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Twenty-third. For furnishing copies of such records for each bill of sale, mortgage, or other conveyance, fifty cents.

Twenty-fourth. For receiving manifest of each railroad-car or other vehicle laden with goods, wares or merchandise from a foreign contig. uous territory, twenty-five cents.

Twenty-fifth. For entry of goods, wares, or merchandise for consump tion, warehouse, rewarehouse, transportation, or exportation, including oath and permit to land or deliver, fifty cents.

Twenty-sixth. For certificate of registry, including boni on oath, two dollars and twenty-five cents.

Twenty-seventh. For indorsement of change of masters on registry, one dollar.

SEC. 4383. Every collector and naval officer, and every surveyor residing at a port where there is no collector, shall cause to be affixed and constantly kept in some conspicuous place in his office a fair table of the rates of fees demandable by this title.

SEC. 4384. All vessels subject to enrollment or license shall be liable to the payment of the fees established by law for services of customs officers incident thereto.

SEC. 4385. Nothing in this Title shall be construed to extend to any boat or lighter not being masted, or if masted and not decked, employed in the harbor of any town or city.

3.-REGULATION OF VESSELS IN THE FISHERIES.*

(Revised Statutes, Title LI.)

SEC. 4391. The master of any vessel of the burden of twenty tons or upward, qualified according to law for carrying on the bank and other cod fisheries, or the mackerel-fishery, bound from a port of the United States to be employed in any such fishery, at sea, shall, before proceeding on such fishing voyage, make an agreement in writing with every fisherman who may be employed therein, except only an apprentice or servant of himself or owner, and, in addition to such terms of shipment as may be agreed on, shall, in such agreement, express whether the same is to continue for one voyage or for the fishing season, and shall also express that the fish or the proceeds of such fishing vogage or voyages which may appertain to the fishermen shall be divided among them in proportion to the quantities or number of such fish which they may respectively have caught. Such agreement shall be indorsed or countersigned by the owner of such fishing vessel or his agent.

SEC. 4392. If any fisherman, having engaged himself for a voyage or for the fishing season in any fishing-vessel and signed an agreement therefor, thereafter and while such agreement remains in force and to be performed deserts or absents himself from such vessel without leave of the master thereof, or of the owner or his agent, such deserter shall be liable to the same penalties as deserting seamen are subject to in the merchant service, and may in the like manner, and upon the like complaint and proof, be apprehended and detained; and all costs of process and commitment, if paid by the master or owner, shall be deducted out of the share of fish or proceeds of any fishing-voyage to which such de serter had or shall become entitled. Every fisherman, having so en* See secs. 4311, 4320, 4321, 4364, 4365, 4377, 4512, 4513, 4529, 4573, and 4576.

gaged himself, who during such fishing voyage refuses or neglects his proper duty on board the fishing-vessel, being thereto ordered or requir ed by the master thereof, or otherwise resists his just commands to the hinderance or detriment of such voyage, besides being answerable for all damages arising thereby, shall forfeit to the use of the owner of such vessel his share of any public allowance which may be paid upon such voyage.

SEC. 4393. Whenever an agreement or contract is so made and signed for a fishing voyage or for the fishing season, and any fish caught on board such vessel during the same are delivered to the owner or to his agent, for cure, and sold by such owner or agent, such vessel shall, for the term of six months after such sale, be liable for the master's and every other fisherman's share of such fish, and may be proceeded against in the same form and to the same effect as any other vessel is by law liable, and may be proceeded against for the wages of seamen or mariners in the merchant service. Upon such proceeding for the value of a share or shares of the proceeds of fish so delivered and sold it shall be incumbent on the owner or his agent to produce a just account of the sales and division of such fish according to such agreement or contract; otherwise the vessel shall be answerable upon such proceeding for what may be the highest value of the shares demanded. But in all cases the owner of such vessel or his agent, appearing to answer in such proceeding, may offer thereupon his account of general supplies made for such fishing voyage and of other supplies therefor made to either of the demandants, and shall be allowed to produce evidence thereof in answer to their demands respectively; and judgment shall be rendered upon such proceeding for the respective balances which upon such an inquiry shall appear.

SEC. 4394. When process shall be issued against any vessel so liable, if the owner thereof or his agent will give bond to each fisherman in whose favor such process shall be instituted, with sufficient security, to the satisfaction of two justices of the peace, of whom one shall be named by such owner or agent, and the other by the fisherman or fishermen pursuing such process, or if either party shall refuse, then the justice first appointed shall name his associate, with condition to answer and pay whatever sum shall be recovered by him or them on such process, there shall be an immediate discharge of such vessel. Nothing in this or the preceding section shall prevent any fisherman from having his action at common law for his share or shares of fish or the proceeds thereof.

SEC. 4395. There shall be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, from among the civil officers or em ployés of the Government, a commissioner of fish and fisheries, who shall be a person of proved scientific and practical acquaintance with the fishes of the coast, and who shall serve without additional salary.

SEC. 4397. The heads of the several Executive Departments shall cause to be rendered all necessary and practicable aid to the commissioner in the prosecution of his investigations and inquiries.

*There is no comma after the word liable in the Act of June 19, 1813, chap. 2, sec. 2, first clause.

4.-DRAWBACKS ON SHIP-BUILDING MATERIALS, ETC.

MATERIALS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF VESSELS.

(Revised Statutes, Title XXXIII.)

SEC. 2513. All lumber, timber, hemp, manila, and iron and steel rods, bars, spikes, nails, and bolts, and copper and composition metal, which may be necessary for the construction and equipment of vessels built in the United States, for the purpose of being employed in the foreign trade, including the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, and finished after the sixth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, may be imported in bond, under such regulatious as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and upon proof that such materials have been used for such purpose, no duties shall be paid thereon.

