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No British or Colonial ship to proceed to sea without certificate of the master and mate.
[See M. S. A. 1854, sec. 136.] Steam-ships to carry certificated engineers.
[See M. S. A 1862, sec. 5.]
[M. S. A. 1854, section 136. M. S. A. 1862, section 5.]
Shipping of seamen.
[See M. S. A. of 1852. sec. 5.]
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1879.
Merchant Shipping.
2. No British or Colonial ship shall leave the waters of the Colony unless the master thereof, and the first and second or only mate have obtained and possess valid certificates of competency or service appropriate to their several stations in such ship, or of a higher grade, and no such ship if of one hundred tons burden or upwards, shall leave the waters as aforesaid, unless at least one officer, besides the master, has obtained, and possesses a valid certificate appropriate to the grade of only mate, or to a higher grade.
3. Every British steam-ship, or steam-ship registered under section 3 of part I of this Ordinance of one hundred nominal horse power or upwards, leaving the waters of the Colony shall have as its first and second engineers, two certificated engineers, the first possessing a "first class engineer's certificate," and the second possessing a "second class engineer's certificate," or a certificate of a higher grade, and every British steam-ship, or steam-ship registered as aforesaid of less than one hundred nominal horse power shall have as its only or first engineer, an engineer possessing a "second class engineer's certificate" or a certificate of a higher grade.
4. Every person who having been engaged in any of the capacities mentioned in the aforesaid subsections 2 and 3 in any such ship as goes to sea in that capacity without being at the time entitled to, and possessed of such certificate as is required by this section, and every person who employs any person in any of the above capacities in such ship without ascertaining that he is at the time entitled to, or possessed of such certificate as is required by this section, shall, for each such offence, incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
5. No seaman shall, except with the Harbour Master's sanction, be shipped to do duty on board any merchant ship whatever elsewhere than at the office of the Harbour Master, who shall charge for every seaman shipped, a fee of one dollar, such fee to be paid, in the first instance, by the master of the ship shipping such seaman; and such master shall deduct the same from the wages of the seaman shipped; and the Harbour Master shall require such seaman to lodge with him his certificate of discharge from the last ship, and failing the production of such certificate, such seaman shall be bound to give satisfactory explanation to the Harbour Master of the cause of the non-production thereof. The above-mentioned fee shall be accounted for by the Harbour Master to the Treasury.