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estate or other plantation or factory shall be bound to pay into the hands of the Receiver General such a sum reckoned as aforesaid, according to the number of men notified as aforesaid, to be employed on the sugar estate, plantation, or factory, and at the afore- said rate of 48. per servant.
The said rate shall be held to include an allowance for the medical attendance on the wives and children of the servants for whom it is made, and which attendance shall be furnished accordingly, the term wives being held to include the reputed wives of immigrants as well as those regularly married accord- ing to the laws of the Colony.
Provided that it shall be lawful for the employer of labour as aforesaid, whether proprietor or lessee or agent, to pay one moiety of the said sum on or before the 15th January in every year, and another moiety on or before the 15th of July in every year, and provided the medical practitioner shall receive one moiety of his professional remuneration on the 15th June and the other moiety on the 15th Decem- ber in every year.
205. There shall be on behalf of the Government a privilege upon the property on which the servants tion to medi- work, as well as upon the goods and chattels of the proprietor, lessee, or agent for the remuneration afore- said, and during a period of one year only, if the said remuneration be left unpaid.
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Such privilege shall have the same rank as that of the labourers on the same estate for the recovery of the wages. Upon the sale of the said property the Government shall be entitled to payment of the same, on the order of any judge of the Supreme Court in chambers in the same way as is provided with regard to labourer's wages.
Provided, however, that if the amount of pro- fessional remuneration be not paid into the Receiver General's hands, in manner as and at the dates fixed in the preceding article, the Government shall have the right after eight days notice to obtain an order of a judge of the Supreme Court in chambers to cause the estate, plantation, or factory to be seized and sold, in conformity with the laws which regulate the sale of real property. The judge's order shall be granted upon production of the notice, and an affidavit that the sum which should have been deposited has not been deposited notwithstanding the notice.
206. When any person having the number of attendant to servants mentioned in article 187 shall from any cause whatever cease to have for his servants the medical attendant whom he shall have notified in terms of article 187, or when the attendance of such medical attendant on his servants shall be interrupted for any period of 14 days or upwards, such person shall be bound within one week from such cessation or interruption, to procure another medical attendant duly qualified as aforesaid in his place, and to notify the name of such medical attendant to the Procureur General, and to the Protector of Immigrants, and in case of failure shall be liable to a penalty not ex- ceeding 401.
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visits to be
207. Every medical practitioner engaged under Number of the provisions of article 200 of this Ordinance shall periodical be bound, whatever may be the number of servants paid by employed on the sugar estate, plantation, or factory, medical to make two periodical visits per week, in addition attendant. to any occasional visit which shall be required under special circumstances.
Provided that in any case the Protector of Immi- grants may direct that the number of periodical visits be increased to three visits per week.
208. The week shall be held for the purposes of Week on this Ordinance to begin on every Sunday morning what day to
begin. at 6 a.m., and to end on the following Sunday morning at 6 a.m.
to furnish
209. Any medical practitioner failing to make Medical every week the periodical visits required to be made practitioner under this Ordinance, and when unable for some substitute legitimate cause to make such visits, to cause the when unable same to be made in his lieu and stead by a duly to make qualified substitute, shall be liable for every and periodical each offence to a fine of not less than 51. and not
Penalty. more than 10%.
Provided that in cases of habitual negligence, and of that issue the magistrate shall be the sole judge, it shall be lawful for the magistrate before whom the charge shall be laid to order and decree that the whole or a portion of the medical practitioner's professional remuneration, due on account of the particular estate, plantation, or factory, in respect to which habital negligence shall be proved, be forfeited.
visit.
210. There shall be kept in the hospital to be Hospital visited by any medical practitioner in terms of this register. Ordinance a register in the form hereunto appended, Schedule No. 33, in which register shall be entered regularly, by the said medical practitioner, at the time of his visits, a note of the several items, in the said Schedule mentioned; and such register the medical practitioner shall be bound every month to verify, by a certificate appended to the said form. the entries in the said register shall be made in the handwriting of the said medical practitioner, or if not in his handwriting shall be signed and dated by him at the time of each visit.
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A copy of such entries made during the month, shall, on the last day of the month, certified by the proprietor or manager or accountant of every sugar estate, plantation, or factory, to be an examined copy, be sent to the Protector of Immigrants.
211. A fine not less than 27., or more than 10%. Penalties. sterling, to be imposed by the stipendiary magistrate of the district, shall be incurred by--
1. Every person having in his employment 30 servants, or more, for whom he is bound to pro- vide a hospital, who shall fail to provide and to keep on his premises a register as herain-before provided.
2. Every such person who shall fail to produce such register to the Procureur General, to the Protector of Immigrants, or to the stipendiary
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