IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE. 



TRINIDAD. No. 241854. 



17th November. 



rftinance 



Enacted by the Governor of the Island of Trinidad, by and with the advice and 

 consent of the Council of Government thereof, 



To amend and consolidate the laws with regard to 

 Immigration. 



CHARLES ELLIOT. 



I. Certain Ordinances repealed. 



II. Saves entries to labour made in general register of immigrants. 



III. Interpretation clause. And be it enacted, That .... the word 

 " immigrant" shall mean all immigrants already introduced, or who may 

 hereafter be introduced, into this colony at the expense of this colony, or for 

 whose introduction, although the same may be under private contract, the 

 colony may hereafter pay bounty ; the expression " Indian immigrant" shall 

 mean any immigrant who shall have been introduced from the British 

 Possessions in the East Indies ; the word " indenture " shall include all con- 

 tracts of service declared to be valid by this Ordinance ; the expression 

 " indentured immigrant " shall mean any immigrant under such indenture 

 who shall not have completed his industrial residence ; and the word 

 11 employer " shall mean the proprietor or manager or other person having 

 the direction of or the chief authority upon any estate, plantation, or farm 

 on which any immigrant shall be employed. 



IV. Governor may proclaim ports from which immigration to this colony 

 may be carried on. 



V. Contracts of service entered into previous to arrival of immigrant on the 

 same being approved and countersigned by the Agent General of Immigrants to 

 be held valid in this colony. Proviso as to signing and attestation. If any 

 labourer arriving in this colony from Madeira, the Azores, the Canaries, or 

 the Cape de Verd Islands, or from any part of Europe, or of the West 

 Indies, or of the United States, or of the British Provinces of North 

 America, or from any port or place from which immigration on bounty shall 

 have been permitted by such proclamation as aforesaid, shall before his 

 arrival have contracted with any person to perform service in this colony, 

 such contract shall, when approved and countersigned by the Agent General 



