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All Commanders also inform the people that the Allied Police have received strict orders to render assistance to any person whom e carried off by force, or who, when in company of kidnappers, may suddenly become alive to his danger. Those, therefore, whe Mars thus situatod, or those who, under some pretext or other, may be openly seized by kidnappers, should boldly call ort for aiil, in car of the Allied Police they may rely upon assistance being promptly rendered them. Or if any injured parties can supply that may lead to the discovery of the kidnappers, or can themselves seize these and bring them before the Allied Commanders, a do all in their power to examine into their wrongs, and to see that the penalties of the Law are duly inflicted. The Allied at the same time, however, warn the people that their power to aid those who are kidnapped is greatly fossened when once they din adat, as not only the numerous native craft, but also the vessels of Foreign Countries, are not under the control of the in respect therefore to all offences committed by such vessels, the appeal should be made to the authorities of the nation to which

Let all give heed to these injunctions.

10:ri April 7th, 1859.

A SPECIAL PROCLAMATION.

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PROCLAMATION.

TIL-KWEI, Governor of the Province of Kwang-tung, &c., &c., &c.,—to ordain

stringent measures for the apprehension of kidnappers,

in order that a grave calamity be removed from among the people.

Whoever in the Province of Kwang-tung mercantile classes are found mingled with the people, a densely crowded population is the Among them may be found those who are compelled by want to search for a living wherever they can obtain it; while others, in rive a trade, quit for a time their homes and cross the seas; or accepting the employment offered by Foreigners, obtain by going abroad ve remuneration for their labour. Permission to their doing so should not, it is clear, be withheld in any of these cases, provided the themselves really consent to the arrangements. But the Governor has now been informed that of late a number of villains are going i threes and fives, laying all sorts of plans for kidnapping the people, taking alike the young and strong without distinction. Under of providing them with employment, they put the men whom they thus carry off, on board ship, and sell them to other parties, who w away to foreign lands. The traffic is known by the name of the sale of pigs. Any length of time may elapse without their return- sir homes: they cannot see their parents, and they are separated from their wives, their children, and their other relations. How

tre-sing is their case!

villains, on the other hand, who inflict this misery, being intent only on enriching themselves by means of their fraud, and blinded . not only to all fear of the law, but to all sense of right, are affected by no regard for human life. Their designs, whether in point per or in degree of wickedness, are worse far than those of the robber or the bandit, and one recoils with horror from the contem- of their evil doings. If stringent measures be not taken for their punishment and suppression, how are the laws to be upheld, and the Ne people protected?

The Governor has therefore directed all the Civil and Military Authorities to require their solliers and police to institute strict and *arch with a view to the arrest of these offenders. But in addition to this step he judges it necessary to make known, by public mation, the following injunctions to all classes of the people in the Provincial Capital (or the Province.)

Is not commiseration for the woes of others a universal feeling? Who is there among us who has not a brother, a child, or other near rela- These villains are like beasts or beasts of prey,any one seizing them would wish to kill them. All of you with united heart and hand atch for them in every quarter, and whether you meet with them lurking in their hiding places, or openly engaged in practising *vince or fraud, join together at once in arresting and bringing them in custody to the Yamuns, where the extreme penalty of the law Atase be inflicted on them. For the conviction of every kidnapper thus arrested, a reward of Forty Dollars shall be paid; or for in- This money lies now in the Treasury, ready to be on that shall lead to the seizure of any one of them Ten Dollars shall be awarded.

upon any one who can claim it, and the promises thus made shall be faithfully kept. The object of the Governor in taking this reis to remove evil from the people. Look not therefore upon these injunctions as a form merely. All those houses which afford conceal- kidnappers shall, in accordance with the laws, be pulled down, and the owners of them shall be dealt with according to the statute for the nem of great offenders. There are still within the city many houses remaining empty; the owners of these shall put them in charge upon whom they can place dependence, instead of carelessly engaging for this purpose persons whor they do not know, as by that they may find they have hired some of these bad characters, and thus become involved in the consequences of these evil acts.

A SPECIAL PROCLAMATION.

Faved Heenfung, 9th year 31 month, 7th day (9th April, 1859.)

True Copies,

H. F. HANCE,

Translated by

(Signed)

HARRY S. PARKES