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VASU Victoria, Hongkong, 12th September, 1850.

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Lord,

Enclose

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I have the honor to

authenticated copy

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of Ordinance N. 3

of

1850

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entitled "An Ordinance

"amend, the Ordinance 102

Ordinance

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Church in

" to provide for

Victoria in the Island of "Hongkong" and also to mathe

"the Trustees

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the said Church Sum of money

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"not exceeding

For Thousand

Five Hundred Sollars," which

The Right Honorable The Earl Grey,

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the 10th Instant.

The necessity for this Ordinance arises from the appointment of a Bishop to the Colony, which renders some

amendments and alterations

in Ardinance 1.2 of 1847,

the James

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subject, desirable..

The only provision of importance is contained in Section III of

which empowers

the Ordinance,

the Trustees of the Church

to borrow

$2,500 on

a

Sumo not exceeding

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on the security of "Pents and Profits arising from the Sittings in the Church,

which sum it was

epential

should be raised to pay off

certain

small claims ove

to Contractors and Workmen

with

from whom payment could not

any degree of propriety be withheld._ I trust, therefore, that your Lordships will

be enabled

to submit this Ordinance for the affroval of Her Most frasions Majesty.

I have the honor to be, With the highest respect, Your Lordship't, Humbh Servant,

most obedient

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the entitled 2 3 of 1850.

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Ordwince to amend the

Ardinance 22 of 1847 entitted

"An Adivance to provide

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"Jor a Church in Victoria in the

"Island of Hong Hong","

and

also to enable the Trustied

of the said Church to raise

a Sam of Money not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars"

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12th September, 1850.

Victoria, Hongkong,

Her Jeriale

The former Church Adenauce it annexek Mess: bood. & Rogers. Refer to

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decision to be begnified

to the Inhabitants of

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Horry by a Proclanation to

be published in the usual

and mech authentic mannen,

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HONGKONG.

ANNO DECIMO QUARTO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. 3 of 1850.

BY His Excellency SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Esquire, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 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 Super- intendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE No. 2 of 1847, ENTITLED " AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR A CHURCH IN VICTORIA IN THE "ISLAND OF HONGKONG," AND ALSO TO ENABLE The Trustees of THE SAID CHURCH TO RAISE A SUM OF MONEY NOT EXCEEDING TWO THOU- SAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.

[10th September, 1850.]

Title.

WHEREAS various Circumstances have arisen since the passing of Preamble. the said Ordinance No. 2 of 1847, rendering it desirable that some of the Provisions therein contained should be amended; and whereas a certain Debt of in or about Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars is now due to certain Workmen and others for the building of the said Church after Payment of the Sum of Six Thousand Nine Hundred Pounds Sterling mentioned in the said Ordinance No. 2 of 1847 :

dral Church of Fee

I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Church in fu- Governor of Hongkong with the Advice of the Legislative Council ture to be desig- thereof, That the said Church shall in future be known and designated nated the Cathe- in all Proceedings as the Cathedral Church at Victoria, or as Saint St John. John's Cathedral Church at Victoria, and that from and after the passing thereof vested in of this Ordinance, the real Estate or Fee in the said Church and in all the Trustees and Lands and Hereditaments thereunto belonging shall become and be their Successors. vested in the existing Trustees of the said Church and their Successors for ever in trust for the purposes of the said Church.

II. And be it further enacted and ordained, That if at any time Provision when hereafter, by reason of the Non-attendance of Voters, Trustees shall the annual Elec- not be elected, in pursuance of the Fourth Section of the said Ordinance tion of Trustees No. 2 of 1847, on the last Thursday of each Month of April in every within the pre- may not be made year, then and in such case it shall and may be lawful, at any time within scribed time. the following Month of May, to and for the Two elected Trustees of the preceding year or the Surviver of them, or in the event of their Death or Absence from the Colony, to and for the Lord Bishop of Victoria, or in his Absence to and for the Colonial Chaplain or Acting Colonial Chaplain, to nominate and appoint any Two duly qualified Persons to act as such Trustees for the then current year of office.

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III. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the several Powers Powers vested vested in the Colonial Chaplain by the Fifth Section of the said Ordinance in the Colonial No. 2 of 1847, as Chairman of the Trustees for the said Cathedral Chaplain

Chairman of Church, be and are hereby vested in and transferred to the Bishop of Trustees trans- Victoria and his Successors, or in his or their absence from the Colony, ferred to the in the Colonial Chaplain or Acting Colonial Chaplain for the tinie Bishop. being. Provided always, That in the event of any Meeting of the said Trustees being convened, and that the said Bishop although within the Colony may not be in attendance, then and in such case he may either depute the Colonial Chaplain to attend as such Chairman in his stead, or failing such deputation, that it may be lawful for the Trustees present at such Meeting to elect a Chairman from those Members in attendance.

of Free Sittings.

IV. And be it further enacted and ordained, That if at any time it Provision for shall appear to the Trustees of the said Church that the One-third Part renting the un- of the Sittings directed by the Seventh Section of the said Ordinance No. 2 required portion of 1847 to be appropriated as Free Sittings for the use of the poorer classes of the Population, be an unnecessarily large proportion for that purpose, then and in such case it shall be lawful for the Trustees to rent out and set the excess of the said third for one year, and so on

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from year to year,

until it shall appear necessary to the Trustees to again allot the said full proportion of a third to its original purpose. And that when and as soon as Four eligible Sittings shall become vacant, the same shall be assigned and set apart for the use of the said Bishop and his Family.

New corporate V. And be it further enacted and ordained, That in all Contracts or Name or Desig-Suits, as specified in the Fourteenth Section of the said Ordinance No. 2 of nation for the 1847, the Trustees shall contract, sue and be sued in the name of "The Trustees of the Cathedral Church at Victoria," or "The Trustees of Saint John's Cathedral Church at Victoria," in lieu and stead of the designation or styles employed in the said Section.

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Repeal of 19th VI. And be it further enacted and ordained, That from and after Section of Ordi- the passing of this Ordinance, the Nineteenth Section of the said Ordinance nance No. 2 of No. 2 of 1847, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that only the 1847. No Cler- Lord Bishop of Victoria or some other Clergyman duly authorized to ciate in Cathe-officiate for or by him may sing or say the Common Prayer, administer dral Church the Sacraments, "and preach any Sermons within the said Cathedral, and without sanction that in his absence, such Powers shall be vested in the Colonial or Acting from the Bishop, Colonial Chaplain of that period.

or in his absence

from Colonial VII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That it shall and may Chaplain.

be lawful to and for the Trustees of the said Cathedral Church or tlie Power to Trus- tees to borrow major part of them, should they deem it expedient so to do, to take up $2,500 for the and borrow with Interest not exceeding the rate of Nine per centum payment of a per annum, the said sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars, and to secure the re-payment of the same with Interest as aforesaid by mortgaging or pledging the Rents and Profits arising or to arise from the Sittings in the said Cathedral Church.

Debt.

S. G. BONHAM.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 10th Day of September, 1850.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

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Hongkong. Anno Decime quarte Victoriae Reginas. No. 3 of 1850.

of 1847,

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An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 2 of 1847, entitled " An Ordinance to provide for " Church in Victoria in the Island " of "Hongkong," and also to enable "the Crustees of the said Church

to raise a

Lund

of Money

not

exceeding two Chousand Five

Hundred Dollars.

[ 10th September, 1850]

Enclosure in berpatah

186 of 1850.

No87.

1087.

Financial.

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Victoria, Hongtory,

16th September, 1850

Apy to hand for Report othee/s

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by Lord,

With reference to

Despatch No 85 of the 29 Ultimo, I have the honor to enclose, for your lordship's

consideration and orders,

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the

kl. letter from our William Scott,

a merchant of this Colony,

claiming

on

a

reduction

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rent

Marine Cot - 1056, for which he at present pay: £75.10.1 and which he wishes to be reduced to to 42.

The Right Honorable

The Earl Grey,

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It appears that the

lot in question

was granted in

3.

the first instance

to a

Holgate, by whom it was

Mr

originally

afterwards transferred to Mr Scott. _ The land as granted popeped a frontage of bo feet and

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a calculated area

of 5418 square feet; but when

complete Survey

was

a

mado

the Town in 1844, and the

boundaries of this and the

adjacent lots more

accurately

was found that

defined, it was

tage was 81 feet and

the frontage

contained

an

area

of 9,759 fact

At the priod when this ground

granted, the rate had

was

been fixed at an

annual

payment of £1 for 129 Square feet, which is not disputed

by Mr. Scott..

In Mr. Scott's letter

Le complains chat while

all the lots sold by Captain

Elliot

are

charged at the

original measurements, and some

of

them

nearly doubled in

extent, their rental is

now

the same, and his has been

increased and

aw

ar bitrary

two years

measurement taken

after its occupation.

4.

To this I have only

were

to observe that the lots of ground sold by Captain Elliot and Mr Johnston disposed of under totally different circumstances : _ "those by Captain Ellish were sold Publia austion

at a

on

the

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spot when Purchasers were

invited to bid for

a

Cob then

shown theme, without reference

to its

contents - although

approximate area

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was

assumed..

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when these allotments

were

subsequently measured to

enable leases to be made

out, some

were

found to be

larger and some smaller than has been estimated; but as the biddings had been for the lot,

leases

were

made out for their positive contents, - the rental not being changed

but kept at the rates at which the lot had beew purchased.-

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Those granted by

put up at

Mr. Johnston

were

a

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fixed price, viz:, at the annual Rental of tol for 129 Superficial feet, and it was under these conditions that the piece of ground

now

occupied by Mr Scott was allotted to Mr Holgate..

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precise rental

that Mr. Scott ought in

justice to be compelled to the area

pay depends

on

the lot contains

reampied by the lot.. In Mr Turveyor. General Obeverly's N. 2. letter I find it stated that

9,759 Super= - ficial feet; and "I' ame therefore of opinion that br Scott ought to pay for this

space at the above mentioned rate, which would make

the tax on the lot amount

to £75, 131, the Sumo he has heretofore paid..

I have the hours to be, With the highest respect,

Your Lordships,

most obedient

Humble Servant, Blum

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I have to acknowleage the

berish of your Despitete

207. of the 16 of besen hast

emlosing: letter from Her William Scott, a Meshach of Hong Kong, claiming a

reduction of the Rech which he et quaseal pays fora Marine Loh 256.

beresting to the Constitions

repon which Eur Scott obtained прои

this Land Scomer in your

opinion that he has afrigint

no s sufficient.

reason.

Im any reduction of Park,

and that the present rate

ought to be maintamil_

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Sir,

Honghong, 29th Auquet / 50

With reference

reference to a conversation to which His hxcellency The Governor did me

the farmer

to allow me last week, I beg leave to address you for the purpose of pointing what appears to me to be a misapprehension on the part of His hweellersey.

His Excellency seemed to be of opinion that all acts of Mc Thuston relating to Land had_ been disallowed by Her Majesty's Government= at home, but I think a reference to a Despatch from Lord Stanley dated 3rd January 1844 will.

at once show that such was

only

the

case as

related to the rent of Inland lots granted under a notice dated. Houghtong, 12 September 1841, which it cons

proposed to raise, and this

was

Lordship further, goes on to state," But, where

How: Majon farine,

Colonial Secretary-

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parties have made any

bona fide outlay, and

unwilling to retain their lots on

are tr

raized terms, you " settle each case..

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course take

will of com

equitably and

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the

care

to

in under

"merits, bearing in mind, such expectations as it may have been reasonable to form a public notice issued, though without 4. sufficient powers, by the Officer exercising

"chief authority on

epot."_

the

the

I beg leave also to refer to Lord Stanley's

Icspatch in additional support of certain claims I advanced against

of

ainst over-measurement.

the Marine Lot now possesed by me, which

in error ever since 1843. His

paid in

I have paid Freellency, I think, stated the Lot having been- granted by 10# Johnston_ did not come under MB. did-not- the regulations affecting those sold at the sale by faptain Alliot in June 18/4/h with respect. to the last, Lord Stanley says, Blue Book paye 392, that, "it would be only just to (confirm the Marine Lots at the prices they

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acendingly

"fetched at Auction," which done, and His Lordship further states, Blue Book

page 393, line 12, "With respect to the Marine "Lots alienated by Mr. Johnston, the conditions

came decision must-

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"being the

same, the "course apply to them as to thou sold under faptam Elliot's notice." My complaint is that, while all the lots sold by faptain Elliot charged at the original menemement, although,

shown to His hycelleney

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on a

Illist are

second Survey,

of them have been found to have been nearly doubled in extent, and although, my rent has been fixed at the

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not

average of there, I

charged at the riginal

measurement

but at an arbitrary one, taken nearly two years

after its recupation.

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I have therefore respectfully to solicit, that His hueellency will be pleased to direct- inspection of the original Diagram and measurement of the lot, and that the rent be equitably charged

in terms of Mr. Johnston's

may

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notice under which it was alienated.

that

I have heard that Mr. fleverly says the Lot, as granted, only possessed. 60 fect frontage ; if it is so, I would respectfully point out that this only changes the size in one direction, and could not alter the depth;_ the Lot is now as it came

into

my porcession in March 1842, about 42 feet were added to the 80 by folonel. Malcolun but-

Committee of which

th

he

was a

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pices of land and then expending $12,000 more on it of which official scends gave

the rent

at £42 in place of £75. 15.1 is another_

excuse, and even

the latter sum is in enor...

against men of 7/1 %/% by the precent dimensions charged.

Member did

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not enter it in the records of their proceding I was not allowed to retain it although ready-

to swear

Chope

to the fact.

measurement

me

In conclusion, I would. beg to express my that His hwcellency would forgive the trouble. I give him on this subject, the neends

: the Land office will show that I have remonstrated against the charged, from the first, and it is only lately have been able to find that the justice of my -claim is so firmly founded upon official_ dreuments._." I trust that giving $2,000 for a

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I have, to,

(Signed) W. Scott.

If any thing further is wanted to show that the grants made by Mr. Shuster.

the

Johnston

CALC.-

were respected, The sea frontage

following is an extreme to hastward of Lindsay #ft had been granted to Mr. White, who had done nothing to it. Government wished to reserve it and the Land Committer of 1842 gave in place of it the ground next to mine to Westward - The Lot. is 163 and the transaction described in the Blue Book,

page 409.

(Sig.) M.S.

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1.87 of 1850.

Inclosure Nol in Deshatch

Copy

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Sir,

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Surveyor Generals Office, Victoria, 10th September, 1850.

In accordance with

your

instructions I have

upon

the hour to submit the following remarks

Muz

Scott's letter to your address dated 29th Ultimo

you referring to this Marine Lot N 56 and soliciting His bxcellency to direct an inspection of the

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original, diagram and measurement of the Lot, "and that the rent may be equitably charged in

" terms of Mr Johnston's notice under which it

sof

"was alienated."

On

my appointment as Assistant. Surveyor I had no plan of the Lots sold or granted, and the

Records in the

office

were to

not be relied on in

Lots

any way

were not even built

incomplete they could

whatever;

on,

many of

of the

the line of Road not

defined, except in come few instance, and these, I

The Honbler. Major M. Caine

Scott claiming redriction Letter from Mr William

of rent

on his Marine

Lot No 56.-

29th August, 1850.

Colonial Secretary.

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imagine, generally as the tenant.

conducive to his interests.-

Befni

any

It most

thought

active measures could be

adopted for the settlement of the various deffienitic in the

way of planning

The grants by Mit Johnston were made

£1 for 129 super : fest

at a certain fixed rate, and thus for these

these it was

for.

care in determining

the Town, I

rely upon

made a careful survey of the then evicting state

of the Queen's Rond, high and low water mark,. and the several walls and houses built. I then

studied the circumstances

affecting

the various

lots, defined the several boundaries, and calculated

the

areas ae

In

eendingly.

fixing

the rent to be paid upon

these

viz.

Loto, they had to be divided into two classes, hlliots sales and Johnston's grants, which were as dissimilar in their terms as possible; the former were sold at Public Auction, the purchacer offering a price

offering a price without=

area,

and the Lot such as it

reference to

was, was

property from the intended. Road

his

to

high

water

mark, and it did not signify whether the_

calculation of the

area was

right or wrong

viz.

n

recessary to take great

I could not

the true

area-;

the return of thee Lots; it was

manifectly incorrect, and, in fact, it was admitted to be so, for the fourth regulation, afte ment of the grant

stating that an acknowledgment of

would be given, concludes, and this acknowledgment. will be exchanged for

the precise

a

as soon as

formal title, " measurements and registration.

a mine

shall be

сли

"completed.." I therefne took every possible care

in making

near as

the line

line of high water mark

as

possible to what it must have been at the time of the grant; in most cases I was

guided by untouched, unbuilt on ground, and

could not be mistaken, but the road

road in

where it was

many cases is not now wh

intended.

to be at the time of the grant, and thus, with the original insecurate measurements, I found

4.

that in almost

every

the

area was mu

much

calculation of case my more than that set down

in the Return, and consequently I increased the

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I have no doubt that the frontage is now just

as Mr. Scoth received it from Mr Holgate, the

original grantee; there is no acend of how this

additional land

-grant. I beg

of

Rent in terms of the original grant.

· leave to forward a memorandum showing the : several Loto granted by Mr Johnston, their

• and rental, with the corrected areas

it

areas

and rental

a

was to

have

fived by myself.

To prove how necessary Горго then Lots carefully booked into, Mr Scott is the

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very best illustration of the whole, and for this purpose I enclose a copy of the Diagram refors to; thus, it appears that the original Lot had a frontage of 60 fect only, the

area 5418,

£48;

and, according to the return, the rental. £ 43;

the diagram the even according to the

the area is

wrong; it should be 6270, which would make the rental nearly £49; but as the Lot, now is,

it has a frontage of 81 feet, and Mot Scott

claims even 4 feet

even 4 feet more, but

more, but yet declares

that the rent should be the same, viz: £42.

£

was

given,

record but if it was given,

course Mr. Johnston or the Land Committee

stipulated that it should be paid for; in

fact they could not do otherwise, and had they not done so, it

was

even

my duty to do it, and, again, had I given the four feet which Mo

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Scoth says

Colonel Maleolin allowed him to

take, I should have charged him with it in

a

similar

manner: an

inspection of my

menos: will prove that I have not dealt differently with Mr. Scott than with the others who had land granted under similar

circumstances.

With regard to the depth of the Lot,

I fixed it without

references

to

the Diagram

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but it happened to be similar to it nearly the hast side; but I made an increase

on the West side of 23 feet, which I conceive

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the

I was perfectly justified in doing to make it coincide with the depth of the boundary of adjoining Lot, and

regarding

which the tenant

has never complained, and therefore

I am

firmly convinced the line. I have laid down is

the correct one, and that the

area

upon

which

rent is charged is what Mr Scott

what Mr Scott ought to pay

ofn, siz - 9.759 super ofect, giving a

£75.13.1.

rental

of

Two illustrations will suffice to prove.

that Mr Scott ought to pay ofor

more

than 5418 Luper: fect; either

the shape of the lot must be

a

triangle nearly, or a rectangle, as in the

certainly

margin;

the former it

was not, and it is not

at all likely

that the latter

Lot 155

122

122

Queen's Road

Scott's

No56.

Queen's Road.

67

56

High water

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could have been the shape, or that the line.

igh water would recede at a

of high

angle with 56 feet

m

right

on one side and 45

the other. The line of high water and

112

112

mark

that. I have adopted for the boundary of the

as

Lot on the Sea side, is

by the dotted lines.

shown in each

call

To show what little regard I paid to

when I

deposit of silt, on stone walls even; determined the line of high water marth of Mr Scott's Lot, he had extended his wall into

dictanec of 170 feet; but yet-

I only the rast. and 112 on

the sea a

the line at 122 on

fized the

the West : I submit a plan of the Lot as surveyed at that time, showing the houses and walls built, the line of high water mark, &c,

and it will be observed that, on the West side,

wall built nearly

there

was a

Road; and in fiving

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to

the Queen's

that side,

the boundary on

I continued the direction

of the wall, and thus

determined the road frontages of 81 feet;

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feet; had

I given the additional. 4 feet claimed, there must of necessity have been an angle in the boundary line, which would have been objectionable.

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£1

Lo

uments in

were

were disallowed,

With regard to the arquements support of the fact that Mr Johnston's grants were sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government, it is only necessary to admit that they so, the grants of Town Lots only and I do not see that the paragraph extracted from the Blue Book strengthens the claim for

reduction of rent in the beast degree: general conditions in faptain Alliot's sales and Mr. Johnston grants

a

same,

and the acts were

the

were no doubt the confirmed; and thus

Lord Stanley advices that all should

under the same

"have made

any

спис

regulations, where parties

bona fide outlay, and

are

unwilling to retain their Lots on the raised terms.

"I shall be happy to give any further

information in

my power,

but I think I have

shown, that faptain Elliots sales and. We Johnston's

grants were made under totally different

circumstances, and

as

such, have been

treated accordingly, and that Mr Scott has

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is right to complain; that I was perfectly justified in making the amended measurement under the terms of the fourth- regulation, the manifee enron in the original calculation and the encroachments made by Mr. Holgate of no bee than 21fects, that the original measurement ought not to be charged..

I have, &c.

(Signed) Chas: Silseo: fleverly,

Surveyor. Ceneral

(True Lopy)

Man

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Memorandum

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of Mr Johnston's grants of Marine Lots showing their

content and Annual Rent with the amended contents

and rental under the 4* Regulation of the grant -

Not N of Sale Lot Content

Annual Rent

Present Present

annual Rent

Content

Remarks-

£...

£ 1.2.

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NOV. 26

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Lord,

25

18th September, 1860.

With reference to my

Despatch 176 of 12th August, I have the honor to acknowledge

the receipt of the following

Despatches on the 10th Instant.

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190, the last of 15th July, 1850.

Circular of 9th

I have the honor tobe,

With the highest respect,

The Right Honorable

The Earl Gren

to.

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most obedient

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27

Victoria, Houghtong. 35th September, 1850.

2

My Lord, I have the hour to act nowledge

our Lordship's Deepatch N 187 of 32nd July

cover to

copy of a letter from

last, giving Mr. J. J. Braine, proposing

that the

which_

grounds attached to his house, had recently been tendered to this Government, should be purchased at the

public expence, for the purpose of being

converted into a Botanical Garden!

In reply I beg to report to your Lordship that I cannot recommend_ the garden in quection be taken oven at the expense of the State, reference being had to the financial

The Right Honorable,

The Earl Grey,

tc.

fc.

resources

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the of

:

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The Earl oto

Governor Bonhan

eptember, 1850.

Received

No 88.

Grey

July, and Circular of 9

Despatches to No 190 of

Acknowledging receipt

July,

1850.

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flony, as well as to the absence of any

whome person to

it would be porcible to

confide the charge of such

au

establishment: it must be remembered

moreover, that independently of the original cost of the ground,

a

Superintendent and several Assistants must of necessity be maintained at a permanent expenditure, which, I am satisfied, would in the end prove by

no means inconsiderable.

From Mr. Braine's letter. I find

he has informed your Lordship that the house in which he resided (situated within the grounds alluded to),

been tendered to me

has

for a Government

House; I dich not trouble

your

Lordship with this matter, being of that the house in question,

opinion

considering its breality and other

circumstances connected with it

23

is totally unsuitable for the purpose.

I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,

Your Lordship's

Most Obedient.

Humble Servant,

Lau

5th September,

Governor

The Pearl Grey.

Bonham-

Received

1.89.

Despatch to 187 of 3?! Replying to this Lordship's

inf

converted into

for the purpose of

{urchased by Lovernment

This house should be the grounds attached

July, 1850, respecting Braine's proposal that

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Men Brave may

be ausuced

Peevelude

accordingly

3

Separate.

My Lord,

J314 Tong Hong

RECEIVED

NOV.19

1850

23

Victoria, Houghong,

25th September, 1850.

fircumstances of a domectic

nature render me very desirous of preeceding

aj

· far as Ceylon by the Mail Steamer which leaves Houghing on the 28th February next, my intention boing to return if possible the Steamer which takes it's departure.

by

from

34

Print de balle on the 24th of the ensuing mouth, by which arrangement.

absence from the folony would in all probability not execed seven weeks. In the Colonial Regulations

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lations it is

laich down that the Governor is on no account to absent himself from

om the

Colony without. Her Majesty's permision,

The Right Honorable,

The Earl Grey,

J

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.

to.

tc.

c.

and I am induced therefore to request the sanction of your Lordship for two __ months leave of absence from the above

date.

Civil

By the above. Regulations all the Officers of the bovernment under

certain restrictions are

permitted to be absent for six weeks during each year, without their allowances being curtailed, On the 28th February next. I shall have been in China within a few days of 3 years, and I beg to know under these circumstances what deduction with be made

if any

in my

and

allowances during my absence, should your Lordship be pleased to

sanction it.

Should Your Lordship devide that a portion of my salary is to be stopped,

of my absence exceeding six

reaso

weeks, then I would respectfully request. to be informed whether, in case it does

not exceed that period, I shall not be exempt from any

abatement on that

account.

Your Lordship will observe that

seven weeks that I expect to be abrent. I shall be 40 days

out of the

at sea.

I trust it will therefore be obvious that

absence from my port will, if sanctioned, be one of necessity

my

I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,

Your Lordships,

Most Obedient

Humble Servant,

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recipit of your abs patet Marked Separate of the 25th of

Sepn lost, and, in sanctioning

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abrence frome the

In the time

Colony

you propose,

Share to express my regret

that it is not in

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32

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177

No Go

Legislative

!

My Lord,

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1850

Victoria, Hongkong,

26th September, 1850.

33

Mr Stuart, the Manager of the

Hongkong Branch of the Oriental Bank,

having applied to me to lay before the Legistatic

-Council of this belony a Draft Ordinance

enabling the Chinar Branch of that Bank sued under a corporate style,

to

sue and be sued under

I accordingly scently brought that Braft

under the consideration

of the Council, on

which occasion that Body declared themselves

of opinion, with my

a meature.

concurrence),

ivere to be adopted,

that if such

it would be

desirable that it should emanate from the

Home Authorities, and for the following)

reasons ; namely : - That the Bank is as

The Right Honorable,

The Earl Grey,

&c.

Se

1 as gjet

34

unchartered and unincorporated Joint Stock

an wi

Company,

England

in)

and has not obtained for itself, either

and or in

the East Indies where it's

proprietary is, any

· power to that

similar power

which it seeks in China; and also its being

a

Bank of issue, in the opinion of the Council

difficulty

imposed

an additional de

on the local

Government affording what might be deemed

Government sanction to this

by the Public a Governmen

Company.

aware

Under these circumstances, and

circumstances, and bei

being

that the Managers of this Bank, in

England

have been in correspondence with Your Lordship in reference to the Establish =

- ment generally,

I have

now

the honor to

forward a copy of the Draft, with a request. that. I may be advised whether in

Your Lordship's judgement it would be proper for the Legislation. Council of this Colony to interfere-

in the

ana

tter

before

some steps

have been taken either in England where the

Managing.

Directors reside,, or at Bombay, which

is the principal abode of the Proprietary Body, to effect

the

desired obje

object

I have the honor to be,

"With the highest respecti,

Your Lordships,

Most Obedient,

Humble Servant, Iittala

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question having been

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Grey to Cransmit to you for the consideration of the Less Commissioners of the Treasury the Spy of a

te Governa

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Of Kong Hong enclosing the

Drath of

au

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To facilitate Proceedings rustibited by or agonist

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Hongkong: 56 Anno Decimo quarts Victoria Reginad.

No.

By His Rxcellency,

of 1850.

Samuel George

Bonhand, Esquiro, Companion of the Most Honnable Order of the Bath,

and Commander-iw-

Governor of the Colony of Hongkong

Chiof

and its

Dependencies and Vice Admural

the same,

same, Her

Her Majesty's

of the Plenipotentiary

and Chie

of

Superintendent of the trader British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Connect of "Roughing "Hongkong.

Council

Aw

An Ordinancd to facilitate Civil Roceedings instituted by or against the Branch of the Oriental Bunk

Hongkong)

in

Whereas a certain Joint Stock Ranking Company carrying, ow Business in India and Chine

under the Namid of The Oriental Bank "has established Branches

tw

"

Hongkong and at the Consular

Ports of Canton and Thangkas, and whereas it appears desirable that certain Facilities should be granted to Partio's requiring to bring

to bring Civil Suits and Actions against the said Company, and also that Similar Facilities should be

in

granted to the said Company bringing, Civil Suits and Actions

against Individual Parties : _

I.

Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Govenor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That

the

ts in

in all Civil Suits and Actions hereafter to be brought by or against the

said Company in the Suprence bourt of Kongkong, it shall be held and considered sufficient to designate said Company, whether Faintiffs or Defendants

the said Luit or Action, by the Name and Style of the Oriental Bank; and that such suit or Action shall not be abated or prejudiced by reason of the Shareholders of the said Company not being made Partie's to the said Suit or Action, or by reason of any Change of the Persons constituting the said. bepartnership or Company.

II.

37

And be it further enacted

and ordained, That in all Suits o

Actions so hereafter to be brought the said Company, against the said

Company, the service

of any Wect, Order, or other Process the Manager for the

or Notice

time being of the said Company, at their usual Place of Business, and

if

The

cannot be found there, in such Manner as the Supreme Court shall order and direct, shall be good Hair Company.

Service

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the

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90 of 1857.

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Miscellaneous.

Copy to ded of Extaliation for 1851 for informimi lothes

with Bill,

My Lord,

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NOV.26

1850

Victoria, Hongkong,

27th September, 1880.

In reference to Your Lordships

the

Circular Despatch of the 18th

have

the

39

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April last, I

snow the honor to report that this Colony

is not prepared to avail itself in any way of epaid sot apart for it by the Commissioners for the behibition of Industry of all Nations

to be held in the

year

1851.

As Your Lordship will be

aware),

was absout from Hongkong when the letter under acknowledgement arrived here, but local Committe... was formed which, from causes that will be apparent to Your_.

Loutship from the enclosed correspondence,

Yo

1.

was unable to

carry

The Right Honorables

The Earl Grey,

Se.,

&c.

I

a)

out

the

views

for which

{

it was constituted

Finding on my

return from the North, however, that nothing, whatever had been done

or was

and

Lome

doing in referenced to this interesting object; being desirous that the Colony should in

degred respond to the consideration that

had induced the Commissioners to set apart a portion of the proposed building for its user,

the gentlemen who had

I addressed

the

in

first instancd formed the Committee above

alluded to on

the

No. 2.

this subject,

and I have this

No. 3.

No. 4.

day received a reply, which, with the enclosed Draft for £. 131. 5.5, I have the honor to forward to Your Lordships for transmission to the proper quarter.

may

The subscription made in the Colony for a purpose of such general interest ong appear small, reference being had to the known wealth of some of its inhabitants. I, therefore, in explanation enclose Subscription List that has been entered into at Cantow for the

a

No. 5

40

purpose of collecting objects of curiosity at that Consulate, by which it will be seen that 5 gentlemen residing

this Colony

most of the

have alrea

in

already contributed handsomely in

вер

Cantow in furtherance of the general

parpous of the Exhibition.

I have the honor to be,

With the highest respect, Your Lordship's,

Most Obedient,

Humble Servant,

Storture

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to transmit to you fo

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Commissariest for the Exhibition of the Works of

Industry of all Nations

the Pospy of a chespatch with it's enclosures from the Govern

of Kong Hong reporting

the Colony

That

is rich propored

to avail itself in any way

of the space which has

been set apart for it in

schap.

the Beulding, and embosing

6

Draft for £151. 5.5.

being

27

A.

September, 1890.

Governo

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Bonham

5 Enclosures.

No. 91.

Received

prepared to contributé

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is not

any

articles towards the Exhibition

for

the

Industry of all Nations,

and enclosing

Graft for

£131.5.5, being amount

subscribed

the Inhabitants

the

towards the purposes of

Exhibition.

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veipt of your bespatche

291. of the 27% of Lesen lash

reporting

thin the Colorey of

Colory of

Hong Kong was not prepared

to avail itself of the Space

provided for it is the

Brulding for the proposed Exhibition of 1051. and enclosing

a

Draft for £131. 5. 5. the

amount of subscriptions

Raised in the Colony

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Communicatest

Jaren Despatch

and its

enclosures the the

Royal

have

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*

EXHIBITION OF THE INDUSTRY OF

ALL NATIONS.

Correspondence between the Hongkong and Canton Committees.

HONGKONG, 25th June, 1850. JOHN BOWRING, Esq., LL.D., H. B M. Consul, R. B. FORBES, Esq., U. 8. Consul; and the other Foreign Consuls, Canton.

GENTLEMEN,At a Public Meeting held yesterday for the purpose of devising the best means of procuring specimens of the Produce and Manufactures of China, to be sent to the Exhibition of all Nations, to be held in London in 1851, a Committee of the following Gentlemen, the Hon.ble Mr Edger, Mr Bush, U. S. Consul, Mr Stuart, and Mr Camp- bell, were appointed to do all that to them appeared neces- sary to further the objects for which the Meeting was held.

The Rules laid down by the Committee in London, require that a Central Authority in each country should be consti- tuted by the Government of that country. As regarde China, therefore, the Government of Peking would require to be applied to. This, however, would not in all proba- bility lead to any satisfactory result, as the object would not be understood, and au application might even tend in some measure to defeat the efforts that may have to be made to obtain the specimens required.

It seemed therefore advisable to the Meeting, that n Central Committee should be appointed in this place, in order to conform as near as possible to the rules laid down in England, that that Committee should advise with the Committees which it will be necessary to form in Canton and Slanghae,-should correspond if necessary with the proper parties in London, and receive and forward from this, the articles that may be collected.

With that view the present Committee has been consti- tuted, to be a connecting link and central point, and to assist as far as they are oble in promoting the general object.

It is one in which nearly all nations are interested, and which they are expected to proruote; it is one therefore, it is to be hoped, that will engage the attention of all in China, in which all will unite to carry out with energy, and if with combined effort, it will no doubt be effected in a matiner worthy of the Foreign Commimity.

We cannot expect that articles will be forwarded by Chi. nese; we must therefore do so for them.

Purchasers niust be made and Committees will require to bo appointed to make proper and suitable collections,

The Committee intend inviting parties here to put down in Paper the amounts they will guarantee towards the funt. that may be needed; and shumld, after the sale of the urticles in London, any loss occur, which is not likely, it will be divided proportionally to cach, according to the amounts put down.

The Committee would recommend the same course to be followed at Canton, and the Manager of the Oriental Bank has kindly and liberally offered to advance the amount that may be thus guaranteed.

As the time now remaining for carrying out the objects we have in view, is very limited, you will no doubt agree with this Committee, that the measures that may be neces- sary should be adopted without delay; and although the aid and interference of Governments are purposely dispensed with, we would still hope that you will not object among your respective Countrymen, to assist in organising a plan with which all will be willing and anxious to cooperate.

Trusting that the importance of the object we have in view will be a sufficient apology for addressing you on this occasion,--We have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servants,

For the Committee,

A. CAMPBELL.

BRITISH CONSULATE, CANTON, 27th June, 1850, GENTLEMEN,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 25th instant, and am mucb gratified to find that the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations has excited so much interest.

I imagine the official communications which have been made to Hongkong are from the Colonial Department.

T

Our instructions have been received from the Foreign Office, through Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, who has r already, in conformity with those instructions, communicated with the Imperial Commissioner, as I have done with the local authorities, and with such other influential Chinese ns are likely to assist in advancing our common objects.

In conformity with the directions I received to take such measures as I deemed most advisable for interesting both the British and the Foreign community, I requested all the Foreign authorities and Consuls with the leading merchants present in Canton, to assemble at the British Consulate on the 25th instant. The call met a universal and most cordial response. A large and influential Committee was immedi- ately formed-various Sub-Committees were charged with the managemetit of the details I bave reason to believe that the appeal for pecuniary co-operation will be liberally and even munificently met; and among the Sub-Committees is a Committee of Correspondence charged with the duty of communicating with the Committees of Hongkong, Shang- hae, and any other localities with which it may be desirable 4 to hold intercourse. I have the honour to enclose a copy of the proceedings for your information: and as your own views may be somewhat modified by what has taken place here, I am quite sure that your aid and co-operation will be highly valued,

Mr Forbes, who has most cordially lent his very valuable assistance, is now at Macao. The French, Dutch, Prussian, Peruvian, and Chilian Consuls are on the Committee, as is f Dr Parker, the United States' Chargé d'Affaires. We cannot as yet say what amount of assistance we may derive from the Chinese, but we do not despair of some success among them, and have taken the necessary steps for that object.

In countries so remote as this, the mode of action cannot

i be strictly limited to the rules applied by our Government where Diplomatic relations are free and unrestrained, and where the disposition to co-operate is so strikingly and so encouragingly manifested. But I venture to anticipate that we shall be able to forward no unworthy contribution to the Exhibition, and I am sure that every favourable interpreta- tion and every reasonable facility will await our combined exertions,

I do not dolay a post (not as the Chairman of the Canton Committee, but in my Consular capacity) in replying to your letter; and I can assure you that I shall be delighted to do every thing in my power in furtherance of a purpose nobly and generously conceived, and which ought to be carried out in the same spirit. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant,

A. CAMPBELL, Esq.,

JOHN BOWRING.

·H. B. M. Consul,

and the Commillee at Hongkong.

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CANTON, 27th June, 1850. SIR,Your letter, dated 25th instant, addressed to Dr Bowring and all the foreign Consuls here, on behalf of the Committee formed at Hongkong for assisting the views of H. B. M.'s Commission for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nadons to be held in London in 1851, has been communicated to us, and the letter which Dr Bowring proposes to write to you in reply will inform you how warm - has been the interest exhibited here on the same subject at a Meeting held at the British Consulate on the 25th inst.. when a Committee of Canton residents was formed and plans organised for the better carrying into effect the views of the meeting.

We would beg to refer to Dr. Bowring's reply in which we fully concur, and hope an active and friendly cooperation. of the Hongkong and Canton Committees, along with other Committees formed in other parts of China, will tend to offer interesting and complete contributions towards the

I realization of the grand plan in view. We are, Sir, your most obedient servants,

ROBERT S. STURIs, for R. B. FORBES,

ARCH, Campbell, Esq.,

Hongkong.

U. 8. Fire-Consul.

ROBERT BROWNE,

H. N. M. Consul

H. G. T. REYNVAAN,

Vice-Consul de France.

W, W. PARKIN,

Peruvian Consul.

RICHARD CARLOWITZ,

Prussian Consul.

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HONGKONG, 6th July, 1850. JOHN BOWRING, Esq., LL.D., Chairman of the Canton

Committee. BIR, The absence of two of our Committee has prevented us acknowledging sooner the receipt of your letter of 27th, in reply to ours of the 25th ultimo, as also of the letter banded us through you, from the other Consuls at Canton.

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It is with much pleasure we Narn that such active mea- aures had already been adopted by the Foreign Community in furtherance of the object respecting which we were induced to address you, and that our suggestions and wishes relating thereto, had in a great measure been anticipated.

You will perceive by our previous letter, addressed to you in your Consular capacity, that we always considered that details and other measures must nec, ssarily be left to Com- unnittees formed at the places where selections of articles had to be made, but we see no reason to modify our views, and agreeing with those expressed at the Meeting held here, that there should be one Central Authority for all China, ay most approaching the rules laid down by the Commissioners in London, and being consequently a measure most likely, under the circumstances, to meet with their favourable in- terpretation.

It was also the opinion that the adoption of such a measure would remove the objection and nedssity of residents at our Five Ports acting independently of those at the others, and give to the exertions that might be made by all, that cha- racter of unanimity and combination so desirable, and most likely to lead to a satisfactory result; and we trust, Sir, with you, that the purpose so nobly and generously conceived by the consort of II. B. Majesty, will be carried out here in the same spirit.

The Meeting that was announced here on the 13th, and which took place in the 24tb of last month, was not in con- sequence of any intimation from the Government of this settlement; it was not until the Meeting had assembled, that

we were made acquainted that any instructions had been received fom home; and we were not even then aware that your attention had, through Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary here, been directed to the subject.

We were appointed as a Committee to act in the only manner in which it was throught we could be of use; at the

same time it is very far from our wish to be considered the Central Authority, if it is thought desirable to place it else- where.

We and others here are only anxious that a Central Authority generally, and if possible officially, recognised, should exist somewhere; and that for the purposes of the Exhibition, there should be a common fund, both being requisite in our opinion to the effectual carrying out of the object in which we are all interested. But we think that the circumstance of Cauton acting independently of Shanghae and other places, will rather tend to defeat than promote that object, and by no means give to the undertaking the appear- ance and character which we had hoped it would have as- sumed.

If however you can mucceed, as you think you will, in obtaining the recognition of your Committee as the Central Authority for China, by the Viceroy of Canton, the difficulty will be removed; and we shall then be glad to afford all the cooperation and assistance in our power. We have the honour to remain, Sir, your most obedient servants,

F. T. BUSH.

CHARLES J. F. STUART.

A. CAMPBELL.

[MR EDGER, absent.]

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CANTON, 16th July, 1850, Messe F. T. Busa, C. J. F. STUART, A. CAMPBELL,

Honourable J. F. EDGER.

GENTLEMEN,-At a Public Meeting of the Community held at the British Consulate on the 9th instant, relative to the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851, your letter of the 6th July to De Bowring, II. B. M. Consul, was read, and transferred to the Corresponding Committee.

As Chairman of that Committee, the pleasing duty devolver upon me to express to you the satisfaction that the commu- nity here have felt at the interest that their Hongkong friends are taking in the proposed contribution to the Exhi- bition.

The Committee here do not doubt, from the zeal displayed, that the object will be carried out satisfactorily, and they will at an early day enter into correspondence with the London Commissioners through H.B. M. Plenipotentiary for the purpose of having articles sent from China, properly admitted to the Exhibition, and of explaining to them the anomalous position of the Foreign Community regarding any recognition of their acts by the Government of this country.

You are in error, it is thought, in supposing that Dr Bowring, in his correspondence with the Authorities in Can- ton, expected to obtain a recognition of the Committee here as a Centrul Authority, as his communications with those officials were only in the form of a notice of the intended Exhibition, in conformity with instructions that he had re- ceived from H. B. M. Government.

The Committee here will be pleased to have the Hongkong Community cooperate with them in carrying out the object in which they are engaged, and do not doubt that the well- known liberality of that community will be shewn in this case as it has been in all others. The Finance Committee bere have already raised a considerable sum, and the Sub- scription List will soon be sent to your place.

The Committee have notified the Shanghae and Amoy Community through the Consuls and others at those Ports, of the steps that have been taken here, and have intimated to the former that they should leave them to act independently regarding funds, and the collection of articles they might wish to send to the Exbibition, but have expressed their readiness to forward such articles, should they wish to have them sent from this.

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The arrival of the mail, and my absence from Canton for the past four days, has prevented me from having the pleasure! of replying to your communication sooner.-I men, your obedient servant,

am,

Gentle-

W. W. PARKIN, Chairman Corresponding Committee.

W, W. PARKIN, Esq., Chairman of the Corresponding

Committee.

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BIR,-We have to acknowledge your letter of the 16th instant, in reply to our last communication to Dr Bowring, which was referred by him to the Corresponding Committee. We observe that it is the intention of your Committee at an early date to enter into correspondence with the Loudou Commissioners for the purpose of having the articles sent from China properly admitted to the Exhibition, and we i regret to learn that our anticipations as to the result of Dr Bowring's communications with the Chinese Authorities have not been realized.

We also observe that your Committee have notified to the Shanghae and Amoy Communities, your readiness to forward such articles as they may wish sent for Exhibition, and that you leave them to collect their own funds and specimens.

We differ from your Committee as to the soundness of the principle involved in paragraph 6 of your letter under reply, namely, that the Committees at the different Ports should act independently of each other; as it will tend, we think, In many ways to lessen the value of the Chins contribution; but we have no doubt that your Committee have strong : reasons for the course they are adopting.

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In conclusion, we feel that, except as a Central Committee to correspond with the London Commissioners and advise with the Committees formed at the Consular Purts, and, as it were, to combine the efforts of the various foreign Commu- nities, we cannot be of any great service in the good cause ; and as your Committee have undertaken these duties, we have mucit pleasure in leaving them in your hands, trusting! that this important and interesting work may be carried out in a manner to reflect credit on the Foreign Community of China, and worthy of the Exhibition. We remain, Sir, your obedient servants,

C. J. F. STUART

J. F. EDGER.

A. CAMPBELL.

F. T. BUSH.

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No 91 of 18.50.

Inclosure to / in Desp

45

EXHIBITION OF 1851 OF THE INDUS-

TRY OF ALL NATIONS.

The Committee beg to direct the attention of the Community to the accompanying letter from H. E. the Governor, suggesting that moderate !subscriptions should be raised in aid of the Build- ing required at home for the display of the articles to be exhibited.

The Committee will be glad if the Community will" avall [themselves]" of this opportunity of attesting their sense of the importance and value of the undertaking, and of giving some proof of their good wishes for its success.

A. CAMPBELL,

J. F. EDGER.

(Mr Stuart and Mr Bush absent.) Hongkong, 30th August, 1850.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG 30th August, 1850, The Governor has learut with much pleasure that, during his absence from Hongkong, a com- mittee was formed for the purpose of carrying out the views of H. M.'s Commissioners for the

Exhibition of Industry of all Nations, to be held in Eugland in 1851, by iustituting enquiries as to the possibility of sending home any articles froni Hongkong, which might represent its produce or manufactures. He much fears that nothing of the above description is procurable in the Colony; for the reception of whose contributions, never-

theless, 1000 square feet have been set apart by H. M.'s Commissioners; and it is consequently his intention, unless he hears from the Committee, or other quarters, that there is ground to hope that the Colony may contribute something to the Exhibition, to request H. M.'s principal Secretary of State for the Colonies to inform the Commis- sioners of the inability of this Island to furnish: any article worthy their acceptance, in order that the portion of ground allotted to it may be de- voted to the produce of some more favoured colouy or country, the greater wealth of which may require extension of the space originally marked off for it.

The Governor would at the same time much regret that H. R. H. Prince Albert, and the other personages who take an interest in the success of his enterprise, should be left to suppose that their enthusiasm is in no degree shared by the inhabitants of Hongkong; and he therefore proposes to them to join with him in responding to the invitation of the Commissioners who have not omitted to assign to this small settlement a sufficiently honourable place. He observes that, in England, some of the larger towns, which boast neither arts nor manufactures, have testified their approbation of the scheme of the Exhibi- tion, and their zeal for its furtherance, by raising moderate subscriptions in aid of the building re- quired for the display of articles to be exhibited, or of the general expenses of the undertaking,-a convenient precedent, to the imitation of which he would invite the inhabitants of this Colony, each according to his means.

-- The Governor therefore forwards this memoran įdum of his proposal to the Local Committee, withi a request that, if they concur with him therein, they will have the goodness to take such steps as they deem necessary to give it general circulation amongst the Community.

S. G. BONHAM.

Correspondence

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Nations.

Junia and

of the moustry of

the objects of the Exhibition Committees for promoting the Hongkong and Canton

all

July,

1850.

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Hongkong, 27th September, 1850.

To His Excellency

Sam? Gerige Bonham, CB.,

Yo-

to

Sir,

in

We have the honor to

forward here with a Brill on Lowdon for £131,5.5, the equivalent of a Subscription raised in the Colony

in aid

the

all

of the Building Fund Exhibition of Industry

Nations.

Being no longer

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Committee, having resigned

functions to the Gentlemen afsociated in Canton, may

we

request that your

our

.

Excellency will be kindly pleased to undertake the transmission of the enclosed Draft to Her Majesty's

Commissioners

as as shight proof

of the Sense entertained

by

the Community in Hongkong of the importance of the

Undertaking..

We have, te,

(Signed) Charles & Stuart.

Em

F. Edger. F. J. Bush,

Consul United States A.

A. Campbell.-

(Ime Copy)

Laine

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List.

of fauton Subscriptions towards

the huhibition of 1851.

Wetmore & Co.,

Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co.,

+

+

FI

Dent & Co.,

Russell & Co.,

$1000.00

1000.00

500.00

500,00

#

David Sassoon, Sons & Co.,

500.00

Dr Bowring, H. B. M.'s Consal,

500.00

H

Nye, Parkin & Co.,

250.00

"

Robert Browne,

250.00

"

Augustine Heard & Co.,

250.00

Gibb, Livingston & Co., -

250.00

Gilman & Co,

250,00

|

Macvicar Co.,

250.00

1

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Cowasjee Pallanjee,

200.00

Dirom, Gray & Co.,

200.00

Reiss & Co.,

200.00

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Francis B. Birley,

200.00

11

Ripley, Smith & Co.,

150.00

W. H. Wardley,

150.00

E

Rathbones, Worthington & Co.,

150,00

Dallas & Co.,

160.00

.

Cowasjce Sapoorjee Lungrana,

150.00

Pestonjee Franjee Cama & Co.,

150.00

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Carlowitz, Harkort & Co.,

150.00

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100 00

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100.00

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100.00

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D. N. Mody & Co.,

100 00

Ruttonjee Hormusjee Camajee & Co.,

100.00

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Nesserwanjee Ardaseer Bhanjah & Co.,

100.00

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Dadabhoy Pestonjee & Co., -

100.00

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Heejeebhoy Ardaseer

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Financial.

