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she
was sold for $132 to brothel keeper to serve.
term
44 a
prostitute:
for.
It is not desirable to prohibit
the emigration of Chinese
altogether, but it is difficult to
discriminate between the
good and the bad. It might
be possible to control such emigration by insisting
on all women desirous of emigrating
producing a guarantee from
the Members of the Ping
Hospital or other persons
or other persons approved by
His Excellency as to the respectability of the
intending emigrant. Agents of the ship could
be told that she would be passed by the Emigration Officer unless she was in possession of such guarantee.
In the course of my
experience women have told me that they were emigrating
for the purposes of prostitution, while others stoutly deny the
suggestion when such is put to them.
As a matter
of personal liberty they cannot be prevented
from going where, when, and for what purpose they like.
If the prohibition of female
emigration would lead to the
consideration as to whether
it would not lead to still
greater crimes; in the City
and County of
San Francisco they have
a large class of very low
prostitutes of
all nations in
that City, the Chinese women
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