ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1879.
Merchant Shipping.
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 lodgers, 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 exceeding twenty-five dollars.
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Masters, mates and
4. Nothing in this section contained shall prevent masters, mates, or engineers of ships from boarding or lodging elsewhere 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 meant 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.
18. Every keeper of a licensed boarding-house for seamen, in the list of Harbour Master, shall report as to the state of health of each seaman, so boarding and lodging in his house, which he is required to furnish to the
3 Seamen resident in his house.
[Ibid, sec. 9.] Masters, mates, and engineers may board and lodge elsewhere than in such houses.
No seaman shipped under this Ordinance shall, during the term for which he is shipped, be liable to arrest on civil process, in certain cases.
[Ibid, sec. 10.]
Keepers of licensed boarding-houses for seamen to
ORDINANCE No. 8 or 1879.
Merchant Shipping.
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 lodgers, who left his house on any or either of the intermediate days, and shall also par- ticularize 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 exceeding twenty-five dollars.
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Masters, mates and
4. Nothing in this section contained shall prevent masters, mates, or engineers of ships from boarding or lodging elsewhere than at a licensed engineers 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 meant 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.
18. Every keeper of a licensed boarding-house for scamen, in the list of Harbour Master, shall report as to the state of health of each seaman, so
3 Seamen resident in his house, which he is required to furnish to the
board and lodge else. where, than in such houses. [Ivid, soc. 9.]
No seaman shipped under- this Ordi- nance shall. during the term for which he is shipped, be liable to arrest on civil process, in
certain cases.
[Ibid, sec.
10.
Keepers of licensed boarding- houses for seamen to
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