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6. It has been shewn that the supervision of brothels, the instructing the regis- tered women as to their rights, and the system of photographing registered pro- stitutes and women and children who intend to emigrate have done much good and that there has been an enormous reduction in the kidnapping cases and selling women for prostitution since the introduction of those measures, convictions being 29 persons in 1882 as against 68 in a former year, and only 4 up to the present date..
7°. It has been shewn that there are fatal objections to the registration of children purchased for adoption or domestic service, and it is suggested that the Registrar General and a Chinese Conimittee should investigate cases of a suspicious nature with power to call upon "pocket-mothers" to give security for their bonâ fides towards " pocket-daughters"; also that the Registrar General should be able to apply to a Judge in Chambers for a writ of Habeas Corpus with the view of taking away from improper custodians a purchased child. It is also suggested that stone tablets stating the law of freedom on English soil should be erected in places of public resort.
J. RUSSELL.
Appendix to Report on Child Adoption and Domestic Service amongst the Hongkong Chinese.
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A. Form of transfer of a son for adoption, taken from Book of Domestic
Rites."
B.-Letter of Instructions to an adopted son, stating how he was adopted.
C.-Deed of Sale, in the case of the adoption of a Stranger-in-blood.
D.-Bill of Sale where a boy was decoyed from Canton and sold in Kaulung. The Hawker's case, see page 33 of Blue-book C. 3185 of 1882, (two women sentenced to 18 months each).
E. Deed of Sale of a daughter as a Servant, from "Book of Domestic Rites."
F.-Endorsement of Re-sale of a Servant, from "Book of Domestic Rites.'
G.-Deed mortgaging a Daughter as a Servant.
H.-Deed of Sale of a Daughter as Servant, where same girl is transferred to an-
other, endorsement on the same paper.
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I. Presentation Card" of a Daughter to be a Servant (Money passes, and the
term present is of course only a fiction).
J.-Bill of Sale put forward by a Claimant for a child.
K.-Sale of a grown-up daughter as a concubine from Sir T. Wade's Documen-
tary Series.
L.--Ordinance 6 of 1873, with statement of objects and reasons.
M.-Ordinance 2 of 1875, with statement amended.
N.-Notices to Registered Prostitutes, of their freedom on British soil however
they may have got there.
O.-Emigration Officer's Notices of photographs required to prevent personation of
Women and Children, who have duly passed for Emigration.
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