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to sustain a charge.
In the other case an unregistered ui Tsai
complained that she was constantly being: beaten by her
employer, a Chinese merchant temporarily resident in the
colony. The girl was medically examined but, although
the Doctor found marke substantiating the girl's statement,
he stated that they were so faint that he was not prepared
to say the assault amounted to cruelty. This employer
was fined $200.
in the remainder of these thirty-three cases,
finee varying from 150 to 5 were inflicted.
Pour cases of bringing unregistered ui Tsai
into the colony were recorded. In each case the
employer not long after arrival presented herself at the
ecretariat for Chinese affairs, stating that she
desired to register her ui Tsai. Summonses were taken
out in each case and fines varying from /20 to /10 were
inflicted. In the ill-treatment case the defensant Was
fined $100.
Two employers were charged with failing to
pay wagee; one defendant was fined $20 and ordered to
pay arrears of wages amounting to 140; the other
defendant was fined $10 and ordered to pay /27 urrears
of wages.
It is interesting to note that in ten of the
forty prosecutions the girls themselves reported to the
ecretariat for Chinese Affairs, while in two other
cases the mothers of the ui Teal came down from the
interior themselves and requested the return of their
daughters; in four cases the Lady inspectors interrogated
girls