Section 4. I n section 115 of the said Act, for the words " whole number of days in the current month," the fol

14. I n section 115 of the said Act, for the words " whole number of days in the current month," the following shall be substituted, namely :-c' number of working days in the current month. The number of working days in any month shall be ascertained by deducting the number of Sundays from the whole number of days in the month." Amendment of section `116.` 15. For the last sentence of section 121 of the said Act the following shall be substituted, namely :- Amendment `of` section 121. ' "The Inspector shall from time to "time, when visiting the estate, on the application of the employer, and may also at any other time on the application of either the employer or the labourer, endorse on the labourer's labour-contract, after such enquiry as may be necessary, the number of days so to be added to the term thereof : " Provided that an employer who omits to apply for the endorsement of such days on any labourer's labour-oontract, when the Inspeotor is actually visiting the estate, shall, in the absence of sufficient reasons to the contrary shown to the satisfaction of the Inspector, `1893.1` Inland Emigration. $5 (Sectioru 34.) under the section aforesaid of being absent from his labour or the term for which he is sentenced to im. prisonment, or both, as the case may be. " 182A. When any labourer is convicted under Endorsesection 176 of desertion from his employer's service, the Magistrate convicting him shall, on the applica. desertion or tion of the employer or his agent, endorse on the em- kegployer's copy of the labour-contract (in addition to desertion, the term of imprisonment to which the labourer may be sentenced for such desertion), the period during which the Magistrate finds that the labourer was absent from his labour in contravention of his contract owing to such desertion : " Provided that no such endorsement shall be made in any case in which the labour-contract has been cancelled under the provisions of section 177 or in any case in which the original term of the labour.. contract has expired on the date of the conviction, and more khan three years have elapsed from the date of the labourer's desertion to that of his arrest : "Provided also that the employer has duly reported the particulars of the desertion in the monthly statement provided for in section 171A.