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keeper ahall be guilty of an offence and shall be lig- ble on conviction before the Supreme Court or a Court, of two Magistrates, to imprisonment for a tera not ex- ceading one year or to a fine not exceeding five hun- dred dollars or to both and if any keeper of a brothat, not being a natural born British subject, who has beon previously convicted of an offence under this section shall again be found guilty of such an offence the Governor in Council may issue an Order banishing such person from the Colony for such period and generally in such manner as may seen expedient and upon the issuing of such order the like consequenosa shall onsus in all respects as though auch order had been issued ander the powers conferred by "The Banishment Ordinance, 30a8*, This clause it will be seen puts a panalty upon any brothel keeper who praita a woman suffering from any contagions disease to remain in a brothel for
I smuld hope that by thus, the purpose of prostitution. putting the penalty upon the brothel keeper and not upon the prostitute the effect of cleuses 9 and 30 of the Indian Cantonment Regulations of 1897 will be p20- ducer in a Manner more suitable to the conditions of the Colony and that the result will be that the brothel keeper will in self defence send the prostitute who is suffering from disease to the hospital or to the refuge. 12. The power of search given by Section 12 of the Ordinance should be extended, and for this purpose
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in Section 12 (1) the words "of Part II" should be cmitted and after the word "brdinance" the following
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