commander, or owner, or other person having the care of such ship or vessel shall continue to keep such book by way of 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 or vessel, 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 marked (A.) and to this Act annexed; a duplicate of which account shall, if required, be signed by the said master, commander, or other person having the care of the ship or vessel as aforesaid, and shall be delivered to the collectors or receivers of the said duties so appointed as aforesaid, at whatever port in Great Britain or Ireland any such ship or vessel shall report or discharge her cargo; and every such duplicate for vessels not belonging to such port of discharge shall be forwarded by such receiver to the said President and Governors, to be by them transmitted to the trustees of the port to which the vessel shall belong; and in case any such master, commander, or other person shall neglect to keep such muster roll or account, or shall neglect or refuse to deliver such duplicate as aforesaid, and in case such receiver or collectors shall neglect or refuse to transmit the duplicates which shall be delivered to them as aforesaid to the said President and Governors, every such person so offending shall forfeit and pay for every such refusal or omission the sum of 51. of lawful money of Great Britain.

x. That the master for the time being of every ship coming within the provisions of this Act shall have authority to deduct out of the wages of the seamen thereof the amount of all forfeitures to be incurred by any such seamen, and every such master is hereby required correctly and truly to enter the same in a book to be by him kept for that purpose, which shall be signed by the master and the person next to him in the command of the ship, both of whom shall therein certify that it contains all the forfeitures which have been incurred by the seamen of the ship during the voyage, to the truth whereof the master shall make oath when required by the officer of the said President and Governors in London, or of the trustees at any of the out-ports, if any, and if not, to the respective receivers or collectors of the said President and Governors at such out-ports appointed to receive the monies payable in respect of the wages of merchant seamen, which oath such officer is hereby authorized to administer; and the said book, or a true copy thereof signed and certified as aforesaid, shall, within one calendar month after the ship's return from her voyage, be delivered to the said officer by the master, together with extracts from the log book of the entries therein of the causes of the several forfeitures which are hereinbefore required to be made; and every master as aforesaid who shall refuse or neglect to deliver any such account as hereby required shall forfeit and pay the sum of 201.

XI. That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said collectors or receivers, for the better discovery of what shall be due from the several persons serving on board or belonging to any merchant ship or other private ship or vessel aforesaid, by warrant under his or their hand or hands to summon every such master and commander, or in his absence such owner or owners of such ship or vessel as aforesaid, to be and appear at the office of the said collectors or receivers respectively (so that the persons so summoned be not obliged to travel above ten miles for the making such appearance), which said collectors or receivers are hereby empowered and directed to examine every such master and commander or owner or owners as to the truth of the copy of such book or muster roll, and as to the number and times of service of all the several persons belonging to or employed in such ship or vessel, who are liable to or chargeable with the said duty; and if such masters or commanders, or in their absence such owner or owners, or any of them, shall refuse or neglect when so summoned to appear before the said respective persons hereby empowered to examine them in manner as aforesaid, or if they shall appear and obstinately refuse to make a full and true discovery of the matters aforesaid, then and in every such case all and every such offender or offenders for every such refusal shall forfeit the sum of 101. of lawful money of Great Britain.

And for the more easy and effectual collection of the said duties of and from the masters, commanders, and owners of merchants ships or other private ships or vessels that are or shall be hired or employed on monthly charter by the several departments of the Navy, Victualling, Ordnance, Customs, Post Office, or other public offices for or in the service of His Majesty, his heirs or successors ;

It is Enacted,

XII. That the secretaries or chief clerks of the aforesaid offices or departments respectively shall once in every year, upon the 1st of January in each year, or within twenty days next following at the farthest, upon application being made to them by the said President and Governors for that purpose, give and deliver to the receiver or receivers of the said duties in the port of London a true and exact list or account of the number and names of all and every the ships or vessels that in the year preceding every such account shall have been hired or employed by the Commissioners or other officers of every such office respectively for or in the service of His Majesty, his heirs or successors, and of all and every the ships and vessels which, at the time of delivering in such account, remain in the service of every such office or department respectively, and of all such as between every such account shall be discharged from such service, and of the names of the masters, commanders, and owners of all and every such ships and vessels respectively, and also of the numbers of seamen or other persons that shall from time to time be employed in every such ship or vessel; and that no treasurer, paymaster, or other officer of or belonging to any such public office or offices shall make out or pay any bill for the freight of any ship or vessel so hired or employed, or to be hired or employed, for or in the service of His Majesty, his heirs and successors, as aforesaid, or pay any wages to any master, commander, or other persons employed or that shall be employed in any such ship or vessel, until every such master, commander, or owner respectively shall and do produce and shew unto such treasurer, paymaster, or other officer respectively an acquittance or certificate signed by the said receiver or receivers, or his or their deputy or deputies for the time being, whereby it shall appear that such master, commander, or owner, hath duly and fully paid and discharged the said duties payable by virtue of this Act, and that he is not more than three months in arrear for the same.

