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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 person, 
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. 
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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 (hot 
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, 
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