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1853
Volumes. 2.
No: 50598 1th July to 31th December
Governor Tis G. Bonham.
1
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Separate.
8751 Hung đúng
RECEIVED Victoria, Hongkong,
AUG29 1853
24d
225 July, 1855
Lood Duke,
I shall have been in
My
China,
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the 20th of March
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send I despre pay is
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with
next, six years to termo jusually assigned for the time
Service for the Governors of
Her Majesty's Colonies; and with reference to health- which
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robust, and
the
State
of my
is far from
ab
the
recono
Medical
nondation of my
advisers, -
to
I have the hous
advise Your Grace that
His Grace
the Duke of Newcastle,
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it is
is my
wish to be relieved
from the office I have the
honor to
enable, me
hold, so
бр
as to
leave China
in March next; and I beg therefore that your Grace
will
до
me
the favor to
submit to the Queen my
humble request that Her
kapsty would be graciously
relieve me
posu
duties of Governor and Commander-in-Chief
pleased to
I the
Colony
of
this
Should it prove more
convenient to
Loverment to
at
an
ве
Her Majesty's
relieve
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earlier date,
me
I shall
I be happy to resign my
charge at
any
time,
on
1
shall
be entitled
to
I
my
the understanding that Papage money shall be, it
way.
that
in the
Jame
not relieved before March,
1854.-
I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,
My Lord Duke, Your Grace's most obedient, Humble Servant,
of
his other appointment.
7 78.
For Rugust
1. sl16
that the able should be his services.
That.
meation
have made a
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2nd Victoria, Hongkong,
July,
1853.
Sir George Bonham, Bh
to
His Grace The Duke of
Newcastle.
Separate.
of the
Tendering
Received
And
Commander-in-
Office of Governor
rat ignation
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Si G. Bonham
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17th Septem. 1853.
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I have the honor to
Sept. Acknow
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to the date of
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Neurothan inquiry, within I suppon then this дараги, Китори, Excomes proper.
2.71.3149
now
Dispatat
separate, of être 2 ? of July
reporting your wish to relinquish your fovernme
not later than the month.
of March next.
Imuch regret
regret that
our health
the state of your
should be such as to lead
you to form this wish, that the public will in
Co
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usequence, at no distant period, love the benefit of Your.
ur services.
Having submitted to Her Majesty the tender of your Resignation of your I have to inform you office
that Her Majesty has been Racionely pleased to accept the
same, but that it will not
thi
cepts i
The Drake
Fiat
tion
29 Days!
Newcastle will
will gives
его
stinections whether this resignation
to be accepted & with what intimation
if any as to the probable time of
the best
Sir G. Bonham.
As to the Foreign office will be
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Increly to aid privately
whether
they
have
Received the proper mitimation of In G. Bonhamn's
resignation
Str. Mist
The Queen has accepted Sie Goye Bonham's resignation. Eftf.
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of deade, Ipusume. I
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be in
my power to apprize the live when
you of
You may expect to be
relieved until there shall
have been time to decide
on the selection of your
successor.
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No. 57.
Legislation
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for keeps
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Victoria, Hongkong,
RECEIVED
SEP 3
1853
My Lord Duke,
1853.
5th July, 11
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I have the honor to acknow -
Na y of
ledge Your Grace's Despatch Noch
8th
of
April last, enclosing the Remarks
on)
Ordinance
the Board of Frade No. 6 of 1852, for the Merchant . Seamen in this Colony :
th. ultimo, I
for the regulation of
2.
On the 28
thu
laid this Despatch with its enclosure
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before the Legislative Council, who gave it all careful consideration, came to the conclusion that although
the soundness of the objections pointed
out therein
as
tvas
fully
admitted so
refers to Seamer in England
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
&c.,
&c.,
fo
far
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2
elsewhere, the Council was nevertheless
of opinion that those objections applicable to their condition in
were not
-kong, no
nor to
so important
as to call
Hong call for
a re-enactment of the Ordinance; but they agreed that the Certificates of Discharge should be returned to the
Seamen
ow
their leaving
carrying out of this mea-
the Port; and,
to secure the carrying Sure, the Council advised that the
Harbour Master be instructed to hand
over suck discharges
of
to the Masters
: the Ships in which the Seamer have engaged to serve,
for the purpose of being, delivered to the Seamer after the vessel
had quitted the Port..
3.
In accordance with the
recom-
mendation of the Council, the Harbour
Master has been instructed to hand
over
the discharge certificates to the- Masters of the Vessels
in which Seamen
6
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to whom such Certificates may belong have been shipped, to be delivered to such Seamer after
the ship has left
the
Port; this precaution is necessary to
prevent the Seaman while
Ow
shore, if
he had the Certificate in his possession,
third party
from transferring it to a third
who
4.
seeing
seeing
was not entitled to it
Under this explanation, and- that the Ordinance has heretofore
worked in a
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very satisfactory manner, I have the honor to request Your Grace's recommendation of this Ordinance the confirmation of Her Most Gracious Majesty.
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The
form
ts and disbursements
receipts
since this Ordinance came into operation,
viz : 6th November 1852 to the 30th. ultimo, being close on 8 months, are
follows:
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4.
Receipts
Disbursements
L. 587-14-2
178.
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£. 409 413 G
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part of the receipts, however, have been
derived from Boarding house Liçenses,
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which have been paid in advance for year from December last. I estimate, therefore, that the Annual Receipts
will be from £. 650 to £700, and the
disbursements the increase
lishment
into
for
necessary to carry
of Etab
the Ordinance
-effect will be about £300, so that
in a pecuniary point of
view the Ordinance
is not open to objection; and I therefore
suggest that the additional outlay
Per annum
recommended to the Harbour Increase to Chief Clerk's Salary £50.
Master's Establishment in
Despatch N° 71 of 24th
No.
November, 1852, may
sanctioned.
6.
ве
Do. Indian Interpreten Do., 12.10
150.
Do.
25.
"
2nd Clark's salary. Shroff's
Added since
1 European Constable.
Should the amount of Fees
50
L. 287.10.
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hereafter prove
mor
than is required
for the purposes of the Ordinance, they can be reduced at some future period.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect, My Lord. Guke,
Your Grace's
Most Obedient, Humble Servant,
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Victoria, Hongkong,
5th
July,
1858.
Governor Sir Geo. Benhamn, Bt.
to
His Grace
The Inke of Newcastle .
Received
No. 57.
His Space's Despatch Na Acknowledging receipt of
urging
Establishment.
the Harbour.
of the additions made to
also, applying for Lanction
7 of 8th April, and Ordinance Net of 1852; confirmation of the Leaman's
Masters
Boardy
alle. Enqueurz
zehe then with
refere
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Branch, the Frdiname should in
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received from the Tocary & April preceding, on
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the subject of Ordinance passed,
by yourself and the
Aus? from best ames hopes Legislative Council of deffound the Hongkong, M of 1852,
forward
( Draft to breamry) for the regulation
innerth.
of Merchant Leamen The explanation
you
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and allow the same
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the same time to-- sanction the additional
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Ordinance
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local Legislature for the requlation
of Merchant Scannen.
Her Majesty
having been advised to confirm and allow this Ordinance,
Lain to request that, in laying these papers before
the
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the herds Comme the Treasury you
deir
will move
Indships to sanction the expenditure which has been recommended by the Govenor as necessary for carrying it into operation.
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Financial
Copy 18 Preaeury for inform
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Victoria, Hongkong,
5th July,
C.O. SEP.3 1853
My Lord Duke,
July, 1855.
In compliance with article
7 of the Instructions from the Lords Commissioners of
of Her Majesty's Kreasury,
I dated
1847, I have the honor to enclose
Nr.1 . herewith Copies of the Comparative State--
No. 2.
ments showi
showing the Estimated and Actual_ Revenue and Expenditure of Hongkong
for the
year
ended 31 et. December, 1852,
as furnished to ino by the Auditor General,
The
between the Exti
difference between
mated Revenue and Actual Receipts amounts
£80
to £. 808 » 18 - 3/4, and arises
having
×
from my
been compelled to forego. a certain
parts of the Revenue, in consequence of the
His Grace
The. Duke of Newcastle,
&c,
&c,
&c.
great fire
in December, 1851,
23rd
ad
reported
my Despatch No 5 of 28th January, 1852 . In that : Despatch it will be seen that I estimated the loss that_
nent would sustain would be
Government
£. 2,000, but it is sate
but it is satisfactory
satisfactory to find
15
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respects,
My Lord Duke, Your Grace's
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
that the actual loss
only
mounted to
the sum above mentioned. The disburse -
ments, it will be seen, exceeded the
original Extimate.
Estimate by L. 487 - 17. 81⁄2,
which, together with £.808. 18 3/4 loss
on
of
In
«
the Revenue, would show a deficiency
to the amount
ns to the
means
January,
of £. 1296. 16.04.
то
consequence of Despatch No. 5 of 23
1852, a) Supplementary Estimate was taken for £. 2,500, so that there is a balance in favor of this Government of L. 1203 - 3... 117/4, for which due
credit, will be
given in
the Estimates
the
year
now under preparation for
1854-55.
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Colony of Honghong
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letimated Expenditure with Actusi Expenditure,
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during
the Year A.D.
1852.
Victoria, Con
Congkong,
5th July, 1853.
Governor Sir Gro. Bonham, 184,
to
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
No. 52.
2 Inclosures.
Receiver
Fraremitting Comparative
Statements showing
the
Estimated and a Actual
Revenue and Expenditure
of Hongkong for
et
the
year
ended 31st December,
1852, and Ermarking thereon.
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Comparative Statement of the retinated Expenditure of
made
The year, as taken fro711
as takin from the deernb
the accounts maac up
read of Expenditure.
ritiinatel Extenditure
Actual Expenditure
Reference
mart
SiC Establishment.
Jurrigh teneral
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& His Excellencer The Inverno proceded to England by the marel Mail, and infrequenter did not draw am portion of Salary during the year: from the south of ingust mes, only
a musict & te Énrruns Catan has been chargeable' to the Cow. Contingencies Settimated at £47,101– have not been incured.-
3. Maluuke
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balk
of 2 ///. 70/ said by the ingent beneran on account of the 37 curks left alon - 1/1/ for packing lists of Parliament and £2, 16.140. Poatings. The Contins, nous ictimain it
for
amount
in
2/17, 11- to 2104.19%y on the this laws the resing ancorimmment caused by the 3rd Clerts absence
Sick Entifiente, has not been constanty pined._
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2. Re Iquentiture in this Departinent is £71.5.9 in crecer of the retinate, which arices pron su
incrence to the accountants Jalan amountive to £79. 8. 10. R. Contingencies being £9.8.1/
His Ex. The Forema
5500
Pritual Senetan
3//2.
3/16 7 3 3.
38/988A B.
Colonial Treatures
1,880.
19515.9 C
Auditor General
5401
598
curk
of
Fruncil's
140
153 18 3/2
4225
100917
Registrar Seneral
409
190 / 7/2
Mirloma Master.
1104
1/22/ 5.4/2
Police
luuas
Phier Paz Arenas and Pricetors
150
1/4/1 11/2 3.
Reqistian of Mages.
35 6 11
15060
13439.010
Endicial Estabichment
5,275
6,237 15 / 70
1
Fccicriastical
F
79517
551 12 3 2.
Education
115.16 3.16.
4.
Metien
61310
69710
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Hospital
130.
Police and Sarts &
3,574.15 118 9.
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155
71710
6788
Total retablishments 2 29773 17 26846 10 3/2
under the Istinate.
D. At Couthgencies nead the cetumatii turunt & 58,
2. Je Contingencies are £150 18.4 sure than the Extimate-
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5. Te intingencies are £4.17.5 alte the cxtimateá aumunt
The riped batablishment a this separtment estimated at £337% 10% - has not exceleá £147, 11ub,
from the duties & Regitar Berrals Sterk having been for a potio & the year, sextormed & the Yerk in the Horial Secretions Stice, without additional" by, and the Herik's Inlary extimated at $500 Laving been card at the rate oils & £2.0 ver Janum. The Provisional salvries are £27.00 under the Extinati 1. hclusive of £75 had by the Reant Sercial on account of the Haritur Manters half balary #2 1851, and £20.10.5
arrears on the same Blow,
account can on his return to the Hory, and I
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being an morence of the
Rovisional Establishment. The Contingencies are in excess of the Estimate ± 11. 19.9.2
1. Provisional Lalaries estimated at £115, amount only to Éllo, 2.8%, mis the Contingencies are £23.10.7
below the cum Estimation.
I. This wice was created during the year 1952.
7. Enclusive of £1/125 raid by the repit General on recomt & the e'ustice Bubnis halt dalury
Agent a
Adinas
Fixed retablishment is £38.8.9 and contingencies £1.15.8 below the Roisines retablishment being ₤3.2.6, aboor the Estimate
Brought
mez... 29773
16,846
46103/2
Pensions, Allowances & Fratuities_
Perenne Services
175
Aministration of cluctice
100
831 $
Opital:
Morritals
285
33362
5.
Carried over
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If the £for estimated to established Salaries only £541.13.4 has been paid, and £9. 18.11
only has been said on recount to the church Torks Salary estimated at £10.17. The Rovicinal salaries have been charged to the medical department.
18 M. The Expentiture under the read & Ducation is £q. 3.10 under the Estimate, inclusive 64 £4.8.2
raid to Contingencies not included therein.
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1. The Hlonial burgeois retablishment has been charges £85 estimated for under reclesiastien
Expenditure is Provisional Salaries.
3. The risenditure for this Service is £12.10 in excess of the retimate, being wages & an attitional Corli
3. In the Establishments incinded under the rear of thee and Barks the thai basentiture is £2.30%
under the Estimated amount.
In the Serartment of the Hish tray'strate of Plice, which includes £200. 12. 5. had by the Agent General, the exzensitive is £257.3.3 in excess of the Estimate; this arises now the transer & the Assistant Superintendent. F Plice to this Free as General interpreter at a salary 10 £47d ́er annum, and the consirment of an abfitional Innel Interneten.
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on the Ineriks 2chartment the exccnditure newys corresponds with the cetimated amount. Ti exception being in the reduction to the callers salary which took plect on the death to the former iétis of the trice and the resignation of the Fernale Turnkey by these causes a caring has ban ckestis &- € 19.7.3. In the Price once the exccutiture has been less than the Estimate 6 £35.0.1, £1324 urich arises out of the trumber of the resistant live inter bont & Price to the magisterial branch of this Service as interreter, aiready mentioned; the remaining part of the amount, with the exception 4 £51
7.4 to Hice Contingencies, will be found under the head of Provisional Jalaries arising from the requent immerical deficiencies in the European Plise Free
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Sidlucive & £:2.2.9 raid by the Agent General, being on recount of the late 2014 /mitters Bunion
on to the 57 Feruay 1952, mûd of 2 gratuities rail in the Bow
30353 17 274208 2
Brought over
30353
27420 8 2
Price and farts creuire of retable (ments. 1325
145517
8% 76
Pent
Transport
Conveyance of Mlais.
2101168
91016
$15.
1750
1-
174.84
1748 4
Carrica forund = $9079 2 30157 10 100
%
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2
19 2. Remuneration to the Collietas And Newsins & Price Cates was raid to them up to thes #9: ́? R.
5
13. 272. pup being on & luontes only, whereas & her cent on the whike years illection was estiméd to on the other word the sum of £35.6.6 has been paid to the Solicitors of huand Brenne, whiel wrici uns not included in the Sitimate. The other items under this head are £2.1b live than
- less uas anticipated. Witness exena: cetimain at 278 do ust creed 249.73. Aquests extimated at £8 have not
creccaid 14/. Eriminal Escentions catimatiá at £20 amount only to 2.2. £20.13.8 have been extenách for Attorneys Fres, and o 8 for recacional diterpreters, neither Hex lust emena?
openas daring reen estimatá- for.
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5. The outian for breuitars estimath at £285 has amounted to £335, in 1/2, manive 6 2.09.13.9
paid by the Agent General for suctievres and shipping
shipping externes
therea.
IL. Chensive of £329.10.8 for Oirthing, and £15.2.3 chirping expences on a cread which, the thei
cmcnditure being £130.1/7. 8. in execes of the Estimate, whier arises pom
excess of the Extimate, which arises from the clothing imointing
S
spenses
which
were
to a larger sum than was anticipated, the some inentiones chipping not provided for in the letimate, but there is a general accrcare in wat other items of
curenditure
-
V Transport of Convicts estimated at £800 has not creceded £175.15, ther expenditure,
estimated for conder this head, amounts only to
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• Brought found
33
30,137 10 10%
Works and Buildings
155
42// 5 2 WC
Ronds, Streets, and Bridges Special Expences.
8751.
40 18
726 14. 2. 65 78 y.
Total £ $4650 35137 17 32
Auditon Scuerals Office, Netnin,
Anghong, 28th May, 1853-
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was anticipate? would
W. Inclusive of ₤3,887. 19. 11 on recrunt. Fiocrument pouse and £179.2.9 for Works at bark, not included in the Estimate in 1952, on the ther side, ₤455 cctionated or no an Hitional Grant troarks & Hau's Entherial has not been paid, and cort € 200, have not created £142,2.8.
new-Prads ince been commences, and the total cxnenditure estimated at £875 res not see. £720.14 which is distributed over seveni small services, not calling for any special sumarka from the iubitor beneral, and ₤123.19.0 on account of the Road from Writt Point toquarrying ound £295.16.8 in Bridges in Aberdeen Rond.
7.4
1. The cxpenditure under this head estimated at £460, 18. has amounted to € 30. 7. 8, meureń
principally on account of the Great Fire.
Note. The foregoing Stitement includes all payments made by the Agput General
on nécount of the Colony for the
year 1852.
(Signed) N. Caine,
Auditor General.
Nota Bene. The Dove Statument comprises the riginal retimate as compared with the actual total Expenditure without expecial reference being :nade to the Supplementary Estimate prepared in consequence of the great Fire in December, 1851.
(True Copy)
Main Colonial Secretary
(Signer) M. Caine,
Auditor General
:
21
Yonghong for the year 1853, with the setual responditure of from the /e of clanuary to the 3/44 Scecumber.
Remarks.
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The Colony of Hongkong
Comparative Statement
of the
Revenue Received,
Estimated Revenue with the
during the year
1852.
J
-Comparative
Statement
of the Extimated and Actual Expenditure of Hongkong for the
year
ended 3126.
December, 1852.
Inclosure. N°. 2. in Besp.
-1853.
No. 32 of 18
ANGAN - BOYALI
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Comparative Statement of the Estimated. and the Revenue Received, in that year,
Heads of Revenue.
Land Revenue),
Leased Land.
leased
Lands not lasič
Iris
020
Extimated.
Revenues.
Revenue
as shown
Received.
28211 31⁄2
10430
9,061 19 52
325 10
25
Land sold.__.
grant of Leased
Deposil
ON
کوئی
20
68
A.
Premium on Land wote..
192 184
Rent cxclusive of Land.
Government Markets . Governmen
Licenses.
Spirit....
ent Buildings ...
Pawn brokers.
Auctioneers.
Billiard Rooms.
Opium Dealers.
Stone Quarrier.
Salt Broker. _
£.375
* 450
Seaman's Boarding Houses.
1862 10
1500
B.
275
441
10
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1460
1671185
58368
156
*
5836
156 5
8
41134f
C.
1479
825
802
315
1400
125.
*
Carried forward..
17,393 11 8 16,391 1281⁄2
A.
23
The deficiency under Leased
under Leased Land arises from the circumstance of
the proprectors of the Lots of which the Houses were destroyed by the Great Feren having had 6 enguth's rent remitted, which amounted to £. 501, 19.92, and the arrears on the 21st December were unusually large, but of these the principal amounts have been since recovered, Rents of Land not leased are below the Bétimates; the arrears at the cu° A during 1853. The last items ulder
which Z. 45, 3, 61⁄2 has been
the head of and Revenue were not included in the Estimate.
B.
One of the principal Markets was entirely destroyed by the Great Fibe. The Albany Ecdowns, not previously tenanted, have been ist, which has increased the second, itens under this head of
Revenue.
C.
A greater number of Spirit Licenses have been granted than were anticipated whow the Extimate was prepared. The sum of G. 125 has been received under Ordinance No. 6 of 1852, which was not included in the Estimate. The amounts for other Licenses to nearly correspond with the receipts anticipated That it is unnecessary to make further mention of them.
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Brought forward._
Taxes.
Police Assessment..
Frines, Forfeitures, and Fees of fearts
Fines.
Prefeiturs..
Fees.
Z.1,000
| 17,993||
| 16,391 12
12 82
27004
2,32515102
D.
می
625
Frees of Offices.
Marriages and Burials.
85
Registration of Beats and Hawkers 600
Official Signatures.
Registering) Deeds.
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Shailing Letters and Passes - Marriages by Registration Shipping Fees.
Sake of Government Property Condemned Stores.
go
2
65
10
The deficiency under this head
D.
24 under this head of Revenue is attributable to the Great Fire
subsequent to which the Police rates, were remitted for 12 month's on all property seriously damaged there by .
E.
8944
E.
The receipts under this head
are
below the Estimate £105. 12.1.
8.26
696 4
10
40168
9210
13. 4.
1132
120
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Carried over :
21954
20.758 15 9%
FF
Item 1.
2.
3.
4
St.
I
F.
The balance of these Fees outstanding on the 31st December, amounted to £944.13.4/1⁄2, of which £22. 4.2 have been recovered. A greater number of Roats and Hawkers have beer registered.
Fewer applications have been made for Official signatures.
than were an
anticipated The receipts for registering by 2.27.10
Deeds are mnoze
The Sailing Letters and Passes are granted by the Chief Superin- tendent of Frades, from aphost leffice no payments on this account have been received into the Colonial Treasury.
Jo
6. Received under Ordinance) 40% of 1852.
برو
Received under Ordinance 4o 6 of 1852.
FE
Inclusive of a Bungaloud situate on Land surrendered to
-Government
Brought over.
Reimbursements in aid
21954
*
of
by
expenses incurred.
Government.
sick stoppages from Police=
Hospital and other expenses of distressed
account
Leamen!.
Subsistence money for
20758 1534
go
80
010
Military and other prisoners in Victoria fail — Purchase money paid by
Government recovered. Stoppages from Police. Refund..
40
40
4984.
22
8
79
376.
10
Miscellaneous Receipts.
Stoppages for neglect of
duty. Coerpayments recovered.
Carried forward..
Z
22124
21,297
:
25
G.
Item 1 . The receipts under this head are
1.
expected
WCW E«
L. 9.2.10 less than
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A
9
8
#
2.
3.
There has been
The
recoveries
- Expenditure) under this head
than were anticipated.
have been larger than
4. This amount was paid by Government to the original Chinese proprietors of the Land now granted, as a Parsee Burial Ground, and refunded by the Parsee Community.
5. Chese, Stoppages
aro on account of accoutrements lost.
on account o
6. Inclusion of £.1.0.10 wages unclaimed frome the Sheriff, and,
refunded by hind, and of £.375 overpaid the salary of the Superintendent of Grade, and re quilted refunded o receipt of instructions from the Secretary of State.
Item 1.
2.
in
H
This amount was stopped from the Grave diggers
for neglect of duty.
This amount was surcharged by the Commissioners
for auditing Public Accounts against the accounts of the Colonial Creasurer for the year 1849.
44
2
A
Brought forward.
Special Receipts :
Superannuation
nuation Centrir-
butions from Police Force
122/24 -1- 12/2971-
26
موجود
2
43 1962 1.
Cotal £. 22150
Audit Office, Victoria,
May, 1853. Hongkong, 28th.
21341 1 84%
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I.
In addition to the Contributions from the Police Force, this amount includes Z. 8.3.b draw back on Stationery, and £10 over-
of passage money, accounted for by the
on account.
payment
Agent General
Note.
Nota Bene.
The foregoing statement includes all receipts by the Agent General
during the year
on account of the (olony,
1852.
(Signed) W. (aind,
Auditor Genera (
to
The above statement is framed upon the original Extimates for the years 1852, without reference to the supplementary Estimate prepared to meet the Losses the Revenue sustained in the Great Fire in December, 1851; the actual deficiencies being noted in the remarks, under the proper
heads.
Crue (ofsy)
Copy
(Signed) M. Maine), Anditor General
Maine
Colonial Secretary
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Part
Revenue
27.
of Hongkong for the year 1852 by the Accounts made up from 16th January to 31 December.
Remarks.
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No. 52
of_1853.
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Victoria, Hongkong,
RECEIVE
No. 53.
Financial.
SFP 3 1853
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My Lord Duke,
28
5th July, 1853
I have the honor to forward,
for Your Grace's information, the Annual Account of the Colonial Creasurer for the year ended 31st December 1852, together
ther with the
2. Annual Return of the Balances,
Receipts, and Payments for
the same
to
year, with the Acting Governor's
fertificate attached,
as to the correctness
of the Balances therein shown.
I have the honor to be,
His Grace,
The Luke of Newcastle,
fe,
fc,
With the highest respect,
My Lord Duke, Your-Gracer's, Most Obedient Humble Servant,
&c.
Boho Lave
ended 3106 December
Fongkong for the year Actual Revenue of of the Estimated and
Comparatios Chatement
1852.¦
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the
Account of the Honorable 11. T. Mercer, requiri, Movies Facecived and Frid on Neement of Department and Consulates in China, during the your
alance on the 1th January, 1852.
Public limies Jeprzits
Reecipts
and Revenme
int cyclusive of Land
'censes...
ines, Forfeitures, and Fees of Courts
is of Affices -
شا
le of Government Property
timbursements in aid of expenses incurred
A Government
"Wellaneous Receipts
ceial Receipts
17246
17246114
68466% 24092 3 8
9,591 354
1941
10
4859 8 5
2325 1510%2
8947/1 402618 7/2
120
537510
25 16 012
Itai Colonial Revenue 2/322 18 24
liamcntau Frant on account of the Colon, 185//52_| 14,500
29
Monial Treasurer of Aughong, in respect of all Colonial Government, For -
Majerty's Siplomatic
Us 31th
from the 12th January, to the 3/2h of December, 1852.
Jalaries
Flint Establishment.
Sumtuan suid
Seman
Price
Allamuce: Contingencies. £.
Total
Litabichments_19.9 43 19 92 489116221210-693 6 74 25,246 12.7%
Pensions, Rethel Allowances, and brattactics
Revenue Services, cucluzive of Istablishments Bruinetration of Euctice
Hospitais,
Price and Farts Pent Trampnt
Conveyance of Muails Works and Buildings
if
St
Bond Streets, and Bridges
Special Expenses.
Superintendent of Trade Emular Services!
608 1394 3 8398
22369/2
1,108 1591%2 910166
17602 17484
4,811 5
728 14
3278
Total Crirmal Expenditure 33,068 1972
7398173/2
15,666 8 24 23065 5 b
1852/53
5,000
*
99 m deerunt of lincula falta 1850/53
1852/53 — 20,000
39500
perintendent of Frade.
unlar Korrice:
prits availabi Murt
urt available
1997 5/1/2
18 15
2/8 2 5%
1473 5 30809
4553 55
8968699%
Būliam Kruas Mercer, do soiommy and Sinecrci, declare that the foregoing is #January to 3/4 Ocecluber 1852, and Smake this exámun déclaration conscientionly lued and subscribed before me this day the fourtienn of January 1853.
(ligned Chus. Hases. Pieverly, S. P..
3339 7 112 4150 85%
15215 7%
7.248 19 74 29401 16 24
Fue and Soneet Statement of my account as frontal Farmer of Amissing from
believing the same to be concet.
Seprits available
*!_ not availabie
78106
Balance on January /855
Public Thonies 1 Seprits.
£89.68699%
Treasurer
/Chue Copy)
que
11.5. Merces.
"Maine
Choral Sceritay.
Annual Patum showing the Balance in the Colonial Cheets on the
14 January 1852
Balance Riecipts
from /Canuary to 3/4 December, 1852.
Total
gistreements
Remains in 31th Deccuber, 1952
m.
in the cheet
#
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Dollars
first an
and last days of the Year
30
Rupees Cael Spanish Mesican Sterling Coins
Total
3,825% 83,0/0 13,809 44 47,083 51 11,040 19 14 24,093 38 19171⁄2
9508 01 127,879 8736658 9 74 65,594 1% 5,744 14 875,478 235/745 174933 38 47,699 8 84 89,686 99% 1890 740,9/6 11,323 94 115,182 90 33,648 0 9 60,28415 7
5,8544 134,562 12,093 51 59,780 48 14,051 7 11 39,401 16 34
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76132966 28 3,7784 1,566 12,065 51
162425 3/99 13 3 2,580 38 58,126 23 11851 14 8% 26,821 12 6%
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In pursuance of the Instructions of the End Commiccioners of Her Majestys Tocasury, I have caused surveys to be taken to the that of laman 1953, of the Funds remaining on the Commencement of the year in custody of the Treasurer and the iffiers in charge of the monies deposited in the home lamit recnceived, and harms carefully- examines the Reports of the officers appointed by me to that day, Therit dirtify, otot have raund the wait to be in triet Recortines bath the Statement of the Balancer
as chewn in this Return.
(True Copy)
Colonial Sextan...
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654. Miscellariems.
9487
quen chong chong
RECEIVED
SEP 28
1855
Victorin, Honghong,
に
12th July, 1855.
My Lord Duke,
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31
I neendance with
the Colonial Regulations, I have
the hour to transmit herewith
a
Schedule of despatches which
have been addressed to The Right
Honorable The Secretary of State the Colonies, during the half
por
year cuding 30t clune, 1853
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
to
te.
Ac.
I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,
My Lord Duke, Your Grace's,
Most Obedient
Aumble Servant Baham
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ducky
Registry
and ascertained
pro porn2.
I have referred to the
that these Aspatches have licen
recorded.
27 14 153
les. A. Au
pox
19th
July,
ng
1853.
Gororun Sir George Bonham, Bart.
to
His Grace the duke of Newcastle.
1 Inclosure.
N 54.
Received.
the Colonies during the half year adfreered to the Secretary of State for Transmitting Schedule of Despatches
ending
30th June, 1853.
...
by
Schedule of Despatches transmitted the Governor of Aoughing to The Right Honorable the Secretary ofState ofor the Colonies, during the half year ending 30th June, 1855.
F
Cate
sip. Scip.
#
Jubiet of despatch.
By the Acting Soverin
1. Sans. 3 Reporting excention
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4.
斥
two chinen
riel.
Criminais on the 29t sleculer, 1852. None.
7. Franmitting Schedule of dispatches
addressed to the Secretary of State for
the Colonies during the
your
1852
8 Transmitting fists of Incmbers of the
Scentive and régislative Corments for half year cuting 3/48cccmber, 1852.
the
17. Transmitting quarterly Return: for
the quarter ending 37th Decenti,
1852.
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33
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34
1. 54
1 & gate &
deep.
gate & Scep
Jubject & Duratch.
Enel.
Jubject of Icspatch
5. chy 28 Ackuartidgins receipt of Scratches to 1985 of the 95 kremler, dürcular
6.
7
of 2nd - Potember, and sitter of 2/cctober,
1852.
Replying to Despatch 1935 of the y to
November last, relative to the proceedings
of
the Corcha" Martta".
23. Franemitting Returns of the Revenue and smpenditure of the Colony, for the
year ended 3/4 Secember 1852, and reporting thereon
8. Feby. 9 Perosting appointment and confirmation 4 13 d. C. Antrons as Consul for 4. M.
9.
10.
the
lime
JCL.
11. Fely. 15 Reporting the Hillier's return to the Colony,
and resumption of his duties as Chict
12
7.
4
13.
f
King of the Belgians at Aongtong. None
By
the Governon.
15 Reporting return to the Colony and
re-assumption of the duties of Sovevum and Commander-in-chief
13 Reporting Crit Curtice Guime's
return to the colony, and resumption
the duties of his office
of
#
Magistrate of Price; and apriying pr appone of the payment of £29. 19° account of his half Salary
22 Reporting 18 mouth's leave of absence
17.
NL
ML
Lick lrtifiente, granted to in36. A.Frotter, cork to the chief d'ustice, and arrangements
made
the performance of the tritics
for the
of his office during his absence or until further." Anders
2314 Knowleagins recurt of Surpateres to
P4/8 234 Deccuver, and Letter
Foreiber, 1952.
724
14. Marel & Reporting remoal of Mattorna General
None
15.
None
ใน
Council
Sterling from the legislative come to
the sent in the Specutive mented by the
Mr Huston from
retirement
of
Publie device".
#G hel.
None
2
Time
thi
None
Perntiw avrointiment of Mr Diclier,
Chief Magistrate of Price,
as a Member
of the legislative Council, in the room
&lus Sterling removed to the ixccutive Council sone
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35
MG onte o
miel.
3221.
SciL.
Jubieć of Despatch.
Arel.
201.
F dat G
SCLL.
16. Mares #7 Reporting
:
Julicet of Duratel
1113
Rinting me years
Leave of absence, on Sisk Entificate, granted to l=j. 2. Power, accountant and Clerk of Deed Registry, and anangements made for the performance of his duties during his absence
By the Acting Sororum.
180 rekuoriedging recept its braces
Circulars the 28 and 30 December
F
1852, and Despatches P/ and 2, the
1953, fc.
last of 145 January, 1853,
18. 17 Suporting transcintation of 20 convicts
19.
20.
to Penang,
on the 10 bistant, by the
2
lime
's Steamer
One
Courable East didia Comrany's! Jemiramis
27 Peractives 18 months leave of abina on sick istoricate, granted to lus. 2. 9. Can, Registrar of the Supreme mis Vir duiraits Crists, aux arrangements made on the pistormance of his Futies during his absence :
+
Suporting the year's leave of abinci, o jurgent private affairs, granted to
20. Cotu 12.117.4. Mitchell, Assistant
Pagistrate and Sheriff, &c., and changes
in Prices comiquent thium .
21. Marel 23 Strating certam temporary changes in
༡༡
~2.
25. Aril
24.
14
appointinents in the retablishments of the Colonial Secretary and of the Reqiction Senarai
Reporting payment by 1118 Killin 4É104. directed in his trace's dispatë i P2 of 14th clanuary, and encloring a letter from that officer applying on a reduction & that suim.
defuowledging receipt fois braces dar. P3 & 38 February, Circular of 20a and Letter of 24th January 1853
Transmitting
Copics of
.
minutes
F
Excentive and Legislative
Egislative Connell's
the
Hongkong for the half year cuding 3/4
Secciuber 1852.
12 Luci
It Stating that he is not aware Gany
objection to Her Majestys Vixequatur being izen in favour of UtErang Nurmp, as Hanoverian Conal in Amy Kong
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None
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25.
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7
36
1757
ch & gate &
DeLL
Scir
26. Amil 5 Perosting
Subject of despater.
Mi
one years leave of absence Sick Certificate, granted to the Per? 1112
Jackman, Crimnial charlain, and
Mel
arrangements made for
the performance
2
15
Reporting on
the
“ !
271
༡༩.
29.
of his Duties
18 Ackumullying receipt of dis
Cirentar of "the 145 February inst.
prevalence of Pirney,
and urging necessity of a Small Steamer being stationed here to assist
25. Pterorting that a gratuity of $50
has been made to the witow- of the late George Anll, Turnkey of the Pictoria c'ait, and applying for His Staces anoni thereof.
in its suppression
J
My /853
30.
29
Replying to Circular of 27 ammay
..
30
relative to the extincion of Anglich
Patents to Aong Kong.
tekunoledging receipt of his is meis
Fris Circular of 28th February last, aud reporting publication of Queen's
Proclamation A the 185 Betober 1852,
M.& Gate & Desp. Selp.
Julycet if despatch
5/ Continued respecting the currency of Sterling
Prins in Houghtong and certain other Estonie One
32 May 2 Acknowledging necunt of tis Grace! Scepatches to P5 & 8 larel, mi
Ms
and Circulars of 2/4 and 25 February, 1858, to. None
33.
65 Peportius detention & the out-going
None
34.
7.
35.
2
36.
37.
#
mail Steamer "Pottinger" until 2 reirck F.11. today.
# Transmitting quartery Returns for the
quarter ending 30th March, 1953.
17 Transmitting Proceedings of
a
Commission of inquiry into the outbreak of disease and mortalita
rt. the
amongst Chinese Imigrants on bood the Ship "Simigrant" "bound to Demerara.
J
23 te Knowledging recipt of this Iince's
Scipatches P.3 of 14 March and Müitar P. 1 of 26th March, 1853.
#
Acknowledging reecipt of His Grace's Despatch Military M. 1 of 26th March and reporting favourably upon the troops in the Garrison
the health of
3.
4
16
None
2
00
y of dra of Sup
Jarcet of Despatel
Separate May 24 Reporting iupture of Amos by
38
!
Insurgents on the 18th bistant.
Jubject of despatch
rei.
MF Gate of Jup. SCL/L.
the
43 Continned
respecting
None
therem
25 Sicporting appointment of 1117 Federick Pedder as acting 4+ Clerk in the Colonial
39.
"
#1
Secretary's Kffice in the room of
Steruni- resigned.
of luz W.
None
Peporting liberation of 2 Chine. Primers
on the recasion of the Queen's Birthday.. 2
By
the Governo
Governor.
40. 25 Reportine return to the Colour
Fortian Ports
J
grom
the
Circular 20
41. June 3 Replying to His Graces irrenler of 257 January last recreeting Colonial Registers,
42.
K
None
of Bartims, Burials, and Marriages... None
Calling attention to his dispatel 1/2
27th February 1852, and submitting
Fund.
an application from 11+ Redden to be
allowed to subscribe to the
superannuatim
43. 4 Transmitting a letter from the iBishop
of Victoris to the address of this bucc
One
(
the Erionial chaplaincy of
Dougtong, and reporting the con
44. June 15 Trammmitting the Blue Book of
45.
46.
47.
48.
i
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Hong Kong for the year 1852, auk repoiting thereon!
14 Reporting leave of absence for 18
months granted to M13 John Hare, 3rd Clerk in the Colonial Treasurers office
and
anangement make for [performance of his reties " .
+
the
Acknowledging recipt fotis Grace's Serratch 1.7 of 85 april, Circular of 24th March, and Letters of 22nd March and 7th April, re.
37
tq mel.
15 Replying to this braces circular of the 24 March, respecting the cerging of Port charges on ressels carrying Froons.
25 teknowledging receipt of decrater
Military A/A 23 March, and reporting detention of the three Ceyion Rifle Companies.
3
16
Lione
linic
no exter
Delp
Subject of Duratch
A&
nel.
call
49. c'une so Reporting care of 19 Lots of Land
50.
on the 274 cm.
Acknowledging receipt spocepaties to 19 of 27th April, and Letters 2/4 April and 34 May, 1853.
Maine
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Miscellaneous.
BECKIVEL
SEP 26
1850
9488 trong trong
Victoria, Hong Kong, 16th July, 1855.
Mr. Lord Jake,
A compliance
with the Colonial Requlations, I have the hour to transmit
39
to your Grace Lists of Members
10/42. of the Excentive and Legislative Councils of stongtong, for the half year ending 308 Line,
1953.
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
to.
L
40.
tc.
Schedule
during the half year ending
the Secretary of State ofor the colorweg by the Governor of Houghing to
of Despatches addressed
June 1853.
30th
Despatch N.54 4/853.
Inclosure in
.1
I have the honor to be, With the highest respect
My End Juke,
し
Your Grace's,
Most obedient
Stumble Servant-
mommy off
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In9488/53
List of Members composing the Executive
Council of Hongkong .
Date
Date
Name
of
of Formate
Appointment Confirmate
tion
40
Whether holding any and what other Civil or Military
Office.
Lieutenant Governor, and Commanding Her Majesty's in China.
The. Hon. Major General By the Queen's William Jervois, H. H. Warrant dated
17th February, 1857. Froops
The Hon. Lieutenant 11th January 24th November Colonial Secretary
Colonel William Caine. 1844.
1845.
and Auditor General. Major unattached, and Lieut.. Colonel by Brevet.
The Hon. Paul. Soy the March (Appointment Attorney General.
Sterling, Esg.
1853.
reported in Governor's Despatch No.14 of 5th March, 1853).
Victoria, Hongkong, 16th July, 1853.
da
Clerk of Councils.
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In 9488/53
the
List of Members composing
Legislative Council of Hongkong.
41
Date
Date
Name.
of
Whether holding any
and
what other Civil or
Appointment Confirmation Military Office.
The Hon. John Hulme, Esq.
Walter
10
1844.
June 29" Kramber Chief Justice, and Judge
1845. of the Vice Admiralty Court.
The Hon. William C. The August pet Januar Treasurer and Receiver Mercer, Esq.
the Hon. Charles B.
Hillier Esy.
The Hen. David. Bardine Eeg.
The Hon. Joseph Frost
Edger, Esq.
Victoria, Hongkong,
164
July.
July, 1853.
1848 1889 . of Colonial Revenue.
#
8 March Sethprintment Chief Magistrate of
1853. reported in
Governors Zespatet No. 15 of
8
#
March, 1853).
By The Queen's Justice of the Peace.
Warrant dated
12th April, 1860.
Do.
Do. Juctice of the Peace.
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RECEIVED
SEP 26/ 1855
Wictoria, Angstong,
20th July, 1855.
My
Lord Juke
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I have the hour
to acknowledge the receipt, on the 13th Instant, of the following Circulars from your Gracc - of 3rd May, 1855, announcing that the produce of Cochin and Travancoe
has been slaced on the
His Ganee
The Duke
tc.
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of Newcastle,
tc.
tc.
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footing as that
"British Possessions.
of 9th May, having reference
to articles
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Colonies
the French
Exhibition to be held at
Paris in May, 1855.
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With the highest respect Mylord Duke, Your Grace's
Most obedient
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Victoria, Honghong,
My Lord Duke,
and
22 July, 1855.
I have the how to
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forward for the information of your "Grace the accompanying Letter withs
a Incmnial from M34. Shortrede Editor of the China Mail" Newspapers,
of
with 4 other melozures, relative to
a Prosecution for Libel which thas been instituted against Mr. Shortrede
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
He.
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Tietoria, Stonghong,
Goverun Sir George Bonham, Bart.
20th July, 1853.
to
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle.
Received
J:56.
Space's Circulars of 5th and 9th
Acknowledging receipt of this
May, 1853.
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29.
by M3 Lawson late Mate of the Steam Vessel "Larriston" recently
wrecked
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Your Grace
the hover to address thereon, -should it appear necessary
for
As these
papers only came
into my possession
рог
this morning,
there is not sufficient time before
the departure of the mail (tomorrow)
ofor
me to enter
upon
their contents;
but, is far as I can see, the subject
submitted
for your
consideration is one et on
a
subject
Grace's
purely of Law= on which I can seareely
ve an Minion
be required to give M: Thostrede has, however, promised to send duplicates of
to this
office,
considering
these papers and, after duly
them, Ishall have
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me to do so.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's,
Most Obedient Suruble Servant,
Baham
Since writing, the above, the 3 printed
Copies of MD Shortrede's Memorial promised in his letter to the Colonial Secretary, have been receives and are now forwarded to
your
Grace.
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to a prosecution for Lebel
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294 July 1853,
Goverun Sir
Bonham, Bart
Ais Grace Ke Duke of Neuraitke.
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fois grace, respecting
Au: Andew Hosticle to the addu an hetion
Transmitting a Memorial from
him
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The Hon.
Six
Hongkong, July
A. 1853.
I have the honor to enclose a
Memorial, with accompanying documents,
may
be trans-
to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, respectfully requesting that it mitted to His Grace by the Mail of the 23
For His Grace's convenience I
have directed three copies of the Memorial_ to be printed. They will be sent to you for transmission to Downing forenson .
Lieut. Colonel. Caine, Colonial Secretary of Hongkong
xd.
Street, tomorrow
I have, &c.,
(Signed) And. Shortrede.
(True Copy)
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Unto the Right Honcurable the Duke of Newcastle, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies;
The Memorial of cAndrew Shortede,
residing
in Hongkong,
Showath
1. That an action for Libel has been brought against Your Memorialist under the following circumstances :
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2. Your Memorialist is Proprictor and Editor of the China Mail News. paper, which, in commenting
loss of the Steamer Laniston, Coast of China,
used these words,-
Genel
en.
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the
the
on
last,
the 14t of May
"It is also certain that the loss of the steamer was caused by gross negle.
the part of the sccond officer, who had the catastrophe occurred in his own country, would now be in jail waiting his trial for manslaughter."
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Again. - Altogether, the loss of the vesel only be characterized,
сам
in seamen's phrase,
and will serve as a
"lubberty work
lepon w-our
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2
shipowners in future to employ.
having local experience of the coast navigation":"
жапада
I. According to the best information
ottainable at the time, and still relied ony
these.
rema Ko were
fully
wan
nanted, and are
not so severe as, judging from what was said about the Cop of the "Orion" in Inne 1860, the event would have called forth
the home papers; especially
as it further appears that, besides the questions of sea manship
ship and carelessness, there efficient boat, and Thirty-
Circ
mus
one.
as only
lives
were lost, in a calon right, within gun-
shot of the shore.
11. At any rate, the
remarks in the
or
gross
were made without malice
conceived, was that
negligence, and their publication, it is
for the public benefit; pleas are available only under Lord Campbell's Act," "for the better protection
of private character, and for
effectually occuring
مجھ
the
more
the liberty of the press. 5. But you Memorialist has been told, and it is a matter of general belief, that Lord Campbell's Act is not in operation within this Colony. He cammot pretend to say how the point will be settled by this Court; but
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as
a
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judgement may
question
3
49 be reserved, the
can be definitely settled only by Her Majesty in Concil; and to that and the following memorandum
morandum of facts
is respectfully onburitted to your Gracie favorable consideration:
6. On the 5th of April, 1843 a Royal Charter
was
granted to the Colony of Henghing, which, amonget other things, authorized the formation of a Legislative Conneil; but that Council made laws until the following year.
212 Anguel, 18441, an
was
220
On the
Ordinance (04 15.
passed, "To establish a
8
Indicature at Heng-
of 18447 Supreme Cont King"
"the Third Scation of which declares, "That the Law of England shall be
This Ordinance was
-
in full force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except when it shall be inapplicable to the local circumstances of the said Colony or of clo inhabitants"
repeated and another (Not of 1845) substituted, dated
the 19th August, 1845, and entitled êtu Ordinance to repea ( Ordinance 1015 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Indicature t Hongking, and to substitute other provisions in ben thereof," the Fourth
4
4 Section of which
سم
of which is as
follows,
Etust be affurther created and ordained,
That the Law of England shall be in
Full
all Foros in the said botony of Hongking except citere the same shall be in applicable to the Local Circumstances of the oard Colony, 4 of its Inhabitants, and that in
бр all matters relating to the Practice and Roncedings of the said Supreme Court, the Practice of the English Courts shall be in Torce, unless and until otherwise ordered by Rule of the said Court." But on the 6th of alloy, 1846, another Ordinance (N° 9 of 1846) was pofed, cutitled, An Ordinance to ament Ordinance N° 6 of 18455, entitled, An Ordinance to l. Ordinance N° 15 of 1844, for the repea Establishment Sja. Infreme Court of
бја Indicature at Hongking, and to substitute other provisions in hen thereof," the Third Scation of which is as
~ follows, - And be it further enacted and ordained, That from hence foth such if the Laws of England only, and such, Portion of the Practice of the English, Cants (mbject to the Exception of Then Applicability in the said Tourth Scation of Ordinance N°6 of 1845.) as cxisted
as contained
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when the said Colony Ebtained Local Legislature - that is to say,
the 5th Day of April, One Then sans Eight Hundred and Forty three- shall be of Gove therein."
All these Ordinances were
the Queen in Conneil.
confirmed by
7. Law of England
Lord Campbell's Aat became the
the 24th of August,
он
1843, and it was in operation in Kang= Kong up to 6th May, 18460; for the only of libel that has been brought
other case
into this Court since its institution, was
prosecution by the present Attorney General on behalf of
behalf of Adminal Sir Thomas Coorave, against the Editor
the Friend of China, tired
ст
the 2nd
of Inne, 1845. The defendant, under the provisions of Lord Campbell' Aat, having pleaded _ " Not guilty - that all
__ he had stated) was time, and published for the benefit of the public "_"the
menth trial, and ended in an
саас
acquittal; the juny
the present Chief Instice telling that, it was for them to judge if there
Bas a
necepity, first, to publish the facts; secondly, was it nece pary & publish "the commentary;" directions authorized
only by Lord Campbell's Aet.
8. It is presumed that the Plaintif
6
is aware
of this case, and having retained
the only efficient Barrister, and the beet
ottioney in the Coole
the above
dir.
стисе
he must rely on th Section of the Oz. quoted 44th Sectio
76th
clay 18:16. Your Memo-
rialist is not a
C.
lawyer, and, though
& occasion constrained ti
the prevent Conduct his
to
own case, does not pretend. technical points of law; but for argne years past he has taken some interest in disenssims in Parliament and alec. where, on constitutional questions, affecting the rights and liberties of British, antjesté. Ho
on
is thins
enabled. to him wa debate the Cape Constitution, (Inly 15, 1881) in the cause of which Lord Lyndhurst, howing been appealed to as a lawyer,
greal
is reported to have this opened his speech:-
When this House takes an
Drinion
question of Caw, that opinion ohould be pronounced with as much faimers by the legal
legal members of your Lordships Honee
if they
were
stating it in a
Cont of justice;"
and referring to Lnd Mansfield's judgement
in
the Grenada case,
authority said, -
the same
same high
"Now, when the Crown granted.
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franchise or liberties off any divent tion, whether to the inhabitants of a
51 7
бра
district er a
colony, the
grant
aas
irrevocable; it could only be put
an end to by surrender, by tal
of Parliament, or
by forfeiture
established by proceedings
count of justice; and there
in a
neither of these here" (Spectator July 19, 1851.) According to another report, His Lidship
the essence of Lord Mansfield's
gave
av
" most claborate judgment, pronounced in the most distinct lens - terms that could
not be misunderstood," -
"That if the element of the franchise
were once
given - if the power to
once considered – if any
were
Cegislate popular right
well
once bestowed,
that was to bic
anything that
theak
upon the Government _ then, in that case, the Crown had not the power
to rerothe what it had
vote, as well as
ende gran
ted
(Morning Herald, July 16, 1881.) Com Grace took part in that debate, and would appear, both by your apeech and
дени
Subregnent policy towards the Cape, to concur in these views, which seem also to be in accordance with those laid down by Lord John Rufell
Coolonial Polizy, published,
in his speech
by his authority, in 1850.
9. Presuming therefore that the costrine
L
affher to Grenada and the Cape is consider: ed sound, I ontmit that it receives additional Lorse in the case to which
your
Grades
attention is now more immediately regnected. fo, it is humbly oubi: tted that Lord zokose Campbell's otel, was not only one
confer ibe ties and privileges which, once red, could not be arbitrarily taken away, On! it had actually been enforced in the Courto of Hongking, by virtue of two Ordinances confirmed by Her alla jistý inn Corneil, by whose authority the Commoil that paped them is constituted. 10. Should it nevertheless be held thint the 3. Section of the Ordinance 5th May, 1846, took away from the Colony the privileges and protection of the Laws of England paped onbegnently. to 6th April, 1843, then it follows that another, Creally still more important
Parliament which received the Act of Rezal
August 22, 1843, two days before Lord Campbelli Atel. is also abrogated. It is entitled,
assent
on
Act,
An act for the better Sevenment of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China' and is set forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Consula) as giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters
the Governor of Hove- thorizing Patent, care
as Inperintendent of Irade.
King
the
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k legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; the sand first Ordinauxe rendering them "subjiet.
" subjiel in all matters to the Law-of England (as much as in
the Colam of Houghing, §1,) and trestend the jurisdiction of the Counts of juctive at Hongstong the same."
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clause in an
others
11. Surely it could never have been intend ed, by means of a single clanse wise unimportant Ordinance, to sweep away from the Colony three
бу years of the Laws of England. Ton Memoriabel has within. these few days read a report of an appeal
to the Hoense of Lords (ollay 6, 1853) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythewoods policies. It was pleaded, in bar & for imme
брат morial right.
right of the
it of the inhabitants of Ranfrew,-
the
That in 17877 and 18:35 Arts of Parliament
had been pased for improving
the river Car!, and
navigatio of under these stats a towing both had bean formed along the banks of the Carl, and the river trustees were. directed wereat and had created
a ruble wall and iron railing along
the the towing path, enclosing appellant's lands, and there Aato declared that allowed to go into the said lands
with the consent of the heir except
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astite
no one was
in popessim, of Blyckswood for the time being"
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Ir delivering judgement against the appellant I Lad Chancellor Cranworth said,-
Upm
"The
main point, therefore, tobe first com. sidered is, whether the statute puto an end to the right. Now, it could be mich retted if the Nomar, wore to be bound to constive that statute so strictly
гад
as rva
a
was contended for by the appellant. Indeed, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that public right
which had existed, up to that time immemorial could by aside_wind by such a clause
that statute contained, be thus
away
grept and then quoted the statute, and extinguished . His Lendship
and concluded with saying, that it was not to be constined strictly, but was merely intended to make an arrange_ ment between the trustees of the river navigation and the appellant; but as to the rights of the public to the in question, it just left these rights where it found them - it
the
ways
neither
даше
took
5 away?
(Scotoman, day 11, 1853.)
Some
principle, Yom Mlemonialist
would respectfully submit to your Grace, that it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time / from the first day of the Colony,) could by a side_wind_ by moh a clause
eas
that Statute (Ordinance)
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Contained, be this swept away and extinguished, and that too under show of amending the laws and government of British subjects for amend and not repeal" is the term noed in the hitle and preamble, the 29th Seation of Ordinance of 5th Incy, 1846, "constituting a braal Court
May, of Error and Appeal "being the only expressly repealed.
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one
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12. Under the circumstances now sel forth, your
Memorialist approaches Grace, beseeching that if it should appear to the legal advisers of the Crown that Henghing has this been deprived of important rights and privileges, oteps may be adopted for restoring them; and whether
or not the present operation of Lnd Campbell's stat within the Colony все
sidered doubtful, your Memorialist humbly suggests, that, in order to put it beyond the power of any
one loves the lieges, under an old law, which the Lord Chief Ineation of England said recently, (Soi Charles Napier V. Munay,) was often vexationsly and Zyrannically enforced, a declaratory Order or Ordinance should bepaped, authoritatively setting
the question at rest.
13. Your Memorialist, desirous to have a dicision regarding
Lord Impbell's hot Cent, made a by the Hongking
proposal to that effect; but the Plains tiff under the advice of his lawyers,
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being confident that it is not in operation here, objects to have the question morted to the Indge before the day of trial, which, from the absence of material
the way
way to England and
witnesses
on
elsewhere, will probably be postponer's for several months.
14 Yem allemorialist begs tostate, that in June. 1857, the "Orion" Steamer was weaked off the Coast of SerHand,
under circumstances
ar
оне
very
similar to
those attending the wreak of the Lariston, the
rumber of lives. lost in the latter being Thirty-one, and in the former Forty seven, through the neglect of the offrons dirty and the insufficiency of the boats. The Captain of the Orion, and the second dates, who was offion of the watch,
were indiated criminally and bought to trial before the high court of Instician of Edinburgh, on the 24 to
at and 30 the Aagnet following, and being
wisted, the Captain
was sentenced
to Iwo Tears' Imprisonment, and the second Mate to Seven Years Transport, ation. In summing up, the presiding Indge, the Lord Instice Cleak, remarked, that "He did not doubt that the greatest public benefit would accrevo from the disclosure
disclosure of the facts " and
in pronormeing
wentence on the brate
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his Lordship further reinarked, that "the sentence is no doubt one that must produce
a
Con a
" great impresion." Entirely in these sentiments, your Memorialist only consulting
conceives that the
the public benefit in alleding to them ; and that no one should have the power, by a doubtful or defective state of the law, to bring actims against an editor for -discharging his duty.
Entreating your
Grase to give such Effect to the premises
meet
as may seem.
Your Memorialist will evey pray
Anothanede
Houghing July 21, 1883.
Hansking
tecompanying Drenments 1 Ordinance N 6 of 1845
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Containing Houghing Registers Report of Irial for Libel 4 Conrespondence between Edward H. Pollard and
Andrew Thostrede.
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from
Memorial
Sanselary of State for the
The Duke of Newcastle
To His Grace.
Hongkong
Andrew Shortrede
HongKong Juhy
Colonies
21
1853
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HONGKONG,
ΑΝΝΟ ΝΟΝΟ
VICTORIÆ REGINE.
No. 6 of 1845.
Y His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Baronet, Governor
Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superinten- dent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
B and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its
An Ordinance to Repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Title. Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other Provisions in lieu thereof.
[19th August, 1845.]
WHEREAS it is expedient that the Matters embraced in Ordi- Preamble. nance No. 15 relating to the Establishment of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Trial by Jury, Criminal Proceedings, and the Summary Jurisdiction of the Court, should be provided for by separate and distinct. Ordinances:
The Secretary of State for the
Shortrides Mernorial to Domment accompanying
Colonies
Hongkong Jus 21.1853
1844 repealed.
I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by Ilis Excellency the Ordinance No. 15 of Governor of Hongkong, by and with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That the said Ordinance No. 15 shall, from and after the Passing of this Ordinance, be, and the same is hereby Repealed.
II. And be it further enacted and ordained, That from and after the Passing of this Ordinance, the Court at Hongkong with Criminal and Admiralty Jurisdiction, which has hitherto been holden by the Chief Superintendent, shall be, and it is hereby Abolished.
Former Court at Hongkong abolished.
tuted therein.
III. And be it further enacted and ordained, That there shall be A Supreme Court of within and for the Colony of Hongkong a Court, which shall be Record to be insti- called "The Supreme Court of Hongkong," and that the said Supreme Court of Hongkong shall be a Court of Record.
IV.
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How far the Law of England to prevail.
Constitution of Court.
Seal of the Court.
Judges to hold no
COLONIAL ORDINANCES.
IV. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Law of England shall be in full Force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except where the same shall be inapplicable to the Local Circum- stances of the said Colony, or of its Inhabitants; and that in all Matters relating to the Practice and Proceedings of the said Supreme. Court, the Practice of the English Courts shall be in Force, unless and until otherwise ordered by Rule of the said Court.
V. And be it further cnacted and ordained, That the said Supreme Court of Hongkong shall consist of, and be holden by and before, a Judge to be called the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and to be appointed by Letters Patent under the Public Seal of the Colony from Time to Time by the Governor of Hongkong, in Accordance with such Instructions as he may receive from Her Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors; and such Chief Justice shall hold his Office during the Pleasure of Her said Majesty, subject to Suspension by the Governor in like Manner as other Officers in the said Colony: Provided that in case the said Office of Chief Justice shall become Vacant by Death or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint another fit and proper Person to fill the said Office of Chief Justice, until her said Majesty's Pleasure be known; or in case of the Temporary Illness or Absence of the Chief Justice, it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint. another fit and proper Person to fill the said Office of Chief Justice until the Chief Justice shall resume the Duties of his said Office.
VI. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the said Supreme Court shall have and use, as Occasion may require, a Seal, bearing a Device and Impression of the Royal Arms, within an Exergue or Label surrounding the same, with this Inscription, "The Seal of the Supreme Court of Hongkong;" and all Writs and other Process issuing out of the said Court shall be sealed therewith.
