sixth thereof in the case of females, and the cost of the outfit for the

voyage.

Provided as follows:

(1.) Every such immigrant who is destitute or disabled shall be entitled to a free passage;

(2.) The wife and every son and daughter of every such immigrant and any person being an immigrant or the descendant of an immigrant who is dependent on any such immigrant shall be entitled to a free passage if such wife or son or daughter or other person sails from this Colony with her husband or his or her parent or with the person on whom he or she is dependent as the case may be but not otherwise;

(3.) Where any son or daughter of any immigrant is a child under the age of 12 years the Governor may refuse a return passage to such child, if it appears that it is desirable, in the interests of the child, that the child should remain in the Colony;

(4.) If the child of any immigrant is under indenture upon which any indenture fee has been paid he shall pay the commutation money to the employer of such child; and

(5.) Every immigrant who at any time quits or attempts to quit the Colony without a passport shall thereby forfeit all claim to a return passage, whether wholly or partly at the expense of the Colony notwithstanding he may have resided ten years in the Colony ;

(6.) This section shall not affect the rights of immigrants who have been engaged on the terms of being entitled to a return passage wholly at the expenses of the Colony;

(7.) The right to a return passage in terms of this section shall be subject, in the case of every person who has previously proceeded to the Colony as an immigrant and has returned to the country in which he was recruited, to any condition made with him or her on his or her engagement that he or she shall have no right to a free or reduced return passage:

Provided, however, that the Protector may, with the express sanction of the Governor, in any particular case and for special cause, relax any of the provisoes of this section.

228. The Protector may order any immigrant who has received a certificate of exemption from labour under section 221 to be provided, if he so desires, at the expense of the Immigration Fund, with a return passage to the port whence he sailed for this Colony.

229. Before the departure of any ship chartered at the expense of the Colony having return immigrants on board, the Protector, assisted by a Government Medical Officer, shall inspect the ship and the immigrants, and ascertain whether the arrangements made for the passage and for the treatment of the immigrants on board are in

conformity with the law, and shall make out a list of the immigrants on board such ship who are entitled to a return passage in accordance with the provisions hereof, and shall deliver the same to the Surgeon Superintendent for the use of himself and the master of such ship, and shall certify upon such list the total number and description of the immigrants embarked, together with the state and condition of such immigrants, and that they have been provided with clothing suitable for the voyage.

230. The Protector shall transmit to the Governor his report on the inspection, and shall also require and transmit therewith the report of the medical officer who assisted in the inspection.

PART XIV.-Registers, Returns, and Certificates.

231. The superintendent, keeper, or other officer in charge of any prison, hospital, or other public institution of the Colony shall, on or before the 21st day of April and the 21st day of October in every year, make out and transmit to the Protector a return of all immigrants who may have died while inmates of such public institution during the six months previous to such months of April and October respectively, and shall transmit therewith any certificate given under this Ordinance which may be found in the possession of any such immigrant.

232.-(1.) Every manager of a plantation on which any immigrant may be under indenture or contract of service shall keep a register book or register books.

(2.) Such book or books shall be at all times open to the inspection of the Protector, of the Surgeon-General, and of the Government Medical Officer, and shall be produced in Court, if the presiding Judge or Magistrate so requires, in all proceedings taken under this Ordinance by or against any immigrant under indenture or contract of service on such plantation.

(3.) Such book or books shall include the following particulars:(a.) The several indenture lists received by the manager on allotment of immigrants, or any copies of such indenture lists which have been certified by the Protector;

(b.) A Register of Dwellings of Indentured Immigrants;

(c.) A Register of Absences on Leave;

(d.) A Register of Desertions;

(e.) A Register of Births of Immigrants occurring on such plantation; and

(f) A Register of Deaths of Immigrants occurring on nuch plantation;

(9.) A Hospital Case Book; (h.) A Hospital Register.

233. Every manager who

(1.) Wilfully makes any false entry in any register or return required to be kept or made by him under this Ordinance; or

(2.) Neglects to keep any such register carefully noted up; or (3.) Neglects to make out and send in any such returns within the time limited in that behalf;

Shall be liable, on the complaint of the Protector, to a penalty not exceeding 57.

234. Every Government Medical Officer shall, within one month after the end of each quarter, transmit to the Surgeon-General a Return of all the diseases entered in the case book within his district, and the Surgeon-General shall, in the month of April in every year, make out a statistical abstract of all such Returns for the preceding year, with a Report thereon, and a duplicate copy of such abstract and Report shall be transmitted by the Surgeon-General to the Protector, to be laid by him, together with his own Report, before the Governor and Legislative Council.

235.-(1.) Every immigrant whose certificate of exemption from labour has been lost or destroyed shall be entitled, on proving to the satisfaction of the Protector that he is then entitled to such certificate and that such certificate has been lost or destroyed, and on payment of 21., to receive a duplicate of such certificate: Provided that the Protector may, if he thinks fit, grant any such duplicate certificate on payment of any lesser fee.

