him for his said offence to be imprisoned for the term of

months; and

I hereby authorize and require you, the said constables, to convey the said immigrant to the

I direct to imprison him for term of

and there deliver him to the keeper, whom months; and on the expiration of the said months, command you, the said keeper, to deliver the said immigrant into the custody of some constable of police. And I do hereby require you, the said constables, safely to convey the said immigrant to the principal dwelling-house on the plantation in the ward of being the plantation in respect whereof the services of the said immigrant are due, and to deliver up the said immigrant to the charge of the manager or other person having the chief authority on the said plantation. A. B., Stipendiary Justice.

ORDINANCE of the Government of Trinidad, to restrict the Introduction of Paupers likely to become chargeable to the Colony.*

[No. 5.]

(L.S.) S. FREELING, Governor.

[June 1, 1882.]

Be it enacted by his Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as Paupers Ordinance, 1882."

2. In this Ordinance

(6 The Infirm

The term "Visiting Officer" means a Visiting Officer acting under "The Quarantine Ordinance, 1871;"

The term "infirm pauper" means a person as to whom notice that he is an infirm pauper is given according to this Ordinance ;*

and

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The term pauper charges means any money expended out of the public funds of the Colony or the funds of any Municipal Corporation for the relief, maintenance, care, or treatment of any pauper, and the expenses, computed according to a scale prescribed by the Governor, of such relief, maintenance, care, and treatment in any hospital, asylum, house of refuge, or other institution for the relief of sick or destitute persons, if such hospital, asylum, house of refuge, or other institution is maintained out of the public funds of the Colony or the funds of any Municipal Corporation.

3. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation and allowance thereof is proclaimed in this Colony.

4. If, on the arrival in this Colony of any vessel, there is on

* Amended by Ordinance No. 11 of 1895, page 1007.

board any person who, in the opinion of the Harbour-master or Visiting Officer visiting such vessel is unable by reason of physical or mental infirmity to maintain himself by his own labour and likely, if permitted to land, to become chargeable to the Colony, such Harbour-master or visiting officer shall give notice that such person is an infirm pauper. Such notice may be given verbally or in writing to the master or any of the crew of the vessel or by writing nailed or affixed to any mast or other part of the vessel, but shall, where practicable, be given to the master.

5. An infirm pauper shall not, except by permission of the Governor, land in any part of the Colony unless one of the following conditions is first complied with, that is to say, either—

(1.) Some person resident in the Colony and approved by the Receiver-General as sufficient in this behalf shall by deed (which may be in the form given in the Schedule to this Ordinance) covenant with Her Majesty the Queen, her heirs and successors, to repay to the Receiver-General any pauper charges which, within one year from the date of such deed, may be incurred in respect of such infirm pauper; or

(2.) The infirm pauper shall deposit with the Receiver-General the sum of 201., to be applied, in the first place, in payment of any pauper charges incurred in respect of the depositor within one year from the time of the deposit, and the balance, if any, or the whole, if no part is applied as aforesaid, to be repaid to the depositor.

6. If any infirm pauper lands in any part of the Colony contrary to this Ordinance, the vessel by which such infirm pauper arrived shall be subject to a maritime lien in favour of Her Majesty the Queen, her heirs and successors, for a sum of 100l. in respect of each infirm pauper who lands as aforesaid, and the amount so charged may be sued for and recovered in the Vice-Admiralty Court accordingly.

Any Harbour - master, Assistant Harbour - master, officer of Customs, or other Government officer, and any officer on full pay in the naval and military service of Her Majesty may detain, and by force, if necessary, any vessel charged with the payment of any sum under this section until 6 of the clock in the evening of the day following the landing of the infirm pauper, in respect of whom the sum is charged: Provided that such detainer shall cease upon either of the following events, that is to say :

(1.) Upon payment to the officer detaining the vessel or the person placed by him in actual charge of the vessel of all sums charged upon the vessel under this section; or

(2.) Upon the vessel being arrested under process of the ViceAdmiralty Court issued in any proceedings for recovering the sums last aforesaid.

7. Any master of a vessel who knowingly suffers any infirm pauper who arrives in such vessel to land contrary to this Ordinance, shall be guilty of an offence, punishable on summary conviction, and liable to a penalty not exceeding 50l.

(1.) Any infirm pauper who knowingly and wilfully lands or suffers himself to be landed contrary to this Ordinance; and

(2.) Any person who knowingly lands or procures to be landed contrary to this Ordinance, or who aids or assists in landing or procuring to be landed contrary to this Ordinance, any infirm pauper,

Shall be guilty of an offence, punishable on summary conviction, and liable to a penalty not exceeding 507.

8. Any scale for the computation of expenses prescribed by the Governor under this Ordinance shall be published in the Royal Gazette," and may at any time be altered or revoked by the Governor.

A copy of the "Royal Gazette" purporting to contain any such scale, alteration, or revocation shall be prima facie evidence of the tenour and due making of such scale, alteration, or revocation.

