CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6] — Page 346

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Euclorure 3.

Report by the Attorney-Gecurvel.

The proposed.

proposed measure provides that

the Registrar General may en

hia

before

any person whom he reasonably suspects

of having in his custody any redoptiel daughter

ale sewant between the age of lo and.

or feciate

ofhoud.

as a

16 with a view of disposing ofher

There is uns definition of what... prostitute. There

should constitute reasonable grounds of e- suspicion, and I think the provision confers

too much arbitrary power to be exercised 4- without the safeguard of publicity by the Registrar Suural.

af the

The measures provides for the eummoning

kind ofpersons ceboce evcutioned and for calling upon

them to give reasonable

security against the pawning or selling of the child but it does not say what shall be done with the punsere or the child if the excurity

to

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