( 200 ) account state anything about the indebtedness, if any, of the cooly, as was done under the tundu system, which provided for the transfer of the cooly's indebtedness from one employer to another. The law is very strict on this point, and deserves to be quoted verbatim :— (1) Any person who after the commencement of this Ordinance— (a) Issues or causes or permits to be issued a tundu; or (b) Accepts or agrees to accept any tundu or any obligation arising thereunder or intended to be imposed thereby; or (c) Gives or enters into any undertaking, express or implied, with regard to any tundu; or (d) Enters into or takes any part in any transaction for the transfer of any indebtedness heretofore effected by means of a tundu ; to or in respect of any labourers as defined in section 3 of Ordinance No. 13 of 1889, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees, or to imprisonment of either description for any period not exceeding two years, or to both. 66 tundu" means (2) For the purposes of this section the expression the document commonly called a tundu, and in use, at the time of the commencement of this Ordinance, under the provisions of Ordinance No. 13 of 1889; it also includes any document, whatever its form may be, whereby the objects attained by the tundu at the time of the commencement of this Ordinance are sought to be attained after such commencement. Colombo Address. No. Lloyds Buildings, Prince street States of Marshall M. Vance 574 Argentine Republic. H. G, P. Maddocks (Vice- Harrisons & Cros- 231 Consul) field, Ltd.,. Darley road 232 19, Queen street .. 20 Darley, Butler & Co., Ltd., Queen street 129 † Public Holidays only. |