XIII. That all and every the masters, commanders, and owners of all merchant ships and other private ships and vessels whatsoever by this Act made liable to the payment of the said duties of 2s. per month and 1s. per month, shall pay all such monies as shall from time to time be due from them and every of them respectively for or on account of the said duties to the collectors and receivers appointed in pursuance of this Act or of the said Act, 20 Geo. 2, at whatever port in the said United Kingdom of Great Britain or Ireland any such ship or vessel shall report or discharge her cargo, and before any such ship or vessel shall be cleared inwards by the officers of the Customs of His Majesty, his beirs or successors, in any such port; and that no customer, collector, comptroller, receiver, surveyor, searcher, waiter, or other officer of the Customs of His Majesty, bis heirs or successors, shall at any time hereafter clear inwards any merchant ship or any private ship or vessel whatsoever by this Act made liable to the payment of the said duties, or grant any warrant, or give or grant out any cockets, transire, returns, or discharges unto or for any ship or vessel whatsoever, or shall permit or suffer any such ship or vessel to go out of any of the ports before mentioned, until the said master, commander, or owner or owners of every such ship or vessel respectively shall and do produce and shew forth unto such officer or officers an acquittance or certificate, signed by the said receiver or receivers, collectors or collector of the said duties, whereby it shall appear that such master, commander, or owners have duly and fully paid the said duties, and are not more than three months in arrear for the same, or that they are exempt from the payment of the said duties by virtue of the exceptions herein contained; and that every master, commander, or owner of any such ship or vessel who shall refuse or neglect to pay the said duty or duties in manner and within the time hereinbefore limited and appointed for payment thereof, and also every customer, collector, comptroller, receiver, surveyor, searcher, waiter, and other officer of the Customs who shall make default in any of the premises enjoined them respectively by this Act, or shall in anywise act contrary to the directions hereinbefore mentioned, shall for every such refusal, neglect, default, or act, forfeit the sum of 101. of lawful money of Great Britain; and that the amount of such duties as shall be received in pursuance of this act, so far as the same shall be derived from the duty imposed upon the masters, commanders, or owners, and seamen, or in respect of the wages of the masters, commanders, or owners, and seamen, in such ships or vessels as shall not belong to the particular port at which such ships or vessels shall be reported or discharge their cargoes, shall be and the same is hereby required to be remitted by the collectors or receivers of the said duty at the port aforesaid to the receiver of the port of London, and that the same shall, when so received by him, be transmitted by him to the trustees (if any) of the several ports to which every such ship or vessel shall respectively belong: Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for the master, commander, or owner of any merchant ship or private ship or vessel which shall belong to any of the outports at which trustees shall have been appointed for the purposes hereinafter mentioned under the provisions of this Act or by virtue of the said Act of 20 Geo. 2, to enter into an agreement in writing with the trustees and receiver or collector for such outport, with the intent that the whole of the duties payable under this Act on account of the said ship or vessel, and so often as the same shall be employed, may be paid to the said receiver or collector of the said outports by half-yearly payments; that is to say, within twenty-one days after the 30th of June and 31st of December respectively in every year; and that it shall and may be lawful for the masters or owners of any ship or vessel employed in the coasting trade, or only going from one port to another in any part of the coast of Great Britain or Ireland, to enter into a similar agreement with the receiver or collector and the trustees of any of the ports to which such ship or vessel may belong; and that every such master, commander, or owner, having entered into any such agreement as aforesaid on account of any ship or vessel, shall not be required to make any payment on account of the said duties at any port at which the said ship or vessel shall report or discharge its cargo other than that to which it belongs, nor shall such master or owner be exposed to any of the penalties, nor the said ship or vessel be in any way delayed or impeded by the said officers of His Majesty's Customs, or amy other person, in consequence of such non-payment at any other port than as aforesaid, provided such master or owner produces before the collector or receiver for the port at which such ship or vessel shall report or discharge her cargo a certificate of the agreement hereinbefore mentioned, to be signed by the collector or receiver for the port to which such ship or vessel belongs; and such half-yearly payments of the said duties shall be enforced in the same manner and under the same penalties as are hereinbefore provided for the general collection of the duties to be levied under the provisions of this Act: Provided always, that a yearly statement of the sums so received and distributed at each such port be made and published in one of the county or other newspapers circulating in the district.

