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or to both such fine and such imprisonment, and if a Labour Agent he shall also be liable to have his Licence cancelled.

15. Whoever shall (whether a Labour Agent or not) conceal, employ, or retain, aid or abet in concealing, employing or retaining any Native servant or apprentice who shall have deserted from the service of any master, or otherwise absconded or absented himself from such service, shall on conviction be liable to pay a fine not exceeding FIFTY pounds, or in default of payment to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months, and to cancellation of Licence.

16. All employers of more than TWENTY Natives shall be obliged to register their names and addresses, and the average number of Natives employed by them, at the office of the Commissioner for Native Affairs not later than the 31st January of each year, and lists of such employers shall from time to time be published in the Gazette. 17. If any Licence holder ceases to be employed by the person whose name appears upon his Licence, the Licence shall thereupon cease and determine, and the fees already paid thereon shall not be recoverable. If a new Licence is applied for no fees shall be paid in respect of the unexpired portion of the previous Licence.

18. Every employer of a Labour Agent shall, within seven days after such Agent has left his service, inform the Commissioner for Native Affairs thereof.

19. Lists shall from time to time be published in the GAZETTE, of Licences issued to Labour Agents, as well as of Licences which have been suspended or which have been determined or been cancelled.

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Publication in "Gazette" of lists of Labour Agents.

Who may demand

20. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace, Constable, or Officer of the Law, or Native Commissioner, or Pass Officer, or Railway Traffic Manager, Assistant from Labour Agent Traffic Manager, or Station Master employed on any of the railways in the Transvaal, production of Licence. or for any other person authorised thereto at any time, to demand the production of his Licence by any Labour Agent or by any person whom he may believe or suspect to be acting as a Labour Agent.

21. Every Labour Agent shall provide himself with a book of forms, to be obtained on application at the office of the Commissioner for Native Affairs, and shall, on engaging any Native to work under his Licence, enter all the particulars required in one of such forms, which he shall deliver to the Native, in order that he may exhibit it to the Issuer of Passports, for the purpose of the identification of such Native. counterfoil must be produced to the Issuer of Passports by such Agent if called upon to

do so.

The

22. These Regulations shall apply to any duly authorised officer or Agent of the Government who in the exercise of his duties may be lawfully engaged in collecting or conducting labourers for the purpose of work or labour for or on behalf of the Government; provided that it shall be competent in the case of such authorised Officer or Agent to dispense with the charge payable on Licences under Regulation No. 6.

23. Any person exercising the calling of a Labour Agent without being provided with a Licence for that purpose, or exercising the calling of a Labour Agent in any place or in any manner other than that specified in his Licence, shall for every such offence, be liable on conviction, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding six months.

24. Any person who shall fail or refuse forthwith to give or deliver up any Licence which has been suspended or cancelled or which has expired by effluxion of time shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding FIFTY pounds, or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months.

Labour Agent to provide himself with book of forms.

Regulations to apply to Government Agent recruiting labourers for Government work.

Penalty for exercising calling of a Labour Agent without a Licence.

Penalty for refusing to give up a Licence which has been suspended or cancelled.

25. Any person who knowingly and wilfully employs or causes to be employed as Penalty for employLabour Agent any person not in possession of a Licence shall for every such offence being as a Labour Agent hable, on conviction, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding six months, and to a penalty not exceeding FIVE HUNDRED pounds.

*B.-Compound Overseers.

1. It shall not be lawful for any person to act as a Compound Orerseer within the Transvaal unless he be in lawful possession of a Licence issued by the Commissioner for Native Affairs, or by any officer appointed by him thereto.

2. In the event of the death, absence on leave or duty, or sickness of a Licensed Compound Overseer, his employer shall have the right to appoint a substitute, subject to the approval and confirmation of the Commissioner for Native Affairs, and such

*See note to page 143.

a person not having Licence.

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substitute shall act for such Overseer without taking out any Licence for such period as the said Commissioner may approve, not exceeding the unexpired period of the Licence held by such Overseer as aforesaid.

