2
106
(5) Married
(6) Left employer to earn own
living
78
19
(7) Handed to custody of the
Secretary for Chinese Affairs
1
(8) Removed to address unknown
1
328
This leaves a total of 3,482 still on the Registers.
3. Since the last prosecutions mentioned in
paragraph 3 of my despatch No.4 of 7th January, 1932,
there have been eleven prosecutions under Ordinance
No.1 of 1923.
Of these nine were for keeping unregistered
Mui Tsai; the tenth was for ill-treating a registered
Mui Tsai with an additional charge of failing to pay
wages prescribed by the Regulations made under the
Ordinance; and the eleventh was for bringing an
unregistered Mui Tsai into the Colony.
There were no aggravating circumstances in
any of the nine cases of keeping unregistered Mui Tsai
and fines varied from $100 to $25.
In the tenth case the employer was fined $10
and ordered to pay all outstanding wages.
In the case of bringing an unregistered Mui
Tsai into the Colony, the girl was found in a desolate
condition in the street by the Police, having run away
from her employer, because of the harsh treatment meted
out to her. The employer was charged on two counts
and was fined $40 for bringing an unregistered Mui Tsai
into the Colony and $25 for assaulting a girl under the
Offences against the Person Ordinance.
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