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Governer Sir J. Pope Hennessy / sec Commoue Paper 3185 of 1885) called attention, in -paragraph, 17, 18, 419, to the perilous position of cedopted child on and of-a-

cumployed

children

row

in domestic service,

and desired that he should be

& feruicher

with a report thoven, after a full and brustworthy enquiry into the facts.

مجھ

This work. was entrusted to Men

Duustice Russell, then Registrar General,

and his Report is dated the 18th of July 1889.

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At page of that Report, beginning

with the words "The Scheme which denggest,

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•M# Russell indicated the safeguards which in his opinion the position of the children in question required, and the powers-

which should be:

law to the ne

3 given by lai

Registrar Several to mable him to give the children the protection which their

position

position demanded.

5.

The

draft of

the bill nowendosed, was

ccarefully revised by Mer Russell, and I think that, in his opinion, axouve that, in

I may safely

it will,

of paved, attain the object for which it is intended. As, however, it sway be m thought that it gives unconstitutional powers to the Registrar General, His Excellency the Governor will probably desire to m consult the Secretary of State

111easure is

before

the

is further proceeded with No doubt the powers which the bill,

exceptional, but the

to confer

ала рос

propioves

Cireurustances with which it deals are

exceptional also.

I have to

(Signed) Frecterick Stewart,

Registron Genera

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