But vessels receiving the benefit of this section shall not be allowed to engage in the coastwise trade of the United States more than two months in any one year, except upon the payment to the United States of the duties on which a rebate is herein allowed.

MATERIALS FOR REPAIR OF VESSELS.

SEC. 2514. All articles of foreign production needed for the repair of American vessels engaged exclusively in foreign trade may be withdrawn from bonded warehouses free of duty, under such regulations as the Secretary of [the] Treasury may prescribe.

MATERIAL FOR CONSTRUCTION OR EQUIPMENT.*

Revised Statutes, sec. 2510, substituted by chap. 121 of 1883 for sec. 2513, Revised Statutes.)

All lumber, timber, hemp, manila, wire rope, and iron and steel rods, bars, spikes, nails, and bolts, and copper and composition metal which may be necessary for the construction and equipment of vessels built in the United States for foreign account and ownership or for the purpose of being employed in the foreign trade, including the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, after the passage of this act, may be imported in bond under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; and upon proof that such materials have been used for such purpose no duties shall be paid thereon.

MATERIAL FOR REPAIR.

(Revised Statutes, 2571, substituted by chap. 121 of 1883, for sec. 2514.)

All articles of foreign production needed for repair of American vessels engaged exclusively in foreign trade may be withdrawn from bonded warehouse free of duty, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.

*Certain materials for the construction of vessels to be employed in foreign trade may be withdrawn from bonded warehouse without payment of duty; but the vessel receiving the benefit must not be employed in the coast wise trade for more than two months in any one year without payment of the duties on which the rebate is allowed. Vessels with imported engines: A domestic hull might receive an engine of foreign manufacture, imported complete, provided it conformed to Title LII, Revised Statutes, as to steam vessels, without prejudice to documenting as a vessel of the United States. ( Treasury decision in 1882.)

But vessels receiving the benefit of this section shall not be allowed to engage in the coastwise trade of the United States more than two months in any one year, except upon the payment to the United States of the duties on which a rebate is herein allowed: Provided, That vessels built in the United States for foreigu account and ownership shall not be allowed to engage in the coastwise trade of the United States.

DRAWBACK ON BUILDING MATERIAL.

When a vessel is built in the United States, for foreign account, wholly or partly of foreign materials, on which import duties have been paid, there shall be allowed on such vessel when exported, a drawback equal in amount to the duty paid on such materials, to be ascertained under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Ten per centum of the amount of such brawback so allowed shall, however, be retained for the use of the United States by the col lector paying the same. (Act of June 26, 1884, sec. 17.)

FREE WITHDRAWAL OF SUPPLIES.

All articles of foreign production needed, and actually withdrawn from bonded warehouses for supplies, not including equipment of vessels of the United States engaged in the foreign trade, including the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, may be so withdrawn free of duty, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. (Same act, sec. 16.)

DRAWBACK ON BITUMINOUS COAL.

SEC. 10. That the provision of Schedule N of "An act to reduce internal revenue taxation, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, allowing a drawback on imported bituminous coal used for fuel on vessels propelled by steam, shall be construed to apply only to vessels of the United States. (Act of June 19, 1886.)

ARTICLES WITHDRAWN FOR CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF FISHING AND WHALING VESSELS.

SEC. 15. That the provisions of sections twenty-five hundred and ten and twenty-five hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes, as the sections of Title thirty-three are numbered in "An act to reduce internal revenue taxation, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and the provisions of section sixteen of "An act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes," approved June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, shall apply to the construction, equipment, repairs, and supplies of vessels of the United States employed in the fisheries or in the whaling business, in the same manner as to vessels of the United States engaged in the foreign trade. (Act of June 19, 1886.)

PART III.

1. TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS AND MERCHandise.

2. LIABILITY OF SHIP-Owners.

3. STEAM-VESSELS.

4. INSPECTION.

5. GENERAL PILOT LAWS.

1.—TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS AND MERCHANDISE.

(Revised Statutes, Title XLVIII, chap. 6.)

SEC. 4252. No master of any vessel owned in whole or in part by a citizen of the United States, or by a citizen of any foreign country, shall take on board such vessel, at any foreign port or place other than foreign contiguous territory of the United States, passengers contrary to the provisions of this section, with intent to bring such passengers to the United States and leave such port or place and bring such passengers or any number thereof, within the jurisdiction of the United States. The number of such passengers shall not be greater than in the proportion of one to every two tons of such vessel, not including children under the age of one year in the computation, and computing two children over one and under eight years of age as one passenger. The spaces appropriated for the use of such passengers, and which shall not be occupied by stores or other goods, not the personal baggage of such passengers, shall be in the following proportions: On the main and poop decks or platforms, and in the deck-houses, if there be any, one passenger for each sixteen clear superficial feet of deck, if the height or distance between the decks or platforms shall not be less than six feet; and on the lower deck, not being an orlop deck, if any, one passenger for eighteen such clear superficial feet, if the height or distance between the decks or platforms shall not be less than six feet, but so as that no passenger shall be carried on any other deck or platform, nor upon any deck where the height or distance between decks is less than six feet. But on board two-deck ships, where the height between the decks is seven and one-half feet or more, fourteen clear superficial feet of deck shall be the proportion required for each passenger. The term "contiguous territory," as used in this section, shall not be held to extend to any port or place connecting with any interoceanic route through Mexico.

SEC. 4253. Whenever the master of any such vessel takes on board of the same, at any foreign port or place, other than such contiguous territory, any greater number of passengers than in the proportion to the space or to the tonnage prescribed in the preceding section, with intent to bring such passengers to the United States, and leaves such port or

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