th Regiment, and Acting Inspector General of Mauritius Police from October 1866 to October 1867**\n\n## From the Hon. HENRY NICHOLAS DUVERGER BEYTS\n\n**Mauritius, April 10th, 1869**\n\nI have frequently had occasion to refer to Mr. Rice for information or assistance in matters concerning Emigrants, and I deem it only fair to him to acknowledge that on every such occasion I was struck with the tact and intelligence displayed by him in dealing with the questions referred to him.\n\nHe fully understood the spirit of the New Labor Law and contributed very much to the successful operation of that Law in his district.\n\nHis departure from Grand Port will, I think, be a great loss to the district.\n\n**H. N. D. BEYTS, Member of the Legislative Council, Protector of Immigrants, and President of the Poor Law Commission**\n\n## From CHARLES VICTOR ESNOUF, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and Master of the Supreme Court\n\n**In the Supreme Court, Mauritius, March 16th 1869**\n\nI have much pleasure in recording my testimony in favour of the high character and reputation enjoyed by Mr. Rice as a Police Officer.\n\nDuring my District Magistracy of Port Louis, I had ample opportunity afforded me of appreciating alike his high character and the effective services he rendered, and I consider him eminently qualified for the Chief Command of a Police Force.\n\n**V. ESNOUF, Master of the Supreme Court**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 285506, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "content_text": "# TO THE HON. J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.\n\n## HONGKONG.\n\nLONDON Mission House, HONGKONG, 31st October, 1871.\n\nSIR,\n\nIt is with reference to the memorandum by the Hon. Cecil C. Smith upon, or rather against, the Chinese petition for the suppression of licensed gaming houses, which has been reprinted from the Blue Book (`Papers relating to Gambling Houses in Hongkong`; page 72) in one of the newspapers of the Colony, that gentleman says, \"This petition can only be considered as another effort on the part of the missionaries.\" In the next sentence Mr. Smith expressly refers to the \"London Missionary Society.\" Being thus almost pointed out by name, and knowing this statement to be altogether unwarrantable, and one calculated to do the Chinese Petitioners a grievous wrong, we feel it our duty to lay the following remarks before you for transmission to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and to request that His Excellency will be pleased to forward this letter to the Earl of Kimberley.\n\n(1.) We much regret that Mr. Smith did not make a detailed report of the character and value of the nine hundred and forty-seven seals and signatures appended to the petition in question; and that he did not state the number of the signatures which he deemed objectionable. We are assured, and believe, that a candid estimation of the document, taking into consideration the leading position, good repute, and property qualifications of the signers, would show that the petition is nothing less than an overwhelming declaration of Chinese public opinion on the subject of the licensed gaming houses.\n\n(2.) Mr. Smith attempts to neutralise the effect of the petition by representing it as the result of missionary influence and activity. We wish that we had such an influence with the Chinese as he would attribute to us; but we have no such influence, and we used no such activity. Our connexion with the petition was limited to informing a few Chinese friends that the English and other residents were preparing a petition against the gaming houses, and suggesting that a simultaneous petition from the Chinese would undoubtedly carry great weight with it. Having done so much, we kept entirely in the background; not because we were unwilling to help on the progress of the petition, but because we knew that interference on our part would rather operate to its disadvantage. Nor can we refrain from expressing our surprise that one in Mr. Smith's position, acquainted with the Chinese language, and officially styled the Protector of the Chinese, could be so ignorant of that people, and of their attitude towards Christianity, as to be able to believe that any exertion on the part of the missionaries could induce nine hundred of the principal inhabitants of the Colony, to follow them in a course which did not, on consideration of its intrinsic merits, commend itself to their reason and conscience.\n\n(3.) The statement that \"the Chinese community had been canvassed by a native preacher of the London Missionary Society,\" is equally calculated to mislead. The Revd. Ho Tsun Sheen (who is since deceased) took no active part in the canvassing for signatures. That was done by Chinese men of business, who were all, with the exception of one Christian shop-keeper, entirely unknown to the missionaries.\n\n(4.) We are sorry that the Hon. Mr. Smith speaks slightingly of the protest of the missionaries against the gaming houses in 1867 (we do not know why 1869 is mentioned in the memorandum). We believe they are not ashamed of what they then did to prevent the establishment of so great a social evil. Seeing, however, that their opposition in that year was ineffectual, we are the more confident that neither the Government nor the public will look upon the statement that the Chinese petition was **only** another effort of the missionaries, as a satisfactory method of disposing of it. We have shown how without foundation the statement is; and we beg further to say that the very slight amount of furtherance which the petition received from the missionaries was certainly more than counter-balanced by the influence of the Registrar General in opposition to it. How it came about we do not pretend to say, but we know that an impression existed that any Chinese who should sign the petition would do so at the risk of his personal displeasure.\n\n(5.) We find it difficult ourselves to believe that Mr. Smith's memorandum was written in good faith; and in the event of Her Majesty's government appointing a commission in accordance with the prayer of the Memorial sent home by last mail from the whole of the community, we venture to submit that it would be a fit subject of investigation whether it was not recklessly put together to lessen the weight of a petition which he knew deserved a far different notice.\n\nIn accordance with the custom in such cases we enclose three printed copies of this letter: and remain,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nJAMES LEGGE, D.D., L.L.D.\nE.J. EITEL, M.A., PH.D.\nF.S. TURNER, B.A.\n\nPage 120\nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287159, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 253, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "as \n\nProtector of Aborigines and Registrar General, and the other, as head of the Police Force, have had ample opportunities of comprehending correctly the position of affairs and \n\nfor and anticipating the tactics \n\nof the opponents of the Law. I would associate with them two Chinese Assistants. They have recommended \n\nChum Sing \n\nOffice \n\nand So Chow for that \n\nand those men should be \n\nsworn in \n\nas \n\nConstables provisionally \n\nto clothe them with the necessary authority, or if it thought preferable I \n\ncan \n\nunder Section 20 \n\nof \n\nOrdinance \n\nNo 9 of 1867, give each of them special authority. \n\n5. I know well that I am \n\n232 \n\ndevolving in Messrs. Imich and Deane \n\na most \n\nonerous \n\nresponsibility and... a \n\nmost disagreeable duty, but they \n\nwill remember that it is also \n\nvery important duty. I do not \n\nmoreover \n\nask or \n\nexpect \n\nthem to \n\nperform it wholly without remuneration, and \n\nI am prepared to allow $5 per month respectively pending further instructions from Her Majesty's Secretary of State, and also to allow their Chinese Assistants \n\n$40 per month each, with occasional extra rewards, when they may \n\nappear to deserve them by extra diligence \n\nand \n\nsuccess in discharge \n\nof their duties \n\nHere is the corrected version in HTML format as requested:\n\nProtector of Aborigines and Registrar General, and the other, as head of the Police Force, have had ample opportunities of comprehending correctly the position of affairs and for and anticipating the tactics of the opponents of the Law. I would associate with them two Chinese Assistants. They have recommended Chum Sing and So Chow for that Office and those men should be sworn in as Constables provisionally to clothe them with the necessary authority, or if it thought preferable I can under Section 20 of Ordinance No 9 of 1867, give each of them special authority.\n\n5. I know well that I am devolving in Messrs. Imich and Deane a most onerous responsibility and a most disagreeable duty, but they will remember that it is also very important duty. I do not moreover ask or expect them to perform it wholly without remuneration, and I am prepared to allow $5 per month respectively pending further instructions from Her Majesty's Secretary of State, and also to allow their Chinese Assistants $40 per month each, with occasional extra rewards, when they may appear to deserve them by extra diligence and success in discharge of their duties.\n\nChanges made include:\n1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"Porce\" to \"Force\", \"Afsistants\" to \"Assistants\", \"auctority\" to \"authority\", \"iro\" to \"for\", \"Can'\" to \"can\", \"Messt.\" to \"Messrs.\", \"merono\" to \"onerous\", \"dusty\" to \"duty\", \"ast\" to \"ask\", \"exped\" to \"expect\", \"remunera - tion\" to \"remuneration\", \"esetra\" to \"extra\", \"deverve\" to \"deserve\", \"thein\" to \"them\", \"castra -\" to removed).\n2. Fixed spacing issues and hyphenation artifacts.\n3. Rejoined broken sentences.\n4. Restored paragraph breaks.\n5. Indicated no missing words as the text was mostly coherent after corrections.\n6. Formatted in HTML as requested.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287247, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "if the Chinese Community. Assuming, \n\ntherefore, $1,157,000 \n\n£1,030 a year at \n\nas \n\nthe rate of 5/2 \n\nper cent \n\nper \n\nthe limit of the \n\nare entitled to a total advance in cash by \n\nfound there \n\nwas \n\nGovernment, \n\na balance still \n\nremaining due to the undertaking of $96,760. I therefore publicly handed Cheque for that amount to the Registrar General, in his character \n\nof Protector of the Chinese. Of that \n\nmoney $6,760 has been paid to the Committee to defray expense of furniture \n\nas \n\nCash for other working expenses. \n\nThe balance ($90,000) is invested at present in the Hong Kong and Shanghai \n\nBank \n\nin the \n\nname of \n\nthe Colonial Secretary \n\nfor the time being, and bears interest \n\n= $1,875 + \n\nthree of the Committee \n\ncan draw cheques for the amount of interest \n\nas it accrues, \n\nbut the \n\nprincipal cannot \n\nbe touched. \n\n7. Although there are data from which to form \n\nan \n\nestimate \n\nof the annual Cost of the building, it seems likely that the above interest - say $5,000 backed by a subscription \n\nof $7,000, as \n\npromised by the Chinese, should suffice for the Cost of vaccination, medicines, medical Comforts, attendants, lancets, &c., &c.. This, however, is a point which experience alone can solve satisfactorily, and I fear there is a risk of \n\nan undue proportion of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287257, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 352, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "$52 several Olis departure necefsitated change, had anered and ao Your Lordship annexed four months' vacation leave: full pay to Mr Austin's 12 months' leave av I 1/2 pray, 2 cassider myself -fortunate in having been enabled to provide for effectually The Public Service. Ao I have done I have appointed Mr Cecil Smith to be Acting Colonial Secretary and Auditor General during the absence of Mr Austin, and pending Your Lordship's pleasure. I think it right to add that I had peculiar satisfaction in making this appointe ment, because Mr Smith's pavers of organization and previous training, his extensive acquaintance with the Chinese and their language, the confidence which they repose in him, and his untiring personal energy, will enable him to help to as he gind more efficient my successor arriving here, must, without previous Chinese experience, than could probably have been afforded by any other man The Colony from in I have transferred Mr Tanechy The Harbour Master's Department to act as Registrar General and Protector of Chinese; vice Imich, provisionally and pending Your Lordship's instructions. The Office is and of the most important in the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287316, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 411, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "used to prevent their horses from being used for illegal purposes, while their better feelings and impulses having been called into play by the line of action adopted by Your Excellency of recognizing them as a part of the Community, they are valuable in matters and are consulted on matters affecting their interests, they are otherwise prepared, as I have learnt from personal communication with them, to co-operate actively in all measures that may be introduced for the suppression of crime.\n\n10. This was not the case in former years. In 1864 when I took charge of the Registrar General's Office, I found the practice such that I saw few Chinese except those who had some business with the Government. But now there is a large class consisting of the most important members of the Chinese Community, who are in continual - almost daily - communication with the Registrar General. They advise him as to what is being done in the native portion of the City. They give him reports on matters affecting trade which have reached them from elsewhere. In short, they enable him to hold that position originally intended when by Ordinance he was styled \"Protector of Chinese,\" and to keep the Executive informed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 289526, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-160 - Public Offices - 1872", "page_number": 299, "title": "CO129-160 - Public Offices - 1872", "content_text": "taken for the protection of the emigrants immediately upon their arrival or during their residence therein, or for their safe return to India, or to provide a return passage to India for any such emigrants at or about the time at which they are entitled to such return passage. \n\n In case, however, the power thus reserved to the Governor-General of British India should at any time be exercised, the Netherlands Government shall have the right immediately to terminate the whole Convention, if they should think proper to do so. \n\n But in the event of the determination of the present Convention, from whatever cause, the stipulations relative to Indian immigrants introduced into the Netherlands Colony shall be maintained in force in favour of the said immigrants, until they shall either have been sent back to their own country, or have renounced their right to a return-passage to India, or shall have removed to some other Colony or Country. \n\n ARTICLE XXV. \n\n The Governor-General of India in Council shall likewise have the power to relax, in cases of emergency, the provisions of Article XIII of the present Convention with regard to the dates at which emigrants may leave India in sailing-vessels, and also the provisions of Article XVI, with regard to the proportion of women to men. \n\n ARTICLE XXVI. \n\n It is understood that wherever in this Convention mention is made of the Netherlands Government, the Colonial Government of Surinam is equally comprised under that denomination. \n\n ARTICLE XXVII. \n\n The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at the Hague as soon as possible after it shall have received, as far as shall be required, the approval of the States-General. \n\n In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms. \n\n Done at the Hague, the eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy. \n\n (L.S.). E. A. J. HARRIS. (L.S.) ROEST VAN LIMBURG, (L.S.) DE WAAL. \n\n niet zijn genomen, ter bescherming der emigranten bij hunne aankomst of gedurende hun verblijf aldaar, of voor hunne veilige terugkomst in Indie, of om hun de terugreis naar Indie te verschaffen ten tijde of omstreeks ten tijd wanneer zij tot zulk eene terugreis gerechtigd zijn. \n\n In geval echter bedoeld recht aan den Gouverneur-Generaal van Britsch Indie voorbehouden, ooit uitgeoefend wordt, zal de Nederlandsche Regering de bevoegdheid hebben terstond, indien zij dit noodig keurt, de geheele overeenkomst voor geëindigd te verklaren. \n\n Maar bij het eindigen dezer overeenkomst, om welke reden dan ook, zullen de bepalingen betreffende de Indische immigranten, die in de Nederlandsche kolonie zijn ingevoerd, van kracht blijven ten voordeele van gezegde immigranten, tot dat zij of naar hun eigen land zijn teruggezonden, of van hun recht op vrije terugreis naar Indie afstand hebben gedaan, of zich naar eene andere kolonie of een ander land hebben begeven. \n\n ARTIKEL XXV. \n\n De Gouverneur-Generaal van Indie, in Rade, zal eveneens de bevoegdheid hebben, in geval van noodzakelijkheid, de bepalingen van Artikel XIII van de tegenwoordige overeenkomst, wat betreft de datums, waarop emigranten Indie op zeilschepen mogen verlaten, zoomede de bepalingen van Artikel XVI, wat betreft de getals-verhouding tusschen mannen en vrouwen, in milderen zin toe te passen. \n\n ARTIKEL XXVI. \n\n Men is overeengekomen dat overal, waar in deze overeenkomst gesproken wordt van de Nederlandsche Regering, daarmede ook bedoeld wordt het Nederlandsch koloniaal Bestuur van Suriname. \n\n ARTIKEL XXVII. \n\n De tegenwoordige overeenkomst zal worden bekrachtigd en de bekrachtigingen zullen worden uitgewisseld te 'sGravenhage, zoodra mogelijk, nadat de overeenkomst, voor zoo veel noodig, de goedkeuring der Staten-Generaal zal erlangd hebben. \n\n Ten blijke waarvan de wederzijdsche Gevolmachtigden haar hebben onderteekend en met hun wapen bezegeld. \n\n Gedaan te 'sGravenhage den achtsten dag van September in het jaar duizend acht honderd zeventig. \n\n (L.S.) E. A. J. HARRIS. (L.S.) ROEST VAN LIMBURG. (L.S.) DE WAAL. \n\n Note of the British Plenipotentiary. \n\n IN proceeding to the signature of the Convention between Her Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands relative to Coolie emigration, the Undersigned, Plenipotentiary of Her Britannic Majesty, is instructed by his Government to state to M. Roest van Limburg and M. de Waal, Plenipotentiaries of His Netherlands Majesty, as follows:- \n\n 1. Her Majesty's Government have assented to the wish of the Government of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands that the Dutch Colonial Regulations of Surinam of 1861 should be recognized by Article XXII of the Convention as the basis for all agreements for labour in Surinam, in the same manner as the Martinique Regulations were, by the Convention of 1861 between Great Britain and France, made the model for the French colonies. \n\n The Dutch Regulations on the subject of labour are rules relative to task work; and it is at present impossible to say whether those rules are, in effect, harsh or liberal to the emigrant, or whether a native of India would, at the rates therein prescribed, be able to perform so much work as would afford to him adequate means for subsistence, and enable him, with proper care, to lay by a small sum every month. Under these circumstances Her Majesty's Government, in acceding to the desire of the Government of the Netherlands, have instructed the Undersigned distinctly to declare, that it will depend upon the effect which those Regulations shall be found to have in practice, and upon the willingness hereafter of the Dutch authorities at Surinam to attend to any reasonable suggestions of the Protector of Emigrants for their modification, whether the Convention shall be renewed on the expiration of the term prescribed for its duration. \n\n 2. The Government of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands have proposed, for reasons founded on experience, that the provision in Section 3 of Article VIII, to the effect that the contracts of service shall make stipulations as to the rations of the emigrant, should be omitted or modified. Her Majesty's Government assent to that proposal so far as to make the provision applicable only to cases in which rations are given; but they do so only on the presumption that the kind of food required by natives of India can be procured at Surinam, and that, of course, when rations are not given, an equivalent for them will be given in wages. \n\n 3. The Draft of Convention proposed by Her Majesty's Government contained in Article XX a stipulation that the immigrant should receive his stipulated pay during the time he may be detained in the colonial depôts previous to distribution. In acceding to the desire of the Netherlands Government that the stipulation in question should be omitted, Her Majesty's Government have directed the Undersigned to say, that it must be distinctly understood that the emigrants are entitled to maintenance in the depôt of the colony from the time of their arrival to the time of their distribution. \n\n The Undersigned, &c. (Signed) \n\n The Hague, September 8, 1870. \n\n E. A. J. HARRIS. \n\n 297", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-160 - Public Offices - 1872.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290132, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "page_number": 296, "title": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "content_text": "291\n\nLand\n\nFrom the Honorable JULES LOUIS COLIN, Barrister-at-Law, Member of the Legislative and Executive Councils, and Procureur and Advocate General.\n\nProcureur General's Chambers, April 2nd, 1869,\n\nDear Sir,---I have great pleasure in bearing testimony to the skill and energy with which you have conducted before the District Magistrate of Grand Port the prosecutions which were entrusted to your care as Deputy of the Procureur General.\n\nThe intelligent manner in which you, as Inspector of Police, have investigated into cases of Felony during preliminary inquiries has, for a long time, been noticed in the Supreme Court and in this Office.\n\nBelieve me, dear Sir, yours very faithfully,\n\nTo T. F. RICE, Esq.,\n\nInspector of Police, Mahebourg.\n\nJ. L. COLIN, Acting Procureur General,\n\nFrom Major O'BRIEN, Inspector General of Police, Mauritius.\n\nPort Louis, 11th March 1869.\n\nMy dear Mr. RICE,-It affords me great pleasure to hear testimony to the zeal and energy you have shown while under my orders as an Inspector in charge of the Police of one of the most important districts of this Colony.\n\nWere I to single out any special services to which you may lay claim, I would certainly allude to the promptness and activity you evinced in succouring the Poor and Sick during the fearful epidemic now I trust on the wane, and though I personally wish you every success in obtaining advancement, which you well merit, out of Mauritius, yet I cannot but feel officially that I am, in so doing, depriving myself of the services of one of my best Officers.\n\nBelieve me to remain yours faithfully,\n\nJ. T. N. O'BRIEN,\n\nMajor Unattached and Inspector General of Police.\n\nTo T. F. RICE, Esq.,\n\nInspector of Police, Mahebourg.\n\nFrom Lieut.-Col. MACDONALD, Acting Inspector General of Police, Mauritius, 1866 and 1867.\n\nMont à l'Abbé House, Jersey, May 27th, 1869.\n\nHaving been requested by Mr. Rice to bear testimony to his character and services during the period that I held the appointment of Acting Inspector General of Police in the Mauritius, I have much pleasure in stating that he being in charge of Grand Port District fulfilled all the duties of his Office, viz. Inspector of Police, entirely to my satisfaction, and his character was unimpeachable.\n\nAnd in justice I have further to add that this Officer displayed great tact and judgment on many occasions, but especially in one instance, when disturbances of some magnitude occurred on one or two Sugar Estates between the Emigrants and their Employers, he evinced superior intelligence.\n\nI consider him highly worthy of promotion.\n\n(Signed) P. MACDONALD,\n\nLieut.-Col., H. P. late Commanding 2nd Batt. 13th Regiment, and Acting Inspector General of Mauritius Police from October 1866 to October 1867.\n\nFrom the Hon. HENRY NICHOLAS DUVERGER BEYTS, Member of the Legislative Council, Protector of Immigrants and President of the Poor Law Commission.\n\nMauritius, April 10th, 1869.\n\nI have frequently had occasion to refer to Mr. Rice for information or assistance in matters concerning Emigrants, and I deem it only fair to him to acknowledge that on every such occasion I was struck with the tact and intelligence displayed by him in dealing with the questions referred to him.\n\nHe fully understood the spirit of the New Labor Law and contributed very much to the successful operation of that Law in his district.\n\nHis departure from Grand Port will, I think, be a great loss to the district.\n\nH. N. D. BEYTS,\n\nMember of the Legislative Council, Protector of Immigrants,\n\nand President of the Poor Law Commission,\n\nFrom CHARLES VICTOR ESNOUF, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and Master of the Supreme Court,\n\nMauritius.\n\nIn the Supreme Court, Mauritius, March 16th 1869.\n\nI have much pleasure in recording my testimony in favour of the high character and reputation enjoyed by Mr. Rice as a Police Officer.\n\nDuring my District Magistracy of Port Louis, I had ample opportunity afforded me of appreciating alike his high character and the effective services he rendered, and I consider him eminently qualified for the Chief Command of a Police Force.\n\nV. ESNOUF, Master of the Supreme Court.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301659, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "content_text": "## Hispano-Philippine Administration\n\nThere is no need for us to pass in review one by one the several branches, fiscal, judicial, or executive, of the Hispano-Philippine Administration. It is in the main identical with every other Spanish Colonial Administration, historical or existent; and, with them, is based and conducted on the same system by which Spain has first alienated and then lost almost every Colony she once possessed, and by which Cuba is even this day kept in a condition of constant and irremediable revolt. Hence the Philippines have for their part more than once (A.D. 1589, 1623, 1624, 1740, 1762, 1763, 1807, 1815, 1823, 1838, 1872) attempted to follow the track adopted by the last-mentioned Colony, but without success enough to insure the liberation obtained by the former. Why Philippine insurrection, so often set on foot, has never been as yet able to reach the goal, we shall see further on. I return to the administrative system itself. It is based on destination of castes and races, and is ordered to the exclusive profit of the ruling ones, or rather of the officials and the clergy from Spain; while in its working it is marked in every department by injustice, by corruption, by extreme and rapacious selfishness, greater than any I have ever witnessed out of Persia, and by a truly amazing incapacity, practical and theoretical, even for the most ordinary duties of rule. This incapacity is, however, its one redeeming quality; since a system of Colonial Government like the Spanish would, if vigorously and effectively carried out, soon exhaust the land and exterminate the inhabitants altogether. Lastly, it is an Administration capricious in the extreme, because dependent solely on the caprices or exigencies of the ruling favourite or faction at Madrid; wholly independent of the interests or conditions of the Philippines themselves and their inhabitants, none of whom are admitted to any administrative participation, voice, or representation whatever. Hence it is an Administration composed of (I take the number from Spanish data) not less than 3,600 Spanish officials, mostly political adventurers, needy hangers-on of those in office at home, and men of like class, almost all under-salaried, and sent out by the Minister or faction of the day at Madrid to make their fortune as best they may, rule or misrule to their fancy, and, on a change in the fortunes of their patrons, retire unchallenged by investigation or opinion to spend their gains elsewhere, to be succeeded in their turn by a cognate swarm.\n\nYet, with all its faults, the Hispano-Philippine Administration deserves the credit of being in its practical working the cause of less oppression at large, and of less cruelty in special instances, though neither oppression nor cruelty are absolutely wanting, than is, or at any rate was, it would seem, usual in Spanish Colonies. This happy circumstance is, so most think, due partly to the supineness of the Spanish resident officials, whom, fortunately for those they govern, this most relaxing climate speedily deprives of whatever energy they may have brought out with them, and partly to the great and preponderating influence of the clergy.\n\nThat influence is partly for good, partly evil. Various causes, to recapitulate which would be to write the history of the Philippines, have conferred on the Spanish regular clergy—Augustinians, Dominicans, Franciscans, Recollects, Jesuits, &c.—sent out here under the title of \"missionaries,\" a position extremely powerful from the very first in the Philippine Islands; a position which they have during three centuries not only maintained, but fortified and extended. The bulk of the Philippine Malays, indeed all those who accepted the position of Spanish subjects, some 4,000,000 or more, adopted from the first the well-known Spanish formula of Christianity. To it they have, on the whole, steadily adhered, and though now and then one clan or other has made an abortive attempt at reinstalling the old idolatry to the detriment of the new, no Philippine Malay has it appears incurred the guilt, far more heinous in the eyes of Spanish monks, of inventing or following a dogmatic heresy. Hence the Hispano-Philippine hierarchy, absolute master of the minds, and by a natural nor long-deferred sequence of a lion's share in the lands and worldly goods of the natives, from whom they at the present time draw a revenue, and over whom they exercise an influence greater in either case than that of the Government itself. Hence, too, they have from the first, down to our own time, assumed the attitude of protectors to the natives, stood between them and their lay oppressors, and to the best of their ability hindered others from sharing the fleeces which they regard as by divine right their own.\n\nClerical rule, though moderately rapacious, is generally, except where heretics are concerned, mild enough, and though averse from progress, fosters an easy-going, half-vegetative existence and increase. The clerical rule of the Philippines is in these respects like all the rest. But, I regret to say, to this very clerical predominance is also due, it would seem, a lower degree, or, in fact, a more total absence of education, manliness, morality, and self-respect throughout the born Malays and Mestizos of the Philippines than I remember to have observed in any other Pagan or Christian land.\n\n### \n\n## From these considerations...\n\nFrom these considerations it would appear that, so far as the Administration is concerned, the prospects of the Philippines, for what regards their productive, industrial, and hence commercial value, are not very brilliant. If absolutely abandoned by the Spanish officials and Spanish clergy, they would, not perhaps rapidly, yet surely, become in a few generations next to valueless to the world at large, and even to Spain herself. But such an abandonment is, under the present conditions of national, and especially European, intercourse, impossible. With Java and Singapore to their west, Hong Kong, China, and Japan to their north, and Australasia to their south, the centrally-placed Philippines cannot but participate, imperfectly though it may be, in the immense activity that surrounds them; were they better administered, they would yield in importance to no region on the world's colonial list. Of this greater good fortune there is, indeed, no apparent probability. But, as their wonderful productiveness, to which nature seems scarcely to have fixed a limit, must from the necessity of things depend in great measure, not merely on the conditions within, but on the demand without them; and as that demand, based on other fortunes than those of Spain, and over which she has no control, will in all likelihood progressively increase for years to come, we may reasonably anticipate that, under the action of this external stimulus, the Philippines will, despite of their internal paralysis, not merely maintain their present grade of importance in the commercial world, but even to some extent rise above it.\n\nOn this side, accordingly, British interests—trading, commercial, and perhaps industrial, in the Philippines—have a fairly sufficient external, though not an equally satisfactory internal, guarantee. And this brings us to the second leading consideration.\n\n### Attitude of the Hispano-Philippine Administration towards Foreigners\n\nWe have now to determine the degree of direct or indirect support and encouragement, or their reverse, that British trade and traders actually receive, or may reasonably in the future expect, from the Hispano-Philippine Administration.\n\nAnd first: The general feeling of Spaniards, and more especially of Spanish officials out here, towards European foreigners at large, is (I regret to state it) one of distrust and scarce-disguised dislike. Ignorant as they mostly are of the very first principles of political and commercial economy, the Spaniards of the Philippines regard every penny made within their territory by the foreign trader as somehow taken out of their own pockets; the contact of foreign prosperity irritates them by its contrast with their own decadence; and being, as a rule, wanting themselves in industry, practical knowledge, and skill, they look with envy not far removed from hate on those who possess these advantageous qualities. It is a general, and, I believe, a correct opinion, that were the Administration free to do as it liked, the old exclusive policy of past times would be revived vigorous as ever; no foreign flag would be allowed to approach, no foreign subject to plant a foot in these islands, unless it were, perhaps, a limited number of Chinese under coolie-contract, to be treated as Chinese coolies have been in Cuba or in Hispaniolized Peru. In a word, the Spaniards would rather see the Philippines ruined by and for themselves alone, than prosperous, if to the benefit not of themselves alone, but of others also.\n\nFortunately, circumstances are stronger than men; and though a Royal Spanish Ordinance, issued not further back than 1844, prohibited the admission of foreigners into the interior of the Colony under any pretext whatever, while an attempt was made by the Hispano-Philippine Government as late as 1857 to renew the Decrees by which for more than two centuries foreign ships had been kept at a distance from these shores, the Administration has been slowly, but progressively, compelled on a tract opposite to its own desires. The yielding began in 1789, when the first half-concession in favour of foreign enterprise was wrung from the weakened grasp of Spain; and from that date down to the present time the Administration has had to witness, though not without many efforts to stay it, an ever-increasing influx of foreign trade and enterprise—an influx which it still persistently endeavours, though indirectly, to limit, but cannot wholly stem.\n\nThe attempt at limitation takes many different forms, and is half-veiled, wholly urged, by many ingenious devices, but chiefly by seven.\n\nFirstly, by checking the natural productiveness of the islands themselves, and consequently the wealth of their inhabitants, by the method implied in the first section of this Report, for detail in this matter would be endless. And this, as it appears, is mainly done, not merely negatively and through careless negligence, but positively, on system, and with a definite intent, in accordance with two Spanish axioms—firstly, that a native, if wealthy, or on the way to become so, will lean towards foreigners rather than Spaniards; secondly, that a native who has acquired wealth will soon aim at independence also.\n\nPage 265", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302268, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 429, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "## Proofread Text\n\nIt seems the original text was a memo or report discussing the Registrar General's office in Hong Kong. Here is the proofread text in Markdown format:\n\nIn truth, be it fantastic, Mr. Cant Smith\n\nwhich was\n\nauspice of the Court. Seen. S.S. & adding \"Draft letter. Office may be reduced somewhat=\" From the manner it \n\nappears it was a \n\nought than \n\n\"Registrar General\" – In foregoing phrase \n\nin with Mr. Round with a former 2 \n\naff: & the Colonial Secretaryship.\n\n1114.9\n\nThe Registrar's Salary is $3840-\n\nMr. Cecil Smith had in addition $960.\n\nlate treasurer.\n\nMen Round.\n\n2\n\nI think it is not of any use to examine these papers at length.\n\nSpread the In witness whereof\n\nhow.\n\nhe \n\nwhen he \n\nto town.\n\nZy \n\n425 \n\n15 less appointment.\n\nRev left 24\n\nMr. Hennessy's Proposition will not answer in fraction. The \n\nRegistrar General is by Ordinance entrusted with important \n\nduties in connection with the Chinese; \n\nany \n\nschemes for degrading \n\nDiminishing the importance of the office will be a mistake, as will be the authority of the holder of it.\n\nH. Ry. Jed \n\nAL. 8 of 1858 in reference to his office » Protector of the Chinese \n\nInhabitants of the Colony \"(dec. 4)\n\nThe Registrar is \n- subordinate to the Reg. Gen. (dec. 9). \n- Village constables and in that capacity immediately \n\nThe Police force issues Licenses & permits (au 11) - to undertakers (dec. 13) Boat people (2016) Chinese lodging houses refer (ver. 15) - Tattle The Cars (20.25)\n\n(ond. 9. 08.1858) The Registrar has control of the markets and \n\n5th \n\nlets the houses, shops, & stalls in them, & keeps register: \n\n(ond. 10.11867) - The Registrar is charged with the administration of the Contagious Diseases ordinance- 1:7.71872. He is the Chief Registrar of Births & Death \n\nis \n\n- Ord. 14. f 1875. It is Registrar of Marriages, is the person to celebrate marriage ; & if a Marriage is objected to have power to investigate on oath into the validity of the objection.\n\nIt seems desirable that this Office should be a more \n\nhigher standing \n\nand with greater prestige & Chinese patronage than Mr. Northcote can possess: I also \n\nimagine \n\nthat those...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302280, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "## MINUTE PAPER\n\nFay was clearly wrong; it was certainly not in accordance with the intentions & instructions. The hout has been mixed more than always existed.\n\nThe case finally there are as don't remember in other laver opti & And when at the hails Settlements. Lu menated thed & Governors difatite of Bo. .1868.\n\nI can throw no light on hi efence &. D. Cetili aff. It is something new. Lecated minute or gogh.\n\nI cannot explain this new writership: The Registrar General is also Protector of Chinese, and all communications with this Chinese used to pass through him without the necessity for additional writer.\n\nThe dispatches in Scan remove from The Home Secretary are now also God. House, where they are quit The Cliks from The Col. Sec. Office; & none of The Public Offices Members of the Council even know what passed between the Governor & this Dependant, until Debates Published in the Gazette is when they are published. The Governor has con zoom in the Publice Pfins, that is in Basis Bin Fin & previous Governors have hard that as their practice. Therefore the Dispatche Reple in the Colonial Lee V Sefartments much the same dosfe.\n\nW. Austin Rensinde de The me of this circumstaner when he was here.\n\nThe Governor has adopted a different method of doing his work; the parts accounts for the Emoone of the record.\n\nThe Col. Jer, & auditor har den unctual Dinen 1871, baten the dalanis won to unintentionally kept distinct - 74.13/ the custody of the Despatches.\n\nThe question of to and from the Secretary difficult dla fr more 7 State is it pack of way cowvement not to to into it thes occasion.\n\nThe appointment of a us doubt anses from Ne tennessy's dissates (action with In Cecil Ince the . por the appertiment Eitel has been made then.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302601, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# 797\n\nInflux of dangerous results, credentials, is the friend of a general belief among Chinese that Un Hennessy is their protector. The Establishments of an efficient gaol, in which Chinese are treated on the approved English principles will have a salutary attraction to many of the floating criminal population. It is probable that nothing will keep down the license to enter the Colony, armed with a strict system of surveillance, launches to suppress the Bytham spenders living & perpetuate corporal punishment. I would hope that proper discipline, regular work, and careful furnishment (all publicly administered) for prison inefficiencies may be something together with certainty that outrageous crimes inflicted will not be mistaken for clemency not warranted by law.\n\n## \n\nAt this date I thought it my duty to draw the attention of the Legislative Council to the sudden increase of crime in the Colony. The Right Honourable Sir Michael Hicks Beach, K.C.M.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nGovernment House, \n20th November, 1872.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302690, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 212, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH OCTOBER, 1878.\n\n## No. 193.\n\n2. Letters from Bank Managers, dated 27th September, 1878, as to increased night patrols, with correspondence and minutes thereon.\n\n3. Police Report and Returns of Crime for the year 1874, (as published in the Government Gazette, February, 1875).\n\n4. Police Report and Returns of Crime for 1875, showing an increase of 19.74 per cent. of serious crime as compared with 1874, (Government Gazette, February, 1876).\n\n5. Police Report and Returns of Crime for 1876, showing an increase of 6.45 per cent. of Serious Crime, and an increase of 23.80 per cent. of Minor Offences, as compared with 1875, (Government Gazette, February, 1877).\n\n6. Police Report and Returns of Crime for 1877, showing an increase of 32.39 per cent. of Serious Crime, and an increase of 7.13 per cent. of Minor Offences, as compared with 1876, (Government Gazette, April, 1878).\n\n7. Despatch from Governor SIR ARTHUR KENNEDY to the EARL OF CARNARVON, dated 29th September, 1876, reporting that various returns may hereafter indicate a serious increase of crime in this Colony, and attributing this apparent outbreak among the population of Hongkong to the cheap fares of the Canton River Steamers.\n\n8. Returns and information on this subject transmitted to the EARL OF CARNARVON by Governor POPE HENNESSY.\n\n9. Letters from His Excellency the Governor to Commodore WATSON and H. M. Consul at Canton, dated 3rd and 5th of May, 1877, respecting an attack by armed robbers on one of the villages in Hongkong, with subsequent Police Report of a similar attack on another village of the Colony.\n\n10. Statement made by His Excellency the Governor to the Legislative Council, on the 17th of September, 1877, on the increase of crime.\n\n11. Letter from Mr. DEANE, the Captain Superintendent of Police, dated Bath, 26th November, 1877, submitting certain explanations concerning the apparent increase of crime in Hongkong.\n\n12. Statement made by His Excellency the Governor to the Legislative Council, on the 12th of November, 1877, on the advantage of having Steam-launches for Police purposes, with Minutes on this subject, and Reports from Mr. CREAGH and Mr. DEANE.\n\n13. Papers on the subject of increasing the number of armed Police; placing the District Watchmen under the Captain Superintendent of Police, and further organizing the native Watchmen for Police purposes.\n\n14. All the daily Police Reports and other Returns respecting the Police in 1878 (up to date).\n\n## No. 192.\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION**\n\nThe following comparative Return, prepared by the late Acting Superintendent of the Gaol, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th September, 1878.\n\nC. MAY,\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n| Category | In the fifteen months, from 21st January, 1876, to 21st April, 1877 | In the fifteen months, from 22nd April, 1877, to 22nd July, 1878 |\n| :-------------- | :-----------------------------------------------------------: | :----------------------------------------------------------: |\n| EUROPEANS | 9 | 2 |\n| INDIANS | ... | ... |\n| CHINESE | 142 | 72 |\n\n* This Return does not include Prisoners whose times were remitted on the recommendations of the Magistrates.\n\nIn reference to the number 142, there are twelve Chinese now in Gaol, and to the latter number 72, six are now in Gaol.\n\n24th July, 1878.\n\nT. C. DEMPSTER, Captain,\nActing Superintendent Longhang Gaol.\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION**\n\nThe following Notification received from the Colonial Secretary, Ceylon, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st October, 1878.\n\nC. MAY,\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nTill further notice, there will be held monthly at Trincomalie sales of timber felled in the Government Forests of Tamankaduwa. The timber will be laid down on the sea beach of the inner harbour of Trincomalie.\n\nThe quantity of timber offered at each sale will be about 100 logs of Ebony and 500 logs of Satin-wood, Halinilla, &c.\n\nThe sales will be held on the 20th of each month, or if the 20th falls on a Sunday, then on the Monday 21st.\n\nThe first sale will be held on Monday, 21st October.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Colombo, 10th September, 1878.\n\n## No. 194.\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION**\n\nJOHN DOUGLAS,\nColonial Secretary,\n\nThe following Instructions for the guidance of persons engaged in Chinese Immigration, which have been issued in Singapore, are published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd October, 1878.\n\nC. MAY,\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n**INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN CHINESE IMMIGRATION AND OF PERSONS IN CHARGE OF DEPOTS UNDER ORDINANCE No. II OF 1877**\n\n1. By the Chinese Immigrants Ordinance, 1877, no Chinese Immigrant is to be landed at any of the Settlements at any place beyond the limits of the port at the Settlement, under a penalty not exceeding $25 for each Immigrant landed at any other place (Sections 2 and 10).\n\n2. The arrival of every Chinese Immigrant Ship at any Settlement is to be forthwith reported to the Master-Attendant or Harbour-master under penalty not exceeding $500 (Section 10), when an officer from the Department of the Protector is to board the ship (Section 3) and examine each Immigrant as to the payment of his passage money (Section 5).\n\n3. No Immigrant can be landed till after the Ship has been visited by the officers of the Chinese Department.\n\n4. All Immigrants whose passage shall not be paid for, within 24 hours after the arrival of the Ship, are to be landed at a depot, where they are to be kept under the care of the Protector, till arrangements are made for their passage money and agreements to labour; but no such Immigrant is to be kept longer than 10 days against his own will (Section 7).\n\n5. All engagements to labour are to be registered in such form as the Governor may direct (Section 8).\n\n6. By Section 9, the words \"Chinese Immigrant\" and \"Immigrant Ship\" are defined as follows: \"Chinese Immigrant\" means Chinese brought to the Colony from China in a Chinese Immigrant Ship, not being first or second-class passengers; and \"Chinese Immigrant Ships\" are ships bringing such persons exceeding 20 in number to the Colony.\n\n**NOTE**\n\nIt will facilitate the despatch of ships if the masters of vessels with Chinese passengers on board will, on approaching the Ports of the Straits Settlements, hoist the signal D.K.W., women and children on board, from the rest of the passengers.\n\nSingapore, 14th August, 1878.\n\nW. A. PICKERING,\nProtector of Chinese.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302825, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 347, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# Satisfactory - externally, as he will have severed himself from his previous avocations as a Protestant Missionary, & the Head of his Mission, & thus connection with The Daily Press.\n\nWhatever becomes of the Registrar's future, I merely trust that he will continue to be the main person to act as Chinese Secretary or at any rate that this portion of his duties will not be transferred to the Colonial Secretary. The latter is not an officer of lower grade than the Chief Justice to deal with the Chinese Petitions; he should speak the language & have his office among them.\n\nThis Ear[lord] is accessible - & not as people see how up the hill, on top of a big building grandly situated, when no one is to be seen except the coolie messengers. Chinamen are most kind & courteous about officials, & the very fact of managing their business for Williams who was well known, was an invaluable help.\n\nWhen working in this office, Mr. W. Austin, who could speak not a word of Chinese, & whose official life has no connection with their current life, was a great mistake. The Tungwah Association, who if we know all were no difficulties for the Chinese who asked for help, at once saw this opportunity.\n\nIn Amoy, the Consul at Canton has reported that the people who bring much of the Chinese business to the port are manifestly in communication with the Viceroy of Canton who fills the ships. This is a most mischievous state of things.\n\nThe Consul reported - The Chinese do not understand that they are under British rule, & the Governor of Hong Kong, unlike other colonies, has not only to attend to their ordinary administration of the port; he has to check & neutralize the influence which the mandarins on the mainland are always endeavoring to increase. Mr. Hennessy justifies the Tungwah proper, & the ordinary Chinese doing this. I think their business will be far more beneficially handled by the folks as they go to them, & we shall find an interference in details established which it will take years to counteract.\n\nIf Dr. Still is necessary to the Service, he might be made Registrar General & Protector of Chinese. The latter is the much more important half of his titles; & he might work the interpretation alongside - in fact better. In his office in the Government (new Building).\n\nI think this is a good suggestion, and perhaps in acting for the Registrar, Dr. Still is swift which Mr. Michael has cited for me. We must express that if it should be Registrar, the Interpreters should be under him as General & head of the office.\n\nPage 338\nPage 267", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "page_number": 422, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \nrelieves the servitude of the inmates, as to which, in reply to your Despatch of 13th November 1880*, I have called for further explanations, this would form a ground for carefully reviewing and improving the manner in which that supervision is exercised, not for withdrawing it altogether from the houses for Chinese only, which form the great majority of the brothels, and leaving the unhappy inmates to their fate without an attempt at ameliorating their condition; and I have not failed to observe that Mr. Cecil Smith, in the 17th paragraph of his letter to Sir F. Rogers, printed at page 253 of the appendix, reports \"that these instances of virtual slavery exist entirely in the brothels for Chinese, where the women are seen by their own countrymen, and not in the other houses which are frequented by foreigners.\"\n\nThe report, at page 47, states the intention of the Government to have been that the Ordinance of 1857 should be worked with the aid of the whole body of police, but indicates that the then superintendent having set his face against the Ordinance, and not having (to use his own words) \"permitted the police to have anything to do with the control and supervision of brothels under the Ordinance, being apart from the general objects of police duties, and from the great probability of its leading to corruption,\" it came about that the office of Inspector of Brothels was created, and fell into the hands of inferior men (Rep., pp. 47, 48).\n\nThe power of visiting and inspecting registered brothels was, by section 7 of the Ordinance of 1857, vested in the Registrar-General (who had some months previously, by Ordinance 6 of 1857, been created Protector of the Chinese) and the chief officers of police; and it is evident, from the wording of the section, that these powers were distinct, and proceeded upon other grounds than the sanitary inspection of the women by the medical officers.\n\nA similar distinction is to be found in the 10th section of the same Ordinance; and these powers of supervising registered houses were again distinct from the provisions relating to the prosecution of unregistered brothels, matters which it was obviously meant should be dealt with by the police in the same manner as other breaches of the statute law.\n\nThe attitude, however, which the police were allowed to adopt towards the Ordinance appears to me to be one of the causes which frustrated Mr. Labouchere's humane intentions; and as soon as the object was thus lost sight of which induced the Secretary of State to desire that these establishments should be \"under the eye, and in some measure under the control, of the Government,\" it not unnaturally followed that the special provisions of the Ordinance came to be regarded as little more than machinery for the detection and suppression of unregistered or unlicensed brothels. And as the police, who, I presume, are acquainted with the character of the houses in their several beats, seem to have given little assistance towards the enforcement of the law in these particulars, it is not surprising that the inspectors, whose means of obtaining proofs was likely to be less complete, should have been driven to extraordinary devices for procuring evidence in the cases which in the discharge of their duties they found themselves required to bring forward. It seems, indeed, from document No. 32, printed at page 225, that there need have been no difficulty in identifying unlicensed houses, for on that occasion, in 1866, ninety-four were detected in two nights without the aid of the inspector.\n\nThe system of informers paid to obtain evidence by personal intercourse with women, which was introduced in 1860 simultaneously with the appointment of inspectors (p. 10 of Report), was a revolting abuse, which you most properly put a stop to as far back as the month of October 1877.+\n\nThe Commission is dated 12th November 1877, and the report December 1878. It was, therefore, scarcely necessary for the report to have contained so full an analysis of the cases in which this discontinued system had been employed, or the many pages of proceedings in such cases which are printed in the Appendix.\n\nTurning to the medical side of the subject, I may observe that the report seems to me to pass over somewhat too lightly the horrible circumstances which gave rise to the discussion which led up to the Ordinance of 1857, and to attach, at least, as much weight to Mr. May's recollection of matters which occurred 20 years before as it does to the official reports written at the time, and not all printed.\n\nAt page 33 the report states that, in the absence of returns prior to 1857, the framers were not in a position to compare the state of things which existed before and subsequent to 1858. That \"the letters from the Naval Medical Authorities and the Colonial Surgeon contain deplorable accounts of the health of the men under their charge. On the other hand, Mr. May, who was then in charge of the Police Force, has told us that, before the Ordinance of 1857, we had no great cause to complain; and that his attention was not drawn to any very special virulence in the nature of the disease either by fact or by any person;\" and the same paragraph quotes other passages from his evidence to the same purport.\n\nThe Appendix, p. 204-207, contains naval reports, all showing the frequency and aggravated nature of the disease. I notice especially Captain Hoste's letter of 18th October 1854, and its enclosure, from which it appears that in 1853 and 1854 the crew of H.M.S. \"Spartan\" contracted syphilis in Hong Kong in the proportion of 5 and 6 per cent. of the ship's company; while in Macao, where supervision was exercised over prostitution, the per-centage of cases was only 2 per cent.; and Admiral Stirling's letter of 7th March 1855, and its enclosure, reporting that one third of the crew of H.M.S. \"Winchester\" was affected during the year 1854. These numbers do not cover the whole of the evil, for the tertiary affections and the aggravation of other diseases by syphilitic taint are not mentioned.\n\nThese reports do not mention the police; but the Colonial Surgeon, reporting on the 7th April 1856, states: \"The police, both European and native, labour under the disease in a most frightful form;\" and in a later report, dated 28th March 1857, he states: \"I beg to assure you that among the police and sailors of Hong Kong, some of the worst forms of the venereal disease are to be seen.\" Neither of these reports is printed in the Appendix; the first is enclosed in Sir John Bowring's despatch of 2nd May 1856; the other in that officer's despatch of 20th March 1857.\n\nAmong the enclosures to the despatch No. 69, is a short minute by Colonel Caine, the Lieutenant-Governor, in which he speaks of the disease \"which has hitherto caused ravages too fearful to detail, not only in our naval and military forces, but also in the population generally.\" Also a memorandum by the Chief Justice, Mr. Hulme, in which I find him saying, \"when I consider the frightful extent to which the venereal disease is prevalent in this Colony, its virulence, and the frightful ravages it commits.” The Colonial Surgeon, Mr. Dempster, of the Army Medical Department, in his report in the same dispatch, says, \"I have now the honour to state, for the information of his Excellency the Governor, that during my experience I have never before witnessed, in any station where I have served, such ravages inflicted by the disease on persons affected with it as in this Colony. I beg to state that almost every sailor admitted into the Seamen's Hospital with fever, bowel affections, &c. is also affected with the venereal. In the jail many of the Chinese prisoners are affected with the disease in a most virulent form; and, as to the European prisoners (mostly sailors), nearly all are affected.\"\n\nThen follows the sentence above quoted about the police, and the report proceeds: \"I have had under my care female prostitutes (picked up by the police in the streets, and evidently turned out by the brothel keepers for the purpose) suffering from the disease in the most shocking form I ever beheld. Death at last put an end to their sufferings.\" Speaking of merchant ships, he says: \"In one instance a captain had shipped eight seamen; he put to sea, and in a few days returned with the said crew, totally unable to work the ship, being fearfully affected with the venereal.\"\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon then proceeds to contrast this state of things with Gibraltar, where he had ascertained \"the benefit derived from sanitary rules.\"\n\nThese official records, none of which are printed in the appendix, show plainly the state of things which existed before 1858, and fully deserved to have received equal prominence with the opposite view which rests upon Mr. May's recollection, especially as these records are further supported by a letter from Dr. Pottinger, R.N., dated 28th December 1870 (printed appendix, page 282), giving his vivid remembrance of the state of Hong Kong in this respect when he served on the station in the ship \"Reynard\" in the years 1849-50-51, and by another letter (also appendix, page 282) from Dr. Ramsay, of the 75th Regiment, speaking of that officer's recollection of the Colony in 1857. Both of these letters contrast the very different state of affairs existing in 1870.\n\nThe correspondence connected with the passing of the Ordinance of 1867 and the latest records on the subject are free from such painful statements.\n\nThe only two European medical men examined testify to the same effect. The first, Dr. Ayres, says (answer 1,439) that the disease (syphilis) which he has seen is of a very innocent type,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306201, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "page_number": 425, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "that the inmates look upon the Registrar-General as their protector, and Mr. Creagh's statement (Answer 238), that with reference to kidnapping and sale of women, no case has originated with the Police Force, appear to me to show that the operation of these Ordinances has not been so entirely ineffective in securing the liberty of these wretched women, as the Commissioners appear to consider (Report page 5). How far their effect may have been to deter the brothel keepers from attempts to keep women in a state of slavery is necessarily matter of conjecture, but it was the opinion of Mr. Smith in 1869 (Appendix, page 254, par. 17), that cases of virtual slavery were confined to the houses for Chinese; and if this be the case it may not unreasonably be inferred that the closer supervision over the houses for foreigners had had some effect in protecting their inmates.\n\nOn the whole, I feel obliged to state as the result of a careful examination of the report, testing it by the evidence in the Appendix and in the records of this Department, that its treatment of questions both of fact and of principle is inconclusive, and I find myself therefore placed in a position of some embarrassment, since, in the Despatch* transmitting it, you merely express your entire concurrence in its conclusions, accompanying it with no explanations on your own part, and with no opinion as to the manner in which the machinery of the Ordinance should be revised, such revision having been the prime object of appointing the Commission.\n\nIn the absence of this assistance, I must proceed to deal with the various questions to the best of my power.\n\nThree points suggest themselves as necessary to be dealt with :-\n\na. The supervision of brothels, for protective and sanitary reasons.\nb. The medical inspection of the inmates, and the prevention of disease.\nc. The provision of the necessary funds.\n\nOne of the objections now raised to the Hong Kong system is, that the houses are licensed to conduct a business which is contrary to the law of England, and consequently of the Colony. That this is a very serious objection cannot be denied, but, on the other hand, we have to face the undoubted fact that it would be practically impossible to enforce that law against the Chinese community of Hong Kong. Are we then to ignore the existence of these houses, to shut our eyes to the methods by which the Chinese too often keep up the supply of their inmates, and to leave these women to undergo practical slavery without an endeavour to ameliorate their condition?\n\nThe answer has been from the first, and, in my opinion, must continue to be, that, on the ground of humanity, we cannot shrink from this duty, and that the performance of it requires that a much stricter and more direct control shall be kept over these houses than is required or would be possible in an English community. Unfortunately, this system of control has not been sufficiently distinguished from the system of medical treatment for disease which was introduced simultaneously; and powers which were intended for the purpose of protecting the inmates have been disregarded or viewed mainly, if not entirely, as having for their object the detection and punishment of the keepers of unlicensed houses. I am not disposed to give up the special powers of visitation originally provided under Mr. Labouchere's instructions, with the view to affording protection to the women, and the co-operation of the respectable Chinese, which is now assured, and which has already been productive of good, as I am glad to learn from your despatch of the 13th of November 1880†, would naturally lose much of its efficacy unless the police, and I think also the Registrar-General, possessed the power of entering these houses without waiting to obtain a special warrant for the purpose whenever a case requiring intervention is brought to their notice. In such cases prompt action may be essential, and delay might defeat the ends of justice.\n\nThe disgusting state of some of these houses, as disclosed by the Colonial Surgeon's report of 1874, transmitted in your despatch of the 17th of September‡, shows that the general health of the city may be jeopardised if they are left unvisited by any medical or sanitary authority, and are allowed to continue in this filthy condition; while Dr. Ayres' private memorandum (Appendix, p. 268) proves that this state of things had, in fact, led to its natural results, viz., an outbreak of typhoid fever, and that they are remediable by the exercise of the power of supervision which it is now proposed to take away from the Colonial Surgeon.\n\nIt seems to me, therefore, that on both grounds ample powers should be given to the proper officers to visit and inspect all houses of this description, in order to carry out any protective measures which you may suggest, and to enforce such regulations for ensuring, at least, ordinary cleanliness, as the experience of your officers may indicate.\n\n‡ `No. 43`.\n* `No. 15`.\n† `No. 57`.\n\nI would refer you for assistance upon this and similar matters of sanitation to the `Public Health Act, 1875` (38 & 39 Vict. cap. 55).\n\nIt would be necessary that all these houses should be registered much as common lodging houses are in England, certificates of registration being issued instead of licenses, if that word is thought objectionable. A fee on registration should be paid by the keepers, and the number of inmates should be limited in proportion to the size of the buildings.\n\nThese measures for police and sanitary measures should apply to all brothels, whether used by Europeans or Chinese, though they would presumably be chiefly required for the houses for Chinese, if it be true, as is stated, that the instances of virtual slavery exist entirely in houses of this description, and if, as may reasonably be supposed, the European houses are free from the more revolting features reported by the Colonial Surgeon in 1874.\n\nThese regulations should be distinct from those relating to the medical inspection of women, and might be so printed in the Ordinance, or, if you prefer it, might be included in a separate Ordinance.\n\nAny such measure, however, will be incomplete unless it includes penalties for keeping brothels without registration, and you should consider with the Attorney-General whether it is necessary to enact any special test which shall be deemed to be sufficient evidence of the existence of a brothel, or whether ordinary evidence can be relied upon in such cases.\n\nIt will also be desirable to take summary powers for dealing with any house that, from its situation or the disorderly conduct of the inmates, creates a scandal or becomes a nuisance to the neighbours or the passers by; and as to this, the cumbrous proceedings by indictment at common law or under the Act 25 Geo. II. c. 36. s. 5. seem to be unsuited to the circumstances of Hong Kong, where such cases may properly be dealt with as police offences, and determined by the police magistrate.\n\nUpon the second question, viz., the medical inspection of women, looking to the practice in the past, and to the recommendation of yourself and of the three Commissioners on this head, I concur in thinking that the inmates of houses for the sole use of Chinese may be exempted from all liability to medical inspection. At the same time it seems proper to subject to a penalty the keeper of any such house in which a European is allowed to have intercourse with the women. The fact may be difficult of proof, but the knowledge that the penalty exists will have a salutary effect. As regards houses used by Europeans and other foreigners, I think that the medical examination of the inmates, and their separation if found diseased, should still be enforced, but unaccompanied by certain of the provisions of the existing Ordinance. I should wish you to give careful consideration to the report of Dr. Sloggett, with which you have been furnished, and to consider whether any better plan can be devised than the present practice of keeping lists of the inmates of the houses, and of holding the keepers responsible for the due observance of the regulations.\n\nIt must rest with you and the local officials to work out the details of the Ordinance, but the penalties on women who become infected and transmit the disease should be omitted, and the power of breaking into unregistered houses or parts of houses without a warrant for the purpose of proving the house to be a brothel can scarcely be allowed to continue, but some such power will be necessary, as I have said before, to be used in case of emergency for the repression of serious offences against the liberty of the inmates. The Imperial Acts of 1866 and 1869, should be consulted and their provisions adopted whenever practicable. The enactments dealing with out-door prostitution may be retained but such women should also be placed on the register, if one be established, and I cannot but think that a more vigorous administration of this part of the Ordinance would have improved the state of the harbour of which the condition as stated in the evidence reflects no credit upon the Colony.\n\nI commend to your attention the very just observations which Dr. Sloggett makes upon the conduct of the so-called \"protected\" women, and measures should be taken to prevent their houses becoming in future unregistered brothels for other women who are not under protection.\n\nIt is manifest that the practice of allowing women who are under treatment to leave the hospital on pass is opposed to the principle of the regulations, and should be discontinued.\n\nPage 66\n\nI am at a loss to understand why these Ordinances, which are similar to those which work satisfactorily at Singapore, should not have been equally effective at Hong Kong unless it be that all branches of the public service, police as well as medical, which are charged with enforcing the law have in the former Colony mutually assisted each other in the discharge of their respective duties, and that this has not been the case at Hong Kong.\n\nPage 419", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307102, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 220, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "218\n\n(14)\n\n2. ALL CIVIL SERVANTS REQUIRED TO STUDY CHINESE. 1855.\n\nIt so happened in the very next year (1855) that Mr. CALDWELL also resigned, though but temporarily, and forthwith the complaints regarding the want of competent interpretation became extremely loud and gave rise to new schemes to supply the deficiency. Sir GEORGE GREY, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, considered the subject of such importance that he laid down the rule that no application for an increase of salary in the Civil Service of Hongkong was to be made for any person who did not know Chinese. It happened in this wise. Sir JOHN BOWRING applied for an augmentation of the salary of a General Interpreter. In reply to this application, Sir GEORGE GREY (Despatch No. 8 of 28th April 1855) writes as follows:--\n\n'Independently of other reasons, sufficient in themselves to compel me to refuse the sanction of Her Majesty's Government to the desired augmentation of Mr. .......'s salary, the inability of that gentleman to translate the Chinese language freely renders it impossible for me to comply with his request, this being a qualification which ought to be regarded as indispensable for an Interpreter. \"But I consider, the knowledge of this language as essential generally for the Civil Service at Hong-kong, and have to lay it down for your guidance as a rule, subject only to such very special exceptions as you may deem necessary, that no application for increase of salary in that service is to be made for any person who has not learnt Chinese.\"\n\nIn the Hongkong Government Gazette of 7th July 1855, there appeared accordingly a Notification stating that Her Majesty's Government attached great importance to the acquirement of the Chinese language by all functionaries in the public service in this Colony, and adding that \"His Excellency is instructed to state that in claims for promotion a knowledge of Chinese will be considered as a recommendation to the favourable consideration of the Authorities.\" Here we have then another important point to note, viz., that, apart from interpretation in the Courts and departmental offices, it is highly desirable that in a Colony like this, where more than 95 per cent. of the people speak Chinese and Chinese only, all the functionaries in the public service in the Colony should learn Chinese, at least until the Chinese population of Hongkong can be made to learn English.\n\n3. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR CAINE AND SIR JOHN BOWRING. NEW SCHEMES. 1855.\n\nBut as, of course, this scheme of inducing all European officers to learn Chinese would, even if successful, not affect the Interpretation in the Courts, further measures had to be devised. Accordingly, Lieutenant Governor Caine (Despatch No. 86 of 18th June 1855), whose long residence in Hongkong (since 1841) and varied experience lend weight to his views, urged upon the attention of the Home Government \"the necessity of establishing a Corps of Interpreters,\" without, however, explaining how the Corps was to be established. His idea seems to have been the same as that which has since then repeatedly forced itself into prominence, viz., to establish a separate Interpretation Department. Nothing was done, however, in that direction, as Sir JOHN BOWRING, during whose absence in Siam Colonel Caine had taken up the Interpretation question, started, immediately upon his return to Hongkong within three days after Colonel Caine's Despatch was written, a different scheme. Sir JOHN BOWRING suggested (Despatch No. 91 of 21st June 1855) that St. Paul's College be utilized for the purpose of training Interpreters for the use of the Government, and that, with that end in view, \"a Colonial grant for the education of Interpreters be substituted for the Parliamentary vote of £250 hitherto paid to St. Paul's College.\" This led to a lengthy correspondence, ending in the decision that St. Paul's College should not be interfered with, but Colonel Caine's plan was forgotten meanwhile, and nothing was actually done towards a solution of the Interpretation problem until the arrival of Sir HERCULES ROBINSON, four years later (September, 1859).\n\n4. SIR HERCULES ROBINSON. 1859-1865.\n\n(a.) Teachers' Allowances and Cadetship Scheme.\n\nSir HERCULES ROBINSON took up the interpretation question at once. He looked about for educated Chinese Interpreters, established several new Interpreterships in the Courts and in different Departments, appointed a number of Chinese as Interpreters, and obtained the sanction of the Secretary of State, the Duke of NEWCASTLE, to the appointment of Mr. now the Honourable NG ACHOY \"as Clerk and Student Interpreter\" (Secretary of State's Despatch No. 3 of 2nd January 1862). Sir HERCULES ROBINSON also allowed payment of a Chinese teacher's salary to every European officer who was willing to learn Chinese. He had been informed by the Secretary of State (Despatch No. 98 of 2nd November 1860) that \"Her Majesty's Government would be ready to consider favourably any proposal he might make on the subject of improving the system of interpretation in the Colony, although involving some outlay of public funds.