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سلسيليسا

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:

C.O. 882

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

Refund of stamp duty to employer

in certain

Casée,

Endorse- ment on

ticket when stamp duty is forfeited.

Stamp duty and redemp.

tion money payable on demand to

party enti-

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at the time being, such employer shall have no right to any sum which may be received by the Govern- ment by way of stamp duty, upon any subsequent contract of service entered into between such immi- grant and another employer, nor to any sum which may be received by the Government in respect of any redemption of industrial residence by such im- migrant.

150. Saving in the case provided for by article 143, whenever any new immigrant shall have entered into a contract of service with any of the employers mentioned in article 140, and such contract shall for any cause whatever be determined, prior to the completion of the term of industrial residence of such immigrant, such employer shall be entitled to demand and receive from the Government any sum which may have been received by the Government by way of stamp duty upon any subsequent engagement of such immigrant with a new employer, or in respect of any redemption of industrial" residence by such immigrant.

151. In every case in which the right to stamp duty or redemption money shall be forfeited the magistrate shall enter upon the ticket of the immi- grant the following endorsement:

"The stamp duty or redemption money charge- "able on the future engagements of this immigrant "shall be due to Government."

152. The stamp duty or redemption money recei- ved by the chief clerk of the stipendiary magistrate in Port Louis, or by any district cashier, shall in each case be paid out by him on demand to the party entitled to claim and receive it, or to any other party tled thereto. in his right, if the claim be preferred within three months after the reception of the money by such clerk or cashier, and if proof be shown to the sti- pendiary magistrate of the district of the claimant's right to receive such money.

158. The chief clerk of the stipendiary magis: Return of unclaimed

trate's office of Port Louis, and the district cashiers stamp duty in the rural districts shall, within the first week of and redemp each month, publish in the Government Gazette a tion money to be pub-

return of all sums so received by them, and still lished remaining unclaimed in their hands, stating the names monthly and and residences of the parties on whose behalf such posted up. sums have been recovered; and a printed copy of every such return shall be conspicuously posted up in each of the stipendiary magistrate's offices, and in the Immigration Office.

Disposal of stamp duty and redemp- tion money.

Accounts of

154. Such sums shall be dealt with by the receiver general as provided in Ordinance No. 17 of 1875.

Provided that no sum shall be refunded by the Receiver General unless upon a certificate, signed by the stipendiary magistrate of the district whence the amount shall have been transferred, showing how the claimant is entitled to the same.

155. Accounts shall be kept by the chief clerk of stamp duties the stipendiary magistrate's office in Port Louis, and and redemp by the district cashiers in the rural districts, of all tion moneys. such sums received, whether as stamp duty or as redemption money, of all reimbursements thereof made by them, and of all remittances thereof made to the public treasury; and in case of each reimburse- ment, the signature of the recipient of the money

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refunded and that of the stipendiary magistrate shall be taken on the registers of such accounts.

residence.

156. Every immigrant who may have completed Certificate of or who may hereafter complete his industrial resi- completion dence shall be entitled to receive from the Protector of industrial of Immigrants, free of charge, a certificate to show that he has completed his industrial residence in the form of Schedule No. 30 hereto annexed, and the pro- duction of such certificate, together with his portrait ticket, shall be sufficient to prove that such immi- grant is no longer bound to service.

Tickets and photographs shall in the first in- stance be given gratuitously, but duplicate tickets and photographs shall not be granted except upon payment by the immigrant applying for the same of a fee of 10%.

Provided that if such immigrant re-engage, his certificate of completed industrial residence and his ticket shall be kept by his employer.

In the event of any immigrant losing his certifi- cate, he shall forthwith give notice thereof at the nearest police station, and shall receive from the non-commissioned officer or constable in charge a pass enabling him to go to the immigration office for the purpose of procuring a duplicate; and the said non-commissioned officer or constable shall imme- diately upon receiving such notice of the loss of a certificate, transmit the same to the Protector of Immigrants.

tickets or certificates.

157. Any immigrant who shall attempt to procure Penalty for such duplicate certificate, or any duplicate ticket, by using false giving a false name, or false information, or who, on being called upon by the Protector shall wilfully refuse to give true information respecting his past history as an immigrant; and any immigrant using or producing, or attempting to use a false certificate or a ticket, or a certificate or a ticket not rightfully belonging to him, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be liable on conviction to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any period not less than three months, nor more than six months. And any immi- grant convicted of such use of false certificates or tickets twice within 12 months shall be deemed to be an incorrigible rogue, and shall be dealt with accordingly.

Liability of

papers when

called upon

158. Every immigrant who has obtained a certi- imadganta ficate of exemption and his portrait ticket shall be to produce bound to produce the same to any officer or constable properly of police having authority to call for them.

to do so.

159. Every immigrant who has obtained a certifi- Production cate of exemption as aforesaid, who shall take out a of licence licence for any calling, trade, business, or occupation, and ticket which by the law of this Colony requires a licence, in lieu of may, instead of a certificate of exemption aforesaid, certificate. produce, when required to do so, his licence and ticket

in lieu thereof.

ticket and

160. Every immigrant who shall neglect or refuse Penalty for- to produce his certificate as aforesaid, or licence and non-produc- his ticket when required to do so, by any officer tion of entitled to require the production of the same, shall licence or be liable for the first offence to a fine not exceeding certificate. 51. or imprisonment not exceeding 14 days, and for any second or subsequent offence, if committed

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