261 5

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impervious to bribes; got think therefore Shot liners might to be directly indirectly licensed

av a

licenced by me, measures follow

just conclusion; m182 18

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existence of a mortified prohibiting law at all inconsistent with the adoption of efficient measures to mitigate the evils that result from this particular form of extortion might be entirely hoped by a law which provided that both keepers themselves be prosecuted only on the complaint of the Chief Colonial Authority, "information filed by the Attorney General, or when presented by two house holders resident in the neighbourhood, or by one householder having received actual damage or injuries annoyance,

Anne west act resulting from Anne west

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from the open profession of prostitution

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The brothel keeper would not then bribe the police to refrain from

the

exercise

of a power so longer in existence

The Ordinance provides that our brothel keeper conforms

long as any

to its provisions, that is, submits to treatment by the public Medical Officer, he shall be free from all "prosecution" whatever. He may establish himself in the most respectable neighbourhood, and become the most abominable of

but the neighbouring

are without redress or

remedy, the pest is ineradicable off, on the other hand, the inmates of the establishment are healthy, the keeper, it deems, is still subject to summary fine or to the prosecution of the neighbours, or to the common laws

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