\" Meanwhile Mr. CALDWELL'S resignation increased the inconvenience generally felt from the want of competent and experienced Interpreters. Mr. CALDWELL had some years before been confirmed (Despatch No. 32 of 18th March 1857) by the Secretary of State in the important appointment of \"Registrar General and Protector of Chinese,\" had entered into questionable relations with certain designing and unscrupulous characters, who most likely made a tool of him, and he resigned on 1st February 1861, whilst the investigation into his conduct, which led to his subsequent dismissal, was still going on. The resignation of Mr. CALDWELL, who, though imperfectly acquainted with the written Chinese language, was then the only satisfactory Interpreter in the Colony, brought matters to a climax. Sir HERCULES ROBINSON now prepared his well-known Scheme of Cadetships \"to supply the Civil Service in Hongkong with an efficient staff of Interpreters.\"\n\nIn recommending this Scheme to the Secretary of State (the Duke of NEWCASTLE), Sir HERCULES ROBINSON (Despatch No. 39 of 23rd March 1861) explains that great inconvenience is felt from the scarcity of trustworthy Interpreters to communicate with the bulk of the population, that no Government officer in Hongkong understands Chinese except the Interpreters, and that the latter \"are either Chinese or Portuguese, persons of no position, and who have neither education nor sufficient knowledge of the English language to qualify them for their important and most responsible duties.\" Sir HERCULES ROBINSON further states, that to abate this evil he determined at first to allow each officer a Chinese teacher, but finds now that little good can be effected by the measure, and that he therefore prepared a scheme for Cadetships differing from the Foreign Office scheme in but two points, viz., that the study of Chinese shall not commence until after the arrival of the Cadet in China, and that the Cadetships be not confined to King's College, London, but competed for by students of three or more colleges.\n\n(b.) Defects of the Cadetship Scheme of 1861.\n\nWithout going into a detailed description of this Cadetship Scheme, a copy of which I append, I venture to offer a few criticisms of its salient practical features. The first objection I would raise to Sir HERCULES ROBINSON's scheme refers to the misleading analogy between the Consular Service and the Hongkong Civil Service, on which he had been advised to base his interpretation scheme. A Consular Student Interpreter has but one fixed local dialect to acquire, the dialect of Pekin City, which is spoken or supposed to be spoken by all Mandarins in every part of the Empire. And as regards the written language also, he is required to study but one fixed style, the official documentary style. A Hongkong Interpreter, knowing but one local dialect, could practically do next to nothing. Even that one dialect principally spoken here, Cantonese, is in our Courts scarcely ever heard in its purity but almost invariably in a form representing an intermixture of different local variations of Cantonese (Tung-kún, San-ning, San-úi, &c.) with Hakka and Hoklo dialects, all widely varying from each other. And as to documentary translation, the documents which have to be translated for use of our Courts or for the purposes of the various Departments and especially the Survey Department, or for the purposes of the Executive and the Government Gazette, comprise such a variety of different styles of the Chinese language, that any comparison with the requirements of Consular Interpretation becomes absolutely misleading. It was this false analogy which subsequently led even Sir THOMAS WADE, after examining the first few Cadets, ten months after their arrival in Hongkong, to express his surprise at their seeming backwardness and to advise, in opposition to Dr. LEGGE'S counsels, their discontinuing the study of the classical style (see Governor's Despatch No. 146 of 8th August 1863 and enclosure).\n\nSir HERCULES ROBINSON'S scheme starts, accordingly, with a radical error, in requiring the holders of these Cadetships to devote themselves only \"for a certain time\" after their arrival in the Colony to\n\n(15)\n\nDec.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307103, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "219\n\n( 16 )\n\nlearning the Chinese language. This error was, no doubt, further enhanced by a fundamental misconception of the difficulty and peculiar nature of the Chinese language, and by an oversight of the patent fact that but few can possibly master in Hongkong both the complex colloquial variations of dialect required in practical interpretation in the Hongkong Courts and the intricacy of the various styles of the written language required for documentary translation work. These two branches of interpretation work ought to have been kept distinctly in view and separately provided for. This was not done, and accordingly Sir HERCULES ROBINSON's scheme assumed that a Cadet after two years' study might be competent to act as Interpreter, which is an impossibility.\n\nThe most serious objection I have to the Scheme lies in the provision it made that a Cadet after two years' approved service as Interpreter—a stipulation which of course none of the Cadets practically complied with—should receive an increase of salary, and \"after three years' service be considered eligible by the Secretary of State for promotion to the higher offices in the Civil Service of Hongkong.\" Considering that no Interpreter's post was established in Hongkong coming under the category of a \"higher office,\" considering also that even a genius could not possibly qualify himself by studying Chinese \"for a certain time,\" or say two or three years, either for practical interpretation in our Courts or for documentary translation work, this scheme not only expected the Cadets to do the impossible in one direction, but at the same time invited them to do what was possible for them to do in another direction, by opening to them the easy gate to the \"higher offices,\" i.e., to offices leaving no time for Chinese studies.\n\nnese.\n\nIn other words, the scheme defeated its own object. It stamped the Interpreters' offices with the character of lower offices, and deliberately made study for interpretatorial duties a mere chrysalis state of transition to produce higher officials possessing but a limited knowledge of Chinese. The Chinese language, more than any other living language, requires constant sharpness of memory and constant practice. He who has once studied Chinese with success for two or three years, but is subsequently by other official duties prevented from daily continuance of his Chinese studies, will, of necessity, have in a few years but a smattering knowledge of the spoken, and less than that of the written language left. All that Sir HERCULES ROBINSON's scheme could possibly produce was a number of Heads of Departments possessing more or less faded reminiscences of a former knowledge of the Chinese language. This is what the scheme could do, and this is what it has actually done. The gentlemen who came out as Cadets under Sir HERCULES ROBINSON's scheme might one and all have become excellent Chinese Interpreters either for oral interpretation or for documentary translation work. But they were never compelled, and in view of the impossibilities the scheme demanded, could not reasonably be compelled under that scheme to be practical Interpreters. They were not even induced by offer of higher pay or independent position to come forward voluntarily and qualify themselves for practical interpretatorial work. They would have been blind to their own interests if they had not left Chinese studies and gone in for \"the higher offices.\"\n\n(c) Cadets diverted to the higher Offices.\n\nSir HERCULES ROBINSON himself diverted only one of the Cadets from the interpretatorial work for which he had designed them, and that with good reason. He appointed one Cadet as Acting Registrar General, \"because he could not get any one else, and because he (the Cadet in question) promised to work early and late at Chinese to prevent the duties of the office interfering with the prosecution of his studies.\" This was but a slight, and as it seems to me necessary, deviation from the original scheme, because the Registrar General was then also Protector of Chinese, and the latter office required, more than any other, a scholarly knowledge of the Chinese spoken and written languages, and an independent position. But the example thus set was followed by successive Governors, Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL and Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY, in cases entirely different. They appointed the same Cadet to other offices not requiring Chinese scholarship, and the other Cadets were, one after the other, appointed to offices such as Sheriff, Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court, Acting Harbour Master, Clerk of Councils, Postmaster General, and so forth. All these offices require but a limited knowledge of the Chinese language, and have not the remotest connection with the object for which the Cadetship Scheme was originally designed, viz., \"to supply the Civil Service in Hongkong with an efficient staff of Interpreters.\"\n\n( 17 )\n\n5. SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL. 1866-1872.\n\nThe action Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL took, as above described, in excluding Chinese and Indian Interpreters from the benefits of the Pension Minute, suggests of itself that he did not appreciate locally-educated native Interpreters. Nor can it be supposed that he was unaware of the effect which his action in placing Chinese Civil Servants on a lower level as to pensions, was bound to produce as regards the supply of native Interpreters. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that when he at last set to work to grapple with the Interpretation problem, he plainly states at the outset (C.S.O. No. 1896 of 14th July 1869), \"I think also we should look to getting rid of the greater part of the present Interpreters.\" Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL's plan was to divide all the Government Interpreters into classes with interchangeable duties, and to award increase of salary and forfeiture according to merit and demerit, on the basis of a system of examinations under the direction of a \"College of Interpretation\" or Commission, with an able head, giving certificates of competency in connection with a graduated system of increase of salaries. He also determined to give a monthly allowance to every European Constable in the Police Force who succeeded in obtaining a certificate of competency in Chinese Colloquial. This excellent programme, which Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL sketched out with his own pen (C.S.O. No. 1896 of 14th July 1869), was at his request reported upon by Messrs. WHYTE, LISTER, and STEWART (C.S.O. No. 2336 of 31st August 1869). They agreed in recommending that all the Interpreters in the service be examined with a view to classify them, that the Interpreters be accordingly divided into three classes, with salaries of under $25, under $75, and over $75 per mensem, respectively, that no promotion from one class to another be allowed except on the basis of examination, that the Registrar General (Protector of Chinese) should act as Superintendent of this body of Interpreters, that a Board of Examiners be established, with the Registrar General as Chairman and a distinguished Sinologue as Vice-Chairman, that the Cadets be told off in rotation to watch the interpretation in the Courts, that the European members of the Police Force receive rewards for proficiency in Chinese Colloquial, in three grades of $2, $5, and $10, respectively, per mensem, the Inspectors forming a separate class receiving $20 a month, and that the Chinese Police Constables be allowed a small increase of pay for knowledge of English.\n\nSir RICHARD MACDONNELL referred this report, which clearly was, in the main, but an expansion of the Governor's own ideas, to the Acting Chief Justice, the Honourable J. PAUNCEFOTE. Accordingly, Mr. PAUNCEFOTE reports (C.S.O. No. 2717 of 15th October 1869), but states that he does not approve of the scheme, that in his opinion there should be but one class of Interpreters, that these should be Officers of the Court and under the control of the Judge, well paid and of first-class capability and character, that such men should first be obtained, and meanwhile, the present staff be made serviceable by examinations and facilities for study, but that a Chief Interpreter's post of £600 and four Interpreters' posts at £500 each be established at once and announced open to public competition, when competent men would soon be found. Mr. PAUNCEFOTE then adds the following weighty remarks: \"If the standard of qualification to become an Interpreter of the Supreme Court is the same for all and sufficiently high, and adequate inducement is held out in the way of salary and pension, I entertain no doubt that in a few years the Supreme Court will be provided with a first-rate staff.\" This scheme, however, although it might easily have been combined with many of the features of the Governor's plan, was distasteful to Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL, as it required giving the Interpreters their full status of Civil Servants, and consequently, he allowed affairs interpretatorial to remain in statu quo. Nothing further was done, beyond compiling a tabulated return (C.S.O. No. 118 of 12th January 1870), though the Inspector of Schools, Dr. STEWART, once more urged (C.S.O. No. 1352 of 18th May 1870) the establishment of a \"Board of Examiners\" and the drawing up of a Syllabus to regulate at least the Chinese studies of all Government Officers drawing Chinese teacher's allowances. In supporting Dr. STEWART's recommendation (C.S.O. No. 1435 of 25th May 1870), the Revd. Dr. LEGGE made some remarks which require quoting. Dr. LEGGE writes, \"I do not think the Government ought to expect to raise up from its present staff of native Interpreters, men of a very high class in their department. For natives of China to acquire a fluent and idiomatic command of English, they must live in England for a period, say at least of three years.\"\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\nlec.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307104, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "220\n\n(18)\n\n6. SIR ARTHUR KENNEDY.\n\n1872-1877.\n\nTo stop the glaring abuses to which the system of allowing a Chinese teacher's salary to every Civil Servant who applied for it was liable, Dr. STEWART, for the third time, urged (C.S.O. No. 2290 of 4th August 1874) the establishment of a Board of Examiners. This was approved by Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY and a Board was formed on 27th August 1874, consisting of the Honourable C. C. SMITH, Dr. STEWART, Mr. Russell, Mr. Wong Shing, and the writer of this Report. The Board at once drew up a Syllabus, which was subsequently enlarged and is still in force under the title \"Hongkong Civil Service Examination Scheme.\" The Board established also half-yearly examinations of all the Civil Servants drawing Chinese teacher's allowances, and of those Police Constables who applied for a certificate. It was known in the Service that the Honourable C. C. SMITH had recommended (C.S.O. No. 2612 of 4th September 1874) that the final certificate of the Board of Examiners should carry with it a permanent increase of salary, and it was believed that Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY had recommended this proposal to the favourable consideration of the Secretary of State. This created at first a rush for Chinese studies, but when it became doubtful whether any pecuniary advantage would ever be derived by ordinary Civil Servants (not being Cadets) from the study of Chinese, the ardour abated considerably. Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY then arranged with the undersigned to give each Student fortnightly lessons in Chinese and appointed him Director of Chinese Studies, the duties of which office he entered upon on 17th March 1875. The Board of Examiners was eventually gazetted (see Government Gazette 1876, p. 123) and has continued its work, with slight interruption, till the present day. But the number of officers studying Chinese and their zeal have, through the absence of stimulus, considerably decreased. The principal service the Board has rendered since its establishment is the encouragement its certificates and the slight increase of pay connected with them gave to European members of the Police Force to make themselves proficient in Chinese Colloquial. Court Interpretation was in no way affected by the Board of Examiners and remained as unsatisfactory as ever. In January 1877 an Interpreter of the Police Court objected to his being occasionally sent for to interpret in the Supreme Court, which elicited some valuable remarks from the Chief Justice, Sir JOHN SMALE. After stating (C.S.O. No. 7 of 2 January 1877) that the sole authority to appoint Interpreters in the Supreme Court is by Ordinance No. 12 of 1873, Section XV, vested in the Government, and that the right to test an Interpreter's ability is not in the Court, and remarking that on a former occasion he had offered suggestions for the improvement of interpretation which had not been acted upon, Sir JOHN SMALE makes the following recommendation:- \"It seems to me,\" Sir JOHN SMALE writes, \"that no Interpreter should be appointed for any particular Court, but that his engagement should subject him to be called on in every Court and by all Departments where his speciality is required, and that, as at Singapore, there should be a corps of Interpreters with a Chief to distribute them as wanted.\"\n\n7. Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY.\n\n(a) State of Interpretation, 1877.\n\nNothing had therefore been done to improve the Interpretation in the Courts since the time of Sir HERCULES ROBINSON, beyond discussing schemes which were never carried into effect.\n\nThe good which Sir HERCULES ROBINSON had actually done for interpretation in the Colony consisted in his establishing Interpreterships in different departments and filling them with intelligent Chinese gentlemen from St. Paul's College and Dr. LEGGE's Anglo-Chinese College. But, as I have shown above, the treatment these native interpreters subsequently received drove the best of them out of the Service, and the consequence was that Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, in 1877, found matters interpretatorial as deplorably bad in Hongkong, if not worse than they were before Sir HERCULES ROBINSON's arrival in 1859.\n\nAt a meeting of the Legislative Council, held on 12th November 1877, Sir John Pope Hennessy spoke (see Government Gazette 1877, p. 527) as follows:-\n\n\"I have received reports on the state of the interpretation in Hongkong from leading merchants, from leading members of the Bar and from the Judges, recording the fact that the interpretation of the Colony is disgracefully bad. What are we to do to remedy it? Hongkong is a wealthy and prosperous Colony; something should be done to provide a proper staff of interpreters. A distinguished predecessor of mine, Sir HERCULES ROBINSON, took steps to do that. He had the great advantage of consulting with Dr. LEGGE, an eminent Chinese scholar; and acting on the advice of Dr. LEGGE, he prepared a scheme, which was sent home to the then Secretary of State for the Colonies. That scheme was approved, was carried out, and under it a few highly able and intelligent young gentlemen came to this Colony as Interpreters. Soon after they arrived, the scheme was abandoned and not one of those gentlemen is an Interpreter in the Colony. There is not a single Interpreter trained according to that scheme, and, to use the words of the reports, 'our present system of interpretation is deplorably bad.'\"\n\n(19)\n\nA\n\nprosperous Colony; something should be done to provide a proper staff of interpreters.\n\nC\n\nI append (see Enclosure F.) some documents showing still further the state of Interpretation in the Courts and in the Colonial Secretary's Office in 1877.\n\n(b.) Provisional Remedies. 1878.\n\nTo solve the Interpretation problem handed down unsettled through three successive administrations, Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY did three things. In the first instance, he appointed Mr. BALL, a gentleman born and bred in Canton but educated in England, Oral Interpreter to the Supreme Court for Cantonese Colloquial, and thereby successfully supplied a stop-gap which answered the most urgent needs for improvement as regards interpretation in that Court. In the second instance, he invited the Director of Chinese Studies, the writer of this report, to enter the Government Service and attached him to the Colonial Secretary's Department as Translator, to act also as Chinese Secretary to the Governor, urging upon the Secretary of State at the same time the establishment of a separate Interpretation Department. This was done with a view to combine all the Interpreters in the Colony under one head, in one corps, going back, in fact, to the idea first started by Lieutenant Governor CAINE. In anticipation of this measure, Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY had, in December 1877, removed the reception and translation of all Chinese petitions and letters on Government business from the Registrar General (Protector of Chinese) to the Colonial Secretary's Office, which enabled His Excellency to reduce the staff of the Registrar General's Department considerably. In the third instance, His Excellency submitted to the Earl of CARNARVON reports drawn up by the Judges and the leading members of the Bar with a view to revise the Cadet Scheme, and suggested reference to Dr. LEGGE in Oxford, the effect of which was an amendment of Sir HERCULES ROBINSON's scheme of Cadetships, copy of which I append.\n\nEnclosure E.\n\n(c) Revised Cadetship Scheme of 1878.\n\nThis amended Cadetship Scheme, dated Colonial Office, 8th July 1878, states its object to be \"to supply Interpreters and other civil officers in Hongkong.\" That it may supply officers who are not to be Interpreters cannot reasonably be doubted. The question therefore is, What advantage has the new scheme over the old one as regards the supply of Interpreters? This new scheme, I regret to say, also starts by stating, as the old scheme did, that the holders of these Cadetships are required to devote themselves \"for a certain time\" to learning the Chinese language. The mode of selection of candidates and the subjects of the examination which they are required to pass are pretty much the same as before. The principal deviation from the old scheme consists in requiring the Cadets, after being appointed, to remain for one year in England, and to begin learning Chinese by attending a class for students of Chinese at King's College. This is a very good arrangement, though in my opinion six months under Dr. LEGGE at Oxford would have been more to the purpose.\n\nAfter arrival in Hongkong, the Cadet will be required \"to continue his study of the language.\" The limit of two years, formerly fixed upon, has therefore been very sensibly done away with. But now comes the crucial point, viz., What is to be done with the Cadet after a few years' study? I quote the important paragraph, which indeed contains the quintessence of the scheme, in full.\n\n\"7th. As soon as he is declared by a Board of Examiners to have acquired a competent knowledge of Chinese, he will be employed either as an Interpreter or in such Department as may require his services, at a salary of $1,800 per annum without other allowances, and will be considered eligible for promotion in the Civil Service of Hongkong on the occurrence of any vacancy which he may be deemed suitable to fill.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308003, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "page_number": 580, "title": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "content_text": "573\n\nsalary of his present appointment is only $2800. It is true that Mr Wodehouse's salary as Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's office is only $2400 but he is also Clerk of the Leg. Co. which gives him another $900 making a total $3300. Moreover it is a question whether the post of Assistant Protector of Chinese in the Shanghai is necessary and whether the duties may not be performed by ... at a lower salary.\n\nI am afraid therefore that I am unable to suggest any arrangement to ... at this moment. Lord Kimberley agrees.\n\nMr. Wodehouse 6 Dec : Inform the Wodehouse that Lord Kimberley has been forced, not feel able to make any arrangement at present & the Registrar General ship but will consider whether he can promote him with health and prospects in another Colony.\n\nIn the seas of my last sentence, I mentioned that ...\n\nC.O. 17825\n\nRECD 17 NOV 80\n\n17 Sion Hill Bath\n\nNov 15 1880\n\nI have the honour to report that I find myself under the necessity to take advantage of the leave of absence on half pay which the Secretary of State was kind enough to allow me, and that I propose therefore to return to my duties in Hongkong forthwith.\n\nThis being so I have the honour to respectfully request that his Lordship will allow me to return to Hongkong as Registrar General and not as Chief Clerk. The former office has been vacant since Mr ... left it, and as ...\n\nR. G. W. Herbert to Under Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nI have now ...\n\nDec 8\n\n24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308295, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 285, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "280\n\nwill be subordinate to the Colonial\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nThe post\n\nas all the other departments\n\nare.\n\nof Chinese Secretary and Translator in the Colonial Secretary's Office, which the Legislature sanctioned in the Annual Estimates for 1880 and for 1881 and which\n\nDr. Eitel at present holds, will cease when the proposed Interpretation Department is established,\n\nis established, as the duties of\n\nthis post will all devolve\n\non the head of\n\nthe proposed ordinary interpretation the Colonial Secretary has in the newly appointed First Clerk, Mr. Seth, a good interpreter for several dialects, whilst for all documentary translation and technical Chinese\n\ninformation, the new\n\nInterpretation\n\nDepartment will be at the service\n\nof the Colonial Secretary\n\nas the Chinese\n\nSecretary hitherto was\n\nAs regards the changes\n\nproposed originally by Mr. C.-C. Smith to be made in the Registrar General's Department, I enclose a printed Report by a Committee I appointed scheme drawn up by M. G. C. Smith the re-organization of the Registrar General's Department. Your Lordship will observe that this Report is opposed\n\nto\n\nany changes being made in the Registrar General's Department except those which I have experimentally made in relieving the Registrar General of some of the duties & of Protector of Chinese so far as the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308296, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 286, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "28171\n\nreception of Petitions to Government is concerned which I restored, with the hearty approval of Mr. Gardiner Austin, the late Colonial Secretary, to the Colonial Secretary's Department by ordering all petitions and letters on Government business, by Chinese as well as others, to be presented to the Colonial Secretary, and in transferring the work of translating all Chinese petitions, letters and other documents as well as all replies to be given by the Colonial Secretary, together with the work of editing the Chinese portion of the Government Gazette, to the Chinese Secretary in that Department: The Report of this Committee is in entire accord with the enclosed Amended Draft Rules watched for the detailed establishment of Interpretation Department, and having now for a considerable time carefully watched the working of the Registrar General's Department on its present reduced footing, relieved of all interpretation and translation work but otherwise unchanged, I strongly recommend to Your Lordship to sanction now my proposal to leave to the Registrar General all the duties he performs so satisfactorily with his reduced staff and to establish the Interpretation Department as a distinct Office, but to abolish by law the Office of Protector of Chinese which, though nominally established by Ordinance N. 8 of 1858, never fulfilled", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309370, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "30\n\nview to their eventual disposal, according to their personal qualifications, either among foreigners here as kept women, or among Chinese residents as their concubines, or to be sold for export to Singapore, San Francisco or Australia. Those protected women, moreover, generally act as protectors to a few other Tán-ká women who live by sly prostitution. The latter, again, used to be preyed upon till quite recently His Excellency Governor HENNESSY stopped this fiendish practice by informers paid with Government money, who would first debauch such women and then turn round against them charging them before the Magistrate as keepers of unlicensed brothels; in which case a heavy fine would be inflicted to pay which these women used to sell their own child or sell themselves into bondage, worse than slavery, to the keepers of the brothels licensed by Government. Whenever a sly brothel was broken up these keepers would crowd the shroff's office of the Police Court or the visiting room of the Government Lock Hospital to drive their heartless bargains which were invariably enforced with the weighty support of the Inspectors of brothels appointed by Government under the Contagious Diseases Ordinance. The more this Ordinance was enforced the more of this buying and selling of human flesh went on at the very doors of Government offices.\n\nIt is amongst these outcasts of Chinese society that the worst abuses of the Chinese system of domestic servitude exist, because that system is here unrestrained by the powers of traditional custom or popular opinion. This class of people mustering perhaps here in Hongkong not more than two thousand persons, are entirely beyond the argument of this essay. They form a class of their own, readily recognized at a glance. They are disowned by Chinese society whilst they are but parasites on foreign society. The system of buying and selling female children and of domestic servitude with which they must be identified is so glaring an abuse of legitimate Chinese domestic servitude, that it calls for corrective measures entirely apart from any considerations connected with the general body of Chinese society.\n\nAs regards the peculiarly patriarchal features of the general body of Chinese society in Hongkong no interference has hitherto been ventured upon either by the Legislature or by the Executive, whilst the common Law of England proved utterly inapplicable to the peculiar social systems of the Chinese living here. That prominent feature of patriarchal society, that fountain source of female domestic servitude, polygamy, has never yet been interfered with by the Executive. Even monogamic marriage is neither registered nor recognized by the English Courts of Hongkong as distinct from concubinage in the case of Chinese non-christian families. Although a local Marriage Ordinance has been passed which applies to the fifteen hundred Chinese Christians in Hongkong, it does not apply to one of the 134,000 non-christian Chinese residents here. Under these circumstances it seems to me inconsistent to single out the peculiar form of legitimate female domestic servitude practised by the Chinese here in accordance with the time-honoured custom of their native country, the frontiers of which are conterminous with those of Hongkong. Hongkong is indeed but a dot in the ocean, but the Chinese social life of Hongkong is also but a dot in the ocean of that vast social life which covers a country peopled by four hundred millions of people. Whilst having no social intercourse with the foreigners of Hongkong, the pulse of Chinese social life in Hongkong beats in unison with that of patriarchal China and its arteries are constantly supplied with new life blood from the same source.\n\nIt is one of the lessons which modern Sociology has taught, that police prosecutions or legislative enactments must of necessity prove inefficient when intended to cope with any deep-seated social custom, because social reforms cannot be effected by any means except by the accumulated effects of habit on character. I have no doubt whatever that, apart from the abuses which naturally attach to every social custom like that of domestic servitude, any direct interference with the system itself on the part of the Executive or Legislature would do more harm than good. The domestic servant girls of Hongkong know that they are free. If badly treated they have no hesitation in applying to the Police and bringing a charge of assault against master or mistress. But suppose the Police were instructed that every Chinese house-father, who has in his family a purchased servant girl, should be dragged into the Police Court and punished, the consequence would be, in the first instance, that every well-to-do house-father would send his family over to the mainland to reside there, and in the second instance all worthless servant girls would be thrown upon the hands of the Government. Homes would have to be built for them, work would have to be provided for them, yet Chinese social custom would, in secret, retain its habit of domestic servitude quietly as before, under another name perhaps, but side by side with the share which the Government, in dealing with all the homeless servant girls thrown upon its hands, would have to take in it. I cannot imagine what permanent good could reasonably be expected to result from such direct interference.\n\nIt will be seen from the above that, peculiar as Roman and American slavery was, Chinese slavery and Chinese domestic servitude have some essentially different features entirely their own. It should be noted, moreover, that whilst the slavery of Europe and America was such that the moral sense at all times revolted from it, and constantly required to be pacified by new modes of justification, Chinese slavery and Chinese domestic servitude never required any special pleading to justify it before the tribunal of natural law or moral sense. Indeed, the moment we examine closely into Chinese slavery and servitude from the standpoint of history and sociology, we find that slavery and servitude have, with the exception of the system of eunuchs, lost all barbaric and revolting features, and are but the natural phenomena of a social organism held in the bondage of patriarchalism. As this organism has had its certain natural evolution, it will as certainly undergo, in due time, a natural dissolution, which in fact has in more than one point already set in. But no legislative or executive measures taken in Hongkong will hasten this process, which follows its own course and its own laws, laid down by that Providence which happily overrules for the good all that is evil in this world.\n\n1 To sum up this somewhat too elaborate argument, and to point its conclusions with special reference to the question of Chinese domestic servitude in Hongkong as practised by the general body of the Chinese inhabitants, I venture to say that the foregoing essay, if it proves anything at all, proves the truth of the following propositions:\n\n1. Chinese domestic servitude is so peculiar and differs so widely in its essential characteristics from negro slavery that it cannot be logically brought under the provisions of any English enactment regarding that form of slavery. Police prosecution of Chinese domestic servitude under any law made with reference to negro slavery would therefore constitute an act of very doubtful legality.\n\n2. Chinese domestic servitude appears to be a low form of social development when judged by the advanced standard of European civilization, but when judged by the relative standard of Chinese civilization, founded on entirely different principles, it has its legitimation as the best possible form of social development under the circumstances. Absolute condemnation of Chinese domestic servitude would therefore be an act of moral injustice.\n\n3. Chinese domestic servitude is not an excrescence on but a necessary part of the patriarchal order of things which characterizes the social life of the Chinese residents of Hongkong. To prohibit Chinese domestic servitude in toto, would therefore constitute an act of violence, as striking at the very roots of the social organism, the results of which would, in all probability, be harmful to the Chinese and embarrassing to the Government.\n\n4. Chinese domestic servitude, hitherto upheld in Hongkong by the conservative tendencies of the patriarchal organism in China, is bound by the laws of nature to yield eventually to the progressive tendencies of modern society. Undue interference with this process would therefore be an act of injudicious intolerance.\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1879.\n\nE. J. EITEL.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309903, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "(6) \n\nWhen the error of the standard sidereal clock has been computed from observations of far \n\n(7) \n\nI should recommend some special provision for ascertaining the latitude of the Observatory, if it \n\nerror of the lay to compare that clock with the mean-time clock, and then to calculad there t that Lieutenant-Commander GREEN, U.S.N., commanding the United States' surveying-vessel \n\ngreat and \n\nerror of the latter on mean solar time, in order that it may be set right as above explained Palos, is already in these seas, engaged in the special task of determining true positions by the best If the clocks are in different rooms, and cannot be compared directly with one another,odern methods, for purposes chiefly of marine cartography. In this branch of work, which has been it is necessary to employ huck chronometers. Or else, which is simpler and more accurselected hitherto by our Admiralty, the United States' hydrographers have already made to have in the same room with the solar clock a chronometer regulated electrically by sidereal clock, and beating in unison with it. \n\nvalle progress in many parts of the world. It was Lieutenant-Commander GREEN who detected At Greenwich, there are two chronometer error of the Lisbon longitude above referred to; and I have no doubt that, when he comes here, on a desk in one of the offices, one regulated by the solar clock, the other by the sidered he will determine the latitude of some point in the Colony with considerable accuracy. He will also clock; and, as the commutating apparatus for correcting the mean solar clock is on the same \n\ncertain our longitude, as one station in a series comprising Nagasaki, Yokohama, Shanghai, Amoy, single individual, in the shortest time possible. I think, however, that, by putting our chronic has of late been accurately re-determined by telegraph from St. Petersburg), and at the onge nograph into the sume room with the mean solar clock, we may dispense with all of these with Madras. This, however, will not do away with the advisability of a repetition of the longi- devices. It will then only be necessary to place the chronograph in circuit with the siderea ende determination as suggested in the previous paragraph, especially as such repetition will involve only \n\ndesk, the whole operation of computing, comparing and correcting is done on one spot, by Hongkong, Manila, Saigon and Singapore, connected at one end with Vladivostok (the longitude of \n\nclock, when the click of the armature or movements of the pencil on the former, taken i connexion with the beats of the mean solar clock, will furnish means for sufficiently accurat comparison. (5). A Time-Ball and apparatus, complete with electro-magnetic mechanism for dropping the ball \n\nat the instant of noon by the mean solar clock, and sending a return signal to the Obser vatory: also the usual air-apparatus or springs for checking its fall. Provision must be made for connecting the clock and time-ball together by an underground telegraph line, the con- \n\na trifling outlay. \n\nOf the above apparatus, I recommend that the transit-instrument and collimator be ordered from \n\nof the Strand. Messrs. TROUGHTON & SIMMS; the time-ball, chronograph, clocks and chronometers from Messrs. DENT, I have no exact knowledge of the cost of a time-ball, but I estimate that the rest of the equipment, as described above, should be procurable for about £500, and that a complete time-ball apparatus should not cost more than £400. \n\nSite. I have examined the site which has been proposed, at Mount Elgin, on the Kau-lung \n\nducting wire of which should be of large gange. This cable may be laid in earthenware pipes, Peninsula. The chief feature is a flat, gravelly hill-top, roughly circular, and some 200 feet in \n\nand the line must be efficiently guarded by \"lightning-protectors.\" \n\n(6). A pair of Chronometers, one rated to sidereal and the other to mean solar time, will be re \n\nquired, for general use and for emergencies. \n\ndiameter. There is a smaller eminence, of corresponding height, about 400 feet to the west of it. The former of these is clearly the place for the principal building. It is at a suitable altitude (100 feet above the sea) and sufficiently roomy, commands a fair sky view, and fulfils generally the requirements an observatory site. The second eminence would, as Mr. BOWDLER has suggested, answer very well for the chief magnetic building. \n\n(7). A Collimating telescope--or a telescope with cross-threads in the focus, but a plain glass cap of instead of an eye-pices at the eye end-should be supplied, and metal supports for it to rest in. This instrument is more convenient for collimating than the Bohnenberger eye-piece, and the distant mark cannot always be counted on for the purpose, as its apparent steadiness is liable to be affected by surface radiation. \n\n(8). Distant meridian-mark. This may be made of a sheet of iron, say two feet by three feet, firmly attached to the face of a small brick pier at some distance either to the north or the south of the transit-instrument, painted with a fine cross, and pierced at the intersection of the cross for illumination at night. It can be provided locally. The hole should be of such a size that the light from a reflecting lamp placed bebind it, in a receptacle in the pier, may be seen \n\nAlthough for a time-ball, which must be visible by all the shipping, a site at Kau-lung would seem to be preferable to any other, on account of its central position and commanding view of the entire harbour, there are obvious reasons why it might be better, if possible, to have the Observatory on Hongkong itself. Unfortunately, however, the site and neighbourhood of Victoria are not available for such a purpose, as the heights which rise so steeply behind the city shut from view a large section of southern sky, extending up to 25° of altitude. This objection applies generally to sites on the north side of the island. A site in many respects suitable might be chosen on the west side, in the neigh- bourhood of Pok-fú-lam, but this would have the disadvantage of being a long way from town, and at a \n\nin the instrument like a star of the sixth magnitude. Or a gas-jet and reflector would serve somewhat inconvenient altitude. Another drawback which it would possess, and which, indeed, holds instead of a lamp. At a distance of one mile, the hole should be about 0.3 inch in diameter. good as to sites generally in the island, is that the attraction of the abrupt adjacent hill-masses would undoubtedly affect the spirit-levels of the instruments, a point not to be overlooked when choosing a site for an observatory that may hereafter attain scientific importance. \n\nIt is well to place the mark approximately horizontal with respect to the instrument. For an Observatory at Kau-lung, it would be convenient to fix the meridian-mark in Hongkong. \n\nThe above list includes all the apparatus that is necessary for time-determinations and the time- ball. It also comprises means for an excellent telegraphic determination of the longitude of the transit- instrument, by connexion with a fixed observatory, say that of Madras. With the cooperation of the Telegraph Company, which would pretty certainly be forthcoming, I see no reason to doubt that Madras time could be transmitted to Hongkong if an assistant with a chronometer were stationed at Singapore, to repeat the signals; and, vice verså, that Hongkong time could be transmitted to Madras. From this double process, the longitude may be determined with high precision, and at no cost except that of connect- ing the Observatory, by the nearest line of telegraph, with the Central Office in Queen's Road, and sending an assistant for a few days to Singapore. The importance of such determinations, especially as aids to \n\nOn the whole, therefore, I concur in the Surveyor-General's opinion that Mount Elgin affords the best available site for the Observatory. From that point, the Hongkong hills in the south shut out no more than 4° or 5° of sky, and Victoria Peak itself has an elevation of only about 7°. \n\nThe Time-Ball might be erected on any commanding point which fulfils the indispensable condition of being well seen from end to end of the harbour. Certain conditional rights, the exact scope of which I have not been able to ascertain, are held by the War Department over the plot of land, partly occupied by the Tsim-shá-tsui Police Station, which seems the natural place for the time-ball mast. The War Department also hold the high ground of the southeastern promontory. I understand that the Police Station will shortly be moved a little further back on the plateau which it now occupies, so as to clear the War Department limits. The best plan, in that case, will be to let the \n\nmarine cartography, can hardly be overstated, for it is certain that a very large proportion of the hitherto small building and mast for the Time-Ball be made an adjunct to the Police Station. The ball should \n\naccepted longitudes, dependent on observations of the Moon or on chronometric meridian distances, are seriously incorrect. Even at a place so near to Greenwich as Lisbon, the longitude was found only two years ago to be more than two miles in error. With its longitude determined accurately by the telegraphic process, the Hongkong Observatory would furnish a fundamental meridian for these seas, and marine charts would, or ought to, be brought into conformity with its exact position as thus ascertained. \n\nbe a large one, eight or nine feet in diameter, and be painted with broad bands of white and bright red. Building.The building for the Observatory must contain a general office and computing room, an office for the Director, a room for the mean solar clock, chronograph, batteries, &c., and on either side a wing room, one for the transit-instrument and sidereal clock, the other for the additional \n\n28", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310972, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 554, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "541\n\n(6)\n\nWhen the error of the standard sidereal clock has been computed from observations of stars, it is necessary to compare that clock with the mean-time clock, and then to calculate the error of the latter on mean solar time, in order that it may be set right as above explained. If the clocks are in different rooms, and cannot be compared directly with one another, it is necessary to employ hack chronometers. Or else, which is simpler and more accurate, to have in the same room with the solar clock a chronometer regulated electrically by the sidereal clock, and beating in unison with it. At Greenwich, there are two chronometers on a desk in one of the offices, one regulated by the solar clock, the other by the sidereal clock; and, as the commutating apparatus for correcting the mean solar clock is on the same desk, the whole operation of computing, comparing and correcting is done on one spot, by a single individual, in the shortest time possible. I think, however, that, by putting our chronograph into the same room with the mean solar clock, we may dispense with all of these devices. It will then only be necessary to place the chronograph in circuit with the sidereal clock, when the click of the armature or movements of the pencil on the former, taken in connexion with the beats of the mean solar clock, will furnish means for sufficiently accurate comparison.\n\n(5). A Time-Ball and apparatus, complete with electro-magnetic mechanism for dropping the ball at the instant of noon by the mean solar clock, and sending a return signal to the Observatory: also the usual air-apparatus or springs for checking its fall. Provision must be made for connecting the clock and time-ball together by an underground telegraph line, the conducting wire of which should be of large gauge. This cable may be laid in earthenware pipes, and the line must be efficiently guarded by \"lightning-protectors.\"\n\n(6). A pair of Chronometers, one rated to sidereal and the other to mean solar time, will be required, for general use and for emergencies.\n\n(7). A Collimating telescope--or a telescope with cross-threads in the focus, but a plain glass cap instead of an eye-piece at the eye end--should be supplied, and metal supports for it to rest in. This instrument is more convenient for collimating than the Bohnenberger eye-piece, and the distant mark cannot always be counted on for the purpose, as its apparent steadiness is liable to be affected by surface radiation.\n\n(8). Distant meridian-mark. This may be made of a sheet of iron, say two feet by three feet, firmly attached to the face of a small brick pier at some distance either to the north or the south of the transit-instrument, painted with a fine cross, and pierced at the intersection of the cross for illumination at night. It can be provided locally. The hole should be of such a size that the light from a reflecting lamp placed behind it, in a receptacle in the pier, may be seen in the instrument like a star of the sixth magnitude. Or a gas-jet and reflector would serve instead of a lamp. At a distance of one mile, the hole should be about 0.3 inch in diameter. It is well to place the mark approximately horizontal with respect to the instrument. For an Observatory at Kau-lung, it would be convenient to fix the meridian-mark in Hongkong,\n\nThe above list includes all the apparatus that is necessary for time-determinations and the time-ball. It also comprises means for an excellent telegraphic determination of the longitude of the transit-instrument, by connexion with a fixed observatory, say that of Madras. With the cooperation of the Telegraph Company, which would pretty certainly be forthcoming, I see no reason to doubt that Madras time could be transmitted to Hongkong if an assistant with a chronometer were stationed at Singapore, to repeat the signals; and, vice versa, that Hongkong time could be transmitted to Madras. From this double process, the longitude may be determined with high precision, and at no cost except that of connecting the Observatory, by the nearest line of telegraph, with the Central Office in Queen's Road, and sending an assistant for a few days to Singapore. The importance of such determinations, especially as aids to marine cartography, can hardly be overstated, for it is certain that a very large proportion of the hitherto accepted longitudes, dependent on observations of the Moon or on chronometric meridian distances, are seriously incorrect. Even at a place so near to Greenwich as Lisbon, the longitude was found only two years ago to be more than two miles in error. With its longitude determined accurately by the telegraphic process, the Hongkong Observatory would furnish a fundamental meridian for these seas, and marine charts would, or ought to, be brought into conformity with its exact position as thus ascertained.\n\n(7)\n\nI should recommend some special provision for ascertaining the latitude of the Observatory, if it were not that Lieutenant-Commander GREEN, U.S.N., commanding the United States' surveying-vessel Palos, is already in these seas, engaged in the special task of determining true positions by the best modern methods, for purposes chiefly of marine cartography. In this branch of work, which has been neglected hitherto by our Admiralty, the United States' hydrographers have already made great and valuable progress in many parts of the world. It was Lieutenant-Commander GREEN who detected the error of the Lisbon longitude above referred to; and I have no doubt that, when he comes here, he will determine the latitude of some point in the Colony with considerable accuracy. He will also ascertain our longitude, as one station in a series comprising Nagasaki, Yokohama, Shanghai, Amoy, Hongkong, Manila, Saigon and Singapore, connected at one end with Vladivostok (the longitude of which has of late been accurately re-determined by telegraph from St. Petersburg), and at the other end with Madras. This, however, will not do away with the advisability of a repetition of the longitude determination as suggested in the previous paragraph, especially as such repetition will involve only a trifling outlay.\n\nOf the above apparatus, I recommend that the transit-instrument and collimator be ordered from Messrs. TROUGHTON & SIMMS; the time-ball, chronograph, clocks and chronometers from Messrs. DENT, of the Strand. I have no exact knowledge of the cost of a time-ball, but I estimate that the rest of the equipment, as described above, should be procurable for about £500, and that a complete time-ball apparatus should not cost more than £400.\n\nSite.--I have examined the site which has been proposed, at Mount Elgin, on the Kau-lung Peninsula. The chief feature is a flat, gravelly hill-top, roughly circular, and some 200 feet in diameter. There is a smaller eminence, of corresponding height, about 400 feet to the west of it. The former of these is clearly the place for the principal building. It is at a suitable altitude (100 feet above the sea) and sufficiently roomy, commands a fair sky view, and fulfils generally the requirements of an observatory site. The second eminence would, as Mr. BOWDLER has suggested, answer very well for the chief magnetic building.\n\nAlthough for a time-ball, which must be visible by all the shipping, a site at Kau-lung would seem to be preferable to any other, on account of its central position and commanding view of the entire harbour, there are obvious reasons why it might be better, if possible, to have the Observatory on Hongkong itself. Unfortunately, however, the site and neighbourhood of Victoria are not available for such a purpose, as the heights which rise so steeply behind the city shut from view a large section of southern sky, extending up to 25° of altitude. This objection applies generally to sites on the north side of the island. A site in many respects suitable might be chosen on the west side, in the neighbourhood of Pok-fit-lam, but this would have the disadvantage of being a long way from town, and at a somewhat inconvenient altitude. Another drawback which it would possess, and which, indeed, holds good as to sites generally in the island, is that the attraction of the abrupt adjacent hill-masses would undoubtedly affect the spirit-levels of the instruments, a point not to be overlooked when choosing site for an observatory that may hereafter attain scientific importance.\n\n2\n\nOn the whole, therefore, I concur in the Surveyor-General's opinion that Mount Elgin affords the best available site for the Observatory. From that point, the Hongkong hills in the south shut out no more than 4° or 5° of sky, and Victoria Peak itself has an elevation of only about 7°.\n\nThe Time-Ball might be erected on any commanding point which fulfils the indispensable condition of being well seen from end to end of the harbour. Certain conditional rights, the exact scope of which I have not been able to ascertain, are held by the War Department over the plot of land, partly occupied by the Tsim-shá-tsui Police Station, which seems the natural place for the time-ball mast. The War Department also hold the high ground of the southeastern promontory. I understand that the Police Station will shortly be moved a little further back on the plateau which it now occupies, so as to clear the War Department limits. The best plan, in that case, will be to let the small building and mast for the Time-Ball be made an adjunct to the Police Station. The ball should be a large one, eight or nine feet in diameter, and be painted with broad bands of white and bright red. Building. The building for the Observatory must contain a general office and computing room, an office for the Director, a room for the mean solar clock, chronograph, batteries, &c., and on either side a wing room, one for the transit-instrument and sidereal clock, the other for the additional", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317684, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-201 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [6]", "page_number": 365, "title": "CO129-201 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [6]", "content_text": "## 2\n\nAs I can now find no trace of it, it was, if I am not mistaken, to the effect that care was to be taken that the Committee of the Jung Wah Hospital should not be allowed to interfere in public matters foreign to their character as a Hospital established for charitable purposes.\n\n## 2.\n\nThere seems to be very little doubt that for some time past this Hospital Committee have not limited themselves to these purposes. They appear to have been recognized by the Chinese as a kind of tribunal to which petitions for redress of grievances should be addressed and in fact to have exercised the duties of which the Registrar General was relieved as Protector of Chinese. Public sittings were held occasionally, and summonses to witnesses to appear were obeyed as if issued by a regular court of justice.\n\n## 3.\n\nIn confirmation of this assertion, I would beg to refer Your Lordship to the annexed copies of three reports from the Registrar General. In the one dated the 17th instant, it will be seen that the Hospital Committee have been in direct communication with the Chinese Minister at Tokio.\n\nPage 364 \nChinese", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-201 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317888, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 139, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "## Governor\n### No. ch 136 \n### Date. 188 \n20 July \n\n**Hongkong** \n### No. 15584 \n**(Subject.)** 1509 \n**RECP X** \n**DESPATCH.** \n**REGP 31 AUG 82** \n136 \n**Duties of Protector** \nrefly of Chinese \n\n**Last previous Paper.** 15227. \nans? by Tel: 2 recorded I Septe \nAns\" by dest: no.198. g. Sept \n\n| No | Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| 15822 | (12 rue. 10 81-18 1323) |\n\nNo Russell's Reports ines for the past as for the past \nEncloves Memo by Ag. Col. Lee? \n\n**(Minutes.)** \nM: Mande \nSee 15822. \nM: Russell was offered the Registrar general on it's old footing, without having solicited the appointment. After talking it & entering upon its duties he is informed that Sir. J. Hennessy considers the Office itself incapable a mistake d the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317889, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 140, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "## The duties, and that the Secretary for State considered there statement worthy of consideration.\n\nIt was the old story, Sing word f writed evidence but the matter against the honest meu, having been well thrashed out, it appeared to me a matta for Surprise despatches pity to reopen it. It is not to be surprised if M: Russell has been bitterly apon bunt by the reflection cast lefron him. If dad Him beley is satisfied as to the case, it might be well that the description given by the Chinese community, and by Dr. Eitel in his report of the 25th of October 1879, of the adguti for of children and domestic servitude in Chinese families, is true; and that any abuses that may occur will be exposed by the Chinese Society, with which, under your Lordship's instructions, the police are co-operating; that no further change is needed in the executive machinery now dealing with this matter; and that no alteration of the law on this subject is required.\n\nAs we have already stated, the bulk of the population of Hongkong up-dgeported the Governor in the view that there was nothing legal in the ordinary made of adoption of Chinese children in this Colony; but it be noted here that, although a considerable section of the European residents did think that something should be done in order to do away gradually with the power conferred by this system up well-to-do Chinese, Sir John Pope Hennessy expressed his opinion that no further change was needed in the executive machinery now dealing with this matter. This does not look as if Governor Hennessy were waging a war against the community for the abolition of Domestic Slavery!\n\nIf we turn our attention to the more revolting form of so-called slavery, commonly known as Brothel Slavery, it will be found, from the records of Governor Hennessy's administration in this Colony, that one of the most remarkable features of his five years' mis-vale was the neutralisation and disorganisation of the only Department that could deal effectively with this evil. In 1875, an Ordinance was passed, during Sir Arthur Kennedy's term of office, for the more effectual protection of women and children, under which person convicted of having brought any woman into the Colony for immoral purposes became liable to a severe punishment.\n\nThe greatest difficulties insurmountable existed in the way of obtaining evidence by which this crime could be brought home to the offenders—difficulties which appeared to become insurmountable when considered in conjunction with the low moral sense shown by all concerned in each transaction, and the prosaic and indifferent feeling which seemed to prevail amongst almost all classes of the Chinese Community on the subject. Still, some check was attempted to be placed upon these enormities by the Registrar General's Department, up to the time when Governor Hennessy began his efforts to destroy the Contagious Diseases Ordinances and to centralise or put an end to all healthy effort put forth by the Protector of the Chinese.\n\nThe grave complaints made by the Earl of Kimberley, as well as by nearly every medical officer of position belonging to the army or navy who had studied the object, against the supineness of Governor Hennessy as regards the application of the law affecting this subject, are on record. The Secretary of State has repeatedly called upon Sir John Pope Hennessy to cease his quibblings and to set to work to grapple with the difficulties, when this delicate but important question is being discussed.\n\nInstead of doing this, however, the Governor shut down, and wrote since his arrival at Home in England. It is a bold, some say an impudent, course to assert that the outcry against him in Hongkong arose from his uprooting a social evil. The war, therefore, which was waged, was not against Brothel Slavery, in this connection, by the young men, but against the very Department of Government which alone could make headway against the evil.\n\nWhile Sir John Pope Hennessy must be credited with having been instrumental in obtaining the assistance of the Chinese in detecting cases of kidnapping, he at the same time incurred the gravest responsibility by leaving all other means untried by which the great evils inseparable from the low morality of the Chinese might have been successfully dealt with. During the past three months, since the happy release of the Cuinny, the office of Registrar General and \"Protector of Chinese\" has been reorganised.\n\nThe Hon. James Russell, whose legal ability and administrative talent fitted him for its duties, is bringing great welminis trative ability and energy to the task of reorganisation; and there is every reason to believe that in a short time the office will exercise a more potent influence than it has ever yet done, for the unqualified good of the Colony.\n\nIt may be said that the ill effects of official friction and obstruction have sufficiently demonstrated how great good can be accomplished, at least through this one Department of the service; and now that a capable head has been fairly installed, with full powers to reorganise and reconstruct, and in all sympathy with the Head of the Executive, good fruits will doubtless be forthcoming in due course. Indeed, signs have not altogether been wanting already of an improved state of affairs, especially as affecting the department of work to which our remarks specially refer.\n\nThe C. D. law is being vigorously brought into force, and those concerned are now beginning to discover that a new hand has got hold of the reins, and that any regime very different from that under which they have been flourishing for some years past has entered upon work.\n\n## [No. 5900-June 15, 1882]\n\nMy Lord,--With reference to my view of the legal questions relating to the so-called slavery in Hongkong on which your Lordship points out, differed with the late Attorney General, Mr. Phillippo, in cases of bringing females to the Colony for immoral purposes, the Registrar General has succeeded in bringing home this charge in three cases during the last few days.\n\nWhilst I am clearly of opinion that there is nothing ilegal in the ordinary mode of adoption of Chinese children in the Colony, I still think that, in the particular case of Sang San Fat's child, I was wrong in instructing Mr. Phillippo to prosecute Loung 4 Tait, as in that case there appeared to be some evidence that the child was about to be taken out of the Colony, against the wish of the parents. This seemed to me to be an offence at common law.\n\n2. In reply to your Lordship's further questions, I have the honour to state that further enquiries confirm me in the opinion that punishment is always most effective with Chinese when it is swiftly denont; and these examples, together with others where girls of tender years were sold in Canton, will do much to open the eyes of the unprincipled people concerned that such offences cannot longer be tolerated.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317897, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 148, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW\n\n## immense\n\nand not to proceed to any distance from town alone, on account of the island being infested with robbers. In 1848 an attempt was made to poison 25 soldiers of the Royal Artillery. In 1853 more than 70 cases of piracy occurred in the neighbourhood of Hongkong, whilst the number of robberies from houses and from the person which were daily reported was almost incredible. In 1854 the whole of the European population was thrown into an abject state of terror by the rumoured approach of a piratical fleet, and several hundred armed Chinese, preparing for an attack on Kaulung, were captured in the streets of Hongkong. In 1857 incendiarism was flourishing in Hongkong, piracies were recorded almost every week, an attempt was made to poison the whole foreign community, and in December that year the Government, fearing a general emeute of the Chinese population, had to issue a notification stating that, at the Central Police Station, one hundred stand of arms complete, with appointments and ammunition, were ready for the use of that portion of the Foreign Community who were unprovided with fire-arms.” These facts require no comment. Let the philanthropist say what his good nature dictates as to the orderly character of the ordinary Chinaman, but the past history of Hongkong shows plainly that the \"heathen Chinee\" is a good-natured harmless individual enough till the devil is roused in him by misfortune, bad example, temptation or misgovernment.\n\n## \n\nNow what did the Hongkong Government do for the native population during this first period of the history of Hongkong? Laws were made for them, police regulations were framed, revised, recast; Ordinances were published without number, some of which were indeed published in Chinese but worded so obscurely that, on several occasions, the badness of the translation produced misunderstandings, which ended in riots and bloodshed. Education, schools for the children of the native or foreign population, appear to have never occurred to the Government, or at any rate no attempt was made in such a direction, till, full fourteen years after the occupation of Hongkong, a public meeting was held on 6th March 1855, \"to consider reasons for the establishment of a public school.\" One thing, however, was attempted with a view to bring the complaints of the native population before the governing classes, and to produce a better understanding between both, viz. an office of \"Protector of Chinese\" was created by Sir John Davis in 1846. This was a well-meant measure and certainly a step in the right direction, but the duties of this office remained a dead letter, owing to the successive Registrars General, who filled the post, being more or less ignorant of the Chinese language, until Mr. D. R. Caldwell was appointed Protector of Chinese. Even he, with his competent knowledge of the speech and customs of the Cantonese people, was but imperfectly acquainted with the written language and could therefore not do full justice to this important office. As to the interpretation in the Courts, there was during this whole period no competent interpreter attached to the Police Magistracy or Supreme Court with the exception of Mr. Caldwell, nor was any attempt made, on the part of the Government, to provide for competent interpreters for the future. The few sentences in power of speaking Chinese was looked upon as little short of miraculous, and the native interpreters in the Courts, with their imperfect knowledge of English and their ignorance of more than one native dialect, with their power for good or evil to represent or misrepresent what witnesses or defendants stated, remained absolutely unchecked. There were some competent Chinese scholars during this period attached to the Colonial Secretary's Office, as long as the Governors of Hongkong held also the office of Superintendent of Trade. There were Morrison, Thom, Gützlaff, Mongan, Wade, but their time was occupied with documentary translation work, they having to conduct the correspondence between the British and Chinese Governments, and when the office of Superintendent of Trade was, in 1854, transferred to Shanghai, there was, apart from the Missionaries, not a man left in Hongkong thoroughly acquainted with both the written and spoken languages of China. There was a good deal of pretence to Chinese acquirements by one or two persons, a sort of thing of which only too conspicuous an example had been set by Sir John Bowring, but there was no reality. The amount of Chinese knowledge of which the average English official of the Colony was possessed, during the period which elapsed before Sir Hercules Robinson's arrival, is best illustrated by an episode which occurred in Colonel Caine's, the Chief Magistrate's, Court. But for the better understanding of this really authentic story, I must premise, that Colonel Caine had heard in social intercourse with other officials that a great discussion was going on among Sinologists as to the meaning of \"barbarian,\" but that he was entirely unaware of the popular epithets applied, up to the present day, by the common speech of the people to foreigners in general *fan kwai* i.e. foreign devil, and to Englishmen *hûng màu kwai* i.e. red-haired devil. This will explain the following incident, as reported, in Tarrant's \"Hongkong\" (p. 109):\n\nMagistrate: Collins,-Collins, I say. \nCollins: Your Honour! \nMagistrate: Did not that witness say *fan kwai* in his evidence? \nCollins: He did, your Honour. \nMagistrate: Then take him out of the Court and give him three lashes! (Lashes administered). And now, Interpreter, tell the witness that when he speaks of an Englishman in this Court he must call him **hương anh Kuri**.\n\n*The truth probably was that the witness said, after having given his evidence \"mâ fòn ¿kwai\" i.e. \"may I go home?\" for the words *fan 'kwai* \"foreign devil,\" mean, when pronounced in a different tone, *fán kwai*, to go home.\"*\n\nMr Caldwell was the only Government officer during this whole period who could orally interpret from Cantonese into English, and vice versa, with correctness and fluency, but the other dialects, spoken by at least one fourth of the population of Hongkong, viz. the Hakka, Chin-chow or Swatow, Tiêchiu, Amoy and Foochow dialects, remained absolutely without any competent interpreter. Ever since Mr. Caldwell resigned, the want of his services has been much felt, and his place has never been satisfactorily filled.\n\n## \n\nWith the arrival of Sir Hercules Robinson (1859) a new period opened in the history of Hongkong. The policy that seemed to guide all previous Governors was principally to provide for present urgent wants, to try and repress crime, to keep things smooth and to gloss over, by temporary measures, what could not be mended efficiently. It seemed as if each of them was averse to sowing seed which could not be expected to ripen within his own term of office. So they confined themselves each to pull down what his predecessor had built up, or restricted their energies to simple political patchwork, a proceeding far more easy and especially more pleasing to personal vanity, than the laborious, self-denying task of laying solid foundations to be built on—or set aside—by their successors in office.\n\nSir Hercules Robinson was a man of different stamp, patient, resolute, far-seeing. It is true the previous bad state of things, lawlessness and crime among the native population, continued for some years into his term of administration, but measures were introduced by him which were continued by his successors and eventually succeeded in completely altering the state of things. The Civil Service had its abuses inquired into, the Police force was reconstituted, the Gaol discipline was reformed, a \n\nPage 4 \nPage 14 \nPage 145", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317903, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 154, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW\n\n## CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF THE CHINESE EMPIRE\n\nThe merit of the work is evident, and yet the author does not offend against the due reverence for his forefathers. How grand is the leading idea of the composition, emphasizing the sacredness of constitutional law! How clearly he distinguishes what is essential in the Spirit of Law, and how necessary it is to adopt the form to the changed conditions of modern times. He gives a good account of its sources, explaining its relation to precedent and to other branches of the same great subject. It is interesting to notice how guarded is the language in the declaration that the work is the faithful reproduction of former times, and yet without a slavish adherence to the mere letter, which would cause a loss of the very spirit of that which should be conserved and handed down without change of character to posterity. The argument is plain to show that Law is originally founded upon equity, and that the meaning and intention are to be held as more important than the mere letter and outward form. There is also a clear statement as to the wide application of general principles. It would be unfair to withhold the acknowledgment that the Imperial writer was sincere in the profession of a desire to be the Father of his Country and a Protector of the rights of all classes of the people. There is certainly a pleasing contrast, as has already been intimated, between the Emperors of the present dynasty and all who have gone before.\n\nFollowing the Preface is a List of the officials who formed the Committee, who prepared the work under Imperial Authority. There are more than two hundred names, the first of which is an Imperial uncle, brother of the Emperor Yung Ching; then follow the names of many high officials, Members of Cabinet, Presidents and Vice Presidents of several of the Six Boards, and eminent scholars.\n\nNext comes an Imperial Ode by Kin Lung, with a preface. The translations appended will suffice to explain their character. Attention will be attracted by the fact of the Emperor's testimony in regard to the superiority of type to wooden blocks, and his statements in regard to the invention of printing with moveable types. He was pronounced in his preference for what is new when it was shown to be a real improvement upon old methods.