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PART III.
Applica- tion for
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PART III.
Proceedings on Allotment of Immigrants.
25. Every employer desirous of obtaining allotments of immigrants shall, on or before the first day of May, or such other day in each year as may from time immigrant to time be fixed by the Governor, send in to the Immigration Agent-General an application in writing specifying the number of immigrants of each nationality required, and the name and situation of the plantation to which he wishes such immigrants to be assigned, and the name of the proprietor or lessee of such planta- tion; and the Immigration Agent-General shall register every such application in the register of applications for immigrants (Schedule No. 2).
Cousent of lessor neces-
26. Every such application, if made by or on the part of any lessee of a planta- sy to appli. tion, shall be accompanied by consent in writing of the proprietor, or, in default of such consent, the lessee shall show to the satisfaction of the Immigration Agent- General that he is prepared to pay in cash, on allotment, the full amount of in- denture fees payable in respect of all'immigrants so applied for.
ostion by Lesson
tion by
Mortgagee 27. If any such application shall be made by or on the part of the proprietor may object of an estate under mortgage, and the mortgagee or his representative shall object to applica- in writing to such application being complied with, it shall be the duty of the mortgagor. Immigration Agent-General to refuse such application, unless such proprietor shall satisfy him that he is prepared to pay in cash, on allotment, the full amount of indenture fees payable as aforesaid."
Subsist-
28.
No application shall be rendered invalid, or in any way affected, by reason ence of ap- of the death, insolvency, or absence of the employer by whom such application was plication
made, or by reason of the sale by private contract, or at any judicial sale, of the plantation in respect to which such application has been made, and no application duly made may be withdrawn without the permission of the Immigration Agent- General.
Immigrants
may be allotted to head of De- partment of Public
Works.
Refusal of appli-
cations.
Determinn. tion of total number of
29. The head of the Department of Public Works may, with the sanction of the Governor, apply for the allotment of such immigrants as shall be required for the service of the said Territory on the construction of railways, and shall be con- sidered, for the purposes of this Act, as the employer of such immigrants as may be allotted in consequence of such application.
30. Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to interfere with the power of the Immigration Agent-General, subject to the control of the Government Resident, to refuse any application for immigrants in case he shall see reasonable ground for such refusal; but every such refusal and the grounds thereof shall be communi- cated to the employer, upon the receipt of his application, or so soon thereafter as possible, and also to the Government Resident.
31. When the applications for immigrants have been completed, a list of such applications shall be submitted by the Immigration Agent-General to the Govern- migrantment Resident, and the question how far they can be complied with shall thereupon
be considered and determined by him.
duped into
the colony.
PART IV,
Inspection of immi-
grant ship
on arrival.
PART IV.
Respecting the Treatment of Immigrants on Arrival, and the Treatment of Minor and Infant Immigrants.
32. On the arrival at the port or ports appointed for debarkation of any ship having immigrants on board, the Immigration Agent-General, assisted by one of the medical Officers of the said department, or, in his absence or inability to act, by the Health Officer of the port, shall inspect the ship and immigrants, and ascertain whether all the statutory provisions have been complied with; and shall report to the Government Resident the condition of such ship and immigrants, and shall transmit with such report the Surgeon Superintendent's return of deaths and births, and certificate of performance by the owners of the covenants and conditions. of the charter-party, and also a certificate of the amount due for freight to such owners, and shall likewise require and transmit the report of the medical officer who shall have assisted him in the inspection.
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33. The Immigration Agent-General shall, with the assistance of any medical PART IV. officer of the department, or, in his absence or inability to act, of the Health Officer of the port, and of the Surgeon Superintendent of the ship, examine the sick, if any, sick on
Disposal of among the immigrants on board, and shall cause such of them as may require it arrival. to be sent to the hospital required to be provided at the depot established at any port or ports for the reception of immigrants on arrival, and shall transmit with them a list, signed by one of the medical officers to the department, or by the Health Officer of the port, and by the Surgeon Superintendent, stating the name, sex, age, disease, and length of time under treatment of each immigrant so sent, and the number by which he was designated on board ship.
Immigranta
34. Every immigrant arriving in the colony shall be provided with food and lodging of lodging in the immigration depôt until he be provided with the means of earning on arrival. his subsistence.
tion.
35. Allotment shall, in the first place, be made to the head of the Department Order of of Public Works of such immigrants as he may have applied for, and afterwards distribu- to the several employers who have made application, in such manner as the Immi- gration Agent-General shall determine, and in such order as the Government Resi- dent shall from time to time direct.
allotment
36. In making allotments, husbands shall not be separated from their wives, Order of or minors and infants from their parents and natural guardians, and, so far as may be possible, members of the same family and neighbours from the same village, and persons who may agree in representing themselves to be friends and associates, shall not be separated from each other.
ture fee.
37. The indenture fee payable by the employer to the said Immigration Fund The inden- in respect of each adult immigrant shall be the sum of Ten Pounds, or such other sum as shall be fixed from time to time by the Governor; and the indenture fee payable in respect of each minor immigrant shall be one-half that which would have been payable if he had been an adult; and when any immigrant shall be allotted to any department for the public service of the colony, the department shall pay to the Immigration Fund in respect of such allotment the same sum that would have been payable by any private employer.
not able-
38. In any allotment the Immigration Agent-General shall, with the assist- Indenture ance of any medical officer to the said department, or, in his absence or inability fee of to act, of the Health Officer of the port, distinguish every immigrant who is in immigrant his opinion not able-bodied and not capable of performing service as an agricultural bodied. laborer; and the indenture fee payable in respect of any such immigrant shall be such part of that which would have been payable in respect of such immigrant if he had been an able-bodied immigrant as the Immigration Agent-General may think proper, or such immigrant may be indentured without payment of any indenture fee, and the indenture may prescribe such conditions as to the nature of the employ- ment to be assigned to the immigrant as the Immigration Agent-General may deem
necessary.
39. On the completion of every allotment or other disposition of immigrants Mode of on introduction, the Immigration Agent-General shall register every immigrant indenture. included in such allotment or disposition in the general register of immigrants introduced into the said province (Schedule No. 3), distinguishing to the best of his ability such as are adults, minors, and infants, respectively, and shall number therein each of such immigrants by a particular number, commencing from the last number borne on such register, and proceeding by regular numerical progression; and shall deliver to the employer or his representative an indenture list, signed by all the adult and minor immigrants allotted to him (Schedule No. 7), and shall transmit to the Auditor-General a return showing the number of immigrants included in such allotment, and the sums payable by way of indenture fee in respect of such immigrants, and shall deliver to every adult or minor immigrant included in such allotment a certificate of indenture (Schedule No. 8), and every such employer and immigrant shall thereupon be, and be taken to be, bound by such indenture accordingly.
of inden-
40. Unless the Governor shall specially require the indenture fees on any Mode of allotment to be paid in cash, payment thereof shall be made in the following payment manner :----One-tenth in cash forthwith, and for the balance five promissory notes ture fees. shall be given, bearing date the day of the arrival of the ship in which such immi- grants were introduced, the first for one-tenth of such indenture fees, payable with
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