rations to such immigrant be discontinued, and from the day of such order being so made the issue of rations to such immigrant shall

cease.

29. Any indentured immigrant who shall sell or barter to any person, whether an indentured immigrant or not, and any person whether an indentured immigrant or not, who shall purchase or take by way of barter or exchange from any indentured immigrant any ration, or any part of any ration furnished under this Ordinance to such immigrant, shall, on the complaint of the employer, and on conviction before any Stipendiary Justice, be imprisoned for any term not exceeding fourteen days.

PART VI.-Hospital for Immigrants and their Treatment in

Hospital.

30. It shall not be lawful to assign any immigrant to any plantation upon or for which there shall not be a hospital or hospitals duly certified or hereafter to be certified under this Ordinance, and capable of accommodating at one and the same time one-tenth part at the least of the total number of the indentured immigrants of such plantation.

31. The owner, or any person having the charge of any plantation, may by notice under his hand to be delivered to the Agent-General of Immigrants or Inspector of Immigrants, require any building to be inspected with the view to the same being certified as a hospital under this Ordinance, and the Agent-General or the Inspector of Immigrants shall, within a reasonable time after such notice shall have been given, inspect such building, and if he shall find such building to be sufficiently ventilated and otherwise fit for the accommodation of patients, shall ascertain the internal dimensions of such building, and the number of patients which such building is capable of accommodating in the proportion of one person to 800 cubic feet of the internal dimensions of such building, and shall thereupon grant a certificate under his hand that such building is fit to be used as a hospital, and shall state in such certificate the number of patients which such building is capable of accommodating, and every building so certified shall be deemed "a certified hospital" for the purposes of this Ordinance.

32. Every such certificate shall be kept in some public part in the hospital so certified open to the inspection of all persons visiting such hospital, and a duplicate of such certificate shall be returned to and kept in the office of the Agent-General of Immigrants.

33. It shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to appoint such persons as he shall see fit, being members of the Medical Board of the Island, to be medical visitors of plantations,

and to assign to each of such visitors a district to comprise such part of the island as the Governor may see fit; and the person so appointed shall hold office during the pleasure of the Governor, and any such medical visitor shall act as the medical attendant of the hospitals certified under this Ordinance within the district assigned to him. The Governor shall assign to every such medical visitor such salary in respect of every certified hospital within the district assigned to him as the Governor may see fit, which salary shall be paid from the funds applicable to immigration.

34. Every medical visitor shall visit every certified hospital within the district assigned to him at least twice in each and every week, and shall in a case-book, according to the form in the Schedule (F) to this Ordinance to be kept at such certified hospital, on each day on which he shall visit the same make an entry of such visit, and shall from time to time enter the name, nature of the disease, diet, and treatment of every patient admitted to such hospital, and the day of such admission, and of his removal to a public hospital, or discharge or death as the case may be; and such book shall be open at all times to the inspection of the AgentGeneral or Inspector of Immigrants, and it shall be lawful for such Agent-General or Inspector from time to time to take a copy of the entries in such book, or any part of the same.

35. If any number of patients shall be received and kept in any certified hospital exceeding at one and the same time the number of patients mentioned in the certificate granted in respect of such hospital, every employer using such hospital shall, on the complaint of the Agent-General or the Inspector of Immigrants before any Stipendiary Justice, forfeit for every such offence any sum not exceeding 101.

36. It shall be lawful for any employer to send any immigrant who, in the opinion of such employer may require medical care and treatment, to any certified hospital upon or for the plantation on which such immigrant shall be employed; and if any such immigrant being so sent to such hospital shall be found beyond the limits of such hospital before he shall have been discharged therefrom by his employer or the medical visitor of such hospital, such immigrant may be retaken and returned to such hospital by the employer or his servant.

37. Every employer who shall neglect to send to the certified hospital of the plantation, or to some public hospital, any immigrant requiring medical care or treatment shall, on conviction thereof before any Stipendiary Justice, on the complaint of the AgentGeneral or Inspector of Immigrants or of such immigrant, forfeit any sum not exceeding 107. for every such offence.

38. If at any time it shall appear to the medical visitor of any

certified hospital, or to the Agent-General or Inspector of Immigrants, that the removal of any patient from any such certified hospital to any public hospital would tend to the more speedy cure of such patient, such medical visitor, Agent-General or Inspector, shall, by an entry in writing in the case-book, order such patient to be removed, and if such patient shall not be removed to such public hospital within a time to be limited and appointed by such entry in writing, or forth with, if no time be limited or appointed by such entry, the employer shall, on conviction thereof before any Stipendiary Justice, on the complaint of such Agent-General or Inspector of Immigrants, forfeit any sum not exceeding 201.

39. If any medical visitor shall report in writing to the Governor that the certified hospital on any plantation within his district is no longer fit to be used as a hospital, it shall be lawful for the Governor to withdraw the certificate in respect of such hospital, and thereupon such hospital shall cease to be a certified hospital within the meaning of this Ordinance, and the immigrants upon the plantation or plantations for which such hospital shall be used shall be removed and assigned to such other plantation or plantations as the Governor may see fit.