\n\n### An Imperial Ode, with ten rhymes, suspended in the Military Heroes' Hall, in praise of the \"Collected Gems\" (types) with preface.\n\nAn examination of the scattered documents and miscellaneous papers of the Great Statutes of Wing Loh (1403), and a careful search among the libraries that have been preserved in the Empire, shows not less than ten thousand varieties. These have been published in the \"Complete Works of the Four Libraries\" (Vide Wylie's Notes on Chinese Literature). The selection of what men seldom see, of what is profitable for the instruction of the age, and the hearts of mankind, and worthy of being a mirror for reference, these should be printed and transmitted as excellent, to teach all who come to make them a study. But the varieties are very many, and the cutting of the blocks is no easy matter. Kam Kan, the keeper of the Military Heroes' Hall, has recommended the use of living characters (types). In that case, the trouble of cutting blocks may be avoided. Again, there need be no waste of time by delay. There will be a saving of both time and labor to the advantage of simplicity and dispatch.\n\n\"It is found upon examination that it is recorded in 'The Pencil Conversations of Sham Kúi' that during the reign of Hing Lik (1141) of the Sung dynasty, there was a man named Pat Shing who made living blocks (types) out of adhesive clay; and in 'Luk Sham's Memoirs of the Golden Tower,' it is recorded that there was a man of Pi Lak (a place in the province of Kiang-sú) who made use of lead characters, but these were both inferior to wooden blocks in convenience. This was the beginning of type printing. It is to be considered that the body of those made of clay was coarse, the substance of those cast in lead was soft, and so neither were equal in excellence of workmanship to wooden blocks. Moreover, in cutting single characters to the amount of more than 250,000, although the number of varieties of books may be hundreds and tons, all are available for use.\n\nSo that it may be affirmed that, in the comparison of excellence, the modern mode is superior to the ancient. But the name of 'living character block' is not elegant; therefore, in the appended Ode, the name is changed to 'Collected Gems':-\n\n\"Searching antiquity, making researches for the Four Libraries, now all at once there are five carriages~(1). Beginning to print, thinking of after ages, there is an accumulation of blocks that might fill a house.\n\nThe Collection of the Tong College Chung Tip. The Remains of the age of Leung by Chan-man.--(2). Both were executed with types, used to print the Complete Works. Finer in appearance than the Crane's Crest, more abundant than the collection of the shelves of Ip.-(3).\n\nThe contrivance is easy of execution, no need of block-cutters, the work is doubled and without the trouble of copying. Matching shoulder pieces is a matter for precedent; the plan of moulding clay is coarse.-(4).\n\nDestroying the copper was a mistake to be regretted; cutting in wood, this shames me!-(5).\n\nNow again the work is completed and carefully collected.-(6). Completed copies are exhibited to those who come to learn, giving full satisfaction to every desire.\"\n\n### Notes\n\n1. Allusion is made here to the facts mentioned in History, that the Han Dynasty had large libraries, enough to fill five carriages when they were removed.\n2. Another historical allusion to large libraries.\n3. The \"Crane's Crest\" is explained in a note, which says: Last year, a book was presented from Kiangnan, which had Crane's Crest characters (that is a fanciful name for type), but the workmanship of the character was not good, and there were many errors in it. There is still another historical allusion to a large library.\n4. \"Matching shoulder pieces\" refers to the preparation of fur robes made of the finest pieces of the skins of animals. Some of them are very rare and of fine workmanship and so very expensive.\n5. Another note explains this reference, which says: During the time of Kang-hi (1662), an Imperial Edition of Ancient and Modern Works with illustrations was printed on plates formed with copper characters (type). After the printing, the types were deposited in the Military Heroes' Hall, for a long number of years. It is probable that some of the type had been stolen, and the officer in charge, fearing that he would be blamed, and just at the beginning of the reign of Kin-Lung, when cash was at a high premium at the Capital, so a request was made to destroy the copper type for coinage. This was granted. The gain was but little, and the loss was very great. It was a miserable calculation. Had the copper type still remained, would not the printing of books at the present time have been performed with half the amount of labor? It is very much to be regretted.\n6. Reference is made here to a misprint—the lower half of the character omitted, leaving the character \"fish\" instead of its intended meaning.\n\nIt is hardly worth while to delay to make any extended survey of the Plan of the Work and the Report of the Committee to the Throne when the work was finished, but they are not unimportant, and especially the latter is a fine specimen of Chinese thought and style, and would repay a careful study as connected with the subject in hand.\n\nThe next matter is the Index of subjects...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317933, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 184, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "## Government House, Hong Kong, 20th July, 1882.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI am asked in Your Lordship's Dispatch Nr. 105 of 29th May 1882 to report upon Sir W. Pope Hennessy's objections to a return to the arrangement under which the Registrar General performed the duties of Protector of Chinese Immigration.\n\nThe Right Honourable \nThe Earl of Kimberley \nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for \nThe Colonies", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317976, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 227, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "224 \n\nThe Chief Clerk is powerful for a long time. \"In connection with the Registrar General's Office, you are aware that Nuthurais Surrass Saver pretended to know Chinese, and \n\nhe adds that some time ago it was distinctly stated to the Governor that if any knowledge of Chinese were necessary he would be ineligible. \n\nThis was on the 18th May last. His Excellency appeared before the Registrar General to be held with the Office of Protector at a salary $6000 per annum, and added that the duties of Registrar General will be the same as several Police Magistrates in the time of Mr. Bridges. In accepting the post, I stated that I had ably filled the office for some time in 1874, and knew the duties of the office as they were then, and that when the time comes for me entering on the duties of the office, I hope I shall be able to discharge them satisfactorily. I can only repeat that when I take charge of the office, \n\nI shall be prepared to undertake each duty I had in 1874, and as were performed by yourself. \n\nJW. C. C. Smith and Shavers \n\n(Signed) H. Russell. Colonial Police Force \n\nEdwin Pensey Bur...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318151, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 403, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "397\n\ntransferred that would be felt if the duties of Protector of Chinese were to the Colonial Secretary\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient\nHumble Servant,\nMurth\nAdministrator.\n\nS. O. S. 2795 of 1882.\n\nCopy\nCO. 17122\nRECR\nREGE 27 SEP 82,\n\nIn this Reselling the Administas, Joe Mick Juanch\n\nThe undersigned merchant, and other of Hongpong present a respectful petition. Petitioners have recently heard a rumour, whether it is true if not they do not know, that a despatch has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies expressing a desire that the Office of Registrar General and Protector of Chinese should be abolished and that henceforward all Chinese Petitions should be presented at the Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\nIf this is a proposal emanating from the Imperial government, your Petitioners ought not to interfere but regularly remonstrate to further discuss the matter. And when they reflect that Government considered...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318199, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 451, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "to leave the brothel, and make up your mind to go to a protector abandoning prostitution, the Government will certainly let you do as you please, \n\nand will not allow you to be detained against your will. You must all be aware of this. Be not deceived by brothel keepers. Observe this notice.\n\nSeen from the Registrar General's office.\n\nTranslation.\n\n\"The purchase of people for the purpose of prostitution is quite contrary to English law. Should brothel keepers deceive or purchase ignorant women to force them to become prostitutes, or use other pretences to have power and control over them, if you are being thus in trouble, you can go at once to the officials, and report the matter so that you can be punished according to law. There can be no excuse for you to disobey. Each one of you must tremblingly obey this, and do not treat this as a slight matter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318420, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 672, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# 663\n\n\"the purposes of prostitution, has gradually decreased.\"\n\n4.\n\nWhen the Tung Leung suggested that there should be a record in the Colony of the women and children, who have left for the purpose of their people searching in case they were taken, I am of the opinion that it would be quite improper to keep them, but as the number of photographs would be very great, I think that they should not be kept for more than 3 months. This would give sufficient time for people to come here and make inquiries. 2 months would be enough.\n\nThe unmounted ones would be pasted on at the corners and easily detached for new ones.\n\nI have spoken to H. Fussell.\n\n(Signed) Beauchamp.\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 344.**\n\nThe following Notice is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\n**FREDERICK STEWART**,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nHongkong, 26th August, 1882.\n\n**NOTICE.**\n\nThe Emigration Officer gives notice that for the better protection of Emigrants, it is hereby notified that on and after the 1st proximo women and children who are taken before him for the purpose of emigrating should be provided with one photograph each. If the woman or child is passed, the photograph will be stamped and given back to the Emigrant. The Emigrant will show this photograph to the proper Officer on board the vessel before departure, and again to the Protector of Chinese or proper Officer on the Emigrant's arrival at Port of destination.\n\n**H. G. THOMSETT, B.N.,**\n\nEmigration Officer, &c.\n\nHongkong, 21st August, 1882.\n\n號四十四百三第報憲\n\n八月十六日示\n\n憲輔政使司史管理出洋事務官諭\n\n報膮者於來轅聽候查訊時必須攜有照相一張照得現將管理出洋事務官之文告開示於下仰一體遵照毋違\n\n須將此照相呈與該營官查驗亦須呈與該埠保護華民之員或該管官凛遵毋違特示\n\n大英一千八百八十二年八月二十一日給\n\n經呈於辦理准驗來事出洋宜與照相收出便聽得嗣領洋保候先在印婦女幼孩照相出洋篇郎保與於護船後", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318423, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 675, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# As Eiseling the Fanninitiator for his decision.\n\nLated 2nd day of Moon (18th September 1682), same Sig feat. Yann Directors of the To Leving Kurt.\n\n(Signes, Tring ssing than & others.\n\nThe ston: James Russi Paquitan Generai\n\nWithout reference to nationality, all persons Riding on British Territory are free agents. They cannot be under the restraint of others. If any of you, girls, have been kidnapped, purchased, seduced, deceived, or, for money, or have been compelled to swear before entering the brothels that you will act as prostitutes, to which you object, you must understand that this is illegal, and you are at liberty to come personally to this office, or go to any police station to report. The matter will be attended to at once, at your convenience. If you want to leave the brothel, and make up your mind to go to a protector, abandoning prostitution, the Government will certainly let you do what you will.\n\nThere are nearly a hundred houses, of which some are for the use of foreigners only, all of which are under Medical as well as Police inspection. There are nearly a hundred other houses frequented by Chinese alone, which are subject to domiciliary Police visits with a view to the liberty of the women and sanitary laws, but the inmates are not subject to the Medical inspection. It will thus be seen that the Chinese brothels are divided into two classes, and that while both are liable to Police inspection, only one is liable to Medical inspection.\n\nThe subjoined translation of a heading of a list of names in each house shows that the keepers have no plea of ignorance of the law. The Registrar-General's Department, since taking up the subject last spring, was to put a stop to brothel slavery by the erection of such safeguards as would render any form of servitude impossible and prevent personation, to which end Contagious Diseases Ordinance in Hong Kong was inquired into.\n\nThe purchase of people for the purpose of prostitution is quite contrary to English law. Should you, in order to force them to become prostitutes, or use other pretences to have power and control over them, they are in trouble, you can go to the officials, and report the matter, so that you can be punished according to law. There can be no excuse for you if you treat this as a slight matter.\n\nFrom these details it will be apparent to all observers that there can be little excuse left for those women who pretend to be ignorant of their rights and privileges under British rule. To this end the Department has been quietly but steadily working for some months. As one precaution against personation and imposition, each woman is, when she comes to register, now required to produce two photographs of herself, one for the Registrar-General to insert in the Registration book, with her name, age, &c., the other for her to keep and produce to Inspectors when they make their visits.\n\nThen, again, it is a significant fact that the new arrivals who have been recently registered are, with rare exceptions, especially in the purely Chinese brothels, old and unattractive women, no fresh young girls being among them. Whether this is due to the impossibility of purchasing them as slaves and holding them in bondage or to the efforts of the Po Leung Kuk in suppressing kidnapping we are unable to say positively; but we think it is the former cause that operates most powerfully.\n\nIt is not too much to say that, under the present administration, the liberty of the subject is so fenced round with precautions that it is almost impossible for any one to break through them successfully. In one respect, however, the law is still defective: it does not fully secure the future of young children, so many of whom are brought up in these abodes of vice. It is in contemplation, we hear, to amend the present Ordinance and forbid the keeping of all children in brothels, a measure which, however unpalatable to the persons interested, will deal a deadly, and, we may hope, final blow at the hateful system of quasi-slavery which has grown up, like a fungus, in our midst, and in spite of British laws being so directly and uncompromisingly antagonistic to the abominable institution.\n\nIn devising these new checks upon this great social evil, the Registrar-General received much useful help and willing co-operation from the leading Chinese in the Colony, which has been more valuable on account of the difficulties necessarily surrounding the question. That the efforts now put forth may in time efface the last vestige of the abuse we sincerely trust, but it may be as well to warn the Government that the slightest relaxation of vigilance, the least encouragement to the brothel keepers, will be shown.\n\n## \nRegistrar-General's Department.\n\nThe following is a translation of a document:----\n\n**Notice to Prostitutes**\n\nWithout reference to nationality, all persons on British Territory are free agents. They cannot be under the restraint of others. If any of you girls have been kidnapped, purchased, seduced, deceived, or pledged for money, or have been compelled to swear before entering the brothels that you will act as prostitutes, to which you object, you must understand that this is illegal, and you are at liberty to come personally to this office, or go to any police station to report. The matter will be attended to at once, at your convenience. If you want to leave the brothel, and make up your mind to go to a protector, abandoning prostitution, the Government will certainly let you do what you will. You must all be aware of this. Be not deceived by brothel keepers. Observe this notice.\n\n**Registrar-General's Department**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318894, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 451, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "46. \n\nto deal with the complaints about \"protected\" women frequently using their houses as sly brothels, Dr Floggett suggested the provisions of 39 Vict: Chap 15, sec. ... Dr Wellesley St. suggested that the Protector should have ... responsibility. The lodging house inspection clause would press hard here and probably lead to opposition.\n\nSection 60-61, Section 61 places in the hands of the Registrar General and Inspector of Hospitals, the powers of making rules and regulations, subject to appeal to the Governor in Council, for regulating sanitary conditions and other matters, instead of the cumbersome plan before existing.\n\nSections 62-68. Procedure remains as it was, only that the hearing may be in private instead of leaving it to the person affected to demand publicity, as per the Committee of Lords. (The Times, 22nd July 1882).\n\nThe schedules have been altered to meet the foregoing suggestions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318935, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 492, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "## Penalties for harbouring\n\n57. Every such recognizance shall be deemed to be forfeited if at any time during the term for which it is entered into the woman to whom it relates is in any public thoroughfare, street or place or in any vessel, junk, boat, sampan or craft for the purpose of prostitution or otherwise conducts herself as a common prostitute.\n\n58. If any person (not a Registered Brothel Keeper) being the occupier of any house, room or place or being a manager or assistant in the management thereof having reasonable cause to believe any woman to be a common prostitute induces or suffers her to resort to or be in that house room or place for the purpose of prostitution he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance and on summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or at the discretion of a Magistrate to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding six months with or without hard labour.\n\n59. If it is made to appear to the Registrar General on the oath of two witnesses that any \"kept\" woman is conducting herself as a prostitute, or that she permits other women to come to her house room or place for the purposes of prostitution the Registrar General may call upon her \"protector\" to enter into a bond with sureties not exceeding two hundred dollars for her future good behaviour. If the \"protector\" refuses to enter into such bond the Registrar General may order her to undergo a periodical Medical Examination.\n\n## Expenses of Execution of Ordinance\n\n60. All fines imposed and levied for offences against this Ordinance and all fees and payments collected under the provisions thereof shall be appropriated to the formation of a general fund for the purposes of this Ordinance.\n\n61. The Registrar General may from time to time make, alter and revoke regulations for any of the following purposes:\n1st. For securing the observance of sanitary conditions in Registered Brothels.\n2nd. For fixing the sums to be paid to the Registrar General by Keepers of Registered Brothels.\n\nThe Inspector of Hospitals may from time to time make, alter and revoke regulations for any of the following purposes:\n1st. For regulating the times and places and conduct of Medical Examination under this Ordinance.\n2nd. For the control and management of women authorized to be detained in Hospital under this Ordinance, and for making the scale of charges in respect of the treatment of such women.\n\nAll regulations and all alterations and revocations made under this section shall be subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, and when approved shall take effect seven days after the publication thereof in the Gazette, and a copy of the Gazette containing such publication shall be conclusive evidence of such regulations. Copies of all regulations and all alterations thereof made under this Ordinance shall be sent to the Registrar General, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Inspector of Hospitals and all Visiting Surgeons.\n\n## Procedure\n\n62. The place in which the Registrar General shall sit in discharge of his duties shall be such place as may from time to time be appointed for that purpose by the Governor.\n\n63. The hearing either in the first instance or upon appeal of any matter arising under this Ordinance may be in private. No proceedings under this Ordinance shall be commenced before a Magistrate except at the instance of or with the sanction of the Attorney General or the Registrar General.\n\n64. Every person violating the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulation or bye-law made in pursuance thereof shall be guilty of a Misdemeanour and except where otherwise provided by this Ordinance or by any regulations or bye-laws made as aforesaid shall be liable on summary conviction before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318955, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 512, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "# \n511\n\n## 57. \nEvery such recognizance shall be deemed to be forfeited if at any time during the term for which it is entered into the woman to whom it relates is in any public thoroughfare, street or place or in any vessel, junk, boat, sampan or craft for the purpose of prostitution or otherwise conducts herself as a common prostitute.\n\n## Penalties for harbouring.\n58. If any person (not a Registered Brothel Keeper) being the occupier of any house, room or place or being a manager or assistant in the management thereof having reasonable cause to believe any woman to be a common prostitute induces or suffers her to resort to or be in that house room or place for the purpose of prostitution he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance and on summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or at the discretion of a Magistrate to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding six months with or without hard labour.\n\n59. If it is made to appear to the Registrar General on the oath of two witnesses that any kept woman is conducting herself as a prostitute, or that she permits other women to come to her house room or place for the purposes of prostitution the Registrar General may call upon her \"protector\" to enter into a bond with sureties not exceeding two hundred dollars for her future good behaviour. If the \"protector\" refuses to enter into such bond the Registrar General may order her to undergo a periodical Medical Examination.\n\n## Expenses of Execution of Ordinance.\n60. All fines imposed and levied for offences against this Ordinance and all fees and payments collected under the provisions thereof shall be appropriate to the formation of a general fund for the purposes of this Ordinance.\n\n61. The Registrar General may from time to time make, alter and revoke regulations for any of the following purposes :-\n| Purpose | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st | For securing the observance of sanitary conditions in Registered Brothels. |\n| 2nd | For fixing the sums to be paid to the Registrar General by Keepers of Registered Brothels. |\n\nThe Inspector of Hospitals may from time to time make, alter and revoke regulations for any of the following purposes :-\n| Purpose | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st | For regulating the times and places and conduct of Medical Examination under this Ordinance. |\n| 2nd | For the control and management of women authorized to be detained in Hospital under this Ordinance, and for making the scale of charges in respect of the treatment of such women. |\n\nAll regulations and all alterations and revocations made under this section shall be subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, and when approved shall take effect seven days after the publication thereof in the Gazette, and a copy of the Gazette containing such publication shall be conclusive evidence of such regulations. Copies of all regulations and all alterations thereof made under this Ordinance shall be sent to the Registrar General, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Inspector of Hospitals and all Visiting Surgeons.\n\n## Procedure.\n62. The place in which the Registrar General shall sit in discharge of his duties shall be such place as may from time to time be appointed for that purpose by the Governor.\n\n63. The hearing either in the first instance or upon appeal of any matter arising under this Ordinance may be in private.\n\nNo proceedings under this Ordinance shall be commenced before a Magistrate except at the instance of or with the sanction of the Attorney General or the Registrar General.\n\n64. Every person violating the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulation or bye-law made in pursuance thereof shall be guilty of a Misdemeanour and except where otherwise provided by this Ordinance or by any regulations or bye-laws made as aforesaid shall be liable on summary conviction before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months.\n\n## \n49 \n34 \n26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319750, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 305, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "# 301 \n\n## 154 \n\ncollected. The rate now discussed was to clear the drug once and for all, no matter what part of the interior it might be carried. \n\nI believed that foreign opium under these circumstances would fairly bear 60 taels; but an assertion being made in the course of the Conference that the Board of Revenue's estimate of opium revenue was a total of 6,000,000 taels, much of which was lost by smuggling, while 10 per cent. must be deducted for expense of collection, I felt bound to argue that, supposing this estimate correct, a li-kin of 50 taels would, in an average year, secure to China her 6,000,000 taels, the 10 per cent. cost being certainly saved, for the Customs would need no addition to the staff that now collects the Tariff duty; while, by a proper understanding with the Hong Kong Government, much opium would be made to pay duty which now never finds its way to a port. \n\nThe Grand Secretary Li, returning to Tien-tsin, no further opportunity of conferring with him presented itself for a time. The Grand Secretary Tso, as I have said, sent up his Memorial advocating an extravagant rate of li-kin, to be collected withal, independently of the foreign Inspectorate, at a number of central depôts. His colleagues at the Tsung-li Yamên did not understand his scheme, or did not approve it. In the provinces some of the authorities, on whom the work of collecting the impost would devolve, have affirmed that the scheme in question would largely increase smuggling. \n\nThe next incident in this history was the self-imposed mission of Mr. Samuel, an intelligent gentleman connected with money agencies, who had paid a visit to India apparently for the purpose of examining what seemed to him the defective system of remittances still in favour with the Indian Government in its regulation of opium sales. His inquiry into this matter completed, he came on to China to obtain information regarding the opium trade, not only with this country, but with the various markets which, so to speak, flank the line of communication. His scheme, by which, in brief, England was to become the sole possessor of all the opium in the world, and sole trader both with the Chinese and other markets, appeared to me, so far as revenue was concerned, to have much to recommend it both to England and China. To the latter not only would a fixed income be secured, but with Hong Kong as a terminus, and no more than a fixed quota of opium saleable at that or any other of the minor markets, there would be secured a most complete protection against contraband trade in the drug. \n\nMr. Samuel's object, as I understood him, was to attempt the regulation of what appeared to him a faulty system of remittances where the sale of opium was concerned. He had obtained a Circular despatch from the Foreign Office, instructing Her Majesty's Consuls in China to assist him in obtaining information about the opium trade, and a private letter to myself from Sir Louis Mallet, Under-Secretary for India. He had no papers to produce except these, and certainly no kind of official position; but the Grand Secretary Li, who received Mr. Samuel, without any introduction from Consul or Minister, appears to have imagined that he was invested with official responsibility. I mention this merely because his visit was productive of a singular result to which I shall come presently. Mr. Samuel's own scheme was not viewed with disfavour by his Excellency Li, any more than by myself, to whom he communicated it a few days later. I did not immediately speak of it to the Tsung-li Yamên, for I regarded it simply as the suggestion of a private speculator, which I had, so far, no right to suppose that Her Majesty's Government would even take into consideration. \n\nI said nothing either, for the time, of a second proposition with which Mr. Samuel acquainted me, but not as proceeding from himself. A Chinese of Canton had consulted him in the South upon the possibility of creating a vast opium monopoly, of which Hong Kong was to be the headquarters. The projector of this scheme subsequently addressed himself to me, through Sir John Hennessy, Governor of Hong Kong. I gave it no sort of encouragement. Even if its Chinese sponsors have the capital they profess to have, I should regard their enterprise with extreme mistrust unless it were placed under foreign control in such proportions as would speedily disgust the native directors. If it were left to the latter, unused as the Chinese are to operations of such magnitude, should look for the same unlimited confusion that unhappily besets other branches of financial administration in this country. I am further mistaken if such a reproduction of the old Co-Hong, condemned to death by the Treaty of 1842, did not find that, should it prosper, it would, like its predecessor, be made to pay a preposterously high fee for the privilege of existing at all. Nor would the fact of its establishment in Hong Kong be the smallest security against exaction of the kind, so long as the families of the Chinese interested were resident, as they must be, in their own districts. But it is not necessary to enlarge much on this project. It has found favour neither in the provinces nor at the capital. \n\nNow to come to the result of Mr. Samuel's mission, as it was regarded by his Excellency Li. The Grand Secretary was forthwith urged, as I have since learned, by his foreign advisers, at once to use Mr. Samuel's supposed mission as a precedent, and to dispatch, independently, an Agent to India. An intelligent Chinese officer, by name Ma Kieh-chung, formerly attached to the Chinese Legation in Paris, was the Agent chosen, a gentleman of whose fitness for the purpose, let me say, I am fully satisfied. Had the Grand Secretary, with whom my relations are most friendly, applied to me, I should have had the greatest pleasure in giving his Agent letters to the Viceroy of India. \n\nMa-taotai returned well pleased with his reception. His prescribed object had been not only to obtain information regarding the opium trade, with a view to the regulation of the revenue derivable from it, but also to sound the Indian Government upon the practicability of gradually extinguishing its interest in the traffic. \n\nI have stated above that it is my intention separately to submit to your Lordship some remarks upon the moral aspect of the opium question. The last-mentioned proposition belongs properly to this, and I shall here refer to it no farther than by observing that I am not impugning the sincerity of a Chinese stateman's condemnation of opium-smoking, when I say that the proposal thus submitted to the Government of India did not emanate primarily, I am convinced, from a Chinese statesman at all. I do not, in the least, quarrel with the foreign adviser of the Chinese for suggesting such a measure, but I have my own reasons for believing that this was entirely the suggestion of a foreign adviser. \n\nMeanwhile, although not dropped in casual discussion on either side, final agreement as to the extent or method of the taxation of Tariff-paid opium was not materially approached, and in August 1881 I instructed the Assistant Chinese Secretary, Mr. Hillier, then on his way home, to visit the Grand Secretary Li and other chiefs of provincial Governments to ascertain confidentially their views on this and other subjects. I was satisfied that they would entertain no doubt of my earnest desire to arrive at an understanding that might be considered fair to both sides. \n\nI do not propose here to say more of the opinions elicited from these high officers than that they were, with one exception, opposed to monopoly, whether in Chinese hands alone or otherwise. To some association of foreigners with Chinese appeared especially dangerous. The general feeling was in favour of collection of Tariff duty and li-kin, the abnormal taxation, together. The Grand Secretary Li, whose larger experience makes him a more flexible financier than some of his colleagues, was not hostile to monopoly, but, on the whole, inclined to a system of joint collection, could but a rate of li-kin in his opinion, sufficiently high be agreed to. He expressed some anxiety to have a further conference with me. \n\nI was unable to leave Peking during the month of September, but, in October, as I was proceeding to Shanghae, I had an interview near Tien-tsin with his Excellency, when he was on his way to attend the coffin of the late Empress Dowager, and it was agreed that we should together attempt to conclude something definite as soon as we could again meet. \n\nTo this end I spent nearly the whole month of December here at Tien-tsin, and before leaving, I laid before his Excellency the draft of a note to the Prince of Kung, in which I reviewed all the propositions that had been submitted to either party, or considered by both; and requested His Imperial Highness to acquaint me, for the information of Her Majesty's Government, which of these various schemes (some ten or more) had the preference of the Government of China. \n\nIt will have to be considered in detail. I inclose copies of my correspondence with the Prince of Kung. \n\nBefore any first note was sent in, however; indeed, before I left Tien-tsin, I had ascertained that the Tsung-li Yamên would not look with favour upon any of the schemes that might give their fiscal arrangements the air of a commercial transaction: such, for instance, as the scheme—one of those submitted to the Grand Secretary, by which the cost of opium was to be secured to the Indian Government and revenue at a high rate of taxation to the Government of China by an Agency in India. This had been very sensibly considered by the Grand Secretary, who had gone so far as to consult me upon the appointment, in the event of such an Agency being authorized, of a certain able foreigner of my acquaintance to watch the interests of China in India. I readily promised him my vote. Failing the acceptance of anything similar, his Excellency, as my note to the Prince of Kung states, was either for doubling the Tariff duty, which would thus become 60 taels a picul, and leaving the li-kin to be collected, as in time past, by native Collectorates, or for collection of a uniform rate of li-kin at the same time as the present Tariff duty of 30 taels. The Tsung-li Yamên, as shown in the Prince of Kung's reply, pronounces... \n\n## 156 \n\nExcellency Li. The Grand Secretary was forthwith urged, as I have since learned, by his foreign advisers, at once to use Mr. Samuel's supposed mission as a precedent, and to dispatch, independently, an Agent to India. An intelligent Chinese officer, by name Ma Kieh-chung, formerly attached to the Chinese Legation in Paris, was the Agent chosen, a gentleman of whose fitness for the purpose, let me say, I am fully satisfied. Had the Grand Secretary, with whom my relations are most friendly, applied to me, I should have had the greatest pleasure in giving his Agent letters to the Viceroy of India.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319961, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 516, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "## Report on the Census of Singapore, 1881\n\nEnclosure No? in Colonel Crossman's letter to T.9.7. N° 53 dated 24 November 190?\n\n### CENSUS OFFICE, Singapore, 15th August, 1881\n\nSIR--I have the honour to forward the Report of the Census Officers on the Census of Singapore, taken on the night of the 3rd April, 1881, with fifteen enclosures.\n\nI have, &c., \n**A. P. TALBOT**, Secretary to the Census Officers.\n\n## Report on the Census of Singapore, 1881\n\n1. By Government Notification No. 163, of the 15th April, 1880, the following Officers were appointed as a Committee for organising the Staff required, the preparation of the Forms, and the compilation of the Returns:- \n - The Hon'ble the Auditor-General (Mr. E. A. IRVING).\n - The Inspector-General of Police (Major S. DUNLOP, R.A.).\n - The Protector of Chinese (Mr. W. A. PICKERING).\n - The Registrar-General (Mr. A. W. V. COUSINS).\n - The Collector of Land Revenue (Mr. F. G. PENNEY).\n - A. KNIGHT, Esquire, Audit Office.\n - The Secretary to the Municipal Commissioners (Mr. H. HUTCHESON).\n\n Mr. PENNEY was appointed Secretary, and on his going to Penang in June, Mr. TALBOT, Acting Collector of Land Revenue, took his place. Mr. J. K. BIRCH relieved Mr. TALBOT in November, as Collector of Land Revenue, but the latter remained on as Secretary to the Committee. During the absence of Mr. TALBOT on duty in Sungei Ujong, from the 15th April to the end of June, Mr. J. K. BIRCH performed the duties of Secretary.\n\n2. By Government Notification, No. 509, of the 1st December, 1880, the Officers who then formed the Committee were appointed Census Officers under the Ordinance.\n\n3. The first meeting of the Census Committee was held on the 22nd May, 1880, and preliminary steps were taken by deciding on the limits of the Town for the purposes of the Census, and commencing the revision of the Forms used at the Census in 1871.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321357, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 61, "title": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "content_text": "60\n\nfor the sake of renown) are of\n\nimportance\n\nawee C\n\nRupren\n\nthe this Torunumly; and\n\nthat much depends on the character &,\n\nability, and Efficiency of the gentlemen who may be selected by Your Lordship to fill these offices permanently. It will be recollected that, in this Colony, No Registrar General in addition to other\n\nduties, is\n\nvirtually the Protector of Chinese,\n\nwho form more than nineteen twentieth-\n\n7\n\nthe entire population.\n\n3. The Candidates plead their\n\nown causes in their applications\n\nEnclosed herewith.\n\nEnclosures\n\nI feel some\n\nhesitation about submitting any opinion of\n\nmy own in their respective claims; for,\n\nhaving been only\n\na few\n\ndays at Hongkong,\n\nI have as yet little personal\n\nknowledge of the gentlemen and of their Antecedents. But the Executive Council,\n\nwhich unanimously approved the provisional appointments of\n\nMr. Russell and\n\nEdwards, unanimously recommend the confirmation of their appointments. I\n\nhave also a Minute on the subject\n\nfrom the Hon. St. John Mowbray C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, and late\n\nAdministrator of the\n\nGovernment\n\nherewith.\n\n4. With regard in particular &,\n\n6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321359, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 63, "title": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "content_text": "62\n\nadminister justice, without being wholly dependent on interpreters.\n\n5. With regard to R. Ellsworth, I informed Major C. E. Abbott of his capacity,\n\nthat he is also competent to hear\n\nand as good a Chinese Scholar,\n\nwell acquainted with the habits and\n\nfeelings of the native Community;\n\ngreat confidence he is said to enjoy\n\nStr. 150\n\nduring\n\nSeveral Years\n\nthe Head\n\nof\n\nthe\n\nCentral School, and the rising generation\n\nof Chinese were\n\ntaught by him.\n\nIn considerable Extent,\n\nhim. There certainly appear\n\nto be important qualifications for the\n\nperformance of the duties of Registrar-General,\n\nwho is (as I have remarked\n\nabove) virtually the Protector of the\n\nChinese, and the main channel of\n\nCommunication between the\n\nColonial Government.\n\n=\n\n6. With these observations, I submit\n\nthese appointments for Your Lordship's\n\ndecision.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nG. Bowen", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321376, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 80, "title": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "content_text": "79 3 \n\nwould be better \n\nThe Chief Justice is better able than myself to express an opinion as to his fitness to be confirmed, in a post which he has already provisionally filled. As far as the public are concerned I believe that his confirmation in this office would give general satisfaction. I think that in dealing with them he is patient and considerate in all his dealings with them. Unless the person who holds the office of Protector of Chinese is prepared to listen patiently to all that is said, however frivolous or unfounded the representations or complaints made to him may sometimes be, he is not the person whose general appointment as Registrar General would be most satisfactory to the Chinese. He is very popular with them and the impression will go abroad amongst the Chinese that it is not going to be a sinecure office. And as far as the office of Protector goes it will become a sinecure.\n\nCorrected and formatted according to the given rules:\n\n1. Corrected spelling errors (`Justic` -> `Justice`, `Asine` -> `As far as`, `batislaction` -> `satisfaction`, `stewark` -> `dealing`, `thinese` -> `Chinese`, `trumbers` -> `frivolous`, `bevond` -> `beyond`, `catisfactory` -> `satisfactory`, `thers` -> `them`, `officer-` removed as it seems to be a broken word, `dinecure` -> `sinecure`, `wo` removed as it doesn't make sense in the context).\n2. 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Formatted in HTML as per the instructions.\n\nThe output is in HTML format using `` for paragraphs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321797, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5]", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5]", "content_text": "14. \n\n13: 207 \n\nThe Representative of the Crown should \n\nKnow the views of the \n\nlocal \n\nof the Chief Hongmerchants, and should maintain \n\nwith them more cordial personal relations which alone produce efficient \n\nCo-operation. \n\n6. In Singapore the Executive \n\nCouncil now consists of (1) The Governor \n\n(2.) \n\nThe Officer Commanding the Troops (3.) The Colonial Secretary (4) The Attorney-General. (5.) The Surveyor-General, who is also Director of Public Works. So far \n\nas I am aware, this is the only Colony in \n\nwhich \n\nthe Treasurer, who is (so to speak) \n\nThe Minister of Finance and Trade, \n\nand the Chancellor of the Colonial \n\nExchequer, is excluded from the Executive Council; and I recommend that this Anomaly, which causes great Official inconvenience, should cease. I further \n\nstrongly recommend that the Registrar-General, the official Protector of the Chinese, who form the overwhelming majority of our population, should have a seat in the Executive Council. The confidence of the Chinese in the Government would thus be increased. \n\nMoreover, \n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322239, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 111, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "Le... \n\n110 \n\nany \n\nColonial Legislature, and its immediate publication. This does not, in sense, purport to be a complete Health Ordinance. All legislation everywhere must, of necessity, be tentative and experimental, and ... this is especially the case in this community, where it is important to respect, to a large extent, the customs, and even the prejudices, of the overwhelming Chinese population, hitherto unused to European methods of Sanitation. Mr. Stewart, the Registrar General and Protector of Chinese, is sparing no pains in explaining to the leading members of the Chinese community that these new measures are undertaken quite as much for their benefit as for that of the Europeans.\n\n4. \n\nA complete Health Ordinance will be prepared by degrees as experience shows the provisions which should be incorporated in it.\n\nEnclosure 3. 5 Govt notification no 209 of 13th June 1883.\n\nI transmit also copies of the Regulations issued under the Ordinance now enclosed. Strict injunctions", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322345, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 217, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "4\n\n208\n\nکرگیا\n\non the subject among both Foreigners and Chinese\".\n\nみ\n\nof these new\n\nIn pursuance of instructions, I have caused enquiries to be addressed to:\n\n4. The Major-General Commanding the Troops.\n\n13. Commodore Cuming, the Senior Naval Officer present, in the absence of Admiral Willes in another part of his command.\n\nC. The Attorney-General.\n\nD. The Honourable Mr. Justice Russell (late Registrar-General)\n\nlo. Enclosures 1 to 6\n\n5\n\nE. The Honourable F. Stewart, (the present Registrar-General, and Protector of the Chinese).\n\nF. The Colonial Surgeon, D. Ayres).\n\nI now transmit the replies received from the above-named Functionaries.\n\n6\n\nIt will be perceived that the Naval and Military Authorities are strongly opposed to the relaxation of regulations which they consider to be necessary for the protection of the health and vigour of the sailors of the squadron and of the soldiers of the garrison.\n\nThe General", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322346, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "209\n\nグ\n\nGeneral Commanding the Troops and Commodore Cuming support their own opinions with strong reports from the Chief Naval and Military Medical Officers.\n\nIt will be further seen that the Attorney-General and other Civil Authorities are also opposed to the abolition of the examinations in question. I am assured that their views represent the general opinion of the European community in this Colony.\n\n8.\n\nAs for the Chinese, their position and views with regard to this question will be gathered from the report of the Registrar-General, (Mr. Stewart), who is their official Protector, and from that of Mr. Justice Russell, the predecessor of Mr. Stewart in his present office. The Report of the Colonial Surgeon, (D. Ayres), also deserves attentive perusal.\n\n9.\n\nFor myself, I concur with what I understand to be the view taken by Your Lordship - viz. that whatever may be the peculiar merits of the case in a community circumstanced as is that of Hongkong, it would be difficult, even...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322433, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 305, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "3\n\n234\n\nsome\n\n2\n\nof the Cadets appointed to the Civil Service of Hong Kong to learn Chinese at Peking instead of, heretofore, at Canton.\n\nIn common with my predecessors in this Government, I have found great inconvenience from not having at my command a single person at Hongkong, who can speak or understand the Chinese language as spoken by the educated and official classes in China. For instance, when Admiral Ting recently entertained me at the Government House, I invited Mr. Justice Russell and Mr. Stewart (the late and present Registrars-General, and Protectors of Chinese), to meet him at table, when I found that they were unable to understand him, or he them; so that we should have been without the power of conversing together, had not the Admiral brought with him his Flag-Captain (Fong teh Kien) who had been trained in the English Navy and is well acquainted with our language. So also Mr. Lister, Mr. Deane, and Mr. Lockhart, the former Cadets", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322788, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "content_text": "Administering the Government (Mr. Marsh) had entrusted Mr. Justice Russell (then Registrar-General and Protector of the Chinese), with the duty of preparing the report on the system of Child Adoption and Domestic service as it exists \"at Hongkong, for which Lord Kimberley had called in his despatch No. 40 of the 18th March, 1882.\n\nRussell's subsequent promotion to the Bench of the Supreme Court and the pressure of his official duties, necessarily delayed the completion of the Report. But he has now placed it in my hands, and I have great pleasure in transmitting herewith printed copies of it (12 copies).\n\nThe delay that has occurred has had this advantage, that it has enabled me to give, as my other manifold duties would permit, a close study to the subject in question, and thereby has placed me in a position to appreciate the great practical value of Mr. Russell's labours.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322797, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "content_text": "20\n\nI\n\n14.\n\n༡/\n\n150\n\nX\n\nJudicial Bench are now of one mind on this subject.\n\nWith regard to Mr. Russett's practical suggestions for further exertions in the same direction, they meet with the hearty concurrence of the present Registrar-General and Protector of the Chinese (Mr. Stewart). They have also been approved by myself and by the Executive Council; and I propose to take the necessary measures for carrying them into execution, subject to Your Lordship's sanction.\n\n15. \"See Mr. Stewart's minute on Mr. Russell's Report. (Enclosure 2).\n\n15. In conclusion, I would repeat the remarks made in a previous despatchM: 175 of August 1883, to the effect that the English in Hongkong are in an utterly different position from that held by the English in India. In the latter country we succeeded to the rule of great nations and countries which had already, long before our arrival, attained to a high degree of civilized organization, and whose laws and institutions we were bound to respect and maintain, so far as they were not repugnant to humanity and to the Imperial policy.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322808, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "content_text": "(18)\n\n(19)\n\n160\n\nTitle.\n\nFramble.\n\nRepeal.\n\nAdueriam of\n\n& COIDEN NE\n\nrunze child\n\nwith intent,\n\n&c.\n\nSelling or\n\nparenting.\n\nBringing inso\n\nthe Colony\n\nM.\n\nNo. 2 of 1875.\n\nAn Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the better Protection of Chinese Women and Female Children, and for the Repression of certain Abuses in relation to Chinese Emigration,\n\n[March 18th, 1875.]\n\nTHEREAS it is expedient to make better provision for the punishment of persons guilty of selling, purchasing, or decoying into the Colony, or unlawfully detaining therein Chinese women and female children for the purpose of prostitution, and of decoying Chinese into or away from this Colony for the purpose of emigration, or for any other purpose whatsoever: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :--\n\n1. The Ordinance No. 6 of 1873 is hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect :\n\n1. Any punishment incurred or to be incurred for any offence committed before this Ordinance comes into operation.\n\n2. Any proceedings for enforcing such punishment or prosecuting the offender; and all such proceedings may be had and taken as if the said Ordinance were still in force.\n\nII. Whosoever shall bring, lead, take, decoy, or entice into the Colony any woman or female child with intent to sell her for the purpose of prostitution, or shall purchase any woman or child with intent to sell her for the purpose aforesaid, or shall sell or purchase any woman or female child for the purpose aforesaid, or shall knowingly derive any profit from the sale or purchase of any woman or female child so sold or purchased as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\nIII. Whosoever shall bring, lead, take, decoy, or entice into the Colony any woman or female child knowing that such woman or female child has been sold or purchased for the purpose of prostitution, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\nIV. Whosoever shall detain any woman or female child in any place against her will with the intent that she may become a prostitute, or for any other purpose whatsoever, or shall by any false pretences, false representations, or other fraudulent means procure any woman or female child to have illicit carnal connexion with any man, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\nV. Whosoever shall receive, or harbour any woman or female child with intent that such woman or female child should be sold or purchased for the purpose of prostitution, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\nVI. Whosoever shall receive or harbour any woman or female child knowing that such woman or female child has been sold or purchased whether within the Colony or elsewhere for the purpose of prostitution shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\nVII. Whosoever shall by force or fraud imprison or detain any person within the Colony, for the purpose of emigration, or for any other purpose whatsoever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\nVIII. Whosoever shall by force, intimidation, or any fraudulent means bring, lead, take, decoy, or entice any person into or away from the Colony, for the purpose of emigration, or for any other purpose whatsoever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\nIX. Every person who shall be convicted of any offence against the provisions of this Ordinance shall be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.\n\nX. All offences against this Ordinance may be heard and determined summarily by two Magistrates sitting together, who shall constitute a Court for this purpose: Provided that if, at the close of the investigation, the accused shall apply for a trial by Jury, or the Magistrates shall be of opinion that the case ought to be so tried, they may commit the accused for trial at the Supreme Court.\n\nXI. The provisions of Section LXVI of Ordinance No. 4 of 1865 shall apply to every summary conviction under this Ordinance.\n\nXII. Whenever any person shall be convicted before the Supreme Court of any offence against the provisions of this Ordinance, if it shall be proved that the offender has been previously convicted either before the Supreme Court, or before two Magistrates sitting together, of an offence under the same or any other section of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Court, in its discretion, to direct that, in addition to the punishment hereinbefore prescribed, the offender, if a male, be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped, subject to the provisions contained in section 1 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1868; and all the provisions of section XCIV of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865 relating to the form of information for a subsequent offence and proceedings thereon, shall apply to offences punishable under this Ordinance.\n\nStatement of Objects and Reasons.\n\nThe Ordinance No. 6 of 1873 was passed in order to check, by Penal Legislation, the practice of buying and selling women and girls for prostitution and their detention or abduction for the like purposes. There is reason to believe that the Ordinance has done good service in the matter, and has diminished these abuses: but its language seems not to meet the case of women or girls purchased out of the Colony for the purpose of prostitution and brought here to be shipped to California, or elsewhere; unless the women or girls complain of being detained in this Colony against their will. Such complaints have been exceedingly rare, and proof of forcible detention difficult to obtain; although there is no moral doubt that females are purchased out of the Colony, and after a few days' residence here are shipped to various places to become prostitutes. This Ordinance in the third and sixth sections aims at meeting these cases, and makes it a misdemeanor for any person to bring into the Colony any woman or girl knowing her to have been purchased for prostitution, or with the like knowledge to receive or harbour any such woman or girl.\n\nThe rest of the Ordinance is almost a reprint of the Ordinance No. 6 of 1873, which for the sake of convenience is repealed and re-enacted with the two additional sections.\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON,\n\nHongkong, 23rd February, 1875,\n\nAttorney General.\n\nNOTE. The above Statement was appended to the Draft Amended Bill as laid before the Council. The text as given above is now the law except that public flogging is no longer allowable.\n\nWithout reference to nationality, all persons residing on British Territory are free agents.\n\nThey cannot be under the restraint of others. Women; if any of you have been kidnapped, purchased, seduced, deceived, or pledged for money, or have been compelled to swear before entering the brothels that you will act as prostitutes, which you now object to do, understand clearly that such compulsion is illegal, and that you are at liberty to come personally to this office, or to go to any police station and report the matter at any time you please. Your grievance will be at once attended to.\n\nIf you want to leave the brothel, and make up your mind to go to a protector, abandoning prostitution, the Government will certainly let you do what you please, and will not allow you to be detained against your will. Be all of you then very watchful! Do not be deceived by \"brothel keepers! Observe this notice.\n\nRegistrar General's Office, June, 1882.\n\nN.\n\nO.\n\n毋爲寮主所惑\n\nJ. R.\n\n銀誘受英\n\n差便被或人\n\n騙他\n\n* R 是迫將詢\n\n犯發爾制\n\n欲報例誓身爾\n\n許然\n\n途立意從良不欲爲裝\n\n國家必聽其自便不准强留各宜猛省\n\n衙或各差館稟報自必卽行申理中\n\n壬午年五月\n\n日華民政務司署給\n\n必爾後\n\n郎等人\n\n行隨寮\n\n時當\n\n被\n\n凡英國屬土無論何國居民皆得自主\n\n倘赴前取人自\n\n官非上柺主\n\nThe Emigration Officer gives notice that for the better protection of Emigrants, it is hereby notified that on and after the 1st proximo, women and children who are taken before him for the purpose of emigrating should be provided with one (subsequently altered to \"two\") photograph each. If the woman or child is passed, the one (subsequently altered to \"two\") photograph will be stamped and given back to the Emigrant. The Emigrant will show this photograph to the proper Officer on board the vessel before departure, and again to the Protector of Chinese or proper Officer on the Emigrant's arrival at Port of destination.\n\nH. G. THOMSETT, R.N.,\n\nEmigration Officer, &c.\n\nHongkong, 21st August, 1882.\n\nP.\n\n(Signed)\n\nReturn of Kidnapping Cases in Hongkong, from January, 1872, till June 30th, 1883.\n\n \n Year\n Cases Reported\n No. of Persons Convicted\n No. of Persons Discharged\n Total Number Arrested\n \n \n 1872\n 30\n 10\n 27\n 40\n \n \n 1873\n 103\n 63\n 40\n 44\n \n \n 1874\n 55\n 55\n 110\n 110\n \n \n 1875\n 73\n 53\n 17\n 48\n \n \n 1876\n 53\n 51\n 35\n 71\n \n \n 1877\n 51\n 50\n 32\n 63\n \n \n 1878\n 55\n 55\n 36\n 71\n \n \n 1879\n 16\n 16\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 1880\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 1881\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 1882\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 1883 to 30th June\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n\n(Signed)\n\nT. C. DEMPSTER, Captain,\n\nActing Captain Superintendent of Police,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323677, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 108, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "107\n\nthis Government, with the Executive Council, with Mr. Justice Russell, Mr. Stewart, and the other Members of the Board of Examiners for the Civil Service\", and with all other competent\n\nX\n\nin\n\nAnges\n\nThe Board of Examiners performs gratuitously for this Colony duties analogous to those performed by the Civil Service Commission and its Examiners\n\nin England. This Board (as I am informed) was originally appointed during the administration of the late Sir Arthur Kennedy ? It now consists of the following gentlemen...\n\n1. D. Chalmers, one of the most learned Chinese Scholars now living (Chairman)\n\n2. The Honourable Mr Justice Russell, Judge of the Supreme Court.\n\n3. The Honourable F. Stewart - Registrar-General and Protector of the Chinese\n\n4. The Honourable J. Lister - Colonial Treasurer\n\n5. Mr. Wongshing. A Chinese gentleman of high position and character.\n\n6. Mr. Lockhart. Assistant Colonial Secretary, (Honorary Secretary)\n\n* See despatch to Colonial Office No: 141 of date: 13th 1875\n\nAndyer in this community, I had come to the conclusion that it was absolutely necessary for the Queen's Service that one or more of the Hongkong Cadets should be able to understand and speak the Chinese language as spoken by the educated and official classes in China (popularly called the Mandarin dialect), and not only the local tunti, or Cantonese patois. To attain this object, I stated that it was my intention, with the advice aforesaid,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323836, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 267, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "266\n\n3\n\nfor character, education, and property, who reside in Hong Kong and are either native-born or naturalized British subjects. I explained that the great majority of all classes of the Chinese in this Colony are only temporary residents, and retain their Chinese nationality, leaving indeed, in most cases, their families at their homes in China. I added that my choice was thus much limited both in the selection of Magistrates, and of the Chinese Member of the Legislative Council; the choice of whom was engaging my earnest attention.\n\n2.\n\nI requested Mr. Stewart (the Registrar-General and Protector of the Chinese), to ascertain separately the views on this subject of some thirty of the principal Chinese Merchants and landowners. The great majority strongly urged the appointment, as their Representative in the Legislative Council, of either Wong Shing, a Chinese gentleman of high character, of good education,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324595, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 627, "title": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "content_text": "23\n\nThuan-An:\n\n23\n\nThuan-An:\n\nCâble de côte no 1, type A Câble de côte no 2, type F Câble intermédiaire type B Câble principal type D.... Câble intermédiaire type B Câble de côte no 2, type E\n\nDo-Son:\n\nCâble de côte no 1, type A\n\nDe Do-Son à Hat-Phong\n\nCâble fluvial type B\n\nLongueur totale 810 milles marins.\n\n**\n\nShore-end Cable No. 1, type A\n\n2\n\n2\n\n3\n\nShore-end Cable No. 2, Intermediate-Cable, type B.\n\nE\n\n3\n\n17\n\n28\n\n28\n\n200\n\nMain-Cable, type D\n\n200\n\nIntermediate-Cable, type B.\n\n20\n\n20\n\nShore-end Cable No. 2, type E\n\n10\n\n10\n\nDo-Son:\n\nShore-end Cable No. 1, type A\n\n2\n\n2\n\n265\n\n265\n\nFrom Do-Son to Hai-Phong: River Cable, type B\n\n15\n\n15\n\n280\n\nLa Compagnie fournira au Gouvernement français pour l'usage des bureaux télégraphiques les instruments de transmission dont la nomenclature suit:\n\n1° Pour chacun des bureaux du cap Saint-Jacques et de Hat-Phong :\n\n2 Recorders complets et un miroir;\n\n1 Moulinet de rechange;\n\n4 Ronets à papier;\n\n2 Commutateurs pour recorders;\n\n2 Manipulateurs Saunders;\n\n2 Condensateurs de 20 microfarads;\n\n1 Boîte d'outils pour Recorder.\n\nApprovisionnement de piles pour Recorder, paratonnerre, commutateurs, installations générales, fils isolés, encre, etc., etc.\n\n2° Pour le bureau de Thuan-An:\n\n1 Recorder complet et 2 miroirs;\n\n1 Moulinet de rechange;\n\nRouets à papier;\n\nCommutateurs pour recorder;\n\nManipulateurs de Saunders;\n\n2 Condensateurs de 20 microfarads;\n\nBoîtes d'outils pour recorders.\n\nApprovisionnement de piles pour recorder, para-\n\nTotal length 810 nautical miles\n\nART. 5. The Company shall supply the French Government for the use of the telegraph offices with the following transmitting apparatus (instruments).\n\nFor each of the offices at Cape St. James and Haï-Phong\n\n2 Recorders (complete) and one Mirror;\n\n1 Spare mill;\n\n4 Paper wheels;\n\n2 Commutators for Recorders;\n\n2 Saunders' keys;\n\n2 Condensers of 20 microfarads;\n\n1 Box of Recorder tools.\n\nSupply of batteries for recorder, lightning protector, commutators, general installations, insulated wires, ink, &c., &c.\n\nFor the Thuan-An office:\n\n1 Recorder (complete) and 2 Mirrors;\n\n1 Spare mill;\n\nPaper wheels;\n\nCommutators for Recorder;\n\nSaunders' keys;\n\n2 Condensers of 20 microfarads;\n\nBoxes of Recorder tools.\n\nSupply of batteries for Recorder, lightning pro-\n\n622", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325271, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 531, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "2\n\nX\n\nwe must\n\n529\n\ninforming\n\nLe\n\ny\n\nthe\n\nretirement from the service\n\ngroup\n\nthe 12th instant of\n\nMr Gerrard, late First Clerk\n\nin the office of the Registrar General of marriages, and\n\nan old and meritorious\n\nPublic servant.\n\n2.\n\nI enclose\n\na Memorandum from the Colonial Secretary and\n\nAuditor General, showing\n\nthe pensions to\n\nwhich Mr Gerrard is entitled according to the Regulations. It seems\n\na small\n\nsum for\n\nsuch long and faithful\n\nservices.\n\n3. The\n\narrangements\n\nto be made in the Registrar\n\nGeneral's office in consequence\n\nof the retirement of Mr Gerrard,\n\nare of primary importance.\n\nIn this Colony, for it will\n\nbe remembered\n\nthat the\n\nRegistrar General is ex-officio\n\nthe Protector of the Chinese,\n\nand that the communications\n\nbetween\n\nthe Government with the\n\noverwhelming Chinese\n\npopulation", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325432, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "content_text": "205\n\nsincerely stated that he was in the habit of courting Capt. Harris over the premises of Takma Captains and officers of ships at homes of Ell Fause, where the goods were purchased and forwarded.\n\nThe Commission hereby recommended that the Commissioner of Police should dispense with Whitehead's services on the completion of his ten years' service in the Police Force of the Colony.\n\nacted upon this recommendation on the date of the completion of his ten years' service.\n\nStepne that due however, Inspector Millhead was again summoned before the Protector of Chinese General (Mr. Quartermaster General).\n\n5.\n\n1\n\na\n\non a charge preferred against him of having, on or about a certain date, obtained Champagne from Grower, for which she had never been paid.\n\nthe Protector \n\nAt the same time, \nProtector General reports that he had been unable to induce Whitehead to discharge his duties with the necessary energy and fidelity.\n\nThe Chief Surgeon also reported that Whitehead had been reported by him on several occasions previous to 1882 on a charge of going amongst American prostitutes, and demanding drink for himself and his friends, but that the women refused to give evidence", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325823, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Enclosure: \n## THE FRENCH PROTECTORATE IN TONQUIN\n\nThe wire briefly informs us that France has concluded a treaty with Annam. This is emphatically vague and might even be considered unsatisfactory, if it were not that it is tolerably easy, under present circumstances, to forecast what the main lines of the document are. The French have no doubt simply written down all they wanted and the young King, Kien-Phuc, and his ministers have meekly signed the paper and considered themselves reasonably well treated in having even so small a say in the matter. The fragmentary and erratic treaty which Dr. Harmand concluded last August doubtless but very imperfectly represents the new paper. The right to establish Custom houses in a few named towns therein stipulated for is now probably expanded to a complete liberty to establish such buildings wherever the protectors may please, now or at any future time. It is not at all improbable that a cheap show of generosity will be made in the retrocession of the province of Binh-Thuan to Annam! This district, the ancient Ziampa of Marco Polo, would be of no pecuniary advantage to the French. On the contrary, it would probably make Cochin-China budgets even more unsatisfactory reading than they are at present. By the simple process of returning the province France will be able to lay claim to magnanimity and at the same time will save a great deal of money. Instead of administering Binh Thuan at her own cost France will simply send the same number of Residents thither as she would otherwise have done and will make Annamese revenues pay for them.\n\nThe proceedings of France in the south are, however, not of so much interest to Hongkong as the possibilities in Tonquin. There undoubtedly the Republic will extend her protecting influence to the utmost. Residents will be settled in all the towns of the slightest importance, and the country will be as undistinguishable from Cochin-China as Cambodia is at the present moment. A great endeavour will be made to divert the trade of the country to Saigon, but however that trade may be favoured, it is practically certain that a great part, if not the principal part, of the import and export business will find its way to Hongkong. Numbers of Chinamen are flocking into the country already, but they are Chinamen from Hongkong, or Canton, not Chinamen from Saigon, or rather from the neighbouring mart of Cholen. It is of course the Celestials who make the trade of a country in the East, and the Chinamen in Tonquin will not fail to keep up their relations with their principals or friends, notwithstanding the temptations that may be held out to them to divert the flow of merchandise in another direction.\n\nThe present state and the prospects of the country under its new rulers are therefore matters of very considerable interest to Hongkong. At present in their fear that all the trade of the country will find its way to this colony, the French are inclined to place a variety of restrictions on foreign trade. They are afraid that they will only have the shadow and that all the substance will find its way across the Gulf. The prospect is no doubt aggravating. Tonquin is not merely a very rich colony; it is the only rich colony our neighbours have got. That it should be developed only for the swelling of the money bags of perfide Albion is too exasperating to endure just at present. When, however, it is discovered that without foreign capital Tonquin will not be so very great an acquisition after all irritation will tone down into tolerance. Tonquin promises any amount of wealth, but before money can be got out of it, it must be put in, and that is just where French colonists fail.\n\nThere are not many French colonists in the country yet, and there are no immediate signs that the number is to be increased to any very considerable extent. The few there are are not of a very estimable character from the point of view of a political economist. They are divided into two classes, the cantiniers, the pot-house and wine-shop keepers, and the somewhat more aspiring few who do not keep cabarets, but sell liquor wholesale to those who do. Both of these make money, but they do not make money for France and still less for the colony. Least of all do they advance the prospects of Tonquin. With the laudable object of putting an end to the multiplication of these sorry négociants, General Millot has issued a proclamation. Whether, however, from a hopeless recognition of the fact that no other Frenchmen but dram sellers would come to settle in Tonquin, or with a view to control foreign traders, the edict embraces merchants of all kinds. No one is to be allowed to establish a business of any kind whatever in the country without the express permission of the Government. This is not the way to encourage the bringing of capital into the country, and Tonquin wants money even more desperately than does the French Government itself. The idea may merely be to put an end to the terrible number of drinking shops, but it seems also to be intended to keep down the establishment of foreign firms of whatever kind. The suggestion may appear ill-naturel, but it seems to be borne out by a further vexatious ordinance, issued within the last few weeks. No \"armed exploring parties\" are to be permitted throughout the whole extent of the protectorate. This virtually means the prohibition of exploration of every kind, except such as is sanctioned by the French Government and supported by detachments of French troops. Beyond the limits of actual military occupation, no foreigner is safe unless he is armed. The word \"pirate\" is wonderfully misused down in Tonquin. Any native of the country is stigmatised as a pirate if he objects to the French domination of the country, and with this definition of the word the vast majority of the population of Tonquin are pirates. They are absurdly badly armed, but twenty foot long spears and swords which bend double with every blow, are quite formidable enough weapons against Europeans who have no arms at all. The exploitation of Tonquin is therefore likely to be delayed for a considerable time. Colonists from France with money to set themselves up are devoutly prayed for, but do not seem likely to come. Meanwhile foreigners are apparently warned off no matter how much money they may be willing to spend. This, however, is sure to right itself in time, possibly with the next Governor or Commissary-General, or if not with him, then with his successor, and administrators-in-chief of Tonquin succeed each other with even greater rapidity than Governments in France itself.\n\nMoney is wanted in Tonquin, but it must not be mistaken what it is wanted for. It is not for the cultivation of the country, for there is not a country in all this world that is more thoroughly cultivated than Tonquin as far north as Thai-Nguyen and Hung-Hoa. The lower delta lands are almost wholly given over to rice, but north of the Song-cau river and in the country above Son-tay, Tonquin is more like a large kitchen garden than an ordinary agricultural landscape.\n\nPage 4113\nREGP 19 JUL 84", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325926, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "content_text": "513 \n\n11 \n\nSchools, (Dr Eitel). \n\nI had previously requested the opinion respecting the recommendations of the most competent authority in this Colony, viz. the Board of Examiners; and it will be seen from the enclosed letter that the Board \"having carefully considered these suggestions, regret that they are not able to recommend the adoption of any of them\".\n\n## Enclosure \n\n\"It will be recollected that the Board of Examiners at Hongkong perform gratuitously duties analogous to those performed by the Civil Service Commissioners in England; and that it is composed as follows :-\n\n| Member | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. D. Chalmers | One of the most learned Chinese Scholars now living (Chairman). |\n| 2. The Honourable Mr Justice Russett | A Judge of the Supreme Court - formerly Registrar General. |\n| 3. The Honourable A. Lister | Colonial Treasurer. |\n| 4. The Honourable F. Stewart | now the Registrar General and Protector of the Chinese. |\n| 5. The Honourable Wong Shing | The Chinese Member of the Legislative Council; who enjoys the full confidence of his countrymen, as well as respect for his position and character in this community. |\n| 6. R. Stewart Lockhart, Esquire | Assistant Colonial Secretary; a proficient in the Chinese language and literature. |\n\nI have already intimated a similar opinion in agreement with the Board; as is also the case...