1508
Penalty for keeping an unlicensed boarding-house.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1879.
Merchant Shipping.
renewable upon such conditions, as the Colonial Secretary may appoint; and it shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to demand for every such licence an annual fee of twenty-five dollars, or at the rate thereof according to the term of such licence; and every such house shall be for the reception of such number of seamen only as shall be expressed in the licence, 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 spirituous or fermented liquors, nor shall any charge for spirituous or fermented 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 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 of any inspector of Police. And 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 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, if the keeper of such house, of his licence as an additional punishment.
2. If any person not having obtained a licence for keeping 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 [Ibid, sec. 7.] 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 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.
Duties of boarding-house keepers with respect to lists,
3. Every keeper of a boarding-house for seamen shall cause daily to be entered in a book in English, the name and description of each additional 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. [Ibid, sec. 8.] after being a lodger or boarder therein, and such other particulars as the returns, &c., &c. of their inmates.
1508
Penalty for keeping an unlicensed boarding- house.
ORDINANCE No. 8 CF 1879.
Merchant Shipping.
renewable upon such conditions, as the Colonial Secretary may appoint; and it shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to demand for every such licence an annual fee of twenty-five dollars, or at the rate thereof accord- ing to the term of such licence; and every such house shall be for the reception of, such number of seamen only as shall be expressed in the licence, 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 licen- sed for the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors, nor shall any charge for spirituous or fermented liquor be allowed in any account for the amount of which any seaman may be indebted, or stated to be in- debted, 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 of any ins- pector of Police. And 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 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, if the keeper of such
and for a second offence may deprive the oeding
house, of his licence as an additional punishment.
2. If any person not having obtained a licence for keeping a boarding- house for seamen shall keep one, be shall incur a penalty not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars; and the fact of more than one seaman [Ibid, sec. 7. 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 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.
Duties of boarding-
house keepers with respect to lists,
3. Every keeper of a boarding-house for seamen shall cause daily to be entered in a book in English, the name and description of each additional 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. [Ibid, sec, 8.] after being a lodger or boarder therein, and such other particulars as the
returns, &c.,
&c. of their
inmates.
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