Colonial Office, Straits Settlements of Pinang, Malacca and Singapore

“ Headmen or undertakers of Tin mines or otherwise at Larut, do acknowledge themselves jointly as well as severally their and each of their Executors and Administrators, and any one or more of them their Executors and Administrators, to be bound to Her Majesty Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland in the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars, to be well and truly paid to Her said Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors, at any one or more of the Treasuries of Her said Majesty, in the Colony of the Straits Settlements. ”

“ Whereas, differences have existed among the Chinese employed as miners as otherwise at Larut in the Kingdom of Perak, which differences have been referred to the decision of His Excellency the Governor of the Straits Settlements, and whereas, His Excellency the Governor has examined into the matter and has decided thereon as follows:
1st That both the said contending parties shall be disarmed and the stockades destroyed.
2nd That both shall be at liberty to return to their work at Larut. ”

“ In the presence of,
(Signed) W. A. Pickering, Witness.
(Signed) H. L. Randell, Witness.
(Source: Proceedings of the S.S. Legislative Council for 1874. Enclosure F. in Clarke to Earl Kimberley, No. 43, Singapore, 24/2/1874.) ”