(2.) Every employer shall at any time be entitled to a duplicate of any indenture list of immigrants delivered to him, on payment of 17. or of 5d. per immigrant if the immigrants are less than fifty in number.

(3.) Every employer and every immigrant shall be entitled to receive a certified extract from any register kept by the Protector, on payment of 1s. for every such extract.

236. If any immigrant uses or attempts to use any certificate of exemption from labour or any pass signed by an employer, not being the immigrant to whom such certificate or pass was granted, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 57. or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two months, or to both such penalty and imprisonment.

237. Every person who forges or alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any certificate of exemption from labour mentioned in this Ordinance or any indorsement provided by this Ordinance to be made thereon, with intent to defraud, shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years.

238. Every person who forges or alters, or offers, utters, disposes

of, or puts off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any passport or pass mentioned in this Ordinance, with intent to defraud, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding one year.

PART XV.-Procedure.

239.-(1.) Every information laid and every complaint made under any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be laid or made before the Magistrate of the district in which the offence was committed or the cause of complaint arose, and the procedure for the recovery of any fine or penalty or the enforcement of any imprisonment under the provisions of this Ordinance shall, unless otherwise provided by this Ordinance, be that provided by the Summary Administration of Justice Ordinance, or according to any future. Ordinance regulating the summary administration of justice, and shall be subject to appeal to the Supreme Court: Provided that any such information or complaint against an indentured immigrant shall be laid or made within one month from the date of the offence or cause of complaint, or, in case of desertion, within one week from the date at which the deserter is apprehended: Provided also that if the Protector, on behalf of any indentured immigrant wishes to bring any summary conviction or order or other adjudication of any Magistrate in any case of summary jurisdiction under this Ordinance on appeal before the Supreme Court, he may do so in the manner prescribed by the Ordinance in that behalf.

(2.) No fees shall be demandable of or payable by such indentured immigrant or such employer in respect of any information, summons, or other process to be had on such proceedings.

(3.) Every copy of notes of evidence or of any other process required by the Protector shall be furnished from the Registrar's Office, or by the Clerk to the Magistrate, free of charge.

240. Every information which may be laid and every complaint which may be made under this Ordinance by an immigrant may be laid or made by the Protector on his behalf.

241. In any proceeding taken by the Protector under this Ordinance, it shall not be necessary for him to attend in person, unless he is a material witness, but he may authorize any officer of the Immigration Department to appear on his behalf.

242. In any proceeding taken by an employer against an immigrant under this Ordinance, it shall not be necessary for the complainant to attend in person unless the complainant is a material witness on the part of such immigrant, in which case the hearing may be postponed in order to obtain his appearance.

243. The defendant in any proceeding under this Ordinance shall be entitled to be sworn and to tender his evidence on oath; and every heathen immigrant shall make such oath or affirmation as he may declare to be binding on his conscience, and shall be liable, in case of falsehood, to be convicted and punished as for perjury.

244. In any proceeding taken by or against an employer in which it may be necessary to state the ownership of any property belonging to or in the possession of the proprietors of any plantation, it shall be sufficient to name any one of such proprietors, or the attorney of such proprietors, and to state such property to belong to the person so named another or others, as the case may be.

245. In any proceeding taken by or against an immigrant, any indentured list or certificate of exemption from labour, and any duplicate thereof signed by the Protector, and every certified extract from any register kept by the Protector, shall be received in evidence of any fact therein recorded without further proof.

246.-(1.) Whenever, in any proceeding before a Magistrate against an indentured immigrant, it appears to the Magistrate that such immigrant requires medical care or to be medically examined, the Magistrate may order such immigrant to be taken to the hospital of the plantation on which such immigrant is indentured, or to the nearest p blic hospital, and thereupon such immigrant shall be conveyed by the police and admitted to such hospital.

(2.) If a warrant has been issued for the apprehension of such immigrant as a deserter and he quits the hospital without being duly discharged, the warrant shall revive and be in full force immediately on his so doing.

(3.) When any such order is made the proceeding may be adjourned to any time mentioned or until after such immigrant is discharged from the hospital; and in this latter case the Magistrate, before continuing the proceeding, shall cause proper intimation to be given to the parties of the time and place at which the proceeding will be continued.

247. Any Magistrate who orders any indentured immigrant to be imprisoned by virtue of any conviction under this Ordinance may order such immigrant to be imprisoned either with or without hard labour.

248.-(1.) Whenever any indentured immigrant is sentenced to be imprisoned under any summary conviction or order by a Magistrate for any alleged offence under the provisions of this Ordinance, and the Protector appeals to the Supreme Court, the Magistrate shall thereupon admit such immigrant to bail in his own recognizance, in a sum not exceeding 201., to render himself to