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powers given & the facilities for
enquiry in case
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doubt are
should
suggest
measures for giving greater powers
to the officers
in
question
14. I should also be glad to kuw
) whether it would not be desciabe
that liability should be attached
to the landlord of premises ured
as a brothel, the keeper of which
has been concrcted of breaking the law.
20. Any
cases
of cruelty practised by
the brothel heepers
of the brothels
ow
the inmates
Law,
I presume, be
adequately dealt with under the
existing
Law. I shall be glad
to know whether or not you
DRAFT.
Mr.
Mr.
MINUTE.
Mr. Antrobus.
Mr. Cox.
Mr. Lucas.
Mr. Graham.
Sir E. Wingfield.
Earl of Selborne.
Mr. Chamberlain,
Share this view.
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informed
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that there is
as in other large
class
of
mew
livring
upon the earnings of prostitutes,
I accused to treat these women
with brutality. I am not aure
whether this wire is prevalent
in Hongkong
ash
but
if
so I would
to consider whether it
you
is feasible
to
legislate
on the
lines
of
the Imperial Vagrancy Act
of 1898 (68862 he caf. 34) which
imposes a severe
penalty
a make person habitually living
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