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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH FEBRUARY, 1880.

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That this, however, being a matter of repressing

the dishonest and protecting the honest, may be an interference with official regulations, wherefore Petitioners dare not proceed in the matter without a warrant from Your Excellency (autho- rising them to do so) and your Petitioners are thus constrained to present this present petition coujointly, humbly praying that Your Excellency may be pleased to yield to the wishes of the people and issue a warrant to authorise your Petitioners at all times to institute inquiries, and if they meet with kidnappers immediately to request the co- operation of the police in arresting them and for- warding them to the proper tribunal to be tried and severely dealt with, those who succeed in arresting kidnappers receiving a reward and the kidnapped persons being supplied with means to return to their homes, whereby honest people will be saved from ruin and kidnappers will be unable to carry out their schemes at random, thus also our native city will be benefitted and Hong- kong will derive equal advantage,

And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.

Appended are five regulations which are res- pectfully submitted to Your Excellency.

In the fourth year of Kwangsui, 1878.

[IIere follow the Stamps of 62 different Shops.]

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Hongkong, 9th Noveinber, 1878..

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(Enclosure in Petition of Messrs. Lò Lai-p'ing, Shi Shang-kái, Fung Ming-shán, Tse Tat-shing and others.)

1. Kidnapping is a crime which is to be found everywhere, but there is no place where it is more

rife than Hongkong, nor was there a time when it developed so rapidly as of late, the reason being that there have been floods and drought alterua- ting for some years whereby many of the people were empoverished. Thus it happened that evil disposed persons had an opportunity to set their wicked plans for inveigling and kidnapping peo- ple in operation. Ignorant women fell an easy

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prey to their schemes. If once they entered the trap there were but few who could extricate themselves again.

Now it is proposed to publish everywhere offers of reward to track such kidnappers and have them arrested. If once they are in custody they will be severely dealt with. Perhaps these kidnap-

pers, hearing this news, will mend their ways.

Thus the grace and favour of His Excellency the Governor will not only put under obligation the

people of Hongkong but all the poor people of the inland districts will, with one voice, praise his goodness.

2. Hongkong is the emporium and thorough- fare for all the neighbouring ports. Therefore those kidnappers frequent Hongkong much, it being a place where it is easy to buy and to sell and where effective means are at hand to make

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