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Customs Service 

 To facilitate the despatch of immigrants baggage, the 

 Custom House has au office in the Hotel which carrys out 

 all the corresponding operations. 



By means of this organization, which meets all the exi- 

 gencies of the immigration in the Argentine Republic, the 

 immigrants are given all the advantages accorded by the 

 Immigration Law hereunder transcribed. 



ARTICLES OF THE IMMIGRATION 

 LAW IMPORTANT FOR IMMIGRANTS TO KNOW 



CONCERNING THE LABOUR OFFICES 



Art. 9.— The Immigration-Office in Buenos Aires and 

 the Commissions at their various head quarters shall, when- 

 ever it may be necessary, have placed under their direct con- 

 trol a Labour and Employment-Office to be served by such 

 a number of clerks as may be fixed in the Budget. 



Art. 10. — These Offices are bound and empowered : 



1. To attend to such applications of teachers, artisans, 

 journeymen or workmen as may be sent in to them. 



2. To secure advantageous terms for the employment of 

 immigrants, and to see that such employment be 

 given by people of good repute. 



3. To intervene at the request of the immigrants in 

 such agreements as to work as said immigrants may 

 make, and to see to their strict observance on the part 

 of masters. 



4. To write down in a special register the number of the 

 procured employments, mentioning the date, the sort 

 of work, the conditions of the contract, and the names 

 of the persons that may have intervened in it. 



Art. 11. — At such places where there are no Employment- 

 Offices, the duties incumbent on these shall be carried out 

 by the Commissions of Immigration. 



