436
.$ 225.00
225.00
210.00
150.00
120.00
75.00
The Society is indebted, as in former years, to the various Benevolent Societies of Macao, Canton and other places, for their co-operation in restoring women and children to their relatives, and for their assistance in other directions.
The subscriptions for the year amount to $5,465.10, showing an increase of $1,459,80 over the subscriptions for 1899, and of $3,628.15 over those for 1898. The Society is greatly indebted to the Chinese Commercial Community for its continued and increased support.
The following is a list of the Guilds which subscribe and of the amounts of their annual sub- scriptions:-
Annual Subscriptions to the Pó Léung Kuk from the different Hongs and Guilds.
Nai Pak Hongs,...
Commission Agents,
Piece Goods Dealers and Drapers,
Rice Merchants,
Ginseng and Drug Dealers,
Cotton Yarn Merchants,.
Compradores to European Firms, ......$ 300.00
Prepared Opium Shops,
150.00
Californian Merchants,
150.00
Bankers,
75.00
Mat Bag Shops,
75.00
Foreign Goods Dealers,
30.00
Copper and Iron Shops,
60.00
Tientsin Dried Fruit Shops,
60.00
Wholesale Pig Dealers,
60.00
Vermilion Shops......
60.00
Compradore Shops,
60.00
Dealers in Medicinal Plants,
60.00
Wholesale Salt Fish Dealers,
60.00
Pork Sellers,--Sheung Wán,
27.00
Pawnbrokers,
60.00
Do.. Chung Ván,
18.00
Gold Shops,
60.00
Do., -Sai Ying-pún,
9.00
Master Carpenters,
38.00
Rattan Shops-Masters,....
30.00
Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Dealers,
30.00
Cattle Dealers,.
30.00
Mán On Insurance Co.,
30.00
Tsai On Insurance Co.,
30.00
Ts'ün Oc Insurance Co.,...
30.00
Po On Insurance Co.,
30.00
Sea Fish Dealers.........
24.00
Tobacconists,
15.00
Rattan Shops Employées,
15.00
Fresh Water Fish Dealers,
15.00
Tailors,
15.00
Poultry Dealers,
40.00
Bricklayers,
15.00
Old Clothes Shops,
12.00
Barbers, ..
Tea Dealers,
15.00
Restaurants,
500.00
34.00
Makers of Tin and Lead Boxes,
5.30
Tea Saloons.....
200.00
Tung On Insurance Co.,
30.00
At the beginning of the year the services of a female teacher were engaged, and the inmates now receive regular elementary instruction..
A. W. BREWIN,
President.
HO KAI,
Vice-President.
We, LAU WAI-CH'ÜEN and WAI LONG-SILAN, members of the Board of Directors of the Pó Leung Kuk Incorporated Society, do solemnly and sincerely declare that the attached statement of the Assets and Liabilities of the above Society on the 31st December, 1900, marked "A" and signed with our names on the fifth day of March, 1901, is a true statement, and we make this solemn decla- ration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of The Statutory Declaration Act, 1835."
LAU WAI-CH ́ÜEN.
WAI LONG-SHÁN.
Declared by the declarants, LAU WAI-CIUEN and WAI LONG-SHAx, ar Victoria, Hongkong, this fifth day of March, 1901.
Before me,
BRUCE SHEPHERD, J.P.,
Victoria.
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