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WILLIAM PACA, Esq; Governor.
shall be, and they are hereby, obliged to pay the seaman and mariners
belonging
to such ships or vessels, their wages if demanded, in twenty days after
the said ship or vessel being entered at the naval office (except in
case where a
covenant shall be entered into the contrary) or at the time the said
seaman and
mariners shall be discharged, which shall first happen, if demanded;
deducting
out of such wages the penalties and forfeitures by this act imposed,
under the
penalty of paying to each seaman or mariner that shall be unpaid contrary
to the
intent and meaning of this act, three pounds current money, over and
above the
wages that shall be due to each person, to be recovered before
any justice of the
peace, and such payment of wages aforesaid shall be good and valid
in law, notwithstanding
any action, bill of sale, attachment or incumbrance, whatsoever. |
1784.
CHAP.
LXXIX. |
XL. And be it
enacted, That no seaman or mariner, by entering into or signing
such contract or agreement as aforesaid, shall be deprived of or hindered
from
using any means or methods for the recovery of wages against any ship,
the master
or owner thereof, which he may now lawfully make use of; and that in
all
cases where it shall or may be necessary, that the contract or agreement
in writeing
aforesaid should be produced in court, no obligation shall lie on any
seaman
or mariner to produce the same, but on the master, owner or owners,
of the
ship for which the wages shall be demanded; and no seaman or mariner
shall fail
in any suit, action or process, for recovery of wages, for want of
such agreement
or contract being produced. |
Seamen not to
be hindered
from recovering
wages,
&c. |
XLI. And be
it enacted, That if any master of any merchant ship or other vessel
shall, during his being abroad, force his apprentice, or any mariner
or seaman, on
shore, or wilfully leave him behind at any port or place out of this
state, or shall
refuse to bring home with him all such of the men which he carried
out, as are
in a condition to return, such master shall forfeit fifty pounds current
money, or
suffer twelve months imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the
court. |
Penalty on
master leaving
seamen on
shore, &c. |
XLII. And be
it enacted, That all masters of vessels shall lay in a sufficient
quantity of sound and good provisions and water for the intended voyage,
according
to the number of hands (and passengers if any) on board, and if clearing
from any port in this state, shall deliver in an account thereof to the
naval officer
by whom he shall be cleared; and for neglect in not providing sufficient
provisions
as aforesaid, he shall forfeit fifty pounds current money. |
Masters to lay
in provisions,,
&c. |
XLIII. And be
it enacted, That if any master of any ship (or other vessel)
shall ship any mariner or seaman whom he shall know to have been before
shipped
by another master, he shall forfeit and pay five pounds current money for
every such offence, and shall discharge such seaman or mariner from his
service,
under the penalty of twenty pounds current money; and if any mariner or
seaman,
shipped by any master, shall afterwards ship himself with any other man,
until he
be discharged from the ship or vessel on which he was first shipped, he
shall forfeit
five pounds current money to the owner of the vessel on board of which
he first
shipped, and suffer one month's imprisonment in the gaol of the county,
and
there be kept to continual and hard labour, according to his health and
strength
of body, to be recovered before, and adjudged by, ay justice of the peace. |
Penalty on
shipping seamen
belonging
to other
vessels, &c. |
XLIV. And be
it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any mariner or
seaman, shipped on board any vessel, to go and remain on shore at Baltimore-town,
at any time between sunset and daybreak, without the leave in writing of
the master of the vessel to which he belongs, and no inhabitant of Baltimore-town
shall entertain any such mariner or seaman, within such time aforesaid,
without permission as aforesaid, under the penalty of five pounds current
money
for every offence, to the owner of the vessel to which such master belongs. |
Seamen not to
go on shore
between sunset,
&c. |
XLV. Provided
always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this act contained
shall extend, or be construed to extend, to vessels of war belonging to
this
state, or the United States, or any of them, or to vessels of war belonging
to
any kingdom or state in peace and amity with the United States; provided
also,
that nothing in this act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend,
to debar |
Proviso. |
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