CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7] — Page 193

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Enclosure 3

Draft clauses for inclusion in the Agreements of ladies167

A. In the event of the marriage of the person engaged this

agreement and all rights, benefits and advantages hereby

reserved to the person engaged shall determine forthwith;

Provided that the Government may by writing agree to continue

the employment of the person engaged hereunder from month to

month subject to one month's notice in writing by either

party, and if the person engaged shall agree to continue in

such employment she shell thereafter be paid monthly such

salary in dollars as may be equivalent to that which she

would have been paid had such marriage not taken place and

this agreement remained in force, In the event of the

determination of this agrement under this clause the person

engaged musli not have any claim against the Government for

free passage from the Colony or for half salary on any

voyage thence and the person engaged small repay to the

Government the cost of her pussage to the Colony,

B. The person engaged shall at her election either:

(1) enter into such agreement as the Crown Agents for the

Colonies may require, with one sufficient surety approved of

by the Crown Agents, to repay to the Government on demand the

cost of any passage to the Colony the cost whereof may be

repayable by the person engaged under the terms of this

agrement, 03,

(2) permit the Government to deduct and retain from the

salury payable hereunder a sum equivalent to fifteen per cent

of such salary, and any sums so deducted and retained by the

Government anall, without prejudice to any other remedy by

the Government against the person engaged, be applied to the

repayment to the Government of the cost of any passage the

co at whereof may be repayable by the person engaged under the terms of this agreement: Provided always that if the person

engaged shall serve hereunder for the whole of the term of the

engagement, or if this agreement shall be determined under

olause 5(1) or clause 7 (1) hereof the amount so deducted

shall be repaid to the person engaged.

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