And to prevent unnecessary delays in clearing ships and vessels,

It is Enacted,

XIV. That in case the master, commander, or owner, of any ship or vessel liable to the payment of the duties aforesaid, shall pot produce such acquittance or certificate of payment, or of an agreement for such half-yearly payment to be made at the port to which such ship or vessel belongs, as is hereinbefore mentioned, to the tide surveyor when he shall come on board in order to clear such ship or vessel, the tide waiters on board such ship or vessel shall be continued until such acquittance or certificate is produced, at the expense of such master, commander, or owner, and not at the expense of the Crown.

xv. That the penalties and forfeitures by this Act provided to be paid by any master or owner of any such merchant ship or ressel shall be recoverable before any Magistrate or Justice of the Peace of the port or place at which any such ship or vessel sball be reported or shall discharge her cargo as aforesaid; and that notice of any application for recovering any such penalty or penalties before such Magistrate or Justice of the Peace which shall have been served on the owner, master, or commander, broker or agent of any such ship or vessel, shall be deemed sufficient notice.

And after reciting that the masters, commanders, and other officers and seamen employed in ships or vessels belonging to persons residing at some of the out-ports of Great Britain or Ireland may be desirous of having the said several duties of 2s. per mensem and 1s. per mensem to be allowed and paid by them out of their wages as aforesaid, placed under the direction and management of persons residing in or near to such outports respectively;

It is Enacted,

XVL That from and after the 1st of October 1834, and without being compelled to wait until this Act for the other general purposes herein mentioned is to commence and take effect as is aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for the owners of and the masters and commanders employed on board the ships and vessels belonging to persons residing at any of the said outports to assemble and meet at any proper time and place within the limits of the said outports that shall be by any five or more them appointed by giving ten days previous notice, to be fixed at the Custom House, wharf, quay, or any other public place

at such respective outport; and such owners, masters, and commanders, or the greater part of them, being so assembled as aforesaid, are hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to nominate and appoint, by an instrument in writing under their hands and seals, fifteen persons to be trustees for such outport, for receiving, collecting, and applying the said duties of 2s. per mensem and 1s. per mensem, to be allowed, collected, and received by virtue of this Act, at such respective outport, for relief and support of the seamen employed on board the ships or vessels belonging to such persons respectively, and their widows and children, as shall be entitled thereto by virtue of this Act; which said trustees shall continue to act until the 26th of December 1835, and until new trustees are nominated, appointed, and confirmed; and that within ten days after the 26th of December in each succeeding year, the owners, masters, and commanders at such respective outports shall have power to meet and choose fifteen persons to be trustees for the year ensuing, by an instrument in writing under the hands and seals of the owners, masters, and commanders, or the majority of them so assembled, having given previous notice in the manner hereinbefore directed; which said respective trustees shall continue from time to time until new trustees are nominated, appointed, and confirmed as aforesaid; and the said instrument shall be sent, free of expense, to the President and assistants or committees of the said corporation, who are hereby authorized and required to confirm the same under the common seal of the said corporation, without fee or reward, within fifteen days after the receipt thereof; which said trustees when they shall be so confirmed as aforesaid (and whereof five shall be a quorum) shall be vested with and have the same powers and authorities to make bye-laws, and to revoke or alter the same, and to take, receive, and apply any sum or sums of money which shall be contributed, devised, or bequeathed by any well-disposed persons for the purposes aforesaid, and to appoint receivers and other officers, and to collect, recover, receive, pay, and apply the said duties of 2s. per month and 1s. per month so to be allowed and paid by the seamen or other persons serving on board any ship or vessel belonging to such persons respectively at such outports as aforesaid, according to such rules, orders, and regulations as are or shall be established by virtue and in pursuance of this Act, or have been established and continued under the provisions of the said Act, 20 Geo. 2, so far as the same are not inconsistent with or repealed or varied by the provisions of this Act; and the said receivers and other officers shall have the same powers and authorities as the other receivers and officers to be appointed in pursuance of this Act, and shall be subject and liable to the same penalties and forfeitures, anything herein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding: Provided always, that if the said instrument of trust in this Act mentioned shall not be sent to the President and Assistant or Committees within sixty days after every such nomination and appointment of trustees, when any such shall have taken place, the trust thereby created shall be considered void, and the trustees appointed under it as discharged from the said trust; and that the said President and Governors and their successors duly appointed shall have power to appoint a receiver or receivers for the port or place from which such instrument or trust shall not have been sent as aforesaid, for the purpose of collecting the duties and allowances payable under and by virtue of this Act at such port or place aforesaid; and that the said President and Governors and their successors shall have power to demand and receive from the outgoing trustee or trustees of such port or place aforesaid an account in writing of the former management of such void trust, and also to demand the payment from such trustee or trustees of any balance which may at the time of such default be in the hands of such trustee or trustees, who are hereby required to pay and deliver over the same to such receiver so to be appointed as aforesaid, together with the books of account and other books belonging to such trustee or trustees relative to such trust.

