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482 ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1860.


Registration of Boats, &c.

Licence may be 11. The Magistrate before whom any conviction may take place under the
withdrawn or
suspended. provisions of this Ordinance, may, if he shall think fit, either in addition to or in lieu
of any fine or imprisonment hereby imposed , suspend , or altogether withdraw the
licence of any offender, and transmit his licence ticket to the Registrar General, with
a certificate setting forth the decision at which he has arrived ; and, in case of
suspension, the Registrar shall re-issue the ticket to the applicant at the expiration
of the time for which the Magistrate shall have suspended the licence.

Owners employ 12. Every owner of a cargo boat who shall employ any unregistered person to
ing unregistered
persons. take charge thereof, or to work therein , or who shall refuse when called upon to give
information which he may possess as to names, places of abode, or other particulars
relative to persons charged with the commission of offences against this Ordinance,
shall on conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.

Certificate of fit 13. On and after the first day of January next, every applicant for a licence for
ness of cargo
boat required. any cargo boat shall produce, at the time of making his application , a certificate under the
hand of the Harbour Master, or an Inspector appointed for that purpose, setting forth
that he has examined the boat for which a licence is required , and that it is in all
respects fit and proper to be employed as a cargo boat : and the Harbour Master or
Inspector shall deliver to the applicant a certificate to the effect stated on payment of
a fee of one dollar.

Examination of 14. The Harbour Master or Inspector is hereby empowered to enter at any time
cargo boats.
on board of any licensed cargo boat, and to survey and examine the same ; and in the
event of his discovering that any false bottom or other fitting, alteration or addition
has been made therein for the purpose of facilitating the fraudulent concealment of
goods, he shall seize and detain such boat, and apprehend or cause to be apprehended
the master or other person in charge thereof, and deliver him into the custody of a
Police constable.

Boats with false 15. As soon as conveniently may be after the seizure of any boat, the Harbour
bottoms, &c. may
be seized and Master, or Inspector, shall prefer an information before a Police Magistrate against
condemned.
the licensed owner, and also against the master or other person found in charge of
such boat ; and if the Magistrate, after hearing all the evidence which may be offered,
shall be satisfied that the false bottom or other fitting, alteration , or addition complained
of was used or made for the purpose of fraudulently concealing goods therein, he may
adjudge that such boat shall be forfeited and sold and the proceeds thereof be paid
into the the Colonial Treasury ; and also that the master or other person found in
charge of such boat, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or be
imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any term not exceeding six months. And the
licensed owner of such boat shall, if the Magistrate be satisfied that the alteration,
addition, or fitting complained of, was made or used by his order, or with his sanction
or connivance, be liable to forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars,
or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding six months.