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the tirst day of December in each year the rate to be paid in respect of 
each quarter of the ensuing year by the employer in respect of each 
Tamil labourer employed by him or working on his place of employ- 
ment. Such rate shall not exceed $1.25 in respect of each la- 
bourer. 
fii) The Superintendent shall forward . to each employer a notice 
stating the amount at which hp has been assessed in respect of the 
last preceding quarter. Such amount shall be reckoned by multiplying 
the average number of days’ work done by Tamil labourers employed 
by him or working on his place of employment during the preceding 
quarter of the year by the rate notified under the last sub-section. 
(iii) The average number of days’ work done by Tamil labourers 
employed by any employer or working at his jilace of employment 
shall be the total number of days’ work done by Tamil labourers em- 
ployed by him or working at his place of employment during the pre- 
ceding quarter of the year divided by the number of working days 
comprised in such preceding quarter. 
(iv) The number of working days comprised in any quarter of a 
year shall be fixed by *0116 Immigration Committee. 
(v) The Immigration Committee may make rules determining 
what constitutes a day’s work and such rules shall be published in the 
Gazette. 
6. All moneys paid by employers to the Superintendent shall be 
paid into a fund to be known as The Immigration Fund ” and shall 
be disbursed for the following purposes only : 
(a) For or towards the payment of free passages for Tamil 
labourers and their families from the Madras Presidency 
to the Federated Malay States or the Colony or Johore : 
such passages shall be allotted in accordance with rules 
to. be framed from time to time by the Immigration Com- 
mittee and published in the Gazette, and may be granted 
in respect pf Tamil labourers who embarked from India 
at any time subsequent to the 1st January, 1907 ; 
(b) For the general expenses incurred in connection with the 
recruiting of labour in the Madras Presidency. 
7. (i) Payments out of the Immigration Fund shall be made by 
the Superintendent on the authority of the Immigration Committee. 
(n) The Superintendent shall present half-yearly accounts of the 
Immigration Fund to the Immigration Committee. 
(iii) Such half-yearly accounts, when passed by the Immigration 
Committee, shall be published in the Gazette. 
8. (i) Any employer 
(a) Who shall fail to keep or cause to be kept a register; 
{b) Whose register shall not be kept up to date unless he 
shall explain such omission to the satisfaction of the 
Court ; 
( c > Wil °se register shall contain any incorrect or incomplete 
entiy unless he shall satisfy the Court that such entry 
