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great difficulty in legislating upon a Subject like the one before the Committee, — severe the object not the punishment of Brothel Keepers — or prostitutes — Low, but simply to check the spread of disease, is, that you cannot give any opponent — satisfaction to immorality, and I should therefore, under ordinary circumstances, be averse to such legislation as that proposed, but when I consider the frightful extent to which the venereal disease is prevalent in this colony — it's virulence, and the fearful ravages which it commits, I'm disposed...
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