XVII. That where, on the default or neglect aforesaid, any such receiver or receivers shall be appointed, such appointment shall not be revocable within five years after the same shall have been so made, except by the said President and Governors as they shall see fit.

And after reciting that trustees have been nominated and appointed at many of the outports of England for similar purposes to those hereby provided under and by virtue of the said Act 20 Geo. 2:

It is Enacted and Declared,

XVIII. That all such trustees are to be deemed within and subject to the provisions of this Act in the same manner as if they had been nominated, appointed, and confirmed under and by virtue thereof; and all such trustees are hereby empowered to continue to act in their respective trusts until the 26th of December 1835, or until new trustees shall have been appointed, nominated, and confirmed by virtue of this Act.

And after noticing that by letters patent bearing date the 18th of December in the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth, certain merchants therein named, and their successors, residing in the city and port of Bristol, are incorporated by the name of "The Master, Wardens, and Commonalty of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol," which said society of merchants are willing, for the benefit of the seamen employed on board ships and vessels in the service of merchants and other traders belonging to the said city and port, to undertake the collection and application of the duties payable under this Act at the said city and port, and to continue to exercise the powers and authorities and to discharge the trusts vested in them by the said Act, 20 Geo. 2, except so far as the same are varied or revoked by this Act:

It is Enacted,

XIX. That the master, wardens, assistants, and treasurer of the said incorporated society for the time being shall be trustees, and shall have and be vested with the like powers and authorities for collecting, recovering, receiving, and applying the said duties of 2s. per month and 1s. per month to be allowed, collected, and received by virtue of this Act at the said city and port, and for taking, receiving, and applying any sum or sums of money which shall be contributed, devised, or bequeathed by any well disposed persons for the relief and support of the seamen employed in the ships and vessels belonging to the merchants and traders residing at the said city and port, and their widows and children, as shall be entitled thereto by virtue of this Act, and to appoint and continue receivers and other officers for the purposes aforesaid, as are given by this Act to the said President and Governors, according to such rules, orders, and regulations as are or shall be established by virtue of this Act, or having been established by virtue of the said Act of 20 Geo. 2, are not inconsistent with or revoked by the provisions of this Act; and such receivers and officers shall have the same powers and authorities as the other receivers and officers appointed or continued by virtue of this Act, and shall be subject and liable to the same penalties and forfeitures; and the said master, wardens, assistants, and treasurer shall also have power to take, receive, and hold any lands, tenements, and hereditaments in such manner and for the like purposes only, as the said President and Governors are by this Act or by the said Act of 20 Geo. 2. empowered to take, receive, and hold lands, tenements, and hereditaments, anything herein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.

And after stating that the guild or brotherhood of masters and pilots seamen of the Trinity House of the town and port of Kingston-upon-Hull are willing, for the benefit of the seamen employed on board ships and vessels in the service of merchants and other traders belonging to the said town and port, to undertake the collection and application of the said duties payable under this Act at the said town and port, and to continue to exercise the powers and authorities and discharge the trusts vested in them by the said Act, 20 Geo. 2.

