MERCHANT SHIPPING.
Table K.
No. 10 of 1899.
1041
[s. 6.]
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RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF LICENSED BOARDING-HOUSES FOR SEAMEN.
1. Over the principal door of each house shall be fixed a board containing in letters at least 3 inches in length, painted white on a black ground, Licensed Boarding-house for (number of seamen, manila men or lascars) and at the foot thereof shall be inserted the name, in full, of the keeper of the house, and no other writing, sign, painting or mark shall be posted on the premises.
2. The house shall be substantially built and kept in good repair, well ventilated, and have a proper system of drainage, the drain not to be in direct communication with the public sewers, but effectively disconnected and trapped.
3. There shall be adequate kitchen accommodation with proper means for the removal of smoke.
4. The space allotted to each boarder shall be, in the bed rooms, not less than 400 cubic feet of space, and a notice shall be put up in each sleeping room showing the number of persons the room is capable of accommodating; there shall also be provided a general room of sufficient size in which the boarders may sit and mess.
5. A separate room is to be appropriated for the chests, hammocks, etc., of the boarders.
6. Proper washing rooms, and adequate privy, urinal, and ash-bin accommodation are to be provided; the floors of the house and out-houses are to be swept clean frequently during the day and thoroughly washed every Saturday; all inside walls and partitions are to be colour-washed once in every 6 months, viz., on or about 1st January and 1st July.
7. All filth and refuse matter shall be regularly removed daily.
8. There shall be no communication between a boarding-house and the adjoining houses.
9. No boarding master shall receive into his boarding-house any seaman who does not first produce his discharge from his last ship, duly countersigned or stamped by the Harbour Master or some person deputed by him, or who does not produce the Harbour Master's written sanction for his admission into a boarding-house, and no more boarders are to be lodged in the house than the number allowed by the licence.
10. Every boarding master shall keep a book in which he shall enter the names of all boarders in his house on the day of their reception therein, and he shall also enter in the same book an account of all monies received from boarders and all charges incurred by them, and if a boarder shall so require he shall be furnished, every Saturday night,
* As amended by G. N. 169 of 1908, No. 16 of 1912 and No. 17 of 1912.
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