THE HONGKONG- GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH JANUARY, 1880.
stated to be indebted, to any person, and such boarding- house shall not be a part of a house, and shall be separated by at least one intervening house on either side of it from any house licensed for such sale as aforesaid; 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 And the Harbour Master of any Inspector of Police. 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 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 hung up in each house for the inspection of the inmates; and the infraction of any one of such rules shall subject the offender in every instance to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and for a second offence may deprive the offender, if the keeper of such house, of his liceuce as an additional punishment.
2. If any person not having obtained a licence for keep- ing a boarding-house for seamen shall keep one, he shall incur a penalty not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars; and the fact of more than one seaman boarding or lodging in the house of any person, shall be primâ facie proof of the keeping of a boarding-house for seamen by such person; but nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be construed to prevent any seaman from having the whole or any part of any unfurnished house for the residence of himself, or his family, and boarding himself therein.
3. Every keeper of a boarding-house for scamen shall cause daily to be entered in a book in English, the name and description of each additional scaman 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 such other particulars as the Harbour Master may direct; and every keeper of a boarding-house 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 those seamen, boarders or lodge.s, who left his house on any or either of the intermediate days, and shall also particularize in such list those 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 his office, for the convenience of masters of ships requiring men, and shall also post in a similar manner, if required so to do, such notices for the supply of men by masters of ships as the said masters shall furnish, and any infraction of this subsection shall render the boarding-house keeper liable to a penalty not exceed- ing twenty five dollars.
4. Nothing in this section contained shall prevent masters, mates, or engineers of ships from hoarding or lodging else- where than at a licensed boarding-house.
5. No seaman, who shall have been actually shipped by the Harbour Master, or his deputy, on board any vessel in compliance with this Ordinance, shall, during the time for which he is then shipped, be liable to be arrested on civil process, unless the debt or demand shall exceed the sum of five hundred dollars: Provided always, that by the term seaman in this paragraph shall be ment only a person who has, within the space of six months previously, served on board a ship for wages as a seaman, and that the protection from arrest hereby granted shall not be held to extend to any person not coming within such definition, nor in any case to masters, mates, or engineers.
6. Licences issued under this section shall be terminable on the 30th November of each year.
CHAPTER VII.
HEALTH OF SEAMEN.
XVIII. Every keeper of a licensed boarding-house for scamon, in the list of seamen resident in his house, which he is required to furnish to the Harbour Master, shall report as to the state of health of each seaman, so far as he may be able to ascertain the same; and every seaman who may be reported, or may be otherwise discovered, to be affectedl with a contagious disease, shall be removed by warrant
Penalty for keeping an un- Hoensed board- ing-house. [[bid, sec, 7.]
Duties of boarding- house keepers with respect to llata, re- turn. &, &e
of their in
ces.
[Thick, sec. 8.]
Masters. mates and Engineers board and
lore else- where, than in kuch houses. [[hid, sec, 9.]
No seantan shipped under this OrdinalÇƏ shall, during the term for which he is shipped, be Híable to arrest on civil pro cgss, in cer- tain cast [Zhirt, wee. 10.]
Koopera of Heensed board- in-houses for seamer to far- nish Harbour Master with weekly lets of the seam resident in their houses, and report their state of health.
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