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Certificated officer may lodge elsewhere.
Relief of seamen belonging to vessel No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING
seaman who has left his house on that day after being a lodger or boarder therein, and such other particulars as the Harbour Master may direct; and every such keeper shall, on the morning of Monday in each week, send to the Harbour Master's office a list, copied from his book, of the seamen on that day boarding or lodging in his house, and of the seamen, boarders or lodgers, who left his house on any or either of the intermediate days, and shall also particularise 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 twenty-five dollars.
(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent masters, mates or engineers of ships from boarding elsewhere than at a licensed boarding-house.
Distressed seamen.
7.-(1) All expenses incurred under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts in the relief of distressed seamen who, at the time of such relief being granted, have last served in a ship registered in the Colony, and all expenses incurred in the United Kingdom in relieving and returning to the Colony all distressed seamen who last served in such ship, shall be borne by the revenue of the Colony.
the Colony.
Payment of expenses incurred in the Colony for relief of such seamen.
Repayment of expenses incurred elsewhere than in the Colony.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor to order the payment out 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 of the general revenue of all sums expended under the provisions of 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 *As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
the Colony.