Shipwrecked Colonial Seamen's Act 1880 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA,

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO QUARTO

VICTORIA: REGINIE.

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No. I.

AN ACT to provide for the relief and return be Western Australia of Shipwredked Colonial Seamen.

[ Assented to, 28th July, 1880. ]

HEREAS it is expedient to provide for the relief and return

it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western AustraliaWto Western Australia of Shipwrecked Colonial Seamen: Be

and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the

Legislative Council thereof, as follows :—

I WHENEVER any seaman or apprentice, whose domicil shall Shipwrecked Seamen found

he in Western Australia, shall, while serving on board any British in the 'United Kingdom may

elcp' , have been shipwrecked in the United Kingdom of Great be relieved and sent hither	at the public expense.
.Alderney, Sark, Scilly, or Man, the Board of Trade or the Ship-,itein and Ireland, or any of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey,
wrecked Mariners Society may cause such seaman or apprentice to he Put on board some ship belonging to any subject of Her Majestybonad to Western Australia, which is in want of men to make up its

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Shipwrecked Colonial Seamen.

complement; and in default of any such ship shall provide him with a passage to Western Australia as soon as possible in some ship belonging to a subject of Her Majesty so bound as aforesaid, and may cause to be endorsed on the agreement of any ship on board of which any seaman or apprentice is so taken or sent, the name of every person so sent on board thereof, with such particulars con- cerning the case as the Board of Trade or the said Society may require; and the owners of such ship shall be allowed for the subsistence of any such seaman or apprentice such sum per diem as the said Board of Trade or the said Society may appoint; and the amount due in respect of such allowance shall be payable out of the Public Revenue of Western Australia, on the production of the bills of the disbursements, with the proper vouchers.

2 THE short Title of this Act shall be " The Shipwrecked

Short title. Colonial Seaman's Act, 1880."

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to

this Act.

WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON, Governor.

By Authority : RICHARD PETHER, Government Printer, Perth.