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for a moment that the system should be dispensed with allogerhn- As in the days of Horace "Ut
jugulent homines, surgunt de
noite latrones" and no one
com
dontit
that, were the safeguard afforded by Night Pafos to be abandoned, it would be the signal for a Relum to this Colony from the Mainland of numerous thieves and desperate characters whom the Government has only lately succeeded in keeping of the place:
out
If the part of the city of Victoria which is inhabited by the Chinese had bem originally enclosed,
as
are
all the cities in Chima and) divided by gales at intervals, there
ao
may
would be much less difficulty in protecting the European Residents from Robberies in the Night; but
be supposed the whole of Victoria being open and accessible by night to a Population of upwards of 100,000 Chinese of whom a vast
are turbulent and dangerous
number
characters, some such system as
that of Night Passes is indispensable.
The complaint made by the
European Residents
anist Ordinance
against N: 9 of 1889 referred principally to the necessity of filling up Blankto in the Passes when used, "according to the truck of the
case)
"That is
with the name of the Particular
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