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Dick69 wrote:
> practice. Says Mr. Lister, who was
> Registrar General for the first year after the Ordinance of 1867 came
> into operation: "As a general rule, the first thing I knew of a case
> of an unlicensed brothel coming before me was the finding of a string
> of women in my office in the morning." "Almost despotic powers" had
> been put into the hands of the "Registrar General," and these were
> some of the results. The "marked money" that had caught the victim
> would now be sanctimoniously taken away from her and restored to the
> Secret Service Fund. The woman would be fined or imprisoned, and the
> other inmates of the house put through trial as accused of being
> "common prostitutes" and inmates of an unlicensed brothel, and if the
> Registrar General so decided, the house from which they came declared
> in the Government Gazette as a licensed house of prostitution. The
> keepers of licensed brothels, slave-dealers, procurers and such
> characters hung around the court room to help these women pay their
> fines, and so get them under bonds to work off these fines by
> prostitution. Sometimes the women sold their children instead of
> themselves. If boys, for "adoption," as it is called; a form of
> slavery which is permitted in Hong Kong. If girls, into domestic
> slavery or worse, probably with the thought that they could buy them
> back soon, but if the mother herself went the daughter would be sure
> to be caught by kidnapers, or fall into prostitution anyway, as the
> only means she would have of getting along without her mother's
> protection. Mr. Lister said before the Commission: "I became
> suspicious of the whole system of convictions against houses for
> Chinese. I was certain that the informers could not be depended on
> for one moment. My inspector employed his own boatmen as informers.
> I became convinced that _I could lock up the whole Chinese female
> population by this machinery_." Married men were often knowingly hired
> on Government money to