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employer the Court or the Commissioner adjudicates tha such bond shall be given, the Court or the Commissioner may order such employer to give security by bond in a reasonable sum that he will not leave the Colony until he satisfies the Court or the Commissioner that all the just claims of his workers against him for wages have been paid or settled.

(2) If the employer fails to comply with the terms of such order to give security he shall be detained in the civil prison till arrangements are made to the satisfac- tion of the Court or the Commissioner for settling the claims of his workers provided that such employer shall be released at any time on security being furnished or on his payment either in whole or in a reasonable part, of all claims of his workers for wages, provided that in no case shall the period of such detention exceed three months.

(3) The bond to be given by an employer shall be a personal bond with one or more sureties and the penalty for breach of the bond shall be fixed with due regard to the circumstances of the case and the means of the employer.

(4) If on or after complaint made by a worker under subsection (1) it appears to the Court or the Commission- er that there is good ground for believing that the employer complained against has absconded or is absconding or is about to abscond the Court or the Commissioner may issue a warrant for the apprehension of such employer, and such employer shall be detained in safe custody pending the hearing of the complaint unless he finds good and sufficient security to the satisfaction or the Court or the Commissioner for his appearance to answer the complaint.

(5) If after summoning an employer to appear to show cause why he should not be required to give security by bond to remain in the Colony wherein the place of employment is situated till the wages of his workers are paid, it appears to the Court or the Commiss oner, after enquiry, that the worker had no reasonable or sufficient grounds for making it, the Court or the Commissioner may impose a fine of ten dollars upon such worker and in default of payment sentence him to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen days.

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28. No wages shell become payable to or recoverable from

any employer by any worker for or on account of the term of any sentence of imprisonment undergone by him or for or on account of any period spent by him in going to or returning from prison or for or on account of any period spent by him in going to attending before or returning from a Court in or about a case in which t be has been convicted of an offence or in respect of which the Court before which the case is tried is not prepared to certify that such attendance was necessary for the ends of public justice.

Amount and 29. discharge of indebtedness

of immigrants.

(1) No immigrant worker shall be deemd to be indebted to his employer by way of advances, cost of passage and transport to place of employment or on any account whatever, prior to his arrival at his place of employ- ment in the Colony in a sum greater than thirty dollars. (2) The indebtedness of any immigrant shall without prejudice to the payment of wages earned by him be deemed to be abated by twenty-five per cent in respect of each full calendar month during which such immigrant works continuously on the place of employment for which he was recruited.