THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND NOVEMBER, 1862. 313
Sect. 182 of Principal
18. It is hereby declared that the 182nd Section of the Principal Act does not, Construction of. apply to the Case of any Stipulation made by the Seamen belonging to any Ship, which Act. Stipulations according to the Terms of the Agreement is to be employed on Salvage Service, with concerning Salvage, respect to the Remuneration to be paid to them for Salvage Services to be rendered by such Ship to any other Ship or Ships.
to Seamen abroad
19. The Payment of Seamen's Wages required by the 209th Section of the Prin- Payment
of Wages cipal Act shall, whenever it is practicable so to do, be made in Money and not by Bill; under Section 20) of and in Cases where Payment is made by Bill drawn by the Master, the Owner of the Principal Act. Ship shall be liable to pay the Amount for which the same is drawn to the Holder or Indorsee thereof; and it shall not be necessary in any Proceeding against the Owner upon such Bill to prove that the Master had Authority to draw the same; and any Bill purporting to be drawn in pursuance of the said Section, and to be endorsed as therein required, if produced out of the Custody of the Board of Trade or of the Registrar General of Seamen, or of any Superintendent' of any Mercantile Marine Office, shall be received in Evidence; and any Indorsement on any such Bill purporting to be made in pursuance of the said Section, and to be signed by One of the Functionaries therein mentioned, shall also be received in Evidence, and shall be deemed to be primâ facie Evidence of the Facts stated in such Indorsement.
of deceased Seamen,
20. The 197th Section of the Principal Act shall extend to Seamen or Apprentices Wages and Effects who within the Six Months immediately preceding their Death have belonged to a British Ship; and such Section shall be construed as if there were inserted in the First Line thereof after the Words "such Seaman or Apprentice as last aforesaid" the Words "or if any Seaman or Apprentice who has within the Six Months immediately preceding his Death belonged to a British Ship.”
21. The Wages of Seamen or Apprentices who are lost with the Ship to which Recovery of Wages, they belong shall be dealt with as follows; (that is to say,)
(1.) The Board of Trade may recover the same from the Owner of the Ship in the
same Manner in which Seamen's Wages are recoverable:
(2.) In any Proceedings for the Recovery of such Wages, if it is shown by some official Return produced out of the Custody of the Registrar General of Seamen or by other Evidence that the Ship has Twelve Months or up- wards before the Institution of the Proceeding left a Port of Departure, and if it is not shown that she has been heard of within Twelve Months after such Departure, she shall be deemed to have been lost with all Hands on board, either immediately after the Time she was last heard of or at such later Time as the Court hearing the Case may think probable: (3.) The Production out of the Custody of the Registrar General of Seamen or of the Board of Trade of any Duplicate Agreement or List of the Crew made out at the Time of the last Departure of the Ship from the United Kingdom, or of a Certificate purporting to be a Certificate from a Con- sular or other public Officer at any Port abroad, stating that certain Seamen or Apprentices were shipped in the Ship from the said Port, shall, in the Absence of Proof to the contrary, be sufficient Proof that the Seamen or Apprentices therein named were on board at the Time of the Loss:
(4.) The Board of Trade shall deal with such Wages in the Manner in which they.
deal with the Wages of other deceased Seamon and Apprentices under the Principal Act.
&c., of Searner lost with their Ship.
Seamen to be regula- ted by Board of Trade.
22. Whereas under the 211th and 212th Sections of the Principal Act, and the Relief of distressed 16th Section of "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1855," Provision is. made for relieving and sending home Seamen found in Distress abroad: And whereas Doubts are entertained whether Power exists under the said Sections of making Regu- lations and imposing Conditions which are necessary for the Prevention of Descrtion and Misconduct and the undue Expenditure of Public Money: Be it enacted, and it is hereby declared, That the Claims of Seamen to be relieved or sent home in pursuance of the said Sections or any of them shall be subject to such Regulations and dependent on such Conditions as the Board of Trade may from Time to Time make or impose; and no Seaman shall have any Right to demand to be relieved or sent home except in the Cases and to the Extent provided for by such Regulations and Conditions.
23. The following Rules shall be observed with respect to the Cancellation and Power of cancelling Suspension of Certificates, that is to say:
Certificate to rest with the Court which hears the Case.