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MERCHANT SHIPPING.

No. 10 of 1899.

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mediate days, and shall also particularize in such list the 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 of the Mercantile Marine Office, for the convenience of masters of ships requiring men, and shall also post in a similar manner, if required to do so, such notices for the supply of men by masters of ships as the said masters may furnish. Any infraction of this sub-section shall render the boarding-house keeper liable to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars.

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(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent masters, mates or engineers of ships from boarding elsewhere than at a licensed boarding-house.

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7.-(1) All expenses incurred under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts in the relief of distressed seamen who, the time of such relief being granted, have last served in ship registered in this Colony, and all expenses incurred in the United Kingdom in relieving and returning to this Colony all distressed seamen who last served in such ship, shall be borne by the revenue of this Colony.

(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor to order the payment out Payment of the general revenue of all expenses incurred in the Colony for the relief of such seamen as aforesaid, under the provisions of the said Acts or of any regulations in that behalf which may be made by the Governor-in-Council.

(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor to order the repayment out Re-payment of the general revenue of all sums expended under the provisions of of expenses the said Acts by the Imperial Government, or by The Shipwrecked Mariners Society, or by the Government of any British colony, or by any British consular officer in any foreign country, in and about the relief of such seamen as aforesaid, and such sums shall be refunded in such manner as the Governor may think fit or as a Secretary of State may direct.

* As amended by No. 2 of 1903, No. 50 of 1911, No. 10 of 1912, No. 17 of 1912 and No. 21 of 1912.

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