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Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 7, 1865.

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VOL. IV.-——-No. 316

LAWS 0F“'JPRINCEIJEPWARD “IsIIN‘Ii; ' CAP. XVIII.

An Act to make provision for the regulation of Sea-

men shipped on board of any ship or vessel owned in, or belonging to Prince Edward Island, while such ship or vessel shall be within the precincts 0f

the said Island. [Passed April 3, 1865.] E it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor,Council and Assembly, as follows:

I. From and after the passing ofthis Act, if any person or persons in this Island, shall trust or give credit to any mariner or seaman, belonging to any ship or vessel registered in or belonging to this Is- land, while such ship shall be within the precincts of this Island, without the knowledge or allowance of the master or commander thereof, no capias or other process of arrest of the person of such mariner or seaman, for any debts so contractesl, shall be issued against or secured upon the person of such mariner or seaman, until he shall have performed the voyage, which he may be then entered upon and dis- charged of the same; and every such process so issued, shall be deemed and adjudged utterly Void in law; and any one Justice of the Court from which such process shall issue, to whom it shall be made to appear, that any mariner or seaman is com- mitted or detained upon process, granted for any such debt contracted while he was engaged and ac- tually entered on pay and on any voyage, shall forth- with order his release.

Il. Whenever either .at the commencement or during the progress of any voyage, any marinerer seaman, or apprentice, neglects or refuses to jom, or deserts from, or refuses to proceed to sea, in any such ship or vessel, so within this Island, in which he is duly engaged to serve, or is found otherwise absenting himselftherefrom, withoutleave, the mas- ter or any mate, or the owner, ship’s husband, or consignee, may, with or without the assrstance ofthe local police officers or constables (who are hereby directed to give the same if required) apprehend him without first procuring a warrant, and may thereupon in any case, and shall in case "I: .50 re- quires, conVey him before a twv of He. ajesty’s Justices of the Peace ., . C 'nty wherein he shall be so apprehended, o. n Chi. lottetown before the Police Court, or any two Justices as aforesaid, to be dealt with according to law; and may for the

purpose of conveying him before such Justices or Court, detain him in custody for a period not ex- ceeding twenty-four hours, or such shorte; time as maybe necessary; or may if he does not so require, ifthere be no Justices of the Peace at or near the place, at once convey him on board; and if any such apprehension, appears to such Court or Justices be- fore whom the case is brought, to have been made on improper or on insufficient grounds, the master, mate, owner, ship’s husband, or consignee who makes the same, or causes the same to be made, shall incur a penalty not exceeding ten pounds; but such penalty ifinflieted, shall be a bar to any action for, false imprisonment in respect of such apprehen- SIon.

lIl. Upon conviction of any mariner, seaman, or

'apprentice, for any offence or direliction of duty as

aforesaid, it shall be the duty of such Court or Jus- tices, to commit such mariner, seaman or apprentice to prison, that he may be forthcoming to proceed on the voyage he has so agreed or been engaged for, to be delivered by order of the Court or Justices who committed him, or some other Justice of the Peace ofthe same County; and all ner sary charges at- tending his being so sccured, and which have been actually paid by the said master, owner, ship’s hus- band or consignee,may be deducted from suchmariner seaman or apprentices wages, as the same may be- come due;and it shall be the duty of the owner, mastcr,oflicer or the consignee ofsuchship or vessel complaining as aforesaid, to supply for the. use ofthe said mariner or seaman, or apprentice, all necessary bedding, provisions and maintenances during the time ofhis detention in prison, as aforesaid, and pay to the jailer of said prison his lawful fees, on receiving and discharging such mariner or seaman, or apprentice; and in default thereof, the said jailer may make the supplies aforesaid, and maintain an action therefor, together with the fees aforesaid, against the owner of the said vessel, or the oflicer or consignee complain- ing as aforesaid, in any court of record, or ifthe sum shall not exceed twenty pounds, before any Court of Commissioners for the recovery of Small Debts.

IV. lf any master or commander of any such ship or vessel, or any other person or persons, shall hire, or engage, harbor or conceal any mariner, seamen or apprentice, who shall have signed any former contract or articles, knowing him to have deserted from, or to belong to any other ship or vessel in this Island.registered in and belonging to the same, every