'ABSTRACT OF LETTERS FROM INDIA 1870' [‎220r] (446/798)

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The statements made by the Consu], that “ more than one-third
“ of the Indian labouring class is constantly in prison,” and that
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“ certainly 75 por cent, of the criminal class is taken from the im-
“ migrant population,” demand close inquiry. They seem hardly
credible, but if they at all represent the truth, they are alone sufficient
to show that there must be something radically wrong in the present
system.
Another most serious statement is that in which Mr. Segrave
charges the authorities of Reunion with practically limiting the right,
guaranteed to the cooly by the Convention of 1861^ of having free
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of wages, and fc|
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access to his Consul. The correspondence with the Minister of
Marine in 1868, and the Local Labour Law show that coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. who
desire to leave the commune in which they are employed require, in
addition to the livref, a bulletin d'im?natriculation^ which serves as a
passport. The Minister of Marine declares that every immigrant
receives on his arrival a “ livret, auguel on ajoute une feuille volante
dite dimmatriculationr The Despatch of the Governor to the
Minister, states, “ Le service du Syndicat a de plus toujours delivre
“ aux immigrants sujets anglais des feuilles volantes dites d'imma-
“ triculationr Nevertheless, Mr. Segrave now positively asserts that
“ the immigrants never by any chance receive their bulletins dim-
“ matriculation > which Her Majesty’s Consuls have in vain for seven
“ years demanded.” He states that the Governor has declared that
any cooly who presents himself to the Consul without one of these
bulletins is liable to punishment, and as the cooly cannot get the
bulletin, he is shut oflf from all communication with the Consul. It
appears further from the Local Labour Law, as interpreted by Mr.
Segrave, that the only person who can give a bulletin to the cooly
is his own employer, against whom he perhaps desires to complain.
The passage above quoted from the Governor’s Despatch to the
Minister of Marine appears, however, distinctly to recognise that the
delivery of the bulletins is part of the official duty of the Syndics. All
this, in our opinion, requires explanation.
The arrangements regarding repatriement, about which there has
been much complaint for several years past, appear to remain in an
unsatisfactory state. The plan proposed last year by the Government
of India, that the coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. should be sent back by Mauritius, does not
work satisfactorily, on account of the additional expense incurred in
the voyage by steamer between Reunion and Mauritius, and charges
in the Mauritius depot while the coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. are waiting there for trans
port to India. We think that Mr. Segrave’s remarks are true,—that
the only satisfactory solution of the difficulty is that the French
Government should be called on to fulfil its engagements, and provide
for the return of the coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. to the Indian ports from which they
originally started. If there is difficulty in sending Bengal coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory.
direct from Reunion to Calcutta, let them be sent to Pondicherry }
but in this case it will be the duty of the French Government to
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