, 1872-12-14

the person concerned is entirely incapacitated
for work as to be a fit subject for this aid.
This obligation to subsidize the estate shall
not however rest on the Poorfund when the
individual in question is an immigrant, except
when such immigrant has been permanently
disabled by any accident happening or disease,
contracted after his arrival here, or becomes
infirm after a period of five years residence in
this Island.
Parents leaving any estate shall not, with
out the consent of the owner, or his represen-
tative, leave behind them their inflm children,
if these children be members of their house
hold, which shall always be supposed TO be
the case when the child is under Is years of
age.
Legitimate children over IS years of age
for whose parents the estate receive no sup
port from the Poorfund shall not be permitted
to leave any estate on which they may be do
miciled together with heir awful parents, TN
less they receive their invalid parents with
them, except when the manager, owner or his
representative consents thereto or, when they
make such provision for the support of their
parents as is satisfactory to the aforesaid par
ties or to the Policemaster.
The same rule shall apply to the case Of lille
getimate children with respect to their mother.
This rule however shall not be applicable in
any case to females marrying and leaving the
estate TO remove to their husbands.
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The owner of every estate, or his legal repre-,
sentative Shall employ a physician at the ex-
penSe of the estate to attend the lab0rers and
their families residing on the property and shall
also furnish the necessary medicine and nour-
iShment for the sick, free of charge.
1t is the duty OF the owner, manager, or per-
son having charge of the estate, at once to re-
port to the attendant physician all cases of sud
den or suspicious illness, or of accident, and to
call for his attendance on any of the laborer3
whenever it may be desirable.
$50. .
If any labOrer reported as sick shall at any
time be found absent from the estate without
leave from the manager, or tresspassing about
the estate, or occupied with work requiring
health, he shall be regarded as skulking and
without legal cause absent from work.
The decision Of such cases however must be
referred to the Policemaster.
21.
Pregnant women shall be at liberty to en-
gage in such light work as may not be injuri-
ous to them
During the three first weeks after their de-
livery they are to be allowed a nurse at the eX-
pense of the estate to attend them and their in
fants, provided that they have no relation who
can or will attend them, if they have then the
said relation shall receive no wages for this
duty above or beyond the usual allowance.
Females shall not be called upon to work
for ten weeks after their confinement. For the
first twelve months after the birth of the child
their work shall m at s o'clock a. m.
and cease at 5 O'Clock p. m. with three hours
intetmission, namely from II O'Clock a. m. til
2 O'Clock p.m and during the next twelve
months, provided the child be still living, they
shall not be turned out to work before s O'Clock
a. m. In all other respects such women must
conform to the regular or ordinary hours of
work.
During the absence at work of the mother,
or person having them in charge, all children
under three years of age shall be properly fed
and attended to at the cost of the estate by an
efficient person, provided they are left for that
purpose at some suitable place on the estate,
appointed therefor by the manager.
No laborer shall be allowed to be absent
from work under plea of attending to a sick
person except the husband or wife, or near re-
lations, in case of evident necessity.
Sick Iaborers, the nature of whose disease
requires it, shall be entitled to be cured at the
expense of the estate, provided they obey to
the rules Of discipline prescribed by the ply
stefan.
90.
It shall be the duty Of the Manager or per-
son in charge of the estate, Immediately to re-