CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2] — Page 470

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

that the want of a regular Contract ._. between employer and employed here

has

the spot of checking the supply of r labor to Countries which are represented

Being urgently in want of it.

J.

It appears that after it had

been determined by the Southern Mainters to obtain, if possible, Chinese labor

for their states, Mr Williams, Senior, arranged with a Chinese then resident

in

Lavisiona that he should proved to China and engage from 500 to 1000 laborers for which he was to receive a remuneration of 25 cents per man per month for those landed and emplayed in that State. At the end of their 5 years' service he

to

receive w

163

bonnes.

of 4.10 for each.

man

discharged

Mr. Williams (Junior) is thrive Agent in Wany Kanz far this Scheme=

in

Mr. Gift, the Agent for the Flanters Arkanous engaged at this plesn the services of o Chinese on the same terms as Mr Willisons had doner. This

Chinamian proends to that Stinte via San Fransises to meet the "Ville de St. Lo

zmerno en Miku

at New Orleans. These for a term of three yours only

в

engaged

This is the first time that

Native laborers have been engaged by means of the distribution of notices and without the intervention of Chinese Agents, exept

tioned who

the two men

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