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5. This letter is written to give employers and their agents early 

 intimation of the change in the form of contracts and to draw atten- 

 tion to the impending alteration of the law. It is possible, but not 

 probable, that further changes will be made in the contract, before it 

 is gazetted. 



I have, etc., 



(Sgd.) C. J. Saunders, 

 Secretary for Chinese Affairs. 



ENCLOSURE. 



This Contract made the day of IQI between each of 



the persons named and described in the schedule hereto (hereinafter 



called the Labourer) of the one part and of 



his executors and administrators (hereinafter called 



the Employer) of the other part. 



Witnesseth that, whereas the Labourer has received from the 

 Employer advances to the amount hereinafter written against his 

 name, the receipt of which advances the Labourer hereby acknow- 

 ledges, 



NOW it is hereby agreed between the parties as follows : — 



1. The Labourer will proceed to at the expense 



of the Employer and will there labour for the Employer as 



2. The Employer may require the Labourer to perform this con- 

 tract under any headman, mandore, contractor or other pers on, 

 provided that the Employer shall remain responsible to the Labourer 

 for the due performance of the following conditions and for the good 

 treatment of the Labourer. 



3. The Employer will make no deduction from the Labourer's 

 pay for any advances made to the Labourer, or for the cost of the fol- 

 lowing articles now supplied to the Labourer : one mosquito curtain, 

 one sun hat, one coat, 2 pairs of trousers, 2 bathing cloths, one pair 

 of clogs, one blanket and one mat or for any expenses incurred by 

 him on account of the Labourer prior to the arrival of the Labourer 

 at the place where the contract is to be performed. 



4. — (i) The Labourer will complete an aggregate number of (not 

 exceeding 300) day's work and will work overtime when reasonably 

 required by the Employer so to do. 



(ii) Not exceeding nine hours shall constitute a day's work, but 

 the Employer may reckon as a day's work the completion of an 

 equivalent task previously determined by him, provided always that 

 the local authority of the place where the contract is to be performed 

 may at any time alter or revise such reckoning, if the task so fixed 

 appears to him in the case of the Labourer to be unreasonable. 



