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No. 232.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG, 5th May, 1932.
As directed in your despatch Hong Kong No.321 of
4th December, 1931, I have the honour to report further on
the question of Adopted Daughters.
Sir,
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2. Many exhaustive conferences between the Secretary
for Chinese Affairs and the District Watch Committee have
resulted in the representations from that Committee which
are appended to this despatch. It was felt in the first
place that considerable misapprehension had no doubt been
occasioned by the wording of the Expert Opinion given by
the Hon. Dr. S.W. Ts'o, O. B. E., in the course of a Mui Tsai case heard before the Police Magistrate in September 1929;
the opinion was printed by the Government and appeared as
Sessional Paper No.12 of 1929. Dr. Ts'o was the first to
agree that his views, which were suited to the particular case before him, had been insufficiently guarded against wider and erroneous interpretation: and he has therefore implemented Sessional Paper No.12 of 1929 by the document
Encl. No. 1. enclosed, preventing undue application of his views as
given in the Mui Tsai case to Yeung Nui or adopted
daughters.
Ami (2)
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H.L. HOPKINSON
до прод
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,
&c.,
&C.,
&c.
3.