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1922: "I desire to make it clear that
both the Governor and I are determined to
affect the abolition of the system at the
earliest practicable date, and I have indicated
to the Governor that I expect the change to
be carried out within a year".
3. In pursuance of this policy an
Ordinance was passed on the 15th of February,
The
1923 entitled "Female Domestic Service
Ordinance, 1923". The first part of this
Ordinance negatived the idea that rights of
property in a female child could be conferred
on a third person by payment to the parent or
guardian of such child. The second part
arton
other
things
other means provided that no person
should hereafter take into his employment
any Mui Tsai.
and
forbade the transference
of an existing Mui Tsai from one employer
to another.
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If of
effect were given to these provisions,
it is clear that the Mui Tsai being only
recruited from those brought into the Colony
from outside should steadily decrease in numbers.
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