THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 9TH DEC., 1891. 1129
(3.) Every keeper of a boarding-house for seamen shall cause daily to be entered in a book in English, the name and description of each additional seaman who has, on that day, come to board or lodge at his house, and the name of each seaman who has left his house on that day after being a lodger or boarder therein, and such other particulars as the Harbour Master may direct; and every keeper of a boarding-house shall, on the morning of Monday, in each week, send to the Harbour Master's office a list, copied from his book, of the seamen on that day boarding or lodging in his house, and of those seamen, boarders or lodgers, who left his house on any or either of the intermediate days, and shall also particularize in such list those seamen who wish for immediate employment, and place opposite to the names of those last named, the names of the ships from which they were last discharged; and the Harbour Master shall keep the lists as furnished to him constantly in view, and in a conspicuous part of his office, for the convenience of masters of ships requiring men, and shall also post in a similar manner, if required so to do, such notices for the supply of men by masters of ships as the said masters shall furnish, and any infraction of this sub-section shall render the boarding-house keeper liable to a penalty not exceed- ing twenty-five dollars.
(4.) Nothing in this section contained shall prevent masters, mates, or engineers of ships from boarding or lodging elsewhere than at a licensed boarding-house.
(5.) No seaman, who shall have been actually shipped by the Harbour Master, or his deputy, on board any vessel in compliance with this Ordinance, shall, during the time for which he is then shipped, be liable to be arrested on civil process, unless the debt or demand shall exceed the sum of five hundred dollars: Provided always, that by the term seaman in this paragraph shall be meant only a person who has, within the space of six months previously, served on board a ship for wages as a seaman, and that the protection from arrest hereby granted shall not be held to extend to any person not coming within such definition, nor in any case to masters, mates, or engineers.
(6.) Licences issued under this section shall be terminable on the 30th November of each year.
CHAPTER VII.
HEALTH OF SEAMEN.
18. Every keeper of a licensed boarding-house for seamen, in the list of seamen resident in his house, which he is required to furnish to the Harbour Master, shall report as to the state of health of each seaman, so far as he may be able to ascertain the same; and every seaman who may be reported, or may be otherwise discovered, to be affected with a contagious disease, shall be removed by warrant under the hand of the Harbour Master to a hospital, where he shall be kept until he be, by the Visiting Surgeon thereof, discharged as cured, and shall have obtained from such Visiting Surgeon or from the Surgeon in charge thereof a certificate of his having been so discharged, which cer- tificate he shall produce and show to the Harbour Master when required so to do; and the expenses which may be incurred in and about the maintenance and treatment of any such seaman in such hospital, shall be a debt due to the Crown, and shall be paid by such scaman; or, in case of the keeper of the boarding-house in which such seaman shall have resided before his removal to hospital not having reported, or having made a false report as to the state of health of such seaman, then such expenses shall be paid by such boarding-house keeper, in case it shall appear to and be certified by the Visiting Surgeon or Surgeon in charge of the hospital to which such seaman may be removed, that the disease with which he may be affected is of such a nature as that the keeper of the boarding-house could, with ordinary and reasonable observation, have ascertained its existence; and in all cases, such expenses shall, in case of non-payment, be sued for and recovered by the Harbour Master on behalf of the hospital.
(2.) If any seaman affected with a contagious disease, and reported so to be by the keeper of the boarding-house in which such seaman may be residing, shall refuse or offer any hindrance or obstruction to his removal to a hospital; or having been removed to a hospital, shall attempt to leave
Duties of boarding- house keeper with respect to lists, re- turns, &o., &c., of their inmates. (Ibid, sub-s, 3.)
Masters, mat.ca and engineers board and lodge elso- where, than in such houses. (Ibid. sub-5.4.)
No seaman shipped under this Ordinance shall, during the term for which he is shipped, be liable to arrest on civil pro- cess, in car- tain cases. (Ibid. sub-s. 3.)
Termination
of licence. (Ibid. sub-e. 6.)
Keepers of licensed boarding- houses for reamen to furnish
Harbour Master with weekly lists
of the seamien resident in their houses, and report their state of
health. Diseased seamen to be remorel to a Hospital. (Ibid, see, 18,)
Penalty for
offering any obst netion to removal to Hospital. (Ibid, sub-s.
2.)