Enclosure No.3.
TRANSLATION.
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Answer to your questions :-
(1) Question Have the magistrates of various Districts
taken any definite steps to make enquiries about
Muitsai and get them registered?
Answer
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The Regulations for the Emancipation of
Muitsai were amended in the 16th year of the Republic
(1927), but few Districts have enforced them, since
the Districts are generally vast in area, and poorly policed, and door-to-door enquiries are impossible. In the city of Canton, the Police have warned the people from door to door in compliance with the regulations to report in case they have any Muitsai, and to submit for examination the deeds they have in respect of them. But in each Police Section of the City, not more than 10 cases have been reported, and the regulations are only a matter of form.
(2) Question Has the buying and selling of Muitsai been
entirely suppressed in the Province?
Answer
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The regulations were very strictly enforced in the 1st year of the Republic (1912) by CHAN KING WA (the then Police Commissioner in Canton). During his regime more than 10 cases of dispute over Nuitsai occurred, and the Muitsai were handed back to their parents by him. Later the political situation changed, and as time went by slackness grew, and the regulations
After the became practically a dead letter. regulations were amended in the 16th year (1927) purchases of uitsai still continued despite the prohibition specified therein, and this shows the impracticability of the regulations.
(3) Question
Have any notable cases of dispute occurred
as a result of which Fuitsai have been sent to school?
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