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27. 91: my

50

BEC.26 50.

Tetoria, Hongkong,

15th October 185 0

1.850.

224

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And 16 fan / 57

My

Lod

In conformity with

the Instructions contained in

the Printed Copy of the Colonial Regulations, I have the honor to enclose Estimates of and Expenditure for the Year

1851.

2.

"the Revenue

The Expenditure including

Contingencies of all sorts may be stated at £ 38771, while the Revenue is likely to

The Right Honorable

The Earl Grey,

ta

re

51

aw

amount to £23,200, showing excess of Estimated disbursements over Receipts of £15,500, to be

made up by

a Parliamentary Vote. In this amount is!

included the sum of £3,940,

being balance of

for

the

House..

3.

the

Estimate

creation of a Government

I append herewith a

Memorandum of the Colonial Estimates commencing 1848,

on which I arrived

the year in the Colony, as the amounts

well as

f

annually granted by Parliament since 1845, by which your Fordsnit will perceive as progressive reduction

in the

по

Demands of the Colony

the Home Government,

A

and that considerable reductions

have been

made in the Colonial Establishments.

4.

I again repeat that

Your Lordship may that I will take

rest satisfied

every proper

opportunity of reducing the Establishment so as to make

the Receipts and Disbursements alproximate more than they

до

at present; but until

vacancies

vceur, it is

impossible to touch the Enoluments of the foresent Incumbents, either with credit to the state or with

or with justice

to the rights of Individuals who have been infused to distant and

come to this

by

по

means eligible Colony

D

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for the purpose of filling Publie Appointments, under the full expectation that the arrange=

under which they

=ments

took office would not be

interfered with during

the

period they might continue

to hold them.

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With the highest respect,

Your Lordship's,

most obedient

Humble Servont,

о

5.

As vacancies

veour,

room

for

however, there is

considerable reductions in the

Salaries attached to the present Offices, and Your Lordships

instruations

will not be lost

they occur

sight of, should they

during

the time that I

have the honor to administer

the Government of the Colony.

I have the honor

tobe,

I

.

Mer Elbit.

See

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The Son required by this Exlemate from Parkaven

is £ 4.500. bf thean losh year.

Mr. Hawes.

366w. Ich

The reductions since M. Bonham's assumption of the Gort, as exhibited in the 1st Enclosure are very extensive, & should 9 apprehend the acknowledged with

an expression of satiofaction.

This will be

a valuable

Despatch

You

when

The Colonial Estimates are under discussion

12. Very

busily

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the Colony for the

Revenue and Expenditure

39th December, 1851,

ending

and

reporting

thereon.

your

1

Received

Transmitting

Estimates

the

CA

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Former Bout

15th October,

Governor_Bonham

to

The Earl

P 92. Inclosure.

850.

Grey.

Bonham

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Earl Gren /6

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224.

16 Jaupst.

Shave to rhinowledge

54

The

reipt of your despottage

of the 15th of bet lash enclosing

Estimates of the Revenue and

Expenditure of Hong Hong Im thr. year 18.

1851.

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There not failed to observe with satisfaction the Juogressive Reductiores exhinh have been effecient

since your aperuption of the formnunt, both in the amount of aid required promen Superial Funds, and in the Colonial Establishments. and while I concur with you

!

inconsistent

thich it would be inconsistent

:leath

with

tice

the justice

to the present-

icumbents to deprive thems

of the Officer they hold on to

reduce this emoluments,

I Grelly sely on your apurance that such reductions

as can be effected witte a due regard for the efficiency.

of the public service will

take place

pour -

Share

bd

opportunities

Espy - Memo :

Copy-

on the Colonial Retimates for the four years

Commencing with 1848, arrived in Hongkong-

For the year 1848.

1849

1850

1851-

the

55

year in which Governor Bonham-

Estimated rupenditure -

For Services exclucire of Public Worko

38,900.

For Publick Works

24,000

Total

62,900.

38,119-13.8 18,076 - 17 - 52,196. 10.8

-34857.1.4 9,531. 3.-44,388.14.4

-133,831.2.- 4,940.7.7 38.771.9.7

The Expenditure of the Colony /exclusive of Publice. Works) has consequently been

reduced since the arrival of St. Ry: Governor Bonham

by.

and including the reductions on Public Works.

giving a Total reduction

of

£5,068.18.0

£19,059.12.5

€ 24,128.10.5

The Grants of the Imperial Parliament ofor the Colony, have been

in 1845.

1846

#

#

1847 1848. 1849 1850

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#

required for

1851

£49,000. 36,900.

#

31,000.

" 25,000.

#

25,000.

ff

20,000. and will ben 15,500. betong

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£33,500 less than in 1845 -

The-Sunnal Salaries (Fived and Provisional of the Colonial retablishments aucounted in 184541846 to £35,800.-.-

£29,100.

and are estimated to amount in 1851

Shewing the Reduction, #Savings on Salaries alone to be £6,700. _ . _

Victain, Monghong,

(True Copy) (Signed) R. Rienaceker,

Foting Colonial Jacasurer

fettben the 15th 1850. Mlaime

Colonial keretary.

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1850

56

Colonial Petimates

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Mongkong.

1851.

(Inclosure in Despatch No 92 of 1850.)

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A

Abstract of the probable Revenne ofthe Colonial

Sovernment of Hongkong for the Dear 1850, shewing abse the Serenue received under the similar heads in the Wear 1849, bring the Dear previous to that in which the Štimates are prepared.

Land Sales.

Land Serensie

Sents, exclusive of Lane.

mction Qutio

Licenata

Fines, Forfeitures ....Fees of Courts

Postages

Fees of Office

Sale of Sovernment Property

Heimbursement die of Expense

incited by Government

Miscellaneous Receipts

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11400.

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1000

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451 211

100

10563

Interest

Special Receipts

22

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2 | 23218. 10. 0 | 23 617.\3.|3

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£25 C 25 000 €.

Byy50 was for the depercidiacent of Frade Thirdier hunier, 20.092 10.0

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Colonial Estimates. Flongkong.

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Last Lands. sanind kaseð

Sevenne. detailed

Fees en grant of Leases Peperitive Land sold.

Kent exclusive of Land:

Governcount Machels, Hoennant Buildings nities: Auction.

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325

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1826

275

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11400

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2100

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187. 10.

s'ey 3.4

10.8.4

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1400

Stene Quarrice

Serangs..

120

437.10.

&

4

Jaxes

1

Police Assessment

Fines

Forfeitures

fes

325. 50

| 125.

30.

7

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4497. 18.4 5590 2.34 d

2850.5116 17 €

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Postage:

Fines, Forfeitures and Fees of Cont

Fees of Offices:

Marriages Burials.

Registering of Beats and Maceters_ce.

Official dig matures

Registration of Deeds

dale of overminent Property

Condeumed Ilover

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100.44

#

250

10420.

451.2.11

tärried finward ........ £ 230:52:18-9 23363-18.-1.

Conveyances

Failing litter stiftes

Pld Houses ele

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you

$. b

Colonial Estimates - Mongkong.

Sevenne, derailed.

Reimbursement i" Aid of Expenses

incurred by Government;

Sich stoppage, fun Solicitinetables | 100..

Nospital the other expenas for

dietrified seamen dubsistence Henty of Military Minnow. Medicines supplied for bust lapstal

A Ceverluent Strant'

Miscellaneous Receipts,

Jate of Sirt regulations & Chuadr Everpaymadh nemred, Interest:

Special Receipts:

10. 35

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Superannuation Contributions of European

force

58

Saimated Revenue Refermecte. for 1851. of 1849, [drmarás! 23 052.18.4. 23.353.18 · 1

100....

145 6.3.

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7.19.6

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1849 having been paid in NY

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b Rent exklusive of Land: Amass remaining due alh cut of 1899), and mastard

Ment from one Aarnet,

luction Outies: There are abolished.

-

d'sicenses. Faterial is expected an ivery clem with the exception of th asament

receivable for a Ditindid Seina

from

1 50:30: The decrease for the esticuibel concenal for Pit, arises fum the Colections of

cincunts due for 1898 during 1841).

dtørtan

f Fines Forfeitures and Fees of Surts: The Fees ressivable al

Supreme Court havt dtoriased to a cravi devast amount." The variations on thetter items are marely accidental.

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Abstracts

B.

fzume required, to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Songkong for the Year from 1" January to 31 December 1851, shewing ale the Amount expended forthe Peat previous to that wwhich the estimates are prepared, viz. 18.40).

talaries Fixed Provisional Stablish tempo

Loffiimate

ment.

Office

Allowances

Contingencie

Estima te Expenditure

for 185 1.

41848.

Establish, ment |29618|10. .447617.0|12.10...906. --- 30013 7. | 31440 | 8. 42

A2Sensions Retiree Mlowances Gratuities

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20

221.13.4

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3. [R enne derrices, exclusive of toorablishment

175..

209710

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120

4/0\10.5

Mits

4 Doministration ofónotice

Scclesiastical

6. Charitable Allowances

7 Sencation, exclusive of Sstablishment

õćospitals

15.9

Solice and Sa ols

J

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207. 10. 284 19 Wz 10/25 nm. 1132 61% Q10 16,8 900 166

you 3205 $58.4. 174 8.4|||149|10|#1 4140 77 3706 17

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ransport

12. Conrèyance of Mail's 13. | Works and Buildings

19 Roads, Streets and Bridges Miscellaneous Jervices Onterest

17. Land and conses purchased

Special xpenses.

55

#

2

49.17.1

Total Colonial Estimates - - - 38721 4.7|38956 / be

18. 19 Superintendent of Írade

20. Consular Services

5 700 16. § 5548 2.7

18650 17.057. 19.3.

Totul. £. 13672 €. 3. €2198, 18.97

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SA DIVAA..

Salaries:

Colonial Sstimates, Mongkong.

Expenditure - Detailed,

Giril

overno 1o.

Hiiectency The Geverner.

Ads de Camp

emptræder.

Hivell

Sorter at Government Offices.

Pour Medssengers I do 18 £12.10 wach Gurdiner

dearinger.

Provisional

Total

Fixed Stablishment remporary

booo..

300

J

4

becc

32.W

15

20

36

12.10

12 l.

''

152.10 . | 69572, 10.

Allowances

Contingencies;

Furniture for Goverunnerd Haut).

Jucidental Expenses

Glavics Colonial decretary.

Colonial Secretary

Chat Clin

Secret dr.

third de

fourth de

Allowances: Ail

J

4

23

0527.10.

Colonial Estimates, Hongkong.ɓ9

Nalarica

Sæpenditure & Detailed.

Auditor

Auditor : th bolmunt deretany).

Clean.

Allowances: N

Contingencies:

muting advertising & Newspapers.

freixental es penuer

Haliminy

Jueider

Salaries

Clerk of Council's.

CM of Gunoita

ATP

Trinting, advertising & Sewspapers

Allowances

Contingencies

Malimary

+

Office Furniture

1800.

47%.10.

2.70..

Salaries

243

Surveyor General

216

Clerk's Book Keeper

3001 le

3001 J*

*

44

100. 16.

4

+

"

4

510 N 120.10.

3122.

Stationen.

Festuge

ineiden tak sajences

Contingencies:

Fruiting Advertising & More papiers

Colonial Freasurer:

Salaries

Ïreasurer

400

Chuf Clerk

YOS

diconsy is 'Accountant.

300-

330.4.

Third

1855..

1855

Wowances,

Contingencity

Onuting, Advertwórzę etc:

5

Nationery

Postage

J

7.

10

←

4

4

L

micidental &xjrences.

Survenor General'

Chunia Overseer, forvaustanviel laber

Three surviging Allrad berties (@ £12. 10 - cach_ Office Goly

Aory Heeps t. Ovissier of Houds

Allowances

Contingencies:

Advertising

Cepyzing Plains & Charts

Pultruments

Mationery

Fixed

Scovisional Established tempora Jotal

300...

300V

140.. 100

10.

250 550...

یا

100

100...

30...

ú

800.

4

300

Hee

23

1880..

merden hewspenser

salaries.

Régistrar General.

tigistrar general p th Celonin (Freasurer).

¿lei W

Chica Cloth

Mirce ciuchabtër jo £10.10. 0 incl.

Allowances

Contingencies,

Innting cle.

2111 :

Boata, imbers ite:

Haleeanf.

300.

22

3710

لوگو

337.10.

*

G

26

+

40

140.

370 37 10

12. 10

37. 10. 1187. 10.

12.10.

12.

دگی

+

J

44

J

PJ

4

3

4

40. W

31. 1231. ..

40 10 578 86

+

3

18

$

↓

25 .. 40:3

المرام

Colonial Estimates. Mengkong.

Expenditure, detailed.

Fisted

Srovisional

Harbour Master Establishment tray Jotal

Salaries

Harbour Mailer

Clerk

Indian Interpreter

One European Constable

len chinese Boatmen @ £18. 10a Each .__

Allowances

sil

Contingencies,

Orinting and Publishing

stationing

7

Suzchase A sejur of Ben Er

Oil for

sa harding Volos placi...

incidental expenses

boo 200

گر

"

My

10

37.16

+

43.18 186

837. 10.228.10. 1obb

2.28. 10.1006 V.

Police Rate Assessors ... Collecto vI.

Salaries

dub bollieres

Throff

Allowances

Contingencies

تم

VIP.

Advertising Publishing

Hationery

meidental ox

experien

Post Office:

Z...

1.

15. j

12 5

ولی

JA

"

J

75

*

pha plastmaster rendere his accounts direct 6 th ist nocte general in

Total Civil Establish menta

His Exce Weney The Governor

Colonial decké Patiy Treasurer.

Auditer

Clerk of Councils.

Surreyor General

Registrar General

40

115.

3.8

15

44

A

4

bhterj

Colonial Estimates. Hongkongsi

Expenditure, detailed

Fixed Frovisional

Indicial Establishment Establish temporary Total

Supreme Court.

Salaries.

Chief Justice. Allomney Ginere

Registraér

Deputy Acgestone

Most to the Chief Justice.

Hindustani 4. Malay Julerpreter

Asher & Bailiff

Under Mailiff

Cleric10 Aisha Shroff

fakentdan devian

Wowances.

Mationery

£ 12.10. cock

115..

Contingencies,

Irinting, advertising & kewspapers -

Furniture

inicidental expenses.

Salaries

Chaplain

Ecclesiastical

Tevo Burial GreundKeepers p.112.10o cach:

Educational

58 173

کیوں کو یہ

Sexton

www.

TULI

کرو گی اس

|3000. 1500

750...

350 300

30. 160.

$

*

7.

مر کو کھو کر

J

4

+

·

بیر

*

مریم

رام

12.10

37 10.

C

<

+

6137 10

2

112. 10. €250... .

12. y

مجھ

برد کرالی

*

*

25.

62.75

The

گراس المراسم

700. "

10.17

*

bl....

25...

700

45 4

795. 17.4.

dafaries.

L15142.10.

Four Chinese Schoolmasters p £ 25 each.

100.

A

4

Chiedical

1527 10. 3122. 1880.

dalaries.

A

Colonial durgeon.

Mejserger -

Salaries.

Hospital.

"

403

Pipenter.

1116.

4

Cvrty

*

Dispensary Cooly -

Total Medical.

Surgeon

£ 012. 10. O. M 117.10.0

Hospital iptal£ 130. C. & M

1710. 12.10

12.10

117 10 . 117. 10. ↓

737

550. 140.

1231

24

Starbour Master.

Police Kate Collectors and Assessora.

173 15142. 10.

boc...

boo..

12 10

12. 10 012108

י

Salaries

Olonial Estimates - Glongkong.

Sænenditure - derailed

-

Police and Gaol's.

Tuf Magistrate

Cief, Magistrate.

First term of Solidi tõus VVCcurl of dilly dessions

Accmd de

thi ď ďand also Malay Phindushani Interpretier. Feist Chinese Interp der

Cheien Judehpariter & dein__

Curepiten Asher_

Judiaw Usher

Clonci, uber

Chef Magistrates protesty

A effenger

Hratiomedan Fiest

-vip

Fixed Provisional| Established remorary Total'

goo

260

187. 10 160...

125

F

100

74 8. 25

B

12.10

r

4

12.10

12.10 12.10

+

4

150% 10. 209: 8., 1826.18, 0.

cooly

Allowances

Contingencies.

B

+

Lace Book's Fols of Parliament ite; for the weet of the Magistrate. 15...

L

105

Offret tumilure.

3

45

Forlags

1.

J

510

Oriting advertising & Sablishing

Colonial Estimates - Mongkong. 62

Expenditure, detailed

Police and Gaol's

Salaries: Sheriff

continuед.

Brought forward

Sheriff

Jailer

assistant factor

Turnkey Furopia in

one de

Oni dv

six bonelabiis, Júdians qò £19.7.9.a coch

Ont Barquail Hadmaki

Oight Judian Guards jo £19.76.a each Chi Aiinta Guard

Allowances

Contingencies

Matirnery

Nip

Fixed Provisional Stallis temporary Sobol

700..

1

125 .. 50...

58.10.

37 10

116.5

*

365

155

安备

15

|5630_10

700. ... . 0219 10. - 132.0.10.1.

کی

5

مراه کوکی

10.

1330.10

mersintal expenses

4

186 10.

Total Chief Magistrale ... ... ... ... |2013. 8.

Superintendent of Solice,

Juperonlu dont of Police_

a

dalarits.

Gistant_dr_

Fu

we deputy puspectors (@ 1.100.

Ives crepeat solice Argeants

Five A_Acting

Eighteen, de Couldabler

One of them acting also unclesti.

one "Juraa dirgant

Thirteen Judian Coustakas ptrap, 2.

ד

Jucidental expenser

Total Sheriff

Total Police and Gaoks.

Jalaries: Fixed &stablishment. £ 3240, 10.0. Ag

the Sievisimal & lemporary. 3514. 0.0.

bondingencier

+

200.10.0.

Ab970.

4

24 Recapitulation Arteforgoing Establishments.

liril' éstablishments

The Governor.

Salaries,

Freed

Zatlowances.

Office

Contingencies

Provisional

Sotaflighmt temporai

J

P

£.d

6360 152 10

کر دیں

*

4

*

Sotal

6527 10.

120.103122

75.

500 312 175...

4

健

37.10.

95.. 187 10.

-

J.

32.107

585.

Colonial decrebatij

3001.10

25.

Svedaurer

1855

25

ISSO

A

32.JC

Auditor

300

280

55€

Four d'Astike it.

(£25.

pid 25. auch

100.

Clerk of Councila

100

140

+

200

1100

7

-

Sevenly one

Avr

*

15.139

1107 12

40.10

17.31. 87. |10 × ‹ | 12. 10. . ||| 31. 26

403.

Oni Amew dorgeant

33/7/10 228 10

52.10

+

Aine d' inchable,

Five Morte Corlis

12.10 12.10

+

112.10

115-

25..

One Mation Cocly

Ein Sumps booty

bevly

12.10.

5

1

987

་

Allowances

APP

Sducational

Medical

6137. 10.112.10

A2

700.

98. 17.

1"

100 |

小

Three d'Aoling Sergiants --_ p £17.10ʻ mch

Contingencies

qucidental dejun. Simperintendent of Police Police and Gaols carried forward.

تری که گر

4

173

-

25

" 15142. 25.6278

4

6.12. 10

7620 2. 3607.2.

+

10...

3617.2.

3630 10

urrenor General

Registrar genera

Scarbour Master

Post Office

Solive chate Coffeerara

Total Gril

Sudicial, Snablishment Scclesiastical

4o Slospital

Police and Saol's

13831. 10 - 624 ... 1210 - bryse

-|

12:10

32.4G /C. 3319

xb. 1970;..

Total..... wena. 476 7 . 12. 10. - yet - . H0012.7 0

E

- - - -

Colonial Estimates - Flongkong.

289. Sensions Getired Allowances, and Gratuities

Police:

Funnel Tension to the Midow of the late Ingaster of Police, Thomas

A milkes, whe perished during the Typhon en 12" Sijote ember, 1848,

20. S

383. Rove

Revenue Services, welusive of Establishments, Remuneration to the Afsterers & botiteler offolion Water, Sing

5fe on the Grops Comment of bollections. Commipuin to the Geonument, Svetimas ath rak of

dielnus, sands the:

Auelimar

Total....

140...

35,

را

$

24. Administration of notice, exclusive of Establishments

Expenses of Witriper

viperiser of Auquests

Payment's 4 Intisprites on Isiats

explinar of Crtininal Cunishments

go 10.

*

کرد

63

Colonial' Estimates. Flengkeng

nog. Police and Saol's, elusive of Establishments

Solice:

Clothing & AccounÁrementi Veterinary & Farrary articles Bedding Pether necessarior Forage.

Renieunt Horses

Oil & bandhs for Lanterns

Turchan Mepair of Beats

Rations for beatable › föûropea vif

qucidental expuentes

Clothing

Bedding

موید آری که

27

7

10.

2

2

براز اراد

4

478 16.

می ترسید

*

50.

##

20.

なな

70.

40.

108.

اک

Saola

Srevisions, Word Fale, & extras for dién

Total Police.. 351.

Fetters Feels & other arlicks fiueluting Fread millj.

Oil for lighting Incont

510. 20.

| fiveluding Fread mitt 4 - 130.

preidebital expanser do.

2

Total... 120.3.

2o10 Sent

25. Seclesiastical, exclusive of Establishments,

Vil.

36. Charitable Allowances

Jil

27 Education, excluare of Establishment

Nil

28 Gospitals, exclusive of Establishments

Annua Conation to the Hospital of the lindin Medical

Aissimary dociety.

Previs uns for Patients at the Government burl Hapital | 85. Bedding & other necesanir.

writing t

Light & Fuel

Froidinis exjanser

85...

15

#54

70.

20.

وا

15

205.

الترسب کچھ

Total....... 207. W.

4

62.10.

+

Recident of this excellency the Govermes. Ainbal solier Alation Feleria

Joliet Halim at Shachtwan. Cial Hospital

WM. Transport.

Y. 33

Total. No1/625 s.

و ترسے

4

125 208 6.8

15 02. 10.

Total..... GWIS

Boathure for the yurgance of the Argistrar Sunced roundth jsland 20. unvegance of limiets to portal Atlements.

312 Conveyance of Mails.

300

$4

:

Total... 320...

Toth Menghing and Canton Miam Grotict Cumpar ny to trying

up

the Ammunication icliver hen the proces punnum | 179. 8. 4

AAAAAAA AAN

#

Colonial Estimates - Hongkong

213_ Works and Buildings

New Works

Government &uildings

Government Houx, 4o water Rogurt & æclimate No1 of 1898 /

Je

amount of œstiinalé

"LMGYOJ

Mediains lek

provided for in ferecious &étimales ____. 11 000.

to be provided for.

Repairs,

" Gormement Ruddings

Colonial Sstimates - Alongkong 54

Wih. Interest

sit

Lands and Houses purchased.

31" 17.

3940 77

wis Special Sxpenses

250...

Total..... 4ge. 7.

Bistrcfan British Jutges

4. Shoads Streets and Bridges

£55.

New Shoads:

Repairs

Roads.

Jul

6. Read on Gevemment lia

Aradstand Arah in Victoria and

round the stand

Bridges

Repores of Sundry Bridger

Drains.

Kovaire, le Grans & Lide charmils:

wait

100...

300

A 4

400...

150...

aundry other Works,ele:

Implements for beneiets employed & Reads it GC...

Minting Fries on Geremitent hi & other,

¿

epach l. lambing Siew_.

کر

$5 places

"

Total

100...

700.

$50.

24

نہ کسی حوالے

2015 Miscellaneous Services.

vil.

Colonial Estimates - Glongkong.

29. Superintendent of

Fixed

Frovisional Establishment temporary

Joral

Salaries

Secretary & Registrar

Trade.

+

sheeper

d"

Chiruite decretary

First Assistant the per ofecords

Sicorn Aistant.

Therd.

Fourth.

Aristant Chintu Serotary.

(Supernumerary Interpretier

and china Clerk?

en

F100.

A1 (@ £37. H. ! each

*

Four. Kepenger ( £ 12.10 " cach, Four Chair Bearesp£ 12 10t Burial Ground Reeper, at M vecto

Annuals Allowanci 4. Acar bempraden

Allowances

1500.. 1200

+

+4

472.10

yoo

270.

270

2

you

ዛር ..

150.

کر

ני

62.10. 50

34

4856.25

To the Family of Secting peng to the Morrisin education Society, being

Manual fanation

Contingencies:

Brinding Meepapers Piricdreaks ite

Postage

Halienery

Office Furniture

Mucident & rejsenser

+

i

*

t

31.

50

Av +

12. 10

20 MS

گیر

133. 6. § 14/083. € S

37.10.

<

250... 287. M.

کر

+

120

100.

ye

H.

150.

430. ma

ہو

Colonial Estimates_Flongkong,

argo. Consular Services

Canton Consulate.

5600

Inary

Av

Fooch aufer Ning ko

3850 2000... 2200.

4

Shanghue

5000

Remark.

Total.... 18650 ..

65

The abire éctionale dois not, melude any amount that anay bet required / compi te th boncutar Buildings at Shanghav,

Total... 570.16.8

4

.

.

Salaries, Mowances

Contingencies. and Office

||Senaróna, Kelineð Allotranteed and Šratuities.

Revenue Services,

Administration

Ecclesiadical,

Charitable

Mowance

Education

Hospitals.

Colonial Satimat:s - Stengkong

Colonial Estimates_Glongkong

Summary of the foregoing Estimates, shewing the Jotaicharge breach Department,ofas thesame can be apportioned, 66

and

Transport

Cameljance

Mails,

Works

Buildings

Roads

Streets

Bridges

Miscellaneous.

Interesk

Wand and ofto11IES

purchased.

Special

Öxpenses.

Total'om

óştimateð

for 1851

Expended

for 1849.

Aemarks.

Reference to

Cril'Establish's

The Governor 0527 10.. Zolonial Secreľany 3/22 .. freasurer 1880.. Inditer

550.

Clerk of Councils 140 ... Jinvenor Sentral 1234..

Registra: General 403... Starbon Master|/1/b Sost office.

Holter tha ho.

#

Assessord. 173.

Indicial'Establishment 6275,

Seclesiastical_de

Soncational

Medical

Hospital

79617 100

4 J

01210 *".

117.10.

Police and Saols6970.

Works Buildings

کو

21

F

4

14

J

35

*

+

V40,

•

+

+

↓

}

+

2

1206

な

J

4

4

=

Roads Freets Bridges

Janes de purchased_

2

نہیں ہوں ہیں

+

30,0137 20.175 120.0

לי

3

7.

4

1

in 1849

. וי

625

7

√74.8.4

44

*

+

4

*

+

A

5

5

5

4

S

"

+

4

+

+

+

4

+

4

→

ל

+

5

>

1625.

bz 10 £23 6.8 300

7

5

4190

850

+

267.10 1626900 12 $ 320.74 8 4 4190 7 7 350.

√625.

The expenditures & salaries Allowances & Contingencies ammuntied. 1996 £31941.88 sheeving a further reduction of £ 1427. 1. 4/2 on this item in 1851.

The Total decrease of the estimated Expenditure for But as compared with the coteiras

expenditure for 1850 is £5667 49. a

رو

I) Ampared with the actual dependiture of 1849, reductions appear in the lectunate for

$1851 .

under the follovernor £134. 17.0.d

Treasurer

goyo

duweyer Gesteral. 678.7.7. Nigestri Eural. 264. 18.4 Harbour Master. 230. 10.1.

Judicial 255.8.7

Medical including dapital 214. 3. 1/2.

+ 1

1861, over

$

J

+

وا

+

J

4

> : 4

4

ウ

+

+

*

↓

2

4

$

| 7132.10 ·| 7287.|).

312230724 #2 1915-2005 9.0 550. 478 1.3 140.

130.17.03

12311909 7.7

423. 687 18.4

+

1171. 1401.16.1

f

174.8.4 140 19.11

313

J

277.4.03

£305 6050.8.7

795.17.721 184 100.... 74.3.10

012.10 300 18.2.

447 jc., 467. 4. Mr.

9138 6. 8. 8574.13.16 4190.7.7. 3810 13.3 850.530.4.5

· 55 · 13.721. 9. 7. 38986.

An Inertal in the Extimate for 151 wer the Expanditure of 1899 appears ucider

Public Horns 1690 91/a

olice Haols.

623. 12.974 being on account of Law Boone, Acts of Parliament the ordered for the use of the Justices, the Depense of & I read mid for the Garl

ese

a

1850.

an additional Jinkers, and also on account of the shall surve of £80. 4.2th intr having been sund durzung 1849, for the Conveyance of Convicts to Penal siellements, greater sam die pas de domici preformed during th big baring der paid in all the

for this service 1849 been de unidero de calignal establishment, the Inercase is £25. 16. 1., of account of one additional Chinese schoolmaster for the Villages ele:

49. 15.074 erraud on botenial Secretarup's parliment & macerantof the lempurary

W tuning 1899 8?!

27. 8. Y merud under Auditor

9.21174 1.35.15.071⁄2

تھی

&

Cler W of Guncils

Rate Police Rali Afavors are on accounts of kutsugeavis bulingensies

en

t and

E

22.

and £73. 18.8.a merau under Ecclesiastical Establishment is on accecent

of the charge of the Burial Ground bersig transferred to that Ostablishment, from the Medical, agreeable to divictions from the Audit Board,

a

£24.8.6.d appear as an inerrace for Conviyauer of Mails, this charge)

harding Cornmensent on the "

12th February 1849.

the

Maine

Colowat Pentary.

།

193.

Financial.

instructed 31

A

C. T

ED

DEC.25

1850

My Lord,

Ci

L

67

Victoria, Hongkong,

18th October, 1850.

I have the honor to

forward, for Your Lordship's information, "Copy of a letter

from the Acting Colonial

Treasiore

to

Covering

his antwer

--the

certain queries from Audit Board at home, date

4

1th August lash, relative to

overpayment of £7.2.9% to Sir John Davis in March 1878

which sum has been

disallowed by

the Board; and

The Right Honorable

The Earl Grey,

Ye

:

.

.

!

$1

as

now in

Sir John Davis is England, I beg that your Lordship will

Caute

the

be pleased to

ne repary

to be issued to the

Ges: Baillie Love

instructions

Colonial

nt in

London

for

the

MINUTE HR Ladis

1850 DECR

f

the above named.

MRElliot

M(r)Merivale

Agent

reer

: covery

Jun.-

I have the honor to be With the highest respect,

Your Lordships,

BB

les Mem

Jestruck the

Agent ascending by

26 Deu

Mosh Obedient

Humbs Servant,

W

M&Hawes

Earl Grey

Cok

27

18 betr./50

ッフ

7

10460k

Hony Hory

53

31 Dec/50

Earl Grey by

dust Sam devet at by Earl; to haummit to you

the

Copy

of a Des pratite with its enclosure

From the Governor of Hong

Mony relative to an

ever-

ercopayment

of 272.9/ made to be Joh

£7.

Davis in March 1848. and I

am to instruct

you

to call

refore his Johan Davis to repay

Sie

герт

that amounhan order that

it may be Glaced to the Credih

Colony.

of the Cony

Shave

- الحان المال.

----------

Copy.

N° 14.

Sir,

ات

69

Colonial Treasury, Victoria, Hongkong,

October the 18th 1850.

I have the honor to enclose

an

Extract

from

Queries

reseived by

the last Mail from the Ausch Board, London, and beg to bring to your

notice that it will be nese

pary

to inform Sir John F. Davis, Bart,

England, that the sum

nowo

in

£72.95% has to be refunded by him, as

him, as Salary overpaid

him for the period from tot to

20th March 1848.

I believe that this

nt should be made to

payment

the Agent for the Colony G. Baillie, Eye, N. 5. Cannon Stonorabl

Major Wm Caine,

Colonial Secretary.

i

...

H

:

Row, Westminster, who will

require

the

authority of His

Excellency The Governor to bring

the amount to the credit

of this Colony

I have to.

(Signed) R. Rienascker,

Aating

Colonial Treasures.

(True Copp) Maine Colonial Seratany

י

(Copup)

70

the

Extract from Queries and observations on Accounts of the Colonial Treasures at Hongkong for the year 1848, Dated Audit Office, Somerset Houte, 1/4 August, 1850.

Query

or Observation.

Fixed Establishment

for March.

Governor's Salary

March N. 84.

From 1. to 20. March... £ 329-13-12-

April 1.1.

Answer

от

Explanation.

The calculations for Salaries

drie.

for broken periods had, previous to the receipt of the

Queries from the

+

Audit Board

dated 16th August 1848, been From 21th to 31st.. 181.6.4 made in accordance with the

Paid 510. 19.83%

£510, 19.83 Colonial Regulations (vide

Answer to "Query No 17 on the £ 1. J.

Account for 1847.) __

1th Computes by the mouth to ... 322, 1171⁄2

güd

177-8.41⁄22

The Salaries for the Fixed Establishment having up to

£ 500,0.0 that time been considered as sanctioned per

The sanctioned. Rate of Salary not per month.

is £500 per mensem. -

The overpayment of

£10. 1918 3/4 will be disallowed.

14

Frue Co

and

The amount of £3, 18.0

has been refunded

in

the 17.

#

October, 1830, by His Excellency Governor Bonham, and Sir John F. Davis will be requested to pay the amount overpait

Lim-

(£7.2.1947)6

in

Copy

2.94) to the Colonial Agent London..

Acting Colonial

(Signed) R. Rienaeasurer. (True Copy:)

Colonial Secretary.

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:

No 93 of 1850.

Inslosure in Despateb.

F

N.94.

"Miscellaneous.

10.469 trong trong

DEC.2 6

1850

71

Victoria, Hongkong,

19th October, 1850.

My Lord.

With reference to my Despatch 188 of 18th

September, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the following

on the 13th Instant_ Nos 191 to 196, - the lath of

Despatches

15th August, 1850

Circular of 6th

-

I have the honor to be Wick the highest respect,

The Right Honorabl The Earl Grey

-

fol

Le.

Your Lordship's,

mosh Obedient

Humble Servant,

Bakan

sting Colornal

to him in March, 1848. 27. 294, Jalary overpaid

Letter from the Treasurer, requesting that Six

18th October, 1850.

to refund the sam

John Davis be written to

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Mr Memate Put b? 7687.21

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The Earl Grey.

Governor Bonham, 19th October, 1850.

Received

No 94.

Circular of 6th August,

of 16th August, and

of Despatches to No 196 Acknowledging receipt

1850.-

:

i

N95.

Financial.

Ened to Trendy 31 Dec / 50

$20.23 1850

Victoria,

Honghong,

19th betober, 1850.

My Lord, I love the bown to oneleve have honor

the

herewith, for your Lordship's information. and that of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, Copies of the quarterly Abstracts for Guarter ending 30th September, 1880.- 1. Changes in the holders of offices

and appointments in the Colony

2. Additions to Salaries and

Allowances in the Colony of Houghing.

3. Creation of

of new Offices and appointments in the Colony of Stoughong.

The Right Honorable,

The Earl Grey,

Vo.

tc.

dc.

Nor Meniale

بصمت

The excelove

for the Treasury

at been

2

Hmm x U

726 BH

4. Payments of

description

ен

an

and

n ww

for

usual

Your Lordship's,

Mort. Obedient With the highest respect,

Stumble Servant,

traordinary Services.

I have the honor to be,

CHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended

OFFICE.

Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary.

Name of the Officer who is now appointed, and annual Salary.

If appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of au- thority of the Secretary of Stute.

If newly appointed by the Governor date of authority.

If promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former ap- pointment.

30 September

nger 1850

Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of office or appointment, or the new appointment.

Column for Remarks.

Chiep. Magistrate of Police

Interpreter of Spanish 9. R. Caldwell Pedro V. Iatwicky

Portuguese Malay and

Shindoortani, and Clerk

£100.

£100.

Colonial Secretary's Letter N164, dated

7th June 1850-

(Signed) W. Caine

Auditor General.

(Trine Copy)

Me

Monial Secretary.

OFFICE.

ADDITIONS to SALARIES and ALLOWANCES in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended

Name.

Date of Appointment.

Original Salary.

Present Salary,

30th September 1350

Date from which increased Date and description of Authority for

Salary drawn.

increase.

1857.

Column for Remarks.

Colonial Secretary's letter

1857

Governor Vide Gwerur Bonhams Seepatch 1976 of 6th August 1857.

(Signed) Mr. Caine,

Auditor General.

-Chief Magictrate of Police C. B. Hillier

16th December, 1846

£900.

24

£ 1000 12th August 1850. 422/2 of 125 August 1950

Ime

(True Sopy)

Mairie donial Peeretary-

75

OFFICE.

CREATION of New OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended 30

Name.

Annual Salary.

Date of appointment and of

authority from the Governor.

* September 1850..

Date and description of the authority or Date of the Governor's Despatch to Her instruction (if any) from Her Majesty's Majesty's Government in England, respecting Government in England, in consequence of the transaction in cases where no previous which the appointment was made.

authority may have been received.

Column for Remarks in any partictilar case, and for the statement of any special circumn-

stances.

Nil.

(Sigrad) M. Caine,

Auditor General.

(Jane Copy)

olonial Secretary.

|

76

2.

PAYMENTS of an unusual or special Description, and Payments on Services amounting to £200, incurred without previous authority from Her Majesty's

#4

Secretary of State, for the Quarter ended 30 September

Description of Service.

Amount.

To whom paid.

18 50.

Column for Remarks in any particular case,

Date and description of the authority or Date of the Governor's Despatch to Her Date of authority from instruction (if any) from Her Majesty's Majesty's Government in England respecting and for the statement of any special circum-

Government in England, in consequence of the transaction, in cases where no previous which the payment was made.

authority may have been received.

the Governor.

stances.

Nil.

(True Copy)

Main

Meloniat Secretary

(Signed) W. Caine,

Auditor General.

27

Ty

:

1.96.

Miscellaneous.

DIC.23 1850

{ "Emigration".

Victoria, Hongkong,

21th October, 1850.

Coppy to J. Mail for inferni bhang

با

Lod

My as

I have the hour to

enclose for Your Lordship's

pl. information copy of a letter to my address from the Chief Magistrate of this Colony, relativn

to

a lase

of

robbery that

murder and

took place

c

!

board the French Merchant Vessel Albert" on her passage

рото

Cur-sing-moon

to Callas.

2.

From this letter your

The Right Honorable The Carl Goy,

Je.

1

Lordship will perceive that in

lash the Albert" took

August last

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board

at

Chinese

نه

Cum-sing-

Sing- moow

Port about 20 miles

to the Northward of hadas,

180 Chinese Emigrants; that on

妖

the 14th of the Jame

mouth

the Vessel sailed for Callas,

and that on

the 7th September,

in Latitude 32° 15' North and

Longitude 138° 26' East from Freemwish, the Emigrants rose, attacked and murdered the

Captain, the Chief mate, thes

Cook, and

ало

apprentice

or

Pilotin, Subjects of the French

Young Peruvian

Republic, and a

John de Dien Elias, the son of the Charterer of the Nepal. -

3.

After the commission of

79

this outrage

the emigrants

1

b

میری

the

compelled the remainder

Crew to deviate from their course, and put the thip

Ship about with the intention of having

the Valpel and themselves conveyed to China.

4.

to

On the 27th September the Albert" arrived in this Harbour with 49 V, the Emigrants, the remainder having left the Vessel the preseding day the Northward of the Island, in Chinese Boats that assidentally came alongside

her entering

the harbour,-

On

a

signal of distress being observed, - The was immediately

boarded by the Police who

brought the 49 Prisoners on

shore.

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1

33

от

on the 28th September

the

Cate

was

brought before

the Chief Magistrate and the Depositions taken. These were only submitted for the consideration of the Attorney General who stated that, in his judgment, "the offences " having been as alleged committed

"

by aliens

его

alient in

∞

"Foreign Vepel, the Courts here

these

the

" have no jurisdiction in

case; and, under circumstances, I have consented, at the request of M. le Baron Forth Rouen, to hold these

custody, until he

men

in

can

receive

an

answer

to

a

reference which he proposes

to make to his Government

or until the

no

the subject,

b

arrival of a Trench Vefpel of

Was which he states will at

receive them.. At present

те once

there is

no French Vessel of

War in these Seas..

6.

I have considered it

my duty to detain the accused Chinese in pursuance of the authority to that effect contained in the Act of Parliament 6 and - Viatonia Cap: 75, entitled "An Act for giving effect

"to

a

Convention between Her

Majesty and the King of the "French for the apprehension "If certain offenders."

7.

I have the honor to

annex, for Your Lordshipl

E

2

information, copy of the Correspondence 2 that has taken place between this fovernment and the Acting Vee- Consul of the French Republic on the Subject; and I trust that my praecedingt

on this

vcension

will receive

the approval of ther Majestips Government.

I have the hover to be, With the highest respect,

our Lordship's,

most obedient Humble Servant,

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despatch with it's enclosures

Palmerston the Copy of a

Grenzs

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lis the to proceedings

taken in this Costs were

there

adopted

at the request of the French Minister, how suld appearth be nothing prether to be done at present.

approve

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The Extradition Meaty

Meaty

& Act do not what to piracies,

and only to murders when committed "wither.

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that unine this

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is "within "such "jurisdiction." int the point sermo Inther delicate one - Perhaps there.

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outrage, until the

French

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to the pins for that pupon by. Contacted in the beb

647. Victoria Cafe 75. her giving offeel to a

Convention between Hen

Majesty the thing of

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the French for the appre: :hension of Cestour Offenders", and, assuming that a

Nurder Conemitted

anywhere on board

a French Ships Jalls within the provisions of the Treaty relating to

Murders se Committed

33

within the Tenitores a

jurisdiction of the

"Lord

French Hing

Grey Gropones, unless

Lord Palmerston sees

reason to the contrary, to

Contrary

appune the Governor's

proceedings in this

Mattern

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Bonhamn

MINUTE 26 Jadis. MR Elliot M&Merivale

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70.660

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for solze of Hang Hong

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Entered

1T6750

With reference to gore

84

Despetch RG6. of 21 of lett

1850. reporting a case of Murder and Robbery Com :

: mitted on board a Ferevel Marabout Vefel Hare wor

to convey

to gore my approval

of your querdings in

in harring

this matter in

detained the perpetrators of

the outrage for the purfore

then to

of surrendering. Some French Authority.

Clove

:

:

No.

10. 19.

Gong Ahlook Chun Ahsec.

Keon

Fit,

1. Copy. 1

$5

Chif Magistrated Office, Pretnia,

Hongkong, the 7th October, 1880.

I have the honor to report for the

Trong teen choy information of His Excellency the Governor

Bhoey Ahyaen

bhah Aafe; . that on

Long thkum

the 28th of September last, fortiquine

Laeng Ahchuen Chinese, whose names are in

Le Anchoey.

were

Jung Ahloey.

Ow. Ahfong.

the

margin,

brought before me by the Superintendent with Piracy

Fan thehnen of Police, charged

Ho Akkun.

Le Ah-ü

Chuw

sea a

y on

the high

accompanied by murder. After

και

ว

thying investigation of the case, and consultation

thie with young.

show the hong with the Attomey Genemb, I found that

No Assum.

Ramy thyou the alleged offences, though amounting

Lum

Ahlook.

Tham Mached piracy at commew law,

Alchew

to

according

to the

were

clearly

Sung thfork definitions of our text-books,

Yeong Ahher not justiciable by the tribunals of this

Low

Ahmeet

as the French Vice Consul,

thsing Colony : therefore, Lane Antting Mr. Henry Authion, has

Lum

L

The Honorable

the detention

Anthon, has required

equired the

Major W. Caine,

Colonial Secretary.

1.

3

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of the prisoners until he communicate with the

Laong Ahyun

86

during the interval. On the

thrice during

есні

and

flogged thrice.

Lew Ah heen.

French Plenipotentiary, provided myself with the requisite authority, and have committed them in conformity with the Act of Pare

-Parliament 6 and 7 Victoria, cap. 75, and 8 and 9 Victoria, Caps. 120, for giving effect to the late Trench Creaty for the

now at Macas, I have Low Ahsung

Chou the un "thy

Ah chi

Long there Lung Le Ah kun bhoy giving. To the knee Koo Ahwor

rendition of offenders of this description .

The facts of the

caso are as

Anchan

Quan chủ Foo Ahsee

Wong Mimar

follows. Hov Ahsen

On the 14th August last the French

Wun Locy 200 Chun Ahchan

Lum thhut

ship Albert, of the port of Dieppe, and of the June the burther of 252 tons, left the neighbourhood of Macão in China for Callao in . Peru,

having.

board

on

one

hundred and eighty

Chinese Coolies, whose services had been

engaged, for a period of five years.

time

and up

From the

to the 7th September,

of leaving and the Coolies were. frequently beaten

by the

by

Captain and Chief Mate, and on one occasion, for a trifling offence, two men were lashed to a boom for

six hours, kept without food,

Ko Anchory Kan Ahoan Chun Ah ku Hew Fox chu

morning of the 7th September the faptain was severe, though it appears

unusually severe, of this severity

was a

the

Cause

laudable desire to keep

:

the persons of the Coolies cleanly : probably he had in view the mclancholy loss of life from

α

disease recently reported to have overtaken number of Coolies bound to South America under similar circumstances. While they

being beaten, the Coolies rose en

majse

were

armed themselves with knives and hatchets

from the fook's galley, and with whatever elso they could find about the decks, and murdered both the Captain and the Cook at the same time, their rage against

•

I the

latter being caused or at least increased, by

an

attempt to withhold from them the -weapons they desired . Breaking into the Captain's cabin, they possessed themselves of the tools belonging to a turning lathe with which he was in the habit of amuzing

•

I

5

4

himself, and, strengthened with these, they perpetrated immediately two other murders,

cu on A

young

Peruvian, the son

c

of the

midshipman

chaiterer of the ship, the other

or

7 apprentice belonging

on a mi

to the ship. The chief

mate, second mate and crew had meanwhile

taken refuge in the rigging

the chief mate remained there for about two and a half hours, and it seems to have been determined

that his life should be

or

jrfeit : She either

among

the

threw himself upon deck

one and disal

disabling another in

fell boolies, killing

his descent. He was

was

immediately despatched

and his body thrown overboard

as

the bodies

of the other victims had been previously thrown . The second mate and crew appear to

made no resistance but to have

have

quietly

submitted to a superior force, and to have brought the vessel back to bhina in obedience to the orders of the Coolies, who from the time of the death of the Captain had the

}

entire possession and control of the vessel,

her course and plundering the

directing

and stores

found

on board.

87

cargo

Most of the Coolies deserted the ship

when she made the boast of China,

some miles

to the Northward of this port; the remainder,

1

forty-five

in number,

were

brought into this

harbour under the impression, induced by the

being conveyed

second mate, that they

were

to Macao or (antow, as they had been unable to leave with the rest . The ship arrived hero on the 27th September . Having shown a signal of distress, the was immedia

s immediately visited by the police, and the Ccolies wore, as I am

informed, at once conveyed

ed to the police station,

at once conve

it being considered dangerous to allow them to remain on board during the night. On the prisoners being asked for their defence,

"them, Ko Ahchey, feely admitted that

of

onc?

he assisted to murder the Captains, but added

that he was no worse than the rest, for that

•

:

7

every Coolie

board

ew

was more or

less engaged

in the commission of the deed, but this with

the

connivance and expressed sanction of the econd mate and crew : the other prisoners negatived this admission as far as they concerned, but denounced. Ke Achoy as

svere

as on

of the guilty. indignantly denied any participation, active

the second mate and crew

or

or passive, in such counsels, and affirmed that they believed the murders to have been unpremeditated, and to have been simply outbreak of violent passion already

ar

stimulated to exce,

aw

oth is not

opinion

Ow

excess.

ot for

mes

I conceive, to pass

the case, further than to

me so

far

Day

that, the evidence given before oriminates the prisoners as to render farther inquiry highly desirable with a view to a fuller discovery of the part each took in this

lamentable transaction.

Under these circumstances, I have

committed the whole number, as I should

$3

probably have committed them to take their the other at least,

trial for the one crime or

had the case been

-case been cognizable by the Suprome

Court of this Colony

I have, 80,

Signed 1 6. 12. Hillier

Exif

Magistrate.

Tone Copy

و

Blac

Colonial Secretar

Secretary

--

Despatch N. 96 of 1858.

Inclosure N/ im

(Copy)

Vice Consulate of France

Hongkong.

Liv

f

$9

Longkong, October 54, 1858

I learn that the examination the Chinese Coolies ex French ship

"Albert" has terminated.

issuing

men

I should feel obliged by your

the

kept in

in

necessary orders to have these custody until I can hear

from I. E. the French Minister.

C. 13. Hillier, 129.

I am.

aim, &e,

(Signed, Henry Anthon, fr Acting Vice Consul for France .

Chief Magistrator of Phed . Hongkong.

Arie

Letter from the Chief Magistrate=

reporting on the

call

of

Münder and

robbery committed by certam Chinese

M

board the French Barque" Albert"_

7tt Actober, 1850.

Colonial Secretory.