VII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That no Judge of other Office of Profit. the said Supreme Court shall be capable of accepting, taking, or per- forming, any other Office or Place of Profit or Emolument, on Pain. that the Acceptance of any such other Office or Place as aforesaid, shall be and be deemed in Law de facto an Avoidance of his Office of Judge, and the Salary thereof shall cease, and be deemed to have. ceased accordingly, from the Time of such Acceptance of any such other Office or Place.
Officers of the Court.
Officers how to hold Office.
VIII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That there shall be and belong to the said Supreme Court the following Officers, that is to say, a Registrar, a Clerk, and an Interpreter thereof, and such. and so many other Officers, as to the Governor, or Acting Governor for the time being, of the said Colony, shall from Time to Time appear to be necessary for the Administration of Justice, and the due Exe- cution of all the Powers and Authorities which are granted and com- mitted to the said Court by this Ordinance.
IX. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the several Superior Officers of the said Court, who now are, or hereafter may be appointed to their said Offices by Her Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors, shall hold their several Offices during the Pleasure of Her
said
9o VICTORIE.—No. 6 of 1845.
said Majesty, subject to Suspension by the Governor, in like Manner as other Officers in the said Colony; and that all other Officers shall be removable from their several Offices in the said Court by the Governor, or Acting Governor for the Time being, upon reasonable. Cause.
X. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the said Supreme Court is hereby authorized and empowered to Approve, Admit, and Eurol such Persons as shall have been admitted Barris- ters or Advocates in Great Britain or Ireland, to practise as Barristers; and such Persons as shall have been admitted as Solicitors, Attorneys, or Writers in one of the Courts at Westminster, Dublin, or Edin- burgh, or as Proctors in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, or who shall have served for a period of Three Years as an Articled Clerk to any Solicitor, Attorney, or Proctor, actually practising as such within. the Colony of Hongkong, or shall have been admitted as Solicitors, Attorneys, or Proctors, in any other of Her Majesty's British Colonies, to practise as Solicitors, Attorneys, and Proctors in the said Court; subject nevertheless to be removed and struck off from the Rolls of the said Court, upon reasonable Cause.
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Admission of Bar- risters and Attorneys,
admitted to practise for
XI. Provided always, and be it further enacted and ordained, Fit persons to he That in case there shall not be a sufficient Number of Barristers, Three Months in case Solicitors, Attorneys, and Proctors within the said Colony, competent of Necessity. and willing to appear and act for the Suitors of the said Supreme Court, it shall be lawful for the said Court, and the said Court is hereby authorized, to admit temporarily so many other fit and proper Persons to appear and act as Barristers, Solicitors, Attorneys, and Proctors, as may be necessary, according to such Rules and Regula- tions as the said Court shall, for that purpose, make and establish: Provided that the Persons so admitted shall be admitted for a period. of Three Months only, and shall not be re-admitted without obvious Necessity.
to execute Writs and
XII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Sheriff of Sheriff of Hongkong Hongkong for the Time being shall, by Himself or his sufficient Processes. Deputy, (to be by him appointed, and duly authorized under his Hand and Seal, and for whom he shall be responsible during his continuing in such Office,) execute, and the said Sheriff and his said Deputy is and are hereby authorized to execute, all Writs, Summonses, Rules, Orders, Warrants, Commands, and Processes of the said Supreme Court, (other than such as shall be issued under the Summary Jurisdiction of the said Court, as hereinafter provided by Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) and make a Return of the same, together with the Manner of the Execution thereof, to the said Court, and to receive and detain in Prison all such Persons as shall be committed to the Custody of such Sheriff by the said Court.
riff,
XIII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That whenever the Process against She- said Supreme Court shall direct or award any Process against the said Sheriff, or award any Process in any Cause, Matter, or Thing wherein the said Sheriff, on Account of his being related to the Parties, or any of them, or by Reason of any good Cause of Challenge which would be allowed against any Sheriff in England, cannot, or ought not by Law to execute the saine, in every such Case the said Court
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Jurisdiction of Court.
Legal.
Equitable.
Ecclesiastical.
COLONIAL ORDINANCES.
Court shall Name and-Appoint some other fit Person to execute and return the same, and the said Process shall be directed to the Person so to be named for that purpose, and the Cause of such Special Proceed- ings shall be suggested and entered on the Records of the said Court.
Court to reserve Power of Revocation.
XIV. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the said Supreme Court shall have the same Jurisdiction in the said Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, as Her Majesty's Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, lawfully have in England; and shall be a Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, Assize, and Nisi Prius.
XV. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the said Supreme Court shall be a Court of Equity, with such and the like Jurisdiction as the Court of Chancery in England; and shall have and execute all and singular the Powers and Authorities of the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, with full Liberty to appoint and control Guardians of Infants, and their Estates, and also Keepers of the Persons and Estates of Idiots, Lunatics, and such as being of Unsound Mind, are unable to govern Themselves and their Estates.
XVI. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the said Supreme Court shall be a Court of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, with full Power to grant Probates, under the Seal of the said Court, of the last Wills and Testaments of all or any of the Inhabitants of the said Colony and its Dependencies, and all other Persons who shall die, and leave personal Effects within the said Colony and its Dependencies ; and to commit Letters of Administration, under the Seal of the said Court, of the Goods, Chattels, Credits, and all other Effects whatsoever of the Persons aforesaid, who shall die Intestate, or who having left a Will, shall not have named an Executor resident within the said Colony or its Dependencies; or where an Executor, resident as aforesaid, being duly cited, shall not appear and sue forth such Probate; annexing the Will to the Letters of Administration, when such Persons shall have left a Will without naming an Executor; or where an Executor shall have been named not resident within the said Colony; or where an Executor shall have been named resident within the said Colony or its Dependencies, but who, being duly cited thereunto, shall not appear and sue forth a Probate thereof: and to sequester the Goods and Chattels, Credits, and other Effects what- soever of such Persons so dying, in Cases allowed by Law, as the same is and may be now used in the Diocese of London: and to Demand, Require, Take, Hear, Examine, and Allow, and, if occasion require, to Disallow and Reject the Account of them, in such Manner and Form as may be used in the said Diocese, and to do all other things whatsoever needful and necessary in that behalf.
XVII. Provided always, and be it further enacted and ordained, That the said Supreme Court is hereby authorised and required, where Letters of Administration shall be committed with the Will annexed for want of an Executor applying in due Time to sue forth the Probate, to reserve in such Letters of Administration full Power and Authority to revoke the same, and to grant Probate of the said Will to such Executor, whenever he shall duly appear and sue forth the same.
XVIII.
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XVIII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the said Court to grant Let- Supreme Court shall grant and commit Letters of Administration to to Next on instation any one or more of the lawful Next of Kin of Persons so dying as the Registrar. aforesaid, being then resident within the Jurisdiction of the said Court, and being of the Age of Twenty-one Years; and in case no such Person shall then be residing within the Jurisdiction of the said Court, or, being duly cited, shall not appear and pray the same, to the Registrar of the said Court, or to such Person or Persons, whether Creditor or Creditors, or not, of the deceased Person, as the Court shall see fit: Provided always, that Probates of Wills, and Letters of Administration to be granted by the said Court, shall be limited to such Money, Goods, Chattels, Credits, and Effects as the deceased Person at the Time of his or her Death shall have been entitled to within the said Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.
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Administrator
enter into Bond,
XIX. And be it further enacted and ordained, That every Person to whom Letters of Administration shall be committed shall, before the granting thereof, give sufficient Security, by Bond to be entered into to Her Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors, for the Payment of a certain Sum of Money with One, Two, or more Sureties, respect being had to the Value of the Estates, Credits, and Effects of the Deceased; which Bond shall be deposited in the said Court among the Records thereof, and there safely kept, and a Copy thereof shall be also recorded among the Proceedings of the said Court; and the Condition of the said Bond shall be to the following Effect,-"that if Condition of Bond. "the above bounden Administrator of the Goods, Chattels, and Effects of the Deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods, Credits, and Effects of the said Deceased, which have or shall come to the Hands, Possession, “or Knowledge of him the said Administrator, or to the Hands or Possession of any other Person or Persons for him, and the same "so made do exhibit into the Supreme Court of Hongkong, at or "before a Day therein to be specified; and the same Goods, Chattels, “Credits and Effects, and all other the Goods, Chattels, Credits, and Effects of the Deceased at the Time of his Death, or which at any "time afterwards shall come to the Hands or l'ossession of such Administrator, or to the Hands or Possession of any other Person or Persons for him, shall well and truly administer according to Law; and further shall make, or cause to be made, a true and just "Account of his said Administration, at or before a Time therein to "be specified, and afterwards from Time to Time as he, she, or they shall be lawfully required; and all the Rest and Residue of the said "Goods, Chattels, Credits, and Effect which shall be found from Time "to Time remaining upon the said Administration Account, the same being first examined and allowed by the said Court, shall and do pay and dispose of in a due course of Administration, or in such "Manner as the said Court shall direct,then this Obligation to be Void and of none Effect, or clse to be and remain in full Force and "Virtue." And in case it shall be necessary to put the said Bond. How Bond to be put
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in Suit, for the sake of obtaining the Effect thereof for the Benefit of in Suit. such Person or Persons as shall appear to the said Court to be interested therein, such Person or Persons from Time to Time giving satisfactory Security for Paying all such Costs as shall arise from the said Suit, such Person or Persons shall, by Order of the said Court, be allowed to sue the same in the Name of the Attorney- General
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Court to fix Periods at which Accounts shall be passed.
made to Executors or Administrators.
COLONIAL ORDINANCES.
General for the Time being of the said Colony, and the said Bond shall not be sued in any other Manner.
XX. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the said Supreme Court shall fix certain Periods when all Persons to whom Probates of Wills and Letters of Administration shall be granted by the said Court shall from Time to Time, until the Effects of the Deceased Persons shall be fully administered, pass their Accounts relating thereto before the said Court; and in case the Effects of the Deceased shall not be fully administered within the Time for that Purpose to be fixed by the said Court, then, or at any earlier Time, if the said Court shall see fit so to direct, the Person or Persons to whom such Probate or Administration shall be granted shall pay, deposit, and dispose of the Balance of Money belonging to the Estate of the Deceased then in his, her, or their Hands, and all Money which shall afterwards come into his, her, or their Hands, and also all Precious Stones, Jewels, Bonds, Bills, and Securities belonging to the Estate of the Deceased, in such Manner, and unto such Persons, as the said Court shall direct for safe Custody; and the said Court shall from Time to Time make such Order as shall be just for the due Administration of such Assets, and for the Payment or Remittance thereof, or any Part thereof, as Occasion shall require, to or for the Use of any Person or Persons, whether Resident or Non-resident in the said Colony and its Dependencies, who may be entitled thereto, or any Part thereof, as Creditors, Legatees, or Next of Kin, or by any other Right or Title whatsoever.
Allowances to be XXI. And be it further enacted and ordained, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Supreme Court to allow to any Executor or Administrator of the Effects of any Deceased Person (except as herein mentioned) such Commission or Per Centage out of their Assets as shall be just and reasonable for their Pains and Trouble. therein Provided always, that no Allowance whatever shall be made for the Pains and Trouble of any Executor or Administrator who shall neglect to pass his Accounts at such Time, or to dispose of any Money, Goods, Chattels, or Securities with which he shall be charge- able, in such Manner as, in pursuance of any general or special Rule or Order of the said Court, shall be requisite; and moreover, every such Executor or Administrator so neglecting to pass his Accounts, or to dispose of any such Money, Goods, Chattels, or Securities with. which he shall be chargeable, shall be charged with Interest at the Rate then current within the said Colony and its Dependencies, for such Sum and Sums of Money as from Time to Time shall have been in his Hands, whether he shall or shall not make Interest thereof.
Payment of Money into Treasury.
39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 79. s. 21.
XXII. And be it further enacted and ordained: That where Letters of Administration or “ad colligenda bona" have been granted to the Registrar under an Act of Parliament passed at a Session holden in the 30th & 40th Years of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for establishing further Regulations for the Government of the British Territories in India, and the better Adminis- tration of Justice within the same, or otherwise as Registrar, he shall, within Fourteen Days after receiving any Money belonging to any Estate to the Amount of One Hundred Dollars, clear of all just Allowances and Deductions for Commission, pay the same into the
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Hands of the Colonial Treasurer to the Credit of the said Estate, unless the Chief Justice, upon a written Statement of Facts, shall report that it will be more expedient for the said Estate to be other- wise held or disposed of; and such Treasurer shall receive from the Registrar, as Administrator as aforesaid under the Statute, all such Sums of Money as he shall tender to him, and shall carry the same to the Credit of such Estates as the said Registrar shall specify, giving him at the same time a Reccipt for the specific Sums so paid in; and whenever the said Registrar shall have Occasion to draw any Sum of Money out of the Hands of such Treasurer, he shall apply by Petition to the Court, or to the Chief Justice at Chambers, for an Order for the Payment thereof, stating in such Petition the Purpose for which such Money is required; and such Treasurer shall not pay over any Moneys which may have been paid into his Hands as aforesaid without such Order.
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Power to regulate
and to inake Rules and
XXIII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That it shall be lawful for the said Supreme Court to make and prescribe such Rules Sittings of the Court, and Orders, touching the Times and Place of holding the Court, Form Orders. of Process, Pleadings, and other Business and Proceedings of the said Court, and of the Fees payable therein, as to the said Court shall seem fit, and such Rules and Orders from time to time to alter, amend, or revoke, as Occasion may require.
XXIV. And be it further enacted and ordained, That if any Arrest allowed in Person shall have a Claim or Ground of Action, of whatever Nature, about to leave the case of Debtors being against any other Person who shall be about to leave the said Colony, Colony. and to proceed to Parts beyond the Jurisdiction of the said Supreme Court, or who inay reasonably be suspected of an Intention so to do, either for the purpose of avoiding Process in such Action, or other- wise, whereby the Recovery of any Debt or Damages may be delayed, and the Party having such Claim or Ground of Action as aforesaid, or some Person on his Behalf, shall produce to the said Chief Justice an Affidavit of such his Right of Action, and of the Intention of such other Party to leave the said Colony, and to proceed to Parts beyond the Jurisdiction of the said Court, and shall also state in such Affidavit the Grounds upon which he believes that the other Party is about to leave the said Colony as aforesaid,-in such case it shall be lawful for the said Chief Justice, if he shall think fit, to order a Writ of Capias ad Respondendum, (in the Form given in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked No. 1,) to be issued to take and arrest the Body of such other Party so about to leave the said Colony; in which said Writ the Amount of the Debt or Damages demanded, or the Value of the Property sought to be recovered, shall be truly specified, and the Costs and Charges of issuing the said Writ shall be indorsed thereon by the Registrar of the said Court; and of which said Writ the Sheriff, or his lawful Deputy, shall, upon any Arrest to be made
by virtue thereof, give to the Defendant a true Copy: Provided. Bail-bond. always, that if upon any such Arrest the Defendant shall give to the Sheriff reasonable Security by Bond or Obligation of the said De- fendant, and of one or more other Person or Persons having sufficient Property within the said Colony, as Surety or Sureties that the Defendant shall appear according to the Exigency of the said Writ, and shall also stand to, abide, and perform the Judgment of the said Court thereon, or render himself to the Prison of the said Court in F
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Malicious Arrest.
Allowance of Ex-
tion to Witnesses.
COLONIAL ORDINANCES.
Execution for the same; and that the said Defendant shall not, from and after the Date of such Bond or Obligation, remove or withdraw any of his Property from and out of the Jurisdiction of the said Court, so as to evade the Judgment thereof, if the same shall be for the Plaintiff (which said Bond or Obligation shall, as near as may be, be in the Form given in the Schedule hereunto annexed marked No. 2.); or if the Defendant shall pay to the Sheriff or his Deputy a sufficient Sum of Money to cover the Amount of the Debt or Damages mentioned in the Writ, together with the Cost and Charges indorsed thereon, and a further Sum of Five Dollars for the Charges of making the Arrest; or shall deliver to the said Sheriff or his Deputy the Property specified in the said Writ, or the Value thereof, either as a Deposit or Security in lieu of giving a Bail-boud, or in Satisfaction. of the Suit or Action,-then the said Sheriff shall permit the said Defendant to go at large, and free of the said Arrest as to such Suit or Action.
XXV. And be it further enacted and ordained, That if upon
the Trial of any Suit or Action in which the Defendant shall have been so arrested or held to bail as aforesaid, it shall appear to the said Supreme Court that the Arrest of the Defendant was Vexatious and Malicious, and without any reasonable or probable Cause, and that the Order for such Arrest was obtained upon a wilful Misrepresen- tation of the Facts of the case, it shall be lawful for the Chief Justice of the said Court in his Discretion to order and adjudge the Plaintiff' in such Suit or Action to pay to the Defendant the Costs of such Arrest or Holding to Bail, together with such further Sumn of Money as to the said Chief Justice shall seem fit, as a reasonable Compen- sation to the said Defendant for having been so arrested or held to bail; and in Default of Payment of any Sum of Money so ordered to be paid as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said Chief Justice, and he is hereby authorized, to commit the said Plaintiff to the Prison of the said Court until the same shall be paid: Provided, that in any Case in which Compensation shall have been awarded as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for the Defendant to proceed against the Plaintiff, by Action or otherwise, for the Recovery of any other or further Sum of Money by way of Damages for such Arrest or Holding to Bail.
XXVI. And be it further enacted and ordained, That it shall penses and Compensa- and may be lawful to and for the said Supreme Court, in all Pro- ceedings therein, whether of a Civil or Criminal Nature, to order and allow to all Persons examined or detained as Witnesses in any such Proceeding, such Sum or Sums of Money as to the said Court shall scem fit, as well for defraying the reasonable Expenses of such Witnesses, as for affording them a reasonable Compensation for their Trouble and Loss of Time.
Punishment of Wit-
dance, and of Persous
of Court.
XXVII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That if any nesses for Non-atten- Person served with a Subpoena to attend the said Supreme Court as guilty of a Contempt a Witness in any Suit or Action therein, or upon the Trial of any Indictment or Information, shallrefuse or neglect to attend the said Court pursuant to such Subpoena, or if any Person shall be guilty of any Contempt before the said Court, it shall be lawful for the said Court to punish any such Person in a Summary Way, by Fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars, or by Imprisonment for any Time
not
9° VICTORIE.—No. 6 or 1845.
not exceeding Two Calendar Months: Provided, that nothing herein. contained shall effect or abridge the Right of any Plaintiff or Defendant to proceed against any Party for not appearing pursuant to his Subpoena, for the Recovery of any Special Damage such Plaintiff or Defendant may have sustained by reason of the Disobedience of any such Party.
XXVIII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That if in any Perjury. Suit or Action, or in any Proceeding connected therewith, it shall appear to the Chief Justice of the said Supreme Court, that any Person examined as a Witness upon Oath, or, if a Quaker, on Affir- mation, has committed wilful and corrupt Prejury, or that any Person, in swearing or affirmation in any Affidavit or Affirmation required. to be made before the said Chief Justice, has been guilty of the like Offence, then, and in cach and every such Case, it shall and may be lawful for the said Chief Justice to direct a Prosecution for Perjury to be forthwith instituted against any such Person so falsely swearing or affirming as aforesaid, in order that he or she may be punished. according to Law; or where such Perjury is committed by any Person. examined as a Witness in open Court, it shall be lawful for the said Chief Justice, instead of directing such Prosecution to be instituted as aforesaid, either to commit such Witness, as for a Contempt of the Court, to the Prison of the said Court, for any time not exceeding Two Calendar Months, or to fine such Witness in any Sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars: Provided, that the Powers herein- before given shall be in full Force and Operation, notwithstanding any Irregularity or Want of Form in the Administration of the Oath or Affirmation.
XXIX. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Go- Writ of Error. vernor, in his Executive Council, shall constitute and be a Court of Error and Appeal, to whom it shall be lawful for any Party to appeal, by Writ of Error or Petition, from any Decision, Decree, or Order of the said Supreme Court, in all matters of Law and Equity, where the Matter in Dispute shall Amount to the Sum of One Thousand Five. Hundred Dollars, but not otherwise: Provided, that no such Writ of Error or Petition shall be allowed after the Expiration of Fourteen Days next after the Decision, Decree, or Order of the said Court shall have been pronounced.
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XXX. And be it further enacted and ordained, That in the Interpretation Clause. Construction of this Ordinance, wherever, in describing any person or Party, Matter or Thing, the Word importing the Singular Number or the Masculine Gender only is used, the same shall be understood to include, and shall be applied to, Several Persons or Parties as well as One Person or Party, and Females as well as Males, and Several Matters or Things as well as One Matter or Thing, respectively, unless there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction.
JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS,
Governor, &c. &c.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 19th day of August, 1845.
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Clerk of Councils.
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Writ of Capias ad Respon- dendum Sec. 24.
Bail-bond to the Sheriff.
Sec. 24.
Condition.
COLONIAL ORDINANCES.
SCHEDULES TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.
No. 1.
Writ of Capias ad Respondendum.
VICTORIA by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, to the Sheriff of the Colony of Hongkong, or his lawful Deputy, Greeting:
We command you that you take C. D. of
Street in Victoria, Merchant
(or as the case may be) if lie be found in this Colony, and him safely keep, until he shall have given you bail, or made deposit with you according to Law, or until the said C. D. shall by other lawful Means be discharged from your Custody, so that he appear before our Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of our said Colony at Victoria within Eight Days after the Execution hereof on him, inclusive of the Day of such Execution, then and there to answer A. B. wherefore he hath not [“ paid to the said A. B. the Sum of Dollars of good and lawful Money current in the said Colony which he owes to, and unjustly detains from him," or "hath not delivered to the said A. B. a certain Boat, together with its Oars, Furniture, &e." or "other moveable Thing which the said C. D. unlawfully detains from the said A. B.," or "hath not satisfied the said A. B. his Damages, which the said A. B. hath sustained in respect of," &c., (stating any Wrong or Injury committed by the Defendant, as the case may be) as it is said; and in Default of such Appearance, after having given a Bail-bond, the Plaintiff to be at liberty to proceed against the Sheriff or on the Bail-bond; and we do further command you, that on Execution hereof, you deliver a Copy hereof to the said Defendant; and we do further command you, that immediately after the Execution hereof, you do return this Writ to our said Supreme Court of Hongkong, together with the Manner in which you shall have executed the same, and the Day of the Execution thereof.
G. H.
No.
Street Victoria,
Plaintiff's Attorney
(or if the Plaintiff sue in person}
A. B. of
Plaintiff.
of
Witness the Honourable John Walter Hulme,
do
Our Chief Justice of our said Colony at Victoria, the
Day of
in the
No. 2.
Form of Bail-bond.
Year of our Reign,
and L. M. Sheriff of the
KNOW all men by these Presents, that we, C. D. of
are held and firmly bound to Colony of Hongkong in the penal Sum of
Dollars (Double the Sum or Value of the Thing mentioned in the Writ) of good and lawful Money current in the said Colony, to be paid to the said Sheriff, or his certain Attorney, Executors, Administrators, or assigns; for which Payment to be well and faithfully inade we bind ourselves, and each of us for himself, in the whole, our and every of our Heirs, Executors, and Adminis- trators, firmly by these Presents.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hands and Seals this of
in the Year of our Lord
Day
to
The Condition of this Obligation is such, that if the above bounden C. D. do appear in person, or by his Attorney, before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of our Lady the Queen of the Colony of Hongkong on the
Day of answer A. B. wherefore (following the Statement in the Writ of Capias ad Respondendum) and also shall stand to, abide, and perform the Judgment of the said Court thereon, or render himself to the Prison of the said Court in Execution thereof, and shall not remove or withdraw any of his Property from and out of the Jurisdiction of the said Court, then this Obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full Force.
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered
in the presence of
M. N.
O. P.
C. D. L. M.
(L. S.) (L. S.)
1.
OROIT
HONGKONG,
ANNO NONO
VICTORIE
REGINÆ.
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BY
No. 2 of 1846.
Y His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Baronet, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superinten- dent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, entitled “An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establish- "ment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute
other Provisions in lieu thereof."
[6th May, 1846.]
Title.
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the said Ordinance No. 6 Preamble. of 1845, by making Provisions for the saving of all Proceedings and all Suits formerly depending in the Court of Hongkong, the Abolition of which Court is effected by the Second Section of the said Ordinance; as also with Reference to the Fourth Section of the said Ordinance, by limiting the Operation, in this Colony, of the Laws of England and the Practice of the English Courts to such Laws and Practice as existed when a Local Legislature was first conferred on the said Colony: And whereas also it is deemed advisable to reserve to the Legislative Council of the said Island, the Power of Revising and Approving of the Rules and Orders to be made under the Twenty- third Section of the said Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, before the same shall become binding; and to Repeal the Twenty-ninth Section of of the said Ordinance, constituting a Local Court of Error and Appeal :
I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the 29th Section of Or- Governor of Hongkong with the Advice of the Legislative Council dinance No. 6 of 1845
repealed. thereof, That from and after the passing of this Ordinance, the said Twenty-ninth Section of the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845 shall be, and is hereby repealed.
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nst the "China
traught against.
Mail"
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Sin,
Your seag
& bedient For
Signed Shortrede
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(M. Polland High) Ands honteuse
attorney for
drew
Mr. M. St. Lawson
Andons Shortride Eggn
Dear Sir,
16th 1853
I am in re
reipt
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ceipt of your favre of this date with reference to t Lawson's case the context, of which have met with due
consideration from me, but
I am
that after A Bay sorry Mature de lideration I do not think Mr. Lawson would
be right in accepting Jour offer of com permisé - If the article complained of had informe or "believed" that what You stated was the case I would at once close with
said that
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your offer;
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Apere
but the Libel is
in Editorial one &
aports
positively as the Editor's opin
as accush
ion. The infucian
tion,
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and as this has gone the world as a direct and positive charge, it must be as directly & positive & retract
ed
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ed, as to admit under the
circumstances that the matter allows of discupion world lead the publie to believe
Lawson Enbolains that In
Bou
ths of the mathie, & that it would depend on the result of the investigation Whether proton change be live on otherwise. Mr. Lantois
your
object is not a vindictive one but merely.
to fece him. self from an importation. which untifs refuted will Mar his prospects for life,
to his at the some tiime he
remunera
considers himself fairly inti- tted to a
tion for the pomniany actual lof your
article has caused him to
you
deffen. hubs Reisefore you mile reteach the Editorial
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Jam
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(Sand)
proceed
Edvard St. Pollard
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Summons
Victoria, by the peace of God, of the United Kingdomm
of Gleak Butain & Riland Queen,
Defender of the Fouther To the Sheriff of the felony of Stonphons, or his teachel Olsen lawful Depen
to get to
Comman
int Andrew Shortrede
of Victoria in the Colony of Nor
Pin be
bie & Pirblisher of the Overland China Mail » China.
Rony
Mail" Newspapers
oh lay
he wor
that justh without the der to Robert Boys.
Sum of
Lawson the
one thousand
Pounds
of good & lawful British Sterling Sony current in the said Con
tify
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the pana jes
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the Plaintiff sets to rico
coven from having printed & put-
long
him for
Maintiff and
and where
lished divers Libels of the said
& by reason
whereby by
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do 20, then Sum
lif he shall
the sand.
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by
delivering
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he hath not Shew wherefor done it : & immediately after the Service hereof. Leturn
there this Mit of June- nons, with whatever you have done there « port: And me hereby require the Defen pant to take notice, that in default of his en
of peasing the Flastiff may cause an Mh. Ap.
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the said Defendant, & proceed thereon to
tion.
Witness
The Stonourable
John Walton Halent loquis e= Our Chief Justice i fom said tology of Victoria. the fifteenth day of Lutzun The 17th
Edward & Polland
M.
Fra en liff's & Horney
Ineen's rood Victoria
Seaki by
Salut)
Signed
I
Hongkong
EN. Pittore Arge
Dear Sir
16 July 1853
I have exceived
le the in
20 ply
to mine
Septe
Rhasson
ack). Myths Histor
Jour
both
of this date. You say
If the article complained of
had said" that qu
informed.
what
you
you
Вере
or believed" that
on
stated was the case
I would at once close with
offer".
with you
The wribe of the article
was so
informed "
& believed
and
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and therefore. I can
Lee no
also I am
ready
objection to supply the words
which
you
tell me
would
have so materially changed
the Character of the article,
and to state editorially that
the were informer
cether or
(min) de
し
d" or "velived
both terms)
that the top of the steamer
(Larriston)
" was caused" by
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negligence
part of the second
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officer
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to explai
obedient Servant
Stonton July 18th 1853
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Dear Fr
his being
Cable to be tried
in his own con
country.
the in
formants
anty on
that point are
the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, & the jury whotat
on the Captain
Captain and busti
of the Orion Steamer; That
авло
The Summons taken
out in Mon. Larson's Name is
dated the 15th (Friday)
I
and
was surprised to receive it before you messenger
could have actioned with
My immediate reply to Jone second better of Fat-
tends.
when
You
unday afternoon. reporting an answer. This shows to confirm the Opinion expresed told me on Friday afternoon that you had then been tak ing out a summons in the of the second trate
hare
of the Larriston, without
me.
the constity of giving notice in writing. Ste
pose you
し
dast
acted hnder in.
dinctions, & go
had seen
theek to have them, amend-
ed; seeing
that instead.
the way
of continuing
to
your
develling house, you
Must have returned to
you office; for less than
an hour after wands,
you
clark
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1
+
17
не ж
cleak gane
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me your letter of the 15th just as I hadproper the door & seen Mr Baylis the monster & Mr Lawson the second mate of the late Steamer Larriston coming
out - It w
ра
Answer
by
regained and
2. P. M. of the fol. lowing the home Scent you
fox
day
A quarter be
the time I
a private note, stating
that as there was no
one
then in my office to make
an
copy, the reply could not be seat for half a hour. It was dispatched before half past two, & at
а
quantic to 5. before my. reply to your
could
Rave
second letter
been received,
if not before the letter it.
self
F
L
self
was received, the officer
must have has been on
his
way
with the summons;
for apron by looking at the
clock & making
a tesnork
the bearing of which he did not apprehend, he
observed the summons
Joven to bion
had been given
some time before.
bat
other business had prevent
ed him
him serving
Jou
it sooner.
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ни
The Lawson's object is not
Mr.
a vindictive one,
but merely
to free himself from au imputation which unless refated will man his pros. fucks for life xe.
Why then ask for pecuni-
a
1.
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ally damager.
&
why not
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a.
dopt proceedings by proseen. tion instead of action ?
A
a
do
perdict against the under prosecution would go for
more
в Much to clear Mr. Lawson's Character than nominal
which the jung
dam
cages
minder an action might (though I think they would not) be directed to fine in law. And thus perhaps
though again I think ast)
saddle me with
of cost,
کرو
bill
you but leaving you
"Client's character very much
what it was before - I have also to baggest. of theme
в его
abject in
suming
up the costs. I as a means of preventing unmecesary
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expenses, that as soon as prac ticable & contintent, the Chif Justice should be asked
to determine whether or not. this colony is included with in the operation of Lord Cauch bells, Act" for the better protec
of purvate Character,
tions
& for the more кра
effectiually securing the liberty of the Pref. With consent of per ties I understand certain. formal but expensive fire- limmaries can be gotove and lepore this decision the he said to almost
Case ma
жаз
depend; for probably
Lawson would not beature
to to to trial ander
provisions of Lord
belli act.
tc...
Camp.
At all events
My line of fuscerdure konst
be in a
а.в шлаки
great
regulative by having the
nextion settled.
I have also to State
that it is
za e..
Dy
that the
in tea tion to teation
be set aside or
ed, which ever.
supersed-
of rithe
be the proper team
Jav, Deen Sei
Your very
obdient Test
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Ex Volland Vis for Lawson
Solicitor for Men.
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Dean Shi
the 1853
Lawson Nyowall
I am in receipt of
your favos of this dati referint
to the above case, t
to so
say
have
that the Sammons was
not served on
the 15th in
ต
consequence of Mr.
karing
Lawson
communicated to the
noon.
on the after that he had the
of that day
day
be for
received a letter from you which was then placed in
My
hands and as the sum.
Mons
Mons was issued under the had not that you
impression mor Lawson's letter
Ansivered
в
Mr.
your of the 1th Cant Icon- biden it only fair & gian gau a chance of Clearing your. self before proceeding. My letter of the 16th was in refly
な
чисел
& Jones, stating that I could dot, accept the terms you & did not seek for
offered.
a
de
offer
x as you
you did not distant pros-
"fect of coming to the only terms. I could accept vig :
full
tion & a
& complete retracta I spas com- apolozy.
Julled to instruct the ther iff to serve, which I am prepared to make rath
was
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was not done until I had
received your refly which I did not consider attered the state of matters at all,
as it only sition for
contained a props-
Le
putition of
the Lific conched in diffe
unt teases (by lettis saying
2:5
"Campbell's act cannot of
Lone the Count
course come before until the day of trial
Jam
Dean li
Grefinitifully
synn, EdvardisPolland
f you
kadamot if
said:
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игрива
day ke).
moving
As to
threat of tonig
to set avaside the fusees that,
Jou
perfect
liberty
are a politen
ty to do - I
that I will come.
say tha
Can only say
sent to any measures colenia.
any
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ted to lessen. expenses, the only me Method of doing which thats can see is for you &appear x plead without taking you right days. I to such the point about the application of Lord
to
Cam
in your Just
July 18/4/1853
Nowy story folyt
The only passage
letter of this date
sp received
which
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ви
scored
ed
which go
klood as
When
have under
Reing Especially important _ It is that your whole love on the 18th you "did not secti for a reply". Now the con Cluding sentence of that litter of the 18th is "braless therefore you
will retrach
the Editorial charge in your paper. I am afraid the suit must fir
occed".
It will be for the Judge or the Jury, & altimately the Public to say if this crasest
"sucking for a reply Some thing
Lo
or
like that, as
to
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UNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRIN-
CIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;
THE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong, Shereth,-
1. That an action for Libel has been brought against Your Memorialist under the following circumstances:-
2. Your Memorialist is Proprietor and Editor of the China Mail Newspaper, which, in commenting on the loss of the Steamer Larriston, on the Coast of China, on the 1st of May last, used these words,-
"It is also certain that the loss of the steamer was caused by gross negligence on the part of the second officer, who, had the catastrophe occurred in his owncountry, would now be in jail waiting his trial for manslaughter."
Again," Altogether, the loss of the vessel can only be characterized, in seamen's phrase, as "lubherly work," and will serve as a lesson to our shipowners in future to employ men having local experience of the coast navigation."
3. According to the best information obtainable at the time, and still relied on, these remarks were fully warranted, and are not so severe as, judging from what was said about the loss of the Orion in June 1850, the event would have called forth in the home papers; especially as it farther appears that, besides the questions of seamanship and carelessness, there was only one efficient boat, and Thirty-one lives were lost within gun-shot of the shore.
4. At any rate, the remarks in the Mail were made without malice or gross negligence, and their publication, it is conceived, was for the public benefit; pleas that are available only under Lord Campbell's Act, "for the better protection of private character, and for the more effectually securing the liberty of the press."
5. But your Memorialist has been told, and it is a matter of general belief, that the present action would not have been brought, except under the impression that Lord Campbell's Act is not in operation within this Colony. He cannot pretend to say how the point will be settled by this Court: but as a judgment may be reversed, the question can be definitively settled only by Her Majesty in Council; and to that end the following memorandum of facts is respectfully submitted to your Grace's favourable consideration:
6. On the 5th of April, 1843, a Royal Charter was granted to the Colony of Hongkong, which, amongst other things, authorized the formation of a Legislative Council; but that Council made no laws until the following year. On the 21st August, 1844, an Ordinance (No. 15 of 1844) was passed, To establish a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong," the Third Section of which declares,---
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"That the Law of England shall be in full force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except where it shall be inapplicable to the local circumstances of the said Colony or of its inhabitants.'
This Ordinance was repealed, and another (No. 6 of 1845) substituted, dated the 19th August, 1845, and entitled "An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,” the Fourth Section of which is as follows,-
*And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Law of England shall be in full Force in the said Colony of Hongkong except where the same shall be inapplicable to the Local Circumstances of the said Colony, or of its Inhabitants; and that in all Matters relating to the Practice and Proceedings of the said Supreme Court, the Practice of the English Courts shall be in Force, unless and until otherwise ordered by Rule of the said Court."
But on the 6th of May, 1846, another Ordinance (No. 2 of 1846) was passed, entitled, "An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, entitled, An Ordi- nance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof," the Third Section of which is as follows,-
"And be it further enacted and ordained, That from henceforth such of the Laws of England only, and such Portion of the Practice of the English Courts (subject to the Exception of their Applicability as contained in the said Fourth Section of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) as existed when the said Colony obtained a Local Legislature that is to say, on the Fifth Day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty- three-shall be of Force therein.
All these Ordinances were confirmed by the Queen in Council.
7. Lord Campbell's Act became the Law of England on the 24th of August, 1843, and it was in operation in Hongkong up to the 6th of May, 1846; for the only other case of libel that has been brought into this Court since its institution, was
Liu-son 1 Shortene
iction for Liber. Correspondence &
Monpliing Jus!
a prosecution by the present Attorney General on behalf of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, against the Editor of the Friend of China, tried on the 2d of June, 1845. The defendant, under the provisions of Lord Campbell's Act, having pleaded "Not guilty—that all he had stated was true, and published for the benefit of the public," the case went to trial, and ended in an acquittal; the present Chief Justice tell- ing the jury that, "it was for them to judge if there was a necessity, first, to publish the facts; secondly, was it necessary to publish the commentary;" directions au- thorized only by Lord Campbell's Act.
8. It is presumed that the Plaintiff is aware of this case, and having retained the only efficient Barrister and the best Attorney in the Colony, he must rely on the above quoted 4th Section of the Ordinance of 6th May, 1846. Your Memo- rialist is not a lawyer, and, though on the present occasion constrained to conduct his own case, does not pretend to argue technical points of law; but for years past he has taken some interest in discussions in Parliament and elsewhere, on con-- stitutional questions, affecting the rights and liberties of British subjects. He is thus enabled to turn to a debate on the Cape Constitution, (July 15, 1851,) in the course of which Lord Lyndhurst, having been appealed to as a great lawyer, is reported to have thus opened his speech --
When this House takes an opinion on a question of law, that opinion should be pronounced with as much fairness by the legal members of your Lordship's House as if they were stating it in a court of justice;" and referring to Lord Mansfield's judgment in the Grenada case, the same high authority said,
"Now, when the Crown granted a franchise or liberties of any description, whether to the inhabitants of a district or a colony, the grant was irrevocable; it could only be put an end to by surrender, by Act of Parliament, or by forfeiture established by proceedings in a court of justice; and there was neither of these here." (Spectator, July 19, 1851.)
According to another report, His Lordship gave as the essence of Lord Mans- field's most elaborate judgment, pronounced in the most distinct terms-terms that could not be misunderstood,'
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"That if the element of the franchise were once given-if the power to legislate were once considered-- itany popular right were once bestowed, anything that was to be a check upon the Government—then, in that case, the Crown had not the power to revoke what it had once granted." (Morning Herald, July 16, 1851.) Your Grace took part in that debate, and would appear, both by your speech and vote, as well as by your subsequent policy towards the Cape, to concur in these views, which seem also to be in accordance with those laid down by Lord John Russell in his speech on Colonial Policy, published, by his authority, in 1850.
9. Presuming therefore that the doctrine applied to Grenada and the Cape is considered sound, I submit that it receives additional force in the case to which your Grace's attention is now more immediately requested; for, it is humbly sub- mitted, that Lord Campbell's Act was not only one of those liberties and privileges which, once conferred, could not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courts of Hongkong, by virtue of two Ordinances confirmed by Her Majesty in Council, by whose authority the Council that passed them is con- stituted.
10. Should it nevertheless be held that the 3d Section of the Ordinance. 5th May, 1846, took away from the Colony the privileges and protection of the laws of England passed subsequently to 5th April, 1843, then it follows that another, locally still more important, Act of Parliament, which received the Royal assent on August 22, 1843, two days before Lord Campbell's Act, is also abrogated. It is entitled, "An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China," and is set forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Consular,) as giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters Patent, authorizing the Governor of Hongkong as Superintendent of Trade to legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; the said first Ordinance (24th January 1844) rendering them "subject in all matters to the Law of England, (as much as in the Colony of Hongkong, § 1,) and to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of justice at Hongkong over the same."
11. Surely it could never have been intended, by means of a single clause in an otherwise unimportant Ordinance, to sweep away from the Colony three years. of the Laws of England. Your Memorialist has within these few days read a re- port of an appeal to the House of Lords (May 6, 1853,) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythswood's policies. It was pleaded, in bar of an imme- morial right of the inhabitants of Renfrew,
"That in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament had been passed for improving the navigation of the river Cart, and under these Acts a towing path had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees were directed to erect and had erected a ruble wall and iron railing along the towing path, enclosing the appellant's lands, and these Acts declared that no one was to be allowed to go into the said lands except with the consent of the heir in possession of Blythswood for the time being."
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In delivering judgment against the appellant, Lord Chancellor Cranworth said,
"The main point, therefore, to be first considered is, whether the statute puts an end to the right. Now, it would be much to be regretted if the House were to be bound to construe that statute so strictly as was contended for by the appellant. Indeed, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time from time immemorial could by a side-wind-by such a clause as that statute contained, be thus swept away and extinguished. His Lordship then quoted the statute, and concluded with saying, that it was not to be construed strictly, but was merely intended to make an arrangement between the trustees of the river navigation and the appellant; but as to the rights of the public to the ways in question, it just left these rights where it found them-it neither gave nor took away." (Scotsman, May 11, 1853.) Upon the same principle your Memorialist would respectfully submit to your Grace, that "it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time (from the first day of the Colony,) could by a side-wind-by such a clause as that Statute (Ordinance) contained, be thus swept away and extinguish- ed;" and that too under show of amending the laws and government of British subjects, for "amend" and not "repeal” is the term used in the title and preamble, the 29th Section of Ordinance of 5th May, 1846, "constituting a local Court of Error and Appeal," being the only one expressly repealed.
12. Under the circumstances now set forth, your Memorialist approaches your Grace, beseeching that, if it should appear to the legal advisers of the Crown that Hongkong has thus been deprived of important rights and privileges, steps may be adopted for restoring them; and whether or not the present operation of Lord Campbell's Act within the Colony be considered doubtful, your Memorialist humbly suggests, that, in order to put it beyond the power of any one to vex the lieges, under an old law, which the Lord Chief Justice of England said recently, (Sir Charles Napier v. Murray,) was often vexatiously and tyrannically enforced, a de- claratory Order or Ordinance should be passed, authoritatively setting the question.
at rest,
13. Your Memorialist, desirous to have a decision regarding Lord Camp- bell's Act by the Hongkong Court, made a proposal to that effect; but the Plaintiff, under the advice of his lawyers, being confident that it is not in operation here, objects to have the question mooted to the Judge before the day of trial, which, from the absence of material witnesses on the way to England and elsewhere, will probably be postponed for several months.
14. Your Memorialist begs to state, that in June 1850, the Orion Steamer was wrecked off the coast of Scotland, under circumstances very similar to those at- tending the wreck of the Larriston, the number of lives lost in the latter being Thirty-one and in the former Forty-seven, through the neglect of the officers on duty and the insufficiency of the boats. The Captain of the Orion and the second Mate, who was officer of the watch, were indicted criminally, and brought to trial before the high Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 29th and 30th of August follow- ing, and being convicted, the Captain was sentenced to Two Years' Imprisonment and the second Mate to Seven Years' Transportation. In summing up, the presiding Judge, the Lord Justice Clerk, remarked, that "he did not doubt that the greatest public benefit would accrue from the disclosure of the facts," and in pronouncing sentence on the Mate, his Lordship further remarked, that "the sen- tence is no doubt one that must produce a great impression." Entirely concurring in these sentiments, your Memorialist conceives that he was only consulting the public benefit in alluding to them; and that no one should have the power, by a doubtful or defective state of the law, to bring actions against an editor for so discharging his duty.
Entreating your Grace to give such effect to the premises as may seem meet,
Your Memorialist will ever pray,
HONGKONG, July 21, 1853.
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UNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRIN-
CIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES ;
THE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong, Sheweth,-
1. That an action for Libel has been brought against Your Memorialist under the following circumstances:---
2. Your Memorialist is Proprietor and Editor of the China Mail Newspaper, which, in commenting on the loss of the Steamer Larriston, on the Coast of China, on the 1st of May last, used these words,-
"It is also certain that the loss of the steamer was caused by gross negligence on the part of the second officer, who, had the catastrophe occurred in his owncountry, would now be in jail waiting his trial for Imanslaughter."
Again," Altogether, the loss of the vessel can only be characterized, in seamen's phrase, as "lubberly work," and will serve as a lesson to our shipowners in future to employ men having local experience of the coast navigation."
3. According to the best information obtainable at the time, and still relied on, these remarks were fully warranted, and are not so severe as, judging from what was said about the loss of the Orion in June 1850, the event would have called forth in the home papers; especially as it farther appears that, besides the questions of seamanship and carelessness, there was only one efficient boat, and Thirty-one lives were lost within gun-shot of the shore.
4. At any rate, the remarks in the Mail were made without malice or gross negligence, and their publication, it is conceived, was for the public benefit; pleas that are available only under Lord Campbell's Act, "for the better protection of private character, and for the more effectually securing the liberty of the press."
5. But your Memorialist has been told, and it is a matter of general belief, that the present action would not have been brought, except under the impression that Lord Campbell's Act is not in operation within this Colony. He cannot pretend to say how the point will be settled by this Court: but as a judgment may be reversed, the question can be definitively settled only by Her Majesty in Council; and to that end the following memorandum of facts is respectfully submitted to your Grace's favourable consideration:
6. On the 5th of April, 1843, a Royal Charter was granted to the Colony of Hongkong, which, amongst other things, authorized the formation of a Legislative Council; but that Council made no laws until the following year. On the 21st August, 1844, an Ordinance (No. 15 of 1844) was passed, "To establish a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong," the Third Section of which declares,-
"That the Law of England shall be in full force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except where it shall be inapplicable to the local circumstances of the said Colony or of its inhabitants.'
This Ordinance was repealed, and another (No. 6 of 1845) substituted, dated the 19th August, 1845, and entitled "An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof," the Fourth Section of which is as follows,—
"And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Law of England shall be in full Force in the said Colony of Hongkong except where the same shall be inapplicable to the Local Circumstances of the said Colony, or of its Inhabitants; and that in all Matters relating to the Practice and Proceedings of the said Supreme Court, the Practice of the English Courts shall be in Force, unless and until otherwise ordered by Rule of the said Court."
But on the 6th of May, 1846, another Ordinance (No. 2 of 1846) was passed, entitled, “An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, entitled, An Ordi- nance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof the Third Section of which is as follows,-
"And be it further enacted and ordained, That from henceforth such of the Laws of England only. and such Portion of the Practice of the English Courts (subject to the Exception of their Applicability as contained in the said Fourth Section of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) as existed when the said Colony obtained a Local Legislature-that is to say, on the Fifth Day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty- three-shall be of Force therein.
All these Ordinances were confirmed by the Queen in Council.
7. Lord Campbell's Act became the Law of England on the 24th of August. 1843, and it was in operation in Hongkong up to the 6th of May, 1846; for the only other case of libel that has been brought into this Court since its institution, was
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MEMORIAL
OF
ANDREW SHORTREDE,
OF HONGKONG,
TO
HIS GRACE THE
State for the Colonies. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
DUKE OF NEWCASTLE,
HONGKONG, 21ST JULY, 1853.
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a prosecution by the present Attorney General on behalf of Admiral Sir Thomas. Cochrane, against the Editor of the Friend of China, tried on the 2d of June, 1845. The defendant, under the provisions of Lord Campbell's Act, having pleaded "Not guilty—that all he had stated was true, and published for the benefit of the public," the case went to trial, and ended in an acquittal; the present Chief Justice tell- ing the jury that, "it was for them to judge if there was a necessity, first, to publish the facts; secondly, was it necessary to publish the commentary;" directions au- thorized only by Lord Campbell's Act.
8. It is presumed that the Plaintiff is aware of this case, and having retained. the only efficient Barrister and the best Attorney in the Colony, he must rely on the above quoted 4th Section of the Ordinance of 6th May, 1846. Your Memo- rialist is not a lawyer, and, though on the present occasion constrained to conduct his own case, does not pretend to argue technical points of law; but for years past he has taken some interest in discussions in Parliament and elsewhere, on con- stitutional questions, affecting the rights and liberties of British subjects. He is thus enabled to turn to a debate on the Cape Constitution, (July 15, 1851.) in the course of which Lord Lyndhurst, having been appealed to as a great lawyer, is reported to have thus opened his speech
"When this House takes an opinion on a question of law, that opinion should be pronounced with as much fairness by the legal members of your Lordship's House as if they were stating it in a court of justice ;" and referring to Lord Mansfield's judgment in the Grenada case, the same high authority said,-
"Now, when the Crown granted a franchise or liberties of any description, whether to the inhabitants of a district or a colony, the grant was irrevocable; it could only be put an end to by surrender, by Act of Parliament, or by forfeiture established by proceedings in a court of justice; and there was neither of these here." (Spectator, July 19, 1851.)
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According to another report, His Lordship gave as the essence of Lord Mans- field's most elaborate judgment, pronounced in the most distinct terms-terms that could not be misunderstood,"
"That if the element of the franchise were once given-if the power to legislate were once considered- if any popular right were once bestowed, anything that was to be a check upon the Government—then, in that case, the Crown had not the power to revoke what it had once granted" (Morning Herald, July 16, 1851.) Your Grace took part in that debate, and would appear, both by your speech and vote, as well as by your subsequent policy towards the Cape, to concur in these views, which seem also to be in accordance with those laid down by Lord John Russell in his speech on Colonial Policy, published, by his authority, in 1850.
9. Presuming therefore that the doctrine applied to Grenada and the Cape is considered sound, I submit that it receives additional force in the case to which your Grace's attention is now more immediately requested; for, it is humbly sub- mitted, that Lord Campbell's Act was not only one of those liberties and privileges which, once conferred, could not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courts of Hongkong, by virtue of two Ordinances confirmed by Her Majesty in Council, by whose authority the Council that passed them is con- stituted.
10. Should it nevertheless be held that the 3d Section of the Ordinance 5th May, 1846, took away from the Colony the privileges and protection of the laws of England passed subsequently to 5th April, 1843, then it follows that another, locally still more important, Act of Parliament, which received the Royal assent on August 22, 1843, two days before Lord Campbell's Act, is also abrogated. It is entitled, "An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China," and is set forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Consular,) as giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters Patent, authorizing the Governor of Hongkong as Superintendent of Trade to legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; the said first Ordinance (24th January 1844) rendering them "subject in all matters to the Law of England, (as much as in the Colony of Hongkong, § 1,) and to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of justice at Hongkong over the same."
11. Surely it could never have been intended, by means of a single clause in an otherwise unimportant Ordinance, to sweep away from the Colony three years of the Laws of England. Your Memorialist has within these few days read a re- port of an appeal to the House of Lords (May 6, 1853,) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythswood's policies. It was pleaded, in bar of an imine- morial right of the inhabitants of Renfrew,--
*That in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament had been passed for improving the navigation of the river Cart, and under these Acts a towing path had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees were directed to erect and had erected a ruble wall and iron railing along the towing path, enclosing the appellant's lands, and these Acts declared that no one was to be allowed to go into the said lands except with the consent of the heir in possession of Blythswood for the time being."
In delivering judgment against the appellant, Lord Chancellor Cranworth said,-
"The main point, therefore, to be first considered is, whether the statute puts an end to the right. Now, it would be much to be regretted if the House were to be bound to construe that statute so strictly as was contended for by the appellant. Indeed, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time from time immemorial could by a side-wind—by such a clause as that statute contained, be thus swept away and extinguished. His Lordship then quoted the statute, and concluded with saying, that it was not to be construed strictly, but was merely intended to make an arrangement between the trustees of the river navigation and the appellant; but as to the rights of the public to the ways in question, it just left these rights where it found them-it neither gave nor took away." (Scotsman, May 11, 1853.) Upon the same principle your Memorialist would respectfully submit to your Grace, that "it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time (from the first day of the Colony,) could by a side-wind-by such a clause as that Statute (Ordinance) contained, be thus swept away and extinguish- ed" and that too under show of amending the laws and government of British subjects, for "amend" and not "repeal" is the term used in the title and preamble, -the 29th Section of Ordinance of 5th May, 1846, "constituting a local Court of Error and Appeal," being the only one expressly repealed.
12. Under the circumstances now set forth, your Memorialist approaches your Grace, beseeching that, if it should appear to the legal advisers of the Crown that Hongkong has thus been deprived of important rights and privileges, steps may be adopted for restoring them; and whether or not the present operation of Lord Campbell's Act within the Colony be considered doubtful, your Memorialist humbly suggests, that, in order to put it beyond the power of any one to vex the lieges, under an old law, which the Lord Chief Justice of England said recently, (Sir Charles Napier v. Murray,) was often vexatiously and tyrannically enforced, a de- claratory Order or Ordinance should be passed, authoritatively setting the question
at rest.
13. Your Memorialist, desirous to have a decision regarding Lord Camp- bell's Act by the Hongkong Court, made a proposal to that effect; but the Plaintiff, under the advice of his lawyers, being confident that it is not in operation here, objects to have the question mooted to the Judge before the day of trial, which, from the absence of inaterial witnesses on the way to England and elsewhere, will probably be postponed for several months.
14. Your Memorialist begs to state, that in June 1850, the Orion Steamer was wrecked off the coast of Scotland, under circumstances very similar to those at- tending the wreck of the Larriston, the number of lives lost in the latter being. Thirty-one and in the former Forty-seven, through the neglect of the officers on duty and the insufficiency of the boats. The Captain of the Orion and the second Mate, who was officer of the watch, were indicted criminally, and brought to trial before. the high Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 29th and 30th of August follow- ing, and being convicted, the Captain was sentenced to Two Years' Imprisonment and the second Mate to Seven Years' Transportation. In summing up, the presiding Judge, the Lord Justice Clerk, remarked, that "he did not doubt that the greatest public benefit would accrue from the disclosure of the facts," and in pronouncing sentence on the Mate, his Lordship further remarked, that "the sen- tence is no doubt one that must produce a great impression." Entirely concurring in these sentiments, your Memorialist conceives that he was only consulting the public. benefit in alluding to them: and that no one should have the power, by a doubtful or defective state of the law, to bring actions against an editor for so discharging his duty.
Entreating your Grace to give such effect to the premises as may seem meet,
Your Memorialist will ever pray,
HONGKONG, July 21, 1853.
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UNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRIN-
CIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;
THE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong, Sheweth,-
1. That an action for Libel has been brought against Your Memorialist under the following circumstances:-
2. Your Memorialist is Proprietor and Editor of the China Mail Newspaper, which, in commenting on the loss of the Steamer Larriston, on the Coast of China, on the 1st of May last, used these words,-
"It is also certain that the loss of the steamer was caused by gross negligence on the part of the second officer, who, had the catastrophe occurred in bis owucountry, would now be in jail waiting his trial for manslaughter."
Again," Altogether, the loss of the vessel can only be characterized, in seamen's phrase, as "lubberly work," and will serve as a lesson to our shipowners in future to employ men having local experience of the coast navigation."
3. According to the best information obtainable at the time, and still relied on, these remarks were fully warranted, and are not so severe as, judging from what was said about the loss of the Orion in June 1850, the event would have called forth in the home papers; especially as it farther appears that, besides the questions of seamanship and carelessness, there was only one efficient boat, and Thirty-one lives were lost within gun-shot of the shore.
4. At any rate, the remarks in the Mail were made without malice or gross negligence, and their publication, it is conceived, was for the public benefit; pleas that are available only under Lord Campbell's Act, "for the better protection of private character, and for the more effectually securing the liberty of the press."
5. But your Memorialist has been told, and it is a matter of general belief, that the present action would not have been brought, except under the impression that Lord Campbell's Act is not in operation within this Colony. He cannot pretend to say how the point will be settled by this Court: but as a judgment may be reversed, the question can be definitively settled only by Her Majesty in Council; and to that end the following memorandum of facts is respectfully submitted to your Grace's favourable consideration:
6. On the 5th of April, 1843, a Royal Charter was granted to the Colony of Hongkong, which, amongst other things, authorized the formation of a Legislative Council; but that Council made no laws until the following year. On the 21st August, 1844, an Ordinance (No. 15 of 1844) was passed, To establish a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong," the Third Section of which declares,--
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"That the Law of England shall be in full force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except where it shall be inapplicable to the local circumstances of the said Colony or of its inhabitants. This Ordinance was repealed, and another (No. 6 of 1845) substituted, dated the 19th August, 1845, and entitled An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,” the Fourth Section of which is as follows,-
"And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Law of England shall be in full Force in the said Colony of Hongkong except where the same shall be inapplicable to the Local Circumstances of the said Colony, or of its Inhabitants; and that in all Matters relating to the Practice and Proceedings of the said Supreme Court, the Practice of the English Courts shall be in Force, unless and until otherwise ordered by Rule of the said Court.”
But on the 6th of May, 1846, another Ordinance (No. 2 of 1846) was passed, entitled, "An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, entitled, An Ordi- nance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof," the Third Section of which is as follows,-
"And be it further enacted and ordained, That from henceforth such of the Laws of England only. and such Portion of the Practice of the English Courts (subject to the Exception of their Applicability as contained in the said Fourth Section of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) as existed when the said Colony obtained a Local Legislature-that is to say, on the Fifth Day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty- three-shall be of Force therein.
All these Ordinances were confirmed by the Queen in Council.
7. Lord Campbell's Act became the Law of England on the 24th of August. 1843, and it was in operation in Hongkong up to the 6th of May, 1846; for the only other case of libel that has been brought into this Court since its institution, was
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MEMORIAL
OF
ANDREW SHORTREDE,
OF HONGKONG,
TO
HIS GRACE THE
State for the Colonies. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
DUKE OF NEWCASTLE,
HONGKONG, 21st JULY, 1853.
a prosecution by the present Attorney General on behalf of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, against the Editor of the Friend of China, tried on the 2d of June, 1845. Not The defendant, under the provisions of Lord Campbell's Act, having pleaded guilty that all he had stated was true, and published for the benefit of the public," the case went to trial, and ended in an acquittal; the present Chief Justice tell- ing the jury that, "it was for them to judge if there was a necessity, first, to publish the facts; secondly, was it necessary to publish the commentary;" directions au- thorized only by Lord Campbell's Act.
8. It is presumed that the Plaintiff is aware of this case, and having retained the only efficient Barrister and the best Attorney in the Colony, he must rely on the above quoted 4th Section of the Ordinance of 6th May, 1846. Your Memo- rialist is not a lawyer, and, though on the present occasion constrained to conduct his own case, does not pretend to argue technical points of law; but for years past he has taken some interest in discussions in Parliament and elsewhere, on con- stitutional questions, affecting the rights and liberties of British subjects. He is thus enabled to turn to a debate on the Cape Constitution, (July 15, 1851,) in the course of which Lord Lyndhurst, having been appealed to as a great lawyer, is reported to have thus opened his speech
"When this House takes an opinion on a question of law, that opinion should be pronounced with as much fairness by the legal members of your Lordship's House as if they were stating it in a court of justice;" and referring to Lord Mansfield's judgment in the Grenada case, the same high authority said,--
"Now, when the Crown granted a franchise or liberties of any description, whether to the inhabitants of a district or a colony, the grant was irrevocable; it could only be put an end to by surrender, by Act of Parliament, or by forfeiture established by proceedings in a court of justice; and there was neither of these bere." (Spectator, July 19, 1851.)
