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A.D. 1842.]
ACT XV.
147
being made in British India, authorizing the emigration to Mauritius of
the natives of India, and repealing the restrictions now in force there in
regard to such emigrations, and in the event of any such laws con-
taining provisions enabling the Governor-General of India to appoint,
at the several ports of embarkation in India, officers charged with the
protection of persons emigratingfrom such ports to Mauritius, the various
rules and Regulations comprised, and set forth in the schedule to this
present order subjoined, shall, within the island of Mauritius, have the
force and effect of law, and shall be observed and carried into effect
by all her Majesty's officers, civil and military, in Mauritius, and by all
her Majesty's subjects within the same island, as to them may respectively
appertain.
And the Right Honourable Lord Stanley, one of her Majesty's Prin-
cipal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary instructions herein
accordingly.
(Signed) C. GREViLLE.
THE SCHEDULE 272 Mg Cb'&2', C0772j27'2.S2727/ Mg
%72(J Agg22M^'072.S' M A Af%227'2%2%y2?2 7*6^727^ M .A772?7/7Y272^.$ ^227/2
ZMMzM JMM, 7'6.SY27^2727/ ^22 72727^ 227T2P2722/ 222^ Mgf As'M727^.
The Governor of Mauritius may from time to time nominate
such persons as he shall see fit to act as emigration agents at any port
or place in India, which the Governor-General of India may designate as
a port or place far the embarkation of emigrants to Mauritius, and may
also from time to time nominate a proper person to act as protector of
immigrants at Mauritius.
/SAx772& The remuneration to be given to any such agent in India shall
not depend upon or be regulated by the number of the emigrants sent to
Mauritius by him, but shall be in the nature of an annual salary.
?%27'M Every such emigration agent shall ascertain by personal com-
munication with every emigrant, previously to his or her embarkation from
the port or place for which such agent shall be appointed, that such emi-
grant has not been induced to emigrate by any fraud, false nor unreasonable
expectation, and is aware of the distance of Mauritius from the place
where he or she is about to emigrate; and such agent shall explain the
real advantages likely to be derived by such emigrants from a removal to
Mauritius, and at the same time cautioning such emigrant against unrea-
sonable and unwarrantable expectations ; and such agent shall also ascer-
tain that every such emigrant is in good health, and not incapacitated from
labour by old age, bodily inhrmity, or disease.
Ao22rM. It shall not be lawful to ship on board of any ship or vessel
carrying emigrants from India to Mauritius, any number of passengers
exceeding the proportion of one person for every two tons of the registered
burthen of such ship or vessel; and no such ship or vessel carrying emi-
grants, and having more than one deck, shall have less than the height of
six feet at the least between decks; and in case such ship or vessel shall
have only one deck, a platform shall be laid beneath such deck, and in
such manner as to afford a space of the height of six feet at the least, and
that such platform shall not be so laid as that the lower beams shall project
above the same; and that no such ship or vessel shall have more than two
u2
SCHEDULE.
ACT XV.
147
being made in British India, authorizing the emigration to Mauritius of
the natives of India, and repealing the restrictions now in force there in
regard to such emigrations, and in the event of any such laws con-
taining provisions enabling the Governor-General of India to appoint,
at the several ports of embarkation in India, officers charged with the
protection of persons emigratingfrom such ports to Mauritius, the various
rules and Regulations comprised, and set forth in the schedule to this
present order subjoined, shall, within the island of Mauritius, have the
force and effect of law, and shall be observed and carried into effect
by all her Majesty's officers, civil and military, in Mauritius, and by all
her Majesty's subjects within the same island, as to them may respectively
appertain.
And the Right Honourable Lord Stanley, one of her Majesty's Prin-
cipal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary instructions herein
accordingly.
(Signed) C. GREViLLE.
THE SCHEDULE 272 Mg Cb'&2', C0772j27'2.S2727/ Mg
%72(J Agg22M^'072.S' M A Af%227'2%2%y2?2 7*6^727^ M .A772?7/7Y272^.$ ^227/2
ZMMzM JMM, 7'6.SY27^2727/ ^22 72727^ 227T2P2722/ 222^ Mgf As'M727^.
The Governor of Mauritius may from time to time nominate
such persons as he shall see fit to act as emigration agents at any port
or place in India, which the Governor-General of India may designate as
a port or place far the embarkation of emigrants to Mauritius, and may
also from time to time nominate a proper person to act as protector of
immigrants at Mauritius.
/SAx772& The remuneration to be given to any such agent in India shall
not depend upon or be regulated by the number of the emigrants sent to
Mauritius by him, but shall be in the nature of an annual salary.
?%27'M Every such emigration agent shall ascertain by personal com-
munication with every emigrant, previously to his or her embarkation from
the port or place for which such agent shall be appointed, that such emi-
grant has not been induced to emigrate by any fraud, false nor unreasonable
expectation, and is aware of the distance of Mauritius from the place
where he or she is about to emigrate; and such agent shall explain the
real advantages likely to be derived by such emigrants from a removal to
Mauritius, and at the same time cautioning such emigrant against unrea-
sonable and unwarrantable expectations ; and such agent shall also ascer-
tain that every such emigrant is in good health, and not incapacitated from
labour by old age, bodily inhrmity, or disease.
Ao22rM. It shall not be lawful to ship on board of any ship or vessel
carrying emigrants from India to Mauritius, any number of passengers
exceeding the proportion of one person for every two tons of the registered
burthen of such ship or vessel; and no such ship or vessel carrying emi-
grants, and having more than one deck, shall have less than the height of
six feet at the least between decks; and in case such ship or vessel shall
have only one deck, a platform shall be laid beneath such deck, and in
such manner as to afford a space of the height of six feet at the least, and
that such platform shall not be so laid as that the lower beams shall project
above the same; and that no such ship or vessel shall have more than two
u2
SCHEDULE.