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The Colonial Secretary.
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Hong Kong, 21st March, 1935.
I have the honour to reply to your letter of
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the 14th March 1935 (No.1961/1910), enquiring "whether the
Committee sees any objection to the immediate introduction of amending legislation with a view to ensuring that any girl on attaining the age of eighteen shall automatically
cease to be a mui-tsai, in accordance with the first of
Sir George Maxwell's suggestions".
The Committee considers that children between
eighteen and twenty-one need the protection of the guardian-
ship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs at that period
probably more than during their earlier years. The Committee fears that the adoption of Sir George Maxwell's suggestion
may have the effect of depriving these children of that
guardianship. The powers and duties of the Secretary for
Chinese Affairs, as legal guardian of these children, have
still to receive much further consideration. The Committee
hopes that any immediate decision that might alter the
position may be deferred for the present.
I have, dc.;
(S) F. H. Loseby,
Chairman,
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Mui-tsai Committee.