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No. 10 of 1899.
[s. B contd.]
Table K.
Penalty for keeping unlicensed boarding house,
Duties of boarding house keeper.
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 seaman 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 hung 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 such 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 primâ 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 any house for the residence of himself or his family and boarding himself therein.
(3) Every licensed keeper of a boarding-house for seamen shall 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 such 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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954
No. 10 of 1899.
[s. B
contd.]
Table K.
Penalty for keeping unlicensed boarding. house,
Duties of boarding
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 seaman 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 hung 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 such 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 primâ 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 any house for the residence of himself or his family and boarding himself therein.
(3) Every licensed keeper of a boarding-house for seamen 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 such 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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