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of immigrants, and subject to such alterations as the said Agent may, with 

 the consent of the parties, have made therein, be valid in this colony for the 

 full period named in such contracts, not exceeding three years, provided that, 

 except as hereinafter mentioned, no such contract shall be so approved and 

 countersigned unless the same shall purport to have been signed with the 

 names or marks of the contracting parties, and attested by some notary- 

 public or British Consul, or by some other person approved by or acting 

 under the authority of Her Majesty's Government, who shall declare that 

 the parties entered into it voluntarily and with a full understanding of its 

 meaning, nor unless the Immigration Agent shall be satisfied that the 

 immigration has been carried on in accordance with all existing regulations 

 of the Imperial or Colonial Government. 



VI. If contract is not signed and attested, Immigration Agent to report 

 same to Governor. 



VII. General Register of Immigrants to be kept by Agent General of Immi- 

 grants, and mode of keeping such register. The Agent General of Immigrants 

 shall continue to keep the General Register of Immigrants, and shall insert 

 therein the names of all immigrants arriving in the colony, and shall number 

 each of such immigrants by a particular number, commencing from the last 

 number already borne on such register, and proceeding by regular numerical 

 progression, and shall distinguish therein, under different heads, the number, 

 age, name, sex, and country of every such immigrant, and the time when, 

 and the place from which, and the vessel in which such immigrant shall have 

 arrived, and the cost of the passage of such immigrant, and whether such 

 immigrant is or is not entitled to a return passage, and the name of the 

 employer or other person at whose expense such labourer shall have been 

 introduced, and of the employer to whom he may be indentured on his 

 arrival, and of the amount of moneys, if any, which may have been advanced 

 to such immigrant previous to his arrival in the colony, and which is to be 

 repaid by him out of lu's wages in the colony. 



VIII. Agent General to provide food, Sfc. } for immigrants who shall not 

 immediately on their arrival be employed. 



IX. Agent-general may assign services of immigrants arriving into the 

 colony under contract for service. In case any immigrant shall, before 

 embarkation, have consented to enter in the colony into a contract of service 

 with any employer whom the Agent General of Immigrants may on his 

 arrival select, for a period not exceeding three years, such consent being 

 shown either by a certificate of the Government Immigration Agent at the 

 port of embarkation, or by an agreement signed by the immigrant, and wit- 

 nessed by such notary Consul, or other officer, as aforesaid, the Agent 

 General of Immigrants may assign such immigrant to any employer whom he 

 may think fit, for such period as aforesaid : provided always, that in making 

 such assignment it shall not be lawful for the Agent General of Immigrants 

 to separate husbands from wives, nor children under the age of fifteen years, 

 from their parents or natural protectors : provided also, that no such assign- 

 ment shall take effect until the employer and the Agent General of Immi- 

 grants, on behalf of such immigrant, shall have executed an indenture in the 

 form annexed (Schedule B), or In such other form as may be approved by the 

 Governor, nor until such employer shall have paid on such indenture the fee 

 hereinafter provided. 



X. Agent General may enter on any estate where immigrants are employed 

 for the purpose of inspecting them. The Immigration Agent may, at any time 

 during the day-time, enter upon any estate where any immigrants shall be 

 employed, and may inspect the state and condition of such immigrants, and, 

 if requisite, require a muster of such immigrants or any of them as may then 



