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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Reference:

CO. 882

PUBLIC RECORD OR

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LONDČÍNÍ

Passage

money not

payable by immigrant.

Other pro- visions ex- tended to immigrants under this chapter.

Engagement of liberated

African ulavos,

Period of contract of service.

Wages,

rations, and

medical care.

Liberated

slaves landed at Seychelles may be for- warded to Mauritius.

Maintenance

slave pond. ing engage- ment.

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that the immigrants in respect of whom the said 25 per cent. shall be claimed, were embarked under the said arrangement on account of the person claiming the same.

76. The passage money and the expenses of in- troduction shall in no case be a debt recoverable from such immigrant, but shall be paid by the employer with whom any such immigrant may first enter into a written contract of service.

77. The provisions of this Ordinance relating to forfeitures of wages, rations, and penalties incurred for unlicensed absences from work, and any law relating to the recovery of wages and arrears of wages, the providing of rations and medical treat- ment, and the annulling or cancelling of contracts of service, are hereby extended to immigrants engaged under the powers conferred by this chapter of this. Ordinance.

CHAPTER VI.

LIBERATED African SLAVES.

78. All persons of African origin who shall be found in vessels captured by any of Her Majesty's cruisers engaged in the suppression of the slave trade, and shall be landed in Mauritius or Seychelles as liberated slaves, may be engaged in contracts of service, in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.

79. Such contracts of service may be for any period not exceeding five years. They shall be in writing, and shall be entered into before, and authen- ticated by, the stipendiary magistrate of the place in which they are made.

80. Every such contract shall include an allowance of wages and rations in accordance with the pro- visions of this Ordinance. The employer shall further be obliged to give his servant proper lodging and medical care.

81. In the event of any liberated slaves being landed at any of the Seychelles dependencies, and of there not being within those dependencies persons whom the Civil Commissioner thereof shall consider fit, and who shall be willing to enter into contracts of service with them, in accordance with this Ordi- nance and relative regulations, it shall be lawful to the Civil Commissioner of Seychelles to cause them to be forwarded to Mauritius, to be there engaged in contracts of service aforesaid. In such case the said liberated slaves shall be forwarded by the first con- venient opportunity.

82. During the interval between their arrival at of liberated Seychelles and their being forwarded to Mauritius, such liberated slaves shall receive food, clothing, lodging, and medical care at the expense of the Government, and under the superintendence of the Civil Commissioner of Seychelles, and may be employed in any Government works, either without wages, or at such rate of wages as shall be fixed by regulations.

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83. Liberated slaves landed at Mauritius by any Liberated of Her Majesty's cruisers, or arriving in Mauritius slaves to be from Seychelles under the aforesaid provision, shall received at

Immigration be received in the Immigration Depôt, and, until they Depot. shall be engaged as aforesaid, shall receive food and other allowances aforesaid at the expense of the Government, under the superintendence of the Pro- tector of Immigrants.

contract

84. The person with whom any liberated slave Amount to shall enter into a contract of service shall pay, in be paid on order to defray a due proportion of the expense with liber- incurred by the Government in relation to such ated slave. liberated. slaves, to the Government, the following rates or such other rates as may from time to time be fixed by the Governor.

-

Liberated Slaves landed in Mauritius.

•

For every male above 14 years

of age

£ .. d.

6 0 0

-

0 0

5

0 0

4 0 0

For every male under 14 years

of age

For every female above 14 years

of age

For every female under 14 years

age

of

Liberated Slaves landed at Seychelles.

For men, women, and children a

uniform rate of

£ s. d.

1 10 0

of liberated

85. The liberated slaves aforesaid shall be engaged Engagement to the persons to whom they shall be allotted by the saves to be Protector of Immigrants, if in Mauritius, and if in according to Seychelles, by the Civil Commissioner thereof in regulations. accordance with the regulations to be framed under this Ordinance.

and Chief Civil Com

86. The Protector of Immigrants in Mauritius Protector and Chief Civil Commissioner in Seychelles are hereby appointed ar-ocio guardians to every orphan misioner liberated slave, whether legitimate or illegitimate, in guardian Mauritius and Seychelles respectively.

ex-ollaja of orphan Miss-

87. A certificate of allotment in the form of the rated slaves. Schedule No. 16 hereto annexed shall be issued by Certificate of

the Protector of Immigrants, under his signature, to every person about to engage liberated slaves.

Such certificate of allotment sipuli specify the period of service for which nich Nhéested” glaves are about to engage, and the wages and allowances to be given to them during the same.

88. To every liberated slave allotted by the tector of Immigrants, a ticket shall be dullvser

form of the Schedule No. 17 bareto

which ticket the engagement of the

slave shall be endorsed by the stipendiary

allotment

Tiakes.

89. In all matters for which no special provision Matters nos

is made herein with respect to Hbééried

regulated.

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