:

:

:

:

2

Vice Consulate of France.

Hongkong

Sir,

(Copy)

50

Hongkong, October 11th, 1882

' herewith enclose a copy of a

communication received from His

3

frome

His Excellency

the French Minister, and in accordance)

with his instructions have to

request that

the Government of this Colony, agreeably

to the cxisting treaty between and France, will hold subject to the

between Great Britain

orders of His Excellency, the Chinese, Cate

board the French ship

passenger s

confine men

ment in this

Albert, and now in con

place .

I should feel obliged if I could be

put in possession of the documents to

To His Excellency

Samuel George Bonham,

Governor of Hongkong,

te,

te

7

Yo..

1

F

4.

which Mr. Rouen alludes in time for this

mouth's mail.

I have, &c.

Aigned) Homry Anthon, Jr. Acting Vice Consub for

Sve

Popy.

ا کہ مجھے

France.

Conial Sécreta

tion de France

Légation

Ew

Chine.

Monsieur,

(Copy)

"'ai

31

Macao, 6 Octobre, 1850.

ai reçu dans le courant de la

ques

vous on

Pavez fait

journée la lettre.

l'honneur de m'écrire hier pour m'informe,

que l'autorité, judiciaire d'Hongkong, qui spontanément avait évoqué

affaire

de l'Albert, a déclaré

que

les

assassinats suivis de vols commis à

bord de ce navirer français

(c) français, ne pouvaient

êtres considérés comme des actes de

piraterie), mais biew

mais bien comniè) un

comni@) un crímò)

dont la justice française seule pouvait

connaître.

Jo transmettrai cette décision par la voce la plus prompte à la connaissaned

de mon

attendant

vernements; mais, en a

anon gouvernements.

Monsieur H. Anthow,

rant le vice-consulat de Francr

gerant

à H

Hongkong).

7

qu

'il

me

fasse

connaître ses intentions aus

è vous.

sujch de cette triste affaire, jo

de réclamer officiellement

de l'autorité

an

anglaise.

prid

en mow nend

ew vous

appuyant

sur la convention d'extradition existant

entre la France et l'Angleterro), las détention préventive des individus arrêtés

à bord de l'Albert.

Je

anus priv également, Monsieur,

de péclamer de l'autorité, anglaise, las

communication de toutes les pièces

le

pattachant à l'instruction judiciaire

qui

a ew

faits

lieu à Honge

Hongkong,

kur

les

de l'Albert. Il serait à désirer

que ces

pièces

· fussent communiquées

assez tôt pour pouvoir parter par las prochaine malle.

Recevez,

Cette

copie

conforme

Henry Authon Jr.

exactement à l'original".

Gérant C. V.C. d.#

sumziour, l'assurance

parfaite considération. Forth-Rouen. (signs)

de ma

True Copy

Colonial Secretary.

Copy

54.

Lir.

32

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Victoria, Hongkon

Hongkong,

12th October, 1850:

E

+

I have the honor to acknowledge

the receipt of your letter of the 11th instant, enclosing copy of and addressed. H. C. the Barow Forth Rouen,

to

you by Minister of France .

With referened

reference to the

to the detention in

custody of the persons charged with committing

murder and robbery

robbery on board the ship Albert, Land directed by His Excellong

you

as

the Governor of Hongkong to reply to

that they shall be detained, required by the French Minister, until demanded by a proper authority on the part of the French nation; in accordance with the provisions of the Act 68°

87

Houry Anthon, Jr., E49,

Vice, Consul for Franco.

Acting

T

+

·

out the

Victoria, Cap. 75, passed to carry convention/ under which application has been made to the British Government

to detain the above prisoners . It is at the

same time a

to the stipu

7

ty to draw

my duty

jour

attention

stipulation of the above convention quoted in the same Act, as follows : "that :

the

expenses of any detention and surrender made in virtue of the stipulations of therein before recited should be bornd and defrayed by the Government

Government in whose: name the requisition should have:

been made.

The documents connected with the

proceedings had in

Court in

the case

the M.

Magistrate's of the Albert shall

be forwarded to you at you request;

copies of them can be made.

as soon as

course have informed

You will of con

His Excellency

the French Minister

of the circumstances under which the

a

33

charge.

persons in question were first taken in His Excellency the Governor is therefore at a loss to explain why, in his letter of the 6th instant to yourself, he should speak the Albert, as spontané - of the affair of the Albert, as

- ment evoque "by the Colonial Court in

which they were examined).

The ship Albert arrived here

Septr, and as she s

27th

th. Lepto.

of distress, the

021/

the

she showed a signali

signal

was immediately boarded

by the police, as any distressed vessel flying, English colours would have boom. "Hearing of the fearful atrocities recently committed on board her, they naturally considered it improper to leave the large number of men found in her at liberty make their escape, or it might be, to proceed to farther initrages. They thereford took these people on shord to be subjected

to examination.

to

No remark would have been made

:

upon this matter, had not the word "spontanément" "the air

INO20

of implying that

had been done by the police authorities

necessary. Not only had their

than was

was nec

proceeding the entire approbation of His Excellency the Governor, but they had,

ad

on a

late occasion declared to His

you Excellency, met

to him that further declared to approval; and you

would)

you have applied for assistance had it not been anticipated.

no

The police could indeed have pursued

other course,

the circumstances considered,

and after investigating.

remained

simply rem

the case it

for the Magistrate

decide as he did, that piracy proved against the prisoners,

was one

could

erot

to

being

the prisoners, their act

which no further cognitzaned

of wh

and be taken in a British fourt

True Copy

of

I have, &c. (Signed) W. (aind

Maine Colonial Secretery.

law.

Colonial Secretary-

No. 258.

Copy

Sir,

of any

54

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong,

15th October, 1850.

With referenced to the 3rd paragraph.

letter to now of the 12th instant, No. 254, I have the honor to enclose herewith the Documents connected with

the proceedings had in the Magistrated

fourt

iw

the case

of the Albert." I have, &c.,

(Signed) Maine

Colonial Berstory.

Kue Copy,

}

Colonial Secreta

Henry Authon, leg. seting. Vice Consul for France

י

N

12

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73

Vice Consulate of France.

Hongkong.

Kr

Hongkong,

95

October 15, 1850.

15th.

I have the honor to acknowledge

the receipt of your communication No. 254 under date. 12th inch, the contents of which

th

were immediately made known to His

bea to

beg

Forth Rouen, and I now

a letter received from

Excellency

hand

you a copy of a

him.

owledge the

this

day's

I have also to acknowledge

receipt of your

& communication

of the

date., No. 258, with copies of the depositions

made before the Magistrates of this place

‹ in regard

to

the late massacre on

board

o for

for which

the French ship Albert, and

I beg to tender

I beg

I refer to

my thanks.

your

consideration that

portion of Mr. Rouen's letter in regard to

to be fixed upon from which

the day

Н

:

are to

Ligation

tion de France en Chine.

+

14

the expenses of the Chinese prisoners be borne by the French Government.

to the

تے

I have, &c., Sigued. 1 Henry Anthon

Jo

Acting Vice Consul for France.

Hon. W. Caine)

Colonial Secretary.

tc.

Ac

Hongkong

&c.

Five

Volonial Secretary.

Monsieur,

Jai,

36

Hongkong, be 14 8tre, 1850.

reçu

la

copie de la lettre que

M. le Gouverneur de Hongkong

vous a

fait adresser le 12 de ce mois . Cette lettre est en tout point satisfaisante.

K

vous reste maintenant à fixer

avec l'autorité anglaise,

le jour, à partir

duquel, par suite des stipulations de la convention d'extradition entre la France

et l'Angleterre, les frais de la détention préventive des 49

navire)

Chinois arrêtés à bord du

: français l'Albert retomberont à la charge du gouvernement pançais. Je pense

l'on pourrait arrêter que

que

mois que

les deux

doit durer cette détention préventive commenceraient à courir soit d'aujourdhui,

soit du 12, date de la lettre que vous a

Monsieur Anthon, Gérant le vice-consulat de France à

Honghey.

été adressés par l'ordre de M. le Gouverneur

de

Hongkong.

de ma

Rexvez, monsieur, l'assurance nouvelle

- parfaite considération.

(Signé )

Forth- Rouen.

Cette copie con

conforme

A Poriginal

(signed) Henry Anthon Jr. Vérant Le V. Consu

de France .

lat

fopy

No. 259.

Sir,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong,

th

97

17

17

October, 1880.

True Copy.

Ma

Conial Secretary.

howtory.

I am directed to acknowledge your

letter of the 15th instant-

together with

its

together

Enclosure from the French Minister.

As

regards the date from which the Prisoners ought to be considered at the expense of the French Government, His

-Excellency is of opinion that it should

commence

5th.

from the 5

of October, the date

of your letter to the Chief Magistrate, him to issue the necessary

requesting

to have the men

you

orders

-kept in custody until

could hear from His Excellency the

French Minister.

H. Anthon, beq

I am directed to take this opportunity

Acting Vice. Consul for Frances

A

18

of remarking that as the French Minister

is about to leave China, it is particularly desirable that . His Excellency should leave

ency

instructions to any French ship of

that in

may

war

arrive in China to receive these

Prisoners, as, from their numbers, their detention

it is not unattended

in the Colonial Jail

with inconvenience to the Public service.

I have, Jo.,

Ligned / Maine

Colonial Secretary

True Copy

lonia

cial Secretary

Copy. 1

My dear Major Caine,

Mr. Rouen has requested

38

to

apply to you for the following information,

vi

"Whether you.

you received

Magistrates a declaration

from the

s a declaration of their inability

to commit the Chinese)

at

ex

Albert" for trial

< pirates ; their crime not being considered such . Or whether the Civil authority alone has decided that the aforesaid, Chinese

are

no

only amenable to the French tribunals,

Should there be any

documents

this subject, and the Government have objections, I should be happy to

receive a

copy for Mr. Rouen .

Fourz Sincerelig

(Signed) Henry Anthon.

Kongkong, October 19th. 1880.

True Jeky

Colonial Secretar

ery

1

:

20

No. 264.

(Copy)

39

Colonial Secretary's Office) Pretoria, Hongkong,

21th October, 1850.

2/

J

:

Sir,

contained in

In compliance with the request

your

note of the 19th instant, I

am directed by His Excellency the Governor to

enclose herewith

an

Magistrate's Report

Extract of the Chief

on!

the case

of the Albert,

from which it will be perceived that the alleged offences, though amounting to piracy

at common law, were not considered

by

Chief Magistrate to cognizable by the Courts this Colony.

Henry Anthon, Esq. Acting Vice Consul for France .

I have, &0,

W. Caine (Signed)

Colonial Secretary.

Dave Copy.

Colonia Exerotany.

the

of

:

|-

(

22

(Copy)

100

-Extract of a Report from the Chief ____

Magistrate of Police relation to the case

the French

Barque

Albert."

of

case, and

23

After an invectigation of the consultation with the Atterney General, I found that the alleged offences, though amounting to

piracy at common law according to the - definitions of our text-books,

were clear

clearly

not justiciable by the tribunals of this Colony :

the French: Vice-Consul, Mr.

therefore,

Olet

Henry Anthon, has required the detention of the prisoners until he communicate- with the French Plenipotentiary,

new at-

Macao, I have provided myself with the

them in con

requisite authority, and have committed

amity with the tot Parliament 6 and of Victòria, Cap. 75,

Victoria, tap. 120, for giving.

and 8 and 9

effect to the late French Creaty for

H

.

.

i

F

$

24

the rendition of offenders of this description.

Fuc. Extract Signed, Maine

Buc.

Apy

Colonial secretary,

Colonial sentry.

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N.97. Financial

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My Lord,

for your

DEC.26

1350

Sulaw

131

Victoria, Honghong,

25th October, 1850.

I have the hour to cuelon Lordship's information copy of

- a letter from Major

General Staveley

Commanding the Troops in China, to the address of the Lord Fitzroy Somerat,

and forwarded by the last Mail, requesting to be relieved from

his command at the

early part of next year.

2.

for

It will

course be a question

the Home Authorities to determine,

whether

of

or not it is

me

necessary.

that

an

Officer of the rank of Major-General " "hould be appointed to the Command_

The Right Honorable, The hart Grey,

te.

dc.

c.

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3

Should

of a General

of the Forces stationed here, which including all Branches does not ordinarily exceed 1100 Men.

4.

3.

For the respectability of my office,

and for my

inuirie

prefer

owne

comforts, I should of

the Troops to be under the

command of an experienced officer, appointed with reference

reference to his

unneeezzar

Leeersary,

occupied by

Auncover

Officer

102

the services

be be considered

the House at present

that

made over to

over to the

officer might be

Colony, and at

an expense of about £5,000 be converted into a residence, suitable

for

fituese, in

5.

on

ireference to the Command devolving the Senin Officer present whoever he may be; nevertheless. At present the outlay is as follows:- having

ingreason to

believe the last plan

will prove

annual

an ali na

Major beneral Commanding £ 2,651 +1907

Aide-de-Camp

Arcistant. Military Secretary

saving to the State to say that the extra. Staff

the extent of £3,000,$

More or

allowance to the Senior

ML

the Island

officer including House Rent

less, I think

be

it my duty to bring. The saving therefore

the

subject to your

Lordship's motion

would be

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415.7.6

413.7.61

£ 3,478,14,7

£500.0.0

£2,978.14.7

the Governo.

Major General Staveley will

not quit the Colony before March

next, and the

repairs and alterations to the Stouce could not be completed

under six months more, so

BUJ

that it

A

would not be available Government House before actober. Its is not improbable that I shall request your

Lordship's sanction to

recign my office in March 1852; and, as I therefore

can

have little

personal interest in the matter, the

E

193

proposal that I now mate

may

be

deemed worthy of more consideration,

be entitled to under might be entitled

tham it

other circumstances.

6.

this account, and the retimate for

the year

1851 may therefore be reduced

£15,500 to £11,600.

from

mm

7.

While on this

my

Despatch 1.92 of the

cover to the Colonial

By my 15th Instant, giving. retimates for the year ending. December 1851, Your Lordship. will-

perceive

that a demand, being lasts, is made on the Imperial

Government to the extent

the

of £3940

on account of a Should Her Majesty's Govemment. be pleased to decide that the

Government - House.

General's House shall be made over to the local Government, I shall have the

necessary.

means

the

of making alterations and repairs to

on

the Building, without calling the Government pfurther aid on

subject. I may

as well remind your Lordship that the Military Department Colony have

r

this

now in

their

possession

two Buildings, the Albany and Old bovernment offices, built at the expence of the Colony at a cost of £8,097-19. 10. The last are believe in thorough repair, but they

are

not I

recupied by Troops. The Generali House cost the Ordnance £7.972, 5.0, and is also in want of considerable alteration and repair, and must, unless transferred to the Civil Government, be put into order at heavy expense to that department. I think therefore, in a financial

a

H

A

point of view, it would be

very- desirable that the house should be

the

transferred to the Colony (by which it is required) in exchange for Buildings

above named, Military occupation._ Under

circumstances,

the

now in

any

arrangement

that I propose would, I am

opinion,

cause a s

eaving

to

of

the State

of some £10000; for, as already observed, if it be not handed

over to the Civil department, it must be repaired at a heavy expense to that

the Ordnance, while, if transfered, it can be repaired and altered_ out of

monies already at

my command, which, if not devoted to this

purpose, will be

a new~

expended in the erection of a

Government House estimated to ent £14.940.7.7-

!

194

8. The Albany Buildings above

alluded to were made over to the

Military Department in May- 1847, when the Ordnance stipulated then £333.16-8 annually,

to

pay for

being the rate at which they had been previously rented ; but this anangement

disapproved of Your Lordship's Despatch of the 2nd July 1847, and the Military

23rd

have in consequence been im porcession of them rent- free- since that date, and

of between £1100 and £1200 been saved to the State. -

a sum

9. Your Lordship will have the goodmere to understand that I

am induced to make this proposal solely under the supposition that. Honghong will

7

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General's Command.

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Majo

I have the honor to be,

With the highest respect,

Your Lordships,

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Um 626 226844

Governor Bonham.

25th October, 1850.

The Earl

Received

1.97.

Grey.

Enclosures

Relative to major-General application to be

Staveley's

be transferred to the Civil at present occupied by suggesting that the House If the troops in China, and relieved from the Command

him

Government House.

Department, for the purpose being converted into a

does not appear by the correspondence why the corrmend

bron violed on a

cartient paper on

letter of

Le

the troops hav Major Gencial

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Lord Hills in 18741

which he states that be undowlood

your ryp y 7 7?

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the Germ

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of

thr. H. of

that it should be so

bany

сожеледно

the Secretary

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Expand have

at War stated:

in 1844 -5; and I

apprechend that he must have ben

appointed then with reference 2 generally

to military

andcrations.

Cente

2

14

vernor konham, d. C. B. January 1851.

Governor

Military

Ne 19.

MINUTE

11851 LANY

ATR Smith 1

MSVerivale

M'Hawes

Earl Grey

Mr.

Sii

I have to actruow_

ledge the receipt of

your despatch, N.77, of the 25% of October, enclosing copy of letter from Major General Stavoley to the Military Secretary

to the Commander

in Chief, in which

requests

to to be relieved in the

he

Corneand

of

the

:

..

197

Troops at Hong Kong! and proposing the adoption of cectains arrangements in the

event of ito being determined that

the Command of the Troops at that Station should not be

excrcised in future

Officer of the

by

acr

rant of Major General.

Major General Jervois having some time previously

the arrival

to

of your

despatch, been appointed to the

193

Command of the Troops at Hong Kong,

it is

no

longer

possible for Her Majesty's Government

to entertain the arrangements proposed by you.

But, adverting

to the fact that the nature of the other

the Governor of

duties

of Hong Kong sometimes require his absence from the Colony,

that

ог

and

These occasions

of

the Government the Seland is adminis

tered

by

the Major

:

:

General Commanding in pursuance of The Queen's Commission

to bein

ao

Lieutenant

Governor, I consider

that it

со

convenient

that that Officer

the

should be of rants of Major General,

Copy.

My Lord,

199

Houghtong, China, 25 September 1850

I am most unwillingly obliged from the state of my health to ask your Lordship to request. His brace the Commander-in-Chief to

fini

cause me to be relieved Command early in the next

I have

intermission 39

this

year.

now been without

three hot seasons in-

health

and the last the years in the Tropies Houghing have so impaired my that I feel quite convinced I could not go through a fourth. Under there circumstances, the duty I owe the servies as well

well as to

Lieutenant-General

my family

The Lord FitzRoy Somerset, b. C. B. Military Secretary-

>

t

!

.

سی

alike oblige

me to

request His Grace

to allow me to relinquish my appointment.

I transmit

Medical

Certificate, and have the hover to

be, My

Lord,

Your Lordship's, &c. (Signed) W. Staveley. Major General

Com J. in China

Jane Copy) (Signed) C. W. Staveley,

C.

Cap: Asst MJ. Secf.

(True Copy)

lonial Secrets

int-Sentary.

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110

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J97 of 1850.

Inclosure in Despaceb

}

Staveley Commanding

Liter from major Jeneral

the

Froops in China, to thes

address of

relieved from his Command at the early part of 1881.. Somerset, requesting to be 27th September, 1850.

The Lord Fitzroy

111

I

N98.

198.

Financial.

for information 314lee

Ene to

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M.!.

My

پسند

Lord,

RECEIVED

DEC.26

1850

Wistoria, Hongkong,

26th October, 1850.

I have the honor to

transmit to Your Lordship

the Account Current

the

Acting Colonial Treasurer for its quarter ending 30th September 1850, together with 192@25. the requisite Vouchers in

suffort of the Jame

4747

426.

The Report of the

Board of Survey of the Funds

Colominal Treasury,

in the

held

on the 12th Instant,

The Right Houvrable

The Carl Grey,

Aan

to

:

.

Н

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i

is

also herewith enclosed for Your Lordship's information..

I have the hour to be, With the highest respect, Your Lordship't,

most obedient Humbh Servants,

18Makum.

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by Earl Grey to transinit

the

to you for the information of the horse Count of Treasury,

the accompanying

copy of a Dexpatch from the Lovenor of Hongkong Covering cops the account

the acting Current of

Colonial Licasurer for the Quarter ended 3 Sept last with the requate Voucher, together with a Report of the Board of Senvey of the Funds

in

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in the folonnal Freeroury

on

the Tucklust.

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113

Receipts.

Land Revenue

4,470|11|7%

Quarter from 14th July to 30 September 1850.

Honghong Account of R. Rienacetier,

Account of R. Rienaceter, fcting Colonial Treasurer of Stoughtong, in respect of all monies reecived and paid on account of the Colonial bovernment, Her Majesty's Diplomatic department and Consulates in China, during the period from 1th daily to 30th September 1850.

134

salaries

Balance on 1th July 1850_ Public Monies__£

4,821% 14.8/14

Deposits

3,668, 8.6% 8,490 33

Fined Provisional and Allowances Establishment Temporar

Establishments 6,322 10 9 1.1939 8 3 2 6114 9 6 7,633 12 5

Office Contingencies

|

Total

Pensions Retired Allowances and gratuities

11084

151

//

Hospital

9.

Police and Gaol

J:

Rent

34 21798 38319 1/2

Transport-

1565

t

Works and Buildings.

21

Special Receipts.__.

Special

84

20194

45 18 10

2

Rents exclusive of Lands

Liceuzes...

Tanes

Fines, Forfeitures and Fees of Counts_.

Lee, of office

Reimbursement in aid of Expenses

incurred by Government-

Miscellaneous Receipts

Total Colonial Revenue-

J.

Parliamentary Grant. e. of Colony

7. of Consular. Ve. Services.

Consular Services

Seposits available Déporits not available

641 134 1,134 14 4

233 157

320101

1495

2/10 11/2

61 81⁄2 6,978 17 2

350

10,000

21 80%

329 137

2,663 10 82

£ 28,833 129%

! Robert Rienaecher de solemnly and sincerely declare that the Colonial_ Jacasurer of Hongkong from 19% of only to thirtieth of September 1857 -Declared and subscribed before the at Victoria, Honghong

2

(Signed) William Pedder,

be conect-

Marine Magistrate

Revenue Services exclusive of Establishments.

Roads Streets and Bridges

Total Colonial hapenditure

Superintendent of Trade

Consular Services

deposits not available_

Balance remaining on first betober 1850 viz :-

Publie Monies

Jeporits not available

9018 4 2/2

1500 15.2

11,022. 7.2

12,523 24

1,28417 11

£960′′

m2 £ 960. b. 11 k

#

5,047 " 1 " 4 || 6,007 83%

Acting

£28,833 129/h

foregoing is a true and concet Statement of my account as - and Iauake this Solemn declaration conscientionaly believing the sauce to this the 21th day of October 1850.

(Signed)

R.Rienaceker [Love Copy) Mains

Colonial secretary.

:

Tespatch N98 of 1850.

Inclosure J/im

the Quarter

145

Steturn of Land Revenue received

ended 30th : September, 1890.

de

during

Lease Landes,

During

the month.

de

of July.

August.

do. September

Lands not leased - from Villages, &c.

During the month of July.

do. August.

*

do. Leptember .

Deposits on Lands.

During the month of July.-

Has on Grank of Leases

2016165 1838 17 72

During the month of August. de. september .

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509 4 544364 8 5%

15

15 $

10 11⁄2

87

147 101 04/2

218

Fotal. S.

4470 11 74

26th October,

"850"

Governor Bonham,

Sicon ut

TAK newny colonial_

30# September, 1850. Treasurer for the quarter ending

Four thousand four hundred seventy Pounds, cleven)

Shillings

and seven Pence ond

Victoria, Hongkong,

October the 204., 1850. }

True Copery.

Farthing, sterling.

1) A. Monaccker

(Signed)

Acting Colonial Creasurer,

Colonial secutari.

Colonial

"

{

Return of Rents exclusive of Lands, received during the Quarter ended 30th September, 18807

For Government Buildings .

the mouth of July. During the

For Markets.

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do.

8584

| 85 | 8 | 4

August 10 8 44

116

84166 5

dr. September. | 10 | 8 4 106

During the month of July. | 220 168

do. August.

#

do.

September.

114 118

200

Total A

53584

641 13 4

one Pounds; thirteen Shillin

Six hundred forty-one Pounds;

and four

four Pence, starting;

Victoria, Hongkong, 20th October, 1850.

}

Crue Copy.

Shillings

(Signed) R. Nicnaceker - Acting Colonial Coeasuret

Macie

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Conia Cecrctlan,

seretanj

:

:

Return of Sums received for Licenses during

Quarter ended 30th September, 1850 .

Opium Dealers

During the mouth of July. |143|15|

the

117

do.

August. 114 11 8

do.

September. 135 8 4 393 15 0

Stone Quarrying the mouth of July. | 39\15\14

Buring

Pawnbroker.

Serangs.

Auctioneers.

Spirit Dealers.

do.

do.

August. 37 1344 Leptember 341 9 2 3/8

17

do.

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Juby.

72

184

A

do.

do.

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51

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During the month of July |11|

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August. 14 21

Leptember 18 0 7 38 4 5

252

Total L. 2tg. 194 14 14

One thousand one hundred thirty-four Pounds, fourteen Shillings and four Renée, sterling) .

Pretoria, Hongkong "yting Colonial treasures October the 20th, 1850 } signed / R. Rienace ker

Lue (opy

Colonial Secretary

!

Return of Caxes received during Quarter ended 30th September, 1850.

Police Ajeesement

the

July. - 92 9

During the month.

the month of July.

do. Leptember .

Total &

113

1416

*

233 15 1

Two hundred thirty-three Brands fifteen

Shillings

and one

Penny Storting?

Victoria, Hongkong,

20th October, 1856

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:

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Acting Colonial Preasures.

Cone Copy

Wiscons

folami & how they

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IN.

Return of Fines, Forfeitures and Tes of Courts

received during the Quarter ended 30th exeptember, 1830.

Fines.

Fecs.

From the Chief Magistrale.

#

#

Superintendent of Police s

a Justice of the Peace.

49

12

.15

010

3192

Marind Magistrate __ 17 16 . 86 2

The Shepreme Court.

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#

Chief Magistrate.

Marine

Do.

-202 12 112

29

12.4

228223480

Fotal.

L

320 101

Three hundred twenty Pounds, ten Shillings and

one)

Bnny, sterling

Runy

Victoria, Hongkong,

October the 20th. 1800.

(Signed)

Kue Sopy

R. Rienaccker

Acting Colonial Creasurer.

Ala

Colonial secreta.

Cherching

!

Return of Ices of Offices received during the 23

Quarter ended 30th September, 1850.

On Marriages .

Burials .

Registration of Boats __

26

25 18 4 290 10-

87163

15 10 5 103 68

Hawkers.-

#

#

Official signatures. Deed Registry.

One hundred and

Sterling.

с

&

0

10

10 168

Total L. etg., 149 50

forty-nine Pounds, five Shillings,

Vietnie, Hongkong,

20th October, 1850.

(Signed) R. Renaecher)

Acting folenial Creasurer.

tim fory

Copy

Mans

meal chore ta

ken

frans

¡

Return of Reimbursements in aid of Expenses

incurred by Government, during

Government, during the Quarter 12:

ended 30th September, 1850.

--

Sick stoppages of Police.

"In the month of July..

do.

August. - do. September . .

46821⁄2

4711

?

7 8 11 163 62

for

Fees paid to the Court in cases

C

recovery of frown Ducs.

-one

In the month of August. _ | 3 12 11

do. September.

1146

Total L. stq.

Perends ten Shillings a

Twenty-one halfpenny, sterling.

Victoria, Hongkong, October the 20th, 1890.S

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21 10 112

and eleven Pence

(Signed)

Acting Colonial

R. Nienaçeker.

colonial Creasurer.

true

༡༡

Colonial beretary-

Return of Miscellaneous Receipts during the Quarter ended 30th September, 1850.

Refund of Provisional Salary

122

overdrawn in the Sheriff's Department : L. O "2 = 1.

Two Shil

Shillings

and one

Victoria, Hongkong, [

20th October, 1800.

Ponny, Sterling.

(Ligned)

Acting

R. Frienaceker.

Colomal Creasurer.

Crue

en fopy

Colonial

Secretary.

Return of Special Reccipits during the Quarter

ended 30th September, 1856.

Superannuation Contributions of

-European Police Force .

During the month of July.

123

do.

do.

August.. September.

2 5

2.4

اور

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Total S. 2tg|b 14481⁄2

Six Bounds fourteen Shillings eight Pence half

Penny, Sterling?

Victoria, Hongkong,

20th. October, 1880.

(Ligned. ) R. Riènaccker.

Live

Actine Colonial Creasurer

topy.

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Colonial Secre

Secretary -7

MATINADOS ATAU ORROGANTENGELYAN, T

Return of Sums received afe of Parliamentary Grants during the Quarter ended 30th September, 1850

9/1⁄2 of the Colony, Balance for 1849-50.

#

Consular & Diplomatic services in China.

Total L. stg.

124

350

10000

10,350

For thousand three hundred and fifty Sounds, sterling.

Victoria, Hongkong,

October the 10th 1880.

(Ligned)

R. Rignacchier

Acting Colonial Creasurer.

Tue.

olonia l.

Tecretary

..

Return of Sums received a/c of Her Majesty's

Consulates in China, during the Quarter ended 30th. September, 1890.

Amounts advanced by H. M. Consulate at Shanghae afe of Her Majesty's Navy,

125

and recovered here from the Naval Agents. ___218 02

C.

Twenty one Pounds eight Shillings

half penny Sterling.

and one

Victoria, Hongkong, 20th. October, 1888.

) A. Rienaccker

(Ligned)

Free popr

a foppy

Acting Colonial Creasures.

Ma

lole

Colonial secretary

Return of Deposits received at the folenial

the Quarter ended 30th September, 1890.

Reasury during

Deposits available.

Income Cas..

Luperannuation Contributions.

Deposits not available,

Intestate Estates.

£832.13.22

Regina

Judicial Deposits.

os. the Wing

-ocn. £. 433.14.9

Williams vs. the Shung-wing 1170.14.62

Drinker vs.

do.

126

21061

11976 329 13

7

226, 8 "21⁄2- 1830 -17.6 2663 10 81⁄2

22993 4 33

Total L. etg. 2993

and three Rnce halfpenny, Sterling.

four Shillings

Victoria, Hongkong,

October 20th, 1894.

1. R. Rienaccker.

(Ligned).

Acting

Copy.

Colonial treasurer

Live Liter Men's

Tarey...

slonial secretary

Return of Salaries, Allowances and Contingencies

paid during the quarter ended 30th September, 185970577

salaries

-

Fired. Provisional, and Allowances Establishment. Temporary

office Contingencies

Total

The Governo

2100 -|-

38216

27382b

Colonial. Secretary --

750'76

27 19 10%

778 7 47%1⁄2

i

Treasurer

287 10-

13 b,/ 300 16 1

Auditor

15

75.

3997

1149,7

Surveyor

General 267 10-

Clerk of Cancils

Harbour Master

Registrar General

Police Rate Collectors

Judicial

29.76 326

3 26

303 2 b

25

25

200

66:10

8 51

274 15/

976

b 15

6112

22.138

28 15

4 15.61⁄2

153933

hcclesiastical

Educational

8710

3710

2143

33 1061⁄2

6 52 1582185

9043

18 15-

65

2476

25

17476

32.10

Medical "Surgeon" - 150-

J: "Hospital"

Police and Grols

32/0

81276 920 1211

-

4 14 6 1737 14 //

Total £6322 10 9 1193 9 8 3 2 6 11 4 9 67,633 125

Seven thousand six hundred thirty three pounds twelve shillings and five penec Sterling-

Victoria, Hong Kong,

October the 20th 1850.

(Agued)

R. Riennecker,

Acting Colonial Treasurer

Maini

Colonial Secretary

(Ime Copy)

Return of Sums paid

Pensions Retired Allowane 1£3

and Gratuities during the quarter ended 30th September 1850.

Granted to Mrr Smith Widow of the late deputy

Registear of the Supreme Count to defray the expenses of passage for self and 3 children from here to Van diemen's Land_

Gratuity to the Sons of an old Chinaman, who

was accidentally killed by the firing of a Police Constable

100

108

4

Total £ 110 8 4

One hundred and ten pounds eight. Shillings

and four pence Sterling

Victoria, Hongkong.

20th October 185.

((Liquid) R. Rienaceker.

acting Colonial Treasurer

(True Copy)

Colonial Secretary

Return of Sums paid /. of Revenue Services

the quarter ended 30th September 1850.

Remuneration to the Azressors and Collectors of Police rates being 5% on the collections made

ended 30th fine last

123

during

14/1 16 10

fo

the

Year

Meidental

expenses incured in collecting Police rates at the Villages_

{

16 8

Total_ /e. of Police Rates___ 145 13 6

Fees paid to the Supreme Court in cases

the

acervery of

Crown Ques

for

b

575

Fotal L-Stg:_151 0 11

One hundred and fifty-one pounds and eleven

pence Sterling

Victoria, Hongkong,

20th October, 1850.

(Signed) R. Rienaceker.

Acting Colonial Treasurer

(Tane Copy)

Conial

:

!

Return of Sums paid on Recount

of Hospitals

during the quarter ended 30th September, 1850. 130

Government Civil. Hospital-

Provisions and Medical comforts. Mediemes Fuch and Light

breidental hypenses

242 2

334

5 5 11

190

Total L Sty: 34 0.5

3/

Thirty four Pounds and five pence Sterling.

Victoria, Houghing,

betober the 20th 1850.

(Signed) R. Rienace Ker,

- Jave Copy)

donial vis

Acting Colonial Treasurer

1

}

Return of sums paid on account of Police and brok (exclusion of Retablishments) during the Quarter ended 30 September, 1850.

Police.

вспорени

Rations to European Police Constables Purchase and

repair of Boats

Veterinary and faniery articles_

Forage

bil te.

Clothing and Accoutrements_

meidental Expenses.

Gaols..

Provisions for Prisoners

Fetters and Tools

Bil for Gaols.

meidental expense.

39 125

6 86

315

91094

15 15 11⁄21⁄2

142

7677

Total Police 83 17 7/2

£

1 / 4 / 11 m 3 /%/2

#

1044/4

10.2.6

8 7410

#

Total Gaols_133 12 0%

Total Police + Gaols £ 217 98

Shillings and

Two hundred seventeen pounds wine Shillings

(Signed) R. Rienaceker

Acting Colonial Treasurez

eight pence Sterling.

Victoria, Honghong,

True Copy)

betober the 20th 1850.

Colonial Sexte

1

Return of Sums paid on account of Rent during the

quarter ended 30th Septesuber, 1850.

132

Fr residence of H. E. The Governor for 1/2 year to 30" Sliptember 312 10

Police.

52

Central Police Station in Victoria. (3 Mouths) £5317h Police Station at Show kewan

Hospital.

Govemment. Civil Hospital for 3 mouths.

and

3 a 15a-

55 16 71⁄2

15 12 b

Total £ Stg. 383 19 1/

Three, hundred_ eighty three pounds nineteen Shillings

one penny half penny Sterling.

Victoria, Arugkong, 20th Betober, 1850.

(Jagreed)

(Signed) R. Riennecker

Acting Colonial Treasurer

(Jane Copy)

A .. .. :

.

donial Scerēto

of

Return of Sumus paid as Transport during the parter ended 30th September, 1850.

1

For the

the

Conveyance of 25 Convicts talingapore.

per "Edward Ryan. "

133

156 5

One hundred fifty six Pounds five Shillings Sterling.

Victoria, Hong Kong

20th October 1850.

(True Copy)

(Signed) R. Riennecker

Acting Colonial Treasurer.

olonial Secrets

}

...

Return of Sums paid

on account of Works and 184 Buildings during the quarter ended. 30th September, 1850.

Report and hatimate No29 of 1847 skylight and

fittings at the Supreme Court.

supply of Water to Government Offices and

Government House

Protecting Albany Bodowns

Materials for flagstaffs

Implements for Burial ground- Repain of Gaols

11.

Police Stations

52 / 8

10

i

4 14

10

1525

11 b

Total £_8402

highty four Pounds and two pence Sterling.

Mietoria, Hongkong,

2th October, 1850.

(Thue forry)

(Signed) R. Rienaecher,

Acting Colonial Treasurer

고

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onial Svenet By

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155

Return of Sums paid on account of Roads, Streets, and Bridges, during the quarter ended 30th September 1850. Roads.

Improvements to Sukumpos Roads, under Report-

and Estimate No21 of 1849.

Repairs to Roads from Wongneichung to North Point Implements or convicts employed on Roads

Drains.

-100 168

30

10 16

Total Roads_ £ 141 12 8

Brick sewer to join brdnance sewer, Report, and

retimate 18 of 1847.

Bridges-

Report and estimate. Plof 1850. Brick Arches

to Bridges in Wongneichung.

39

I

20 168

Total_₤_2019 4

and

Two hundred One Pounds nine shillings

four pence Sterling

Victoria, Hongkong, 20th betober, 1850.

(Signed) R. Riennecker, Acting Colonial Treasurer

(True Copy)

folonial. There are

Return of Special hypenses paid during the quarter

ended 30th September, 1850.

Repayment of the Ancount paid by the Honorable Mr. Papier as cost of an action at Law, to

the Colonial Agent in London

Advance Ye. of Her Majesty's Navy

42610

312

Total £___145 18 10

Forty five Pounds eighteen Shillings and ten pence

Sterling

(Signed) R. Rienaccker

Nictoria, Hongkong,

Acting Colonial Treasurer -

October the 20€ 1850.

( Tave Copy)

flonial Secretary

137

Return of Sums paid fc. of H. Mr. Superintendent and Consular Services during the quarter ended 30th September 1850.

Superintendent of Trade

Consular Services-

Canton Consulate

1500 152

Amoy

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Foochow for 3:

Kingpe-

Thalighae__2..

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1820%2a-

2999 "13′′ - 119801542

1 0 0 0 " - " -

#

4003,17′′ - 11022 7|2

Total. £ Stg:__ 12523 24

Twelve thousand five hundred twenty three. Pounds

two Shillings and four penoc_ Sterling;

Victoria, Stonghong,

(Signed) R. Rienaceker-

Creting Colonial Treasurer

betober the 20th, 1850.

(Jane hapy)

at www.

onial Peerita

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Return of deposits not available repaid during the

quarter ended 30th September, 1850.

R.H. Webster's Intertate Estate

Judicial Deposits.

Williams & Shung Wing "Accami Master." __ £ 585, 7,5%.

g.

585.7.3

£ 1170 a 14. 6/2

133

19 3

Drinker #go

//

113 a 4 a17. 1283|18| 8

Total £ Stg: - 1284 17 1/

One thousand two hundred eighty four Pounds seventeen

and Merem pence Sterling. R. Rienaccker,

thillings

Nictoria, Honghong,

Betober the 20th 1850.

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enoceedings of a Board of Surrey held at the Colonial Treneury of Hongkong pursuant to ... Arder of His Excellency the Governon.

The Honorable Major Caine -

Members. Charles #George Cleverly, Eegt-

Robert Rienacekin,

The Board. howing ascertained the exact Corns existing in the Colonial. Chests found the same to be as follows_ viz:-

In the Secnsurers Chest.

In the Strong Vault

Total

Rupees Cash Spanish Mexican sterling Total

Gollars Dollars Corin

£.

ju

J £.

کند

J

1 3 4 2 4 | 10,272 | 15309|3,187|75|| 518 3 | 14

|| 1338|19||9 6,309 $ 1, 28/4 11,289|20|4,489|57| 802 11 44 4.668 § 64 767732/320 83% 7,652 |11,556 |11442|29|7677 32 1320|11|5%|6007

Amounting to Sip thousand and seven Pounds eight Shillings three pence there farthings Sterling

Victoria, Hongkong,

betober the 124, 1850.

(Ime Copy;

Colonial Secretar

(Signed) W. Caine.

Chase Filsen Cleverly. R. Riennecker-

100

:

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Duplicate Jo 99.

Financial

-My Lord,

140

Victorian, Hong Kong,

29th October, 1850.

At the

request of Major Conceal General

of.

Staveley, the Lieutenant-Govrnuo this Colony, I have the hour to forward

to

a

your Lordship a letter requecting that

moiety of the Parcage money allowed.

to the Governon

hille

as

འོ་་༩

be granted to

Lieutenant Governor to which

he conceives he has a claim under

Cap: II. Section III. clause 10, inserted at

the Colonial Regulations.

page 32 of

In

my communication

of

the

21th August last. I adviced your Lordship. that_Major General Staveley had administered the Government of the

The Right Hongrable, The harl Grey,

Yo

Colony from the 27th April to the 18th only, during which time he

put to extra

doubtless

trouble,

for

A re E

wa J

expence and

which he has received-

recompense.

The Major General

the time

has, during together, given se

He has

we

have served

me every satisfaction.

a very large family here, and is necessitated by impaired health- to resign his office, and to return to

Surope after

an absence of upwards

of a quarter of a century. _ If, therefore,

it be in

Your

-

Lordship's pover

to

meet the wishes of the Major General

M

this

is occasion, you

with be

conferring a benefit on a most

is considered advisable that h111 should return to rurope

by

the

overland route, which with his

an

family he will be unable to do at expense much short of £1,000. I have the honor to be, With the highest respect

Your Lordship's,

Most Obedient

Stumble Servant,

deserving officer,

who

from

circumstances much

requires the

assistance of Her Majesty's bovemment From the state of the Major

General's health I understand it

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Copy.

My Lord,

142

Hougtong, China, 28th October, 1860.

Having had

fever during

repeated attacks the last three summers I

have parsed in Houghong my Medical-

advisers have

my

strongly recommended return to Europe early in the next year; I have consequently applied to His Grace_ the Commander-in-Chief to be relieved

from

the

of

Command of the Troops in Ching

which, when acceded to, will

recasion the resignation of my

As

Lieutenant Governor

ll of

Courie

of my com

Commcission

of Hongkong.

Apparently, by some omission in

the Contract between the Lords of the

of

Admiralty and the criental Steam

Right Honable.

Carl Grey,

Secretary of State for the Colonics

Governor Bonham,

29th betober, 1857.

to

/ Incloure.

Dup: N99.

The Bark Gney-

Reecived

"that a moiety of the Parrage

from Major General Staveley requesting

Recommending an application

allowed to the

Honey

may be granted

to him as Licutenant Governor of the

Colony...

v

searigation. Company us provision is made for the paceage of officers' dar China, as is

to and from

as is done for

milies

other

Military Stations - Under these

I beg

circumstances I beg Lordship

Can

permit

to know if your

me to benefit

by the clance inserted at page 32 of the Colonial Regulations in which it is stated that whenever a Lieutenant Sovernor is appointed to a Colony in which a Superion Governor is resident Lis and exercising all the functions of offiec,

he will be entitled to receive a moiety of the passage allowance assigned by the Regulations to the Governon under whom he is about to serve.

I beg leave to add that during

the temporary absence of His breelleney the Governor in visiting the Forthern Ports I have exercised the functions

143

of bovernor, and that for the expenses of

my voyage

out here Incceived no

pazzage allowance from the felonial "Government, although by the

Regulation above quoted. I conecion I have, tec.,

I am entitled to it.

(Signed) W. Staveley,

Major General Coms. the Snoops and Lieut : Governor.

(True (py)

folonial Peeretary.

Jespatch_ _ 12 99 of 1857.

brelosure in

.

Separate .

144

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Ans * 229-18

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My Lord

Victoria, Hongkong,

th

29th October, 1850.

I have the honor to

letter

forward for your lordship's consideration copy of addressed to me by major Caine, Colonial Ccretary, containing his request to be

permitted to retire

at the

end of 1851, upon certain

detail

conditions, for the which I beg to refer your

oww

letter.

of

granted to him as Lieutenant Govomer requesting that a moiety of the Pazzage allowed to the Governor may be to The Right Hounable The Earl Gacy-, Letter from Major General Staveley

Aloney

of Hong Kong-

28th betober 1850.

Lordship to his

2.

Major Caine has spent

The Right Stonorable The Earl Grey,

to.

to-

- ..

te.

47 years of his life in Asia,

and

during 37 years

employed

as

a

Soldier and

165

I have already had the honor to convey to your Lordship of

has been

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my perfect

my

Civilian in the Public Service.

In the former capacity he has

ow

the Staff

the

or

eye

f

served either immediately under

Several of the most distinguished General Officers who have held Commands in India, and their

letters and

Memoranda, If which

Copies

are

enclosed

letter

attest

in

his

to myself, unanimously

Civilian

his activity, utility, and distinguished gallantry in Camp and field. As both for Henry Pottinger and Fir John Davis have spoken in the

w

his zeal

highest terms of efficiency, and I

can

and

but

repeat the assurance which

concurrence with

Predecepors

in his title to

their good opinions. He was

for long not only the

the principal,

but the only executive Officer this Colony, which at the

in this

time of it's first establishment

resort of

was

the

a

mosh

indifferent Population, composed of all Eastern Nations and the order and security of the Colony

was

without

doubt due to his

the

acquaintance with Asiatics, his perfect knowledge of Hindustani language, and the personal activity which had procured him

in his

oww

honorable notice

profession. _ It is but just to and that had he

followed the fortunes of his Regiment, he would have been necessarily promoted some years адо; but to necesary did Captain Elliot consider his presence at

Hongkong that he refused

yield to

his very

natural

ما

request to be at the head of his

Company in

Canton.

3.

the operations against

As regards the adoption

of either of his proposals, by

of them

perceive,

4

will

f

£4,000

as

an

cause

one

Your Lordship will

immediate payment

or about 2 years Salary

w

Saving to the Colony

£1200 per annum;

should this

be impracticable his pension

will still

leaves

نه

Similar

Saving to the Colony; but in

I

either case there must be

~

Certain

146

guaranteed to him grant of land and the sales, immediately upon his retirement, of his Commission._ It is upon

latter point that he feels

the

most concern, as

a

delay

would be fatal to the operation of his scheme, and I take the liberty of pressing this subject strongly upon Your Lordship's consideration. The saving to the Colony in the event of

Caine's retirement being

Major

effected in

the

manner he

desires, would be by

no

means

inconsiderables: and your Lordship will perceive from the

1445. enclosed Certifientes that

his medical

recommend

♡

advisers strongly

change of

6.

Climate to him. His long

residence

in

the East almost prohibits the hope that the

climate of Europe would be tobrable to him, and he is

opinion himself that his heallto will not much longer withstand the inroads of that 6. China. It is at the same

time

one to major Caine

to state that, although he has been suffering for many years

from

a

complaint of

a mosh

painful nature; and although his eyesight and hearing

affected in

no

are

slight degree,

I have not found his ailments to interfere with the Satisfactory

I discharge of his outry,

his

ovor

في

Suggestion of

has

of

desire to resign proceeded

in

any

way

whatever from any

mine.

157

I have the honor to be, With the highest request,

W Hours

Your Lordships,

most obedient

Humble Servant,

19hhaus

Under the circumstames as uported. by do Smith, there can I think be no south

but that Mayor Caine must be inform fourally that his perposition canned to

Entertained. Shecifying the insuprath bycations which Exist to portion pi

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I had nept Hon, infert in hohes discovering come other mode of facilitating Major Caine's retirement, which in the first instance I Stronghat I could have done. But I can not now attempt such an anangan -

would

ater Manirale.

Major Cuine, the Colonial Secretary, submits two Inoposals for his retirement from the Public Semie

A Grant of £4000. a

et

remission

the purebose of Saved in heid gealand to the extech of £600. in addition to Greck of Land as a Military

office

and the emmes

medate

Sale of his majority to be

of £4000 the Treasu

ди

guaranteed to

go! R pension of

£450 frenan.

with they

Sale of his

of Land a the

x

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・mazones

W Smith

1 Is Major Caine Entitled

15 any remision of punhase

J

mney in land in N. Real? anon the mentis huution, d if

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in the Extent to which

mps w/ss/ if he ache for it, I bor, admifith?

2.

Under the concremitames.

marctioned by him, see perticulon &

сто

eno ma po myn

의 my y의

биуство

p. 15 of his earthi

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day

mi, or waved the I in Chief

Tomazin my allow, the sale of his majoris ? whory may cranegang

pon my

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Suzgromiy

Mr Monvali

mission y

ented_ To the b

hand, on punciple deccitedly object_

for

the Sale of Land

and the Regulations

the new in hud Zealand preclude Lord Gary

accesting

to his Application

on

this

head

healt, but the sale he would of corene beautitised on the

Commission & the office of infrared the Growh of Land

le a new

Military off

would

itten for at Consecration of the military bulbouches. 210W-W

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For the first plase Major

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half way

comsegmently he has nothin to sele

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could be absoluting nachep

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her

may

Majer

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Caixes application for

retirement.

Iowarded for farther caridecation,

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meet Major C; wishes

I find that it is impossible to

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it must be

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loritul out to him that a compliance with

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Sir,

149

ol 15 March / 51

I have received

your despatch of

20% of thctober last,

the

marked separate," "trans

with other

مسر

thing,

Endosues, the Copy

Letter addressed

of a

to you by Majir Caine containing his request to be permitted to

retive at the end

the present year from his office of Colomal Secretary of HongKong

on

on certain conditions.

