Mounted field guard............. per month, $25.00 gold, and maintenance. " " " ............. " " 25.00 " " " Time-keeper..................... " " 20.00 " " " Waiter for operatives' table.... " " 15.00 " " " Vegetable gardener.............. " " 20.00 " " " Bueyero......................... " " 22.00 " " " Assistant....................... " " 16.00 " " " " ....................... " " 12.00 " " " Foreman with cartmen............ " " 30.00 " " " Assistant....................... " " 23.00 " " " Foreman with stevedores......... " " 28.00 " " " Cartmen......................... " " 23.00 " " " Ploughmen....................... " " 23.00 " " " Cane cutters.................... " " 21.00 " " " Cane lifters.................... " " 15.00 " " " Cane loaders (stevedores)....... " " 21.00 " " " "During the summer months wages for field labour averaged about $17 per month. Cost for maintaining labour averaged about $7.50 per month in gold; cost for maintaining overseers, foremen, carpenters, cooks, stewards, guards, etc., amounted to about $12 per month. "Rations for each man per day were as follows: "Clear beef, one pound, or its equivalent in tasajo or salt fish. "Rice, one pound, or its equivalent in beans, peas, macaroni, etc. "Lard, two ounces. "Coffee, one ounce. "Sugar, two ounces. "Bread, six ounces, or instead of bread, sweet potatoes, plantains, or melanga. "Sweet-oil, bacon, salt, and spices sufficient to season the food. "During the winter months, cabbage, tomatoes, and turnips are served every day without regard to rations. RULES AND REGULATIONS "When a labourer enters his name on the pay-roll he receives his machete or hoe, tin plate, tin dipper, and spoon, the same being charged to him and credited when returned. "Time-keeper makes his rounds twice every day. "Away from the batey[10] smoking is absolutely prohibited, and the penalty is immediate dimissal. "Salaries are paid any day between 11 A.M. and 1 P.M., Sundays excepted, to those who desire the money. "Except in case of sickness, meals are charged to those who are not at work. "To the sick such medicines as we have are given free; the most prominent of these is quinine. "If a man remains in the barracon sick for more than two days he is sent to his home, or to a hospital. If it is an injury received in the service of the colona, he is cared for until able to work again.