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Appendix XVII.

Petition No. 202.

A sum

KU FAI-SHAN, Ló CHI-TIN, and other Directors of the Tung Wa Hospital present a petition, praying that a grant may be made from the reserve funds to meet expenditure. In recent years the number of both out-patients and in-patients has regularly increased and an increase of expenditure has resulted therefrom. The ordinary yearly expenditure is about $30,000 while the income from house property is about $9,000. To meet the balance of expenditure the hospital has to trust to the subscriptions from Hongs and charitable persons which are barely sufficient for the purpose, and therefore it has not been possible to put by much. The year in which the plague was epidemic, the number of persons attacked was so great that the Hospital opened a branch for the treatment of these cases, and a sum of $19,000 was expended in this way. amounting to a little over $7,500 was borrowed from the balance of the (famine) relief fund. Now they have had to repair the drains and build a new encoffining room, clothes store, lavatory and latrine, and make a new road at a cost of $8,500. Every- thing has now been completed, and the Hospital is pressed for immediate payment. The question has been discussed again and again and no other course seems open than to appropriate for that purpose $20,000 from the money deposited in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. They therefore expressly set forth this full statement of their case for your Honour's information, and pray that $20,000 may be granted from the $34,000 deposited in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to meet expenditure incurred. They humbly pray that their petition may be submitted to His Excellency the Governor for his approval.

Appendix XVIII.

Donations not yet paid by the various guilds.

Referred to in Mr. Lo CHI-TIN's evidence. (See page 49.)

Compradores Guild 1895,.......

.$500.00

Rice Guild 1895,

500.00

Iron and Copper Guild 1895,

200.00

Ship Compradores Guild 1895,................

200.00

Pork Guild 1893, $35; 1894, $35 and 1895, $200,

270.00

Pig Lan Guild 1895,..

200.00

Carpenters Guild 1893, $52.52; 1894, $150 and 1895, $150,

352.52

Fruit and Vegetable Guild 1895,

100.00

Rattan Guild 1895,

100.00

Fresh Fish Guild 1895,..

80.00

Pond Fish Guild 1892-1895,

200.00

Poultry Guild 1895,

50.00

Tobacco Guild 1895,

50.00

Old Clothes Guild 1895,

40.00

Masons Guild 1894, $20 and 1895, $50,.

70.00

Cattle Lan Guild 1891, $80; 1894, $100 and 1895, $100, Mat Bag Guild 1895,......

280.00 .

60.00