For further convenience of reference is published a table of laws, giving the sections of the Revised Statutes and subsequent laws which lave been included in this compilation, the date of enactment and amendment, together with the page of this compilation on which they may be found. The table of laws may be found at the end of the volume, together with the usual alphabetical index. A marginal reference gives the number of the section of the Revised Statutes included in each paragraph, or the date and section of the act, if enacted subsequent to the Revised Statutes, with the date of amendatory acts which have been incorporated, if practicable, in the paragraph. Where reference is made in a paragraph to a title or chapter of the Revised Statutes the numbers of the sections comprised in such title or chapter have been printed in brackets. Reference to the table of laws, at the end of the volume, will show which of those sections have been included in this volume as pertinent or in force, and will also show the page where they may be found. Fees, payable by the masters and owners of vessels of the United States, were in inost instances abolished in 1886 and 1890, and accordingly the statutes imposing such fees are not retained in this compilation, though they furnish a basis on which oflicers are compensated from the Treasury for services. Respectfully, EUGENE TYLER CHAMBERLAIN, Commissioner. To Ilon. OSCAR S. STRAUS, Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 42. Special registry law (New York and Paris act). 44. Method of enrollment and license. 51. Enrollment and license to corporations 54. Certification by customs officer. 55. Enrollment outside of district. 56. Special provisions for enrollment and license. 57. Inspection of enrollment and license_ 58. Record of American-built vessels owned by aliens. 38 J8 39 59 60 61 61 62 63 64 64 64 1 PART 1.-MERCHANT SEAMEN. 72. Definitions.. 73. Exemption from militia duty-- 74. Naturalization and citizenship of seamen- 75. Shipping officers 76. Illegal shipments 77. Owners or masters may ship seamen in certain cases 78. Apprentices--- 79. Agreement to ship in foreign trade. 80. Period of engagement 81. Penalty for shipment without agreement- 82. Undermanning 83. Shipment in foreign ports before consuls. 84. Crew list---- 85. Failure to produce crew- 86. Papers relating to crew- 87. Shipment of seamen in the coasting or near-by foreign trade. 88. Agreement in coasting trade not before commissioner 89. Agreement with fishermen. 90. Discharge in foreign trade.. 91. Discharge in foreign ports.. 92. Wages--- 93. Vessels exempt from libel for wages. 94. Advances and allotments of wages-- 95. Wages and clothing exempt from attachment. 96. Desertion of seamen abroad.. 97. Desertion of foreign seamen in the United States. 98. Arbitration before shipping commissioner. 99. Soliciting lodgers 69 71 71 73 3 77 78 100. Return of seamen from foreign ports, Alaska, and insular ports---- 101. Effects of deceased seamen. 102. Offenses and punishments. 103. Corporal punishment prohibited.. 105. Form of articles of agreement. 110. Jurisdiction over American seamen in foreign ports and foreign sea- PART VI.-SEA WORTHINESS, SUPPLIES, LOG-BOOK. 113. Inspection of hulls and equipment. 114. Inspection of seaworthiness at domestic ports. 115. Inspection of seaworthiness at foreign ports. 162. Discrimination against American vessels.- 163. Discrimination against American fishing vessels. 164. Discrimination against products of the United States. 165. Discrimination on ('anadian canals--- 166. Vessels of nations not assimilated by treaty to American vessels. 170. Form of outward manifest... 173. Manifests in Alaskan and insular trade. 177. Enrolled and licensed vessels in foreign trade. 178. Oath of ownership on entry- L'ART XIV.-CUSTOMS LAWS DIRECTLY RELATING 10 VESSELS. 182. Boarding and search of vessel.. 183. Seizure of vessels or merchandise_ 184. Exemption from forfeiture. 185. Procedure in cases of fines, penalties, and forfeiture. |