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amount claimed exceeds fifty pounds, or to make an order for the payment of 

 any sum exceeding fifty pounds (exclusive of the costs incurred in the case), or to 

 require security to an amount exceeding fifty pounds from any defendant or his 

 surety or sureties. 



(j O Where on the hearing of an information or complaint under this act it 

 appeal's to the justices that an injury inflicted on the person or property of th 

 party complaining, or the misconduct or illtreatment complained of has been of an 

 aggravated character, and that such injury, misconduct, or illtreatment has not 

 arisen or been committed in the h^na-i'idc exercise of a legal right existing, or hona- 

 //(/( and reasonably supposed to exist, and further that any pecuniary compensation 

 or other remedy by this act provided will not meet the circumstances of the case, 

 then the justices may, by warrant, commit the parly complained against to gaol, 

 there to be (in the discretion of the justices) imprisoned, with or without hard 

 labor, for any term not exceeding three months. 



(14.) When any washes or money due for work shall be paid to an employee 

 by any cheque, draft, order, or note in writing upon any bank or any person, and 

 shall be dishonored, no employee shall thereby be deprived of any remedy given 

 to him by this act for the recovery of his wages, but every such person shall be 

 entitled to recover such reasonable damages as he may have sustained in 

 consequence of the dish >nor of such cheque, draft, order, or note, and such 

 damages shall be recoverable as wages. 



(15.) When any contract of service shall have been made by, or any work 

 shall be entrusted to, the management or superintendence of the steward, agent, 

 bailiff, foreman, or manager of any employer, and also where two or more persons 

 shall carry on business as partners, in every such case respectively the like 

 proceedings shall be had by or against such steward, agent, bailiff, foreman, 

 manager, or any one or more of such parties, and shall be as effectual, for all the 

 purposes of this act, as if the same had been had by or against the principals or all 

 the parties, provided that when any such proceedings shall be had against a 

 steward, agent, bailiff, foreman, or manager, in respect of any cause of complaint 

 not being for personal misconduct, all sums of money paid or satisfied by such 

 steward, agent, bailiff, foreman, or manager, by virtue of any order of the justices 

 made in pursuance hereof, shall be recoverable by him against the employer from 

 whom the same is adjudged to be due, or shall be allowed to him out of 

 any money at the time of payment or afterwards in his hands belonging to such 

 employer. 



(i 6.) When any married woman or infant under the age of twenty-one years 

 shall have cause of complaint in any of the cases provided for by this act, such 

 complaint may be lodged and all further proceedings thereupon had by and in the 

 name of such married woman or infant, or of the sureties of the infant, in any 

 agreement or indenture of apprenticeship, or of any person nominated by such infant, 

 aiid all such proceedings shall be as effectual, valid, and binding as if such married 

 woman were sole or such infant were of full age. 



(17.) The provisions of this act shall apply to all contracts of service by 

 indenture or other written agreement made by any employer in the United 

 Kingdom or in any of the dependencies or colonies thereof, or in foreign countries, 

 with persons about to proceed to or actually resident within the colony of Western 

 Australia, for service in this colony, provided such contracts be not contrary to any 

 law of the colony relating thereto. 



