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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT G..ZETTE, 4TH MAY, 1878.
Masters and
mates may
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.
4. Nothing in this section contained shall prevent masters, board and lodge than at a licensed boarding-house.
mates, or engineers of ships from boarding or lodging elsewhere elsewhere, than in such houses.
(Ibidy
sec 9.)
No seaman
this Ordinance
the term for which he is
shipped, be
5. No seaman, except mates or engineers, who shall have been shipped under actually shipped by the Harbour Master, or his deputy, on board shall, during 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 liable to arrest this paragraph shall be meant only a person who has, within the on civil pro- cess, in cer- space of one year previously, served on board a ship for wages tain cases. as a seaman, and that the protection from arrest hereby granted (Ibid, sec. 10.) shall not be held to extend to any person not coming within such
definition, nor in any case to masters, mates, or engineers.
Keepers of
resident in
their houses, and report their state of
health. Diseased
seamen to be
CHAPTER VII.
HEALTH OF SEAMEN.
XVIII. Every keeper of a licensed boarding-house for seamen, licensed board- in the list of seamen resident in his house, which he is required ing-bouses for seamen to fur to furnish to the Harbour Master, shall report as to the state of nish Harbour health of each seaman, so far as he may be able to ascertain the Master with same; and every seaman who may be reported, or may be weekly lists
otherwise discovered, to be affected with a contagious disease, of the seamen 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 a certificate of his having been so discharged, which certificate 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 seaman; or, in case of the keeper of the hoarding- use in chh oval
man sha'
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having made a false report as to the state of health of such seaman, then such ex- penses shall be paid by such boarding-house keeper, in case it shall appear to, and be certified by, the Visiting Surgeon 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 honse could, with ordinary and reasonable obser- vation, have ascertained its existence; and in all cases, such ex- penses shall, in case of non-payment, be sued for and recovered by the Harbour Master on behalf of the hospital.
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Penalty for 2. If any seaman affected with a contagious disease, and offering any reported so to be by the keeper of the boarding-house in which obstruction to such seaman may be residing, shall refuse or offer any hindrance or obstruction to his removal to a hospital; or having been re- Hospital. (Ibid, sec. 64.) moved to a hospital, shall attempt to leave the same before he shall be properly discharged cured; or having been discharged cured, shall refuse to produce his certificate of discharge when required by the Harbour Master authorised to demand the same; or being affected with a contagious disease, shall neglect or refuse to inform the keeper of the boarding-house in which he may be residing,- then, and in every such case, such seaman so offending shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or to im- prisonment with or without hard labour, for any term not ex- ceeding one month.
Masters of ships before shipping seamen may
require them
to undergo medical
inspection.
3. The master of any merchant ship, before shipping any seaman, may require that such seaman shall be inspected by the Colonial Surgeon, by notice in writing to that effect, addressed to the Harbour Master or a
Visiting Surgeon appointed in pursuance of this section, and the Colonial Surgeon or such Visiting Surgeon upon such inspection shall give a certificate under his hand as to the state of health of such seaman, which certificate such seaman (Ibid, sec. 65.) shall produce and show to the master of the ship in which he may be about to serve; and for every certificate, there shall be paid the fee of fifty cents, to be paid by the master or agent of the ship in case such seaman should prove to be in sound health, and by the seaman himself, or the boarding-house keeper with whom he shall be residing, in case he shall prove to be affected with any contagious disease