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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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Such allotment may be made, if the Protector deem it necessary, upon payment of a less amount than the cost of introduction charge- able against the requisitionist; and the amount received shall be applied in reduction of the amount due to Government by such requisitionist in respect of the actual costs of introduction of the immigrants so unclaimed by him.
Provided that if the estate or establishment for which the labourers were introduced does not belong to the requisitionist at the time of the arrival of the immigrants in Mauritius, the owner or owners of the Baid estate, at the time of such arrival, shall, if the Protector of Immigrants require it, be held bound in all respects to receive the labourers and to pay the costs of their introduction in the same manner as if the immigrants had been introduced at their request.
60. The Protector of Immigrants shall execute a Immigrants contract of service for all immigrants so allotted in the Form in Schedule No. 11 hereto annexed; and such contracts shall operate as a binding obligation on the employers and immigrants therein mentioned immigrants, and in the terms therein specified.
to execute contracts of service for unclaimed
Transfer of immigrant to another employer.
61. If a new immigrant on his arrival consent to have his contract transferred by his introducer to another employer, the Protector of Immigrants, if he shall consider that such transfer is not prejudicial to the immigrants, and if all parties to the transfer express their consent thereto in his presence, shall make them sign a transfer in the form of the Schedule No. 12 hereto appended, and his confirmation thereof shall be inscribed upon the contract, and shall be briefly endorsed upon the ticket of the immigrant.
If the transfer do not include all the immigrants who are parties to the contract, a copy of the contract, bearing only the names of the immigrants who consent to the transfer, shall be drawn up and delivered to the substituted employer, with the Protector's confirma- tion of its transfer inscribed upon it.
Penalty for
62. From and after the date when this Ordinance aiding illegal shall come into operation, every person in the Colony, emigration.
or any dependency thereof, who shall knowingly aid or abet the introduction of any native of India from any place in British India (except Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, and any other port or place from which such emigration may hereafter be allowed by the Government of India), for the purpose of being employed as a labourer within this Colony, or any dependency thereof, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 201. sterling for every native aforesaid who shall have arrived in this Colony, or any depen- <dency thereof; and in default of payment shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months.
Conveyance
of immi-
grants with
out licence, penalty.
63. From and after the date aforesaid, the master of any ship or vessel in which any emigrant, being a native of India, shall have been conveyed to the Colony, or any dependency thereof, from Calcutta, Madras, or Bombay, or any other port or place aforesaid, for the purpose of labouring for hire in the
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Colony, or any dependency thereof, without a licence, authorising the conveyance of such emigrant in such ship or vessel having been obtained from the Govern- ment of India at the port or place from which such immigrant shall be conveyed, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 207. sterling for every immigrant so illegally conveyed, and in default of payment shall be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding
12 months.
certain casou,
64. Provided always, that nothing in this Ordinance Preceding article not contained shall be taken to apply to any native sea- man who shall, of his own free will, contract to
to apply in navigate in any vessel from any port or place within the territories of British India to the said Colony, or any dependency thereof, or who shall embark on board any such vessel in pursuance of such contract ; or to any person who shall embark under a contract as a menial servant, or to any person who shall embark on board any such vessel as a bond Ade passenger, paying his own passage money, and other expenses, or the wife or child of such person.
duced to be
65. Whenever any native of India shall be intro- Natives of duced into the Colony, or dependency thereof, in the India impro- manner herein-before set forth, it shall be in the perly intro power of the Governor to direct that he be delivered handed ovar and be shall accordingly be delivered to the Protector to Protector. of Immigrants, by whom such steps shall be taken as the Governor may direct for the protection of such native of India; and in the event of the Governor directing that he shall be sent to India, the expense of so doing shall be recoverable from the master of the vessel or any other person by whom the said Indian may have been so introduced as aforesaid.
CHAPTER V.
INTRODUCTION OF LABOUR FROM BLAEWHERE THAN BRITISH INDIA.
66. From and after the date when the present Introduction Ordinance shall come into operation the introduction of immi-
grants from
of immigrants from any place or places not within places other British India shall be conducted in the manner than British herein-after provided, and no immigrant from any India. place or places aforesaid shall be introduced except in terms of the provisions of this Ordinance. The immigrants so introduced shall, under the condition and in the manner herein-after specified, be competent to enter into contracts of service for any period not exceeding five years.
67. Any person desirous of introducing into the Licence for Colony such immigrants shall, previous to the de introduction parture of the vessel from Mauritius, if such vessel of anch be chartered in the Colony, apply to the Governor immigrants. for a licence authorising such introduction; and the Governor shall have power, if he thinks fit, to grant the same under such conditions as to him may seem
proper.
In case the vessel by which it is desired to intro- duce such immigrants shall be chartered at any place
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