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1898/14 re Chinese miners on Fraser River – encroaching on an Indian reserve

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to pay the said Wm. Dodd the sum Five dollars on or before the Fourteenth day of then next, and also to pay the said the sum of ---- for his costs on that behalf; and I also thereby adjudged that if the said several sums were not paid on or before the Fourteenth day of then next, the said Ah Yon should be imprisoned in the common gaol of the County of Westminster, at Yale, in the said County of Westminster, (and there be kept at hard labour) for the term of Twenty days, unless the said several sums (and the costs and charges of conveying the said Ah Yon to the said common gaol, were sooner paid; and whereas the time in and by the said order appointed for the payment of the said several sums of money has elapsed, but the said Ah Yon has not paid the same, or any part thereof, but therein has made default: These are, therefore, to command you, the said Peace Officers, or any of you, to take the said Ah Yon and him safely to convey to the said common gaol at Yale, aforesaid and there to deliver him to tje Keeper thereof, together with this Precept: And I do hereby command you, the said Keeper of the said common gaol, to receive the said Ah Yon into your custody in the said common gaol, there to imprison him (and keep him at hard labour) for the term of Twenty days, unless the said several sums (and the costs and charges of conveying him to the said common gaol, amounting to the further sum of

      ), are sooner paid unto you the said Keeper; and for 

your so doing, this shall be your sufficient Warrant.

    GIVEN under the hand and seal, the Seventeenth day of
     March, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred
    and ninety-eight, at Yale
     in the County aforesaid.

(Sgt) A. ? Indian Agent J.P.

BC Archives GR-0419 BRITISH COLUMBIA, ATTORNEY GENERAL Box 75 File 1898/14 Attorney General documents.