Laws of the United States Relating to Navigation and the Merchant Marine

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 - 456 páginas

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Shipping officers 65 Private persons shall not ship seamen in foreign trade
51
Owners or masters may ship seamen in certain cases 67 Arbitration before shipping commissioner 68 Apprentices
52
Shipping articles in foreign trade 70 Period of engagement 71 Penalty for shipment without agreement 72 Shipment in foreign ports before consuls
55
Crew list 74 Crew bond
56
Papers relating to crew
57
Shipment of seamen in the coasting trade
58
Agreement in coasting trade not before commissioner
59
Agreement with fishermen
60
Discharge in foreign trade
61
Discharge in foreign ports
62
Wages
63
Vessels exempt from libel for wages 83 Advance wages prohibited in foreign and coasting trade
66
Allotment of wages in foreign trade 85 Regulation of allotments and penalty for advances
67
Wages and clothing exempt from attachment 87 Desertion
68
Desertion of foreign seamen in the United States 89 Harboring deserters
70
Soliciting lodgers 91 Return of destitute seamen from foreign ports
71
Effects of deceased seamen
72
Offenses and punishment
75
Procedure
77
Schedules
78
Sick and disabled seamen
80
Jurisdiction over American seamen in foreign ports and foreign seamen in American ports
81
Seamens witness fees 99 Impressment of American seamen
83
LOG BOOK SUPPLIES SEAWORTHINESS 100 Log book 101 Provisions and water 102 Weights and measures 103 Medicine chest and slop chest ...
85
LIABILITY OF OWNERS MASTERS AND SHIPPERS 105 Liability of owners masters and shippers 106 Bill of lading 23 18 18 18 18 18 18 15 18...
92
General provisions 108 Manning of vessels
96
Inspection of hulls and lifesaving appliances 110 Inspection of boilers 99
99
Loading safety valve
104
Stairways and deck room
106
Inflammable or explosive cargo
108
Carriage of passengers
110
Certificate of inspection
111
Exhibit of laws
112
Liability for damage
114
IMMIGRANT SHIPS 124 Accommodations
115
Light and air
117
Provisions
118
Discipline and cleanliness
119
Explosives cattle
120
Boarding vessel passenger list
121
Inspection
122
GENERAL PILOT LAWS 135 General pilot laws
124
TONNAGE TAX 136 Rates of tax
126
Discriminating tonnage taxes
127
Alien tonnage taxes in exceptional cases
128
Light money in exceptional cases
129
DISCRIMINATION AND RETALIATION 143 Discrimination against American vessels
130
Discrimination against products of the United States
132
Vessels of nations not assimilated by treaty to American vessels
133
Discriminating duties
134
ENTRY AND CLEARANCE 149 Clearance
135
Form of manifest
136
Form of clearance
137
Enrolled and licensed vessels in foreign trade
138
Deposit of papers
139
War documents passports sea letters
140
Illegal boarding of vessel
141
Boarding and search of vessel
142
Exemption from forfeiture
146
Moieties informers and customs officers awards
147
Procedure
149
Limitation of time
151
Oaths of masters and owners
152
ENTRY OF MERCHANDISE 171 Definitions
153
Ports of entry
154
Manifest for Treasury Department
155
Bond of cargo for reexport
156
Transfer of infported merchandise for export
157
Owners or consignees entry of merchandise
158
Vessels exempt from entry
159
Entry of wines and distilled spirits 16C 185 Sea stores
160
Coal
161
Marks brands and trademarks
162
Cigars
163
Inspection of manifests by boarding officer
165
Entry of merchandise at special ports
166
Clearance at special ports
172
Entry of merchandise for different ports of destination 198 Collection of duties
174
Unlading
175
Special permit to unlade by night
176
Supervision of unlading
177
Salvage of merchandise
189
Bond of firm or partnership
190
Fraudulent importation of merchandise
191
Bribery and solicitation of bribes
192
TARIFF PROVISIONS DIRECTLY RELATING TO VESSELS 222 Rates of duty
193
Prohibited imports
194
CONSULS SERVICES TO VESSELS Page 225 Consuls services to vessels
196
Naval officer acting as consul
197
COMMERCE WITH CONTIGUOUS COUNTRIES 227 Vessels and vehicles
198
Manifests
199
Customs inspection
200
Permit at frontier
202
Saloon stores
203
Entry from one district to another
204
Discharging cargo and passengers
205
Touching at foreign ports
206
DOMESTIC COMMERCE 243 Great districts
208
Entry within a great district
209
Clearance for another great district
210
Entry to another great district
211
Exemption on the Mississippi and tributaries
212
Registered vessels in the coasting trade
213
Foreign vessels barred from coasting trade
214
Foreign tugboats
215
Forfeiture of vessel and merchandise
216
TRADE WITH ALASKA 257 Subject to coasting laws
217
Procedure
218
SEAL FISHERIES 261 Act of February 21 1893
219
Provisions of Revised Statutes
224
QUARANTINE AND BILLS OF HEALTH 264 Consular bill of health
227
Quarantine regulations
228
Quarantine inspection
230
Penalties
231
Removal of cargo
232
Removal of customhouse
233
IMMIGRATION 272 Head money
234
Inspection
236
Foreign convicts to be deported
237
Appeals in certain cases
243
Act of September 13 1888 as amended October 1 1888
249
Revised Statutes as amended March 3 1875
257
United States mail agencies abroad
266
REMISSION OF FINES AND PENALTIES
272
Care of cattle in domestic trade 279 I
279
RULES TO PREVENT COLLISIONS
286
Proposed international rules of 1890
293
Limits of application of international and inland or local rules
303
River navigation
314
AIDS TO NAVIGATION Page 313 Assistance by United States vessels
315
Nautical almanac
316
Storm and weather signals
317
OBSTRUCTIONS TO NAVIGATION 320 Sunken wrecks
318
Bridge piers and abutments
319
Dumping in navigable waters
320
General obstructions
321
HARBORS AND RIVERS 325 Harbor lines
323
Drawbridges
324
Punishment of officers and vessels
325
NEW YORK HARBOR 331 New York Harbor
326
ANCHORAGE GROUNDS 332 Anchorage grounds New York and Chicago
331
NEUTRALITY 333 Neutrality
332
GUANO ISLANDS 334 Guano Islands
336
MISCELLANEOUS 335 Lifesaving medals
338
SchoolShips
339
Vessels for Naval Militia
340
Special privilege of foreign war vessels
341
LEgal procedure 343 Seizure
343
Summary trial
345
CRIMES 345 Place of trial
347
Rape
348
Mayhem
349
Mutiny
350
Barratry
351
SLAVE TRADE
357
PROTECTION OF SUBMARINE Cables
363
Steamboat Inspection Service
375
Immigration Bureau
382
LightHouse Board
389
96
414
Abandonment of seamen 351
421
vessels
451