2 I have hitherto delayed

with Communicating

you

on

this subject

in the hope of being

op

able to discover some mode of facilitating Major faimes

retirement, and

I regret

itrat obstacles of an insuperable nature oblige me at length- to abandon the.

ticable.

on the attempt

as

imprac =

3 The proposals made by Major fame for his retirement are

аб

as

follows:-

150

10. That he should receive a brant of 4xovo in money- remussion in the purchan

a

of hand in NZealand, to the extent of £6000

in addition to a Grant ophand as a Military Officer, and that the

боле mimmediate Sale of

his Commission should be quaranteed to hun. 2. Apenown of £450 per annum with. the Grant of hand and Sall of his Commission.,

the 4. With regard to

the

:

the first proposal

I have reason to know that the Lords

Commt: of the Treasing

would

refuse

their

sanction to the perpment of any large Lune of monly in Commutation op Satury saved to the public by the retires officer

•ment of from the fivil Service. The objections entertained

ам

by their hardships

to

are

any such arrangement

founded on

priaples from which they

are unable to

deport

151

depart, and which it is entrefore

un -

- necessary for me to explain.

ہو

with respect to

Major Caine's proposal

for the Sale of his Commission Jam informed that be is precluded from tatting that step because technically he receives

halppay, and consequently he has northing

ма

wo

to dispose

of. Moreover he is not qualified to ack for the retention

q

his

--יי--י - - -

his name in Army hest, and

the

any

request preferred by him for that purpose

would accord

acurding

the rules

7

the

во

Service be refused.

6. For strese reasons I have to instuut you to express my regret to Majin Cand that it is impossible for me to meet his wishes, and Ithat a compliance with his application for retirement from itie fromial Service

ow

152

on the terind proposed,

would be inconsistent

with the rutes which

are in

force both in

the Civil and Military Services of chrisCounty

Jambr

... ... ....

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:

Victoria, Hongkong,

10th Betober, 1850.

153

I have the honor to request Zour Excelency's support of my application to be allowed to retire at the end of 1851, on

conditions from my

certain

precent post of Colonial Centory. The great saving in the Expenditure 4 the crime to be effected by

removing

Ine

will

trust incline

His Lordships, the Principal

hoverary of State for the plonies

Secretary

to nesede to the stipulations

His Excellenen

༡:1,

Jammer Gerge Bonham, Eye, CB.,

Governor of Hongseing,

re

2

my

worth $1800

I feel it one to myself and m family to make.

The enclosed Onedical

Certifientes will testify to my

1

Laving suffered for

promo

very

~

Many Years

ons

7

nebbritie disorder, a

verion! attack of

which

within the last mouth is

chief

скико

of

my

desire to

change this climate as

posible; but here is

as

no

Loow

ho at which

resort within reset

I could remain

♡

Sufficient

time to repair effects of

Years' residence in

residence in Asia

47 years

my pecuniary circumstances

are not such as

сте

to

will enable

to any

absent myself great distance from the Colons._ Before therefore Irecinquish, recount of ill- baltts, a post

on

♡

year

154

am

compelled to consider the means of providing for a wife and your

your sons, under eighteen

years of age,

three

whone I

am

still educating and for not one I whom can

say that crovision

Samo

has been made..

for these

reasons naturally anxious to be sure of certain terms, which it to ins Stis Crdship's lower,

man be ins

Mo

the score

to me

of clonomy

clorome to make

I have two proposals to

put forward, the adoption of either of which will

considerable annual

cause a

annual Javing.

The amalgamation of Office with that

has alread

my

Treasurer

already, prospectively, ind

Your Excelleney's approvals; as

1

4.

has also the reduction of the

Jalary Sp

a

year.

Mu

Successor to £1500

This £ 300 would be

saved under this items, and

£900 by the amalgamation of the Offices of Treasurer and secretary;

in

all £1200.

I would then submit

first that, after the year 1851, when I shall have served tero

Years

8 months

on the Civil

Establishment of this Colony, should receive the

the Juno

£4,000, which would equal nearly 21 years Salary, and

the purchase

remission of grant in land

of

مما

as

to the extent

Civil Servant

in New Zealand; that to this should be added

a similar

to which officers of the Army's

rank of Major,

retiring with the rank

are entitled; and that, whow

my

سمين

retirement from the Civil Service, the immediate ale

of my majority should be

The grant of

Secured to me.

land would be but

Small

the fact of my

importance to H. M. Government, and the only obstrate at present existing to the Take my Majority is de fret continuing in the Civil vérvice, and therefore not drawing Half Pay. It is recepsary to remarke that at the end of

December 1851, I shall have subsouted £730 to the Superannuation Fund. By this arrangement th Colonial Estimates would be at

the

remission

the grant of land

ince

reduced £1200

یه

hear.

1

1427

Secondly, should the apignment & £4000 not be feasible, I should wish to be permitted to retire upon

Pension of £450

grants

my

W

of £450 a year, the it land and sale of Commission being quaranteed

to me

as

above; to which

mean. £750 would be annually

saved to the Colons.

in

و

am

aware

that there

is not always equal freility

apigning such equivalents for appointments resigned in the Colonies, but I am induced to hope that the actual saving, which will be effected, ip either of my propositions be requiesced in, is sufficiently Carge to

to have some weight with His Lordship in his consideration

5

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of a request, not, I trust unreasonable in itself, and to the accordance of which, I

am

bold to believe 3-

Years

of honorably attested Service

constitute some claimo.

Your Excelency will

pardon my recurring briefly to

ты

Career

as

a

oldier and

the

ow

t

Civilian; I would not be thought to overrate importance of any Sérvices I may have been called performs; but I allude to chemo because I have some failts the value of the recorded testimony of many distinguished

Civil and Military Officers, Superions, to the

year and

the in

ты

and efficiency with which they have considered

requit myself. -

me to

Arriving in India

an

infant

in 1803, I entered the Army before

I was

and

fourteen years of age, Your Excellency will be informed by the Enclosures that I was

continually

M

active Service from 1815 to 1826, having the good fortune to be honorably

noticed

on

various occasions

in the Nipal War, the War the Deccan, and at the

Siege of Bhurtpire, where I was Major of Brigade to Brigadier General Msfombe. Most of

Most of those

прот

upon whose Staff

I served

eye

are

no

or under whose

but

more,

I have much pride and pleasure in referring Your Excellency to the enclosed Copies of letters regarding me

/

and to the

following distinguished names

of officers under whom I harted? had the honor to Server:-

Major-General & Hardyman (Equerry to H. Rr. H. The late Duke of Kent) when in Command of the 17th Regiment in the Nipal

War in 1814 and 1815, as also when that officer

Officer was

h

Brigadier General Commanding

British Force at

the

Shubbulpoor in the seccan War in 1817 and 18/8.

Brigadier General Edwards

when Commanding the 17th Fort. Brigadier General Misonte,

both

as

Commanding Officer

of the 14th Foot and Brigadier General at Bhurtpore in 1825 and 1826.

Lieutenant-Cenerać

Sir Thomas Reynell whilst

1.

Commanding the Meerut Division

of

the Army, as Commanding

well as

when

the 1th Infantry

Division at Bhurtpore in 1825 and 1826.-

Lieutenant-General ir

Samford Whittingham to whom

I was Aide- de - Camp, during the 6/2 years of

his command of the Cawnpoor and mecrut Divisions from February 1827, to August, 1899.-

Major General The Honorable J. Ramsay for one

Bear, whilst Commanding the Meerut Division from August 1833 to October 1854.

Viscount Combermere

whilst this Lordship

=mander- in -

Com =

chie's Lieutenant-Genera

Chef in India..

Heigh whilst at Meerut

Commending // Lt. Dragoons and at Bhurtpore when Commanding the Cavalry & the Army.

Major-feneral Oglander, 26th Regiment_ From 1830, up to

153

that officer's death, _ I held the host of his tide-de. Camp from February 1899 until June 1840, when he joined the China Excesition at Singapore

14. R. 64. Prince Henry

of the Netherlands,

m

the

recasion of H. R. H's visit to India in 1898, when I was appointed tide-de- Camp, and accompanied H. R. &. during the tour from Calenter to Delhi and back again.-

Lord Gough, euring His Lordship's Command in China.

12.

Can

Amongst those living I

with confidence appeal to the recollection of Viscount Combermere, Viscount Gough, and Lieutenant-General Bleigh.

Under the Индер

Command

Lood hough I served in China whither I had preceded him in 1840, and I was present with the 26th Regiment at the first taking of Chusan, and

there performed the duties of British Commissioner and Chief magistrate until it was given up to the Chinese. So 1841 I was left in charge of Hongkong, H. B. M. Plenipotentiary, Captains Elliot, refusing to allow me to quit the Island to command amy Company in the operations against Canton.-

1

13.

I was retained in the 159 post of Chief Magistrate of Hongkong by for Henry Pottinger, until his departure for Europe in I was indebted

1844, when

to his very

very strong recommendation addressed to this prace the

очеред Commander-in-Chief for

an

unattached Majority. - In 1846, o Sir John Davis's recommendation

I

from the

was promoted from Magistray to the

Colonial

Secretaryship in which the duties

of Auditor merged.

were

both

then also

By bock Your Excellency's

Predecepors I have been at all times spoken

in terms mosh

gratifying to myself; and both would, I feel Sure, repeat, is

it were

necepary, the kind

on

+

14.

expressions of commendation

they have more than

which they

se placed

once

on record.. I amo

equally certain that I can I rely upon your Exceloney's

friendly testimony, and that in

forwarding my application

to Earl Grey yow

You will give

Go

it all the support you may or within tho

conceive

just

bounds of entry to afford it:_ and I repeat my hope that the manifest economy of the induce His

arrangement may

Lordship to

acquiesce

therein.-

I must however impress

earnestly upon Your Excellency

that anxious.

a

more

as

I am to seek bracing climate, the

immediate sale of my Majority

is

as

essential

a

condition of

160

my resignation

as

any

other.

I

am

f

}

not without embarrassments

from which the sale of my

Commission would have for more than perfectly released

me;

nor

was it until I to sell it that I that to long

aware

applied became

as

I held

it would

9

am

Civil appointment,

remain unsaleable.-

informed that it is

possible that, even

on

my

retirement from the Civil Service,

obstacles may

still exist to

ito immediate sale; but there

are

поне

none,

I apprehend, which

might not be speedily removed

at the instance

instance of the Secretary of State, should his Lordships conceive the reduction of

expenditure, consequent

иј

2

16.

the adoption of my proposal,

to be ground sufficient for moving this frase the

Com=

im_ Chief

Chief to the

=mander-in-

favourable consideration of this indispensable portion of my Scheme, without which I would be to be perfectly understood that I could not resign my present post :- the consequences would be ruinous

and mine, and under circumstances it would

to me

such be better for me to continue to perform the duties of my present office as I best might, than to risk the Sacrifice of my Commission..

in

Should His Grace have it his power to promise that

прог

the resignation of my

{

151

Civil appointment my Commission shall be at once disposed of, I have stated, ready

و

am

as

to retire at the end of 1851,

if it be equally in the power of the Secretary State to

wishes regarding

accede

to

my

my pension and the grant

of land..

I therefore take the liberty of enclosing the documents which would be required at the Horse Guards with reference to the Jale

sale of my Majority, and with many apologies for trespassing at to great length upon Your Excellency's attention_ про

I have te..

I True Copy.)

taisie

ligned) W. Caine,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonist Teeretary

F

י

RS

I can

further confidently

refer to Lient: General his Willoughby Cotton, to whome I.

known in India from

was

1826 to 1837.

(Signed) W. C.

(True Copy) Marie

152

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Copy-

|

No2131.

lin

With

153

"Lonica", off Canton.

May 22nd, 1841.

reference to your note of the 19th Instant, just reecived,

wherein

you request that you may be granted ten days leave of absence to rejoin your Corps during the present. Operations against

Canton, I am directed

the

by the Chief

that he

Superintendent to inform you

he cannot deem it right to

regrets

accede to

your request. The duties of

your Office at Houghing, will not permit you

to leave that place, at

120

a moment when the Government is on

other officer of

the

Spot, and

the Chief Superintendent is well-

29th October, 1850.

faptain faine,

Chief Magistrate,

Sloughing

*

ו ו -

must

assured you that while in

the

I with him,

feel

Office you

your

duty

hold, it necessarily bremes

to frego (however painfully), the privilege of being with

your Corps in

any Military operations in which it may be engaged._

I have, tc., (Signed) I. Rebt Monism.

(

True Copy)

My Lord,

164

49 Albermarle Street,

26th October, 1844.

I trust that Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, Commanding in Chief, He., He, will pardon

for

intruding my respectful and carnest recommendation in favour of Breret Majon

ion Caine, of H. M's. 26° Foot, whose application to obtain an unattached

Majority is, I believe, at this suoments, . under his Grace's consideration._ It is

I feel totally

AMWE ECLI

trespass

any

eeciiary ofor

me to

on His Grace's attention with

details of

of Major Caine's long

Military Services, as I know that those details have been forwarded to your

Lievenant General,

The Lord Fitzroy Somerset, H. C. IB.,

to

tc.

to.

4

to bear the str.

Lordship by Major General 91 Aquilar, Commanding H. Ms. Land Forecs in China, but I may perhaps be permitted

strongest testimony to the unecasing zeal and laborious exertions combined with

great judgments, and the most praiseworthy temper and forbearance, with which Major Caine dizeharged the arduous and important- duties of Chief Magistrate of stongthing,

hom the n

from

the moment that Colony tation possession of by my

AVA J

Predeceun

in May 1841, till the day I quitted_ it in June, 1844.

Thore duties though strictly coming under the Civil department, instances purely such

were in

a

in many

as would have been required from Military Commander, and I do

not hesitate to record my opinion, that up to the conclusion of the War

155

the safety and well-being of H. At's subject

who had treated themselves Island, were

in

the

mainly owing to Major-

Caine's individual

I am

sure

ts

efforts

and example.

say

Mune

I need not

to induce His Grace the Duke of

to look as favourably

tom to look

Wellington

be consistent with the rules of Majon

Service, on

as may

the

Caine's claims, I

will therefore only add that this recommendation in favour of

that

officer springs from the purest public_

motives, and

ever

from

the

sense. I must cherish of the Assistance I

oprom him in the complicated

derived from

and difficult position in which I was

placed in China.

I have the

(Signed) Henry Pottinger

A true Copy

(Saver Copy)

(Signed) Henry Pottinger

6

Sir,

156

Horse Guards, 28€ Fovember, 1844

I have had the honor to recive

and lay before Field Marshal The Commander-in-Chief, your letter of

the 26th Ultimo con

conveying your

most

of No

carnest recommendation of Brevet

Major Caine of the 26th Regiment, whose an unattached Majority

application for

had already been before His brace, and I have the satisfaction to acquaint you.

that in consideration

of

the long services

of this officer, and the strong and honorable

testimony you

bear to his merits and yota sitta tion the the

exertions in the situation he has held

at Houghing

was

takom

Majon beneral

ever since that delaud

porcession of by the British

Sir Henry Pottinger, M. C. B.,

&c.

Vo.

Yo

;

Jarops,

The Duke of Wellington will have great pleasure in giving effect to Your recommendation and submitting This name to Her Majesty for Half Pay 1 promotion.

I have, to.. (Signed) Fitzroy Someret.

(True Copy)

:

157

Extract from beneral orders by the Honorable Major General d'Aquilor, C.B. Commanding the Troops in China_

April 2nd, 1847.

With the concurrence of Hi. Sweellengy Sir John Francis Davis, Bart, &c.,

the

Major beneral Commanding gladly avails himself of the Services of the Honorable Major Caine and appoints him Commandant of the barricon of Houghag during the absence of the Major Several and the Main Body of the Troops Service at fanton.

Lue

(Save Copy)

Ma

Mins

By Order,

on

(Liquid) J. Bruce, Captain

Assistant Adj General

(True Retract)

(Signed). Clark Kennedy, faptains

offg. Assistant Adjt General

10

N687.

Asst Adjt

+ Geuts

Office

153

//

{

Sir,

Victoria, Houghong, 322 May / 47

I have the hour to acquaint you, that the Major beneral Commanding has had much pleasure in forwarding your Military Report of the 9th Ultime to stis Grace the Commander in Chief, and that in so doing he did not fail the

to

exfreez

his acknowledgments of

services rendered by

you

whilst in

temporary command of this barricon, during the recent operations at fauton=

I have 40

(Signed) I. Bance, faptain

The Honorable Major Caine,

folonial Secretary,

Nictoria

Asst Adjut Gencial.

Гл

1 Jane Copy;

12

13

Schedule of Major. Caine's Services-

163

Majon Caine entered the Service in

November 1813, was

employed in the Nepaul War of 1814 and 1815, and in action with the query at Sectqurk on the 802 January 1815, when in the Light Company

of 17th Foot, was in the War of the Dekhan

and 1818, and engaged

with the

in 1817

Suemy at Shubbulpoor on the 19th December 1817, whe be planted the Regimental Colour of his Regiments, and destroyed in single Combat the Aral Chief Commanding the Mussulman Saints Tomb at

Shubbulpon present during the siege

of Bhurtpore where he volunteered the Folorn Hope, and

Assault whilet

was wounded in the

carrying

the knewys

Buns Major Caine had the good fortune to destroy 3 of the Enemy on this occasion.

14

to whom he was singly oppored. Commanded the Grenadier Company of the Cameronians at the Capture of Chusan 5th July 1840.

filled the

has filled

various

Major Caine

of

appointments Regimental Judge - Advreate, of Adjutant, and of Mayor of Brigade at Bhurtpore as well as that of Major of Brigade at Meerut, and Deputy Indge Advocate

to his

beneral, of that Division. _ whilst in the 16th Regiment. Had the hour of being Aid de Camp for 6/1⁄2 years ever to be lamented Chief, the late Sir Samford Whittingham. tido de-Camp

to the late Major year to the

for one year

General

"the Honorable John Ramsay, and appointed by the British Government

in India as

Aid-de-Camp to His Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands, with whom Major Caine continued during the sojourn of His Royal Highness

170

in the Bengal Presidency in 1838, Major

Caine

- was

the duties

also nominated in General

in the

im

Orders, Brigade Major to the late (then Brigadier ) beneral. Oglander The kawrtly free in 1834, and performed_

of Aid-de-Camp to that deeply regretted Officer, from February 1839 until the arrival of the China hypedition at Singapore in Inne 1840 where he joined_ his Regiment. Two days after the first Capture of Chusan, he was appointed British Commissioner and about three weeks afterwards Chief Magistrate of the Seland of Chucan- which situation he filled until the following February. On the evacuation of the Island by the British Troops Major Caine

was

accidentally in Command of the Cameronian Regiment for a few days

in Canton River, when the Licut: Colonch

James, had proceded with the

A

16

Mas

Commander in Chief to Whampoa in March 1841. - In May 1841 Major Caine was nominated to the appointment of Chief Magistrate of Hougtong When the Force went against Canton in 1841 Majon Came begged Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to be permitted to join his Regiment but refused, vide Letter N131 dated. 22 ud. May 1841 from the Secretary to Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary herewith attached. In September 1843 was

appointed member of founcil in this Colony. In November 1844, obtained through the Windness of his brace the Duke of Wellington, on Sir Henry Pottinger's application unattached Majority. In November 1846, promoted to folonial Secretary and Auditor General, - In April 1847 when the hypedition went against Canton was left here in charge of the Colony, as well as

an

being Commandant of the Garrison -

171

Entered the Service as Volunter 17 Foot 8th Nov z 1813.

husign 17th Foot 6th July 1814

Lieutenant 12th April 1819

#

#

krchanged to 16th Foot April 1822

16.

Remored to 32 Buffs on applica: 18 March 1826

ptain 41. Fort 9th Deer 1827

faptain

Anchanged 26th Foot Oetober 1834

Major by Brevet 9. Nov. 1861

Major unattacked Nov 1⁄2 18444

(True Copy)

78

1

Copy

122

Burhampor, 30 May, 1822.

My dear Colonch,

This has

for its object

the

introduction to your favourable notion of Lieut : W. Caine, lately exchanged from

A

the 19th to the 14th Foot - Iuring the time I have commanded the 17th I have found him a most intell

intelligent and zealous

He has been in the Light Compg.

Officer-

three-

years,

and has always proved

active smart Officer: indeed_ he has

generally commanded the

an

Company and

finding him so

aceful in that

in that charge. I

Lo M2

have not taken his wings from him, when

his tour came to command

Ballm

Compy, but gave him as his right the

ве

fol! J. M. Cute,

14th Fort,

Meerut-

2.0.

payments of the Right Centre, and the Command and general management Compy . the faptain of which being sick : the with the Regiment

of his

of

course drew the command allowance: consequently all the labour and

responsibility fell to Lieut: Caine and

never

had

as

therefore all the merit - I have the honor of being

on Service with the 17th but the old officers tell me that Caine a Volunteer in the Nipal War, at the attack of fuitquh on the 32 of January 1118 distinguished himself by bringing off all the ammunition, which had been

the Native Detachments

abandoned by

that such had been made Known by the late Major General Hardyman to the Marquis of Hastings, who instantly

young friend with

rewarded

nur

au

husiqney. Ante dated 10 Mouth to give

him rank - Caine Carried the

-

173

Regimental Colour at the storming of the heights of Shubbulpon and was the first officer of the Right Wing who made a lodgement on the Saints Tomb where in the teeth of the Arabs he planted his Colour aided by Colour Sergeant and 7 men. He there had a personal contect with the Arab- Chief, whome he shot _ I

one

2/

mention these

and

particulars to insure Caine

your protection as he is a fine young fellow, who will (opportunity offering) distinguish hieuself, and be a credit to his Regiment, will find him well acquainted with the native language, always willing to make hinneelf useful. In mances and conduct, he is gentlemanlike, and his departure from "the Regiment ( in which he has been since he

three years of rege

very

:

:

Pla d

sineere

regret to his

Copy

productives of brother officers.

very sincerely your's

(Signed) W. J. Edwards_ Colt 17th Foot-

1

True Copy)

My dear Sir,

174

Meerut, 18th September, 1825.

With the permission of

Colonel McCombe, fommanding the 1/4" Reg - I have the how thus to give textimmy

2

to the conduct of Lieut : W. Caine, late

of of the 17th ( which I commanded) and

of the 11th.

now

I have kumwon him

and consider hinse

a

ofor six years ды

232

Zealous, retive and meritorious officer - as a gentleman,

possessing high honor and of a character imeproachable - He

removal

prays for to a Regiment coming out to

Bengal, and if you can and kine

offices, I feel assured

with your

Major General,

Kind

N.

Sir H. Saylor, K. C. B., Military Secretary, 4o.

tc.

24

that you

favour

will

ma

confer

an essential

deserving individual au

also benefit the Service thereby

}

I beg Signed, W. h. Edwards,

to remain, te.

Coll 14th Fort.

Глик Лори

Miring

opy

25

Copy.

My dear Sir,

175

Meerut, September 18th, 1825.

In transmitting the enclosed

Memorial from Lieutenant Caine, for

submission to H. R. H. the Commander

from

in Chief, praying to be removed-

Regiment as may

the 14th to such other be destined to relieve that Corps - I beg

in whose

to offer my most favorable opinion of this very promising offion, welfare, I know that the late Major General Hardyman

much

n- was Muu

interested, and since he has served

under my Command, I have had_ constant opportunity of observing his conduct, which has been always such

Majn General,

Sir Herbert Taylor, K. C.B.,

te.

4.

to

27

26

as

my confidence

to obtain for and good opinion, and with undent and zealous attachment to his profession. He pouceres great- natural abilities, so much improved by application, as to qualify him for the appointments, alluded to im his Mennial, the duties of which the discharged much to my satisfaction, and it will afford

much gratification if this testimony of his

me mu

conduct, should be at all conducive

towards the attainment of the favour

he solicits.

I remains, to.. (Signed) I. M. Combe, Coll Comey. 14th Foot

(True Copy!

&

176

Meerut, upper Provinces of Bengal, Presidency, 1ch betober, 1826.

My dear Colonel,

trouble

The Letter I am about to with, has for its object, the

you introduction to your favour and notice, of Lient : Caine, who has been transfened from the 14th Foot to the Buffs, upon

the

augmentation of the latter Regiment.

of "

2

the

My recommendation of this Officer is founded upon four years knowledge his Conduct and merits- and the se have been so favourably impressed my mind, that I can venture to congratulate you, upon

on

the acquisition

you

have

to your Regiments, which experienced by Lient : Caine's appointment

Meloved Stewart

28

He is a

very

smart intelligent Officer,

steady and competent to almost duty, that can be assigned him. His Knowledge of the native language is very extensive and I have heard very good Judges declare, that they have seldom heard any huropean express himself fluently, and so perfectly in the stile

and manner

During our

20

of the people of this Country. short and decisive Campaign

at Bhurtpore, Lient : Caine acted as Brigade. Majon, and his conduct, and gallantry wore brought to my motion,

in

Colors by Majn Everard,

wing Colors

such glowing

near whom he acted, that I inserted.

my report to Lord

Manner

his name in my report to Combermere, in the following

Major Everard-reports, that Brigade Major Caine of His Majesty's 14th Regt M. accompanied him throughout and_ distinguished himself particularly?

}

:

177

-Added to all this Lieut. Caine is bentlemanlike in appearance and manners, and altogether a safer good Member of society._ I feel confident.

will like him, and that

that

29

you he will soon obtain that countenance on his own account, which is now solicited

on recount

acquaintance.

J

of old

With sincere good wiches

д

I remain, to.,

(Signed) Tho! Regnell.

Jane fory

ли

E

36

#

173

Meerut, December 29, 1826.

My dear Came,

When I solicited at

your

request

that His Royal Highnere The

Commander-in-Chief would be pleased

to remove

you

to a

Regiment likely to

remain some time in India, it was in

firm belief that the 14th,

the

vere destined

to return to England this

otherwise

year,

I most certainly would not have

recommended

your

removal- and as from

circumstances that have taken place

since, and promotion of officers

senior to you, you

that

Ale

would have been beyoud

the pale of half pay, Iregret it the

more:

However the die is cast and I can only hope,

Lieutenant M. faine,

W.

3rd Buff

King's Depot

33

may

which I do most sineczely,

that it ultimately be productive of future happiness and advantage, which Schall always be most glad to contribute to,

in a

my power.

Jame fearful

testimony may

by ally

Aulans

I that that

humble

འའ༼༑

not avail

you

much,

02

tend as I could wish, towards the

you

attainment of that promotion, which

naturally desirous to obtain, and that

are

I sincerely hope

to state the

our

but it is due

you may: very favorable opinion I entertain of your

merits, and distinguished conduct at the siege of Bhurtpore. With the former Jam es intimately acquainted, that I can speak with confidence, having had so long an opportunity of closely observing them, and to which alone

you

are

indebted for my confidence and protection_ the latter accident deprived

Aue

of

the

opportunity of witnessing, but I know

it was

173

in

General

highly epoken of and reported. suitable terms of admiration by Major (now # Colonel) Everard to Major Reynells, and I much lament that it has not led to

your promotion - I Know

that the late Colonel Edwards under whose

Command

you

served in the 17th Regiment,

entertained the most favorable opinion

of you.

both

as

an

officer and a Gentleman,

you

and he particularly recommended

to

my

noties

on

from

your joining the 14th and your public and

private conduct that period has fully entitled

you to my approbation and exteen: and to which I shall be happy on every occasion to bear testimony.-

In the mean while

have

you

my ofice permission to make uce you please of this and it will give

my opinion

me very

true

satisfaction, should it be at all

arry

35

34

or in a

игерие future views._

༩ ་ ་སུ

Believe me

shape promote your

always My dear Caine with great exteem and regard your very sincere friend,

(Signed) I. M. Combe,

Coll 14th Foot..

(Jane Copy)

My Lord,

130

fawnpon 26th Nov, 1837-

In compliance with your Lordship'st wishes I have the honor to state officially, the ballant Conduct of Licut : Caine (late_ of the 14th Foot ) Id of Buffs, at the accault. of Bhurtpore on the 18th January 1820-

Licut : Caine accompanied the right Column of attack. (in his Caporcity of Majon

of of Brigade of the 12th Brigade ) under the Command of Majon hverard 14th and continued at its head during the day.

Whilst leading

leading a small

a small party of 10 or 12

Men in advance of the column, he found

is arrested by a deep Cut in

his progrese

His Mycelleney

The Lord Viscount Combermere, G. C. B.,

&c.

tc.

Ve.

Commander in Chief in India__

I

!

36

37

the Rampart of Gopalgarh, which he

to

the Lieut.

leaped accross,

accross, but his men being unable follow in a similar manner were obliged to descend and reacecud_the_ Rampart, before they could join who found himself singly opposed to three of the Ruency : Two of whom he killed with his double barrell Pistol, and

destroyed the Third Man by closing with and throwing him over the Rampart into the ditch; as the Lieut. found his sword could not make any impression through the armour of the fant, which "Cotton Jacket. Lient: Caine was the first officer up at the taking of "Kumbheer Gate, which

was won over a

wor

the

was carried by

him, with about 30 men of

the 16th

14

On Major hverandi Column halting at the bustion beyond the Numbheer Gate, the Major found his numbers

which

were

originally 300 dwindled. Dün to not more than 100 or 120 Bayonets, without one round of ammunition,

or

any support soever, having in his rear

Rampart of nearly two Miles in

which the

a

extent, on

reassembling from

enemy

were

the Town - The Major

finding his Party in this helpless situation, asked who would volunteer to Head an

few

men

back, and to bring him

a

reinforcement and Caine instantly stepped forward and_ volunteered his services,

and ammunition. Lieut.

which

Were

recepted

and with one Sergeants, one corporal and

twelve men, he cut his

enemy,

chove them from

they had remanned, and person who reported

the

way through

the

their Guns, which

was

the

first

success and

situation of Majon hverard's Column, and having received the required

reinforcements and Ammunition the

returned. The Lieut.

was

slightly

volunteers

- wounded by a Grape shot in the Foot whilst leading his small party of

in charging the huomy and buns at the Goverdhan baten - On the morning of the 19th January fapt: Mead, A. d. C. to

in

General Reynell, waited upon

ell, waited upon Lisut : Caine and told him that the bencral had

sent him and had been pleased to approve of the Lieutenant's Conduct- during the accault, in consequence of

report made

made by major hverard, and

a u

that therefore the Major Generals had_ introduced his name in the following manner in his despatch dated 19th January 1826.

bstract

"Major hverard reports that -

Peat Brigade Major Caine of the 14th Regt accompanied him through out and

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distinguished himself particul252?

I have, te, (Signed) Samford Whittingham

Major General

True Copy)

Iceclan afon my tour thit the whole the foregoing decloseuses. A

tue and Conect Copies

сове

Eucland in my presence. 55th Stolar 1850-

Maine

Etam Surch Mingkung

39

:

My Lord,

133

Victoria, Houghong,

26th October, 1850.

In June 1846, I had the

Lordship's good

honor to solicit your

offices with His bance The Duke of Wellington for permission to sell

my

Majority, with the boon of being allowed.

to retain

My

hame in

the

Aring

Liet

without Pay or progressive promotions I

induced to bring myself

am

again

in

your Lordship's Motion for

the

same

purpose, but under different circumstances which I now beg permission to detail_

Lieutenant General

G.

The Lord. Fitzroy Somerset _, b. C. B.

tc.

to.

tc.

Horse Guards,

to

Dorp : "Separate" off

Inclosure No 2 in

29 #

ostr. 1850.

attesting major

}

London.

2

The state of my

health is now such

that I find it impossible to reside longer in these Climates, and I have by this mail forwarded through His kreelleney The Governor of this Colony a Memorial to The Right Hourrable. The haul brey

praying for

Civil

pension in November

1851, or a Commuted allowance in lien-

a

as

there of with the intention of settling Colonist in New Zealand and providing there

for my Family of 4 sous- whom have I yet

succeeded

not one

of

in settling in Life - My application_ is that in the event of Lord Grey being pleased to accede to

solicitation

my (of which your Lordship will doubtless be duly informed, as I am oforwarding this application through the Colonial office) that I be permitted to sell Majority ofor the purpose of becoming settler in New Zealand, and obtaining

my

L

184

www.

3

grant of 600 acres in conformity to the

as to grants of

Crown Regulations

rauts of Lands

in the Colonies, and if possible retaining

my

name in

manner

the Army

List

before stated.. I have therefore

in

the

to entreat the

favour of this application being submitted to His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and as the proposal is only based on tiresignation of my Civil office, the difficulties hitherto existing will. I trust be removed, and by this additional act

of

consideration to

myself, I shall be enabled to make Creditors,

arrangements here with

My

and possibly prolong my life by retiring

to the

emgenial climate of

more enige

New Zealand-

My List of Services are well- Known at the Ance Guards, and therefore I will not trouble your

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4

Lordship by again detailing them, - though I would beg to add that since my last application of 1846 I was appointed Commandant of this Garrison in April 1847, during the time I administered the Government in the

absence of the Governor and the Senerals, with the Canton hypedition and that

My Conduct favorably reported to the store Guards by Major General D'Aguilar (vide huelozures Band 3)

As the favour. I now ack at the end of my career is probably the last that

กะ

my

I shall ever

have rccasion to urge accounts, I trust it will obtain your Lordship's Kind support. - In which faith

I have the hour to subscribe, my Lord,

Your Lordship's

Most Obedient. Humble Servant,

Maine, Seijn binatashee

Whoniel Suntung

N.1.

185

Extract from beveral orders by the Sonorable Major General D'Aquilar, C. B., Commending the Troops in China. _

With the concurrence

April 2nd, 1847.

of the

of His breelleney Sir John Francis Javis, Bart, 40. The Majn General Commanding gladly avails himself of the Services of the Honorable Major Came and appoints him Commandant of barrison of Stonghong during the absence of the Mayon General and the Main Body of the Troops

on service at Canton. By Order,

Clue Copy)

(Signed) I. Bruce, Captain Asst. Adjt General

(True Extract)

(Signed) I. Clark Kennedy, faptain,

Adyt Genera

off. Must aryt

$687

Sim,

N2.

186

Acet Adit Ben & Office,

Victoria, Houghong, 3:5 May /67-

that

I have the hour to acquaint you the Major General Commanding has had much pleasure in forwarding your Military Report of the 9th Ultimo to His Grace the Commander-in-Chief and that in so doing he did not fail to express his acknowledgments of the services rendered.

whilst in temporary command of this barrison, during the acccnt__

by you

operations at Canton.

M.

Shave, 40. (Signed) I. Bruce, faptain Aset Adyt beneral

Have Copy)

The Amorable Major Jaime, folonial Secretary,

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187

Bretons Hougtong

Inby 31th 1849

7

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attended the Wouth Major Caine for the last

I can fully testify

Having along with my

late parture D. Dile, profession

:ally

Thri

that his hallt

change to a

residues of

impaired as to require a change

is so impaired

mon temperate chinates. After

45

a

Otta

years

in tropical climates, we cann surprind that were the best & strongest. :stitutions, however compelly quarched, will give way; have I find that all the tissues of his greath, aland_, the sense of sight is of douth spectacle bearing in the left car is quite goan, and

wurden.

so bad as to require the whe that of

in fact all this senses are mon or less thanted.

to lor there is a constanto lunchmers

Lundmey

the livin

for pidity of disorder

functional diranguinant of the spline de dissidi

red state

the stomach a towels - Suice wor

Las suspend

In spend. greatly from dull, grawing, rain in the region of the leften riding with rccasional sharp spasons J

I kund him he has su

of pains

& his wine is prequitt out of reve

und scarcity add that his mervous system is also unstrung. Sam therton of oplecion that it is absolutity meessures that he thou have a permanent changes to a more conquial climate when his whole system may be mary

much recitects.

I may add that

sey

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late partur ere

ligh

Ї

for England, again

psinion to the

d. Araw

183

ressed a suvilan

expressed

Q. R. Balfour -

Z W . Q & Q 4 ZF.. 2 S. E.

B. Ebeg to rejor con is Dr Richard

Jill Regence. Landon Brighton for a com

boration

made

statiments- Shave just-

X. A. B.

I certify

that the above certificate

to in the handwouching of Mr. A. 17. Balfour of Honghong,

that

the signature thereunto attached his signature.

Mellier.

E

"Separate" of 29th October

Inclosure No 4 in Despatch

1850.

BARS :-

Pretoria Houghtong

183

Jetohr 25th 1850

find his condition

We honby certify that having examined into the state health of the South Major Pains, we to be as follows. It appears in tropical Climatio for

wind It appears he has constantly relied 400 Years-37

a perinde

of

is

which have him paunde in the "public service, and his actution, although originally strong, how so much impaired, that in our

spudy & promanah change of

for

th

in our abinion, an

alimali is absolutely,

his life.

be addition taste functional derangement of the

In

liver, spelen, and other dignos te has bem subject for many years.

he labours unde

serious, longe protracted and obsewn disease of this left kiding, which, he believes, to have been originate brought on by a fall from his worse when in th M's 19th Night in India in the year 1816. Throughout the greater part

to

н

1849 & 50 he sufferd very acutity from pain in the region of the listen Ritary extending along the waster towards the

had stricture of the

Hadden, the cause of which remained doubtful.

his having in consequence of wrethra, until the

of a larg

ing intuese

calculus through the writhra occasions

agony

with swer

危

when the passage

th

collapse for

Horus

his disease. Dur the pinoledge

days, conferunde the ampressions previously inton thinst of the real nature

diagnosis

Wes

partly found grown

that in the year 1888 whilst statiound with his Regt. - W Mit 26th in Fort William Calcutta after

Certificate by Dr Balfour

on

the state

of

Major Caine's health.

21th July, 1849-

Honorable

period.

J

150

Beriad

mari, cuntur & whate the late recasions, he passide

of suffering mar in experincial

a calcnters in the sbune de

Elthough

a truission

description.

Zu Z

followed immediately on fin excase of the Calculus in this present ins "ance it senus artain that the-

disposition !

formation

Of thoux

shows oust Elemany.

umattend and ive again beg to express our firm

one grain

beling that his only chance.

vruzed wistence rumoral to an

hard in his ependy úperomancntion run oral to

Onore

quial climate

Andrew #4 Balfour L.M. C.S. EL F. B. S. E.

B.B.S.

R. 5. 6. Scott Sungeon of H. M. S. Hastings. and Senior Medical officer of Her Majestys haval Forces in the East hires and China.

I certify that the above cechfreate

the handwrching of M. b. 4. Balsome of

this place, that the rege

nature thereunt

thereunto attached is

dega that the signature of

nature

arx

his

1. D. C. Scott, angeon of H. M. S. Hasting

in my

presence

w.as

done

longkong

Cought tober 1850.

29

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Certificate by Doctors Balfour and Scott on the state of Honorable Majon Caine's health.

2320 October, 1850-

Inclouvre No 5 in Desp. Separate of 29th aebber, 1850.

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N 100.

Iudicial.

605. Đong trọng.

RECEIVED "Corvats."

JAN.21

851

151

Victoria, Houghong,

10th November, 1850.

My Lord,

I have the honor

to

report

leppy

to Treas

38 Jary 58.

Lex

that 24 Chinese Convicts under sentence of transportation the 7th Instant conveyed to Penang

were on

= in the Barque "hagle" at the rate 35 per man, amounting to

$35

+ £175 for the whole.

"The usual documents required. for their detention at that place

were

forwarded by the

same vessel

to the Governon of the Straits

Settlements.

14 Descriptive

List of there

Conviets is herewith enclosed for

The Right Honnable,

The Earl brey,

tc.

to.

Your Lordship's information.

"Treasury, I suppone, for

sanction

1/1ust 2

I have the hour to be,

With the highest respect,

Your Lordship's,

Most Obedient

Humble Servant,

b

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to havemit to you for the

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Commissories of the Fundary

the Copy of a Despetch from the Green of HongHary Reporting thich 24 Cherise

Convicts under sentiver of

transportation had been Leak to Pensiy

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or

board the

Barque "Eagle" at an aggregat

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Cock of £175. and Jam

to request that you

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Lund Grey.

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despatch of the 10 Nov. No 100

reporting

the transportation

of 24 Chirex Conouts to

in the Banque Eagle,

Penang

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I have to convey

to you.

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154

Names

Chun Ahtrup Chun Altent

Le Ahoong Lum Aho

Wong Angow chun alizing Chun Ahyno Wong de chang

Low Augnow Lec alice

Fan Ahsee

Mun Ahing Wong ye fut chúng những nan -Ahynen

Wong-ah-had

Ho-Accam

Chun akum

Wong Ayou Laong

Descriptive. List of 24 Chines. Prisoner under sentence of Transportation.

tuk fei Kwok Antsow

Age

лудя

Country Yes Mrs Profeccion or Teade

China 19

china

Chun troy tsow Tung Abfat To Larny, fook Laong aktong

#

#

#

#

#

Crime

Seller of Pigs Pirney and Stabbing

Fish boat man

Fish boat man

Fish boat man Fisherman

Piracy and Stabbing Piracy and Stabbing

Piracy and Stabbing

Piney and stabbing

35. Bricklayer Breaking into a dwelling house

Term of

Transportation Inte of Sentence Height

Feet In:

General Description

fr Life 17th July 1850 5 3 Jeeply Pock marked

#

تم کو

تو کو

Life

#

2

0

Life

Life

Life

Life

Life

Life

Life

15 Years

#

#1

#

#

#

15 Years

#

· 10 Year

#

10 Years 15th October 7 Years

23

18

#

25

29

31

Salt boat man

Piracy and stabbing

26

Lich boat man

Piracy and stabbing

#

30

Fowl seller

A

3/

Salt Fish seller

Piracy and Stabbing Robbery with arm's

26

Barber

Robbery with Ansus

*

34

Stone Cutter

#

Robbery with Arms

33

21-Coolic

Burglary with intent

29-Servant

Larceny by a Servant

32

Stone Cutter

Accault and Robbery

10 Years 17th

36

Coolie

Stabbing with intent

25

Boatman

Piracy

22

Boatman

Pinney

30

Fisherman

Piracy

26

Bratman

Pinney

26

Boatman

Piracy

25

Bontuan

Pirney

27

32

#

#

A

Victoria, Houghong, 5th November, 1857.

Boatinan

Boatman

Piracy with stabbing Piracy with stabbing

(True, Copy) Mane

Colonial Secretary.

Life

164

Years 19th

" 15 Years

#

#

15 Years

15 Years

.15 Years

#15 Years

#

15 Years

Life

Life

董事

#

люди

#

#

*

#

#

#

#

5 5 Warto left con-4 martison forehead. 5 2% Large Sear on

right

ear

5 4 sear on rights Shoulder and forehead 5/ Wart on right car fair complexion

5 4 2 marks on beact Deep Sear bottom of backbone 4 tear on right check + binches klow left corn 53% Mole 3 inches below each car.

5

5 5 Mark on right shin tron back 3ou the belly

584 Frin Complexion several marks on body 5 4% Sear under right and left car -

5 3% Marked on back from flogging -

5 4% wear on the right eye

5 2/1⁄2 Sear on the right of the neck 5 9/1⁄2 Large Cuts on right and left checks 5 7/h Wart over the night eye-

5:3

2 slight sears on left eide of head.

5 2 2 slight marks on left side of head_

5 11⁄2 Sear on left Shoulder

5 4% Mark under left ear

5 Th Jeeply Bock marked

5 4% Jeeply Pock marked

5 11/1⁄2 Marks on breast and of very dark complexion

5 014 Several dears over the night eye-

195

Remarks

Sentence of Death.

was passed on the first & mentioned

prisoners and scended against the u'mth _ which- sentences were Commuited. to Transportation for Life

by Hishreelleney The Gorcium, me

the 1th August, 1851

dentines of Death, was recorded against these 2 nun which, una aitor. waris commuted to Franportation for Life- by His wxcellency the Sorrnor in the 4th trender 150

(Signed_) W. H. Mitchell

Acting Sheriff.

Despatch-1-100 of 1850-

Melosure in

N101. Miseellaneous

bob. trong dong

RECEIVER

My Lord,

JAN.21 1851

V

136

Victoria, Hongkong,

15th November, 1850.

With reference to my despatch

No94 of 19th October, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the

#

following Despatches on the 11th Instant_ No 197 to 199 the last of 2nd September, 1850 Military No216

Circular

Af

I uplicate Military No15, 11th June I have the hour to be, With the highest respect

Your Lordship's, "Most Obedient

Stumble Servants,

The Right Honorable

The have Grey,

Ve.

&c.

to.

:..

Desenptive

7B. Fovember, 1857. transported to Penang

List of 24 Convicts

on the

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TaB. 21/1.

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21

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137

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Copy

to Fear: 31 Jauf.

5 N 243.

:

My Lord,

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Hong

RECEIVEL

JAN. 21

351

153

Victoria, Houghing,

16th November, 1850.

"I have the houn to inform

Your Lordship that. I have granted 44 Mouths leave of absence, from

hom the pet

Instant, to M. 9. R. faldwell, dezietant Superintendent of Police, 40, to preced to Singapore for the recovery of his health, which your Lordship will perceive p. from the enclosed Certificate from

"Colonial Sur

Surgeon.

p.2.

or the

The enclosed Corrcepondence will show the an angements made for the performance of Mr fildwells duties during his absence, which of trust, will meet with your Lordship's

The Right Honorable,

The Earl Grey,

I

Goremon Bonham-

155 November, 1850- Victoria, IrugAme

to

The Earl Grey-

-101화~

Received

together with Circular of 9th September. Military P16 of the same date - to N. 199 of 2nd September 1850 and _teknowledging reccipt of despatches

Ve.

to.

tc.

....

approval.

I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,

Your Lordship's,

+

Most obedient

Humble Servant,

• M. Meinate

appines

& the other are.

the leave

granted to M. Olducht, exents comquent thereon,

approzed of the remnant

which the for? has settled for the officers

foforming his duties

Abs. 21/1.

ihm jan

If Lord Grey

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12

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C.C. 9. Turalyon

MINUTE 2/. MR Jadi

1851 JANY

23

MrElliot Merivale 20 Mr Hawes Earl Grey

Gov. 607. Hong Hong

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31 Jaup.

199

Save devoted brach Gary

thaummit to you for.

the

information of the Loves Commissioners of the Feasury

Abe

the

Cory

of a Despath from

Governs of Sony Song

hase printed

Reporting that he had

four Monettes have of abrence Jorn

to Mer D. R. Coldwall, Oppistent

Superstindant of Wice to

proceed to Singapore for the recovery of his health, and

Sam tho request that

дж

will state to their Lordships

that Ford Grey propores

to approve

the br

arrangements

which have been made.

for rerumurating the

Officios appointed

to

Jerform der Caldwell's

duties during his chance.

Shere

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290

Governor

Ser S. Bonham Kets

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4851 MAY

Bartuicy

Mong trong

Ser

No 244.

of

19. May/51

I have to acknow=

-leage the receipt of

your Despatch N. 102

of the 16" November last

had reporting that you granted 4 months leave of absence to M. D.R. Caldwell, the Meistant Superintendent of Poliel at Hong Kong!

approve the

have

arrangements you made for the performance of W. Caldwell's duties duringthes

has absence

I have tes

:

:

Copy

b. Stonnable,

$

60%

201

Houghong, betober 25th, 1850.

For mine tham

than a

year Mafaldwell

Assistant Superintendent of Police has been suffering from

severe and repeated attacks of Intermittent Fever, followed by protracted debility, loss of appetite, and general functional derangements At present his health is much enfeebled. In consideration of the above circumstances I very strongly recommend that he shall be allowed four months leave of absence that he may proceed to Singapore to recruite

Majon faine, Slomials Scoretary,

(Signed) William Morrison, folonial Surgeon-

True Copy)

Mac

Colonia CSecretary-

Copy p45.

C

the

Police Departement, Victoria, Hougtong,

202

2nd November, 1850.

'I have the hour to ackunoledge

e_receipt of your letter (~1369A) conveying authority of His Excellency the Governor

for leave of akence, for four

months to Assistant Superintendent- faldwell, and directing that during his abrence Me Grandine be appointed foint

Assesson and Collecton

and Collector of Police Rates

upon the

necessary security being given,

also desiring

me

to

report upon

the most

efficient person in the Police to perform the duties of Accistant Superintendent.

beg

I try to report that I have Communicated. His kneellency's directions

Honorable Majon faine,

Colonial Secretary -

:

I

to Mr. Grand-Pre who with provide required security.

in

the

the

The most eligible officer Police, to undertake the duties of Accistant Superintendent during Mr faldwell's absence, is deputy Inspector Elifton, whom I respectfully recommend may be appointed

Mz

I beg to apply for His Excellency's direction as to the proportion of faldwell's salary which shall be allotech to Deputy Inspector Clifton.

I have, H.,

(Signed) f. May,

Superintendent of Police.

Глие

(Truce fory)

Conial Secretary.

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Copy.

N286.

Sin.

203

felonial Secretary's office,

Victoria, Houghing,

13th November, 1850.

Jam directed by His Excellency the

Governor to

in the

inform you

that during Mr.

faldwells absence, the duties of Interpreter the Supreme fourt in the Chinese_ language with be performed by the Interpreters of the Chief Magistrates Court- and the Interpretation in Malay and Hindoostani, with be conducted by Mz P.N. Khatwicky (ales of the Chief Magistrate's Count). this latter person is to receive the half of Mrfaldwell's Salary drawn through the Supreme Court, from

phbstant.