According to another report, His Lordship gave as the essence of Lord Mans- field's "most elaborate judgment, pronounced in the most distinct terms-terms that could not be misunderstood,"-
"That if the element of the franchise were once given-if the power to legislate were once considered- if any popular right were once bestowed, anything that was to be a check upon the Government-then, in that cuse, the Crown had not the power to revoke what it had once granted," (Morning Herald, July 16, 1851.) Your Grace took part in that debate, and would appear, both by your speech and vote, as well as by your subsequent policy towards the Cape, to concur in these views, which seem also to be in accordance with those laid down by Lord John Russell in his speech on Colonial Policy, published, by his authority, in 1850.
9. Presuming therefore that the doctrine applied to Grenada and the Cape is considered sound, I submit that it receives additional force in the case to which your Grace's attention is now more immediately requested; for, it is humbly sub- initted, that Lord Campbell's Act was not only one of those liberties and privileges which, once conferred, could not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courts of Hongkong, by virtue of two Ordinances confirmed by Her Majesty in Council, by whose authority the Council that passed them is con- stituted.
10. Should it nevertheless be held that the 3d Section of the Ordinance 5th May, 1846, took away from the Colony the privileges and protection of the laws of England passed subsequently to 5th April, 1843, then it follows that another, locally still more important, Act of Parliament, which received the Royal assent on August 22, 1843, two days before Lord Campbell's Act, is also abrogated. It is entitled, "An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China," and is set forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Consular,) as giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters Patent, authorizing the Governor of Hongkong as Superintendent of Trade to legislate for Her Majesty's subjects in China; the said first Ordinance (24th January 1844) rendering them " subject in all matters to the Law of England, (as much as in the Colony of Hongkong, § 1,) and to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of justice at Hongkong over the same.
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11. Surely it could never have been intended, by means of a single clause in an otherwise unimportant Ordinance, to sweep away from the Colony three years of the Laws of England. Your Memorialist has within these few days read a re- port of an appeal to the House of Lords (May 6, 1853,) as to the right of way through Campbell of Blythswood's policies. It was pleaded, in bar of an imme- morial right of the inhabitants of Renfrew,-
That in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament had been passed for improving the navigation of the river Cart, and under those Acts a towing path had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees. were directed to erect and had erected a ruble wall and iron railing along the towing path, enclosing the appellant's lands, and these Acts declared that no one was to be allowed to go into the said lands except with the consent of the heir in possession of Blythswood for the time being."
In delivering judgment against the appellant, Lord Chancellor Cranworth said,-
The main point, therefore, to be first considered is, whether the statute puts an end to the right. Now, it would be much to be regretted if the House were to be bound to construe that statute so strictly as was contended for by the appellant. Indeed, it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time from time immemorial could by a side-wind-by such a clause as that statute contained, be thus swept away and extinguished. His Lordship then quoted the statute, and concluded with saying, that it was not to be construed strictly, but was merely intended to make an arrangement between the trustees of the river navigation and the appellant; but as to the rights of the public to the ways in question, it just left these rights where it found them-it neither gave nor took away." (Scotsman, May 11, 1853.) Upon the same principle your Memorialist would respectfully submit to your Grace, that "it would be a monstrous thing to hold that a public right which had existed up to that time (from the first day of the Colony,) could by a side-wind-by such a clause as that Statute (Ordinance) contained, be thus swept away and extinguish- ed;" and that too under show of amending the laws and government of British subjects, for "amend" and not "repcal" is the term used in the title and preamble,
the 29th Section of Ordinance of 5th May, 1846, "constituting a local Court of Error and Appeal," being the only one expressly repealed.
12. Under the circumstances now set forth, your Memorialist approaches your Grace, beseeching that, if it should appear to the legal advisers of the Crown that Hongkong has thus been deprived of important rights and privileges, steps may be adopted for restoring them; and whether or not the present operation of Lord Campbell's Act within the Colony be considered doubtful, your Memorialist humbly suggests, that, in order to put it beyond the power of any one to vex the lieges, under an old law, which the Lord Chief Justice of England said recently, (Sir Charles Napier v. Murray,) was often vexatiously and tyrannically enforced, a de- claratory Order or Ordinance should be passed, authoritatively setting the question. at rest.
13. Your Memorialist, desirous to have a decision regarding Lord Camp- bell's Act by the Hongkong Court, made a proposal to that effect; but the Plaintiff, under the advice of his lawyers, being confident that it is not in operation here, objects to have the question mooted to the Judge before the day of trial, which, from the absence of material witnesses on the way to England and elsewhere, will probably be postponed for several months.
14. Your Memorialist begs to state, that in June 1850, the Orion Steamer was wrecked off the coast of Scotland, under circumstances very similar to those at- tending the wreck of the Larriston, the number of lives lost in the latter being Thirty-one and in the former Forty-seven, through the neglect of the officers on duty and the insufficiency of the boats. The Captain of the Orion and the second Mate, who was officer of the watch, were indicted criminally, and brought to trial before the high Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the 29th and 30th of August follow- ing, and being convicted, the Captain was sentenced to Two Years' Imprisonment. and the second Mate to Seven Years' Transportation. In summing up, the presiding Judge, the Lord Justice Clerk, remarked, that "he did not doubt that the greatest public benefit would accrue from the disclosure of the facts," and in pronouncing sentence on the Mate, his Lordship further remarked, that "the sen- tence is no doubt one that must produce a great impression." Entirely concurring in these sentiments, your Memorialist conceives that he was only consulting the public benefit in alluding to them; and that no one should have the power, by a doubtful or defective state of the law, to bring actions against an editor for so discharging his duty.
Entreating your Grace to give such effect to the premises as may seem meet,
Your Memorialist will ever pray,
HONGKONG, July 21, 1853.
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674,979 941,065 3,264,000 1,318,731
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51,9KG 19,701 296,03}} 13,812,099 22,147 13,28 220,2914 14,236,08% 77,480 173,350|| 582,500 13,853,132 4,200 85,900 519,703 15,345,000 15,300, 88,406|1,393,000 13,818.700 32,400 223,000|2,976,000|||| 14.396,4000
316,700-5.678,100
6,954,459 4,206,166) 4,318,496 18,171,625 3,993,617* 19,338,640
20,762,558
18,502,288
17.244,100
4,853,600 18,672,300 7,361,400 21,757,800 15,215.700 13,545,100 28.700,BINI 20,937,300 13,396,700, 34,334,000
1852-53 |
July Aug.
In 3 Vessels
In 3 Vessels
o-day
Sept.
In 11 Vessels
Det
In Jo Vessels
Nov.
In 11 Vessels
Dec.
In 9 Vessels
arly
Jan.
In Vessela
705,900
Feb.
In 3 Vessels
+
Mar.
Revenue
New York
4' Caion
New York New York
A
Boston
arly
18 Fenelont
New York
idt.
20 John Wude
New York
9 Sea Witcliş
10 Rienzi
12 A. Bucknam
New York
133,400
31,800 390,500 91,000
834,400 27,500 57,900! 21,700, 23,780 258,700 165,900 10,50 250,500|
588,000 49,800 30,900 24,700 91,600 88,000 237,500 1,105,500 47,200 101,40€ 118,400 119,000| 148,300 27,700 2.850,600 262,100) 273,100 411,200 355,800 473,100 481,300 2,675,00 246,500 353,000 476,500 300,000 441,700 301,600! 2,476,200 271,200 574,300 545,400 259,900 440,700 $50.400! 117,500 2,345,300 292,500 371,300 434,700 264,300 452,7 776,900 173,200 90,200, 203,800 78,700 49,000 120,700 402,100 249,100
91,0000
19,500
88,500 401,300)
32,300 18,000
19,400
61,300 964,400
345,500 877,000 1,639,00 4,629,90
1,223,(m 429,000 2,068,000
1,559,200
6,189,100
687,000
4,493,600
1,00 7,500)
5,001,0
1,100.500
4,569,700
2,074.400
6,644,100
11, NH
EMI
96,800 204,400 308,000 50,000
13,500
600
20,30 28,300
42,300 43,100 119,800
35,500
44,200
61,500 137,800 42,600 127,600
34,100 908,0 0, 74,206 10330000
295,60M), 700 32,000 140,000)
4,160,800
1,904,100 6,064,900
626,700) 56,900
1,308,300 1,312,000
1,358,000
2.666,300
518,200
1,830,200
318,200,
344,900
408,000,
915,800)
17 ה
498,500)
429,500
663,100
723,800
473 10
428,500
400
8,700 42,900
24,700
91.0 48,160
1,204 61,900
18,300
22,100 222,100)
144,600
351,100
495,700
11,3 10,700
599,900
11,300]
611,200
40,200
37,600
191,500
280,000
371,000
irly
April 2 Iloratio‡
7 Sam. Russell
**
TW. Searst
Wild Pigeon
13 Lotus
New York New York New York New York
New York
**
16 Gallego+
New York
irly
30 Raduga
New York
16,900 12,400
103,400 4,200. 133,300 18,700
66,800 8,600 3,900 24,000
103,400
93,100 24.600 23,100 6,400
5,000 15,100 213,100
14,2000 9,400
245,40
213,100) 458,500
86,700
335,800
205,200
422.500
627,700
269,900,
269,900
269,0KW
500;
800
439,200
71,700
162,500
80,000
673,400
754,000
115,000
33,000
357,500
24,000
506,400
530,400
700
3,000
7,300 100,700
132,200
166,700
208,900
3,100
450,000
154,100
15,500
604,9001
620,400
+4
May 14 Talbot
New York
116,200
2,500
17,300
rly
17,800|| 151,600]
Loaded at Shanghae.
6001
138,300 153,800
200,500 444,300
rly
r1t.
EXPORT OF TEA AND RAW SILK TO GREAT BRITAIN.
Date
Ship*
Destina. tion
Congou
Souchong
Scented Caper
Scented
HyBon
Pekoe
Sorta
O. Pekoe
Young Skin FlyBon
Twankay
Hyson
Imperial
Guo. powder
Total Black
Total
Total
Raw Silks
Green
Pounds
Buler.
Year 1843-4, in 97 Vessels: 37,745,906 1,315,800 519,90 526,800 1,056,800 484,200 549,000 1,465,200 3,28,600 1,276,300 581,700 1,273,400 41,639,400 8,974,200,50,613,600 Year 1844-5, in 105 Vessels 35,740,400 1,341,800 1,367,300 627,900 1,832,300 463,6003319,300 2,969,100 3,209,300 2,112,100 1,229,900 2,366,200 41,373,300 12,196,900 53,570,200 10,727 Year 1845-6, in 117 Vessels 37,173,500 1,966,100 1,637,800 681,000 2,592,700 924,400 207,000 3,395,000 3,680,21,685,100 1,104,000 2,537,10044,975,500 12,609,100 57,584,600|18,600 Year 1846-7, in 106 Vessels - 40,176,000 1,445,000) 603,000 717,000 1,558,000 942,000; 48,000 2,259,000 1,340,000 1,496,000 670,000 2,051,000/45,501,000 7,864,0 53,365,0 19,000 767,600 1,027,800| 166,400|1,408,500| 757,100 5,100 2,164,300 813,2001,088,300 554,300 2,338,50040,730,600 6,963,700,47,694,300 21,377 Year 1847-8, in 92 Vessels --36,603,200
119.180) (067 soek 810 soula 647 ogol8.763.500 8.479.20047.242.700 17,228
RECEIVED
29
9042 trong tương
Governor
Schedule of decratches tatted by the Grown of Arighting
Seepatekes to the Secretary of State for the "Colonies, by the Mail Steamer Brin,
via Bouthampton, on the 6th August/853.
Jubject. & Scepatch -
Duplicates.
54. July 125 Transmitting Schedule of Despatches addressed to
55.
#
56.
57.
16
the Secretary of State for the Colonies, during the half Year ending 30th June, 1853.
Transmitting Lists of Members of the Excentive and Legislative Councils of tonghong, for the half year cuting 30% June 1855.
28 dekurwledging rescipt foris braces Circulars
of 3th, and 950 May, 1953.
32
a
Memmial
85
Pho
one
1
Mone
Transmitting
11
if
respecting
au Action
for
likel brought
Andrew Sthotrade to the addren of ois Grace
against him by sut Lawson, late second
the late Steamer "Larriston".
of the
iffiece of
Fifound Cate Deep:
58. aug. 242
59.
#
60.
#1
Subject of Dupatch.
Originals.
Acknowledging acccipt of this bances despatches
oftio to P/2 of 28th May, 1953.
1957922" only
July,
3o With aference to his despatch 157
remarking on Mt Shortiedes Mucurial to Ais Grace, and enclosing the Gpinion of 113 Attrincy Seneral Sterling thereon.
+
Acknowledging recipe of His Grace's Circular
of
the 65, and despatch 1913 of the 9th June,
1853.
Anc
Mc
Mond
Als 196/ of the 6f Augut. Transmitting another Mcencorial from Mr Shortred connected with the previous one faming diclorure in Duratch 1957 4 227 Aug 1853
one Enclosure
Haine Colonial Secretary
No58.
Miscellaneous_
9770 Hong Jong
RECEIVED
OCT 4 1853
Victoria, Honghong,
My Lord Bike
86
2 August, 1855.
}
With reference to
my Despatch 150 of 305 June, I have the hour to nekumodelge.
22th
the receipt, on the 20@ Ultimus, of the following despatches from your Grace-
-12 10 to 12, of the 26th May, 1853
Letter of 192
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
1
to.
Ac.
Ac.
Praking
I have the honor to be With the highest respect,
My Lord Jake, Your cruce's, "Most obedient
Humble Servant,
Gotlan
at
No.59
Miscellaneous.
A
9777 Hong Jong
RECEIVED
87
(OCT) Victoria, Hongkong,
1853
3rd August,
My Lord Duke,
1853.
In reference to my Despatch
No 5% of the 22nd ultimo, I have now the honor to inform Your Grace that I submitted copies of the documents contained therein for the consideration of Mr. Sterling the Attorney General of the Colony, and I now forward the opinion of that officer on the question .
No. 15 of 1844.
.
The facts of the case appear
to be these :-
In August 1844, an
Ordinance
was passed by the Legislative Council of Hongkong creating a Supreme
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
&c.,
Ye,
7
Ye.88
Court : _ this Ordinance was disallowed
by Her Majesty, as signified, in Lord Stanley's Despatch No 96 of 24th
March, 1845.
In August 1845, another
Ordinance was
Her
• passed to the same effect, | No 6 of 1845 which, although confirmed by Majesty in Mr. Secretary Gladstone' s Despatch No 1 of 2nd January 18416, was considered incomplete, inasmuch as no mention was made of the date: to which the Law of England
extend.
was
In May 1846,
a/
as to
was
third Ordinance | N° 2 of 184
· passed for remedying this evil, which declared that suck of the
Laws of England only
on-
the oth
as existed
of April 1853, - the date
of the Charter of the Colony, should be in force in Hongkong, where applicable; and this Ordinance was
confirmed by Her Majesty, as intimated. in Earl Grey's Despatch No. 12 of 13t August, 1846.
Lord Campbell's Act for the
-better protection of private character, ve, became Law on the 34th August 1843,
not in
в
force
and is therefore Colony, the local Legislature
in the s
ture not
having extended the provisions of that Act to Hongkong.
It
appears to me
that it
is
against
the local Government
that Mr. Shortrede's complaint is
levelled; but, be this
as
it
may,
I
do not see what can now be done
even should
1
to grant him relief, for the local legislature be disposed to extend the provisions of Lord..... Campbell's Act to this Colony, it certainly
to
would not so
legislate
to give a retrospective effect to
as
any
Ordinance it
might pass
the
on
Copy-
Ju 97773
89
subject; and, such Ordinance, if
passed, would therefore be of
no
avail to Mr. Shortrede in the action
that has been commenced against hind. for Libel.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect, My Lord Duke,
Your
our Grace's
لا
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant
Ishatum
4
reading Mt Shortrede's
Memmial it
appears
to me that his Statements will properly come under
the consideration of
the Count, and a
dury which will be uniquestionable,
as certain to re drawn
om the
from
Precial Jury ranch of the Colon.
r
With respect to the law, the
Ordinance 2 of 1846 was passed under
the
cxpress
Of 4 och.
9779. 9490.
Menile
This is simply a legal mattes
w Thorhen will h answuetti-
The effet, 20 $490.
Bm Û
Out B?
direction
of the Dome Authorities, to limit the application
F
English law to the Charter cxistence
the Colony, which it both does and
had the power to do, as Mit Shortrede
quotations perhaps, otherwise
+
irrelevant, might have pointed out
to him.
the
Memorialist requires provisions of and Campbells net to be made the iubject of an Ordinance... But the Legislative Council might
not think it right to introduce
such a incasure
pending the
present
iction, or perhaps from experience be
disinclined to invest the local press further immunities._ &
with and
maw be added that the trial may
be brought on long before a
long before a neris to
the memorial could arrive here.
True Copy) Maine
хий
(Liquid) Paul Sterlino.
•August 1853.
Konish Secretary-
7
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$
Despatch N. 59571853-
Enclosure in
!
No. 60.
Miscellaneous.
91
9718 Hong Jong
Victoria, Hongkong,
RECEIVED
OCT 4 1853
6th August, 1855.
May Lord. Duke,
With reference to my Despatch
No. 58 of the 2nd, I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt, on the 4
h
instant, of the following Despatches from Your Grace
No. 13, of 9th June, 1853.
His Grace
Letter of
th
of 4 Circular of 6th
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
My
Lord Duke,
Your Grace's
Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
え
The Duke of Newcastle, stalum
40.,
YO.
Į
:
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!
· to His Gance The Bake in Newcastle;
Sterling on 1st Shortreses /semoid Prinion of Mr. Attorney General
August,
1853
r
Patig
:
461.
Miscellaneous.
Aus? 150c461-32.
with you guy
ין
9779 Hong Kong
RECEIVED
OCT 4 1853
letnia, Amy Kong,
6th August, 1853
My Lord Bike,
to forward
ward
92
I have the hours to
the enclosed from
Mr Shortrele, which is micrely
a continuation of his previous Memnial already transmittel Grace in my despatch the 22nd Ultimus; and
to
your 1577
as
the subject matter thereof
His Grace
I
The Duke of Newcastle,
tc.
&c.
Ac.
speaks for itself, I have no
observation to make with regard to it.
I have the how to be; With the highest respect,
My Lord Buke. Your Sanci's,
плей
1
Must obediente
Stumble Sewant
Bahan
1
Which d
See 9977.99 490
WP. Meninle
l
جة
Unsers with
9491,
!
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:
93
:
+
:
-
Governor Sir George Bonham, BC: 6th August, 1853.
Victoria, sronghong,
to
His Grace the Guke of Niwcastle
1 Inclosure
P 71.
Received.
from Mr. Shortrede. connected
Transmitting another Meriorial
with the
previous
бие
oforming
of 322 July 1853.
Enclosure in Heepatch No 57
Sup: mi 9777
33
94
UNTO THE RIGITT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRIN-
CIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES ;
THE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong,
Sheweth,-
With reference to the Memorial of the 21st July, addressed to Your Grace by the undersigned, he begs respectfully to state, that the Chief Justice of Hongkong has this day decided, with regret," that the Act of Parliament 6 & 7 Victoria Cap. 96, (Lord Campbell's Act,) is no longer applicable to the Colony; that it was in operation here up to the 6th of May, 1846--but was then abolished, so far as concerns Hongkong, by the local Ordinance No. 2 of 1846. All which is humbly represented to Your Grace. And your
Memorialist will ever pray,
HONGKONG, 5th August, 1853.
$477/45
53
95
Unto the Right Honourable the Duke of New cartle, Her Majestys Innafel Secretary of State for the Colonies;
The Memorial of Andrew Shorkade of Hopking Thewett,
With refereme to the Memorial of the 2th July addressed beyon Grace by the Undersigned, he begs respectfully 4 state thee the Chief Justice of Houghing her This day decided " with regret, "_"that the but of Parliament 6+7 pitona Cap. 96 (Lad Campbells bit ) is no longer
applicable to this Colony _ that it was in operation here up to the 6th of Mary 1846_ hal that it was then abolished So for by concerns Hongking of the local Ordiname. Io 2 of 1846
the
All which is humble referented to
Your Grace and four Memorabat will even peny
Hongkung
15th August, 1853
This Mornede
:
T
RECEIVED
OCT 15 1853
96
Schedule of Despatches transmitted by the Governor of Hon gorting
to The Secretary of State for the Colonies, by the Mail. Steamer Ganges, Mi Southhampton, on the 23 ? Auquet,/853 .
12 of Date of
delp:
Jubject of Depatch.
hel:
Duplicates
sfetis
58. Ang = _Achnowledging receipt of this braces Despatches to
[Prag ost Clay, 1953) 11:12 03
60.
61.
I
#
"1
/853!
52 With reference to His Despatch #5768221) day, remarking on 113 Shortiele's Momnial to bis Grace, and enclosing the opinion qe #133tong Bucu Sterling therem.
of
35 Acknowledging recipt of dis briccs Circular of the 3#, and Serpatch _ 19/3 of 7 € June, 1853.
-
Transmitting another memorial from -112 Shtrede conceted with the previous one forming clause in despatch 1:57 of July, 1853.
1
病に
this
Me
VEL
کی کی
Date &
Scup:
B2
Matt
10010 tong tong
RES LIVED
OCT 15
1853
Subject of gespatch
Originals.
reference to Duxatch 149 8307 due, reporting that the sul & buland be 1372, his
cak been cancelled, and the Ett expunged from the cent PHL &f the Slow
tekumicily in receipt of His Gance's Sespatches to 19/5 &f the 2ft June, 18′53.
Colonial Secretary-
Biel
dioni
No. 62.
Financial.
Copy to Land Befor reform 31 Oct/53
10130 Hong Jong
R
C.O.
OCT 21
1853
My Lord
ت
Land
A Victorias, Hongkong, 18th August,
Mary Lord Duke,
August, 1853.
BY
In Financial. Despatch
No. 49 of 30th June last, I had the_
honor to report a Land sale that took
the 21st of that month, and
place
OM/
to pemar
mark
of
6 particularly
on one)
Lot,
Inland No. 372, which fell to Mr.
α
Jardine at a premium of
premium of L. 236. This Lot, measuring
28 acres,
bes at the bottom of the Wongneichung
Vailey; and, subrequently to the sale,
attention was drawn to the mistake
my
made in permitting a ficer of ground so peculiarly
of the
Valley
icarly situated to pass out hands of the Government ; for the Valing
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
Se
&c.,
&c.
98
itself is the chief place of public recreation; and by buildings crected at its mon
youth,
would have the wind intercepted and
diverted from it for the greater part
of the
year;
_ in addition to which, the
water that borders it affords a safe anchorage for the Chinese boats
dus
during gales that blow here
the South-west gales during the summer, and of these boats I myself lately noticed some four or five, hundred seeking shelter at this spot, __
which the Government
a convenience which the
cou
ld not
1- quarantee that they should.
without impost
enjoy Some kind,
were
the
or Exaction
of
-ground to pass.
into private hands. Its value also was
more)
immediately proved by the large
premium which it fetched.
The deposit and premium
were unpaid at the and of the stipe._ lated timer, one month from the day
C
of sale
in conse
sequence of which the sale
was declared null and void . Mr. Jardine,
who through inadvertence had omitted to make the requisite payment in dus
time,
Was
informed of this vitiation of
the sale, and at the same time it was
explained to him that it was now
matter of
t
some importance that
ment should retain the
own possession .
a
Govern-
ground in its
Mr. Pardine at once consented to
Mr. Jardine
relinquish any
claim he might consider himself to have, and the lot is according.
by expunged from the Rent Rolls, the deposit and premium not
to account, as
they
into the Creasury.
being brought
paid
were never
I have thought it proper to
report this matter to
that the
Your Grace, first
necessary alteration in
may
Rent Roll
be duly noted,
the
a
hope that if at
the
secondly to record
ony any future time
e ground shall be
be
sold or disposed of, for other than public purposes, the refusal of it may be given to Mefers Jardine Matheson t He, who have so hand-
somely agreed to my
wish that the
sale of the Lob should be thus quietly cancelled.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
My Lard. Duke, Your Graces
Past
Communicate to the home Board with reference
30
Governor previous darfft
Most. Obedient
Humble Servant,
Graham
No. 63. Miscellaneous.
10,138 Hong Jong
RECRIVED
OCT 21 1853
99
Victoria, Hongkong,
22nd August, 1852
My Lord Duke,
May
With reference to my Deepatch No.60 of the 6th instant, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, this day, of the following Despatches from Your Grace.
His Grace
th
Nov. 14 and 15, the lact of 29th June, 1853 Letter of 27th June,
1853.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
My Lord Duke, Your Grace' s
Most Obedient, Humble Servant,
Systraham
The Duke of Newcastle,
&e
Je,
&c.
ש
جار الدلي
23.
HALRIVED
7
OCT. 9
1853
100
chedule of Despatches, transmitted to the crown of Aristong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the Mail Steamer Chalta",
5. Is vin Southampton on the q #September 1853.
Sup
Date & Scyl.
Subjet & decratch -
Duplientes
62. Ang3 15" With reference to decrated 147 of 305 June, reporting that the sale of buland It 4372 has been cancelled, and the Lot. expunged from the Pent. Poll of the Shirny
63.
64
65.
#
30
* Knowledging receipt for since decratele; to 1/5 the 29th June, 1855.
C.0 OCT.29
1853
5.1157 10420 trong trong
Originals.
Recorting secreation of the action for Liter hought againet
We Shatrile, the hihito Af the "Iina Mall", and remarting
on
the public Press at Hongkong. Aiso, ftating that the
Crvenir intend appointing the Hongkong Suiguster" the official organ of overnment Mifications.
35 Perotins resignation by the Per? 13 Canch of the frie
fflicting foul Rapiain, and appointment of the WRA Mr Shell to the same
Inel:
hone
Time
line
ente & geip
ले
Subject of Serrated.
Junatek.
66. Sept 2 Transmitting Sopies of Minutes of the beaution and
67.
68.1
69.
70.
#1
14
Législative "Connals of Hongkong for the half year cutting 30 June, 1853
Forwarding Intent on Stationen required for the une of the Civil Govemment, for the year 1854.
75 Transmitting quarterly Returns
ending 30€ clune 1853
#
Mc
for the quarter
4
вилось
Acknowledging receipt of His bances, Scepatch 1.14.17 125 July, and Circulars of 34 and 25 #
une 1853.
Reporting that rewards have ben offered ofor the apprehension of the Murderers of Captain Lovett
"the "arratoon" Apear", and 5 other Mitish subjects. M
Hi. Iis cxtra Copics of Notification forming Despatch 1.70 48th September, 1853.
ruclosure in
Marine
Colonial Licretary.
10055 Hong Jing
No64.
RECEIVED
Miscellaneous
KOV.
1853
Lord
Vietnia
1. My Lnd Duke,
101
29# Auquet, /855..
With
reference to Despateles 1957 of 22D d'ury, and
اما
1559 and 6/ of the 52 and 65 betaut, I have the honor to inform your
مامه گیاه
that Ms Shortrede, the person was
addrese)
the Law of LifeL
you on the Law
you
in this Colony, has to stop the
1
procention that had been commenced
His Grace
лас
The Duke of Newenetle,
te.
tc.
to.
P
102
:
against him for Libel, found Cimecif compelled to apologize the party libelled, to
libelled, to pay the Crts
the action so
of the
As well
as it has
to
jove, expenses to which
ell as the expenses
the plaintiff has been exposed by his bring detained in the Colony
I carry on the suit.
2.
In a Circular
from
in the Colonial
Iffice,
dated 9th February, 1847, the
Goverun of this Colone is dirceted
Briony
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допи
time to time to furnish the Colonial
•ffice with men
ser inf
information
may presies in respiet to cach
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as
change of circumstances men reem
3. I have not lately made and
report of
this nature, but,
now that
I am addressing your brace on the
subject, I may as well remark that
have three hewspapers in this
Live
Color; the "Hong Kong Register, sublined
mee a week, the "China Mail","
-
nec
a week, and the "Friend of China",
twice a week.
None of these
papers is remarkable for being well conducted, but I believe them to be
as he
much
on a par in this respect with similar sublications in Colonies
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the
Leale.
te principal Newspaper at Aong home, and to concet that information
where the furnian part
population is on a limited scaleL
3
Thee all refere views. Their
to be quided by liberal
circulation I believe to
am glad to
be pretty equal, and, I am
as
say, must not be looked upon offering any type of the public mind,
their contents us doubt are at times venations to the public authorities, but they do no real harm to any one, the value
their remarks being
estimated at their actual worth .
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Keir circulation is considerable, they cach contain Prices Current, and afford therefore a ready means for the merchants here to keep their
constituents in Angland and clsewhere informed of the state of our markets, the information this
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103
afforded being in the first instrue inished to the holitors by the
Marchants themselves.
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4. For
come years part the "China Mail has been the organ of
"
publishing official Communications, and during the past five years have continued it as such; but of
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late its columns have contained suck virulent and ill-founded, and I truly believe malicious attacks on
myself and others, that I have determined
to have no
further connection with the
paper, and to seek
means
information
for
some other
matting known such
as it is desirable from
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time to time to publish. It may
as well to observe that this ill-will
be a
on
the
part of M. S'hostrede towards
elf arises
myself
arices from my having three years since imployed the Houghing "Register to print the official forms und in the public offices of Colony, such work being performed
at upwards
of 60
per
the
cent less
than had been charged by the
"China Mail"; I have also heard
is
that the Honghong Register willing to publish official instificating at 25 per cent cheaper than what
paid to the "China Mail","
is now paid
and I Firetore on
this account as
well
no on others have it in contemplation
104
to cruploy the "Houghtong Register" a
official ngan of public
the
Notifications
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With the highest respect, My Lord duke your brace's,
Most obedient
Humble Servant,
Tatrabane
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Victoria, Hongkong,
29
August,
/853.
Governor Sir Gear Bronkan, Bb.
His Grace
to
The Duke of Newcastle.
Received
N 64.
Editor of the "China. Mail" against Mr Shortrete, the
action for libel brought Reporting cessation of the
and
rein air
king
the
the official organ of The Honghong Register
Lovernor intends appointing
Also, stating hat the public Press at Hongtong.
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Governor
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reporting that the legal
procedings institutect - against the Shootreste, the "Editor of the China Mail:
had been stopfeed, and Remarking genually o
the Joublie Gress of
Iconens with
Consubring
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10056 Hong Kong
Victoria, Hongkong,
NO
1853
30th August, 1853
My Lord Duke,
With reference to Despatch
for 5966 No. 26 of the 6th April lact to the address of Your Grace, I have the honor, with much regret, to report that the Reverend Mr. Carroll, Acting Colonial Chaplain, has, in consequence of bad health, resigned the appointment of Acting Colonial Chaplain, and proceeded to England by the last Mail Steamer; and I have therefore appointed the Reverend Mr. Odell to perform the duties of Colonial Chaplain
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
де
Ser
&e.
amethe
Appr
during the absence of the Reverend
Mr. Steedman, or until some arrangement shall be made.
other
clergyman
Mr. Odell is a brought to this Colony under the auspices of the Right Reverend the Bishop of Victoria, and I trust this temporary appointment will meet with the sanction
Your Grace .
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3 Nov
of
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's
Mort. Obedient)
Humble Servant
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There to ackunstige the
Despatch
neuple of your Dupelih R65- of the 30 of
Augush lish and to
Governor Fir Ges. Bonham, Bark,
30th August, 1853.
His Grace
to
the Duke of Newcastle.
Received
V: 65:
Office of Acting
the Rev. Mr Carroll of the
Reporting resignation by
Colonial
Chaplaire, and appointment Rev? Mr odell to
off the
the same.
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approve the temporary
:
Appointment of the Perd
Fur Coell to perform the dutive of Colonial
Chaplain during the
abence
cr
leave of the
Oued for Steedman
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Miscellaneous
Lord
10bby chong chong 110
RECEIVED
NOV.
1833
Pretoria, Houghing,
2nd September, 1855.
My Lnd Duke,
In obedience to
Her
Majesty's
Instructions, I have.
N.1.
the honor to transmit to your
Grace Copies of the Minutes of
of this Colony,
A precedings in the Excentive and 12. Legislative Councils
for the half year cuding sott June,
une, 1853.
His Grace
30
The Duke of Newcastle,
tc.
tc.
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1.
1.
I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,
My Lord, duke, Your Grace's
Most obedient
Aumble Servant,
1.67.
Financial
jobss Hong chong 10658
RECEIVED
NOV.
1853
Victoria, Houghong,
111
2nd September, 1858.
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$
My Lood Duke,
I have the hour to
Sedent for
M. Merivale
There is nothining whaleren of asy
Fuse Mensiles
·3 Nov.
interest
3
N:
an
Soforward herewith
Stationery required for the use of
this Government
and I hope that
have the
for
the year 1854,
your
Grace will
dness to cause
the
goodnese to
necessary orders to be issued to the Colonial Agent for its early
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
te
tc.
Ne.
1
tranemission to Houghing
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
My Lord Juke, your Grace's,
"Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
Memale
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113
Auditor Generals Memunandum of Stationers and
Small Stores required for the
LUDE
of Army Kong, for the year 1854
Hong
Lapers.
12 Reams of Foolecap - 20 lbs.
20
50
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4
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100 Mille boards, thick
4000 huvelopes, medium or office cize, foolieap laid.
1000 Extra size 8.
2000 Note
7. Foolscan.
20 quarts of Black Ink,
Black Ink, "Morrell's"
2,000 Quill Pens - Al.
Grose
5 brow Perry's Patent and iFffice Pens.
20 the sealing way. Indian And Brown Kind-
6 Prs. Sciezars.
M.
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Middle
Gruan Silk ribbon.
Necties for Silk ribbon-
6 hath stands - N. /_
/ Doz: Spare Glasses, D.
India Rubber.
4 Frz. pieces of
Pen-Khives.
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Governor Sir Gec. Bonham, Bh,
2nd September, 1853.
Victoria, Hongkong,
to
His Grace
The Duke of Nerreastle.
Received
Inclosure
NE 67.
Stationery required for the
Forwarding Indent for
use of the
Civil Govern.
=ment for the
прест
1854.
114
The following articles are to be racked separately and numbered P/, being required for the "Colousl Secretary's office
5 Reams 14 Class Foolscar - 20 to
5
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11⁄2 90 Blotting Paper - (white) 5 D. Fetare, Note S.
500 Envelopes 97 by 43, thick -
1000 Do Foolscap 55 by 37 - wove
Note 8 432
1000 go
1000 9:
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F: 043 21
4 Picces Narrow silk ribbon Green.
4 Skeins Green silk cord for despatches - 6 Balls Box-cold- blue and white. 2,000 Quill Pens-
Gum-
I Glase Bottle with topper and bruck, for 6.3-inch steel leather-covered Letter Clasps - 12. Patent Leaf. holders, by Charles Knight-
90 Fleet Street Foolscap size.
3. capanned in date Boxes, with 3 series of shifting
Cards to exhibit the mouth and the
the
week and mouth.
6 Guart Bottles Black Ink - "4. Minrell's"
6 Abs. Hydes extra hard dudia sealing 12 21⁄2 inch Mass padlocks.
way-
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The grejoins Stationery and small stres
should be despatched with as little relay
possible.
Mame
Audito seneral-
Audit Krice, Victoria HongKong, 5/th August, 1955.
Approved
Implan Govern-
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2434
the use of the Gutt of Hong-
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1054. and
& comes to you his Gran's
authority for Grocuring
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for the Arliches sprecified Wherein, and Jousending
them to the
Colony by an
early opportunity .
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Implicate
List of Stationery required
for the we
of Honghong, for the year 1854. of the Civil Sovernment
31th August, 1853.
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Kong
116
106ng chung dương
Victoria, Hong Kong
NOV.
1853
My and Duke
Juki
7th September, 1855.
I have the hour
to cuebore herewith, for your
brace's information and that of the
Lords Commissioners
uw
of Ster
Majesty's Treasury, copies of
the
quarterly abstracts
for
the Youarter
ending 30th June, 1855.
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
to.
to.
te.
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1. Changes in the holders
in the holders of offices appointments in the
and
Colony of Hong Kong.
2. Additions to falaries and
Allowances in the Colony
of Hong Kong.
3. Creation
new
offices and
appointments in the Colony of Donghong.
unusual
4. Payments of an
description and for Yeptrandinary services.
3 Nor
Ex full
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I have the honor to be, With the highest respect.
My Lnd Duke,
your bances
Most obedient Humble Servant,
MohamGovernor Sir Gee. Bonkan, Bt.
7th September, 1853.
Victoria, Stonghong,
His Grace
to
The Dake of Newcastle.
V 68.
4 Inclosures.
Received
Transmitting Qu
arteriz
ending 30th June, 1883.
Returns for the quarter
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Gov r. 10,659 Hongkong
Sir, Ch. Prevelyan
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9hor/53 763.
1853 Nov
3
MINUTE MAR MrElliot MMerivale MFE Peet 4
Duked Newcast
in N. 68-7 Septip
Imm derected
Newcastle-
by the Duke to transmit to you,
for the information:
of the Lords Comm. of the Treasury, the following Reternus received from
Mory
the
Govt of Kong Hong
for the Zuarter
for
ended 30th June
1853.
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lekeorges
in the
Folders
Appointments
"Additions to Salaries
of Offices and
3rd Creations to
and Allowan
Mein
Offices and: Affccutone cots.
Payonee
et
elto
incisual description
and
scrvices
extraordinary
Jain &
1
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 in England, date of au- Majesty's Government thority of the Secretary of State.
Acting 4th Clerk. Colonial Secretary's W. Sterling F. Pedder.
£.108.
£.108.
Colonial Treasurer's John Hare. R. Rienecker 3rt. Clerk. Z. 250. £. 125.
Rev. Colonial Chaplain Rev. Mr Steedman Rev. Mrfarrel. 354
L. 700.
Sub Collector. £.75.
Police Rate follectors . P. C. Pinto.
S. Lutton.
2.65.
Crue (opy)
If newly appointed by the Governor date of authority.
Col. Secretary's letter No. 718
of 13th May 1853.
If promoted from another Office or Government situation in the
Colony, description of former ap- pointment.
30th June,
Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of office or appointment, or the new appointment.
1853.
Column for Remarks.
25th May 1853, W. Sterling, resigned
No. 38.
Pune, 1853. J. Hare proceeded
Do. Do. No 131
of 13th June
teck 2nd Cork and
144
th b
No. 45.
1853 Accountant in
Col. Creasury.
Do. Do. No. 67 Military of 144pril 1853. Chaplain.
Do. Yo No 112 Acting Lorgeant of 10th May 1855. of Police.
Maine
Colonial Secretary.
to Englands rick certificate. 6th April, 1853, Rev Mrr Steedman
No. 26.
proceeded to England on sick certificate
C. Pinto resigned
(Signed) W. (aine, Auditor General.
119
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PAYMENTS of an unusual or special Description, and Payments on Services amounting to £200, incurred without previous authority from Her Majesty's
Secretary of State, for the Quarter ended 30th June,
Description of Service.
Amount.
To whom paid.
Date of authority from
the Governor.
Date and description of the authority or instruction (if any) from Her Majesty's Government in England, in consequence of which the payment was made.
1853.
Date of the Governor's Despatch to Her Majesty's Government in England respecting the transaction, in cases where no previous authority may have been received.
- —
and for the statement of any special circum- Coluinn for Remarks in any particular case,
stances.
120
Cruelopy)
Nil.
Mame Clonial Secretary.
Colonial
1.
.
(Signed) M. faine),
Auditor General
OFFICE.
CREATION of NEW OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended
Name.
Annual Salary.
Date of appointment and of authority from the Governor.
Date and description of the authority or instruction (if any) from Her Majesty's Government in England, in consequence of which the appointment was made.
I
30th June,
3
2 1853
Date of the Governor's Despatch to Her Majesty's Government in England, respecting the transaction in cases where no previous authority may have been received.
Column for Remarks in any particular case, and for the statement of any special circum-
stances.
Crue Copy.)
Nil.
Macie Colonial Secretary
(Signed) W.Caine)
Auditor Genera (
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OFFICE.
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ADDITIONS to SALARIES and ALLOWANCES in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended
Name.
Date of Appointment.
Original Salary.
Present Salary,
30th. 30th June,
Date from which increased Date and description of Authority for
Salary drawn,
increase.
Collectors of
Police Rates_
Shroff.
1858
1853.
Column for Remarks.
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Colonial Secretan's This is an
Wong shing. 9th July, 1867
£.40. £50.124 May,
1853.
letter No. 112 of
Frue
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Crushofry Mansie
Colonial Secretary.
10th May, 1853.
crease to the
in
individual and
not to the fixed yearly expendi- ture of the
Establishment, as the presents Subcollector go to gets L.65 instead of £75 received by his predecessor.
(Signed) W (aind,
Auditor General .
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10660 Hong đứng
Victoria, Hongkong,
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Miscellaneous RECEIVE
NOV.
*1853
8th September, 1853.
My Lord Duke,
With reference to my Deepatok
No. 63 of the 22nd August;
of
gust. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt,
this
day, of the following Despatches
from Your Grace : -
Irr.16,
Irr 16, of 12th July, 1859. Circular of 24 * June,
Do.
Letter of
His Grace
2
of 6th July
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
My
Lord Guke,
Your Grace's
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant,
The Duke of Newcastle,
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Putty.
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Miscellaneous.
Aus: 11 hou/ 58
159 -- 36
10bb1 Hong Kong
RECEIVED
0.0. NOV. j 1853
124
ictoria, Hong Kong,
My Lord Duke,
it that
regret
8th September, 1855.
& is with extreme
that I as myself the honor of
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reporting to your brace that Henry Lovett, Master of the Bris Arratoon Apcar", and 5 other British Subjects
were, on the 6th Ultimo,
the 6th Ultimo, murdered
on board that vessel by certain chinese who were
employed in her. This vessel left Hong Kong
Stis Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
Ac.
Ac.
tc.
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bound to Calcutta on
the fremon of the previous day, and returned to
Port the next morning laving on board the body of the unfortunate
Mz Lovett._ In the same day
་་
was held on
mest was
Coroner's inquest body, which
was continued
A
the
for
several days and ended on the 11 August, when the Jury belivered their verdict against
one "Apron Aying" and cliven others, Natives of China, who
on
who were em
board, as above stated.
employed
On this verdict being submitted
to me, I caused a
I caused a Reward
Foliars to be offered for the
斥
500
apprehension of the ringleader
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125
"Apoon Aying," and the sum of 100
of his accomplices,
Dollars
for any of
as will appear from the accompanying
Notification. I trust, therefore,
Grace will approve of в глас
that your
the measures adopted by
the occasion
me on
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
My Lord Lake, your braces,
Most Medient
Stumble Servant
IGMkuu
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British Subjesty
Governor Sir Geo: Bronhar, Bt, 8th September, 1853.
Colonia, Honghong,
His Grace
The Duke
1 molosures.
No 70.
of Newcastle.
Received
apprehension of the
Reporting that Rewards have been offered for the
Lovett
murderers
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the
Apear",
and
5 others
"Arratoon
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I have to acknowleave the
し
receipt of Gord Despatch
870 of the 8: of Seppe lich and to Coming to you Convey
suy
approval of the rewards
Love offeres.
which you
for the apprehension of the Murderers of Henry Levitt, Master of the Brig
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five other British Subjects_ Shere
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Whereas by the Verdict of a Coroner's Jury, one Apoon Aying, a Native of China, and a Carpenter by trade, and eleven others, Natives of China, names unknown, have been convicted of the Wilful Murder of Henry Lovett, late Commander of the Brig Arvatoon Apcar,-Notice is hereby given, that a Reward of Five Hundred Dollars will be paid to any Person or Persons giving such information as shall lead to the apprehension of the said Apoon Aying; and that a Reward of One Hundred Dollars will be paid for such information as shall lead to the apprehension of each and every of the others referred to in the said Verdict.
From intelligence received through the Chinese Authorities at Canton, it appears that the proper name of the above Carpenter is Poon Ayeem,
that Heang- shan, is his native district, and Macao his ordinary place of abode, but the names of the others are still unascertained.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th August, 1853.
W. T. MERCER, for the Colonial Secretary.
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Sept. 1853
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GrElliot
MW. Peel
25
Duke of Neweartte
6.
16417
Liv
Sept.
I enclore for your
information the Copy of an
Act passed in the recent
Session
of Parlt by
which
the fovernors of the Colonies
are
ed to declare-
empowered to
by Proclamation that in Bessels sailing from Parts
within the limito
of
chin
a
respective fournments,
12 instead of 15
space of 12
feet should suffice for
J' Axia or
africa, who
Natwes
were
to be conveyed through the-
Kopier
The long
long & extene is
üne
Experience which has now been had
of the introduction
of Coolies from India into the
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West Indies at the rate
are
for every 12 feet,
justifies the conclusion that that allmann de
to bickens can be accrition Peace is compatible
that
to the cance from China
lieff
with the precation
the experience has been ofte health of the too limited to support any Passenge exprly general constur t
but the healthiest Ship
which has yet reached the
hiest Indies with Chinesi
Erugianto, contained one
every 12 feet,
for
and think
that looking to the wide
extent of the
of the analogous Immigration from India the
Experiment may very
таулему properly be tried of adapting the same rule to Arrigation
From Hong hous
You
I therefor
I have to recommend
A
to make use
of the
bea
129
power conferred upon you
by the recent act, and to
issue a Proclamation
declaring that, during
the
North-East Monsoon at
beast, 12 instead
of
15
sufficient
feet shall be a allowance of space for?
tatives of
Asia or
who be
africa
conveyed
from stong kong through the Propies
.
I have permitter
the Enigration Comm's to
greemanto
make then acht
Inspecting
with some Vessels which
they have engaged
in
this Country for the Conveyang
of Chinese Imprente from nang hong,
that
on
the
assumption
you will were the
proposed proclamation -
Have
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130
Schedule of Despatches transmitted by the Governor of Houghtong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, by the mail seamer" Fortuna", via Touthampton, on the 27* September, 1853-
ng date of zah. Sep.
Juleet & Dutch -
Duplicates.
64 is 297 Perortino secration of the action for Libel brought gaint Ms Shortred, the Editor of the Chins Mail, and remarking
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on the Subtle Press at myhong Mis, stating that the
#
Governor intends appointing the Houghtong Register the Official Bryan foncement Ptifications.
65. 50 Peporting resignation by the Revd 118 Carroll of the office
of retine Colonial Chaplain, and appointment of the
Sar? Mz Odell to the same
+
66. Lipt: 22 Transmitting copies of Minutes of the Excentive and
Regulative Connells of tony toy for the half year ending 30th Anne, 1853.
67. Siste 20 Forwarding Aident for Stationing required for the use
of the Civil Govermucht, for the year 1854:
68.
mei:
None
lione
2
Transmitting quarterly Peturns for the quarter curing 35, fume,/583 4
One
SCULI
gut f
Jun
Jabpet & despate 0.0.
RECEIVED
NOV. 14 1853
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69. Lipt. 87 Acknowledging receipt of this braces covetedet 16 of
12th July, and Circulars of 24 and 30th hune, 1853.
70.
7248
the
Perorting that Rewards have been offered for apprehension of the Murderers of Captain Lorette of the "arration apear," and 5 other British Subjects
10926 trong trong
Kong
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Replying to His Grace's
RECEIVED
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NOV.12 1853 Lact
to the treatment of foreign "Cercis driven into roughtons by strese of weather, 46.
71. Sipt: 18 Replying
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sekurwledging receipt of His Gracch despatel 115 of the 27 June last, and transmitting a further letter from Mr. Gillier, explanatory of his grounds for claiming reduction of the amount (¥/04) charged him
for his tassage to England in Ally 1852.
23 Transmitting Detailed Astimates of the Revenue and Sypcubiture of Stonghong for the year Ending 3/4deo 2 1854, and reporting theicon.
Transmitting the accounts of the Color for the
Lets
Fri
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74 Contioned Financial year ending 30th March, 1953, and reporting
on the Jurplus available for Colonial purposes
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Works
75 Sest:24 Transmitting 4 Reports and retimates for
in proqiece, and applying for His bence's approval of
the Lane
Also- Six extra Copies of the Estimates forming Enclosure in
Despatch 1.73.
Colonial Secretary-
4
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RECEIVED
132
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(N) Victoria, Hong Kong,
NOV. 17 1853
16th September, 1855-
My Lord Duke,
I have the hour to
acknowledge your Grace's Circular the 4th Inne last, inquiring as to
24
the practice existing in the Port of Houghong with
with regard to Fees being
Vessels
of
levied on Foreign Veculs driven in here by stress of weather, and further
requiring information on the cubject of ships entering in distress, and the
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
tc.
tc.
tc.Cargoes being re-chipped in other bottoms. I have the horum in reply to state, that this Port is entirely
and that no rxport nor duport duties or dues of any deseription
ghce
levied under
ally
are
circumstances.
I have the hour to be
With the highest respect,
My Lord Duke, Your Grace's,
Most obedient
Humble Scrvant,
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the information of the
Fords of the Committee:
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Bring Cormeil fordrade the copy
of a Despatet from the Governor of Hong Kong reporting
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that
that the Port is
entirely free, and
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Governor Sir George Bonham Bart.
16th September, 1853.
Victoria, Hong Kong,
恋
Ais Grace the duke of Newcastle,
Recentl
171-
Replying to His braces
Circular
Honghong by stress of weather; to. of foreign Kuuws driven into
24th June last, as to the treatment
This is for the unforn. taw of the
of Rade
18. Ver- NJ
Annex
N72.
Miscellaneous.
Copy to
Admiralty for
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1853
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135
Victoria, Houghong,
16th September, 1855.
My Lord Duke,
I have the houm to
acknowledge the receipt of Your Graces Despatch N. 15 of 29th June last, relative to the reduced rate of Passage Moncy claimed by Mr Stillier, Chief Magistrate of this Colony, who procceded from hence to England by the Mail
Steamer of the Peninsular and Oriental
of
Company on the 23rd July last year-
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
;
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Ac.
Ac.
Ac.
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Inow melore for
Your Grace's information Copy of a letter from M= Hillies, giving
the
cover to me from the Agents of Peninular and oriental Steam Navigation
the
the same
Company stationed at Houghtong, by which it's clearly appcaw
that Parcengers leaving China in dely were placed upon footing as to amount of Passage money to hugland as the passengers leaving India in the mouth of August:
this
secus to
have been a local arrangement made by the Agent at Hong Kong, and thus, the Presengers from China and Judin on reaching Print. de Galle ofor the purpose. of procating from thence by the August Steamer to hugland, were placed
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upon similar
terius, that is to say, both at the reduced rate.
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136
Considering that the foregoing terms
of the
not be known to the Lords of the Admiralty, and seeing that Mr. Stillier took his passage from hence purposely the understanding that. his passage money would be at the reduced rate, I trust to be favoured with your braces sanction for a refund to that bentleman if the difference between the full and reduced rates - namely £15 Sterling
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
My Lord Buke, Your Grace's,
Most Obedient Humble Sermut,
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Governor Sir George Bonham, Bart, 16th September, 1853.
Victoria, Hong Kong,
to
His brace The Duke of Newcastle.
p 7 2
2 Inclosures -
Received -
Acknowledging receipt of this Graces
Despatch Pi
of
the 29 Inne last,
July, 1852. for his passage to England im
the amount (₤104) charged him
grounds for claiming reduction of from Moz Hillier explanatory of his and transmitting a further letter
Furnic. cestarily appar from the letter
the Company.
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at the Contrach
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wint of their Soulshift
curring in the accuracy
Concurring
of the statements centained
therein, Jan to aquechtlich
пере
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to cause the Sure of £ 13. the difference lolucen
The full and reduced
Pates, to be repaid
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Sir
Chief Magistrate' Offic, Vietnia,
Houghtong, the 14th September, 1853.
I have the hour to acknowledge
the
receipt of your letter of 6th September ductout,
No: 198, in reply to mine of 21th March last, suggesting that
all cro
had been made
in calculating the expence of my passage home to huglound in the
of July. You inform
previous mouth
me that. His Ganes
me
the Duke of Newcastle, after communicating with the board of Admiralty, ins "intimated " that the sum paid is coniet, on the ground
The Honorable
Lt. Colonch W. Caine
Colonial Secretary
1
140
" that I embarked on board the Contract
"ricket in July, and the reduced rate is "only applicable to home passages during
"mouth
of August, September, Betober,
November and December"
The principle on which I
on which I founded
the
my objection- namely, that having left china during the hot mouths, when the
was lower than
rate of passage money luring the cold season, I ought to be charged two-third of the lower and not two thirds of the higher rate - is this, I happy to find, fully admitted; but it is subjoined that the reduced rate
ain
of day,
was not applicable to the mouth in which I embarked, and that therefore
I must pay
the higher fare.
If this
were so,
I could not with
any chew of Justice make the claim:
but Irespectfully call
your
un attention to
the fret, apparently overlocked, and which the enclosed letter of this date from M= Walker, the Agent of the Perineular and Oriental Company at this place, will prove, that although the reduced rates from India to hugland during the
were, as
your
1852
year letter states, applicable
to the months from August to december only, those from Chine to Eugland included the mouth of July, in which I left. That such was the case, I had full experience, having paid passage Money at the reduced rates for my wife, three children and an huropean Servant, who all accompanied
me to
England. And I may add that
I deferred my departure for one south, expressly that the hear
by
expense of
the
journey might be somewhat lessened.
I hope that this cxplanation with
make the justice of my claim for reduction
141
so
obvious that it may
be my apology for
giving
trouble by another letter._
I have, H.
(Signed) C. B. Hillier, Chief Magistrate...
(True Copy)
Mami
Colonial Servatory
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Peninsular & Biental. Steam. Navigation Company,
Houghing, 14th September, 1855.
The Honorable C. B. Hillier, heps,
HC.,
Dear Sir,
Ac..,
Ac.
Houghtong.
I have the pleasure to acknowledge
receipt of your favour of the 12th Mutants, and in reply to inform you
that the retuend
rates during the year 1852 applied to the Steamer of the 23rd July from Houghing,
ая
might be shown by your family.
and other passengers having travelled by that opportunity
пс
lower terms than they
1.
1
Fetter
from
AV2 Stilller
Honghong, showing that the rate of the PDC. I. A. Company at
inclosing me from the Superintenimie
for
the
from Hongkong, remounted to Steamer of the 23th July, 1852 a Contract Passenger by
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could have been booked at in the previous
mouth of June.
of
It is true, that by the Company's
| Circular, the reduced rates only applied to
the mouths August to Deccruber both
inclusive, but this wa
I presume fixed in England with reference to the departures from India, and in order to assimilate
!
the rates of paceage money from India and Chinn, or to prevent passengers travelling from bulle in the same Steamer different terms, the agent of the Company here made the lower Tariff apply to the Steamer of the 23rd July meeting at
2320 bulle that of the 3o August from Calcutta.
The charge for an ordinary passage
from Houghing to Southampton by the
Steamer of the 25th July 1852 was $824 and that of a contract passenger payable by the Admiralty in England would therefore be £91, provided there was no special anangement between the Admiralty and the Company as to the
mouths to which the reduced rates were
to apply.
I am, te..
(Liquid) Rob. S. Walker,
Supt
(Jane Copy)
Mane
blonish Secretary
Colonial
t
TILL --
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Dispatch N.72 of 1853.
Inclosure 1.3 in
:
:
173.
Financial
1. Dan 154
th Gov 11,1.
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RECEIVED
NOV. 17
1853
144
Victoria, Houghong,
20% September, 1855.
My Lord Duke,
I have the honor
to cuclose for your braces information
the retimate
of
the Revenue and
hypenditure of this Colony for the year
ending 1854, which will show that a grant from
from Parliament
will be required to the extent of £8,500, being a further decrease of £ 700 when compared with the
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle
Ac.
Ac.
tc.
7
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Hong Kong, stating that the rate the P.D. J. N. Company at
eller grom the Superintendent
the
14 September, 1853.
from Dongtone, amounted to £91-
for a contract passenger by Steamer of the 231 July, 1852
I
Grant for
the Current Year.
I had hoped that I should
have been enabled to have made
approximate
the Receipts and disbursements
more nearly than they are now shown, but, although moring
Revenue past year, the Land Pirenne has
thi
continued to inercase to the extent of £253.17.10, and, since the Commencement of the present Year, to the further amount of £194.15.3. making together £448.13.1, this increase has been almost counterbalanced
by
souc
Property having been given up
by the Proprietors and reverted to the
Government which before yielded innual Rental of £288.7.0, a
an
as
145
well as by the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury having
ving seen fit to direct the local Government to foregs all claim to Property purchased by the Ordnance Department, which, before its transfer, paid £167.8.10 Annual Ground Pent,
which it is now entirely free
from
The Annual lose of Revenue on these
two properties is therefore £435.15.10.
It is on the other hand gratifying
that Buildings of
to be able to
say
various descriptions are being created, principally Chinese Aruses, but the Ground on which most of them are being built having been held on lease
some time without having been
for
made use
4.
the Land Revenue is
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be
not increased by there improvements In the Astimate for 1855, a reduction of the rypenditure may looked for under Rent, as the Government House will be finished before that betimate will be
submitted.
I have the hour to be
With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's
Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
Bestrahun
Jeg
146
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The
Her Elliot.
Kiis despit the extens the Voleniale zu
£700.
Mr. Peek.
x
shews e deverse of
10. 11121. 2. 11132. H Song
18 New
and this despatch containing
I forwar
the Nonghong Estimate for your
Consideration. Much auth
переїд
in Considering
application of this
hairs on
which
the reliance
can be
placed
on the
Exvernor.
We have
always
་
147
found Dir J. Bonham prudent and economical and he has during his administration neve ceased to effect progressive reductions
the total amount is u
very
large
of
which
indeed. In this
state of things I do not feel competente to sugge any further reductions in the present Estimate The Talary both of the Chief Justice and of the Attorney Several rould probably admit of reduction, but it has long ago been settles that they should be reduced on the ocoction of the next vacancies, In the meanwhi's the present holders of office
never interfered with
you
are aware are never
are
2. P. 23 Nov
2.7
So my Murali
11.1.21.
B12 de
19.
L- - :
f
Victoria, Singkong, 20€ September 1858.
Govenor Sir Geo: Bonham, Mart His Grace Ke “Duke If. Vwcastic.
Rrecived
+
-173- / Inclosure.
Transmitting detailed Estimates
if
the Perenne and impenditure of Hong Kong for the year endine 3/24 J.ecumber, 1854, and reporting
Kerem.
asforming
148
COLONIAL ESTIMATES.
HONGKONG.
1854.
.-.-W. - 17 -
helozure in Septól - 173 17/953 -
HONGKONG:
PRINTED AT THE HONGKONG REGISTER OFFICE.
1853.
149
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
3
A.
Abstract of the probable Revenue of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year 1854, showing also the Revenue received under the similar heads in the Year 1852, being the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared.
ESTIMATED FOR 1854.
REVENUE OF 1852.
£
£
d.
LAND REVENUE,
10,885
9,591
53
RENTS, EXCLUSIVE OF LANDS,
2,125
1,941
10
J;
L
LICENSES,
4,757
4,859
8 5
**
**
TAXES,
+
2,800
2,325
15 10
POSTAGES,
+
++
A
+
**
**
FINES, FORFEITURES, AND FEES OF COURTS,
--
FEES OF OFFICES,...
SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY,
900
1,330
JJ
60
894
7 11
*
1,026
18
9/1
120
REIMBURSEMENT IN AID OF EXPENSES INCURRED BY
GOVERNMENT,
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS,
INTEREST,
SPECIAL RECEIPTS,
E
J
100
21
=
537
510
1
I
}}
**
**
43
33
19
61
1+
+
Total...
23,000
0 0
21,331
1 81
The Aid by Grant of Parliament for the CIVIL GOVERNMENT,-
For the Year 1852-53, was..
*
**
1853-54,
20
.£12,000
9,200
ון
COLONIAL ESTIMATES—HONGKONG.
REVENUE DETAILED.
ESTIMATED FOR 1854.
REVENUE OF 1852.
REFERENCE
0.1
REMARKS.
:
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
REVENUE DETAILED.
ESTIMATED FOR 1854.
REVENUE OF 1852,
150
5
REFERENCE
ΤΟ
REMARKS.
£
d.
£
نه
LAND REVENUE:
£
S.
d.
Lease Lands,
T
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10,550
J)
Lands not Leased,
300
J
---
+
**
Fees on grant of Leases,
10
Premium by Purchases of Leases,..
25
RENTS, EXCLUSIVE OF LANDS:
Government Markets,
Government Buildings,
1,750
375
=
LICENSES:
Spirits,
1,650
Pawnbrokers,
583
---
Auctioneers,
156
Salt Brokers,
300
Stone Quarriers,
300
Billiard Rooms,
Opium Dealers, ...
Boarding-house Keepers,
41
13
4
1,450
-
275
15
4,757
4,859
C.
J1
£
d.
8.
d.
Brought forward,
22,857
0
20,758 15
331
REIMBURSEMENT IN AID OF EXPENSES INCURRED
BY GOVERNMENT:
£
8.
| d.
Sick Stoppages,...
72
10.885
9,591
3
54
A.
Subsistence Money of Foreigners and
25
others in Victoria Gaol,
Sale of Printed Forms, ...
3
100
537
510
H.
2,125
1,941
10
B.
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS :
Over-payments, &c., recovered,
...
1
J
I.
SPECIAL RECEIPTS:
Superannuation Contributions of Eu-
ropean Police Force,
25
J
Advances Account of Distressed Sea-
men,
18
43
JJ
33 19
ཀླ
61
K.
Total...
£ 23,000
0
21,331
I 81
TAXES:
Police Assessment,
POSTAGES,
FINES, FORFEITURES, AND FEES OF COURTS:
Fines,
Forfeitures,
Fees,
FEES OF OFFICES:
2,800
2,325
15 | 10
D.
J
>>
31
300
25
575
900
894
E.
Marriages and Burials, ...
75
Registering of Boats and Hawkers,
630
Official Signatures,
50
Registration of Deeds, and Conveyances,
Shipping Seamen,
75
500
1,330
1,026
18
94
F.
SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY :
Condemned Stores, &c.,
60
120
G.
Carried forward,
£ 22,857
0
0
20,758
15 33
REMARKS.
A. & B. The increase in the Estimate for 1854, arises from the Remission made in 1852, on account of the great Fire in De-
cember, 1851.
C. LICENSES. The decrease in the estimated Receipts arises,—
ON SPIRIT LICENSES,..
+
SALT AND STONE LICENSES,
ارو
OPIUM LICENSES,..
+
Less increase on LICENSED BOARDING-HOUSE KEEPERS,.......
Total estimated decrease,...
D. Vide Remarks under A. & B.
E. The difference is accidental.
£ 8. d.
21 18 5
202 1 8
29 3 4
£253 3 5
150 15 0
'
£192 8 5
F. The increase arises from FEES receivable under Ordinance No. 6, of 1852, for Shipping Seamen, which came in force in November,
1552, and produced in that Year, £113 2s. 6d,
G. SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY.-The Receipts in 1852, are for Premises on Inland Lot No. 77, and 1 surplus Iron Door.
#. The large amounts received in 1852, under REIMBURSEMENTS, are £375 paid to Dr. Bowning, as Superintendent of Trade; and
sundry other incidental Receipts.
I. & K. The difference under these two heads is accidental.
2
!
+
151
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
7
B.
Abstract of Sums required to Defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong, for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1854, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz: 1852.
PAGE OF
DETAIL.
ITEM OF
ESTIMATE.
15
ESTABLISHMENTS,
15
2
15
3
15
4
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE,
16
5
ECCLESIASTICAL,
ESTIMATED FOR 1854.
EXPENDITURE FOR 1852.
SALARIES.
FIXED ESTABLISH-
PROVISIONAL
ALLOW-
ANCES.
AND
OFFICE CONTIN-
GENCIES.
MENTS.
TEMPORARY.
S.
d.
£
S. d.
£ 25,951
وار
J
s. d. £ 8. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
505 17 12 10
66213,
27,132
JJ
26,494
15
24
PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, & GRATUITIES,
REVENUE SERVICES, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS,
18
3
J
180
139
3
22
Ditto,
Ditto,
120
83
9
J
16
6 CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES,
F
J
16
7 EDUCATION, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS,
JJ
J
JJ
16
8
HOSPITALS,
Ditto,
250
*
16
9
POLICE AND GAOLS,
Ditto,
17 10 RENT,
+4
17 11
TRANSPORT,
17
12
CONVEYANCE OF MAILS,
17
13
WORKS AND BUILDINGS,
18
14
18
15
ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES,
MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES,
1,400
952
10
305
---
174
00
300
675
330
12 11
1,437 15 5分
910 16 6
176
73
174
20
4,211
5
726
14
N
**
18
16
INTEREST,
**
JJ
18 17
LAND AND HOUSE PURCHASES,
1
*
18 18
SPECIAL EXPENSES,
20
62
7
00
8
Total.....
...£
31,509
0
0
34,765 12 9/1/2
00
CIVIL.
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
GOVERNOR.
SALARIES:
His Excellency the Governor,
Aid-de-Camp,
Comprador,
Shroff,
Porter, at Government Office,
FIXED ESTABLISHMENT.
PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.
TOTAL.
Four Messengers, at
do. @ £12 10s, each,
Gardener,...
Scavenger,
LAL
-
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
CONTINGENCIES :
Incidental Expenses,
COLONIAL SECRETARY.
SALARIES:
Colonial Secretary,
Chief Clerk,
Second do..
Third do.,
Fourth do.,
-r
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
3,000
300
J
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
152
FIXED ESTABLISHMENT.
PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.
TOTAL.
9
TREASURER.
d.
S.
d.
£
d.
£
d.
£
SALARIES:
d.
S.
d.
Treasurer,
Chief Clerk,
""
Second do..
32
10
Third do..
+
25
900
405
350
11
250
]]
1,905
JJ
1,905
20
JJ
50
**
J
A
*
12
10
12
10
JJ
3,300
152
10
ધર્મ
£
S.
1,800
ལ
d.
472
10
270
27
JJ
243
H
216
3,001
10
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, Almanacks, Newspapers, and Periodicals,
Stationery,
Postage,
Incidental Expenses,
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing and Advertising, ...
Stationery,
3,452
10
Postage,
27
10
27
10
J
3,480
£
S.
d.
£
95
5
10
5
A
5
-
JJ
A
d.
M
Incidental Expenses,
AUDITOR.
+
SALARIES:
Auditor (the Colonial Secretary,)
Clerk, ...
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, Advertising, and Newspapers,
Stationery,
Incidental Expenses,
+
---
:
10
8
h
2
}
£
d.
A
J
300
J
11
CLERK OF COUNCILS.
3,001
10
SALARIES:
£
100
110 10
Clerk of Councils,
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing and Advertising,
Stationery,
Incidental Expenses,
3,112
E
05
:.
10
J
£
d.
110
100
10
d.
£
**
**
25
க்
30 JJ
1,935
42
300
5.
A
d.
220
JJ
520
d.
£
25
J
5
100
d.
35
JJ
135
J
JJ
10
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
153
11
FIXED ESTABLISHMENT.
PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.
TOTAL.
SURVEYOR GENERAL.
SALARIES:
800
Surveyor General,
Harbour Master,
Clerk,...
Second Clerk,
FIXED ESTABLISHMENT.
PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.
TOTAL.
HARBOUR MASTER.
F
3.
d.
£
5
d.
£
d.
SALARIES:
4)
£
d.
S.
d.
£
d.
600
250
150
**
300
Indian Interpreter,
Clerk,...
50
37
10
Shroff,
25
**
Chinese Overseer,
One European Constable,
50
37
10
Three Coolies, £12 10s. cach,
One
do.,
:
H
43 10 **
12
10
One Office Cooly,
Ten Chinese Boatmen, @@ £18 10s. each, ...
185
J
1,187
10
1,187
10
11
1,353
10
1,353
10
J
ALLOWANCES:
To Overseer of Roads for keep of Horse,
CONTINGENCIES :
Advertising,
Copying Plans and Charts,
Stationery,
Incidental Expenses,
REGISTRAR GENERAL.
SALARIES:
Registrar General (Officiating the Superin-
tendent of Police,) ...
Clerk,...
Chinese Clerk,
One Chinese Constable,
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, &c.,
Boat Numbers, ...
Stationery,
Incidental Expenses,
E
*
15
3
E
d.
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
12 10
30
1,230
CONTINGENCIES :
Stationery,
---
Purchase and Repair of Boats,
Oil for Lamps,
Flags,
Incidental Expenses,
POLICE RATE ASSESSORS AND COLLECTORS.
SALARIES:
£
d.
£
d.
£
d.
Sub-Collector,
Shroff,
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
300
}}
37
10
13
350
10
5
25
5
.
11
J
37
350
10
*
2
10
37
10
+
388
MARRIAGE REGISTRAR.
!
SALARIES:
£
d.
S.
d.
£
S.
d.
50
Registrar,...
50
CONTINGENCIES:
Advertising,
Stationery,
Incidental Expenses,
:
*
་་་
5
15
JJ
J
12
I
3
3 10
38 10
J
1,392
E
£
d.
£
65
**
50
115
&
20
+2
Th
10
27
3
33
**
148
11
POST-OFFICE.
(The Postmaster renders his Accounts direct to the Postmaster-General, London.)
TOTAL CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS,
I
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, COLONIAL SECRETARY,
Treasurer,
AUDITOR,
+
CLERK OF COUNCILS,
SURVEYOR GENERAL, ...
REGISTRAR GENERAL,
REGISTRAR OF MARRIAGES,
+4
HARBOUR MASTER,
POLICE RATE ASSESSORS AND COLLECTORS,..
£12,390 0 0
d.
£
66
3,480 3,112
J
11
**
+
1,935 520 135
JJ
J
1,230
---
388 50
39
**
++
*
1,392 148
+J
JI
12,390
0 0
>>
d.
:
12
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
---
154
13
JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT.
FIXED ESTABLISHMENT.
PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.
TOTAL.
SUPREME COURT.
POLICE AND GAOLS.
FIXED ESTABLISHMENT.
PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.
TOTAL.
CHIEF MAGISTRATE.
SALARIES:
Chief Justice,
Attorney General,
£
3,000
*
25
1,500
750
**
350
300
d.
£
d.
£
d.
£
d.
£
d.
£
S d.
SALARIES:
Chief Magistrate,
1,000
J
**
General Interpreter, ...
400
JJ
First Clerk,
300
Second do., ...
125
=
**
Registrar,
Deputy Registrar,
Clerk to Chief Justice,
Hindustani and Malay Interpreter,
Usher and Bailiff,
Chinese Clerk and Shroff,
Mahomedan Swearer,
Under-bailiff,
Three Messengers @ £12 10s. each,
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, Advertising, and Newspapers,
Stationery,
Incidental Expenses,
++
SALARIES:
ECCLESIASTICAL.
Chaplain,
Clerk, ...
Sexton,
--
JJ
>>
150
}
J
62
10
**
12 10
J
37 10
37 10
6,200
Two Burial-ground Keepers @ £12 10s. each,
-
க்
:..
:
£
700
700
:
d.
10
G
9
**
J
A
6,200
25
6,225
Chinese do.,
First Chinese Interpreter,
J
Second do. do. and Clerk,
European Usher,
Indian do..
Chinese do.,
Chief Magistrate's Orderly, Messenger,
Cooly,
Mahomedan Swearer,
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
CONTINGENCIES:
Printing, Advertising, &c.,
Stationery,
Incidental Expenses,
+
37. 10
100
**
++
75
74
**
25
25
15
12
10
12
10
12
10
*
12
10
+
2,201
18
JJ
JJ
2,201 18
***
15
10
10
2
35
1
+
મે
£
5.
d.
£
th
S.
સ
d.
SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.
TOTAL CHIEF MAGISTRATE,
47
£
2,237
10
17
60
25
**
95
SALARIES:
**
£
d.
£
d.
Superintendent of Police,
500
J
*
Assistant
do.
(receives Pay as General
**
795 17
Interpreter,)
J1
J
A
One Inspector,
100
**
Two Deputy do. @ £75 each,
150
21
S
d.
Two European Sergeants @ £47 10s. each, ...
95
++
A
Five do.
Acting do. @ £37 10s. do.,
187
10
125
Eighteen do.
Constables @ £32 10s. do.,
585
JJ
One do.
do. Acting as Clerk extra,
25
1.
One Indian Sergeant,
32
10
th
S.
d.
Four do. Acting do. @ £25 each,
100
Thirteen do. Constables 1st class @ £20 each,
260
++
12
10
12
10
612
10
Seventy-one do. do. 2d do. @ £15 12s. do., One Chinese Sergeant,
1,107
12
20
Three do. Acting do. @ £17 10s. each,
52
10
: 9
J
Nine do. Constables
@ £12 10s. do.,
112
10
*
Two Horses Coolies
@ £12 10s. do.,...
25
£
442
8.
d.
75
*
15
**
++
2
4)
£
S.
5.
One Station Cooly, One Lamp
do..
=
*
12
10
5
3,370
2
15
25
+
=
**
**
130
JJ
Carried forward,
J
J
*
3,370
£
3,370
EDUCATIONAL.
SALARIES:
£
d.
£
8.
d.
Five Chinese School-masters,
125
MEDICAL.
SALARIES:
£
d.
£
d.
Colonial Surgeon,
600
Messenger,
:
:
SALARIES:
Dispenser,
HOSPITAL.
Hospital Cook, ...
Steward,
Two Dispensary Coolies @ £12 10s. each,
600
+
+
+
+
1
A
A
*
14
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
FIXED ESTABLISHMENT.
PROVISIONAL AND
TOTAL
TEMPORARY.
POLICE AND GAOLS.-Continued :
£
S.
d.
£
S
d.
Brought forward, CHIEF MAGISTRATE,.......
2,237
2,237
JJ
SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE,
3,370
2
3,370
+
J
>
**
J
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
CONTINGENCIES:
Stationery,
10
+
Incidental Expenses,
9
18
SHERIFF.
TOTAL SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE,
SALARIES:
Sheriff and Assistant Magistrate,...
£
S
d.
600
+
Gaoler,
Assistant do.,
J+
125
50
One Turnkey,
58
10
11
One
do.,
37 10
J
Six Indian Constables @ £19 7s. 6d. each,
116
JJ
One European Headman,
36
5
Eight Indian Guards @ £19 7s. 6d. each,
155
One Chinese Guard,
15
One Female Turnkey.
12
10
1,206
ALLOWANCES, Nil.
CONTINGENCIES :
Stationery,
Incidental Expenses,
Publishing,
TOTAL POLICE AND GAOLS,
viz:
FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS,
CONTINGENCIES,
d.
£
3,390
155
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
No. 1.-RECAPITULATION OF THE FOREGOING ESTABLISHMENTS.
15
d.
SALARIES.
FIXED ESTABLISHMENT.
PROVISIONAL & TEMPORARY.
ALLOWANCES.
OFFICE CONTINGENCIES.
TOTAL.
N
JJ
CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS :
THE GOVERNOR,
£
s.d.
£
s. d.
£
d. £ s. d.
£
s.d.
COLONIAL SECRETARY,...
TREASURER,...
3,300
3,001 10
1,905
J1
152 10
JJ
27 10
25
FJ JJ
''
110 10
J
3,480
3,112
J7 ++
JJ
11
>> J
I
**
30
-
1,935
JJ
**
AUDITOR,
300
10
18
Jy
220
>>
520
*
J
..
CLERK OF COUNCILS, SURVEYOR GENERAL, REGISTRAR GENERAL,
100
>>
17
JJ
J1 11
35
135
*
JJ
*
1,187 10
"
I
12 10
7]
>>
30
350 10
**
J
27
1J
MARRIAGE REGISTRAR,.
50 宁师
**
25
HARBOUR MASTER,...
POLICE RATE COLLECTORS,
TOTAL CIVIL,
£ 11,548
JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT,
6,200
ECCLESIASTICAL
do..
700
+
J
EDUCATIONAL
do.,
125
MEDICAL
do..
600
**
HOSPITAL
do.,
POLICE AND GAOLS
do.,
Total,
-
6,778
£25,951
1,353 10
A
A
>>
A
A
JJ **
1,230
37 10
:
JJ
388
50
**
J
J1
JJ
115
*
267 10..
12 10
J
**
33
>
JJ
**
J
*
JJ J]
562
25
+
12,390
JJ
95 17
JJ
JJ JJ
*
J1
6,225
795 17
125
**
11 *
38 10
1.392
148
JJ
**
JJ
+
J
12 10
+
|
**
J1 J
130
1)
J
11
"J
JJ
550 17
>
J
612 10
E
130
35
J
>
75
3
6,853 13
12:10
662 31
27,132
1,206
No. 2.--PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES AND GRATUITIES.
Nil.
No. 3.-REVENUE SERVICES, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
5
31
5
13
+
10
£
d.
Remuneration to the Assessors and Collectors of Police Rate, being 5°, on Amount Collected,... Commission to the Government Auctioneer on Sale of Lands and Licences,
140
30
J1
20
13
Petty Expenses Collecting Revenue at the Villages,
J
10
TOTAL SHERIFF,
£
1,226
13
TOTAL,
£
180
£
d.
6,778
75 | 13
No. 4.-ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
£
6,853
13 0
Expenses of Witnesses, ...
Do.
of Inquests,
Do.
of Criminal Punishments,
Do.
of Interpreters,
+
TOTAL,
£
5.
d.
75
5
15
+
=
26
*
47
£
120
16
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
No. 5.-ECCLESIASTICAL, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
Nil.
No. 6. CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES.
Nil.
No. 7.-EDUCATION, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
Nil.
No. 8.-HOSPITALS, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
Provisions for Patients at the Civil Hospital,
Bedding and other Necessaries,
Medicines,
Furniture,
Light and Fuel,
Incidental Expenses,
POLICE:
:
+
+
:
J
TOTAL,
CIVIL:
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
Residence of His Excellency the Governor,
POLICE:
Central Police Station in Victoria,
Police Station in Showkewan,
d.
HOSPITAL:
Civil Hospital,
£
120
**
10
80
»
11
10
TH
રે
£
No. 9.-POLICE AND GAOLS, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
Clothing and Accoutrements,
Veterinary and Farriery Articles,
Forage,
Remount Horses,
Oil and Candles for Lanterns,
---
Purchase and Repair of Boats,
Rations for Constables (European,)
Incidental Expenses,
GAOLS:
Provisions, Wood, Water, &c., &c.,
Clothing,
Bedding,
Fetters, Tools, and other Articles,
Oil for Lighting Prisons,
Incidental Expenses,
:
•
TOTAL POLICE,
:
20
10
250
+
£
300
d.
**
2
15
40
20
J
+
70
20
160
45
£
670
:
"J
£
600
TOTAL POLICE AND GAOLS,
**
20
25
15
1
40
30
F
d.
+
17
EE
730
£
1,400
21
No. 10.-RENT.
:
:
:
47
£
250
15
d.
JJ
J
4)
625
]]
265
TOTAL,
£
No. 11-TRANSPORT.
Conveyance of Convicts to Penal Settlements,
Boat-hire for the Conveyance of the Registrar General round the Island, &c.,
TOTAL,
-
+
No. 12.-CONVEYANCE OF MAILS.
To the Hongkong and Canton Steam Packet Company, for keeping up the communication
between these two places, per annum,
No. 13.-WORKS AND BUILDINGS.
REPAIRS.
That
may be necessary for the Government Buildings,
156
*
17
62 10
952 10
d.
440
£
S.
d.
290
15
મ
£
305
11
J
£
5.
d.
}
174
£
ધર્મ
d.
300
+
**
18
Repairs,
Repairs,
Repairs,
:
:
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
EXPENDITURE DETAILED.
No. 14.-ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES.
ROADS AND STREETS.
:
BRIDGES.
DRAINS.
SUNDRY WORKS.
J
P
:
Enlargement of principal Landing Places in Victoria, and Repairs to
others,
Implements for Convicts employed on Roads,
Planting Trees.
:
:
⠀
£
300
*
TOTAL,
80
20
No. 15.--MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES.
Nil.
No. 16.-INTEREST.
Nil.
d.
:
£
100
S.
d.
75
100
J
400
£
675
No. 17.-LANDS AND HOUSES, PURCHASES.
Distressed British Subjects,
Nil.
No. 18. SPECIAL EXPENSES.
=
d.
20
8
157
|
20
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
SUMMARY OF THE FOREGOING ESTIMATES, SHEWING THE TOTAL CHARGE
COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.
FOR EACH DEPARTMENT, SO FAR AS THE SAME CAN BE APPORTIONED.
SALARIES, ALLOWANCES,
AND OFFICE CONTINGENCIES.
PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.
REVENUE SERVICES.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.
HOSPITALS.
POLICE AND GAOLS.
RENT.
TRANSPORT.
CONVEYANCE OF MAILS.
s.d.
£
s.d.
£
s.d. £
47
625
**
1
CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS:
s.d.
s.d.
£
S.
+
s. d.
4)
£
d.
£ s. d.
The Governor,
3.480
1
Y
**
Colonial Secretary,.
3,112
+
1
>
J
J
A
**
++
Treasurer,
1,935
30
J
35
+1
E
77
Auditor,
520
J1
31
5+
"
*
J
Clerk of Councils,,
135
71
>
++
JJ
JJ
Surveyor General,..
1,230
*
**
3
Registrar General,
388
10
''
J
Harbour Master,.
1,392
J
F
11
27
Marriage Registrar,
50
JJ
>>
*
**
J
**
Post Office,
J
>>
**
11
Police Rate Assessors,
148
140
Ja
+
*
+1
JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT,
6,225
120
D
*
JA
JJ
**
JJ
55
T
JJ
J
ECCLESIASTICAL do.,
795 17..
17
**
**
JJ
>>
11 ++
**
=
+
EDUCATIONAL
do.,
125
11
JJ |
JJ
**
J
** J
J
MEDICAL
do.,
HOSPITAL
do..
61210
130
**
་
J
>>
JJ
>>
J
+
>>
JJ
37 **
250
J
**
13
J
''
**
POLICE AND GAOLS,
6,853 13
1.400
JJ
-
31
J
A
11
WORKS AND BUILDINGS,
>>
JJ
J
JJ
** +7
J
++
*
1J
ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES,.
J
JI
**
*
JJ
27,132
180
120
250
1
+
1J
1,400
15
+
++
**
JI
**
1
15
1J
15 J
JJ
J1
}
*
J.
J3
J
JJ
A
Jy **
A
JJ
*
JJ
J
174 8;
*
J
WORKS AND BUILDINGS.
ROADS, STREETS, AND
BRIDGES.
SPECIAL EXPENSES,
TOTAL AMOUNT
ESTIMATED FOR 1854.
TOTAL AMOUNT
EXPENDED IN 1852.
s. d.
£
s. d.
£
s. d
£
s.d.
£
करे
++
++
J1
J
>>
4,105
3,112
3. d.
4,486 10 4
3,135 13 2
+
1,965
>>
1,976 7 1
520
598 17 7
J
17
})
++
J
135
22
159 18 3
J
J
J
*
1,230
++
1,229 17 5
JA
*
413
230 8 1
J
**
JJ
+7
*
JI
20
18
1,412 1 8
1,306 7 5
JJ
JJ
>>
**
>
50
JJ
**
J
**
174 8
35 611
174 8 4
JJ
J
>>
JJ
**
J
A
1
1
TJ
++
11
**
JJ J
J
62 10
JJ
J
J
JJ
JJ
265
JJ J
290
>>
J
21
JJ
}}
952 10
305
*
3
**
300
JJ
**
J
**
+
=
11
>
11
13
288
+
190 8 4
+
JJ
*
J
0,345
+ JJ
5,946 4 9
1J
*
795 17
7
824 2 3
*
J
125
73
J
116
TH
612 10
71
612 10
**
J
442 10
8,808 13
523 211
8,281 10 3
>>
11 **
300
** J
4,211 5 2
675
726 14
**
JJ +1
675
++
174 8 4
300
J
675
20
+
8
13
31,509
**
I
34,765 12 93
The Expenditure for Salaries, Allowances, and Contingencies (Establishments,) in 1852, amounted to £26,494 158. 21d., the arrears
remaining due being £1,238 98. Od. to the Chief Justice and Chief Magistrate, absent on Sick Leave.
The total Decrease of the Estimated Expenditure for 1854, on the actual Payments made is £3,256 12s. 9ąd., viz:-
ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GOVERNOR,
COLONIAL SECRETARY,
TREASURER,
..
£
s. d.
381 10 4
23 13 2
11 71
24 18 34
78 17 7
28 5 3
80 12 111
CLERK OF COUNCILS,
AUDITOR,
ECCLESIASTICAL,
HOSPITAL,
WORKS AND BUILDINGS,
ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES,
Carried forward,
3,911 5 2
51 14 0
£4,592 3 10
The Increases are under,-
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
REGISTRAR GENERAL, ..
HA
ARBOUR MASTER,
MARRIAGE REGISTRAR,
POLICE RATE ASSESSORS,
JUDICIAL,
EDUCATIONAL,
POLICE AND GAOLS,
+
Brought forward,
£ 5. d.
0 2 7
£4,592 3 10
182 11 10
105 14 2
14 13
I
97 11 7!
398 15 3
8 19 8
527 2 9
1,335 11 04
£3,256 12 9
Main
Colonial Secretary.
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REFERENCE TO REMARKS.
21
158
HONGKONG.
PRINTED AT THE HONGKONG REGISTER OFFICE.
1853.
K
No. 74.
Financial.
you.
200
to 11.
leopy
18 March 155--
to If for
128 chong trong
RECEIVED
CO
NOWA togia, Hongkong,
1853
My Lord Duke,
159
22nd September, 1853.
I have the honor to forward
to Your Grace the Accounts of this belong for the Financial year ending
31st
March last; and the Freasurer's letter
which
accompanies them, will, I think,
in detail all the
furnish information .
tion. There
is one suc
requisite.
abject however
connected with the Accounts to which
I think it desirable to draw Your
Crace's attention.
Grace's
Inclosure No. 5 will show that the Treasurer had the 30th March lact, in his hands a balance of £20,570.
3.
No. 6
His Grace
on/
*
will show the liabilities liabilities
The Duke of Newcastle,
&o,
Jo
160
*
& Government on the set
of the Colonial Government
April to have been L. 16, 286. 4. 14, –
thus leaving a surplus of
of £
L. 4,2844
at
the command of Government, and appropriated.
The Statements annexed to
в
will show the Public
4.
Inclosure le
Works now in
progress, estimated to
coct L. 15766.4. 14. The first
nine items, amounting
I have
to L. 144,439 -13.2 1⁄2
£.144,4
nearly all received the sanction of Ber Majesty's Governments, and those
that have not are
nature and re-
require
£. 20570.4.14
of a comparatively trifling.
no
particular remark.
The balance, £ 1326.10.10% comprises the outlay for Roads and Strvels, &c, and is available from th
balances of former years, and, with the exception of L:300
!
for widening
and improving the road
from Aberdeen Street to the Naval
Stores, the items will explain themselves.
7
*
16286.4.1%
4,284.0.0
The outlay for the above Road has been passed in feuncil here, and the Plans and Extimate will be forwarded to Your
(prace
in a
5.
مغد
separate Despatch.
Inclosure No. 11
is an
Estimate
by the Surveyor General of the sum that may be required to furnish the Govern
ment House,
or suck
parts of it as I observe by the Colonial Prégulate
lations
it is usual to furnich at the public
I am entirely ignorant
expense .
of the nature and extent of furniture sup-
plied at other Colonics on
and the Extimate
this account,
now submitted
may
be open to objection, but whatever Sum Her Majesty's Governmen
may be pleased to authorize
account seems to me
from
might
this
be taken
the above-mentioned unappropriated
balance of L. 4,284. From the
Surveyor General's Memorandum, it
راقبة
161
will be seen
he estimates that to furnish
the Government Mouse in a,
but unostentatious style
respectable,
AOS,
will cost.
£. 1031. 16.0 . If this cxpenditure
be sanctioned, and the means
for defray-
ing it be taken from the above balance,
a
same of L. 3252.4.0 will still
remain unappropriated.
le.
In a Despatch of yesterday's
I submitted to Your
date, 30. 7/3, I submitted to
Grace the Estimate of the Expenses and
Receipts of the Colony for the year
which showed a deficit
ень
onding
1854,
of receipts to the extent of L. 8,500,
which it would be necessary
to Parliament
for
to apply
on time
I at one
had some intention of reducing this demand to L. 5,247, and bringing.
-
on
the balance of £. 3,252.4. 0, as available funds, - but I fear that for
this Colony will be
Come
o few years
£4284.0.0
7
#
1031.16.0 3252.4.0
£. 8,500.0.0 13252.4.0
45347.16.0
*
unable to pay its expenses, and, as there
would be no
balance to be brought
brought
to
account in the Estimate for 1855, it
Strikes
one that it might embarrass
Her Majesty's Government to have to apply for
an
increased grant from
ear, and I have.
Parliament for that year,
year, and
therefore thought it preferable to bring the whole subject before Your Grace,
that Her Majesty's Government
rent ma
may
deal with the question as it see
7.
to assure
fit.
In conclusion, I have only
every
Your Grace that
efficiency
economy consistent with is observed in the Colony,
UNA
the demands
on Parliament are an
annually decreasing,
and will, I hope, in a
(as more entiret
years
entirely
in a veri
For
very few
a Memo
vease.
easy reference, I append
c
-randum of grants from Parliament
·
E
ť
ti
1846.
since the formation of the Colony, being
for the year.
£.49,000.
36.900.
18452
C
1847-
31,000.
1848.
25,000.
1849-
25000.
1850
20,000.
1851
15,500.
1852
12,000.
1853-
9,200.
submitted.
for
1854
8,500.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect, My Lord Dake, Your Grace's
Most. Obedient,
Humble Servant.
Ebaham
L
♡
162
13!
His brace the Duke of Newcastle Governa Sir Geo: Bowram, Bart. 2014 September, 1853- Pietruing Any Kong,
P74-
爱你
Received
// Inclosures
Sransmitting
for Colonial purposes.
reporting on the Surpies available
cuding 31 March, 1953, and the Colony for the Financial year ing the fccrunts
Mer Ellick.
This Despatch and 1112 2
Hong Hong exclring
the leputs & Estimate for Rublic Works
Mr. Veel
2. Ner/14
The Estimate of £1,031
ture
for the furnit
of
Government House an
av 0, iental
and at the
distance of
Sang trong
appears
Colony
ட்
to me
163
гетер to furnish a house of very
London for
moderate. It would be difficult.
limited size
less than that amount:
with
and to the
public
regar
works it appears tome, in like as I have submitted expon 1112.0
..
me
as to the
Estimate generally, chiar a great deal much depend upon the litte which the fovernor has acquired to confidence. How is it possible
to determines in London whether
requires repair the Sheets ought
rothing octa
extrav
I
at Hongkong, or
Q.-
Boat house whether one of
or a
not to lie cimproved? alsee ragant on the face of the demands, and I should acquiesce in
them out
judgement.
of respect for For Bonham's
The
most serious
question
perhaps is what should be done as to the Balance in Land . The governor proposes not to reckon it amongst the of this Colony
available ways and means because it has arisen from casual Crownstone and would not be maintained, and
Consequently if
chis
we took it into account
year and reduced the Parliamentary Estimate accord.
dingly, it would almost
Certainly entail
arr increas
دومه
of the Catimate in the following year. The question is one
of
U
1
L
164
some nicety which will expecially requires your consideration. I confess that I shells
it shall be necessary by
he
sorry if adding this Balance in hand to the real
Саллое
Annual Revenue to cause an apparent
reduction
eta is
arr
year,
of
the demand on
Parliament.
which must be followed by apparent increase in the next. The
parich to be determined appears to me whither
Q
Balance of this limited Amount
Compared with this large total amount.
of the Revenue and bxpenditure
Colony may
y
die
not be considered as
a
Current account which
Mire
on atter
of
sary
to notice in a
Notensial
it is
of the regular annual revenue and expenditure
of
the Colony.
23 Mor
appicais that at the close of the
to years ending March 1855 then was balann in fair ofthe Gost of £20.570, Jukins Lowever # 16.286 antegund to pay for penthe works atis tarz ban Sanchioned and voted inparbgeais, but
بھیجنے سمجھے
shies austa inpenguess and unfinished
Mus
in 1849-50-51 f 14.940 war Wad
Bechamien foratzort Heren ettergtung,
Which alth wor 1057 alt
L
1.4141 Las
Even lependel . Now it seems Cove Mar
the Pitimate perbal in pass pass las
hutbeen perfaus
the best way.
Erglar been laid agained the Cestetten
ون
د.
leting, whi. Unger Van ben quals
7
да
if only so much lastheer ached frit. porthe works to was really bigmilto
верить его
ta
Kon
ar.
howonderar lives
a socothel Obediction in Patli Wothe
3.050
In our
Bachamencong klimah 16
Part Sessern. All th. Vetle Work & Subratin
with flans and is homeles
میری
in 11.122
A
an
doffers prended for one of the balanc
of € 20.570. alluded to al. f120.570.
At the same hum then
in
17
Imapperpendlit
Pale Jtter
the
Belance
Amran
to t 4.284 whin Nagle
Included Gyno bowing the ways & beans
And the gerection in Whitben
of 1854-5.: And
Whelch appled cunt Woth recrection of the
Mm.
Family &P500
I egen tiotte For Bakan tion to
with.
Smal arch as
€ 4.200 boule Cause
į
in Braggerated section lobe Gelataimeels
весел
в
ение
of the Perdacted cups ofthe local Revenue Martanen päsen ledo in Stein-S
Emel allow t 1.884 für khmeriken
важив
When Got house and Wher Anfreeseen Iemands, and Swmen Qurch the balance of t sero into two equal Bails, to be hapender in the beruhen M. Balz est off the vent has year
5 Nars Nie Wt for 1854-5 (ahrming
heat
за
نمنم
Ju 2385
52
ssar das
165
73
Ber
Lamis Schemeter
m 11120
15
br approm) welch #8500 - € 1500
at 7000 .
Ein Scheir tobabery
lumell
Inun
and
girt pus litteleting.
heause I thould mention her in 1052-3
the Pailysst. Coar merend byt 2.500
G
dup to meet in Antepeler Inpaines Belam opies on the local Revenus, ofting kny
1852
Consequena ofthe fire in Vulina Bee 1857. J Drewn howww dis
Ankerpated
hotfach off the latent Anhingalen
73
Aus Bulan in 1935 a formed
us Mar
Whe
The
разваритися
£ 2500 then was a
balann of €1203" forrtin Gegesäteis)
credit with you in the Whinché, Une under preparation for them,
the Jum 1817-
husait credi, noworten kan
Gwen, and the Z1203
Gantofthe Jounal balann of ₤20.570
th. Wh of X 7000 for Pal
oft
for 1854-5 assume that th Selimeter Wingtung futter Imanaal Jem magle appens.. On Invenire es condently Echnative
the Jortable receipts. In igande & lapper diben the selain ofthe God. and Colomie
on & 4.000. Sul Butan
Father under than mer
G
Ich geheired in Mant, and it is
Jupitt Was in Assangen
Mar
for
知っ
Afferm timens often lacosen, wen
deduction bagh thach faun
D
ofthen
tud lunge Selasier.
His brown had unt
166
Delagthe
preparation ph. Selinoth. Ie Heasures Dept. t 1.935
smak Awenn
posso smal
lapensier
as €23.00o
could not the let heulang who
already
Jr. ten oth
2
Audits the Aceli, kollé homes
as well, leaving
pertage, the Andeture, pestone Mas
Officer. With Topicum Cones Hend a Registian 1750. Desenli Reguition
Деривод 1350 Cleel to C. Juste €300 Kontellan kungue the Datenmos Rejectin Signe br web performer In t500 and donth the hempily of any depaty
In a thin
Apristame
Majstral for & bro, & Kheriff Comment schellests wanted, and shithe du bon
of Magntrol orgne lobiferformer
:
+
With Pehn ollagitate who seccions + 1000 a year. These promits M.
en When
Schurt with partager (under
the proper liner Annon, ber under
Aust
と
hum Ansions,
tane
the Wher for Wanghang
wheir
lich hotts More Kant Jord
і
to kasmeth langt: Aunding
Lo
Alange sums whier toe snew
Лишно и
Who for the Coley.
Jp Die 18.
approve of there sojections to for
as the boter to be taken this
Jean is
Soncerned . He scale of beletaitumens
Must be considered. in connection
with the appointment of a han
Gunner
M: 15
جویر
گے
Mr.
Peel
2013 vong trong
11721
The decision having
167
now been taken to
dispense with the Colonial Lalary to the Covernor and to make some other reductions and changes in the Estimate, it seems necessary to circulate again the two present dispatches,
present despatches, as some difference
will be requires in the mode of dealing with
them.
Eam
Hong
You
are of opinion, I think, that the
total amount of
the Vote colie asked for Hong
will now be as small that it will be.
of the
as has
unnecessary to set forth the whole details Revenue and Expenditure of the Colony hisherto been the practice, and chest our Extimet
need simply state the salaries which we ask Parliament to vote, as is customary in
the case
to pich of other Colonies. This will be a
improvement.
great
The next question will be
what should be the amount of this extimate,
which amount much more or less determine the Lalaries to be placed upon it :
The
saving to be
to be effected
ernor to will be
the Salary of the fovernor
пропи £2075.
The amount
required by the Estimates
FILT
WALLPAJ KAR
**
168
previously rescived from the Colony
ras
chie above mentioned
£8.500,
and cherefore if saving alone were deducted, the sumto be asked from Parliament would be about £ 5,625. I arculate herewith the sketch of an Estimate, marked A, amounting exactly to £5.600.
евкал
But the fovernor reported click
there was a dear Balance in hand
no of
exper ands
of £4,000, and
your
have
inion in
red the opinio.
Expressed the
your minute on
4/121, concurred in by the Duke fetewcastle;
chat
of
this Balance me
Credit for €1,500 this,
he sh
4 year,
might take
year
and for £1,300
yes this reducing the governors
demands from £8,500 to £4000. Supposing
систе
this to his done now the further saving Affected
on the fovemors Salary ling down the total amount
Estimere required to no
of
the
more than £4.125
how upon the decisions to reduce
t
the fouernors demands to £2000, if no other change had occurred, I should not have
ventured to trouble
У
on or the Duke of Newcastle with one word to invite reconsideration. It had become so indispensable to bring the Hong kong latinate within more moderate limito ction heretofore, dras, it would have seemed to me an object to be effected even at come risk of future disappointment. but the judicions economy
now made
вашо
on the favernors salary Loving in itself provided so large a saving, I feel bound to submit the question whether it would be wise to propose to Parliament as very
limited
an Estimate as one
for little more it is quite true, you have pointed out in
out in your
Ithan £4000. Although
as
Minate
In 11121, that the total Revenue in one
me in one yes
exceeded the amount expected by
year
the fov:
Yet the important income derived from Land Rents has on tie whore been failing
Jor
До
In
some years past, and we have had
many proops that the rents were
originally fired at too
Can har
hardly
high a note, that we reckons on their continuing free
from
L
169
no objection to the several heads Expenditure contemplated by the foverno and proposes to signify
Dees no
from further abatement.
ther abatement. I may jush
I may jush observe char if
the larger of the two letimates be adopted it can
year should prove practicables, W
whilsh if two, if it should the smaller Estimate be ad
it is a far
easily be reduced in a
adopted,
more difficult cash to increase itres amout
ваше. Аліда
a
ва
сазолу
his
approval of ctx should be furniebes
of clos proposed Parliamentary Estimate. Sapprebend also choot some
uitination dis
eight to be given to- the intended arrangements-
Carly the Colony of cho
it
about the appointment
of fovernor, in
order clise the several officers concerned
of
a bate to be submitted to Parliament. I han
felt
bound to offer chiese so
Chiese remarks,
but in
case they should not be deemed
weight to justify
che a
adoption of
of sufficient ctie larger
a second,
may
Estimate, marked B,
Arro.
unting
amount, I annex the dift of
to £4,400, which is the nearest approximation
I find the
the means
of conveniently
making
chat I
to the smallest
of
the too amounts contemplated
when his point is selled, it will be requisite to communicate to the Reasy the several reductions and changes involved in the duke of Newcast's decision about the office of
Covernor. The same opportunity should be taken of transmitting to it the present sexspatates 11120, 11121 with
алм
or timation chat, subject to the reductions above mentioned, the Leuke of hewcastle
be prepared for the charges in
their situations.
7. 78.20/12
I lounder et aprudens
fensor me to exply anal, Belven of Swann celul
Cre
1
Secepen tote ofpars Zeorgloth Production
هستم
proter then han that both mad.
New Balance in falda. I al perform betale & fit at 1500 fr the Jews 1852-5, and I ta la not
in this comin
Suppene to change Low
YENİ
SAP p . .
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170
Her Breed to tabhi bements as Telated
13
byterly Benham, Se Pa ty hikmet
ween
Can ban Z 7000, under the
solan Baggerten. By the Saving th thefer salary, Stan Selamat kunt / Considerably heard, Norm lie
کے
He
Pershin ways on the form Beaches B in the Pasen Anwend
Mees
The Charter Mached. B. May be
}
Adsplit. With food-douragement
S
à if no conforeseen expenditure
It rught to suffice.
Atur
A
tong trong
Five Chousand lise hundred Pounds.
Lieut Governor.
Treasurer
Colonial Secretory Surveyor General.
Harbour Master
Colonial Surgeon.
B
phong trong
2.000..
доо
.you..
Pov..
600.
600
L
5.600..
=
Four Thousand four hundred Pounds.
Lient Governor
Greasurer
Eslonial Secretary
Survey or General
مجھے
گے
...
2000
goo.
700.. 800..
£ 41.400.
༩༩-m
the
31.
厅
7
!
Deel
I
Gov 11121753
171
I cannot find
it recorded what
decision may have been ittimates
adopted
телез
to allowing Sie D. Rowring
an aid - de camp to act as his Private
one time the office
Secreting.
ab
was i
have been abolished. I have understood
toate subsequenth Sie I Bowring was
allowed to take out
but shave no means
a
private Secretory.
£300.
of leaving at whats
Valory. The former salory
was
I crioulite this mems in order trobtain
ev
on this
new castles instructions on
the suhe preward
point
им
7.78.4 kanya.
My Beathation in that les consentit
172
to For Bensing Laving - Jeinabé
<
heuling & Aid de Cause in lie
ぐ
I cut out of the lotimate the change
Camp,
Capants ofthe Goosenon eftting bong,» (2200) for an. Seit de lanche, – bat bandagen,
And that he fixed tebalang #200,mt 250 I forgelatien
Block but
loch
ah
hat affean in the Parlanting Sitimate, but must be boom on
& litmel Selimely on common
Colonial
with the other changes the Corne
foremment.
Wb Mt
In the first stage of the few arrangemen
Inson the Expresentation of fir S. Bering
& a Mumite of their Murwal I miortantl
A
Change (2260) for a Printe
Suretary
find this in Emiter of mine When Hong Kong Jeepers.
نال
;
+
?
E
[
!
Hong Kong for 14121/53
173
This is
M Bell
heping
Hom
to Doming
див t
in porlanes and
I am inclined
b bich hein right.
Our
The following I think were the suggestions which resulted home considering This question yesterday.
^
1. There seems a difficulty in
severing the formarshes fom the offic
2) Superintendents. M only must there た
to a considerable alteration of the oder
in Conmil
recently hased, but wither
The All of Fail ! 627 Viet c.80. must h
бас
also amended, on the there will h
to coral long lift celath of mathing
no
Caus
a adinances for British subjects
2
in China. Whether this would he matter:
X
à importance I'd not know: pr
Dorning,
Λ
Sir 5. Doxtam, might fin
-S.
bitten adirie on it : but at all counts il
seems advisable to avoid such diffieuthier if practicable.
2 .
+
This might
might be done
by firing
Dr Douring a founor's commission,
=
1
:
in the uscach way,
Last Entilling him to the tank, mecedemy, un of frentent
house, &. which belongs to the station:
but with a full undertanding
is not to take on
that he
himself practically the
coral foron ment of the island, no basitrally
ہنہ
is peside the Législchis Convict, although In umid to so when ordinance affecting
British subjects in
Cine were under
Probally, with the
h
174
and to to practically the ching exentier authority in dicks bich affaris, es L's.
which
Sailing is at the Cape.
4. Major Caines would bet
Continue as
bertally
arent. for. to preform the more
important duties which he how has to do
But the pist afintant
бы
as Cloud See?
Who was has to 475 for
in his office
1
Annum, might tan ± 225 more,
comsiduction.
advantage of secrepoying
He Monment
a fomnostiche,
on
Louse, & the other incidents & a
A
2,507)`
± 3000 a year panked by the 3.
Mffice would be sufficient for For Rousing:
a
±500 a
a year at most migt!
added from Cover-punod-
h
3. The pencat Colomil secutary
Phajo Caines to be then was
Sent forend, with an
a
ستمال
addition of £200
to his pusent salary of ± 1800.
:
hav
home Box? century with £700. I simuld not irurem can precedence
the persent Reaser.
j
ris avangement inld
reduce the Estimate by wither $2,075,
き
6.J
2,575. according
£577
a
The colditional
bne fiern to. St Boning
or
not. Ve farther reduction of #300
sunght
In made by a Wishing
//
"aich-de-camp"
Who Jerms
uncalled for, welch be
he is in
in fort print
225
sanitary, with whom it is difficult for
C
:foninor as disfime. For Bouring in comulted ihre this in don?
hould
Gov 11/21/53 175
00.
ف ناد
andoulidly not a
satisfactory plan abtrethe, in as munt à
much a
:: defend for its working on the food
understanding and reasonablenej
нита
paches the metr
hes Hemetus. But any
arrangement which wis the Suferntenital-
revidone at Hong Kong
of the pas
myemen
Merivales Exsinte
ule Are
Proped in Si
are satisfactors
brumitances will admit, _ Mid-
Food
the spirit of forst understanding, amoy et
The Partir
aflcted by them with strate the with which are offerent but
Imarniable.
wot think it messsary to five
Javy
additional £500, and-
Hong Kong must I move on
lih Gen to the same
objections : and
Ith
with this condition the dougn thie are
么
unwilling to disfense.
D:
Barring
Am D. 14.
Kat he insill
me this morning day,
be provided
Er perfectly satisfied with
any
Lemporary
for
This
Upartment. "
Dr Bonning She has bun with
or provisional arrangement, had in my antions for dispatch.
themarth
oftens scheme, not an
a perneur.
рос
8 Bowring
A
Of God.
In a permanent beranger Interben Owed
the cell bad awar
Athe
one to about the office of BodedeCamp. H. Invite Shrelang may will be
out of the allorance of £1501.10.0
of €2.8.75.
:th effect an munediate saving
I have also arranged
wrayed with the
7
A
176
General Fourmanding in Push that this
Afifiontiment vrou held by Missed. divis
thall & abolished and an
letter to the tffect has been written.
I. fuither saving with the be effectish
of
62,912.
2.1.
Table Allowance
691-19-7
1,000
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I am directed by
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the Duke
In Elliot
Ir Merivale
M. Pul
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e of Newcostly 13.11.
Mr. Peel.
[JM]
73.
74. 22 / cars.
Bosh in order to keep
on of
otre explanation
ite
changes in etres fovernor's
position
as olistin et as
possible, and also to
avoid delaying the other
Inatters which are
afet. of bencoatte tor
tonsmit to you, for the Consideration of thre
мило
Coun
of
the Lords
ctiv. Ereasury, tho
accompanying copies of twe dispateties from the facemor
of Hong Kong, the first of them transmitting an letiniate of the Revenue and Expenditure of the (olony for the year
quito: ready for communication to the Fresery, you will find that in this Droght 1854, and the second enclosing love and cavoured to diepoin the accounts of the Colony of all the financials questions for the year which ended
вале
which are to be submitted
department, with
to live de
the single exception of the Governors Salory which is reserved (as thisg and told in the for separate trootouent.
7. H
12/any
the driest
on the 3144 March 1853.
am desired to
acquaint you, for their Lordships information, char
the Duke of Neriaatte has hearly
matured certain
Insdifications in the position
5
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of the fovernor which
will probably admit of a
Considerable saving
that
سة
the amount requires to provide for this appointment, Subject to ities changes
nvolved in this proposal,
which will be submitted
to their Lordships immedistet that it is ready for decision I am to state that His
Grace sees no reason to
object to the expenditure Contemplated in the Governor's Despatch No 43
of
the 20th September,
and that he
would
propose, with their
Lordships Concurrenes,
to assent to the same.
With reference to
No 4/4 of the
the Despatch No
2.2th of September, I am
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178
directed to state that thes
Estimate of
£1.031 for the
furniture of a fovemment
House Sitriated in an
Oriental Colony and at
to great a distance as
Stong hong, appears to the Leuke of
Newcastle moderate
and deserving of approval
on the nature
of the other
public works adverted to
in this secspatch it is difficult to form any precise judgment in this Country, but his Prace would be disposed to assent to them in reliance on the prudence and economical disposition which Sir George Bonham has displayed
in the
administration
of his foot
There remains the
179
question what should be
done with the surplus of £ 4.284, which the Loose
£44.
Government has at it's
Conner and as the Balance
remaining out of former Grants . The fovernor proposes not to reckon,
ih
amongst the available ways and means
of the
Colony, because it has
Arisen from
casual
Circumstances and is not
likely
hereafter,
to be maintained,
and consequently if
laken into account in
abotement of
of the Parly
Estimate this
^
ar in wa
year,
almost certainly entail
mcrease in the Estimate
are increas
of the following year.
The Burke of hermente
да
Conss. Shire
Disfrace would
harpe to adopt
4 out of
agrees with the fovernor that to take credit for the
whole of this surplus would be misleading by giving
an exaggerated view
productiveness
rof
of
of thres
The
the
Colonial Avenue. Daf
the whole surplus of 24,284
His pd proponen
the
to leave £ 1284 to be extended
on the furniture of bout House and on any
other
n demand,
unforeseen
and fd divide itre
remaining Balance of £3,000 into two equal portions,
of which one
portion
The be deduated from
the amount.
to
of the
Vote tatie asked from Parliament this year to £ 1500 shr
the remaining
be deducted from the Vote to be asked next year.
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Gov 11/21/53
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Sebenan 1854.
am directed
leopy to 5 of 18 Fetes the Puke of Newcastle,
while placing in your
hands Her Majesty's
by
Commission andunastination
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whor
Hong,
Jomen of Ning Ring to Explain to you
cral mawnes
General
You in a
the
principles on which it
2.
is the wish of Her Majesty's Government that the
Gorunment of that
Settlement should for
the future be conducted.
2. Her Majesty's Covernment have been
for
some time persuaded This The Civil Establishe
that
-mart of the Colony is larger. Than its
means would
justify
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or than it's probable im=
: portance for the prevent
requires
:
and that in
particular it is not
Expedient to maintain
a Governor on the scale
h
of
hither to adopted, and
also that
some in
Convenience
attends the combination
of
The duties
of
the
Offices actually administi.
-
ing the Government.
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at Hong Hong with Thom of the Seferintendent of
Prade in China, refacially
Considering
The amount
of labour which the
present state of affais
in China is
throw
likely to
the latter,
and his probably ferpent long continned
and.
absences from the Poland.
But
Pont it is simposible to
*
Sever the Office of Governor
of Gangstang from that
of Superintendent of Trade
to all intents and purposes,
unless Parliament should
repeal the provisions of
The Statules which at
present establish an au=
:thority for making Laws
and Ordinances for British Sulzeols in China - inasmuch The Legislatures of Hong
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6.
Hong
have only power
pas such Ordinances so
as the Governor of
long as
The Colony
is likewise Super =
:intendent of Prade
3. On account of
this reason
principally, it
has offenced necessary
lo
His Majesty's Government
that
Jon
should receive
this. Commision and to
Offer Con
The
lise
the Gornemment House
183
at Hong Kong together with
aching
The various incidents to
拿
the position of a Governor,
in combination with gour Office of Superintendent. It will also be recepsary
shouted previde
that you
For the Legislatione Council
выс
on all occasions
when
laws for the Government
of the Meijeit's alph
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8.
on Chira
-sideration.
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under con=
4. But it in
No means the wish
of
Her Majesty's Government
that
дого
should undertake
the administration
of
Civil affairs
The ordinary Civil 25 of the Colony
The Colony of Hong Hong, which they consider
tcould be more advantage.
-only performed by an
An
Officer in constant residence
The spot.
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5.
For this purpose
has been
Commission as Lient t Governor will be isoned
bbd
to Atos Caine, the present
Colonial Seratary, informing
Empower
him to administer The
Government in your
absence : and it will
be fully understood that Even during four prevence
The Soland,
will
:
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that
rely mainly Punctionary for the
performance of the ordinary
details of local Govern =
=ment.
quite
10
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An
bery
6. His Gear
Aware
that this
is
arangement of hunveeal kind.
It can only work in
a satisfactory way through a cordial con.
- Currence between yourself and the lient! Governor
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who, although not only formally but actually
Sour
subordinate, in all
1:
Cases
where
до gon maz
think it necessary for
Her Majesty's
Service to
interfere with his
arrange=
ments, must revathilifs
in
the practically left possesion of an amount
of independence and discretion far begond what could be requisite
if his functions amonted
12.
sely to the temporary Administration of the
Journment in your absence. It is the wish
of Her Majesty's Govern.
ment on the contrary
that he should be
=
the permanent Doministrator
Subijest to gone
Controul
Phone
occasional
Can
ro doubt that the
Success of such an
Experiment depends
the
on
Good understanding
be
13. 186 3
and mutual forbearance
of those who are concerned
ni
Carrying
it out, and
Her Majesty's Government
Co.
fully rely on your co
- operation for that purpose.
2.
It
is not
intended that any salary
from the
Levenue
of
the
deland or the Parliamenting
Istionate should henceforth
be paid to the Governor whose functions
Circumscribed.
Are
this
14.
to
8. It is proposed
En creave
исп
of Majan
The salary Caine from
£ 1,800 which be at
present sujogo the
Encrease
4 £2,000,
to commence
from the date of your arrival in the Colony .
9. It is farther
proposed that M.
Je Castro, the first
trilst in Major Caine's
assistant
si
Office shall be promoted
to the Office of Colonial
>
As
187
16.
The
Serclang. De reduced scale of adminis.
:tration which it is proponed
to adopt at Hong Kong
many of the functions
Dbol
now performed by illeger Caine will, probably, be
still excrcised by himself character of
in his
hew
dient! Governor, it is
farther considered that
the new Colonial Secretag will be sufficiently
:
&c =
- suunerated by a salary
t
16.
188
an encrease
of £700. being of £225 on his present
emoluments. He will
nest for the prevent (walifs
reason
should be shown
for altering this determi=
: nation) have
67
seat
in The Excentive Council,
nor will he have precedence
over
A.
The present
Treasures. Ant as this park die
Peavarev
till receive a Commifion
accordingly
10. It is not proposed
doynel consider that this
haspored for the promotion If I de Carbo canth canicd into execution untit
you have consulted, with dir
Z. Cel J. Dowham 2 Anis ast tal puulleman's filmife heit, & whocks to thi drpartment anoringg.
for the present to make
farther change in
any
The Civil Administration, although any
That
maz
be proposed by the Author.
The spot
:ities
071
rendered necessary
as
or 4x:
- padient by the present
arrangements, will receive His Grace's full
-sideration.
Con =
I ham, sti:
have
(argued) J. Feel
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Governor Bonham
M. Merivale W. Pied
Newcastle
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February 1854.
I kansmit to you
copy of a letter which I
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caused to be
home
han addessed to Sie sahn
A
John
Penning, who is on the point of departing to
relieve you Son
in the Jone
mant of Imething, Hongkong,
on the subject of the
alterations which it has
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seemed Expedient to Her Majesty's Covernment
to make in the Civil
Sdoministration of that
Settlement.
2.
They
will, however
glad to avail themselves
of any suggestions which
Come abilities and sa.
sperience may
Jon.
to make
rnable
on cour
return from the Govern.
So
190
which you have
ment, whi
lone
administered
to the satisfaction of
My Pudensers as well
As
десе
inguelf,
ат
in order to
Effect any further imfrom.
modifications.
: ments
I have, ali.
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W. Merivale M. Peel
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18. Schnary 1854.
I am directed by
the Bake of Mourearth to
transmit to you, for the
order to explain to those information of the Lords
Whom it concern what
Las her settled about
Hory koy. There is no
Feas
Commissioners of the Juncery,
copy
tion to consult the dearly, a letter which die Gram-
a Commision te Happt. Colored?) Caines will be
15 Bel/54.
See 10.066 as to do DeCastro.
caused to be
has addused to Sir. f.
Bowning.
his
approach =
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: sing departure to assume
ни
The Government of Hong Kang, and to repress
his
regret that the
Angency of the case
rendered it imposible
:
for him &
Communicate
Earlier with this Lordships
Eis proting
Sheve
Suggestions.
*
which (the result being moing of about
R
£2,500 on the Parlin.
- Mentary Estimal ) Le
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192
presumes they will see
ro reason to disapprove.
I have, ster
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W Peel
193
Comerfonston
In smiths to pir directions
on one point of importance when Witthing the police fomentent of
Story Kozy : namely, the mode of
conducting coverpontiace.
Sec
four minute on hall of 25 Fe.!."
I suppore, 1. our
our defather
must I adduped dirally to for.
Bontam. 2.
De Sical for. must
open them of
haukhrized to cones, hand
Jeen thein
für Ses 1. Bowrin
светь рет
Lavad
dirctly with
ил
But the
chicf difficulty is this: when
:
is on
The island,
Sir J. Bonning in he to read the infather written by the L. for. Sehne Keir transmission here, & if so is he
to add remarks of his own, as
A
West Jadia forense
don an
transmitting infaller of
Lieut.
Frumos? I think the intention
h
to him shaved t to confine his
swhich
own cheuation. to subjects connected
with the Richay, a
an
Superinhainnt, of
his duties
which here
will as foubt to me
The Lotthon.
many.
Am the 13
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course is but
2
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Sir John Bowrong. Fir
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In
307arch /54
fiving for instructions
for the manau in
which the forcement of
25
Story Kony
42
in future
Duke Murrastle 30.
See Mr Peels Minute
with Gov. 1894./53.
to be conducted, Tomitet to lay down any
respecting
whe
the content of
cover fondence Whown.
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the Sest. & Hache
trel faustart..
么
All desfalt. Form
Mh. Ser is State, whether
the subject connected
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or with the
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addrefer to far from the
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department will b
ached on, and
Rened, ached on врежд
Witte
ausweet, by the Lieut.
for. if they white to the
assein of Hong Kong. a resend for ganself only in case they differe
to concern this ulching
with China.
