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remain single if they choose.
(7) No adopted daughters shall be forced to become
concubines.
(8)
Adequate clothing, board and lodging shall be
provided for adopted daughters according to the circumstanc-
es (of their adopted parents).
(9) Each District Magistrate and Mayor should, after
considering the local conditions, take steps to establish
Poor Girls' Homes or Female Industrial Schools.
(10) After the publication of these regulations, if
any person is proved by the Kaifong or neighbours or
discovered by the Police to have beaten or maltreated his
adopted daughter, the Magistrate, Mayor, or Officer in charge
of any Police Station concerned, shall send the girl to a
Poor Girls' Home or to a Female Industrial School to be
brought up.
The person who ill-treated the girl shall be fined as a warning. When anybody who has been fined for maltreating his adopted daughter is found to have maltreated her again, a greater fine or other punishment will be impos ed
(11) Anybody who commits any breach of Regulations 3, 4 and 7 shall be punished according to the law, and anybody
who violates Regulations 2, 5, 6 and 8 shall be fined
according to the offence.
(12) These regulations shall be enforced from the date
of publication.
(Dated) 1st March of the 16th year of the Republic (1927).