CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933 — Page 62

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Extract from Resolution for the 22nd Annual Meeting

of St.Joan's Social and Political Alliance, held at

St. Patrick's Club Room, Soho Square,,Saturday 11th

March 1933.

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5. SLAVERY

St.Joan's S. P. A. urges the Government to celebrate

the Centenary of the abolition of slavery this year by

taking all possible steps to secure the real abolition

of all forms of slavery throughout the British Empire.

It demands that the Government should discountenance

among indigenous peoples any practices whatsoever

involving the bartering of women and children into

domestic and other forms of slavery, including the form

of child slavery in Hong Kong known as the Mui Tsai

system.

In regard to Mui Tsai:-

(1) St.Joan's S.P.A. demands that the pledge given

by the British Government for the inspection of

Mui Tsai in Hong Kong should be implemented by

the immediate appointment of the necessary

additional number of inspectors, including

women inspectors, to carry out this inspection

fully and systematically.

(ii) That so-called "adopted daughters" should be

registered forthwith, such registration to be

followed by inspection, observing that "Deeds

of Presentation" and "Adoption Deeds" show tha

such "Adopted daughters" are purchased, and the

subterfuge of adoption is used as a a means of

obtaining Mui Tsai, as shown by the evidence

the Courts.