An Act to extend the Benefits of certain Provisions of the General Merchant Seamen's Act relating to Apprentices bound to the Sea Service to Apprentices bound to the Sea Service by Boards of Guardians of the Poor in Ireland, and to enable such Guardians to place out Boys in the Naval Service
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Merchant Seamen, and for keeping a Register of Seamen, Power was given to the Overseers of the Poor or other Persons having the Authority of Overseers in any 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 a...