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THINC.O. 882

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Penalty on immigrant

in respect to nuisance.

Personal liability of employer

for the con-

dition of his

camp.

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labourers, and of the yards and grounds thereof, and all such regulations shall be subject to the approval of the Governor in Executive Council, and shall, when so approved, be published in the Government Gazette, and copies of the same shall be sent by the Protector to the manager of each plan- tation on which there may be any immigrants under contract of service.

227. Every immigrant under contract of service who shall keep his dwelling in so filthy or unwhole- some 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 sub- stance 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 estate, plantation, or factory, shall be 'guilty of an offence, and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding 14., or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 days,

228. Every employer who shall suffer or permit any camp of labourers on his estate to be in a filthy condition, or who shall neglect to enforce such regu- lations as are herein-before in article 226 mentioned, shall be guilty of an offence, and on information laid before the stipendiary magistrate by the Protector, the medical officer of the Department, the medical attendant of the estate, any inspector of immigrants, or the inspector of nuisances, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 51. for the first conviction, and to a penalty not exceeding 201. if such second com- plaint be laid within 12 months of the previous conviction.

Inspection of

229. It shall be lawful for any inspector of campe, dwol- nuisances at any time, and for any officer or con- lings, &c.

stable of police with the written consent of the owner or manager of the estate to enter and inspect any camp or dwelling of labourers situate on any estate of any kind in which labourers are received, and to inves- tigate the condition of such camps and dwellings. He shall be entitled to require any labourers in any such places respectively to be brought before him upon any such visit. Any person who shall obstruct or molest such inspector of nuisances in the perform. ance of the said duty, shall, on conviction before the stipendiary magistrate of the district, be condemned to a fine not exceeding 20%. sterling, or to imprison- ment for a period not exceeding one month.

Animals not

230. No animals other than poultry shall be to be kept in allowed to be kept in camps or in dwellings, but campa or

there shall be constructed on each estate, plantation, dwellings.

or factory, to leeward of the camp or principal row of dwellings intended for the labourers serving on such estate, plantation, or factory, a park, wherein shall be kept the animals belonging to the labourers aforesaid.

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estate.

231. A book shall be kept by the accountant or Register of book-keeper of the estate, wherein shall be registered animals on the animals other than poultry belonging to such labourers as aforesaid, with the owner's name and such description as may lead to the identity of all and every such animal.

CHAPTER XIV.

Marriages.

232. The law regulating the marriages of natives Law on of India as enacted in articles 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75 marriages of Ordinance No. 17 of 1871, intituled "An Ordie maintained.

C nance to amend and consolidate the laws of the "Colony relating to Civil Status," shall continue to have full legal force and effect, and every enactment which may be hereafter passed amending the afore- said Ordinance shall, unless it be expressly declared to be otherwise, apply to Indian immigrants as well

as to the other inhabitants of this Colony.

233. The provisions of any existing law as to the Law as to trial and punishment of persons who shall entice away envelo enticing or harbour the wives of Indian immigrants are

immigrants hereby extended to persons who shall entice away or maintained. harbour the wives of immigrants introduced in terms of Ordinance, although such wives be not natives of India.

CHAPTER XV.

Job Contractors.

234. No person shall be allowed to engage Job contrae- labourers as job contractors unless he produce & tor to take licence taken under Ordinance No. 31 of 1865; nor out a licence. shall any job contractor be allowed to engage labourers for any period extending beyond the term of his licence.

Any such licence may be renewed at any time of the year, and for whatever period the job contractor may wish to renew it.

&c.

235. Every stipendiary magistrate before passing Guarantee a contract of service between any job contractor and for payment any labourer, being a new immigrant from India, for of wages, employment in agricultural labour, may and shall require the wages, rations, lodgings, and medical care of such labourer to be guaranteed in manner prescribed

in this Ordinance, and such magistrate shall refusé tọ pass such contract of service without such guarantee.

In like manner a guarantee shall be given for the wages and others aforesaid of every immigrant who shall be engaged in India to a job contractor for employment as aforesaid. Such guarantee shall be given before the said immigrant shall be handed over by the Protector of Immigrants to the job contractor to whom he shall be engaged.

236. The guarantee to be required as herein-afore- Guarantos said shall be by writing duly signed before and how signed authenticated by the stipendiary magistrate, at the and authen- Immigration Depôt in Port Louis, when the guaran- ticated.

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