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(2.) The regulations in the Schedule hereto shall be in force until repealed or amended by the Governor in Council.
8. No Indian watchman shall act as a money-lender or Indian take any part in the business of any money-tender.
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not to be money- londeca.
9. Every sum of money payable under the provisions of Recovery this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder shall of sus be recoverable in the same manner as Crown rents are
payable. recovered upon a certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Colonial Treasurer.
10. In any proceeding under the Ordinance if it appears Presumption.
to the Magistrate that any person alleged to be an Indian
is of Indian race it shall be presumed until the contrary be
proved that such person is an Indian within the meaning
of section 2 of this Ordinance.
11. Every person who shall contravene any of the pro- Penalties.
visions of this Ordinance or of any regulation made there- under shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine
not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
12. This Ordinance shall come into force oa
1917.
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Commence. ment.
SCHEDULE.
1. The Indian Watchmen Force shall consist of first class watchmen and second class watchmen.
2. (1.) Each second class watchman shall during employ- ment be entitled to pay at the rate of $15 per month rising, subject to good conduct, to $20 per month by biennial increments of $1 per month, with free quarters or au allowance in lieu thereof at the rate of $5 per month.
(2.) Each first class watchman shall during employment
be entitled to pay at the rate of $23 per mouth rising, subject to good conduct, to $25 per month by biennial increments of $1 per month, with free quarters or an allowance in lieu thereof at the rate of $5 per month.
(3.) Each second class watchman shall also be entitled during employment to deferred pay at the rate of $2 per mouth, and each first class watchman shall be entitled during employment to deferred pay at the rate of $3 per month. Such deferred pay shall be paid to such watch- man on the conclusion of his torm of 5 year: aervice.
(4.) The sum of $1.50 per month shall be deducted from the pay of each watchman and shall be paid into a Passage Fund. Such Passage Fund shall be kept by the Captain Superintendent of Police and shall be used for the Bole purpose of defraying the cost of the passages of Indian watchmen from and to India, on the occasion of their original engagement, or of their proceeding on leave, or of the severance of their employment for any cause whatso-
ever.
(5.) For the purpose of counting increments, a watch- man's service shall be reckoned from the date of his first employment as such whether such employment bas been continuous or not, provided that no period shall be included during which the watchman was pursuing any mauna of livelihood other than that of watchman.
(6,) Promotion to the rank of first class watchman, and the granting of any increment, shall be in the discretion of the Captain Superintendent of Police.
3 Every watchman when on duty shall wear a badge showing the number assigned to him by the Captain Superintendent of Police.
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