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

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Copy Summary Convictions (I 2) See ss. 42, 50.

Conviction for a penalty, and in default of payment, Imprisonment.

CANADA PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA District or County of New Westminster

BE IT remembered, That on the Seventeenth day of March, in the year of Our Lord thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, at Yale in the said District or County Westminster is convicted before the undersigned, one of He Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said District or County, for that he the said Ah Wing did unlawfully trespass by mining and residing on the fore shore of the Spuzzum Indian Reserve on March 16 1898

and I adjudge the said Ah Wing for his offence to forfeit and pay the sum of Five dollars to be paid and applied according to law, and also pay to the said Court the sum of -----s ums be not paid forthwith, or on or before the of --------, next I adjudge the said Ah Wing to be imprisoned in the Common Gaol of the said District or County at Yale in the said District or County of Yale (there to be kept at hard labour if such be the sentence) for the space of Twenty days unless the said sums and the costs and charges of conveying the said Ah Wing to the said Common Gaol shall be sooner paid.

Given under my Hand and Seal, the day and year first above mentioned, at in the District or County aforesaid.

? A. Irwin Indian agent ?

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