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326696, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "content_text": "157 \n\nof fines \n\nunder all the circumstances of the \n\ncase. Sent despatch November 24th, and \n\nthe 5th instant, viz: – \n\ndespatch No. 338 of the \n\n4th \n\nof November \n\n1907 \n\nmy telegram of the 22nd October; \n\nI have this \n\nday \n\nsent the \n\nfollowing telegraphic reply :- \n\n\"In pursuance of your instructions \nin telegram of the 22nd instant, fines \nremitted\" \n\nI enclose, for Your Lordship's \n\ninformation, \n\n## Memorandum by War \n\nEnclosure \n\n(Administrator lately Administering the \nGovernment) \n\nIn continuation of his \ndespatch \nof 12th October ultimo. \n\nIn pursuance of the positive \ninstructions in your telegram of the 22nd instant (with which I entirely concur), I have given directions to \nMr. Stewart, the Registrar-General \nand Protector of the Chinese, to return \nthe \nmoney (amounting to fifty dollars ($50) in all), to the tow- \nboatmen fined by the Magistrates; \nexplaining \nthat this is an act of \ngrace \nand \nmercy on the part of the Government, \nin token of satisfaction \nat \nthe general good conduct \nof \nthe boat population, and at \nthe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328565, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 340, "title": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "content_text": "# Justice Russell), and to Your Lordship's reply 11: 284 of 1833,\n\nI have the honour to submit, for your consideration the enclosed Will \"for the prevention of abuses connected with Child Adoption and Domestic Service!\"\n\n2.\n\nThis Bill was prepared by the Registrar-General, and Protector of the Chinese, (M. Stewart), whose letter of explanation is appended. It has been read a first time in the Legislative Council. But, as the Attorney-General objects to it for the reasons assigned in the annexed report, and is inclined to believe that the existing laws on the subject afford sufficient protection, I have thought it right, before proceeding further with this Bill, to submit it for Your Lordship's consideration and instructions.\n\n3.\n\nMy opinion on the entire question is fully stated in my despatch No. 189 of 1883, to which I beg to refer.\n\n4.\n\nI would now add that", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328568, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 343, "title": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "content_text": "342 \n\n## Enclosure 1.\n\nby the proposed Bill. However, I shall await Your Lordship's instructions on this point.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nE. C. T. Bowen\n\n## A BILL\n\n### ENTITLED\n\n**An Ordinance for the prevention of abuses connected with Child Adoption and Domestic Service.**\n\nWHEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the prevention of adopted female children and female servants from being brought up in the Colony for the purpose of prostitution: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---\n\n1. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General, as Protector of Chinese, to summon before him any person whom he reasonably suspects of having in his custody any adopted daughter, or female servant, between the age of six and sixteen inclusive, with the view of disposing of her as a prostitute; and it shall also be lawful for the Registrar General, in his discretion and after due inquiry, to call upon any such person who has the custody of any such female child to give reasonable security that such child shall not be sold, pawned, or otherwise disposed of for any immoral purpose, and that the absence of such child from the Colony shall be duly accounted for.\n\n2. For the better carrying out of the preceding section, it shall be lawful for the Registrar General to require the production before him of any female child under adoption or domestic service; and also to summon any person who can give information as to the treatment of such child by her adopted parents or master, under a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.\n\n3. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General, in the interests of any female child, to make a written application to a Judge in Chambers for a writ of Habeas Corpus, with the view of taking away such female child from any person who has no legal claim to her custody, and whose retention of her is prejudicial to the child's interest and liberty.\n\n4. It shall be lawful for any person considering himself aggrieved or affected by any action of the Registrar General under this Ordinance to appeal in a summary way to a Judge in Chambers against any decision which the Registrar General may give under this Ordinance; and the Judge may confirm the decision of the Registrar General, or may order in writing the same to be annulled.\n\n5. This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be hereafter proclaimed by the Governor.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329157, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10]", "page_number": 417, "title": "CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10]", "content_text": "## Enclosure\n\n| 2007 | 413 |\n\n**Memorandum** by the Acting Colonial Secretary, respecting the despatch from the Secretary of State, 1239 of August 30, 1885, and the extract from the Pall Mall Gazette enclosed therein.\n\n1. It is the invariable practice of the Government of Hong Kong in matters affecting the Chinese population to obtain through the Registrar General, who is ex-officio Protector of the Chinese, the opinions of the principal Chinese residents in this Colony, and everything is done to meet their wishes, as far as may be practicable. No doubt the views of the Chinese on many points differ from those of Europeans; but the Government respects their feelings as far as can be done consistently with justice to the community as a whole.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329339, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "content_text": "## 117 \n\n**Secretary** \n\n2 \n\nand Auditor General of Hongkong.\n\nA Graduate of the \nUniversity of Aberdeen, which afterwards \nconferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, Mr. Stewart \nwas \nappointed in 1861 to be Inspector of Schools and Headmaster of the Central School (now Victoria College), the \nprincipal educational institution in \nthis Colony. He held these Offices for the \nlong period of twenty years, during \nwhich he successfully organized the \nCentral and the other Schools. He \nearned the approval of the Government, \nand \nalso the gratitude of his Chinese pupils, who founded \"the Stewart Scholarship\" in his honour.\n\n3.\n\nMr. Stewart \nwas Police Magistrate from \n1881 to 1883, when he \nwas promoted to the (in this community) very important office of Registrar-General and Protector of the Chinese. He has filled temporarily at various periods, during \nthe absence \nof the incumbents, the \noffices of Coroner, Treasurer, and Colonial Secretary \nand Auditor General. He has discharged the \n...\nSee \nmy despatch No. 449 of 18th February, 1884,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330779, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "content_text": "The statement made in the Annual Report of the Captain Superintendent of Police respecting growing power of the Secret Triad Society. After some time, the Acting Registrar-General (Mr. Lockhart) reported to me that the enquiries he had made led him to believe that the subject was too serious and important to be dealt with by him alone, and he suggested that I should appoint a Committee to make full enquiries and report. Accordingly, I appointed on the 9th ultimo, a Committee consisting of:\n\n| Member |\n| --- |\n| WM Deane, Esq., Captain Superintendent of Police, (Chairman) |\n| Major-General Gordon, Superintendent of the Gaol |\n| NG Mitchell-Innes, Esq., Acting Police Magistrate |\n| J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Esq., Acting Protector of Chinese |\n| Dr. Ho Kai, Justice of the Peace |\n| Wei Yuk, Esq. |\n| Ú Lin Un, Esq. |\n\nThe Committee are still pursuing their enquiries, and I am informed that...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 331000, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "content_text": "## 14\n\n\n81 \n\n15 \n\nbe permitted, and to inform the Head of the Police, who will then make his necessary arrangements.\n\nAs long as there is a Registrar-General here, who is Protector of Chinese and is necessarily an Officer who understands the Chinese and their habits, he is far better able than the Head of the Police can be, to advise the Governor what ceremonies and processions should be permitted, and what should be refused. It must not be supposed that these processions are indiscriminately granted, or that on the subject any representations from the Head of the Police would not meet with due attention and consideration at the hands of the Governor. Many applications come before me with a recommendation of the Acting Registrar-General that permission should be refused.\n\n9.\n\nIt was with some surprise that I read Mr. Grane's reference (paragraph 19) to a recommendation of the Commission appointed by me in 1882 to report on", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333237, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "58\n\nPunishment\n\nof Whipping and subsequent Convictions\n\nForm of Information and Proceedings.\n\n16\n\nIX. Whenever any Person shall be convicted before the Supreme Court of any Offence against the Provisions of this Ordinance, if it shall be proved that the Offender has been previously convicted either before the Supreme Court, or before two Magistrates sitting together, of an Offence under the same or any other Section of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Court, in its Discretion, to direct that, in addition to the Punishment hereinafter prescribed, the Offender, if a Male, be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped subject to the Provisions contained in Section I of Ordinance No. 3 of 1868; and all the Provisions of Section XCIV of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865 relating to the Form of Information for a subsequent Offence and Proceedings thereon, shall apply to Offences punishable under this Ordinance.\n\nStatement of Objects and Reasons.\n\nThe Provisions of this Ordinance are intended to repress certain offences and abuses which there is reason to believe are of frequent occurrence among the lower classes of the Chinese Population of this Colony, viz., the buying and selling of women and girls and their forcible or fraudulent abduction or detention for the purposes of prostitution. Also the decoying away under false pretences, or the abduction by force or intimidation, of persons for the purposes of Chinese Emigration. All the offences defined by this Ordinance are in a great measure ejusdem generis, and are made punishable alike by imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding two years; and power is given to the Supreme Court, whenever previous convictions are proved, to direct the offender, if a male, to be whipped under the provisions of Ordinance No. 3 of 1868. It is proposed that this Ordinance should not come into force until Her Majesty's confirmation of it has been received, and therefore the usual Suspending Clause to that effect has been inserted.\n\nZitto.\n\nPreamble.\n\nReperi\n\nJULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, Attorney General.\n\nNOTE.-The above statement was appended to the Bill when introduced early in 1873.\n\nAldaction of\n\n \n WOMAN OF\n female child\n with intent,\n \n \n Selling or purchasing.\n Bringing into the Colony women or children knowing them to have been sold for prostitution\n Detaining a Woman or female child for purpose of prostitution.\n \n \n Receiving or harbouring with intent,\n \n 4:\n \n \n M.\n No. 2 of 1875.\n J. R.\n \n\nAn Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the better Protection of Chinese Women and Female Children, and for the Repression of certain Abuses in relation to Chinese Emigration.\n\n[March 18th, 1875.]\n\nWHEREAS it is expedient to go on being into the Colony, or unlawfully detaining therein Chinese women and female children for the purpose of prostitution, and of decoying Chinese into or away from this Colony for the purpose of emigration, or for any other purpose whatsoever: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\nI. The Ordinance No. 6 of 1873 is hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect:- 1. Any punishment incurred or to be incurred for any offence committed before this Ordinance comes into operation.\n\n2. Any proceedings for enforcing such punishment or prosecuting the offender; and all such proceedings may be had and taken as if the said Ordinance were still in force.\n\nII. Whosoever shall bring, lead, take, decoy, or entice into the Colony any woman or female child with intent to sell her for the purpose of prostitution, or shall sell or purchase any woman or female child for the purpose aforesaid, or shall knowingly derive any profit from the sale or purchase of any woman or female child so sold or purchased as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\nIII. Whosoever shall bring, lead, take, decoy, or entice into the Colony any woman or female child knowing that such woman or female child has been sold or purchased for the purpose of prostitution, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\nIV. Whosoever shall detain any woman or female child in any place against her will with the intent that she may become a prostitute, or for any other purpose whatsoever, or shall by any false pretences, false representations, or other fraudulent means procure any woman or female child to have illicit carnal connexion with any man, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\nV. Whosoever shall receive, or harbour any woman or female child with intent that such woman or female child should be sold or purchased for the purpose of prostitution, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\n17\n\nVI. Whosoever shall receive or harbour any woman or female child knowing that such woman or female child has been sold or purchased whether within the Colony or elsewhere for the purpose of prostitution shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\nVII. Whosoever shall by force or fraud imprison or detain any person within the Colony, for the purpose of emigration, or for any other purpose whatsoever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\nVIII. Whosoever shall by force, intimidation, or any fraudulent means bring, lead, take, decoy, or entice any person into or away from the Colony, for the purpose of emigration, or for any other purpose whatsoever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishments hereinafter provided.\n\nIX. Every person who shall be convicted of any offence against the provisions of this Ordinance shall be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.\n\nX. All offences against this Ordinance may be heard and determined summarily by two Magistrates sitting together, who shall constitute a Court for this purpose: Provided that if, at the close of the investigation, the accused shall apply for a trial by Jury, or the Magistrates shall be of opinion that the case ought to be so tried, they may commit the accused for trial at the Supreme Court.\n\nXI. The provisions of Section LXVI of Ordinance No. 4 of 1865 shall apply to every summary conviction under this Ordinance.\n\nXII. Whenever any person shall be convicted before the Supreme Court of any offence against the provisions of this Ordinance, if it shall be proved that the offender has been previously convicted either before the Supreme Court, or before two Magistrates sitting together, of an offence under the same or any other section of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Court, in its discretion, to direct that, in addition to the punishment hereinbefore prescribed, the offender, if a male, be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped, subject to the provisions contained in section I of Ordinance No. 3 of 1868; and all the provisions of section XCIV of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865 relating to the form of information for a subsequent offence and proceedings thereon, shall apply to offences punishable under this Ordinance.\n\nStatement of Objects and Reasons.\n\n \n Receiving or harbouring women or children knowing them to have been sold for prostitution.\n Unlawful imprisonment or detention.\n Decoying persons into or away from the Colony.\n \n \n Punishment for offences\n Trial of offences.\n Summary convictions\n \n \n Punishment of whipping on second and subsequent convictions.\n Form of information and proceedings.\n \n \n\nThe Ordinance No. 6 of 1873 was passed in order to check, by Penal Legislation, the practice of buying and selling women and girls for prostitution and their detention or abduction for the like purposes. There is reason to believe that the Ordinance has done good service in the matter, and has diminished these abuses: but its language seems not to meet the case of women or girls purchased out of the Colony for the purpose of prostitution and brought here to be shipped to California, or elsewhere; unless the women or girls complain of being detained in this Colony against their will. Such complaints have been exceedingly rare, and proof of forcible detention difficult to obtain; although there is no moral doubt that females are purchased out of the Colony, and after a few days' residence here are shipped to various places to become prostitutes. This Ordinance in the third and sixth sections aims at meeting these cases, and makes it a misdemeanour for any person to bring into the Colony any woman or girl knowing her to have been purchased for prostitution, or with the like knowledge to receive or harbour any such woman or girl.\n\nThe rest of the Ordinance is almost a reprint of the Ordinance No. 6 of 1873, which for the sake of convenience is repealed and re-enacted with the two additional sections.\n\nHongkong, 23rd February, 1875.\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON,\n\nAttorney General.\n\nNOTE. The above Statement was appended to the Draft Amended Bill as laid before the Council. The text as given above is now the law except that public flogging is no longer allowable.\n\nWithout reference to nationality, all persons residing on British Territory are free agents.\n\nThey cannot be under the restraint of others. Women; if any of you have been kidnapped, purchased, seduced, deceived, or pledged for money, or have been compelled to swear before entering the brothels that you will act as prostitutes, which you now object to do, understand clearly that such compulsion is illegal, and that you are at liberty to come personally to this office, or to go to any police station and report the matter at any time you please. Your grievance will be at once attended to. If you want to leave the brothel, and make up your mind to go to a protector, abandoning prostitution, the Government will certainly let you do what you please, and will not allow you to be detained against your will. Be all of you then very watchful! Be not deceived by brothel-keepers! Observe this notice.\n\nRegistrar General's Office, June, 1882.\n\nN.\n\n壬午年五月\n\nJ. R.\n\n期賣\n\n銀誘受\n\n或騙他\n\n便被或\n\n是\n\n迫將\n\n凡英國土無論何國居民皆得自主\n\n不受他人拘制爾婦女等如有被人拐\n\n情願者便是犯例許爾等隨時親赴官\n\n衙\n\n毌爲寮主所惑\n\n立意從良不欲爲妓 國家必聽其自便不准强留各宜猛省 或各差館稟報自必卽行申理倘中\n\n日華民政務司署給\n\n親\n\n娼\n\n赴前取\n\n非上柺主", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333238, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "18\n\n0.\n\n19\n\nR.\n\n59\n\nThe Emigration Officer gives notice that for the better protection of Emigrants, it is hereby notified that on and after the 1st proximo, women and children who are taken before him for the purpose of emigrating should be provided with one (subsequently altered to \"two\") photograph each. If the woman or child is passed, the one (subsequently altered to \"two\") photograph will be stamped and given back to the Emigrant. The Emigrant will show this photograph to the proper Officer on board the vessel before departure, and again to the Protector of Chinese or proper Officer on the Emigrant's arrival at Port of destination.\n\n(Signed) H. G. THOMSETT, R.N.,\n\nEmigration Officer, Hongkong,\n\n21st August, 1882.\n\nP.\n\nNotice posted on Canton and Macao Steamers, and Chinese Passenger Ships leaving Hongkong,\n\nThe Harbour Master and Emigration Officer hereby issues a proclamation.\n\nWHEREAS evils have arisen in connection with Emigration, notice is hereby given to you passengers, male and female, that you are, one and all, free agents, you cannot be forced away against your will.\n\nIf you are unwilling and do not wish to emigrate, you are at liberty to complain now or after starting, to the officers of the ship, when steps will be taken for protecting you, and returning you safely to your home after the ship reaches its destination. These offers will save you from being deprived of your liberty, and the officials of Singapore and other ports will always be ready to help you to obtain your freedom. Do not disregard these instructions and do not be afraid to state your grievances and wrongs. A special notification.\n\nReturn of Kidnapping Cases in Hongkong, from January 1872, till June 30th, 1883.\n\nYear\nCases Reported\nNo. of Persons Convicted\nNo. of Persons Discharged\nTotal Number Arrested\n\n1872\n30\n15\n27\n\n1873\n103\n66\n44\n110\n\n1874\n51\n29\n17\n\n1875\n63\n86\n35\n\n1876\n55\n31\n32\n\n1877\n73\n35\n36\n\n1878\n53\n31\n69\n100\n\n1879\n51\n38\n40\n\n1880\n65\n68\n43\n111\n\n1881\n50\n35\n63\n98\n\n1882\n55\n29\n59\n88\n\n1883 to 30th June\n16\n5*\n22\n27\n\n* One sent to Singapore on an Extradition Warrant. See Police Court Return. See Magistracy Return following for details of last period.\n\n(Signed) T. C. DEMPSTER, Captain,\n\nActing Captain Superintendent of Police,\n\nQ.\n\nMAGISTRACY RETURN\n\n1st January to 11th July, 1883.\n\nKIDNAPPING.\n\nTotal Number of Cases\nTotal Number of Persons\nTotal Number of Persons Convicted\nTotal Number of Persons Punished\nTotal Number of Persons Discharged\nPersons Committed to Gaol\nREMARKS\n\nM. F.\nM. F.\nM. F.\nM. F.\n\n5\n9\n1\n1\n1\n\nKIDNAPPING. (Where Females were stolen.)\n\n5\n91\n\nOne case in July, one female discharged.\n\nCHILD STEALING. (Where Boys were stolen.)\n\nA\n1\nj\n\nCHILD STEALING. (Where Girls were stolen.)\n\n7\n8\n3\n4\nļ\n8 | 11 4 | 2 1(a)\n\n(Signed)\n\n17th July, 1883.\n\n(a) Given up to Singapore Government,\n\nW. M. B. ARTHUR, Acting 1st Clerk,\n\n(3)\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nSee (2).\n\nGovernor Sir G. F. Bowen, G.C.M.G., to Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 15th August, 1883.\n\n\"the\n\nIn my despatch, No. 79, of the 22nd May ultimo, I stated that I had found that, before my arrival in this Colony, the Officer lately administering the Government (Mr. MARSH) had entrusted Mr. Justice RUSSELL (then Registrar General and Protector of the Chinese), with the duty of preparing the report on system of Child adoption and Domestic Service as it exists at Hongkong,\" for which Lord KIMBERLEY had called in his despatch, No. 40, of the 18th March, 1882.\n\n2. Mr. RUSSELL'S subsequent promotion to the Bench of the Supreme Court and the pressure of his official duties necessarily delayed the completion of the Report. But he has now placed it in my hands, and I have great pleasure in transmitting herewith printed copies of it.\n\n3. The delay that has occurred has had this advantage, that it has enabled me to give as close a study as my other manifold duties would permit, to the subject in question, and thereby has placed me in a position to appreciate the great practical value of Mr. RUSSELL'S labours.\n\n4. His Report is a very able, full and yet concise summary of the important difficult, and hitherto little understood subject of which it treats. It should be carefully studied in connexion with the remarkable petition presented to the late Governor in 1879 by an influential section of the Chinese Community in Hongkong, and with the learned essay of Dr. EITEL, which are both printed at pages 44-57 of the \"Correspondence respecting the alleged existence of Chinese Slavery in Hongkong,\" presented to Parliament in March, 1882.\n\n5. Moreover, if it is desired to obtain a thorough grasp of this subject in its true bearings, the Official Student should further make himself acquainted not only with the tenets of Confucius and Mencius, those ancient Legislators and Philosophers, whose laws and ethics are still the living guides of the Chinese, but also with the principles of the old Roman institution of the Patria Potestas, with which the immemorial \"Patriarchalism\" (as it has been termed), or Family Organization of Chinese Society, so closely corresponds. The adoption of the old Romans, and of the Chinese of the present day who still adhere to the laws and customs followed by their ancestors more than two thousand years ago, have been confounded by persons who look to superficial and apparent rather than to intrinsic and real resemblances and analogies, with Slavery, in the modern and technical sense of that word. But all who have mastered this question know that the adoption and Domestic Service of the Chinese, are derived from the primitive and patriarchal institution of the Patria Potestas; whereas the modern slavery of the Negroes and of other coloured peoples, is founded on the theory of the old Greek Philosophers, who, in view of the real or supposed intellectual inferiority of certain races of mankind, laid down the doctrine that it was \"fit and seemly that Greeks should rule over Barbarians, for by nature Barbarian and Slave are the same thing.\"\n\n6. As I have already said, the report of Mr. Justice RUSSELL is so full and yet so concise, that I will not attempt to analyse it at any length; and will rather recommend a steady perusal of it as a whole. I will confine myself on the present occasion to pointing out and illustrating some of its more salient features, and to stating the action which I propose to take with regard to carrying out its suggestions.\n\n7. I will now briefly consider separately:\n\n(a.) Child Adoption.\n\n(b) Domestic Service.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333239, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "20\n\n21\n\n60\n\n2L\n\n8. (a.) It will be recollected that a main element of the religion of the Chinese is the worship of ancestors. Consequently, the adoption of male children is founded on the religious necessity of securing representatives to perform the Sacred Rites of the Family or clan (gens), the Sacra gentilicia of the Romans. \"These Sacra\" (to quote the words of Sir HENRY MAINE) \"were the Roman form of an Institution which shows itself wherever society has not wholly shaken itself free from its primitive clothing. They are the sacrifices and ceremonies by which the brotherhood of the family is commemorated, the pledge and the witness of its perpetuity. Whatever be their nature,—whether it be true or not that in all cases they are the worship of some mythical ancestor,—they are everywhere employed to attest the sacredness of the family relation; and therefore, they acquire prominent significance and importance, whenever the continuous existence of the Family is endangered by change in the persons of its chief. Accordingly, we hear most about them in connexion with demises of domestic sovereignty.\" Again: \"The Family is the type of an archaic society in all the modifications which it was capable of assuming; but the Family here spoken of is not exactly the family as understood by a modern. In order to reach the ancient conception, we must give to our modern ideas an important extension, and an important limitation. We must look on the family as constantly enlarged by the absorption of strangers within its circle, and we must try to regard the fiction of adoption as so closely simulating the reality of kinship that neither law nor opinion makes the slightest difference between a real and an adoptive connexion. On the other hand, the persons theoretically amalgamated into a family by their common descent, are practically held together by common obedience to their highest living ascendant, the father, grandfather, or great-grandfather. The patriarchal authority of the chieftain is as necessary an ingredient in the notion of the family group, as the fact, (or assumed fact) of its having sprung from his loins. And hence we must understand that if there be any persons who, however truly included in the brotherhood by virtue of their blood-relationship, have nevertheless, de facto withdrawn themselves from the Empire of its ruler, they are always in the beginnings of law, considered as lost to the family. It is this patriarchal aggregate, the modern Family, this cut down on one side, and extended on the other, which meet us on the threshold of primitive jurisprudence.”\n\n9. It will be recollected that the archaic laws and customs thus described by the high authority of HENRY MAINE, are still as much the rule of social life and feeling in China, as they were, twenty-five centuries ago, both in China and at Rome.\n\n10. The adoption of female children as daughters stands on a different footing from the adoption of male children as sons. But on this point, I would refer to the full explanations given by Mr. Justice RUSSELL, especially with respect to the grave abuses often arising from female adoption; and which the Government and Legislature of Hongkong have already done much, and will endeavour to do more, to detect, to prevent, and to punish.\n\n11. (b.) With regard to Domestic Service among the Chinese at Hongkong, I will again refer to Mr. RUSSELL'S statements of facts and arguments which can hardly be abbreviated without impairing at once their force, their perspicuity, and their practical usefulness.\n\n12. It will be seen that Mr. RUSSELL recapitulates his statements and conclusions in the following terms :----\n\n1. It is shown that child adoption in China and among the Chinese in Hongkong is always accompanied by the payment of money and a \"deed of gift\" or bill of sale when the adopted are strangers-in-blood; and that even money passes in the case of relatives if the parents of the adopted child are poor or not nearly related to the adopting parents.\n\n2. It is shown that male children are not bought and sold as servants in Hongkong nor in the Canton province, but that female children are disposed of for money by their parents according to Chinese usage and custom, and that the Chinese authorities recognise such sales as binding if executed with due formalities, whilst Hongkong treats all such transactions as null and void, giving no rights and conferring no title.\n\n3. It is shown that the abuses arising from the Chinese system of passing money in the case of adoption and domestic service are :—\n\n1° Kidnapping to some extent.\n\n9. Brothel bondage; and that female children who are voluntarily parted with by their parents for daughters and servants may be sold as prostitutes by disreputable persons.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\n4. It is shown that claims set up by Chinese to ownership on the ground of purchase have been promptly set aside in Hongkong and the claimants punished for any assault or offence committed against the person claimed—and that no opportunity has been lost of proclaiming the freedom of the subject.\n\n5. It has been shown that the laws have been amended from time to time to the utmost limit to protect women and girls and children against forced or fraudulent emigration or sales for purposes of prostitution, (see Ordinance 2 of 1875, annexed).\n\n6. It has been shown that the supervision of brothels, the instructing the registered women as to their rights, and the system of photographing registered prostitutes and women and children who intend to emigrate, have done much good and that there has been an enormous reduction in the kidnapping cases and selling women for prostitution since the introduction of those measures, convictions being 29 persons in 1882 as against 68 in a former year, and only 4 up to the present date.\n\n7. It has been shown that there are fatal objections to the registration of children purchased for adoption or domestic service, and it is suggested that the Registrar General and a Chinese Committee should investigate cases of a suspicious nature with power to call upon \"pocket-mothers\" to give security for their bona fides towards \"pocket-daughters\"; also that the Registrar General should be able to apply to a Judge in Chambers for a writ of Habeas Corpus with the view of taking away from improper custodians a purchased child. It is also suggested that stone tablets stating the law of freedom on English soil should be erected in places of public resort.\n\n13. It will be perceived that any infringements by contract or sale of the personal liberty secured by English jurisprudence and custom however in harmony with Chinese jurisprudence and custom, such infringements may be, are null and void in the eye of the law in the English Colony of Hongkong, while any attempts to enforce such contracts or sales would be liable to severe and deterrent punishment by the English Courts. The persistent efforts of the Colonial Government and Legislature during a series of years to protect the personal liberty of every sex and class of the Chinese denizens of this island, cannot be regarded as otherwise than praiseworthy, and, to a large extent, successful. From my personal knowledge I can bear witness that the Executive Government and the Judicial Bench are now of one mind on this subject.\n\n14. With regard to Mr. RUSSELL'S practical suggestions for further exertions in the same direction, they meet with the hearty concurrence of the present Registrar General and Protector of the Chinese, (Mr. STEWART). They have also been approved by myself and by the Executive Council; and I propose to take the necessary measures for carrying them into execution, subject to Your Lordship's sanction.\n\n15. In conclusion, I would repeat the remarks made in a previous despatch to the effect that the English in Hongkong are in an utterly different position from that held by the English in India. In the latter country, we succeeded to the rule of great nations and countries which had already long before our arrival, attained to a high degree of civilized organization, and whose laws and institutions we were bound to respect and maintain, so far as they were not repugnant to humanity and to the imperial policy of England. But the island of Hongkong on the contrary, when annexed to the British Empire in 1843, was merely a barren rock, uninhabited save by a handful of fishermen and pirates. The Chinese Merchants and others who have since voluntarily sought the protection of the English flag are not, with few exceptions, native born, or naturalized British subjects, nor permanent residents in this dependency. The Chinese, like the English and other Europeans, come here for a time, to make money, hoping to return ultimately to their native homes. They must be taught, as I recently, with all courtesy, informed an influential deputation of the Chinese community, that if they deliberately choose, for their own purposes, to dwell on British territory, they must, while entitled to the protection of the English laws, learn to obey those laws.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nTHE EARL OF DERBY,\n\n&c., &c.,\n\n&c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nG. F. BOWEN.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333240, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "22\n\nEnclosure.\n\nMinute by the Registrar General on Mr. Justice Russell's Report on Child Adoption and Domestic Service among Hongkong Chinese.\n\nHaving made independent enquiries into the subject of this Report, and having, in the course of its preparation, discussed its contents with Mr. RUSSELL, I am in a position to say that His Honour's statement of the facts connected with Adoption and Service is correct, and that the method he proposes of dealing in future with this difficult question is the one least free from objection that I think it possible to devise.\n\nWhen I laid the proposal before the representatives of the Chinese Community, they accepted it at once, as the best possible method of dealing with suspicious persons who have young girls in their houses either as adopted daughters or as domestic servants; and they further intimated their perfect willingness to assist the Registrar General in his investigation of such cases.\n\nI need hardly say that, personally, I shall be glad to do my best to give effect to the scheme, in the event of its receiving, as I trust it may, the sanction of the Secretary of State.\n\n(Signed)\n\nHongkong, 14th August, 1883.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nRegistrar General.\n\n(C.S.O.)\n\nNo. 83.\n\nSee (2.)\n\nEnclosure.\n\nSIR,\n\n23\n\n(5)\n\nRegistrar General to Colonial Secretary.\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 13th September, 1883.\n\nWith reference to Mr. Justice RUSSELL'S Report of the 18th July last, on Child Adoption and Domestic Service among Hongkong Chinese, (page 8), and to my letter, No. 73, of the 31st ultimo, (C.S.O. No. 2152) regarding the 14 young girls found in No. 233, Hollywood Road. I have the honour to enclose, for the consideration of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, a draft Ordinance conferring on the Registrar General the powers with which I think he should be invested in order to carry out effectually the scheme suggested by Mr. RUSSELL.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nThe Honourable\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nRegistrar General.\n\n6i\n\n(4)\n\n(C.S.O.)\n\nRegistrar General to Colonial Secretary.\n\nNo. 73.\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 31st August, 1883.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that it was reported to me, last week, that WONG A-HO, keeper of Registered Brothel No. 80, had a number of young girls in her private house, No. 233, Hollywood Road, right opposite the brothel. I accordingly sent one of the Inspectors under the \"Contagious Diseases Ordinances\" to the house to ask that the children might be brought to see me. He returned with 17, of whom 14 were girls and 3 were boys.\n\n2. Following the course recommended by Mr. Justice RUSSELL in his recent report on Child Adoption and Domestic Service, I requested Mr. LEUNG A-ON and Mr. CHAN KWAN-1, of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, to sit with me in investigating the case. They were good enough to attend at once, and the result was that we were unanimously of opinion that 11 of the girls, ranging in age from 16 to 7, whom WONG A-HO claimed, had come into her possession by purchase. The other three girls were claimed by servants in the brothel as their own children, and we had no proof that this was not the case.\n\n3. At the close of the investigation I ordered WONG A-HO to find security in $500 for each of the eleven girls that she claimed; and the claimants of the other three security in $200 each. I also directed that the photographs of all the 14 should be brought to me in the course of this week, and I am able to report that that has now been done. I have also directed that the girls shall be brought to this office once a quarter, in order that I may see how they are being treated, and have an opportunity of repeating to them that in this Colony no one can under any circumstances arising out of Adoption or Service deprive them of their personal liberty.\n\n4. I have acted in this matter in my capacity as Protector of Chinese, and probably the urgency of the case sufficiently justifies the course I have taken. I think, however, that it would be well to have legislative authority for such proceedings, and I am at present sketching out a draft of an Ordinance to invest the Registrar General with all necessary powers, and to give persons who may consider themselves aggrieved the right of appeal from his decisions.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nThe Honourable W. H. MARSH, C.M.G.,\n\nFREDERICK STEWART, Registrar General,\n\n$0.\n\nColonial Secretary, &c.,\n\n&c.\n\nSee (2.)\n\nEnclosure in Registrar General's Letter No. 83 of 1883. (In C.S.O. 3.)\n\nAn Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the prevention of abuses connected with Child Adoption and Domestic Service.\n\nWHEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the prevention of adopted female children and female servants from being brought up in the Colony for the purpose of prostitution: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General, as Protector of Chinese, to summon before him any person whom he reasonably suspects of having in his custody any adopted daughter, or female servant, between the age of six and sixteen inclusive, with the view of disposing of her as a prostitute; and it shall also be lawful for the Registrar General, in his discretion and after due enquiry, to call on any such person who has the custody of any such female child to give reasonable security that such child shall not be sold, pawned, or otherwise disposed of for any immoral purpose, and that the absence of such child from the Colony shall be duly accounted for.\n\n2. For the better carrying out of the preceding section, it shall be lawful for the Registrar General to require the production before him of any female child under adoption or domestic service; and also to summon any person who can give information as to the treatment of such child by her adopted parents or master, under a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.\n\n3. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General, in the interests of any female child, to make a written application to a Judge in Chambers for a writ of Habeas Corpus, with the view of taking away such female child from any person who has no legal claim to her custody, and whose retention of her is prejudicial to the child's interest and liberty.\n\n4. It shall be lawful for any person considering himself aggrieved or affected by any action of the Registrar General under this Ordinance to appeal in a summary way to a Judge in Chambers against any decision which the Registrar General may give under this Ordinance; and the Judge may confirm the decision of the Registrar General, or may order in writing the same to be annulled.\n\n5. This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be hereafter proclaimed by the Governor.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333242, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "No. 243.\n\nMY LORD,\n\n26\n\n(12)\n\nGovernor Sir G. F. Bowen, G.C.M.G., to Secretary of State.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, Hong Kong, 26th May, 1885.\n\nWith reference to much previous correspondence on the same subject, and especially to my despatch No. 189 of 1883, (transmitting a Report by Mr. Justice RUSSELL,) and to Your Lordship's reply No. 284 of 1883, I have the honour to submit, for your consideration, the enclosed Bill \"for the prevention of abuses connected with Child Adoption and Domestic Service.\"\n\n2. This Bill was prepared by the Registrar General, and Proctor of the Chinese (Mr. STEWART) whose letter of explanation is appended. It has been read a first time in the Legislative Council. But, as the Attorney General objects to it for the reasons assigned in the annexed Report, and is inclined to believe that the existing laws on the subject afford sufficient protection, I have thought it right, before proceeding further with this Bill, to submit it for Your Lordship's consideration and instructions.\n\n3. My opinion on this entire question is fully stated in my despatch No. 189 of 1883, to which I beg to refer.\n\n4. I would now add that all men who, like myself, have had long practical experience in the administration of public affairs will agree with me that, in addition to the obvious general objections to all laws which confer autocratic and inquisitorial powers on individuals, a Ruler or Statesman should consider whether he is always sure of being able to lay his hand on officers to whom such extraordinary powers can be safely entrusted. Now no man could be properly entrusted with the powers which the proposed Bill would confer, who does not possess a thorough knowledge of the language, laws, customs, and feelings of the Chinese, and also very peculiar moral qualifications of patience and temper.\n\n5. It was a pregnant remark of the late Lord DERBY, when Secretary of State for the Colonies in addressing the first Governor of this Colony, that to the Chinese in Hong Kong, the laws and customs of England \"would be a rule of action and a measure of right equally unintelligible and vexatious.\" The Chinese resident in this island appear to be well satisfied with the present administration of affairs. Looking to this fact and to the exciting events which have of late stirred profoundly the entire Chinese nation, I am inclined to the opinion that it would be better (at all events, for the present,) to rest content with the strict execution of the existing laws, rather than to risk the disturbances which might follow from any mistake or accidental or otherwise, in the exercise of such novel and inquisitorial powers as those which would be conferred by the proposed Bill. However, I shall await Your Lordship's instructions on this point.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\n27\n\nwww.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nA BILL\n\nENTITLED\n\nAn Ordinance for the prevention of abuses connected with Child Adoption and Domestic Service.\n\nWHEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the prevention of adopted female children and female servants from being brought up in the Colony for the purpose of prostitution: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:—\n\n1. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General, as Protector of Chinese, to summon before him any person whom he reasonably suspects of having in his custody any adopted daughter, or female servant, between the age of six and sixteen inclusive, with a view to disposing of her as a prostitute; and it shall also be lawful for the Registrar General, in his discretion and after due inquiry, to call upon any such person who has the custody of any such female child to give reasonable security that such child shall not be sold, pawned, or otherwise disposed of for any immoral purpose, and that the absence of such child from the Colony shall be duly accounted for.\n\n2. For the better carrying out of the preceding section, it shall be lawful for the Registrar General to require the production before him of any female child under adoption or domestic service; and also to summon any person who can give information as to the treatment of such child by her adopted parents or master, under a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.\n\n3. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General, in the interests of any female child, to make a written application to a Judge in Chambers for a writ of Habeas Corpus, with a view to taking away such female child from any person who has no legal claim to her custody, and whose retention of her is prejudicial to the child's interest and liberty.\n\n4. It shall be lawful for any person considering himself aggrieved or affected by any action of the Registrar General under this Ordinance to appeal in a summary way to a Judge in Chambers against any decision which the Registrar General may give under this Ordinance; and the Judge may confirm the decision of the Registrar General, or may order in writing the same to be annulled.\n\n5. This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be hereafter proclaimed by the Governor.\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nTHE EARL OF DERBY, K.G.,\n\n&c., &c.,\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nG. F. BOWEN.\n\nNo. 45.\n\nSIR,\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nLetter from the Registrar General.\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE,\n\nHONG KONG, May 6th, 1885,\n\nReferring to previous correspondence in connection with Child Adoption and Domestic Service, I have the honour to enclose the draft Bill on the subject, that it may be forwarded for the consideration of the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n2. Lord KIMBERLEY on the 18th of March, 1882, in a despatch to Governor Sir J. POPE HENNESSY (See Command Paper 3185 of 1882) called attention, in paragraphs 17, 18, and 19, to the perilous position of adopted children and of children employed in domestic service, and desired that he should be furnished with a report thereon, after a full and trustworthy enquiry into the facts.\n\n3. This work was entrusted to Mr. Justice RUSSELL, then Registrar General, and his Report is dated the 18th of July, 1883.\n\n63", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333245, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "32\n\n4. It may be argued that, in view of the number of girls already under the protection of this office, the present system is sufficient and that no further legislation is necessary. This argument is fallacious, for not only is there some doubt as to whether the bonds now given could be legally estreated in case of any of their conditions not being fulfilled, but it has also to be borne in mind that these girls, whose proper up-bringing may be said to be guaranteed, have been brought to this office only by the merest accident, the majority of them having been found in houses proceeded against for being unlicensed brothels. There is still a very large class of female children beyond the reach of the law, who it is well known are being reared for purposes of prostitution. To save these poor children from a life of infamy, legislation is absolutely necessary, and I therefore sincerely trust that the Draft Bill will become law. Peculiar evils require special legislation, and the most competent judges, both British and Chinese, are unanimous in their opinion that the Bill as drafted by Dr. STEWART and approved by Mr. Justice RUSSELL will go far to meet the abuses arising from child adoption and domestic service, which at present are free from the control of the law.\n\n5. In conclusion I may mention that I have learned from the Protector of Chinese at Singapore that an Ordinance based on Dr. STEWART's Draft Bill, but more stringent in its terms, has been forwarded by the Singapore Authorities for the consideration of the Secretary of State.\n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Registrar General.\n\nThe Hon. THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nA BILL\n\nENTITLED\n\nAn Ordinance for the prevention of abuses connected with Child Adoption and Domestic Service. WHEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the prevention of adopted female children and female servants from being brought up in the Colony for the purpose of prostitution: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-\n\n1. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General, as Protector of Chinese, to summon before him any person whom he reasonably suspects of having in his custody any adopted daughter, or female servant, between the age of six and sixteen inclusive, with the view of disposing of her as a prostitute; and it shall also be lawful for the Registrar General, in his discretion and after due inquiry, to call on any such person who has the custody of any such female child to give reasonable security that such child shall not be sold, pawned, or otherwise disposed of for any immoral purpose, and that the absence of such child from the Colony shall be duly accounted for.\n\n2. For the better carrying out of the preceding section, it shall be lawful for the Registrar General to require the production before him of any female child under such adoption or domestic service; and also to summon any person who can give information as to the treatment of such child by her adopted parents or master, under a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.\n\n3. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General, in the interests of any female child, to make a written application to a Judge in Chambers for a writ of Habeas Corpus, with the view of taking away such female child from any person who has no legal claim to her custody, and whose retention of her is prejudicial to the child's interest and liberty.\n\n4. It shall be lawful for any person considering himself aggrieved or affected by any action of the Registrar General under this Ordinance to appeal in a summary way to a Judge in Chambers against any decision which the Registrar General may give under this Ordinance; and the Judge may confirm the decision of the Registrar General, or may order in writing the same to be annulled.\n\n5. This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be hereafter proclaimed by the Governor.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\n33\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nSTRAITS SETTLEMENTS.\n\nA BILL\n\nENTITLED\n\nAn Ordinance to make further provision for the Protection of Women and Girls,\n\nWHEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the protection of women and girls :\n\nIt is hereby enacted by the Governor of the Straits Settlements with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows --\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as \"The Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance 1886.\"\n\n2. (1). The Protector or Assistant Protector of Chinese Immigrants at any Settlement (which said Protector and Assistant Protector are hereinafter included in the term \"The Protector\") may if he reasonably suspects that any woman has been brought into the Colony for immoral purposes by fraud or misrepresentation or under any false pretence and that from fear ignorance or for any other cause she is unable or unwilling to disclose the true circumstances of the case require any person in whose custody or under whose control she appears to be to furnish security in a reasonable amount to the satisfaction of the Protector that such woman shall not leave the Settlement in which she then is without the previous consent in writing of the Protector.\n\n(2.) In default of such security being furnished the Protector may by warrant under his hand and seal order that such woman be removed to a place of safety and there detained until she can be returned to the place whence she was brought or otherwise proper provision can be made for the protection of her interests and liberty.\n\n3. (1)-The Protector if after due inquiry he is satisfied that any girl is being used for immoral purposes or is being trained for such purposes and that such girl is under the age of sixteen years may by warrant under his hand and seal order such girl to be removed to a place of safety and there detained until she attains the age of sixteen years.\n\n(2) A girl found living in a brothel shall be deemed to be a girl who is being trained for immoral purposes.\n\n4. (1) The Protector shall have full power to summon any person whom he may have reason to believe can give any information respecting any woman suspected of having been brought into the Colony for immoral purposes by fraud or misrepresentation or under any false pretence or respecting any girl suspected of being used or trained for immoral purposes and the person so summoned shall be legally bound to attend at the hour and place in the summons specified and to produce all documents in his custody possession or power relating to such woman or girl and to answer truthfully all questions which the Protector may put to him respecting any such woman or girl or in any way relating to the matter being enquired into.\n\n(2) The Protector shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Penal Code and may administer oaths and affirmations to and examine on oath or affirmation any person summoned before him for the purposes of this Ordinance.\n\n5. Every warrant purporting to be issued in pursuance of this Ordinance and to be under the hand and seal of the Protector shall be received in evidence in every Court of the Colony without further proof and shall be evidence of the facts therein stated and in all acts done in pursuance of such warrant shall be deemed to have been authorised by law.\n\n6. No order made by the Protector in pursuance of this Ordinance shall be questioned or set aside by any Court but any person who may be aggrieved by any such order may appeal to the Governor in Council whose decision shall be final.\n\nAbort title.\n\nWomen brought for immoral purposes by fraud, &c.\n\nChildren under sixteen.\n\nUsed or trained for immoral purposes.\n\nProtector to have power to summon and examine witnesses.\n\nWarrant to be sufficient authority for detention.\n\nAppeal to Governor in Council.\n\n66", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333246, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "67\n\nSecurity bond.\n\nPower to make provision for maintaining women and children.\n\nPower of search.\n\nWomen and children escaping from detention may be arrested and persons abetting punished.\n\nKulee.\n\n34\n\nLEET\n\n7. The security to be given under section one hereof shall be in the form specified in the schedule hereto or in such other form as may for the time being be prescribed by the Governor in Council.\n\n8. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council out of moneys to be provided by the Legislative Council for that purpose to provide suitable building or buildings for the purposes of this Ordinance and thereout also to defray the cost of the care maintenance and education of all persons detained under the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\n9. The Protector and any officer of the Chinese Protectorate generally authorised for that purpose in writing by the Protector shall have power to search any ship, house, building or other place where he has reasonable cause to suspect that there is any woman or girl who is or may be liable to be dealt with under the provisions of this Ordinance and may remove any such woman or girl to a place of safety to be there detained until her case can be enquired into.\n\n10. (1)—Every person detained under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be subject to such rules and regulations as may be made by the Governor in Council and every such person who contrary to such rules and regulations leaves any place in which she is detained may be arrested by any Police Officer or by any officer of the Chinese Protectorate and taken back to such place.\n\n(2)—Any person who induces or assists any person detained under this Ordinance to leave contrary to such rules and regulations as aforesaid the place in which such person is detained or knowingly harbours any such person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment of either description not exceeding one calendar month or to both fine and imprisonment.\n\n11. (1) The Governor in Council may make and when made revoke add to and alter rules for all or any of the following purposes:-\n\n(i) The manner in which appeals to the Governor in Council shall be made and conducted.\n\n(ii) The care maintenance and education of women and girls detained under this Ordinance.\n\n(iii) The manner and conditions in and under which the powers conferred by this Ordinance shall be exercised by the persons on whom such powers are conferred.\n\n(iv) Generally in relation to any matters whether similar or not to those above-mentioned as to which it may be expedient to make rules for carrying into effect the objects of this Ordinance.\n\n(2)—Such rules when made shall be published in the Government Gazette and shall thereupon have the force of law and any person disobeying or infringing any such rule shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars or to imprisonment of either description not exceeding one month or to both fine and imprisonment.\n\nSCHEDULE.\n\nKnow all men by these presents that we and are held and firmly bound unto the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty Her Heirs and Successors in the sum of $ to be paid to the Colonial Treasurer for the time being of the Straits Settlements to which payment we bind ourselves and each of us our and each of our heirs executors and administrators firmly by these presents. Sealed with our Seals. Dated this day of 188\n\nNow the condition of this obligation is that if one who is now residing at shall not quit or be taken without the or removed from the Settlement of previous permission in writing of the Protector of Chinese Immigrants [or Assistant Protector of Chinese Immigrants] for the time being then this obligation to be void otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.\n\nand\n\nSigned sealed and delivered by the above-bounden in the presence of\n\nSIR,\n\n35\n\n(17)\n\nAttorney General to Colonial Secretary.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\n25th October, 1886.\n\n1. With reference to the letter of the Acting Registrar General dated the 17th April last on the subject of Child Adoption and Domestic Services which was referred to me for consideration, I have the honour to forward herewith for submission to His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government a Draft Bill for the better protection of young girls.\n\n2. His Excellency when administering the Government in 1882 had called for a report on this subject from Mr. RUSSELL who was then Registrar General and Protector of Chinese.\n\n3. The further history of this question will be found in the Despatch of His Excellency the Governor dated the 15th August, 1883, transmitting Mr. RUSSELL'S report, and in another Despatch of His Excellency dated the 26th May, 1885, forwarding a Bill which had been prepared by Mr. STEWART then Registrar General, and which had been read a first time in the Legislative Council.\n\nThis Bill consisted practically of four Sections, and is annexed to the papers forwarded herewith, the first section of this Bill authorised the Registrar General to summon before him any person whom he reasonably suspected of having in his possession any adopted daughter or female servant between the age of six and sixteen, and it authorised the Registrar General on due enquiry to require from the custodian of the said child security that it should not be sold, pawned or disposed of for any immoral purpose.\n\nFor the better carrying out of this Section, Section 2 authorised the Registrar General to require the production before him of any female child under adoption or domestic service.\n\nAnd also to summon before him any person who gave information touching the treatment of any such child.\n\nBy Section 3 the Registrar General could apply to a Judge in Chambers for a writ of Habeas Corpus with a view of taking away any female child from the custody of any one who had no legal right thereto.\n\nSection 4 provided an appeal to the Judge in Chambers from any decision of the Registrar General.\n\nThe Attorney General made the following objections to the said Bill:- \"The proposed measure provides that the Registrar General may summon before him any person whom he reasonably suspects of having in his custody any adopted daughter or female servant between the age of 6 and 16 with a view of disposing of her as a prostitute. There is no definition of what should constitute reasonable grounds of suspicion, and I think the provision confers too much arbitrary power to be exercised without the safeguard of publicity by the Registrar General.\n\n\"The measure provides for the summoning of the kind of persons above mentioned and for calling upon them to give reasonable security against the pawning or selling of the child, but it does not say what shall be done with the person or the child if the security is not forthcoming, and indeed it is difficult to see what could be done in such case.\n\n\"Section 3 appears to give a very extraordinary power to the Registrar General to interfere with the domestic affairs of the Chinese population, and a kind of power which could not possibly be sufficiently exercised by a Government department especially as nothing is provided touching what is to be done with a child who has been set free under the provisions of the section.\n\n\"Section 4 is objectionable as giving the Judges duties and powers which are in no proper sense of the word judicial.”\n\nAnd the Governor in his despatch of the 26th May, 1885, seems to have admitted the force of some of them. The Secretary of State in his despatch dated the 12th September, 1885, acknowledged the receipt of the Bill and report of the Attorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333722, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 6, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "Registar General, in discharging his duties, acts as Protector of the Chinese,\n\norgan y\n\nI is the\n\nCommunication\n\nAllah tiny in\n\n81. CADOGAN SQUARE,\n\n6195. Recent may\n\nbetween them & the Whail My\n\nGouennt\n\nS.W.\n\nLes & Com\n\ndear Herbert,\n\nI has been re-\n\nI request you stay-quested to state in this letter before the Lei\n\nflate.\n\nI remain\n\nZus Kerry Faithfully\n\nFir M. Herbert KCB.\n\nopinion, for the information the Ler\" of State,\n\nas to the claims\n\nW. J.H.\n\nMewat Lockha SM Bowen for the office of Register.\n\nI heade\n\nTo Private Lecretary\n\nNo despatch has come Confirming this telegraphian\n\nndation\n\nW. Lockhart-\n\n& the only other\n\nIf there is no other Candidate who\n\nhas applied.\n\nlikely local candidate in\n\na private\n\nWodehouse, but in a\n\nunt\n\nletter\n\nfrom M. Marsh by last mail he\n\nobserves that Mr. Wodehouse has not\n\nboth\n\napplied; (as his salary, including Sup Fire Brigade is more than the Reg. Jeuli)\n\nAs M. March this f. Bowen recommend Mr. Lockhart, he might be appointed at\n\nBut as\n\nof the\n\nacce\n\n2\n\nthe repeal for amendment) the C.D.O. son will affect this post it ought perhaps to be considered whether the salary should be left\n\nthe same\n\nPossibly, Mough ther\n\nwork will be altered, it will not be\n\nmuch diminished in am.\n\nall in responsibilit\n\nCount\n\nWhen the C.D. desp. goes, Say that Lee. of State is prepared to appoint M. Lockhart, but request first a report from theo.ag.\n\nar\n\nwhe then the salary should remain the\n\nJame\n\nI\n\nW2d.10\n\nUnary\n\nSend 11. May\n\nLaki 44 122/5 Miss\n\nSallent offion\n\nPage", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333790, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 74, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "My Lord.\n\nRECO\n\n0.0. 9442\n\nREGO 16 MAY 87.\n\nFlongtong Hongher mit 1887\n\n4th aforil 63\n\nAs the post of Registrar General and Protector of Chinese will shortly become vacant through the promotion of Dr Steward to the office of Colonial Secretary, I have the honour to apply for the vacancy which will be thus created?\n\nIn making this application I most respectfully beg to submit for your Lordship's consideration that it has always been held by your Lordship's predecessors in Office, that the officer who holds the post of Registrar General and Protector of Chinese, should be well acquainted with the language and manners of the Chinese, in dealing with whose affairs consists the most important part of the duties of the office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334381, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "F.\n\nI-Wong Ho, of Victoria in the island of Hong-kong, widow, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare and say as follows:-\n\n1.-I know the prisoner who is charged in this case under the name of Tsang Achun.\n\n2.-The said prisoner has been my protector for more than ten years, since the death of my husband, and I have always known him by the name of Leung Afu and by no other name.\n\n3.-The said Leung Afu has been living in Hongkong since his return from Annam in 1884.\n\n4.-The said Leung Afu suffers from rheumatism in his legs, and during the whole of the 9th moon last year he was unable to walk without great pain and difficulty, and most of the time was confined to his bed on the top floor of No. 61, East Street, Victoria aforesaid.\n\nAnd I make this solemn declaration, etc.,\n\nWONG HO. (Her + mark.)\n\nG.\n\nI, Li Akit, of Victoria, in the Island of Hong-kong, coolie-house keeper, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare and say as follows:-\n\n1.-I am in partnership with Tam Yau, Lam Yo, and Lam Sui in a coolie lodging-house situate in Queen's Road Central, Victoria aforesaid.\n\n2.-I know and am well acquainted with Leung Afu who is charged in this case under the name Tsang Achun.\n\n3.-To my own knowledge the said Leung Afu resided from the 3rd moon of last year up to the date of his arrest on the top floor of No. 61, East Street, Victoria aforesaid.\n\n4.-The said Leung Afu was ill in the 9th moon of last year, and on the evenings of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th days of the said 9th moon I visited him and assisted him to prepare his opium pipe, as he was too ill to do it himself.\n\n5.-I have never heard the said prisoner called by any other name than Leung Afu previously to his being charged in this case.\n\nAnd I make this solemn declaration, etc.\n\n(Signed)\n\nLI KIT.\n\nI, Ng Ayuk, of Victoria in the Island of Hongkong, married woman, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare and say as follows:--\n\n1.-I reside at No. 90, Tank Lane, Victoria aforesaid, and am the wife of a man Chan Tik Cheung.\n\n2.-The said Chan Tik Cheung is at present detained in Victoria Gaol, where he is under remand on a charge of burglary and murder in Chinese territory.\n\n3.-While the charge against the said Chan Tik Cheung was proceeding before H. E. Wodehouse, Esq., one of the Magistrates of this Colony, a man named Ho Ki gave evidence on behalf of the three prisoners, of whom the said Chan Tik Cheung was one.\n\n4.-The said Ho Ki gave material evidence for the defence of the said prisoners, and upon the above-named Leong Ayau being charged with perjury before E. Maclean, Esq., another of the Magistrates of this Colony, the said Ho Ki was examined for the prosecution and gave material evidence against the prisoner Leung Ayau.\n\n5.-In the said charge of burglary and murder preferred against Chan Tik Cheung and others, a person described as Colonel Li Loi signed the information or petition upon which His Excellency the Acting Governor directed warrants to issue for the arrest of the said Chan Tik Cheung and others.\n\n6.-During the prosecution of the said Chan Tik Cheung and others, the said Li Loi appeared in Court and instructed the Solicitor who was conducting the case for the prosecution.\n\n7.-On Saturday, the 26th day of March, 1887, the said Leong Ayau was committed for trial to the Supreme Court on a charge of perjury committed in the said case against Chan Tik Cheung and others.\n\n8.-On the following day, that is on Sunday, the 27th day of March, at about 11 a.m., the above-mentioned Ho Ki came to my house and in the presence of Chow Afung and others informed me that since he had been examined as a witness in the case of Regina v. Leong Ayau the above-named Li Loi had sent a large number of soldiers to Sam Kwai, the native village of the said Ho Ki, that he had arrested two of the gentry, two tipons, the said Ho Ki's elder brother, and several of the clansmen of the said Ho Ki, about 20 persons in all.\n\n9.-The said Ho Ki further said that the said Li Loi had billeted about 100 soldiers in the ancestral temple of the said Ho Ki at Sam Kwai aforesaid and that the family of the said Ho Ki were compelled to supply the said soldiers with food.\n\n10.-The said Ho Ki further said that he had been provided with clothes and a passage to Singapore and that he could not attend any further in Court to give evidence on behalf of my husband or against the said Leong Ayau, as if he did so the said Li Loi would punish him and his relations.\n\n11.-When the said Ho Ki said this he was dressed in new clothes and was armed with a loaded revolver.\n\n12.-I verily believe the statement of the said Ho Ki to be true and that he is prevented by the said Li Loi from attending before the Supreme Court in the trial of the said Leong Ayau to give evidence.\n\nAnd I make, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nNG AYUK. (Her + mark.)\n\n21st April, 1887.\n\nR. v. LEONG AYAU.\n\nA. B. Johnson, Esq., Crown Solicitor.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nWe have laid the depositions in the matter before Counsel and he advises us that if the Attorney-General considers that he is unable to proceed in this case because Ho Ki's deposition before the Magistrate is unsigned and cannot therefore be given in evidence, we had better raise no objection to a nolle prosequi being entered.-Yours truly,\n\n(Sd.) DENNYS & MOSHOP.\n\nApril 22nd, 1887.\n\nR. v. LEONG AYAU.\n\nA. B. Johnson, Esq.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nAs we understand now that Ho Ki will be able to attend at the trial of this case we have requested Mr. Brereton to draw the information and will let you have it as soon as possible.-Yours faithfully,\n\n(Sd.) DENNYS & MOSSOP.\n\n27th April, 1887.\n\nREGINA v. LEONG AYAU.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nI received your letter of the 22nd inst., but I have not received any information.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General wishes me to inform you that the Sessions stand adjourned till Friday next at 10.30, when no information being filed the defendant will in the usual course be discharged by proclamation.\n\nI am, dear sir,\n\nYours faithfully.\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. B. JOHNSON,\n\nCrown Solicitor.\n\nMessrs. Dennys and Mossop.\n\n28th April, 1887.\n\nR. v. LEONG AYAU.\n\nA. B. Johnson, Esq., Crown Solicitor.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nMr. Brereton has sent us the draft information, which we are having copied, and will send to you the first thing in the morning.\n\nWe should be glad to hear whether the Attorney-General will apply for a special jury to try the case.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(Sd.)\n\nDENNYS & MOSSOP.\n\n1.-The draft information consists of two counts.\n\nIn the first Leung Ayau is charged with unlawfully having committed wilful and corrupt perjury before Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, Magistrate, on the 7th March, in the case in which Ching Sam, U Shap, and Tsang Chun, alias Leung Afu, were charged with robbery and murder at a place called Wong Po in the district of Shan Tak in the province of Kwang-tung in Chinese Territory on the night of the 9th October 1886, by alleging that the said Tsang Chun formed one of a gang of robbers who, during the night of the 9th October, 1883, broke into a dwelling house at Taihow and forcibly took him, the said Leung Ayau, to a place called Wong Po, whereas in truth the said Tsang Chun was at the time stated in Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nIn the second count Leung Ayau is charged with committing perjury by declaring that he had never been in gaol either in Hongkong or China and swearing that he had no prison marks on his person, whereas he had frequently been imprisoned for theft in China and had been branded on the arm and face with the marks denoting theft or thief.\n\nPage 198", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335208, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 490, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "Hus duties of Office will be affected by the Ordinance for the protection of women and children.\n\nIn answer to that I reply that the connection of the Registrar General's Office with the protection of women and children has increased, is increasing, and will continue to increase in proportion to the growth of the population of the Colony and the number of people who emigrate from Hong Kong or who pass through it. One instance will suffice to show to what extent the duties and responsibilities of the post of Registrar General have been and are being augmented in respect to the protection of women and children.\n\nIn 1883 there were 41 girls under the protection of this Office; the number now amounts to 287, the majority of whom have been rescued in connection with proceedings under the Contagious Diseases Ordinances or Ordinances for the protection of women and children.