CO129-514-2 Mui Tsai system- suggested regulations and possible abolition 9-1-1929 - 16-5-1929 — Page 59

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6. Can you obtain, e.g. through His Majesty's Consul

General, a copy of the regulations alleged to have been promulgated in Canton abolishing the system, and a report on the practical

results, if any?

(Paras 3-8) The Governor has obtained from

the Anti Muitsai Society in Hong

Kong and also from His Majesty's

Consulate-General at Canton the

text of the Regulations for the

Emancipation of Slaves and Muitsai, published by the Chinese authorities on the 1st of March,

1927. The text obtained from

these two sources are identical and

a translation of the twelve

Regulations in question forms

enclosure 1 to 46. Enquiries as

to how far these fair-seeming

regulations have been carried

made

into practice were from Mr. Tuson,

the acting Consul General at

Canton, Mr. Major, Consul at

Swatow, Mr. Moss, Consul at

Foochow, Mr. Russell-Brown,

Consul at Amoy,

from

Mr. Lo Kam-chak, a much trusted

clerk in the Secretariat for

Chinese Affairs, and also from

the Honourable Dr. S.W. Ts'o,

a member of the Hong Kong

Legislative Council. The opinions of these persons are detailed in paragraphs 4 to 8

of 46 and the consensus of

opinion seems to be that these

regulations are never enforced

and