It is Enacted,

xx. That the guild or brotherhood of masters and pilots seamen of the Trinity House of the town and port of Kingstonupon-Hull for the time being shall be trustees, and shall have and be vested with the like powers and authorities for collecting, recovering, and applying the said duties of 2s. per month and 1s. per month to be paid at the said town and port, and for taking, receiving, and applying bequests and donations for the purposes aforesaid, and for appointing and continuing receivers and other officers, as are given and granted by virtue of this Act to the President and Governors aforesaid, according to such rules, orders, and regulations as are or shall be established by virtue of this Act, or being established under and by virtue of the said Act, 20 Geo. 2, are not inconsistent with or revoked by the provisions of this Act; and such receivers and other officers shall have the same powers and authorities as the other receivers and officers to be appointed or continued under this Act, and shall be subject to the like penalties and forfeitures, anything herein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

And after stating that it is expedient that the port of the city of Glasgow, the port of Greenock, and the ports of Port Glasgow, Crawford's Dyke, Gourock, and their dependencies, all situate and being on the river or Firth of Clyde in Scotland, shall be deemed and taken as one united port for the purposes of this Act :

It is Enacted,

XXI. That the said port of the city of Glasgow, the port of Greenock, and the ports of Port Glasgow, Crawford's Dyke, Gourock, and their dependencies, all situate and being on the river or Firth of Clyde, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be beld, deemed, and taken as one united port; and that it shall and may be lawful for the owners, masters, and commanders of ships and vessels belonging to persons residing at any of the said united ports of Glasgow, Greenock, Port Glasgow, Crawford's Dyke, Gourock, and their dependencies, to assemble and meet at Glasgow, upon notice given for that purpose in the manner hereinbefore directed, and such owners, masters, and commanders, or the greater part of them, being so assembled, are hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to make bye laws, and elect and appoint fifteen persons to be trustees for such united port, of whom five shall be resident at each of the said ports of Glasgow, Greenock, and Port Glasgow, for the purposes of this Act; and which said trustees shall be invested with all the powers and authorities that are given and granted by virtue of this Act to the trustees of any other out-port, and shall have and be vested with full power and authority for recovering, collecting, receiving, and applying all such rates and duties as may be deemed adequate for the relief of the sick, worn-out, and decayed seamen belonging to the said ports and their dependencies, and their widows and families, not exceeding in the whole the said duties of 2s. per month and 1s. per month, to be allowed, collected, and received by virtue of this Act at the said united ports of Glasgow, Greenock, Port Glasgow, Crawford's Dyke, Gourock, and their dependencies, and for taking, receiving, and applying any sum or sums of money which may have been or shall be contributed by any well-disposed persons, or which may have been or shall be otherwise collected for the relief and support of the seamen employed in the ships and vessels belonging to the merchants and traders residing at the said united ports of Glasgow, Greenock, Port Glasgow, Crawford's Dyke, Gourock, and their dependencies, or either of them, and their widows and children, as shall be entitled thereto by virtue of this Act, anything herein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.

XXII. That all and every the trustees for the several out-ports who now are or shall be appointed under and by virtue of the Act 20 Geo. 2, or of this Act, shall and they are hereby required to transmit annually, within sixty days after every 31st of December in every year, to the said President and Governors, a true and correct account of the receipts and expenditure during the year of such their several trusts, conformable to a form or plan to be prescribed and forwarded by the said President and Governors, under the penalty of 20l., to be recovered and recoverable before a Magistrate or Justice of the Peace as other penalties given by this Act; and that such account of the receipts and expenditure of such trustees, together with an account of the receipts and expenditure of such President and Governors, shall be annually laid before the Honourable the House of Commons.

XXIII. That nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to oblige the receivers or collectors of the said duty appointed by the trustees of any of the said respective out-ports to send the duplicates of the muster rolls hereby directed to be delivered to the receivers and collectors of the said duties, in the manner hereinbefore mentioned, to the said President and Assistants or Committees, for any vessels belonging to the ports where such payment shall be made, but such duplicates shall be delivered by such collectors or receivers to the said respective trustees, and to be by them filed and preserved for their use and inspection.

XXIV. Provided, That no seaman or other person employed on board any merchant ship, steam packets, or other private ship or vessel shall be entitled to receive any provision or benefit by virtue of this Act, at the port of London or elsewhere, unless he be subject or liable to the said duty hereby imposed, and shall pay the same when and where the same shall be required of him by virtue of this Act.

xxv. Provided, That those seamen who shall have been longest in the said service, and contributed most towards the said duties, shall be first provided for as worn out or decrepit.

