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This archival document is an imperial edict issued on 12 June 1739 (11th day of the 5th month, 4th year of the Qianlong reign) by the Acting Magistrate of Chashan County, Magistrate Dai, under authority of the Maritime Defence and Civil-Military Prefectural Administration (Hai Fang Jun Min Fu) of Guangdong province. It addresses the unlawful construction of stone foundations for a water fortress (*Shui Cheng*) by the foreign resident *Ai-ai-zhu* at Chan Chu Shi (Toad Rock), a coastal promontory near Macau. The edict commands the Qing-appointed foreign headman (*Yi Mu*) to supervise *Ai-ai-zhu* in the immediate demolition and relocation of all newly laid foundations away from the site, and to submit a formally sealed compliance report (*Zun Yi Bao Fu*) without delay. The text records prior inspections, repeated admonitions, an official dispatch (*Xi*), and escalating administrative pressure due to non-compliance, culminating in a reissued urgent order threatening formal legal enforcement (*Tong Piao*). Key figures include Magistrate Dai, Prefect Kong of the Hai Fang Jun Min Fu, *Ai-ai-zhu*, and the *Yi Mu*. The document reflects Qing bureaucratic procedures for regulating foreign residents in the Macau–Guangdong maritime frontier, evidencing jurisdictional tensions, delegated authority, and enforcement mechanisms within mid-Qing coastal administration.
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This archival document is an official tax receipt issued by Meng, Magistrate of Xiangshan County, on the eleventh day of the twelfth lunar month in the thirty-ninth year of the Qianlong reign (29 December 1774), certifying the remittance of land rent and associated payments for the Macau enclave (*Houjing’ao*) by Portuguese Overseas Affairs Magistrates, including *Weiluoduo*. The receipt records the deposit into the county treasury of five hundred taels of silver as annual land rent, plus fifteen taels designated as the ‘integrity allowance’ (*yanglian yin*) for the provincial judicial commissioner (*yuan si*). It bears the official red seal of the Xiangshan County Magistrate and the certification signature of *Weiluoduo*, reflecting Qing administrative oversight of Macau’s fiscal obligations under the tributary and leasehold framework. Marginalia include a large red character *She*, indicating that the sum was recorded in the official accounts as owed but not yet fully settled in cash—a standard Qing fiscal notation (*she zhang*). The document originates from the Xiangshan County yamen and forms part of the historical record of Sino-Portuguese administrative and fiscal relations in the late eighteenth century. Archival references are 368 and 1445, with the document paginated as T36. This receipt serves as primary evidence for studying Qing local governance, cross-cultural taxation practices, and the legal-administrative status of Macau during the Qianlong period.