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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1824 - SECT 11

Seamen, &c. serving on board such ships declared guilty of a misdemeanor, &c.

11. If any persons shall enter and embark on board, or contract for the
entering and embarking on board of any ship, vessel, or boat, as petty
officer, seaman, marine, or servant, or in any other capacity not
herein-before specifically mentioned, knowing that such ship, vessel, or boat
is actually employed or is, in the same voyage or upon the same occasion in
respect of which they shall so enter and embark on board, or contract so to do
as aforesaid, intended to be employed in accomplishing any of the objects, or
the contracts in relation to the objects, which objects and contracts have
herein-before been declared unlawful, then and in every such case the persons
so offending ..., shall be and they are hereby declared to be guilty of a
misdemeanor only, and shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not
exceeding two years.

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