\n\nBut it is not in one respect only that the work of this Office has grown. Within the last few years there has been a general increase in all matters that come within its province. On examination of the archives, it has been found that the registered documents in 1886 show an increase of 50 per cent over those registered in 1882. The Staff are much harder worked than they have ever been before; translations from and into Chinese have become more numerous; the correspondence with the Colonial Secretary's Office, and other Departments, more extensive; the interviews with deputations and individual members of the Chinese Community more frequent; and the native population is continually growing to know more and more that the Protector of Chinese is an Officer who will listen to their complaints in their own tongue.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335209, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "h\n\nThe population naturally leads to increased labour in the general registration work of the Office.\n\nSo far, then, from there being any ground for reducing the salary of the Office of Registrar General on the score of decrease in the duties of the post, it appears that if additional salary is to be given, the Registrar General of to-day as compared with the Registrar General of five years ago would have a just increase of pay in view of the increased duties, the manner in which the work continues to grow.\n\nI trust it may not appear from the remarks I have made that I am not sensible of the high honour the Secretary of State has been pleased to confer on me by appointing me to the Office of Registrar General and Protector of Chinese after a comparatively short career in the public service. I appreciate the favour that has been bestowed on me, and I beg to request that you will kindly convey my thanks to His Excellency the Governor for having been pleased to appoint me, and to state that I will endeavour to fulfil the duties of the post in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of State, to the Governor, and to the public of Hong Kong.\n\nI have,\n\n(Signed) J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Registrar General", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335211, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "487\n\nwas concerned. The work of this Department in connection with the Markets is as much as it can possibly undertake to perform efficiently and is in a way less than what it has always been.\n\n(Signed) J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Registrar General\n\n15th October, 1887\n\nIt were convenient to make the Staff of the Inspector of Live Stock appear on the Estimates of the Sanitary Department, as the duties of that Officer, an Inspector of Markets, with which this Office is chiefly concerned, are not so numerous as purely sanitary duties.\n\nIn fact when this matter was discussed in the Sanitary Board I strongly urged that the sanitary arrangements of the market, which were exciting so much attention among the public, were without doubt in a very unsatisfactory condition, and should be undertaken by the Sanitary Board, because this Office, not through wilful neglect but through want of a proper sanitary Staff, owing to the continual increase in the duties properly belonging to the Office of Protector of Chinese, had never given, and under similar conditions, could never give the Markets the attention they required so far as sanitation was concerned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 336580, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "page_number": 296, "title": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "content_text": "291 \n\n71888, (N. 13 of 1888). \n\n2. The customary Report by the Attorney General is annexed.\n\n3. The repeal, referred to by the Attorney General of Section 11 of Ordinance 8 of 1858, makes no practical difference in the position of the Registrar General as Protector of Chinese. It merely withdraws powers which have never been used.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord, \nYour Lordship's most obedient humble servant, \nquillianed a \nEnclosure 2 7th March fes\n\n## Enclosure 2.\n\n### REPORT BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1885.\n\n**ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE,** \n**30 APR 88** \n11th March 1888.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled \"The Regulation of Chinese Ordinance, 1888\" and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.\n\nThis Ordinance is consolidation and re-enactment of previously existing provisions of law governing registration of householders, the appointment of district watchmen.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 336581, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "page_number": 297, "title": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "content_text": "# \nThe control of watchmen, the regulation of Chinese ceremonies and religions, and theatrical performances generally. The only substantial change in the law that it makes consists in the repeal without re-enactment of Section 4 of Ordinance P of 1885, which defines the duties of the Registrar General in the capacity of Protector of Chinese and invests him with special powers.\n\n1 Ed. of Extwo L. O Malley, Attorney General \nB & 8 (30,410a) 6600 1-88 \nGovernor.\n\n| No. | Date | Last previous Paper | Warrant to Gov. | Next subsequent Paper |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 26 | 1888 | 275-Supply | Conl' 19 May 88 | No. 8424 |\n\n(Subject.) \nHow H.E. Leave as Reports afft \n(Minutes.) \nRE C. O. DESPATCH. \n8424 \n292 \nREGE 30 APR 20 \nhumber Leg: bel. \nW. Brandtin \nAs Mr. Deane is (see 18869) an ... in the Exec. Council, I presume he may properly be put in the key. (to Mr. Lockhart in any case in preference). \nConvey Queen's approval of that usual Warrant will follow. \nBuy 2/5 \n113.2/5 \nK \n3 \nReceived in Leg Dept \nMr. Bramston \nin ... \n14 May 188... \nunofficial Members.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337618, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12]", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12]", "content_text": "## 2 \n\n## 11 \n\nprevious view as to take a graver view of the case than the Governor, he surely would have given this as his reason. As it is the only one he gives for his choice is contained in the following words (Par. 5 of his letter of 14 August). The usual course was adopted of framing the charge on the wider scope, viz, misconduct as a constable, and of recording as in similar cases the party complaining as Complainant, the Chief Inspector watching the case. \n\n## 6+ \n\n14. Here we have an indication of what I have not the least doubt, was his real reason. Section 23 makes it clear that if the Captain Superintendent exercises his discretion in sending the case before the Magistrate, he must do so in his own name. The enactment of Section 22 is not so precise on this point, though in the opinion of the Attorney General, the Superintendent's duty under it is equally obvious; and indeed most if not all the charges which could be brought are in their nature such that they could only be made by the Police authorities, with the Captain Superintendent as complainant. This clause, however, afforded a colourable excuse, which the other did not, for introducing a private person as complainant; and so, Mr. **DEANE** took the extraordinary course of entering in the charge-sheet the person who complained to him as the complainant before the Magistrate, and practically forced that person to appear in that character without first consulting him, and as it appears, entirely against his will. The conduct of the trial which subsequently took place is one of the gravest points in the case, as if it had been the primary object of the Police authorities to secure the acquittal of the accused, they could scarcely have taken any course better calculated to attain it. But what I wish to point out specially in this place is that the distinct evasion of his proper responsibility on the part of Mr. **DEANE** is another and a serious instance of the defect in his conduct which is referred to in the Report of the Recent Committee of Council made before my arrival in the Colony. \n\n15. The circumstances of the trial above referred to are stated at some length in my minute of the 18th August. The additional attention which this Memorial has compelled me to give to the subject has shown me, however, that they might have been put much more forcibly. It will be observed that in the letter of Mr. **HORSPOOL**, the Chief Inspector, he states \"and I also sent word to the complainant, asking him to be present, with his witnesses, on that date at 10 o'clock.\" Whether the message was delivered by the Chinese constable in this form, or whether the complainant was told to be at Court and to bring **LEUNG KING** without the word witness being mentioned, it is now impossible to determine. We have, however, the statement of the complainant, which seems very likely to be true, that he went to Court without any knowledge of the part he had to play there; and as he had merely asked that the Sergeant should be reprimanded, he was obviously quite unprepared for the proper conduct of his case against a lawyer on the other side, and with the Police certainly not on his side. \n\n16. For beyond the evidence given on behalf of Sergeant **SHEIK ALIM** by two constables, whose position, if any, in the case should have been that of co-defendants, the only part taken by the Police in Court was that of Chief Inspector **HORSPOOL**, who gave evidence as to the defendant's previous good character. It is true that according to the Captain Superintendent, Mr. **HORSPOOL** watched the case and Mr. **HORSPOOL** himself states that he watched the case \"on behalf of the Police.\" I do not doubt that he watched the case on behalf of the Police; but the question is with what purpose did he watch it? For that of securing that the true facts were elicited? or for that of procuring an acquittal? There is not the slightest evidence either in his own or Mr. **DEANE**'s statements or in the printed report of the case forwarded by Mr. **DEANE**, or in the Magistrate's notes of the case, that he took the former part; while there is strong negative evidence on the other side. Not to mention that the first alternative implies a position which should be, to say the least, impartial, and that if he appeared in that position it would have been well, for the sake of appearance, that the evidence to character should have been given by someone else, Mr. **HORSPOOL** finds that the defendant is represented by Counsel, and he makes no effort to have the case adjourned so that Counsel might be retained on the other side; he suggests no questions, and actually allows the Magistrate to be misled not only by the defendant's Counsel, as to the whole character of the case but by one if not both of the Police witnesses, as to a particular fact. \n\nFrom the evidence of both of these Constables, especially of one, it would be inferred that there had been no search of the House, whereas it now appears from \n\n} \n\n## Enclosure 2 \n\n16th August, 1888 \n\nCaptain **DEANE**'s memorial that according to the Sergeant's own admission the house was searched, and by the Sergeant himself (as deposed by the witness, **LEUNG KING**, though he was apparently not believed.) In fact, all that was done, and not done, by the Police in the case was such as to lead the Magistrate, and what is of more importance, the defendant and his countrymen to believe that the Authorities were against him, and that his chance of obtaining justice was hopeless. \n\n17. The suggestion in the last sentence of (i) has been already dealt with. As to the quotation in (ii) from a despatch of Mr. **STANHOPE**, I am unable to see how it helps Mr. **DEANE**'s case. On the contrary, it seems to contain his condemnation. With a perverse ingenuity of interpretation which has frequently made itself evident on previous occasions, Mr. **DEANE**, who at first looked upon the complaint as merely a matter for a civil Court, now when it suits his purpose, regards it as a criminal offence within the category indicated by Mr. **STANHOPE** in the words \"offence, unconnected with Police duty.\" Considering that the defendant and one of his subordinates when they went to the complainant's house were in uniform, and that in searching the house they performed an act which but for their character as Police, would unquestionably have been resisted, it is difficult to understand how Mr. **DEANE** can regard the offence as one unconnected with Police duty; or how he could inform the complainant as he did that the Sergeant charged had acted \"in his private capacity, and not as a Police Sergeant.\" \n\n18. But granting that Mr. **DEANE** made a mistake in his view of the case, which however extraordinary was at least genuine, I need scarcely point out that he did not follow the course prescribed by Mr. **STANHOPE**. He recommended the complainant not to \"prosecute\" for a criminal offence, \"because of the wider powers of the Court\" (in what respect pertinent to this case the powers are wider is not, and could not, be mentioned.) \n\nIt is, moreover, to be noted that when Mr. **DEANE** was at last forced by me to take action, the complainant was not afforded an option of prosecuting or not as Mr. **STANHOPE** instructs. It is true that the complainant was \"asked to go to Court by a Constable under orders from Mr. **HORSPOOL**,\" but he might well have regarded as an order, a request made under such circumstances. (He indeed alleges in his statement attached to the Petition of 152 Chinese shopkeepers, translation of which is attached, that he was told to go.) \n\nIn fact, so far from being \"guided in accordance with the spirit\" of Mr. **STANHOPE**'s instructions, as Mr. **DEANE** alleges, he directly contravened them both in the spirit and letter. \n\n19. (iii) requires no notice beyond what has been said already. As to the points on which Mr. **DEANE** states himself to \"join issue\" with me in (iv), I have merely to remark (1) that the extreme reluctance of the Chinese to enter into conflict with the Government, especially with the Police, though denied by Mr. **DEANE**, is asserted by Mr. **RUSSELL**, Acting Chief Justice, by Mr. **STEWART**, Colonial Secretary, who was for a long time Protector of Chinese, and by Mr. **LOCKHART**, who now holds that office, and also by the Attorney General. Such an opinion from Officers, some of whom are far better acquainted than Mr. **DEANE** with the Chinese and their language and have made a special study of Chinese habits and peculiarities, cannot be effectively contradicted by Mr. **DEANE** alone, supported by the single instance mentioned in his letter of the 7th August, and this even though the fact be left out of consideration that having very frequently shown himself out of sympathy with the Chinese, his opinion on such a point is entitled to very little weight; (2) that the principle which Mr. **DEANE** lays down as to the impropriety of any action on his part against a Policeman until the charge against him has been tried before a Court would require him to permit a Policeman to continue to act as such, even when he was charged with murder. \n\n20. (v) and (vi) seem to need no further comment. As to (vii), I may remark that I have never objected to the Sergeant having been brought before the Court \"by entry on a charge sheet.\" My strictures were solely directed to the complainant being brought before the Court in this way. \n\n21. As to (ix), I did not hold Mr. **DEANE** responsible because the Solicitor of the Defence chose to call certain Police Officers as witnesses on behalf of his client. I merely mentioned their appearance in this character in order to show how the complainant's case suffered from the want of a Solicitor on his side, and as one of the facts indicating that the part taken by the Police was wholly against him.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 342348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7]", "page_number": 731, "title": "CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7]", "content_text": "#p100 [which W-Lockhart inserted in the Draft Ord\n\ndon't know why-\n\ndec\n\nlast wordt.\n\nof his memo. attached to 2.\n\n22417109]\n\n? Leave the penalty as it stands, which\n\nsufficient.\n\nseems to me\n\n/\n\n? Sanction the Ordinance making the remarks suggested above & on 18604.\n\nMe\n\nAy & the Regulations, the\n\n(I) has.3\n\neins/;. 2. not as in Straits Raz\n\nre as follows: viz.\n\nthe words \"And an\n\nin (C) and this whole of (f)\n\n\"\n\nIden\n\nare her\n\nI need not be objected to ? (II) hrs. 6(2) the underlined word,\n\nare new, but so far\n\n•Carried\n\n\"\n\na^R\n\nThe words\n\nquite right.\n\nBut the last proviso giving the\n\nRegistrar General power to refuse, Cavell or suspend registration seems to me ultra vires.\n\nIf such a power\n\nis to exist, surely\n\nit ought to be given by the Ordinance\n\n1859 pars than\n\nShav\n\n(as was done by the Ord. 19 / 1887 5.27/3)) \"see annexe. The Protective at the Straits regrets Report for the absence of this provision from the Straits Law the Evidently does not contemplate the possibilit of reintroducing the power by\n\nbeaut\n\nRegulation. Notwithstanding what is said in pars. 3,6,7 of this Straits Report of the It aits Protector, I do not think such an unqualifie\n\n36 3\n\npower can be given to Mm Reg. 128 General, since it simply has the effect of turning the whole system of registration into a licensing system, this buispoon such as Existed before, twhich in par. 8 H. 1.242-1850 of desp. of 3 Jan. Cast we\n\nto be mohained.\n\n7.319\n\nsaid wa\n\nnot\n\nThe danger feared by then\n\nof Chinese appears to me\n\ndistinctly\n\nto be sufficienty\n\nThe Right will be bothblay mat by writer of this\n\nlece knoon with ods\n\n39 (C)\n\nFame from unit 1.25 of 2. 35101167-63a 30 this Httery Order [1.14 of the Straitions] objection to shingut while in cases of suspicion befuchand hm of closing dinding the Reg. General has the further Lowers of requiring security under I do embe ss. 14&15 of this Ord. [1. S of the Straition) ] ? So inform fr. directing that this proviss in the 8th Regube\n\nM.5712\n\nomitted.\n\nI Jam also disposed to think\n\nthe provision of\n\nthat Reguy should (if it exists at all) be in the Orditself. \"manth But I think it should be omitted, angular fention of times having the Effect of licensing fe - Sorry head scrunch\n\n37 (11545/ Steering\n\nA\n\nshablishments a\n\nunes the rest of the certain pergans (1.5. those who\n\ncan furnish securities) to keep Wothel. The provisim Leems\n\nse unnecessary for\n\nwon how this, it inly worked as Ra Amet it will not primus & licensing\n\n88.5/12 K\n\nany\n\nther object,\n\nA\n\nthe Ordiname\n\nprovides penalties for breaking", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 342352, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7]", "page_number": 735, "title": "CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7]", "content_text": "The wrongful doings of his Chinese tenant or their sub-tenants, of which he had no knowledge, the owner sometimes being only at Riplet. To have the directors or secretary of a large company, such as the Land Investment Company, brought before a Magistrate for not registering a brothel, of the existence of which they would, even if they were perfectly ignorant, were interpretations.\n\nRegisters to be kept. Register of Brothels, acquitted on the ground of want of knowledge, not recommend itself to public opinion in this Colony. The feat of the Attorney General would be if upon he found that the owner might reasonably have been supposed to know of the existence of the unregistered brothel, especially where previous notice thereof had been given by the Registrar General or the Police. The imposition on property owners of a responsibility such as that contained in the draft sent out was vehemently opposed by unofficial members of Council, and by public opinion as far as I could ascertain.\n\nThe suspending clause will prevent the coming into operation of the Ordinance until the prior approval of the Secretary of State after consideration of the modifications which have been made.\n\nMileith Mordenan\n\nAllomney Gennal\n\nJuly 29 1890\n\nPage 17273\n\nRegister of Inmates of Brothels,\n\nApplications for registration is de.\n\nCertificate of registration.\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nRULES AND REGULATIONS\n\nMade by His Excellency The Governor in Council under Section of \"The Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance, 1890,\"\n\n1. Words in these Rules and Regulations shall have the meanings assigned to them by section two of the above-mentioned Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as \"the Ordinance\").\n\n2. The following Registers shall be kept at the Office of the Registrar General.\n\n(1) A Register of Brothels.\n\n(2.) A Register of Inmates of Brothels.\n\n3. The Register of Brothels shall contain the following particulars:-\n\n(a.) The distinguishing number of the brothel.\n\n(b.) The situation of the brothel and its description by reference to the street, the municipal number of the premises, and other like particulars.\n\n(c.) Name and address of the owner.\n\n(d) Name of the keeper.\n\n(e) Number of inmates for which it is certified.\n\n(f) Any other particulars which the Registrar General may think fit to record.\n\nThe Register of Inmates of Brothels (hereinafter called \"The Register of Inmates\") shall contain the following particulars:-\n\n(1.) The registered number of each brothel.\n\n(2.) With respect to each inmate,-\n\n(a.) Her name.\n\n(b.) Her nationality, and in the case of Chinese the district in China to which she belongs.\n\n(c.) Her age.\n\n(d) The date of her arrival in the Colony.\n\n(e) Any other particulars respecting her which the Registrar General may think fit to record.\n\n5. (1) Applications for the entry of a house upon the Register of Brothels shall be made in writing in the Form 4 in the Appendix. Every such application shall state the particulars B, C and D for entry on the Register, and the number of inmates by whom the brothel is intended to be used. It shall be accompanied by the written consent to the application of the owner of the premises.\n\n(2.) On the receipt of such application, the Registrar General shall forward it to the Medical Officer appointed in that behalf by the Governor, for the purpose of obtaining his report on the sanitary condition of the premises and their structural suitability for the residence of the proposed number of inmates.\n\n(3.) The Medical Officer shall forthwith, on the receipt of the application, inspect the premises, and report to the Registrar General whether they are or are not in a satisfactory sanitary condition and fit for the residence of the proposed number of inmates.\n\n(4.) Where the premises are already registered as a brothel under Ordinance No. of 18 the application shall be accompanied by a list of the names of the inmates.\n\n6. (1.) If the Medical Officer certifies that he has inspected the premises and is satisfied with their sanitary condition, and that they are fit for the residence of the proposed number of inmates, and if the premises are not situate in a locality where brothels have been declared by the Governor to be unlawful, the Registrar General shall enter the required particulars in the Register of Brothels, and shall deliver to the applicant a certificate of registration in the Form B in the Appendix.\n\n(2.) Provided that no part of a house shall be registered as a brothel, nor any house where any trade or business is carried on, nor any house communicating by any passage, door, or otherwise with any house or room in which any trade or business is carried on (Sec. 20 of Ord. 19 of 1889), and provided also that the Registrar General may at any time refuse to register and may at any time cancel or suspend the registration of a brothel (Sec. 27, sub-sec. 3 of Ord. 19 of 1889,) (vide 1889 Report of Protector at Singapore).\n\n7. Every keeper of a registered brothel shall enter into a bond in such a sum and with such securities as the Registrar General shall think fit for the due observance by such keeper of all the requirements of this Ordinance or of any rules and regulations which shall be made thereunder. The Registrar General may at any time require the said keeper to renew any of the sureties to the said bond (Sec. 28 of Ord. 19 of 1889).\n\nPage ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 346076, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 475, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "YL(1317)--16857---6000-7-91\n\nGovernor.\n\nNo.\n\nEther 229.\n\nDate.\n\n1891-\n\nRong.\n\nNo. 16563\n\n**(Subject.)**\n\n**DESPATCH.**\n\n16563 REC? f REC 17 AUG 91\n\n24. 16. Appointment of Amite Consul at H\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n144509\n\nLetter as to-\n\n470\n\nHonglong.\n\n23 Sept94\n\nNo. 235\n\n1. but\n\nsubsequent Paper\n\n1/6525\n\n**(Minutes.)**\n\nW. Meade\n\nSecals 16565 + 17044\n\nThat Han\n\nCopy to F.O., saving Kants?rds in one, wewton to repely, th, thang ho for the present the question of Chinese jurisdiction has been withdrawn, as regards the specific issues raised.\n\nThat \n\n(1) the duties & powers of the Registrar General as the Protector of Chinese be generally similar to those of the Nations, but (2) the Chinese must still appear in Reg. Gen. as the Protector of *(3) the Col. Govt would have continued to Communicate with the Chinese....", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 346085, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 484, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "## MINUTE.\nMr. Johnan 30 Sep 28. \nMr. Wingfield. \nMr. Bramston. \nMr. Meade. \nSir R. Herbert. \nBaron de Worms. \nLord Knutsford.\n\nI have the honour to state that the proposed appointment has at present been withdrawn to the Chinese fort, but I am aware that this request for their appointment has...\n\nThe inhabitant would still have had to look upon the Registrar General as the Protector of Chinese, and The Colonel Gort would have continued to communicate with the Chinese authorities through this Consular office.\n\nDRAFT. \nHKiny No.235 \n1923/5 \n479 \nA. Oct. 91 \nHKeny No.235 \n\nBack: The receipt of despatch No. 229 of the 15th instant, recommending the proposed appointment at Haughey.\n\n...for... \n30% \nJanifirl \n\nos \nсу \nJama \nа \nвид \noas \n\nLord Knutsford. \ncursã \nSen \nIf gun fely last, aste...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 346086, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 485, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "## DESPATCH\nstate in reply to the questions raised by \nзи, \nthat the duties \n& power of any Chinese \nConsul would have \nbeen generally \nsimilar \nto those of the Consuls of \nother nations; \nthat the \ninhabitants of \nthe Colony \nwould still have been \nexpected to look up \nto the Reg. General Protector of Chinese, & that the Colony would have continued to communicate with the Chinese authorities \nthrough H.M's Consular \nofficers.\n\n## (Subject.)\nJubilee of Shang Hong.\n\n## (Minutes.)\n16. the Telegraph Companies have agreed to admit \nas per previous Paper. \nYou \nwill see that the Cost of the Telegrams sent \nin Connection with it \nwas borne by the Colony.\n\nM. Meade \nAs we said on 1379, \nit would have been \nproper for the \nGovernor to have telegraphed \nPartly \nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n| Date | Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| 18/8 | C. O 16556 Dong Hons. No 7656661723 |\n\nJult.18/0 \nyes - 10m Th \natmie \nRm \nam 18/8 \n\n(1211)-16857--8000-7-91 \n480 \n`XCR(85)72` is not present, however `GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present either, a reference `C. O 16556` is present.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 349709, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "content_text": "## harr. 10-13\n\nwith the other offices which the Governor proposes (in `16376`) to \nabolish or amalgamate. \n\n(2) As to the Clerical service we have already written on `14216/92`. \n\n(3) Unofficially proposes the post of Registrar General to amalgamate with that of Colonial Secretary so that \nthe Heads of each department do more of the routine work of their departments \nwhich now falls on their Assistants. Suggest this to Governor.\n\n(4) The Gov. proposes also to amalgamate the two offices of Treasurer & Postmaster General. \nThese posts were previously combined (see par. 1.4.18 of `16376`). \nThe Col. Sec. used to be also Auditor but it was considered that he could not \nperform the two duties properly, & the offices were separated only 20 years ago. \nI am strongly of opinion that the amalgamation now proposed between \nthe posts of Col. Sec. & Reg. Gen. would be equally undesirable.\n\nAs to the duties of the Registrar General, they are multifarious - he is the Chief Advisor on \nChinese questions, and the Protector of Chinese (see par. 8, 9, his Annual Report in `11958/9` and pp. 5,6 of Enc. in `24542/87`). \nIf the Colonial Secretary and Registrar General are not now fully occupied, it seems to me the wiser plan would be to reduce the staff of their Departments (i.e., by abolishing the posts of Sec., and Ass. Reg. Gen.), \nand to make the Chief Officers in each department feel themselves responsible for a full measure of their duties.\n\nAs was the strong recommendation of the Acting Governor (see `17270/90`, my par. 2 of minute on `17271`, and \"States case\" on `17272/90`), \nthe large & growing amount of work at the Post Office requires a whole-time officer at the head. \nUnder the old arrangement, we suffered a large defalcation of $40,000, a fact said to be due to the \nPost Office not being properly looked after. I think it would be false economy to go back to the old system. \nI would suggest that a remedy rather be looked for in the direction of cutting down the staff of Post Office & Treasury, \nwhich is rather superfluous, and letting the Chief Officers in each department feel themselves responsible for a full measure of their duties.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351967, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "little, if any, effect\n\nc\n\nbrothel\n\nhas had very little direct influence on slavery and kidnapping. Up to the 1880, when the system had been in force for over 20 years, hardly anyone\n\nin the Colony appeared in dictment,\n\nC\n\nSee Report 10145\n\nin H.K. records since\n\nof other provisions of the Law, which it has not been proposed to alter.\n\nAs regards the Straits Settlements, see par. 30-34 of the last Report\n\nEspecially minutes of Chinese Protectorate. In that\n\nwere written Colony Ord. 4 of 1880 for the \"protection\n\nto have believed) of little utility in its efficacy\n\nthe Colonial Office top of 7.56 to think that the\n\nthing from dash of\n\ndespite arguments at fo\n\npp. 57,844\n\ndisprove\n\nnot\n\nJul 26, 1881 [C-3093-1881] do\n\nthe view that the system had been, I was likely to continue to practical failure\". This is borne\n\nbe,\n\nCo\n\nout by\n\nhand\n\nwe\n\nHKany\n\n17712/903\n\nhave now\n\nbut\n\non the other.\n\nstrong expressions\n\nof opinions, from officials both at the\n\nStraits & at Hongkong,\n\nI say nothing\n\nhave as to the medical\n\nof the system, that not new bring win qu ante corrente Exam has been\n\nabolished\n\nsee Especial par.\n\n8818\n\nthat the Registry for 3 of Straits\n\n& Inspection of Brothels does afford protection to the Inmates.\n\nare\n\nBut these expressions of opinion unsupported by any clear evidence\n\nsuch\n\nas to facts. And I will now show why I venture to differ from Experienced officials as Su C. Smith,\n\nless Emphatic on the point\n\nwhen he was\n\nRegi\n\n4 from others (e.g. M. Lockhart) who have practically also considerable experience & local work\n\nand adhere to the Spine in Sen of thing Knowledge\n\n22792/92 Expressed in for that the women, who are rescued, are not so much rescued because the Brothels Registered & Inspected, as by\n\nare\n\n(zat\n\nm22742\n\nOver 800\n\nof Chinese Immigrants \"Enables the Government to examine every\n\nChinese woman\n\nand s. 5 of Ord. 14 of 1888 for them\n\n& furnishes\n\n\"Enables\n\nthe Registrar General to detain such woman about whose freedom of action he has any suspicion, default of satisfying security to send her to a place of security. It\n\n& in\n\n\"about\n\nappears from the abovementioned Report that during 1892\n\n8000 women children were\n\nquestioned,\n\nBrothels according\n\nat 4.30\n\npractically\n\narrival from China, 79 security bonds have been made & Return \"informal security exacted in a great\n\nnumber of cases\" (par. 32). It also appears that about 200 women during the year passed through the Rescue Homes (par. 33). It is also stated works that \"the system of giving tickets & a precise copy of the rules to such prostitute\n\nof them who wished well; a large number, to obtain help from the Protector have (in 12045/94) dent in their tickets through their friends, much cases than or by letter have brought themselves\n\nnumber is\n\nporter\n\nThe later Report for '93/in\n\n385.1.7.24/1/94\n\nof\n\n128", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351968, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "under our immediate notice . (par.34). But it is not stated in this Report \n\nany previous Report of the Protector. So far how many (if any) women have been rescued owing \n\nto complaints made by them at the visits of Inspection paid periodically to the Brothels, \n\nI have been able to discover. how the fact of the women (or the houses) being \n\nRegistered has led to the rescue of the women. Any of the women referred to in the extract quoted above (from par. 34 of Report) could send in their tickets by a friend, or by letter, to the Protector, they could equally well send a message by the same means to the Protector, so that Registration \n\nhas not helped these cases in the slightest degree. Mineralization apparently the essential & important feature in their case was that their position, as free agents, was explained to them on their arrival in the Colony, and they had the opportunity to communicate with the Protector. \n\nIt is very satisfactory that they subsequently had the sense to do so.\n\nAt Hongkong, the position is not quite the same, because there is no Law providing for the Examination of all Chinese Immigrants on first arrival in the Colony. \n\nI understand from W. Lockhart (the Registrar General who has been lately at home & with whom I had several conversations on this subject) that such a Law would not be practicable in Hongkong, owing to the number of passengers to and fro between Hongkong and Canton (and other neighbouring parts of China, e.g., Macao). \n\nBut this difficulty is partly met (as I gathered from reading the Po Leung Kuk Report, and as Mr. Lockhart confirms in his Memorandum circulated in reply to a note devoted to him by the Detectives of the Po Leung Kuk). We might suggest that this plan might be adopted, viz., watching the Steamers arriving from Canton, and stopping suspicious-looking persons, detaining & bringing them to the Registrar. \n\nDetectives could be employed for this purpose, to secure this object, and to prevent women or girls who they suspect are being brought into the Colony for immoral purposes against their will. \n\nMr. Lockhart admitted in conversation that very few women after being forced into a Brothel are induced to become rescued through the agency of the Inspectors, and that they are not materially assisted by the fact that they & the Brothels are subject to Registration & Inspection; but he argued that many are prevented from entering the Brothels, owing to the Registration system, because under that system...\n\n.... \n\n....", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351974, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "does not give much information. I \n\ncannot conceive how men like Horton & Lee Chen who could stoop to such \n\nExisted in 18771 practices \n\nEven under orders from their superior officers, \n\nas Protectors of Women & Children! The fact that these \n\nhave been kept at this work \n\nEver since that date seems to me \n\nto be a sufficient condemnation \n\nof the whole system. \n\n847.23/11/93 \n\nShould not the Gov. of Fiji be reminded of the desp which he has not get ans \n\nm 32742 \n\nI have got studied the subject & Mr. Johnson has also done so, therefore it is unnecessary for \n\nme to multiply minutes. There must be some means, practically & really \n\nefficient, for practically inspecting these brothels \n\nand safeguarding their inmates and otherwise \n\nwe shall let horrible abuses continue. The best means of doing this \n\nshould be attached to the greatest weight by men who really know \n\nthe condition of life of the Chinese \n\nC.Pd 23 Nov \n\nDrawn up & the number of highly educated & placed officials who have devoted their own time to counselling will thus be seen. I don't think any men should be called upon to administer such Laws. \n\nThis has now been done \n\n135 \n\nConsidering the outcry not many years ago about the immoral traffic in young girls between England & the Continent; & the Laws taken to suppress it & to prevent the girls being sent, in aums cursions that it should require the Colonial Secretary against their will & in spite of Local Opinion to discontinue a system which was invented for the purpose of checking a similar and more extensive traffic, and if possible some of the girls before they begin their life of degradation; & afterwards giving them some \n\nKind of protection. If these wretched women were so passible persons, & able to take care of themselves they might be left to themselves, but being as they are, little better than dumb animals (on the \n\n1 \n\nMiddle par. of p. 56 g P.P.118 of 80) we ought to do something for them. But the question is: \n\nThe system of registration & inspection may not have done all that was hoped from it, but to put it away presumably brothels & then leave things as they are, is, in a sense, to fail to \n\nLeave it recognises evil but does nothing \n\n84922/1 \n\nI did not suggest that as a substitute, \n\nfor providing protection that the present system is supposed to afford. \n\nto meet the evil that otherwise brothels would \n\nspring up everywhere. It's plain that without humanity for good government. If it \n\npromotes Homes for girls something more \n\neffective means of helping the girls. But nothing is suggested\"; to suppress brothels when they make too much noise is hardly a substitute, even \n\nthough an adopted \n\ngreater Machinery of Criminal Law unnecessary but a quarter as effective an answer \n\nthe detections of the Po Leung Kuk good \n\nas it is is itself on hardly \n\nEquivalent to the frowns now pronounced by the Registrar General. \n\nI shall be sorry \n\nto see the registration abolished & the \n\nwomen left to the cruel Mercies of their Refuse \n\nif there were no \n\nLaws for protecting \n\nthem up. G.W.J.M Jan 19/11/04 \n\n1PLO", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353928, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "page_number": 318, "title": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "content_text": "314\n\nC. O.\n\nupon the existing system of\n\nEducation at Queen's College, (lately\n\nand the\n\nVictoria College) Hongkong Periodical Examination of the\n\nscholars.\n\nThe Bishop and Dr Chalmers have\n\nhad between 30 and 40\n\nyears\n\nand their\n\nexperience in China, suggestions\n\nare therefore of the\n\ngreatest possible value.\n\nI do not entirely\n\nconcur however\n\nin the\n\n2.\n\nparagraph of their\n\nExaminations.\n\nfor\n\nI consider that a\n\nuseful\n\nand\n\nremarks respecting\n\neffective Governing Body might\n\nbe formed as\n\nfollows: -\n\n4799\n\nMar 10 ww\n\n1. President; - The Registrar General a\n\nProtector of Chinese.\n\n2. Vice President; - The Rev R. F. Cobbold\n\nformerly Assistant Master\n\nat Bury St Edmund's Grammar\n\nSchool, and elsewhere.\n\n3. The Colonial Treasurer.\n\n4. Mr A. M. Thomson. For services and\n\nqualifications, see Colonial Office dist.\n\n5. The Hon. E. R. Belilios, C.M.G.,\n\nIt would be necessary to inform\n\nDr Wright of his exact position in\n\nGoverning Body,\n\nregard to such a\n\nif your Lordship should decide\n\nPresident.\n\nto appoint it.\n\nI have the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358246, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "page_number": 411, "title": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 5.\n\n## Meeting held on 16th August, 1895.\n\n404 HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held on Friday afternoon.\n\nPresent:-\n\n* His Excellency the Governor, Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, K.C.M.G.\n* Hon. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.\n* Hon. W. M. GOODMAN, Attorney-General.\n* Hon. A. M. THOMSON, Acting Colonial Treasurer.\n* Hon. F. A. COOPER, Director of Public Works.\n* Hon. Commander W. C. H. HASTINGS, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police.\n* Hon. A. K. TRAVERS, Postmaster-General.\n* Hon. C. P. CHATER.\n* Hon. Ho KAI.\n* Hon. E. R. BELILIOS, C.M.G.\n* Hon. A. MCCONACHIE.\n* Hon. J. J. BELL-IRVING.\n* Mr. J. G. T. BUCKLE, Acting Clerk of Councils.\n\n## BILLS READ A FIRST TIME.\n\nThe following Bills were, on the motion of the **ATTORNEY-GENERAL**, seconded by the **COLONIAL SECRETARY**, read the first time:- The River Steamers Ordinance; an Ordinance to prohibit the defacing or chopping of British dollars; an Ordinance to amend the Trade Marks Ordinance, (Nos. 16 of 1873 and 3 of 1886), and an Ordinance to further amend the **Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance**, No. 26 of 1891.\n\n## THE MERCHANT SHIPPING CONSOLIDATION ORDINANCE.\n\nThe **ATTORNEY-GENERAL**- There is a Bill not on the order of the day which I propose to read the second time with your permission. The notice has been very short, and it will be for you to decide whether we shall proceed with it. It is an Ordinance to further amend the **Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance**, No. 26 of 1891. Under our Merchant Shipping Ordinance a master is required to state the number of passengers he proposes to carry on his projected voyage. In some instances after the immigrants have gone on board and been passed by the Examining Officer somebody—I do not suppose it is either the owner or master intentionally, but somebody has been in the habit of introducing perhaps half a dozen more on board who have not been passed at all. The only way this is found out is by comparing the number of immigrants who have gone on board at Hongkong and been taken, say, to Singapore, with the number on the document required to be given by the master to procure the port clearance. The Protector of Chinese at Singapore had found out that these extra persons had not passed the immigration officer, and therefore somebody had cheated the Government of 25 cents for each examination. You might say, Why don't you prosecute the master? But you have got to prove your case, you have got to prove that a certain number of passengers did arrive at Singapore, and affidavits would be useless, because they are not received as evidence in criminal cases. The officer from Singapore would have to come here to prove that he saw a number of persons going off the steamer in excess of the number stated in the port clearance. That would cause great delay and it might be a great inconvenience for a Government officer to leave Singapore, come here to give evidence, and then go back again. It seems to me that the addition of the words \"attempt to leave\" the waters of the colony would be sufficient to meet the case. At present the law only relates to steamers which have left the waters of the colony. Now, however, if a master got under weigh with an excess of passengers it would be held that he had the intention of leaving the waters of the colony; then he is in our jurisdiction, and you have got an officer who can say \"Here is the port clearance; there were so many passengers in excess.\" This measure, I think, will meet the deficiency in the law, and a prompt prosecution will doubtless put an end to the evil.\n\nThe **COLONIAL SECRETARY**- I beg to second. Every hon. member will, I am sure, agree with the object of this Bill. It, as we have often heard it stated, shipping is the life-blood of Hongkong, emigration is one of the most important arteries and I think you will agree with me that emigration from this port should be above suspicion. All possible steps should be taken to prevent the smuggling of emigrants on board ship and this Bill being a step in that direction, I am sure it will receive the support of all hon. members.\n\nHon. A. McCONACHIE asked how a captain was to protect himself? These people were put on board and stowed away in all sorts of corners. It was an impossibility for the captain to count all the passengers, and an innocent man might be liable to prosecution.\n\nThe **ACTING CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE** said it was possible for an innocent man to be prosecuted, but the police were always near the boat and the chance was very small. At present it was impossible to do anything. The other day a German steamer chartered by Chinese was found with 112 passengers on board in excess of the certified number, and the case was dismissed. There was no innocence about that.\n\nCarried.\n\nIn Committee the **ATTORNEY-GENERAL**, in answer to Hon. A. McConachie, said a master's liabilities commenced the moment he weighed anchor and it would be a very good thing for a master, if he found after starting that he had got an excess of passengers on board, to be able to stop his ship and communicate with the police in the harbour, and so get rid of the excess passengers. A new principle was not being introduced; it was only a question of proving the case without the inconvenience of calling people from Singapore and so that the law should not be a dead letter owing to that inconvenience.\n\nBill went through all its stages and passed.\n\nPage 405", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358603, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 9, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "**SANITARY BOARD, HONG KONG**\n\nThe Sanitary Board in Hong Kong has had roughly the following history.\n\nIn 1882 Mr Chadwick, the Sanitary Engineer, who was consulted about and visited Hong Kong, suggested the appointment of a Sanitary Officer, to be under the Surveyor General, the Colonial Surgeon, and the Registrar General.\n\nThe Registrar General is really the Protector of Chinese, and at present his duties are combined with those of Colonial Secretary. These three Officers became a Sanitary Board, to which the new Sanitary Officer acted as Secretary.\n\nOrdinance 7 of 1883 enacted that the Board should consist of these three officers and of such other members, not less than two, as should be appointed from time to time by the Governor. In 1886 four ratepayers were added to the Board.\n\nIn 1887 a new Health Ordinance was passed, under which the Board consists of the Surveyor General, the Registrar General, the Captain Superintendent of Police, and not more than six additional members, four of whom (two being Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor and two elected by such ratepayers who are liable to or exempted from serving on juries. These non-official members hold office for three years.\n\nThus under this Ordinance the Board is one in which the unofficial element predominates.\n\nThe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359607, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 378, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "Some small economies suggested, which can be carried out. Moreover, I should transfer from the harbour master to the Registrar General the protection and examination of emigrants. The Registrar General and his staff, with their knowledge of Chinese, are better fitted to protect the emigrants than ...\n\n## Appendix 1.3\n\n1. Can the offices of Registrar General and Registrar General be combined? \n2. Can the Assistant Registrar General be abolished.\n\nThe combination of Colonial Secretary and Registrar General was suggested by the Governor and Sir G. O'Brien on 1892 in confidential despatches, but Lord Ripon was not inclined to agree. Sir George O'Brien again recommended the better combination in a letter to the committee.\n\nThe Harbour Master is, and Mr. Lockhart's evidence states that in the Straits, the Protector of Chinese, who answers to the Registrar General, is charged with the same duty. The Harbour Master will thus be relieved of some work, and the decision already taken to abolish the Assistant Harbour Master on vacancy can be maintained.\n\nNeither the committee nor the Governor express an opinion upon this transfer. Report p. XV states they are waiting for a special report.\n\nThere remain the questions, which must be considered:\n1. Can the combination be made from a practical point, such as the likelihood of friction?\nThe Committee themselves could not make up their minds on the subject. The Governor is in favour of the combination as per paras 16-21 of despatch. It has always been held that the Chinese ought to have a Special Officer. It is proposed to keep the Special Office and staff, but the head of the office, it is suggested, shall also be Colonial Secretary. Among other results will be that the Colonial Secretary must always be ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359609, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 380, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "3. To keep the general but give the department more work to do.\n\n4. Forecast the department's workload.\n\nI am inclined to suggest either Jexpect here as in other branches of \"the Hong Kong service\" there is too much work for two, and too little for one. I should like to suggest to the Governor that the Assistant Registrar General might be also Assistant Magistrate, or that the gaol should be put under the Registrar General's department and the Assistant Registrar General be made the resident head or superintendent at the prison.\n\nOr else, there might be a complete recasting of duties as suggested by Sir W. Mais in this letter, the revenue duties of the Registrar General and office of the Postmaster General being transferred to the Treasurer, who might then be given the increase in pay for which he has been recommended and would become really a Receiver General.\n\nIn that case, the Registrar General would be purely the Protector of Chinese, and the Postmaster General, the Postmaster, and the assistant in either case might be dispensed with. All this may merely be on paper, but it is worth while to set it out for the Governor to consider and report upon.\n\nIt remains to consider who should be Siz O'Brien's successor at Hong Kong. He has established a strong claim to the place. I think M. Lockhart cannot well be passed over. He has acted with credit.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359616, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 387, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "## \n\nof Clerk of Councils without additional remuneration until the Chief Clerkship has been abolished, the salary should remain at its present figure: $8. The question raised by the Retrenchment Committee, whether the \"passing of all emigrants\" should be placed under the Registrar General's department, was left as at present; and you state in your despatch that the question is still under consideration.\n\nI have noticed that Mr. Lockhart, in his evidence, states that in the Straits Settlements, the Protector of Chinese, who is the Registrar General at Hongkong, discharges this duty. I have already referred to this subject in my despatch No. 199 of the 28th November last.\n\nIn your despatch of 7th January last, which I have just received, you state that it is not proposed to make any change at present in the arrangements for examination of emigrants, but that the matter will be further considered when new government offices have been built. I accept this conclusion for the time being, and in this regard to the future without adding that it would seem that the Registrar General and his officers, with their special knowledge of the harbour matter, might be better qualified to protect the interests of the Chinese emigrants than the Harbour Master's department.\n\nMoreover, the transfer of duty would probably relieve the Harbour Master's department and facilitate the abolition of Assistant Harbour Master, which has been definitely decided upon. On the other hand, there may be practical difficulties in the transfer, of which I am not aware. In such a case, however, and unless the Registrar General's office is relieved of other duties, the work of the office might be increased at a time when... \n\nPage 383", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362199, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "page_number": 424, "title": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "content_text": "418\n\nthe estates of deceased persons all it ought. My first\n\ndifficulty was that we received every Monday from the\n\n7\n\nRegistrar General only the names of those persons whose\n\ndeaths occurring in Hong Kong had been registered in his\n\noffice and as many of the better and richer Chinese\n\nmerchants or landowners go to their homes on the mainland\n\nwhen they believe themselves seriously ill, their\n\nnames when they die cannot be furnished to me\n\nI\n\ngave instructions to the members of the Chinese Staff\n\nand the bailiffs who are constantly in communication\n\nwith the Chinese,to let me know whenever they heard of\n\nany respectable or wealthy Chinaman of Hong Kong dying\n\non the mainland.\n\n13. More than this while on vacation leave in Australia\n\nin 1884 I obtained the forms and notices used by the\n\nInternal Revenue office in this matter in reference\n\nto the estate of deceased persons and the value thereof,\n\nand submitted them to Sir J. Russell (then Mr. Justice\n\nRussell) to Dr. Stewart then Registrar General and\n\nProtector of Chinese and to Mr. Lister Colonial\n\nTreasurer both these latter being also members of the\n\nExecutive Colonial. I need not speak of the experience\n\nThey were all against anything further being done in the matter, for an enquiry\n\nto be of any real value must be a searching one, and if\n\nso, it would harass the Chinese, would alarm them as\n\nthey would not understand its object or would attribute\n\nother motives than the real one and would most probably\n\ngive rise to abuses the policy of Government has\n\nalways been to interfere as little as possible with the\n\nChinese in certain matters and has always endeavoured\n\nto convince them that under British rule their persons\n\nand property were secure they wished by all legitimate\n\n-5-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363292, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 129, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "within which all brothels shall be \n\n- or words to that effect \n\nunlawful \n\n\" \n\nwith a suitable penalty clause annexed \n\npart of the lawd when \n\nThis \n\nwas \n\nRegistration of Brothals was \n\neinforced, \n\n& it could rarily be reenacted withent sintroducing Registration \n\nThere is \n\nCA \n\n12 \n\nno \n\nof the \n\nsimilar provision in \n\nthe new Indian Cantonment Regu Ch.7z C. 85387 — and it \n\nby Ford for by father of \n\nwould I think be the best solution \n\nof the difficulty at H Keny \n\nI can see \n\n20 \n\n& The Shaits. sufficient necessity for \n\nturning \n\nthe Registration of Brothels. Registration did not profess restrict the total number \n\nFrothels \n\nexcept \n\nvi to \n\nfor art \n\nrestricted their locality, which provision I propose above to restore. \"Therefore from the \"moral ponit of view Registration affected no good purpure. \n\nmanifest objections to such Registration frome the moral point of view. \n\nOn the other hand there are \n\n* \n\nIn Lord Rippon's despres to Straits » + Hongkong of 17 April 1894 are given reasons for doubting the contention put forward that Registration assisted in preventing cruelty to the trothels; and I have seen inmates of \n\nnothing \n\nin the subsequent reports \n\nthe Registar feneral. \n\nof \n\nthe Chinese \n\nLee \n\nsex 5.10(4) \n\nthe It King at f. 22. H.C.147-1894 \n\nB \n\nIn Strouts Can \n\nwas precisely \n\nSimilar \n\nX. p. 53-4 of H. (ith) 34.56-79 \n\nX \n\n7 \n\ndu. \n\nhould hav \n\nught that \n\nboards trouch \n\nProtector at Singapon which prove that the abolition \n\nof \n\nRegistration har \n\nwhich \n\n123 \n\nitself hindered his efforts \n\nare now, as under the old system, the always extremely difficult & rarely -to rescue girls from successful. \n\nbrothel slavery. \n\nLee 8. 9. pars. at \n\nthe Registian feneral's \n\nfoot of p. 19 \"Report for 1896 - \n\naces could hands other things. \n\nregarded as a thing \n\nwe put up \n\na \n\nwhich shows. \n\naminy \n\n\" \n\nthat \"open \n\nbrothels \n\nDijn \n\nboard, \n\nbut \"sley \n\nby trothels tothels have no sign board; but of \n\ntre no new! \n\nSamble at Hangkung, \n\nbrotherly are perfectly course the \"sly\" brotherly are \n\nbeen have been well known to the Registrar fenerali \n\nhave \n\nwarrants han bee \n\n \nL \n\nLou led t \n\nhr. Johnson \n\nSuz 10 Nov. \n\nis an exprenten \n\nquestion, a Jaru noh. \n\n1897 \n\nthis \n\non \n\nI have wavem \n\nbeen called upon deal with \n\nbest sandals before been called upon \n\nabout which \n\napers were band befor Parl about \n\n(652) \n\ntheir differen \n\nand \n\nand complicated question, \n\nI feel that by opinion \n\nsugeen \n\nan \n\nZa \n\nthat \n\nwch at present beauf outorder, and as such hardly \n\nworth boring. \n\nBut suppose \n\nin \n\nung \n\nGe accepted \n\nas practically decided that a returne", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365728, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \n\n7. From June, 1895, till December, 1895, I was also Acting Harbour Master.\n\n8. From April last to date, I have held the appointment of Acting Police Magistrate and Coroner.\n\n9. From November, 1891, to April, 1892, and from June, 1895, to October, 1896, I have been a Member of the Legislative Council,\n\n10. During the first period the Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance was passed. \n11. I have also been honoured by being appointed to serve on the following Commissions and Committees :-\n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | To consider the system of Quarantine and Quarantine Regulations as applicable to the Port of Hong Kong. |\n| (b) | Member of a Confidential Committee to consider what steps should be taken in the event of a recurrence of the Plague in the Colony. |\n| (c) | Arms and Ammunition Amendment and Consolidation Ordinance. |\n| (d) | A Committee appointed to inquire into the condition of British Trade in Hong Kong. |\n| (e) | Chairman of a Committee appointed to inquire into the subject of lighting the City of Victoria and British Kowloon. |\n| (f) | A Committee appointed to inquire into the question of flogging at Victoria Gaol. |\n\nWILLIAM C. H. HASTINGS, \nActing Police Magistrate.\n\n17/3/97.\n\n[Private.]\n\nMY DEAR HASTINGS, --I suppose you will accept the office. I congratulate you and shall be very sorry to lose you.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nST. LUCIA, 1st November, 1889.\n\nYours truly \n(Signed), \nR. B. LLENELYN\n\nIn recording my opinion of the qualifications of Commander Hastings, I cannot do better than refer to the fact that when Acting Governor of Hong Kong last year I was so much impressed by the very efficient way in which he conducted the duties of Harbour Master, the great force of character which he displayed, the honest manliness with which he dealt with many difficult questions, that I selected him to be a Member of the Legislative Council, where he gave me most effective support in every way-especially in connection with the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, which was fiercely opposed by many whose interests were affected by it, but which, mainly owing to Commander Hastings' firmness and effective support, I was able to carry through.\n\nI have a very strong appreciation of the earnestness and ability of Commander Hastings; and I am sorry for the sake of this Colony that his services are likely to be so soon lost to it.\n\n(Signed), \nG. DIGBY BARKER, \nMajor-General, Commanding Troops in China and Hong Kong; and late Acting Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nSPANISH TOWN, \n3rd April, 1888.\n\nDEAR CAPTAIN HASTINGS,-I very much regret to hear you are about to retire from the public service in Jamaica.\n\nI first met you in the Parish of St. Thomas, where we both worked. I noticed your zeal and diligence as immigration agent, and, from what I saw of you and from what I heard, I sought you out when I wanted help in my work, and I was not disappointed.\n\nFor many months, and up to the time I ceased to be employed as Acting District Court Judge in the District, you helped me as Deputy Coroner. In the discharge of the duties you displayed the same qualities of industry, zeal and intelligence as I had seen in your own special office--your unlooked for aptitude for the unaccustomed work would have surprised me more if I had not witnessed instances, even in the Colony, of men taken from the army and navy, and filling magisterial appointments, exhibiting judicial qualities eclipsing sometimes those of men of special training. I believe you fitted to take your place side by side with these men, and I hope the day is not distant when you will be placed side by side with them.\n\nI shall regret your departure on public as well as personal grounds.\n\nThe example set by men of energy in doing their work for love of the work is wholesome and stimulating to us slow-moving and languid Colonists, and their departure from among us seems to me like a public loss.\n\nWishing you every happiness and a prosperous career,\n\nHead Quarter House, Hong Kong, \n8th December, 1892.\n\nI have pleasure in saying that since I have been in this Colony-13th May, 1896-Captain Hastings' work as Acting Police Magistrate has come a good deal under my observation, and I have been much impressed with its excellence. He has not had the advantage of a legal training, but his energy, industry, and sound judgment have enabled him to overcome this disadvantage, and to discharge the duties of the office in a most efficient manner. Since I have sat in the Supreme Court there has been only one appeal from his decisions.\n\nCaptain Hastings is held in high respect by the people of this Colony, both as a man and as a public servant.\n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, \nHong Kong \n16th March, 1897.\n\n(Signed), \nC. J. of Hong Kong.\n\nCaptain Hastings.\n\nI remain, \nDear Captain Hastings,\n\n(Signed), \nHENRY J. BRICKNELL.\n\nCommander Hastings, retired, Royal Navy, has for seven years past held the post of Assistant Protector of Immigrants in Jamaica, and has since 1883, when I became Governor of that island (and, I believe, previously), performed the duties of his appointment in an unhealthy district, with zeal and success.\n\nAs the Immigration Department of Jamaica is in course of reduction and will probably disappear before long, Captain Hastings is anxious to obtain some other employment in the Colonies, and I venture to recommend him as an officer of integrity, and who deserves any consideration that can be extended to him.\n\n(Signed), H. W. NORMAN, \nGovernor of Jamaica.\n\n19th July, 1888,\n\nPERMANENT COMMITTEE, \nSANITARY BOARD, 1st September, 1894.\n\nMY DEAR CAPTAIN HASTINGS, Will you let the Permanent Committee have a report of the work done by you, and any suggestions as to the best method of organizing and arranging for the continuing of the dead, their transport to the cemetery, and burial, in the event of a return of the epidemic next year; who to employ for the work; how they should be supervised; what arrangements should be made for dead-houses, coffin depots, and line stores; what transport, land and sea, and how and by whom to be worked; what organisation and staff in the cemeteries to ensure quick burial and thorough... You made such an enormous change for the better in the management of the burials from the first moment you took charge that we should be glad to have your ideas on the subject.\n\n(Signed), \nJOHN J. FRANCIS, \nChairman.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368262, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "## Scandal \n\nI think a representation should be made for the hotels as the out home checking brothel slavery which is a scandal in 4 British Colonies.\n\nI should be disposed to discuss the dress brothel, any change requiring considerable alterations before they could be enacted for legislation.\n\nCertainly they would have had to insert permission in the matter of policy.\n\n### 22 March \n\nAt our meeting on the 27th instant with Sir Cecil Clementi, I understand that it was decided that any penalty should not at present be imposed as is imposed by a male person habitually living on the profits of prostitution, such as by the Imperial Statute 61 & 62 Vict. Chap 39 (Vagrancy Act 1898). But it was proposed that we should give the Protector of Chinese in the Straits and the Registrars General in Hong Kong wide powers to inquire whether the inmates or keeper of any brothel were being held against their will or suffering from contagious disease.\n\nThe question was also raised whether we should impose any punishment on the prostitute herself for acting as such while suffering from contagious disease, and whether we should punish anyone who, while in a diseased state, visits a brothel for the purpose of prostitution.\n\nIn the draft amendments to the Hong Kong Ordinances which I have circulated, I have not at present imposed punishment on the woman prostitute or the man acting as such, or on anyone visiting a brothel while suffering from disease, because I think that the powers that the Ordinances provide suffice. I dealt with the matter regarding the wishes of the Legislative Council.\n\nIt was also decided that cumulative penalties should be imposed on brothel keepers for second and subsequent offences, and that the power to banish or monitor should also be considered. The question of cruelty in brothels was decided, I think, to be left to the law with the provisions of the Criminal Code, which would probably be sufficient.\n\nTaking first the Straits Ordinance XVII of 1896 entitled \"The Women's and Girls' Protection Ordinance, 1896,\" I propose to insert after section 6 the following section:\n\n\"6. If the keeper of any brothel permits any person suffering from any contagious disease to be or remain in such brothel for the purpose of prostitution, such keeper shall be guilty of an offence. And shall be liable on conviction before the Supreme Court or Magistrates to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to both. And if any such keeper of a brothel, not being a natural-born British subject, who has been previously convicted of an offence under this section, shall again be found...\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368263, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "## guilty gang \n\nCommit \n\nmay \n\nArt \n\ntreating \n\nSpence the finerer order banishing \n\next \n\nin such manner as \n\nmay \n\nin \n\nsuch \n\na person from the Colony for such period and generally upon the issuing of such order the like consequences shall ensue in all respects as though such order had been issued under the powers conferred by Banishment Ordinance 1888? \n\nThe \n\nIt will be seen I think that this clause provides both permits banishment and also puts a penalty on the brothel keeper who suffers a person suffering from any contagious disease to remain in a brothel for the purpose of prostitution. \n\nIf it seems to me that without specifically providing that the woman who is suffering from a contagious disease shall be guilty of an offence be taken to hospital and there detained this clause will probably produce the same result without raising opposition because the brothel keeper has entire control of these women and is forced to drive them out they have no place to go to except the Hospital or Refuge \n\nThis recurs to me to make it unnecessary to insert Clauses 9 and 10 of the Indian Cantonment Regulations of 1897. P.P. [C-8919]. Those Regulations provide power to call upon a person suffering from a contagious disease to attend at the hospital, but under section 13(5)(8)(1) of the Straits Ordinance, the Protector of Chinese already has power to summon any person before him whom he may have reason to believe has any information respecting any brothel or inmate also call upon such person to produce the woman or girl. It therefore seems to me that the result obtained by the Cantonment Regulations is less objectionable in that way because the onus is put upon the brothel keeper and not upon the prostitute. \n\nI also propose in the Straits Ordinance to make the power of search that is given by section 12 in Part III, general, as to enable searching for brothel or women suffering from contagious diseases or for the purpose of discovering whether any offence under the Ordinance is being committed. Therefore in clause 12(1) omit the words \"of Part II\" and insert after the word \"Ordinance\", the following \"or in which he has reasonable cause to suspect that an offence under this Ordinance is being committed\". In section 12(2) omit the words \"of Part II\" and insert after \"Ordinance\" \"or whether any offence under this Ordinance is being committed\". \n\nI propose further to insert after clause 17 the following clause: - \n\n\"Upon complaint laid before a Magistrate by the Inspector General of Police or the Protector of Chinese that any brothel or portion thereof is used by prostitutes or disorderly persons or as a lodging house for prostitutes or disorderly persons a Magistrate shall have and exercise summary jurisdiction in respect thereof; and it shall be lawful for a Magistrate to issue a summons to the tenant, occupier or keeper of the house or portion thereof of which complaint is made, and upon the hearing of the case,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368291, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 112, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "107\n\nthat the result of repealing the Ordinances has been disastrous.\n\nI recognise the fact that there has been an increase of disease since the Ordinances were repealed; and it may also be true that there has been an increase of brothel slavery; but on the latter point I notice from the reports of the Protector of Chinese as well as of the Registrar General at Hong Kong, that there has been as much rescue work done since registration was abolished, as in the preceding years.\n\n7.\n\nI admit that the fact that certain Acts are or are not in force in the United Kingdom is not in itself sufficient reason for applying or abolishing similar laws in tropical Colonies differing from the mother country in climate, race, social, moral and religious conditions. Further, I am not prepared", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368297, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "113\n\nis is in this Country/\n\nSimilarly in Section 12(2) the \nwords \"of Part II\" should be omitted \nand after the word \"ordinance\" should \nbe inserted the words \"or whether any \noffence under this Ordinance is being \ncommitted\". \n\n13.\n\nI adhere to the opinion expressed \nin the last paragraph of my despatch of \nthe 18th of February 1898, that the \nGovernment should have power to close any \nbrothel without assigning a reason.\n\nSuch power should then be exercised in \nclosing brothels in undesirable situations, \nor the keepers of which have in any way \noffended against the law. \n\nFor this purpose the following clause should be inserted after section 17:- \n\"Upon complaint laid before a magistrate \nby the Inspector General of Police or \nby the Protector of Chinese that any \nhouse", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368306, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "which a few years mice were deliberately abolished) after much discussion.\n\n6 In justification of such a course, a statement widening has been laid before of the growth of disease of the \"prevalence of other abuses since the Ordinances were abolished, of the opinion of responsible men connected with it, mainly if not unanimously to the effect that the result of repealing the Ords has been disastrous. I recognise the fact that there has been an increase in disease since the Ords were repealed: & it may also be true that there has been an increase of brothel slavery: on the latter point I notice from the reports of the Registrar-General at Hong Kong as well as of the Protector of Chinese in the Straits Settlements, that there has been at least as much rescue work done since registration was abolished, as in the preceding years. I admit that the fact that similar laws are not in force in the United Kingdom is not in itself... \n\nthe men both official and unofficial whom I should naturally look for information Guidance on local questions \n\n# \nC \n... \n122", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368310, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "## \nThe Ordinance should be extended so as to provide as follows:\n\nThe Protector and any Officer of the Protectorate shall have power to search any ship, house, building, or other place where he has reasonable cause to suspect that there is any woman or girl who is or may be liable to be dealt with under the provisions of this Ordinance and may remove any such woman or girl to a place of safety to be detained there until her case be enquired into.\n\n(1) The Protector and any Officer of the Protectorate shall have power to search any ship, house, building, or other place specially authorised for that purpose in writing by the Protector, where he has reasonable cause to suspect that there is any woman or girl who is or may be liable to be dealt with under the provisions of this Ordinance and may remove any such woman or girl to a place of safety to be detained there until her case be enquired into.\n\n(2) The Protector shall have power to search any ship, house, building, or other place for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is therein any woman or girl who is or may be liable to be dealt with under the provisions of this Ordinance and may remove any such woman or girl to a place of safety to be detained there until her case be enquired into.\n\n## \nUpon complaint laid before a magistrate by the Captain Superintendent of Police or by the Registrar-General that a house or portion thereof is or remains a brothel or a lodging house for prostitute persons, a magistrate shall have and exercise summary jurisdiction in respect thereof; and it shall be lawful for a magistrate to order the tenant, occupier, or keeper of the house or portion thereof...\n\n## \nI am of the opinion, expressed in my despatch of the 18th February 1898, that the government should have power to close any brothel without assigning a reason. Such reasonable power could then be exercised, as it is in this country, in closing brothels in undeniable situations, or the keepers of which are undesirable, and not merely in the special circumstances defined in Clause 9 of each Draft Ordinance submitted in the despatch under acknowledgment.\n\nPage 126", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368317, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "Based on the provided OCR output, here is the proofread text in Markdown format:\n\nI am elapsed to enable experience to save begained of the working of the amended law.\n\n3 \n\nI do not understand that offers why M. Have consider informing that it is not possible, in the absence of any law providing for the registration of brothels, to adopt efficient measures for protecting the minors. As I have stated in my despatch of the 25th ultimo, I gather from the reports of the Protector of Chinese, as well as of the Registrar General at Hong Kong, that at least as much has been done in the Colony concerned since the abolition of registration, as in the preceding year. I do not, therefore, understand why similar results should not be obtained in the Native states under the Enactments already in force for the protection of women and girls, which are based upon the ...