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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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TILLCO. 882

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

Protector.

Receiver General.

New ami- grant.

Old immi- grant.

Industrial residence.

Servant.

5. The term "Protector" means the Protector of Immigrants, and shall include any officer of the Immigration Department at any time specially autho- rised to act for him or in his place.

6. The term "Receiver General" includes the Assistant Receiver General.

7. The term "new immigrant" extends and applies to all male Indian labourers who have immi- grated into this Colony, or its dependencies, since the publication of Her Majesty's Order in Council of the 15th January 1842, or who may hereafter immigrate from British India or elsewhere, and for whose intro- duction passage money has been or may hereafter be paid by the Government, or by any individual em- ployer, and who have not completed an industrial residence of five years; as herein-after defined; and also to the children of such immigrants, being under the age of 15 years; and also to all liberated African slaves, for five years from the date of their being landed in the Colony, or until they have completed such an industrial residence as aforesaid.

8. The term "old immigrant" applies to all male Indian labourers who owe no industrial residence.

shall mean a residence

9. "Industrial residence of five years in this Colony, or its dependencies, under written contract of service for hire and performance of such contract.

The "industrial residence" shall be deemed to have been completed:

1st. By service under such contract, one or more, for the term of five years, testified by a discharge therefrom under the hand of a stipendiary magis-

trate.

2nd. By redemption, as herein-after provided in

article 141.

3rd.-By release.

The following employers are hereby empowered to release any new immigrant from the whole or any un- expired residue of the term of industrial residence:

1st.-Any one of the employers mentioned in

article 146.

2nd. Any other employer who shall have entered into a contract of service with such immigrant, for the unexpired residue of his industrial residence.

Provided that such release can only be effected during the currency of the contract of service with the employer, desirous of effecting the release, or upon the expiration or other determination of such contract, and before the immigrant shall have engaged with any other employer.

<4th. By exemption by the Governor, as herein-

after provided, in article 144.

10. "Servant" under the provisions of this Or- dinance shall mean any labourer, whether under written contract of service entered into before a ma- gistrate or under verbal contract, and shall include domestic servants, field labourers, sirdars, handicrafts

alien.

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11. The term "gens de service," as used in article Gens de 2,101 of the Civil Code, extends and applies to service.

the several classes of persons mentioned in the pre- ceding article.

ist.

12. For the purposes of the present Ordinance, the Requisition- term "requisitionist" extends and applies to any person who shall have made requisition for the intro- duction of immigrants to be specially engaged to him in India, or to be allotted to him on arrival in Mauritius, as the case may be.

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Plantation" includes any sugar, fibre, va- Plantation. nilla, or coffee estate in cultivation, or any two or more estates, if adjacent to each other and managed

as one estate, or any other piece of land in cultivation under one manager, of the extent of at least 25 acres, and including any cattle farm or any wood-cutting establishment.

14. "Employer" means the proprietor or lessee of Employer. any plantation, or the agent of such proprietor, and includes the manager for the time being in charge of such plantation, and further includes overseers and medical officers, as the case may be.

Any word denoting the singular number or mascu- line gender includes the plural number and feminine gender respectively, unless the text of the article be clearly repugnant to such interpretation.

For the purposes of this Ordinance the words "Officer of the Procureur General's Department " shall include the Government Attorney.

15. "Public holidays" for the purposes of this Ordinance shall be those enacted in Ordinance No. 19 of 1874.

CHAPTER III.

IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT.

16. Her Majesty may appoint & Protector of Im- The Pro- migrants for Mauritius, who shall be head of the tector of Immigration Department. Such Protector of Immi- Immigrants. grants shall receive a salary at such rate as shall be determined by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, and shall give security by himself, and two sureties jointly and severally, to such an amount as may be determined by the Governor in Executive Council, for the due account- ing for and payment of all sums of money received by him.

the Protec-

17. It shall be the duty of the Protector, subject Daties of to the control of the Governor, once at least in every six months, personally, or by an inspector of immi- tor. grants, to visit every plantation, factory, or esta blishment, upon which there may be any immigrants under indenture; to receive and take cognizance of the complaints of immigrants, and thereupon to give advice, to conduct investigations, and institute proceedings as circumstances may require, to assist the stipendiary magistrate, if required, in the estima- tion of wages, to keep the registers of the Immigration Department, and to exercise and perform such other functions and duties in relation to immigration mat- ters as are prescribed in this Ordinance, or shall be entrusted to him by the Governor.

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