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 serve any employers to whom we may be respectively bound by the immigration agent for the time being of the colony of New South Wales, as apprentices, for the term or period of four years, to be computed from the date of our apprenticeship in the said colony, for such wages or remuneration, after payment by such employers of the sums due for our passages to the said colony, as to the said Immigration Agent may seem meet; and we do hereby authorise and empower him, or his deputy duly appointed with the approval of the government of the said colony, to bind us out as such apprentices, immediately upon or at any time after our arrival in the said colony.

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Indenture of Apprenticeship made this day of  A.D. between A. B., immigration agent for the colony of New South Wales, or C. D., his deputy (as the case may be), of the first part, E. F., an immigrant (male or female as the case may be) per ship, being of the age of  years, of the second part, and G. H., of , of the third part. The said A. B. (or C. D.) doth hereby bind the said E. F. to the said G. H. as an apprentice in the trade or calling of (here describe particular occupation), and otherwise to make (himself or herself as the case may be) generally useful for the term of four years, and also to obey all the said G. H.'s lawful and reasonable commands, or those of (his or her) authorised agent, during that period; in consideration of which services the said G. H. hereby agrees to pay the said party of the second part wages quarterly, at the rate of five pounds per year for the first two years, and at the rate of ten pounds per year for the residue of the said term, and to teach or cause (him or her, as the case may be) to be taught such trade or calling during the said term; and to provide (him or her, as the case may be) with lodging, and either with board, or a weekly ration (at the option of the said G. H.) consisting of

In witness whereof the said A. B., as such immigration agent as aforesaid, or the said C. D. (as deputy to such immigration agent), for and on behalf of himself and the said E. F., and also the said G. H., have affixed their names and seals to this Indenture of Apprenticeship.

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