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[Table K contd.] Furnishing of weekly list of seamen boarders.
Restriction on discharge of boarder.
Inspection of boarding house.
Posting up of regulations.
Penalty for infraction of regulations.
Fees payable by boarder.
Deductions from advance.
No detention of clothing.
Appeal of boarder against account.
Shipment of men from boarding house.
Weekly charge for board and lodging.
No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
17. The master of every boarding-house shall, every Monday morning, send to the Government Shipping Office a list copied from his book of all the seamen boarding in his house on that day and of those boarders who have left during the previous week, showing how the latter have been disposed of.
18. No boarding master shall discharge a boarder from his house without the sanction of the Harbour Master, unless such boarder is provided with suitable employment.
19. Every boarding-house shall be open at all times for the inspection of any justice of the peace or the Harbour Master or his deputy or of any inspector of police, or any member of the Sanitary Board, as well as for the visits of the Principal Civil Medical Officer.
20. A copy of these regulations shall be kept posted in a conspicuous place in the general sitting room.
21. Any infraction of any of these regulations shall render the offender liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars, and for a second offence to deprivation of his licence in addition.
22. Boarders are hereby informed that the only fees for which they are liable are a Government fee of forty cents for discharge and forty cents for shipping, and one dollar for boarding-house fee which is to include the commission for cashing an advance note.
23. When seamen have signed fresh articles of agreement no deductions other than those for debts legally due are to be made from their advances.
24. Seamen's clothing or bedding is not to be detained by way of security for debt.
25. Any boarder dissatisfied with his account shall be at liberty to lay the same before the Harbour Master who will decide if the charges are reasonable or otherwise.
26. A boarding-house keeper shall ship only the men belonging to his house. If, on any occasion, he has not enough boarders to complete the number required to ship, he may apply to any other boarding-house to supply the deficiency, but the men so supplied are to be shipped by the house in which they are boarding and not by the keeper who has the order for the crew, and only one shipping fee shall be charged.
27. The weekly charge for board and lodging shall be :-
in boarding-houses for Europeans and Americans, $8.00
in other boarding-houses, such amount as may be approved by the Harbour Master.
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[Table K contd.] Furnishing of weekly list of
seamen
boarders.
Restriction
on discharge
of boarder.
Inspection of boarding
house,
Posting up of regulations.
Penalty for infraction of regulations.
Fecs payable by boarder.
Deductions from advance.
No detention of clothing.
Appeal of boarder against account.
Shipment of men from boarding. house.
Weekly charge for board and lodging.
No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
17. The master of every boarding-house shall, every Monday morning, send to the Government Shipping Office a list copied from his book of all the seamen boarding in his house on that day and of those boarders who have left during the previous week, showing how the latter have been disposed of.
18. No boarding master shall discharge a boarder from his house without the sanction of the Harbour Master, unless such boarder is provided with suitable employment.
19. Every boarding-house shall be open at all times for the inspection of any justice of the peace or the Harbour Master or his deputy or of any inspector of police, or any member of the Sanitary Board, as well as for the visits of the Principal Civil Medical Officer,
20. A copy of these regulations shall be kept posted in a conspicuous place in the general sitting room.
21. Any infraction of any of these regulations shall render the offender liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars, and for a second offence to deprivation of his licence in addition.
22. Boarders are hereby informed that the only fees for which they are liable are a Government fee of forty cents for discharge and forty cents for shipping, and one dollar for boarding-house fee which is to include the commission for cashing an advance note.
23. When seamen have sigued fresh articles of agreement no deductions other than those for debts legally due are to be made from their advances.
24. Seamen's clothing or bedding is not to be detained by way of security for debt.
25. Any boarder dissatisfied with his account shall be at liberty to lay the same before the Harbour Master who will decide if the charges are reasonable or otherwise.
26. A boarding-house keeper shall ship only the men belonging to his house. If, on any occasion, he has not enough boarders to complete the number required to ship, he may apply to any other boarding-house to supply the deficiency, but the men so supplied are to be shipped by the house in which they are boarding and not by the keeper who has the order for the crew, and only one shipping fee shall be charged.
27. The weekly charge for board and lodging shall be :-
in boarding-houses for Europeans and Americans,. in other boarding-houses, such amount as may be
approved by the Harbour Master.
.$8.00
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