PUBLIC ACTS CF THE FI FTY—FIFTH CONGRESS 0I' THE - UNITED S,TATES Passed at the third session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the jifth day of December, 1898, and was adjourned without day on the third day of March, 1899. ,W11.m.u¢ McKuu.mz, President; Gsnnnr A. Honsnr, Vice-President and President of the Senate; WHJLILM P. Fam, President of the Senate, pro tempore; Tuomns B. gun, ·Spueaker, and Snnmvo E. PAYNE, Speaker pro tempore, of the House of presen tives. CHAP. 28.-An Act To amend the laws relating to American seamen, for the pro-- December 21, 1898. tection of such seamen, and to promote commerce. —""* Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-five hundred Amenm semen. and sixteen of the Revised Statutes be, and is hereby, amended so as to P‘°"°°'°” °* °““ read as follows: ·
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one or more seamen, the master must ship, if obtainable, a number ri s., see. ms, p. equal to the number of those whose services he has been deprived of by “"”·“*°¤d°**· desertion or casualty, who must be of the same grade or rating and equally expert with those whose place or position they reiill, and report the same to the United States consul at the iirst port at which he shall arrive, without incurring the penalty prescribed by the two preceding sections? Sec. 2. That section forty-five hundred and twenty-two of the Revised Statutes be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: ¢* Sec. 4522. At the foot of every such contract to ship upon such a Penqltyfcwmimug vessel of the burden of fifty tons or upward there shall be a memoran- '°§f"§f §‘f,§‘{%22_ ,,_ dum in writing of the day and the hour when such seaman who shipped ¤74» ¤¤¤¤¤d¤<¤- and subscribedshall render himself on board to begin the voyage agreed upon. If any seaman shall neglect to render himself on board the vessel for which he has shipped at the time mentioned in such memorandum without giving twenty-tour hours’ notice of his inability to do so, and if the master of the vessel shall, on the day in which such neglect happened, make an entry in the log book of such vessel of the name of such seaman, and shall in like manner note the time that he so neglooted to render himself after the time appointed, then every such seaman shall forfeit for every hour which he shall so neglect to render himself one—half-of one day’s pay, according to the rate of wages agreed upon, to be deducted out of the wages. If any such seaman shall wholly neglect to render himself on board of such vessel, or having rendered himself on board shall afterwards desert, he shall forfeit all of his wages or emoluments which he has then earned? Sec. 3. That section forty-five hundred and twenty-six of the Revised Statutes be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: •¢ Sec. 4526. In cases where the service of any seaman terminates T¤r¤¤i¤·¤·;¤ <·¢ before the period contemplated in the agreement, by reason of the less Q3" by I"' ° V"' or wreck of the vessel, such seaman shall be entitled to wages for the B7?-_g;ngg°d; *5** P- time of service prior to such termination, but not for any further period. ' . 755
