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Table K.
Penalty for keeping unlicensed boarding. house.
Duties of boarding+
No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
shall be for the reception of such number of seamen only as may be expressed in the licence, under a penalty of 25 dollars for each Eeaman lodged at one time in excess of such number, and shall not be granted until there have been constructed in the house to be licensed suitable rooms, to be approved by the Harbour Master; and no such boarding-house shall be a house licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors, nor shall any charge for intoxicating liquor be allowed in any account for the amount of which any seaman may be indebted, or stated to be indebted, to any person; and every such boarding-house shall be open at all times to the visit of any Justice of the Peace, or of the Harbour Master, or of any Inspector of Police. The Harbour Master may refuse to grant any such licence, and may limit the number and description of seamen to be boarded in each house, and may make rules, subject to the approval of the Governor, for the government of such houses, and regulate the charge to be made for board and lodging; and a copy of such rules shall be bung -up in each house for the inspection of the inmates; and for any infraction of any one of such rules the offender in every instance shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars, and for a second offence may further be deprived, if the keeper of auch house, of his licence. Licences issued under this section shall be terminable on 30th November of each year.
(2) If any person, not having obtained a licence required by the last sub-section keeps a boarding-house for seamen he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars; and the fact of more than one seaman boarding or lodging in the house of any person shall be prima facie proof of the keeping of a boarding house for seamen by such person; but nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to prevent any seaman from having the whole or any part of a house
any for the residence of himself or his family and boarding himself therein.
(3) Every licensed keeper of a boarding-house for examen shali house keeper. Cause daily to be entered in a book, in English, the name and description of each seaman who has, on that day, come to board or lodge at his house, and the name of each seaman who has left his house on that day after being a lodger or boarder therein, and euch other particulars as the Harbour Master may direct; and every such keeper shall, on the morning of Monday in each week, send to the Harbour Master's Office a list, copied from his book, of the seamen on that day boarding or lodging in his house, and of the seamen, boarders or lodgers, who left his house on any or either of the inter-
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mediate days, and shall also particularize in such list the seamen who wish for immediate employment, and place opposite to the names of those last named the names of the ships from which they were last discharged; and the Harbour Master shall keep the lists as furnished to him constantly in view, and in a conspicuous part of the Mercantile Marine Office, for the convenience of masters of ships requiring men, and shall also post in a similar manner, if required to do so, such notices for the supply of men by masters of ships as the said masters may furnish. Any infraction of this sub-section aball render the boarding-house keeper liable to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars.
(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent masters, mates or en- Certificated gineers of ships from boarding elsewhere than at a licensed board- offiser may
lodge elsewhere. ing-house.
Distressed Seamen.
7-(1) All expenses incurred under the provisions of the nolief of Merchant Shipping Acts in the relief of distressed seamen who, at belonging to the time of such relief being granted, have last served in a vessel
registered in ship registered in this Colony, and all expenses incurred in the the Colgay. United Kingdom in relieving and returning to this Colony all distressed seamen who last served in such ship, shall be borne by the revenue of this Colony.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor to order the payment out Payment
of expenses of the general revenue of all expenses incurred in the Colony for the incurred in relief of such seamen as aforesaid, under the provisions of the said the Colony Acts or of any regulations in that behalf which may be made by the auch sonmen. Governor-in-Council.
for telief of
incurred alse-
(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor to order the repayment out Re-payment of the general revenue of all sums expended under the provisions of of expenses the said Acts by the Imperial Government, or by "The Shipwrecked where than m Mariners Society, or by the Government of any British colony, or
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by any British consular officer in any foreign country, in and about the relief of such seamen as aforesaid, and such sums shall be refunded in such manner as the Governor may think fit or as a Secretary of State may direct.
* As amanded by No. 2 of 1903, No. 50 of 1811, No. 16 of 1912,
No. 17 of 1912 and No. 21 of 1913. *
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