board certain 4. The following rules shall be observed with respect to medicines, Lime or lemon medical stores, and anti-scorbutics; (that is to say,) juice and (1.) The Board of Trade shall from time to time issue and cause to be other antipublished scales of medicines and medical stores suitable for dif- scorbutics to be provided ferent ships and voyages, and shall also prepare or sanction a book and kept on or books containing instructions for dispensing the same (g): (2.) The owners of every ship navigating between the United Kingdom ships. and any place out of the same shall provide and cause to be kept on board such ship a supply of medicines and medical stores in accordance with the scale appropriate to the said ship (h), and also a copy of the said book or of one of the said books containing instructions: (3.) No lime or lemon juice (i) shall be deemed fit and proper to be taken on board any such ship, for the use of the crew or passengers thereof, unless the same has been obtained from a bonded warehouse for and to be shipped as stores; and no lime or lemon juice shall be so obtained or delivered from any warehouse as aforesaid unless the same is shown, by a certificate under the hand of an inspector appointed by the Board of Trade, to be proper for use on board ship, such certificate to be given upon inspection of a sample after deposit of the said lime or lemon juice in the warehouse; nor unless the same contains fifteen per centum of proper and palatable proof spirits, to be approved by such inspector, or by the proper officer of customs, and to be added before or immediately after the inspection thereof; nor unless the same is packed in such bottles, at such time and in such manner, and is labelled in such manner as the Commissioners of Customs may direct; provided that when any such lime or lemon juice is deposited in any bonded warehouse, and has been approved as aforesaid by the said inspector, the said spirits, or so much of the said spirits as is necessary to make up fifteen per centum, may be added in such warehouse without payment of any duty thereon; and when any spirit has been added to any lime or lemon juice, and the same has been labelled as aforesaid, it shall be deposited in the warehouse for delivery as ship's stores only, upon such terms and subject to such regulations of the Commissioners of Customs as are applicable to the delivery of ship's stores from the warehouse: (4.) The master or owner of every such foreign-going ship (except those bound to European ports or to ports in the Mediterranean Sea, and also except such ships or classes of ships bound to ports on the eastern coast of America north of the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude, and to any islands or places in the Atlantic Ocean north of the same limit, as the Board of Trade may from time to time exempt from this enactment,) shall provide and cause to be kept on board such ship a sufficient quantity of lime or lemon juice from the warehouse duly labelled as aforesaid, such labels to remain intact until twenty-four hours at least after such ship shall have left her port of departure on her foreign voyage, or a sufficient quantity of such other anti-scorbutics, if any, of such quality, and composed of such materials, and packed and kept in such manner, as her Majesty by order in council may from time to time direct: (5.) The master of every such ship as last aforesaid shall serve or cause to be served out the lime or lemon juice with sugar (such sugar to (g) A revised scale of medicines and medical stores superseding the scale hitherto in force was issued by the Board of Trade, under the provisions of this section, in December, 1874. Such scale is set out post, 66 Forms, No. 39. The book sanctioned by the Board of Trade under the same section (h) See the Passengers Act, 1855, be in addition to any sugar required by the articles) or other such anti-scorbutics as aforesaid to the crew so soon as they have been at sea for ten days, and during the remainder of the voyage, except during such time as they are in harbour and are there supplied with fresh provisions; the lime or lemon juice and sugar to be served out daily at the rate of an ounce each per day to each member of the crew, and to be mixed with a due proportion of water before being served out, or the other anti-scorbutics, if any, at such times and in such quantities as her Majesty by order in council may from time to time direct: (6.) If at any time when such lime or lemon juice or anti-scorbutics is or are so served out as aforesaid any seaman or apprentice refuses or neglects to take the same, such neglect or refusal shall be entered in the official log book in the manner provided by the two hundred and eighty-first section of the principal act, and shall be signed by the master and by the mate or some other of the crew, and also by the surgeon or medical practitioner on board, if any: And if in any such ship as aforesaid such medicines, medical stores, book of instructions, lime or lemon juice, sugar, or anti-scorbutics as are herein before required are not provided, packed, and kept on board as herein before required, the owner or master shall be deemed to be in fault, and shall for each default incur a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, unless he can prove that the non-compliance with the above provisions, or any of them, was not caused through any inattention, neglect, or wilful default on his part; and if