F1F’I‘Y·FIF'I‘H CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 28. 1898. 763 in port if obtainable. The seamen shall have the option of accepting the fare the master may provide, but the right at any time to demand the foregoing scale of provisions. _ · “ The foregoing scale of provisions shall be inserted in every article h§fjj_l*°l>¤ iwmd of agreement, and shall not be reduced by any contract, except as above, °°' °w` and a copy of the same shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the galley and in the forecastle of each vessel." Sec. 24. That section ten of chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as amended by section _ three of chapter four hundred and twenty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows: “SEc. 10. (a) That it shall be, and is hereby, made unlawful in any P¤s·¤5¤¤¤¤f¤¤¤m¤n’¤ case to pay any seaman wages in advance of the time when he has EEZ1T" '°"““°° f"' actually earned the same, or to pay such advance wages to any other §g{-§·P-ggperson. kny person paying such advance wages shall be deemed guilty .pa.Llt§?' ' of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by·a fine not less than four times the amount of the wages so advanced, and may also be imprisoned for a period not exceeding six months, at the discretion of the court. The payment of such advance wages shall ill no case, excepting as herein provided, absolve the vessel or the master or owner thereof from full payment of wages after the same shall have been actually earned, and shall be no defense to a libel, suit, or action for the recovery of such wages. If any person shall demand or receive, either i P¤¤¤1¤y for nw? directly or indirectly, from any seaman or other person seeking employ- ,}','5.,$‘5Q,‘},“°§“,},i;‘{,§E ment as seaman, or from any person on his behalf, any remuneration mmwhatever for providing him with employment, he shall for every such offense be liable to a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars.
- ‘ (b) That it shall be lawful for any seaman to stipulate in his shipping Mivmwt ofwagos
agreement for an allotment of any portion of the wages which he may *°‘”?"°“"* °°°‘ earn to his grand parents, parents, wife, sister, or children. But no allotment whatever shall be allowed in the trade between the ports of the United States (except as provided in subdivision C of this section) or in trade between ports of the United States and the Dominion of Canada,. Newfoundland, the West Indies alld Mexico. “ (c) That it shall be lawful for any seaman engaged in a vessel bound MA11¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ immitfrom a port on the Atlantic to a port on the Pacilic or vice versa, or in ' a vessel engaged in foreign trade, except trade between the United States alld the Dominion of Canada or Newfoundland or the West Indies or the Republic of Mexico, to stipulate in his shipping agreement for an allotment of an amount, to be fixed by regulation of the Com- -,,m,,,,,,,_ missioner of Navigation, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding one month’s wages, to an original creditor in liquidation of any just debt for board or clothing which he may have contracted prior to engagement.
- (41) That no allotment note shall be valid unless signed by and Allotment ttm,.
approved by the shipping commissioner. It shall be the duty of said “‘°'*°·°PP'°“*°‘·°°°- commissioner to examine such allotments and the parties to them and enforce compliance with the law. All stipulations for the allotment of any part of the wages of a seaman during his 3bSGllCB which are made at the commencement of the voyage sllall be inserted in the agreement, and shall state the amounts and times of the payments to be made alld the persons to whom the payments are to be made. “(e) That no allotment except as provided for in this section shall be runny m ms. lawful. Any person who shall falsely claim to be such relation as 2-f§,,"§'§g‘,§,§,f_‘§$},{*‘“° above described of a seaman under this section or shall make a false statement of the nature or amount of any debt claimed to be due from any seaman under this section shall for every such offense be punishable by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ol- imprisonment not exceeding six months, at the discretion of the court. ¢·(f) That this section shall apply as well to foreign vessels as to fm§$|(°;?_j¤¥;{}};°¤b‘°°° vessels of the United States; and any master, owner, consignee, or ` agent of any foreign vessel who has violated its provisions shall be liable to the same penalty that the master, owner, or agent of a vessel
