supervision and control, because no manumission
can alter the relation between the Mui-tsai and
her employer, unless the employer actually ceases
to employ the girl as a domestic servant,
The Governor regards this as an intolerable
position and considers that if we maintain it,
registration is bound to fail.
Registration under the Ordinance has to be
effected within six months from the 1st December
1929. Up to the 20th of January, the number regis-
There were posiMy
as many as tered amounted to 60.
10, 500
in the Rony last year.
The Chinese Members of the Legislative
Council urge
some arrangement by which the status
of a Mui-tsai may be altered. Their suggested
arrangement is as follows:-
The status of a Mui-tsai should be changed
by registration to that of a Chu-nim-mui, or
domestic servant, or, in certain cases, Yeung-nui
/
(adopted daughter), the employer taking with him
to the Secretary of Chinese Affairs. the deed of
purchase for record or destruction, as the latter
might think fit. If the employer was willing
Girl's
to retain the services, the terms of engagement
A
should be recorded in the register the employer
would become responsible for the girl until she
was 18 years of age, unless in the meantime he
desired to dismiss her in which case he should
bring the girl to the Secretary of Chinese Affairs
and a record of the dismissal would be made in the
Register, The girl would be placed in the Po Leung
Kuk pending arrangements for her future.
The Governor states that if any such scheme
were adopted, it must be open to all Chinese
employers equally to effect the change of status of
their
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