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C.O. 882

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Emigrants to be de-

spatched as early as -possible.

Proportion of females.

No passage money, &c. to be paid

except upon

warrant of the Glover- nor.

Arrival of

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embarkation, such advances shall not exceed the amount of one month's wages, and shall only be made to them on their consenting to the vinsertion of the following clause into their contract of ser- vice :-

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"We acknowledge having received the advances of wages borne opposite to our respective names, and agree to deductions being made from our wages "in Mauritius, to the extent of one-fourth of the "rates at which we respectively engage to serve, "until the full amount of such advances shall have "been recovered by our employers."

48. The emigration agent shall, as soon as practi- cable, after the execution of each contract, despatch the emigrants engaged therein to the Protector of Immigrants in Mauritius, forwarding with them their contract in duplicate, their Indian passes, and the other papers and documents required by law to be despatched with them.

49. No gang of emigrants shall be permitted to sail from any port in India unless the proportion of female emigrants be not less than 50 for every 100 males.

50. No money shall be payable by the Receiver General of Mauritius in respect of any such immi- grants as aforesaid, except on the warrant of the Governor, which warrant shall not be issued except on such certificate as in article 28 aforesaid, of the said Protector of Immigrants.

51. The arrival at Port Louis of any immigrants immigrants engaged in India, under requisitions forwarded as to be made

here above mentioned, and the day on which such public.

immigrants may leave the Immigration Depôt, sball be announced by the Protector of Immigrants, as soon as possible after their arrival, in one or more of the Colonial newspapers.

Friends and

to be seps-

52. In making allotments, husbands shall not be relations not separated from their wives, nor minors and infants from their parents and natural guardians, aud, so far as may be possible, members of the same family and neighbours from the same village shall not be sepa rated from each other.

rated if possible.

Government to be re- funded cost

of intro-

duction.

Recovery of sums due

to Govern- ment.

53. Any immigrant who shall be engaged or allotted to any person in terms of any such requisi- tion shall be held to have been introduced into the Colony at the expense of the requisitionist, who shall be bound, in the first instance, to repay to the Government the whole expense of introduction of such immigrant, and other incidental expenses, in- cluding the proportional expense of introducing unin- dentured females, if any. Any sums on these accounts which may be recovered from any substituted or other employer of the immigrants shall be applied towards the extinction or diminution of such obliga- tion to repay.

54. All sums which after the passing of this Ordinance may still be or which may become due to Government under any bonds which shall have been executed for the introduction, engagement, or allot- ment of any new immigrant whatever, shall be re- coverable in any district court in which the party

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liable to the same shall have his domicile at the time; notwithstanding that the amount of any such debt aforesaid may be beyond the ordinary jurisdic- tion of district courts.

In case of such debt being due upon any bond, the district magistrate shall entertain, and proceed in the cause, and shall give judgment in the same respectively, upon receiving a written application from the Protector of Immigrants for the time being, without its being necessary for any person or officer

to attend the district court in such cause.

introduction.

55. An acquittance in the form of the Schedule Acquittance No. 8 hereto annexed shall be delivered by the Pro- for cost of tector on his receiving from any requisitionist the cost of the introduction of any immigrants imported for him. In such case the immigrants introduced for the requisitionists shall also be immediately delivered to him, with a duplicate or copy of their contract, and the tickets belonging to them which shall be in the form of Schedule No. 9 hereto annexed.

56. Before such immigrants leave the Immigration Certificate Depôt, a certificate of engagement, in the form of the of engage- Schedule No. 10, shall be delivered to each of them ment to be by the Protector of Immigrants.

handed to esch immi- grant.

non-effective

57. In case any immigrant engaged under a contract Requisition of service in India shall, on his arrival in Mauritius, ista not liable be in the opinion of the Protector, and previous to for cost of his departure from the depôt, unfit, and likely to be introducing permanently unfit through infirmity, accident, or immigrants. other cause, for the performance of the contract, the person at whose instance such immigrant has been introduced shall not be liable for the costs of the introduction, but such costs shall be paid by the Colonial Treasury; and the said immigrant shall be sent back to India as speedily as possible at the expense of the Colonial Treasury. Provided always, that whenever such non-effective immigrant shall have been received by any special agent employed by the introducer, or whenever such non-effective immigrant be a person without whom some other effective labourer or labourers would not have emi- grated, the expenses shall be borne by the introducer or requisitionist.

when em

58. If any new immigrant, on first introduction, be Immigrant under the age of 10 years, he shall, on attaining that under 10 age, be liable to work for his introducer or substitused Jaam of age employer at the Government scale for the time being ployed. of wages and allowances, until the expiration of the term of industrial residence of the relative or friend under whose charge such immigrant shall have been introduced, or for so much of such term as such relative or friend shall continue in the service of such employer.

to be allotted

59. In case any requisitionist shall not claim the Unclaimed immigrants introduced under his_requisition, whether immigrant specially engaged to him in India, or otherwise, by Protec within seven days after their arrival at the depêt in tor. Mauritius, the Protector of Immigrants may allot auch immigrants to any other person willing to

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