The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-12-02
BY AUTHORITY.


TURAL LABoRERs AMEND CHAPTER XXVIII.
OF THE LAWS 1887, ENTITLED IAN ACT REGU-
CHINESE IMMIGRATION
Be it Enacted by the King and the Legislature of the
Ho'eaiion Kingdom:
SECTION L. That Paragraph 2 of Section of an Act
entitled An Act to Regulate Chinese immigration"
approved on the Goth day of December, 1887 being
Chapter XVIII of the Laws of 1887 be and the same
is hereby amended to read as follows
90 The Minister of Foreign Affairs upon the written
approval of the Board of immigration certified by its
Secretary shall ISSUE from time to time special permits
for persons of Chinese birth to enter and reside within
this Kingdom upon the terms and conditions hereinafter
prescribed. Such permits shall issue to persons
poratons engaged in agriculture in this Kingdom for
many Chinese laborers he they may, on OATH de-
clare to be necessary for carrying such several
prises Each of such special permits shall be issued in
trpcate to be held by the Chinese presenting the
same the other two to be disposed of provided by
Section of this Act Such permits shall be signed by
a clerk of the Foreign Office and numbered consecu
lively which number shall be preserved in record of
the Foreign Office. Each of such permits shall contain
the following conditions:
Firs: That the bearer who presents it for entry into
the Kingdom shall remain therein for term not exceed
ing five years.
Second: That such bearer shall not engage in any
other occupation than that of agricultural labor pro-
vded that the term agricultural labor shall be held to
include labor in Sugar Mills Rice Mills and Coffee Mills
and all labor incident thereto.
"Third: That if such person shall be found out of
employment at any time during such term engaged
in any other employment than that of agricultural
laborer shall be found in this Kingdom after the
expiration of such term he may thereupon be arrested
and held in custody until opportunity to
turn him to China.
"Fowth: That one-fourth of the money due to such
person compensation for work done shall be retained
by the employer each month and forwarded by him to
the Board of lmm grafton, to be by it deposited in the
Treasury of the Kingdom special deposit subject to
the order of the President of the Board of immigration
and to be returned by the said Board to such person
upon his leaving the Kingdom. Provided, however that
such retention and deposit shall cease whenever the
to the credit of any laborer shall amount to
the sum of seventyfve dollars The said Board shall
have the authority to pay the return passage of such
person out of such deposited If such person
shall enter into any other employment than that of
agricultural labor shall desert his employer such
money so deposited may be forfeited to the Hawaiian
Government.
FHh That the said bearer shall not be entitled to
exercise the rights of Hawaiian citizen to the term
of residence employment while in the Hawaiian
Kingdom but shall be restricted to the term and
employment named in such permit
SECTION 2 Before issuing the special residence per-
mits as herenbeore provided the Minister of Foreign
Affairs shall require of the persons parties applying
for the same to execute and deliver bond to him for
the use and benefit of the Hawaiian Government in the
penal sum of seventy-fve dollars for each to be
landed under such special residence permits The said
Minister may in his discretion require
ties to said Bond Said bond shall be conditioned that
the applicant will furnish the man named in such
special residence permit with agricultural labor long
as he remains in the Kingdom that he will at the
pration of the term of service named in the special
residence permit surrender the person therein named
Except in of DEATH to the Board of immigration
or its Agent that he will forward and pay to the Board
of Immigration each month, one-fourth of the money
due for compensation for work and services DONE until
the sum forwarded shall reach the of seventyve
dollars that in case of desertion he will Immediately
notify the Inspector of Immigrants of the desertion of
the person persons DESERVING and that he will not
be prvy to assist the person named in such special
residence permit from entering into or becoming en-
gagged in any other trade, business calling than that
of agricultural labor defined by this Act In case of