MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS 6ll 



The re-engagement contracts are made for a period 

 of i, 2, or 3 years, the amount of the premiums and 

 advances being in proportion thereto. On an average 

 such advances for i, 2, and 3 years are respectively f. 25, 

 f. 45, and f. 70. The premiums, which, however, are 

 not invariably granted, amount to from f. 5 to f. 45. 

 The advances are deducted from the wages in monthly 

 instalments. 



On some estates from 60 to 80 per cent, of the labourers 

 agree to re-engagement. Other labour is engaged on a 

 small scale in the district in which the estate is situated, 

 as well as in a few other residencies of the Outer Pos- 

 sessions and elsewhere, but for the rubber estates such 

 recruiting is unimportant. 



(2) Recruiting on the Basis of the Recruiting Ordinance 

 (Official Gazette, 1909, No. 123). The recruiting of 

 natives in Java and Madoera for performing labour on 

 behalf of commercial, agricultural, or industrial under- 

 takings and public works in the Outer Possessions was at 

 one time free. It was increasing year by year, and, in 

 order to regularize it and to put an end to the abuses 

 which had crept in, an ordinance was enacted in 1909, - 

 according to which such recruiting could only take place 

 with the permission of the authorities. Directions were 

 given at the same time as to the manner in which recruit- 

 ing might be carried on in the event of permission thereto 

 having been obtained. 



In accordance with these directions, the non-fulfilment 

 whereof is a punishable offence, labourers for the above- 

 mentioned undertakings, in so far as they are not recruited 

 through the medium of the Public Authorities in the 

 interest of the State, can only be obtained in Java and 

 Madoera through a recruiting office. The manager of 

 such an office, known as the recruiting agent, in order to 

 be able to act as such, must obtain a licence from the 

 head of the district in which he is established. The 

 recruiting officers (Europeans) and assistants (natives) in 

 the service of the recruiting agent must also hold a licence 



2 The provisions for the execution of this ordinance are con- 

 tained in the Supplement to the Official Gazette, Nos. 60,62 and 

 7232. 



