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☞ This System is recommended as a standard by Judges, Clerks and Attorneys of the United States Courts. To avoid confusion, we recommend that attorneys write all Chinese names according to the David Jones system of spelling Chinese names. Marshall B. Woodworth, United States Attorney.
San Francisco, August 24th, 1904.
* Judges of the United States Court having recommended the "David Jones System of Spelling Chinese" as standard in the United States, the Agents of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company will be supplied with copies of the book for their guidance in writing Chinese names on manifests. Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Occidental, and Oriental Steamship Company, 此以英字 調串華音 之法乃合 眾國衙門 工商部以 及各輪船 公司所通 行爲畫一 者也 |