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**D o atar no roolão
nk moefohidov aking beamolf
,780 tawiłam na nas
Vidal an
da tooten olidng a to Min
doire vya uk bo troseh keśloned
nokre KumEN
糖
e no Balafered to not beoqet wild to" .(+)
hoe notrafimer doue vee to može«fałw
• MIRYODU"
BOTO" de man Crede bog oftesan
BA 18:TGA nimen ede eh wal > $5625 bra
nt bedanoutonn! onow yere ti
۳۳
not faren 2-VA/MOJA are to mobce:: sit mo
saknas srit vd of bstoetdo naw ¿1
a o anibaek bilda ere
Istor Leth Anta bengothe phrena wor 33 here tedes
(2). The Chinese from the mainland on finding that they would be fined or imprisoned for spitting in this Colony would avoid Hongkong as much as possible and your Petitioners' trade and business would greatly suffer thereby.
Your Petitioners also submit that it is impossible to enforce such a law in this cosmopolitan community of Hongkong; and if it were enforced, it would only create misunderstanding and stir up bad feelings without attaining the desired object for the following reasons:-
(1). On account of the floating nature of the inhabitants of this Colony it is highly impracticable to make the majority of them guard themselves from offending a law against spitting which they have long regarded as a harmless habit.
(2). The houses in this Colony are principally Chinese tenement houses and each house has a common entrance. The tenants of these houses would not prosecute any one against this law except out of spite.
(3). There is no provision in the said Bill requiring public buildings to provide spittoons, and for want of such a provision it may lead the Chinese to think that the passing of this Bill was only a means of getting the Public Revenue increased by fines in view of the impending abolition of the Opium Farm.
(4). In enforcing the law it is necessary to entrust to Police Constables the power and discretion to make immediate arrests of offenders. Although the Police Force of Hongkong is under the best of disciplines yet its members are composed of various nationalities, such as Europeans, Indians and Chinese, and it is very dangerous indeed to place into their hands such discretionary powers.
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227
** D *o atar no roolão
nk moefohidov aking beamolf
,780 tawiłam na nas
Vidal an
da tooten olidng a to Min
doire vya uk bo troseh keśloned
nokre KumEN
糖
e no Balafered to not beoqet wild to" .(+)
hoe notrafimer doue vee to može«fałw
• MIRYODU"
BOTO" de man Crede bog oftesan
BA 18:TGA nimen ede eh wal > $5625 bra
nt bedanoutonn! onow yere ti
۳۳
not faren 2-VA/MOJA are to mobce:: sit mo
saknas srit vd of bstoetdo naw ¿1
a o anibaek bilda ere
Istor Leth Anta bengothe phrena wor 33 here tedes
(2). The Chinese from the mainland on
finding that they would be fined or imprisoned for
spitting in this Colony would avoid Fongkong as much
as possible and your Petitioners' trade and business
would greatly suffer thereby.
Your Petitioners also submit that it is
impossible to enforce such a law in this cosmopolitan community
of Hongkong; and if it were enforced, it would only create más-
-understanding and stir up bad feelings without attaining the
desired object for the following reasons:-
(1). On account of the floating nature
of the inhabitants of this Colony it is highly in-
-practicable to make the majority of them guard them-
-selves from offending a law against spitting which
they have long regarded as a harmless habit.
(2). The houses in this Colony are
principally Chinese tenement houses and each house
has a common entrance. The tenants of these houses
would not prosecute any one against this law except
of spite.
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(3). There is no provision in the said
B111 requiring public buildings to provide spittoons,
and for want of such a provision it may lead the
Chinese to think that the passing of this Bill was
pnly a means of getting the Public Revenue increased
by fines in view of the impending abolition of the
Opium FarmL,
(4). In enforcing the law it is neces-
-sary to entrust to Police Constables the power and
discretion to make immediate arrests of offenders.
Although the Police Force of Hongkong is under the
best of disciplines yet its members are composed of
various nationalities, such as Florpeans, Indians and
Chinese, and it is very dangerous indeed to place into their hands such discretionary powers which
they
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