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they shall receive instructions to that effect from such 

 superintendent, the other officials of this branch of the 

 service are also charged with such supervision. 



The heads of divisional and local government shall 

 further exercise a general control over the fulfilment of 

 the provisions concerning the recruiting of natives in 

 Java and Madoera, the said heads of government in the 

 exercise of such control in the ports of Batavia, Semarang, 

 and Soerabaya being assisted by the Recruiting Commis- 

 sioners, and, so far as the sanitary conditions in the 

 recruiting depots and the health of the persons housed 

 therein are concerned, by medical officers appointed for 

 that purpose. 



The labour inspection officials exercise no judicial 

 functions; they are charged, however, with the investi- 

 gation of punishable offences in relation to the labour and 

 recruiting ordinances. 



Where in the Outer Possessions regulations as to 

 recruiting do not exist, no special supervision, as already 

 mentioned above, is exercised thereon. This, however, 

 does not prevent Inland Government officials being 

 obliged, in virtue of their official position, from seeing 

 that no deception shall be practised with regard to such 

 recruiting. Thus, as a rule, labour contracts of persons 

 recruited in a district other than the residency in which 

 the estate concerned is situated are executed before the 

 Government official of the place of origin of the labourers. 



