1. Master carrying out to sea any seaman (apprentices excepted), without first entering into agreement. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 112, s. 4. 2. Master neglecting to cause agreement to be read over and explained Id. to seaman. 3. Master neglecting to deposit agreement or copy with collector or comptroller of customs. Id. Id. Id. s. 6. 4. Wilfully depositing a false copy. 5. Seaman, either before commencement or during the progress of any voyage, at any time neglecting, or refusing to join the ship engaged to serve in, or 6. Refusing to proceed to sea in her, or 7. Absenting himself therefrom without leave, or deserting. 8. Any person harbouring or secreting a seaman or apprentice, who shall have deserted from his ship, knowing or having reason to believe him to be a deserter. 9. Detaining seaman's effects for pretended debt. 10. Master not giving to seamen certificate of service and discharge. As to assaults on board a ship, see Offence 6, title "Assault," Id. s. 10. Id. Id. s. 13. (160) These offences relate to seamen on board British ships proceeding beyond seas, or of eighty tons or upwards engaged in the fisheries or coasting trade, or otherwise. (161) Proceedings to be commenced within two years if the offence be committed at or beyond Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope, or within one year if committed on the European side thereof, or within two calendar months after the return of the offender or complainant to the United Kingdom (s. 62). (162) The master, mate, or owner must lay the information. Р OFFENCES within the 11 & 12 VICT. c. 43. Statute. SEAMEN-continued. 11. Person not duly licensed [by Privy Council for Trades,] or not being the owner, or in charge of a merchant ship, hiring, engaging, supplying, or providing a seaman to be entered on board any mrchant ship; 12. And any person, whether licensed or not, other than the owner, &c. demanding or obtaining the register ticket of any seaman for the purpose or under the pretence of engaging him on board of any merchant ship. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 116, s. 3. 13. Owner, or person in charge of ship, knowingly receiving or accepting seaman hired contrary to act. Id. s. 4. 14. Any licensed person knowingly employing any unlicensed person for engaging seamen. Id. s. 6. 15. Any person demanding or receiving from seaman, or any person other than the owner, &c. of ship, any remuneration for hiring seamen. Id. s. 8. 16. Any person (not in her Majesty's service) going or being on board without permission before ship's actual arrival in dock, &c. Id. s. 9. 17. Soliciting sailors to become lodgers in houses of unlicensed persons, Id. s. 10. or 18. Removing sailors' effects from on board. 19. Receiving remuneration for board of sailors for longer period than is due, or 20. Neglecting to return monies or effects belonging to seamen. SHEEP. (Note 162 a.) 1. Bringing, or attempting to bring, any sheep, lambs, oxen, bulls, cows, calves, or other horned cattle, into any market, fair or other open or public place where animals are commonly exposed for sale, knowing the same to be infected with or labouring under either of such disorders (i. e. a contagious or infectious disorder, known or described as the sheep pox or variola ovina), or any disorder of the like nature. (Note 162 b.) Id. s. 11. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 107, s. 1 (Note 162 c). (162 a) These offences are under the " act to prevent until the 1st of September, 1850, and to the end of the then session of parliament, the spreading of contagious or infectious disorders among sheep, cattle, and other animals." (162 b) In case any sheep or lambs so infected be exposed or offered for sale, or brought or attempted to be brought for that purpose, in any market, &c., any clerk or inspector, or other officer of such fair or market, or any constable or policeman, or any other person authorized by the mayor or any two justices of the peace having jurisdiction in the place, or any person authorized or appointed by her Majesty in council, may seize the same, and report such seizure to the mayor or any justice; and such mayor or justice may either restore the same, or cause the same, together with any pens, hurdles, troughs, litter, hay, straw or other articles likely to have been infected thereby, to be forthwith destroyed or otherwise disposed of in such manner as he shall deem proper (s. 1), or as privy council may by order direct (s. 4). (162 c) Sect. 15 imposes a penalty of not exceeding £5 on a witness not appearing to a summons, or refusing to be examined. (162 d) A summons must be granted. Service personal or at abode. Hearing may be ex parte (s. 8). (162 e) To the general quarter sessions for the county or place in which the cause of appeal shall have arisen, but no such appeal is to be entertained unless it be made within four months next after the making of the adjudication, nor unless ten days' notice in writing of such appeal, stating the nature and grounds thereof, be given to the party against whom the appeal shall be brought, nor unless the appellant forthwith after such notice enter into recognizances, with two sufficient sureties, before a justice, to prosecute appeal, &c. OFFENCES within the 11 & 12 VICT. C. 43. Statute. SHEEP-continued. 2. Turning out, keeping or depasturing any sheep or lamb so infected in or upon any forest, chase, wood, moor, marsh, heath, common, waste land, open field, road side, or other undivided or uninclosed land. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 107, s. 2 (Note 162 c, ante, p. 211). 3. Publicly exposing or offering meat unfit for human food for sale. [Same may be seized as sheep, &c. Note 162 b, ante, p. 210.] Id. s. 3. 4. Offending against the orders and regulations of privy council made under this act (see s. 5). Id. s. 4. 5. Wilfully obstructing or impeding any person acting under the authority of this act, or of any order or regulation of privy council, or 6. Aiding and assisting therein. SHIPS. The statute and sections relative to Ships' Ballast are the Id. s. 7. 54 Geo. 3, c. 159, ss. 11, 13. The like as to Ships' Passengers The like as to Ships' Pilots The like as to Ship's Register... As to Ship's Anchors, &c. see tit. "Wreck and Salvage," post. 4 G. 4, c. 88, ss. 3, 4, 5; 5 & 6 V. c. 107, ss. 2, 19, 22, 27; 10 & 11 V. c. 103, ss. 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13; 11 & 12 V. c. 6, ss. 1, 3, 8, 12, 13. 6 G. 4, c. 125, ss. 3, 15, 18, 19, |32, 33, 58, 64, 66, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74. 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 55, s. 27. |