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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 Westminster

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

and I adjudge the said Ah Kun for his offence to forfeit and pay the sum of Five dollars ($5.00) to be paid and applied according to law, and also pay to the said Court the sum of space, for his costs in this behalf; and if the said several sums be not paid forthwith, or on or before the space next, I adjudge the said Ah Kun to be imprisoned in the Common Gaol of the said District or County, at Yale in the said District or County of Westminster (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 Kun to the said Common Gaol shall be sooner paid.

Given under my Hand and Seal, the day and year first above mentioned, at space 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.