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Penalty for acting as master or mariner before name and place of residence are registered.
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XLVIII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person shall act as master or mariner on board any such lighter, boat, or vessel on said river, or within the said harbour, before his name and place of residence shall have been duly entered in the registry aforesaid; and every person who shall so act, without being so registered, or who shall give into the said mayor a false name or place of residence, shall, for every such offence, being thereof convicted on a summary hearing before the said mayor, on the oath or oaths of one or more credible witness or witnesses (which oath or oaths the said mayor is hereby empowered to administer), or by the confession of the party or parties, forfeit a sum not less than forty shillings, nor more than five pounds, at the discretion of the said mayor, to be levied by distress and sale of the offender’s goods and chattels, by warrant under the hand and seal of the said mayor; and in case such offender shall not have goods sufficient to satisfy such penalty, then it shall be lawful for said mayor, by warrant under his hand and seal, to commit such offender to the gaol or house of correction of said city, there to remain without bail or mainprize for a space of time not less than one month, nor more than three months, at the discretion of said mayor.
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