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A HAWAIIAN KING VISITS HONG KONG, 1881

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service the usual and indispensable work shall be done on such holidays also.

3. A day's labor shall be 10 hours actual work in the fields, or 12 hours actual work in or about the sugar factory; the hours not being continuous, but allowing the necessary time for taking food and rest,

And 26 day's actual work as aforesaid shall constitute a month's labor. 4. If, at any time, during the continuance of this agreement, the Laborer shall desire to return to China, he shall be released from this agreement upon his departure from the Hawaiian Islands, and upon conditions that the Laborer shall refund to his employer the following portion of the costs of his passage from China to Hawaii, to wit: $1.50 for each month remaining of the term of this agreement.

FOR THE PROPER FULFILLMENT OF THIS AGREEMENT, the parties hereto bind themselves, one to the other, as witnessed by their hands and seals hereto affixed, at Honolulu,

WITNESS:

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Labor Import Declaration, 1890*

ISLAND OF OAHU, }

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS,

personally appeared before me

Employer, and

On

$$.

satisfactorily proved to me by the oath of

Laborer,

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to be the persons executing the foregoing agreement, and the same having been by me read, explained and interpreted to them, they severally acknowledged that they understood the same, and that they had executed the same voluntarily, and upon the terms and conditions therein set forth.

Agent to take Acknowledgments to Contracts for Labor for the Island of Oahu.

$54.00

HONOLULU,

On demand for value received I promise to pay to the

or order, the sum of Fifty-four Dollars

Payable at the office of the

* Hawaii Sugar Planters' Association Library.

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