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In the Hong kong law a buitsal is defined as a
female domestic servant for whom the employer has
mado noney payment. Thus the term does not include
a genuine "adopted daughter". It la recognised
that the practice of adop ion when money is paid to
parents or guardians, presents a very difficult
problem and is in any ways open to serious „buses,
articularly with regard to the adoption of girl
children. The long Long Goverment has attempted
to deal with possible abuses by two laws passed in
1929. These pluce the onus on the adopter of showing
that it is a ouse of genuine adoption, and mal
the Secretary for Chinese affairs the legal guardian
minors
of all adoptod T The Governor is
considering whether further measures are necessary,
but he sees objection to the proposal that ull
'adopted daughters should be registered. In tho
first place he assured us in February, 1931, that,
so far, there had boon nothing to show that the fictier
of adoption was being used to evade responsibilities.
imposed by the laws relatin to uitsai. It is
ulso possible that to legalise adoption on the line
of the legislation in this countr would, in Hong Kong
han or the Decretary for Chinese affairs in the
exoroise of the very vide powers conferred on him AS
the legal guardian of all adopted girls. Me cold
not retain that status if adoption of girls were
legalbied
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