THE HONGKONG GOVE. MENT GAZETTE, 4т¤ MAY, 1878.
7. No seaman shall be discharged from an English ship, as to the dis- or any foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a Consular charge of officer resident in the Colony, elsewhere. than at the Harbour samen. Master's office, and every seaman discharged from a foreign
(Ibid, sec. 5.) ship so represented, shall, within twenty-four hours of being discharged at the office of his Consul or Vice-Consul, produce to the Harbour Master, or some person deputed by him, a certificate of his discharge, signed by such Consul or Vice-Consul.
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8. No master of any ship shall discharge or force there- Seamen to be from, or wilfully or negligently leave behind him, in this Colony, discharged any seaman shipped on board thereof, unless on a certificate from only by per- the Harbour Master, or other person appointed to grant the same, bour Master. (and who shall have power to withhold, or grant the same, as he (Ordinance shall see fit), under a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars; No. 1 of 1862, and if any seaman shall wilfully or negligently remain in the
sec. 8.) Colony, after the departure of the vessel in which he shall have shipped, such seaman shall, on conviction, be subject to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one month, with or without hard labour.
CHAPTER VI.
BOARDING-HOUSES FOR SEAMEN.
XVII. The Harbour Master shall, with the consent of any As to the es Police Magistrate, have power to license a sufficient number tablishment of fit and proper persons to keep boarding-houses for seamen, of boarding-
and regulation. and every such licence shall be countersigned by the Colonial houses. Secretary, and shall be granted for such period not exceeding one (Ordinance year, and upon such terms and security, and shall be renewable No. 6 of 1859, upon such conditions, as the Colonial Secretary may appoint; sec. 6.) and it shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to demand for every such licence an annual fee of twenty-five dollars, or at the rate thereof according to the term of such licence; and every such house shall be for the reception of such number of seamen only as shall be expressed in the licence, and shall not be granted until there have been constructed in the house to be licensed suitable rooms to be approved by the Harbour Master; and no such boarding-house shall be a house licensed for the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors, nor shall any charge for spirituous or fer- mented liquor be allowed in any account for the amount of which any seaman may be indebted, or stated to be indebted, to any person, and such boarding-house shall not be a part of a house, and shall be separated by at least one intervening house on either side of it from any house licensed for such sale as aforesaid; and very su "ing-house ll be cher at all times to the visit of any us ice L.
r M. sur, or ot any Police Officer specially appointed for the general service of visiting such houses. And the Harbour Master may refuse to grant any such licence, and may limit the number and description of seamen to be boarded in each house, and may make rules for the government of such houses, and regulate the charge to be made- for board and lodging; and a copy of such rules shall be hung up in each house for the inspection of the inmates; and the infrac- tion of any one of such rules shall subject the offender in every instance to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and for a second offence may deprive the offender, if the keeper of such house, of his licence as an additional punishment.
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(Ibid, sec. 7.)
2. If any person not having obtained a licence for keeping Penalty for a boarding-house for seamen shall keep one, he shall be liable to a keeping an un- penalty not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars; and licensed board-- the fact of more than one seaman boarding or lodging in the ing-house. house of any person, shall be prima facie proof of the keeping of a boarding-house for seamen by such person; but nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be construed to prevent any sea- man from having the whole or any part of any unfurnished house for the residence of himself, or his family, and boarding himself therein.
3. Every keeper of a boarding-house for seamen shall cause Duties of daily to be entered in a book in English, the name and des- boarding- cription of each additional seaman who has, on that day, come:
house keepers to board or lodge at his house, and the name of each seaman lists, returns,
with respect to who has left his house on that day after being a lodger or &c., &c. of boarder therein, and such other particulars as the Harbour their inmates. Master may direct; and every keeper of a boarding-house shall, (Ibid, sec. 8.) 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
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