regulate the daily supply of provisions to the crew, is followed up by an enactment, that any Consul or Viceconsul, and any Collector or Comptroller of the Customs, upon complaint made by any three or more of the crew may survey and examine, or cause to be surveyed and examined, the provisions, water, and medicines put or supplied on board for the use and consumption of the crew: and if it shall be found that such provisions, water, or medicines are of a bad quality, or unfit for use, or not appropriate, or there shall not appear to be a sufficient quantity thereof, the surveying officer is required to signify the same in writing to the master; and if such master shall not thereupon provide other fit and proper provisions, water or medicines in lieu of any which may be signified by the said surveying officer to be of a bad quality, or unfit for use, or not appropriate, or shall not thereupon procure the requisite quantity of provisions, water and medicines, or shall use any which shall have been signified by the surveying officer to be of a bad quality, or unfit for use, or not appropriate, he shall in each and every of such cases be guilty of a misdemeanor. (s. 57.)

CHAPTER II.

OF THE DUTIES OF MASTERS AND SEAMEN DURING

A VOYAGE.

THE entries required to be made in the log-book with respect to the seamen's conduct, deserve the master's particular attention during the voyage; for, unless such entries be made of the actual periods when any of the seamen absent themselves, or neglect or refuse to perform their duty, and of the times during which they shall respectively continue absent, or neglect or refuse to perform their duty, they will be entitled to their full wages notwithstanding such misconduct. This has been already intimated, but it is of sufficient importance to be again noticed at the commencement of this chapter, where it should be remarked that an especial form of entry is to be observed in cases of desertion. Every desertion is to be entered in the log-book at the time, and certified by the signatures of the master and the mate, or the master and one other credible witness.

The muster-roll should be commenced at the beginning of the voyage, and accurately kept throughout the course of it. By 4 and 5 Wm. IV. c. 52, s. 9, it is enacted, that the master or owner, or such other person as shall have the care of any merchant or other

private ship, shall keep a book by way of muster-roll, or account of the ship's company, signed by himself, in which shall be entered his own christian and surname, and the christian and surnames of all the officers, seamen, and other persons employed in such ship, and over against each name the age, place of birth, and quality of such seaman, or other person, and the time and place of his entering into the service of such ship; and such master or other person having the care of such ship, shall continue to keep such muster-roll during the whole course of the voyage, and shall, from time to time, enter therein when and where any such master, officer, seaman, or other person shall be discharged from or shall leave or desert such ship, and when and where any other officers and men shall be shipped on board, describing them in like manner as the persons who first entered on board are directed to be described, and when and where any of them received any hurt or damage, or were killed, slain, or drowned, or otherwise happened to die, in case there should be any such, together with a statement of the amount of wages due to them at the time of death or desertion, and of what clothes or other effects such deceased man shall have left on board; which said account shall be in the form, and shall contain a true and correct return, under their respective heads, of the several particulars expressed in the schedule to the said Act annexed. (Appendix, No. 2.)

And every master or other person in care of a ship, who shall neglect to keep such muster-roll or account, will be liable to a penalty of five pounds.

The master of every ship belonging to any subject

of Her Majesty is required to produce and show the log-book, muster-roll of the ship, and the agreement or agreements with his crew, their register tickets, and the indentures of his apprentices, and the assignments thereof, and a list of all the passengers and persons on board, to the captain, commander, or other commissioned officer of any of Her Majesty's ships requiring a production and sight thereof; and empowers any such officer to muster the crew, including apprentices, of any ship belonging to any such subject, in order to be satisfied that the provisions of the Acts by which the crews of such ships are regulated, and the laws relating to navigation, have been duly kept and complied with. Any master who shall, upon being required so to do by any such officer, neglect or refuse to produce such log-book, muster-roll, or agreement, register tickets, indentures, and assignments, and lists of passengers and persons, or any of them, or shall obstruct any officer in the execution of his duty in mustering the said crew, or shall produce any false log-book, muster-roll, or list, will for every such offence be liable to forfeit the sum of twenty pounds. (7 and 8 Vict. c. 112, s. 55.)

And Her Majesty's Consuls and Vice-consuls in foreign ports, and the Registrar of Merchant Seamen and his assistant, and the respective chief officers of the Customs at the several ports of the United Kingdom, and of the British possessions abroad, may also demand, from the master of every ship belonging to a subject of Her Majesty, the production of the logbook, muster-roll of the ship, and such agreements, register tickets, indentures, and assignments as afore

said, and a list of passengers and persons on board, and may also muster the crew (including apprentices) of such ship, and may summon the master to appear before them and give any explanation they may respectively require regarding the said crew, ship or documents, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of the Acts by which the crews of such ships as aforesaid are regulated, and the laws relating to navigation, have been kept and complied with, and may take copies of all or any of such documents; and if any such master, on such demand being made, shall refuse to produce such log-book, muster-roll, agreements, register tickets, indentures and assignments, and list of passengers and persons, or refuse to allow copies to be taken, or shall refuse to permit his crew to be so mustered, or shall refuse to appear and give such explanation as aforesaid, or shall wilfully deceive or mislead the person before whom he shall so appear, he will for every such neglect, refusal, or offence, be liable to forfeit the sum of twenty pounds. (s. 56.)

If any ship belonging to a subject of Her Majesty (except packets for passengers in the course of their voyage) shall arrive at any foreign port where there shall be a British Consul or Vice-consul, or at any port in a British Colony, and remain thereat for fortyeight hours, the master is required, within forty-eight hours of the ship's arrival, to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to such Consul or Vice-consul at such foreign port, or to the Collector or Comptroller of the Customs at such port of a British Colony, the agreement or agreements before mentioned, together with an account at the foot of such agreement of all apprentices