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The owner of every boat and the tindal and boatmen for the time being employed in any boat in which any goods shall with the connivance of such boat-owner, tindal or boat-men be conveyed to or from any ship or vessel in any port in which this Act may take effect without having an Officer of the Police-force on board of such boat, shall, on conviction before a magistrate, be liable as follows:- every boat-owner to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees; every tindal to a fine not exceeding twenty rupees; every boatman to a fine not exceeding five rupees.