3. (1) Licences may be issued for a period of not more than one year on payment of an amount at the rate of £1 per month in advance.

(2) Applications, on printed form, must be made to the Commissioner for Native Affairs or any Officer appointed by him to deal with such applications.

(3) Each application for a Licence must be accompanied by a recommendation from the employer of the applicant.

4. The issue or renewal of a Licence by the Commissioner for Native Affairs may be refused without any reason being given therefor.

5. The issue of a Licence to any person shall not confer any right to its renewal. 6. (1) A Compound Overseer who has been convicted of any crime and sentenced to imprisonment by a Court of Law, or who has been convicted of any contravention of these or any other regulations relating to Native Labour or Native Passes, shall be liable to have his Licence cancelled or suspended in addition to any other punishment to which he may have rendered himself liable.

(2) Any Compound Overseer who, in the opinion of the Commissioner for Native Affairs, has been guilty of any misconduct which renders it undesirable that he shall be allowed to continue to carry on the calling of Compound Overseer under the provisions of these Regulations, shall be liable to have his Licence cancelled.

7. Every Employer must at once inform the Commissioner for Native Affairs when any licensed Compound Overseer enters or leaves his service.

8. Lists shall from time to time be published in the GAZETTE of Licences issued to Compound Overseers, which are current as well as Licences newly granted, suspended, determined or cancelled.

9. Any person exercising the calling of a Compound Overseer without being provided with a Licence for that purpose, shall for every such offence be liable on conviction to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding six months or to a penalty not exceeding ONE HUNDRED pounds, or both.

10. Any person who shall fail or refuse forthwith to give or deliver up any Licence which has been suspended or cancelled or which has expired by effluxion of time shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding FIFTY pounds, or in default of payment to imprisonment not exceeding six months.

11. Any person who knowingly or wilfully employs or causes to be employed as Compound Overseer any person not in possession of a Licence, shall for every such offence be liable on conviction to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding six months or to a penalty not exceeding FIVE HUNDRED pounds, or both.

12. It shall be incumbent upon a licensed Compound Overseer :-

(a) To see that there are no Native labourers in the employ of the Company or person in whose service he is in or about the compound not in possession of Registered Labour Passports;

(b) To see that any transfers, new contracts or agreements or renewals, are recorded on the Passport; and

(c) To afford to Inspectors of Natives appointed by the Commissioner for Native Affairs all facilities for having access to the Natives under his charge, and to all books and accounts relating to the wages of such Natives.

Provided that any neglect of the Compound Overseer to comply with these Regulations shall not absolve the employer from the obligations imposed on him under the provisions of the Pass Regulations in force in Labour Districts.

Proc. No. 39 of 1901.

PROCLAMATION

By His Excellency the Administrator of the Transvaal.

(DATED 19TH NOVEMBER, 1901.)

WHEREAS IT IS DESIRABLE to make further pro

visions for denoting the stamp duties imposed by law on

Banker's cheques and Bank notes :

Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority in me vested, I do

hereby declare, proclaim and make known as follows:

Preamble.

Provisions

as

1. All stamp duties for the time being chargeable by law upon Bankers' cheques and Bank notes may from and after the taking stamps on cheques. effect of this Proclamation, and in the case of Bank notes, shall after three months thereafter be denoted by means of stamps impressed by dies provided as hereinafter stated: Provided that when the duty on any cheque is denoted by an adhesive stamp it shall be effectually cancelled by the banker or other person paying the same.

2. After the expiration of three months from the taking effect of this Proclamation any Bankers' cheque or Bank note which is by law required to be stamped, and which is not before the issue thereof stamped in conformity with this Proclamation shall be deemed to be unstamped in like manner as if no stamp had been affixed thereto, and shall be liable to all the disabilities and penalties which would attend such cheque or bank note if so unstamped as aforesaid; and every person who shall after such date as aforesaid issue any such cheque or note which is not stamped as aforesaid, and every person who shall receive, pay or in any way negotiate such cheque or note not stamped as aforesaid shall be liable to the same penalties and disabilities as if such cheque or note were unstamped.

