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him, certified returns of their Tamil labour for every 

 quarter ; the returns must be sent during the months 

 of April, July, October, and January. 



The amounts at which they are then assessed must 

 be forwarded to the Superintendent to be credited to 

 the Immigration Fund. This Fund is not part of the 

 general revenue of the Government. It is adminis- 

 tered by the Superintendent of Immigrants under the 

 authority of the Immigration Committee solely in the 

 interests of importers of Tamil labour. The Govern- 

 ment is, in fact, the largest contributor to the Fund 

 through the assessments which it pays on all Tamil 

 coolies employed on the railway and in the Public 

 Works Department. 



The purposes for which the Fund can be used are 

 expressly laid down in the enactment as follows : 



(a) The payment of free passages for Tamil labourers 

 and their families from the Madras Presidency to this 

 country. 



(b) The general expenses incurred in connection with 

 the recruiting of labour in the Madras Presidency. 



The Government bears all the expenses of adminis- 

 tering the Fund, paying the salaries of officials and 

 clerks ; maintains large kangany camps at Madras and 

 Negapatam, where coolies recruited by kanganies are 

 housed pending shipment by steamer ; provides officials 

 in India (the Emigration Agent at Madras and the 

 Superintendent of Emigration Depot at Negapatam), 

 who superintend these camps and generally assist in 

 matters connected with recruiting; provides coolie 

 depots at Penang and Port Swettenham ; and grants a 

 large annual subsidy to the steamship company which 



