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3. Since the last of the prosecutions mentioned in
paragraph 3 of the same despatch there have been 22 prosecu-
Of these,
tiens under the Ordinance (No. 2 of 1923).
14 have been for keeping an unregistered muitsai, 13
convictions being registered, and eight have been for
bringing an unregistered mitsai into the Colony, senvío-
tions being obtained in all cases.
4. In three of the thirteen convictions for keeping
unregistered muitsal mentioned in paragraph 3 (above) the defendants were fined respectively $150, 2100, and
7150 or sentenced to the equivalent terms of imprisonment.
In the remaining ten cases fines were of varying amounts
usually about 550, according to the gravity of the
ircumstancen.
In the eight cases of bringing unregistered
muitsai into the Calony, the gir rumstances were nearly
all of an inoffensive character, and the offences
were comitted in genuine ignorance of the Hong Kong
suitsai legislation.
Fines therefore ranged generally
from XB to £25.
defendants themselves went to the decretariat for Chinese
Affairs to try and register their muitsai, and thu
A feature of several cases was that the
brought the fact of their non-registration to the notice
of the authorities .
A detailed return of convictions secured
under the ordinance is attached.
5.
No new registration was permitted, but in
a few cases where tauitaai had been brought into the
Colony by their employers, were obviously happy with
ther, and had no other relatives or friends, both
employers and muitsai were seen out of the Colony, on the
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