Whene que are fancel The island Hey all
desfalter with of
Gues
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opened by
196
gwell, but go with
Land
Mr
to the Lieut.
for. Ure which aleti to
the assain of Hoy Kony only. He will deal with them, ash 21
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will submit bis ammer
to gemelf with hinte
It is howen Я
instance.
not my
wish that
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You shoul's rathe Bcushions
add
a gan
any
Own
6 Nove
disfather,
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concern
yourself with therm
1
farther than by reading
& transmitty kon here, welch in gon Spinion they has in any degre
delicte commut
on
with the Superin hadlang
Дал, а ковр
ther
or
see my shoy
на
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you
reason
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Gov. 11131.3, dong Kong. Dry 1261
N27. Ent
In ! Bowring.
Mr Elliot
fr Merival.
Mr. Peel
Duke Jeterorable
9. ។
10.
In purmenes of
the separate Mainte
March
attached to these dracht,
众
it is issued
i th
he sparting for the
Senuel mh.
prosent sketch of th
Despatel Name the
ворачи
-
offier of with. De – (arch
is maintained bean
Jalary of £250 Saber
VZ
mintind of # 300.
to F7 144 March
approve 27
my
Sir.
D. S
197
10 March 1854.
о
I have had under
consideration In G. Borham's
گفت
Despatches A: 78 and 4/4 of
the 20th
And 22 d.
last, the first
of September
of
oben
kanonnetting an estimate
of the Revenue & Coxpenditur,
of the Colony for
185441
the
year
and the second
enclosing the accounts of
the Coll
Colony for the
which ended
of
March 1853.
year
on the 3,0
Naving consulter.
on the subject
of
chime
despotokes with the Lords
a
of the reasury,
have to co
@o uvey
iny approval
may
of
to you
the
I
198
i
expenditure for 1884 as
Contained in Sir G. Bonhams
Despatch My 3 of the 20th of September. I shall be
glad homever before choo
outlay
co
incurred on-
the furniture of the
Government House, to
receive a Report from
You
how for you
Consider that it is
necessary
£1032
for
The sum of
chis service
dow not appear in
itself immoderate, but
the necessity of
che
outlay must parity
depens
on the d
which you say
adopt respecting the
occupation of the fort
4
Course Whine gun
haz take риз
Hause, on which shan understand that you
Castext wo
stare bustion
Should the fumitin
be procured, it will be
proper cleat
arr
Item
should be duly introduced
next
into the local Estimates
included
in the Colony and sopprepid in thee stopchencheriation Ordinance,
caking credit on the other
hand
among
and means
the
warp
of
the Colony.
for
an equal
amount
of
the Balance in hand
reported by Liv G. Bonham_
Having thirs
sanctioned the proposed
expenditure for 1857, the
rext subject to which I have to proceed is the amount and description
of the Estimate to be
Submitted
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1
199
submitted to Parliament.
In ii George Bonhams
13 he arr
:
す
Sleepatch to
No 4/3
arriver
÷
!
at the conclusion that
the and required from. Parliament will be £5,500.
But from this sum
large deduction now
a
has to be made, on account
of
the
на
o difications in
providing for the fernctions
of Governor explained
in
under
a letter from my Secretary to you datea
the 16th
of Schruary last,
the fovernors Salary of
£3000 is to be struck off
from the Estimate. The
Salary attached to the office
affics of
Aide de-camp
is no longer considered necessary and the item of Esas for this salary
444
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redensed from
300 to £250.
in the other hand I Licilimand
Geremer wil Save Excan a сий
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aveling
arr
On the other hand
£200 is. to
addition
be made
of
of
to the Salary
the Lint fovernor, and £225 to be Salary of
largely 200 the officer who
Man Has Whinn
he recessid as
Cohmalen Cany,
and an uncrinar
17225 with Incor both print
L
Afectant in be
Affein, M. de
Wi de Cactio
is henceforward
to perform the duties of At
result
of
Changes
Lacallany. The chose different.
will be a net
Saving of £2625. Instead therefore. of £ 8.500, the aid required.. from Parlament: is chus reduced to £ 5875. Birt then it appears
by Sir G. Bonhams ceupart to 4/4 of the 22% of Sept: that there is a surplus
effe Char faormally of Queen
£4284 at the command
the proposal whics of the fovernment and
Man madh portin
proaction Whis offer
of 60t. Kentang
to appropriated; or
excluding
the sum of £1,032 which
In my possibly be
required
for the furniture of
1
the
for .
L
200
Government House, there
will still remain
ar
available balance of
£3252. I consider it
humec
necesary therefore that
Parliament should be
asked to vote the whole
of
The above mentioned
sum of
E3605, and looking
£3625,
to the present circunistina
of
The Colomy
I chunk
that the time has come
whe. the application
ti Parliament should
be limited to b
a provisions
for the salaries of caree
(
four of
officers of
the principal.
the Colonist
Government. In accordance
with these views the
Estimate which will be
proposed to Parliament.
for the financial ending the 310t of march 1855 will consist of che following stems alone
Leit Governor Ressurer
Polonial Sect
Surveyor beneral
£2.000.
70-0
you
800
€4.400
It will be for th
Local government to
defray
avit
Colonial
of Colo
resources the whole
remaining expenditure of the Colony
Chau&
Dogh to the breasing
!
-
Сору. N.4.
Colonial Treasury
201
Victoria, Honghong,
7th September, 1853
Sir.
1.2.. here with
my
Account
I have the hour to forward
for
the
financial year ended 31th March p.3. last, accompanied by the Certifiente
of the Board appointed to survey
N. 4.
Auonies remaining
April last.
on
the
hard, the 12t
The Account shows that the
Revenue during the year amounted
The Houmable
Lieutenant-Colonel Caine, Colonish Secretary-
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2.
202
to £23,432, 13.5% and the hopenditure here and in England to £34,740.18.2% while from the accounts with the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury it will
Balance of
in the hands
appear
that
a
20,570 -4.1/4 remained p.5.
the Treamer and
of the
the Agent in London, available for
Colonial purposes
But of this Balance provision is to be made for certain Public Works progress, and for arrears the
now in
an actual
by the Colony to the extent of £16,286.4.1/4, thus leaving available Balance of £ 4,254, to be Nd. brought forward in the retinate for 1854, now under preparation.
D
To
show His Excellency as clearly
possible how this large surplus
arises, I prepared the cncloud 197. Comparative Staterment of the
retimated and actual hypenditure, &.,
during the last four years: the result is: Balance of 1th April 1849 € 17.3.2% Saving effected on the retinated
- Expenditure during these four years ____ 9,757. 4. 2
£9,774.7 - 4/14
From which deduct the immounts
Less
granted by Parliament than betinated, in consequence of the reduced demands made by H. M. Secretary State for the Colonies
of
£2065.7.11
retimated Surplus on /49, pril, 1852. 2530.-.- /4harit,
Amount short drawn on Grants.
Seficieney on the Retimated Revenue
for the four years
#
46.2.7
848.16.8%
5490.7.474
Matting a lurpens on the fuely 4284.-.-
The principal iterns on which
I
!
4
Savings
have been effected
are as
N.8.
per Enclosure:
On Salaries
Me allowances
in Office Contingencies
1441.18,5
45.19.6
820.18.1 ie.
On Retablishments _ ± 2,308.16. - bring
in Comequence & reductions made. in 1849, and the strict cconomy enforced in every department: further on the Contingent expenses of Police and Farts also chiply in consequence of the
alterations made in 1849
In Transport
On Public Works, for particulars,see Înciraures
In three different items
1847.12m 109/4
:
#
677% 9.7
5,184 10.0% 597.13.32
M9+10.
Being Total Jarings – £10,618.1.10
Less the increase of Expenditure on the Estimated amount for 6 items, being of a nature for which no provision could be made, when the retimates were under preparation
#1
858.17.8
Matting the nett Saving on biyenditure_ 9757.4.2
The principale item is
for
Public
Maks.
£5, 184. 10.04% as above stated;
203
some of there Works, I believe, His Excellenes found could be dispensed with, and others were excented below the Estimated Crt.
In the retinate for 1854 the
surplus might be brought forward, and the vote, that may be required
on Parliament for
from
the ensuing year,
amount.
the Service of
ледисей
by
that
I would again bring to His
Excellency's notice that as
yet
accounts have been received
Fittings, &c., of the new
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the
46., If the new Government House or for those provided from
England for the Government offices; !
if there accounts could be obtained,
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the amounts might be paid here
at once into the Commissariat Thest.
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however all draw
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your
:ttention to the fact that no provision has been made, either in
the betimate or out of the Surpius,
u
be
may Government
for the Furniture that required for the
new
House; if therefore, His Excellency should think fit to recommand the deduction of the surplus from the Grant required from Parliament for the ensuing year, it would be advisable to redrice that surring
by ₤1000, for by a memorandum by the Surveyor General, the
of part of the Furniture
Cost of part
Nell.
is estimated at £ 1031.16.-.
I have Ac.
204
(Signed) W. T. Mercer,
Colonial Treasurer.
(True Copy)
こ
Conial Secretary
tary
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Despatch N. 74 of 1853–
Inclosure N/ in
That
FMonghiong
(0)
Year from st April 135240 347. March 1853.. Account of the Mongrable. W... Mercer Esquire Volonial Secasuer of Hongkong
205
in respect to all Monits received and paid f account of the colonial bovernment, Her Majesty's Diplomation
Department and Consulates in China from 42 April 1852 to 34? March 1053
Walance brought forward on 1. " April 1852,
from: last Gear Account 30,936 62
Receipts
Land Revenue)
Rent exclusive of land_
Lizensis.
Taxes.
:
12
Salaries
Fixed Provisional Establishment Temporary
Allowances
Office
Contingene.
Total
d..
Establishments 21,133 16163763 4:10 12 10.400 62|25,509 17.5
¡
10,765 5344 4,935 168 522166
Pensions, Retired allowances, and Gratuities
3 19:
Revenue Services, exclusive of Establishments - Administration of Justice
128 410
do
111 2.472
2,468 69
Hospitals
do
Police and Boots
Baols.
di
Bent
Fines, Fees and Forfeitures of Courts — 1,169 13 45
Fees of Offices.
Sute of Government Property; Reimbursements in aid of Expenses
incurred by
Lovernment-
Miscellaneous Receipts
Special Receipts.
Total Salonal Revenue Parliamentary Grants, viz
for Colonial Services for 1852/55
Consular Serviers
Consular Services
Deposits available.
de not available.
15
1,208
100 126
518 18 5%
1 194
Transport
Conveyance of Mails - Works and Buildings,
Roads, streets and Bridges Special Expenses...
Votal Celonial Expenditure_..
Superintendent of Trade
25 108/2
23415
25,500
9,500 | - |-
Consular Services
Deposits Gvailabler
33,000
1815
4626
4
1,836 12 10
92,233 1734
do not available.
220 3.42
1,116 10.971⁄2 1,067 14 118: 1:10 17484 3,638 1b, b 5538 I 30 8 b
32.672 1/2
£ 8,842.45.A
-18,429. b. 6 27,242
285 3,510|10|52
برگر
Balance in 31th March 1253. Rublic Merry A 20,651.1h. 371⁄2
Deposits — — 7,872.
-7,872.344 22,523 1h 72
f
92,833 17 374
William Thomas Mercer de solemnly and sincerely declare that the foregoing is a true and correct statiment of my beccount as Colonial Treasurer of Chonghong from the first of April 1852, to the 34th March 1953, and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously beliving the same to the correct
Declared and subscribed before.
me this 20th June 1883-
That
1404 Chunky
Letter
From
the Colonial
31th March 1853, and remarking
for the Financial Sear ending
Treasurer inclosing his recounts
thereon.
75 September, 1853.
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Troceedings of a Board of Surrey held at the beat Samy of Hongliong this, the first day of April 1853, pursuant to order of This Oscilli ney the Acling Governor.
The Honorable Colonel #Caine
Nembers. The Honorable Will. Th. Mercer Exquire
chas St George Cleverly. Jequired.
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Lx 90 av A having carefully clammind thecast, beries wishing tist's Faure Quots faunt the dance le bas follas, viz Board
In the Treasurers Chest_
In the Arong Nault. 2 Totals.....
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Herling
Cash pottan Coins Total
Aupes. Cash
50/% 18,852. 219 4. 6. 3104 13.7/3.3570. 3.0. 3778/4 1.566 51714. 06 13833 6 17 24953 13.4 3.83242 20.418. 53.908 73 10.937.19 9 28,523.10.
Pands.
Amounting twentyuightthousandfwehundreddunty three Saunas 16' 7ya,
Vetoria Anything April the first 1853.
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Detail of the Account
of
The Stonorable W. T. Mercer, heopt, Colonial Treasurer of Hongkong.
For the Year 1852/53.
207208
Abstract of the Revenue of the Colony of Houghtong
t
for the year from 1th April 1852, to the 31th March, 1853.
Land Revenue sprit st
1
Pent speluzive of Land.
Licences.
recovered by the
Total.
Received at Hong Kong urgent in London
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کد
.
10,765 5 3/4
0.
£.
J
10.785 5 5/4
1935168
1935 168
5221 66
5331 6.6
246889
1,169 13 472
3468 69
1169:13.4/2
Jayes
Fines, Forfeitures and Fees of Courts Fees of Offices.
Sale of Government Property Reimbursements in Aid of
hxpenses incurred by Government..
Miscellaneous Receipts.
Special Receipts.
Total
1,308 044
100.136
5/8 18 5/2
!
119
194
35 10 8/42 17.3 6
1308 0 Wh
100136
518 18 5/2
1194
43.14.3/2
23,415 9 1172 173 6 93,433,13 54
1114
The Aid by Grant of Parliament for the Civil Government of the Colony
for
the Year 1853/53 is £ 12,000.
of which has been drawn in Augland £2,500
ting trong 2500
l
2.
Colonial Riccipts Houghtong-
Kind Revenue
ナ
-
Revenue Detailed
Sonce cand for building purposes in "Tctoria —
Jo
__Cultivation
Land not feared
go
St?
from Villages and squatters
Depozit, paid by Purchasers of Zind Priming &
Fees M
お
on Grant of Laus
Sent exclusive of Land
Government Markets
90 Buildings
Licenses Opium retailers
Falt wrighing Stone quarrying
Sprit Scalers ""Retailers
Pawnbrokers
Auctioneers
Billind Tables
+
4
Keepers of Boarding Ances for Seamen
Tayes.
£ 14.1.6
Police Assessment Balance on hecmnt of 1852
go
Fines, Fees, and Forfeitures of Counts
Fines
Fecs
For feitures.
viz
57.14.0
10,434| 14 |53%
71.156
337 99%
5 $2
41 34
>.
17 14 2 10,765 5 5%
1,555 4 2
380 12 6 1935 16 8
| 1593150
773 92
1870 190 65550
156 50 41|13| 4
13000 522/66
Colonial Receipts. Houghong-
Revenue Detailed.
J
209
£.
J.
Brought forward 21,560 86%
Fees of Offices.
On Marriages_
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Burials
Registration of Brats and Bourkers.
Hawkers
Official Signatures
Registration of Deed
Sailing Letters and Pusses
Shipping Seamen
Sale of Gon niment Property.
Proceeds from Sale of Premices on J. Fot. 1977
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4 Packing Cases
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54449.6
£ 10.13.5
653
715 16 81⁄2 56176
89118
28012 6 130804%
100
13 6
100136
Reimbursements in iid of responses incurred by Government
Sick Stoppages from Police Constables
For the maintenance of Rumors confined in baol at the request
of Consuls and others
Salary paid to Dr Bouring I. E. J. from /Stipril to 30% have 1952 375
75 13 412
56 7
Loz of Police Equipment,
87
¦
Printed Shipping Forns soid
Wages not claimed
296
0
10
518 18 5/2
1353
206669
402
2,468 69
-Miscellaneous Receipts
Perpayments made - ricovered
416 3 8/2
Special Receipts.
730 17 02
32
33 13 72 4/69 13 4% Drawback on Stationery Shipped-
ut
Superannuation Contribution of Police Ince
2510 81/2
83
Amount recovered by the ligent from the ..Amiralty
43 14 3/2
£681.4.8
From Supreme Court
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Chief Magistrate, Marine Magistrate
and Court of Petty Jessims. Superintendent of Police, Justice:
the Pence and others
F
407.16.8%2
#
100.12..
Carried forward __ £ 21560 86%
Total £ 23.452 13 52
23,433
Receipts Exclusive of Revenue. Aonghong.
Receipts on decrct of the Grants of the Imperial Parliament,
account
In China
from the
In England from 'the
Commissariat Chest Paymaster Seneral
£.
J. J.
£
Total
£.
+
2.
Ibrtinct of the Expenditure of the Colonial Sovrument
210
of
Hong Kong for the year from 14 April, 1852, to the 31oa March, 1858.
Prid at the Treasury in Dong Hong
Jalaries.
Provcimal Alowances
ffice
Memances Contingencies tai
Fired
Establishment and Temporary
£.
|"
£.
✓ ). £.). £.
Establishments
Find
in London by
the
Agent General
Total.
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土
5
On Remunt of the Colow for 1852/53 9500
An Neerut of Her Majesty's Superintendimen
In
of Trade and Consulates in China
Total
25500.
3300
12000
list Kumon 25,500
35,000 2500 37,500
(Signed) W. T. Mcreer,
(True Espy)
чис
Colonial Treasurer.
nial Scenetary-
nts 21/35/6
2/133 16 42 3763 4 10 12 10 $785 4 10 12 10
6
£.
600 5 2 25509 17 5 159917 8 27/09 151
Bucions, Retired Allowances and Gratuities. Parema Simas, helaine & litabichments
Amministration of Justice &
Arapitals
Price and Jars Pent
Transport
Conveyance of Mail's Wites and Buildings.
to
if
Roads, Streets and Bridges
Jecial Sxpenses
Total
319
9
13
128
11/24/1
128 1 10
3.42
220 341 109 13 9
1/16 10 9/2 347 3.11 1.0671 6
1/8/10
17484 3638183
55388
3083
329 17 12 129/17/2
1.433 148%2
1,067.16
118110
17484
3,638 163
553:8
88
3086
39.673 0 172 3,068 18 / 34.740.18 3/2
The Amount paid in England under the hand of Retablishments convicts
¥ 15/30.2 Jalaries_ viž: -
• 1⁄2
Colonial sceretury's Retablishment. 2'111. 7.6
Harbour Masters- Indicial
Miec
87. 17. & Office Contingencies- viz.
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Colonial Keretary_± 3.7.1
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200/2.3.
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Expenditure of Hongkong paid during the Year 1852/55
Civil.
The Governo
Governo
retablishments Detailed.
Raisional
Fired Establishment and Terrorary
£. J. 2. £
2.
211
Potai
£
41
Salaries.
14is breellency from 3/4th March 1852 to
30 Aune 150 at3000 £ 758.1.3
from thanly
.. 1500. 933.0.9
- 3/4th Marel 1852 to
20th February 1853 @ € 1500... (442 0.7 3/33 2
N.B. £375 prid is Jalary of Her
Majesty's Chief Superintendent
d
of Frade for une quarter, 550
have been recovered and brought
to ûccount under reimbursements.
Fid de Carnr
300
For rradore
3210
Shroff
Priter
浓
4. Messengers
Cardener'
25
20
57
12\/0
Scavenger
1210
3433 2 7/53 10
3585 12 7
Contingencies
Laurie's Exchange Tables
4118
Couls
37 10
4218
3627 14 3
5
:
Colonial Expenditure - Houghtong-
Establishments Detailed-
The Colonial Secretary-
Jalaries.
Colonial Secretary and auditor Scueral
Cliet Clerk
مو
320 Do in Hong Kong Donghong
Fized
Establierment
£.
Provisional and
Temporary
2.
土
Total..
Auditor
£.
Colonial Expenditure - Houghtong-
Establishments Detailed
Fired Establishments
Provisional and Temporary.
£. J. 2.
212
Total.
£.
£.
J.
7.
Jalaries.
Auditor General (the Colonial Seeutary}
1800
Clerk
300
300
47210 270
Contingenei
Stationery from England
8410 5
178.10.9
ông trong
122
#
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De Arrears
64.9.3 46.18.3
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#
go
289 18 3 216
Printing, Publishing and Keurpapers
Furniture
3048 83
3048 8 3
Incidental Expenses
96126 194138 1.41
117
Contingencies
Printing, Publiching. Peuzrapers, to.
Stationery and Book binding
Patari
Furnitu..
meidenta Spences
2948
59480
57
Clerk of Council's
4.5
Jalarico.
Clerk of Councils
99 19 11/2
99 19 1172
in
England - Acts of Pariament Postage
Fumiture
// 2 16 1
377
882 4
3/36 10 7
Treasurer.
Salaries.
Peazmer
114 Clerk
900 405
12m 9:
312 10
50
و تیائی
250
1867 10
50
1917 10
Contingencies
Publicking
Stationer
Postage
Incidental Spenses
7163
5184 5 511614
22 15/1
11107
8415 3
1940 511
Contingencies
Printing Publishing and Newspapers
Incidental Expenses
Jurveyn Jeneral.
Jalaries.
Surveyor Sonerat
Clerk: 1 Year and 15 days to 15 Ellarch inclusive
3 Surveying Coolies
chinese Overseer of
Ponds
Office Coolie
Allowance.
To overseer of Ponds for Keep of Dorse
Contingencies.
Avertising, Publishing and Printing
Corying chart and Plans
Furniture
Stationery
Reidental Expenses
184
315
2
63134
163 13 3/2
800
3/2/
97
2826
976
2825
326
976
1,133 195
65 12 8 1/99 //
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$ 17 9911 239 218 9 5110
1210
28114
1,340 13 3
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1/0
Colonial Expenditure - HongKong -
Establishments Detailed.
Regietian Seneral,
Jalaries
Fined Establishments
£.
7
Provisional and Temporary.
Total.
£. J. 2. £,
Jualsiai ustakishment
Salaries
Thick
Officiating Registrar Soneral, the Sup of Price)
elisk
custice drawn in ingiand
Chinen Clerk
Constabic
Printing
1 Boat number
Stationery
242/28
35/ 7
376
Ang Kme
28/19
Contingeneics,
68 168
8196/2
1026
10262914 3
Depute Requitiar
Attorney General Registrar
Colonial Appenditure Houghtong.
-
Establishments Detailed.
اور
Fle Establishments
Provisioni and Bunorary.
E.
1125
1,887 12 10 3,012 12 10 1.49919 11:2
sob 9
350
£
213
Fri.
£.
2.
clark to the chief d'ustice
298
13
Enterrreter
25 12 72
Usher and Bailiff.
318 18 10/2
Mohammedan Jucarii
Harbour Master.
Jalaries
Marlma Master in Hong Kong
paid in England_
£170.16.8. being arrears.)
12= clerk
12_
Indian Interpreter
Eurorean Cohitabic
Chinese clerk and Shrott
Under Bailiff
695168
75
7700
770188
14
13 Mesengers -
3
3710
973
/
go
Ten Chinese Boatruen
Shroff.
Sidiniu Interarater (addition from 185 tons).
Stationery
Contingencies.
Purchase and repair of Boats 12h for famps and Landing Races Petty Repairs to offices
Marriage Registran
Calaries. The Registrar
Plice Rate Asscerns and Collectors.
Sub Coliccton
Shroff
dalaries.
Contingencies - Stationery
47 16 11 inuentional.
4315
2826
b
4615
103768
3212 6
65
13815
7510
3 12 //
7505 13/27
189 346 5%2
Contingencies
Printing Advertising and Kuzpapers
Kationeu
Patap
Jacitental impenses
reclesiastical_
84766,27618
12194 1084 S4 2/1
28 18 11
630507
Jalaries
chaplain
799 34
نانيات
1017
11 7 11 868
scuton
54 19 9/2
Burini Fround Keepers
60
25
1367 6 10/2
72934
495
9517
82504
82504
13 10
35 8 11
167
15 12
46
917
28
6
8,191 14 2
Salaries.
5 Chinese secool masters
11531
47 78%2 401
Contingencies
429
8778/2 429
heidental trensis
1.105
115 37
110
115 136
91 10 5/2
Medical
Jalaries
Colonial Surgeon
Nice enger
Jospital
Zalaries.
Dupener
Cook
Coolie
Colonial Expenditure - Hong Kong.
Establishments actailed-
Fired Establishment
£.
Rovisional and Temporary
Ptal
2.
£
£.
600
12 10
600
12 10
6/3 100.
75
15
Sheriff from /22 March 1953 to
cuiln
Assistant cailor
Turnkey...
• dicistant Turnkey
16 Indian Constables
Headman
8. Indian Guard
/ Chinese Guard
/ Feruale Turnkey
March, 153
Colonial Expenditure -- Aug Kong -
Retablishments Detailed.
Sheriff
Jalaries
Rovisional and h1%, Tempmary
£.
J. 2.
Ital
र्ट,
214
Fixed retablishments
£.
J.
2.
645 3
3/
2
93 15
710
2210
3971⁄2
323
6
4/2 22/4
713
9
ang mg
+
38
116
10
3
دا
15
Steward
Police including Sari:.
Jatarics
Chief Magistrate {
in Engiand
Severni Interpreter
20018 798 7 9990
4
100
23368
14 Clerk of Police Court and Court of Petty Sessions 300
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Interpreter, chinese
2nd g
European Usher
Indian
Chinese
お
J
125
41 34
35
4
2119
25
55.6
18 15
11 5 2/
3
32
32
10
105
25
130
/ additional Jurn Key
5
15
Contingencies
Chinese Clevk
Chief Magistrates berly Messenger
Office Coolie
Mohammedan Priest
Contingencies
Avertions, Rinting, and teuzpapers
Stationery
Furniture
Incidentai rypenses Petty Repairs to offices
تانا
8
1,855 18 11 467 15 9 2/23/28
5154 676
2 // //
3 13 8 /17/
2056
2/43 18 2
-Hvertising
Juperintendent of Price
Jalaries.
Superintendent of Police
Assistant to
Deputy Inspector
500
52
100
75
Cat £2,489. 10. 11⁄2 viz: -
629 19 3 1859 10|10/%2
Price Free estimated at ±2,620 actual
783/3 437 3 8/220410
43738
[
10592
1059/2
1230 10 7/2
1356 19 3 1859 10 10 3,216 10 1/2
Contingencies
thertising Stationer
"Cutting "Blocks "Minting in Chinese". Plans.
5 3
3/5 4
32205 5/2
14 ·
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The Governon Colonial Secretary
Treasurer Auditor Clerk of Councils. Surveyor Seneral Registrar General
Recapitulation of
the
foregoing
Retablishments_
Paid as per foregoing detail in Houghong.
Jalaries
Fixed- Establishments
£ .
J.
433 2,937 186710
300
99 19 11/2 1133 19
2811
Provisional-and Temporary
£. J. 2.
15210
215
Total
offiec
Total
Pail in London
Jalaries
Fined office Establishments intingencie:
Total
paid in London.
£.
7.
£. J.J.
#.
2.
£
1.
Howances Contingencies
£. J.
£.
3327/4 3 302115
415
22/5 20917 7
763
1940511
509177
6313 4
183 13 3/2
65 12
28/14
1240 13 3
25 7/2
316 16 10/2
54
4/1994 1992 3 10%2
75
4716 11
4
9/105/2
962 38 275
1210
362714 3
1/4/4 7 3/36107
10
1940 5 5948
163 13 32 1240 13 3
316 16 101/2
13876 102
47 18 11 91 105/2
11027 // 1/2 876 0 0/2 12 10 0 536 10 3/2,252 11 5 186 76 87 176 274501252616
3,595 48 0764 10 32
#
28/8 11 5,180071/25
1/25
630507 82504 31210
130
115 13
6594/43
Harbour Master
Marriage Registrar
35
Plice Rate Crileetns.
877
Total Civil /1027 11 11⁄2
Judicial Establishment
508814
417
Ecclesiastical
Medical
729 3 800
95
/2
D. Inspital
130
Educational
Police and Sares
53
8250 61210
100
130 115138
34,67% 6,3941 7 200/2
200 8
Total 21,133 16 42 3783 4 10 12 10 0 600 6 22 25509
25,50917 5/5/202
61599
827109 151
Police Rates.
Colonial Expenditure - Hong Kong
12. Pensions, Retired Allowances and Gratuities.
5. Mt Suitters, from 1th July 1851 to $5 Febuary 1852. Reward to Price Sirgeant. M. Jim for praisewntry exertions at a Fire
216
12 2 7
3 19
Total £ 16 19
P3. Revenue Services, exclusive of Retablishments.
Remuneration to the Asserrow and Collectors of Police Pates, being
5% on the grous amount of Collection, make on account of the year 1852. 1/3 14 hypences incurred when collecting Rates at the Villages,
Imployment of a Constable. @ £1.5.0 per mouth
3 6 8
2100
119 11 3
Commission, to the boremment Auctioner for the Jule of Licenses Incidental hypenses incured by the Regietrar. Concral. Collecting
Sale
-
7 18 1
Rents round the Island
106
Total £ 128 / 10
:
N=4. Administration of Justice, exclusive of stablishments
Expences of Witneeres detained to give bridence in Criminal cases.
#1.
#
Interpreters in Supreme and Police Courts
Inquests
Criminal Punishments
64 15 3/2
6
17
б
140
17190
Supreme Court
Total L.
20168
/// 24/2
for Defence of Prisoners at the Criminal Sizcions of the
45. Ecclesiastical, exclusion of retablishments.
F
18.
Colonial Expenditure- Houghong.
16. Charitable Allowances
J
Nil.
- 127. Education, exclusion of retablishments.
Fil.
E
1
128. Arapital, exclusive of hetablishments.
Rovisions for Patients
• Medical Comforts, Wine, to.
Medicines
Bedding to Light and Fuel
Incidental Expenses
P.9. Police and Gaols.
Police
Girols.
{ clothing and Accoutrements
Veterinary articles Forage
Oil for lanterns and lasups, Purchase and Repair of Boats.
Compensation for Rations to Auropean Police. Face
Ammunition
meidental happenses Clothing Materials from England
Provisions
bil
Bedding
Fetters and Tools
Incidental Sapenses Treadmill
157511⁄2
28 12/1
109 13 9
(4
Colonial hypenditure- Houghong-
N:10. Rent.
Civil
h
Residence of His Excelleney the Governor, Arrears
Hospital
217
19.
62100
for 13 Mouths to 31th March
15650 625 78150
Gov.rument. Civil. Ampital.
1208.6.6
b b
22366
Police
Central Police Station.
Police Station at Showkewan
15 3 10 1916
Neill. Transport.
Total £ 3.29 17 11/6
597 18 4/2
39113 388 12 1517 304 8/2
7564/2 9139 33 18 11/2 7033/2 1612 3 143 175%2
5156 41 136 3298
72626
18 23 737 12 2/2
#
15.0.0 223 66
Total £1067/ б
Conveyance of 18 Convicts f: /ir Edward Ryan to lingapore 112 10 0
Prisoners from Whanpon
ope
• a Prisoner to Marcas, including expenses incured
for the Police conveying kinu
Bont hire for School committe going visiting the Schools at the Villages.
4./2. Conveyance of Mails.
160
4118
117178
42
Total £1181 10
To the Houghing and Canton Steam Picket Company
for Keeping up the Communication between the two plaew. 174 8 4
Total £17484
Total Police and Gaols £ 1463 14 8/2
DA
Repairs
20.
Colonial Expenditure - Houghtong-
P./3. Works and Buildings.
New.
Government House under Peport and Estimate P1 of :848
Amounting to...
of which remained available. /#4axpril 952
Expended in 1852/53
Remains available
Jebtors' Prison, Gaoler's and Guard Houses, te.
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£ 14940 7 7
#
13,498 12 2
3,061 139 3061 13 9
10,436 18 5
Report and retimate 1950f/951 1796 197
(exclusive of £413 for Treadwheel honce and supply of water)
the original Estimate amounting to £2,530.
Roads.
Colonial Expenditure - Hougtong-
1:14. Roads Stricts and Bridges.
· from North Point to Quary Bay, Report and Retinate P3 of
1851, Balance on the tril 1952.
the quil
Paid in 1852/53
rs t-
A
34 5
2319
Juring effected I
106
63
Caine Road to join Aberdeen Rood, Report and Estimate 1o 2
23
1851, Balance
Paid
₤28511
24 196
24 196
Jaring
16:5
Expended in $52,53.
2
Pemains available
387 10 3 387 10 3 1.409 94
Tagstaff at the Residence His breelliner The Reting Governor
18 13:4
To Court Stouse
Government frices
Snow
Guard Houses
#
#
Harbour Master's Pier
Police Stations
Flagstaff at Government offices Governors Residence
Harbour Masters Residence and Office
Chief Justices Residence
Magistracy
Lite In Government House Enslements for Burial Ground Enlarging the Sallows
(Protecting Furniture at Government House
119
15 15 10
6 12 4
1
6119
7/2
48 68
9174
219 4 105 10
300
1187 14136
5
20168 6789
Planting Trees-
Stone Steps. Lower Bazaar
Sinting Wells.
Boundary Marks
Implements for Convicts employed on Roads Repairs &c. to Road from Allary Gotrons to Quarry Bay
Drains in the Cite & Victoria
Bridges.
Stone arch to Brides Werder Bood
Itone Arche: to ther Bridges on loads cound the bland Remir to Bridge at Matt Print
V
4/5. Miscellaneous Services
تکار
12 10
22/8
24
22/5
42/4
153 15
63 13 11
15 168
295138
25
336134
Potal € 553 8 8
Sundry Works
P/6. Interest-
Total £ 3638 166
ni.
218
2/
E
22.
Colonial Sxpenditure Houghtong- 217. Land Purehaied.
ric.
Colonial Expenditure - Hongkong-
219
Paid in London by the Agent General for Crown Colonies
During the 12 Months from January to
31th deceniter 1852.
16
Choucal Secretary.
15
Half Salary of 32 Clerk on Sick leave from
15
115 etter 185/ to // September 1852.
Fice
Contingencies
Salaries Firet
£.
3.
土。
2.
Ital
£.
23
P/S. Special Expenses.
Mat Chefs to Lutterers to a Fire
Nothing to a distrerad kaman
premes for distressed seamen
Portage
Kerapuent of amount scoured by the agent in London
Acts of Parliament
from the admiralty
9
Aulitor General
Total £3086
Stationery
Harbour Master
(Signed) H. F. Mcreer
216
110
11176
|
6 371114147
84105
84105
Mult Jalan to him for the quarter to 5-5 Premtes, $50 75
Judicial
Half Salary to the Thief Justice nom
852
+
Colonial Treasurer.
285 Echuar to 235_formber 1852
February
1/25
1/25
Price
Dalf Salary to the Chief Magistrate in "4 Mouths and 25 Days to 18st occcmber
200128
200128
15/2 0 2 87 176
Pusions, Retired allowances and Gratuities
1599 17 8
To Mr Smithers from.
12 9
(True Copy)
Louisi Sceretury-
Jospital
from #July 1851 to 5 #February 1852
Medicines, including Freight und dusurance
-
Police - Clothing meluding Freight and dumance _ || 329/8
Grols – Freight and humance on Treadmili.
True Cony) Maene
Colonial keretary-
109 13 9
18 23 347 3 //
Total £2,068 18/
(Ligned) W. P. Mcreer,
Colonial Treasurer.
:
- Guy brup ~
24-276
ท
m Tif mwymy
Hongkong
The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Creasury Government of Hongkong.
1852.
April 1 To Balance remaining available from
last years account, and brought
for
ward in accordance with Earl Grey's Despatch N° 94 of 3rd February 1849.. 19,878
1853.
March 31 Amount Granted by Parliament for
1852-53.12,00
of which has been
paid in England. £2,500. Hongkong 9,500.
in account with the Colonial
220
d.
d.
1853.
March
By Payments made in
London by
January
8 10€
Revenue collected in Hongkong &₤23415.9.114 England. 17.3.6 23,432 13 54
Do.
April the 18th
the Agent General for Crown Colonies
during the year from 181. to Gt: December, 1852
2,068 18
the
Payments made by the Colonial
Heasurer in Hongkong, for
services of the year ending? 32672 0 11⁄2
- this day.
Balance remaining avai
uning available next years services.
for
£.. 55,311 232
辞
True Copy t
Mami
Victoria, Hongkong 1853.}
Romark. - Out of the above Balance amounting to £. 20,570.4.14
leaving therefore a Nell Surplus of: 2,284.6.14
has to be paid for Public Works not completed,
and for sundry other Services, the sum of
£. 34.740 18 250
20570414
L. 55311 232
(Signed) W. C. Mercer
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial, Creasurer.
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{
221
Returre of Liabilities of the Colonial Government of Hongkong
on the 1th of April, 1853.
Description .
Public Works.
Works and Buildings.
Roads, Streets, and Bridges.
Hospitals.
Medicines (estimated at).
Police and
and Jails.
Clothing (extimated at)
Amount
Remarks.
L
d.
14,439 13 22 || Vida. Return 1,326 10 102 herewith. 15,766 4 14
170
350
Total L. 16286 4 14
Victoria, Hongkong, July the 29th! 1859.
}
(Signed)
W. J. Mercer,
(Fue Copy)
Colonial Creacurer.
Colonial Secretary.
!
!
n
" Statement of the Expenses of the Exection and Construction and Repairs of Reads, Streets & Bridg Freasury during the 4853-54, out of Balances
year
Works and Building 5.
Government House .
Goverment Offices.
Supply of Water to Government Houser,
Polia and Harbour Master's Boat-house.
New Works at Jails - viz. Debtors Prison, Jailer's House, Guard Cour, head wheel House, and supply of water for Jail. "Police Station at Sukun poo.
Repairs to sundry
Police Stations.
Repairs to the Post Office
10,436 18
51
1329
118
250
18229
4
14.1
30
2
200
Repairs to the Court house, and several other petty expenses 112
Roads, Streets and Bridges.
L
Road to Government Hill.
14,439
13 21⁄2
546
20×16.8
20
"
100.
*
65
الحرام
*
Drains in Aberdeen Road.
Taipingshan
A
#
Lower Bazuar.
#
Main Drain, Strand Road, Lower Bazaar.
Planting Frees.
Landing Places. "Plaza
Repairs.
Widening Road from Caine Road to
50 25.
Aberdeen Road, and thence to the Queen's Road.
near
205168
37
75
8 12/2
300
office su 350
Grassing ropes Government House and Sea-wall, Lower Bazaar, in front of Streets..
#
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Landing Places, "Stops "__
100
Cutting Government Kill, and forming Road - 194
105
Total L
1,326 10 103
15766 4140
(Frue (opy)
Repairs of Colonial Public Buildings, and of the and of other Public Works to be defrayed from the Colonial remaining from previous years :
222
Report and Extimate Nr. 1 of 1848, sanctioned in Dispatch No. 95 of 1849.
Separate (Royal Engineers )
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Do.
Do.
2
Do.
Nr.5 of 1847% for £508
#
#
6.80.
Do.
#
#
171. 1845. 114
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2
18.48.
1848
278 consequence of the
1859.
No 5 of 1851, for £2,350
No.
of 1853, rendered neassa
necessary in
decayed state of the presents Ruilding, which cannot be repaired.
Being absolutely necessary.
Contingent Repairs.
Out of Vote for 1851-52.
of
"Out of Balances several. Voter amounting to L.990. 13.0, the Grain in Aberdeen) Street being necessary
in
in consequence of the
sequence of the new houses lately built The works at the Lower Bazaar became necefsary in conse -improvements effected
in that locality since the great fire.. Out of Voter of former years:
Voler for
1851-52 aid 1862-53.
Out of Balancer of former years, on account.
Votes for 1849-50 and 1850-57.
of Roads.
Private Parties having built the Seawalls opposite their Lots, it became necessary for Government to build opposite to the streets. The Sea-wall being 10 feet high, stops
Report and Estimate No.
6
Chad
аче месе
necessary
Signed) Laveyor General
St.-Geafleverly,
to obtain access to the Strand Road from the nater,
(signed) W. E. Mercer,
Colonial Creasurer.
Colonial Secretary,:
Despatch 1.74 87 1854.
Inclosure Pb in
J
223
Return of the Estimated and Actual Expenditure of the Colony of Hongkong during the 4 years from 1o April 1849 to 3100 March, 1853, the amounts granted by the Imperial Parliament, and explaining also the cause
Jaiaries. Allowances.
Office Contingencies.
Estimated Expenditure for
1840-50 1850-57,
J.
г
Total for
Paid during the years
-1851-62. 1852-53. the 44 years 1849-50. 1850-51. 1851-52 1632 53.
4.
है. 22. Z.
18
100
33,582 17.30,233 17 29.094 17.260967
26096 7. 119,007
50
•
873
Extablishments... 34505 17
Pensions Retiree Allournces, &c. Revenues Fervices. Administration of Justice._
Charitable Allowances..
Hospitals.
+
Police and Jails.
Rent.
25
gol
1210
6 90
12 10 665
کھ
A. Z
s.d.
Total during
of the Surplus on 12t April, 1853, to p
Balances J, Cotal ge daw on the. Expenditure. 3149 March for the Gyron
1853
for Works
the
4 years.
Ad. Z. 32,6957
kipos 19 81⁄2 19455 11 6 26,4091 42117,565-19 116 16106
12 10. 12 10
12 10 3403 13 4 626 3 246840
626 322684010 584 7 6 688 384 258215 9
540
959134
31,2.18 10 4 30,013 7.26,773 17. 122,511 11 4 33338 0 8229,702 1061⁄2 30,052 9. 27,109 15 1 120202 15 4
16134
19 273133
20
20
20
bo
1751
175
175
175
700
200
145
120
F
100
565
1626 16
267 10 1625
285
1325
125
2238
25410
J
932 681416
1308 | 1 2218
161
185 3 1
180 11 4 282 6 3 1281 10 864 128
111 241⁄2 316|1|04||
10:10
Less Expenditiore including
than Balances Letimated
i progres due
c!
32 | 8 |17|| 131 |13|3
20 168
1010
293
3|8|2|299|12|9|| 175 1692 329 17 12 1098 14 10
ryo
350
J
+
+
10
April 1853.
J..d. E. 42.
117565 197 2406
2,582 15 3
120202 15 14 2308 16
18551
864 128
316102 348 18 111⁄2
10:10
1268 14 10 4967 3 14 1847 12 103
38121
977 10 5 67797 673411
498 68 910 168 910 168 910 168 3730 168 1079 11 6 754 11 6 910 16 6 1067 1 6 3812
1,133 17 22 1034 1 4 982 9 10 1463 1482 4617 3 14
194 18 4 593 544
68|4|11| 118 ||1 10 977105 5235
130 16 3 174 8 4 174 84 673 11 11 193 12. 24963 11 2 1928 0 11 432 19 3 205358 3638166 8083 2 4 14,439 13 22 22,492 15 62 2,470 1371⁄2 677 17 3 92562 553 8 8 2704111 1,326 10 102 40311 113271314 54
7211
7211 165 27
165 27 305 155 35
Cransport.
Works and Buildings ..
Conveyance of Mails.
71210
19057
0
115
307 10
1655 1/484 174 8 4 1748 4 1748 | 77531 3
41907 Rouds, Arects and Bridges. – 3,019 16 3 2,000
Miscellaneous.
320
3/5
3/85
+
850
875.
6744165 548.
115
Special...
50
25
55
34018
Total
470 18
169,786 14
72/1 45:145 45 18 10
43 010
30 8 6 165 2
52,196 10 8 44,388 14438721 9 7 34,480 -Estimated Revenue: 25,432 16 8 24,090 23218 10. 19950.
J
42 1811
39,172 1963 34,117 5 112 35,712 2 72 34740 18 22 143740 6 33 16,286 4 14 160,029 105 106 16 1 10 858178
Grant of Parliament Estimated 26,763 14 Granted.
25,000
20298 14 4/5,502 19 7 14,530
20000
15,300
12,000
Less Granted.
16314 298
298144
22 19
2530
Lex's
L. 4,595 - 7 - 13.
A. Vide Earl Grey's Despatch No 110 of 1849.
B. In conformity with the Governor's Requisitions, bing extimated
on the 3104 March, 1852.
Surplus
k
Victoria, Thongkong,
the 29th July, 1853.
}
(Signed)
W. C. Mercer
-4.757
42
Saving on the Expenditure as Extimated 9787 4 2 Balance on the 1st April, 1849. 17 324
Cotal Savings on the Estimated. Expenditure,
during the five years inded 31 st March 1853. 97747 44
| |
4,595 711
|
4612
granted by Parliament than est. muted. Short drawn of Parliamentary Grants. Estimated Revenue during the above
4 year. to your 1 72,629 68 Revenue received Less Revenue received during the abor
do.
91,841 9/12/ 4 yea Egrass thans
2 se tinalid
848 1684
Total Shortcomings by the Estimated. Income. 5490 744
Nett Surplus on 1o1 April, 1853. 4234
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Excess
of Expenditure Estimated
очет
22
1255/
164 128
J
1010
336 14 10
81.44
149
858
8
Boughon
1953, with a statement.
Government on the pet cepril.
Return of Lion is of the Colonial
attached.-
}
Polonial Secretary
Despatch 1974 8f/853.
Inclosure N. 8 in
to 31th March, 1853.
Setimated, and Actual
hxpenditure of the Colony for
4 years from 14 April, 1849,
HongKong- Compartive Statement of the
the
!
Comparative Statement of the Estimated and
Bridges, during the year, from 18t
om set April,
Estimated.
1849-50 1800-57 | 1851-52 | 1852-53 Cotal.
4. 2
2.2.
Actual Expenditure for Roads, Stress and
1849,
to 31th March, 1853,
BRL
226
de for spendere Lesseng More
Paid
1849-50 | 1850-51
1851-52 1852-53 botal.
Writes progres
AL
or to be com menced atome
Eotal
the &timate.
than estimated.
1. d. L. £. d.
2.
2. d. Ž¿d Z. s. d. Z. s. 2. £. s.
ई.
d.
Repairs to Queen's Road.
50
yo
to Roads round the Island
400.
100
7 300
475
#
#
#
to Sytam.
120
100
1670
161 13 3 126 17 6 395 6 6 115|
11 10 799
8
7998
|870|11| 1||
#
25
30
600
170
کرو
300
100
300
1001
100168
150
270 16 $ 300
38
323 38
570168
| 323 | 3 | 8 5461 046
61046/
180 84 64 17
324:16 530
854 165
100
100
100
300
Wongneic hung Farisy
Widening Roads
Road from Albany Godmon to Wong michung
to Government Hill.
Road from
Rep. & Est. No. 1 of 1847-
Aberdeen to Stanley..
Side channels and Drains in Victoria),
under Rep. & Est. No. 13 of 1845. —
Repairs to Do
Repairs
Landing Places. "Stops," Lower Bazaar -
butting Government Hell & forming Road.. Bridges to replace Wooden Bridges
by Stone itrches ..
New Bridge at (auseway Bay. Repairs to Bridges.
Sea-wall..
Planting trees.
guar
Offices and Church..
245 63
34
23
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45
13
245 63
245
3
*484 16 4
300
105
+
185
199
4944 5|2|63|13||11||
51 5 2 63 13 11 164 3 5 |205|16|8|370
105
199
1000
1000
(57
300
300
65
145168
|311 | 13| 14|528| 3
3
145 168
115
/50
150
415
33 11 :/
100
300
150
535
prassing slopes
Government
200
00
Landing Piers._
Sinking Wells
Implements to Convicts.
300
50
757
105
go
100
295
r
Cotales.
3019 16
2000
850
July the
Victorias, Henghongs
291.
2015
12.10
199
528 3 3 471 169 15|16| 8 |157 34
33| 1|| | ||38|| 8|11
100
+
12 70 13 102 464 6|12|
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4740
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548
677 17 3 925 52 553 8 8 you 11
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6744 16 5
(Some (ofy),
Main Colonial Secretary.
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3713 14 54
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Dispatch N. 74 871853-
from 1st April 1849, to 31 ct and Bridges, during the 4 years Expenditure for Roads, threats
Retiinated and actual
Comparative Statement of the
March, 1853.
ין
Memorandum
227
of Furniture required for Government House
1
{ Dining Room. (40 ́× 24 1⁄2 )
Dining Table for 40 Persons.
4 dozen Chairs..
1 Side board, large.
Z. s. dr. Remarks.
£.
s. d
40
yo
460
2
Small..
40
1 Pier Glass (7.2′′ × 5 ! 8′′).
50
1 Cargo 8-burner Lamp .
440
6 Cornices with window-curtains complete
60
340
analy
be
Chese.
manufactured
a
Kongkong.
pectable for the clima
suitable.
3.
lize. 11.4x-7.6′′
Drawing Room (40' × 241⁄2)
/ Ottoman.
2 Sofas.
I dozen Chairs.
4 Conversation Chairs.
3 Console Tables - marble tops...
1 Pict Glass (7.2′′ × 5.8")
2 Circular Tables.
15
30
20
259
301
50
30
9
20
20
u plat
60
309.
12 Foot stools.
1 large 8-burner Lamp.
2
4.
6 Cornices with window curtains com
Ante Room. (24 . 6" x 11')
(24.6
1 Lamp - 4 burners.
250 super. yards of carpet for the above suite of rooms, at 12). per yard ..
Governor's Room. (19' x 17')
Table Desk.
inted on
Set of Maps of the World mounted on Rollers 2. Cornices with window curtains complete 36 super. yards of carpet, at 12/. for yard.
Waiting Room.
36 super yards of carpet at 12/ por yard.
10
150
may be made here.
suitable for
the climate. Yuze 11.4" x 7.6"
Cimilar to above.
suitable for the climate".
20
may be made here.
251
20
dize 11.4 x 7.6
21 12
86
3112
Carried forward - L
L.
9174
£
L.
Drought forward.
Private Secretary's Room.
36 imper. yards of carpet at 12% per yard.
Library.
2 Cornices with window curtains complete
6 Chairs.
1 Lamp.
Hall.
Saloow.
1 large Lamp - coloured Glass.
12 Lamps on brackets for vestibule,
passages, &c., Yo.
20
4. & Remarks .
gry 4
21 Va
پیز
20
36
56
Total £. 1031 16
Lize 11.4 X7.
Limilar.
Drawing room..
may be made her
dcited to climate
suited to
ited
the climate.
Note : _ All the remaining public rooms in the house
may be furnished with the present furniture, which will also be applied to some
of the rooms herein referred to.
True Copy)
(Signed) khas ft. Ger. fleverty
Surveyor General.
Mass
olonia & Secuitary
ļ
228
Despatch N. 74 871853.
Inclosure A // in
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No. 75.
Financial.
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Laskey to Fy use cons.
No. 1.
-
229
|||22 Hong rong
Victoria, Hongkong,
RECEIVED
NOV. 17
1853
My Lord Duke,
24th September, 1853.
I have the honor to submit
for the approval of Your Grace the
undermentioned Reports and Estimates
Cattly brought
for works, which were late. before the Executive Council, and passed ; namely.
Report and Estimate dated 144 August, for the erection of a
a new Police Station at Wongreichung, amounting to L. 1441n4u2. The dilapidated state: of the Station hitherto in use, which the Medical Officer considered totally unfit for the residence of either Europeans Indians, has called for
His Grace
this
or
expenditure .
The Duke of Newcastle,
&c.,
&fc).
General, of Furniture require.
Hougtong Memorandum by the Survey o
ofor the
new
Government House
1_
Report and Extimate, dated 1st
a Boat house
No. 2.
No. 3.
September, for the creation of a
for the Harbour Master and Police,
to L. 255 × 1 × 44. The creation
was sanctioned Earl
by
amarenting of this building Grey in Despatch Nr. 5 of 25th January 1848, and the Estimate submitted for the work entailed an cxpenditure of
£. 508
508.10.6; but, owing
to the want
at the time, its execution was
of funds at deferred. The Surveyor General
states in
his Report the secessity for this service),
from the:
arising
both from
untenanlable state
and confined dimensions of the present
temporary building; and, as the amount
for
new
Beat
the construction of the house is reduced by half of the ni
one
ori-
ginal sum, and the necessity for such a
building is apparent,
I have decmed:
it advisable to sanction the work
Report and Estimate dated.
No.4.
چ ہورہے تھی کہ
13
230
th September, for the improvement and repair of the Post Office, amounting to
"Thi's building
£. 203. 0.84 ·
Government. Property, and
of £. 150 per
yields
a pental
£. 150 per annum, -paid by the Postal
Department. It was erected in 1845, and
the past 7 years
during
repairs to the buildi
the
building has amounted to
outlay
on
1 for absolutely
L. 86. 10. The repairs now called
appearing from the Report to be absolu
the Executive Council, with my
necessary.
concurrence, had
no di
difficulty in passing
the enclosed Estimate, in order to prevent
further decay :
And Report and Estimate - dated 19th September, for widening
improving
and
the Road from Aberdeen Street.
to the Queen's Road at the Naval Stores,
amounting to L. 319 » 6 . 10. The nature
of this service is
fully explained by the Surveyor General in his Report, and
¦
n
considering the benefit, to be derived by the inhabitants from the proposed improvements, particularly during the hot season, and that the road when complete would be of much
Service for Police purposes, as it will,
: form
a cordon towards the western or Native
subject
part of the town, I brought the su
to the notice
of the Executive Council, who
ncurred with me in the desirableness
of sanctioning the expenditure=
All of the foregoing
works are
actually in progress, and I respectfully,
hope for Your Grace's approval and save - tion of the same .
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
My Lord Duke, Your Grace's
Most. Obedient, Humble Servant,
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24th September, 1853.
Fictoria, Hongkong,
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the same.
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Inhabitants of Hong
of Kong by a Proclamation to be published in
the usual and most authentic manner.
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the
the ruke at page 6,
of the
the Regulations appended to the Ordinance prescribes steat the Graplam shall read Prayer, be
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HONGKONG.
ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. 1 of 1853.
BY His Excellency Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Baronet, Knight Commander 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 Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects
in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
AN ORDINANCE FOR THE REGULATION OF THE GAOL OF HONGKONG,
[20th September, 1853.]
WHEREAS it is desirable that certain Rules prescribed for the Government of the Gaol of Hongkong receive the sanction of a Legislative Enactment, that certain Penalties be provided for the breach of such Rules, and that provision be made for their future modification and improvement: Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That—
Title.
Preamble.
I. The Rules now in use for the Regulation of the Gaol at Hongkong shall con- Gaol Rules Dow tinue in force until modified as hereinafter provided, and a Copy of the said Rules in use to continue. shall be continually displayed within the said Gaol in some conspicuous Place where, Copy of Rules to be hung up in Gaol. they may be with facility seen and read by the Inmates of the said Gaol, and a Copy shall also be appended to the Justices' Visiting Book in the said Gaol.
II. Any three Justices of the Peace for the said Colony having met together for Any three Jus- the purpose of considering any proposed modification of the said Rules, having also tices of the Peace previously given notice of their intention to the Sheriff and to the other Justices of may amend Rules. the Peace then in the Colony, may alter or add to such Rules, sending forthwith to His Excellency The Governor a Copy of such alterations, or additions; and such alterations or additions shall be of equal force with the former Rules until His Ex- cellency The Governor in bis Legislative Council shall signify his disapprobation of them, whereupon the said alterations and additions shall be of no force or effect: Provided that it shall not be in the power of the said Justices to impose any greater Penalties for any breach of any Prison Rule than are hereby provided.
Power of Sheriff
III. It shall be lawful for the Sheriff to punish by Imprisonment in a solitary or refractory Cell for not exceeding Three Days, on Bread and Water, or Rice and to punish refract Water, (or if the Prisoner be under conviction of Felony, to punish by moderate ory Prisoners. corporal Punishment not exceeding Twelve Strokes), any Prisoner whom he may find.
after due investigation to have been guilty of any of the following Offences, or of any
breach of Prison Regulation or Discipline:-
Assault and Battery.
Profane cursing, or swearing, or using indecent language.
Indecent, irreverent, or disorderly behaviour.
Idleness or negligence in work, or wilful damage or mismanagement of it.
Wilful damage to any Cell, Ward, or Room, or to any Gaol Furniture or Pro-
perty whatever.
Powers of Sheriff
Peace where those
IV. If a Prisoner be guilty of any of the above Offences, or of a breach of Gaol Regulations or Discipline for the due punishment of which the Sheriff may deem the and Justices of the Powers vested in him insufficient, it shall be lawful for the Sheriff in conjunction of Sheriff are in- with any Justice of the Peace for the said Colony, after due inquiry, to punish such sufficient. Prisoner by close or solitary Confinement, on Bread and Water, or Rice and Water, for not exceeding Fourteen Days; or if the Prisoner be under conviction for Felony or have within Three Months next previous been guilty of a similar Offence, by per- sonal correction not exceeding Thirty-six Strokes.
V. Any Person who shall convey, or cause to be conveyed into any Prison, or in
Assisting Pri-
any manner to or within the reach of any Prisoner whether within the Gaol Walls sonera to escape.
or without, any Disguise, Instrument, or Arms to facilitate the escape of any Pri- soner, shall, on conviction before the Petty Session, be subject to Imprisonment with Hard Labour for a period not exceeding Six Months. Provided nothing herein. contained shall be deemed or taken to prevent such Person from being proceeded against by Indictment-if thought necessary:
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VI. If any Person shall introduce into any Prison, or wilfully convey in any Supplying Pri- soners with prohi- manner to or within the reach of any Prisoner whether within or without the Gaol bited Articles.
Walls, any intoxicating Drink, Tobacco, Opium, Letters, or other thing whatsoever, without the consent of the Gaoler, he shall pay a penalty of not exceeding Five Pounds Sterling to be recovered in a summary manner before any Justice of the Peace under the Provisions of Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.
Prisoners not
be recommitted.
VII. If any Prisoner have been released from Confinement under any Conditional complying with the Pardon granted by His Excellency The Governor, and have failed to fulfil such Con- terms of a Condi- ditions, it shall be lawful for any Gaoler or Constable to apprehend the said Prisoner, tional Pardon may and to convey him together with the original Warrant of Commitment before any Justice of the Peace, and such Justice, on being satisfied that the Conditions of Re- Icase have not been complied with, may in his discretion record a minute of the same on the Warrant; after which the Warrant shall have the same force and effect as if such Pardon or Remission had not been granted; but the Justice shall in every such case report his proceedings to His Excellency The Governor.
VIII. When any Magistrate or Court shall sentence a Prisoner to Hard Labour, What descrip. tion of Labour to this shall be understood to mean Hard Labour (in Chains if necessary) within or follow certain Sen- without the Prison Walls, in such mode as the Gaoler under the sanction of the tences of the Courts
Sheriff may appoint; and if a Prisoner be sentenced to Hard Labour within the Prison, of Justice.
this shall be understood to mean similar Labour imposed in a similar manner within the Prison Walls; and if a Prisoner be sentenced to Imprisonment, this shall be understood to mean Imprisonment with Labour of such light description within the Prison Walls as may be appointed by the Gaoler under the sanction of the Sheriff; and Persons charged with any Crime or Offence, confined for want of Suretics, shall be under the same Regulations as to Labour as those sentenced to simple Imprison- ment, and if Prisoners for Debt, or on Civil Process, or under Committal for Trial, shall request to be employed in Labour, the Gaoler may, with their consent, employ them in such work as may seem to him suitable.
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Indemnity Clause.
IX. No Action or Proceeding at Law shall be brought against any Sheriff, Gaoler, or other Officer of the said Gaol for any Act heretofore done by them, or any of them in enforcing discipline therein.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 20th Day of September, 1853.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
S. G. BONHAM.
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Clerk of ounails. /
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An Ordinance for the Regulation
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REGULATIONS
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE GAOL AT HONGKONG.
