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

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Depositions of Witnesses. CANADA City of Victoria Province of British Columbia The examination of Noah Shakespeare of Victoria aforesaid 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 in the presence and hearing of Ah Jim alias No6 who is this day charged before me. This deponent Noah Shakespeare upon his oath deposeth & saith as follows: I have heard my information read and it is true . This morning the thirty first of march a little after six o'clock myself and Bloomfield, Kirkup and L P Lewis proceeded to a house on Cormurant Street. The name of the proprietor of said house is Ah Sow. we went to the rear of the building found some chinamen in one room .We went into the