Section 104

If it appears to the Court before which the case is brought that the seaman or apprentice has been conveyed on board or taken before the Court on improper or insufficient grounds, that Court may, notwithstanding any limitation of its ordinary jurisdiction, inflict on the master, mate, owner, agent or charterer, as the case may be, a fine of five hundred

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dollars; but the infliction of that fine shall be a bar to any action for false imprisonment in respect of the arrest.

Power of Court to order offender to be taken on board ship.