Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers by Katharine Caroline Bushnell;Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew
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Chinese," was charged with the task of its enforcement. This official
is also called the Registrar General at Hong Kong, but the former name was given him at the first, and the official at Singapore charged with the same duties is always, to this day, called the "Protector of Chinese." The new Ordinance embodied the following features: 1st, The registration of immoral houses. 2nd, Their confinement to certain localities. 3rd, The payment of registration fees to the Government. 4th, A periodical, compulsory, indecent examination of every woman slave. 5th, The imprisonment of the slave in the Lock Hospital until cured, and then a return to her master and the exact conditions under which she was "from no choice of her own," exposed to contagion, with the expectation that she would be shortly returned again infected. 6th, The punishment by imprisonment of the slave when any man was found infected from consorting with her, through "no choice of her own." 7th, The punishment by fine and imprisonment of all persons keeping slaves in an _un_registered house (which was not a source of profit to the Government). |
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