CO129-514-2 Mui Tsai system- suggested regulations and possible abolition 9-1-1929 - 16-5-1929 — Page 50

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1922: "I desire to make it clear that

both the Governor and I are determined to

affect the abolition of the system at the

earliest practicable date, and I have indicated

to the Governor that I expect the change to

be carried out within a year".

3. In pursuance of this policy an

Ordinance was passed on the 15th of February,

The

1923 entitled "Female Domestic Service

Ordinance, 1923". The first part of this

Ordinance negatived the idea that rights of

property in a female child could be conferred

on a third person by payment to the parent or

guardian of such child. The second part

arton

other

things

other means provided that no person

should hereafter take into his employment

any Mui Tsai.

and

forbade the transference

of an existing Mui Tsai from one employer

to another.

→

If of

effect were given to these provisions,

it is clear that the Mui Tsai being only

recruited from those brought into the Colony

from outside should steadily decrease in numbers.

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