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but few Chinese Houses and those in bad situations are let, and many have been built and occupied, since Mr. Scott gave his testimony; and it may be added that some wild speculators have over-built, and the absence of profit by this act of folly induces them to cavil at and find fault with Government.
Mr Scott is the only person to my knowledge, who ever discovered such a prejudice; (if Registration be highly offensive to them and repugnant to their prejudices; yet Gibb 792 says that Chinamen "have not the slightest objection" to Registration) then must the laws of China be likewise so; for Registration rules will be found much more stringent than those enacted there.
No 3668, Sec 734 as to the object of Registration; No 3684; No 3689 "no person has been punished to my knowledge by corporal punishment for simply registration" This has been already proved incorrect - If Mr. Scott saw these they probably fell under sentence by the Supreme Court; whose hair is cut close/shaved by prison-regulations; and in such case on their way to the punishment of Flogging they could not have been taken to the flogging post; has not.