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in the ... of mendicancy, and deported during the past month (June 1877) several of them had been working in the Colony for years. Having by ... illness or ... become destitute by age they fell under the operation of ... the deportation law. In the Police Office Report of the 24th of June 1877 is the case of Wong aki, a woman of seventy-two years of age, who had worked for four years in Hongkong, but being incapable of working for the last four months and having committed an act of mendicancy, she was convicted under the Ordinance and deported to the mainland.
17.
On the following day ... the Magistrate convicted and ... punished in the same way a woman named Yik a Law aged eighty. For eight years she had earned a laborious livelihood in Hongkong. Though even at that time of life the Chinese are industrious, it cannot be supposed that this poor woman, no matter how hard she worked, could have contributed any ... sensible amount to the wealth ... which her countrymen and ... countrymen enable the Colony to deal with, yet, I must confess as the head of ...
14.
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in the
of mendicaney, and deported during the past month (June 1877) several of them had been working Colony for years. Having by ___ illness of become destitute
age they fell under the operation of...__ the deportation law. In the Police Office Report of the 24th of June-
187% is the ease
woman,
of Wong aki, a
years of age,
seventy two
who had worked for four years
in
Honghong, but being incapable of working for the last four months and having committed an ast of mendicaney, she is
convicted under the Ordinanze
and deported to the mainland.
17.
On the following day
...
the Magistrate convicted and ___ punished in the same
woman named
eighty.
earned a
way
a
Yik a Law aged For eight years she had
laborious livelihood in
Hongkong. Though
even at that time of life the Chinese are industrious, it cannot of
that this poor woman,
be
supposed
Course
no matter how hard she worked,
could have contributed
any...
sensible amount to the wealth__
- which her countrymen and ____ countrywo
men enable
the
Colony to deal with, yet, I.
must confess
as the head of
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