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File 21/1911 Pt 2 'Aden Protectorate:- Recruitment of coolies for employment in British East Africa.' [‎42v] (44/166)

The record is made up of 1 item. It was created in Dec 1912- Jun 1913. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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liable to pay any expenses incurred by a Magistrate in providing such medicines or
medicM assistance ^ not p l y to porters performing a journey otherwise than
under the supervision of the employer or his agent, except that the employer shall be
bound to see that any such porter is properly equipped for h \ 3 J° ur “ e J; h;
7. If a labourer, porter, or servant dies during service the emp.oy agent
shall o-ive immediate notice thereof to the nearest Magistrate, together with a medical
certificate (if procurable) of the cause of death The employer or h,s agent shall pay
to the Magistrate all wages due and deliver all property belonging to the deceased
person for transmission to the personal representatives, to be distr.buted in accordance
with native law or custom. , i • ,i
8. Anv person engaging or employing a labourer, porter, or servant who is then
engaged to another employer shall be guilty of an offence unless he proves that he had
o-ood reason to believe that the labourer, porter, or servant was not under a subsisting
engagement.
Part 11 ,— Engagement within, for employment without, the Protectorate.
9. A labourer, porter, or servant shall not be engaged or taken to be employed
in labour in anyplace outside the Protectorate except under the following conditions
^ 0 # ^-Q-y employer m&y cipply to the Consul-General foi a permit outnonzm^ nun
to engage native labourers, porters, or servants for service without the Protectorate.
11. In the application shall be stated the place to which it is proposed to take
the labourers, porters, or servants, the nature of the service, the rates of pay, the period
of the service, and the number of persons proposed to be engaged, and the districts
from which it is desired to procure them. The Consul-General may, in his discretion,
either grant or refuse the permit.
12. Before granting a permit, the Consul-General may require the employer to
deposit a sum not exceeding the total wages of the total number of labourers, porters,
and servants for the proposed period of service.
13. Labourers, porters, or servants shall not be engaged for service without the
Protectorate except on the terms of an agreement of service.
14. Every agreement of service shall be in respect of a single labourer, porter, or
servant for a period to be mentioned in the agreement, and for a specified rate of
wages, and shall contain a promise by the employer that, at the termination of the
service, the employer will pay to the labourer, porter, or servant the sum mentioned
in the agreement by way of conduct-money for the purpose of enabling the labourer,
porter, or servant to return to his home. Every such agreement shall be in duplicate
in the Form (A) in the Schedule hereto, or in such other form as the Cousul-General
may prescribe in lieu of that form. A fee, to be denoted by a stamp or stamps, shall be
payable on every agreement in accordance with the following scale
If the period of employment is for a period not exceeding two months
For a period not exceeding six months
For a period not exceeding one year . .
For a period not exceeding two years..
Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. .
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15. The agreement shall be executed by the employer, or his agent, and the
labourer, porter, or servant, in the presence of a Magistrate, who shall approve and
sign the same and himself keep one copy of the agreement.
16. The rates of conduct-money shall be as follows : Where the distance between
the place of employment and the home of the labourer, porter, or servant does not
exceed 100 miles, the sum of 2 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. ; where such distance exceeds 100 miles, an
additional sum of rupee 1 : 8 for every 100 miles or fraction thereof. Where the
labourer, porter, or servant is employed over sea, the employer shall be bound to pay
his passage to a port of the Protectorate, and the conduct-money shall be reckoned
from that port.
17. The Magistrate shall not approve of any agreement unless the employer
produces the permit of the Consul-General and unless he is satisfied that the labourer,
porter, or servant fully understands the nature of the service, the distance to be
travelled, and such other particulars of the service as seem proper to be understood.
18. The bond to be entered into by an employer shall bind the employer to pay
the agreed wages regularly, to pay the agreed conduct-money, and generally to conform
to the provisions of these Regulations. Such bond shall be in the form (B) in the

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The papers concern the recruitment of natives of the Aden Protectorate to work as labourers (' coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. ') in commercial plantations in British East Africa.

The papers include: a request to the Colonial Office from representatives of several rubber and fibre companies for the supply of labourers from Somaliland to work in plantations on the coast of British East Africa, November-December 1912 (folios 98-103); discussion of a request from the above-mentioned companies to the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. to obtain the labourers from the tribes of the Aden hinterland, December 1912 (folios 83-97); further discussion by British officials of both proposals, December 1912 - January 1913 (folios 72-82); agreement to the proposed recruitment in the Aden Protectorate, January-February 1913 (folios 51-70); papers concerning the necessary regulations and terms of employment, February-May 1913 (folios 28-50); and the text of a letter from the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Aden to the Sultan of the Abdali, setting out the terms on which labour would be recruited, April-June 1913 (folios 22-27).

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File 21/1911 Pt 2 'Aden Protectorate:- Recruitment of coolies for employment in British East Africa.' [‎42v] (44/166), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/190/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100035497808.0x00005a> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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