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274 ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1852 .


Desertion of Seamen.

As to the 6. That the Harbour Master having obtained the sanction of the * Chief Magistrate
establishment
and regulation of Police, in every case shall have power to license a sufficient number of fit and pro
of boarding
houses.
[* Ord. No. 6 of per persons to keep boarding-houses for seamen, and every such licence shall be coun
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tersigned by the Colonial Secretary, and shall be granted for such period not exceed
ing one year, and upon such terms and security, and shall be renewable upon such
conditions, as the said Colonial Secretary may appoint ; and it shall be lawful for the
said Colonial Secretary to demand for every such licence an annual fee of five pounds.
sterling , 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 a suitable room or cabin for each boarder, and a general room of suffi
cient size wherein the boarders may dine and sit ; 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 board
ing-house 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 Magistrate, or of the Harbour Master, or of any
constable specially appointed for the general service of visiting such houses. 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 (subject
however as to this and all other powers vested in him by this Ordinance, to the control
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 in English, Spanish , Portuguese,
Hindostanee, and Chinese, 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 five pounds sterling, and for a second offence may
deprive the offender, if the keeper of such house , of his licence as an additional punish
ment.

Penalty for 7. And that if any person not having obtained a licence for keeping a boarding-
keeping an
unlicensed
boarding-house. house for seamen shall keep one, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding the sum
of twenty pounds ; and that the fact of more than one seaman 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 ; and nothing
herein contained with reference to boarding-houses shall apply to licensed retailers of
spirituous or fermented liquors until the time of their present licences shall have
expired.
Duties of board 8. That every keeper of a boarding-house for seamen shall cause daily to be entered
ing-house
keepers with in a book in English, the name and description of each additional seaman who has on
respect to lists,
returns, &c., &c.
of their inmates. that day come to board or lodge at his house, and the name of each seaman who has