Masters of

Ships in the
Home and

to return Lists

half-yearly.

XXVII. And be it enacted, That within Twenty-one Days after the Thirtieth Day of June and the Thirty-first Day of December in each Year the Master or Fishing Trade Owner of every Ship belonging to a Subject of Her Majesty, of whatever Tonnage, employed in fishing on the Coasts of the United Kingdom or elsewhere, other than the South Sea, Greenland, and Newfoundland Fisheries, or in proceeding from one Part of the United Kingdom to another, and every Ship proceeding or making Voyages to any of the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, or to any Port on the Continent of Europe, between the River Elbe inclusive and Brest, shall deliver or transmit, or cause to be delivered or transmitted, to the Collector or Comptroller of the Customs of any Port of the United Kingdom, an Account, signed by such Master or Owner, of any Voyage or Voyages in which such Ship shall have been engaged during the preceding Half Year, ending on the respective Days above mentioned, and setting forth legibly and at full Length the Christian and Surnames of the several Persons (including the Master and Apprentices) who shall have belonged to the Ship at any Time during such Periods respectively; which Account shall be in the Form and shall contain a true and correct Return under their respective Heads of the several Particulars expressed in the Schedule marked (D.) to this Act annexed, with the Dates of the Registry of the Indentures of Apprenticeship and Assignments respectively, and the Ports at which and the Time when they were respectively registered, and the Numbers of the Register Tickets of every Seaman and Apprentice; and no Master receive it or Owner shall be entitled to or receive a Transire or other Customs Document necessary to enable him to conduct the Business of his Ship, after the Expiration of the said Twenty-one Days, until he shall produce and show a Certificate from such Collector or Comptroller (which he is hereby required to give), to the Effect that he has delivered such an Account; and in the Case of Ships of all Descriptions which may be unemployed for Six Months, or which may be employed and not require a Transire or other Customs Document, the Master or Owner shall notify the same to such Collector or Comptroller within such Twenty-one Days, and in case of every Default the Master or Owner shall be liable to a Penalty of Ten Pounds; and all Collectors and Comptrollers of Customs of the Ports to which the Vessels belong shall transmit a List of all such Ships, and of all Ships of every Description registered or licensed, or whose Registers or Licences have been transferred or cancelled in their respective Ports within each Half Year ending as aforesaid, to the said Registrar at the said Office, on or before the First Day of February and the First Day of August in each Year respectively.

Vessels not to Tranuntil Lists

be delivered.

Owners of

Vessels unem

ployed, or not toms Document, to notify

requiring Cus

same.

Penalty for
Default.

Return to be made in case

of Ship lost or sold abroad.

XXVIII. And be it enacted, That in case any Ship belonging to any Subject of Her Majesty shall be lost, sold, or transferred, an Account, containing a similar Return as required in the several and respective Cases before mentioned, made out up to the Period of such Loss, Sale, or Transfer, shall, if practicable, be

delivered

delivered or transmitted by the Master or Owner at the Time of the Loss, Sale, or Transfer, to the Collector or Comptroller of the Port to which the Ship belongs, with all convenient Speed, and in case such Loss, Sale, or Transfer shall take place out of the United Kingdom, within Twelve Calendar Months at furthest after the Loss, Sale, or Transfer of the Ship.

XXIX. And be it enacted, That all Indentures, Counterparts, Assignments, Lists, Accounts, Returns, Papers, Register Tickets, and Documents by this Act required to be delivered to the Collectors or Comptrollers as aforesaid shall be by them transmitted to the said Registrar for the purposes of this Act at the End of every Week, unless otherwise specified in this Act; and every Owner or Master who shall refuse or neglect to transmit, deliver or cause to be delivered, any List, Account, Register Ticket, or other Document, as required by this Act, shall for every such Refusal or Neglect forfeit and pay the Suin of Ten Pounds.

XXX. And be it enacted, That all Agreements, or Copies thereof, Lists, Returns, Register Tickets, and other Documents, which under the Provisions of this Act are required to be transmitted or delivered to the Collectors or Comptrollers of Customs of the several Ports in the United Kingdom, shall, in the Case of Pleasure Yachts, be transmitted or delivered by the Masters or Owners of such Yachts direct to the Registrar of Seamen, and the Owners or Masters thereof shall be liable to the same Penalties for Default as herein provided in the Cases of the Masters or Owners of other Ships failing to transmit or deliver such Documents to such Collectors and Comptrollers

As to the Dis-
Effects of any
Seaman dying

posal of the

abroad.

