CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7] — Page 395

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Hongkong, 29th May, 1922.

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The Honourable

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The Secretary for Chinese Affairs,

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In compliance with your verbal request made on 11th March, 1922, that the Society for Protection of Mui̟tsai

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and the Anti-muitsai Society should co-operate to devise a scheme for the abolition of the muitsai system for submission' to the Hongkong Government, we, the members of the Joint Committee separately elected by these two societies for this purpose, have the honour to communicate our conclusions. In our deliberations, we bear in mind that the mumber of muitsais is in the neighbourhood of ten thousand and that it may be beyond the resources of the Government to provide maintenance for all of them. Moreover, we realize that muitsai-keeping is a very old practice and that the interests of the owner cannot be entirely ignored, and, consequently, we are inclined to adopt the expedient of treating the purchase price of a mmitsai as money advanced to her parent. For this consideration, the muitsai has to remain to work for her owner for a certain number of years before the regains her freedom. Only on this foundation can we hope to build up an adequate organization for effecting abolition. Legislation,

To our mind, the first step lies in promulgating the necessary legislation, particulars of which are suggested in Appendix A. Registration of muitsei is absolutely necessary to effect abolition; the form recommended is not so irksome that opposition from the public has to be

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