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of duration
8. No such contract shall be effective for a longer period than five years if made beyond the Colony, nor shall it be for a longer period than three years if made within the Colony.
made beyond
execution
within.
9. Any person beyond the Colony desiring to enter into a contract to serve within the Colony may do so in writing in the presence of two witnesses who shall certify as such witnesses that the contract was, before the execution thereof, duly explained to the party or parties executing the same.
10. Every such contract shall clearly express therein the time for which it is to endure, the wages to be paid, the nature of the service to be performed, the sum of money (if any) to be chargeable against and deducted from the wages, and that the employer is bound to provide regular work at stipulated wages for the servant.
What conditions shall be stated
therein.
of contract
11. Any magistrate, upon proof that such contract has been duly executed, may, if so desired by the parties thereto, indorse such contract as acknowledged before him and thereupon such contract shall be as valid and binding within the Colony as a contract of service in writing executed within the Colony.
to be
by magistrate.
12. Every question between the parties to any contract of service respecting wages, and every question respecting any alleged wrongful determination of any contract of service, shall be heard and determined by a magistrate in a summary manner in accordance with the law regulating procedure before magistrates.
magistrate over wages.
13. On the hearing of any complaint for the recovery of wages the magistrate may order that the whole or any part of any wages claimed be withheld, or that the whole or any part of any wages, with such an amount not exceeding ten days' wages in addition as may seem just, shall be paid by way of compensation to the servant for unpaid wages.
14. On the hearing of any complaint for wrongful determination of any contract of service the magistrate may order any wages due on the contract to be paid or withheld either
Power of
in cases of determination of contract.
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Employers and Servants.
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of duration
8. No such contract shall be effective for a longer Limitation period than five years if made beyond the Colony, nor shall of contract. be for a longer period than three years if made within the Colony.
made beyond
execution
within.
9. Any person beyond the Colony desiring to enter Contract into a contract to serve within the Colony may do so in Colony for writing in the presence of two witnesses who shall certify as such witnesses that the contract was, before the execution thereof, duly explained to the party or parties executing the
same.
10. Every such contract shall clearly express therein the time for which it is to endure, the wages to be paid, the nature of the service to be performed, the sum of money (if any) to be chargeable against and deducted from the wages, and that the employer is bound to provide regular work at stipulated wages for the servant.
What con- be stated
ditions shall
therein.
of contract
11. Any magistrate, upon proof that such contract has Indorsement been duly executed, may, if so desired by the parties thereto, by magistrate. indorse such contract as acknowledged before him and thereupon such contract shall be as valid and binding within the Colony as a contract of service in writing executed within the Colony.
to be
by magistrate.
12. Every question between the parties to any contract Questions of service respecting wages, and every question respecting determined any alleged wrongful determination of any contract of service, shall be heard and determined by a magistrate in a summary manner in accordance with the law regulating procedure before magistrates.
magistrate over wages.
13. On the hearing of any complaint for the recovery of Power of wages the magistrate may order that the whole or any part of any wages claimed be withheld, or that the whole or any part of any wages, with such an amount not exceeding ten days' wages in addition as may seem just, shall be paid by way of compensation to the servant for unpaid wages.
14. On the hearing of any complaint for wrongful deter- mination of any contract of service the magistrate may order any wages due on the contract to be paid or withheld either
Power of in cases of determina-
magistrate
wrongful
tion of contract..
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