The Board of Directors respectfully submit the following report of their work for the year ending 3rd August, 1904.
The following amendment to By-law 5 was approved by the Board on the 11th Aug. 1903, to be presented at the annual meeting for ratification Vacancies occurring in the Board of Directors may be filled up by the Board. Vacancies having occurred through the absence of Messrs. J. L. Hendry, A. Langman, and J. C. Garritt, the Board elected Messrs. A. P. Parker, Geo. Hudson, and W. H. Hudson to' fill their places respectively.
The Board calls attention to the fact that it is necessary for the Association to place in their hands this authority to fill vacancies inasmuch as the resident population iso changing that otherwise it is difficult to secure representative meetings of the Board.
The usual transportation facilities have been provided for. Extensive repairs have been made upon the rest-house, putting the building in better condition than at any previous time. A tract of 3 fun of land adjoining the rest-house has been secured, and a shed erected thereon for the convenience of visitors in landing goods. A stone embankment has been put up at the place where the boats an-char on arrival.
Arrangements have been made with the Japanese Steam Launch Ca. for-a weekly service direct from Shanghai to Sanjaopoo.
Arrangements were made through the Supply Committee for a supply of meat and milk and for the opening of a laundry at Sanchiwu.
The Judicial Committee has spent a great deal of time in the settlement of a number of <lifficult cases that have been brought before them.
The Board has carefully considered from time to time ways and means for the securing of law and order on the, mountain and for reducing the points of friction that must necessarily arise in so heterogeneous a community.
Through the Public Improvements Committee the following improvements in roads have been made: Repairing and build the Grand Stairway 369.00 Work on the Ridge Road 8.00 Making now roads above Public Tennis Court General repairs, grass, ote.
$110.50
Through the efforts of the Committee on Sanitation there has been a perceptible improvement in the general sanitary condition of the hill. The sanitary arrangements adopted last year have worked smoothly and advance has been made in securing better conditions where Chinese workmen are concerned.
Regarding the question of the removal of the native huts on the N.E. ridge, the special committee appointed by the Board have consulted with the nativeanthorities. No suitable arrangement has yet been completed, but the committee is still at work on the problem.
There have been during the year 24 additions to the membership of the Association, the total membership to date under the revised constitution of 1902 being 77.
Various usefal information has been embodied in a small handbook, 400 copies of which have been printed and which will be sold at ten cents.acopy. Two hundred copies of a map of the mountain presented to the Association by one of its members, are acknowledged with thanks and passed on to the incoming Board of Direetors to put in such form as they think best.
We report that there are 94 lot-holders on the mountain, representing 1,645.38 mow of land, on' 1,200 mow of which the Chinese Government taxes are paid through the secretary of the Association The Government tax is 7 cents per mow.
We report the following census of population of the mountain taken o= Ang. Sed, 1904
No. adults, male, 58. No. adults, female, 129. Total adults, 187.
Total number of children, 142.
Total foreign population on Aug. 3, 329.
No. servants and other Chinese employees.... 280 No. of workmen in native straw huts, estimated: 200 No. in and about guard house, estimated 6
Total native population within range of foreign settlements, " 495
Accompanying this we respectfully submit the treasurer's statements of accounts which have been duly audited, together with a budget for the year 1904-05, BUDGET For THE YEAR sly Ist, 1904, to saxe 30th, 1905, 1L—That the sanitary tax. of $200 a house be abolished.
2.—That the house tax be raised from 35 to $10.
3.—That the rest-house charge of $1 per adult person be continued as before.
4.—Thata land tax be assessed at 20 cents per mow on all land owned by members of the Association.
That the Government land tax duo by members of the Association be paid for them by the Association free of charge for so doing, they being merely called upon to remit the actual sum so paid.
Estiwaten Ixcoue ror tae Year 30rH Jes, 1905, 1,500 mow at.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.