Ind
3nd
ships direct from England.
Those who
vessels
may have belonged to vessels
in the Country, Colonial, or
Coasting
Trade.
when a Seaman of the former Class
shall have been sent as a destitute seaman to Hospital, and is fit to return to his duty ... shall be ordered on board the first vessel proceeding to England, agreeable to the Act of Parliament, and a memorandum of the Expences incurred on him sent home to be recovered from the Owners of the vessel in which he was originally shipped.
with respect to those seamen who may belong to the latter class, the expenses of all cases that may now be in Hospital, or that
may occur up to the 10th of December next
set will be borne by the Government, but as from
that day the penalties for breaches of the merchant seaman's act are to be enforced, as announced in the Government
Notification
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Notification of the 4th of October 1843,
in like manner, the master, Owner or Consignee (when the Law will admit) of the last vessel... from which
destitute Seaman may
have been irregularly discharged, or left behind
on any pretence, whether at Macao, Macao or any other place in China, will be held responsible and obliged, by a summary inquiry and proceeding to pay all Expenses incurred on such seamen, and without reference to the period that he may have served on board such last vessel.
masters, owners and Consignees of all Vessels will therefore understand, that in addition to the penalties laid down for infractions of the Merchant Seaman's Act, they will further be obliged to pay all expenses of men whom they
may discharge, and who may afterwards be found be sent to Hospital, as destitute
Seamen.
By
J. Ballast