and immoral.
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A House of Commons Committee has been sitting on the subject of our own Act 1867-9 for three years past. It has presented it's report which is in favour of these Acts but not of such a system as Lord Kimberley desires to impose upon the unwilling native population of the Colony of Hongkong.
There is no doubt we believe of the intense repugnance of the Chinese population of all classes to the law, which he would enforce; this is practically admitted by the fact that Lord Kimberley does not venture to propose the medical examination of prostitutes in brothels for the use of Chinese alone. We put it to Your Lordship of Colonial policy that the imposition of such laws against the wishes and opinions of the native population may
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and immoral.
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A House of Commons Committee has bee
the saljest of our own Act 1866-9 for three years past.
It has presented
sitting
on
in favour
the
it's report which is in favour of these Arts but not of such a system as Lard Kimberley desires to impose upon
imwilling native population of the Colony of Hongkong.
There is no doubt we bebeve of the intense repugnance of the Chinese population of all classes to the law, which he would inforce; this is practically admitted by the fact that Lard Kimberley does not venture to propose the
medical examination
as a matter ̈
of prostitutes in brothels for the use of Chinese alone. We put it to Your Lordship of Colonial policy that the imposition of such laws against the wishes and
opinions of the native population may
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