H739 in brothel slavery against the wills of brothel slaves in that Colony but the ordinances contain no single clause on that subject, and have never been worked with that view, and a reference to Mr Labouchere's letter proves that he contemplated further measures.
The system led to frightful and odious abuses as in our opinion all such systems later inevitably do.
"Europeans, soldiers, sailors, English members of the spy police, employees of the Naval Yard, inferior employees of the Registrar General's department and the lowest class of Chinamen were provided with money out of the Secret Service Fund to bribe Chinese women to commit prostitution with them in unlicensed houses" so that they might be arrested and the houses proceeded against as unlicensed brothels. The informer was plainly merely used...