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forces during hostilities against China to settle and allotted them small lots on the waterfront. The Upper Bazaar which lay in the area of Graham and Stanley Streets consisted also of relatively small areas granted to Chinese who were presumptively useful to the nascent colony as tradesmen. The Lower Bazaar was almost totally destroyed in the great fire at the end of 1851 and the Upper Bazaar was removed in 1844 and its inhabitants resettled in Taipingshan.
3 See Gordon to Pottinger, 10 February 1844 [CO129/V/f.141].
+ Evidence given by Colonel Malcolm to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Commercial Relations with China, answer to question 4633.
5 Davis sought to let as many monopolies go as possible to private individuals for what they were prepared to give. Thus, in addition to the markets, he let out also opium, salt, and quarrying monopolies.
6 Lease Register Volume C, f.94. The lot was leased as Marine Lot 38. The lease registers referred to are the Registers of the Land Office in which all dealings in crown land were recorded. The actual transactions themselves are also recorded separately as 'Memorials' and reference is made to them by number. The numbering was done according to the order in which they were registered. I am indebted to the Registrar General of the Government of Hong Kong for allowing me access to the records of the Land Office and for permission to publish material derived from that source.
7 Memorial 122.
8 Memorial 143.
9 Memorial 258.
10 Friend of China, 7 July 1847.
11 Memorial 383.
12 In this article, the romanisations found in the Land Office records are used even where they do not correspond to those either in the Wade-Giles system or current usage.
13 Memorial 304.
14 Ibid.
15 Memorial 345.
16 Hong Kong Register, 27 July 1847.
17 Friend of China, 14 July 1847.
18 And in so doing, incidentally, infringing the provision of the Treaty of Nanking, 1842, which allowed British subjects to proceed only to the "Treaty Ports" and to nowhere else in China.
19 Friend of China, 14 July 1847. Tam Achoy's market was known as the Kwang Yuen and in the disastrous fire in December 1851, the fifty-one houses which comprised the market were destroyed: see Hong Kong Register, January 1852. Tam was referred to a few years later as the "most respectable Chinaman" who made a practice of going into the witness box to speak for the character of accused persons. He remained in Hong Kong until his death in the 1870's and was one of the founders of the Tung Wah organisation, a charitable body still functioning in Hong Kong.
20 Hong Kong Register, 27 July 1847.
21 Hong Kong Register, 19 October 1847; Friend of China, 23 October 1847 and 18 December 1847.
22 The Editor of the Friend (John Carr) claimed to have seen Hwei's accounts and that they revealed the "squeeze" payment.
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forces during hostilities against China to settle and allotted them small lots on the waterfront. The Upper Bazaar which lay in the area of Graham and Stanley Streets consisted also of relatively small areas granted to Chinese who were presumptively useful to the nascent colony as tradesmen, The Lower Bazaar was almost totally destroyed in the great fire at the end of 1851 and the Upper Bazaar was removed in 1844 and its inhabitants resettled in Taipingshan.
3 See Gordon to Pottinger, 10 February 1844 [CO129/V/f. 141].
+ Evidence given by Colonel Malcolm to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Commercial Relations with China, answer to question 4633.
5 Davis sought to let as many monopolies go as possible to private individuals for what they were prepared to give. Thus, in addition to the markets, he let out also opium, salt and quarrying monopolies.
6 Lease Register Volume C, f. 94. The lot was leased as Marine Lot 38. The lease registers referred to are the Registers of the Land Office in which all dealings in crown land were recorded. The actual transactions themselves are also recorded separately as 'Memorials' and reference is made to them by number. The numbering was done according to the order in which they were registered. I am indebted to the Registrar General of the Government of Hong Kong for allowing me access to the records of the Land Office and for permission to publish material derived from that
source.
7 Memorial 122.
8 Memorial 143.
9 Memorial 258.
10 Friend of China, 7 July 1847.
11 Memorial 383.
12 In this article, the romanisations found in the Land Office records are used even where they do not correspond to those either in the Wade- Giles system or current usage.
13 Memorial 304.
14 Ibid.
15 Memorial 345.
16 Hong Kong Register, 27 July 1847.
17 Friend of China, 14 July 1847.
18 And in so doing, incidentally, infringing the provision of the Treaty of Nanking, 1842, which allowed British subjects to proceed only to the "Treaty Ports' and to nowhere else in China.
19 Friend of China, 14 July 1847. Tam Achoy's market was known as the Kwang Yuen and in the disastrous fire in December 1851, the fifty one houses which comprised the market were destroyed: see Hong Kong Register, January 1852. Tam was referred to a few years later, as the "most respectable Chinaman" who made a practice of going into the witness box to speak for the character of accused persons. He remained in Hong Kong until his death in the 1870's and was one of the founders of the Tung Wah organisation, a charitable body still functioning in Hong Kong.
20 Hong Kong Register, 27 July 1847.
21 Hong Kong Register, 19 October 1847; Friend of China, 23 October 1847 and 18 December 1847.
22 The Editor of the Friend (John Carr) claimed to have seen Hwei's accounts and that they revealed the "squeeze" payment.
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