MERCHANT SHIPPING.
No. 10 of 1899.
925
lawful for the Colonial Secretary to demand for every such licence an annual fee of twenty-five dollars or at the rate thereof, according to the term of such licence; and every such house shall be for the reception of such number of seamen only as may be expressed in the licence, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each seaman lodged at one time in excess of such number, and shall not be granted until there have been constructed in the house to be licensed suitable rooms, to be approved by the Harbour Master; and no such boarding-house shall be a house licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors, nor shall any charge for intoxicating liquor be allowed in any account for the amount of which any seaman may be indebted, or stated to be indebted, to any person; and every such boarding-house shall be open at all times to the visit of any justice of the peace, or of the Harbour Master, or of any inspector of police. The Harbour Master may refuse to grant any such licence, and may limit the number and description of seamen to be boarded in each house, and may make regulations subject to the approval of the Governor, for the government of such houses, and may by such regulations determine the charge to be made for board and lodging; and a copy of such regulations shall be hung up in each house for the inspection of the inmates; and for any infraction of any one of such regulations the offender shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and for a second offence may further be deprived, if the keeper of such house, of his licence. Licences issued under this section shall be terminable on the 30th day of November of each year.
(2) Every person who, not having obtained a licence required by sub-section (1), keeps a boarding-house for seamen, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars; and the fact of more than one seaman boarding or lodging in the house of any person shall be primâ facie proof of the keeping of a boarding-house for seamen by such person; but nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to prevent any seaman from having the whole or any part of any house for the residence of himself or his family and boarding himself therein.
(3) Every licensed keeper of a boarding-house for seamen shall cause daily to be entered in a book, in English, the name and description of each seaman who has, on that day, come to board or lodge at his house, and the name of each