CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929 — Page 124

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15 on PG file of Commons in Judy, on mûs subject of. "Mui-Tsai

said mati the Grumm of thng Ring was convinced mal

registrations, and regulations of mages could not-re made espective in wat Colony.

my

vwn personal experience in a

similar case may be helpful:

In 190g, Kedah (which

is now one of the infiduated malay States) was manssened from Siamese to Britin

enzerainting.

I was the first Butiik Adrieer. A sysein up. "Werti- slavery" was in full force when I want tĥne. It was a cursum of in memorial age, sanctioned by the Muhammadan religion; and the genual system of somete service in the houses of the week- to-do Malay cars depended upon there being "desti-claves" in ie

house-hold.

Min a very careful cindy of the perblim, I permaded the Kedah Siate Council is egislate to the following effect : —

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delti-clares to me regiscîved within a specified time. Failure to regin to invacidace

the chain.

(1)

Debs-slave.

(3)

insutiduus

(4)

No perem could in facûre become a

Any future increase to a debt-slave's uncriting

only an

owinary civil aut.

my case, proved in a price. count, of ill-meatment of a dessi-clave my the masing automatically extinguished the dist.

(3)

rince

way

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ancômerically

a small fixed fun.

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