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remain single if they choose.

(7) No adopted daughters shall be forced to become

concubines.

(8)

Adequate clothing, board and lodging shall be

provided for adopted daughters according to the circumstanc-

es (of their adopted parents).

(9) Each District Magistrate and Mayor should, after

considering the local conditions, take steps to establish

Poor Girls' Homes or Female Industrial Schools.

(10) After the publication of these regulations, if

any person is proved by the Kaifong or neighbours or

discovered by the Police to have beaten or maltreated his

adopted daughter, the Magistrate, Mayor, or Officer in charge

of any Police Station concerned, shall send the girl to a

Poor Girls' Home or to a Female Industrial School to be

brought up.

The person who ill-treated the girl shall be fined as a warning. When anybody who has been fined for maltreating his adopted daughter is found to have maltreated her again, a greater fine or other punishment will be impos ed

(11) Anybody who commits any breach of Regulations 3, 4 and 7 shall be punished according to the law, and anybody

who violates Regulations 2, 5, 6 and 8 shall be fined

according to the offence.

(12) These regulations shall be enforced from the date

of publication.

(Dated) 1st March of the 16th year of the Republic (1927).