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3. No lime or lemon juice shall be deemed fit and proper to be Health Officer on board any such ship for the use of the crew or passengers to approve thereof, unless the Health Officer has approved of the same; nor of lime or unless the same contains fifteen per centum of proper and palatable lemon juice. proof spirits to be approved by the Health Officer, or by some person appointed by him for that purpose, and to be added imme- diately before or immediately after the inspection thereof; nor un- less the same is packed in such bottles, at such time and in such manner as the Health Officer may direct.
4. The master, owner, or agent of any such ship who shall wilfully Owners ne neglect or refuse to provide, pack, or keep on board such medicines, glecting to medical stores, books of instructions, lime or lemon juice, sugar or dietnes and
provide me- anti-scorbutics as are by this section required, shall be guilty of a medical stores misdemeanour, and shall, upon summary conviction before any to be guilty of Stipendiary Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five misdemeanour. hundred dollars.
5. The provisions of this section, so far as the same refer to lime, This section to lemon juice and anti-scorbutics, shall have the same force and to have the effect as the regulations provided for by "The Merchant Shipping rules made. Act, 1807," section 6.
CHAPTER IX.
same force as
(M.S.A.1867, sec. G.)
hended and put
DESERTION AND OTHER OFFENCES OF SEAMEN. XVII. If any seatman belonging to the crew of any ship, British Seamen or foreign shall desert therefrom, or otherwise abscond, or
deserting absent himself from his duty while such ship or vessel is may be appre- within the waters of the Colony, it shall and may be lawful on board the for Police Officer, or for the master or person in charge of the vessels to
any ship, or for any one specially deputed by such master or person which they
belong; in charge, to arrest such seaman without warrant and convey (Ordinance him before a Justice of the Peace; and in case such senman shall 4 of 1850, sec. refuse to return to his duty on board the said ship, or shall not 1.) give a sufficient reason for such refusal, the Justice of the Peace may order such seaman to be put forcibly ou heard the ship to
which he may belong, or to be confined in any gaol or other place or may be con-
of security within the Colony, for any period until he can be put ined in gaol.
on board his ship at her departure from the port, or until he shall
be demanded by the master of the ship, or by the Consul of the country to which such ship may belong: Provided always, that
the said period of confinement shall not, in the absence of such departure or demand, exceed three months.
9. It shall be lawful for any Stipendiary Magistrate, upon Ships or houses complaint of the master of such ship, to the effect that he has way be search- reasonable cause to believe that any runaway seaman belonging from ships.
ed for deserters
to the crew of any such ship is harboured, secreted, or concealed, (Ibid, sec. 2.)
or suspected to be harboured, secreted, or concealed on board any other ship, boat, or other vessel, or in any house or place what- soever, to issue a warrant directing a constable to search such ship, boat, or other vessel, or such house or place, and such seanan to lodge in any or the nearest Police station; and every such seaman shall, with all convenient speed, be brought before a Stipendiary Magistrate, to be dealt with as is herein before directed with respect to seamen apprehended for desertion, ab- sconding, or absence from duty.
persons har
3. If any person whatsoever shall harbour, conceal, employ, Penalty ou or retain, or assist in harbouring, concealing, employing, or re- bouring taining any seaman belonging to the crew of any ship, who deserters frora shall have deserted therefrom, or otherwise absconded, or absented ship. himself from duty, while such ship or vessel is within the waters (Ibid, sec. 9.)
of the Colony, knowing such seaman to have deserted, absconded,
or absented himself from duty, or shall cause, induce, or persuade,
or endeavour to cause, induce, or persuade any such seaman, in
any manner whatsoever to violate, or to attempt or endeavour to violate, any agreement which he may have entered into to serve un board any such ship, or shall knowingly connive at the desertion, absconding, or absence from duty of any such seaman, such person
o offending shall, for every such offence, upon conviction thereof,
be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars,
or to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months.
her master
ter or deputy
to search for
4. The Harbour Master, or person deputed by the Harbour Harbour Mas- Master for that purpose, before granting a port clearance to any may require, ship, may, if he have reasonable grounds for belief that any before grant desorter from a merchant vessel be concealed on board of such ing a port ship, proceed on board thereof and then and there require clearance to a
to institute due and diligent search for such ship, the deserter, and further, if he doem it necessary, require the master thereaf master to make oath or solemn declaration that to the best of suspected de- This knowledge and belief, after due and diligent search, no such seriers, and to deserter is concealed within or about his ship; and any master of a make declara- ship refusing or unnecessarily delaying to comply with such requisition, shall be liable, upon conviction, to a penalty not Penalty for not exceeding two hundred dollars, and to imprisonment until such complying with flue be paid.
such request. (Ordinance
tion of such search.
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Imperial laws
6 of 1852, sec. 11.)
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