MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS 609 



Contracts made under this ordinance, as in the case of 

 the coolie contracts referred to under A (2), p. 602, must 

 be made for a specified period. 



The names of the labourers should be entered in a 

 prescribed register, together with the date of commence- 

 ment and termination of their contract, the wages 

 agreed upon and the indebtedness, if any, of the labourer. 



The Authorities do not interfere with the entries or 

 registrations of the names of such labourers, but the 

 register should at all times be open for inspection by 

 the Government Officials concerned and the Labour 

 Inspectors. 



(3) Obligations of the Employer. The employer is 

 under obligation to pay the wages regularly to the 

 labourers, and no moneys may be stopped out of such 

 wages except those mentioned in the contract and on no 

 account may such stoppage exceed one-quarter of the 

 wages earned since the last payment of wages. 



The employer is also bound to provide his coolies 

 with suitable dwellings, together with proper medical 

 attendance including all necessary medicines, and to 

 supply them with good bathing and drinking water. 



Finally, the employer is bound to return the labourer 

 to the place where he was recruited at his (the em- 

 ployer's) expense, on the expiration of the labour con- 

 tract or on any intermediate date, in the event of such 

 labourer being forced, through physical incapacity to 

 work, to leave his service prior to such expiration, or 

 in the event of his being discharged by the employer 

 through no fault of his own or without any contributing 

 cause on his part. 



(4) Special Penal Provisions. Penalties may be im- 

 posed for failing to keep, or for not keeping properly the 

 register above referred to, or for refusal to allow 

 inspection thereof by the competent authorities; for 

 a breach of the provision regarding the payment of 

 wages, and for failure to provide housing accommoda- 

 tion or medical attendance; for resistance, insults or 

 threats against the employer or his staff, disturbance 

 of the peace, righting, drunkenness and similar offences 

 against good order, as well as for encouraging the non- 

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