Section I. Any person who by force or fraud, unlawfully detains in any place or decoys to any place any Native

I. Any person who by force or fraud, unlawfully detains in any place or decoys to any place any Native of India, with intent to force or prevail upon him to enter into any service, or contract for service to be performed out of the Territories under the Government of the East India Company into which he was not minded to enter, without such force or fraud,, or who, by means of false imprisonment, intoxication, intimidation, force or fraud, causes any Native of India to enter into any such service or contract for service, or who attempts, by force or fraud or by any false promise, pretence or representation, to cause any Native of India to depart either by land or water from the Territories under the Government of the East India Company, is a crimp, and guilty of crimping, within the meaning of this Act. I I I I `!` & I ACT No. XXIV. OF 1852. 1'1. After the passing of this Act no person shall be liable to the pnalties of Act XIV. 1839, for making, in good faith, any contract with any Native of India, for labor to be performed in any Foreign Settlement oil the mainland of India, or for knowingly abetting or aiding any Native of India in emigrating from the said Territories to any such Foreign Settlement. Provided that if any person shall make any contract with any Native of India for service or labor to be performed by such Native out of the Territories under the Government of the East India Company, or cause any Native of -India to depart from the Territories under the Government of the East India Company, or knowingly aid or .[abet such Native ][of ][India in emigrating i%om the said Territories to any ] such Foreign Settlement with intent that such Native shall afterwards depart from India, such person shall be deemed to be a crimp and guilty of arimping within the meaning of this Act, and proof of the subsequent departure of such Native from India, from any place out of the Territories under the Government of the East India company within the period of six montha from the time of the departure of such Native from the said Territories under the Government of the East India company, ahall - be pkm& f acie evidence of such intent. IV. ' Every cPi,mp within the meaning of this Act is liable to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding six calendar months, and to pay a fine not ex~eeding five hundred rupees. ACT No. XXIV. OF 1852. such imprisonment, to sentence the offender to be kept to hard labor during the whole or such period or periods of such imprisonment as to such Court shall seem meet.