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Appendix A. 



Payment of 



Aboricrinal 



Indian. 



KeepinK on 

 claim of Ijook 

 relating to 

 wages. 



Penalty for 

 failure to 

 comjily with 

 regulations as 

 to wages. 



Wages of 

 deceased 



emploj'tj. 



120. — (1) An Aboi'iginal Iudi;iii employed on a elaiiu shall excejit 

 with the e.xpress permission in writing to the contrary of the Protector 

 of Indians or of the Commi.s.sioner or Warden, be paid his wages in 

 cash, without any deduction or abatement, and such payment shall be 

 made at the place of Avorking or some convenient place near thereto, 

 and nowhere else. 



(2) A permission given under this Regulation may be either 

 special or general. 



121. — (1) The holder of every claim shall keep thereon a 

 book showing, in the ca.se of each labourer, the rate of wages, the 

 amount earned according to contract, and the deductions, and shall, 

 (m application, furnish the labourer, on the completion of his contract, 

 with an account properly certified by him or on his behalf by the 

 person in charge of the claim showing the amount the labourer has 

 earned, the advances received, goods had, fines imposed, and the 

 balance due to the labourer. 



(2) Every such book shall at all times be open to the insj^ection 

 of any Officei'. 



122. Every holder of a claim or his representative who I'efuses 

 or neglects to comjjly with the provisions of these Regulations relating 

 to the payment of wages shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 

 fifty dollars. 



123. On the death on a claim of any servant, the amount due 

 to him shall forthwith l)e paid by the employer to the heirs unless 

 otherwise directed bv the deceased. 



^°"'s^*o , 124. — (1) It shall be lawful for the per.son in charge of a claim 



labourer. ' ^'^ impose fines on labourers for misconduct committed on the claim : 

 Provided always that the amount of the fine, which shall in no one 

 case exceed one dollar, and the misconduct for which it was imposed, 

 .shall be without delay recorded by the person in charge of the 

 claim in the book required to be kept under Regulation 121 and 

 the entry dated and signed by him, after being read over to the 

 labourei'. 



(2) Any fines so imposed shall be deducted from the lal.)ourer"s 

 wages. 



(3) A labourer may appeal against any such fine to the Warden, 

 or to the Commissioner who shall refer the same to the Warden and 

 the Warden shall endorse his decision, which shall be final, on the 

 labourer's account.' 



Keeping of 

 medicine, etc. 

 on claim. 



Duties of EiKployers. 



125. — (1) Every jDcrson who employs any serv^ant on a claim 

 shall be bomid to keep thereon such medicines and medical remedies 

 as may for the time being be required by the Governor to be so kept 

 by notice published in the Gazette and in a newspaper circulating in 

 the Colony ; and where fifty servants or more are emjjloyed on such 

 claim shall employ a certificated sick nurse and dispenser on such 

 claim, provided there is no Government Hospital or Dispensary within 

 ten miles thereof, and shall also be bound in addition to the payment 

 of the wages agreed upon, to feed every such servant or to furnish 



