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[Footnote A: The market price of a Chinese girl at the present
    time (1907) in California is $3000.]

    3. Two young girls were found in a licensed house of shame, whose
    names were not on the list, the keeper and a woman, Ho-a-ying,
    who had brought the girls from Canton to Hong Kong, were summoned
    before the Registrar General. Ho-a-ying represented the girls
    as sisters, and that she visited them in Canton and found their
    mother dead, and that she brought them to Hong Kong because of
    their appeal to her to find them work, and that she put them into
    defendant's brothel. She contradicted herself in her testimony
    as to the name and house of the girls' mother, and the girls
    themselves declared that they were not sisters, and had never seen
    each other until they met on the steamer at Canton the day before.
    One of the girls declared: "I was sold by Ho-a-ying to the
    mistress of the brothel. I heard them talking about it, and so I
    know it. Ho-a-Ying also told me that I had been sold. I do not
    know for what sum." The brothel-keeper stated that Ho-a-Ying came
    and asked if she wanted two girls, as she had two who had come
    from Canton. "The girls were brought, and after being in the house
    a short time the Inspector came. I purposed having their names
    entered on the following morning." The brothel-keeper was fined
    five dollars for keeping an incorrect list of inmates. Ho-a-Ying
    was convicted of giving false testimony, and fined fifty dollars;
    in default, three months' imprisonment. No information as to the
    disposal of the girls, and no punishment for this bargaining in
    human flesh.

    4. Six Chinese persons from licensed brothel No. 71, Wellington
    Street, were arraigned before the Registrar General, charged with
    buying and selling girls for evil purposes, and also with selling