CO129-532-5 Mui Tsai system- resolutions and correspondence with private individuals 23-7-1931 - 18-12-1931 — Page 28

No.411.

Sir,

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-3 NOV 1931

JOL, OFFICE

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG, 1st October, 1931.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of

(83) your telegram No. 103 of the 1st of September, 1931, on the

subject of the charge brought against Chau Ming at the July Sessions, and to confirm my telegraphic reply No.175

sent on the 15th of September as follows:-

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(67)

2.

(84)

"No.175. Your telegram of 1st September, No. 103, Adopted daughter. Such transactions

illegal under section 3 of Ordinance 13 of 1929

unless proved beyond reasonable doubt to be bona fide adoptions. Proceedings were not taken under

this Ordinance against the girl's mother as it

was believed that she regarded it as a bona fide

adoption. Proceedings were not taken under

this Ordinance against the man in view of the

more serious charge. Girl removed by Secretary

for Chinese Affairs to Po Leung Kuk where she

remains.

Report of adoptions not compulsory (see paragraph 3 my despatch of 29th April, No. 207). Despatch follows!

I am advised by the Attorney General that the transaction was probably illegal and that had a further

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

J. H. THOMAS, M.P.

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