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ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1879 . 1509


Merchant Shipping.


Harbour Master may direct ; and every keeper of a boarding- house shall ,
on the morning of Monday, in each week, send to the Harbour Master's

office a list, copied from his book, of the seamen on that day boarding or
lodging in his house, and of those seamen, boarders or lodgers, who left
his house on any or either of the intermediate days , and shall also par
ticularize in such list those seamen who wish for immediate employment ,
and place opposite to the names of those last named , the names of the
ships from which they were last discharged ; and the Harbour Master

shall keep the lists as furnished to him constantly in view, and in
a conspicuous part of his office, for the convenience of masters of ships
requiring men , and shall also post in a similar manner, if required so to
do, such notices for the supply of men by masters of ships as the said
masters shall furnish, and any infraction of this subsection shall render
the boarding- house keeper liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty -five
dollars .

4. Nothing in this section contained shall prevent masters , mates , or Masters,
mates and
engineers of ships from boarding or lodging elsewhere than at a licensed engineers
board and
boarding -house . lodge else
where, than in
such houses.
[Ibid, sec. 9.]
5. No seaman, who shall have been actually shipped by the Harbour No seaman
shipped under
Master, or his deputy , on board any vessel in compliance with this this Ordi
nance shall.
Ordinance, shall , during the time for which he is then shipped, be liable during the
term for
to be arrested on civil process, unless the debt or demand shall exceed which he is
shipped, be
the sum of five hundred dollars : Provided always, that by the term liableto arrest
on civil
seaman in this paragraph shall be meant only a person who has, within process, in
certain cases,
the space of six months previously , served on board a ship for wages
[Ibid, sec.
a seaman, and that the protection from arrest hereby granted shall not be 10. ]

held to extend to any person not coming within such definition , nor in
any case to masters , mates, or engineers .

6. Licences issued under this section shall be terminable on the 30th
November of each year .


CHAPTER VII.

HEALTH OF SEAMEN.


18. Every keeper of a licensed boarding -house for scamen , in the Keepers of
licensed
list of seamen resident in his house, which he is required to furnish to the boarding
houses for
Harbour Master, shall report as to the state of health of each seaman, so seamen to