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Registration regulation for Adopted Daughters:
(1) Parents of all adopted daughters in the Colony must
register the name of the latter within six months
after the promulgation of the law.
(2) At the time of registration all deeds of adoption or
deeds of gift must be surrendered to, and cancelled
by, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs who, if satisfied,
will in turn issue a certificate confirming that the
girl as an adopted daughter.
(3) Two copies of a photograph of every adopted daughter
must be supplied by her foster parents at the time of
registration, one of which is to be filed with the
Chinese Secretariat and the other is to be affixed to
the certificate issued by the Secretary for Chinese
Affairs. And as an additional safeguard the adopted
daughter will be required to place on the register as
well as on the certificate her finger print.
(4) The adopted daughter must be present during the regis-
tration and it should be the duty of the official in
charge clearly to explain the status of the child to
the foster parents so that the girl cannot be ill-
treated in any way.
(5) The parents of the adopted girl should provide her with
an education similar to that given to their own children.
(6) A heavy fine must be imposed on those who employ an
adopted daughter as a Mui Tsai and imprisonment if they
employ or sell her for prostitution.
APPENDIX
The Government should strictly enforce the law prohibit-
ing the sale and purchase of human beings. Hereafter all
sale and purchase under documents purporting to be deeds
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