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with their attendant cost was

in fact without compensation.

an additional tax

5.

The object of imposing,

so

: the obligation to be photographed was to defeat the practice of personation (always common among Chinese) by which means, it was

it was believed, licences were commonly passed from hand to hand,

and were

largely held by

those to whom

they

had

not been granted. With a

view

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view to show how far personation

wad

of the

possible, the case of jinricksha coolies was mentioned to me, the extent of whose indulgense in this

this practice may be gathered from the -fact, that while previous to

their having imposed them the necessity of being

on

of

-photographed, the number transfere of licences applied

for

was under 10 per annum, the number rose afterwards

to some hundreds per

annum,

6.