Proposed
aim of the 1845 Protection of Seamen Act
Source: An
Act for the Protection of Seamen entering on board Merchant Ships; Public
General Statutes; 8th & 9th Victoria; 1845; Cap. CXVI
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[8th
August 1845.] |
Whereas the Seamen
of this Kingdom have been for several Years past subjected to grievous
Impositions and great Injustice by certain Persons who undertake to procure
Seamen to enter on board Merchant Ships who have no Interest in the said Ships:
And whereas it is required that further Persons: Be it enacted by the Queen’s
most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and
by the Authority of the same, That from and after the First Day of September
next the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty’s Privy Council for Trade and
Foreign Plantations shall be and they are empowered to license such Persons as
they may deem to be requisite and fit, and who may be desirous to take out such
Licences, to hire, engage, supply, or provide Seamen to be entered on board
Merchant Ships; and every such Licence shall be granted for such Periods, upon
such Terms, and upon such Security being given, and shall be revocable upon such
Conditions, as the Lords of the said Committee may at any Time or Times
appoint.