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5. Except in case of emergency such as fire or flood, the Labour- 
er need not work more than 26 days in any month nor upon the 
Usual Chinese feast days which shall include the following 
Chinese New Year (2 days) 5th of the 5th moon 
15th of the 1st moon 15th of the 7th moon 
Ching Ming Tung Tsit. 
6. The Employer will during the continuance of the contract 
provide the Labourer free of charge and to the satisfaction of the 
local authority of the place where the contract is to be performed with 
suitable house accommodation, with sufficient food of good quality, 
with medical attendance and treatment, with tobacco and with the 
services of a barber. 
Provided that the Employer may charge the Labourer 15 cents 
for the food supplied to him on any day, over and above 4 days in 
any month, on which he is absent from work, if his absence is not due 
to sickness or to other cause beyond his control. 
7. If the Labourer shall abscond and be arrested, he shall be 
liable to pay to the Employer such expenses of his arrest as the local 
authority of the place where the contract is to be performed may 
deem reasonable. 
8. — (i) The Employer will at regular intervals of not over one 
month during the term of the contract pay to the Labourer wages at 
the rate of minimum eight cents for each day’s work, completed by 
him and minimum seven cents an hour for all work done overtime. 
(ii) The Employer may deduct from these payments the monies 
which the Labourer is liable under clauses 6 and 7 to pay to him. 
9. If on the completion of this contract by the Labourer the 
monies which he is liable under clauses 6 and 7 hereof to pay to the 
Employer shall exceed the amount remaining due to him by the Em- 
ployer under clause 8 hereof, the contract shall be deemed to be 
extended until such excess shall have been repaid. Provided that 
wages duirng such period of extension shall be payable at the rate 
of minimum twenty-five cents for each day’s work. 
Provided further that this contract shall be null and void on the 
expiration of eighteen months from the date hereof. 
The Secretary, 
Planter’s Association of Malaya, Penang, 
ICuala Lumpur. 10th October, 1910. 
Dear Sir,— -Enclosed we beg to hand you copy of a letter we 
have to-day forwarded to the Superintendent of Indian Immigration 
relating to the control which this Association advocates in reference 
to the importation of Chinese labour. 
We are, dear Sir, 
Yours faithfully, 
(Sd.) Kennedy & Co., 
Secretaries. 