THE Gaol of Hongkong shall be under the immediate Superintendence of the
Gaol to be under Sheriff of the Colony, who shall be responsible for the proper Conduct thereof. charge of Sheriff.
The Gaol shall be open to the inspection of any Justice of the Peace, and the To be open to the Governor may appoint certain of the Justices whose duty it shall be to inspect the inspection of Jus. Gaol at least once a Week, either singly or otherwise. These shall be called Visiting tices of the Peace. Justices. A Gaol Visitation Book shall be kept in the Custody of the Gaoler, and
Governor Inay it shall be the duty of the visiting Justices to write therein the results of their in- Justices.
appoint Visiting spection on each occasion; but the Book shall also be open for the remarks of any Justice visiting the Gaol.
This Book shall be forwarded every Monday to the Colonial Secretary, to be by him laid before the Governor, and any Order thereupon that the Governor may see fit to give, shall be intimated by the Colonial Secretary to the Sheriff, whose duty it shall be to see such Order carried out.
The Gaol shall be open at all times to the visits of the Colonial Chaplain and the Colonial Surgeon.
Gaol Visitation Book.
Gaol to be open
to Chaplain and Surgeon.
Sheriff to pre-
The Sheriff shall prescribe the Hours of every Day during which the Prisoners shall Work, and may on the recommendation of the Colonial Chaplain, and with the sanc- scribe Hours of tion of the Colonial Secretary, purchase suitable Books for the use of the Prisoners. Work, purchase All improper Books shall be excluded from the Prison.
Books, &c. Under special circumstances the Sheriff may allow a Prisoner Food, Clothing, or Sheriff may alter other necessaries, besides or in lieu of the Prison allowance, and temporarily suspend Diet or suspend Re- any Gaol Regulation in reference to any Prisoner, provided that he record his pro- case. ceedings therein in a Book to be kept by him and called the Sheriff's Book, which Book shall be from time to time submitted to the Colonial Secretary for the Governor's information.
The Sheriff may direct any Prisoners under Sentence of Transportation, or against whom Sentence of Death may have been recorded, to be kept to Hard Labour as Felons; or if such Prisoner be already at Work he may direct the suspension of his Labour provided that he record in the Sheriff's Book his proceedings therein; and he may authorize the employment of any Prisoner in the service of the Gaol, but not in its discipline, or in the service of any Officer, or so that such Prisoner shall sleep without the Prison premises.
gulations in certain
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Sheriff may di
rect that Trans- ported Felons be put to Labour, &c.
Sheriff may re-
ers for Pardon,
On observing or becoming credibly informed of any extraordinary diligence or merit on the part of any Prisoner, he may record the same in the Sheriff's Book, in commend Prison- order that the Governor may consider the propriety of exercising his prerogative of Prisoner not com Pardon towards such Prisoner; but if any conditional Pardon or Remission of Punish- plying with condi ment be granted to and accepted by any Prisoner, and such Prisoner after release tions of Pardon. fail to fulfil the required conditions, the Gaoler may convey him together with the original Warrant of Commitment before a Justice of the Peace, who on being satis- fied of the noncompliance with the conditions, shall record a Minute of the same on the back of the Warrant, after which such Warrant shall have the same force as if such Pardon or Remission had not been granted.
Sheriff may cause to be
The Sheriff may order any Prisoner to be Ironed, or taken out of Irons, for such Prisoners time as he shall direct, recording the facts in the Sheriff's Book.
The Officers of the Gaol shall be,
Ironed.
Officers of Gaol,
The Sheriff,
I Gauler,
I Matron,
2 Turnkeys,
1 Chaplain,
Res
Resident.
1 Medical Officer,
Such other Officers as the Governor may from time to time appoint, and such Con- stables of the Police Force as may from time to time be appointed to do duty at the Gaol, and the Colonial Chaplain shall be the Chaplain, and the Colonial Surgeon the Medical Officer of the Gaol of Hongkong.
Gaoler not to he
The Gaoler shall not be Under-Sheriff, or Bailiff, or concerned in any other occu- pation or in any trade, neither he or Person in trust for him, shall sell or let or derive Bailiff, &c. any benefit from the sale or letting of any Article to any Prisoner, or from any dealing whatsoever with such Prisoner. He shall not let for hire to any Person what- ever any room or portion of the residence allotted to him in or near the Gaol, nor any room or ground belonging to the Gaol. He shall not directly or indirectly have any interest in any Contract or agreement for the supply of the Gaol, nor shall he use for himself or his family any Oil, Rations, Food, or other Article whatever
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supplied for the use of the Gaol, or by, or on behalf of any Contractor for the supply of the Gaol,
The Gaoler shall keep in a clean intelligible manner the following Books, and shall Gaoler is to keep. be responsible that they be safely preserved, and that they be not subjected to any
Gaoler may ap point Deputy.
Duties of Gaoler.
Gaoler may sub-
alteration or erasure :-
1. Fine and Fee Book.
2. Order Book.
3. Journal,
4. Gaol Register.
5. Work Book.
6. Prisoners' Property Book.
7. Gaol Furniture and Stores Book.
8. Provision Book.
9. General Daily Account Book.
He shall also keep under his charge the Sheriff's Book, and the Gaol Visitation Book.
All these Books shall be open to inspection by any Justice of the Peace visiting the Gaol, and calling for the same.
He shall enter in the Fine and Fce Book, all Fees taken from time to time by him or any other Officer of the Gaol, specifying the Authority under which each Fee was taken, and all Fines paid by any Prisoner confined in default of payment of such Fine. With the approbation of the Sheriff the Gaoler shall appoint an Officer of the Gaol to act as Deputy Gaoler whenever he shall be unavoidably absent, and during such absence the Deputy shall have all the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Gaoler. Before leaving the Gaol the Gaoler shall personally give over charge to his Deputy.
The Gaoler shall be supplied with a Copy of these Regulations.
The Gaoler shall consider the Sheriff his immediate Superior, and shall obey all the Sheriff's orders.
He shall have, under the Sheriff, the entire control, management, and responsibi- lity of the Gaol. He shall enforce on all his Subordinates the due execution of their several duties, not permitting them to have any other employment. He shall reside within the Gaol, or in the house allotted to him for a residence, and shall not be absent at night unless unavoidably, without permission from the Sheriff, and he shall record such absence and the cause of it in his Journal. He shall see that no Person other than an Officer of the Gaol, in the discharge of duty as such, without his per- mission, speak to or hold any intercourse or communication with a Prisoner, and that no Person sleep in the Gaol other than a Prisoner, an Officer of the Gaol, or one of such Officer's Servants or family.
He shall see that no one attached to the Gaol visit the Female Prisoners except in company with the Matron.
He shall himself, and shall see that every Officer of the Gaol do in like manner exercise his Authority, with firmness, humanity, and good temper; on no account striking any Prisoner without due Authority.
He shall enter in the Order Book all orders relating to the Gaol. He may suspend pend his Subor any resident Officer of the Gaol disobeying his orders, or otherwise misconducting himself, recording the particulars and reasons in his Journal, and reporting the same without delay to the Sheriff.
dinates.
Gaoler to attend Divine Service.
What to be re-
He shall attend Divine Service whenever performed in the Gaol, unless unavoid- He ably prevented; if he do not attend he shall record the reasons in his Journal. shall also enforce the attendance thereat of such of the other Officers of the Gaol, and such of the Prisoners as may not be unavoidably prevented, but he shall not enforce the attendance of any Person whose religious persuasion shall not accord with such Service.
He shall record in his Journal all occurrences affecting the Gaol, particularly such corded in Journal, as relate to the health, discipline, or employment of the Prisoners, the infringement of Gaol Regulations as to punishments; also every change of diet or clothing among the Prisoners, the allowance of extraordinary indulgence to any Prisoner, any omis- sion to wash the Prisoners, or clean or whitewash the Gaol at the appointed times, every case in which he may have placed in Irons a Prisoner, not a Felon, and the causes thereof, and the several other matters enjoined by these Regulations.
Gaoler to inspect He shall personally inspect every Ward, Cell, Yard, Division or Part of the Gaol, each part of the Pri- and see every Prisoner at least once in each 24 hours, and in default shall record the son. &c., once a day omission and the cause thereof in his Journal, and he shall at least once a Week at
at least.
an uncertain hour of the night go through the Gaol, and visit every Person on guard over the same, making an accurate record in his Journal of such visit, the hour thereof, and the state of the Gaol and the Guards.
He shall record in his Journal every complaint made to him by any Prisoner. He shall take every precaution to prevent Fire or the escape of Prisoners, and shall cause all the Wards, Cells, Bolts, Bars, and Locks of the Gaol, and the Irons of the Prisoners to be thoroughly examined daily, and shall fully explain the duty required of every Officer of the Gaol in case of Fire, or of the attempt of a Prisoner or of any confederated attempt on the part of any number of Prisoners, to escape. Regulations as He shall cause a Light to be constantly burning throughout the night in every to Lights.
Ward or Division of the Gaol in which Prisoners shall be confined, but such Light shall not be placed inside the Cell within reach of the Prisoners, and a Light shall
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o be placed in each of the sleeping apartments of the Officers of the Gaol not on duty, in order that such Officers may in case of alarm be ready for duty in the shortest possible time.
Prisoners on ad-
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He shall cause that every Prisoner on admission be placed in a reception Cell, and strictly searched, and that all Knives, Weapons, Instruments, or things whatsoever mission likely to facilitate escape, be taken from such Prisoner, but no such search shall be searched. made in presence of any other Prisoner, nor shall any Female Prisoner be searched except by the Matron of the Gaol.
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On the Admission of each Prisoner the Gaoler shall cause to be recorded in the Gaol Register, the Prisoner's Name, Sex, Country, Age, Height, Features, whether be Registered, &c. such Prisoner can read or write, and other particulars that he may deem necessary, and he shall take charge of all Money, Clothes, and other Effects that such Prisoner may have, or which may from time to time be sent on the Prisoner's account, and shall record an Inventory of the same in the Prisoners' Property Book, with the time of the Prisoner's admission, or of their receipt, and shall restore them on the Prisoner's discharge, or dispose of them as the Sheriff may direct; but any Money or Property that a Prisoner before trial may require for the purpose of assisting him in conduct- ing his defence on such trial shall be restored to him by the Gaoler on demand.
The Gaoler shall cause plain and legible Copies of these Regulations to be fixed in tions to be hung
a conspicuous part of the Gaol, and so that every Prisoner may have access thereto.
Copy of Regula
up.
He shall cause every part of the Gaol premises to be swept daily clean, or oftener Cleaning of Gaol.
if requisite, and shall cause the Gaol to be washed throughout at least once a Week. He shall cause every Prisoner to Wash himself daily, and that the whole Person
Washing of Pri-
of every Prisoner be Washed thoroughly at least once a Week, and the Clothes con- soners. stantly worn by such Prisoner next the skin, to be exchanged for a clean suit at least once a Week, but no Prisoner shall be stripped or bathed in presence of another. He shall cause the hair of every Prisoner to be kept cut as closely as such Prisoner has been in the habit of wearing it, but not more closely, unless the Medical Officer or the Sheriff so order, and he shall cause all Male Prisoners to be shaved once a Month, in the manner in which they may before have been accustomed to be shaved. He shall cause the Bedding and spare Clothing of every Prisoner to be aired once a Week, in the open air if practicable, and to be washed as often as needful.
He shall cause every Prisoner convicted of Felony to be supplied with, (and con- stantly wear), a Dress conspicuously marked with a Number, and with two suits of all Clothing worn next the skin, and that other Prisoners be duly supplied with Clothes, if their own be insufficient, or unfit for use, or necessary to be preserɣyed for the purposes of Justice, but the Dress of such other Prisoners shall not be conspi- cuously marked, and that every Prisoner be supplied with sufficient Bedding. If Sheets or Blankets be used, he shall see that they be washed at least once a Month, and that a Sheet used by one Prisoner be not transferred unwashed to another.
Airing of Cloth- ing, &c.
Prison Dress.
for
He shall provide useful employment, and the necessary materials and instruction Gaoler to provide for all Prisoners, and shall record the expense on the Debtor side of the Prisoners' Employment Work Book, and on the Creditor side the price at which the product of the Prisoners'
Prisoners, &c. Labour is from time to time sold, or, (if for Government use), estimated, and shall balance the account at the close of every Month, and he is hereby empowered to make contracts for the supply of labour by the Prisoners, consistently with these Regulations, and to sell the produce of the Prisoners' labour in other cases, record- ing in the proper Book all Contracts or Sales so made, and the amount of Money received.
He shall without delay, call the attention of the Chaplain or Medical Officer to any Prisoner whose state of mind or body may appear to require their assistance, and he may, until further orders, change any treatment (not strictly Medical) appearing to affect such Prisoner injuriously,
Gaoler to deliver
He shall deliver daily to the Surgeon a List of the Prisoners in solitary Confine- ment, of the Sick, and those who have complained of Illness, Sores, or otherwise, a Daily List to Sur- (not withholding the Name of any Person because he may not deem such Person in geon. need of Medical assistance); and of Prisoners having suffered or being about to suffer corporal Punishment.
He shall give immediate notice of the Death of a Prisoner to the Medical Officer, In case of the and to the Sheriff, and to the Coroner, and when practicable to the relations or Death of a Prisoner friends of the deceased.
what Report to be made.
No Gambling al-
He will permit no playing of Cards, or gaming of any kind to be carried on in the Gaol, and will seize and destroy all dice, cards or other instruments of gaming he lowed in Prison. may find there.
He shall Handcuff or Iron a Prisoner, not a convicted Felon, in case of necessity How Prisoners only, and shall record every such case, and his reasons, in his Journal; but convicted to be Ironed. Felons shall constantly wear round one of their legs an iron ring of such description
as the Sheriff may approve.
He shall record in his Journal every case of alleged misconduct on the part of the Prisoners, the nature of the supposed Offence, his decision thereon, noting the date, names of Prisoners, and the Punishment actually inflicted.
Gaoler to attend
He shall attend every corporal Punishment inflicted within the Gaol, and enter in corporal Punish- his Journal the Hour at which it was inflicted, the Number of Strokes or Lashes, and ment.
the Orders of the Medical Officer thereon; and he shall in no case inflict any corporal Not to execute Punishment exceeding Six Strokes, without a previous Certificate in Writing of the corporal Punish- any Sentence of
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ment without sanc Medical Officer of the Gaol that the Person to be punished can receive the Pun- tion in Writing of ment awarded to him without injury to health.
Medical Officer.
On the discharge
Previous to the discharge of any Prisoner under the Age of 21 Years, he shall in-
of Minors, &c., no- forin such Prisoner's relatives or friends, (if any of good character can be found), of tice to be given to the time of the intended discharge, that they may attend to receive the Prisoner; and their Friends or in case of a Soldier or Sailor he shall if possible inform the Superior Officer of such Superiors.
Person.
As to admission
He shall allow Prisoners confined for Debt, or on Civil Process, or committed for to Legal Advisers. Re-examination or Trial, to see their legal advisers at all reasonable times and in private if required, unless the committing Magistrate, or Sheriff, or a Visiting Justice order to the contrary, but he may withhold this privilege if he see sufficient reason, recording the fact and his reasons in the Journal, noting also the Names of the Ap- plicant and the Prisoner, and he shall allow convicted Prisoners to see their legal advisers, if a Visiting Justice, the Sheriff, or the committing Magistrate so order. But every Person claiming admission as a legal adviser, must be a Lawyer, practising in the Supreme Court of this Colony, or the Authorized Clerk or Pupil of such Lawyer. Should he think proper to refuse admittance to such Person, he shall be careful to refer such Person to the Sheriff, and he shall obey promptly any order the Sheriff may give therein.
Prisoners for Re- He shall allow prisoners committed for Re-examination to see their friends and re- examination may lations at reasonable hours, unless the committing or a Visiting Justice or the Sherift see their Friends. order to the contrary; but he may withhold this privilege if he see sufficient reason,
recording the particulars in his Journal as provided in the last Clause.
Prisoners com- mitted for Trial.
Convicted
soners.
Pri-
Ministers of Re- ligion.
Visitors' Names to be recorded.
As to Letters of Prisoners.
Inventory of Gaol Furniture.
Fines paid by Prisoners.
Unless he receive orders to the contrary, he shall allow Prisoners committed for trial to see their friends and relations at reasonable hours twice a Week or oftener if the committing, or a Visiting Justice so order; but he may withhold this privilege if he see sufficient reason, recording the particulars in his Journal as directed in the last Regulation.
He shall allow convicted Prisoners to see their relations and friends, once in the course of each successive Three Months, but if in case of Sickness or otherwise he sce sufficient reason, he may allow the privilege oftener, recording the particulars in his Journal as directed in the last Regulation. Prisoners committed for non-pay- ment of Penalties or want of Sureties, may receive visits in the same manner as those committed for Re-examination, if the objects of the visits appear to be to make ar- rangements for the payment of the Penalty, or to procure the required Suretics, otherwise they shall be subject to the same rules in this regard as convicted Prisoners. He shall take proper and discreet means to ascertain that no visitors bring into the Gaol any Instrument or other objectionable. Article.
Certain parts of
Gaol to be used as
Sick Wards.
Returns to be made by Gaoler.
If a Prisoner do not belong to the Established Church, the Gaoler, subject to the orders of the Sheriff, shall allow the visits of known Ministers of such Prisoner's own persuasion, or of whom such Prisoner may approve.
He shall not, without the order of the Sheriff, permit Persons other than Ministers of Religion to visit Prisoners on Sunday.
He shall demand the names of visitors to Prisoner, sand enter them and the parti- culars of their visits in his Journal, and on reasonable suspicion, he (or the Matron in the case of females), may with their permission search them, and, if they decline to give their names, or to be searched, may refuse them admittance.
Unless the committing or a Visiting Justice, or the Sheriff order to the contrary, he shall allow Prisoners committed for Re-examination or trial to send and receive letters, but he may withhold such privilege if he see sufficient cause, recording the particulars and reasons in his Journal, and, subject to the same restrictions, he shall allow such convicted Prisoner to send and receive one letter in the course of every Three Months, but he shall inspect every letter or paper so sent, unless it be addressed to a Visiting Justice or other authority, keeping the contents of the same strictly pri- vate, unless it be necessary to report the same to a Visiting Justice. He may also inspect letters to or from Prisoners confined for Debt, or on Civil Process, or for want of Sureties, if he reasonably suspect them to refer to a projected escape, or infringe- ment of Prison discipline, recording in his Journal the particulars and reasons for so acting, and marking the letters with his initials, but he may withhold a letter to or from any Prisoner, recording in his Journal the particulars and reasons, and laying such letter without delay before the Sheriff or a Visiting Justice.
He shall keep in the proper Books an Inventory of all Furniture and moveable pro- perty belonging to the Gaol, a Catalogue of all Books and printed papers allowed to be brought into the Gaol, an account of all provisions and stores supplied for the use of the Gaol or Prisoners, and an account of all money paid and received by him.
He shall on payment of a Fine by a Prisoner, immediately transfer the Money to the Person authorized to receive it, noting the particulars in the Fine Book.
He shall reserve certain parts of the Gaol to be used as Infirmaries for Prisoners of both Sexes, paying strict regard to the Regulations herein provided for the separa- tion of male and female Prisoners.
On the 3d day of every Month he shall lay before the Sheriff a short Return of the Work performed by the Prisoners, and the Number of Hours a Day they worked during the Month immediately preceding. And before the Colonial Secretary, for the information of the Governor, a Return in the following Form, and shall retain Copies of all such Returns:-
A
+
RETURN OF PRISONERS CONFINED IN
LIN
Sentenced to Transportation, Imprisoned for more than One Year,
Imprisoned for more than Six Months, and
not more than One Year,
Imprisoned for not more than Six Months,
Committed for Trial,
Remanded for Re-examination,.
Committed for want of Suretics,
Debtors and others confined on Civil Process, Crown Witnesses,
Present working strength of Chain Gang,
5
GAOL ON
185
EUROPEANS.
CHINESE.
Total
INDIANS.
MALAYS.
Men
Date of admission of the Prisoner longest in Confinement, not hav
ing been tried, ...
185
185
185
Date of admission of the Crown Witness longest in Confinement, Date of admission of the Prisoner confined for Debt, or on Civil
Process, longest in Confinement,
SUMS.
Gaoler.
REMARKS.
Male and Female Prisoners shall always be so confined as to prevent the former
Form of Month-
ly Return to Cola-
nial Secretary.
Male and Female
from seeing, conversing, or holding any intercourse with the latter. The keys of all Prisoners to be se- Cells, Wards, or Rooms, in which Female Prisoners shall be confined, shall remain parated. constantly in the possession of the Matron, and the locks and keys of such Cells, Wards, or Rooms, shall be different from the locks and keys of the Cells, Wards,
or Rooms, for Male Prisoners.
The Prisoners unless confined separately shall be divided into the following Classes, Prisoners to be no Prisoner of one Class, (with the exception hereinafter mentioned), shall be con. divided into cer- fined, or associate with Prisoners of another Class.
and
1st, Felons under Sentence of Death,
2d, All other Felons.
3d, Misdemeanants and Persons confined for breach of the Revenue Laws.
4th, Prisoners committed for trial for Felony.
5th, Prisoners committed for trial for Misdemeanors, or detained for want of
Sureties.
6th, Prisoners remanded for Re-examination.
7th, Approvers.
8th, Debtors and Persons confined on Civil Process.
And every convicted Prisoner not a Felon shall be considered a Misdemeanant for
the purposes of these Regulations.
tain Classes.
All Prisoners of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Class shall be compellable to sweep, clean, and Prisoners to clean lime-wash the rooms in which they shall be confined, and to wash their persons and their Cells, &c. clothes as often as required by the Gaoler, and Prisoners of the other Classes to do
the same, or cause it to be done.
Two Male Prisoners only shall never be lodged together; the number confined in one Cell or Room shall be one, three, or more. If there be only one Prisoner of a particular Class confined in the Gaol, the Gaoler with the consent of such Prisoner, may assign such Prisoner to any other Class.
No Officer or Guard attached to the Gaol shall be allowed Rations, nor shall in any case be supplied with Rations by the Contractor who shall provide rations for the Pri- soners, unless he be a Constable borne on the strength of the Police Force, and such Rations to be those to which he is entitled as such Constable, and the Contractor for the Prisoners be also Contractor for the Police Force.
Gaoler and Sub-
Neither the Gaoler nor any Officer of the Gaol shall receive any fee or gratuity of any kind from any Prisoner, visitor, or other Person, under any pretence whatever, ordinates not to re- unless he be expressly authorised by Act of Parliament, or by a Colonial Ordinance, ceive Fees.
to receive such fee or gratuity.
Neither the Gaoler nor any Officer of the Gaol, shall visit by entry within her Cell
any Female Prisoner unless in presence of the Matron.
Gaoler to Super-
The distribution of Rations and Clothing shall be personally superintended by the Gaoler or an Officer of the Gaol. Any Prisoner may request the Gaoler or Officer intend the distribu- distributing, to weigh or measure in his presence, or allow him to weigh or measure tion of Rations, &c. any Article of food so distributed to him, and the Gaoler or Officer shall comply with
the request, except it appear to the Gaoler that such request is vexatiously made, and
such request and refusal shall be noted by the Gaoler in his Journal.
Chinese Prisoners and others accustomed to Chinese diet shall have at least two
hot meals a day, and other Prisoners shall have three meals a day, two at least of them hot meals.
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248
Provisions of Per-
6
Any Prisoner untried or confined for Deht, or on Civil Process, may in any one sons confined for day of Twenty-four Hours, receive from a friend or servant, at proper hours a rea- Debt, &c.
sonable quantity of cooked provisions, and not exceeding one quart of malt liquor, or at his option one pint of wine, and any linen, bedding, clothing, or other neces- saries, subject to strict search, and under such Regulations as the Sheriff may think expedient, and the Gaoler may at the request of the Prisoner pay for such Articles. out of any Money he may have belonging to the Prisoner; but if any part of such Articles he transferred to another Prisoner, the Gaoler may prohibit their further receipt, and place the Prisoner on Gaol allowance, pending the orders of the Sheriff, recording the facts in his Journal.-On any day that the Prisoner receive such Ar- ticles of food, he shall not receive the Gaol allowance. No fermented or spirituous Liquor shall with these exceptions be used by any Person whatever, unless by order of the Medical Officer, and in such quantity as he may prescribe.
Time for Meals,
soners.
of
Every Prisoner shall be allowed half an hour for the consumption of each Mcal, and shall not be set to work until the expiration of the quarter of an hour immediately succceding such half hour.
Every convicted Prisoner, and every Prisoner confined for a breach of the Revenue Description Labour for Pri- Laws, or for want of Sureties shall Labour to the utmost of his ability within the Prison premises, and shall be set to that kind of Labour which from his natural abili- ties or previous habits shall appear most profitable, and every Convicted Felon shall also be compellable to Labour in irous without the Gaol premises, unless in either case it be otherwise ordered in the Warrant of Commitment or by the Sheriff. Every Prisoner untried or confined for Debt or on Civil Process, shall, at his own request, and for so long only as he shall desire, be set to Work in the same manner as Con- victed Prisoners not Felons. And after the close of the Month of December, in each Year, the Gaoler shall furnish the Sheriff with such particulars as shall enable the Sheriff to make out an account of the profit and loss of Gaol for the preceding Year, and such account shall be forwarded to the Colonial Secretary for the information of the Governor.
Not to work on Sunday,
No Work shall be done in the Gaol on Sunday, and no Prisoner being a Jew shall be compelled to Labour on his Sabbath.
Every Prisoner condemned to Death shall be confined in some safe place within Prisoners under Sentence of Death. the Gaol, apart from all other Prisoners, and shall be allowed such a dietary as the
Matron's Duties.
Chaplain's
ties.
Du-
Sheriff with the approval of the Colonial Surgeon may direct, and no Person other than an Officer of the Gaol shall be allowed to visit him, unless by order in writing from the Sheriff.
No dogs, (except for security), nor any poultry, pigeons, rabbits or other animals. shall be kept within the Prison premises.
The Matron shall reside in the Gaol and be under the orders of the Gaoler, and conform to all the rules laid down for the Gaoler, so far as they are applicable to Female Prisoners. She shall be present at the distribution of food to Female Pri- soners and see every such Prisoner once in each 24 hours; she shall not absent herself from the Gaol for a night without the permission of the Sheriff. She shall take care that no Male Officer of the Prison unaccompanied by herself, enter a Cell or Room occupied by a Female Prisoner; she shall search every Female Prisoner on admission, and as often as necessary, but not in presence of any Male Person or any other Pri- soner, and shall deliver to the Gaoler all property found in possession of any such Prisoner. But in case of necessity, the Matron may delegate her duty to the wife of an Officer of the Gaol, or some other married woman.
Duties of Medi-
cal Officer.
The Chaplain shall read prayers with the Prisoners, and read or preach to them a discourse, and perform all other Offices of religion as often as he may see fit, and and shall visit each Prisoner, in such Prisoner's Cell as often as he may see fit. He shall attend at all reasonable times when a Prisoner or sick Person may require his services. He shall specially tender his assistance to all Prisoners under Sentence of Death, or charged with Offences punishable with Death.
He shall inform the Gaoler and if necessary the Sheriff, whenever he may observe the mind of a Prisoner likely to be injuriously affected by the treatment such Prisoner may be then receiving. He shall record in the Visiting Book all observations made by him in the performance of his duty, appearing to him important.
The Medical Officer shall visit the Gaol at least once in each day, when his other duties permit him, and enter in the Visiting Book all observations or occurrences in the performance of his duty that be may deem important, all alterations in the Diet of Prisoners not removed to the Infirmary, any want of cleanliness, drainage, warmth or ventilation, or any insufficiency or bad quality of the bedding, clothing, provisions
or water.
He shall also keep a short daily record of the case of every sick Prisoner, noting the name of the patient, nature of the disease, and treatment pursued. No Medicine shall be administered without his order. He shall regulate the hours of exercise for the sick Prisoners. He shall direct the purchase of such additional articles as he may deem necessary to the health of any Prisoner, recording in the Visiting Book the fact, and his reasons. He shall bring to the notice of the Chaplain every Prisoner whose state of mind shall appear to demand the Chaplain's care.
If he considers to be unsafe the discharge from Gaol of any Prisoner suffering from acute disease, he shall delay such discharge as long as he may deem expedient, not- withstanding that the term of such Prisoner's confinement have expired, unless the
Prisoner himself desire to be discharged. No corporal Punishment exceeding six strokes shall be inflicted without the previous inspection of the Colonial Surgeon.
He may appoint a substitute to attend the Gaol during his unavoidable absence.
He shail deliver to the Colonial Secretary, as soon as possible after the close of the Month of December in each Year, a report in writing in which shall be detailed the number of sick among the Prisoners during the Year immediately preceding, the Mortality, the sanatory condition of the Gaol, what diseases have been most preva- lent, whether any part of the sickness may be reasonably attributed to defect in the construction, or management of the Gaol, what sanatory precautions he may deem it necessary to add to those then in force, and such other matters as to him may seem
Every Non-resident Officer of the Gaol, excepting the Colonial Surgeon, every Visiting Justice, and every Justice of fhe Peace on each occasion of his visiting the Gaol for the purposes of these Regulations, shall write his name, and the date of the visit in the Gaol Visitation Book.
fit.
The following is the prescribed allowance of food and necessaries for Prisoners: 1. For Chinese and Persons accustomed to Chinese Diet.
Rice,
Salt or Fresh Fish, Vegetables, in lieu of Fish,...
Beef or Pork,... Bread.... Vegetables,
'Tea, Sugar,
Salt, Soap,...
...1 catty.
2 taels. ...8
a Man a Day.
>>
2. For all other Prisoners.
oz. At the option of
a Man a Day.
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the Sheriff.
3. For all Prisoners.
Joz.
b. a
a Man a Day.
a Month.
**
Water as much as needed, or as much as can be used without waste, not exceeding
the prescribed allowance, but this dietary may be altered from time to time by the Colonial Surgeon with the sanction of the Governor.
Victoria, Hongkong, 16th August, 1853.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong. this 20th Day of September, 1853.
L. D'ALMADa e Castro,
Clerk of Councils.
S. G. BONHAM.
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Scale of Diet for Prisoners.
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Inclosure No 2 in Desp:
No 76 off
1853
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Regulations for
of the
18th August,
the Government
Gaol at Honghong-
1853.
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RECEIVED
DEC. 6 1853
My Lord Ducke,
249
Victoria, Hongkong
7
th October, 1853,
In reference to my Despatch
Sparate of 27th November, 1851, and Earl. Grey's reply No 278 of 14th February,
1852, I have
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the honor to enclose as
Report and Estimate to construct a
new
Debtors Jail and Guard Houses in this Colony, amounting to L. 1769. 19-7;
also a
Report and Estimate for the crection of a Fread wheel and work connected therewith, amounting
to L 388 levig lo The Fread wheel, Your Grace
388 × 12 « 6.
is aware,
4
was
despatched from England in August, 1852, and its cost, L. 188 - 12-3, duly repaid to the Colonial Agent
in Lendow .
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
Jo
Jo,
&o.
To complete. the fails in the
the Colony I have found it a beslutely necessary to
into them a supply of water, which
carry
I estimate will not cost more.
and
αν
than £. 100,
for the health and safe custody of
the Prisoners, this measure is indispensable,
I have sanctioned a further outlay
account to the above cxtent.
The total outlay
on
this
is still some
£. 271 less than the
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£.2530.0.0
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mated, and sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government on this account, and will
therefore, I hope, prove satisfactory to
Your Grace
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Lord. Duke,
My
Your Grace's
Most Obedient,
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16th Dec 7/53
With reference be your
gd of the 30t
Anveying
letter
of Felmeny 10152
the sanction of
the Suss Commisisorient of
The Freasury for the Surplus
remaining repon the Perbementies Garuch of
the Greeding year
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portion of it is as may
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required, being applisit to the erection of a. Delters Prison, Same criticd
the Duke of Svensthe to transmit te you & loque
of a Despatet from the
Victoria, Hongkong, October, 1853.
the
Governor Sir Gec. Bonham, 14,
to
His Grace The Duke of
Newcastle.
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2 Inclosures.
Received
Estimates for the
Transmitting Reports and
evn
avbuction
A
new
the Tread wheel.
Debtor's Prison, tc., and
fa house for the reception
The Construction of the Tecson has been
approved _ Kansmit the Cokon
At Krissury
7 Jee
1.
Governa of Hong Kong
enclosing
Plans and
Colmates for the ternstruction
of the propereol Beeldung and of the Guard
Guard Houses
sin Connection with it and
Inow to site tlich bit
Grace
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Esternate for the constication of
Eew Debtors Prison and
Guard Horses, amoreiting to £1717.19.7. Rogether
With a
The fork and Estimate
for the erection of a Trendwheel. stock connected the warth,
in to £ 30 d. 12.6.
£300.12.6.
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with the directions of this Excellency The
of the present state of the
consequence
buildings occupied for the above purposes.
The Debtors' Prison, one of the buildings
first erected on
the establishment of the Colony, was intended for
The residence of and occupied as the res the Chief Magistrale with Court Room, &c. The
aterials and workin and a terials
work anskrise
are
of the most or- dinary kind, the several scanthings oftimber need throughout extremely slight and the whole put to gether in the
tzar
to all similar
houses built here without efficient superintendence
In the year 1845 one half of the build-
Debtors' Prison, and subse
ing quently
converted into
A
mainder ward
way
the
and
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ethough the utmost
tude d
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Gaoler's residence
suitable for such purposes possible to former both on
a
Love
it
to render it
perfectly im- range any thing satisfactorily for the
of the unsuitableness of the plan and the insufficiency of the materials which to correct would have in
and
wohin an
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Debtors' Prison.
254
160 Digging foundations
C. feet
2780 Rough stonework in foundation 6608 Brickwork laid in
Zar 0 2..
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tar
716 Pressed ashlar in plinth
chamfered arices.
with
107 Perth to Verandah chamfered
prices
16 Stone bases to piers in Verandah
C. feel-
with chamfered arices
121⁄2 Stone dressing to loop huotes 421⁄2 Dressed strive steps
8 Dressed ashlar to window sills
weathered and throated.
68 Stone dressing to windows sunrts
for iron bars
371⁄2 Granite hearth stones, rubbed and
fixed
840 Granite flagging for floors of bath
205222 arral
verandahus
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uship volved the reconstruction of the greater portion of it. 301 Brickwork laid in
piers and arches to Verandahs
Yds
worlar
The inadequacy of the Building for the purposes of a place of confinement indeed is 470 Nough stucce jointed in
has been adoptedi. fret circumstances would the desire of th is Excellency
quite apparen 47
to
render it as
permit; several
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walls.
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additional services there to to render it more
to
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five feet 50
secure,
C. feet construc 180
tion,
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Thiving
that
butas
before slated in consequence of its suitableness in plan and insufficient.
bd be done was naturally of a temporary kind; and as at the present time 160 it is in a dilapidated state and fast falling into decay
the necessity for the erection of a purison is most imperative.
Brought forward
255
27832
Houlding to windows and chim
neys of in girth.
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haltic timber framed and fixed in roof
3.63110
Baltic timber in
ers fixed
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raft-
31. 244
18 Baltic timilion framed and fixed
in Verandah ro
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The Main Guard house is a Bungalow 5/ Baltic timber laid as purlines in situated North of the New Magistracy
common rafters to Verandal roofs 25 Hardwood in well plates, any.
of the
ling
it to as
and is on, and
in
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33
31.
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ties
and templets.
ceiling joists 36 24
24 17
groor
44
1710
16
tremely bad state of
repair,
pair the
the greater portion woodwork is perished, and the whole build cauerst be expected to hold together much long 1412 Baltic timber in ceiling joists
171⁄2 China fir, wist one side
and tougued in
in ceiling 124 Bablic timber in joists of floors Squarey
72 wrst one
built of
the
commonest materials workmanship and about the same period present Debtors' Prison.
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Squares
the
C. feet.
The Convict Guand are provided with China fin, wis = me side
Quarters within the Garl Compound in Bungalow which
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3
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grooved and
-tongued in floor 14 in. 81Mlolove timber in door and window_
umall
C. feet
S.
; fect
was purchased fr well in th
-year 1845 when the reconstruction of the Gasts was effected under authority of téports and Estimate No. 5 of 1845.
539 worse state of 112 repair than that of the Main Guard, and in
This Building is in
quer
ce
ww
wed
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frames, wrought, rebated, beaded
and fixed
French casement windows 2" thick Hardwood in doors wrought, framed,
braced and battened.
Carried forward
5
$15 21156
4
216176 28 17 1841-
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002.40. Crs,
Accommodation is provided per 20
as well as for persons / male) and It jemules
keeper, and having 2 porches / one only, shown in the plan) together with detached kit chens and privies, super feet encloved.
Description of the proposed
Debtors' Prison.
Buildings.
S. fect
305
Squares
314.
This Building is to be a Bungalows raised 3/1
5. Yds
140
Obo
3 feet from the ground to admit of the perfect ven. silation of the floos, is to be hofeet +50 feet in the 150 ding
Verandah on
two sides & feet wide, with Bathrooms at the four
A.
40
16
Brought forward
6 shirting west one side and fixed
Double tiles laid in mortar.
Whitewashing interior
Wrought iron in straps to roof
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256
468 18
3163
4210
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bolts and rents
10
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3120
670
bars to windows
65+
32
sliding bolts to
64
dons with tongue and staple complete
"airs of I" Cast iron butt hinges to
4-
doors and
windows
سلے میں
مجھے
large
arez..
4700
66
64,
12. in: banel bolts
228
108
1
and
airing yards or ground 611 Hooks and eyes / wrought iron!
Elens
48
6 po wrought iron hinges to exterior dons, weighing & the exch
9
C-
Vorfolk catches
3
26
separate area for female prisoners. This wall to be of stone 14 feet high, the ground forming
a portion of the proposed inclosure is Gf feet higher than the
intended level, this Samares propose to cut all to within ten feet of the present brick boundary wall and street, to giv it a batter of 3 inches to the foot and jace it with foot thick so as to render it perfectly secure both for the stability of the -road and prevention of escape of Prisoners.
The cxterior windows do have stone $825
AL.
stone
tre as to all
رکھے تھے کیسے مریم
facings with iron bars fixed therein, and pesvided with glass
ar dve l l....
as
Venetian
C. Yds
58 feel
Fetching of brick and chiun and last iron ventilators (6 in: square / Hitchens
us and Privies with lean to roofs carranged complete fapproximate) Boundary Walls.
38 Digging
Digging foundations
1500
Nough stone in foundations Wugh punched stone, including plinth and arping
Carried forward
16
4
4.2.
10
315
#
26180196.
828
/
୮
C. Yds
The French casernen & windows and doors under Verandah to have teak or Molave ₤1182 Cutting fra. ince with iron bars fixed therein
feet
Brought forw and
and ren cou
257
828
ing ground to forme
airing yard Nough slove in joundation to
breast
to all
The floors 11⁄2" thick of China for to 2560 be laid upon Baltic wood joists with a thorough system of Ventilation, the whole being thoroughly 1890 Rough punched granite in breast
Z.
coated with coaltar to prevent the attack of while ants. The ceilings to be of I in thick China fir grooved and toriqued.
شده
The Gaoler's Ho
ouse.
proposed to be built upon, and with wings projeating over, the Pon the Boundary wall so as
to give the perfect surveillance of the interio of the Compound by loop-holes as shown on the plan and section,
by the windows which will be secured with iron bars;
as well as
1
modation provided consists of one se
sitting 20X16 bedroom 20.7 17, two other rooms available
02.20
2. Uds
1441
C. feet-
(52
wall
tra
21⁄2" teak gate fraured and braced with 14" battens, complete with wrong
ht iron lunges and bars 60 feet super)
ہ رح نے جرم کیجے
Contingencies 5 per Cent
Gaoter's House. Excavating foundations
roon757 Rough granite in foundations
Dressed granite in plinthe, loop
holes, window sills and steps
private
L
as bedrosmes if necessary, a Office GE 'XC, and Verandah 8 feet wide in the 9066 Brickwork laid in mortar inclu
' x
lear.
with a
The house to be attached by gateway
of the CD able
squares
hes to Verandah
arc. li.
ding wall 161⁄2 Double titing laid in mortar
S. feet.
quanco
therein to the Boundary wall 550 +" flagging to lower Verandah Krivon.
3.50 Chumaming appes Veranda le floor. 3.25 Fitching of brick and chunand
Carried forward
The Main Guard.
I think it would be extremely desirable
2915.
44.1844
544363
12
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451211
£958127
3
15155
24 G
1051010
20 126
1084
196
181 167
A building similar to the one pro-197 Gaoler's residence, projecting beyond
Z: Molave timber wrought, framed, beaded, rebated and fixed 14" best China for wrought one side;
and torque d
258
to locate within the Gaol Compound, this would
Brought forward
18
16
C. feet
sentry loss, and the whole que require one
and would bc Amore available in case of disturbance than as at present outside the walls.
для
272
Baltic timber framed and fixed in roof
3.6 47
477
465
бе
fixed
2.8
62
f
41
16
A.
Ca
Sau
10
quares
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grooved
£15 12 10
10285
excape
unobserved
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should be provided with the upper room, and if thought desirable the ground floor might be
1 3/2/
504
120
Kin. feet
1
one side
S. feet-
56
1554
4.
·
1174 88
windows
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16 16
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view of the and this with a sentry beat on
prosed as the North retaining wall, giving
terior portion, the Western boundary (the weakest portion of the 15.20" China for boards in ceilings was? Compound) it would be quite impossible for any prisoner to
and fixed
"2" framed door filled in with battens & The Guard being generally beuropean 2.52 | 12" French casement drows
a
252
3
Venctions to doors and windows
rounded and
occupied by the Convict day guard or an Officer 224 6" Skirting fixed of the prison, formed into cells for work free
28 Hardwood wron
wrought, nishment or otherwise; in the latter
fixed in handrail to stairs C.My Battic wood wrought and fixed Convict Guard - house might be built at a derate expense on the site of the present Main Guard - house for £100.
feat
16
4
3" octagonal
22
1" &quare.
E newels fixed bar balusters
The Verandah or lower arcade of these 576 Typhoon bars
ar
+
2
S. feet
24
5. Y do
buildings I propose to form with grained ches for the support of the floors above, and thereby to prevent the decay and deterioration of 574 wood - work placed as joists and That purpose.
d
floning for 203
Chimney pieces / stone/
Hearth stones rubbed (4 × 9 )
Rough stucco exterion
3 Coats pla
plain oil colour Carried forward
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Specifications and working
Drawings for each separate work will be prepared in de-
tail whenever it may
be decided to carry into effect any
any of the proje
firsforsed works here on. The fuola.
frio l'able of the buildings to be removed
and
alluded to.
the materials
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12
6"
Lot
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+168
336
value of rencoved is br deducted from the
of
the destinate.
is brought to
grop
14. fluerly
Surveyor General.
S. feal 432
Elme
Brought forward
Best seconds glass fixed in putty.
416 throught iron in bolts, straps and
bars and fixing
10" iron rim locks
Ac
12" banch botto-
259
£ 42411
6
1016
1228
อ
for lower floor
44" cast iron butt hinges
163 Stay hooks for venctions and doors
Typhoon bar staples
1930
80
Cast iron ventilators
ون
Grates 2 feet
Kitchen and Coolies' - house.
20 feet × 10 feet fitted complete
(a
approximate)
Contingencies 5 per Cent
Main Guard- house.
Same as for Garter's house, without kitchen and Corties - trouse.
Contingencies 5 per cent
Convict or exterior Guard House. Approximate Estimate as per Peport.
5 12
512
7.
139
21314
10. 475 12/1 23137
£49986
4651211
2357 488186
£100.
?
+
3 of 1851.
RVICE воде
and Guard House's.
QUANTITY
Victoria, Hongkong, 23d
сем
ESTIMATED
260
COLONIAL
ary,
1849
RATE
AMOUNT
到
$s d
Abstract.
Debtors' Prison, Hitchens, Privier
and Boundary
Walls.
Gadler's house with kitchen and Cooties' house.
Main Guard to ouse
Convict or exterior Guard - house
Deduct probable value of old
materials
958127
49986
488186
100
2046 197
250
Total.
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Surveyor General.
£1796197
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OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL
(Art. of Instru
ESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE NECESSARY TO BE INCURRED FOR
The Eld in the Work
PLAN OR DESCRIPTION.
the
it is proposed to place the wheel.
hit
above the present Gaol compound the stair can erected for A Treadwhiel having been demanded from Englan/hr Polier Turret should be made availible and another door for this Sad the present restimate is brought forward formed through the turret to give access thereto; also for the in support of the requisite expenditure for its erection mure ready and effective discharge of the Gaolers duties
preparation of the site, and erection of boundary in iesiting the Tread Wheel Compound as well at the traus to enclose the yard, or componced within which Main Compound, a Gathway be formed adjoining It communication by order of His Excellency The residener which should becomes the puncipal entrance Acting Governor having been made to the histices into the Saol, the present outraner bring used only of the Peace for them to determine upon the site, b) upon Special & unavoutable occasions; such as when suited for the exection of the Theet, the fourving Scutter Articles are to be introduced into or taken pom the Gaol attended at the chief Magistrates office on the 144!" ulls which cannot converently be conveyed up or down stops, vist The How : C. B. Hulier, Esq., Chief Magistrats of and for the departure and retum of the convicts Polier. Thomas Hyland kesyre, I. P. I. Boring employed upon Public Works . Edg
2. I, P. and the Surveyor General ; when after maturely considering the various circumstances
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in my
268
These particulars having been reported to Governmen affecting the future beneficial working of the wheel, the proposed services were ornered to be prepared for
letter Nr 11 the details for canying into effect :access thereto pour the Gaol
the convenience
брас
Buildings, and a direct surveillance of the compound by the Garter; it was decides to ecommureed that; the site be immediately adjoining the Saolers Residence on the West and to occupy
a suitable area between it and the Police
Surret.
As the levels of the proposed site would be 12 feet-
consideration.
I now submit 3 Plaus vist
res. The Found Plan; showing the connexion of the
bld with the new Compound, and the Gateways
the Saolers the Frend wheel
adjoining
or Sentianer to the latter Residence, with the position of House be be
25019/59
Wey. Elevation of the Tread wheel Houts. The proposed lever
of the N'eu Compound and the elevation of the New Intianer, re
N93 . Details of the Tread Wheel Houts and attachment
to ce large scale.
Considering it unnecessary to attack a formal, or professunal, specification until the sauction of Govenment is given to the work I propose to confeur
myself to a Several Description of the several services proposed, for the information of
His excellency
Porncil.
in
The Area or Site of proposed Compoc
Upon this Wall unit be elected the North wall of the
или
and custo
- W Wheel Stouts, having semicircular ventilators therein.
The remaining
Walls unu be formed with arches therein having upright-pencvrable wooden bass, Bin : square, for the admission of light and air, as well as for the security
custody of the men on the wheel, and the introduction of materials if required.
The bearings of the
the wheel and its Machinery I propose to make of stone, to supply all the requisite articles for its fitting, and execute this particular server by days work, as no Chinaman could be ex heated to understand the servies, or complets it, es irregular and mu require to to reducerd to the loved satisfactorily, without taniopeau Superintendence. shown in plau IV 92 comprising an avera
average depth
I consibler it also necessary to estimate for the of cutting of 4 feet.
Juropeau bverseer for this duty as it The South and kast Boundary Wall will be quite cimpossible for me to be on the spot the will be supported upon retaining tralls, and it is proposed to make then total height equal to 14 feet The North or present Bound
Wall may ary - 1/2 feet the rem maining height Serving as a parapet at the same tuur preventing parties at work in the Wheel Compound pom holding communication with
will
- thot in the adjoining
our.
servier of.
whole
оли
269 the work will be executed
day to direct the work. The remainder of
be lowers Contract.
ly
It will be observed that the entraver Gateway is formed as a Semi : octagon, loop: holed, and a Suard being stationed in the covered way, view of every part of the compound may be obtained
a clear
I also propose to form two additional loop holes in the Gaolers Verandah for the same object.
Thr: Halen at the end of the covered way gives access to the ground south of the wheel Compound and
ул flacks the south wall.
The Saolers Offices with the exception of the covered
N=5. way are provided for in report and festimate. P=5 1851, but not yet built.
a second
than counterbalaner
arising
Objections may perhaps be taken to the formation of
Bateway.
and it were better av ided of possible There are however in the present case advantages which mod
- any supposed disadvantages a pom dimmition of security, and the puncipal of thes is the bringing almost within the Faol Compound of the Ixilors residecer now outside; and bringing everything or person passing in or out of the prison immediately under the Gablers er nuich cannot now be the cats. I can see no other mour than that proposed for the
anaugement of
the
difficulty, as the ground meteuls obstacles which render it impossible to obtain astuitate arew for the proposed building. and compound, if the wheel is to be applied to any useful purpose; if it is simple area of 30ft x 20ft would suffier ound
not
a
then it might be placed in the pincipal compound
at a considerable saving of expense. This latter proposal however I cannot recommenx.
270
10 Eco. Liverty Surveyor Riserat.
Particulars
?
:
Clearing Site, ncluding 1070 Cuts hands of cutting @ 5 ff. 5676. Cure feet of ishlar Matomy for boundary Walld
idretaining Walls. shayd foot.
Lalour for removing 7412 Cubs feet of old
Wall & replacing
d
Coping at 2. fft:
"New Door
For Way in Junet_labour_
Loop: holes 15mm
271
22.5.10
22 510
1605-11-1105-112-
658
6.5.8
muruber at 572a:.
C. V p
Stone Steps 45
superficial feet at 1/2ḍ Retaining wall Steps to Cube feet.
cofing all of athlar at 8 d foot.
·8d
Panird over.
3.15.
3:15
2.12.6
2126
2.
203.8...
2
2038
I
i
1
1
Brought
ht over Paving Flags 794/8. Juperficial, at 8d_
Stone Plunth of Wheel Hout 13501.01/
10 Qube feet of Stone Blocks for beards of
machinery@1/6fft
serd
Putting Ventilators
old Wall at 57 204. Brickwork
Brickurk Set in Mor
ai 913 Cubeft. @bd 109 feet run of eaved moulding 2 in girth 45d foot
Siz feet run of caver moulding to covered way at 2d pft.
203.8 2038
272
26.9.4
26.9.4
6.15.
6.15-
3.
15.
22.14.6
1.7.3
P
22.16.6
19.10
9/10
Cauird over
265-11 265 //
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over ver
Brought
Carpenter
lo Cubs feet. Baltic Food in roof, wrought.. samed &fixed at
Hffoot
11 Cuts feet of upright
d
veable bars 3xDat
6. fer foot-
Superficial fees of
alousir ventilators
tood
iked in hard woods
rande #fffort.
Cubrfect Baltie
louber wrought
gorused & fixed for
Goof of Covered way @41/- 30 Superficial feet
laidwood Doors at 2_ 388 Superficial feet- Wingle tiles laid
in mortar.
Cawird over
|265....11 265t
273
24.
10. 4.
10.4
2.13.
2.13
Gu
9
12..
160m
110
323.13.1) 323,13,11
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, No. 38. A
n of a Tread Wheel not of Victoria and mected therewith
DATED 17
Iun888/53
the many 1953
выжер
PARTICULARS.
MATERIALS
LABOUR.
TO BE PURCHASED.
MATERIALS
TO BE ISUED FROM STORES.
PORTION
OF WORK TO RE PERFORMED
BY CONTRACT.
£
$4
d.
£
5.
d.
£
S.
d.
£
$.
d.
£
TOTAL.
d.
Mem
The expents of the Trendwhert was included the restimate for the year 1857 at £100
a
It has been received in the Colony and the cost, inclusior of Foright & Charget, £175.2.3. already pacil by the eAgent General.
Under the encumstances it has been considered best to exclude the post- 4- ofthe wheel & its appurtenances proud this Estimate which is prepared to meet only the expense of its erection & the proposed alterations connected
there with.
Blacksmith
The
lbs wrought iron
d
Brot, over.
hughes @7". #tuuught irow Trapd orf, fixed @ 6a hudlocks, hasps bars
3d complets.
Jin: irow rinn
Rs fixed alloy
Banel bolts Heesling
2/6 fixed
Baust bolly 12 fixed atrod_
lour, to Fitting ing Wheel in Position uropean Oveneer— minare Carpenters.
Do Do attend outs
inting all Wood. ork 4 Coats 93 puficial faras No & fyard
10.
6.15
3.10.
Casualties, // ..........
323.13.11 323.1511
2.17.2 2.6
2172
26
18..
18
7..
1.6.
2.6
6 y. 26
10.
6.
3.10
3.17.6
3.17.
35441
3585
Total,............£ | 38912 6
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Surveyor-General.
25717153
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477 of 1853.
ure No 2 in Desp:
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تقل مقتله السهر
1278.
Civil.
Aut. 30
لي
11479 Stong Kong
0.0 NOV. 29 1853
275
Vietmia, Amyhony, 10th Betober, 1853.
My Loc Duke,
I have the howon to
inform your Imce, that I have
Innes,
with the concurrene
of
the mycentive
Council, granted eighteen mouth's' leave of absence to Mt Edward Morgan, Clerk to the auditor General,
Registrar of Marriages, and acting Accountant and Clark of Dec
Registry in the surveyn benerals
His Grace
office,
The Duke of Newcastle,
P.
1853
SURVEYOR-GENERAL'S
ESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE FOR
Erection
да
£ 3SS. 12. 6
Torad Wheel.
Victoria, 12 May 18653
İ
&o.
to
Xo.
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1
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to enable him to proceed to England
for
to
the recovery of
your
his health.
Suncred I beg to transmit
Inace the requisite Certificate.
Copy of the
of
his leave, as well as a
Medical Certificate by Dr Harland N.2.
reting for the Colonial surgeon,
D
the Strength of which the leave was
granted..
During Mt Morgan's absence
M.
in the
the duties of his offices Department of the auditor General and that of the Surveyor Several will be performed by Mr Augh Reinhard, who in conformity with :the Colonial Regulations will draw the
imricties
the Salaries attached
of the
Half Salary
Clerk to the
£ 150. Auditor General} Accountantan 150.
Clerk of Food Reginlay)
£300.
to those -
appointments, - aggregating
£300 per annum. The office
of
Registrar of
Marriages will be held by M= Pienaceker, 2nd Clerk and Accountant in the Eolonial Treasury, half of the pay assigned
drawing one half
to that Office, namely £25 per
Annum. -
I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,
My Lord Duke,
Graces,
your
Most obedient
Humble Servant, Brahman
i
;
Cuta
Bonhari
MINUTE 30 Instit
DECR г
2
2
Menoate WRF Peel Duke Newcus 3.
Anew 16 Feb /54
3150
11474 Money Here
No38
31.1
Share to acknowles we the
ecceipt
De
277
weight of your hospell hyp of the 10% of bet le ct reporting
it gor.
Concurrence
had with the
of your
Corencil,
granted aghlan Mouths leave of absence to Ther Edward Mergane,
Merk te the
Auditor General and Registrer of Marrianes at thing Han
Sequb that it is not in Sugub.
us power, consisteulls with
pus
し
the seale which I love found
it pecesory to apply sin
Similer coses,
to Sanction
in the fish cistence,
L
have for a louver Grevod
Vietnia mytong
C
Ais bunce the ouke of Newenti
Soerna Jis ber. Bordam, 17=
107 Betober ( 1953 –
Ricerd
hieizures-
performance of his duties,
arrangements made for the
to the auditor General, tc., and
granted to su: 1. lungan, Clerk
shence, in sick Certificati
Reporting 18 luonths leave
During
his absence.
in this case be confirmed?.
Should the 18 Morell's have of abso-
has been mucarty seven Glass
Morgan
Henry Kory.
my bl
Confirm for hurle
month, I think printing out to the forman Net
the medical cutificati
Лос бутра
مگ
مرضی
NA 12
months hav
will brequined:
ind Itt an
Extension
The
additional
six month
Can hakklied for, shoed is newhay,
A rich
brell
30.
г
1
Moults
then twelve, being granted
to the bentlemen
chen: from the Costfernten
how
Messal Certificle schich
you
encolure that it it
lwelve
:nforply stated that tralie
ishlien Mouths leave
& will be required to evalle
Nur Morsan to resume his
clubes, and should the
Additional six months
114
I hereby certify that, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of Government, I have granted to Mx Edward Morgan, eighteen months bave of absence. 278
Victoria, Hongkong, 10th October, 1859.
Governor.
}
ad
I hereby certify that Mr. Edward Morgan has received full salary, at the rate of £.500 per annum Clerk to the Auditor General, Registrar of Marriages, and Acting Accountant and blerk of Seed Registry the Surveyor General's Office, up to the 11th October, 1855,
inclusive.
Sshall
Note.
to found Ampany Solin
red to conside
6. Jrepared
Javorably any application he may make for that
way. Juurfore
Officers proceeding
Tovinom
Colonial Treasurer
on leave of absence
try in
are
requested to observe, that they will not be enabled to receive half salary in England, unless this Eestificate
is du
duly filled up and -igned
[ turn over.
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I hereby certify:
jet.
the 11
th
That the above leave was • granted to commenced on of October 1863, and end on the 10th
of April, the ground of ill-health, and that the medical certificate was produced of which a copy is annexed.
1855, on
gard
That. Mr. Edward Morgan
has served the frown in this Colony for Six years, Tew months, and Eleven days.
зад
(Vide note on
That in the
opposite pago.)
Course)
of that service he has been
absent on leave several occasions, at the dates and
the terms specified below; vif :
for
In the
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year 1849.
1850
Ten days. Fourteen days. Eighteen days. Twenty-five days.
1851.
1852
1853-
Forty one days.
Mr. C. Morgan served as flock to the le at Chusar, from the 130 : November, 1842, to the 30th June, 1846.
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Marine Magistrate at the
th June,
th
14th. Thats provision has been made for the due execution
of
Mr. Edward Morgan's offices, during
his absence, by
=
Mr Augh Reinhard as Clerk to the Auditor General, and Acting Accountant And Terk of Deed Registry in the Surveyor General's departiment,
and by Mr Hobert Hienssiker as Registrar of Marriages..
Note.
Officers who
mayf
be under the necessity of
aw extension of
applying to the Secretary of State for
this document
their leave of absence, are requested to annex to their applications; and, in order to meet this contingency, it will be furnished to thems in Duplicate .
FU
Despate! 178 171853
Iratosure M/ in
Falling 280
(Copy)
Victoria Story Kong.
September 12th, 1853.
Thereby certify that Mr. E. Morgen
has been in a state of
ill health
por
the last two years during which period he has suffered from repeated attacks of Diarrhea & Dysentiry. For some mouths past the disease has been much more severe, and having assumed a Chronie Character, his strength has gradually become so much reduced as to render his speedy return to Europe for twelve or Eighteen mouths imperatively necessary, as affording
the
absence
Certificate
бр
Leave
F
Auditor General, tc.
10th betober, 1953.
Morgan, Clerk to the
granted to ins E.
the only chance of permanent
recovery.
(Syjned / M. Hurland, Mr.J.
breking for The Colorinal Surgeon..
Love Cappy.)
Maine
Colonial Secretary-
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Anclosure M.2 in
MERLA
PROEIVED
Schedule of
0.0.
DEC. 17
12000 dong trong
•
282
of Fetches transmitted by the Governor of stonghong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, by the Mail Steamer Pottinger,
via Southampton, on the 27 October 1853.
No. of Date of
Selp!
