Shanghai, 21st January, 1903.
Sm,—With reference to your letter 02/789 of December, 27th 1902;—I quote you the reply of H.E. Yuan, Taotai of Shanghai, under date of January 14th "On January 7th I received your letter to the effect that lotteries should be prohibited and that no lottery tickete should be allowed to be bought or sold in the Settlements."
In the 2nd moon of last year I instructed the Mixed Court Magistrate to put a stop to the sale of lottery tickets by Chinese in the Settlements.
Having received your letter on the subject, I will again instruct the Mixed Court Magistrate to issue a proclamation forbidding it.
T write this in reply to you and ask you to inform the Municipality.
Iam, Sir, Your obedient servant, Joux Goopxow. U.S. Consul-General and Senior Consul.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.