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medicines, medical stores, etc.

in accord- ance with scale.

Pr. Act, $.202.

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(2) All expenses incidental to the apprehension and confine- ment of any seaman or apprentice under this section shall be payable by the master of the ship to which such seaman apprentice belongs and be recoverable from him at the suit of the Commissioner of Police as a debt due to the Government. The subsistence money for every such seaman or apprentice confined in prison shall be paid in advance to the Commissioner of Prisons, and in default of such payment the Commissioner of Prisons may release such seaman or apprentice: Provided that every seaman or apprentice imprisoned under this section may by direction of the committing magistrate be sent on board his ship or may be placed at the disposal of the consular officer at whose request he dealt with the case on the written application of such officer either on or before the expiration of his term of imprison- [9(6)

ment.

PART V.

HEALTH AND ACCOMMODATION, AND PROPERTY OF

Deceased Seamen.

17. (1) The owner, agent or master of every British ship navigating between the Colony and any place out of the samÙ shall cause to be kept on board such ship a supply of medicines and medical stores, in accordance with the scale appropriate to such ship as laid down in the published scales of medicines and medical stores issued by the Minister, and a copy of the book or books so issued containing instructions for dispeasing the same, and also a sufficient quantity of anti-scorbutics to be served out to the crew of proper quality and in accordance with the require- ments of the Merchant Shipping Acts.

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(2) The owner, agent or master of any such ship who wilfully refuses or neglects to provide and keep on board such medicines, medical stores, books of instructions and anti- scorbutics as are by this section required shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars,

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(3) It shall be the duty of the Port Health Officer to inspect the medicines, medical stores and anti-scorbuties of any British ship navigating between the Colony and any place out of the same, and if such articles are deficient in quantity or quality or are placed in improper containers be shall give notice to the master of the ship and to the Director who shall before granting a clearance to such ship require a certificate from the Port Health Officer that the default has been remedied, and if such certificate is not produced the ship shall be detained until the certificate is produced.

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master for

18. If any ship carrying passengers is found on arrival in Penalty on the Colony to be in a filthy and insanitary condition, the master filthy con- of the ship shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars. It dition of shall be the duty of the Port Health Officer to inspect every such ship. ship on its arrival in order to ascertain the sanitary condition thereof.

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19. The master of any ship before shipping any seaman may Medical require that such seaman shall be inspected by a registered medical inspection. practitioner.

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20. In the event of the death of any of the crew, passengers Death or or other persons on board any ship in the waters of the Colony,

desertion to be reported. or of the desertion of any of the crew of any British ship or of any foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Colony, or in the event of the death of any of the crew, passengers or persons on board any ship in the course of a voyage to the Colony, the master of such ship shall forthwith or on the arrival of the ship in the Colony as the case may be report the same to the Director, and in default shall be liable to a line of one hundred dollars for every death or desertion which he may neglect to report,

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aeamen

21. (0) If a seaman or apprentice to the sea service dies Property of in Hong Kong and is at the time of his death entitled to claim deceased from the master or owner of a ship in which he has served any to be effects or unpaid wages, the master or owner shall pay and deliver delivered to

Director. or account for such properly to the Director.

[8A. Pr. Act.

A. 175 and

(2) Where any property of a deceased seaman or apprentice 176. comes into the hands of the Director, the Director, after deducting for expenses incurred in respect of that seaman or apprentice or of his property such sum as he thinks proper to allow, shall subject to the provisions of this Ordinance deal with the residue as follows-

(a) if the property exceeds in value two thousand dollars he shall pay and deliver the residue to the legal personal representative of the deceased; or

(b) if the property does not exceed in value two thousanel dollars, the Director may as he thinks fit either pay or deliver the residue to any claimant who is proved to his satisfaction to be the widow or a child of the deceased or to be entitled to the personalty of the deceased either under his will (if any) or any statute of distribution or otherwise, or to be a person entitled to take out represen-