master, captain, owner or consignee of separate any husband and wife, who v such ship or vessel, by disposing of s or mistresses, unless by mutual conwife; nor shall any passenger, withe disposed of to any person residing th, under the penalty of one hundred -y offence, to be recovered and approprovided and directed; and moreover, case made without the mutual consent e, as aforesaid, shall be void, and the nship or vessel shall, during the term sufficiently provide, for each and every d kept on board, good and wholesome er necessaries and accommodations, at ge of the owner of such ship or vessel; Il continue on board any such ship or n of the aforesaid term, the master or vide for such passengers, at their cost all necessaries and accommodations, as the accounts of such passengers rewith their freights, and shall remove whose diseases are not pestilential or near the time of labor, to some convey, and there provide them with necesd nursing, the expense whereof shall ngers respectively, to be added to and ghts. If, however, there shall be any expense of days, to b added to an SEC. 4. A That it sha or vessel in after his ar register of sengers who ho may h harge from failing to co feit and pay and approp SEC. 5. An That from t all the goods said on board the place from for the freig be fully paid And it sha signee of any from the arri to apply to al city or county execution aga passengers, an can pass er or consignee and and wife, th 1. by disposing d days, to be charged to such pas added to and recovered with their SEC. 4. And be it further enacted That it shall be the duty of the ca or vessel importing German pass after his arrival at the port of Ph register of German passengers the sengers who may have died during who may have died after their a charge from such ship or vessel; a failing to comply with the provisio feit and pay the sum of three hund and appropriated as hereinafter pr SEC. 5. And be it further enacted That from the time any ship or v all the goods, wares and merchand said on board thereof, who have no the place from whence they sailed, for the freight-money of such passe be fully paid and satisfied. overed and appr ed: and moreove the mutual consent 11 be void, and the 11, during the term for each and every ood and wholesome accommodations such ship or vesse d any such ship the master of term, ngers, at their cost accommodations uch passengers re s, and shall remove e not pestilentiala bor, to some conve de them with nece pense whereof shall to be added to and there shall be a And it shall be lawful for the m signee of any such ship or vessel, a from the arrival of such passengers to apply to any two aldermen or city or county where such passeng execution against the goods, ware passengers, and the said aldermen e, all or any of the goods, wares and er enacted by the authority aforesaid, common die, leav 1 mitted to l ship or vese years, as the d, goods, wares and ed and directed t authority aforesai passa die, leaving goods, wares and n effects whatsoever on board, or in such master or captain, shall with after his arrival opposite to the the decease of every such passeng wills of the county in which the fect inventory thereof, to the end demands which shall be due to consignee of such ship or vessel, mitted to the custody of some proj benefit of the wife and children, n deceased, as the case may requir shall direct. And if any master o lect to exhibit such inventory as such offence, forfeit and pay the s to be recovered and appropriated a directed. And no master, captain ship or vessel, shall charge the fre ing as aforesaid: Provided always the time of his or her importation that his or her services, until he twenty-one years, shall not be equ discharge the money due for his or then and in such case he or she ma number of years, not exceeding h years, as the parties may agree, the contrary notwithstanding. r of German passengers, for his trouble g such forfeitures, penalties and sums eceive, and retain a compensation at and a half per centum on the amount 1. er enacted by the authority aforesaid, cutions to be commenced against any or consignee of any ship or vessel, or f this act, shall be brought within two Ishall have been committed, if comf the ship or vessel; and if any action ed against any person or persons, for Le in pursuance of this act, the defenplead the general issue, and give this er in evidence at any trial to be had 1818. Recorded in Law Book No. 16, f the 25th of February, 1818, the govansmit a copy of this law to the gova request, that he would lay the same d invite their co-operation. ACT to prevent Be it enact the Commonu and it is her shall not be boat or other person, ei arbor, or plad land such p have been or mmitted in master, comma late this act sh Sessions of the Committed, be to a fine for ea than three hun jail for a space Tear, as the cou ice of register of German passengers, for their education, (vol. 5, page 113,) oling for every year of the servitude. rpreter to go on board every ship imgers, to examine whether they have 20 |