ENCLOSURE 4
RECD C.O. 95074 & 300 Age 15 APR 19
FORM OF CONTRACT FOR EMIGRANTS TO COUNTRIES UNDER THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT.
It is this day mutually agreed between [name] as Attorney for [name] (hereinafter termed the Employer) of the Plantation of [name] situated in [name] District and the undersigned Chinese Labourers (hereinafter termed Emigrants) as follows :-
I. The Emigrants agree to proceed to [place] and there to labour for the aforesaid Employer in the capacity of labourers, and bind themselves to perform all duties necessary upon a Tobacco Estate.
II. The number of hours during which the Emigrants shall work on each working day shall not exceed ten.
III. The Employer shall pay the said Emigrants according to the quality of the arco delivered by them viz. -- First quality at $8 per 1,000 plants, &c., and during the time when Tobacco planting cannot be carried on, the daily work of the said labourers shall be paid for at the rates customary on Sumatra Tobacco Estate.
IV. The said Emigrants have received an advance of $... each from the Employer, this advance to be deducted from the amount earned by the said labourers at the rates above stated.
V. That the Emigrants shall not be required to work on the following holidays :- [list] and Fifteenth of every moon.