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time and place for the hearing of the application and shall cause the notice to be delivered to the applicant and a copy of the application and of the notice to be delivered to the Superintendent of Police,
If on the hearing of the application it is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar General that the applicant has ceased to be a common prostitute, or if the applicant with the approval of the Registrar General enters into a recog nizance with or without sureties as to the Registrar General seems meet for her good behaviour during three months thereafter, the Registrar General shall order that she be relieved from periodical medical examination.
Every such recognizance shall be deemed to be forfeited if at any time during the term for which it is entered into the woman to whom it relates is in any public thoroughfare street or place, or in any junk, boat, sampan or craft for the purpose of prostitution, or otherwise conducts herself as a common prostitute.
41. Every keeper of a licensed boarding house for seamen shall furnish to the Harbour Master, once in every week, a list of seamen then resident in his house, and shall report in such list as to the state of health of each seaman so far as he may be able to ascertain the same; and overy seaman who may be reported or may be otherwise discovered to be affected with a contagious disease, shall be removed by warrant under the hand of the Harbour Master to a hospital, where he shall be kept until he be, by the Visiting Surgeon thereof, discharged as cured, and has cbtained from such Visiting Surgeon a certificate of his having been so discharged, which certificate le shall produce and shew to the Harbour Master when required so to do; and the ex- penses which may be incurred in and about the maintenance and treatment of any such seaman in such hospital shall be a debt due to the Crown, and shall be paid by such seaman; or, in case of the keeper of the boarding house in which such seaman has resided before his removal to hospital not having reported, or having made a false report as to the state of health of such seaman, then such expenses shall be paid by such boarding house keeper, in case it appears to and is certified by the Visiting Surgeon of the hospital to which such seaman may be removed, that the disease with which he may be affected, is of such a mature as that the keeper of the boarding house could, with ordinary and rea- sonable observation, have ascertained its existence; and in all cases such expenses shall in case of non-payment he sued for and recovered by the Harbour Master on behalf of the hospital.
42. If any seaman affected with a contagious disease, and reported so to be by the keeper of the hoarding house in which such scaman may be residing, refuses or offers auy hindrance or obstruction to his removal to a hospital or having been removed to a hospital attempts to leave the same before he is properly discharged cured; or having been discharged cured refuses to produce his certificate of dis- charge when required by the Harbour Master authorized to demand the same; or being affected with a contagious disease neglects or refuses to inform the keeper of the boarding house in which he may be residing, he shall be liable to be brought before the Harbour Master and sub- jected to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding one month.
43. The master of any merchant ship, before ship ping any seaman, may require that such seaman shall be inspected by the Colonial Surgeon by notice in writing to that effect addressed to the Harbour Master or a Visiting Surgeon appointed in pursuance of this Ordinance, and the Colonial Surgeon or such Visiting Surgeon upon such in- spection is to give a certificato under his hand as to the state of health of such seaman, which certificate such sea- man is to produce and shew to the master of the ship in which he may be about to serve; and for every such cer- tificate there shall be paid the fee of fifty cents, to be paid by the master or agent of the ship in case such seamnan proves to be in sound health, and by the seaman himself or the boarding house keeper with whom he is residing in case he proves to be affected with any contagious disease; such fee to be received by the Harbour Master and in case of non-payment to be sued for and recovered by him, and paid into the Colonial Treasury for the purposes of this Ordi-
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Penalty for offertag any obstruction ta removal to a hospital. [Thid, nec. Ck]
Masters of shipz befor shipping Heathen may require them
to undergo medical Hupection. [bit, vee. 87.]
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