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175 SUPPLEMENT TO THE WESTERN SAMOA GAZETTE.

contract or indenture under which such labourer is now serving shall hereafter be under any circumstances criminally punishable by fine, imprisonment or otherwise for any breach of a contract or indenture of service, and the laws relating to the punishment of labourers by criminal process for breaches of contract or indenture shall hereafter have no application to any such labourer.

Free Labour conditions

3. Every labourer who has at the date of this Ordinance Labourer accepting accepted or who shall hereafter accept the Free Labour Conditions deemed to have entered shall by virtue of so accepting be deemed to have entered into:

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(a) an agreement with

(a) A binding agreement with the Commissioner as the repre- Government

sentative of the Government of Samoa embodying the terms contained in Part I of the Schedule hereto (but not to the exclusion of other terms appearing in the Free Labour Conditions and not being inconsistent with such first mentioned terms), which agreement shall come into oper- ation on the 1st day of August, 1923, or if the Commis- sioner and such labourer shall agree upon any later date then on such later date, and also

future employers

(b) A binding agreement with any employer to whom the An agreement with

labourer may after the coming into operation of the agree- ment referred to in sub-clause (a) be appointed by the Commissioner embodying the terms in Part II of the Schedule hereto (but not to the exclusion of other terms appearing in the Free Labour Conditions and not being inconsistent with such first-mentioned terms), which agree- ment shall come into operation at the date of such appoint- ment;

And the rights, duties and liabilities of the labourer in relation to the Government of Samoa and to such employer respectively shall be determined accordingly.

labourer appointed

4. Any person who has heretofore since the 1st day of August Employer to whom 1923 or who shall hereafter enter into a contract with the Com- deemed to have missioner for the appointment to him of a labourer who has accepted adopted agreement (b) the Free Labour Conditions shall be deemed to have entered into and adopted as from the date of appointment the agreement referred

to in sub-clause (b) of the preceding clause;

And the rights, duties and liabilities of such employer in relation to such labourer shall be determined accordingly.

THE SCHEDULE.

TERMS OF AGREEMENT.

PART I-Terms defining the relation of the labourer to the Government of Samoa.

ment of labourer

1. The Commissioner as agent of the Government of Western Continuous employ- Samoa will find continuous employment for the labourer as an guarantee wage of 3/- agricultural labourer or domestic servant or otherwise in Western per day and repatriate Samoa for a period expiring three years after the 1st day of August, period

labourer at expiry of