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1880/20 Ah Jim, non-payment of School Tax*

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General Form of Information or of Complaint on Oath CANADA City of Victoria Province of British Columbia The information of Noah Shakespeare of the said City of Victoria in the said Province of British Columbia taken on this thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty one at Victoria in the Province aforesaid before the undersigned one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said province who saith that he hath just cause to suspect and believe and doth suspect and believe that Ah Jim a chinaman on the 31th of March did in a house situated on Cormurant Street in the City of Victoria endeavor to prevent Noah Shakespeare from distraining goods and chattels belonging to certain chinamen for payment of school tax at the time and place aforesaid and I charge the said Ah Jim with endeavoring to prevent me from distraining the goods and chattels of certain chinaman for payment of school tax at the time and place aforsaid [contrary?]to law Noah Shakespeare Taken and sworn before me, the day and year and at the place above mentioned. A.F Pemberton

Note. The above alteration was made by mistake, in the information instead of the Committment. AFP

BC Archives GR-0419 BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Box 19 File 1880/20 Attorney General documents.