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the charge sheet since 1871.
All these documents are printed and published in the Police Committee Report of 1879
(see appendix pages 7, 13 + 14) a report to which the Govern referred at the Council meeting
of
the 20th duine.
The return as to the punishment
of mendicants in Government. Gazette of 16th December 1889. page 944 shows that
листе
w mendicants
and that before 1867. flogged from 1867, the
Magistrates did not deal with
such cases. There was no
me ground
therefore for suggesting that the magistrates has been adopting
>
"flogging system" towards Chinese mendicants. But if they
had occasionally seen the
of ordering
a
neersity
whipping to a
Strendy and lazy beggar, it is
submitted that the
carrying
out laws which magistrates
Sworn to administer
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hardly be a
ground for
I have to
Caw
OLULUJOL
(Signed) J. Russell.
Colonial Treas