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Disputes between Owners, Masters and Sailors, &c. may be decided by Justices of Peace or Inspectors.
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XXXVI. And be it further enacted, That any Disputes or Differences which shall or may arise between the Persons engaged on board any of the Vessels employed in the Irish Fisheries, and the Owner or Master thereof, touching any Demands which such Persons may have against such Owners or Masters for or on account of their Wages or Shares of their Earnings of such Vessels, where such Demand does not exceed Five Pounds, and also all such Complaints of such Owners or Masters against any of the Persons or Hands engaged on board such Vessels, for or on account of their absenting or withdrawing themselves from their Duty and Service on board any such Vessel, shall and may be determined by any of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County where such Disputes arise, or by the Inspectors or other Officers to be appointed, who are hereby empowered to give such and the like Relief, and by such and the same Remedies and Means, and to inflict such and the like Penalties and Punishments, as the said Justices of the Peace are empowered to do in all Cases of Disputes between Masters and Servants, or Artificers and their Employers, by all or any of the Laws now in being.
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