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ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1879 . 1531


Merchant Shipping.


14. Every master of a junk violating the provisions of subsections 8 Penalty for
infraction of
and 9 shall incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars , or impri- provisions of
subsections S
sonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding twelve and 9.
[Ibid, sec. 19. ]
calendar months , and such junk and her cargo shall be forfeited to the
Crown.

15. No licence, anchorage pass, clearance or special permit shall be Penalty for
unlawfully
used in respect of any junk other than the junk therein specified , or for using a licen
ce, pass, clear
any purpose other than the one therein mentioned , and every master of ance, or
special
a junk who shall knowingly use or attempt to use any licence, anchorage permit .
[Ibid, sec.
pass, clearance or special permit which shall not have been lawfully 201
obtained, shall be imprisoned with hard labour for any term not exceed
ing twelve calendar months, and every junk in respect of which a licence,
anchorage pass, clearance, or special permit shall have been used or

attempted to be used in violation of this subsection may, together with
the cargo thereof, and whether the master shall have been brought to trial.
or not, at the discretion of the Court, be forfeited to the Crown.

16. Every master of a junk, vessel , or boat , bringing into the Penalty for
bringingmen
Colony, or from one part of the Colony to another, any person who shall, dicants into
the Colony.
in the opinion of the Court before which the offence shall be tried , have [Ibid, sec.
21.]
come to the Colony for the purpose of mendicancy, or any person suffer
ing from leprosy or any contagious disease, shall incur a penalty not
exceeding ten dollars for every such person so brought by him as afore
said .

17. It shall be lawful for any person deputed thereto by the Governor, Power to
board any
or by the commander of any of Her Majesty's ships -of- war, or for any junk and
demand ins
officer or constable of the Police force, at any time to board any junk pection of
documents.
within the waters of the Colony and demand the production of either an [Ibid, sec.
22. ]
anchorage pass , clearance, special permit, or licence, and in case by reason
of the non-production of any one of such documents, or for any other
reason, there shall be ground to believe or suspect that any provision of
this chapter has been violated by the master of such junk, or in case the
document produced shall appear from the date thereof, or from any other

cause, to have been unlawfullyobtained, or to be unlawfully used , to
arrest such junk and her cargo and the master of such junk, and deliver
them into the custody of the Police.

18. No junk or cargo liable to forfeiture, under the provisions of Trial of offen
ces under this
this chapter, shall be so forfeited , unless the offence in respect of which chapter.
[Ibid, sec.
such junk or cargo is liable to forfeiture, shall be tried by two Stipendiary 23.1