R. J. Cay reqp, Registrar of the Supreme count.

(Tave Copy)

the

I have, Ho.. (Signed) W. Caine,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary.

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:

<

health

Jurgeon

Nedical

by the

Colonial_

Certificate on M12 Caldweli's state of

Copy.

No287.

Sir

204

felonial Secretary's office, Victorian, Hongkong,

1

13th November, 1850.

With reference to the appointment

of Mr. Clifton to perform the duties of assistant Superintendent of Police during the absence of Me faldwell. I am instructed to acquaint you, that His breellency has been pleased to order that Mr Clifton shall receive an increase to his Salary at the rate of £100 per annum and that the Interpreters in

-

Office who

are to

your office Conduct the Chinece duties of Mr faldwell

are to receive between them at the rate

of £56 per annum-

Instructions have

to the Registrar of the

been given

given to the

Supreme Court, to pay during WZ

B. Hillier, reope

Chief Magistrate of Police.

faldwells abrence the half of his salary as Interpreter to the Supreme fourts, to Mr. P. V. Statwicky of your department.

date

These

anangements will bear

om the 124 Instant

from

I have, &c., (Signed) W. Laine,

(Taue fopy)

Colonial Secretary

donial Secretary.

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295

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Despatch #102 of/850.

Inclosure P2 in

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No103

Financial-

@

To

608. Hon

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My Lord,

RECEIVES

JAN. 21 1851

L

256

Victoria, Honghong,

17th November, 1850.

I have the hour to forward the

accompanying

letter with 4 onelozures

from the Surveyor beneral, showing

a.

variety of services which have been executed. without being submitted to your Lordship

Copy to Tread for

Ans y apulf or

I do not know whether it is intended.

by the folonial. Regulations that services of whatever decoription performed by the Surveyn General's department are to be subuitted for the approval of the Right Honorable The Secretary of State for the felonies, but apprehending that such__ approval may necessary and not having hitherto

The Right Honorable, The harl Grey,

&c.

to.

tc.

in some instances be

}

Correspondence regarting the

M2 Caldwells duties during his absenc 2nd to 13 Fovember 1851.

anangements made for the serformance

:

applied for the sanction of your Lordships to these Services at the periods of their being undertaken Inow beg for your Lordship's approval to those detailed in

the Inclosures.

The only work execeding £200 is

that for widening the road from Sookhampoo to North Pointe, towards Saiwan, amounting to £345, 16.8_ the usual_

Report and retimate for

which

accompanies the letter of the Surveyn General and further reference

no

this

subject will be found in my despatch 122 of the 7th January 1850.

All the other services being each

under £ 200 (the

Lum

which it would

appear by the felonial Regulations the Governor is authorized to expend without

previous reference home for sauction)

I

do not consider it necessary

to

forward. Reports and retimates Plans

Į

Napier par Contractes

The subier.. referred to

Shore Manch

in the ma

Above state

?

257

and Specifications of, as the documents connected therewith would be

numerous a

and

very

necessarily entail

considerable additional labour, the

whole of them being

even now

o required

to be

in quadruplicate.

In conclusion I would beg

furnished with your Lordships Instructions relative to the nature and amount of Services appertaining to the Department. of the Surveyn beneral for which your Lordship may

consider it nccessary for

me to obtain sanction, which will obviate the necessity of any further reference I have the honor to be,

With the highest respect, Your Lordship's,

Mrt Obedient

Humble Servant,

Montan

:

+ to this question. The spirit of the Colocical Regulations from pafe 82 to 89 seems to me to be that Estimates need only be sent home for Works which are new ad of conciderable magnitude. I do not know how for the joint

be settled already by genera

of nezal, precedent. Beft otherwise, I shoul of think that the Gou might be told that it is not necessary that he should sind home beforehand detailed Extimates of Mortie of small extent

which are included in

فراد

#

:

and avoid the execution of unnecessary public works at thong his sanction for the construction of roads, or buildings of Mr Ellict. There can, Japprehend, be no doubt as to the device of Gov. Bonham to which the expense does not exceed ₤200 I should imagine that box his discretion wd not be called in question, & that it with be betised that the work was indispensable. But still as he acks for instructions as to the nature & amount of Sevices in the Suwayor General's Dept "for which he shr Swin the faction of the 8.1 State previou execution it may perhaps be advisable to take advartis of #pportunity & lay down some rule to be followed, if indeed the rules in the Book of Colonial regulations, P.82 can be added to with ade autage & rendered move practice economy. Kong; &&f he gives

The

770

of the road from

Sookhampoo

mmunicated to

North Point has been com

the Treasury; the details are

thecesse

Known to that office erstattestanding that no positive approval of that undertaking has yet been queen.

W. Merivale.

Lets!

22/1.

I am not sure of they : 1 anouter which it may be

9-778

124 Ort.

29

complete.

cent at the Colonial.

his statement.

Estimates, of the general amount

that will be required to be expens

Public Work

7.78.22 Jany

Governor. Bonham,

17# _ Vovember, 1857 -

to

The Earl Grey-

12103

5 Melorures.

Received

Requesting His Lordship's sanction to

A

variety of services executed in the

Survey:

General's

Department

in the

be considered

appertaining to that

the nature and amount of Services

applying for instructions relative to Years 1848, 1849 and part of 1850_ and

одрей

which

may

neccesary to obtain this

Lodchips Lauction -

IN Hawes

ar

hallon bod Hory Kony 253

Ihr Jadis's suggestion on this raft

important one

difficult,

& the subert

Mer

I have detained the papers

the Conger heause the for. in 60d refres

to a rule

4

ar

to be found in the Colonial

Regulations which in twrth is ast there.

This is the rule limiting worke which

for.

may

unditate without pressons

Sanction to # 200.

a

It is Lovear to be

found in an MD Hearing letter of 1826 which J'annex, & is apparently

ufered to in the Appendix to the Cornich Apulation, alttant it is est crnbodied in that work.

Assuming #200 to continue

a furfer lirich an it whe Kaytt in 1826,

(a

I see no reason to doult this) the following might hehapes In the Mrections fiom.

andalake

1. That the for. may worke unon #200 without previous sanction

6 tuntia Lacarter: walih Bey are of

of a very

new

A

2. That as to works clon # 200 the panel vele is, as laid down in the CS: Apulation, (Verast without the specification of amount) that he chuld apply for previous sanction without sending with such applications plans Estimate & specifications.

↑

200 3. I am not aclaim Werthen it right

not hadhirath to sold that this Catter consition (the sending plans, &)

is

monthelch subject to the formois discution, & that if he finds there an peat rifficulties

in the way of complying with it be

may

sanction without

apply for the rempary sanct

fourniring flam, L. on the dilirich must: That he cannot excnd the sum

Manij

ramed in his application

renuring

ислом

wi

without

Val effliction & sherring She

L

My found for sighstig

thei

is that it Las seemed to me masionally that the reusites of complying with the

rule of sending flame & Estimates has

endured the sending of very impreful ones,

which afßend to nal fuide, & which all hackies, when they

a

sanctioned, seem

to consider the mules at liberty to modify

a spart from acerringly. But Ionly

Krow out

Mi

saspution,

ma

subject, which

I Lane to practical kawhip to prid me

ther rule varying

aled by Mr Ethiot with this additt he deeftatch is written, the Gor" with the propon

the effect soppeled

repared before

the concnsense

Tue 749

at all

If this, or

o any from the Exciting Ayulations de persones,

it mut! I with the sanction of the

Enary. Form Ich 1./57

M.3. Ihave

to perfications of un

Amit petite boothughing.

MINUTE 25~

1851 JANY 20

MR. Jadis MrElliot M(r)Merivale M&Hawes

Earl Grey

N. Jahi

is craft is que pared

ading to the Menutes to Hong Hong, but it meely conveys structions required of

для

the

hi

210

There to schnout age the

recepch of your dispatch 4 103.

of the 17th of Norrlash trans

Metting

им

• Retion of various

Servines in the

Surreyer Geventi

Seph_ which have been execited

under

without

your authority withark previous reference to this.

Gent

I have to convey t

Good of the enquiry konto in the last paragraph the des pitch refers to penditure above £200

would appear mapenz specify

bestpersprechen to you my

some amoresh

considered plow tinch he is rest to exceed

but prethink the sauction of

writes above booth Ibunt tare hard to Secutary of State, and

вс

Extimate sighed by

empotent fou there the concurrence

confienend besten frd. If think so.

leta crafts

apperal of the expenstituere

Jou which have considered it

Nesefsary to exciers than to soto for good facturer quidamn, With refereve to the

to the enquiry

in that the lach

pargraph

your bespelete th

State that

:

all cases where the Frene

amy

to be expended on Wook of truall extents

mcluded in the Statements

of the Treasury should

be

co Hony Mary

211

CB.

Sufferehend te ottained. Ch. Kerelyon 11.0.63.

before a Phule of long Standing sgeneval

contained in the annual application (the Ragers

general

Estimate, of the amount required Im

Public Works, it it rest

· new pary

thik

you should

send home beforehand

detailed Estionales of such

book, but may consider yourself authorized to

mcur the expense without waiting for the sanction

of H. his : Gomment-

Shave

& Governin brucking Colonial,

to £200/ an be celaxed

#851 MAR"

6

MINUTE 3 MR Jadis MRElliot M(r)Merivale 2 MR Hawes

Earl Grey

105. 17 No

18 Mar / 51

suited by Rast Grey

Jame

fortte

to transmit to you for the

Consideration of the foss

Consensusievers of the Frentang

the lipy of a despath from the Governor of Hong Hong accompanied by a Copy of

the Instructions which

Ford Grey proposes with their Lordship's cowernence

to addref to thet Officer

relative to the nature and

uch amourel of Services

A

Connected with the

Zara shqip

Surveyor General's

deportment for 22

excention of which it

it is mussary

that the

Sanction of H. Mis : Goit

stiereld be obtained.

Show

1

7

Governor Bonham

22.34

103

608

/51

1851

MW. Merivale. 12 March J. Hawes -

Earl Grey-

13

chong trong

33

Co.

242

7th April. March 1851.

Sü.

I have to achnow:

: ledge your Despatch, 2° 103,

of the 17th November last,

transmithing a Return of

carious services in the

Surveyor Generals Depart :

:ment which have been

Executed under your authority without previous reference

to Her Majesty's Government: And I have to convey to

...

え

you my approval of the

Expenditure which you

have

Considered it recessary to

nieur.

2. With reference

Е

the last paragraph of your

Berpalch, the following a

are

the enles which you should

observe as to the undertaking of Public Works

-

3. When the Estimated

does

Cost of ang such work boer

angouch

not exceed £200, you may

Cause it to be undertaken

without previous authority

213

from home, and without

3

sending the plans andEstimates.

unless the work be of a very unusual character, and one

of which, in your own judgi

: ment, Her Majesty's Governan

ought to have notice before

it is commenced .

4. When the estimated

Cost of the work to be under:

: taken Exceeds that amount,

The general rule to be followed is correctly laid down in Chap. 10. §1, 9.6

б

& . of the Rules & Regulation

E

4

for the Colonial Service.

5. It is, however. very essential, that when

plans and specifications

as therein dirahs

Иезывать

are

thaus sent they should be of

a character on which relianc

can be placed, andnot merely deawon af in order to satisfy the Regulation,

without its being really ry: : peeled that they can be ontstantially adhered to in the execution of the work. 6. As, therefore, there

snagbe cases in which i is

not possible beforehand to

J

214

frame plans and specifications

in a sufficiently perfect shape to serve the purpose of fully acquainting Her Majesty's Government with the character

of the milended work, I con. : sider that the general rule

maybe so far relaxed, that

Con may in your own judg

дол

дон

: meul, abstain from furnishe

thánh

: ing plans and specifications. ni cases where you that their transmission is

not calculated to serve this purpose. But the reason

Why the rule is departed

:

INDONES

from should always be stated, and her Majesty's

Government will have lo

consider whether it is

Essential to call for such documents before sanctioning The Expenditure. And, in

all cases above £200,

plans & staifications

whether these documents

be forwarded or not, a full Galimale, signed by a competent Officer, and Approved by the Governor,

si indispensable

I have M

245

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Copy

p3b.

Sir,

Jubos

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236

Surveyor General's Office, Victoria, 19th November, 1850.

By direction of His hreellerney. The

Governon I have the hour to transmit herewith three Returns of Public Works undertation in the years 1848 and 1849 and part of the present year ending September 30th 1850, intended to show the several services authorized by His kweellency and which have not received the sanction of the Right Honorable The Secretary of State for the (glonies-

are

It will be observed that there but few services of large amount, or new works on buildings which have rendered it to make special Reports thereon

necessary

form of Reports and retimates.

in the form of

The Honorable Maja M. Caine, Colonial Secretary-

In the

year 1848-9 three Reports

and retimates were sanctioned by Stis Excellency amounting to £179. 11. 17/1⁄2

of which PS was

ps

for

₤479-

Storm

repairs

to

2

Buildings, forwarded to England and approved of in Lord Grey's Despatch 199 of 17th February, 1849.

The other Services were

for

the

formation of a brick sewer £89. 13. and the alteration of the Court-house £136. 8.-

The services sanctioned by Sis Excellency The Governor under Requisitions

for general repairs and Flagstaff at Government House

were

for

the

amounting in the whole to £272.18.3.

In the

and hetimate

ar

year

1849-50 one was sanctioned

Report

의

viz:

amounting to £356,8%, 3° (copy of which is enclosed herewith) for the Road to North Point. This work has never been formally sanctioned but-

}

circumstances connected therewith

were

p

247

reported home in His breelleney's Despatch to The Right Honorable the Secretary of State PD of 7th January 1850.

The Services authorized under Requisitions amounted to 42; which in addition to the ordinary general repairs, to, of the

a

Ꮧ.

ว

of the year comprised Lodge at the Cemetery N14, £46. 14.7 Widening the Valley Road 117, £71.6.10. alterations and additions to the Magistracy 1221, £60. 3. B; Angstaff at

Govenment offices $26, £132.5.3,

2;

Boat shed, stable, &c., 4., Police Station,

N35, £31, F. The whole of the 42

2

services amounting to £638.7.3

In the year

1850-51 ending

September 1850- one Report auch

Estimate has been prepared amcounting

?

to £151. 11. 11 for brick arches to the

the Wongneichung Valley.

Bridges in

1

E

The Services under Requisitions

are 16 in Number amounting to

ว

£262, 0.6 mortly for repairs to Works

and Buildings. I have, tc.,

(Signed) Chas: Seo: Cleverly,

Surveyor Several.

(Tave fory)

يقد

olonial Secretary.

1

A

A

Return of Public Works authorized by H: E. S. G. Bonham, Esquire under Requisitions of Surveyor General during the Financial Year, 1848-9.

of

quisition

Service

مجھے

of 1848. Pemove rocks Wyndham Street

#tep: road Saiwan to Tylame Chunam for whitewashing Gaols Baskets, &c. for Convicts Repair road Victoria to Aberdeen Repair road Paivan to Stanley Side Channels Wongneichung to Tytand Road round Wongweichung Valley

Cancelled.

Repair sundry Government Buildings

Police Stations Pooker an & Stanley

residence of The Governot

Protect

Albany Godowns

Repair Bungalow on J. 141. and Pundry Buildings Full down old Treasury Guard - house. Flagstaff, Government House.

Repair Convict toolo

Tools for Pexton

Protect

Albany Godowns

Repair Convict

to ols

Amount authorized for Works. add Amount authorized for Buildings.

Total authorized under Requisitions.

Works.

Buildings.

10168

26184

3 12 11

11 18 44 219 1854

21 194

I

!

Remarks.

19 April, 1848.

I May, 1848. 8 91 May, 1848.

27 June, 1848. 6 July, 1848.

id.

id.

id.

Repair 10 Bridges

243

on Paiwan Nood.

32 126 12 August, 1848.

30 1511 16 August, 1848 .

14 157 27 August, 1848.

98429 et 1848.

t:

11 12 10 August, 1818. Revised.

1 Nov: 1848.

4192

1877

id.

Fits 1849. она

19 March, 1849.

2.4 March, 1849.

1845

1610

15+

£19416

£ 138 111

194169198 1|11|

£272188

9

29 March, 1849.

L

:

!

'

:

Return of Public Works

の

249

thorized by H: E: S. G. Bonham, Esquire under Reports &

Estimates of the Purveyor General during the Financial Year, 1848 -9.

to of

& Est:

Service.

of 1847. Brick Pewer to join Ordnance Sewer

Fillings, &c. of Court House.

of 1848. Government House, &c.

Cancelled.

Storm repairs

to Buildings.

Works.

Buildings.

89 13

4

1565

Remarks.

Contractite 2 of 1848.

The Estimate

{ of the Service was

*

23 Feb, 1848.

£994: 10.1 but only a portion

authorized. Contract No. 5. £19, 194 12.9 t exclusive of Stores from England ( Submitted to home Government for approval.

อ

Storm repairs to Roads not authorized. 9236161 Original Estimate £ 637. 9. 2 1⁄2, several Services

dis allowed. Approved of in Despatch No 99 of 17 February, 1849.

Amount authorized for Works.

add Amount authorized for Buildings

+

Total authorized under Reports and Estimates.

8919- £ 479 11 12

479 11 12

£569414

Abstract.

Works

Buildings

Amount authorized under Requisitions. £ 194 169 138 111 Aincount authorized

under Reports & Estimates. £

Total authorized for Works.

add Total authorized for Buildings.

Total authorized for the Financial Year, 1848-G.

Peuwveyor General's Office.

1850:35

Victoria. 15th November, 1850.

8919-

47911 14

22499 617 13

61713-2

£ 61713-2

849. 29r of this ap

£323.6. 11⁄2 has been approved of, see R. & E. N° 9.

Kurveyor General.

(Duplicate)

Return

10

Public Works

thorized by

Governor Bonham during the Financial Year, 1848-Q.

i

We of

quisition.

220

Return of Public Works authorized by HC: E: S.G. Bonham, Esquire under Requisitions of Purveyor General during the Financial Year, 1849-50.

Scrvice.

of 1849 Road round Sukumpiu Bay:

Bamboo blinds to new Good Offices. tarapet wall, &c. Road East toint Second course of tiles to Guaid to: at Goot to:

Repair Wongueichung Bridge

10341550

Inclosure 12 in

Works.

Buildings,

Remarks.

Vide. Report & Estimate A 1 of 1849. where this {expenditure of £75 is included.

3153

10 April, 1849.

2166

id.

6

id.

1

id.

Hope for Flagstaff Good House. New Lodge at Wongneichung Cemetery. Protecting Albany Godowns

Clear side channels, &c. below Albany Repair out officer of Post Office. Hepair road Wongneichung to P'aiwan

147

www.

13

Plone floor to Gaol cook-house, &c. Hepair Wongneichung Bridge.

992

3109

588

Repair landing piers, &c.

6. Sonic pillars to Court-house & for support of floor

33 133

of this Court - room:

}

19. April, 1849.

id.

1 May, 1849.

id.

id.

10 May, 1849.

id.

8122 21 June, 1849.

46147

id.

2 July, 1849.

id.

10 July, 1849. 9 Pept: 1849.

1849. Contract No

Contract seq.

Contract No 3.

710

7

10

90104

25123

84 6026

id.

id.

id

10112

4 Act: 1849.

rt

-

710

id.

Mat shed in

Burial Ground

Widen Wong neichung Valley road Repair Pukumpu Pèlice Station

Repair Stanley Police Station Repair Government Plore Alterations

Repair Govern

and additions to Magistracy nont Buildings

Protecting Albany Godow

Carried forward

87 411241146

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Public Works an

thorized under Requisitions, &c.

(Continued)

Ve of quisition.

Service.

Works.

Buildings

Remarks.

Brought forward

87 411 241 146

4 of 1849 Stepair the Court House

Baskets, &c. for Convicts

at Government Offices

Flagstoff at Goo

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Repan's road Wonqueichung towards Paivan

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Tapingshaw

Repair landing frier.

tiba-

Tools for Sexton

Repair Post Office

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Repair Police Stations, &c

Protecting, Albany Godowns

2774 bet: 1849.

id.

132 32

id.

#

id.

11 5

id.

118

id.

4914

13154

210

id.

id.

id.

9168

id.

Casting powder in formming Roads

Protecting Albany Godowns

Boatshed, stable, &c. for Central Police Plation

Flagstaff at Government Offices

Protecting Albany Godowns

L

Fulling down Bungalow on I. Lot. N. 87.

Repairs

and alterations to drains

Repair Hongueichung Bridge Protecting Albany Godowns Stone hammers for prisoners in Gaol

Amount authorized for Works. add Amount authorized for Buildings.

Total authorized under Requisitions.

ک

رو

125

5 Nov: 1849.

5 Dec. 1849.

9 Jawy, 1850.

210

30104+

11 Feb: 1850.

id.

2

412

id.

id.

210

4. March, 1850

id.

479

£12417651498 £51490

£63872

2

221

L

3

222

E: S.

Esquire Esquire under Stéports

Return of Kublic Works authorized by HC: E. P. G. Bonha and Estimates of the Surveyor General during the Financial Year, 1849

10 of

Pervice.

!

& Ext:

of 1849. Widening Road Hongnaichung to North

touit on the Paivan Read.

Works.

£ 35689

Buildings.

30

Remarks.

£

faid Cont. Requisition of 1849. 75. Authorized by H. E. The Governor.

170. Authorized by Lord Grey in Despatch 100.16.8 s. 183 of June focal &xpended.

Total & spended. £ 345.16.8

*.

Abstract.

Works.

Buildings.

Ansunt authorized under Requisitions. 124 17 6 5149|8 à Amount authorized under Steports & Estimates. 95683

Total authorized for Works.

add Total authorized for Buildings.

£48159 574 90 8 £5149

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Total authorized for the Financial Year, 1849-50. £995 155

Surveyor General's Office.

Victoria. 13th November, 1880. }),

15

Surveyor General.

*

Duplicate)

Return

of

Public WoMI

authorized by

Governor Bonham

the Financial

1.

during

Year,

1849 - 50.

Inclosure 13 in

plar

223

Return of tublic Works authorized by H: E. P.G. Bonham Esqft inder Requisitions of the Purveyor General during half the Financial Year 1850-51. (ending 10th September, 1850.,

2

of

quisition.

Service.

/ 1860. Protecting Albany Godowns

Repairing Convict tools

Union Jack for Flagstaff Govt Offices. Repair Bungalow on Hospital Hill

road

Repair Repair Road

Protecting

round the Island

Wongacichung to North Point Albany Godownes

id

Faust, &c. the Government Flagstaves Whitewash & prains tolice Stations

Albany Godowns

Protecting

Tools for Paxton

Protecting Albany Godowns

Chevaux de frise, &c. to Ga ols

Protecting Albany Godowns

Old rope, &c. for Convicts

Amount authorized for Works.

add Aimount authorized for Buildings.

Total authorized under Requisitions.

Works.

L

Buildings.

-

Remarks.

910

10 April, 1850.

20111

. id.

22615 April, 1850. 108 4. 26 April, 1850.

64153 66125

id

Cont: N₤3 id

Subsequent to Typhoon

210

M.

6 My,

2110

I June, 1850.

4149

Lid

1

į

1016

1850. Authorized by ellajor Gen2 Staveley.

50 1/4 7 28 pare, 1850.

9.10

id

id

éd

8 July, 1850.

id

id

id

1850.

910-9 August, 15. 19 11 16 lept : 1850.

210

98

£ 16365 || 90 |14|1 圭

981111

£262

6

id

id

:

2

A

223

Weturn of Public Works authorized by H: E: S. G. Bonham, Esquire under Reports and Estimates of the Surveyor General during half the Financial Year, 1850-51. (ending 30th September, 1830.

Ir of

p: &. Est;

Service.

of 1850. Brick arches to Bridges Wongueichung Valley.

Works

Buildings.

:

151|//|/1

Remarks.

22. April, 1850. Contract's No 1 & 2 of 1850.

Abstract.

Works

Buildings.

Amount an

thorized under Requisitions 163 65 Amount authorized under Reports & Estimates 151111/

98 141

Total authorized for Works. add Total authorized for Buildings,

£ 314 18 4 90 141

£

98 1111

Total authorized for half the Financial Year 1850-51. (ending 30th September, 1850.)

.!

Surveyor General's Office.

Victoria. 15th November, 1850.

£413193

Survey

ely of

General .

;

(Duplicat

Return

of

Vublic Works

authorized by

Go

Bonham

overno

dw

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falf

the

Financial Year, 1850-54.

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$104.

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Inclosure N-4

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My Lord,

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RECEIVED

221

JAN21) Victoria, Houghing,

4851

17th November, 1850.

I have the how to forward-

122

Report and betimate 19e of 1850 for

the construction

of ce

a small new line

of Road about three quarters of a mile,

from

om the Albany Godmons to the Wongueichung Valley - amounting to

£362,5.10.

very

I have had this service for

some

time in contemplation, as it is one

much wanted for the improvement. of a portion of the Main Road at a part- called the "Gap", which is extremely steep and inconvenient for carriages - fact this old road never should

in ta

The Right Amorable,

The hard Grey,

tc.

tc.

to.

have been contemplated for carriages- ridge of the stills, which had to be cut down as with appear by the

it crosses a

report

it in

(L

no less them 96 feet, to renden any degree practicable for Carriage

drive, and even gradient of 1 in 10 only

then

a

was

obtained, a

ever

steepnese infinitely greater than is cour

allowed

even in the worst roads in

England; The

new line will be nea

twice the length of the old

nearly

one, it skirts

the base of the hill adjoining

the sea, which will tend much to the healthinee and recreation of the inhabitants during the summer months when the sea-

repreching and almost

are so ne

breezes essential to health.

As the

approximate Extimate

submitted to Parliament has been

sanctioned

by your Lordship. I have

225

directed the Surveyor beneral "to

advertize

for

Tenders for the work and

possible,

to Commence it as soon as

that it

may

be fully completed before

the hot season sets in I trust this will meet with

Your Lordship's approval. If ove the house to be,

With the highest respect, Your Lordchip's,

Most obedient

Humble Servant,

19mlane

If your bagthongthong_

Intel.

Ch. Kerelyan H. C.B.

21

C

24

25

$ 104 14 Nov.

Ford Grey's Musicale bog Hing Hong

the dibuiti Estimule

bach year £2000 is

propriated to Roads

d Bridges, and altho

Eleviate has been

resen

untered it is the mal quactice to de ch sepavele iteur of heuse.

Liv

223

31 Jau157.

Iam shunted braid

Grey

an

to transmit to you

for the consideration of the -Sexes Commissioners of

the Feasury the

Coffey of a

Berpatti from the Govern of Hong Hong mounting

logether with a

t. £349.5.10.

Construction of a new Line

of Road from the Albany Godowns to the Wongreichung Fully in llib Corry and I Valley

вели

that

torquent that you

will state to their Loreships

Ford

бригий

Send for the appenal Stad Send Grey is of spancin the Treasury.

W

Which the expended one Buck

wh

!

Governor Bonham,

17th November, 1857-

to

The Earl Grey-

P104-

/ Inclosure.

Received

sauction to the sum

expenditure amounting to £342.5.10.

Falley, and requesting His Fordship's the Albany Godowns to the Wongneichung 122 of 1850 for Constructing a Road from authorized for the

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There to schnout sy the

script of your Respatch & 100

of the 17 have lock enclosing

a Report a .

and Estimate £342.5.

amounting to £ 342.5.10. for the Construction of a new Lerie of Rood from the

s to the

Albany Godoures

Wonguishing Felly, and,

under the Arcivestances

Where

stated by you. How to

Corvey to you

the necessary

enthority for sicurring

expenditure

this work.

o

the

account of

Share

:

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Implicate N105.

Financial

pig to b.

My Lord,

223

Victorian, Houghing,

#

34th November, 1850.

Iregrets to have to forward for

Your Lordship's consideration a series of "Correspondence which has passed between

myself and the Military Authorities

relative to

the

construction

of

ordinanec

passed to enable

N2 of 1845, which

was

the local Government to raise an

arrerred rate on

lands, houses, and

premises within the Colony of Hougtong, for the upholding of

of the

requisite Police

bein

being

Force therein; - the point at issue whether or not, Houses rented by private Individuals to Military Officers and to the Government for Military purposes, are

He Right Honorable,

Ye.

The hard Sney,

&c.

de.

el

to be exempt from the

the payment of

the Tas.

2.

The

question

stion was

first brought to my

notice in September 1848 by Lieutenant

who bei

Colonel Simmonds of the Ceylon Refles

being, the tenant of a House in Town requested exemption frome plea that he had.

an

na the Sant

Me

the

his

orderly from Regiment for his protection, and that The was a Military officer. The Attorney- General having been consulted, on the subject, was of opinion that. Military Officer

ivere

liable to the tax in common with

other tenants occupying

Military

Houses out of

boundaries; the Sax was consequently paid, and here I had hoped- the question would have ended.

3. In

consequence

however of this

opinion of the Law Officer of the lovemment,

>

229

3

the Collector, with my full knowledge and concurence, proceeded to value certain other Houses, the property of private Individuals, recupied by the Military;

others two buildings,

and

among сонд

the

property of Messrs Fletcher. 4, the one scoupied by the Artillery as a Mere-house, in which Lieutenant Colonel hype and

some other Arti

Artillery Officers

also reside,

and the other retained by the Commissariat Department in which Mr Assistant- Commissary Smith with his Family

are

housed,

as well as

Deputy Assistant

Commissary. Fagan - the first

ce of

Mie

intelligence that reached objection of the above officers to pay

tay was

the

the

the weeipt of Inclosure P?

which were

Majon

the

forwarded to me by beneral Commanding, there

not only deny the right of the local Goverment to tax private property

4

appear

when in Military occupation, but to me to be worded most objectionably- In the reply which. I directed to be written, I pointed out to the writers of these letters respectively, under what--

the premises in question were taxed, and I think what is there stated will fully exitiofy your Lordship of the liability of the premices to

Circumstan ecs

(Solosure. 123)_

230

fear that the Captions spirit manifected in the letters of the Respective Officers and Resistant. Commissary beneral Smith was prompted by their apprehension, that as they had neglected, when they engaged the premises) to settle with the

to whe

Avas

to pay

owner as

the Assessment,

the

recupants of the Buildings might be called upon to discharge it themselves

the the rate.

4. It is clear to me

that it is

is the

the

5.

Landlord on whome the burthen must

eventurally fall, and why

owners

of private

property, should be exempt from taxation_

the

Army

under the Ordinance above quoted- because their tenant happens to be in

Military employé, certainly does

or a

not

appear

to me to be at all obvious;

the

the only premises exempted from tax being particularly specified in Section II of the Ordinance - Imuch

I am not quite sure that I have done right in not at- mee-

this claim, leaving

ing

enforcing

the

Applicants to seek redress in the Ordinary Counts of Law, which must be

tribunal to decide

of course the

proper on the intention and meaning of all

local Ordinances: but I was

very "unwilling that it should be known that the Civil and Military Authorities were so ill agreed on this point as

- -- --- --

b

to

to render it necessary for the former

enforce a demand-

a demand by distress; and

encourage

it seemed to me not impossible that :the example of the latter might

others of the inhabitants to offer a "passive resistance" to the enactment, which would have given to great confusion.

u size

b. I have therefore deemed it preferable to lay the whole matter before your Lordship_ in the full belief that all private Buildings,

: no matter

limits

of

by

whom recupied beyond the

the Milita

Military

subject to taration;

Cantonments are

hired house

now. my

chiefs

and that at present recupied by Admiral Austen, the Naval Commander-in- bring instances of the rule :- and farther

Your Lordship

that

may

see in

what

stran the Board of Respective officers and Mr. Accistant Connnissary General

对

Smith have

seen

to their General Govomment.

231

fit to animadvert the local

upon

The remonstrances of both parties

7.

appear

to

me

very exceptionable both in tone and language; especially that of Mr. Assistant Commiscary.

General Smith who

#

of imputing

a

Jocs

the length

to the local Government

as

I

dishonesty of purpose, understand the following portion of

his letter of the 27th October - particularly

" as the nominal appearance of

" increase in the Colonial Revenue

"might perhaps prevent the otherwise "practicable reductions of Colonial "Ixpenditure ". It is needless to pronounce this incinuation perfectly groundlere in itself, it is one that a Gentleman of Morsmith's standing

and intelligence ought not, in my opinion to have

Lo

lightly made; and

I acepectfully treets that your Lordship,

with more

officers

the authorities to whom the

above mentioned

are

are more

reurrenec

mediately responsible to take such steps as may prevent the

to indecorous a forgetfuluce of what is due to Authority.

of.

20

02

I have the how to be, With the highest respect, Your Lordship's,

Mort. Obedient, Humble Servant, Johann

Copy.

N261.

Sin, of

232

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Houghing,

19th betober, 1850

subject of payment of the Police. Rate (under Ordinance 12 of 1865) me buildings hired by the orduance Department for Military purpores having been lately brought to the notice of His Excellency The Governor, I am directed to enclose herewith for the information of the Honorable the Major General_ Commanding copy of the opinion of the Attorney General on

General on the subject.

and to add, that the Police Rate Collectors and Assessors have been~~ instructed to levy the Assessment

Ju

Buildings so recupied, payment-

faptain Staveley,

Assistant Military Secretary

Current

for

the

of which will be collected- Eupent year commencing from the 1th of July last.

I have, Ac.. (Liquid) W. Laine,

Molonial Secretary

(True Copy)

orial hereta

Copy.

a j

The

Opinion.

233

Question being again raizd

to the ___ liability of the houres rented by the Military Department for

the

Artillery and the Rifle Mere Room, to

Rifle

#he payment of the Police Rate-Jam

opinion that

of

Construction

that under a strict

of the Ordinance. 132 of 1845 these houses are not exempt from that rate, although the tax if levied should as represented be virtually paid the Crown to the Colonial Revenue and although the Buildings may

k considered as the temporary property of the Crown.

by

I may observe the ordinance merely exempts Religions and charitable institutions and that in the absence of a special agreement

between the Landlord and tenant

La Pa

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...

....

the taw he

rent.

that the latter shall pay deducts it from his accruing

(Signed) Paul Sterling 30th Sept. 1850. Hongkong..

(Jane Copy)

20

donist. Secretary,

a

DIEU

(DROIT"

HONGKONG,

ANNO OCTAVO

VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

BY

No. 2 of 1845.

Y His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esq.,

Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipo- tentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

AN ORDINANCE TO RAISE AN ASSESSED RATE ON LANDS, HOUSES, AND PREMISES, WITHIN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG, FOR THE UPHOLDING OF THE REQUISITE POLICE FORCE therein.

[23d May, 1845.]

Title.

Preamble.

I. WHEREAS it is deemed expedient and necessary that the Colony of Hongkong should defray the Expenses attendant on the upholding and maintaining the Police Force thereof: Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of Governor to ap- Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, point valuators of That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, and premises with- with the advice of the Executive Council, from time to time in the Island. to appoint two or more persons for the purpose of estimating the annual value of the lands, houses, and premises within the said Island, or within any particular district thereof, which shall be in the tenure or occupation of any person or persons; and the said valuator or valuators shall, when there- unto required, make a return in writing and on oath of such valuation to the said Governor and Council; and also at the time of having valued each property respectively, he or they shall

234

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Valuation may be made annually.

Assessment to be made on the an-

ment, period of

ment.

shall leave or cause to be left with some inmate or the

pro- prietor thereof, a written Notification of their having made such valuation, and of the Amount thereof.

II. And be it further enacted and ordained, That for the purposes of this Ordinance, the said Governor and Council may cause a new valuation to be made annually.

III. And be it further enacted and ordained, That for the nual valuation, and purpose of levying the said rate, a per centage at such an provision for pe- amount in the hundred as may annually be determined on by riods of payment, the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, not notice of assess- exceeding such a sum as shall be equal to the expenses of the payment, and re- Police Establishment, shall be assessed and paid in respect of medy for nonpay- every such valuation by the occupier or owner of each parcel of ground, house, or building, within such time and times as the said Governor, with the advice of the said Council, shall direct, or as is hereinafter provided. In the absence of such direction, and in default of the same being so paid, it shall be lawful for any person or persons appointed to collect the said tax to apply to the Chief Magistrate of Police of the Island, who shall, on satisfactory proof of the same having been duly demanded, and being due and unsatisfied, grant his Warrant to levy the same by distress of any goods on or in the lands, houses, or premises so rated; and that any such rate, while unpaid, shall be a lien on the property so assessed or charged therewith: Provided always, that when and so often as any assessment shall be made on any such valuation, the par- ticulars and nature of such assessment shall be published in one or more public newspapers of the said Colony.

Charitable insti-

from assessment.

IV. Provided always, that all Religious Edifices, Hospitals, tutions exempted Cemeteries, and Buildings strictly and exclusively appropriated to charitable purposes, and not being used as dwelling-houses, shall be exempted from assessment under this Ordinance.

Provisions for the

lectors.

V. And be it hereby enacted and ordained, That the Go- appointment of col- vernor, with the advice of the Executive Council, shall have power to appoint such officer or officers as may be deemed requisite for the collection of the Kate leviable under this Ordinance, allowing him or them, as remuneration for this service, such a per Centage as to the Governor in Council shall seem fit.

Collectors to

VI. And be it hereby enacted and ordained, That as soon make annual re- after the first day of January in each year as may be found turns and provision for their publica- practicable, the officer collecting the assessment under this Ordinance shall prepare a detailed statement exibiting the sums collected during the preceding year, and the said state- ment, duly attested by the said officer, shall be inserted in

tion.

some

some newspaper published within this Colony, and shall also be open to general inspection at the office of such officer for one month from and after the date of its publication.

Rate payable

VII. And be it hereby enacted and ordained, That the said rate shall be payable quarterly in advance, unless otherwise Quarterly in ad- prescribed and directed, as hereinbefore mentioned, and that

it shall be charged and chargeable on the lands, dwelling- houses, and premises respectively assessed, at the time of such

assessment.

vance.

VIII. And be it hereby enacted and ordained, That the Exemption as to owner of any land, dwelling-house, or premises assessed, which property not let, occupied, or used. may not be let to any tenant, shall be deemed the occupier thereof: Provided always, that if such owner can shew that the property has not been inhabited for a period of three months or upwards in any year, he shall be entitled to a proportional abatement of assessment levied on the same for the said

year.

assessment after

IX. Provided always, That if any person from whom pay- Appeal against ment of the assessment leviable under this Ordinance may have been demanded, and who shall have already paid in the payment thereof. amount demanded of him, objects to the demand on any other ground than that of valuation, it shall be competent to such person, after payment of the amount demanded, to appeal against such demand to the Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court at such time and place as the said Chief Justice may be pleased to direct; or that if any person be dissatisfied, or objects to any valuation to be made under this Ordinance on the ground of over-valuation, he or they may, within the period of Three Calendar Months after such valuation, or when the said Chief Justice may appoint or direct, appeal to him against such valuation, and that it shall be lawful for him, if he deem it advisable or necessary, to have any three persons taken from the existing list of Special Jurors to assist him in ascertaining the question of value which may arise on any such appeal.

X. And be it further enacted and ordained, That it shall and Districts may be may be lawful for the said Governor, with the advice of the exempted said Executive Council, to exempt such districts or portions of the said Island from the operation of this act, or from the pay- ment of the said rates, as to him and them may seem advisable.

Interpretation

XI. And be it hereby enacted and ordained, That no assess- ment made under the authority of this Ordinance shall be clause. impeached or affected by reason of any mistake in the name of any person liable to assessment, or of any thing chargeable with assessment, provided the directions of this Ordinance be in substance and effect complied with.

XII.

235

:

XII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That this Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect from and after the first day of July next ensuing.

JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Governor, &c., &c.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 23d day of May, 1845.

ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,

Clerk of Councils.

Copy

+

HONGKONG:

PRINTED BY AUTHORITY, AT THE OFFICE OF THE CHINA MAIL.

236

Sir

Aut Mily. Seey's office,

Houghong, 25th October, 1850.

Having by desire of the major General Commanding transmitted for the information and guidance of

the

Officers of the Ordnance and Commiccariat Department copies of your

letter 12261 of

the 19th Instant transmitting

the

opinion of the Attorney beveral on the subject of Police Rates on Buildings hired by the ordnance for Military.

I herewith. by desire of the

purposes,

Minjon General transmit to

you

Copies of letters from the Respective. Officers of Ardnance and from the bssictant- Commissary bencral-

Honorable Maja Caine,

Colonial Secretary

ኃ

3

237

on the subject which he requests you- will be good enough to subuite for the consideration Governm.

1

of Stis

It is

hucelleney the

The Major General at the

same time desires me to remark

that in the whole course

of his

service he has never heard of Military Officers having similar claims

made

against-

ainst them

I have, A.,

(Signed) f. W. Staveley, fuptain,

(Fauce Copy)

aptain, C. M. Sect.

Серу-

Sir,

Commniceariat, China,

Houghing, 31% betober, 1851.

2.

I have the honor to state

for

the

information of the Honnable the Majo General Commanding that the thirty Dollars has this day been claimed-

from me as

-

of

me as the recessed Police Rate of "the premices occupied by this department. for the quarter ended 30th Ultime_ "claim thus made for

during the five years

the first

Ave

a

first time have recupied

these promises - made also under the special Authority of His kneelleney- the Governor, with this intimation

you

Conial Leeretar

(Lecretary

from

the Assessors that

if not fully

days,

I'shall be

Latiefied within seven

personally dealt with like a private

The Assistant Military Secretary,

&c.

to

dc.

4-

defaulter-

That I am not personally liable

to such an exaction must I think be admitted when it is recollected that

by the

rented and paid for

are ne

Ordnance

the premises

the respective officers of at the rate of £500 per

£500 per annum

place 'white

of

business

for

my own share

w a

the Commissariat;

of the occupation

is limited by Her Majesty's Regulations to a mere sectional part for

which I am

charged only £20 n a twenty fiftt of the

whole rental-

But ever

against

even as a

claim of the Local

the Home Goverment. I submit that it is utterly inadmiscible_there is not. I believe the shadow of a precedent for it either in this or any other Colony Buildings occupied as Barracks on otherwise for and on behalf of Her Majesty's Troops "have always a prescriptive right to

or

1

exemption from local rates; and it would seem

this

233

only fair to conclude that right extends ales to Buildings hired by the Crown as the difference between them and actual Croson property is a

question

simply of duration or expence with reference

to such rates which

ife

if crew

even levied

the Lesson would have to be paid

прои

indircetly by the Crown in the shape of incrcard rental. This conclusion is I

think borne out by the fact that

of

local rates has

ever

exaction

before been made under the Ordinance refered to in the

farming of which it may have been thought

unnecessary or superfluous to provide

the

Call

20 it does

appear

exemption in

if

and

specifically for their of such buildings; in the highest degree unreasonable that the absence of such specification should now be advanced by the littorey

General

megative ground for this more l

as a me

7

and unprecedented claim.

It is true that as the Home lovemment contributes the greater part

expenses of this Colony,

towards the

ar as

deficiency between the Revenue and

any

expenditure must be made up from Home

accources, the payment of

He scarcely

Mine

such rates would-

than nominal_; but. I

conceive it to be duty strietly incumbent

uron these who are charged with the

arministration

Home

of affairs to protest morts

ort

: urgently against the principle and jimmbarrassment which would thus be involved - particularly as the nominal_ appearance of increase in the Colonial revenue might perhaps prevent the otherwise practicable reduction of Colonial expenditure.

233,

elain until at kast, a reference on the

subject can be made

can be made to the superion

Authorities at Home.

entitled

as a

I consider.

myself

public officer to such

case instead of being

appeal in the present

forced into the degrading position of a

-

འ་་་

common defaulter - but should. His heellency determine it otherwise I trust the Major General

be pleased to authoriy my giving a passive resistance. to the claime in question until all the legal extremes shall be enforced; leaving

ultimate appeal to the Lords Commiccimers of Her Majesty's Treasury the only alternative ofor deciding the question upon

thus an

a s

it

proper merits.

I have, tc.,

Slave Copy) oned) f. W. Haveley, Capto Aust Mily. See).

(Signed) In! W. Smith,

A. f. b.

(Toue lops)

the

Colonial Seviciu.

I venture to hope, however, that

пере His breelleney The Governor

may on

may

1: consideration be induced to frego

ነ

Copy.

Sir

240

Office of Ordnance, Victories Houghing, 29th October, 1858.

We have the honor to acknowledge

the reecipt of your letter of the 21st Instant_ forwarding a letter from the Colonial Secretary on the subject of Alice Rates on Buildings hired by the ordnance for Military purposes and the

opinion of the Attorney General_ on

that subject.

We must beg

beg leave minst respectfully

inct the cqnction

the cyaction here

to protect firmly against

attempted to be levied on in no way

who

officers whatever be called upon

call

to

contribute any portion of their Military pay in aid of the Colonial beremment, and for the following

faptain Staveley,

Asst Military Secretary-

NG.

to.

tc.

reasons.

:

10

1. That Premises so hired have never been

1

at

revious date sines the

anry previous

formation of the Colony liable to

this Tay.

5. That the Colonial bovernment have

for

right whatever to taw the Military Colonial purposes.

3. That the officers recupying these

Buildings in the sovemment for the quarter they inhabit according to the

ente adered to be observed

Ordnance Regulations.

by

the

have

4. That the Buildings in quection

Military Guards and cannot in any

the protection of the

way require

Police.

5. That the Contracts entered into by us with

241

Mew: Fletcher off: makes no mention

whatever of this Say and that

bound by

we are

that Contract alone -

b. that if this claim on the part of the Civil bovemment be persisted in (until as they have threatened through

who delivered the notice,

the

fficer

that they will distrain on

on the personal

property of the officers, if the Tay be not paid) is most unfair and unreasonable on the

and thats freep Contracts

present Contracts in which this movel demand shoulde be specified_ ought in justion to all-partics concerned. be drawn out.

abroad.

a

7. That the experience of 20 years

in other Colonies proves the claim

to be us

iyi

ut as

as ajust

as it is unprecedented.

8. That the rate itself is disproportionate

12

.....

being $30 for

cach building, when the hire of one is $200, and of the other

$80 per month.

19. That

we are not authorized by the Humble

the Master General and Board to

make

any

disbursements

f

the

public. money on this recounte, and we trust that

trust that a wrizion

a revision of

this, we think, illegal opinion may be adopted, on that Stiv hreelleney the Governor

um May

вс

moved to delay its enforcement until a representation

can be

made to the Home Authorities

and their instructions recived.

10. That failing

authorized

this

we may

be

to make such passive

resistance to this unusual

interference as may show that

{

the

242

we do not in any way recognize the propriety of the precedings of the Civil-

Government.

We have te.

(Signed) . hype. £t Coloneli-

#

-

Emming Pop Artillery..

S. A. Bo Joker,

It Cong. Roy. hug? -

Stenry S. Still,

Briance Struckupere

(True Copy)

(Signed) f. W. Staveley, Captain

Nest Mily. Secy.

(True Copy)

Honial_ Sonetary

3

Copy.

N275.

Sir

the

263

nial Secretary's office, Victoria, Hongkong,

1st November, 1850.

I have the hour to actunoledge

reccipt of your letter of the 25 tretiber I am desired by Stis Mycellency the Governor to state that the despatch of the Colonial_ and Foreign office mails has prevented

hime

from causing a reply to be earlier

letter i upon Your

which

written to

and its enclosures he has bestowed his

careful attention, and has desired me to make the following observation...

1. The rate objected to is devies under an ordinance duly approved by Her Majesty's bovernment for

faptain Staveley,

Asst Military Seats

می

ML

all

the purpose of defraying the expences attendant on maintaining a police for the general protection of the inhabitants, and is to be raised lands, houses, and premises within the Colony of Stoughing, with the exception of Charitable Institutions. Private houses, therefore, recupied by Military Officers or hired by

Military or other

other

Goverment for

are not

the tay. The house,

ofor

purposes,

exempt from the tax

as a

Government

instanen, recupied

Sonce, by Stis hxcellency the Governor

has always paid the inte sinen its recupation by him.

3.

of any special

In the absence of any agreement between the lessor and lessee, the rate must ultimately be paid by

of the property, although in the

the owner

first instance, if the rate be not paid

>

244

when due, it will be levied on the good and chattels that may be found on the

premises, a mode of procceding not confined to this Colony, but in force wherever English Law prevails ! -

is

._

3. It is therefore the opinion of His rucellency the Governor, and he presumes that the respective Officers and resistant fommissary beneral Smith have been informed that the Attorney General therein that the premises

- Lieutenant Colonel hype

concurs therein

recupied by and the other officers

this tax us

any

are as

liable to

others in Houghong.

The local accents no

asserts

tay the Home Governments,

the Civil Government

claim to has

nent, nor

anly

intention as

alleged, of taxing the Military, but it is no more in the power of

E

245

Civil Governments to cuempt the premises of Mess's Hitcher the in which the above

fficers reside

than the

from

the rate in question adjoining them which are

them adjoining

owned by the same

same proprieton; and it is

through oversight alone that it has ~ before been demanded.

