Dealing with the effects of dead seamen in 1851
Source: An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Merchant Seamen’s Fund, and to provide for winding up the said Fund, and for the better Management thereof in the meantime; General Public Acts; 1851; 14th & 15th Victoria; Cap. 102
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[8th August 1851] |
29. Whenever any Seaman or Apprentice belonging to any British Ship proceeding upon a Voyage which is finally to terminate in the United Kingdom dies during such Voyage, the Master shall take charge of his Money or other imperishable or unsaleable Effects on board, and shall as soon as convenient cause his Clothes and other perishable or saleable Effects on board to be sold on board by Auction at the Mast or other public Auction, and shall at the Time make an Entry of such in the Official Log Book, stating therein the Date, the Articles Sold, and the Sum received for each, and shall cause such Entry to be attested by a Mate or one of the Crew, and shall, in the Case of a Foreign-going Ship, upon attending before a Shipping Master for the Discharge of his Crew, and in the Case of a Home-trade Ship, upon his first subsequent Attendance before or Transmission of half-yearly Returns to a Shipping Master under the Provision in the Twenty-seventh Section of the Act of the Eighth Year of Queen Victoria, Chapter One hundred and twelve, and in the Mercantile Marine Act, 1850, in that Behalf contained, deliver any Effects which he has taken charge of and pay any Money which he has either taken charge of or received from such Sale as aforesaid, and also the Balance of Wages due to the Seaman or Apprentice at his Death, to such Shipping Master and shall give to the Board of Trade or to such Shipping Master, and shall give to the Board of Trade or to such Shipping Master such Account as they require of such Effects, Money, and Wages.
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