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Página 313 - Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any vessel, or the owner or master or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper look-out, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the case.
Página 302 - ... between the two vessels shall make the overtaking vessel a crossing vessel within the meaning of these rules, or relieve her of the duty of keeping clear of the overtaken vessel until she is finally past and clear.
Página 299 - Every vessel may, if necessary in order to attract attention in addition to the lights which she is by these rules required to carry, show a flare-up light or use any detonating signal that cannot be mistaken for a distress signal.
Página 291 - When two steam vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Página 299 - ... feet above the hull, one such light, and at or near the stern of the vessel, and at such a height that it shall be not less than f1fteen feet lower than the forward light, another such light.
Página 292 - In obeying and construing these rules, due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.
Página 287 - ... (c.) On the port side, a red light, so constructed as to show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam...
Página 95 - ... faults or errors in navigation or in the management of said vessel, nor shall the vessel, her owner or owners, charterers, agent, or master be held liable for losses arising from dangers of the sea or other navigable waters, acts of God, or public enemies, or the inherent defect, quality, or vice of the thing carried, or from insufficiency of package, or seizure under legal process, or for loss resulting from any act or omission of the shipper or owner of the goods, his agent or representative,...
Página 294 - On the starboard side a green light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam...
Página 311 - The exhibition of any light on board of a vessel of war or revenue-cutter of the United States may be suspended whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Navy, the commander in chief of a squadron, or the commander of a vessel acting singly, the special character of the service may require it.

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