Section 4. Every Protector of Emigrants, in addition to

CHAPTER 11. INSPEC- Plior~crona `OP` EMIGRANTS AND AND IS!~EDICAL TORS. 3. (1) Subject to the control of the Gove~nor Appointment General in Coullcil, the Local Goverllment may $ appoint aperson to be the Protector of Emigrants for any port situate within tjbo territories administered by it froin which emigration is lawft~l. (2) The Local Government may define the area to which the authority of a Protector of Emigrants so appointed shall exte~d. (3) I3ve.y Protector of Emigrants shall be a public XLV `of` 1860. servant within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code. 4. Every Protector of Emigrants, in addition to ~;~;;~ff;,"~~ the,special duties assigned ta hlm by or under this Act, shall-- (a) protect and aid with his advice all emigrants ; (b) cause, so far as he can, all the provisions of this Act and of the rules made:therennder to be complied with ; (c) inspect, at the time of arrival, to suuh extent and in such manner as the Local Goverument may prescribe, vessels bringing :)return emigrants to the port for wk'ich he is Protector ; . - (d) inquire into the treatment received by retul r e emigrants both during the period of their I, residence in tho country to whioL they emigrated " 8 - - " India18 Emigration. I I `j` d [ ACT V ~ I emigrated, and also during thc return voyage, and report thereon to the Locd Government ; - (e) aid and advise return emigrants so far as he , reasonably can ; and ( f ) on being satisfied that any person intending to depart by sea out of British India, comes within one of the classes expressly excluded from the definition of emigrant in section 2, furuish such person with a certificate to the effect that such person is not an emigrant for the purpose of this Act.