Lecter

This oversight. His hxcelleney

would have admitted to afford ground_

for

a

doubt

"J

no

the part of the

recupants

to the propriety of what seemed to them a proeceding entailing love on

inconvenienel on

themselves; but His

kucelleney has read with considerable astonishment the remarks that those

Gentlemen have

letters to make

:

motive

seen

fit in their

upon

the act and

of Goremment.

That the writers as Military

should have been unacquainted-

with the process

Men

and requirements

of the law under which the rate is levied, is not surpricing. They

were

evidently under the impression that nate, for which the owner of their

a

residence is liable, unless his lease

impores it upon the lessee, was to be

drawn

from

their pay

+

they

were not

aware, either, that if the rate levied appeared to them exorbitant, they would have, under the

the Ordinance if they

of

for its payment,

Movisions

pror

were

liable

appeal to the

Supreme Court. But His Excelleney-

cannot consider an

pozition, entitled to

officer pronounce

in Mz Smith's

levied according to law an

the on to style

a

a rate "exaction";

opinion of the legal authority under which it is levies - "unreasonable"; or to insinuate that it is levied with a view to producing "appearance of

an

-crease in the fotonial_

Lang

!

"revenue which might perhaps prevent

the otherwise practicable reduction of Colonial expenditure:

prepared

As little

the

was It's hxcellency for rehemence with which Lieutenant

against

a

Eslouch hype and other officers protect_ a claim which they term and unreasonable"; or for thein condemnation of the opinion of

just

just and

the Attorney

General, the law

adviser of the bovernment as illegal"; on for the requests that they might

be authorized to oppose "passive_

resistance" to what

they

consider

"unusual interference"

And the officers who

conceive

this tax

His

themselves aggrieved by made application to my office. kweelleney would have most readily directed a proper explanation of its nature to be made to them, and

even

246

if, after this, they had stille

those premises,

claimed exemption for

Mno

objection would have been made to a respectful reference upon

the subject to the Store authorities. But that reference is now

on very

freed upon His Excelleney different grounds. The letters ---

by the Officers in question,

subscribed!

denonner the act of the Civil

Governments as illegal, unreasonable

and

unjust,

and that of Mr Sawith

of

imputes to it a dishonesty of purpose. The tone and language of

letters not

to Stis

these

appearing kreelleney such as in privater correspondence would be tolerated, cannot be passed unnoticed in the records of a public department.

As regards the enforcements of the law, the Gentlemen

contemplating passive resistance have deprived. His tweellewey of all power of bestowing upon their case any

distinctive consideration to which he might otherwise have deemed it entitled; and he is detered-

by

As

no such feeling from allowing the law to take it's ordinary course however reference home is about to be made he will authorize the Collecton

to refrain from

coercion; as

an unsee

of

of

the usual mucazures these could only result in

unseemly collision between there Military officers and the Civil power the Colony, and this, should it be suppored to proceed from the Major_ General's sanction, already solicited, of a passive resistance to what these officers will have been advised by the attorney beneral's opinion, is the low of the Colony, might induce

other

of its inhabitants to

Course.

pursue-

a

247 similar

In conclusion I am directed to add that it is only from the high

respect and regard which he entertains towards the Major

General Stis

Sineellency has refrained from returning

in

at once, remonstrances couched im language so objectionable.

True

I have, tc.,

(Signed) W. Laine,

folonial Secretary.

(The foby)

Clonial Sentary.

}

Copy.

243

Asst Mily. See 'y's office,

册

Houghing. 4th November, 1850

I am directed by the Major General Commanding to acknowledge the uccift.

of your

reccipt

letter of the 1ch fistant with

of

documents. Copies

the accompanying

are

preparing for

parties concerned.

control

transmission to the

The Major General has

the

over nor does he see concepondence between the Ordnance and commissariat departments and their Chiefs in hugland, and as Implicates of their correspondence

the Colonies are usually

nenally sent home

in

by the

first opportunity, the Majon General lost no time in forwarding

The Honorable,

The Colonial Secretary

1

and

to you for the information of attics Excelleney The Governor the letters he received from the respective offiers the Assistant Commissary General, in order that Stis hxcellency's decision or remarks might go

mail.

home by

the

same

The Mojon General decires me to express his best acknowledgements for the obliging paragraph at the emelusion of your letter Love, H., (Signed) f. W. Staveley, faptain, A. M. Jeep.

(Jace fopy)

olonial Secretary

Copy.

Sin

Houghtong, China,

ลง

240

12th November, 1850.

the_M

I am directed by the Major

General Commanding to transmit

to

you for the information of Sti- Excellency The Governor the enclosed_

Assistant Commiss

letter from

the

General

his

expressing

regret

Commissary that

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of

the 21th Ultimo.

portion of his letter

on

m the subject of Police Assesement should have been considered

1

objectionable.

As the concepondence on this subject has not

has not yet

been transmitted

to hugland by Mr. Smith the Major General trusts that His kreelleney with be pleased to permit this letter to form a part of it.

The Honorable Majon faine,

Colonial Secretary.

letters

On

ou

enquiry it appears

similar subject from

a

that the

Copy.

Sir,

the Respective officers of ordnance were sent home

by

the last Mail.

I have, &c.,

(Signed) f. W. Staveley

Captain, A. M. Roy.

(Inecefory)

"

olonial Peereta

Leonetary

250

formicariat. China, Houghtong, 9 November, 1850.

In returning the felonial Secretarys

Communication which I had the honor

to receive with

your

memorandum

you

of yesterday's date, but which previously shewn

sue on

the 4th Instant,

I beg to submit through the Stonorable the Major

General commanding

an

expression of regret that any portion of my letter of the 21th Ultims respecting

of our premises for

the

Assessment

police rates, should have been considered objectionable. by His hucelleney

The Governor before whome

before

has been laid

find it

That letter was written under

The Assistant Military Secretary,

Ac.

tc.

te.

4.

the

an

influence of the moment when as

Garrison I was

of this

officer of

I

me

threatened with legal penalties if did not personally satisfy a claim which could only be made

be made upon officially. But even now in absence of any other feeling

than that

subject than

on

the

of respect for

the

His

hycelleney I am at a lose to meet the peculiarity of the

relative

of

case o

otherwise than by the

the term "exaction"

which has been specially quoted as one

the objectionable characteristics.

The

first

un

intiniation Inceeived_

of the claim in question the medium

the rate

upon

of a

Was

through

a constable who demanded

the usual printed form

to the

and exhibited as his authority a transcript of the Attorney General's opinion liability. I requested the constable to

inform

as

the assessors that I declined_

231

& faldwell

paying

the rate; and I was subsequently waited upon by M the police officer who produced a letter addressed by the folonial_ Secretary to

himself and Colleague desiring them by His hxcelleney's

Assessment into

Command to

effect.

to carry

the

On repeating

The

to Mer fald well my objection to pay stated that if I did not do so within

days according to a

seven.

notice which

he then formally served upon me, I

should be dealt with

as a

private defaulter, and that the usual tegal

of

penalties would be enforced. I do not complain of Me faldwells mode proceeding which nature of the

was

as

delicate as the

case could admit of i

but. Senter into this detail to show that

in my official capacity I was treated_

directly

the

reverse

right to expect as an

of what I had

officer

a

:

representing a brench of the public

Service.

ww

certainly unprepared to

орен

find that I had laid myself then to cencure for applying hypothetically

the term "unreasonable " to a

more matter

the attorney- part of the At

of opinion on the part of General. I still think

ive

have a

prescriptive right to exemption; we been assessed before; the

have

e never been question when raved

on a

er occasion

former

seems to have been settled in our

:

and

favour;

not strictly

come

moreover we do not st

under the denomination of a house; only such limited

building

us

divelling

such limited portions of

Can

the

be spared after making

suitable provision for public business

being used

as

20

personal quarters; so

that

would seem to exemption under this

the ordinance itself contemplate view of the

our

case.

But

upon

even

the points

253

supposing it doubtful

thus.

advanced I venture

to submit with every deferense that they for suffici

sufficient grounds upon which His Sweelleney would have been justified.

in con

the

of the

continuing the exemption under powers invested in him by clause 10 the same ordinance which authorises "the said bovernor with the advice of "the hyeentive Conneil to exempt such "districts or portions of

portions of the said Island

this

"from the operation.

of

is net or

from the

"payment of the end rates as to hime and advisable". The Attorney

"theme

may scen

beneral might have extended his new-

the

case

pointing out the existence of this power; for it would not the appear, as accumed, that the law is so imperative as to leave His hwcellency no discretion in the matter.

Avery strict reading of the not

are not

would indeed render it applicable even to actual Crown buildings when used as dwellings by the Military like for instance that in which the Major "General kimeef recides. They

une than the hired buildings, epecifically exempt although as before suggested they possess a prescriptive

to such exemption. The House hired

more

right

for His kneelleney

Was

was

as a

residence

arsened when it

assesse

previously in the rccupation of

a mercantile firm who I believe still

pay

the rate while

in

this

our

premises

they

were

respect alone

having been exempted einec - first tenanted, would seem to differ

materially - without enquiring how far the cases may be otherwice incompatible Our Landlord positively refures allow the antes to be deducted from

to

acerning

rent or to alter

to alter his

253

agreement unless a conresponding addition be made to the rental.

&J

We cannot do without his house there is no

other suitable one to be

had, and as it can hardly be expected that the Comniceariat Officers should

relative proportion

contribute

even a

of the rates out of their pay, it follows

as a n

matter

of

course that the amount, muet eventually merge

into a "payment by the Crown to the

" a result which

local revenue

if lawful as assumed by the attorney General, would give

even

ve

nize

one

to much inconvenience and embarrassment, and would be merely paying

the the money out of pocket into the other while all difference between the Colonial revenue- and expenditure is made up

as Avo w

10

from

ни

it

Home resources.

In arriving at this conclusion_ may perhaps be considered that I was merely acting in the exercise of my fiduciary relation to the Lords Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury by pointing out to the Major

General that

an undue appearance_ of prosperity to the Colonial revenue_ might operate injuriously upon Home intercets; but the superaddition of my remark illustrative of this accumption

upon mature deliberation to have been too broadly expressed indeed better mmitted altogether. The contemplation of "passive

would seem

resistance" was not to the law

or

itself but to what. I conceived would

itself

have been

a

misapplication of it

if I had been forced into the

arzition of a

common defaulter

a

after the

234

the failure of every effort to be relieved from personal liability. It

an alternative which, I believe,

is

a

private individual would be justified in adopting under similar circumstances, but which required the Major General's sanction before

it could be extended to

as no

my

case

authority eriets by which I could charge the amounts of the

levy

in my

my publie

publie accounts. of Thad been

stated that a semi-

aware as mow

official

representation to His "hxcelleney would have been attended with the derived

effect of suepending the operation of

the net until a

referrence could be made to the Authorities at Home,

I would gladly have availed myself of this mose of proceeding. But I regarded the whole affair as strictly

H

:

72

official and final

O

other

the part of the Civil

Copy.

Sir

Government so as to leave me no local alternative than that

- appealing

MAJ

of

I did in a privileged . Communication to the Major General Commanding

I beg in conclusion to request- 1. that the Major beneral

may

be

pleased to favour me by communicating : so much of this letter as

of

he

mayhe

deens proper to His hocellency

νι

2

- Soveria that it may form part of the correspondence to be submitted

for

decision at Home.

I have, to., (Signed) In: W. Smith,

A. f. &.

(Jane Copy)

lonial Secretary.

235

Houghong, 21 November, 1850.

I am derived by the Major Leneral

Commanding

to transmit to

you for the information of His bucellency the Governor the

accompanying copy of a letter from the respective officers of Ardnance

The Honnable,

The Solonial Secretary.

I have to.,

(Signed) f. M. Staveley,

fastain, A. M. Secy.

True Loky)

Colonial Secretary.

C

3

Copy.

Sin

206

Office of Ordnance, Victoria, Houghtong, 18th November, 1850.

We have been farmed with a Copy of the Colonial Secretary's letter to the 12th November animadverting

you of

on

nu

letter to

you of

written in consequence of your

Communication to us

of the 21th October relative to the enforcement of Police Rate on

the house recupied as quarters

for the officers of the Royal Artillery and a Mere House for the offices of that

and those of the Royal Engineers. We deprecate in the strongest

the slightest intention on

Corps

maimer

our

parts to give offence or to show

(aptain Staveley,

Asst Mily. Seentury,

to.

to.

tc.

#

want of respect to Stis Rucelleney

of Governor or to the laws of

The

the Colony, regret weeedingly that he

and

appears

we.

to have

ij

on our letter.

100

such a construction

puts such

We most respectfully state that

have

never pronounced the opinion as given by the Attorney beneral illegal,

merely said

expressed

our

tve

wve

thought it is, and opinion accordingly We beg to state also that considered, the first letter of the Colonial Lecretary as finals and as not giving

us either the opportunity of appeal

in

way pointing out to us

any way

appeal would be listened to.

We venture to express

that there is no

terms

Πι

own

that such

opinion analogy between the which the Stoure occupied by His hxcellency and that occupied by the officers of the Royal Artillery and

D

Royal Engineer; are hired; the

is for the

accommodation

of Sis

257

one

bxcellency and family alone, the other for & officers and the joint mese

Corps;

the one

of

two

probably paying Police-

Rate through the Lerror who added_ it to the rent, the other having paid Police Rate when hired and the rate

on a

100

attempted to be enforced=

Tenant, who is only one of the officers recupying

a

hired banack and who cannot in

any way

be termed the Lessee, as Hen

of

Majesty's Orduanes pay the error the rent, the offices the regulated hire their quarters to the ormance and the House is defacte a Government Building

In order to give

give Stis Sxcellency

the true state of

our cause, live

remark that the summons was

beg to

beg

was sent

to Lieutenant Colonel hype by

Policeman, and that it was

Common

7

253

on

rejected; immediately afterwards Me faldwell called on him and stated that if the rate were not paid before a stated day, some few days from that date, he should distrain Lieutenant Colonel hyre's property, treat him as a common defaulter; and he refused to receive the summons or notice he should paste

paste it on his

if

his doon-

It is but just to state that there- nothing offensive in Mafaldwell's

Muammer

LOTOJ

however much there might

have been in a proceeding so unusual_

and

uncupected-

so une

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Thus situated, without prospect of redress being held out to

it

may

perhaps not be considered

great matter of surprise

that

we

should have expressed ourselves strongly

Me

lve

the recasion, but we

repeat that

had no intention whatever

of

offending persons in authority and that

we wrote our

(J

the

only

opinions power of expressing

in our hower

means in our

what wor

so totally unexpected a communication

demanded.

We have, Ho..

(Signed) I. hype, to Coll

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Гласс Серу

Com f. Royal Arty.

S. A. St. John, It Com 2 Royal Eng! Henry Ft Hill

St brda Storckiceper.

(Signed) f. W. Staveley, faptain

Asst Mily. Sect.

jopy)

Colonial Secutary.

$106.

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wit for 1:

1511

My Lord,

611.

RECEIVER

JAN. 21

1851

259

Song Long.

WVictoria, Hongkong,

28th November, 1850.

"I have great pleasure in

forwarding to your Lordship the enclosed "letter from the Reverend Samuel Steedman Military Chaplain to this Having good

Garriso

reason to believe

1

now on leave in

ey that the Reverend Vincent. Stanton

the Colonial Chaplain, Ingland, with not return to Houghong,

Me

to

Mr Steedman has requested transmit his application for the office.

as soon as it shall be vacant; and I

can

honestly declare to

Your

Lordship

that I believe it would not be possible

to find a worthier successon to the port

The Right Amorable.

The harl bacy,

&c.

tc.

40.

Letter from

secretary enclosing corespondence

the resistant Military

from

forming Enclosure 122-

in their letter of the 22nd betrben explanatory of the remarks contained the Respective officers of ormand

2/22 November, 1850_

Despatch N105 of 1850.

Inclosure Pb in

250

than the present applicant.

Mr Steedman's letter to myself will put your Lordship in porceccion

of all

all necessary information regarding his graduation, testimonials, and appointment to the Garricon chaplaincy and I can only add that I have found him to be an unassuming and y clergyman, and that my acquaintance

with him,

of

zealous

Micar

three

years

duration, has confirmed all the good

report of his

previous

five years

career.

In the

that he has resided in Hongkong

he has frequently, during the sietimen on absence of the Colonial Chaplain officiated

Mo the

10

in the room of that gentleman ? There has been, as your Lordship is awake, small amount of sickness and mortality in the Colony and expecially in the garrison, and Mr. Stedman has not escaped without his share of ill health

-1

never been absent

but he has than a short

In

an

More

for time from his port.

space of time appointment of this nature.

no small importancc

I conceive it to be

of

that the incumbent should be acceptable

to those

over

whom he

allu MLEJ

charge,

and I am happy to be able to add that

as a

a

member of Society, Mr. Steedman,

always preserving a full respect for his ministerial character, is upon

such

terms with all clazzes of the inhabitants that your Lordship's acquiescence in

his

requests would

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arrival of that

the

announcement, and

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I have the honor to be,

With the highest respect, Your Lordship's,

Most Obedient Humble Servant,

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the accompanying topy of Opeth from the Govern

of- Hong Hory enclosing

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in from the

application from Rand I. Steedman, Military : Chaplain to the Garnison, for the appointment of Colonial Chaplain in the eveach of the resquction

of the present Incumbent, and I am to request

that you with Sure In

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Copy.

Sir,

Houghong,

264

November 28th, 1850.

Understanding that Mr.

Stanton the Colonial Chaplain will not return to the Colony, I am induced to offer myself a Candidate for the appointment and to requect

Your

Hind

interference in

as a

in my behalf with His Lordchip the Secretary of State for the felonies.

received

I graduated at Ch. Chs, buford, and

my present appointment as Military Chaplain in March 18465 at the recommendation of the Lord Bishop of London, in whose hands I left the testimonials to which I then had the honour to lay before His Lordship.

During the period. I have filled my present port, owing to the sickness or abrence.

His hyeelleney S. G. Bonham, Governor of Stoughing,

tc.

40

to

of the Colonial Chaplain, his duties aleo at-

different times devolved

residence of 5

of 5 years

and

and a

upon me; ai

upwords thus

Is thus spent

in this Colony which has made

Auc

personally

acquainted with the residents may I hope

have an influence

influence in His

in His Lordship's decision

not unfavourable to my request.

I may be allowed to state that

my

present application suggested itself from the wind

expressions of several of the residents

Cof who have at different times recommended

the subject to my

consideration.

The Bishop of Victoria, my acquaintance with whom commenced in 1845 during his last visit to China, is now abrents; but in a conversation I had with him previons to his departure he expressed himself forourably regarding my success, though he

unwilling for

Avas

reasons to inter

interfere

I have now no

several

in the matter.

opportunity of

submitting any

265

other testimonials than

those I left in the hands of the Bishop of London

on

my first appointment to this Colony. Jenelore however a letter from

China

Major General Staveley at present- Commanding Her Majesty's Forces in and also

Lieutenant Colonel Trevor

from

Commanding Her Majesty's 59th And I feel I can appeal with confidence to Major General. D'Aquilar (to whom I writing) the only other beneral officer who has been in Command sinec arrived in the Colony.-

an

to his

Mr.

I have therefore refrained from writing out of delicacy to my friend. We Stanton, but now all doubt- return seems to be removed; and the long interval which must elapse before any application from this distant Colony can reach England will, I trust be deemed sufficient wense for my applying for

a

E

the

appointments before his resignation

is officially announced.

a

It only remains for

me to add

that should. His Lordship be inclined to give a favourable hearing to any application. Ishould make it my- earnest endeavour bod's blering

by so to discharge the duties which would

devolve

upon mc-

that neither His

Lordship, nor your Excellency

ма

the

recidents of the Colony should ever have

cause to regret

Sis Lordship's decision.

I have, tc., (Signed) S. W. Steedman,

Military Chaplain.

Ime

(Lace foxy)

Maine

·Conial foretary.

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No 107.

Financial.

My

Lord,

269

Victoria, Hongkong,

14

th December, 1850.

I have the honor to

enclose, for your Cordship's

information, the accompanying

A.!. copy of Letter No 298 by the 10

Instant from

the Colonial Secretary

to the Assistant Military Secretary,

12.

and

his

reply

there to

Instant.

the 13th

By this correspondence

that

the

Your Lordship will perceive the continued ill-health of Troops prevents the garrison from

The Right Stonorable

The Carl Gyrez,

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fo

te.

270

resuming the Jail and Naval

Stores Guards.

Despatch to 56 of

20th June last, the Lieutenant-

Governor reported to your Lordship

the

arrangements that

were

then

adopted for guarding the Naval

Stres, and in

my Despate's 179 20th August, I informed Zour

Lordship

chat certain

Police

Constables had been engaged to

guard the Jail

of

in consequence

the scateness of the

the garrison...

I had hoped that long

ere

the Colony would have been

relieved from the

extra

expenditure incurred for this service, but unhappily the present state of the Troops does not admit of any

measure.-

this,

лоз

N.4.

a

letter

I also forward Copy of

Į

addressed Commander-in-Chief

to the Naval

on the 12th

Instant, together with the reply

of His Excelleney

on the Subject

of the outlay incurred by the Civil Department for affording Police protection to the Naval Stores, arising from the inability of the Troops to furnish guards for that purpose..

Your Lordship

char no

is aware

allowance for this

contingency

Las

ever

been made

in the Colonial Estimates, and

consequently the Colong does not posses

the funds requisite

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discharge this unlooked- for outlay, and I therefore submit

consideration of Your

тей

for the

Lordship that the Admiralty

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be called upon to defray the amount paid by the Colony, for protecting Naval Stores, which expenditure necessarily belongs to that Department.-

Pending this reference to Your Lordship, I have assented Pear-Admiral Austen's request, continue the Police Force

to

at West Point, and I feel assured that

an

intimation from

Your Lordships to the Lords

the Admiralty will seaure refund detailed

in the margin (and reported to the Colonial office in Despatches No

#

61 of 24th August, 1848, and 56 Us

20th June last),

of

the

The Colony has already paid in 1848 for Police to guard the Naval Stores £63,911, and up to the end of November of this year, the payments under the same head are £85 11.9/2, the

#

monthly allowance sanctioned being £19.15.4.

271

which might be reimbursed by the Naval Storekeeper to the Treasures; and I would further respectfully suggest the desirability of instructions being given to the Naval Storekeeper to disburse for similar Services all sums expended by the Colony,

vecasions

recur,

as

which

may

on

hereafter

the Expenditure would

this be confined to its legitimate Department, that of the Navy..

I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,

Your Lordship's,

Gnost obedient Humble Servant,

(Copy) N298

Sir,

272

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Victoria, Singkong,

amo

10

* Desember, 1850.

directed by His

Excellency. The Governor to request that you will bring to the notice of the Honorable the major-General the necessity of relieving the Colony from the heavy charge which has been

incurred in providing

in providing Policemen

in lieu

If the guards fromished by the Troops for protecting the Jail and Naval Stores, the Catter Since 24th June, and the former

tt

from the good August, 1850._ The

Captain taveley,

apistant Military Kestery.

//f* Scɛember 185P _

Victoria, Hongkong,

Governor Bonham

to

Jup: P107-

The hard Grey-

Received

4 Inclosures -

of the Troops, and applying for instructions "consequence of the continued sickness protection to the Naval stores, in departement for affording Police to the outling incurred by the Civil Transmitting Concepondence relative

on the subject.

!

273

cost of these extra Police amounts mouckly to £30, and

as

no

provision has been mado

for such expenditure in the Colonial Estimates, His Excellency

trusts that the states of

health

of

the

garrison will

enable the troops

thèse

duties

witho

delay

as

possible.- пор

as

the

to resume

little

I have to.

(Signed) W. Caine,

Colonial Secretary

( Time Copy.)

Colonial Secretary.

(Cotry,)

Jir.

Apt Mily ccy's: Office,

Hongkong, 10th December, 1850.

I have the honor to

acknowledge the receipt of

letter of Your letter

ano

this

date, and

directed by the major-

General Commanding to state

the to you in reply for information of His Excellency the Governor, that with due regard to the

healths of the

Troops, the Garrison connot at present find

gaol and

men

for thes

West Point Guards.

During the present

months the number of lick

The Kouble

Major Caine

Colonial Lecretary

:

2..

has been gradually increasing,

and

the enclosed memm from the Brigade major will show

that the

number

unfit for outry

men

this day

is

1444

293. During the past year men have died and 10 deserted.

This evening the half

Jarly inspection of the 59th Regiment takes place, and the

inclosed copy of

a

note from

as

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the urgeon of that Regiment will shew his opinion its inefficiency.. The Commanding Officer reports that there will not be more than 12 Rank

and file for Company on Parade.

I have, de..

(gned) C. W. taveley, (Jane Copy)

A.M. Jecy.

ン

Colonial Secretary

(Copy)

274

Sick

on

the 10th Dec?, 1850

Royal Artillery

8

Royal Sappers 59th Regiment- Ceylon Rifles

/3

150

48

15

Sick.

234

59.

293.

Gun Lascars.

Convalescents.

Unfit for duty.

(Signed) Rodney Mylius, Caps

Brigade mayor.

! Гине Струј

Colonial Secretary.

L

;

275

(Copy)

My Dear Mylius,

I wish you would say to

the General that

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the Colonel

grills the men

the men much tomorrow

he is sure to send 50

men

to

Hospital the following day - and

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where

we

are

our present

I know not-

to put them in

over

crowded condition

Your's to

/ligned her. to. Powell.

Ses:

The health of the Corps is

wretched

9 Dec.?

in the

(Signed)

Пыле

Tone Coppry

extreme.

G.

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Colonial caretary

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Sir,

276

Victoria, Hongkong, 12th December, 1850.

I have the honor to enclose

to Your Excellency

a

letter addressed

to the Colonial Secretary by the desire of the Honorable the Major-General Commanding in this Colony upon the sickliness of the Garrison.

The ill health of the Troops

has compelled

me

during the

Posts

last five months to provide Civil Guards for several otherwise furnished by the Military, amongst others the

His Excellency

Pear. Admiral Austen, C. B.,

Naval Commander-in-

Chief,

ке

pointing out the ncccèsity of to the Assistant Military Secretary,

Letter from the Colonial Secretary

:

:

Naval Stores at West Point._

feneral now informs

As the General

that there is

no im =

the

me

=mediate prospect

Troops being able to resume

the above guards, and the Substitution of Police entails

upon the Colony

прог

which it propepes

an expense

ого

funds

for defraying, it is my duty to enquire of Your Excellency whether after the 1th January next you will to prepared to commit the safe keeping of the Naval Stores to some portion of the force under Zour Command, or whether you will undertake to authorize

to authoring the payment of £19. 15, 4 monthly, this being the

стор

the

extra Police employed for

A

that Servies..

m

277

Has Your Excellency been

the spot when the health of the Troops first required

the adoption of this measure, I should not, without

municating

allowed

an

incurred of

with Zow,

com=

have

Zow, ha

expense to be

which

on

any junior

himself._

course

S

Naval officer would of have hesitated to take the

responsibility preferred accordingly at the time becoming responsible myself to allowing the Stres to be left unprotected._ But I repeat that the Colony has

meeting

not the means

such contingencies- and as Your Excellency is

now here I take the opportunity

of

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addressing you

in order

maz

that

ow

the subject

some arrangement

be decided upon, capable of adoption whenever che

Military Authorities

compelled to state

maz

be

that the

Naval Ilores cannot be

protected by guards from the

Farrison.

I

shall if

Course

Cose

time

no

(Copy)

Sir,

273

Hastings, at Hongkong,

13th December, 1850.

I have the honor to

acknowledge the receipt of four Excellency's letter of Jesterday's

date, informing

न

me that this

the roops

immediate prospect

Continue's ill-health

affords

no

in making

reference home with respect to the disbursement already

this account,

made

amounting to £83.11.91⁄2 unless it should seem good to your Excellency to order

the Naval Torekeeper to defray that amount..

I have to,

(Signed) S. G. Bonhamo._

(Ime Copy) blamin

Colonial contary.

of their being able to resume

the guards for this Naval Stores at West Point, and requesting in consequence that come arrangement

be decided upon, capable

Jay

of adoption, whenever the Imilitary

Samael G. Bonhams, Excuro, CB.,

Governor of Aonghong,

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te

Victoria.

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Authorities

state

may

be compelled to that the Naval Stores

cannot be protected by guards

from the Farrison, and desiring

also

to

know whether I

cas

Safe Keeping

command,

commit their safe

the Force

or

for

under my common

authorize payment being made

an

extra

employed

ow

Police at present

that Service.

In reply to Zour letter under acknowledgment, I have the honor to submit to Your Excellencs that it has hitherto been the custom for the Stores in question to be protected by the Garrison, aided by

Assistant Police paid by the Naval Storekeper рай at forty Dollars per month:

and

an

that when from Sicknes

the Garrison

other causes

could not furnish the friard 23

a

Police Force has been planted

at the expense of the Colony..

compel

As

me

duties will

my

to

take my Flas

this in the months of January from this part of my Station, and the smail Frigate that

be left

will

Aff here

по

my

departure, would be unable to

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furnish

W

Guard from

her

Complement, it appears that it

will be necessary for the Polies Forze being continued, until

the

Garrison is

to resume

of the

in

a

position

this duty.

I will bring the Subject

disbursements already

the notice

made for this Service by the Colony, under the Lords Commissioners of

I the

that

Adiniralty by the next Packet, and I beg to suggest for the consideration of Zour Excelleney,

as it will have to be arranged by the Government at home, whether it would not to advisable for the payment the Police Force to continue

ве

to be made by the Colony,

until

advice

Can

be received

from Her Majesty's Government

for future guidance. -

I am, to.

(Signed) Charles zur Austen,

Ju

Rear Admiral

Commander-in-Chief.

(Inne Copy;)

Colonial Secretary.

1108.

Miscellaneous.

1500, Hong Kong

6.0

FEB 21 1861

My Lord,

L 230

Victoria, Houghing,

20th Grecumber, 1850.

With reference to my Despatch No 101 of 15th lovember, I have the houn to acknowledge the recipt of the following Despatches, on the 18th Instant. 12900 to 202, the last of 21th September, 1850

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Victoria, Hongkong,

1851

26th December, 1850-

"I have the honor to acknowledge

the

Your Lordship's Circulan Despatch of 49th betober last, accompanied by copy

a letter from the Port Marter General

of a

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9th September 1850, to the address of The Lords Commissimer. of Her Majesty's Treasury, and in reply beg. to inform your Lordship that the letter of the Port Marter General does not

to be applicable to this Colony

appear

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20 immediately under the control opti's Lordship that he can at any time issue such instruction to the Port Office

of

The Right Hour abu

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The har

to

20 From

Sup, 1850.

Governor Cronham

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The Earl Grey.

Received

to 108.

Despatches to Mo 202

Acknowledging receipt of

if

the last dated 24th October, together with Sundry Circulan,

1.17 & 10th October,

21th September, and Military

1850

I

here as to

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may appear neecizary; and under this view of the subject-

an una

unable to offer any suggestion on improvement to your Lordship. indeed, the abrence of complaint to me as regards the Colonial-tat

office, is probably the best criterion that the present system works well and satiefactorily.

A copy of your Lordship's letter with its ruclosure was duly forwarded to the Port Master of the Colom - and I

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bag, to enelore a copy of his reply I have the hover to be, With the highest respect, Your Lordship's,

Most Obedient Humble Servant,

Fotokau

233

CAREERSTERIys -

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M. Merivale

Copyto Treasury

with rebrenee to the Letter fronts

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Commissioniers of the heasary

the

Copy of a Bergeattle with it's enclosure from the Governor

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subjeeb

of Hong Kong of the Postel Evangements

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Sir,

241507/51

235

Pot office, Victoria,

December 24th, 1850.

3);

I have the thonor to

acknowledge Your letter of the 20th instant with thes Enclosures herein transmitted (and herewith returned) relative

certain proposed arrange= ments, emanating promo

to

promo Dis Lordship the Postmaster General,

view to effect

with

A

improvements in the Post

I

Office Branch of the Public Tervice in

Her Majesty's

Colonies, and directing

me

to furnish for the information of His Excelleney the Governor,

The Honble

Major Caine,

to.

fc_

Ye.

any suggestions that may

appear to

me

to for

as

the

to be necessary,

may

relate

matter

to this Colony..

I beg most respectfully

to state,

is

under

that

the

as this office

immediate

control of the London

Department, and as all its

arrangements and

duties are

carried out in strict

accordance

with the Instructions

furnished for my guidance

apply to this Colony. -

I have to..

256

(Signed; Thomas Byland.

(Free Copy.)

Colonial Secretary.

which can

be revised at

any

ве

time, should such measure be deemed expedient, I am humbly of opinion that the spirit of the Postmaster General's Letter to the Lods of the Treasury oves not

.

.

D

No 109 & 1850

Inclosure in Despatak

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"

Posts, is not applicable to insprovements in the Colonial General relative to certain better from the Post Master seating that the spirit of the solar from Mr Styland,

Hongkong:

24th December, 1850.

P110.

Legislative

1508. Gong Long.

4. Lnd.

Ordinance forwarded. Do

Mef Wood & Rogen for Repint

ika 257

237

Victoria, Hong Kong,

96# December, 1850 _

"I have the honor to forward to attested copy of an

Your Lordship

au a

$24 of 1850. Ordinance, entitled. "In ordinance

"to prevent the Desertion

of

Seamen

"belonging to Foreign Ships and Verrels": and which I hope will be found such as to enable your Lordship to lay The Queen for Her Majesty's

it bete

before approval..

The

Airas

The necessity of this ordinance

hought to my notice by the United States Coneal and antmerican Firm deeply interested in the American Trade of this Colony.

The Right Honorable,

The Earl Gacy

Vo

Yo

Yo

Until it was

parsed the Magistrates

had no legal power to apprehend

run-away seamen

be in

from Foreign

Vessels.

could the bnhabitants of this jobony punished for serneing

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them from their Nessels, and affording

ther

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au

azylum.

This inconvenience

the present ordinance with

effectually remedy.

In ordinance similar in

its nature was

рай parsed by the

Legislation Conncil of New South Wales

in October, 18/1.6.

I have the houn lobe,

With the highest respect, Your Lordship's,

Most obedient

Humble Servant, J. Estrahume

233

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M110. Inclosure.

The Earl Grey.

Governor Bonham

26th December, 1850.

Received

Transmitting Copes of, and

reporting

on

Ordinan

belonging to Foreign and Vabels." -

"the Desertion of Teamen

"Aw Ordinance to prevent

No 4 I, 1850, entitled

"Ships

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Governor Bonha Repot 1896

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1851

Kong Kong.

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Sir.

Mr. Merwale - 17 March Sin-

MW. Hawes -

Earl Grey - 18

Co.

253

230.

18. March 1851.

I have had under my

Consideration the two Ordinances

Enclosed in your despatches, Its

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110 and 111, of the 26th Dec.

Cast, intituled, respectively.

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of 1850 to prevent the desertion

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of seamen belonging to Preign . "Thips and Vessels _ and 2.5 of 1850, to regulate proceed= ings before Justices of the

Peace"

2. I observe in the first-

:

2.

of

of

These Ordinances a provision

which appears of a very questionable nature. It makes

it lawful wither for a Constable

or for the master or person

in charge of the This, or for

any one specially Refuted by

such master or person in charge to arrest such seamen

without warrant and to carry

him before a Justice of the

Peace.

3. As the Adinance

has now been for

some time

in operation, you may have

had some experience of the

250

3

working of this part of it: but unles that experience has proved favourable beyond my

Anticipations, I consider it

to require immediatè amend:

To arm those in

:ment.

charge of Foreign Ships with

an unrestricted power of arrest:

:ing any of their seamon whom thegmag consider to be abscond-

:ing or absenting themselver from their dutier, can so

can scarcely

fail to lead to tumulto and

violence.

4. The Act of New

South Wales of 1846 which

:

4

seems to have been gour model

in most of this Ordinance

differs in this particular.

Як

provides that a justice of the

offelle

Peace, on application of the

Master of a Foreigin Pessel.

through his Conval, shall

sone his Warrant for the

Apprehension of ang seamen absconding from авеству

ading from his vessel,

or absenting himself from

his duty. The sitervention of the Consul maybe unsuited to The circumstances of Hong Hong, bub, in other respects, this appears to me a preferable

come

231

provision to the corresponding

One

before

in the Ordinance how

one.

5. The last clause

which puts it in the power of

any Foreign Consul to effect the Iuspension of the Ordinance as far as refsels of his ration are concerned, appears

orsn

to me also of rather a singulan

character and to requin some Explanation. Meanwhile The Royal decision on this Ordinance will be suspended.

6. I have the honour

to acquaint you that The

6

Qreen has been pleased to conform and allow the Ordi:

:rance

2.5 $/1850. Sor

of

Jon

will digniff Her Majesty's Confirmation of this Ordinamen

in the nonal and most

authentic manner.

I have du.

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HONGKONG.

ANNO DECIMO QUARTO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. 4 of 1850.

BY His Excellency SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Esquire, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 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 Super- intendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

AN ORDINANCE TO PREVENT THE DESERTION OF SEAMEN BELONGING TO FOREIGN SHIPS AND VESSELS.

[17th December, 1850.]

Title.

WHEREAS Ships and Vessels belonging to Foreign States, from Preamble. time to time visit the Harbours and Roadsteads of Hongkong; and

the desertion of Seamen from such Ships and Vessels while in the said Harbours and Roadsteads has been productive of much inconvenience and mischief to such Ships and Vessels

I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Foreign Sea- Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council men deserting thereof, That if any Seaman belonging to the Crew of any Foreign may be appre- hended and put Ship or Vessel shall desert therefrom, or otherwise abscond, or absent, on board the Ves- himself from his duty while such Ship or Vessel is lying within any sels to which they Harbour or Roadstead of Hongkong, it shall and may be lawful for any belong. Constable, or for the Master or Person in charge of the Ship, or for any one specially deputed by such Master or Person in charge, to arrest such Seaman without Warrant and convey him before a Justice of the Peace; and in case such Seaman shall refuse to return to his duty on board the said Ship or Vessel, or shall not give a sufficient reason for such refusal, the Justice may order such Seaman to be put forcibly on board

the Ship or Vessel to which he may belong; or to be confined in any Or may be con-

Jail or other Place of security within the said Colony, for any period fined in Gaol.

until he can be put on board his Ship at her departure from the Port, or

until he shall be demanded by the Master of the Ship or by the Consul

of the Country to which such Ship may belong. Provided always that

the said period of confinement shall not, in the absence of such Departure

or Demand, exceed Three Calendar Months.

for desertersfrom

II. And be it further enacted and ordained, That it shall be lawful Ships or Houses for any Justice or Justices of the Peace, upon complaint of the Master may be searched of such Ship or Vessel, that he has reasonable cause to believe that

Foreign Vessels. any runaway Seaman or Seamen belonging to the Crew of any such Ship or Vessel, is or are harboured, secreted, or concealed, or suspected to be harboured, secreted, or concealed on board any other Ship, Boat, or other Vessel, or in any House or Place whatsoever, to issue a Warrant directing some Constable or Constables to search such Ship, Boat, or other Vessel, or such House or Place, and such Seaman or Seamen to Lodge in any or the nearest Watch-house, and every such Seaman or Seamen shall, with all convenient speed, be brought before some Justice or Justices of the Peace, to be dealt with as is hereinbefore directed with respect to Seamen apprehended for desertion, absconding, or abscuce from duty.

deserters

from

III. And be it further enacted and ordained, That if any Person Penalty on per- whatsoever shall harbour, conceal, employ, or retain, or assist in har-sons harbouring bouring, concealing, employing, or retaining any Seaman belonging to the Crew of any Foreign Ship or Vessel, who shall have deserted Foreign Vessels. therefrom or otherwise absconded, or absented himself from duty, while such Ship or Vessel is lying within any Harbour or Roadstead in Hongkong, knowing such Seaman to have deserted, absconded, or absented himsef from duty, or shall cause, induce, or persuade, or endeavour to cause, induce, or persuade any such Seaman, in any manner whatsoever to violate or to attempt or endeavour to violate any Agreement which he may have entered into to serve on board any such Ship or Vessel, or shall knowingly connive at the desertion, absconding, or absence from duty of any such Seaman, such Person so offending

203

Recovery Penalties.

of

Expenses, by whom payable.

tion of this Or dinance may be suspended.

shall for every such offence, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a Penalty or Sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars; or in case of non-payment thereof, it shall be lawful for any Justice or Justices of the Peace to commit the Person so offending to any of Her Majesty's Jails, for any term not exceeding One Calendar Month.

IV. And be it further enacted and ordained, That any Penalty sued for under this Ordinance, shall be recovered summarily before. any one Justice of the Peace.

V. And be it further enacted and ordained, That all expenses in- cidental to the apprehension, confinement, and removal of any Seaman, under and by virtue of any of the powers and authorities conferred by this Ordinance, shall be paid by the Master of the Ship to which such Seaman may belong, and be recoverable from him at the suit of the Superintendent of Police, as a debt due to the Government of this Colony; and the subsistence Money for every such Seaman confined in Jail shall be paid weekly in advance to the keeper of the Jail, and in default of such payment, the Jailor may release such Seaman.

At the requi-

VI. And be it further enacted and ordained, That at the requisition. sition of Foreign of the Consul resident at Hongkong, of any Foreign Nation, it shall be Consuls, opera- lawful for the Governor of the said Colony to suspend the operation of

this Ordinance in regard to the Ships of that nation, for so long a period as such Consul may require or the said Governor may think fit; and that on like requisition it shall and may be lawful for the said Governor, if he deem it fit, to cause any pending proceeding or case under this Ordinance to be discontinued and abated.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 17th day of December, 1850.

CHAS. ST GEO. CLEVERLY, Officiating Clerk of Councils.

S. G. BONHAM.

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Edithmada Tasks. ] Clarks Founcils.

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to 110 de 1850. Inclosure in Despatch

1/11.

Legislative.

Mep Hood #Royen for Report.

Ordenance forewarded to

Ne 5 of 1850.

The

Aus -230-18 Marchpsr.

1500 Đóng trong

RECEIVED

C.C.

FEB.21 1851

295

Victoria, Houghing,

26# December, 1850-

My Lord, I have the hown to forward

∙lly to your Lordship.

an

attested copy of

an Ordinance, entitled. "In Ordinance

"to regulate Proceedings before Justices the Peace, which I trust your - Lordship will be enabled to submit to Her Most Gracions.

on for approval.

Until the

Majesty

this

pazzing of

compulsory for

Ordinance it was

was.com

the Magistrates, by virtue of preceding Ordinances, to observe at their sessions,

and when acting singly, a musuber of useless forms-

forms which took up a

Riight Honorable, Karl Grey

tc.

to Foreign Ships and Vessels.

[17# 9czember-1850]

Icsertion of Seamen belonging An Ordinance to prevent the

Vietoria Regina.

No 4 of 1850-

Amo Seeims Quarto -

&

gicat deal of their time without beins of any obvious utility of this the Magistrates in a body complained. -

submitted is

St

and the ordinanes now Vintended to obviate the inconvenience;

but at the same

be

found

time with I trust

AC

in and

•unch to contain all that is ncecesary to insure regularity a faithful record of their precedings,

Ia

It

secus also, to be consonant with

the principles of Acte 11 and 12-Victoria

Cap. 43, now in

force throughout

Rugland. I have the hour to be,

With the highest respect,

Your Lordship's,

Most obedient

Humble Servant,

Ita

+

L

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1. Register

N

Map: Wood, Kies.

7.24 B6

ABP.21/2

/ Inclosures.

Received

Transmitting copy of, and

reporting on,

Ordinance

"of the Peace"

"Proceedings before Justices

"An Ordinance to regulate

No 5 of 1850, Entitled

3

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The thearl Grey.

Governor Bonham

26th December, 1850.

HONGKONG.

ANNO DECIMO QUARTO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. 5 of 1850.

By His Excellency SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Esquire, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 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 Super- intendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE PROCEEDINGS BEFORE JUSTICES OF TRE PEACE.

[17th December, 1850.]

Title.

WHEREAS in consequence of the multiplicity of cases Civil and Preamble. Criminal that occur for adjudication or investigation before Justices of the Peace as constituting the Court of Petty Sessions, or sitting singly, it has become necessary to ordain a uniform, simple, and effectual mode

of procedure, and of recording the proceedings in such cases: Be it therefore enacted and ordained, that,--

I. The provisions of this Ordinance shall extend to all cases whatever, To what cases Civil or Criminal, cognizable by any Justice or Justices of the Peace, Ordinance shall whether sitting in Session or otherwise, notwithstanding anything extend. heretofore enacted and ordained on this behalf.

Issue of Sum-

II. Be it further enacted and ordained, That by each Justice or at each public Office shall be kept a Book in the form to this Ordinance mons to be noted annexed, or in any similar form containing the same particulars, to be in Writ Book, called the Writ Book, containing an abstract of all Summonses, Warrants, and other Writs issued by the said Justice or from the said Office, and the issue of the Summons or Warrant, and entry of such abstract conse- quent upon the viva voce statement of the Plaintiff or bis Attorney, may be the commencement of the suit, without any further written affidavit or information whatever; Provided that should the Defendant mencement

suit. appear in Court voluntarily, or upon arrest without Warrant, such ap- pearance may be the commencement of the suit, and may be noted accordingly in the record of proceedings.

And to be com- of

III. Be it further enacted and ordained, That by the Sitting Justice The particulars or one of the Sitting Justices, or at each public Office, shall be kept of each case to a Book in the form to this Ordinance annexed, or in any similar be recorded in a form containing the same particulars, to be called the Record Book, Book. in which shall be eutered an abstract of the proceedings in each case brought before the said Justice or heard or investigated at the said Office; and such abstract shall contain the Names of the Plaintiff, De- fendant, and Witnesses, the Plaint or Charge, Order or Decision and other particulars in accordance with the said form; and it shall not be necessary If Certiorari to draw up a more formal Record of any conviction, order, or other allowed, copy of proceeding whatever; and in case of any conviction, order, or other the entries in such proceeding being removed by Writ of Certiorari or otherwise into any cient return. superior Court, a copy of such portion of the said Record Book and of such Minutes of Proceeding and other Documents hereinafter mentioned with written de- as shall refer to the Case, shall be a full and sufficient return to such Writ. positions in cases Provided that nothing herein contained shall be held to dispense with for trial at the the necessity of taking such written Depositions as are required by law Supreme Court. on the committal of any defendant for trial before the Supreme Court of this Colony.

IV. Be it further enacted and ordained, That on the appearance

Book to be a suffi-

Not to dispense

Mode of pro-

of the Parties before him or them, or on the ex parte bearing, the ceeding at the sitting Justice or Justices, or his or their Clerk, shall take such hearing. Minutes of the Proceedings in each Case as may be necessary for the due adjudication and record thereof, and the sitting Justice or one of the sitting Justices shall subscribe such Minutes with his name, and these Minutes, together with the returned Summonses and other Writs and such other documents connected with the Case as it be

may

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Justice mayre

his decision.

XI. Be it further enacted and ordained, That the adjudicating Justice

time reverse or amend his decision or appoint the Case to verse or amend may at any le reheard by himself or another Justice, should it appear that such Decision was erroneous or unjust.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 17th day of December, 1850.

CHAS, ST GEO. CLEVERLY, Officiating Clerk of Councils,

S. G. BONHAM.

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expedient to retain, shall be collectively numbered to correspond with the entry of the said Case in the Record Book, and shall be transmitted Provision for weekly, together with (if required) copies of the Writ Book and Record Custody of Re-Book duly attested, to such Office or Court as may from time to time be

appointed by His Excellency the Governor, there to be safely kept.

cords.

Mode of serv-

ing Process.

V. Be it further enacted and ordained, That the Person entrusted with the Service of any Summons or other Writ or Process shall make a return in writing of the manner in which he has served or attempted to serve such Summons, which return shall in itself be prima facie proof of the facts it may contain; and if it shall appear to the Sitting Justice that any Defendant or Witness having been duly summoned has neglected to appear, or has wilfully absented or concealed himself so as to avoid being served with the said Summons, or if previous to the issue of such Summons the said Justice shall be satisfied by evidence that it is probable such Defendant or Witness will not attend without being compelled to do so, the said Justice Of compelling may issue his Warrant to bring before him such Defendant or Witness, or in the absence of the Defendant may, in his discretion, proceed to hear the case ex parte: and the Parties in any proceeding, their Wives, and all other Persons, may be examined on behalf of either the Plaintiff or Defendant; subject to all just exceptions.

attendance.

Matters Day

VI. Be it further enacted and ordained, That in the matters of be referred for disputed Partnership accounts, or of disputed accounts between other arbitration, Parties falling within the proper Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace, the Sitting Justice may, with the consent of the Parties, refer all matters in dispute to arbitration, and make the award a Decree of or to an account-the Court, and enforce the same accordingly or the Justice may refer ant for a Report. the Examination of the Accounts to any Clerk or Officer of the Court or other Person, to report thereon, and may employ the said Report as a means of arriving at a just conclusion in the case.

