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6. At the beginning of the year the number of registered muitsai was 1,584, but by the end of December they had been reduced to 1,396. The 188 cancellations are accounted for as follows:-

Died

Absconded

5

5

Left Colony permanently

'17

Married

32

Restored to parents or relatives

50

Earning their own living

36

Removed from the register

23

of the family

20

Remaining with the employer as a member

Fifty of the registered muitsai are attending school, their fees being paid by the employers.

7. Sixty-one persons were prosecuted under the Female Domestic Service Ordinance (1 of 1923) in respect of fifty-eight girls. In all eighty-three charges under this and other enact- ments were preferred as follows:-

(1) Ill-treatment of unregistered muitsai

5

(2) Ill-treatment of child under 16 years (3) Common assault

4

4

(4) Keeping an unregistered muitsai

38

(5) Bringing an unregistered muitsai into the Colony. 13

(6) Failing to report the intended removal from the

Colony of a registered muitsai

2

(7) Failing to report change of address of a registered

muitsai

3

(8) Failing to report the intended marriage of a

registered muitsai

9

(9) Failing to report taking into employment of a

registered muitsai

4

(10) Failing to report the death of a registered

muitsai

83

Seven cases were discharged, in eight cases defendants were cautioned, in six cases defendants were bound over, one case was withdrawn, and one case was remanded 'sine-die'.

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