imprisonment,
and
The Law,
an ordinance of the 24th Jan. 1844-
and by the order in Council,
Consolidating Ordinance.
An Act in and for Hong Kong, has been made applicable to
British subjects in China.
It is true that the
Lessons prima facie and ostensibly, guilty are these brokering brokers and (wives); but the
British merchants who employ
them, and the Ship Masters
who assist in carrying
on
their
dealings with effect, have, it
is to be feared, frequently been
fully cognisant of the habits
of these dealings, and might
of sufficient credence be prosecuted, as principals
or
accessories of the crime. My
I. Wherefore in the first
place I suggest that H.M.
Representative in China