XXXI. And be it enacted, That whenever any Seaman, being abroad, shall die elsewhere than on board a Ship belonging to any Subject of Her Majesty, leaving any Money or Effects not on board his Ship, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty's Consul or Vice Consul at or nearest to the Place, and he is hereby required, to claim and take charge of all such Money and Effects, and to dispose of the said Effects, if he shall so think fit, and after deducting all necessary and proper Charges and Expences incurred in the collecting thereof, or by or on account of such Seaman, to remit the Balance, with a full account of such Money or Effects, to the President and Governors of the Corporation "For the Relief and Support "of sick, maimed, and disabled Seamen, and of the Widows and Children of such "as shall be killed, slain, or drowned in the Merchant Service," to be by such President and Governors paid over and disposed of, in the same Manner and under the same Regulations as are provided by an Act passed in the Fifth Year of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend an Act of 4 & 5 W.4.c. the Twentieth Year of His Majesty King George the Second, for the Relief and 52. Support of sick, maimed, and disabled Seamen, and the Widows and Children of

such

Parish Boys may be put out Apprentices to the Sea Service.

such as shall be killed, slain, or drowned in the Merchant Service, and for other Purposes, with respect to the Wages of Seamen dying on board Merchant Ships; and in case any Seaman dying abroad shall leave on board his Ship any Money, Clothes, or other Effects, or be entitled to any Wages, the Master of the said Ship shali and he is hereby required to deposit the same, or the Proceeds arising therefrom, with, and to pay such Wages to, the President and Governors aforesaid, to be by them disposed of in the same Manner as is provided by the said Act with respect to the Wages of Seamen dying on board Ship, and to transmit to the said President and Governors at the same Time a full Account of such Effects and Wages; and on Failure the Master shall forfeit a Sum not exceeding Fifty Pounds, in addition to being accountable for such Money, Clothes, Effects, and Wages ; and in all Cases of a Seaman dying abroad the Master shall, on his Ship's Return to the United Kingdom, deliver up to the said President and Governors the Register Ticket of such deceased Seaman, and the said President and Governors, on the Receipt thereof, shall transmit the same to the Registrar of Seamen.

XXXII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Overseers of the Poor, or other Persons having the Authority of Overseers of the Poor, in and for any District, Union, Parish, Township, or Place in the United Kingdom, and they are hereby empowered, to bind by Indenture, according to the Form set forth in Schedule (H.) to this Act annexed, and put out as an Apprentice in the Sea Service to any of Her Majesty's Subjects, being the Owner of any Ship registered or licensed in any Port of the United Kingdom, any Boy having attained the Age of Twelve Years, and of sufficient Health and Strength, who or whose Parent or Parents is or are chargeable to or maintained by any such District, Union, Parish, Township, or Place or who shall beg for Alms therein, with his Consent, but not otherwise; and until such Boy shall attain the Age of Twenty-one Years, or shall have served as Apprentice Seven Years, or whichever shall first happen, such Binding shall be effectual to all Intents and purposes: Provided always, that where any such Parish, Township, or Place separately maintaining its own Poor shall be included in any Union, or shall be under the Management of a Board of Guardians, no sueh Binding shall be valid unless the Guardians of such Union, Parish, or other Place respectively shall previously have given their Consent thereto, by causing their official Seal to be affixed to the Indenture, and the same to be signed by the presiding Chairman of the Board at any Meeting, and the Clerk or Person acting as such at such Meeting; and provided also, that every such Binding shall be made in the Presence of any such Boy, and of Two Justices of the Peace, who shall execute the Indenture in testimony of their being satisfied that such Boy hath consented so to be bound, and attained the Age, and is of sufficient Health and Strength as required by this Act; and the Age of every such Boy shall be truly inserted in his Indenture, and the Age of every such

attainedTwen

such Boy so inserted therein shall (in relation to the Continuance of his Service) be taken to be his true Age, without any further Proof thereof; and any Certificate of Baptism of such Boy which may be required shall be given and attested by the officiating Minister without Fee or Reward: Provided always, that no Apprentice- NoApprenticeship binding ship to the Sea Service, whether Parish or otherwise, shall be binding after the after ApprenApprentice shall have attained the Age of Twenty-one Years; and that every tice shall have Indenture, together with his Register Ticket annexed thereto, shall be given up ty-one. to such Apprentice on his attaining such Age, or at the Expiration of his Apprenticeship, whichever shall first happen, by the Person to whom he shall be bound at the Time, under a Penalty of Twenty Pounds, to be paid by such Person on default; but should any Apprenticeship, Parish or otherwise, expire during a Voyage, and before the Ship's Arrival at her final Port of Destination in the United Kingdom, such Apprenticeship shall, notwithstanding, continue until the Return of the Ship to her final Port of Destination in the United Kingdom; but after One Calendar Month from the Expiration of such Apprenticeship the Apprentice shall be paid the same Wages as an able-bodied Seainan or ordinary Seaman of the said Ship, according to his Qualification.

XXXIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Master or Person to whom any Parish Apprentice shall have been or shall be hereafter bound to a Service on shore, according to the Statutes for the Time being relating to such Apprentices, or for the Executors or Administrators, or, there being none such, for the Widow of any deceased Master, with the Concurrence of Two or more Justices of the Peace in and for the County, District, or Place where such Boy shall have been bound Apprentice, to assign such Boy, with his Consent, to be given in the Presence of such Justices, but not otherwise, as Apprentice to any such Owner as aforesaid, to be employed in the Sea Service during the Period then remaining unexpired of his Apprenticeship; and every such Assignment shall be attested as next hereinafter mentioned.

XXXIV. And be it enacted, That in the event of the Bankruptcy, Insolvency, or Death of the Master of any such Parish Apprentice to the Sea Service, it shall be lawful for such Master, or the Executors or Administrators of such Master, or, there being none such, for the Widow of such deceased Master, to assign the Indenture of any such Apprentice for the Residue of the Term then unexpired therein to any other Owner of any such Ship: Provided always, that such Assignment, if executed within the Limits of the Port of London, shall be attested by the said Registrar, his Assistant, or one of his Clerks, and if executed at any other Port, by the Collector or Comptroller of the Customs of such Port.

Apprenticeships to conReturn of the

tinue until the

Ship, and Ap.

prentice to be paid Wages.

Parish Officers

to prepare indentures.

Constable to convey the Apprentice.

Guardians or Overseers to provide Clothing, &c.

How Indentures to be attested.

Every Ship except Pleasure

Yachts, to have

Apprentices according to

her Tonnage:

XXXV. And be it enacted, That such Overseers, Guardians, or other Persons as aforesaid shall cause the Indenture of Apprenticeship to be prepared and transmitted in Triplicate; (that is to say,) Two Counterparts, besides the Indenture, to the said Registrar, if the Owner of the Ship to whom such Apprentice is to be bound shall be or reside within the Limits of the Port of London, and if at any other Port, to the Collector or Comptroller of the Customs at such Port; and shall cause each such poor Boy to be conducted and conveyed to such Port or Place by a Constable or other trustworthy Person, at the Expence of the District, Union, Parish, Township, or Place; and when any such Boy shall be so bound he shall be provided by the Guardians of the said Union or Parish as aforesaid, or, in case the said Parish or Place shall not be included in any Union or governed by a Board of Guardians, by the Overseers, with a sufficient Outfit of Sea Clothing, Bedding, and similar Necessaries, to the Value of Five Pounds, which said Amount, together with the Expences to be incurred in the binding and Conveyance of the said Boy, shall be charged by such Guardians or Overseers respectively to the Account of the Parish or other Place by whose Overseers the said Boy shall be bound, and be allowed to them in their Account; and the said Indentures so entered into by the Overseers of any Parish or other Place as aforesaid may be sued upon in the Name of the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish or other Place for the Time being, by their Name of Office; and no Action commenced for the Breach of any Covenant therein contained, with the Consent of the Vestry of such Parish or Place, shall abate by reason of Death or any Change of Overseers of such Parish or Place pending the same, but shall be proceeded in by the Overseers for the Time being, who shall be entitled to charge the whole Amount of the Costs incurred in such Action, and not recovered from the Defendant therein, upon the Poor Rates collected by them, though Part of such Costs shall have been incurred by their Predecessors.

XXXVI. And be it enacted, That such Indentures shall be executed in the Presence of and attested by the Constable or other Person who shall conduct or convey such Apprentice; and such Indentures shall bear Date respectively on the Days on which they are executed; and such Constable or other Person shall transmit one of the said Counterparts, duly executed, to the Overseers, Guardians, or other Persons aforesaid, one to the Master, and another to the said Registrar.

XXXVII. And be it enacted, That the Master or Owner of every Ship belonging to any Subject of Her Majesty, and of the Burden of Eighty Tons and upwards (except Pleasure Yachts), shall have on board at the Time of her proceeding from any Port of the United Kingdom, and at all Times when absent from the United Kingdom, or navigating the Seas, One Apprentice, or more, in the following Proportion to the Number of Tons of his Ship's Admeasurement,

according