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WongKong.
19
No
30th
30 March, 1875.
Adminstrator
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The Right-Amorable
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Ordinance for the better protection off Chinese
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Statement of Object and Reasons.
The Ordinance No. 6 of 1873 was passed in order to check, by Ponal Legislation, the practice of buying and selling women and girls for prostitution and their detention or abduction for the like purposes. There is reason to believe that the Ordinance has done good service in the matter, and has dimi- uished these abuses: but its language seems not to meet the case of women or girls purchased out of the Colony for the purpose of prostitution, and brought here to be shipped to California, or elsewhere; unless the women Or girls complain of being detained in this Colony against their will. Such complaints have been exceedingly rare, and proof of forcible detention difficult to obtain; although there is no moral doubt that females are purchased out of the Colony, and after a few days' residence here are shipped to various places to be- come prostitutes. This Ordinance in the third and sixth sectious aims at meeting these cases, and makes it a misde- meanour for any person to bring into the Colony any woman or girl knowing her to have been purchased for prostitution, or with the like knowledge to receive or harbour any such woman or girl. The rest of the Ordinance is almost a reprint of the Ordinance No. 6 of 1873, which for the sake of convenience is repealed and re-enacted with the two additional sections.
Hongkong, 23rd February, 1875.
JOHN BRAMSTON, Attorney General.
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