A BILL To exempt Ships carrying Passengers to North America from the Obligation of having on board a Physician, Surgeon or Apothecary. 5 [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted Whereas by an Act passed in the sixth year of the Preamble: c. 107. reign of Her Majesty, intituled, " An Act for regulating 5 & 6 Vict. the Carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels," Ships carrying Passengers to North America were exempted from the obligation of having on board a Physician, Surgeon or Apothecary, as required by the said Act in other cases therein specified : c. 112. And whereas by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, 7 & 8 Vict. intituled, "An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Merchant Seamen, and for keeping a Register of Seamen," it is, 10 among other things, enacted, that every Ship having One hundred Sect. 18. persons or upwards on board, and every Ship, the voyage of which shall be deemed, under the provisions of the first-recited Act, to exceed Twelve Weeks, having Fifty persons or upwards on board, shall have on board, as one of her complement, some person duly authorized by 15 law to practise in this kingdom as a Physician, Surgeon or Apothecary, whereby the exemption granted by the first-recited Act to Ships carrying Passengers to the Continent of North America has been taken away in all cases where the total number of persons on board any such Ship shall amount to One hundred and upwards, and it is 20 expedient that such exemption be preserved; BE it Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, 1. So much of 7 & 8 Vict. c. 112, as requires Ships carrying Passengers to the and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT so much of the last-recited Act as enacts, that Ships, as defined in the last-recited Act, carrying Passengers, according to the provisions of the first-recited Act, from any Port or place in the United Kingdom, or in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, North Ame- Alderney, Sark or Man, to the East Coast of the Continent of North America, shall have on board a Physician, Surgeon or Apothecary, as &c., on board, often as the total number of persons on board any such Ship shall amount to One hundred and upwards, shall be repealed. East Coast of rica, to have Surgeons, repealed. 2. Proceedings for recovery of Penalties shall be stayed. 3. Act may be amended or repealed. 5 And be it Enacted, That any person against whom any proceeding 10 or proceedings shall have been commenced, on or before the day of the passing of this Act, for the recovery of any pecuniary penalty incurred, or supposed to have been incurred, under the provisions of the last-recited Act, for any breach or non-observance of so much of the lastrecited Act as is herein repealed, may apply to the Court in which, or 15 to any Justice or Justices of the Peace before whom any such proceeding or proceedings shall have been commenced, for an order that such proceedings shall be discontinued but upon payment of the costs thereof incurred, to the time of such application being made, in case such proceeding shall have been commenced before the Seventeenth day of 20 April in this year, such costs to be taxed according to the practice of the Court, or at the discretion of the Justice or Justices before whom such proceeding shall have been had; and every such Court or Justice or Justices, upon such application and proof that sufficient notice of the application has been given to the Plaintiff or Informer, or to his 25 attorney, and upon being satisfied, by affidavit or otherwise, that such proceedings have been commenced for the recovery of such pecuniary penalty as aforesaid, shall make such order as aforesaid; and upon the making such order as aforesaid, and on payment or tender of such costз as aforesaid, where costs are hereinbefore made payable, all further proceedings for the recovery of any such pecuniary penalty shall be forthwith discontinued. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. 30 |