11. ( 英譯 ) 重修來成堂碑記
"Our ancestor Tseung Luk (R) planned to build an ancestral hall for our ancestor Kwong Yue. He was successful and the ancestral tablets have been fixed in the hall from the 40th year of Hong Hei, A.D. 1701, up till now. The building is in ruins, and Shing ( ) (myself) and others think that as it was erected by our early fore-fathers, we ought to repair it. Owing to the limited ancestral fund, it is difficult to do this, but I (named Shing) and all my brothers, cousins, uncles and nephews are pleased to subscribe money towards the expense, and even the descendants of the ancestors Shing (*) and Yan (4) are pleased to help.
The subscribers are as follows:-
Yiu Kong () subscribed one tael and two mace
Sz Taan (E), one hundred and fifty taels.
Sz Yue (*) seventy-five taels.
Sz Yuk (+1), ten taels.
Sz Shing (#), two-hundred and fifty taels.
K'ei Yuen (M), sixty taels.
Sz Tsaan (#), sixty taels. T'ing Suen(), eight taels.
Sz Yue ($), sixty taels.
Kin Lung, 47th year repaired, and this stone tablet fixed.
The virtuous, meritorious descendant Tseung Luk was the one who
started this Hall. The virtuous, meritorious descendant Sze Shing was the one who took charge of the work of repairing it.”
Society, 十四卷(1974),一七九頁重刋。 ( #KI - KX Sung Hok-pang, "Legends and stories of the New Territories" Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic
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