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MERCHANT SHIPPING.

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(5) Every keeper of a licensed boarding-house for seamen, in the Keeper of

licensed list of seamen resident in his house which he is required to furnish

boarding. to the Harbour Master, shall report as to the state of health of each house to seaman, so far as he may be able to ascertain the same; and every of boarders report state

seaman who is reported, or is otherwise discovered, to be affected health. with a contagious disease shall be removed, by warrant under the hand of the Harbour Master, to a hospital, where he shall be kept until he is discharged as cured, and has obtained a certificate of his having been so discharged, which certificate he shall produce and show to the Harbour Master, when required to do so; and the ex- penses which may be incurred in and about the maintenance and treatment of any such seaman in such hospital shall be a debt due to the Crown, and shall be paid by such seaman; or, in case the keeper of the boarding-house in which such seaman has resided before his romoval to hospital has not reported, or has made a false report, as to the state of health of such seaman, then such expenses shall be paid by such boarding-house keeper, in case it appears to and is certified by the medical officer in charge of the hospital to which such seaman is removed, or by an assistant surgeon, that the disease with which he is affected is of such a nature as that the keeper of the boarding-house could, with ordinary and reasonable observation, have ascertained its existence; and in every case such expenses shall, in case of non-payment, be sued for and recovered by the Harbour Master on behalf of the hospital.

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(6) If any seaman affected with a contagious disease, and Penalty on reported so to be by the keeper of the boarding-house in which such

obstructing seaman is residing, refuses or offers any hindrance or obstruction to removal

to hospital. his removal to a hospital; or, having been removed to a hospital, attempts to leave the same before he is properly discharged cured; or, having been discharged cured, refuses to produce his certificate. of discharge when required by the Harbour Master to do so; or, being affected with a contagious disease, refuses or neglects to inform the keeper of the hoarding-house in which he is residing of the fact of his being so affected, then and in every such case such scaman so offending shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month.