CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10] — Page 86

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the Government lisensed Brothels as

a aanland

of Keeping Chinese girls

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"state of slavery _ finde as follows:-

"1. Neither Mr. March nor the

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Colonial Surgeon have promoted or

sanctioned any system or any

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by meand

practice by

of which the

"Look Hospital could possibly be

"made available for the purpose of

Keeping Chinese girls

slavery.

in a state of

2. The law governing the admission

"of patients to the Lock Hospital as it (2) Agresionit

has always

been administered does not

allow

allow of any such abuse, unless with

the deliberate connivance

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of the

Colonial Surgeon and the staff of the Lock Hospital.

کرمی

"

"3. No system or practice admitting of such abuse has at any

time

prevailed since Sir John Pope Hennessy

was

Governor of Hongkong and the

Council is unable to obtain evidence

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of the existence of a single fast or.__

"complaint that would furnish any,

not can

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pretext for the suggestion,

it

obtain

any

after careful and exhaustive

evidence of the Governor

having

enquiry

ever

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