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4. The Protector of Chinese in Singapore and the Assistant Protector of Chinese in Penang shall be ex-officio members and Chairmen of the Committees in those Settlements, and the Chief Police Officer shall occupy the same position in Malacca.
5. The Committees (with the exception of the ex-officio members) shall be elected annually by sub- scribers of the Society at a meeting to be called in January in each year. Vacancies, in default of election, may be filled up by nomination of the Governor.
6. The Committee shall elect one of its members to be Secretary and Treasurer, who shall keep a record of the working of the Society, Minutes of the Meetings of the Committee, and the accounts of the Society, which shall be submitted to the Government to be annually audited.
7. The Society will endeavour by correspondence and enquiry to assist in the detection and bringing to justice of persons guilty of kidnapping and kindred offences. It will adopt all available means to restore rescued women and children to their relations, and in case of those who are friendless to make such provision as may be proper for their welfare. The Home already established by the Government in Singapore will
be at the disposal of the Society.
8. The Committee may, from time to time, make, vary, or revoke rules for the management of the affairs of the Society and its servants; but no rule shall have effect until it has received the approval of the Governor.
31st March, 1885.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION-No. 785.
The following Regulations made by His Excellency the Governor in Council for the Establishment of a Home as a place of safety under Part II of "The Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance 1888," are published for general information.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
Singapore, 20th December, 1888.
By His Excellency's Command,
A. M. SKINNER, Acting Colonial Secretary.
REGULATIONS
MADE BY
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL
FOR THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF A HOME AS A PLACE OF SAFETY UNDER PART II OF
GIRLS' PROTECTION ORDINANCE 1888."
THE WOMEN AND
1. The Home established at Kampong Kerbau, Singapore, and the Home at George Town, shall be the places of safety to which the Protector may order any woman or girl to be detained under the provisions of the Ordinance. Until a Home is established at Malacca, women and girls may be sent from Malacca to the Home at Singapore.
2. The Committees at Singapore and George Town, respectively, of the Society known as "Po Leung Kuk" shall have the charge of the management of such Homes.
3. No woman or girl shall leave the Home in which she is detained except under the written order
of the Protector, or unless she is accompanied by the Matron.
4. No woman or girl detained in any Home shall behave in a disorderly or noisy manner,
5. Every woman or girl detained in any Home shall obey all lawful orders and commands of the Matron, and shall perform such work as may reasonably be required of her by the Matron acting under the general instructions of the Committee of the Po Leung Kuk.
6. The Committee of the Po Leung Kuk may delegate such of their powers of management as the Governor shall from time to time approve to a Committee of Ladies to be nominated by the Governor for that purpose.
FRED. G. PENNEY, Acting Clerk to the Executive Council.
COUNCIL CHAMBER, Singapore, 19th December, 1888.
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