\n\n**MINUTE**\n| Name |\n|------|\n| Mr. Antrobus |\n| Mr. Cox |\n| Mr. Lucas |\n| Mr. Graham |\n| Sir Wingfield |\n| Earl of Selborne |\n| Mr. Chamberlain |\n\nPage 133", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368320, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "281 \n\n136 \n\n6. \n\nIn justification of such a course strong **evidence** has been laid before me of the growth of disease and the prevalence of other abuses since the Ordinances were abolished, and the opinion of responsible men on the spot - the men both official and unofficial to whom I should naturally look for information and guidance on local questions - is mainly, if not unanimously, to the effect that the result of repealing the Ordinances has been disastrous.\n\nI recognise the fact that there has been an increase of disease since the Ordinances were repealed; and it may also be true that there has been an increase of brothel slavery: but on the latter point I notice from the reports of the Protector of Chinese at Kowloon as well as of the Registrar General at Hong Kong, that there has been at least as much rescue work done since registration was abolished, as in the preceding years.\n\n7. I admit that the fact that certain laws are or are not in force in the United Kingdom is not in itself a sufficient reason for applying or abolishing similar laws in tropical Colonies differing from the mother country in climate, race, social, moral and religious conditions. Further, I am not prepared to deny that one way of meeting the evil to which my attention has been called would be the renewal of the repealed Ordinances, if their renewal met with general sanction: but here again I must repeat that respect must be had to existing facts. It is certain that to such renewal there would be in this country a very strong opposition.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368323, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "## AU \n## TCI \n### 8E1 \n### 139 \n### 3 \n\nA noted moldov ... dara to 49%. \n\n... words should be inserted \"or in which he has reason~* able cause to suspect that an offence under this Ordinance is being committed\". \n\nSimilarly in Section 12(2) the words \"of Part II\" should be omitted and after the word \"ordinance\" should be inserted the words \"or whether any offence under this Ordinance is being committed”. \n\n13. I adhere to the opinion expressed in the last paragraph of my despatch of the 18th of February 1898, that the Government should have power to close any brothel without assigning a reason. Such power could then be exercised as it is in this country closing brothels in undesirable situations, or the keepers of which have in any way offended against the law. For this purpose the following clause should be inserted after Section 17: - \n\n\"Upon complaint laid before a Magistrate by the Inspector General of Police or by the Protector of Chinese that any house or portion thereof is used as a brothel or lodging house for prostitutes or disorderly persons, it shall be lawful for a Magistrate to issue a summons to the tenant, occupier or keeper of the house or portion thereof of which complaint is made, and upon the hearing of the case if the Magistrate is satisfied that the house or some portion thereof is used in the manner complained of, he may order the tenant, occupier or keeper to discontinue such use of it, and if such order is not complied with within such time as the Magistrate may by his order fix, the Magistrate may ... \n\n\"IT \n\n\"aprox ade. (1) NE notes:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372375, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 370, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "246\n\nKeen Leisure.\n\nTo His Excellency\n\nI have a difficulty that has recently experienced in finding accommodation for the Officer in Charge of the attached department.\n\nIt is pertinent that the salary of the Colonial Secretary in the Straits Settlements is $10,000 a year and he is stationed in Singapore.\n\n368\n\nIn Singapore, the Protector of Chinese, who corresponds with the Representative in Johore, receives a salary of $6,000 a year.\n\nThe Straits Settlements then charges a fee of $10 for...\n\n1860\n\n$186\n\n186.06\n\nallowed a house.\n\nResidency of...\n\nto build $10,600\n\n$1800\n\nResidency in Shang Hang.\n\nalso discharges the duty of Registrar General, is $9720-7\n\nand he is not allowed a house.\n\nHe buys $18,600 a year for...\n\nWhat would this Committee...\n\n$9720 salary.\n\nIf the salary of the Colonial Secretary and Registrar General of the Straits Settlements is assimilated to that of the Resident Councillor of Hong Kong, it will result in a saving of $240... an additional $2880 a year.\n\nWhich cannot be signed as excessive.\n\nIt is only fair that the Registrar General discharging his duties...\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 376131, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4]", "page_number": 333, "title": "CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4]", "content_text": "## \n332 \n\nhas commenced work in the Courts his progress will be much more rapid and his range greatly enlarged, if part of his time for two or **three** more years is devoted to private study under proper supervision. We deem such private study to be of the first importance and we recommend the creation of an Interpretation Department. The duties of the Head of such a Department will be to supervise the education of student-interpreters, to remain in charge of interpreters after their appointment, to continue to give them instruction for two or more years, to classify and arrange the interpreterships, to examine candidates for promotion, to inspect from time to time the performance of their duties, and generally to use every available means to promote efficiency. Among other things the formation of such a department will also prevent anomalies such as the promotion of trained interpreters to clerk's posts and vice versa. We do not however, recommend the creation of a new Office, but believe that the Registrar-General if his duties were separated from those of the Colonial Secretary, would have the necessary time at his disposal to devote to the personal supervision of student-interpreters and of the Interpretation Department, as is the case with the Protector of Chinese.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 379616, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900", "page_number": 569, "title": "CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900", "content_text": "## Testimonial for William C. H. Hastings\n\n7. From June, 1895, till December, 1895, I was also Acting Harbour Master.\n\n8. From April last to date, I have held the appointment of Acting Police Magistrate and Coroner.\n\n9. From November, 1891, to April, 1892, and from June, 1895, to October, 1896, I have been a Member of the Legislative Council.\n\n10. During the first period the Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance was passed.\n\n11. I have also been honoured by being appointed to serve on the following Commissions and Committees :--\n\n(a) To consider the system of Quarantine and Quarantine Regulations as applicable to the Port of Hong Kong.\n\n(b) Member of a Confidential Committee to consider what steps should be taken in the event of a recurrence of the Plague in the Colony.\n\n(c) Arms and Ammunition Amendment and Consolidation Ordinance.\n\n(d) A Committee appointed to inquire into the condition of British Trade in Hong Kong.\n\n(e) Chairman of a Committee appointed to inquire into the subject of lighting the City of Victoria and British Kowloon.\n\n(f) A Committee appointed to inquire into the question of flogging at Victoria Gaol.\n\n(g) Chairman Deleterious Liquors Committee.\n\n(h) Member of a board to inquire into the exterior, interior economy & expenditure generally of Capitation grant and other allowances which may be unnecessary to keep the Corps of Artillery Volunteers at the amount of efficiency (1898).\n\n15/2/99 \nPostmaster General \nActing Police Magistrate. \n17/3/97.\n\nSPANISH TOWN, \n3rd April, 1888.\n\nDEAR CAPTAIN HASTINGS,-I very much regret to hear you are about to retire from the public service in Jamaica.\n\nI first met you in the Parish of St. Thomas, where we both worked. I noticed your zeal and diligence as immigration agent, and, from what I saw of you and from what I heard, I sought you out when I wanted help in my work, and I was not disappointed.\n\nFor many months, and up to the time I ceased to be employed as Acting District Court Judge in the District, you helped me as Deputy Coroner. In the discharge of the duties you displayed the same qualities of industry, zeal and intelligence as I had seen in your own special office-your unlooked for aptitude for the unaccustomed work would have surprised me more if I had not witnessed instances, even in the Colony, of men taken from the army and navy, and filling magisterial appointments, exhibiting judicial qualities eclipsing sometimes those of men of special training. I believe you fitted to take your place side by side with these men, and I hope the day is not distant when you will be placed side by side with them.\n\nI shall regret your departure on public as well as personal grounds.\n\nThe example set by men of energy in doing their work for love of the work is wholesome and stimulating to us slow-moving and languid Colonists, and their departure from among us seems to me like a public loss.\n\nWishing you every happiness and a prosperous career,\n\nSince about 1899 I have been sworn in as Acting Police Magistrate on two separate occasions, namely 17th June 1897 and 19 July 1897, on each occasion. On the 26 February 1878 I relieved the Police Magistrate and am still discharging the duties. I will continue to act till the 15th instant.\n\n7.1.99.\n\nCaptain Hastings.\n\nI remain,\nDear Captain Hastings,\n(Signed),\nHENRY J. BRICKNELL\n\nCommander Hastings, retired, Royal Navy, has for seven years past held the post of Assistant Protector of Immigrants in Jamaica, and has since 1883, when I became Governor of that island (and, I believe, previously), performed the duties of his appointment in an unhealthy district, with zeal and success.\n\nAs the Immigration Department of Jamaica is in course of reduction and will probably disappear before long, Captain Hastings is anxious to obtain some other employment in the Colonies, and I venture to recommend him as an officer of integrity, and who deserves any consideration that can be extended to him.\n\n(Signed), H. W. NORMAN, \nGovernor of Jamaica. \n19th July, 1888.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383199, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901", "page_number": 344, "title": "CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\n3\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n4079-3\n\n342 [October 24.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Scott to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received October 24.) (No. 31. Confidential.) My Lord,\n\nCanton, September 21, 1901,\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith, for your Lordship's information, copy of a despatch which I have addressed to His Majesty's Minister in Peking on the subject of French activity in the Two Kuang.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJAMES SCOTT,\n\nActing Consul-General Scott to Sir E. Satow,\n\nCanton, September 16, 1901.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram, Secret, of the 12th instant, and in reply to state that your instructions will be carefully carried out.\n\nRegarding the situation generally, there appears at present to be no immediate intention to effect a coup, for the force at the disposal of the French in Canton consists of one man-of-war with two shallow-draft gunboats, and there seems to be no special disposition of French naval forces along the coast. There can, however, be no doubt that the French intend, and are preparing for, an aggressive policy in the Two Kuang Provinces. In the Delta and along the coast they have practically no trade, but within the past year they have been attempting to develop their influence in Canton. At the French Consulate, Yamên, within the city there has been constructed a large foreign building to be used as a college for the instruction of Chinese in the French language. Upon Shameen a small hospital has been opened for the treatment of European and Chinese patients. Two steamers \"Le Rhône\" and \"La Seine,\" having head-quarters in Canton, one of which runs to Hong Kong and the other, started just lately, to Kuang Chou Wan, are both generally understood to be under subsidy from the French Government, while a claim is considered by the French Consul to exist in favour of his Government and his nationals to priority of all mining rights in the Two Kuang Provinces.\n\nSystematic support is accorded to the French priests, and protection is given in a special degree to their native converts in their litigation and disputes with their non-Christian fellow-subjects. In the Port of Canton the French officials have recently ignored the authority of the Maritime Customs in respect to the mooring of ships, and have taken upon themselves to lay down buoys.\n\nRecently junks and launches have taken to flying French colours, and it is notorious that one firm (Chauvin, Chevalier, and Co.) regularly lends its name and assistance for this purpose. The Chinese authorities are unwilling to interfere with these French-protected vessels. Surveys have been made by the French river gun-boats of the West River and the Delta waterways, which they are constantly patrolling.\n\nIn the Ports of Hoihow and Pakhoi there are large Consular establishments with medical officers and hospitals attached.\n\nThe Chinese officials all over Kuang Tung Province, as I know specially from my experience at Swatow, are in constant apprehension of demands, claims, and high-handed proceedings on the part of the French authorities, especially in regard to Mission questions; for there is no doubt that the French priests are training up a large native following subservient to their wishes and looking to France as their protector.\n\nAnother significant fact is the establishment of a regular French post-office which the French Consul has stated, by circular, to be in conjunction with the Postal Union; two sub-offices have been established in conspicuous parts of Canton City. Some time after the setting-up of these sub-offices the French Consul applied to the Viceroy in order to\n\n[2350 aa--1]\n\nPage 3\n\nPage 4\n\n...\n\n(No further text is given as the original scan ends here)\n\n \n## Becomes \n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\n3\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n4079-3\n\n342 October 24.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Scott to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received October 24.) (No. 31. Confidential.) My Lord,\n\nCanton, September 21, 1901,\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith, for your Lordship's information, copy of a despatch which I have addressed to His Majesty's Minister in Peking on the subject of French activity in the Two Kuang.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJAMES SCOTT,\n\nSir,\n\nActing Consul-General Scott to Sir E. Satow,\n\nCanton, September 16, 1901.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram, Secret, of the 12th instant, and in reply to state that your instructions will be carefully carried out.\n\nRegarding the situation generally, there appears at present to be no immediate intention to effect a coup, for the force at the disposal of the French in Canton consists of one man-of-war with two shallow-draft gunboats, and there seems to be no special disposition of French naval forces along the coast. There can, however, be no doubt that the French intend, and are preparing for, an aggressive policy in the Two Kuang Provinces. In the Delta and along the coast they have practically no trade, but within the past year they have been attempting to develop their influence in Canton. At the French Consulate, Yamên, within the city, there has been constructed a large foreign building to be used as a college for the instruction of Chinese in the French language. Upon Shameen, a small hospital has been opened for the treatment of European and Chinese patients. Two steamers, \"Le Rhône\" and \"La Seine,\" having headquarters in Canton, one of which runs to Hong Kong and the other, started just lately, to Kuang Chou Wan, are both generally understood to be under subsidy from the French Government, while a claim is considered by the French Consul to exist in favour of his Government and his nationals to priority of all mining rights in the Two Kuang Provinces.\n\nSystematic support is accorded to the French priests, and protection is given in a special degree to their native converts in their litigation and disputes with their non-Christian fellow-subjects. In the Port of Canton, the French officials have recently ignored the authority of the Maritime Customs in respect to the mooring of ships, and have taken upon themselves to lay down buoys.\n\nRecently, junks and launches have taken to flying French colours, and it is notorious that one firm (Chauvin, Chevalier, and Co.) regularly lends its name and assistance for this purpose. The Chinese authorities are unwilling to interfere with these French-protected vessels. Surveys have been made by the French river gun-boats of the West River and the Delta waterways, which they are constantly patrolling.\n\nIn the Ports of Hoihow and Pakhoi, there are large Consular establishments with medical officers and hospitals attached.\n\nThe Chinese officials all over Kuang Tung Province, as I know specially from my experience at Swatow, are in constant apprehension of demands, claims, and high-handed proceedings on the part of the French authorities, especially in regard to Mission questions; for there is no doubt that the French priests are training up a large native following subservient to their wishes and looking to France as their protector.\n\nAnother significant fact is the establishment of a regular French post-office, which the French Consul has stated, by circular, to be in conjunction with the Postal Union; two sub-offices have been established in conspicuous parts of Canton City. Some time after the setting-up of these sub-offices, the French Consul applied to the Viceroy in order to...\n\n[2350 aa--1]\n\nPage 3\n\n...\n\nPage 4", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384934, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "THE DEPARTURE OF THE HON. J. U. STEWART LOCKHART.\n\nFollowing the presentation of the address by the Chinese College of Medicine in the Legislative Council Chamber on Friday afternoon, the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart was on Saturday forenoon made the recipient of addresses from the Chinese community and the Civil Service and in the evening entertained at a banquet given in the City Hall by the Chinese community.\n\nADDRESS FROM CHINESE COMMUNITY.\n\nAt eleven o'clock on Saturday forenoon a great number of Chinese merchants and others assembled in the City Hall to bid farewell to Mr. Lockhart, and present him with an address. The Hon. Wei A Yak presided, and was supported by the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Mr. Fung Wah Chun, Mr. Lau Chu Pak, Mr. Ho Tung, and others. Mr. Lockhart was accompanied by Mrs. Lockhart, Miss Hancock, and Mrs. Saunders.\n\nDr. HO KAI said—Mr. Lockhart, on behalf of the Chinese community of Hongkong, I have the honour to present you with an address which I will ask you to be kind enough to accept as a small token of their respect, esteem and affection. When the news of your high appointment to Weihaiwei first reached this Colony, none rejoiced more than your Chinese friends, but very soon, however, a feeling of impending loss caused a great shadow to fall over their gladness as they began to realise that ere long they would be forced to part with one whom as an official they are accustomed to treat with respect, and as a friend to regard with affection. The severance of your long connection with Hongkong by your imminent departure therefrom has caused among the Chinese a general feeling of regret, and it is only to a certain extent lessened by the knowledge that you will not be so far away after all, and that you will be chiefly engaged in governing and promoting the welfare of their countrymen in the northern colony. They were also sustained by the hope that some day not very distant, His Majesty the King may be pleased to send you back to Hongkong to occupy the most exalted position in the government of this Colony. (Applause.) Now, sir, we have to bid you farewell, and in so doing we cannot help recalling the past twenty years in which you have been serving the Colony so well and so successfully.\n\nIn 1882, I think it was, sir, you returned from Canton and found Hongkong in a very depressed condition owing to the collapse of the great land speculation that occurred during the previous year, and you found also an embittered feeling between two important sections of the community. Young as you were then, and although holding a minor position in the Government, you at once began to interest yourself earnestly in the welfare of the Colony and endeavoured to promote a better understanding between the Europeans and Chinese.\n\nFor a very few years only did you hold the office of Assistant Colonial Secretary, as your distinguished ability and profound knowledge of Chinese secured you a speedy promotion to the important post of Registrar-General, where you came into close and frequent contact with the Chinese community. It was in this office that the Chinese came directly under your inspiring influence, and it was in the discharge of your duties as Registrar-General and Protector of Chinese that they received so much benefit from your hands. The period of your tenure of this office was marked by great progress among the Chinese and by the adoption of more effective measures for the preservation of order and peace among them. Our leading Chinese citizens, who had hitherto been more or less apathetic to public affairs, came forward in comparatively large numbers and took a keener and more active interest in matters affecting the public weal. They accorded the Government heartier co-operation and support. They gave largely to the various local charitable institutions and took a more active part in their management. You, sir, who reorganised the present District Watchmen force and obtained the appointment of twelve representative Chinese gentlemen as a supervising committee and as an advisory board to the Government. It was you, sir, who remodelled the Po Leung Kuk and placed it in its present permanent and satisfactory position. The noteworthy improvements in the Tung Wah Hospital, which have been effected without in any way interfering with the management by the Chinese, are largely due to you, and all the free hospitals that have been established principally for the treatment of sick Chinese, such as the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals, have had your unremitting and energetic support. You have taken a large share in the suppression of the Triad and other secret societies. You have quietly but effectively and without bloodshed settled many a strike and quelled many a riot caused by the coolie and labouring classes. During the last seven years you have held the office of Colonial Secretary and that of Registrar-General combined, and although your official duties were thus multiplied to an onerous degree, you have never neglected the welfare of the Chinese. On the contrary, you have proved to them that however much you may have been occupied with other duties, you have always had a spare moment to devote to their interests. Finally, as Commissioner of the New Territory you have been successful in establishing order and in bringing to its large native population peace and good government. (Applause.) The Chinese community appreciate fully your kindness to them, and they are most thankful for your solicitude for their welfare. The presentation of this address is a humble and grateful acknowledgement of the many benefits which, in serving your Government faithfully and well, you have been enabled to bestow upon them. In presenting this address, I, sir, cannot help referring to your helpmate, Mrs. Lockhart. Most of us here have received ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386336, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 416, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "# 412\n\n7 men are also away but should all be returning.\n\nIn the attached correspondence, it is suggested that the numbers be increased to 4 Officers and 58 Non-Commissioned Officers and men, but as the conditions stand at present, I do not think it is probable that this number will come forward, and in my opinion, it would not be advisable to alter the establishment until the full number already allowed for are enlisted, namely 3 Officers and 33 Non-Commissioned Officers and men.\n\nI am prepared to recommend Lieutenant Mitchell for promotion to Captain if the General Officer Commanding thinks it advisable. In a Company only consisting at present of 18 men, he is in every way deserving of this recognition for all the good work he has done for his unit.\n\nThe Regulations at present only allow of a Lieutenant for \"G\" Company, but I should suggest that the promotion might be made if possible prior to new Regulations being published. I hope to shortly recommend another member of the unit for a Commission, but at present, I do not see my way to get the additional officers suggested.\n\n## 4. Arrangements for Technical Instruction\n\nThe suggestion that a drill shed should be put up at the expense of the Colonial Government in or near Kowloon West Battery, and fitted with dynamo, engine, and projector at the War Department's expense is an excellent one, and in my opinion, something of this sort must be done if more men are required. If it were done quickly, I think there would be a very possibility of obtaining more recruits and making the unit in every way more efficient and popular. The hours taken up for technical drills now are so long for Volunteers who have already done a hard day's work that naturally, there are only a few men who are prepared to give up their spare time in this way. It would be of great benefit to the Corps if this work could be sanctioned and put in hand at once and so prevent further wastage which may occur in this useful Company if nothing is done.\n\nI am sending in a letter with regard to the question of changing the Field Battery, Maxim Companies Unit into Garrison Artillery, and in the C.R.A.'s letter therewith is a suggestion that each man should receive a bonus at the end of the year if efficient. I am strongly recommending this, and if it is sanctioned, I should wish the same conditions to apply to \"G\" Company in consideration of the value of their work in the defence of the Colony.\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n**(Sd.) C. F. Pritchard**, \nMajor, \nCommandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\n## 18.\n\n242", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394924, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "The New York Sun, 23 May 1904\n\nRUSSIA CANNOT GET CONTROL\n\nIMPORTANT ACTION TAKEN BY THIS GOVERNMENT.\n\nIt Recognizes the American-China Development Company, Which Is Constructing the Canton-Hankow Railroad, as a Bona Fide American Company.\n\nWASHINGTON, May 22.--The great importance of the action of the United States Government in recognizing the American-China Development Company as a bona fide American concern, notwithstanding the fact that a majority of the stockholders are Belgians, is shown in the text of a part of the correspondence between the State Department and the Chinese Minister, just made public.\n\nFor nearly a month the Chinese Minister has been assisted in his efforts by a special commissioner from China, John F. Ferguson, grand secretary of the Imperial Chinese Railway administration of that country. Mr. Ferguson's discussion on the subject with Secretary Hay showed that China has feared for some time that Russia might acquire control of the American-China Development Company through either Belgian or French capitalists, and thus secure the proposed railway north from Canton and through the Yangtse Valley to Hankow.\n\nIt became highly important to know if the United States would maintain the exclusive right to deal with all diplomatic matters affecting the interests of the company, and now that such an assurance has been obtained the Chinese officials feel that the United States will be one of its strongest protectors should the dismemberment of China be proposed.\n\nThe company which became the subject of such an important step on the part of this Government is the old Calvin Brice syndicate, which obtained from the Chinese Government a concession for the construction of a railway from Canton to Hankow, a distance of about 900 miles north in the direction of Pekin. After the death of Senator Brice, and before a supplementary contract had been signed, the affairs of the syndicate became somewhat disorganized and much of the stock changed hands, and when the American company was organized to begin the work of construction it was found that a large part of the stock was in the hands of Belgians.\n\nThe company was organized and chartered under the laws of New Jersey, and its first president was William Barclay Parsons, now a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission, who had first surveyed the line from Canton to Hankow for the original syndicate. Already nearly fifty miles of the railway has been constructed, and it is thought that it will be completed within three or four years.\n\nIt was explained to-night by persons connected with the recent movement in China that all foreign companies operating in China are not subject to Chinese law, but to the law of their own countries, and as the present condition of affairs in China is more or less affected by the general situation in the East, the Chinese Government has been desirous of finding out the exact standing of the American company and which Government would be its protector in case trouble should arise.\n\nThe cause of China's fear lest Russian interests should obtain a footing in the Canton-Hankow Railway Company was shown by reference to the map of China. At the present time no less than four great Powers are interested in Chinese railways. The railroad from Yingkow to Pekin is owned by a British company, but Russia has been negotiating for some time to secure a concession that would permit her to enter Pekin. Already Belgian and French interests own a concession from Pekin south to Hankow, and should Russia get to Pekin she would then be certain of a line as far south as Hankow.\n\nPresident Roosevelt took personal interest in the situation and requested a detailed memorandum from the Chinese Minister, giving all the facts connected with the American company's interests. He laid this before his Cabinet advisers. Secretary Hay freely acknowledged that there was no precedent in the State Department for taking the action proposed. It was, therefore, referred to Attorney-General Knox for a legal opinion as to the status of the American company. The questions submitted by the Chinese Minister were as follows:\n\nFirst--Is the American-China Development Company considered by the United States Government to be a bona fide American company?\n\nSecond--If the United States Government will maintain the sole right to deal with all diplomatic matters affecting the interests of this company.\n\nThird--If the United States Government will take steps to make public its position concerning the Canton-Hankow Railway and its intention to protect the railway's interests?\n\nTo these questions Secretary Hay replied:\n\nFirst--The United States Government considers the American-China Company to be in good faith an American company.\n\nSecond--The United States considers that as the company is at present organized and conducted, this Government alone has the right to deal with all diplomatic questions affecting the interests of the company.\n\nThird--The United States will make public its position concerning the Canton-Hankow railway and its intention to interpose its good offices on all proper occasions in the interests of that railway.\n\nFrom the American company's standpoint, and the failure of the United States to at once declare its sole right to deal with all matters affecting the railway, would have left the way open for the further advance of Russia into China. The action of the United States is considered by China, therefore, as another barrier in the way of Russian influence over Chinese territory. It is admitted by Government officers that they cannot foretell what attitude the United States would assume in case the Belgian stockholders should dispose of their holdings to Russian or French interests, and it is pointed out that Secretary Hay has been careful to provide that the action of this Government is based on the present organization of the company.\n\nC.O. 12902\n\n258\n\n14 JUN 04", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395483, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "content_text": "He chose to recommend it. Of course, he would never submit lists without most careful enquiry, and I cannot remember any case in which injustice was even alleged to have occurred. The lists were considered by the Government in Council, and banishment orders invariably followed. Even for some time after Sir Henry's arrival, he may have banished a good number of men. They were mostly absent Triad Society rascals who infested the New Territory when the system was in place.\n\nRequiring the support and concurrence of the Registrar General (the Protector of Chinese) did not complicate the procedure very much in Innes's time. It was his practice to make independent enquiry by means of the District Officers, and if their reports confirmed those of the police detectives, he invariably supported the recommendation for banishment without (I am nearly certain) requiring the examination of the persons reported on.\n\nBut with the appointment of Mr. Brewin as Protector of Chinese, a cause of deadlock arose. He would not concur in recommending banishment for anyone until he had seen and questioned the person personally. This, as may be imagined, has complicated matters frightfully. Such interviews, as may happen under the most favourable circumstances, are hardly possible and advance the case of the police can rarely be sure of furthering.\n\nWhen wanted by the detectives for any length of time, used to be illegal, but granted that an interview is arranged, that the Protector of Chinese agrees to banish, what happens? The needle has been returned to the haystack, while a considerable time has elapsed. Banishment is forwarded to Government. It involves a meeting of the Executive Council.\n\nPage 24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395485, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "content_text": "or employment the Magistrate then commit them & the \n\nHouse of \n\nDetention (The present Vagrancy Ordinance \n\ndoes not apply to Chinese \n\nas vagrants. \n\nvery little known.) They should be \n\ndetained a \n\nfew days during which period \n\nthey should be visited by the Protector of Chinese, and if it appear to him that they have no business \n\nstake \n\nor \n\nin the Colony, and no respectable relatives or friends willing to furnish security \n\nfor their \n\nbehaviour, they should be forthwith deported: \n\nIf they claim & be honest \n\nfor their \n\nlabourers temporarily out of employment enquiring should be made of \n\nTheir \n\ntheir last employers as to their Character \n\nand \n\nthe \n\ncircumstances, under which they left their employment. If the result of such Enquiring is not satisfactory or if they lie about it they should be deported. If the \n\nresult of the \n\nenquiring is favourable & the Protector of Chinese should keep them \n\nunder \n\nobservation \n\nto see if they \n\nget work. \n\nIf they evidently do not want work they should be deported \n\nIf they accept work \n\nis found for \n\nthem their subsequent Career \n\nshould be watched \n\n& if they \n\nleave under unsatisfactory \n\ncircumstances they should \n\nbe \n\nliable \n\nto \n\nfactors \n\nwhich will engage \n\nthem \n\nre-arrest + \n\ndeportation. If no employer \n\ncan be found for \n\nthem \n\nthey \n\nmight be given a small \n\ninducement sum of Money made & leave the Colony \n\nafter \n\nentering \n\na bond not to return, \n\nwith liability to instant arrest and deportation if they violate \n\nit \n\nB. In cases of \n\n\"suspects\" are \n\npersons seen behaving \n\nsuspiciously but not actually \n\njustifying arrest, but are \n\npeople who have \n\nno \n\nostensible employment of a nature which renders it difficult to find them when wanted (such as Hawkers & boat people for instance); I would suggest that if the \n\nProtector of Chinese's \n\nreports confirm those of the police detectives ( \n\nor \n\non the \n\nsole representation of the Captain Superintendent in cases where the Protector General is \n\nnot available for \n\nan independent enquiry) the \n\n22", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 396300, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "page_number": 380, "title": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "content_text": "## \n\n375 convictions for offences against this Ordinance to which reference was made in my Despatch No. 93 dated the last instant, forwarding the criminal statistics for the year is evidence of this vigilance. I will ascertain whether public opinion is in favour of the amendments to the Ordinance suggested by Mr. Brewin.\n\n4. The Protector of Chinese in the Straits Settlements is shortly coming to this Colony to consider with the Registrar-General and Harbour Master here whether it would not be possible to remove some of the restrictions which now hamper emigration and at the same time lessen the abuses that still exist in the trade.\n\n5. The population of the whole Colony as estimated for the Old Territory and New Kowloon on the 30th June, 1904, and according to the Census for the remainder taken in 1901, is 446,217.\n\n6. The death rate per 1,000 for the year, which is lower than any recorded in the last 10 years and the decrease in the number of out-patients treated in the Tung Wa Hospital are evidences of a healthy year.\n\n7. The report on that Hospital, which I inspected on the 13th September last, is satisfactory from the financial point of view, and so long as its Directors confine themselves...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 396302, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "page_number": 382, "title": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "content_text": "# \n## \n3764 \n9 \n\nIt will be noticed that considerable additions have been made to the Report this year as compared with those of preceding years. A more detailed account is given of the work done by the Registrar-General in his capacity of Protector of Chinese. The tables dealing with the subject of the protection of women and girls have been re-arranged and considerably enlarged. Tables showing the number of boats of various classes licensed by the Department, the work done under the Vaccination Ordinance, the changes of Chinese tenancy during the year, and the various articles sold by hawkers in the Colony, have been added. It would be an advantage if the bulk of the report could be reduced without taking away from the information it contains. Attention will be paid to this in next year's compilation.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient \nHumble servant, \nM. Nathan \nGovernor, &c....\n\n## \ni \n3 \ngi", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414593, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 504, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## Confidential\n\nFor. Fi F. Lugard, Romy CB, 850.\n\n### MINUTE\n\nHerr \nMr. Hunter 10 \nMr. Macnaghten || \nMr. Just. \nMr. Antrobus, \nMr. Cox. \nSir C. Lucas. \nSir F. Hopwood, \nCol. Seely. \nThe Earl of Crewe.\n\n12 November 1925\n\nI have the honour to ack the receipt of your Confidential dispatch of the 1st ultimo transmitting an application for promotion in the legal branch of the Colonial Service from H. H. J. Gompertz, First Police Magistrate, Hong Kong.\n\n2. I request that Mr. Gompertz may be informed that his name has been noted for consideration, wherever a suitable opportunity occurs.\n\n### COLONIAL SERVICE\n\n| Name of Office | From | To | Salary of present Office |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Cadet | Sep 25 1889 | | |\n| 2nd Assistant Protector of Chinese | Jan 25 1890 | | |\n| Assistant Registrar General | Aug 1897 | | $7200 |\n| First Police Magistrate | Oct 29 1907 | | $10000 |\n\nAverage of fees, if any, for the last 3 years \nWhether a house or lodging is provided, or an allowance in lieu thereof. \nAny other circumstances affecting the value of the appointment? 1/80 per annum chairs allowance as ...\n\n### PROMOTION DESIRED\n\nAny appointment in the Crown Colonies, Judge or judicial commissioner or Attorney General in the West Indies with salary of not less than £1000 per annum.\n\n* Acting appointments are not to be entered here, but may be mentioned on the next page.\nIf the officer holds more than one office, full particulars of each must be given.\nIf private practice is allowed, the estimated value should be stated.\nThe value of a Colonial appointment depends upon so many circumstances besides the salary that the Secretary of State often cannot judge what would be acceptable to an officer. Applicants for promotion should therefore, in their own interests, state as precisely as possible what they desire, either specifying certain appointments, or at least mentioning the Colonies to which they would or would not be willing to go, and the amount of salary which they think that they may reasonably expect.\n\n### Form 40016 Hong Kong Colony\n\nShain, Settlement \nHow long... \nSalary of present Office... \n\nDRAFT \nConfidential \nFor. Fi F. Lugard, Romy CB, 850.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415099, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 388, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "#2 19/1\n\nThis is somewhat exasperating. – As the papers herewith show, the attitude of foreign consuls generally in S.A. forced our hand, and after a long & strenuous controversy with the S.A. Govt., the two circulars of 19/5/05 and 1/6/06 were issued. On the question of calling on the Governor on his national fête-day, as pointed out by Mr. W. Hely-Hutchinson (Gov. of Natal) and Sir Henry McCallum (Gov. of Natal, later Gov. of Cape Colony, then Transvaal), we were of opinion that this ought not to be done because Consuls do not represent Foreign Powers in the cause it gives them authority, and they ought not to possess diplomatic status.\n\nYou will find in `14100/03` that what the German Consul-General represented wanted was recognition of his diplomatic status, and the correspondence also shows clearly that neither the Governor in the Colonial Office concurred with the idea that the Concession of a diplomatic status would land us in the most serious difficulties. See `7 Legation` files.\n\nIt is likely that such action would no doubt delight the German Consul-General (who has claimed \"protector\" or \"representative\" status over Germans) and other Consuls are upsetting administrators. I would suggest that in future it should be reminded that the legitimate functions of a Foreign Consul are connected with the welfare of his nationals, and that he should be told that this particular Consul had attempted to obtain recognition as representative of the foreign nation to which they belonged and to be supported to prevent that it was felt.\n\nMr. Antrobus states that this is precisely what they and it was really the matter in hand as a long-standing controversy. The White S.African controversy arose with plenty of correspondence showing that neither the Governor nor the Colonial Office concurred with the idea that the Concession of a diplomatic status would land us in the most serious difficulties.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415732, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 427, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n### SECTION 6\n#### [42347]\n\n**(No. 525.) Sir,**\n## No. 1.\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received December 28.)**\n\nPeking, November 12, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith a summary of reports received from His Majesty's Consuls in China during the last month, in regard to matters which have not been reported upon in separate despatches.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### inclosure in No. 1.\n## Monthly Summary of Events in China\n\n### THE YANG-TSZE PROVINCES\n#### Szechuan\n\nTHE province has, on the whole, been peaceful during the summer, and thus the general fear that there might be a recrudescence of the disturbances at K'ai Hsien, which have been reported upon in separate despatches, has not been realized. Mr. Fox, acting British Consul-General at Ch'engtu, attributes the quiet mainly to the fact that the provisions of the Anti-Opium Edicts have not been carried out with any degree of completeness or severity.\n\nThe numbers and influence of Chinese converts to Protestantism are increasing, and collisions between them and the Roman Catholic converts are becoming more frequent and more serious. For this state of affairs it seems that jealousy and lack of sympathy and co-operation between the British and American Missions on the one hand, and the French Roman Catholic Mission on the other, are mainly responsible. Each side accuses the other of undue interference on behalf of their converts. The Roman Catholics regard the Protestant missionaries as people whose main object in coming to China is to make a comfortable living for themselves and their families. On the other hand, the Protestants regard the French priests as political agents of the French Government, who obtain for their converts the status, more or less, of French citizens. The attitude of the French Consul, M. Bons d'Anty, gives colour to this charge, for he appears to take up cases officially on the slightest provocation, and makes no secret of the fact that he regards himself as the natural protector not only of the French missions, but of their native converts and inquirers. It seems a pity that the foreign Missions cannot work in harmony throughout China, in the interests of the Christian faith which they desire to propagate. The spectacle of constant quarrelling and mutual recrimination between preachers of the gospel of peace is hardly an edifying one, nor one calculated to bring conviction to the heathen. Another unfortunate incident has been the absence from Chengtu, during the whole of July and August and part of September, of the greater portion of the Protestant missionary community, thus entailing the closing of school, chapel, and hospital. The abandonment of the hospital, more especially during the summer months, does not inspire confidence in the earnestness of the missionaries concerned.\n\nThe Szechuan-Bankow Railway affairs seem, for the present, to have reached a deadlock owing partly to the resignation of the newly-appointed President and Vice-President, and partly to the uncertainty regarding the Governor-Generalship of the province. The Acting Viceroy, Chao Erh Feng, has been a success, but little is known of Chen K'uei Lung, who has been appointed to the substantive post, and it is not likely that much energy will be shown in the prosecution of railway enterprises until his arrival.\n\n`[2769 ee—6]`\n#### 424", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416336, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 501, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "494\n\n4\n\ninto their former state of squalor, registration of opium smokers is not enforced, and the private preparation of the drug continues unchecked.\n\nMISSIONARY AFFAIRS.\n\nAffrays between Protestants and Roman Catholics at Ningyuan-fu: conditions in the Ch'ien Ch'ang Valley.\n\nSeveral serious affrays between the adherents of Protestant and Roman Catholic Missions have occurred during the past quarter.\n\nAt Ningyuan-fu the chronic ill-feeling between Protestants and Roman Catholics broke out into open violence during the first days of October. A Protestant inquirer was severely beaten by the Catholics, and the former retaliated by waylaying and nearly killing a prominent member of the latter Church, alleged to have been the instigator of the first outrage. The foreign missionaries on both sides warmly espoused their adherents' cause, and the local officials have not yet succeeded in arresting and punishing the culprits, one of whom at least is known to be in hiding in the Roman Catholic Mission at Ningyuan-fu.\n\nAbout the same time the Viceroy complained to me that Mr. Wellwood, the representative of the American Baptist Mission, was harbouring a convert wanted by the local authorities on various charges of extortion and assault. I explained to the Viceroy that as Mr. Wellwood, although a British subject, was a member of an American Mission, I had no jurisdiction in this case. (Sir Ernest Satow's ruling in his despatch No. 9, of the 13th November, 1905.) I said that I had transmitted a copy of his despatch to the American Consul in Chungking.\n\nIt appears that Mr. Bristow received an identical complaint against Mr. Wellwood from the Chungking Taotai, and, being unaware of the attitude I had adopted in the matter, wrote officially to Mr. Wellwood, calling upon him to surrender the man to the Chinese authorities. It was partly with a view to avoiding a similar misunderstanding in the future that I made with Mr. Bristow the arrangement reported in my despatch No. 17, Accounts, of the 21st November, 1907.\n\nIn the meantime, both Mr. Wellwood and the Roman Catholic priest at Ningyuan-fu, Père Bourgin, appealed to the French Consul-General and myself, their accounts of what had taken place being, I need hardly say, totally at variance one with the other. M. Bons d'Anty took up the Catholic side of the dispute with characteristic energy, but I did not feel justified in interfering, contenting myself with forwarding copies of Mr. Wellwood's letters to the American Consul, and informing the Viceroy, as opportunity offered, that affairs at Ningyuan-fu were assuming a very serious aspect.\n\nIn the beginning of November, Père Bourgin came to Chengtu, ostensibly to lay his convert's case before the high authorities; as a matter of fact, I believe his own superiors admit that his injudicious championship of his adherents, regardless of their innocence or guilt, has done much to embitter the disputes between the two Missions, and with a view to effecting an amicable settlement of outstanding cases, he has purposely been removed from the Chien Chiang Valley for a time. In his absence, Père de Guébriant, a priest of broad views and conciliatory disposition, is doing his best to arrange matters with Mr. Wellwood.\n\nThe Chien Chiang Valley is notorious for the turbulence of its inhabitants, of whom a majority are Lolo tribesmen, constantly engaged in fighting each other and the Chinese authorities. To such people the foreign Missions are a great attraction, and I learn from Mr. Wellwood that on more than one occasion whole villages, even tribes, have expressed their desire to turn Christian, and have naïvely placed their fighting strength at his disposal.\n\n5\n\nIt is alleged that the French missionaries have not hesitated to take advantage of this state of affairs; it is certain that the number of their adherents has largely increased during the last few years, and their influence is such that the local authorities apparently do not dare to resent their interference in what are often purely Chinese affairs.\n\nThe French Consul-General openly states that he has procured the removal of the Ningyuan Prefect, who is, according to Mr. Wellwood, a capable and enlightened official, for having unduly favoured the Protestants at the expense of the Roman Catholics! The interest taken by the French in the Chien Ch'ang Valley has been more than once referred to in these Reports; they make no secret of the fact that they consider the valley as being in an especial degree within their sphere of influence.\n\nFrench missionaries, Consular and military officers, mining and other experts, are constantly passing up and down the valley; at the present time a military and scientific Mission, under the leadership of a Captain d'Olonne, is on its way to Chengtu from Tachienlu after spending some months on the journey up from Yunnan through the Chien Ch'ang Valley.\n\nIt is probable that the valley is regarded as the natural route of the extension of the Yunnan Railway into Szechuan, hence the interest taken in it by the French authorities, and the suspicion and dislike with which they regard the incursion of foreign influence, in the person of Mr. Wellwood with his flourishing school and hospital, in this domain.\n\nMy position in regard to this gentleman is a difficult one, as he is a British subject, and both the Chinese and French officials persist in regarding the British Consul-General as the natural protector of him and his works. What little I could do, unofficially, to smooth over his differences with the Roman Catholics I have done, and in the accomplishment of this task, the friendly relations which exist between M. Bons d'Anty and myself have been of some value.\n\nMurder of a Protestant Inquirer at Lung Shui Chen: the Interference of Missionaries in Chinese affairs.\n\nAt a place called Lung Shui Chen, in Ta Tsu Hsien, an adherent of the Friends' Mission was murdered by a Roman Catholic on the 25th October last. As far as I can learn, the outrage was the outcome of a family feud, and as the local officials have arrested the murderer, I have not taken any action in the matter.\n\nIn reporting the affair to His Majesty's Vice-Consul in Chungking, Mr. Maw, of the Friends' Mission, made use of the following expression: \"While we do not insist on the execution of the murderer, I write this for your information, as the case will probably come before you.\" He added, although he produced no evidence in support of the statement, that this was a test case between Roman Catholics and Protestants.\n\nI have called the attention of the Friends' Mission to what appears to be a misconception on Mr. Maw's part of the jurisdiction of the British Consular authorities in such cases. The case in question is not one of religious persecution, and unless it can be shown that some glaring miscarriage of justice has taken place, neither the Mission nor the Consul have any grounds for interference.\n\nEven were proof adduced that the Roman Catholic Mission were protecting the murderer, that would not, in my opinion, justify us in taking any official action.\n\nI have taken this opportunity to state clearly what I deem to be our position in these cases, because several instances have occurred during the past year where Protestant missionaries who would indignantly deny that they were interfering in any way with the course of Chinese justice have either themselves approached the local officials on behalf of their converts involved in lawsuits, or have requested me to communicate with the higher authorities and urge them to instruct their subordinates to do their duty.\n\nSuch action on the part of missionary or Consul is, in itself, interference, and is so regarded by the Chinese. It is, I am aware, freely practised by the Roman Catholic priests and the French Consular officials, and for this reason, we should, I think, be all the more careful to avoid anything that may have the appearance of interference or bringing influence to bear in purely Chinese affairs.\n\nMy experience is that our missionaries in this province are, on the whole, deserving of praise for the moderation and tact they display, often under great provocation and in difficult circumstances, and I have reason to know that their attitude is understood and appreciated by the Chinese authorities.\n\nThe West China Missionary Conference.\n\nThe Delegates to the West China Missionary Conference, which is to be held at Chengtu from the 26th January to the 2nd February, are beginning to arrive. As the influx of some 150 foreigners, with their wives and families, at the time of the Chinese New Year might be misunderstood by the people, I have had a notice inserted in the \"Chengtu Daily Gazette,\" explaining the objects of the Conference, and I have arranged with the authorities that the police shall pay special attention to the streets in the vicinity of the missionary compounds.\n\nThe Viceroy has promised to send a deputy to attend the inaugural meeting of the Conference, and he has consented to receive a deputation.\n\nThe Conference will be attended by Bishop Cassells, Anglican Bishop of West China; Bishop Bashford, of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America; Mr. Hoste, Director of the China Inland Mission; Dr. Arthur Smith, and other well-known missionary workers.\n\n[2921 s-1]\n\n0", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427695, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "page_number": 243, "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "content_text": "No.2264/10.\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\n2070\n\n208\n\n2! JAN 11\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 30 December, 1910.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to submit to you some observations regarding the question of Chinese emigration to the Federated Malay States and to invite an expression of your views upon the subject. This matter has engaged my constant attention since I came to this colony in 1907.\n\n2. The legislation enacted in 1908, which had been in contemplation before my arrival and which was largely the outcome of personal and verbal discussion between Mr. Barnes, Protector of Chinese, Straits Settlements and Mr. Brewin, Registrar General, Hongkong, has, I have reason to believe, been attended by a considerable measure of success, by enabling this Government to ascertain which of the Chinese passengers are proceeding under a pledge to enter into a contract on arrival, and with the co-operation of the Straits Settlements to afford them, under the name of \"Assisted Emigrants\", an increased measure of protection.\n\n3. I find, nevertheless, that at the present time (in the words of the Registrar General) \"all emigration to the ports of Singapore & Penang is suspect in the eyes of the Chinese, and it is impossible to find in Hongkong a Chinese who is not sincere in his condemnation of the present 'coolie' trade.\" Although of late years complaints have become less vociferous, there is sufficient evidence that the feeling against this emigration is as deep-seated as ever, and that the Chinese officials in their condemnation of it are only voicing the general sentiment.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nThe Governor,\n\nStraits Settlements.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427696, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "page_number": 244, "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "content_text": "\"voicing a similar public opinion in China\". To this consensus of opinion among Chinese in Hongkong and in China the Registrar General adds his own personal condemnation in the following words:- \"The experience of this Government since 1905 has established beyond doubt the existence of grave abuses, which the closest supervision is unable to extirpate, and which damage the reputation of Hongkong throughout the neighbouring provinces of China\".\n\nIn the report of the Commission appointed by Your Excellency to enquire into Indentured Labour in the Federated Malay States I am informed that Mr. Barnes, Protector of Chinese, made the following remarks:- \"In the case of nearly every sinkheh recruited by a professional recruiter deceit is practised.\n\nThe whole system of sinkheh labour in the Straits is regarded in South China as a system of slavery, the victims of which are invariably kidnapped. The planters...must steer clear of the professional recruiter and make their contracts as different as possible from those now in use\".\n\nThis consensus of opinion in my view calls for immediate consideration and I submit the following observations with confidence that Your Excellency will co-operate with me in every possible way to put an end to the unsatisfactory condition of affairs which is thus disclosed.\n\nThe economic welfare of the territory under Your Excellency's administration is dependent upon the supply of adequate manual labour, while the shipping of this Port is benefited by the conveyance of emigrants. Except, however, in this indirect way the Colony of Hongkong does not reap any immediate advantage and is in fact put to a not inconsiderable expense and trouble, while the profits of the professional recruiters and others engaged in the supply are admitted to be enormous.\n\nPage 6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427699, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "page_number": 247, "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "content_text": "242\n\narrival of the labourer at his destination. The drawback to this proposal is that this Government cannot know anything of the employer, and that under the 1904 Convention the system may necessitate negotiation with the Chinese government which it would be obviously better to avoid.\n\nThough I do not say that the signing of contracts here is out of the question, I am on these grounds inclined to prefer the solution proposed by Mr. Barnes, viz. that \"the employer sends a man whom he knows and can trust to China with funds, and this man brings down a batch of friends and relatives who work for the employer until they have paid off the money expended upon their passage &c.\". I would, however, modify this broad principle in the following ways:-\n\n(a) Every agent thus sent to recruit will be furnished with a letter from the Protector of Chinese, Straits Settlements, to the Registrar General, Hongkong, accompanied by identification papers.\n\nThe possession of this vised pass will probably protect the recruiter from interference by the Chinese police.\n\n(b) After having obtained his labourers he will report himself with them at the Emigration Office here, and they will be examined in accordance with the existing practice. The recruiter will state the total amount due on account of passages &c. from each labourer, and this will be entered by the Emigration Officer on a paper given to the recruit. With the elimination of the extortionate charges made under the present system both by the recruiter and the Cooling House keeper, the charges (even after including the expenses of the agent) should be small.\n\nThe labourer will at the same time be assured that the contract will include the provisions specified in my paragraph 4, and a stamp duty will be charged to cover the expenses of the Hongkong Emigration Office. The Protector of Chinese, Straits Settlements, will", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431451, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5]", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG.\n## ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIA REGINE.\n### No. 8 of 1858.\n\nBy His Excellency **SIR JOHN BOWRING**, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\n**An Ordinance for Regulation of the Chinese People, and for the Population Census, and for other Purposes of Police.**\n\n[10th May, 1858.]\n\nBe it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say:\n\nI. Ordinance No. 6 of 1857 is hereby repealed.\n\n**Repeal of Ordinance No. 6 of 1857.**\n\nII. The Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be continued and established, together with the Registrar General and other the Officers and Assistants by whom the duties and business thereof have been hitherto performed; and also together with the Classification presently existing, in the Books of the said Office, of Boats and Vessels, for the purposes of the Schedule to this Ordinance.\n\n**Census and Registration Office established.**\n\nIII. The several Persons now being the Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants, of the said Office, shall discharge the duties and business thereof in future at their present Salaries during His Excellency's pleasure; and upon any vacancy, His Excellency may from time to time nominate and appoint such Person or Persons to be such Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants respectively, and at such Salary and Salaries as to His Excellency shall seem meet, and also remove him or them at His Excellency's discretion from time to time, and nominate and appoint another or others in his or their room; yet so as that Her Majesty's pleasure shall be taken as to every nomination, appointment, and removal of a Registrar General, and as to every new limitation of Salary under the provisions of this Section.\n\n**Appointments of Officers.**\n\nIV. The Registrar General is, by virtue of his Office, and for the execution of this Ordinance, and not otherwise, the Protector of Chinese Inhabitants within this Colony, and as such is bounden to use his best endeavours to prevent the commission of crime, and, if committed, to discover and apprehend the Parties guilty thereof, and generally to watch over and protect the said Chinese Inhabitants; and, for the purposes aforesaid only, he is empowered to enter at any reasonable time or times, as he shall find meet, any Building soever within this Colony, or Vessel or Boat soever within the Waters of the same or adjacent thereto, if such Building, Vessel, or Boat shall then have any Chinaman within or on board of the same.\n\n**Powers and Duties of the Registrar General.**\n\nV. The other Officers and Assistants in the said Census and Registration Office shall be obedient and assisting unto the said Registrar General in the execution of this Ordinance.\n\n**Duties of the other Officers and Assistants.**\n\nVI. The Powers and Authorities touching the direction and Superintendence of the Police Force, which by `Ordinance 12 of 1844` were vested in the Chief Magistrate of Police, are from henceforth vested in, and shall be exercised by, the Superintendent of Police for the time being, constituted under the said Ordinance; and obedience shall be rendered by the Police Force of this Colony to the orders of the said Superintendent of Police, and to all Rules and Regulations by him made or to be made with the approbation of the Governor in Council; and the Registrar General is hereby empowered to require from the Superintendent of Police, or in his absence from the Officer acting for him, the services of such of the subordinate members of the Police Force as he may deem necessary for the due execution of the duties of his office, and the said Force when so required shall receive orders from the Superintendent of Police or Inspector on duty, to obey the commands of the said Registrar General in the same manner as those of the Superintendent of Police.\n\n**The Chief Magistrate's authority to devolve upon the Superintendent of Police.**\n\nVII. Every Person occupying a House, shall cause the Number thereof to be continued upon or painted and affixed to such House, in such wise as the Registrar General shall direct.\n\n**Numbers to be painted.**\n\nVIII. His Excellency in Council shall have power to approve for, and appoint to, the office of Tepo in any Town, Village, Hamlet, and District, of this Colony, a proper Person to be presented unto him by the Occupiers of Chinese Houses therein, or (in default of such presentment) to be nominated by His Excellency in Council for that purpose.\n\n**Power to elect and appoint Tepos.**\n\nIX. Every Tepo shall have, throughout his Town, Village, Hamlet, or District, but not further or otherwise, the same powers and authorities, and perform the duties of Constable, and, in that capacity, shall be immediately subordinate unto the Registrar General, and shall conform to whatsoever lawful Orders, Rules, and Regulations he shall, with the approbation of His Excellency, frame and issue for the better execution of their duties under this Ordinance.\n\n**Powers and Duties of the Tepos.**\n\nX. The amount of the Salary of each Tepo shall be from time to time fixed by His Excellency in Council, and shall be paid out of the Produce of the Police Tax.\n\n**Salaries of the Tepos.**\n\nXI. The Hawking of Goods or Wares in the Streets or Roads of this Colony, without a License from the Registrar General, is hereby prohibited.\n\n**Unlicensed Hawking prohibited.**\n\nXII. No License for such Hawking shall be granted by the Registrar General to any Person except subject to forfeiture on conviction of the holder of any offence before any Justice of the Peace. And every Applicant, on receiving his said License, shall pay therefor to the Registrar General, to the use of the Crown, the Fee in that behalf mentioned in the Schedule hereunto annexed.\n\n**Conditions and Fees for Hawking Licenses.**\n\nXIII. The Registrar General shall grant to such fit and proper Persons, being Chinamen, as shall make application unto him in that behalf, Licenses to undertake and perform the Burials of Chinese Dead in the Cemeteries, and after the manner prescribed by law; and every such License shall be limited in duration to One Year, but renewable at the expiration of each Year; and there shall be paid to him to the use of the Crown for every such grant or renewal the Fee in that behalf specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed.\n\n**The Registrar General to grant Undertakers' Licenses.**\n\nXIV. No Person, not being an Undertaker licensed under Section Thirteen, shall henceforward undertake or perform any Burials of Chinese Dead, or dig any Grave within any such Cemetery as aforesaid.\n\n**None but Licensed Undertakers to bury or dig Graves.**\n\nXV. Every Licensed Undertaker is hereby required to use his best skill and endeavour to prevent and repress all Offences against, and Violations of, the Laws for regulating Chinese Burials, and to apprehend, or cause to be apprehended, all Persons accused thereof, and from time to time to report every such Offence or Violation to the Registrar General with all reasonable speed.\n\n**The Undertakers are required to prevent and repress Offences against Burial Laws.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433432, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 13, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "# DEATH OF HON. MR. WARREN BARNES\n\nSeldom has Hongkong been so deeply stirred as it was on Saturday night when the news became known that the Hon. Mr. Warren Delabere Barnes, Colonial Secretary, had expired that evening with startling suddenness on the Polo Ground at Causeway Bay. Mr. Barnes had taken part in a practice match on the ground, and as the last chukka was finished he rode up with the other players in answer to the bell. Before he reached the pavilion he was seen to fall upon the neck of his pony.\n\nAs he did not rise, the others, who included Surgeon Hastings, R.N., rushed to his assistance and were horrified to discover that he was dead. The shock to all present was great, and a painful impression was created when the tragic occurrence was reported in the city. The body was removed to the Government Civil Hospital. Heart failure was the cause of death.\n\nA dance which was to have been given by Lady Lugard at Government House on Saturday night was at once abandoned.\n\nThough Mr. Barnes had only been in Hongkong some three or four months, he had made for himself many friends who, with the general public, will regret his sudden and untimely death. In the short time in which he had been here, he proved himself a very capable official, and acquired a knowledge of local affairs which was remarkable. This was recognised by His Excellency the Governor, who had contemplated a journey to India to be present at the Durbar, leaving Mr. Barnes to administer the Government during his absence. In the Legislative Council, the late Colonial Secretary showed a good grasp of most matters which came up for discussion, and won the good opinion of members by his readiness and lucidity in debate. Moreover, his courteous manner charmed all, and this aspect of his personality endeared him to all with whom he came in contact both officially and socially.\n\nMr. Barnes was educated at King's College School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He went to the Straits Settlements as a cadet in November, 1888, passing his final examination in Chinese in 1891. Two years later, he became Third Magistrate at Penang, and afterwards became acting Protector of Chinese in Perak. His next position was to the post of warden of mines in Perak, to which he was appointed in 1896, and three years later, he was transferred to Pahang as warden of mines, Protector of Chinese, and senior magistrate. In December, 1901, he was promoted to Penang as assistant Protector of Chinese, and two years afterwards, he was acting Commissioner of Lands and Mines in the Federated Malay States, which was followed by his selection to act as British Resident at Pahang. He was chosen in 1904 to discharge the duties of acting Protector of Chinese for the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States.\n\n## THE FUNERAL\n\nThe funeral took place yesterday, the cortege passing the monument shortly after 4:30 p.m. The large and representative attendance bore testimony to the esteem and respect in which the deceased gentleman was held. The cortege, as it wound its way to the cemetery, was headed by the K.O.Y.L.I. band playing funeral marches. On either side of the hearse, which was laden with wreaths, walked four members of the Hongkong police and members of the Executive and Legislative Councils. Then followed His Excellency the Governor and other members of Council, Mr. C. Clementi (Assistant Colonial Secretary), the A.D.C's., the Consuls, a detachment of police, and a large number of naval and military officers, including Major-General Anderson, C.B., the Officer Commanding the Troops. The attendance included His Lordship Bishop Pozzoni, His Honour Mr. Justice Gompertz, Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., Hon. Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. A. W. Brewin, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. A. M. Thomson, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. C. H. Ross, Hon. Mr. Edward Osborne, Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Messrs. J. M. Ede, J. H. Kemp, P. M. Hodgson, F. Hazeland, J. R. Wood, E. R. Hallifax, R. O. Hutchison, H. Nesbit, H. P. Tooker, T. L. Perkins, H. G. Fisher, H. R. Phelips, G. N. Orms, J. D. Lloyd, M. Breen, R. H. Crofton, E. S. Lindsey, A. H. Harris, N. J. Stabb, W. Dickson, C. D. Melbourne, J. W. Lee-Jones, David Wood, A. Shelton Hooper, H. J. Gedge, H. L. Dennys, H. W. Looker, G. K. Hall Brutton, F. Shellim, W. E. Clarke, T. F. Hough, J. M. Beck, T. Hose, B. A. Hale, H. W. Bird, P. M. Dyer, Rev. Father Spada, Dr. G. P. Jordan, Dr. F. Kay, Dr. G. L. Fitzwilliams, J. Lambert, and many others, including Mr. Chan Kai Ming and other representative Chinese residents.\n\nThe police bore the body to the Civil Service section of the cemetery, and the remains were laid to rest on a little plateau surrounded by pine and palm trees. The funeral service was conducted by His Lordship the Bishop of Victoria, assisted by the Rev. F. T. Johnson (Colonial Chaplain). Wreaths were sent by Major-General and Mrs. C. A. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Stabb, the Governor, Mr. and Mrs. C. Lauder, the Captain Superintendent and the members of the Police Force, the Superintendent, officers, and members of the Fire Brigade, the officers of the Army Service Corps, the officers of the R.G.A., the officers of the K.O.Y.L.I., His Honour Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Alabaster, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Ross, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Phelips, the Committee of the Po Loung Kuk, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Gedge, the members of the Hongkong Polo Club, Hon. Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Atkinson, Mr. F. J. Halton, Mrs. E. Oliver, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Looker, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hewett, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Dr. J. W. Noble, the Government Auditor and staff, the Government Civil Hospital, Commodore and Mrs. Eyres, and the Opium Farmer.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433433, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 14, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nA meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held yesterday at the Council Chamber.