J.C. Power, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1867. He worked for the Surveyor General's Office as a book-keeper between 1846 and 1848, and as the Clerk of (Deed) Registry and book-keeper in 1850. He was also a Supreme Court Appraiser in 1850. He retired in 1867 due to ill health; his last held position in the Civil Service was the First Clerk of the Surveyor General's Office. He received his first pension payment of £200 from the Hong Kong Government on February 1, 1867.
Selected Bibliography: Pensions Payable out of the Revenues of the Colony, 1871. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846,1848 and 1850.
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