Anno octavo Victoriae Reginae.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1845
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Anno octavo Victoriae Reginae. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNO OCTAVO VIGTORIyE REGINiE. C A P, XIV. An Act to exempt Ships carrying Passengers to North America from the Obligation of having on board a Phvsician, Surgeon, or Apothecary. [8th 1845.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for regulating the Car- 5 & 6 Viet. riage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels, Ships carrying Passengers to North America were exempted from the Obligation of having on board a Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary, as required by the said Act in other Cases therein specified: And whereas by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to 7&8 Viet. amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Merchant Seamen, and c. ll2. for keeping a Register of Seamen, it is, among other things, enacted, that every Ship having One hundred Persons or upwards on board, and every Ship, the Voyage of which shall be deemed, under the Provisions of the first-recited Act, to exceed Twelve Weeks, having Fifty Persons or upwards on board, shall have on board, as one of her Complement, some Person duly authorized by Law to practise in this Kingdom as a Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary, whereby the Exemption granted by the first-recited Act to Ships carrying Passengers to the Continent of North America has been taken away in all Cases where the total Number of Persons on board U u any