CO129-514-2 Mui Tsai system- suggested regulations and possible abolition 9-1-1929 - 16-5-1929 — Page 56

32. 45.

Questions to Cror by tel prom Sofs Ger's replies by despatch.

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32.

SUMMARY OF No.32 AND No.46.

1. Apparently a primary

difficulty is to obtain

evidence that particular

girls are uitsai and to bring home to them their

right of personal freedom.

A proclamation advertising

their rights was issued in

1922. Have any similar

proclamations been issued

subsequently?

If not,

would it be practicable to

issue them regularly or

even have notices

permanently displayed?

2. What are the

objections in practice to any system of registration

of muitsai?

3. How far is any system

of registration possible.

whether covering all muitsai

in the Colony or excluding

those not domiciled in the

Colony.

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(Para.19) The Governor finds that no

proclamation has been issued on

this subject since that of

April 14th, 1922, which was a

translation in Chinese of a

proclamation suggested in his predecessor's telegram of March

28th, 1922; but he has now

issued another proclamation of

which he encloses a copy and

which he will cause to be

permanently displayed at Police

Stations and, if nossible,

15705/22

at steamer wharves and other

public places. (Such. 4 to 46)

(Para. 16) The Chinese authorities,

in the regulations made by them

on the 1st March, 1927,

required the registration of all muitsai existing at that time.

These regulations, however,

have remained a dead letter.

The Hong Kong Government, on

the other hand, while enacting

Part III of the Female

Domestic Servants Ordinance,

No. 1 of 1923, which provides

for registration of muitsai,

determined to suspend the

operation