9. Notwithstanding anything in the Ordinance No. 5 of 1862, intituled "An Ordinance for regulating the execution of deeds and the proof, registration, and admission in evidence of Deeds and Wills," or in any other Ordinance, any deed executed in pursuance of this Ordinance may be registered if it is executed in the presence of one witness and before any of the following persons ::

The Receiver-General, the Sub-Receiver, the Collector or any Sub-Collector of Customs;

Any Commissioner of a Province;

Any Harbour-master or Assistant Harbour-master;

Any Visiting Officer;

The Inspector-Commandmant or any Inspector of Police;

Any Justice or Clerk of the Peace;

Any Warden or Assistant Warden;

Any Sanitary Inspector; and

Any Barrister, Advocate, Conveyaneer, or Notary Public. No fee shall be payable in respect of the registration of any deed executed in pursuance of this Ordinance.

10. Nothing in this Ordinance shall apply to any immigrants brought to this Colony under any Law relating to immigration or to any ship bringing such immigrants.

Passed in Council, this 1st day of June, in the year of our Lord

1882.

J. CUNNINGHAM, Acting Clerk of the Council.

THE SCHEDULE.

To all to whom these presents shall come, A. B., of [Chacon Street, in the Borough of Port of Spain, dealer in spirits], sendeth greeting:

:

WHEREAS J. S., who lately arrived in this Colony by the ship [Corsair], is an infirm pauper within the meaning of "The Infirm Paupers Ordinance, 1881;" and whereas the said A. B. desires to enable the said J. S. to land in the Colony Now these presents witness that in consideration of the said J. S. being permitted to land in the Colony, he, the said A. B., doth hereby for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, covenant with Her Majesty the Queen, her heirs and successors, that he, the said A. B., will on demand forthwith repay to the Receiver-General any pauper charges which within one year from the day of the date of these presents may be incurred in respect of the said J. S.

In witness, &c.

ORDINANCE of the Government of Trinidad, to amend and extend the provisions of "The Infirm Paupers Ordinance, 1882,"* and to make provision to Restrict the Landing in the Colony of Criminal and Vicious Immigrants.

[No. 11.]

(L.S.) F. NAPIER BROOME, Governor.

[March 11, 1895.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as grants Regulation Ordinance, 1895."

The Immi

2. This Ordinance shall be read and construed as one with "The Infirm Paupers Ordinance, 1882" (5 of 1882), hereinafter called the principal Ordinance.

3. In this Ordinance

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Visiting Officer" means a Visiting Officer acting under "The "The Quarantine Ordinance, 1893" (18 of 1893), or under any other Ordinance or Law for the time being relating to quarantine. It shall also include the Harbour-master, Assistant Harbour-master in the Colony, and Inspector-General of Police, and any Inspector of Police, and any officer expressly appointed by the Governor to execute the provisions of this Ordinance.

"Destitute immigrant" means any person not being a native of the Colony as to whom notice that he is a destitute immigrant, shall be given in accordance with the provisions of this Ordi

nance.

* Page 1004.

"Colony" mean the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.

"Vessel" means any steam-ship, ship, vessel, sloop, boat, or other floating craft.

"Court" means and includes the Supreme Court, or any Court exercising summary jurisdiction in criminal matters.

"Colonial Court" means any Court any Court outside the Colony exercising criminal jurisdiction within Her Majesty's Colonial dominions.

"Colonial criminal" means any criminal who, having been sentenced by any Colonial Court to penal servitude or imprisonment for a term of not less than twelve months, shall afterwards come to this Colony either before or after the expiration of his term of imprisonment.

"Vicious or criminal immigrant" means any person or class of persons defined by or specified in any Proclamation made under section 8 of this Ordinance to be vicious or criminal within the meaning of such Proclamation.

"Summary conviction" shall mean conviction before any Stipendiary Justice of the Peace proceeding according to the provisions of the Ordinance No. 5 of 1868, intituled "An Ordinance respecting the Summary Administration of Justice," or proceeding according to the provisions of any future Ordinance or Law regulating the summary administration of justice.

4. If on the arrival in this Colony of any vessel there shall be on board any person who, in the opinion of any Visiting Officer, is a pauper or destitute and likely, if permitted to land, to become chargeable to the Colony, such Visiting Officer shall give notice that such person is a "destitute immigrant."

Such notice may be given verbally or in writing to the master or any of the crew of the vessel or by writing nailed or affixed to any mast or other part of the vessel, but shall, where practicable, be given to the master.

Upon the giving of such notice, all and every, the provisions of the principal Ordinance shall apply to cases of destitute immigrants, and all and every the restrictions and conditions imposed by such Ordinance on the landing of infirm paupers, and imposing penalties on vessels from which infirm paupers shall land in any part of the Colony, and imposing penalties on masters of vessels knowingly suffering infirm paupers to land, and all other the provisions of the said Ordinance shall apply to destitute immigrants in the same manner and to the same extent as the same respectively are applicable to infirm paupers.

5. The master of any vessel arriving in the Colony shall answer all questions which the Visiting Officer shall put to him, and any master who shall either refuse to answer any such questions or