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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