Judgment may

I

:

VII. Be it further enacted and ordained. That if any Plaintiff have be against one, a Demand against two or more Persons jointly answerable, Judgment. though others be may be given against one of those Persons notwithstanding that others jointly liable.

may not have been sued or may not be within the Jurisdiction of the Court: but the Person having satisfied such Judgment may recover contribution from any other Person jointly liable: and in case of mis- joinder of Defendants, Judgment may be given against such only as shall appear to be liable.

Validity of judg- VIII. Be it further enacted and ordained, That the adjudicating ment not to be Justice shall in all matters give judgment upon the substantial merits affected by vari- and facts of the case as proved before him, and convict the Defendant ance between the proof and the of the Offence of which he shall appear to have been guilty, or give original plaint. judgment for the Plaintiff for the amount appearing to be justly due to him, notwithstanding that the proof may be at variance with the Defendant to be complaint as originally laid: Provided always that reasonable time be allowed sufficient allowed for the Defence and the production of the Defendant's Wit- time to plead.

Declarations

certain cases.

nesses.

.

IX. Be it further enacted and ordained, That when there shall exist may be substitut- no facility for swearing a Witness to speak the truth, or when the Witness ed for Oaths in shall have conscientious scruples to bind himself by oath, or it shall not be the custom of his country to give testimony upon aath, the evidence of such Witness shall be receivable without an oath in the same manner, and he shall be liable to the same penalties for Perjury or otherwise as if his evidence were given upon oath and if on the investigation of any case it shall manifestly appear that the Charge or Complaint was mali- ciously preferred on insufficient grounds, or that any Witness has given wilfully false testimony, it shall be lawful for the Sitting Justice to award Penalty for false compensation not exceeding Ten Pounds to be paid by such Prosecutor or testimony. Witness to the person aggrieved, or in his discretion to impose on the said Prosecutor or Witness a Fine not exceeding Teu Pounds, or to award compensation and fine not exceeding together the amount of Ten Pounds. X. Be it further enacted and ordained, That if a Defendant under the apprehension examination for a Criminal Offence charge any other Person with being of accomplices.

a principal in or an accessory to such Offence, the Sitting Justice may cause such Person to be summoned or brought before him, and if it appear that such Person is really a principal or an accessory, the said Justice may detain such Person for further investigation and commit such Person for trial, though no other evidence be adduced than that of the said Defendant: provided that nothing herein contained shall attach otherwise greater weight to the testimony of such Defendant than it now by law possesses.

Provision for

1

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WRIT BOOK.

Nature of whom

By

Numer of Parties to

Process.

Exigency of Process.

innued.

Suit.

When return-

How and Date of Jable, and before!

when iarte. johal Magistrate Executed.

or Court.

Fee

Re-

taken.

marka.

RECORD BOOK,

No. of case us recorded.

Names and Additiona

of Parties to the Suit.

Offence or Plaint as

suspected, or alleged, or

proved.

Whether convicted or whether Plaint proved.

Sentence, Decision, Or- der inade, or other Proceeding.

Names of Witnesses examined.

Names of Justice or Justices before whom

tried or investigated.

In what Court or Place

proceedings had.

Under what circum- stances Defendant ap-

peared in Covert. If under Process, by whom

'panast

Dates of commencement

of Suit.

Date of Trial or Inves

tigation.

Date of Sentence

Order, &c.,

Amount of Fines

recovered.

Remarks.

Luitlade Fachos

Clerk of Funcild

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238

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despatch P-/11 of 1850_

Inclosure in

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Miscellaneous.

Copy to Ms Watchians with Bell

20 Feb 161.

1510. Song Long

My Lord

C.O.

FEB.21

1851

Victoria, Hongkong,

28th December, 1850.

I have the honor to

239

acknowleage the receipt of your Cordship's Despatch 1 201 of 2x4 September last, with its Enclosures, which were communicated to Mr Cay, the Official Aministrator of Intestate Estates. _ That Officer has in reply forwarded to me, for the purpose of being remitted to your worship, the enclosed 1! Draft for £30, 18.4 drawn by

Oriental Bank here

The Right Honorable The Earl Grey,

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the Union.

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2

No 5 of 1850-

Victoria. Reginæ.

Anno decimo quarto -

before Justices of the Peace - An Ordinance to Regulate Proccedings

[17th December 1850]

A

Bank of London, payable to the order & Mrs Sarah Wateham, being amount of Seven eighths of the residue of W. S. Wentworth's Estate, as explained in letter, copy of which I bee to transmit herewith for your Lordship's information.

Mr Cay's

I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,

Your undshipit, "most obedient

Stumble Servant,

Hypotam

N: 2

2.

300

2

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Bill to Mr Walcham.

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2. malosures.

No112.

The Earl Grey.

Governor Bonham,

ember, 1850.

Received

21th September, and enclosing

of Despatch : 201 of

taknowledging receipt

A

payable to Miss Sarah

Bill for £30, 18, 4

Watsham

Mr. Watchen

Madan.

W. M.

22

2.2

24

112-18 Decpso

with reference to my

Letter of the 3 Oct?" best I am

directed

by

Earl Grey to haurit

to you the copy of a despolit from Guerna

Enclosing

Benham

the way

Letter

y

official andrinestrator of Intestate

for the Registion of the Supreme

Estates

Eerste at Herey Kong foradiz a Bill for ₤30.

th

30.18.4

being

7/0 is the residue of the Estate

of your

Son, Mer W. S. Wentworth

Jacuz

....

:

(Copy)

-10

(392

Court House, Vistoria,

Hongkong, 27th December, 1850.

Sir,

I have the honor to

acknowledge receipt of your

Letter to 314 A, dated 21th Instant.

On communicating the

Enclosures sent with it to the

I have received directions

Court,

to pay over to Mr. Watsham

mother of

the deceased

as

$132.79 being Seven eighths of

the

Residue of the Estate of W. I Wentworth (the Shares belonging to herself and her six children who consent to her

receiving

their proportions)

The Souble Major Caine, Colonial Secretary.

:

reserving $19.02, the share belonging

to C. E. Watcham,

A

brother of

the deceased who resides at the

who

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Food

not sign the consent.

In consequence of these

directions I have now

the

honor to enclose the first of Exchange of a Bill 17/159. dated Stongkong 24th December 1850, drawn by the Oriental Bank here the Union Bank of London for £30, 18.4 payable радава

ab

of

a

прои

One

days right to the order

Mas Sarah Watcham - with

view to your transmitting it to her

through the office of the

Office of the Secretory

of State for the Colonies

You will observe that

this Bill

at the

is not exactly

current

علمه

of Exchange

the variation

393

is caused by part

of the Residue of the Estate being in Sterling Coin which

at present at a

is at

discount.

I have te..

Leavy

(Signed) Robt Fundas Pay,

Registrar.

True Copy.)

Marne

Colonial Secretary

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304

Litar from

inclosing

En Cay

Bill for

£30, 184, being seven eighths of the Resione dr. J. M. Wentworth's Estate, to be remmitted to Ms Sarah Watcham. 27th December, 1850.

Inclosure 1.2 in Desp. No 112 of 1850.

......

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vide Answer

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Aur! 11 824/02 - N° 279.

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FEB.21

1851

My Lord,

ド

395

Victoria, Hongkong,

28th December. 1850.

With reference to my despatch-

No 106 of the 28th Ultimo, I have much- pleasure in forwarding copy of a letter from the Bishop of Victoria to the Rep. S. W. Steedman, by which your Lordship will perecive that the

nomination of the Rev. Gentleman to

the Chaplaincy of this Colony (should it become vacants by the resignation of the Rev. V. Stanton) would be very

to His Lordship.

satisfactory

& Sight. Honnable, The Earl Gacy,

tc. to.

to.

I have the hour to be, With the highest respect,

Your Lordship's,

Mort. Obedient_ Humble Servant,

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Forwardedby 1852

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Mr Smith

MR Merivalc

MER. Peel EarlGrey

N° 277

Entered

Yetfor

I have to acknow-

ledge.

the

receipt of

your despatches, Mos

106 and 113, of the

284.

" of November and 28th of December last

Convey

mendation

and of

the

recom-

tha of yourself. the Bishop

of Victoria that the

336

Revd W. Steedman

should be appointed

to the Office of Colonial Chaplain for the Soland of Hong kong, in the event

of

that affoist-

ment becoming vacant by the

resignation of

Revd W. Stanton,

the

W. Stanton having recently tendered to me his resignation

307

of

that appointment,

I have submitted

W. Steedman's name

to The Queen for appointment to the

vacant Office; and

I now transmit to

lauant

you.

a

ас

under the Royal Sign Manual, thorising you

Letters Patent

cause

to

to be passed under

the Public Seal,

of

L

:

31. of January 1852.

Į

·

the Island of Hong long, appointing

W.

W Steedman to be Colonial Chaplain for that Island.

You will obtain from this gentle

man, and remit.

to W. Smith, the

Chief Checker of rig Department, the of £1.107, the

Juru

amount of Stamp Duty payable the

on

closed Warrant

S

28 December, 1850

Copy

In 1511,

کرد

363

Houghing, Secember 27th, 1860.

My dear Mr Stickman,

Aine are

to you

ان

already

on there

aware

is some uncertainty as to Mr. Stanton's returning to resume the Colonial Chaplaincy in this place. Under such- circumstances, I feel that any application for the port in question

by you or by any one

Cellow me

you

Cal

only

however to state to

be made

contingently.

you (and

of this

should

are at liberty to make use

the racaney

note) that if the

netually take place and the Colonial_ Secretary of State should appoint you~ chaplain, it would give

we considerable

satisfaction to believe that the appointment. had been confered

Rev. S. M. Steedman,

Militay Chaplain.

who not only is

on one who

ļ

regarded by myself with feelings of personal friendship, but who would also seek by God's blessing to fulfil to the utmost the duties of so responsible office with zeal and diligence

An

L

Believe me to remains, My dear Mr Steedman Your sincere niend and Brother, (liquid) S. Victorian_

(Tone Copy)

olonial Secretary.

359

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No 1/3 of 1850.

Inclosures in Despatch

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$114. Mirectlawcons

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Hong-2 23

RECEIVED

FEB.21 1851

My Lord.

319

Victoria, Houghong,

کتا

285 December, 1850-

I have had frequent

Semivereations of late

of late with M1z.W. H. Mitchell, (the Gentleman at present "acting as Sheriff and Presistant.

Magistrate) on the state and prospects this Colony, and have found him

than ordinary core than

of

to possess AU

pori

Knowledge of its affairs. Mr_Mitchel has been

ton]

many

my years in China

and .

first employed in the Diplomatie Department under the Foreign office Assistant at the Amoy comentate om whence he

removed in

A

from

consequence of a number of young

The Right Horenable,

The Karl Grey,

actty

uzazi

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to the Colonial Chaplaincy that his nomination Mr Steedman stating

A Vetona to the Rev.

will be

Lordship.-

of Hongkong Satisfactory to

His

27th December, 1850.

---

tc.

to:

to.

Gentlemen having been sent out from Eugland in

imm 1844, to fill the offices under that department. He then entered into Commercial pursuits, in which he has been until late

engaged

In

lately

my repeated conversations

with Mr Mitchell, I found that his

Minions

on mort subjects, very

generally agreed with

My

own-,

and

: I therefore desired him to place his

views on

paper;

he has done so, and

recently submitted the enclosed_

documents which

appear to me to

contain much valuable

with respect to the part

information

to the past and present

as well as to its

state of the Colony, probable fate _ I think its therefore only fair towards Miz Mitchell, that they should be forwarded to your Lordship unmutilated, as they will

N? 1 @ 3.

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No 4.

tend to throw light_

311

on, and explain

many cubjects connected with this Colony that have been heretofore

as well

imperfectly understood, to shew your Lordship the yeal

qualifications of the writer

I have caused a précis to be

made

of

there

papers for easy

aud

reference, and may add that I concur on all essential points with Mz Mitchell. The

précis will be

hip in

of Accistance to your Lordship considering the subject matter discussed by Mrz Mitchell, but to

understand the case

regard his papers

thoroughly, I

papers as worthy of

perucal.. Should it be at any - advisable to bring

time nee

110

necessary

there sempers before the Public, I have objection to their being considered- reports made on my authority;

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indeed, had I not been desirous of

stice to the di

doing full justice

diligenec

of Mr Mitchell, their contents would

as a matter

matter of counse Course,

, before your

Lordship

have

appeared

as a

Communication emanating from

myself I have the house tobe,

With the highest respect, Your Lordship's

(lost obedient Humble Servant,

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Sir,

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I have to acknowledge

the receipt of your despatet

No 1/4 of the 28 Decr last

Suctoring

a communication

from Mr. W. H. Mitchell

explaining his vicces outta

present condition, & prospects

and I have

King, and

of Hong Kong,

to qquest that

you

would

requaint that Gentleman

that I have read his traper

with great interest, and am

much.

Mized.

to him putte:

raluable information it

Contauis.

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to transmit to you

344

for the reformation of Viscera

Palmerston the Copy of a

Despatch from the fourron of thong Hong exubsung a Paper chawse refe by Men Mr. S. Mititell containing much caluable reformention

on the present condition, Frode and prospects of He Colony.

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done me

Your Exellency has

the honor to request that I submit

actual

my opinions upon the acter als condition-trade-

And:

: prospects of this Colony -

that I

d th

and

be careful to point out any difficulties obstinations which m

its progress.

may

seem to me to beset

I have to thank Your Excellency

for the compliment to ony opinion implied.

in your request, though I fear it has little :

recommend it beyond a long

experience of the settlement .

and intimate

Before entering upon the

engiring, I purpose with,

His Excellency

Samuel George Bonham C. 13.

Governor of Hongkong.

Main

your permission, to

your p

lake

.

!

www

!

take a

brief

foundation,

review of the Colony from its a, glancing, at it as it stood before the treaty of Nanking, to examine

and,

the effect of that Treaty upon its position and prospects __ to inquire how such prodigious Expectations ever came to be formed of it

a how,

at all; an di

w, once

formed, they e

Came

to be entertained and relied upon, long after the

grounds upon which they had been peared had sunk beneath them for

An introdu

lver

گتر یہ ہو کیسے

introductory sketch of this kind, appears to me to be necessary towards enabling : fairly be estimate the peal present position

now that it has

And:

- prospects of the Colony,

found it's actual level and all excitement

and would expectation have passed away -

When the British flag

was

hoisted upon this island under Captain Elliot's convention with Keshen in February

1841, it was naturally looked upon by o merchants

future seat, if not the

اد سے لے ہیں

future grand centre of our general Commerce

in these waters.

All our old difficulties

}

316

that convention, and it to us concluded,

having us this island with its noble = harbor, outside of and perfectly independent of Canton -- Our Merchants however, looking boak upon their old experience of the critical position of their to a de in the rever, and that the slightest accident might again neprovision

Ain and again

interrupt it _ that

der the

ision to as made sen

was under

Convention

to guards against these interuptions, and that every recurring one must or alurally have the effect of driving the trade down to this place ; _ locking moreover at the foot that our trade at Canton was almost strangled.

Came at

length to view

by the exactions of corrupt officials; looking at all this, they Mongkong

the spot in which their

نے کیسے تیرے آگے

vexed and harrassed

rrassed Commerce) bould

ultimately find a refuge_they

to vie

view it as

trade

de in

Care)

the future seat or centre of

this

quanter ArA

a tast

Emporium of the trode of all nations

.

at Canton were nominally settled under

seeking

that

the onerchandize of the further East

2

!

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East There

1.9

have been even then

may

ration

Some degree of exaggeral

but in the and hoa

in their views,

a legitimate ;

Inain

they

were fair

and

d our

disputes with this Government

ended with Captain Elliot's convention, and we had fallen back into our old position at Canton, with the important difference

of having Hongkong outside it ; there can

be no doubt that the expectations formed

of cur

Four new.

new acquisition, were in a

and that

d; and

of being realized ;

faw to ay

a bery p

extensive traffic must have sprung up

this barren rock _____ But it to as not

to be _ The war broke out a

again,

and

which,

that series of operations commenced,

In ding

the Treaty of Nanking; were

in the

destined to revolutionge the whole foreign

le

ive us a lvider

relations of this empire _ be give

and a

better footing

.

in it _ but at the

ever the prospects

same time to destroy for of this Colony as the future centre of the trade betiveen Great Britain and China __

Thenceforth the position of the colony

and

28th Fi

Ter, 1850.

and its prospects, as far-

tvas Con Clin. C.d.....

chances

arising

Canton breeding

onthecaks and

were chan

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317

the China trade

changed: loto Gole_its

out of the old leaven of.

constant tumulls

Ande

and drivin

driving down the trade to

this place, vanished from that moment,

and were at one

theus an

stroke and

for ever, borne.

a)

and miles beyond the limits of it's o

harbor.

I have gone back into this byegone history of the colony as exhibiting its position before the Treaty of Manking,

in order

le examine how such immense expectations

came to be formed of it at all;

to shew that,

once

and

formed, they :

now fiicece.

were still

entertained for years after the Treaty had

y every inch

inch of ground upon which

cut away every

they

were seared. It's capital position was

altered, yet

lobally altered.

the old views were still

intertained and relied upon, and an

stubbornly ignored .

whatever was

It was

Sis Harry Potting

any change.

after the Treaty of Manking

treated It

Hongkong into

" the grand emporium of Eastern Asia' into

'another

I

" another Carthage with a population equal to that of Ancient Rome . It was after

the Meaty

Sir John

a.s 184.5

and I believe as late :hn Davis staked his opinion in a 1: port to his Government, that this Colony must supersede Canton as the seat trade in the south of China. It was

of

of

after the Treaty or pather from June 1841 (date of the first land salc:) to

the end of 18411 that the

great object

our Merchants was

st our

engst

of the day amon

le scoure

a

berth in the future Centres

of British trade with China . It was nearly five years after the Treaty that one of our leading houses built the

longhen Exchange where the merchants of both Countries, toere to congue gate ; while the very fast that no merchant of either

country

lver

once entered its doors in pursuit.

of brade, and

into

int

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and that it was first converted Christian Church and

Court of Justice,

forcible commentary)

finally

is in itself a

on the precipitate 4

:al misapprehension

judgement, and general

of the altered position of the settlement,

manifeste di

1

manifested throughout _

Even

A

313 late as

Your Excellency's arrival heres some live

Mears ago,

I believe there were not toanting

certain enthusiasts who endeavoured to

with their

impress you

own

wild notions

and

of the high destinies of the Colony,

that it only require as the

to

assure you

of this or that restriction, and the

removal of this

practice of the same con-

congenial legislation which marked your former jiute, to raise it per saltum into another Singapore _ It is pretty well known however that Your Excellency

viewed the difficulty very much

More Gober

and that while

soberly, despair of the Colony

you

did not

or under rates its value

our

as an essential outport to a general commerce in these toaters, and an to sellent.

position for our political establishment, you came to the conclusion that its original prospects were was such as remained to it must now

eastly

that

altered; and)

b

·

matter of slow and

depending

a gradual development; upon the naturals decay of

Certain

certain local obstructions & hich I shall

notion by

and

ev la

bye, than upon any foreing

rash experiments on

Govern

the part of the

-

Government- Ne one capable of estimating

our

true interests in this

country, treaty

could for

a moment complain of a tre

which, though

the prospects of Hongkong

گه بیایی

it destroyed the centre of our trade with China, opened

to us in compensation

to

thousand miles of

sea Ceast,

an a

four

new entre-pots at the

very thresholds of the producing districts _ the only thing is

treaty

did

- insisted on is the fact that the

destroy

its prospects as a

a great

to

Frading Settlement ; and the only thing

be complained of is that in the face of the capital reverse operated in its position by that /perty, both Ministers

and Merchants

should have still continued to indu

dulge

in the prodigious expectations

:ious expectations originally)

formed of it ; and

it, and

q

to gone

on dre

scheming out an

d do

traffic for it; as

dreaming about impracticable

though no change shatever

had occured to traverse their speculations

I now preced to arque tohy the Colony

Alver

за

never could have had

319

share in the

any

commerce between Great Britain and

China, the north east Coast was

once

opened - in other words to shew that the views entertained: and the prodigious promises boldly staked upon it after the Treaty of Nanking,

were built upon the Sand. It was the first

and most obvious

effect of that Grealy, in opening up all the

littoral provinces of China to British trade,

to make that tro de a direct one with Chine

trade

an, and not an intermediate trade through

itself,

a British Colony upon its borders __ Once the whole coast was opened to us, it surely : was the matural Counse of thing

things, shipping

that our

: should resort dire at to it, and

vessel

that the natives shout ad bring their produce to the nearest vent where the foreign

for it with the exchange stuffs

to as waiting for it with the ex in her hold ___ but to expect them to bring it to Hongkong

یسے

to expect

and ge

توفیق بھی بتهم الجميع

under such circumstances,

ships to wait here for it

farther,

was not a

whit more

w

absurd than it would be to expect the

American

American trade with England to centre

ab Lands End or one of the Scilly Islands, While every port betwveen Liverpool and London to as open direct to American

shipping_

But the Sponsors of Hongking must have expected; this or nothing they

must have expected the best produce of China to be brought

ared and

down here_stored

hl de

prep are d shipped here, after being bartered for British man

mufactures or the yield of British India, else how did

expect the island to become the

8. gr.

chey

and

Empornum of Eastson Asia " another Carthage

destined to supersede Canton? Jo view it

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brief they

) must have expected the

the pawn

ht down and)

Silk of Soochow to be brought Carter & here for the opium of Bengal

al and)

Malwah: the teas of the Bohra hills

An d

for the products of the looms of Sancashire

Ana

Yorkshire, or

else there was no

shadow

l

of ground for their predictions ! ___ there was

sary out the

this or

nothing to carry

magnificent

promises staked upon the settlement. Bub

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$

320

I respectfully put it to Your Exxcellency,

whether

a moment conceived

lver

for

or on co

ships had

you the thing possible,

the

you

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entry of the Tang-lse_Kiang, whether

held it in the nature of things_that bartered a 1 Shanghai

the silks or teas now

been brought down to this could fver have been brought

place,

or even to Chusan, or to any outside

settlement we had taken up ; or in short

any

that they could have been sent out of the Country under Circumstances; entiusted) they must have been to the pedest batteund that iver stemmed a tide, and at the sole

со

risk of the native The idea, as far

or native merchant

grower

this colony

far as this

simply preposterous ; farther I merely

Associ

the

and int

Ao Do

is Con Cin e dy is

in pursuing it co

for the purpose of

sociating Chuisan with Hongkong

4

in

Common exclusion ;

ow; and viewing it as shut out from all share in the China trade equally with Hongkong and by the very same prominente bstacles _ I maintain then that

the very same difficulties which aut off the trade from Hongkong

under the treaty of Nanking, must have equally out it

off

off from Chusan, had

ad due Q

chosen that.

beautiful island instead of this banen p

as our

settlement -

pock

_ for the following peasent

the oui bene has to be answered _

how far would the Chinese trades be benefited by bringing

his merchan

namely

64)

dize

b

Honghong (or Chusan ) or the English trader

گرد

by

him to do

2. It is

do Do

encouraging

Henghing

plain enough that the produce of China could not possibly be laids down at s ( or Chusan ) without being enhan

heavy junks freight,

An Al ∞

by

and in countering

all the sea-risk and pinate pisk of an

unprotected voyage -

to which ricks the

I was bechas

manufactures for which it was,

kechanged

lish settlement outside, were English se

at the Engl.

equally obnoxious on the passage homeward in The fact that the native trader must or encounter these pisks, will for ever prevent him from sending his junt to Hongkong Chusan / freight as with any of his more valable produced, as long as he finds a

buyer

4

buyer at his

321

lind

own doors, who lays dan the exchange stuffs for him in safely,

his produce

is ready

to bear

away

beyond

all risks to hime_ On the other hand the

fast that the produce of China laid

down at Hongkong / or Chusan ) becomes

for ced in cost beyond the

beyond the figure at

enhanced.

o

which it could be bought at the doors of the districts in which it was grown,

have ever prevented our own

rown', must.

resahauts from

mei e

fostering such a trade in either secclement ___ Tet such was equally the position of the thing any time within the last light years_ while Sir Henry Pottinger

tas dwelling upon

the

great Empornem of eastern Asia and while Sir John Davis was ass

assuring

us that "settlement must speedily supersedes. Canton __ Siv John Davis must have

ouri

lvad

founded his opinion that Monghing destined to supersede Canton on the grounds that the trade must one day

be driven M.

down to us by the force of some dangerous

crisis or convulsion at the City _ at least

those

0 are

the stron

Afy

ongest ground

-

which

de on le

ho

he

could have founded it. ________

I offer. Your Cxcellency the

following reason

why the idea never can

be pea

te alged .

It has always been the

322

roadslead ; and their people frequent it

as a sort of Colony of their In short everything

left.

own in China_

nothing

is done and

10

undone to impress this Government is

with the conviction that the Americans

:

:

studious policy of the Amencans in o

China to exhibit themselves to the Chinese

ment and

Goverment

hav

No one aim

0.2-

interest

in common with

the British in China - This being

people as

A/

perfectly ding.

nation_

1

their policy it follows as

in dependent and Commande

In no

one end or interest connected with

the British, but forming in themselves a great Western Tower which centuries

threw off. o

ago

-cellency can hardly fail

ay

our yoke and beat us in the open field - Your Excellen

I aware

: perseverance with which these notions have been impressed

to be

of the earnestness and

both by merchants and missionaries upon the Chinese mind __ upon every grade from

the High Comm issioner down to the palsied

patient of the American hospitals_Towards

supporting these views you must have observed

studiously they

how

hold themselves aloof

from all visible connexion

with us- with Their

Minister resides at Macas ___ their ships of

tvar pesort to its waters as

their proper s

Avadstead,

a matter

of

course that they will never seule at

Hengkong - They love Cantow for old

associations sake __ for the fortunes their

they

many

ens Am added

Citizens

splendid

chero,

and

the the

will studiously uphold it as Centre of their trade in the south of es China __ Now I need not remind Your

Swattency that the

necessities of the trade

cans are,

are such, that where the Americans there we must be also ; and that we cannot

afford to

them one

inch of vanto ge to give

in

the Keen competition that exists between us

It is surprising business has passed into their hands of

how much of the English

late

Cate

and

years,

and

to what

an extent the

Jr.

مجھے کا

nments are divided between the

consignme

English and American Houses at Canton thus making it incumbent on the English

Firms to Keep side

in by

by side with the American

every principal market.

In estimating the British

position in China, I am not sure that

been

sufficient weight has hitherte boom given to the element of American influence in general affairs of this country = Yet appears to me

the.

it

that the British Minister

the should sit down to Boheme out a new settlement with this Government.

:-adjust the old, without takin

taking

to pro-adjust keenly into his account the disturbing -force of American jealousy re-action of American interests upon his

and

arrangements, would form but

the

very

Narrow and inadequates view of his

subject . Witness the confhat of interests

in the

very

case before

us _ Thus_ it is

our interest to draw-down the Canton trade-

1

323

to this place towards fostering our young Colony-

It is the interest of the Amer cars,

or this pleasure or their jealousy, (more) + operative than either) to keep it where it is, and to support Cantów - The necessities of the trade are such that were they choose to be, too: must be also- irgo - they force us to support Canton in the face of our

advantage to the contrary _ So much

own

for the chance of superseding

it'

I may observe here that the and prosperous growth of the + Chinese settlements ab Singapore

rapid

Batavia, tvers

ouv.

were a sad

and)

ignis fatuus for local speculators - The specious-

argument was_ if the junks of China freighted with its produce, find

find their to a remote on arket in the Indian

bay

Archipelago, a fortioris they will find

their to

to ay

en

then

to a vast emporium opened up

shores - But

our speculators

сел

forgot the difference of the circumstan -

they forget that the exchange which the

through

China trader hitherto went to seek

all

|

to

all difficulties and risks and distance, was, under the Speaty of Manking, to be offered him at his

own

Mong door, without

any difficulty or pish whatever

or pisk whatever and that then ce

- forth all inducement to carry his more precious

out of Chin

treffs out

a was cut off.

I have observed throughout

upon the bold promises staked upon the Colony by previous Superintendants ; but I pray Your Excellen

not to suppose

for a moment that I utter one woord in disparagement of these functionaries -

they were at all to blame

am not sure that they

for the gigantic

As new-corners

they

views which they propeurded) -

must have foun

ded

those piews upon the representations of the

Coal merchants, and relied upon then great experience for their

for their validity.

an instance __ Sir Henry Pottinger dropping into the busy world of China from the quiet retirement of Scinde, could never have ventured upon such a stupendous promise as that of clothing these hills

" with a population equal to that of Ancient

Home

}

324 Come had he not borrowed his enthusiasm.

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from parties on the shot who ought to have known better _ We must presume that he spoke

and wrote from the mouths of experienced men, who manifested their

faith in the prospects of the settlement.

-aid for its sort, and

the price they paid for

by by

the profuseness of their outlay in improving

it _ The event has proved that both o

s

partice were mistaken; and the simple process was this _ that the Merchants were

Carried) ала

away by their enthusiasm and

they canied the plenipotentiaries with them - Neither is it difficult to be accounted for. Cooped up in Canton for so many : years,

Y

and

instan

of local

witnessing daily, oppression and extortion on the part of the Mandarins, they (the Merchants /book it for granted that British Colony),

with its noble instituctions of unpurchaseable justice and irrespective laws, had only to be founded at the mouth of Canton piver, to draw down to it

6 by magie,

he

the

plundered) and oppressed of every class,

not

:

not merely from Canton but from all

parts of this wide

Empire ;

; and,

hence +

must have sprung the visionary population

of ancient Rome" _

turned out lürned

тего

These

smyriads have buckram men_ the thing

has been tried and it has failed_ and

its failure should at least serve to convince

us that we have hitherto vastly mistaken the

genius of this people _ The last ten years have told us more of the Chinese than the centing preceding know that there is not so much

ch plunder, and not so much irresponsible

lve once

supposed ;

;

it _ we now

and that on the whole

x a

Gyranny

Q2

7. Govern

nment

دیا کہ جی سے

this Government is not so bad We might have known a priori= that Govern ment depending mainly upon a high

Government

moral principle for its existence, and

one

of the nonal

scaredy supported by any appliances of force, could not possibly be the oppressive tyranny, political and social,

laught

which we were once

taught to consider it _ We now know that it is not, and that

it is something very

much better than a

Bast

vast

Engine of plunder

may further

and confiscal

thabitis, thou

we have learnt

feculiar scheme of authority, happily

رہے

though

very

جو بار بار میں

adapted to the people it governs and: the people are adapted to it - and I am glad to believe that Hongkong, has some more substantial prospects than those

arising from the immigration of

e

ہے تھے کے

settlers, who expected to leave their

country through sentimental discontent with a system of

supplem of Govern

inment under which

etow Co

their forefathers lived and died for a thousand

_

renerations _ accepting

accepting for the chronology

awn

monce,

their

Above all, the last

ten years have

ears have taught us

that there is no

lver was a

-

laught us this great lesson-

people

on this earth, nov

people of whom history Keeps

record, so tied down to fatherland by

every

bond social and sacred as the

-Chinese ___ By inborn love - by instinctive pride _ by bias of education_ by inherited

- prejudise -

by

ancestral associations

Centuries of isolation - by

by

caste and clanship-

by their literature and traditions _ by the

roof

|

!

roof tree under which they

ivo

the

were born _ by graves in which their fathers be buried: by everything that can warp the human

mind, or convince or

they cleave to it .

instance

that even

blind the understanding" ;

There is

is not

A

singe

known to me, and I hardly think Your Excellenag's long experiences

at the Straits can supply one, of a respectable

aman imm

and will conditione & Chinam

thither

immigrating

any

other quarter, with his and Children ; thereby shewing that he has finally forsaken the land of his

Wife

birth.

or even ai

a

solitary adventurer,

without the latent hope of one day returning

to and dying

only the

young

ini

his native land - It is

and

the enterprising of the

male population who

go

abroad at all, or

else the outcast and abandoned the pauper

immigrant

the felow, or the outlaw ; but the immige of any class, if he prosper, will one day return to China, unless, by intermanying

on a

foreign soil, he forms the strongest

lies to attach him to it, and to make it the

Country

of his adoption

!

I cannot think so ill if

326

Government which begets such deep rooted

domestic preju

very fast

dices in its people __ the

Convinces me that it is not as

An a

that

a A ac

like

bad Government; the children of Ham, m

be happy

and

under

az prosper

رہے re ہے

ን

a single handed despotion; may even see trial by jury set up in their neighbourhood, without fretting for the novelty.

Let us

• give up all idea then of the Chinese flocking down to us, through a new-born love of our institutions, or a sentimental distaste of their own; or expect that they will sever the lies and s forget the preju

u

dices

گره

Centuries in our

favor - The pursuit of gain will gradually

being

us down some of their enterpusing

men with full-handed capital, which is what we want _ all beyond that must be the work of time and

belony

the

the foregoing

as it once

ordering of providence

sketch of the

promised, and was so

Coldly promised for; with an outline of

the Reasons t : by those promises proved in

abortive

G

abortive, should conduct us

by a

are

easy

transition to its actual standing and present prospects ; which I propose to lay before +

to the best of my knowledge in the

you

Subjoined.

andum

Semoran

dummand

have the honor to be

Your Excellency's

Most Obedient humbles Serot

&. H. Mitchel

Wisteria, Hongkong.

November 10t 18502.

n

M

Memorandum expon the present

Condition _ trade_ and

Colony of Hongkong

- prospects of the i

the

I now

purpose to

as it stands

to consider th

to set forth the

trade carried on in it and to discuss

Colony

briefly I am glad to say

-

its bona fide prospects . and

Are

by

and these

discouraging

no means dis

I find the settlement at this

moment ins

a prosperous condition, and I entertain t fair hopes of it's future, when certain obstructions, local and political, which I shall presently notice, shall have been pemoved.

Though the Treaty of Nanking had the effect of cutting off Hongko from all share in the trade between Great Britain : and China, there to as one use

for it which it could not disturb . The

port shortly became

the

and

has since continued:

great depôts of our Opicem traffic en

these

these waters __ I estimate that fully this of the entire Opuim crops from 1845 to

184 Q inclusive, were deposited in and re- - shipped from this harbor; and if the than that of

Colony

had no other use

giving even a temporary protection to such

aw brormous snads

کیجے

of British property,

and some degree of security to a trade which, with all it's objections, affords

کے سینے کے نسیم بہتے بھی کسی کے

only earthly chance of successful dealing with the Chiness, this in itself

would render it a highly

desirable and

most useful possession. I submit the

following anything

and distributed along.

328

the

from this Coast The appended retions shown

that the total quantity of Opium which

came on to China from British Indian within the last five years amounted to

220, 717 chests, which taken all round, at the

low estimate of $500 for chest,

very

110.358.500 Represents in palue nearly One hundred and

change

24,830,

at 4/6.

24. $350, 662. 10. 0 lew and half. Millions of dollars_Say

that the of this produce (the proportion

As a

fair calentation and if,

1.

un dev

By Godowns here

the

actual mark.

end of 18444 all the

the

mpleted _ The live

J

were completed -

boere

great receiving ships the Bomanjee Hormus

jee and John Barry, brought over here,

coming

and all the Opium

on to China, with exception of the fragment slowed at bumsengmern, Commenced to be deposited here either

afleat or ashore, and to be reshipped

ار محمد

....

from

882.768.875

change at 4/6 fr $

18.450.000 --

is consider

was

: derably higher now / tons stored here from 18445 le 18149 inclusive _ and we find

has served as

depository of British owned within the last five years,

Al cure

property

to the valuve

کتے۔ پھر کسی

at

of Eighty live millions of dollars the pate of Sixteen millions of dollars annually: chorage.

and now

that Cum-sing-moon

being gradu

An

I

think this Colon

in

ally

abandoned,

may

be looked upon

fuline as the Central Warehouse of

I do not

Seventy million dollars toorth of British Indian produce, year by year . _ insist on any considerable advantage

Accruing

accruing to the colony at large from

Serving

as the depôt of this immense

its

traffic;

but still there is some general

general benefit o derived from it, if only in the influx of shipping which it brings

us, and the share

of their disbursements thrown into our s

bazars ___ while there

gain

ری کے Ley

a very

Considerable

to such of our local firms

engaged

as are b

the Mesors

ed in the Opium trade; as following instances will shew=

Jardine Matheson 886 Keep up their great ship here the Bomanjee with

receiving

receiving ship

en lascars serving,

a dozen

dogen.

Serving

Now Supposing for

2.

Go Mere

ship Keepers -

a moment that these

was no such place as Hongkong,

and

that this ship with the immense amount of property in her hold, had to take up a

ļ

el gunners

gunners - sea cunnies __ tynd als

and thus

___ $329

thus instead of her portage being

Domes

Two hundred dollars ($200) a month, it

would undoubtedly exceed I wo thousand. + dollas / $ 2000 /_ so that the Murray Ballery may

be fairly

said to put the

differences between these two items, month

by month, into the pockets of her

twned

The same of Mess: Dent HC who within

the last live

year have dispensed with a

Receiving Ship altogether

opium in their

on

and store their

shore _ it suck

is go downs -houses as these the colony is invaluable, and will be found hardly less valuable, in due degree, to the Minor Firms engagia

degr

in the trade.

berth at one

of the outside an

chorages, say

Jets

al

or

off _Tintin, as in

Cum-sing-moon,

the olden time; and it is plain she must

carry a full seangoing

she would be, to so

crew, exposed

crew,

much pirate,

Qs

much pirate pisque ; and

that instead of a dozen lascars she must

Carry a hundred with the proper complement

on

Take the

from each sales

of a Firm which

по

more than Fifty.

تقومو

apons

(50) Chests ___ if such Firm had not this Colony and its conveniences to depend : they must have put that opium into receiving vessel at a demunage of Five

dollars ($5) for chest per month; so that

the Firm just so mu

ch per

the colony

of

saves the

per for month on that particular merchandizer

I have taken these two extremes towards

pointing out the advantages

vantages it affords to

the local houses,

all parties en

and we thus see that to

ed in that trade here,

engaged

on

whatever scale, it is a source of considerable

pecuniary gain in the shape of savi

ite such Firms as

saving. have no share in the

Indian trade the colony merely serves as a pleasanter residence than Canton; They could on their home trade as well if

been founded

carry

it had never

The retail trade in Opium

here. I estimate at about 250 chests

a

-month ; A good deal of this s down

· goes

unbroken to the West Coast and is paid

for in Sugar

and

Syces, but a proportion

of it leaves the Colony in the following

An anerez.

Curious

atory character of our

The migratory

population keeps up a constant stream of communication between this island and

these populous districts on the

main out

which it was peopled __ such places

Ad

of

Hwei-shin,

..

+

1

Kwei-shin, Sun-on, Poon-yu, Heongzhen

ت میرے

The passage boats ply

unceasingly, carrying to and fro the shopkeeper, the artizan, the coole,

and

the adventines, together with those endless. small wares which a chinese population Requires. The capital upon which the

shopkeeper is trading here is probably borrowed at interest in his native pillage,

and in paying up lither the interest or principal, he remits opium instead of moniy . _ the same of all the other working chey prefer of sending

classes as to the mode

; and the same of the

home their savings ; and

remittances for the small wares alluded

_

to absoe _ This is by far the most productive branch of our local traffic, because it passes hands from the highest to

through so many

to the lowest - The Merchant or the Agent sells two three or four chests to the broker __

the broker lets these out one

by

one to the retailer and refiner, who boils it down, an de sells the Coolie a pennyworth of prepared in

opium

opium to smokes, or a pounds worth to. remit home by the passage beat to leave

in

a

the evening __ This is not of large trade but,

it it is cons

Course

Considerable

for

a young place like this, and will no

doubt, grou with our increasing general

grow with

trade

Say the whole thing, wholesale

and retail, turns over me more than $100,000 per month _ still the traffic of it passes

through,

in and

-must

some half dozen different hands

to the Colony,

belonging - necessarily leave

each __ I look upon this

a

my, and

4

driblet of gain

b

as one of the best

effects of the modification of the opium

monopoly _ that by

extending

the beenses

to several hands instead of one, it raises

the

up a wholesome competition and Reeps the article at a fair value _ the best evidence is this_ That the

of its beneficial working refining of Opium here with its infinitesimal retail, and the fast of its having grown into the favored

d medium of petty remittances, has entirely sprung up since the sole monopoly

до

was

1

7

was modified into the license sijsten 331

There appears to me

on

that wholesome

soon as

e just

one

way of improving

ely.

те ткалило тату

ast

the finances of the colony may

afford it to abolish that revenue altogether

Can

and to let every struggling chinese who afford it, buy his ball of Opium and boil it down for himself without its being laxed a single farthing .

Causes

assign

the following as the

why a larger local traffic in this universal luxury has not hitherto

up here

...............

q

grown

First _ the retail branch of

it, as explained above, must have been checked if not almost n

hitherto greatly baned by the old monopoly ___ It was

the interest of the Sole-farmer, or rather

Chinaman he would consider it to

As a

be his interest, to sell a comparatively small

at his

own

a much

quantity ab price, than a -larger, at prices laid down for him in an open and fairly disputed trade _ This hitherto kept down the boiling and refining of the

here ___ The farmer

drug

его

was his own Refiner,

and

''

And as

monopolist looked for his own price ;

paw and prepared

which kept the pates both of p.

drug

always somewhat higher here chaw at and pival anchorage of the neighbouring Oumsingmoon. The license syetim has

relieved this difficulty,

and we see

che

benefit of it in opium becoming the favored our industrial classes of

Mode amon

M

A

akin

ching

larger

mangst

their petty remittances to the main . The cause which obstructs

here is cle

wholesale traffic in the article

clearly this __ that it does not suit the two greol houses to encoura

age

it_and

that they even find it their interest to in our heavy pecuniary sacrifices to counteract it .

thus ___ It is

by

no me and an lin common might

on their part, if they find that a

practice

actice on

heavier

quantity

of ding

than usual has been

West coast

taken off by the North east or

smuggling boats, to throw as proportion into

the Market at greatly,

reduced pates __ This is

bought up eagerly by the brokers, and sont

off into the same districts as

the higher

priced

2

priced drug,

332 where it undersell's it - prices

come down __ and the adventures (say he is a Namca Smuggler / is made to feel that

he

carrie de no

his

#7

nothing but a loss by speculation of coming to Hongkong for

of t

his Opium, instead of buying it at the

leant anchorage __ He

trying it again,

ول میں 27 سے

is malev

aturally

ally slow in

keeps in future to his

ceast hade. But that effect is not the

only effect __ The Market here is brought

down

An d

agerey

completely

thrown out of gear the

houses cannel sell a chest for a

- prices be got up again to

time, nor can

then old level for weeks after of these

پر میسر ہے جی السد مریم

antagonistic operations ___ It, would be asked by a stranger what interest can these Mouses have in dis cour

a

raging

the

trade here, where they are themselves the chiep holders

Sellers! ___ the

and

d

might be the abies . obvious - if they

the answer is o

Incouraged the traffic here it would become

An

open traffic in spite of thoms _ no

___ not only

trent d prices be laid down for them, but

trould

they

3329

of the clear onces

they

could only look for

a moderate proportion On the other hand___

by

discoura

aging

the thing here, they keep

and maintain the traffic on the Coast _

Their depôts

Save one, are un disputed;

Them

depôts there,

they lay

down their

own

· prices,

and secure

the

toy great bulk of the deliveries

If the interests of these two, &

Houses did not stand in the way,

D

lve)

Could certainly

certainly have

bery

considerable

trade with the line of Coast from this to

Breaker Foint _ The Cup-chee coasters

would

being

us down the Sugars of their

back

district in abundance,

pium

and piece

e goods_

and carry

the navigation + this side of the Point, is perfectly easy, and,

thanks to the late expiditions, is now. tolerably

free from Pirate-risque

The smarter smu.

smuggling

craft of Namca would bring us down the

produce of the upper districts, and learn by

And

one A

back not merely bye, to carry Caneful leveury, but the useful products of

12

PUV

our leoms _ That the thing is not so, and

not.

that the Colony does n this beneficial

enjoy traffic, I attribute main- ly to the opposition

Raised by the live leading Houses __ The

immediate sea-board districts have in themselves the elements of a productive

Commbra)

given to it_

of Namoa

but

hat there is no en cour

a

agement

Opium is sold in the Straits

Namea for dellaw __ the whole country

above and below it

below it for a hundred miles, is

supplied, from thence.

off.

and consequently all

is aut

exchange trade with this Colony

: There is not perhaps in the world a richer sugar

-

sugar giewing country than that stretching away from the north eastern

boundaries of Quantung, into the heart of the Foken province __ In the early part of 1846 I visited every point upon the lower coast from Marlasm Bay to Amoy, -making a great part of the journey overland, where found the sugar

and lo

4 every

av

cane the

- staple growth of the district. I see ore difficulty whatever in the tray

tray of Sagar

1 ...

in any quantity being brought down to us from these plantations, and a

fine barter trade springing up, save the obstruction

already

is

alluded to.

The navez

-ation

perfectly practicable at all seasons

the year.

·

every's

this side of Breaker Point,

and

of

sea way north and south, has of late been most success-

approach to the Colony.

long

- fully cleared of the pirates which so

infested it, and we have here all the i

Carter stuffs which the trade requires__ but

the one

e great

obstruction exists and is

not removeable ___ It is an evil with which

Mo

ent can deal _ I look upon

Government

it as a

very

serious local evil in

any

trading community, should have got such a start of all the

that one or live Houses

others as to leave them 'no where in the pace ;

and that they should have risen into a position which enables them to command the whole trade and to rule the destinies of

Q

British Colony __ but while I point to

14

the

to Comu

the injury in question it is not to com, of it __ These Houses appear to me to make

than a legitima

по точе

itimate use

of their

capital, in keeping the trade in the channels that suit them best, and without reference to the effect upon any interests outside

own.

g

their

د سے ہونے کے۔

a grand

I look upon this as the lecal obstruction to the troding progress

of the Colony - It is one which time alone can pemedy,

but which I am glad

to say it promises to remedy distant day.

to

at no verz

very

The monopoly think the

capital of these two houses enabled them le maintain for so long a time, has been greatly broken into of late year _ There

are a

one

A.

houses in the trade now,

Agen houses

doen

dozen years ago,

And

for

the consignments

the whole Communication

from India are very beneficially distribute de

Apto five

6 years ago with British India was in the hands of

the live leading Firms, but the first .. application of Steam to the China seas

Remedied)

;

ilm o die di

that

Firm in the

great evils; and now the smallest

trade is on as

as good

__

footing

in

that respect, as the largest __ The same of

the North East Coast up to one year ago ___ The regular communication which in future will be kept up by the Peninsular Oriental Company's boats, will in

and t

my opinion,

work immense

d, and will tend qua

A

dually

e good!

to set the Colony free from the great obstruction which at present besets it ___ The recent arrival:

to

ply between

of another steamer the "Juno te ply

this port, Amoy

and Manila, will also

work much good-

The beneficial effect

in drawing

of steam has been felt already in de

by

up to Amey much of the old Namoa hade _ prices being kept easier there the brisk competition which the leadin Houses have le contend with _. The Peninsulav

leading

and Oriental Company's space boat the "Canton and the "June" have begun to throw heavy opposition supplies into the Amey station, so that it will likely absorb

into

!

334

into itself all the trade of the neighbours anchorages, including that of Namoa ; the effect of which toould be to give this Colony

the supplying of the intermediate line of coast between Namoa and this place, and

to raise up a productive barter trade in

deIndian Sugar dian produce .

One thing should especially

Ar an.

be borne in mind in reference to the + future trading

chances of Hongkongs

that before ever it can have hade worth quoting, or any

And

any funk

other than a

b

desultory malignant clauses of the Supplementary Treaty which limit all Junk trado with the Colony to Junks cleaving out of the Five ports (the very thing

illegal coast trade, chose

as our own

we did not want,

ships had access to these ! ) and

which require the Junks to obtain passes or permits from their

own authorities to inter this harbor (!) must be abolished for ever _ It is a lamentable fact that not one pient of the

sugar grown upon the plantations I have described, can be brought

oht dowon here and seckanged for a final of Thangal

t

Cotton

1

Cotton, unless in contraband trading

and that the penalty to which the Junkman is liable, under the laws of his Country ;, for bringing.

it here,

here, is stran

ulation.

and Confiscation of all his substance It is tive the extreme penalty upon s smuggling is rarely resorted to, but still the power of enforcing it resides in the Govern

ment, and the Chinese traden knows the fact __ Let this Government. only have reason to

to grow jealous of aw increasing Sunks trade between Honghong the Coast, and as the Treaty. stands, and without resorting to any -process not abundantly. wananted by

and

their

a won

laws, they

it _ half a

would put

Can

to an

very

Now

soon check

dozen sharp kamples

do

an end to it _ That they not enforce the laws against smuggling, and shut their eyes to a few of their coasting

here

Junks touching because the thing

More and

agains

is so trifling

id

as not

to excite their jealousy __ Really it is

a matter of immense surprise to me

Bonghong has

whatever

trade of any

any

how

Kind

Here we have these two

16

powerful.

