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the Gaol, having served out their
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time collected in
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&
city. These
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as
gangs
men were aA
daring, and the Police
in the
curning
were
baffled by the frequency and __ audacity of the burglaries and highway robberies accompanied
by violence, committed "parts of the town."
on all
He adds that returned to Hongkong, he set enquiries on foot, the results
being, that he recorded his opinion
very important publie
that "a
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safeguard had been withdrawn when
the system of branding ceased to be carried on."
6.
With reference to the objections
made in 1845 by the late Lord Derby and by other Secretaries of State when some of the Europeans in Honghong recommended the branding of Chinese thieves, that it would fasten
on the
in
delinquento a permanent stigma and prevent them getting employment
country, the Governor Lord Kimberley
their own
assured Lord
that the
on a chinaman would not,
brand on a
own
country,
mark
earry any stigma in his but would be looked
of honour : the words of the despatch
are! -
"
on as a
"Being what he is a conspicums mark would not interfere prejudicially
with his career any
where out of the
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