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1884/29 Tai Chong – nuisance pigs, near Songhees reserve

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1. The Jurors for our Lady the Queen upon their oath present that Tai Chong on the twenty fourth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand, eight hundred and eighty four and on divers other days between that day and the day of the taking of this Inquisition, on the Songish Indian Reserve, near the dwelling houses of divers liege subjects of our said Lady the Queen City of Victoria and common highways there did and yet doth Keep thirty-one hogs, and the said hogs then and there to wit at the place and times aforesaid unlawfully and injuriously did feed and yet doth feed with offal and other filth, by reason whereof divers noisome and unwholesome smells and stenches during the time aforesaid, did from thence there arise, and the air there was and yet is thereby greatly corrupted and infected to the great damage and common nuisance not only of all the leige subjects of our said Lady the Queen, there resident and dwelling, but also to all the leige subjects of our said Lady the Queen passing and repassing in by and through the said streets and common highways then to the evil example of all others in like case offending and against the peace of our Lady the Queen, her Crown, and Dignity.