the lime or lemon juice and sugar or other anti-scorbutics are not served out in the case and manner herein before directed, or if entry is not made in the official log in the case and manner herein before required, the master shall be deemed to be in fault, and shall for each default incur a penalty not exceeding five pounds, unless he can prove that the non-compliance with the above provisions, or any of them, did not arise through any neglect, omission, or wilful default on his part; and if in any case it is proved that some person other than the master or owner is in default in any case under this section, then such other person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds (1). (1) The Regulations issued by the Commissioners of Customs direct that "lime or lemon juice, after being inspected and fortified, is to be bottled in glass bottles of imperial (and not reputed) measurement, containing not less than one imperial quart, and not more than two imperial quarts, or in bottles of glazed earthenware of imperial (and not reputed) measurement, containing not less than one imperial gallon, and not more than two imperial gallons, and the said glass bottles are to be packed in straw or other suitable packing in wooden boxes, and the said glazed earthenware bottles are to be properly and satisfactorily protected by wicker-work, and the said bottles, whether of glass or of glazed earthenware, are to be secured by fixing the label approved for that purpose round the neck and cork. The bottling of each cask of juice is to be completed in one continuous operation. "The juice, when inspected, bottled, fortified and labelled, in accordance with the Regulations, will be allowed to be shipped, subject to the following "But quart bottles may be shipped in all cases if preferred." The juice is best kept in a cool place. The bottles containing it should not be unnecessarily exposed to the heat and light of the sun. The medical officers appointed by the Board of Trade to inspect and test lime and lemon juice recommend that when the juice is served out it should be mixed in the proportion of one fluid ounce of lime juice, and one ounce of sugar, to not less than half a pint and not more than one pint of water, and the mixture should be served out in sufficient quantity to each mess or watch at the dinner-hour, so that it may be obtained by the crew in time to drink during their meal. The medical 5. Any person who manufactures, sells, or keeps or offers for sale any Penalty for such medicines or medical stores as aforesaid which are of bad quality selling, &c. shall for each such offence incur a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. medicines, &c. of bad quality. 6. In any British possession out of the United Kingdom the governor Power to or officer administering the government for the time being shall, subject governors, &c. to make reguto the laws of such possession, have power to make regulations concerning the supply within such possession of lime or lemon juice and anti- lations as to supply of lime scorbutics for the use of ships; and any lime or lemon juice or or lemon anti-scorbutics duly supplied in accordance with any such regulations juice, &c. shall be deemed to be fit and proper for the use of ships. of illness 7. Whenever it is shown that any seaman or apprentice who is ill has, Seaman's exthrough the neglect of the master or owner, not been provided with penses in case proper food and water according to his agreement, or with such accom- through modation, medicines, medical stores, or anti-scorbutics as are required by neglect of the principal act or by this act, then, unless it can be shown that the owner or illness has been produced by other causes, the owner or master shall be master to be liable to pay all expenses properly and necessarily incurred by reason of paid by them. such illness (not exceeding in the whole three months' wages), either by such seaman himself, or by her Majesty's government, or any officer of her Majesty's government, or by any parochial or other local authority on his behalf, and such expenses may be recovered in the same way as if they were wages duly earned: Provided that this enactment shall not operate so as to affect any further liability of any such owner or master for such neglect, or any remedy which any seaman already possesses. 8. Where a seaman is by reason of illness incapable of performing his duty, and it is proved that such illness has been caused by his own wilful act or default, he shall not be entitled to wages for the time during which he is by reason of such illness incapable of performing his duty. 9. The following rules shall be observed with respect to accommodation on board British ships; (that is to say,) (1.) Every place in any ship occupied by seamen or apprentices, and appropriated to their use, shall have for every such seaman or apprentice a space of not less than seventy-two cubic feet, and of not less than twelve superficial feet, measured on the deck or floor of such place: (2.) Every such place shall be such as to make the space aforesaid available for the proper accommodation of the men who are to occupy it, shall be securely constructed, properly lighted and ventilated, properly protected from weather and sea, and as far as practicable properly shut off and protected from effluvium which may be caused by cargo or bilge water: (3.) No such place as aforesaid shall be deemed to be such as to authorize a deduction from