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Penalty for disobeying Harbour Master's orders.

Penalty for bringing medicants. &c., into the Colony.

Power to board any junk and demand

documents.

(19) Every master of any junk or other vessel licensed under this section who shall, when within the waters of the Colony, disobey any lawful orders which the Harbour Master may see fit to give, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.

(2) Every master of a junk, who brings into the Colony any person who, in the opinion of the Magistrate before whom the charge is tried, has come to the Colony for the purpose of medicaney, or any person suffering from leprosy or any infectious or contagious disease, or who removes such person from one part of the Colony to another, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars for each offence, unless in the case of any person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease, such master can show to the satisfaction of the Magistrate that he had no reasonable means of knowing that such person was so suffering.

(21.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or any person deputed thereto by him, or for any officer or coustable of the Police Force, or any Revenue Officer, at any time to inspection of stop and board any junk within the waters of the Colony and demand the production of any licence or special permit, and in case by reason of the non-production of any of such documents, or for any other reason, there shall be ground to believe or suspect that any provision of the law has been violated by the master of such juuk, or in case the document produced shall appear from the date thereof, or from any other cause, to have been unlawfully obtained, or to be unlawfully used, to arrest such junk and her cargo and the master of such junk, and deliver them into the custody of the Police.

In case of

non-payment of penalty by master, the same may be levied by sale of junk.

Transfer to purchaser upon sale of junk.

Trial of offences uit- der this section.

(2.) Every junk, the master of which shall be charged with having violated the provisions of this section, may be forthwith arrested and detained, unless bail to the satis- faction of a Magistrate is given, until the said master shall either have been acquitted of the offence charged or, if found guilty, shall have paid the penalty inflicted upon him, and in case he shall fail to pay, within ten days, any penalty which may be inflicted upon him, the same may be recovered by the sale of such junk, and the balance, if any, of the net proceeds thereof, after deducting therefrom the expenses of such sale and the amount of such penalty as aforesaid, shall be paid to the owner or owners of the junk, if claimed within twelve months from the date of the sale, and if not claimed within that period, shall be for- feited to the Crown: Provided that in case it shall be brought to the knowledge of the Magistrate that there is in the Colony any consignee or agent of such junk no sale thereof shall be made in pursuance of this sub-section until three days' previous notice thereof shall have been given in writing to such consignee or agent,

(23.) Every junk forfeited or sold under the provisions of this section shall be transferred to the purchaser there- of, at his expense, by a bill of sale from the Harbour Master, and such bill of sale shall confer upon such purchaser, his executors, administrators and assigns an absolute title to such junk.

(4.) No junk or cargo liable to forfeiture, under the provisions of this section, shall be so forfeited unless the offence in respect of which such junk or cargo is liable to forfeiture, shall be tried by two Police Magistrates sitting together, who shall have power, in their discretion, to extend the period limited by law for an appeal from their decision to the Supreme Court, either before or after the expiration thereof,*

Penalty for (25.) Every master of a junk who shall refuse or fail to infraction comply with the provisions of sub-section (10) or (11) of of sub-sec-

this section, or knowingly give untrue particulars cou- tion (f) or

cerning the information which he is thereby required to furnish, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars, or imprisonment with or without labour for any period not exceeding six months.

(11).