\n\nThe following were present :-\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR**, SIR FREDERICK JOHN DEALTRY LUGARD, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL C. A. ANDERSON, C.B. (General Officer Commanding the Troops).\n\nHon. Mr. A. W. BREWIN (Colonial Secretary), Hon. Mr. C. G. ALABASTER (Attorney-General).\n\nHon. Mr. A. M. THOMSON (Colonial Treasurer).\n\nHon. Mr. W. CHATHAM, C.M.G. (Director of Public Works).\n\nHon. Mr. E. R. HALLIFAX (Registrar-General).\n\nHon. Captain F. W. LYONS (Captain-Superintendent of Police).\n\nHon. Dr. HO KAI, M.B., C.M.G.\n\nHon. Mr. WEI YUK, C.M.G.\n\nHon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C.\n\nHon. Mr. E. A. HETT.\n\nHon. Mr. C. H. ROSS.\n\nHon. Mr. E. OSBORNE.\n\nMr. C. CLEMENTI (Clerk of Council).\n\n## MINUTES\n\nThe minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.\n\n## FINANCIAL MINUTES\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table Financial Minutes No. 81 to 87, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee. The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the motion was agreed to.\n\n## FINANCIAL\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table the report of the Finance Committee (No. 17), and moved its adoption.\n\nThe COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the motion was agreed to.\n\n## NEW BYE-LAW\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table bye-law No. 26 of the market bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board on the 12th September, 1911, and moved its approval.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL seconded, and the motion was agreed to.\n\n## NEW MEMBER\n\nMr. E. R. Hallifax took the oath and assumed his seat as a member of the Council.\n\n## THE LATE COLONIAL SECRETARY\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY - Gentlemen, since we last met at this table the tragic death of our late Colonial Secretary has removed from our midst an officer whom we had learned to value, although he had been such a short time amongst us. As a colleague and as a friend his charming personality had endeared himself to us all, and I can say for my own part that I had no conception how much it was so until he had gone. As the holder of a high and important office in this Colony he had in a marvellous way possessed himself in the short time he was here of the problems and conditions of this Colony.\n\nAnd there is no one, I think, better able to speak from personal knowledge than myself, and say I found in him a man who could be entirely relied upon, of abundant common sense, indefatigable industry, a man of sane and temperate judgment and liberal views. His long experience as Protector of the Chinese in the Straits Settlements peculiarly qualified him for his high office in this Colony, and in him the Chinese community have lost a real friend. His thorough grip of administrative details in all branches enabled him, even in the short period of five months, to leave, as I am sure he has left, a permanent mark on the administration of the Colony. I feel most deeply and most keenly his death, and I beg to move in the terms of the resolution now before you that this Council record in its archives an expression of its sorrow at the loss which we have sustained by his death and an expression of sympathy and condolence with his relatives.\n\nHon. Dr. HO KAI - Sir, on behalf of the unofficial members of this Council, I beg most sympathetically to second the resolution which you have so feelingly moved. We fully concur, Sir, in the sentiments to which you have just given expression, and we join with you, Sir, in testifying our appreciation of our late colleague, his sterling qualities, and also our high regard for him, although, as you say, Sir, he had been only but a few months with us, and also in expressing our deep sorrow at his sudden death. We unite with you, Sir, in tendering our sincerest and deep sympathy and condolence to his relatives.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY - The resolution before the Council is:\n\nThe President and Members of the Legislative Council of Hongkong desire to place on record an expression of their deep sorrow at the sudden death of the late Colonial Secretary, Mr. Warren Delabere Barnes, a colleague and a friend for whom they had the highest regard, and to offer their sincere sympathy to his relatives in their bereavement.\n\nThe motion was carried unanimously.\n\nHon. Dr. HO KAI - Sir, as a mark of respect to our late Colonial Secretary, I beg to move that the Council adjourn for a week.\n\nHon. Mr. ROSS - I rise to support the hon. senior unofficial member.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY - I shall be most glad to adopt this proposal of the unofficial members and adjourn the Council. Council will now adjourn.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433652, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 233, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "# \n\n224 \n\nor of 4 men landed at Kowloondate.\n\nThe following particulars received indirectly from leading Yanchu official.\n\n*Last night Chih Tsung called on the Yanchu representatives and as a result of his visit they hurried off to see the Governor Jones. Interview of a most trying character at 1 o'clock this morning.\n\nThey told him they wished to declare their adherence to the popular party, provided their safety and that of their families were guaranteed and their own services employed in some remunerative capacity.\n\nResistance would surely cause unnecessary bloodshed.\n\nThe Governor General with tears promised to do anything he could to prevent fighting in the city. So many favours he had received from his Emperor, matters for them, but to the people were too strong for him; those on whom he depended, Admiral Li, General Lung (my informant says he must have misunderstood the Governor General who never had the slightest doubt of General Lung's loyalty), the Prefect were weakening in their allegiance: he was alone and he could not hold out any longer. He would let the people have their way.\n\nIt is stated that at 3 p.m. the expected proclamation was issued. In view of the unanimity of the people in demanding independence, the Governor General would consider an early date for making formal declaration.\n\nRemembering the previous volte-face of the Governor General and considering it necessary to get first-hand information as to the exact significance of the proclamation, Mr Jamieson decided to call on His Excellency and after some difficulty an interview was arranged for 11 a.m.\n\nMr Jamieson saw His Excellency alone and received full explanation of the reasons which compelled him to renounce his allegiance. The naval forces could no longer be trusted and he could depend on himself only 10% of the army, including General Tsung, being loyal. He was certain an outbreak would occur between both sections of Punnam and Cantonese.\n\nHe had to choose between allegiance to the Superior who appointed him and the safety of the people he was pledged over as protector. He had considered the problem for a long time: he wept as he confessed that at last he had decided to be a traitor to his...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433832, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 413, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "## **Gompertz, Henry Hessey Johnston, B.A., Oxon, Barrister-at-law.**\n\nBorn 31st August, 1867.\n\nPuisne Judge, $8,400.\n\nStraits Settlements.\n\nCO 1896\n\n403\n\nREGE 19 JAN 12\n\nArrived in Colony. Attached to Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\nSent to Swatow to study Tie-Chiu (Chinese).\n\n1890, Sept. 25 | Appointed Cadet.\n1890, Dec. 3 | \n1892, Feb. | \n1893, Dec. 6 | Passed final examination in Tie-Chiu (Chinese).\n\n1894, March 12 | \n1895, July 17 | Acting Second Assistant Protector of Chinese, Penang.\n1895, Aug. 23 | Acting Third Magistrate, Penang.\n\nPassed final examination in Cantonese (Chinese) under the Bonus Scheme.\n\n1896, Dec. | Acting Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court, Penang.\n1897, Jan. 1 | Second Assistant Protector of Chinese, Penang.\n1897, - | Acting District Magistrate on several occasions.\n\nHongkong.\n\n1897, Augt. 28 | Assistant Registrar-General.\n1898, - | Served on Commission appointed to report on Interpretation Scheme.\n1898, May 30 | Acting Police Magistrate.\n1898, - | Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils.\n1898, - | Seconded as Member of Land Court, New Territories.\n\n1899, June 27 | Called to the Bar.\n1899, - | On half-pay leave.\n1900, Jan. 1 | Resumed duty on return from leave.\n\n1900, May 26 | \n1902, Jan. 10 | \n1904, Jan. 11 | President, Land Court.\n1905, June 16 | Acting Second Police Magistrate.\n1906, March 30 | Acting Police Magistrate.\n1906, Nov. 14 | On half-pay leave.\n1906, - | Acting Police Magistrate on return from leave.\n\n1907, July 22 | Acting Attorney-General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434557, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 558, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## 2 \n\n3. Deputy Eichhoff (Progressive People's party) praised administration and working of the colony. Thought personal allowance for the governor must cease with departure of Admiral Truppel. Considered population of Tsingtan ripe for self-government. Praised German high school as being useful in interest of language and civilisation.\n\n4. Admiral Tirpitz confirmed above two speakers as to progress in development of Kiao-chao in trade and organisation of the colony. Advocated the establishment of regular colonial professorships in Berlin and other places. Government were watching the progress of the plague in China, and hoped to overcome the difficulties caused by its outbreak.\n\n(The last telegram from the Governor of Tsingtau concerning the plague was read by Admiral von Tirpitz in the Reichstag, and is attached to this letter; also the steps which Admiral Tirpitz stated have been adopted in the colony for combating the plague.)\n\n5. Deputy Noske (Socialist) made attack on Government and Admiral Tirpitz. Said Social Democrats were never given same advantages as members of other parties. Attacked administration of the colony.\n\n6. Deputy Göreke (National Liberal), who had visited the colony, considered administration and development good and satisfactory; discussing the various problems to be worked out, alluded to Hong Kong, and stated that about fifteen to twenty years after occupation it was a question of whether British Government should retain it. Remarked that Kiao-chao compared favourably in that respect.\n\n7. Herr Ledebour (Socialist) considered possession of a post which was practically taken possession of by force of arms, is, and will remain, a source of international complications. Stated German imports in Tsingtau are declining. Urged colony should be given back to China.\n\n8. Admiral von Tirpitz stated that self-government in Tsingtau is difficult. That they had already offered the citizens a limited self-government, namely a representation based upon general and secret election, but this proposal has not been accepted. In reply to a remark by Socialists that the colony was a step to further annexation and was a source of international complications, stated Chinese had completely convinced themselves that the Germans, in particular, as compared with other nations, had no intention to make conquests. \"We should not only lose Tsingtau, but we should have to abandon altogether our whole political position in China. We should be compelled, among other things, also to withdraw our ships, and should have to have them docked and repaired elsewhere. I will mention no names. What effect the withdrawal of our ships would have in many respects, I do not need to explain to you.\" Spoke generally of the favourable development of trade of the colony.\n\n9. Dr. Arendt (Imperial party) attacked the Socialist (Deputy Ledebour), and urged loss of prestige to the German Empire if Kiao-chao were abandoned. Remarked: \"When Deputy Ledebour speaks of the magnanimity with which the English abandon similar possessions, this shows a lack of far-sighted observation of the English policy. When the English took possession of the Ionian Islands they had a strategic value, but lost it because they afforded no anchorage for modern vessels, therefore they were given to the Greeks as a present.\" Remarked that the Germans in China had not been so short-sighted.\n\n10. Deputy Ledebour (Socialist), in reply to remarks, said: \"I am said to have praised the magnanimity of the English, who abandoned the Ionian Islands. The English are not magnanimous and will never be so. I know them well enough. I have lived six years in England. But they were too wise and reasonable to retain Corfu, &c.; they had no strategic value for them. That Kiao-chao has for us a strategic value, was, in the speech of the State Secretary, only an echo from former times; the facts have, since the Russo-Japanese war, fundamentally changed.\" Urged that in Tsingtau, Chinese trade is promoted—not German trade. \"That German goods arrive in Shanghai, Hong Kong, &c., in China, is the best proof that Tsingtau has no importance.\"\n\n11. The vote was agreed to without further discussion.\n\n## 3 \n\n### Telegram from the Governor of Tsingtau regarding the Plague in China\n\nIN places remote from the railway, news of the plague is difficult to obtain. Only in Layang are deaths reported. Along the railroad the plague is spreading. In Tsinanfu there are deaths from plague among the Vth Chinese division. The settlement is closed; 45 kilom. south of the railroad, from Tsin-tsin to Pukin, a new plague centre; probably also in the Chinese town of Kiao-chao. 250 deaths are reported by Europeans from Chantung; also in Chifu, 200. Mines of Hungschau are working; Fangtse has stopped work (on account of Chinese New Year). Protectorate free; want of labourers in consequence of panic and war rumours; wages have risen, and they demand preventative measures, including free board in quarantine, to which the merchants contribute. The weather raw; the isolation promises success, but is hard. Therefore, with new men, without injury to health and discipline, isolation is only possible if for the present two officers and 358 men kept back.\n\nAdmiral Tirpitz then said: \"We have also in other respects taken every precautionary measure which science affords. We have, in the first place, retained two medical men, including the navy surgeon, Dr. Martini, one of the best pupils of the late Robert Koch, who in this connection rendered good service on account of his valuable experience in foreign countries. We have also a medical advanced post in Tsinanfu, which has to transmit the reports regarding the spread of the plague. We have also taken measures for obtaining lymph, establishment of quarantine hospitals, &c. Further, a hermetic isolation is carried out, namely, the whole length of our land defence position. The details have been given in the committee. The extraordinary advantage of such a land defence position is shown also in time of peace against the plague. Such a hermetic isolation is rather difficult, for it is always a question of from 5 to 6 kilom. of our land fortifications. We have also extended the isolation to the rest of the protectorate, and have also called in the aid of the Chinese country population. The latter has taken part with great activity in this voluntary work. It results that from this, in any case, our personnel has great influence with the Chinese in our protectorate, and that the Chinese population regards our administrative and sanitary activity with great confidence. The Chinese have now voluntary offered to carry out the isolation. It will be of interest to inspect some plague masks, which I have laid upon the table of the House, which are intended as a protection against dangerous inhalations.\" (Applause.)\n\n## 556", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437412, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "content_text": "countries and also as to the Colonial Office views, and in order that those interested either from a business point of view as a matter of public interest may have an opportunity of making any suggestions to the Government regarding the present rough draft of the Bill.\n\nThis Bill would have been introduced early last year, but I waited in order to refer the matter to the late Mr. Barnes, who as Protector of Chinese in the Straits Settlements was perhaps the greatest expert in the Far East on the subject. As soon as he arrived in the Colony, he set to work with astonishing energy, and, after going through a mass of papers, he drafted a long and very able report, but unfortunately his sudden death deprived us of his invaluable experience in the actual drafting of the Bill. I regret that I had not even an opportunity of discussing his report with him.\n\nThe objects of the Bill are to reduce the opportunities for fraud on the part of recruiters or boarding house keepers or others dealing with emigrants; to ensure that the inspection of emigrants in the Registrar-General's Office is effective; to secure for them the best terms we can; to avoid interfering with the free passengers, who do not require any particular protection; and finally, to systematise the procedure in this Colony, which has been somewhat haphazard, between the Registrar-General and the Harbour Master. In future the Registrar-General will be responsible for all examination of emigrants on land, and for boarding house keepers and other agencies, while the Harbour Master will be responsible for emigrant ships, and passages so forth.\n\nThe ideal is that all emigration shall be free, but the poverty of a large number of these emigrants is such that it is very difficult to realize that ideal, and precludes their embarking without some assistance. The charges should be reasonable, and the contract a short one, so that the emigrant may have an opportunity of re-engaging after his contract has expired. These objects are primarily concerned with the country of destination, and it is only indirectly that we are able to promote them. I regret that my approaching departure will prevent my seeing this Bill through, and placing it on the Statute book, but I hope I may be of some assistance in elucidating certain", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437777, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "page_number": 433, "title": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "content_text": "BATT\n\nJANT OU DO.\n\nOVSH I\n\nto autosl suu abuted OLA ull val oe d some te\n\now a Te mit ve\n\n20% 90\n\n1890, Sept.\n\n# Dec.\n\n1892, Feb.\n\n13, Dec.\n\n25\n\n3\n\nStraits Settlements.\n\nAppointed Cadet.\n\nArrived in Colony. Attached to Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\nSent to Swatow to study Tie-Chiu (Chinese).\n\n6 - Passed final examination in Tie-Chiu (Chinese).\n\n1894, March 12\n\n17\n\nAugust 23\n\n1895, July\n\n1896, Dec.\n\nII. youoi-\n\n1897,\n\n1897, Jan.\n\n1\n\n-\n\n70\n\n1897, August 28\n\n-\n\nRuhanica\n\n$10% WJ\n\ni\n\nDevon Du greu I J\n\nIob End A mee.tit\n\n1898, May 1899\n\nJune\n\n30\n\n27\n\no now. I si..\n\n1899, June\n\nto\n\n*\n\n1900, May\n\nplotu. mi\n\nDC boyi=9-\n\n1900, Jan.\n\n1\n\n-\n\nMay 26\n\n-\n\nTo go 400 und 10 gulungan, ini\n\nJLO I WAN\n\n1902, Jan. 10 1904, Jan.\n\n11\n\n-\n\n1905, June 1906, June\n\nMarch 30 16 14\n\n-\n\n1906, Nov. 1\n\n1907, July 29)\n\nto\n\n-I mud-jewnocdA and No doupise de de\n\n.19lan\n\nDow\n\nenpdlaçet #l. 9noka yl-\n\nQU 19203*\n\nww\n\niwv\n\n1907, Oct.\n\n21)\n\nto 1907, Dec. 1907, Oct.\n\n29\n\n.edown to prodotood and yu noi iço sin YO7\n\n•DUS BY A\n\nH (.00)\n\n \n 1890, Sept.\n Appointed Cadet.\n \n \n 1892, Feb.\n Arrived in Colony. Attached to Colonial Secretary's Office.\n \n \n 13, Dec.\n Sent to Swatow to study Tie-Chiu (Chinese).\n \n \n 1894, March 12\n Passed final examination in Tie-Chiu (Chinese).\n \n \n 1895, July\n Acting Second Assistant Protector of Chinese, Penang.\n \n \n 1896, Dec.\n Acting Third Magistrate, Penang.\n \n \n 1897, Jan.\n Passed final examination in Cantonese (Chinese).\n \n \n 1897, August 28\n Passed final examination in Hok-kien (Chinese) under the Bonus Scheme.\n \n \n 1898, May\n Second Assistant Protector of Chinese, Penang.\n \n \n 1899, June\n Acting Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court, Penang.\n \n \n 1900, Jan.\n Acting District Magistrate on several occasions.\n \n \n 1900, May\n Hongkong.\n \n \n 1902, Jan. 10\n Assistant Registrar-General.\n \n \n 1904, Jan.\n Served on Commission appointed to report on Interpretation Scheme.\n \n \n 1905, June\n On half-pay leave.\n \n \n 1906, June\n Called to the Bar, Easter Term.\n \n \n 1906, Nov. 1\n Resumed duty on return from leave.\n \n \n 1907, July 29\n Acting Police Magistrate.\n \n \n 1907, August 14\n Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils.\n \n \n 1907, Oct.\n Seconded as member of Land Court, New Territories.\n \n \n 1907, Oct. 29\n President, Land Court.\n \n \n 1908, March 21\n Acting Second Police Magistrate.\n \n \n 1909, March 21\n Acting Police Magistrate.\n \n \n 1909, Oct. 12\n On half-pay leave.\n \n \n 1909, Oct. 25\n Acting Police Magistrate on return from leave.\n \n \n 1910, August 1\n Acting Attorney-General.\n \n \n 1911, May 14\n Police Magistrate and Coroner.\n \n \n 1911, Sept. 15\n Acting Puisne Judge and Chairman of Squatters' Board.\n \n \n 1911, Nov. 15\n Puisne Judge and Chairman of Squatters' Board.\n \n\nPage XX\n\n \n(Three lines at the top and bottom of the page, indicating page metadata, have been retained as per the instructions.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442002, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 129, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "# \n128 \n\nHongkong, 11th December, 1912.\n\nWe take the liberty to enclose herewith:- \n\n(a) Contract of Chinese laborers in Samoa in German and Chinese. \n\n(b) Translation of above in English.\n\n4394 \n**REC'd** [Read 6 FEB 13] \n\n(c) Samoan Government Gazette of 5th January relating Chinese laborers. \n\n(d) Translation of above in English.\n\nWe may add that there is a Chinese Consul at Apia, whose name is Lin Yun Chao and that the name of the Protector of Chinese at Apia is A. Fries.\n\nThe recruiting and shipping of Chinese laborers has so far been done by us at Swatow.\n\nAs for various reasons we should much prefer to do all Emigration work at Hongkong in future, we should feel obliged if you could let us know, whether it would be possible to restart direct emigration from Hongkong to Samoa and if so under what conditions.\n\nWe are etc., \n**(Sd.) Wendt & Co.**\n\nThe Registrar-General, \nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 444144, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]", "content_text": "# A BILL\n\n## ENTITLED\n\nNo. 9:-[5.8.13.--6,]\n\n## 15\n\n**As**\n\n## An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Law relating to Chinese Passenger Ships defined by the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, and concerning Asiatic Emigrants generally.\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n## PART I\n\n### Preliminary Provisions\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the **Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1907**.\n\n2.-(1.) In this Ordinance—\n\n### Definitions and Interpretation of terms.\n\n\"The Act\" means the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855:\n\n\"Assisted Emigrant\" means any male labourer, being a native of Asia, who intends to labour for hire in some place beyond the limits of this Colony and who has received assistance in the way of payment of passage money, subsistence, or otherwise, in order to enable him to carry out his intention:\n\n\"British Emigrant Ship\" includes every British ship carrying from any port in China, or within one hundred miles of the coast thereof, more than twenty passengers, being natives of Asia:\n\n\"Emigrant Ship\" includes every ship carrying from any port in the Colony more than twenty passengers, being natives of Asia:\n\n\"Emigration Officer\" as regards this Colony means the Harbour Master and includes any person duly authorised by him to perform or assist in performing his duties, and as regards other places includes every person lawfully acting as Emigration Officer, Immigration Agent, or Protector of Emigrants, and every person authorised by the Governor of any British Colony to carry out the provisions of the Act:\n\n\"Free Asiatic Emigrant\" means an emigrant, being a native of Asia, who is not an assisted emigrant or under any contract of service whatever:\n\n\"General Licence\" means a Licence granted under section 13 of this Ordinance:\n\nReference to `Pratt (No. 10554/10)`\n\n\"Long voyage\" means any voyage, within the meaning of the Act, which is declared by Proclamation by the Governor to be a voyage of more than thirty days' duration:\n\n\"Master of any ship\" includes any person for the time being in command or charge of the same:\n\n\"Outport Licence\" means a Licence granted under section 12 of this Ordinance:\n\n\"Ship\" includes all sea-going vessels:\n\n\"Short voyage\" means any voyage, within the meaning of the Act, of more than seven days' duration, but not exceeding thirty days' duration, and any other voyage which may be declared by Proclamation by the Governor to be a short voyage:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450675, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 257, "title": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "47\n\ndoubtful, but the President is confident that he will completely control Yang-tsze Valley within a month. (End of R.)\n\n(P.) The troops in Kuangsi province are still loyal; they have advanced down the West River and are in touch with the rebel forces at a point 40 miles above Canton,\n\n[36035]\n\nNo. 107.\n\n253\n\nMr. Alston to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 5.)\n\n(No. 296.) Sir,\n\nPeking, July 21, 1913.\n\nTHE struggle between President Yuan Shih-kai on the one side and the Huang Hsing faction on the other has now materialised in an open rebellion in the Yang-tsze Valley.\n\nIn the first week of July the dismissed Governor of Kiangsi, Li Lieh-chun returned to Hukou, took over the forts which command the entrance to the Poyang Lake, and raised the standard of revolt. Vice-President Li Yuan Hung, the Governor of Hupei, who had been entrusted since Li Tutu's dismissal with the additional duties of the Governor of Kiangsi, ordered the 5,000 northern troops who had during the previous weeks been concentrated on the Hupei-Kiangsi border to advance on the Hukou position. The advance of the northerners was opposed by such of the Kiangsi troops as had thrown in their lot with Li Lieh-chun, and an engagement took place at Te An, between Kiukiang and Hukou. The fighting, which lasted from the 12th to the 13th July, would appear to have been of an indecisive nature. Since the above date, the strength of the rebels in Kiangsi has been considerably augmented by the defection from the northern cause of Ou-yang Wu, the military official who had been appointed Protector of Kiangsi on Li Tatu's dismissal. On the 18th July he resigned this post under the Central Government, and declared himself Governor of Kiangsi, to which position he had, he said, been elected by the provincial assembly of that province. The secession of Kiangsi thereby became a fait accompli, and it would appear probable that the entire provincial military forces have ranged themselves in the rebel camp.\n\nAccording to information received last night, and communicated to you in my telegram of the 21st July, Vice-President Li is hurrying troops down the river to reinforce the 5,000 men mentioned above, and is confident that this combined force will find little difficulty in reducing the Hukou position.\n\nWhile ex-Tutu Li thus opened the rebel campaign at Hukou, Huang Hsing had proceeded to Nanking. The Kiangsu troops in that place went over to him in a body. The Governor, Cheng Te-chuan, who expressed himself as out of sympathy with the rebellion, was placed under restraint, and a proclamation was issued on the 14th July under his name and seal, declaring Nanking's independence of the Central Government. The Kiangsu troops at Hsuchoufu, situated on the Tien-tsin-Pukow line near the Shantung border, also declared for the Nanking Government, while the soldiers at Chinkiang and Yangchou remained for the moment undecided.\n\nOn the 15th the Nanking troops, 7,000 strong, moved north by train to attack the 2,000 loyal troops stationed at Hanchuang on the Shantung frontier. The two forces met at Li-kuo-I, where an engagement was fought on the 16th July. The southern army was said to have been driven back with considerable loss. At this engagement General Chang Huen, of revolution fame, who is stationed at Yenchoufu with an army of 10,000 men, declared his hand by despatching 2,000 of his troops to assist the northerners. Since the 16th July no further fighting has apparently taken place, both sides being engaged in sending reinforcements to the scene of operations.\n\nOn the 18th July the troops at Yenchoufu and at Chinkiang definitely threw in their lot with the rebels. On the 19th, 1,200 troops with six machine guns left the latter place and entrained for Shanghai, which is about to become the third field of the operations of the rebel forces. Their objective would appear to be the arsenal, which is held by Admiral Cheng and some 1,300 northern troops. There are in addition several Chinese men-of-war moored in the vicinity. Steps having now been taken to secure the issue to the crews of pay now in arrears, there is reason to believe that these ships will take part in the defence of the arsenal. The Wosung forts have hoisted the rebel flag.\n\nWhile I am without information of any actual military operations in parts of China other than the above, His Majesty's consular officers report the issue of declarations of independence in the provinces of Kuangtung, Fukien, and Chekiang. The two latter provinces have up to the present shown no signs of wishing to take the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453836, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# INTITULED\n## A BILL\n### [ENTITLED]\n\nAn Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Law relating to \"Chinese Passenger Ships defined by the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, and concerning Asiatic Emigrants generally.\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n## PART I.\n### Preliminary Provisions\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1914.\n\n2.-(1.) In this Ordinance—\n\n| Term | Definition |\n| --- | --- |\n| \"The Act\" | means the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855. |\n| \"Assisted Emigrant\" | means any male emigrant labourer being who intends to labour for hire in some place beyond the limits of this Colony and who has received assistance in the way of payment of passage money, subsistence or otherwise in order to enable him to carry out his intention. |\n| \"Emigrant\" | means any person being a native of Asia who, unless exempted from the provisions of this Ordinance, is carried or is about to be carried as a passenger in any emigrant ship or British emigrant ship. |\n| \"Emigrant Ship\" | includes every ship carrying emigrant from any port in the Colony more than 20 passengers being natives of Asia. |\n| \"Emigration Officer\" | as regards this Colony means the Harbour Master and includes any person duly authorised by him to perform or assist in performing his duties and as regards other places includes every person lawfully acting as Emigration Officer, Immigration Agent or Protector of Emigrants and every person authorised by the Governor of any British Colony to carry out the provisions of the Act. |\n| \"Free Emigrant\" | means an emigrant who is not under any contract of service whatever. |\n| \"General Licence\" | means a Licence granted under section 13 of this Ordinance. |\n| \"Hongkong Emigrant Ship\" | includes every ship carrying from any port in the Colony of Hongkong more than 20 passengers being natives of Asia. |\n| \"Long voyage\" | means any voyage, within the meaning of the Act, which is declared by Proclamation by the Governor to be a voyage of more than 30 days duration. |\n| \"Master\" | in reference to any ship includes any person for the time being in command or charge of the same. |\n| \"British Emigrant Ship\" | includes every British ship carrying from any port in China or within 100 miles of the coast thereof more than 20 passengers being natives of Asia. |\n| \"Outport Licence\" | means a Licence granted under section 12 of this Ordinance. |\n\nRefer to `4/t 3218/13` \n`REG 15 JUN 15` \n`1 ~32187/13` \n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present in this part of the text, but `dep on 18/13` and `ament 483` are seen.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456364, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 530, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Report on an Ordinance intituled\n\nAn Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Law relating to \"Chinese Passenger ships\" as defined by the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, and concerning Asiatic Emigrants generally.\n\nThe approval of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies of the introduction of this Ordinance was conveyed in his despatch of the 15th July, 1915.\n\nSection 46 of the Ordinance has been altered in accordance with the directions in paragraph 2 of that despatch.\n\nIn accordance with the directions in paragraph 3 of the despatch a copy of the bill was forwarded to His Excellency the Governor of the Straits Settlements for his observations, and a copy of his reply, with its enclosure is attached. The remarks of the Protector of Chinese were considered, but it was thought that they did not call for any alteration of the bill.\n\nWith regard to the definitions of \"Emigrant ship\", it was felt to be advisable to keep to the form of definition which agreed with the Imperial Act, from which to a certain extent the legislative power of this Colony is derived in this subject, especially as the matter did not seem to be of any importance to the Straits Settlements. It will be noticed that the Straits Settlements Ordinance is an immigration Ordinance.\n\nWith regard to the question of the photographs of female deck passengers, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs was of opinion that it would not be worthwhile to take power to require photographs and examination in the case of female deck passengers by non-emigrant ships, and he was of the opinion that the matter must always remain for detective work here and at Singapore.\n\nPage 522\n\nAs regards section 30, it can only be pointed out that ships carrying Asiatic emigrants to the Straits Settlements must comply with the stricter requirements of the immigration law of that Colony.\n\nAnd slight changes have been made in sections 42 and 44; certain obvious errors and misprints have been corrected in the following places:-\n\nSection 3;\n\nSection 16;\n\nFourth schedule; regulations 6(2) and 15, and paragraph (9) of the form attached to that schedule;\n\nFifth schedule, regulations 1 and 2(1); sixth schedule, regulation 4(6)(a)\n\nApart from the alterations referred to above, the Ordinance was passed in the form approved by the Secretary of State.\n\nThe Ordinance of course will not come into operation until His Majesty's confirmation of same shall have been proclaimed in Hongkong by His Excellency the Governor.\n\nIn my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nAttorney General,\n\n8.12.15.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456365, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 531, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Government House, Singapore,\n\n7th October, 1915.\n\n523\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's letter of the 13th September, 1915, forwarding a bill relating to Asiatic Emigration which it is proposed to enact in the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n2. In reply, I have the honour to transmit a copy of remarks upon the bill written by the Protector of Chinese, Singapore, with which I am in general agreement.\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nThe Governor,\n\nHongkong.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Excellency's obedient servant,\n\n(sd.) Arthur Young.\n\nTrue copy,\n\n6.12.15.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460363, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 496, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "493\n\n40\n\nmenaced by an aggressive Germany, and entered into a defensive alliance. Russia and France had little cause for anxiety so far as Austria and Italy were concerned, friendly Germany was the sole firebrand of relations continuing to exist with those countries.\n\nEurope and the world, and it was for protection against Germany that Russia and France entered into their Alliance. Thus began the modern Balance of Power, on the one hand Germany, Austria and Italy; on the other, France and Russia. Many attempts were made to bring Britain into the Franco-Russian Alliance, but she sought rather to make friends with all the nations, and to work for a better understanding all round. To this end the English King, Edward VII., entered into friendly relations with the other nations everywhere, and desired to do the same with Germany. His object, and that of British policy, was to find some method of bringing Germany and France into harmony, but the time had not yet arrived. When war broke out England was on excellent terms with Austria, Italy, and all the other Powers. England was also on good terms with Germany, and had as her policy the endeavour to work for peace, and for modification of the burden of armaments. Two years ago Britain offered to Germany a year's holiday from the building of warships, that is, that neither nation should build warships for a year. Germany refused.\n\nEngland has always declined to join any European Alliance, being desirous of avoiding the complications of continental politics, and believing that her position of independence would be of equal or greater value in the interests of the Peace of Europe. But the offensive attitude of Germany in recent years compelled her to enter into sympathetic relations, Thus, at the outbreak of War, especially with France, and in a less degree with Russia. the Balance of Power consisted, on the one hand, of the Triple Alliance, Germany, Austria and Italy, and on the other, the Triple Entente of England, France and Russia.\n\n41\n\nTHE EXCUSE FOR THE WAR.\n\nVIII.\n\nAustria and Serbia.\n\nThat the main responsibility for the War rests upon the insatiable ambition of the Military Party in Germany is clearly shown by the evidence which has been given to the world. Their principal aim was to annex Belgium with her colonies, reduce France and seize her colonies, cripple England, expand Austro-German influence in the Balkan States, control Turkey and Asia Minor, dominate Africa, and obtain, through a strongly fortified Tsing-Tao, a powerful influence in the Far East. That is the policy planned and openly advocated in the book published three years ago by a German General, as explained in Chapter III, and this present war has proved that his plans were indeed the Imperial plans.\n\nFor twenty years the King of Prussia, who is also German Emperor, has been shaking his mailed fist in the face of the world. He shook it in the face of China and extorted Tsing-Tao. He has shaken it in the face of France, of Russia, and of Britain, but in vain. He has not shaken it in the face of Turkey, the blood-stained Oppressor, preferring affectionately to shake her Sultan's hand, until opportunity should serve to tighten his hold.\n\nAll this time he has loudly protested himself as the Protector of the Peace of the World. Just as the village bully loudly talks of his justice and peacefulness, while all the time rubbing his fists, or shaking his club, so has it been with the Prussian King. Even the village bully feels compelled to find some excuse for attacking and robbing a family. In like manner the Prussian King, having fully prepared his army, organised every detail of attack, and completed his Navy, seized with avidity upon the murder of the Archduke of Austria as an excuse for breaking the peace. Fearing that Russia and Austria might come to terms if allowed time for discussion, the Kaiser rushed in with a declaration of War upon Russia.\n\nTHE EXCUSE.\n\nWhat then is this excuse that Prussia has seized upon with such alacrity? The deed upon which the excuse was founded has been called the crime of Serbia, but it might with even greater accuracy be called the crime of Austria. It was the murder of the Archduke and Archduchess of Austro-Hungary. This murder was a wicked deed, but if the history of the crime be studied it will be found that the cause of the murder lay in the misgovernment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Let us examine the facts and get to the root of the matter.\n\n36", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490748, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nCOPY\n\n438\n\n(For the Colonial Office only)\n\nParagraphs marked in red indicate those of a Confidential nature not contained in the General Report.\n\n## SINGAPORE\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL REPORT**\n\nNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR COMBATING VENEREAL DISEASES COMMISSION 1920\n\n### COMMISSIONERS: \n| Name | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mrs. C. Neville-Rolfe | O.B.E. |\n| Dr. R. Hallam | |\n\nThe Commission arrived in Singapore on the morning of January 17th, 1921. Captain Hacker, R.A.M.C., who had been appointed as Local Secretary, met us at the Docks.\n\nTheir Excellencies, Sir Lawrence and Lady Guillemard, were in the Federated Malay States, and did not return to Singapore until Saturday, the 22nd; we did not have an opportunity of meeting them until Monday, the 24th. In their absence, Sir William H. Murison, Colonial Secretary, was Acting Governor.\n\nThe programme submitted to the authorities had been modified owing to our arrival three days later than anticipated. Unfortunately, the preliminary Conference had been cancelled. We found the disadvantage of this throughout our whole stay in Singapore, as it was only on the last day that an official Conference was convened by His Excellency the Governor that we were able to reach many of the representative persons whose assistance and co-operation we required.\n\nWe saw Sir William Murison the afternoon of our arrival and discussed with him the programme of the Commission. He intimated that the out-of-pocket expenses of the Commission on transport, printing, hire of halls, etc., would be defrayed by the Colonial Government, and he advised us that the Principal Civil Medical Officer had only just been appointed; also that the Governor of Hong Kong had communicated with them advising that the Commission should not be received, but that His Excellency the Governor, after careful consideration, had not altered his decision to receive us.\n\nThe communication from Hong Kong had, however, given rise to considerable uneasiness, especially with reference to the Chinese population. I informed Sir William Murison as to the result of our experiences in Shanghai and Hong Kong with reference to the Chinese population, and also with reference to the change in the point of view of the Hong Kong authorities after the visit of the Commission.\n\nArrangements were made for the Educational Commissioner to see the Protector of the Chinese in order to arrange for the Commission to meet the Chinese.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490768, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 461, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "# SINGAPORE \n458 \n## GENERAL REPORT \n-8- \n\nA Committee of women were appointed with directions to co-operate with the Men's Association in formulating plans for a Singapore Welfare Association which should undertake to promote facilities for recreation for officers and men of the mercantile marine and for the junior employees of the firms.\n\nInformation has recently reached the Council that the Seafarers' Clinic was opened in March.\n\n## THE SUPPRESSION OF PROSTITUTION \n\nThe European prostitutes have been banished and the openly tolerated houses kept by Europeans have been closed. The Japanese Consul recently took steps to close the Japanese houses. Only a small proportion of the inmates, however, were deported; the remainder scattered over the town and are said to retain their original clientèle on clandestine lines.\n\nA large number of brothels are recognised by the Government; though not licensed, the Government have power to remove them at any time, but if they are decently conducted they are allowed to remain.\n\nThe brothels are in the most frequented part of the town. Their inmates are displayed in highly illuminated interiors to the passers-by. The girls are all Chinese, and the patrons are also, in the majority of cases, Chinese.\n\nThere is no medical examination of these girls except such as is privately arranged for by the keepers of the houses with local medical practitioners. We had evidence that certificates of freedom from infection were given by medical practitioners to the inmates of the houses, and also to the Eurasian and other girls carrying on a clandestine trade. Those brothels used by Europeans are run and inhabited mainly by Eurasians but not in as open a manner as those for the Chinese.\n\nThe Protector of the Chinese, as in Hong Kong, sees each immigrant into the Colony at his office, and if he has reason to believe that she is below the age or is not already a prostitute, he can prevent her entering the brothel; otherwise he registers her, provides her with a card that at any time she wishes to leave she has only to send him, and he will see that she is taken from the brothel and put under the protection of the Colonial Government. Such protection is extended to girls under age, or ill-treated or abandoned, through the medium of a Chinese charitable institution - the Po Leung Kuk. This Institution is under the management of a Chinese Committee, and is maintained partially by Government contributions, but mainly by Chinese. A local Ordinance exists giving powers of detention to the Institution; the Chairman of the Committee being the Colonial Civil Servant, the Protector of the Chinese.\n\nAll the girls looked healthy and happy. They were properly taught English, Malay, arithmetic, and simple lessons, in addition to cooking, housework, and dress-making. The Matron was a trained Eurasian woman and the attendants had all been experienced ayahs in English families. There were large grounds surrounding the buildings. Supervision was maintained over the marriage arrangements of the girls on their departure from the Institute.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490769, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 462, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "# SINGAPORE \n## GENERAL REPORT \n### 459 \n#### SUPPRESSION OF PROSTITUTION. (Cont.)\n\nWe understand that there is no intention at present of altering existing legislation. We realise that certain persons believe that the licensing of brothels and the regulation of prostitution is desirable from the public health point of view. We hope, therefore, that the evidence to the contrary laid before the Legislative Council and other bodies by the Commission, will convince them that the best results in the interests of public health are achieved by keeping all legislation with reference to venereal disease on the lines of other public health regulations, and in no case using such regulations administratively for the purpose of regulating prostitution.\n\nAt a meeting of the British Medical Association on Thursday, January 20th, it was recommended unanimously that a Committee should be formed to enquire into the best method of dealing with loose prostitution.\n\nWe are convinced that the large commercial interest which exists in Singapore leads to considerable stimulation of the demand for opportunities to promiscuity.\n\nIf it is considered that any useful steps could be taken in this direction, we would suggest that a small Commission of open-minded individuals should be appointed to consider the position. We believe that administrative machinery under the existing legislative powers would prove sufficient to meet the needs.\n\n#### PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT\n\nDuring the visit of the Commission, certain courses of lectures were held for Nurses, Teachers, and Medical Practitioners. Special efforts were made to reach the rank and file of the English-speaking population, British, Chinese, Tamil, and Malay.\n\nTeachers. Four teachers' meetings were very well attended. The film \"The Gift of Life\" was shown and much appreciated. At the request of the Chief Inspector of Education, an additional showing was given to the Eurasian women teachers.\n\nAs a result of these conferences, the Director of Education is acting as a Vice-President of the local Council. He will advocate the introduction of nature study into the schools and proposes arranging for parents' conferences to take place each term. He will confer with the Chinese Committee of the Branch with reference to the translation and adaptation of certain of the educational literature of the Council for use among Chinese and Tamil parents.\n\nMedical. (For Medical Lectures see pg. 6.)\n\nChinese Meetings. The Commissioners met the Chinese Advisory Council (advisory to the Government) under the Chairmanship of the Protector of the Chinese.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490991, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 684, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "I am sorry to trouble you with this matter of Russell's report, but it is one which might easily come up in Parliament and prove troublesome there. The 'mui-tsai' question arouses much interest in the House of Commons.\n\nBriefly the facts are that in 1882 the Colonial Office published \"Correspondences respecting the Alleged Existence of Chinese Slavery in Hong Kong\" which wound up with a despatch from Lord Kimberley asking the Governor to \"institute a full and trustworthy inquiry into the facts, forwarding to me as soon as it can be completed a report thereon\" and to consider \"what measures should be taken to remove any of the evils that may be brought to light by the inquiry\" (Note the stress on the inquiry).\n\nThe Aborigines Protection Society have now read the Blue Book in question, noted the request of Lord Kimberley, and ask \"whether the Colonial Office has any record of such an enquiry having been held, and if a report was subsequently published.\" So far as we know there was no enquiry and no report was published. The Governor sent home in answer to Lord Kimberley's despatch a report on the question by Mr. Russell who, when he began the report, was Registrar General and Protector of Chinese, but by the time he made it had become a judge of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong. This report in fact constituted the Government's answer.\n\nAt the time, interest centred more in \"brothel slavery\" and the C.D.Acts than in mui-tsai and Lord Derby seems to have been content to approve Mr. Russell's proposals for preventing mui-tsai being turned into prostitutes.\n\nA glance at Mr. Russell's report will show that it is not suitable for communication to the Society. It would be susceptible of misinterpretation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492905, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 258, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "-6-\n\n252\n\n24.\n\nIt is intended that the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or some officer in his department shall be appointed Protector of Juvenile Labour under the Ordinance.\n\nIt is also intended that blank register forms shall be supplied free by the Government.\n\n25.\n\nIn my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government may properly consent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nAttorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492959, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "2\n\nNOTICE.\n\nW. S. BAILEY\n\nTHE HONGKONG\n\nNOTICE.\n\nK-673\n\nH. K. 4002\n\n& CO.,\n\nLTD.\n\nENGINEERS\n\n&\n\n'SHIPBUILDERS,\n\nKOWLOON.\n\nHARBOUR REPAIRS\n\nCall Flag \"L.\"\n\nTugs, Barges, Light Draft and\n\nHigh Speed Vessels and\n\nMotor Craft.\n\nSole Agents for KELVIN MOTORS.\"\n\n'Phones:-\n\nWorks.........Kowloon 21\n\nManager...... Kowloon 633\n\nSTEAM LAUNCH FOR SALE.\n\nMETALS\n\nof all kinds, especially for ship-Building and engineering works. terms. Complete stock. Best Immediate delivery.\n\nSINGON & CO.,\n\n(Established A. D. 1880.)\n\nPhone LUNG T Central 515.\n\nMINING\n\nPIANO\n\nFOR HIRE\n\nat moderate Prices.]\n\nTSANG FOOK PIANO\n\nCOMPANY.\n\n94. Wanchai Road. PHONE CENTRAL 2127.\n\nMASSAGE HALL.\n\n23, WYNDHAM STREET.\n\nMRS. H. MORITA,\n\nMRS. HAN INOKUCHI.\n\nTelephone Kowloon 754 No. 21. Ashley Road. Kowloon, Back of Star Theatre, CERTIFICATED EXPERT MASSAGE HAND & ELECTRIC, Also at patients' residence by arrangement.\n\nMiss Tora Inokuchi QUALIFIED MID-WIFE No. 21, Ashley Road, Kowloon, Back of Star Theatre Telephone No. Kowloon 754.\n\nMASSAGE EXPERTS.\n\nHARRY FURUKAWA,\n\nAND K. SAKAI\n\n19, WYNDHAM STREET.\n\nGREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED.\n\nPORTLAND CEMENT.\n\nIn Casks of 375 lbs, net.\n\nIn Bags of 250 lbs. net.\n\nSHEWAN, TOMES & CO.\n\nGeneral Managers.\n\nHongkong.\n\nMARTIN'S PILLS & STEEL\n\nALL PILLS\n\nA Freest Remedy for all Irregularities. Eboysade·f Ladies always keep a box 'Martin's Pills in the house, so that at the first sign of any Irregularity of the System a timely dose may be administered. Those who use them recommend them, hence their enormous sale. All Chemists and Stores sell them throughout the World. post free/-, MARTIN, Chemist, Northampton. Eng.\n\nMARTIN'S PILLS & STEEL\n\nFOR HIRE\n\nMOTOR\n\nLORRIES\n\nFOR\n\nFREIGHT\n\nOR\n\nBUILDING\n\nMATERIALS\n\nTAKEN TO ALL\n\nPARTS OF THE COLONY.\n\nDOMINION MOTOR TRANSPORT.\n\n145, PRAYA EAST\n\n'PHONES\n\nCentral 4002 Kowloon 673\n\n* PUBLISHED ANNUALLY *\n\nTHE\n\nMANUFACTURERS' & DEALERS'\n\nDIRECTORY\n\nTELEGRAPH.\n\nFRIDAY,\n\nSEPTEMBER\n\n22, 1922.\n\nThe\n\nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\npoints, and the dying depositions be called because of his death or a frently rejected here and in absence from the Colony his record England on technical grounds. of the post mortem examination The Courts and naturally very shall be admissible in evidence. of the A Fuller Report.\n\nplans of admitting the evidence Of course the question \n\nCandess it implies fully with the weight of that evidence is another; The new Bills introduced atin ats of the Statute. Two matter. I might say that it does! yesterday's meeting of the of the quirements of the section not seem to be a very important Legislative Council were ex deal with parts that are rather change to make these rec: rds plained at considerable length, thnical: for unple, one deals evidence because, affer all, if a Owing to the lateness of the work the \"eappion' which must trial takes place after a consider- hour, we were unable to give a\n\nappear in the depositions. The able lapse of time, the medical full report of the meeting, which, apt is the statement of the officer obviously cannot remem- however we now give.\n\neiren staves under which the ber the details without refreshing Dangerous Goods Ordinance. deposition is taken and shows the his memory, and what he does is The Hon. Attorney General may-authority Eug taking it. Cases to go to his record, read it and ed the first reading of a Bill muital-have occurred where a deposition-give his evidence after refreshing ed An Ordinance to amend the otherwis perfectly in older has his memory in that way. Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873.\n\nTheen repited because of some lenger the time that elapses the He said: This Bill is necessary,to-hnival error in the caption. The more the evidence really rests on | Sir, in order to make it possible to section also nquires certain potice the note and record rather than make certam alterations in the to be go to the aerused, and on the officer's own recollection.\n\nules relating to the storage and [cases hav: necurred where the de- Observations by Accused. possession of ipilammable liquids. | justion has been rejected, although These rules have been drafted info.\n\nClause 10, is, I think, though Leonsultation with the princip ha the point is not quite clear-prac- tically declaratory of the existing) mutiti 1990 A pov hd in that strange law. At all events it clears up [ot such liquide, and the auspurtis ...\n\nased on the model supplier by thei mpired yth. Clause 3 of the certain doubts: it provides that made by the Petroleum Department of 11. M.[1: der paragraph og prope any observations the course of the Government. The uee-ary powita pun to the original accused in the hearing at the Magistracy, and to take regulations is given in the tou and to take regulations is given in the tou new clause which clan 2 of the Bill -No gach statement shall be any evidence given by him, must proposes to insert in the principal be repeated on the ground of any be taken down by the magistrate Ordinance. The other amendments\n\nTail examply with any dand proved at the trial by the depositions. made by the Bill are consequential, with to the notier or the There is principal Ordinances provides that\n\nexptin less the court is of doubt as to how the remarks made offences under section 13 of the opinion that the person arcused by the prisoner in the course of be proved, and Ordinance can only be dealt with was santially prejudiced by a trial should by two magistrates sitting together.\n\nthough our Magistrates Ordinance such fure. The section in question deals with\n\nin London and in the Provincial Towns and ture the Continent addresses and her slet in are classified under 1aximum of Ire than 2,000 trade headings, including.\n\nEXPORT MERCHANTS\n\nwith d tailed particulars of the Goods skipped\n\nSTEAMSHIP LINES\n\nand the Colonial and Foreign Markets supplied\n\narranged under the Parts to which they sail.\n\nand indiasting the approximate Sailings,\n\nUne-inch BUSINESS CARDS Firms design o extend their connections, or Trade l'ards of\n\nDEALERS SEEKING AGENCIES\n\ncan be printed at a rest of 30 shillings for eneli Larger advertisements from £2 to £16.\n\nrade heading under which they are inserted\n\nA copy of the directors will be sent to pelagistrate alone. post for 40 shillings, nett cash with order.\n\n1\n\nTHE LONDON DIRECTORY CO., LTD.\n\n25. A behurch Lane. London. B.C4, England.\n\nx BUSINESS ESTABLISHED\n\n108 YEARS.\n\nMINC YUEN STUDIO\n\n14, Beaconsfield Arcade.\n\nArtistic photographs\n\n1 -\n\n1.\n\n!wrong or justice to the pioner,\n\ncertain requre. * Lien wer- ummproper-\n\nForm of Affirmation.\n\n1910,\n\nour Oaths Or- not re-\n\nThe oath is re-\n\ncase,\n\nreading.\n\nthe\n\nPerjury.\n\nremoved\n\nNEVER NEGLECT\n\nA WOUND\n\nOR SORE.\n\nNEGLECT of even the tiniest\n\nbreak in the skin leaves the way open for dangerous and invisible kerms to set up blood-poisoning and disease. When that happens there is no telling how harmful the consequences may be an amputated finger, a crippled hand, even death. The safest plan is to always koop a lux of Zam-Buk bandy, and immediately dress evert süt, tech, or other skin injury with this unique herbal lin. 15y this mosas complications are presented and health b nuing in its judity and herbal ment has a power for destroying ang patologi no ordinary & spent exam\n\nspezial continung mod\n\n~ed.\n\nIn\n\nr-- An\n\nwhich on to\n\nvery powerful vatsept me les ofer\n\nit compre bulwark against Blood-poisoning. Eczema, and Ulceration. hensive in its medional action that after tank alles at pag tag: Zam-Buk heals the place by stimulating team of sad new skin.\n\nOf all chomists in Shanghai, Hongkong and The Par】East, Sole Proprieren and Manufacturers, The Zum Buk Co, Leeds, England.\n\nZam-Buk\n\nChild Labour. The Hon. Attorney\n\nto\n\nin\n\nof\n\nindustrial\n\nheavy\n\nthe\n\nOf course, it is for the Court provides for the admissibility of two offence. On is the carriage to say whether the failure to com- the depositions to prove the pri- of dangerous goods and requeply with the section was one sner's formal statement at the that dangerous goods must not which caused prejudice to the pri- end of the case, it makes no pro- be moved unless the package contains\n\nsoner or not\n\ndence on oath or of any statements\n\nGeneral certain interval of relaxation in English and Chinese the word\n\nClause 40 8 deal with the form made by him in the course of the moved the first reading of Bill after each spell\n\nto clause provides intituled An Ordinance lealt with in section 13 is the\n\nre-child employed in an hearing. This offence of delivering dangerous f oath, affirmation. Clause' dence may be proved on the pro-in certain industries. He said: than six days continuously; there LONDON DIRECTORY goods to a warehouse-keeper with 4 is a copy of two sections in the that such statements and his evi-gulate the employment of children undertaking is to work for more the English Oaths Act\" of 1909, and duction of the depositions at the This Bill has been drafted to must be one day's rest in seven; with Provincial & Foreign Sections, giving him notice of nature of the contents of the our Oaths Ordinance of\n\ntrial. Of course, the only other carry out the recommendations and no child must be employed în enables traders to enmuuseste direct with packages. Offences of that ua except that in\n\nway would be to call witnesses. of the Commission on the indus-any industrial undertaking be- the and\n\nrecollection uf are dealt with in England dinance the witness is\n\nthe trial employment of children ap- tween the hours of 7 p.m, and aquired to repeat the words if the witnesses is much less likely to pointed by His Excellency the 7 a.m. Industrial Centres of the United Kingdom an\n\nThey small fines varying from Eurupe.\n\nDur oath himself. 45 to 420,\n\nthe 24th March, Regulation II is an attempt to section 13: for some rus reason, peated by, the officer of the Court. be correct than a note taken in Governor on makes the navimum $2,000 or two That is not the English practice writing by the Magistrate at the 1921, and which reported on the deal with the very difficult and the first 24th October, 1921. It is also vexed problem of carrying years' imprisonment. It is nuder and it is not the practice here time. I beg to move\n\nintended to carry out, as far as is weights by children. It is als: consideration to reduce that maxi- with regard to declarations by\n\nThe Colonial Secretary second- possible having regard muth, because the offences do not persons who are not either Chrised, the resolution was carried and conditions, the spirit of the pro-4, which provides that no child\n\nlocal attacked, of course, by regulati seem to be very serious. Claustrans or Jews. It is thought that the Bill read a first time.\n\nvisions of the draft convention under 12 is to carry coal, or of the Bill propose to give is requiring the witness to repeat dicting under that section to one the words of the oath himself is\n\nwhich was adopted at Washing-building material or debris. Re- The Attorney-General magistrate,\n\nton on the 28th November, 1919, gulation II provides that no child there are more likely to impress him with because\n\nAny person many more serious offences win h. the importance and solemnity of the first reading of a Bill intituled at the International Labour Con- (whatever--that\n\nin an Ordinance to consolidate and ference, which relates to the ad- under 15-is to\n\nin carry\n\nany at present, are dealt with one the oath, and, in any\n\nare simplify the law relating to permission of children to industrial case more thar 40 cutties we under making his alteration vonovigration to insert a further going the English prae-jury and kindred offences. Heremployment. The practibl de-eight anở nơ child is to carry said: This Bell is based on the\n\nthe a weight jolause in the Bif reducing the tice.\n\nunreasonably of 1911. tailed provisions appearin sximum penalty uni\n\nClause 5 merely provides for English Perjury Act\n\nregulations, printed\n\nthe having regard to the child's age 13 of the principal Ordinance. the use of the Scottish ferm of That Act was the first instalment!\n\nIn not and physical development. The Hou. Colonial Secretary oath when the witness wishes to of Lord Loreburn's scheme for the schedule of the Bill. It is seconded the resolution, which be sworn in that way. It is codification of the English cri- proposed that these regulations case any members of Council may final settlement of the wish to compare this Bill with was carried, and the Bill was read merely a repetition of an existing minal law. It has been received are a\n\nfirst time accordingly.\n\nsection. Clause 6 is new in our with great favour in England and problem; they are tertative and the recommendations of the Com- Evidence and Oaths. statute; it is a copy of a section I may point out that it is a true may, of course, require altena-mission, I may mention that the The Hon. Attorney\n\nGeneral in the English Oaths Act of 1888 code because it gives the rules tion as time goes on and as we Commission report gives the ages\n\nmore experience. It is in Chinese reckoning and moved the first reading of a Bill which provides that where an oath both of statute and common law obtain\n\nmust Bill, of course. states it in English intituled An Ordinance to amend has been administered duly and and in that respect resembles the obvious, I think, that we\n\nconverted and the attack a problem of this kind reckoning. We have the law relating to evidence and to taken, the fact that the person to Bills of Exchange Act\n\nand the administration of oaths. He whom it was administered had Sale of Goods Act\n\ndiffers very carefully and slowly, be the ages from Chinese to English for-This Bill, Sir, deals with no religious belief does not affect from mere consolidating statutes cause too much interference with reckoning by deducting one year\n\nIt is like the Merchant Shipping and the existing system\n\nchild in each vase. It is intended that various miscellaneous ponts, and the validity of the oath.\n\nActs which labour in the Colony would cause the Protector of Juvenile Labour, I propose to dal, shortly, with obvious that if a person takes an the Public Health\n\nthe poorer appointed under this Ordinance, exch clause in detail. Clause oath without raising any objec-merely collect the statute law on great hardship to\n\nthe Secretary of Chinese classes and probably to the chil- be with sertion 29 of the tion, neither he nor anyone else the subject.\n\nnis Affairs or some officer in offences Ordinance of 1889. That can be heard to say that the cath\n\nConflicting Decisions. dren themselves.\n\n2 provide department; and Clause 7 pro- sertion provides for the reading at is of no effect because the witness\n\nRegulations 1 and The Bill was drafted by Mr. the trial at the Sessions of d had no religious belief.\n\nCraies, the Editor of Hardcastle's that no child-that is any person vides that no prosecution under Clause 7 is more complicated, \"Statute Laws,\"\n\nbe the positions taken at the Magistreey Ordinance shaų be Cri under 15 years of age is to Archboltl's where the witness. for various but I do not think I need go into minal Pleadings\" and Russell's employed in any dangerous trade, menced without the consent of the reasons, cannot be produced by the detail because it is fully explained \"Criminal Law\" he was assisted jaud the dangerous trades speciti Protetor. The commencement of Crown at the trial. Chinly in the Objects and Reasons. Put by a strong body of experts. The ed in this regulation are boiler the Andirance is not yet decided there must be such a power, as ting it shortly, the clause is in English Act comprises the whole chipping manufacture of fire- upon, so blank appea .Ĥ otherwise witnesses for the Crowu tended to simplify the law on the of the common and statute law works and glass making. It will Clause §. might be kept out of the way subjects of afirmations and make n the subject and codifies 260 be noticed that it is not only The Hon. Calonial Secreta by the other side. It isit approximate to the English law statutes in 15 substantive and trades that are actually dangeroas seconded, the motion was carrie also destrable brause witnesses on the subject. Clause 8 is prac-four formal sections. It is rather that are aimed at, but also trades and the Bill was read a first time sometimes disappear for other tically a copy of an existing sec-a wonderful example of codifica-injurious to health. Regulation accordingly. If you want to take fue pictures. we|\n\nit has been found tion. recommend that AGFA'S ROLL of FILMS reasons, or die. should be used which can be obtained in in practice that the present section 20 not quite strong enough to BEST QUALITY AT MODER-\n\nATE PRICE.\n\njclause 2 proposes to strengthen it by providing that, the depositions taken at the Magistracy nay be read at the trial if the witness eun- not be found at his last known in England. Medical officers in pages in the old editions on the casual labour. The Commission Bill repeals Ordinance No. 4 hplace of resaletee in the Colony, the Government service of course subject, but the last edition, recommended that no child under 1915 and vest the Zetland Hall\n\nfrequently go on leave, and when issued since the English Act was course every effort is mad they leave the service finally they passed, has only 17 pages.\n\n13, Chinese reckoning, should be\n\nin promerty find the witness and to produce thim pissible.\n\nften go to\n\ndistant Act gets rid of a great many con-employed in any form of casual the various lodges in place of re- places far Glanse of the Bill deals with from the Colony and it is impos-flicting decisions on various points labour. That was not found pos- prescatatives of Zetland Indre sible to carry out, because it is only, and at their request. This to give and simplifies the law on many sertion 32 of the Evidence (din-sible to get them back\n\nin this extremely difficult to define what mode of incorporation saves ex provides others. The variations ance. 1880. That section deals evidence. The section\n\ncasual labour is; but we thought with what B all dying that in any prosecution for murder Act from the English Bill\n\npointment of new trustees fram depositions. Where a prospective manslaughter any medical en- very slight, simply because of we would make a beginning by pense and trouble and the witness is dangerously ill, it is the tries or report of any Government local conditions, currency and so providing that no child under 12. time to time.\n\nThere is one section, Clause English reckoning, should be em- practice to take his deposition. medical officer which purports to on. generally at the hospital, so that relate to the deceased will be ad- 10, which does not appear in the played in carrying coal, or build- the motion was carried and the his evalence may be perpetuated missible in evidence on proof of English Act, but that is merely iny material or debris. in rase of his ath. The common his handwriting and proof of his a copy of the existing section in use of this class of evidence of death or absence from the Colony. our Evidence Ordinance. It pre- Regulation 5 provides that in course, in cases of manslaughter In a recent murder trial before vides that where a witness wil-every factory where children are The colonial Secretary provided and murder. 1 winess is serious- the 'Supreme Court, medical evi- fully makes\n\ncontradictory employed the owners ly injured, he is taken to the dence which we would have liked statements he hospital. a magistrate eut for to call would have been\n\nall occasions.\n\nCall, or 'Phone Central No. 4310.\n\nJAPANESE MASSAGE.\n\nMRS. H. SUGA\n\nMR. U. SUGA\n\nNo. 11, D'Aguilar Street,\n\n2nd. Floor.\n\nNOTICE TO AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS.\n\nour Studio.\n\nMEE CHEUNG. Ice House Street, and Beaconsfield Arcade.\n\nFOR HAIPHONG AND HOIHOW.\n\n: for Hongkong and Ṛsiphook every\n\nstrerance Tuesday,\n\nThe favourite paraenger Meamer\n\nHAI-MUN\n\nCapt. Charles E. Page).\n\napply Thos. Cook and Sons or Po Hing Tal, 114. Wig Lak Street.\n\nJAPANESE MASSAGE.\n\nMRS. S. UZUNOVE,\n\n2nd. Floor,Wanchai Garage,\n\n18, Praya East, Wanchai.\n\nA PODICURE\n\nAND\n\nMANICURE\n\nMra N. Tauchioku\n\n31, Wyndham Street,\n\nHONGKONG PRINTING OFFICE\n\nFirst Floor, Room 12.\n\nCarnso. E, Kreisle, Mella, Pachmann Heraldine Farrar, etc.\n\nculy on\n\nVICTOR RECORDF MOUTRIES-Exclusive Distrbutore,\n\ná\n\ncom-\n\ntion. It repeals statutes going as 3 provides that no chiid under 10 Zetland Hall Trustees. Medical Evidence.\n\nfar back as the reigns of Elizabeth is to be employed in a factory. The Hon. Mr. A. R. Lowe moved Clause 9 is certainly an innova-and Henry VII. The simplifica- A factory is defined in clause 2 the first reading of 2 Bill in- tion. It is an attempt to deal tion effected by this codification in terms taken from an English tituled An Ordinance to amend with the difficulty which some- is illustrated by the fact that statute on the subject. Regula- the law relating to the incorpora- imes occurs here but one which, Archbold's \"Criminal Pleadings, tion 4 is an attempt to deal with tion of the Zetland Hill Trustees. I suppose, seldom or never occurs for example, used to contain 36\n\nThe\n\nare\n\ntwo\n\ncan he charged;\n\nchildren in the employment of\n\nof\n\nOne so\n\nCasual Workers.\n\nHe said. The present private\n\nrepresentatives\n\nof\n\nLA\n\nWATC\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Lang seconded.\n\nBill was read a first time accord- ingly.\n\nFinancial Votes.\n\nmust keep over the Finance Commuttes más a record of the children employ-lowing the Council meeting when by a with perjury without the Crowned, showing age, hours of work, the following notes zommended as quickly as possible and his exil.doctor not now in the Colony, and having to prove the falsity\n\non. Regulations 6 to 10 by His Excellency the Officer Ad- eure is taken. If he subsequently he could not possibly get back to either of the statements.\n\n:ther point in which\n\nthe Bill deal with hours of labour. No i-tering the Government dies before the accused n he give the evidence. We got over brought to trial. his evidence may the difficulty because it so hap- differs from the English Act is child is to be allowed to work in approved: The read on proof of his death and pened that the police officer in that it omits certain provisions industrial undertaking more extra-territorial than nine hours in any period of proof that certain requirements charge of the case had remained which have an of the section have been complied for the post mortem examination, effect, Parliament can legislate 21 hours. Industrial undertaking\n\nThe Chairman: The ute 1 with. It is also possible to read and taken a keen interest in it extra-territorially, but we cannot. is defined in Clause 2 in terms\n\nthis was $15,000 and this additional the evidence if the witness is so ill and was able to describe exactly Otherwise the Bill is practically based on the definition in\n\nEnglish act relating to that be\n\nthe unable to travel to the what the results of\n\npost a copy of the English Act.\n\nsum is required because of having Court.\n\nmortem were. We might not al- The Hon. Colonial Secretary ployment of children and\n\nway be in so favourable a posi- seconded the motion, which was persons. 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Correcting spelling errors (e.g., \"Freest\" to \"Freest\", \"Eboysade\" to \"Eboysade\", \"kerms\" to \"germs\", \"koop\" to \"keep\", \"süt\" to \"cut\", \"tech\" to \"tech\", \"judity\" to \"purity\", \"patologi\" to \"pathology\", \"chomists\" to \"chemists\", \"Par】East\" to \"Far East\", \"Zum Buk\" to \"Zam-Buk\", \"Cri\" to \"Crime\", \"jaud\" to \"and\", \"prescatatives\" to \"representatives\", \"Indre\" to \"Trustees\", \"Glanse\" to \"Clause\", \"din-sible\" to \"difficult\", \"MOUTRIES\" to \"MOUTHS\", \"Distrbutore\" to \"Distributors\", \"á\" to \"a\", \"com-\" to \"com-\", \"tion\" to \"tion\", \"chiid\" to \"child\", \"innova-\" to \"innovation\", \"LA\" to \"LAW\", \"WATC\" to \"WATCH\", \"más\" to \"must\", \"zommended\" to \"recommended\", \"exil.doctor\" to \"exiled doctor\", \"eure\" to \"ensure\", \"i-tering\" to \"intering\", \"hap-\" to \"happened\", \"ute\" to \"clause\", \"be\" to \"the\", \"ployment\" to \"employment\", \"i'n\" to \"and\", \"Lany\" to \"Labour\", \"H\" to \"The\")\n\n2. 