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Tickets for passage from Hong Kong to Victoria via Barque "Maria"

87 pre-printed tickets in English and Chinese, with name of passengers, age, occupation and native place filled out in English. The tickets also have the name of the passenger written in Chinese. Some of the ticket holders were children. Folder 1 also contains undated hand-written notes which describe the conditions on the voyage re food and space allotted, and state that they were in contravention of the Chinese Passengers Act of 1855. Two Chinese names are listed on the note: A. Quang and Quang Ling.

Account book

Account book containing entries about loans, insurance, exchanges of gold dust and "gold eggs". The keeper of the accounts was acting as an agent and banker for Chinese who wished to send remittances back to China.

Receipt and certificate

Receipt issued to Tea Ah Chee for a Record of Placer Claim and water in a small spring below A. Burnett's House, 12th July, 1898, Lillooet District. Free Miner's Certificate issued to Te Ah Chee of Crow's Bar, 12th July, 1898. Small decorative envelope.

Chinese Ledger. Choate.

Account ledger; Chinese language book. A story, either personal or copied, appears near the back of the language book.

Presented by W.B. Armstrong, Emery Camp, Choate, 1932.

Chinese Ledger (Choate, B.C.)