27 March 1851.
14 Vict.
(Ireland.)
A
ILL
TO
Extend the Benefits of certain Provisions of the General Merchant Seamen's Act, relating to Apprentices bound to the Sea Service, to Ap¬ prentices bound to the Sea Service by Boards of Guardians of the Poor in Ireland.
[Note.'—The
Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted
in Committee.]
32.
"HEREAS by an Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Preamble.
Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to 7 & s Vict, " amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Merchant c,u " Seamen, and for keeping a Register of Seamen," Power was given 5 to the Overseers of the Poor or other Persons having the Authority of Overseers in anjT District, Union, Parish, Township, or Place in the United Kingdom, in the Manner and subject to the Conditions in the said Act mentioned, to bind and put out as an Apprentice in the Sea Service any Boy having attained the Ag& of Twelve Fears, of 10 sufficient Health and Strength, who or whose Parents was or were
chargeable to such District, Union, Parish, Township, or Place, or who should beg for Alms therein, with his Consent, but not otherwise: And whereas it is expedient to confer upon the several Boards of Guardians in Ireland the same Powers as are by the said recited Act
149.
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