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of the Chinese members of Leg. Co. to change

the status

ад

mui-tsai into that.

that of

chii nin mui

(or domestic servant) by registration. This

would naturally affeal to the employers assisted of having to report to the See for Chinese Affairs on this death, disappearanes, intended removal, change of address, or intended marriage of a muitsar, they i'd merely have to attend a ceremony for altering the status of the mui-tsai. As the loo's ports out the obfiction is that is a comibur device to that by which

Ma-Mai Clanet to lixist in Canton

mere

che:ugs of name.

There is also

a

the objection from the from t of view of the

mui- fai

their status i'd be reduced

to that of a paid servant (which would

to them be lower than that which they

and their employers

held as

as muitai

- muitai)

w'd be relieved

for

relieved from the duty of providing Their marrings.

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