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the charge sheet since 1871.

All these documents are printed and published in the Police Committee Report of 1879

(see appendix pages 7, 13 + 14) a report to which the Govern referred at the Council meeting

of

the 20th duine.

The return as to the punishment

of mendicants in Government. Gazette of 16th December 1889. page 944 shows that

листе

w mendicants

and that before 1867. flogged from 1867, the

Magistrates did not deal with

such cases. There was no

me ground

therefore for suggesting that the magistrates has been adopting

>

"flogging system" towards Chinese mendicants. But if they

had occasionally seen the

of ordering

a

neersity

whipping to a

Strendy and lazy beggar, it is

submitted that the

carrying

out laws which magistrates

Sworn to administer

ひ

hardly be a

ground for

I have to

Caw

OLULUJOL

(Signed) J. Russell.

Colonial Treas