Calcutta University Readership Lectures. History of Indian Labour Legislation

III) to regulate the passage and transport of native labour- ers from and through the provinces subject to the Government of Bengal to the districts of Assam, Cachar and Sylhet, and also to regulate the manner of engaging and contracting with the native inhabit- ants of the said provinces to proceed to the said districts for the purposes of labouring for hire. "' The Act required recruiters to be [...] II) of 1870 " to consolidate and amend the law regulating the transport of native inhabitants of India front and through the provinces subject to the Government or Bengal to the districts of Assam, Cachar and Sylhet and the manner of engaging and contracting with the native inhabitants of the said provinces to I Act No. [...] 1882, was amended by the Government of India in 1893. = By this amending Act the original title of the Act was changed to the Assam Labour Emigration Act, and the provisions of the Act were extended to the Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces and also to the district of Ganjam in the Presidency of Madras. [...] VI of 1901). ' The Act was extended to the provinces of Bengal, the North-Western Province and Oudh (which, together, now form the United Provinces), Assam, the Central Provinces, and the District of Ganjam in the Presidency of Madras, and the Local Government was granted power to extend it, with the previous sanction of the Governor- General in Council and by notification in the local official gaz [...] has granted the power of making rules to the following authorities :— (1) The Governor-General in Council may, by notification in the Gazette of India, make rules regulating the procedure of the Controller of Emigrant Labour in the discharge of his duties, and also the procedure of the collection of Emigrant Labour Cess.