335

powerful Houses making heavy pecuniary

sacrifices every

other

to the Coast,

any

month, to beat back trade which may try to

force its way down to this Colony,

su

An d

ars An

سیم جیسے

thereby alterty chutting out the

Shegars such as Camphor and Alum

Coarse dings, such as-

and similar stuffs, which the native a

coasters would otherwise bring

This in itself would be hard

d

down to us

enough for

any young Colony to contende with But

when in addition to this

treaty with

China limits all Junk traffic with this port to Junk's leasing out of the thrive

Ports,

and places even these

under the most rexatious restrictions _ my repeated

my

tiado

tender is that the Colony has any

at all ! ___ Upon po pational calculation could we ever have expoctice a junk trade out of the Five Ports __ If there be

one

any

as a

pioul of produce of any Winds at s of these Ports, which would pay

one

return, there

are ou

Merchants in

the spot to buy it _ there is our mer

merchandize

Stored

1

:

i

tored

there

on

is our

the spot to barter for it, and

в

shipping, on

Me may

Carry it away

the spot, to

assure ourselves

it two ald never be left there for the

lumbungy

Post Junks to bring it to Hongkong. If it would pay the Engh

English Merchant at Hongkong as a return", it would have paid his Agent at the upper Port, and there it would have been bought,

And

the Junk freight saved upon it.

It would have been infinitely

more pational if we had

!

the thing;

a just p reversed and, after we had stipulated

( on board the "Cornwallis off Nanking)

for a free

and unrestricted

Junk trade

with our young colony, for every Junk & clearing out of every reach or liver, nook: chorage, between the Becca

haven or

aud

An

sea, we had indulged

and

Tigris the Yellow in a little diplomatic liberality), made the Imperial Commission pacious gift of the Junk Trade of the

Fine Ports.

20

!

sioners

a

336

thereby

Molish chose malignant. clauses of the Supplementary Threaty - Legalize the Opium trade __ and free the Coast from the systematic smu that obtains,

and you will undoubtedly have a larger

ruggling

er commerce between it and

lr

this Colony that is to say- you will haver

a considerables barter trade between the

Coarser _

__

produce of China __ its sugars.

some of it's drugs

and ouer

sand

or general merchandis But let us always bear in mind, that

we ( speaking for Hongkong) shall never

lin

der an

any.

air cumstan als

• get a

trade in

of her

her raw silks and teas or

more

any precious productions, now that vents have been opened up in the which they were grown-

very

coil upon

The present funk trade

of the Colony is for these causes, rather of

an adventitious than settled character.

The Junk's sometimes drop in-

21

here in

here in good

numbers,

¦

Abolish

337

numbers deeply laden - remain here some

days as

-

if to feel the market, and go

out as deep as

a

they

@ame, merely shipping

few Chests of Opium-

at other.

times they sell everything here _ invest the proceeds in Opium and a few piece

and go out in ballast__ithere settled or regular about the

goods, and go

nothing

is n

trade_no

which the

and: 1849 appears to me to have arisen

frons temporary

Causes.

-They

could not

resort to the Sandwich Islands

de or an

any

of the Ports on the Pacific, without the

certainty of losing their crews

untry/s

I d C v u

to the gold

ten

by

desertion

and therefore came

up here to refit, though

their

nothing upon

to ay -

fixed demand _ n

general broker here can

calculate so that he might lay himself

out to have the very stuffs they to and ready

siven time . Under the

for them by a given

arcumstances. I cannot pentive to make

an estimate of its value or extent

As a Whaling Station

Houghing is expected by some to take a prominent position _ I do not think it will _ The influx of so many of the

southern whalers into this Port in 1848

22

and

>

We

may,

so much out of

perhaps look for

some of the homeward bound whales. from the Coasts of Corea

d. Japan

to touch here __ but for mere refitting think it likely they will be found

will

in

stores and supplies of all kinds at

Shanghae, without Coming

Moosung

and

so much further to the Southward for

them

_ I should observe however that

those on the spot who

are en

engaged

ged in

and understand this trade, differ from

my opinion,

and maintain that this will be the Port of refit and sale of the stock on board _ for two reasons-

First

!

:

First that the dangers of Shanghai

liver and

the loss of tivo Whalers on

year will deter them

it's banks last ye

is

from frequenting it ___ secondly that there

always so much more and more suitable Connage for oil to be found here chan

at

Shanghas, and

this

ů

a mo20

open

of that taken altogether,

and better market

for oil than the Northern Port . __

The Storage & piece

here for the Canton and e

goods her

markets has

as in Cieased

very

d Amey ably

Considerably This helps to

within the last year_ account for the increased amount of tonnage

which the harbor master's & returns exhibit, and is satisfactory

vessels touching here to deposit

many

hard

part of their cargoes before they pro

of the

) proceed cessarily chrow some

river, must necessarily

their disbursements into our

of

bazars,

and

benefit.

shops and

our small dealers.

25

Me

We owe

this chiefly to the formation 333

the River Steam Company . Their vessels.

Now Cany

cany

bale

pods

goods

ds at the old Sorcha rates, and the latter have consequently

been beaten off the river.

ld in new sold

Comes down

the

in Canton by

The

· goods are mustin_ the order

by the evening's post beat ; and

next steamer lays them down off the Factories ____ the colony thus serving not

our mer

only as a secure dépôt for chandiga free from all the fire pisque and insurrectionay

dangers of Canton, but having all the effect of a Bonding Warehouse; as the goods are not called upon to pay Auty

until they are sold _ Our fine,

Our fine go-downs here hitherto full of emptiness

emptiness are at

last being burned to good account, and the Colony is gradually working

uses._ Honghong round to its proper

is the natural Warchouse for all our

mer

chandise addressed to the Canton's market __ hitherto the old Customs of the

hade

1

!

trade

and this slowness

wness and irre

irregularity

of Lorcha communication prevented its fulfilling this desirables over __ but our Conveniences are now so complete, that

a Sin

to

single successful act of fire raising

الرحیم

own

by the Canton mob, would drive downt

us the future storage of all goods.. ( Indian Collon included: __)

Every picul of that staple which enters the Port of Canton pays the Mon,

ށ އ

"gonaw

Srak house keeper a fixed rate of

( of silver ) per peeul, being

Mace

for godown pent and landing charges so that we actually paid the sum of Two

Hundred and

hundred

sixty

grine

thousand, nine

dred and sixty nine dollars and

100

twenty light cents _ $ 269,969% in go down rent and coole hire on the

quantity of Colton imported into Canton

last

year,

while

almost empty here_

Oter

Ox

Go-downs

downs were

Here is a quarter

ally, which

of a million dollars, annu

this colony may fairly look for in course

26

of

$269,9692 Exchange at whip £60. 743, 1.8

£60.7431

i

on the occurrence of 333

of a few years, or on the first crisis or

sweeping fire

on the

water side of Canton. The whole or

at least 9/10 ks of our Indian Cotton

trade is in our

own han

on da j

sharp

our A

American neighbours have nothing to do

with it,

r..d

have no interest counter to

ours, and the article is just as marketable and available stored here as at Canton_ It will be sold by muster and taken up the river as prices have lately begun to be, by the Steamers _ with this difference _ that the Steamer instead of Canying

act as a

they

goods

will

lug to large Cargo boats such as

use in the Hooghly _ We shall thus save to ourselves the present heavy rentage

paid to the Canton Sack-house Keeper

and the Colony will

4 get at least one half

the disbursements of our Indian Cotton

ships _ 80 to 100 sail _ All inroads ahannels of

into the old customs and

trade in China must necessarily be slow,

but this change

in so feasible

and so natural

looking

i

looking at the critical position of British

at Canton _ that I look upon of the most assured prospects

property a

it as one

of the Colony within the next five

while the event m

any day by at the

City

ma

may

years;

round

be brought town. another fire-paising or convulsion

The fairest prospects of the

Settlement, however, appear to me ti lie in the

new trade springing up between its

and California _ and

generally with the

West Coast of North au & South Americas

I find that upwar

гад

of

10,000 tons of Shipping were wholly

- partly loaded in this harbor for the Wast coasts of N & S Amerion between the

fot

year

4 January

anuary and 30

4 June of the current see Returns fo

:.

were under the Britishs,

Slag

and on.

only see Returns to

1156 under the American

Of these 10.000 tons 68412

The Chine merchandige

exported consisted chiefly, of the following

28

articles

articles _ coarse silks _ (arquered ware

340

floor matting _ camphor trunks _fore works _

Sweet meats_ lea_ su

ar_molasse

sugar-

-

wrought

granite . wooden houses_planed lumber__

and nick-nacks of all sorts

The bulk of the Sugar exporteds

was loaded here

in the

district called

It was

ht down

brought

p

the usual smuggling beats from a t

Shoy-ho. lang, the flat country

stretching inland from the Bogue,

paid for in Opium

and Avas

Molasses has been shipped in some

& was

quantity The natives for the first time

have commenced which employ

packing

the article here, labor, as the packing

some labor,

for export comes

to

more

Sweet Meats and

than the first cost-

Five works

The Chinese have lately

Čeam envɛed):

manufacture of these wares here on

Considerable scale

· for txport_

the

Campher

Camphor Wood Articles, mch

-

suck

as Trunks - Writing Desks _ Sofa beastead - Book cases- to have been manufactured

an în Ar

market to

a

here for the Californian large extent- and

extent and the cabinet makers

#1

are,

1

and Common carpenters

Are aS

A

class, in

thuering

cumstan

but

granite __ I think it likely

:

that a large hade in wrought granite.

such as door and window cheeks-lintels_

conamental coping

spring up between this

Stone cutting

arı a

P will

Californier

is cheaper here than in an

any

curly bading with the West __ the voyage

is shorter - and all the smaller scantlings will be

readily taken freight free as ballast_

nature of California,

From the sandy

and the fact that all these New cities in

the gold region, have yet

to be built,

lon d

that the country itself supplies neither

limestone

nor granite, these

materials

must be imported ; and there is no quarter

from

'

from which they can be laid down 341 cheaply as from this. If the Californians

Ban

An d

afford to import bricks from Liverpool New York by way of Cape Horn - a

six months

this

vegagen ( as they ment 1 they

Can

wrought granite from.

are dein

deing

afford to buy

at

which can be

As a

laid down at their doors in six weeks -

A demand

of this nature trould draw a

and

great deal of labor into the Colony,

every fresh settler who

settler who comes here, however humble, if he

Can

ment, is a

only find honest

employment, boon to us_Me

demand

hardly look for a large den

few

"years.

0.J

during.

Can

$

for a

that interval nothing.

but temporary croctions will be thought of, but the

day

will come when mo

more substantial édifices will be required; and it will be

a curious.

faat of it should turn out so,

hills of

that the new cities of the El Dorado have been partly built, out of the hills Hongkong

Silk Siece Goods _Considering

that

I

:

-

that

arc

the

none

very)

() commonest silks

but the

shipped to the West coast, and that

on.a

loyed is so simple

chinery employed

that the pongee weaver could pack up

his traps

and come down here

from Canton

so readily, I think it not impossible that

a beanch of this manufacture

may spring

up here _ Such a thing however can

come round in the course of time

Pongee

ee

ایی

only The

weaver and his whole family,

wives, daughters

and all, are en

engaged

in the different processes of the manafacture,

and, as already

observed it is a work of

infinite difficulty to get

man to

as cat

Gods

living

his family

a desent Chinar

ana

household

of China, as long as he can find

in it _____ the inducement in

ain

shape of pecuniary gain

and

strong,

There is a

And

sain

the

must be very

I cannot see much in this case-

better chance of the dyeing,

printing of these

coarse silk's coming,

down to

us in the

first insten

instance, inasmuch

as,

duty

upon

the

this being a free Port, the

AL

342 Bub

the dye stuffs would be savicout

even this chance must be a work of times

It is clear that a vast trade in tropical.

produ

And man a

anufactures must rapiaty.

en et

spring up between China Gold World of the West and a

there is

Countries; and›

then New

adjacent

is every prospect.

that Hongkong will have that traffic, and in one

be benefited by

shape

share of

or other

ncouraging

it. It is an encour

fact that of the Ten thousands lons of

which left China for California

• year,

Shipping

tons

during the first : Six months of this pearly seven thousand lens ivere British, that the whole was despatched from

and

and

بيتر الرحيم

chiefly loaded in this harbor. The

2. dinary

this. If

course of the operation is ship chartered here for San Francisco, or

the West Coast,

7

- goes up the river and takes in her silk

silk goods, leas and nick-nacks

ce and

then returns to this place

to lead her heavy freight

and is

Coinm en eks

finally

despatched from hence . It is also

so very

gealifying

343

:

to find that the bulk of the

gratifying

Sugar hitherte exported has been loade

here __ first __ because it must become a great staple of the exports from China to the West secondly, because the usual exchange of the article here is Opium which suits us exactly; thirdly because if a demand springs up it will in duce the

ہے ہیں اوری

Coast

"grown sugars

to be

be

brought clown to

i

us and repacked here for cxport, to the greal

wat benefit of the belony Fokien

Sugars

and are 10 to 12% cheaper than those

of this province, and could readily be

brought

kt down.

by coasting jun

coasting junks, lor chas

se, and especially by the numerous s

foreign vessels

soles com

coming

channel in ballast.

I.

down Formosa

dingly look upon the

accordin

following

as the more prominent advantages which Hongkong will derive from the new-trade with the West __ first - a great

: influx of the shipping of all nations - +

secondly-

that some of the staple exports

such.

34

such as su

Sugar, bartered

Kong,

it may

one

d

day

will be brought to Hong i-

and loade a here;

become

کا میں

and that

depict of Const

grown sugars for the Californian markets this dbr _ that the manufacture of some of the exarser toares required for

the Western

Markets and

hitherto confined to Canton,

hongeenseld=

will spring up here ; such as po

-Ive aving

nerea to are.

and dyeing _ lacquered

and coarse porcelain manufacture_ to to

Looking forward to some

A

giftren Hongkong

for

twenty years

hence, I think

will be the chief Port of supply

Chinese population

a considerable Chin

about to spring up on the Western shores of the Pacific_

a

steady

and Considerables

emigration from China to the West coast

of North and South America has already

set in _ a

along

_

a great dearth of labor is fell all the West coast from Valparaiso,

to Lima and the Mexican sea-board,

owing to such numbers of the working

population

population having flocked from thence to California _ this defection must be

made up from some quarter and

میں نے پور

other so available as China

there is

From the promising start

made it is not un

already line to see

fifty to

کام مسبح

unlikely

hundred

lue on

may thousand

Chinese settled on the Western shores of co

South America ; the settlew retaining all

their Asiatic habits;

and

imbuing the American

blood with which they will have intermingled, with tastes and prejudices kindre a to their own _ It will be a curious thing

future day to find

at

ت رہے

a new race of this Kind-

cross, never known before, between

a feck cross,

a fresh

two of the great original paces _ the American Mongolian - rapidly extending itself.

-

And t

along the base of the Andes and

Western

habits and

shores of the Pacific, the habits

the

peculiar tastes of the Chinese blood pre dominating, thereby extending Memand for the products of the mother

country, promoting tra

:oting trade and nan

navigation/ forming

we Return to 3

see

344

bonds between distant nations

forming new binas between

Governments

Ana

ents, and thus widening.

the lines of civilization,

-ation, and making

good the World's progress-

That this

is no idle vision is evident from the

foot foot shown by the

.

Annexed returns.

that nearly 2,000 healthy Chinese have already been shippica ferme China for the Western shores within 10 months! That these

fellows must

• young and lusty fello intermingle with the dark beauties of the Country, Creole, Mulatto, and

Mestiza,

is plain enough ; and equally plain that

Cross will be

the cros

more of

Chin

amaŭ

that an American, and with ins tin alive

Asiatic tastes and

forwar

preju

ard then beyond

ond our

dices

Looking

n time

think Hongkong will become the chef seat of the trade for the supply of that new + population, and that on the whole its

prospects arising from the West

discoura

sender ding- have

are not.

The Chilian Grocenment,

under the dearth of labor already noticed, haw proclaimed a bounty

bounty of $30 a

head

395

head

landed at

d on all healthy Chinese coolies not boxeding thirty years any of their searports _ Two shipments

well.

of age,

had already arrived the " "Frederick Wilhelm "'" and Manuelità" and had turned out A contract was immediately lakow up with the Geveenment, and the Coolics in the Albert" and the Chili wese shipped thereunder ___ Mr Elias the super cargo- of the Albert who was murdered, came here to set the thing

logoing,

An A

haw left

arv

ent named

agent

Guillon behind to carry it out; and there

Can

be no doubt that we shall see a

see a ver

very

extensive emigration setting towards the West from China, notwithstanding the

check it may for a time receive

the

from

disastrous out-turn of the shipments

per Albert and

Contracts for 600 more have recon

Lady Montague ".

My been taken up here, and vessels chartered to transport chem, so that we

may safely estimate that 3,000 Chinese will have

38

Crossed

crossed the Pacific within the present

and this be it recollected, in the year first rough buust of the thing,

and

without either time or means to systematize

the emigration

In conclusion - the

Colony

appears to me to have settled down into its

natural Condition,

Arra

-level under the treaty of.

the

to the only legitimate

treaty of Nanking _ It is

never to be the centre or medium of our. home trade with China, but it is to serve

Að An

important and useful outport to our I trade - a refuge for it under any

general

eneral

temporary difficulties _ and at all times

ада

the

safegua

تیں کیسے کیسے جسم

ری کر رہا ہے

رہے 2

people trading within

ent, and an operation

grack of this Government

though silent restraint upon its insolen and treachery ___ Me might have had a better position

a toowe_ as it is we

A

are tied to it, and must make this bost of it _ On the whole it is not a had one, and I think it wout a not be difficult

to

:

!

:

to shew that it position for

is very nearly as good

our to anto

and purposes

could have chosen on these shores,

preferable one to Chusan

Π

a

eo cis le

and a

With respect to the Actual Condition of the Colony J.

Con

glad to be able to state that I find

the Chinese side of it steadily improving ;

fair remuneration for all classes

And

the properly belong to it whether shop skaper

artiza

ant

cookie ___ The first does not

or Cool

how Come over

from the Main with a

sectain sum of money

in his purse to

start a shop here, full of wild expectation

of the profits to be made out of the fanqui'

in the new settlement _ He.

is not now --

Enticed to a night sale in an Mucation strom,

where the most worthless

to goods were jobbed

off, upon him at prices which they would

novev

Land.

repay-

in consequence

he

lo No

longer

driven

to some Usurer for a small

loan to keep his shop open, hypothecating

all

all. he had in the world for it, an 35

hi

nearest

friends

involving difficulty ___ The lawyer longe seize

Can mo

ds in his the

22.

LAUREN

the first available i

moment to sell him up, and in his hopeless

Abrin.

bring

down the curses of himself

his class upon

the

and

name of the foreigner,

upon than English - Law Crusts es

and upon

which worked his puin-

سے

the Chinese

small trader has passed through deep waters

this Colony,

in th

thrown

away

A

what.

but the lesson has not been

upon him_ Ste

now knows

toares suit the foreigner, and what moderate

profits he

bn

may

expect upon them,

his trade, accor

and Carried

dingly, slowly but safely roway - far less law _ and

There is far less nouay-

far

__

More)

infinitely less legal oppression on our side __ less cotravagant Expectation and Cautions dealing on the side of the Chin

In the old time he looked at once to make

home to his country to

a fortune, enjoy

and to

logo

it i

his ambition is now sobered down

into making a comfortable living here and

going

:

going home in his old

in the tombs of his

age to lay his bones

ancestors - You

speak with an industrious Chinam

the present day

0.0

cannot.

Aon An A

to his pursuits an

دیکر جیسے

at

<<

4/

prospects here, without observing that he

No

longer feels himself a

a mera bird of

passage, but a permanent settler, identified

for better for worse with the progress of the Celony

The Cheap and Summary Justice

established

under

the Supreme

and

session Courts, has worked admira

Belly bly;

and has served to restora or pather arcate

all confidence in our Civil judicature _ It has hit the taste of the Chinaman He likes what he calls

to

ba

a nice

mieety -

that face to face pidgeon to be able to

tells his own

preeks,

it there

I

story,

and either to

and

then,

and to bring his .

in

le gains

own

his case or lose

and be done with it

Mis estimation of the new Summ

systems

Summary syps.

proved by the fact that even where the

Amount

4

Amount is considerable, and extends 387 the full limits in either Court, he

sarely

very

in deed employs a lawyer in his Cause _ He has had quite enough of him besides which it falls in mor

naturally with the

e grain of a Chinaman to settle a civil suit, after it is decided,

He now obtains

cably. He his own viva) você pleading

quietly. and amicably his device after before the Judge,

money

дас

home and gets his

out of the defaulter by practicable

instalments, instead of cutting off all

chance

of it,

and. Meine

Muining

his

hbour

neeg.

by throwing him into a prison,

as it used

to follow, in the olden time - Since I became Sheriff some

ago,

light months there have not been more

than four so

Committals of Chinese under Civil decree,

and none

of the individuals above the

class of a dobie

6v

al

Croke - That

pccied in the history of the Colony during. which the Lawyers reigned supreme to as

brady

a dismal and a wretched one the

building

.

(uilding of a now aty by a people who

understood neither our language

سو ہم سے رجیع کرتے ساری

laws, mecesor

arily gave occasion to endless misapprehensions on both sides - But the

lawyer,

who literally, not figuratively, kept

his law-scouts to hunt up these

the natives, was ever ready

to tell the Chin

Could work.

Am Os:

for him,

Oases Amon

amongst

and at hand

what won das hen

вом

and how he could

not to without him; and once the

the ming

(misguided) native took the first step in a suit, he himself as much in the clutches of the lawyer as the debtor be prosecuted _So mentiously were the Chinese squeezed in -law costs here during the first three years,

that it at one time became

thing

give

me a/

Common

a very to compound with the lawyer

and

him a third of the amount at stake

or nothing, for recovsung it !

The Artizans of the Colony

of cocry, class are in much better arcumstances

than they.

years

ago-

The

they were up to tive Californians demand has kept them busy,

and

although its is net so brisk

328 as it

was, yet

ضا

out the whole their employment

fretty steady.

too is in

The Coolie population

better footing

The immense

gangs of labourers who were thrown out

of employ

various

on the completion of the buildings and public works, have dispersa

An d

there remains little

chan the

actual quantity of labor, requisite for the pumposed of the Colony in Some stra

and to a

Fragglers abonds and out-laws are no-

doubt to be found lurking on our purtions, but the only real tronder is that they.

So fewer

tere

2200

The Gills of Crime

o will be heavy from

still and alway

of the

the position of the island as one Ladrone

ladrone group; and its proximity to the Main, whence a forry hire of a

penny, will being

hour in

any

the

day,

a fresh chick

but taking it

all and all, the graver class of felonies

has

And

1

;

has been most successfully abated, and

that open

and danng robbery by

angs at noon,

gangs

on

the

arme d

high ways

of

the Colony, which prevailed a few years

has been / speaking generally / brought

sneaking

age,

down to one

" the night.

le

any

un der Cover of

In conclusion _ The Colony appears to me to be facily, prospering -

It has found it's actual level, and is

gradually working rounds to its proper The obstructions which beset

UD Cel

its progress

его

A/

trading settlement,

must yield to time and a natural decay;

and it's future prospects, though they

- must necessarily be of slow developonent,

:

Seem D.

sufficiently promising

Victoria, Mon

BA. Mitchsh

Hongkong 1st November 1850.)

46

↓

+

340

:

5

:

}

Chenn

Bengal Opium imported into China from

1845 to 1849 inclusive

350

1845-

1846.

1847.

18.792

9:00

00

21,650

1848.

28,000

1849-

36000

Chests

124,442

Bombay Opicem imported into China from 1845-

to 1849 inclusive

18115

1846.

18117-

1848.

1849.

Bengal-

Bombay

20660

19.063

20,523 17497 18539

Chests 96,275

124,449,

96,275

Vinteria, Honghong

No! November 1850

Total Chests 220,717

MM. Shitalish

:

:

ì

Return Av 0

-

.

Return Nr.1

115:2

Hongkong

List of Vessels wholly or partially, lea dea at Wrong- for California and the West Coast of North and South America from 1st January to 308 June 1850-

January

Names

10 Whitby

11 Black Dog

18 Frederick Wilhelm

23 Marie

Flag Rig Sons

British Bark 37/4

*

Ser

154

Danish Bark | 430

250

351

Quantity of Bengal

and)

into China from the Bombay Opium importe d

Afkar

1845 to 1849 inclusive __

bruary

1 Bothen

azy

4. Auckland

10 Warlock.

Lady Monta que 144 Elizabeth Mehen 16 Wodan

March 4

Adventure.

5 Lord Hungerfor

Cornwall.

13 Anonyma

17 Mala of Sulpha.

Mathilde.

23

Hul 2 Balley

6 Helse

7 Louisa Baillie.

24. Flavius

29 Stockholm

ress

26 Hrugh Walker

Charles Willson___

May

10

Cong

June

Carl & Herma

کے لیے

arn

3 Mary Ann Folliett. 4 Sir George Follock

Frbolid. 13 Amaron

Empressa

British

250

American-

204

British Brig.

Big 2.37

ship

763

Bark

338

Danish ship

2.33

Brition Ser

120

ship Yog

Bark

580

American Scr

75

British Bri

Beig

189

Danish

130

British Ser

1443

ship 567

413

American

290

Swedish

400

American

375

British

496

dor

60

Namburgh Ship 60 o British

American Brig

British Ship

400

630

の

219

380

Persian Bark_735

Total Tonnage

Victoria Hongkong

14 November 1850

10776.

14. Mitshak

1

•

1

Return A.A.

Vessels

wholly.

List of partiolly loaded at

Hongkong

che West

for California) and the

and South

to 30 June 1830

America kom fot coast of North

any

4.1512

سبزرنگ

352

Abstract of Senuage employed betwee

Hongkong 1ot January

کہ کر

and the West Coast from the

to the 30th June

1850-

British

Return N. 9

Amore cont

Danisk

Swedish and . Hamburght-

Persian.

6849 tons

1136

1043

Mamburgh 1,000

735

نگی

Total tonnage despatches from Berghing 16, 1/16 Fore

Victoria Hongkong

1st November 1830

WH. Bakchod.

!

Return A.Q.

353

and the

List of Chinese Coolies shipped for the West Coast of South America between the 18th January

& October 185t in one British and eight foreign bottoms, despatched from Whampica Camsingmoon an & Moosung

10

li

Date

Abstract of Sonnage

employed.

30th June 1850

the pot January

and the West Coast from

between Hongkong.

to the n

Return No. 3

Wessels

Flag Rig Coolies

- - -

Anonymar

American Bug

12.0

Frederick Wilhelm - Danish Bark

12.5

Manuelita.

Brench Breg

120

Albert.

Back 185

Chili

300

Lady Montague

British Ship

450

Empressa

Pusion Bark

370

Faralinta_

Ameucan

190

Amazen

150

Total Coolies sent fouvard up to 10. Weto 1.9110

Viatoria Hongheng

1st November 1850

MR. With

*

¿

7:

:

The 18th January

of South America between shipped for the West Coast

List of Chinese Coolies

and

107 October 1850, in

the

Cone Butish

despatched from Whampoa

and sight foreign bottoms

Curnsin gewoon'

an a

Borsun

Meturn No. 3...

}

:

•

#

Précis of a letter and Mem

upon the present condition, trade, and - prospects of Hongkong,

addressed to

um

His Excellency Mr Bonham, Governor,

1 0, by M HC Mitchell, Esq^#.

The position

And

prospects of the

Colony, of which Mr. Mitchells has had

a long

and intimate experience,

were

entirely changed by the Treaty of Mankings When Captain Elliot look possession

of Hongkong

in 1841, after his convention

with Kishen, it was natially regarded

a.d

the future centre of our

Commerce.

In de

in defien dent of

fine

Canton,

again be

could never again

general

arbour

trade:

n

En

dangered

as

heretofore at Whampex . Kishen's Convention

did not

ainst a recurrence of

of guard against

the causes of former interruptions, and

4

there

was reason to suppose that these

might, eventually force the Canton Shade

down to

onghong).

The expectations arising out of

the sudden release from all embarrassments

:

may, even then, have been ex a

exagger

raggerated;

but the Treaty of Nanking in 18.162,

by opening other ports besides Canton o

produced a total change

in the prospects of the Colony ; dependent as these were upon a state of things not improbable

at the post of Canton, the only

which we had had.

This

d a cceS)

one

to

e was overlooked by

change was

Sir Henry Pottinger, by Sir John Davis,

even in 1845 ; up to the

by

ouv

er er

end of 1844-

chants, who were stille.

for good positions ;

by

still eager and in particulers

one an eminent Merchant who in

1845 went so far

Exchange .

as to build an

When His. Brecellency

3•

Han

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14

355

Mr. Benham arrived in 1848, there

the

0722

were still persons enthusiastic about.

benifits to be reflected certain changes.

at

great the Colony by

Mr

Bonham did met depreciate the n

not

Colony

as

port,

and a

a political

position, but was

persuaded that its

original prospects were altered and that its development must be

gradual. It would be rain to complain

of the itreaty as infring Hongkong

is

as a centre of trade, when it had

opened a thousand miles of the Coast: of the producing distriats. Fault to be found with those who have persisted, since the Treaty changed

its prospects, in expectations hardly wananted before the change.

The Colony never could

have shared in the Spade between

Great Britain and China,

or ce

L

:

:

because

the Trade

at once

the Treaty had opened the Ports became

direct with China. Our Ships

8 go naturally

so the accessible points of supply and demand),

and to chose the native naturally brings his

produce

no in ducement

Our Ships have

ding

than

to wait at Honghon

Honghong instead of proceeder

more the

to the Ports for their cargo, any United States Merchant men have at

have at Scilly

or the Isle of Wight, when Liverpool

Sondon are

ana

open to them : while the native

f

hesitates to expose t

exfiose his more:

: precious

cious lvahet

in his own pude Craft to the risk of

dea and:

pirates ; their in alue being

Moreover

considerably enhanced to the purchaser by

the hear

heavy junk freight to be added to it.

No native trader, in

short, whe

find a dealer at his

dealer at his own door would

Can find

ever encounter the various risks to be, iun

in Coming

to the Colony ;=

and this

+

settlement

remark applies to Chusan or any

lve me

might possess .

ST

F

passive,

356

When Six & Davis declare §§

1844.5 that Hongkong would supersede Carton he was · probably counting

in

counting on the

City;

insecurity of our position at that but the influence, active and

of the Americans, was

was overlooked . They

dwell with all Classes of Chin

their distinctness from us ;

ese,

they avoid

Honghong socially, politically commercially.. Meantime,

antime, the necessities

e

and

of rode oblige.

- us to be wherever they

years much of

Arl,

and in the last few

our tro de has passed into their hands.

At this

moment it is our interest to +

draw trade from Canton hither; but

and

they choose to support Canton, they force us to support it, against &

the interest of the Colony.

This shews

the necessity of weighing well the disturbing effect of Americas jealousy

or interest

o

ow

any arrangem

arrangement which.

.:

i

:

be had in contemplation by the o Government. The American

Beitish Governm

influence alon will prevent Honghe

Hongking

from superseding Cantow, and it was

the disre

disreg

Ar d

of this influence that

misled Six J. Davis into the fallacy

:

abone

(c) quoteds.

Another fallang

arises out of

the prosperity, rapidly developed, of s Singapore and. Bataviar, comparatively; distant from China . Speculators forget

An A

that the propinquity of Honghong

A be

Otased)

cument a fortiori in favour

An Argum

argur

it's commen 00

of its

was se

Signed .

lenger any

a.S

soon as

the Treaty

The Chinese had

210

carry his

his

in du cement to can

more precious stuffs out of China.

Previous Superintendants of

trade must have founded the

Extensive views they put forth, upon loont representations of assumed

ތ

experience .

land.

er Came

Sir Henry Pettinger sphore entirely

d and

He must have spoken

I bu

lo

357

to kimi .

and so ritten fremt

dment, tho

the mouths of Experience d' ment, -manifested their faith in the prospects

of the settlement, by the price which

they paid for the soil, and the prefuseness of their

heir on

in improving

cullay

it. The

Plenipotentiaries caught the enthusiasm

of the Merchants. These latter, long witnesses of much oppression at Canten may perhaps have expreted that the belong

would have had

A.

large

a

L

population of trey class, attracted by our administration of Justice - But, supposing.

this to have sugge

the

ested) +

itself to their aninds low years ago

have since learned that the ho

of China is not so

1:

we.

as Government

grievous to it's

eets as it had been held to be

subjects

9

Ashang sheng

evidence

of its

4 general good.

is that few respectable Chinese emigrate

at all; and the emigrant of any returns to China, if he prospers .

class

To conclude, we cannot hope for

the advent of any but such enterprising capitalists as the hope of gain may

May in

A

course of time, allure; and the former

prospects of

of Hongkong,

of the

توانیم از این ایم مقام پر اور

to the promise d

with an outline

why these were not fulfilled

de

degree,

having

been

shetched, Mr Mitchell proceeds to

the actual standing

futive of the Colony.

and possible

Memo:

upon the present condition,

trade, and prospects of Hongkong-

The Colon's prospects

discouraging) -

As the

are

353

by

220-91 CAND

great dépôt of om opium

traffic, the treaty

did it no

our

harm -

Beliveen 1845-9 some three-fourths of

the opium Crops were deposited in and

reshipped from this harbour, which thus:

ense amount of British

protected an immense amou

property.

By

Opium coming

the

end of 1844 all the

to China, save a

portion stored at Cum

small

Cumsingmoon, began

magazines here, or in two

to be stored in m

-receiving ships in the harbour : that is

that of 220, 717 Chests at $500

A

to say

chest.

Q

low estimate _ worth $110, 358, 500,

at least three-fourths, worth $82, 768,875

was stored here in

here in five yeaw; giving

ant

annual rate of $16,000,000, or about 3/1⁄2. Million sterling of property deposited

یک نے

in

Hongkong.

This must now in crease,

as Campingmeen anchorage is being

Cursingmoon gradually abandoned.

There

There is

is of course

urse advanta

tage

in

the influx of the opium shipping

their disbursements here,

in a

and

the local

themselves

a demurrage

تم سے تم به ایستی مجھے کیسے

еде

of

5 per Chest

359

per month, which they would have to pory

were their operim on board

veliving ship.

The Retail Trade in opium

amounts to some 250 Chests

غیر قے کو

ایم بی

month.

T

firms otherwise benefit Exceeding

dingly by

their position here - Mess': Jardine

Matheson & Co keep a receiving Ship in harbour at possibly a tenth of the expense - the difference of Crew and other requirements considered _ that they could, were

lying

in an outer an

she

this

anchorage ;

and thi

secure from dangers of the sea, pirates to

Mess's Dent & Co. have been enabled,

for the last two years, to dispense entirely with a receiving ship, and house all their opeum on shore

on shore - Smaller firms.

receiving some 50 Chests from India house them in the Colony,

thas

saving

:

some of this

дело

unbroken to the West

Coast, and is paid for in su

sugar but much of it to the adjoining

syce;

districts which supply

and

من امر تم کی

migratory

population, the remit it home in lieu

of menty.

This Colonial traffic, wholesale

and pitail, amounts to perhaps $100,000 a month, passing through several has belonging to the Colony .

in and

The modification of the opiums

monopoly has done much,

good.

Wholesome competition is Hept up

amen got

A

number of licensees. The

refining of opium here,

and

the remittance

system have sprung up since the above:

1

In

change An abolition of the tass n altogether would be a yet farther improvement -

Hectofore the monopoly checked

the petail trade. The farmer

er was

own refiner and,

i t

looking

as a common

his

look out for

clea

اه می شویم این اے سے

360

moderate proportion of the

As it is, they keep thes

traffic to the coast, where they have

competitors.

Were it not for this, the coasters,

monopolist

raw and

for his own price, kept the drug, raw-

prepared, at a higher price her than

it to as sold at

teas teas

sold at Cumsing

The two great houses make

sacrifices to discour

sale of

discourage a larger opium here . When ever native smugglers

Barry

hence a large quantity, the great -houses glut the Colonial Market at a reduced rate. The opium so sold + follows the smuggler to his port, and

he finds he has lost by his trip to the Colony. This

on anduvre.

e not only discourages him but upsets operations here. It is

practiseds to prevent.

an

open traffie;

prices would otherwise be laid down for the said Houses, and they could only

along

a certain line, would bring us suz

sugar

and carry away

not opium alone, but picas

goods. Opium

Opium is sold at Namoa for dollars,

and the whole vicinity thence supplied;

districts are discour

discouraged,

che

Sugar-growing above shewn, from seeking although the navigation is easy

has greatly decreased, since of the fleets last year.

the

گر ہم سے

ding here,

piracy

An A

the destruction

This is the

An A

gran.

lécal obshuction to the opium trade of the

Colony;

still the two houses who inflict

this cvil on

it de ne

رحمت بھیج دو دور می باش

than make a

use of their capital. - Steam

itimate use

legitimate

and other causes have considerably broken

up the mone pely enjoyed by them till a few

:

144

IPLIN

years ago;

and the extension of Steam

communication to Shanghai Ic will of

course work further change

Houghing

Can Mevc

have a

a name

Legitimato junk ter de, worth a

until the clauses of the Supplementary

Treaty limiting the Junk strade be

de, as above, between ches

abrogated .

Spade,

Sugar

districts

Ano

present punishables,

els

far

this Colony

is at

under

der the

Sealy,

as the native is concerned, with

death and confiscation of goods _ The

bank trade is, at present; box insignificant

Junk.

to awaken the jealousy of the Chinese +

Government; were it important our

justifies their

interference

Theaty

with it at once,

Thus the influence of tive great houses deprives this Colony of a shards in the Opium Spade, and the Supplementary

renders it illegal to have any

"Treaty

ว

it

Junks Shade, save with ports,

do not want it,

them

ده حبيبي

where

wor

361

lve

un ships frequent

blar blond

and our own Merchants con du ot the

conduct.

traffic . But even were Opiume legalised

and the invidious clauses annulled, we

never could have a Colonial Trade in

Oo and ev

but the any. for the reasons

preduce of China,

iven in the introductor

given

that they

would not bring

کیسے کیسے

letter, piens:

pap

cargoes

their own risk the more precious car

which our

ships

go

trade to cany.

to the chief outlets of

"The present Junt trade is quite

irregular a ineg

And

کرم کیسے۔ میر محمد

can be mode

adventitious -

of its value As a wh.

has been pisiteds

no estimate

or extent.

ating station, Honghong

by many

ships in 1848,

1849 which feared to go to the Sandwich

Vislands cr

or

the Pacific Ports, lest their

crews should desert to California :

and

16

held

although this cause may be hiter extraordinary,

stilt persons, competent to speak,

aintain

that whalers will continue to seek +

Wonghong rather than Shanghai,

dangers

there

where the dan feared,

An A

of the river are to be

less suitable tonnage

and a worse market for oil, than at

Congkong .

The storage of price goods

increasing rapidly here ___

Canton has

course the same security from

not of

fire

and other risk.

The River Steamers

established in the last tivo years facilitate

our

selling goods by

muster . The proprietor

of Storage here is consequently saved his

Godown.

won

rent and landing charge.

which amount to 4 mace

on

es

of Silver per

Indian Cotton, and, his

picul bargain being.

his

made upon the muster,

is goods are four

carded securely and

expeditiously to Canton. There must

be in this

any

a to

a good.

to the Colony

352

Colony wherew

œe at

serious fire

or disturban Canton would considerably increase

As to California and the West

Coast of America - 10.000 tons of shipping

were wholly or partly loaded

for the above destination between

4

pot January

and 30th of June 1850;

of these 6. 542. Cons were British

but 1,156 American .

The exports were chiefly

silks, lacquered

quered ware

and

abiefly coarse

-floor matting

-trunks_fire works -

camphor-trunks

sweetmeats_tea_

ite -

wrought granite-

sugar-

molasses-

toooden houses-

planed lumber - and nicknacks of

all sorts.-

-

Much of the sugar

av to as

loaded here the molasses is packed

here - sweetmeals and fo

fireworks

are

:

I

:

manufactured here -

as are also, and:

to

a considerable extent camphor wood

articles; all of which is to the employment

of much labor - But the cheapness

of stone-cutting here,

the great tear

6 want

in s

of stone ready out for building California, a sandy region, promise

rise a

At

Considerable market in this article, which is readily taken, freight free, as ballast; and cannot be laid down so cheaply from any quarter as from this. Ab- present-California imports bricks round- Cape Horn from Liverpool and New York. For the supply of the Californian

market, we on

on ay

speculate on the

possibility of our having here some o establishments of Son gee weavers ; but

the inducement to a Chinese to emigrate

must be strong : there is a better chance

of the dyers and printers of the coarse

silk's com

coming

263

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duty on dye stuffs

here, as the duty

would be saved in a free port. But the

sugar despatched honce is the most s

satisfactory export, as the

a great probable staple of exports from China to the West. -

and as an article usually

usually exchanged

with opium ; while the repacking of it

here

is a

farther

advanta

antage

to

the Colony.

car could be laid down here

Fokien sugar

at 10 or 12 per cent cheaper than Canton

dugan

Coming

either

in

ssels

ceusters, or foreign aces

down in ballast-

The Chinese population about

on the west coast of America : for this Hongkong

to spring up must not be forgotten:,

an a

will be the Chief Port of supply.

Two thousand Chinese have

?

Avo

already left China for the West Coast; the dearth of laber fell from Valparaison to Lima the Mexican sea will: The

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- astly swell this number.

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20

Chilian Government give a bounty of

$30 a head on all healthy Chinese, not

Ixceeding 30

years of age

of their sea ports.

landed; at any

clusion, Honghong,

In

As

eful outport

to

refuge

is

eneral trade, a

a genera

and

under temporary difficulties, check on the insolence or treachery of

China . It is a

better position than

Chusan

an a as

good

AD

any

have chosen on these shores.

we could

the Chinese shopkeepers,

artisan, or coole now-starts fair without

exaggerated hopes of gain or fears of oppression . The summary

mmary administration of Justice, besides being cheap, is after the liking of a Chinese, and contrasts

1 favourably most urably with the unsatisfactory

mediation of the Attornies

few years ago.

benefited

as in Boque

in vogue

Artisans have

much by the Californian

deman a

21

364

and the coole population The large gangs

a

better footing .

.)

is on

thrown out of employ the completion

on

of the larger buildings have dispersed,

And pa

vagabonds are

fewer. The gr

he graver |

class of felonies has been abated

although its proximity to the

Main,

and the Islan de around it still leaves

the Colony with heavy bills of Crime. In fine the Colony appears

to have found it's actual level; is

gradually working

-round to it's proper

! Wes; and in therefore be pronounced

may

to be prospering, with sufficient promise of improvement..

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1850

двод

giong Trong Sir S G Bonham

Volume

September to December

357

Encloses

N3. Provision for the Church in Victoria.

1

Sept 12 86 Ordinance.

an Ordinance.

Sept 16 87 Mr W. Scott.

:

Refers & his

Despatch 285 August 29.

Enclosed in Wetter

a

from Mr W Scott claiming

4.

reduction in the rent of his Land from #75-13.1 to £42.

Reports

on this Litter and shows that MW Scott has

just claim & reduction :

Sept 18 88 Despatches.

Refers & his

Despatch 876 August 12.

Actor. receipt of Despatches.

Ackn. Despatch

Sypr 25 89 Botanical Garden.

N187 July 3.

Mr

Does not recommend the hurchase of the grounds from CJ Braine for the purpose of a

Botanical Garden, the finances of the Colony do not admit of it and

the expense of maintaining & Garden,

+

DEX

}

1850

Sir S. & Bonham

Sept 25 Fir SG Bonham.

2

Applies for

two Months leave of absence

and

on

Mis

to proceed to Ceylon requires to be ingotsangy

any stoppage will be made from his Falary.

Sept 26 90 Oriental Bank.

Encloses

the draft of

an Ordinance to facilitate the proceedings of the Oriental Bank.

Sypt 27 91 The Exhibition.

Circular April 18. Einloser a

Acker Degratch

Bill For

£131..5...5 towards the building fune of the Exhibition, but no space. will be required by the Colony.

Out 15 92 Revenue & Expenditure

of

Encores Revenue

the Estimates

and Expenditure for 1851, shewing the amount required from the Partamentary Grant to be £15,500.

Out 18 93 Auditor's Queries.

Encloses

reply to the Queries

Auditors on

an

amoim Fren

on

$7.219h disallowed of Fir I Davis in 1848.

the

f

the Salary

1850

Sir SG Bonham

Sitng of Despatches.

19 94

353

3

Acken Despatch

N 88 Sept 18.

Acton . receipt of Despatches.

Act 1995 Appointments.

Emlous

returns of all appointments alterations of Salaries &e for The quarter ending Sept 30.

Oct 21 98 Piracy and Murder-

25

French

reports on

Case

Encloses 7. Pracy and Murder, which took place on a Ship, the Albert" in the Chinese

Deas and

are

now in the Port of Hong Kong, - the Offenders Chinese Emigrants forty nime in number, explains his reasons for having

betained them until the arrival

of a french Thip of War

Reports

Out 23 97 General Staveley Contion of General Stanley

the intention

to resign the Command of Troops early

in 1851.

The

Suggests that instead of a Major General, the Egommand. should devolve. on the Demor Officer by which £2978.14.17 per year mightiderable saving in the arrange-

a

ments

be

saved, exclusive of

so

4 for a Government Houser

:

1850

Sir SG Bonham

Oct 26 98 Treasurer's Accounts.

4

Emloses

the accounts of the Treasurer for the quarter ending Sept 30 together with the report chest.

Board

on

on the first of October.

Oct 29 99 General Navely

Encoses

a Letter to the Secretary of Mate from General Stavelly request - ing to be allowed his Passage Money to England

Lixutmant Governor

Oct 24 Major Caine,

است

Emlens

a Letter from Major Caine respecting his retirement from his Office of Colonial Secretary, accompanied by various Documents; - suggesting the onditions he is desirous & obtaining either by pension or commutation of pension, with sale of

his Commission I remission

An.6

New Zealand.

Nov 10 100 Chinese Convicts.

a

on Land in

Encloses

list of under sentence of transportation that have been sent to Penary.

24 Chinese Convict

in

Nov 10 100

1850

Countriem Fir SG Bonham

continue.

369

in the Eagle" at a cost $35 per man

Now 15 101 Despatches.

894 Oct 19

of £175.

5

Ackn Despatch

Actor. receipt of Despatches.

Nov 16 102 Mr DR Caldwell.

Reports having granted four months leave of absence to Mr DRCaldwell,

to

5 proceed to Singapore.

Enclosed a Medical- Certificate, also explanations of the arrangements mack for performing his duties during absence.

Encloses

Nov 17 103 Public Works.

i

a list of public Works that have been executed in the Surveyor General's Department, which had not been previously sent for the sanction of the Secretary.

State; -

requires an approval.

of

and

to an Article

refers to

&

the

Colonial instructions stating that public Works under £200 do not require a previous reference.

Nov 17 104 New Road.

Encloses

a plan and estimate (£34215.10) for the construction of

a corec

GORD

Nov 17 104

1850

Sir SG Bonham

continued

Road and explains the objects for which he considers the construction of this Road necessary.

Houses.

Ordinance N 2

Nov 24 105 Assessment on

an

an

Encloses

1845 for raising assessment on Houses &c, accompanied by

controversial correspondence with the Military Authorities, who object to be made hable to this assessment:

Explams his reasons for considering the Military

as leable to it and also why he has referred referring the question home instead of the Law Courts.

Nov 28 106 Rev S Steedman.

a.

Emloses

Letter from the Aw's Steedman schciting the appointment of Colonial Chaplam in case

Z vacany Recommeds him as

being emmently qualified for the Office.

Dee 14 107 Health of the Troops.

at

ofthe

Refers to his Despatch N79 Ang 20.

Encloses correspondence. with the Military Authorities respecting the continure sickness

among

continued

Dec 14 107

1850

Sir SG Bonham

among

370

the troops prevents their resuming the guard The Naval Stores, suggests that the

over

Admiralty should reimburse the Colony for this expenditure which still goes on at £19.15.4 per month.

De 20 108 Despatches.

Refers & his Despatch N101 Nov 15

Ackr. srceipt of Despatches.

Dee 26 109 Post Office

Alter Despatch

Circular Detr 12.

The proposed Post Office arrangements are not applicable to this Blony,

Encloses

Дес Dec 26 110 Ordinance

an Ordinance N4. To prevent desertion

Du 26 11 Ordinance.

an

Ordinance

Seamen.

Encloses

N5. Proceedings before Justices of the Peace. Ucken Despatch

Du 28 112 Mr WS Wentworth.

N201 Sept. 21

Encloses a remittance

of

ملارد

of £30.18.4 in favour o I Watcham being the amount Ine to her and her 6 Children

from

Du 28 112

continue.

1850

Sir SG Bonham

from the Estate of her Son the late Mr WS Wentworth,

Dec 28 13 Rev S Sredman.

Refers to his

Despatch N 106 Nov 28.

Encloses a Letter

from the Bishop of Victoria commending the Rev? I Steedman for the appointment

Colonial Chaplain.

B

Dec 28 M4 Mr W H Mitchell.

A

DJ

Encloses

very interesting paper on the Prospects of the Colony drawn up

by Mr W & Mitchell and calls attention to it as containing much valuable information .

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