3. Proper and sufficient dies for impressing and denoting the amount or value of the stamps required by law to be affixed to all documents mentioned in this Proclamation shall be provided by the Controller of the Treasury, who shall stamp or cause to be stamped every such document tendered to him for the purpose of being so stamped, in accordance with the provisions of this Proclamation. No dies other than those approved and brought into use by the said Controller of the Treasury shall be available for denoting such duties.

4. It shall be lawful for the said Administrator from time to time by notice in the Gazette, to extend the provisions of this Proclamation to any other instruments or documents chargeable by law with stamp duty and from and after the publication of such notice the provisions of this Proclamation shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the instruments or documents mentioned in such notice.

Repealed by Pr. Tr. 12 of 1902, sect. 1 having been previously amended by
Pr. Tr. 6 of 1902,

Penalties.

to

Provision by Colonial Treasurer of dies for stamping cheques.

Power to extend Proclamation to other instruments.

Proc. No. 40 of 1901.

PROCLAMATION

By His Excellency the Administrator of the Transvaal.

(DATED 12TH December, 1901.)

Preamble.

Amendment

of

Lotteries on Horse-Racing.

WHEREAS

HEREAS prior to the publication of Proclamation Transvaal No. 33 of 1901, lotteries on horse-racing were allowed by Law No. 7 of 1890:

And whereas it appears that many persons, relying upon the said Law, have incurred considerable expenditure in making arrangements for having lotteries on horse-racing during the current month:

Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority in me vested, I do hereby declare, proclaim and make known as follows:Section Eleven of Proclamation Transvaal No. 33 of Proc. Tr. 33 of 1901 1901 shall be of full force and effect only from and after the 1st January, 1902, and not sooner, anything to the contrary in the said Proclamation contained notwithstanding.

as to lotteries

horse races.

on

Proc. No. 1 of 1902.

PROCLAMATION

By His Excellency the Administrator of the Transvaal.

(DATED 2ND JANUARY, 1902.)

HEREAS it is desirable to make provision, until the establishment of a Medical Board, for the admission of duly qualified persons to practise as Medical Practitioners, Dentists, or Chemists and Druggists in this Colony :

Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority in me vested, I do hereby declare, proclaim and make known as follows :—

Preamble.

Definitions.
Medical

1. In this Proclamation the term "Medical Practitioner " means every person duly admitted and lawfully entitled to titioner. practise in this Colony as a physician and surgeon on the day before the taking effect of this Proclamation, and also every person duly qualified by licence under this Proclamation to practise as a physician and surgeon within this Colony.

The term "Dentist" means every person duly licensed and bond-fide engaged prior to the taking effect of this Proclamation in the practice of dentistry or dental surgery in this Colony, either separately or in addition to his practice as a physician and surgeon or chemist and druggist; and also every person duly qualified by licence under this Proclamation to practise as a dentist within this Colony.

Dentist.

Prac

Chemist and

The term "Chemist and Druggist" means every person duly licensed in this Colony on the day before the taking effect Druggist. of this Proclamation as an apothecary or chemist and druggist; and also every person duly qualified by licence under this Proclamation to practise as a chemist and druggist.

Saving of existing

2. Every person who, on the day before the taking effect of this Proclamation, shall have been duly admitted and law- qualifications. fully qualified to practise as a physician, surgeon, accoucheur, dentist, apothecary, or chemist and druggist in the Transvaal, shall, notwithstanding the publication of this Proclamation, be entitled to continue to practise or carry on his calling as aforesaid, without obtaining the licence referred to in the next succeeding section.

Licences to

be

3. On and after the day on which this Proclamation takes effect, no person, save and except such person as is referred to taken out to practise. in the last preceding section, shall be entitled to practise as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or chemist and druggist unless he has obtained a licence signed by the Secretary to the Transvaal Administration, and previously to obtaining such licence such person shall submit his diploma or other certificate of his being duly qualified to practise as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or chemist and druggist for the examination and approval of the said Secretary, who may require, by sworn declaration before a

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