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Employer to supply the Labourer with Food, &c.
Where the prædial Labourer shall be maintained by the Cultivation of Provision Grounds, a proper Quantity of Ground with leisure Time to be set apart by the Employer.
How to be regulated.
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XI. And be it further enacted, That during the Continuance of any such Apprenticeship as aforesaid the Person or Persons for the Time being entitled to the Services of every such apprenticed Labourer shall be and is and are hereby required to supply him or her with such Food, Clothing, Lodging, Medicine, Medical Attendance, and such other Maintenance and Allowances as by any Law now in force in the Colony to which such apprenticed Labourer may belong an Owner is required to supply to and for any Slave being of the same Age and Sex as such apprenticed Labourer shall be; and in Cases in which the Food of any such prædial apprenticed Labourer shall be supplied, not by the Delivery to him or her of Provisions, but by the Cultivation by such prædial apprenticed Labourer of Ground set apart for the Growth of Provisions, the Person or Persons entitled to his or her Services shall and is or are hereby required to provide such prædial apprenticed Labourer with Ground adequate, both in Quantity and Quality, for his or her Support, and within a reasonable Distance of his or her usual Place of Abode, and to allow to such prædial apprenticed Labourer, from and out of the annual Time during which he or she may be required to labour, after the Rate of Forty five Hours per Week as aforesaid, in the Service of such his or her Employer or Employers, such a Portion of Time as shall be adequate for the proper Cultivation of such Ground, and for the raising and securing the Crops thereon grown; the actual Extent of which Ground, and the Distance thereof from the Place of Residence of the prædial apprenticed Labourer for whose Use it may be so allotted, and the Length of Time to be deducted for the Cultivation of the said Ground from the said annual Time, shall and may, in each of the Colonies aforesaid, be regulated under such Authorities, and by such Acts of Assembly, Ordinances, or Orders in Council as herein-after mentioned.
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