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to sustain a charge.

In the other case an unregistered ui Tsai

complained that she was constantly being: beaten by her

employer, a Chinese merchant temporarily resident in the

colony. The girl was medically examined but, although

the Doctor found marke substantiating the girl's statement,

he stated that they were so faint that he was not prepared

to say the assault amounted to cruelty. This employer

was fined $200.

in the remainder of these thirty-three cases,

finee varying from 150 to 5 were inflicted.

Pour cases of bringing unregistered ui Tsai

into the colony were recorded. In each case the

employer not long after arrival presented herself at the

ecretariat for Chinese affairs, stating that she

desired to register her ui Tsai. Summonses were taken

out in each case and fines varying from /20 to /10 were

inflicted. In the ill-treatment case the defensant Was

fined $100.

Two employers were charged with failing to

pay wagee; one defendant was fined $20 and ordered to

pay arrears of wages amounting to 140; the other

defendant was fined $10 and ordered to pay /27 urrears

of wages.

It is interesting to note that in ten of the

forty prosecutions the girls themselves reported to the

ecretariat for Chinese Affairs, while in two other

cases the mothers of the ui Teal came down from the

interior themselves and requested the return of their

daughters; in four cases the Lady inspectors interrogated

girls