If the present day resident of Shanghai desires to know something of the eircumstances of the life away back in the good old days," of which during the present celebration he will no doubt hear something, he perhaps could hardly do better than have recourse to some of the early Municipal records. It is true that they are not very voluminous, or written with the object of interesting future generations, but, nevertheless, through the terse official phraseology and mass of recorded detail the conditions of existence can be seen and we are also able to appreciate the assiduity with which our predecessors devoted themselves to the task of founding the Model Settlement.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.