File 21/1911 Pt 2 'Aden Protectorate:- Recruitment of coolies for employment in British East Africa.' [‎43r] (45/166)

Schedule hereto, or in such other form as the Consul-General may prescribe in lieu of
that form.
19. The employer shall furnish to the Magistrate a list in triplicate showing the
name, village, and district of every labourer, porter, or servant engaged, and the place to
which they are to proceed, and the port of exit by which they are to leave the territory
of the Protectorate. The Magistrate shall sign the lists, and shall deliver one copy
to the employer, and shall send the others to the proper officer at the port of exit.
20. Labourers, porters, or servants engaged under these conditions shall not be
permitted^ to leave the territory of the Protectorate at any place other than the port of
exit mentioned in the said list.
21. The employer shall bring the labourers, porters, or servants engaged by him
before the appointed officer at the port of exit. He shall produce the signed list of
labourers, porters, or servants, and the officer, if he is satisfied as to the identity of the
labourers, porters, or servants, shall countersign the list and return it to the employer.
Until the list is so countersigned the employer shall not take any of the labourers,
porters, or servants beyond the territory of the Protectorate.
22. The officer at the port of exit may, at the expense of the employer, detain for
further inquiries any labourers, porters, or servants whose names do not appear in the
list, or as to whose identity he is not satisfied, or may return them to their homes.
23. The employer shall be bound to produce the said list for inspection when
required by any officer of Government within the Protectorate, or by any Consular
officer without the Protectorate.
24. The expenses incurred by the officer under paragraph 22 shall be a debt due
by the employer to the Consul-General, and shall be recoverable accordingly.
25. The sum deposited by the employer with the Consul-General may be applied
in payment of any expenses incurred by the Consul-General, or any Magistrate or
officer in relation to the employer, or to the labourers, porters, or servants engaged by
him, including the payment of wages not proved to have been paid by the employer,
but, save as aforesaid, shall be returned to the employer on proof of the payment of
wages.
26. A receipt signed by a labourer, porter, or servant, and witnessed by a Magis
trate or Consular officer in the country or place in which the labourer, porter, or
servant is employed, or a Magistrate of the Protectorate, shall be sufficient evidence of
the payment mentioned in the receipt.
General.
27. Any employer who contravenes any of the provisions of these Regulations
shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding three
months, or a fine not exceeding 1,500 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. , or to both imprisonment and fine.
28. These Regulations may be cited as “ The Native Labour Regulations, 1901,”
Thevshall be substituted for “The Somaliland Emigrant Regulations, 1900,” which
are hereby repealed.
(Signed) H E. S. CORDEAUX,
Acting British Consul-General.
Berbera, October 18, 1901.
Allowed:
(Signed) LAN S 1)0 WXE,
His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs.