ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315828060/49546f0e-ce84-4e70-9b40-7107f16ee305/content/fig_t_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>HE certificates issued by the Hung Society vary somewhat in the different Lodges, and the examples now given are of Lodges which have been suppressed in Singapore. The most important is the Grand Diploma of the Ghee Hin Society, the Society of which most of the other Lodges are offshoots or branches. The example first illustrated is an impression taken from the original “Chop” handed over to the Government in 1890, when the Hung Society was declared unlawful. At that date all the seals and paraphernalia were surrendered to the Protector of Chinese and unfortunately most of the articles were destroyed. This was probably done in order to show that the Society had been renounced and was wiped out, and also, perhaps, to prevent them from being stolen and utilised to re-found the Lodges. That this danger was a real one is proved by the fact that some of the articles which were not destroyed have since been stolen, undoubtedly with this object.
