1822 - Edocs

Person dying on
board vessel.
Master discharging
sick seaman &c.
Penalties how recoverable.
Allowances.
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sailor in actual pay on board of any ship or vessel, or shall
harbor or entertain, or sell drink to any such sailor without
the written permission of the master of the
ship or vessel, to which the sailor belongs, he or sue
so offending sh;all for every such offence forfeit and pay
the sum of twenty dollars to the master of the ship or vessel
recoverable before any justice of the peace in the
county, wherein such offence shall have been committed.
6. Be itfurther enacted, That, when any person shall
die on board of any ship or vessel'within this Territory,
the master thereof shall cause the dead body to be brought
on shore and there buried at least four feet deep above
high water mark, under the penalty of five hundred dol-
lars.
7. Be itfurther enacted, That, if any master or commander
of any ship or vessel shall discharge,- or cause to
be put on shore, any sick or disabled sailor or sailors, belonging
to his ship or vessel, not entitled to his or their
discharge by the contract between them, or any servant,
"without taking clue care of his or their maintenance and
cure, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dol-
lars. And any master or commwder of any ship or vessel,
withiu this Territory, who shall land from any such
ship or vessel any pauper, or vagrant without the means
of procuring his, her or their maintainance for the space
of one month, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence
the sum of fifty dollars.
8. Be it further enacted. That the same penalties, imposed
by this act, shall be, and the same are hereby declared
to be recoverable by action of debt, bill, plaint or
information, before any court oftrecord within this territory,
when not otherwise directed to be prosecuted at the
suit of the Territory, or any informer, and where prosecuted
by an informer, one half of any penalty or penalties
recovered in such prosecution, shall be to the use of the
informer, and the other halt or where there shall be no
informer, the whole penalty to the use of the Territory.
EDMUND LAW,
President of the Legislative Council.
[Approved September \8th, 1822.]
WM. P. DUVAL,
Governor of the Territory of Florida.
TEST,
ROBERT MITCHELL,
Clerk of the Legislative Council.
AN ACT
Providing for the compensation of the clerks and messenger of the
Legislative Counci, and the expenses incurred in the session
thereof.
1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Coun-