506 TRINIDAD. 



employer of any indentured immigrant shall on the expiration of the term of 

 industrial residence of such immigrant deliver to such immigrant, on his 

 request, a certificate under the hand of such employer, that such immigrant 

 has completed the term of his industrial residence, and every employer who 

 shall refuse or fail to deliver such certificate to any immigrant when law- 

 fully requested so to do, shall on conviction thereof before any justice of the 

 peace forfeit to such immigrant such sum not exceeding ten pounds as to the 

 convicting justice shall seem fit. 



XL. Penalty on persons harbouring or employing immigrants indentured 

 to any other person. Any person who shall knowingly harbour or receive 

 into or continue in his employment any immigrant then under indenture 

 to any other person, shall on conviction thereof before any justice of the 

 peace, forfeit and pay to Her Majesty such sum, not exceeding tAventy pounds, 

 as to such justice shall seem fit, and shall pay to the employer the sum of ten 

 shillings for each day during which such immigrant shall have been so 

 harboured or employed, and complaint of such harbouring or employing 

 may be made by the Immigration Agent or by the employer of such immi- 

 grant before any justice of the peace at any time within twelve calendar 

 months after any day on which such immigrant shall have been so harboured 

 or employed. 



XLI. Fees payable to Colonial Treasury on indentures for service. 

 There shall be paid to the Colonial Treasurer by the employer of every im- 

 migrant during the period of his industrial residence the following fees, viz., 

 on the execution of any indenture two pounds, and at the commencement of 

 the second and every subsequent year of service under such indenture, or any 

 extension thereof, the like sum of two pounds ; and where any such immigrant 

 shall on his own request be indentured to any new employer, the sum of 

 three pounds ; and all fees payable in respect of any immigrant at the com- 

 mencement of the second or any subsequent year of service under such 

 indenture shall be taken to be payable and shall be paid unless the employer 

 shall prove to the satisfaction of the Agent General of Immigrants that such 

 immigrant was dead or had absconded from the estate of such employer before 

 the expiration of the previous year. 



XLII. Governor to provide stomps, Sfc. 



XLIIL In cases where advances have been made to immigrants, employers 

 are to pay one dollar monthly to Agent General, and may deduct a certain 

 amount of wages monthly for purpose of repaying such advances. 



XLIV. Moneys payable to Colonial Treasurer to be a first charge on 

 plantation on which immigrants may be indentured. 



XLV. No writ of Ca Sa, $fc., to issue against any indentured immigrant. 



XL VI. In proceedings by immigrants and employers, no fees payable. 



XL VII. Signature of Agent General of Immigrants to be sufficient proof 

 without the same being proved. 



Passed in Council, this 17th day of November, in the year of our Lord 



1854. RICHARD D. CADIZ, 



Clerk of Council. 



The foregoing Ordinance was duly proclaimed in Port-of-Spain, by me, 

 this 22nd day of December, 1854. 



EDWARD MURRAY, 



Marshal. 



