§ MR. O'DONNELLasked the Under Secretary of State for India, If the Home Government has approved the imposition of a licence upon Indian workers for hire and labourers by the job, such as porters, charwomen, &c. as a condition of their being allowed to earn their living?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSThe Question of the hon. Member may, perhaps, refer to an Act recently passed by the Council of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, for the registration and control of porters and "Dandywallahs" in the Darjeeling and Kurseong Municipalities. The object of the Bill is to regulate the conditions under which porters and carriers may work for hire in these hill towns, in which ordinary carts and carriages are not available. The Governor General has given his assent to the 1135 Act, which has just reached the India Office.