40. Every medical visitor shall, on or before the 15th day of the months of January, April, July, and October in each year deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Agent-General of Immigrants a Return in respect of every plantation to which such immigrants shall be indentured to be signed by such medical visitor, in which Return shail be stated the name, age, and sex, disease and treatment of every immigrant who shall have been admitted into the certified hospital of such plantation during the same quarter, and the number of days during which every such immigrant shall have remained in such hospital, and the day of the removal to any public hospital, discharge or death, as the case may be, of every such immigrant; and every such Return shall be in such form as the Governor may from time to time direct, and such medical visitor shall from time to time make such reports to the Agent-General of Immigrants and the Surgeon-General of the Colony as the Governor may direct.

PART VII. With respect to Vagrant Immigrants.

(Section 41 repealed by Ordinance 9 of 1875.)

42. In every such order to be made by any Stipendiary Justice for the imprisonment of any indentured immigrant the Stipendiary Justice shall make a further order that such indentured immigrant, on the expiration of such imprisonment, be taken back by some

constable of police to the plantation in respect of which the services of such immigrant shall be due, there to be given up to his employer.

43. When any indentured immigrant shall be brought before any Justice of the Peace, and it shall appear to such Justice of the Peace that such immigrant is in such a state of health as to require medical care and treatment, such Justice shall proceed to inquire whether there is a "certified hospital" upon or for the plantation in respect of which such immigrant shall be indentured, and if it shall appear that there is a "certified hospital," shall, except in cases where he shall be of opinion that such immigrant is in such a state of health as to render it expedient that he should be sent to a public hospital, make order that such immigrant be taken by some constable of police and admitted to such "certified hospital.”

PART VIII.- Admission of Immigrants into Public Hospitals.

44. Where an indentured immigrant shall be brought before any Justice of the Peace, and it shall appear to such Justice of the Peace that such immigrant is in such a state of health as to render it expedient that he should be sent to a public hospital, it shall be lawful for such Justice, by warrant under his hand directed to any police constable, to make order that such immigrant be taken to and admitted into any public hospital to be named in such warrant ; and the name and situation of the plantation in respect of which such immigrant shall be indentured shall, if known, be inserted in such warrant, and such warrant shall be sufficient authority to any police constable for the removal to the hospital named in such warrant, and to the person in charge of such hospital for the admission into such hospital of such immigrant.

45. It shall be lawful for the person in charge of any public hospital, on his own authority and without the warrant of any Justice of the Peace, to admit into such hospital any immigrant who shall appear to him to require immediate medical care and attendance.

46. Where any immigrant shall be admitted into any public hospital on the request of the employer of such immigrant, or on the warrant of any Justice of the Peace, or on the authority of the person in charge of such hospital, the employer of such immigrant shall be charged with the payment of the sum of 1s. for every day during which or any part of which such immigrant shall remain in such hospital, and of the expenses, if any, attending the removal of such immigrant to such hospital, and of his interment in case he shall die; and the amount of such charges and expenses shall be a debt to Her Majesty, and shall be paid by the person in possession

of the plantation in respect of which such immigrant shall have been identured to the person in charge of such hospital within ten days after such immigrant shall have been discharged from such hospital, or shall have died; and in every proceeding for the recovery of the same, the certificate under the hand of the person in charge of such hospital, specifying the day of the admission of such immigrant and the day of his discharge or death, and the expenses, if any, of the removal of such immigrant to the hospital, and also the expense, not to exceed in any case the sum of 1., for the interment of such immigrant in case of his death, shall be admitted as evidence of the facts stated in such certificate.

PART IX.- Certificates of Industrial Residence and Passports to Immigrants.

47. Any immigrant who shall have completed an industrial residence of five years within the Colony may demand of the AgentGeneral of Immigrants a certificate of industrial residence.

48. Every Indian immigrant introduced into this Colony at any time subsequent to the 1st day of January, 1854, under an Agreement reserving to him a right to return passage who shall have completed an industrial residence in the Colony of five years and an actual and continuous residence of ten years shall be entitled to such return passage at the public expense.

49. Every immigrant who shall have received or shall be entitled to such certificate shall be at liberty to abandon service, and may demand from the Agent-General of Immigrants a passport which, as well as such certificate, shall be signed by the Agent-General of Immigrants and given gratis.

50. Whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Agent-General of Immigrants, on the declaration in writing. under the hand of any immigrant, that the certificate of industrial residence of such immigrant has been destroyed, stolen or lost, it shall be lawful for such Agent-General of Immigrants, if he shall see fit, but not otherwise, on payment by such immigrant of the sum of 2l. 18. 8d., to deliver to such immigrant a certificate of industrial residence, to be called a "substituted certificate," in lieu of the certificate so destroyed or lost, and every substituted certificate shall have the same effect as the original certificate in lieu whereof the same shall be granted.

51. If any such declaration to be made for the purpose of obtaining a substituted certificate under this Ordinance shall be wilfully false in any particular, the immigrant making such declaration shall, on conviction thereof before a Stipendiary Justice of the Peace, be [1895-96. LXXXVIII.]

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