Section 49. Power for Protector to pay and recover expenses incurred on behalf of emigrant

49. Power for Protector to pay and recover expenses incurred on behalf of emigrant. CHAPTER IX. EMIGRANT-VESSELS. 50. Master of emigrant-vessel to be licensed. 51. Application for license. 52. Survey and licensing of vessel. 53. Accommodation required on board emigrant-vessel. 54. Rules as to space on board emigrant-vessel. 55. Provisions, clothing, fuel and water. 56. Surgeons, attendants, medicines and stores. 49. (1) On failure of the Emigration Agent for twenty-four hours to comply with an order of the Protector for the payment of any sum to an emigrant under any of the last three foregoing sections, the Protector may pay the same to the emigrant. (2) Every sum paid by the Protector to an emigrant under sub-section (1), and, on failure of the Emigration Agent for twenty-four hours to comply with an order for payment thereof under the last foregoing section, every sum which the Protector may have ordered the Emigration Agent to pay to him under that section, shall be recoverable from the Emigration Agent with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum from the date of payment. (3) Further Compensation to emigrant for ill-treatment on journey. Power for Protector to pay and recover expenses incurred on behalf of emigrant. 1908.] Emigration. 593 (Chapter VIII.—Conveyance of Emigrants to Depôts and Procedure on Arrival, Chapter IX.—Emigrant-vessels.) (3) Further proof shall not be required by any Court in any such case than that the Protector gave the Emigration Agent an order to pay the sum, and that the Emigration Agent for twenty-four hours failed to comply with the order.