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1508 ORDINANCE No. 8 CF 1879 .


Merchant Shipping.


renewable upon such conditions , as the Colonial Secretary may appoint ;
and it shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to demand for every such

licence an annual fee of twenty - five dollars, or at the rate thereof accord
ing 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 suitable rooms to be approved by the
Harbour Master ; and no such boarding-house shall be a house licen
sed 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 in
debted, to any person, and such boarding-house shall not be a part of a

house, and 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
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 ins

pector of Police. 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 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 the infraction of any one of such rules shall subject the
offender in every instance to a penalty not exceeding twenty- five dollars ,
and for a second offence may deprive the offender, if the keeper of such
house, of his licence as an additional punishment.
Penalty for 2. If any person not having obtained a licence for keeping a boarding
keeping an
unlicensed house for seamen shall keep one, he shall incur a penalty not exceeding
boarding
house. the sum of one hundred dollars ; and the fact of more than one seaman
Thid, sec. 7. boarding or lodging in the house of any person , shall be primâfacie 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 .
Duties of 3. Every keeper of a boarding- house for seamen shall cause daily to
boarding
house keepers be entered in a book in English, the name and description of each
with respect
to lists, additional seaman who has, on that day, come to board or lodge at his
returns, &c.,
&c. of their house, and the name of each seaman who has left his house on that day
inmates.
[ Ibid, sec. 8. ] after being a lodger or boarder therein , and such other particulars as the