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MERCHANT SHIPPING.
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erintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office. The present Mercantile Marine Office shall be deemed to be the place appointed until the Governor shall appoint some other place.
seamen.
(2) No seaman shall, except with the sanction of the Harbour Master, be shipped to do duty on board a British or Colonial ship, or any Foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a Consular Officer resident in the Colony, elsewhere than at the Mercantile Marine Office; And the Superintendent shall require such seaman to produce to 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.
M. S. Act, 1894, s. 113.
(3) The master of every British ship, and of every Colonial ship exceeding sixty tons, and of every Foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a Consular Officer resident in the Colony shall enter into An agreement with every seaman whom he engages in this Colony, and carries to sea as one of his crew, in the form and manner provided by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
(4) If the master of any such ship carries any seaman to sea without entering into an agreement with him in accordance with the last preceding sub-section, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.
(5) Such fees, not exceeding the sums specified in Table I in the Schedule to this Ordinance, as may from time to time be fixed by the Governor-in-Council shall be payable upon all engagements and discharges; and the Superintendent shall cause a scale of such fees to be prepared and to be conspicuously placed in the Mercantile Marine Office, the Superintendent may refuse to proceed with any engagement or discharge, unless the fees payable thereon are first paid.
57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.
Penalty for shipping without agreement.
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Fees payable on engagement and discharge. Table I.
Schedule: fees.
(6.) Every master of a ship engaging or discharging any seaman at the Mercantile Marine Office shall pay to the Superintendent the whole of the fees hereby made payable in respect of such engagement or discharge, and may, for the purpose of in part reimbursing himself, deduct in respect of each such engagement or discharge from the wages of all persons (except apprentices) so engaged or discharged and retain any sums not exceeding the sums specified in that behalf in the Table marked I in the said Schedule: Provided that if in any case the sum which the master is so entitled to deduct exceeds the amount of the fee payable by him, such excess shall be paid by him to the Superintendent in addition to such fee.
Table I.
No seaman to be discharged without sanction.
(a.) No master shall discharge in this Colony any seaman from any ship, British or Foreign, without the sanction of the Harbour Master or of the Consular Officer, if any, representing the nation to which the ship belongs, and due notice shall be given to the Harbour Master or Consular Officer, as the case may be.