Shanghai, 14th June, 1893.
Sm.—We the undersigned, American citizens and residents of Shanghai owning land or houses within the Settlement, beg most respectfully to enter a complaint against the use of the present Rifle Range as a nuisance who Range extends about 900 yards East and West, and when firing is going on all the traffic from North and South is stopped, sometimes from 6 a.m. to late in the after noon cutting off all approach to our houses and property. Besides the inconvenience to which we are put it not being able to cross the Range to our houses the shooting is often erratic and bullets go wide of the Range to the danger of our lives und: damage of our property. Bullet marks may he seen on. the Walls and fences from thirty-five to thirty-eight feet from the Range.
We therefore trust that you will call the attention of the Muneipal Coun the matter with a view to having the Range removed to some suitable place where the surrounding district is not so thickly populated as where it is now situated, And we shall ever pray, ete.
Mustanp & Ca., A. SEtssox. neral, Shanghai. Shanghai, 21st June, 1893.
I have the honour to acknowledge of your letter of the 19th instant, forwarding on behalf of certain American citizens a complaint with reference to the Rifle Range. faint out that the property known, as the In reply f am requested by the Council to
ile Range was acquired by the Cotineil for the specific and exclusive purpose of shooting and experiments with fre arms, and any person being or passing thereon is a trespasser, and acts at his own peril, As the range has been used for rifle and other sh: ating for over 30 years, the land in the neighbourhood has for " long time bee held subject to the incidents attaching to such a posi The Council have hw! from time to time before them the question of removing the range to some place outside the Settlement, but as there is no probability of their being able to acquire land for the purpose the question of the propriety of such a removal does not arise ut present.
ough the convenience of people who mov into the neighbourhood is wot lost sight of by the Council, they cannot allow the training of the Municipal Police and Volun tears in rifi: shooting and the other uses of the range to be interfered with, and the owners of the different lots on either ide of the range have been served with copies of the accompanying notice so soon xs the Connell had Any intimation of their intention to erect dwelling houses on them.
Thave the honour to be, Your obedient servant, Chairman. Ss. Buss, Bay, Acting Consal-
Kiangse Road. 1895 the Council to d four attention the fact that the ange wi vhich, without consul ug the Council, intend erecting a dwelling house, is nota Public Thoroughfare, but is the sole property of the Council.
Tt may happen that the lateer may deem it requisite for the safety of the Public or the convenience of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, either to inclose the Range or to erect yates so as to prevent any use of the Range as a pathway Should either of these courses adopted they might be productive venience to the user of your hous object of the Council in now drawing your attention to the matter is to enable you to make suitable arrangements for access to your house independently of the Range pathway in case the latter should have to be interfered with.
Tam, Sir, Your obedient servant, Site jor a Hospital infections diseases.—The following letter submitted and ordered to be published Shanghai, 8th June, 1893, Dear Sir,-——Feeling convinced that the Educational Scheme at yesterday's meeting would not be passed and Mr. "Campbell's proposal for a Jubilee grant of 25,000 taels not having been put before the Ratepayers, further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.