CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12] — Page 62

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Hon. Colonial Secretary,

26 DEC 07

The District Magistrate's first minute is

dated 19th. September, 1907.

I should have seen it before

I went to Taipe and before wrote my minute of 1st.October

1907. It gives information which was not then at my dis-

posal.

Mr. Hallifax's scheme gives effect to my

proposal that the District Magistrate take steps to aid the

Chief Resident Engineer in regard to these Contracts and

ensure justice to the Coolies. The steps he preposes are

1.

To eliminate the small Centractor without

capital and to ensure payment to coolies, by making weekly

payments obligatory. The Chief Resident Engineer will

inform District Officer of Centracters and Contracts.

The District Officer will enquire of the

Contractor who his sub-contractors are and post their names

at site, informing all coolies that they are the only

recognised ones.

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Contractors

The Railway will pay monthly,

weekly. The latter obligation will form a Clause of the

Contract with penalty for breach. There is no need for

the Chief Resident Engineer to notify the District Officer

when he is prepared to make payments as he will de so

monthly.

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This seems to me a practical and good

solution. I approve the notice but the District Officer

must recollect that we cannot enforce any penalty for

failure to make weekly payments, or eliminate the small

Contractors in existing Contracts. If however there is

no stipulation in the Chief Resident Engineer's Contracts

as to monthly payments, this concession could form an

inducement to the Contractor to pledge himself to weekly

payments.