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These Objects and Reasons were read by the Attorney General on the first reading of this Bill and to a great extent are repeated by him on the second reading of this Bill. The net result was that the Government in passing the Rents Bill had two objects in view. The first object was to keep a roof over the heads of present occupiers and the second object was to protect them from excessive exploitation i.e., from having to pay more than the fair rents. Now, Sir, in order to make it clear that these were the objects which the Government had before them when the Ordinance for 1922 was passed I propose to read to this Council some extracts from the Objects and Reasons which were read out on the first reading of the Rents Ordinance 1921. The remarks of the Hon. Attorney General which I am going to refer to in the first place will be found in page 79 of Hansard and I begin with a quotation from paragraph 8 and the first part of paragraph 9 of the Objects and Reasons of the Rents Ordinance 1921. That part of the Objects and Reasons is stated as follows: Tenants cannot be turned out so long as they pay the standard rent. Immigrants who wish to acquire a residence in Hongkong will have to build for themselves. Tenants now in occupation will practically have their tenancies extended on the old tenancy terms so long as they pay the standard rent and if they are turned out, it will be due either to fault of their own or to their failure or inability to pay the standard rent. There is one exception to this statement e.g., that when the landlord requires the premises for his own occupation (see clause 4 (1) (c)), but even in that case the tenant will not be turned out unless the Court is satisfied that alternative accommodation reasonably equivalent as regards rent and suitability in all respects is available.\" So much.\n\nSir, for the Objects and Reasons read out by the Hon. Attorney General on the first reading of the 1921 Bill. On the second reading of that Bill the Hon. Attorney General said:—I am quoting from Hansard half down the first column, page 85 of Hansard for 1921— \"The need for some legislation on the subject has been widely recognised. The main objects are the power to protect tenants from unreasonable increases of their rents and from arbitrary termination of their tenancies. In other words to keep a roof over the heads of present occupiers and to protect them from excessive exploitations.\" And again in the second column of page 85 the Hon. Attorney General after referring to the shortage occasioned by the influx of strangers says \"The two weapons which it (the Bill) provides are the provision of standard rent and the principle of no ejectment. While the Bill remains in force the standard rent alone will be payable and as long as the tenant pays that rent and complies with the other terms of his tenancy he cannot be turned out. With regard to the influx of strangers from elsewhere the Bill provides that the present occupiers who are permanent residents of the Colony shall not be turned out of their houses to make way for people coming from outside.\" And again the hon. Attorney General says in the middle of the first column of page 87 \"The object of the Bill is to keep a roof over the heads of existing occupiers, to give them somewhere to live and sleep.\" The same principle is stated in the speech by your Excellency declaring that emergency exists for dispensing with the standing orders. I read from page 97 Hansard 1921. “The grounds for this declaration are that as the object of the Bill is to protect the tenants of domestic tenements from unreasonable increases in their rentals and from arbitrary termination of their tenancies and as rents have been and are being raised unreasonably and as attempts have been made and are being made to eject tenants who are unwilling and unable to pay such increased rents it is desirable to pass the Bill immediately so as to afford relief to as many as possible of the classes which the Bill proposes to protect.\"\n\nThe above quotations, Sir, I think are amply sufficient to show that it was the clearest intention of the Government to protect tenants, the existing occupiers, in their then holdings absolutely and completely and without exception so long as they pay the standard rent. Unfortunately, Sir, clause 4 (1) (f) slipped into the Bill. It is referred to by the Attorney General in page 88 of Hansard: \"It is proposed to add a further paragraph to sub-clause 1 of clause 4 providing that if a lessor bona fide requires possession of a domestic tenement to pull it down or reconstruct it so as to make it a new building under the Public Health Ordinance then he shall be entitled to turn the tenant out on giving three months' notice.\" This new clause was not commented on further by anybody, but was formally inserted on the motion of the Attorney General. (see Hansard p. 97.) And indeed this particular clause 4 (1) (f) seemed to have given no trouble whatever so far as can be ascertained whilst the Rents Ordinance of 1921 was in force. In the middle of last year the Rents Ordinance of 1921 was superseded by the Rents Ordinance of 1922 and so far as I can gather even a few months after the Rents Ordinance of 1922 was passed this clause 4 (1) (f) practically occasioned no trouble at all, and it is only during the last few months—since, I think, the beginning of this year—that events on the mainland of China coupled with the glut of easy money and a rather wild spirit of land speculation have caused the present deplorable state of affairs.\n\nLet us consider now briefly the position which exists at the present time. Thousands of tenants who are perfectly willing and able to pay the standard rent have been evicted or are being threatened with eviction through no fault of their own and even in cases where fresh premises are available they are compelled, I should say in practically all cases, to pay a higher rent than they have been paying hitherto. Another factor in the present situation is that hundreds of persons at the present moment are sleeping in the streets. Well, Sir, I have heard the observation made that it is a nice, healthy thing to sleep out in the open air in the street, but I think that observation hardly applies to weather such as we are experiencing at the present. Another drawback of these reconstruction schemes is that they have the immediate effect and nobody can help them from having that effect of reducing the existing housing accommodation and they thereby increase the housing shortage. The fourth point to be considered in connection with the schemes of reconstruction is that they induce competition for skilled labour and building materials, thereby increasing both the difficulty and cost of carrying out one of the main objects the Government has at heart for the purpose of relieving the present shortage i.e., the erection of new buildings upon sites that have not been previously built upon.\n\nThere can be no doubt, Sir, that this reconstruction has hit the people of all races in the Colony. It has hit the Chinese working man, it has hit the Chinese clerk, it has even hit the Chinese business man carrying on an old established business. It has hit members of the Portuguese community, who find themselves being displaced from premises which they have occupied for very many years past and it is beginning to hit, and in the near future unless some steps are taken, it will very seriously hit, numbers of British residents over on the Kowloon Peninsula, for it is common knowledge that several properties in the middle of the central part of the Kowloon Peninsula have during the past few months changed hands at very high prices. There is one well-known property practically in the middle of the European residential area on the Kowloon Peninsula, which, I believe, has changed hands at soaring prices something like seven times during the past three months.\n\nNow, Sir, I should like to give a few instances to this Council, of the way in which this reconstruction which is going on is affecting different classes of the Chinese community. I will mention certain instances. Of course, I do not pretend to say that these instances are exhaustive, but I think that they are very significant and they show that there is a certain class of reconstruction going on which ought not to be allowed to take place because the premises sought to be reconstructed—although old in some cases—are reported by the Building Authority as being either in a good condition or in a fair condition as the case may be. Let me take first of all the instances which affect the Chinese business man. The first case I will take is that of 216 to 234, Des Voeux Road Central, nearly opposite the Wing On premises. These buildings were erected in the year 1901 and they are stated by the Building Ordinance officer to be in a fair condition. These tenants have sent in a letter to me quite recently on the 8th June—with the chops of 17 firms upon it. The letter reads as follows:—\n\n“Sir,—We have the honour to inform you that we, being householders of ten premises, No. 216 to 234, Des Voeux Road Central, have been notified to remove on the 13th inst., which date is drawing very near. We have pleaded with the Chinese Protector to do what he can to protect us.—but yet with no result. It is quite evident that these ten premises have no reason to be rebuilt\n\n42\n\n...\n\n350", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504646, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "18\n\nThe method of instruction is Japanese and not Russian. It is sound and good, though whether it makes for initiative is open to doubt. The great fault with the system appears to be that the future officer will leave the school well drilled but without practice in drilling his men.\n\nAfter six months with the rifle the cadets are instructed in the machine gun, though owing to the training weapons having been requisitioned for the front I was unable to see the guns or the system.\n\nI was shown the result of five weeks' infantry training in a squad of cadets, who performed open order drill with precision and smartness, that is an innovation in South China, and equalled the discipline of the metropolitan soldiers of the Ch general.\n\nI was unable to see any classroom instruction, though it is evident that the students are taught tactics in class as well as Canton citizenship, as maps and black-boards were in evidence, while the classrooms were well fitted out with desk and benches.\n\nAccommodation.-The students do not eat and sleep in the same room, while wash houses are also provided. Each student has a trestle bed on which his blankets are neatly rolled, while his pack and haversack are kept on a shelf, and his Japanese rifle with brass sight protector has an arm rack provided for it.\n\nThe rooms are too crowded to suit European ideas of hygiene, but the general comfort of the school was a great advance on any such establishment that I have seen in China.\n\nThe instructors have a special mess with table-cloths provided, while the food appears ample and of good quality.\n\nDress. The instructional staff are clothed in the usual Chinese khaki service dress, but the students wear the southern blue, with leathern belt and bayonet frog, putties and straw sandals for parade.\n\nThe rifles are Japanese and appear to be kept in good condition. Numbers. I saw about 600 students at the two branches of the school, but in peace time the numbers must be greater, probably 1,000.\n\nI was unable to procure the numbers by provinces in the school, but I should imagine the southern students to be in the minority. On looking at the students' letter rack, I noticed several letters with the Federated Malay States stamps on them. I was informed that several of the students came from Singapore and the Straits Settlements. It would be interesting to know if these students enrol in the Chinese provincial armies or whether they return to the Malay States with their military knowledge as an asset for the hoped-for colonial insurrections fostered by the Soviet.\n\nThe average age of the cadets, I was informed, is 19.\n\nConclusion. After my visit I came to the conclusion that the school as now carried on is distinctly a military asset for the master that owns it; its results show that discipline and cohesion can be inculcated into Chinese southern armies, and that the old idea of the general with the greatest numbers winning will be dissipated by the students in the future; that it is doubtful if the Kuomintang's national aspirations will be benefited by the school if the students from other provinces are drafted into the local army for purely provincial aggrandisements; that as a means of propaganda the school, if used as intended, might have a great influence in the future of China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nG. R. V. STEWARD, Colonel,\n\nMilitary Attaché.\n\n[F2699/2/10]\n\nANNEX III.\n\nMemorandum respecting the Political Situation in Canton, by Mr. A. L. Scott, Vice-Consul at Canton.\n\nCANTON remains to-day, as it has always been, the centre of advanced political thought in China and a bed of intrigue and revolution. It was there that foreign trade was solely conducted up to the first, so-called \"opium,\" war of Great Britain against China, and for that reason it bore the first brunt of the attacks made by the foreign aggressor. The last occasion, however, on which foreign force was felt at Canton was in 1860, and the sharp lesson of the Boxer rebellion and its fruits of armed foreign intervention passed unscathed over the heads of the Cantonese.\n\n19\n\nThe first revolutionary efforts were directed against the Manchus, and after one abortive attempt in 1910, steps were taken to seduce the soldiers from their allegiance and the revolution of 1911 was successful in overthrowing that dynasty. From that date until after the death of President Yuan Shih-kai, Canton enjoyed comparative peace, but from 1917 onwards it has, together with the rest of China, been a prey to various military factions and their leaders, who have treated the town in the manner of a feudal possession and enriched themselves by preying upon the inhabitants. Sometimes it was a Kwangsi invader who was in power, sometimes the Kuomintang, under \"President\" Sun or his chief lieutenant, Chan Kwing-ming. On the two latter falling out \"President\" Sun was driven from Canton, but returned in January 1923 with the aid of Yunnanese, Kwangsi, and other mercenary troops whom he had called in to his aid. He also possessed a certain number of provincial (i.e., Cantonese) troops, who formed a separate unit.\n\nTo glance back again, it will be remembered that on the inauguration of \"President\" Sun in Canton in 1921, an unfortunate proclamation was issued by the Hong Kong Government (for which they later made an apology) warning all in that colony not to have anything to do with an unrecognised Government. The ill-chosen language of this proclamation was never forgiven by the Canton authorities, and when trouble arose with the seamen in Hong Kong in January 1922, they lent them their tacit support, with the result that a movement, originally purely industrial and inherently capable of settlement, developed into an ugly political situation whereby a general strike of all Chinese took place which threatened the life of the colony. On this occasion, however, owing to the firm attitude and goodwill displayed by Chan Kwing-ming as Governor, no untoward incident occurred as was feared, at Canton.\n\nOn Dr. Sun's return to Canton (as described above) he at first made overtures to various of the Powers with a view to obtaining some measure of recognition for his Government. These having failed owing to the existence of the Government in Peking, which the Powers formally recognised as the Government of China, Dr. Sun felt himself thwarted, and very soon fell into the hands of a small group of extremists and no longer concealed his anti-foreign, and particularly anti-British, bias. A claim renewed by the Southern Government for a share of the customs \"surplus\" led to a threat to seize the customs at Canton, which brought about a naval demonstration on the part of the Powers at Canton. This solidarity surprised the Chinese authorities and led to the abandonment of the plan, but the action taken again acerbated Dr. Sun and his entourage, already antagonised by the recognition accorded by the Powers to a notoriously corrupt and militaristic Government in Peking, with very ineffectual control over the provinces.\n\nIt was about this time that a Soviet consulate was opened at Canton, and from this date the dissemination of advanced political theories and anti-foreign symptoms among students and officials became more manifest. There were several strikes at mission schools (both French and British) owing to the refusal of the school authorities to countenance the formation of political societies among the students, and an agitation against the foreign concessions drew to a climax after the bomb outrage on the 21st June, 1924, when an attempt was made to assassinate the Governor of Indo-China. Proposed new pass regulations for Chinese entering the concession after 10 P.M., and new traffic regulations, led to a lightning strike of all Chinese employed on the island, without any previous protest or demand for their modification having been presented to the Concession authorities.\n\nWhen the strike was eventually settled, after five weeks, the only points won by the strikers were certain small emendations in the traffic regulations and the extension of the pass regulations to foreigners and Chinese alike. The old police (who had left their posts) were dismissed and new ones engaged. The political character of the strike may be illustrated by the fact that at the conferences held the representatives of the \"strikers\" present were all outside parties and not employees on the island at all. These had no demands to make, and came back without any previous stipulations. It was, however, recommended to employers to pay half wages for the period of the strike, inasmuch as they had been forced to leave their employment by intimidation.\n\nThe real issue was, of course, the measure of control exercised by the foreign municipal authorities, and alleged racial discrimination. During the course of negotiations, most of the Chinese officials showed themselves distinctly uncompromising, and it was not until the personal influence of Dr. Sun himself was enlisted that a settlement was finally secured. Meanwhile, a movement was on foot among the Chinese merchants for the expulsion of the non-Cantonese forces, together with the more extreme elements of the Kuomintang from Canton, and their eagerness to place their property in security.\n\n[14166]\n\n71\n\nD 2\n\n504", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511891, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-12 Kowloon-Canton railway- new rolling stock and engines 25-11-1927 - 25-11-1927", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-506-12 Kowloon-Canton railway- new rolling stock and engines 25-11-1927 - 25-11-1927", "content_text": "20\n\n(14).\n\n41. Cab. The cab is to be of similar design and construction to that shown on Digs. Hos. 2.4472/107 & 110, Reg. No.25 1/1 The ventilator shown in the cab roof is not required, but the cab roof is to have a large removable portion at the back which can be lifted out in order to pass crane hook and sling chains when it is decided to lift the back end of the engine. The cab windows are to follow the general design shown on Digs. Nos. 2.4472/112 & 113 Reg. No. 251/1.\n\n42. Head Lights & Lamps. \"Fyle National\" electric head lamps, with type \"E\" turbo generator situated on the top of the firebox, are to be supplied, as shown on Drgs. Nos. 2.4472/124 to 127 inclusive, Reg. No.25 L/L.\n\nEach engine is to be fitted with a Prism Glass Projector at the front end, and a pilot light in the cab roof.\n\nIn addition to the above, the following lamps are to be supplied with each engine:\n\n2 Hand Signal Lamps.\n\n6 Tail Lamps.\n\nThe usual pressure and water gauge lamps.\n\nThe lamps are to be similar to those shown on Drg. No. 2.4472/128 Reg. No.25 L/L.\n\nThe adoption of the tail lamps is to be as follows:\n\nOne each at the right and left side of the footplate at the front and back ends.\n\nOne at the boiler centre and one at the centre of back of tender.\n\nWhere practicable, similar lamp irons are to be used as shown on Drg. No.2.4472/127 Reg. No.251/1.\n\n43. Screw Jacks. Two Screw Jacks, of 25 tons capacity each, as shown on Dig. No. 2.4472/160 Reg. No.251/1, are to be supplied with each engine.\n\n44. Piping. All steam, water and oil pipes (with the exception of the main steam pipes, which are to be as specified in", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-12 Kowloon-Canton railway- new rolling stock and engines 25-11-1927 - 25-11-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523369, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931", "content_text": "Page 72755/30 Hongkong\n\nLord Passfield\n\n10\n\nSir W. Peel's telegram of the 11th showing that his despatch is on the way rather alters the instructions you gave me as to a private letter to him, but I presume you will still wish to write in order to make the point about the Secretariat personnel. I have also put in something about interpreters in general. Mr. Chapman tells me that, when Protector in Singapore, he found it much better to deal with girls without an interpreter.\n\nI also submit the draft of a letter which, if you have no objection, I propose to write to the two Governors. The Foreign Office were emphatic that we should warn them against any attempt to hoodwink the Commission or to conceal scandals from them.\n\nWe look on the \"secret agent\" with some dismay. It cannot be helped however, and we must make the best of it. No doubt he will find what he is expected to find whether it exists or not.\n\nAt the suggestion of Mr. Chapman our assessor at the Geneva meeting, I put in a suggestion that some sort of watch should be kept on his proceedings. The real danger is that the Chinese he employs will levy blackmail. This danger will be obvious and perhaps need not be mentioned.\n\n13 To Sir W. Peel\n\n15 Sept. 1930\n\nSp 1779\n\n15.9.30\n\n19.9.30\n\n19.9.30\n\n14 To Sun Executive Secretariat\n\n14\n\nTo Sir W. Peel\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523409, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931", "content_text": "50 \n\nActs were repealed in this country in deference to a \n\nstrong expression of public opinion. Whether that \n\nopinion was well or ill-founded, judicious or the \n\nreverse, it is unnecessary now to enquire. The fact \n\nremains that the Acts were repealed, and that similar \n\nlaws in the Crown Colonies and India were subsequently \n\nrepealed. In 1894 the legislation in Hong Kong which provided for the registration of brothels was \n\nalso repealed. I am therefore asked, not merely to \n\nallow certain existing laws to remain in operation, but \n\nto take the stronger step of reviving laws which a few years since were deliberately, after much discussion, \n\nabolished. \n\nIn justification of such a course strong \n\nevidence has been laid before me of the growth of \n\ndisease and the prevalence of other abuses since the \n\nOrdinances were abolished, and the opinion of \n\nresponsible men connected with Hong Kong - the men, \n\nboth official and unofficial, to whom I should naturally \n\nlook for information and guidance on local question is mainly, if not unanimously, to the effect that the result \n\nof repealing the Ordinances has been disastrous. \n\nI recognise the fact that there has been an increase of \n\ndisease since the Ordinances were repealed, and it \n\nmay also be true that there has been an increase of \n\nbrothel slavery; but on the latter point I notice \n\nfrom the reports of the Registrar-General at Hong Kong, \n\nas well as of the Protector of Chinese in the Straits \n\nSettlements, that there has been at least as much \n\nI rescue\n\nPage 50\n\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529250, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-532-7 Anti-piracy guards- China Navigation Company v. H.M. Attorney General 19-1-1931 - 20-4-1932", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-532-7 Anti-piracy guards- China Navigation Company v. H.M. Attorney General 19-1-1931 - 20-4-1932", "content_text": "# 34\n\nwhere there is no absolute duty a demand for payment is not necessarily contrary to public policy. The duty here being of imperfect obligation, is not so absolute as to preclude a charge. I would add that, in any event, I have grave doubts whether the duty of imperfect obligation to defend the subject from enemies by the use of troops extends to the suppression of piracy on the seas. By 11 & 12 William III., chapter 7, section 11, an Act for the more effectual suppression of piracy, specific power is given to the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty and other persons to raise and levy upon the owners of a ship and goods defended by officers, seamen, and mariners, against pirates, enemies, or sea rovers, money to be distributed among the defenders, their widows, and children. And, although for certain statutory purposes a pirate is to be deemed to be an enemy, (`Naval Discipline Act, 29 & 30 Victoria, chapter 109, section 49`) yet the definition of a pirate stated in Hawkins Pleas of the Crown, chapter 20, at page 251, still stands, \"that a pirate is one who to enrich himself either by surprise or open force sets upon merchants or others trading by sea, to spoil them of their goods or treasure.\"\n\nA pirate at the common law is a person who commits any of those acts of robbery and depredation upon the High Seas, which, if committed on land, would have amounted to a felony there.\n\nWere there no other obstacle in the way in the argument of the Appellants in contending for the duty of the Crown, this consideration would have to be considered: whether the obligation of the Crown, such as it is, to protect the subject extends to a protection against pirates upon the High Seas, and if so, whether it is not a duty cast upon the Navy and not the Army.\n\nThe duty of the King to protect his subjects is stated in Chitty on Prerogative, thus: \"Protection, that is the security and governance of his Dominions according to law, is the duty of the Sovereign\". Blackstone, page 262, indicates that monarchial government has for one of its purposes the protection of weakness of individuals by the united strength of the community. But as regards the duty of protection by sea, I do not know that such a duty can be put higher than is stated by Lord Stowell in the \"Mary Anne\", that there is an obligation upon King's ships to assist the merchant vessels of this country; see also the observations of Sir J. Hannen in the \"Ulysses\", 13 Probate Division, page 205, at page 208, which indicate that the Admiralty is the normal protector of the subject against pirates. Piracy is robbery within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, (`Attorney-General for Hong-Kong v. Kwok-a-Sing`, (Law Reports, 5 Privy Council, page 180, at page 200); `R v. Dawson` (13 State Trials, page 454).\n\nI can find no obligation upon the Army to protect merchant ships. If there be any such duty in the Crown, it would appear to be imposed not upon the Army but upon the Sea Forces of the Crown, for the use of which there is no complaint as to charge in the present case. In any event, in such a case it is for the Crown to decide what resources in its armoury, Naval or Military, it will employ.\n\nFor all these reasons I am of opinion that this appeal must be dismissed.\n\n23.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-532-7 Anti-piracy guards- China Navigation Company v. H.M. Attorney General 19-1-1931 - 20-4-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533977, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933", "content_text": "42\n\n16\n\nNOT CONNECTED WITH A CUSTOMS UNION.\n\n(Continued from page 12.)\n\npresent a very difficult situation\n\nvery\n\ndifficult problem. I move that the Bill be read a first time.\n\nNO POSTPONEMENT.\n\nGovernor on an Invidious Position.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Lim Cheng Ean: I would\n\nlike to ask whether the first reading can be postponed until it is known whether Government proposes to establish a customs union. We have been told just now that the Bill is not to be considered as a handmaid to the proposed customs union, and I think the postponement of the first reading would give assurance to such as fear that the present Bill points to the possible establishment of a customs union.\n\nTHE STRAITS TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1932.\n\nunion were rejected this Bill would still be necessary for the good administration and sound finances of this Colony.\n\nThe Bill was then read a first time.\n\nMUI TSAI IN THE STRAITS.\n\nWhy It Must be Banned By Statute.\n\nby statute as has been done in Hong Kong. I think I may safely say that that too is the desire of all enlightened and progressive Chinese in the Colony.\n\nwhen inhuman treatment occasioning the death or injury of some unfortunate girl is brought to light.\"\n\nI turn then to a more detailed explanation of this Bill.\n\nI will clinch this point by one last quotation, from the regulations for the registration of mui tsai, issued by the Government of Canton, as reported in the Hong Kong Weekly Press of Aug. 22, 1930; it reads,\n\nThe acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Hon. Mr. A. B. Jordan, in moving the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance relating to Mui Tsai,\" said:\n\nbe withdrawn because the age of the girl could not be proved and in the other a fine was imposed.\n\n\"From the date of proclamation, it is prohibited to buy or sell mui tsai; neither is it allowed to acquire girls under the pretext of their being adopted daughters.\"\n\nSir, I am of the considered opinion, and\n\nI urge this Council to accept this view,\n\nThe main object of this Bill is to remove\n\nthat if this legislation is to be successful\n\nany vestige of a doubt, that may still\n\nit is essential that the definition of mui\n\nThe main defects of this ordinance—ai should be as wide as that given in\n\nexist in the mind of anyone, that slavery in any form, or semi-slavery call it what\n\nwere the narrowness of the definition and Section 2 of the Bill. Otherwise we shall\n\nyou will—is tolerated in this Colony, to the placing of the onus of proof of the\n\nhave a loop-hole through which evil-doers\n\ndeclare in specific terms that the general girl's age and purchase on the prosecution.\n\ncan escape and the legislation will be\n\nprinciple of law obtaining throughout the\n\nThe majority of mui tsai have been\n\nnullified.\n\nBritish Empire that no human being can purchased or acquired when young from\n\nhave the status of a chattel is applicable their parents in China, so the employer\n\nto females, and consequently in pursuance had only to state that the child was pre-\n\nHis Excellency (speaking with feeling):\n\nof that declaration to safeguard by a sys-sented to him for the definition to fail as\n\nI regret that it is quite impossible to post-tem of registration those girls that today\n\nthe accused was usually the only person\n\npone the first reading of this Bill, but I\n\nhave the status of a mui tsai.\n\nfully aware of the circumstances in which\n\nam surprised after what the Attorney-\n\nIn recent years the mui tsai system has\n\nhe acquired the child. In some cases the\n\nGeneral has said in this Council that any\n\nbeen repeatedly attacked, sometimes on\n\nconsult of long ill-treatment and therefore\n\ngirl was a semi-idiot or cowed as a re-\n\ngood grounds, sometimes on bad; some of\n\nuseless as a witness.\n\nthe criticism has been instructed, some\n\nuninstructed. But there is still in many\n\na customs union.\n\nI\n\nthis Council.\n\nThe\n\ning age.\n\nimportant definition;\n\nMeaning of \"Inheritance.\"\n\nThe meaning of \"inheritance\" in the definition is clear. A mui tsai does not inherit any part of her employer's estate when he dies, but herself becomes part of the estate and a charge on the inheritor of the property.\n\n\"Pledge for\" and \"in settlement of a debt\" go together. It is a fairly common practice in this country for poor people to pledge their daughters. It will readily be admitted that the money-lender in such cases...\n\nI have dwelt at length on the definition\n\nImportant Provisions, again renew the assurance that the\n\nquarters, in spite of the limelight that has\n\ntwo things have nothing whatever to do\n\nbeen thrown upon it, ignorance as to what\n\nBill provides three with each other. The Bill is designed in the\n\nmui tsai system really is.\n\nA few things:-First, a wider order that the Governor may not again be\n\nwords about the system may therefore not secondly, the shifting of the onus of\n\nbe out of place.\n\noase is about the worst person in the\n\nA mui tsai means not \"a slave girl\"\n\nproof as to acquisition and status; third-\n\nbut \"a little sister,\" and it is the term,\n\na simplification of the means of prov-\n\nthe worst cases of cruelty which have\n\napplied in China to a girl who leaves her\n\nThe definition is drawn in a way that\n\nyears have been of girls so pawned. The\n\nown home, usually with the full and free\n\nwill include all the varied forms of ac-\n\npractice is a revolting one and this Bill\n\nconsent of her parents, to be brought up\n\nquiring female children current in the\n\ngives the opportunity of stamping it out.\n\nin the household of someone else, in which\n\nColony and does not follow the narrower\n\nbecause of its great importance; indeed\n\nhousehold she is regarded, if not as a\n\nsense used in the Hong Kong ordinance.\n\nconsultation such as I might have wished\n\ndaughter, at any rate as a quasi-daughter.\n\nIt is the crux of the Bill. I will not there-\n\nto have had with my unofficial friends on\n\nThe system has arisen from the economic\n\nfore take up the time of Council by\n\nconditions obtaining in many parts of\n\nexplaining the other provisions at length,\n\nChina, from the fact that parents living\n\nbut will leave those to the explanation\n\nin the direst poverty are unable to sup-\n\ngiven in the objects and reasons.\n\nport their children, especially the girls.\n\nI will only add that an earlier draft of\n\nI do not wish that position to occur\n\nAlternative of Starvation.\n\nFaced then with the alternative of starvation for their daughters they give them\n\nThe definition is drawn, too, in order\n\nthe Bill now before Council. It cannot\n\nwere suggested; these have been met in\n\nBut that would\n\nrevenue was insufficient to meet the ex-\n\nation for their daughters they give them away, sometimes free, sometimes in re-\n\nto overcome the fiction that a girl is an\n\ntherefore be said that the Bill is intro-\n\nturn for a consideration in money or kind,\n\nadopted daughter.\" Amongst Chinese\n\nduced against the wishes of the leaders\n\nproposal for a customs union or with\n\nis able to feed and clothe the child and\n\npractised customs, due to the necessity of\n\nconfidence for the support of the Chinese\n\nto someone more fortunately placed who\n\nadoption is 惠 recognised and widely\n\nthe Chinese community, and I look with\n\nchanges in the structure of our colonial\n\nbring her up. The head of the household\n\nalways having a son to carry on the male\n\nMembers of this Council for it.\n\nThis Bill in my opinion is a very great\n\ntaking over the child stands in loco paren-\n\nline for the purpose of ancestor worship.\n\nimprovement on the procedure that had\n\ntie to the child, and on him falls the duty\n\nBut for this purpose daughters are use-\n\nhitherto obtained in this Colony. It\n\nwhen the girl is of sufficient age of get-\n\nless and the adoption of daughters is\n\nSir, I now formally move that this Bill\n\nbe read a first time.\n\nting the girl suitably married.\n\nnot a custom recognised in the China. There\n\nare exceptions to\n\nfinances.\n\nMust Not Occur Again.\n\nIt has been tried out for many\n\nyears in Ceylon. Anyhow, the Council\n\nhas my full assurance that the Bill is not\n\nin the slightest degree connected with\n\nthe customs union, and even if a custom\n\nLEA & PERRINS' SAUCE\n\nOn\n\nyears.\n\nbut this rule\n\nwe\n\nMr. Cheng Lock on the Port Of Malacca.\n\nthe custody of girls is transferred in this\n\ncannot legislate for them. Ample\n\nUNOFFICIAL SPEECHES.\n\nway great numbers. Indeed, I have\n\nsafeguards for such cases are pro-\n\nheard Your Excellency in reminiscent\n\nvidel in the Bill, and I would draw\n\nmood relate how about 30 years ago, when\n\nattention especially to the provision in\n\nYour Excellency was supervising flood re-\n\nSection 15 (1) that no prosecution can be\n\nlief up the West River in Kwangtung Pro-\n\nundertaken without the authority of the\n\nvince on behalf of the Government of\n\nProtector. Clearly this is one of the\n\nHong Kong, starving parents offered their\n\nmatters over which he is intended to use\n\nchildren to you. There is, too, a member\n\nhis discretion.\n\nof the Malayan Civil Service who some\n\nThe Root of the Trouble.\n\nyears ago out of the kindness of his heart\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Tan Cheng Lock said: I\n\nadopted a Chinese girl who had been ill-\n\nbelieve that this is the first time since\n\ntreated and who has since been bringing\n\n867 when the Legislative Council of the\n\nher up and educating her as his own child.\n\nStraits Settlements was first constituted,\n\nThat child, sir, is a mui tsai in the strict\n\non the transfer of the Colony from the\n\nsense of the term.\n\nIndia Office to the Colonial Office, that\n\nNOW, where the master and mistress of\n\na meeting of this Council has been held\n\nthe household are kindly the lot of the\n\nin his town of ancient and historic fame.\n\nmui tsai is a happy one; she is frequent-\n\nI\n\nwish to thank Your Excellency very\n\nly far better off than her fellows who have\n\nheartily for the desire you have expressed\n\nremained in conditions of poverty and\n\nNOW, where the master and mistress of\n\nsqualor. Much of the criticism of the mui\n\nto be fair to he muf trail are kindly\n\ntsai system comes from a misunderstand-\n\nVolk the lot of the does not alter the fuote, The girl in all, Kammal\n\ning of it, from ignorance of the appalling\n\nmenting here And we highly mui tsai is a happy one; she is frequent-\n\nand possibly conditions in which the daughters of the\n\nfair-sized dowry when she has attained a\n\nappreciate the interest Your Excellency\n\nUnder such conditions the use of the\n\nterm \"adopted daughter\" is one of con-\n\nalways taken in our Settlement and\n\nsuitable age for marriage.\n\nvenience not of fact. So closely are\n\npot the needs of Malacca, which\n\nadopted daughters associated with mui-\n\ntsai that the Anti-Mui-Tsai Society of\n\naffairs.\n\nHong Kong, at a meeting held in October,\n\n1928, suggested that adopted daughters\n\nshould be registered at the same time\n\nand in the same manner as admitted mui tsai.\n\nIn confirmation of my point I would\n\nlike to make two quotations from en-\n\nclosures to a dispatch written by Your\n\nExcellency when Governor of Hong Kong\n\nand published in Parliamentary Paper\n\nCmd. 3424, presented by the Secretary of\n\nState for the Colonies to Parliament by\n\nCommand of His Majesty in November\n\n1929. One quotation is from\n\na letter written by His Majesty's Consul\n\nat Swatow in April 1929, and reads,\n\nI do not wish to be misunderstood, sir,\n\nand to be thought to be suggesting that\n\nthe ill-treatment of mui tsai is the rule\n\nin the Colony or in Malaya generally; far\n\nfrom it, it is the exception. In sup-\n\nport of that statement I would like to\n\nmention the results of inquiries made in\n\n1930 by the Protector of Chinese, Singa-\n\npore, with a view to discovering what was\n\nthe general condition and treatment of\n\nmui tsai in Singapore. A hundred girls\n\nwere examined who were suspected to be!\n\nmui tsai, and they were taken from various\n\nparts of Singapore, and amongst these\n\n100 girls no definite case of cruelty was\n\nfound, though two girls were found to be\n\noverworked and neglected and were put\n\ninto the Po Leung Kuk, but event these\n\ntwo still wished, after their time in the\n\nPo Leung Kuk, to return to their employers.\n\nThe Protector of Chinese was satisfied\n\nthat all but six out of the 100 suspected\n\nmui tsai were happy and well-treated, and\n\nit was noteworthy that not one of the 100\n\nexpressed to the Protector her wish to\n\nleave her present employer.\n\nBut the existence of the mui tsai system\n\nis felt to be an anachronism in a British\n\ncolony in these modern days, and its con-\n\ntinuance is definitely contrary to the\n\npolicy of the Home Government, which\n\ndesires that the system should be banned\n\nof a hinterland of about 8,000 square\n\nmiles, consisting of the Settlement itself\n\nand large portions of Johore, Negri Sem-\n\nilan and Pahang.\n\nMalacca must be largely dependent on\n\nsea-borne trade, as-in spite of the condi-\n\ntion of its harbour-a considerable volume\n\n\"In theory the pei nui (maid servant\n\nof imports and exports continues to\n\nforce or slave girl) system has no existence\n\nits way in and out of its port, for the\n\nin China, where slavery, expressly for-\n\nsimple reason that it is far cheaper to\n\nbidden in the latter years of the Manchu\n\nship such commodities through Malacca\n\ndynasty, is now a punishable offence\n\nthan through any other Malayan port. If\n\nunder Article 813 of the Criminal Code\n\nsome of the artificial impediments put in\n\nof the Chinese Republic; but, in actual\n\nthe way of people who wish to use the\n\nfact, it is in force from one end of the\n\nport of Malacca for the shipment of their\n\ngoods are removed and our harbour facili-\n\ncountry to the other. Girls are every\n\nties improved our trade would assuredly\n\nwhere openly bought and sold for maid-\n\ntend to increase and develop considerably\n\nservants ΟΙ slaves, the euphemism\n\nin course of time.\n\n(yeong nui) adopted girl' usurping\n\nSome honourable members\n\nmay have\n\nthe place of 'pei nui' so offensive to\n\nobserved that the extent of the trade of\n\nthe ear of the law, and their use as\n\nMalacca is well indicated by the busy\n\ndomestic slaves in the families of well-to-\n\nappearance of the river of this port, which\n\ndo Chinese is too common to call for\n\ncomment, except on the rare occasions\n\nHeritage\n\nFOR ALL! £3 a week certain!\n\nWHAT married man would not\n\nfeel easier in mind if he knew\n\nthat he would leave behind him\n\nthat much provision-at least until the family has grown up?\n\nΑ\n\n44\n\n(Continued on page 17.)\n\nPRUDENTIAL 'Heritage \"\n\nPOLICY PROVIDES AT DEATH WITHIN 20 YEARS.\n\n-PHILIPS LAMPS\n\nFOR ECONOMICAL LIGHTING-\n\nThe Products of construc-\n\ntive thought and careful work, Philips Lamps are made with a scientific\n\naccuracy that ensures con-\n\nsistent efficiency for every\n\npurpose and in every fit-\n\nting.\n\nWHEN PURCHASING ELECTRIC LAMPS remember that price is one of the least important points, as during its life an electric lamp uses in current consumption many times its first cost. 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My age next birthday is.\n\nName.\n\nAddress", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556359, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-565-13 Recruitment of Chinese labourers for employment abroad 1-8-1937 - 30-3-1938", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-565-13 Recruitment of Chinese labourers for employment abroad 1-8-1937 - 30-3-1938", "content_text": "Sir,\n\n25\n\nMALAYAN COLLIERIES, LIMITED\n\nKUALA LUMPUR\n\n14th June, 1937.\n\nWe have the honour to advise you that we have permit from the F.M.S. Government to bring into the country two hundred experienced Chinese Underground miners.\n\n2. To act on our behalf for the purpose of selecting and bringing back suitable men, we are sending Mr. Chong Kin Woon who has been well known to us for the past thirty years and in whom we have confidence that he will do his best to obtain suitable men for our purpose.\n\n3. Mr. Chong Kin Woon is a native of the Prefecture of Ka-Yin-Chu, Province of Kwong Tung and it is in this Prefecture that he proposes to recruit the men.\n\n4. When the men have been gathered together we are particularly anxious that they should not be delayed at the port of embarkation, and we shall be much obliged if you will assist us by facilitating Mr. Chong Kin Woon's task should he ask your assistance.\n\n5. In further support of Mr. Chong Kin Woon, we propose to ask the Chinese Consul here and the Protector of Chinese, Selangor, to signify their approval of our request.\n\n6. Will you please accept our thanks for any assistance that you may be able to render.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nMALAYAN COLLIERIES, LTD.\n\nJ.A.Russell & Co., Ltd.,\n\n(Signature illegible)\n\nDirector General Managers.\n\nThe British Consul, SWATOW.\n\nThe above is correct\n\n(Signature illegible)\n\nSeal of the Protector of Chinese\n\nSelangor and Pahang\n\n14th June, 1937.\n\nI made the following corrections:\n- \"Ve\" -> \"We\" (spelling error)\n- \"Govemment\" -> \"Government\" (spelling error)\n- \"man\" -> \"men\" (plural form consistency)\n- \"SVATOV\" -> \"SWATOW\" (correct spelling of the city name)\n- \"1957\" -> \"1937\" (correct year, as the letter is dated 1937 and it's unlikely to be verified in 1957)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-565-13 Recruitment of Chinese labourers for employment abroad 1-8-1937 - 30-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556485, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-565-18 Factories and Workshops Ordinance 1937 1-10-1937 - 4-10-1937", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-565-18 Factories and Workshops Ordinance 1937 1-10-1937 - 4-10-1937", "content_text": "Objects and Reasons.\n\n1. The object of this Bill is to transfer the office of Protector of Labour from the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to the Chairman of the Urban Council and to vest the control of factories, workshops and the employment of women, young persons and children in certain industries in the Urban Council.\n\n2. Upon the enactment of the Factories and Workshops Ordinance, 1932, (No.27 of 1932), it was considered desirable that the powers of the Protector of Labour under that Ordinance should be exercised by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs with the assistance of qualified Inspectors of Labour until the persons and industries affected should become accustomed to a measure of regulation.\n\n3. With the passage of years the reasons for this arrangement have disappeared, and it is now proposed to effect the transfer above-mentioned.\n\n4. This Bill is based upon the provisions of Ordinance No.27 of 1932, which, with the Factories and Workshops Amendment Ordinance, 1936, (No.30 of 1936), it repeals.\n\n5. In this Bill, clause 5 of which gives the necessary powers of regulation to the Urban Council, and clause 4 a power of inspection to a select committee of that Council, the opportunity has been taken to effect certain amendments which experience has shown to be necessary and to revise and consolidate, in the form of by-laws, the regulations made under Ordinance No.27 of 1932 and set out in the Schedule to that Ordinance and Government Notifications Nos.660 of 1933 and 784 of 1936, published in the Government Gazette of 6th October, 1933 and 20th September, 1936, respectively.\n\n6. By fixing 14 years as the minimum age for employment in industrial undertakings (Clause 2(1) of the Bill and by-law 5 in the Schedule thereto) and increasing the period during which women and young persons may not be employed during the night in ordinary circumstances to 11 hours (by-law 8 in the Schedule), effect is given more fully to the International Labour Conventions fixing the minimum age for admission of children to industrial employment and concerning the night work of women and young persons employed in industry which were adopted at Washington on 28th November, 1919, and communicated by the Secretary of State in his circular despatch of 13th August, 1921. The Conventions have in actual practice been adhered to by employers of labour in the Colony for some time, with the possible exception of the provisions regarding night work.\n\n7. A Table of Correspondence is attached showing the variations between this Bill and the provisions of the Factories and Workshops Ordinance, 1932.\n\nAugust, 1937.\n\nJ. A. FRASER,\n\nAttorney General.\n\n19", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-565-18 Factories and Workshops Ordinance 1937 1-10-1937 - 4-10-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 559391, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-569-15 A.W. Brewin- queries on Brewin Charity and compensation for Chinese workmen 6-2-1938 - 6-2-1938", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-569-15 A.W. Brewin- queries on Brewin Charity and compensation for Chinese workmen 6-2-1938 - 6-2-1938", "content_text": "- 3- \n\n24 \n\n4. \n\n5. \n\n6. \n\nchanged at any future time and this clause shall be \n\ndeemed to be part of the consideration for the making of these presents. \n\nThe Trustees shall employ the interest and income \n\nof the Trust Fund for making such payment to or for the benefit of any of the Chinese widows and orphans resident \n\nin this Colony who may become indigent or destitute and \n\nof Chinese workmen employed in this Colony who may become incapacitated for work by reason of old age or sickness \n\nor who may have been permanently disabled by any accident \n\nas the Committee shall in their absolute discretion from \n\ntime to time think proper. Provided Always that if and \n\nwhenever such interest and income shall be insufficient \n\nfor the purposes above mentioned it shall not be lawful \n\nto realize any part of the capital of the Trust Fund. \n\nThe Trustees shall cause proper and separate \n\naccounts to be kept of all monies received and expended \n\nfor the purposes of these presents and of all matters in \n\nrespect of which such receipt and expenditure takes place \n\nand of the property and assets belonging to the Trust \n\nFund and all credits and liabilities relating thereto \n\nand once in every year such accounts together with a \n\nbalance sheet shall be examined and certified by the \n\nHonourable Mr. A. W. Brewin so long as he shall hold the \n\nOffice of Registrar General and Protector of Chinese and \n\nwhenever he shall have vacated such office or in his \n\nabsence then by the two Honourable Members representing \n\nthe Chinese in the Legislative Council of this Colony. \n\nThe accounts of the Trust Fund shall be open to the \n\ninspection of the Committee at all reasonable times. \n\nThe Trustees may from time to time with the approval of the Committee appoint at any salary and upon any terms \n\nthey", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-569-15 A.W. Brewin- queries on Brewin Charity and compensation for Chinese workmen 6-2-1938 - 6-2-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564509, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 92, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "## Head 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\n### Approved Estimate, 1939. \n### Estimate, 1940-41.\n\n## Head 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\n### Approved Estimate, 1939. \n### Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEDUCATION DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\nEDUCATION DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\n| $ | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Brought forward | 2,311,865 | 2,871,132 |\n\n### Special Expenditure.\n\n### Personal Emoluments,-Continued.\n\n| $ | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Brought forward | 141,506 | 175,542 |\n\n#### NUMBERS.\n\n| | 1939 | 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| British Staff. | | |\n\n41. Grant to Hong Kong Teachers' Association | 9,000 | 9,000\n42. Desk replacements in Government Schools | X | 1\n43. Furniture Grant... | 1 | (2)\n44. Building Grants... | 72,000 | \n45. One Filing Cabinet | 1 | \n46. One Safe.... | (3) | 1\n47. Que Cupboard................ | 240 | 206\n48. Ope Lawn Mower | (6) | (5)\n49. Projector and Films | 1 | 1\n50. Two Typewriters | 5,000 | \n\n| | $ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Principal, (Queen's College), (£1,050 to £1,200 by £50 annually) | 20,800 | 21,832\n| Do., Residential Allowance | 500 | 1,160\n| Principal (King's College), (£1,050 to £1,200 by £50 annually) | 20,800 | 21,291\n| Do., Residential Allowance..... | 1,382 | 150\n| Principal, Teachers' Training College, (£1,050 to £1,200 by £50 annually). | 21,467 | \n| Do., Residential Allowanes .... | (3) X | 1,337\n| Principal, Central British School, (£1,050 to £1,200 by £50 annually) | 720 | (6)\n| Do., Residential Allowance | 1 | 1\n| Senior Master, (£1,050 each annually) | 22,200 | 1,535\n| Senior Masters, (£1,000 p.a.) | (3) X | 50,400\n| Teachers' Training College, | 21,000 | \n| Do., Residential Allowances to 2 | 2,600 | \n| 51. Equipment Grants.. | | \n| Five Pianos | 1,420 | (9)\n| Gymnastic Apparatus | 3,000 | 10,000\n| 52. Books and Equipment | (4) | 3\n| Trade School. | 1 | \n| Tools and Equipment | 4,800 | 25\n| | 3,000 | 20\n\n| $ | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Total Special Expenditure | 328,550 | 344,020\n| Total Education Department.. | 2,336,865 | 2,969,517\n\n### Personal Emoluments.\n\n#### Details of the foregoing.\n\n| | 1939 | 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Director of Education. | | |\n| Cadet Officer, Class 1, †(£1,500 to £1,800 by £50 annually) | 14,853 | 15,303\n| Do.. Residential Allowance | 1,165 | (1)\n| Principal, (Belilios Public School) (£750 to £900 by £30 annually) | | 4\n| Senior Mistresses (£750 each). | 48,000 | 60,000\n| Director of Education, *(£1,500) | 30,000 | (11)\n| Senior Inspector of Schools, †(£1,100 to £1,300 by £50 annually) | 27,512 | (10)\n| Do.. Bent Allowances to 4 at $600 each ( | | 5\n| Mistresses, (£360 to £700 by £20 annually), | 183,997 | 14\n| Do., Rent Allowances to 12 at $600 each................. | 2,400 | 132,669\n| Mistresses, (£330 for 2 years, then £345 to £700 by 7 of £15, 1 of £70 and 9 of £20 annually)..... | 3,000 | 12,000\n| Do., Residential Allowances to 14. | 97,282 | 9,000\n| Senior Inspector of Schools, †(£1,050 to £1,200 by £50 unnally) | 16 | (6)\n| Do., Residential Allowance | 18,400 | 23,271\n| Mistresses, ($4,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually). | 2,400 | (13)\n| Principal, Trade and Technical Schools, (£850 to £1,200 by £50 annually) | 73,442 | 1,382\n| Inspectors of Vernacular Schools, †(£600 to £960 by £30 animally then £1,000 by £40 annually). | 92,969 | (7)\n| Inspector of Vernacular Schools ($4,800 to $7,500 by $800 pouually)...... | 3 | 16,000\n| Do., Residential Allowance | 22,200) 1,355 | 3\n| Physical Training Supervisors, (£160 to £950 by 1 of £60 after two years; then 1 of £50, 4 of £25, 1 of £30, 1 of £100 and 5 of £30 annually). | (1){ | 45,907\n| Do., Residential Allowances for 2 | 7,154 | 58,094\n| Senior Clerical & Accounting Stoff :- | 9,329 | (14)\n| Class II, (Local Section) ($1,200 to $3,000 by $150 annually) | 15,185 | 2\n| Teacher of Singing, (15 months at $200 p.m.) | 20,187 | 1,500\n| Junior Clerical Service:— | 1 | 1\n| Chief Instructor, Junior Technical School. †(£1.30 to £750 by £30 annually) | 1.650 | 3,000\n| Higher Class, ($4,800 to $5,600 by $200 annually). | 7,575 | (11)\n| Class II1, ($1.900 to $2,600 by $100 annually) | 10,111 | 1\n| Chief Instructor, Engineering, †(£450 to £750 by £30 annually) | 7,000 | 1\n| Class IV, ($1.500 to $1,800 by $100 annually) | 2,000 | 2,650\n| Class V. ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually). | 3.565 | (15)\n| Class VIB, (8480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60, 1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 6.344 | 1\n| Chief Instructor in Wireless Telegraphy †(£450 to £750 by £30 annually) | 5.400 | 4\n| Chief Instructor, Building, †(4450 to £650 by £20 annually) | 3,400 | 7\n| Shorthand Allowances to I at $60 and 1 at $120 | (16) | (17)\n| Assistant Instructor, Building, *(£400 to £600 by £20 annually) | 180 | 225\n| Assistant Instructor, Engineering, *(£100 to £600 by £20 annually) | 1 | \n\n| $ | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Carried forward | 141,556 | 175,542 |\n\n(1) New Vernacular Subsidy Code.\n(2) Second part of the two-year programme.\n(3) For subsidized Veroncular schools,\n(4) Non-recurrent.\n(5) For General Office.\n(6) Replacements.\n(7) For Queen's College Recreation Ground.\n(8) For use in various schools.\n(9) Special machine for School for the Deaf, Grant towards Laboratory Equipment for Diocesan Girls' School.\n(10) Not required on appointment of Director of Education.\n(11) New appointment.\n(12) Change of title.\n(13) New Scale.\n(14) Stipulated increments.\n(15) One transferred and two promotions from Class V.\n(16) Two promoted to Class IV.\n(17) One to replace a Class IV and one addition, Teachers Training College. One transferred from Trade School.\n\n(1) New scale.\n(2) Includes provision for 2 months on old scale.\n(3) New post.\n(4) Two on new scale.\n(5) Two time-scale posts replaced by posts of Principals of Teachers' Training College and Central British School. 3 officers on old scale promoted and replaced by 3 on new scale.\n(6) More appointments on new scale of £330 to £700 and fewer on old scale of £360 to £700. One post replaced by post of University Trained Master.\n(7) Stipulated increments.\n(8) Additional duties: for 15 months.\n(9) Formerly shown under Trade School.\n\n| $ | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Carried forward | 996,746 | 1,267,2×0 | \n| 8,709 | 8,000 J |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564701, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 284, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "## Head 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n### Approved Estimate, 1939. Estimate, 1940-41.\n\n## Head 9.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n### Approved Estimate, 1989. Estimate, 1940-41.\n\n### EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\n### EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward | $ | $ | $ \n---|---|---|---|--- \n | 2,311,865 | 2,871,132 | \n**Personal Emoluments. Continued.** | | | \nBrought forward | 141,556 | 175,542 | \n**NUMBERS.** | 1939 | 1940-41 | \n**British Staff.** | | | \n41 Building Grants....... | 72,000 | 1 | 1 \n42 Desk - replacements in Government Schools | 9,000 | 9,000 (2) | \n43 Furniture Grant... | 5,000 | (3) | \n'Principal, (Queen's College), (£1,050 to £1,200 by £50 annually) | 20,800 | 21,832 | \nDo., Residential Allowance | 1,160 | (1) | \n44 Grant to Hong Kong Teachers' Association | 500 | (4) | \n45 One Steel Filing Cabinet | 240 | (5) | \n46 One Safe..... | 205 | (6) | \n47 One Steel Cupboard | | \n49 Projector and Films | | \n50 Two Typewriters | 1,332 | (1) | \nPrincipal, (King's College), (£1,050 to £1,200 by £50 annually) | 20,800 | 21,291 | \nDo., Residential Allowance.... | | (5) | \nPrincipal, Teachers' Training College, (£1,050 to £1,200 by £50 annually). | 21,467 | 4,250 | (8) \nDo., Residential Allowance | 720 | (6) | 1,337 \nPrincipal, Central British School, (£1,050 to £1,200 by £50 annually) | | (4) | \nDo., Residential Allowance Senior Master, †(£1,050 each annually) | 22,200 (3) | 1,535 | \nSenior Masters, (£1,000 p.a.) | 50,400 | 21,040 | 2 \n**51 Equipment Grants.** | 1,420 | (9) | \nFive Pianos | 3,000 | (4) | \nGymnastic Apparatus | 10,000 | :: | (4) \n**52 Books and Equipment** | 4,800 | 25 | 20 \nTrade School. Tools and Equipment | 3,000 | 2 | 5 \nTeachers' Training College. | | | \nDo., Residential Allowances to 2 Masters, †(£500 to £650 by £30 annually, then £710 to £770 by £60 annually, then £800 to £950 by £30 annually) Masters, (£460 to £950 by 1 of £60 after 2 years, then 1 of £50, 4 of £25, 1 of £30, 1 of £100 and 5 of £30 annually) D., Residential Allowance to 3 Music Master, (£460 to £950 by 1 of £60 after 2 years, then 1 of £50, 4 of £25, 1 of £30, 1 of £100 and 5 of £30 annually) Residential Allowance | 7,360 | 9,200 | \n | 328,550 | 344,020 | \n**Total Special Expenditure** | | | \n**Total Education Department....** | 2,336,865 | 98,885 | 2,969,517 \n\n### Details of the foregoing.\n\n| | $ | $ \n---|---|--- \nDirector of Education. | 27,512 | (10) \nCadet Officer, Class I, †(£1,500 to £1,800 by £50 annually) | | \nDirector of Education, *(£1,500) | | \nSenior Inspector of Schools, †(£1,100 to £1,800 by £50 annually) | 20,146 | 30,000 (11) \nSenior Inspector of Schools, †(£1,050 to £1,200 by £50 annually) | 18,400 | 23,271 \nDo., Residential Allowance | 2,400 | (12) (13) 1,382 (13) \nDo., Rent Allowances to 4 at $600 each | | \nMistrresses, (£360 to £700 by £20 annually), Do., Rent Allowances to 12 at $600 each.. | 2,400 | 3,000 \nMistrresses, (£330 to £560 by 1 of £30 after 2 years, then 6 of £15, 1 of £50 and 4 of £15 annually) | 183,997 | 132,669 \nDo., Residential Allowances to 14 Mistresses, ($4,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually). | 12,000 | 9,000 \nPrincipal, Trade and Technical Schools, (£850 to £1,200 by £50 annually) | -(6) | 27,477 \nInspectors of Vernacular Schools, †(£600 to £960 by £30 annually then £1,000 by £40 annually). | 97,282 | 640 \nInspector of Vernacular Schools ($4,800 to $7,500 by $300 annually)..... | 45,907 | 58,094 (14) \nDo., Residential Allowance | 7,154 | 9,329 (14) \nSenior Clerical & Accounting Staff :- | | \nPhysical Training Supervisors, (£460 to £950 by 1 of £60 after two years; then 1 of £50, 4 of £25, 1 of £30, I of £100 and 5 of $30 anuttally), Do., Residential Allowances for 2 | 15,185 | 20,187 (7) \nClass II, (Local Section) ($1,200 to $3,000 by $150 annually) | 1,800 | 1 \nTencher of Singing, (15 months at $200 p.m.) | 1,650 | 3,000 (8) \nChief Instructor, Junior Technical School. †(£450 to £750 by £30 annually) | 7,575 | 10,111 (7) \nJunior Clerical Service :- | | \nHigher Class, ($4,800 to $5,600 by $200 annually). | 5,600 | 7,000 \nClass III. ($1.900 to $2,600 by $100 annually) | 2,000 | 2,650 (14) \nChief Instructor, Engineering, †(£450 to £750 by £30 annually) | 10,967 | 2 \nClass IV, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually) | 3,665 | 6,344 (15) \nChief Instructor in Wireless Telegraphy †(£450 to £750 by £30 annually) | 10,191 | 1 \nClass V, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually) | 5,400 | 3,400 (16) \nClass VIB, ($480 to $1,050 by I of $60, 1 of $160, 8 of $50 and 2 of $100) | 3,292 | 6,309 (17) \nShorthand Alloroances to 1 at $60 and 1 at $120 | | 180 \nChief Instructor, Building, †(£450 to £650 by £20 annually) | 9,880 | }(7)(9) \nAssistant Instructor, Building, *(£400 to £600 by £20 annually) | 8,709 | 225 \nAssistant Instructor, Engineering, *(£100 to £600 by £20 annually) | 8,000 | \nCarried forward | 996,746 | 1,267,280 \n\n(1) New Vernacular Subsidy Code. \n(2) Second part of the two-year programme. \n(3) For subsidized Vernacular schools. \n(4) Non-recurrent. \n(5) For General Office. \n(6) Replacements. \n(7) For Queen's College Recreation Ground. \n(8) For use in various schools. \n(9) Special machine for School for the Deaf. \nGrant towards Laboratory Equipment for Diocesan Girls' School. \n(10) Not required on appointment of Director of Education. \n(11) New appointment. \n(12) Change of title. \n(13) New Scale. \n(14) Stipulated increments, \n(15) One transferred and two promotions from Class V. \n(16) Two promoted to Class IV. \n(17) One to replace a Class IV and one addition, \nTeachers Training College, One transferred from Trade School. \n(1) New scale. \n(2) Includes provision for 2 months on old scale. \n3 New post. \n(4) Two on new scale. \n5) Two time-scale posts replaced by posts of Prin- cipals of Teachers' Training College and Central British School. 3 officers on old scale promoted and replaced by 3 on new scale. \n(6) More appointments on new scale of £330 to £560 and fewer on old scale of £360 to £700. One post replaced by post of University Trained Master. \n(7) Stipulated increments. \n(8) Additional duties; for 15 months. \n(9) Formerly shown under Trade School. \n\nPage 308 \n35", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564793, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 376, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "# HEAD 114. HARBOUR DEPARTMENT\n\n## SUB-HEAD 22\nA new Police Launch is required to replace one built in 1903 and now incapable of being economically repaired.\n\n## SUB-HEAD 26\nThe commencement of work on the new lighthouse tender approved in 1939 at a total cost of $400,000 was delayed and only $160,000 is expected to be spent in 1939. $240,000 has therefore to be provided in 1940.\n\n## SUB-HEAD 28\nTwo additional Motor Boats are required for the Police Department. One of these is required on account of the increase in Passport Examinations due to more stringent regulations. The need for the other arises from urban and mining development in the Tsun Wan neighbourhood, particularly during the last three years. At present the Police at Tsun Wan are unable to reach Ma Wan and Tsing I Islands at short notice.\n\n### Personal Emoluments\nOwing to the transfer of the Harbour Department Store at Yaumati to the Stores Department, one Class VIB clerk and one coolie have been transferred to that department. At the same time, one Class IV post abolished has been replaced by a new post of Store Foreman under the Stores Department. Personal Emoluments, Government Slipway, Yaumati, Boatswain. It is considered that the duties of this post justify an improvement in the salary scale from £370 to £430 as at present to £400 to £520, the same scale as that of Boarding Officers.\n\n# HEAD 11B. AIR SERVICES\nOwing to uncertainty as to further reclamation at Kai Tack, it is deemed inadvisable as yet to replace the present wooden pontoon, which has already exceeded its useful life, by a permanent structure. A further wooden structure estimated to last two years is accordingly proposed, to cost $4,500.\n\n## SUB-HEAD 13\nThe provision of a projector for determining the height of a cloud base is necessary for the safety of aircraft descending through cloud at night. The estimated cost is $1,600.\n\n### Personal Emoluments\nOwing to the increase in air traffic, two groundsmen, one guard, and one telegraphist have been added to the personnel.\n\n# HEAD 12. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE\n\n## SUB-HEADS 19 AND 20\nOpium seizures declined considerably in 1939, and at the same time, sales of Government opium showed a marked increase. Increased purchases and a reduction in rewards are therefore expected.\n\n### Personal Emoluments\nIt has been found that the three additional European Revenue Officers recruited on a temporary basis in 1938 will be permanently required; the increased requirements of Imperial Preference being the principal reason. These posts have therefore been made permanent. Owing to the need for greater supervision, the number of Senior Revenue Officers has been increased from one to three by promotions from the ranks of Revenue Officers, whose number is adjusted accordingly.\n\n# HEAD 13. JUDICIARY\n# HEAD 15. LEGAL DEPARTMENTS\n\nThe law departments have been regrouped as follows.\n\n## HEAD 13 JUDICIARY B. MAGISTRACY, HONG KONG\n\n### Personal Emoluments\nIn accordance with policy now approved, two cadet officers in the Hong Kong Magistracy will be replaced by officers of the Colonial Legal Service, who will be qualified barristers.\n\n# HEAD 16. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT\n\n## Other Charges\n\n### SUB-HEAD 61\nTwo new ambulances are considered necessary, one for Kowloon Hospital and one for the western New Territories mainland.\n\n### SUB-HEAD 73\nThe increase in patients at the Kowloon Hospital (25% since 1935) together with the requirements of Air Raid Precautions entail large increases in X-Ray equipment.\n\n### SUB-HEAD 74\nTwo machines in the Massage Department require replacing. In addition, a new machine is required to meet increased demands. These items absorb $3,747. The balance of $1,403 for equipping a clinic at the Violet Peel Centre to replace the clinic at the former Government Civil Hospital.\n\n### Personal Emoluments\nIncreases of staff for the purpose of the following new or increased activities have been provided in estimates:\n\n1. The increase in number of Hospital in-patients from 18,885 in 1938 to 22,234 estimated for 1939 is expected to prove permanent. This directly necessitates increases in administrative staff and in charges in Hospital account. Improvements in the quality of Hospital services, a revenue-producing form of expenditure, are also justified by the increased scale of activities. The increases of staff primarily referable to these causes are: 1 Dental Surgeon, 1 Dental Mechanic, 1 Chinese Medical Officer, 1 Assistant Chemist, 1 Probationer Masseuse, 1 Junior Clerical Service Class VIB Clerk (for Radiology office), 4 Staff Nurses, 3 Probationer Dispensers, 2 Staff Dressers, 1 Electrician, 11 Ward Boys, 7 Coolies, 9 Amahs, 1 Cook, and 1 Messenger.\n\n2. The taking over from the District Officers of the Scavenging Services in the towns of the New Territories results in additions of 41 Scavenging Coolies, 1 Chinese Sanitary Inspector, and 1 Foreman.\n\n3. The taking over from the Prison Department of the Prison Hospital staff involves provision for 1 Hospital Supervisor, 1 Hospital Principal Indian Warder, 1 Assistant Hospital Principal Indian Warder, and 7 Hospital Indian Warders. In addition, 1 Assistant Hospital Supervisor and 2 more Hospital Indian Warders are proposed.\n\n4. It is proposed to extend the Social Hygiene Service for combating social diseases. An addition of 1 Lady Medical Officer, 3 Health Visitors, 4 Social Hygiene Nurses, 1 Coolie, and 1 Amah is provided for this purpose.\n\n5. Three Infant Welfare Centres were opened in 1939, and 8 nurses provided. It is considered that 13 nurses are needed to staff them, and 5 new posts are accordingly added.\n\n6. General administrative requirements resulting from the above increased activities involve the addition of 10 Junior Clerical Service Clerks and also of 1 Assistant Steward to look after increased equipment. At the same time, the Steward's scale has been raised from £400-£500 to £400-£575.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 583362, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-597-2 Estimates 1949 1-3-1948 - 14-7-1949", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-597-2 Estimates 1949 1-3-1948 - 14-7-1949", "content_text": "## Head 8.-EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\n| Estimate | 1947-48 | 1948-49 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **Personal Emoluments** | $ | $ |\n\n### Pensionable establishment\n\n1. Director of Education ($27,200) | 24,000 | 27,200\n2. Senior Inspectors of Schools ($20,160 × $960 -$22,080 × $720-$22,800) | 36,475 | 45,600\n4. Inspectors of Vernacular Schools ($10,560 × $480 $12,000 × $720—$19,200) | 55,500 | 92,520\n10. Principals ($20,160 × $960–$22,080 × $720 -$22,800) | 90,150 | 2000\n3. Senior Masters ($17,760 × $720-$19,200) | 48,000 | 110,960\n29. Masters and Supervisors ($9,600: $9,600 : $10,080 × $480 $12,000 × $720 $17,040) | 282,434 | 382,408\n82. Assistant Masters ($5,400: $5,400: $5,760 × $480-$9,120) | 299,949 | 1,011,240\n125. Certificated Masters ($3,600: $3,600: $3,900 × $300-$5,100) | 459,735 | \n1. Woman Inspector of Schools ($16,080 × $480 $17,040 × $720 $17,760 × $480 $19,200) | 12,250 | 16,800\n4. Woman Inspector of Vernacular Schools ($8,448 × $384—$9,600 × $576—$15,360) | 8,448 | 12,155\n25. Woman Principal ($16,080 × $480-$17,040 × $720-$17,760 × $480—$18,240) | 16,980 | 48,000\n25. Senior Mistresses ($13,680 × $480—$14,160 × $720-$14,880 × $480—$15,360) | 58,320 | \n8. Mistresses ($7,560: $7,560: $7,920 × $480 -$13,200) | 173,148 | 150,120\n25. Assistant Mistresses ($4,320: $4,320: $4,560 × $480—$4,920 × $360——$7,200) | 105,120 | 110,984\n41. Certificated Mistresses ($2,880: $2,880 : $3,120 × $240—$4,080) | 15,150 | \n4. Technical Instructors ($8,640 : $8,640 : $9,120 × $480-—$12,000 × $720-$15,600) | 41,450 | 50,700\n2. Assistant Technical Instructors ($7,680: $7,680: $8,160 × $480—$12,480) | 15,670 | 19,680\n\n### General Clerical Service\n\n1. Executive Officers | 3,150 | 25,560\n10. Clerks | 18,955 | 43,188\n\n### Non-pensionable establishment\n\n16. Mistresses ($7,560: $7,560: $7,920 × $480 -$13,200) | 84,000 | 149,760\n11. Certificated Mistresses ($2,880: $2,880: $3,120 x $240-$4,080) | 34,320 | \n2. Workshop Instructors ($1,800: $3,600 × $300-$5,100) | 2,768 | 8,220\n2. Laboratory Attendants ($768× $24-$960) | 804 | 3,264\n2. Sound-projector Operators ($768 × $24 $960) | 720 | 1,710\n7. Office Attendants ($768 × $24-$960) | 1,836 | 6,720\n22. Coolies ($528 × $24-$720) | 4,173 | 14,688\n53. Messengers ($528 × $24—$720) | 9,416 | 33,552\n. Amahs ($528 × $24-$720) | 1,560 | 5,760\n1. Watchman ($768 × $24-$960) | 156 | 768\n1. Groundsman ($768 × $24-$960) | 360 | 768\n14. Caretakers ($528 × $29—$720) | 2,376 | 8,208\n\n### Temporary staff | 98,181 | 601,620\nActing pay | 10,000 | 10,000\nAllowances to headmasters, etc. | 27,000 | 27,000\nCasual labour | 2,000 | \nEvening class allowances | 122,968 | 162,800\nExpatriation pay | 188,316 | \nItems not repeated | 40,552 | \n\n**Total Personal Emoluments** | 2,154,025 | 3,557,998", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-597-2 Estimates 1949 1-3-1948 - 14-7-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 597103, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 134, "title": "CO129-623-9 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1952 1-2-1951 - 30-11-1951", "content_text": "-13-\n\n4.\n\n188\n\nthe transfer of a number of Executive Officers and Clerks from other departments to deal with the clerical work involved. The major reductions in staff have taken place in the temporary staff establishment but four posts of officers-in-charge of the main sections of the Supplies Branch were transferred to the non-pensionable establishment during 1950. The post of Assistant Director (Industry) has been abolished as well as the post of Government Chemist (Commerce and Industry) which has been made possible by the absorption of the departmental laboratory into that of the Medical Department. The posts of two officers seconded for duty in Tokyo are now shown under the departmental estimates together with special allowances approved for them while on duty in Japan. The only other establishment change is the reclassification of nine Revenue Officers from Class III to Class II and the creation of nine new posts in that class.\n\nRecurrent expenditure at $307,490 shows a small reduction from the previous combined total of $309,000 in 1950/51. Such changes which have occurred are of minor importance.\n\nProvision of $14,000 under Special Expenditure is required to replace a departmental vehicle which is no longer serviceable.\n\nHead 8. Custodian of Property.\n\nEstimate 1951/52.\n\nRevised Estimate 1950/51.\n\nApproved Estimate 1950/51.\n\nActual Expenditure 1949/50.\n\n$ 41,956\n\n46,252\n\n42,156\n\n41,339\n\nUntil a Peace Treaty is signed with Japan, the work of this department is necessarily limited to routine matters. A small reduction of $200 is made in recurrent expenditure.\n\nIt is proposed to transfer administrative control of this department in 1951/52 to the Accountant-General, when it will cease to exist as a separate department.\n\nHead 9. Education Department.\n\nEstimate 1951/52.\n\nRevised Estimate 1950/51. Approved Estimate 1950/51. Actual Expenditure 1949/50.\n\n$5,680,679\n\n5,196,793\n\n5,443,781\n\n4,476,141\n\nThe establishments of Masters and Mistresses for Government schools have been examined in detail during the year and a readjustment has been made to accord with the existing position. The effect is to show 444 posts for both sexes compared with the previous figure of 440. In addition, the division of the grades of Masters and Mistresses has been revised and simplified. The net effect is to show two separate grades of Masters covering 267 posts instead of three former grades covering 283 posts. With the Mistresses two grades totalling 177 posts have replaced the three former grades totalling 157 posts. The increase of four posts in the combined total for Masters and Mistresses is off-set by the abolition of four senior posts, two of Inspectors of Vernacular Schools, one of Inspector of Schools, and one of Senior Mistress. One new senior post of Deputy Director of Education has been added to the establishment. There have been a number of promotions and transfers of Clerks in the General Clerical Service. Two posts of Laboratory Attendants, four posts of Sound Projector Operators, and three posts of", "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 } ]