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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4ru FEBRUARY,

Marial of Chinese Merchants, &c., praying to be.

"allowed to form an Association for suppressing

kidnapping and trattic in human beings.

1. HIS EXCELLENCy the Governor.

11- humble petition of the undersigned resi- Lami merchants of Hongkong, being natives

dobe Ting-kiin District, viz. Lo faai-ping, Shi

unakai Fung Ming-slián, The Tat-shing and 66, of Bonham Strand, No. 3, in the matter

of uniting to offer rewards on account of the Lly increase of crimes of kidnapping, praying

Teile issue of a warrant with a view to make

lavours to stop these crimes and to pacify the ll-behaved people,

Sheweth,

That there are strict regulations in Hongkong

felbling the sale of honest people through

ilaping or deceit, and that, thanks to. His Ellency the Governor repeatedly taking repres-

de measures against kidnappers, the latter know

well that they must be careful as to their move- bats, and consequently this great evil became

vil nigh extinguished,

That, however, quite lately the minds of some e have become perverted in deceit, pretend-

leg to olbey the law and secretly disobeying it, pening a dangerous secret game and moving ut between East and West, the worst being tweens and old women who have houses

fethe detention of kidnapped people and, as it ray be, inveigle virtuous women or girls to come blngkong, at first deceiving then by the pro- of finding them employment (as domestic nants) and then proceeding to compel them force to become prostitutes or exporting them “tubreign port, or distribute them by sale over the font ports of China, boys being sold to become tel children, girls being sold to be trained

fejstitution, it being altogether impossible to Enlaiu in detail all their varied plans of wicked-

That your Petitioners are of opinion, that such led people are to be found belonging to any of the (neighbouring) Districts, but in our Dis- t of Tung-kún such cases of kidnapping are

mparatively more frequent, and all the mer-

dants of Hongkong without exception are ex- ̧ knowing their annoyance,

That therefore a meeting for the discussion of dematter has been held and it is proposed to subscriptions which may either be paid into

the Colonial Treasury or entrusted to soine house of business to facilitate general publication of

s of reward and the employment of special de-

Actives with a view to eventually stamp out this

crime of kidnapping and to make it impossible for

the kidnappers to carry on their tricks,

That, morcover, we natives of Tung-kún can comparatively more reliable information rc-

sling Tung-kun kidnappers, leaving no room

fr miscarriage of justice,

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