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INSTRUCTIONS FOR RECRUITING BY KANGANIES IN 



INDIA 



Kanganies receive licences to recruit in the Madras 

 Presidency from the Superintendent of Immigrants, 

 Penang. The licences are granted free of charge. 



Forms, to be rilled in by the employer, will be sent 

 on application to the Superintendent of Immigrants ; 

 when the required details have been filled in by the 

 employer, the licences should be sent to the Superin- 

 tendent of Immigrants for registration and signature. 



The usual procedure is as follows : 



The employer sends his kangany over to India, and 

 generally makes arrangements with either the Madura 

 Company in Negapatam or Messrs. Binny and Co. 

 in Madras (these firms are the British India Steamship 

 Company's agents in each case) to finance him ; the 

 custom is for the firm to pay the kangany so much per 

 head for each coolie actually produced by him and 

 shipped. 



By this system the risk is avoided of giving to the 

 kangany large advances in cash, which he might very 

 likely squander. These two firms have agents in the 

 Straits and Federated Malay States to whom they cable 

 information of the number of coolies shipped for each 

 estate ; the local agents inform the employers, and it 

 is thus possible for each estate manager to know before 

 arrival of the steamer the number of coolies shipped 

 for him. 



There are officers of this department stationed at 

 Negapatam and Madras; at the former he is styled 

 Superintendent of the Emigration Depot, and at the 



