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PART X.
Penalty
on em-
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131. Every employer who shall fail to provide any immigrant indentured to him with a suitable dwelling, or who shall in any respect neglect or refuse to provide fuel and firewood, or water, or to comply with the provisions of this Act, or with the regulations thereby authorised in respect of the repair, occupation, arrangement, and drainage of such dwellings, or in respect of the register of dwellings, shall be guilty dwellings. of an offence, and shall, on conviction at the complaint of any immigrant thereby aggrieved, or of the Immigration Agent-General, pay a fine not exceeding Five Pounds.
ployer in respect to
Penalty
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respect to nuisance.
Destitute asylum
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PART XI.
Rationing of new- comers.
Muster-roll
tion of
132. Every indentured immigrant who shall keep his dwelling in so filthy or unwholesome a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health, or who shall refuse or neglect, within a reasonable time after being required by the manager to remove any nuisance or substance injurious to health from his dwelling, or to remove any such nuisance or substance which he may have caused or placed in the immediate proximity of his own or of any other dwelling, or who shall commit any nuisance upon any dam or common thoroughfare of the plantation, or shall wilfully cause any obstruction to any drain or trench, or shall wilfully foul any fresh water pond or trench of the plantation, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, on conviction, pay a fine not exceeding One Pound, or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding fourteen days.
133. Every immigrant under indenture who may be sent to any destitute asylum or almshouse by his employer shall be admitted or rejected in the same manner and upon the same authority as any other person; and, in the event of such immigrant being admitted, the employer shall pay to the authorities thereof the sum of Eight- pence for each day that such immigrant shall remain in such destitute asylum or almshouse, and also, if such immigrant shall die in the destitute asylum or alms- house, the expense of the burial of such immigrant.
PART XI.
The Rationing of Immigrants.
134. Every employer to whom immigrants may be allotted shall, for the first six months from and after the first date of delivery to him of the immigrants included in any allotment, provide and distribute daily and every day to every such immigrant being an adult such rations of food as are specified in the Schedule to this Act, No. 12, or in such varied or other scheme as shall from time to time be put forth by the Immigration Agent-General with the consent of the Governor; and to every such immigrant being a minor one-half of such rations, and to every such immigrant being an infant one-third of such rations, and may week by week deduct the cost of his rations for the week from any wages earned by such iminigrants during the week, in the case of an adult at the rate of Fourpence, and in the case of a minor at the rate of Twopence, for every day's rations furnished to them respectively; but no deduction shall be made by or allowed to any employer in respect of rations sup- plied to an infant immigrant, or in respect of rations furnished in any previous week.
135. Every manager shall keep a muster-roll of immigrants in the receipt of and inspec- rations, and such muster-roll shall on some stated day in every month be called over in the presence of any medical officer, when every immigrant whose name is therein inscribed shall be produced by such manager, and his state of health and sanitary condition ascertained by such medical officer.
now-
oomers.
Striking
off from
muster- roll.
136. After the expiration of the first six months referred to in section 136, any medical officer shall at every monthly muster strike off from the muster-roll any immigrant arrived during the previous season as to whom it shall be made to appear, by production of the pay-list and otherwise to the satisfaction of such medical officer, that he has every week during the last six weeks earned sufficient to pay for the rations supplied to him according to this Act, and all immigrants not struck off the muster-roll shall continue from time to time to receive such daily rations and be subject to such weekly deductions until one year has expired from the date of their allotment, after which date it shall no longer be compulsory on the employer to supply them with rations, or lawful for him to deduct the cost thereof from their wages.
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137. Any medical officer may at any one time, on directing any immigrant to PART XI. be discharged from any hospital as convalescent, require him, by entry in the hospital
Rationing register, to be placed in the receipt of daily rations, either for a certain period or of con- until further direction; and each immigrant shall be thereupon inscribed on the valescents. muster-roll, and shall be in all respects subject to the provisions of this Act in respect of new-comers therein inscribed: Provided that no such convalescent immigrant shall remain inscribed on the muster-roll beyond the space of six months, and that every such immigrant during his remaining on such muster-roll shall be considered other than an able-bodied immigrant.
138. Every immigrant rationed under this Act who shall sell or barter any Penalty ration or part of a ration furnished under this Act shall, on conviction, be imprisoned for buying
or selling for any term not exceeding fourteen days; and every person who shall take by way rations. of purchase or barter from any immigrant rationed under this Act any such ration or part of a ration, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, on conviction, pay a fine not exceeding Five Pounds, or be imprisoned, with or without hard labor for a term not exceeding one month, or pay such fine and be so imprisoned, as the convicting Justices shall direct.
PART XII.
Passports and Return Passages.
PART XII.
139. Every immigrant who shall have obtained or become entitled to a certi- Passports. ficate of exemption from labor, and who may be desirous of quitting the colony, shall apply to the Immigration Agent-General for a pass- port, and thereupon the Immigration Agent-General shall, within one week from date of any such application, deliver to him free of charge a passport good for one calendar month from the date thereof, and shall register such passport in the register of certificates of exemption from labor; and the certificate of exemption from labor of such immigrant, and his right to receive such certificate, shall be there: upon suspended.
140. Every immigrant who shall attempt to quit the colony without a passport Penalty for shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, on conviction, pay a fine not exceeding Five breach of
passport Pounds; and every owner, master, or person in charge of a ship who shall receive or regulation. harbor on board such ship or elsewhere an immigrant who shall not have obtained such passport, or whose passport shall have expired, with intent to carry such immi- grant out of the colony, shall pay a fine not exceeding Twenty Pounds for every such immigrant so received or harbored; and every such last-mentioned fine may be recovered in a summary way on the information of any officer in the Government service, and the ship shall be liable, on the warrant of a convicting Justice of the Peace, to be seized and sold in execution for the amount thereof and costs.
of Indian
141. Every immigrant who shall have completed a continuous residence of Return ten years in the said Territory, and shall during that time have obtained or become passages entitled to a certificate of exemption from labor, shall be entitled to be provided, immi- at the expense of the said province, with a passage back to the port whence such grants. immigrant sailed from India; and every immigrant so entitled who shall be detained in the colony contrary to his wish, after claiming such back passage, shall be entitled to demand and receive from the Immigration Fund the sum of One Pound for every six months of such detention: Provided that every immigrant who shall at any time quit, or attempt to quit, the colony without a passport shall thereby forfeit all claim to a back passage at the expense of the said province, notwithstanding he may have resided ten years in the said province.
142. Every immigrant entitled to a free passage back to India who shall have Return wife or child or children under the age of eighteen years in the colony shall be passages of
wives and entitled, on claiming such passage, to have a free passage provided for the same in children. the ship with himself at the expense of the said province: Provided that if any such wife or child be under an indenture upon which any bounty or indenture fee shall have been paid, he shall pay the commutation money to the employer of such wife or child, as the case may be.