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ployers or their agents, as also for all such minor offences as may not 

 call for the intervention of the law. 



7. On no account whatever, and under no circumstances, shall it be 

 lawful for me during the aforesaid period of eight years for which I 

 hereby bind myself, to absent myself from my employer's service, or to 

 withdraw or escape from his authority, or under any circumstance or 

 under any provocation to complain against him, and in order to render 

 more binding upon me this declaration of my voluntary obedience to 

 all these provisions, I renounce from the date of the present subscription 

 the right to rescind the provisions of this contract secured to emigrants 

 by articles 27 and 28 of the ordinances on colonization promulgated by 

 H. M. Queen Isabella II., 22 March, 1854, as also any similar rights that 

 may be secured to emigrants by any laws or official documents published 

 or to be published in reference thereto. 



8. In case of sickness or infirmity I agree and declare that I fully 

 consent that if such illness shall exceed one week in duration, my 

 wages shall be stopped, and shall remain suspended until my recovery, 

 or, which is the same thing, until such time as my health permits rae to 

 re-enter the service of my employer, without having recourse to the 

 articles 43, 44, and 45 of the aforesaid regulations, my rights under which 

 I forego by the last preceding paragraph, and do again renounce. 



Don F. Velez for his part engages with me : — 



1. That from the day on which my said term of eight years' service 

 begins, my wages shall be paid at the rate of four Spanish piastres 

 monthly. 



2. That there shall be provided me daily eight ounces of salt meat and 

 two and a half pounds Boniatas [Jatropha Manihot), or other equally 

 good and nutritious food, 



13. That in the event of illness I shall be provided in the hospital with 

 such things as my case may require, and in particular with all medicines, 

 &c., necessary to restore me to health, so long as my illness may last. 



4. That I shall be supplied annually with two pairs of trowsers, one 

 woollen shirt, and one woollen coat. 



5. That my passage to the Havannah and maintenance while on 



