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In this petition from Melbourne Chinese residents you can see the name of John Alloo, well-known as an interpreter and as an early restauranteur in Ballarat. It's petitioning for clemency for Sing-lup who was sentenced to death for murder.

To find out more about petitions relating directly to the restrictive anti immigration laws click on the link below.Historian Anna Kyi examines petitions of Chinese residents in her two articles in Provenance Number 8 September 2009: ‘Finding the Chinese perspective: Locating Chinese petitions against anti-Chinese legislation during the mid to late 1850s’ and ‘The most determined, sustained diggers’ resistance campaign: Chinese protests against the Victorian Government’s anti-Chinese legislation, 1855 to 1862’