Letter from Musso and Fischer to Commissioner of Public Works  - "Re: Electrical Signs in front of Nos. 596/8 Fokien Road". Shanghai, February 18, 1925. Source: SMA (SMC), U1-14-3262 (0538). 

We are instructed by our clients Yu Kong Tai Fee Silk Store () of the above address to write to you with reference to the above signs, consisting of 2 shop-front lights, 1 piece of glass-sign, 2 bulbs and 2 signboards, which, our clients state were at 11.30 a.m; on the 16th instant taken down and carried away by 5 or 8 workmen led by 2 foreigners who, as far as our Clients could make out from them, were sent there from your department. 

Our Clients state that the said removal has cause to them a great deal of inconvenience, as well as damage. As similar electrical signs, installed in spoitions same as our Client's sill abound in front of our Clients' competitors and other shops in the vicitnity and on the same road.

We are instructed to ask you to kindly let us know the reason why thoses of our clients were removed and at the same time to let us know your requirements for reinstalling the same.  

Letter from Commissioner of Public Works to Musso and Fischer. "Projecting Electrical Signs - Nos. 596/8 Fokien Road". Shanghai, February 24, 1925. Source: SMA (SMC), U1-14-3262 (0539).

With reference to your letter of the 18th instant (February 1925) we beg to inform you that a General Permit was issued to the Yu Kong Tai Kee Silk Store on the 26th September, 1924, for painting the outside of the premises. Shortly afterwards it was discovered that an electrical sign had been erected without a permit, projecting six feet beyond the Municipal road line. As a written request to remove the sign was not complied with it was taken down by this Department at the end of October, under the authority of Land Regulation XXX.

Recently it was found that the sign had been re-erected again without a permit, and it was again removed by this Department. Your client's statement that the sign was caried away is hardly correct, as it was on both occasions delivered to the occupants of the Store. The Municipal Rgulations require that signs shall be at a clear height of not less than eleven feet beyond the building line. There are of necessity many old signs which project more that three feet, but every effort is made by this Department to ensure that all new signs erected shall comply with this regulation. 

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Union Hospital to Commissioner of Public Works. Shanghai, December 1, 1925. Source: SMA (SMC), U1-14-3262 (0540). 

With reference to your letter dated 28th, November, received this evening, claiming the projection of 4 electrical lamps over the Roadway, I, the undersigned, beg to bring for your information that these 4 lamps referred to were erected by the above mentioned Hospital instead of by Ta Ming Kung Sze, as advised in your letter. It is also to be noted that is has been four or five years since the construction of these 4 lamps, and so far no complaint regarding their projection over Roadway was received until today. As the President of this Hospital has now been leaving for Ningpo and is expected to return next week, will you please let the destruction of these 4 lamps e effected at this return. 

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Kwantung Lee Foh Soo to Commissioner of Public Works. Shanghai, December 17, 1925. Source: SMA (SMC), U1-14-3262 (0542). 

We beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 11th instant No. 3143 (December 1925) advising us that our two illuminated signs had been exceeding the permissible projection over the Municipal Roadway, and in reply, wish to know to what extent is the projection permissible. Will you please send some one round to show us what we had better do to remedy the matter.  

Public Works Department [Hand-written memo]. Shanghai, December 21, 1925. Source: SMA (SMC), U1-14-3262 (0543).

Notified that the sign must not project more than 3 feet and must be 11 feet high. 

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