Jubject of Scepatel. Duplicates.
76. Jetz 5 Reporting on ordinance 1.1 of 1855, for the regulation
of
copy of
the
the bark of Houghtong," and transmitting Lame, as well as of the Sarl Regulations sanctioned
therely.
77. • 7 Transmitting Reports and betimates for the coneturation
79.
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a new debtors Prison, to, and of a house for the reception of the Treadwhich.
Originals.
18 Recommending to His Graces farmabic consideration
letter from the auditor Several with dreiosures, pointing out, on the representation of Mr. Morgan, the disadvantageous conditions under which lirth Officers of Stong Kong" obtain leave of absence.
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Duplicate.
Morgan's health. respecting the state Certificate by Dr Furiand
F
بالنار
12th September, 1953
1Jo of Fate of
Desp.
Scar.
bet
!
Jubject of Despatch
80. Oct. 20 With reference to despatch 1964 of 29th August, serorting
81.
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the publication of a local Gazette, and urging that a Rinting Prese be sent
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of the Colonial Government: one.
Reporting deccare of Mr. Monicon, the Colonial Surgeon, and recommending that Jr Harland, appointed to perform those duties, be confirmed in
the situation
Replying to His Grace's Despatch 1.20 of 18th August,
respecting the Colonial Chaplaincy of stongkong
Acknowledging receipt of His Grace's deepatches
to 120 of 18th August, together with Circulars of 16th, 18th and 19th July, 1853.
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122) chong vong
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RECENED
DEC 27
1853
18th detober, 1853.
My Lord Duke,
forward for your
a letter to
I have the honor to
Space's consideration
Ally address
a
дми
ou the the
Eving cover to
one
se to the Auditor General
with enclosures from 18 Morgan,
the clerk in the audit office, relative
to the ve
very
limited period that the
sick Servants of the Colony
are
permitted to be absent without
His Grace,
The Duke of Newcastle,
Ac
to
deduction being made from their allowances, as also to the heavy expense entailed them when necessary
upon
for
them to
2.
Your
tur
repair
to England.
By the Colonial Regulations
Grice will be aware,
Civil Officer
that
can be absent from
220
his
his Port beyond the period of Six weeks, without losing half of Salary; a Regulation which applies
to all Colonies alike.
3.
es, and
and I
Mr Morgan argues,
degree of justice,
think with some
that, although a period of
Six
weks' absence may be found
284
sufficient for the intended purposes ригрый at Malta, Gibraltar,
and some
of the West Iulia Alands, it cannust be considered a boon at Gong Kong,
where,
nu the
from
the prition of the
Colony, it cannot be taken advantage of
4.
From the locality of Doug Kow,
u the
distant some 1400 Tuiles
дрочи nearest British settlement, it is
impossible for a sick officer to take advantage of six weeks leave, and the result is that the sufferer is forced to remain at his Pat until at length, to save his life, he is compelled to proceed to England
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for a
lengthened period, which perhaps
he might have arrided, could be have availed himself of a shorten period at an earlier date._
5. Me Morgan ales shows
I
in
his own case - that, after paying
1.
pazzage
i
which may cach
for
to rugland and back,
be estimated at £100
voyage,
he will have,
1
from his Talary, to maintain
year and a half.
Kimself for one year on say £82.
Half Pay for 18 months £232.10.- Pastage some and brek
6. The Auditor General in his
letter refers to greater advantages being enjoyed by the Consular officers
back
" 200.
£624100
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in China - As there Gentlemen are
under
лигу
immediate supervision,
I think it right to say that all
Officers in that Department arc —
allowed 3 months' leave of absence in
year, without
arry
each year,
deduction from
their Salaries, which enables them, if
they see fit, to proceed to the settlements in the Straits and even to Ceylon, and
to return within the prescribed time, that all the Assistants absent on
leave to hugland, and whose allowmnen
do not exceed £500
per annum are allowed to enjoy full Salary during their absense and that when the
allowances amount to £ 500 per annum,
parties are allowed two thirds
the parties
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their Salary.
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16 Morgan in his letter refers also to certain privileges enjoyed by the Ifficers of the Post Office, and on
enquiry
I find that in that Separtment, the Port Master General and his Clerks subject to certain conditions, allowed
are
alternately 18 mouths leave of absence without loss of Salary, besides having sum of £100 paid to them towards defraying their
passages
out and home.
Grace
8. I must remind your
analogy between
that there is no anal
Aonghong and Ceylon; as, from
Colony a sick Officer may in a
un the latter
few
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days proceed to Marras or Bombay, and always have an opportunity of returning within the prescribed time, and he has morcover a place of refuge
in care severe illness in the high lands of the deland - Jerofeer therefore
I think that the Colonial Regulations,
as
regards sick absentees in this Colon, require amendment, and, in the hose that your
Gance may
may emneur with
- me in opinion, Ibring the question to your favourable comideration._...
I have the hour to be,
With the highest respect, My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's,
Most obedient. Aumble Servant,
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Her Muriele
There
ld appear to be
to le porolversons opsequen
For some relocation of #to sule. The Sagula:
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Ceylon
Mm 828 I would make a Enter to Melancton offer. this Batins, in consideration
myins of the alleged
the Monial notopprop te raporumb my ne service & those are somment company their forming
of the Meijn office
my mom
4 Post Nice. There mens cong cups of mignominiseny
L
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of which I am not aware,
but our
rules in respect of atience seem far les liberal:
but then on heel with colonial,
ial, revenue
hit Superial
I can
Jaffert to the ground for extending
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further indulgence at Hong Kong Thick
panning
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lanhealthiness of the Clemati the leaon Jalean on full Intrad of being
lalary,
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year cougar, maybe 4 buchs and 3 months in altemal gears. Mens every
weeks
quezean an
offeer could go
Blade of be fleand, and
beermal hii hatts: and
i mo nagy perhaps in the way the long
sich leam weyte prevented (see back of fast anlam 4.)
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the 18 of Cetitor last laut.
it
letter with elt
Enclosures Gromi
the Accdition
Geneal refinsenting
the
Foodships le which the bind
A
Sourets of Hong Kong
exposed by the Regulation
Comiting
period In ashich
to six luce.
each year
why the
they may
le abreul worthout deduction
their
Looking
to lie
Salaries-
to the Clemite a
of the
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Jone
An
healthier
British Papassion, S
I gand graused
Conseiler thel
Love le fingert for¬
Some chixation of thr
existing Auliah day with propriety of conceded
Restead theifar of the therefore
nnual six
wecks Cacation
at you soul & Elenecel,
to
have to authorize you Grand to the Ceil Kuanti
1:a. of absence en full
Salary for a Jeriod of
on
should
Foren Month's in every Second 1 year you consider it a scare
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the destipati
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for four weeks and that
Houths in altomati
m
in particular instances, as Where, so long Interruption at any haul to the regular
Mo
Snece bom of the duties of
the
An offen would be attended with Incons
thrie
four weeks and
Puruths attematily
highs of the perinde optie Annual absences Withins abatement of
Salary. Sa
(Copy)
Ser
289
Auditor General's Office, Victoria, Hongkong,
15th October, 1853.
I have the honor to submit to
the favorable consideration of Your Ex-
cellency, copy of a letter
7 from Mr. Edward
Morgan, ( Clock in the Office of the Auditor General ), proceeding this day
leave to Europe .
The
on sick
• grievaned urged by Mr.
Morgan has been keenly felt by every
member of the Civil service
of this Colony,
and where the salary of the individual
is under £.600 per
annum,
the hardship,
as quoted by him, is great, and selfoondent, and I feel assured only requires represent His Excellence
Sir George Bonham, Bart, K. C. B),
yor,
je.),
!
.
국
ation to the Home Government to cauld
a revision.
лег
of the Rule referred to ; vide
Chapter 4 of the Colonial Regulations .
I may be permitted to observe
that aw
аго все
exception might be made in
is faver
of this Colony, from the fact of it's being more distant
dist + from the mother country
than
any
other portion of Her Majesty's
dominions, and where the
wear and tear
of constitution to a European is infinitely
greater, with :
few exceptions,
other frown Colony.
than in accompanying
any
The
tables have been prepared with a view of showing the number of bivil servant
who have died, and been compelled to go from hence
sick leave, in search of
and I have
· on
health, since the formation of the Colony, no doubt that, compared with other British possessions, Hongkong will be found the most prejudicial to the health of Her Majesty's servants.
a
10
If this
s
service was
290 placed upon
similar footing with either the Ordnance
Military Department, as
regards
Leave of absence after a certain period of
residence in
Hongkong, obtainable ab
the
option of the Civil servants, and in all cases where such leave is compulsory, ( from sickness), the passage money of the
party paid by the Government, such indulgence would be hailed
us one)
of
the greatest : boons which the Crown could confer
servants,
ow
its
faithful and loyal
There is another point to which
I would pray Your Excellency's attention,
the superior advantages
and that
ن
is
enjoyed in the sister service, working
under the samè re
roo
roof with the officers
of the Colony; namely the Foreign Department, all of whom are entitted by the regulations of that servied to
leave for three months in each
any
year,
without.
only claim
loss of salary, whereas we can for a period of six weeks the Colonial
by
(Regulations, and the nature of this distinction
we he
necessarily and naturally
is such that we
are desirous
of being placed
footing
with
More
our
on
aw e
equal
fortunate brothers
of that Department.
I have to crave pardow for
this
long trespassing on Your Excellencys
time, but I trust. to be excused in consider-
ation of the
momentous question submitted,
hoping that the same
may.
meet with
the earnest, and cordial support of
Your Excellency,
indulgent view
so as to insure an
being taken thereof by
Her Majesty's Government.
In conclusion, I have the honor-
to remain with the utmost respect, &C.,
(True Copy)
Mani
(signed) W. Caine.
Colonial Secretary)
Auditor General.
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291
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Melizure
I in
Despatel 179 171853.
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(Copy)
Auditor General, to Soverun Sie George Bonham, subruitting a letter
Letter from Lient: Colonel Caine
from M17R.
lungan,
relative to
favorable consideration.
subject to His breellency's
leave of absence; and recommending
which Civil Officers of broughtong sharin
the disadvantageous conditions unde
15th betober 1953.
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292
Hongkong, 6th October, 1883.
cer
Having applied under sick tificate to proceed to Europe for the recovery of my health, I have the honor to request.
will bring you
bring to the
to the consideration of His Excellency the Governor a Regulation laid down in the Colonial Instructions, which presses with great severity upon subordi -
nates in the service, whose health has been impaired by long
service in this pernicion
climate; whose only
the
resource is
expensive
one I am ordered to adopt, or to succumb to disorders elsewhere not usually fatal
in their
consequences.
I allude to that
regulation
which, under the circumstances referred
The Honble.
Lieut. Col. Caine,
Je,
&e,
&o
to, deprives invalids of a moiety of their
and allowances at the time when,
pay
того
their
than
any
means.
other, they require
I will state on
in
293
England, or suberquent debt on his return to the Colony ; providing in the
all
lime
ony
own case as an
average example . My half salary
amount to £. 175 per
annum,
will.
the whole
of which is required by the most economical
of transport to defray my passage
Meand
toi
land and back
to England
this leaving
again
to the Colony,
one dependent upon the
kindness or rather charity of friends, if
indeed, my long absence has left me any;
3 for such assistance,
to whom I could look for
and, if not, I must spend the whole of
my
allowance, and eventua
the Colony
lly return to
ntually
encumbered with a debt incurred
for my passage out, from which it may
be
le years before I am enabled to clear myself.
In effect, this Regulation subjects
the absentee cither to penury or dependence
į
і
:
adequate
means
(mean)
by which during
absence, the duties of his office
can
be
performed; which, apparently is the only argument brought forward in support of the system, the operation of which, respectfully submits, places officers of the frown in positions which they ought never to occupy, mord particularly
case, upwards of ten
after,
as in
years' service.
these
to
my
It is apparent, I think, that
regulations were framed to meet the requirements of the old American and West India Establishments, and never intended to apply in their full forced to Colonies
distant
ries so
as
from the mother country Hongkong, where they are frequently found to act . as a
total prohibition of
leave, and many, consequently, sink under-
294
the effect of climate, from which they
have not the means
Without des
of escape .
to draw any desiring to draw
invidious comparisons between the
Services
IVE
" of the Crown,
different
existing
in
id, as now existin
this Colony, and particularly not seeking
to make
my
own a
special case,
I would
nevertheless beg leave to mention a
Regu
in the Colonial Post
lation in
force
I instance this
as
being the
Office.
most favorable of any, which provides
for all the Clerks going
once in a certain number
home in rotation
of years : during their abeened, not only are they allowed
allowed full salary, but each receives L. 100 towards
the cxpense of his passage.
In
In
:
taking the liberty of bringing
this question before the Governor, I do so
be
in the hope that His Excellency may pleased, with his accustomed kindness
and consideration, to lay the same
before
See Note
at foot.
the Home Government, with the view some amelioration of this
of obtaining
obtaining some a
of
stringent regulation, which presses with such unhappy and baneful effects upon the subordinate officers of the Govern-
t of Hongkong.
I have, &er,
ment.
Ligned, E. Morgan,
(Frue
Clerk to the Auditor. General, and a
Registrar of Marriages.
Copy
Colonial Secretary
(Over
# Note: . _ The officers of the Diplomatie:
Department and Consular Services
in China
home
ow
leave at
до
£500
full salaries, provided the
amount does not exceed £. 500
per annum. The officers belonging
to the
now-combatant branches
of the military
service
the Ordnance),
Engineers and Commissariat, are allowed leave of absened on full salary, and, if on sick certificate,
are
provided, with passages
at
Government expense, subject only
8.
3%.
to a deduction of 37 . # diem
απ
"subsistence mo
money"," which,
between this place and England
would. amount to about. L. 20.
If going home
are
home on private affairs,
then to provide passages for
themselves. The Civilians employed
in
the Naval
are allowed
8. Yard a
295
full salary during leave of absence, but
for their passages .
210
provision is made
Signed, C. M. Frue Copy Copy
lonial Secretary.
Colmial
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Letter from Mr. R. Morgan, Clark
in the Auditor General's Department, to the address of lient. Colonel Caine, Auditor General, pointing out the disadvantageons conditions under which subordinate Civil Ffficers of Foong Kong obtain leave of absence
6th Betober 1853
Enclosure 12 in
Desnatch 1.79 of 1853.
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Memorandum showing the Names of
leave of absence from the Colony for the
to 14th October, 1853.
1844.
1845.
1846.
Office.
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Mr. Comelate.
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Disputen 1779 17/833.
Inclosure 13.in
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(Copy)
299
Abstract of Deaths among the bivil Officers of "Hongkong from May 18441,
to this date.
1845. Mr. Stephen . _ Chief Clerk
Rreasury
in
the
Mr Leggett. — Click to the Supreme
1846. Dr. Dill..
Court, and
and Judge's Cork.
Colonial Surgeon.
Civil Engineer and
-Clerk of Works .
1847.
Mr. Pope
1849.
Mr. Miles.
3rd Clerk in the
Colonial Creasurer's Office.
Memorandum showing the
names of
Civil
Officer: Brony
absence for the recovery of
who have been allowed leave of
Кона
their
health, from May, 1844, to 14'
J
1850. Mr. Smith. _ Deputy Registrar of
1851. Mr. Quin
1852. Mr. Lena
the Supreme Court .
2nd Clerk in the
Chief Magistrate's Offices the Registrar
Clerk in
General's Office
>
II..
1853 . The Rev. Mr. Carroll. __ Acting
Dr. Morrison.
Colonial Chaplain.
Colmial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong,
14
th October, 1853.
Coloniab
Surgeon .
(Signed) W. Caine
Crue
Colonial Secretary.
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Colonial Buretary?
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Dispatch 1o 79 of 1853.
Inclosure 14 in
among the
May, 1844, to 14th October, 1853.
Civil Officers of stongtons, from Abstract of Scaths
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are too short a time to alter
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RECEIVED
DEC.27
Financial
1853
12078 chong trong
-Vietrin, Houghong,
301
= 12 Day 54
Deck. To Gov. Gaither Jeft. Nes = 21 Maret/54. 15.
Agent for 25th £2.6. /sti.
20th Betober, 1855.
-My Lord Duke,
In the conclating
part of my Scepatch 1.64 of the 29th Auquet, I informed your
Ganec
that I had in contemplation to
& employ some other Paper them the "China - Mail as the official Argan Government Notification, and I have now the houon to report that,
•with
a view to terminate all
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
Ac.
Ae.
tc.
¦
connection with the Creal newspapers,
engagement
I have entered into an with the Proprietor of the Hougtong Register; to publish a weekly Comment Gazette for £150 per
Aunum, deterininable at three
mouth's notice..
When considering this
it became
questin
ume nicel
ncecliary
sary to ascertain expenses of publishing and
the cu
printing in the Colony, and I enclose
your
for your
Graces information
Ch
Memorandum of the annual
inses incurred
expenses
proves to be
which proves
on
this account,
for advertising,
printing forms, H., on the average
about £550
per
aunum.
C
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302
While in rugland last year
I had some conversation with Mr
Smith, the Chief Clark in the Colonial
Affice
น
this
subject, when I think
it was ascertained that a Press suitable to the wants of the Colony coull be procured for about £300, or somewhat less, and I now find that the
nceessary expense of
i
compositos would not ireal £200 to £250 per annum._
With
reference therefore to the
more complete severance of
the
beal Government and the Rese local
as well as to the
Laving
that will
recrue from the rucnsure, I think it would be advantageons if your
A
Grace would direct the Colonial
Agent to purchase and frused
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small printing Press to this Colony, payment for which could be maile
my
out of the funds referred to in Despatch 174 of the 2012 September lut.
Should
your
Gance be pleand
to adopt this inspection, I am satisfied that any of
any of the Superion officers of the Government woulch
willingly undertake the management and supervision of the Worth
I have the honor to be,
with the highest respect,
My Lord Duke, Your Grace's
Most obedient Humble Servant,
.....
303
Mor Mensile
of the Rreasury
The tireunence should be obtained before the
Painting Prefs is ordered.
When the Grap Comer Friend, font with it D60
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27 B
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of the Fendary
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Istpitch from the Garsion. of thing Hong suggesting Hit a Smell Geunting Parf should be purchased and
Forms Jorwerded for the 1. se of his
#--
Gemment, and I his Gauce
&o State Whit
Jud pores, with thiser Leashes
Concurrence,
to authorize the
Colonial Agents to compche
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Soverna Sir Sco. Bonham, bi
Vietnia, Anglong
207 betober, 1853.
*
Ow Grace The duke of Newcasti.
Received
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P80.
/ Meiosure.
With reference to despatch MS4 August, reporting
of the 297
anangements made for the
publication
local Gazette,
and
urging
that
A
Printing Press
be sent out to Doug tone for
the
use of
the Colonial "yovernment,
!
with this requisition.
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Sir
20th Feb2/54.
am directed b
I the Duke of Newconte
to transmit to you
Copy of a Despatch
a
from the Governor of
Honghong suggesting
that a Small
Printing Press should be supplied for the of his Government,
use
and
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7
:
and I am
to
convey b you his Grace's
the
authority for purchasey and sending Colony the printing Kess which the Govenor
but you
will commmecate
in the first instance with the Comptrotter
the Stationery Offer with a view to obtain the same at
the least possible
expense
:
Janty
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list.
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307
Bonham's cles pitch
200 of the 20 of Oct lich, Shamomil the Copy of a
letter addressed to the Aucub Gemal by
the
Complotter of the Stationery
on the subject of
Fice on
Office
Eli
Thenting Peeps In the
use of
of the Government f. Horry Hong, and I have. to segrest that you will Jurish the informati
equired
required by For The Cullock,
Eogether with
any
observations schrich
May
which you
have to make on
Colou
the suggestion. Container=
hot Garageple
in the last
of his letter_
=
Sopy
308
Memorandum of the Annual Cxpenditure
for Printing, Publishing, &, during the years from 1th April, 1845, to 31th March, 1853.
Colony. Superintendeng
d.
186
Total
d.
L.
d.
1845-46. — 590 18 6 317 5 10 908 44 61146
1846-47.
1847-48.
1848-49.
454 15 91⁄2 156 8 81⁄2
306 8 6 220 12 8 527
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411
1849-50.
1850-51.–
14 22 66 2 11 479 17 11⁄2 17/1/2/ 357 562 1851 02 542 6
315 10 4 133 14 111⁄2 449
3
1851-52.
303
6 11 104 17 11 408 4 10
1852-53.
361 6 7 2 181 14 10 543 1 51⁄2
L. 4,467532
Average
annual cxpenditure . L. 558.
Colonial Creasury,
Victoria, Hongkong,
20th October, 1855
signed) W. C. Mercer, Colonial Creasare
(Frue
Copy
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RECEIVED
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309
DEC 27 Victoria, Houghong,
1852
20th October, 1853
My Lord Duke
I regret to have to
report to your Grace the deccase of Fr William Morrison, Colonial Surgeon, which took place m
the
soning of the 13th bustant, after
an
illuess of about a luruth
During the
emifinement of
Ir Morrison to his Aorice, the
Metical duties of the Colony were at
His Grace,
The Duke of Newcastle,
te.
&c.
Ne.
310
F
his
request performed by To W. a. Harland, and I have in consequence
nominated that Gentleman to
continue to perform these duties until the pleasure of your
be known.
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Fr. Starland is a Medical officer well known here, he is an
the
Foctor of Mucdicine (1844) of Edinburgh Univercity, and en member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (December 1845). prosesies an Arunary
He also
Certificate from University College London, and a Gold Medal (clase of Midwifery) from the University of bdinburgh. He is now employed
by the principal Mercantile Firms, and it would gratify myself and the Public generally, should
Grace be enabled to
your
appoint him
permanently to the Office of Colonial Surgeon, for which his long residence
in China and
perfect acquaintance
with the disease, incidental to the
Climate fully qualify him.
In Despatch "Separate from
this Os
Office, dated 27th December 1848, I proposed that whenever a vacancy recurred in the office of
Colonial
Surgeon, it should, with reference
to
cconomy, be filled by one of the Staff Assistant Surgeons attached. to the Garrison :_ when that Despatch
¡
was written there
were twelve
Mnctical Officers attached to the
barrison_ at present there are five, and the Major General, might be expected under these
Circumstances, has
that he is unable to
informed
only
as
me
spare the
any of there, adding
services of any
uncover that he had recently been compelled to borrow the services
of
of
om the
an Assistant Surgeon from
Flag Ship.
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Under this explanation your
bance will, I trust, see that I
had no alternative but to specially
appoint
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indied, I may ine from the state of the public health
generally and of the Police and Jails, that I fear
a Mucdical Officer
the services
of
solely appointed for the purpose -
canust be dispensed with
+
I have the honor to be,
With the highest recreet
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's, "Mrt Medient
Dumble Servant,
the
Lince
writing
the above, the
a Mctical Officer for performance of the Colonial duties_
1
:
1-enclosed Certificate shewing that Dr Harland has for nearly seven years held the situation of Resident "ungeon at the Seaman's Arspital
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has been handed to me.
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or not to contine the reiting Ventilung
as a good. Stypimental Surgeon is abs I drield think the assfoointment monccefsing
So long
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312
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1
Victour, Houphous
20
Soverur Sir São: Bonham, 135
#retober, 1853.
to
His Imee The Duke of Newcastle
/ Inclosure.
N. SI.
Received
be confirmed in the situation..
appointed to perform those rities,
seommending that de pariand,
the Blonial Surgeon, and
Reporting decase of Mr. Mornin
€1
A
313
(Copy).
This is to certify that W. A. Harland, Exgr., Mr. D., has for a period of nearly
Seven y
years
ars held the lituration of Resident Surgeon to the Seamen's Hospital, during which time the Trustees have had
every
reason to be satisfied with his profession
al attainments and with the attention
paid by him to the patients.
1
Signed!
Hongkong.
"
David Jardiner, Fr. T. Bush - pr his
Attorney
C. D. Williams.
Trustees - Seamen's Hospital.
21st October, 1853.
True Copy
Copy)
Maine
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tary.
Dispatch #8/17/853.
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To Spin hace
The Duke of Newcastle U. 3.
314
Secreting of tate for the colonies
My Lord
し
Sir Walter Forguber Lerng
Inidly written &
I. Ferland
he holy
In the appoi
aconial arcon
aca
by
at dong Kong
death of Mr Merrrison,
a
benture & lay before your feace fun of the Lualifications of a Farland Lure Carnertly hoping that you hung be thing further induced & Contion the app which he holds and For Exaces decision
in Frem
app om muit rending
1. Dr William Aurelies Parlanx
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B Exaducted at Edinbaugh as Ronin of Medicine
Down in 1844, obtaining the Gold Beedal awarded ly. Pokmer Simpson as
well as well as state lines
2.
been Perdent Surgeon to that attesting that of Finland, has
of the Seamen's Ispitne.
Certificate by the Fructies
institution
years.
2/25 beton, 1853.
for nearly seven
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Fumble & Med not Mexander Halley M.R.
Member of the Royal Collye of Physicians.
14 Freem AR
Conendish Square
19
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My dear Jake
Hackney Hall
316
1853
Dr. Harland J. Scarborough has just called ohne me to beg that I would write to don on hehalf of hire You Dr 4. Harland, & ask you to Conform him in the port of
to which he has Estonial Surger
Im
gm
of
Dr Morrison
freu provisionally appointed by the Governor of Hongkong ihre the sudden demise who held that appointment. Dr. M. Harland has been seven Jears at Houstong has acted
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Excellent Chance Scholar, coting often is interpreter in the mattons of the Fadian Mail, & Sunderstand that the Colonial authorities there have goresanded to In a Petition intus Javor. 317
Before leaning bus land, Fr 18.7. Mained a fold medal at Ddinburgh. This father is a Borough Magistrate ppointed by the Wthis Sonerament. Innerty sa person of some importance
in the town.
Im with oblige me such, if
give his son the approrin tant
I can give
question
fis Grace the Duke of Newcaste
Behine me
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Dear Duke of
Newcastle
Colomal
Mr Morrison
Story Turgeon at Hongkong
has lately died- M William Harland
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has got
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ppointment pending your fraces decision.
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been
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represented
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to
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to you
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RECEIVED
DEC 27
1853
320
Vietmia, Houghong,
on Bctober, 1853..
Duke,
-My 2nd $1.12
I have the houm to
nekuowledge the receipt of your Grace's Despatch -1:20 of the 18th August, relative to the leave of absence
granted to the Rev? - 11: Steedman,
and wherein
grou
ou too inhu
In
You
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Lays
that
indulgent. a consideration
a
individuals, the Colony of Aonghong
has been much too long without
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
Ho.
tc.
Ac.
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the services of the Clergymen who have in succession filled the office of Erionial Chaplain.
2.
have
Your
are conne
вплей nuut
of
Спис
to this conclusion from
the contents of the letter of the Bishop of Victoria, wherein it is stated that, during a period of four years and a half after his arrival, should. Mz Steedman not return before cetoben 1854, there will have only team an Colonial Chaplain doing duty for
tem months.
my
This is quite true, but in judgment not a remarkably fair of bringing the subject to
mamaer
321
Your
Grace's notice,
notice, and to show
therefore that the local Government has not been is indulgent is from
so
the Bishop's letter bun induced
to
your
as
Grace has
suppose, and in
defence of the characters of the Rord Messrs Stanton and Steedman, I
think it right to state the real frets of the
the case
3. The Ret? M2 Stanton first came to China in 1838, and, after 3 years' rezidence, was
ob
obliged to
repair to hugland on account
acement of ill health._ In April 1843 he was appointed Colonial Chaplain, arrived in the Colony in december
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5
31
of the same year, and in 1849 he
ичья до
him
great
an invalid that his
Medical advicer strongly recommended
again to proceed to hurope; but, there being us clergyman_ in the place to act for him, he
асспирате
determined to await the arrival of the Bishop. on the 29th March 1850, Bishop Smith, accompanied by two Clergymen, arrived in the Colony, and Mt Stanton naturally thought that there was no reason for lelaying his departure and accordingly in april following The produced the requisite Incdical Certificate, and, with
my full
It China on the
concurrence, he left
2.
322
25th of that mouth, an arrangement entirely agreed to by Bishop Smith
4. I trust that this explanation
with satisfy your brace that M. Stanton
it the se
did not quit duties befo
fr
before it
WAI
seene
of his spered
absolutely necessary
him to do so, and that the local
Government not only did not show
him
Ally
that it was
unusual
indulgence, but
entirely out of their
power
to refuse sanction to his absence._
5.
On Mr Stanton's departure, the Colonial Chaplaincy was, with the
concurrence
of
the Bishop, intrusted
to the Per? 2: Moncrieff, who
who ta
=
323
allowed to draw the half of the Salary
attreled to the
office,
in accordance
with the Colonial Regulations. This
he drew
the
on
the Treasury during
from period of his service,
service, and it was
distributed in certain proportions acending to the Bishop's directions. The Bishop having subsequently required this bentleman to devote the whole of his attention to his duties as Senin Tutor of Saint Paul's College, compelled, on the 30 Januar 1852,
he
he was
to resign the acting appointment.
6.
On the removal of Moncrieff
the Reid M. Stickman, (Military Chaplain), ales with the full approval.
13.
14.
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of the Bishop,
was appointed to the Mr. Steckman was Office...
compelled
to leave Chine on the 11th April 1855,
after
an
uninterrupted residence of Six years and a half. He produced the usual Medical Certificate, and
it was
quite apparent to any one
that he could not remain longer
without imminent danger. Under
there circumstances. I should much
regret to fired that, if Mr. Steedman's health will not allow of his return within the term of his leave, _ me year, that the Bishop's recommendation should be adopted, and that Mr. Stickman should be refused the additional half which has usually been granted
year
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7
to sick officers when the state of their health rendered the indulgines ncccssary.
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The Res? A. Carroll, Military Kaplain, succaded Mr Steedman re Colonial Chaplain, on the 10# April 1855.
ар he became ill on the 8th July, and, under the cauction of the military Authorities, and furnished with the usual Certificate, left this Colony the 25° August, and died at Singapore грас on the 1st September. This Clergyman also appointed with the sanction the Bishop, as is manifect in Mz Carrolls letter forming Inclorure P3 in my Despatch 1.43 of 4th June lact, and Major General Servis
was
of
No5.
!
assures me
that, previouely to
324
nominating Mc Carroll, the Bishop was conculted, and that the Colonial
Secretary waited
the Bishop
upon the
Was
on the subject, when no objection us made to the arrangements.
730#
8. From
From my Despatch #6 5 q 30 Auquet last, your Grace will see
that Mr. odell inecuted Mr Carroll,
and is now performing the duties of Colonial Chaplain - this is the Gentleman referred to by Dr. Moncrieff in his letter of the 3? January 1852, as being
in a bad state of health_
I should not under ordinary
circumstances have nominated
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10.
Mr Owell to the Office, as he is the Senin Tutor in Saint Paul's College;
a
but I had no alternative, there being no other Clergyinan in the Colony This is the only occasion of a Clergyman being nominated to the Office of Colonial Chaplain without the Bishop's concurrence, but it was in this instance impossible to consult him, as the Bishop 1000 miles off. He has however
cince signified his approval of
appointment.
7. Thus, My
was
of this
Lod Duke, it seems
that two Clergymen have performed Clerical duties in the Colony for
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upwards of 13 years,-
325
duties which
the Bishop himself will, I have us
doubt, admit to be both
onerous and
responsible, that both Mess's Stanton and Stectman have been compelled by ill-health to quit the scene of these duties, and that It Carroll died within a week after his departure;-
facts which, I trust, will induce
Since to a conclusion rifferent
your
to that which
formed
appears to have been
on the subject.
10. I confess I am utterly at a lou to understand the object of the Bishops letter, for I can scarcely suppose would wish the removal of Mr
he
12.
was incapacitated
his duties
Steedman if he by ill health from recuming before the ordinary term of leave had
cpecially so as Mr. Steedman
expired,
une
:
is a Clergyman very highly respected in the colony by all sections Community.
11.
7
the
I must add that one charlain
has heretofore always fulfilled the duties of the Colonial Chaplaincy to the ~ intisfaction of the local Government and the public, and, if not unnecessarily interfered with, will, I think, be found sufficient. In the departure of M= Steedman, Mz Carroll, in addition to the duties of Military Chaplain, had
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to
326
13
perform those of the Stonial Chaplain alle, and undoubtedly was called on to do cume oute than he could convenientů richard.
was
I certainly, therefore, when I heard of the Bishop's departure for the worth, surprised at his quitting the Colony, when,
according
to his own
showing, he well
Knew that his presence to take a share in the Church and other Services
was so
urgently required. but your brace will be aware I have no control over
ver his
Lordship's movements.
I have the hour to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke,
Your Grnee's,
Most obedient Humble Servant,
BBM have
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The Revivate
Me Desheh says
b Lan
ny re
What he ought
tunity of expursuing
al concurrence in
his
formal
ahenes
which is not incoma
patible with the
statement in
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This Lerdchip did in a general
those which were made on ment.
327
Way agrecti.
No Carroll's appoint.
W Stedman is now (if I am
an exchange.
wit mistaken) regoriating
Fuld be aptly for an extension ofhis
tim
of
aleme ich will I reusary to
1
take the subjist farther ints consideration.
Mi
I am afraid that it will h hext to imposible to insist on the Bishop
hing agmined to
of Victoria's concurreme
all enlesiastiul arrangements Whit may h undered uquisiti by illacpes d.
Wal Kong.
at story kay. thi fuquent missionary ahemes will be a fuel bitacle. B
h
I Should ither have some one to represent him,
( if the paucity of clergy under this imposible) & content with the supervision
of the forence in his awe aheme.
Bu
Am D 28.
His pertapes Landly humpens bluplam to be lyts on have their the Berkshopclone hand with immuller so casaten form lies, alcance aquas dalann for the loting
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Sex
Luck
Victoria, Hongkong,
7th April, 1850.
328
I have the honor to forward the
Medical Certificate for
accompanying.
Lubmission to His Excellency the Governor
that, in consideration
and to be
to beg
th
thereof,
His Excellency will be pleased to grant - one leave of absence from this Colony for a period of eighteen months, for the purpoed of visiting Curope, in the hope of t
re-establishing
my greatly impaired health.
I would wish to leave Hongkong
by the next Mail steamer, which will
probably take its departure from
thor 25th
the 24
of
instant.
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hence
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THE
the Colonial Chaplaincy
N28 of 18th August, respecting
Dong Hons.
Replying to wis
Grace's Despatch
His Grace The Duke of Newcastle,
Governor Sir Geo: Bonham, BE
22nd Betober, 1853.
Victoria, Honghong,
F82
5 Inclosures,
Received.
¡
The Honble.
Major Caine, Colonial Secretary.
O
ATTY PARTY
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The Bishop of Victoria has kindly
permitted
me to propose
ad
my
substitute
during the period of band the Reverend Edward Theophilus Russell Moncrieff, B.A., of Crinity College, Dublin, and
Yutor
of St.
St. Paul's College . The Riskop will himself take a part of the services,
of some of the
and allow the assistance of
other
him .
· gentlemen who have accompanied
the
I would further solicit for consideration of His Excellency, the Governor that : I be permitted to obtain
the Contrack passage,
which makes.
a
difference of one third in the cost, and
всего
which privilege has been already granted
to several members of the Civil service - who like myself have been compelled to
seck a change of climate in consequence of ill-health.
True Copy
Marnie Colonial Secretany.
I have, te., (Signed) Vincent John Stanlow.
Copy.
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Paul's College,
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Victoria, 16th upril, 1850. –
Tber to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of this date informing me that His Excellency the Governor had been pleased
pleased to appoint
me
Me to officiate as Colonial Chaplain during the absence of the Reverend Vincent, Stanton on lick Certificate, on the
half Salary attached to that appointment Mainely £350 per Annum, subject to the approval of the Right Stonorable the Earl Grey; and
Jay
that Ishall
endeavour to discharge the duties of office to the best of my ability..
Bouble Major Caine.
Ke..
de.
the
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Requesting that
You
Copy
will h
pleased to Convey to dois Excellency
My gratitude for the Confidence thus reposed in me.
I have,
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Marine
Colonial Secretary.
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January, January, 1952.-
I have the honor to request
that you will Communicate to It is Excellency the Governor, the following
Statement.-
The Bishop of Victoria
Considers that my peculiar duties, as Senior Tutor of St Pauls College, will how, require my undivided attention, expecially as the Junior Intor is in delicate health, and he accordingly wishes me to resign the Acting Coloinal Chaplaincy, which I now hold. _
I have therefore to request
Struble Major M. Caine,
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331
Hongkong, Dect 27. 1850.
dear Mr. Steedman,
As
you
are already aware,
there is some uncertainty.
returning
as to Mr. Manton's to resume the Colonial Chaplaincy
in this place. Under such circumstances, I feel that any application for the poet in
only be made by you or by
question
can
any one contingently. Allows me however
to you, (and you
to state to
make
vacancy
use
of this
note_),
are at
liberty to
that if the
should actually take place, and the Colonial Secretary of
tary of State should appoint you Chaplain, it would give me considerable satisfaction to believe that the appointment had been conferred on one who not only is regarded by myself
with
feelings of personal friendship, but who would also seek by God's blessing
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6 fulfil to the utmost the duties
of.
so
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responsible an
office, with zeal an-
diligence .
Believe me to remain,
Story Long-
June 3rd, 1853-
My dear Mr. Steedman,
Your
sincere
friend and brother,
Lir,
You
that the duties required from
(signed) - G. Victoria.
Revd S. W. Steedmand,
Military Chaplain.
Crue Copy)
Macie Colonial Lecretary
The Double,
Shave the honor to inform
the Colonial Chaplain, here, are live
full services Every Sunday at the Cathedral, a Thursday Evening Service-
a service on a
Sunday at the Garl.
three hospitals to be visited weekly, becides baptisms, Churchings, Marriages, And funerals.-
Having been appointed dating Colonial Chaplain at a salary of £350. a
Lient Colonel Caine,
Colonial Secretary
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Engaged the Assistance of "the only tivo resident Clergymen in the Colony. The Nest Mr Idell, and the Her! In: Holdernes, with the Knowledge and sanction of the Bishop, paying to each £75. A year, and an allowance for too Chair - Coolies, that they may be enabled the better to assist me in the duties..
The Bishop Knowing that My duties as Military Chaplain, were Onerous. Kuidly promised to preach Once on Every Sunday, I morning and Afternoon alternately), during his residence here. but his Lordship having suddenly proceeded to the North without giving
any
intimation of his intention, I have in Consequence been obliged to make the subsequent arrangement for the performance of the duties._
Me
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On the fat Sunday Morning in the mouth, I preach and Administer the sacrament, assisted by MW= Idell. In the Afternoon the service is taken by Mr Odell and Holderness. On the following Sunday Morning Mr Odell and Folderness officiate; in the Afternoon I and Mr Odell lake the Service,
And is on alternately throughout
out the Mouth. The thursday Evening Service
is
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taken by Mr Odell and hoolderness._ The garl by Mr Odell, two of the hospitals are bicited weekly by Mr Holderness, State the third hospital, besides all the bapliems. Churchings, Marriages, and funerals. -
These duties are
of Course in addition to those particularly belonging to me in my capacity of Military Chaplain, which embrace visiting the
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I have, to (Signed) Charles. R. Carroll, Military, And Acting
Colonial Chaplain..
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Colominal Secretary.
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Despaten A. 82 671853.
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185.
Miscellaneous.
RECEIVED
DEC.27
1853
Victoria, Houghtong,
24th October, 1855.
My Lord Duke,
With
reference to
87
my despatch 1.69 of 8th September, I have the honor to acknowledge
the re
receipt, on the 10th Instant, of the following despatches from Your Grace:-
AL
No 17 to 20,- the last of 158 August, 1853. Circulars of 16th, 18th and 19th July, Auquet,
Letter
of
5-#
His Grace
The Duke of Newenetle,
&c.
te.
ta.
"
Duties which devolved M. Carroli, detaining
Letter from the late Rep.
the
upon
Chaplain of roughery, and
him is acting Colonial
stating
arrangements made
their
efficient performance
3rd June, 1853.
1
I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,
Myandonte,
"Your Grace's,
Most obedient,
Suruble Servant, Ittam
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His Grace Ke date of Newcastů.
Govenor Sin Seo: Bonham, 135,
21t betober, 1853.
Victoria, Hong Kong,
Pecived
P. 83.
Circulars of 16, 185, and 19th
18th August, together with brace's despatches to Pão q
fetturedging accipt of this
Jul, 185-3.
12352 Hong Kory.
Schedule of despatches the Sceretary of State for
N. of Bate of desp: Deep:
for the
DEL
1850
337
• by the Governor of Hongkong to ") by the Mail Steamer "Ganges,
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via Southampton on the 11 November, 1853.
ja letter
Subject of despatch.
Duplicates.
79. bet. / Recommending to his brace's favouratie consideration from the Auditor Several with Inclosures, pointing out, on the representation of Mr Morgan, the disadvantageous conditions under which Civil Officers of Houghtong obtain leave of absence
80.
81.
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20 With reference to Despatch P64 of 29€ August,
reporting arrangements made for the publication of a local Gazette, and urging that a Printing Press be
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sent out to Hongkong for the use of the Colonial Sovernment ne
Reporting deccase of Mr. Morrison, the Colonial
Surgeon, and recommending that Dr Harland appointed to perform those duties, be confirmed in the situation.
Replying to His Since's Despatch 1.2017 18th August, respecting the Colonial Chaplaincy of Houstons.
Buc
Date of
dup:
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85. vet. Hekurulidqine receipt of His Brace's Despatches to
8th August, together with Circular of 16th, 18th, and 19th July, 1855.
Riginals.
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84 Nov 5 Reporting one years leave of absence, on sick Certificate,
granted to sicut : Pedder, R. t., Harbour Master and time Magistrate, to proceed to England, and arrangements
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made ofor the performance of his duties, during his
absence.
now
85.95 Respecting the unvarrival of the Police Clothing and
acconterments applied for from England in September 1852, and enclosing a Requisition for a supply, of Similar
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articles
for
the use
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the Force for the years 1854 + 1855. Înc
10 Transmitting. Quarterly Returns for the quarter
ending 30th September, 1853.
4.
Marine Colonial Secretary-
N. 84.
Civil.
Ansu
No.S.
27 Hong Kong
Victoria, Hongkong,
RECEIVED
JAN. 2
1854
My Lord Duke,
8th November, 1853.
338
I have the honor to inform
Your Grace that. I have this day granted,
with the
concurrence
of the Executive
Council, twelve months' leave of absence to Lieutenant. Pidder, R. N., Harbour Mas-
ter and Marine Magistrate, to
proceed
to England, in consequence of his im- paired state of health, which, (irre- spective of the Medical Certificates :inclosed), I and myself
such as to require
really
aware is rea
an immediate remo
-val from this place ; - that step being considered the only mean of saving his life.
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
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Lieutenant Pedder
out-going
7 goes
home by the.
Packet of the 11th instant, and
during his absence, the duties of Harbour Master will be performed by Mr Michell, the Chief Clerk in the Department, and those of Marine Magistrate by Mr. Hillier, the Chief Magistrate of Police The half salary of Lieutenant Pedder, available for the performance of his duties, is L. 300, – two thirds of which will be drawn by Mr Michell, and the
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remain -
ing third by Mr. Hillier, in addition to their respective. Salaries.
I beg to inclose, for Your Grace's information, the usual Certificate,
signed by showing
the
and the Colonial. Treasurer,
me an
requisite particulars connected
with this leave; and I hope that the arrangements made for the performance of Lieutenant. Pedder's duties, being similar to those adopted when he was
No. 2.
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339
allowed leave of absence in February 1851,
will be approved by Your Trace.
I have the honor to be,
"With the highest respect,
Mry. Lord Duke,
Your Craces
Most Obedient,
Humble. Serva
tam
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Mr. Mersinle
Appone the leave & the anacqents cousquent
on it.
Abs.
2/1/54
of absence
Reporting
Received
07.20
made for the perform
England, and arrangements
Magistrate, to proceed to
Harbour Master and Marine
granted to Lieut. Pedder, R. N.,
on sick Certificate,
year's have
an ce
of his duties, during his
absence.
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Governor Sir Geo: Bonham, Bt.,
Victoria, Hongkong, 8th November, 1853.
His Grace
to
The Duke of Newcastle.
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N. 84
Inclosures.
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Vietrin, Ang Kny
November 6th, 1853.
This is to certify that I have carefully
cramined Mr Ridder, the Harbour Master
and Marine Magistrate, relative to the
id him
him in a
ба
very
state &y his health, and find
went condition: partly from
chronie
dycenter of some
Chiefl from
an initable
come luonth's duration, but
inritable state of the stomach,
vomiting.
accompanied by unnel pain
by much pain and counting
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case by It young, who has been in _
attendance
upon
and whose opinion
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some time past,
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um in every
respect. I consider Mr. Pedder to be in2.
such a precarious state as to require
immediate return to England fo
at least,
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period to mouths, with a further
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extension of 6 months, if deemed
if deemed necessary
by his medical attentant there
(Signed) W. A. Harland, M. 5
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Acting Colonial Surgeon.
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3.
HongKory, 5th November, 1853
In my arrival here from England in
the mouth of July Cast, I found my
ли
friend Mt. Bidder in a very
debilitated
tate of health; suffering from
• suffering from chronic
dysenter, which he toll ine had been several months to a greater
going on for
less
bere extent, and recompanied with
complete loss of appetite and restien sleepless nights.
I prescribed astringent and tonic setative remedies, put him on a
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farinaceous dict, and recommended that he should do no duty whatever for
a few weeks. In the course of a fortnight
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considerable improvement took place,
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chiefly manifested by the absence the dysenteric symitous, the debility continuing much the same. At this tage, I was induced to try a stronger tonie, and to continue the astringent as recasion required.
The state of my own
me to
go
during
as
my
health required
to macne for six weeks, and,
absence, he waorteh himself
much in the same
being for a time much in
state in which I left him, but, toward
the cnd of August, his former syruptons returned, greatly aggravated and comewhat changed in their character. When I returned in sextember I found him laboring under syryptoms of
ulcoration of the unceous
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the strunol; complained of great lain
im the _riyustrie region after taking m with sicknere and comiting - truque red and flabby, and denuded of its natural covering, with patches of viccration on it, and alss on the living membrane of the lips and mouth _ irregular diarrhoea, and much prostration of strength. Astringents with Sulph Cupri and Opium, and Infus: Columbre with Hydrocyanic acid have given much relief, together with such stimulants and nourishing diet as his case would admit of. He has been under this treatment for upwards of six weeks, but although the urgent symptoms
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have been alleviated, he has constant recanses, and appears to get daily weaker and weaker. There does not appear to be
to be sufficient energy in the
gastric and bitions ecretions to effect
due assimilation of his food, and its
nutritive properties
are passed
If by
the bowels, instead of beins received
into the
proper
channels.
I have no hesitation in expressing my opinion that St. Pedder's life - Schends on his removal from this Climate without delay.
(Signed) Peter Young, Surgeon.
(True Copy) Maine
Colonial Secretary.
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No 84
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Colonial Surgeon and
Certificates by the Acting
Lieut.
Pedder's healch.. the bad state of Mr P. Young, respecting
5th
Band 6th November, 1853.
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I hereby Certify that, with the advice and consent of the bxcentive Council of Government, I have granted to
Lieutenant William Pedder, R. P, the years leave Fabence.
Victorin, Houghtong
8th November, 1853.
I hereby Certify
Lam
that Lieutenant William Pedder, P. M.,
has received full salary at the rate of £600 per annum
as Starbour Master and Marine Magistrate,
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Colonial Preasurer.
A. Pfficers arccting on have farsence are requested to steve that they will not be enabled to recive half Salary in England, unless this
Certificate is duly filled up and signed.
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I hereby certify.
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Porember, 1853 and chá on the 10th November, 1954, an
in the ground of ill health, and that the nichical Certificate hoduced & which a Sony is annend.
was
24 Fat Lieutenant William Bilder P.t, has served the Brown for
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years
three inouths and /2 days in this Colony.
32. That in the course of that service he has been absent
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William Redner's Offices during his absence, by Mr E. P. MichM and the Honorable 2. 13. Billler, Reg.
Note Officers
Matlam
Officers who may be under the recessity farsigins to the scoretary opstate for an intencion of their leave of absence are requested to runer this document to their applications, and in order to meet this contingene, it will be furnished to them in Ixplicate.
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347
4 Victoria, Anghing
9th November, 1853
Lord Duke,
a
I have the hour to
requisition from
the
Sarting Superintendent of Police for certain articles required for so the clothing and equipment of the
Police Force of this Colony.
Mr faldwell, in his letter
forwarding this requisition, calls
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which the whole Force experience in consequence of the delay in England in complying with the Requisition forwarded, and he adds that, should by any oversight the Requisition for the present year's supply not have been complich
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with, the items therein mentioned
will have to be sent out independent of the enclosed Requisition for 1854.
The Requisition for the
Mr present year to which M. Caldwell refers, is catch 13th September, 1852, and signed by Mr May, Superintendent of Police. It was transmitted by Major General
the
348
Jeroris, then Acting Governor, in
Abb
Despatch (Financial ) 1.66 of the 18th September 1852_ and the articles therein mentioned have not arrived here, intimation of their Shipment
un
has
arry
been yet received
received from either the Colonial office or the Agent
fr
the Colony
I have the hover to be
With the highest respect,
My Lord Juke, Your Grace's,
Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
Sham
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given to the Ordnace, & recommend that the SN. C. should be beled to communicate with the bronema usps. the transmission ofthe astutes.
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we hear no mne
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Minikl an resilanation strela called for from Lo. San Bouring
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Governor Sir Geo: Bonham, Bh,
9th November, 1853.
retoria, Fonghong,
His Grace
to
The Duke of Newcastle.
N°85.
1 Inclosure.
Received
Respecting the non-
-arrival
=quisition for
1852, and enclosing
from England in September,
accoutrements applied for
of the Police Clothing and
Re:
supply of
Similar articles for the the Force for the
use of
Years 1854 and 1955. –
must be witquciona
owenient: and I think that the Apart Mt. Merivale. Such delays in executing orders from the Celories Ginesh might to use more actiesty in tooking after the Bullie Departement cuployed in ferries him susplan,
The requisition for /53.
Clas
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28/rey 27
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on the 27 D. The Treasury were told to gued the new pary directions for forenediz
On the 17 Jan (53 that
The supplies
the necessary
directio
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to
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and the firment
by
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351
Police Department; Victoria, Hongkong, 7th November, 1853. Requisition for Police Department.
I cer
" certify that the undermentioned
articles for Clothing
and Equipment of Police
Force are required to be obtained from England,
being the authorized supply for the periods specified.
念
lash
1. 302 1⁄2
2.
mentles in feruandin to thing Ring the Asthing Ja regrined pr. the past
and ascertain
Year, whether, and when,
that requisition list
this Country.
There
For 2
2 years
1854 and 1855.
yards Oxford grey cloth - for 107 great coats. 104 collar badges for great coats - Nos. 4 to 107.
3. 107 water-proof capes.
-
4. 208 hooks and eyes for great coats- (large size).
i
For 18 months ending. 31th December, 1854. 5. 200 yards blue cloth to make jackets and
trousers for 80 Indian force.
For 12 months ending 31th December, 1854. 6. 671⁄2 yards blue cloth to make
ke jackets, and trousers for 27 European fore
7.87 pairs of boots.
87 pairs of shoes.
9 . Materials for 20 pairs of boots. 10. Materials for 20 pairs of shoes.
11. 850 metal. Police buttons - (small) .
12. 270 metal Police buttons - (large).
13. 104 pairs of white embroidered collar badges,
Nos. 4 to 107.
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14. 128 pairs of white embroidered collar badges
in circles - Nos. 44 to 131.
15. Cotton lining for 107 cloth Jackets and trousers, 101 blue cloth caps with wo trite onetal-
16.
crowns - (30 without peaks).
17. 104 oil - skin cap-covers.
18. 107 serge
stocks. (small size.)
19. 208 hooks and eyes for cloth
20.
21.
& jackets.
12 Police truncheons to replace others broken
lost in execution of duty.
or
6 swords broken or lost by constables.
22. 144 Police lanterns to replace others lost
by constables and work out :
23. 2 muskets (army pattern) lost by constables.
80/ardwish
Acting Superintendent of Police
Approved.
Lan
Governor.
میر
No 86.
Financial.
Copy to J.
352
29 trong trong
Vretoria, Hongkong,
RECEIVED
JAN. 2
1854
My Lord
10th November, 1853.
Duke,
I have the honor to inclose
herewith, for Your Grace's information and that of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, copies of the Quarterly Abstracts for the Quarter 30th September, 1853.
ending
1.
2.
3.
His Grace
Changes
ind
the holders of
Offices and Appointments
in the
the bot
Colony of Hongkong.
Additions to Salaries and
Allowances in the Colony of Hongkong
Creation of new Offices and Appointments in the Colony
The Duke of Newcastle,
ye,
se,
&c.
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of Hongkong .
Payments of an
an unusual descript_
-ion and for extraordinary Services.
I have the honor to be,
"With the highest respect,
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's
Most. Obedient, Humble. Servant,
Entered
Gor= 29. Hong Kong.
Sir. C. Trevelyan.
Mr Thellaren 2me.
Mr Ellist MW-Merivale The Peel
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Duke of Neurostte 3.
M. M.
R: 86. 10th Nov2 153. R286.10
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I am directed by
B
Newerthe 25
Gausmn't to
you for the
the
information of R. Lt Cams of the Frenit the Copy of
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a Desh. Gross The Govern
of Hong Kong Forwarding Session of the quaterly Abstracts for the Guater ending 38t4. September 1853.
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CHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended 30th September, 1853.
OFFICE.
Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary.
Name of the Officer who is now appointed, and annual Salary.
Majesty's Government If appointed by Her
in England, date of au- thority of the Secretary of State.
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.
Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of office or appointment, or the new appointment.
Column for Remarks.
Officiating
Colonial
Chaplain .
Rev. C. R. Carroll. Rev. M. C. Odell.
L. 350.
£.350.
Colonial Chaplains Mr. Fr Dainty. Mr. Gee. Bachan
Clark.
£.10.17.0
L. 10-17-0
Colonial Surgeons. Mr. Fr Dainty. Mr Ges. Buchan
Sexton.
Z. bo.
Colonial Secretary's letter No. 182 of 16th August 1853.
Colonial Secretary's letter No.152 of 2nd July, 1853.
Do.
30
6th August, 1853.
No. 65.
354
Mr. Carroll resigned on. the 16th Aug: the appoint ment of Acting Col. Chaplain
Appointment to bear date from 1th June 1853 Mr. Dainty resigned on the 318th May, 1853.
Do.
Jone (opy).
Clinical Secretary.
(Signed) W. Caine -
Anditor General.
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OFFICE.
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ADDITIONS to SALARIES and ALLOWANCES in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended 30
Name.
Date of Appointment.
Original Salary.
Present Salary.
th September,
Date from which increased Date and description of Authority for
Salary drawn.
increase.
1853.
Column for Remarks.
Nil.
320
(Signed) Hr. Saine,
Love
(Line Soky).
or
Auditor General.
Clonial Secretary Colonial
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OFFICE.
CREATION of NEW OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended
Name.
Annual Salary.
Date of appointment and of authority from the Governor.
Date and description of the authority or instruction (if any) from Her Majesty's Government in England, in consequence of which the appointment was made.
30th September, 1859.
Date of the Governor's Despatch to Her
Majesty's Government in England, respecting the transaction in cases where no previous authority may have been received.
Column for Remarks in any particular case, and for the statement of any special circum-
stances.
Nil.
Fur Copy
Colin
Colonial Secutary.
356
(Signed) M. faine-
Auditor GeneralPAYMENTS of an unusual or special Description, and Payments on Services amounting to £200, incurred without previous authority from Her Majesty's
ended 30th
Secretary of State, for the Quarter ended
Description of Service.
Amount.
To whom paid.
Date of authority from
the Governor.
"September, 1853.
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 payment was made.
authority may have been received.
Column for Remarks in any particular case, and for the statement of any special circum-
stances.
Nil.
(Tone Copy)
2
Pomal Secretary.
Concal
357
(Signed) M.Caine.
Anditor General
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RECEIVED
358
JAX12
1854
Schedule of Despatches transmitted by the Governor of Hongtong, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, by the Mail Steamer brin", via Southampton, on the 27th November, 1853.
No gate of dess: Desp:
Subject of despatch.
Duplicates.
85. Nors 9 = Respecting the now arrival of the Police Clotting
and Accoutrements applied for from England -September, 1852, and inclosing a Requisition for a
88.
88.
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10°
17
st
supply of similar Articles
in
N
for
the
use
of the Force
One
for the years 1854 and 1855..
Transmitting quarterly Returns for the quarter ending 30th September, 1853.
Originals.
RECEIVE
JAN. 12
1854
Replying to His braces despatch 1.22 of the 27?
August, respecting
the leave of absence
to Mr John Hare in June 1853.
4
granted
I hone
21. Transmitting Copy of, and reporting on Ordnance
N2 of 1853, "for the removal of doubts regarding 127
No of Date of NG
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Subject of despatch.
88 Continued the right of aliens to hold and transfer property
" within the Colony of Hongkong.
89. Nov 22 Acknowledging receipt of his braces despatches
to P. 26 of the 9th Circular of the 3rd, and Despatch Military No 2 of the 17th September, 1853, tc.
go.
#
28. Reporting resumption by bovernment of Marine Est N. 44, with the Buildings thereon late the property of M= Carter of the Firm of began info
Ales - Six extra Copies of Ordinance 192 of 1953.-
1 of
mel;
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може
one
Mame (Mlonial Secretary-
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RECEIVED
JAN. 18
1854
359
Victoria, Houghing,
17th November, 1853 ク
My Lord Duke
I have the horror to
Grace's Despatch
acknowledge your
1:22 of the 27th August last, conetiming the leave of absence granted by Mt. Hare, but
an
me to
expressing
opinion thats it could have been preferable if
the term of his leave had been confined to a few months, sufficient to have enatich him to suit the Cape of Good Appe
enabled
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
tc.
Hope,
1
or
the Australian Colonies.
In explanation, I would with 2 great respect observe that the Medical Certificate presented to me
_
by 11: Stare expressly recommend that he should be allowed at least 18 mouths'
-
leave, and being aware from parencal observation that he was very for from well, I thought it advisable to grant him the leave recommended.. I would also remark that the Government at Ceylon which is only two thind the distance from England, 18 mouths' leave is granted under similar
circumstances. –
It is right I should also
say
that it is much easier to procure.
a
3
360
passage from hence to hugland and
" back, than it is to and
from
the
3
Australian Colonies, while the Communication between Hong Kong and the Cape of Good Stope issss uncertain that it would not be
cafe for a sick
Pfficer to proceed thither when he might suffer the lose of his appointment, if not at his Port within the stipulated period of his leave.
With reference to the concluding Paragraph of your braces Scepatch,
it is my duty to state that at Aonghong it is impossible to procure the
services
of any trustworthy person
acquainted with accounts on a muriety of M. Hare's Salary - £125
1
per Annum - as persons of
this
much in request by
tion are mue
description
British and other Averchants in China
who remunerate their Services at a
much higher rate than the
1
Government. Under these
circumstances, it was
it was absolutely
Az
necessary to avail myself of Pienacekers Services who now cumploys much of the time which he is not called on is devote to the Public Service,
performance of the extra dute
to the
thrown
upon
himm by
Mr Fare's
absence.
