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28. It is proposed to be a condition of payment, that the master produces the certificate of approval mentioned hereafter at paragraph 12.
29. The Emigration Agent will avoid calling for tenders for large quantities of shipping at once, which would raise the market, but will advertise for the vessels successively according to his arrangements for bringing the emigrants to the port of embarkation.
30. In examining the tenders, it is proposed with the sanction of Governor-General, that the Emigration Agent should associate with himself the Protector of Emigrants; and the res- pective Governments in India will be requested to point out some officer connected with maritime affairs, to whom, in case of difference of opinion, these functionaries may be able immediately to apply for a casting vote.
31. The terms offered by the parties whose tenders are not accepted should not be divulged by the public officers.
Reports and Correspondence.
32. With each ship, the Agent for Emigration will see that a complete and accurate nominal" list of the passengers on board is transmitted to the West Indies, in pursuance of the directions con- tained in the 17th clause of the Passengers' Act; and he will bear in mind, that strict correctness in this list is of the more importance as it may be the most direct evidence at future periods, to prove the date of arrival of different emigrants.
33. The agent will also forward to the Governor of the West India colony, with each ship, an abstract of the number of emi- grants on board, in the annexed Form (A), accompanied by any general remarks which may appear useful, on the description of the people and the parts of the country from which they were col- lected, or on any circumstance that may require explanation
34. He will from time to time keep the Colonial Government duly informed as to the measures in which he is engaged, and the progress they are making, and especially as to the expectations which may be entertained in the colony, of the time and numbers of the successive arrivals of emigrants.
35. By each overland mail he will transmit similar inform- ation either in the shape of copies of his reports to the Colonial Government, or in such other way as may be most convenient,—in letters addressed to the Commissioners of Colonial Lands and Emi- gration. During the emigration stason he will annex to each of These reports a schedule in the annexed Form (B), of the number despatched since the last report.
36. Accounts should be kept and transmitted to the Colonial Government, in such manner as may have been found most con- venient for the Mauritius. Quarterly abstracts or summaries of those accounts should be sent to England.
37. A return should be forwarded to the Commissioners of Colonial Lands and Emigration, in the Form hereto annexed (C'). shewing the particulars of the vessels offered on each occasion of receiving tenders, together with the decision.
DUTIES SUGGESTED FOR THE PROTECTOR OF
EMIGRANTS.
38. This officer is to be named by the Government at the place where he is to act, and will receive his directions from the same authority. He will doubtless be instructed to co-operate with the Emigration Agent in every way consistent with his own imme- diate duties in promoting the general objects of this service, and in preventing any unnecessary or vexatious delays.
The following Regulations for this Officer have, however, been drawn up for the consideration of the Governor-General as appearing likely to conduce to the satisfactory working of the joint duties of himself and of the Emigration Agent.
39. He is to see that the several requirements of the Pas- sengers' Act and of the foregoing Regulations, so far as regards the quality of the ship and the preparations for the voyage, are fully complied with.
40. He is to inquire into and prevent, as far as is in his power, all irregularity, deception by subordinate agents, or abuse in the collection of emigrants, and in bringing them up from the interior. He is to investigate any complaints on this subject, and to report the cases, if necessary, to the resident Government.
11. He will visit the ship immediately previous to her depar- ture; and in the presence of the Emigration Agent he will ascertain that the emigrants have embarked voluntarily, and that they do not appear to be under any constraint, nor misled by false statements of the nature of their undertaking.
42. He will then affix to the ship's list of emigrants à cer- tificate in the Form hereto annexed (D), showing the number embarked, and recording the facts he has ascertained; without which certificate no payment will be claimable for the emigrants.
43. As the chief responsibility for the proper selection of shipping and the general making of the arrangements for the despatch and safe conveyance of the emigrants will rest on the Emigration Agent, he ought to have the lead in choosing amongst tenders of ships; but in order to relieve him from the burthen of deciding alone upon matters involving large pecuniary interests. it is proposed that the Protector of Emigrants should sit with him on occasions of opening tenders; and the Government will be requested to provide, as mentioned in paragraph 30, for obtaining a casting vote in case of necessity.
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