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Amendment

of section 75

5.

of Ordinance he read

No. 1 of 1891.

Amenilment

of section 109

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Section seventy-five of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended and shall

as if for the words "three years" appearing therein the words "twelve months were substituted.

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6. Section one hundred and nine of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended

of Ordinance and shall be read as if between the words "offence "and" be in the last line thereof No. 1 of 181. the words following were inserted :-

Amendment

of section 124

forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding two pounds and in default of

payment.'

7. Section one hundred and twenty-four of the principal Ordinance is hereby of Ordinance amended and shall be read as if the words on payment of a sum at the rate of No. I of 1891. three pence for each day of such term of extended service" appearing therein were

deleted therefrom and in lieu thereof the words following were substituted :-

(Approved

in despatch

No. 24 of 9th

February, 1909.)

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with the consent of the Agent-General upon terms agreed to by the employer and the Agent-General to be computed at a rate of payment not exceeding three pence for each day of such term of extended service." Section one hundred and seventy-five of the principal Ordinance is hereby of Ordinance amended, and shall be read as if the words from or by any police constable No, I of 1891, the sixth line thereof to the word "immigrant" in the seventh line thereof were

deleted therefrom.

Amendment

of section 175

suspected of being absent without

leave.

(British

Guiana

Ordinance.

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in

Apprehension 9. Every police constable may, without warrant, stop any immigrant whom of immigrant he may have cause to suspect of being absent from his plantation without leave and may require him to show his certificate of completion of service, or of industrial residence, or a ticket of leave signed by his employer. If the immigrant does not produce the said certificate or ticket of leave, the police constable may thereupon take him into custody and take him, if in Suva, to the Agent-General, or any section 127.) Inspector of Immigrants, or to the nearest police station, and if the immigrant is ascertained to be under indenture to any employer the police constable shall com- municate with his employer, and he shall be detained in custody until he can be charged before the stipendiary magistrate of the district in which his plantation is situated in all respects as if he were charged under the provisions of section one hundred and seventy-six of the principal Ordinance, or until he gives security for his appearance to answer that charge. Provided that, if the employer so requires, the police constable shall cause the immigrant to be returned to his plantation.

Refural of

immigrant to give information. (British Guiana Ordinance,

Provided also that the Agent-General, or any Inspector of Immigrants, may, without warrant, place in custody any immigrant who is known or suspected to be a deserter or absent from his plantation without leave, or who refuses to return to his plantation when ordered to do so by the Agent-General or any Inspector of Immigrants; and the immigrant shall be dealt with in the same manner as an immigrant who is taken into custody and brought to the Agent-General or to some Inspector of Immigrants by a police constable under this section.

10. If any immigrant on being brought to the Agent-General, or to an Inspector Apprehended of Immigrants, or to a police station, wilfully refuses to give his name, or the name of the ship in which he was introduced into the Colony, or any other information that may reasonably be required by the Agent-General, or by the Inspector of Immigrants, or by the member of Constabulary in charge of the police station, for Rection 128.) purposes of identification, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding fourteen days.

Abrenice

from depot.

(British

11. If any immigrant, while an inmate of any immigration depot, without without love leave absents himself therefrom for three days, he shall be deemed to be a deserter, and the Agent-General shall thereupon exercise all the powers of an employer under the provisions of the principal Ordinance relating to desertion as read and construed with this Ordinance. The said provisions shall be deemed applicable and shall be applied, mutatis mutandis, to absence without leave from the depot.

Guiana Ordinance, section 129.)

Amendment

of section 176 of Ordinance

12. Section one hundred and seventy-six of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended, and shall be read as if the words "the preceding section" in the second No. I of 1891. line thereof were deleted therefrom and the words " the provisions of this Ordinance "

were substituted therefor.

Amendment

of section 207

13. Section two hundred and seven of the principal Ordinance is hereby

or defended "

were inserted between on " and "by " in the fourth line thereof, and as if the words dismissed " were inserted between the words " recovered and "with" in the sixth line thereof.

of Ordinance amended, and shall be read as if the words N. I of 1891. the words

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or

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for Govern-

14-(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for (i) the government Regulations of the festivals of immigrants and of the processions held by them in connection ment of therewith; (ii) defining the routes of processions; (iii) preventing obstructions by frativais, reason of processions, and (iv) securing the due maintenance of the public peace Ordinance, and tranquillity during festivals and processions. The regulations shall be sections published in the " Gazette."

(2) The regulations may be

(a) general, and apply to every plantation and public highway of the Colony;

or

(b) special, and apply only to particular plantations or public highways to be

specified in the regulations.

(Trinidad

288-271.)

Contravel- Lion of

(3) Every person who contravenes any of the regulations shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or to imprisonment, with or without hard regulations, labour, for any term not exceeding six months. Any person offending against this section may be arrested without warrant by any constable within whose view the offence is committed and by him detained until he can be brought before a stipendiary magistrate.

(4) Any prosecution for the contravention of any of the said regulations may Prosecution be made by any police constable.

for contra- vention.

children on

15.-(1) Every employer shall, if required by the Agent-General, provide at his Education of own expense on the plantation such school buildings and equipment as the Governor plantation. in Council may consider necessary for the education of children, not less than six nor more than thirteen years old, being the children of immigrants indentured to that plantation.

(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations relating Regulations, to the provision of the said buildings and equipment and the education of the said children and to the penalties for contravention thereof. The regulations shall be published in the " Gazette."

Prohibition

of store un ur Bear,

16.-1.) No retail store shall be kept by any employer, manager, overseer, sirdar, or other person employed on a plantation, either upon the plantation or within plantacion five miles thereof, without the consent in writing of the Agent-General.

(Trinidad Ordinance section 133.)

(2) If any retail store is so kept by, or for the profit of, any employer or manager, Penalty. or by, or for the profit of, any of his subordinate officers with his permission, con- nivance, or knowledge, the employer or manager shall be liable, on the complaint of the Agent-General, to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

(3) Every person, other than an employer or manager, who actually keeps a retail store in contravention of this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

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No. 17.

THE GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION AGENT AT CALCUTTA FOR BRITISH GUIANA AND NATAL to COLÒNIAL OFFICE. (Received 25 February, 1911.)

(Confidential.)

SIR,

British Guiana Government Emigration Agency,

61, Garden Reach, Calcutta, 7th February, 1911. I HAVE the honour to ackowledge the receipt of your Confidential letter, No. 37608/1910, of the 13th January,* desiring to be informed of the amount of the commissions paid to recruiting agents for the recruitment of coolies in India. As

I am at present in charge of the Emigration Agency for Trinidad, &c., during Mr. Marsden's temporary absence I request that this letter may be considered as replying also to the enquiry which you have addressed to him on the same subject. 2. The rates of commission paid to recruiting agents have for some years past been identical in the case of both the Colonial emigration agencies in Calcutta. Previous to March, 1910, these rates had been Rs. 25 per male adult, Rs. 35 per female adult,

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