CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932 — Page 81

2

106

(5) Married

(6) Left employer to earn own

living

78

19

(7) Handed to custody of the

Secretary for Chinese Affairs

1

(8) Removed to address unknown

1

328

This leaves a total of 3,482 still on the Registers.

3. Since the last prosecutions mentioned in

paragraph 3 of my despatch No.4 of 7th January, 1932,

there have been eleven prosecutions under Ordinance

No.1 of 1923.

Of these nine were for keeping unregistered

Mui Tsai; the tenth was for ill-treating a registered

Mui Tsai with an additional charge of failing to pay

wages prescribed by the Regulations made under the

Ordinance; and the eleventh was for bringing an

unregistered Mui Tsai into the Colony.

There were no aggravating circumstances in

any of the nine cases of keeping unregistered Mui Tsai

and fines varied from $100 to $25.

In the tenth case the employer was fined $10

and ordered to pay all outstanding wages.

In the case of bringing an unregistered Mui

Tsai into the Colony, the girl was found in a desolate

condition in the street by the Police, having run away

from her employer, because of the harsh treatment meted

out to her. The employer was charged on two counts

and was fined $40 for bringing an unregistered Mui Tsai

into the Colony and $25 for assaulting a girl under the

Offences against the Person Ordinance.

In