1.—Applications of Kwan Kin-mun jaod Chang Yi-kwong. Applicants' allegations:—To start business in America, Been in basines in Shanghai for a considerable time. Flaving capital of their own. Found on inquiry:—Neither having any money or been engaged in any trade, Having been engaged by Yan Loong, dealers in foreign and Kwangtung goods in San Francisco as assistants. Applications refased.
2. Applications of Ko Shia-hang and two others. Applicants' all To go to America to do business. Been trading to Shanghai for a long time and having Inrge capital. Found on inguiry: Their gasrantor K wang Cheong and Ca, did not know them personally and bad only been asked to guarantee them by a friend. They did not know whether they had any money or what were their vocations. Their fellow-villagers could not give any information regarding them. Applications refased.
Applications of Ching King-chin and Kan King-yung. Applicants' allegations:—To proceed to America to start business. They had Taels 20,000. Found on inquiry: Their guarantors Wing Cheong-cheung only had an office in the Took Hing Boarding House in Hongkew and were a sort of emigration brokers having no regular business. The applicants were not known to their fellow-villagers. Applications refused.
4. Applicati Lam Tze-ming.
ion of To go to America to stady. Found upon examination of applicant by the Taotai personally:—Applicant did not know the English Alphabet and could not give his grandfather's name. Applicant not the least like the photograph sent in, Application refased.
5. Applications of Liang Siu-In and three others. Applicants' allegations: To go to America to study. Been studying Chinese for eight or nin years and been educated at Queen's College, Hong Kong. A date was fixed for their examination but none of them turned up.
6. Applications of Li Man-yuen and Liang Hoi-toeg. Applicanta' allegations:—To go to America to open a company. Having Tls. 30,000 capital. When asked to produce evidence of same they talked a lot of nonsense and could not produce any. Applications refused.
7, Applications of Cha Kit-hing and four others. Applicanta' allogati To go to Americe to start tea business
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