CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865 — Page 167

AGENT

Jafuti

W. Stewart

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6.That the said shall, on demand of the said party of the first part, so soon as he shall

embark on board the said ship

for the purpose of carrying out the terms of this agreement, make an advance on account of wages to the said party of the first part to the extent of dollars, shall pay or cause to be paid monthly to the assigns-or-nominees of the said party of the first part dollar the wages to be earned by the said part of the first part in the said eo of British Guiana, the first payment to be made on the day of the date of embarkation of the said party of Provided always, and it is hereby agreed, that any the first part on board the said ship sum so advanced to the said party of the first part as aforesaid, shall be stopped or deducted out of the wages to be earned by the said party of the first part, at the rate of one Dollar per month, and that any payments so-made, as aforesaid, monthly to the assigns er nominees of the said party of the first part in China, shall te stopped or deducted in equal amounts monthly from the wages to be earned by the said party of the first

at any

time to

however to the laws of the

Beach Island

regulations 7.-That the said party of the first part shall be at liberty to datenine this agreement at the expira tion of the first or any subsequent year of its subsistence, upon payment of a sum of money equal to the

eighty cost of his passage from China to the said colony of British Guiana, namely seventyfive dollars, subject to a deduction of one-fifth of the said amount for and in respect of each year during which the said party-of the first part shall have served as such agricultural laborer, as aforesaid, under the terms of this agreement. 8. That the said Austin shall provide or cause to be provided for the said party of the first part

at the expence of the latter during such period as he continues to serve under the terms of this agreement, with the means of corres. ponding monthly, free of expense, with his relatives in China, and of-remitting money to them his relatives in China.

of

and make an aption/subpany) for determining

W. Stewart

2

Island

(Signed).

(Signed)

Said

Tahiti

day

115.

5945 1° 37. 27 apri Enclosure the

bewish returned.

This done in duplicate each of the parties aforesaid retaining one copy at Canton on the

in the year of our Lord 186 in the presence of the undersigned, who declares that this Contract has been signed, willingly and with full knowledge of its contents, by the

said

Emigration Offer".

Received an advance of

Batters on account of Wages and a Gratuity of

Dollurs for Wife

and

Children.

bộ bô chong trong

RECEIVEL

JULY 7 1865

Board. 1865.

-Imigration

6th Julep

163

I have to acknowledge your

letter of 20th sellimo with a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong enclosing a new form of Lease to be used in the letting of Crown Lands in that Colony.

2

be

eeply

I have to state that

to the Form.

we see no reason to object to

I have the honor to be

bir

Your

obedient

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? Frederick Elliot Eq

foto ko.

Humble servant

TW Murdock

reasury