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 CHAPTER IX. 



CONCERNING THE TRANS ORT TO THE PROVINCES AND THE 

 EMPLOYMENT OF THE IMMIGRANTS 



Art. 48. — The Employment-Offices or the Immigration - 

 Commissions in their stead, shall use their best endeavours 

 to provide immigrants with employment in such art, trade or 

 calling as the may prefer. 



Art. 49. — Such employment shall be procured if possible 

 within five days after the immigrant's arrival, and on as fa- 

 vourable terms as possible. 



Art. 50. — The Employment- Offices or the Immigration- 

 Commissions in their stead shall, at the request of the inte- 

 rested parties, intervene in such contracts for employment as 

 they may make, with a view to securing their fulfillment for 

 the immigrant. 



Art. 51. — Any immigrant who should prefer to fix his 

 residence in any of the interior Provinces of the Republic, 

 or at any of its Colonies, will be at once transported .with 

 his family and luggage to such place, as he may select, free 

 of all charge. 



Art. 52. — In case of an immigrant going to the Provinces, 

 he will be entitled on arrival at his destination, to be lodged 

 and boarded for ten days by the Immigration-Commission. 

 At the expiration of this time, he shall pay half a national 

 gold dollar a day for every person over 8 years old, and 25 

 cents for every child under that age, except in case of illness, 

 when he would continue to be maintained at the expense of 

 the Government as long as the said illness lasts. 



Art. 54. — The immigrants can on no pretence whatever, 

 profit by the privileges granted by the preceding articles, to 

 pass through the territory of the Republic to a foreign coun- 

 try, under penalty of repaying all the expenses that have been 

 occasioned for their passage, landing, board, lodging and 

 .transport. 



