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.f Be, ) tras. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE. NOTIFICATION.—EMIGRATION, -Simla, the 21st July 1877. No. 129.—Under the provisions of Section 56 of the Indian Emigration Act (VII of 1871), the Governor-General in Council is pleased to direct the substitution of the following for rules 23 and 29 of the rules relating to emigration from the port of Calcuttà, which were published in the Gazette of India of the 22nd February 1873 — I RULE 23. The proportion of female emigrants to be embarked on each ship during the months of August to October, both inclusive, shall be, as nearly as practicable, 25 adult females to every hundred dult males. *. а g 23A. During the period from 1st November to the close of "each season, the proportion shall be such number between 40 and 80 adult females to every 100 adult males as the Protector of Emigrants may fix for each ship. In exercising the discretion given him by this rule, the Protector of Emigrants shall, if practicable, so fix the proportion for the several ships despatched during the period last mentioned, that the average proportion eunbarked during each season shall be not less than 40 adult females to every 100 adult males. . . 281B. If in any such season the average falls below this, the Protector of Emigrants shall, in excrcising the discretion given him by the first clause of Rule 23A, so fix the proportion for the several ships despatched during the period commencing with the 1st November of the following season up to its close as to bring up the average proportion for the two seasons, if practicable, to not less than 40 adult females to every 100 adult males. RULE 29. The Emigration Agent shall appoint to each ship about to be despatched by him the staff of attendants specified in scale No. 11 of Schedule E, and shall ensure their punctual attendance at the time of embarkation. When emigrants volunteer to act as topazes or cooks, and the Superintending Surgeons arc willing to accept their services in this capacity, they may be employed as such. The compounder-interpreter and the nurses, cooks, sirdars, and topazes, whether emigrants or not, shall, whenever practicable, be selected from among those who have been accustomed to a sea life, and have been trained either in an emigration. depôt or elsewhere to the kind of work they will be required to perform on board. One of the nurses appointed shall be a person who possesses the necessary qualifications for the work of supervising and directing under nurses, and she shall be appointed head-nurse. 29A. The Agent shall provide all persons appointed by him with separate written agreements wherein their respective engagements, including for natives of India a free return passage to India, and in the case of West Indian or African topazes a free passage to their homes shall be clearly provided for, but when such persons are emigrants under engagement to serve in the colony to which they are proceeding, it will not be necessary to provide that: a return passage to India should be secured to them by agreement, otherwise than on the same terms provided for other emigrants. To meet caste prejudices, it shall be arranged so that Brahmins shall cook for Hindus, and Mussulmans for Mahomedans. 29B. It shall be further provided by such written agreement that all the attendants shall be under the immediate coutrol of the Surgeon Superintendent, and that he shall have the power of disrating or dismissing any of them for misconduct or neglect of duty. a SCHEDULE E.—SCALES. t No. 11. Scale of attendants to be appointed to emigrant ships proceedi ng to places either east or west of the Cape of Good Hope — (a).-Compounder-interpreter.—One to each ship, unless the total number of statute adults the ship is licensed to carry exceeds 500, in which case an assistant compounderinterpreter must be provided. - (b).-Extra interpreter—One to each ship in all cases when the Surgeon or the Master and 3rd Officer ignorant of the native language; but in the event of an assistant compounder-interpreter being provided, an extra interpreter need not be appointed, [Government Gagette, 7th August 1877.]