ART. 85.] SEAMEN. 593

3. No keeper of a public or lodging house for seamen shall
withhold or detain any chest, bed or bedding, clothes, tools, or
other effects, of any seaman, for any debt alleged to be due by
the seaman; and on examination any justice of the peace may,
by warrant, cause the detained property to be seized and delivered
to the seaman.

4. Any master or keeper of a boarding or lodging house for
seamen, any servant, agent or other person in their employment,
broker, shipping master, or other person engaged in the business
of procuring and furnishing seamen for vessels, who shall go on
board of any vessel in any of the harbors of this State without
having previously obtained permission of the master or other
person having charge of the vessel, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor.

5. The class of persons above named, on conviction for unlaw-
fully going on board a vessel, shall be fined not less than fifty nor
more than three hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not less than
one month nor more than six months, at the discretion of the
judge who tries the case.

6. Any master or person in charge of a vessel shall have power
to seize and arrest on board his vessel any of the class of persons
above mentioned who are prohibited from going on board of any
vessel in this State, and to take them before any justice of the
peace to be dealt with according to law.

7. At the trial of any person for going on board a vessej with-
out permission first had and obtained, it shall be incumbent on
him to prove that he had received permission to enter; in default
of his proving this, he shall be considered as having entered
without permission, and found guilty accordingly.

8. If any person shall ship as a first class or ordinary seaman,
and upon trial prove to be incapable of performing the duties of
the situation for which he shipped, his pay shall be reduced to
the pay of that grade for which he shall have been found compe-
tent.

9. A copy of the articles of any vessel, authenticated by the
affidavit of the captain, sworn to before any justice of the peace
or notary public, shall be admissible in evidence to prove the fact

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