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And after noticing that it may happen that seamen or other persons employed on board ships or vessels may by accident in loading or unloading the same, or otherwise by doing such duty on shore as well as on board such ships or vessels, receive such hurt or damage that it may endanger their lives to send them to the port to which the ships or vessels respectively belong :

It is further Enacted,

XXVI. That in case any seaman or other person employed on board any merchant ship or private ship or vessel shall, in doing his duty on shore, or on board any such ship or vessel while in a port, other than that to which the said ship or vessel shall belong, break an arm or leg, or be otherwise hurt or maimed, so that it is necessary that immediate care should be taken of him, it shall and may be lawful for the said President and Governors at the port of London, and the respective trustees for the out-ports, as the case may be, and they are hereby required, to provide proper relief for every such seaman or other person that shall be so hurt or maimed at their respective ports, until he shall be so well recovered from such hurt or damage as to be removed and sent with safety to the port to which the ship or vessel in which such seaman was at the time of the accident employed shall belong; and the expense of relieving and maintaining such seaman until he be so removed as aforesaid, and also the expense of removing him, not exceeding 2d. per mile, shall be repaid to the said President and Governors at the port of London, or to the trustees, if any, for the respective out-port at which the accident shall have happened, by the trustees of the port to which such ship or vessel shall belong.

XXVII. That in case any seaman or other person shall serve five years or more on board merchant or other ships or vessels belonging to different ports, and shall have paid the monthly duties for that entire period, and shall have become decrepit and worn out, and adjudged either by the said President and Assistants or Committees, or by the trustees at any of the out-ports, a proper object of relief, such person shall be provided for and relieved at the port where he shall have contributed and paid the greatest part of the said duties for the last five years of his service, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

And after noticing that it may happen that seamen or other persons employed in the merchant service within the limits of this Act may be shipwrecked, or taken by the enemies of His Majesty, and on their return from shipwreck or imprisonment may be returning with passes to the places of their respective abodes :

It is further Enacted,

XXVIII. That it shall and may be lawful for the said President and Governors, or the respective trustees, if they think fit, to relieve any such seaman or other person in such manner as they shall think proper.

And after noticing that there may be some circumstances wherein some of the respective certificates hereinbefore men tioned cannot be obtained :

It is Enacted,

XXIX. That in all cases where the certificates directed to be produced by this Act for the purpose of entitling the parties producing the same to relief and support cannot be obtained, such other certificates as shall be satisfactory to the said President and Governors or trustees respectively shall be received and allowed so as to entitle the party producing the same to the pensions or other relief provided by this Act.

xxx. That all and every sum and sums of money which shall be due for wages to any seaman, mariner, or other person hired or engaged on board any British merchant ship in any port or ports in Great Britain and Ireland, who shall have died on board during the voyage, shall within three calendar months after the arrival of such merchant ship in any port or ports of Great Britain and Ireland, be paid to the trustees of the said port to be appointed in pursuance of this Act, or to the receiver or collector or other authorized agent of the said President and Governors, where there are no such trustees, to and for the use of the executor or executors, administrator or administrators of the seaman, mariner, or other person so dying; and in case no claim shall be made on the said trustees by the executors or administrators of such seaman, on account of such wages, within one year after the same shall have been paid over as aforesaid, that then the said trustees of the said port shall remit the same to the collector or receiver of the said President and Governors, or other their authorized agent at the port of London, in such manner and at such times as the said President and Governors shall direct, to and for the use of the executor or executors, administrator or administrators of the seaman, mariner, or other person so dying; and in case no claim shall be made on the said President and Governors by the executors and administrators of such deceased seaman, on account of such wages, within one year after the same shall have been first paid over to any collector, receiver, or agent of the said President and Governors, then it shall be lawful for the said President and Governors to direct such wages to be paid over (but without interest for the same) to the widow, or if there be no widow claiming, then to the lawful issue respectively, or such persons as by virtue of the Statutes of Distribution of Intestates' Effects shall be entitled to the same ; and if any master or commander of any such merchant ship shall neglect or refuse to pay over or tender to the said trustees, or the receiver or collector at the port aforesaid, all and every such sum and sums of money within the time hereinbefore limited, he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence double the amount of the sum or sums of money so due to any seaman, mariner, or other person for wages aforesaid.

XXXI. Provided, That all and every such sum and sums of money as shall not be lawfully demanded of the said receiver, collector, or other authorized agent of the said President and Governors at the port of London by any legal representative, or widow or issue, or other person hereby authorized, as the case may be, within the term of two years after the first payment thereof to any collector or agent of the said President and Governors, shall be forfeited, and shall go and be paid to the use of the said President and Governors, or to the trustees of the port, if any, to which such ship belongs, by sucha receiver, collector, or other authorized agent of the said President and Governors at the port of London aforesaid.