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giving any opinion as to the portions of the Ordinance relating to the regulation of prostitution in the "Colony."

18. On the other hand I

hand I perceive

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venture to question the excellence of the motives, which would interfere by

degislation, to shield and protect the

is

Chinese and the

women

in

question.

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that

these objects

four Grace regards Chinese residento

here as being as much under the

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change

and

considers that it is as necefsary to protect

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one as to protect the other. Hence "Your Grace observes that'

one

of the

objects of the Ordinance was to save

the unhappy

themselves, often

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"The passive

in

instrumento

of the

speculations

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of others, from the penalties attached to

their lot."

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perowaded could

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not those of the

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Admiralty and Mar Department now, and certainly

not the leading

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for introducing Legislation here on the

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Regiolation has been introduced in Great Britain except for the limited purposes contemplated here by the # Admiralty

and the War Department

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aiz. the protection of Her Majesty's Sailors and Soldiers

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20. The powers of the Ordinance for

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