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Offences of foreign
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5. Whenever any seaman engaged in any foreign ship commits any of the following offences within the waters of the Colony, he shall be liable to be punished summarily by a Stipendiary Magis- (See M. S. A trate as follows, that is to say- 1854,sec.249,) Act of disobedience.
Continued disobedience.
Assault on otheers.
Combining to disobey.
(Ordinance 4 of 1850, sec.
3.)
(a.) For wilful disobedience to any lawful command, be shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding four weeks, with or without hard labour, and also, at the discretion of the Court, to forfeit, out of his wages, a sum not exceeding two days' pay; (b) For continued wilful disobedience to lawful commands, or continued wilful neglect of duty, he shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding twelve weeks, with or without hard labour, and also, at the discretion of the Court, to forfeit, for every twenty-four hours' continuance of such disobedience or neglect either a sum not exceeding six days' pay, or any expenses which have been incurred in hiring a substitute; (d.) For assaulting any master or mate, he shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding twelve weeks, with or without hard labour;
(e) For combining with any other or others of the crew to disobey lawful commands, or to neglect duty, or to impede the navigation of the ship, or the progress of the voyage, he shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding twelve weeks, with or without bard labour. Provided that when there is a Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent resident at Hongkong of the nation to which the ship belongs, the Court shall not deal with the case unless thereto requested by such officer in writing.
Expenses, by 6. All expenses incidental to the apprehension, confinement, whom payable, and removal of any seaman, under this section, shall be paid by the master of the ship to which such seaman may belong, and be recoverable from him at the suit of the Captain Superin- tendent of Police, as a debt due to the Government of this Colony; and the subsistence money for every such seaman confined in gaol shall be paid in advance to the keeper of the gaol, and in default of such payment, the gaoler may release such seaman.
Report of Death, Desertion, &c.
Deaths, desertious, or removala of
seainen, &c. to
XVIII. In the event of the death of any of the crew, pas- sengers, or other persons, occurring on board of any merchant vessel in the waters of the Colony, or in case of the desertion or removal of any of the crew, the master of such vessel shall forthwith report the same to the Harbour Master, under a penalty 1 of 1862, sec. not exceeding twenty-five dollars for every death, desertion, or
removal which he shall neglect to report.
be reported.
(Ordinance
5.)
Penalties for
forging of do- coments, and for false des- eriptions and statements. (Ordinance No. 6 of 1852, sec. 12.)
Helief of sea-
Penalties for Forgery, &c.
XIX. Any seaman, or other person, who shall give a false description of his services, or show, or make, or procure to be made, any false character, or shall make false statements as to the name of the last ship in which he served, or as to any other information which may he required of him by any person having lawful authority to demand such information, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.
CHAPTER X. DISTRESSED SEAMEN.
XX. All expenses which shall be incurred under the pro- men belonging visions of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," in the relief of
to vessels re-
gistered in this
distressed British seamen who at the time of such relief being Colouy. granted shall have last served in a British ship registered in this Colony, shall be borne by the revenue of this Colony.
(Ordinance
5 of 1669, sec.
1.)
Governor may
2. It shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, order payment to order the payment, out of any monies forming part of, or arising
of expenses in-
curred in the from, the general revenue of the Colony, of all expenses which Colony for
may be incurred in the Colony for the relief of such British seamen as aforesaid, under the provisions of the said Act or of any same out of regulations in that behalf which may be made, from time to time,
relief of sneh
monice form-
ing part of ge- by the Governor in Council.
keral revenue.
(Ordinance
5 of 1869, sec.
2.)
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