At the instance of His Excellency the Governor of this Province J issue the following proclamati As boro in Shanghai foreigners and Chinese live indiscriminately, &c., as it is not difficult at all for the vagabonds to live here secret; therefore the police must be very careful. Of late reckless fellows banded toget engaged themselves in malpractices id, and as some times the one di ish the other to share in his practics extorting money, eto., they fight together are notorious for their practice of extorting money. They carry weapons, and are continually quarrelling and can bances than I can tel In the last month of ast year they banded together and have acted with such violent fury that they have topped short of cat hey thoroughly disrege quilized if these vagabonds are arrested and laws and the better people can only be frs
severely punished,
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