An Act for terminating the Apprenticeship of the Praedial Labourers within this Island, on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.

An Act for terminating the Apprenticeship of the Praedial Labourers within this Island, on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.

Clause 1st.

Discharges all Praedial Apprenticed Labourers on the first of August 1838, from the then remaining time of their Apprenticeship, and from all obligations and penalties imposed on them under the Original Abolition Act.

Clause 2d.

Prevents the expulsion or ejection of Labourers from the estate to which they were attached before August 1st till after Novr 1st 1838 and imposes a penalty of £2.10s for ejecting them except only in the case of misconduct.

Clause 3d.

Directs that infirm persons etc. etc. shall be supplied with adequate food, clothing and Medicine, by the owners or directors of the Estates to which they were attached before August 1st 1838 – under a penalty 2s [illegible] per week, for neglecting so to supply them.

Provided.

That if such infirm person etc. etc. have relations or reputed relations in the first degree, [59] able to afford them maintenance, the owner etc. of the Estate to which they were attached, shall be under no liability for their support after 1st August 1839.

Provided.

That if the owner of such infirm persons etc. etc. be unable to support them the liability shall in such case be upon the Parish, to which such infirm persons etc. etc. belong.

(se.) C. T. Cunningham

Col. Sec.

(True Copy) Ed. M. MacGregor [?]

N.B.

No report procurable, Mr. Clarke, Her Majesty’s Solicitor General, being seriously ill.

E.M.M