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toms, or to any juftice, that le is defirons 
of being relanded, fuch officer, and fuch 
juftice, are to take fuch perfon out of the 
fhip. § 5. 
No paffenger fhall be received on board, 
unlefs at a port where a cuftom-houfe 
fhall be eftablithed, or officers of cuitoms 
fhall be ftationed, on pain that the maiter 
fhall forfeit five hundred pounds; and 
fuch fhip fhall be detained unril fuch pe- 
nalty fhall be paid, or good bail be- given 
for the fame. § 6. 
No fhip carrying fifty perfons, includ- 
ing the crew, fhall be cleared out, unlefs 
provided with a furgeon, who thall pro-. 
duce a certificate of his having paffed his 
examination. § 7. 
And every {urgeon fhall have a medi. 
cine-cheft properly itored ; and before fuch 
fhip fhall be cleared out, fuch furgeon 
‘fhall fpecify upon oath, before the officer 
of cuftoms, the contents of fuch medicine- 
chelt, and that they are good; and the 
affidavit fhall be depofited in the cuttom- 
‘houfe, and the matter or owner failing to 
provide a medicine-cheft, and every fur- 
geon negleéting or refufing to make oath 
as directed, fhall forfeit fifty pounds. § 8, 
Tie bedding of each paflenger thali be 
aired upon the deck, when the weather 
will permit, once a day during the voy- 
age, and fuch fhip fhall be fumigated 
with vinegar at leaft twice in every week, 
on pain that the mafter fhall forfeit twenty 
pounds for each negleét. : 
No elcarance fhall be granted, unlefs 
the mafter and furgeon give bond to keep 
journals during the voyage, containing 
an account of the greatelt number of per- 
fons who fhall have been on board at 
the time of her departure, and during 
her voyege, and until her arrival at tie 
port ot deftination, and of the provifions 
and water on board, and of the de- 
livery of the daily allowances thereof, 
and of the airing of bedding, and of 
the fumigating the fhip, and of the 
deaths,-and caufe thereof; and fuch maf- 
ter and furgeon fhall deliver the journals to 
the officer at the port of arrival, on return 
from the voyage, and fhall {wear to the 
truth thereof; and the officer fhall-deliver 
. to them copies of their oaths and journals, 
and tranfmit duplicates to the commiffion- 
ers.of the cuftoms ; mafters or furgeons 
atting contrary hereto fhall forfeit rol. 
§ 10. LOT ies s } 5 
Itfhall not be lawful for any mafter of 
any fhip or veflel;-other than a Britifo 
fixp or veffel, c'eaving out from any port 
in the United Kingdom, after the firft of 
New Asis of the Britifo Legifature. 
‘fhall be paid. 
[ Sept. 1, 
July, 1803, to take on board a greater 
number of perfons inciuding the crew, 
than in the proportion of one for every 
five tons burthen; and the coliector or 
chief efficer may muiter the paffengers and 
erew, and fearch fuch fhip; and if more 
fhall be found on Goard than in the pro- 
portion allowed, fuch matter fhall forfeit 
fifty pounds for every perfon beyond 
the proportion, one moiety to His Ma- 
jety, and :he other to juch officer, who 
may detain fuch fhip, until. the penalties 
ee 
The aét fhall ee extend to veffels in 
the fervice of His Majelty, or of the Poit- 
mafter-general, or of the cuftoms and ex- 
cife, or of the Eaft India Company. § 12. 
Ii after any veffel fhall have been cleared 
out, any mafter fhall reland any provi- 
fions or water, he fhall forfeit zoo]. § 13. 
But, if any paffengers fhall be relanded, 
then juch mafter may reland, under the 
infpection of the officer of cuftoms, a 
quantity not exceeding the proportion fuf- 
ficient for fuch paflengers relanded. § 14. 
Commiflioners of the cufioms fhall pre- 
pare an abftract of this act to be hung up 
in every cuftom-houfe ; and a copy there- 
of, and of the muiter-roll, fhall be hung - 
up in every veffel, on 
the matter. § 15. 
All captains and officers commanding 
fhips of war, or revenue cutters, who 
fhall meet any fuch fhips at fea, fhall call 
for the mufter-roll, and fearch {uch fhip 5 
and it the provifions of this aét have hot 
been complied with, may feize and fend 
them to fome port. § 16. . 
No tuch veffel thal] be cleared out, unlefs 
the owners, or the mafter, thall have given 
bond, that fuch veflel is fea-worthy, and 
that every paflenger, if alive, fhall be 
landed at the port to which he fhall have 
contraéted to be conveyed. § 17. — 
If any. officer of cuftoms ‘fhall fign 
any clearance, contrary to this act, he fhall 
forfeit his employment, and allo fifty 
pounds. § 18. “Se iain 
All penalties fhall be payable within 
Great Britain in lawful money of Great 
Britain, and within Ireland in Irifh cur- 
rency ; and any penalty may be recovered 
in the name of the Attorney General for 
England. or Ireland, or Advocate for. 
Scotland, cr in the-name of any perfon 
whatfoever, with double cofts ; and fuch 
fuit fhall be brought within three years 5 
and one moiety fhall'go to His Majefty, 
and the other to the ufe of fuch perfon as 
fhall firft (ue, after deducting the charges | 
of profecution from the whole. § 19. 
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