registered tonnage, under the provisions hereinafter contained, unless there is or are in the ship one or more properly constructed privy or privies for the use of the crew; such privy or privies to be of such number and of such construction as may be approved by the surveyor hereinafter mentioned: (4.) Every such place shall, whenever the ship is registered or re-registered, be inspected by one of the surveyors (m) appointed by the Board of Trade under Part IV. of the principal act, who shall, if satisfied that the same is in all respects such as is required by this act, give to the collector of customs a certificate to that effect, and thereupon such space shall be deducted from the register tonnage: officers also recommend that lime and lemon juice should be regarded, not as a medicine, but as a necessary article of ordinary diet.-Extract from Board of Trade Instructions. APPDX. (m) See the M. S. Act, 1872, ss. 13 -15, the M. S. Act, 1873, s. 30, and post, "General Table of Fees charged under the authority of the Board of Trade." 4 Ꭲ Forfeiture of wages, &c. of seaman when illness caused by his own default. Place appro printed to seacertain space for each man, and to be properly con men to have a structed and kept clear. Rules for medical inspection of seamen. Offences by jects on board (5.) No such deduction from tonnage as aforesaid shall be authorized Voyage: (7.) Upon any complaint concerning any such place as aforesaid, one of the surveyors appointed by the Board of Trade may inspect such place, and if he finds that any of the provisions of this act with respect to the same are not complied with he shall report the same to the collector of customs at the port where the ship is registered, and thereupon the registered tonnage shall be altered, and the deduction aforesaid in respect of space disallowed, unless and until it shall be certified by such surveyor, or by some other surveyor appointed by the Board of Trade, that the provisions of the act in respect of such place are fully complied with: (8.) If any such place in any ship is not kept free from goods and stores as aforesaid, the master shall be deemed to be in fault, and shall for every such failure to comply with the provisions of this section forfeit and pay to each seaman lodged in such place the sum of one shilling a day for each day after complaint made to him by any two or more of such seamen during which any goods or stores, not being the personal property of the crew, are stored or kept therein: (9.) If in any other respect the provisions of this section are not observed with respect to any such place in any ship the owner shall be deemed to be in fault, and shall for every failure to comply with the provisions of this section incur a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds (n). 10. The following rules shall be observed with respect to the medical inspection of seamen; that is to say, (1.) At any port where there is a Local Marine Board the Local Marine (2.) Such medical inspector of seamen shall, on application (o) by the 11. If any British subject commits any crime or offence on board any British ship, or on board any foreign ship to which he does not belong, any court of justice in her Majesty's dominions, which would have had cognizance of such crime or offence if committed on board a British ship (n) See the Colonial Shipping Act, (a) See post, "General Table of Fees charged under the authority of the Board of Trade." within the limits of the ordinary jurisdiction of such court, shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the case as if the said crime or offence had been committed as last aforesaid (r). be commis 12. The harbour master for the time being of the harbour of Holyhead, Harbour in the event of it seeming meet to her Majesty to assign to him her master at Majesty's commission to act as a justice of the peace within the limits Holyhead may within which he is empowered to act in harbour matters, shall, during the sioned as juscontinuance of such assignment and of his tenure of the office of harbour tice. master, execute within such limits the duties of a justice of the peace, notwithstanding he may not be qualified by estate to be a justice of the peace for a county, and shall have within such limits the same power and jurisdiction as a stipendiary magistrate has by Act of Parliament when sitting at a police court or other place appointed in that behalf. 31 & 32 VICT. c. 45 (s). An Act to carry into effect a Convention between her Majesty and the Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the 2. This act may be cited as "The Sea Fisheries Act, 1868." Division of act. Short title. 3. This act shall (except as is in this act expressly otherwise provided) Commencecome into force on such day as may be fixed by a notice in that behalf ment of act. published in the London Gazette, which day is in this act referred to as the commencement of this act (u). (r) See the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 67), s. 3, and the Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 73). (8) See the Sea Fisheries Act, 1875 (38 Vict. c. 15), s. 3, and the Fisheries (Oyster, Crab, and Lobster) Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 42), s. 15. (t) See as to the North American Fisheries the 59 Geo. 3, c. 38. (u) A notice with regard to the commencement of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, was published in the London Gazette of the 22nd of January, |