I trust that this
cyplanation will prove satisfactor
361
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to
your
Grace.
I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,
My Lnd Juke,
Your Grace's, Most obedient
Jumble Servant,
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tisfactory
& the Cape from
He difficulty in reaching thing hang is great ton
had supported here. I, for one, was under
impresion
Song & prore,
Selween Hong Kong
That commun
that it was
hom
net from thence to Sydney.
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362
N°49 Govenor
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1854
MINUTE 218an VANY
A/R Halkowarth 25
MBElliot
Merivale 20
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Sir,
KeB
28th Jaw/54
I have received
Your Despatch, N. 87.j
아
the 17 November,
reply to me:
N. 22 of the 22αng!
on the subject of
the leave of absence.
听
granted by you to
Withare, Clock in the
Coronial Treasuress
Office, and under
de
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the circumstances
now
you have caplamed
I
approve of your having extended the leave of this benelemen
to 18 months
во
ateman
and
also of the employment of Mr Rienacker to perform his dutels
during
that period
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Legislative .
Pr
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154
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RECEIVED
JAN.1& 1854
My Lord Duke,
364
Victoria, Hongkong,
21th November, 1853.
I have the honor to trans-
mit to Your Grace an authenticated. copy of Ordinance No. 2 of 1853, entitled
of
aliens
An Ordinance for the removal . " doubts regarding the right of al- "to hold and transfer property within "the Colony of Hongkong "," which passed the Legislative Council on the 17th instant .
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The necessity for this Ordinance
a d.....
originated in a British subject, ( Mr Shortrede), having refused to quit a -house rented by him from a Portuguess gentleman, the Baron do Cercal, on
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
&c.,
&c.,
r
&o
A
:
the
- ground that he the Baron, being
alien, could not hold land in a
Colony, and consequently
.
an
British
unable
Avas una.
to eject him . A copy of Baron do Cercal's letter to herewith inclosed,
me
will place the subject fully, before Your Grace.
at issue between
The question at
Mr. Shortrede and Baron do Cercal
being
ond
the interests
vast majority of
of considerable importance to of the Colony and. the majority of its inhabitants, I brought the subject to the notice of the Legislative Council, and, with the advice of the Attorney General, I caused the accompanying reply to be forwarded to the Baron, whose case was made clear from the principle of law that the tenant is not competent to dispute the title of his landlord.
I found, however, on inquiry,
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No. 3.
365
that opinions similar to those expressed
by Mr. Shortrede, had become somewhat
provalent, and it was there fore obviously
desirable that the inhabitants should
be disabused of an impression that could not be otherwise than highly
detrimental to a
Colony
nine tenths
are
of the inhabitants of which av aliens.
With this view,
accompanying. Ordinance was drawn up by the Attorney
the
General and passed by the Legislative Council . I trust, it may be found unobject
ionable, and that Your Grace will be enabled to recommend it for the confirms ation of Her Most Gracious Majesty.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect, My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's
Most Obedient, Humble. Servant
Moham
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Ne 23. Sir J. Bowring.
1854
MINUTE 27 ap MAY MR. Thillaien McElliot M®Merivale MPF Peel Dukey Nowcus?? 5.
EX
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Su
5 May
366
I have received
& Eaid before the Queen
an Ordinance grassed
Sir G. Bonham
The
by yourely and Lepilation Council of Hong Kong on the 17t Nov. 1853, entitled
گا
of
Ne 2 of 1853 "An Roinance In for the removal of doubli "argarding the right of
" aliens to hold and
سلام
"Transfer Jonperty within "The Colony of Hong Kong
The Transcript of which was enclosed in gener
Die G. Borhan
Despatch of the 215 hor
163 No 88-
I have received the
Governor Sir Geo. Bonhamn, 185
Victoria, Hongkong, 21th November, 1853.
t
His Grace The Duke of Newcastle,
3 Inclosures.
N. 8 8 -
Received
and
"Aliens to hold and tranfer "doubts regarding the right of of 1853, for the removal of
Transmitting Spy of reporting on, ordinance N. 2
property
within the Colony of
*
MM. Female
Pagister & Paper & Corp. Horn Vi
quens Commands
thet
to acquaint you He Sajesty has Hen
Jeland to confirm & allow This Ordinance.
You
will cause He
Majesty's decision to the iignified to the damabilang
2
of Hongling, by a Parclanation to t published in the nonce
and most authentic
Nanner.
I have.
HONGKONG.
ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. 2 of 1853.
BY His Excellency Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Baronet, Knight Commander 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 Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
AN ORDINANCE FOR THE REMOVAL OF DOUBTS REGARDING THE RIGHT OF ALIENS TO HOLD AND TRANSFER PROPERTY WITHIN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.
[17th November, 1853.]
WHEREAS Doubts have arisen regarding the Right of Aliens to hold and transfer Property within the Colony of Hongkong: Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency The Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in pursuance of the Act made and passed at a Session holden in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act for the "Naturalization of Aliens," and of the Power inherent in the said Governor and Council:-
J.
367
Title.
Preamble.
I. That it shall be lawful for any Alien, and he or she is hereby declared entitled, Aliens entitled
by Grant, Conveyance, Lease, Assignment, or Bequest, or otherwise, to take, acquire, to acquire and hold hold and possess, any Lands or other immoveable Property situated in this Island; Lands in the Colo- and the said Lands or other Property as aforesaid to sell, transfer, assign, or be- ny,
And to sell, queath, to any other Person, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes, and transfer, assign, or with the same Rights, Remedies, Exemptions, and Privileges, as if he or she were bequeath the same. a Natural Born Subject of Her Majesty residing in this Island.
II. And that every such Grant, Conveyance, Lease, Assignment, or Bequest, Sale, Acts heretofore Transfer, or other Act heretofore made or done by or with any such Alien, shall be done by Aliens to deemed in Law as valid and effectual as if it had been made or done by or with any be valid. Natural Born British Subject.
S. G. BONHAM.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 17th Day of November, 1853.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
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Ldi Almaden & Cathof Clark of formeil
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His hueelleney
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368
Sir Samuel Genge Bonham, Burnet, X. 2.B, Governo spetongkong and its dependencies,
4. B. Majesty's Plenipotention in Exing
tc.
Ho.
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My Agent Mr Munor Caring
abrised me that he had been houmed with an interview with Y. K., when it was intimated to him that Y. R. would
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be pleased to receive this communication
I have to
from me,
cxpress my
acknowledgements of Y. Is. courtery, and
proeced to state
ced to state my casL
I am the Guner of
the House in
bong Kong recurich by 117 Shortrele, Witor
of the Chinn Mail Newspaper. I found
Lim
are
unprofitable tenant, and, without. presuming to trouke 1.2. with the merits of the case, I requested him to leave the house at his carly convenience. This "The not only refused to do, but actually stated that I a Portuguese Jubject had no right to hold property in a British Shown beyoud the house I might reside in consequently he, being in prcccccion, could is remain, and I, holding a bad title, couid urt geet him.
in that
possession.
Mthough Mr. Shortride has abandoned this threat, if he ever entertained it, and although M. Murrow, much to my
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369
annoyance, has come to terms with him on mir behalf, thus Thinking the trial of the question in a Court of Law, I am
naturally anxious to receive the fullect
may
satisfaction on the
point that 4.2. decem fit to afford
me. For not only is Mz Shortiede a very intelligent man,
but
I hear on good authority that Mr Bridges, the Barrister, and lately the acting
Attorney General, corroborates his view
So much so that I
As the case.
タ
20
declare to 4.2. that I have been precluded
from building on ground lately bought in Hollywood road until I should reecive satisfaction on
the
Jay
point. Now, further, other of my acquaintances in
have been prevented in
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Citu have
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consequence, to un certain Knowledge, from investing their Capital in laud
Anyhow. and buildings on the Island of Bruijtions.
Craving 4.4. usual able
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consideration to this point, and
begging the farm of a reply
I have to.,
(Signed) Barño do Cereal.
Copy.
220.
Sir
370
Colonish Lentury's Ofice, Victoria, HongKong,
20t betober, 1858.
I am directed to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 10th bustant, relative to a tenant, Mr Sharticle, who
Shortrede
had refused to leave your house, and who
as a
Portuguese subject, you
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Macao 10th betober, 1853.
had stated that
Lid
right to hold
property in a British
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possession, and
Colone, beyond the house you might recibe
in, and that, consequently he being in
you
holding a bad title,
Merin Colonial Secretary-
The Baron do Cereal
te.
tc.
tc.
į
Mneno.
І
371
1
n
you
could not gjest him
2. In reply, I am to inform you
that _110 Shortiele being your tenant, he could not have disputed his landlord's
title in an in au
should
qcetment o action for rent,
you
hare scen
fit
to have
recourse
to such a measure.
3.
As
regard
the concluding part of
your letter, I am disceted to say
that
yourself and other alien levices of the Iron
lessees
ILLAY
with safety
build on the lots
of
ground which you respectively hold by assignment from the crown; that presine the ordinare remetics
you
againit
defaulting tenants, and that in the
of your wanting to sell on
cvent of your
transfer your property, the Crown
C
would confirm
confirm the assignment when there was no expervening difficult
while the Supreme Court, acting on a
decided casi,
case, would
grant administration
the chattels real even to Aliens. There
is no
frechoid tenure in the Colony. 4. This question, however, seclus,
of
from your representation, to be mi such grave importance to the interests of foreigners reciding at Honghong, as well as to the welfare of the Colony itself, that it is desirable doubt or apprehension
to remove any
on the part of foreigners
to the
as to
validity of conveyance by aliens _ His breellency will therefore lose no time in bringing the subjects before the
iLegislative Council, when, if it he
be
deemed nec
necessary,
an
Adinance will
I
be passed placing Aliens on the same
groting with British Subjects regards the chattel tenuri Gland.-
of
I have, Ho., (Signed) W. Caine,
Colonial Secretary
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Monial
as
the
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JAN.18 1854
373
Victoria, Hong Kong
My Lord Duke
22th November, 1853.
With reference to my
Despatch 183 of the 24# vetrien, I have the hour to acknowledge the reccipt, on the 12th dustant, of the following Seepatches from Your Grace. No 21 to 26, the lact of 9th September, 1853.
79 Military No 2, of 17°
Circular
of
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Letters of 20 Auquet, and 3oD
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
Cereal, respecting the tenure
Secretary to the Baron do
Reply from the Colonial
aliens
Din Hong Kong.
Canded property
20 Betober, 1853.
&c.
Ac.
No.
I have the hours to be, With the highest respect,
My Lord Duke, Your Grace's,
Mint obedient Humble Servant,
Istam
Hm Jan 18.
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Governo Sir Geo: Bonham, St.
Victoria, Anghoy, 22th November, 1853.
t
His bince the Duke of Newcastic
Received
1989-
His Grace's diepateres to 1.28
Acknowledging receipt of
A
the 9t, Circular
the
1.2 of the 17th September,
1320, and despatch Military
1953, He.
No. 9o.
Financial.
605 bos Hong Kong
RECEIVED
JAN.18
1854
375
Victoria, Hongkong,
Jorma Pope, Mry Lord Duke,
Former
Gov 9649 150 Land B 10366).
for 9792/57
10660
26th November, 1853.
I have the honor to bring
Love to Your Grace's
(ur Grace's notice the
notice the resumption
by Government of an important piece this Colony,
ound in this Cole
of ground
late the
property of Mr. A. Carter of the firm of Hegan & Co.
This lot, Marine No. 444, has already formed the subject of official.
correspondence between the Secretary of State and myself
As sanctioned in Earl. Grey's - Deepatch No. 222 of
222 of 2nd January, 1851, the annual ground-rent-
was
from L. 337-7.3 to L.268–7,
reduced from
and in
His Grace
my
Despatch No. 66 of 20
The Duke of Newcastle,
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September, 1857, I recommended, a
further annum, fearing
reduction to L. 150 per
150 per annum, lest the property should be thrown on the hands of the Government. This
recommendation was not acceded to
by Earl Grey, for His Lordship's Despatch to
reasons stated in
my
address, No. 272 of 8th January,
1852.
At the end of June, 1851, when the Rents became due for the half year then past, the Colonial Feasurer found his applications for payment of the Rent
of no avail . He continued to make these to the Agents of Mesers. Hegan, who acked time for reference to that firm
in England.
On the 1th September last, Mr. Mercer the Treasurer reported, in the letter
of
" which copy is inclosed, that he had- received notice from the Agents of Messrs. Hegan that it was intended to abandon
the Sor.
Mr. Mercer was
under advice
to take the
tion of the
then instructed,
from the Attorney General,
necessary steps for the resump_ ground, and, on the 23 instant,
he reported that these instructions had been fulfilled.
under the
Acting the orders
of the
Secretary of State, conveyed in the Despatch above quoted, No. 272, of 8th January, 1852, I propose to readjust the rental, and dispose of the lease by public auction,
letting the biddings be made, as
custom now is
now is, for a premium
annual rent-
on
the
the
When this step shall have
been taken, I shall have the honor
of addressing a further communication to Your Grace on this subject
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I have the hover to be,
With the highest respect, My Lord. Duke, Your Grace's
.
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant.
Mrham
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bovernor di Seo: Bonham, B5 26 November, 1853. Vietnia, MeyKong,
to
His Grace The on the of
1090.
/ Melozure-
Received
Neweartle
recuruation by
Reporting
Sovernment
7-
Marine fot
Mr. Carter, of the firm of
thereon, late the property of
1944, with the Buildings
Stegan 450.
Mr. Stadt
This is a mere ad interim Report and will
Require
no decision or answer at his present etre business. But for the sake regularity it will be proper to tranemch A to the Eupation Commre Stage of c
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Sin
Coloinal Treasury.
Victoria, Honghong,
1st September, 1853..
I have the hover to inform you
that
one and a half years Hent, Anmounting to
Marine Lot de 44,
£402.10.6 is now due on
registered in the name of Mr Augustus Carter, Lately deceased in Mauritius..
Mr Carter was here the resident
partner in, and representative of, the Firm Irefers began to in England,
&
and, and in
the
f
expectation that that House would continue to pay the "Hent's becoming due I forbore lätting
Any stringent measure; for it was plainly more advantageous to the Crown to receive the Rent's than to
to resume the extensive Buildings
The Hon.
Lient. Col. Canne
Colonial Secretary.
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on
the Lot which is situate in a part of the City unfavorable for business.
A
During the past year, however,
Shave made frequent applications, both verbal
and official, to mefer "Blentin Hawson & Co, was requested time for Communication with Mepre Began at home, for whom, since departure of Mr. Carter from this, they have
"1
Acted as Agents._
the
In a letter dated lawton, 30th legust. Wednesday from Mr. F.
received by me on Linclair, a partner in the form of
Blenkin
"About
Rawson & Co., that gentleman says: Negan's property we have orders not to pay "Any more ground rent, and Esuppose Degan, "who has lately returned to England from a "Buize in Louth America, is desirous of
"Abandoning it; don't throw how you will "Look upon it, but we, 173. π.+ Co. / Can do
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request that
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The Governor as to the Course Iam to
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RECEIVED
JAN.30 1854
sao trong dong
380
of defatores transmitted by the Governin of Hongkong. to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, by the Mail Steamer Malta, via Southampton, on the 11th December, 1853.
No of Date of deep:
dup:
Subject of Despatch.
Duplicates.
87. too: 17 Peplying to His braces despatch 1.22 of the 27th August, respecting the leave of absence granted to WE John Hare in June, 1853.
88., 27 Transmitting Copy &, and reporting on ordinance
89
90.
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of,
Nr. 2 of 1853, for the removal of doubts regarding the Fright of
aliens to hold and transfer property
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within
3.
22 Acknowledging receipt fotis Graces despatches to
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N. 26 of the qt, Circular of the 3rd, and despatch
#t
Military N. 2 of the 17th September, 1853, 4o.
23 Peroting resumption by Government of Marine Lot
S. 44, with the Buildings thereon, late the property of Mr. Carter, of the firm of began of:
None
One
Expileate
Secretary, verorting that he
Preasurer to the Polonial
Letter from the Colonial
cover the Bent one
Cannot recover
Marine Let 144, and
avlying for
#eptember,, 853.
instructions.
Despatch 1090
Inclosure in
5/953.
No
No & Gate of 2cap. Deep:
Subject of Despatch. Originals.
Mel.
91. Dee: 14 With reference to acting boremn's Serpatel 1.6
425th January last, inclosing Copy of a letter from Mr Consul Aikin at San Francisco, California reporting wreck of the Torcha "Martha One
92.
93.
94.
#
In reply to His Grace's Desratch 1.30 of the 23? Sextember, stating that there is no
bjection to
the appointment of M... Reimers, as Consul for Brimbing at Houghtong
Acknowledging receipt of despatches to 1.3 1 28th September, 1853, 4o.
#
Transmitting Copy of, and reporting Ordinance N.3 of 1853, entitled "An Ordinance "to extend the duties of Chinese Tepos appointed under ordinance N. 13 of 1844, to determine their "emoluments, and to provide for the arnicable 'settlement of Civil Suits the Chinese
"Population of Hongtong.
among
None
Nove
2
321
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Als Lix extron Copies of Ordinance N.3 of 1853.
Maine Honial Secretary.
No. GA.
Miscellaneous.
Cassien Dr. Shrigen Ihr Zr desse
1
382
101 chong dương
Victoria, Hongkong,
RECEIV
C.0. FEL
1854
1st December, 1853.
Mey Lord Duke,
In continuation
of Dest
patch No. 6 of the 25th January last, I have the honor to inclose for Your Grace's information, copy of a letter from Mr. Aikin, Her Britannic Mrajesty's
Consul. at San Francisco, dated 10
#
September last, being in reply to the Colonial Secretary's letter No. 17 of the 25th January of the present year,
as
reported in Despatch above quoted. Your Grace will perceive by
the Inclosure that the Lorcha, Martha has been wrecked, and that no further information
carv
be obtained with
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
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regard to her.
I have the honor to be,
"With the highest respect,
My Lord Duke, Your Grace's
Most. Obedient,
Humble Servant,
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31st
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Same chicted by the Bucke
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to you for the informatio
you
of the East of Clarendon the
Copy of a Despatch from
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Ser
British Consulate,
San Francisco, 10 Septr. 1853.
I have the honor to acknowledge
receipt of your Despatch No. 17 dated last. Since the receipt,
25th January
I have been endeavourin
endeavouring to ascertain
the voyage of the
particulars respecting
Lorcha "Martha " in 1851, but have
hitherto been unsuccessful, _ not one to
has been addressed
whom the
inquiry
whatever of
of the resseb
August
knowing anything
prior to her arrival here in
1852.
Shortly after her entry into this
Port, she was sold by Hiram B. Hedger
as
Attorney for John Armstrong,
to a
Mr. Fricher and five other British
W. Caine, leg
Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.
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the Regieter "Martha " sailed from
m this
ou
the 22nd
September last on a trading voyage amongst the islands of the Pacific, with
all the
owners ow
board, and news has
been received of the loss of the vessel
and all hands.
I have, too),
(signed) Geo. Acker .
(True (rpy).
Mame
Colonial
Conial Secretary.
Secretary.
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Victoria, Hongkong,
RECEIVED
FEL 4
1854
jet December, 1853.
My Lord Duke,
I have the honor to acknow
ledge Your Grace's Despatch Nr. 30 of the 23rd September lact, and in reply to state that Mr. Edward Reimers has been in China since September,
1848, in the service
of the highly.
re-
spectable firm of Dent & Co., and that he is a person of
rexceptionable.
inex
character, well qualified to fill the
situation of Consul
His Grace
for Hamburg.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's
Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
The Luke of Newcastle, I have
&c.,
&c.,
&c.
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California, reporting his
Consul at San Franciseo, Letter from Mo achin British
any
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information expecting the
the late Lorcha
"Martha" in 1851.
10th September, 1853.
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4. Febr.
-193
3.
Miscellaneous.
1106 Hong trong
RECEIVED
FEL 4
1854
388
Victoria, Houghong,
5th Drecruber, 1853.
My Lord Duke,
With reference to
my Despatch P89, I have the hown to acknowledge the rescipt.
on the 28th Ultime, of the following Tecpatches from your Grace ._
No 27 to 31, the last of 28th September, 1853
Circular Letter
of
3D
26th
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His Grace
The Duke of Newenetle,
Ac.
&c.
&c.
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My Lord Bike,
Your Gance's,
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389
letrin, Houghong,
5 December, 1855.
My Lord Duke,
transmit to
I have the how to
Grace
your authenticated Copy of
au
Ordinance
173 of 1853, which pacted the Lequelative Council on the 25 bestant, entitled An Ardinance to extend "the duties of Chinese Tepos appointed "under Ordinance N/3 of 1844, to "determine their emoluments, and
His Grace
The duke of Newcastle,
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"to provide for
"settlement
the amicable
Civil Suits
aming
"the Chinese population of troughong!
I have
e
on various occasions
recorded my opinion that the Supreme Court of this Colony is but ill adarted for the settlement of Civil actions in which chince
concerned,
alone are ene
; for, betweem
H
i
there, all bargains and Commercial
dealings
ncecssarily make
are nee
1
merlictivey of English Low-
and to decide "cares hence
Cares hena arising
by the forms and practice of
ah Court has
English
to me open
an
always appeared
to serious objection...
In addition to the manifest
1
390
incongruity of such a system, I
would call
your
Grace's attention
to the important point of expense incurred
it must be brine in
ع
mind that in all cases where the
3.
sum in dispute exceeds $500, on about £100 Sterling, it is nemar to employ both a Barrister and an Attorney, whose services are not secured without considerable cost.
This question
stion wo
was mne
particulark brought to my
noties
the
by a petition from certain of Chinese dehabitants, who desired
permission to settle
among themselves civil actions affecting
themselves only, and, on reference
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to the reend
the Supreme Court, N.2.
I found that in us case cincc 1848,
a
period of nearly six
years,
hab
the Chinese had recouvin to the
Supreme Court
for the adjustment of Civil suits wherein both Plaintiff
and Defendant
were Chinese.
Bur chinecu population,
amounting to come 30,000, of
whom one quarter
one quarter are suore of
lese engaged in trade, I must
the records quoted
inter from
in the
a convincing proof
quoted
that they have
hitherto availed themselves
Customs of
their own Counti
of
the
Country for
the settlement of their dishutes:
I have therefore thought it
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391
give the validity of Law arrangement is convenient, and with this view the Ordinance
to an arra
has been framed and passed.
Your Grace will observe that the ordinance is operative only in
these Districts where the Peate
Payers may
by
Petition
request
that it take effect. There Pate
Payers will contribute to the
гу
support of the Teps by assessment, and in this depo, acristed by others,
еро
is vested the power of deciding all Civil causes and disputes, provided both Plaintiff and
and defendant
previously declare before a custice of the Peace their willingness
16.
to abide by auch decision
There is nothing in this ordinanec
to prevent Chinese
from having fice
recess to our courts of Justice, chould they prefer to have recourie to them; and as its adortion will doubtler tend to foster confidence in the native dealers reenting to Troughong, I trust it
I trust it may be found
to merit. Her Most gracious Majesty's alvoval and confirmation.
I have the honor to be,
V
With the highest respect,
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's
Most Hbedient, Humble Sewant,
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HONGKONG.
ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIE REGINE.
No. 3 of 1853.
BY His Excellency Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Baronet, Knight Commander 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 Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
AN ORDINANCE TO EXTEND THE DUTIES OF CHINESE TEPOS APPOINTED UNDER ORDINANCE No. 13 or 1844; TO DETERMINE THEIR EMOLUMENTS; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE AMICABLE SETTLEMENT OF CIVIL SUITS AMONG THE CHINESE POPULATION OF HONGKONG.
[2nd December, 1853.] WHEREAS disputes occasionally arise among the Chinese Population of this Colony which might be more conveniently and amicably settled by the Tepo, aided by the respectable Chinese Inhabitants, than before an English Tribunal; and whereas with a view to make the Tepos of the several Districts of the Colony more efficient, and to extend their usefulness, it is desirable that the voluntary Fees now paid by Chi- nese Householders for the support of the said Tepos be made rateable and compul- sory: Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
Title.
Preamble.
I. Whenever the majority of Rate-payers in any District for which a Tepo has Ordinance to take been appointed under the said Ordinance No. 13 of 1844, shall, by petition to the effect by proclama- Governor, declare their wish to adopt the provisions of this Ordinance, the Governor tion of the Gover- may by proclamation declare that this Ordinance shall be in force in the said District; nor, on petition of and before such proclamation this Ordinance shall not apply to any such District.
majority of Rate- II. After Proclamation so made, the Rate-payers of the said District shall elect from Rate-payers
payers.
to among themselves not less than five nor more than twelve Persons, whose Names elect Assessors. they shall submit to the Governor for his approval, and after approval such Persons shall, for One Year from the date of such approval, and afterwards until their Suc- cessors be chosen, become Assessors of the District: And should a less number than Twelve be chosen and approved, the Governor may nominate fit Persons to fill the vacancies. The Governor may also from time to time direct that any vacancy occurring afterwards among the said Assessors be filled in like manner by election and approval, and in default of election within a time to be fixed by him, may himself nominate persons to fill the vacancies.
Assessors
III. The Assessors so approved and nominated shall by a majority of Votes choose One of their number to be Tepo, and such Person after approval by the Governor choose Tepo. shall be Tepo of the District for One Year from the date of such approval, and after- wards until his Successor be chosen. Provided that nothing herein contained shall be held to circumscribe the Power of appointing such Tepo, possessed by the Gover- nor under Section II. of the said Ordinance No. 13 of 1844.
to
IV. The election of Assessors and Tepo shall take place not oftener than once a Mode ofelection. year, at such time and in such manner as the Governor may determine, and the qua- Qualification of lification for an Elector or Assessor shall be the previous occupation during One Electors and As Year immediately preceding the election of a Tenement rated to the Police Tax, and sessors. the payment of all Arrears of the said Tax: And all disputes as to qualification or the mode of election shall be determined by the Chief Magistrate.
Assessors to fix
V. The majority of Assessors may from time to time, not being oftener than once in the year, by petition to the Governor declare what Salary they consider it necessary that Salary of Tepo. the Tepo should receive, and the Governor may thereupon authorize the said Asses- Expense how to sors to levy on the Annual Value (as assessed to the Police Tax), of all Premises in be defrayed. the occupation of Chinese Tenants, a Rate per Cent sufficient to defray the amount
of such Salary and from the Money so raised the Assessors shall pay the Salary Application of
surplus Funds.
to the said Tepo, reserving the remainder, if any, for such other purposes of Public utility as the Governor may sanction. And the Chief Magistrate may enforce the payment of the said Rate by distress and sale of the Goods and Chattels found on the Premises of the defaulter, in the manner provided by Ordinance No. 2. of 1845,
for the enforcement of the payment of Police Rates.
Jr. 007/s4
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sent of Plaintiff and De-
decision of the Die- trict.
Chinese chuses, with con- VI. If any Person have a complaint against a Chinese he may apply for redress to Pendant, may be referred for the Tepo of the District, who shall use his best endeavour to obtain an amicable Settlement thereof. Failing such Settlement he shall ask the Plaintiff and Defend. Parties to declare before ant in the case, whether they are willing that he should determine the dispute as- sent to the reference. sisted by Assessors; and should the Parties consent to such determination, they shall, if resident within the limits of the city of Victoria, thereupon sign before some Justice
■ Magistrate their full con-
with the nasistance of Three
A Messors.
Assessors may notwith.
of the Peace a declaration of their consent. The Tepo shall then Summon all the Tepo may then decide, Assessors to his assistance; and shall proceed to hear and determine the Case, not less than Three Assessors being present during the Proceedings; and the decision of standing, refer the Parties the majority of the Assessors present, (the Tepo voting as an Assessor and having also the casting vote,) shall be binding upon the Parties: but the Assessors instead of coming to a decision may, if they think it proper, refer the matter for the decision of the proper English Tribunal.
to the proper English Tri- bucal
Decision of the VII. The decision so given by the Tepo and Assessors shall be reported in writing Tepo and Assessors by the Tepo to the Chief Magistrate, who, upon being duly called upon so to do, how enforced.
and upon being satisfied that the parties voluntarily submitted their dispute for de- termination in this manner, shall enforce the judgment by distress and sale of the Goods and Chattels of the defaulter, and failing these, by Imprisonment not exceed- ing Six Months. Provided that, if the judgment appear to him on the face of it to be manifestly erroneous or unjust, he may refuse to enforce it, and may remit the Case to be re-heard by the Tepo and Assessors, or to be re-heard by the proper English Tri- bunal.
Ordinance to ap-
VIII. Nothing herein contained shall be held to give to such Tepo or Assessors ply to Civil causes jurisdiction over any Criminal cause, or to prevent any Person from bringing his complaint in the first instance before any English Court having jurisdiction therein.
only.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 2nd Day of December, 1853.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
S. G. BONHAM.
Idi Almada
Clerk of Councils
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Return of the number of Cases tried in the Supreme Court of Hongkong, in the years 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, and down to the 4 November, 1853, in which both Plaintiffs and Defendants
Court.
were
Chinese
335
Number of Cases in 1847. 1848. | 1849. 1850. 1857.
the
years
Total.
1852, to 4′′Nov. 1859,
Nil. Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil
5 Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil
(a)
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Chancery.
Common Law.
Summary - ( Caces under $500)_
(a)
-
Ejectment case - nominal Plaintiff a Chinese.
(c) The number of ca
(b) One case re-heard
on Petition marked as
cases tried in the above years in which a Chinetd was either Plaintiff or Defendant is in 1849-2; and in 1852_1.
(Signed) N. R. Masson -
Acting Deputy Registrar.
two faces.
five_vity in 1847-2;
W. H. Alexander.
(True Copy)
Ma
Signed;
Acting Registrar.
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SHORT Victoria, Houghing,
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16th December, 1853.
My Lord on ke
With reference to
my Despatch 1.93, I have the hown to acknowledge the receipt, on the 12th bustant, of your
brace's Circular letter
f
the 10th
and Despatch, 132, of the 15th vetober last
His Grace
The Duke of Newcastle,
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124) Victoria, Aughing,
My Lord Duke,
21th December, 1853.
With reference to my
Despatch 1.78 of
reporting
the 10th October last, that Wo hdward Morgan,
Clerk to the Auditor General, had- been allowed. 18 mouths leave of absence for the recovery of his health, I now regret to inform your that that officer died at Point de Galle on the 26th of that mouth
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Certificate from the Surgeon of Contract Mail Steamer Singapore, by which vessel the late Mr. Morgan had tation his departure from
Houghtong
on the 11th October.
de consequence of Mt. Morgaw
death, the following changes in
Offices
made
were ma
by
Me Mi
the
17th bretant, subject to the approval
Grace.
of your
Jr H. F. Hance has been appointed Cleats to the Auditor General, and M. 11. Grand Pré- has succceded him as 3D Clesti in the Colonial Secretary's retablishment. The situation
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4th Clark in the same
Office,
393
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the room of M. GrandPré, has been filled by Mr William Chapman,
and Mr Frederick Pedder has been removed to the Department of Harbour Master and Marine
the
-Magistrate and appointed. 2d Clerk therein, vice Chapman.
Mr Morgan deceared, having also held the Office of Registrar of
Marriages
of
under Ordinance N/
1852, is succeeded by M. Rienaecher the 2nd Clerk and Accountant in the Colonial Treasurer's hetablishment
I beg at the same time to
state that during the temporary employment of Mr. Grand Pri
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at the Census and Registration Office, (as already reported in Despatch 1921 of 23? March last.) Mo Chapman will act as 3a Clerk M.
3?
in the Sceretary's Department, and mis duties as 4th Clank will be performed in the meanwhile M. Hugh Reinhard, who now holds
the
acting appointment of Accountant and clerk of Deed Registry, during the absence
of
10. Power, of the Surveyor General's Astablishment
These Officers will draw the Salaries assigned to their respective Situations, and the Pay of those holding temporary appointments
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will be in accordance with the
rule laid down in Cap. III, Section
21 of the
2, Paragraph 3, at page 21 of Colonial Regulations.
For
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37
easy reference, I append xa Schedule of the changes reported
in this despatch.
I have the honor to be, With the highest respect
My Lord Juke,
Your Grace's, Most obedient Humble Servant,
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Eighteen hundred & fifty three..
Signed) Charles Evans,
(Signed) J.A. Chaldecott,
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Commander. Surgeon S.S. Singapore.
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CHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of HONGKONG,
OFFICE.
Clerk to the Auditor General
Registrar of marriages under Ordinance No 1 of 1852..
he
Colomnal Secretary's Fed Clerk
Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary.
Mr. 2. Morgan,
£100.
Mr. 2. Morgan,
£30.
Dr. H. F. Hance,
243.
Name of the Officer who is now appointed, and annual Salary.
Dr N, F. Hance,
£300.
Int. H. Rienscher,
£50.
Mr λ brand. "Tre, £243.
4th Clerk
Mr. A. Grand. The
£216-
Mr. W. Chapman,
£216.
Mr. Mr. Chakman,
£150.
INr F. Pedder, £150.
Majesty's Government If appointed by Ier
in England, date of au- thority of the Secretary of State.
If newly appointed by the Governor date of authority.
4 from the 17th December, 1853
beste eghed on and
If promoted from another Office or Government situation in the
Colony, description of former ap pointment.
Colonial Secretary's letter 3rd Clerk in the Colonial We 266 of december, secretary's office.
.853.
Colonial secretary's letter, Acting Registrar of Marriages,
he 271 of 17th December,Vide Governors despatch 2. 78.
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Colonial Lecretary's letter to Clerk in the Colonial M: 267 of 17th December, secretary's office.
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Colonial Lecretary's letter 2nd leak in the Harbour We 268 of 17th December, Master and Marine
magistrate's office.
1853.
Harbour Master and Marine Magistrate's
2nd Clerk
Colonial Secretary's letter Acting 4th Clark in the
he 269 of 17th December, Colonial secretary's office.
1853.
Colonial Secretary's office, Pretoria. Houghong, 17th December, 185*3. -
Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of office or appointment, or the new appointment.
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My Lord Duke,
report
I have the honor to
that some
some mouths
ago
the
Chief Magistrate of Police brought
notice several complaints made
to my
by Opium dealers of love sustained from
the interference of unlicensed persons with the trade in which they
evere
to the
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for
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obvious
of the Opium Regulation of 19th July 1847, I found that the obriow_ intention of those Regulations coull ust be enforced.
2. The subject
in a
was introduced
sone
вріши
of
the
petition from retailers of prepared opinen, who set forth that unlicensed
perions
реги
for
prepared Opium and sold it exportation, on the plea that the Regulations only contemplated the preparation of opium for consumption in the Colony; and that it was ales
a practice
among
the unlicensed
to prepare Opium in a quantity
tifa than
largen
than one Chest, alleging
404
3
that the Regulations referred to an smaller quantite then one cxect They showed that not only they themselves were losers by there proceedings, but that the Colonial -Perenne ales enffered in the decrease Revenue
of the number
of
liecuues.
3. The Opinion of
the Attorney
General that under existing rules
no
remedy could be applied, made
it ncccrrary for to legislation.
me to have
ve recourse
4. While the matter was
thus
under consideration attention
llly
was drawn to the nature of
the
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by
Spirit Licences granted to chince, which the Chinese Shops were placed on the same footing as the Public homes kept and frequented by huropeans.
5. Under Ordinance. All of 1844
forbidden to keep a Shop in
it was
the house wherein Spirits were sold,
in
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this prohibition, though neccesary
the Ruropean, fell severely
the case
M
of
the Chinaman, who never engages
in the sole business of a spirit dealer, but invariably joins it to that of a Chandler or some like trade. Among the liccused Chincu Spirit-dealers there was
405
probably rest one who did not keep in addition a Chandler's Shop, and was thus liable to the penalties of
the brdinance.
6. It was further thought advicable to adopt a monthly payment of
from
om there
the
there Spirit dealers in the
Fu
Opinen
came way as from the Opium dealers,
their small micans render
hardship to pay
one time.
the
rendering it a yearly Fee at
7. Carefully weighing these two subjects I came to the conclusion that fresh regulations for the retail of Opium and Spirits should be.
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embodied in one ordinance, and
accordingly prepared, fully discussed, and eventually parced by the Legislative
an Ordinance was
Conveil on the old bustant.
the
8. This ordinance which it is
purpose of the present despatch to subuit for your Grace approval,
is entitled "An ordinance to "amend. Ordinances A/1 of 1844 and "5 of 1845, and to improve the "regulations for the sale of Spirituous Liquors by Chinere, and the Regulations "for the retail and preparation of Opium.
9.
The principal points to which
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406
I would call
your
Grace's attention
are, first, with reference to the
Spirit Shops: the liccuse is given to Chinese only
and empowers
the
sale of Spirits ales to Chinese only,
that there is no
20 the
interference
with the Ruropean Public Stores,
n
these are
with the Rules by which there
Chinese
Avas
governed _ the liability to a penalty for selling Spirits in a Thop is rescinded, for, as I have! already said, that liability
enforced - the duty of licensing is transferred to the Superintendent of Police, under the supervision of the chief Magistrate, while the Collection of the Government. Fees
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remains with the Colonial Treasury - and lactly a boon is granted to the Chinese by their being permitted to make mouthly in place of annual payments
10. As regards the Opium Shops-
the doubts, that I have mentioned
авто above,
and it
are set at rest (see sec. IV.)
is in more explicit terms
declared illegal for any
without
in
any-
license to sell Opium quantity lese than one sheet",
to prepare Opium in any quantity,
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the law is provided
407
against in
sectet: should the plea be advanced that the Opinn вріши
un tras
was imported
prepared, or in a small quantity - the liecuse is given, as in
of
of
the
a case
the Spirit Shops, by the Superintendue Police, under the countersignature of the Chief Magistrate, and the revenue is collected as before -
the fees on these liecuses remain
unaltered - care is taken that the
Shops be not weed for pawnbroking
over
purposes, and a general control new them is given
to the Superintendent
mlm in
any
F
Police.
of
or to sell prepared opium quantity, or to keep an I ivan. The
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evasion
11. I trust that this Legislative
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Grace's sauetion, and that nothing will be found in it to prevent its being laid before the Qucen
Her Most Gracions Majesty's :approval and confirmation. I have the honor to be,
for
With the highest respect, My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's Most obedient
Jumble Servant,
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Governo die Ges. Bonham. B7 234 December, 1853.
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Receive
One Mielosure.
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and
"and preparation of Opium".
and the Regulations for the retail "Irirituons liquors by Chinece,
"the Regulations for the sale
“1844 and 5 of 1845, and to impove "to amend the Ordinances AP) of
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their existancuts and to
provide for the amicable Settlement of Ciril Sents
the Chinese Gespulition amony ногу
of Kong Hong, and 244
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the retail on Sale
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Observe that the 9th Clause
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Im a breach of the law_
"provisions of the bedtenance »" His Gessible,
one of those quovisions
ting thick it thall
be
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Jushibition to barter Openin
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HONGKONG.
ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ
No. 4 of 1853.
BY His Excellency Sir SAMUEL GEORGE BONHAM, Baronet, Knight Commander 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 Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCES Nos. 11 of 1844 and 5 of 1845, AND TO IMPROVE THE REGULATIONS FOR THE SALE OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS BY CHINESE, AND THE REGULATIONS FOR THE RETAIL AND PREPARATION OF OPIUM.
[22nd December, 1853.]
Title.
Preamble.
WHEREAS the Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, regulating the Sale of Spirituous Liquors, has been found inconvenient in its application to Chinese Dealers, and doubts have arisen as to the construction of the Regulations for the Retail of Opium made by His Excellency the Governor on the 19th July, 1847, in pursuance of the provi- Certain Provisions sions of Ordinance No. 5 of 1845: Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency of Ordinance No. the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That-11 of 1844 as to the I. So much of the said Ordinance No. 11 of 1844 as refers to the mode of mode of granting granting Licenses, and as prohibits the Sale of Spirituous Liquors where a retail Licenses, &c., not Shop for the Sale of other articles is kept, shall not apply to Chinese licensed to re- nese. tail Spirituous Liquors under this Ordinance.
to apply to Chi-
II. Any Chinese requiring a License to retail Spirituous Liquors to Chinese only Superintendent of may apply to the Superintendent of Police, or such other Officer as the Governor Police to grant Li- censes to sell Spi- may from time to time appoint for this purpose, who, on being satisfied that the rituous Liquors to applicant is a proper person to receive such License, and on payment of the establish- Chinese only. ed Fee into the Colonial Treasury may grant a License in the form laid down in Schedule A, which License shall not take effect until it has been countersigned by the Chief Magistrate.
III. The said Regulations for the retail of Opium, made on the 19th July 1847, be and the same are hereby annulled.
Former Opium Re- gulations annulled.
IV. If any person shall, without License, sell or barter raw Opium in any quantity Opium not to be less than One Chest, or prepare Opium in any quantity, or sell or barter prepared Opium retailed or prepar in any quantity, or keep a smoking Divan, he shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeded without a Li- ing Five Hundred Dollars.
cense.
V. If any person not licensed to retail raw Opium shall import into the Colony Prohibition raw Opium in smaller quantity than One Chest, or receive into his possession any against importa tion by unlicensed such raw Opium so imported, or if any person not licensed to prepare Opium, or to Dealers. sell prepared Opium shall import into the Colony prepared Opium in any quantity, or receive into his possession any such prepared Opium so imported, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars.
VI. Any person requiring a License to retail Opium, or to prepare Opium, or to Superintendent of sell prepared Opium, or to keep a smoking Divan, may apply to the Superintendent Police may grant of Police, or such other Officer aforesaid, who, on being satisfied that the Applicant Licenses to retail is a proper person to receive such License, and on payment of the established Fee or prepare Opiun. into the Colonial Treasury shall grant a License in the form laid down in Schedule
B, which License shall not take effect until countersigned by the Chief Magistrate.
VII. The Superintendent of Police may require that all persons licensed hereunder Superintendent of exhibit in front of the premises licensed their names and the number and nature of Police may require their License, in a form to be determined by him. He may also, by inserting a License holders to special clause in the License, require all licensed persons to send in a monthly Ře. make certain Re- turns, and may es turn of the quantities of Opium or Spirituous Liquors retailed, sold or prepared by tablish Rules for them. He may also insert in the Licenses for keeping Smoking Divans the hours the preservation of during which the Divans shall be open, and any other Rules appearing to him neces- order in smoking sary for the preservation of good order therein.
Divans.
VIII. If any Holder of a License shall offend against the tenor of his License he Penalties for offen- shall be liable to pay a Fine not Exceeding One Hundred Dollars, and for a second ces against License. Offence the convicting Magistrate may in addition annul the License.
IX. No person shall receive in exchange or pledge for Opium sold by retail, any Opium to be ex- article of Clothing or implement of Trade, or other such thing, but only the current changed for Mo- Coin of this Colony.
ney only.
X. Any Magistrate on being credibly informed that any Spirituous Liquor or Search Warrant Opium is in any Ship, Boat or place for the purpose of being unlawfully retailed, may be granted for sold, or prepared or having been unlawfully imported may issue bis Warrant to search seizure of Liquor or Opium intended to such place and bring before him such Liquor or Opium, and may adjudge to be be unlawfully re- forfeited to the Crown any Opium or Liquor so found that appears to him to have tailed. been in such place for the purpose of being unlawfully retailed, sold, or prepared or to have been unlawfully imported and the proof that such Opium or Liquor was
in such place lawfully and for a lawful purpose shall lie upon the person in whose
possession or on whose premises such Opium of Liquor was found.
What Fees to be charged.
Fees not paid may
be levied by Dis- tress.
Not to apply to ex
isting Licenses.
XI. The Fees charged on Licenses shall be those laid down in Schedule C.
XII. If a licensed person shall omit to pay at the appointed time the Fee due upon his License, any Justice of the Peace, on complaint made, may levy the amount due. by Sale of the Property of the Defaulter.
XIII. This Ordinance shall not apply to Licenses now in force.
XIV. The Penalties and Forfeitures in this Ordinance may be adjudged by any Penalties how re Magistrate of Police or any two Justices of the Peace, in the manner provided by
coverable.
Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 22nd Day of December, 1853.
CHAS. ST. GEO. CLEVERLY,
For the Clerk of Councils.
SCHEDULE A.
No.
S. G. BONHAM,
LICENSE TO RETAIL SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS TO CHINESE ONLY.
Office of the Superintendent of Police. Hongkong,
185
[A.B.] of [insert the applicant's native place,] [insert the calling of the applicant,] is hereby licensed. to retail Spirituous Liquors to Chinese only, under the provisions of Ordinance No.4 of 1853 on the premises known as [insert the number of the house, name of the street, and description of the pre- mises.]
This License will remain in force until the close of the current year ending on
on the
185
A Fee of
Dollars is to be paid at the Colonial Treasury
day of each month, until the expiration of the term, and in default of payment
will be levied on the property of the Defaulter.
If Spirituous Liquor be sold to any other person than a Chinese the License holder will incur at penalty not exceeding $100, and for a second offence his License may in addition be annulled.
Countersigned [E. F.]
Chief Magistrate.
On the
day of
[This receipt to be repeated monthly.]
SCHEDULE B.
[C. D.] Superintendent of Police.
185
received the Fee of $9.
[G. H.] Colonial Treasurer.
No.
LICENSE TO [retail raw Opium] [or to prepare Opium, and sell prepared Opium,] [or to keep a smoking Divan.]
Office of the Superintendent of Police. Hongkong
185
[A. B.] of [insert native place,] [insert calling] is hereby licensed to [as the case may be] under the provisions of Ordinance No. 4 of 1853 on the premises known as [describe the premises, men- tioning the number of the house and the name of the street.]
This License will remain in force until the close of the current year ending on
A Fee of
185
4
Dollars is to be paid at Colonial Treasury on the
day of each month, until the expiration of the term, and in default of payment will be levied on the property of the Defaulter.
Countersigned
[E. F.)
Chief Magistrate.
On the
day of
[C. D.] Superintendent of Police.
185 received the Fee of $
[G. H.]
[This receipt to be repeated monthly.]
SCHEDULE C.
Colonial Treasurer,
For the retail of Spirituous Liquors.
,, retail of raw Opium.
J
keeping a Smoking Divan.....
Fees payable on Licenses.
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$9
$30
$20
Per month in advance.
$10
preparing Opium, or selling prepared Opium, or both,
IdiAlmada.
Clerk of Councils.
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26 December, 1853.
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My Lord Duke,
I have the hour to
acknowledge the receipt of your Grace's Despatch 1:32 of 15 betober
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Duly
last, the contents of which were communicated to Mr Shortrede; and I now beg to forward another Memorial from him, dated the 23? bietant, to the address of your Gance, on the same
His Grace
subject.
The Duke of Newcastlin,
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&c.
I do not see that the subjcet of this memorial
requires any particular from myself, but I may
remarks from myself,
as well add that the provisions of Lnd Campbell's Act, 6 and 7 Victoin,
Chap. 96, to
my knowledge, have
not been extended to Ceylon, I aware that they
are in
nor am
in force at
the Residencies of India. -
I have the honor to be, With the highest respect,
My Lord Lake,
Your Grace's Most oberent, Jumble Servant, Salam
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26th & scérubir, 1953.
Victoria, Hong Kong,
to
His brace the Bride of Newersite
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NJ8.
Received.
Cambells act), be extended 3 and 7 Victoria, Chap. 96. (£2.
provisions of the Inserial Act
Snortrene, urging that the
mother Memorial from Mr
bctober last, and transmitting
Graces Despatch N. 32 54 152
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UNTO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;
THE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong,
Sheweth,
THAT your Memorialist has received though the Government of Hongkong the following, as the substance of Your Grace's reply to his Memorial of the 21st July last:-
No. 262.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,
12th December, 1853.
SIR, I have the honor to inform you, that His Excellency The Governor has received a reply by the present Mail to his Despatches of July and August last, which accompanied your Memorial to His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, on the subject of a Libel case instituted against you in this colony; and in reply thereto, I am to acquaint you, that as the case to which it relates appears to have come on for adjudica- tion in the Court of Hongkong, it is out of the power of His Grace to take any steps respecting it.
I have the honor to be,
A. SHORTREDE, Esq.
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
The reply is so beside the question, that Your Memorialist must suppose that his Memorial has either been unread or misunderstood. He did not ask Your Grace to interfere with the course of the law in operation, for as it stood or might be interpreted, it must apply to any cause arising under it; but as, by the united voice of the Bench and Parliament of England the law had been condemned, as an instrument of tyranny and injustice; and as, moreover, the amended law, after being conferred on this Colony, had been taken away by a side-wind,-your Memo- rialist presumed to think, that, upon a fair and explicit statement of the circuin- stances, redress would not have been sought in vain from Your Grace; and under the impression that the facts have escaped, or never been brought to, Your Grace's particular notice, another copy of the original Memorial will accompany this.
The reason assigned for not taking any steps in the matter no longer exists, for the action against your Memorialist under the old law, was dropped some months ago; but the law still exists, and so long as that is the case, Your Memorialist will not cease to use all lawful means to have it amended; and with that view, Prays,
That Your Grace will be pleased to take the premises into consideration, and restore to the Memorialist and other British subjects in this Colony and in China, the important right to which as such they are entitled, and of which they have been deprived, unjustly and without cause.
And Your Memorialist will ever pray,
HONGKONG, December 23, 1853.
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AND. SHORTREDE.
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Unta-His Grace The Duke of Tuwoastle,
Her Majesty's Crincipal Secretary of State for the Coblenies, The Memorial of Andrew Shertrede,
residing Honghong,
Sheweth,
That your
Memorialist has received
through the Government of Nonghong the... following, is the substince of You'r
Your Graci's
reply to his memorial of the 21st. July lust:
12262.
Sir-
Colonial Fienctury's office
Victoria Song Nong
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12th. It iets 153. I have the honer to inform you
that It is scelency, the Governor has re- -crived a replys by the present Mail &
his Hespatches
which
July ariel August last,
avcompanied
or paned your
Homorcalle
His Grace. The Iuke of Newbusthe, on
the subject of u Liful case institutet
against you
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Colony, and mo refity therite, I um to acquaint you,
that as the cuse to which it rellite;
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purs to have Come vi for adjudication the Court of Hong tony, it is out the power of His Grace to take steps respecting it
of
I have the honor to be,
M. Shorted Esq.
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Your Moo 1 Obeirent Firment
M. Cuine,
Colonial Seentary
The reply is so beside the question,
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that his memorial has either, been unread or misunderstood. He did not
ask Your Grace; to interfere with the course of the law in operation, for as it stood or might be interpreted, it must apply to any curse, arising under it; but us by the united voice of the Bench and Parliament of England the law had been condemned, as an instru -ment of tyranny and injustice; and uy, moreover, the amended law, after being hip serred on this Colony, hart
conferred tukin away by side wind, Your Memorialist presumed to think that mus upon a fair and explicit stutt.
A
Wis.
-porn-f the cereum, stances, redress
would not have been sought in vain From Your Grace; and under the im pression that the fucks have escaped never been brought to, Your Grues, park cular noties, another copy of the
oviginal Memorial will accompany
The
reason assigned for nit taking steps in the matter no longer exists, for the action agai
against your the morialist under, the old last, loges dropped some months ago; but the law still exists, and so long was that is the Easte Memorialist will not crase to use all lawful means to have it amended; and with that view, Prays,
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in
Your
That Your Grace will be pleased to take
the premised in to Consioferation, and Restore to the Memorialist und other British hebjects in this Coloms and in China the important right to which as such this are & titled, and of which they furor been deprived, iijiest by and without cause And Your Memorialist will hour pray Houd Mond Dexsmber 23. stat. As thesede
23.1883.
419
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Memorial of Andrew Shorbeeke Honghong
to
His Grace the
Duke of Newcastle, AirMajesty's Principal Seexiting of State for the Colonies.
ManyMond
23d. Eresorbis 1813.
Index
420
INDEX
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Vol 2.
July
to
Lee.
421
Gov Sir. G. Bonham
род
30 June 50 Acknowledges Despr
No g. 27 April, and
letters of 24 April and 3d May.
1853.
5 July 51 Seamans Ordinancd
N061572_ Arges confirmation of Additions to Harbour. Masters Establishment applies for sanction
11
52 Revenue and Expenditure
transmits
statements
thewing the Estimated
and actual
Revenue
and Expenditure for 1862.
53 Colonial Treasuress
Account. Forwards for
1852..
Troop
1.
:
7
1
W
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pi
3
183-3
Cont
Gov Bonham.
5 July. 5 Troop Kelum
12
16
20
4222
Schedule of Desp? via
Marseilles No544 to 57.
54 Half Yearly Schedule
of Desp? to Seer
of State-
Encloses
to 30 June 1853
55 Executive & Legislation Councils - Forwards Lists of.
for Half
year to both June
1853.—
56 Acks Desp2 Circulars
し
SS
22
心
3
го
and 9
May 154.
57
Lawson & Shortrede
Action for Libel Transmits Memorial from for Andrews thostrede. Editor of China mail
subject.
on
the
Schedule of Desp. via
Marscelles No 58 to 61.
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1
1
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2 Ang
3
10
1833
Gov Bonham
4234
58 Acks Despr 10 to 12 of
59
26 May 1853.
letter
of the 19th_
Lawson Shortrede
Encloses opini
of Attorney
Mr
Gen?
Portreder Memoria
to sec. of State.
60 Acks Despre Circulan
6 June
lane
4
8 No 13.9
and Letter f
to June 154.
61 Lawson & Shortrede
Exctures purttin Memorial from
Mil
Mr Shortreler
23 July Four Disembarkation Return
1 aus
7
mil
of Gun Lascars
Transmits Return of Gun Lascars.
Troop Return for
July.
Schedule of Desp. per
"Ganger":"
Sale
:
F
j
:
1
F
1833
424 4
Goor Bonham.
18 Aug 62 Sale of Inland Lot
272. to Mr Jardine Cancelled.
States
that the sale of lote
372. Mas
been Cancelled
22
29
Despatches acknowledged
to 19. af 29 June
183-3.
Schedule of Desp?
forwarded pethalte.
64 The Press.
30.
65
Action for
Libel against
Mrr Shortrede the
Editor
7
Mail.
the "China
Flas ceased.
Gost Notifications
will be
inverted in
the
in the Hong Kong
Register
officica Organ of
Reports.
liit
Acting Col? Chaplain
Resignation
the
Rest Mrr Carroll
Appoint of the Reo & Mr.
Fdell Reports.
Minuter
!
..
:.
425
5
1853
2 sep
7.
Goor Bonham
66 Minutes of Councils
for Half year
ending
Encloses.
30th June /53
June/s
67 Requisition for Stationng
Gov
for Civil Ga0 for
1854.
+3
Encloser.
68 Returns of Changes in
Office
Unusual
Payments- Additions.
to Salaries.
Quarter ending
By June 1853. encloses.
3g
69 Acknowledges Desps.
ya Rewards offered for
Mil
apprehension of the murderers of
Capti Lovett of
Airation
Five
apean
of the
and
other British
subjects -Reports
offer o
Troch Retton.
rook
Schedule of Despre via
Marseilles
:
:
;
员
426
6
833
But
Lep
Gorr Bonham
Marnilles Nos 71 to
75.
16 Sep 71 Foreign Repels dreion
:
72
20
73
22
into Port by strep
of Weather.
Port is entirely
to duties
крас
the
whattoen
Charged.
Mr Hilliers Papage to
England in 1852 Transmits further letter from Mr Hillier explaining the grounds
On
which
reduction.
he claims.
A
of the amount
of £104. —_aparged againd him
Estimates of Revenue &
Expenditure for
in
1854. Forwards detail with Report
therem
74 Colonial Accounts
lucloses for the
Financial year to
31 March 1853.
work
-F
X83
427
7
}
Gov Bonham
84 Sep 75 Works in Progress.
Forwords Estimates
for and requests. approval thereof
out 76 Ordinance No1/53.
Det
Regulation of Goal transmits copy of
as also of Gnol Rey is sanctioned Marby and Reports thereon
77 New Debtors Prison & House for reception of Tread wheel.
Transmits Reports
10
78
For
and Estimates the construction of
Clerk to Auditor Gen-Z & Lick Leave of Absence
granted for 18 months to Mr Edward Morgan Acting Appoints of Mr Hugh Reinhard
as Clark
to auditon
Gent and surveyor Gen- Mr Reinacker Registrar
of Marringer 2d Clestad dect Col. Treasury. Reports-
Schedule
I
1
428
.
:
18543
Goor Bonham
Schedule of Despr vin
Marseilles Nos 76 to
78.
Oct Mil schedule of Desp. via Mari. No174 to 83
20
21
¡
Troop Return.
74 Disadvantageous
79
80
Conditions and which Civil Officess obtain Leave of Absence. Forwards letter
the subject from the Auditor Gene with Enclosure from Mr Morgan.
Local Gazette Reports
arrangements made for the Printing of. Printing Press..
81 Death of Mr Morrison
Colonial surgeon.
Reports- and recommends Dr Holland for conft in the appointmen
92 Colonial Chaplaincy
82
In reply to
the Desp
on the subject of the
-"...
Complaint
1:
:
429
853
Cont
22 Oct 82
24
Goor Bonham.
Complaint made by the Bishose
83 Acknowledges Despe
Schedule of Despatches
via marscilas_s
84
to 86.
84 Leave & Abunce
8 Nov 84
16
to
Lt Pedder. Harbor Marter
months
Reports
of. For 12-
of all health.
55 Police Clothing applied
for in Leptember,
Reports
1832-
arrival
f.
luctores
Requisition for
similar supples for
1854 & 1855.
86 Quarterly Returns of
Changes in Office
Unusual Payments &
Encloses
to 30 September
18531
Boop
1
:
2
:
1 Nov
17
21
Got Benham.
Troop Return.
430
Schedule of Despe
via
Marseilles
Nos sy to go.
16
87 Leave of Absence to
Mr John Have,
Explains
reasons for
grabiting so long a
leave as 18 mouthe
88 Ordinance No 2/54.
Rights of Aliens to höld property. Encloses.
Acknowledges Despr
22
89
90
7
26
24
Resumption by Governen
Mariné Lot. No44.
Reports.
as alex thin
Buildings thirem late the Propertigof.
Mr Carter.
Arrival of the "Herculer "
Reports.
Schedule of Despr.
ria
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1853
Cont
431
Goor Bonham.
24 nov
vin Marseilles Mos
91
to 94.
1 Dec
91 Wreck of
the sorcha
"Martha" lustisen
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letter from H. I S. Consul at San Francisco thewing that no further
information.
obtained
be
on the subject
92 Mr Reimers Appointm
as Consul for Hamburg. Reports that no objection
Exists thereto.
94 Acknowledges Desp?...
94 Ordinance 3/55.
Duties &
Chinese Tepos their Emolument q Avil suits among Chines Transmit, authenticated Transcripts, and six spare Copies.
Mie Spoop Return.
Desembarkation Betion
en closes.
Schedale
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432
END
Schedule of Desps vin
Marsciller Angs to 98
16 Dec 95 Acknowledges Desp. _____
21
96
23
Death of Mrr Morgan Clerk to Auditor Gen &
Reports.
97 Ordinance 415 4
26
98
Mil
27
Sale
of
Spirituous Liquors
C
by Chinese fo Euctores for Conformatio and reports upon the nuity for passing it Opium Dealing &
Cofices.
6 spare
Lawson & Shortrede
luctors another Mem?
from Mr Mortrede urging that the provisions of the Imp-Act 687 V.C.96 may extended to Hong Kong
the
Embarkation Return of
Ceylon Rifles pir Singapore
Encloses.
COLONIAL OFFICE