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"Arming Ordinance, which is now under the consideration of the Secretary of State - Steps have further been taken by the local authorities, with the assistance of the Chinese Society for the protection of women and children, and of Inchire's Chinese Justices of the Peace, - and I make the Chinese women inveigled into Hongkong, fully acquainted with their rights of freedom under English law. A statutory code of regulations is now enforced to prevent and punish infraction of the rights of all immigrants, and enable parents and friends to trace children and relatives who have been enticed away from their homes. The Chinese Society to which reference has been made, has reported that since the adoption of the new system, the number of young women inveigled into the Colony, or procured for immoral purposes, has gradually decreased". I have further ascertained at the Colonial Office that prosecutions have been successfully instituted against offenders, and that it is found that the regulations now in force, when worked with vigour and discretion, as they appear