M
+(p.61)
118
I shall be glad to know whether or not
you share this view.
20.
I observe from the evidencet given
before the Committee that in Singapore,
as elsewhere, it appears to be notorious
that there is a clans of men living upon
the earnings of prostitutes, and accus-
tomed to treat these women with brui-
tality. I would ask you to consider
whether it is feasible to legislate on
the lines of the Imperial Vagrancy Act
of 1898 (61 and 62 Vic. cap.39), which
imposes a (penalty on a male person
habitually living on the profits of pro3-
titution.
I have.
&C.