CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929 — Page 33

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acquisition of the girl was an

"adoption deed" in the usual Chinese

form, bearing the stamp of a Police

Station in the Chang Shan district of

tu

Kwangtong.

2. The Governor adds that on

the same occasion this defendant's

daughter-in-law was fined $100 for

common assault on the girl. The woman

acquitted

herself was guilty of complicity in the

assault.

I am,

etc.

(Signed) WALTER D. ELLIS