CO129-543-2 Mui Tsai system 4-1-1933 - 11-4-1934 — Page 49

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4.9

In each of the four cases under head viii the

employer has no children or no un-married children

and the Mui Tsai has been given the family name, has

been educated at the employer's expense, and has

been in all respects recognized as a member of the

family. Moreover, these girls still remain wards

of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and are still

under supervision.

In paragraph 5 of despatch No.321 of 28th

June, 1932, it was proposed that, if no further

information were obtained before the next half-yearly

report regarding the 299 girls there referred to,

they should be written off the Register. So far

only 93 of the original 299 have been traced and as,

in the case of the remaining 206, exhaustive

enquiries have been fruitless, I have now removed

their names from the Register.

of 3,017 still on the Registers.

3.

This leaves a total

During the period under review there have

been 40 prosecutions under Ordinance No.1 of 1923.

Of these, thirty-three were for keeping

unregistered Mui Tsai with additional charges of

assault in two cases;

four for bringing unregistered

Mui Tsai into the colony; one for ill-treating a

registered Mui Tsai; and two for failing to pay

wages prescribed by the Regulations made under the

Ordinance.

In two only of the above thirty-three cases

In one case

were there aggravating circumstances.

the mother of one girl complained to the Police that

her