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be on the said estate, and shall twice at the least in every year visit and 

 inspect every plantation or place whereon any such immigrant shall be 

 employed. 



XI. Quarterly returns to be made by employers of immigrants to Agent 

 General according to forms to be approved by Governor. Every employer of 

 immigrants shall within the first five days on the months of January, April, 

 July, and October in every year make and deliver to the Agent General of 

 Immigrants a return in such form as the Governor may from time to time 

 approve, of all immigrants in his employ or residing on the estate of such 

 employer during the preceding three months, together with the date and 

 cause (as far as the same may be known) of all deaths, and the number of 

 births of the children of such immigrants, and the names of all immigrants 

 who may have left the estate during the quarter, and the Agent General of 

 Immigrants shall keep all such returns, and shall, at the end of every year, 

 make an abstract of the numbers, increase and decrease of all such immi- 

 grants, which abstract shall be laid before the Council of Government. 



XII. Penalty for omitting to make return, and for obstructing Agent 

 General. Every employer of immigrants who shall omit to make the return 

 hereinbefore required, and every person who shall by any act or omission 

 obstruct the Agent General of Immigrants entering upon any plantation 

 where he may reasonably suppose any immigrant to be employed, or in 

 inquiring into the state and condition of any immigrant, shall, on conviction 

 thereof before any justice of the peace, forfeit and pay such sum not exceeding 

 ten pounds for every such offence, as the convicting justice shall direct. 



XIII. Agent General may cancel indentures in cases of ill-usage, fyc. 

 In case it shall be made to appear to the Agent General of Immigrants that 

 any immigrant has been ill-used by his employer, or in case of neglect of 

 duty or breach of contract on the part of such immigrant or employer, the 

 Agent General of Immigrants may, by notice in the Royal Gazette, cancel 

 the indenture of such immigrant. 



XIV. Agent General may cancel indentures on which fees or moneys pay- 

 able under this Ordinance have not been paid, 



XV. Governor may cancel indenture on report of Agent General, The 

 Governor may by such notice cancel the indenture of any immigrant if the 

 Immigration Agent shall report that the accommodation provided for such 

 immigrant is bad or insufficient, or if, on any other ground, he shall con- 

 sider it requisite. 



XVI. Any immigrant whose indenture has been cancelled to be re-indented 

 for the unexpired period of his indenture. 



XVII. Immigrants introduced at a cost not exceeding 9, and not entitled 

 to a return passage, at the expiration of three years to receive a certificate of 

 industrial residence. When the bounty or passage-money paid by the colony 

 in respect of any immigrant shall not have exceeded 9, and the Government 

 shall not be bound to furnish any return passage to such immigrant, such 

 immigrant shall be entitled, after having resided three years in the colony, 

 to demand from the Agent General of Immigrants a certificate of industrial 

 residence, unless it shall be recorded in the office of such Agent General, or 

 shall otherwise appear to his satisfaction, that such immigrant has deserted 

 or been absent without lawful excuse from service, or been imprisoned under 

 the sentence, or by the order of any court of justice, or under the conviction 

 of any justice or justices of the peace, for periods amounting in the whole 

 to more than six days in the three years ; and in such case such immigrant 

 shall not be entitled to the said certificate until he shall have further served 

 under indenture for the period or periods of such absence or desertion. 



XVIII. Services of Chinese immigrants may be assigned for a period not 



