CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929 — Page 35

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG. 18th September 1929.

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My Lord,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Tordship's despatch No. 183. of the 29th July, 1929, and to state that the report, published in the

"Daily Tail" of the 6th July, is in the main correct,

a Chinese woman being convicted and fined $25 for

breach of Section 4 of the Terale Domestic Service

Ordinance 1923 by unlawfully taking into her employment

a lui Tani aged 14. This was the first

prosecution under that section of the Crdinance.

Among the documents relating to the acquisition of

the girl was an adoption deed in the usual Chinese

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form bearing the stump of a Police Station in the

Chung Shan district of Awang Tung.

2. On the same occasion this defendant's

daughter-in-law was fined $100 for common assault on

The woman herself was acquitted of

complicity in the assault.

the girl.

3. I may say that, while the 'agistrate in this

case accepted the passing of money coupled with actual

THE RIGHT HONOURABTE

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employment